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'Tt2 'e1ns sentinel SLOCAL BREVITIES .R Som Things ou Know and Some You Doni Know About Our Towns, County & People The friends in Pickens of Mr. Judge T. Lathem, of Easley. Nn will regret to learn of his serious illness. %The Pickens railroad will run an extra train to Easley the eve ning of the 4th, to meet trains 40 and 41. Mrs. J. D. Holder and daugh ter, Miss Myrtle, attended the Seyles-Mills marriage in Green ville last week.1 Miss Ora McFall entertained Tuesday evening in honor of her house guests, Misses Britton, Moore and Floyd. Hon. and Mrs. T. J. Mauldin and Mrs.' W. T. McFall left Tuesday for a stay of several days at Indian Head. Dr. E. B. Webb, of Atlanta, is in the city for the summer. Mrs. Webb and daughter will join him in a few days. Let everybody be on their best behavior this 4th of July and thereby escape accidents and avoid trouble and heart aches. Mrs. Frank McFall entertain tained Miss Ora McFall's house guests with a porch party Wed nesday evening, at her attrac tive home on Hampton avenue. Wednesday of last week a heavy hail and wind storm pass ed through the Piercetown sec tion of Anderson ..county and considerably damaged the fruit and crops. There have been 112. automo biles registered in the clerk's of fice since the first one, about three years ago. This repre sents an investment or outlay of at least $75,000. Last Monday was dividend day and many went away from the postoffice with a smile and a check. The banks of the county paid 4 p 'r cent semi-an nual and the cotton mills the same. We are requested to announce that there will be an all day singing at Golden Creek church the fourth Sunday. All lovers of music and the public general ly invited to attend. Dinner on the ground. Mr. N. D. Parsons, of the Mountain View section, was in the city Saturday for the first m Le since the old soldier's reun !, June 3. He has been quite .a since then, most of the time a g confined to his home. levj. E. Ashmore has been ~ted principal of the Dacus 4ue High School. He will be assisted by his wife and one or two others. The trustees are to be congratulated and the patrons may expect one of the bes~t schools in the county. Mr. James Edens, who is with Heath, Bruce, Morrow Co., spent his vacation by takinga trip to Washington, D. C. He intended going to Baltimore to see the great democratic con vention but said he was told one could not get within two blocks of it. There are a few cases of ty phoid fever in and around town. It is of a mild type, however. This is a disease which people should strictly guard against. The first thing everbody ought to do is to be innoculated with typhoid virus. Any physician will do this and it will do much to prevent it. Then use disin fectants freely in and around the premises. FOR SA LE-I have 300 acres fine farm land for sale, 12 miles from Pickens, at $5 per acre. Several good tenant hoidses, a large b)arn, plenty water, good neighborhoodl. \Will c'ut to suit purchaser. J. TX Taylor. Pickens, S. C. The past wveek, so unusually wvet, has greatly retarded farm ing operations. The ctop pros pects, both corn and catton, are the sorriest seen in this section in several years, and if the wet weather continues much longer it looks as though they would be failures. Mr. 1E. B. Stephens, one of our oldest citizens, entertained a crowd of veterans at his home in Central. on last Thurs day, from 10 until 3.- It was just fifty years ago that Mr. Stephens was wounded in the war ha en"l carries the ball that Democra Lead Woodrow by the Democral 3:15, on the 46t1 ately made unan mate for Vice-Pr 9 p. m. This n< unded him. A good dinner } s served and all1 those present oeprted a good time. Those ~rsent were Messrs. R. M. ~Jrtin, Sam Neill, J. N. Gaines, rnm Maw, B. J. Johnson, A. . Brock, J. G. Fennell, B. T. Dlard, C. S. Stephens, J. B. ~tphenh~ i. 0, Ballentine, J. lBallentine, HI. D. Boegs, L. .Darnell and brother of North rolina, J. G. Powers and W. f ~.Mauldin-. Garvin-Waldrop. An event of unusual interest 'n s the quiet marriage of Mis n' la Garvin to Mr. Claude F. a ~aldop. of Easley, at th me of the bride's mother, ; Is. A. M. Garvin on the even st ng of the 26th at 8.:-80 o'clock. he room was tastily decorated tI th ferns, pot plants, and1 T hite roses. The back ground a as a miniature mountain of y ik and white hydrangas, a hich was exceedingly prtty . v v. D). W. Iliott performed il th ceremionv. f Turn on the Light Mr. Editor: Will vou allowr e space to let a truth he k: o wn~ Some parties are accusing me P' freporting a still near Price'sI ml. I positively did not, nor a wil I ever. I know of no bet- t< e plan than to call on the .offi- s cer for the truth. I am satis- hi le they will tell it, or I would V t call on them. I think Mr r . CAlexander has served 15 il etre as deputy marshal, C. L. tl ureton was constable a long I 1i, and B. B. LaBoon was in a .tthe time of the raid of which b m accused of has ing been P ecause. ow, Mr. Aletander, Mr. tl ureton, Mr. LaBoon, Mr. Mer- f ik and Mr. Scruggs, if any of 1 a ever raided a still, govervn- n rnns or blockade, that I report- IU I want you to publish it and ai [ ill thank you. 8 had a conversation with Mr. hi Boon about catching my t rother and wanted1 to know the a ast fine he could get off Ewith, n' t told him we would niot re- h ot any one else, and he was tf omuch of a gentleman to per- "n ;ude us to give our friends out. s We held our peace and paid the 0; Te, and the first two raids in t ht section afterwardi, Dock n as accused of one and I of the v ther. This is a mistake or a h ~isrepresentation. I am readyb :oanswer for all I do. R. K. (Birch) Lewis h Miss Ashmore Entertains 3 Miss Vesta Ashmore enter ~ned in honor of Miss McI al's il lose guests ori Saturday evern- v g, with a large lawn party. I \mong the entertaining fea- v Lues of the evening waas an ad '.rtising conte11st. The prze a ox ofcandv. w-a; won' by NIiss! U manie Porter. On the brPoad vranda Miss L orena Taylor p -rved delicious punc1h. and lai r vi inthe evening ani jieou.- was (I yle; Ma ry, Brittoni. 1Kin .r-: v 1~izabethi Floyvd. -.' draI: y thel Hicks, Union: Nor I. .Johnston, Easley: Eugeind b Anderson. (Cleo M1ann avnd I tr. v K.E TInol 1.ihertv. b UAlt tic Progr Cseat Pa Wilson, governor ie convention at Sballot, receivin~ imous. Martin, < esident. The cc ~ws received as 'a MLFUL TRAGEDY AST SATURDAY ooks Gordon, Colored, Lynch ed for Assaulting a Promi nent Lady. Last Saturday the quiet and ace .of the Cross Roads igh borhood was suddenly dis red and in the brief space of )u or five hours the whole un try became aroused and e were hunting in every di ectionl for one Brooks Gordon. colored boy about 17 years old. ordon had assaulted the wife a prominent citizen of that ection. According to the facts iven us by a near relative of e lady they are as follows: he lady was hoeing cotton in field three or four hundred rds from her home. She was lone. About 10) o'clock she nt to a spring, which was in e edge of the woods near the 1l. to get some water. As she eut to the spring she saw no ns of any one, but upon her turn to the field she found ~rooks Gordon standing in the ah with a shot gun and pistol. 'he lady walked around him d passed on up the path. Af r she had gone four or five :eps he ran up and took hold of er b)ut she being a rather stout om an, tore loose from him and in into the field. He remained ithe path a few minutes and .n followed her to the field. v this time she had started to iother field w here her hus md( was at work, the negr o arsuing. When within 20 or yards. he fired on her with e shotgun, the load takin'g ef -et in the shoulders, back of ie head and neck. This did t stop her, and-the negro re tading his gun, ran after her rid fired a second time, the shot riing her in the back of the cad. T1hough she had from 30 40 shot in her body, she ran half mile or more before help aehd her. She did not find or husband1, he having finished work where she thought he -as and gone to another field, l~e distance away, to haul ats. Not finding him, she wvent ward a neighbor's house. The -ighbors hearing her cries (t to her rescue, and found er very bloody and almost ex mistd,. but she immediately nmed the negro and told what 1i happened..- A physician -as at once summoned and o n at her bedside. The negro at once made for e mounrtainis but soon the *od. roadis, fields and mioun ius were being searched, 7atched and guarded by some )0 t o 500 of the citizens of the ~unty, while others in automo ies were speediing to different aps along the mountains to t out guards, and others were sing the telephone lines in all irctions. It was the telephone i h le d to his capture. He :us in a store at Pumpkintown h t he message reached there is horrible (deed but stayed ;IV a minute arnd as soon as he omie men were notified and -was soon captured. He ;s carried back before the .dya coesl his grnilt rty to Vi 'of New Jersey, Baltimore, Tuesd 733 votes. T] >f Indiana, will nvention adjourn ve go to press. He was asked why he did and replied "I might has meant to rape her." He alb stated that he shot at heri kill her, to keep her from tel ing her husband. Immediatel upon hearing his plea of guilt the citizens took him away son: distance and strung him up to tree and riddled his body wit lead. At last accounts the lady we doing as well as could be e: pected considering the serioun ness of the wound1s. The pha sician could not sayv what ti result would be, but held oi hopes of her recovery unle: complications set up. Coroner Medlin was not ifie and was soon on the grounm He empaneled a jury of inque who rendered a verdict thW Brooks Gordon came to h death from gun shot woundsi the hands of parties unkno w to the jury. Resolutions of Respect. Whereas, it has pleased A mighty God, the Great and St prenme Ruler of the Universe whose ways are strange an mystei ous, but ever kind an wise, to s'nd into our midst th' ebon winged angel of deati and the spirit of our belove Brother F. E. Cox, has bee wafted to its long home froi whose borne no traveler return: and whereas, in the death of or Brother, Keowee Lodge iNo. ' A. F. M., has lost a good men ber and the associates of or departed brother a true frienm and while we humbly bow 1 the will of Him who doeth a things well yet, we, the men bers of Keow je Lodge No. 71 deeply lament the loss we has sustained. Be it resolved, That the dee sympathy of the members< the lodge be extended to his d4 vok(d wife and tsvo sons in the sore affict ion in the loss of th noble husband and tend4 father. Be it also resolved, The these resolutions be spread upo the minutes of our lodge, pul lished in the County paper: and a coPy thereof be sent t his bereaved ones, who kno, him best and' loved himi most. J. li. Ashmiore, A. M. Morris, Committee. A Serious Cutting Affray. News reached here last wvee of a dificulty which took plac at Gap Hill about tw weel ago between Three boys. It not known how it originated< what broaight it about TI b)oys were small, from twelve 1 fourteen years old, but in ti fray a son of Mr. Benton Robit son who lives at Six Mile plunt ed the blade of a knife throug or into the left arm of a bc named Nix who also lives net Six Mile. The knife struck or of the arteries of the arm an the boy bled profusely. TI arm was tightly corded, hov ever, and the bleeding we checked. No physician we called in at the time and1 not u] til some days later, when it we discovered that the arm we swollen and had turned blac1 The adctr soon discovered th; &ho Wi ictory was nominated ay afternoon, at his was immedi be his running ied Tuesday at Particulars later it blood poison had set in and e stated that amputation was ;o necessary. Wednesday of la3t o week the arm was taken off 1 1- between the elbow and shoulder, y and it was stated that it was y uncertain whether this opera c tion would save the boy's life. a These 'facts may not be cor l rect in every detail as they were given to us by a gentlemen who s heard of the trouble. Soliloquy of a Horse Yes, it is hard, plow all week, tand then draw a buggy. filled with people and lunch boxes, on Sunday. Those all day singings dand other Sunday picnics are hard, oh, so hard. on us poor ' ~mules and horses. Last week I ~ t worked hard, six full days. I ~ kile many acres of grass. I Sthought I had earned a Sunday I a rst. I had prepared myself to enjoy it, but early Sunday morn ting the young man camie to my stall and1 curried and rubbed me, not because he thought the rub 1- bing would ease my tired limbs, ~ 1- but because he wanted me to look well. I knew my day of d! rest was gone. I must pull the i d young man and a young girl ~ e away from their own Sunday ~ tschool and church to an all day ~ d singing at a church six miles ~ rn distant. I wonder why people-- i a men folk and women folk-who ~ , can think, and talk, and sing, ~ r and who can read what they ~ 9 call the Bible, do that way. I ~ -I heard a preacher-a man who I r knows all about the great Being I,. who made us all, the great. Be o ting men call God-i heard that ~ 11 preacher say that God must be - obeyed, and I heard him say I , that God said: "Remember the e Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all p thy work: but the seventh day f is the Sabbath of the Lord thy ~ - Goi: in it thou shalt not do any r work. thou nor thy son, nor thy s daughter, thy man-servant, nor r thy maid-servant, nor thy cat tle." I listened to hear him say t horse, but he didn't. Maybe ~ n God-meant horse even if he did I - not say it. Maybe because it , says cattle people don't driye h o cattle to their Sunday picnics. ' v Another thing I heard that 1 preacher say: He said that that about doing no work on the Sab- I bath day was a COMMANDM1EYrT from God.( I'm too tired to talk or even ( think now. If I get a rest next i Sunday, I'll tell who and what k I heard and saw at that singing. i e- . "Bob" Ls Rigdon-Boddiford e Married, on Wednesday eve o ning, June 26, at 6 o'clock, at e the home of the bride's father, SMr. L. M. Rigdon, Miss Laura Rigdon,.of Pickens, and Mr. G. hE. Boddiford, of Screven coun Sty, Ga., W. C. Seaborn ofiiciat r ing. The wedding was very e quiet, only a few of the bride's d nearest relatives being presents e After the ceremony, we were - ushered into the dining room, s where the table was spread with s an abundance of delicious eata .bles, and we spent about an s hour to the enjoyment of our s physical welifare. SMr. Boddiford, who is a grad Suate of South Carolina universi BIG R Mul Some of thi to COME EARL) Heath is a very successful young' chool teacher, and a man of may noble Christian graces. Mrs. Boddiford is the young ;s daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. fRigdon, and a graduate of inthrop college. She is a arming young lady, and has may friends. The host of ad-I rers of the young couple join - he writer in wishing for them rosperous and happy life. Anderson to Marietta While wpiting on train con etions at Belton one day last ~ek, the editor walked over to tel Geer, where a group of atlemen were engaged in an, mrest conversation. It was1 t a political .gathering, nor' ere they discussing politics, as ght naturally be supposed, r the first words we heard re: "Build it by Easley to ~keus and on to Marietta." e at once became interested d took a seat to hear more of ht kind of talk. The gentle na leading the conversation d who is aboye quoted was r. R. Mayes Cleveland, of Ma tta. He had just been to An-* eson, where he had had a con ence with the mayor-elect,' I. Holleman, and other prom net business men, discussing th them a plan by which An eson, Abbeville, and other ints south of this place could e a direct outlet to the west. he plan is to build a railroad im Abbeville or Anderson by y of Easley and Pickens and a the 0. & K. at Marietta. It strue, the G. & K. has not yet >ssed the mountains, but Mr, aveland was most sanguine at it would be most vigorous pushed until the line was put hrough to Knoxville. He has mee an earnest advocate of this oad for many years, and his 'f4 rt have been unceasing, un ltoday he sees the fruits of his bors. He is on the inside of e plans of the promoters, and die he can not talk much, he ave every assurance that the oad would be pushed to comn ltion. This scheme would be ost feasible. Should it start em Abbeville, it would tra es Anderson and Pi kens mties, from one side to the ter, and would pass through fine a farming section as can found in the State. Besides. would open up new territory r business enterprises and in Lshort while towns and cities d manufacturing industries ould spring up where corn and1 tton now grow. Anderson and A bbeville need his outlet badly. They are now ractically bottled up, as far as he coal fields of the west are ncerned, and they-would have direct line to these. Pickens eeds it for the same reason. Why not build it? he Democratic Executive Com mittee Meeting. Pickens County Democratic txecutive Committee met July 1s. at 11 o'clock a. mn., as per otice heretofore given. Those resent were J. T. Richey, haiman. W. T. Bates H. W EDUCTI LLINE to 1=2 s Season's Pre go for a Soi E AND GET FI] Bruea COMPANY Garrison, E. P McCravey for R. F. Smith, J. E. Gillespie, L.j C. Martin, A. F. Riser, Charley McKinney and J. S. H. Price. It was decided, on motion, that the managers of election be al lowed a compensation of :one dollar for each manager for first and second elections to be held and mileage, and $1.00 per day for one manager from each box for first and second elections who brings the returns to the Court House, and that each ex-] ecutive committeman be al lowed compensation of $1.00 for: attending all meetings of the: County Executive Committee: with mileage to and from the Court House for all necessary travel one trip at five cents per mile.1 On motion, it was decided . that assessments on the candi dates to defray the expenses of the campaign, holding the elec-1 tions, tickets, etc, for 1912 be as follows: Each candidate for the House of Representatives $10.00, Audi tor $15.00, Treasurer $15.00, County Commissioners $7.50, Superintendent of Education $10 00, Clerk of Court $20) 00, Sheriff $15.00, Magistrate $2.00, S ipervisor of Registration $2.00, On motion, the dates of the campaign meetings are as fol lows: Easley, Saturday, July 27th; Liberty, Saturday, Aug ust 15th; Central, Saturday August 10th, Antioch-Thursday August 15th, Mile Creek, Friday, August 16th, Cateechee, Satur day, August 17th; Dacusville, Thursday, August 22nd; Pump kintown, Friday, August 23rd; Pickens, Saturday, August 24th. The following managers were appointed who will serve for the first and second elections. the managers of each precinct being authorized to substitute managers in the event any named may be unable for any cause to serve: Calhoun: Reuben Boggs, R M Holden, 0 R Doyle; Central: J E Bridges, E B Stephens, B J Johnson; Isaqueena Mill: R. Ramseur, C J Tarrant. John James; Liberty: C E Hamilton, W 0 Wvi'lard, E B Richardson; Flat Rock: WV F Young, 0 M McKinney, J S Wilson, Jr; Alice Mill: Roy R Smith, W E Hill, John King; Glennwood Mill: J J Sims, S T Smith, C J Ellison; Mile Creek: Lawrence Murphy, J S Bowen, S B Dalton; Gap Hill: Chas M Steel, B D Mauldin, Olin Mauldin; Catee chee: J P Smith, Jolly F Wil liams, Steve W Howard:N~orris: Claude Boroughs, J E Parsons, H 0 Eritreken; Easley: J 0 Pickens, J Riley Glazener, C T Martin; Easley Mill: K Z Whit mire. A H McGee, Wister Miller; Croswell: W T Hughey, V SI Trammell, R B Kay; Dacus ville: S T Prior. Geo F Robin soW J Ponder; Peters Creek: (Olga school house) Wm Trayn ham, J E Foster, W H Wil liams; Pleasant Grove: Warren Hendricks. A B Talley, D L Barker: Holly Springs: J C Graveley, G M Lynch, Elbert Bowers; Laurel Fork: G W 'Halcombe, J D Chapple, A L Morgan; Cros Plains: Frank ONON1 RY Off ttiest Hats. ~ST CHO1CET Lathem, A J-Willams, P K MAdams; Loopers Gin:IL [ooper, E L Jones. Marion F'reeman; Pumpkintown:Th eith, Jas A Heridricks,.~ eith: Antioch: A T Wc~s ter, John W Thomnas, UaIh~ Bowie; Shady Groyy! K ur phy, 3 L Thomas, Jas" Win hester; Rocky Bottom: JI antrel' John Gilstrap, Free nan Pa rson; Six Mile: (arrett, AD M ', ur am; P'ickens: Elisha Gilstrap, J T Laneton, M M Holder; ?ickens Mill: Hagood Bruce, Bert Jones. J T Abererombief ?raters: C G Lewis, Walter eaborn, G C Bolding. The county executive comn nittee hereby gives notice that lank pledges cari be had fronm .. J. Boggs, clerk of court, hih pledges must be signed md filed and the above assess nents must be paid to the chair, nan of the execr-tive commit ee. J. T. Richey, by noon of riday, July 25, under the rules f the Democratic party. Such ~andidates as fail to file -their pledge and pay their assess nents within the abo e stated ime will be barred from enter n2 the primary election. Thiis rovision applies also to all can idates for Mgistrate and supervisor of Registration. On motion, the .Chairman of his dommittee was authorized o act for the Commnitte upon ay and all matters thaj may rise between this date and e~ ate of the next meeting, and. his decisions and actions are ap proved and ratified. A resolution was also adopted by said Committee, authorizing he County Chairman-to employ a secretary who shall. be paid ut of the funds collected. Meeting adjourned, to mnee again at the call of the Couny hairman. J. T. Richey. Chairman. no. C. Carey, - Secretary. Mrs. T. J. Mauldin Entertains Mrs. T. J. Mauldin entertain> ed Miss McFall's house guests with a Bouffet luncheon at her handsome home, "Homestead Hall," Thursday at 1 -'clock. Receiving in the reception hal were Mesdames Bruce jMagood and Larry C. Thornle.-. Receiv ing with Mrs. Mauldin in draw ing room were Misses Britton, Moore, Floyd and McFal. In the beautifully decorated dining room.were serving 3S I Mary Alexander. Francis Bruce and Emily Thornley, while from the center table, massed wfth gorgeous nastu-rtiums-and- with burning candelabra. Mrs. T--L Bivens gracefully pou. About 40 gu'et5 W to meet the charm honor. First CottonB Mr. S. Id- Fergs Praters sectiofn, ton bloom-the fir seen in this county. son thrifty, pr. wideawake, as ev this' act. He says h the bloom July 1.