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ISI NS S. N PUBLISED WEKLY drrIcIAL PAPER 01F PIOKE.'NS COUNTY SUSrTOPRaNFDLARERYR - Established~ 187!-Volumne 45 AN 'A . .PCENSCDCMBER 30, 19 15Nibi3 RUB OUT PAIN iith good oil liniment, Thet's the surest way to stop them. The best rubbing liniment is MUST.AN K-. $AN( LINIMENi Good for the Ailments of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Good for your own Aches. Pains, Rheumatis.%Sprains, Cuts, Burns#, 25c. 50c. $1. At all Dealers. SPECIAL NOTICES Lost-An automobile tire chain be tween Hagood's Mill and Liberty, Sun day. Bring to Sentinel office and ge reward. LOA NS on farzm lands. Easy terms unl lot lime if desired. Address. I. T. .Inyles, j\11 I will pay 25c a pound for tw pounds of fresh butter every week sen me by parcel post. W. G. Stewarl 710 Maple St., Columbia, S. C. .33t CLOSING OUT AT COS' and below. -iver 'A thing to go before .n. 1. Come early wnd gt Choice. .Men's aund buys' suitu, ladies' con suits, hats, caps and smioe, rubler rooting everything. OIx tobicc lie 111111: 16$ mzmgi rhells :i7, . ( ils is the c tie it will piq '0 to.see 'T. . Harris. SPECIA , OFFER--To patients coming fro P'ickens county to our (reeniville office for ey work: As we are members of the Chamber u Con merce, we refund railroad- fares. A. .4 (Momn. consultina optonetristOpticlan. ores dent 'rho Globe Optical Vo.. Iam tici 'D11pl Greenville, S. C. :The eal Laundr at McBee Avenue! fwlml, S. c. AINN lass Laundry * All Kinds j lied aspecialty i v aiake that od suit look Ik new. We are preparedI to do th work and do not tear up gar lilents. Patronize our agents an have your laun(ry (lelivered a your door. B. B. PORTER, Agent, At Porter's Barber Shop. Picken HOWARD SWEET, Agent, A t Free's Barber Shop, Easley Porter's Barber Shoi Pickens, S. C. * The place to get your barbe work done if you want it righ $ y)t1savinug. ii air Cuttinug, Shinmupooulig. Mlassagun sluemg, etc.. 'tone bay bathuers who k now thme busidness, anud at reasonuable pr'iees. Iinuzor Ilioning 5 specialty t ive uis a tila I lsverything lxtremet'ly SanuItary Wheat, Shorts and Rice Meal Try a few while cottonsee meal is so high. You will fin that it is all right and cheapel Ask Clemson and see that yo get high grade feed. \Ve wi *have another car in a few day: orris & Co., Pickens,S.( . 1MlW~A IN SAd M 1. (JitA Greenville, . 4. l'ickens, .5. ('. McSwaln & Craig LAWYERS ractice in State and F'ederal Cor Greenville Office Phone 210 Pickens Office Phone 39 ROBT. MARTI AT* NYAND iOUSELVl OTICE IN ALL COURT e .. illee 411 i. 'li (Pglesdne10.11 Pete. Hamilton Convi And Will Pete Hamilton, the youn iasiey mulatto charged wit] attempted criminal assault upoi the person of a white woman was convicted at the specia tei-m of court held in Picken Monday and sentenced to b electrocuted the fourth day o next February. While Hamilton was beinj taken to Greenville by officer he confessed his guilt of th( crime. M~ The jury was out about thre hours before it agreed, and it i understood that on the first few ballots there were eight foi "guilty" and four who wante( to recommend mercy. Solicitox Proctor Bonham represented thE state and many thought his ar gument before the jury was one of the best ever heard in th( Pickens court house. J. Frank Epps of Greenville appeared foi the defendant. F Thruout the trial the court house was packed wvith interest. ed spectators and probably the t largest crowd which has attend. ed court in Pickens in many, many years was here. Th< trial of Hamilton began about twelve o'clock and it was near I four when the arguments were " finished and the case went to-the jury, court not adjourning for dinner. When the jury reached e a verdict the judge and counsel were called to the courthouse and the verdict of guilty was read. Tears fell from the pris oner's eyes constantly during the trial, and when Judge Maul din asked himiif he had any , thing to say why the sentence of death should not be passed upon him the prisoner broke cor pletely down and begeod for mercy. -Solicitor Bonhani savs this is the second case he recall where a negro prisoner broke down. Order in the exceedingly larg( crowd was well nigh perfect. Hamilton was carried fron Pickens to Greenville in an au tomobile and then carried to th( . penitentiary by rail. 3 A history of the case was pub - lished in Tihe Sentinel severa I weeks ago. t In his confession Hamilton stated that he crawled thru the window and that his purpose wasnot theft,buthehad thought about making the attempt until his mind was crazed, and said that he lost both his shoes, onie of which was nevei found, and he did not know became of it. The jury which sat oi 1.he case was composed of the Col Iovina men: 0. M. Grayley, foreman. t1. B. Field, M. Taylor Jones5, S. S. Masters, HI. W. Gar rison, Norman N. Boggs, -J. A. H. Townes, F. R. Moon, WV. L. Pressley, Frank G. Smith. John T. Skelton. Several other cases8 were tried i Monday before the Hamilton I case was taken up. Judge T.J. Mauldin had been appointed by the governor as judge for the .special term. His charges wverc short, clear andconcise and sub j ect of much favorable com ment. Fletcher~ Davenport, colored, plead guilty to a charge of as sault and battery of a high and 'aggravated nature and received -a sentence of six months. u In the case of Jesse McCoy and L. T.X Jenkins, colored, charged with breaking into the depot at NorrIs and stealing about six dollars wvorth of whils key, Jenkins pleadl guilty and wvas senteniced to serve ninc months. McCoy is at lar'ge. Will Jonies, colored, charged with having robbed (Joke Palm e r, a white boy, at Mgadden'E bridge near Central, plead guil ty and was given twvo years. Just ab~out the greatest Christ. ma it we heard of comning tc P~iknswas loft at the home of IMr. and Mrs. Guy , McL~all Fri. :ted, Confessed, Be Electrocuted Feb. r A Mail Carrier's Letter I I Editor Pickens Sentinel: have been intending to attem to write a letter to The Sentin for some time, but just when would get my thinker to work would be time to start on ti r road again, for I am one of U1 cle Sam's rural route boys. N carriers get so accustomed I doing the same thing day in ar day out, traveling the same roa and seeing the same scenes unt it become a part of ourselve and we cannot do or think < anything else. Our veteran carrier here, Unc Billy Mullinax, has been in t service about sixteen years. H can see nothing but mail boxei he cannot drive by any whiI object on the roadside, even o his way to church on SundaN without driving up to it to see 1 there is mail in it, It is sai there was a large goat standin upon the bank of the road on day, his head buried in the dee grass on which he was grazing He did not notice Uncle Bills who drove quietly up behin him and was fumbling in hi satchel for his keys, when boy ran out and'said: "Uncle Billy, what are yo going to do with my goat?" "Oh, nothing," said Uncl Billy, coming to himself, as b threw down his keys and starte off. "I was just so used to ur locking a box when the flag wa ip!" Now, I am not quite as bad a Uncle Billy, simply because have not been in the service a long. However, I do catch ma self sitting up in my sleep . night writing money order ai plications to Roars and Sav buck and R. M. Rose. We can do one thing so muc until we will get it confuse with everything else we try to I or say-like the old negro preacl er whose congregation had pr sented him with an automobil The' old preacher tried all th week to learn to operate and I drive the machine, and becam much confused with the mi chanical terms and directions h found in the instruction booli and on the following Sunday good colored sister had com from a nearby town to make missionary address, but befor beginning asked the parson t pray for her that she might d< liver a great message. So th old negro got d]own on his knee. lifted his eyes up to the skies andl began in tones most revei ent: "Oh, Lord, fill her radiatc lippinigfull 01) de cl'ar, COl' watt 01) life, our in de ile ob salvw tion till it stands above de gag< den crank her, Lord, wvid d right han' 01) fellowship, cl'a up die voice ob her 'lectrofied go: pel horn, kick off dle clutch o dle (debbil and th'ow her on high. However, this monotony c rural mail carrying may be br< ken, for we have time and 01 portunity for studying huma nature in its Varied formu whims and fancies. WAe see th same people (lay after day, yeti after. We see them shiverin in the chilling breezes of wintei we see them sweltering und( the rays of a summer sun; wv see themi in prosperity; we se themi in failure; we see thei smiling faces when all is we wvith them: we see the anxioti look on a mother's face as sh comes out to send1 a special d< livery message to a (distant re ative, telling them that lit childl is dIanger'ously ill: on th next trip we see the doctor's cei standing in the vard. We wor der' what our next tri) will d1it close. Hometimes it is the hal py smile of a miotheri or fath( as they tell us that the crisis passed and their child will g well. Sometimes it is the sigi of the black-curtained hearse it stands ready to convey thi little b~ody to its last restin place, We see the, saddent countenance of 'a mother wvhc wve inform her' that there is r mail today, as she says: "I woi dn' wvho my hov doesn't wvri He left home two months ag( and I know not where he is." We see the telltale blushes of a maiden as we hand her a let ter addressed in a masculim hand. The next day we gathei from the box,'the dainty and fragrant nissle Whose motive I and mission we easily can guess, t 'Tis the same old sweet story, el I never could think or speak I lightly of the love affairs of oui . boys and girls. They are th( sweetest, happiest hours of thi e life-the time when the loom of 1- hearts is working overtime weav !e ing that precious fabric which o .we call love-sweet,happy,bliss d ful mating time. Every letter, every smile, every loving word, ,d every lingering good-night kis il is a solid stone laid in the foun 3, dation of love, upon which we ,f build that most sacred and holy earthly structure, "The home," e and every home builded unon e any other foundation, be it a e tile or crowned with wealth; be . it a palace or be it a hovel, will e crumble and fall almost before the roses wither in the bride's bouquet. But I did not start out to preach a sermon or to give a lecture on love-making. I really e intended to write s)mething about Christmas, and I have mentioned everything else in stead, except the last hen that layed, and I would have men s tioned that, but she didn't lay. So I guess our Christmas egg nog will be eggless, and when a dear old South Carolina is dry it will go nogless, too. And may e God speed the day when South e Carolina's sons, husbands and I fathers cannot go to the express office a few days before Christ s mas to get something with which to celebrate the happy, s holy Yuletide. Awirnuit H. AuNOLD. s Central, S. C. Oolenoy News Notes Oolenoy, Dec. 260.-On Thurs. h day, the 23rd inst., the hospit. d able country home of Mr. anm t Mrs. S. M. Jones presented quit( a festive appearance. Thehoust was beautifully decorated ith 3' holly, ferns and mistletoe. .e Bright fires cast; their glov an( 10 warmth about, the roonis. A e host of flien(s and relatives were there. The occasion was Sthe miarriage of their daughter, Bessie Virginia, a young lady a of unusual intelligence an pleas 0ing personality, to Mr. Norman Freeman. son of Mr. J. M. Free C m-ai, of the Loopers section. O Rev. J. 1. Foster, pastor of the vroom. offciated. Mr. L. Ver 0non Jones, a brother of the bride, and Miss Ella Freeanii, a 'sister of the groom-, were the at tendants. A sumptuous dinner wvas served. A handsome array ~of presents attested the p)opullar Sity of the couple, it is with much regret, to their numerous 'friends here that they make e their hamie elsewhere. 'But the rbest wvishes of this community follow them. The entertainment at the ~ raded school on Thursday ev ening passed off yery pleasantly to a large gathering. The sum of $34 was realized from the sale of the boxes. Among the visit ors were: Messrs. Baker and r Edens, of Pickens, Day, D~acus and Torcheny, of Easley, Jones .and Looper, of Dacusville, Keel , er, of Travelers Rest, Hendrix earnd Anthony, of the Griflin see e tion. r. Among those spending the Iilday here with relatives are: s Messrs. Pr'ue Hendrix, of Ceni e tral High School of Greenville, . L. Vernon Jones, of Draughon's .Business College of Greenville, r. Mr. andl Mrs. S. F. Keith and e children of Greenville, Miss Jo r sic Chastain, of Pickens, Mr. .and1 Mrs. George 10. Keith, of . Pickens. i.I DeCamp Was Right S t (Iaffney Ledger. s Gary Hlott is doomedl to dis e app)ointment if he kills the fat gted rooster expecting Blooker f(a d come over and spend Christmas. mn Tlo our certain knowledge Book 0 er' is most unrelinble willn ii 1- comes to keeping prmomise's of that kind. Marriages TMarried, on Sunday, Decem ber 206. at the residence of the officiating officer, Mr, George Kennemore, of Central to Miss Pina Lovell, of Liberty, J Al onzo Brown, N. P., at the throt tie. George is anl only son of Mr. and Mrs. Elias Kennemore of Central and is an all around good fellow. We extend con gratulations. Married! When? December 21, Where? At the bride's home near Six Mile. Who? Miss Iola Merck to Mr. Charles Smith.. Who married them? Rev. Chas. Atkinson. Married! When? December g2. Where? At Rev. B. C. At kinson's near Six Mile. Who? Miss Viola Entrekin to Oreal E. Taylor. Who married them? Rey. Charles Atkinson. Married at the home of Mr. J. T. Reddens, the father of the bride, Mr. John Burgess to Miss Rachel Reddens, all of near Pumpkintown. They have the best wishes of their many fri.ends for a happy voyage through life. A. L. Edens, N. P., offici ating. Married at the home of Mr. W. H. Williams on the 26th inst., Mr. ). Clark to Miss Cum mie Masters, F. S. Childress of ficiating. Tribute to Mrs. Looper Mr. Editor: I wish to ask for space in your paper to speak a few words in regard to a great soul that this county has lost, namely, Mrs. E.F. Looper. This good woman passed away about 6 p. m. on the 23d of this month. Her age was 59. 1 had the arand privilege of meeting this sainted wife and mother a few days ago, and it makes me glad to think that 1 met her before she went hence. I did not have the sad lot try ing to find if she was a Chris tian. for I could hear this of her from everyone 1 met. She has provon to he a true friend to all that, would let her. So (id her Haviour, too. She has been a true, great and good mother,and to say the truth, her children will and do rise and call her blessed, and the last, of all, but not the least., she has been a good and loving wife. 1 will ask the reader to read in Prov. ill, 10-131. 1 believe this she was. The funeral was held at their home, and it was a rough dlay for a while, but tihe people were glad to comie through the cold rain to be0 present to see the face of this goodl woman once more and a large n n mber canme. Tree)1( talks were given, one by a man who knew the family wvell, and lhe spoke very highly for the same. Many flowvers were brot as a token of love. ], her pastoir, and in, behalf of our church, extend ouri symf. pathy to the entire famnily ot the deceased. Farewell, great soul; we do now miss thee, but glad the an gels (10 now meet thee. Fare well-wve have lost thee- -but heaven has gained thee. S. B. Wnres:. Mrs. S. E. Williams Mr's. S.El. Williams, of Norris, Pickens county, has been on an extendedO~ visit to her sister, Mr's. E. (3 Singleton. Mr's. Williams has been a remarkable wvoman. She is in her 80th year. in the year 1854 she lost her right arm, getting it torn ofT in an 01(1 fash ioned1 molasses mill. Her hus b~and, Thomas P. VVilliams,died in November. 1871. Even at heir advanced age she still is re markably stout and enjoysV good1 health. She has inteen living grandl child ren and eighteen great-grandchildren. Mr'. C. (I. Porter, who wvill he0 87 year's old Christmas Eve, is . a cousin of Mrs. Williams. May both h)e spar1ed for many years yet. --i'.'g loT iu o et is Opening of New Year 1 Brings Bargain Sales IT'S fime to clean house! Not for the housewife,to be sure, but for the business man. And he will "clean house" if he is a business man. Watch for his announcements in The Sent inel early in the new year. The modern man or woman need not be informed of the advan tage of buying their needs of the man who advertises. They need only to have their atten tion called to his advertisements. "Clearance Sales" always are money-savers for the public,and our live merchants will be offer ing them soon. They cannot afford nor do they wish to car ry their surplus stock over un til next winter. It is as fresh and good now as ever, but such could not be said of it next win ter. Watch for these sales in early issues of The Sentinel. PICKENS: Folger, Thornley & Co. Hobbs-Henderson Co. Craig Bros. Co. Heath-Bruce-Morrow Co. J. W. Hendricks, RI. Pickens Drug Co. Keowee Pharmacy. Pickens Bank. Keowee Bank. Morris & Co. G. A. Ellis. Pickens Hardware & Grocery Co. Land Sales. EASLEY: Edwin L. Bolt & Co. GREENVILLE: A. K. Park. Pride, Patton & Tilman. Globe Optical Co. Luzianne Coffee. At Rest Columbus Eber Parsons, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Parsons, died at Pickens Christmas morn Ing at 12.05 o'clock 1915. Mr. Parsons had turned into the 24 year of his age. ie left surviv ing, his wife and little son two years old, his father, mother, two brothers and three sisters, and a great number of relations. He was a member of Moun tan View Baptist church. The yiung iian was strongly devot ed to his father and mother. He was sick four days an(d died of stomach trouhblo. He was very social and1(l kind, and made friends rapidly. Rev. Mr. How ard of (Green vill preached th( funeral sem11on1 and conlducted the burial service atI Prater's Ureek church onl Sunday where bhe body was laid to rest in the presence of a large congregation assemlibled to demonstrate the respect they had for the deceas ed. and to symipathyze with the ber'eaved1 oes. Oh! "Dew" Say Newherry Observer. TIhe Columbia State gives The Ledger' credit for a squib con cerning the "Do~w berry'' Ob er - ver' which dIoes not belong to us. We wvouldn 't think of referring to Colonel WVallace's excellent paper' in any such flippant terms. On' impression is that that young scamp Booker is the gull t~y c'ulprit. --Gaff'ney L.edger'. No, it wvasn't B)oker, bunt it was that sniptions young H-iott of the Pickings Sentinel. lliOtt meant it as a very high co0mpli ment, thinking naturally that any wvord having "dew'' ini it must (expre'ss t he acme of pofec tion--like "'mountain dew'', for instanice. We Intended to Run a Special Will Col. Iiiott, of Thle Pick anis Sentinel please send( us a schedule of thePickents"D oodle'' so we catn arrange our trip along with Bi'other Wallace? Messrs. Robert Jones and E. Foste' Keith of the Oolenov sec t~ion were in Pickens Thursday. Mr. Keith says that Ottis, his eldest son, was mnar'ried recently to Miss Floto of St. Paul, Minn., where he is now a traveling s~alesm an. JI. XM. Steele and. son Ernest, of' the Keowee SidIe, were in Pickens onenayo lnat ~ek.