The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, August 21, 1908, Image 8
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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.
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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.
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TO THE
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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 :: ::
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county.
i Citizens of Cherokee County
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{ 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
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fl Just as good
I as Octagon.
! 7 Cakes For 25c
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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 ^
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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
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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.
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