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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1888
Page
4
Greenville items report city lighting plans, farm crops, insurance ads, and local trades. Notices mention Whooping cough near Union School, a candidate list for state and county offices, and a church sacrament. Social items cover a May meeting, a wedding reception, and school exhibitions with prizes awarded.
A meeting of Pickens County farmers is called to meet at the Court House on Saturday May 12 after the County Convention adjourns. Important questions will be submitted for consideration and full representation is hoped.
The attorney general advised in Gorosmin April that after the $50,000 pension appropriation is exhausted the pension board may continue to pass on applications and report decisions to the comptroller general. The issue remains whether the comptroller general should issue warrants for pensions beyond the appropriation.
A neighbor quarrel over a boil leads to a sermon on medical reform. An offer to send a 200 page brochure from Der. Starkey & Palen of Arch Street Philadelphia is extended for free, promising healthier systems.
The Reverend Go Thayer of Bourbon Indiana praises Shilohs Vitaliser Cure saying it saved his life and that of his wife. The ad claims relief from indigestion constipation dizziness and loss of appetite and offers a 50 cent bottle of Shilohs Cure for sale by Banes and Winnie.
Trainee No 50 provides Pullman sleeping cars between Charleston and Louisville with through passenger codes to Morristown via Roanoke and Spartanburg. Tickets available at principal stations. JAS T Taylor General Passenger Agent.
The State and Pickens County sheriff will sell on Salesday in May 1888 at Pickens Court House the highest bidder. Properties include multiple tracts in Tasley Town ship Hurricane and Pickens Mastatoe Pupkintown and other townships totaling parcels of varied sizes, levied for taxes and penalties. Sheriff H. A. Richey notes the sale date and locations.
Toward judgments tor fore closure and cleares of kite in the following entitled anger torwill sell om sideday in may next ontothe court louse during legal hours of sale the following described rinat l4ta re on the terms specified dn the respective ounes to wit.
A rail service between Charleston and Columbia connects upper South Carolina and Western North Carolina. The line operates through Wilmington and Wilmington area towns, expanding regional access.
For Sale. To highest bidder on Saleday in May unless sold privately before. Two mules one mare and filly one twamilson tan mart one wagon one hack one buggy one road cart lot harness and more. Livery stable rental at Pickens South Carolina terms easy. Apply to J. Prask Folge Pickens S C W. Al Hagood Tasley 4S G agpe 1288 20 dt.
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