Letter from Coloney Reports Local Illness and Events
Mrs. T. L. Roper is critically ill with pneumonia at home. Miss Clarice Keith, tele phone operator at Pickens, spent the weekend with relatives. Prof. Hammond and Mrs. Hammond visited relatives in Seneca and Pickens. Various locals visited family and friends in Pickens. An unknown person fired into a prominent family’s dwelling after dark Saturday. Prof. W. M. Hammond will lecture next Saturday at Cedar Rock schoolhouse. Township churches plan a singing convention at Holly Springs on the first Sunday in March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. L. Roper
Clarice Keith
Pickens
Miss Keith
Volenoy
Prof. Hammond
Seneca
Hammond
Paul Edeng
Jessie
Montine
George E. Keith
Jesse Morris
M. Hendrix
W. I., Batson
Marietta
Pearl Sutherland
Ione Hendrix
B. Edens
W. B. Jones
Robert Baker
B. F. McDaniel
A. A. Jones
Griffin
W.F. Hendrix
W. M. Hammond
Cedar Rock
Wastatoe Township
Holly Springs
Mastatoe
Pumpkintown Happenings and a Tragic Mule Accident
Sunday events in Pumpkintown include Miss Clovie Hendricks and Miss Mattie White in the Grove area with J. S. Burgess and new songs. A 10 year old colored boy was badly injured when a mule dragged him and many details remain uncertain as a doctor was summoned. T. W. Ellenbure reports a mule death in Pleasant Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clovie Hendricks
Mattie White
Sant Grove
J. S. Burgess
T. W. Ellenbure
Pleasant Grove
Local News Roundup from Pickens County and Nearby Areas
News notes from the Eastern Side reporting on a stroke illness of W Ernest Holcombe at Farrs Bridge, local motor car purchases by W B Doc Hester Bob Jamison and George W Linthem, Hunter's Mills power plant construction nearing completion, weekend visits among Lathem family members and friends, a death in Anderson County of P Orr at age 68 with burial at Jamison cemetery, and various social visits and travel of local residents including Miss Daisy Philpot and Miss Alma Lathem in Travelers Rest and Dacusville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Ernest Holcombe
Farr’s Bridge
Pickens County
Ern
Messrs
Anderson
Nelson Looper
Leila Looper
Killa May Ferguson
Greenville
Ford Automobiles
W. B
Doc) Hester
Bob Jamison
George W. Linthem
Frank Lenhardt
Hunter’s Mill
Tulberry
Liberty
Beckie Jamison
Texas
Oklahoma
Edith Lenhardt
B. D. Lenhardt
Patti Major
L’. Wyatt
Daisy Philpot
Alma Lathem
Hall W. Hiatt
Central
Travelers Rest
Dacusville
E. B. Lathem
A. W.tanner
Mile Creek and Other Pickens County Rural Schools Progress
Pickens County notes show Mile Creek school hosting a successful literary society meeting with talks by Prof. R T Hallam and A Bowen. Teachers Bennie Duckworth and Mrs Murphy emphasize community cooperation and a growing rural library now valued at seventy five dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Literary Society
Mile Creek School
R. T. Hallam
Il’. A. Bowen
Bennie Duckworth
Lawrence Murphy
Pickens County
Mile Creek
New Domestic Science Office For Pickens County
Miss Elizabeth Mauldin daughter of Elias Mauldin of Easley has been appointed instructor of domestic science for Pickens County and will begin March 1. The position, created for the county, will oversee tomato and canning clubs and other domestic science work. Mauldin, a Winthrop graduate and former Pickens teacher, is noted as competent and popular. Funding comes mainly from the United States government with a small county share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Mauldin
Elias Mauldin
Easley
Pickens
Miss Mauldin
Mauldin
Winthrop College
Thorely
Pickens County
United States
Fertilizer Price Talk and Home Mixing Advice
T. A. Bowen county agent led meetings in Pickens county with Chap man of Greenville and Byars of Anderson to discuss fertilizer use purchase and options. They urged avoiding potash due to high cost and touted home mixing saving up to 10 dollars a ton. Prices for cash buyers were listed for various mixtures and sources of ammonia were highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Bowen
Pickens County
Chapman
Greenville County
Byars
Anderson County
Clemson College
T. A. Bowes
Act
Clerks of Court of Pickens County
A historical sketch recounts the clerks of Pickens and nearby Oconee counties. It highlights Robert A. Bowen as the first Pickens clerk, John J. Lewis as a long serving official, Rev J.M. Stewart, and the current clerk A John Boggs, noting their public service and Civil War ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pickens
Old Pickens
Oconee
Robert A. Bowen
Pickens County
Pickens C. H
Bowen
Virginia
John I. Kennedy
Old Thalian Academy
Lewis
United States
U.S
J.M. Stewart
A. John Boggs
Aaron Boggs
John W. L. Carey
John C. Calhoun
Hogwallow Trial Notes and Odd Local Vignettes
The Nexecelsior Widdling Band testified at Sim Flinders trial in Rye Straw. the band saw him cross the road with a sack of geese, but the music was not admitted as evidence. Winsby Hancock learns owl feather bedding keeps him awake. A Rye Straw storekeeper recalls bachelor days and visiting women in his store. Dunk Bors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nxecelsior
Sim Flinders
Rye Straw
Sim
Winsby Hancock
Rye
Dunk Bors
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