The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-09

Tho Board Of Control wore i,
session Monday.
Sec notice to creditors in an.
other column, w. Il. Blassingamc
assignee.
Tho man who sells his cotton
as he gathers it, in tho majority OF
instances acts wisely for himself
and for his country.
Cadets Cleon and Ossie Maui.
din left Tuesday to enter Clemson
College for the fall term which
opened Wednesday.
Mrs. w. B. Freeman, Of Green.
willie, who has been visiting rela.
tivoa in Pickcns for the past wcek
left Tuesday for Easlcy where she
will visit friends.
DIR. James II. Durham, the
dentist at Liberty, was in town
last week on business. DR.. Dur
ham is well experienced man at
the business and whom in Liberty
glvc him a call.
The coIorcd school of Pickens
will have its closing exercise ON
Tuesday tlc Dist inst. Partial OK
animation 10 n. m; dinner, II ~
educational mass meeting, 2 p. m ;
exhibition, 8 p. m. Everybody,
whitc and colorcd, arc invited. Il
On tho 2Sth ult., all that wore
interested, met at tho kcnnemorc
family cemetery, near Easloy, and
cleaned it of and put it in nice
shape. This has for q numbor of
years boon g burying ground and
several havo been inferred thcre.
"A protractcd meeting was con-
ducted at Kcoweo church from the
fifth Sunday to the first with much
interest munifestcd. On Sunday
the 5th inst, Rev. b. f. Murphroe,
tho pastor, baptized at Birchc's =
Ford, ten converts in the presence
Of large congregation
REV. J. e. Foster conducted Il
protractcd meeting at Secona last
week, commencing on Thursday
and closing on Sunday -Four ac-
cessions wero had to the church,
Two by lottor and two by oxperi-
cnce. Tho baptizing took place
Sunday morning at Jenkins pond
two miles southwest Of town.
~ now gin house belonging to
Ccly & Co., OF White postollicc
was burned to tho ground OH the
morning Of tho I'd INST, about 3 :3Q
Il. III. It is thought it was the
work of incondialics, and they
have 40 ciow as yet, as to who
committed the crime. 1t is stated
that th"v w0ul0 have been ready
for ginning in about q half an
hours more work. The loss is es-
ii mated at about - 800.
News reached here Monday Of
tho death of Jake Stephens, at his
home III Bourbon, Missouri. He
was at the timo Of his doath on
the road to see his sweetheart and
was thrown of by q mule he was
riding and was killed. lie was
about p years old and had been
in that state about sixteen years.
Ho was born in this county and
we'll known. Many relatives and
friends are left to mourn his
death.
Tho Graded School of Easloy,
opened Monday with 100 pupils in
attendance. Among those from q
distance are: Misses Sallie Lou
Starke and Rcbccca Swcllings, of
Elbcrt county, Georgia. Miss
StArkc is It niece Of Senator Till
man. These charming ladies will
cntor the Senior class and graduate
next Jun3. The fact that thoy
have attended schools in Ashcvillo
and Elhrrton and yet have follow
cd Prof. Langston to Easlcy is a
compliment which ho doubtless
highly appreciates.
-Nlr. y. j. singleton who moved
to Oconco from Pickens county in
the fall Of 1891, and settled on
the old Thodc place on Cano Crock,
about two miles above Walhalla,
is Il hustling good farmer and is
showing the people Of his noigh-
borhood that there IS money to be
nodr on thp farm Ho haS inst
finished paying for his land, about
100 acres, and his crop this year
will cnablo him to place a nice
Little sum to his credit in the
bank. Mr.. Singleton is one Of
those fellows that is never out Of
4 job, and shows Sound Judgment
in all his transactlons.--Oconcc
News.