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- v X ' ' , .? f:' 5fb? Hamburg fentlb J |v:'V I % ' 1 One Dollar and a Half a Tear. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1916. Established 1891 m , ????????????????????? ; i i i COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS m:. SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the i County and Elsewhere. \ - Colston Clippings. Colston, August 8.?This commuA nity has been visited by a heavy rainfall, but we are truly glad to say that we have been very fortunate in not having our crops destroyed as a good many have. Mr. Willie Zorn and sister, Miss Florine, of Charleston, are visiting relatives in this community at ores ent. Miss Idell Peters, of Ehrhardt, was the welcome visitor of the Misses * Fender for the past week. Mr. Malone Varn is visiting at the ; >v > home of his grandparents, Mr. and ' 4 Mrs. P. M. Yarn. Mr. Sandy Witt, Misses Clara and Ruby Quattlebaum and Miss Ruth Reynolds, of Greenwood, were the J / guests of Miss Nelle Clayton last j|V-:' week. Hfe- The revival meeting was held at the Colston Branch Baptist church last week. We had a very thriving meeting. Rev. S. P. Carbon, of Hampton, assisted the pastor, Rev. Walter Black, in the meeting. |Hv Miss Julia Clayton, of Ehrhardt, visited relatives in this community ' \ last week. ; Mrs. T. W. Dicks and sister, Miss Rosalie Rogers, of Dunbarton, are j the guests of Miss Nelle Clayton this H week. Quite a number from this community attended the old soldiers' reunion at the Bethesda Baptist church last Thursday. There was a large crowd present and everyone- seemed ^ to enjoy the day immensely; if they didn't it was their own fault. Miss Carter was the welcome visitor of Miss Laura McMillan last week. Miss Bessie Kirkland has been visiting relatives in Savannah for the past three weeks. Miss Evelyn Sandifer, of Bamberg, visited Miss Nettie Clayton last week. ; * JMiss Ethel McMillan, of Bamberg, spent week before last as her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMillan, of this community. - - The campaign meeting will be held f at the Colston Branch church next Friday. There will be dinner on the grounds and the public is invited to attend and bring well filled baskets. Miss Nettie Clayton, of this community, left Thursday to visit relatives around Denmark and Bamberg. Miss Cleo Kearse, of Olar, visited her brother, Mr. B. L. Kearse, of this section, last week. J Mrs. Nelle Pate and children, of North Carolina, have been visiting iy relatives and friends in tfiis section and around Ehrhardt for the past p?. few weeks. Mrs. Ogreta Beard spent last week with Mrs. B. *D. Bishop. Mrs. Bertha Williams and little daughter, of Norway, spent last week y with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. All. v ? Branehville Breezes. f%-. __ Branchville, August 5.-?Miss Lizzie Heape, who has been in Saluda, N. C., has returned home. Misses Selma Witherspoon and Sue Dukes, of Orangeburg, are guests of Miss Louise McKewn. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Morris, of Rocky Mount, N. C., were recent visi% > tors at the Rev. T. J. White's home. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt Watson, of Self / lars, are visiting the latter's parents, , Mr. andvMrs. J. E. Berry. Miss Blanche Oeland, of Charleston, is the guest of Miss Annie Oeland. Mrs. J. A. Buie has as her guest Miss Clara Buie, of Bladenboro, N. ?* c" Mrs. J. N. Byrd and N. E. Byrd have gone to Hendersonville, N. C., ^ to spend some time. Mrs. P. C. Dukes and sister, Mrs. ~Z.' - Fairy, have gone to Alexandria, Va., r and Washington to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Berry, of Alden, Fla., are at the home of Mr. i Berry's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. ! Berry. { Miss Butt, of Charleston, is the { guest of Mrs. P. Earl Dukes. Mrs. Roy Edwards is visiting her 1 sister, Mrs. Izlar, in Augusta. Mrs. S. H. Thomas has returned i- g. from Union. ^ i ? Schofield Sketches. Sohnfiold Aneust 8.?Messrs^/C. J. i S. Brooker and R. P. Bellinger, of ; Bamberg, were visitors here yesterday. Mr. J. L. Owen visited friends and * n - !? ? .. V / *\De2LT-j CHILD DIES OF PARALYSIS. First Case for Anderson Reported to Health Board. Anderson, August 4.?Anderson's first case of infantile paralysis was reported to the board of health. The 13-months-old son of R. A. Holcombe was attacked last night with paralysis, which became very pronounced during the night, spreading over the entire body. The child died this afternoon. All children under fifteen years of age are forbidden to attend moving picture shows, Sunday-schools and other gatherings and are forbidden to ride on street cars and in public hacks. Dr. L. H. Riser, of the board of health, is here and.is advising the authorities. The great salt mine at Weileska in Galici^, has galleries which are more than thirty miles in length. The total yearly yield is 5(5,000 tons. relatives at Estill last Sunday. Mr. Dan Hartman spent last Sunday with relatives at Fairfax. Mr. F. B. Drawdy and family motored to Colleton county last Sunday where they attended services at Carter's Ford church. Mrs. A. T. Inabinet visited at Fairfax yesterday. Messrs. D. L. Shiplett, Lewis Clust, and G. W. Mcintosh motored to Barnwell Sunday .last. Mr. Geo. F. Beard returned from Columbia last.Friday very much improved after undergoing an opera*tion for appendicitis.* Mrs. G. W. Sowers and daughter, Miss Mabel, will leave this week for several weeks' visit to relatives in Pennsylvania. Mr.' Joe Tyler, our agent and operator, visited relatives at Swansea last Sunday. DRAEBLR. Oak Grove Greetings. Oak Grove, August 7.?We have been having plenty of rain for the last few days. Miss Mattie Lou Carter, of Augusta, Ga., spent last Friday night with Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Carter and family. . Miss Nina Hayden, of Cope, is spending some time with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Copeland. Miss Quin Hoffman spent last Tuesday night with Miss Lonie Copeland. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Rentz spent last Tuesday night with Mr. I. W. Rentz. The protracted meeting has been going on at Pleasant Hill for the last week, and a good many folks attended. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Copeland spent last Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Rentz. Miss Quin Hoffman left Monday for Greenville, where she will study to be a trained nurse. Misses Lillie and Josephine Kinard spent last Tuesday night with Miss Lonie Copeland. Mr. Willie Carter, of Augusta, Ga., is spending some time with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Carter. Misses Clara Copeland and Nina Hayden spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Copeland. Miss Julia Clayton spent last week with relatives at Colston. Mr. J. W. Copeland has returned from a pleasant visit to Cope. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Fender, of Ehrhardt, spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Carter. Miss Bertha Kinard spent last Friday with Miss Lonie Copeland. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Carter gave a party last Thursday night and a good many of the young folks attended. They returned home saying they had had a "dandy time." We are very sorry to hear of little Lenora Copeland's illness. We hope she will soon be out again. Miss Nina Hayden spent last-Sunday night with Misses Quin and Grace Hoffman. Miss Essie Carter spent last Tuesday with Miss Bertha Kinard. Cope Cullings. Cope, August 6.?Mr. Herbert N. Antley, of near Cope, gave his friends an old-time pinder boiling Monday evening and the same proved a most enjoyable affair. Rook and a num ber of old-time parlor games were enjoyed by the following: Misses Agnes Kearse, of Olar; Annie Laurie and Kathleen Kirkland, Lilly May Brickie, Bettie Beckham, Rita Barton, Hattie Sue Brabham, of Bamberg: Permetta Smoak, of Cordova, and Willie Leon Hayden; Messrs. Otis Hayden, Glenn Smoak, Ashton Antley, Winfield Clark, Buist Brickie, Fred Brickie and Basil Antley. Chaperones, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar L. j Brickie and Mrs. W. H. Smith. [ / i IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Farmers in #the vicinity of Lake City sold approximately 700,000 pounds of tobacco valued at $83,000 last week. John Powers, a railway freight; conductor, shot and seriously wound- j ed Jack Speegle'and Janie Terry in Greenville Thursday. Carrie Price, a negro woman, of i Columbia, committed suicide by j shooting herself through the heart with a pistol last week. Julian E. Wingo, president of a; Charleston cigar factory, was prob-jj 'ably fatally injured in Charleston' Tuesday, when he fell down an ele-! vator shaft. . Citizens of Columbia propose to I make a united effort to sfecure one| of the twelve land banks provided for under the recently enacted rural credits law. Rev. S. D. Ferguson, for the last 35 years bishop of the Episcopal church in Liberia, died this week. The negro bishop was born in Charleston in 1842. John C. Pruitt, of Starr, Anderson county, probably has the largest cotton acreage of any farmer in South Carolina. He has 3,000 acres planted in cotton and the crop is looking well. Insurance Commissioner F. H. McMaster reports that during the seven months ending August 1, he collected from the insurance companies and turned into the State treasury $141,021.54. A petition containing approximately 700 names, has been filed with Mayor Griffith, of Columbia, asking him to call an election on the question of abandoning the commission form of government which Columbia has. Governor Manning has accepted an invitation to address the meeting of the State Federation of. Labor in Greenville on August 14 and 15. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has been invited to attend and make an address. Following the refusal on the part of the management of the Gluck Cotton mills at Anderson to grant a request for a l\) per cent, increase in' wages throughout the mills, the 285: employees of these mills walked out in concert action Tuesday afternoon.; The machinery in all departments, became idle three minutes later. The testimony in the trial by courtmartial of Lieutenant W. S. Nicholas, who was tried at Charles-1 ton last week on the charge of allow- j ing the torpedo boat destroyer Terry to run aground in the harbor of Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, has been completed and the findings of < the court have been forwarded to the navy department in Washington. Fire at Blacksburg Wednesday night destroyed the Blacksburg Cotton Oil mill. The ginnery and office was saved. The burned property was valued at about $20,000 and the' owners carried about $15,000 insurance. The fire occurred between 11 and 12 o'clock and the owners have no idea concerning the origin of the fire. The mill has been fired before. MYSTERIOUS SHIP SEEN. Stranger Playing Searclilight on Charleston. Mystery surrounds the source of searchlight rays that played on the harbor entrance and Sullivan's Island Saturday night, the rays coming apparently from the open sea. The most probable explanation of the' origin of the blinding flashes is that an allied cruiser was off the harbor entrance keeping an eye open for the possible appearance in this vicinity of the submarine Bremen. A week or so ago about 9 o'clock in the evening, persons on the Battery noted searchlight rays flashing toward all j points of the compass and apparent-1 ly coming from the vicinity of the; Isle of Palms. It was afterward j learned that the government searchlight op Sullivan's Island was not - 1 < J . 1 used tnat nigni ana aenniteiy ascertained that the searchlight on the submarine at the Isle of Palms is not powerful enough to be seen from the city. Very evident, it is, that some ship not far at sea, is keeping Charleston harbor under surveillance.? Charleston Post. MANNING IS CONFIDENT. Pleased With Campaign So Far, and Believes He Will Be Reelected. Columbia, August 3.?"I am very much pleased with the progress of the campaign and am confident of my reelection," said Governor Manning here Tuesday before leaving for Sumter to begin the sixth week swing around the State. Governor Manning is bearing up well under the incessant strain of campaigning, is very enthusiastic over the support that he has found in every part of South Carolina and is thoroughly optimistic over his chances of serving the people a second term as their executive. "It is a campaign that is worth fighting," emphatically continued the governor; "there is no place in it for compromise or for a neutral position. The issues are as closely defined as they were in 1914. The main question is simply whether the law shall continue to be enforced and respect for the law upheld on the plane to which it has been restored in the past year and a half, or whether the verdicts of the juries and the decrees of the courts shall be set aside. "Besides this there is the improvement in conditions of labor to be carried on; the education of our boys and girls to be continued along tin. line already mapped out; and the welfare of the unfortunates in thfe State Hospital for the Insane to be safeguarded with sympathy, intelligence and care. For all these things I stand. "Those who would violate the law will vote against me, those who oppose the legislation I have recommended and signed for labor's better ment will vote against me; those who oppose better education for the children of the State will vote against me?and they will be wise to do so, for these things to my mind are fundamental and I will not compromise tljem. "But the course of the campaign has already shown that these persons are in the minority; that they do not and cannot control the State; j the cause of progress in law enforcement and education will go forward. This cause, which was my platform two years ago and is my platform now, is becoming each day more and more a fixed policy demanded by the level-headed masses of the people." i \ Correspondents Wanted. The Bamberg Herald wants a live correspondent at each of the | places mentioned below. If you are interested in having the news of your section appear regularly in The Herald every week, communicate with us at once. We will provide you with stationery and stamps. The Herald expects to inject some new life into the correspondents' department, and if you want your section represented, let us know right away, for there's going to be "big do^ in's" in the near future. Now if you live at either of the places mentioned below, send us your name. It doesn't matter whether you are a good writer or not. Send us the news; we will print it if it can be read. The following are the points we wish represented at once: Hunter's Chapel Midway Farrell's Cope Embree Govan4 Olar Denmark Lees Binnaker'j3 Bridge Buford's Bridge Clear Pond Hightower's Lodge Smoak's Ulmer's And if there is any vicinity in this territory we have overlooked, j we want a correspondent there. No matter where you live, if there's news around you, we want you to write it and send it in. If you cannot write yourself, but know of someone in your section who can correspond for us, send us his or her name, and we will take the matter up with him or her. Bad Year for Heat Boasting. We cannot kick aoout tne near, That joy this year we may not know, The other chaps will merely say "It's hotter down in Mexico." ?New York Sun. OFF FOR TEXAS BORDEI FIRST REGIMENT LEFT FOI FORT BLISS. Three Trains Take South Carolin; National Guard to Texas for Border Service. Camp Moore, Styx, August 7.? "Practically on time and in good or der," as officially reported to Wash ington, the 1st South Carolina infan try, National Guard of the Unite* States, left this morning for th Texas frontier, traveling in thre special trains via the Southern Rail wav. with Fort Bliss, five miles froc El Paso, Texas, as its destination Breakfast time tomorrow should fin* the troop trains passing Chattanoo ga. Aboard the first section, depart ing from Styx at 9.04 o'clock, Lieut Col. P. K. McCully, Jr., command ing, was the 3rd battalion, ninetee: officers and 339 enlisted meji. Th train consisted of seven tourist sleet ers, one baggage car, one box cai three flat cars, containing eight wg gons; one standard sleeper. Second Section. Aboard the second section, deparl ing from Styx at 10!44, Major T. E Spratt commanding, was the 2nd bal talion, fifteen officers and 326 met The train consisted of seven touris sleepers, one baggage car, one bo car, three flat cars, containing eigt wagons; one standard sleeper. Aboard the third section, depan ing from Styx at 12.10 p. m., Col. I M. Blythe commanding, was the Is battalion, fifteen officers, 355 mei ciotnrl nf + f All ric sleepers, one baggage car, one bo car, two flat cars, containing si wagons; one standard sleeper. With Each Section. Each section carried also a med cal officer, a supply officer and a ba talion adjutant. Medical officei were assigned as follows: First se< tion, Lieut. C. M. Tripp; second se< tion, Capt. Campbell; third sectioi Major J. E. Poore. Chaplain Jete was aboard the first section. Tw men of the sanitary detachment wei with the first section, two with th third and fifteen with the secon< The machine gun unit was in the firs section, the supply company in th second, the headquarters company i the third. The trains pulled throug Cayce and through the southwester edge of Columbia and then straigh ened out for the run to Greenvill | and thence westward. The time of departure of the 2n regiment depends largely on the a] rival of rolling stock. It is probabl that the troops of the remainin units will leave tomorrow, but the may be delayed until early Wednei day morning. Up until this mon I * X T. _ C\ _ X X _ J J. i mg me zna regiment expeciea i leave tomorrow before noon, follov ing very much the same schedule 2 the 1st regiment this morning. Camp officials were not prepare i to 6ay whether the section which I to carry the independent units, th Charleston Light Dragoons, the fiel hospital corps, and the engineei company, would leave before the 2n regiment or behind it. It w? ; thought .yesterday that they woul i leave before, but their departure wi ! probably depend very largely on tou: ! ist cars available tomorrow. Cap Wyndom Manning, of the Charlesto Light Dragoons, is to be in comman of this section. Eager to Be Off. Whenever they may go all of th units still remaining are ready an i eager, and prepared to move withoi confusion or friction. Col. Holmes I Springs, of the 2nd regiment, issue traveling orders today, explaining i | detail how the troops were to leav j camp, the equipment they are to ca] ry, how they are to entrain and the: conduct on the train. In the ord I Col. Springs called the attention c : his men to the fact that they wer I representatives of South Carolina o the coming journey to Texas, and h hoped that their conduct, as it ha always been in the past, would b worthy of the State. Guards will b placed at all of the doors to pre serve order, and for protection a night. Non-commissioned office schools, and similar meetings will b held along the way. Explains Details. Capt. J. M. Graham, federal mus tering officer, had a meeting with th nffiporc nf flip 2nd rpsriment at o'clock today and explained fully fins orders for entraining. The 2nd regiment will travel i three sections: Major Bradford wil command the first section; Majo j Marchant the second, and Co! Springs the third. With each c | MANNING AND BLEASE. JS Only Two Candidates to Be Consideri ed, Says B. Frank McLeod. v'l Charleston, August 3.?"Because of the sharply drawn lines, definite a and unequivocal, on public questions stirring the State of South Carolina today, I believe that only two candi, dates for governor?the incumbent, Richard I. Manning, and Cole L. Blease?are to be considered," said B. Frank McLeod, president of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, . today. ^ "Particularly is'this so in the lowfc country," continued the Charleston b business man, "where the people consider that a neutral position is not Q the proper attitude to take towards ^ great and growing questions of the hour, questions that are constantly finding reiteration in the minds of South Carolinians. Manning and Blease have come out boldly and emphatically on pointedly cleaved issiipq and thpv arp thp nnps that arp n being given grave consideration in e the coming primary. Being in daily, intimate touch with Charleston coun'' ty I am satisfied that Governor ManL" ning will receive the perponderating consideration of the anti-Blease sen-, timent at the polls; and being familiar with the political sentiment in * other parts of the low-country I am satisfied that the Sumter candidate , 1# will receive enough votes in this section to give him a majority in the x first primary over the four other gubernatorial candidates?if not a majority, then a tremendous plurality. I make this statement after care- * ful consideration and a close scruti5t ny of this section of the State." 1* Mr. McLeod said that he is firmly 5t of the belief that the people of South ,x Carolina want all the laws of the x State enforced impartially, and that, in this respect, the people have con lidence in uovernor Manning ior me i- splendid success that he hsfa made t- in the enforcement of the law and *s the maintaining of order throughout the commonwealth. > "Further, I am of the unqualified opinion," continued Mr. McLeod, . .... -r "that the people believe in the pro- ^ 0 motion of education in the public 'e schools; believe that the officials uj te should do all in their power to see i. that the laboring man gets a 'square ' 3t deal;' believe that every comfort poste sible and tender care should be given n the unfortunate patients in the State h Hospital for the Insane; believe that n the verdicts of the juries and the det crees of the courts should be respect- > ;& le ed; believe that agriculture should be taught in the common schools; d and believing these things and havi> ing the knowledge that Governor le Manning stands for all these views, g they are going to support him at the >y polls and stamp their approval on 3- his administration by reelecting him i- for a second term. ^ ;o Expressions like those from the 7-, president of the Charleston Chamber is of Commerce are being voiced in every section of the low country and d the popularity of Gov. Manning is is I constantly increasing and many who ie | have not supported him are coming , ^ d i over to his side?knowing that he "S stands for concrete issues and will d be unswerving in the fulfillment of is his pledges. # . >3 Tribute Paid Gov. Manning. t Georgetown, August 4.?One of n the smallest crowds of the campaign . j d season greeted the candidates for State offices here today. Not more than two hundred voters attended the meeting, and they were largely of d the undemonstrative type. All speak' ers were well received, but there was ^ little animated enthusiasm. Gover^ nor Manning was easily the favorite, he receiving as many flowers as three assistants could bear in automobiles. The floral tributes were borne to the . stage by a group of little boys and r girls, who took up twenty-five ' bunches of flowers. Seasoned cam)l paigners regarded it as the most eloquent tribute ever paid a candidate -4 e in South Carolina. LS j these officers will go an adjutant, a e| medical officer, a sanitary sq,uad, and e j an officer of the supply company. I Lieut. Harrison will be the medical . j Ll officer with the first section, Cdpt. ir Schaver with the second, and Major e Jervey with the third. Lieut. Watkins will be the supply officer with the first section, Lieut. Mazyck with 5" the second, and Capt. Doyle with the e third. Companies I, K, L and M go 2 in the first section; companies E, F, L* G and H go with the second, and companies A, B, C and D go with the ' / a n third. 11 ^ A t r Columbia, August y.?rne zna I. regiment left for the border this ?t morning.