The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-07-31
pIOKENS SENTINEL,
LOCAL NEWS.
Plenty of rains md bad roads.

Mrs. Horace ]. Hortoni Of Clinton,
is viettiht3 teltttiS6s In Pitkons.
!; ;771itNfsI iftm Austin, Of Bolton visited
her Brother, DIR, Earlei last week.
:. The August terh OF the j. s: Court
opens in Greenville next Monday.
Miss Beula Austin, of Wjllin,nstoH.
week: ''''
,,I -rTYoung men, read tho advertisement
81 tho South Carolina University in an
other column.
:. Mr.. W. 'B. Mauldin has been an
pointed postmaster at Stewart p. O.. III
this county.
Mrs. DaA.. i. Sutherland visited ber
,mqther,, Mrs. Florence Griffin, last Sat
srday 6Hd Sunday. '
Read what Mrs. A. r. Black, of
Greenville, has to say in another column
1t may benefit You.
Miss Olive Thornley, has returned
from an extended visit to friends and
relatives in Anderson.
Miss. Annie Boone, of Gaines
willie, Ga, is visiting tho family of DR..
u A"hh kbhAoI) VI lItloicJ'
Some of our farmers fear that the
continued wet weather will cause the
cotton plant to shed its fruit.
Miss Evans, daughter of Congress-
man Evans, of Spartapburg, spent Inst
week with friends in Pickens.
What is the matter with the butcher
this summer2 Pickens has had nd regu-
I'm >f l,I.
The case against Charles Durham,
OF Anderson county, for retailing whts-
KY, was dismissed last Saturday.
Our doctors report that the general
health of our citizens was never better.
There is no sickness at this time.
Miss Leila White, one of Anderson's
charming bellies, has been visiting the
Misses Thornley, for the past week.
--Mr. Mark Morgan and family, of
GreeifTille, are visiting Mr.. Morgan's
SISTERS, Mesdames Griffin and Bowen.
Rows. eO'Dell and Anderson are con
:duetinga q toviTal meeting at Rhuhama
this week. Services day and evening.
Elias Roper was before Commis-
sioner Thornley, last Monday, charged
with retailing whisky. Case continued
--Mr. Robert l.. Amblcr, of Green
Willie, is spending his annual two weeks
vacation with his father, Maj. Amber.
The Keoweo Courier says that JAS.
Kay killed forty-two snakes at one lick
ON the Goth inst. They all measured
twenty-five feet.
--Mon,oo and Chas. Durham were be-
fore the u. S. Commissioner last Thurs
day, charged with retailing whisky.
They were held for court.
The minister's and deacons of The
Twelve Mile Baptist Association, will
meet Mt Griffin church on Friday, before
tho second Sunday in August.
MIR. Will D.. Griffin caught a carp
last week out Of his fathers fish pond
that measured twenty-five inches in
9ength, and weighed twelve pounds.
Last week was hard time on noun
tain tourists. Several parties were caught
cut IN the rain and mud, and as Il conse.
1uence were disgusted with their trip.
Judge O. l.. Durant and family
ha"e moved t2. their farm one mile north
of town. We arc sorry to have them
leave town, but wish them every success.
MIR. Julian ". Bruce, who has been
visiting his mother, Mrs S. p. Bruce
for the past two weeks, returned to his
post i'll the Anderson National Bank,
last Tuesday.
Your attention is called to the adj
Tertisement of tho Williamstou Female
College. ono of the most Heliablo and
hest equipped schools for young ladies
in the State.
The members Of Rhuhama M. e.
Church have had their uilding nicely
coiled and painted. and are having it
handsomely furnished with seats aud
other farniture
There is only ono place that travel
crs can cross the Kcowee now, and that
ls toll bridge. In all the forty miles
of this water course in P.ckens county,
there is no free bridge.
There We're twenty-six additions to
the membership Of tho Shutdown Pres
Dyterian church during the recent pro.
tracted meeting ut that place. 1t was
conducted by Rev. Riley, Maycs and
Marion.
Young men desiring to attend
first-class school, should send for n cata-
logue of Furman University, ut Green
vile. There is no better institution Of
learning in the South. See nd in anoth-
or column.
%. IT. Miller is teaching the colorcd
school ut this place, and reports that he
has seventy pupils. This is u good
showing for our colored citizens and
demonstrates that they arc anxious to be-
como moro enlightened.
Come to town on the 9th of August
and hear the candidates for Congress,
and what is more important, take part in
the dummy line meeting which will be
held the same day. Our county's inter
est should not be neglected for politics.
Old Rabbit Ton and vicinity now
show tho finest cotton fields in the up
country. Pluck and push will yet re-
Claim every old pine field in Pickcns
county, and every piece of scrub onk
~ land on which there is no timber of
value, will soon disappear.
Deputy Sheriff Nelson Green, of
Anderson, was in town last Monday. lie
Cam9 for Monroe Durham who was
\ip Jill hero awaiting trial at tho coming
term Of the u. S. court. The officer