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* (Tk iamhwn ^ntlb i__l} Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. S., THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1909. One Dollar' a Year COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. ^ Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, June 14.?Mrs. N. J. r Stewart came to spend some time with her daughter, Mrs. Henry Ehrhardt, last week. Mrs. Addie Hartz went with her mother, Mrs. J. C. Westerlund, to Charleston last week to spend some time. Miss Viola Rogers, who had charge of Mrs. E. P. Copeland's millinery establishment, returned to her home in Virginia until the fall season opens up. Mr. John L. Cothran lost one of his valuable farm mules Saturday afternoon by lightning. v Dr. Willie Folk passed through town last Thursday morning going to his home, where he was called to the bedside of his brother and sister, who are very sick, but glad to say it is thought by the doctors that both are some better. Misses Ruth and Cloe Groseclose, * who have been visiting relatives in Prosperity, returned to-day. Their sister, Miss Leila, goes to Columbia to-day: from there she will go to Prosperity and then to Leesville. Had a fine rain Saturday after* noon. Gives the farmers more work and settles the dust, which was getting very disagreeabl? to travelers. Town election on the 4 th instant resulted in electing Isaac D. Copeland, intendant; H. C. Copeland, E. P. Copeland, W. L. Mitchum, and Frank H. Copeland, wardens. , * The council will buy the cement and .residents are requested to put Urn ir? rtf UUWil UCIIICUI waiaa iu livuv kUv.. places of business on Broadway street, and the council will put them in front of vacant lots. Let the good work go on. Our streets need im1 provements. JEE. Children's Day at Colston. ^ Children's day was observed at Colston church Sunday, June 13. A large crowd was present; the church was full. The program was as fol? - ?- lows: Announcements by Mr. C. W. Clayton. ? ? - ? - a -r*i_ 'At. m Song, "sowing me seea oi raiui, by choir. Prayer by Prof. Bailey. I Recitation, "Children's Day Welcome," by Master Perry Lee McMillan. Recitation, ' "Let the Children Come," by Miss Nelle Clayton. The Flower's Message?"Jesus Loves Me, I Love Jesus," by twelve children. Recitation, "Nobody's Child," by Miss Lottie Clayton. Recitation, "My Father," by Miss f Clara Beard. ' Recitation, "In Our Father's Care," by Mr. Charlie All. Song, "Jesus Loves the Little Children," by choir, followed by echoes oi "unuaren s ua.y," Dy seven children. Recitation, "On Children's Day," by Miss Essie Sandifer. Recitation, "The Crucifixion," by Master Ruby Beard, a Recitation, "Shall We Know Each Other There?" by Miss Bertha All. Song, "We Shall Know Each Other There," by choir. Recitation, "God Is Calling Me," by Miss Virginia Jennings. Recitation, "June the Month . of Roses," by Miss Hattie Miller. Recitation, "The Givers," by Master Vernon McMillan. Song, "Something for Jesus," by choir, during which a collection was . taken by Messrs. Gordon and Wilson Beard, Jasper and Monnie Varn. Prayer, by Rev. D. L. Roton. Reading, "Appeal for Temper' ance," by Mr. Havelock Clayton. Recitation, "What to Drink," by Master Charlie Miller. Reading, "The Glories of the Life Beyond," by Miss Nelle Clayton. Song, "Singing as We Journey," by choir. Lord's prayer, by entire audience standing. After the Children's Day exercises were over a short, interesting talk was made by Prof. Bailey, which was very much appreciated and en The collection was $5.50. k The exercises were prepared by ^ Miss Georgie Emma Jordan. She deserves mnch credit. We are very thankful to her for her aid. NELLE CLAYTON. THAT SETTLED IT. Killed the Man That Said His Wife's Coffee Was Poor. ^ Birmingham, Ala., Jui\p 13.?Resenting the imputation of C. H. Carper that Mrs. Kelley could not make good coffee, W. T. Kelley, and his brother-in-law, Will Sparke, this morning met Carper at Boyle, a suburb of Birmingham, and proceeded to "settle" the matter. As a result of the affair, Carper is dead, ^ Sparks is fatally injured and Kelley is wounded in the arm and leg. It is said that Kelley attacked Carper with a club, whereupon Carper drew a pistol, two other pistols being immediately produced by the brothersin-law and a general fusillade of shots followed with the above result HOMICIDE RECORD BROKEN. Three Men Slaughtered in Thirty-six Hours. Aiken, June 14.?Aiken county has established a new record for homicides. Within 36 hours three j negroes have been killed in this county, all in different places, and no J connection between them, and one has been mortally wounded. The j officers are being kept on the move. One has been Dlaced in jail, and con stables are scouring the country for1 the others. The first of the four occurred Saturday afternoon near Wagener. Bill Gunter, colored, killed Major Gunter, also colored, shooting him with a pistol. It is said Major Gunter was trying to shoot Bill Gunter, when the latter shot him. It is said the parties were drinking. The negro was killed in front of a house near Wagener. Bill Gunter is said to have killed another negro about four years ago and was acquitted. It was not learned to-day whether or not the negro had been arrested. At Salley yesterday morning a little negro boy, named Isaiah Hair,* shot and instantly killed a negro named Will Attaberry, who is said to have been in bed, and Hair'shot him with a shotgun before he got up, literally shooting his face off. It is said that Attaberry gave the boy some command, telling him that if he didn't do it, he would "fix him," whereupon the boy said he would do some fixing and immediately got a shotgun and fired at him, killing him at once. The boy was brought to the jail this morning by Dr. Salley. Atta berry was a grown man and Hair a little boy. This morning Sheriff Raborn received a telephone message informing him that Marsh Watson had kill-1 ed a negro at McNamee's kaolin mine near Bath, whose name could not be learned. Constable Busbee left at once to capture the negro. No particulars of this killing could be learned. Sunday morning at Jones' Cross Road, in McTier township, a negro named Mitchell was shot and mortally wounded by another negro named Landy. This shooting occurred at a negro church near that Dlace. and none of the particulars can be learned. Colston News. t Colston, June 15.?We had some very nice showers last Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Priester and family, Mr. Bowman McMillan, Misses Lynn and Lizzie ' Walker, Messrs. J. H. McMillan and J. C. Avant, from Lodge, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bishop and family last Sunday. Miss Minnie Fender is visiting friends in Bamberg. Mr. Preston Sandifer, from Denmark, visited Mr. G. H. Kearse last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Grimes, from Bamberg, visited Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Rentz last Monday. Prof. Bailey, from Edgefield, made a very interesting talk at Colston Baptist church Sunday morning. The Children's day at Colston came out nicely. It was largely attended, and everybody must have enjoyed hearing the speaking and the nrhsic. Mr. and Mrs. George Bessinger and brother, Mr. William, from near Midway, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Padgett last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Beard and son, Jacob, visited Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Kearse last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Bishop and daughter, Cleo, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Padgett last Sunday. Mrs. W. C. Folk is still on the sick list. Miss Letitia Bishop visited her sister, Mrs. J. P. Bishop, near Ehrhardt, last week, who was very ill. A. L. B. BOY OF FIFTEEN A FORGER. Cashed Check for $600 and Had a "Great Time" at the Races. Harry L. Logan, aged 15, of New York, is in the juvenile jail at Cincinnati waiting to be taken back to New York to answer a charge of forging a check for $600 on F. Sullivan, a Broadway banker. Most of the money, he declares, was spent in playing the races at Latonia, and when arrested the lad's only possession was a .32-calibre revolver. "I always cashed the checks at the Chase National bank for Mr. Sullivan, for whom I was an office boy," said Logan, "and one day, about a month ago, I decided to cash one for my-1 self and did so. With the $600 I came direct to Latonia. I played the t-onac for tt -wfiilo anH fhpn wPTlt t.O Louisville, where I had a great time." The boy says his mother lives in Bridgewood, a New York suburb. Negress Commits Suicide. Greenville, June 14.?Driven to suicide by jealousy, Lizzie Bruton, a negro woman, took carbolic acid in the presence of her husband at the Blue Ridge hotel, where the man is a waiter. This is the second case of a negro committing suicide, in the memory of the oldest inhabitant here. THE FOUR Standing of Contestants Popularity The highest number of publication will be 50,000 ea Those contestants who turn i given credit for same and pu 4-/\ 1oes4 nrfl/ilr A'f 4 JUIC VIUUO IV UlC iaoi VYttn ujl ?. Miss Pearle Delk, Bamberg, Miss Bessie Armstrong, Bam Miss Ida Lou Hiers, Ehrharc Miss Estelle Lancaster, Gova Miss Evelyn Brabham, Olar, Miss Mary Matheny, Bamber Miss Leda Bitter, Olar, Miss Louise Felder, Bamberg Miss Camille Price, Bamberg Miss Katie Carter, Ehrhardt Miss Lucile Lightsey, Bambe Miss Bettie Steedley, Bambe Miss Zelma Hemdon, Ehrhar Miss Reba Williams, Olar,... Miss Mary Wright, Denmark Miss fieorpie Emma Jordan. Miss Nell Clayton, Colston,.. Miss Alice Smoak, Bamberg, Remember all votes over I will not be shown until the w the contest. SANDY PURVIS KILLED. Shot by George Robinson, Who Was Wounded in Fight. Bennettsville, June 14.?In a shooting scrape in the upper part of this county yesterday morning Sandy Purvis was -killed and George Robinson wounded in several places. The homicide occurred Sunday morning about 9 o'clock, and Coroner McCall held an inquest yesterday afternoon, but particulars were not known here until this morning, owing to the fact that the coroner did not get back to Bennettsville until late last night. George Robinson I ie in inil with gunshot wounds? small shot in his right eye, breast, arm and stomach. He has one wound on his lett knee which seems to have been caused by a pistol. It seems that Robinson and his wife had some trouble last week and she had gone to her people with whom Purvis boarded. Mrs. Robinson, with their child, went back home Sunday mornihg for some clothing, but remained only a short time. She started to return to her people and her husband accompanied her part of the way. He tried to detain her, and Purvis came up. Rob inson and Purvis got into a flgnt ana separated, each going for his gun. The difficulty was resumed and Purvis was killed, the shot having entered his back. Robinson says that Purvis shot first, but Emma McLean, the sister of the wife of Robinson, says that she fired the first shot that hit Robinson. Sandy Purvis boarded at the home of Emma McLean. Virginia Storm Causes Loss of Life. Richmond, Va., June 14.?A special from Big Stone Gap, Va., says: "Five deaths are reported and damage to property estimated at upward of $100,000 as the result of rains and electrical storms which swept over this section Saturday night and yesterday. "Railroad tracks are washed out, causing landslides and a 10-foot rise in the sluggish Powell river in two hours. The heaviest storm occurred Saturday night, breaking north of Big Stone Gap along the lines of the Louisville & Nashville and the Interstate railroad. The Interstate road lost more than two miles of road in the six mile stretch of track between Appalachia and Stonega. A passenger train was left stranded near Arno, with the track impassable om either side. Big slides occurred in deep cuts at Appalachia and Dorchester Junction. "The Powell Valley Light and ] Power Company's plant here which furnishes lights for Big Stone Gap and other towns was put out of commission by lightning and crops were injured." RATTLER KILLED BY RODENTS. Snake Overcome by Rats Intended for His Meal. Two big gray rats fought a battle with a rattlesnake this week at Dalton, Ga., and the rats won. The snake was brought to the city and placed in a store window. Two rats were caught with the intention of giving them to the snake toeat. The rats were put in with the snake and they showed fight at once. While the snake was after one, the other would plunge its teeth into the snake's body. After an hour the snake died. One of the rats was nearly dead, but the other was unhurt. The rattler measured seven feet in length. TH COUNT ( in The Herald's Great t Contest. i votes allowed to appear for . ch week to each contestant. ' n over this quantity will be t .blication made on the week I ;he contest. , 95,000 ; berg, 92,500 It, 86,500 ! n, 76,500 ; *71 AAA IX,UW , g, 58,000 > : 54,000! :, 37,500 I 36,000 ' , 17,000 j ?? 11,500 J rg, 4,500 ] dt, .4,500! 4,000 :, 3,500 J Bamberg, 2,500 i 2,000 1,000: 50,000 turned in each week eek before the last week of , 1 ~ ] [ ' KILLED IN RUNAWAY 1 i S. Ei Callaham Thrown From Buggy | With Fatal Result. k ' ] ! Honea Path, June 12.?As Mr. S. ] E. Callaham was drivine into town , this afternoon his horse took fright at an oil tank standing on the railroad track. The lines broke alter the horse had run for some distance and Mr. Callaham attempted to jump from the buggy. He was thrown to the ground with such force that his whole body was paralyzed at once and he died about an hour afterwards. .. A negro in the buggy with him jumped out when the horse began to run. He was considerably bruised, but escaped without serious injury. Mr. Callaham was a prosperous young farmer, living two miles from Honea Path. He leaves a wife and several children, who have the sympathy of many relatives and friends. Mr. Callaham had lived in this section only a few years, but had made many friends here. He was a sober, industrious man, who was always found on the side of right. Only Four More Weeks of Contest. To-day commences the fifth week of The Herald's contest, half of the time allotted for the securing of sub scripuons naving expirea. me gins are running along very close together , and the cloBe of the race promises to be' both exciting and close. It is from surface indications, anybody's race from now on and one or two subscriptions may decide the race in some girl's favor. We want to call the attention of the contestants and their friends to the page ad in this issue which gives any contestant the opportunity to secure extra votes by having subscriptions sent in by their friends together with their name cut out of the paper. We wish to say to every young lady in the race that after having done so well from the beginning until now it will be of great advantage to make every day count something from now on until the close. Do not let a day pass without accomplishing something. The four weeks that remain will roll around mighty shortly and the prizes are worth every bit of energy that is spent in securing them. Master Keeps Maid's Kiss. Apropos of Lord Northcote's name being mentioned as a probable successor to Earl Grey in Canada, his lordship was once made curious use 1 nf Alt ? U1 Willie gUVCl UUi gcuciai ui AU stralia, says The London Globe. < Strolling one night through an avenue of somber trees to a friend's house to dinner, he was suddenly pounced upon by a maid servant, . who kissed him effusively and J pressed a little parcel into his hand. "Here's a sausage for you. I can't come out to-night, as master has company," she whispered, and as < mysteriously disappeared. '< When he got to the house he 1 found one of his servants loitering '< by the gate. "What are you doing there?" asked Lord Northcote. ? "I'm waiting for my sweetheart," i the man stammered. 1 "Where is she?" 1 "In service here." : "Ah, then, I am right. Here is a 1 sausage from your sweetheart", and t she wishes me to tell you that she 1 cannot come out to-night, as her < master has company." Seeing that 1 the man looked nervous, he added, kindly: "She also gave me a kiss J for you; but perhaps you would 1 rather wait until you see her. Here t is five shillings instead." 1 BOY SUICIDED. [Jersham Fendelson Took His Own Life in Granby Village. As the result of unrequited affec-J lions, Gersham Fendelson, a young vhite man about 24 years of age, :ook his own life last night. Coroner Walker was summoned at 1:30 this morning and after viewing the remains decided that a formal inquest vould be unnecessary. A clear statement of the cause of :he tragedy was given by Miss Mamie Watts, who lives with her stepfather, Mr. Ferguson, at 2005 Wilson street, almost directly in the ear of the Granby Methodist church. Saturday afternoon the young man returned a photograph which she had given him. He also sent her word by her younger sister and sought the return of a scarf pin and i ring which he had given the young woman. She declined to return them except to him directly. Fendelson boarded with Mr. Jenkins, whose house faces the street on which the church is located, and the back yards of the two houses adjoin. He had been living in Columbia since Last February and came here from Darlington. Rooming with him were 3ome young men whom he had known. Yesterday afternoon while Fendelson and some other boys were Looking at some post cards, he picked up a .32 calftre Colt's magazine gun and put it his pocket, stating that he had to go oyer on the Palmetto mill hill in the evening and 3ome of the boys over there had it in for him. The pistol belonged to Willie Mims, who was not in the room at. the time, and the other boys did not stop Fendelson, for he claimed to have permission to get it. Fendelson went over to see Miss Watts early in the evening and they with her mother went to preaching at the church on the Palmetto hill. He talked to the girl but little and was with her mother most of the time. On the return to the house the girl took ofT the scarf pin and rine and offered them to the young man, but he declined them, saying that he would never have any further use for them. Miss Watts stated that he seemed sad and spoke 3trangely. Finally he took from his pocket a photograph of himself and 3aid it was for the girl's mother to remember him by, as he expected to lie. With that he walked out of the house, and in a moment there was the report of a pistol. The girl called her mother. She was not alarmed, but thought Gersham wps just trying to worry her; But the mother had observed with a closer intuition and declared her belief that-the hoy had really harmed himself. The ?irl went to the door with a lamp a.nd, peering out into the darkness, saw the form of the young man jtruggling in the death throes. Thoroughly horrified she then iroused the neighbors, who summoned Policeman Salters from his beat rhe officer did not hear the report of he pistol as a train was coming in, put one of the watchmen in that leighborhood told him that the report was heard at 15 minutes to 1 p'clock. Coroner Walker examined the jlothes for any articles of value and turned the body over to an undertaker. The poor boy was very well Iressed, and had a very pleasant face. His mother, Mrs. Lily Fendelson, lives at Hartsville and will be lotifled this morning as soon as the telegraph office is open. The young men who boarded with Fendelson were much grieved, and jne of them declared repeatedly, 'He will take to his grave a good reputation." They said that the boy vas madly in love with the girl, but she did not care so much for him. rhe mother told Coroner Walker that on the way to church he had jpoken desperately of what he would io to any other who should pay her ittentions. The ball entered the right temple md came out on the other side of the head. Coroner Walker examined the revolver, which was found in the hand of the dead boy, and saw tnai it had but recently been fired.?Columbia State, Monday, July 14. At a country fair out in Kansas, says The Argonaut, a man went up .0 a tent where some elk were on exhibition and stared wistfully up at the sign. "I'd like to go there," he 3aid to the keeper, "but it would be mean to go in without my family, md I cannot afford to pay for my tvife and seventeen children." The deeper stared at him in astonishment. "Are all these your children?" he gasped. "Every one," said the man. "You wait a minute," said the keeper, "I'm going to bring the elk jut and let them see you all." SOUL-MATES SWITCHED. Sew Cure Administered by the Irate Relatives. Jasper C. Crum, of Lexington, Ky., lisappeared from his home this week md it was believed that he had been iidnapped, as he was forced to leave it the point of a pistol. For the past week a posse searchsd the mountains for him and he was Inally found In a mining camp, vhere he was living with Miss Lizzie Moore, his soul-mate. Both were wrought back to Lexington, and after leing made to strip to the waifct, ;hey were soundly switched. The voman then was turned loose, while Drum, who is married, was taken to lis irate wife. Letters found in the Crum home jhowed that the elopment had been ilanned in advance and that it was X) be made to appear that he had ieen kidnapped. IN THE PALMETTO STATE C" SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading-?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. jt The Beaumont cotton mills at Spartanburg will be enlarged in the near future by the addition of 25,* 000 spindles and 600 looms. The work of construction has begun. Out of 13 applicants for teachers* certificates at the recent examination held in Lancaster county only one passed, Miss Connie Porter. Miss Porter was awarded a first grade certificate. The property oi the Anderson Traction Company, which owned the street car line in that city and to Belton, will be sold at auction this fall under a decree of the court, an the company is bankrupt. William Nelson, a neero emDloved at a rock quarry near Columbia, was killed last Thursday as the result tit an explosion of a stick of dynamite. Nelson was engaged in blasting work, and it is said the accident wit the result of his own carelessness. ; ^ Monday morning about 3 o'clock the large stable and buggy and wagon sheds of the Hartsville Mull Company, at Hartsville, were dti- . . "?j stroyed by fire. The total loss It about $5,000, with $3,000 insurance. Two mules and one horse were bunked in the flames. Dr. W. A. Byars, who was put in the Richland jail last Saturday afternoon on a warrant sworn out by the dispensary winding-up commit* sion, was released on bond Monday, the amount being $2,500. Dr. Byars is charged with conspiracy to defraud the State. It is said he represented whiskey houses before the old State board. The city council of Sumter have granted a franchise to J. L. Alnutt and others to establish a gas plant in that city. The promoters have deposited $1,000 with the city author!* ties as a guarantee that they will be- "M gin work in eight months and wiU complete the plant in eighteen M months. The city will exempt the :3g plant from taxation five years. Louis Radcliffe, a young white -m man about 18 years old, of Columbia, was seriously stabbed last -3 Thursday by a negro named Jacobs; the weapon used being a steel eraser . jf belonging to Radcliffe. The young . ' man came near losing his life, as inv jaguiar veiu was ucati; octcia\t? The negro says there was no trouble, i|| bat that they were playing when the :i|? eraser stuck in the white boy's neck. * Dr. C. E. Blandenberg, a younf dentist of Augusta; had a narrow ee- .|P! cape from drowning in the surf at the Isle of Palms last Sunday. He ' M was in bathing and went out beyond v the lines and was caught in the un- m dertow. He called for help and was --0m rescued by the life saving guard, assisted by several others. Dr. Blandenberg was black in the face when *gl| rescued, and it took hard work to re- -: store him. The Southern Power Co., which has two large power plants on the Catawba river, and is now developing a large water power on the Wateree river, near Camden, will make application to the city of Columbia for a franchise, so it is presumed the company will bring electric power , , ^ to that city. This may mean that other towns below Columbia will be supplied with electricity from the wateree piani. Will Not Recommend Free Bagging; Washington, June 13.?The senate committee on finance will in all prob- * t|| ability recommend that a dnty be imposed upon crude and refined pe- VS troleum and the products of petrofc <1? eum in spite of the action of the* house in putting these articles On the-. m free list. This subject was discussed at gg meeting . of Republican members of the committee to-day. Indication! ,. >?? are that crude oil will be made doty \?a able at a quarter of a cent a gallon . JJi and on refined petroleum a rath of 25 per cent ad valorem will be fixed. It, "* vi ? ? ~V?V1a nlan tliot + Vl Q lottor mttt.' IS pi'UUdUlU aiOV tUUb VUV 4UVVV4 AMW v,^ will be made to apply to products ot. gjm petroleum. . Many members of the senate fa~ vored the countervailing duty on petroleum, but the representatives ot *r| oil-producing States did not favor it,' The demands for protection upon oil come principally from the independent oil men. The sentiment of the committee if in favor of reducing the rate of bituminous coal, which was discussed to- tj day, from 67 to 50 cents a ton. Regardless of the fact that Southern senators have been able to hold up the provision for free binding twine for the Northwestern farmers pending disposition of the cotton bagging question, the committee will not recommend that bagging be placed on the free list. The protection asked by American lithographers against the importation of cheap view cards from Ger many win oe rcuummcuutu. Child Bitten by Rabid Dog. Abbeville, June 14.?The 8-yearold son of Mr. Tom Nickles was bitten by a dog that has since been pronounced mad by the Pasteur institute in Atlanta. Dr. C. C. Gambrell ;?? will get the virus fresh every day : and treat the boy at home. Early in April the South Carolina State board of health authorized the establishment of a Pasteur institute in Columbia, but it seems they are not in position yet to treat patients.