The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-03-06
PICKENS SENTINEL,
LOCAL NEWs.

tGe1n. % ~ N"' VI
Mr.. A. M. Morris has opened ont in
the FREEMAN building with a full line OF
groceries,.
Wheat and oats that have not been
injured by the fly, look we'll and prom.
ise fair yield,
Tho cold snap on Monday caused
thoser having business in court to be
somewhat late getting i'll town on that
day.
The equalization board were buey
last week smoothing down the bumps
and raising the depressions in the assess
ment roll.
+a-Hallool Mr.. Dorr! Look over the
Ii6kens dha Easley road, and make us a
Dld Oh smoothing our pathway through
the world.
-a-How about the man that don't know
the difference between n dummy line
and tramway. He should DO nmdo
president.
BE careful when you swap horses or
mules. 1t is pretty hard to make out a
case of fraud against professional
horse trader.
--Road the new ads of our homo mer-
chants. They contain items that will in
terost, and give you information that will
DO of benefit.
The Rev. A. p. Nicholson, of An.
oerson, the journal says, has so far ro
covered that he was able to take trip
into the country.
We are soon to havo our double tlai-
ly mail again. The order hns been sigh
cd to reinState It, and no doubt it will be
perpetual this time.
Our dummy line in operation will
add thousands to the value of the UNI
bar, recently discovered in the upper
portion of the county.
Those who had put in their fertilizer
early, now regret doing SO. The lecent
rains have washed the greater part of
the strength out OF it.
Walker w. RusseIl's appointment
as postmaster ut Anderson still hangs
hro and 1t is not very probable that he
will secure the office after all.
Agents for tie new patent right
wire fence can get all their blanks Mt the
SENTINEL job office. Orders by mail
Will receive prompt attention.
If you wish to raise good crop of
Irish potatoes, get your ground lendy,
hnd plant on the wane of the moon in
march. So eHith the DutChman.
Pea Ridge is preparing to go ahead
this summer with her improvements.
Tho saw mills now have all the orders
they can fill by the middle Of the season.
Read call for meeting Of persons
Interested in the building Of the dummy
line, published in another column. Bc
sure and como to the meeting next Sat
urday.
~o~Coroner Boggs had the two little
sons of w. ID. Wiggina brought from
LRurens county last week, to testify in
tho case against their father for poison
lug their mother.
Mail carrier Gilstrap lost one of his
horses last week. Bright loses horse
nearly every year He says that there is
40 stock that can stand tho wear nnI
tear of q mail route.
The farmers Of Eastntoc township
report that the farm lnborcrs have mostly
left that part of The com try ond they
find some trouble this sprAig IL Eottirg
the hands they want.
Mr.. Claude II. Alexander, Of the
Charleston College, came home last Fri
day in response to n telegram advising
him of tho severe illness of his grand
mother, Mrs. Licina Alexander.
-Pnmpkintown and Enslcy are each
expecting to be the future county scat.
1t is thought that Pumpi;intown will
easily win the fight as it has the great
advantage of more suitable location.
Miss Charlotte Murif, who has been
spending the winter in Bartahatchie,
Miss, with her father and relatives, re-
turned to Pickcns last Tuesday, much
refreshed, and well pleased with her trip.
Mr.. II. 81. Galloway, of Brevard, II.
O., is in this county selling farm rights
for patent fence. Mr.. Il. II. Smith
he's bought the right for Liberty town
ship, and II. A. Hester has purchased
Pickens township.
More farmers arc paying cash for
their supplies this year than ever before
since the war, which goes to provo that
we are on better basis and that the no.
riculturist will lay by something for a
rainy dny this year, if the season is fair.
The heavy rains last week kept the
farmer" Mt standstill and tried the ter
races, some of which Wcrc broken, but
where they were properly laid off they
stood the strah, and saved hundreds Of
dollars III preventing the waste of soil
and fertilizer.
1t seems rs if "Whndcring citizen of
Ensley'' has not called on the more in
telligent white people in his travels O.
or those that can read, but has plenty of
colored folks with splendid libraries
ATS impossible for an outsider to know
what people read.
Don't lose faith in new enterprises,
or in projected improvements. because
some Gays it cannot be done. 1t 10 ever
thus, that no no one can make n depart
nre from the old luts, unless some pes
smist is ready to prophcSy that it will
come to naught.
Horse deaers Mt Tasley and Central
are now engaged in bringing in horses
and mules from other States to supply
tho demand here. This is not rs it
should be. We should raise om own
stock and save our money. Who will
start stock furm2
: AT this season of the year if You
feel dizziness and frequent headaches,
and have nightmare with visions of fu-
ture punishment, and are troubled with
n strange iluttering of the heart, it is a
Sign THAT something is wrong Call on
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