Pickens County News Highlights Local Happenings
Local notes report music at a picnic for veterans, sick neighbor Miss Hester Cureton, and visitors Leigh Hunt and I Looper in Pickens. Dr J M Crenshaw tallies $140 pigs, and education chief Clayton leaves for Charleston navy duty. Revival, sugar certificates, and county reassessment details appear, plus community milestones at Roanoke and Roanoke school program led by Rev Ben G Field.
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Roanoke
Literary Society
Darthula Moon
Jas. P. Carey, Jr
B. Kate Pickens
Ben G. Field
Preachers Sermon On Postwar Changes At Pickens Baptist
Dr Ramsay preached a most interesting sermon at Pickens Baptist church Sunday night on changes of conditions after the war. A special collection for Red Cross work was taken up at the close and the Baptist congregation voted to send their morning collection to this work.
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Dr. Ramsay
Pickens Baptist Church
Cross Workers
Red Cross
Family Record and History cited in Pickens event day June 3
June 3 will be a great day for Pickens with a Confederate veterans reunion at 11 30 am, the county court term opening at 10, and sales day. Notables visiting include Col Isaac Grant of Jasper Georgia and Mrs Grant. Josephus Newton’s Family Record on sale at Pickens Drug Co. plus local civic movements and a military registration drive for men 21 and older.
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Josephus H. Newton
Pickens Drug Co
Isaac Grant
Jasper
Pickens
Mr. Grant
Hl. A. Richey
Allen Mauldin
Easley
Pickens County
Jefferson Davis
Josephus HH. Newtom
Fr. Hallam
Special Thursday Prayer Services at PickensMethodist Church
In line with President Wilson's proclamation May day of prayer and fasting, Pickens Methodists plan special services on Thursday starting at 1 00 a m Pastor Hodges urges all attend and participate He asks businesses suspend from 10 00 a m to 12 80 p m to allow full attendance and reverent observance
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Wilson
United States
Pickens “Methodists
Election to Vote on School Bond Issue in Pickens District
Notice records an election in Pleasant Hill School District 24 to decide bonds not exceeding 2000 dollars for a new schoolhouse. Ballot at the district school on Friday June 7, 1918. trustees named as election managers will conduct and report results per law. notice to be published in Pickens Sentinel.
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Pleasant Hill
Board of Trustees
PEP
Pickens Sentinel
Potatoes Declared The Cheapest Food In Shortage Era
South Carolina food administrator William Elliott urges retailers to push Irish potato sales to reduce a state surplus. He notes 40 000 bags with wholesalers and 10 000 with retailers, with a national surplus of about 110 million bushels. Farmers were urged to plant large crops to ease food strain.
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Columbia
S. C
William Illiott
South Carolina
Food Administration
Federal Food Administration
Eliott
Mr. Elliott
Grimes County Texans pledge wheatless days for Allies
Columbia Texas Grimes county residents vow wheatless days until the next harvest and donate a car of wheat flour to the Federated at cost for shipment to the Allies. Dispatches warn of a European food shortage as Austrian advances threaten Italy and rest of forces.
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Texas
Columbia
Grimes Coun
Grimes County
America
Europe
Atlantic
Italy
Russia
Bethea Rural School Spurs War Effort in Community
In Wagener area, Bethea School led a war conscious drive with a War Service Garden and a Junior Red Cross of 33 members. Sixty one acres were sown to wheat this spring, up from ten last year, as part of local food production and conservation efforts.
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Bethea Rural School
Columbia
Kaiser
Bethea
Aiken County
Food Administration
Wagener
Mary Eva Hite
Myrtle Burke
Red Cross
Arttelea
Wood
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Deafness Cure
An advertisement from Hall's Catarrh Medicine promotes a constitutional cure for catarrhal deafness. It explains the condition as inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining and offers a $100 reward for any cure not achieved by the product. Circulation free, available from druggists FF J Cheney & Co Toledo O.
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Hall
The
FF. J. Gheney & CO
Toledo
Announcements Notice on Filing Fees for Elections
Announcements will be printed until election day at a uniform charge of five dollars. This fee covers insertions up to the second primary for those to be declared in the second race. No announcement will be inserted unless prepaid.
Newerry Seeks Re election Probate Judge Post Pickens
Probate Judge Jd B Neworry announces candidacy for re election in Pickens county under the Democratic primary rules. He cites health improved enough to serve and promises resignation if unable to perform duties again. He asks voters for support in what he calls the last term.
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Pickens County
Jd. B. Neworry
Candidate Announcement for Pickens County Representative
Friends announce J B Leopard as a Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives from Pickens County subject to party rules.
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J. 8
Leopard
House of Representatives
Pickens County
Democratic Party
State Senate
Arle
Final Settlement Hearing for D W Cantrell Estate
Notice is given that C C Cantrell will apply to Judge J B Newbery in Pickens South Carolina on June 27 1918 at 1 PM for leave to make final settlement of the estate of D W Cantrell deceased and obtain discharge as administrator of the estate.
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J. B. Newbery, Esq
Pickens County
South Carolina
D. W. Cantrell
C. C. Cantrell
Notice to Creditors for Robert Reid Estate, 1918
Citation from Pickens County Probate Court requires kindred and creditors of Robert Reid deceased to appear June 8 1918 at 11 00 am at Pickens Court House South Carolina to show cause why Frank Reid should not receive letters of administration. Judge J B Newbery signs.
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State of
South Carolina
County of
Pickens
J. B. Newbery
Frank Reid
Robert Reid
Tee
Pickens Court House
8. C
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