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t I I - rSv w™ f AUCTION 120 beautiful building lots on Depot and Logan streets—the J. Eb Jefferies-McCraw property- in the beautiful City of Gaffney at auction. One 6-roonn house on Logan street and one 4-room house on Depot street to go in this sale. See plat. “ ' Jeceilier 14th,at 100’cMA.M.,Sharp,onlliePremises Free carriages every few minutes starting from Main street. $25.00 in $5.00 Cold Pieces and One Lot Will be Civen Away Absolutely Free! Every bodywho comes will have a chance at these whether buyer, bidder or mere spectator, and each person will have five chances at the gold. Also one Gold Watch and Chain will be given to the man buying the greatest number of lots and one Ladies’ Watch will be given to the lady buying the highest price lot sold to ladies. You stand on the lot you want and bid your price. HOT LUNCHES AND COFFEE WILL BE SERVED BY LADIES ON THE GROUNDS. mm mnmmm BE SURE TO COME AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS. This is excellent residence property and should be a money-making propo sition to all who invest. Look back a few years and note the wonderful growth of Gaffney, the marvelous increase in population, new factories and other industries, and other vast improvements on every hand. .Speculators:—What the future will be to the present, the present is now to the past. B. W. GETSINGER, Real Estate Auctioneer, Phoenix, Arizona, who will conduct this sale. TO HELP THE TRADERS OUT We will allow any purchaser at this sale, who may desire, to offer and resell his purchase of the day free of commission at auction after the sale of the lots is over. This is done to give the traders a chance to get in on property that is going cheap and make money out of it quick. Purchasers at former sales re-sold their lots on same day at handsome profits. Ail lots are staked and numbered, so all prospective purchasers can ex amine and make their own selections and be ready to buy at this auction from this plat. Be sure to pick up some of the money-making propositions that will be placed before you at this sale. w • k n•*« 1 1 , N 11 il 1 1 as: fi K ‘ 3 V s 6 £ 6 6 * 1 J+.M * i \ -V-V 6 & 4 4 A 6 —rzr —z^r & 6 O 1 K l * > ; 3.4. •/ \ * * i /„ 6 <* 4 £ Z ..<L£ 5 ~~T r ~ -yzr- <72P“ V / < f 7*' •~rc> "7* A. *7* ■7° l f * Is \ V .? a 2.L- —3^— ■7-f— • -pxfim sr * -T*- —nr •• irp 4 £ <1 S j 4 J K J i ' /S ? ^ ) y- .y 4 7/<r ! -i/- * « > / * _ * /\ * / • 6J— 4 J l \ * l l t —m i 4 ^ V * 2 e 1 > B - i U3- 1 7Ait * 5 ‘ -.Ik'. —nr —nr —nr T-ZT- l " ! /?. 2-i. Li2 E ' 11 6 C / it —Lk, \ 6 * t—rr 0 to i 0 Ik j t -jj- ML to cc U A 3 1 ^ ■ g - ft ip lo —nr SL*i. 6 A 0 0 • 4 4 4 i (c b 6 C i A It X ° L£_ it it a <!7‘> 2. L. -7-<- ■YT M* 73* f -Tm- H O A IA »J) at. i«**STf* h /cmrow* X ♦» il I 3 ' Tv A* \ ’*! iN . j- 1 ,, i, i s r ✓ t'1 ~f ).CL. ' r'-C C- >y A U. V T*T> v. ——- i - •h» ? £ ^ J ** •> n r^i J? { * ^ If : ! \ —Af. / tT ’ ( B P *%3CrN3*.UOA -r**- The safest investment on earth is earth itself. Renters get a divorce froA your landlords. What can you seel your bundle of ^- T^Srent receipts for twelve months from ■-.-jcjjjnow? Not one cent. Then why ac- i* .;cumulate such property? _ b'; .Take the map, go and examine these lots so you will be ready to buy Z when the numbers are called by the ' * auctioneer. Stop it by buying a lot and build ing a house and home on it through one of the Building and Loan Asso ciations of Gaffney. This is a fine opportunity for per sons wishing to invest in property or build a home in Gaffney, “The Pro gressive City,” “The Queen of the Piedmont” which has grown since 1890 from a village with 1,600 peo ple to a city of 8,000 or more. If you want to live in a wide-awake town, the county seat, where you can enjoy educational and many other ad vantages, it will pay you to buy as an investment. Even Idle proprety in Gaffney earns profits, the town is growing so steadily. W^TED—6,000 people to come from every section of the county and State and say to some on* olsa: “Meet me at the Jefferies sal* Decem ber 14th. ALL WORK NO PLAY makes Jack a dull boy. Lay aside business cares and work and attend this sal* DE CEMBER 14TH. TO THOSE PAYING RENT. How much longer do you expect to invest in rent receipts. Will you never stop paying tribute to your neighbor? He was once as poor as you but made a start by buying a lot, and through trials and tribula tions erected *a cottage even though ever so humble. .You can do the same and In less than a year be un der your own roof. Get your wife at tend this sale and we guarantee if you will take her advice and make the first payment she will accomplish the rest. With the population of Gaffney and the county increasing daily, the Elec tric Power being developed on the river, and the great railroad advant ages, all Real Estate Is bound to be come more valuabler and you will not have an opportunity like this every day In the year to buy property at your own figures. Don’t stand back and expect to buy any of this prop erty after this sal* is over. It will cost you more, and the other fellow will make the profit. Look over the list carefully and select the piece of property you want and be ready to bid on it when offered by the auction eer. This is very desirable property for homes for working people as it is only a short distance to the business part of the city. Buy some of this property for homes or speculation as it is bound to increase in value as the city grows. Now, stop, read and think for your self. Don’t depend on the other fel low to advise you what to bid on any of the property, because he expects to buy some of it for himself and ie not in a position to give you an un prejudiced opinion. Look around you and see how the value of real estate has advanced by leaps and bounds. BE SURE TO FOLLOW THE CROWD IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A LIT TLE FUN WITH BUSINESS. This Is the only available residence properly situated so near the heart of thp city In bulk. Buy now at your own price and in a short time sell at a handsome profit, for the land is bound to be worth more money. We are going to give you the opportunity, and will be glad to have you take a shot at it for bet ter or for worse. No better investment than Gaffney dirt; no better time to invest than NOW. This city is just on the eve of BIG THINGS. Let every Business man, every Home-Seeker, every Spec ulator and every Public Spirited citi zen attend this sale as it Is a rare chance for bargains In the most de sirable property. PROFITS AND PRESENTS WILL BE HANDED OUT TO YOU. This is the greatest opportunity ever offered to the working people of Gaffney. .Such liberal terms were never offered before and may never be again. Avail yourself of the op portunity now. Now Is the time. Don’t wait. Money planted here will double In value inside of three years; mark our prediction. Don’t miss this chance, it is a rare one; will not occur agalnl Gaffney already has five Cotton Mills—some very large ones—three Banks, three Building and Loan As sociations, Ice Factory, Fertilizer Plant, Machine Shop and Foundry, three Lumber Companies and Wood Yard, two Oil Mills arid large Gin neries, two Lime Companies, Street Railway operated by steam, five Churches and Schools in every sec tion of the town, including two excel lent Graded Schools, one recently built, and the famous historic Lime stone Female College. The city owns and operates its water and light plants and may soon have and Electric Street Railway system, and will vote on sewerage In the next few months. There is one million dollar power plant and another in course of con struction on the river nearby, with lines running through the city and power for all purposes can be had at very reasonable figures. DEMCUBCD f Thl8 property near the hea rt of the city, convenient to schools, churches, business houses, and only three minutes walk from depot. It will be offered IlLlvlLlvIDLn I 0 7h n - P r ce mU8t , be 80l 1 < J* a8 1 need the money and must sell the prope;ty. Terms of Sale r One-fourth cash and balance in three yearly pay- , . .. u m raent8 ^tj 1 ln terest 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. Ten per cent, of bid must be paid when each lot is knocked down, and no deviation will be made. So bring your pocket books and check books. One lot, 125.00 in Gold and two Gold Watches ABSOLUTELY FREE I Tickets will be given every grown person attending, both male and female, and duplicates placed In a hat and drawn out by •ome child, and the lucky numbers will get th^ prizes. LADIES E8PjJ(jI£J^jY INVITED.