The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-04-11

andlatahls residence, on March 30, Miss
Ethel Sanders and Homer James. =. -. The
former of near Liberty and the latter
of Greenville county.
A musical entertainment was given
at the school house last Friday evening
for the benefit of The Eagle. A large
crowd attended and the lprogram was
thoroughly enjoyed.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Douglas Yongue have
moved from the Ballentine house on
Hampton Avenue to the j. E. Boggs
house. They have purchased this ele-
giant home from I. M. Mauldin. w%
"B." Lewis, of Easley, was well
come visitor in Pickens Saturday. He
says all the preachers land policemen
have been run out of Easley and it is
now the most moral town in the country.
A basket ball game between the high
schools Of Liberty and Pickens was
played at Liberty last Friday after
noon. The girls showed splendid team
work by the score-17 to 5 in favor of
Pickens.
Word has been received by Mrs. John
Edens of Pickens that her son Edgar is
very sick at Camp Sewer. 1t seems
that he is suffering from rheumatism
and an old injury received when he was
thrown from horse long time ago.
Wade II. Chastain is spending several
weeks in Chicago on business connected
with the Carolina Timber Co. Mr..
Chastain looks after the extensive real
estate holdings of this company in Pick
ems and Oconee counties.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. 4. Hinton and chill
dren of Pickens, spent Sunday in the
city with the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. A. Hinton. Ola is looking we'll
and shows that he is receiving good
treatment in his adopted home. .-Easley
Progress.
Steve Galloway, of the Woodall sec
ton, was the first man to sell bale of
cotton in Pickens this season for 35c.
pound. Folger, Thornley, & Co. paid
him $1l4.10 for a 326-pound bale last
Friday Four years ago bale this size
would have brought $22S2.
Lieut.. A. G. Lynn visited his daugh-
ter Miss Rosamond, here last week be-
fore leaving for active service. He
has served number of years in the
merchant service and the U. S. navy,
serving throughout the Spanish-Ame
lean war, and is now assigned to the
overseas transportation service.
| At an election held in Pickens Satur-
day, Messrs. Wayne r. Mauldin and r.
Earle Lewis were elected trustees of
the Pickens school for the next two
years, and as Messrs. r. A. Seawrght,
t. K. Allen and j. H. Bruce were tied
with the next highest number of votes.
the third member Of the board has not
yet been selected.
Henry F.. Alexander, who died at
at his home in Seneca on Saturday night,
March 80, was well known in Pickens
county, where he has many relatives.
He has also visited in Pickens often
and used to spend part of nearly every
summer here with his cousin, the late
j. H. G. Mcdaniel. Mr.. Alexander was
73 years old and is survived by his wife
and three children. He was treasurer
of Oconee county several years and a
mighty good man.
a lot Of excitement was caused for a !
few minutes in Pickens Saturday even
ing when Dan Adams oil stove caught |
fire while the Liberty Loan parade was
in progress. Dan runs store and res
taurant on Main street and when one
of the burners on his oil cooking stove
bazed too high it was thought the store
house was on fire. The people made
rush for the fire, tore up the lunch
counter and threw the stove out Sec
ond story door, and it was all over in
few minutes. Dan says the blaze did
not do any damage, but his friends did.
and Byrd Carey says "Stew Beef" Joe
Robinson's nerves are badly shattered.
He was in the kitchen when the thing
commenced, but was down about the
cotton mill when it wound up.