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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1918
Page
8
Local and personal items from Pickens County cover visits and family news. Highlights include Liberty Loan bond support by the Pickens Baptist and the town’s Third Liberty Loan honor flag push. Also noted are a wreck injuring the Boggs family, military moves of Lt Blakely and family, intercollegiate contest results, and the Pickens County Singing convention updates.
Miss Mattie Evelyn Griffin and Mr Joab Mauldin Jr were wed at the Griffin home in Pickens in a ring ceremony by Rev David M Ramsay. The couple plans a wedding tour and will reside in Spartanburg after guests from Greenville Hampton Williamston Cateechee attend.
The Eastern Division of the W M U of Pickens Association holds a quarterly gathering at Griffin church next Sunday at 2:00 PM. Program includes devotional, welcome by Mrs Edward Hendrix, response by Mrs J B Holland, delegates roll call, talks by Mrs Sam Dorr and Miss Pearla Hester, and a session on war impacts on Christianity.
A May 5 1918 singing convention will be held at Pleasant Hill church for all Central township churches with Dr F E F Porter and son Fletcher leading. Fletcher Porter, aboard the U S battleship Oklahoma, plans a Norfolk return this week after studying for Annapolis. Frank Kirksey, a Greenville streetcar conductor, was injured by a mail truck though not seriously. Home Demonstration Club lessons feature cottage cheese making with Mrs W Finley. next meeting with Mrs Vesta McFall on the 24th. Miss Mildred Cox, daughter of Mr and Mrs Isaiah Cox of Pickens, has had her photo widely published with a description of her work for the U S government and War Risk Insurance duties, including signing 25000 checks daily and handling substantial funds.
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