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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1915
Page
4
A misc. Christmas themed column notes obituary charges, prepaid rates, and tribute terms for The Sentinel. It mentions free notices under a word charge, holiday humor about pay day, local references to Philadelphia and St. Louis, and a nod to Red Cross seals as health defense.
A brief note in the Spartanburg Journal imagines Pickens county distilleries gearing up annually for Booker season with busy activity and bustling production.
A brief item from the Anderson Intelligencer and The Pickens Sentinel notes a Christmas package sent through the express office arriving with the Christmas missing. The remark likens the situation to receiving a holiday parcel without its seasonal content.
Spartanburg Journal invites a Christmas visit to Pickens with host Brother Hiatt and co guest Brother W H Wallace editor of the Shewberry Preserver. The Newberry Observer notes editors Dewberry Preserver and Booker would join Hiatt for Christmas, with Booker pleased by buttermilk and leaving the view to the Pickens county editor.
The Pickens Sentinel notes editor Hiatt is preparing to host and entertain editors from the Dewberry Preserver and The Journal, who have accepted his Christmas invitation for a visit.
A cordial message addresses Bob Gonzales Gary Hiatt Rut McGee Jim Hamel and other South Carolina colleagues. It extends season’s wishes for a very merry Christmas and expresses goodwill among the profession.
A column urges readers to scrutinize gift lists and delay shopping, noting men should fund presents from November salaries and advising showy gifts to teachers. It cautions against personalized acts, suggests tax-funded schooling as a limit, and promotes balanced giving aligned with wealth and social position.
An advertisement promotes Fall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as a constitutional remedy. It claims the medicine acts on blood and mucous surfaces and offers a hundred dollar guarantee if it fails to cure, encouraging readers to request testimonials and circulars. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A Christmas exhortation urges sober, thoughtful celebration honoring Christ’s birth and remembering the poor. It calls for giving, aiding the needy, and making the world brighter, recalling that God gave His Son to redeem humanity.
The year’s end and new beginnings spark resolutions many will pursue though few sustain them. The Sentinel promotes readers using ads to save money and improve habits, listing advertisers like PICKEN Folger Thornley & Hobbs Henderson Co Craig Bros Co Heath Bruce Morrow Co J C Alexander J W Hendricks Pickens Bank Keowee Bank Morris & Co Pickens Hardware & Land Sales A B Taylor Beasley Edwin L Bolt Co TI Snider A K Park Pride Patton Tilman Globe Optical Co Luzianne Coffee W G Stubbs Shoe Co. Greenville area businesses are also named.
The Pickens County Treasurer announces tax collection for State and County taxes from October 15 1914 to December 1 1915 with 1 percent late fee through February 1916 and 2 percent through March 1416. Recipients are urged to request receipts in their township or school district and may pay by check money order or registered mail.
Rev. L. B. Wiggins and family left Monday to visit relatives at Rock Hill Bamberg and other points in the lower part of the state indicating a family trip through the region.
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