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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1915
Page
4
A collage of remarks on politics and society interwoven with editorials and jokes. The column touches Woodrow Wilson, Tarration, Gen Grant, Mr Parker joining the Greenville Piedmont, John L Sullivan as a temperance speaker, tariff debates, and playful quips about public figures and a buried poem.
Prominent lawyer Hon S G Mayfield visited his sister Mrs W M Ponder in Dacusville. Easley’s Miss Margaret Jameson visits Mrs Ford Williams. The community plans an extended NC trip. Davis Hunt visits family in Charleston. Local ball game: Lenhardt team loses 4 1 to Dacusville. School opens September with Prof Lupo and assistants. Several graduates win Clemson and Winthrop honors. health generally good.
Mrs W R Lynch and John Bruce return home near Seneca after a pleasant visit with relatives on route 3. Mrs M B Prince of Easley route 3% visits her father R S Lewis. Essie Kelley spends weeks with her mother A E Kelley. Flora Kelley and cousin G B Lynch visit Esther Gravley. Willie Winchester visits her mother in Oconee county. Essie Porter visits friends at Six Mile. T A Kelley and sons Henry and Hansell visit relatives near Keneca. Earle Chastain and sister visit W A Porter last Sunday.
The Pickens Township Singing convention meets at Pickens Baptist Church next Sunday at 3 o clock with singers and leaders invited. A fifth Sunday session at Coneo Church on August 29 at 10 a m will be an all day singing with Pross R M Bolding J S Murphree and T M Eliott attending. Bring baskets and join in worship led by J W Garnett secretary and R L Henderson president.
An advertisement touts Wall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Catarrh Cure as internal remedies that reach the bloodstream to treat catarrh. It endorses F J Cheney & Co Toledo as makers. A brief political aside notes Atlanta mayor Jim Woodward again facing recall, and Florida gubernatorial candidates Wood Knott Catts spurred a jokey line from Greenville News.
The Liberty Township Singing convention will meet with Golden Grove Wesleyan church two and a half miles south of Liberty on the fourth Sunday in August. Everyone is invited to attend and bring song books and dinner. S. E. Rocers, Sec. and Treas.
A Hartwell Georgia reader recalls a man who claimed poverty kept him from subscribing yet bought a horse training recipe for 1.50 from a fake farm paper. The pamphlet allegedly taught the horse to spit, illustrating a cautionary prank about deceptive publications.
A woman failed to reach the telephone as others talked on the line. After a sharp quip about burning beans, she heard a scream and finally managed to place her call.
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