Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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E desire to t] and custon patronage and wish f< one a H ew Rei I Lcal and unto-Mr. and Mts. B. C n January 4, a girl. ;Trade with Sentinel advertis aid you will be treated right ornunto Mr.- and Mrs acll, on January 4;-v ^. Thornley & Co. hav avertisement this week. Maiid Mrs B. F el, aon'December 30, a r. - Aiken of Travelers Resi business visitor at thE ednesday. Ola Mitchell of Landei Greenwood, visited al e of 3. B. Newberr .Fleld came to The Senti Saturday and said enew boy credited tt 3r an rsmj. Ben Ae rm - ~fOoneecounuty, recently ;~'~e&the home of J. te5. Sth, ofth _ ,tion, killed e -ew Years day. Il ~3Ipounds. ~S.)& . N; Folger and LiaFolger of Senece -the home of J. B I~o~en~ast week. ises Eirzan- Hugh5 oj of Easley visitei tla Newberry recently SR H. Barkley, a good- citizer route 3was in towi day la and-paid-The ~iinel officea apprecia~d ,Dr. W. T. Hunt of Townville who died about two weeks agt athe Anderson hospital, was a f Mr. H. A. Richey ol ensand was well knowi here. :The governor has appointed Dr Robert-C. Oathcart of .3?Uhrl~ston a member of the Ksoarsi of Trustees of the Medi oliee -of South Carolina p resigned. ey 1 orld and wil] school night, one nd is on first r the Athe and 25 ni yeai Wew rservic KWithi best wis? NeW4Year,.w '~ '---~ iank our friends iers for their lib during the past yr each and every Lfd Prosperous Year JG COMPANY :A Store MI, Proprietor I Personal I W. M. Hagood was here on business Monday and Tuesday. B. P. Powell of Liberty route 3 was in town on business Tues day. P. Guy Bowie of Nimmons was in town on business Tues day. Bill Folger of Easley spent one day last week with friends in Pickens. EddieBowen returned toGreen nille Monday to resume his stud ies at Furman university. Mrs. J. P. Carey, Jr. visited her' parents Mr. and Mts. J. E. Robinson at Easley th' week. The friends of M sons are gladl6 see hi home looking and feeli proved. Miss Mary Lewis re ned Tuesday from Richland, here she has been visiti - rd die Hu Miss Eva Christopher has re turned after spending serveal days with friends and relatives near Dacusville. S. G. Dorr of the Griffin sec tion paid The .Sentinel a pleas ant visit while in town on busi ness Tuesday. Ossie Hendricks, after spend ing the holidays with his mother; near Pickena-neletedio his st 'at Furman university. ofMrs. H. E. Russel and children ofEasley and Katherine Ha good have been v'siting Mrs. Russell's parents and Kather ine's grand parents Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Starke of Elberton, Ga. IThe boys of Pickens had a Ijolly time moving and misplac ing things over town New Year's eve; but Chief Nealey had a better time watching them sput the things back in place' by moonlight two nights after4 John C. Ragsdale letter carrier on Easley route 4 for more than twelve .years left for Layonia, Georgia last week. His patrons and friends will miss him and regret h i s leaving. Win. D. Young takes route 4 having ex changed his route at Lavonia to Mr. Ragsdale. . Governor Blease pardoned and *paroled forty-five more convicts latweek and among the num ber was John Massingale, who acnicted of killing a man in Pickens count irf ... nd sentenced to serve three yeas on the caingang, but who es caped after serving about six months of the sentence and was only recaptured about six weeks ago by Sheriff Roark in Tennes see, where he had made his home since his escape. From all reports Massingale has been living right since his escape and rather deserved leniency. He was turned loose on condition that he leave this state and never return. 1915 ands and Customersf 's usiness we've 11l s rive to give~ i dur g1915. .es for a Prosper e remain. truly,* HA RMA CV LL srOaR Read Craig Brothers Co. new ad this week. (I. F. Smith of Liberty route 3 was in town Tuesday. Sortie one has suggested call ing it the Hell Telephone Bum pany. Miss Nettie Porter of Green ville spent the holidays with her parents at Pickens. Miss Clara Smith attended the melodrama "Within the Law," in Greenville last Satur day night. Married, by J B. Newbery at his office, on December 31, Miss Effie Robinson and Mr. Freeman P. Stansell, of Easley. Misses Daisy Whitmire and Virginia Johnson of Greenville recently visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. S. Porter. Married, by J. B. Newbery at his residence, on January 3, Miss Velma C. Powell and Mr. Clarence C. Phillips, of Pickens route 2. The advertisements in The Sentinel every week are worth many timEs the price of the paper to those who read them regularly. Get the habit of reading them every week and you will find it pays you. The Sentinel has no pleasure in striking subscribers from its list, especially those who desire the continuance of the paper; but unless we have had due notice of the desire of the sub scriber in the matter, there is no other alternative. Officers LaBoon, Alexander, Cureton and Christopher, all of this county, have destroyed nine illicit distilleries, several thous and gallons of beer, several gallons of shipped and blockade whiskey and captured several men in this county since De cember 18th. A correspondent on route 5 writes as follows: There have been a lot of fine hogs killedO this section r q-i@tf7 Mr. Thomas Durham killed one that oi&516 pounds, Mr. M. T. es killed one that netted 46 pounds and Mr. Mac Powell one that netted 416 pounds. Auditor Christopher will Mon day begin his rounds of the county for the purpose of taking tax returns. See his schedule in another column and meet him at the most convenient place. These visits are made over the county for the con yen ience of the tax payers. The Baraca-Philathea ban quet in the Masonic,.al4ast' Tuesday night waj- one of the most largejyatitended, enjoy able and successful banquets ever g i v e n in Pickens. Both these classes are real live and are doing good work. They' are both noted for their liberali-. ty and this year expect to eclipse both in attendance and and liberality anything they have done before. Prof. H C. Smith of Greer spent a short while last week with Prof. Lawrence Bowen at his home near Pickens. Prof. Bowen has charge of the mathe matics in the high school at Landrum, but spent the holi ays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reese Bowen. Prof. Smith is principal of the Seneca high school. These young men were room mates at Furman and graduated in the class of '13. Several communications from regular correspondents w e r e left out last week, because The entinel force took a day off for hristmaswand we did dot have time to get them in type and et the paper out on time. hese communications are too ld to publish now. We want ur correspondents to k n o w that we appreciate their letters ad hope all of them will con tinue to send us news from their sections. A new professional card ap pears in The Sentinel this week, being that of McSwain & Craig, lawyers. This is the newest law firm in Pickens, but is one f the best known, being comn posed ofJ. J.McSwain, one of the most prominent lawyers of Greenville, and Sam B. Craig, f Pickens, one of the most promising young lawyers of this section. Business given this firm will be handled care fully. Prof. Fred McCrary, of Rich mond, Va., visited his friend, Sam B. Craig, in Pickens last week. Prof. McCrarv is a native of Transylvania county, N. C., and he and Mr. Craig were room mates at the North Greenville high school about ten years ago and since that time has not seen each other in ten - a rs. When Mr. Mc Drary s a boy his father was pposed his going off to school but young M Crary ran away rom hom worked his way thrn thie school and ad then thru Cl -mson College, raduating ther wo years ago, adis now apro or in one of the Richmond sc Is, where he ommands a han me salary ad is doing much . "You an't keep a wo king man TE~ PICKENS SENTINEL,I More Potash Coming American crops and soils are still as hungry for Potash as be fore the outbreak of the Euro pean war, which curtailed the Potash shipments. Some of the Fertilizer Com panies are trying to induce far mers to buy the one-sided low Potash or no Potash fertilizers of a generation ago. This means a fertilizer that is profitable to the manufacturer, but not the best for the farmer. When the Syn dicate in 1910 started the direct sales of Potash to dealers and farmers at reasonable prices, Potash sales increased 65 per cent. in one year, a clear proof that farmers know that Potash Pays. They know that Potash gives good yields, good quality and resistance to plant diseases. Many of the Fertilizer Manu facturers are willing to meet the farmer's wishes and sell him what he thinks he needs. These manufacturers are now willing to furnish as much Potash as they can seenre. They offer goods with 5 per cent. and even in some cases 10 per cent Potash, if the farmers insist on it. Shipping conditions are im proving, more Potash is coming forward, although the costs of production and transportation are higher. The higher price of fertilizers is not due wholly to the slightly higher cost of Pot arh. Much of the Potash that will be used in next spring's fertilizer had reached America before the war started. There is no substitute for Pot ash. We can no more return to the fertilizer of twenty years ago than we can return to the inef ficient farm implements or un profitable livestock of that period. (adv) H. A. HUSTON. J. J. McSWAIN SAM B. CR.IG Greenville, S. C. Pierens, S. C. McSwain & Craig LAWYERS Practice in State and Federal Courts Greenville Office Phone 210 Pickens Office Phone 39 Free Flower Seed. Hastings' Catalogue Tells You About It If you are engaged in farming, or if you plant only vegetables or flow er, you cannot afford to be without the' big catalogue published fresh and new every year by the great South ern seed house, H. G. Hastings & .:ompany, of Atlanta, Ga., and sent ab solutely free, postage paid, to all who write for it, mentioning the name of this newspaper. In this catalogue we tell you of a splendid offer of free flower seed to all our customers, five magnificent varieties that mean beauty about your home and a pleasure to wives and daughters that nothing else car-i This catalogue telL, you, too, about our big caeht prize offer to the Corn Oltfo boys of your state. It tells all about our fine yielding varieties of corn and cotton-the kind we grow on our own 3,200 acre farm. It tells about the best seeds of all kinds for planting in the South. It should be in every Southern home. Write to day and let us send it to you.-H. G. HASTINGS & CO., Atlanta, Ga.-Advt. THANK *You! We wish to thank the people for the liberal patronage given us during the year just past; and we wish for you all muchhappiness an prosperity durir the year 1915. Trade with us ing 1915 and 1 help youto money. CRAIG BROS. COMPANY Pickens, *S. C. ~4Z~ ,~ PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA UATION'S LABOR OVRPROBLEM OVER A MILLION AND A HALF WOMEN WORK AS FARM HANDS IN THE UNITED STATES. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers' Union. Our government never faced so tre mendous a problem as that now lying dormant at the doors of congress and the legislatures, and which, when aroused, will shake this nation from center to circumference, and make civilization hide its face In shame. That problem Is-women In the field. The last federal census reports show we now have 1,514,000 women working in the field, most of them south of the Mason and Dixon line. There were approximately a million negro slaves working in the fields when liberated by the emancipation proclamation. We have freed . our, slaves and our women have taken their places In bondage. We have broken the shackles off the negroes and welded them upon our daughters. The Chain-Gang of Civilization. A million women In b6ndage in. the southern fields form the chain-gang of civilization-the industrial tragedy of the age. There is no overseer quite so cruel as that of unrestrained. greed, no whip that stings like the lash of suborned destiny, and no auctioneer's block quite so revolting as that of or gantzed avarice. The president of the United States was recently lauded by the press, and very properly so, for suggesting medi ation between the engineers and rail road managers In adjusting their schedule of time and pay. The engi neers threatened to strike If their wages were not Increased from ap proximately ten. to elevei dollars per day and service.'reduced from ten to eight hours ad a similar readjust ment of the oifrtime schedule. Our women are working in the field, many of them barefooted; for less than 50 cents per day, and their schedule is the rising sun and the evening star, and after the day's work Is over they milk the cows, slop the hogs and rock the baby to sleep. Is anyone mediat ing over their problems, and to whom shall they threaten a strike? Congress has listened approvingly to those who toil at the forge and be hind the counter, and many of our ,statesmen have smiled at the threats 'and have fanned the flame of unrest -among Industrial laborers. But wom en are as surely the final victims of industrial---'arfare as they are the burden-bearers in the war between na tions, and those who arbitrate and mediate -the differences between capi tal and labor should not forget that when the expenses of any industry are unnecessarily increased, society foots the bill by drafting a new consignment of women from the home to the fild. Pinch no Crumb From Women's Crust of Bread. No financIal award can be made without someone footing the bill, and we commend to those who accept the responsibility of the distribution of in dustrial justice, the still small voice of the woman in the field as she pleads for mercy, and we'beg that they pinelt .o crumb from her arisht of -breaca or put another patch upon her ragged garments. We beg that they listen to the scream of horror from the eagle on every American dollar that is wrung from the brow of toiling women and hear the Goddess of Justice hiss at a verdict that increases the want of woman to satisfy the greed of man. The women behind the counter and in the factory cry aloud for sympathy and the press thunders out in their defe-nse and the pulpit pleads for mercy, but how about the woman in the field? Will not these powerful exponents of human rights turn theIr talent, energies and Influence to her relief? Will the Goddess of Liberty enthronied at Washington hold the cal loused band and soothe the feverish brow of her sex who sows and reaps the nation's harvest or will she permit the male of the species to shove womnen-weak and weary-from the bread-line of industry to the back al leys of poverty? Women and Chldren First. The census enumerators tell us that of the 1,614,000 women who work In the fields as farm bands 409,000 are six teen years of age and under. What is the final destiny of a nation whose fu ture 2nothers spend their girlhood days behind the plow, pitching hay and hauling manure, and what Is to become of womanly culture and refinement that grace the home, charm society and enthuse man to leap to glory In noble achievements if our daughters are raised in the society of the ox and the companionship of the plow? In that strata between the ages of sixteen and forty-five are 950,000 wom en working as farm hands and many of them with suckling babes tug ging at their breasts, as drenched in perspiration, they wield the scythe and guide the plow. What Is to be come of that nation where poverty breaks the crowns of the queens of the home; despair hurls a mother's love from its throne and hunger drives innocent children from the schoonx uom to the hoe? The census bureau shows that 155, 000 of these women are forty-five years of age and over. There is no m Zw1 sight in civilization than s -of Israel stooped - the field from night drenching *ith the tears of hing hearts take - .ayer. Civilization - w when it should ~n, and their only -,broke bread with ."Come unto me all -and heavy laden and ~st." ~The land of the free *of the brave, the 3 .n of chivalry, the an rights and the de J gressed-shall we per - fair to be torn from ,y the ruthless hand - -- 1b Ihained to the plow? - - e our faithful wives, -5'Lted with God to cher Sto be hurled from the 7-o harvest field, and our thold forces to our the women ices.-P f~frly $ Frorr Everyone I The discrimi goods, for CHEi investment on e; Szor is not keenex ably---to serve y Sal---theref ore, w the "quality" ki: We| Heathm witn a mfembersmip or ten muion, puts Its organized forces squarely behind the issue and we now enter upon the docket of civilization the case of "The Woman In the Field" and demand an immediate trial. RAILROADS APPEAL TO PRESIDENT The Common Carriers Ask for Re ief-- President Wilson Directs Attention of Public to Their Needs. The committee of railroad execu tives, headed by Mr. Frank Trumbull, representing thirty-five of the leading railroad systems of the nation, recent ly presented to President Wilson a memorandum briefly reviewing the dif ficulties now confronting the railroads of the country and asking for the co operation of the governmental authori ties and the public 'in supporting a road credits and recognizing ani emer gency .rhichz requires that the rail roads be given additional revenues. The memorandum recites that the European war has resulted in general depression of business on the Ameri can continent and In the dislocation of credits at home and abroad. With revenues decreassing and interest rates increasing the transportation systems of the country face a most serious crisis and the memorandum Is a strong presentation of the candle burning at both ends and the perils :that must ultimately -attend such a conflagration when the flames meet Is apparent to all. In their general discussion the railroad representa 1tives say in part: "By reason of leg Islation and regulation by the federal government and the forty-eight states acting independently of each other, as welas through the action of a strong public opinion, railroad expenses In Irecent years have vastly increased. No criticism Is here made of the gen eral theory of governmental regula 1tlon, but on the other band, no In ~genuity can relieve th-e carriers of ex ~penses created thereby." President Wilson, In transmitting the memorandum of the railroad presidents to the public, character Izes It as "a lucid statement of plain truth." The president recognizing the emergency as extraordinary, con tinning, said in tart: "You ask me to call the attention of the country to the Imperative need that railway credits be sustained and the railroads helped in every possible way, whether by private co-operative effort or by the action, wherever feasible of governmental agencies, and I am glad to do so because I think the need very real." The conference was certainly a fortunate one for the nation and the president is to be congratulated for opening the gate to a new world of effort in which everyone may co-oper ate. There are many important prob lems in our complex civilization that will yield to co-operation which will not lend themselves to arbitrary rul ings of commissions and financing railroads is one of them. The man with the money Is a factor that can not be eliminated from any business transaction and the public is an inter ested party that should always be con sulted and happily the president has invited all to participate in the solu tion of our railroad problems., SPECIAL NOTICES Wool rolls for sale at Craig Bros. Co., Pickens. For Sale or Exchange-1-horsepower gas engine and corn mill. L. B. O'Dell, Liberty, S. C. Lost-A rubber coat, size 42. between the residence of Wade Chastain and Whitewater. Coat was lost about No 27. Finder will p lease return to Wa t Chastain or The Sentinel office. e 150 vests, small sizes at 1 s'caps, 15c; 151ldis cane seed. t.Now is ncloth, for the Cra e to :he Grave Jses Hardware of Some Kind nating customer insists on quality LP hardware is about the POOREST irth. The edge of the sharpest ra than our desire to serve you accept ou in a manner to win your approvz hatever you buy from us will be ad. 'ell Everything in Hardware ce-Morow C Pickens, S. C. PICKENS RAiLWAY COMPA TIME TABLE NO. 12, SUPERCEDING TIME TABLENR. IN EFFECT JUNE 8, 1911. No. 1 No.3 No.5 Dis. Stations. No.2 No.4 No 7.30 A.M 11.00OAM 3.15 P. MLv. 0 Pickens Ar .O. SP .5 7.5 " 1.0 " 3.20 " 1 Argalso .0x 4 7.5"11.25 "3.40 " 85Mauldinsx 55x3" 7.50 1.2".35 7Aral 0 i " .30O"4.154 7.5" 125"40" 8Maldix45 " .5 " 4.0 8.00 " 1.30 " 3.45 " Ar. 9.3 Easley Lv. .40 " .20 " 4.05 xNo agent. No. 1 connects with Southern Railway train No. 42. Nos and 4 connect with Southern Railway trains Nos. 39 and 12. 1% TryAnAdvertisementinuheSen I Thank You For the splendid patronage given last year and shall try to merit a tinuance of the same. A Special Price on Some Colored' Yours for trade J. W. Hendricks There is ONE THING About our SHOES: ~ They are built up from the inside-the HID DEN PARTS are just as good as parts that. + SHOW. Whether for Men, Women or Children, our + Shoes are the very best that money, brains and care can secure.. esu we dsell CHEAPER SHOES -but then YOU would not be satisfied and WE would lose yolxrrade. + Call at our place when in Greepvilie and we a. will be glad to show you throngh, whether - + you are ready to buy your SHOF BILL or not