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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1906 One Dollar a Year
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
' Pungent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
The latest news is that Mr. C. C.
Featherstone, of Laurens, will not enter
the race for governor this year.
The white men who lynched a negro
near Honea Path last September are being
tried in Abbeville this week.
Mr. Newton Y. Manly, a Confederate
veteran, sixty-five years old, and his
grandson were killed by lightning near
their home in Laureos county last Monday.
Mr. P. H. Fike, of Spartanburg, for a
number of years connected with the
Spartanburg Herald, has been appointed
private secretary to Congressman Jos. T.
Johnson.
B. A. Morgan, of Greenville, has decided
not to enter the race for governor, and
he will retire from politics for the present*
He has recently been elected president
of a new bank in Greenville.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hudson were
burned to death in their house in Walhalla
last Friday morning at three o'clock.
It is not know \ how the fire originated,
bat it is supposed iu uc akuu?u.w.
Gov. Heyward says he would like to
act on the investigating committee's suggestion
and remove Maj. Black from the
board of control, if he has the authority;
and that question he has submitted to the
attorney general.
John Williams, a white man, was
t lodged in jail at Spartanburg last week
charged with attempted assault on a
negro girl, but was later released, as there
was no evidence against him. The girl
was not injured in any way.
Dave Chapman was shot and killed by
m. Jim Jackson in Saluda county last Sunday.
Both parties are young white men.
Jackson claims self-defense, sayingChapman
was advancing on him with an open
knife, but the witnesses to the killing say
differently.
Representative J. 0. Patterson has succeeded
in having the Naval Station at
Port Royal retained as a training station,
and the naval appropriation bill carries
an item of $96,000 for this purpose. Mr.
Patterson has done good work in this
and his effort* are to be commended.
The sessions of the dispensary investigating
committee are getting interesting,
- " not to say sensational. Last week Mr.
W. 6. Childs told the committee he be
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blanked if he'd answer certain questions
regarding jokes passed by whiskey drumk
mers.
-v The State Press Association is to meet
; at the Isle of Palms on Wednesday, June
27th. A most interesting program has
been arranged, and every newspaperman
in the State should attend the meeting.
The annual address is to be delivered by
Mr. Ambrose E. Gonzales, of the Columbia
State.
Major John Ferguson, a prominent
citizen of Pickens county, was killed last
Thursday by being gored by a thoroughbred
Guernsey bull. He had just finish>
fppdinur 4iig stock when the bull at
tacked him. The animal crashed his
skull and pushed his head under the barn.
He was carried into the house and died a
few minutes later. Maj. Ferguson was
about 65 years old.
Governor Heyward has not removed
Maj. John Black as dispensary director,
as the attorney general has advised that
' the committee furnish further sworn
proof of the offense, and if this is done
that a rule then issue against Mr. Black
to show why he should not be removed.
That at the hearing under this rule the
committee and Mr. Black be present. The
1. governor has informed the committee of
this opinion and referred it to them for
farther action.
At the hearing of the dispensary investigating
committee in Columbia/Taest
day, Mr. A. A. Bristow, a prominent
business man of Greenville, testified that
Abe Hamburger, a whiskey drummer,
stated to him and Mr. Jesse jk. omiinmat
he had paid $8,000 rebates in cash in
order to get an order for whiskey amounting
to $67,000 from the dispensary. The
drummer would not say who he had paid
the money to, but he said they made up
m the rebates by doctoring the whiskey.
At a hearing of the dispensary investigating
committee last Wednesday, Mr. W.
W. Smoak, Jr., cashier of a bank at
Walterboro, testified that J. W. Walker,
a member of the house of representees,
made a draft for $75 on H. H. Evans,
, chairman of the State board of control,
and that the draft was returned unpaid.
Smoak also testified that Walker said
v John Black, member of tbe dispensary
' board, had given him a $40 suit of clothes.
The lie was passed between the two men
on the clothes matter. Walker said the
$75 draft was for a gun which Evans had
promised to give him.
> SHAW'S PURE MALT is only sold
in the original bottling, and the hole in
the center of the label is patented?al*
ways insist on "the label with the hole."
For sale at the dispensary.
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NEGRO EJECTED FROM CAR.
Boston Lawyer Put Off Train in Alabama.
Chattanooga, Term., May 30.?Beverly
C. Ransom, a negro of "ginger-cake
color," was ejected from a Southern railway
train near Newport, Tenn., because
he persisted in riding in a white coach
and talking to a pretty white girl.
On his person was found a speech
which he delivered at Faneuil Hall on the
occasion of the William Lloyd Garrison
celebration, December 11, in which the
negro advocated the intermarriage of the
races in strongest terms and in which he
said that the South is degenerating simply
because the whites will not marry the
blacks.
Hon. W. T. McSween, a prominent east
Tennessee lawyer, saw the negro in the
white car and approaching him, told the
negro to get out, and at the same time
took hold of his grip. The negro refused
to move until the conductor told him to
get out, and he then obeyed the conductor,
leaving with reluctance and not before
he had" vowed he was as good as anybody
else in that car.
Ransom got on the train at Salisbury,
N. C., and is said to be a prominent negro
lawyer in Boston, Mass.
Justice to Mr. Lyon.
Because of rumors and evidence of
wrung doing in the management of the
dispensary the Legislature felt called
upon to appoint an investigating com
mittee whose duty it should be to ascertain
facts and report the same.
In the matter of looking up evidence,
sub-committees were appointed and one
of these was composed of Messrs. Lyon
and Christensen. They entered upon this
delicate and disagreeable duty with no
other object than that of serving the
State faithfully and efficiently, while dealing
fairly and impartially with the citizen.
One of the most delicate and difficult
questions that the committee has been
called on to decide is, where is the line
of demarcation between a man's private
character, which should be unassailable,
and his official acts for which he should
be held accountable. The citizen and the
officer may differ as to the line of demarcation,
and upon this difference of opinion
troubles have arisen.
In all that has been said and done the
committee should be riven credit,through
oat the State, for honesty and zeal in the
discharge of its duty.
It was in this spirit that the committee
invited Senator Tillman to appear before
it. Sitting as a court of inquiry as well
as a court, of judgment, it was but justice
to Senator Tillman that he be asked to
appear. At no previous time had there
been a legally constituted committee before
whom facts about the dispensary
during his administration could be made
known. It was an opportunity for Senator
Tillman to place upon record the facts.
Responsibilities for the investigation of
Senator Tillman's connection with the
dispensary rests not with the sub committee
but with those would be traducers of
the system and of him in connection
with it.
Long before the members of the sub
committee entered public life, insinuations,
if not direct charges, were made
through the newspapers. It is safe to
say that t^e members of the committee
did not believe them. Mr. Lyon himself
did not, but in the spirit of fairness to
Senator Tillman the opportunity was
offered to brand slanderous imputations
for all time. It is to be hoped that the
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the verdict of the committee to again
bring np those stale charges, proven false.
Mr. Lyon has been zealous in discharging
his duty. Such is his nature. Those
who know him well, know that his
purpose is to be fair. No man at home
bears a better reputation for integrity. It
is manifestly unjust to censure Mr. Lyon
for the faithful performance of a duty
laid on him by the people through the
Legislature. He has discharged and is
discharging a public duty so faithfully
that he deserves the well done of all the
people. His work is doubly deserving
because of its laborious and disagreeable
features.?Abbeville Ptess and Banner.
AN ALARMING SITUATION
frequently results from neglect of clogged
bowels and torpid liver, until constipattion
becomes chronic. This condition
is unknown to those who use Dr. King's
New Life Pills; the best and gentlest regu
lators or siomacn ana Doweis. uuaranteed
by Hoover's drug store and J. B.
Black. Price 25c.
Big One Story.
Senator Clay of Georgia, was once
showing a constituent the sights of the
national capitol when the "Washington
monument was reached, says the American
Spectator.
"What do you think of it?" carelessly
asked the senator, as the constituent
stood gazing at the stately shaft.
"Senator," responded the Georgian,
gravely, "that's the darndest highest onestory
building I've ever seen."
The white men who were tried at Abbeville
this week for lynching a negro
near Honea Path last September, were
found not guilty. Several of the Ashleys
were charged with being in the lynching
party.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS.
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Aronnd
the Connty and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, June 4?Several of our
townsmen attended the 50th anniversary
of the Beaufort Masonic Lodge, No. 27,
at Jenny's Saturday. The lodge gave a
dinner for the occasion.
Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt and children, accompanied
by Mrs. Frank H. Copeland,
have gone on a visit to her mother, Mrs.
H. F. Cline, at Newberry. They will
spend two or three weeks and take in the
commencement exercises of Newberry
college.
Messrs. Charley Kinsey and Frank H.
Copeland went to Bamberg yesterday to
attend the commencement exercises of
the Carlisle Fitting School.
Quite a crowd of our townsmen will
ga to Ivanhoe to take a couple days fish
and pleasure.
Cotton crops are very small all over
the country this year. Seems as if it
can't grow. All our farmers are complaining
of its backwardr?ss.
Town election on the 5th instant. Intendant
and four wardens will be elected.
Have heard of but few candidates out for
the positions yet.
We had several warm showers Saturday
afternoon and night, also Sunday evening
and night. Will improve the looks
of our lousy cotton perhaps. Jee.
The Dostofflce department has issued
? *r - an
order, effective July 1, which requires
that every person in the country who deposits
mail in their boxes, shall display a
flag or adequate signal over the box to
let the carrier know when it is necessary
for him to detour to reach the box, and
also when a carrier places mail in a box,
he will raise the signal to let the owner
know that there is mail for him. When
the carrier takes mail from the box or
when the patron removes his mail, Jeaving
the box empty, the signal will be
lowered.
fitting School Matters.
The board of control of the Carlisle
Fitting School held meetings here Monday
and Tuesday, at which a number of
important matters were attended to.
Mr. W. S. Hogan, Jr., of Congaree,
Richland county, was elected Headmaster.
Mr. Hogan is a young man, progressive
and enthusiastic, and the school ought to
be a still greater success under his management,
with the able assistance of Mr.
W. D. Roberts, first assistant. Mr. Hogan
is a graduate of the South Carolina college
at Columbia, class of 1900, and has
been teaching at Ridgewav, Fairfield
county, for the past two or three years.
Mrs. W. H. Shuler, of St. George, was
elected matron of the boarding hall for
girls.
The second assistant and music teacher
will soon be selected, this matter being
left with the local board and the Headmaster.
The board decided not to dispense
with the services of Rev. Marion Dargan,
but the board of trustees will be asked to
increase the number of the local board in
order that Mr. Dargan may still remain a
member, as he has done such good work
in behalf of the school.
A number of improvements will be
made at the school. A new flowing well
will be bored and waterworks installed in
the dormitories.. The main building, dor
mitories, Headmaster's residence and the
cottages will all have electric lights.
There is no reason why the school should
not be filled to overflowing with students
this fall, and we hope it will be.
Black-Newsom.
Dr. Robert Black and Miss Mattle
Newsom, of Williston, were married at
the home of the bride's father, Mr. W. A.
B. Newsom, last Wednesday afternoon
at 3 o'clock. Dr. T. M. Bailey, secretary
of the Baptist Board of Missions, performed
the ceremony, being assisted by
Rev. L. E. Wiggins, of Union. A large
crowd of relatives and immediate friends
of the families was present. Dr. Morrell
and Mr. Newsom acted as ushers.
Immediately after the ceremony the
mother of the bride invited the guests
into the spacious dining hall where a rare
repast was served.
The bridal party arrived here on the
evening train, and were met by friends
at the depot; a royal greeting was given
them amidst a storm of rice and old
boots. "*
Thursday afternoon Dr. and Mrs. J. B.
Black, parents of the groom, gave a supper
to a party of friends and relatives
complimentary to the bride.
The young couple will make Bamberg
their home, where Dr. Black is one of our
rising young physicians.
DEATH FROM LOCKJAW
never follows an injury dressed with
Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Its antiseptic
and healing properties prevent blood
poisoning. Chas. Oswald, merchant, of
Rensselaersville, N. Y., writes: "It cured
Seth Burch, of this place, of the ugliest
sore on his neck I ever saw." Cures cuts,
wounds, bnrns and sores. 25c at J. B.
Black's and Hoover's drug store.
IN RE THE FREIGHT DEPOT.
Railroad Commission Write a Pointed Letter to
General Manager Spencer.
Last Friday we received the following
letters from the railroad commission.
They show that the commissioners have
now done everything in their power to
have a new freight warehouse erected at
Bamberg, and in case the depot is not
completed by July 25th, the railroad will
be subject to a heavy fine.
Columbia, S. C., May 31st, 1906.
Mr. A. W. Knight, Bamberg, S. C.
Dear Sir:?
Please find enclosed copy of letter this
day written by authority of the Board of
Railroad Commissioners, to the General
Manager of the Southern Railroad Company.
Yours very truly,
J. H. Earle,
Commissioner.
Columbia, S. C., May 31st, 1906.
Mr. H. B. Spencer, General Manager
Southern Railway-Company, Washington,
D. C.
Dear SinOn
October 31st, 1906, your freight
house at Bamberg was destroyed by fire,
and on January 4th, 1906, the Commission
notified your Superintendent, Mr.
J. A. Heether, concerning the matter, and
asked that steps be taken to have this depot
rebuilt.
There was considerable correspondence
between the Commission and your Superintendent
until April oth, '06, at which
time Superintendent Heether wrote the
following letter to this Commission:
"Beg to acknowledge receipt of yours
SAth relative tn the re?hnildinff
of freight house at Bamberg, S. C., also
to advise that the contract for this building
with other improvements at Bamberg
was let, but owing to a few dissenting
patrons, the matter was held up until the
morning of the 4th inst. We have now
instructed our contractor to proceed with
the work. Yours very truly,
J. A. Heether, Supt."
This Board having been informed nothing
was being done, again wrote Mr.
Heether, who on April 30th, wrote as
follows:
"Replying to your favor of 2oth, I beg
to advise that we expect to let the contract
within a few days, covering the
construction of the Bamberg depot. The
matter is being delayed owing to our inability
to get prompt bids from the contractors,
owing to contractors being very
busy with other work.
Yours very truly,
J. A. Heether, Supt."
Having numerous complaints from the
people of this city, on May 25th, this Commission
issued an order to Mr. Heether
as follows: ^
"You are hereby notified that it is the'
order of this Board that the freight depot
at Bamberg, South Carolina, shall be
completed within the next sixty (60) days.
By order of the Board, etc."
On May 26th, your Superintendent
answered this order as follows:
"Beg to acknowledge receipt of yours
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at Bamberg within sixty days. The facts
are as stated to you, that the contract
had been let and that material was being
assembled at Bamberg for that purpose.
Very sorry that it was necessary for your
Commission to take action; however, we
will hurry the matter on as fast as possible.
Yours very truly,
J. A. Heetheb, Supt."
The Commission visited Bamberg on
yesterday at the request of the Mayor and
citizens of the town, and find that abso
lutely nothing has been done, and if there
are any preparations in any way being
made for the erection of this freight
house, we could not see it, and due to the
fact that on April 5th your Superintendent
wrote us that the contract had been
let, we paid no more attention to the matter
until we received his letter on April
30th which denies his former statement,
an/4 oorro ha will laf the mn tract. He
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now says, that material is being assembled
and the contract is let again, and
still we see no preparations for the erection
of this depot.
It appears to this Board if we were being
trifled with in the matter, and that
the people of this prosperous town have
been receiving absolutely no attention,
this depot having been burned last October,
and there being no place whatever
for people to receive their freight or ship
the same.
We have issued an order on May 25th,
that this depot must be completed within
sixty (60) days, and we will expect this
order to be carried out. I beg to call
your attention to the statute passed by
the Legislature in this matter.
Our connection with this matter has
now ceased, and after July 25th correanno
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torney General of South Carolina. I
think it due you that I send you this correspondence.
Yours very truly,
J. H. Eable,
Commissioner.
FOLLOWING THE FLAG.
When our soldiers went to Cuba and
the Philippines, health was the most important
consideration. Willis T. Morgan,
retired commissary sergeant U. S. A., of
Rural Route 1, Concord, N. H., says: "I
was two years in Cuba and two years in
the Philippines, and being subject to
colds, I tooK Dr. King's New Discovery
for Consumption, which kept me in perfect
health. And now, in New Hampshire,
we find it the best medicine in the
world for coughs, colds, bronchial troubles
and all lung diseases." Guaranteed
at Hoover's drug store and J. B. Black's.
Price 50c And $1.00. Trial bottle free.
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FITTING SCHOOL CLOSES.
PROGRAM OF EXERCISES AS CARRIED OUT
AT WOFFORD PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Large Attendance Upon all the Exercises?Mr,
Stacy Kearse Wins the Debater's Medal.
Miss Huffman Wins in Declamation.
(il. W. BBABHAM.)
The commencement exercises of the
Carlisle Fitting School ended with last
night's (Tuesday's) program. There
were many visitors in the city to attend
this annual closing, and the exercises
this year were interesting in the extreme.
The program was conducted by the
members of the graduating class, and
consisted of essays and declamations, together
with music. The program follows:
Music?Miss Louise Sheridan?"March"
?Sousa.
Prayer?Rev. Marion Dargan.
Music?Miss Flossie Murdaugh?"Silvery
Thistle"?Ketterer.
Oration?Geo. W. Ulmer.
Essay?Value of Positive Convictions?
Miss Agnes Hydrick..
Reading?"Engaged"?Miss Nellie Kinsey.
Music?Miss Elise Rentz?"Kamenno
Ostow"?Rubensteine.
Oration?Character?J. Shuford Huffman.
Essay?Influence of Music?Miss Lissie
Ulmer.
Reading?Rosalina's Surrender?Miss
Pearl Delk.
Essav?Youth and its Visions?Miss
Tattie Rich.
Music?Miss Mozelle Copeland?In a
Palanquin?Guel.
Music-Miss Lala Byrd?Waltz-Oesten.
Oration?Room at the Top?J. Rob
Lawrence.
Class Historian?Miss Edna Duke?.
Essay?Girls Ought to be Self-Supporting?Miss
Lou Ellen Utse}.
Music?Trio?Misses Mary Huffman,
Tattie Rich, Ida Muller?Galop Miltaur?
Herda.
Oration?Education?Shedrick Arant.
Essay?Home Influence?Miss Genevieve
Kirsch.
Reading?{Cutting from Kenilworth
Inn)?Scott?Miss Agnes McCants.
Class Prophecy?Miss Bessie Felkel.
Music?Miss Wilhelmina Folk?"Jolly
Guardsman"?Mutter.
The scholarship medal, given by Col.
Jno. F. Folk, was presented to Miss
Tattie Rich, the winner, by Rev. H. B.
Browne, chairman of the board of control.
Music?Trio?Misses Edna Dukes, Beulah
Dukes, Lizzie Rhoad?Dance on the
Lawn?Rand.
Then the diplomas were presented to
ho <rrarinat.inorr1a.fig hv "Headmaster FT. G.
Sheridan.
Music?Miss Agnes McCants?(a) Evening
Star?Lizt. ? (b) Serenade?Moskowski.
Rev. Marion Dargan, presiding elder of
the Orangebnrg district, made a short address
in reference to the work of the
school, and introduced the Headmasterelect,
Mr. W. S. Hogan, who made a few
appropriate remarks.
The benediction was pronounced by
Rev. Peter Stokes.
The marshals were: Philip McCants,'
chief, E. Clyde Rogers, Ernest L. Hiers,
Geo. T. Ethredge.
Monday evening at 8.30 o'clock, the
two literary societies met in joint session.
There was a large crowd present and the
exercises did not lack interest at any
time. The march by which the societies
filed in was played by Miss Agnes McCants.
Rev. Peter Stokes lead the audi
ence in prayer. jf roi. w. u. ko Deris was
the presiding officer. The debate was
announced with the following query:
Resolved, "That the best interest of
South Carolina will be promoted by the
organization of her factory operatives
into trade unions." Mr. Ernest Windham
spoke for the affirmative as the first
speaker of the evening, he was followed
by his opponent, Mr. J. Creighton Skinner.
Miss Flossie Murdaugh gave a beautiful
musical selection from Chopin, "The
Prelude." Mr. Stacy Kearse then spoke
for the affirmative, and Mr. John W.
Huffman closed for the negative. The
judges on debate were as follows: Rev.
Peter Stokes, Dr. V. W. Brabham, and
W. t> ia/ T4 "R1. ttiav after
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tfie closing speech to come to a decision.
Miss Elise Rentz concluded the first part
of the program with Bartley's "Grand
Polka de Concert."
The second part of the program was as
follows:
N. Walser Edens?"Haya Kiel"?Robert
Browning.
Miss Alma Arant?"Laska.<"
Music?Miss Leonard Folk?Doll's
Dream?Oesten.
Henry N. Folk-"Bill Thay"?Mrs.
Gill.
Miss Louise Sheridan?"Diamond Cut
Diamond."
Music?Trio?Misses McCants, Huffman,
Rentz?"Grand Galop"?Herbert.
Richard G. Addison?"The Black Fillies'?Moore.
Miss Mary Huffman?"As the Moon
Rose"?Miss Phelps.
Music?Miss Katie Carter?"Brooks
in the Woods"?Waugh.
Master Pinckney Bellinger?March?
Banner.
The committee of judges on declamation
was as follows: Hey. Marion Dargan,
chairman, Senator J. B. Black, and
Mr. M. W. Brabham. Hey. Peter, 8tokes
then made the announcement for the
committee on debate, the decision being
in fayor of the affirmative. Hey. Marion'
Dargan had offered a medal for the best
original debate, this was won by Mr.
Stacy Kearse, of the affirmatiye side.
Hey. Marion Dargan then presented the
medal offered by Rev. H. B. Browne for
the best declamation, Miss Mary Huff
man being the winner.
Miss Lonise Sheridan concluded the "?
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program with Goddard's "2nd Valse."
The members of thei gradaatidg class
this year are as follows: Shedrick Summers
Arant, Juriah Elizabeth Dash,
Pearl Elizabeth Delk, Edna Mabel Dukes, *
Bessie Ann Felkel, Agnes Mary Hydrick,
Jacob Shuford Huffman, Genevieve The*
resa Kirsch, J. Rob Lawrence, Jr., Agnes
Eloise McCants, Mary Agnes Murph,
Mary DeBow Rich, George William Ulmer,
Ella Havilla Kinsey, Lissie Viola
Ulmer, Lou Ellen Utsey.
Sunday morning at the Methodist
church Rev. M. B. Kelly delivered the
annual commencement sermon to a very'
large congregation. His text was taken
from Romans, the first chapter, and the ,
fourteenth verse: '.'I am debtor both to * $
the Greek and the barbarian, both to the . ^
wise and the foolish." The sermon was
a sermon in the best sense of the word,
for it contained much that was helpful to
the doubtful mind, as well as showing / %
the correct attitude of the young man toward
that vague thing termed "society"
The responsibility of utilizing the op- '
portunities which come in the path and
the value of a man to the world at large
were emphasized. Mr. Kelly has many
friends here, and he pleased them all by
his masterly dealing with his subject.
The musical program was an attractive
one, and added much to the interest of' ' ' M
the occasion. The following special selections
were rendered:
Voluntary?Come, Let Us Sing?Choir.
?Ira B. Wilson. v
Anthem?In Faith Adoring?Adams?
Chorus and Tenor Solo?Mr. C. W.- ffj
Rentz. i
Offertory?Rock of Ages.?Soprano - 7
Solo?Mrs. Daisy Lightsey. /
Bled from Bee Sting.
Spartanburg, Jane 1.?Mr. John H.
Zimmerman, aged 60 yean, died at his ;;J|j
home this morning at 6 o'clock from the'
effects of a bee sting. Mr. Zimmerman
lived at Cedar Springs, and while at
work yesterday afternoon was stnng on. V' J
the lobe of the right ear. After walking
for several steps he fell to the ground in
an unconscious condition. .When the J
bee stung Mr. Zimmerman he called out . . ;f?
to his wife and she ran to his aid. Before ,
she could reach him he had fallen and [k
outside of a few incoherent remarks / ':gS[
made during the night, Mr. Zimmerman .
never spoke again. When medical aid
reached him he was black in the face and .
was apparently suffering from strangu- ? |
lation. Mr. Zimmerman was carried into
his home and was attended by physicians.
ail during the night. Every remedy
known was administered to the sick man,
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morning.
The attending physician stated that the
stinger of the bee had penetrated to a blood
vessel and that the poison from the
bee had been so powerful that it caused'
death. #jj?
A curious fact connected with the death
of Mr. Zimmerman is that he had always
been afraid of the sting of a bee and on.
several occasions he had been stung, each
time being confined to his bed for some.
time from the result of the poisoning.
On one occasion he was stung on his <
thumb and was forced to remain in his
bed for three weeks. There was no
swelling of the ear from the effects of the'
sting that caused Mr. Zimmerman's death,
and this has caused some little surprise " *' |
among the physicians.
City Council Meeting.
A regular monthly meeting of city
oouncil was held last Tuesday evening; 1 '
at which Mayor Dickinson and Aldermen
Riley, Brabham, and Felder were pres-*
ent. Mostly routine matters were trans- i
acted, bnt two important questions were
discussed, and council gave the Mayor
their hearty co-operation in the matter of.
making the merchants obey the law regarding
selling on Sunday. It has also
come to the ears of the mayor and council
that gambling is going on in town,
and they are determined to put a stop to
jit.
Council instructed the clerk and treasurer
to inform the railroad authorities
' that the timber now lying on the right of
worr nn Railroad Avenne mnaf; he moved
in sixty days, and that the using of this
street for a timber yard would not be allowed
in future.
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When the baby talks, it is time to give
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. It's
the greatest baby medicine known to
mothers. It makes them eat, sleep and
grow. 85 cents, Tea or Tablets.
H. F. Hoover,
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