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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1915
Page
2
The piece blends jumbled remarks about Billy Sunday and prohibition, a wartime diamond dividend note, a Russian priest award, and satirical quips on husbands and newspapers. It weaves local reaction, labor notes, and political projections with xenial humor and scattered quoted lines.
A brief note from the Orangeburg Times and Democrat reflects on a Massachusetts young lady who wandered six weeks in the woods and ate berries for sustenance, drawing a lesson about simple living and health.
A fragment from The Columbia State and Pickens Sentinel urges readers to join a statewide hunt for a "lonesome swine." The plea emphasizes community effort to locate the missing hog and bring it home.
The York News notes a movement among some preachers to cut their own salaries, arguing that earnest ministers are never paid half of what they are worth and urging self restraint in pay.
A garbled exchange between Greenville and Pickens Sentinel quotes a folk song line about becoming mayor of Stradleyville. The exchange notes Stradleyville does not exist, triggering a humorous local dispute about place names and veracity.
The Jacksonville Times-Union cites a war department classification of 11 of 65 U S universities and colleges where students are habitually in uniform and military discipline is maintained. Clemson is noted among the examples.
A catalog of SC political leaders and officeholders arranged by era, listing names from William 1670 to Richard Irvine Manning with figures like John Rutledge, Henry Laurens, Wade Hampton, Benjamin Tillman, and John Gary Evans. Includes postrevolutionary to early 20th century statesmen and notable figures.
The Farmers' Union is described as educational not political, uniting farmers to share experiences, expose frauds, and support sensible, independent action. It emphasizes voluntary belief, freedom of opinion, and that organization should grow only as farmers empower it.
The piece explains legal tender limits for coins and notes, noting that gold coins and silver dollars may be used for any amount. It reports Greenville's fines from blind tigers, $690 in detective costs, and $1,200 collected. It also mentions a county vote to spend $60,000 on remodeling the old county courthouse and an election result for E Inman as master.
The South Carolina or Lower conference covers about one third more area than the Upper South Carolina conference but trails in membership by around 500. Upper SC reports 48,316 members. Lower SC 48,870, with 3,000 to 4,000 new members added in the past year. There are 145 charges in the Upper and 135 in the Lower conference, and 333 preachers statewide. Richland County is the only county unit split, with about one third in the Upper conference.
Since 1850 the United States population has more than quadrupled and surpassed 100 million. Foreign commerce grew from 318 million to 4.259 billion, exports per capita rose to 23.27, and national wealth climbed from 7 billion to 140 billion. Circulation money reached 3.419 billion. farm property rose from 4 billion to 41 billion. Railways expanded from 9,021 miles to about 260,000, and factory output jumped from 1 billion to over 20 billion.
The Union of the 12 Mile River association meets Salem Baptist church in Oconee county January 29 to 31 1915. Introductory sermon Friday at 11 by Rev E M Bolding with recess for dinner. Morning devotionals Saturday led by moderator and multiple queries addressed by various pastors. Sunday school and preaching by Rev J C Owen with music by Prof R M Bolding. committee signatures S E Garner R P Prince D E Garrett.
Liberty K of P Lodge II held a special meeting last Tuesday evening for conferring the second rank on a member. An oyster supper followed. Officers elected and installed include J. H. Boggs C2 of ACD, C. E. Bush Prelate, W. H. Chapman M E, W. B. Glenn K R S, T. N. Hunter D G, H. Thackston O G, and others.
Warning against mercury containing ointments for catarrh and promotion of Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney Co. Toledo Ohio. Cure is taken internally, acts on blood and mucous surfaces, with assurances of genuineness and free testimonials.
Census Bureau figures show South Carolina with 168,440 farm homes and 315,204 total homes, up from 269,864 ten years earlier. Farm homes share 53 percent, with 70,912 unencumbered, 19,419 encumbered, and 210,904 rented. National totals reach 20,255,555 homes, including 6,123,610 farm and 14,131,945 urban homes.
The timetable outlines 1915 Central Circuit services on the 1st and 3rd Sundays at Central and various chapels including Gap Hill Issaqueena Mill and Lawrence Chapel with times 11 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. Proclaims all invited to attend. Elzie Myers is the pastor.
A 1915 advertising appeal urges cotton farmers in the Cotton States to grow more food on their own land to cut costs. It warns cotton credit is tight and supply merchants will not finance 1915 cotton, promoting Hastings seeds and a free 1915 Seed Book from Hastings & Co., Atlanta, Ga.
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