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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
8
In a few days we move to the Post Office Building and will offer a larger stock of feed flour and all kinds of wood tobacco and supplies. We seek all kinds of produce and now need corn cane seed and peas. Come and see us.
Local residents attend visits and family gatherings across Easley Pickens and Greenville. Agnes Garrick and Jim Garrick of Easley visit relatives in Pickens. Leo Watson of Pickens route 5 spends Sunday with sister Mrs Feister Cameron. Rev Eddie Welcher and Mr Hunt from Greenville county visit Pickens. Mary Lewis recovers from illness and attends church. Mrs R R Roark hosts Pickens W C T A meeting. Dr David M Ramsay praises mothers at Baptist church service. Colie Seaborn, former high school athlete, now at Carolina, visits home. The Battle Cry of Peace will play at Garing theatre Greenville May 24-25. Judge Tom Joe Mauldin, presiding over Greenville court term, visits home. Mrs Harold Scott arrives from Cuba for extended family visit. Holly Springs church observes home-coming day with Prof Duff Bolding slated to sing. Margaret Attaway returns from York county to Pickens. visits sisters Miss Jonnie Attaway of Liberty and Miss Lura Pickens of Easley. P T Sanders and family thank friends and Dr J L Bolt, Rev and Mrs T E Durham, and Glenwood mill officials for sympathy during illn ess and death of Elifus C Sanders. Dr Lewis F Robinson leaves Pickens for Philadelphia and New York to study pediatric medicine. plans to practice in Greenville on return. About twenty five Martin section ladies organize a women’s club with Miss Elizabeth Mauldin demonstrating fireless cooker. refreshments served. Mrs G F Cammer of Greenville visits Pickens with Martin and daughter of Laurens. travels in a Ford using kerosene oil. her husband patents kerosene attachment now produced in Greenville. Mr Cammer is foreman of Southern railway shops in Greenville.
Obituaries report Mrs. Jesse T. Drake's death at home in Anderoo. Appointments include J. Bridges as magistrate for Central township replacing G. Rowland. Upcoming events note a singing convention at Ambler schoolhouse and a U. D. C. memorial at Lib erty. Other items mention Dr. Odom visiting Pickens, Roanoke school closing, and Horace J. McGee’s fire loss in Anderson.
May 10 ceremony in Pickens brings together the Pickens graded and high schools and the mill school to decorate graves of Confederate veterans. The program included song, prayer, a poem read by Rev. J F E Wiggins, recitations by two trained boys, and flowers placed on the graves. The Detroit relation Dick Martin attended via uninvited relatives. Invitations extend to Pickens singers for an all day event at Wolf Stake Baptist church. C B Finley visited relatives in Anderson after traveling with his daughter Mrs J B Jarheson in Railey.
Summer porch days beckon with a complete porch furniture line at Pickens Hardware and Grocery Company. Swings settees chairs and tables promise comfort and enhanced home appearance at reasonable prices inviting customers to visit and see the offering.
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