The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-10
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Cotton Weigher this week.

DIR. w. +. Austin will be il,
Easley tho 18th and at Pickens
10th and 18th.
Mrs. P. @. johnson and Miss
Ola Briggs, Of Easley, vlsitod in
Pickens last week.
Martha Baker, colored, daugh
ter of Is. p. Griffin, camo in from
Waxahatchio, Texas, last week
Mr.. O. X. Breazeale and son
Taylor, of Bolton, are spending this
week with the family Of DR., @. w.
Earle.
d. f. Pace is having his store
room on Main street fixed up and
will put in a stock Of goods as soon
as completed.
The council should, while
thoy are having tho streets worked,
have good bitches made on Main
street. "They are badly needed. "
SEQ change in Folgcr e. Thorn.
lny's advertisement III this issue.
They are selling goods at sacri.
fec and it will be to your interest
to call on them.
Tho annual catalogue of Glenn
son College is ready for distrlbu-
ton. A copy will he sent TO any
address upon application to Presi-
dent Hartzog, Clemson College,
S. G. 4t.
Miss Amanda Nix died at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
w. d. Nix, of Eastatoe, on the 3Oth
ult., and was buried the day follow.
ing at the family burying ground.
She was a consistent member of
the Baptist church.
Thomas Lynch, who was raised
In Plckens county, S. c., but who
has been in Idaho a dozen years or
moro, was a visitor IN Brevard this
week. lie expresses q determina-
ton to locate permanently in this
county.--Brevard News, 4th inst.
The protracted meeting at Sc.
coma conducted by Rev. j. e. Fos-
ter, will continue through this
week. Tuesday six members had
joined tho church and many more
expected to. The services are large
ly attended and much good is be-
ing accomplished.
R. P. Snoddy died rear Cros-
well July 9th and was buried at
Georges Creek on Saturday the
29th, Of wh ich he was q consistent
member. He was a gallant con-
federate soldier in the late war be-
tween the states. a widow ana
six children, two boys and four
girls, survive to cherish his men,
Dry.
White & Williams, two first
class painters of Greenville, are
located in Pickens now pnd will
do painting just as you want it.
IT you have any painting you want
done, it will be to your interest to
see them. Paper hanging, sign
writing and graining a speciality.
Prices are reasonable.
-Banistcr Lynch, one Of Pick
ems county's best citizens, died at
his home near Sunny Dale Oil the
9th inst, after an illness of over
two months Of heart disease. He
leaves n wife and two children and
large concourse of relatives and
friends. He was a member of the
Holly Springs Baptist church and
his lemains were inferred the day
following at the family buryine
ground in tho presence cf many
sympathizing relatives and friends.
lIe was about 65 years of age
and had the esteem and confidence
Of all who knew him as a straigh t
forward, upright, honest man. Il
good man gone.
Calvin Lynch, who was form.
crly one Of the best known men
in this and surrounding counties,
but whose acquaintance now in
this SC ton aro few and far be-
tween, returned to Greenville
yesterday after being absent in
Texas since 1852, when no loft his
home in Pickcns county to become
a resident of the Lone Star State
He was hero yesterday on his
way to visit his brothers, Bannis'
ter and Gideon Lynch, who live
near Table Rock, on tho old home
stead, which was the property OF
their father, the late Nathaniel
Lynch. Mr.. Lynch says that
when he left this county, Green
vile was little village, but he
says it was alive and growning and
was known as the prettiost little
town in MI this part of the coun.
try. Mr., Lynch owns a farm ir
Parker county, Texas, where, he
says, the crops are beautiful cot
ton is five feet high and the boIls
arc just now beginning to crack
IIo will cDan1 cnyoro1 montba IN