The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-24
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Happenings Of a Local and Personal Nature,

Dere Is strong demand in
town for cottages to rent, and some
progressive citizen ought to build
them.
The average man thinks it an
extraVagont waste of raw material
when he sees two beautiful women
kissing.
Miss Louise Breazeale, an at
tractive young lady of Westminster.
>: q. is visiting her aunt, Mrs G..
w. Earle.
ALI the members of the Pickens
Cornet baud are requested to be at
the band room Tuesday uight, March
lst. Important business to look after.
Remember that the time for paw
ing the commutation road tax ex-
pires March 1st. The alternative is
the payment of 81 or working on the
public roads eight days.
The Southern railway will soon
put down 70 pound rails on the G. e.
Il. division in place of the 80 pound
rails, so that the big "Jack' engines
can be used for freight traffic.
Our farmers, who were holding
Tor 20 cents cotton, are panic strick.
on at the tremendous decline in that
Z article, but most of them are still
holding on, hoping for recovery.
Tax payers now pay two per
cent penalty. Next month, from 1st
to 18th of March, they will pay sew.
en- per cent. After the 18th books
will be closed and executions issued
There are several sections of
Pickens county that ought to be rep.
resented in the columns of The Sen.
tlnel-Journal every week by an inter
eestlng, newsy letter. Let your sec
ton be heard from.
"A colored woman in Collector
county went off to town en- Thurs
day, leaving her four children in th
house. When she returned at nigh
she found the house gone an,
two of the children burned TO death
AS soon as the ground gets DIR,
there ought to be some good wor
done in the gardens. By all odd
don't forget this most important ad
junct of every we'll regulated home
even If the price of cotton goes t
points that have never yet bee
reached
The Westminster Times say
that undoubtedly there exists in tina
town great number of cases q
small pox, though some of the case
are OF the mildast type; and tina
everything possible has been done t
keep the disease from spreading, bu
1t has spread
The United States steel corpora
tion has purchased from DR.. j ]
McAlillen and f.. B. Henderson, O
Aiken, about 20 acres of land, tw
and baIf miles northwest of Aiken
for $25,OG0 The land contains ricl
deposits of kaolin clay, from whicl
the company intends to manufac
ture aluminium.
The Justly celebrated dog lay
has passed the House. How Josl
Ashley must rage When he reads tn
news! His mautlo has not fallen OF
any shoulders since he retired from
public life, so the "yniIcr dog" is nc
tuNIly being legislated against. ]
is really most wonderful, and this al
election year, too.-Columbia Record
"A telegram from Seneca to th
Columbia State, under date of th
18th inst, says: 81 white man
Sigh Bogge, Of Ncwry, wos kille,
ono milo from here bY ;5oulhcr rail
way train No. DO, last night Bogg
and party lett town going in the di
rection of Newry late in the after
noon, full Of liquor The body wa,
found with tho skull crushed, by tht
side Uf the track. Whiskey was the
cause Of his death. The coroner
held an Inquest, generating the rail
road"
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