The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-03-12
PICKENS SENTINEL,
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MIR. Fl. J. Anthony is seriously i'll.
he ls threatened with complete paraly-
Bis.
Tho grippe took the town the past
week. Everybody had it or it had ev.
erybody.
The oat crop will be ldto in this Sec
tion. Very few farmers have been able
to SOW as yet.
,---Rev. A. w. Walker will preach at
Betlllohem on the fifth Sunday in this
month at II a. m.
--Mrs w. A. Lesley, CT the Old Pick
enville bection was among his MANY Pick.
ems friends last Monday and Tuesday.
MIR. F. @. Parsons has improved
somewhat i'll the last few dnys, and his
friends hope to see him out again soon.
--Mt. w. Joel Bowen, who has been
attending the Charleston Medical Col
!sGe this winter, returned home last Sat
trday.
-County Treasurer Youngblood has
placed eighty executions in the hands of
Sheriff Riohey against delinquent tax
payers.
Rev. J. F. Jacobs visited Seneca
City last Sabbath in the interest Of the
Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Mt Clinton.
III you have certificate ma teacher
in the public schools, sec that your name
is on the register in the School Commits
sioners office.
Tho County Board of EQUALIZATION
met i'll the Auditors Office Iast Tuesday
to pass Oh the annual returns of proper
ty in the county.
Convict Guard Benbow, came ND
last Friday and left Saturday for CoIum-
bin with the three convicts from our re-
cent term of court.
Prof. Wilson. of the Greenwood
High School, was summoned to Gnstonia
Inst Saturday by telegram, announcing
the severe illness Of his sister.
u. E.. Parsons school at Mile Creek,
will begin next Monday, the 10th. It
has been suspended some time on ac-
count of Mr.. Parsons sickness.
Sheriff Richey was summoned to Mt.
Carmel last Monday evening to the bed.
side of his daughter, Miss Cora who is
quite i'll with typhoid l-pneumoniu.
Mr.. H. M. Brock, of Dacusville,
who went to Texas some time ngo, is now
steering n Mexican pony on the White
Horse Ranch near Giln, New Mexico.
--Messrs Harris & Morris will open
ont new grocery and supply store at
Newbery's Old stand, az soon nR the roads
improve 30 that tthey can haul their goods
from the depot.
The common COWS and rnzor-back
hogs are remarkably lucky. We never
hear of one Of either getting killed by
railroad--while the fine stock are daily
meeting with disaster.
Miss Mamie kirkscy wns quite i'll
homo from her school on Wednesday.
Miss Mary Kirksey had charge of the
school during her indisposition.
Mrs. Polly Murphy. the mother of
County Commissioner Murphy, died at
the home of her grandson, Mr.. Med.
Murphy, of the Grow Greek section, or,
last Monday morning. Aged 90 years.
The cheapest bale of cotton sold
this seasan was put on tho market not
long since at Clinton. 1t weighed 223
pounds and netted the seller 1910. He
was darkey and had hauled tho cotton
fifteen miles.
j. l.. Thompson, our former fellow
townsman, Is still improving his paper
Mt Brevard, N. G. Jim is capable of
doing first class, and our Transylvania
ncighbOrs should step right to the front
and assist him in his efforts.
Tho recent bad weather will do more
toward reducing tho acreage of this
years cotton crop than my resolution Of
the Alliance could possibly do. 1t will he
impossible now for the planters to get in
as large crop rs last year.
Any honest friend is appreciated,
but when there has been q deliberate ef-
fort to estrange a friend and he clings to
you in spite of every effort to the con-
trary, he is doubly appreciated and really
worth square acre of morning glories.
If any of our young men wish to
enter Clemson College next year, they
should send their names in ut once to
President Strobe. The roll will soon be
full and each application will be consid-
cred in the order of their entrance on the
register.
-Raiding Deputy Ensor has been
transferred by the Revenue Department
to North Carolina to look after the moon.
shine distillers in that State DR.. Eusor
reports that he has cleaned out all of the
stills of that kind in this State. Has he
done it2
With the usual assurance of their
race the two negroes that are to go to the
penitentiary ten years, and the one under
sentence of death, all claim that they are
the victims of designing enemies, and do
not merit the punishment meted out to
them by the law.
If you put lighted candle in
room, yon do not have to tell people who
have eyes that it is candle. 1t Just sits
atill and shines. If man il all right,
and aOme one accuses him of being ras-
cal, he cnn do right until his defamer
will be miserAbly ashamed.
The County Commissioners should
take immediate steps to prevent tho in
jury of bridges on Keowee by logs being
RATED down that stream by timber men.
One of the piers recently built for the
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