The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-03-08


aud woody west," has returned t
! Pickons and bought an interest il
the livery business Of II. A. Nealy
-Miss Daisy Jennings and broth
Ell, Wyatt,have been on q visit to thei
brother, Jesse jennings, in Columbia
Jesse is with the Southern Railwa,
his run being from Columbia to Sa-
vanneh Ga.
"Uncle Jere" Looper, who has
been quite sick for some time with
grippe. is able to he up again and
was in town Saturday, to the delight
OF his many friends, who were glad
TO see him.
Mr.. Julius r.. Chapman, popu.
lar conductor on the Southern Ry.,
who has had headquarters in Green
vil'' since the terminals have Leen
there las recently been trausfel red
to SpcncerN. @.
Tho road leading from John w.
Thomas by NJ. @. Winchester's to w.
". Athens store,is being worked out
by the chain gang, and being put in
good shape. The work is pleasing
1ho people Of that section.
j. T.. Brock has moved his shop
to tie building OH the Pumpkintown
roed, fronting "Aunt Ann" Griffin 8
house, and has fitted himself ont
with good set of tools and is pre-.
pared to do nil kinds of woodwork.
"A newspaper may devote col
umn in tho praise or commentator
of man and ho will forget it in q
couple Of weeks, but a two line
article that is not altogether pleas.
lug will DO remembered by the
average reader for two years. -Ex.
"A number Of coupons for the
contest have been received at this Of.
fec not filed out, and without any
directions where they are to he voted
These arc q loss, as we cannot vote
them ourselves. Please look to this
if you wish your coupons to count.
"A French newspaper asserts
that the trad in "artiticial" mummies
i'll Egyrt amounts every year to more
than 100000. Most of the upto
date mummy factories" are in Ital,
but there are also great number of
them in Germany, France and Eng
land.
{ Contra ctor Grandy is rushing
! tho work on the graded school. Tho
building ia now covered in and th'
inside work is being rapidly pushe<
to an carly completion. 1t is expected
to hold the closing exercises of th'
Pickens Graded School, which vii
take place in May, in it.
An elderly man who appeared ae
u witness in London Court couIc
not tell the name of the street il
which he lived or the number of the
house. When the Judge expressed
surprise the witness said: "I didn'i
know there was any need to know az
long as I could find my way home.
In Ceylon there is tree callet
"Eve's apple tree" Which is remark
able in that the orange red fruit i,
beautiful to look upon, yet out O
each fruit pieco appears to hav'
teen bitten. 1t is said that the sim
ulation of fruit which has been bit
ten into is perfect. The fruit j
poisonous.
J Mr.. Fl. d. Hendricks, formerl,
deputy sheiiE of the county, was ii
tho citysssThursday afternoon. Mr.
He1aricks has beop living at Contra
for the past two years, but sait
while in tho city that he couldn'
stay away from Anderson, nnt
, would soon move back here An
= derson Daily Mail 3rd.
U" Afr. and Mrs. James e. Parsons
of Liberty visited the family of Iii
brother, b. II. Parsons last weel
, Jim says he is doing all no can t
. help the movement to curtuil the col
ton crop; he will reduce tho cottol
crop of every ronter on his farm an,
; increase the crop of corn, peus
forage. If all the farmers woui
u; low low s5iffi I,aAap ah9gQ they would hssY .
o cotton situation we'll ID hand.