Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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amg* | , T'ilfli''«t»- '>*“»-'- / *. 4k.' u/t«ikAj»i.iu*i. , iU'f.ii.S.-fci.'j'isiwiti' ' '£% . -' ■- ' T^ ? 1 “ V D. C. Ross, Prest. J. A. Carroll, V.-Prest. Maynard Smyth, Cashier. National Bank of Gaffney Gaffney, S. C. Capital Stock, ... 3 50,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits, 45,000.00 Stockholders’ Liability, ‘ - 50,000.00 : Protection to Depositors, 5145,000.00 The State of South Carolina, the County of Cherokee and the Town of Gaffney deposit with us. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. ‘ : J. A. Carroll, C. W. Whisonant, H. M. McAden, D. C. Ross, DIRECTORS. T. M. Littlejohn, Dr. Chas. A. Jefferies, B. L. Haines, Make Your Money Make You Something Deposit it with us, where it will draw FOUR per cent, interest GOMPOUN DED FOUR times a year, and where you can get it at any time. SHORT NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST. EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER OKEE. The Gaffney Savings Bank GAFFNEY. Q. C. D. C. Ross, Prest. J. A. Carroll, V.-Prest. Maynard Smyth, Cashier. Office in National Bank of Gaffney v v / / ✓ / / ✓ / / / '4 ■' -* V < / ft- V t I t ..'r ( f. s GAFFNEY TRUST CO. Authorized Capital, $20,000. FIRE INSURANCE. We represent a number of the oldest and strongest home and foreign Fire Insurance Companies, When in line for some fire insurance, you will know where to go to get what you ask for. A share of your business will be appreciated. LIFE INSURANCE. Well" you say I believe in helping to develop the South, and right you are in this instance. Why send millions of dollars to the Northern In surance Companies, when you can get the same protection from the Strongest Life Insurance Company in the South and have their total net premiums collected in this territory invested in your own home town. KEEP YOUR MONEY AT HOME. REAL ESTATE, STOCKS AND BONDS. We have some choice property listed with us for sale, will you let us show you that nice lot when you get ready to build? Have you any Mill Stocks that you would let go for the current market value? Let us know your needs. D. C. Ross, Prest. J. N. Lipscomb, V.-Pres. J. G. Pridmork, Secy. & Treas. J. C. OTTS, Atty. S^»VV»VV*V^ r 4V»VVV%VVV»%VVVV-»%VV4V%VV»VV>V%VVVVVVVi ft ♦ V T* & £ Anything Repnirnd in Wond nr Iran V \ from a harmonica string, to the wheels of U. S. Congress, at EZELL’S. : : Horse Shoeing a Specialty. i •5 > t^or Sale! Several lots near the First Graded School. These lots an investment or a home are exceedingly cheap and very desirable. IT arms The Ed, C. McArthur place, lying 2 5^ miles east of Gaffney, on the Draytonville Mountain road, containing 163 acres. This place speaks for itself and the price is right. Land adjoining this tract is selling for I40.00 an acre and upward. This farm is a bargain for $35.00 an acre with liberal terms. SAiT L. FORT, Real Estate and Fire Insurance, Phona 28S. Office second floor National Bank Building. * Recent Happenings In and Around the City, and Other Events Gath ered by the Local Newa Editor. Rev. L. M. Rice, of Union, preoch- ed Providence Sunday. Mr. J. \V. Ladd, of Strother, spent Thursday night in the Cherokee county jail. He was charged with being a relative of Sheriff Thomas whom he came to visit. J. O. K. B. The person who took the book “Turn of the Balance’’ from over the library door will please return same to the library at once or else notify the librarian that same is in their possession. Quantities of fertilizers are being hauled out dally by the farmers. Raise your own supplies at home, boys, and raise cotton as a surplus crop and next year you will be inde pendent. Saturday was the last day for the payment of State and county taxes. Executions against delinquents will now be placed in the hands of the sheriff, and taxes can only be paid with the addition of costs. Field Deputy J. H. McClain arrest ed Jonah Hopper, colored, yesterday under the charge of selling whiskey. In default of bond the commissioner committed him to jail pending a pre liminary examination. If you wish to avoid an unpleasant visit from the health officer, you had better clean up your premises. If all the people of the town would keep their premises in good order there would be a great deal less danger of sickness this spring. Two gentlemen of the city were out riding Saturday afternoon. One of them carried a lamp in his hand. In passing a house a lady said to them, “You must be arranging to stay out all night?” “No,” answered the one with the lamp, “we are just looking for an honest man.” Mr. T. C. Petty is going to try to make more com on one acre of up land in Cherokee than any other man. He is now preparing the land, which are the lots of Mr. J. C. Jefferies, op posite the Central graded school. He will adopt the Williamson plan and the man who beats him will have raised some corn. A certain man informed one of the county officials Saturday that he had a day or two ago seen and con versed with Wash Smith, the negro whom it was reported drowned in Broad river some two weeks ago. It was very evident that the said of ficial was of the opinion that the man was either mistaken or that the pur pose of the man was to deceive him. One of our friends from the coun try told us of a recent experience he had with a hen that wanted to set. He said, “She sot for a week on one egg. 1 took the egg from the nest and she sot three days on nothin’. I then filled the nest with rocks and she sot on them nearly a week, and finally I drove some sharp sticks into the nest and the old fool sot for three clays standing up.” I Among the pleasant tasks we oc- 1 caslonally have to perform is this one, the making special mention of the coming of the Shannons who will be seen In “The Banker’s Child,” for one night only, tonight (Tuesday). Little Vera Ludlow will be seen as Stella, playing the longest and most intricate part ever attempted by a child. Lots of special scenery is car ried for the production. A number of clever specialties will be Introduc ed. On Friday night, March 20th, Miss Angelle Andrews will be heard in the auditorium of Limestone College in her graduation pianoforte recital. Miss Andrews has prepared an Inter esting programme, and the people of Gaffney are too well acquainted with her manner of playing to need any comment on the same. At each re cital in which Miss Andrews has play ed during the two years she has been at Limestone she has made a most favorable Impression, her easy and dignified stage presence being espe cially noticeable. There should be a large attendance at this recital. Mr. G. G. Byers has just returned from the northern and eastern mak- ets where he purchased a large stock of goods at bargains which will Justi fy his selling them at prices which will astonish his customers. -He has secured the service of Miss Annie Field Davis, an accomplished milliner of Baltimore: He will have Hie larg est and most varied stock of millinery which he has ever handled. Miss Davis ha 8 been in New York for the past two weeke absorbing styles and making hats. This lady has many years practical experience and Is an artist in this line. She arrived In Gaffney yesterday. A Self-Made Man. Rev. B. G. Ross, who Is to move to Greer at an early date, occupied the pulpit of the Cherokee Avenue Bap tist church Sunday night. He preach ed a most excellent sermon, at the conclusion of which he invited those who wished him to remember them in his prayers to come forward, and a gentlemen who was present Is The Ledger’s authority for the statement .that almost the entire congregation availed themselves of the invitation. Hr. Roa« la one of those truly self- made men and The Ledger notes his progress with unfeigned pleasure. COULDN'T STAND THE BEAR. A Story Told On One of Qaffnoyto Great Men. Several yean ago when the city of Gaffney wae a mere hamlet compar ed to her present metropolitan pro portions, there was only one bank here, that of the National which was founded by the late F. G. Stacy and J. A. Carroll. The bookkeeper of the Institution at that time is now one of our most prominent business men, and holds a much higher position than the one he occupied then. The banks at that period, kept its doors open frequently until 10 or 11 o’clock at night. One day two peripatetic Italians blew into the town accompa nied by two large and fierce looking bears. The coming of these people accompanied by the ferocious looking animals created intense excitement in the little burg, and frequent specu lations were indulged in as to the probable consequences in case the aforesaid animals should escape from their custodians. About the hour of ten on the night in question the aforesaid young bookkeeper was seat ed in solitary and dignified state be hind the railing in the bank, doubt less looking forward to the time when he should become the president of the bank and sign his name as such to the currency issued by the said In stitution, when suddenly ,woof! woof! was heard at the door and In came a monstrous bear making with all speed to the place where sat the aforesaid young bookkeeper. Dreams of future' greatness, and his stewardship were in the twinkling of an eye, forgotten. He went; vamossed! vanished! jump ed over the iron railing and left his bearship monarch of all he sur veyed. It transpired that a wag of the city conceived the idea of array ing himself in the skin of a bear and paying this nocturnal visit to our friend, the bookkeeper, in order to have some fun. The incident is re membered by all of our citizens who were residents of the city at that time, and our friend who was the victim of the joke, enjoys a reference to it as much as anyone. A Peculia r Accident , Young Claude Pritchard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pritchard met with quite a peculiar accident Sun day. He was returning from a visit to his grandparents in Cleveland county, N. C., when the mule becom ing frightened at a dog which ran out of a yard, threw him and stepped on bis face, driving two of his upper teeth into the jaw level with his gums. The young man came on to his father’s, a distance of several miles, after the accident, and his sufferings must have been intense. Dr. W. K. Gunter, to whom he was brought by his father yesterday, proceeded to ex tract the teeth which had been driven up, and the boy is doing well. HAND THAT RULES THE WORLD WOULD YOU be one of the employers or one of the servants? It is a question for you to de cide. Without money you are forced to sell your ^ time^and efforts to others in order to secure your daily bread. With a growing bank account you will soon be able to command not only your own time and labor but that of others also. Small savings, persistently deposited in this bank, will eventually raise you above the average and enable Vt j ou to become one of the rulers. Don’t wait for Fortune to hand you a prize but start a bank account and build a success. You cnn do it. WE WILL PAY YOU 4% INTEREST ON YOUR SAVINGS. DIRECTORS: C. M. Smith, Prest. R. S. Lipscomb, Cashier. A. N. Wood, V.-Prest. A. Louis Wood, Asst. Cashier. | MERCHANTS^PLANTERS BANK GAFFNEY.- S.C. YOU MAY CALUIIT A Card of Thank*. A deep sense of appreciation prompts us to express to the good people of this community, irrespect ive of denominational lines, our sin- cerest thanks for the unbounded to kens of brotherly kindness shown In our behalf during the sickness and death of our dear wife and mother. May He, who taught men how to love and be kind, remember and re ward our friends for their tender sympathy and gracious acts. J. T. Darwin and Children. Candidate for Board of Public works. Believing that the best interest of Gainey will he served by the election of E. R. Cash to fill out the unexpir ed term of W. H. Ross, we submit his name as a candidate In the pri mary election for the vacancy. progress. I hereby announce myself a candi date to fill the unexplred term on the Board of Public Works: Barney G. Clary. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the position now vacant on the Board of Public Works. L. L. Randall. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—One second-hand open single buggy, been used about four months, also one set harness. Apply to J. R. Mallory, at Globe Mill. , Mar. 6 tf. COTTON SEED FOR SALE—King’s Improved. My record for the past season wag .twenty-four bales on fif teen acres. Seed from this field seventy-five cents per bushel at the farm, or on board cars at Hickory Grove, S. C. Vines D. Howell, Mgr., Hickory Grove, S. C., R. F. D. No. 1. Mch. 10, 17 ond 24. FOR RENT. TO RENT—Office rooms over The Ledger. Apply to Bd. H. DeCamp Nov. 2, tf. WANTED. WANTED—To buy fifteen bushels peas. J. Bb Jefferies. March 6 tt BRING your chickens, eggs, bnt ter, country produce, green hides te Clary ft Kirby. Highest cash prices paid. “BILLIE MALONE” or anything else you like, but there is no safer investment than shares in the * • ' , ' ' - * Peoples B. & L. ‘ It pays good interest and your stock is never worth less than 100 cents on the dollar. try*. Third Series Opens April 11th, 1908. J. F. Garrett, W. W. Gaffney, Directors. R. M. Wilkins, Chas. Baber, H. K. Osborne. J. N. Lipscomb, W. E. Anderson, R. S. LIPSCOMB, Secy, and Treas. Office M. & P. Bank, ... Gaffney, S. C. ■— ■■■■». Buy a Home With Rent Money! You can do this by taking stock in the Cherokee Building and Loan Associa tion. This is the oldest Building and Loan Association in Gaffney. It is conducted along conservative lines. We can help you to the road of wealth. See any of our officers. Read our Booklet and learn our plans. : Cherokee B.:L. Association V. V. Gaffney, Sec’y & Treas. G. A. Jefferies, Prest. tv f .1 MISCELLANEOUS. * FOR SERVICE—A fine Jersey bull. Apply to William Fort March 17 4t pd. NOT Id* Beglunlng aext Well—day. 12th last, we will gls omly two a week, Wedaeedsy sad m. Ilf. Victor Oottoa OU do. Fire Insurance! We reureaeot tome o' the iarirett and TT most substantial companies and would like to write your buslnes. S-H-tf. Smith A Llpsoomb, Agents. Good Harness. Don't you want a good Harness, a better Harness than you ever owned before? Then come to see us. We know how to make good Harness—been making good Harness eighteen years. We use Old Fashion Pure Oak Tanned Leather, give you good, honest work, make the price right and guarantee the goods] Prompt Shoe Repairing. Men's Shoes, Sewed .. 60c Men's Shoes, Nailed .. 50c Ladies' Shoes, Sewed. .45c Ladies' Shoes, Nailed •. 35c Children's Shoes in Proportion. J. W. Bean (8b Comp’y r rrmmmmr T Frederick Street. L Rear Merchants and Planters Bank. Feb. 26 tf /v TECHNICALLY EDUCATED M K IN NKDICDKD! The demand la far greater than the supply. Let the Internattenal Correa* penCenoe Sekeole, ol Sermton, Pa., pre pare you. Postal will brlnK information on 206 courses. It’s free. 8-27-ly-up DR. C. H. WELLS, DENTIST Cities Fermsrfy Oooupisd by Dr. Tbenteen TELEPHONE 40. Merchants Grocery Go. Building, Gaffney H. O. Office hours M.iiO to 12.30—S.ilO to A.40 Grover, N. 0„ every Tuesday (hotel.) Cow. pens. 8. U.. every Wednesday. (Over Hobtv Drag Store.) Feb-16-tf.