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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1916
Page
5
We present the newest white footwear and invite friends in Icken County to view our complete summer stock of shoes and Oxfords. Each firm member and salesman specializes in shoes and fit, ensuring correct fitting. We take pleasure in helping you find the right shoe and offer a service hard to find elsewhere. Our Pick County customer base grows yearly due to honest values and courteous treatment.
The Twelve Mile River association holds a union meeting with Mountain View Baptist church on July 29 30 1916. Program includes sermons queries on scripture duties church leadership devotions Sunday school missionary sermon and a closing long service by Prof. R M Bolding. Liberty township singing convention at Enon church follows on the third Sunday in July. Everyone invited with songbooks and baskets.
The Hiawatha hotel opened last Friday under William H. Harris and associates who will run the business in the future. The hotel aims to draw summer boarders with climate water and cool nights. Pickens should see steady occupancy all summer with proper advertising.
A large gathering attended a Fourth of July family reunion at James If Hudson's home. A mis-set dining table overflowed with a delicious repast prepared by the ladies. Rev. St. White gave a short, impressive talk before everyone departed hoping for future gatherings.
Announce candidate A S Porter declares run for re election as magistrate of Pickens township under Democratic party rules. This formal notice names Porter as the incumbent seeking another term.
Report notes that a single attempt was made in Spartanburg region and questions whether Fourth of July observances were seen in Pickens county.
Local readers imagine wealth and progress, proposing an electric line to the top of Table Rock and the construction of a hotel, as a symbol of modern growth by Pickens millionaires.
In a Pickens Sentinel excerpt, Col. Rion McKissick of Greenville is said to have had fourteen dollars and a speech stolen from his pockets while he slept in a hotel. The piece dismisses the money as a likely fairy tale and mocks editors for claiming such sums.
The Pickens Association executive committee schedules a two day meeting at Griffin Baptist Church on July 29 30 with devotional services officers elected and a series of discussions on church unity member discipline Sunday school duties and the role of singing in worship The Mekens Township Singing convention will assist with singing both days.
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