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0 9 .* ,.f ' r ’ """-T ' ' '' l ' ; I i. - • v • kFPNEY LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday. H. D«Camp, Editor and Publiahar CITY DIRECTORY. Officials. W. H. Roaa Mayor W. O. Johnson .. .. Mayor Pro Tom George B* Hood .. .. • • .. City Clerk T. H. Littlejohn Treasurer A. L. Hallman Health Officer T. H. Lockhart Chief Police Butler & Osborne .. .. City Attys. Board Public works. A. N. Wood.. Chairman J. N. Lipscomb Treasurer W. H. Ross Secretary Board of Trade. W. C. Hamrick.. President J. C. Otts Secretary MARKET REPORT. local cotton market. Middling H-W can and should do likewise, '’'here are a hundred homeless young farm* ers in Cherokee county, who can buy small farms the same way. And every time a man buys a home, either In town or county, he becomes a bet ter citizen. He becomes interested in the moral, educational and material advancement of his neighborhood. There are scores of young men who waste $5 per month, in lost time, or In money spent for needless self Indulgence which, If Invested in the next series of stock In the Farmers and Mechanics Building and Loan As sociation would, in six years, start them in business, buy them a home in Gaffney or Blacksburg, or a farm in Cherokee county. All of us need to learn to save sys tematically. if Burgess, Hamll, and Parris had waited until they had enough cash to buy a home, they would now be paying rent, nearly as much every month as will carry enough shares in the Farmers and Mechanics Building and Loan Asso- i ciation, to buy a home in six years. But if they had continued to pay rent Kyle Davenport. ‘ all that they would have now, would Hens 30c to we i be a bundle of rent reeclpts. Duck si. .....! J0c . t<, ‘J0c ' Don’t wait until you need money to Ekks ■ i commence to save, but commence sweet Potatoes, bushel ..soc now. How many of us have wasted Turnips! 11 . ; enough each week, ($2.50) to carry Corn COUNTRY PRODUCE MARKET. Market report corrected weekly by W, lips, bus , bushel .80c Meat; bushel (Juts. feed, bushel _••• *sks Oats, seed, bushel Hje to $1.00 Peas, clay, bushel f- 'W Peas, white, bushel $’- , -50 Onlfos. bushel $1.00 B. AND L- ASSOCIATION. We call attention to the large ad vertisement of the Farmers and Me chanics Building and Loan Associa tion, In this issue. The promoters of this Building and Loan Association, ten shares of stock, for the last six years, which, If It had been invest ed In a Building and Loan Associa tion would amount to one thousand dollars? Let us all resolve to save a part of our income each week, or month, and invest it. NOTES AND COMMENTS- All the members of the Board of determined at its organization to Trade are urged to attend the meet- profit by the experience of like asso- ' n g °f that body tonight. This organi- ciations heretofore organized. nation has done much for our city, One thing was to make loans both and will do a great deal more if the on farms and city property; another members will only attend the meet- was to make dues payable weekly, i n ? s an d offer practical suggestions monthly, quarterly, semi annually, f°r the upbuilding of our city, and annually, and to allow a discount • * • for advance payments; and again, ir a business nian from New York a stockholder, for any reason desires, was talking to us a few days ago to withdraw his stock, not because about Gaffney, and In the course of of his necessity impose a fine or pen- his remarks he said: “I have travel- alty, for withdrawal, but allow him to ed over all of the Southern States, have his share of the net profit up to, and i am more favorably impressed the time of his withdrawal. with Gaffney than any town in which This seemed to them Just and i have been. Your people are cor- equltable. So for not a share of the dial, pleasant and very easy to ap- stocb In the Farmers and Mechanics proach. Strangers are not look-ed has been cancelled. upon with suspicion, but it seems that The story of Burgess, Hamll and they consider every man a gentleman Parris, are true stories of three young men, who are becoming home-build- erg and owners. There are a hun- until he does something to prove that he is otherwise. Your people are al so enterprising, and in that respect it dred young men in Gaffney, who reminds one of a western town. If I were ready to stop traveling I would rather settle In Gaffney than any other town In the South.” This An a high tribute coming from such a source, but It only bears out what we have been trying to impress upon our people all along, that we have the best town in the world. • • • Although we have never been a supporter of Senator Tillman, we have always had great respect for his abilities. That he is a very strong man, his worst enemy will not deny. We have always been Impressed also with his fearless utterances, and his speech the other day in the United States senate, denouncing President Roosevelt’s encroachment upon the legislative power, characterizes him as a fearless representative and do ing what no other member of that august body has dared to do. Wlhen Senator Tillman first went to Wash ington as senator from South Coro- lina, people thronged the galleries when it became known that he was to speak, actuated by curiosity and to be amused, but as time went on they began to realize that Mr. Till man possessed not only a strong, rugged personality, but that he was a very strong man intellectually, and they go to hear Tillman now, because they know that he is one of the very ablest men in a body composed of the greatest minds in the United States. W;e deeply deplore the fact that several years ago when the senator first entered the political arena, he made wholesale charges of corruption against the officials of the State who were then in power, and failed to sub stantiate a single one of these charg es. We deplore it for the reason that since then we have never had the respect that we would like to have for a man who occupies the position which he does, and who has shown so much signal ability. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases'put together, ami until the last few years was supposed to hi; incurable. For a great many years doc tors pronouuced it a local disease, and pre scribed local remedies, and hy constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pro nounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutionol treatmnt. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. .1. Cheney A Oo.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only con stitutional cure on the market. It is taken Internally in doses from 10 drops to a tea- spoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mueods surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dolltirs for any case it fails to cu*'e. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address. •<’. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Ha 1 ’sFamily Fills are the best. FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE AND EVENTS OF INTER E8T IN FOREIGN LANDS. TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. A MODERN SOUP STONE. And a Word About the Treatment of the Ills of Old Age. The Medical Times' of New York holds out to mankind a new beacon of hope in the form of aii article by Dr .Samuel G. Tracy promising u cure through electricity for the ills of old age It is the arteries. Dr. Tracy points out. that first show the symp toms of senility. When their-walls lose elasticity a man is growing old. The cause of the hardening of the arteries is an impure condition of the blood, and it is here that Dr. Tracy suggests that the electric battery shall get in its beneficent work. A treatment which Dr. Tracy proposes through use of a iiyfrex coil—whatever that may be— "bombards the patient with millions of oscillations per second.” There is an elaborate statement of bow the thing is to be done, winding up with this significant remark: “This treat ment must he seconded by strict atten tion to diet and hygiene.” This last suggestion throws a world of light upon the whole matter and at tile same time reminds us of a story which was current in well ordered nurseries about forty-five years ago. It .vas a story of a vagabond who beg ged the privilege of making soup over the kitchen fire of a cottage from a smooth stole* which he carried in Ids pocket First he begged of the kind cottage wife the use of her fire; tlien lie borrowed a kettle; then lie asked for some water, for any old bone that hap pened to be lying about, for some vege tables, for a pinch of salt and for what not essential to the making of a rich soup. When the decoction was done ami eaten the soup stone was carefully dried and returned to the pocket of this artist in beggary to serve some future occasions. Dr. Tracy’s electric scheme is, we suspect, much like this soup stone, since, given “strict attention to diet and hygiene,” the rest is always easy. In truth, if there be Anything the matter witli a man winch “strict attention to diet and hygiene" will not cure his family may Justus well brush up their black clothes.—Argonaut. Economizes the use of flour, but ter and eggs; makes the biscuit, cake and pastry more appetiz ing, nutritious and wholesome. m ‘1, ) Whr.t We Owe to Our Coal. “When England loses her ascendonry In coa! production,” said William Stan ley Jevors, a British political econo mist, in 18(17. "her fall will be quicker than the Bo man empire’s was after Odoaeer, the Germanic barbarian, up set the shadow throne of the little Au gustus and made himself king of Italy.” The United States, which was low in the scale of coal production when that prophecy was made, has since then passed far ahead of Eng land. Of the more than Khj,000.0b 1 tons of coal of all sorts produced in the United States in the calendar year 10(17 much more than three-fifths was anthracite, and nearly all of this was furnished by Pennsylvania. In 1880 the. United, States passed ‘Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE This is the only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar. It Has No Substitute’ Thera are Alum and Phosphate of Lime mixture* sold at a lower price, but no housekeeper regarding tho health of her family can afford to u»c them. ahead of the United Kingdom fn vol ume of manufactures in the aggregate, and the lead lias been increasing ever since. In 1907 the United States In pig iron production, 20,000,000 tons, beat the United Kingdom, Germany and France combined. In 1908 our $120.- 000,000,000 of weattb exceed* that of the United Kingdom and France taken together, which are our nearest rivals on that roil. Much of the United States' Industrial and financial prepon derance over the countries of the world is due to the utilization of anthracite, which Started on Feb. 11, 1808.—Les lie’s Weekly. A Sit-by-the-Fire. “You may talk about your counfry cousins who never get outside of tlmii' native counlies,” said the man who lives not far from St. Thomas’ churoii. “but I know a man who has lived in New York for forty years and lias nev er seen the Flatiron building. Of course he couldn’t have seen it during three-fourths of that time, however much he may have wanted to, but that isn’t what I'm talking about. He is n bookseller, with a shop not three min utes from Broadway and not more than twenty minutes’ walk from Twen ty-third street. No, he isn’t blind He simply hasn’t seen the Flatiron building because his business hasn't taken him down that way, and he is not suflicieut- ly curious to go down there merely to look at it. lie has not been as far south as Forty-second street in five years, and lie is not a dozen blocks away. He has bis work to attend to during th rt day. and when night come-, he goes home, which reminds me that there are thousands of people in Man hattan who have never seen the Rrook- l lyn bridge and more have never cros.v ; ed it, and still some people wonder at j the lack of civic pride among residents ; of New York city.”—New York Press. Best Healer in the World. Rev. F. Starblrd, of Bast Raymond. Maine, says; “I have used Bucklen'i Arnica Salve for several years, on jay old army wound, and other obstlaato sores, and find It the best bca 1 $r In ■ the world. I use it too with great success In my veterinary bijalness.” I at Cherokee Drag Co. j \ DIRECTORS. R. M. Roark, D. C. Ross, J. L. Walker, J. C. OUs, C. W. Whisonant, N.H. Littlejohn, J. A. McCraw, J. J. Scruggs, B. G. Clary. Living, Breathing, Walking Eiamples OF THE OFFICERS N. H. Littlejohn; President. J. L. Walker, Vice-President. J. G. Pridmork, Secy, and Treas. J. C. OTTS, Attorney. Benefits of the Building and Loan Plan Read what three men who have invested in Building and Loan stock have to say in regard to the advantages offered wage-earners by this plan: Two years ago last month f sub scribed for five shares in a Building and Loan Association. It cost me $1.25 a week. Later I applied for and secured a loan of $425, with which I purchased a house and lot, borrowing the remainder of the purchase price, $T5 from the bank. I have since sub scribed for two more shares and bor rowed $130, with which I paid the bank $75 and spent the remainder im proving the property, making it cost me $575. I have paid back into the association in weekly installments a total sum of $140, leaving a balance due of $435. I have refused to con sider an offer of $750. In other words, within twenty-five months I have saved and made in the increased value of the property $315, which I could not have done had It not been , for the building and loan plan. Be sides, I have had the privilege of living in my own house. J. P. HAMJL. Three years ago I took stock in a Building and Loan Association. Later I borrow $500 and bought a home. I have paid back about $200 in weekly payments of $1.25. I would not con sider less than $1,000 a fair price for my property as people in the neigh borhood are asking more than that for their property. I consider that I have saved and made (by increase in value of property) $700 in three years. I could never ,have done this but for the building and loan plan. N. S. BURGESS. ( I took four share* of stock nx a Building and Loan a little over two years ago, and later took another share, i borrowed $500 from the aa- sociation and purchased several sor- burbac lots. I have since paid back over $100 of the borrowed money and my lots have Increased In valne at least two hundred dollars. I have saved and made at least $300 In two years that I could no. have saved and made except through the building and. loan. G. D. PARRIS. These are the men the building and loan plan have helped. They are all working men who have no income except their salary. They are living, breathing, walking examples of the benefits of the building and loan plan. It is the ideal plan for the wage earner. Buy a home with rent money. The Farmers and MechanicsiBuilding and Loan Association opens a new series offstock April 4th, 1908. See Gibbs Pridmore or any of the officers and get full information as to our association. ^ Farmers and JTechanics Building & Loan Association