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^ <5hr iambmj iiirrali) ?| ' One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1917. Established 1891 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS | SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Colston Clipping^. ' Colston, June 26.?A good many visitors wprp nresent at Dreachin? Sunday. Welcome, visitors, come again. Miss Alberta Kearse was the welcome guest of Misses Cora and Dora McMillan Saturday night and Sunday. Messrs. John G. Clayton and Jones, of Walterboro. were visitors in this section Sunday and Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. McMillan and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Clayton. ? Mrs. Nelle Pate and little daughter, Frances, of North Carolina, are spending some time with relatives in this section. Misses Leona and Vista Brabham and Ethel McMillan and. Messrs. i Claude Smoak, Belton Hair, Willie | Dickinson and Albert McMillan visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMillan Sunday. " J ' V Til ,, A11SS .Natalie ivcaise ojjcin, IUUI^day night with her sister, Mrs. G. A. McMillan. Mr. Willie Beard is now the owner of a touring car. . Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Clayton and } , family visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clayton, JSund&y. Miss Minnie Kirkland spent several days last week with Mrs. T. D. Beard, who, we are glad to say, is now improving. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Sandifer, of Bamberg, and Mrs. Purdy Aver and and children, of Olar, visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Clayton, Sunday. Mr. J. A. Jennings, Sr., spent Sunday. with Mr. Thos. Clayton. Mr. Wilburn Howard, "of Blackville, spent Sunday in this section. Denmark s. Denmark, June 23.?Miss Mitchell, of Batesburg, accompanied by Miss k * Barr, is visiting the former's sister, Mrs. J. B. Guess, Sr. Miss Lillian Goolsbv, who has been* teaching in Florence, has returned home. Miss Isabel Strait, of Rock Hill, is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. P. Guess. Mrs. George Turner and family have returned home after a pleasant visit to the| former's sister, Mrs. Morse Holman, of St. Matthews. Mrs. James H. Sherard, who is is visiting Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Boozer. Mrs. J. A. Wiggins is in Florence - for several weeks. Reynolds Wiggins and sister. Miss Vera, are at home from Trinity college, Durham, N. C. Miss Onie Brux, of Midville, Ga., Spartanburg, are visiting friends here. Mrs. Roy Faust and children, of pleasantly remembered here as Miss Minnie Blount, has returned to Abbeville, after spending last week with Mrs. Winchester Graham. ^ * Misses Virginia Hutto, Agnes Goza. Kathleen and Genie Fogle, Annie MayGriffith and Elizabeth Hutto are at home from Winthrop college. Miss Dorothy Hart, of Estill, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. W. Crum, Jr. Miss Gertrude Riley, of St. Matthews, has returned home after an extended visit to relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Gillam. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Goolsby, Wesley and Malcolm Crum and A. P. Guess attended the Dixon-Crura wedding in Bishopville Wedenesday. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Goolsby spent! the week-end with the latter's sister. Mrs. J. P. Carter, in Fairfax. Boyce and Elmore Steadman, of A Fort Screven, Ga., spent the week* end with their mother here. W. E. Osteen and daughters, Misses . Hazel and Jean and Miss Lucile Cole, of Florence, spent a few days with H. C. Rice and family this week. Mrs. T. Stokes and daughter. Miss ? Ruth, have rturned to Orangeburg, . * after a pleasant visit to Mrs. R. A. * Goolsby. Mrs. Janie Sojourner is spending a month at Winthrop. Mrs. F. H. McCrae, Jr., of Atlanta, is visiting at the home of F. H. Me Urae nere. j Mrs. John G. Richards, of Liberty) Hll. is spending several weeks with! her daughter, Mrs. Tom McCrae. "Occasional" Visits Washington." Olar, June 25.?The writer of this| knows that newspaper correspondents keep the newspapers well posted in regard to current events. And what I am about to write will be purely j from a plow-boy standpoint: (This; may seem a little strange for a man over 70 years of age to say.) But I! have visited the great city of Washington. What impressed me most along the route was the smallness of! the different crops. But I noticed j one thing, and that was this: The! crops were well cultivated; they were free from grass. Unexpectedly to to me I did not see the broad' fields of perhaps 100 acres, such as we hflva iiprp in Rambers and Barnwell counties, where the country is comparatively flat. This hilly country, of course, was terraced, and, as well as I can judge, it was done to perfection. i was impressed with a place called Aberdeen, because it reminded me of home. There was a cypress pond near this place, and a good supply of water, and I imagined there were fish there. There was near this place also the finest field of little peach trees I ever saw. Again, there were sycamore trees, there All this reminded me of Home, sweet Home." I sat by my friend, M. A. Moye, and he was impressed with Henderson more than any other place along the route. Finally we got to Washington, about 1 o'clock at night, stopped at the Vendome hotel. One regret I had was that we passed through Richmond at night, and I didn't see much of the town. I also visited Baltimore, stopped at the Caswell hotel, and if the street cars can show you a town, I saw it, for I rode on them all. Now about my return trip. I boarded the train after showing my ticket twice, and thought that everything was correct, so I spent about all the money I had and finally the porter came through the tram ana saia change cars for Atlanta and Charlotte." This seemed strange to me, so I inquired of the conductor, and told him I did not think I had to change cars. But he told me I was mistaken, "You ought to have changed cars at Hamlett." Now I was at a place called Monroe, and Hamlett was 100 miles back, and me with 12c in my pdcket and hungry! I wanted to write something and found that I had dropped my pencil. I asked a negro if he had seen it, and he said, "No, sir, but I will sell you one for lc." I have got that pencil now. This left me<with 11c. A long ways from home and no one that I knew was in sight?all strangers. But there is something good everywhere (except one place and I wont eof that Hnwn r>n naner.> But I met OVV bliMV WV "4* V? ^ ^ , a gentleman?and it is nice to meet a gentleman. And he noticed I had a South Carolina band on my hat, and inquired if I had been to dinner. I told him no, but I wanted some. He said, "Follow me." After dining lie asked me if he could do anything else fftr me. I asked him if he would cash a check for me. He did not hesitate to do this, and made it for a larger amount than I asked him for. His name was B. C. Ashcraft; I am not a betting man, but if I was I would bet that he is a gentleman. While in Washington I was in company with Capt J. W. Jenny. We went to hear President Wilson speak, but every place was crowded, so I told my friend Jenny it didn't suit me, and I was going to the Washington monument. While walking through the streets alone I heard my name called. This was by our'Congressman, Jimmie Byrnes, and he had Col. Alfred Aldrich with him in his automobile. He invited me to ride with him over the town. I appreciated this. Later I went through the park and up in the Washington monument. I had seen pictures of birdseye views of cities before, but then I real ized it. I had read about the Congressmen in Washington feeding the squirrels in the park on peanuts. I saw some boys doing this, and the squirrels there are as gentle as Robbie Kearse's tabby cat. And there are great big black birds there. They are as gentle as Miss Pinkie Breland's dominick hen that is now setting on 14 eggs. And now, in conclusion, I will say upon the whole I had a very good time. I will also mention that I struck numerous other friends, like J. D. Jenny, George Folk, Frank Jenny. Josiah Loadholdt. and others. 1 said something already about beng impressed with the only cypressi pond I saw on the route. But I will say this: I went 011 the trolley line from Washington to Baltimore, and thought for a while I saw a plenty of cypress trees in the distance. But later I found out that these were not cypress trees, although their foliage looked like cypress, but those near the trolley line let me know they Rl'ILD AIRCRAFT, SAVS WILSOX. Nation's Chief Approves Programme Calling for $600,000,000. Washington. June 22.?Unqualified approval of the great aircraft programme, for which congress will be asked to provide an initial appropriation of $600,000,000, is given by President Wilson in a lett< - to Secretary Baker, made public today by the war department. The president wrote: *T have your letter of yesterday about the production of aircraft and the training of men to operate them, f a co V f hof T o m V CllXU ^ aai ou j tuat & um vuwi> willing to back up sucn a programme as you suggest. I hope that you will present it in the strongest possible way to the proper committees of the congress." A bill to authorize the programme will be introduced in congress next week. It will propose the construction of 35,000 airplanes and the training of many thousand flyers. How Could It Be? First Office Boy?Wotcher doin' lookin' at the office wot fired you last week? Tryin' to git took back? Second Office Boy?Naw; I jes' dropped roun' to see if they wuz still in bizzinenss!"?Pittsburgh Post.. | wrere some kind of pine by the bark. This reminded me of a riddle. The riddle was this: Why is a dog's tail like the heart of a tree? The answer is "Its the farthest from the bark." Shakespeare wrote: "An honest man is the noblest work of God." Let me add this, the Confederate soldiers are following in his footprints. OCCASIONAL. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, June 25.?The readers of The Herald found in last week's edition that there lives in town a "Mutt and Jeff," not of the Bud Fisher type like we used to see in the daily papers, but a real Mutt and Jeff; not pictures, but human beings, walking, looking, feeling around, real live men. Very few people know them; they will not have their faces made public by a photo in the paper. No, never; they want the public to judge their wits from the manner in which they correspond with the paper, and I daresay that they are the biggest set of cranks that ever held a pen between the thumb and forefinger. Their photo would be a credit to the news that they, contribute from our flourishing little city?especially when "Mutt" grows his longed for mustache. I don't know when this will be, as at present he hasn't enough fertility in his top lip to sprout a single hair, to say nothing of a set in full, so I guess he will just continue to be a correspondent. Jeff used to try to fill up several columns some time, but he must be too busy on the submarine question or shooting his projectiles at some other boat. Xo. he got ashamed of his letters and his face, and has submerged, so when he comes to the top again, we will get a photo and a letter, providing there is not a "fish story" to tell. This is the contrast between the two ?Jeff loves to fish and catch them; Mutt loves the girls and loses them. Messrs. J. E. Folk--and James Roberts made a frying trip to Bamberg Saturday afternoon. Old "Sol" is descending some direct rays n,ow and, oh, how hot! Ice, parasols, f^ns?what a time to keep the degrees down. Dr. Roberts has moved his stock of drugs, etc., to the new brick store adjoining the Farmers and Merchants Bank. Quite an improvement over the old store?all new fixtures and he is complimented for the manner in which he has arranged the interior. Plenty of picnics now. The annual Sunday-school picnic of St. John's Baptist church was pulled off on the grounds last Thursday. Plenty of lemonade and chicken "free gratis"! to make the day a success. The Methodists held their annual Sunday-school convention at the Methodist church last week?two days. Thursday and Friday. Quite a number of delegates were present p/.Ii Anle ninnoi' vrne II UHI UlliUi ovnuu'o. x/tuuvi ?? served on the grounds both days. One of our married men in town says "a man who can walk the floor for two hours at night with a baby howling to the top of his voice'" without murmuring a word certainly be-, longs in the class of Job. The prevailing price of cotton caused several of the old rusty bales to come out last week. A new grocery store for the city. Who? Oh, wait an<1 see. With much love for Mutt and Jeff, sincerely, SELDOM. -* UK FUSES TO APPOINT ADAMS. Governor Returns to Audubon President His Own Name. Columbia. June 22.?Governor .Manning has returned to the Audubon society of South Carolina the name of Dr. E. C. L. Adams, of Columbia, president of the society, as being not suitable for appointment as chief game warden of the State. Dr. Adams, as president, on Thursday, transmitted his name to the governor as being the choice of the society, as expressed in a poll of the members bv use of the mail. Gover nor Manning today renews his request that a meeting of the society be held in the "regular and usual way" for the purpose of sending a recommendation suitable to the chief executive. Governor Manning's letter to Dr. Adams follows: "I have your letter of June 21 enclosing circular letter sent out by you, dated June 12, 1917, together with a blank vote for chief game warden of South Carolina. "Your letter of June 21 transmits your name as having been selected by the proceedings which have been entered into on June 20. "You will recall that, in my conversation with you several days before June 20, in which you discussed the proceedings you contemplated taking on June 20, I requested you to call a meeting of the Audubon society in the regular and usual way and stat. ed to you that no name sent to me as the result of such an irregular proceeding would be suitable to me, and I asked you to call a regular meeting for the purpose of making a recommendation. In view of my statement to you, and my desire that this matter shall be determined in a regular and legal way, I am returning the name of E. C. L. Adams as not suitable to me. "I, therefore, renew my request that you call a meeting of the Audubon society and send me the name of a person recommended by it for the position of chief game warden at as early date as possible." The Great Stupidity. It would almost seem that censorships abroad have been manned by those mentally incapacitated from any other participation in the war and that, in the press of other concerns, governments have permitted censors to have their own sweet way, regardless of discretion, experience or reason. At the very hour that England and her allies are seeking for a fighting bond with the United States the British authorities have barred from the foreign mails another eminent publication, "The Nation." "Cambridge Magazine," "Labor Leader," and "Common-Sense" are already denied circulation in this country, although o vri a 11 /I Ki* Via L1 n orl rvn K L"C? aic an icau u> lue uiignsu yuir lie. Through her control of the mails, England has also cut us off from the German newspapers; although our correspondents have access to them and supply American readers with translations of significant contents. Private correspondence with other netrals is also prohibited. The incomprehensible stupidity of censors abroad, who have been successful in irritating their loyal victims, should be a warning to American authorities. Censorship is needful, but irrational censorship is as bad as none.?Detroit News. Much Food in a Small Bulk. The British "Tommy," when fresh bread is not available, is supplied with what it calls "dog biscuit." It It looks just like that, being a thick cracker four inches square and weighing three ounces. Of whole wheat flour pressed solid, it might be described as a condensed loaf of bread. The French have a "war bread" somewhat similar, which, when put into hot water or soup, swells up like a sponge. The famous German "pea sausage" is composed of pea meal, bacon and fat. It was the invention of a Berlin cook, who discovered a process whereby pea meal could be made proof against deterioration. One sausage, eight inches long, yields twelve plates of nutrious soup. He Knew. "Father," said the minister's son, "my teacher says that 'collect' and f>nii9TP2atp' mean the same thing. Do they?" "Perhaps they do my son," said the clergyman; "but you may tell your teacher that there is a vast difference between a congregation and a collection."?Christian Herald. I Slew Wife aad Children. New York, June 21.?After a quarrel with his wife over money matters Richard Barrett, a well known athlete of Brooklyn, early today shot and killed his wife; his son, Kilton, aged four; a baby boy, Donald, one and one-half years old, and then committed suicide by slashing his throat with a razor and shooting himself in the head. The woman and the two boys died instantly. In an adjoining room were sleeping two other children, Helen, 13, and John, nine. Barrett was a Spanish war veteran. He was a sergeant in the regular army at Fort Barrancas, Fla., in 189S. Vpwsnanftrs Imnosed On. The Progress is in receipt this week of a rather lengthy article from the State Warehouse Commissioner with the request that we publish the same, free of course, as it is for the benefit of the poor, down-trodden farmer. We have also been flooded for the past few months with literature from various sources in regard to the Selective Draft and&he Liberty Bonds. We suppose that it is our patriotic duty to publish all these things without money and without price, or be branded as a traitor to our country. We confess that when we open one of these rather bulky envelopes expecting to find a big advertisement and it turps out to be nothing more than a request for some free advertising, a sick tired feeling comes over us and we find ourselves asking the question, "How long, oh, how long, will it be before newspaper people are treated like other people." We are required to pa^ State, county and municipal taxes, also a State license to do business. A city 1 license and a Federal income tax, and Congress is now planning to place a larger tax on the business. We are told that unless we invest in a Liberty Loan Bond we are nothing more than a German sympathizer. We find that the money we have worked so hard in past years .to make has lost at least one-half its purchasing power, and yet we are expected to go and publish a lot of stuff,, free, and then after making the subscription price of the paper less than the cost of the material, we find it necessary to pay an agent to collect it. We again ask, "is it right?"?Easley Progress. A Strategist. There was an old lady who rented a furnished villa for the summer, and with the villa also went a large dog. In the sitting room of the villa there was a comfortable armchair. The old lady liked this chair better than any other in the house. But, alas! she nearly always found the chair occupied by the large dog. Being afraid of the dog, she never dared bid it harshly to get out of the chair, as she feared it might bite her; but instead she would go to the windowr and call "Cats!" Then the dog would rush to the window and bark, and the old lady would slip into the vacant chair quietly. One day the dog entered the room and found the old lady in possession of the chair. He strolled over to the window and, looking out, appeared very much excited and set up a tremendous barking. The old lady rose and hastened to the window to see what was the matter. Then the dog quietly climbed into the chair.?Our Dumb Animals. The Parson's Farewell. A flftlrtrorl minister ^ettinfir into *he bad graces of his congregation was, through the medium of an "Investigating Meeting." asked for his resignation, to take effect at once. The following Sunday the Rev. Gent ascended the pulpit, addressed his flock as .follows: "Brethren and Sisters, I received your little note statin' that I's fired, and I accept the resignation. It is but fittin' therefore for me to say a few partin' words. These I aim to make 'FEW.' "I shall not say FAREWELL, 'cause that seems for too long a period; nor shall I say GOOD-BYE. 'cause well?'cause that am not jest the word I would like: nor can I say XV RIVER, 'cause you'11 brethren and sisters, would not understand that?BUT. I simply call the par1 "-1 1 - ~ A f oooh m'corar iiCKiar aiiexisuuii cuvu what's here present to that little piece of mistletoe hangin' from the end of my coat-tail as I passes down the isle." The awful question "what shall I have for dinner?" is easily answered if your shelves are full of home canned products. IN IDE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. VJ[5 'fi State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About jj i Men and Happenings. . 'Jryj Over 1,000 liquor permits were issued in Charleston county during : the month of May. 1 T*. 1 k !.! ?? it aa-s uceu positively announced that army cantonments will be located at Greenville and Spartanburg. Ben walker, a negro 30 years old, is under arrest in Barnwell charged with assaulting a negro woman 83 years old. I * Thirty-four homeless dogs were t killed in Columbia Friday by the city authorities. During the past ) few weeks 389 homeless dogs have been killed in Columbia. J. H. Thornwell, of Winnsboro, has . been appointed chief clerk to the secretary of State, succeeding R. M. McCown, resigned. Mr. Thornwell . has been superintendent of the , Winnsboro schools for many years. ; W. B. Moore, of York, has been sei lected as one of a committee to su. pervise the purchase of 50,000,000 I yards of duck for use in making tents . . . i for the army camps. The other memi bers of the committee are J. A. Man? deville, of Carrollton, Ga., and An; drew Webb, of Philadelphia, i A new Columbia is being built six , miles east of the old Columbia. The new Columbia will have just as many inhabitants and possibly more. The , Hardaway Construction company, of ? Columbus, Ga., has been charged by " the United States war department I: with the work of building the new i city which must be completed with> in ninety days. From 4,000 to 6.000 workmen will be employed. 1 Will Hopkins, a negro who was i paroled several months ago by Gov1 ernor Manning, has been arrested on ; the charge of murdering his wife. 1 ' About two years ago Hopkihs was convicted of killing a negro woman and was sentenced to a term in the ! penitentiary. His wife refused to ! live with him when he returned to his home in Saluda county a few weeks ago. Three weeks ago the woman was found dead in her bed. - ' ,/ Can Yon Do It? A smart military officer once bet ; an athlete that he could not hop up a nartoin lnnor flight nf ctona tvn #t A taiu *V/U5 Ulgut V& WVVJ^M VfT V V?v W 1 time* */ ^gl I The athlete accepted the wager and made the trial, to find that there - ^ were forty-one steps to the flight, and II that, after making twenty hops he j had lost. He paid up, but accused the other 1 of sharp practice. "Sharp practice?" was the retort ' indignant. "Well, I'll make the same bet with you that I can do it." ! The other, expecting to win his money back, assented. The officer then hopped up forfr steps in twenty hops, and hopping back one, finished 1 in the prescribed manner, and won lj the wager.?New York Herald. * [ . The Sky Pilot. : ' . Owing to a fog, a steamer stopped , at the mouth of a river. An old , lady became very nervous and inquired of the captain the cause of the delay. "Can't see up the river," replied the officer. V j "But, captain, I can see the stars 1 overhead," she argued. "Vrto " coij Via orilfflv "hut until ? CO, OttiU UV Q * W *4*^ t the boilers bust we ain't a-going that 9 ' ' way."?Denver News. Very Hard to Catch. ???? s 4 y ? When Bill Rigs, from the far West, went to London for the first time, an Englishman who did not feel sure of Bill's nationality, asked him: "Do you understand English?" "Well, ye'es," answered Bill, "toler'ble?toler'ble. I kin git it, if you go slow."?Denver News. Rank Injustice. "Now, my son," said the conscientious father, "tell me why I punished you." "That's it," blubbered the boy infiKiu JCfruit(quielyla.stoe dignantly. "First you pounded the life out of me, an' now you don't know what you done it for."?Chicago Record-Herald. When whitening a hearth or step, dip the cloth in a drop of milk and rub over after applying the hearthstone; this prevents the white from coming off. i ' ":"V.T? r