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The Pickes SetnmIl LOCAL BREVITIES Some Thiigs 0ou Know and Some You'Douni Know lbout Our Towns, Couty & People jh'1 ,I N _, \~ \. N", Wanted-Another candidate for the house. Ir. Clifford Lewis is at home for the vacation from Clemson. Frank Williams, of Cateechee visited relatives in the city last week. Mr. A. R. N. Folger, of Sene ca, visted Judge and Mrs. J. B. Newberry last week. Treasurer J. T. Richey was on the sick list last week, but is out again. Mr. Daniel Winchester, of Hazel, was in the city on busi ness last week. Mrs. Hardy, of Hawkinsville, Ga., is on a visit to her sister, Mrs. J. M. Gantt. Mr. C. M. Aiken, of Piedmont, visited his sister, Mrs. F. L. Finley, Sunday. - . Mrs. F. L. Finley and daugh ter, Miss Ellen. are visiting rela tives in Piedmont. Mr. Nettles, a young lawyer of Greenville, was in-the city on business last week. Mr. E. J. Wolfe was called t6 Spartanburg Friday on account ot his mother's death. Major G. M. Lynch, one- of the substantials of the county, was in the city Monday. The crops over the coufit . are - said to be about as sorry as have been seen in many years. There will be an all-day sing ing at Mountain Grove -church. on the first Sunday in J'aly. Mr. E. L. Finley, of Coal Creek, Tenn., visited his brother, Mr. F. L. Finley. last week. Rev. P. F. Kilgo, of the Green ville district, will preach at Mt. Bethef church Sunday, June 23. Willie Thompson, who has been attending college in Column bia, is at home for the holidays. Mr. Sam B. Craig. who has been 'attending the University law school, is spending the holi days at home. Mr. Cleo Mann, from S. C. University, is at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs A. D. Mann at Six Mile. Leap year girls are getting isx some good work in this county. Watch these :columns for the June brides and see. Prof. Andrew Bramilett, of Clemson was on a visit, to his parents, Squire and Mrs. W. C. Bramlet, last week. Mr. M. C. Smith, cashier of the Keowee Bank, has been con fined to his home foi- several days with an attack of lagrippe Dr, Z. T. Cody, editor of the Baptist Courier, will preach forj pastor Foster at Mt. Carmel the first Sunday in July at 11 a. m, Miss Nellie Grandy left Mon day for Charlottesville, Va., for a six week's visit, and during her stay will attend the State Normal institute for teachers. Another June bride is Miss Etoy Lesley, who was happily married to Mr. G. C. King. by Judge Newberry at his residence last Sunday. Both are of Eas ley. A very heavy rain fell over many sections of the county last Thursday night. Lands were very badly washed in sev eral places. Tw~elve mile river was very high. Mr. Lee C. Lynch has been on an extended visit to his fath er, Major G. M. Lynch. -He is postmaster and depot agent at Cherryfield, N. C. He returned' home Monday. A series of meetings began at the Baptist church Sunday and will continue through the week| The pastor is being assisted by; Rev. W. E. Wilkins, who is do ing the preaching.' I have on hand one dozen "Titanic Sinks.'' As t his a sub ject is now rather stzd, I hav e made a considerable reductioun in the price. Ge one .nox. A. IM. Jone. Sentinel Othic. Last Sunday another of P ick ens county's fair maidens be a June bride, when 3Miss Ferguson was joined in age to Mr. James A.Edents, of the OolenioVy ~s'etion. -New berry of ficiated. lam the levy on Ifire iinsur nocompanies domng business in-this-iState, the tax derivei therdfrm is.apportioned among the counties in proportion to the business done, and Pickens'coun ty will get from this fund oftihe 1911 taxes 1.305.87. Married, by Judge Ne w berrv, in his office, on the 13th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Elrod and Mr. J. N. Smith. The bride was a wid ow, with several children, and the groom was-a widower, with eight children. They live near Central, this county. A ompany of itinerants, con sisting of men. women and chil dren of various sizes and ages, and whose avocation is traficing fortune-telling and horse trad lug, principally the latter, struck Pickens last week, and the jock eys of the town and community are being much entertained. Mr. Alonzo L. Kdlons ik an nounced in this issue as a can for county treasurer. Mr. Edens is one of our most sub stantial citizens and if elect-d will -make an ef&cient officer. He made the race about six years ago for this office and was defeated by a smail margin by the late B. D. Garvin. . Mr. J. C. Price, a Pickens county boy, orders The Senti nel sent to him at Prairie Grange Canada. In remitting the sub scription price, he sent a one dollar bill and a twenty-five cents shin plaster, all Canadian money. It has been many long days since we have seen a shin plaster, as they are ca'led. For ty or fiftv years ago they were quite plentiful and in circulation as United States money. An Approaching Marriage The following invitation was received here last week by frien-ds of the prospective bride and groom: Zis -Sarah Scott. requests the pleasure of your comipa ny at the marriage of her nie::e, Miss Bessie W are Par tridge, to Mr. George Robert Hendricks, on Wednesday evening, June the twenty sixth, at nine o'clock, two hundred and ninety-three North Boulevard. Atlanta, Georgia. Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Holder. Mrs. Elizabeth Holder, (f the Easlei cotton Mill, died a-t the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fortner, on the 1:th inst., aged 7 years, and wxas buried at )olenoy church on the 15th. he funeral services were con - ucted by Rev, Mr. Powell, Mrs. Holder was the wife of r. Dar Holder, who preceded er to the grave :31 years ago. She was the mother of ten chil ren, eight of whom survive er, She was a consistent member of the Baptist dhurch, and leaves a host of friends and1 elatives to mourn her loss. A Fiijend. welve Mile River S. S. Con vention. The Sunday school convention f the T welve Mile Yiver associ tion will meet with Fall Cree k aptist church on the 29thj and1 30th inst. All churches are r1 uested to send delegate.' arnd ll singers are expected to be onl and. Devotional exerc-ises, conut d by Rev. E. M. Bolding, Query 1. Ho0w can we els he churches within the beond f our association who have n chools to enter the work and onduct Sunday schoolse Open y Rev. WV. H. Nicholson. Query 2. What will be the; est plan of cooperation in dloing ur mission work? Opened by ev. C. R. Abercrombie. Query 3. How can we enlist all of our churches in the spread ing of the gospel to the wo~rldU )pened by Rev. B. C. Atkinison. E. iM. Bolding, The Pickens Oil Miii. That Pickens is still in the land -of the living and in a hriving condition is evidenced v the prosperity of her enter. ries Th Piekens Oil mill has inst closed a v-ery successful year. A\t a meting of t he, stockholders hK~ svck the direc tors were instriuc-tedd to take mml~ediate stepi't douh- the: apacity of the xinu rv.Te ow operate four 70sa t n which has a capa'it\ y fa ae per day-. The present Lin for ginning will be inre wice its size and f* Wgn f 70 saws each will be in-t all J. These gins will be 'f Uh uller -Type, arnd are s o structed that long or' z-h' ! This is quite an improvement and n ill doubtless be an induce ment to many of our farmers to plant long staple cotton. A few ,f them in the county already r ik! !ong staple cotton on a smail scale. and the reason that more of it is not planted is because of the scarcity of gins in this sec tion to gin it. The installation of these gins -%ill solve this problem for a radium of several miles from here and will likely prove a blessing to the farmers, as a much better price can be realized for long staple cotton than the- short staple. These gins are )S constructed and so ari-anged that within five minutes they can be changed so as to gin either long or short staple. The ginnery will have a capacity of 80 bales per day which will also prove a great convenience for farmers in that ther will not have to wait all day as heretofore on many oc casions for their cotton to be ginne(1. Another thing about this plant. It is an independ ent enterprise. That is to say it is owned and controlled by local capital and home people, and is in no way connected with any trust or combination, and for this reason deserves the support and patronage of all our people. Since it has been in operation numerous efforts have been made by the trust mills which are controlled largely by the Southern Cotton Oil com pany to crush it or force it to join the trust, but they have steadily refused and have grad ually increased in business. Those of our people who are op posed to trusts and combina tions have an opportunity to prove their faith by their works. The Roller Road Machine. It looked very niuch like the Taft steam roller that was oper ated last week in Chicago to the great discomfiture of Teddy but it wasn't. This one was oper ated on the st'.'eets here last week by Col. WV. A. Neal for the purpose of demonstrating what a traction gasolene engine ould do with road scrapes at tached towards working roads. It is built and sold by the Good Roads Machinery company. of Kennett Square, Pa. It is a 90 borse power gasoline and, it is laimed, will do the work of '30 nles and at half the expense.1 When operated on the streets Iire it was pulling three scrapest ndL one round was all that was accessary to put it in tip tov rder. It is said that ten miles >f ordinary road can be wvorked nd put in good condition each :lay with moderately favorable ~ondit ions and that the cost of >perating per day would be thei wages of four hands and thei ost of 25 gallons of gasoline,t which would be about half the ost of feed for 30 mules. It is claimed that it will pull f three machinies over any of thec roads and hills in this county; t hat it will climb hils anid go c lown them with as miuch ease is on level ;oadl; that they can t urn the machine about as 1, ~uick and in as little or l'-ss lI pace than six mules and that ' he briees can be crossedl with t ase andl without danger of rushing thenm in or tearing i hem dlown by having heavyt imbers along with it to lay on he bridges for the engine to t oil on and over* thenm.c Several of our citizens, town a md county, witnessed the dem- 1 nst ration here last week and ( l seemi to be well pleased with t t. Several streets in town were s toked in a few hours, and we e merstand that most of the a 'adl fromi here to Easley w as ij vorked within one day. They 1; eft Pickens down the Liberty r -adi to work it out. t The county commissioners are Ic 7onsidt ring buying it and put it r1 m the r'oad1s and thereby discard c nule power. It is a huge thing,. nst as the Taft steam roller ( xas, and will probably be as t reat a boogaboo to horses and c nls as Taft's was to Teddy. 9 Latmbr-A correspondent writ ng from Easley to The Green ille News says that Supervisor ~ raig and Commissioners Law ene andI Bagwvell met Col. eal at Easley last Saturday ~ md c'losed a tr'ade for this gaso ine and road miachinery. The rice paid is not known but it is ( aderstood to be about $4,000. I Easley, Route 1. With a few days of sunshine.t n each week we farmers aret I in" over the blues. We are t 'aving a tussle with old Gen. s Iren, but most .of us have himt ( u'tn is almost pu~t to a1t Iam'. .a so of it worked the second time. Sonie 1oob fairly well, while .!ome ca hardly be foind. There is nc yet as mucfr. iorn planted a was last year. but several acre more, if the weather permit, will be planted. Wheat ha almost been harvested. Oat are about half a crop. The Sunday school at Len hardt school hoiuse is getting 0: fine. The average attendanc is about 75. The Perry bridge is dowi again, and all the children 01 the eastern side are "bottled up.' This is a great handicap to ou school, as nearly one third o: the pupils are on the other side We warn you, Mr, Superviso: and commissioners, to be care ful or you will have an ugl3 mark through your name on th< last Tuesday in August. Mr. Robert Perry is building a fine, new home. Several im. provements are to be made ir this vicinity shortly. Peaches and blackberries are ripening and will soon be plenti ful. Then everyone will enjoy nice pies except this old "bach,' who has no cook. Lost Boy. Another Cotton Holding Plan Mr. Editor: I noticed an article in the Eas ley Progress of June 12, by Mr. J. H. Newton, headed, "A Plan to Hold Cotton." I have seen this same plan suggested to sim lar plans. I have been connect d with the farmers' organiza ions since 1890. I've heard sev ral plans suggested for the ben afit of the Southern cotton grow r, but all have failed. Why? Because, when farmers under ake to go into banking business hat is out of his line. He will et "skinned" or left every time think there is a plan that will ive the farmers the needed re ef and, in my judgment. issthe nly plan that will do it. We ave tried the government and ailed, we have tried money cor orations and I rust companies .d have failed to obtain the de ;iredl satisfactio n. T~he farmer ~eneraly is the source from hich all other cooperation raws to add to his already muIl iplied wealth. This plan of the armers' protecting against sner lation is, in my judgment, :all 'bosh" When it comes to at rotectioni and money induistries f this country, we have got o form a huge trust that will empete with all money trusts, iot only of this country, but oreign market interests. It is known that Europe, a on-cotton raising country, fix s the price of our cotton. I be eve it is cone through an un erstanding of the speculative terests of this country with hose of foreign countries.. The plan I am going to place )efore the business men and armers of this county and the otton states was conceived in e mind of one J. E. Donalson, f Georgla, a farmer, a man ho has given the cotton ques ion deep study. Now, he says, t Georgia, the empire state, ad and the others will follow. 'here is no doubt about it. If ey should not, their people ould move into Georgia for the rotection she would give. What en must Georgia 'do? At the iext convening of the legisla ure pass a law to amend the onstitution of the state so as to ,llow the issuance of ample ionds for the protection of the eorgia cotton growvers, and hen pass laws carrying out this :heme of protection to go into ifect on the ratification of the mendments b; the people, and sue one hundrod million dol ars' worth of bonds, if necessa y. Let there bie a provision in e bonds that miay be recalled n notice of sixt y (lays or six 10nths, and thus retire from irculation to be deposited in the 'aults of the treasury for subse [uent use. Let there be a cot n commission of three wise, iscreet men, nominated by the ~overnor and confirmed Iby the enate, who shall have the pow r to sell these bonds or hypoth ate them, and from the mon *y thus obtained, through their ~ccredited agents, go into all the otton growing counties of the tate, and buy the cotton, of eorgia farmers only, grown on eorgia farmns, whenever the )rice reaches 12 cents for mid ling, and other grades in pro )rtion, and when the price ad ances above that, retire from e market and suspend all fur her purchases. Then. when e price advances to a point ufficint to pay the expenses of he commission and its agents, ell it-the object being merely o protect the cott. vowers a-thout lnoo t he Sia . Whv :s not make the minimum price I n cents? ieause 12 cents woul it enable the farmers to make s profit of 20 per cent., and tha s is reasonable and we should as] ;, for nothing more than this s This cotton when purchased b: s the State can be insured an< stored in bonded warehouses i - every town and village in th< 1 State. Cotton is not perishable e It is not perishable, and there i always a market for it; and th 1 bonds issued by the State ani 1 on which the money has beer raised, either by sales or bor r rowing, to make tY e purchase, r in addition to the credit of th State, are also secured by th( r cotton that is purchased with the money derived from them. So ithere can be no question about the bonds being a good collateral, and all the money n-eded can be secured on them. If the State thus provides the machinery for the protection of the cotton grower, and the main tenance and fixing of the min imum price at 12 cents middling. it is reasonable to believe that it will never be necessary to put the law into practical operation, for the buyers of cotton, the spinners, the exchangers and the speculators will never at tempt to run cotton down to 12 cents, for when they do the State will intervene and take the crop off the market. Twelve cents per pound for middling cotton will be the price fixed by law-the base on which the price must rest, and all specula tion in staple must be at a price above. - The cautious business man will hesitate and say, "This is a mighty big project. Let's go slow. It may ruin our State and bankrupt all its property owners." Well, how can loss or danger result? We are deal (Continued on page 2.) The. Big GIret 6-Big Sp FRUI3 SC EVERY DAY WI DISING METHOI 4W, I p t e- g C See This Range at Our Store Before Buying If anyone askel you t: buy a tea= of horsecs been using one for years. It will pay you to drive "unsight, unseen," f rum a mere prina.d description an extra ten miles, if need be, to see and carefully you would think he in:ended to "sting'' you. Now examine the Great MAjestic-the range with a rep there is no more sense in buying a rane ' unsight, utation-built on honor-of the best materials-be unseen" than there is in buyiug a team of horse%-nor fore investing your money in a range of any kind. is it necessary. The Great Majestic is in use in almost You don't buy a range every day,- or, indeed, every township in t':e Vnit.-d Sates west of tie Nev every year, and when yoa do you want the best England States. Pzsibly one cf yo.ur ;:--'ars ys your money can procure-that's the *7 Won't Break or RE:st L.. c ',.1cd-Oatwears Three Ordinary Ranges It a is t eo* range made entirely of rnalle., U& iron and chsarcoal iron. Charcoal iron won't rust like stel&-mat abie iron can break, aud % le tie rst cost of a Great MAlsicc may bo more than some other ranged. it outwears thre ordinary ranges. Economical-Save Half Your Fuel 'rieo VWalesgr~ I, r"'t tocueflr with rivets (not1 bolts, and store runTyIMskln is a.o..dinte a;r tl.ht. li;e an enzine boiler. The joint& and scams wil rvmWn air tIWhe frr.*vr as neither expansion nor contraction W30.- Water (;;u fcu la ..ih:mu. W Fro , for A Perfect Baker Pressure Vraicr The oven Is ::oejd w!:h ruaratiteed pgarabestos boaeI. r -i. 'w. n ..i ir-a graut-Ipu: there to i.,a5'-5o cows iee AL. I-cat esupes or cnd air gere nta the orese thus with but !ie. I l iti'*d in, (etl.2- rancs j*' are assured an absolu"el -- . ..A dei)ezd.b e heat fr perfect baking. Al. Coppcr Reservoir-Against Fire Box r.a.r I; an eor'- aj, - ht-%ts like a tea kettle through a co 7 41j Pok *1. b '.! i!'n .~ 'i CGIoi. attinzg 'against. left hasn4 lining of -nj -i . . .. avery few moments and by tuning a f I .4 lever 0.0o Ir f. r" nz..ve-l away from the Aire. This features to en . Ash Pan-No Shoveling l~The often -..1 t-h >,;i Jdi s w-ir wt _4 tbo xehoveling of ashes out of ash pit - - ; -n. %. .-- c ".*..)r from catching on*dr. an* ths ash c* p L.e h - . as d ohL.:rwise fall to the door. Dor s a'cp-Form Rigid Shelves No\- ., xy. li -.2 V) weaken, or t out r!; .e.,; ho dr'.,p trwi' and form gorfct Perfec Azrex' hbelix. AP:unibl in,, ov'en racks sld oa OIL I :tn a y hn; they contain. Chase..t Ask Ir To Show Ynv The Greatest ipre.wement Eu:: i ..t In A Range, . A Fuel adig ooAL 3 Saver 88twzi 11f601TO 44,. 8 WZV.LGN - -- -A gc-Se h~- Reversair -ip wi Y' FtZ0DW ABM0WU .. EvaseneT.o.teSasn den ersonCo's mville, South Carolina ~cial Hourly Sales Saturday PUVENIRS GIVEN LADIES I 5. IN PRIZES .K~ G IVEN Lb BE REPLETE WITH BRILLIANT MERCHAN. )S. SEE BIG CIRCULAR FOR PARTICULARS AJ