The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10
PICKENS SENTINEL.
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr.. Jorro Looper has been appoint
ed election supervisor for Pickcns county.
w. Il. McFall and family were laid
up with Influenza for several days last
week:
Mrs. Fanny Evatt, of Gainesville,
Ga, is visiting her sister, Mrs. III. A.
Richey.
There ere now fifteen prisoners in
Jail here-11 U. S. prisoners and State
prisoners.
Anderson is to be lighted by cleo
tricity. Tho works for the lights will be
completed by the first of July.
There was n large number of farm
ers in town last Friday. Tho meeting
of the County Alliance was tho main at
traction.
Sharp Chapman and l.. 9. Sanders
wero discharged from Jail last week.
They were serving sentences for fooling
with "moonshinc.
The Board of Equalization met last |
Tuesday and heard all who had any com
plaint to make in regard to the assess
mcnt of their property.
The enlargement plan of the court
house has been agreed upon by the
Commissioners, and the contract for the
building it will be awarded next meet |
ing.
-Waddy Younghlood was discharged
from tho j,il horo last Sunday night ut
II ocloo,. He was sent up from the
recent term of the U. S. court at Green
Vile.
Hon. =. J. Johnston says that tho
wheat in his section has already been at
4
cry prospect of the wheat crop being
ruined by it.
-Shcrif' Richey had the pleasure one
day last week Of holding the ribbons
over Little May" his one time pet
driver. They tried to knock the bottom
out of Main street.
Tho farmers in the Pcndlcton section
arc busy planting cotton. Most of them
will Gct thc greater portion of their crop
planted this week if the weather holds
good. Tho acreage is larger than last
year.
Tho nomination CT Capt. Tjllman
by the recent convention, was freely dis
rus'ad by the large number Of farrocrs
III town tho plst week, and all seem to
be we'll pleased with the conventions
work.
,'upcrvioor Cf Registration Robin
son, vii. be at Six Mile on Saturday be-
fore the f.u,!1h Sunday in this month,
and will accom.loIetc all who wish to
change their voting Pace from Hurri-
cane to Six Milo.
DR. J, w. Quillian WAS i'll Pickons
East Monday. He is well pleased with
his new home in Spartanburg. The
Doctor says thatpchcns takes The ribbCn
Ou good rOad:, over hCr sister counties o.
Grecnvilin and SpArtSHhurg.
Since our last report the following
mOOn|hinc eases have been disposed of:
Ed Anderson, Wuddy NoungblOod, Sar
gent Alexander, and Tom Powell, all for
selling and making lnouutniu dew. Dis
missed. Charles White, sent up.
Tho u. S. Supreme Court has rem
dered its decision in the Clemson will
case 1t susta!uS the decision uf Chief
Justice Fuller, rendered i'll Charleston,
3ast spring, ana the State gets the be-
rus7,. Work will begin on the build
lngS at once.
There were eighteen white and four
teen c0lorcd school teachers before the
examining board last Friday. The Com
miSaionerS say that OWING to the absence
y
business, that the certificates will not be
ready for several days yet.
Mrs Jason Gillespie died at the
home of her husband pear Pratcrs last
Thursday, from relapse of influenza,
aged forty-two years. She leaves hnS
band and two children to mourn their
loss. Tie funeral was held at the Bnr-
roughs buryiug ground on last Friday
There will be II good chance to pro-
cure some desirable real estate in Pick
ems on Sale day in May, when the ln q
belonging to the county Will be sold.
The lot on Main street is most drsira-
BILE one, and the one on the west side of
tho Jail block should bring good round
price.
The April showers last week started
vegetation to growing mt a lively rate.
Wheat begins to look WE'LL though oats
arc somewha; spotted from the ravagcs
OF the Hessan Ny. There is yet con.
siderable fruit left minj jured and we
may yet have fair crop, barring acci
dents.
Mr.. IT, n. Hughes, Of Rchland,
passed through town Tuesday on his
way from New PIckcns.-Scncca FREQ
Press. Tom only hit Pickcns a gIancing
SlCOkc. ~ lalllOUS iltHlltll resort Ill tne
foot hills was the objective point. He
has been seriously wounded by the littio
god with his bow and arrow,
AT the meeting Of the County Ali
ance Inst Friday, there was not much
business Of public nature transacted.
The most important subject WAS that of
the State Exchange. 1t is climcd by
that institution that it does not receive
tho patronage from our Pickons mem
bers that it should. Mr.. J. w. Ried,
Secretary of tho State Alliance, address
ed the meeting in the interest Of The
Cotton Plant, tho organ Of the order
Mfr. John w. Nallcy, ono of the
oldest and most respected citizens OF
Easley township, died at his home on
tho 3d inst, of dropsy Of tho heart.
Though Mr.. NaIlcy had been ailing for
some time, his death was surprise to
his family and friends. Ho was about
sixty years of age and leaves wife and
siX children to mourn his loss. The
children arc all married. Tho funeral
was held at Fairview church on las Sun
day