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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1918. Established 1891.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
(News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Colston Clippings. '
Colston, Feb. 13.?The ladies of
the Woman's Missionary union of
Colston Branch church are earnestly
requested to be present at the
meeting on next Sunday afternoon.
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.Messrs. rerri L>et;, J^I&HI auu ?cinoii
McMillan dined with Mr. Dawson
Kearse Sunday.
Misses Eunice Taylor, Pat Herndon
and Messrs. Frank Rentz and
John G. Clayton, of Walterboro, motored
in this section Sunday afternoon.
.Misses Minnie Kirkland, Laura
McMillan and Messrs. Willie Best and
Claude Kirkland spent Sunday in Elmers.
Mr. Talbert Padgett and Miss Easter
padgett, of Bamberg, spent Sunday
at home.
We are glad to say that Mr. C. B.
All, who has been very ill, is now
improving.
Mr. Layton Kinard, of Walterboro.
spent last week-end at home.
Mrs. L. A. Wooley and children
were the Sunday visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. B. D. Bishop.
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Beard and
family spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Clayton.
Miss Lessie Wooley spent Saturday
night with Miss Alberta Kearse.
Miss Inez Clayton was the guest
of Miss Laura Goodwin Saturday
night.
Mrs. S. P. Chisolm spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mr. H. W.
Beard, at Bamberg.
A dozen young people enjoyed the
hospitality of Miss Minnie Kirkland
at a fish fry at Clear Pond last Saturday,
given in honor of the teachers
of the Colston rural graded
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OVUVV1.
Colston, Feb. 6. (Written for last
week.)?Little Cleo and Otis Bishop
entertained the children of the
community at a party in their home
last Saturday afternoon in celebration
of their birthday. About twenty
children were present, in spite of
the rain, and the afternoon was enjoyed
in playing games until a late
hour, when hot chocolate and other
sweets were served in the dining
room.
Miss Alberta Kearse spent last
week-end in Bamberg with Miss Mamie
McMillan.
Misses Cora and Dora McMillan
were the Saturday night and Sunday
guests of Mrs. Leila Bessinger.
Mr. Arthur Kearse, of Adams Run,
' was called home last week on account
of the death of his mother, Mrs. Mol
ly jvearse.
Misses Mary Clayton and Hattie
Kirkland spent Saturday nigjit and
Sunday with* Miss Bessie Kirkland.
Mr. Gerald _ Kearse spent Saturday
night and Sunday at the home of
Mr. Frank Kirkland.
Blackville Briefs.
Blackville, Feb. 9.?Mrs. H. F. Buist,
of Columbia, spent a few days
here this week.
Miss Annie Epps, of Sumter, is
visiting Miss Juanita Matthews.
Mrs. LaVerne Thomas and children,
of Bamberg, visited Mrs. C. W.
W. Rentz, Jr., this week.
Mrs. Annie Parker, of Baltimore,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. C. J. Fick
ling.
Mrs. George A. Still, of Spartanburg,
has moved her family here and
will make this her home.
Wilbur Grimes, of Camp Sevier,
spent Sunday here with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Grimes.
James Hammond, of Columbia,
spent Sunday here with his parents,
Maj. and Mrs. E. Spann Hammond.
Mrs. E. C. Watson and daughter,
Miss Alluwee, spent several days with
Mrs. Watson's son, Wales Watson, at
the encampment in Charleston.
Miss Blanche Matthews, aftei
graduating at Coker college on February
1, is spending a few days with
her sister Mrs. C. A. Epps, at Sumter,
before returning home.
Too Much Rivalry.
"How is your wife making out
with those onions she is raising in a
flower-pot?"
"They're dropping. Stirring the
soil with a hairpin was all very well,
but I don't think perfume from an
atomizer is the sort of irrigation they
need."?Louisville Courier-Journal.
PHYSICIAN KILLED.
Dr. William Ilderton Dead, Son and
Attorney Hicks Held. <
Florence, Feb. S.?Dr. William
Ilderton, a well-known physician of ,
this city, is dead, and J. Wilbur
Hicks, a prominent young attorney
of this place, lies in the Florence infirmary
seriously wounded, as a resultt
of a pistol battle in the lower
hallway of the Florence court house
about 11:30 o'clock this morning.
The shooting took place directly on
the outside of the door to the office
of Harry A. Brunson, probate judge.
The coroner's jury this afternoon
handed in a verdict to the effect that
Dr. Ilderton came to his death from
gun shot wounds at the hands of J.
Wilbur Hicks and Geddings Ilderton.
Both of these men are in the custody
of Sheriff Burch and will be held until
proceedings are had for their release.
The tragedy is the outcome of a
family affaii^ of the Ildertons. His
wife and grown children left home
many months ago and took up their
abode elsewhere. Mr. Hicks is attorney
for Mrs. Ilderton and her children
in a suit against Dr. Ilderton for
alimony, which the court of this
county irad already ordered him to
pay.
The matter was to come before
Probate Pudge "Branson as master today
and when Dr. Ilderton appeared
in his office this morning Judge Brunson,
believing he was under either
(the influence of whiskey or some
"dope," decided to put the case off,
and sent word to .Mr. Hicks, who at
that time was in the court room upstairs
with Mrs. Beulah White Ilderton
and her sons, awaiting the calling
of the case.
Mr. Hicks, as soon as he was advised
of postponement went to the
office of the probate judge to speak
with Mr. Brunson, not knowing Dr.
Ilderton was in there. As he pushed
the door ajar he saw Dr. Ilderton and
stepped back into the hall. Mr.
Brunson at the same time spoke loudly
to Mr. Hicks, telling him not to
come into the office.
Dr. Ilderton, seeing Hicks, rushed
to the dooi, threw it open and began
firing on Hicks. Hicks drew a pistol
and began returning the fire. Ilderton
rushed upon him, seized him and
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threw him to tne noor. ne cuunuucu
to fire at Mr. Hicks.
Judge Brunson and others rushed
up to pull Ilderton from Hicks's^
body, when Geddings Ilderton appeared
and in an effort to keep his father
from killing Hicks, reached over
Brunson's shoulder and fired two
shots into the body of his father, who
at the time was hammering Hicks in
the head with the butt of Hicks's pistol,
which he had taken from him.
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FOUR SOUTH CAROLINIANS.
Recorded as Having- Been Aboard of
the Tuscania.
Washington, Feb. 10.?Wayne S.
Bell, of Marion, and Albert S. Hucks,
of Branchville, respectively, sergeant
and private in the twentieth engineers,
and W. J. Stucky, of Lamar
and J. Xelson, of Scotland, both sergeants
in the 100th aero squadron^
were the only South Carolinians offi,
cially recorded as having been on
board the Tuscania. All except Xelson
have been officially reported as
rescued and there is a fair chance
that Nelson's name may be found on
one of the lists of survivors.
There were seven Xorth Carolinians
on the Tuscania and all are officially
reported among the rescued.
Desertion is Charged.
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wasmngion, rtju. o.?a uiiuc-i
groom of only three weeks, Albert
Herman Ezell, 23 years old, first sergeant
in company H, two hundred
and fifteenth infantry, Camp Meade,
whose home is at Chesnee, S. C., is
being held at police headquarters today
on charges of desertion from the
national army and with passing bogus
checks in Washington.
According to Inspector Grant, Ezell
. deserted from the army on December
23 and government authorities
have been searching for him since
then.
Three weeks ago, according to
Ezell, he married at Charlotte, X. C..
.Miss EfRe Smith, to whom he had
been engaged a year before he is al-1
alleged to have deserted.
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The Department of Agriculture
estimates that only one-third of the
marketable surplus of the potato
, crop has been moved by January 1,
1918. Last year's potato crop was
the largest ever produced in the
United States.
LIQUOR LAW TIGHTENED
JUDGES OF PROBATE FURTHER
RESTRICTED.
Truth of Affidavits Must Be Ascertained.?Violation
Malfeas- 1
ance of Office.
Columbia, Feb. 10.?By an act of (
the general assembly, passed in the
house of representatives yesterday
and ordered enrolled for ratification
I
the law relating to the issue, of permits
under the quart-a-montlv act was
somewhat tightened to further check
abuses. As amended the law the law
requires that permits shall be issued
only in the office of the judge of probate
and by him personally. No adtional
fee in excess of 10 cents shall
be charged and it is made incumbent
upon the judge of probate to ascertain
the truth of statements contained
in the affidavits. Otherwise permits
are not to be issued. Violation
is punishable under the charge of
malfeasance in office. The bill was
passed by a vote, of 56 to 29. Provisions
of the law are that any person
desiring to import alcoholic liquors
under this act shall apply to
the judge of probate of the county
and file with him an affidavit that he
has not received any like permit during
the same calendar month and
containing one of the following statements:
(a) The amount and kind "of alcoholic
liquors desired, not exceeding
one quart; that the consignee is not
a minor nor a student of any institution
of learning, and, if a woman, that
she is the head of a family; the office
of the common carrier from
which delivery is desired, and that
same is the nearest office of said
common carrier to the residence of
the applicant, and that same is desired
for medicinal purposes; or
(b) Applicant is a minister, pastor,
priest, rabbi, or regularly constituted
officer of a regularly organized
religious congregation or church
and the name and location of
the church or congregation for which
the same is desired, and that the
same is purchased in good faith, to
De used ror sacrameiiiai ui icusiuuo
purposes, and no other, the amount
and kind of alcoholic liquors, not
exceeding one gallon of wine: or
(c) That the applicant is the head
of a family of the Hebrew faith, is
not a minor, the amount and kind
of alcoholic liquors desired, not exceeding
one gallon of wine, and that
the same is desired for religious purposes
during Passover. This application
shall only be filed during the
month of March of any year.
Upon receipt of such affidavit and
payment of a fee of 10 cents the said
probate judge shall issue a permit
under his hand and official seal to
receive the alcoholic liquirs specified,
which permit shall contain the name
of the consignee, the amount and
kind of alcoholic liquors and the office
of the common carrier from
which delivery is to be made.
The said probate judge snan Keep
a record of all permits in a permanently
bound book, in which the
names of the applicants are entered
alphabetically, and said permits shall
be numbered consecutively and the
number, the name of the consignee,
the amount of alcoholic liquors, and
the office of the delivering carrier
and date of said permit shall be entered
on said record. The said probate
judge shall, out of the fees received,
procure the permits ahd records,
herein repuired to be kept, and
shall keep the remainder as his compensation
for the issuance of the said
permit; Provided,- That in no case
shall the probate judge issue such
permit unless he is satisfied of the
truth of each statement contained in
tne amaavit nerein requueu, uui
shall such permit be issued by other
than the probate judge personally,
and within the precincts of his office.
Any violation of the provision of this
act by the probate judge shall subject
him to prosecution and penalties
as for malfeasance or misfeasance of
office: Provided, further, that the
charge for issuing such permit and
taking the affidavit required to obtain
the same shall not exceed 10
cents, and no charge in addition to
this amount shall be made by the
judge of probate or any clerk or assistant
for taking the affidavit required
for such permit, nor shall any
officer be designated hv the judge of
probate to take such affidavit.
Rev. Richard Carroll announces
that the Xegro Race conference, to
be held in Columbia, has been postponed
until Wednesday, March 13th.
Read The Herald, $1.50 a year.
THRKK MKET DKATH.
Miss Heady an<l Fred i^ee and Negro
Man Killed, Miss Moody Injured.
Barnwell, Feb. 10.?One woman
and two men were killed and another
woman was seriously injured here
this afternoon about 6 o'clock when
an automobile in which they were
riding dashed head-on into a westbound
freight engine at the Atlantic
Coast Line depot, where the railroad
intersects the public road leading
from Barnwell to Allendale. The
dead are: Miss Ready, Fred Lee and
a negro man named Johnson. The
injured is a Miss Moody. All of the
occupants of the car were from Kline,
and were on their way home when
the accident occurred.
The driver's view of the oncoming
locomotive was obscured by a string
of freight cars on the north side of
the main line and apparently with no
thought of danger he approached the
crossing at a rapid rate of speed, according
to the testimony of eye-witnesses.
So terrible was the impact
that the automobile was totally demolished
and the cowcatcher of the
engine was badly damaged,
deon n tme ban inGsetaoi eta et
Horribly Mangled.
The heads of both men were horribly
crushed and their bodies mangled.
death being instant. Miss Ready
lived for a short time, dying in the
waiting room in the depot a few minutes
after physicians reached the
scene. .Miss Moody, the extent of
of whose injuries has not been fully
ascertained, but who is thought to
have escaped with nothing more serious
than a broken collar bone, was
taken to the home of Dr. A. B. Patterson
for medical attention.
The front of the engine and rightof-wav
of the railroad for several
yards were spattered with the
blood and brains of the dead
men. A coroner's jury was empannelled
and after the inquest
is held tonight the bodies will
be removed to their homes in Kline.
defkxse col'xcil legal body.
House and Senate Adopt Report of
JPiee Conference Committee.
Columbia, Feb. 11.?Both houses
of the general assembly this afternoon
adopted the report of the free
conference committee on the bill legalizing
the State Council of Defense.
There was no objection in the senate,
and the house following a considerable
debate, sustained the conferees
by a vote of 71 to 8. The members
of the house who voted against
approval of the report were: J. J.
Eaddy, Asa Hall, Jr., J. M. Hemphill,
W. L. Pickens, J. C. Rivers, W. W.
Scott and H. Clinton Summers, Jr.
The following composed the committee
on free conference on the part
of the senate: Senator Evans, of
Marlboro; DuRant, of Clarendon, and
D. R. Williams, of Lancaster. On the
part of the house: Representatives
Crum, of Bamberg; Senseney, of
Charleston, and Dobson, of Cherokee.
The measure as adopted carries the
present personel of the council, provides
for three additional members
representing labor, to be recommended
to the governor for appointment
by the executive committee of the
State Federation of Labor, no two of
these members to come from the same
union, and stipulates that the delegation
in the legislature of each
county not now represented on the
council shall recommend a member
to be appointed by the governor. The
bill carries a straight appropriation
of $25,000 and allows the governor
to borrow an additional $15,000 if
so much be necessary.
The measure as passed by the
Vtahca nmvirtos fnr flip nrpspnt. Dei'
sonnel and an additional member
from each county not now represented
by the county delegation. The
senate bill differentiated from that
of the house in that the new member
from each county should be chairman
of the county council of defense. The
senate conferees receded from their
position. The senate bill provided
for the three additional'Tabor members:
the house bill did not. The
house conferees receded from their
position. The house bill carried $25,J>00
and the senate measure $50,000.
The conferees of both houses receded
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by allowing the governor to borrow
SI 5,000.
The Australian ballot law. as
amended by the senate, has been ordered
ratihed. As passed the act applies
to incorporated towns and cities.
and rural districts are exempt.
The friends of the plan had to do
this to get the start.
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RUSSIANS HAVE QUIT WAR|
BOLSHEVIKI ORDER DEMOBILIZATIOX
OF FORCES.
Although Xo Formal Treaty of Peace
Signed at This Time State
of War is at End.
Amsterdam,.Feb. 11.?Russia has
declared the state of war to be an
end and has ordered the demobilization
of Russian forces on all fronts,
according to a dispatch received here
today from Brest-Litovsk dated Sunday.
The dispatch follows: "The president
of the Russian delegation at today's
(Sunday's) sitting stated that
while Russia was desisting from signing
a formal peace treaty it declared
the state of war to be ended with
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey
and Bulgaria, simultaneously giving
orders for complete demobilization of
Russian forces on all fronts."
Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik foreign
minister, alluding later to the
further discussions that will arise
| from the situation created between
the central powers and Russia for
the establishment of reciprocal diplomatic,
consular, legal and economic
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I it;letliulib, iiiuicaieu a iiieinuu ui ui~ i
rect intercourse between the govern-1
ments concerned, as well as employments
of the commissions of the j
quadruple alliance which already are !
at Petrgrad.
Russia steps formally out of the
war by act of the Bolshevik government,
which seized the reins of power
in Petrograd last November and
almost immediately opened peace negotiations
with the central empires.
The authority of this government
seems virtually unquestioned at present
in nothern Russia and the Teutonic
powers have already assured
the cessation of even nominal hostilities
along virtually all the remainder
of the original long line in the east
by signing a peace with the Urkraine
and isolating Roumania.
Although cutting little figure in
the war for nearly a yeax- past, Russia's
great, indeed vital part in the
conflict, comes forcibly to mind as
the circumstances leading up to her
exit are reviewed. Becoming a belligerent
on August 1, 1914, through
Germany's declaration of war upon
her, her troops were soon sweeping
through east Prussia, creating a diirorsinn
whir>h Vinmnered the Germans
in their first dash through Belgium
and upon Paris. Though disastrously
defeated by Hindenburg at Tannenburg,
she rallied quickly and by
winter was hammering again at the
German borders and her great armies
overrunning Austrian territory in
Galicia were at the crests of the Car
pathians and threatening an invasion
of Hungary.
It took ilie bulk of the Austrian
armies and a large portion of Germany's
virtually an entire year's campaigning
in 1915 to break Russia's
hold on Galicia, drive her out of Poland
and the lower Baltic territory
and force her armies to the line at
Brest-Litovsk. But not yet disorganized
she fought through 1916, creating
havoc among the Austrian armies
Poli/nio onH in A c;i n
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.Minor, driving the Turks out of virtually
all Turkish Armenia.
The opening of last year found
Russia under the old bureaucratic
regime. Her oppressed, war-worn
people were ripe for the revolution,
and in .March, 1917, came the crash,
the deposition of Emperor Nicholas
and the formation of the first provisional
government. Under Kerensky,
as minister of war, her armies in
July, 1917, began an offensive in
Volhynia and Galicia which was in
the full tide of success when disaffection
among her troops broke out and
stopped the effort.
Since August last Russia has figured
in the great world conflict as a
military factor only in reason that
she still held numbers of German and
Austrian troops on her frontiers,
awaiting the forces of disorganization
within to bring about her final
disintegration. The process, strugJ
sled against in vain by Kerensky,
i ,, fli- onflolavofo^ In- uirtno
? as Li \ av,vc^ci attVi tii vuv
of the divided authority set up at
Petrograd. The council of soldiers
and workmen, representing the proletariat
and claiming virtually supreme
power, finally in November
last formally took over the power it
had long in fact exercised.
The rest is comparatively recent
I history. Under Lenine and Trotzky
I an armistice was brought about on
Jail Russian fronts on December 4, and
j peace negotiations with the central
powers were opened at Brest-Litovsk
; on December 23. The central emf
AMERICAN PATROL AMBUSHED.
Five Soldiers lielieved to Have lieen
Killed; Four Missing.
With the American Army in
France, Feb. 9.?Five American soldiers
are believed to have been killed,
four are missing and one wounded
when an American patrol was ambushed
in No .Man's land last night
by a superior force of Germans.
The spot where the encounter took
place is an isolated one and reports
concerning the casualties inflicted by
both sides are meagre.
Only one American is known to
have escaped the trap of the Germans,
which was laid in front of our
wires. The one survivor, who crawled
back to the American lines with a
bullet in his chest, is unable to talk.
Artillery Opens Barrage.
Our artillery immediately laid a
barrage around the ambushing Germans
and some are believed to have
been accounted for. The infantry
accounted for others, as it is certain
the attacked patrol fought to a finish,
according to information trickling
in from the front line.
Our patrolling soldiers were walking
in front of our wire entanglements
when a big enemy patrol that
had been divided into parties which
took up concealed position^, opened
fire at close range. The night was
clear and the forms of the Ameri- N
cans made the best possible targets
for the hidden Germans. There is
no doubt but the Americans battled
gallantly until completely overpowered.
The artillery duel in our
I
sector continued today. Scores of
airplanes were out observing and
making photographs. The men in
the line were thrilled by a number of
air duels high in the sky over their
heads.
Mrs. Caroline E. Fairey Dead.
Branchville, Feb. 8.?Mrs. Caroline
E. Fairey, widow of W. J. Fairey,
died yesterday at her home near
Branchville, after an illness of three
weeks. She was in her 78th year.
She is survived by the following children:
Mrs. William Hamiter, of Columbia;'
Mrs. Adam DuBard, of
Blythewood; W. F. Fairey, of Orangeburg,
and T. F. Fairey and L. H.
Fairey, of Branchville. The body x
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was laid to rest tnis anernooii in me
cemetery at Sardis Methodist church.
She had been a faithful member of
this church for more than 60 years.
Funeral services were conducted by
the Rev. J. A. White.
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Getting Credit.
"Here. boy. take these flowers to
Miss Fannie Honeysame, room 8."
"My, sir, you're the fifth gentleman
wot's sent her flowers today."
"What's that, you grinning dub?
What's that you say? W?who sent
the others?"
"Oh, they didn't send any names.
They all said, "she'll know where
they come from'."
"Well, here, take my card and tell
her these are from the same one who
sent the other four boxes."?Puck.
pires agreed to adhere to the general
principles of annexations, no indemnities
and self determination of peoples
and there was held open to the ^
entente powers the opportunity of
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joining in the negotiations ana nave
them lead up to a general peace. No
favor was found for this proposition
among the allied nations, however,
the good faith of the central nations
in particular in making this offer being
doubted. This doubt was later
found by the Russians themselves to
be well founded.
Notwithstanding this, however,
the negotiations were continued.
Meanwhile Russia was fast splitting
up. District after district declared
its independence, Finland and Ukraine
being the notable examples.
The Ukraine opened separate negotiations
with the central powers and
these culminated last Saturday in
the signing of a peace agreement.
Whether the culmination of the
Ukrainian negotiations in a peace
treaty was the determining factor in
inducing the Bolshevik! to declare
the state of war at an end is not at
all clear as yet.
It lias been made fairly clear, how[
ever, that Germany had no idea of
[ yielding to the Bolsheviki on the
| question of evacuation of Russian occupied
territory which had been the
sticking point in the negotiations,
and she was preparing virtually to ignore
the Bolsheviki as long as she
could make peace with the Ukraine
and secure the opening of the frontiers
to the rich grain growing provinces
controlled even nominally by
the Ukrainians.