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V-'v*. GENERAL ASSEMBLY HAS ADJOURN' WILL RECONVENE ON MARCH 3RD- TUF COURT OF SESSIONS. To Elect Senator to Fill the unexP^ C. •d Ter m of the Late Senator Latimer. Columbia, Feb. 24.—The goner True Bill* Handed In and Some Caeee Tried. The February term of the court of general sessions for Cherokee county evened at 10 o’clock yesterday with !udge Ernest Gary, Solicitor T. S. ease, and Stenographer Moote at their posts. After calling the grand }iry It was found necessary to sum- non an extra venire of three, that umber of grand jurors having failed answer. The grand Jury was or- anized by the appointment of A. N. ~ood as foreman. The grand Jury s constituted, Is a strong body, and 111 compare favorably with any as-jklmllar body of men in the State. PONDFIELD PARAGRAPHS. Southern Short Newsy Item* from Cherokee. Pondfleld, Feb. 19.—Owing to the continued unfavorable weather, there has been but very little farm work done In this section to date. We have heard more complaint of colds and la grippe this winter than we have ever known before. An Infant of Mr. anr Mrs. James McAbee was burled at Corinth yes-1 terday, the 18th Inrft., and Mrs. Me-' . .. -rA*. n*. Abee Is In very serious condition. I When the Seed Are Toaaed From One GOOD METHOD OF SE LECTING SEED WHEAT itur- Judge Gary in his charge to the note will promote better digestion. Old Thickety Topics. people who were In good circum- ^ - h stances so far as this world’s goods Q _Tn!.„ 6 are concerned, can remember when J n TJi®. 1 ^® er vf ? 0 “ it was a rarity to get biscuit even on Sunday morning for breakfast, and ^ ® the waste ba *‘ where do we find such evidences of ke £ * W HL n C 7 0 ^ r e ■«rmnn strong, healthy and robust people as Te ^ preached a good sermon the,** n* thHr iinvo Onm*. r,t at Beaverdam last Sunday, followed NOW USED BY VETERAN WHEAT amoVuTa^arlng tS » «« *7 ««-■ D- H. Baker nineties, and some have even passed the musician. Rev. Baker sang that. At least four-fifths of the cases a P ,e 5 e ° f , 1 ? u8lc composed by him- of sickness are brought about by vio- “I 1 s0 < * ? number of copies to lating in some way the laws of health. ^ audience who were either anxloue Mrs. Sam J. Strain is sick. to get the fine music or anxious to Mr. T- Jeff Hughes paid us a short “ e, p “ ie blln d nran who is trying to visit yesterday. He is not travelling ma |5 e mihp ne srt living. ^ since the roads and weather have _ Mr- Shelton Pryor and Mr. Ellgla been so bad. But will resume his Turner, of Gaffney, attended preach- work as soon as these conditions n f, at e ^ am Sunday. _ . . was not so seriously pondent and Mrs. “J. L. S-” acknowl-j change for the better. -oo among the™ Beaverdam people’ GROWER. It was reported here last Monday that Mr. John Harmon, who lives near Grassy Pond, had a child to get very seriously burned and could not possibly recover, but we are glad to that it Pile to Another, the Good Seed Fall Fartherest Away. Wllkinsville, Feb. 21.—Your corres- Latimer. Under the federal law 8 - the crimes. That crime Is a disease not election of » senator to ml a rjemey only IntMttou. tat wnt^n, mj ,Joy of. the remedy is to quarantine the crl- must he held the second TuW*? . ninal as they do people who are af- weather and other conditions be fa- as we have room. Your uncle “Gum” paid a short vis- vorable we will be there. Rev. Mr. i It’s funny to hear him tell of some Pinson, Spartanburg^ it to Cherokee Falls last Monday; and Moss Is one of the leading farmers of of his experience in the west—Texas, ^ ® unda7 ln T ^ 1C ^‘ while there had the pleasure of pok- Cherokee county as well as a minis- where he went to avoid some of the el ^ r . s i ll « g j v.u — - — ilng his feet under “Slim Sam’s” table, ter of the gospel, and we think It an inclemencies resulting from the Re- ' if;'«„!™ a n!i’°*I ter official notice of the vacancy n f;icted wlth infectious and contagious Mrs. Rachel Barnhill, .of Gaffney, honor to he In his company. I constmetion period. He lived there nmae a Mpiness in P 10 uaimey ian received and It was therefore diseases. That Cherokee owes her spent some days this week in this He has long been considered as tne and farmed two years on rented land. T ^ ir 1 8da sary for the general assembly! ^.a^' Immunity from the prevalence of section with relatives. She returned leading wheat raiser In Western: He is a good farmer as well as a good Journ and to come back.,}Tb<r_crime must be due to the^enforcement to her home yesterday, the 18th. York (now Eastern Cherokee). His all round clever fellow. We were l bus! a# I1& £ law prohibits the drawing of tor more than forty days jr diem 0 f the law within her borders. 1 Jnd the I Taken as a whole, the charge of A great many left the farms last good sense and the success attending fall and went to the cotton mills, but his wheat raising Is shown in his members were paid off on Fn da y a*") 'mlge Gary, though not lengthy, was the most of them are coming back to method of selecting his seed wheat, terndon. so that when tbev return ne of the most comprehensive and in- the farm this spring. This secret should be known by they will not get any per dF™ but 'IHgent which we have ever heard. it i s a great pity that our legisla- others. He piles his wheat down in will receive pay for only ac^ al e **jln conclusion his honor congratulat- tors can neither get rid of the lien a close room—that Is, one penses, Including railroad f? re an<1 ed the county that there were no ap- j ia w no r content themselves to let it good floor. He then picks It up by hoard. The election of an ir trance, plications by any members of the alone. We don’t thlnb there has been the handful and tossing It to another commissioner, under the act ecently grand Jury to he excused. “This,” a legislature during the last thirty' part of the room he then gathers up passed, will also be held Jut in k this said he, “Is a healthy sign, when the ; years that has not been whacking at the seed that falls farthest away from adjourned session, probaUv m Wed- pest men In the county are willing to the lien law, trying to repeal it. him. He says the purest, best, heavi- nesday morning 'serve. It takes the same courage and Now, gentlemen of the legislature, e st wheat will go farthest when thrown The session has been i unevent- fortitude in the time of peace for men • • • ' " ... ful one. No radical leg*- lon . of . “7 i to do their duty truly, as was display- kind has been enacted ^J ut of tb ? qd by those who followed the red Col. lift Smith and little grand- datfjfhter, Edna Earle, spent Saturday night and Sunday In Gaffney with With him In the army and he made a ana ounaay in uann«y fmrt/i snirtter Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Littlejohn. Miss Minnie Wesslnger, our school cross of the Confederacy through the i Icissltudes of a civil war.” good soldier. While he was in Texas he sowed a . . . crop of wheat. They have In that teacher, apaat from Friday untl Mon country what they call a “wheat da Z,. at _^ er bome * n ^ with a'bird”—we call them rice birds down Baaverdam cAfap 0 .^ be ' on the coast. These pests come by w - J me . t . la . st Satdcday night * the hundreds of thousands and attack g0 °fl attendance. Fi ve new the wheat while the grain is forming wer ^ taken into the order of Wood- just before it gets into the roasting Tbe . Beaverdam camp Is one ear state and ruin it. They are as the most flourishing camps In the destrustlve when they invade a wheat ^te, located In the country. This field as Pharaoh’s locusts ever were ® am P ba8 . a , niemhership of about flf- peal Itself. Gum” that it must have taken Wish we had many a others In this country to make living multitude of measures lr l0 ^ 1 ®®f. 1 0 ?‘ ly a small number passed a ® d , come laws. For the nc ^ tew weeks Gov. Ansel will be -kepi reading these acts and affixing hJs vf n * a t’i re to all which he conslde • ou f bt to be come law. Most Of tJ em ’ V 16 ? rea J|-r- , j a av .x — , ,—j — —, — -- — major!tv bv far, are P nre, y local: ^ -arrant was Issued for them, and , the supreme court of the United who have faith In it should make it measures, affecting IndMdual ^ ‘ — ^ ‘ * ’ counties and not th€ whole State. Despite the constltut 008 * provision our opinion is, that the lien law in this way and thus he gets choice * doesn’t need repealing, when It has seed to plant. Mr. Moss Is one farm- in Egypt. And the obly thing the ^ wI< * * if,, more served out Its usefulness, It will re- er who raises his own flour and has farmers can do Is to stay in the field at 800 ®* s 1 1,** 1 .* It seems to your unde wheat to sell. A jury was empaniled to try Ems- great deal of the substance called easier, and cheaper, 1 e Robertson for selling whiskey, brass, to enact the kind of a labor J we have often heard it said that l ut when the witnesses were called contract law as that one recently en- if the wedding day is a rainy one the V. E- Motte and R. D. Vaughan, I acted by our lower house of the leg- bride would have tears to shed. This Id not answer, and a “bench isiature, in the face of the fact that may or may not be the case. Those v hen brought Into court Jury Gary states had just recently rendered the conditional that the wedding would f )rfelted their pay as witnesses. discussion, that you could not force come off on a certain day provided It J One of the witnesses testified that one mail to work tor another against don’t rain. Some one has said they against local legislat 00 ’ there ar ® Me bought one pint of whiskey In hla will, neither could a man be forced never knew a wedding or a funeral each, year hundreds ,f Purely local Cherokee county. The other witness to work another, hut the gentlemen to he put off. measures Introduced Passed and testified that he got a pint In Union Q f the legislature very well know j Mr. Tom Mitchell, of Hopewell, has they are so framed f to avo,d any bounty. Guilty; sealed sentence. that the class at whom the law was been delivering cabbage plants in objection on the grqjaJ 0 * nnconstl-1 I Oscar Bigby alias Oscar Biggs, i WO uld never he able to testjts 'thlg section. He keeps a supply of tutlonallty. P | throwing missiles at railroad car- ! constltutlonallity in the courts. We j them on hand generally. The most importan measure of the j George Brown, larceny of live: , 13e to think that It was foolishness we thank "J- I* J.” for his ques- of the session was tM ,ea3t discussed, : a tock Wid James Wilkins, highway having two horses of the legislature,; tion 8 and answers. They ar# quite the labor countrafct laJ The tw0 h0U8e * r obberf. but we have changed our pplnion interesting and have no doubt caused Oscar Biggs alias Oscar Bigby, haw. Wte have come to the conclu- much reading to be done that would disagreed as to wi should be passed ai went to a free confe which practically ac bill, drawn by Messr ..thran. It is acceptab] In the the legislator say It will stand courts. The lien law Though the house it kind of bill AMWyrj 4harggd with throwing misgilea at a s j on that it Is absolutely necessary to not have been done had he not asked ommlttef allroad car, entered a plea of guilty having two houses of the legislature, them. But he had better watch out e committer <allroad car, entered a plea of guuty having ed the bouse a nd was given a' sentence of three j other one’s foolishness. Carey and Co- j months on the public works or pay a: H. P. Gnmtree. to the framers! fine of flOO. He paid the fine and j the lawyers;was discharged. , The Gaffney High School >e test of the and scare them off^do “them “ike th ’ 8 lR f®®/ 01 the « randest fraternal Abraham did the Vultures. ordeT8 that was eve r organized Mr. Hughes had his wife and children assisting him in this tedious f work. He would shoot among uiem. 1908. but that soon played out. They would Now that we have gotten beyond £ Tn,? a t? d u W0 ° P the P er l 0 fl of writing 1907 and then in another and Mr. Hughes said he changing the "7” to an “8.” Now couldn t get rid of the dowled that we know 1908 well enough to sit .P n ®, of neighbors was down in Its presence, let’s look at the. lirov « uard, ?f^. iB wb ® a t ln the same p r0S pe C t from the most important way. Mr. Hughes said he could hear point of view—that of business, him say, Shoo, shoo; go back to This is going to be a prosperous J? ugke „ s _ a he ?HHMi ye * T - In twelve months a lot of peo- w ^ tlme with M r- pie who are talking “calamity” today Hughes. f°r bread tor- himself and wlI1 forget they ever said It Some things.’ otW gu( and or the ‘Tarheels” will get after him. They (or some of them at least) claim that Gen. Andrew Jackson was bom in North Carolina. We are among not repealed, a large majorl- .(igL, _ James Wilkins was arraigned for y^agt Friday we visited the high 1 those who claim he was a South robbing J. C. Hood on the highway, school, which department has recently Carolinian by birth. But we will not He plead “not guilty.” been added to the graded school of fall out with them for claiming him George Brown was then put upon Gaffney. We found the school In a native of their State, ty passed the repesf bill, the senate trial for stealing two cows of the charge of Miss Norma Alexander, for- Mrs. J. N. Strain has been right wavered on the subject and after re- value of fifteen dollars from Dr. W.! m erly of Davidson, N. C. We were unwell with cold and something like versing Itself sever*! times, by one a.. Fort. Keenan McCullough testi- struck with the youthful appearance grippe. or two votes, finally killed the repeal fled that he bought two yearlings from 0 f the Instructor, but after talking Mr. James Gamer started the bill, so that the Her law stands. the defendant for $11- John, McCul-1 w ith he r for a few moments, we Thomson mill last Tuesday. On ao- It was the same P iv with the pro- lough testified that he bought two we re much more forcibly impressed count of the high water in Thickety posed railroad ratd i< Sfslatlon. The yearlings from bis brother last Janu- ^th her business methods which she j creek it has been Idle for a few days, house passed the jfatrJtolll last yellary and that he afterwards delivered UBeg j n imparting knowledge to her: Mr. “Jay” Strain has been doing them to Dr. Fort, as the doctor claim- p U pi] 8> ^ suitable motto for this de- some cabinet work for his mother, ^ BOl l e - Smith’s hardware store an’ I says,l not far fro™ P m~ ‘ BI11 - * 8a y s - ^ese here hard times to ct™J? ™™ t the 8ame as what comes up the regto- of Ita ta™ tat Off a alr - Hw! haw! 1,aw! H “ “3 « t0 .W“ Do' 7OT taow that the farmers ofj eat field. Got long poles and this country have produced In nine. shaped the ends of them so that a yearg $55,000,000,000. Think of lt!j and It seemed at | nna time that f senate would pass this year, hut ter successive vot#n the bill was the nnd killed, an! there Is no r; legislation and prsctkaUv no railr legislation at all. In fact, so far lucm w A^a. a ---, — - .. a. o«*«*w*» taeeeew Avf ^ some uauiucb wuik. «ji uiubuoA, very seldom allow my name to ap- u nmn’t mi- ™i*v, „ r .- r fv,t n(T v,„f ed the cattle. Lawrence Fort Ifl®^' j partment would be the word “Busl- Mrs. ”J. L. S.” He to our Tobal-jpear In a newspaper correspondence! 01 1 th an - ih,n ^ but bu ItZIVi ^ You can’t. ’ Fifty-five thousand, thous] one C aTid i and thousands, fifty-five thousani 3 Up h if wh®? 1 millions! Why, you can no mor hemn to comprehend or visualize such a sui ♦nfS b than y° u can Picture' eternity. Bi] toe 14 18 a fa ct Just the same. Now thej wheat and made 160 bushels of It. j do you g^pp^ a ii tt i e bunch of * J. Lt. a. p i e can B ^ 0I) progx-egg in a count _ like this? Wall street isn’t the whe noirnoi* T3 ii* t r» Ct o N0, J!2i, Oi T tb l n S- Some ways you look at It, Gaffney, R. F. D. 2, Feb. 21. I anything. Business Is like pel fled the cows as his property in Mr. ;neB> >. because every branch which is Cain. |i desire to place a few things before ! McCollough’s pasture. taught here breathes of nothing but Poverty, pride and self-conceit are the public. The defendant was tried in his ab- business. Miss Alexander teaches a delectable trio—any two of which i believe nine-tenths if not ten-1 sence. The jury promptly convictea stenography, bookkeeping, business form a quorem tor the transaction of tenths of the citizens of Cherokee The Woman’s club. The Woman’s Club met with M ay, the legislature gois there Is no anti- him and a sealed sentence was ieii grammar, business arithmetic and buslnes—folly. When all are com- ! county have read the Investigating W. W. Gaffney Thursday, Februail corporation sentlnent la South Caro- for him. . . business geography. The pupils are hired they are the summonin banner j Committee’s report on the financial 20th. A goodly number were In c Una whatever. Tb ® grand Jury returned the ioi- taught typewriting by the method of of nonsense, and deserve pity as well condition of this county. At least, all tendance and the afternoon was or The Carey-Cothmn law stands tin lowing true bills; TTie stat ® ^ j “Touch.” No pupil Is permitted to as contempt. who read it will remember that J. L. of pleasure socially, and of profit h changed, except as to certain amend- Simp Brown, assault and nattery , look at the keyboard while he Is prac- The young man who has to liquor Walker was charged with paying cer- tellectually. ments relating to certain counties, with Intent to kill. ticlng, but must keep his eyes glued up to the brim to show off, ought tain amounts to teachers In North 1 The following was the program; The Hk proposing general amend- The State vs. Walter Young, as- to his copy. Miss Alexander says not to take his seat In church too Carolina. I wish to say in the outset Roll call, “Men of the hour in Ru MB tjl'UJJUOAU^ a* a. m-w ~- _ , . _ .«! —^ ar* * —* w— ( 4*v/ u vv/ tx*o ax**** aaa x*aa%+a www ; v^caavatuci. X W*OU i>U oajr 111 Lilt? UULKK71* I ments did not get any consideration aault and batt ®^y ^ I4b a *, a4 ® nt w< , t0 that^ of all the branches which she near ladies to whom the aroma of that I have seen Mr. Walker only sla.” In tbtf'senate, after it bad passed the In the case of the State vs. Jack teaches the most Important is business bis breath Is nauseating and his pre- once since the report was published. | Paper, “Russian Internal affairs,* 1 mie The prohibition bills were Moore, for assault and battpry witn spelling. She has sixteen pupils, and sence objectionable. Very little was said about the report Mrs. W. C. Carpenter. Ukewlse killed, la both houses and intent to kill, the grand Jury return- i f 0Ilt of the sixteen she succeeds In Acting Sheriff Frank Howell, color- 0 f said committee. Reading,- “Magazine,” senate and the situation as to whls- ed “no bill.” equipping ten for responsible posl- e d took charge of some bovine violar I Now, Mr. Editor, what I want to Daniels. Simp Brown surrendered himself tlons, she will have accomplished tors of the farmers statutes this week say about the matter of Mr. Walker Paper, “Russia's foreign pollcf^ Mrs. kev legislation In this State remains Simp Brown surrendered himseir tlons, she will have accomplished unchanged. t0 tbe custody of the court and was much f0r our town . Miss Alexander but let them off without fine during paying teachers in North Carolina Is Mra.'A.'W. Doggett. The State levy is fixed In the sup- sentenced to four months on tne pun- seems to be well qualified for the po- their good behaviour. All violators this; “If yo u remember It was In Oral sketches, “Nicholas II kg" nlv hill at five and one-half mills, be- lie works of the connty or pay a fine 8 ition which she occupies. She has 0 f the law ought thus to he dealt with school district No. 11 that he is charg- emperor; DeWitt as a statesnj? Ine- an increase over last year of one of forty dollars. had experience, as she taught for a to sup$resn crimes of this kind.. efl with paying North Carolina teach- Mrs. W. W. Gaffney. 1 mill. It Is stated by some that this The grand jury returned true bins y ear a t King’s Business College of | Postmaster Folger’s suggestion to erg.” School district No. 11 borders A delicious said course folk lew will not he sufficient to raise against Robert Knight for forgery j Raleigh, N. C.. one of the largest the patrons of R. F. D. mall routes on the North Carolina line for some dalntly served by Miss Wilma, <! annroprtatlons and that there will and Frank Tucker for murder. commercial schools In the South. has had a good effect In minimizing distance and some of our best dti- er of the hostess, assisted bj vT a‘deficit of at least one hundred Robert Knight was put on trial for ^ thousand dollars. forging tbe name of Alice Harris^ to, An Eloquent Speaker. t the trouble of the mall carriers. All sens, fortunately or unfortunately, Amy Gaffney and Miss Loulsfj our people (or at least most of them) live near the line at one end or the Mrs. Khox, Mrs. Watson the general ’ assembly an order on the Limestone Mjlto | One of the most versatile and elo- want to do right and save unneces- other of our district who have helped Macmaon were visiting ladij However iu® general aoocmuij au u.uci ~ , vT* * IVa a U1 want qo ngui anu nave umiewo- oi made no increases In the salaries of atore for 26 cents. Knight te 1 7 1 ? * n' 16111 men In public life today Is Hon. sary trouble. They are ready and to build good-school houses in North i — state officials. A bill proposing to that he wrote the order himself but Walter R. Henry, of Charlotte, N. C., willing (most of them) to lend a help- Carolina by contributing money, ume Miss Elizabeth L. to™»ase the salary of the governor that Alice Harris told him to write wh o Is the author of a very readable w hand to promote the welfare and and other help. Now, this was all York City, announced aiand that c* other State ofi- it and bring her th* snuff. -* ~ —*- — dais to $2,250 passed the senate but Knight was found guilty of forgery filled in the house On * Thursday afternoon the two the public works of he county, bouses met in joint assembly ud - . — ~T eledted Judges for the two new dr Card of t lank*. cults. For of J^ b ®.!l ev ® atk / k ' We wish to puhfcly thank our and was sentenced to one year on CUUB. r J ”*■ . TTIA-. vve Wl»u cult Representative Devore, of Edge- m friends througl the columns of - field, was elected over C- M- Esru, ledger, for the kindness tender- of Lexington, and for Judge ° a f ^ u b by them durli . twelfth c,r ^ t w Repr ® 8 ® n ^Vj 0 e t i ,A' ’y.’ ness of our daughl G. Shipp. Z lorenc ®’ d !, f !f ted ^ God In His wisdom, xmt t . of Mfl-rloo* > ' aAnA?ftto from tis* Tbe bill giving the commission to, Mr. and Mrs wind up tb® Siaf® dl8 Pf n !;7 iala^nf Blackshurg, S. C time and providing for the sale of ndness tender tbe recent ill- Allce, whom « seen fit to C. Starns. ™ dispensary real estate feat through a11 Of.the dlspengary £S35 g $15,000 Is set ande for the -pro. tSoi of ewes to be brought again,t connected with the State dis- jnantgement The attotasy is also given $5,000 to pflos*. the Southern Railway mesg* to abolish the departuent ,tlon passed the honse but ftosldered In the senatend fluent remains. K 1 assembly to ah me, tore ent body, with tarll®* _ of ability and Influent eeselon has been coiorlei reason that there was no effected. It has been g session, but that to not a re l to the member*—to do kpth- about what they Should |h|Te • aj? A Coi A letter recived Ann Dr. J. C. Thomson from Atlanv., states that he has not sold hls prrtice here, but It to bis Intention to pturn to Gaff ney some time In thd future. This Information that be hattfcld oat was obtained from a Tellamfconrce and we are sorry that t^eHptake occnr- ed. —Tbe report we get] re*. Couob are very gratlfyl* own preemptions. We solute guarantee that gather will pure any the heed, ceugh. U». ' —Carload Irish potat and teed. Carroll A ‘ give opr Ne- Grip Tab being our an ab- taken to- of eeld In ey Drag 2 a w tf. for eating book entitled “The Triumphs of Old comfort of others. Of such people done before they ever asked us to i test the flying powers Age and the Victories of Youth.” Mr. any country might be proud. transfer the amount we pay In those she has constructed. Henry’s book Is written in opposition Mr. Irl Black and Miss Mbggle Es- schools “and they are geod schools to the position taken by Dr. Oster. tea were married at Salem church and taught by splendid teachers.” of the John Hopkins University, who last Wednesday night, Rev. J. Lee Now, we will give our best reasons took the position that man to com- Oates, of the A. R. Presbyterian f 0r signing said claims: paratively useless after he has attain- church, officiating. It was not our First. As above stated, they help ed the age of forty years, and that good fortune to be present but we ed to build the houses. Second. The after they have reached the age of go t a supply of the cakes and other roads are much belter, with no sixty years, it would be the best thing j “fixings” all tbe same. We knew that streams to cross, with no muddy or for the world to have them removed. Mrs. Laura Estes would remember hilly roads for the children to travel. It Is the opinion of a number of able us. She Is one of our most dllllgent Third. We have never signed for men that Mr. Henry has completely and Intelligent Ledger readers. their full amount of the apportion- demonlished Dr. Ostler’s theory, and j we understand that The Ledger ment because every well Informed per- that he has not Jeft the learned sa-; contemplates publishing a county hls- son should know that the full appor- vant a leg to stand upon. It Is Mr.. tory of South Carolina, In which bio- tionment to never available. Henry’s purpose to go on a lecture graphical sketches of the leading All well informed pople know Mr. tour and deliver illustrated lectures farmers and business men (as far as walker cannot pay a school claim un- i 1 * 8 a ® d 44 j* be hoped the same can be gathered) will he In- til approved by a hoard of trustees, that he will Include Gaffney to big eluded. This will be a commendable Now, I 'do not write this to censure Itlnery, and he would doubtless undertaking and ought to elicit the the report of the committee, but to draw a large house as the subject is help of each end ©very citizen who place the blame on the proper author!-1 one of vital Interest to both old and | feels an interest In the affairs of the ties. We claim that we were paying'! young. | oounty. It will be a Herculean task teachers for teaching children of this! • . ■ , but “the game to fully worth the district we get the enrollment, from' . ."V*?,_ ;candles.” which we draw our money. Miss Isabelle Free will give her while The Ledger has shown a We do not deny that It was not graduation piano recital at tbe col- commendable spirit In developing the violation of the letter of the law, lege tonight, assisted by Miss Hlgley, resources of Cherokee oounty we we deny that any any party has soprano. The concert will begin at hope (if it’s exchequer will admit it fered by our act, hut, on tbe < (1:80 ©dock. The dhmmy will leave these hard times) It will offer a prize hand we claim that the children town at 8 o'clock. ;f or the “second best” acre of corn have gone to North Carolina To^ sb'. REMOVE How to Remedy Ing There is bar where there members effects ot It ter eat agree, night;, to so be —New dress goods and silks, roll k Byers. ! raised In Cherokee connty this year have been benefttted. of tne Car- under the auspices contest^ j have no foe to punish now being agitated by the Merchants to favor In writing this, apd Planters * fog' “ bank of Gaffney. wanted the public to —Ten cars flour at right price, people ought to eat more corn state of condition. Every sack guaranteed. Carroll k bread than they do. It Is a brain and Byers. j muscle as well as a nerve food, and Cbm. Board