Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A Grip Tonic A good tonic to prevent Grip and to assist in recovering from Grip is REXALL TONIC HYPOPHOSPHITES. It builds you UP by enriching* the blood, strengthening the nerves, improving appetite and digestion. Full pint bottle, nearly a month's treat ment, $1.00. PICKENS DRUG COMPANY The Rexall Store J, N. N.H1LLUPM1, Prop. & Nygr. Phone No. 8 SOUTH- CAROLINAt Come-to-Sunday-School Day FI1'bruary 11, 1917 For All Sunday Schools of Al D1enominations The Sunday Schools of South Carolina Invite You to Attend the Sunday School of Your Choice Take a lFriend2 Iarge Posters, Prograis, Blanks Ior getting new scholars and a sheet explaining how to make the day a suveess furnished free to any Sunday School on request to The South Carolina Sunday School Association 802 Chapman Building, Spartanburg, S. C. OU couldn't tell that the South Carolina Legislature was in session by reading any paper published in Pickens County, other than The Sentinel. Each week The Sentinel prints'several columns of legislature news, besides other state and general news. It also prints more Pickens County news than all other papers combined. Don't you think you ought to support a paper that strives at all times to serve you well, especially when you know the better the support the better. the paper will be? THE KEOWEE BANK PICKENS, S. C. Satfe, Sound and Progressive We solicit. your btanking buinesst~ and will show you eyery courtesy lf~ adconIvenlince 'onisistenlt w ih sound hank ing principles. Five per cent. interest, paid on Savin'gs l)eponsits. J. P. CA1lmY, President.g ~J NO. C. C'AlmY, Cashier. I Have Had an Exceedingly Good Business~ I)uring the'W wite r. I still haive somec exce1 tionally good v'alues in winter wecight, goods, and in orde~r that Iittay dlispose of same hof~ore mfy spring goods arrive I anm going~ to make special prices on all 9 Heavy Weight Woolen Goods, Chil- n n dren's Cloaks, Children's Raincoats, n SLadies' Raincoats, and a Lot of Odds )1 Sand Ends Too Numerous to Mention )1 Comoeay Ci)so) you may get your share of the bargains, as I shall only nmake those special prices up to February 1st. Remember, this is "'Catchy"' sale, but is only a making ready for taking stock and making room for spring goods. Trusting that my friends and customers will comeandseefor themselves, I am ~ .W. H ENDRIC KS I'CENas R4 unnuu4 nm1n 1LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Helen Tribble and small son of Anderson are visiting relatives at Pick ens. Miss Nannie Porter, who is teaching school near Pelzer, spent last week-end with homefolics in Pickens. Miss Frances Bruce, a student of Converse college, spent last week-end with her parents in Pickens. Judge and Mrs. T. J. Mauldin have returned from Spartanburg, where he has been presiding over court. Earle Seaborn is in Baltimore and other northern markets buying new goods for Hobbs-Henderson CO. Louis Copel has moved his stock of goods and residence from the T. D. Harris store building to the Freeman buildIng. - Col. Frank G. Mauldin has returned to his command at Fort Slocum, N. Y., after spending a month with relatives in this state. Miss Nellie Freeman spent the week end in Central visiting Mrs. T. M. Nor ris. She will leave Thursday to visit relatives and friends in Chester. .J. II. Porter, who has lived at the Pickens Mill village the past five years, has decided to go back to the farm and moved this. week near his father, on Easley route 1. The'l Morrow Brothers Quartet, which was at the Pickens school auditorium last 'T'hursday night, gave a very good entertainment which was enjoyed by a large nuiber of people. While F. I-% Herd was delivering the mail on route 3 Saturday he was taken sick and forced to return homie before he completed the tour of his route. We all hope he will be able to be out in a short time. About twelve subscribers of The Sentinel living on Pickens routes failed to get their papers last week. We c [ave ascertained the cause and will mtake good the loss at the expiration of 2ach subscription. r A note from C. T. Hughes says: 'Please change my paper from Pickens -oute 1 to Ware Shoals route 2. I am 5 lown here at last, but will be back in ?ickens on a v.isit as soon as I can have ne a steamboat or a biplane built." Earle (Pat) Jennings has quit his job as flagman on the Pickens railroad and has been succeeded by 0laud Hester. Harry LaBoon is filling the place in Giavley's grocery store made vacant by Mr. Hester's going back to the railroad. Feaster Cameron has quit his place with Gravley's livery stable and will move to T. L. Bivens' farm, between Pickens and Easley, and will engage in farming this year. Feaster is a most faithful and accommodating employe and we wish for him lots of success in his new work. Ernest .Jones has returned1 from Charleston to his father's home near Pickens, having been unable to get in Uncle Sam's army on account of being too young. Roy Allen, son ot T. R. Allen, joined the army at Charleston and is nowv at the training station at Columbus, Ohio. It will be interesting news to many to know that Rev. Lucius B. Compton will hold a series of religious meetings in Pickens, beginning next September, 21. The meetings will be held in alarge tent behind the court house, same as meetings held here by Mr. Compton and others last year. Your attention is called to the large advertisement this week of the Crystal Optical Co. of Birmingham, Ala., whose rep~resentative will be at the Pickens Inn next Monday and( Tuesday for the purplose of examining eyes and fitting glasses. They are also making a special price on glasses for this first visit, ac cordling to their advertisement, which you may read and find out all about it. Friday night, February 2, this section wvas visited by the coldest weather in many years. Different p~eople report the thermometers at different degrees, and we have heard it reported all the way from two above zero on up, but it is a fact that everything freezable was frozen Saturday morning. The engine of the Pickens railroad froze up Friday night and the early Saturday morning trip was delayed several hours. One of the Southern railroad's engines also froze uip at Westminster at the same time. Sam Galbreath, of the Crow Creek section, lost a good sized yearling calf, which froze to death.: The Pick ens Bottling Works was a heavy loser on account of many bottles of soft drinks and vinegar freezingand burst-. ing, andl there were many other louses caused by the freeze. Zero weather was reported at Old Pickene, and Keo wee river was covered with "mushy" ice for the first time in fourteen years, and several smaller streams were cemf pletely frozen over. SPECIAL NOTICES. Noticiset i in"1 thi0s counnfor onecen 11 word'for fit inseriotiiai sW.If cent a Worul for each 1,nbsequent Iasertilo. All Per'o0sa are hereby warned not to harbor, hire or in any way aid my wife, Jane Lesley, who left home without cause. Judge LeACY. 41 For0' ale-One good mule; also one young fresh milk cowV. For terms see ,. M. Gillespie,. R.F.D. 2, Pickens,S.C. Wil teLd -.Representatives to solicit life, accident and health insurance foi' one of the largest and most favorably known companies. Experience valuable, but may earn while you learn. Reference required. Box 349, Anderson, S. C. 41 F401' slate-A good 7-year-old mare of good qualities, weighs 800 pounds; also 6-horse-power Peerless engine ana boiler, practically as good as new. -Bar gain price on each for cash. J. R. Meese, Pickens route 3. Phone 3613. 40 Few thousand dollars to loan on real estate. If interested please call at once. McSwain & Craig, attorneys, Pickens. Owing to a delay in receiving the tickets for the drawing of the Atkins Silver Steel Hand Saw, we were unable to award the saw last Saturday. The tickets are now here and saw will be given away absolutely free next SATURDAY.AFTER NOON, FEBRUARY 10, at 4 O'CLOCK. Come in and get your tickets. They don't cost you a cent. Pickens Hardware R Grocery Co. PICKENS SCHOOL NEWS The attendance has not been as good Is usual on account of the bad weather 3nd sickness. Earl Morris of the 8th grade was ab ent one day last week on account of usiness. Martin Yongue of the 8th grade has. cen absent the past week or two on ccount of sickness. Harrison Edens, manager of the Glee lub, wishes to make the following an ouncement: The High School Glee club will give a ublic entertainment Friday night, Feb uary 9. If you can't laugh don't come. Ve have some' of the best amateur 'lack-face comedians in the county. If ou are feeling blue come and let Sam and Mose entertain you, and you will augh till your sides ache. We have ieen preparing for this entertainment ind feel sure we will be able to give you tour money's worth. Be sure to hear rother Rufus Rastus Turnipgreen with iis unsurpassed eloquence; also Thomas k. Ellison, "canidate" for the presi ency. CAST OF CHARACTERS: Sambo-.- ....-.-. ..Raymond Cox Mose-...-...........-Earle Morris Pete.-.--.-.-.-......-.Paul Sammons Bill.---...... - Joel Allgood Rev. Turnipgreen-..Milledge Griffin Thos. A. Ellison . Joe Frank Freeman Cicero Smith .-Holby Sutherland Prof. Johnson.. ---... Harrison Edens Quartet-Keen the Air. Bsass Solo-All Through the Night. Merry-making Minstrel. Sermon by Rev. Turnipgreen. Song-The Backslidin' Brudder. Gags and jokes. Address by 'Thos. A. Ellison, canidate for president. Solo, wvith chorus by the entire com pany. D3rill by the company. Starts at 8 o'clock promp~tly. Ad mission, 15 and 25 cents. Meet your 'riends and enjoy the evening. Miss Floride Carey, a charming young lady of Pickens, is the guest of Mrs. Robert Long. Tuesday evening Mrs. Long gave an elaborate course dinner in her honor, her guests being Misses Isabelle Chappell, Snow Jeffries, Gladys Rives, Miriam Norris. Messrs. W. A. Collett, Paul Cogburn, Willie Adams and James Bonner. The evening was one of unusual pleasure.-Edgefield Ad vertiser. Half Your Living Without Money Cost A right or wrong start In 1917 will make or breakc most farmers in the Soutli. wo are all facing a crisis. This war in Europe puts things in ~...uh uncertainty that no man can ':'eo the future with any degree of acarnless. The sure and certain increase in cotton acreage means lower cotton )rices next fall. Cost of all food and 20u products is high, so high that >one can afford to buy and expect nay out with cotton. t.s a time above all others to play ire; to produce all possible food, rain and forage supplies on your wn acres; to cut down the store bill A good piece of garden ground,s rightly planted, rightly tended and kept planted the year round, can be made to pay half your living. It will save you more money than you made on the best five acres of cotton you ever grow! Hastings' 1917 Seed Book tells all about the right kind of a- money say ing garden and the vegetables to put in it. It tells about the fleid crops as well and shows' you the clear road to real farm prosperity. It's Pree. Send for it today to H. 0. HASTINGS 00., Atlanta, Ga.-Advt. '~. Buist's Pi Gardei In Bulk. Si 1: Sow Tomato Seed it Pea and Nasturti Sent by P Keowee I R. E. Lewis, Phon Probate Sale State of South Carolina, County of Pickens. In Probate Court. Mamie C. Kay, as administratrix of the estate of Henry Whitfield, deceased, and Sophia Letman, Henry Whitfield, Jr., Jerry Whitfield, Samuel Whit field, Emma Earls, Fannie Shiflet and Annie Gayton, Plaintiffs, against Cleveland Whitfield, Eliza Whitfield, Ethel Whitfield and Henry Whitfield, DefendanL. By virtue of a decree filed in the Pro bate Court of Pickens County, in the above entitled case, I will sell in front of the Court louse door in Pickens, S. C., on SALESDAY, MONDAY, MARCH 5,1917 during the legal hours of sale, the fol lowing described property: All that piece, parcel or lot of land lying and being situate in the county and state aforesaid, containing one acre, more or less, as represented by plat of survey made by B. D. Garvin, surveyor, on the 18th day of February, 1891, and is known in said plat of survey as lot| No. 19, and is bounded by lots Nos. 16, 17 and 20 and lands of R. A. Cochran, it: being the same lot of land deeded to' Henry Whitfield, deceased, by Macrian S. Campbell on 22nd day of February, 1895, and being on record in the Clerk's office for Pickens County, South Caro lina, in Deed Book P-2, page 144. Said lot lies in or near Calhoun, S. C. I Terms of sale cash; purchaser to pay for all papers and recording the same. Terms to be complied with within one hour after sale or land may be resold at risk of former purchaser. J. B. NEWBERY, J.P.P.C. Feb. 3, 191'. Auditor's Notice Pickens, S. C., Dec. 21, 1916. The offiice of the county auditor will be open from the 1st day of JTanuary, 1917and will remain open until Febru~ary 20, 1917, for the purpose of taki ng re turns for the fiscal year 1917. After that date fifty per cent penalty wvill be added on all personal property not listed in the specified timp prtscribed by law. The duties of the office will demand my whole time as I wvill vacate in Feb ruary. So I will not bp able to make the usual roinds for the purpose of tak ing returns during my stay in office. ,County Auditor. GERM -PRUF Y OUR first impression its CLEANLiNESS. 'l sine bag in which each tees absolute freedom fror handling. You are further itself. . You recognize QU strong fabric, in the high character of the facings, in b)uttonholes and in the big, To me'n and WOmen, as W' the snug fit and wonderfui revelation. Smooth and su comfortable. It gives with but never stretches out of s] tion. Wherever strain coi ment. Not a weak place fr' The snug-fitting collar and and ankle-hugging cuffs; size armholes; the rip-proo are among the mahny desi1 which make Germ-Pruf the the oneO undlerwear which - you see it. Come and1 inspect this lin fit for every member of y service. CRAIG BRO: .1-1-M. ~ ~ ~ ~ - 1-.'- --- -- - - 4 ize Medal rSeed are to Grow i boxes now. Sweet ium Seed 10c oz. arcel Post. Phar macy Ph. G., Prop. e 24 Notice To Debtors and Creditors All persons havinclaims against the estate of J. C. Garrett, deceased, are hereby notified to present the same to the undersigned on or by the 1st day of March, 1917, duly attested, and all persona owing said estate are hereby requested to settle with the un dersigned on or by said date. T. -M. GARRETT, 42 Administrator. Notice of Final Settlement and Discharge Notice is hereby given that I will make application to J. 13. Newbery, Esq., Judge Qf Probate for Pickensi county, in the state of South Carolina. on the 9th day of March, 1917, at 1 1. o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as said application can be heard, for leave to make final settle ment of the estate of F. V. Clayton, deceased, and obtain discharge as ad tinistrator of said estate. 43 MRS. ARGIE Epps, Executrix, Notice of Final Settlement and Discharge Notice is hereby given that I wli make application to J. B. Newberry, Esq,, Judge of Probate for Pickeni county, in the state of South Carolina. on the 22d day of February, 1917, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as said application can be heard, for leave to make final settle ment of the estate of B. C. Baker, de ceased, and obtain discharge as admin istratrix of said estate. ZILPHIA M. BAKER, 41 Administratrix. Notice to Debtors and Creditors 0 All persons holding claims against the estate of the late Elbert Maulain must present the same, duly -proven, on or efore the 15th day of February, 1917, or be debarred payment; and all per sons indebted to said estate must make payment on or before the above date to the undersigned. 40 MRS. ORA MAULDIN,.Executrix. Notice of Final Settlement and Discharge Notice is hereby given that I will make application to J B. Newberry, Esq., Judge of Probate for Picken* county, in the State of South Carolina, on the 23d day of February, 1917, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon there - after as said application can be heard, for leave to make final settlement of the estate of S. P. Breazeale, deceased. and obtain discharge as executor of said' estate. GEORGE W. BREAZEALE, 41 Executor. Come to PLickens to (do your trading. Our mer'chants ha~ye the goods and they' will tr-eat you right. UNDERWEAR of G.erm-Prut Underw~ear is 'he tr-ansparent, sealed, glas garment is packed gua ran - ni germs, dust, exposure and impressed1 by the under-wea r ALITY in the fine,, soft, ~radletworkmanship, in the the "stitched" and 'stayed" handsome pearl buttons. eli as to the younger folk, I elasticity of Germi-Pruf is a pple as your own skin and as every miovement of the body iape. No binding, no irrita nes there's ample reinifor-ce om'neck to ankle. shoulder-s; the wvrist-clinging the reintorced crotch: full ? seams and gussets--these cable and1 exclusive features choice of par-ticitlar pecople YOU will adopt as soon as .e. We guarantee a perfect our family and satisfactory S CO., Pickens