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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1915
Page
3
A Civil War verse recalls the sunrise start of the Shiloh fight. The speaker recalls hand to hand combat, thousands slain, prayers for families, and the dead lying on the bloody plain as the second battle ends and the song closes.
A fragment from a Sunday column recounts Rev. Billy Sunday’s stop at Paterson New Jersey with a string of coarse baseball style jabs. It quotes his quips disparaging tobacco use pride and mocks religious fervor in sharp, slang filled lines.
Pickens County seeks a full delegation to the State Sunday School association. Send your name, school, and denomination for credentials. credentials issued promptly. Free entertainment for credential holders. Recommend pastors, superintendents, teachers, or secretaries as good representatives. W A Mathews, county president. State headquarters preparing a strong program. reduced railroad fares.
Lucas County Toledo oath sworn by Frank J Cheney senior partner of I J Cheney Co stating firm will pay one hundred dollars for each catarrh treatment not cured by Malls Catarrh Cure. Notary public A W Gleason verifies on December 6 1886. Halls Catarrh Cure taken internally acts on blood and mucous membranes. Send for testimonials. Sold by all druggists. Take Halls Family Pits for constipation.
In Glenwood the Sunday school Class No 8 at Glenwood Baptist led by D B Cobb staged an Easter egg hunt at Saluda dam with 67 eggs for 67 members. Dewey Stansel won a pocket knife for most eggs. The event included a fish pond with 67 crackers containing nickel prizes and a team of wagons to transport participants. The class grew to 81 present at Sunday school and collected $1 in contributions. Mr Cobb organized the class 14 months ago and now it is the largest group of junior boys. Plans for a sermon by J D Fant on April 17 are announced.
Honor roll listings show first grade Grace Tompkin Janette Lumpkin Arthur Dalton Lena Turner. Second grade Tama Lumpkin Olive Parsons Jonie Parsons. Third grade Ora Roper O V Roper. Fourth grade Ruth Pickens. Fifth grade Odis Dalton Earle Murphee Paul Parsons. Sixth grade Pauline Dalton Lola Curtis. Seventh grade Lillie Curtis Ola Parsons. Eighth grade Walter Murphee. Miss Bennie Duckworth is listed with the principal.
About 388 Wofford students marched into a Spartanburg theater without paying last week. They appeared before the mayor who ordered each to buy a season ticket for the musical festival in Spartanburg on April 14 15 and 16.
A reader argues for tighter liquor laws including a monthly one gallon limit per person, physician certified medical use only provisions, court records with jug certificates, confiscation for unaccredited shipments, and a 30 day chain gang punishment for drunks, urging progress and warning readers the author may quit if rejected.
Registered Berkshire hog Baron Spottswood, purchased by W. S. Edens Jr of Oolenoy, replaces the recently killed animal. The change signals progress in stock breeding and a shift from cotton-focused farming toward diversified livestock. See The Sentinel for Printing.
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