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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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