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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1913
Page
1
A roundup of visitors and residents exchanging holiday greetings. Guests include Miss Cleo Bailey of Anderson and Miss Eva Wyatt of Columbia College, with several trips to Spartanburg Laurens and Anderson. The piece also covers school openings, pastor assignment, and a skeptical view on landlord signed tenant payments amid a parcel post critique.
Edward and Leo Winchester and family in Valhalla return home last Saturday. Townes and Gravleys and Pauline Townes spent Friday of Christmas week at the Welborn home. Thomas Cantrell, recently in Montana, is visiting home. Bruce Ligon, formerly of this county now in Eiberton Ga., visited last week. A pointer pup, six months old, liver colored on white ring, strayed near Mr. Baker's home last Sunday.
Christmas passed quietly with few parties and weddings. W R Ticks moved to the H M Simmons house, and his family is pleased. J H Heaton shows health improvement after months of feeble health. Mr and Mrs M Arthur Jones of Easley visited relatives here.
A fragment from a column mixes a poem about celebrated artists who die alone with local notes. It mentions Peters Creek moving to Oakvale, Leila Jones’s visit, family relocations, church news, a blizzard, doctor pledges, and Bible verse urging charity. Best wishes for the New Year.
Health in this section is very good at this writing. Rev. Mr. Lupo preached his first sermon at Porter's chapel Sunday to a large crowd. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart of Greenville spent Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Watt. Mrs. Lemuel D. Gravley returned from Greenville where she was called for ill mother and sister. Mr. Wilson Watl moved to Greenville. Tommie Cantrell, back from Montana, is home. Bob Porter visited him. Acker Porter and daughter Myrtie visited J. H. Louis'. Esther Gravley and Luther entertained friends Saturday night. Elbert Porter went to Pea Ridge for Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Julian were guests of Zack Jones. Grover Dacus of Sugar Valley, Ga., visiting Easley area. John Stewart and J. A. Welborn visited Sunday. Mrs. Millie Hendrix and daughter May of Easley visited John Anthony Sunday. Jim Fede y of Cross Roads area was here Sunday. L. F. Smith spent weekend with relatives near Dacusville. Arthur Jones and John P. Porter visited at Joel H. Miller's. Horton Hunter Sunday. Pearl Turner returned to Travelers Rest to resume teaching. Bramlett Poster of Atlanta is home on vacation. Robt. Stewart and family will move to Pickens this week. Mr. and ES Vanderbilt Freeman of Pickens visiting. Flossie Williams returned from Vineland visit. Geneva Jooper of Looper's Gin visited Ruth Hendrix. Mrs. Geo. McGill of Greenville is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Sim Hendrix. Rexie, a?
On December 21 1912 a fire alarm woke Six Mile residents. S C Martins barn burned with thirty to fifty bushels of corn and about 600 bundles of fodder lost. Nearby buildings saved. Stock escaped unharmed. Six Mile Baptist Academy opened December 20 1912 with many new students and year ends with Christmas cheer.
The column reports improving health among residents after colds and grip. Mrs. John Welborn shows recovery from fever while Mrs. Laslie Shirley remains seriously ill at her brother Jasper Lesley’s home. A. A. Adams and family relocate near Pickens as Five Fork school progresses under principal Claudy Ellenburg.
At Keowee Graded School under the school improvement association Prof W K Tate of Columbia S C will address patrons and pupils in the new auditorium next Friday night January 10th His subject Rural School Improvement The public invited and urged for strong school representation R A Gentry Principal Keowee Graded School
In a historical letter Jo Jo critiques doctor led debt schemes against tenants and questions landlord liens on medical bills. The writer urges funds be redirected from foreign missions to home medical relief and calls for collective action at the next meeting to ease local conditions.
The Southern Presbyterian Church launches a broad Stewardship drive to gather members and boost support for church work. Conferences across the South from Virginia to Texas and Florida to Oklahoma will host sixty three meetings in January and early February, with Piedmont Presbytery holding one at Anderson South Carolina led by Dr C G Varmgs.
The Fifth National Corn Exposition in Columbia Washington opens January 27 with six feature days and distinguished speakers detailing agricultural progress. The two week event ends February 8 and includes rural life conferences and social development topics for visitors.
The exposition will stage special dress days with prominent speakers on pertinent topics. Saturday marks Boys' Day and the close of the Exposition School for Prize Winners during the first week. The second week’s program is nearly complete and the full speaker list will be announced soon.
An earthquake of notable violence struck the Piedmont section of South Carolina at 1 30 PM last Wednesday causing chimneys to topple and cracks in Union County jail. The tremor lasted five to six seconds, with a low in country rumble and strong effects reported in Pickens and surrounding areas.
Pickens county has eight citizens who pay income tax. John L. Harris, son of townsman T. D. Harris, visited during holidays and is a traveling salesman, known as a knight of the grip, working the Atlanta area and possibly relocating to Alabama or Louisiana to open up territory for his house.
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