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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1915
Page
4
The notice outlines pricing for obituaries and cards of thanks, mentioning free notices for over one hundred words and charging one cent per word thereafter. It mocks various entities, with satirical remarks about prohibition, German enemies, and regional politicians, alongside a jab at a Rhode Island judge and Senator Cotton Smith.
Hartwell Sun jokes about Cole L. Blease running against incumbent Richard L. Manning in 1916. The note also ridicules post stamps and the Democratic party’s national convention as a formality. It lampoons York News proofreaders and a type error in a previous issue.
A Sentinel man recalls an old citizen squatting on a poods box chewing tobacco. The veteran explains he was thinking about how long a hoptoad spent in a trap pin of a fly. He notes the insect watched the fly for an hour and finally landed it, while he could have hoeed two rows of cotton.
A humorous poem submitted for a singers’ duet at the paragraphers’ union meeting mocks dry state conditions. It riffs on corkscrew and mint beds, swallows inebriants as cures, and cheers for beer as a remedy amid arid times.
Clemson College extension plans to supervise feeding and marketing of thousands of cattle and hogs this winter and spring. Markets include Greenville, Greenwood, Rock Hill, Columbia, Florence, and Charleston with new selling-in-transit rail rates and cooperative buyers arranged by W. W. Long.
The paper describes a hectic seven days with the mainspring off on vacation and the devil at school. Reporters detail tasks from water supply and sweeping to setting type, distributing, printing, folding, mailing, and office duties.
The Kaiser touts unity in Germany while observers note that Socialists opposed to war won over four million votes and 110 Reichstag seats, the largest group in the parliament, even as the Kaiser announces Belgium’s annexation by force. No nation appears truly united for war.
A 1915 letter from J A Reopissees to The Pickens Sentinel explains sending a dollar to renew his subscription for another year. He praises the paper and compares it favorably to Easley Progress, noting economic hardship and his trust in Uncle Sam for delivery.
Col Mauldin returns from time with wife on an island off Portland Maine. He reports a good trip and notes Lieut. Col. Frank Mauldin, brother of Judge T. J. Mauldin and J. M. Mauldin, is now at Fort McKinley on Great Island. Mauldin is busy laying mines for target practice in the Philippines veteran.
Garvin township landowner Mr. Sam Wilson, reputedly the state's largest cotton holder, toured the city. He estimated 2000 acres or more in cotton, but lamented the red spider damaged a 20 acre patch near his home, predicting far lower yields than last year while noting other cotton remained healthy.
The list names students earning honors by grade at Mile Creek School. First grade Leo Bell Nathan Chastain Lillian Davis Vera Porter. Second grade Arthur Dalton Jeanette Lumpkin. Third grade Louie Parsons Bernett Nix Hoke Murphree. Fifth grade Robert Bell Runnell Martin O V Roper. Sixth grade Dora Chapman Earl Murphree Homer Nix Paul Parsons. Seventh grade Pauline Dalton Annie Lee Martin.
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