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f (Hbr lamhrrg Sfrralb l. 1 r $2.00 Per Year in Adavance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1922. Established in 1891. i Chicago Youth Owes Five Million Dollars r - . j f Chicago, Feb. 13.?Raymond J. Bischoff, whose financial operations are alleged to have ruined thousands of poor investors who trusted him -with their life savings, today told g Fedeal Judge Landis at in inquiry, it) "'I owe $4,500,000 and I have less than $1,000 in cash." / Bischoff declared he was only 25 9 years of age and that he had accumulated liabilities estimated by a re' eeiver appointed Saturday as totalling approximately $5,000,000 in less than two years. He described his business as "general financial business, brokerage and oil," and said that he started it in the' spring of *91$ with $10,000. Asked where he obtained this money, Bishoff said that he made part of It working in the stock yards and v that the rest was the result of stock r . speculations. He . declared that he had no previous business experience, that he lived at home at the time and that the oniy otner wors ne u?u guuC into was in connection with obtainK V > . -I -.1 Ing members for the Boy Scouts. linger questions from Judge Landis, he maintained that .his operations were legal, that the money entrusted to liis care was given him for speculation and that while it was unfortunate lie should have lost it, .he felt / - lie could have recovered all his lossj \ es if the receivership proceedings had f not interfered. Despite Bischoff's protestations that all the millions he had handled v had been lost, a search was begun for nil possible assets and Judge Landis Issued restraining orders preventing Bischoff's relatives from disposing of > '* two flat buildings, two houses, a farm and four automobiles and the con| tents of several safety deposit boxes. Bischoff blamed a lucky deal with a friend's $260 for the continued | transaction which .has involved him so heavily. "A friend begged me to play the market with his money, saying his creditors were pushing him," Bischoff was quoted as saying. "I consented, doubling this money in a week. He told all his .friends and 1 was immediately besieged with similar requests. That was the beginning of ; p " ilt" "Dabbling in oil" led to his presU ent status, he was quoted, after visV ions of financial deals arose when he found how easy it was to have others give him their money to invest. . Blschoff's attorney maintains that . the 25 year old "wizard of Bubbly Creek" has violated no law, despite k fthe shortage of millions. Bisohoff y gave promissory notes for the money invested with him, the attorney said, . adding "a man can't be imprisoned 1 tor non-payment of promissory notes, if he hasn't the money." Creditors may realize ten cents on the dollar, the attorney said. "While I welcome government intervention, I could Jiave pulled through if they had let me alone another week," Bischoff said. The oil company, of which he attempted to gain control, Bischoff "hna ATtAnsivp holdings in Okla > fcoma and Texas fields. Its stock lias > a par value of $1, lie said, but recently it dropped to 22 cents. "I became interested in the oil stock last February," he said. "I kept putting more and more money in it until, in July, I thought I owned every share in existence. But then I discovered a powerful combi^ nation was fighting me. More shares began to pop up unexpectedly, and, before long, I found that through the bucketshop manipulations I had been sold duplicated elhares. For the last few months I iw?ira hoon a losina battle." Asparagus by Parcel Post. Washington, Feb. 13.?Asparagus - \ in carloads may be sent through parcel post, according to a decision today of W. H. Riddell, general superintendent of the railway mail service. nostoffice department. Asparagus growers of the Elko and Williston districts had asked for the ruling through Congressman James . P. Byrnes. Superintendent Riddell stated that an agent of the railway mail service would be immediately sent to Elko and Williston to make arrangements for the shipments. Shipping carload lots by parcel post will be a novel experience in the history of agriculture and the postoffice department. It will result in great saving in freight charges, and be of great benefit to producers of vegetables. As to whether the ruling would affect all other commodities, no decision ihas been announced. I* - BKIDE-ELECE HONORED. Lovely Entertainment at Fairfax for Miss Sadie Hatter. Fairfax, Feb. 11.?Mesdames Walker Smith and George Sanders were joint hostesses on Friday afternoon, Feb. 3, at one of the most delightful affairs ever given in Fairfax. The occasion was a miscellaneous shower in compliment to Miss Sadie Harter, a popular Fairfax girl whose marriage to E. Roy Cooner, of Bamberg, will occur this month. The Sanders home, always ideal for entertaining, was never prettier than at this time. Promptly at 3 ocl'ock began the reception of the t guests, of whom about one hundred were invited. The spacious parlors were thrown en suite and presented a scene of beauty rarely seen. A veritable fairyland it was, with myriads of red hearts, cupids, soft lights and other suggestions that bespoke the Valentine season. After being presented to the receiving line, which was composed of Mesdames Smith and Sanders and Miss Harter, the guests were directed by Mesdames F. C. Chitty and J. A. Gray to the register whioh was presided over by Mrs. Julia Harter, mother of the bride-elect. In this room, as elsewhere, one was kept entirely under the spell of the good old saint. The profusion of Valentine symbols, interspersed with beau-l tiful floral touches of red roses, mingled in exquisite harmony with the fairy-like glow of the subdued lights and the soft gleam of red tapers. j The guests were next shown by Mesdames J. E. Johnston, G. A. San-| ders and N. B. Loadholt to an at-l tractive corner of the reception hall where fruit punch was served by Misses Mildred, Ammye and Zelle Loadholt. The entertainment feature was a very attractive one. The hostesses were .here aided by Miss Alma Knight and Mesdames Youmans and ? - -1?J v. I Anderson. Taoies were pmueu UCl C I and there over the lower floor, and arranged for Tiearts-dice. The score cards were pretty little heart shaped Valentines, the color scheme again coming into prominence. Throughout the afternoon music was furnished by Misses Lottie Fitts, Emmie De Lamar and little Miss Frances Loadholt. In a Valentine contest that was conducted during the latter part of the afternoon, Mrs. F. C. Chitty won a heart shaped box of candy which she presented to the honor guest. Later a delicious sweet course which blended beautifully with the red and white motif, was served by Misses Alma Knight and Ammye, Mildred and Zelle Loadholt. The favors were dainty little red packets filled with rice. The contents of these, when a signal had been given, were showered upon the bride-elect, who made a charming picture as she submitted to this ancient and time-honored custom whioh is said to be symbolic of good luck. Perhaps the prettiest feature of the afternoon was the entrance of a snow white wagon which carried the numerous .gifts. This wagon, wrapped in white roses, was drawn by four little boys, Du Pre Sanders, Billy Johnston, Ernest Young, and Harold Lightsey, who were dressed in suits of black velvet. Seated upon the wagon, amid the many gifts, j f-"-- J -? were little Miiarea aauucis auu \saiolyn Williams, who were dressed respectively in blue and pink crepe de chine with fairy wings to harmonize and made a beautiful climax to an already pretty scene. The dining room, which was presided over by Mesdames John Folk and J. F. Lightsey, was especially attractive. Here again the color motif of red and white was observed in all details. The exquisitely appointed table wa " entered with a snow white cake ich was topped with a dainty miniature bride. Sus pended from the red shaded chandelier, were festoons of red and white paper which commingled with the faint lights from the red candles, made a very pleasing effect. Much merriment was caused by the cutting of the bride's cake. The dime fell to Miss Sara Neeley; the thimble to Miss Daisy Rizer; the button to Miss Mildred Loadholt, and the ring to Miss Emma Harter. Out of town guests who attended were: Mesdames Frank Starr, L. A. Hartzog, Goodwin, and Missea Daisy Rizer and Sara Neeley, of Olar; Miss Grace Rickenbacker, of Estill; Mesdames Shelly Platts and Jones Williams, of Jenny. BLACKVILLE BUREAU Blackville. Feb. 14.?Henry H. Martin, a Confederate veteran and influential citizen of Blackville, died today after an illness of several months. He was 80 years of age. He was a faithful member of the Baptist / church, and is survived by ten children and a large number of grandchildren and great grandchildren. The funeral and interment take place tomorrow and the remains will be laid besides those of his wife who preceded him to the grave by several years. Much interest is manifested in the revival services to begin at the Baptist church in about two weeks; Dr. C. C. Coleman, of Charleston, will preach. The Fidelis class of the Baptist S. S. is being entertained with a Valentine party this evening by their teacher, Mass Leonard Kelly at the home of Mrs. W. B. Johnston. The Priscilla club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Gerard Weissinaer Friday afternoon. The Joseph Koger chapter, D. A. R., is being entertained this "afternoon by Mrs. A. H. Ninestein with a Valentine party. The D. A. R. will hold their annual reception on Washington's birthday, at the home of Mrs. S. H. Still. Mrs. S. E. Buchanan, of Drew, Miss., and her mother, Mrs. J. H. E. Milhous, are visiting their sister and daughter, Mrs. I. F. Still. 'H. Murray Mathi has returned from a visit to rela /es in Florida. Reddick and Everette Still are at home for a short while from the U. S. Naval academy. (Mrs. Mary Rhoden has returned from a visit to her son at ureenvine and is now preparing to move to Swansea. Friends <3f Mrs. Mary R. Carroll will regret to learn of her illness and tfish for her a speedy recovery. Mrs. Mary Browning, of Olar, is the guest of her son, J. Wyatt Browning. Friends of Mrs. M. K. Kearse, R. F. D., will regret to learn of her illness and hope for a speedy recovery. Friends of Mrs. D. P. Martin will learn with regret of her illness at her home here. History as it i Every day we see accounts of the last survivor of the battle of Balaklava has passed away. According to actual accounts there must have been about ten thousand of them, although the poet who wrote up the famous "niiarro" ns to helieve that there were only six hundred. Then the voracious chronicler informs us every few weeks that the last man who saw Lincoln assissinated at Booth's theatre in Washington on the night of good Friday, 1865, has passed to his reward. There must have been thousands of people to see the president of the United States on that tragic night! Now, on Saturday last the Savannah papers contained a telegram sent out from New York that Col. Charles T. Hudson, of New York, who had assisted in the capture of Jefferson Davis and who had just died, "had kept as his most cherished memento a scrap of the woman's clothing in which Davis was attired flrhen ihe was taken." The item was evidently sent out by telegraph from New York, but we are very much surprised that any such news paragraph should get a right of way on the wires. Of course we can understand and, in the constant dripping of news items from the telegraph instrument, such a paragraph might find the light from n hn?v nffirp. Several of the soldiers who participated in the capture of Jefferson Davis have denied the oft-repeated tale that he "was dressed in woman's attire." The fact was that Mr. Davis was an invalid and in the chill of the early morning, Mrs. Davis pinned around his shoulders her shawl asi her husband emerged from the tent. Upon this slender foundation grew up the stories of the disguise. We can see why the effort was made by northern papers at the time to slander and humiliate Jefferson Davis. Strange that this fiction persists, however, and that the officer who recently died in Brooklyn should have continued to believe that he preserved an article of woman's attire taken from his prisoner. A man who would deliberately steal from a prisoner a . ,.v ilr OLAR BUREAU Olar, Feb. 15.?The Kearse-Morris post of the American Legion met last Thursday evening and elected the following officers: Prof. J. W. Chitty, post commander; J. 0. Sanders, Jr., vice post commander; M. E. Rizer, post adjutant; E. C. Bar* A cI c n T?_ Ker, nnance oiiiuei, a. o. uamu, ocigeant at arms; C. M. Chitty, post chaplain, and R. Fair Goodwin, insurance and service officer. The meeting was something of a pep meeting too; practically every member present expressing himself as favoring more regular attendance and pledging his support in making the post at Olar one of the livest in this section of the state. Last Friday afternoon from 3:30 to 5 o'clock, quite a number of ladies of Olar and surrounding commnities together with several from other towns were in attendance at a shower at the home of Mrs. C. F. Ri?r Ondift Uirtar of Fair. iur Jlldd oauic ixai iwi > v*. a. v?*~ fax, who becomes the bride of E. R. Cooner, of Bamberg, this week. The home was tastily decorated for the occasion and everyone enjoyed the event thoroughly. Possibly you have heard at some time during your existence that you can close your eyes during the whole of an automobile trip anywhere in South Carolina and tell when you are being -ushered into any small town fly the sudden tendency of the car in which you are riding to do the shimmy, waltz and turkey trot all at the same time. But you have not heard that about Olar recently have you? Yet, we are not boasting. But we do mean that we have better kept streets than the adjoining county roads. We have a scraper. Last Sunday Herman Sanders, of Olar, gave his friends a surprise by bringing to town a wife. He had just been married to one of the daughters of J. A. Moody, who lives in the Bag Fork section of Barnwell county. It it understood that Mr. and Mrs. Sanders will mafte their home in Olar, very likely for the present with Mr. Sanders's father, A.. J. Sanders. is Perverted t part of his clothing, even if it were a disguise, writes himself down as a charaoted who should not be trusted or taken seriously at any time. Postmaster General Reagan, who was with Mr. Davis's party at the time, gives the following account of ihis capture in his "Memoirs," published several years ago. Mr. Reagan says: "He was made a prisoner of war. As one of the means of making the Confederate cause odious, the foolish, and wicked charge was made that he was captured in woman's clothes and ihis portrait showing him in petticoats was afterward placarded generally in showcases and public places in the north. He was pictured as having bags of gold on him when he was captured. The charge of ihis being arrested in woman's clothes is disproved by the circumstances attending his capture. The suddenness of the unexpected attack of the ene my anowea no time tor a cuauge ui clothes. I saw him a few minutes after his surrender, wearing his accustomed suit of grey with his boots and hat on and I have elsewhere shown that he had no money." Mr. Davis in his book, "The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy,'1 writes: "As it was quite dark in the tent, I picked up what was supposed to be my 'raglan,' a waterproof light overcoat, without sleeves; it was subsequently found to be my wife's, so very like my own as to be mistaken for it; T m TT TTri'fa fh/MlOrVlffllllv a. a i a La 1 icu iuj mic uuuubuvi.uA>,; threw over my head and shoulders a shawl. I had gone perhaps fifteen or twenty yards when a trooper galloped up and ordered me to halt and surrender, to whioh I gave a defiant answer, and dropping the shawl and raglan from my shoulders, advanced toward him." Regarding accounts of his capture, which reflected upon his courage, President Davis wrote that they were "all the spawn of a malignity which shames the civilization of the age." It is interesting to recall that Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, and Alexander H. Stephens, (Continued on page 2, column 1.) ' " /? - ? = > " ' ?. i .... . f. LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL." News and Observations Prom an Old Friend of The Herald. I have visited your town twice recently. These visits to me have been a sad pleasure. It was sad because I missed so many faces that I met a long time ago when I was quite a young man. I miss Gen. F. M. Bamberg, Isaac Bamberg, Col. T. J. Counts, Gen. Jack Rice, Major Hays, .Toe Dickinson. C. B. Free, and oth ers. These were all my friends, and I think of them when I visit Bamberg. Once I went to Bamberg with a wagon in the fall and spring about once a week carrying cotton and bringing back fertilizers and groceries; now I go perhaps once in two or three months on an average. It is 18 miles from here to your town; and other towns have sprung up nearer. It is a pleasure to go for several reasons: Main street is paved, and it was once so boggy in a rainv time. The roads are so much better than when I was a young man, and new and enterprising young men ;have taken the place of those who have gone before. On my return home I came back Dy old Buford's Bridge, once a village that all of us were proud of; though it was about 16 miles to the nearest railroad station, yet it boasted of five stores that carried general merchandise, a Masonic hall, a tailor shop, postoffice, a bar room, a 'hotel, one church, several dwelling houses and a blacksmith shop. It seemed to * - ' 1 1 ~ onnntrr me me oest peufic iu mc tvuuu; visited old Buford's Bridge. But it; is a thing of the past, and old Mizpah I ehurch is the only building standing today. When we got there something went wrong with my auto. And we stopped in the road between what was once a store, and a hotel. It was about one hour until a good machinist came along and put us to going again. Our surroundings looked desolate enough. We were where it.tt-o? cn mn/?h faiptv and LliCiC UUVC iraj cw 0 ? mirth, so much pleasure and happiness, so much lively conversations and jokes. And now everything looked so desolate. Truly we were where "the moss drooped Ipw from the rugged oak tree," for in 15 feet of us the moss from the oaks reached the ground. Gen. L. M. Ayer was a good story teller and I thought about the time when he used to sit in a store piazza and was listened to attentively for perhaps an hour by such good men as Leroy Wilson, George Moye, Capt. Billy Williams, Frank Hogg, Majot Ranse Barker, J. J. and H. Brabham, Dr. L. s! Hay, George I. Priester and others. But I will write now of the present. T n Ur.Pi cfirtcH tin Vt J D. IVlllCr uao Obai UV> U uy M?W | soap factory again. Old Maum Louise Kearse continues to be mistress of the work. They are* very well fixed, for Genia Brown's children have all got good teeth yet and can carry on their part of the work and every little is a ihelp. The old woman said that there was an old saying and she believed it was true that "just as long as there is life there is soap." And now a few words about some of our colored "popylation." Wash Folk and Lula Graham were happily tnarriort a o,hnrt time ago. Wash and Lula each are getting well up in years and Wash has now taken on his third wife, but you can't outdo a woman. Lula has risen sublimely to the occasion and wont be turned down. She goes Wash one better for in Wash she has taken on her fourth husband. Wash says he's getting along fine, for he has "shore got a plum good wife." I suggested to him that ihe had been married so many times I supposed that he knew all the hen pecked dodges, and he said that he did. I wonder if she is not pretty well fixed on the same line. Their friends gave them a "surprise party" ana tney gave il in true military style. They cooked a good supper, got five shot guns, two tin pans, and one tin horn and went to their house after dark and commenced firing at once. Wash was out in the yard and thought himself killed. Lula fell on the floor and fainted. They procured camphor, smelling salts and turpentine, and rubbed her head and her heels and her back and the front part of her back. Finally she "come too" and was able to sit up and when she got able to walk they placed a fine linen table cloth on the table and placed plenty of good things to eat on it. But Wash says "Lula bad no encouragement to eat." OCCASIONAL. I j Bank Cannot Get Rosborough Funds It might be of some interest to Bamberg county people, especially Denmark folks who were acquainted V>1 with Eugene E. Rosborough when he livoH tVioro a hnv fn knntt' that the v. '". J ' ~ superior court of Richmond county, Georgia, of which Augusta is the county seat, has held that the life insurance companies must pay to his widow the full amount of the policies on his life totalling $50,000. The companies did not deny the full liability, but Mr. Rosborough, Who was cashier of an Augusta bank, got in bad financial straits with the bank last fall and committed suicide, having embezzled, it is alleged, over $150,000. The policies were all made payable to his wife as beneficiary and a few minutes before his rash act, he left a note to his wife asking her to turn over to the bank $25,000 of )the money to help meet his shortage and to retain the balance for herself. In addition to this the bank claimed that the premiums on the policies were paid by Rosborough with 1 1 - 1 Cmm mm. J/? Ar? fVlAOA T1 Cf (116 Del lib. S iUilUS. ii tucoc 5iuuuu>i the .bank attempted to collect from the companies the amount in question and to -have the court restrain payment in full to the beneficiary widow. The court denied this right, and the case will be appealed to the su- , preme court of Georgia, and Mrs. Rosborough has been restrained from using the funds while the suit is pending. Many people in Denmark remember Eugene Rosborough quite ||g Poor South Carolina! Once every year we have our feel- i ing of pity for SoutA Carolina, and that is upon the annual meeting of her legislature. - Up in North Carolina we do not let our solons meet but once in every two years, but in South Carolina they meet every January, and as the cotton mill operative vote holds the balance o| political power in that state, raj the office seeking members of the legislature strive and connive to introduce measures that will attract j the mill vote to themselves. Many wonderful bills 'have been 'j | introduced in the past, but none have | ever exceeded in brilliancy of oon[ ception that one introduced last week by a member from lower South Carolina. The bill would, have made it illegal to close down any cotton mill even though business conditions were such as to show large losses from Operation. Of course, no such measure will pass, but we can not help wondering if the wise author of the measure expected the law to be effective in case of a strike. Every state legislature has its share of rattle-brained members and it is the hard luck of South Carolina that she has to deal with her quota bnce every year.?Textile Bulletin. Enforcing Prohibition. Items oof general interest relating to enforcement of the 18th amendment have been culled from the directors' and agents' reports as fol Omaha authorities have inaugur- ated a campaign to deport foreigners guilty of moonshine operations. Fines and even jail sentences, not proving effective, warning has been issued -M that on second offense, deportation proceedings will be employed. x Director S. B. Qvale, of Minnesota, has asked authority to employ women as enforcement agents, declaring that they would prove valuable in ap- * prehending certain classes of violar Director Qvale reported paid in fin as an dassessments totalling $133, 168, which is $43,168 more than the estimated cost of enforcing the law in the entire state oof Minnesota. Attorney General of Indiana has called a state-wide conference of all law enforcement officials of the cities and counties, and "great benefits are expected," reports Director Bert C. Morgan. From Director Mitchell, California: "California enforcement officials seized 165,000 gallons of liquor ana wine.-To Authorize Bridge. Washington, Feb. 13.?Representative Byrnes introduced a bill today authorizing the counties of Jasper, S. C., and Chatham, Ga., to con- 3 struct a bridge across the Savannah. /J river at or near Savannah. / M JBmm