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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
8
Local family visits and travels across Six Mile Greenville Pickens and Easley are noted. Marriages include Nel lie Bagwell and Courtenay Durham near Pickens and Ernest Mauldin with Lola Tinsley near Easley. The article mentions church services debates and a senate candidate in town.
Miss Eva Holcombe visits Mrs. B B LaBoon this week. Dr Blakeley and wife visit Dr and Mrs F Porter. Henry Sutherland learns of Homer Sutherland’s safe arrival in France with the army medical department. P A Bowen to organize a boys corn club at Ooleney school house next Saturday 2 30 and support Liberty Loan. Cottage cheese demonstration by Mauldin and Fourney. Globe Optical Co renames its retail branch to Odom Schade Optical Co with wholesale remaining Globe Optical Co.
An advertisement promotes L-Rheuma as the lasting cure for rheumatism with a 26 year record and a money back guarantee. It urges readers to request the bottle for $1 and lists Pickens Drug Co. in Pickens and Central Drug Co. in Central, South Carolina, and Chapman Alexander Laboratories in Greenville. It notes the importance of keeping the county paper active during a campaign year and to not let subscriptions expire.
Seed corn offered for sale about ninety bushels of pure Marlboro grown on one acre in Pickens county last year. Sold as seed at 3.00 dollars per bushel with purchaser picking their own seed. Seed was ordered new last year and kept pure. oud. A. ROPER, 50 Central Route 3.
The War Council of the American Red Cross postponed the second War Relief fund drive from May 6 to the week of May 20 to avoid clashing with the Liberty Loan campaign. The drive seeks $100 million, following the first drive begun June 18 1917 and totaling about $105.1 million with $77.7 million allocated and $10.37 million awaiting appropriation. France has received over $30 million in Red Cross support.
The American Red Cross is designated as the official and exclusive distributor of United States official war pictures and French official war pictures in this country. The Southern Division, including Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas and Tennessee, will handle requests through the Bureau of Publicity. National headquarters in Washington has five motion pictures and two slide sets ready, with more ordered for Atlanta distribution to chapters at a small rental.
Gates graded school will close on Friday April 19 at 3 o clock for a free public entertainment at the school house. Principal E A Lewis invites patrons and the public to attend. Also included are notes of a 1886 oath by Frank J Cheney regarding Hall s Catarrh Medicine and promotional claims for the product and Hall s Pills.
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