The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-08
How much docs II fool woigh
genornllyY A simple-ton.

Superintendent Johnson, of
tho Easley Oil Mill, was III town
Saturday Oh business.
Miss Cora Bowen attended
the Teachers Institute at Paais
Mountain last week.
Misses Lidie and Gertrude
Hagood, Of Easley, visited Miss
Corrie Bruce this week.
Freeman & Hendricks will
come as near swapping goods even
for cash as anybody. Try them.
We received quito a number
of cotton blooms this week, but
the bloom editor vii be out until
next spring.
Mrs. L. e. Childrcss, of near
| Travellers Rest, visited her father,
Rev. j. ". LOWS, of Anderson
Mills, last week.
Hats Hats |! yes hats of all
kinds, straw hats, wool hats and
hats for tho children at Suthor-
land e Griliin's.
Mr.. Mac. Entrellin, of Ander
son, accompanied by his brother,
Henry, Of Liberty, visited at Mr..
j. Il. Langstcn's Sunday.
Prof. J. b. Vaughan, of El-
berton, Ga, will conduct a singing
school at Central on Thursday the
18th INST, lasting for several days.
MIR. Art. Craig, Of tho Stewart
section, was IN town Monday and
reported good rain IN that Soc
tion Sunday. He states that they
had not had any rain there in
nine weeks.
1T was reported by one of the
papers III town that Mrs. Doc,
Pace, of near town, was dangerous
ly i'll. We wero informed that
she was not dangerously i'll, and
was able to be out again.
We published au article last
week relative to the burning of
Mr.. Henry Mauldin's barn. He
had three mules and a horse
instead Of two and horse and
was not ot home at the time it was
burned
Rev. l.. l.. Inabinett, assisted
by Rev. +. II. Shuler, of North
Groonville Circuit, will couduct a
protractod meeting III tho Mount
Bethel Methodist church, COM
moncing the second Sunday iii this
month. Everybody is invited to
attend.
Will Mauldin, who is running
a livery business at Liberty, had
the misfortune Monday to lose one
of his fine horses and buggy. The
horse got scared by a freight train
and ran away, tearing the buggy
to pieces, then running to a branch
he tried to jump across, falling
in and breaking his back.
MIR. J. IT. Langston received
letter from his brother, Baily "A.
Langston, Of Eureka Springs, Ark,
last week and he stated in his let
ter that the crops out there we're
good and that the wheat crop was
the best it has been III q number
of years. He is doing we'll and is
now the father of six promising
children.
1t vas reported to us last
week that on the Goth ult., a car
rior pigeon came to tho Nine Times
postof1ico and stayed there several
days and died. Mr.. J. w. Thom-
as, the postmaster at that place,
examined the bird and found n
number OH each wing and foot,
the number 1857. No doubt
several thousand dollars was lost
by this pigeon not reaching it's
destination.
Saturday was a typical day.
In the afternoon quite a crowd, |
composed of tho President Of tho
Pickens and Easley railroad. three
county officers, ono physician, one
tooth dentist, two farmers, one
preacher, two eX-candidates, two
printers and one professor, gath
cred in front of the court house
and they all spent the afternoon
in tolling fish tales and other great
stories which was quite amusing
and interesting, as all wero trying
to talk at the Same time.
Mr.. B. M. Bolding, Of Praters,
deserves n chicken pie for tho
hawks ho has killed in that section
recently. He has killed eight
largo hawks and after killing
them the crows began to bother
him, SO ho in short time sue
ccoded in killing eleven. He was
also bothered with rats, and by
his plan ho killed. enough to make
shipment to China. Hc and the
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