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PEBSONAXi MENTION., _ , People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mrs. Jones A. Williams spent last week in Savannah. ?Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Varn, of ' Olar, were in the city Monday. ?Benj. Wyman, Esq., of Barnwell, was in the city Tuesday. ?Mr. Cleveland Crum, of Rowesville, spent Sunday in the city. ? - ? T "1 _ C XT' Vl .. ?Mr. (jco. j. nieib, ui Liicr xiiiithardt section, was in the city yesterday. ?Messrs. W. L. and J. R. Linder, of the Smoaks section, were in the city Monday ?Mrs. Alina B. Hays is at home again from an extended visit to relatives in Florida. ?Messrs. J. R. Owens and C. H. Milhous, of Denmark, were in the city Tuesday morning. ?Mr. Henry Stokes, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stokes, is at home from Clemson college, sick. ^ ?Mr. Free, assistant editor of the Barnwell Sentinel, spent Sunday in the city on a visit to relatives. ?S. G. Mayfield and B. W. Miley, Esqs., spent last Wednesday in Charleston Ion professional business. ?Mr. Hammond Bamberg, of Charleston, spent .Sunday in the city "with his father, Capt. W. S. Bamberg. ?Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kinard and little daughter, Ruby, spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives at Ehrhardt. -?Col. T. J. Counts returned Monday from a visit to the family of his daughter, Mrs. S. H. Saunders, in Florence. ?Miss Mallie Patrick, of Branch. ' J ville, spent several days in the city this week with her sister, Mrs. B. W. Simmons. ft \ ?Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Matheny, of ^ Orangeburg, spent Sunday in the city with the family of his father, Mr. D. R. Matheny. ?Mr. W. D. Hand, who is now in Florence with the Bell Telephone L Co., spent Saturday and Sunday in I Bamberg with the family of his |p father, Mr. S. A. Hand. Took Wife from Husband. Lexington, April 14.?J. W. 1 Starnee, Jr., and Vastine S. N. Jefcoat, two white men, were arrested yesterday upon a "warrant sworn out by B. J. Jefcoat, charging conspiracy and riot and assault with intent to ' kill. Stames is the father-in-law of Jefcoat and Vastine Jefcoat is the . , , A-. uncie 01 ine pjosecuior. , T$e crime is alleged to have been committed several weeks ago. The warrant charges that the two men took Effie Jefcoat, the complainant's 1 wife, from the house of J. L. Jefcoat, where he and his wife were spending the night. \ Starnes, it is understood claims 1 that his daughter was being roughly fc treated by her husband and, at her ' - request, he took her home with him. i B. P. Jefcoat killed a woman a few years ago, while she was sitting in the house with two babies on her lap, it is said. He was tried for the killing, but was acquitted upon the ^ ground that the killing was accidental and on account of his age, it having been claimed that he was only about 14 years old. >: Both of the defendants have been vs released upon bond, the amount having been fixed by Magistrate Harman at $500. ,/ ??? Favorable Report from Committee. > Washington, April 18.?The bill creating the Southern Appalachain and White mountain forest reserve was favorably reported to-day in the house by the committee on agricul'' ' a xl V!I1 +XN ture. rne purpose 01 tue uiu i& ^ i preserve watersheds by conservation of trees and by forestation, where \ necessary. . ,The bill is designed to conserve ; navigable rivers, but the first application contemplated is to the forest reserve mentioned. The majority of the committee says "the agricultural, industrial and commercial future of the seetions of the country to which it is most immediately directed" is involved in the bill. "It is the most practical and im4 mediately necessary of the proposed conservation measures," says the ? : majority, "involving the smallest initial expenditure, the less probable future, expenditure, and the surest return upon the investment. It seeks to conserve one of the richest of our I natural assets from serious impair ment if not destruction, our navig[ able waterways." f The minority report, signed by Chairman Scott and six other members, declares that congress has little warrant for entering upon a policy which must if carried to the extent advocated by its promoters, involve p the expenditure of vast sums of mon ? J ? ? A-.il I* v\A?*wt n nnn t ey ana email a neav v pciuiau^ui. cost upon the treasury. The minority contends that the reforestation of a watershed at the source of navigable rivers is a negli^ gible factor in the maintenance of navigability. } . i i BARELY MISSED DEATH. Lightning Struck Commissioner Watson's Office. The records of the department of agriculture for the past five years came very near being destroyed late Saturday night when a bolt of lightning struck the state house at Columbia and passed down a ventilation pipe to the office of Commissioner Watson. The Commissioner had just left his desk and would have been instantly killed had he been seated. The pipe comes from the top of the building and passes down one corner of the room. Here are located the records of the office in shelves. The shelves are of wood. All wires in the office were burnt out. . Just before the bolt struck Commissioner Watson left the office and walked to Main street to a drug store. On going out into the street, he saw a mass of flames in his office. He rushed to the scene and with the assistance of a water cooler extinguished the fire. First Wife Deserts. Kingstree, April 18.?There have been some recent developments in the case of A. W. Phelps, the man who was married here on Easter Sunday. As will be recalled, a former wife showed up and the father of the young woman placed a warrant in the hands of the sheriff. ^ Ever since Phelps has been lying in the Kellahan hotel with a stroke of paralysis. Yesterday wife No. 1, who has been nursing him, left for her home in North Carolina. To-day Sheriff Graham wired asking the governor whether to arrest Phelps or not. The governor referred the case to Solicitor Stoll. hoc hoAn HnnA as vet. but V VU1UQ UMW WX/VM xr y w it is understood he will be placed in jail in the near future. Want Carlisle to Enter. Spartanburg, April 18.?Following the announcement that Richard I. Manning Vill not enter the race for governor this summer, it is understood here, to-night, that a number of friends of Senator Howard B. Carlisle will call on him to-morrow and urge him to become a candidate fbr governor. Senator Carlisle is a young man of ability and has rendered valuable service to his county and the State in the senate. Whether he will enter the race is not known, but he will certainly be urged to do so, and his friends believe he will be elected. STORM DAMAGE LARGE. a Only Two Houses in Woodland Es? cape Injury and Some Demolished. Talbotton, Ga., April 17.?Although practically every building in the town of Woodland near here was damaged by the terrific wind and hail storm which struck that city yesterday only one person, Jack A Brady was injured. He was painfully though not seriously hurt. Reports from the surrounding country greatly increase the property damage and say that many horses, cows and other Live stock were killed by falling trees. The storm begair early in the afternoon and continued with gathering intensity until after midnight. Several buildings were almost totally destroyed, while many more were unroofed and otherwise damaged. Only two residences in the town escaped damage. It is impossible at this time to estimate the loss in Woodland alone while the damage to timber and growing crops will be large. The city school building, the Baptist church and a drug store were totally demolished while 22 other buildings were badly damaged. Some of them will have to be rebuilt. Almost without exception the residents lost all their household goods and many are homeless and in distress. Buildings only slightly dam aged in comparison were leit m sucn a condition v that their entire contents were ruined by the wind, rain and hail. Mayor W. T. Smith to-day issued a statement, calling on the outside world for aid.N That more were not injured is "regarded as miraculous as for hours debris and wreckage filled the air. Many narrow escapes from injury were reported. A peculiar freak of the wind was that it is believed to have carried away several negro children. They disappeared during the storm and a diligent search for them to-day was in vain. Burned in Effigy. Governor Patterson was burned in effigy at Athens. Tenn., Thursday night, this as an expression of disapproval of the pardon of Col. Duncan B. Cooper immediately after the State Supreme Court had affirmed his sentence or zu years in prison iui the murder of Senator E. W. Carmack. There is much feeling in Athens over the pardon. LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODED. . , ' j* ' Eleven Men Lose Their Lives by the Explosion. When an ant+quated locomotive exploded in the yards of the National Railway of Mexico at Monterey Saturday, eleven of the employes of the road were blown into eternity. Two others were horribly injured but it ie ovnoofoH that thpv will rponvpr The fatal screwing down of the safety valve on the engine after it had been run out of the round house caused the explosion. Engineer Monaghan, who was killed, noted that his steam gauge was not working properly, after he left the round house and a mechanic, identity unknown, climbed to the boiler deck to examine the safety valve. An instant later fragments of human bodies and twisted bits of the ponderous engine were hurled high in the air. The front end of the boiler was blown more than a hundred feet down the track, leaving death in its wake. Foreign Missionary Society. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church has reached the point where she realizes that investment in printers' ink pays well, therefore she has determined to act upon the suggestion of one of her most interested members and have a press correspondent to constantly keep before the public what, in God's strength and goodness, she has accomplished and intends to perform in the days which lie out in the future. We have not always felt that each and every one of our members has been as loyal as she could and should have been?if we had been why, friends, there is no estimating the real good we might have done. Let us catch somewhat the spirit of the Master and link our efforts, however feeble, with those of our members who constitute "the faithful few" and we will see the work of the Lord prospering in our hands. Are we not prone to not realize that Christ has in deed and in truth the missionary spirit? This is what brought him away from the heart of our loving, merciful Father. Oh! let .us study missions as we have never studied missions before; let us pray for and give to this blessed work as we have never prayed and given before. When I realize that missions is nearest the heart of our Saviour himself and that he came into this world of sin and woe in order that He might lift humanity closer to the father-heart of God, and that he died for everyone, surely, for this reason, if for no other, we should obey the command which has sounded down the ages: "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature."?St. Mark 16-15. If we are willing to let our Master bse us in the extension of His kingdom have an intense love for souls. Do not be discouraged in this glorious work, but remember Christ died for poor, sinful humanity and is depending on you and me to carry into their lives and hearts the gospel message of glad tidings. We do need to have much prayerful, united effort this year in order that our beloved work shall take on still greater life, and "go forward." God needs you in this work but you need Him far more. Our Father does not do for us what we can do for ourselves, but He gives us His grace which is sufficient for our every need. If He requires human^ instrumentality to help Him to evangelize the world, then surely, He requires you and I to study missions so that we may have our interest in same intensified to such an extent that we will pray daily and believingly for the workers in the home-land and for the devoted, faithful missionaries in the foreign fields. Then, too, we will give lives of active, consecrated service and money to the point of self-denial. Come out to our monthly meetings, iney are interesting and so helpful. Won't you come up to the help of the Lord? Join hands and co-operate the one with the other so that we may have-' a splendid society which shall tell for great good. Plan to give your time, "labor and strength for one afternoon each month by attending the meeting and putting your very self into it. Then remember we are commanded thus: "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermfost parts of the earth for thy possession."'?Psa. 2.S. The officers for the year 19101911 are as follows: President?Mrs. R. W. D. Rowel!. 1st Vice president?Mrs. Kirsch. 2nd Vice president?Miss B. L. Black. Recording Secretary?Mrs. Frank Bamberg. Corresponding Secretary?Mrs. D. G. Felder. Treasurer?Mrs. Joe Stokes. Aaent for Basket Fund?Mrs. T. Black. Agent for the Missionary Advotte? B. L. B. TWO BALES TO THE ACRE. Some Simple Rules Showing: How Can be Done. From an exchange we get tb which should interest farmers: There are a few farmers in tl county that are going to plant f two bales of cotton to the acr That is the plan to pursue. He wl never attempts a gfeat achieveme will do only little, commonpla things. These one acre tests a good, but far from the best. Su pose a dozen or more farmers shou take choice lots, four to eight acre and work for two bales to the acr That would try their real skill. Take a five-acre lot as an exampl Of course the land should be got to begin with. Break it well whi< means going two inches deeper th* plowed heretofore. If stable and 1 manure are used, scatter broadca before bedding. Then apply foi hundred pounds of fertilizer in tl drill before bedding, mining it wii the soil by running a furrow in tl row. Throw up a flat bed. That wi be a good start. The next Step is secure improved seed which ha-1 been carefully selected. The rows should be four fe apart and if a little^ wider it mig] be better. If they are four and half feet wide and the plants tv feet apart, there will be 4,840 stall to the acre. Allow to missing hil and poor stalks and say 4,500. the stalks would make two- thirds i n 9 ftAAfl A/\4fnn AinVt a puuuu vi ac^u wnuu cavii, ti two bales would be sure. Forty sixty bolls of the larger varietb would make that amount. It wou require more of the small boiled v rieties. In June apply 150 pouni of fertilizer to one middle and week or ten days later apply tl same amount in the other. Tl first to the tenth of June apply 1? pounds* of nitrate of soda. Thus tl whole amount of fertilizer wou be two and a half tons and 7 J pounds of nitrate of soda. The co of the fertilizer would be $75 to $8 or about $15.50 an acre. Now if any farmer has a bett< and cheaper plan for making tv bales to the acre we would like 1 have it for publication. It looks little extravagant to put $80 worl of fertilizer on five acres of be land, but if the lot would make 1 bales of cotton it would be a good ii vestment. The same amount of fertilizer c 3 a second grade land ought to make bale and a half. If a farmer reaching up after three bales to tl acre, ne should use 1,000 pounds < fertilizer and 250 pounds of nitra of soda. If one of our hustling farr ers will make 15 bales on five acn we will proclaim him cotton king < the country. Silk gloves, lisle gloves, loi gloves, short gloves, all kinds < gloves at Hooton's. A Minister Praises Dr. Milton's Lii Unqualified Endorsement of Gkx Medicine By a Good Man. \ ??? "If people only knew of its virti there is noc a family in the land th; would be without it." This is wh the Rev. H. M. Haynes, of Pacol S. C., says of Dr. Hilton's Life f< the Liver and Kidneys. Do you think for a moment th; such a good man would praise medicine if he did not know its vi tue? Hilton's Life for the Liv and Kidneys is praised by every 01 who has ever taken it. The dyspe tic, the bilious, the weak and debii tated, and the nervous find it a rea( and efficient remedy. It regulates a derangements of the kidneys, tl liver and the entire system. It is e tirely vegetable, absolutely pure. Get a bottle from your druggis to-day. Take it, and know its ben fits. You will find it the best med cine and tonic you have ever know 25c, 50c and $1 a bottle everywher Prepared and guaranteed by Li Medicine Co., Columbia, S. C. SCHOOL ELECTION NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that upc the written petition t>f more tha one third of the resident elector and a like proportion of the reside] .freeholders of Denmark School Di trict No. 21, of Bamberg county C., of the age of 21 years, an ele tion will be Jie'd at Denmark, c Tuesday, May 3rd, 1910, for the pu pose of levying an additional speci tax of one mill on all real and pe sonal property ih Demark Scho District No. 21, making a total i four mills to be used for school pu poses in said district. Only su( electors as return real or person property for . taxation, are residen of Denmark School District No. 2 and exhibit their tax receipts ar registration certificates, as rcquin in general elections, shall be allov;( to vote. Electors favoring the levy of oi mill additional tax will cast a ball COTliailll lis nit? WUIU ?? Co Uiiuvvu . written thereon, and electors oppos< to the levying of the 1 mill addition tax will cast a ballot containing tl word "no" printed or written therec The polls will be opened at 7 a. i and close at 4 p. m. S. D. M. Guess. J. B. Gillam, Ji and J. A. Wiggins are appoint! managers to conduct said election. R.<W. D. ROWELL, S. G. MAYFIELD, J. H. A. CARTER, County Board of Education. Bamberg, S. C., April 19, 1910 JSSsu-v - V--- * - - - I NEELY & WD 10 @ COTTON FACTOI ? 741 Reynolds Street, Aug1 ? * Advances made to Merchants ; Call on us, or write us. in _ st NywwwwWWxyxz iir x _ 1?99 Per ( to /K re * OF OUR CUSTOMERS ARE OUI ? AND REGULAR PATRONIZER ot ? ARE SATISFIED AND PLEAS] SC OUR UP-TO-DATENESS, WI bt| ?> MERCHANDISE, AND WITH < ?' ? CES. EVERY TIME ONE TH po BUYING A NICE SUIT, OR SI ? W * ANYTHING FOR MEN'S, LAI , ? FOR CHILDREN'S WEAR, T ls 35 WAYS THINK OF US AND COI If FOR IT. WHY? BECAUSE W of ? A NICE AND LARCE SELtiC ie 3K GOODS OF ALL Kl-.DS, THB 7 YOU WANT, AND WE SELL E t0 ? LITTLE AS WE CAN. WE W 5S * * TO SEE THROUGH OUR ENT] Id sP BEFORE YOUJHEAKE UP YO a ? ON ANYTHING. WE WANT Y< , JK SUITED AND PERFECTLY S^ la W IF YOU JUST GIVE US THE a ? WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO M ie , A ONE OF THE 99 PER CEN' ie 5? FIED CUSTOMERS. WE CAN ? YOU JU8T HELP US. :| R RARE * Ehrhardt :::::: to ! : | Horses & I j | Buggies & V * |! Full Stock in Gui H on hand at all e H See us before yoi xl 11 A few Fancy E it jf Hones on Hand.* JONES BI ? || BAMBERG, S. i e- ' li- 1 ^ j Millinery! Mi nt it; s" ^ - ? nr. L Cnn, r: , nc nave aiiuuici iasi a! i?i ? oi ? Millinery display on ha h $ your inspection. Even T. I smart creation in correc ;d if: at a minimum cost C 4? ?i-~~" S ifi be convinced. /. ;. .'. or 4i ?d !r at ?J? "1m?? c d f. - $11115. L. I. U ? EHRHARDT, . $ all ig il? ill iH ai IP ilf ill ill Hi iXi ill ili Ui ill n :r*? T7* ,? S. H. Wilcox. I LCOX I 1 y' ^enti l STEADY O S ED WITH ? TH OUR X OUR PRI- 9 [INKS O* A V ; ^ IOES, OR Z': HE TO US ? tv*S| E CARRY .- 5f * / Hon of a r for as 9 [re line a f&m ur mind 9 ltisfied! x chance, ^ ake you . a do it if y :sh i Mules! fagonsj f Line ffl 5os.; I?I?lMlSgigig}a?g f|l anating jjj | all and ? ft 1 * :: *mm ,t?- j 4* J ] )peland| s. c. :f? 4* TPTP ?i* / f ; ; . ' - . .J y ; ^ - /: / .