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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1892
Page
3
Patchy notices report sales of hogs at seven cents, illnesses including Mrs Youngblood and others, a road and railroad discussion for Pickens, a marriage of L Keen and Nancy Evatt, and a fatality for Mrs Fannie Mercer. Also items on land, fertilizers, and road improvements with local names such as Greenville Fertilizer, Rev B Holder, and Ambler corner.
Community updates report illness widespread in Praters Creek as Bowlin notes higher sickness this season. State Sunday School Convention in Marion starts April 5 for three days with E. Hf. Gasque, D. M. Dew, and J. W. Johnson as entertainment committee. Tickets promise home accommodations for attendees. Also announced are upcoming ten nights in a barroom entertainment with a local cast, a Moon-Echo Band appearance, and Pickens railroad company proceedings with officers elected and contract work planned. Cotton seed and medicinal products advertised along with a note of illness in a local family and a physician’s cough syrup offer.
Readable parts show northbound and westbound service with vestibuled limited trains. Mentions include Spartanbury AL CL division, times around 4.50 m 6.57 pm, sea bound, 5.00 air 4.27 pm 11.43 a vestibuled limited, and westbound W division 2.50 am toward Asheville and Hot Springs Run.
The Greenville News notes thirteen signers joined a March 1892 convention call. It recalls a similar independence movement by thirteen states in 1776 and decides to keep the names. Col. Larry Gant of Georgia has been chosen editor of the Columbia Register.
Notice states the County Board of Equalization will meet in the auditor's office at Pickens on Tuesday March 8 1892. Township boards from Easley Liberty Central and Hurricane meet March 1 2 3 and 4 1892. other township boards meet March 4 1892. Names of board members listed for each township. W2 J. B. Clyde auditor.
Col John T Rhett of Columbia died last Sabbath. He was a brave soldier and a good and useful citizen.
Manager John F. Casey notes education is needed for proper phone use. He warns against shouting or whispering and explains proper distance and tone. He claims telephones are built for clear speech and cites Washington to Portland as an example.
An old physician claims a simple vegetable remedy can cure Consumption Bronchitis Catarrh Asthma and nervous debility. He offers to mail free of charge the recipe in German French or English with directions to any reader who writes with a stamp to W A Noyes 420 Powers Block Tooheiar New York.
Greenville note says services offered at Westmoreland Bros Drug Store include instant processing of all work and enlargements from old pictures in water colors cray on India ink oil and plain photographs.
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