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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1912
Page
4
Clifford Lewis returns to Clemson while Miss Esa Sheriff visits Pickens friends. Many residents and visitors are listed with travels, illnesses, weddings, and school departures, including Miss Sadie Craig heading to Blackstone Virginia and the marriage of Charlie Thompson and Alma Galloway.
Mr Otis Cook of Edmonton Alberta Canada visits Pickens county friends including M A Looper Waddy Fields E F Hendricks and Wade Williams. He worked in Aberdeen Washington with four Pickens county lads and later moved to Alberta with Hudson Bay Co. Fields remains in real estate while the group spends a day with A M Morris.
The American Seating Co. of Chicago installs pews in the new M E church. Dedication set for the second Sunday in October with Bishop J C Kilgo preaching. Kilgo praised as a top Southern Methodist preacher and the public is invited to attend.
Mr. Taylor H. Stewart, newly elected treasurer for Pickens county, bought the house of opponent J. P. Hyde last week and has moved in, the residence located just below Congressman Legare’s home.
A six room house owned by T. D. Harris and in front of Will Rosamond's blacksmith shop burned at about five Sunday morning. Occupant Lyda Edwards and several boarders escaped. one man woke in time to save himself but lost clothes. Origin undetermined with incendiary suspicion. Harris had no house insurance.
The Lyceum course opens with Nell Bunnell Concert Co at the Pickens school auditorium next Monday night. Admission 25 and 50 cents. Five attractions planned this year with season tickets at Pickens Drug Company. Notice of Registration lists dates and places for Certificate of Registration in South Carolina. Registration closes Oct 5 1912. in-person appearance required. existing certificates remain valid. Dockins serves as Clerk of Board.
A promotional claim states strong eyes result from Leonardi's Golden Eye Lotion, curing sore eyes in one day without pain. The product is described as harmless, soothing, cooling, healing, and stimulating with a guarantee or refund. Druggists offer it at 25ers, with prepaid mail options from S. B. Leonardi & Co. in Tampa, Florida.
A list of jurors drawn to serve at the next term, which begins Monday, Sept. 23. Names include W. McFail Baker, W. E. Edens Sr., B. C. Robinson, C. J. Tarrant, W. P. Gilstrap, Jas. A. Hendricks, Z. V. Featherstone, John T. Langston, Perry M. Durham, J. S. Hall, W. A. Rigd on, M. L. Martin, Jas. M. Davis, R. E. Bowen Jr., S. S. Brown, D. M. Newton, and others.
Mr. L. M. Rigdon asks announce a church meeting at Oolenoy church house Saturday September 28 to decide whether to cover the building with metal or wood shingles. All members and friends are urged to attend at 2 o'clock.
A group of Pickens students departed Monday and Tuesday for the University of South Carolina. Participants include Sam Craig Gignilliatt Christopher Casey Porter Henry Jones Cleo Mann and Willie Thompson from Liberty helping to pursue the next USC session.
Sunday blaze on Poplar Hill sparked widespread consternation among residents. Heavy smoke and brilliant flames cast a dramatic light over the town as fears spread that the world was on fire. Early morning prayers followed the alarm as many residents stayed awake after 4 o clock.
Rev C A Waters of Pickens preached at Abner Creek from Sunday to Friday. The church was revived and three joined the membership. Weather was cool and threatening amid farming work, yet the meeting was described as great with Waters praised as orthodox, scholarly, and evangelistic.
A promotional note touts Electric Bitters as a cure for health, citing a Georgia man’s success story. The oblique legal item reports Samuel B. Hyde, sentenced to death for killing his wife and her father, to die in the electric chair on October 1, with the insanity panel deeming him sane, and his body to be donated to a medical college in Atlanta.
A program offers free railroad fare to Greenville within a 41 to 60 mile radius. On purchases totaling 50.00 or more, one fare is refunded for each trip. Shoppers record purchases in a REFUND BOOK and after trading 25.00 or more turn it in to Secretary Albert S. Johnstone at the Board of Trade Rooms to receive the refund.
A wide list of shops includes Arnold Co. ready-to-wear and dry goods, Pride Patton & Tillman ladies shoes, Smith & Bristow clothing for men and boys, Stone Fuel & Lumber Co. building materials, The Johnson Co. ladies wear, Watkins Dry Goods with millinery, and John H. Williams piano merchant. The catalog also mentions Victor Victrola machines and related music equipment.
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