Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 mmciPK fo* DIXIE ICE CREAM § Can be made and frozen In 10 minutea at cost of One Cent a Plate. Stir contents of one 13c. package Jtll-0 ICE CREMD Powder into a quart of milk and freeze. No cooking, no heating, nothing else to add. Everything but the ice and milk in the package. Satiafaction guaranteed. This makes 2 quarts of the tnoet delicious ice cream you ever ate. Five Kinds r Chocolate, Vanilla, Straw berry, Lemon and Unjlavored. 2 packages 25c. at your grocer*, or by mail if he does not keep it. nioatrated Beelpe Book Free. The Genesee Pure food Co* le Roy, N. V. NOTICE TO FIRE ARMS JL/.LERS- State of South Carolina, Connty of Cherokee. Notice la hereby given, that aU parties dealing In pistols, or cart ridges, less than 45-callbre, are re quired to pay an annual license of $25 to the Board of Connty Conunis- sioners. Any dealer failing to obtain such license before offering for •ale such cartridges or pistols. Is sub ject to a line not exceeding $500, or one year’s imprisonment. AU hawkers are peddlers are re qulred to take out a license as prc Tided in chapter XU of the Code of 1202. Such hawkers and peddlers are hereby noticed to take out such license, any falling so to do are sub ject to the penaities prescribed la $64, criminal code. It Is the duty of every Magistrate, every Constable, the Sheriff of Chem kee county and the Deputy Sheriff, to enforce the above statute, any cttt* sen has the right to demand and In spect the license for hawkers and peddlers, and they are required to ex hibit such license to the party so do mandlng It, for Inspection. B. F. Llpsocmb, Co. Supervisor. May 12 tf Editors Gather at Gaffney. (August Kohn In News and Courier.) Gaffney, June 30.—“Welcome South Carolina Press Association.’’ That i« the greeting posted In many win dows here, and it is also in the hearts of these good folks. Gaffney, with its six thousand population, and its keen desire to grow, is Just large enough to take excellent care of the editorial hand and not large enough to be In different. The welcome is hearty J was In that civilization Piedmont city and the great possibil ities of this section, and also paying beautiful tribute to the men who made history at Cowpens and King’s Mountain. Dr. Lee Davis Lodge, in behalf of Limestone College, delivered an elo quent address, extending a most cor dial welcome. He paid a beautiful tribute to the old South, and urged the editors to conserve the best that FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, s. C. A woman has three great ambi tions; one to wear fashionables; the other two to be In society. and earnest. Of course, every one expected Ed DeC'amp to work day and night, but this is a unanimous thing. Everyone is seeking to bring a week of joy to the editors, and it is this spirit that has made the Gaffney of today, with its six thousand popula tion. A few years ago it was hardly known but the Woods, the Lipscomb, the DeCamps, the Parrotts, the Wheats, Carrolls, Gaffneys, Little johns, Jefferes, Kosses, Hamricks, Otts„ Butlers, Osbornes, Johnsons aud others have worked together as they are doing now entertaining the news paper men, and that is why they have here a wideawake city, with its Gaff ney manufacturing plant, its Llm'e- stone, Merimac, Globe aud Irene mills, its oil and ice plants its Limestone College and its lime kilns. Pretty much every one is on the reception committee. The editors and their families are gathered at Limestnoe College, a beautiful place in the suburbs of the city. There is abundant room for all in the dormitory, and the plan of housing the Association at the Col lege has proved excellent, as every one is kept together and the meetings are held in the college auditorium. Dr. Lee Davis Lodge, the prjsident of the college, is doing everything to co-operate with the local committees. Both speaker paid tribute to the press as a power for the uplift of that which Is best, and especially to the press of South Carolina. Dr. Lodge, In speaking of The News and Courier, said that It was truly the Gibraltar of Democracy, and that he and everyone else had the highest re gard for its forcefulness, its high tone and its everlasting determination to do that which was for the best inter ests of the State. Dr. Lodge was proud that there was not a single yellow journal In South Carolina. Dr. Lodge made a magnificent talk on the true mission of newspapers, the old South and the duty of the press to the people. President Aull responded briefly to the address of welcome and introdur ed Secretary R. L. Freeman who also voiced the appreciation of the associa tion for the warm words of welcome which had been delivered. , Col. Aull made an announcement that Mr. DeCamp had with commend able enterprise arranged to publish countered in securing even partial justice. He wants to rouse the peo ple to the real importance of this subject. The reports of President Elbert H. Aull, Secretary R. L. Freeman and Treasurer August Kohn were submit ted at the evening session. The attendance on the first day of the session is record-breaking. The roster shows these registrations in the press party: R. Lewis Berry, Orangeburg; C. Clifford Berry, Orangeburg; Mfs. Sam Reid, Clifton; Miss Clara Reid, Clif ton; Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Boggs, Greer; Win. R. Boggs, Glenn Springs; Walter H. Savory, Trenton, N. J.; W. I.. Parks, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Chas, S. Conner, Baltimore, Md.; Rozler L. Bonis, Baltimore, Md.; Mr. and Mrs. August Kohn, Orangeburg; Miss Cam ille .Jacobs, Columbia; Miss Mary Miss Youngblood. H. Seats, Colum- Mrs. Denney, Edgefield; Mi's. Perry, Columbia; Columlna; Mrs. A. ma; Geo. L. Sharpton, Edgefield: L. Wig-1 fall Cheatham, Edgefield; T. B. Crews, Laurens; Louis Appelt, Manning; , Miss Augusta \ppeli Manning; Miss Valley Appelt, Manning; Miss Emma Rogers, Hartsville; Mr. and Mrs. M. F\ Felder, Sr. George; Harvey L. White, Spartanourg; Mr. and Mrs. R. L Freeman, Bennettsville; Miss An- j nie Moore, Bcnaettsville; Thos. H., Coker, Jr., Hartsvills; A. H. Lorenz, Aiken; G. M. Gardner. Jr., Greenwood; F. D. Knight, Sumter; A. J. Knight,; lutnbla; Miss Alice N. Henderson, Co lumbia; J. p. Gibson, Bennettsville; J. L. Mims, Edgefield. C. W. Birch- more, Camden; W. D. Grist, York- vllle; L. Grist, Yorkvllle; C. M. Gallo way, Columbia; H. L. Watson, Green wood. To-morrow the greater part of the day will be spent at the plant of the Electric Manufacturing and Power Company, nine miles from here. Tomorrow night the addresses of Editor Richard H. Edmonds and As sistant Postmaster Lawshe, of the post- office department, will be delivered. On Thursday most of the business sessions will he held. In the even ing there will he a musical concert and reception. Mr. R. H. Edmonds arrived here tonight. The News and Courier was distrib uted here to-night at supper and broughi joy and comfort to the visit ‘mr scribes It was the first morn ing daily they had seen. The first issue ot the Press Association daily open red this afternooe WHAT THE KIDNEYS DO. a daily edition of The Ledger, to be Sumter; Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Smouk, largely devoted to the newspaper folks, and that Mr. August Kohn had been selected as managing editor. The arrangements for the excur sion to North Carolina have been perfected. This afternoon the citizens took the —Five gallon demijohn Piedmont for $1. Gaffney Drug Co. —Tried Ice cream at Gaffney Draff Company? Tne meals are excellent and DeCamp editorial party on a trip around the is hurrahing because everything on the tables, beginning with the table damask, except the coffee, tea and sugar, is made in South Carolina. This is the thirty-fourth annual Convention of the State Press Asso ciation. It was called to order'by President E. H. Aull at 10:30 o’clock this morn ing, and with Col. J. T. Bacon at the piano. “Praise God From Whom all Blessings Flow” and “My Country, Tis of Thee” were sung by the en tire Association. The Association was then formally opened with prayer by the Rev. A. M. Sims, pastor of the Baptist Church, the chaplain, the Rev. W. P. Jacobs, city. Automobiles and vehicles were on hand for the trip to the cotton mills, the Ice plant and various en terprises. A considerable stop was made at the Irene Mills, where table cloths, napkins and towels are beau tifally made The visitors were all given souvenir towels at the mill. There was a base ball game sched uled for this afternoon and Louis Ap- pelt, of Manning, insisted that all hands see the game. They did The local committee stood the treats. To-night Miss Nance, the talented | young Carolinian, delivered a lecture ; on the development of the schools j She talks well and is enthusiastic in her great work. not having arrived. Prof. H. P. Grif- Mr. H. P. Boggs, of the Greer Ob ; Louisville fith, of the Limestone College, was j server, read a paper on the impor- i Goodwin, then presented, and delivered a very warm welcome to the journalists, tell ing of the wonderful growth of this tance of protecting American citizens. He had a brother murdered In Mexi co and related the experiences en- Jr., Wfviterboro; Miss Estelta Pmoak.} Branchvllle; Master Willie Smoak, Walterboro; Mr. and Mrs. A. W.! Knight, P.amberg; James T Bacon,! Edgefield, F. G. SwaiFHd, Columbia; John L. McWhirter, Heneca - Geo. R., Webb. Warrenville; B. L. Webb, War- renville; Thos. Webb Warrenville; j Hubert McCra<ken. Warrenville; W. W. Bradley, Abbeville; President and Mrs. E. H. Aull, Newberry; Humbert' Aull, Newberry; Miss lassie Sidell. Newberry; N. G. Osteen, Sumter; E. j A. Osteen, Sumter; Miss Essie Mur-' ray, Sumter; Miss Moneta Osteen. Stimter; Miss Willa May Bates, Birm | ingham; J. T. Btgbam. Chester; Miss Nellie Bigham. Chester: Edward N McDowell, Camden; He^ry Deas, | Camden; Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hou- j seal, Columbia; Miss Vere Houseal, Columbia: S. Frank Parrott, Colum-, nia; J. C. Mace, Marion; Miss Theo dosia Jones, Marion: Evans J. Lide, ; Spartanburg; Mr. and Mrs. J. L. O. | Thompson, Pickens; W. B. Jenkins, Ky.; MibS Horatio N. Atlanta, Ga.; James A. Hoyt, Columbia; J. Ed. Norment, Co-1 lumbia: Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Bailey, : Johnston; Miss L. H. LaBorde, Co- Their Unceasing work Keeps us Strong and Healthy. All the blood in the body passes through the kidneys once every three minutes. The kidneys filter the blood. They work night and day. When healthy they remove about 500 grains of impure matter dally, when un healthy some part of this Impure mat ter is left in the blood. This brings on many diseases and symptoms— pain in the back, headache, nervous ness, hot, dry skin, rheumatism, gout, gravel, disorders of the eyesight and hearing, dizziness, Irregular heart debility, drewsinesss, dropsy, deposits in the urine, etc. But If you keep the filters right you will have no trouble with your kidneys. Loyd Cash, 111 Mill row, Gaffney. S. C., says: “Severe pains across the small of my back bothered me for several months and at times were so severe that I could hardly do my work. There was also a soreness through the region of the kidneys. When the kidney secretions became unnatural in appearance. I concluded that the kidneys were out of order and as I had beard Doan’s Kidney Pills highly recommended, I purchased a box from the Gaffney Drug Co. I had not tak en the contents of this box when the pain disappeared and np to the pres ent time, I have had no return of It. My kidneys are also strengthened and the secretions restored to their normal condition.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other. —Have you tried a cigar from the National Cigar Stand installed by Gaffney Drug Co? They are different NOTICE OF RECEIVER’t SALt. State of South Carolina. County of Cherokee. By virtue of an order granted by Honorable I). E. Hydrlck, Presiding Judge, In the case of James M. Mc- Swain, a stockholder, etc.. Plaintiff, vs. The W. C. Carpenter Company. Defendant, j will sell at d .ffney, South < arolina, on Monday, Septem ber »he 7th, 1908, the entire stock of goods consisting of dry good, notions, hats, shoes, clothing and all other goods in said stock, and fixtures of 'he said The W. C. Caipenter Com pany; the said .stock of goods and fix- Mires will be divided into lots and parcels and sold separately, or as s‘ whole; sealed bids will be received for the sam*- in lots or as a whole, and such bid or bids will be accepted as may mak* the same bring the greatest amount. Healed bids will be received by the receiver any time prior aud up to twelve o’clock noon of the 7th day of September, 1908, for any loi or par cel into which the said aoods or fix- "ires rnav be divided, and if any bid M on a certain lot or parcel such bid shall lie accompanied with a certified check for fifty dollars (.70); if any bid he on entire stock and fixtures such hid shall be accompanied by a certi fied check for one hundred dollars ($100); the Receiver reserves the right to accept or reject any bid or bids, tnd to return the checks of the unsuccessful bidder or tedders. All >ids will lie opened at twelve o’clock noon of the said 7th day of Septernoer 1908, and upon acceptance of any hid or bids, the successful bid der or bidders are required to pay balance of the purchase money for stock or lots as the case may be, with in the next two hours. Bidders may inspect stock and fixtures at any time by making application to Receiver. Gaffney, S. C., this the 5th day of August, D. C. ROSS, Receiver for The W. C. Carpenter Company Aug 14 21, 28. Sept. 4. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. We wili receive bids for the con struction of the Farmers Warehouse in the town of Gaffney as per plans of the architect, up to August 20th, 1908. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids submitted. Ft C. Sarratt President. W. C. McArthur. Secretary. 11-14 and 13. s- fa * ■ ^ fa *•' o-1 ijo i •V’V <£ fa < fa fa fa WHO HE? AND HOW HAS HE MADE HIMSELF SO POPULAR? These two questions 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 of boys 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 we'are going to present a handsome, up-to-date R. F. D, mail wagon, made by Burns Bros. To the onfe 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 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 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 75 votes; an eight months sub scription to IOC 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. * COUPON I vote for as the most popular R. F. D. Carrier in Cherokee County. • r«*<ierve lb>> rlirh* to continue tbls cunt* -1 <>nt- jx.i.Mi ourf-r The Ledger, Mail all Votes to Gaffney, S. C.