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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1913
Page
4
Local schedule notes report Town Creek and Keowee schools starting summer sessions on July 14 and July 1 with teachers Ada Craig and J.W. Ballentine. Antioch school to begin a nine month term Monday July 14. Various residents and visitors travel to Atlanta Greenville Clemson Anderson and Asheoville for business visits or vacations.
Avery Looper of this county works as a salesman for C. D. Stradley & Co. of Greenville and is spending his vacation with friends and relatives in his home county.
A box supper will be held at Mrs. W. B. Freeman's home next Monday night hosted by Sunday School Class No. 3 of the Methodist church. Boxes sold to the highest bidder to raise funds for the church furnace recently purchased.
T. M. Garret of this county, who has spent the last two years in Panama, is visiting friends and relatives locally and plans to return to Panama about July 28.
At the picnic event on Friday Gignil Liatt Christopher widened his margin from the power plant gathering. Unless he falls ill there is little chance anyone will overtake him this season.
Mr and Mrs W. 1k Freeman and W J Jr visited relatives in Pickens last week plus Ernest now located in Savannah Ga holding a position with a large hardware firm. Miss Emily Bright hosted a lawn party last Thursday with many friends and a compliment to her hosting. Progressive conversation and ice cream were enjoyed by all. The young people hope for another party.
Several Pickens people attended the fourth of July celebration at Williamston on Friday. Named participants include Nellie Treman, J N Hallam, John Craig, Ernest and Weldon Christopher, Ernest Alexander, F W Moleskey, and John B Craig, with Grace Prince accompanying from Greenville.
Reward offered for the return of a large black and white spotted sow with a smooth crap and under bite on the left and an underslope on the right. Lost since April 7. Reward $5. Contact Joshua Crow, Brevard North Carolina Route 1.
For sale 20 to 26 shares of Pickens Oil mill stock at 65 cents. Also 55 acres of unimproved land adjoining Norris Cotton Mill. Price 2500 dollars. Contact T. C. Robinson in Commerce, Georgia.
Albert Babb died at his home near here early Monday after two months of illness despite medical care. A Confederate veteran, he moved to the county twenty years ago from Greenville. He was 78 and survived by his widow and ten grown children.
The Baptist church ladies organize a July 10 youth event on the courthouse lawn in Pickens. Refreshments will be served and the band will finish music. All are invited to attend.
Mr. Bruce Hagood and family have returned from a trip to Mrs. Hagood's parents in Tiber ton Georgia.
The committee of Keowee camp No 496 invites all county camps with families to a court house lawn picnic on August 7. Speakers will explain woodcraft and featured guests will attend. Hagood school district 38 begins July 21 with Miss Essie Kelly teaching again. Carlisle Newton mourns loss of a valuable horse, his second this year.
A real estate notice lists ten farm tracts near Pickens and Pumpkintown with acreages from 30 to 141 12 and prices from 35 to 65 per acre. Several tracts include houses, barns, and cultivated land with varied terms, and one balanced mix of timber and pasture. For details contact the seller.
Rural routes established at Kingstree lead to Benson and Zeb offices being discontinued. Columbia reports a surge in anti typhoid fever vaccine demand that current lab capacity cannot meet. Yorkville notes a mule mortally poisoned by blood poisoning. Landrum postmaster Durham begins duties, succeeding G. C. Page after 12 years. Superintendent of education in Kingstree passes duties to Raymond N. Spelgner by one vote. National Guard inspector Boswell reassigned to Virginia Beach. Lutheran group works toward shared Sunday school materials for all Lutherans in America. Walterboro welcomes Strickland as Colleton education chief. Chicora College trustees discuss site options. Greenwood schools elect principal J C Martin and several teachers, with Sept 15 opening set. Colleton County Fair directors set next county fair date.
An order from Associate Justice Watts directs the comptroller general to honor a $1,260 warrant for Dominick for services in a state bond case. The sinking fund commission action approving Dominick’s claim was rejected after a mandamus petition. Dominick, now assistant attorney general, had been engaged by the governor.
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