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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1912
Page
3
Saturday’s ideal spring weather noted with reminders of the mayoral election on the 3rd and a Liberty horse swappers convention. Social visits span Easley Greenville Pickens Liberty and Six Mile with marriages, arrivals, illnesses, and church notices. a missing lap robe and a reward offer wrap the brief.
Col Richard Lenhardt of Pickens county dies at 85 near Easley after successive strokes. Survived by seven children including R F Lenhardt and B D Lenhardt. Funeral at family burying ground four miles north of Greenville with large gathering of relatives and friends.
A market notice offers a bay horse with buggy and wagon for sale along with 20 bales of hay and 300 cans of beans and tomatoes plus other articles. Cash terms. Liberty location listed under Carlos Gantt. 8 C.
County teachers are requested to meet in the Pickens graded school building on February 10 at 10:30 A M. The meeting aims to reorganize the teachers association and discuss progress problems in county schools. K T Hallum County Superintendent of Education.
Prof J E Crim principal of the Baptist Academy at Six Mile has tendered his resignation and it was accepted by the board. The school will continue with other teachers in charge until a new principal is found. Dormitory duties pass to Prof Cantrell and wife with Miss Richardson Jones and Brett as acting principal. Trustees report progress and urge continued community support.
A note argues Ireland's true national color is azure from its arms, not green. It refutes beliefs that green is national and asserts the heraldic blue symbolizes Ireland, quoting the Argonaut.
Announcements name J P Hyde as mayoral candidate for Pickens and G R Hendricks as candidate for mayor with election set for February 3 1912. J F Harris also announced by friends as candidate for mayor pending voters action in the February 3 1912 election.
The Census Bureau reports pellagra caused 368 deaths in 1910 United States. North Carolina had the highest death rate and 71.5 percent of victims were female. The disease rose after 1910 with no identified cause or cure.
I extend heartfelt gratitude to friends for faithful untiring help during our sickness and to Dr Woodruff for medical aid. May heavenly blessings rest on all, and a home in Heaven. J F Stephens and family
Classifieds list Rent for a five room house with outbuildings and two acres near town, sale of A B Cameron property in Pickens, and poultry offers. Also notes on Tom Watson’s political stance, a Decatur to Falls City rail survey, Knight Yancey forgery expulsion, Canadian war vessel tenders, and local political announcements.
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