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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
Reading? Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The State base ball league finished
the season last Saturday and Sumter
* - won the pennant.
Senator Tillman was sixty years old
last Sunday. He has been in politics
for sixteen years.
An ice factory is to be built in the
town of Laurens. The machinery has
been shipped and work on the plant
will begin about the first of SeptemA
ber.
N. Warren McDaniel was tried in
Edgefield county last week and acquitted
of the murder of Thomas
Glanton. Self-defence was the plea
"? of McDaniel.
Dr. J. F. Ensor, postmater at Columbia,
died last Saturday. Although
a Republican he was a good citizen,
and his administration was thoroughly
acceptable to the people of his city.
An election was held in Chesterfield
county Tuesday on the dispensary
iv question, and the dispensary was
voted out by a large majority. The
X election will be contested by the dis
pensary people.
The monument to Gen. Thos. Sumter,
one of the famous generals of
k \ the Revolutionary war, was unveiled
at Stateburg, Sumter county, yesterday.
The exercises were largely attended
by people from all over the
| State.
John S. Wilson, of Manning, solic:
itor of the third circuit, resigned
last week. He was elected circuit
r judge by the last legislature, to suc.
ceed Judge R. 0. Purdy, of Sumter.
* Mr. Wilson will be sworn in as judge
? September 1st.
r In a suit brought by a magistrate
* of Anderson county for a fee of $10
for presiding at a coroner's inquest,
the Supreme Court has decided that
, magistrates acting as coroner cannot
4 collect inquest fees, as the law limits
... their compensation to the salaries in
m all criminal cases.
James Gallman, a white man of
Union county who shot and killed his
neighbor, a man named Gilmore, only
a short time ago, was tried last
week and found guilty of manslaughter.
Judge Prince expressed surprise
at the verdict and stated that he ex?'
* pected a verdict of murder or mur};.
der with recommendation to mercy,
if He sentenced Gallman to fifteen
years in the penitentary, but his at|
torneys will appeal to the State Surf
preme Court,
Vote for the Dispensary.
And you will vote for crime in its
IS. every form. Given in a plain and
if: ^ simple way, your vote will mean that
you prefer seeing drunkenness, dist
grace, a debauched and a degraded
' life. Your vote would mean that you
11 prefer seeing murder, theft, robbery
^ and a life of misery. Your vote
would mean that you prefer seeing
hunger, pain and torture. Your vote
U would mean that you prefer seeing
E? > homes rjiined,property destroyed and
-fomiliac Vftiir votp wnillH
*; V mean that you prefer seeing women
14 and children suffer for food and raiment.
Your vote would mean that
you prefer seeing your women and
! k; children beaten almlst into a mass of
4 pulp by the red-eyed monster while
jj|v they simply beg for bread. Your
ST vote would mean that you prefer
m seeing bloodshed, sorrow and despair.
Your vote would mean that you pre*
fer seeing the lives of your wife, sister
or daughter tortured and ruined
by the bloody and murderous villain,
the rapist. Your vote would mean
that you prefer seeing the virtues of
all law destroyed and vice in all of its
vile rulings set up. Your vote would
K..; mean that you prefer seeing the mor~fj.
.als of your country reduced to the
; f lowest standard of life, under which
M your sons and daughters are to be
raised. Your vote would mean that
you prefer seeing the death-dealing
I stuff continued on sale, though the
I* revenues of which would be the cost
of the lives of your wife, daughters
or sons. And to you, oh Christians,
who would cast such a vote, would it
not mean perjury in the first degree
and a complete forfeiture of that
great seal with which you were
adorned by the blood of Jesus.
It is a sad reflection upon any gov*
ernment, local or national, that will
hound down an individual who may
have killed another for some apparent
or real injury, and hang him by the
> neck until he be dead, andthenlicense
a people by the thousands to slaughter
men, women and children by the
millions and foster such a death-dealing
traffic as a source of revenue.
| Does not this appeal to you as a
sound reason for all people to call in
t loudest terms for a law to prohibit in
its every form a traffic that is crippling
the speed of every enterprise
and all industry, and is fast forming
itself into a state of anarchy and
ruin? Then don't allow yourselves
on the 20th instant to vote for a traffic
that causes such destitution, and
consumes all of its revenues to protect
its own evils. J. T. O'Neal.
Bamberg, August 14.
CLOSE CALL FOR "MAUD."
Train Strikes Wagon Drawn by Hule
in Funeral Procession.
Greenwood, August 8.?The
"Short Dog" passenger train on the
Seaboard Air Line came near playing
havoc with a number of negroes seated
in a wagon and belonging to a funeral
procession h?re today. The
cowcatcher struck the wagon amidships
between fore and hind wheels, :
and under ordinary circumstances
the occupants and the mule would
have been instantly killed. Instead
the harness, being old, rotten and
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patcned, gave way, ana uie wagtm
was simply pulled away from the
mule, who, not understanding what 1
had happened to the load he was pull- ;
ing, went to eating grass at once.
The occupants all had time to jump
out, so they were not in any way injured.
The train ran along with the
wagon to the station, only about two
hundred yards away. The wagon 1
was not hurt much in the transaction.
It was an unusual occurrence.
Harvesting by Moonlight.
Several thousand acres of Lehigh ,
county wheat were cut last week by
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IllUUUllglll. X lie ucu. YCOl/, aiivau;
three weeks late on account of cold
weather in spring, was much delayed
by the rains of the last fortnight.
Farmers accordingly took advantage
of the full moon to cut their grain,
which was dead ripe. Self binders
were brought into play and relays of
horses used. The moon was so bright
that it was as easy to reap the grain
by night as by day. Some farmers
kept their binders running without
stopping for 60 hours.
The farmers paid neighboring boys
and girls 20 cents an hour to shock
the grain as fast as the reapers cut
it, besides giving them three meals,
breakfast, dinner, and supper and
three luncheons, at 9 a. m., 3.30 p.
m. and midnight. Some of the boys
and girls worked a full twenty-four
hours for a day, making $4.80, besides
getting their board. This is
believed to be the record paid for
farm labor in the United States.
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Even at that the iarmers regard ine
work done for them more as an accommodation
than cold-blooded labor
done for hire.?Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Denmark Doings.
Denmark, August 13.?It has been
some time since you have had any
news from our little city, as your
correspondent has been quite busy
and away from home.
Mr. F. E. Holman, our efficient assistant
wire chief, is spending some
time in the mountains of North Carolina.
Miss Llewlie Moody, one of Barnwell's
charming young ladies, is visiting
the Misses Owens in the city.
Mrs. M. R. Hardwick and Miss
Julia Zorn returned several days since
from a trip to Jamestown and Washington,
D. C.
Miss Addie Glover is spending some
time with relatives in Graniteville.
R. C. Hardwick, Esq., has returned
from a week's stay on Sullivan's Island.
Mr. S. D. Guess returned Monday
of last week from a visit to relatives
in Beaufort, and left Tuesday following
for Jamestown and Washington.
The material is being placed on our
high school lot, and in a few weeks
the building will be in course of
erection.
The plans for the new Methodist
church arrived several days since,
and the contract for building will be
let in the very near future. It is
hoped that this building will be completed
by the last of November.
From the crowd that was in our
little city on Saturday last one would
predict that Denmark was the coming
town of lower South Carolina, and no
doubt but what it would be correct.
Our streets were hardly passable for
the people and vehicles. Our merchants
are all doing a good business,
and we are in need of more stores.
Every store is filled, and inquiries
coming in for more. It is up to our
monied men to do more building and
let us get on the band wagon sure
enough. There is no chance of losing
money invested in stores or other
buildings in Denmark. Numbers of !
people are turned away from here on
account of there being no dwellings 1
to live in, and the result is some other
town with good schools gets them.
"In unity there is strength," so come
together monied and business men
and let us have an up-to-date little
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city, one tnat we can ooasi, ui ner
health, push and beauty. Let us ail
get together and nominate a set of
good enterprising business men for a
town council and get out of theold rut.
Mrs. M. R. Hardwick is spending :
some time on Sullivan's Island.
Mrs. E. A. Boyles was on Sunday
last called to the bedside of her brother,
Mr. Freeman, who it is said was
mortally wounded in a pistol duel
with his brother-in-law, Robinson, at '
Waynesboro, Ga. Both parties are i
thought to be mortally wounded.
Miss Julia Zorn, who has been i
spending some time with friends at
Elko and Williston, returned home
last week, and is now spending some i
time on Sullivan's Island.
Hon. S. G. Mayfield spent several
days in Savannah last week.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, August 12.?We had
several showers last week. The earth
was dry, and they were very acceptable
to growing plants and to our
feelings.
A pair of our young men went to
church near Fairfax Sunday. Don't
think preaching was what they wanted
to hear. Must have been some
young ladies in question.
Col. C. Ehrhardt will go to the
"city by the sea" today on a business
trip.
Mr. H. C. Copeland says that he
will have two or three bales of new
cotton ready for market the last of
this month.
Common talk now is the vote on
the dispensary question. Some talk
in favor of it, others against. There
is one thing certain, that whiskey
drinking does not bring money into
any one's pockets, nor is there any
profit derived therefrom. If the
same amount of money was placed on
supply accounts the farmers and
merchants would owe less monev to
day. There is no doubt but there
would be many more happy families,
where the patient mother is abused
and praying that her husband and
son will be able to resist the temptation
when away from home.
Dr. James A. B. Scherer, president
of Newberry College, was in our
midst Sunday. He preached at Mt.
Pleasant church in the morning and
took dinner with Col. Conrad Ehrhardt.
Married a couple from Jennys,
a Mr. Blume to a Miss Platts. In the
afternoon he preached to a large
congregation at Ehrhardt Lutheran
church. The doctor is a fine speaker
and holds the attention of his audience
while he tells them the truths
of the Bible. I think all went away
wanting to hear more from him. He
intended to canvas this section for
students, but was called home, and
Prof. Kicklighter will take his place,
canvasing today.
Our train has made another change
in its schedule. Its scheduled time
ic fA roonh at 12t00 noon.
and leaves at 1:30. The freight has
been taken off, and the schedule is
any time from 12 noon to 3 p. m.
Plenty kicks coming from patrons of
the rural routes. This kind of time
makes their mail a day late. Jee.
Personals from the Kearse Section.
Olar, Aug. 12.?Mr. Willie Ritter
visited friends at Fort Motte last
week.
The Misses Brabham visited their
sister at Ellington last w,eek.
Mr. B. V. Kearse spent a few weeks
at Glenn Springs.
Mrs. J. J. and G. B. Kearse are
spending some time at Glenn Springs.
Miss Miidred Kearse is spending
some time with Miss Essie Williams,
of iustm.
Miss Edna Chitty has returned
home after a pleasant visit at Lodge.
Miss Julia Larsen, of Adams Run,
visited Miss Leda Ritter, and on returning
home was accompanied by
Miss Ritter.
Miss Cressida Breland and Mr.
Bert Dannelly are on the- sick list.
Mr. G. E. Ritter has a stalk of cotton
with two hundred and thirty-two
bolls.
Miss Susie Durse, of Charleston, is
visiting relatives at Ehrhardt.
Miss Sallie Walker, of Fort Motte,
spent some time with Miss Leyla
Folk.
Miss Jennie Herren, of Brooklyn,
is spending some time with Miss
Sudie Ritter.
Miss Sudie Ritter visited Miss
Jennie Herren at Govan.
Mrs. J. C. Kennelly, of Dade City,
Fla., visited relatives in this section.
Misses Annie Halford, Nettie Fogle,
and Beulah Grimes spent a pleasant
night at Mr. H. J. Ritter's.
Cured by Rattlesnake Bite.
Onp c\i thp areatpst. snakp stories!
of the year comes from New York
State which states that the bite of a
rattlesnake cured a woman of cancer.
The story goes that a remarkable
cure of cancer has been affected at
Port Jarvis, N. Y., on Mrs. Wilhelmina
Lodwig, a farmer's wife. Mrs.
Lodwig has suffered from cancer on
the left leg just above the knee for a
long time. While out picking huckleberries
two weeks ago she was bitten
on the ankle by rattlesnakes. Ker
nephew, Karl Lodwig, came to her
assistance and killed three rattlesnakes.
The woman's leg had swelled
to an enormous size, but the swelling
did not go about the cancer. The
cancer, which had been fringed with
red, turned into a running sore. It
remained in this condition for four
days. On the fourth day the discharge
stopped and proud flesh began
to make its appearance. The
snake poison had worked all through
the cancer, the swelling disappeared
and the heretofore ugly looking cancer
turned to a healthy flesh color.
Last Thursday the wound began to
heal and yesterday Mrs. Led wig was
in town almost cured.
ACCUSED OF ASSAULT.
Aiken Negro Charged With Outraging
Little Stepdaughter.
Aiken, Aug. 8.?Jake Etheredge,
a negro, was arrested last night and 1
placed in jail charged with an awful '
crime, preferred by his wife. She 1
alleges that Etheredge committed
an assault upon his stepchild, a girl
six years old, yesterday afternoon at
his home, on Mr. T. W. Coward's
piace, near the city. She came to .
Aiken yesterdo. late in the afternoon
and reported to the officials that
about 2 o'clock she had left the house
and Etheridge was with the children,
and that he had criminally assaulted
the girl, seriously injuring her. The
child was brought to the city and
treated by Dr. Harry Wyman.
TVna nffipiolc wAnf mit. in the nlaee
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last night, and after waiting for a
short while the negro was caught.
When interviewed about it Etheredge
talked freely, but denied any connection
or any knowledge of the
affair. He stated that he had had a
quarrel with his wife a day or two
before this and that this was probably
the cause of the charge. He is a
young negro, about 28 years of age.
Country Correspondence.
The farmers in our community are
hurrying to finish harvesting their
fodder.
Mrs. J. L. Smoak, of the Binnaker's
Bridge neighborhood, has been on a
ICCCIlt vial IV l/llio OJiu kiiiv vivui a vnu
vicinity.
Master Bart Jordan is visiting his
kinsman, Master Everett Hanberry,
of Denmark, this week.
Mr. J. ,W. Hill and family worshipped
at Bethesda Sunday. Protracted
services are being held there.
Five candidates for baptism was the
reward of Tuesday's work.
Protracted services are also being
held at Colston Baptist church. Our
community has been represented
there too. The communities of both,
these churchs are noted for their hospitality,
and the good sermons that
are being delivered by the worthy
ministers and pastors, the good
spreads the ladies prepare, and the
heavy rains that have fallen, we feel
sure will lend a helping hand to all
Baptists, Methodists, and Lutherans,
and we hope each attendant a great
spiritual blessing.
We are sorry to know that Misses
Naomi and Lillian Sandifer have been
sick with fever for several days but
glad to report them better.
It is with pride that we realize
what an educational center Bamberg
now is. Her two schools, the Bamberg
high school and Carlisle Fitting
School promise to be second to none.
and the writer wishes them ootn unparalleled
success and especially the
high school, for two reasons, as it
was at the Bamberg graded school
that the greater number of our
school days was spent, and then our
Hampton school district has taken
such an active part (if you will excuse
us for blowing our district's
horn) in helping Bamberg to get the
high school department. We feel
sure that her better days are just beginning.
Our community was again visited
last Tuesday, August 6th, by the ancrel
of death and claimed for its own
the spirit of Mrs Carrie Hughes, wife
of Mr. William Hughes.
For eight long, weary, weeks Mrs.
Hughes laid on a bed of scorching
fever, and several other members of
the family sick at intervals, and the
writer has been told that she was
never known to murmur, and we
know'she was one who always bore
her lot with great patience and fortitude.
She was forty-three years of
age, and leaves a husband, three sons,
two daughters, father, mother, sisters,
brothers and many relatives and
friends to mourn her loss. There
were seven members in Mr. Hughes's
family, and six of them have been
victims of this fever, it being a
Florida type of typo-malarial. All
have been saved except the dear wife
and mother. She was a consistent
member of the Pleasant Hill M. E.
church and was laid to rest in its
cemetery. To the extremely grief
stricken home we extend our heartfelt
sympathy, as we too will miss
her as a good friend and neighbor.
Liquor Barrel on Texas Train.
Palestine, Texas, Aug. 6.?The
first arrest and conviction under the
law making it a misdemeanor to drink
liquor on a train in this state was
made when a white man was fined $1
for committing the offence. The man
was coming in on the southbound
train, and when a short way out of
Palestine took a drink out of a bottle
he had in his pocket. While he was
drinking a state ranger, who happened
to be on the same car, placed him
under arrest.
Bamberg's base ball team went
over to St. Matthews Tuesday morning
to play a couple of games with
the team of that town. St. Matthews
won Tuesday afternoon's game
by a score of 8 to 4.
Elections were held Tuesday in
Anderson and Richland counties on
the county court question, and in
each county the proposition was de<
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ieatea Dy a large majority. ajiuwson
also voted against issuing bonds
for road improvement.
TELL OF /TARRIED LIFE.
Postmasters Reply to Questions Concerning
Their Marital Relations.
Washington, Aug. 12.?MerritO.
Chance, chief clerk of the postoffice
department, several months ago sent
out to all the postmasters in the country
a list of questions asking for certain
information to be used in the
preparation of the government "Blue
book," which is published every two
years. One of the questions in the
list was:
"What are your marital relations"
The object of this particular question
was to find out whether the postmasters
are married, single, widowed
or divorced. But some of the rural
postmasters do not understand the
object of the question. Mr. Chance received
several answers, in which the
persons addressed endeavored to give
a clear and lucid explanation of the
status of their married life. One postmaster
said his domestic affairs were
"fine and dandy." Another not so
fortunate, replied, "Fairly middling."
A third postmaster filled in
the blank space of the question about
marital affairs with one word, "Hell"
Our New York Letter.
There can be nothing more interesting
and beneficial than the history
of a successful man, particularly a
signal success. Such sketches show
the possibilities to be attained and
serve as shinincr examples for the
young of the day.
James Butler, the present owner
of 300 grocery stores, is such an one.
Butler came to this country a poor
boy from Ireland 31 years ago without
money, friends or influence. He
set foot on American soil to carve a
future for himself, imbued with the
idea that one time is as good as another,
if one only applies himself with
right ideas and a dogged determination
to succeed. The young man
started as a steward in the Windsor
Hotel, and at the time had in view
growing into the hotel business. By
accident his future was changed, and
today he operates 300 stores instead
of a "chain" of hotels as he at "first
planned, and is adding an hundred
more. At first the owner of the
stores had only New York city in
view, but now he is arranging to extend
his stores to Memphis, St. Louis,
and other cities, and it is no wild
prophecy to predict that the time will
come and that soon when "Butler
stores" will be as common throughout
the United States as they now
are in the city of New York.
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Butler's plans was as follows: The
hotel steward had saved from his
salary a few hundred dollars, the
woman with whom he boarded had a
son who had lost his job and was
anxious to start a small corner grocery.
Butler furnished $2,000, formed
a co-partnership with young
O'Connor; success followed, another
and another store was opened. Butler
bought the interest of his partner
and today owns and operates
stores by the hundreds, every one
succeeds, besides he has millions in
realty, etc. His home at Tarrytown
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adjoins jonn jlt. i\ucft.e?enei s, ?mu m
merchandise Butler's name heads the
list, as Rockefeller's does in oil. The
most perfect system has been installed,
and the work and worry incident
to the management, ownership, etc.,
of 300 stores is no greater than the
one was, nor will the 3000 or more
he may yet operate be any more
trouble.
Mr. Butler's advice on how to succeed
is couched in a few sentences
of a few words each:
Persevere.
Don't spend too much time in recreation.
Don't get a smattering of a thing
and let some one else supply your information;
learn all there is to know
about a subject in hand.
Know what you are doing; then
you won't make mistakes.
There are more opportunities for
success in business now than there
ever were.
Ambition is the first essential; then
comes perseverance.
One should not be in too big a hurry.
Go slowly; then you will be thorough.
Your correspondent hopes to present
from time to time short bio
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graphical sketches or otner wonderfully
successful men in this great
city. H. W. Finlayson.
Progressive Hartsville.
The people of Hartsville have bonded
the town for $46,000 for the purpose
of putting in a waterworks and
sewerage system. The contractors
are now at work on the job and the
work will be completed some time
within the next twelve months. One
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ot the artesian wens at ine culluh
mill will be used for the waterworks
and the sewerage will be emptied into
Black Creek below the paper mill.
Hartsville is probably the smallest
town in the country to indulge in
such luxuries as water works and
sewerage.
Teaching the Poor Little Worm.
"My boy," admonished the minister,
"don't you know that it is wicked
to fish on Sunday?"
"Fish on Sunday?" repeated the
boy in injured tones. "Why, mister,
I'm only teachin' this 'ere poor little
worm how to swim."
riAJOR W. 5. BAMBEKU.
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Col. Counts Gives Some Early History >;
of the Town of Bamberg.
Editor The Bamberg Herald:?A
little upward of sixty years ago I
came to Graham's Turnout, now t
Denmark, and took a clerkship with
Messrs. D. & H. B. Rice at a salary
of eight dollars per month and ray
board. .For those days that was a .
pretty fair salary for a young man
just starting out in the world. Soon
oPfmtr QY*ri\7?al of CraJ>am'a T fminri
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my way down to Lowry's Turnout
through an invitation from Maj. W.
S. Bamberg, more familiarly'called
"Old Seab." I was a stranger at * r^Sk
Graham's, or comparatively so, and
"Old Seab," as I had known some- -vggfl
thing of him before, had very kindly
invited me at different times to come
down and see him. The first oppor- .
tunity that I got I availed myself of
his kindness and made the trip.
I found him just as pleasant and
big-hearted as I expected, but I was . vj
sadly disappointed in the town or village
of Lowry's Turnout. In point of
fact, I found a very small building
just between where H. C. Folk now
keeps and the railroad, but very near
the road. This building was occupied
by "Old Seab," as he was called, and
pretty well filled with goods. His t
store was the only place of business,
and that with his own little dwelling . : Si
and that of Isham R. Simmons, old ' -v3M
man Lowry, old man Jimmie Sandifer '
and the railroad buildings made up
the town of Lowry's. Old man Simmons
lived then where the Headmas- ---JM
ter of the Fitting School now lives,
and Lowry and Sandifer about where . '>%m
W. E. Spann and Mrs. Addie Johnson
The South side of the town, running
out as far as the cotton mill now
stands, for about five or six acres,
was covered with water, the deepest 3
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pa.i t Ui it ucmg 111 icai KJA. uix^ X au iuiv
building, now the dispensary. In
coming in town from the South or the
Buford's Bridge road you would leave
the main road leading to the station .
just opposite the cotton mill and go
to the rear of the now postofficeand
round the Counts block and again
back in the main road about where
the barber shop now stands. This
route took you round the water's
edge of the pond on the East side.
The boundary line on the West was
near the residence of H. J. Brabham.
From time to time the water in this
pond has been drained off to make vJS
room for building tots. I don't know
to whom credit is due for the draining,
but in all probability the most if
not all of it has been done since the i
death of Major Bamberg.'
But suffice it to say that Major W;
O n U /tnn 4-Usv m Af*4* An
O. Daiiiuerg was uuc ui uic mwif c*iergetic,
broad-minded,unselfish, selfsacrificing,
public-spirited men that I
have ever known in all of my long
life. He was always cheerful and had .
a good word for every one, but never
failed to talk up his town. He was
quite successful in business, and accumulated
quite a sufficient estate to
give his children a start in the world.
He was the founder of the town of
Bamberg, which bears his name. To
his perseverance belongs the growth
and prosperity of the town, as it was
his own hand that cast the bread upon
the waters that brought the fruit that
this generation is to-day en jo v ing. He
was the pioneer that blazed the way
that led his brothers to a business success.
The brothers, like himself, have
all passed away in early life, but still
lived long enough to make a record
for themselves that will stand as a . 'M
mnrmmpnt to their memorv for cren
erations to come and time immemorial.
Maj. Bamberg took quite an
interest in building up the cause of
the Master. He was by faith an immersionist,
having been baptized in
the Cedar Springs by Rev. W. A.
Lawton, a Baptist minister, but there was
nothing small or narrow about
him so far as his religious views was
concerned, as he preferred every one
to enjoy his own religious proclivities.
He lived long enough to see his town
underway to growth and prosperity,
and had his views of unselfish public
spirit been carried out to the letter
Bamberg would to-day have rivaled
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their wealth. T. J. Counts.
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Vote as You Please.
It is estimated that it will require
about three mills more tax levy to run
the county if the dispensary is voted,
out, which will be double what we,
are now paying, the present levy be-^
ing three mills. To replace the income
to the town of Bamberg will
require an additional levy of about
eight mills. The taxable property of
the town is about $400,000, and the
six mill tax now levied brings in about *
$2,400. The dispensary revenue to
the town is about $3'000 or more, and
to make up this deficiency will require
an extra levy of eight mills or a total
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it will raise taxes to vote out the dispensary,
so those who want to pay the
extra tax can vote against the dispensary,
and those who do not want
this burden on them can vote to retain
the dispensary. This is a ?ree
country and you can vote as you
please.
An attempt was made to wreck an
Atlantic Coast Line passenger train
near Florence last week by placing .. '
cross ties on the track.