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* V J / . Money to Burn $$$$$$$$$$ $w$m $$$$ n If }’Ou have money to burn Keep it in the house where it may be burned, lost or stolen, but if you want to keep it safely where it will always be ready for you when needed, deposit it with us. A bank ac count will give you a better business standing in the community and a prestage that you may never have enjoyed before. If your name is not on our books, we will be pleased to see it there before the close of the year 1908. The National Bank of Gaffney Gaffney, S. C. o r NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST. PtRtONAL PAftAaHAPH*. EVENTS IN OAFFNEY AND CHER OKEE. Mr. Robert Sanders, of lower Chero kee, spent Wednesday In the city on business. Hr. Thos. F. McDaw, one of the j leading advocates of the Yorkvlle | bar, was in the city Tuesday on pro fessional business. Mr. John R. Dixon, of Grover, N. C., was in the city Tuesday on business. Recant Happenings In and Around | He paid The Ledger a visit while the City, and Othar Events Oath- here. Masters Stanley, Ralph and Ken neth Baker, sons of Mayor Kenneth There was a barbecue at Pondfield n a ker, of Greenwood, are in the city yesterday. j visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Baker, on Granard street. W. H. Wilson and family, formerly of the Limestone Mills, but now of Mr. Tom Daniel is building an at- Tucapau, have been spending the tractive cottage next door to Barney i week in and about Gaffney with rel- Clary. atives and friends. Miss Mamie Stacy left for Baltl-j The city schools will open Tuesday, ered bv the La*aJ News Editor. Mr. B. O. Turner is going to erect a neat cottage near the Irene Mill. Are You Building a Fort? One that will withstand the sieges of the battle of misfortune and adversity, that the guns of finan- < stress may be trained upon it and that will not crumble away ? If you are not we would advise you to commence on the foundation today by open ing a Savings Account at this bank and build as last as you can gather the material—money. :: Merchants and Planters Bank, Gaffney, S. G. September 8th. Have your children readv to start the first day. more, Md., Tuesday night, where she goes to purchase her fall stock of millinery. The primary election takes place -U«ss Ola Byars, one of our genial Tuesday. You cannot vote unless “hello” girls, left Tuesday for Nor- vour name has been placed on a club folk. Va. She is expected to return roll. ,oda - v - Miss Juanita Pinson, the accommo- Ledger is printing the election <} a tmg general delivery clerk in the posTofTice, who has been taking a va cation, returned to her post of duty yesterday. Mrs. J. J. Gallagher, who has been visiting in Lowrysville, Chester coun ty, has returned to the city. Misses Ethyleen Wilkins, of Gaft- ney, and Miss Mamie Gaston, of Arthur Pridmore has purchased the Blacksburg, leave on No. 38 this eve- lot in front of Mr. Bob McCraw’s ning for Baltimore, New York and home and has purchased the plans for i At latnic City. Tne tickets. Candidates desiring indivi dual tickets had bettef put in their order at once. The report comes from across the river that Cherokee township will make a bumper crop of coni this year. Cotton is said to be looking well also. I TO THE i Sale! One four-room house nice wide hall, on 1-2 acre lot, with good out buildings, tenant house, well, shade trees, orchard, etc., worth $1,600, and we have the privilege of selling this for the next few days for $1,400. One farm containing 68 acres, all in tim ber, situated near Blacksburg, S. C., for $12 per acre. Two nice five-room cottages, brick founda- rion, bath room, water works, electric lights, situ ated on a nice 1-2 acre iot in a prominent part of Gaffney, all for $7,000. Cash and terras. We have a nice five-room house in good condition in West • End, Gaffney, S. C., that we are offering for 30 days at $900. The house alone is worth the price asked for the whole. One farm containing 56 acres, in four miles of Gaffney, with good farm house, out buildings, etc. 35 acres in cultivation, the rest in umber. This goes to the first man offering $1,000. If you need anything in our liq^ we can save you money. Oaffney TT rust C'o. Office in National Bank Building. J. G. PRIDMORE, Secy, and Treas. a nice house, let shortly. The contract is to be On account of the election Tues day The Ledger will issue nd paper Tuesday but will issue one Wednes day morning in order to give the elec tion news. Don’t look for the paper Tuesday, but expect it Wednesday. In last Tuesday’s Ledger In an arti cle pertaining to the Shuford & Le- Master big furniture building, we stated that they had 700 square feet of floor space, when we should have said 17.000 square feet, which Is quite a big difference. Some of the finest watermelons ever shown on the local market were j brought to the city Wednesday by the ! Campbell boys, who live a few miles j west of Gaffney. The Campbell boys I are not only good farmers but are al so first-class citizens. i A Ledger man called at the office of the supervisors of registration yesterday and learned that about! twenty-five hundred people had regts j tered for the November election. I There will probably be five hundred da ^' more to register. This will exceed | Wofford Humphries came home registration in the history of the frome Hendersonville, N. C„ WWnes- day. He reports having a bUptime. Jim Sparks bought himself a new A protracted meeting will begin j wagon yesterday. Jim’s always help- at Limestone Baptist church Sunday, j ing himself to good things. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Abbott, will be | M. B. Sams Is jumping the counter assisted by Rev. A. D. Davidson and at the Gaffney Hardware Co. another minister whose name could ( F. D. Koon. of Rutherfordton, N. O.. not be learned. During the meet ing j Is visiting in the city. Mr. Koon was Mr. J. W. W. Pettit, who has been i a pleasant caller at this office yester- elected a deacon, will be ordained to day. Mr. J. O. Teicher, of Sumter, has been visiting In the city several days. Mrs. John C. Swygert, Jr., of Peeks, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Arthur Peeler. Mrs. Swygert was Miss Olive Sarratt, one of Gaffney’s most popu lar young ladies. Billy Brown is sticking his feet un der Cal Parish’s table while Mrs. Brown and the little Brown’s are away. Mrs. John Atkinson, of Charlotte, N. C., is visiting the Misses Hopper, on Logan street. Mr. Wilkes Brown, of Ravenna, was in the city yesterday shaking hands with his friends. Miss Myrtle Littlejohn, of this city, has been spending some time with Miss Cora Bell Clark, at Rutherford ton, N. C. She is expected home to day. D. C. Ross, who has been spending a few days at Hendersonville, N. C„ and Glenn Springs, is back at his post of duty. Misses Willie and Nell DeCamp. who have been spending a week In Charlotte. N. C., arrived here yester- We offer 250 shares of Victor Cotton Oil Mill stock at the par value of $ 100.00 per share, for the next 60 days. For further information apply to :: :: i any county. i Citizens of Cherokee County i ■ I ■ i i ■ I- { J. N. LIPSCOMB, Treasurer j fz A CAR LOAD J ^ OF OVER 50,000 SQUARE FEET OF ^ I Galvanized V, Crimp Roofing. I July-2i-im Let us use some of this to cover you from the winter rain. that office. A. H. Hames, of Asbury, paid The Ledger a pleasant call yesterday. Piedmont Wapns Anchor Bugsies jPride Soap I fl Just as good I as Octagon. ! 7 Cakes For 25c I I Carroll & Byers, Gaffney, S. C. ‘Tnole George” Byers brought to The Ledger yesterday a freak in vege- M .tation. It was an ear of corn around : which clustered seven shoots, some £ of whch were pretty well developed. In other words It was eight ears of corn growing w r here one should have' yeB * erday as ^ 0 ^ 0WS Cash '. .. .. Campaign Funds. Mr. R. S. Lipscomb, treasurer of the National Democratic campaign fund for Cherokee county, reported Wilkins-Watson Hardware Company. grown. The curiosity came from Mr. John Millwood's place, in the north ern section of the city. He is a Hustler. Mr. Paul Q. Smith, traveling reprt- sentative for South Carolina for E. ; C. DeWitt & Co., the well known pre paratory medicine house, of Chicago, spent yesterday in the ^city. Mr. Smith is one of the hardest working; want t0 he, P elect Bryan - men on the list of about one hundred and seventy-five. He possesses a pleasant address and presents con- $ 50 L. O. Potter 1.00 O. B. Tate 1.00 Previously acknowledged .. .. 22.50 Total $25.00 This is a mighty slim showing for a county like Cherokee. We have nearly 3,000 voters and should con tribute at least $300. Get busy if you Aug. Zl-tf. How the Vote Stands. A. McKown 5,762 vincing arguments as to the merits of! ® am Glary 5,214 his goods. This is his fourth trip to I HAVE PLENTY OF WOOD FIBER Gaffney and he and The Ledger al ways do business but this time it was a tough propositoin, as the medicine man almost out-talked the newspaper man. However, we wish him well and hope to see him again next year and many years after. R. L. Byars 4,198 is Forest Huggins 2,660 ^ Lynn Littlejohn 2,500 • R. C. Howard 2,128 $ H. W. Love 1,008 J Carl Sarratt 868 & Sam Strain 697 P S63 to SSI Pays Board, Tuition and Room Rent Bound Over to Court. One of the largest crowds that ever attended a magistrate’s court as sembled in the court house Tuesday to hear the case of the State vs. I. P. Sarratt, et al, charged with conspir acy and assault and battery, with in tent to kill, upon the person of J. I. Sarratt. The alleged assault took place in this county about six weeks At Piedmont High School for the entire seMlon of nine months. The school la situated in I ago. The testimony war disappoint- ■'■•"‘I’-M". mg to a large portion of the gather- <*“- i»e- It was expected^to be rare and “On all aides 1 aaw evidence* of patient, pains taking labor thorough arholarahip and marked executive ability.”—J. B. Carlyle. Yrot. Latin, wake Forest. “The Instruction Is thorough and the Intluence surrounding the pupil excellent."—Rev. H IT Trkdway. “In my opinion those Is no High School In this part of the country doing better and more thorough educational work.”—E. Y. Webb, Member of Congress. “It Is the best and cneapest school In the State."-E M. Kooece. Mem. N. C. Legislature. “One of the best Pre juratory ilchools In the State."—Cleveland Star. President's OrricE. Uhiversitt or North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C., May lab. IM6 Mr. W. 1> Burns, Principal Piedmont High School. Lawndale N. C. Dear Sir:—The young men who have come to the University from the Piedmont High School have taken a good stand in their classes and have done faithful and satisfactory work. Very truly yours, Framcii P. Venable, President. July 10-2-mos For eataloguo write to’W. D. BURNS, Lawndale, N. C. racy, but Magistrate Bridges confined the evidence to the assault and not to the cause. The parties were bound over to court. CONSUMPTION ^ f Ejpr [nff Why James Lee Got Well, irybody in Zanesville, O., knows ; * Mnf Mary Lee, of rural route 8. She I writes: ”My husband, James Lee, *4 firmly bellves he owes his life to the; K use of Dr. King’s New Dlscorvery. 1 His lungs were so severely affected that consumption seemed inevitable, when a friend recommended New Dis covery. We tried it, and its nee has restored him to perfect health.” Dr. King’s New Discovery is the King of throat and lung remedies. For cough* and colds it has no equal. The first dose gives relief. Try it! Sold un der guarantee at Cherokee Drug Co. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. To plaster that house you are putting up and also have plenty of Cement on hand now. Don’t your house need painting? Ladies, don’t your furniture and walls need painting? I have Cherrv. Dark Oak, Light Oak, Mahogany and Walnut Stains in 26c, 40c and 65c cans. It don’t cost much to make everything look new and you can do it yourself. Come and get some of it. : : June UO-ON-ly; W. H. Philson, The Lumber Man. On account of the election Tues day The Ledger will Issue no paper Tuesday but will laaue ona Wednes day morning in order to give the elec tion news. Don't look for the paper Tuesday, but expect it Wednesday. DR. W. K. GUNTER 1 > E IV T I i* T tfice in Star Theatre Build e 4 Phonb No. 20. technicai.lv educated K Di N K K D E; r> ! The demand Is far greater than the aupply. Let the imemaSewl Cerree. wentfenee Eelieele, •» SerawtM. Pa* pre pareyou. Postal will bring information on awe ■" * * Icouraea. It's free. ft-27-ly-np