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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1915
Page
4
The Pickens JRailway Company releases Time Table No 11 superseding No 12 and effective March 21, 1910. Passengers are advised to consult the new schedule for service times and routes as changes are implemented.
Local items from Pickens reflect social visits, births, illnesses, and civic notes. Mentions include births to Gillespie and Carey families, a hailstorm in Anderson and Oconee counties, visits by Essie Hagood, shopping trips in Greenville, and various residents’ movements. An onlooker reports Walter Evans’s fatal train accident near Lathem crossing. The Baraca class at Pickens Baptist invites men to join. Elam Cooper faces a whiskey transportation charge and is fined or jailed.
Local notice promotes a barber shop offering first class work at first class prices. It highlights sanitary facilities and references services in Waterwork and surrounding area. The ad mentions an Ideal Laundry agent and Plekens as part of the business network.
A mix of agricultural produce prices, seed offers, coin buying, optometry clinic promo with travel refund, dental medicine, sales agents, plant seed claims, and a large rural land offer. Ads mention Florin f.o.b., 1.60 per thousand, 350 per thousand, 378 acres for sale near Baxley Georgia, and promotions from Greenville South Carolina and Charlotte North Carolina.
A combined notice states Zilphia M. Baker seeks administration of B C Baker’s estate in Pickens County with a May 20 1915 probate appearance. It also lists Kings School District 25 and Montvale School District 56 election plans for May 22 1916 and May 22 1915 for 2 and 4 mill levy proposals, with trustees appointed as managers for the elections.
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