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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1916
Page
4
A collage of remarks on social mores, politics, and community life. The piece references local figures like Harold Booker and Miles Long, discusses the new Chinese president Yuan Shikai, railroads and good roads funding, bird clubs, and flood concerns. It urges child outreach for birds, notes Wilson era road bills, and previews regional newspaper banter.
A speaker denounces factionalism in South Carolina politics urging independent judgment at the ballot box. He argues both sides are to blame, warns of unfit officials, and calls for men who think for themselves regardless of faction. The piece also critiques illiteracy and compulsory education, noting many would-be soldiers cannot read or write.
The Spartanburg Journal notes traffic doubts around Pickens while telephone service between the city and Pickens is interrupted. The piece playfully questions who would want to talk to Pickens and hints at local moonshine thinking amid water waste this week.
A Pickens man quips he has never tasted the German blockade and thus cannot comment on it. The remark captures wartime humor about shortages and international conflict. He offers no concrete stance beyond his taste reference.
The Pickens Sentinel and Toccoa Record report storm damage delayed mail delivery causing an inside section failure and forcing a four page edition to be issued.
A reader from Tunnel Hill Georgia forwards 50 cents for a six month renewal of The Sentinel. The note says the paper brings all the news from their old native county. Signed by Mrs. S H Brown.
Gary Hiott manager of The Pickens Sentinel spent time in Spartanburg on a mountain vacation route home. He has made The Sentinel a highly quoted and engaging weekly with his popular paragraph column.
Edens Pressing Club announces a new service in the J. F. Harris office building with Hays Hallums as the employed workman. They offer cleaning and alteration, specialty dry cleaning for ladies suits coats kid gloves and other items with prices 25c and 50c.
Children’s Day will be observed at Pickens Methodist church next Sunday morning at 11. A Mission Study Bible class will meet there Sunday afternoon at 5. Sheriff Roark captured John Washington, a negro, in a Paris station construction camp near Greenville. he’s jailed in Pickens and will be tried at the next court term for housebreaking and larceny.
A protracted meeting starts the third Sunday in August at Pickens Baptist Church. Rev H K Williams will assist Pastor Dr Ramsay. Town and country residents are cordially invited to attend and join in prayer for a general revival of religion.
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