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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1916
Page
9
A rustic lyric by L. B. Crittenden of Pumpkin Town describes feet that flee from danger and dust while a locomotive pair passes on a rail. The speaker humorously warns of the bustle and the impulse to run when faced with battle or peril.
In Greenville last week chickens ran short forcing residents to travel to Pickens to feed Methodist preachers and meet demand.
The Pickens Sentinel editor notes The first woman elected to congress will join Rankin as soon as she takes her seat. The statement appears in a column in The Aiken Journal and Review reflecting on historic election milestones.
The Pickens Sentinel salutes J M Bolding for his long abstention from flour purchases, his property, and his ambitious wheat planting plans, noting him as a standout figure in the state.
The Pickens Sentinel comments from its pages that the new style of short dresses may make women appear shorter yet give men a longer look. The quip reflects fashion humor in mid century Greenville News.
The Pickens Sentinel quips about Moonshine Last Wednesday's Columbia Record taking four days to reach Pickens and jokes that similar delays would draw groans if reversed. The column notes the Record, like good things made in Pickens mountains by moonlight, improves with age.
The Pickens Sentinel reports after January 1 the subscription price rises to 1.50 per year. It argues rising paper costs force the higher rate and that publishing weekly at one dollar a year is impractical. The piece mocks objectors as cheap skates.
The Saluda Standard urges readers to buy locally and support home merchants, asking how often merchants promote the home paper to customers and stressing community economy through local commerce.
W R Smith, a Westminster route 1 farmer on Oscar Land's property, believes he found a boll weevil at his barn after noting signs of the pest in his cotton this fall. He identifies it from a description in a book. News also announces Rev Columbus Wardlaw's election to Wyoming's state legislature from Park County, highlighting his Anderson roots and early career.
All teachers of the county are requested to meet at Pickens on December 2 at 10 30 a m for the purpose of reorganizing the County Teachers Association. The meeting will be held in the Pickens Graded School building. 30 R T Hallum Supt
In a 1916 decretal order Judge Ernest Moore presides over a court sale of Daniel L. Barker's land in Pickens County. The tract totals about 163.5 acres per Edens survey, with boundary lines described. Terms: half cash, balance in 12 months at 8 percent, with bond and mortgage. resell if terms unmet within one hour.
The clerk announces a sale by executor J P Carey and trustee for creditors of B F Parsons. The auction at Pickens includes multiple parcels on Pendleton Avenue and Cedar Parsons Rock Street, totaling about 60 acres. Terms: half cash, the rest in 12 months with 8 percent interest. fast resale if terms unmet.
Judge Ernest Moore sets September 27 1916 for public auction at Pickens C. H. to sell the described land in the Bates against Hunter case. The high bidder will acquire all that parcel of land listed in the conduct of the sale.
State court sale in Pickens County listing Liberty Bank as plaintiff and T J Bowen et al as defendants. Describes Lot No 4 14 100 acres Lot No 6 1 145 acres and Lot No 6 59 100 of an acre with boundaries by a thirty foot street Nero Hallums and Southern Railway right of way near Norris sidetrack. Terms cash, sale to be conducted at Pickens Court House with one hour to pay, otherwise resold at risk of prior buyers.
In Common Pleas Court Judge Ernest Moore dated November 10 1916 I will sell to the highest bidder on the fourth day of the month during legal hours at Pickens C H S C the tract of land on the east side of Four Mile creek adjoining lands of B D Mauldin J E Bridges S M Perry and others containing seventy one and one half acres more or less Purchasers pay for papers and recording must comply within one hour or land will be resold risk of former purchaser A J Boggs.
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