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Still Explodes As the result of an explosion oc-j curring at a "moonshine" still about; S o'clock yesterday morning on John's Island, near Grimball's plantation, Tyre Middleton sustained injuries which caused his death about noon yesterday at the Roper Hospital where he was taken for treatment, j Arthur Champagne was painfully j burned on the hand and Dick Sin-; gleton escaped unhurt. After being! given medical treatment Champagne: was lodged in the county jail, for' Sheriff Poulnoi had been notified of! the affair and had hastened to the i scene, accompanied by Rural Police-j man Limehouse ana .Magistrate Geraty. In spite of his name, the prisoner denied that he had any NEGROES FLEECED New Skin Game Brought to Light in Greenwood. With two negro artists in high fi-' nance in the county jail, Greenwood police officers have uncovered a new j scheme to separate the unsuspecting' from his coin, and A. A. Pinckney, | negro preacher of Promise Land, is a poorer and a wiser man. Telling Pinckney that they had a child whose! guardianship they wanted him to take, along with $1,600 for its board and keep, three negroes, claiming to represent a fraternal order, suggested that it would be necessary for him to put up a $500 cash bond. Pinckney agreed to raise the $500 and met the mree uueuiuers 01 uie iraienicu order in the woods near Connie Maxwell Orphanage about 4:30 Saturday afternoon. There, lest he might change his mind, the three alleged to have taken the preacher's money by force and left him to nurse his wrath alone, sans money, sans child, sans $1,6*00 for its upkeep. Through the prompt action of Chief of Police M. B. Chandler and Sheriff E. M. White. J. P. Johnson, claiming to be from Birmingham and Thomas Williams, claiming New Orleans as his native heath, are now in jail charged with fleecing the preacher, while the country is being scoured for the third of the fraternal brethren. When the negroes were searched, officers found $10.60 on the person of Johnson and $7.15 on Williams. The search was continued and Officer C. T. Nelson found ten $20 bills in the toe of Williams's shoe. "1 made that workin' " Williams declared, "and I been usin' my shoe for a bank." After the run on the bank, the two financiers were lodged in jail. Chief Chandler states that the ne j a j .. 1 1 grues were uressea in monies uj. me | latest cut and had soft hands that seemed foreign to labor. "On October 14, a negro in Anderson was robbed of $200 in a similar game, and he came here the next day with a description of the swindlers that seem to fit the pair in jail," Chief Candler said this morning. "I wish anyone who has been flim-flammed would come and try to identify them," he added. Porterfieid Robbinson, Greenwood negro, savg he worked with Johnson; in a New York hotel, and that John-1 son had a police record there. The third negro, who is still at j large, is described as stout, about j five feet, eight inches tall, weighing! about 165 pounds. He is said to be I rather black, with a scar over and un- j der one eye. WHIPPING FOR BOOTLEGGERS (From The Greenwood IndexJournal) The Philadelphia Public Ledger publishes the following communication from one of its subscribers: Sir?The six-line dispatch from Turkey telling of the English bootlegger getting thirty lashes for sell-; inz his stock in that country is de-j cidedly refreshing and is very sug-l gestive. Our lawmakers should take > the hint, and whenever a bootlegger is caught he should be treated to a full does of the lash at a whipping post. It must assuredly would act as a deterrent. With such an absolutely necessary law, rigidly enforced, our neighbors, the Bermudians, and ^ T_ our British cousins, to say noming ui our home bootleggers, would not be giving the authorities so much trouble. The Turk has his failures, but he has the right "dope" when he comes to dealing with the anti-Koran bootlegger. Let us have the "cat". It is a great aid to law and order in j Deleware. Why not in Pennsylvania? i The Pennsylvania bootlegger may j need that kind of treatment to make*! him behave, but down this way we j look upon public whipping as a relic! of a somewhat barbarous period, j Anyway we don't have to worry j about new methods of punishment, j We sent them to the chaingan? with-! out the alternate of a fine. >; Man Killed connection with the liquor making, operations. Singleton was also arrested as a witness in the case. The fatal explosion occurred in a i large can, resembling the kind of container used for trash. It was unknown yesterday just how the unusual accident happened, but it: was supposed that the can was covered tightly and that the heat J from the fire, combining with other causes, led to the explosion that resulted in the death of one man and the arrest of his two companions. All three are said to be colored. Middleton's arni9 and his left leg were broken as a result of the explosion and he was also badly scalded. He was about twenty-five years of age.?News and Courier. MIGRATORY BIRDS. Thousands of Them Are Now On Their Way South. (Yorkville Enquire.) Migratory birds are on their way south again and may be observed, stopping to feed and to rest. A few ducks have been noticed passing over Yorkville, and occasionally, a phalanx of wild geese, flying so high that their "honk," "honk" is barely audible, is seen. The marking of migratory waterfowl, which has been practiced by the collaborators of the Biological Survey, United States department of agriculture, has given evidence that it will be a most interesting and important investigation. Although the work has been in progress for only two years it has had noticeable results, it is announced. Ducks and other birds, the movements of which are being studied by this method, are caught, mainly by the use of special traps, light aluminum bands are placed on one leg and the captives * - - 3 - ? ? J Ar?f y?A_ I are reieasea, says a ucpauiucm, import. Every band bears a serial number and the legend "Biol. Surv. Wash., D. C." j In the Washington office of the Biological Survey these banded birds are card indexed, so that when a hunter bags a duck bearing a band and reports its capture, by referring to the card file the route covered by the bird in question can be ascertained. When such records are received the hunter is advised where the bird was banded, while the person who attached the band is informed where the bird fell. During the fall seasons for the last few years a large number of mallards and black ducks, with a few American, because the species also winters in small numbers in the Gulf region, ana it is to that area that the more northern birds might be expected to go. AIKEN CITIZENS / NOMINATE COUNCIL Gaston Leads in Mayoralty Race. Mrs. W. E. Duncan Defeated. Aiken, Nov. 6.?In the municipal election held here today, Dave W. Gaston, Jr., incumbent, lead the ticket for mayor, lacking only 23 votes of defeating his two opponents, W. J. Mosely, former mayor, and B. F. Etheredge. on the first ballot. In the second primary to be held next Monday, Mr. Gaston and Mr. Moseley will run over. Mr. Gaston's vote was 310. Moseley received 1S3 and Mr. Etheredge 172. Six members of city council were elected, these being: Dr. Ben Wyman with 4 93 votes, O. S. Dukes with 396, B. M. Surasky with 355, John Shuler with 379, M. T. Dyches with 352 and Flint Hendrix with 272. Mrs. Walter Duncan lacked only 11 votes of being elected. A large number of incorrectly marked tickets for council were thrown out and not counted. Mrs. Duncan received 262 votes. P. B. Glover 269. Robert Laird 205. and OIlie Xappier 4 9. It is generally conceded that Mrs. Duncan would have been elected except for the throwing out of approximately 100 votes. A Xew Kind of Friction. The insurance adjuster who had been investigating the fire turned to j go. I ' " 1 -> _ -e ? J * it. . " i came aown nere to una uui lub cause of this fire, and I have done so," he remarked. "That's what I want to know. What caused it?" demanded the house owner. "It's a plain case of friction?" "What-va-mean?friction?" "The fire was undoubtedly caused by rubbing a three-thousand-dollar insurance policy on a two-thousanddollar house."?Everybody's Magazine. if' Miss Dorothy Gray, noted beauty sculptor, recently insured her hands for ?1 00,000. ATTY. GEN. ASKS DAMAGES. Wolfe Sues Anderson Newspaper for $30,000 Over Criticism. Anderson, Nov. 3.?Asking damages in the sum of $50,000 of the Advocate Publishing company, G. P. Browne, as editor and publisher of the Anderson Daily Mail, Samuel Wolfe, attorney general of South Carolina has instituted proceedings alleging that the defendant allowed to be published in the columns of the Daily Mail, newspaper articles signed by John V. Stribling, in connection with the recent Georgia-Carolina boundary suit, which made "vituperative and libelous attacks upon the plaintiff." The attorney general was in the city today and a copy of the summons was served upon Mr. Browne by Sheriff Marett this afternoon. The summons deals at much length with the boundary suit which was irtl* f/\ a + Cto f ac Cd A Cli IU LUC L UllCU JU1/4 v?-?? court and that after settlement there the defendants "persistently and relentlessly continued to publish said defamatory articles and said false and malicious charges, of the said John V. Stribling, giving editorial and tentative endorsement and sanction to said defamatory articles and charges furnishing the medium of disseminating said defamatory articles, language and charges,, to the public, wilfully and maliciously designing and intending said publication to impeach the honesty of the plaintiff, expose him to contempt, ridicule or obloquy and to injure him socially, officially, politically and professionally, to his damage in the sum of fifty thousand dollars." The summons further charges that on June 18. 1920, issue of the Daily Mail over the signature of John V. Stribling, "an article discrediting to plaintiff's conduct of said case appeared and in which occurs particularly the following words: TWOfa folio for short of his *>11. ? > WliV J.U44W JL V* ? v - duty to the state and people in resting his defense plea upon a document so defective, inadequate, questionable as to that of the socalled Beaufort treaty." Work. John Wannamaker is authority for this story by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: "I sat one evening over my Shakespeare, when a sentence popped up that puzzled me, so I said to my father, siting near: 'Father, what does this mean: " 'There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.' What kind of tide would that be, father?" "Tied down to business, son!" my father replied.?Savannah Morning News. TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of state, county, school and all other taxes from the 15:h day of November, 1922, until the 15th day of March, 1923, inclusive. From the' first day of January, 1923, until the 31st day of January, 1923, a penalty of 1 per cent, will be added to all unpaid t:-xes. From the first d<-,v of February, 1923, unt:i ibe 28th day of February,1923, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all iinriaid tnvac "FVnm fho fircf rtov r?f i i* VV i V* * A V^AV iiA K? w UUJ V i. .March, 1923, until the 15th of March 1923, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. The Levy. For State purposes 7 1-2 mills For county purposes 7 mills Constitution school tax....3 mills For highway purposes ....1 1-2 mills Total 19 mills Special School Levies. Bamberg, Xo. 14 21 1-2 mills Binnaker's Xo. 12 3 mills Buford's Bridge, Xo. 7 ....4 mills Clear Pond, Xo. 19 2 mills Colston, Xo. 18 9 mills Denmark, Xo. 21 16 mills Ehrhardt, Xo. 22 19 mills Fish Pond, Xo. 5 2 mills Go van, Xo. 11 12 mills Hutto, Xo. 6 6 mills Hampton, Xo. 3 2 mills Hey ward, Xo. 24 2 mills Hopewell, Xo 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, Xo. 16 12 mills Lees, Xo. 23 8 mills Lemon Swamp, Xo. 13 4 mills T.ittlo SvnTrm "NTn 17 8 milla Midway, Xo. 2 2 mills Oak Grove, Xo. 20 10 mills Olar, Xo. 8 16 mills Oakland, No. 15 8 mills St. John's, Xo. 10 8 mills Salem, Xo. 9 12 mills Three-Mile, Xo. 4 8 mills West End, Xo. 25 10 mills All persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years, except Confederate soldiers and sailors, who are exempt at 50 vears, are liable to a poll tax of $1.00. Capitation dog tax, $1.25. All male persons who were 21 years of age on or before the first day of January, 1921, are liable to a poll tax of SI, and all who have not made re:urns to the auditor are re! quested to do 90 on or before the I first day of January, 1922. and there1 by save penalty and costs. I will receive the commutation I road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of Xovember. 1922 to [ the 15th day of March. 1923. In addition to the above levies I there is a three mill levy for drain! age on all property in the town of Bamberg and some of the surrounding territory. G. A. JEXXIXGS, Treasurer of Bamberg County. 1 Eversh; and l "Miliar PEN* Reduced 2 If you contemplate during the Christr pay you to buy on it until then, for w there will be no m TUTMt i nnir A $1.00 pencil foi for $1.12; a $2.0( We have them as and they are all rc Boxed & P< Some of the nicest section and at pri< please. Come in i and V Ullll/l/ U11U Ul Everthing for eith of the largest lines we guarantee our l&Vi t&AM M*r Mail Orders Filled Day Received mm |AH j^y nA ^^^B iBH 9S HfflH a^SS&HS^H D^HI KfciBB #HE? wBBVS^XBH ^^B ? 9B n ns wpn 9B| %gn m gBuBi an HH * B U HB ui ?g Bj hb MA ^flBB Bma ^ WW HW ? i nl - * <?? N \ C1LS 1 . :-; J 5 Per Cent -:y^ e making a nresent ? ? U I" y. nas Holidays it will 1 e of these and save hen these are gone | ore at these prices. :of it r 75c; $1.50 pencil ) pencil for $1.50. high as $5.00 each educed 25 per cent. 1 i in 1 mind r aper t ever shown in this vj :es that are sure to and see it. 25c up. % chool Supplies r-v, ' ier. We have one i in this section and prices to be right. 1 0. Bamberg, South Carolina