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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1915
Page
4
Local and Personal column with names of residents visiting Greenville on business. Mentions J Chastain, M H Thackston, Avery Looper, F Haynes, Douglas Yongue, Weldon Christopher, George A Ellis, and others. Notes include tax deadline extension, still destruction, and community events such as a prayer meeting at Riley Robinson’s home and a singing convention at Secona church.
Messrs. J. E. Singleton and J. E. Friddle, noted Dacusville residents, were in Pickens on business Tuesday. Singleton also took advantage of a clubbing offer with the Progressive karmer.
Rev D W Hiatt expects to have with him at several churches on the third Sunday in April D J Fant famed engineer evangelist of Atlanta Ga Fant will also address the Pickens Baptist church that Sunday More definite announcement will follow
McSwain and Craig represent the state in the Perry Anders case set for next week. A. K. Hughes of Laurens county near Ware Shoals visits. his mother Mrs. Larkin Hughes plans to live with him. Ford W. Williams offers Sentinel renewals around Dacusville. J. B. Aiken resigns as Greenville Daily Piedmont business manager to become Southeastern Life district agent in Florence. R. H. Sweet renews Sentinel subscription. his wife reads it. W. C. Richey and son visit Pickens to see R. L. Davis family. Richey attends farmers meeting. Robinson binds over George Holcombe, J. A. Ramey, Will Johnson, Earle Galbrath, and Ed Chapman for February 20 hearing on internal revenue charges. Trammell's Music Palace becomes a Kimball Piano Co. branch in the McFall building beside the garage. Treasurer Stewart urged to keep tax books open to April 1 with penalties starting after.
The piece notes the payment of twenty five cents per registration and that families do not pay for birth or death certificates. It then shares two lemon tales: a large lemon in B F Parsons yard and another in C L Cureton’s yard measuring fourteen inches around and weighing one pound six ounces.
Sheriff Roark and Deputy Sheriff Christopher captured Ed Moore in this county who was wanted in Brevard North Carolina for stealing. The prisoner was sent to North Carolina and returned to Pickens jail. San Proctor, also colored, who broke out of the Easley guard house two years ago, was recaptured by North Carolina authorities in Asheville and will be in court at the next term.
Greenville police report Policeman Myers fatally wounded a Black man named Kid Davis during a resisting arrest incident last week. Davis reportedly drew a razor on the officer before the shooting. Myers was released on a $1500 bond.
Chicora College in Greenville is likely to relocate to Columbia after this session and merge with the College for Women. Both colleges are under the Presbyterian denomination in the state.
A Washington man sues theatre management for 1500 dollars claiming he suffered great mental pain and anguish when a chorus girl rushed the aisle and kissed him during a performance while his wife was present.
Simple family dinner ideas include creamed spinach mutton ragout with macaroni and banana lettuce salad followed by peach cream whip. A lecture by Mrs Amy Weech of Alexandria Va at the Methodist church Thursday at 8 pm, hosted by local W C T U members, praised as a chance not to miss.
Mrs. R C Saufley piloted a biplane with a Sperry stabilizer over New York City Brooklyn and the Statue of Liberty reaching 1000 feet at one point. She becomes the first woman aviator to fly over New York.
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