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Subsciptio PriceER Of Pickens CountyHDICKS SENTINELE Established 1871-Volume 48 PICKENS, 8. C., A1' ('ST 1, 1918 Nuber .13 Central Leads in , June W. S. S. Drive Following is amount of War Savings Stamps bought and pledged during the June War Savings drive in Pickens county by townships: Bought and Townships Quota Pledged Liberty .. ..$ 75,000.00 $ 27,107.50 Eastatoe. 10,000.00 3,315.00 Easley .- - -100,000.00 31,860.00 Central ------75,000.00 50,765.00 Pickens ------ 75,000.00 15,595.00 Hurricane- . 40,000.00 9,730.00 )acusville 35,000.00 3,790.00 Pumpkintown 30,000.00 1,060.00 Total --.$440,000.00 $143,222.50 It will be observed from the above figures that our county has raised about one-third of the amount which the government has asked the people to buy. The county is on trial and the people are asked to render a just ver dict. It is up to the citizens of Pickens county to buy the amount of stamps .which the government has asked them to buy. The people are abundantly able, gnd I ask that they buy these stamps and bring up the quota of each township to the atnOunt apportioned, and more, if possible. this is no time to let the other fellow do the buying and the work. We have exceeded our quota in all the other drives, and will exceed our quota in this one if every body will do their duty. We have un til the 31st day of December, 1918, tc raise the quota allotted. The stamps can he bought at any of the post offices in the county. A great many of the banks handle them, and they can b< bought in many towns from the stores, and all of the rural carriers sell them. JAS. P. CAnsy, JI., Chin. War Savings 'ickens County. Licenses for Dealers In Chickens and Eggs All dealers in chickens and egg: who re-sell to other dealers must secure a license from the United States Foo< Administration. If these dealers wil call at my oflice I will assist them it securing the licenses. There are nm charges for these licenses. Sam B. Craig, Food Administrator for Pickens County. Rural Carrier Examination The United States Civil Service Com. mission has announced an examinatior for the county of Pickens, S. C., to be held at Easley on August 24, 1918, tc fill the position of rural carrier at Easley and vacancies that may later occur on rural routes from other post oflices in the above-mentioned county. The examination will be open to male and females who are actually domiciled in the territory of a post office in the county and who meet the other re quirements set forth in Form No. 1977. .his form and application blanks may be obtained from the oflices mentioned above or from the United States Civil 0 Service Commission at Washington, 1). C. Applications should be forwarded to the commission at Washington at the earliest practicable date. Death of Mrs, Mary Gilstrap Mrs. Mary E. Gilstrap diedl at the home of her (laughter, Mrs. IR. A. Gray icy on Little Eastatoe July 22 and was laid to rest at New Friendship Methodist church by the sidle of her husband who wvho preceded her to the grave five years and one month. I ier death was due to dropsy. Mirs. Gilstrap was a member of New F'riendship church and a true christian woman. Sihe was eigh N) ty-five years, two months and eighteen days old and the oldest woman in the 'community at the time of her death. Besides many relatives and friends she leaves one sister, Mrs. Omie Gray Iey, eight children, forty-three grand children, fifty-four great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. She has left us on this earth, but we all hope to meet in heaven where there will be no more Bad parting and no more farewells. Tfruly a good woman haR gone to dwell with her Lord. Hmn GRANDDmAUGHITER. McLaurin Didn't Withdraw John L. Mc1aurin, who a week ago released his friends from any obliga tions they might feel they were under to vote for him, will have his name on the state ballot for governor so that those who endorse his principles may vote for him. T1his is campaign year and you will w ant your county paper. D~on't let yo)ur subscription expir~e. 13 More Pickens.Ne groes for the Army The following named colored men have been called to appear for military service before the Pickens Local Board August 1st and will be sent to Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, August 2: Henry Sullivan, Belmont, N. C. Andrew Sloan, Cantral. Jim Jones, Greenville. Wm. Harrison Davis, Easley R-2. iWm. Clarence Pickens, Easley R-2. Robert Gowens, Pickens R-4. James Thornton, Calhoun. Clyde Robinson, Easley R-5. Waymond Stephens, Pickens. Thomas Garvin, Norris. Martin Rice, Pickens. Tuck Hiallums, Easley. Luther Jones, Greenville. Bethlehem Cemetery Everybody interested in the cemetery at Bethlehem church asked to meet there Saturday morning, August 3d, to thoroly clean it off. Bring tools early and be prepared to stay all day if it be necessurv. Tabor Cemetery All persons interested in the grave yard at Tabor Methodist church please being their tools to clean it off Friday a. m., August 2d. Secona Cemetery Everybody interestel in the grave yard at Secona church should be there next Friday morning, August 2, for the purpose of eleaning it off. liring nec. essary tools. Porter's Chapel Cemetery All persons interested in the grave yard at Porter's chapel are requeste to meet there Friday morning, August 2, for the purpose of cleaning it oil' Bring necessary tools. Register Your Births l1The allotment in money for ens child from the United States govern ment under the draft act will not be paid unless' a birth certificate is pro duced as a proof of birth. Ninety-Year-Old Subscriber Charlotte, N. C., .July 28. 1918. Editor The Sentinel: -You will please find enclosed one dollar to pay for the paper eight more months. I am ninety years old and a dear lover of the Pickens paper. (Mrs. ) Cynthia Ellis. Death of Mrs. Lizzie Crane Easley Progress. Mrs. L izzie Crane died at her home near George's Creek church on Vednes day, the 10th inst., and was icuried at George's Creek cemetery the 1th. She suffered for several months with stomach trouble. She is survived by her husband andl five children, four boys and one (laughter. She also hats two brothers and three sisters as follows: S. M. IHinton of Greenville, and R. A. Hhinton of Easley, Mrs. Mary B~rowvn of Pickens, Mrs. Sarah Sullivan of Green. ville, and M rs. Crecic McCue of near Cedar llock. Mrs. Crane was the daughter of Samuel H1inton and w~as 341 years of age. MICKIE SAYS. AIN'V If FUNNv, H-OW WHEN A FE~LLER~ Oi-TS SORE AN' STOPs t..L PAPfg l , tA5 sf GWPI~'$ED BECAUSE v' DON'T ALL 19ss OUT INTo TEAQS AND HA4N& CRApp, 0 Retreat Unendurable for Stars and Stripes Paris, July 17.--"We regret being unable on this occauion to follow the counsels of our masters, the French, but the American flag ha s been forced to retire. This is unendurable and none of our soldiers would understand their not being asked to do whatever is necessary to re-establish a situation which is humiliating to us and unacceptable to our country's honor. We are going to counter attack.' This was the message sent by an American general in coiimand of Ameri can forces south of the Marne on Monday afternoon alter the (ermnans had forced the Americans back towards Conde-En-Brie. The 1rench commander informed the American general that the early German success could not have any great effect on the fate of the battle, but that it was understood perfectly that after hard fighting the Americans had slowly retired and that it was not expected that they immediately launch a counter attack. lie added that a counter attack could be postponed without risk and that it might lie better to give the American troops an hour's rest. Immediately after the American general sent the above message, which is quoted by the correspondent of The Matin, the Americans launched their counter attack and the lost ground was soon recovered, with an additional half mile. (Advertisement) "OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH" (Editorial Columbia Record, .July 19, 1918.) On June 20th, 1918, at York, when he made that famous "reaflirmation" of his loyalty, Cole L. Blease (we quote the Charleston American) said: "I have said that at the time the vote was taken on the war, with the lights before me, I would have voted against it, and there is no use to be harping on that, because 1 admit it." lie said, also, that he had stated his oppositiion in several speeches, and that "he had no apology to make for any speech he had ever made." The lights before him, before us, and before ine worm wiien the war vote was taken were the same lights we have before us now. Nothing has changed so far as the merits of the case are concerned. If Ameriea was right on A pril Ith, 1917, it is right today If it was wrong on A pril (th, 1917, it is wrong I (oilatv. Cole 1,. ftlease iade his speeches at I'omaria and Filbert four nonths after we went into the war. With the lights before hin then, he allirmed, as "re ligiously' as he believed there is a God in heaven that every American killed in the war off of American soil would be "an unwarranted sacrifice of fresh young American manhood," and that on the final judgment day (God would charge their lives against Woodrow Wilson and the members of congress who voted for the war. At York, on June 20th, 1918, endeavoring to tone down it part, of his Pilber speech as originally printed in the Yorkville Enquirer, he said: "1, at Filbert, was repeating my Pomaria speech in which 1 had said that believed that President Wilson and the members of congress who voted for thi w'ar would be held responsible for every American life lost in it, and if my sou is to be lost I did not care what sort of an America they had after I was dea and gone, and neither does your boy." It was on teis occasion, at York, on June 20th. 1918, bear in mind, that Col. L. Blease said that he had no apologies to make for any speech he had'ever made And on this occasion he did not hesitate to reiterate the sentiments quoted abov( from the Charleston American. / He did not withdraw them; he (lid not qualify them; he did not repudiate them. lie repeated them, with a trivial amendment, and said he had no apology to make for them. Such were his sentiments at York a month ago. since then this man has been speaking at his own meetings, tearing passions to tatters, outdoing Termagant, otitheroding lierod in the wordiness of his pa triotism. According to his estimation at this time there is no more ardent pa triot on American soil. As they say in the advertisement: ''There is a reason." At Pomaria, in July, 1917, Blease said: "1 am not a candidate for any oflice." At lilbert, in August, 1917, he said: "I want to make it clear that I am not here as a candidate or as a spokes man for the Reform party, but as Coleman Livingston Blease, a free-born American citizen.' ie wanted it understood on those occasions, to give emiphiasis to his denun ciation of the war and of those in high places, that he had no axe to grind; that he was sincere; that he was not trying to get votes; that he was, as he said, '"speaking the truth as I see it--speaking for my fellow man and for what 1 be lieve to be the will of my God." ie is seeking ofieo now, and he is a patriot. Ie is a candidate for the United States senate now, and he would kiss the hand of Woodrow Wilson. Ini 1917 lie saidhe would stump South Carolina in a c'ampaign, wvith a running mate against Senators T1illman and Smith, on the issue of the war, andl nowv he wants to stump the United States to advocate a third term for Woodlrow Wilson. Iloere is a part of the record, culled from his speieches as published in th Ch arleston American and1 the York vill IcEnquirier:l'i Extracts from the recent speceches of stat frnth 5lCce o a a candlidate for the Uiited States''fetotitAmmicn 'ntaendil e senate: A t Wagner, .JLy 12th, and at. Man- A 'mtnatmdlihr,.u~ o ning, Jiuly 15th, 1918:Aust11: "And I want to say this: That whleni 'Ti 'mio ocro ma x mI I am elec ted to the U.ni ted States sen -frmIiss 'citI'onraltMat ati', I am going to Priesidlent Wilson and (a.'obyrtdm ih.'' tell him n that here is an American senua-d'iilid. si thitlo-isrliou tor, and whatever is necessary to wvinbli aidfthyantoiciyin this war, I am wvith him i to the finish, ' ' i IrgiI-Ihvn ,oin er ''If it be necessary in ordIer to wvin fi ar Ibe o-mnyiitr the war, to break the precedent set by('tinngadwwol'tenwr President Washington in reference to aToa Iunstlofte pionht third term. I shall tell President Wil-Aterashud av pacanIio sonl that I will support him for o third wt.1 hy'att ih laeo term, and make speeches for him initi su-lt entr lila n any part of the American continent to Sihrsg n e hr ) rmr which lie may wvish me to go."inAus adagerleeconn toSeptember. Thenlletaite geteairun n->winr aatanyntimetinhthe futureaif he deform ofnadvocacyoofths wareanduty battning materandgn mgainst it.thf Ienn atonandpublicthlatformmegtinor'theeyighy xtatt rom outh peCarolin a myfrbopoin eian "e ntaniae ''1goyetstll urhe, ad illsa 'An I beaieven reiiousl, asufirml to hm, tat wil rase aregmentas e fbeli r thovtere ri aexod in n'~ o a an tie n te ftue, f h daven 'Now, o tefialdrgmht (lay arolnian as ver ent n a ieldofutii war u of Ch rican for il wllgiou bdtb dn reignmysea inth so- caelid adin thewn tore ruci fy the ateard ea Ihit egmet orth fgh li eft any how Ie andtm inot lafrai ofth fat-the nn-icanp00110.' ' onent of the Ini Stte t s. Thoe that "Itlfo it, asn' bne rr I(( en formne lne Toda th sihtil of Iigthe(opinion frth youngen souic mahvoacd ad.o You Samth aysygn-amoneetand tare hour choice. Auditor Townes Not Removed From Office Governor Manning 1"riday sent the following telegram to II. A. Townes, i county auditor for Pickens county and I F. P. Furtick, county auditor for Cal- i houn county: h "The South Carolina tax commission I reports you have failed or refused to execute orders issued by them under the statutes, I hereby summon you to akIppear before me at my ollice Monday, Juuly 29 at 1t a. n., to show cause why you should not be suspended from oflice." In answer to the above telegram Aud itor Townes appeared before the gov ernor Monday morning and explained his position s.atisfactorily. lie was not removed from oflice. The tax assess ment of the county will be increased 117 per cent as ordered by the tax com mission, but the number of mills will be reduced. Mr. Townes thinks his visit to Columbia was productive of good for the county. The auditor of Calhoun county also made satisfactory explanation. Attended M. E. Church Con ference Rev. E. '17. Hodges, pastor of Grace Methodist church, Judge 'T. J. Mauldin and T. D. Ilarris attended the Green -ille District conference which ': nt l'ountah-, Inn, Tley regt'tted 1 (v?;od conference and Were highly Pleased with the presidency and preaching of Bishr U. V. W. I)arlington, one of the bishops elected at the la.;t gen Raw ference. The last. general c'e the annual co'h Elaiscopial (i, ..erences imto fi Iteen .crlcts. Bishop )ar!ington ' ..signed to the twelfth district w.,ch is composed of North and South Carolina. lUishop )a Iington is from Harlsoursville, W. Va. Reese Bowen of Texas I)ead 1 Mr. Reese Blowen, aged 49 years, .1 died at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. P. 'Tompson, of Snyder, Texas. Mr. Bowen was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Y. I3owen of Pyson, Texas, and a grandson of the late Reese Bowen of this county. The deceased had made his home in New Mexico for the past fifteen years and had accumulated a goodly fortune. At the time of his death he owned a large boundary of land and large herds of cattle and horses. Many relatives and friends of his father in this county will he sad dened and will sym pathize with the sorrowing family. Mr. Bowen was injured last. spring in an automobile accident. from which lie never fully recovered. Hurricane Singing Convention IIurricane Township Singing conv n tion will meet at Twelve Mile camp ground the first Sunday in A ugust at 2 :30 in the aternoon. Ice Cream Supper The D acusv il le branch of the lRed Cross will serve ice-creant and cake on next Saturday night, August 1d, at the scho4ol house, bsegiunnsing at X :'. Thew mubl ic in vi t ed to comne andl have a good time and helIp in the great work of ire Iiev inig the sitlifering and : m i mstering to the comnfort of our boys "'over thecre' " THE TRAIN BUG IHere we have the Cari Inspector. I~e Makles the 'Trains ever'y dlay to see if the WVheels are all on the Pullmans. lie kcnows when No. 3 Is late and why the Porter oun No. 1 got FIred last wee'k. Anybody who gets In or out of Town without hsis FindIng It Out Is a naevninr Sli.ker.I Central Local and Personal News Items Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. liallentine's daugh ere, Miss Leila Ballentine and Mrs. ' sena J. Roper, of Atlanta, are visiting hem this week. Mr. Ballentine says e expects to ace his two sons from Bir ningham, Ala., and Columbus, Miss., oming in very soon. The Farmers in this section are well atisfied with the rains which fell re ently. Eighteen creek held the water this ime where it has been dredged but the >anks were full. Rev. U. M. Robertson is away this week in special meetings in the Oakway ec tion. F. Van Clayton, who is 'tationed at Charleston in the navy, was visiting the omefolks last week. Mr. Carl Morgan of this place left for the navy last week. lie will be sta Lioned at Charleston for awhile at least. J. L. Carson has plenty of company his week, among whom is his father prom Georgia. T. '1'. Arnold has been on the sick list for some time, but we are glad to see im out again. J. R. Falls ws" for a fe-~ . away from. tie 13anZ -- ays this week on his vaca . hd think he spent part of his time 'n the countty. Wonder what he did for chat ft'd Chicken? 'Mr. Wdlter Maw who is stationed at Chrleston in the navy, was visiting lo>me folks last week. ID. A. Collins of Easley was here one (lay last week on busine~ss. The trustees of the high school lier ' are having it overhauled in general, it will look like a new building on the in. side when it is (lone. So long for this week. If you have something for The SentinHl call rue and let me get it in, oven if it is an ad.: for an advertisenent in The Sentinel iellq whateveryou have for sale. E. L,. II. Six Mile News Items The general health of the community is very good. Crops are looking line after the re cent rains. Quite a large crowd from here at tende( the memorial service and sing ing convention at Camp Creek Sunday. Prof. H. T. Garrett opened a singing school here Monday for the henefit of the church and community. Miss Mae Garrett went Monday to take up her work at. Gates' school. J. i. Chnpman has bought what is knownc as the Pinson place, near Six M'Iile, and is planning to build a nice esidence and move to it this fall. U. P. Prince, in company with 11essrs. I)aniel and Talton Alexander mnd 1. I,. Murphee of Keowee, took a >leasure' trip to Georgia last week. l'hey replort a nice trip lbut say that the >ld P'almetto St at.e is goodl enough for hem. IProtrac*ted meetingvs and (candidates i.emii to lbe t ak ing t he day. PlIeasaunt Grove Letter Well1, Mr. E-d it or, here comes the old1 mcI niam again. Thei dry spll has beeni broke'n in this ect ion an crops are14 ii look ing promisinrg. tour schoc ol c penced last. Monday morn - 'ig, J1uly 22, with Miss I .ilac MIartin of hhea.vil le cou nty as principal and M rs. aie Welborn assist ant. Tlhere wvas ood attendance at thle opening and the lcol bids fair toc have a success ful erm. A series of meetings will biegin at his place lFriday night before the see rid Sunday in August. We trust that ye may have one of the greatest re rivals our community has ever known. Ne feel that this is a time when we iced the devil dIriveni from among us. We want to say to the boys who have recently left our community to enter the army, that they have our prayers and sure will not be forgotten by their triends. Boys, try your best to serve your God and if we never meet again m this old sinful" earth pray that we may meet around the great white throne where sad1 partinga will come no more. So, boys, I bid you God speced while you: are away from home and with Uncli Sam's big army. Good night. I,. (;, S. --Prof. W. C. Mann of Six Mile will speak in the G;riflin church next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock cn a subject which is of great interes;t'to acll our pleople just now, lie comjes highly recommen.. ded as a speak er-and a large audience is expected.,