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* T- . . I " i > \ 5% lambwrg ????^ ?^^????? > $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21,1922 Established in 1891. :j?| t Little Folios W Claus Their Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 16, 1922 Dear Old Santa Claus: I am writing you a letter but I have not decided just what I want you to bring me yet but anything you : have for a good little boy like me, < hoping you will visit all the little orphan children this year. Your little friend ALBERT HICKS. Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 16, 1922 Bear Old Santa Claus: < I am waiting you for me and my baby brother Laury. I want you to ; bring me a trunk and a doll baby and ! a tea set and some fruit and fire ; works and Laury wants a horse and a train and goat and wagon. I am a real smart little girl and 'help ! mama all the time, so please don't forget me. Your little girl, ; RUTH, ALICE AND LAURY HICKS. J ] Ehrhardt, S. C., Dec. 15, 1922. 1 Dear "Old" Santa: I am a little girl nine years old, and I am writing to ask you to bring me a d-oll, a horn, a tea set, firen works, some fruit and candy. Please bring my little sister, Frances a ^ "Rockey Horse," a doll and some j candy. Your little girl, ( HELEN (McKENZIE. f P. S. I will be at grandmother's; so don't ride by. Dear Santa Claus: ] Pleast (bring me a doll with curly hair, and some fruit. Your little j friend. CHRISTINE CARTER. x ? Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 15, 1922. * Dear Santa Claus: c Please bring me a doll, doll bed, ( doll carriage, stove, tea set, and table. Also bring me a ring and some fruit, nuts and candy. Well I hope this isn't ] too much I have asked for. Your little friend. t ROSA MAY MITCHELL. t f] Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 14, 1922. t My dear Santa Claus: I I am a very small girl, but I want f you to please (bring me a doll and ^ carriage and a small piano. Do not t forget / my baby sister, Cameron, j Please bring her a rattler and a rubber doll. I remain as ever. Your little girl, I CLEO ELIZABETH CARTER E Ehrhardt, S. C., Dec. 15, 1922. f Dear Santa Claus: 0 You must be sure and come by our t house Christmas night. I will tell you what I want, doll baby and carriage, ball, little wagon, and fruit also chewing gum. -X GEORGE WILLIAM KINARD. f ' Ehrhardt, iS. C., Dec. 15, 1922. f iDear Santa Claus: ^ I want you to bring me a tea-set, stove, rubber ball, and toy automobile, also fruit. Wishing you a Merry Christmas, I R. C. ROBINSON. t Ehrhardt, S. C., Dec. 15, 1922. s Dear Santa Claus: c I am so anxious for you to come I a can hardly wait. I want you to t please bring me a coon jigger, pacifer, ^ and a "cute" little doll that will go t to sleep. I also want some fruit. MAXWELL KINSEY. Ehrhardt, S. C., Dec. 15, 1922. 3 Dear Canta Claus: I would like for you to bring me g a toy horn, cap pistol, and caps, and a baby rattler. Also bring me some j fruit. a nT.ARttNOE MORNINGSTAR. r ? Denmark, S. C., Dec. 14, 1922. c Dear Santa: t It is almost Xmas and I haven't E written you what I want. I want a p doll, tea set, water colors, fruits, r and some fire works. Please try and "bring these to me and don't forget my little brother, J. K. Your little girl. I IMARGUERETTE SANDIFER. ,t Denmark, S. C. Dec. 14, 1922. a My Dear Old Santa: a I am a little girl five (5) years old s and want you to bring me a doll, lit- g tie horn, fruits and fire works, f Please hurry up and come, good bye, t Your little girl HATTIE LOUISE SANDIFER. I Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 11, 1922. Dear Santa Claus: v I want a iMa-Ma doll and lots of s fruit and fire works. Mary wants a h doll and carriage and fruit. Yout a loving friend GRACE BRUCE. rite Santa Xmas Wants' Ehrhardt, S. C., Dec. 11, 1922. * Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy seven years old. s I want you to ibring me a tricycle, ? fire works, candy, fruit and nuts for c Christmas. Your little friend, LEWIS BRABHAM. Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 11, 1922. Dear Santa Claus: I want you to bring R. M. and Ian 1 ? - - -?>_ A t selector set ana an air riiie aau iuio ui fruit. And my little brother wants c rou to bring him a little farm and a ^ little wagon and lots of fire works ^ and fruits. From your friends. R. M. AND JAMES BRUCE. Dear Santa: I am a little girl almost four rears old and I want you to bring me * a big doll that can go to sleep and a 0 little piano and some fruit and candy. c [ am your little girl c SELMA BRICKLE. 1 g Ehrhardt, S. C., Dec. 10, 1922. t Dear Santa: I am a little boy nine years old. I jo to school and I want you to bring ne fruit of all kind and fire works )f all kind, and some caps. Don't for;et me. Your little boy, DERALD McMILLIAN. n Ehrhardt, S. C. y Dear Santa: 1 I am a little girl seven years old. know that you are poor and I am a lot going to ask for much. I want b tome fire works of all kinds, and y ;ome fruit of all kinds and a little loll with hair and some candy. Your Jhild, EDITH MCMILLAN. I Bamberg, S. C. Dec. 8, 1922. }ear Santa: " I am going to ask for a very few * hings this Xmas, because I am going ^ o take a trip to see my sister in Campa and I know I will see so many hings that I will have to buy some. Mease bring me a doll and some E ruit, also my little sister, Sadie, rants a doll too. Papa has promised b o buy me a tricycle too. T tAOHAEL AND SADIE HERNDON. * Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 9, 1922. lear Santa Claus: Please bring me a little electric D notor and three packs of three inch ire crackers and lots of other kinds b: if fire works and some fruit. So good- a >ye, Santa. Your friend, v \MELVIN HITT. h a Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 13, 1922. o: >ear Santa Claus: w Please bring me a bicycle, some a: ruit and fire works. Please do not cl orget to be good to my little friends. four friend. JOHN RILEY BLACK, JR. ( D Govan, S. C., Dec. 11, 1922. )ear Santa Claus: o I want you to please bring me a toy Sj op buggy, with a mule hitched up, S( ome fire works, some chocolate a andy, some oranges, apples, bananas Ci nd raisins. I am five years old I go cj o school, I am in the first grade. I t< ry to be a good little boy. Your litle friend, RUSSELL WILLIAMS. D Govan, S. C., Dec. 11, 1922. ly Dear Santa Claus: oi I am a little boy seven years old. I & ;o to school at Govan, I am in the .dvanced first grade. I study hard. Jlease bring me some fire crackers, , toy train, some nice candy and lots ^ f all kinds of fruit. Please don't for jet iny litue sister, sue is iwu jeaio g( ild, she wants a pretty book and a o: iig doll, some candy and apples. Her lame is Blanche Octavia. Now ilease don't neglect this I am your fiend, E DAVID HECKLE WILLIAMS. y< Govan, S. C. Dec. 11, 1922. )ear Santa Claus: eI want you to please bring me a licycle, some oranges, grapes, candy, g, nd butternuts. I am going to school y ,t Govan. I am in the third grade, I tudy hard, I study five books, I for;ot to tell you that I wanted some j) ire works too, I will close for this ime, Your friend, b; GARY WILLIAMS. A ibi )ear Santa Claus: . ^ I wrant a doll table, and a doll chair s] rith handles, a little fork, knife, a, poon, cup and caucer, a doll, a bed, jj orn, fireworks, pistol, box of candy, , tricycle. Your little friend, IMARY CECILE BRABHAM. >j Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 9, 1922. )ear Santa: I want a bicycle, foot ball, cap pisol, and fire works. Wishing you a nerry Xmas, your friend, ERNEST FREE. )ear Santa Claus: I want a game board, air riflle and tome shot and a steam engine and ;ome fruit and candy. And please lon't forget, I am your little boy, ERNEST BRICKLE. Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 12, 19'?2. dy Dear Santa: I want you to bring me a try tele)hone, a doll, rolling chair, a nice 100k for girls, a gold bracelet, a box >f candy, fruit, and plenty of fire - - ? * i vorks, doll, brush, a norn ana cnna s lesk. Your little friend, CLARICE BRABHAM. Ehrhardt, S. C., Dec. 15, 1922. Ay Dearest Santa: I am a good little boy, so please ring me a ibox of all day suckers to arry to Ashton, a toy automobile ause mine's broken. A nail file beause my nails are growing out. This 3 all I want and please Santa Claus ;o by Ashton there's some body down here! Lots of candy kisses. Your ousin, ABIE KRAWCHEK. Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 8, 1922. )ear Old Santa: Mother says I have been very good his year and she knows you will visit ie on Christmas Eve. I am sending ou a small note to let you know what want for Christmas. I want a little doll and a cradle nd carriage. I also want a little ook. Bye-bye Santa Claus. Hoping ou will visit. RUBY PEARSON. Bamberg, S.C., Dec. 8, 1922. tear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 7 years old. I rant you to bring me a foot ball, flrerorks, electric car, a train with track our little friend, CLARENCE BLACK. Ehrhardt, S. C., Dec. 8, 1922 'ear Santa Claus: I want you to bring me a doll, icycle, a bugle and some fruit, hat's all I want you to bring me. I ill close, from your friend, ODISSA SANDIFER. Ehrhardt, S. ., Dec. 7, 1922. >ear Santa Claus:; I am glad it is Christmas. Please ring me some applies, oranges and nice box of candy. Bring me a toy ratch that when you wind it the ands will move and I want it to be wrist watch. Bring me a ibig box f crayons, too, and a box of pink riting paper. I am eleven years old nd I want a pair of gloves. I will lose. Prom your freind, WILHELMiNA SANDIFER. Ehrhardt, S. C., Dec. 7, 1922. 'ear Santa Claus: Please remember me. I am a new 1 ne on your list. Please bring me a winning top, a bugle, a watoh, and )me roman candles, chewing gum, pples, oranges, and a nice box of andy. Remember the other little hildren and carry them something . _ T7i ?-? a JO. r rum yuur mcuu, SAMUEL SANDIFER. Ehrhardt, S. C., Dec. 12, 1922. ear Santa Claus: :Pleaee bring me two apples, two ranges, two ibananas, some candy, I iblet 15 marbles, THELMA HIERS. Ehrhardt, S. C. ear Santa Claus: 1 Please bring me a pair stockings, >me overalls, knife, marbles, mouthrgan, LITTLE NORWORD HIERS. Bamberg S. C., Dec, 16, 1922. ear Santa: il am a little girl not quite four Bars old. Santa please bring me a ttle doll that can open and shut her res, and a little trunk to put her ttle dresses in, don't forget little elma. I wish you a merry Christmas, our little girl. PAULENE CRIDER. ear Santa: Please bring me five cans of paint, lne, white, red, yellow and green, nd a foot ball, horn, one pair of Dy's skates and a little train, a fine agon, fire crackers, roman candle9, ty rockets, snake in the grass, and svil on the walk. I will be a good ttle boy, McKAY BRABHAM, ore Santa Clans Letters on Page 4. Description of Attack on Mine '.Marion, 111., Dec. lo.?The attack on the Heflin "strip" mine, the death march through the town with the captives and the hunting down of a few fugitives was described today by witnesses at the trial of five men held in connection with the killings. All but one of the defendants were named as havine been seen with a gun during the progress of the rioting, Ibut all the witnesses so far heard have declared they could not identify any persons they had seen in the act of shooting at the victims. In an argument between opposing counsel, Judge D, T. Hartwell, ruling in favor of the prosecution, said: "I want the whole thing to come out, and I do not want to exclude any testimony on a mere technicality." The defendants who have been pointed out by witnesses as having been seen carrying guns during the rioting are Otis Clark, Bert Grace, Joseph Carranghi and Levi iMann. The name of Peter Hiller, the fifth defendant, has not yet appeared in any of the testimony. Donald <M. Ewing, a Chicago newspaper man, who wrote the first account of the killings for the Associated Press, picked out Grace from among the defendants as a man who had threatened him with a gun when he attempted to bring a drink of water to two injured men who were lying on a sun-baked road, surround ed by a crowd of armed men just outside of Herrin. The witness said there were six dead or wounded men lying in the road, all of them bound together by a single rope tied ahouf their necks. "Grace put his foot on one of the wounded men and pushed," the witness declared, and quoted the defendant as saying with a curse: "You'll get no water here." Three other witnesses testified as to various incidents in connection with the tragedy. At the close of the afternoon session Judge Hart well announced an adjournment of court over Saturday and Sunday. PARIES REMOVED TO CELL BUILDING Columbia, Dec. 15.?Notice of intention to appeal to the supreme court from the lower court verdict was served upon the penitentiary au thorities yesterday by attorney ior W. C. Faries, the York county man convicted of the murder of Newton Taylor and sentenced to die in the electric chair December 29. This notice automatically stays the death sentence. Faries was removed from the death house after the notice was served and was placed In the main cell building pending the outcome of his appeal. Yesterday two cells in the death house were vacant, Faries having been removed and Ira Harrison being in the prison hospital. Harrison was still in his apparent stupor or state of coma in the afternoon when seen at the hospital. He refuses to talk and takes no interest in happenings around him. However, he eats when he is fed. Edmund Bigham, the Pamplico, man convicted of the murder of his brother, L. Smiley Bigham, is rounding out 20 months in the death house. Yesterday he again declared he was innocent and that if he had received a fair trial he could have proved his innocence. Bigham does not consider that he has ever been tried. In the cell next to Bigham is Frank iM. Jeffords. Yesterday Jeffords was reading a Bible and when asked how he was feeling replied "Pretty good." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. From Specialists' Correspondence With Farmers. How can I get rid of nut grass on a olot 10 yards square??S. M. M., Sumter. I believe the most effective method of eradicating nut grass from a plot of ground ten yards square would be to spade your land deep, throw out all the roots and nuts as you go. If this is repeated two or three times, you can completely rid your ground of the nut grass. Of course, after the first time this is not a difficult task. The only other method I know is to shade the gras9 to death. On a small plot like yours this may be done effectively with building paper or by cropping with plants which make a dense shade throughout the year. House Unseats T. W. Harrison Washington, Dec. 15.?Representative Thomas W. Harrison, Democrat, of the Seventh Virginia district, was ousted today from the House on the ground of irregularities in the 1920 election in his district. The vote was 202 to 100. The House then seat ed John P. Aull, Republican contestant, who will serve to iMarch 4. In a (parting shot at his Republican foes just before the vote was taken, Representative Harrison, charged that the life of the Republican party in his State was based on ipatronage, and then proceeded to read letters which he declared "proved incontrovertibly" that patronage had been sold there. Amid the utmost confusion in the chamber iMr. Harrison declared that Representative Bascomb Slemp, of the Ninth Virginia district, and Republican national committeeman, was the dispenser of all patronage. Then, holding aloft a handful of letters and cancelled checks, Mr. Harrison declared they supported his charges. While he made no reiply in the House, IMr. Slemp, in a statement tonight said that neither Powell nor anybody else had been authorized to collect money for the party organization with the promise of office, and if this had been done it was without his knowledge or approval. The first of the letters read by Mr. Harrison purported to have been written by Mr. Slemp to Powell in answer to letters "in regard to the collection of money for postoffices." "One must "be very careful about this." the letter said. "It will bring the party into disrepute, which would be bad for every one. We must preserve our stand with the people and the administration." It was on the heels of Mr. Harrison's speech, which Republicans described as an effort to attack >Mr, Slemp, that the House shut off debate and voted, 202 to 100, to declare his seat vacant. With this done, it voted, 201 to 99, to seat John P. Auli, Republican contestant, who was immediately sworn in to serve until March 4. Mr. Harrison was elected in November and will return to his seat in the new Congress. i ? MOTHER AND SON FINED One Year Each for Violating Prohibition Law. Greenville, Dec. 13.?Mother and son stood before the bar of justice today in the county court when Mrs. S. E. Hartin and Lee Roy Hartin were sentenced thy Judge M. F. Ansel to corvp sentences of a vear each with WW. . w __ - I out the alternative of a fine for violation of the prohibition laws. The son was convicted in one case and pleaded guilty in another. The mother pleaded guilty in two cases, and was sentenced to serve four months and eight months in the penitentiary, while the son is to serve on the puiblic works. Playing Postman. "And where have you been, my pet?" asked Willie's mother when he returned after an unusually long absence. "Playing postman," replied the family hope. "And how did you play postman, sweetest?" she asked. "Why, I left a letter at every house in the road," explained the prodigy; "real letters, too." "But wherever did my darling get the real letters from?" inquired mamma, smiling. "Out of your wardrobe drawer," responded Willie triumphantly. "Those old ones, tied up with pink ribbons."?Pearson's Weekly. A Sure Sign. Two young kindergarten teachers, intelligent and attractive, while rid lag downtown in a street oar were engaged in an animated discussion. In the seat behind them sat a goodnatured, fatherly looking Irishman enjoying a nap. Finally one kindergarten teacher inquired of the other: "How may children have you?" "Twenty-two," she replied, "and how many have you?" "Oh, I have only nineteen," replied the first. At this point the Irishman, now wideawake with astonishment, leaned forward in his seat and without any formality inquired in a loud voice, "sure, and phat party nv Ireland did yse ladies come from?" ?Charleston News and Courier. f 4 Not to Interfere In Jeffords Case j < * -vColumbia, S. C. Dec. 17.?Governor Harvey will not interfere with the sentence of death against Frank M. Jeffords, according to his reply to a personal letter -from Jeffords, made public at the executive offices yesterday. "Interference by me solely on the grounds of kindness, sympathy and good will, would be to flaunt the duly provided system of trial provided 'by law." the envernor savs 'in his letter ' " w w ' f to Jeffords. The letter was written in response to a personal plea from Jeffords in the form of a letter and & petition for clemency. 'iMy heart goes out to those who love you, and I only wish some real justification warranted me in being 'v of help to you," the governor says. His full letter to Jeffords is as follows: "Dear Mr. Jeffords: Your letter received. You will never know just how sorry I am for you?how I feel for you and your dear ones, and how I would like to give you some hope in your trouble. My heart goes out to those who love you, and I only wish some real justification warranted me in being of help to you. The governor is not giving the power of clemency, based on sympathetic grounds. There must be some reason, not known to the courts. You were oopnr/linc tn tho law?-tTlft ' i UUi/ Li JIV/U, UVVVl UiU^ VV V*?v f. ' *"4 higher courts have pased on the legality of the acts of the lower courts? appeals through the regular channels have all Jbeen exhausted, and interference by me solely on grounds of kindness, sympathy and good will would be to flaunt the duly provided system of trial provided by law. It is not easy for me to write this. It is heartrending to me?and I am thinking of you, my poor fellow, many times when you do not know it. I have . ,. ";M I my solemn duty to perform, whatever it costs me, and I would not be doing you -fairly, if I answered you otherwise. "I was silently praying that your ^ > case would be carried beyond my term " V? of oflice. I am truly sorry for you, and to you and yours I have naught but good will and kindness, and if I could give you something that was < mine, I'd give it at any sacrifice, hut I can not give that which the stat* hag or demands, no matter what it costs me personally in grief and sor? \ row. MAY TAKE HOSPITAL. Gaffney Offer to Baptists May Be Accepted. The offer of the Gaffney hospital, valued at more than $50,000, and the gifts from the people of Gaffney of $75,000, was discussed in detail at the final pre-convention meeting of the Baptist general iboard which met Tuesday morning and the matter was , referred to the general convention without recommendation, says the Columbia Record of Tuesday. / ; The offer was to give to the board of trustees of the South Carolina Baiptist hospital theihospital at Gaffney* and $75,000 with which to build a nurses' home and improve the hospital building in general. It is understood that the executive committee of the board recommended to the general board that it accept the offer, but it was found expedient to refer the matter of acceptance to the South. Carolina Baptist convention, which, was held in Rock Hill. The session Tuesday morning had a full attendance of the Baptist hoard and the routine business was disiSj patched rapidly and with harmony, according to Dr. C. E. Burts, secretary of the board. CAJLCHIM ARSENATE. Bank in Newberry Bays TwentyTons for Use by Farmers on Next Crop. Newberry, Dec. 14.?The Exchange bank has bought a carload, 20 tons, of calcium arsenate and will have it ~ ' * * ? 1 A _ * shipped to isewDerry ana pui m w?ichouse for the use of farmers on next years's cotton crop in fighting the boll weevil. The bank does this not to make money, for it does not intend to make a cent by it; but it believes the calcium arsenate is going to ibe scarce and high next year and is getting this much in hand for use of the 'farmers. Numbers of farmers in the county have said they would have made much larger crops this year but for the fact that they had run out of calcium arsenate at the last time or two it should have been applied and were not able to get more, ? i' - ' j?J| f'' . . . /.'