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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1922
Page
5
Rev W B Hulett arrives to lead Grace Methodist Church. His first Sunday service drew a large, pleased crowd. The local mention notes Rev Justis is familiar in the community from Pickens years ago and hints at ongoing pastor connections.
Farmers face job shortages as rains are needed to break dry ground after a large grain crop. Pastor B G Fields preaches on modern evils and a Connie Maxwell orphanage offering nears seventy five dollars. Birth announced for a daughter on November 19. Community prayers, school progress, and local visits fill the week.
Mullins Enterprise reports Tranton Gerald, a colored hunter, treed a large rattlesnake and captured it alive with a snare after a nonlethal pursuit. The snake had 30 rattles and eight feet length. Gerald will display the snake on the street next Saturday. Also notes a Christmas prize event by Taylor Colquitt Tie and Pole Co offering $100 in cash at Pickens and Seneca for the most ties hauled, encouraging locals to take part before holidays.
Spartanburg County farmers report over a thousand dollars in tobacco earnings from two to four acre plots with funds in banks and sufficient reserves. The Pickens Sentinel notes small home patches exist and County Agent Bowen says tobacco could profitably be grown commercially here. Historical context recalls 19th century cotton shifts and recent South Carolina auction totals hinting at a potential tobacco boom.
List of claims approved by Supervisor and Commissioners for Pickens County in September 1922. Items include payments to J.W. Julian rural police. P. F. Woodruff county physician. O. S. Stewart clerk of court. road workers B. G. Nealy and J. L. Banks. cooks W. J. Lewis and W. A. Grant. Standard Oil Co. and Peoples Oil Co. for fuel and supplies. bridge and road work by J. M. Jamison, J. Nabors, J. Williams, and others. and numerous other county hands, magistrates, and suppliers with amounts ranging from a few dollars to several hundred.
Notice requests all who owe The Sentinel or Gary Hott to settle accounts this week and all with claims to present them. Pickens enjoys a cash market for cross ties with buyers Taylor-Colquitt Tie and Pole Co and tie inspectors at Seneca and Marietta. A. 5. Porter resigns as clerk of the W. O. W. camp and A. J. Boggs Jr is elected clerk with dues due monthly at Keowee Bank.
A long list of landowners signs a trespass notice barring hunting fishing timber cutting or any entry on their lands under penalty of law. The notice closes with the line Jack Frost has come at last and he is quite welcome.
Notice is given that Elizabeth Thomas administratrix of the estate of John W. Thomas requests leave to make final settlement of the personal estate and to obtain discharge. The hearing is set before N. A. Christopher esq. judge of probate in Pickens county South Carolina on December 16 1922 at 11 o clock forenoon or as soon thereafter as the application can be heard.
The firm offers gifts at Picking and Seneca through December 23. A limited run of ties remains. sales have slowed recently due to crop work but are picking up. The promotion includes a $50.00 value and a $10.00 haul number for the season.
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