Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Y '^? r *: ,, >'*1 ST P,:‘. V Fall Silks, 13 res O F" o o cl s and m i n <fs. Yard wide Black Taffeta, worth $100, for only 75c. # $ 1.50 yard wide Black Taffeta for only $ 1.25. Beautiful line of Silk Waistings 39c; have been 50c to 65c. 40 inch, 50c and 75c all wool and silk Suitings for only 29c. 58 inch Suiting, worth $1.50 yard, only three cases, for just half value, 75c. Big line fine Suitings, suitable for dresses, waists and children's dresses, sold last season at25c, we offer the new patterns at only 10c per yard. Our line of Suits, Cloaks and Skirts is second to none in the • * State. Give us a look and we will save you money. CARROLL OA.F'FTIVKY, SOUTH OAROUIINA. FOR tALE. FOR SALE—100 acres of good farm land, known as the Harmon place, on the Howell’s Ferry road, 6 miles from Gaffney. Apply to N. S. Burgess, at The Ledger Office. FOR SALE—Seed wheat Apply to W. S. Wilson, R. F. D. No. 8. Oct 6 It FOR SALE—>The Nelson store house and lot on Limestone street Just below Galloway’s. Apply to J. V Floyd Spake or Jno. P. Spake, Route No. 4, Gaffney, S. C. FOR SALE—One No. 7 Blickens- derfer typewriter, practically new. A bargain. J. Eb Jefferies. Aug. 26 tf. FOR SALE—A lot of second-hand piping. Apply to Ed. DeCamp. FOR SALE—First-class babbit met aL Apply at Ledger Office. FOR SALE—Old newspapers at this office. 10c a hundred. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—A portion of my resi dence to parties without children; either furnished or unfurnished. Mrs. A. V. Montgomery. Sept 26 tf. TO RENT—OEMs rooms orer IV Ledger. Apply to Md. H. DeCamr Not. 2. tf. A ‘WISE-ACRE” OF YE OLDEN TYMES. SOME INTERESTING CHARACT ERS OF LONG AGO. WANTED. WANTED—Green hides and bees wax. L. W. McGulnn. Sept 18 tf. WANTED—Green bides; highest cash price paid. Clary E Kirby. Ang. 14 tf. TAKEN UP—Two black heifer yearlings; about seven months old. Owner may have name by paying ex penses. R. J. Kirby, R. F. D. No. 6. Oct 6-9 Fire Insurance! We represent some fo tbe largest anu most substantial companies and would like to write your business. 5-J4-tf Smith & Lipscomb, Agents. y> Money to Loan! I am prepared to negotiate loans in amounts from 8300.00 np for a term of years on improved forms. Inter est 8 per cent. Call on 9-14-08 6m J. G. Minis, Ally., Gaffney, S. C. Staoyarne Vilaoo Henry K. Osborne Wilson & Osborne LAWYERS Spartanburg;, S. G Will practice in Cherokee Courts. Call by phone, telegraph or letter. 8-26-tf MISS EVA C. SAMS who has been teaching music in the B p- tfct University, Raleigh, will have s c’ass in Gaffney this year. Kindergarten mask, $x 00 month; Primary and higher grades. 84.00 per month. 8ept-4-tf “Uncle Joe” Logan, One of the Best Informed Men of His Time—Other Wilkinsville Chat. Wilkinsville, Oct 2.—We hope we fully appreciate the flattering testi monials of friends both at home and abroad who so kindly express their appreciation of our feeble but earn est attempt at journalism. Thank you, thank you, dear friends, and let us assure you that our efforts to make our letters more and more in teresting will continue. We fully understand our inability to meet all the requirements of our intel ligent reading public and hope it will take the intent for the act, and excuse our short-comings. To seper- ately acknowledge these several cour tesies is a task we feel unable to perform satisfactorily to ourself and therefore adopt this method of sub mitting our acknowledgement. The session of Salem church will meet on the 11th Inst, to elect a re*/ presentative and make its report to the meeting of Synod at Sumter on the 20th inst. “Uncle Wright" Good caught a fine fish this morning. When he gets the moon right he can catch fish worth writing about. Tf anything serious can be made a joke of we have a good one on Dr. Fiefleld. He boards with Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Inman. Last Tuesday morning when he came out of his room he said he had spent tbe worst night he ever did in his life. He was both hot and cold he said at the same time with pains all through his body and thought be might be taking fever. Mrs. Inman told him he had chills. He had never had one and a South ern “buck ague" was something new to biro. We don’t suppose that doctors always know how their sick patients feel. Dr. Jane Scott Thomson has been practicing in this section of late. She has a good practice. Mr. W. K. Kirby expects to be ready in two or three week to move into his new store bouse at Sarratt The next thing Willie will need is a wife and we think he will get one. Some good girl will do well to catch nim in her matrimonial net. Weather prophets are predicting killing frosts during this moon. If it comes it will catch a good deal of hay uncut Mr. J. G. Kendrick is running hla ginnery regularly. Like The I^edger, we haven’t given up all hopes of the new railroad com ing this way. The building of a “spur" to Spartanburg is only what we have been expecting would be done. But it doesn’t Indicate that that will be the main line if we are fully apprised of the object of the promoter!—to connect the weet with the Seaboard. There ere many reasons for saying that Gaffney and ('herokee county will eventually be considered as objective points for the main line to pass through. We are not inclined to think that “the wish is father to the thought.” Rev. T. F. Boozer, of Gaffney, was in this section last - Wednesday on business. We believe that the bar of Gaffney will compare favorably with any in the State. It’s composed of enter prising young men, none of whom have passed middle age yet and most of them have already gained a repu tation throughout the State for their legal attainments. While a great many illy informed, and, we may say, prejudiced people look upon the legal profession as tricky and not to be trusted, we are free to say that our experience ‘is that it is made up principally of the most true and honorable men to be found. There may be exceptions but they are only exceptions and not the rule. Comparatively speaking fewer of tbem will betray a trust than al most any other profession and that’s saying a good deal. In our letter in last Tuesday’s Is sue we would have been glad to say something of what President Henry Louis Smith. D. D., of Davison Col lege, has to say about the students loan fund as an invaluable aid to the church work. He has made a thorough investigation of the system and is able to make it clear to any unpre judiced mind. The time has come for a thorough ly educated and consecrated minis try to take tbe field and no pains should be spared to prepare plenty of them for that work. The services of the ecclesiastical ignoramus are no longer needed (if such ever did exist). The low eble of spirituality among our people is traceable large ly (if not altogether) to such teach ers and teachings. By a special pro vidence Moses was saved and (‘duelled In the very best schools of his Jay f iat he might be the great law giver of Israel. Tbe same Is al so true of tbe Apostle Paul who was brought up at the feet of Gomallel. The training he got In the law school at Jerusalem enabled him to in doctrinate the plan of salvation into the Christian church. Ignorance is the foe of human reason—tbe enemy of civilization and refinement. To reverence it takes both men and money. This always has been, and always will be so. It’s fortunate for Solomon that he lived and died just when he did. If he were living today he would find out what a fool he was. Almost any country cross road can furnish at least a dozen men (or women) and perhaps both, that could teach Solo mon things he never knew. They can run this government—State and federal—without a Jar or Jostle, dic tate to congrese or tbe State legisla ture what would or would not be good laws to enact—regulate finance, pacify labor and do many things tbe world never thought of. Tbe first of tbeee wiseacres we ever knew was “old Uncle Joe” Lo gan whom we would be glad to In troduce to our young Ledger read ers as many of tbe older ones knew him full well. Though dead many years his life, sayings and actions are still fresh in oar was one of the old issue—a first-rate English scholar and could draw al most any kind of a legal instrument from a will or a land deed to a “nig ger’s pass.” He carried his goose quill pen and bottle of ink tied to a button-hole of his coat and was ready for business wherever you found him (unless it was at some time when “John Barlycorn" had him in custo dy). This was the only fault or fail ure he had that we ever knew of un less it was his disinclination to love that thing called manual labor. How ever, everybody liked “Uncle Joe" and you never met him without learn ing something. Like all the rest of us when he imbibed a little too free ly his tongue got thick and he couldn’t speak plain—in fact he had an impe diment in his speech anyway. He #ould quote from Burns, Byron, Ho mer, Illlad and Shakespeare and most of the many great authors of antiquity until you were tired listen ing. He knew personally, or by re putation, most of the men of tbe State from the governor to “Jack the Sailor.” These he classified in about the following manner and words: “Judge O’Neall ish the echmartiat man in Shouth Carolina, Shon Zhack- ins next, and Joe Logan next. Shorge Williams is a very schmart man bat he’s a long wayshe behind old Joe Logan in shenshe.” On one occasion "Uncle Joe” at tended a public gathering and had taken a little too much of the “O-be- Joyful” and had fallen by the way- side and was in a helpless condition. Chess McKinney came riding along on “Old Arnold,” (his riding horse) and seeing “Uncle Joe’s” condition, thought he would play the role of the good Samaritan at least by ad ministering the following good ad vice: “Hello, Uncle Joe; what are you doing here? Get up and get out of the road. Some fool- will come along and ride over you, if yon don’t” “Uncle Joe” eyed him a minute and then replied: “You shee shir Mlshter Chesh McKinney, you are the flrsht fool thatch come along and yon haven’t done it yet” At one time Henry Price took ad vantage of “Uncle Joe’s” Imbrietyto dip him head and ears in Bullock’s creek. Notwithstanding his weakness, Mr. l^ogan was a valuable man in his days and died generally respected by good people . The world is none the worse for Mr. Logan’s having lived in it. He had Pike’s arithmetic (a standard work In his day) at bis finger’s end. His knowledge of mathematics was sufficient to make many of tbe pre sent day college professors feel ashamed of themselves. Mr. Emmett Wylie, of Jonesvllle, passed through this section last Mon day with a drove of beef cattle be bought on Bullock’s creek and for which be paid the blgbest markyt price. Farmers are realizing that there is money in something else be sides cotton. We learn that Mrs. Bailie Walker. Ledger—not only In Its news reports ker, is still unwell with something like heart trouble. Bhe is the widow of CapL Sidney Walker, who died about twenty years ago. Mr. Jeff Estes, of Hickory Grove, is running his mowing machine cut ting hay in ths neighborhood. Mr. Hamp Bratton and several others are hauling cotton seed from the York side Of the river to the Wil kinsville oil mill. Mr. John Blackwell has repaired the abutment at the Grlndall Shoals bridge. We imagine we see an improve ment in each successive issue of The Ldger—not only in its news reports but the mechanical make up of the paper. Sometime ago “Uncle 8111” said Mr. DeCamp would have to get better type or give him a new pair of eyes or else lose a reader. We are glad to know the “Old Man” of The Ledger has met the requirements in a satisfactory manner. Mr. Walter Kirby, we are glad to know, is steadily improving. Just as soon as the doctor turns him over to his mother for treatment we will guarantee a speedy restorative to health and strength If plenty of nice, will cooked victuals has anything to do with It Mrs. Settle knows how to treat a case of hunger. Walter has had a close call, sure enough. It’s right of course, but we have a horror of the process of starving the patient to cure the disease. We are somewhat like old man Sam Page was by the whiskey—if it ever killed him It would be for the want of it While an Irishman was recovering from a drunken debauch his doctor told him that whiskey was killing him. “Ah,” said the son of the Emerald Isle, “you tell me whiskey is killing me when I’m dieing for the want o’ It.” J. L. 8. A SUFFERING MINISTER. “For many years I have been a suf ferer from bronchial catarrh, and had despaired of anything like a cure. Judge of my pleasant surprise when I first used Hyomel, which brought complete relief. Hyomel has been a veritable Godsend.” Rev. Char les Hartley, Sardinia, Ohio. Thousands of catarrh sufferers have given np in despair. They have tried stomach dosing, snuff, sprays and douches without success, and now believe catarrh to be incurable. But Gaffney Drag Co. holds oat hope to ell distressed. They sell a remedy called Hyomel which Is guar anteed for catarrh, colds coughs, bronchitis, asthma and croup. Hyomel (pronounced Hlgh-o-me) Is medicated air, fall of the healthy vir tues of the mountain pines. You breathe In the delightful antiseptic air, and as it passes over the Inflam ed and germ ridden membrane, H al lays the inflsmatlon, kills the germe, end drives out the dlesaee. A complete Hyomel ontflt, includ ing a hard rubber Inhaler, costs but 81.00, and an extra bottle of Hyomel, If afterwards needed, costs bat 50 cents. Bee Gaffney Drag Co. about it today. # OR. W. K. GUNTER i> f: ra Ti«T Office in Star Theatre Building Phovb No. SO. Crown and Bridge work a specialty. mumwmmwmmi IMuch! but “how good” is the question that every one should ask in buy ing Candy. : : : The old saying that “a man is judged by the Candy he gives” holds good today same as always. : : : : Buy the best. Don't take the “just as good” kind. Nothing quite equals Famous Bon Bons and Chocolates. They arp in a distinctive, exclu sive class to them- seives. : : ; : : All orders receive prompt and careful attention. : : : : v.. . *»■». j Cherokee I Drug Com'py SHOE 1AKMG, We are prepared to do 1 Making and repairing at t able prices. We also hav Robber Heels of all tizr*) and gentlemen. Give 1 BROWN * Next Door to Cra* Limestone St.