The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-11-18
P!gk9as Saatt!teI-jpgraa!
happenings Of a Local and Personal Nature.

epont Sunday with relatives in Pick
rC3.
-.Trcasurer Farr, ny TO Monday
night hS&R&Saaagal!eo'c" &3,2l2 of tax
money.
Tho County Beard OF Education
will meet Saturday mornin9 at 10
o'clock.
w. H. Griffin, of Greeuville,
spont last week in Pickens with his
mother>
DR.. George D. Curetbn, of GaG
pcy, spout portion OF Inst week in
Pickcns visiting tho home folks.
Misses Jessie and Isa Thomas,
daughters OF DIR. Thomas, of Green.
vile, uro on D visit to The Misses
Fo'ger.
b. d. Stewart, of Was hingtou,
d. G., came in Monday night on q
visit to the family of his father, Maj
J. nj. Stewart
Ground has beon been bl oxen for
the knitting mill and the work Of
erecting the building and cottages
viii be pushed as rapidly rs possible
+ B. e. Grandy has the contracts.
Capt. Austin, of Williamston,
who is now in charge Of the dry
goods department of the Big Store,
contemplatcs moving his family to
Pickens rs soon as he can get suit
able dwelling. They will be Il valuu-
bio acquisition to our citizenship.
While playing near tho Gre~at
the homo of his parents Mr. and Mrs.
w. nj. Brown, near Jocbssee last
week, Arthur Brown. agedI1 years,
fell in tue fire aud was severely
burned. The skin was nearly all
burned off his lett hand. -Oconee
News.
blue NJ. Smith, of the Easley
side. was in Pickcns on | business
Tuesday. lie lost a fine $4,000 COW
tho night before; she had I{ecn hit in
the side'som time before and com.
plicati3n# SGT in causing her death
I1o hr1 th' surgeon from Clemson to
examine Nnl trn,t her.
IN. Il. I,.,or, lGe photographer,
is rrltTiuly It ,0~G enc when it comes
- q" c'"SW&a"% }>!"5n'n* .,s we'll rs ,nking
,Loir Some wyrE that he has re-
gently Dive cNniE.G be excclied any.
wA.rc. See his nd in this issue, aud
watcn hi: ,!A.cs for Plckcns, give him
your WORK and be pleased.
james WhitlYck, while working
at the Hotel HiAwatha, putting II
pump in tho we'll, On Tuesday, lost
his balance and fell in, n distance Of
about forty five feet. He was con-
sidcrably bruised and >bunged up
but no bones were broken. lie was
drawn out and is now ready to finish
tho job.
--NIessrs. Orr and Hiram King, Of
Tokeena, S. O., were on visit TO
their relative, Larkin Hughes, last
weok, and while over they came on to
Pickeus. Mr.. King has good farm
lying in the Pea Ridge section, which
no will soil cheap. Tho Pickens Land
and Improvement Co., will probably
handle this property and cut it up
into suitable tracts.
ALL of tho machinery at the
Pickens Oil mill has been put in
place and is now being trained up,
preparatory to grinding seed. While
meal aud hulls are in great demand
and selling at good price, oil is off,
and if it alone was the only product,
tho mill would necessarily run ot a
loss. AS it is, even at existing
prices, there will to fair dividend
Tor the stockholders.
Mrs. Malin Ia Hall, widow OF the
late William Sanford Hall, died at
her homo in Varenncs township, An.
derson county, last Thursday from
general debility, induced by old age,
in tho 10th year OF, hor age. Sho was
daughter of the late Silas Massey
Of Anderson county and sister of
Major Massey Of this county. She
was q member of Flat Rock church
Mt which place she WAS buried The
day following her death.
The city fathers aro improving
Main street and especially the side
walks and crossings, using crushed
rock ut all crossings. They arc alec
opening up street on tho east side
of tho court house and next to tho
Big Store, running through from.
Main street to Cedar Rock street
This is groot help. Now the Com
missiohers should put fonco around
the court house lot, and SOW it down
III grass. This would help the gon
oral appearance Of things very much
Whit Garrett of tho Pen Ridge
section is q man we like to hear Of
read and talk about, audi seq o/prosper.
He is farmer along tho right lines
This year bo has raised plenty to dc
him in tho way Of CORN hay, hogs
etc, and has his land in such higl
state of cultivation that he onl,
planted eight acres in cotton from
which he has already gathered 81!
bales wei ei1hing 500 pounds each, an,
cS11 tho 1,>t A