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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1916
Page
4
A column of brief notices and editorials covers funeral guidelines, local politics, national figures, and assorted anecdotes. It touches on Mary Ann Butler, Blease and DesChamps as gubernatorial candidates, the U S stance on pacific leadership, and light quips about weather and crime, concluding with comic lines and a question about hair ties.
The Sumter Watchman discusses Frank Moran Kinock and Jess Willard in an era of boxing talk. It questions the then current gubernatorial race suggesting only two candidates remain after eleven started, and ponders how many are considered nuts—nine or ten.
One of the season’s largest distillery raids occurred in Pickens last week. The event underscores ongoing enforcement actions affecting local industry and community concerns.
Gary Hiatt of The Pickens Sentinel cites a comment that Mr Roosevelt has contributed ten dimes to help build a battleship, a remark noted as perhaps the most he has ever done for the U.S. navy.
A Pickens man pledged 25 dollars to Tom Watson's congressional campaign, highlighting local support for compulsory education in Pickens County as reported by the Pickens Sentinel.
A letter from the Pickens Sentinel questions whiskey law funding and government spending. It debates enforcing prohibition and contrasts harsh penalties with public demand for law and order, suggesting people deserve what they vote for and must endure the results.
The fifth grade honor roll for last month was omitted by oversight and appears this week. Honor Roll names Edna Willis Ella Belle McConnell Nannie Morris Katherine Hagood are listed. Distinction List recipients are Robert Melton Don Roark and Theodore Stevenson.
Mrs. Boggs expresses heartfelt thanks to the people of Pickens and local ministers for kindness during a recent illness. She notes her age of 87, Three weeks in bed was her longest illness, and credits the Giver of all good gifts.
Pickens Hardware & Grocery Company offers the Perfection Plow Stock and Turner in a two in one package that saves money by keeping the tool in the ground and ready for use.
Local notes from The Progress recount residents visiting in Hasley, a police chief resignation with Holcombe named as successor, a 48th birthday for J B Robinson born February 29, and several townsfolk planning moves to Shreveport and Cherryville. The piece also notes the busy Pickens central office and personnel changes at A L Campbell’s store.
Pickens South Carolina reports from April 25 1915 to February 28 1916 show arrests for liquor law violations drunkenness on highways housebreaking disturbing worship and other offenses with 38 distilleries destroyed whiskey seized totaling 3918 gallons 2039 in fines and 60 days on the Pickens county chain gang. The notice adds that the February 1916 court term fines and sentences are not included and invites readers to a local land sale advertisement.
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