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THE PICKENS SENINEL-JOURN. Entered April 23, 1903 at Pickens, 8. C., as second clase matter, under not of Congress of Marc VLXX1PICKEN5, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, OCTOICR20 96 SENECA DAMAI DIS. Oigin Of Flames Unkn Up In SOME WILD RUMORS. Talk of Incendlarisn and Race Haterd When Sifted Proved to Be Groundless Town Was Quiet Yesterday, But Stunned By Great Losm. Seneca, Oct. 17.-The prosper -ous young city of Seneca was vis ited by a disastrous fire last night, in which two hotels, three stores, a I restauraut, a meat shop, a resi, I dece and a barber shop were i completely destroyed. I When some of the guests of the I Oconee Inn were retiring last even ing they thought they could smell 1 smoke and thoy made some little investigation and finally decided it ( must be the smoke from the lamps g in the building. Shortly after E nidr ight Mr. C. H. Ellison, the t owner and proprietor of the Oconee i Inn, was awakened by a heavy smoke in his room. He, with his t clerk, Claude -Sitton, came down t atairs to investigate the trouble On reaching the dining room, t which is on the first floor, they dis- t covered the building on fire. When I they reached the scene there was t only a small fIme which, it seems, I had started under the floor of the I butler's pantry between the dining S room and the kitchen. Mr. Elli. E son and Mr. Sitton made heroic t attempts to extinguish the flames, I but on account of the scarcity of t water, the flames made much head- a way, and 0he buildsing was soon in t a imass of 'games., thtO waa a ii basement under the kitchen- and t butler's pantry, which contained about five tons of soft coal. The e basement was securely locked and l right in the basement the fire E originated. The fire quickly spread and L. t A. Moore's grocery and glassware fi store was soon in flames. The a Seneca pharmacy came next and c then the large Palmetto hotel. a After the flames had reached the 1 Palmetto hotel it was only a matter ii of a few moments before Hunt & t Harper's fine dry goods store was 'y on fire. On the other side of the g Oconee Inn was a boarding house t, kept by Mrs. John Anderson, but tj owned by L. M. Coleman. This ti building was a two-story frame a bulild ing and was inviting to the b angry flames. Garrett's restaur ant, next door to Mrs. Anderson's, was n next in line and the flames leapr-d 81 to the roof of this building. and it a 4 .did not take many minutes to a make this building look lik~e a mass lt -of coals. Mr. B. F. Soan had a small ii frame building next to Garrett's a restaurant, and it was necessary l1 to place six sticks of dynamite and 1I a keg of blasting powder under fi 9 this building, and a nice job of ie ''blowing up" was accomplished, a which in all probability saved the next large brick store building. c A Certain Cure for Croup Used for Ten Years Without ai Failure, a Mr. W. C. Bott, a Star City, Ind. hard 3 w ere merchanit, is enthusiastic in hist praise of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. His children havo all been subject to r c roup and hie ha~s used this remedy for I the paset ten years, and though they much feared the croupi, his wife and be~ C always felt safe upon retiring when a r bottle of Chaimberlain's Couich Remedy was in the house. His oldest child was subject to severe aittacks of croup, but s this remedy never failed to effect a eedy cure. He has recommended it to friends and neighbors and all who t have used it say that it {s unequalled for croup and whooping cough. For sale by Fickens Drug Co. -H. A. liohey has jat-t received a car loa~ of Roxannie &a nd Obelisk flour. ,-ED BY ASTROUS FIRE own, Both Hotels Go Smoke. ZEKE AT CATEECHEE. ".9ett Soaps" Those People and "Blows" This Paper. Cateechee, Oct. 15.-I wish to ( %ongratulate the proprietors, man- c igement and evtire office force on ) he decided improvement in the c aet number of the Sentinel. It L vas a good number and ranks a vell with any weekly in the State. n have beard many happy com. p nents on it and here "is hoping" 1i ou may all "live long and pros >er."1 1 As you will see I am out at p 3ateechee and still on the same old ii rind. But I am growing weary C ,nd often feel that it is about time " o throw aside the brush again, hit t t for pastures now and join the 14 print shop" gang. There is some. b hing more agree'able in the odor t: f printers' ink than paint. t Last week I took my first tour s, brough a cotton mill. Some of 8 he machines seem to have almost c inman intelligeace, but I shall not t ry to tell you "how the old things m rork " for it is all Greek to me. h lut as the mill is neat, clean and t< iry, and the work light and pay % pod, if I had a few more years on e he sunny side of life instead of o ast the ridge pole with my face to n he setting sun, I would join the t: rmy myself and become an opera- d Dr. Now, Jim, don't smile for it ii not on that account, although o hey are a mighty good looking lot. I Cateechee is very prettily situat. d and is probably the most k ealthy of any mill town in the fi tate. The drainage is absolutely k erfect and the houses scattered ci Lrough the groves, most away o; *om the maiD street, and as they 0 re not all painted of the same hi Dlor, the town does not have the w ppearance of one of those towns ol here the white houses are stuck ai i a row like tombstones giving ti ie town a grave yard look and tI bhere a stranger involuntarily lances over his shoulder expecting y, see the "Ghost Walk" when 2e clock strikes twelve. One of lose towns gives me the "horrors" ya nd sets me thinking of the "dry ones in the valley.'' The operatives at the Cateechee w Lill have many advantages and pi 'jould be contented and happy ad I believe they are, as they are at iI well dressed and prosperous di >oking and I see but fewv idlers. The future welfare of the young ra not forgotten and Cateechee has ye good school. The building is a hi irge two story structuire, well is *ghted and ventilated, neatly ki nished within and without and at quipped with modern desks anid I ppliances. The school is in a flourishing o ondition, with Valley Woodruff as rc rincipal and Miss Neita Clayton lo Ssistanlt. The young ladies are r 'ery popular with the older set of m hie town, and being possessed1 of a ri emariikable degree of patience areo oloved by the pupils und-r their rne harge. Perhaps they may not4 di ate with Job itn this respect, but w re find no record of J b ever pre-. i idmng over a mnill towni school. ~ toils ar~e not in it with some of w hose kids. n 'Tle company con(tuCts ai general e t(or", the buiildinig beinig very large g, ommiodious and situated at the c atersection of several roads mak- hi iig it very conlveni.-nt, not only C or the operativeshbut :for the far- 0 Mors of the surrounding country. A very larg6 line of general merchandise is carried and is unuer the management of Mr. T. A. Gary, with Mr. S. W1. Craig, Mr. T. W. Young and Mr. J. E. Jhristopher as assistants. Mr. Norris mtde a very happy election in his corps of salesman, iaving an eye not only to businees Lbility, affable and gentlemanly nanners, but also personal ap. earance, as these young men are dhat the ladies would term "de. idedly pretty." For the beneft of "whom it may oncern," I wish to state. that Mr. rarv is married and therefore out f the market, but Messrs. Craig, roung and Christopher are not fly willing, but are on the matri. ionial anxious seat and smile like on widows, spintsers, old iaids and misses,. with a decided reference for handsome young dies. This comes as a reminder that advertising counts." Under the ersistent and effectual advertis. ig of Alonzo Brown, N. P., ateechee is fast becoming the Gretna Green" of South Caroline, ie Mecca of runaway couples and ve sick youngsters and Alonzo is uilding up an extensive and lucra. yo business in tying of the "knot iat binds." But Alonzo. has his )tbacks and his troubles. Last unday be received a hurry up ill from Norris to tie the knot ;n rue to dodge the irate old man, ho was in hot pursuit. In his mote to reach the station he failed ) notice a low hanging telephone ire which caught his buggy top, trrying it by the board, leaving ir "worthy" in the buggy box linus % 4eat. The result being at Alonzo miqsed his job and his ollar, and he is now busy study. ig the code to see if he has not se tor a damage suit against the ell Telephoue Co. We cannot vouch for the fol. wing, but it is told that when he rat received his commission he Dew but little about the marriage remony, never having had any rperience in that particular -line. ne day a couple appeared before m and as might ba expected he as somewhat irustrated, but love the dollar overcomq his modesty id he told the couple to join ieir right hands and then got off t following: "Do you take this woman to be ur lawful wedded wife?" 'I do." "Do you take this man to be ur lawful wedded hnsband?'' "I do." "I now pronounce you man and fe and bind yau over to the Su rior Court of Pickens county." Evidently Alonzo was not aware that time that there was no vorce law in South Carolina. Jim, I am still able to eat three tions a day and never fail. I am ry pleasantly situated at the me of G. W. Poore. Mr. Poore slasher in the mill, if you mow what that means. I don't, d as he sets a slahing good table ask no questions. By the way, why don't you shake our "county fathers' on the ad question? Just whisper uidly that a little work on the adsR would not he amiss. The Li1 has gone but the hlle~s and~ ts are very much in ovidenice, and h Lordy how had I feel," for I (lt to Salem aiAd ret urn laqt Sun-i Ly in company w-th S. W Cra-'g. wmre we attemnded the Awso-la n. Tlhere was a large number attenda nce andl ph.uty of dm.n ~r, but I got ve'ry nervous to, rds the last, fearful we would cit reach homo before the shades night. That young mwn was ow to start, andl while he was iod company his only sub joct for )nyersat ion was "The girl he left in." She had better move to' ateechmee or Mr. Norris will lose te of his salesmen. l~ev. Sam Jon Dies on He is Thought to Have F O'clock Mon BODY IS EXPECTED AT CARTERS VILLE TUESDAY. Funeral Will Probably le Conducted in Great Tabernacle at His Home Bearing His Name. Li ttle Rock,Ark., Oct. 10.-Rev. Sam P. Jones died on the Rock Island train, No. 4, eastbound, at Perry, this state this morning, presumably, of heart failure. The evangelist was en routo home to celebrate the fifty-ninth anniver. sary of his birthday with a family reunion He retired in the best of health last night in high spirits and arose feeling fine. He talked with the members of his party for some time regarding plans for the future and of the most successful meeting in Oklahoma City, which closed yesterday. Later he spoke of feeling badly. Hi daughter brought hot water and he apparently recovered. In a short time it was apparent that he was very ill and all possible was done to relieve him. When Perry was reached he was reclining in the .arms of his oo, worker, Rev. Walt Holcoab, and surrounded by three members ot his immediate family, he peace fully and quietly passed away as in falling into a refreshing sloop. Mrs.-Jones, hi:.wife, and Mrs. Annie Pyron and Miss Julia Jones, daughters, were with him at the time of his death. The body was brought to Little Rock, where Reubel prepared it for interment. Mrs. Jones will continue east to. night, accompanied by the body. Rev. Holcomb went to Memphis on No. 4 to make arrangemehts for a special train to convey the body to .Cartersville, Ga., where the interment will take place. Rev. George Stuart, old-time as sociate, Rev. Walt Holcomb and Rev. J. A. Bowen, of Mississippi, will conduct services. Rev. E. 0. Excel, noted singer, will render songs of the noted evangelist. The death of Sam Jones is in1 keeping with his wishes, as he often expressed a desire to die in the service of his Master for whom he has served for thirty-five years. Members of the family are well nigh prostrated with grief at a a hotel in this city. They go east I tonight. Mrs. Jones and daughters have been invited by Rev. W. F. Andrews, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city, to make his residence their home while here. The ladies refused to leave Reubel's undertaking estab hishment, however, until time to take the Rock Island train this afternoon. The Shrineirs ot the city ap p~oinited a committee to escort the body to Memphis, th.e commiiittee f 30n'siSting of George Wood, Jobn v H. B and, J. S. Barkman, M. Ringlehanupt and C . C Price a Mr. Jones held a high rank in Ma. snry )fll'tor which oirder he held the highetrgrd. t F'aren For Staie. A 110) uer.' farm for sae joining lands '.f Rev. W.C(. Seal orai A. 11. Rtigginsand Philip IRobinus.n 'T a'cres in cui tivation. 2' aicres mi high tate of enitivtion, 2.5 acr a we'll tiinbIere'd, t) a plendidl dIwell I.' two good wire paster's, contains sonnie bottom land. and( Is well w ~atered, fonr I miles f roum Norris Cotton M1ill, six mile s 1 fromi Lib. rty uand fiv e miles Pickens (A. H. in Prate'rs zection, a good outlet, 0 Price $:30 0)0 per acre. Adldreas Julies bl. Bolding, Rt. F. D. No. 2. PuckenR S. C. 28 Nov. A .es a] Sleeping Car, r, E assed Away About Four P lay Morning. at aI NEWS FROM EASLEY. ti Items From This Thriving Town and Community. tl C Personals and Other Matters. Easley, S. C., 17th Oct. '06, Last evening while Earle (Pat) t Jennings was in the store of A. G. Wyatt & Co., in compiny with a Richard Wyatt and others and in. is specting an "unloaded":32.calibre pistol, the pistol, while in the S hands of Mr. Wyatt, was discharg- o ged and the ball ploughed its way re through the calf of Jennings' left M leg. It is not a dangerous wout d, and as the bone is not shattered it w is to be hoped that he will be all gi right in a short time. The shoot- R Ing was entirely accidental and no 0 ane was to blame. Last week we stated that in one ti lay twenty cars of goods were re. ai 3eived here for our merchants. A w like statement was published in ui )ur paper here aswellas in some of )ur nearby dailies, so I took it as a, a matter of fact, but since then on ri making inquiry I find that while h< the twenty cars were set off here, j( Pxteen of them were for the Pick. H ans merchants and twelve of them c( were carried over in one day by the ti 'doodle'? leaving four for our town lo but we arerstill doing business, all fight neyeitheless notwithstanding. M Little Miss Marie Hiott, daugh. ti er of Rev. D. W. Hiott, is quite % iick, and has been since last Sat- g urday, with fever. It is to be hop. ed that it is nothing serious. A building boom has struck our J( town and everybody either has a lo structure under way or is contem- p: plating erecting commodious build bE ings. Bob Lathem has one of the w prettiest building sites in town and is putting up a fine house on it. A good deal of cotton is being old here; the prevailing price hast been around the 11c, mark. 0 Our graded school is in a very c lourishing condition now over 200 >Upils being Anrolled. We have aa good corps of teachers and this is a ;he best towni in the Piedmont ina vhich to educate your children. M The oil mill and ginnery is run ling full blast, and 600 bales of re otton ginned was their record for es ast week. c R 0. Pickens, wife and little son re visiting relatives in to)Wn. Jc 4r. Pickenis, who is a former Ess- Ja sy boy, is a resident of Spartan- Ai urg where he has a nice business. C. H . Alexander, of Pickens, thi ras in town yesterday on his way inj o A tlan to. Ael Several of our citizens attended th he fair at Greenville this week. $1 Mrs. R F. Smith, of this place, nd Mrs. A. R. Ansel, of Green ille, visited in Atlanta last week. Wi We note that Rev. D. W. Hiott very' popular JBaptist divine, has een reelected as pastor st Pisgah. 'i C. B. Hag~ood has sold his beau. 'i full home here to J1. 0 Pickrens- Ot rr. Ilagord will shortly becomo a rid itizen of Pickena,. a. Miss Zorna V. Stton wans miarried Ji n the 15th inzstant to G. W. Pop.., L Cambridge, Mass. Rev F D. the) [int, of Greenaville, officiatec1. 'he marriage was. a quiet affair uak ,nd took pl'ce at the home of the iride's mother near Easley. S Are Easlev now has a wholesalo firm, Sa G. Wyatt & Co. have rented be warehouse near the depot and re jobbing hay, grain, etc. Mrs. J. M. Browne, who was robably known to many of your aders, died at her home at quality on the 11th Instant of araly8is. Her iemains were laid rest at Sandy Springs. We saw Mr. and Mrs. E. B. ichardson, of Liberty, on our reets last Friday. An all day singing will be held Rock Springs church on Sunday ie 28th instant. An all day singing will be held ie coming Sunday at Golden reek church, near Hunter's mill. Mr. J. C. Smith of this section, ho has been suffering for some me with a lame foot, has recently id an operation performed on it a Greenville Sanitarium and he pronounced as improving. Smith & Jamison and Hagood & mith, our two enterprising firms stock dealers have each recently ceived a car of fine horses and uls. The Easley Camp W. of W. ill unveil a monument over the ave of John Looper at Cross )ads church at 3 p. m. on Sunday, otober 28th. Our two mills held a meeting on ie 10th inst., and declared a semi mnual dividend of 4 per cent., I hich %ill be paid onulmt of Jan. try. Mr. Keith Allgood, of Equality, id Miss Zoe Henderson were mar. ed on last Sunday evening at the I >me of the bride's father, Mr. )bn R. Henderson, Rev. D. W. iott officiating. The happy young mple have the heartiestoongratu Dns of their many friends fora ng and happy life. Mr. A. T. Nix, of the Eighteen ile section, is making prepara. )ns to move to Alabama this fall. ' think he could do as well in )uth Carolina. The Pickens train is again mak g its accustomed trips. Engineer ianes is out Jon the road doing a l of work to the bed, such as re tiring trestles, ballasting the road hd and other necessary work to a all regulated railroad. 3TES FROM UNITED STATES COURT One of the true bills returned by ie grand jury late Wednesday 'en ing is of particular interest to ioole in this community. In the Lse of the United States against C. Jennings, of Pickenis county, true bill was returned. Sheriff Innings is charged with allowing number of prisoners to escape. ost of these prisoners were serve g sentences for iolations of the venue law, and when they aaped some time agoconsiderable miment was caused. The prisoners who escaped were hn Gantt, George WV. Powell, ck Stenseti, Dillard Dodgins and idrew Masters. Jeff D. Stansell plead guilty to a charge of removing, conceal-i Sand retailing whiskey and was itenced to serve three months int Pickens jail and pay a fine oft Will King plead guilty of remov- e and concealing whiskey and s sentenced Lto seive one month a the Pickens jail. How to Oure a Coldi, 'h question) of how to cure a oold iout unnliecossary losqs of time is 0o10 ri b we are all mo or loe in~t.r d, for tile quicker a cold' is gotten ofi the less the danger of plneumonlia other serious diseases. Mr. B. WV. Hall. of Waverly, Vat., has used) ierlainU's Coiugih Rflmledy for years saysi: "I firmly believe Chamber 's 'Cough Remedy to b)e absolutely best preparationi on tihe market for Is L hlave recommended it t ) my nlds and they alil agree with me." For by Pickens Drug Co. ore Nipples and Chapped Hlands quikyued hy applying Chamiberilk~ NO BED OF ROSES. Friends of the Dispensary Tell That They Wnll Be Able] So Saye it in Spite of Antagonistic House, Columbia, October 16.-It seems that the State dispensary will go before the next legislature heavily indicted by the summer primaries, but whether a pro-dispensary sen ate will be able to save its life in spite of another anti-dispensary house remains to be seen. Still it is confidently calculated among the friends of the dispensary that even if the legislature does repeal the present law and pass something in the nature of the Morgan local option law affording the counties choice between prohibition and county dispcnsary, with perhaps high license for Charleston, the state dispensary will remain alive for at least two years, and possi. bly forever. They figure that out by saying that in case the state dispensary is abolisbed injunction proceedings will be immediately begun with vigor, which will tie the matter up in the courts for two years at least. The injunction proceedings will be based on the contention that was made from time to time during the state campaign, and in fact in the last legislature, that any law of he general nature proposed by ;he Morgan bill would be in conflict with the constitution. So whatever else may be said hbout the coming contest it is cer ain that the anti-dispensary peo Ale have no bed of roses ahead of 0hem. OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Poultry and eggs continue to be the most valuable farm product in spite of bumper crops. There are private estimates out bhat the 'corn crop would aggre gate 3,000,000,000 bushels n over. The Cuban government has pur shased 500 horses to be used in the -ebellion in that republic and want L,500 more. America can and will under cer, ,ain conditions grow over 30,000, 300 bales of cotton, nearly three times as much as is now grown. Furm lands in America have in-. creased in value six biliion dollars since 1900; in other words, in the past five years the increase of value amounted to one-third. It is said that the Government is doing all possible to aid the State of Florida in its efforts to drain the Everglades and thereby reclaim 1,. 000,000 acres of virgin soil. Nebraska expects to have enough corn this year to feed the civilized peorlos of the world for six months, if necessary. Let the coal trust beware. We can all urn corn next next winter, if secessary. It every farmer would be as per iistent in cleaning the roadsides of veeds as the railroads are in keep. ng their right of way Clean, it vould add greatly to the beauty of he contry, Compare some of he p~ublic roads with the railroads und the former suffers by compari, Make a bin in the stable and tore up several loads of dry loam lust these hot days. It is inval iable in keeping dowu stable odors mnd in catching and holding am nonia and stable liquids that >therwise would waste. 'This dust s as valuable as plaster anid may 3e enfely considered worth $2 per oad. It is indispensable in the poultry house also. They Make You Feel nood. The pleasant purgative efrect experi. enced by all who use Chamberlain's dtoimach and Liver Tableta, and the healthy condition of the body and mind which they oreate makes one feel joyful. Price, 25 cents. Satuple free at Pick' euns lDrug Co.