r . ?hr Hamburg ^ralh ^ ====== Thursday, April 22, 1909 SHORT LOCALS. 1%' to X Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. ' Stamping for Praia ana emDroiaery work done by Mrs. J. M. Jennings. See the new ad. of Mrs. E. P. t r Copeland, the Ehrhardt milliner, in this issue. Mr. G. O. Simmons is opening up a new furniture store in one of the Folk stores on Main street. Late Flat Dutch and all seasons cabbage plants xor sale by Rent? & Kline, at Pondsea Dairy Farm, Bamberg, S. C. . Dr. Thompson will deliver an ad dress at the Aietnoaisi cnurcn in this city next Monday evening on the subject of Sabbath observance. Lots of drummers are coming to town these days, so it is evident that our merchants are buying some goods, even if the dull season is upon us. Our good friend, Mr. F. E. Copeland, has our thanks for some very fine aane syrup. It was mighty good and we certainly appreciate his kind-1 & * ness. The ladies of the Civic League are putting out grass around the Methodist and Baptist churches, which will improve the grounds around these ?|&?s. houses of worship. We understand that several more STof our merchants will put in plate |V glass fronts and otherwise improve their stores in the near future. Let the good work go on. j Buy your stationery, office supplies, etc., - at headquarters. The ? Herald Book Store is constantly re? . ceiving new goods. No other store. ??2: ' can fill your wants so well. (:r-. Drop in at The Herald Book Store and see that fine piano which is to he sold to the highest bidder. This e? is a rare opportunity for a bargain, so don't be afraid to make a bid. . iff - Mr. G. O. Simmons requests us to i state F that while he thanks the' friends who so kindly nominated him for alderman in last week's 1s;^y"sue, that he cannot accept the posi Etion. We would like several copies of last week's issue of The Herald. Our supply ran short, and if our friends will send us in a few copies we will appreciate it. Date of issue wanted is April 15 th. Chief Hand has done some good work in having all the roots cut out of the. sidewalks on Railroad avenue. They were a great' nuisance, and pedestrians will appreciate such thoughtfulness. The district conference of the Orangeburg district is in session in v Denmark this week, Presiding Elder jC. B. Smith presiding. Rev. T. G. Herbert and Messrs. J. W. Stokes IEana W. U. itao&a arc; nvicuuiu^ uuw - Bamberg. Improvement is the order of the day in Bamberg. Mr. H. C. Polk is remodeling the front of his store, and will put in a handsome plate I y- -glass front with modern show win|i! dows. Others will soon follow hip P>" example. I -It is likely that Presiding Elder t Chap.. B. Smith will preach at the p Methodist church in this city next. Sunday. There will be services, but > whether by Mr. Smith, Mr. Herbert, or some visiting minister, has not been definitely determined. As soon as the weather fs warm dhough to warrant it, I will start my ice wagon regularly. Until that time customers can have ice delivered during the mornings in lots of twenty pounds and upwards. L. C. PRICE. You can fill your fountain pen free at The Herald Book Store. On a show case in our store is a nice stand full of good ink and a filler for fountain pens. Our customers gpLv v are cordially invited to come in and p'& fill theif pens early and often without charge. .Mrs. Mary H. Armor, of Georgia, will deliver an address on prohibition at the Methodist church in this * city Friday evening of this week. She comes under the auspices of the *.: W. C. T. U., and has been touring the State for some weeks. She is PP president of the State organization in Georgia. Plans for the remodeling of the C : Methodist parsonage nave Deen re : ' eeived and accepted by the building committee. When the building is remodeled it will be a handsome residence, and the estimated cost is about $1,700. The committee will - soon begin the work of soliciting contributions. A young friend off at college writes us as follows: "I want to tell you how much I, enjoy reading fe- *' your paper. I see a great many different county papers up here, and I think-yours stands up among thebest. The lady I board with thinks it is one of the best county papers she has ever read. I don't think I could do without it." For which : ' kind words we thank him. If you want a fine piano way bel low its real value, send in your bid for the Conover piano, which is to be sold by Dr. Brabham to the highest bidder. This piano is on exhi* bition at The Herald Book Store, where prospective bidders can ex . amine it and also leave their bid with the editor of this paper. The piano is going to be sold within a month, and the highest bidder gets p:. it. Through the efforts of Hon. S. G. Mayfield, the young white man, Herbert Boyles, who was convicted here ' a few years ago of burglary and larceny, has been pardoned by Governor Ansel, or rather he has been paroled. He has been given his liberty and as long as he conducts himself properly, the parole stands. In this case executive clemency was wise, for the young man was led away by bad influences and was only the tool of others. Governor Ansel did exactly right to pardon him. Ife'. * Tomato plants 25c per 100. Pasture for cows $1.00 a month. Seven beautiful thoroughbred Buff Plymouth Rock fowls for $7.00, six hens and a cockerel. See E. C. Bruce. We hope to be present at the memorial meeting next Thursday if possible, but in case we cannot go, Mr. R. M. Bruce will be present to represent The Herald. All subscribers who want to pay up and those who want to subscribe to The Herald, can see Mr. Bruce. New Advertisements. D. A. Kinard & Co.?Our New Home. T. D. Jones?For Rent. Mrs. E. P. Copeland?There is Novelty and Merit. Dr. V. W. Brabham?Fine Upright Piano to be Sold to the Highest Bidder. Chas. M. Stieff?Do You Want to Make $100.00? Conrad Ehrhardt Co.?Notice. J. J. Farrell?Augusta Music Festival. Dr. V. W.? Brabham?Lost or Strayed. R. J. Home & Co.?Our Prices on Building Material. Kinard's New Store. See the big half- page ad. of D. A. Kinard & Co. in this issue. They have just moved into their handsome new store on Main street, and have the nicest grocery stofe in this part of the country. All new stock, bran new fixtures, and a swell place, in every particular. The ladies are especially invited to call. Their store is certainly, fixed up in up-todate style, and everything is heat and clean as can be. Great Victories for the Buick. The recently organized Buick racing team, headed by Lewis Strang and Bobby Burman, has been 'winning more than its share of victories during the past six weeks. 1 Following closely Burman's 100mile track championship title, won in 102 minutes, on the New Orleans circular track with a stock car, Strang captured two events at Day;tona Beach, each at a distance of 100 miles. In one of the races Strang covered the distance in 90 minutes with a $1,750 stock Buick. fVto ToAlroAnTrillD \JW4 5^ i/C IT IVV) VMViVOVUVAiiV amateur, driving his $1,000 Buick, also won two 100-mile races at Daytona, finishing with the little Buick in 99 minutes. Both DeWitt's and Strang's time is several minutes under the previous world's records for stock cars. In the Atlanta, Ga~, hill climb, Strang won the event for cars selling $3,000 and* Under with his$l,750 Buick, doing the mile climb of a steep grade in 58 3-5 seconds and breaking the course record for equipped stock cars. Strang also rrnn the, 15 ftftfl nnH under rlftSR with the same car in 59 seconds. Two little Buick's ran first and second in the $1,000 class event. Bobby Burman won the event for $5,001) and under touring cars with his $1,750 Buick. Burman will defend the Buick colors in the Fort George hill climb, and the other carnival week events in New York, the last week of April, while Strang and Louis Chevrolet will take in the big Lookout mountain climb and track meet in Chattanooga, Tenn., the same week. . W. G. HOFFMAN, Bamberg, S. C. L. BENNETT, Orangeburg, S. C: Temperance Union. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will. hold its regular monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon, April 27, at 4:30 o'clock in the Sunday-school room of the Methodist church. Don't forget the coming of Georgia's honored president of the W. C. T. U. Mrs. Armor is second only to Francis E. Willard, therefore a rare treat is in store for all who will attend her lecture Friday night at the Methodist church. There will be special music for the occasion. Death of Mrs. Kirkl&nd. Mrs. Harriet Kirkland, mother of Mr. W. G. Kirkland, of this city, died at the home of her son on Carlisle street Tuesday morning of this week at about four o'clock. She was the grandmother of Mr. Laurie P. McMillan, also of this city. Mrs. Kirkland had been sick for only a little more than a week, but on account of her advanced age and general debility she had no strength to resist disease. She had been in Bamberg only a few weeks, having come here to spend a while with her son's family. Mrs. Kirkland was seventy-seven years old, and had been a widow for a number of years. She was born in the Colston section, and lived there all her life. She was the mother of Messrs. W. G., R. F., J. D., and R. O. Kirkland, and leaves j a number of grand children and other relatives. The burial took place at Pleasant Hill church, near Ehrhardt, Tuesday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. Mr. Ariail, pastor of the Ehrhardt circuit. Although Mrs. Kirkland had reached a ripe old age, her death was none the less sad, and many hearts are made to sorrow because she has been taken away. Rev. Richard Carroll. Rev. Richard Carroll, of Columbia, - ? Cim/loTr nicrVjf a?H W ilS ILL UdlUUCi g, uuuuaj ui^uv uuu Monday morning. He preached at the colored Baptist church Sunday night, and gave the members of that church some good advice in reference to the recent troubles there. Richard Carroll is really one negro leader who is trying to work out the salvation of the negro along correct lines, but he is not popular with the negroes because he tells them of their faults. In speech and conduct Carroll is always consistent, and this can be said of few negroes who claim to be leaders oftf' ?ir race. If there were more preac~~rs like Carroll, the negroes in this country would be a lot better off. / BAMBERG'S FIRST HANGING. Willie Carter to Pay Death Penalty Friday cf Next Week. It begins to look like Bamberg county will have a legal execution, the first since the county has been organized. At the March term of court Willie Carter, a negro, was tried for murder and sentenced by Judge Watts to be hanged on Friday, April 30th. Carter's crime was a most atrocious one. He stabbed a negro woman to death, jealousy being the cause, although he had a wife. However, it appeared that he had been intimate with the woman and objected to other men visiting her, so he went to her house and stabbed her in a number of places, all of the cuts being horrible wounds. There is not likely to be an appeal to executive clemency, and we doubt very much if Governor Ansel would heed such an appeal were it made to him. Preparations for the execution of Carter are going on, the gallows having been erected by Mr. D. J. Delk. The hanging will take place in the jail, and it will be private. Baptist Church News and Notices. DIRECTORY. Preaching service every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and evening at 7:30 o'clock by the pastor, Rev. O. J. Frier. Sunday-school every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, C. W. Rentz, superintendent. B. Y. P. U. every Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, David G. Felder, president. ; ? Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. ; Woman's M. U. meets Wednesday afternoon after each 2nd Sunday. Conference each fourth Sunday after preaching service. -Observance of the ' Lord's Supper the first Sunday in each quarter. NEWS AND NOTICES. Good congregations attended both morning and evening services last Sunday. The pastor's theme in the morning was: What excuses will we render at the judgment for not doing our part toward evangelizing the world? After showing conclusively that Christ would have A judgment reckoning with his servants in regard to the trusts he left them, and that evangelizing the world was the great trust left them, he then examined in the light of the judgment the common excuses men make for their attitude, and said if we couldn't afford to render these to Christ in the final reckoning we had better not make them now. At the evening service he conclud ed the Bible studies on divine testings, the special studies being the trial of Job, the temptations of Christ, and the lifting of Peter. There was a good attendance at Sunday-school. Of course Superintendent Rentz was missed, he having gone to visit his aged parents. As he is so faithful he was excusable under the circumstances, and Bro. David G. Felder filled his place with ease and dignity. The W. M. S. held their monthly meeting last Wednesday and took decided steps to raise the necessary funds for the support of a Bible woman on the foreign field. The B. Y. P. U. will have a mis- I sionary program this week and round up their special collection for missions. The Sunbeam Band had their regular meeting last Friday, and was good, as usual. Miss Lewis and her helpers are to be congratulated on tiae good work they are doing with ; the children. . . Next Sunday rounds out six , months, half of the pastoral year. The record will have been made out . of the work before our Lord the great head of the church. As pastor . and people have we done our best? : How will the record stand with each nna r\f no? VUV/ V4 UU ^ 1 Next Sunday will be the regular conference .day. Let us hear it in mind. We want to consider a time for having protracted. meeting, etc. Teachers Elected. ! At a meeting of the board of trus tees of the Bamberg graded-high school, held last Saturday afternoon, Mr. E. Paul Allen, who has 1 successfully managed the school for ' the past year, was re-elected principal. Mr. Allen has done a good work here, and we feel sure his re-election will meet with the unanimous ap- I proval of the patrons. All the teach- 1 ers of the school were also re-elected, and the salaries of teachers was increased. Those who teach in the i high school department next year j will receive $50 a month and the grammar school teachers will receive $45 a month. Another grade was also added to the high school department, which will raise the standard of the school materially. Children can now be kept at home another year and not go off to college so young, which is well. Winthrop College. We have received an invitation to attend the annual commencement ex??? 1% D /naL ercises or wminrop tuucgc, Hill, S. C., to be held May 30th to June 1st. The sermon before the Y. W. C. A. will be preached by Rev. K. G. Finley, pastor of Trinity church, Columbia, S. C. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee and Chancellor of the University of the South. The address to the graduating class will be made by George Hutcheson Denny. The graduating class this year is an unusually large one. No Holiday Given. Editor The Bamberg Herald: There appeared in your paper of last week a statement to the effect that the Carlisle Fitting School gave holiday for Easter from Thursday to the following Tuesday. I beg to say that we gave no holiday except the regular weekly Monday holiday, and that all classes met regularly. Very truly, W. S. HOGAN. Bamberg, S. C., April 20, 1909. S. S. CONVENTION NEXT WEEK. Indications Are that Good Attendance will be Present. Beginning next Tuesday morning. Aprii 27th, nrst annual convention or ba...,to county Sunaa;.schoois will in Bamber&. The session >.?be held at Trinity Methodist c-Lurca, and will be in tut mornings, aiternoons, and evenings. It is expected that all delegates wn. arrive in time for the first session, which is 10:30 o'clock, so that the convention can get down to work at once. Every session will be full of good things. A committee from the local churches has been around during the past week soliciting homes, and it was gratifying that a number volunteered without being asked, and in consequence there are plentj oi homes. But the number of delegates is expected to reach up to the high water mark in county conventions and the committee hopes that every home will be needed. The' Sunday school superintendents throughout the county have begun to show interest in the movement to organize Bamberg county into an as sociation county. A number nave not responded ,but it is not too late even now. Let every school which has not done so already, elect delegates next Sunday and if possible forward the names so that they will reach here by Monday afternoon; if this is not possible, the delegates should come anyway; there will be homes prbvided for all who attend. Each school should insist on its superintendent being present at Bamberg. The program has been voted to be the best gotten out by any county for a first convention, so says Mr. J. M. Way, the general secretary. Mr. Way is a man who knows what he is talking about. This will be clearly proven when he meets you face to face next week. Mr. Frank F. Whilden is the musical leader in two large Sunday-schools in Columbia, and is a leader of a men's Bible class in that city. He can sing and make others sing. He can also make very practical applications of practical subjects. An interesting feature of the program will be the paper of Miss Whilden on the cradle roll. A letter was received last week from Miss Steele, of Rock Hill, who is the secretary of the secretary's association, and she says that a banner will be awarded at Rock Hill when the State convention meets in that city ; inl910, tor the best report of statistics. What about Bamberg? . We have a small, compact county, can we not have a similar organization? At least we can have the compact and thoroughly organized part, we are not particular about the small part, in fact we had rather not have it small. Let's have a big organization in a small county. For the information of delegates we will say that in case they arrive Monday night, they will go to Mr. W. D. Rhoad's store, 'Mr. Rhoad be committee. Those who come on trains will be met at the depot. Any who come through the country on Tuesday morning or after will go direct to the church. In another column will be found Borne of the aims and accomplishments of the organized SundayBchool movement, of which this convention purposes to form a part. It will be well for all to read those points and familiarize themselves with what the movement stands for. The following are the names of the superintendents which have been received, and it is hoped that any name not appearing will be sent to the undersigned without delay, it being desired that every superintendent's name be in hand, before the convention meets: Dr. J. R. McCormack, D. O. Hunter, J. D. Carter, G. W. Folk, J. B. Guess, J. E. Ehr- ( hardt, L. J. Hartzog, Benjamin Bishop, J. _Crum Smoak, A. L. Mc Milian, u. w. itentz, m. w. uraDham. M. W. BRABHAM. Negro Accidentally Shot. Monday of last week the negroes of town had a picnic at the river, and during the day one of the party, Edward Lebby, was accidentally shot by Mr. Parker Jennings. Mr. D. W. Phillips and Mr. Jennings were at the river, some distance from the picnic party, and Lebby was in the woods some distance away, at least 250 yards, Mr. Jennings says, when he fired a small parlor rifle at a bird. Soon after he shot, Lebby came out of the woods and seeing that he was bleeding, Mr. Jennings inquired and found that the little bullet had struck Lebby in the right ear and gone on down his neck and into the shoulder. The negro was at once brought to town by Mr. Phillips in his buggy, and his wound attended to, but it was found that he was not hurt much, although the bullet could not be found and extracted. He went ( on to work next day, but the physician says had the bullet struck him an inch to either side it would have miiea mm. i^eooy is irom uemuaits., and has been working here for some time as a brick mason. The wonder is that the little rifle should have carried so far. Lebby Was so far from Mr. Jennings that he did not hear the report of the rifle, and when he was first shot, did not know what was the matter. Of course Mr. Jennings did not know that Lebby was anywhere around, and he regrets the occurrence very much. Acquitted of Murder. Whiteville, N. C., April 20.?Cleveland Russ, on trial since Thursday of last week, was acquitted this afternoon in the superior court here of the murder of Jerry Bigford, a young farmer and storekeeper, who was found dead in his home on the morning of March 24 last. The jury deliberated but a short time. Jealousy was assigned as the motive for the crime in that it was alleged Bigford was engaged to have married a Miss Squires of Bladen county, for whose hand the prisoner was a rival suitor. Stamping gfor braid and embroidery work done by Mrs. J. M. Jennings. - V ' V ~ .T*-. /'*' v "* T Card of Thanks. I appreciate very much the compliment paid me by my friends in suggesting my name as one of the aldermen for the town of Bamberg, but my work is such that I could not serve if elected; and I therefore ask that my name not be considered tor tne position, sincerely, J. F. CARTER. Picnic at Clear Pond School. Clear Pond school will close next Saturday, the 24th instant. The public is cordially invited to come and bring well filled baskets. Sorry our invitation has been belated by an uncertainty of the day. There will be a lecture by Prof. J. C. Guilds, from the Carlisle Fitting School. IWekly jjj OF THE I I Millinery, I Dress Novelti | Laces, Embrc SPECIAL LOTS FOB BALANCE l MRS. K. I. S MILLINERY HEADQUAR1 TNPiPK'fc vyye aftc sXO&CaGBOVJSOK^ I Louisville, Ky., and Seta Account Southern Baptii Railway announces very lo ville, Ky., from all points. 10, 11, 12 and 1^1909, lis isville not later than midn Round trip rates from pri Abbeville $15.85 Aiken 18.70 Anderson 15.85 Batesburg 17.95 Blacksburg. . . . . 14.95 Blackrille 18.40 Branchyille 19.00 Charleston. *..... 20.80 Chester . 15.85 Columbia 16.90 Gaffney 14.80 j3Zj For tickets, aetauea mroi [jm ern Railway ticket agents c L? MEEK, Mu Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt. (cuB Atlanta, Ga. i ^ A A ^ A A MUSIC Briggs < ' Are MARVELLO in f i { The trained skill, taste, and scie instruments win the universal admin nomenal pleasing quality of Tone, d ( Stale, nromnt resDondine Action. Jtraordinary Dijbabujty. TEheirpopi G. A. LUCAS, p.< The above is an illustratic paper Folder which we have s Inandles 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 theet, trimming where nece third or fourth fold. It hanc factority, and folds and past press prints them, so that we the mails. i Brief Work. The Bamberg Herald office has certainly been a busy place during * the past week. * While we always have plenty of work to do, last week there was an unusual rush on account of brief work for the Supreme Court. Last Thursday, Friday and part of Saturday we printed consider ably more than one hundred pages of brief, besides doing a lot of other work. This would have been impos- "'-g sible had we not had a linotype. We ' , now do work from many places in . the State. Lawyers in other towns . -'f knowing our facilities for handling v this work promptly, send it to us, and in the last few monthd* we hare printed more than one thousand pages of brief. / I I ! Arrivals iATEST IN.... B ||fjl ies, ? lideries J r CASH SALE B , OF THIS MONTH M * SHUCK & CO.! ' i ERS?.?BAMBERG^JS.- ^ ' -si >n Rates 1 J via Cnnfka#*! Dailixrav Wm '-^JiSfl iu fia jvuiuwiu nan tt aj g? st Convention the Southern Bra " V w round trip rates to Louis- ??9 vfygji Tickets will be sold May aited for return leaving Lou- Got ight of May 22nd, 1909. 5?j Incipal stations as follows: Sla Greenville. .915.19 1*1 Greenwood 15.85 Lancaster 17.05 '"' Newberry. ...... 16.30 gSH Orangeburg 18.40 Mh ^ i; Prosperity 16.45 jm Reck Hill 15.85 Bus *#?g Spartanburg 14.20 Ms j -jj Sumter. ...... .18.25 Kg Yorkville ..15.85 I? ? Imj .69^ mation, etc., apply to South- |jj| Division Pass. Agt, I|f , fjjS Charleston, S. C. ES ? ^ a A - \ IANS SAY < Pianos I TONE 1 I TOUCH | fl ) SCALE L US < ACTION J DESIGN f FINISH \ DURABILITV nee displayed In the manufacture of tbeee * -