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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1913
Page
4
Local notes list visits and calls across Pickens with counts of residents and guests from Greenville Easley Edwardsville Chester and Liberty. The items mention J T Taylor Miss Nannie Porter Prof Ballentine and others at gatherings, travels, and school events along with a pension notice and a medal at Easley.
Miss Vesta Ashmore entertained a small gathering Friday evening with friends including Grace Prince Min l Daisy McDonald Julius Oggs Casey Por Sobert Anthony and Ernest Alexander in attendance.
A vintage testimonial advert promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal treatment that reaches the blood and mucous surfaces, claiming cure of catarrh unlike local applications. It stresses a physician prescribed formula, testimonials, and sale by druggists with a Toledo company backing.
Community notes mention James P Carey Jr visiting Columbia last week and a motto urging mosquito control. S W Mahaffy of Gap Hill was in town on business. Mrs F S Porter and daughter Nannie shopped in Greenville Saturday. Mrs D P Mahaffy is ill. Rexall club elected Dr J B Bruce president at a Columbia meeting. Pickens Drug Co is the local Rexall store. Entre Neus club hosted by Mrs T J Mauldin with L C Thornley and Helen Boggs serving ice cream and cake.
The 50th anniversary of the Gettysburg battle will be observed at the battlefield on July 1 and 4, 1913. Union and Confederate veterans from Pickens county plan to attend, meeting as friends where foes stood years ago. The U S government to build a large camp to house and feed all veterans gratis. Railroads offer a one cent per mile rate for the event.
Gates community enjoyed a well attended meeting on Friday April 18 at Gates with baskets and a lemonade stand provided by Misses Davis and Griffin. Trustees aim to establish a graded school soon as locals awaken to education.
All Day Singing at Camp Creek Baptist Church on the fourth Sunday in April invites everyone. Bring old time song books Christian Harmony and Temple Star and a well filled basket.
It announces an upcoming auction sale deadline on May tenth by Hammond Brown Wall Company Easiey and Co. Readers are urged to place bids, with the ad promising details in this issue. The notice presents a simple bid deadline with no additional particulars.
In pursuance of a decretal order dated April 15 1913 Judge G W Shipp will sell on Sale Day in May 1913 during legal hours at Pickens Court House South Carolina a tract of 35 47 100 acres in Pickens County described by rock and persimmon landmarks and Simon Branch. Terms are cash with buyers paying papers and recording. A J Boggs C C P.is in charge.
Guardian R M Wertz seeks leave to make a final settlement with wards James C Wertz and Joseph J Wertz and discharge as guardian before J B Newbery Judge of Probate Pickens County South Carolina on May 8 1913 at 11 am. The notice is dated May 10 1913.
The shop promotes a wide range of artistic designs and up to date novelties in Attractive Jewelry and dainty ornaments at moderate prices. It notes some expensive pieces exist but many original, distinctive articles are affordable for all budgets.
A brief social exchange questions whether women should smoke. One insists ladies smoke, another counters with doubt and suggests an inconsistency in observed behavior, reflecting evolving norms and polite disagreement.
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