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Visitors in the Town And the Community ?Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Carter spent Sunday in Kline. ?Charles Strom spent a few days last week in McCormick. ?George Price left this week to re-enter Clemson college. ?Miss Edna Rice has just returned from a visit to Charleston. ?John Dixon spent several days last week in Greenville county. ?H. Wick Johnson, of Charlotte, is in the city visiting relatives. ?Miss Vivian Kinsey is visiting relatives and friends in Augusta. ?J. B. Rice, of Columbia, spent the week-end here with relatives. ?Mrs. C. P. Hooton is spending some time with relatives at Estill. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Black spent Sunday in Orangeburg with relatives. ?John C. Lanham, of Spartanburg, spent the pest week-end in the city. ?Rev. and Mrs. P. K. Rhoad and family spent a day in the city last week. ** ?v>" * ?Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Groce, of Wellford, were visitors in the city recently. , ?M. A. Moye, of Charleston, spent several days here last week with relatives. ?Miss Ida Brabham is spending several days on a visit to friends in Florence. ?J. A. McMillan, Jr., of Afeheville, N. C., has been visiting relatives in the county. ?Miss Dorothy Van Orsdell is at home after a visit to relatives at Newberry. ?Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Henderson returned to the city Sunday from the mountains. ?Mrs a. W. Farrell. of Embree, is visiting the family of her son, John Cooner. ?Mrs. K. .C. Riley has returned to the city from the mountains of North Carolina. ?Miss Nell Black has gone to Bennettsville, where she will teach school this term. ?Mrs. J. F. Lane has returned to the city after spending a few weeks in the mountains. ?Miss Alma Richbourg, of Summerton, was the guest of Miss Isabel Cantey last week. ?L. P. Tobin returned to the city Saturday from Greer, where he spent a week's vacation. ?Miss Mildred Guilds, of Columbia, spent several days in town last week with relatives. ?Mrs. J. W. Craven and son, Fred Craven, of Marion, are visiting Rev. and Mrs. O. B. Falls. ?L. B. Fowler is spending several weeks at Smoaks, where he is doing some construction work. ?J. A. Richbourg and children, of Asheville, N. C., have been visiting Rev. and Mrs. S. 0. Cantey. ?Mrs. Mamie Murdaugh has returned to the city after a vacation oTVA-rv* wiiiinmst.oTi and Westmins Spcui ai> f> ter. - -Misses Martha Ray and Lalla Byrd left last week for Charlotte, where they will teach the coming session. ?Mrs. Cornelia J. Dunn has returned to the city after spending some time with relatives in Aiken county. ?Miss Florence Roach and little nephew, Judson Pringle, Jr., of Charleston, spent the week-end in the city. ?Miss Mary Frances Walker has returned to the city after a tour of Europe covering several weeks during the summer. ?Lonnie Price left Tuesday morning for Clemson college. Lonnie was awarded the Clemson scholarship from this county. , ?Misses Eunice and Lerline Herndon have returned to the city after spending several weeks in Wrights ville Beach, N. C. ?Misses Ochie Maie and Margaret Jennings returned last week from Billon, where they spent some time with Mrs. A. B. Jorhan. ?Sergeant and Mrs. L. A. Trawick have returned to the city. Sgt. Trawick has been on duty at Camp McClellan, at Anniston, Ala. ?Misses Eunice Hunter and Lerlene Herndon have returned to the city after spending several weeks in Wrightsville Beach, N. C. ?Mrs. J. W. Barr has gone to Leesville, where Mr. Barr is ill. The friends of Mr. Barr will be pleased to know that he is improving. ?Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Lane, Miss Carolina Lane, Mrs. A. C. Schumpert and Miss Marie Schumpert, of Newberry, visited Mr. and Mrs. Paul Whitaker last week. Mrs. Henry Ford is said to use the most luxurious and complete private railway car ever built. * Two Watchmen Done to Death Aiken, Aug. 30.?Eugene Feaster, of Bath, and J. Reedy Booth, of Aiken, were shot, stabbed and clubbed to death by six or seven men about 5 o'clock this morning at the Southern railway shops -at Hamburg, where they had been employed as night watchmen during the shopmen's strike. When the watchmen were found about an hour after the attack, Feaster was dead, but Booth was conscious and was able to give some details of the affair. He died a few hours later at the University hospital in Augusta. Feaster's body had been riddled with bullets from a rifle, pistols and shotgun; three balls from a high power rifle had passed through j his left side and there was a deep i gash in the right shoulder, severing, the collar bone. This wound appeared to have been inflicted} with some bayonet-like instrtfment. Booth said after being shot through the thigh he feigned death to escape the murderous shots of their assailants, who fired on Feaster after he wfas down. Booth, after falling from the shot, was brutally kicked about the face and neck, the back of his head being crushed in as from a blow from a rifle butt. He attempted to crawl away from the scene after the men had left and had managed to make about 20 yards when loss of blood caused him to stop where he was discovered by Special Agent Britt and others. He was immediately rushed to Augusta to a hospital. It was thought at first that he would survive, but weakened by the loss of blood and the terrible blow on the head he died at 9 o'clock. One or two" clues have been dis/-./ v-rsn for not mnph is known lUVCiCU U U L ov XlAi uuv ? of the affair. About 4:30 a. m. two men walked into the yard and were followed by the two night watchmen. They were led outside the yards a short distance, where the for or five othec men were waiting and were fired upon with pistols, shotguns loaded with buckshot and rifles. Eugene Feaster was 34 years of age and formerly resided at Graniteville. He is survived by a wife and one small child. J. Reedy Booth was 23 years of age and a young man of quiet ways and sterling qualities. He resided with his mother and father., Mr. and Mrs. James Booth, .on upper Laurens street in Aiken. He was a member of the Aiken post, American Legion. Funeral services for Reedy Booth will be held tomorrow morning at the First Baptist church in Aiken. Interment will take place in the fami* _- x -x noor Tnhnc. 1 ly piot at rumpyi tuuiv/u ugm uvuuw ton. Lancaster-Craig. i Govan, Sept. 3.?One of the prettiest weddings of the season was that of Miss Lila Lancaster and Julian Craig? which took place here Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at the home of the bride's * mother, Mrs. Annie Lancaster. The parlors were beautifully decorated in southern smilax and goldenrod. An arch of white entwined with festoons of southern smilax from which a white wedding bell was suspended, marked the place of the I briday party. Prior to the entrance of the bridal party, Miss Eloise Hutto, of Elko, played Traumerrie, "Melody in F," and "Humoresque." Then the bridal party entered to the strains of the wedding march from "Lohengrin." First came the ribbon bearers, little Misses Alma Lancaster and Estelle Bolen, a sister and niece of the bride wearing dainty dresses of yellow organdie. Next came the bridegroom and his best man, Julian Craig, of Wilmington, N. C. The bride entered with her maid of honor, Miss Stella Lancaster, of Denmark. Miss Lancaster wore a pale green organdie dress and hat and carried a bouquet of purple asters. The bride, who is a lovely blond, never looked more beautiful than on this occasion. She wore a handsome suit of dark blue cloth with tan accessories and carried a bouquet of bride roses, lillies of the valley and maiden hair fern. They were met at the altar by the bridegroom, where the beautiful and impressive ring ceremony was performed by Rev. Paul A. Bolen, of Orangeburg, a brother-in-law of the bride. McDowell's "To a Wild Rose" was played very softly during the ceremony, Mendelssohn's wedding march being used as a recessional. Mr. and Mrs. Craig left immediately after the ceremony to spend a few weeks in the mountains of North Carolina, after which they. will be at home in Ridgeland, where Mr. Craig holds the position of superintendent of the Ridgeland school. Mrs. Craig as Miss Lancaster was one of Bamberg county's most popular young women and has a host of friends in this state where she has taught for several years. Mr. Craig is a young man of ster Moves to Dismiss Bigham Appeal Columbia, Sept. 1.?Solicitor Gasque yesterday moved before the supreme court for a dismissal of the Edmund D. Bigham appeal on the grounds that it was "manifestly without merit." The court took the motion under advisement and will render an opinion later. The solicitor moved under Rule 30 for a dismissal and presented his arguments to the; court, claiming that the appeal had no merit whatever. A. L. King and Mendel L. Smith, attorneys for Bigham, resist ed the motion. Mr. Gasque read the order of Judgei S. W. G. Shipp declining a new. trial when the motion was made before him. Judge Shipp refused the motion on a question of fact, the alleged new evidence not being sufficient to warrant a new trial, Mr. Gastfue said. Would Not Change Result. In regard to the 12 letters on which the defendant is basing his plea for a new trial, Mr. Gasque said both Bigham and his wife knew of these at the time of the trial, but no effort was made to produce them. These letters would not change the result of the verdict against Bi?ham, Mr. Gasque argued. Among the letters was one in which Smiley Bigham said he was going to kill all the family and "leave no one to tell the tale" He also said "you will not See me alive again." This letter is one of the main ones relied upon by the defense, but the solicitor said it would not have changed the verdict if it had been introduced. Mr. Gasque said an end to the litigation in this ease should be reached some day. He spoKe or tne nrst iriaj,. the appeal and the affirmation by the supreme court and now this appeal. *'It looks like an endless chain of litigation,'" the solicitor said. He cited procedure to show that Bigham may continue to appeal for many more times and asked the court to dismiss the present one as he did not think it had any merit. It does not come within any of the requirements set down by the supreme court for an appeal, Mr. Gasque said. A. L. King, attorney for Bigham, said the appeal had sufficient merit to stay the execution of Bigham and told the court that if there had been no merit in the appeal it could not have stayed the sentence. Mr. King dealt at length on the letters alleged to have been written by Smiley Bigham to Edmund Bigham. Mr. King also produced an affidavit from J. G. Miller to the effect that Smiley Bigham had told him in Florence prior to the crime that he (Smiley) was going to "kill every?one of them," meaning the Bigham family. Another affidavit of much importance, according to Attorney King, was the one in which Mrs. Margie Black, sister of the Bighams, was quoted as having said that the family sent for Edmund to protect them from Smiley, this being when Edmund was living in south Georgia. Mr. King also brought out the suicide theory, claiming that the coroner himself when he first saw the body of Smiley Bigham said "it certainly looks like suicide to me." Circumstantial Evidence. Mendel L. Smith said the case was one entirely of circumstantial evidence and had been built up on the theory that Edmund came from Georgia to kill the whole family. Mr. Smith read the letter alleged to have been written by Smiley in which Smiley said he was going to kill all the family, and stressed the fact that eight pxperts in penmanship have sworn that the signature to the letter is Smiley's. At this point Justice Watts said from his experience with the family., he having tried two or three of them, the Bighams always did things differently. This was in reply to a statement of Mr. Smith. Solicitor Gasque in reply told the court Judge Shipp had examined the letter alleged to have been written by Smiley in which Smiley said he was going to kill the whole family and had found the signatures thereon to have been traced. Mr. Gasque said the original signature was not traced very good and part of the "I" and "s" in the name was left untraced, this being apparent under a magnifying glass. Mr. Gasque also pointed out that all the letters were on the same stationery for a period of nearly three years. The solicitor said this "looks a little peculiar." , They were all typewritten, Mr. Gasque said, when Smiley was known to have transacted his business in long hand with his banks and other places. ling qualities and is widely connected throughout the Carolinas. The great number of handsome wedding presents attested to the popularity of the bride and bridegroom, among them being a chest of silver | a gift of the bridegroom's family. Man Kills Wife on Public Road Walterboro, Aug. 31.?Mrs. Myrtie Evans, wife of Tudor Evanst was shot and killed in the public road near Thayer's mill, five miles from Walterboro, Tuesday night, by her husband. At the. time she was shot she was in an automobile with Robbie L. Hiers. There had been trouble between Mr. and Mrs. Evans, and they were not living together, and it is said that the relationship between Mr. Hiers and Mrs. Evans was largely responsible for the domestic infelicity. They had been together a great deal for some time and it is understood that Evans had made threats. At the time of the killing Mrs. Evans was living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Herndon. Her brother was working at Thayer's mill and Mrs. Evans had gone there to pay him a visit. Mr. Hiers, who is a contractor, was engaged in erecting a building for the mill, and Mrs. Evans had requested him to take her back to her parents' home. While in the car just after starting Mr. Evans,, who had also been working at the mill hauling logs, met them in the road and ordered them to stop the car. Mr. Hiers fearing trouble declined to stop. Evans fired just as the car passed him, the entire load of buckshot entering the left side of the back of his wife and penetrating her heart caused instant death. Other shots were fired at the car but none other took effect. Coroner Dopson was notified and held the inquest at the home of her parents where the body had been taken by Mr. Hiers. The funeral will be at Grace church this afternoon. Mr. Evans was brought to jail yesterday morning by Deputy Sheriff Benton. It is thought he will arrange for bail immediately. Civilization. "What is civilization?" asks a California writer. It's where you stand on a street corner and wait for 10 street cars, 300 automobiles, f?0 motorcycles, 25 bikes, a dozen motor trucks, a few fire engJnesI the police patrol, a hurry-'ip ambulance and a funeral to pass before yoi dare make a try for the opposite corner. During the world war and since Uncle Sam has decorated but thirteen women of this country for the part they played in it. g??II I NEW = m I wish to annourf ag returned from th I date stock of CL< I COAT SUITS, I B in anything that ] I one to come and h courteous treatm ways have, and st come you will feu ly last year yet si Went Over t Yob Can Not Beal 36-in. White Homespi grade Good quality Checked spun Good quality Dress G ham Good Work Shoes for Good Work Shoes for Ladies Good Grade Dress All Wool Men's All Wool Veiour Coat Quit 90 II M. L III TheHouse c A Thought for the Week. My readers may wish to know what constitutes a good farmer. I i think the requirements of a good I farmer are at least four: (1) The ability to make a full and 1 | comfortable living from the land; (2) To rear a family carefully and j' well; (3) To be of good service to the! community; (4) To leave the farm more pro- ' ductive than it was when he took it. ?Dr. Liberty H. Bailey. Longfellow's famous funny poem written for Blanch Roosevelt: rni. _ _ i i i _ . * j ? <ii mere was a iiiue gin, sne naa a 111tle curl Right in the middle of her forehead ; And when she was good, she was , very, very good, And when she was bad, she was v horrid. iSchool supplies of all kinds at Herald Book Store. ANNOUNCEMENTS COUNTY COMMISSIONER Lower District. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of County Commissioner from the lower district in the Democratic primary. I pledge myself to abide by the rules of the Democratic party. J. B. McCORMACK. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of County Commissioner for the lower district, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary and pledge myself to support the nominees thereof. GEORGE W. HUNTER. MAGISTRATE- FISH POND. At the earnest solicitation of numerous friends, I hereby withdraw from the race for County Commissioner for the Lower District, and hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Magistrate of Fish Pond Township, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic party. R. H. JOLLY. NOTICE OF INCORPORATION. Notice is given that on Sept. 11, 1922, the undersigned intend to file with the Secretary of State a written declaration for the purpose of securing, in accordance with the statute law of this State,'a charter for the Edisto Building and Loan Association, a corporation to be established, with its principal place of business at Bamberg, S. C. A. W. KNIGHT, * E. H. HENDERSON, <R. M. HITT, Corporators. FALL LIN Vf COPE ce to the people of Bamberg C e Northern Markets with a co OTHING, SHOES, DRY GO JTC., and am in position to o you may need in the above line ; aspect for yourself and I can as ent regardless of whether you ill do believe in carrying a larg i that. .1 though Ehrhardt has b le he Top and Prosperity i i 1 ft?* Come wis in, good VV" Home-C f 10 FLGI -100 Look & 15c WVVU SOU ... $1.85 m $185 JJuy 63c J C0LL1 $15.00 ? RED. . S14.781 rrum i missi ,EINW, >f Quality Eh i TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF BAMBERG COUNTY. It is with genuine gratitude that I again announce to the public that I am in the second primary for County Commissioner for the Lower District. I appreciate more than I can express the handsome vote given me on the 29th of August}, and Urge my friends to go to the polls on the 12th of September, and if this is done I feel sure that I will be your commissioner for the next two years. Again promising that if elected, I will be found trying to do my full duty and will be the commissioner to friends and foes alike. Yours faithfully, J. B. McCORMACK. CARD FROM J. S. TANT. In reelecting me upper district county commissioner, the voters of Bamberg county have placed me deeply under obligation. I have sincerely tried to do my full duty during my term of office, and I pledge my best efforts to continue the same service. I appreciate every vote given me, and I assure you one and all that I am going to give my whole hearted service to the county. J. S. TAXT. CARD FROM W. B. SMOAK. I desire to express my heartfelt thanks to the voters of Bamberg county for the magnificent vote given me August 29th. I feel that this is an approval of my administration as sur.?- ' ;or of this county, and the fact t t I was overwhelmingly elected on the first ballot will be an incentive for me to render even better service than I have in the past. For each individual vote, and for the generous support in other ways of all my friends. I wish to extend my "'"OflT-o o-nnrPPiatlOTl. W. B. SMOAK. CARD OF THANKS. :f I wish to take this means of thank* ing the voters of Bamberg county for the magnificent vote given me in the primary. .1 appreciate the confidence which the people have reposed in me, and I wish to assure you that I will do all in my power to protect your interest in the lawmaking body of the state, and that I will endeavor to represent all sections of the county impartially. Yours for service, J. CARL KEARSE. CARD OP THANKS. I wish to express to the voters of Ehrhardt and Kearse my sincere thanks for the splendid vote given J me in the primary for magistrate. I appreciate the confidence of the people, and I promise you to continue to conduct the affairs of my office .to the best of my ability. ;.<* L. G. YARLEY. 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