The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-03-27
PICKENS SENTINEL,
LOCAL NEWS.


the Commerce of Pickens.
---Miss Dora Folgor, of Easley, visit
ed Misses Chaflotte Murff and Estella
Newberry iast week.
miss Lille Taylor, of Liberty town.
ship. visited Miss Ribbon Phillips, of
Seneca, last week.
%LsMrs. Williams, half sister of Mr..
J. O. Jennings; died at her home near
Piegceton last week.
An infant of Mr.. Lewis Gilstrap
who lives on. Little Eastatoe died very
suddenly last tuesday morning.
BE careful of your cotton seed this
spring. Save enough to replant if the
frost should catch the first planting.
Give the birds rest after the first
Of April, in accordance with the statute
law III such cases made and provided.
The junior editor has been unable
to ba M the sanctum, now for over a
week. We are glad to say he is improv.
ing. So
Capt. J. Boatwright is rapidly push
ing the work on the Office building ad
lacent Messrs. Newberry & Thornleys
store.
This item is no chestnut. Mr.. Rob-
ert =. Gilstrap killed suro enough rab-
Id dog near his farm on Little Eastatoe
a few days ago.
Our first and fourth pages are
bright and newsy this week. There YOU
may learn the latest in regard to the pol
itics of the State.
Twenty wagons loaded with guano,
camped between Easley aud Pickens last
Monday night. Gentlemen get your
dummy railroad ready.
Mr.. John G.. Wyatt having finished
his contract of saving for the Messrs.
Hagood north of Pickens, has carried
his mill back to his farm near Easley.
Large and attentive congregations
attended preaching at the Presbyterian
Church Inst Sabbath morning and eve
ming. DR.. Riley treated them to two of
his best.
"A binding storm of wind and rain
overwhelmed the country from Pickens
to the mountains last Saturday. It last
ed about thirty minutes. A few more
minutes would haYe made it q first-class
freshet.
Miss Myrtle Borroughs is quite sick
Will tU -N1rS. ". freeman Is.
where she has been boarding while
teaching the Wolf Creek school. Her
brother, Mr.. d. Borroughs, was report
ed quite sick last Monday.
Attention is called to the new adyer-
tisement of Messrs. Hagood, Bruce &
Co. in this issue. They are candidates
for good run of custom. and an in
spection of their immense stock will
convince anyone that they advertise SOL
id facts.
We were pleased to meet in the SEN
T1NEL Office last Monday, our good
friend and former neighbor. Mr.. w. Nj.
Ferguson, of Oconee county. Notwith-
standing his recent extensive travels, he
still awards the premium to Pickens
county.
Mr.. Thomas Heynie, of Gainesville,
Ga, brought mp Carey Allen, colored,
from Central last week, and lodged him
III Jail, oil q charge of robbing q Rich
mond & Danville freight car. A sus-
pected accomplice has been jailed at
Gainesville.
-Miss Ruth, daughter of DR.. I.
Canuon,: of Toney Creek, Anderson
county, died on the It'll, inst at the age
of twenty-five years. Her sudden tax
ing off in the very threshold of her
bright young life, is deeply mourned by
muny friends.
VIM. Med. Sizemore, colored, WAS
before Justice G. e. Robinson last week,
charged with beating his wife. The case
was compromised by defendant paying
costs. His dusky spouse relented, and
takesher chances on William doing bet.
tor in the future.
Mr.. Bennet Freeman, one of the
best citizens Of the county, died sudden
ly OF heart disease ON the Goth inst. He
Was over sixty years Of age, greatly be-
loved and highly esteemed by all who
knew him, for his honesty of purpose
and stability Of character.
The delegates elected on the 9Th
instant, to represent the farmers Of Pick
ems county in Columbia, were not all able
to sttend, and we fear some of them are
good and Jas. e. Borroughs are detain-
cd by sickness in their respective families.
Mr.. James w. Earle's little
son had one of his hands almost
severed from his arm last Tuesday after
noon. The particulars of tho accident
We're not learned. DR.. Earle was called
1Or, but he being absent, DIR. Williams
was summoned to attend the little suf.
ferer.
ALL who have taken stock in the
dummy railroad, and expect to, are noti-
fed to be at the meeting on tho 7th day
of April, sale day, as an organization
will be effected on that day. Let no one
who has the interest of his town Mt
heart. fail to put in his appearance on
thab day.
Mr.. J. r. Anthony was into see us
last Monday. Being interviewed, he
confirmed our statement in regard to the
i"nreased acreage in cotton this year,
and the more extensive use of CONNER
cial fertilizers. He says the farmers have
never. shown such a good determination
to work out their success.
Andy Long, colored, and John
Bratcher were before Justice Stewart
last Monday, charged with the larceny
OF the goods of J. Sam Wilson. The
Stnte was represented by J. p. Carey,
and tho defendant by T.. w. Long, Of
Anderson. Both the defendants we're