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'9* - ~OF1CALPAPERfHEIIiIE SS NIINI.JSSC[HOPRE POF PICKENS COUNTY Established 1871-Volume 46 PICKENS, S. C., MARCH 15, 1917 SPECIAL NOTICES Notices inserted In this column for one cent a word for firt insertion and one-half ceit a word for each subsequent insertion. Wanited-800 cords of first class stove wood, 4-foot length, at $2.75 a cord. Pickens Mill. 49 For Sale-At a bargain, used cars. Among the lot one Ford roadster and one touring 1916 models, and in first class order. A fortunate contract en ables me to sell "Havoline Motor Oil" at less than manufacturers prices. It's highest class. Noengine trouble if you use "Havoline." W. H. Harris, prop. Hiawatha Garage. For sale-One-horse wagon and harness and a few farming tools. Mil ton Wynn, Pickens R 1. 46 All Peirsons who have entered the contest for prizes offered by us for wheat growing will please send us in their names and postoffice addresses by March 16. Anderson Phosphate and Oil Co., Anderson, S. C. 45 .For male-25N acres quarter of a mile of city limits. Good 4-room house, two ,fireplaces and stove flues, ceiled, with porch fronting on Liberty road, good new 2-stall barn with a shed on the side, several poultry houses, good pasture and land in good state of culti vation. The owner lives at a distance, and to make a quick sale will close out cheap and give terms. See G. A. Ellis, Pickens. Lost- From express office at Central, two hound dogs, one red, the other black back with ring around neck, white breast and belly, yellow ears and head. Any information appreciated. R. G. Gaines, Central. 47 For %ay le-Barron strain S. C. White Leghorn eggs for hatching, $1.50 per 15; also rooted rosf's, several varieties, 10 and 15 cents each. See or write Mrs. J. N. Hallum, or Pickens Drug Co., Pickens. . 43tf - Watted, 2000 cords sweet and black gum, poplar, chestnut and pine wood. See W. 11. Chastain and M. C. Smith for specifications and prices. Linwood Land & Investment Co., Pickens. tf Few thousand dollars to loan on real estate. If interested please call at once. McSwain & Craig, attorneys, Pickens. 122-asc'e ic Faruau for Sale-Ten miles west of Pickens, 9 miles of Nor ris; about 85 acres cleared and 37 acres in timber; 12 acres branch bottom; home house has seven rooms all ceiled with good heart lumber, 3 chimneys and 3 fireplaces, front and back porch, well in porch; good Irg barn with 6 stalls and shed on each side, good crib and other outbuildings; good 4-room tenant house' within one-halt mile of store, church and graded school; public road goes thru * place; R. F. D. Place made in 1916 about 600 bushels of corn, about 14 bales of cotton, besides 60 bushels wheat and * other small grain; good pasture. Price for entire place $3,500, or will sell part at $30 per acre on long-time payments. See G. A. Ellis. Pickens. Bed your corn land with a Walter A. Wood Disc Harrow. . It will save you time and labor. Sold by Pickens Hardware and Grocery Company. Announcement For Mayor I hereby announce forthe Mayorship of the City of Pickens, subject to the rules, regulations and laws governing municipal elections in this state, and agree to abide the result thereof. March 5, 1917. J1. P. CAREY, JR. C. L. CUJRETON is hereby announced as a candidate for Mayor of Pickens subject to the rules and regulations of the approaching municipal election.. * Notice of Final Settlement and Discharge Notice is hereby given that I will make application to J. B. Newvberry, 9 Esq,, Judge of Probate for Pickens county, in the state of South Carolina, on the 5th day of April, 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 L,. Ross Eaton, dec ceased, and obtain discharge as atdmin istrator of said estate. 47 I. M. MAULDIN, Administor. * Notice to Debtors and CreditorsI All persons holding claims against the estate of the late Thomas D)uke must present the same, duly prpven, on or' before the 5th (lay of April, 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. 47 A. G. BOWEN, Administrator. The Perfe'etion Iron Beam Plow - Stock will last you tor years and you don't have to ride them to keep them in the ground. * ~ Get. the combination stock and turner .coniplete. No better made. Pi ens Hardware and Grocery Company. We have another solid car of Columbus Wagons on hangl. There is no wagon to equal the Columbus, when it comes to quality and light running. Sold by Pickens Hardware & Grocery Company. Oolenoy News OOLENOY, March 12.-Pruc Hen drix, of Piedmont College, Demorest, Ga., is on a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. A. Hendrix. Mr. and Mrs. James Anderson left last week for losnan, N. C., where theyexpect to make their home for some time The good wishes of friends follow them. Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Elens were Sun day guests of the latter's parents, Mr and Mrs. W. B. Jones. Mrs. R. N. McCollum and children were the week-end guests of the for mer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Edens. Miss Frances Mauldin, one of the teachers here, spent the week-end with home folks near Easley. Mrs. W. T. Anderson was a recent visitor at the home of her mother, Mrs. L. A. Roper. Mr. and Mrs Earl Keith, of Pick ens, were here with relatives Sunday. The many friends of Hon? Matthew Hendricks who is well known socially in a business way, and in the yester year, politically, will note with re gret that he is totally blind. For some time his sight had been badly im paired, especially in one eye. A few months ago this eye was operated upon in a hospital in Atlanta. Not only did the operation fail to bene fit that eye but the sight has gone from the other. To. one who has led such an active life and who has spent so much time in reading, this affic tion falls heavily. But with a courage which marked him in the 60's (six ties) as a true soldier and a faith which has ever kept him strong, he says "I hope for the best." Miss (>ircy Calhoun, the efficient principal of the .graded school here, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Roper. Married, Uy W. E. Edens, Jr.. N. P , on inst Sunday. at his residence, Mr Tom Phillips and Miss Biddie lea ton. Magistrate and Mrs. 11. I. Wil litms, of Dacuwille, were here Sun Mr. and Mrs. -Joseph L. Looper, of Dacusville visited the latter's parents Sunday. Miss Elizabeth Mauldin was a re cent guest at the Sutherland home. Pumpkintown "Deadhead" Stuff There is a kindlof country where, Were I a teacher, I'd last appear; Because, when they got thru with me, A bum nonentity I should be. In that country the people were al ways divided on every question of pub lie interest, and nothing whatever could induce those of one side to concede the least bit to those of the other. And whoever was unfortunate enough to at tempt teaching the district school gen erally left, after having been pulled in two-or, at least, badly stretched-with his reputation about fit for the junk heap. D6es this fit your country? If it does, you're in a fix. For wherever unity is lacking there all institutions for the uplift of mankind will he found tot tering to pieces. All ought to be will ing to concede something for the sake of unity in the community. Of course, most of us want unity, but tve also want the other fellow to do everything neces sary to get it. If you want unity, you've got to consider a little for the other fellow, If you never care for anything but your own little selfish in terests your country would be better off without you. Everything in Pumpkintown is lovely except the farmers, and they will be a little later on. Trhey're getting a lit tle bit restless now because of so much rain, but will probably have forgotten all about it is a year or two. We rode ten miles on a wvagon-load of so-called soft brick one (lay not long ago. We know nowv howv soft they are. If we have to get into this wvar busi ness we'dl like to wait till it stop~s rain ing so frequently. \Ve might get wvet. We would like to give you some real news, but we can't because we don't knoiv any. We're beginning to think that as a news getter wve're a pretty bum proposition, anyhow. The spring is drawving near And poets bloom; But we begin to fear A worse doom: Like o'ther little weeds From winter's tomb, We'd fill 01(1 "Bossy's" needs Were we to bloom. CmIenIc. Singing Convention. The Pickens Township Singing Con vention will meet with Concord Baptist church on the fourth Sunday in this month at 2 o'clock. We extend a cor dial Invitation to Mountain View class to meet with us. Also all leaders to come and enjoy the day. Everybody come and bring song books. Rn L. HunmIeSO. People Should Have Decided Bond Issue Mr. Editor: If you will allow me space in your valued paper I will en deavor to write you some of the hap penings along route 3. We are only playing the "toad frog" game-sitting back In our holes watch ing the incessant rain fall. We have had more than two months' steady rain and nothing much done on the farms. No spring oats sown and the fall sowing almost killed by the recent hard freeze. We have most all been blessed with good health, but a great many are be ginning to take the blues in consequence of their inability to prepare their crops. The short crops of the several past years have aroused strong determina tions in the minds of the people to make a full crop this year; but more than two months of 1917 are gone and nothing done. We tried to interest ourselves as much as possible during all these rainy days reading the papers and trying to keep up with the transactions of our great solons in Columbia, but our interest soon began to wane as the first article that would meet our eye when we would pick up a paper would be the bone dry or the air tight bill, the DuRant bill, the Richey bill, the Boyd amendment, etc. Really I believe most of the forty days were taken up in fighting those glorious battles. No, no! the supply bill was not forgotten. They gave us 8 1-2 mills state tax-the highest we have had since the days of negro rule. And last but not least comes the Pickens county road appropriation bill without a referendum. Don't you think the 4,000 taxpayers in Pickens county should have had a voice in that as to whether they accepted or rejected it? That would sound like democracy. In 1915 they gave us a prohibition ref& endum and it carried. Perhaps would this. Anyway, it was just to the tax payers and users of the roads. The delegation from Laurens county, with her level country, voted a bond issue of $300,000 with a referendum provision that the people vote on it the 27th; the Cherokee delegation voted $225,000 with a provision that the people vote on it the 13th. And as we go along let us remember that in 2914 the Anderson delegation voted $760,000 with a pro vision and It was vosed out all over the county, 13 to 1. At the same session Greenville county voted $900,000 and no referendum, and we remember there was considerable confusion over it. Pickens county has a supervisor and a chaingang, and with the hired labor employed and all equally expended over the county as it should be Pickens coun ty would have fairly good roads. Pick ens county has had a chaingang for 22 years and it is expensive, and you might say that they have not been employed any during those 22 years in the upper section of the county. So it can very easily be seen that the upper section has been very liberal to the lower sec tion in giving her convenience and en hancing the value of her property. Per haps the $250,000 bond issue was born the heir of a few special friends to build the trans-mountain road. If so, perhaps it will draw the supervisor this way. I read with interest the article of Mountain Sprout in reference to the route and gap-crossing of the cross mountain road. I endorse his sugges tions in full. Come again, Mountain Sprout; if the sap is not up let's hear from you in full. I enjoy your articles. Well, Mr. Editor, I am trespassing on your space, if this article even is not doomed to the wvaste basket, so I wvill quit for this time. With kind wishes to everybody. TrAx PAYvR Pickens R 3, March 5. A Few Dots From Roanoke (Too late for last week) Frank Herd of Greenville is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. ID. A. Herd, for a few days. Dewvard O'D~ell was at home for a few days last week. 'T. R. O'Dell has erected a modlern dairy barn and is carrying on an up-to (late dairy business. Paul Herd and Clyde Sammons at tendled the play given at Mauldin school Thursday night. Supervisor Craig is having a new bridge built on Rice's creek, where the old one was washed away by the heavy ramns. Roanoke graded-school is progressing nicely uinder Prof. E. L. Givens. The spring millinery opening at Hobbs-Henderson Co's. will be held Thursday and Friday, March 15 and 16. See their ad. Farm Loan Associa tion Organized Here A national farm loan association was organized at Pickens last Saturday with a lot of good men in attendance. W. H. Chastain, W. E. Findley, T. A. Bowen, E. D. Chastain, W. C. Keith and J. A. Pickle were elected directors. Tom A. Bowen was elected president and W. E. Findley, secretary dnd treas urer. The appraisal committee is com posed of W. A. Price, M. C. Smith and W. E. Findley. Following are the charter members: W. E. Findley, Jas. P. Carey, Jr., Stanley Morgan, \V. H.- Chastain, M. C. Smith, A. A. Pace, W. 11. Stewart, W. A. Price, Will T. Freeman, W. C. Keith, J. E. Durham, T. A. Bowen, J. A. White, T. N. Jones, R. J. Jones, P. M. Breazeale, M. N. Simmons, W. T. Day, Ebb Fields, S. A. S. Porter, R. F. Looper, N. D. Parsons, J. A. Pickle, H. H. Lynch, W. 0. Nally, D. W. Bryant, E. D. Chastain, W. R. Price, W. B. Jones, J. L. Hunter, C. L. Cureton. Narrow Escape From Death The fol!owing dispatch from Fay etteville, N. C., under (late of March 5, will be read with interest in this county: "Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Allgood, of ,this city, experienced a narrow es cape from death yesterday afternoon when their automobile stopped dead on the Atlantic Coast Line tracks before an advancing yard engine. The car was demolished and both Dr. and Mrs Allgood were thrown into i ditch but neither was seriously injured al though the doctor was pinned be neath the wreck of the car. The ac cident occurred whi!e the couple were on their way to their home on Massey Hill from the Hawthorne silk mill and as they were attempting to cross the tracks near the A. C. L. coalchute which cut otT the approaching engine from view. Dr. Allgood reversed his enr and the motor stopped." Dr. Allg',od is a son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. All:rood and Mrs. Allgood is a (laughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. W Earle. of Pickens county, and the3 both hove many friends here who ar< glad to know that they escaped seri ous injury. Six Mile Notes Married, Sunday, March 4, Mr. Osca Alexander and Miss Leora Bell, both oi Six Mile section. Mrs. Ellen Garrett, one of our besi women, is very sick with heart trouble and pneumonia. She is 76 years of age. Rev. J. E. Merck and son, Iler, were in Walhalla on business last week. Pleasant Hill school will close next Friday. Prof. J. W. Holiday is the efficient principal. Mrs. J. N. Garrett was stricken with measles last week. Every member of this good family have measles. "Jack" Garrett has returned to his home from the U. S. Army. For a long time his health has been bad, but we are glad to state that he is stronger now. PICKESSCOOL NEWS Miss Grandy, teacher of the third and1 fourth grades, was ill last Monday. lHer classes were in charge of Harrison Edens of the tenth grade, it being the policy of the school to begin training pupils for teaching while in school. This works to the mutual advantage of both the pupils and the " new'" teacher. Several rooms of the school are show ing the spirit of economy by saving waist e pper, old( ma~gaz/ines, books, etc., which they' wil Ilater sell at a fair price. 'The piroceedls will g.o toward the im prov'eme'nt of the school in some way. A prize has becen offered to the room whliich has the greatest number of par1 ents present at the Parent-Teachers' Association Wecdnesday afterinoon. It is probatble that several ofl the teachers will at tendl the State Teaghers' association in ('olumbia the latter part of the week. IOfficers for the third term of the literary society were elected Friday ats follows: F'rank Keith, president; Tay Ior O'Dell, vice-presidlent; Clarence Bowen, secretary; Milledge G;riflin, treasurer; Melenee Thornley anud Ilolby Sutherland, censors; .Joe Frank Free man, literary critic. TECNTIh (G ,i, 1:. Johni J. GIravley of route 3 made a special tipl one day last wveek to Cal vert, N. C., to take Miss Myrtle Gilles pie to her home there. Miss Gillespie has been teaching a private school for J. R. Meece the past two months Cross Roads News Mrs. Elizabeth Leslie, wife of David Leslie, died at her daughter's home at Greenville March 9. after a lingering illness. She was 77 years of age and had been a member of Cross Roads church for a number of years. She leaves three childrenvJohn Leslie of Seneca, Lawrence Loslie of Easley and Mrs. Brown of Greenville and one sis ter, Mrs. Joseph Massingale of near Easley, her husband having died about 18 months ago. She was buried at Cross Roads church March 11 and the funeral services were conducted by B. N. Glazener. Besides her children and relatives, she leaves a number of friends to mourn her death. Miss Nettie Newton, one of the teach ers at Maynard, who has been confined to her room for several days, has re turned from her home at Pickens and taken up her work again. W. D. Freeman had the misfortune to lose a fine horse recently. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hill of Easley and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Stansell of Greenville were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Findley last Sunday. -ir. and Mrs. W. Jones were the gu'!sts of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. 13. Frank Farmer, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William McWhorter were guests of their daughter, Mrs. \V. D. Freeman, Sunday. Mrs. Marion Freeman of the Mt. Tabor section was the guest of her sis ter, Mrs. Margaret Bright, Saturday night. Miss Mary Greene spent the week end with her mother, Mrs. Ida Greene, of Greenville. ' Mrs. J. F. Fendley and children vis ited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Julian, last week. Cedar Rock School Honor Roll First Grade--Ora Henry, Bruce 1agwell. Second Grade --John Duckworth, Jr., Jessie Carson. Third Grade-Bolt Roper, Jacol Porter, Ada MeCollum, Artie Ma Gosnell. Fourth Grade-Chris Lewis. Fifth Grade--- Clifford Bagwell, Ei lene Anthony, Frank Hays, Cliffor, Julian, Claude Phillips, Ben Single ton, Kate Norris, Nettie I-lays. Sixth Grade-Orpha Carson, ElM Maude Julian, Levice Phillips. Seventh Grade-Roy Jones. Eighth Grade--Addie Julian, Chris tie Carson. Bennie Duckworth, Principal. At Dacusville School The following program will be given in the auditorium of Dacusville school house Friday evening, March 16. Friends and patrons are cordially invited to at tend: Opening Ilynm -America. Prayer. Song. -Carolina. Boys' Preliminary Contest: 1. A Murderer's Con fession. -Bailey L ooper. 2. Tfhe Stars and Stripes.-Hovey Ferguson. :3. Spartacus to the Gladiators. - Dewey Hogsed. 4I. The Traitor 's Deathbed. --J. 13. L ooper. 5. Universal P'eace. -- .Joe Hunt. Song-Kentucky lHabe. Girls' Preliminary Contest: 1. The Going'of the White Swan. - Flora (Cox. 2. Swing I ,ow Sweet Chariot. -Nan nie Ponder. 8. Ma'rcus Pleaids WVit h Merein. -2. How Ruby Played. -(-annie Fer guson. 5. The Swan Song. -- Matt ie looser. t;. Thel Genius of P'atroi tisml. A gnews Ilunt. 7. Aunt Sukey. - I cota Ponder. K. TIhe One-Legged Goose. --Annie F'erguson. CARDIOF7THANS I take this way of expressinig my ap preciation of the k indness I have re(ceived from my friends (luring my sickness.I also wish to thank Dr. Valley for the sp~ecial interest he took in me; also Dr. E. Lewis for his punctual delivery ol medlicines I bought of him. 1 am glad to say I am now able to be up again, and at any time I can be of service t< my friends I will be glad to respond as freely as they came to my aidl. May Got bless you all is my earnest prayer. 'J. W. JUIAN. Folger, Thornley & Co. will hold theia spring millinery opening Thursday an< Friday. March 15 and 16. See their a Along Marietta Route 2 I will pen you a few dots from this corner of old Pickens county, as the sun has r-turned with her be autiful rays making everything look springlike and soon the old farmers will be carrying along his long de layed farm wvork; and our road men be enabled to fix up the rough old roads some of which are almost dan gerous to public travel. Surely when two hundred and fif ty thousand dollars is added to our present road funds we can and ought to have good roads in this county. Bula Camp No. 910, W. 0. W. has been instituted under bright circum stances and the Woodmen of the World are already laying (own the lumber preparatory to erecting a nice up-to-date hall. This hall will be located near the residence of Mr. John I. Williams and when comple ted will be an ornament to this (the M1t. Tabor) community. The follow ing offlicers hnve been elected to serve this year, 1917: J 1. Wiliams, C. C.: W. 0. Chapman, Adv. L.; II. L. Wil liams, Banker; L. S. Edens, Clerk: R. L. McJunkin, Escort; Roy C. Mc White, Watchman; Lewis Morgan, Sentry; and Barto Hendricks, P. C.; Auditors: Ilolbert Jones, 0. A. Cren shaw, .10seph F. Williams. B. R.. the little son of E. T. Edens, is able to resume his studies after having been quite indisposed for sev eral days J. D. MoConnell has returned from a pleasant visit to his parents near Belton. Drake says there is some m1d t)otit ;11 spot. down that way too L. S. Edens and son. J. Esp~ent the night with Mr. and Mrs. 1 B Wil liams. of Easley, last week. 1). Marion Freeman is 'omg to lo Cate a saw mill in this section soon. So Vou see boys We will1 have lumber road or no road. Well, Mr. Editor, as we have been advocating prohibition in your col umns some time past, let us say now that if we haven't got it' now we will come in nine cents of it. Extending best wiishes to you and your many readers tor 1917. Progressive. From Pumpkintown B. F. 1lendricks, who has been in Nlississippi for some time, arrived home last week. We're ad to have him back with us again; but he is going to leave our town again, and go to Virginia some time in April. B. F. is looking; well and has evidently beer where there were plenty of good things to eat. A. J. Lister. who 1o1ved to our city last winter, attended the service at Plasant Grove Sunday. He is a sin ger and one of our music lovers, and we're proid of him. P. D. Ilendricks cr)ssed the Blue Rid:. e into North Carolina last week searching for potatoes, but didn't find Iany. It is reported that Mrs. Ferguson, who lives near here. killed a hog which weighed nearly .100 pounds, recently. We think that does pretty well for Pumpl:intown. CiERK'S SAX State of South Carolina, County of Pickens. WlVill Cannnon, P'lain tiflf, vs. Geco. WA. Cannon, D~efendant. .In pursuance of a decretal order made in the above-statedl case, (dated March first, 1917, and on tile in the clerkf's of fiee for Pickens county, I will sell to the highest bidder on SAIJESD)AY IN APIlL, 191'7, (luring the legal houars of sale, at Pick ens C. II., t he following-dlescribed( real estate, to-wit: All that cer'tain piece, parcel or tract of land lying, being and in the county and state aforesaid, on Tlwelve Mile It iver, adjoining lands of S. W. O'Dell, Rt. A.. Hester, .J. 1H. Morgan, and others containing one hundred and sixty (160) acres, nmre or less, and known as the Hecll Shoal tract. Tlerms cash. In case i h. purchaser fails to comply with the terms; in one hour the land will bie resold at the same time and slace. Purchaser to p~ay for papers and recording same. . 0. 3. STEwAnT, Clerk of Court. - Notice to Creditors District Court of South Carolina, Western District of South Carolina. In the matter of M. Parsons, Bankrupt, Liberty, S. C. To the cre'litors of' the above-named Bankrupt: Take notice, on the 17th day of Feb ruary,,1917, the above-named bankrupt filed his petition in' said court praying that he may~ be decreed by the court to have a full discharge from all debts provable against his estate, and a hear. mng was ther'cupon ordered and will be ha nsaid petition on the 27th day of Marc ,. 917, beford said court at Green ville, in said district, at 11 o'clock in ~the forenoon, at which time and place all known creditors and other persons in interest may appear and show cause, if jany they have~ why the prayer of said J. B, NIGHT, Clerc.' Februry 17, 191..4