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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at ^ , Other Points. ??. I ?Mr.' Jake Felder, of Cope, was in the city on Sunday. ?Miss Margaret Easterling is visiting relatives near Fairfax. ?Mrs. J. D. O'Hern is visiting ^ ? friends in Orangeburg this week. ?Mr. Claude Smoak left Tuesday for Davidson college, Davidson, N. C. ?Mr. James T. Burch, of Flor??? ? - ? nnm/v fimo in tho once, is speuuiiig ouui^ uiuc iu city. ?Mrs. J. 0. Ritter, of Olar, is visiting her mother, Mrs. E. A. Smoak. Bamberg- Banking Co.?A Dollar Banked is a Dollar Saved Until You $ Need it. ?Mr. Lovelace Quattlebaum, of Orangeburg, is visiting Dr. J. J.' Cleckley. ?Mr. Walter Curry spent several - days this week in Varnville with f relatives. ?Mr. Roy Cooner has returned to the city after visiting friends at Greenwood. ?Mrs. H. M. Felder, and children, of Mullins, a^re visiting Mrs. J. TT A .mnlitnnlT XT. AIUI&IIUU3. I 7 - ?Mrs. J. D. Redfearn, of Page\ land, is visiting her parents, Mr. and f , Mrs. H. D. Free. ?Mrs. W. S. DesPortes, of Ridgeway, is visiting her parents, Capt. and Mrs. W. A. Riley. ?Mr. J. H. Lacroy, of Springfield, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. Bessinger last week. -?Miss Bettie Steedly spent sev^ eral days last week at Hunter's c * ' Chapel visiting relatives. ?Mrs. R. W. Matheny and children, of Greenville, are in the city - visiting Mrs. D. R. Matheny. . ? ?Mr. I. B. Felder, who has been spending some time in Commerce* Ga., returned home Tuesday. ?Miss Marion Harmon 'has returned to the city from McCormick, where she spent several weeks. ?Mr. and Mrs. A. Bessinger, of Briar Creek, spent Wednesday in this - . city with their son, Mr. D. Bessinger. ' i ?Miss Lilly Mae Cooner has returned to her home after a week's stay with Misses Lee Delle and Meta Bessinger. ?Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Henderson returned last Friday from Cedar Mountain, N. C., where they spent V. y' several weeks. ~-rrMiss-Marie Spann left Saturday for her home in Dothan, Ala., after a stajr of several weeks with relatives in the city. -*-Mr. Cleveland Risher, of Blackville, spent Tuesday in the city with his grandfather, Capt. J. K. Risher, t'who is quite ill. k ?Prof, and Mrs. E. P. Allen an<| children have returned to the city from Williamston, where they spent L"V ' the summer months. \ Dr. H. F. Hoover and family have returned to the city from the North Carolina mountains, where they spent several weeks. ' . ?-Mr. Josiah Rhoad and sister, ^ Miss Marie, of near Hunter's Chapel, spent the week-end with Misses Lee ? T*, !_ onm uene ana jvieia jDessiugei. ' .. rr-Col. J. R. Owen, and Messrs. H. F. Bamberg and J. A. Wyman spent Tuesday with Mr. W. M. Brabham at his beautiful bungalow, "Rest Haven-" / - ?Mrs. R. L. Risher, Mrs. J. J. Jones and Mrs. W. P. Jones have returned to the city from Hendersonville, N. C., where they spent a few *' i weeks. - ?.Mrs. C. R. Brabham and children have returned to the city from the mountains of North CaVolina, where they have been spending the summer. ?Mr. D. W. Shealey, of Fountain, Fla., is spending *a few days in the; city. He brought his son, James, to; Bamberg to attend school here the coming session. ? ?Miss Aleathia Cooner, after spending a very pleasant week in the city with relatives, left Saturday for Denmark, where she will spend several days with Miss Vivian Lacroy. ?Mr. and Mrs. A. McB. Speaks have returned to the city from Atlanta, where tliey spent several days. While away they also visited Marietta, Ga., and the scene of the lynching of Leo M. Frank, near Marietta. ?Mr. and Mrs. C. J. S. Brooker .motored to Orangeburg Tuesday to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smoak. Accompanying them were Mrs.* J. R. Owen, Mrs. B. D. Brooker, of Richmond, Va., and Miss Mary Livingston. ?Mr. and Mrs. C. J. S. Brooker have returned from a tour of six weeks in their automobile. While away they spent some time in New York, New Jersey and Virginia; and! also visited the most interesting re-j sorts in North Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Deleware. Mrs. B. D. Brooker, of Richmond, returned with them. r' ' V . . * ' 4 W'-V . . . 1 . r'_ ^ Visited Scene of Frank Lynching. Editor Bamberg Herald:?As the now famous Frank case has been kept so persistently before the public, and has aroused such wide-spread interest, perhaps an account of a trip made by my husband and myself to the place where Frank was lynched, and the impressions formed by what wc* caw and hpard while in Marietta. may prove interesting to your read| ers. \V6 reached Atlanta on August 23rd, and after attending to business we went to Marietta?twenty miles distant?by trolley, on the 27th, just ten days after the lynch: ing occurred. We had heard, through the newspapers, that this pretty little town was becoming sensitive and resent! ful since it has been in the limelight, because of the threatening letters which had been pouring in, and be; cause of the continued presence of people who gave no satisfactory account of themselves, or their object in being in Marietta. Some had been forced to leave, and some warned not to remain. So you may be sure we very quickly upon our arrival there gave our name and place of residence, and stated that the motive which prompted our visited was simple curiosity! We 6oon found an automobile to hire, and were quickly driven to the scene of the tragedy, two miles distant. mm inne +VlQ VjUiili <Xl IU U U i wvuki vnv oak tree on which Leo Frank met his death was not a large one, not larger than an ordinary telephone pole. It had but three limbs, the one on which Frank was swung having a downward tendency for several feet from the trunk. The curve thus produced served admirably the purpose for which it was used. There was not a leaf on either of the tree limbs except at the extreme ends, which were too slight to hold souvenir seeking climbers. The body of the tree was encased in bagging, to the height of about six feet to preserve it from vandals. This, however, is proving of little avail, as several chips had been taken off above the bagging. We were told that Mr. Frey, to whom the tree belongs, has refused all offers for it, and will build a concrete wrall around it. Nearby a little oak sapling, to which the end of the rope w*as tied, was badly chipped by the thousands whb we were informed had visited the spot. The piece of wToods is a dense oak thicket, but Frankjs executioners seemed to have taken no pains to conceal themselves, as the spot they selected in this wood was only about seventy-five yards back of Frey's ginhouse, which faces the Roswell public road, and not' more than fifty yards from the Milledgeville road, down which the party came from Milledgeville, one hundred and seventyfive miles away. . The hour was around seven thirty, and broad daylight, people were astir and several houses not far from the scene, but none of these facts daunted the band of determined men who had swore to do what they believed to be their duty. Whether they were right or * wrong, whether their victim was innocent or guilty, we will not discuss here, as that is not the object of this article. We visited the grave of Mary Phagan, who is buried in the city cemetery. A neat slab of Georgia marble marks her last resting place, erected by the Marietta camp of United Confederate Veterans. A wreathe of fresh flowers showed that some loving hands had lately laid them there, and as we detached a rose to bring home as a memento, we breathed a sigh, and thought long and deeply of the bright, saucy, " * - - 1? ? 1 -T _ laughing girl wno so- eariy in me had met so sad a fate. We left Marietta with two verystrong impressions. One was that a spirit more of determination than bitterness pervaded the place, all the more remarkable because the community for miles around is the. home of many members of the Phagan family. The other impression was that the dead girl belonged to a family of respectability and refinement. The home where they lived for years before moving to Atlanta showed that, as did the lot in the cemetery, with neatly marked and well kept graves of dead and gone Phagans, as well as the universal expression of esteem in which the girl and her family were held. All honor to the brave little maid /lift J rlnfaripo nf < Ti o f nrVlioVl ell W IIU UiCU 111 UCiCllC^ KJ L lixai ff illV/li she held dearer than life! NETTIE OGILVIE SPEAKS. Bamberg, S. C., August 30th, 1915. His Car. "The car I use today I've been using steadily for six years. It has taken me to my office in town ano back and it hasn't cost me one cent for repairs yet." "Great Scott, what a record; what car is it?" ''TVie ctrcot Par " ASKS ABOUT COTTON FINANCES, j South Carolina Senator Informed Be- J / serve System Has Ample Funds. Ill Washington, August 20.?Last year, owing to the newness of the federal reserve system, little aid could be afforded through it to the cotton growers, and the Vreeland emergency currency was loanable only on paper representing commercial transactions. Senator E. D. Smith was gratified today to find the experts of the reserve board in agreement with him as to the ability of member banks to give the farmers aid. The South Carolina senator made the following statement, when seen by a correspondent, after a conference at the treasury: "By previous agreement I met with the federal reserve board this morning to ascertain the two things of vital interest to the cotton grower in this emergency, namely, is there sufficient capital at the command of the new banking and currency system to meet the emergency, and" is there a : practical means of reaching the individual farmer with this capital? To both of these I was answered in the affirmative. Not Limited. "There seems to have been a misapprehension of the law on the part of some of the bankers, and certainI ly on the part of the public at large. The amount of paper that a member bank can rediscount at the re-1 gional reserve bank is In nowise lim ited by the capital stock or surplus of the bank. The regional reserve bank will rediscount all paper on cotton 'O. K.'d' by any member bank, regardless of the capital and surplus | of that bank. Therefore, any South* ern member bank can, if it will, ext | tend aid to every cotton grower in ! its vicinity this year. "The rate of rediscount has been reduced from 6 per cent to 4 per j cent., with a possibility of going still : In-n./M* Tf' + ViQrofnrD sAoms rpASMl 1U VY ? XI) tiiVl VX.V/A V y ? | able that loans on cotton should not exceed 6 per cent, to the farmer. "I was informed that never before in our history has there been such ample capital to finance the business ! and the staple farm products of this country. The only question to be decided is the amount per bale according to grade, that will be loaned the farmer. This amount, of course, will be controlled more or less by the general market. The* reserve | board is fully aware that the condition now demands the holding of cotton and not the financing of the movement of cotton. The law allows a loan for six months, with the privilege of renewal. "This is a synopsis of the facts as given me by the reserve board this morning. I have addressed a letter , to them in the form of an inquiry, i involving these facts, to which I am promised a written reply, which I . will make public upon its receipt." j Senator Smith left for Lynchburg tonight. An Oral Affidavit. Justice of the Peace Murphy, .of Treasure City, Nevada, was renowned for what Tom Cox called "the strenuosity of his' good opinion of himself." The attorney for the plaintiff appeared at 10:15 a. m., on the dav assigned by the judge for tjie trial of a case, and was informed that the defendant's counsel had been there at 10 o'clock and moved for a continuance for a month, and he had granted it. "But, your honor," said the counsel, "the law is that in a justice's court it is always 10 o'clock until it is 11." "Will you please point out to me," said his honor, "that section of the statutes of Nevada which requires me to sit idle for an hour like a bump on a log, while a lazy lawyer is sleeping off his last night's drunk?" "On what ground did your honor continue the case?" said the lawyer. ^ "The defendant made an affidavitthat his witnesses were absent," replied the court. "Will your honor please let me see the affidavit?" said the lawyer. "I cannot do that," replied the g court. "He made the affidavit oral ly, and I filed it verbally." "But an affidavit must be written," said the lawyer. j "There you go again interruptin' I the deliberations of the court witn a ' lot of fool technicalities," said the justice. "Here show me, if you can, that section of the statutes of Nevada which requires an affidavit to be in writing." "I give it up," said the lawyer. "I will dismiss the case here and bring it before the justice of the peace in Allentown, where I can get justice." "You will not," said Judge Murphy. "You will be here this day month to try it. If you attempt to j maliciously and corruptly deprive me j of the business because you cannot bulldoze me, I'll send you to jail for thirty days for contempt. Be off with you now, vamose!"?Case and Comment. Glendale springs water for sale at \V Herndon's Grocery Store and Mack's > Drug Store.?adv. llFrankl OVERLAND F1VE-PASSEINGER $750.00 P. 0. B. ' Does it sound re a factory, build i?. . mous quantity o thousand (75,0 biles, of a single retain THF SAMF ThwugUy T< 111L JnlTlL power Motor. 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