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FROM OUR COI An Enjoyable Birthday. How pleasant it is to meet on an occasion like this and pass a day that never wlll be forgot ten. Three 'years ago those same people gathered at the hospitable home of W. R. Gar rett and celebrated his 65th birthday, his - children taking him on surprise that morning; but who thought that thi same thing would be repeated for his good lady on her 60th birthday? Those same children met on the morning of the 7th Inst., which was entirely unexpected to Mrs. Garrett or Wi. R. Garrett, either. W. R. Garrett, who takes a great deal of interest in his farm, was out attending to some terracing. The good lady, Mrs. Garrett, was very busy with some domestic affairs in the house. When they looked out and saw a crowd coming-car riages, buggies, and so on. Who can all these people be? They drive up, and into the yard. "Why, it's the children -all of them. What's the matter?" "Why, we've come to spend the day-this is your 60th birthday." " Patience, children, we've made no prep aration; everything in the house is misplaced and William is out on the farm. Why in the world didn't you let us know this?" Well, in a few moments everything is in its place. W. R. is at the house, and about this time your scribe got in, You know he spells his name G., and who is generally on the lookout for such dinners as the one Im going to tell you about. Myself and better half slipped in just to see what was going on, and you can guess whether we found out or not. Just here B. M. and W. N. Bolding and their ladies came in "kinder" on the same mission. Just here some tokens of love were presented to Mrs. Garrett that seemed to affect her. She cried and laughed all at the same time. It was not too much to see a girl like that cry or laugh. I say "girl," for she is quite active and young looking yet, and moves about her domestic affairs as if she was just 16. Well, I said something about dinner. At about half-past 11 o'clock those good ladies, narine ly, Mrs. J. M. and D. E. Oar rett, Miss M. B. Garrett, Mrs. W. P. and 0. N. Garrett, Mrs. Dora Abercrombie, Mrs. 1. D. Rice and Mrs. W. C. Garreti commenced bringing in from the vehicles baskets of all kinds of goodies that wve take to sat isfy the inner man, and thos< rations Were placed on a long table whei-e all could get around, and at 12.25 the call was made to gather at the table, W. N. Bolding being placed at the head of the board. He implored th4 blessings of the Lord and all were asked to help themselves. You know, Mr. Editor, yorn scribe enjoys a social featurt like this, not so much the eat. ing, but the social part. (My lady tells it the other way. When all had eaten to their in tense satisfaction it could hard ly be missed off the table. After this hour's service al joined In a conversation o~ "when you and I were young.' We. all went back and wer< boys and girls again. A lit tle later on a song service was announced, when W. N. Bol ding made some selections of ok songs and led, while several o: the older people joined with hin and Qang, as in days of yore "Bying Forth tlye Royal Diaderi IRESPONDENTS. and Crown Him Lord of All." The younger people joined in and spent some time in making good music. that was a delight to all. Your scribe then announced that night was approaching, and after exchanging the usual courtesies, the 60th birthday of Mrs. W. R. Garrett was a thing of the past. J. C. G. Uberty. The school at this place closed last Friday, with two splendid lectures at night by J. J. Mc Swain, of Greenville and Dr. Eager of Louisville, Ky. Four of the teachers, Misses Kinard, Johnson, Wilson, and Sanders, have left for their respective homes. Mrs. D. J. Greer and children I left for Birmingham, Ala., last Monday. Mrs. W. A. Sheldon and child-| ren, accompanied by Miss Jessie Glenn, are on a visit to friends and relatives in Westminster. Mr. Oscar Lyon and niece Miss Myrtle Gillespie of Calvert N. C. visited the family of D. H. Davis last week. Mr. James Griffin, who moved to Spartanburg last winter, is preparing to move back to Lib erty. Mr. -Bloom of Greenville will I move here soon and occupy the Greer house. The Singing at the school house was well attended last Sabbath. The teachers of the Baptist Sunday school are invited to meet at the home of W. C. Odell next Friday night. There is no doubt plenty of local news that could be sent up from here, and for fear I am standing in the way of some one else who can send in more news than I am able to do I here with say once more that I give up the news letters from here, but as I like to have a word now and then in the Sentinel-Journal, I'll try and write .something else in the future besides locals. DREAMER. Pickens, R F 0l-2 I will give you a few dots from Pea Ridge. Health very good. Farmers had the blues-they .were so far behind with their crops; but everything looks lovely now. Well, I still see something about the Pickens school trouble all over the country. The farm 'ers in this section are getting more aroused over it than ever, and more than that, they will stick to the SENTINEL-JOURNAL ~tghter than ever; for Dr. Bolt and the merchants have never downed J. L. 0., and they never will. If they can down him, why don't they? He has liberal ly offered them a free column in his paper. We hope Mr. Thompsoa more. success than ever, for the farm ers arc going to stay with him. More farmers are subscribers for his paper than ever before. IThere gre enough farmers in Pickens county to keep the S. -J. going all 0. K., without the as sistance of the seven merchants who si:gned the boycott petition. ; If the merchants don't want - to advertise their gootls there is I something wrong about them, E so us farmers don't want to buy 1 them. We will go where they ,do advertise their goods. Go to a I. D. Rice's 'and get your mon A New Oreans Because she did nourishment from ht She took Scoft.r J Result: She gained a pound aL DnUGCW sy's worth. Bud will treat you i ight in everything. Flour $5.35 I per barrel. '.I can do better any- I wvhere else than In Pickens. If f Pickens was the only place the people had to go .to trade, I tell rou the farmers would be a ieap poorer in 12 months than I ;hey are now. So I want every i .armer to step in line and help ;he editor of the S. -J. wear the )oyco(a)tt, for we all should i .eel; like it was a slap at us armers too. I will close. If this don't Ind its way to the waste bas cet, I will call again. RED ROsE. Cateechee The prospects for a good fruit. :rop are very promising, yet vheat is sorry, but if the black ierry crop remains solid we can iave pies anyway, for there vas a good corn crop made last rear. Of course it takes an old ashioned oven about 18 inches Leep to cook the pie in, a pitch ork to take it up with, and'a ialf-bushel measure to hold the >ie. God pity the fellow that ails to get enough then. W. N. Maddox was the first n our section to plant cotton ,eed this year. He planted on the 9th inst. Will is a good arner and he believes in early ?lanting. C. W. Rice, superintendent of he Norris mill. has resigned his position and will leave Catee yhee this week, to the regret of iis many friends. Mr. Rice las made a good superintendent uid a better man can't be lound. Mr. Hamilton, of Green. r'ille, takes Mr. Rice's place. We welcome Mr. Hamilton to ur little town. The ball team at Cateechee lately played the Central team. The game stood 20 to 3 In favor f Cateechee. The Oateechee boys are hard 'to beat, not to practice any more than they do. I. B. Moser, of Central, who has been a victim of that dread dilsease, consumption, died at the home of his brother-In-law, Will Maddox, on the 11th inst. Mr. Moser was 27 years old; his wife was Miss Mattle Mor row. Mr. Moser leaves a wife, two children~ several brothers, sisters and i'riends to mourn their loss. He had been a mem ber of the Baptist church for two years, and died happy. Said he was ready and willing to go, and.. would meet his two little children who had gone on before. His remains we're in terred In the Mt. Zion cemetery on the Monday following his death, Rev. Joe Davis conduct ing the funeral services. Mr.1 M. was a true husband, a good neighbor and an all-'round good man. The bereaved family have our heartfelt sympathies. Wile the merchants of Pick-1 ens, or rather some of them, have seen fit to withdraw their' ads. from the S.-J. because its editor had the courage and back bone to speak out and denounceI a deed that~ was a shame and' scandal to any 1teacher of a school, the mercliants of this side of the county repectfully ronma wa thin. not extract sufficient r food. Emudrfon. a day in weight. re S. AND SM tsk the trading public to come his way. One merchant has dlready sent in an ad. from this ilde to the S.-J., and others will rery likely do so at once. This ide of the county is with the 4.-J. Speak out, Jim, we glory n your spunk. The writer has aught school, and before he would have been guilty of such t deed we would have resigned mnd never taught school again. We say let the law take its :ourse. Never compromise such t case. B. Six Mile. Think what it is we say and lo each year. The grass in awns and fields grows greener. We say spring is here; we watch :or leaf buds to open into eaves; we watch for blossom >uds to open into blossoms; we watch for flower buds to open nto flowers; we stand in the warm sunshine; the winter is >ast; the rain is over and gone; ;he flowers appear on the earth, nd the time of the singing of )irds is come. Misses Mary Trotter and her 3ousin, Mary Willimon, visited in Seneca one day last week, buying their summer goods. Miss Nara Hendricks, a charming young lady of Oco niee, visited her many friends in this community last week. Wheat is looking fine in this section. We hope to have some delicious new bread soon. A. P. Alexander, of the Stewart section, visited his laughter, Mrs. C. L. Willimon, last Sunday. M. Mauldin has a fine piece of corn. I'm afraid Mr. Jack Frost will yet get it. We will have a fine crop of fruit if it don't get killed. We poor people will be so glad. "Uncle Zeke" is putting a coat of paint on the new school house. When finished It will indeed be beautiful. Health Is just fine at this writing. Let the correspondents wake up and send in all of the news from their respective sections and help to make our little pa. per good. I have asked many of my friends and they havE promised to do so. M. D. Farmer, of the Pickens side, and J. C. Garrett, of Nor. ris, spent several days in this section last week, looking ovei the Hagood land. Much success to the S. -J and its many readers. OLD RIDDLE. The "Immortal J. 0." Has His gay I don't know what I am, bul I do know what I ain't I ain't no boycotter, you may depend. I thinkoome people made a mis take When they wont into this wide. awake. I do believe they'll lose thel lick;. And think it will wind up pret. ty quick. I am like the old lady, the old way is good enough for me; The old paper is 'good enough for me; I have been reading the old pa per for over 35 years, and it's good enough for me; And it's hard to tell how it will be; But we wY ill calmly wait and see. When you find out, Don't change your route, But come and tell it to me. I have been here a long time, and ain't in no hurry to leave. Know this. OLD J. D. MOORE. A Card to the Publio. Whereas, I have been adver tised as leaving home without just and sufficient cause, I wish to make this public statement, without wishing to reflect. unkindly upon my 'mother or anyone else. I do wish to say that my reasons for leaving home are purely personal and moral, and I was not induced to do so by any other than my moral and spiritual good. I kindly ask the good people of the community to suspend hasty judgment upon me until they have informed themselves of the impure moral atmosphere by which my life was surround ed and endangered. Then I ask them to pray that the Father of the fatherless may lead me into a nobler, sweeter life. HASSIE COUCH. I wish the public to know that I had nothing to do what ever in Hassie Couch leaving her mother and home and seek ing shelter under my roof. Her reasons are just, and every good citizen should comnmend her in following her finer womanly in stincts, and freeing herself from any danger that threatened her mor.il character. She is now a member of fny family, and I shall protect her as such. I beg those who are disposed to condemn such action to put. themselves in possession of the real facts in the case< and then give me their sympathy and help in the trust I have as sumed. N. A. HOLDER. Crow Creek, April 22. During about 700 years the latin lan guage was the languag, of court, camp and polite society from the river Tweedl, in Scotland, to the Euphrates, in Asia,. and from the Crimea, in thle Black sea, to th, pillar. of Herenles, at the west ern extremity of the Medlterranean sea. A L.ot o5 Peopte Owing Me. There was a man who lived around; He has moved away and left'the town. There are men all over the Union that owe me, and I need the money. But I can't get it. People in Oklahoma, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Ala- ( bama, and, I think, there are some in heaven that owe me, for they have left this world, I hope there are none in hell that owe me, for I would be afraid so go there after it. If ,they ever pay it they will have to send it by express. So I hope they will all come in and pay up. But please don't all come at once, for am busy now; have not time to take it all at once. Thanking you all for your patronage, I remain yours eternally, J. D. MOORE. The state of South Caroline, Coentv of Pickens, By J. B. 14ewbery, Probate Judge : Whereas, W. E. Jones has made su:it to me to grant him Letters of Ad minis tration of the Estateand effects of Pink uney Chapel). These are therefore, to cite and ad monish all and singnduar the kindred andi creditors of the3 said P. Chiapell, deceas.. ed~that they be and appear before me. in the Court of Probate, to be held at Pick ens on the 7th day of May, 1908, next after publication hiere~of, at 11 o'clock ini the forenoon, to show cruse. if any they have, why the said AdmInIstration should not be granted. - Given under my hand thIs, 20th day of A pril Anno Somini 1908. J.DB. NEWBEmmV . . P.re.