The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-10-03
The Peoples Journal.

See notice "wanted Teacher" in
other column.
The Board of Commissioners met in re-
ar session Tuesday.
Cotton is beginning to come and bust
..tss is giving evidences of new life.
--Now's the time to advertise. TIE JOUR-
MI columns will give you value received.
Mrs. j, i. Bannister, Of Catecchcc,
who has been very sick with fever, is con-
Valcscing.
How do you like the appearance of the
JOURNAL this week? Chock full of good
things, 'aint it?
Two new rural mail delivery routes
started from Liberty on the lst inst. Verify
Uncle Sam "do' progress.
will Sanders aud Dora Arial were hap
PLY married on the Goth ult., Rev. G. RI.
Miller officiating. All colored.
The Methodist church at Pickcns will
soon be on ornament to the town. Con-
tractor McCollum is pushing improvement
as rapidly rs possible.
Mountain schooncrs, loaded with cab
bagc, apples potatoes, &c, appear to be in
their zenith, judging from the number seen
on our streets these days.
Miss Tirzah Hughes is now in charge
of the millinery department ut the Big
Store, where she will be pleased to sec her
friends and attend to callers.
j. II. Crane,at Liberty last week, lost a
valuable horse by its getting impacd on II
picket fence which it cndcavorcd to Jump
while in a frolicsomc mood.
"A well equipped gymnasium, under
proper supervision. would be Il valuable ac-
QUESTION for Plckcns. WHO will take the
initiative for such an institution?
Leo Cooper, the fivc-ycar old son of
Stephen CooDer, living on e. Smith Grif.
fins place, died Saturday, September 25lh,
and was buried Sunday at Portcr's Chapel.
The Liberty Township Singing Asso-
citation will meet with Rnhamah church
on Sunday, October 18th. Everybody is
invited to come and bring song books and
wcll.tillcd baskets.
The annual meeting OF the Old Stone
Church and Cemetery Association will be
held at the church on Friday, October 4th
This will be Il gathering of interest to
many.
--Rcad the advertisements that appear
in this paper. Business men who take the
trouble and go to the expense Of advcr-
tising have something worth considering to
say to their customers.
observers say that the corn crop on
he Grow Creek bottoms will bc about two
liruS. In other sections where the crops
ave been we'll cultivated equally as good
rops will be gathered.
Mrs. --- Sloan who, until recently,
csidcd in this county near Nine Times,
md lately moved to Oc0ncc. died last Sun
lay and was buried Monday, September,
,Olh. She had suffered from cancer.
-MILLINERY OPENING. L will
exhibit my millinery and notions on Oct.
}d and 4th. You ure invited to attend.
Very Respectfully,
I AL, ~ n
Married, on Monday, September 3Oth,
1901, in the city of Grecnvilc, S. G., at
the Methodist parsonage by the pastor of
that church, at high noon, MIR. Hugh kcc-
nan to Miss Mamie Parsons, of Liberty
Miss Parsons is a daughter of our towns
man and coroner. b. Il. Parsons.
Mrs. j. b. X. Freeman has accepted q
position in the dry goods department OF
the Big Store. 70 say that the manage
mcnt were wise in the selection of Mrs.
Freeman is putting it extremely mild. She
is the pcrsonitication Of business.
Mrs. Thos Stewart died at hcrhomc in
the northwestern part of the county Grow
Creek sccton) Oh the 22d ut., after short
Hines, and was buried the following day at
Shady Grove church. She leaves surviy.
ing her husband and four children, among
them an infant about week old.
If you read the signs Of the White
Marble Yards displayed along the public
rol,is throughout the county, you may
know they point you to reliable men who
will do their work according to spectica.
tiOns and give satisfaction. If you want
Il tombstone or marble fittings of any kind,
write to them TO" prices.
The many friends of Solicitor julius
j.. Boggs, who has been confined at the
Grccnvillc Sanitarium for several weeks be-
ala,
learn that he has recovered sufficiently to
return to his homo i'm Pickcns He was
accompanied by Mrs. Boggs, who has been
at his bedside ever since he was taken i'll.
--Skelton e. Smith, Liberty, have added
to their general stock Of merchandise full
and complete line of furniture, including
collins, caskcts and everything appertain-
ing to an undcrtakcr's establishment. They
now carry everything needed in the gro
Gerry line andin fact have everything usually
kept in m up-tO-datc store. They will
soon occupy their new brick storo in addi-
ton to their present store room adjoining.
Services at the Baptist church at this
place under the active work of Rev. 0. j.
Copeland, Of Anderson, assisted by the
pastor, Rev. A. j. s. Thomas, closed last
Sunday night after week Of continuous
preaching night and morning. Much in.
tcrcst was manifested from the opening
service, the church built up and the cause
of Christ advanced. Mr.. Copeland is an
earnest, trclcss preacher, young but zeal
Gus and thoroughly consecrated to the
great calling.
Mrs. Rutha Ann Stephens, wife Of l..
ID. Stephens, died at her home, Redmond,
three miles west Of Pickcns, on the Goth
OF September, after lingering illness, at
the age of 50 years, and was buried the
following day at Secona cemetery, the fu.
neral me- services being conducted by :, Key. D.
dy. She had been, for 20 years, q consis-
tent member Of Concord Baptist church,
and at her death had reached the tulncss Of
christian womanhood, purified and
strengthened through long and trying suf-
fcrng. She leaves surviving her husband
and nine children to mourn her death.
Mrs. Stephens was a dutiful wife and a