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9 M We ehall alwaye pretiee f«r it mved our boy’s life” o HKRMAN HOCHMUTH. M rs. k a nn kkt hocii m uth, 1701 Maple St., De« Moines, Iowa, wriU- c : •‘Two years agn our Utile boy, Herman, wjs tak< n down with searlel fever. He took with it, and in- atnad of the eruptions coming to the surface they affected his lungs and RAVENNA READING®. ■ l — Newsy Notts and Ptraonala Prom Our Regular Correspondent. Ravenna, Dec. 1.—With this letter | we start off with the last month in the year 1908, and when the new year rolls in. just thirty-one days, we are thinking of giving up our corres pondence with The Ledger, so as to ' give our space to “J. L. S.” and other ; correspondents, who contribute re gular letters for the paper. It may i be, however, that we will be right there again wMth the pencil should we keep our health, for writing a letter ( to The Ledger is a pleasure we like; ! and from week to week we try to ! give Ledger readers correct reports ! of events from all our territory, which we are glad is not limited. Mistakes will sometimes occur and it ! is on this account we always try to have our letters as reliable as pos- , sible. If we decide to continue with The I edger, the paper we love, we will announce our decision shortly. Mr. Ben Hammett, of White Plains, ! was a visitor in our Sunday school last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Austell and son, Lloyd, and Miss Minnie Drown, Fannie Smith and Messrs Osrar My- lers, Claude Lipscomb and others, of I (lafiney, visited relatives and friends here last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C,eo. E. Drown and children. Earl and Mary Wilkes, of .lonesville. visited relatives here Sun day. Messrs. E. R. Goforth and Tommie •tomach. For weeks we watched by t _ j » • . his bedside, hardly expecting him U. ^vJn" n^.iV^nTi £ live from one hour to the next. “Ftnally lie tweame a little better and was aide to sit up. Then lie commenced to cough, and in spiieof everything wa coaid do Jie seemed to g«‘t worse all tha time. His coughing spells would last antii he was completely exhausted, and hislangs hurt him a great deal. F.very body thought he had consumption. “One day, while at the drug store, my husbanu saw a Peruna almanac and brought it home. We read in it a per fect description of his case and we thought we would try Peruna. We bought a bottle, quit everything elae, and began giving him Peruna. “By the time two-thirds of the bottle wan us' d tiie cough had almost gone. After he had taken two bottles he was perfectly cured. lie has notseenasick i*y since and is a hearty, healthy boy. hie Smith, John Bazil Brown, of Goucher, visited our Sunday school last Sunday afternoon. Misses Eva Burgess and Noone Greene spent last Wednesday night with Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Mathis. We wish to thank the Macedonia correspondent. “Country Lover.” for the compliment paid us, and also the Ravenna people for an invitation to attend their convention. Miss Carrie Goforth lias a severe ease of measles. * R. R. and B. P. Brown, our champ ion ’pofistim hunters, “took in” two more “poor Sams" last week. Mr. R. E. L. Goforth and son, How ard. captured a line last Monday morning Rev. Mr. Kirby is teaching the Gowdeysvllle school this season. Miss Mary L. Chalk was elected assistant teacher at Goucher last Monday. Miss Addle Brown, the principal, was elected in the summer and began teaching last Monday morning. All the schools we have heard from have good attendance. Mr. Willie Burdette and sister, Miss Maud, of Asbury, attended our Sun day school last. Sunday. Mr. S. S. Littlejohn and sister. Miss Hattie, of Goucher. visited relatives here Sunday. Calvin and Mason Bonner, students of Piedmont High School, Lawndale, N. C.. are home visiting their parents. Mr. and Mrs. B F. Bonner, of Goucher. Calvin Bonner conducted the pray er-meeting at Goucher Sunday and though quite young at the business, he acquitted himself nicely. He made a beautiful talk, and appointed Ebbie Smith to take charge next Sunday, at which time we hope to be present. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Mathis and Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Mathis took dinner Sunday with Mrs. M. C. Burgess and family. W. Paul Brown, a student of Spar tanburg High School,' Landrum, spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Brown, of Goucher, Paul is one of our faith ful Baracas and we are always glad to have him wMth us. Miss Lydia Green, of Paeolet, visit ed her relatives here last Friday and Saturday. J. M. Green spent some time at As bury last Sunday. Misses Nannie. Leila and Ila Ma this attended the convention at Ma cedonia last Saturday and Sunday. J. A., W. C. and Jonathan Goforth and D. D. Brown visited Macedonia last Sunday. W. O. Horn, of Paeolet. our popu lar market man. attended religious services at Macedonia accompanied by his friend. Floyd K. Goforth, who is home on a few days visit. M. W. Brown, our leading merchant, was a Gaffney visitor yesterday. Onr thanks are due Mr. T. T. Lip scomb, of Goucher, for some fine honey. Mr. Lipscomb delights in his bee trade, nnd knowing how to man age them, is quite successful with possum early! the “little early risers.” Wo learn that the new steel bridge Keystone Traction Water Well Drillers Are Money Makers Everybody uses water. A drilled well is the only means of obtaining a pure, cold and unfailing supply. Dug wells and springs are simply cess pools for collecting disease breeding surface drainage. X5 per cent, of typhoid fever is contracted from had water. A Keystone Drill will penetrate the bed rock and t ip the pure, unfailing streams below. All surface w ter is securely cased off, A drilled well rarely goes dry in the most protracted drou'h. It is safe. There is more money in a Keystone Drilling outfit than in a threshing ma chine, and you work all the year round instead of three months out of twelve. Machine Is the most complete on the market and must not be confounded with cheap and flimsy outfits. Drills a 6-inch hole through any formation to any desired depth at the rate of 50 feet a day in ordinary formations. Costs $5.00 a day to run in fuel and labor. Will go anywhere under its own steam and can he set up and put to work in 30 minutes. Write for cat alogue No. 1. KEYSTONE DRILLER COMPANY, BEAVER FALLS, PA. NOV-iy-lm STAR THEATRE MATINEE AND NIGHT SAT. DECEMBER 5 Jos. King’s New Version “East Lynoe” WITH Lillian Foster Goodwin. A Play that will Live Forever. A Story of a Woman’s Wrongs. It t ches the Hearts of All. Without Question the Greatest Emotional Drama of the Present Generation. TRESPASS NOTICES. Trespass Notices, on heavy card' uoard, for sale at The Ledger office. Carwile Chalk, whose sickness we at Paeolet was not. finished last Wed nesday. as reported by us. and will not be completed until near Xmas. Floyd K. Goforth, of Fountain Inn, A friend at Clifton has requested j visited his best girl here last Sunday. S..“ the Clifton correspondent of Mrs. C. E. Kitchens, our champion mentioned in our last letter, has de- \eloped into a ease of measles, a dis ease well scattered around here “We ehall always praise Peruna, foi The Ledger, to ask us through The , Jgoober raiser.” spent last Sunday at it saved onr boy’s iif- .” Man-a-lin the ideal laxative. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are forbidden to hunt or otherwise trespass on my lands, under penalty of the law. W. W. Pettit. Dec. 1 4t np. FOR SALE. FOR SALE OR RENT—House and eleven acres laud on east Frederick street on reasonable terms. See C. M Smith. Dec. 4 8t. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are hereby warned not FOR SALE—Two mules and wagon. Apply to W. W. Hardin, Mill No. 1, Gaffney Mfg. Co. Nov. 10 tf. FOR SALE—A lot of aecond-hand piping. Apply to Ed. DeCamp. Ledger to make our letters longer.! Paeolet I Now, friend, we appreciate yours and j L L. and W. S. Spake attended the j , "S.’s” compliment, but we are afraid | Goucher services last Sunday mom-i j we already make our letters entirely ! ing. : too long; and should we begin to T. E. Burgess, one of our progres-! j make them longer, there is no telling j sive merchants, was a business visit-j to trespass on the lands of Mrs. R. M what might happen. We will, how or to Spartanburg yesterday. j Gaffney, leased by me, under penalty ever, promise this, wl en we develop Mr. T. T. Lipscomb, of Goucehr. of the law. I. Corry. into a better writer, it will then be j spent Sunday night with Capt. J. B. J Nov. 24, 4t. time enough to lengthen our letters.! Brown. 1 ■ You all should bear in mind, too, that Miss Mary Chalk started in as as- Mr. DeCamp. the editor, has to make sistant teacher at Goucher yesterday. It was reported there was a little fuss near Mr. H. D. Mathis’ home on Paeolet river, late Thanksgiving evo- the letters of us correspondents fit in the space he allows us from week to week. Dr. S. H. Griffith FOR SALE—First-class babbit met si. Apply at Ledger Office. ~ pleased patrons. FOR SALE—Old newspapers this office. 10c a hundred. FOR RENT. FOR REN T—Four-room cottagS, good well and barn on Buford streaL R. S. Lipscomb. Oct 20 tf. Mrs. J. B. Brown has been very !»>'»?• *>ut as we couldn’t get a correct sick, but is better at this writing. j account of the trouble, we decided it Mr. Tommie Lipscomb, of Goucher, would be best to leave it out. and one who raises bees to a good advantage, was in our town last, week, delivering honey to his well TO RENT—Offlc* room* over Tfc< Ledger. Apply to Ed- H. DeCamp Nov. 2. tf. WANTED. WANTED—A few more boarder*. Reasonable rates and excellent board. Apply at Mrs. Chandler’s, two doors below W. J. Wilkins’ dry goods store. Dec. 1-21 pd. WANTED—The white people of Gaffney to know that I have opened a first class white barber shop iu rear of Merchants and Planters Banx, Frederick street. Sharp razors and clean towels. Willie Dawkins. Dec. l-2w pd. WANTED—Gaffney Manufacturing Go. stock at 66. Address Box 146. Nov. 27-3t pd. WANTED—Corn to grind. Electric corn mill next door to J. E. Lipscomb Co. Nov. 24 tf. WANTED—Green hides; highest cash price paid. Clary A Kirby. Aug. 14 tf. WANTED—One thousand new snb scribers to The Ledger. NOTICE. NOTICE—I will not be in my office after Dec. the 8th until Dec. the 15th, 1908. W. K. Gunter. Dec. 4 2t. Fire Insurance! We represent some to the largest and most substauttal companles and would like to write your business. 5-14-tf Smith & Lipscomb, Agents. DR. W. K. GUNTER 1> E TM T I W T ■tu: :u Star Theatre Building Phonk No. 20. Crown and Bridge work n specialty Miss Hattie Wilkins, who works at Paeolet. visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Wilkins, last week. Mrs. Logan Mize, after helping gather up a crop here, left last week for Clifton, where she engages in em ployment until next spring. Mrs. Wheeler Fowler, who has been visiting her relatives near Corinth, returned to her home here last Thursday, after a pleasant visit. On account of last Thursday be ing Thanksgiving day, our rural car riers did not make their usual visits. Dr. H. B. Tate, our hustling physi cian, spent last Wednesday night at Corinth, the guest of his brother, Dr. T. O. Tate. Mr. Willie Brown’s condition con tinues to improve nicely and he will soon be out again should he not get any back set. M. W. Brown, our leading mer chant, has swapped off his horse. He has a much better looking one since he traded. Mr. Afl Gore, of Goucher, was among us last Thursday. Mr. Charley E. Smith, of Thickety, conducted religious services at Goucher last Thursday, preaching a strong, forceful sermon from the words. “How shall we escape the damnation of God?” Mr. Smith was attentively listened to by a fairly good Crowd, all who heard him speak ing highly of his good sermon. Mr. Smith used his own life as an ex ample of how God called men from their sinful life into His service, and really we enjoyed all he said. We are glad our good country people have awakened along many lines, and especially along the line of hold ing Thanksgiving services each year. Wilkes, Jonathan, Roland and Fred Brown, closed up their store last Thursday and took a big hunt, kill ing sixty-two rabbits, four birds and caught a fine ’possum. Mr. J. D. Jefferies, Jr., of Asbury, accompanied bv his son. Willie, caueht three ’possums Thanksgiving nfeht, besides killing three wild ducks. Mr. Jefferies says there are about seventy-five ducks In the flock and as he Is a good sportsman, will be right after the birds again. Mr. R. D. Kitchens and son. Lloyd, of Gowdevsvillp, spent last Thursday with Mrs. C. E. Kitchens. Miss Plarena Porter, of Ashnry, has had a severe case of tonsolltls, but Is better now. J. M. Green took Thanksgiving dinner with his best girl at Asbury. Mr. Prater Rmlth, of Goucher, was in town last Friday. Thanksgiving passed off very qnlet- We learn Mrs. Mary Smith, of Thickety, will teach the Blue Branch | Honrs: •-chool this session. Mr. H. C. Reynolds was a Paeolet visitor yesterday. As we close this letter rain has again begun to fall and from all ap pearances, we’ll have a wet day. On account of low water in Paeolet river, our rural carrier, Mr. Cameron Littlejohn, could not. get across last Saturday and our mail did not roach here. When the water is low the ferry run by Mr. Murry cannot make its trips across the river. C. EYE. EAR, NOSE AND THROAT I* F: e I A L, I S T Office Over Gaffuey Drug Go’s. Store 9 to 12 A. M.—2 to 5 P. M Y00 CAN BUY Reliable Policies off Fire, Life, v ■ l. 1 And Health Insurance AT Prices, Matinee 25c, 35c. Evening, 25,35,50 and 75c Cranberries FOR Xmas -AT- W. Kyle Davenport's Jones J. Darby’s Agency Star Thaatra Building. G. G. ROBBINS, Mana|ir. ll-17-l-mo Keep en Your Mind You Get Your Br ad, Roils, Cakes and Pies Made ol very best Quality AT Finckens Steam Bakery Phone No. 139. Who? Everybody’who wants good fitting, tailored clothes. When? Now'and hereafter. Where? at the leading tailor shop. Roll' & Gray Nov 13-Fri-tf Featherstone Will Run. Columbia, Dec. 1.—C. C. Feather- stone, of Laurens, who came within three thousand votes of defeating Governor Ellerbe in 1898, definitely announced today that he would be a candidate to succeed Governor Ansel two year hence. Mr. Featherstone announces that he will advocate State-wide prohibition. One-half of the counties in thifi State are now dry. It is likely that Richard I Man ning, of Sumter, will also be a can didate. —Finest watch repairing and en graving at Gaffney Jewelry Co. FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM FORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THK •TATE AND EVENTS OF INTER EST IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. Blackviile Depot Burned. Blackville, Dec. 1.—The Southern Railway depot at this place was to tally destroyed by fire early this morning, resulting in a loss of about $12,000. The fire, which originated in the roof of the building about 7 o’clock spread so rapidly that all efforts to check it were futile. Northern passenger train No. 30 was delayed about one hour on ac count of the fire. Dies of Rabies. Columbia. Dec. 1.—Richard Pen- ington died at Fort Motte todav as the result of a dog bite he received three weeks ago. Pennington was taken suddenly ill Sunday night and died this morning. Three physicians pronounced It a case of genuine ra bies. NO REASON FOR DOUBT. 120 BEAUTIFUL BUILDING LOTS on Depot and Logan Streets in the beautiful city of Gaffney at auction ’ Dec. lAtb.at 10 O’clock A.M. Sharp S25.00 in Gold and One Lot Will be Given Away Absolutely Free! Everybody who comes will have a 'chance at those whether buy- S or, bidder or mere spectator. SSS Also one Cold Watch and Chain will be giyen to the man buying the greatest number of lots and one Ladies 1 Watch to the lady buying the highest price lot sold to ladies. A Statement of Facts Backed by a Strong Guarantee. We guarantee immediate relief and a positive cure to all sufferers from constipation. In every case where we fall to effect a cure, we will supply the medicine free. That’s a frank statement, of facts, and we want you to substantiate them at our risk. Rexall Orderlies are a gentle, ef fective, dependale and safe bowel re- eulator, strengthener and tonic. Thev re-establish nature's function In a quiet, easy way. They do not cause lv and we have learned of no acd- anv Inconvenience, erlnlng or nausea dents about here. They are so pleasant to take by any- A laree acreage has been planted one at any time. They thoroughly In wheat and oats and if the weather tone up the whole system to healthy should continue fair, much more will activity. They have a most bene- be planted around here. i flr,al action unon the liver. J. T. Kitchens, of Snartanburg I *7,?", 91?^ spent several davs among us last ,d a l f P „ ,h * u of ch,,( |lf n * o1d weov. visiting his mother, Mrs. C. E. fo . k8 . and delicate persons. We can- Kitchens pot to ° recommend them to . .. „ .^ all sufferers from’anv form of con- ” r ’ ap , , M 1 ***- N. G. Littlejohn and stjnatlon and Its attendant evils son Carl sle of Asburv. snent Thanks- That’s why we hack our faith In them rivimr dav in Snartanburg. tho euest of their daughter, M™. 8. E. True. with our promise of monev hack If they do not give entire satisfaction. It is Eipeotid that Hot Lnaclies and Coffee Will be Sened on the Ground by Ladies REMEMBER This property is near the heart of the city, convenien t to schools, churches, business houses, and only 3 minutes walk from depot. It will be offered at your own price and must be sold, as I need the money and must sell the property. Terms of Sale: One fourth cash and balance in 3 yearly payments with interest from date, or 10 per cent, cash and 5 per cent, per month, with interest for average time, until paid in full. A reasonable discount will be allowed for all cash. Watch for plat of property in next week’s Ledger. . Eb Jefferies. MIm Pauline Pettit has, so we are .Two sizes, 2Kc and 10c. The Gaffney told, a good school at Star Farm. * Drug Co., Gaffney, 8. C.