The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-07-30
PTCKENS SENTINEL.
LOCAL NEWS.

Col. Hagood goes to Walhalla today
on business.
Sec advertisement of Central Zig!
School in another column.
MIR. Crayton Price, opened chool al
Hblly Springs last Mon day.
Miss Gcrtie Storm, one of Edccficld's
bright stars, is visiting Hiss Sunic Amber.
MIR. f. +. Kcnncmore and family. of
Grcenvillc, arc visiting relatives In this
county.
About twenty persons boarded the
morning train at Easlcy last Tuesday for
Fort Hill.
Old mOuntainccrs claim that moonshine
is scarcer in the hills now than it has been
1incc the war:
The grape crop in this county is good
Those'whO have vines are realizing hand
some returns.
Mrs. r. F. Smith and daughters, of
Easlcy, visited Col. Uollngsworth's family
the past week.
a. A. Browning, State agent for the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, is in The
town this week:
passed Easlcy going north on the Air Line
ON the 22nd inst.
-Rilcy Ellenburg, was sent up to the
Y. 8. court last Saturday for violation of
the revenue laws.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. A Morgan and son,
OF Grcenvillc, arc visiting relatives ut this
place and Dacusvillc.
The U. s. Court opens in Grccnvillc
next Monday. Pickcns county will send
about one hundred delegates.
w. G. Smith, cashier of the Easley
bank, has been i'll at his mothers near
Equality, since last Saturday.
Mr.. A. L. Norris, OF Cokesbury. WAS
in Pickens the past week. Mr.. Norris
represents the Mutual Life Insurance Co.
The wet weather of the past week has
retarded work in the brick yard Mr.. Wv
att has one kiln of 100, 900 brick now burn
inga
DIR. j. F. Williams, who has been very
i'll for the past three weeks, is much i'm
proved and his friends hope to see him out
soon.
The excavation for the new court
house will bc completed this week. Tho
brick-laying will commence in about ten
days.
MIR. w. w. Griffin, wife and son,
OF Wil!iamston, visited Mr.. Gritlins
grand mother, Mrs. Ann Griffin, the past
week
John II. Fall. of Central, freight con-
ductor on the Air Line, fell from his cab
mt Grecnville Tue sday morning and broke
his leg.
--Messrs. T. G. Robinson, J. j. Lewis
and J. II. Youngblood represented Pickens
at the corner stone laying at Clemson last
Tuesday.
MIR. Tom 10 Mauldin has put on the
''harness' in earnest. lie is now teaching
tiourishing school at the Wolf Creek
school house,
MIR. w. III. Steele, who has been at
tending the North Georgia Agricul,u al
College at Dahloncga, is at home for the
summer vacation.
The farmers in the lower part of
Ii bcriy township claim to have a better
prospect for good crop than they had at
tEis time last year.
Mrs. j. j. Lewis and children, Miss
Jennie, and Masters Earle, Jesse and Ar
thur. are visiting Mrs. Lewis sisters at
Richland and Walhalla.
Prof. J. G. Garrett is teaching q sing.
ing school at Prater's Creek Church. The
school opened last Monday morning with
large attendance of pupils.
-Spccal road Commissioners J. l.. Am
bier, II. j. Bowen and John A. Robinson,
commenced last Monday to lay out the new
road from this place to Dacusvllc.
Miles N. O3ob) Kelley, late of the
Grow Creek section, died in Jackson cOun-
ty, N. c., on the 10Th instant. He was
about tnirty-cisht years cf age and leaves
wife and three children.
Several members Of the families of
Mr. II. G. Grady and II. G.. Mcdaniel and
several visitors, twelve or fourteen in all,
have gone to the mountains for a two
weeks fishing and hunting trip.
Mrs. Calhoun, the mother of Pat and
j Ohm G. Calhoun, was buried at Fort Hill
last tuesday at p. m. She died in At
ianta on Monday. A special train brought
the funeral cortcgG from Atlanta.
zrRcvs. II. G. ODcll and James Multi
nix conducted very successful prOtiactcd
meeting at Ruhamah church near Liberty
the past week. Great interest was taken
in the meeting and much good for the cause
of religion resulted.
The employees of Mcssrs. NJ. A. Boggs
and d. A. Chambin, of Liberty, have fin
ished their work in the crops i'm fine style.
Cotton rows and terraces are alike clear of
weeds and grass, and they are enjoying a
well earned holiday.
Contractor Shcck, of Easlcy. has fin
ishcd an elcgant two-story residence for
Mr.. w. N. Hughes, of Loopcr. 1t is q
complete job and one of the most commo-
dious dwellings in tic county. Mr.. H.,
will move into it next week.
Mrs. Lucinda Griffin, widow of the
late Alva Griffin, aged about sixty years,
died at the residence of her brother in law,
Mr.. John Burgess, near CAESARS Head, on
the 18th inst, and was buried at Saluda
Hill Baptist church OH the day following
her death.
n --Mrs. J. d. Tailey died at the home of
her husband last Sunday after long ILL
ness. Aged IS years. The funeral took
place at Mt. Pleasant church tho day fol-
iowiBg and the burial at the old McAIahan
grave yard. DIR. Riley conducted the ser
vices.