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m . ' ' ... . - _ -., _* . ' ' 1 - '" ," ' - " - ' y ^'''' '( : X"- v 'i:y I ?hr$amkrg Ifmtli* - u> ;.. f Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1906 One Dollar a Year: ^ " 1 i : METHODIST CHURCH STATISTICS. 1 A Statement of What Was Accom\ pllshed the Past Year Along 1 f.. Certain Lines. - c The following statistics were read < 5 at the session of the South Carolina > conference of the Methodist church v- in Columbia. - The statistical secretaries submitV ted a report of the tabulated results ; of their work, as follows: There are j in this conference 84 local preachers, < and 83,597 lay members, an increase 1,598 infants have been , . bapfeed, and 1,504 adults; 680 Sun> day schools with 4,717 officers and ! j teachers and 42,471 scholars; 764 1 churches valued at $1,344,707; 190 - parsonages, value $334,703; 10 dis- 1 ' narcnnoo-pc V5)hlP ivt5.500. I ' W.JW - ? T J < Three colleges and three fitting ; 1^ schools whose total valuation reaches the sum of $545,000; total endow" 'V ment, $104,402.52; total number of 1 yp professors, 63; of pupils, 1,066. , ' The joint board of finance report- 4 // * ed through Judge J. Fuller Lyon, the treasurer. The following figures ; will give an idea of the financial i T:\ status of Hie church for the past year: 1 Collected for bishop's fund, $2,- 1 363.06?an increase over last year of $78.74; conference collections, $10,- L ?*:vv998.27, increase of $262.10; foreign ? Emissions, $18,044.59, increase of $480.- ! -22; domestic missions, $15,161.79, in- , ^rcrease of $518.01; church extension, i%yv $5,059.46, increase of $190.37; educa13k tion, $6,565.79, increase of $910.22; ] '/t: minutes, $823.95, increase of $21.20; ? . * Paine and Lane college, $571.41, in- ] crease $13.94. The total amount 1 m handled by the board of finance was J $58,576.15. |p?;. > Young Lady Attacked by Negro. { Columbia special in Charlotte Ob- < S^aerver: An unknown negro attacked 1 Miss Elizabeth Yopp on her way 1 X*home in Laurel street at a late hour last night. The negro got away with ; : ber purse containing $3, a part of her wages for the week at the 10 cents ^ store where she sold candy. Miss ] put up a game fight, her strug- J v gles resulting in the loss of much of J her apparel. Two negro" hackmen, Charles English and Jim Gray, have , ^ been arrested, and it is thought that r . sufficient evidence, though it is not ] Y^i^particularly strong, has been se- ! : cured to connect them with the affair. ; Shooting in Laurens. Laurens. December 15.?Luther YUHughes and Ludy Willis, two wellknown young white men of thiscoum j - ty, became involved m a dimcuity at . the home of Mr. T. Jeff Bramlett, five 1 ^ miles North of Laurens, last night . f at 10 o'clock, and Hughes shot Willis >^>'in the head with a pistol. The wound considered dangerous. It appears that both men were gpp clanking and, while scuffling, Willis : -threw Hughes, who became enraged 1 f, and, drawing his pistol, fired at Willis. Union Meetings Barnwell Association. 1 To be held on the fifth Sunday, j The following is the program for the i <|pj; different?phurches: TOPICS. 0:;, No. 1?Our obligations to support ioreign piissions. No. 2?How may we improve * union meetings. ROSEMARY. %Introductory sermon?C. M. Bill^'ings. Topic No. 1?F. P. Lee, W. L. Merritt, G. W, Garner, and R. P. Galphin. JPopic No. 2?R. M. Mixson, G. W. , Boylston, C. M. Billings. ' Mission sermon?G. W. Garner. BETHESDA. wra.. . . r -n a . v.. ' -Introductory sermon?a. j . r osier, v Topic No. 1?J. H. Felder, Chas. Rentz, W. M. Jones. ? Topic No. 2?A. J. Foster, M. R. Cooper, M. M. Benson. } Mission sermon?M. M. Benson. BETHEL. v Introductory sermon?H. J. Snider. Topic No. 1?C. M. Edenfield, W. G, Britton, S. P. Hair. i||| Topic No. 2?J. A. Jenkins, J. C. McMillan, Sr., H. J. Snider. Wi Mission sermon?S. P. Hair. '..ST Dinner on ground. $T Speakers for Sunday school mass gig; meeting' to be chosen at the meetings. Drowned in a Washtub. Greenwood, Dec. 12.?The little '0f/ five year old daughter of Mr. and ' Mrs. J. R. Ellis, who live ten miles south of here, was drowned this morning in a washtub. The little r child climbed up in a wheelbarrow ;5: ' standing by the tub and fell in the % tub of ^ater. She was there twenty i minutes before being discovered. ' Dr. Ward, the nearest physician, was telephoned for, but the little : child was dead before he could get mr-, < ' ' IN THE PALMETTO STATE. INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading Pungent Paragraphs About Men. and Happenings. Five of the congressmen, Aiken, Finley Johnson, Legare and Lever, have filed their returns for the insome tax. L. F. Evans, the Columbia printer who disappeared last week, has turned up and will be committed to the insane asylum. An automobile exploded in Columbia one day last week, seriously in:?: A l -rrroo juriug lwu uvys. aiic laaumic woo an old style steam machine. The State says that state taxes are coming in slowly. The State treasurer has already borrowed $325,000 and may have to borrow more. Twelve thousand pounds of tea svere raised this year on a plantation in Colleton county. The tea has just been put on the market and it is said to be very fine. Commissioner Watson says that the next German Lloyd ship which sails for Charleston the latter part :>f this month will bring one thousand immigrants. Mr. A. F. Perkins, who for the past year has been with the Pee Dee Advocate at Bennettsville, has disposed of his interest in the paper to bis partner, Mr. R. L. Freeman, and has gone to Winston, N. C. Court was adjourned in Walterboro last week on account of the serious illness of Maj. M. F. Howell, me of the leading lawyers there. He suffered a second stroke of paralysis and it is thought he can survive but a short time. The grand lodge of Masons in session in Charleston decided to build a Masonic orphanage. The trustees svill have this year $10,000 for this purpose. They are J. R. Johnson, Geo. S. Mower, G. T. Bryan, C. E. Sawyer, and the grand master ex[>fficio. One of the State constables shot and killed a horse in Charleston last [Tuesday that was drawing a wagon load of contraband liquor. The constable had ordered the driver to stop, and he refused. The horse belonged to Sottile Brothers, notorious blind tigers. Jack Henderson, a two-year-old white child, died in Greenville last Friday as the result of drinking some carbolic acid. He and some other other children were playing in a vacant house in the McGhee mill village, and the boy found a bottle of carbolic acid and drank its contents before he could be stopped. He died before a physician could reach him. L. F. Evans, a printer of Columbia, 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 _ wanaerea on last weeK ana ieit a note to his wife on the banks of the canal soying he was going to drown himself. However, his body could not be found in the canal, and is presumed he left for parts unknown. He was married only a few months ago. His health was bad, and he had been taking morphine, which, it is thought, unbalanced his mind. Solicitor J. Monroe Johnson, of Marion, died last Monday night in John Hopkins hospital at Baltimore, where he had gone for treatment. The burial took place at Marion Sunday afternoon. He had been Solicitor of the fourth circuit for eighteen years. He was well-known all over the State, and had many friends, his intellect and ability being recognized by all with whom he came in contact. Love a La Mode. The Magazine Heroine sighed as she put her hand on the shoulder of the Magazine Hero. "Billy," she said, "where did you <rpt. that, hat? " He smiled. "Turn over to page 116 of the advertising section, and you will see. The finest hat for the money in the world. And yours ? " i'At Madame Ricou's, the milliner's. Her ad. is on page 41, Front Section." He gazed at her a moment* in speechless admiration, at her faultless shirtwaist (notice of sale was given in these columns last month), at her wonderfully hanging skirt (see McGregor's display ad., second inside cover) and at her neat shoes (colored insert). Then he said: "Dolly you are all to the good. There is nothing about you that I don't like." She tossed her head (McBurn's Hair-dressing Establishment) proudly as she nestled close to his waistcoat (Banger's Tailoring Emporium, page 4). "I can say the same thing of you," she whispered (go to Jackard's for engagement wedding rings?page 128), "for, dearest, have we not both of us been tried and tested by the public long enough to be warranted?"?Tom Mason in the December Delineator. LITTLE NELLIE ROYAL KILLED. Her Mother Was a Native of Anderson County. Anderson, Dec. 12.?News has been received here of the clubbing to death of little Nellie Royal, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Royal, independent missionaries to China. The child was playing on the banks of a river near her home at Shanghai and was clubbed to death by three Chinamen. Mrs. Royal was a Miss Sullivan, of near Pelzer, before her marriage, which took place in China. She has visited this city and the little girl was here about five years ago. The news of the terrible death of the child came from a paper published in Zion City, HI. PRESS ASSOCIATION MEETING. The Executive Committee net in Columbia Last Week and Selected June 28 as the Day for the Visit to Jamestown. Columbia, December 14.?There was a meeting of the executive committee of the State Press Association here to-night at which there were present: President Elbert H. Aull, R. L. Freeman, J. C. Mace, William Banks, C. M. Galloway and August Kohn. The meeting was called to consider three matters. The first was in regard to the effort of the postoffice department to require the payment of postage on newspapers distributed in the counties of publication. At present a newspaper does not have to pay postage on its home circulation, but pays postage on all papers going outside of its home county. The committee requested the president to communicate with the Senators and Representatives from this State and protest against such a ruling and find out the real situation. If necessary a committee will go to Washington to appear before the committee. The executive committee decided upon June 28th as the day for the Press Association to visit the Jamestown Exposition. The Jamestown authorities have been anxious to get a date for the South Carolina editors, and it was decided to-night to make one gala day of it. The South Carolina commission has selected June 28 as Carolina Day. The State Press Associaton will go to Charleston, according to a previously accepted invitation, some time between May 6 and 16. The exact date will be agreed upon after a conference with the Charleston committee. The matter of newspaper transportation in view of the new rate bill was discussed, but no formal action was taken on the matter, as it was thought best, for the present, for each newspaper to make its own arrangements. There will be a meeting here next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock to consider legislation with regard to a libel law. The importance and necessity for such legislation is deemed to be vital. Petition for Pardon. A petition has been filed with the Governor for the pardon of Charles Zissett, who is serving a life "sentence for murder. He was sentenced to be hanged, but his sentence was commuted by Governor Ellerbe and he has now been in the penitentiary for about eight years. Zissett was tried in Bamberg before Judge Watts, the prosecution being conducted by Solicitor G. D. Bellinger. His father is a native of Switzerland, who came to this country in 1849, was natural* 5 -3 in +Vlrt 11Z6Q anu luu^ut in me wiixvuvAui/u army. The attorney for Zissett, Col. Robert Aldrich, desires to appear before the board of pardons next month and present the case.?Columbia correspondence News and Courier, Presiding Elder Coming. ! The new presiding elder of the Orangeburg district, Rev. James W. Kilgo, will make his first official visit to the Bamberg Methodist church next Sunday, and will preach in the evening and possibly at the morning service. Hie first quarterly conference for the new year will be held next Monday morning in the ladies' parlor oi the church. Our additional printer, Mr. J. T.! .Greenwood, of Clifton Forge, Va., I arrived yesterday morning, and we will now turn out work promptly. | COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS. SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN TARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered Ail Aronnd the Connty and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, December 17.?Our town hasn't an empty house in it. More dwellings are needed to supply the demand. Mr. F. H. Copeland's dwelling will V noi'nf VivtioVi I SUU11 UC ICOUJI 1U1 Uic J/OUIK ui UUIII He will not be able to eat his Christmas dinner in it, however. Dr. Kivy Pearlstine, of Branchviile, was in town Sunday evening. The children are in great glee, writing letters to Santa Claus and throwing them in the fire, telling him what they want for Christmas. If old Santa Claus could read and supply all their wants, what would they do with all the things. Our school will give an entertainment in the school building on Friday night, the 21st instant, and sell oysters, etc., to raise some funds for some things the school wants to put in for their use. They hope to have a large crowd and a hungry one also. Some few turkeys are being stall fed for the 25th of this month. Turkevs are scarce in this section, however, and high priced, so backbone and rice will have to take place of turkeys for Christmas dinners in this section. Mr. Isaac W. Carter went down in Colleton county Saturday to be present at the burial of his wife's sister, Mrs. Rosa Griffin. She has been ill for sometime. Extensive preparations are being made for the ball which will come off oh the 26th instant. Invitations have been sent out and music procured and the hall floor waxed and re-waxed, so as to have everything in apple pie order for the occasion. . We are having warm weather to cure our bacon so far. It is hoped that we will have some cold weather soon. , Mr. I. W. Copeland will move to town today. Glad te have you with ! us again, Isaac. Mr. J. B. Ramsey, who has taken the agency for the A. C. L. Railway Co. at this place, has procured two rooms from Mr. J. W. Priester, and will move his family today. Dr. J. H. Roberts was in town Saturday. He was on his way to Mr. Perry Yarn's, where his wife {was visiting, and gave us a hand ! shake and a smile and passed on. There is young man in town that is very nervous. Says he thinks he has some heart trouble, but think he has to step to a wedding march to be played for him and his best girl on next Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. There is talk of a stock company being formed to build a railroad from here to Denmark or Augusta, so as to have some other connection, to enable our merchants to get better rates to and from here. We hope the company will be successfuly in this undertaking, and soon get the road under headway. Jee. Entertainment at Govan. Govan, S. C., December 17. Editor Bamberg Herald, Dear SirPlease announce through The Herald that a festival and Christmas tree will be given at Govan school house on Monday evening, December 24th. The public is cordially invited to attend. J. E. Chandler, Principal Govan High School. Negro Fined for Striking a Lady. Monroe special to Charlotte Observer: Henry Robinson, a young negro, was before Magistrate M. L. Flow this morning charged with having struck Mrs. Marion Tucker with a hickory stick last Saturday evening. Mrs. Tucker said she was driving on the road south of town; when she met two wagons and had to drive down into the ditch beside the road to pass them, and Robinson, 11 ^ i . ii who was waiKing alongside 01 tne second wagon, struck at her with the hickory, hitting her in the back. She was not hurt, she said, but was considerably frightened. Robinson pleaded not guilty, but refused to go on the stand. His brother Will, however, who was in the first wagon, saw him strike Mrs. Tucker and so testified. Henry was fined $50 and costs, which were paid by |Mr, Al. Fletcher, for whom he | works. PRINCIPAL DEAD. Death of Lizzie Menafee, Founder of Voorhees Industrial School. J News was received last Saturday of the death of Elizabeth Wright j Menafee, colored, principal of the Voorhees Industrial School for negroes at Denmark- Her death occurred last Friday at a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., where she had been for some time in the hope that her health would be restored. She was about thirty-three years old. She had been in bad health for several months, and during the past summer told us that her health was gone and she was going away for ] treatment. First she went to the ( hospital in Augusta, but she got no ] better, and went on to Battle Creek < for treatment. The body was brought , back and buried at the school this j week. Lizzie Menafee was a good woman. , In all our business transactions we had found her one of the most f prompt and reliable persons we had j ever dealt with. Her word was her bond, and her sound common sense and fine business judgment enabled her to make a success of the school at Denmark, where ninety out a hundred would have failed. Her ideas on the race question were sound, and she believed in training the negroes to work, only giving them enough education to do their work intelligently. In April 1897, nearly ten years ago, she came to Denmark without a cent, to found an industrial school for negroes. She started with nothing, yet in ten years she has built up a school whose equipment is worth about $50,000. Although a woman, we regarded her : as a great leader of the race, and she TTTArlro^ al/vnrr flia Knaa Pi/?Viaiv1 I i TTViAVU WVU5 WJV 1U1VQ VX XMWMXL V* "| Carroll and a few others. She was , married last June to Martin A. Mena- : fee, treasurer of the school. 1 Honor Roll Denmark School. First grade?Weters Califf, Clara Wyman, Mildred Lee, Hoyt Kear*e. Second grade?Fitz Hugh Cox, John Martin, Christabel Mayfield, Virginia Hutto, Leon Roton. Third grade?Abram Hallman, William Hallman, Walker Hog, Earl Cain, Agnes Goza, Willie Califf, WolseyKearse, Jesse Folk, Marshall Gillam, Counts Smoak, Helen Milhous, Charlie Arledge, Maud Ellzey. Fourth grade?Josephine Faust, Ethel Wicker, Reynold Wiggins, Virginia Faust, Annie Hacker. Fifth grade?Tindal Califf, Wildon Cain, George Hallman, Hammond Cram, Leon Watson, Stanwix Mayfield, David Folk, Julia Goolsby, Tom McCrae. Sixth grade?F. H. McCrae, Jennip Hallman. RnvTvler. Martha Rav. Malcolm McCrae, Annie Collins, 1 Lois Ray, Onie Brux, Claudia Nix. Seventh grade?Olive Pearson. Eighth grade?Azile Nix, Ruby Guess, Sadelle Guess, Marion Riley, Walter Rice. Ninth grade?Pansy Smoak, Alma Folk, Harry Wroton, Alston Wroton. Tenth grade?Lottie Kearse. Fitting School Notes. We are now in one of the most critical and trying periods of the school year?that of examinations. "The horrid things," as they are sometimes called, are now in full blast and it is only the thoughts of Christmas and of being home in a few days which dispel the gloom and brighten the sad hearts. Work will be discontinued on the 21st, when the holidays will begin and last until January 3d. The campus is full of Christmas talk and all are looking forward with much pleasure to the "home going." At the last meeting of the Kilgo and Sheridan societies officers for the second term were elected. They were as follows: Kilgo, Prof. W. D. PrvVuar+c nrocirlpnf .TnVm TTnflFmfln XlrVMVA JJ/* W*V?V**V y W W??. vice-president; Rhett Ott, first critic; Isaac Anderson, second critic; Ernest Hiers, censor morum; Eugene Ackerman, floor monitor; Richard Addison, secretary. Sheridan, Prof. J. C. Guilds, president; Miss Katie Carter, vice-president; Miss Adrine Padgett, critic; Miss Janie Belle Saunders, secretary; Miss Lizzie Rhode, treasurer; Miss Beulah Dukes, censor morum; Miss Ida Muller, monitor. Among our visitors this week were i Messrs. Sheddie Arant and Creighton i Skinner, two former students. We 1 are always glad to have our old stu dents come back to see us. i ARRESTED IN AUGUSTA. . - 'O I. A. TYLER, A YOUNO WHITEriAN, UNDER SERIOUS CHARGE. r Accused of Stealings Horse and Doggy at Denmark?Went to Police Barracks to Get a Place to Sleep. J. A. Tyler, a young white man vho looks to be about 18 years of ige, is locked in a cell at police barracks on the charge of horse stealng. The horse and buggy which ;he officers say he stole from a man n Denmark, S. C., are in a livery stable near the barracks. Tyler's case is a peculiar one, as r, le came to the barracks last night )f his own volition and said that he / had no money and wanted a place to -i 3leep. Sitting by a cheerful fire which Lieut. Hopkins had built and :*j in the presence of several officers ryler told his story of why he was .:M without funds. , He said that he came from Kan- ,: ^ sas City and had travelled all over ^ ;he west and finally coming to Au? V ?usta in a horse and buggy which le could not dispose 6f, he found limself penniless and wanted a place jo sleep. Lieutenant Hopkins lis- ; ? ened to his story occasionally asking lim a few questions, until finally the " i ieutenant asked T^ler where he . same from when he landed in y Augusta. .Tyler said that he came from 3en?and then changed the name of he place and finished his sentence )y saying that he came from Thornton, Ga. The description given of he alleged thief from Denmark, 5. C.. tallied in evervnarticularwiA - ' I tat of Tyler and the gold teeth de* ' scribed in the Denmark letter as b& ng in the mouth of the allied horse thief from that place also tallied with the gold teeth seen in Tyler's mouth when he forgot himself and laughed. .. 2||? He was locked up not as a strafiger having no funds, but as a thief, and charges have been preferred against him. The officers say that the, case of horse stealing against Tyler is as plain as daylight. They claim that he stole the horse and buggy from a " neighbor in Denmark, S. C., drove him to Augusta in one day, almost killing the animal, and then tried to sell the outfit at a very small sum of money. Not being able to sell the horse and buggy on account of the appear- ance of the horse, which was almost dead from the drive of 60 miles, the n* 1 V. _ -J 3 : omcers ciaini mat uc tmracu me am- ^ mal loose in ,the woods at Monte Sano and it was discovered, together with the buggy, and brought to the 0 barracks early this morning by Mar- > i Heckle of Summerville.? Augusta Herald, Thursday, December 13th. [We have not been able to learn anything definite as to thexabove matter from Denmark. Only a rumor that the young man had taken a typewriter as well. Who the property belonged to or what disposition has been made of the case, we have not been able to ascertain.] * JSj Dispensary War In Springfield. Columbia, Dec. 13.?Conditions at Springfield, in Orangeburg county, g are serious, on account of a dispensary war that is raging fiercely in that town. Recently a series of incendiary fires has occurred and among other ::*? buildings, that in which the dispensary is located, was burned down. It is intimated that the anti-dispensary people caused this latter blaze and the anti-dispensary people declare that they will shoot anybody who makes that charge. Chief Constable Hammett sent an officer to investigate but this inquiry has developed noth ing material in the line of evidence, however. A delegation has requested Gov. Heyward to close the dispensary, but the governor has declined to take this action, declaring that the authorities of Springfield are the proper ' people to maintain law and order. The intendant, who is understood to be anti-dispensary, wants it closed. Since the governor's refusal to interfere in the matter, it is not known here what steps the Springfield in tendant and other officials will take to bring about a cessation of the warfare. Editor Hugh Wilson, of the Abbeville Press and Banner, is making a Western tour. He visited Salt Lake, several of the States and territories , and is now in Mexico. It is not known whether he investigating the Mormons, gold mines or Mexican senoritas.?Carolina Spartan.