Uncle Ambros Gilstrap Dies at 84 in Little Kastatoo
Uncle Ambros Gilstrap died at his home on Little Eastatoe June 21. Funeral services were held at Friendship Methodist church led by William Gravely. At 84 he served four years in the Civil War and leaves a wife eight children 42 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. The bereaved family has many friends' sympathy.
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Ambros Gilstrap
Little Eastatoe
Friendship Methodist Church
Wm. Gravely
Little Kastatoo
Methodist Church
Rand
Graig Bros Co Buys Old Rubber and Metals
Graig Bros Co advertises purchase of old rubber including boots and shoes and buys old copper brass lead wine and other metals. They state they pay the highest price for eggs chickens and poultry.
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Graig Bros. Co
Grace Methodist Church Holds Large Sacramental Service
Sunday at Grace Methodist Church Pickens reports the largest Sunday school enrollment of the year. Twenty baptized adults plus five infant baptisms joined the church, with seventy seven others receiving by vows or certificates. Lord's Supper observed as ninety seven partook. Next Sunday Rev Kirby travels to High Point North Carolina for a dedication. Prayer meetings weekly Wednesday at 8 30.
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Grace Methodist
Kirby
High Point
North Carolina
Asheville
Murphy
Mrs Hendricks Hosts First Anniversary Tea
Mrs Hendricks entertained on June 86th commemorating her first wedding anniversary with Mrs E A White of Atlanta as guest. The veranda featured pink and white decor, bowls of sweet peas, and wedding flower arrangements. Guests included Mrs G R Hendricks and several Hendricks family members. attire ranged from charmeuse gowns to lace and embroidery. Out of town attendees were Mrs K A White and Miss Sarah Bess Clement of Atlanta and Mrs Laura Alexander of Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. BR. Hendricks
E. A. White
Atlanta
Mattiel’indley
Emily Thornley
Sarah Bess Clement
Mary Morris
G. R. Hendricks
I. A. White
Bettie Hendricks
J. T. Partridge
Ben Hendricks
Grace Hendricks
Mattie Tinley
K A. White
Laura Alexander
Birmingham
Ala
Pickens Route 3 Happenings and Local Notes
Local column reports healthy community and good crops with cool spring delays. Notes include Mr Hampton Wield cotton field issues and Mr Mack Gravley hog loss, death of Hon. Fred Williams, Get tysboro battle Get tysboro visit, a lightning Kills a boy named Gantt, Miss Weather Edens Ruth Cannon visiting Emma Welborn, all day singing at Cord church, Rev W C Seaborn sermon at Mountain Grove, Pickens visitors and health trips to Blue Ridge foothills, and road improvements requested to ease travel to health resorts.
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Hampton Wield
Mack Gravley
Fred Williams
George
Robert Welborn
Gettysboro
Poy
Gantt
Wsther Edens
Ruth Cannon
Pickens
Emma Welborn
Concord Church
Pickens Route 2 Attendees at Cord All Day Singing
Several from this side attended the all day singing at Concord Sunday. Mrs J R Griffin and her sons Ross and LeRoy visited at R K Lewis's last Friday night. Vessie and Lillie Lewis visited Mr and Mrs A D Bolding recently. Corn looks promising on Pearidge. cotton not as well. J A Hunnicutt lost a milk cow last week. Walter Bolding visited John Bolding recently. Correspondents, let us hear from you, Blue Birds.
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Concord
J. R. Griffin
Ross and
LeRoy
R. K. Lewis
Vessie
Lillie Lewis
A. D. Bolding
Pearidge
J. A. Hunnicutt
Walter Bolding
John Bolding
Blue Birds
Dots From Murphy Well Reports Corn Crop Praise
crops look fine with no rain in four weeks Silas Madden tends 10 acre bottom of corn praised for finest field this summer and a fine son born June 17 making seven boys and one girl Reverend Murphy preached at Salem last Sunday J C Alexander and wife visited Murphree family Rambler column notes.
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Silas Madden
Silas
Rev
B. I. Murphy
Salem
J.C. Alexander
B. EF. Murphree
Rambler
Winthrop College Scholarship Exam Held in Pickens County
The examination for a Winthrop College scholarship will take place in the Pickens County courthouse on Friday July 4. Local residents may participate. details accompany the notice and specify eligibility and exam time.
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Winthrop College
Pickens County
Social and Local News Items From Easley
Miss Louise Best of Pacolet spent last week with friends in Easley. George Prince of Greenville spent the weekend in Easley. The Watkins family from Greenville visited Dr H E Russell last week. Several others visited, attended events, or returned from trips. A. J. King became postmaster on July 2. The Y W A of First Baptist hosted contests and ice course. A groom to be, Miss Sellers and Roy Smith, were married. they left for New York and points North. Monuments were unveiled at West View cemetery with Hon E K McCravey delivering the address.
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Louise Best
Pacolet
Easley
George Prince
Greenville
J. N. Watkins
Fannie and
Floride Watkins
H. E. Russell
Ruth _King
Myrtle Scott
J. E. Leach
Abbeville
P. C. Johnson
EK. V. Babb
New York
Morton Nichols
Atlanta
R. J. Gilliland
Claude PP. Wyatt
United States Navy
Chief McKinney
Eleanor Chappel
Ninety Six
J. H. Myers
Tate Springs
W. J." Wiggins
Lou Bolt
Anderson
C. D. Bolt
Milton Clapp
Barbara
Milton
Salisbury
N. C
E. P. McCravey
Pickens
T. I. Nelson
Anderson County
Piedmont Union
Mt. Pisgah
W.B Higgins
Gastonia
Bill Folger
Bartlesville
Oklahoma
Joseph I. Leach
Robinson Carey couple wed in Easley home ceremony
Catherine Eberhart Robinson and Jas P Carey Jr married at 5 pm Wednesday at the bride’s Easley home in a quiet ceremony due to a bereavement. Ministers W E Wiggins and J D Holler officiated. the bride, a Winthrop graduate and former teacher, and the groom, a Pickens attorney, plan to live in Pickens after July 15 and travel to Washington after the ceremony.
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Catherine Eberhart Robinson
Jas. P. Carey, Jr
J. E. Robinson
Easley
W. EE. Wiggins
Fountain Inn
J. D. Holler
Winthrop College
Jas. P. Carey
Pickens
Greenville
Washington
Tate Springs
Tenn
Jones Hendricks wedding at Jones home
Miss Jennie Grace Jones wed Bennett L Hendricks Wednesday afternoon in a ceremony at the home of Mr and Mrs EB L Jones. Rev D W Hiatt officiated under a daisied arch as Geneva Looper led the wedding march. The couple will live with the groom’s mother near Pickens.
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EB. L. Jones
Jennie Grace
Bennett L. Hendricks
Geneva Looper
D. W. Hiatt
Klorence Sutherland
Nellie Grandy
Hannie Grace Hughes
Rockefeller to Budget 3 Million Annually for Southern Education
John D. Rockefeller plans to spend 3 000 000 a year through the General Board of Education to educate Southern farmers and aid farm mortgage loans and home building. The effort will involve the Department of Agriculture and local boards to select crop sections and oversee financial assistance. Local notes mention a lost fountain pen and community happenings in Atlanta and among local figures.
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John D. Rockefeller
General Board of Education
Southern Home Building
Rockefeller
Southern Board of Education
Department of Agriculture
Houston
Parsons Host Lavish Lawn Party In Pickens
Mr and Mrs B I Parsons entertain a large lawn party at their Pickens home attracting about 800 guests. The event featured electric lights, Japanese lanterns, a punch booth by Mary Morris and Mary Best Clement, the Pickens band in new uniforms, piano solos by Trene Clark and Margaret Booker, and several out of town attendees from Greenville Taylors Anderon Liberty New York and Texas.
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Pickens
B. I. Parsons
Mary Morris
Mary Best Clement
Pickens Band
Trene Clark
Margaret Booker
Taylors
Pauline Elrod
Anderson
Carla Chapman
Irene Clark
May
Daisy Willis
Sheldon
Messrs
Alonzo
Harry Chapman
George Anderson
J. P. Glenn
Claude Smith
Liberty
C. P. Wyatt
New York
Wade Boges
Texas
Scholarships for Boys Open in Pickens County
Four vacant scholarships for Pickens County boys with exams at the courthouse on Friday July 11. Two awards at Clemson College, one at University of South Carolina, and one at College of Charleston.
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Pickens County
Court House
Riday
Clemson College
University of South Carolina
College of Charleston
Mill News Boy Killed by Lightning in Village
A Sunday storm struck near the brick yard killing Demus Gantt age 15 and severely shocking Homer Davis. Gantt was buried at Second Monday. The issue notes local illnesses, marriages, and community events including a Glenwood mill wedding, repairs, and upcoming July 4 plans.
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Demus Gantt
Homer Davis
Demus
John Gantt
Homer
Edd Davis
Young Gantt
Chastain Stewart
J. B. Newber
Johnson Tathen
Glenwood
Easley
Mattie Stewart
Pickens Mill
Proom
Idd Davis
Kk. J. Wolf
Spartanburg
W. A. Patterson
CO. A. Waters
J. B. Holland
Asheville
N. C
L. K. Hughes
Holder's Ford
J. A. Hughes
Laurens County
L. J. Hughes
L. Adams
Griffin
Angie Pace
Fred Williams
A. Parsons
Gertrude Bryant
Vann Whitmire
North Carolina
Walter Pace
Stores Close July Fourth 1913 Agreement
We the undersigned agree to close our places of business on Friday July 4th 1913. Craig Bros Co Pickens Idn Co KR B Waldrop T D Harris J A Richey Toler Thornley Co Heath Bruce Morrow Co.
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Craig Bros Co
Pickens Idn. Co
KR. B. Waldrop
T. D
Harris
J. A. Richey
Toler, Thornley & Co
Heath Bruce Morrow Co
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B. I. Robertson
Hattie Boggs
M. A. Boggs
W. H. Boggs
Kathrine
Edna Boggs
Cathe*Chapman
Augusta
W. M. Walker
Union
White Water
Oconee County
R. EK. Boggs
BE. F. Allgood
J. A. Allgood
Joel
Jessie Smith
W. R. Stewart
A. F. McCord
Gettysburg
L. A. Boggs
Wilmer Newton
J. C
L. G. Gillespie
Lewis Gillespie
Flat Rock Section
Mrs. Hendricks
Jake Smith
Hasley
Summerville
S. C
Masley
Mattie Jameson Bramlett
Wasley
W. E. Wiggins
Wiggins
R. T. Hallam
The
Sentinel
Bro. Holler
Bro. Wiggins
Julian Hiott
Ki. W. Hiott
Mrs. Parsons
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