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Happenings c a oe and sonal Natur. Miss Marie Y e of Pickens, returned home ti. f u r d: Irom? a visit to friends at (;reo wio()()(I Misses Sula hnd .Vh.r (a" elly, -6f Pickens, R. 4, ."e tending this session vi College. Miss Vesta Ashmore, of %+; ens, has resumed her stud i: . the Asheville, (N. C.) Norm and Industrial College. W. E. Freeman & Co., of Pickens, have a shoe talk in this issue that is "0. K." and to the point. Read it and profit by it. On account of the Ander?on County Fair the Southern Rail way announces very low round trip rates, tickets on sale Octo ber 10th to 14th inclusive, limit ed for return until October 17th. The Pickens Chapter. U. D. C., will meet at the home of Miss Lucia Folger, in Pickens, on Friday evening, the 9th inst., at 4 p. m. All the members are urged to attend. Miss Grace Gibson, a. most charruing and popular young la dy, who has been spending some time in Pickens, the guest of her friend, Mrs. J. T. - Richey, has returned to her home in Colum aperintendent of Education, . T. Hallum, requests us to an .,unce-the examination for cer tificates to teach will be held in the court house 'bn the 16th in stant commencing promptly at 9 o'clock, a. m. LOST - Liver-colored pointer pup, about 4 months old, and of 'hite patch on right Answers to name Return to J.--Allen kens, S. C., and eet reward. We are needing a lot of chick ens just now. Remember, they will not sell as well after fresh meat gets plentiful as at pres ent. We also want good, sound peach seed, at 55c per bushel, in trade. CRAIG BROS. The farmers are busy picking, and having ginned,..their cotton, but at the prevailing price of 9 cents, or thereabouts, they are not selling much. It will pay them to hold, for the price must go up, if they keep the staple off the market. C. R. D. Burns, clerk of .court of Oconee county, spent the week of court in Pickens, the guds~t of A. 3. Boggs, Pick. ens county's very efficient clerk. Mr. Burns was very much en thused with what he saw of the courthouse town, and spoke in the highest terms of praise of the county and her people. The editor of this paper re turns thanks to 'Capt. T. J. Mauldin and "The Wild Irish man" for material aid in pre. paring the write-up of the Pick ens county fair in the issue of the 24th ult. We are sorry thai it could not have been morn c'omplete than it was, but some Important data was not kept by some of the committee. W. 'J. Roark, of Columbia, was in Pickens last week on e the bone. He has been laid u' quite a siege, but is usinl crutches and getting about fair * ly well. His friends in Picken .were delighted to see him again Bor, on the 4th in0t., to Mr and Mrs. D. H. Ke6emore o1 Pickens. R. 4, a fin6. girl. Dr. A. C. Spain, Dentist, will visit Pickens on the 13th and re main through Friday, the 16th of October. Capt. F. G. Mauldin, Acting muander of the Torpedo boat eral Henry Knox,' spent a last week with relatives A. Hagood and family, At, ha been spending the te rt at their summer re ho in Pickens, left for i e1 hon i in Charleston on the N_ Yl; T1o ..d others will be ghi ( spel Tent Meeting at the M.-Hin JI io? rh, near D. A. F.> Criday night. October'h, a 7.2 a ck. The public cmn (,: laN i, o M attend and take i'a.rt thtee -rvices. The Farnw and 1'a e ' J)ur nal is agitati' o m y r* aV to be held in Sen:ca e hope they will s ing it off. They b pointers they wan t w' I. todo it by simply th, Keowee. In a town' election ' - Central, Sept. 29, the toE k i ticket was elected by a majority: Intendant - 1 P Johnsori. Wardens-Fred b 1,' J. W. Brock, S. R. Kelley a_ J. T. Gassaway. Owing to i misunderstanding S. R. Kelley refuses to serve, and another election will be called. See change in ad. of A. K. Park, of Greenville, in this issue. Our readers know that what Mr. Park advertises he per forms atnd that what he says is so. When trading with him tell him you saw his ad. in this paper. Encourage the ad - vertisers that much and let them know that you notice and appreciate their bidding for your trade. They like to know that their efforts in seeking trade are successful, and we like for them to kney that this pa per as an advertising medium is Al. S. P. Freeman is rushing the work on his two storerooms on East Main street, Pickens, to an early completion. They will soon be done and ready for oc cupancy. Report has it that one of them 'will be fitted up for the postoffice. A new offide,. a larger and more commodious office is needed for Pickens, and It Is to be hoped that Postmaster Morris can arrange to get' this room. The other room, we are informed, will probably be used by D. F. Pace, who will open up a fancy grocery and quick lunch cpunter, and very proba bly run a pool table in the rear. James E. Parsons, of Liberty, was in Pickens, Monday of court week, and said that more people were in his town alrnosi every day than were at court. Jim has planted his second gar -den this year, and is now en joying string beans, Irish pota toes, cucumbers, roasting-earl and tomatoes right along. Witli the equable seasons we havt there is no reason why any oni should not have late vegetables Everyone should try this kini of gardening on a srnall scale As sooi as a crop of stuff ma tures on the garden spot, plan' Sthat ground in something else 1and have vegetables until frost He also hias a piede of land than ~has been in cultivi.tidn over 10( years, whrlich is planted in cot -ton, and he estimnates .over tw< s bales to the acre off of this lani this year. B, 9 J. T. SPlckamong those w wi the perfor mance of "The Merry Widow" in Greenville Tuesday night. The 79th anial session of the Twelve Mile River Baptist Asso clation will convene with the Pleasant Hill BSptist church, between Central and Six Mile, Oct. 8-9-40-11. All churches are, earnestly. requested to send a full delegatton. * A. T. WIN CHCTER, Clerk T. X R. B. A. James H. Hudson, of Pick ens, R. 8, requests us to extend hiA sincere thanks to his friends, neighbors and .the attending physician for their help, aid, sympathy and kind and close attention and peighborly acts during the recent illness of his children-Nettle, Ola and Otis who have just recovered from a severe attack of fever. His heart swells in gratitude to these noble-hearted people for the courtesies shown him. Hon. /George S. Legare, who spends the summers in Pickens for. his health, has recently re -rned from a ten days' trip to bungalow on the headwaters laluda river, behind Table He is very much bene I 'rom his trip. Mr. Legare recuperate as rnuch as ind will, probably re ckens until near the -ere's hoping that u ater, pure air and li nate may cure %:v>hibits at the cok ' for a prize, was A note, placed by R. en. It was a pair of hanes, bought by him of C. N. Reid in 1868. They were fashioned by Mr. Reid, of this county, who is still living, and they have been in continuous use ever since by Mr. Bowen, ,and are yet in a good state of preseryation and repair, and are good for several years more of service. Forty years qf service have they seen, while forty months would be a good long time for a pair of the" present day, "store-bought" hames to last. Mrs. K. L. Cureton, who is an expert and an adept in the. culi nary art, contributed a beauti ful cake to the county fair. It is useless to go into a detailed description of this cake, for eve ryone who has ever seen one of her cakes knows what it is; be sides, the cake was on exhibition at a public and conspicuous place in Pickens and was seen by a great many and admired by all. It was raffled off after the fair, and something like $50.00 was realized, which went to help de fray expenses of the fair. Two or three other such raffles would have footed the bills of the fair without the aid of a subscription. During the county fair, our fair correspondent from Mariet ta, R. F. D. 2, "Maybolle," paid this office a most appreciated call. She is a charming young lady and is as pretty as she is vivacious. It is a speck of green in the oasis, a bright spot that illuminates and dirives dull care to a back seat when our corres pondents drop in on us, espe cially when these visions of I loveliness comeW before us. Our regret is that these stand-bys, - these material aids to this paper do riot visit the office of toner and write more regularly. They are all always welcome. It is about time we were seeing oi ) jhearing from "Dreamer," "B," - "'Old Riddle"-who has nevei been in the office-and others. I All of our correspondents arc 1welcomn. 1~o~, srayd ~~4fV~Uthe morning of the ,th (tzesday) iitant, one small red hound, answers to name of "Drive." About 5 years and shows age with white hairs around mouth. Has scar running down face from cut by barb wire. Very friendly and liable to take up with any one munching him. Liberal reward for his return or information leading to his recov ery. Claude Hester, Pickens. H. Snider, Easley's popular and enterprising jewelry dealer And excellent watch tinker, has a change of ad. He quotes a world of truth when he says: "There's'a Beauty in Good Jew elry." This is so, and we all know it and try to make our selves more becoming by wear ing good and beautiful jewelry. There is no lady so becoming but what her beauty is augmented and set off by the wearing of natty pins, jeweled collar or ring or'other ornament. Mr. Snider realizes this and has bought his stock to meet these demands. If in need of anything in his line give him a call and rest assured that whatever "Harvey"~ tells you about his-goods is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So purchase of him, knowing that You are getting good goods and at as low a price as they can be sold for. No use to patronize mail order houses when you can get better goods for less money from him. Beans! Who said 'beans? Bright Gilstrap, who lives on Mrs. Harriet Bowie's place in Eastatoe township, was in Pick ens the other day with a load of green beans. Mr. GilAtrap has been selling beans all summer, peddling most of them out at Easley. In conversation with him we learned that he had raised 71 bushels-56 bushels of the string bean and 15 bushelf of the soup bean-on lan( planted in corn and just whal he could plow in a half day. This gave him two crops for the same amount of work. You can figure out this proposition any way you want to, but, any way you figure it, it beats a cotton crop to death. Had Mr. Gilstrap put these bean's and corn up in cans he would have gotten fully ten times as much~ for the product as he did. The time is not far distant when the people of this county will raise more produce, cattle and grain for profit than they do now, and make cotton more of a surplus crop, and pay attention to the~ raising and canning of fruits and vegetables. When this happy day arrives everybody will be in a prosperous condi tion. _____ __ Court Proceedings-Fall Term, 1908. The Court of General Sessiorn convened Monday, the 28th ult. with Judge J. W. DeVore, of Edgefield, presiding, and all of the court officials at their re spective places. Indictments were handed out to the grand jury, who found true bills in a number of cases. The followig cases were taken up and disposed of at thiu term of court: Thos. Cisson, housebreaking not guilty. Jim Holcombe, rapo; 5 year on gang. Thos. Cissorn, burglary; guilty with recommendation to court sentenced to 5 years on chain gang. Perry Dice Masters, murder not guilty. ICharlie Bates, violation of thi dispensary law; not guilty. . Arthur Hallum, gambling; in diectmen1 qnashed. itent tok u Zsau Jonefan larceny of ive guilty to both; 18 months on gang and $1.00 fine. George Rhodes, housebreaking and larceny; guilty: sentenced to 2 years hard labor. There were not many in at tendnce-only those who were obliged to be here-as bailiffs, jurors, witnesses and defend ants. On Thursday evening court was adjourned sine die. The grand jury made 1 their final presentment for the year and were discharged on Tues day. GRAND JURY PRESENTMENT. State of South Carolina, Pickens County. Fall term of Court of General Sessions. To the Honorable Presiding Judge, J. W. DeVore: The grand. jury desire t make this our final report perthining to the affairs of the county: We have passsd on all the bills handed us by the solicitor, and make such returns as in our judgment the testimony warrante,d. We have-visited the poomjarm and county jail by comn tee, and find these institutions well kept and the inmates properly cared for. By committee from our body the county officers' books have been examined. We find them neatly kept, but the committee did not go into the auditing of these books, not deeming them selves experts, and qualified to thoroughly au'dit these books as the case now demands. There is an apparent deficit in the county treasurer's office, as shown by the comptroller-gen eral's report made in 1907. This deficit appears to have come down from a former adminis tration. , In view of this fact and for the purpose of arriving at the precise condition of all the offices, and that future grand juribs may have some authentic and reliable audit to start from. We beg to recommend that a competent and authorized com pany of auditors be employed to thoroughly audit all the offices of the county; and that our delegation to the legislature provide for the payment of this audit by special act, not to ex ceed the sum of $1,000, for fur nishing a complete audit of all the offices in the county for the past six years. We recommend that the office of state dispensary constable for -Pickens county be abolished for the present, as we feel that that duty should and now can be. performed by the duly consti tuted officers of the county, such as the sheriff and his dep uties, the magistrates and their constables, and we urge upon such officers strenuous efforts in enforcing the dispensary law. We present G. G. Craft for vagrancy and carrying conceal ed weapons, and give as wit nesses B. D. Johnston, E. C. Sanders,' W. T. Mulkey and John Grant.. We present Tyler Castle for vagrancy, and give as witnesses John H. Reeves, T. C. Oliver . and A. P. Alexander. Thanking your honor and court officers for courtesies, etc., and having no further business, we nowv bog leave to be dis charged ,from further attend ance at this term of the court. Respectfully submitted. T D. HARIs, Foreman. SuRnharihn for the paper.