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/ THE GAFFNEY LEDGER. Tuesday »ntf Friday. H. D«Camp, Editor and Publisher The Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents. MARKET REPORT. LOOAL COTTON MARKET. Middilnjr ter. and I hope that members of the Southern Cotton Association and Farmers’ Union will stand side by side in this great fight With a Ed. H. D*Camp, Editor and Publisher | heayy ^-eage wall street will set the price for our cotton crop, with a light acreage we can get our own price within reason. Don’t delay, but get busy at once. There Is plenty of time yet if you will only do your part In 1905 by reducing the acreage 15 per cent, the price advanced five cents per pound, and we can do it again. 1 1 will be glad to hear from every farmer that reads this and indorses it io.oo ! Do you want to return to the old days of five cent cotton? If not, join i this movement and we will make the South more prosperous than ever. COUNTRY PRODUCE MARKET. i J. A. Taylor, President, Market ?uort corrected weekly by W. National Glnners ASSO. Kyi" Davenport. Memphis, Tenn», April 18th, 1908. Hfens 30c to 40c t0 ?i renewals. : We would hate very much for any Hutter • • : Sweet Potatoes, busiiel. . J}-*® • of our subscribers to think hard of us Turnips 1 bushel^ 1181101 *hOc J for failing to send The Ledger after Corn, busiiel ^ i their subscriptions are out unless Oafci,*feech bustiei.... • ."■ ■■■ ■■■ J<* ! they had authorized us to do so. For Peas *tay* bushel" ........ ........... ?. a newspaper to succeed it must be Peas’white, bushel IH!!; conducted in a business-like way— Onions, bushel . , , il l,s t as any other enterprise is con- I ducted. When a subscription is out THE COTTON SITU ATION- we are at a loss to know whether the Mr. J. A. Tay or, P r ® s 611 0 i subscriber wants the paper continued National Ginne*s Assoc a on, ® j 0r not, unless he so informs us. We dressed a letter o e co o | invariably try to send the subscriber ers of the South, and, we may add, it ti ' , is worthy of the serious consideration OowdeyavilU Qoaalp. Gowdeysville, April 21.—Mr. Albert Griffin and Miss Lillie Petty were happily married Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Haines, by H. the People’s Building and Loan Asso- ; ^ Jefferies, N. P. elation which is very gratifying to its j We attended the entertainment at shore-holders. The association open- I Hehoboth Saturday afternoon. There NOTEE AND COMMENTa. In this issue of The Ledger will be found the first annual statement of of every cotton grower. Read this letter with wisdom and understand ing. Study the figures and ponder over them. We append the full text of the letter: Cotton today reached the lowest point since January 1, 1903, except from November to May of the crop year of 1904-5, when it sold two cents per pound lower than this. What has caused this decline of three cents per pound in spite of the fact that the cotton crop of the world is about 4,500,000 short of last years crop. The only answer that I can find is “Lack of Confidence.” The retailer is not buying except as he needs the goods, the jobber is doing the same, consequently the mills have no orde.s ahead, while last year, and for several years past, they have had orders booked from three to six months in advance. What causes this lack of confi dence? They nre afraid we will raise a bumper crop of cotton again this year. Why are the 7 afraid of . a large crop? They look at the past. In 1903 we had a short crop ana good prices, which was followed by a large acreage and good seasons and a bumper crop. The next year, 1905-6, we had a short crop and good prices, which was again followed by a large acreage and a bumper crop. Had It not been for the September storm in the Mississippi valley and the excep tionally good trade the market wqruld probably have gone to eight cents or under for that crop. We got a good average price for the good grades in the crop, and a large acreage was set aside for cotton last season, but owing to the weather during planting time the acreage was cut some and the crop ; poor in Texas and Louisiana enabled us to get a good price for the most of this crop. A month ago every in dication was that we would have a large acreage this season, and the people did not care to place heavy or- i Bishop Capers was one of the most ders for cotton goods, knowing that Icvable men whom we have ever known. No man, no matter how de praved, could meet and converse with him without having felt better for having done so. He was a general of the Confederacy, and hundreds of his old comrades will deeply mourn his His place in church and State a gentle reminder in the way of a pos tal card that his subscription will ex pire at a certain time, and if we hear nothing from him we naturally con clude he doesn’t want the paper con tinued and we know nothing else to do but stop it, nowever much we dis like to do so. We treat all alike— can’t afford to do otherwise, for one man’s money is just as good to us as another’s. Wlhen, however, it is not conven ient for a subscriber to send the money for his subscription (or renew al as the case may be) and he writes us to send on the paper and he will pay it at a certain time (not too far off) we will consider it and, if pos sible, accommodate him, and, of course we will expect him to fulfill his promise at the time he says. We have long since discontinued the practice of annoying our patrons by "duiining” them through the pa per or otherwise. It’s unpleasant and unprofitable to both of us. We have tried, and we believe we have succeeded in giving our readers one of the best semi-weeklies in the State and it is our aim to still fur ther improve it as time advances. The price is $1.50 per year (in ad vance) and we believe no paper can give as good service for less money without doing so at a loss. ed its third series on April 11th and now have 833 shares of par value of $100 per share, making a total value of $83,300 which at maturity will be paid in cash to the shareholders or go to cancel mortgages on homes built or improved. The books for the third series are still open and any one wishing stock may call on the secretary and treasurer and subscribe for as many shares as they wish. This association is run on business principles by business men who have the interest of the company at heart and have every safe guard around it to protect the share-holders. The treasurer is under bond by a strong surety company and the books are audited regularly. Your stock in this is never worth less than par. Gaffney Route 1. Gaffney, Route 1, April, 23. Editor Ledger:—Everything seems to be rather quiet this year in the ‘ political field” of Chero kee county. That is the way for it to be, however, all the while. So far, most interest is being manifested in the races for auditor and congress. It is not my purpose to want to dic tate to the people of this county as to how - they should vote, but I do think the people of Cherokee county ought to stand by Mr. Butler in his race for congress. I have not one word to say against Mr. Finley. He is a good man, and has always been very nice to me. He is not a brilliant orator, however, and has nqt made the record in con gress we think he should have made. He has been in congress now a num ber of years. j was a goodly crowd there for it to be such unfavorable weather and the 1 children (and grown people* too) all i did their parts well. We suppose | “Annie Laurie” will give a full write up of the occasion. Messrs. Claude Vaughan and Er nest Moris, of Wilkinsville, Route 1, I were welcome visitors in our Sunday i school Sunday afternoon. Mr. E. M. i Kirby, our secretary, gave us a splen- i did talk on the lesson, also Mr. J. O. Tate, of Union, made a good speech. ! The sick cow belonging to Mr. J. E. ! Foster, of which we mentioned in our i last letter, is no better. We spent a most pleasant afternoon ! with our friend. Miss Maggie Moss, i at her home Sunday and enjoyed our- I self fine, just as we always do. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Jefferies and | 1 children, of Jonesville, spent Satur- ! day night and Sunday with Mrs. Jef feries’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. ! Hames. Mr. Toy Proctor and sister, Miss , Nettie, went to Jonesville Thursday ! on a shopping expedition, j “Belle,” you haven’t written in quite a while. Whv don’t you write and let us know the happenings of lower Gowdeysville? Mr. “J. L. S.,” your lecture to the boys and girls was certainly worth j reading and not only that, but worth | heeding, too. It w r as simply fine. As news is scarce I will close, i Success to The Ledger. Edna. Thickety Too lea. Thickety. April 22—Easter passed without killing the fruit as was pre dicted by some. We are now almost sure of a good fruit and blackberry crop. Some of the fruit trees in this section have nothing on them but , there are others that have more than We think he ought to j they will hold up, so we feel very ROYAL Baking Powder The oiilv Bokhip Powder made with Royal Grape fern of Tartar —nude from gapes— Insures herJthfui and delicious food for every heme—every day baf^ards your food against iiluiu a id plnsphats ei lime Pi [U!! BISHOP CAPERS. In the death of Bishop Capers, the Episcopal church has sustained an et a good price for the most almost irreparable loss, and the State of South Carolina has lost one of her best citizens. five way to our good young friend, Mr. Butler, and see what he can do for us. There is no man in this coun ty that has done more for it and the voters of this county than has T. B. Butler. He is a brilliant orator and lawyer. Those are two requsites a man needs to make a good mark in congress. He knows too, the needs of the peo ple of this district and especially of part of it. He has had several years of experience in the South Carolina legislature, which better prepares him for the position he now aspires for. He is a man that has some ambition to do something. That we all admire in any young man. There are other men in this county I w’ould like to see in the halls of congress, but they don’t seem to want to go there. We know men don’t bring long steps in the legisla tive halls of congress, hut we do know that some men can and will do more than others. Take, for in stance. the young man Yates Webb, of Cleveland county North Carolina, he has done more in congress in the short time he has been there than some men have done in ten years. I believe Mr. Butler can, and will do like him. Again, he il one of our boys, and the voters of this county should stand by him. Let’s show that much county pride toward him. Pete. good over the prospects. Several Thickety people attended services at Goueher last Sunday. Your correspondent was among the number. We enjoyed the sermon very much. Look for us again next third Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lipscomb, of the Goueher section, spent last Sun day night in Thickety. Mr. Fred Bailey and two of Cow- pens’ charming young ladies, Misses Belle Bailey and Belle Wilkins, pass ed through our “Burg” yesterday .af ternoon. Mr. J. R. Graham made a business trip to Gaffney* this afternoon. I will have to ask you to excuse my letter this week as there is no news to write. Everybody around Imre are too busy to bring any news. Best wishes to The Ledger and its readers. Cx. AUCTION SALE! OF DESIRABLE BUILDING LOIS Saturday, April 251li at 1.30 P. M. R. O. Sams Montgomery Street—6o feet with a large acreage and fair season we would produce more cotton than the world needed and the price of cotton goods would decline. They are good business n\en, and you can’t fool them. How can we restore confidence? In place of planting the same acreage as last season in cotton, plant 25 per death, cent less. As soon as the acreage re- will be hard to fill, but we are con- pert is out in June, or even before, the so i ( ,a w hen we reflect that the effect trade will know that there will be a Silver Aluminum Jelly Moulds Free. Individually Molded desserts are now considered the proper thing. The moulds are hard to get outside the large cities, but users of JELL-O, The Dainty Dessert, can get them abso lutely free. Circular in each pack- 1 age explaining and illustrating the different patterns. JELLrO is sold by all good grocers at 10c per package. Do not accept a substitute or you will be disappointed. moderate crop raised this year and we will have the old time activity In the cotton trade. Jobbers will place their orders ahead to enable them to supply their trade and the mills will contract in advance for supplies of > cotton and the mark-et will advance much faster than it has declined. The result win be that you will market a crop of 11,500,000 at an average of at least $05 per bale, or a total of about $750,000,000. If the weather condi tions .should be unfavorable for the growing crop and it should turn out a million bales less, it would sell for fifteen cents and bring a total of nearly $800,000,000, and add to this the value of the feed crops that can be grown on the acreage intended for cotton and it will give us anotoer $50,000,000. Suppose that you plant the sam# acreage as last year and with favorable weather we would likely make anyway 13,000,000, pos sibly more. What would the price be urder the present trade conditions? Not over an average of eight cents per pound and perhaps lower. Say that it averaged $40 per bale the crop would bring $520,000,000, at least $300,- 000,000 loss to the South. How * n K - bring about this reduction? of his good deeds will live long after him. Subscribe for The Ledger, $140 a year. $ A New Orleans woman was thin. 4 s ^ Because she did not extract sufficient jO* jr nourishment from her food. V She took Seott'f Emulsion. q Result: 4 She gained a pound a day in weight. $ ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND $1.00 ^ — I -.■ar-vrer-er-«r-rYar-vr-%r i vr^W'*v i $rrvr *- v w » * mr •» -w -A A. M-_A A A A. A- A- m J. j* » m. A.A- • u • « ' A- ’>•- A A - - .A » - A. 4 , t0 fti It is not too late yet to plant corn, y! X alfalfa, sorghum cane, mlllett or cow peas for hay. Or it will pay you to let the land lie idle for a season rather than plant it in cotton at a loss. Let every planter that reads this article at once arrange to reduce bis own acreage in cotton and show the article to his neighbor, or better, call a meeting at every country school house in the South and discuss this matter intelligeftly, then go home re solved that each one will do his part. If you have any neighbors that will not reduce send me their names and I will take the matter up with each one personally. This is no small mat- * $ioo Reward, $ioo. Tins /eaders of this pitpi-r will bn pli-.iM-d lo learn that there is at least one dreaded dis ease that science Inis been able to -uro in all L*. Itsstaffesand that W< 'atarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure latheonly posltivp'cure now lriio*u to >1 • a . w no .T. ! ,<l the medical fraternity. Catarrh be njr coninitutlonul disease, requires a constitu lional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure taken internally, acting directly upon the. blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the I disease, and giving the patient strength by building an the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its eurative iKiwers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Hend for list of testimonials Address. F. J. CBBMCT Si Co.. Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Hair* ramil v Fills ate the best Plant Forage Crops. Don’t slignt the forage crop; of all crops planted on a farm, it :s one of the most profitable. We call the attention of Cherokee farm ers to the product of one acre of land planted in < )range Cane by one of our most prosperous farmers, Wilkes Browu He sold $150 wouh of syrup, also sold us about 550.00 worth of seed, in addition to feed ing his stock for months. Compare this with one acre planted in cotton at 6 cents per pound. We carry Orange Cane seed and think it the king of forage crops German Millet makes a large-yielding and most nutritious hay crop. Pearl or Cat*Tail Millet very valuable continuous cutting forage plant—especially valuable for green for stock. 1'lant some for your milch cow. Teoainte a splendid forage crop, furnishes a nutritious green food, for horses and cattle, especially good for green for milch cows. Stools out enormously, can be cut every week or so. We carry all these seeds and will be glad to furnish information about planting and cultivating. Oaffney I>jrng: Co. !S Si Si Si Si *8 ^ No. 16 -1 No. 17 r, No. i8 r, No. rg „ No 20 ^1 0 0 0 0 c io-foot Alleyway ■i No. 15 9 No. 14 o o. 13 V No. 12 9 No. ii 75 75 75 75 89 Jefferies Street—40 feet Si Si Si Si *8 * No. 6 No. 7 C No. 8 •S No. 9 No. 10 r- 0 0 0 0 xo-foot Alleyway Si •T, No. 5 CJ No. 4 ■3 No. 3 No. 2 - No. 1 -vj w 0 0 0 ° \ \ 75 75 75 75 1*1 1 Buford Street—60 feet I will offer on the above date, on the premises, twenty of the > N R. E. FOSTER The tripple-tongued Auctioneer. most desirable building lots in Gaffney at public outcry, fronting Bu ford, Jefferies and Montgomery streets. Five of these lots front Mont gomery street, ten front Jefferies street, and five front Buford street. They are but a few minutes walk from the business part of the city, the Central High School and the churches. Without aoubt, these are the best residence lots ever offered in this growing city at auction. Remember the Date—Saturday, April 25th, at 1.30 P. M. Terms of sale : one-third cash, balance in one and two years. R. E. FOSTER, Auctioneer S. L FORT, Reel Estate Dealer