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?br iamhrrQ ifrralh Thursday, March 2, 1911. SHORT LOCALS. Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. The oil mill at this place has closed down for the season. The plant of the company at Denmark has also shut down until fall. re* The cutting of the trees on Main street has given a boom to the awning business. Many of the stores are putting up awnings. . Court convenes here next Monday. There are few criminal cases to be tried, and the general sessions court will likely not last over a day ? or so. E. A. Hooton's ladies' store and dress making parlor was moved this week next door to his old stand. His new place is the store formerly oc-j copied by Hoover's drug store. Headmaster J. C. Guilds, of the Carlisle Fitting School, Bamberg, filled the Methodist appointment here ? -.? and at Varnville last Sunday. Rev. Dove Tiller is still unable to be out. ?Hampton News. ?g?>" - _ We understand that the parties who broke into and robbed the store Kav ?m ltfarAonfila Pn gf IOI llltJ r dri uicio W. W< Denmark one night recently have been arrested in Savannah. They are said to be white men and professionThe list of subscribers to the monument fund, which we publish this weeks, shows'that the monument will . certainly be erected. Read over the list and see who is interested in honoring the Confederate dead of BamP berg county. At a meeting of Bamberg lodge. Knights of Pythias, held last Monj; day evening, it was decided to buy a magic lantern for illustrating the degree work. Slides for all three iranp.s win De usea, ami wc u&c ui Jke lantern will make the conferring of ranks decidedly more impressive. Train Service Not Improved. The train service for Bamberg has not yet been improved, although the business league has taken up the : matter with the railroad commission, who in turn have put the question up to the railroad company. Tuesday morning the Augusta train was very late, and as a consequence no connection was made at Branchville I for Columbia. Lodge Reading Room. Tbe reading room on the third ? floor of the city hall for the use of the members of the Knights of Pythias and Masonic lodges is now ready f$r use. A large table and chairs ha^l been placed therein and the rbom is well lighted with Tungsten lights. A number of magazines and periodicals are to be found there, and it is a pleasant place to while away leisure hours. Remember that no magazines or periodicals can be carried away. Renewals Very Satisfactory. I So far this year renewals and subscribers have been coming in right along, and we are satisfied with the Increase in our list. If it keeps up all the year The Herald will have a list which will be entirely satisfactory to its publisher. We are giving more live reading matter for $1 .00 than any weekly around this section, and we want every present subscriber to renew as the subscription expires and send a new subscriber along with the renewal. Electric Novelties Ordered. The commissioners of-public works have instructed Superintendent Lovejoy to lay in a small stock of electrical necessities for the household. This stock will include pressing irons, toasters, sewing machine motors, md other electrical appliances which will lessen labor around the house and make the housekeepers of Bamberg ^ . less dependent on their servants. A pV ' display and demonstration of these things will be arranged for as soon as they arrive, so that the ladies of the city can see them in actual op;V*~ eration. ? jjfcGone to Greece. Mr. G. A. Ducker left Sunday morning for the home of his nativity, Greece. He went to Charleston, where he will spend several days and there he will take a steamer over |v the Clyde Line for New York, from which city he will take a ship direct for Greece, this steamer sailing on ggf" the 13th of March. Mr. Ducker was born in Greece, but came to this conutry, landing at Charleston, when he was 16 years old, and has never been back. He has recently learned that his mother is still alive, and he ;v;: ' expects to bring her back with him if she will come. He says if he likes the country now he will stay several months, returning home sometime in July, but if he is not well pleased that he will come back soon. He 6ays the voyage from New York to Greece by steamer will take 13 days. |r Boys' Corn Club. The boys' corn club will hold a meeting on the 4th of March for the, | purpose of getting new members and getting our club in business shape. We have written to the Hon. O. B. Martin asking him to be present I and to lecture for us, and we are | sure those present will hear some| thing good on the line of raising corn. We want as many parents as possible to come and bring their sons to join us. For any information you may address, BENJAMIN F. HILL, Fresident, Bamberg, S. C. Town Election. It will soon be time for the election of a mayor and six aldermen to serve the town for the next two years, and our people should be thinking about material for these offices. We have the impression that the present mayor nor none of the aldermen will offer for re-election, and its getting time that some thought was being given to this matter by our citizens. The annual income of the town is now something like $15,000 and the expenditure of this money should be in the hands of capable business men. u ne present council have been badly handicapped during their term of office because of the loss of revenue from the dispensary and increased expenses which could not be avoided, but they have handled the situation well, and the finances of the town are in healthy condition. Coming Wedding. Mr. D. F. Hooton announces the engagement and approaching marriage of his daughter, Miss Myra, to Mr. Eugene Camp, of Dalton, Ga., the wedding to occur on Wednesday, the 12th of April. The ceremony will take place at the home of Capi. W. S. Bamberg at 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Rev. T. G. Herbert, former pastor of Trinity Methodist church, will be the officiating minister, and the couple will leave on the evening fiT*Qir? fnr Fla ltnn da thpir future home, where Mr. Camp is in busi-. ness as an electrical engineer. The bride has numerous friends in Bamberg, who will regret that she will make her home elsewhere. She has been the efficient book-keeper at Bamberg Banking Company for several years. Fire at Govan. There was a disastrous fire at Govan on Saturday night, February 4 th. The fire occurred about 10 o'clock at night and originated in the store of Lancaster & Williams. Three stores were burned, although one was unoccupied. Lancaster & Williams had $1,800 insurance on their stock of goods. The building they were in belonged to Mr. J. A. Kennedy, and his insurance was only $200. O. L. Lain had $500 insurance on his stock of goods, and Mr. Murray Seabrook, who owned the building, carried $500 insurance on it. There was no insurance on the vacant store burned, this being owned by Mr. F. Cook. All were heavy losers by the fire. Lancaster & Williams had a stock of goods worth over $3,000. Home Mission Study Class. Feeling the need of a clearer conception and a more comprehensive study along all lines of home mission work, the Bamberg auxialiary has organized a study class. The first meeting was held last Friday afternoon at the parsonage; Mrs. Hodges was chosen leader. With her guidance and leadership, the members feel sure their meetings will be helpful and interesting. "Under Our Flag" will be used for the first course, as it embraces many important phases of home mission work. All who are interested in home missions will do well to join this class. All work for God should be done, not only willingly but intelligently. Ignorance is no sin unless knowledge has been neglected. The next meeting will be held at the parsonage Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The subject will be, fliA Caii + K onn illicrVilo xu i>uo uvuvu^iu xxiguiauuo* Will Day Current Pay? Warm weather will be coming on before many months, and the people of Bamberg will be clamoring for day current, as usual every summer. If some one will take up the matter and induce enough citizens to use day current so that actual expenses can be paid, the board of public works will be glad to put on the day current, but they cannot do so at a loss. The plant belongs to the citizens and should be run in their interest, but unless the revenue from a day current will pay expenses, the board would not be warranted in putting it on. Men and women, sell guaranteed hose. 70 per cent, profit. Make $10 daily. Full or part time. Beginners investigate. Wear Proof, 3038 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. | him and his bride. j New Advertisements. Victor Oil Co.?Salesman Wanted. J. M. Grimes?For Sale. Herndon's Grocery Store?Your Money's Worth Every Time. L. Bennett & Co.?Buick Automobiles. Purse Found. Fires Last Week. Monday night of last week the barn and stables of Mr. J. L. Smoak, of the Binnaker's Bridge section, were totally destroyed by fire, with their contents. The fire occurred about 11 o'clock at night, and it is supposed the flames started from sparks from the dwelling. Mr. Smoak turned out his stock, but three of his horses got on the Seaboard. Air JLine track ana two were killed outright and the other so badly injured that it had to be killed. He lost quite a lot of corn and fodder, etc., making the loss very heavy on Mr. Smoak, with little insurance. Thursday morning of last week the dwellings of Mr. H. W. Walker and that of Mr. J. B. Smith at Midway were destroyed by fire. The fire started in Mr. Walker's house, and caught no doubt from the stove flue. Most of the furniture, however, was saved, except the kitchen stove and other articles in the kitchen. The flames spread to Mr. Smith's house next door and it was soon in ashes. Mr. Smith saved all his furniture and household coods. hut as there was no means of fighting the fire, nothing could be done to save the building. The loss of each will be about $1,000, and we understand that there was no insurance. New Engine for Light Plant. At a meeting of the commissioners of public works, held last Thursday evening, it was decided to buy another engine for the electric light plant. This will be an additional engine, and will be 75 horsepower. The present eninge is 150 horse power, and the smaller engine will be used for the light load of the plant. This engine, which will be of the direct connected type, can also be used for day current when the citizens of the town want it bad enough to support it. Baptist Church News and Notices. DIRECTORY. Preaching service every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and at night, by the pastor, Rev. O. J. Frier. Sunday-school every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, J. A. Hunter, superintendent. B. Y. P. U. every Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Prayer meeting every Thursday night. Woman's Missionary Society meets Wednesday afternoons after the secCnnHov fn oqr>Vi mftnth UUU UUUUU^ MM* VMVM UAWMWM. Sunbeam Band meets every two weeks on Friday afternoons. Monthly conference each fourth Sunday. Observance of Lord's Supper the first Sunday in each quart r. NEWS AND NOTICES. Our Sunday-school was marked by half of the teachers and officers being absent last Sunday, something rather unusual, and our offering did not come up to the usual standard on missionary day, though an average of more than 5 cents per member of those present. The pastor preached in the morning on, "The Keynotes of an Ideal Christian Life," and at the evening service began a series of sermons on the prophecy of Amos; his theme being, "Amos as Seen in His Prophecy." Sunbeam band has a special meeting this week, Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The service Thursday evening is designated as a prayermeeting picnic, in which every one is requested to bring some gem of devotional thought if nothing more than a favorite scripture verse as a contribution to the service. Let us make it a success. Oil Mill Burned. Ninety-Six, Feb. 28.?The NinetySix oil mill was destroyed by fire early this morning with a loss of $40,000, partially covered by insurance. The main building, office, seed and oil stores were a t *a* loss, with slight damage to ginnery. The mill was owned by local men. The officers of the company are: J. B. Sloan, president; W. O. Self,'secretary; D. W. Lipscomb, general manager. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it was probably due to a defective electric wire. BUSINESS LOCALS. Go to Hunter's hardware store for stalk cutters, disc harrows, single and double plows, in fact everything in the hardware line at very low prices. Fresh Saratoga Chips at Herndon's grocery store. You can get the Pin Money Pickles at Herndon's. White Pepper in bottles at Herndon's. Large No. 1 fat macekerel at Herndon's. The Hanging of John Moore. (A. B. Williams in Roanoke Times.) Again a name suggests a reminiscence. Yesterday's dispatches tell us of a series of fights of mountain clansmen in the streets of Spartanburg, S. C. That is the town which once had a mayor? a German and a jeweler a peaceful tinker with dilapidated watches, but a certain Confederate artilleryman and a conscientious official and all a man. One day a crowd of mountaineers raided his town to take out and lynch a prisoner. In his methodical, exact, German way he hauled out an old brass cannon, placed in front of the jail and pointed it carefully to the centre of the approaching street. Then he loaded it with a full charge of powder, emptied into it a keg of ten penny nails, rammed down the patching and quietly awaited the coming of the mob. When it appeared he stood alone, lanyard in hand, and advised his fellow citizens not to come any further. They did not come. There was no lynshing. In June, 1879, John Moore was in Spartanburg jail. He was a man of wealth and influence of a certain kind. He had a thriving farm and a more thriving distillery. He sold liquor in his neighborhood and had a gang around him. One or two strangers who went to his house disappeared and never were heard of. Men who offended him were shot at or mysteriously beaten or cut. One Sunday a girl came along walking from Spartanburg toward her home in FicKens county, in tne mountains, 30 miles away?a sturdy, honest mountain girl to whom a 30 mile walk was no great matter and who was accustomed from her surroundings and upbringing to trust men frankly and to call withuot hesitation on the hospitality of the country people. She stopped at John Moore's house and when she had had her dinner trudged away along a path through the woods which he pointed out to her. as a short cut. He followed her. Three days later, men, their curiosity aroused by circling buzzards, found her dead beneath a tree, a few feet off the path, a hundred yards or so from Middle Tiger River. Her throat was cut. The ground about showed that she had fought until the very moment of death, when she could fight no longer. Her body was mutilated, but the coroner reported that she was right. The unerring perception of mountaineer trailers, silent and sparing of speech but deadlly in their conclusions, showed John Moore's shoe prints frojn the body to the river. There he was supposed to have thrown the little tawdry jewelry the girl had, the rings from her fingers and the brooch from her neck, all torn from her. Moore was arrested and put in the Spartanburg jail. He employed the best lawyers at the local bar* The story went out that he was to apply to the circuit court or to the supreme court for bail. The mayor of the town was then Mr. Thompson, a large, placid man. sat nn the mirh stone near the front door of the jail about. 11 o'clock of a star-lit night with a reporter for a Charleston newspaper and a citizen. The Morgan Rifles? named after old Daniel Morgan, who led the continentals at the battle of Cowpens, locally known as "The Cuppins," a few miles from Spartanburg?had been called. Not a Morgan Rifleman could be found, high or low. No Morgan rifleman wanted to serve to protect John Moore. The mayor arose near midnight, smiled and drew a long breath in a satisfied way, and said: "Well, nothing will happen tonight." The citizen thought differently. He threw his head to one side, paused intently a moment, and then said: "Nothing? Hell, listen." Through the .darkness, along the long rock bottomed road leading into the town, came the sound of the steady clattering of the hoofs of horses?many horses, ridden at a slow gallop. Presently into the town they came?six hundred or more of them, mountain men riding two and two, silent, sitting on their horses steadily. Many of them were kinsmen and neighbors and of the clan of the girl whose throat had been cut. They had got the rumor through the mountains that John Moore was to get bail. They had come to see about that and on their way had gathered more men from upper Anderson and Greenville and Spartanburg. Wherever in the mountains they stopped and told a man the case, that man began with eager hands to cram the bit into the mouth of his horse and throw on and buckle his saddle and look to his firearms; ana nis wire ana aaugnters urgea him to make haste and to bring them back a piece of the rope. They wanted to look at it. And word was sent up the side roads and boys and old men as fast as they could throw their legs over saddles and get their feet into the stirrups came pelting along. The word had gone to the mountains and down the hills the mountain men came. Makes the | tious foods dainty anc R01 BAK MM r vvi Absoluft The only Bakinj from Royal Grape No fussing or the biscuit-mi is the aid cook's i Royal Cook Booh?800 Receipts ROYAL BAKING POWC As the columns turned the corner toward the jail the'.citizens waiting there, probably including many of the Morgan Rifles, cheered heartily. Then the heart of the mayor sank. An old soldier himself, he knew the meaning when the cavalrymen halted, dismounted, left a man to each four horses and by four deployed. They knew. The jail was overcome and searched systematically. Then the horsemen went through the town. At the corner where the Old Palmetto Hotel used to be a big man on a big gray horse sat silent until he saw coming the men he wanted? veterans. Then he spoke once^? "Ten men this way." They rode down a side street, dismounted silently, passed through a field, beneath a railroad trestle and with one united heave turned up a little bridge spanning a ditch where a public road crossed the railroad. The deputy sheriffs were there with Winchesters but eleven revolvers brought them to inactivity. Moore was beneath the bridge. Nothing was said as he was lifted out. He was put in a buggy and carried 15 miles back to the tree beneath which the body of the girl had been found, the men on horseback following. He had been a soldier and on the way agreed with those nearest him he would confess if he might be shot instead of hanged. As the earliest sunlight was gilding the tops of the trees on the mountains he was led through his own yard, along the path where the girl had gone and where he had followed. At a turn in the path he was stopped and the reporter, who had run, walked, waded, forded streams and ridden and fronted many times the enquiring muzzles of revolvers, was called on to take the confession. All sat together on a log. Moore told a long and rambling story of himself, beginning days before the murder and outrage. The long, lean mountaineer who sat close to the culprit's left side, listened without comment or question, chewing tobacco quietly. It became evident that Moore n?oe foltiric fnr timA in thp deSDer ate hope that his lawyers or troops or some rescue might come. When he had at last after many delays and turning aside, brought his story to the day of the tr^edy and concluded with a dramatm declaration txiat he knew nothing of it, thie long mountaineer leaned forward and spat accurately into an ant hole he had been watching. "Hell," he said. "That ain't no confession. Come on." So they took John Moore and formed a great ring about him, broad day light by that time, and 1,500 men. He was put in the midst to say his last prayers with, a Methodist clergyman on his knees in the dust beside him and his wife wailing the mountain woman's keen. The tribe and kindred and clan of the girl whose throat had been cut, looked on, eyes hard as steel balls, fumbling with their beards. And then Moore was taken to the tree beneath which the girl's body was found and hanged with a plow line. Because he had been a soldier it was conceded that his body should not be mutilated by bullets. They promised him that and kept their promise. But they kept him hanging half an hour, to make sure, and then, quite solemnly and decorously, the rope was cut into small pieces and distributed to the women, and especially that the Pickens county women of the girl's clan, might see it. Doubtless some of them have it yet. Pickes county girls and mountain girls are safe ' -..v.-.... . " *" '- " v." J , V? ' ?: - ' V v * --1" i- \ ; ' > J Vvv-'T '9&J1 mostnutri- II ind the most | I delicious* I IAL me 'DER ilv Pure t Powder made 'Cream of Tartar A fretting over aldncr. Roval Q J ? to many a 1 success. r-' J ,1 -Free. Sad Ham ami Adirm. >ER CO., NEW YORK. === " \d to walk through that country to this day?32 years after. The hanging of John Moore is remembered. A monument has been built to the girl : y who died defending her chastity. If you happen in Pickens county and strike one of the old timers and ask him about that 30 mile ride over the mountains to hang John Moore with the Greenville and Spartanburg mountaineers helping, probably you ; will see a hard look come into his eyes and he will tell you, confident!ally, that he had never ceased to regret that John Moore.had but one lire to lose, tne one necK to stretcn. . ^ And going home from the hanging was George, a colored citizen, riding a mnle and deeply impressed by the proceedings. The lynching of a white man was nnusual. *3^1 ^Overtaking George came two white men, one of whom reined up. "George," he said, "we don't know what will come of this. You " want to be careful and keep your mouth shut about what you have seen." "Lawsy me, Mars Andy," said George, "sure I ain't goin' to say nothin'. To tole you the truf, I . think myself Mr. Mo' got off mighty : light" Wins Suit for Salary. ; Spartanburg, Feb. 28.?Dr. Walter -|| Sorrels, the meat and milk Inspector ^ of Spartanburg, won his suit against - ^ the city for back salary before a jury in Magistrate Kirby's court here , -. to-day. The suit grew out of the council's effort to abolish the office of meat and milk inspector which raged here last fall, the council having declared the office vacant, at the same time 'A expressing their disbelief in the germ theory and the need of meat and milk inspection. viS / .s.Vfil = BANKRUPT NOTICE. In the District Court of the United f j States, for the District of South Carolina?In bankruptcy. In the matter of H. C. Copeland, bankrupt: To the creditors of the above bankrupt: Notice is hereby given that on the 8th day of February, A. D., 1911, the above named bankrupt was duly adjudicated bankrupt, and that the first meeting of his creditors will be held at the store of H. C. Copeland & Co., Ehrhardt, S. C. on the 2nd day of March, A. D. 1911, at 12 o'clock, at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt and transact such oth- ; ~'r: Kno{na?a ?r mav nronwlv come before said meeting. It is proposed to consider at this meeting a proposition for composition. G. M. GREENE, < Referee in Bankruptcy. Dated February 8, 1911. BANKRUPT NOTICE. In the District Court of the United States, for the District of South Carolina?In bankruptcy. In the matter of H. C. Copeland -P. Pn hontrnnte W<| wuuut u^vu. To the creditors of the above bankrupts: Notice is hereby given that on the 8th day of February, A. D., 1911, the above named bankrupts was duly adjudicated bankrupts, and that the first meeting of their creditors will be held at the store of H. C. Copeland & Co., Ehrhardt, S. C. on the 2nd day of March, A. D. 1911, at 12 o'clock, at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupts and transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting. It is proposed to consider at this meeting a proposition for composition. G. M. GREENE, \ Referee in Bankruptcy. Dated February 8, 1911.