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Sentine P EN E S., C. UBLISHED WEEKLY JANUARY 4, '1917. Entered at, 'ickens Postofrce as Second'vi* Mail Matter. $1.50 A YEAR, INVARIABLY IN ADVANC GARY HIoTT. Manager. Obittiary notices and trioutes of'respeet not 0"r one hundred words will be printed fre of charge. AI over that number must be pal for at the rate of one cent a word. CUsh t ncctmpany ntanuscript. Curdj of thanks tD lmalited for one-half cent a word. COME 71 PAY your 1916 bills early! LET'S make 1917 a good roads year in Pickens county. ThAT corner in the egg market looks like a shell game to us. RUSSIAN army gets a check. --head - line. On the bank of Danube, we sup pose. WIEL.L, another year has gone and we still love everybody--some more than ohters. ACTORS seem to bo about the only class of people not worried by the high price of eggs. WHILE we were in Tarhelia last week a good old lady asked us if Hughes had saluted Wilson yet. EmTon ELKINS of Hampton got ac cidentally shot Christmas. Several others got half-shot. tA IF the balance of the world was only ood as Pickens county, wouldn't it be grand old place? JUST lots of people never notice the prttty weather, but never miss a chance to complain of the bad. PRESIDET WILSON was sixty years old December 28. He has been working like sixty for several years. ONE of the serioussituations of Christ mas life is when you thank the giver for the nice satchel and afterwards find out it's a laundry bag. WE recently heard a young lady play the "Cactus Rag" and got stuck op it. (Hellup! If you'll let us off this time we'll not do it any more!) WE call it hard luck when a fellow does without socks three months ex pecting to get some as Christmas pres ents and then receives neckties instead. Tm Spartanburg Journal has quit publishing whiskey advertisements. We are glad to see it, for the Journal is too good a paper to advertise whiskey in prohibtion territory. As usual we agree with Brother Wal lace of Newberry when he says "South Carolina needs more peanut patchles and less peanut politics.'' In fact the pea nut is our favorite vegetable. TiHE Spartanburg Jounrnal is going to qluit exebanging with us, but that doesn't keep us '(om hoping that Editoi' Booker wi" ted clerk of the house of rer , his month. aec most pathetic uare of the situation is n~e of our young people, af .og awvay from the old home town fewv months come back talking a dJifferent brogue. A CAuron'ON1A country editor recently printed his paper on fig leaves, saying A he was forced to return -to nature by the high price of -paper. Wonder if that's wvhat's the matter with some of t he female apparel so noticeable these days? _______ THE editor of the Gy'eenville News (',.;. hays that 'NFruit cake and turkey are all . very well for 'the idle rich, but no one can partake thereof and feel like tOO 'er cent. an editor." That's the first time we ever heard it called ''fruit cake ' nd turkey." STILL another pathetic little feature of Christmas life is the good neighbor who overloads his asomach with rich food to such an extent thiat he has to .stay at home four days suffering from imdigestion and then talks about a neigh Wpr who takes a little toddy for the stomach's sake. EDnZron HIOTT is very fond of telli'hg his riddles each week. We pass this one up to .him: Why did the lobster blush? Because he saw the salad dress Iing.-The Jeffersonian. B~ro. Wallack., )~/if the bashful lobster blushed'when it saw the'salad dIressing, what (1o you reckon would become of it if it saw a S*hicken dressIng? - Un WEEKLY RIDDLE.-What usually ~cks a fast man? Aridal. *So many subscribers Came in to pay We didn't have time .4,' Foi' poetry today. -E i a little quotatipn we try . remember to print every Christ p~aocause we believe it does goo every time it sees the light, and w, w w things as appropriate to tho soA "I expect to pass through thiu w rld-balt once. Any good, therefore that I- can do, or any kindness that I can caz show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me no defer or neglect it, for I shall nol pass this way again. "-Bob Gonzales in the Columbia State, 1915. When we read the above paragraph more than a year ago we liked it so e well that we clipped it out, tho little thinking it would be the last time Mr. Gonzales would have it reprinted. We know he tried to live the- sentiment expressed in the quotation and he has helped us so much and given us so many smiles that we ask the privilege of reprinting the paragraph, about Christmas-time each year, in his mem ory. IN the larger northern cities about this time of year they used to have "bread lines"---men and women, black and white, Gentile and Jew, Chinaman and Turk--every nationality was repre sented-waiting their turn for a loaf of bread and a cup of alleged coffee. But it remains for the larger cities of the south to have a "whiskey line"-men and women, black and white, all nations -waiting for their turn at the booze windows of the offices for a gallon of alleged booze. TinE Russian army needs something to build up its system, but Teu-tonic seems to be slightly too strong. Gets Worse and Worse A popular man Is Mr. Ladd; He never does say "I'm feeling bad." -Pickens Sentinel. A more careful man Is Mr. Hadley, Who never says e "I'm feeling badly." -Newberry Observer. A terrible grouch Is old man Crum, Who's always saying "I'm feeling bum." -Gaffney Ledger. An awful nuisance Is old man Squay, Who's always asking [today] What's the war doing -Greenwood Journal. 1OGWALl DUNK BC 'Fit Smith is confined in jai at Tickville. He has bough himself a bottle of patent medi cine and expects to be out in few days. Slim Pickens is firing the en gine at the saw mill on G*ande creek. Slim says the saw muil is not making 'much mones no w, as -it takes a bout all the w~oodl they can saw to keel) the engine running. TVhe photographer that set ui for buisines in Bounding Bil lows took Apicture of the twin: of the Calf Rhis neighborhoot Tu'esday mrorning. T1 o s9av4 monev they had only one o themselves made and instruc their friendsi to merely tool twvice) at the picture when the wanted to see both of them. Sim Flinders went to hear th4 Hog Ford preacher last Sunday Sim is a strong Methodist, but thought he would go over ant see if the Baptists had foum( any new' arguments as to why their religion was the best. Fletcher 1Henstep has a mul< named J ustice, on account of It' bad eyeight. KBaoM 14sc -RUB OUT PANl I with good oil liniment. - .That's lthe iuredt way to stop them. The best rubbing liniment is MUSTANC LINIMENT Good for the Ailments of ' Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Good for your own Aches, Pains, Rheumatism Sprains, Cuts, Burns, ttc. 25c. SOc. $1. At all Dealers. When It's Egg Nog Time In Old South Carolin Gaffney Ledger. We had just knocked off on the type writer: "Truly, the alcoholic days are upon us, "when loand behold!we picked up the Anderson Daily Mail and see this line: "The alcoholic days have come." And then this from The Pickens Sentinel: "As old Ed DeCamp would say, the alcoholic days are here." Truly, the minds of great men run in the same channel--especially along about eggnog time. Hear This, Cedric? Anderson Daily Mail. Gary Hiott of The Pickens Sentinel sends Christmas greetings to the press. His weekly paragraph column is one of the bright spots of Carolina journalism. He s'--uld persuade his Pumpkintown correspondent to write pftener. That fellow is a peach. Thank You Anderson Tribune. Happy New Year to Editor Hiott and The Pickens Sentinel force. THERE was much good money squan dered on much bad booze Christmas week. Sheriff Roark of Pickens acted as one of the pallbearers at the funeral of Sher iff Davis at Seneca Sunday. Sheriff Davis and Supervisor Foster of Oconee county were axphyxiated in a hotel room at Elizabeth, N. J., last week. It is supposed they blew out the gas. OW NEWS 'TTS, Editor. woThe T Peddler says he h ; oing to cut the town'u of Rye ofi of his circuit if he (1oes not get ai l etter patronatte there. If this is done it~ will 1be a great setback in the commercial growth of -that place, and everyone shoukc make it~ a practice to pice every. th ingon the Trin Peddlers wagor every time it comes thru. SAn attempt has been made t< place a blemish aigainst the fal name of that sterling or'ganiza lion known as the Excelsior Fid Sdling Band by a man who liver on the east end of Musket Ridge He has9 been telling it arount thait the band- always picks i dlark night to serenade people anc~d that after each visit some thing is missing from the rem ises. He claims to have lost i nice hog on the night they vis ited his home. Some- people are too quick to accuse others, thih band being a strictlv local or ganization and made up of som< of our best citizens. The gen tieman says he heard the hos squealing, but when Raz Bar low, leader of the' hand, wyam asked about It, he stated thal the man could not have posslbl3 heard the squealing, as the bant Swas playing very land at the - time. MIIvOUS M@NK. 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"ghten oto tet brent con mat pling hand, innspaing,"enepraysciig -1an teait thatough lrng hundrerd ouf thousih m andsamr n vgtbe suthto be u;iwithfcornexnrthecres anda anod natrer ine oan thestack, the farmer wae ilargey neendtentyo B miolion braces cro than fa0 Thent farer tt pode for nevider uliiessdiy.' the canysidt as iis otbaes weth "n ath easti ngs fal- hwe ont good pr'ewend rce.r rgt Wthwi lar coniarativeyscae we thnk itertie above al oaters tn plary ae Wat e willenrese on theinimiteofthur aein elityb food mo'are aepnil fore beet outh'l, ands ente prsafert tay is 8to 20 scenl al meneed onmly an tokck ro one914 on asea thene pueto toou mchNa ag ncotton. Winth beaen and mete inand, anfod a gdne producing Ire pteadil thyer o sprin, isummerande Au yar.Anl;e withoane vnceables andt fton cosetg andcuts fod wir aes 1ad fodderinw the ards stackte mginst ease, an eli hsongo Sri e Tha arenin orePritin far - 1e spirit of the season prompts + o express our appreciation of. he' courtesies shown us, and vish you in return all the joys bright and happy New Year. + ay Health, Wealth and Pros-. ;y be abundantly bestowed + i you. during 'the coming year e wish of Yours very truly, arnley & Company UO Y Who have been horroiwi ni.u vour neigh )or's copy' o" (f Ti'l. " in, week t you think it, would be belteri lo y1,u1 '4 aIII .,. Cor the r, so it, woult reach Vol v-rV' V . dk in-a- Mroesn't it-we know t wcauIe (IW- .t I h lo,11 '1t ' I o-I in and cribe thistweek. 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