The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1912-02-01
FROM THE PALMETTO STATE.
4 Column Ct News That Has Been
Collected and Condensed With
Care by the Editor.

. Care by the Editor.
Observation-Disclosures were re-.
ceiTed from the United States eneE
neer's department by Mai. G. P. How.
ell, In charge Of the Charleston dis.
trict, to prepare at once estimates
for 2o-foot channel up the Ashley
river as far as the wharf Of the stan-
dard plant Of the Virginia Carolina.
Chemical Company.
Beaufort-Charles Anderson, 8
Swede by birth. and for 81 years il
charge of the Parrys Island light
house, near Port Royal, died few:
days ago. His body was brought up|
/ to Beaufort by his assistant, Paul
Wright and inferred in the Ever
Green cemetery Of this city. MT. An:
derson had been in, ill health for about
nine months.
Anderson.-Chief of Police a. MI
Fortune has returned from Daniels-i
vile, Ga, where he went for g. T.
Stanley, a young white maa wanted
here for assault and battery with mi
tent to kill and resisting arrest. It ISL
| alleged that Stanley assaulted Polcei
Officer Blackstone when M- Back
| stone attempted to arrest him In thisl
| city on the night OF December 81
Rock Hill.-The chamber CT coud
mercs has sent 2 formal protest toI
each member Of the York, G !sgat:ont
against the passage CT the bill, ::-.tro-f
dnced by Mt. McDow, to allow York;
county to vote on q 375,G5o bond is.
sue for new court house. TE. rssol
luton speaks Of the proposed i5sue(
as an "il1 advised, unnecessary aadl
reckless expenditure, at an iaepporj
tune time"
Charleston.-"It Is untrue as it isl
audacious," said DR.. J. Mercier Green,
city health of1cer and secretary oil
the board OF health, in reference toI
the statement made by Mr.. Clarencel
Hoskins, in charge of the dairy del
partment Of the National Corn E1pod
sitioA, to the effect that some OF thel
milk delivered in Charleston Is a mel
mace to the health Of the city.
Conway.-There has been much
trouble in the Gypsy camp on thel
outskirts Of the city for the past sew
eral days, which has resulted in thss
binding over to court. a<sEc1eral ses-
sions by Magistrate w. H. Chestnut
number Of the Gypsy tribe, the most
prominent being Steve and Gregory
John, on the charge OF grand larceny:
Bond in the sum Of $1,000 was asked
by the court, and this has been ar
ranged.
Newberry-NewDerry county beasts
a teacher who has taught thirty-nine
full terms in the public schools Of
that county and Is now entering up
on her fortieth term. In Mrs. Jane
Along, Newberry county has faith
ful and devoted servant She <was
born and reared In Newherry and has
spent her life there in teaching in
the public schools: Thirty.nine years
Of teaching is an unusual record for
woman
Anderson.-Samuel N. Hyde, thea
young white man who killed his wife.
and her father last July and WIS was
sentenced to hang on October 20, bufs
which sentence was stayed pending
an appeal to the Supreme Court, e1.f
pressed himself as being a little disapi
pointed because the clerk OF the Su.,
pdeme Court failed to send the remit,
titur in his case before the January
term Of criminal court adjourned. {
Florence.-The Hon. David R. Coker;
OF Hartsville visited Florence for the
purpose of addressing the farmmers
and others interested on "the advan.
tages which will come to the farmers
if they put rational methods into
growing cotton" and he -sfeesseSS-
by a large aral4sst representative
audience of the very people that he
wished to talk to, the farmers and
those interested in the subject above
mentioned. {
following the hearing
on the Charleston commission form
Of government before the judiciary
committee this afternoon Mayor Grace
and Mr.. W. 3. Wilbur had renewal
OF their wordy differences in the lob
by OF the state house which created
something Of a stir among the spec.
tators. The mayor informed Mr.. VIII
bur that if he was in Charleston he.
would slap his face and bystandersf
kept the two apart.
Spartanburg. = The Spartanburg
County Medical Society. at its annual
meeting elected the following onaeersa;
President, Dr.. A. D. Cadd; vicepfesi
dent, Dr.. W. H. Chapman secretar
DR.. Rosa Can't; delegate to state Sas
| sociation, Dr.. ". W. Boyd sencoE.
DR.. N. R. Norman. -. 5;s.,si
Charleston--Jockey Albert Burton
was killed at Palmetto track, through
the falling of his horse, AcAHdreHsd
The horse stepped into hole tns thel
soft track in trying to avoid a stunt
| ling horse in front, and the jockey
was thrown to the track, striking on4s
his head, fracturirg his sull 5,ssI I
Saluda.-There was meeting hela /;
in the court house in this toKn on
Tueday at lo:30 O'Clock a n1.ssfor
! the purpose of thoroughly organlzlngI
the Boys corn club work OF the coun,
ty for the present year. 80.
Columbia.-The annual report OF
DR.. NJ. ". Twitchell, state seologist 7
has been forwarded % the governor
and is now in printed form, 1t iszinf
three parts, the first being the admin
istrative report, outlining the EeFs
accomplished thus far, the manner OF
working and the variocs branches
covered by the oEce end the prob
lens which are yet to be faced.