The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-11-20


Mr.. Ben Trammell has brought lis
three potatoes that grew in stump.
They weighed seven pounds.
DIR. and Mrs. Tom Folger of Cen,
tral, passed through town last Tuesday
on their way to Eastatoe valley.
MIR. lsobt. r.. Stewart has rented out
his saw mill started recently near Prater,
and has gono South for the winter.
Mr.. j. M. Phillips, who moved to
tho Six Mile section last spring has q
saw mill and cotton gin in full blast.
Several of our citizens aro wishing
for cold snap to give thom chance to
turn tho sausage grinder an hour or
two.
Chickens, eggs and butter arc in
good demand here. These articles are
getting very ''seldom" at the present
writing.
Don't SOW your wheat too early. IF
tho present warm weather continues the
fiy will kill it out and you had better
save tho seed.
MIR. J. II. Henley, of Laurcns coun-
ty, is IN this county looking at tho lands
with Wow to buying good farm in
thlS community.
The managers aud commissioners of
the State election will please take notice
that their money is at the SETINEL Office
subject to thoir order.
--Colonels, Majors anl Captains nro
going out of fashion. Tie Honorable
ls now in vogue. Most anybody gets it.
What does it mean, anyway:
Send us tho news, cal. paign riff-rafr
and summaries over the whichness of the
what, and the whcrefor of the why,
takes back seat for two years.
Contrary to the weather profit, the
three days rain was not followed by n
blizzard, but cleared up nice and warm,
in fact, regular Florida weather.
The Muuldin bridge on Wolf Creek
went down last Sunday. The contract
for building a new ono will be let today.
The road is blocked until that is done.
The revenue officers are waking up
the moonshincrs again. New corn has
como in and Bill Roark can smell still
from Easley to tho Hog Back Mountain
Tho Pickcns county wagon and bug
gy trade is growing to such IN extent
that some entcrprislng firm would make
a handsome profit by establishing an
agency mt this place.
The opening of the Walk CT. AfcEl-
moylc High School is on the first day Of
December instead of the 3d, rs was
stated last week. Everyone WHO expects
to attend should be on hand ut the open
ing.
On the 10th inst, in Oconce county
at the residence of Mr.. Perry Fisher, the
father of the bride, Mr.. Merritt Alexan-
der, OF this county, was married to Miss
Harri' tt Fisher, Rev. John Ellenburg
otliciatinS
Land still goes, on Pen Ridge. Mr..
Larkin HuSes hns sold his Ellis place,
300 acres, to Mr.. J. j. Panncl for ST 200
and Mr.. w. A. Lesley ir., hns sold his
place 200 acres adjoining the above to
Mr. hos. Durham for $500.
Col. j. E. Hogood has presented
The town with an acre plot of ground
Just outside the corporate limits on the
CLASSY Mountain road, for Il cemetery,
upon the condition that the town put up
a nice fence and have it properly laid
out.
IN PhllOllN VI lllo l1lSn DCuOOl uCO
we'll pleased with tho success of the
school under the management of Prof.
j. i. Dargan, and have secured lis scr-
vices for another year. Under such CT
ficicnt management our school is IN as
sured success.
On the 18th inst, Mrs. Amanda
Earle, wife of DIR. j. w. Earle, died at
the home of her son, MIR. j. w. Earle,
at the advanced age Of scvonty-tive
years. Her health has been failing for
some time and her death was not uncx-
pected. The funcra! vas held at Carmel
on the day following. She had been a
consistent member Of the Presbyterian
Church for many years, and died Gin
the faith" Her sorrowing husbaLd and
ildren have the heartfelt sympathy of
their many friends in Pickens and An
dersOn counties.