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PUBLISHED W TIIII OFIIURO IKNS SENTYSUSCIINE Established 1871-Volume 468,CJUY2916 It's Up To You We dislike very much to call the at tpntion of any of our subscribers to the factthat their subscriptions to this pa er have expired, and we only do it be causq we do not wish them to miss a copy of the paper. We have sent per sonal notices to every subscriber whose time expires by August 1 and we have called their general attention to the fact. thru the columns of the paper twice. Some have paid noattention to any of the notices and we will have to drop their names from the list unless they renew by August 1. We' do not like to lose subscribers, but our rule is to pay in advance for the paper and we cannot have' some to pay in advance and let others run over. It would be unfair to our subscribers and ourselves. Rica and poor, old and young, influen titl and uninfluential, everybody is treated alike. Now please do not neg lect'this and then when your name is dropped from the list get mad at us about it, for we have notified you in every way we can and want everyone of you to stay with us. Pickens County and the Storm Compared to adjacent territory, Pick ens county was not much damaged by the recent freshet which wrought such havoc in other parts of the country. About twenty small bridges in different sections of the county were washed away, but none of the larger bridges are gobe, tho one or two are reported slightly damaged. The roads are badly washed in some places. Bottom corn in all sections of the county is badly damaged and in many places destroyed. The Pickens railroad suffered a small washout at Wolf- creek Saturday and was forced to annul the early morning train, caring for the passengers and mail by automobile. Old ihhabitants say Town creek was th highest Saturday afternoon ever known, but it quickly subsided. Henry Williams of the Peters Creek section reports that his section has been the hardest hit in the county and some of the crops there are completely de stroyed. A severe wind and hail storm also visited this sectio'n four weeks ago and did great damage. The people of this county generally are very optimistic and very grateful that the damage is no greater. We have cause to be thankful. Another Bully Caught Frank Jackson, a bad negro from Kentucky who has been bullying the pegroes in construction camps along the Southern railway, is in .the Pickens jail and "Hun" Ferguson, his partner, will e likely soon be keeping him company as a result of a shooting affair at Calhoun Sunday morning. Jackdon and Ferguson, who were working on the Southern railroad in Oconee County, likkered up Sunday morning and paid a visit to Contractor Mays' camp near Calhoun. Mr. Mays ordered the negroes away and they left, but in a short time came back and when they got sight of Mr. Mays again began shooting at him, firing about fifteen shots. The contractor returned their fire with five shots, but no one was hit. * The negroes then made their wag back to Oconee. Officers LaBoon and Mc - Kinney happened to be at Central at the time and were upon the scene of trouble in a short time. They with Mr. * Mays went after the culprits and found them with a crowd in a small hut gam bling. In the confusion 'Mri Mays was only able to identify Jackson and he was nabbed. Jackson says Ferguson is the other one, and as- lhe is well known to the officers he will probably be captured soon. A Remarkable Advertisement The Sentinel publishes an advertise. ment this week sent out by the rail roads of the country through their joint committeee to present their claims in the matter of the proposed strike' on all the roads in the country. This is a most remarkable campaign of publicity. The roads pay hard cash for this adver tising. It was placed In 3,000' daily papers and in 14,000 weeklIes. It cost them $200,000. It is headed Rilroad Wages. Read it. 6 Stansell-Dorsey Mar'ried, Sunday, July 23, at the resi dence of the officiating officer, Mir. Bas com Dorsey to Miss Pearl Stansell, J. Alonzo Brown, N. P., at the throttle. Mr. Dorsey is the eldest son of Mr. ''Fletcher Dorsey of Liberty route 8, while his bride is of the same place and is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Stansell, The happy young couple K have our best wishes. B. From Cateechee After a long silence ye will let the readers of the dear old Sentinel hear from this 6ide again. While we haven't been contributing any news to the col umns of The Sentinel of late, we have been a constant reader of it and we are proud to say that we - have the best county paper now that Pickens county has ever had. The writer has been a constant reader of it for 32 years. While we will admit that there may be some county papers-weekly papers, we mean-that contain more editorials thah The Sentinel, for the editor, we notice, is loath to give his views on, a lot of "dead-headed" stuff, such as we read in some other papers; yet, taking the county news as a whole, The Sentinel is on top. Farmers in this section have their crops in fine shape now, but the way it has been raining for the past few days they are likely to get grassy. Cotton is small and not a very good stand in some places, while corn is looking fairly well. Haven't seen any extra watermelon patches yet, but don't guess that mat ters much, as the candidates have quit treating. We are sincerely glad that they have, for a man that can't be elected on his merits without having to buy votes ought not to hold an office. We hope the voters of Pickens county will look well and think a great deal before casting a ballot for the two men who want to represent us in the next general assembly. There is something more to be looked at about those two men than their "collar and tie" and the smiles they may have or' their faces when they meet you. The common class have been fed on promises until their stomachs have become like a doc tor's patient when he mentions salts they gag when they hear a promise made. The candidate that makes a promise now just to catch votes and doesn't try to comply with that promise when he gets elected had as well make up his mind to retire to private life when his term of office expires. What we need is some laws repealed that we. have on the statute book and some put on it that we haven't got. For, instance, the dog law, for one. We have a commutation dog tax, which means. 60% on the head of every dog in the county. How many dogs in Pickens county are listed? Not half of them. We know of men working for wages who can scarcely keep up their families who have from one to three old, worth less dogs to feed. How many cows have gone mad or had to be killed thiA year on account of worthless dogs? Then, too, think of the danger that people as well as stock are in when an old, worthless dog goes mad! Give us a law that requires every dog to be muzzled, let the state furnish the muz zles and charge them up to the pur chasers. When a dog is found without a muzzle let all peace officers kill that dog at its owner's home o' anywhere else. Also make the owner of.that dog give a good and sufficient bond for any damage that that dog may do. When this is done, then you will see worthless dogs exterminated. There are other needed laws we would like to speak of, but space forbids. We may have somethisg more to say along this line-'later. Some correspondents to The Sentinel have spoken about how progressive their Sunday schools are. The Sunday school at-Cateechee has an enrollment of 190, with an average attendance 'of 140. There have bieen as high as 204 present. As the church building was insuffcient to accommodate the audience the mem bers have just recently completed four more classrooms, bought new seats for same and rep~ainted the church. G. F. Norris is superintendent of--the school and W. R. Hutchinson secretary. Bro. Willis of Six Mile is the pastor and he is doing a good work. The Lord has touched the hearts of men at Cateechee under his preaching that we never saw reached before. May the Lord continue to bless the efforts that are being made at Cateechee toward saying the souls of men and women is our prayer. B. .Motor Vehicles in This County Up until July 15, there were 532 au tomobiles registered in Pickens county. The first automobile registered in Pick ens county was registered by James M. Barr in Jiuly, 1907, and was No. 2, the first number going to a tractor, which also fomes under the head of motor ve hicles. During the year, 1915, 140 mo tor vehicles were registered in Pickens county, and since January 1, 140 have been registered. Since May 1, 72 have been registered, 39 of which were Fords. The Ford is the only automo bile advertised in The Sentinel. About 25 more voters are enrolled on the Pickens club roll this year than two years ago. This is a healthy sign. RAILROAD Shall they be determined by Industrial Warfare or Federal Inquiry? To the American Public: Do you believe in arbitration or indus trial warfare? The train employes on all the railroads are voting whether they will give their leaders authority to tie up the commerce of the country to enforce their demands for a. 100 million dollar wage increase. The railroads are in the public service your service. This army of employes is in the public service-your service.. You pay for rail transportation 3 billion dollars a year, and 44 cents out of every dollar from you goes to the employes. On all the Southern railroads in 1915, seventy-five per cent of the train employes earned these wages (lowest, highest and average w of all) as shown by the payrolls Passenger Freight Yard Ranse Average Rase Average Reuse Average Engineers. $1972 $2306 $1455 $1916 $1156 $1566 3810 3505 2424 Conductors 1552 1847 1353 1580 1055 1245 2696 2358 1749 Firemen . 943 1209 649 979 406 777 1652 1638 1302 rakee. 957 1109 755 958 754 99 1736 1 1854 9 1405 The average yearly wage payments to all Southern train em ployes (including those who worked only part of the year) as shown by the 1915 payrolls were Passenger Freight Yard Engneers. . . . . . $2144 $1712 $1313 Conducters . . . . . 1723 1488 1157 Firme.. e. e e 1096 865 688 Brakemen. * . * 1013 845 868 * A 100 million dollar wage increase for men in freight and yard service (less than one-fifth of all employes) is equal to a 5 per cent advance in all freight rates. The managers of the railroads, as trustees for the public, have no right to place this burden on the cost of transportation to you without a clear mandate from a public tri bunal speaking for you. The railroads have proposed the settle meInt of this controversy either under the existing national arbitration law, or by refer ence to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. This offer has been refused by the employes' representatives. Shall a nation-wide strike or an investigation under the Gov ernment determine this issue? National Conference Committee of the Railways ELISHA LEE, Chairman.A.. tIA..a.Rrfe, P. .LR IG14HT (.en'l Nnger,StLe. SaFreaeRared AlenS. Ce~ c e iroaC .KUS ~IMng c. . BALDWI, Gen M- ge, Arra Athian Tpkar..a.FeRalw E. H. C.OAPMAN, V'ice-President, NrokadWaenRiwy SIouthera Railway.JA S usuG 'IMner s. E. CO'I1EII Can'! Manag. r, *Da~&R.Gad alod P. E. CROWLEY, A.st, l'Lce-PresIdent, enytna ~g et New York Ceagr.l Railroad. W. L. sCHON ER .Pree-Pr... G. II EMERSON, L en IManager, . sEDeao A, -n Raiway C. H. E ING. La'! Maager.G. sJ. STN, Co Pat Ie R. T. Waddell, who owns and lives at Msr.Ens n akCrso the Kay mill lacne in the Georges Creekphraepndgteivctonwh section of the countyv, was a businessthibrheRvW.Aigiia visitor in Pickens Monday. He says adBitw tIucn re n the water in his section was the highestGnnyrsetvl.Tyaeta during thd recent freshet he has ever eigb uooie known it to be, but that no bridges ___ ____ were washed away and not much dam age done, thu roads are badly washed inA riaewchasuteau some places. piet hi in red a hto H. P. Grimfn, of Liberty, road super-SuieofGenlewchtkpae visor for the Southern rail road, was one a h oeo h rd' ohri of the several men who lost their livesPcksSudynhRe..E.Wg in trying to save the bridge over thegisofcan.rhebdesa(lu Catawba river at Belmont, N. C., last tro r.K .Crtno ikn Sunday. Hie, with 18 other men,anisaoplryugad.Ioth had been detailed to try and save the ps eea er h a id e structure anid wvent down with thehoeiGrnvlbigteefcet bridge. His body was found about 300 bokee o ob-edro o yards below the bridge and itlisthought M.Sursas od epnil from the marks onl his body thathe waspoionitthscmayTeyav killed by the timbers. The body wasmayfinswoihfrtemuh broughtpterLibertyeandnuriedethereahapniness thi4rtes'e. .AGgila an BitoatDncn Ger n Pickens-Helps Wilson A public spirited citizen of Pickens collected thirty dollars in a short time this week for the campaign fund of Wilson and Marshall. If there are any others who have not contributed to this fund, but who would like to, The Sentinel will be glad to acknowledge the contributions and see that they are sent to the proper place. The follow ing patriotic Demoqrats of Pickenscon tributed: Sam B Craig ---------- ---- $1.00 CLCureton...--------- 2.501 W L Matheny- - - 1.00 RELewis - 1.00 J W Julian -------------------- 1.00 W F Christopher -- 1.00, John B Craig_ 1.00 Cash -.. -.. .50 RTHallun .50 Gary Hiott ----------1.00 J N Hallum- .50 F McFall.- .50 J D Yongue - .50 A S Porter .50 I M Mauldin. 1.00 J C Carey 1.00 H E Seaborn 1.00 C E Robinson -- ------- 1.00 ACGravley.-------------- ---1.00 Mack Christopher .50 J McD Bruce_-_.----- _. 1.00 Cash-__ _ ...50 L C Thornley. 1.00 ADAttaway .50 R W Christopher ------ 1.00 G RI Hendricks.. 1.00 Guy McFall .50 B Hendrix- -----1.00 RLfHames------.- .50 T R Allen ...---.50 E F Alexander ------------------ .50 R R Roark ------ - 1.00 T J Mauldin -----------1.00 W-E Findley 1.00 T A Bowen--------------------- .50 Cash -------------------- .50 Total------- ---------------- $30.00 This money has been sent to campaign headquarters and will be used to help re-elect Woodrow Wilson president of the United States. Two Pickens Co. Men Killed Larry D.ILark, son of Julius Lara of Pickens county, was killed at Saluda river last Tuesday when a high frame work tower on which he was working collapsed. Robert Boyce ]Jay, son of R. A. Kay, also of Pickens county, fell with the tower at, the same time and was so badly injured that he died next day. The young men were employed by the H. J. Dunnivant company, who have the contract for the construction of the concrete work for the Southern rail way's trestle over Saluda river. A high framework tower had been erected and the two men were up on it attaching guy wires to hold it steady. The tower was about 75 feet high. The hard rain of the night before, it is believed, soft ened the foundations of the tower, apd it suddenly collapsed. The coroner's inquest was held over both bodies Wednesday afternoon. The jury brought in a verdict of accidental death. Messrs. Lark and Kay were members of well-known families of the Crosswell section and their untimely deaths causes sorrow among a large number of friends, who sympathize with the hereaved p~a rents. A New Departure We notice that several newvspapers in in this state are carrying display polit icall advertising for county andl other offices. We have suggested to candi dates and repeat the suggestion that if~ a merchant can reach the people by ad verising the candidates can (10 the same thing and it would pay themi. Lasts week we noticed a half page advertise ment in ,the Winsnboro Herald1 and News of a revival meeting in progress in that townt. It is a new dleparture but a sensible one. The candidates will not reach twenty per cent of the voters on the county campaign. Use Sentinel advertising and reach them in the best way pos5 sible. You will not have to stop a man from his work to present your claims, but by your adlvertisement you can ap peal to him at his leisure and stand1 a better chance of winning his approval of your candidacy. Congressmen to Speak Tlhe candidates for congress from this district will speak at Pickens Thursday morning, July 27, at Easley Friday, .July 28, and at Central Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. lThe Plckens meeting will be the first regular meeting of these candidates. All of the candidates are announced1 in T1he Sentinel. Our good friend P. M. Birenzoale, ac comp3anied by his twin children Marion and Marie, paidl us a very pleasan t vis it one day last week. They not only paid us a pleasant visit, but presented us with our first watermelon of the season.. They have our many thanks. We would like to tell them how much we (10 thank them, but we are too full of watermelon for utteanncen right now. Mountain Boy MalesGood The hard knocks failing to the lot of most mountainf boys, experience has taught, is making men. o .'them1 Ali ' striking instance of the mountain boy who has made good in the face of well nigh insurmountable difficulties is Mr. J. D. Lanford of the Greenville. bar, q who is now a candidate. for Solicitor of the Thirteenth Circuit. Mr. Lanford was born thirty-five years ago near Gowensville, In Greenville county, of poor parents. His father in rearing a large family in a rough moun tain country was not able to make ends meet and became somewhat involved and was forced to mortgage his farm. But as his family grew into manhood it. was demonstrated that the father had not reared in vain, for the boys set about to raise that mortgage from their father's farm. When the subject of this sketch was just fifteen years of age his fathier moved away from his home and took up his residence at; Piedmont, in the lower part of Greenville county; and there and elsewhere, from his fifteenth year, John. D. Lanford worked in cotton mills, cot ton mill stores, on the farm and at teaching school to raise the mortgage from his father's home. When this was done, and not till then, (lid he begin his education, paying his own way through South Carolina College. After five years, working during the time at any thing which he could lay his hands to in the summer and during the college year at odd jobs in and around Columbia, he came out of college in the summer of 1909 a full-fledged lawyer. Immediately after being admitted to the bar J. D. Lanford took up his resi dence at Greer and began (he practice. of law In the courts of Greenville avd: Spartanburg counties. He was soon. married to Miss Ethel Ballenger of Spartanburg county, and they now have three small children. At Greer Mr. Lanford soon became a leading spirit in the progressive citizen ship of the community, standing, as he does, for the strict enforcement of law and the development of the best in his, fellow-citizens. He was appointed a. member of the board of trustees of the Greer schools and during his adminis tration they flourished. He then was appointed recorder of the Greer City Court on a ticket of strict law enforce ment, and the blind tiger and gambling element of that community will never forget how John Lanford put them on the right road by making their illicit trade too unpopular for pursuit. Two years ago his legal practice be came so large that he was forced to move his office to Greenville in order to be nearer the center of his activity. He opened an office on East Court street, and immediately made himself felt among the Greenville bar. His old clients had followed him and daily he acquired new ones. till the first of the present year he branched out still fur ther and formed a partnership with Mr. James M. Richardson under the firm name of Lanford & Richardson, which firm became known at once as one of the leading law firms of Green ville. The first of July this year when, under the Tlorrens Sytem of Land Registration the Clerk of Court of Greenville county un dertook to appoint five of the leading Greenville lawyers as examiners of titles, he selected both Mr. Lanford and Mr. Richardson, thus showing what home p~eople think of the ability of the firm. All through the years of Lanford's practice at the bar he has made a rule to take such cases as he thought to be just, but once in a case he never knows when to quiit. lie is a fighter from the word "'go,"' but fights in the open. Never has he been known to use an un derhand method to win a case. He wins, but by, fair means. He has ap peared on one side or the other in a large number of both criminal and '~ivil cases in all the courts of the state, and has been singularly successful. In May, when Hon. Proctor A. Bon ham announced that he would not offer for re-election, Mr. Lanford decided to enter the race. He is making a man's fight for the nomination, and those close to the political pulse of the circuit pre dict his certain nomination. He began life ir? the'mountains, he has had a long, up--hill climb; but through it all he has been a fighter and he is a fighter still, and when he is elected Solicitor the Thirteenth Circuit will have an officer who stands for fair, impartial and strict enforcement of law. -Adv. T1he checker craze has hit Pikkens again and this great game is now more9 popular here than ever before. You can find one or more games going on somewhere in town at any time during the day. There are three or four real ly good players here, besides amateura of all classes. The Sentinel is now -. looking for a good checker e<)itor t - report the games.