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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1891
Page
4
The Pickens Sentinel reports on a busy week with court activity and town changes. Moves include new millinery shops, farm sales, and household updates. It records deaths, marriages, a church supply, and a fresh town weather note. The piece highlights a railroad progress claim, repairs to the telephone line, and a counterfeit warning from a rival paper.
A wedding last week at Hyman's altar united Mr. J. W. Major and Miss Emma Stewart with Dr J H Kiley performing the ceremony. Agnes Smith and Charles O Goodwin plan a December 2 Charleston Presbyterian Church marriage. The issue promotes local real estate ads and a land agency seeking buyers and sellers in the county.
A jumble of business notices promotes Salvation Oil at 25 cents and Botanic Blood Balm claims. Various unnamed readers praise cures for hair loss sores and abscesses. An old physician touts a vegetable remedy for consumption and nervous complaints, offering free recipe requests by mail.
Property offering for rent or sale includes a Saluda River tract 10 miles from Greenville with tenant houses and land for six horses, at 9 bales per year or 4500 dollars. Taylor farm four miles south of Masleyv near Carmel Church offered at 4 bales per year or 2500 dollars, with two dwellings, a tenant house, orchard, and land for a two horse crop. Viewings invited to inspect the lands.
By order of Hon. J. B. Kershaw dated November 5, creditors of George W. Miller deceased are notified to present claims on or before the 12th of next month or be barred from participation in estate funds. Stewart signs. Prices listed for butter eggs coffee sugar and other goods.
Train schedule notice for the line between Columbia and Greenville via ston Newberry and Laurens with daily service except Sundays.
Train schedule notice from Atlantic Coast Line shows through sleepers between Charleston and Cincinnati and solid trains between Charleston and Columbia. Includes names HM Smerson assistant general passenger agent AMON traffic manager J Fitzgerald general manager and refers to a daily schedule with Sunday exceptions.
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