Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DUNK BDTT, The postmaster sees where the government is about to lend the Allies half a billion dollars. He thinks we better mind how we lend money to strangers. Fit Smith's dogs followed him to the still house yesterday, but got tired of waiting and wont dome. Dock Hocks, who has operated his ,tonsorial department at the blacksmith shop this spring and summer, is thinking about clos ing it down till next spring. By that time he can get a large trade, as everybody will need a big haircut. Raz Barlow reports having spent a pleasant day at Tickville Thursday,where he ate two cans of sardines and saw a pretty woman. Fletcher Henstep has traded for a new cow. He got the best of the deal, he believe3, as he swapped a cow that had only one horn for one that had two good ones. The Excelsior Fiddling Band will serenade Poke Easley to night, as he was seen coming from the Hog Ford still house today with afresh jug. Cricket Hicks is preparing to warm his feet as soon as the weather gets cold enough. The postmaster is making all necessary arrangements to sweep out the postoffice, as the inspec tor is feared within a few days. The Dog Hill church, which has been kept open during the week days for the benefit of the general public, in accordance 1 with a movement that has been started by the big city churches, will hereafter have to be kept closed except on Sundays, unless the hog law is enforced. In giving his opinion of the suffragette business, Tobe Mose ley the other morning stated that there was enough argu ment already going on around I the house without adding pull-1 tics. How Shall He Walk? At a recent meeting of the Eas- ~ Jey city council- an ordinance was passed requiring the South- s ern railway to establish yard I limits in Easley, and further re- t quiring all trains to come to a f full stop when entering the said d limits, and have the flagman iF precede each train while it was passing through said limits. A ri copy of this ordinance was sub- i1 mitted to the officials of the road Ir< and in reply they haverequested l b T a hearing before the council be- 1h fore the council before the ordi-1 b nance is put into operation.-- v Easley Progress.|t We understand the railwayI officials wish a hearing in order j to find out just how the flagman y shall proceed,whether they must , walk like Charlie Chaplin or t -walk on their hande. I Pickens Association Notes Ir Baptist Courier. - h When Moderator C. E. Robin son of the Pickens association declined re-election, the body turned as one man to Pastor J. E. Foster. And it was an honor a richly deserved. Heb is one of those unselfish men who thinkC only of serving and who are the only. ones surprised when honors0 come their way. Brother S.E. Welchel 18 one of the young pastors of thePickens1 association. He is serving Nine Forks, Forestville, Columbia and y Highland churches. T h e s eb churches are not all in the Pick enis association. In fact, only e one of them is. They represent ~ four associations and are a typ-r ical field. But thtey have a tine e young pastor. We met Brother T.E. Durham e. at the Pickens association. Bro. t Durham was ordained about a r year ago and finds all the work a no can do. This year he is serv ing the following churches: Glen- j wood, Liberty No. 2 and Smith's i Grove. Renew your subscription to ( your county paper. Correspondent. Washington Hockes has come o the conclusion that all this 'ecent high water is some the %hurch folks over at Hog Ford ere praying for last year when he corn was drying up. The Tin Peddler was in our nidst this week showing a lot >f fine watches. He keeps them eparated from his other tinware. Little Fidity Flinders got a air of new shoes Wednesday mnd is preparing to wear them, )verto Bounding Billows to show bhem to his grandma. Atlas Peck went to preaching at Doe Hill last Sunday. He came away glad that the preach er don't get pay by the hour. Atlas Peck has returned from the Calf Ribs neighborhood. He was accompanied by a cow. Miss Flutie Belcher has written to the wholesale millinery houses at Chicago, asking to be shown all their new styles in hats, as she wants to select one before they are all picked over. -Raz Barlow says being a mem ber of the Excelsior Fiddling Band is a great strain on his fiddle. A lively shooting affray took place at the dance on Gimlet Creek Saturday night, but the Excelsior Fiddling Band was making so much noise only a few close bystanders could hear it. While Atlas Peck was over at Rye Straw yesterday buying some winter supplies he met a Friend he had not seen before in ffty years. He recognized At as by the hat he wore. Luke Mathewsla and Jefferson Potlocks were seen talking pri vate matters in a fence corner ;oday. Slim Pickens tried to 411n up close and hear what they were saying, but when they saw aim they stopped talking. While over at Tickvillo the >ther day the Old Miser of Mus cet Ridge encouraged a blind mian by asking the price of the shoestrings he wvas selling. Easley Locals 'he Progress. Mr. Jule B. Dacus, wvho is a alesman in the store of M. F. parrish, is in a hospital in Spar anburg, being ill with typhoid ever. He was carried there one av last week. At this time he 3 doing very well. While engaged in repairing the of of his dwelling on the 9th istant, Mr. Nathan Smith,who 3sides four miles west of Easley, ecame overbalanced and fell, is body striking some scantling, reaking four~ of his ribs. While cry painful, his in juries Ar not iought to be serious. Mrs. J. A. Smith, who wvent to [ot Springs, Ark., about two ~eeks ago for treatment, under rent an operation at the hospi d at that place last week. A t iis time she is doing very well, ecordi ng to information re sCeived1 here by3 relatives. 1Her usband, Mr. J. A. Smith, is at er bedside. A Community Fair A community fair will lie he~ld t Vineland schoolhouse Oct. 28 nder the auspices of theGeorge's reek Home Betterment club. Snumber of prizes have been [Fered and great interest is being sken in the preparation of the Khibits. An Interesting program of mu c and addresses by the pastors ! the local churches and Mary ~. Ferguson of Winthrop college as been arranged. A picnic lunch will be served n the grounds. The young eople are especially urged to be resent. Let us show our inter st in the progress and develop rient of this and other rural ommunities by being present at his demonstration of commu lty sr irit and co-operation mong the people. Misses Mamie Williams and ilizabeth Mauldin have ar anged to have booths, from vhich they will sell home-made andies, coffee, etc., for the ben fit of the Croswell and Vine and schools. 41 w~Ji" I.."w .fr. ".. : sr-.."..... .nrn". vvrra." ..r r~ . v. *1 Hoo0sier A well equipped kitchen is one of the natural rights of every good house. keeper. This is the greatest oppor tunity you will ever have to make your kitchen perfectly convenien.t at a bargain price. You are not the sort of man to ex pect your wife to go along year after year with no better conveniences in the kitchen than your grandmother had. Men, nowadays, don't cut wheat with a cradle as grandfather did; don't write letters with a quill, or work in a shop with out-of-date tools. You have things up-to-date in work. You bet you do, and you expect 3 Square.Meals a Day right along too. Listen, men! Is it fair to the wife to let her get along with old. fashioned woman-killing household equipment when you can have one of these new Hoosiers delivered tomorrow for only $,i? Of course not. You mean all right. You would like to have a convenient kitchen. Just Hand Us a Dollar We will put one of these five new Hoosiers in your home at a price so low you will think we are cheating ourselves. The Hoosier Company let us make these prices this week to introduce these new models. Teey are so far below the market standard simply becatse enor mous Hoosier sales have made big fac tory savings, and your wife gets the benefit. Send her one of these at our risk. The NEW HOOSIER WONDER The NEW HOOSIER SPECIAL The NEW ROLL DOOR HOOS The NEW HOOSIER BEAUTY The NEW HOOSIER DE LUXI Send one of these tomorrow sure. Conmo I lar a week for a few weeks. That is all. If s money with a smile. Do this much for your E. L. &G. B. B. F. PARSONS, Pickenm DARK 4 An intensely int * will begin in the nex * everybody likes to re + that reason we have *the pleasure of our i *jiThe Sentinel is + exceedingly good an< * long winter nights n * Be sure to read * in next week's papei , r*' q' ". . - _' U -rt ;' ', r Ptna-Pav&' fi : n ar.rni Like Oood M ve Your Wife a Cabinet NOW Mte wide cupboard ,pae-unclu-tered qual to Hoosier B iz bE partitions or kc caie wov ubby holes o a -- " r ----_ - This is "HOOSIER BEAUTY" The National Step Saver -at $9.00 less than stanlard prices-with alumnum table and white enamel cutboards. -midway beteen the Hoosier Wonder a(l Hoosier Beauty in con venience-and equal to Hoosier Beauty in size. JER -the; only kitchen cabinet with roll doors that are removable and sanitary -no cubby holes or partitions catch dlirt or dust. -1 he National Step Saver; most complete and most practical kitchen cab inet ever made; most popular cabinet in the world. -all white enamel inside and out-a kitchen cabinet of remarkable n early before some of styles are all gone. Just a dollar now; then a dol he isn't delighted, we will take back the cabinet and .hand back your vife NOW. Yo owe it to her. HAMILTON, Easley, S. C. CASH GROCERY CO., Liberty HOLLOW eresting and fascinating serial story4 t issue of The Pickens Sentinel. Most ~ad a story like Dark Hollow, and for4 secured the rights to publish it for eaders. preparing to offer its readers some 1 interesting reading matter for the4 w approaching. the first installment of the new story4