The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-09-23
Pickens County Items

pensioners at the court house
recently Messrs. B. G.. Johnson,
Matthew Hendricks, VIM. CAN'T
and S. II. Brown We're elected
members of the Pickens county
pension board for the ensusing
wear.
Rev. E. S. Childress, a student
in Furman University, has been
called to supply the church at
Cross Roads next year. Mr..
Childress has also been called to
the paStorate of Six -and-twenty
church in Anderson county.
Both are large and influential
churches.
B. P. Kelley and family, who
live near Norris, Pickens county,
visited at the home Of Mrs. NJ. A.
Cooley Sunday. They came
over in their auto. While here
Mr.. Kelley and family visited at
the tunnel, and on the return
visited at the homeof j. a. White,
in the Wolf Stake section. Wal
halla Keowee Courier.
MIR. Cornelius Keith, formerly
Of the Pumpkintown section,
who purchased the old McCam
or Glenn place atSlabtOwn about
two years ago, has sold his pos
sessions there to Mr.. w. M. Ha-
good of Easley, and has repur-
purchased the old Jack Arthur
place near Pickens from Mr.. Will
T.Bates. Once a Pickens county
county man it is hard to live
cOntented elsewhere. Easley
Progress.
Hobbs Henderson Go. invite
you to visit their store Thursday
and Friday of this week and in
spect their fall and winter goods,
OF which they have many in the
very latest styles. Their millin-
cry opening will also be held
these two days. They have a
store full of new goods which
you will like TO see whether you
buy or not. You will be wei
come. Read their page adver-
tisement in this paper.
! The us. Circuit Court of Ap.
peals at Richmond has reversed
the decision Of Judge Smith in
the case Of Chiles Fullerton anC
others against MaplecrOft Mills
OF Liberty. The lower court di-
rected a verdict against the Ma
Plecroft company and adjudi-
Gated it bankrupt, but the Court
OF Appeals in their opinion filed
Thursday reversed the Judgment
of bankruptcy and the company
is allowed to continue under its
present management and the
proceeding in bankruptcy dis
missed
Our good and esteemed friend
IL. A. Bowen brought to The
Sentinel office last week about
the largest stalk of cotton we
haze ever seen. The stalk is
over six feet high and contains
l26 bolls and blooms. Mr.. Bowen
says he has half an acre in cot
ton like this stalk and thinks it
will make at least 400 pound
bale OF cotton. The cotton grew
on a patch of land near his home.
but he does not know what kind
OF cotton seed it came from. IF
a Confederate veteran over II
years old can raise cotton like
this, what can younger and
stronger men do if they try!
X. l.. Henderson, S. B. Edens
and John H. Ballentine, Jurors
from PickenS county at the Uni.
ted States court held at Rock
Hill last week, have returned
home and report that there was
not much business to transact at
this term and court lasted only
two days. The petit jury did
not sit on a single case. The
second story of the Rock Hill
CITY hall was fitted up as a court
room and used. Mr.. Henderson
says Rock Hill is right smart of
a town "a little better than
Easlev. but not quite so good as
PiCkens.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. ID. Holder and
turman Holder spent Sunday at
the home Of Mr.. Billy Jameson
in Anderson county. Mr.. and
Mrs. Jameson are both well
known in Pickens county. she
being a daughter of Mr.. Smith
Griffin. They have a fine fam
lly OF eleven boys and three girls
living, one child being dead.
RecentlyMr. j ameson was drawn