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i \ THE OAFFNEY LEDGER. Tuesday and Mday. Ed. H. Decamp. Ed it er and Publleher The Ledger la mot reapoam’ble for the Tiews of its correepomdemta. NOTES AND COMMENTS. ly.'. all Cherokee' go over to the Spartanburg fair next week. Maybe ther will forgive us for being ugly. see Let us all pul! together for a Greater Gaffney. We have the re sources, all we need is the people and the money to develop them. • • • What’s the matter with that voting (ontest? Haven’t Ledger readers any friends whom they would like to wea. - those two watches we are to give away votes. ? Come along with the Go to the polls next Tuesday and vote. Vote the Democratic ticket.) It is important that we cast as many | votes as possible in order to make the majority—if we get it—that much greater. • • • The anti-dispensary folks won in Union county last Tuesday by over three hundred majority. That was fairly good for Union. Now let. them put the lid on and drive the blind tigers to the wall and the county will he grander and better than ever in the past. * * * Among The Ledger’s mosi cherish ed friends are its correspondents. They are the people who are doing a great deal to make the paper popu- la” in all sections of the county by their contributions. We \vmiM we! cmm ; few more. The upper part of the (ounty is not so w'el! represent ed as ft should be and it seems that thi; Buffalo section is neglected alto gether. Come on. friends, and help make TIu* Ledger the medium of < omrnunicai ion from every nook and ••orner o. ( horokee. • • • And now conies our good friend. The Spartanburg Herald, with the charge that we are acting mighty ugly these days because we chided the Spartans for th<ir inclination to he tightwads in iho cause of good government. We were going by the records as published in The Colum bia State and if there be error It must be laid at the door of that news paper. It hurts our heart to be blamed for the short comings of others. We have sins enough of our own in answer for. • • • here and ship nothing out save cot ton and cotton goods. We hope to live to see the day when western meat, corn and flour will be as scarce in this section as snow balls are in August. • • • Senator Tillman ought to tell what South Carolina newspapers got some of the Standard Oil money which ex- Senator McLaurin had the pleasure of placing where it would do the most good.—Columbia Record. Yes. we think the information would be interesting and timely. Quite a number of South Carolina pa pers. including some of the best weeklies In the State, were in full sympathy with Mr. McLaurin’s move ment. We have all along been un der the impression that all of them were following the lead of their own judgment as to what was best for the country. If any of them, how ever, were influenced by Standard Oil or other money, ti e fact ought to be made known.—Yorkville Enquirer. The surnrising thing to us is that ttiese two newspapers, knowing Sen ator Tillman’s inclination to perform the cuttle-fish act and his penchant fur the spreading of calumnious re ports which tarnish the reputation of those " ho do not agree %’ith his ideas i. f political honor should pay any at tention to this charge of Mr. Till man. Nobody, not even Senator Till man himself, believes any newspa per in South Carolina was bought to support McLaurin. Some of them tire poor, very poor indeed, but the Standard Oil company does not pos sess money enough to buy what little influence they do exert. • * • About the best thing we saw in the Gaffney Ledger's criticism of The Times Sor intimating recently that the Charlotte Observer would probably go over to the Republicans was that The Observer did not give The Ledger even “mere mention” for its nice little flattery. Buttinsky! Backs out without honors.—Fort Mill Times. Some persons would probably lose PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. was I. B. Magness, of Grassy Pond in the city Tuesday. Floyd Ross, of Clemson College, visited his parents a few days this week. Miss Ola Stacy is attending the State fair at Columbia this week. Mr. .1. N. Cudd, of Spartanburg, was a city visitor Tuesday. Dr. H. E. Fiefield, of Wilkinsville, was in the city Wednesday. Mr. M. M. Freeman, of Atlanta, was in the city Tuesday. ( apt. J. B. Bell went to Columbia Wednesday to attend the State fair. Rev. W. T. Thompson went over to Cowpens Tuesday on business. Mr. R. H. Mitchell, a well known King's Creek planter, spent Tuesday and Wednesday in the city. Mr. Hans Spencer, a well-to-do Cherokee farmer who resides on R. F. I). No. 5, was in the city Tuosday- Mr. N. E. Cooksey, of R. F. f>. No. 7, was among the Cherokee farm ers in town Tuesday. Mr. Felix Spencer, one of Chero kee's most substantial farmers, was in the city Tuesday on business. Mr. G. B. Sarratt, a prominent brick contractor of Atlanta, is visit ing relatives in the city. He is‘a brother of genial Sam Q. Sarratt. Miss Bessie Mitchell, of King's '’reek .was in the city Tuesday and Wednesday visiting her sister, Mrs. Miles Bullington . Mr. John Sarratt of the Grassy Pond section, is very sick. Mr. I,. Huskey, of Grassy Pond, was a business visitor to Gaffney Tuesday. Misses Laura and Rosa Kirby, who for the past year, have been living in Indianapolis. Tnd.. have returned to their home in the city. Miss Nora Martin, of Mooresboro, N. ('., and Mr. Leister, of Cliffside, N. ('., were the guests of Miss Daisy Crocker. Sunday. Squire .1. W. Alexander, of Lawn, was in the city Wednesday. Capt. .1. .1. Magness. of Grassy Pond, was a Gaffney visitor Tuesday. S. B. Vassey, a Cherokee county boy. has gone to St. Matthews. S. C., where he will teach school. Mr. Vas sey is a splendid citizen as well as a good instructor. Mr. Henry Williams, proprietor of in return for this gratutious fling of our esteemed contemporary. Not so with us. In the first place we did , . . the Leland Hotel, Charlotte, spent their temper and sa> something ugl> yesterday in the city, tin 1 guest of ('has. Dudley, of the Commercial. Mr. J. J. Hedrick, of Lexington, N. was in the city yesterday in the . . interest of the Hunt Medicine Co., of not criticise—at least we did not so piano. intend—The Times for its intimation j Mr. C. 15. Turner, of Midway, was We were merely endeavoring to give i 11 'I' 0 ‘by Tuesday on business, our friend some information which ) Mr ' II ' E Li,,,1or - of * Iaud - ' Vil * in we wore positive it did not possess the city Tuesday. Mr. A. J. Harmon, of the Grassv terday. The Ledger begs leave to suggest to the mercantile interests of Gaff ney that it would be profitable if some understanding could be reach ed whereby more cotton and other farm products could be brought to this market. What a wonderful im petus to trade it would bd if there were a warehouse here for the pur pose of buying all kinds of country produce and shipping it to larger centres of consumption. We under stand that Johnson City. Tenn., ships poultry by the train load. Why could not Gaffney do the same thing? You say the poultry Is not in Cherokee. That may lie true, but it could be raised in Cherokee if there was a market created here for poultry. Then there are potatoes, corn, peas, and numerous other products j of the farm that could be bought, here and shipped to other points and sold at a profit. The question arises as to wnether or not the produce could be had. No, not not#. But it would not take a great while to teach our farmers that, there is more money and less work in an acre of peas, or an acre of corn, or an acre of pota toes. than there Is in an acre of cot ton. provided there was a market at which they could dispose of such pro din t. As it. is we ship everything in at the time its article was written, j Pond section; was a city visitor yes Wo expected no honors at the hands ! of anyone, much less The Observer,; except that honor which comes to ! every man for having spoken truth- : fully—and we are not so sure that a i man should expect honor for being j truthful. In fact that is nothing but j a duty, and he who falls short of his j duty is dishonored already. The 1 campaign is now ended—or will be next Tuesday—and we sec no reason to regret, having taken the part of The Observer, as it has continued in the cause of good government with unabated bre|t h .notwithstanding the prediction of The Times. The editor of The Times needs to broaden in his views, and give others credit for he’ tg just as honest in their inton- tic s as lie is in his, without hope of re" ard save in the hereafter. Royal DOUBLE TRACKING RESUMED. The Southern Starts Work on Fur ther Extension. The Charlotte Chronicle of last Tuesday contained the following item which is of interest to every town along the Southern Railway: “An announcement of great inter est to he people of this State and of all ili( territory traversed by the Soul hi mi Railway system in the South conies from Virginia, where al ready JOO hands and a number of | ears, engines and other working mu-i leiitil an engaged in the work This; immense undertaking, it will be re-j membered, vwas stopped Iasi summer,! with the approach of the money) stringency, and, as some of the poll ticians claim, on account of adverse railroad legislation. "The Southern, from present indi cations. is getting iw position again where it tan prosecute this import ant piece of work, and there is every reason to believe that the long-talked of double track from Washington South, to this city, or whatever ter minus may be selected for this work,; will be carried out without interrup- ] lion just as soon sis the road sees its! way clear to putting on still more men and securing more material. ; “A Lynchburg special of recent date has tie- following to say of the! resumption of double-tracking in Vir-! ginia: "An ext rsi force of nearly :;00 ne-! groes and twenty-two camp cars were brought to Motley’s on the Southern Railway yesterday, and the men were at once put to work on the new dou ] bb-track line of the company be tween Durmid and Sycamore, a dis-; tance of about thirty miles. “This is taken as a further indica tion that the freight business of the Southern is increasing and that the company desires to have the use of! its new tracks sis early as possible.) It is reported that the double-track will be ready for use from the block ! station, opposite the cotton mill, to 1 Sycamore not later titan January 1st. “The trains are now passing over! one of the tracks of the new route' Bailey, of Adamsburg, returned home between Clarion and Sycamore, thus! today. Food is more tasteful, healthful and nutri tious when raised with BAKING POWDER. The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Made from Crapes eliminating the grade the Virginian Kail wav- crossing with at Alta Vista.” BABY’S ITCH EASILY CURED. A Good Record. Solicitor Thus. Sease returned to Spartanburg Wednesday evening. Before taking itis departure Mr. Sease said to a Ledger man: “You ought to say something nice about Cherokee county. There wasn't a homicide case at this term of court, and this is the first time f have attended court this year that there was not one or more homiciflo cases. Cherokee certainly deserves to he congratulated.” The Ledger cannot say anything more about Cherokee than the aide solicitor has said, and on behalf of th«> law abiding element of the coun ty we thank him for his kind words and sincerely trust the last homicide case has been tried in Cherokee. Emma Goldman, the woman anar chist, is going on a lecturing tour of Australia. Mevrare of Otutinentg for CMtnrrh thr t Contain Morenry as mercury will surely destroy tlie sense of smell and completely derange the whole sys tem when entering It through the mucous surf-ices. Much articles should never l)e used except on prescriptions from reputable Physicians, as the damage thdy will do is ten fold to the -rood you can possibly derive from them. Hull’s Cutrirrh (’un\ rri'inuftic- lured hy F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. (»., con tains no mercury, and is taken internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine. It Is taken internally, and made in Toledo, O., by F..I.Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.. Sold by Druggists, pricers:, per bottle. Hall s Family Fills are the best. —The most popular lady, the dia mond ring. Gaffney Jewelry Co. Straightening the Record. (Spartanburg Herald.) i ue Gaffney I/edge r is acting mighty ugly these days. Listen to this: (’apt. (’has. Petty should hang his head in shame for Spartanburg coun ty. According to the Columbia State that rock-ribbed, hot bed of Democracy, that proud and haughty abode of statesmen, soldiers, schol ars, financiers, railroad magnates, musicians and manufactors has con tributed the paltry sum of $58.10 toward the Democratic campaign And just to think that Spar- , tanburg, the home of he brave, the ) chivalrous and dauntless, with six ! thousand white Democrats, to say I nothing of its beautiful women and j lovely children, should give m> the magnificent sum of $58.10 for the ; cause of good government. Oh. ye i tight wads! Go ye and repent in! sack cloth and ashes. And the pity j of it all is that Col. Hearon, Capt. Petty and Gen. Henry abide with ye! and cannot cause ye to loosen up.; Diminutive Cherokee, with less than J three thousand, gave almost twice as- Aryl vnt vfyi tbtylr vr»n ovr» . titled to the main line. No wonder, the C. & O handed you the branch ' line. To begin with The Ledger is all wrong. The amount credited to Spartanburg county by The State is only one-fourth of the fund contrib uted by Spartanburg Demorrars to the Democratic campaign fund. A month and a half ago a hundred and fifty odd dollars was sent from this city direct to the national treasurer. The county has contributed over two hundred dollars to the national fund. | We are not particularly proud of this i showing when other counties have) far exceeded ours in the matter, but i at the same time, we want to set the) Gaffney Ledger sraight. About that main line of the ('. & , O., we really want Gaffney to feel ; good a little while. How To Gain Flesh Persons have been known to gain a pound a day by taking an ounce of Scott's Emulsion. It* is strange, but it often happens. Somehow the ounce produces the pound; it seems to start the digestive machinery going properly, so that the patient is able to digest and absorb his ordinary food which he could not do before, and that is the way the gain is made. A certain amount of flesh is necessary for health; if you have not got it you can get it by taking SCOTT’S EMULSION Scnii ibis advertisement together with name of i tv-r in which it appears, your address and Cttir cents to cover postage, and we will send you a “Complete Handy Atlas of the World.” SCOTT &. BOWNE, 409 Pearl St. New York Infantile Eczema Quickly Relieved by External Use of Oil of Winter- green Compounded. Infantile eczenp. which has baffled the skill of the best physicians for so many years at last seems to be curable—and curable with great ! ease. Results of the last two years indi-j cate conclusively that baby's itch.) infantile eczema and other skin dis-i eases of children can be very simply cured by the application of a com pound composed of oil of wintergreen, thymol and glycerine, as in I). I). I). Prescription. The Rev. Lewis Steeley, of Weath erly, Pa., writes: “Our baby boy’s litt le face was s» dreadfully covered with eczema that blood and water ran from the sores nearly allrthe time. After using 151-2 bottles of I). I). I). Prescription we are so happy to tell you hi- is entire ly cured and the disease has never broken out again. If this letter is in any way a help to other sufferers, you may publish it.” If you have a child which is suf fering with this terrible itch, we are sure you will not neglect one hour to give your baby the right kind of relief. We have seen too often j how quickly the remedy mentioned above takes the itch away at once and how all the cures seem to be perma nent; we have seen this too often to hesitate at all in recommending ilv remedy for your children. Gaffney Drug Co. been visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Mr. Adam Orr cut a bee tree Sat urday afternoon and got thirty pounds of honey from it. Mr. Orr is the champion ’possum hunter of this section. He has caught forty-five this fall. Some person or persons stole eight from him one night recently. He says he has an idea who ii was. Mr. and Mrs. .1. A. Humes and Mr. John It. Jefferies gave us an ap preciated call last Thursday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Blackwell and 1 readers family, of near Jonesville, visited rel- ~ atives here several days last week. A Healtv Family Mr. L. R. Gaines and two sons, L. j ^ R. and Tillman, of Gaffney, attended “Our whole family has enjoyed the convention at Rehoboth Sunday. K° od health since we began using Miss Pauline Pettit, of Ravenuv, attended the convention Sunday. The colored people are building an Odd Fellows hall at Gowdeysville church. Miss Mildred Foster iias a very had sore throat. We wish for her a speedy recovery. Mr. (’ameron Littlejohn, our effi cient and accommodating mall car rier has had his mail hours changed and passes about one hortr and/a half earlier than he did—about 2 o’clock. Best wishes to The Ledc«;r and its Edna. There were four Ledger corres pondents (that we know of) present at Rehoboth Sunday. “J. L. S.," i “A.” and “Edna," so we suppose there will he a general write-up the day's proceedings. The people of this community will soon be through picking cotton if they get fair weather. The crop is certainly short here. Some of the people around here have gathered their corn. Mr. Ben Littlejohn and Mr. Mayes, of Union, were at Rehoboth Sunday. Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,” says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1. Guilford, Maine. They cieanse and tone the system in a good. 25c ot gentle way that does you at Cherokee Drue Co. -Our Grip Tablets and Natures Cough Remedy taken together will cure any case of la grippe or money refunded. The Cough Remedy is 5t> cents and the Grin Tablets 25 rents.^ Try them on our iron clad guarantee.'* Gaffney Drug Co. —Two log cabins and dolls for two little girls at Gaffney Jewelry Co. V Diamond ring worth $35 to a.vay at. Gaffney Jewelry “Co. Gowdeysville Gossip. Gowdeysville, Oct. 26.—As we! haven't reported any news from this section for some time we shall try to, jot down a few things. Quite a large crowd of people at-; tended the Sunday School Conven tion at Rehoboth Sunday which pass ed off very nicely. Pro. A. G. Davis, and daughter, Miss .Tosie, of Sardis, i were there. Mr. Davis led the music for the occasion. Rev. Jesse Lawson, of Kelton, will fill the pulpit at Skull Shoals Satur-' day, October 21st at 2 o’clock In the afternoon. It is hoped that a large congregation will attend. Miss Nannie Millwood, who has LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. Stat<‘ of South Carolina. County of Cherokee. P.\ J. E. Webster, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, W. J. Moorehead has made suit to me. to grant him Let ters of Administration of the Estate ami effects of Clarance Pinson, de- c eased. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all ctnri singular the kindred and creditors of the said Clarence Pinson, late of Cherokee county, S. C., deceased, that they be and ap pear before me, in the Court of Pro bate, to be held at. Cherokee Court House, Gaffney, S. C., on November 7th, next after publication thereof, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not he granted. Given under my hand, tms 23rd nay of October. Anno Domini, 1908. J. E. WEBSTER, Probate Judge. Pub. Oet. 20 and Nov. 6, 1908. “WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY” ±= Is an old and a very true saying, and in nothing does it apply with more force than in the matter of saving mon ey. Everyone should save some part of his earnings, as it is not what one earns but what he saves that makes wealth. Start a sav ings account this month with THE GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK, Office in The National Bank of Gaffney, S C. .V* 'MVl c.* tt+ivi •Dlbi eu*t*« New Dress Goods Silks and Satins / 8 * AH the latest ide^s cheaper than you have seen them imyears. See us and savejjmoney. ^2\. Ii£ I-iOT^T_v & UYEIiS, Oaffney, Soiith Carolina