The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1913-05-15
NUMBER il
FROM THE PALME TO STATE
Lateet News Of General Interest That
Has Been Collected From Many
Towns and Counties.

Chester.-J. j. Banks Of this city
last November sowed patch of cloy
or and oats mixed and on May 2 cut
1t and realized 4,40O pounds OF good.
cured hay per acre. Mr. Banks ex.
poets to plant corn and peas on this
same acre and make another crop
This is considered a record crop for
this territory.
Barnwell.-The electric storm OF
recent date played havoc with tho
newly installed electric lights here.
Hardly store or residence where
the current is used escaped without
having one or more of it's bulbs brok
en- and i'll some instances every light
bulb In the house was put out OF
| business.
Fairfax.--A hailstorm OF unusual
severity, followed by torrential rain
swept over this section several days
!! ago and did considerable damage to
the young cotton and watermelon
plants. The full extent of the damage
Is not yet known, but 1t is certain
that some replanting will. be neces-
sary.
Columbia.--M embers OF the execu.
tive committee and others Interested
in the proposed election in Richland
county on tho dispensary election
held a conference at the Y. M. G.. a.,
when the question OF circulating the
petitions for tho election was discuss.
n -
Ia circulation and q number Of names
secured
Sumter.-There seems to be mix
up In store here between the mem
bers OF the county legislative delege.
ton and Governor Blease, unless the
| delegation mildly submits to the Gov.
ernor's action in the appointment OF
! NTH member OF the county board,
and it is probably they will not, If the
law Ia on their side.
Chester.--Nancy Hall. a negrese,
and her granddaughter. about years
| OF age, were burned to death in a
hre which destroyed the old Sandifer
aweiling. near Browns bridge, about
nine miles from Richburg. Chester
county. The bodies were burned to
crisp. only the charrcd skeletons
boing dug out Of the ashes
| Chester. = Thomas Meek. Isabell
| Boulware and Ida Meek were recent
ly held by Deputy Sheriff Biuderman
as material witnesses in tho case OF
| John Lewis, who was murdered Ut his
home Thursday night. April "a. Dave
and Anna Davis we're held in the per
itentiary in Columbia charged with
| the murder.
| Lancaster Postmaster j. r. Hunt,
er, assisted by Attorney j. Roach
Stewart Of this place. held q United
States civil service examination in
the court house for the purpose OF
hlling the position OF rural mail car
rier OF one Of the county's rural free
| delivery routes near StonesbOro
There are IL applicants for the po-
sition.
Grecnville.-A strike OF Greerville
motormcn and conductors is declared
imminent. Employees Of the Green.
vile Traction company have present.
ed petition to the officials, asking
for an increase to 20 and 30 cents an
hour. the present rate being Is to II
cents. 1t is understood officials have
| OHeICu u compromise ana lnat tnlS
has been rejected by the men.
Anderson. About the most salts
factory demonstration made with re-
! gard to alfalfa as a successful plant
| III the Piedmont country has been
| that made by the Orr Cotton Mills, a
| few miles from the city OF Anderson
| In this county. Only three acres are
in cultivation. but that has been
| made ample to demonstrate once and
for all that alfalfa has come TO stay,
a great and successful crop in Ander
son and adjoining Piedmont counties
ST. Sheriff Hill is far
from being a blind tiger, but he IL
running them just the same. The
way the sheriff runs them (they are
plural in number), he keeps the tiger
on the go and gives them warm
chase either until he captures the
tiger or his precious liquor, or the
tiger quits business. Early In the
year Sheriff Hill served notice upon
evildocrs in the liquor business that
he was no friend to whiskey.
Orangeburg. decorated arch that
had been placed over the front en-.
trance to the new postofhce building
in this city has been ordered taken
out by the building inspector, as it
was not true. This will require
great deal Of extra work and may do.
lay the completion Of the building.
Greenwood j. Il. Nc.
Combs Is doing some splendid work
on the county roads now. Reports
{ from various sections are that the
r roads are in unusually good shape.
} Much permanent work on the roads
is planned and some has been done
already.
, I1axington.-The barn and stables
e OF Jason Shealy, well known mer-
chant and farmer Of Summit, was con
!, sumed by fire recently, entailing