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IE PI'~E~sSENI PUBLISHM) W~t~x-D 0 FFCIAL PAPER OF PICKE4S. COUNTY SUBSCRIPTIONI /~DLA E ~~~ Establihed 46PICKENS, S" C.,l SEPTEMBER 21, 1916N mbr 0 Pleasant Grove News This section was visited by a fine rain Septeinber 14. It was badly needed or sweet potatoes and turnips and of e6tirse it waf good for other crops as well, Fodder pulling is the order of thq.day here, but will be over in a few da, as the crop was very short at best. W. L. Green of this place killed g, rat tlesnake a few days ago tlat Steasured 4 1-2 feet long and had thirteen rattles. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Moody of this section left about two weeks ago for Dayton, Va., where Mr. Moody will at-. tend a normal singihg institute. We are sorry to have them leave us. Grov er is a good organizer and singer. We extend good luck to ttiem while away and wish them a safe return. " Re . J. E. Foster baptized ten con verts'at this place Sunday, Septembek 10-nine young men and one young lady. Thirteen were addea to the church dur ing the recent series of meetings. Bro ther Foster has been pastor at this church about nine years and has done a great work. It is rumored that John T. Woodside of Greenville is contemplating building a hike and a big hotel on the land he owns in this section. There is no douht 19ut that this would be a good invest ment for Mr. Woodside as he now owns the highest point for a hotel and the deepest hollow for a' lake. You can view Greenville very plainly from the mountain where the hotel would be built and down in the valley below is where the lake would be built. We hope 'the report Is true and would like to talk to Mr. Woodside about it Mr. Editor, the writer heard a man say the other day that a certain candi date was one of the rottenest men in the state. We believe the man Is not as rotten as politics and politics is not as rotten as some men who vote. A man cannot vote for his choice without someone commenting about who he vot ed for, nor can he go to the polls with out some rascal trying to change his mind and get him to vote for some other fellow's choice, and unless he can read the poor fellow cannot tell who he voted for. Will someone please tell the writer whether this is honest or fraud? Gentlemen, I say it Is dishonest, and who can dispute the facts? A FARMER. I Griffin News Messrs. J. R.- J. Anthony, Henry and George Leslie, Mrs. Caroline Harbin and Miss Lizzie Anthony visited Mrs. Harbin's daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Cope', in Barnwell county last Week. They made the trip in Mr. Anthony's car. . A large crowd of Griffin people spent Saturday at Table Rock and the day was enjoyed by all. Mrs. Ada Craig and children, S. H. Brown and W. E. Hendricks visited relatives in Spartanburg county Satur day and Sunday. Glassy Mountain school will close Friday. Anderson Phosphate & Oil Co. W. F. FARMER, Secy. ERTILJZER isn't as high as youherdit was. You can goods for the same money you When it is all the same price, get the b~est. Get the Fish and Blood goods. See M. C. SMITH and JOHN C. CAREY, AtKeowee Bank, Pickens, S. C. Waihalla, S. C Tuesday, Septe Hunter's Phari For the Pun When Louis Copel' Thought the Devil Had- m DID you ever hear Louis Copel tU about the first time he ever sa ihegro? Most everybody around hei cnoWs Louis. He has 'been conductir k store here for many years and id t] finly Jew in Pickens, 'except. his b< Faob.1 Louis was born in Ruia at ived there until he was about 19 yea >ld,.When he came across the ocean ai aided at New York, where he work I;vIral weeks in a section of the ci 116Vhi there are no negroes. 'Ae nev ia.w. a negro in his life until he went Wtlanta, Ga. ',Oince he could remember Louis sa ik' mother had taught him that if I ore not a good boy the devil wou ret him. She - described the devil i >eIng a big black fellgw with kin ialt, big black mouth and white, shii ;eeth. While he had a picture of ti 6Vil firmly fixed in his mind, Lou wasn't thinking about him when he g ;o Atlanta. Bt when he walked out ;he depot there the first thing he sa Nas a long string of negro hackme md when two of them rushed up Luissand each grabbed his suitcases I :hought he was a goner and the dev] iad him sure. At this time he couldn ipeak a word of English, but a hundr< 'houghts flew thru his mind in a secon [n this second Louis says he decidi ;hat he had spent too much money cot ng over here to let the devil get him i oon, and besides, he was too young go to hell, anyway. Louis had a suitcase in each hand ai i negro had hold of each one trying ret him to go in their hack'. Beir ifraid to turn his possessions loos bouis says he raised his foot and kick< me devil in the stomach and he doubb ap and wilted like the last rose of sur ner, but he was not quite so fragran Nith one hand now loose he hit the oth< levil under the chin as hard as he coil mnd from what happened to that neg kufs , must have outshone Jess Wille n those days. About this time a thi levil saw what was going on and grabb Louis by the back of the neck, but io . sooner did it than a white . m cnocked him loose from the grouri rhe police arrived on the sepne abo his time for an explanation, but Louis.couldn't speak English he couldr xplain. It looked. like a gloomy tir or the recent arrival and he was abo o )3e take to the police station wh omeone th ight about getting an f erpreter, w..o succeeded in understan ng Louis' tale and explained it to ti rowd. All laughed and Louis was tero. He then showed the officers etter-of introduction which he had ar hey directed him to the party to whic t was addressed. It proved'all rigl ind Louis breathed a sigh of relief i is release from the devils. We expect the sure-enough':'old boy would have had a'hard time takir .ouis that day. For Canning Club Girls Following is a list of the products f< vhich the canning club girls of Picker ounty will be awarded premiums: 1. The two best all-round records. 2. Best written history. 3. Greatest number of No. 3. cans. 4. Best boook of recipes. 5. Best and neatest record book. 6. Best cap and apron. 7. Best collection of tomatoesi lass. 8. Best collectiqn of tomatoes in tini 9. Best collection of tomato pickl sour). 10. Best collection of tomato, pickl sweet). - ' 11. Best collection of tomato ketchui 12. Best collection chili sauce. 13. Best collection of tomato pure< 14. Best collection of chow-chow. 16. Best collection of tomato jelly. 16. Best collection of tomato pre erves. tut44taie44.4.44464t4.4y+..4.4 A. ODO , at Dr. Barton's I mber 26; Cent nacy, Friday, Sepi pose of Examining I jj~jjjjjjjjj A Dangerous Preednt Mr. Editor: I would like to comment some 'on the last primary,if 'you will dl permit me to. do so. I first want to w quote to your readers a portion of Rule re 11. ig "Each applicant for enrollmenit eball je in person write upon the club roll hii >y full name and immediately thereafter id his age, occupation and postoffice ad. ra dress, and if in a city or town shall id write the name of the street and the d I number of the house in which he ke Ly sides if such designations exist in said Bk- city or town. If the name' be illegible to the sepretary shall write the name be neati the signature of the applicant. In the event of the inability of the ap le plicant to write he may make his mark Id on the roll, which shall be witnessed by as the secretary or other person then hav :y ing the custody thereof and the secre ly tary shall fill in the other requirements. le I ask this question: Why go to all is this trouble of having these books of At enrollment and make all these require 3f ments of the individual voter and at the w same time have another law to Iupset n, the whole thing? That is what I saw to take place 'the 12th of this month at ie Easley, S. C. Men who had not en ls rolled on the club roll according to the 't rules of the democratic club were no 3d 'tified to be there and were given ordere d. from a circuit judge which gave them Bd the right to vote. I am informed that n- there were seventeen who did not en so roll on the club book who voted at Eas to i ley. These men, I am informed, were anti-Blease. Now you can see why R. id: . Manning was nominated or was lead to ing Blease.by 4,000 votes. ' ig It is claimed there are 1600, boxes in e, tile state. Well, say three, or an aver ad age of three, voted at each box. ThAt d gives over 4,000 votes for Manning. I - am confident this trick was secretly t. planned and carried out. How easy it er was for anyone to get a batch of orders, d, get a judge to sign them, get out or ro the streets and highways and tell these rd men who hadn't enrolled to be on the rd spot the 12th and he would see to il ed that they could vote, the card still ul he his sleeve. When the time came hf an could take out his order, signed by i Ld. judge, write their names thereon, takt ut them to the voting box and vote them. as Nice trick, isn't it? i't I am no prophet, but suppose Blease le and his advisers learn these tricks It from the anti-Bleasites (knowing also "n ;the different men under indictment all over the state for buying votes) con ie lude to get an order from some judge to ignore the primary and the demo. a cratic rules. What then? a It would be launched through the id press that Blease has bolted the pri t mary and appealed to the negro, for t votes. Would you blame the negro for voting for him? Blease will have a better chance at the negro vote than PAlex Haskell did. That is what the g anti-Tilmanites did. It would be treason to do it now. Hence the heading of this communiation-A dangerous pre These same anti-Tillmanites, anti-re rformers, anti-Bleasites set that prece adent. Was it right then, Brother Anti; would it be right now? That is the great question at the present time. If you will permit me, Mr. Editor, I will write later on Ben Tillman, Mc Laurin, W. J. Talbert, Cole Blease and others. JOEL H. MILLER. n There is molasses and there are mo lasses, but Pickens county sorghum is -. the best of all. Tom E. Porter, who Le lives a few miles above Pickens, last week presented us with some of the e finest we ever tasted. They say Mr. Porter has a wide reputation for making - good molasses and we are here to tell you he deserves it. This he gave us -had just been made and it was cooked to a queen's taste. Mr. Porter will make about six hundred gallons 'this -year, besides what he will make for his Ineighbors. M, The W< B3Y SPECIAL REQ )rug Store, Monday, ~ral, S. C., at Central ember 29; Picken yes and Fitting Eyeglas: "B." Ruminates Some Sunday, the 17th inst., about 10.30 a. m., the grinder of the old matrimonial mill near Cateechee was basking in the sunlight and his toes had got cold and he had no wood to make a fire, watch ing the autos as they ran up and- down the road, which put our thinking appa ratus to revolving and brought many past events to our 'mind, to-wit: Something like forty years ago the writer remembers his father and his mother carrying him to Six Mile church, a distance of fifteen miles, in a "fiat and skull" wagon and it drawn by two old flop-eared mules. When we got there we found a log building with an old-time boxed-up pulpit, which looked very much like a horse stall. Directly the congregation began to gather, the most of whom came in ox-carts and- the women with split bonnets on and the men with brogan shoes. But when the hour arrived for preach ing Rev. Jacob Chapman, who we feel is now interceding on the right hand of God, preached a sermon that went straight to the heart and made one's hair rise on his or her head, The old women would shout till their bonnets fell off; and sometimes the old family dog which had came along would run in to take part in the disturbance. But now we can't go to church unless we can go in a Ford, a Maxwell or some other kind of a stylish way. Of course our dressing has got to be up to date, the pews we sit in have got to be paint ed and the preacher must be a cultured speaker. If everything is not exactly as we think it ought to be we will go home and make game. Half of us can't tell what the preacher's text was when we leave the church. Well, these were only a few thoughts that rolled through 'bur mind as the autos ran up and down the road, when one rolled up in our yard contain ing five passengers, two of whom were the handsomest and pleasingest looking little couple we ever met. They just naturally had the appearance of little angels. They looked so innocent until the officiating officer thought they ought to be standing in some pool waiting for the ordinance of baptism instead of having a marriage ceremony performed. However, feeling that they loved each other and being armed with the proper authority, J. Alonzo Brown, N. P., de cided that Mr. Edgar Nelson and Miss Nellie Sheppard of Liberty shall here after be man and wife. Many congratulations to this happy little couple. B. , Walter Cantrell ofroute 3 was in town on business Monday. .Official Vote in Pick PRECINCTS Dacusville.. Easley Mill. Pickens Mill--- ----- Mile Creek. Glenwood Easley Mill No. 2 Alice Mill---- ---- Flat Rock. Norris---.... Holly Springs Loers Gm Crosswell---. .' Pumpkintown Pickens------. Six Mile. Liberty. Cnral ........ Peters Creek Issaqueena . Easley---... Praters------. Cateechee.......-. Cross Plains~..... Julians Store Cahoun... Pleasant Grove A ntioch .......- ____________ TOTAL. dl Known ( UEST WILL BE IN September 25; WE Hotel, Thursday, S 3, S. C., at Keowee 1 ses, Spectacles and Arti 'M The Vote in Pickens County As tabulated last Thursday tlheoffilj 1 Aote of Pickens county in thesecos d - kimary election, held SeptemberiZ kesulted as follows: Blease received a majority of 781 votes over Mannijg. FV. Pant received 2296 and .Cansler 1382, Wmajority of 914 for Fant. Dominick received a majority of 900 6yer Aiken. Ma rtin received a majority of 567over $noak. . E. Findlei is elected to the house of representatives over W.- C. Mann' by a najority of 452. - .. S. Stewart is elected clerk of court over P. T. McDaniel by a majority ofo Olar T. Hinton iselected treasurer ofer2Bennett H. Powers by a majority of 1034. F. Van Clayton is elected superintend ent of education over R. T. Hallum by/ majority of 22. $ Congressional Vote Following is the vote in the second primary in the race for congress In the Third district. This vote Is official with the exception of Oconee and McCormick counties, which are practically correct. It will be seen that Dominick won by a majority of 2749 votes: Counties. Aiken Dominick Anderson ---------- 2964 4368. Pickens ----------- 1891 2291 Oconee.------------ 1619 1458 Newberry -.......1450 1781 Greenwood ---------43946 Abbeville ----------- 972 1134 McCormick.. .--.....512 604 Total ----------- 10.347 13,09 Vote For Solicitor J. Robt. Martin defeate D. W. Smoak by a majority of 2151votes for sollclt~r "A": of the Thirteenth Judicial circuit. The %~*. qffcial Vote iS aR follows: Martin Smoak Greenvlle-----------------897 3497 ---Pckn --------- - - - 2134 1577 --------------8031 - tiThis is the first correct vote in this Jrace that has been published in any J paper. and my prayer is that all who are inkit , ested in the welfare of the boys ltod girr, of Pickens county will uniba tt~elrr strength and energy in this great cause and endeavor to raise even higher our standards of morality and love of coun 11a try P.VANCLAT.4 J.-Ryt MatiSe t d 12, 1916ok ofe ler Trtee Suiilcupt. d he Greenville.--- --.-9 697 341 28icken 5 23... 23 12134 17 I' a ..... 10 48 ... 49 33 8 0~ 59i 65 the firs corec 32t in6h6 race that 2as 347en7 26ihe in6 an 11p6a 7319er917.2 156 1my praye 262 92a 165 whoar7i 100e 47 167 110ar 104 171 43s 91ry 14 ept.6 7 101 171 40.40 38 41820 41 26 1 6 25 24 36 18 21 28 4 1 0 6 9 68 26 63 1 518 9 84 364 15 272 2831 29 123 24 120 21 17 37 40 33 13283 319 1622 632 20 48 341 866 844 22t1o 43n 5t2032s2 G8l34a29 26 o37 17l4 31er4y S. 48.9 49 59 September2 305 DAY ONL2234Y7725 6 11 6 13 1911 17 2 155 18.5.5 9 6 7 10 716 1 04114 38 3 13 26 6 1 41 From Mr. Dominik ' To the People of the Third Congvois1On District: I am deeply grateful to you f confidence and trust in nomiethlli hie for congress. As your congressman, I will gie lik) 1' ' that Is in me to the beat interests c my district, state and country, and use my utmost endeavors to fill th of lice with credit to myself and honor to the district, and thereby measure up t the expectations of my frien? Again thanking you, I am Sincerely yours, (Signed) FRED. H. DoMINICK.. Newberry, S. C. From Mr. -Stewart To the People of Pickens County: While words fail me to fully express my heartfelt thanks to the pebple of Old Pickens county for the honor shown me and confidence placed in me by elect ing me to the responsible position of Clerk of Court, I want to tell you all that I appreciate it as much as any than possibly could. I will show you by my acts in the office better than I can tell you that I am grateful. Now that I am elected I will be clerk of all the people and will try to treat everybody fair and with courtesy. I beg to remain your humble servint, ' 0. S. STEWART. September 16, 1916. From Mr. Clayton Fellow Citizens of Pickens County! I am deeply grateful to you for. your support in the past elections and wish to assure you that the cause of educa tion in Pickens county will have my most earnest attention. I believe with the firm foundation which has already been laid, and the newly-awakened- interest being showt for better schools, that the future foi Pickens county along educational linet is indeed very bright; and let us all hoji that she will continue to make progresi until we can boast of being among th4 foremost counties in South Carolina.. Again let me thank you for your sup port and assure you that my treatmen of -the schools in the county will be im partial; that prejudice of sect or de nomination has never swayed me and never shall; that all money will be justly apportioned among the different school districts; that I will carry out the law in regard to schools as near to the letter as is possible, and when the office is non executive I will strive to find the will of the people and abide by the same; .ns County, Second Pi Gov. Congress Solicitor Hot 0 0) .0 -- 39 30 33 33 34 35~ 29 81 60 63 77 83 '1 59 - - 50 29 26 53 43 - 53 - .59 31 26 62 35 65 72 ~121 41 48 111 80 82 60 -- .28 18 22 23 30o 16 18 - 45 22 21 46 44 23 40 - 74 5 6 72 42 37 9 - 38 44 26 54 53 29 43 -45 10 9 46 24 30 3 --39 24 31 32 27 36 43 40 17 29 25 20 37 25 ---49 40 39 48 75 14 30 - .-314 283 261 364 350 273 498 - .161 77 56 172 111 127 120 209 138 133 206 226 119 190 --102 111 74 162 149 65 113 34 18 28 25 18 34 14 92 14 8 95 69 37 49 - - ..250 228 229 241 276 203 289 -.47 32 36 42 44 35 58 ---83 34 33 85 87 31 20 ---49 81 28 50 36 43 26 - 32 13 13 35 17 32 :34 - --- 39 88 83 44 109 17 76 40 11 9 41 7 43 31 -.23 18 19 22 16 25 10 --26 21 22 25 30 17 32 -2209 1478 1391 2291 2134 1577 274 reenville 0: stminster, S. C., at eptember 28; L mharmacy, Saturday ficial Eyvs For ONE