The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-04-19
PtCKENS SENTINEL
LOCAL ME wis

Trade was lively In Pitkens last
Saturday 8
II. q. Bowen left Pitkens for Texas
last week.
Thb season of awning and yawning
is dawning.
Emily Banks has been committed
to the poor house.
Mrs. w. e. Griffin; Of Liberty, was
quite sick last week.
Tho grip has recently been prevail
ont in and around Liberty.
The lines will be drawn early and
late this~week over the mule.
Tie Pickens sub alliance met last
Saturday afternoon at the court house.
The Hotel Altamount will be
opened for gheets on the 10Th OF
May.
Miss Hattie Harris, of Greepville,
is visiting her brother, L. d. Harris,
of this place.
c. E. Robi nson will soon have n
mont store and Office building on the
ruins of 1898.
Judge Earnest Curry is holding a
small extra term of the court at Abbe.'
tille this week.
W. j. Gillespie, the West End
mayor, says the bicycles ore welcome
TO the sidewalks in his town.
We regret very much having miss.
I'D the fan and fish with the Dacus,
Vile fishing party last Saturday.
DR.. w. T. Field and Capt. j. A
Griffin expect to attend the Veterans
reunion at Birmingham next week:
Messrs. Jas. Ferguson md Chas.
Bchwing, two of Greenville's most
popular young men visited Pickens
last week.
A bushel Of sweet potatoes will
yield.a gallon of ALCOHOLICS. Then
put barbed wire fence around your
potato patch.
Mr.. Nelson Smiths oats were so
badly damaged by the recent freeze
that he has plowed them up to make
place for I'm.
Rev. w. X. Boggs, evangelist of
Bethel Rreabytery, last week, began
series of sermons at the Ebenezer
church, in Charleston.
Misses Lidie Hagood, Emma John
hon and Lidie Folgcr, three of Easley's
fairest daughters, paid Pickens a fly,
ing visit last Saturday.
We have received copy of -Four
Centuries of Progress, which is sold
by II. ". Farr, and it is rs well worth
the money as any book you can bay
Senator w. T. O'Dell was in Pick
ems last Saturday. Ho has not de-
termined as yet whether he will bc a
candidate for reelection to tho
Senate.
G. w. Patterson who was carried
to Charleston last Friday by deputy
J. G. jennings to have his sealed SEN
tence read. to him, gets one month in
Pickens Jail.
Ai. F. Hester has regaled himself
and horse with oil elegant, new top
buggy, and can now give passengers
a pleasant drive to and from Easley
and Pickens.
DR.. Dennis and wife, Of Augusta,
will return to Pickens early in the
spring. 1t is probable that his son.
G.. Il. Dennis, will spend portion of
the summer here.
It is important now for dry goods
clerxs to know how much it takes to
make the sleeves of dress. The rem
nants from the sleeves are sufficient to
complete the dress:
w. L. Jenkins, carpenter, went to
Rock Hi&stast Monday He has a
job there for about a year, working
for the State: His family will leave
in about two weeks.
State Phosphate Inspector Jones
states that all the phosphate compa
MES are now getting back to work
and that in d short time the phos
phate business will resume it's former
status.
Messre. w. w. and John Robin
Ron and w. G. Smith, of Easley, wen,
to L. E. McKenzic's bG the Greenvillt
side, and each purchased o fine milcl
cow. Mr.. Mckenzie is now milking
about seventy-fve.
To ascertain roughly the length O
the day and night at any time of th
year double the time of the sur 8 ris
ing, which gives the length of tn
hight, fti1d dottble the time of settinp
which gives the length of the day
Thomas H. Smith was sick las
week for the first time in his life n,
though he IS TN the shady side c
forty. Some of his tieighbors sav h
did not know how to do. At last at
counts he was getting right agan
Oliver T. Jones was in to see II