The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, July 17, 1908, Image 2
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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
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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.
In such cases the one sure remedy
which speedily removes the cause,
and restores the feminine organism
to a healthy, normal condition is
LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
Mrs. Will Young, of 6 Columbia
Ave., Rockland, Me., says:
“ I was troubled for along time with
dreadful backaches and a pain in my
side, and was miserable in every way.
I doctored until I was discouraged and
thought I would never get well. I read
what Lydia E. I’inkham’s Vegetable
Compound had done for others and
decided to try it; after taking three
bottles I can truly say that I never felt
so well in my life.”
Mrs. Augustus Lyon, of East Earl,
Pa., writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
“I had very severe backaches, and
pressing-down pains. I could not sleep,
and had no appetite. Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound cured me
and made me fee! like a new woman.”
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty yean Lydia E. 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.
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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.
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