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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1915
Page
2
A collage of satirical quips on war aims politics and society. References include Germany and Teutons, editorial barbs about Roosevelt Taft Dewey and Hobson, jokes about voting age and a Baltimore incident, plus light mockery of a Washington D. C. schoolteacher Awkward and a Baltimore woman Bumps.
A fragmented wartime note describes odd nocturnal sounds and a dog’s barking pattern. The text mentions night and morning periods and a mystery figure or event, suggesting local disturbances linked to an unseen actor or incident. Based on readable fragments, the piece invites clues without clear names or dates.
Readers sample again the Kentucky colonel Henry Watterson famed for mint juleps and long service in journalism. The letters cite his Confederate scout service, Democratic party leadership, Courier Journal editorship, and role presiding over the 1876 national convention, with jokes about juleps and war blame in a lively town column.
In the West rumors of an insect menace to wheat circulate each season while Georgia frost reports threaten peaches. Yet forecasts claim the wheat crop may reach a billion bushels and peaches are said to be the best crop.
Complete 1915 member lists for Pickens county boys corn club and girls tomato club. Names span Easley Liberty Central Norris Pickens Cateechee and other towns with multiple entries per household.
An engagement announcement in the Atlanta Journal May 16 reports Kath leen Susan Jackson, daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Jackson, to John Fulton Robinson of Easley South Carolina. The couple plans a June Gainesville Georgia wedding at the bride’s home. Robinson is a local businessman with ties to Jarman University and South Carolina University.
C B Woodson, manager of Farmers Supply Co in Albany Georgia, requests the Pickens Sentinel for a year and pays by check after subscription inquiry. The editor notes sending a copy and receiving payment.
A retrospective recall of notable Pickens County officeholders over the past thirty years highlights figures such as treasurer Anderson Lesley sheriff Riley Ferguson Joab Mauldin clerk Col J Lewis probate judge W G Field senators R E Bowen W T Field and Major D Frank Bradley later collector of internal revenue. The note lists early House members R A Childs Kiley Bates John H Bowen Julius K E Boges school commissioners G W Singleton O L Durant and W W S Bright and recalls constitutional convention members W T Field and R F Smith. The author honors the departed officials and wishes future generations the same fidelity.
The Houston Post notes that in five years Congress and state legislatures enacted 62 014 laws. The piece remarks on the surprising amount of liberty left for common acts like drinking coffee from a saucer or swearing after an automobile accident that costs a leg.
Mr George W Hill aged about 68 died at his home three miles south of the city on the 1d4th instant and was buried the next day at Siloam church funeral services conducted by Rev EB Babb. Survived by his wife and several children. He was brother of Mrs J A Robinson Hasley J T Hill Chickasha I G Hill near Marietta W Bennett Hill Walhalla and John ff Hill Easley Progress
A WCTU column condemns alcohol as a deadly narcotic found in wine beer whiskey and patent medicines. It cites insurance statistics showing about 440 deaths per 1000 and argues alcohol causes nearly 2000 male deaths daily in the US and far more than all wars, with a warned domestic satire about a husband’s drink trade.
The Daughters of the Confederacy will oversee the event in Pickens on June day. The Hartwell Sun asserts God created the first talking machine before Edison, claiming the inventor made it from a rib, while the Anderson Intelligencer notes the maker did a good job.
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