The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-08-02
T8t pteRtns Sentinel
LOCAL ITEMS.

are no sales.
Col. James q. Hagood will bo in
Piekens next Saturday.
Mrs. Martha Carey, of Seneca, is
visiting Mrs. j. p, Carey.
Raiding Deputy Loomis Blalock
was in Pickens Monday on business.
Rev. j. A. Hughes, of Laurens, was
among his Pickens friends last week.
Mrs. w. G.. Lewis returned from q
pleasant visit to Walhalla last Satur-
day.
John A. Robinson, the surveyor,
was surveying around Pickcns last
Monday.
d. B. Johnson has our thanks for q
catalogue of the Winthrop Training
School.
Rev. S. j. Cowan few days ago
closed q meeting at Flat Rock which
was very we'll attended.
Marion Cassie was in town Monday
to recover the small piece OF his lost
arm voted to him by the State.
Hon. T. j. Mauldiu, ESQ. of Atlanta,
is Oh q visit to his parents, Mr.. and
Airs. Joab Mauldin, of Pickens.
The young folk singing association
had delightful day last Sabbath at
Concord, and much good singing.
J. Perry Looper was in Pickens last
week shaking hands with his friends
and renewing old acquaintances.
Pickcns was visited by another
vigorous downpoor Of rain last Mon
day, but it did not extend far west.
Campaign reports up to last Mon
day showed that snme of the condi-
dates are running like March rabbits.
Lark. Hughes was in town Mon
day. He says there is healthy crop
of grass On the farms just at this
time.
There was heavy downpoor of
rain on the Mile creek farms last Mon
day, but no great damage from over
flow.
Miss Ti,zah Hughes will have
charge of the Hagood district white
school. 1t will open next Monday
morning.
j. T. Robinson raised melon this
summer weighing 81 pounds. He
will be apt to get the prize in Hamp
ton county.
w. W. White and wife, of Anderson,
visited Mrs. Whites parents, Captain
and Mrs. j. L. Thornley,, of this place,
last week.
The low country folk have swarmed
and are doing the buzzing act around
up.country.
Miss Essio Earle, who has been
visiting relatives and friends in Bolton
for sometime past, returned home
last Saturday.
III. L. Clayton went last week on q
visit to Batesville, Arkansas. He has
made his arrangements to resume
charge of the school at Townville.
Lee P. Orr has taken picture of
the new court house and surround
ings. which, patriotic and enterprising
citizens can have transferred to their
business cards.
Something like distemper or poison
has appeared among w. B. Allgood's
milk COWS. Two had died from the
effects last Tuesday morning and one
was still sick.
The union meeting ut Antioch, on
the Eastatoe, was we'll attended last
Saturday and Sabbath. Rev. J. Il.
Burdine was made moderator, and
everything went on harmoniously.
The bridge on Twelve Mile river
below Hunters mill IS now undergo.
ing repairs. John Hughes, who has
the contract, had the misfortune to
get his foot severely cut one day last
week.
Almost every bridge on the road
from Picllens to Easley is in need of
slight repairs, while two or three are
beyond repairing, and if not attended
to soon will bring trouble on the
county.
No harder rains have fallen any
where in the county than on the farm
Of Nelson Smith, near CLASSY Mount.
ain, yet not one of his terraces has
yielded to the pressure. So terracing
is still big success.
If we could have anchored somo Of
thGAclouds that used around here last
week, just over some of our immense
forest tracts, it would have been an
easy matter to knock tho spots off of
an August drought.
Joo e. Kinch surprised us Inst
Tuesday morning by crossing the
Threshold of our sanctum. His
many friends in Pickens will be glad
to know that his health and that OF
his family have been reasonably good
sinca ba left hore He snys tho ,,r;nt