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MA T"4 I, 77F ~L~LI~W ~~OF'FIOIAL'PAPER OF'PrOK1UNS DOLLAY SF fr PTI Estblihd174b PICKENS, S. C., FEBRUARY 24, 1916 te ' frrO oleno Mrs. T. L. Roper Is, critio ly with pneumonia -t her homp here. She has mainy friends and relatives who are niuch initerested in her recovery. Mies'Clare Keith, the effici ent iday, operator at tho tele phonp office at Pickens Spent the *eek-end with homefoiks. Miss Keith is one of Oolenoy's brigIt bst girls. Prof. Hammond spent the week-end with relatives at Sen. ea, the Misses Hammond in Pickens. PaIul Edens and sisters, Midses Jessie 10. and Montine. were in Pickens Saturday. - Mr. and Mrs. George E. Keith of Pickeris motored up here Sun day. Mrs. Jesse Morris returned home Sunday after a week's to hei parents here. Hon. and Mrs. M. Hendrix - spent Saturday ahd Sunday with theilt daughter, Mrs. W. F. Bat son of Marietta. Miss Pearl Sutherland spent Saturday night with Miss lone Hendrix. Mr. and Mrs. S.B. Edens spent Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Jones. Robert Baker and B. F. Mc Daniel of Pickens were here Sun - day afternoon. Mrs A. A. Jones of the Grif fin section visited Mrs. W. F. Hen drix Sunday. Last Saturday night, an hour or more after dark, an unknown person fired into the dwelling of a prominent family here. The lady of the house had just fin ished preparing the eyening meal and had gone to answer a tele phone call when the ieport rang out and the shattered glass froni the broken window tell -about the room which she had only a few moments before left. The dastardly, cowrFy act has deeply ardased 0h mriation of the people here,and it is hoped that justice wIll be rneted out to this offender of the law. Next Saturday night Prof.W. M. Hammond will lecture at the Cedar Rock schoolhouse on the subject: "The Relation of Ru ral Schools to Community Life." The public is very.cordially in vited. All the churches in Eas.ato township are requested to meet at Holly Sprinvs church the first Sunday in March at 10 o'clock for the pnrpose of organizing a township singing convention in 'Eastatov. Some Happenings at Pumpkintown ~. tle Miss Clovie Hiendricks SSunday with her little 1Miss Mattie WVhite. . .had at delightful time in n - t Grove section Sunday. Snging class met In the af -n with J. L. Burgess. Kbject was to try the new & ok, and right here 19L me Sna enough t~o say that dI something more than se new songs. They "let ithe efficient leader of I ~l ass and we are proud of lcolored boy about 10 ye o agewas very badly if not fatally injured here last week. It seems he was in the act of dismountling from a mule which, it is supuosed, he rode home from the field, when his foot became entangled in the harness. The mule dashed away, dragging the poor little fellow by the foot and, It is said, bumped hin into a stalk cutter, nearly tearing the limb from the body. Th~e laat we heard from him he had not regained con sciousness. A doctor was sum moned, but it Is said he had no hope of the boy's recovery. T. W. Ellenburg of Pleasant Grove. 0ection lost a mule last week. X t died. As "A Farmer" suggested some time ago, we have used this par agraph to-"fill 1k on the tail end"--or at least It is ao~ near the end of the tale Newsy Letter of the Eastern Side W. Ernest HNicie, who lives at Farr's bridre on the Pickens county side, suffered- a stroke of paralvis'last.Friday night about 12 'qleok.. The left side of the . body 4-3 affected, being now almost Pseless.' ,He has soffered with rheumatism for eight or ten yelrv, 'and no one save 1Ern 4hdlis Maker knows how he has siffered. Our sympathy roes out to him. IMessrs. Anderson and Nelson Lodper and Misses Leila Looper ,And! Ella May Ferguson motored to',reenville one afternoon this week. Recent purchases,of Ford au tomobiles on this side are W. B. (Doc) Hester, Bub.Jamison and George W. Lathem. Frank Lenhardt, who has for several months had under con stiuction a power plant at Hun ter's mill, three miles west of Liberty, has received the ma chinerv and placed 1.it the mill. It's a big thing, and before long it will be furnishing electric power for Liberty and adjoining towns. Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Hughes of Greenville-and Mr. and Mrs. H. Z. Jones of PunpkintoWh spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. D.B. Lathem. Mr. P. Orr,- age 68, died at the home of his daughter ih Ander son Saturday, the 19th instant, and was buried at the Jamison family burving ground in this county Sunday afternoon. He was a native of Slabtown 1ec tion of Anderson :county and married Miss Beckie Jamison of tbis county thirty odd years ago. He lived here for several Years andl then moved to Texas, where his wife died. He leaves five children. He was visiting two of his daughters in Oklaho m. when he! took sick andicame back here two months- ago to Spending the week-end with MissEdith Lenhardt at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Lenhardt, wore Misses Patti Major, 'T. Wyatt, Daisy Philpot, Alma Lathem and Mr. Hall W. Hiott. Miss Daisy Philpot -of Central, who has been visiting at Trav elers Rest and Dacusville, has been the charming guest of Miss Alma Latheni the past week. Mrs. E. 13. Lathem of Green ville visited Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Tanner last week. Pickens County School Notes The first public meeting of the literary society of the Mile Creek school, held Friday afternoon, was a success in every particu tar. Many patrons and visitors were Dresent, and Prof. R. 'T. Hallunm and T1. A. Bowen wvere among those who made short talks. Miss Bennie Duck worth and Mrs. Lawrence Murphy are the teachers of this school. Trhis is-one of the rural graded schools of Pickens. county and its suc cess shows what good steachers and community co-operation can do. Mile Creek has a modern school building and one of the best rural libraries in the county, Seventy-five dollars worth of books have recently been added to the library. Besides' the lit erary society this school has an enthusiastic school improvement composed of the ladies-, of the community. .Just keep your eye on those schools which have, ladies' associations. The Prater's Creek school has recently moved into its hand some new three-room building. Tsscool o wns 'four acres of ground and has one of the most beautiful builin sit& in the county. The peop~le 'bf 'this community are wide awake and expect to see a good graded school there in a few years. The Wolf Creek school moved from its 0o(1 one-rooni shack into it~s convenient and modlern new 1building - Monday. The new ~building has two large class j'oonis~ two cloakc rooms, tw'o Zuziazne Grocery Bills Smaller; coffee better and more of it -that's what comes of using Luzianne Coffee famous for its flavor and economy all over the South. Try the entire contents of a one-pound can according to directions. If you are not satisfied with it in every way, if it does not go as far as two pounds of any cheaper coffee you have ever used-tell your grocer you want your money back and he'll come straight across with it, Write for premium catalog. )TLZ)ANNEX COFFEE r 119PAM0ew Orleans~r SBuggies and Wagons a b ore [a With almost 100 Chase City, Weber, Buckeye, Gregory. Columbus and Sterling Wagons in stock we can sell you one-horse wagons for $35 to 40; two-horse wagons $65 to $65. The best buggies in the world for the money are the "HIGH J POINT" at $80 and the "PARRY'" at $50. Two carloads now in stock. We will give two years to pay for any buggy or wagon we sell, and guarantee the price of cotton to you. Remember, also, we guar antee absolutely every buggy or wagon we sell. A fine lot of nice, choicy young horses and mules on hand now, weighing from 760 to 1300'pounds. One span of fine PERCHERON brood mares, 6 years old, weighing 2500 pounds. See our standard bred road horse.; He is fast, 2.60. We will sell you goods cheaper and give you longer terms than any other firm we know of. Trade with us. We do not mind carry ing your account. We have just added a line of fine Sewing Machines and Organs to our business. n W. M. BROWN, Walhalla, S. C. Horses Mules, Buggies, Wa ons, Harness, Milch Cows, Beef Cattle, Gasoline Engines, Oliver Chilled Plows, McCormick Mowing Ma chines, Reapers and Binders, Disc Harrows, Sewing Machines, Organs, Roofing, Lime, Cement, Dynamite, etc. "Brown Has It-Or Brown Gets It" Shsine 'ems up! - Wata dlifferencee white teeth miake in) oie's appleiaance! Beauft~y is often made or mnarredi by the teeth. We sell all the standard Tooth Powders and pasItes4-thbat is, all the good oneCs. Nya l's Tooth Paste is ouri standard ; you'll like it; it's differenit; prlice -.'. at 10e and go uip to 35e. 'l'he( beCst is thle cheapest. KEO WEE PHARMACY THE NYAL QUALITY DRUG STORE Phone 24 - - R. E. Lewis, Prop. ( Your Money Back if' You Want it ) teachers'rooms, two piazzas and this will be the best rural school bell tower and is up-to-date. huhilg in the county. You cannot keep a community --- like this down. ' c want you to r'ead this pa per over and see if you1 think building of Reunion school dis- for two cents a week. trict has been laidl afnd work on the b)uilding is progressing sat- 7 per cenit penaltv nulks tax 1lsfactorily. When completed es are paid before Mlarch 1. A New Office In ' Pickens County MissElizabothMauldin,daugh ter of Mr. Elias Mauldin of Eas ley, has been appointed Instruc tor of domestic science for Pick ens county, and will enter upon the duties of the office March 1. The place Miss Mauldin is to fill has just been created for this county, tho the need of it has been felt for a long time. Most of the other counties of the state already maintain the place for the benefit of the girls and wom en. Miss Mauldin will have charge of the tomato and can ning clubs of the county, be sides other domestic science work and we feel sure the ladies, and especially the school girls, will find her work a great benefit to them and its influence will be felt in every home. Miss Mauldin is a graduate of Winthrop college and thoroly understands the work of the do mestic science department. She has taught school in Pickens county several years and is comn petent'and popular. The money to maintain this place is mostly furnished by the United States government, the county having to furnish a small part, the government's policy in this case being to help those who try to help themselves. We shall watch this work with much interest. Discussed Fer tilizer Question T. A. Bowen, county agent, conducted a fertifizer campaign in Pickens county last weekand had with him Agents Chapman of Greenville county and Byars of Anderson county. The ob ject of the meetings was to dis cuss fertilizers, how to use, how .to buy and what to buy. It was the consensus of opin ion at these meetings thatit was unneessary to even think of buy ing fertilizer that contains any potash, as it is selling now for more than $500 per ton. As the first six inches of soil in this sec tion contains about 2000 pounds of potash to the acre it is thought this will be enough to last awhile without buying any while the price is so high. Home-mixing of fertilizers is advocated by niany experiment stations, sonie claiming that it effects a saving of from $7 to $10 a ton. Figures quoted by Clem son College show a saving of from $5 to $7 a ton by mixing at home. 'Sixteen per cent acid and] cottonseed meal will make a good mixture, as will acid and cattle tankgage. The ammonia in tankage is de0 rived f r om t h ree different sources: First, from blood; sec ond, from flesh scr'aps; third, from the bones. You will find commercial fertilizers ammoni ated tIus year with cottonseed meal and tankage or blood, and this is one of the times when yon should knowv from wvhat source this ammonia is derived. A good deal of interest was mianifested in the miertintgs last wveek. Some of the farmers have re qJuested me to secure andl adver tise cash prices of fertilizers. I am not agent for any company, but hope to put farmers in touch with parties who have best prices. My advice is, if local dlealers have oi' will give close prices for cash, buy trnm them always. It iup to the farmers to, save everything they can. Quite a nice little sum was saved last year on the fertilizer' bill by those who paid cash. I will from time to time keep prices adver'tised. The prices belo0w are for fertilizer guaran teed1 and dleliveredl to any station in Pickens county: 10; per cenut acid, sacked,$10.57 per ton. 10-2 1-2-0, $22. 17 ton. 10-2-0, $20.53 ton. 9-2-0, $20.00 ton. 7 per cent cotton seed meal, s:35.00 ton. Cattle takage, containing (A to 7 per cent ammonia, 8 to 1(1 per cent phosPhorus acid and i l o 1 per cent potash, $35.0(0 a ton. Clerks of Ctt k of Picken&O0,( Editor Pickens Senti ' my last communicatlin you as nearly as I coul names and a brief sketch of different clerks of. Old Piel District, and as Oconee and ans are sister counties from .he old mother district I have tid to arrange similar list of thee two counties', which may be of interest to those who come here after, while much of whAt'Ire late may be well known to many of your readers. Robert A. Bowen was the first clerk of court for Pickens, county and made a tnost hohor able and creditable record.. H6 served several years and yol u thrily retired from tho office. qe was for many yearg postmaster at Pickens 0. H., ahd was POO ular and satisfactory as ' uch officer. Mr. Bowen made a brave and gallant soldier in our.fratr. cidal strife over secession andl bears %pon his person evidence of his patriotism--a wound re ceived on one of the battlefields of Virginia. Mr. Bowen is still living in the enjoyment of the fruits of his honest toil and the society of an interesting family and many friends. The writer knew Mr. Bowen in his young manhood, andno nobler youth ever listened to the instructive voice df the vener able John L. Kennedy within the walls of old Thalian Acad- - emy, where so many of our biil liant and gifted young men re ceived the rudiments of their education. The second clerk was John'A. Lewis, whose long term of ser vice proved his official efficiency, and personal populary. Mr. Lewis was for several years United States commissioner andt also U. S. Zieputy marshal. He,. too, was a soldier in the Lost Cause, was a good add true man,a Christian gentleman,and when he died a few years ago. his death was lamented by ail who knew him. He left a large circle of influential relatives and" friends in Pickens and Oconee. He wassucceeded in the clerk's ofico by Rev.J. M. Stewart,who gave some of the best years of his life to the service of his country, and best of all, many years of his life have bden de voted to preparing his own ant the souls of others for a brighter world. In point of years the Major is somewhat advanced, but I am told he is in the enjoy ment of good health and vouth ful happiness. Next coies the preyent incui bent, A. John Boggs, who is too well known as an officer, a man, a citizen and a Christian to need any praise from me. He was too young to go to the wvar, but his father, the lamented Aaron Boggs, entered the army at an advanced ago and was a lieu ten ant in the cavalry company of' Captain John W. L. Carey, later commanded by Capt..John. C. Calhoun. Mr. Boggs is still a young naia and it is hoped many years of honor and happiness await him. .Senca. N B. CAuEY. Pertinent Points From Hog wallow The Excelsior Fiddilin t Band appeared at the trial of Sim Flin ders which took place at Rye Strawv Thursday. The band was a witness in the case, having seen Sim cross the road wvith a sack of gees(e on his shoulder. The, hand wvas playing at the time they saw him, but the court ruled that it wvas not neces-. sary to admit the music as evi dence. Frisby Hancock, after having beeni p)uzzled for several wveeks to know wvhy he could not sleep at night, has dilscoverecd that It is because his bed wvas stuffed with owl feathers. Tihe Rye Straw storekeeper, wvho has been1 a bachelor for a long time, told a man the other dlay that the wvomen folks still dressed up when they came to the store, even if they did not expect~ to see anybody except him. DU~NK B3ors.