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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
1
The Sentinel announces it will publish letters from Pickens County soldiers under the title Pickens County Boys Under the Flag. Several letters are on hand and the paper invites more correspondence of interest to the public.
Hal W. Hiatt reports Pickens county soldiers in the army and locals visiting Camp Jackson. Names include Marl Morris Hansel Bivens Frank Welborn Charley Welborne Paul McClanhan Linet Robinson Captain Folger and others. incidents include a motorcycle crash and home visits with treats. Hiatt notes promotions, missing officers, and awaits further notes.
Vernon Jones, longtime book-keeper for Coeby Templeton of Greenville, leaves for San Antonio to join the army aviation section as a stenographer. The piece notes several Greenville residents visiting family, a grammar school oratorical prelim, Ford drivers, and Flag Day events with Dr LD Ramsey and Supt I P Clayton attending. public invited.
News note from Pickens reports the death of C. V. Fowles known as Uncle Zeke from pellagra at his Rutherford County home, after a life spent in Pickens and Forest City. A New York native raised near Ithaca, he wrote dialect pieces for The Sentinel and had a past association with the paper. He left behind a wife and two children and was remembered fondly by subscribers and friends.
John A Higgins former Orr Rifles member and deacon of First Baptist Easley died at his home on Wednesday March 13 after a brief illness. Born near Easley in 1941 he lived there most of his life and served in the Civil War era era campaigns. Survived by his wife and three daughters and several sons, funeral held Friday afternoon.
Government urges seven reasons to buy War Savings Stamps. Save for country and self, support war effort, ease inflation, and keep prices stable. Saving helps ship, dock, and rail efficiency and sets an example for others to follow.
A wartime appeal urges saving wheat and embracing corn as America's essential foods. It argues hungry nations need grain, cites corn surplus, and promotes corn in multiple forms as a patriotic duty and substitute to feed allies and sustain U.S. fighters.
A wartime verse urges citizens to buy Thrift Stamps and lend money to the U S government. It promises the capital returned after five years with four percent interest, framing the program as a way to support the war fund.
South Carolina officials urge men women and children to show patriotism in February as war savings societies form to back the army and navy. R Goodwyn Rhett calls for a nationwide pledge to save earnings, invest in War Savings Stamps, and act as one to hasten Germany's doom.
The United States Food Administration calls for voluntary nationwide effort in conserving food, urging every household and business to make small, proportional savings and substitutions across kitchens, tables, and manufacturers.
The Pickens Township Singing Convention meets next Sunday afternoon at 2 o clock in the Tabor church. All singers are invited to attend and bring song books. Willie Lewis is listed as a contact.
Agricultural notes urge selecting disease free seed potatoes and bedding soil, using a corrosive sublimate disinfectant in wooden containers, rinsing and drying seed, and ensuring fresh soil. It recommends barred containers and limiting reuse, plus lime sulfur or formalin spray and clean beds. It also advises choosing fields without prior potato crops for at least three years.
The Pickens County Red Cross sends pajamas sheets and other items to Division Headquarters IA R C. New Mt Carmell Branch organizes near Mt Carmel church with W A Looper as chairperson and officers Tanner Hunt Lathem. Supplies limited due to gauze muslin shortages. 610 cotton pads requested from Atlanta for March.
James V. Griffin of Liberty died early Sunday March 10 after a brief illness. He would have celebrated his seventy first birthday last week. A Greenville county native, he lived in Liberty for years and leaves a large family. He and his wife Mary McGee would have marked their fiftieth anniversary if he had lived one more month. He fathered fifteen children, seven predeceasing him. Surviving children include V. K. Griffin Larned Kansas V. A. Griffin Tombean Texas M. J. Griffin Havelock Nebraska Rh A Griffin Lula Georgia S. M. Griffin Liberty and daughters Mrs. Margie Cook Mrs. Ollie Gaines Norris and Mrs. Belle Bailey Cateechee. He served in the Baptist Sunday school home department. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at his late residence with Rev. AK Williams officiating and burial in the local cemetery.
A reader shares a testimonial praising Dr. PLA Williams of Williamston DC for cancer treatment after radium failed. The author says Williams is skilled, humane, and that the patient is completely cured, urging others with cancer to seek his care. The letter notes previous recovery of another patient and frames Williams as a trusted healer.
An advertisement touts Rheumo as a rejuvenating laxative and remedy for rheumatism and gout. It claims quick relief from first pains and markets a bottle at $1.90 sold through Dickens Drug Co. in Pickens South Carolina and Central Drug Co. in Central, SC, with Chapman Alexander Laboratories in Greenville.
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