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9 THE GAFFNEY LEDGER, Tuesday and Friday. Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher NOTES AND COMMENTS. Be a "Booster” all the time. Gaffney, boost Blacksburg," Cherokee county. • • • Boost *boost PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Every merchant of whom we made inquiry yesterday inparted the cheer ing information that business was looking up. Sure old General Pros perity is abroad in the land. • • • The Columbia State’s "Prosperity Smiles” are doing no little to renew confidence and bring about a bettei condition of a'ffairs. The State hit up on a happy idea to carry new hopes and aspirations to the people. * • • We should like to vote for Mr. De- Camp for clerk of the Senate, but—. Well, he’ll be elected anyway, so it’s all right. The above is from the Branchville Journal and makes us a woman’s suf frage advocate, because the Journal is presided over by one of the fairest, most sensible and best informed of the feminine gender in the country. We make our courtsey to you, Miss Es telle. • • • Our firends who desire to wipe out the whiskey traffic in South Car- olna had best best drive slow over rough places else some of the riders on the water wagon may be thrown off. Already there appears to be some dissent ion in the ranks. Better be careful, gentlemen, ana continue to unite your forces, else you will be tripped in the wrestle with the advo cates of John Barleycorn. You need a hammer lock in this contest if you are to win. • • • We believe in the dignity of the office of president of the United States and have a high regard for the per sonage who occupies it, but when that occupant stoops to the level of a common demagogue he lowers the office and disgraces the people whom he is supposed to represent. Mx. Roosevelt certainly has not added to the dignity of the office by reason of occupying the greatest position within the gift of the American peo ple. • • • At a well attended mass meeting of the citizens of Blacksburg last Mon day night it was determined to issue bonds to the extent of $15,000 for the purpose of prosecuting street paving, establishing electric lights and to re tire some bonds about to mature. We hope the people of Blacksburg will en counter no serious obstacle in their efforts to vote the bonds. That they will sell at a good price goes without saying. Such action is to be applaud ed and The Ledger can but wish our neighbors well in their efforts along progressive line. • • • Theodore Roosevelt has sent his last message to Congress. Thank God!—Gaffney Ledger. Brother DeCamp is mistaken. Ted dy will average certainly one message a week to Congress up to March 4, when the poorest President this coun try has ever had will evacuate the White House.—Rock Hill Record. Quite right, you are, Brother Schwart. Already he has sent three since the first paragraph was written, one on the Brownville affair, three one of the New York World, and one on investigating Congress, and heaven only knows how many more he is to inflict Congress with. • • • The Ledger has been taking in sub script ions at a lively clip the past week. When we advanced thq price to $1.50 last January there was a con tinual slump in the subscription list for several months. After a while the list began to climb, and now we are printing more papers than we were this time last year. All of which is gratifying to us: We shall continue to strive to give the people the worth of their money and at any time any one thinks he is not getting it, all he has to do is to say so and we will return the money. The Ledger is really cheap at $1.50 per year. Some of the one-time-a-week papers are charging SI.50 and $2 per year, and it’s no violence to the truth to say they are not up to the standard of The Ledger, and yet they are worth the money. The Fortune Hunters. tOrlgflnal.] Raymond Riggs, a rich bachelor, find ing the weather oppressive in the city, concluded to run down to'-#he seashore. He found there a bevy of girls, the most of whom, having worn themselves out during the gay social season In town, were endeavoring to put the roses back into their cheeks under the influence of ocean breezes. Neverthe- | less there was not one of them but. I could spare the time to secure “an es- mm Mr. Stanley Davis, of Charlotte, N. C., was in the city yesterday on busi- nGSSt Mr. W. M. Phillips, of Henrietta, was a visitor to the city yesterday. Mr. Victor Lipscomb, who is study ing dentistry in Atlanta, arrived in the city yesterday to spend the holi days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Lipscomb. Mr. C. P. Inman, of Wilkinsville, was among the progressive Cherokee farmers in the city yesterday. Mr. W. D. Gaston, one of Chero kee's prominent over-the-river plant ers, was in the city yesterday on busi ness. Mr. Watson Bell, who is attending college at Mebane, N. C., arrived in ^Mshment the city yesterday to spend the hoii- ** „ . . .. davs with his parents, Capt. and Mrs. Raymond Riggs was a key to the J. B. Bell. wealth he possessed. AH a girl hud to Mr. J. T. Griffin, of R. F. D. No. 5, do to unlock the door to it was to snare was among the prosperous planters to fci m . Re had fought off a regiment of visit the city yesterday. Mr. Griffin th em during the previous season and took occasion to renew his allegiance had . ^ for a rest at the seashore _ of Charlotte, N. C„ g* d ®r e ? | *» <Jlsa .^ ln,raeD ^ one of the most popular traveling men They attacked him by platoons and “on the road,” was in the city Tues- companies. To get rid of them ho day. Going’s friends in his home went off one day several miles up the town are always glad to shake his beach and sat down on the sand. The hand. He was accompanied by Mrs. \^aves rolled lazily in, broke on a bar Doggett. and slid up on the sand with an effer- n the city Tuesday on b^fness" 8 ’ vesc1 ^ sou “f‘ ^he sky was blue and Miss Ray Macomson, of Mercer, cloudless. The ships out at sea sailed spent a few days in the city this week on as silently as if they were painted with relatives and friends. Instead of real. It was all very restful Capt. J. B. Brown, of Ravenna, was and in marked contrast with being among the prominent Cherokeeans in bunted down by a flock of—women, ha J.'ISsmiib, ot Clover, Is In «l>onia Uave said, but be preferred the the city visiting her parents. Capt. '' rora harpies, and Mrs. S. S. Ross, on Logan street. A glass bottle was thrown up by th« H. K. Osborne, Esq., of Spartan- waves, rolled about on the sand and burg, was in the city Tuesday on pro- carried out. When it came up again fessional business. Raymond noticed that it was corked. Mr. M. W. Brown, one of Ravenna s. g e seized it, took out the cork and prominent young merchants was in wIth the blfl(le of his knlfe managed the city Wednesday on business. . . . . .. ? „ Mrs. A. C. Stewart and sister. Miss , t0 e xtr ^ ate through the narrow neck a Bridges, of Blacksburg, were among! card. On it was written in pale ink, the visitors in the city Tuesday. | “Aline Eliot.” The address was given Magistrate George D. Scruggs, of, at a town a hundred miles down the Ezell, was in the city Tuesday on coast, then followed, “Dear finder, I THE LITERARY EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. business. Col. T. B. Butler, who has been to Wagner for several days, doing what he could to secure those good people a new county, returned to the city Wednesday morning. J. C. Jefferies, Esq., who has been spending a few days at Fort Lawn, re turned to the city Wednesday. He was looking healthier, happier and handsomer than ever. Dr. W. K. Gunter is at Wagner, S. C., attending the beside of a very sick nephew. He requests The Ledger to say that he will return to Gaffney just as soon as possible. Judge of Probate Joe Gentry, of Spartanburg, spent several hours in the city Wednesday on business. am lonely.” "For heaven’s sake,” exclaimed Ray mond, “are all the women in the world hunting lovers? I escape from a flock of them back on the shore only to be met by an advance from the ocean.” But as he gazed at this singular con trivance for mating, as he regarded it, it seemed far different to him from the advances he had received from the fortune hunters. He fancied the writer to be some innocent girl who craved only to obey the instincts mother nature had planted in her pure I bosom. Perhaps she had sat alone by I the ocean as he was sitting, yielding ' to a natural Inclination to mate. Addr< ss nil communications Intend ed fort! Is den.trt mein, to .1. smnliooe Lovfc. Filbert, S. L\. K. F. T> No. 1. CHAT. Under this heading, which I have taken from the old Sunny South household department, it is my pur pose to hold converse with our read ers each week. I hope that everyone will like “Chat;” for it shall >e as in teresting as I can make it. .ly read ers no doubt remember that “Ben Hope” suggested this new feature of The Ledger sometime ago. Now, I am ‘‘Ben Hope;” and I'm going to make this department something worth while—if I can. I intend also to write regularly from Filbert, giving the news and pther notes not exactly in place, in such a department as this. In reply to my suggestion I receiv- ed this letter from our kind editor: Gaffney, S. C., Nov. 20th, 1908. Mr. J. Stanhope Love, Filbert, S. C. My Dear Sir:—I have your favor of the 19th, and thank you very much for the same. I have no object ions to such a department as you sug gest. Suppose you edit this depart ment? I should be glad to have you do so. You can put a note under the heading for persons who desire to contribute to it, to send their con tributions to you. I would especially urge the young people to write. It will develop their talents, and might be the means of bringing some gifted writers to the front. With assurance of my apprecia tion for your kindly interest, in The Ledger, I am, with very kind regards. Yours truly, Ed. H. DeCamp. j And as this is the first feature, 1 j will not. make it very long. Our next, j will be a little longer and. I trust J much more everybody to contribute to it. S me newspaper clippings, poems, short stories, bits of information, sketenes of travel, character sketches, and anything else you may think of. This is going to be a really interesting, en tertaining and instructive affair. T dirt intend to have i* gotten up in a different form from this; but just, couldn’t. I shall, however, have it all right within a short time. So watch for us next week, gentle readers, one and all. It is my purpose to build up this department step by step until it shall be a wonderfully fascinating j thing. J. S. L. Absolutely Pure Rdya.l Baking powder. Comes from Grapes The only baking pow der made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Imitation baking powders are made from bank mineral acids and leave in the food unhealthful properties T I William Penn is buried at Jordans. I ‘“fr* England. He was seventy-four years old when he died. Bill—Is that watch your father gave you ten years ago still doing good service? Let those who would affect singu larity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular. —All Christmas presents were Till—Yes, I pawned it | bought at panic prices; they are go- again today for the 20th time.—Lon don Opinion. ing the same Company. way. Cherokee Drug Mr. Robert Scruggs, one of Chero- j and had sent out her message with l ee’s best known citizens, who hails | blind confidence that It would fall from Ezells, was in the city yester- j ^jj c , ii a n d g 0 f the man who was I destined to be al> in all to her. Was Mr. H. M. Johnson, of the Gaffney ijjjg tj le oxplanation, or was she, too. Live Stock Co., is in the stock markd hunting for a fortune? He would open laying in a supply of live stock a correspondence wlth her . In thia Mr. James Lee, of Sunny Side, was wa y be C0U | d out w ij a ^ jj e w i s hed among the visitors in the city this week. Mr. A. S. Smith, of the Love Springs portion of the county, was in town this week. Mr. Albert Bettis, a prominent riti- zen of Grover, was in the city the first of the week on business. Mr. R. M. Abbott has returned from a visit to relatives in Anderson and Walhalla. Mr. H. D. Mathis and daughter, Miss Ha. of Ravenna, were euests this week of Sheriff and Mrs. W. W. Thomas. Mr. Cliff Wilkins, of Atlanta, Ga., is in the city visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wilkins, on Logan street. Mr. J. E. Sapoch, a prosperous mer chant of the ML Paran section, was in the city yesterday. An Impudent Fellow. Gaffney entertained within her bor ders Monday a most impudent person in the form of a peddlar or agent. This fellow was selling a worthless attachment to go on spigots. He would call at a residence and in- j from such deception. Then, confident quire in a very officious manner if ; that he could not be mistaken, be in- thev had a «PJgot If the information photograph. As soon as he , was In the affirmative, he would sav. 1 . . , ' , , , _ . ! Let me see it, please.” Upon being ^ so the thought occurred to shown the spigot he would adjust one him that he was a fool. The danger of his worthless attachments and then of a soc iety fortune hunter was noth- try io impress upon the lady of the ing beside one be had never seen pos- house the importance of having one gessing letters from him and his photo- or more of these "protectors” for g ra ph. UaafneHM Cannot be Cared by I oca' applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused i>y Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Kustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it Is entirely dosed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can Iks taken out and this t ube restored to its normal condi tion. hearing will he destroyed forever; nine cases out of m are caused by catarrh, which Is nothing hut an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any ease of Deafness (cased by catarrh)thatcan- not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENF.Y A CO., Toledo. O Sold by Druggests, ?5c. Hall’s Familv Fills for constipation. —When you want good meal take your corn to Wright’s mill and have It ground by Pink Phillips, the most experienced miller in the country. Dec. 18-22-24. to know. He Inclosed the card with his own name and address and the words, “I, too, am lonely.” In a few days he re ceived a letter. There was nothing In It about love or marriage. It was an unsophisticated epistle from a young girl about nothing. Raymond read be tween the lines, "Perhaps you are he for whom I intended my message.” But it did not say, "You may be some rascal who will take a mean advan tage of what I have done.” What re freshing innocence! Fancy one of the fortune hunters reposing such confi dence in the average man. Raymond was an imaginative fellow and would sit long on the dunes or on the beach mentally contemplating this innocence. If he could see her likeness he could Judge of her motive with more cer tainty. He thought he would send a picture of some man about his own age and ask hers in return, but the girl's guile lessness had affected him,and he shrunk B. R. Tillman in the Senate. Washington, Dec. 14.—Senator Till man was for the first time during f/iis session in his seat when the senate opened up this morning, having reach ed here this morning. The senator is j looking unusually well and says he is feeling well. He is just in time to get into the great Panama scrap which threatens to materialize if the senate and the country does not let Presi dent Roosevelt bluf£ them out of do ing anything. Whether the senator will take part depends, he says, upon whether he can find any rocks to throw. A Special Convocation. There will be a special convocation of Granard Lodge 186 A. F. M. held in lodge room on Wednesday evening 23rd inst., at 7:30 p. m., for the pur pose of installing the officers for the ensuing year and conferring the E. A. degree, D. D. G. M. H. Fay Gaffney will be present and officiate. Brethren i earnestly requested to be present, visitng brethren cordially invited to i attend. sanitary reasons. The price was ; f-, teen cents, and in almost every in stance lie made a sale, but in c ase he did not effect a sale he became insol ent. In one instance a lady said she would take one, but, on reflection c>- However. iu exchange came a like ness. It was the* likeness of one a painter would seize upon as a model for a Madonna. There was innocence personified. A pair of soft eyes looked cided she did not want it, and he said out from an oval face. The lips were that since she had ordered it she sensative. and Raymond considered would have to pay for it whether she them espe( . lallv klssable . no thought took it or not. Such people need to . . . he dealt with in a frum manner. °* faces of the fortune hunters, restored to their natural appearance Killing in Railroad Cam P . £ cosmetic*. There was none of News reached the* city a few days them who would not consider herself aco that on Sunday afternoon one flagrantly immodest to thus advertise nearo bad killed another in one of the for a husband. Yet here was the trading camp’s on the r. C. & C. rail Madonna-like face looking at him with road near the North Carolina line, and a mo jpsty that none of these could that the one who committed the crime ij ave assumed. "“corSvinMett went up yeater One day Raymond wns mlased at th. .lev to hold an inquest, anti hatl not There was a Sutter among re turned when the forms for this is- fortune hunters, for, though none sue were closed. A full account of of them had secured a foothold, every the traaedy will be published in T ics ene hoped for herself, not for the oth- day’s Ledger. < ers. Had he returned to the city? No. Inquiries elicited the fact that his bag* An 1,800 Pound Beef. page, like our flag, was "still there.” Messrs. Clary & Kirbv, local mark- 8o they waited and watched and «* !V en ’ purchased from Mr. J. L. bo p e< ] But Raymond did not return. Walker a beef raised in Cherokee - .. . eountv, that tipped the scales at 1 .*00 | tim ® ^ reote . <1 that h pounds. The animals was of the Herett- k* gon ^ f, Ry. and neither the ford variety, and goes to show ‘hat waves nor the gulls nor the ships nor as heavy cattle may be raised in this the fortune hunters saw him more—at county as anywhere else. The vaire least not that summer, gentlemen purchased a hog from' Mr. Rut the next summer nil these saw V.. R Walker in the same neighbor- him again and saw a very different hood that weighed 6^.» pounds, ^he When a man finds but a lone nickel in his pocket for car fare down town in the morning, it's a sign that his wife is interested in frenzied finance. Doctors say take Cod Liver Of/—they undoubtedly mean Scott's Emulsion. It would be just as sensible for them to prescribe Quinine in its crude form as to pre scribe Cod Liver Oil in its natural state. In Scott’s Emulsion the oil is emulsified and made easy to take—easy to digest and easy to be absorbed in to the body—and is the most natural and useful fatty food to feed and nourish the wasted body that is known in medicine today. Nothing can be found to take its place. If you are run-down you should take it. Send this advertisement together with name of paper hi which it appears, your address ami four cents to cover portage, and we will send you a “Complete Handy Atlas of the World.” SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St, New York porker was of the Berkshire breed, which. Mr. Walker savs. is the best adapted to this section of corpirv. •* This is Worth Reading. Leo F. Zellnski. of 68 Gibson PL. Buffalo, N. Y., savs: “I cured the most annovipg cold <?ore T ever had. with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. I an plied this salve once a day for two days, when every trace of the sore was gone.” Heals all sores. Sold under guarantee at Cherokee Drue Co. 25c. man. He was no longer pursued by the harpies, for his estate had been pre-empted. A slender, oval faced wife was with him, whose presence kept them all at a distance. They were willing to admit there was a certain placid beauty about her. though she had no style. But there was evidence that her figure was not built ont or driven In. Indeed, she was as God, not dress, had made her. GERTRUDS GOWAM. NOTICE. All persons are requested to have their premises where they live or oc cupy thoroughly cleaned (especially their back yards and the rear of their stores) and have the garbage placed at some convienient place on the strtets not later than Tuesday evq; ning, Dec. 22nd, 1908, where the carts can easily get to It and same will be hauled off free of charge. If the people take advantage of this opportunity of having their places clct.ned this same offer will be made by the town at different intervals. W. H. ROSS, Mayor. Subscribe for The Ledger. $1.W. Subscribe to The Ledger, $1.50 The One Sure to have money is to save it. The one sure way to save it is by depositing it in a responsible bank. You will then be exempt from the annoyance of having it burn holes in your pockets, and aside from the fact that your money will be safe from theft, the habit of saving tends to the establishment of thrift, economy, discipline and a general under standing of business principles essential to your success. This bank payai^ per cent interest on all deposits compounded quarterly. THE GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK, Office fa The National Bank of Gaffney, S. C. LOOK OUT FO H. H. Johnson, o Is in the Western markets, pur chasing a car of fine Mules, Mares 4 and Horses to be sold at a bargain on easy terms, : : : : : Cuii at Onu and Cat Your Clioici Dec-U-lt