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I. : PICICNS--THE GEM THE OF THE FOOTHILLS PAPER OF PIC +0++++++++++.,COu/NTY A NEWSPAPER WITH A CONSCI ENCE VOLUME 52-NLMBER 20. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 1922 SUusCRPTION McLEOD AND f Williams, Hudsor The result of the Pickens county election was known at the county seat by 7 o'clock Tuesday night J. 0. Williams is reelected to the house of representatives over J. M. Garrett. J. A. Finley and Z. N. Mullinax are elected county commissioners. Rev. R. A. Hudson is elected pro bate judge. Blease carried Pickens county over McLeod by more than 800 votes. Hope carried Pickens county by more than 1500 majority over Swear ingen for state superintendent of education. All county boies were heard from by seven o'clock Tueuday night er cept Peters Creek which polls about forty-five votes. The voe in the accompanying ta ble was recoived by telephone and is a's near correct as can be had until the official count. The vote. at Shady Grove for stace candidates, which was received after the .table on this page was put in type, is as follows: Blease 56, Mc Leod 5; Hope 56, Swearingen 5. 1 A , dispatch from Columbia at 8 o'clock says out of 122,000 votes heard from McLeod is leading Blease by 14,000. A dispatch from Columbia at 9:30 Tuesday night says MgLeod has 82. 000 votes, Blease 66,000. Blease can not overeome this leud with tWe re Ineining votes. The count at 9:30 gives Hope 83,145, Swearingen 53,769. Hopo is elected state superinten dent of education over Swearingen by an overwhelming majority. MEETING PICKENS ASSOCIA TION POSTPONED. On account of various conflicting causes the Executive Committee of the Pickens Assoc'ation at a nieeting held last Monday decided it would be best to postpone the meeting from the 22nd inst., to the 13th of Oc tober. Several reasons for this ac tion wcrc considered "by the commit tee. 9P The churches of the Association and all others interested will make note of the. changes in the time. The association will meet with Oolenoy church on Fri(lay, October 15th and continue through Sunday. Executive Committee. COULD XOT KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN. * In 1906 a young man came to El bert county from Pickens county, S. C., with only $25.00 and farmed on shares with T. W. Durham. 1-1i s name was J. A. Roper, now of Six Mile, S. C. He made a good crop, :eil in love wvith Miss Yeargin, of the same neighborhood, and married af ter a short courtship. He continued .o prosper and saved up several thousand dollars. Afterwards lhe moved back to South Carolina, wvhere he continued to prosper, and 's now worth at least $10,000, and the hap py father of six children, and is ensl' ier of the local bank and a leading (iuzen of his community. The story of his life ought to be an inspiration tolthers. When he was 28 yeac~rs 0f ag;e, having been a poor bC.y. with a' ant advantages 'andl no opplYrtuty~t to get an education, and wvith the courage andl ambition of a hero, he enlteredl school with anud studied books used by his oldest son. lHe made Tapid progress, and is now cashier of the bank he organ';zed, andl is also trustee of the Six Mil.' Academy, a consistcnt member oif the Baptist church, and is known as an exemplary cit'tzen,-ablosutely hon est, fair and ambitious. His fathe'r andl grandfather were Baptist preach ers.-Elberton (Ga.) Star. 4 ~ EASLEY ELECT"IONVOID) - The election recently held in Easley andl which resulted in favor of the~ towin issuing $50,000 for additional pa'vedI streets and $30,000 for past Indlebtedlness, has been thrown out and dlecla)'ed no election. s A committee of Easley citizens op * posedl to the -$50,000 bond issue em ployed Carey & Qarey, attorneys, to conteet the election, andl it was found that not a sufficient numibar of prop * ~. crty owners had signed the petition asking for the election. lOPE WIN; i, Finley, Mullinax AN\ OLD EXSLAVE VISITS THE SCENES OF HIS BOYHOOD DAYS Among the few old time slaves of other days issWilliam Washington of near Greenwood, S. C. Before the war he was the property of Mrs. Sal lie Child Robinson, wife of Dr. George E. Robinson, late of Liberty, Pickens county. Just a few days ago he came to Pickens to see his "white folks," Mr. C. E. Robinson, son of Dr. Robinson, who was a baby and whom he helped to raise while he was a slave. To gether they visited the scenes of Mr. Robinson's birth and the boyhood days of William, at what is now the Presbyterian parsonage near Carmel Presbyterian church 'i the lower part Df this county. It was indeed pathetic. to see-Wil liam as he tried to recall certain ;pots or locations about the place. Ele pointed out the place where the Doctor's office stood and where the keleton was kept. le showed where x row of houses were located where -he negroes all lived. le looked at -he acres and acres 'n cultivatidn and vould say "all this was in woods," mId "all that was in cultivation," )ointing to the fields which had grown ip in pies. Ie showed where he hitched the horses to the old "Rock nway" and drove 'his young mistress :o old Carmel to preohing and where he sat high up in the gallery. lie refognized the old building and the grounds around the church for it ooks very much as it did then. William is now 82 years old, is well and strong and h-is mind is bright and clear. He is a preacher of more Lhan ordinary ability and stated that he served one chuich for 27 years. le went to Richmond in 1863 as the "body servant" of Dr. Robinson ind remained until the close of tue war. le was in- the regiment comn mnandcd by Gen. Jenkins, in which regiment Dr. Robinson served as urgeon. His principal duty vhile a battle Was going en was to hold the loctor's horse and keep him in read ness for mounting. He said they would ofteq dig tren ies 30 feet long, and'wide and deep, aid dump the bodies in as so many logs and in any kind of fashion. That iome timej these trenches would be so full that only alout a foot of .arth was requircIl To cover them. Ile grew hardened to war as evi lenced by the fact that lie said on ein occasion when they were in pur mit of the Yankees he saw one of Lhem leaning in a fence corner and noticing that he did not move decided to make an investigation. Upon ap proaching him he saw that the man was dead, whereupon he inspectedI his pockets andl was happy so find lifty dollars wvhich he cheerfully ap propiriated to his own use. One of his trying expiriences wvas when he hadl to (1o withotit something to eat for more than two (lays at a tUme; andI another one wvas when a bullet went through his hat on his hleadl. He rememibers v'ividly the Black Staunton river red wvith the blood of the dleadl and sawv numbers of bodies floating down the stream. HeI wvas a happy young "nigger' wvhan he was toldl that the' war was over at Appomattox and~ when his young bpss said "Come on Bill, let's go home.'' So they 'mounted herses and in company wvith the late E. HI. Shanklin of Pendleton and other~s they wendIed their way home. lie wvas the nephibw of "Old Mamm~y Sal" wvho spent her entire life with~ Mrs. Elizabeth Child andl her ser Rufus A. Child who lived the greater part of' his life at Pickens. Therev are fewv of the old ante b~ellumi m groes living, and it is rar< that one can be found of William's stre-ngth of' mind and~ body at his advanced(~ age. It was indeed a lea sure to his "young white folks" t( have a v':sit from him~ and hear hiur n-~herr re many incidents of the past One t hin~ es~pcially that wvas pleas ing was the' pra'ise for .his formre: miaster for his kind ~.5tra tn whih a slave and his goed~ advice wh' they separa((tIi d nd 'lliam walhe away a free man to make his wa: 2nd Primary Re, GOV*- lStat.e ernor Supt.E4 PRECINCr 0'oss Roidtis.- 45i 131 391 Glenwood Mil 1401 851 2081 Calhoun--------431 1221 1091 Pickens Mill ---- 561 371 461 Plqasiant Grove- 291 201 301 Cateechee------- 891 331 92 Flat Rock------- 781 121 441 Holly Springs--- 631 111 291 Issaqueena Mill 1241 301 121 Looper's Gin.--- 361 291 42J Maplecroft Mill 321 121 231 Mile Creek. 671 191 691 Praters Creek Pickens---------4051 2811 464 2 Alice Mill- 981 191 67 4 Antioch..----------581 13 431 ContraL-.-121 136 2151 Pumpkintown - 721 221 51 Daeusvillc -- 271 44 3:1 Easley.- 354; 358! 4111 "C Easley M."l 1 971 (6; 12:l Easley Mill No. 2 451 28; 46; Liberty----------18 174' 24 Norris.----------...i 2: 1 Croswell----3 :301 Six Mile 109; 220! Cross Plains--- 50; 241 441 Shady Grove Peters Creek Total_.. - 602j1779 2945 13E Pickens Train 11 Fffo;rts are now~ bcing made(1 1xirfect arrangements whlereby t' Pickcins IRaili-cad Co. may run train from Pickens to Greenville a retui n, instead (,f from Pickens Evsley as at p~resent. Southern Railay trains Nos and 46, the early moring a11nd nI-' Iccal trains going to anld comli from Greenville, were discontin. last Saturday, much to the ie( venjenee of the traveling public Pickens county. In an effort to serve the people P-*ekcjs county' the Pickens. Railro Co. hats cffered to run its trains to Greenville it arrangements ci be made with the Southernl Iailw, Co. for tile 'Use of its track-, ai terminal facilities in C reenv.'l Negotiations betweecn the tw~o ra ABOUT P~ICK ENS COUNTY Editor Clarence Poe Says I'ickei County Is Progressive M1r. Clarence Poe, e(!;tor of the Pr gressive Farmer, wvho recently visit, Pickens county, has wiuitten the f( lowing article for hispaer PickensCounty S.3C. ofer9ag exam~leof te 1ogresi85es 208 seen in any part of 2 theC9|li 11111 Vrgina. 5et' 37| what| Pickes folshav done rec 0|y: 1. Thy hav h89| 33 cont|a 'fo th me fo seera year 44d| now tryigto6ge a 11om aget|a 2 Thyhve (ev24p| stron 102| sesn aricutur 5an home 42no fo igh choo 3boy a 12| gils :L~h~ pas7e thei 69t i s .n-p fr he oo53aiv 32 ark ng-a ae stll4oin, 281| 4hain2 of Cmmere (l9in 19| 67ly o (lay n ordr 5tha bu 3|e m43n .loin vith fr 142r | in 3utin Pi15 "over7the2top." 4. Thefar 2er a 44 getig3 for th boll 354i b 58 a 411ilep and has about 109 Chi20 ffortsf re ulls bch ing madetl beingfe aranemets oherblok "A "votens iload Co.ki~, Proy Ban ntrarickensra toeaevill a niety-fointea icie frmePickens Sp orucoeraivewakting osw Sadoe, theiearly marning0andun k 'catrinsl goingtonand comi frome Geonmie inr dighscolntis las San udaymuc to ava V the~t~ ie<fc vnince patcf Caravlingn publi Pick.nttl cont the Pckes. inlrok Co.' ha pffer e to thnis tvrins~ ltermi nl fairlitie inreenvil kults In Pickens Co. House County Probate i Rep. Commisioner Judge 14 0 191 451 131 481 351 271 61 25! 32 L6I 1481 771 1201 1291 501 1331 1021 122 21 321 1241 741 1261 39) 741 1061 54 151 401 501 39| 711 64! 81 481 45 19|1 201 291 431 391 41 101 311 17 01 131 1111 481 821 891 471 401 78 12l 91 761 71 671 12! 861 351 51 15| 24! 501 17! 421 501 341 23! 50 191 59| 94! 47| 1041 721 791 531 98 !21 28j 361 62 541 5| 51 32' 31 101 12! 321 8 1 :30 6 i 381 141 30 17! -661 191 28' 69 15; :301 211 65 71 621 331 :30; 40 .801 20' 381 57 L9) 266 409! 301: 124 271: 257 2961 :387 I15 751 391 621 69i :151 601 61! 52 !91 26| 451 26, :1 50. 311 33) 37 ;41 90! 1851 96' 188, 122; 126 112i 166 12j 501 41! (5 ! 7 52: 2-1 401 5: 81 24) 26| 471 25 21 1 29i 22 101 201! 5021 272! 4751 198 493 :366 340 38' 78 851 45' 10 V 28 ' 77; 85 N51 20' 561 51 59) 1:3 65 261 47 1 165 192! 92: 202; 1-1-: 272 700! 158 !51 27! 52! 1:11 471 46; 501 .18! 31 ;3) 361 201 24| 81! 5) 45. 34! 22 !71 1171 130| 41) 220) 116 118! 851 163 0 47) 27i 55! :34) 24 :351 33 47 -- 37) 24! 13f 47 291 33) '1; 29 ;9 1807;2589 1728 285117972:34 2042 2370 lay Run to G'ville to I way companies are iow being carrie.) he 011. AS Such an arrangment as oudined above would mean much to P1ckens n county and the city of Greenville. It to Voild mean <wiek and direct travel, express and freight bawCen PIcken4, 45 Easley and Greenville, and wculd :ht practically put'ickcns adl( immediate ng section on the main line (if thc rail ed road. m- Should the plan materialize a round of trip would likely be madc between Pickens and Greenville in the early of forenoon and another round trip ad late in the (lay, making it possbkle on for people to live in Pickens and do ? business in Greenville. Iy It seems that if the Southern Rail id way is unable to take care of the le. needs of the I)ubl:c it shAuld wekome! ii- an arral:'.mcnt like this. rarents in better poultry, better hogs, better cattle. ns The Federal government wll pay one-third to one half of the expense of getting a full time teacher of agri culture and a full time teacher of 0- home economics for your high school. Ld If you are without such teachers, you Al- are cheating yourself; for you are simply p)aying Uncle Sam tarfl' taxes, 0(d etc., to providg such teachers for >wj other schools and1 then not getting as ithem for your owvn boys andl girls. he Why not see your county superinten dent or the principal of your high nt school about this matter ? re Cooperative market ing is gaining to. ground all the time. The opplosition ir- is fighting desperately-irculating es affidavits, for exampile, signedl by a drui.nk~ard andl deadhbeat who lives in a he house owvned by a Negro woman. Is *t- it such men that the interests fighting er cooperative marketinag must qinote? a And they are~ no doubt willing to pay lht one or two men sev'eral t imes the 11s worth of a pile of tobacco or lo d of cotton in order to advertise them as dly saying that the competitive rvetemn 'o paidl him more than the cooperatiwe )i- marketing plan. But farmerci see ed through such things. As the States ?(l ville Landmark'- says of e.ooperative vs. marketing: te "The fierceness, not to say vicious veness, with which it is assailed by reC those interestedl in the o1(d system, is nd in its favor." ity FExactly. If the warehousemen and ik- buyers were not making so much out he of the 01(1 system, why would they be nd~ fighting cooperative marketing so 'et_________ _ eli SINGING CO NT:NJION The~ I .iherty T< .wnsh ip Sing;i:e tid Com-vention wvill meeU(t w' b the see ernd !H: I t church o f L.iberty the Sthird Suna iy, Sep. 1 7. beginning at a.4 1:80 ,'e!k Everyhedy invite.d to 'he IP. T. N( lson. Pres. Central Public Sc Open Mon LIVE LMlERTY LOCALS School Opefed Sept. 4-Scessful Picnic-Slogan Selected. Liberty, Sept. 5-The Uberty school opened Monday morning with Mr. L. N. Foy as superintendent and fourteen other teachers. The follow. irg dep.artments have' been added rince last year, viz: Agriculture, book keeping, voice, expression and chem iFtry. Mr. Foy states that the at tUndanlce this year will probably ex ceed five hun1dred pupils and all in dications )oint to a successful year. Good -pegehlis, cxcCIgnti musie., leaded baslots and ~a fine feeling of ecoperation and u11nderstanjing feat ured tihe first annual chamber of e(nmsce i ine at Liberty Tuesday. l'arie's and towniismenl met to get better acqun: lteald and to learn how tc co-operate more to mutual advan tage, some five hundred beim iI attendance. Truth often comes from unexpected -ources-this time from EIasley. "Lib .ty, the Hub of Pickens County" v-as chosen as the town slogan, by the slogan committee of the chamber cf commerce. 'Miss Winnie Johnson . f Isley, won the ten dollar gold 1 icee awarded to the person of P'ek ens ecunty wTo sent in the most suitahle slogan. Mr. N. E. Winters, U. S. Experi ment attent. at Clemson college, talk cd on the timely as well as inte-rest i:g theme 01 "Growinm Cotton Under Poll Wcevil Conditions." Mrs. Kline, State Marketing aent of the Home Dcmonstration Dent. of Winthrop College, gave an in structive discussion of' the best meth ods of marketing, and the relation of farmer to merchant and business man. Miss Tarramt, District Agent of the Home Demcns.rat:'on Dept., and Mr. T. A. Bowen, county ageit, were on hand and lic ped to make the day a succes-s. Mr. W. S. Richhourg was in charge of the program. Music was furnished thre-imhont the day by the William sten band. A IIIRTl'HDAY PARTY On August 22, Mr. and Mrs. A. C Chastain wcre celight fully sin' 'ri.sed with a birthday party, it being Mr. Chastain's 71st yCar. Mr. an( Mrs. Chastain were at -hurch that mo'ning,(the revival 'ervices were being held at their -hureh at this thiic) when their rel stives from every part of the coun try began entering the church. Mrs. Chastain never dIreaming of an'~y suir prs and not thinking of her birth :lyvas wocnde(ring howv it wvas that they all thought of coin the same r!ay. After ser'viCQs (very one' she 1:oke to was inten'ling going home with her. 'The larg r part of the longregaticn wvas soon on their way down to the C'hzaistin home. On rauw ing near1 the house they saw vehicles in ev~ery vaicant spot and e.'roups of fam.'lar faces greet ingi Loem on every sidle. Sev'eral n)ice prIesents wer~e pred 5(ented: <lin !g the day. Sonafter t he airr'ival from church a delliCIus dlinner wa spredd out in the lawvn. One of the main featuree of the dinner was a birthday en.ke decora ted w:t h t he candles, b aked hy one' of the nieces, Mrs. ReN:-. The enke was presented to Mrs. Chastain with the candles lit by Prof. Reece of ('arson-Newman college. A fler dinner the c'rowd gathered in front of the house where Mr. Clement, the photographer, did some sp)lendlid work. After this a devotional service wa., condlucted by Revs Childress and Cox. TPhe remainder of the afternoon wvas rpet ' cOnversation and good musi'. Sev(ral piano solos were rendered, soing service, phonograph l'ie'es, also ?"ime extra good st rint: music was fiirnished by sofne of the boys of' the (commnun ity. everyone present1~. May~ dach ho' m(ore( such god 'lavs. '"One 1'meni. Mr'e Inov nntt r~ hools Will lay, September 18 The public is cordially Invited to the opening exercises of .the Central public school on Monday, September 18th, at 9.00 a. m. This opening will start a years work thatbidi fair to. be one of the best in the history of the school. T1e school building has been enlarged so that Central now has a handsome building amply large enough to care for the pupils of the (I'striet and, any others who desire to, conic * Central. The seati'ng capa. -sity cf the auditorium has been en. Iarged so it will now seat fiv.! hun dred people. The stage has been re. medeled andi a new curtain is soon to be installed. TI'lie curriculum has been enlarged so as to include not only the.regular literary e(urse prescribed by the stato but also couirses in Agriculture, (10 mie.-tic scieylev, and mu-sic. With tho additien of these courses the boar(d of trustees feel thiat they are offering to the boys and g: irls of Central anld the surrounding community an appor tunity fcr un education that is sur passed by few high schools. The corps of teachens has been in creased to thirteen and the board of trustees feel that they have selected teachers that are well thrained and prepa red for the work that they are to undertake. i'rot. C. II. Tinsley will have charge of the school and comes to us highly recommended. Ho is an A. B. graduad of lurman Uni versity and has had five years exper ee as a teacher. For the past three year)' he has been principal of the higI ,:hotl of WayerAs, Ga., v ity of about.t \ va:1teen te'housand pe-Te. I nu ll neval recordi hah ~ ~ ~ 11; asa.1uteta tea-her. ad (entral frel . proud of the fact thit She was able to secure such a Othler emrias f the faculty ae. Guy Cex (11. S. (lemsen College", Science andic A r:riculture. Miss Mary L. Butlmr (A. 1. Vinl throp Colleve), English and History. Miss Ethel E. Medlock (m. S. An derson College), Domestic Science. Miss Caro E. Smith (13. M. Con verse College), Music. M iss A mand Paterson (A. B. Lan der College), seventh grade. Miss Helen Clayton (A. B. Colum bia College), sixth grade. Mrs. Betty Duckett (A. B. Colun bia College), ffth grade. Miss Greta Gaines (Central High School), fourth grade. M iss Anie Leng (Anderson Col thi rd grade. irs. Mlax Perry (A. B. Winthrop College), second Pgrade. Miss Frances Burgess (A. B. Win throp Coll(ge), advance, first grade. Miss Elo'se Hiutto (Winthrop andl Orangeburg Summer Schools), first WVELF'ARE COUTNCIL, MET The Piekens County Welfare Couni (il, (omp josed of postmasters anid mail carric rs of the county, met at the P ickens jpost office Wednesday after aoon, Se ptember (. Seven members were Ilresent ando a goodl meeting wvas bad(. A letter frojo the welfare di many hel pful suiggestions, was read by Chairmian Rowland. Plans for~ imwrovemen(~rt of the service were dis (tussed and the following creed of the psa~!Il servic(e was adopted by the (ounacil.: Messenger of sympathy and love.. Servant of patIed friends. Consoler of the lonely. Bond of the scatteredl fam~'y. Enllare-r ofC the common life. Carrier of news and knowledge. Instr'ument (If tradeo andl industi'y. Promnoter' of nmtual acquaintance, of peceC( and1 good wvill among mera ando nat ions. MARtitAG;ES Married( on September. 4 at the h'oe of thle bride's mother, Miss l)"' ie \Msters and Mr. Jesse Hayes; G. W. Howen, N. P., per'forning the Married on Septembe/2.# at R. W. Rice's shiop, Mr. Thomasn Powvell and Miss Lhizzie ReeCves, bo0th of Pickens county. Ijev. J1. W. lead perforrned the ceremony. The Sentirnel hlaving the largest cir culation in Pickens'countv. is natural. ly the best advertising medium.