Local Briefs From Pickens County and Surroundings
A roundup of Pickens locals includes visits from Clemson vacationers and Greenville lawyers, church sermons planned at Mt. Carmel and Mountain Grove, and several weddings and brides. Notables include Major G M Lynch, Clemson professor Andrew Bramsett, and banker M C Smith homebound with flu. Weather and crops show poor conditions. a travelling fortune teller crew entertains the town. Edens seeks county treasurer. Prairie Grange Canada mail notes perplex readers with old shin plaster money.
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J. C. Price
Pickens County
Sentinel
Prairie Grange Canada
United States
Marriage Invitation for Bessie Ware Partridge and George Hendricks
Miss Sarah Scott announces the marriage of her niece Miss Bessie Ware Partridge to Mr. George Robert Hendricks on Wednesday evening June 26 at nine o’clock. The ceremony takes place at two hundred ninety-three North Boulevard Atlanta Georgia.
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Sarah Scott
Bessie Ware Partridge
George Robert Hendricks
North Boulevard
Atlanta
Georgia
Death of Mrs Elizabeth Holder at Easley Mill
Mrs Elizabeth Holder of the Easley cotton Mill died at her daughter Mrs Fortner’s home on the 13th inst aged 67 and was buried at Ooleney church on the 1th. Funeral by Rev Powell. Wife of Dar Holder who died 31 years ago. Mother of ten children eight survive. Baptist member leaves many friends.
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Elizabeth Holder
Easley
Fortner
Ooleney Church
Mr. Powell
Holder
Dar Holder
The
Baptist Church
Twelve Mile River Sunday School Convention Plans
The Sunday school convention of the Twelve Mile River association meets Fall Creek Baptist church on the 29th and 30th inst. Delegates and singers are urged to attend. Rev. E. M. Belding leads devotional exercises. Queries discuss enlisting churches without schools, best cooperative plan for missions, and spreading the gospel worldwide. E. M. Bolding, Supt.
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Twelve Mile River Association
Fall Creek
C. R. Abercrombie
B. C. Atkinson
E. M. Bolding
Pickens Oil Mill Plans Major Expansion
The Pickens Oil Mill reports a strong year and stockholders' meeting directed immediate steps to double gin capacity. The four 70 saw gins currently yield about 40 bales daily. the building will be expanded to twice its size with four more 70 saws, Hunter Type gins to process long or short staple cotton.
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Southern Cotton Oil Company
Pickens
Roller Road Machine shown in Pickens County trials
A 90 horsepower gasoline traction machine built by Good Roads Machinery of Kennett Square Pa demonstrated on local streets by Col W A Neal. It claims to replace 30 mules at half their feed cost and move three scrapes with ease crossing bridges. County officials may buy it for road work at about 4000 dollars.
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Chicago
Teddy
Col. W. A. Neal
Good Roads Machinery Company
Kennett Square
Secen
Easley
Pickens
Liberty Road
Taft
Greenville News
Craig
Lawrence
Bagwell
Col
Neal
Easley Farmers Report Weather and Cotton Stand
Easley residents report few sunny days with farmers feeling down yet optimistic. They describe a struggle with old Gen. Green, though most have him rented. Cotton production is near a stand and some fields have been worked.
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Gen. Green
Plan to Hold Cotton and Georgia Bonds Proposal
A reader calls for a Georgia state backed plan to stabilize cotton prices by issuing bonds, buying Georgia grown cotton at 12 cents middling with a three member cotton commission, insuring and storing in bonded warehouses, and intervening if prices fall. The scheme envisions bonds secured by cotton and aims to shield farmers from speculators, forecasting minimal risk to the state.
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Easley Progress
J. H. Newton
Europe
J. E. Donalson
Georgia
Empire State
Senate
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the Pickers
Clifford Lewis
Clemson
Frank Williams
Cateechee
A. R. N. Folger
Seneca
J. B. Newberry
J. T Richey
Daniel Winchester
Hazel
Mrs. Hardy
Hawkinsville, Ga
Mrs. J. M. Gantt
C. M. Aiken
Piedmont
F. L. Finley
Miss Ellen
Mr. Nettles
Greenville
E. J. Wolfe
Spartanburg
G. M. Lynch
Mountain Grove ‘Church
E. L. Finley
Coal Creek, Tenn
P. F. Kilzo
Greenville District
Mt. Bethel Church
Willie Thompson
Columbia
Sam B. Craig
University Law School
Cleo Mann
38. C. University
Mrs A. D. Mann
Six Mile
Andrew Bramsett
Squire
W. C. Bramlet
M. C. Smith
Keowee Bank
Lagrippe
Z. T. Cody
Baptist Courier
Foster
Mt. Carmel
Nellie Grandy
Charlottesville
State Normal Institute For
Etoy Lesley
G. C. King
Newberry
Twelve Mile
Lee C. Lynch
Cherryfield
N. C
W. E. Wilkins
A. M. Jones
Sentinel Office
Elizabeth Elrod
J. N. Smith
Central
Alonzo L. Edens
Edens
B. D. Garvin
Lenhardt School
Perry Bridge
Robert Perry
Bach
Twelve Mile River S
Pickens Oil Mill
New England States
Aere Ea
Malic
Lizz
Ouat
Great Majestic
Essure Ware
Greenville, South Carolina
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