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"Over the Top the Best Selling Book rin Amerie; Wll Be lishedin The Sentnel OFIFICIAL PAPERTIED P1111CQE1 T11TiSbcptoire Of Pickens County TilLFi RiI'3 iiiL $.0AYA THoPICIENS SENTINEL Esatablished 1871--Volumne 47 ~IKE~ -.Cl.1RI 111 First Presentment of the 1918Grand Jury .We, the grand jury, have passed upon all bills handed us by the solicitor, and beg leave to make this, our final pre sentment for the February term of court, 1918. There has been considerable complaint concerning roads, bridges, etc. We re commend that the supervisor get busy with all the mules and scrapes which he has at command. We suggest that our supervisor and board of commissioners give more of their attention to the per sonal supervision of the work entrusted to them by the voters of our county. We further suggest that they employ competent help and keep in touch with the work from day to day. Owing to the scarcity of food we especially advise that the board use all possible economy in feeding stock, etc. We have visited the poor farm and find the inmates well cared for and premises in sanitary condition. We re commend that the sum of $100 be ap Iropriated for and used to employ help for steward's wife. We also recom mend that the steward give his full time to the farm and not to building bridges. From complaints which have reached us from the county at large we think that some of our schools both in rural districts and in towns are not coming up to the standard for which they are intended. We recommend that our trustees select teachers who are conpetent and willing to co-operate in all the work which is necessary to build up a community and fit our hoys and girls to fill responsible positions of life. We have received the report of the rural police and commend it to the county as work well done and profitable. They have turned in the county treas ury $1,826.50 since the September term of court, 1917. We recommend that the police guard against the evils which are prevalent around the cotton mills, especially against the transportation to and fro of immoral women, on Saturdays and Sun da received the report of the high way commission and passed upon it as I information. We have appointed the following con 1.m1ittees: Committees on schools, one from each township-L W. O'Dell, Liberty: .1. L. Murphree, Hurricane; Frank McFall, Pickens; Leigh llunt, Daeusville; 13. T. McDaniel, Eastatoe; W. W. Robinson, Easley; W. If. Chastain, Pumpkintown; I C. Gaines, Central. Poor Farm-W. It. Chastain, E. C. McWhorter, .1. H1. Chapman. Public Officers---W. W. Robinson, T. A. Gary, Frank McFall. Committees to visit chaingang monith ly-Jar. A. Robinson, Leigh Hunt, T. 11. Arial, .1. L. Murphee, D. E. Garrett. There has heretofore been some com plaint as to there commendations of the grand jury being ignored and we re kpectfully ask that the bourt stress the importance of and ask that the forego. ing recommendations be carried out. We wish to thank the court and .Judge J. S. Wilson for their kindness shown us during this term of court. Respect fully submitted. G. It. GAINES, Foreman. Along Pickens Route Six The health o' this c(mmuitn11ity is very good e.xcept a few cases of me'asles. NI iss; Emma Herd, a tealer In Pleas ant. Grove school, spnt tle last week end with ho-,ef,lks at l'ickens. Mlr. anid Mrs. INosoue Burgess of near IPicken, sipnwt. last Satuirday' with the former's mother, Mrs. E. I rg.ess. J. M. Wel burn and .son, M. C. of Pickens, lpent one day rec en tiy withI their sn andI bro ther, J1. F. We(lborn. Warren ID. I lendricks, Sr , made ai buisiness tripi to l'ircns oine dlay last week. Mr. and Mrs. J1. 1). Vickery visited at the home of \V. ID. IIlendrick s, .Jr..* one (lay recently. J1. F. andl M. C. Welhorn made a busi ness trip to Murphy, N. C., looking after the interest of their farm out there. Mliss Lily Smith and Emma Herd. teachers in Pleasant Grove school, sp~ent one night recently at the home of Mr. and( MIrs. Warren I) H endr-icks, Sr. A. C. Sutherland made a business trip to Easley last Saturday. The ehbidren of Mrs. William Masters ar reported to lbe very ill wi th measles. Their many friends wish them a spieedv recovery. Six Mile News This community is nowv enjoying thei finest weather we have ever witnessed for the time of year-. and the farmers are beginning to till the soil. The grain crop in this community once looked as if it was killed but is now looking fine. J. Harvey Chapman of Six Mile, has sold his farm to XV. F. Dillard of North Carolina. Mr. D)illard is locating here to school his children. Mr. Chapman will not give p)ossession until January 1, 1919. We welcome Mr. Dillard in our midst but Six Mile will have lost one of its best citiz~ens when we part with Mr. Chapman. Coroner J. E. Medlin of Six Mile, m'ade a business trip to Greenville last Saturday. J. F. Dillard and wvife spent last Sun day wvith I. Merck, the latter's parents. 1). C. Mann and wvife spent the after noon with J. 1i. Chapman last Sunday. Six Mile lost one of its hest citizehs last Wednesday evening, F'ebruary 27th, when the decath angel took from our midst W. WV. Smith. lie wvas buried he day following at Six MIile church. A SuIsnimr.:u Earle Jennings Dead. The people of Pickens were shocke< and saddened Sunday morning whe1 they learned that W. 1 arle (Pat) Jen nings had been found dead in Greenvill< Saturday night. A coroner's inques was held over his body Sunday morning and the verdict was th at death was du4 to natural causes. Mr. Jennings wai found in an unconscious condition abou 11:30 o'clock Saturday night near where the street ca' and Southern railwa3 trucks cross just this side of Greenville He was immediately carried to a near by drug store, but never regained con sciousess and lived only a few minute. after being found. le had been feeling unwell for a week and had been com plairing of his heart. The body waE brought to Pickens Sunday and funeral services were conducted at the home of his parents Tuesday morning by Rev. E. '1. Hodges. Burial took place in the Pickens cemetery. The following gen. tlemen acted as pallbearers: Mr. Mor gan, member of Greenville Fire Depart ment; J. T. Richey, A. C. Gravley, J. T. Partridge', Sheriff R. R. Roark and Norman Holder. "Pat" was a son of Mr. and Mrs. .1. Calvin Jennings and was born in Pick ens October 17, 1885. He was well known and popular all over the county and wherever he was known. le was a most likeable fellow and a man of good heart and jovial manner, making friends of all who met him. Ile lived in Pickens all his life until about fifteen months ago when he went to Greenville to work. lie had been a member of the Greenville Fire Department for the past twelve monthi and was a good fire man. Ie is survived by his parents, one sister, Mrs. G. C. Dodson of Pick ens, and five brothers, as follows: Jes se Jennings, Hardeeville, S. C.; Frank Jennings, Missouri; 1I. A. (Dick) Jer nings, Greenville; Wyatt Jennings, in the army at Camp Sevier, and luonnie Jennings, in the army in the Phillippine Islands. This untimely death has cast unusual surrow upon our people and the sympa thy of the emie comiiunity is extended the bereaved fami. W. W. Smith Dead Brother W. W. Smith, of Six Mile, departed this life the 27th day of Feb ruary, 1918. Uhe funeral was conduct ed by Rev. B. F. Murphree, pastor of Six Mile Baptist church. Brother Smith was born in 1847, be ing in his 71st year at the time of his death. lie was in the civil war and during his absence in said war, his fa ther died, leaving him to care for his widowed mother and two sisters. December 16th, 1866, he was married to Miss Rebecca Ray, and to this union were born seven children: BensonSmith, Easley; M. A. Smith, Westminster; Mattie Riggins, Six Mile; MaryT. Nich ols, Oconee county; Joab Smith, Six Mile. Two children preceded him into the great beyond. He joined the Methodist church eight years ago, and ever since proved him self to be a devout-Christian, loved and respected for bis beautiful Christian character. In all of his dealings with his fellow-man he ever proved himself to be truthful and reliable. To the devotetl family, we tender our heartfelt sympathy in this their sad be reavement, aind may they ever prove loyal to the precious mneinory of their dJear depar-ted one. The loving chain is broken, The precious link is gonv, (4h! the sorrowful wo(rds un- pok.'len, M) 1 us who f-eel Fo sad ard al-no. By a Firiend. W. A. Masters Dead. WVill iam Abhneri Matsters dlied Wednes day, February 20), 1918, about 9 o'c-lock, a. mi., after :in illness of several dayu. from pneuimnia, liIe was borna Oe'to ber 30, 18h1, and was 7a years old at the time of his death. lHe enatered the Confederate army at t he age of 22 and served four years. lHe joinedl the IBa; tist chur-ch when a young man and1( has been a faithful member of the Saluda lill Baptist chur-ch for- a number- of years. On his death bed he said, "Then Lord is with men" lie was married twice and~ r-ear-ed twc families. The fir-st children are Lenorm Chastain and Savannah Chastain, living, and1 Mar-y McGill, Martha Clark anm William Alexander Masters, dlead. Thle last children are L aura Williams, Lui Hiamby, Abner Master-s, D)ora Simpson Bertha Chastain, Cuma Clark, D~ewey Masters, Sunie Masters, E-asley MIas ters, Bleulah Masters, living, and Cy press Master-.A lFoster- Masters, Missou ri Masters, alnd Lunie Masters, dead. H le was buried at Saluda lill the dla, following his deatn in the pr1esence of large congr-egation. Tlhe funeral wa: conucltedC~ by Rev. 12. L,. Criaig. Mrs. Bfuce CThristophler Dead Ea-ley l'rogr-ess. Mr is. E-stelle Chist opher, wifCe of Mr i Br-uce Christopheur, ied at their homa at Glenwood maill village on Februar 23d, Age 29 years She is survived br her husband andl four small chiildreni the two youngest are twins about thre< weeks old. The funeral condlucted hb Rev. lull was held at 11 o'clock Sunda; morning in the Glenwvood Baptist churci and the body was laid to r-est in Wes Viewv cemetery. Before marriage Mrs. Chriistop he wn-; MIiss Estelle Edens, a dhaughteri Mir. and~ Mirs. Sam E-dens, of(;1-w "The WorbI Aft'ter The Wara," a p ula lecture by 1'rof. I-. L. I ughes.. the sahtool houise Thui-sday evenino : 3 O'clock. T he lettire will be citt t ain , irsing. i c' t14, tad instrtia iv< I 'rice lI eI nu Z.. -. Thle pr1oceeds; t I used fo,. thc b, na (r te ~.hoa Interesting Cases Tried Last Week t Probably the most interesting case tried in court at Pickens last week was that of the State against W. A. Edens, Jr., charged with breach of trust with fraudulent intent and grand larceny. Judge Wilson directed a verdict of not guilty as to the grand lareny charge, and after being out twenty minutes the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on the other count. Mr. Edens was a clerk in the county treasurer's office two and a half years when his father-in-law, Taylor IH. Stewart, was treasurer. He admitted using $1,350 of the county's money, but stated that he expected to remain in the treasurer's office until July 1st, last, and make arrangements to replace the money before that time; but as he did not remain in the office after the shortage was discovered he did not have time to make the shortage good as lie intended. Ile further swore that he had reimbursed the bondsmen to the extent of $1,350. Carey & Carey and Sam B. Craig represented Mr. Eldens. and Solicitor Martin represented the state. The case of the State against ex Treasurer Stewart was continued. Another interesting case was that of A. .1. Sentell against Norris Cotton Mills. Mr. Sentell entered suit against the mi'l for $20,000 on account of in juries, received in February, 1917, while lie was employed in the card room of defendant, and which injuries made it necessary11* to halve! his- h-ft ar am11 tated between elbowv and1 -.bol11d-.. A fter being out Feveral hours the jtry returned a verdict olf $:,001) in favor of the plaintiff. Several liquor casvs were tried and others continued. In the case of the State against \V. N. Cochran of Calhoun, charged with failure to pay over fines when lie was magistrate. the juries found him guilty. Two cases against him were tried and his sentem.wes amounted to live months and $600. Notice of appeal to supreme court was given. Wesley Jones plead guilty of assault and battery with intnit to kill and was sentenced to serve four months or pay a fine of $100. lie also plead guilty of larceny and was given one year for that. Begins In This Issi Over Top By an American Soldier ARTHUR GUY When the Lusitania wa Guy Empey decided that wait for his country to de he sailed without orders and enlisted as a Canadla He recounts this incid< THE TOP" in less than words. In a few thousan he completes his experien< -and after that he is ii1 the greater part of the ei before he was invalided "Front Line Trenches." "OVER THE TOP" is by one of the Americar went to France, has bee batant and has seen long trenches. Sergeant Empey tells o means and feels like: to be wounded seven tim< to live for a year and a1 and rats and shells; to be covered with "coot to get rid of them; to go "over the top" in a Ito grasp for your gas I second's delay mean's I to capture a Prussian; to get tangled up in hal I to lie for thirty-six hou For a year and a half, Ssaw more actual fghting I' abog~t thje war. Ihis exp< touch of hitthor as origir We take pleasure in annot and that it will appear in IN THIS NEW) Report of Pickens Highway Commission To the Grand Jury of Picken. County: Pursuant to the requirements of an act of the general assembly ajproved March 1, 1917, the undersignedl were duly appointed by the governor as mem bers of the highway commission for this county. Before entering upon the dis charge of our duties we executed a joint bond in the sum of $25,000 with the Royal Indemnity Company of New York as surety. The commission organized by electing Mr. C. L. Cureton, chair man, and Mr. C. E. Robinson, clerk, and before assuming their duties they each executed a bond in the sum of $10,000 and $5,000 respectively wiLl the lloyal Indemnity Compan of New York as surety. Allof said bonds are on ree orI in the ofice of the clerk of court. Carrying out the requiren.ents of said act we advertised for bidsL for 2r((,(0( of bonds of this county, drawing , per cent semi-annual interest and ,;old the same to Breed, Elliott & Ilarrison. Cin cinnnti, Ohio, for a premium of $7500 and the accrued interest on said bond,1S' to date of delivery which amounted to $2,847.25. We issued 250 bonds in d. . nominations of $1,000 each to mato e in twenty years after their date, 2d dav of July, 1917. These bonds were delivered to the purchasers by express on the 2.lth day of September, 1917, and before the first day of October, 1917. the chair man, C. L. Cureton, received remit t an-e therefor in the funi of $25:.522.25. This 8253, 52125 was de;witeei in the several hanks. of, the county and was apportioned among them as follows: Pickens 3ank $39.922.25 Keowee Bank 22, 500. [0 Easley IHank :.,.0(00. 00 Ea"sley Loan & Trust Co. 50n,(It0 100 Commercial Bank . . 17,000.00 Liberty Hank 21,000.00 Farmers & Merchants Bank 11. 10(.00 Hank of Central 21.500.00 Farmers Hank of Central 17,500.00 Tota!l $253, 522.25 The above deposits draw interest at. 4 per cent in all the banks, the interest to be paid quarterly, except the Pickens Hank which pays mnterest at the same rate on the daily averag balance, for the reason that we use the deposit. in ie of The Sentinels the Who Went EMPEY s sunk Arthur he could not :lare war -so for England, n. mt in "OVER five hundred d more words es in England France -for ghteen months home, in the the first story soldiers who ni a real com service in the ,hat it actually ialf with mud les" and never T e charge; ielmet when a death; b-wire with that machine gun rs wounded and unconscious in until he fell wounded in "No Man's and real warfare than any war coi triences are gdim, but they are t tal as the Soldiers TIhree. And ti mecing that we have secured serial ri installments EPAPE R It Is thE this bank to check on to meet our ex penses. We elected Mr. P. F. Patton, of Greenville, S. C., engineer, and about the first of November, 1917, took over the chaingang and hired a few hands and began work. The only work. we. have attempted waa the grading and top-soiling a short section of road from 'i Cateechee to Norris, and from the An- !1 derson county line to Easley, but little 0 progress has been made on account of' the severe weather. We have paid out since we received I the money up to the first day of Jan- 1 uary, 1918, the following: For material--------------- $ 386.101 For labor, teams, etc--. . .. 676.18 - b For chaingang supplies. .....2,775.16 8 For tools, machinery, etc ... - 991.74 1 Poribooks, stationery, p't'g. etc 325.30 p For guards, overseers, etc.. 326.10' For freight, postage, inciden tals, etc....... . . 444.69 Total .5. . . . $5, 927.27 i the item for chaingiiig is included t 6,500 hundles of fodder, 1,500 busheld of oats and 41t bushels of corn, all of t which was on hand first ,lanuary, 1918, t except 500 bushels of fodder, 100 bush- i: els of oats and 25 bushels of corn which i had been used. This January 1, 1918. 1 flespe--tfully submitted, t C L. CUmimfTON, Ch1., 1". .INAnDT, fi TI. 11. O'DIia,1 Correit: Mem. liig'wy. Com. C C. 1'. Citems x, (*rk. ( on1or Roll Kings School February, 191s. irs;t Grade' Lssie lea llunniitt V Second G rade-elle Alxon Ier, I e-: ;iv I lenson, Ollie llam.:iv C *alv in lun nicl tt, Reece Ilullidav Third Grade- Lillit lluinnicutt, Flora I Clinon, Jessie Holden, Clayton nni (ut t. Foul0rth Grade I :ltoi Smith. Fifth Grade--G(ertrudel Ramsay, DIru ilIla Ilolliday, I izzie lle cann, ILillie Mee 1 Stewart. Sixth Grade Lillie llunmnicutt, Velma Smith, Selma llolladav, Alex liamsay. Seventh Grade Sarah lamsay, Helen Rlamsay, Ina Alexander, Agatha Smith, Coboy Ilunnieutt, John Stewart. FEthel Jones, Teacher. -You Will Like It w. ~E I - E rea test J44ar Ever Written &orking a few yards away; "No Man's Land." Land"this American soldier 'respondent who has written hrilling, andi lightened by a ley are T1rtie, ghts to this remarkable story SReal Stuff! Oratorical Contest for Grammar Schools To have a strong school system th e eBsential thing is unity Where there 9 unity there is strength. As we be ieve that the school sy.stemn of Pickens ounty should be made stronger, that t should always make progress and ever retrogress, we have cone to the onclusion tiJ-t one of the best ways to trengthen ' system is the introduc ion of a -mmar School Oratorical 'ontcal. The high school boys and girls have eon having an oratorical contest for everal years, and the good that has omie therefrom n'ed'not be mentioned. 'he only thing that is necessary to say nd the one thing that has been said, is, .hy does not the Grammar School be iven a showing? That is, why cannot he first seven grades in every school in 'ickens county have a contest similar 9-tf- the High School contest? We have decided to have such a con est iml order to give tIl the schools in I county a fair hance. One school i just as important, us the oiher, so all lust fall in line and reap the benefits hat are to be derivtd from these con ests. Pickens County has been divided into ve districts, as follows; District No. . Zion, Mauldin, Lenhardt, Dayton. rosswell, Farr's, Dacusville, Maynard, edar Rock, Reunior, Eas.ly District No. 2. Oolenoy. Mica,Grove, few Town, Rock, Ambler, Peter's reek, Holl Spring, Rocky Bottom. District No. 3. Pickens, Glassy Mt own Creek, Bethlehem. Twelve Mile, Volf Creek, llagood, Rhanoke, Mont ale. Antioch. District No 4. Six Mile, Praters', ates, Palestine, Keowee. Mile Creek. lartin. Bethel, Cane Creek, Eastatoe. hady Grove.. District No. 5. Norris, Iwiberty, Ru amah, Central, Tabor, ( ,alhoun, Long ranch, Garvin, King's, FlatL Rock. Each district has a district manager. )istrict No. I will have for its manager Ir. V. S. RIchbourg, Liberty; District 4o. 3, Miss Nellie Wyatt, Pickens; )istrict No. 3, G. E. Weltorn, Pickens; )istrict No. 4, Rev. .1. M. Langston, ;entral; District No. r), L. E. Kirby, 4orris. Should any selicol wish to find ut more concerning the contest, write rour manager. Each school in divided into two de partmer~t-- the priw ary, whic' includes the first, second and thirdgrader, and the grammar school, which includes the fourth, iflth, sixth ar d seventh grades. Each department will be allowed to. have two speakers, one boy and one girl. The boys will speak against. the boys and the girls agaiit t the girls This will give each school four contestants. No speech can be longer than three minutes. After every (hild has selected hi,; piece and is ready for the contest, each, district will t old i's own cor.test. 'he details will be arranged by thte district nanag'ers. This will be knowi as a preliminary contest. The four best speakers of the district will I * se lected and sent to t he fin11I citest whiehvI wil he he'ld i.t Picke'ns. The 0nreliminary contests will be held m each district on April 5th, 191s, at 14) a. in Tbhe finl conest n ill b' held a k ater, ill April 12th, 191 , at 1 v! Eavch -Clcool will b" furnrished with ent ry sheets % bich thev mnu. t fill in and return to thir diistric t managers as son - posibe. Th0 f7rm11 of thiS sheet is a follows: Flk tY 8111.:1-;T. A i'ril F., J918, 10 I. m. MARNI.\1AA SCi1l1OL ORATORICAL, CoNTi-IST 41" PI'ICKElNS (OtIN1Y. D)istrict Namte ofi choo Teacher's signatulre 'igna turet of )istrict Masnag er. 'lThere will in tho district meets be ~iveni as prizes a blhw ribbon wh~iich sig ilies the Iirst. place, a red r'ibblon which igifits the seconid place. and a white 'ibbon i wh ich signilies third place. in lhe final nimcct. there wvill beh given ourt gtold medals for~ the tirst lalces, and omur mtedals for thle secVond pilaces. lonrable meiit ion w ill be gi von the hirdS picae. We wish to 11yp1 eal to every man, wo :tn :andt , biibl to do their best ini ordler tzn.a;, t h is a suicess. Tlhen;~ at' revery rymtig ltuns o ourl schiool., aund interest xve might nay has begun to decrease to. Sertaini ex tent.. So owing toNhis, and to the faict that the schools are the life >f our nation, we cannot alford to let this interest lag, but must. thru every roniceivable chaninel, push forward. Should anyone, e'specially the teachers 'f lickens counlty, n ot untde'rstantd the de tails of' this contest, the dlistrict man aiger's or thle supterintendlent of educa tion will lbe glad to) giv'e you all the nece~sary iormatia n. F. V. CI,AYTON. Supecrinmtendent of E'duiention. Central items The lights are soon to be a reality here, the contractor says. Mrs. 1,. 0. Nicholson visited her pa rents at Seneen last week-end, Chr'is Hopkins, who is stationed at Nor folk, Va., wvas home for a few days. lie let't last Sunday for his post of duty. There is to be a mock wedding at the high school building next Friday night. ICf you have any news for T1he Sen tiuel call lE. I,. I lenderson at Central Mercantile C.i. P'ig. r mi Mam Cbat public auction at Ea~sley, Th'ursdav, March 7th.