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iK: * p r ¥■ THE QAPPNEY LEDGER, Tuesday and prlday. Bd. H> DaCamp, Editor and Publlahor CITY DIRECTORY. Offlciala. Itopw Mayor Pro Tam .. .. city Ooi* o • o • W. H. Rota .. . W. O. Johnson ■oorgo M- Hood . T. H. Littlejohn A. L. Hallman Health Officer T. H. Lockhart Chief Police Bntler * Osborne .. City Afttys. Board Public Worka A. N. Wood ..Chairman J. N. Lipscomb Treasurer B. O. Clary Secretary Board of Trade. W. C. Hamrick President J. C. Otts Secretary y MARKET REPORT. LOCAL COTTON MARKET. MtdilllnK 10.40 COUNTRY PRODUCfc dARKKT. Market «poit corrected weekly by W. Kyle Oaveuyoil. Ileus 35eto40.- Jb’rys 20c u* Ducks 20c 17>4c Butter ^ lee Sweet Potatoes, bushel ' Jl.jil Irish Potatoes, bushel jl.40 Turulps.bushel LOW Corn, uushei — w !*jc Meal, uushei Hac Oats, teeU, uushei bOe Oats, seed, bushel. S5c to $1.00 Peas, clay, hushul : Peas, wulte, uushei, $.l.uo Onions, busbei *1.40 Strawberries, quart *oc ass » * GAFFNEY’S OPPORTUNITY- The Electric Manufacturing and Power Co. having purchased the Spar tanburg Street Railway, which they propose to run with power obtained from their plant at Gaston Shoals, five miles north of Gaffney, it would seem that it would be no great under taking to induce these people to build a line from Spartanburg through Gaff ney to the plant at the shoals. The company would naturally wish to have a line of road to its plant, and If the people of our town will take the matter up with the owners In the right way we are confident that we will have the line in operation within the next eighteen months. The right of way having already been secured for their tower line the road could be built on this right of way provided there was any trouble in securing (he right of way in other places. It would mean a great deal to Gaffney to secure this line, and if the people of our town sit down and make no effort to secure it, they will make a great mistake. Gaffney has let many golden opportunities pass, which if (hey had been taken advantage of at (he proper time, would have made her & city of more than twice her present size. We hope that the Board of Trade will at its next meeting take action looking to securing this line. There is no limit to the possibilities for good that the building of this line would mean for Gaffney. If the line is built it will mean a saving of several thousands of dollars annually in light freights alone, because it would give us a seaboard connection at Spartanburg, which would give us a competing line to tbe ocean, thus taking from the Southern the mono poly which it has so long enjoyed. Let us be up and doing while we have the opportunity. Six months hence it may be too late. We know our people do. One lady expressed it very aptly the other day when ehe said: "It is a pretty place —so restful looking." • • e The directors of the Oherobee Building and Loan Association met In the office of Secretary and Treas urer w. Gaffney Friday and heard the export for the fiscal year. The report shows that the association Is In excellent condition. It has loaned about $16,000 besides paying off a good many stockholders who desired to withdraw. This Is the pioneer building and loan association of Gaff ney. it has enabled about thirty wage earners to purchase homes and these are now paying their rent meney into the association and In a few years they will own their homes and have no rent money to pay. Everybody should encourage the building and loan. It Is the best poor man's bank ever established, makes him save his monpy and makes money for him while he is saving it. An Expensive Error. Washington, April 9.—The omission Pretty Lively Fooling. t was out walking in Kingston, Ja- °* a n the construction one afternoon, and while on a w°JSin”i.t“^S , ewhere K oam>w ’ tr f 1 “7* 7° bl »' ;k from ,80,000,000 to ,100.000.000 In the women onrb .ppareotly lo n towerloK last decade and the error has Just r®® 6 - Each woman s tongue was go- been confessed by the authorities. at a phenomenal rate, but not a Of course It was not discovered until word of their screeching jargon was after the administration In that par- intelligible to me. ticular department where It origi- Finally oue of the women scooited nated had changed. U p a double handful of the ever pres- The little word .whose omission cnt Ki U ggt,>n dust and flung It over Tv^nSo; r vrr , w,tha Garfield Informed one of the commit- The dust covered woman re- tees which became interested In look- taliated by taking a Uu pqn she bad ing up the strange displacement of in her hand au.1, scooping up a couple the word that the accident by which ‘ of quarts of the dirty water in the gut- it got lost had resulted In the govern- ter by the roadside, drenching her as- ment selling some $80,000,000 worth gallant with It. while all that part of of land for about $18,000,000. Kingston resounded with the mad It happened in thia w«7. The tim- la hter Tbe two won)on thl .„ d03c „ her and stone act of 1878 provided . , , , for the sale of lands not useful for lu on f ach 0,her ^ Proceeded to en- agriculture but chiefly valuable for S a S L * hi a prolonged wrestle, which timber and stone at a “minimum , resulted In both of them falling to the price of $2.60 per acre.” The depart- ground, where they roiled over and ment was given ample authority to over in a cloud of dust and finally or | fix such price above the minimum as «tood upon their feet, facing each other It it should deem proy.^r; and the inten- i u a state of dirt and disorder beyond |tion of the law was that the price should be adjusted to conditions. But, according to the statement made by Representative Hitchcock in ••. n-,-' WEAK FROM SUFFERING : . TO PERFORM WORKl Discouraged After Spending Money Without Benefit—Found Help at Last. beyond description. Fearing that they would make a sec ond onslaught on each other and wish- entai (the House, thoWMlterior Department t° P* a y the part of peacemaker. 1 iTsin PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. ^ started the administration of the law by stepped forward and asked Miss Hattie Littlejohn, of Goucher, losing the word “minimum,” and as- “What Is the trouble?” was in the city yesterday, shopping, suming that the price was flat $2.50 , Courtesying low. one of the women E. >fc. Goforth, of Goucher, was in per acre. As a result about 8,000,- j said iu a soft, drawling voice: 000 acres of land have been sold un- al a |j mastab; we’s jess ^ 'tLUJ? foolin'.”—Exchange. town yesterday. S. S. Littlejohn, of Goucher, was among the visitors to Gaffney yester day. M. C. Lipscomb, of White Plains, was in the city yesterday on busi ness. R. B. Patrick was in the city Satur day on business. • W. Harry Gooding returned to the city last week to spend several days with his family. The Interior Department has been In vestigating and has found that the timber on many of these acres was easily worth, as it stood, $10,000. Huge areas of he finest forests in the world—the great woods of Ore gon and Washington included—went largely under this misconstruction of law. Once started that way, nothing stopped It; and so the department Parachute Thriller*. Among the latest thrillers is the triple parachute leap. In which one aeronaut uses three different para chutes before reaching earth, says Popular Mechanics. He leaves the balloon in his downward flight with a C. C. Thompson, of Gaffney, R. F. icame to recognize $2.50 per acre as re<l parachute, but after falling a short _ a* --a—*-*--—- ■* “ the regular price. Anybody who I distance liberates it and makes a sec- would give it and comply with other ond plunge through space with a white conditions could have the lands. The parachute. This feat Is repeated again practice has but lately been stopped. a f ter another drop, and he finally lands 1 with a blue parachute, pondfleld paragraphs. Another thriller Is a double para- Pondfleld, May. 11.—Mr. J. J. Rip- chut e Iea P frora the s » me balloon. In pv’s little son, Ethics, Is some belter, j which a man and woman race to earth This section is about rid of whoop- in parachutes which fall BOO or 600 feet ing cough. before opening ont The cotton and com is not growing very rapidly owing to the cold j — ' ‘ weather - e-rATB-BaaraiT W’e have, at present, reason to ex-1 STATEIVlfcRIT pect a bountiful fruit crop. i Mr. Clyde Randolph was a Gaffney , of the T 'H°. r j.Twppy wax in Gaffney to-1 RECE,PTS AND DISBURSEMENT? day. | 3F The crops along the old Cherokee i ford road are on an average with those of our section. We are glad to state that the peo ple of the Cherokee ford section are rapidly building their lands up hence their being in that section is of much ; benefit to the Gaffney Land Company I and to the Cherokee Falls Manu facturing Company also. The road leading from Cherokee jford to Gaffney is In need of some wokk. This is an old road. It has been here ever since long before the establishment of the Cherokee Ford Iron Works and used to be traveled much more than It is at present. Southern farmers are thought to be the foolishest of fools and the earliest to sympathize with their enemies. * ' From the appearance of the upper regious there will be rain In the near future. Success to The Ledger. J. L. J. NOTES AND COMMENT* John Me passes. We suspect he is waiting for somebody else to open so he can trail. • • • Senator Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, possesses a wonderful tongiue, but very little discretion. • 0 • * Is not Union about the best place in the State?—Union Times. No, not exactly. It’s next to the best place in the State—Cherokee. 0 0 0 Gaffney wag a buay place Saturday. There wag a land aale, two flag ralw ings and a revival, to aay nothing of the fairly good trade of the mer chants. r • • • There la not another newspaper in tbe world, like the Lantern.-—Chester Lantern. Correct And few shed such rays of light, especially when yon keep the globe clean. • • • The editor who falls to attend the press meeting next month must hate a good excuse, else we intend to cut his acquaintance. We know that will be awful, but we shall not waste onr substance and affection on an ingrate. • a a We don’t see any use raising a stink over that Cosmopolitan dinner In New York. If the whites who sat down and ate with the colored elite are satisfied that’s their affair and re spectable white people either North or South will not applaud their con duct. 000 The iron seats for the city hall park have arrived and are being put in place. Mayor Rpss and his coun cil ought to feel proud of the park. D. 5. was among the visitors to the city Saturday. Luther Thompson spent Saturday in the city. Mrs. Mary Wtood, of Pacolet, ar rived In the city Friday to spend several days with her daughter, Mrs. Bessie Wood. Chas. p. Ligon, of Spartanburg, was In the city Sunday. Clyde Cooksey was a Gaffney visit or Sunday. P. S. Lowry, of R. F. D. 6, paid The ledger a pleasant call yesterday. Misses Eva Little and Ola Byars spent Sunday with friends at Patter son’s Springs, N. C. Mr. Richard Baines, a prosperous farmer of Asbury, was in the city yes terday. Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Turner spent Sunday at Patterson Springs, N. C. R. S. Lipscomb went to Shelby Sun day to spend the day with his family, who are visiting there. Lowery Walker returned to the city yesterday morning, having spent Sun day in Shelby. Miss Mittle Hopper spent Sunday in Blacksburg, returning to the city yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. DeCamp and children visited Mrs. W. E. Lucas at Blacksburg Sunday. Miss Effle Hopper is visiting friends in Charlotte, N. C. Chance Wilson and Miss Lucy Wil- bins went to Patterson Springs Sun day. Col. Walter H. Geer, the handsome but unilateral representative of the Columbia State, was in the city yes terday. Cicero Price, one of the best farm ers of the Maud neighborhood, was in the city Friday. Col. T. B. Butler was in Toccoa, Ga., the latter part of the weeb on professional business. Goodman Prldmore, one of Chero kee’s most thrifty farmers, was in the city Friday. George Elmore, who la now a citi zen of the old North State, was here Friday. Z. Hicks, a prosperous farmer of the Ezells section, apett Friday in Gaffney. J. E. Gault, of Jonesvllle, was in the city Saturday. Munro Whitlock, of Jonesvllle, was a business visitor to the city Saturday. Rev. L. C. Ezell, of Wbodrulf, is visiting his son, J. E. Ezell, In the city. Joseph Mintz, one of Cherokee’* good farmers, was here Saturday. John A. Hames, a successful farm er of the Gowdeyville neighborhood, wag in the city Saturday on business. E. B. Davis, qf Gaffney, R. F. D. 8, was In the city Saturday. W. H. S. Harris, Esq., of Jonesvllle, wag In the city on business. J. H- McLane, of Spartanburg, spent Saturday in Gaffney. I Smith. Josh Tucker. Mr. J. T. Tindeli R. E. Porter, a prominent farmer Mr. Melton Walker. Miss Jones Wil of the Buffalo section, was in the city bins. Miss Annie Wilkins Saturday. One cent due on each one. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge McCullough.! A. R. N. Folger, P. M. of Star Farm, spent Saturday in town, _ _ shopping. They Want ’Em. Capt. and Mrs. J. J. Magness, of. (Sumter Herald.) Grassy Pond, were In the city Satur-T ^ ( j a _ J J “ ! why not extend an Invitation to T. D. Tate, of Clifton, paid The I l he P re f aviation to meet In Sum- Ledger an appreciated call Saturday, f , r r !, f 7 Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Ross have re- ^amp^and the city of GafT turned to the city after an extended: ^ *7 b y storm JTihtlA ?! r-irx meat June, anfl we would he delighted to i P have them with us In 1909. . - . f Memorial o*y at Unity. . . _ * The Soldiers’ Memorial Society of Spanish Emeralds. Hickory Grove will hold their annual “Fine old Spanish emeralds” 1* a meeting at Unity church and ceme- plir-»s«* which means something quite tery on Friday, May 22nd, at 1:30, different from what it seems to imply P- m. | There ueter was au emerald mined in 1. Floral collection by Mesdames | Spain, hut after the conquest of Pern R. W. Westmoreland and Dan Lattl- t | le conquerors brought home great ”T'Devotional exorcises bv pastor. ; |U "““ tlc ’ whl, ' b W. T. Thompson, ot Gatrnoy. , ' >rrafd ,m l"’l'Ortant pan. In Ibis 3. Song selections by Mesdames | "”0' tll(> emeralds cStme Into pos session of the old Mr. Earl McCoy, living at 1506 So. Branson Street/ Marion, Ind., has passed through an experience that is being duplicated every day In every town and city of any consequence in the United States. It furnishes abun dant proof of the correctness of L. T. Cooper’s theory in regard to the de generacy of the human stomach, and ?hows conclusively the merit possessed by his New Discovery medicine to re store the weakened system to full strength and vigor. „ Mr. McCoy says: “For a long time 1 have been a sufferrer from stomach trouble. I was unable to retain any food, and became so weak and run down, that I was compelled to stop work. My system was nearly a wreck, and I had tried so many remedies and spent so much money without deriv ing any benefit, that 1 became dis couraged and gave tip hope of being well again. “1 heard a great deal of Mr. Coop* er’s theory and medicine, and after much hesitation decided to try it. Th# result was a pleasant surprise. Befort I had taken half of the first bottlO I was able to retain all food eaten, an£ my strength began to return. I h&VO taken six or seven bottles, and am feeling fine. I eat and sleep well, do not cough at night, and am able to perform a hard day’s work. I can cheerfully recommend Cooper’s NeW Discovery, for it has done wonders for me.” The Cooper remedies are meeting) with remarkable success wherever they are introduced. They are witll> out a rival in toning up a weakened and ruu-uowu system. \Y© sell thQQ» —Gaffney Drug Co. A BETTER PLACE Cherokee B. & L. Association May 1 *«, 1907 to May 5th, 1908. Receipts List «f Unclaimed Ltttera. List of unclaimed letters In Gaffney postoffice for the week ending May 11. 1908: Mack Atkins. Mr. Gano Bayter, Miss Orle Brown, Miss Daisy Brad ford, Miss Rosa Borner, Bates Blan ton, Mrs. G. W. Brown, Mrs. Lillie Crocker, Mrs. L. E. Childers, Mrs. Llndy Fowler, C. B. Floyd, Master Harry Gregory, Annie Guthrie, F. C- Gregory. Mrs. Nancy Godfrey, Mr. George Goudlock, Mr. John Green, Jr. Miss Lara Green, Miss Pearl Green, Mrs. E. A. Horn, Miss Maud Hamrick, Mlsg Lula Holt, Mr. John JUpps. Miss B. J. Horne, ■'Mr. Tom Hunt, E. T. Harrell, J. L. Holmes, Mrs. Mary Henderson, Frances Horn, Mr. Llagor Littlejohn, Mr. G. L. Llt- jAIejohn. Mrs. J. W. Mooruan, Mr. J. IW. Miller. Mr. John Motts. Mr. G. B. Miller, Mrs. Mary Medlin M. E. Mil ton, Mr. R. L. McKnlght, Miss Liloon McCoy. Mr. Hillard McDonald. Mrs.: Bertie McClure, Miss Fannie Parris,' Mr. M. C. Pall, Miss Rosa Phillips. Pete Rnbll. Mr. Albert Rice, Walter Ray, Mr. Cul Ramsey. Chas. H. Rob inson. Miss Mablc Sloan Mrs. Hattie Installments.. . Interest Loans Repaid Borrowed from Bank Borrowed from W. A. Turner Sale of Books, Ezines, etc $5,52300 882.82 3.230.02 500.00 550.00 Disbursements Overdraft 95.79 Note, W. A. Turner. 550.00 Note, Bank 500.00 Interest and Taxes,. 23.75 Withdrawals L55944 Expense, 437-50 Loaned 7,370.00 Cash on hand 191.41 $10,727.89 $10,728.89 W. W. GAFFNEY, SeCvand Treas. You cannot find to buy everything carried In a drug store. The goods are right, The price is right, and we will treat you right. F^or Several lots near the First Graded School. These lots ___ an investment or a home are exceedingly cheap and very desirable. F* a r m 8 The Ed, C. McArthur place, lying 2^ miles east of Gaffney, on the Draytonville Mountain road, containing 163 acres. W This place speaks for itself and the price is right. Land 2 adjoining this tract is selling for $40.00 an acre and upward. * This farm is a bargain for $35.00 an acre with liberal terms. w# SAiT L. FORT, Real Estate and Fire Insurance, ^ Phone 258. Office second floor National'Bank Building. k ————— COST SALE CONTINUES Seeing is knowing, and all we ask is that you visit the Receiver’s Sale at The W. C. Carpenter Company This big stock of Dry Goods, Cloth ing, Shoes, Hats, Notions and ' Gro ceries is being closed out at cost, and it’s up to you to investigate is ny J. W. Bowdln and William Wilkie. 4. Bouquets of welcome by Mes dames C. Moorehead and James Cobb. 5. Address by Messrs. Ab. Smith, J. N. McDill, of Hickory, and Col. T. B. Butler, of Gaffney. 6. Floral parade conducted by Mes dames Ab. Smith and G. W. Harris. The pastors of all the churches at Hickory arei invited to be present and participate ) in the exercises The _ _ „ public In general, and especially those simpsou?’ who have loved ones sleeping at Unity, are cordially Invited to attend this meeting as this society wishes to obtain all true history possible relative to the valor and chivalry of the doM soldiers. W. T. Thompson, For Society. Spanish families, | nud as very ■ few v had been seen in Europe previous to that time all the liest stoues soon became classed as flue old Spanish emeralds. Today tbe ex pression still applies to the best emer alds of any source.- New York Sun. ‘Do you Dcubl* Proof, believe in heredity. Mrs. “Indeed 1 do. Every mean trait Bobby bus I cun trace right back to his father.” “Does hi* father believe in heredity Floor “Yes. He trace* Bobby’a faults all back to me.” iL, tV. iV, tWorVAr', (*r' ) 7ir' M M M M M M M M M ROSS, Receiver For Die W. G. Carpenter Go. V - 1 'Ilk ' IL, dT ' r .