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1 / .V / .*■> / f • t 1 s v J t ^ > r / A / / > > V THE QAFFNEY LEDGER, Tuesday and Friday. Id. H* D«Camp, Editor and Rvbllshwr The Ledger is uot i-esijonsible for the views of its correspondents. CITY DIRECTORY. Officials. W. H- Ross Mayor W. O- Johnson .. .. Mayor ProTem Geo. E. Hood City Clerk T. H. Littlejohn Treasurer T. H. Lockhart Chief Police A. L. Hallman Health Officer Butler & Osborne .. .. City Attys. Board of Public Works. A. n. Wood ..Chairman J. N. Lipscomb Treasurer B. G. Clary Secretary Board of Trade. W. C. Hamrick President J. C. Otts.. Secretary MARKET REPORT. LOt:A L COTTON M A K K ET. Middling. 12 00 Hens v Joe t o 40c Frys V . 20e to :«ic Bucks 20c Eggs 174c Butter 15c Sweet Potatoes, bushel $1.50 Irish Potatoes, bushe’. fi 40 Turnips.bushel 1 to Meal, bushel 95c Oats, feed, bushel Stic Oats, seed, bushel.. . , : S5c to $1.00 Peas, clay, bushel— \ S2.25 Peas, white, bushel .. Onions, bushel $1.40 Strawberries, quart VOc THE FISH LAW. At the request of some of our read ers we publish in another column of this issue the law in relation to fish- in" in South Carolina. It is a misde- C3 meaner to fish with a seine or gill net in any of the streams in the State_ from the setting of the sun Thursday evening until the rising thereof Mon day morning. So that the only days in the week that seining may be done legally are Tuesday and Wednesday in each week. We are satisfied that the public at large is ignorant of this provision of the law, hence our reason for publishing the law. There is now in Cherokee a game and fish warden whose duty it is under his ap pointment to prosecute all persons violating this law. and it would he well for the people of the county to govern themselves accordingly. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Winn Clark win. Get off the shute, man. You are racking our nerves. • • • Editor Boney of the Laurens Ad vertiser certainly is a brave man. He has dared to say what^he thought of an amateur performance given by lo cal talent in his town. Gee. but he has his nerve, alright. • • • Politics is at a low ebb in this county. In the course of a day one hears no more politics than if there was to be no campaign this year. The pot is going to get hot, however, and soon our peaceful mien will be but a memory. * • • The voting contest Inaugurated by The Ledger Tuesday for the most popular R. F. D. carrier in Cherobee county promises to be interesting. Al ready votes have been cast for six of the carriers. We shall publish the standing of the candidates now and again so that their friends may get an idea as to how they are running. • • • Four weeks from Monday the clans will gather in Gaffney. Come on. boys. Send your old shoes to the cobbler, your best suit to the press ing club and prevail upon somebody to pay their subscription so you can get a new “biled” shirt. We want the last blamed one of you, from Oconee to Charleston, from,York to Aiken, and a few from North Carolina and Georgia. • • • • There will be more corn raised In Cherokee county this year than ever before, and the county will be the richer therefor. A gentleman in posi tion to know says there is now less com being shipped to Gaffney from the West than ever before. The truth is that the farmers of this sec tion are in the saddle. They have more corn, more meat and more money and more cotton on hand than they have ever before had at this time of the year. • • • Land sells in the West and North west at from $50 to $100 an acre and it takes a man ten years to raise eaougk on it to pay for it. In the South it sells at from $10 to $50 an acre and a man can raise enough on it to pay for it in one, two and three years. Surely this section is the poor man's paradise. But land in the South is not going to continue to sell at present prices many years. The wise man is he who buys a farm, even if he has to buy it on credit, while it is cheap and easy to pay for. • • We may be unduly optimistic, but we firmly believe that this county is on the eve of the most prosperous period that it has enjoyed for years. As we have before said in these columns, the only thing that stands in the way of our prosperity now is the lack of demand for our mill pro duct. and we believe that we are war ranted in saying that the trade con ditions will soon become normal and when it does, you may depend upon it there will be something doing. Cot ton is selling about twelve cents and there is enough of the staple in this county to increase the circulation to a considerable extent, and with easy money and everybody employed, we have no reason under the sun to grumble and cry hard times. We have lived in this old world of ours ever since we were born and we have never yet known grumbling over spilled mill; to get a man anything. Look pleasant, smile instead of frown- Blacksburg contingent will likely come to Gaffney on a special over the Gaffney branch arriving here about 9 o'clock. The object in getting up this picnic is to bring the towns of Gaffney an,| Blacksburg closer to gether. There is or has been, we are sorry to say. an undercurrent of feel ing between the two towns that there is absolutely i o excuse for, and that should not for a moment exist. What originated this feeling we cannot for the life of us say, and we doubt if there is a single individual in either town who could give any reason why the relations between the two towns should not be of the most cordial na ture. If the people of the two towns exclusive of the Knights of Pythias, felt as close together as the members of the order, there would absolutely be no chance for any unpleasant feel ing to exist, but unfortunately for those who are not, all the inhabitants are not members of the order. We wish to urge all the members of Lime- Consumption is less deadly '.ban it used to be. Certain relief and usually ccriplete recovery will result from the following treatment: Hope, .rest, fresh air, and— Emulsion. ALL DRUGGISTS; 50c. AND 31.CO. First Baptist Church Notes. Dr. Simms will fill his pulpit next Sabbath morning at 11 o’colck. His subject will be. “God’s Call to Men.” At 5 o’clock P. M. there will be a meeting of the congregation to dis cuss in a family way, “Loyalty to Christ in Our Life.’’—Prof. Griffith. “Loyalty to the Brethren.”—W. Sam Lipscomb. “Loyalty to the Church.”—H K. Os bo e. “Loyalty to the Unsaved.”—Walter Humphries. No spea! r will be allowed more stone Lodge together with their wives, than ten mi ites, and heart to heart daughters and sweethearts, to attend! talks are de. -od, and not speeches. this picnic and let us see how pleas-! A tew minu js for general remarks , „ will be given and then the church ant we can make the occasion for our , will observe the “Lords Memorial. visitors from across the Broad. To AU mp , nbers are urgPfl to be pre8 . people who really and truly wish to j p n t, confer pleasure upon others, the joy' There will !>■ no service at night. of accomplishing this end exceeds | that of the person receiving same, so ■ let every one who is in any way con- j nected with the order of Knights of planning ;he Celebration. The Fourth of July is not so far off now. The comm ttee having in charge r^ 11 " ,lu t,,c U,UCI Ui U1 -1 the celebration i. corresponding with in<r and you mav help some poor de- utit.ni rno ..innin -mu n^n- .> > ,, .. o. , <-> • • 1 1 rjinias unend me picnic ana con some of the leading men ol the State vi I who has greater reason than you, tribute his or he>- share of the enjoy-; with the view of getting an orator for have fop looking blue. Even a cheer-1 nient ot - 0u quests 'Hie occasion. Already privileges have ful liar does more good thaiLii gloomy j - been engaged and others are talking Ed- S m ith Coming. 1 about them. The program will be Ed. Smith, the king of cotton ora-1 published next wefk. It is more than tors, will he in town on Saturday,! uroliable that the Gaffney band will June 1”. and will tell the cottontots I be engaged to furnish the music. of Cherokee a thing or two. Without j There will be all in.js of games, doubt he is the best posted man on! races, etc., and a good baseball game picnic on Tuesday the IGth. The pic-1 the subject of cotton in this country.! will be one of the features. nic will be at Limestone,, and the j If you have ever heard him you will — ! come to hear him again, and if you piedmont Springs Open. have never heard him you have miss- The piedmont Springs hotel opened “d much and should avail yourself of i ast Monday for tin- season. Billy this opportunity. Johnson will manage the house this season. Edgar Parker will have r y M charge of the store and Billy Spencer (Johnson News-Monitor.) will continue as the high muck-a-muck \Ve hereby serve notice on Col. E.. of the bottling plant. TbVs is a de ll. Anil and Brother Ed. D»'Camp that lightful place ar which to spend a few saint. • • • Limetone Lodge Knights of Pythias. Gaffney and Whittaker Lodge, Blacks burg. have arranged to have a Joint A Ca»e -Bounced Through.” (Tit-Bits.) Mr. Sergeant Wilkins once defend ed a breach of promise case for a sin gularly ugly little man, which case he told the defendant, after read ing his brief, must be “bounced” through. And the sergeant did bounce it through. “Gentlemen of the jury.” he said, at the close of a most eloquent speech, "you’ve heard the evidence for the plaintiff: and. gentlemen of the Jury, you have admired that most bewitch ing lady, the plaintiff herself. Gentle men. do you believe that this enchant ing. this fascinating, this captivating, this accomplished lady would for one moment, favor the advances o^- listen, with anything save scorn and indig nation. to the amorous protestations of the wretched and repulsive homun culus. the deformed and degraded de fendant?” j His client looked up from the well) of the court, and piteously murmured: “Mr. Sergeant Wilkins! Oh, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins!” ‘‘Silence, sir!’ replied the sergeant in a wrathful undertone. “Gentle men,' he continued, bringing his first heavily down on the desk before him, “do you think that, this lovely lady, this fair and smiling creature, would ever have permitted an off p r of mar riage to be made to her by this mis erable atom of humanity, this stunted creature, who would have to stand on a sheer of notepaper to look over two pence?’’ Instant verdict for defendant. Catiirrh < uimot t>«- < un-,1 with LOCAL API'Lh'ATIoNS. sisthey can I no; rcai'h the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a Mood or oori.sUtu! a’iia 1 disease, and In order to cure it you must take internal rem edies. Unii's Catarrh Cure i- i a lieu inter nally, ami aets di i • et ly on the mueous sur face's lin!!‘s Catarrh Cure i- not u <iUHck medicine. It was preset died by one of the hrsi physicians ,n this country for years, and is a regular pi* se-iptiou. It N compos* fl of t he best tonl.-s known, combined with tbr t , , r™ » , t i .t best hh Ml purifiers, aetii,- tlireetiy on the ' we nre going to attend the meeting days or weeks, rim water is simply cT^the'twolnltVedh'ntsW^^ ] th* Press Association if life lasts, fine, and we have no Jiesitancy in say-1 won- erful results in tiurim | lortestliu 1 y v (■(, Props..Toledo.O feel that it is time to repent and join one to go there and partake of it| —There is nothing so rich as Llb-i bey’s Cut Glass. The patterns are all exquisite, and are easily picked out from among other makes of cut; glass. Compare for your own satis faction. Gaffney Drug Co. —Order, Piedmont water through Gaffney Drag Co. attm li. Send We have put it off so long that we ing that we believe it will benefit any-, i Sold by druguist*. price T5c Uali’sl' t ily Pills in he ! the mighy host of pencil pushers. freely. —Five gallons Piedmont water tat $1. Gaffney Drug Co. WHO HE? .SIHkHWLlMl IHI IBM—■—am AND HOW HAS HE MADE HIMSELF SO POPULAR? These two questions are to bo answered by the people of Cherokee County. What we want to know is: Who is the most popular R. F. D. carrier in Cherokee County? We have a clever set of l)oys serving our rural route friends and there is a question as to who is the most popular. The Ledger is going to give everybody a chance to vote on the subject, and to the one who is voted the most popular wo are going to present a handsome, up-to-date R. F. D. mail wagon, made by Burns Bros. To the one receiving the second largest vote we will give|a solid gold watch and to the carrier receiving the third largest vote we will give a carrier’s uniform. I The Conditions of the Contest are Simple Cut out the coupons printed in each issue of The Ledger and mail them to this office. At the expiration of the time set for the closing of the contest the votes will be counted and the awards made to the carriers receiving the largest number of votes. In addition to the above, every person subscribing or renewing will be permitted to cast votes for his choice as follows: A two months subsoription entitles the subscriber to 25 votes; a three months subscription to 40 votes; a four months subscription to 50 votes; a six months subscription to 75 votes; an eight months sub soription to ICO votes, and a yearly subscription to 150 votes. Now if you appreciate the service your R. F. D. carrier is giving you, olip out the coupon and begin voting. Vote early and often and give your carrier a nice, new up-to-date de livery wagon. In case of a tie the parties tieing will each receive a wagon. This contest will close September 1st. * * * We reserve the right to i-ontlnue thin contest one month loaarar. COUPON Jon. Sth, (•Ot. I vote for as the most popular R. F. D. Carrier in Cherokee County. • • • • • THIS BALLOT NOT GOOD AFTER JUNE 12TH •M Mail all Votes to The Ledger, Gaffney, S. C.