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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1917
Page
2
The Sentinel announces a multi week series for ladies on making useful Christmas presents. The first installment appeared last week and the following parts will run over the next two to three weeks with illustrated surgessions for mothers wives and girls who craft gifts for friends and loved ones.
Local notes report guests of Mrs. W. I. Hendrix and visits by Chickamauga Park soldier K W McClanahan and family members from near Liberty. Several residents attend Red Cross meetings. Contd updates include school principal appointment Miss Nellie Wyatt and soldiers transferring to Greenville.
Married by Rev. C. R. Abercombie at his home on Sunday November 4th the couple Iler Merck of Six Mile and Tirzah Dobson of Gap Hill are described as very popular. A family reunion at Mrs. Florence Griffin's in Pickens drew D. F. Sutherland and family Belton Cox and son W. H. Griffin of Greenville and B. M. Criffin of Pickens. A gasoline famine last week left Greenville Easley and Pickens with limited sales and idle cars due to railroad delays in delivering ordered fuel.
An advertisement claims catarrhal deafness stems from Eustachian tube inflammation and cannot be cured by local applications. It asserts a constitutional remedy via Hall's Catarrh Medicine and offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure, circulating free in Toledo, Ohio.
This section chronicles Pickens County history from Native Cherokee dominance and Keowee fort to the 1868 county split from Washington District. It notes Hopewell treaty, creation of Greenville and Pendleton Districts, county seat selection at Pickens, early courts, churches, railways, town incorporations, mills, and a growing population and infrastructure along with notable figures such as Gen Andrew Pickens and John Calhoun.
The Sentinel laments extreme delays from CXpress companies and railroads. Printer shortages and poor service threaten subscribers and push staff toward fraying under the strain.
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