Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i - -v- -* Otyr Hamburg Ifrralfc Thursday, June 6,1907 !*" ? Short Locals. Nothing is more rare in these June days than a dollar, unless it be two dollars. The salary of the postmaster at Barnwell has been increased from $1,400 to $1,500 a year. Some of the militapr companies of the State are preparing to visit the Jamestown Exposition on Carolina day. For Sale.?Two buggies and two sets of harness, cheap for cash or on r. easy terms. E. T. LaFitte, Bamberg, S. C. On account of the absence of Rev. Qfnlroo fVion? unll hp nn nrpar.h X C uwvnvcy viiv*v ?* * w -w ^ ing service at the Methodist church next Sunday morning and evening. Nice weather we are having this week for harvesting oats. The incessant rains recently have interfered materially with farm work and dry weather is needed. The family of Mr. H. M. Graham have moved into the Headmaster's residence at the Fitting School lately occupied by Mr. W. S. Hogan and family. Mr. A. Sidney Hartzog, formerly ?? , of this city, but who has been living in Greenwood for a number of years, is a candidate for the legislature from that county. The county dispensary board will 6i> soon open up a bottling establishment in tfie building in rear of Pat? rick's shop. Mr. G. L. Kinard, of Ehrhardt, has been elected bottler. Mr. Roy Hoover, formeriy of this city but now of Cope, was married p at Bethlehem church last Sunday . w _ ai* n T T7i : ? / atternoon to miss unver. ivev. ju. r,. Wiggins was the officiating minister. | The Peoples Drug Co. is opening up this week in one of the new stores of J. A. Spann. Mr. Piatt will be the i licensed pharmacist in charge, and Jlr. David Felder will be his assistant j * " ' in the store. We have heard it rumored around ] that whiskey is being sold illegally , P on Sundays. We refer this to our policemen. No names were given , ;. us; so we have no idea who is the < * guilty party. The Bamberg Banking Company J %. mov?d into its new building last 5 | week. The furniture is very hand- ] some, being of mahogany with mar- ' ble trimmings, The company now 1 felv has one of the nicest banking houses |&v in the State. 1 p A petition was circulated here last J ; week and largely signed by our bus- s v iness men, asking that the morning J / train from Augusta stop at Bamberg. \ Persons going to Charleston have to ( x wait about an hour at Branchville ( ft under the Dresent arrangement. !City council held a regular month- s ly meeting Tuesday afternoon, but / mostly routine business was transacted. Several matters of impor- ] tance were discussed, but final action was postponed. The rent of store under the town hall was raised from $15 to $20 per month, payable month ly. The board of public works presented an itemized statement show- c ing total cost of the electric light c plant, also a statement of operating ? expenses and receipts. ? . Mr. J. J. Smoak happened to an r p. unfortunate accident while driving : H to Denmark Monday afternoon, 1 which caused the death of one of his r p black ponies. They were being driven c v together anfl one became frightened $ r and attempted to run. The tongue ^ | was broken and the pony got away I i\ from the driver, but he only ran a f t short distance when he stumbled and , r Tell, striking a stump. The fall broke I ,' his leg and cut a fearful gash in p his chest. He had to be shot. I l A meeting of stockholders of the i Cotton Oil Company was held in Y this city Monday of last week. The r |- entire board of directors resigned, Y ? and the following were elected: G. t I- Frank Bamberg, E. C. Hays, C. W. t Garris, S. G. Mayfield, Henry F. r Bamberg, J. Fisher Cleckley, J. A. c ^ Spann. The directors elected G. f F^ank Bamberg, president, and C. t W. Garris, vice president. A manager and treasurer has not yet been ; elected. Mr. H. A. Wright will con- c v- tinue as book keeper at the plant ! E here. , ' ...? I Honor Roll for May. = 1 The following persons paid their \ subscription to The Herald during [ the month of May: J B Rentz, J W Black, > F E Dozier, Joseph Nimmons, - T'W Wocliin(rtnn Mrs P. PI (rrflV tf f* II oouuigwit! w ? ?J , lizzie Wilkinson, E W Williams, J W Stewart, MrsM E Bamberg, \ G B Clayton, J B Kearse, ( J W Jenny, *GW Miley, Miss C Bamberg, W M Brabham, J W Smith, Mrs D C Sellers, J J Brabham, Jr. W M McCue, Hebron Berry, J J Simmons, { C B Bishop, M M Smoak, H M Graham, Heywood Johnson, ] C P Robinson, C F Ellzey, < Jno J Copeland, Raymond Smoak, i Henry Ehrhardt, T L Belvin, 1 C S Hiers, H C Folk, < T J Crider, N B Rhoad, 1 L C Smith,. D W Phillips, 1 D G Copeland, J W Brown, ; J C Kinard, W L Mitchum, . F F Johnson, C R Brabham, < A Wilson, Col Wilie Jones, j J J Lecote W R Hiers, " i A J Alexander, Dr J P Ott, i E L Price, S S Broughton, 1 R E Thompson, Thelma Bailey, } i Sallie Felder, C R Clayton, ( L A Bikle, DrVW Brabham, PW Williams, HB Abel. (: . New Advertisement*. M. M. Smoak?Something New in Bamberg. Peoples Bank?We Want the Small Accounts. ATTACKED BY LUNATIC. Greenwood Police Officer Gets Blow on Head From Shovel. Greenwood, May 51.?Officer M. B. Chandler of the Greenwood police force had a narrow escape from a fatal injury at the hands of a deoffer. IIICUICU inail 11C1C Jtouv-I v*t?j iuw> noon. This man, Mr. Fooshee, was brought up from Plumb Branch some days ago by his brothers and placed in the county jail before being sent to the asylum in Columbia. He had been in the asylum twice before this, but seemed to recover and was released. He was with his brothers, running a sawmill near Woodlawn, when he again became violent and they brought him here as above stated. Yesterday afternoon he got hold of a piece of iron and broke the lock of the room in which he was confined at the jail and with the same piece of iron broke the lock to the gate of the jail yard and thus secured liberty. Picking up an iron shovel he walked into the sheriff's office and there saw C. E. Dukes, deputy sheriff, whom he knew personally. He cursed Dukes and said' he would not be put back. Mr. Chandler was sent for and he and Mr. Dukes were attempting to get around the unfortunate crazy man so as to get him back to jail when Chandler got a terrific blow on the head from Fooshee with his shovel. Chandler thought he saw an opportunity to run in and grab Fooshee around the body before he could j strike, but Fooshee was quick enough to get in a blow, although being at such close range it lost much of its force. As it was, Chandler got a very painful and ugly scalp wound. Fooshee was overpowered, however, and is now in jail. He will be sent to Columbia at once. School /lass fleeting A meeting of the citizens of Bamberg-school district was held at the court house last Monday afternoon. The only business was the election of jne trustee and the fixing of the school levy for next year. Mr. Thos. Black was elected to succeed himself as trustee, and the levy was fixed the same as last year, two mills. This, with the three mills for the school building bonds, makes a total of five mills for school purposes. We understand that steps will be :aken at once to establish a high school department, in accordance with the act passed at the last session of the legislature, and that an)ther grade will be added. We trust diis will be done, for many patrons >f the school are anxious to keep their ihildren at home another year instead >f'having to send them away to school. )f all the fruits there are in the land, That grow on bush or tree, [ would give up the choicest ones For Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. H. F. Hoover. Another Attempted Escape. The negro, Poc Nelson, who is unler sentence of death for killing an>ther negro last summer, has added mother attempt to his already known ifforts. He and Addison Johnson, he negro who is being held for the nurder of M. B. Varn, are occupyng the same cell, and last Friday light they were caught trying to esape. Both of the negroes were ihained to the floor and locked with fale locks. By using a part of a nan's garter they had succeeded in iling both of the locks, and it would lave been only a matter of time beore they would have both escaped, t will be remembered that three eeeks ago Nelson* was caught with lis head out of the window, preparng to descend to the ground when lalted, however, only after another legro, Ulysses May, had made good lis escape. Sheriff Hunter has the wo Yale locks in his possession and las placed them on exhibition. The iegro Nelson evidently is a shrewd haracter and seems to be desperate, or he makes use of the smallest hing and to great advantage. It's too bad to see people who go from iay to day suffering from physical weakness when Hollister's Rocky Mounain Tea would make them well. The greatest tonic known. 35 cents, tea or ablets. ' H. F. Hoover.. SPECIALNOTICES, Advertisements Under this Head 25c For 25 Words or Less. BEFORE buying or selling a farm or my property, write THE CAROLINA REALTY & TRUST COMPANY, Bish>pville, S. C. FOR SALE. Caughman Bros., of Columbia, have i complete Saw Mill outfit, which must je sola in the next thirty days. It confists of one 50-horse-power boiler, one 10-horse-power Liddell engine; one No. > T cotit mill* nno ?L4._inf?Vi insprtpii d lilUUCii Oi* f* U14H y VI1V V * M?V?? ?VW ;ooth Simon saw; one 54-inch inserted ;ooth Henry Diston saw; one complete :ut-off saw and frame; one two saw Deloach edger, one sawdust elevator pulleys, shafting, belting, tools and everything that is used around a saw xiill. It is in good running order, and :an be seen running any day. We will sell the whole thing complete or any part separate. It is located on what is known as the Joe Lancaster place 2\ niles west of Go van. We are are going "jo sell dirt cheap and on easy terms, is it must go during the next thirty lays. Any one wishing to see it can lall on or write me W. L. CAUGHMAN, Govan, S. C. / . -Yr*_ ~ MAROQNEDINGOTHAM Fifty Hours Alone on the Side of a Skyscraper. TEN STORIES ABOVE GROUND. | Awful Plight of a Clerk Who Crawled Out of a Window to Get a Paper Lodged on Lofty Ledge?Two Day* of Agony. Marooned for fifty hours on a narrow window ledge on the tenth story of a New York skyscraper was the recent strange experience of George L. Lammert, a life insurance clerk. With tens of thousands of persons within hearing of his voice and with men working within ten feet of where he stood or sat, Lammert was for fifty hours as isolated as If he had stood on some ledge in the Himalayas. Nobody heard him or paid any attention to HE SAT AS IF DAZED. him. Only by chance was he* finally saved from death by starvation or by a fall to the pavement, 100 feet below. Lammert who is employed in the auditing department of a life insurance company whose building is on Broadway not far from Trinity church, was at work checking up an Intricate table at 10 o'clock In the morning. The day bad been unseasonably hot, and the windows were thrown open for the first time. There were perhaps fifty men and girls at work in the department, but they were isolated from r. each other by partitions, desks, cabinets and files. No one yras paying any attention to Lammert A gust of wind suddenly swept the paper on which he had been verifying the results and testing them according to the office rules and blew it out of the window. Lammert made a grab for the pre- ' dous paper, which represented two hours' work, but it eluded him and fluttered over the sill. The wind caught it and then a current of air drove it ; downward, and it fell on a ledge only a few feet from the window, where it remained. He decided to crawl out and get it. The ledge ran for eight feet straight along the wall, then there was a proftrmind which Lammert sun posed was another window. The ledge was stone and about ten inches wide. Lammert took the window pole used for opening and shutting the heavy windows, hooking it on to the ledge of the floor above,, tested It to see if it would bear his weight and then started to walk along the ledge, steadying himself with the pole. He got alopg well until he came to the corner and had to stoop down to get the paper. To do this be was forced to kneel on the ledge, letting go his hold on the pole, which swung back a little. When he started to stand np he discovered that any movement toward straightening up would throw him dowu into the street. He also realized that the pole was behind him. If he couid get hold of that he could straighten up in safety. He tried reaching upward with his left hand, but could not reach. For ten minutes he knelt ou the ledge, dizzy with fright. Finally he remembered that there was another window just beyond the ledge. He could crawl forward, even if he did not dare go t>ack. He steadied himself across the angle of the ledges and felt around the projection. It was only ; about a foot wide, and on the other ( side he found a hand hold?a small j iron pipe. His hand clinched around the pipe, gave him renewed courage, i and he clung to it while, with infinite caution, he edged his way, inch by i Inch, out until he stood on the ledge a foot wide, sheer over the street. 1 With a sudden movement he got Dotn , hands gripped on to the pipe and ] swung his body around to the other side of the projection and sat down on ] the ledge, gripping the pipe tight with both hands, exhausted by his efforts. The full horror of the situation did 1 not dawn on him for perhaps a minute. He thought he was within a few ] feet of a window. Then he suddenly < realized that instead of arriving at a 1 window he sat in a space three feet wide between two such projections. It was as If he were on a shelf In a chim- ? ney which had one side open. He sat numb with terror and despair, except that at times he broke Into frantic crying for help. In the office nobody noticed that Lammert was not at his desk for an hour. Then they supposed he had been called into some other department, and no attention was paid to his absence. The next morning his absence was noticed, the fact of his disappearance the previous day was recalled, and he was marked discharged for being away without excuse. Night came ou. and the chill crept up from the bay and numbed Lammert. He still clung to his giddy perch and at intervals shouted for help. Daybreak brought fresh hope. Hunger revived him and spurred him on to fresh attempts to escape. He waved his handkerchief at the people l>elow. He spent the greater part of the afternoon writing notes on envelopes and papers from his pocket and trying to drop them into the street. Some were wafted blocks out of the way and some fell unnoticed. Night found him disheartened and despairing. He was abou; ready to let loose and fall into the street. Daylight came again, and with it hope. Lammert says that during the * 1- 1J 3 Uf .. morning ne aeciarea ne wouiu enu ui> misery by jumping?but that he was afraid he would alight on some one and kill him?so postponed the jump until night. The grim jest kept recurring all day. About 4 o'clock that afternoon Curtis Logan, an employee of a brokerage firm in the building across the street, happened to glance out the window. He saw Lammert and stopped to look. "That fellow Is a long time fixing that pipe," he thought, for on the preceding day Logan had seen Lammert, noticed his perilous position and watched him for a time, thinking he was a dating workman repairing the pipe. Suddenly the thought struck him that the man could not get out of the crevasse in the side of the building. He watched awhile longer, and then, hurrying to the elevator, descended, crossed the street and went up to the life insurance company office, where he raised the alarm. The employees were skeptical, but Logan insisted that a man was on the ledge. Then some one remembered Lammert and his odd disappearance. The window was thrown open, and some one shouted Lammert's name. The result was a feeble cry for help. Telephone messages summoned men frnm thp nearest fire station. A roDe was swung from the window by Lammert's desk across to the window beyond the projection, and a window washer, with his belt hooked over the rope, slipped along the ledge, around the projection and in an instant reappeared supporting Lammert. Eager hands stretched forth and drew Lammert into the window, and in a dazed way he walked over to his desk, put the paper he had saved upon it and toppled over in a dead faint DUG HER OWN GRAVE. Girl Committed 8uicide After Preparing Sepulcher. Brooding over a disappointment in her love affairs, Elva A. Ellison, a servant in the employ of Stirling Johnson of 501 Allen lane, Chestnut Hill, Pa., committed suicide after having first dug a grave In the cellar of the house. Miss Ellison was twenty-five years old. She was brought from New York by Mr. Johnson about four months ago. Her sweetheart ceased paying her attentions several weeks ago, and the young woman became melancholy. Mrs. Mary Snell, thfe housekeeper, r*CA J w*f r ^<#VA/ x jn^niB| "MAXINO A PLACE TO DIE IN." found the young woman in the cellar digging a long, deep hole in the earth floor. "What in the world are you doing?" asked the .astonished woman. "Making a place to die in," replied the servant "Weil, you get upstairs and forget this nonsense," said the housekeeper, and for the time the matter was for-| gotten. Mrs. Snell and the servant arose early the next morning. The housekeeper went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, and the girl remained upstairs to make the beds. Mrs. Snell heard two shots fired In rapid succession a few minutes after 5 o'clock and rushed upstairs. She found the servant lying dead beside a bed with two bullet wounds in ner neaa. Both bullets had penetrated the base of the brain. Denied Beer, Took Poison. Enraged because be could not bare a schooner instead of a shell of beer, Robert Hughes, a Big Four fireman, of 4208 West Seventieth street, Cleveland, O., took a dose of poison in Charles Abersold's saloon, 2670 West Fortyfirst street. He died shortly afterward. ' * ' ' ? Cost of Electric Light Plant | Lithographing bonds $ 20.00 '-jjj Express on bonds returned to buyers 6.5(\ ^ A. W. Knight's traveling expenses, stamps, &c. 10.50 Manufacturers' Record, ad. for bids ? 8.00 Paid for lot 300.00 ; ? 'r% Traveling ex. of C. R. Brabham and A. W. Knight 6.10 , Contract price of plant' 13,650.00 Secondary work including meters and transformers/ 2,200.00 Extra tile for roof v 4.00 |S|S Engineer's commission, J. B. McCrary 737.85 Labor, hauling dirt around plant 1.00 6,000 brick 37.50 PWt Freight on brick 7.80 Unloading brick 1.50 - $16,990.75 | By deduction from original contract $436.13 By sale of brick 42.50 By deduction from secondary work 500.00 978.63 . Net cost of plant % $16,012.12 fgjm Cost of tank, tower and pipe connections 232.08 || Additions to and in station 189.75 Tools and implements 34.89 Line extension 351.46 Cost of Plant including equipment $16,820.30 t |iS RECEIPTS ~ Sale of bonds $15,000.00 Premium on bonds 150.00 Accrued interest to delivery 85.07 q no 'iS l\tUk Ui 1UL v/.w Interest from Bamberg Banking Co. 50.00 '''0M Interest from Bamberg Cotton Mills 160.00 Cash advanced by council 600.00 16,048.07 Amount needed to complete payment $772.23 < A S Why not be comfortable? 1 have X !|! a nice assortment of hot weather !? accessories, such as & & a 1 Ice Cream Freezers, Water Coolers, Hammocks 2V || @ arid anything you may need in w @ the line. Don't fail to get my ? ? prices on Hardware and Stoves. @ I C. J. S. BROOKER | *{ ?? ? n a unrn/i n Z - 'X^l 1 Greensboro Life Insurance Company f ' "A SQUARE DEAL TO EVERY MAN" * OUR MAGNIFICENT RECORD | g No. Policies Amount Insurance in Force December 31, 1906: 3,667 $5,948,178.00 Insurance in force December 31, 1905: 1,093 1,798,300.00 VP NET GAIN MADE IN 1906: 2474 $4,14947840 (Over 230 Der cent) A . A Assets December 31, 1906 $ 220,878.90 X a Assets December 31, 1905 : 134,309.80 x gain in assets:.......... 4 8 jg (Over fri per cent.)* Jf . * Surplus as to Policy-Holders December 31, 1906: .4 $ 175,895.86 ^F. M Surplus as to Policy-Holders December 31, 1905:.... 128,375.30 0 gain in surplus as to policy-holders:..... s 47,53x56 ^ ^ A (Over 37 per cent.) a a Total Receipts During 1906: $ 238,396.86 2k ;; ' ? x Total Disbursements During 1906: 174,404.79 x excess of receipts over disbursements: $ 63*99247 ag I FORREST TAYLOR ? * General Agent - -- -- -- -- Sumter, S, C. ' mP 4 ^3 An Ideal Home for Sale Uf IIITCR | Situated on the West end of Railroad VV Pv IS I II Avenue, and fronts Calhoun and Broad V V V SB WF B Streets, contains 14 acres of land in ^ w . ms rg^ fifty colored laborers orchard and vineyard; about five acres a ? ^ ^ T ^ in pecan trees, about one-half bearing; /\ I m i^kl f . ! < artesian well 417 feet deep flowing 16 A ^ 4. k 1 Vr 1 M . -? gallons of good, pure water per minute; ' water piped through dwelling; swim- For Logging, Railroad ming pool and fish pond; one acre in j CoHrmJIl \i/a?l 4 a flowersand shrubbery; good servant an" oaWttllll WOrfc,^.:?^ house and all necessary outbuildings; .'* also conservatory aud two summer STEADY WORK houses with beautiful vines growmg r\ xxr a /in/? i-'/aaig over them; healthy location. Population (j(1(J II WA(jt5 of town about 2,500, ships about 15,000 V%1 bale of cotton per year, and only 45 Paid Every Night With sSif miles from Aiken, the great health re- ?rui?u sort of South Carolina. This property vnCCKS WHICH Hiay 06 lies on the Southern Railway, ana the tUffied into OfflCC evCfV land without the improvements, cut into residential lots coula be sold from $600 tWO WCCkS to DC Cashed, to $1,000 per acre, but will be sold at a low figure. Call early if you want a bar- IIahaa II at M1 P--^ Twiii^srapcpIrofthis.ot,with H00S6 R6II1 FfBB;;,'i? three-room tenant house and five acres . ? . of pecans, for $2,500.00. Also can use white labor J? T? O'NEAL Call or Address Real Estate Agent : : Bamberg, 5. C. Qp.AU | |||J|ir|) Aft 17'iiav c' nirViwen w'l DntUll LUMutil UUi G.M0YE DICKINSON:: ulmers, s. c. m insurance :: . . . , _ ? ? ' "m pipp 41 Located on 3# A? L. Railroad. i ufe, :: ? iip T IVIVIlAWf A . . . , j; ACCIDENT, it J. K tAKI CK X O LIABILITY, 0,0 Attornev-at-Law ? M o CASUALTY, o <> Attorney-at-Law , J t Office at the Cotton OH Company J [ J [ BAMBERG, S. G. ' < itf ItlttWttttltlttttttt I Special Attention Glvea to Settiw?t^ > .r "jg ?????????? ( of Bitatu mn* Investigation of Title* i > The county dispensary board was J [ Offices over Bamberg Banking Co. J | in session here Monday. TtttMMMtMIIMMMMtM ' I ' :