The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-19
PfgKENS SENTINEL,
LOCAL NEWS.

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- Mr. Fl. B. Hendricks has moved to
the James house on Catherine street.
T-+-Mr:N j.. Miles Pickens, Of Pendleton,
urday. ' ''''>' ''"'
w. II. Steele, son of Can't. X. r.
Steele, is attending the N, G. A. 6. nj
Dahlonoga, Ga., this year.
Miss Nelson, daughter of Rev. r.
r., Nelson, who was quito sick few
days ago, ls much improved.
Maj: j. M. Stewart has donned a
velvet winter cap, and Hev. II. f. Nell
son says he has capped the climax"
An old colored mah who had been
recently taken in at the poor farm died
last Saturday night from consumption.
:. C. N. Cook has resigned as evarige.
list of South Carolina Presbytery, and
taken charge OF h church. in Atlanta, Ga.
~. -fe,Mr. W.. P. Stewart of Grow Creek
section, is going to matricuato at the
North Georgia Agricultural College this
year.
Mr.. John A. Cox, of the Wattacoo
section has the premium colt. It is %
months old, weighs 1,O78 pounds and is
16 hands high.
There is about 120 names on the de-
hnquent tax list. representing something
over $500 in taxes. There is very little
real estate on the list.
Miss Anna Dargan is on q visit to
dreenville. During her absence; Miss
Ola Hollingsworth fills her place in the
Pickens High School.
u-Mr. James Hunnicut, steward of
the poor farm, was taken suddenly ill
last Sunday night with the grippe. DR..
Williams is attending him.
MR.. =, Jasper Kelly died at his home
south of Liberty on the 18th inst, from
pneumonia. The burial took place ut
Carmel on Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. Jeremiah Looper moves his
family from Eastatoe back to his farm
this week, MIR. John +. Stewards Gov
ernment distillery having suspended.
If you have bales of cotton lying
on the ground, put them tip on poles.
1t may save you three or four dollars on
the bale, and it will not take more than
minute to fix it.
Mrs. Mary A., wifo Of Rev. ". B.
Singleton, is very i'll with pneumonia,
and her friends fear she will not recover.
Several other members of the family are
confined to their rooms with the grippe.
On last Thursday afternoon, at the
residence Of Mrs. Eliza Durham, Mr.. w.
Jason Gillespie was married to Miss Ma
ry Freeman, Rev. J. NJ. Stewart, otfici-
ating. Their many friends extend hearty
congratulations.
-Mr. Thornly Harris and family
moved from Greenville last Saturday to
their home at this place. Mr.. Harris
Will move his stock of goods here as
soon as the roads improve 80 that teams
can haul them over.
On the 11th inst, at the home of
the brides parents in Spartnnburg, Miss
Helen McA1akin was married to Albert
Gilbert, Of Bordeaux. The happy bride
has the hearty congratulations of her
many friends of this county.
Mr.. j. l.. Thompson and wife, and
Mrs. j. G. Thompson go to Brevard N.
O., to day, at which place they will make
their future home Wobespeak for them
q kind reception among their new friends
in the valley of the French Broad.
A popularity about 1881" is that
adding tho first figure to the second
makes tho third, and subtracting the
fourth figure from the third gives the
second. Adding the four figures togeth-
er gives the number of the century.
Trial Justice Robinson's court was
crowded last Thursday with much in
tercsted colored audience. Genie Clink-
scales was on trial for assaulting Ella
Duke with knife. The case was con-
tinued and has not yet been disposed Of.
Mr.. Samuel e. Poore, IN aged citi-
zen of Pehdleton township, Anderson
county, was stricken with apoplexy on
the 7th inst, while at work in the field,
and died before anyone reached him.
He was widely known and highly re-
spected citizen.
One of Mr.. W. O. Singleton's little
children was severely hurt a few days
ago by falling on q cane snag which
pierced the roof of its mouth. It WAS
attended by DR.. Williams who found it
necessary to cut away portion of the
palate that was partly detached.
The following citizens of this co,in-
ty have been drawn to serve as jurors ut
the August term of the United States
court ut Greenville: Grand Jurors--H.
Earle Russell, J. Fl. Mcclellan, Perrin
O'Dell, James i. Wyatt, Basley. Petit
Jurors--B. Holder, q. Il. Miller, Pick
ems.
Mrs. Elizabeth Magee, relict Of the
late Tillman G. Mageo, died last week, at
the home of nor son-in-aw, Mr.. T.. c..
Maret, Mt Fair Play, aged 73. She wasa
native of IMurens, and was an estimable
woman. She leaves only two chlldren---
Mrs. Maret and Mrs. w. A. Bowen--near
that place, both of whom are themselves
very sick.-Oconee News,
Miss Sallie Robinson, sister of Dr.
George E.. Robinson, of Liberty, died
mt the residence of her brother-in-law,
10. II. Shanklin, H., Of Pendeton, on
the 9th inst, of rheumatism of the heart.
Miss Sallie's many friends here will learn
OF her death with sorrow. Sho was an
exemplary christian lady and was greatly
beloved by all who knew her.
Joint deeds, mortgages and notes
are common, but joint wills are rarity.
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