The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-11-22
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ham, November 18th, a son.
The wife of Emory johnson. colorea
died at her home in pickens Monday
morning.
The Pickens Drug Co.'S. cent sa,e
will be on next week. Advertisement
in this paper.
Rev. B. p. Mitchell of G@reenv;,,o
will preach at Mt. Carmel on next SIM.
day at 8 o'clock. The public i, invited
to come and hear him.
During the recent campaign for sale
Of liberty loan bonds the Pickens Row
Scouts sold So, 300 worth. Ernest c, mic
was the leading seller with 81, $50.
Hal Willard, a Pickens county bow. is
at the home of his parents who now
live in G%rcenville, recuperating from
injuries received while a member If Tho
U. S. aviation corps.
Local officers captured three army
descrters from Chicamauga last week.
One was caught in Pickens and two
near the toll gate, headed toward North
Carolina. They have been sent back to
Chickamauga for court martial.
Miss May Carson. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. j. l.. Carson Of Central, was
married last Wednesday to DR.. Hatton,
a prominent druggist of Atlanta. Rev.
Il. M. Robinson performing the cere-
mony.
The optician who visits the Pickens
Drug Co. store regularly will be at that
store next Monday, November 26th, for
one day only. His work is guaranteed
by the local drug store. Read adver-
tisement in this paper.
There were 6,932 bales of cotton, |
counting round as half bales, ginned in
Pickens county, from the crop of 1917
prior to November l, 1917, as compared
with s,G56 bales ginned to November l,
1916.
We regret to chronicle the sad death
of little Dee, ~five-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Burroughs, who died
Sunday night of typhoid fever. Another
child in this family has been seriously
sick, but we are glad to hear is improv-
ing.
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Mrs. j. D. Holder will please accept
many thanks from The Sentinel for the
finest beets and turnlps we have seen
in this year of large vegetables. Two
beets weighed twelve pounds. Itmakes
us feel good for good people to remem-
Der us.
One of our Greenville subscribers
writes US that he takes several weekly
and dailv papers and says, II will adj
nit you get out the best weekly paper
ever saw" We appreciate the COM
pliment. If you have not renewed your
subscription do it today.
Martin graded school will begin its
winter session November 18th. All
children that expect to attend are urged
to have their books the first day. A
list of the books will be found at the
Pickens Drug Co. Pearl Murphee,
principal, Gertie Aiken and Sadie Ncaly,
assistants.
The Literary Society of the Dacus-
vile school will give an entertainment
in the auditorium Thanksgiving night
and a nice program has been arranged.
Everybody is invited. There will be no
admission fee, but refreshments will be
sold and proceeds be used for benefit of
the school.
James Henry Cureton, member of
troop e, 18th cavalry, u. S. A., sta
toned at Fort Oglethorpe, spent a few
days last week with homefolks in Pick
ems. The boy is looking good and says
ne likes army life fine. Miss Grace
Mcdaniel accompanied him as far as
Atlanta, where she will visit her sister,
Mrs. G. Z. Holley.
Two business houses in Pickens are
advertising in this weeks paper that
they are going out of business and are
offering special bargains. These are
the "ell-known firms of B. f. Parsons
and I. ID. Harris, both Of whom have
llived in Pickens for many years and with
whom our readers are well acquainted.
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