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The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1914-10-08
Washington

Amended rivers and harbors bill,
carrying s2O,O0Q.000 appropriation.
passed by the House and now goes
to the President for his approval.
President Wilson intends to with
draw Federal troops from Colorado
unless the coal operators accede to
his three-year truce plan.
President Wilson watched Lincoln
Beachey, the aviator, loop-the-loop
over the White House lawn. The
President expressed it as wonderful,
but startlingly reckless"
President Wilson signed the Trade
Commission bill. He announced sew
eral weeks ago that he would not
appoint the members Of the Commls-
sion until the December session OF
Congress.
Representative Hardwick OF Geor-
gia, announced his resignation from
the House. He has been elected
United States Senator.
President Wilson approved the Red
Cross plan for making special collec-
tions for European relief work In
churches on October 4, Peace Sun
day"
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Better Late Than Never

The Pickens Association met
with the church at Gross Roads
Sept. 16. The opening sermon
was delivered by Rev. ]. E. Fos-
ter. It was short and earnest
appeal for a higher and better
life.
The association was called to
order by former Moderator Bro.
J. G.. Garrett, and in the reor
ganization Hon. C. E. Robinson
was elected moderator and the
same clerk reelected, Prof. ]. T:
Robinson. Cross Roads, as she
always does, entertained in
handsome style; plenty to eat
and a hearty welcome to all.
Rev. T. J. Watts, our new sec
retarY of Sunday schools in the
state, was present and made
some goodspeeches. Bro. Watts
was brought up in the Roman
Catholic church and ne knows
whatit means to train the young.
He will no doubt be a great help
to the Sunday school work in
the state.
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ALLIES EFFORTS REPULsED.
Attempts Of French to Break Through
German Lines Have Been
Eyade6

Berlin, by wireless to Sayville, L. I.
According to announcement made
here the great battle in France is still
undecided The Germans are describ,
ed as hammering the French positions
at numerous points by their heavy ar.
tillery
The attempts Of the allies to break
through the German lines are said to
have been repulsed The heaviest
losses have been in the Argonne re.
gion. The Germans are asserted to
be making steady progress.
In the fighting before Antwerp the
German artillery is reported as hav.
ing silenced two of the Belgian forts
German troops are said to have cap.
tured so aeroplanes sent from France
to Belgium.
In the eastern arena Of the war
the Russian offensive movement from
the Niemen river against the Germans
in the province Of Suvalki is declared
to have failed. 1t is officially report.
ed that the Russian fortress at Osso.
wetz, in Russian Poland, was bonn.
barded by the Germans until Septem.
Der 25.
The fighting in France, the siege
of Antwerp and the offensive opera.
tions under General Won Hindenberg
all going on at the same time, are
taken in Berlin to indicate that the
German army is not lacking in men.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1914-10-08
Allies Winning At Aisne


Washington.-Th turning move
ment Of the allied armies in northern
Fran ce has brought the extreme Of
their left wing about thirty miles from
The Belgian frontier.
An official, statement issued by the
French war office says that part OF the
battle line stretching generally north
and south has been extended north to
a point south Of Arras. This line, on
which the allies are attempting to en-
yelop the German right wing under
Gen. Won Kluck, has been pushed
gradually toward the Belgian border,
as the Germans widened their front
in defense until it extends some fifty
FIVE miles from the angle that rests
On Tracy-le.Mont.
Terrific fighting continues on the al
lies left wing, according to the Paris
statement, the most severe struggle be-
ing in the region of Roye, town 26
miles east of Amiens and about mid
way on this battle line. Here the Ger
mans have concentrated strong forces,
probably with the purpose of breaking
through the front Of the allies and lso-
lating the forces to the north.
The Paris statement adds that the
Germans attempted to bridge the
Meuse near st. Mihiel, but their pom.
toons were destroyed. French claims
of slight progress in the Woevre dis
trict are recorded as minor engage
ments at various points in front ex-
tending east and west.
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NUMBER d
Greenyille Deputy
Sheriff is,Killed

Deputy Sheriff J. F. Lindsey
was shot and almost instantly
killed Monday morning at 4:30
O'Clock by w. F. Chadwick in
the Duncan Mill village just
outside Of the Greenville city
limits. The killing occurred at
the home of Chadwick's wife
and it was to protect the latter
that Lindsey was in the house.
Chadwick left his home some
ago and went to Georgia. Sun
day night he returned and be-
gan to abuse his wife, attempt
ing to run her away from home.
Deputy Lindsey was summoned
and when he entered the house
Chadwick opened fire on him,
killing him almost instantly.
Chadwick then beat a hasty re-
treat from the house and has
not been captured.
Automobile parties are sconr-
ing the country for him and of
ticers of every nearby city and
town have been wired to be on
the lookout for him.
Chadwick is about 35 years Of
age. Lindsey had been officer
(of the law for sometime.
The killing caused consider
ably excitement in the Duncan
village.
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The Buy-a-Bale-of-C Cotton

Movement seems to appeal to
everybody; and from informa
ton received is spreading like
wild6re. We are advised from
some sections that it is already
having its effect on prices.
Practically all the commercial
bodies throughout the country
are forming clubs. and when the
entire machinery begins to work
smoothly we look for some start
ling results. Thousands Of peo-
pie are buying a bale of cotton
who never saw one in their lives,
and never thought of making
such a purchase.
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Amsterdam.-The Germans have

Amsterdam.-The Germans have
commenced their attack on the. first
line of defense of Antwerp, accord
ing to dispatches received by the Am
sterdam papers. Mol, an important
railway junction near the Dutch bor-
der, was occupied by the Germans,
who again occupy Malines, began a
bombardment Of Lierre, directly in
front of Antwerp. They also contin-
ued their bombardment. Of Forts
Waehel and ST. Catharine. 1t is be-
lieved heavy Austrian artillery is be-
ing used.
Lierre, according to a message to
the Handelsblad, has been under shell
fire some time The people at first hid
in the cellars, but subsequently fed
to Antwerp, being joined by fugitives
from the surrounding villages. 1t is
reported that one shell fell on hos
pital, killing nine persons.
German Naval Reserves Ready
More than twenty-five thousand Ger
man naval reserves have been brought
from kiel and Hamburg to Brussels
and are held in readiness to serve oR
the improvised German fleet should
Antwerp and Ostend be taken.
AS a direct result OF this move the
British authorities along the Scheldt
have increased their watchfulness, for
during a siege Of Antwerp England
might like to send reinforcements
through the Dutch Schledt, which
would be breach Of neutrality, while
on the other hand a German victory
would bring danger of an attempt on
the part of Germany to use the mount
| of the Scheldt as base from which
to attack the British naval forces in
the North sea.
Worlds Strongest Forts
The Notifications Of Antwerp are
reckoned among the strongest in the
world. In 1850, twenty eight years
after the taking Of the city by English
and French troops, Brialmont, the
noted Belgian builder, supervised the
refortifcation of the city and since
1877 it has had line of forts well out
from the inner defenses. In 1907 the
government decided to do away with
the inner line of walls and replace
them with an inner line of forts on
the right bank of the Scheldt.
The greatest importance is attached
to the outer works. They consist in
part Of new fortiications, in part OF
old forts rebuilt The work was be-
gun in 1913. 1t is probable that this
ideal was realized and that the forti
fcation system is now practically com
piete.
The outer chain Of forts lies from
ten to eleven miles outside the city
and has front of about eighty miles
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1914-10-08
Revival at EaSIeY

The union services which be-
gan in the Presbyterian church
on Monday evening, Sept. 2lst,
closed on Monday night last.
The services were we'll attended
throughout the week by the
church going going people of
the city and community of all
denominations. DR.. Bryan prov
ed to be an earnest and indefa-
tigable worker for the salvation
of souls His sermons were
listened to with much interest
and his efforts were rewarded
by the addition of some sixty
members to the rolls of the
churches of the CITY. Eternity
alone can tell the good that the
weeks service has done for the
people of Easley and vicinity
Easley Progress.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1914-10-08
Ownership Of Pick
ems County Homes

The United States Census De-
partment at Washington has
Just issued a bulletin dealing
with the ownership Of Pickens
county homes. The important
facts contained in the bulletin in
the bulletin relative to this
county are as follows:
There are 5O03 homes in Pick
ems county.
Of this number 1880 are farm
homes.
Nine hundred and twenty-five
of the farm homes are owned by
their occupants and are free of
mortgaged incumbrance.
The mortgaged farm homes
number 1894.
Renters occupy 1894 farm
homes in this county.
Out of a total of 5OO3 homes
in the county 1873 are urban
homes.
There are 357 urban home
owners in the county.
Of this number 86 are mort
gagged.
Two hundred and seventy one
of the urban owned homes are:
free of incumbrance.
There are 1922 rented urban
homes in the county.
The census enumeratoIs We're
unable to secure data pertaining
to the ownership Of a naHper
centage of both the ruraEana.
urban homes in this county: e.
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LIE QUARTER NILE
FROM GERMAN LINE
ENTRENcHED IN COMPARATIVE
SAFETY, FORCES AWAIT AT.
TAckS OF ALLIES.
POINT HAS BEEN GAINED
British and French Feel That Victory
ls Certain Since March on Paris
Has Been Stayed.

On the battle front, via PaDs.-A
thrill was in the air all along the ex-
! tended allied lines today. The French
and British troops who for more than
q fortnight have been in closest con.
tact with the Germans, felt they had
accomplished their hard task Of pre-
venting the Germans from breaking
through the human barrier erected be-
tween them and Paris, their main OBJ
jective, and that this meant eventual
victory for the allies.
The lines Of trenches made the bat
tie front appear like deeply SCARED
fields. The allies. who quick learned
the lesson Of burrowing, face the Ger
mans within quarter Of mile at some
places. Their field entrenchments Of
fer admirable shelter from the Ger
man artillery which consequently re-
duces their casualties and permits the
allies to await in comparative safety
the Germans attacks which must be
made across the open and often at
terrible cost.
The fury Of the German onslaught
was unabated today, especially on the
western wing, but their every effort
was met with vigor by the allies, who
seemed to vie with each other in using
all their strength and courage against
the attackers.
The scene Of the most violent at
tacks changes day by day. The Ger
mans finding it impossible to pene-
trate the allied lines in the vicinity
of Rheims and Scissors, quickly trans
ported many of their divisions further
northwest and hurled them against
Roye.
The allies great turning movement
continued today and their western
wing extended toward Arras. Reports
from the other end Of the line on
the allies to be slow but sure. Hun
dreds Of German prisoners fell into
the hands of the allies at every point
and it was remarked that the majority
were Bavarians who seem to have
been prominent in the front Of the
German attack.
Spies are so numerous along the
front that orders have been issued
stating that any German in civilian
dress encountered will be considered
a spy and those furnishing him with
clothes will be regarded as accom-
plices.
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sheIIino of Rheims Continues

London.-The Rheims correspond
ent Of the Exchange Telegraph compa-
nv sends this story of the continued
bolnbardment of Rheims:
"The bombardment Of Rheims still
continues. The city has now been un-
der fire Of the German guns for sixteen
days, and in every part Of the city the
whistle of shells is heard as we'll as
the loud reports Of their explosion,
wrecking buildings in every quarter.
THE fire is no longer being directed
on the cathedral, although four shells
dropped through the shattered roof
and exploded in the ruined interior
Brussels Faces A Famine
London.-Seven hundred thousand
persons in Brussels are facing starva'
ton, according to Hugh Gibson, the
secretary of the American embassy
there, who is now in this city. The
supply of -four in the Belgian capital
will be exhausted and other staples
are virtually all consumed. The last
apportionment of flour to the citizens
of Brussels will be given out later.
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Sporting

While Pittsburgh defeated New
York, Boston won from Chicago
thereby winning the National League
pennant.
Despite efforts of Secretary OF War
Garrison and Secretary of the Navy
Daniels to effect compromise. the
athletic associations Of the army anc
navy are still at odds over the choice
of a city in which the annual football
game is to be played.
Half-back Guyon, the Carlisle Indian
football star, regarded by many as
in the all-American class last year,
is trying for place on the Wisconsin
team. He has played only one year
of varsity football and is eligible to
play two years at the Madison instl'
tuition.
Play in the worlds championship
baseball series probably will start on
Oct. 8, one day after the American
and National League seasons are
brought to a close, according to
President B. B. Johnson, OF the Am
erican League and member OF the
National Baseball Commission.
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WEEKS NEWS
STORIES RET0LD
Events That Made a Stir Con.
densed to a Paragraph.
WHAT WASHINGTON IS DOING
News Of interest That TriekIes From
the White House and the Various
Observation-Disclosures of
Crimes and Casualties,
War Bulletins

The German cruiser Emden was re-
ported to have sunk five British ships
in the Indian Ocean. Some time ago
she sank six in the Bay OF Bengal
Every man, woman and child LETT
Alost, Belgium, as the Germans
reached the city, in the hope that
the. city would not be destroyed, as
was Termonde.
Women refugees from Strassburg
reported that the garrisons there had
been ordered reduced, so as to seno
all available troops to reinforce the
Germans along the Alsne.
A dispatch from Rome says that
100000 troops have been assembled
at Pola, the great naval port OF Aus
tria, and that thorough preparations
have been made. against an attack
from sea.
The japanese forces continue tneiI
progress toward Kiao-Chau. The Ger
man outposts Of Esing-tau have been
driven toward the main body, and the
japanese Army is now within short
march Of that force.
japanese troops defeated Germans
in minor engagement on the out
skirts of Tsing-Tao, and captured
Pie-Ho, in the Giao-Chau campaign
1t was officially announced that Jar
oslaw, the Austrian fortress on the
San, north Of Premysl, was taken by
direct assault and was not surrender
ed by the Austrians.
Survivors of the naval disaster IN
the North Sea, by which England los'
three armored cruisers, the ADouAlr
Hogue and Cressy, number but oll Out
of total complement Of 210O sailors
and 165 officers.
The German. Admiralty reports that
the destruction of the British cruisers
was accomplished by submarine W
cino1a handed
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General

Four directors of New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad Com
pany, including William Rockefeller,
resign at board meeting in New York
City.
William Warren, telephone line.
man of Clifton, N. j., was killed
when a pole he was working on fell,
pinning him underneath.
Francisco Lopez, postmaster OF
Anasco, Porto Rico, was arrested, a
shortage of about $4,000 being dis,
covered in his accounts.
DR.. ]. E. Morrison, of Boulder, 80
years old, has registered for admis'
sion at the University Of Colorado.
He will study electrical engineering.
Congressman Jacob A. Cantor OF
New York introduced bill asking
for an appropriation Of s5OO,0OO for
improving He'll Gate and the East
River.
F.. G. Morse of Chicago, and his
son, H. Julian Morse, were killed
when their automobile struck an en-
bankment and overturned at Walling-
ford, Conn.
Three armed burglars robbed the
First National Bank, OF Baxter
Springs, Kan, Of ss,542 in god. after
locking the cashier and tn 0 depositors
in the banks vault and leaving them
there.
Harvard University opened its 279th
year. The number Of students is ap-
proximately 5000.
The weather at Lynn, Mass, was so
cold that the public schools were or
dered closed by the Board Of Educa-
ton.
Mr.. Joseph Stone, 80 years old, Of
Champaign, ILL.,, and her four children
lost their lives when fire destroyed
their farm house.
Charles Dugantie was killed and
and three other persons injured when
an operators box, under construction
in a Brooklyn motion picture theatre,
collapsed.
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McCollum Will Be
Electrocuted Oct. 80

The trial which attracted most
attention at the present term OF
court in pickens was the case of
tHe Stat. vs.. Floyd McCollum,
colored, charged with rape and
mnrder. ephe trial began and
was finished Wednesday morn
ing. lShe negro was arraigned
only oni one charge, and as he
was sentenced to the electric
chair for THAT it was useless to
try him on the other. He was
tried for rape, ard after being
out a very few minutes the jury
found him guilty and the Judge
sentenced him to die in the cleo
trio chair October 80, 1914.
Quite a dramatic scene oe-
Cured when the victim of the
negro, a white woman, was on
the witness stand. When the
solicitor asked her if the negro
IN the prisoners dock was the
guilty one she looked at the pris-
oner and went into mysteries,
crying Yes, my God, yes" and
began crying and calling for her
mother. She was taken from
the court room to her mother
and was soon calm again. The
negro was moved to the other
side of the court room and the
witness resumed the stand.
The breakdown of the witness
electrified thecrowd, which filled
~ Ssaae ccn room, and one move
by one Of the audience would
probably have precipitated a
riot. but the crowd remained
orderly and Immediately the
Judge asked that all gentlemen
leave the court room so as not to
embarrass the witnesses. Every
person not connected with the
trial left Immediately and or
derly.
AS soon as the verdict was
reached and sentec ce passed the
Judge ordered the court crier to
call the people back up, and
while they were coming up the
front steps officers slipped the
negro down the back way and
sped to Greenville with him. He
was taken from Greenville to
Columbia Wednesday night. The
negro was glad to get out Of
Pickens, but it is not likely that
any bodily harm would have
been done him. The immense
crowd in town at the time ac
quilted themselves splendidly, :,
like Pickens county people al
ways do.
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Marietta Route z

Miss Elizabeth Mauldin spent
the latter part Of last week with
homefolks.
Mrs. w. R. Hicks spent a
recent Sunday with Mrs. Daniel
McJ unkin.
Capt. w. M. Jones and daugh-
ter, Miss Leila, spent the 9th,
uIt. at the home of II. L. Jones.
Miss Anna Hughes spent last
week with her father, j.. G..
Hughes, Of the Mt. TaboS. See
ton.
Mc. and Mrs. Joe Fendley
visited their son, Mr.: John
Fendley and family Sunday
last.
The Sunday school at Mt.
Tabor is progressing very nicely
with Mr.. Chapman as superin-
tendent.
Rev. J. E. Foster filled his
regular appointment at Mt.
Tabor last Sunday and delivered
a fine sermon.
Miss Clovie Williams spent a
night last week with her friends,
Misses Florence and Lille Suth-
erland, and report a fine time.
Messrs. John Hendricks, ].
IC. Cox and George Williams,
with their families, dined at the
home of Mr.. Dock Chapman
last Sunday.
Health in this community is
very good, except that some Of
US are tired picking cotton.
There sure is plenty Of cotton
aronud here to pick.
The new residence of II. L.
Jones is now completet and his
family can once more be at
home. It was built where his
old home was recently burned.
Mrs. R. s. Whitmire, of the
Pleasant Grove section, spent
last week with her grand
daughter. Mrs. L. G.. Elrod.
Altho Aunt Beckie is very old
she is unusually stout.
LOST DARLING.
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OGdQlOCh over pIdC0 VI PAo1 4oS
Army and Navy football game likely
to result In abandonment OF annual
contest as recommended to West
Point by Secretary Garrison.
Military surgeons Of the United
States met at Cincinnati, in their
twenty-third annual convention.
John 3. Hendrickson of Brooklyn,
IS cut off with one cent by the will
Of his wife. The estate is divided
among her four children.
Florence Cope, an 1S-year-old girl
Of Buckingham Valley, Pa, was shot
and killed by her uncle, John Cope,
while defending her mother.
Twenty thousand pieces of suffrage
literature were scattered over Phila-
delphia and surrounding towns from
the balloon Greater Philadelphia"
Nine Of the twelve Kentucky coun-
ties in which local option elections
were held voted dry" This election
leaves IA Of 12O counties in the State
"wet."
About 40 guests had narrow escapes
when flames destroyed the Garfield
Hotel, a three-story frame building
at Canaan, Conn. The damage was
$4,000.
Charles g. Mellen, former president
Of the New Haven Railroad, was
called before the Federal Grand Jury
in the special prosecution ordered by
the Government.
President Wilson, on the recommen-
dation Of Secretary Lane, has restored
to a modified form Of homestead
entries about $4,000 acres Of land in
Yellowstone County, Mont.
Charles Farrell, mounted patrol
man of Passaic, N. j., has been made
foot soldier" because he dubbed
his horse. Citizens complained to the
Commissioner Of Safety.
Jack Frost delivered a knockout
blow to lots OF garden truck in Sec
tions of Long Island.
John NJ. Weyer, banker and former
congressman, died of pneumonia at
Plattsburgh, N. Y. He was 81 years
old and president Of the Merchants
National Bank Of that city.
Ernest Grill Of Yonkers, N. Y, son
of banker. was fined S25 for kill
ing a thrush in the woods near
Dunwoodie.
Nathan Brown, negro, was lynch,
ed by a mob at Rochelle, Ca, for
shooting Edward Rountree, a farm
overseer.
Congressman J. Hampton Moore of
Philadelphia was reelected president
Of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways
Association.
Fire destroyed the ive-story livery
stable of John Donhue on East 18TH
street, New York. Forty-ive horses
were burned To death and the damage
is 100000.
The Salvation Army, which recent
ly was forbidden to solicit aims in
Los Angeles, lost it's legal fight
against the ruling Of the Municipal
Charities Commission.
John Ryan, of .Teabo, N. j., who
lost a hand several years ago while
at work in the Richard mine, began
suit to recover $4,000 damages from
the Thomas Iron Co.
John D. Rockefeller has given $780,
900 to the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation of Brooklyn.
Edward Searles, Of West Suffield,
Conn, was electrocuted while repairing
electric light wires near cemetery.
The trial OF Mrs. Helen M. Angle,
of Bridgeport, Conn, who is charged
with the murder of Waldo R. Ballou,
of Stamford, was postponed until De
cember.
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Much Cotton Ginned

In Pickens county up to Sep
tember 25, 1914, there had been
ginned l ,Sl2 bales of cotton. At
the same time last year there
had been ginned 1876 bales, a
gain of 1916 bales for this year.
Very little cotton has been sold
in this county so far this season.