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NOAHS LINIMENT Once Used AI way $ on Hand 2BC. EVCRYWHKtf Sold and Guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co> Advertising ii called by some an art. If it be an art it is the ait of telling a stcry simply and convincingly. Nobody knows more about the strong qualities of an establishment the proprietor who oversees it. Other things being equal, nobody should be able to write more convinc ingly of the articles he of fers for salt. In a (tore where the employer Mila good* side by side with hli clerks it la me that tha employer will not ba the best salesman. The reason issimple. He knows the goods from A to Z. He probably has pur chased them. He knows his aims. His arguments canj weight because they are convincing. Tne same arguments pre sented in the same way, with the same enthusiastic spirit, the same knowledge of detail, would attract new customers if presented through the advertising col umns of this paper. If yon have not triad it, why not btgm? If yon have tried it and art nat mala fad, let os know about it. DRAYTONVILLE DOTE. Local Newt ano personals of General Interest. Draytonvllle, July 14.—The farmers ot this section are about through lay ing by and there is a good prospect of good crops at present. The corn crop is good and we are glad to say there will be more corn raised in this section this year than there has been for several past. The public schools at Pondfleld and Evergeen opened Monday morning with Miss Daisy Crocker, of Gaffney, teacher of the former school and Miss Sallie Huggins, teacher of the latter. The schools are not largely attende on account of the people not bein through work yet. Mr. Andy Phillips is visiting rel atives at Cowpens. Deputy Sheriff Henry Lockhart, of Gaffney, was in this section last week on official business. The boys around here have gotten up a base ball team and are playing some good ball. There was a game Saturday afternoon between Pond- | field and Draytonvllle. The game j went to the former team to I the tune of 14 to 8. Our boys have | just made a beginning and after they i have played a while they will have ! one of the best teams that can be ! found around in the country. Hyder Phillips is a good first baseman and t ! after some practice will prove himself a champion. Messrs. James Pugh and John Rains, of Gaffney, visited relatives and friends here last Sunday. All members oi Draytonvllle church are requested to attend the special conference on next Saturday after noon at two o’clock. The treasurer will make the financial report of the church and call the church roll and other important business will be at- j tended to Mr. Ross will preach at eight o’clock on Saturday night and everybody is invited to attend the ser vice and also the service on Sunday morning. Mesdames Laura Pennington, Geo. McCraw and children and Folsom Whelchel and little Odell, spent an enjoyable day with Mrs. W. S. Wilson Sunday. We have been blessed with a good fruit crop this year, but regret to say {that the fruit is rotting very badly, j especially the apples and peaches. I There is an effort being made to 1 organize a church at Ross Grove. We ( are informed that the county is going ! to build a house near the Cherokee FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE ^ STATE AND EVENTS OF INTER- for<i and ^ w be used for a P ub,ic EST IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. school house and a church. They have gotten a good number of mem bers. The house will be built at an early date. There was a good attendance at prayer-meeting Saturday night and we had a good meeting. There was no meeting on the Saturday night be fore and the conductor was glad to have the opportunity of meeting his friends in the meeting. He made a i splendid talk on the subject of “Chris- I tian Love.” There will not be any prayer-meeting Saturday night as the pastor will preach at night instead of at half-past two o’clock that after noon. Mr. John Owensby and daughter, Miss Nellie visited relatives at i Corinth last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Will Gaffney, of Gaff ney. spent Sunday with Mrs. Martha Macomson and family. We poor farmers are having some very hot weather to work in these days. With the balmy breeze we work with a joyful heart, hoping for the time to come when we can rest under the shade of the trees. We noticed an article in a magazine which interested us and we thought perhaps it would prove interesting to some of The Ledger readers, hence we give it here. It is under the cap tion of "Is the Country Boy Safe?” The writer stated that certain people are of the opinion that the boys <*f the country are not saints. Mr. My ron T. Scudder, president of the new Pultz Normal School, speaking at a dinner before the New York State committee of the Y. M. C. A., aired some very gloomy views on the sub ject of country life, as it affects our youth. Mr. Scudder said: ‘‘The country situation is a very important and menacing one. A never increas ing number of undesirable men are drifting into farm labor and it is easier for a boy to go wring in the country than in the city. It is a bad place today to bring up a boy. We must introduce some force into coun try life that will make it more at tractive and tend to hold the younger generation in the country. The Y. M. C. A. is such a force.” Hyde Bailey, president of the Asso ciation of American Agricultural Col leges, in commenting on Mr. Scud- der’s remarks said: "Whether or not the country is a bad place to bring up a boy is largely a matter of loca tion. It is far more likely to be so on farms located near large cities than it is in the open country. I per sonally know of many regions where the conditions spoken of by Mr. Scud der exist. I also know of regions where the reverse is true. The writer, who has considerable knowl edge of both city and country life, though he is not of the opinion that country boys are saints, is still of the opinion, that morally and physically, as a whole, they are superior to the city bred boys. The trouble with the country boy is he is thrown too much on his own resources for amusement and recreation. His one great desire is to make a trip to the nearest city for a good time, and that good time is often more bad than good, and very often results in his return to the countryside morally and physically diseased. The youth who stays on the farm is only too anxious to listen to those who have seen only the worst side of city life. The society of the man who is flippant and immoral is more likely to attract the country lad, than that of the young man of char acter who has no alluring tales of city depravity to recount. Vice, alas, is attractive to youth, far more at tractive than virtue. No doubt the mononty of country life palls on many of our young men, and in the craving for excitement and pleasure, vice too often becomes the only means of re laxation. Something must be done in a social way for the entertainment of young folks in the country. If the Y. M. C. A. can vivify the country church and afford some sort of ration al amusement for the young folks of both sexes this organization will add immensely to its usefulness, and place the agricultural communities in the L T nited States under a lasting debt of gratitude.” Miss Lula Rains spent Saturday night with relatives at Cherokee Falls and returned home Sunday afternoon. “C.," we hope that it will be so that we can attend the picnic in your section, as we would be gratified to meet the correspondents of the good old Ledger. Mr. Champion McCraw has been on the sick list but we are glad to say he is able to be following the plow at this writing. One of the infant twins of Mr. and Mrs. Will Hill, near Gaffney, was buried at Draytonville church ceme tery last week. We will make our letter short this week on account of the scarcity of news and time to pen news. But if we had a good better-ahlf as Mr. J. L. S., we could write longer and more interes'ing letters. Your scribe received a nice post card from one of his brother members of the L. M. Social Club. It was a view of the Milwaukee river, and it is a pretty scene. Wishing the readers and The Led ger much success. School Boy. WEEKLY WEATHER BULLETIN. For the Week Ending July 13, 1908. The temperature was favorable throughout the week, without any marked extremes; the precipitation varied greatly in different sections, being excessive in places and in other places very deficient, and the sun shine was much below the normal in the coast and mountain districts and normal, or slightly above, in the cen tral districts. The mean temperature was below the normal in all portions of the State, but the greatest departures were less than 3 degrees. The daily maximum temperatures were gener ally in the eighties, a few places re cording 90 degrees, or above, on several days. The extremes were 96 degrees at Florence on the 8th, and 60 degrees at Santuc on the 8th, and at Easley, Liberty and Spartanburg on the 10th. The precipitation was not well dis tributed. The western counties re ceived weekly amounts above the normal, the central and eastern por tions generally less than the normal, though excessive amounts fell in Florence and Barnwell counties. The greatest deficiencies occurred in Charleston and Richland counties. The week’s rainfall occurred during the first four days, except light show ers on the coast on the 12th. WOMAN’S BACKACHE He Hzd Not Forgotten. Artist William M. Chase told a story of the eccentric Jimmy Whistler. It was at a dinner party after all the guests had been seated, when Chase gently drew Whistler’s attenuon to the fact that he had forgotten his tie. “Forgotten V” shrieked Whistler. “Noth ing of the kind. Why should I spoil the effect of a good linen collar, with excellent lines, by sticking on a foolish little piece of flimsy lawn?” And the dinner proceeded. Unfeeling. “Bilger eloped with his cook, the un feeling wretch!" “Well. 1 don’t know. Why shouldn’t he if he wanted to?” “But his wife was just going to give • dinner party.”—Life. A Pretty Sure Sign. Mrs. Hoyle -1 believe that I am growing old. Mrs. Boyle—What gives you that idea? Mrs. Hoyle—I am get ting so that I don’t care to go to fu nerals.—Exchange. in the philosophy of some men heav en is nothing but a place where every body will be able to buy cheap and sell high.—Chicago Record-Herald The back is the mainspring of woman’s organism. It quickly calls attention to trouble by aching. It tells, with other symptoms, such as nervousness, headache, pains in the loins, weight in the lower part of the hod}', that a woman’s feminine organism needs immediate attention. 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Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positi v •! v cured thousands or women who have been troubled with displacements, inliammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down k-diiig, liatulency, indiges tion, Ji/ziiicbs,or nervous prostration. —Eureka Preserving Powder. Qa®- ney Drug Co. —Gaffney Drug Company for TriM> es that fit. mmmmm WHO HE? AND HOW HAS HE MADE HIMSELF SO POPULAR? These two auestions are to be answered by the people off 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 off boys serving our rural route ffriends 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 we are going to present a handsome, up a 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. 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 off the time seTfor the closing of the centest the votes will be counted and the awards made to the carriers receiving the largest number of votes. In addition to the a.bove, every person subscribing or renewing will be permitted to cast votes for his choice as follows: A two months subscription 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 7£i votes; an eight months sub scription to ICO votes, and a yearly subscription to 150 votes. Now if you appreciate the service your R. F. D. carrier is giving you, clip 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 tiie r:/ht to ••ontinue t:iN Sunt> -t i n- mouth !ou/-r COUPON I vote for as the most popular R. F. D. Carrierjn Cherokee County. The Ledger, Mail all Votes to Gaffney, S. C o / {/ v 1 j < y > a> f A t jy. 1 fy.) p f ^>' / V v f 4^ t V J ^ ♦ / • > ' ' * > > ' ' / A''- * f ^ f y f . v / v v / J* • >’ > / * /