The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-07-12

low Gays at Clemson last week.
Born unto Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Porter on the 3d instant, fine girl.
Farmers should now be happy;
taey have won the fight for loo cot
ton. .."
s.. b. Furman of Atlanta, Ga,
visited at the home of J. II. Newton
last week.
Go to the ice cream supper next
Thursday night and help the base
ball team. They will appreciate it.
..-J. Frank Gary who lives in the
Portertown settlement, had good
mule to take sick and die last week.
Misses Lillian and Elliot Abney
Of Columbia, are on visit to their
brother, Rey. o. nj. Abney of Pick
ons.
Some one has said that if ten
cent cotton had come earlier there
would have been a larger crop of
Juno brides
Mrs. L. A. McCord of Liberty,
spent few days last week with Mrs.
W. l.. Jenkins and Mrs. D. w. Iii.
oft, in Pickons.
"A man Can advance thousand
good arguments against mutrimony
until the right woman comes along
and marries him.
"A scieptist has invented q
machine TO measure love. It acts
like thermometer and tells the tenn
perature OF your girl.
"A great many farmers have taken
advantage of the present high prices
bong paid for cotton aud have
unloaded their holdings.
If woman refuses to go away
for "eek's visit it isn't because sh 8
afraid her husband will be lonesome -
but because she is afaid he won't be-
Willie 'nor>man is sure that wo
man will make him good wife, he
is very sure that sho could not select
better man for a husband than
| himself.
Married, on the 9th instant by
A. L. Edens, N. p, at his reside, ce,
Miss Susie Ferguson to Welborn Et-
rod, all of Pickens county. The
happy couple have the congratula.
tlons OF their many friends for a long
and useful life.
1t seems to bo the irony of fate
for peas to be SO plentiful or in other
words SO much cheaper than common
and the weather or season unfavora-
ble for planting. However it is not
yet too lato. All hands and plows
should be put to planting peas in the
corn field and stubble rs soon as the
rains permit.
--Charles McAlister of Greenville
spent Saturday night in Pickens on
bis way to his summer homo ia Oso
nee county, for few days rest. He
owns valuable property on Cheohee
and has big boundary of valuable
farming lands up there that he would
sell to good farmer on long torms
and at low price.
News was received in Pickens
Saturday, by her father, Bon p. Gift
lin, colored, announcing the death of
his daughter, Martha Jane Baker, at
her home in Waxahatchle, Tex :,
where sho had been living since her
marriage to Arthur Baker in Pickens
about twelve years ago. She will be
remembered by many of the reople
OF Pickens having been raised near
town.
I'VE appreciate the happenings
from all over the county being sent
il, md would be glad to have cor.
respondent at each post Office and on
every mail route in the county. This
week we W elcome to our columns
"Reader," who writes the news from
Piekens Route !, and especially Of
The Griffin church and CLASSY Noun
tam section. We hope that "Reader"
will favor Us with the dots often.
Misses Bertha Reves Of Marion,
bess'e Barnett of Newberry, and
May Heiger of Orangeburg. who ore
attending the summer school ot
Clemson College. spent a few davs
lQSt week. with tbo;r f,:..l NJ. -