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TYSI mm. jSS * r laCjr r[\ Kgi." jjfeg: Hb ^ mm^. - ''' fo[ agSfc, nmII II . |! we s G. F If?;, A _ |"THE LIVE STOC |v'- LATEST THING IN MARRIAGES. Bashful Brides Hide Faces While HpjV' Minister Ties Knots. fej Savannah, Ga., Oct. 20.?Because fpj:- the brides-elect were too timid to enSfcv' ter the lighted parlor of the minisW:>': ter's home, to have the marriage cerBte emony performed, the Rev. T. D. Strong, pastor of a Methodist misgap; sion at Thunderbolt, a resort near ' Savannah, performed a double marriage ceremony by the aid of a small ||: -electric light at a trolley station, on Wednesday night, while the grooms -stood upon the ground and held the p>;: hands of the brides, who remained hidden in the shadows cast by the gg/ top of a hack hired ior tne purpose ||5" of making the journey from the city. v The parties who were married s? were Mr. Thomas L. Lasiter and Miss I^ora Dukes, and Mr. Nisbet A. MorJ;, gan and Miss Susie Dukes, all of Savannah. The brides are sisters and :4C the grooms very close friends. They J decided upon a double elopement and Ux engaged a hack to drive them to the tf WW home of Mr. Strong. Arriving there, the girls refused to enter the house or get out of the hack. The minister was accommodating and agreed to go to the deserted station to perform the ceremony at 11 o'clock at night. The colored hackman was the only "winess to the marriage. Parental forgiveness has been obtained and both couples are apparently happy. Holds up Bank Cashier. Bartlesville, CTkla., Oct. 18.?A young man held up the cashier of the State bank at Vera, Okla., 20 miles south of Bartlesville, late to-day, secured $1,600 and compelled the bank ?&*? official and a depositor who was in the building at the time to accompany him half a mile into the country, where his horse was tied. When the robber turned to mount his horse the two men seized him. The prisoner will be brought to the Bartlesville jail. At the Bartlesville jail the man gave his name as Adrian Lockhart ? . . .1 -a:. 1- - 1 J i:.. A nno. ana tola ine uiuuera ne iiau ii v u uc?.i Vera for several years. Sheriff Jordan arrested Roy Wells, whom he believes is an accomplice of Loekhart's. Both are young men. The difficulty in getting cotton picked is more serious this year than ever before. Even at this late season there are fields of cotton in this county that have not had a cotton picker in them. # |p fefc i.' ^ I The > iolicit yc rRA K AND VEHICLE "OLD BILL" MINOR GRATEFUL. Sends Note of Thanks to Prison Committee?Still at Large. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 19.?"Old Bill" Minor, the train robber, who escaped from the State prisoh at Milledgeville on Tuesday and who also is wanted by the Canadian authorities, has reminded the State authorities that he still is at liberty. A nnt.a from him was received to day at the office of the prison commission, thanking them for their .kindness. The note read: "My Dear Sir: I write to thank you for your kindness in putting me at Milledgeville. My dear sir, don't trust a prisoner, don't matter haw sick he is, or makes out he is. Yours, truly, B. MINOR." The note was dated October 17 and bore the postmark of a railroad postoffice, evidently being mailed from a train on the Georgia Road. A reward of $300, offered by the Southern Express Company for his capture, has been supplemented by a reward of $50, offered by the prison commission. No clue to Minor's whereabouts has been reported. THOUSANDS DIE OF STARVATION China Sorely Beset by Famine as Well as Disease. News wag brought by the steamer Empress of Japan that thousands are dying of starvation in Kiang Su, along the Yang Tse, following the floods, and the situation was expected to augument greatly the spread of the rebellion in China. The whole of the country was under water, according to refugees. Corpses were floating everywhere and famine stricken refugees were dying daily from disease. In places the Yang Tse was thirty-five miles broad and floating bodies, on which starving dogs were feeding, were seen in numbers. A captain of one of the river boats tells of seeing a number of mutilated corpses in uniform, indicating the fate of some Imperial soldiers at +V./-V Viorx^o /-kf ctarvinp* npasantrv. LUC uauuo VI uuv MWM.* XT v . Between 60,000 and 70,000 refugees probably from Anhul, were gathered at Nankiang. Cholera was raging among them and typhus was said to be equally bad. beside other forms of pestilence. The death rate was reported to be between 200 and 300 a day. F"ood has been sent to them, but it was almost impossible for medical aid to effect any relief. IJOI $80 Best nil* notw FU1 UUU V NK MAN." 4 OPPOSED BY INDEPENDENTS. , ? Determined Action Against Tobacco Trust's Reorganization Plan. New York, Oct. 19.?Sixty leading officials of practically all independent tobacco companies in the country, representing, it was given out, a total capital of $250,000,000, employing 100,000 persons and including 86 per cent, of the independent cigar manufacturers' interests and 60 per cent, of cigar leaf tobacco dealers and packers in the country, got to gether liere to-aay ana aeciaea upon unanimity of action in opposing the American Tobacco Company's plan of disintegration. Representatives of labor in the tobacco industry were also present. Resolutions were adopted condemning the plan as not effective in bringing about competitive conditions and it was voted that the organizations present should each select one representative to form an advisory committee. This committee will meet next Tuesday afternoon, when a plan of action will be definitely out-1 lined. DEATH PENALTY IMPOSED. White Man to Hang for Killing Woman and Daughter. Brunswick, Ga., Oct. 19.?A. J. O'Berry, a white man, to-day was sentenced to hang on November 27 for the murder of Mary Randolph, a negro, and her 13-year-old daughter, in Camden county, on the night of August 15. On the day of the murder O'Berry had been drinking j heavily, according to the testimony, ! and was in a store when the negroes came in and drew some money; that t night O'Berry secured a gun, and going to the negroes' home killed them j both and made way with the money. j Anderson Man Makes 111 Bushels. j Anderson, Oct. 17.?Guy H. Norris; whose prize acre of corn was I gathered by three representatives of the national department of agriculture, has received notice from the department that his official yield is 111 bushels. The field measurement; gave a yield of 113 bushels, but after the moisture test was made, the yield was decreased two bushels. To deal cards from a pack without danger of turning them over or misdeals is the idea of a machine that a New Yorker has patented. . NES 1.00 On M 4L >nage, c BA * ? " r T' QUARLES TAKES TEN YEARS. Defendant Accepts Sentence After Jury Fails to Agree. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 19.?Ten years' Imprisonment was the punishment imposed to-day upon George Quarles, who killed John Mitchell, in the latter's home, August 5. The jury after being out all nightr, reported they were unable to arrive at a verdict and Quarles, upon the advice of hi* counsel, agreed to accept ten years for voluntary manslaughter. The principal witness against Quarles was Mitchell's bride of five days. She said her husband remonstrated with Quarles for using bad language in her presence. A fight followed, in which Mitchell was stabbed. Both men had been admirers of the woman. THE RIGHT SORT OF GIRLS. Kansas Maids Run the Farm when) Father is Taken Sick. In the southwest part of Kingman county there lives a German farmer, Rennie Griem, who has been in -ill health the past year. The family consists mostly of girls. One of these girls is a school teacher and two are students in the Kingman high school. Hired help has been hard to get the past season, and the father, not being able to attend to farm work, the girls concluded to take matters into their own hands, and last spring, as soon as the eldest daughter's term of school had closed, she went home, "hooked up" to the lister and, working early and late, put in 75 acres of corn. As soon as the two other girls were home from high school they "turned in" and insisted in cutivating the corn crop, assisted in the milking and care of the stock, sold and delivered the milk to the creamery, put up the hay from 27 acres rint ,1 n nill'to QTI Q mnilJl t of U1 CL1LCLILCL, put U ijutw uu ?W? prairie hay and other feed crops, and attended to the multifarious duties on the farm, all by themselves, receiving no assistance from a man during the entire season. The result is a field of corn which competent judges say will yield an average of 50 bushels to the acre, and all the balance of the farm work up in ship-shape. The girls having attended to the pressing duties of the farm and their father being in better health, they will resume their places in school for the coming term. ?Kansas City Journal. BUG Earth j ash or c MBI 5 In. M / BAMBERG, S( :, ' " ' " : V ' -J TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will he open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 1911 until the 15th day of March, 1912, inclusive. From the first day of January, 1912, until the 31st day of January, 1912, a penalty of one per cent will be added to all unpaid taxes. From I the 1st day of February, 1912,. until the 28th day of February, 1912, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1912, until the 15th day of March, 1912, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid tOA^O* THE LEVY. For State purposes 5% mills For County purposes 5% mills Constitutional school tax....3 mills Total 14% mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Binnakers,* No. 12 3 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Colston, No. 18 T...2 mills Cuffie Creek, No. 17 2 mills i Denmark, No. 21 6% mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills Govan, No. 11 4 mills Hutto, No. 6 2 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Heyward, No. 24 2 mills Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 1 mill Lees, No. 23 4 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mills Olar, No. 8 4 mills St. Johns, No. 10 2 mills Salem, No. 9 3 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills All persons between tbe ages or twenty-one and sixty years of age, except Confederate soldiers and sailors, who are exempt at 50 years of age, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of January, 1911, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the Auditor, are requested to do so on or before the 1st of January, 1912. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1911, until the 1st day of March, 1912. JOHN F. FOLK, .Treasurer Bamberg County. I Coal&Lumber All kinds always on hand PROMPT DELIVERY BAMBERG BUILDERS SUPPLY CO. L. B. FOWLER, Manager 'Phone 33L Bamberg, S> C. GIES *1 -? 6 Jf -:'y jSl P L ; v . ' v 'U- H ? ft redit. : fl ' f3g r d o jKu ?>:.* -.oh h vsl vis-# ' > -&* J -J :.$m XJTH CAROLINA THE COLORED PAIR, ' The fourth Annual Fair of the Colored Farmers of Bamberg County y;. I wil begin, November 15th, 16th, ^nd " ' ' I 17th. This will take pjace at the '. old fair ground at tne vornees in- .wi \ dustrial School, under the auspices " I of the Negro Farmers Fair Associa- :?| tion. ::| The object of this fair is to show ;. \ [ our progress along industrial lines and stimulate our people to a greater effort. The demonstrations of the farm- j I ers' co-operative demonstration work wolr/* a crraa f Htanlov ftf fhfl ' 1 j C tu I lltt rv ^ a gi VMV y* -ui |_- - . . f * f jr products grown on their ' special . acres. They are planning to have a | great corn show. Members of the ~3 Boys' Corn Club will make a display ; of their corn. * We want this to be "booster" fair, p to boost our great county by showing the products grown on its soil and JH the great prospects for the future. We want all the farmers, minis- fP ters, teachers, and all who desire " the progress of all the people to come and help make this fair a success. Space will be given to any of our f f$ white friends who may desire to make a display of any of their pro- ^ ducts. We cannot afford for them to be better to us than we are to theifc.. yw We also make a special appeal to J? them to help us in this great "boosting" and uplifting movement South Carolina stands third in the g average yield of corn and cotton. We / ? want our State to take the first a rank. County fairs will go a long 1 way to solve that problem. With the . h-m aid of our white friends, we are go- J f ing to have one one of the greatest industrial fairs ever held in this f- J county. - . lja ATTRACTIONS. : fg While we shall make our agricul- / / tural and industrial exhibits of the fair the main feature, driving and speeding spirited horses around our |jj quarter mile track will be a specialty ^ among other attractions. We shall have a merry-go-round and a splendid brass band. A match game of ball m j|? will be played each afternoon, followed by a concert at night Rev. Mk Richard Carroll will speak to the people on the last day, November 17th, 1911. i E. D. JENKINS, President ?** R. W. WROTON, Secretary. ?g - W. J. BANKS, Treasurer. " NOTICE TO CREDITORS. By virtue of an order of the honorable Robt. Aldrich, Judge of the ^ Second Circuit, in the case of F. M. ||| Roach, administratrix of. the estate of S. C. Roach, against O. J. Bond, et al., all persons having claims against the estate of S. C. Roach, deceased, are required to prove the , same before me on or before November 15, 1911. All claims not duly {jap nrnvon and filed with the Master on or before that date, will be debarred, Kft'j and parties interested will gb7ern aonnrdinelY. Master for Bamberg County. v ' The Kelly guaranteed axes and tools at Hunter's Hardware Store.