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Hamburg ^ralb Thursday, August 18,1910. SHORT LOCALS. Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. Call at G. A. Ducker's new novel t ? A ? _ ty store, opposite post onit-e. Pastor Frier will be at bome next Sunday and will fill his pulpit as usual. The Denmark Realty Company is delivering the goods. Try them if you want to buy or sell real estate or stocks. C. H. MILHOUS, Manager. Mrs. G. Frank Bamberg, of this Vi?c ViQnn onnnintod mairl nf WIJ f uao uppvxuwu honor for the reunion of Sons of Veterans at Spartanburg this week. Our base ball team went to Barnwell last week and played two games of ball on Thursday and Friday, winning both games, the first 4 to 3 and the second 4 to 2. Trinity Sunday-school held its regular service Sunday afternoon. The attendance was 130. There were - forty-six present in the Herbert Adult Bible Class. s,; The directors of the Bamberg Cotton Mill at their meeting last Monday elected Mr. E. F. Verdery, of Augusta, president, and Mr. W. E. . Andrews, of Augusta, secretary. The Busy Bees will hold a social meeting next Friday afternoon at the home of their teacher, the social committee being Misses Harry Delle Free, Nelson Wright and Mildred tt ; i_ * ar-v JYUlgUt. t . The new carpet and pews in the Baptist church were put down last week, and the improvement in the interior of the church is very notice. able. These improvements will also add much to the comfort of the conSis^'' gregation. If all of Bamberg's summer swallows were to get into one town at the same time, we fear that it would look as if there was no one at home . to keep the old town going. But somehow enough always remain to keep things together. The insurance rates of Bamberg were reduced August 1st, and now our people can secure lower rates on their insurance and thereby save considerable money. This reduction was made possible by installing water works and organizing a fire department Rev. T. G. Herbert will leave Monday for the upper part of the State, and will spend his vacation in that seotion; part of the time he will be with his family at Caesar's Head and U' the other part he will help in evange, listic work. He expects to be gone two Sundays. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. ? * CS,TI_ 11. rearisune, ui uicu ucic uuuday afternoon at the home of Mr. J. W. Pearlstine. The little child had been in bad health for some time. They carried the body to Charleston \ x v Monday morning, the interment being in that city. j The winners of the schorlarships from this county at Clemson and Winthrop have been announced. Miss Julien Easterling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Easterling, of this city, wins the Winthrop scholarship, and Mr. Geo. F. McMillan, of Ehrhardt, gets the Clemson scholarship. Two small boys on Mr. J. A. J. Rice's place near town, became engaged in a row on Tuesday and the smaller one struck the larger boy in the head with some heavy piece of iron or stick and crushed his skull. He is not expected to recover. The names of neither party could be ' learned. The editor of this paper left last Friday morning for Glenn Springs and the mountains of North Carolina, where he will spend a while recuperating. For some time past he has been grunting around the office, and he decided to go away and at lesat Hvo his friends a rest from telling ?? ? them how bad he felt. K;. ' Rev. T. G. Herbert preached to very good sized congregations in the morning and evening last Sunday. His sermons were both very forcible. The theme of the morning service was that "We are laborers together with God." The evening service topic was "The sale of Esau's birthright to Jacob." The matter of Questionable game of chance, cotton futures, gambling and general lowliving was discused. Monday morning about 8 o'clock the local freight going towards Augusta was partially derailed while going into the siding towards the electric light plant. It is said that one of the rails broke and this derailed the engine. A large force of hands were set to work early in the day, but it was late in the afternoon before the train could move forward. A similar wreck occurred on the siding last Thursday, but not such a hard one to clear up as the one this week. \ LAWN PARTY. An Enjoyable Event Given in Honor of Misses Ray and Black. A most delightful event enjoyed by the younger set was the lawn party given at the hospitable home of Dr. and Mrs. Ed Kirkland last Wednesday evening, the 10th instant in honor of Misses Hattie Ray and Leize Black, who are visiting Misses Kathlene and Annie Laurie Kirkland. The guests were met and introduced by Mrs. Kirkland and Misses Kathlene and Annie Laurie, and after all had arrived they repaired to the beautiful lawn which had been freshly clipped and nicely lighted with Japanese lanterns, and indulged in games, and in the book contest. Miss Thelma Faust won the first prize of a box of chocolate candy and C. r> Ti',Tn tjio hnnhv nrize of a JlJ X' A V%/ tl vu wuv r. ? large kitchen spoon, after which delicious refreshments, consisting of sherbert and cake, were served on the lawn by the little Misses Eloise Kirkland, Eva Mae Spann, Cornelia Black, and Harrie Delle Free. Those present were: Misses Leonard Folk, Urma Black, Ethel Black, Evelyn Free, Julia Easterling, Jerolene Bruce and Ruth Riley, and the boys were Messrs. C. D. Free, Carl Kirsch, Joe Spann, Phillip Murphy, Willie Dickinson, Bob Ayer, Tommie Black, Kirkland Graham, Bissel Beach, Pinckney Bellinger, Henry Kearse and M. O. Munnerlyn. The young folks certainly enjoyed themselves as the hour at'which they left will attest, for they stayed till the lanterns began to burn out. finn/lar.c/>Vi<inl rnnwntinn. kJUXIVWJ -OVMVV* W" - v.?? The Barnwell and Bamberg Sunday-school Convention will meet at Long Branch church Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 31, September 1 and 2. PROGRAM. Wednesday, 11 a. m.?Devotional exercises?Rev. G. Hopkins. Wednesday, 11:30.?Introductory Sermon?Rev. J. E. Freeman. Organization. Dinner on the grounds. Wednesday, 3 p. m.?Devotional exercises. Wednesday, 3:15?How I run my Sunday-school?A. P. Manville, G. E. Birt, H. J. Hair. Open parliament. Wednesday, 4?Mission in the Sunday-school?Rev. B . F. Allen, Rev. J. D. Timmons. Adjourn. THURSDAY. 10:30 a. m.?Devotional exercises. 11.?The Home and the Sunday school?Rev. W. H. Simpson. 11:30.?Teacher Training?Rev. J. D. Moore, Rev. W. C. Baxley. 12:30.?What are the Duties and Qualifications of a Teacher?Rev. F. M. Hauser, Rev. G. Hopkins. Dinner on the grounds. 3 p. m.?Devotional exercises. 3:15.?The Baraca Work?Prof. H. J. Crouch, F. P. Lee, J. F.*Carter. 4.?Philather Work?Miss Clara Johnson, Miss Bessie Willis. Adjourn. FRIDAY. 10:30 a. m.?Devotional exercises. 11.?Institute Work?Rev. J. D. Moore. 12 Noon.?The Denominational Sunday-school the Hope of our Churches?Rev. O. J. Frier, Rev. W. G. Britton. Dinner on the grounds. 3 p. m.?Devotional exercises. 3:15.?Two minute verbal reports from schools. 4.?Presentation of banners by president. Miscellaneous business. Adjourn. . Persons desiring to be met at Elko, write to G. E. Birt, Elko. Those desiring to be met at Barnwell, write E. IL Richardson, Barnwell. Every school is entitled to five delegates, and it is desired that schools will send full delegations to take part in work of convention. O. J. FRIER, W. H. SIMPSON, W. G. BRITTON. Bank for Smoaks. We understand that an effort is being made to organize a bank at Smoaks in Colleton county. Mr. J. E. Smoak is the prime mover ia the organization. There are some mighty good men in that section and it may be that a bank will pay, but it appears that every nook and corner is trying to engage in the banking business. If the deposits can be secured, the institution ought to do well; but it takes deposits to make a bank if there are to be any profits. Xegro Caught. Moses Isaacs, the negro who shot and killed another negro, both being employees at a saw mill at Norway, was apprehended yesterday at Williston. Sheriff Saiiey was immediately notified and he left this morning for Branchville where? he was met by the gentleman who has the negro in custody to bring the prisoner back to this city. There was a reward of $25 offered for the apprehension of this negro.?Orangeburg Evening News, August 16. PETITION FOR PARDON. I Case of Isaiah Bartley Now Before C Governor Ansel. A petition asking for the pardon of Isaiah Bartley has been filed with E Governor Ansel. Bartley was con- 1< victed in 1906 in Bamberg county on n the charge of killing Willie Cutter, h a showman, at the little town of Mid- t way in that county. 1< John Anderson, who was also 1< charged in connection with the crime, s escaped at the time and was not cap- d tured until a year later. He was con- s victed on the evidence of Bartley and t was sentenced to 20 years in the h penitentiary. Bartley has been on the Bamberg county chain gang for two s years.?Columbia State, August 13. y T! 7 _ . D A Good Roads Rally for Bamberg. City council has undertaken a movement for the betterment of the streets and roads of the town, and if the hearty co-operation of the citi- g zens can be secured, the town will q be put in better condition than in t; many years past. g The plan is in substance as fol- t lows: To have the Business League g call a special meeting of the citizens v of the town and secure the names of d all parties who will furnish one or i< two or more teams during a certain i time to be decided upon later. These s teams will be used to haul clay into s the town and will be in charge of a ^ committee from the council and v from the League. It is proposed to t! secure a road grader and to do some 7 grading in the town also. The rally t would last during a period of per- \ haps two weeks. The purpose of the n rally is to clay and grade the streets v of the town and build them up in a every possible manner. To this end j. it will be necessary to have a great g many teams. Now that the crops p are laid by and the teams will be idle, the men of the town have a I splendid opportunity to co-operate and do lasting work. This work, if done by the town, would cost a great deal more money than the town can afford, and yet if co-operation is p secured it can be done without much t( cost to any one. One citizen, the d mayor of the town has already signified his intention of furnishing six a teams for a period of two days. f This matter has been referred to s the Business League, but as the presi- c dent and the secretary are both out r of the city, it is not known what ac- v tion will be taken by the League. In the meantime let everybody dis- c cuss the Good Roads Rally and have j your mind made up to offer something for the cause when the meet- j ine is called. n 1 E Trinity Sunday-School Notes. e ~ E The Trinity Bugle is the name of the official paper of the school. j The Herbert Adult Bible Class will E have charge of the opening exercises f at Trinity Sunday-school next Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. A com- t mittee will have this in charge. t Bible Class Day at Trinity should be attended by every member of the class. It is hoped that not less than sixty will be present. ^ The banner system has been insti- v tuted and is now being carried on. a Handsome banners have been placed t in the school, one for attendance and E one for offering. The contest began E August 7, and will be carried on each v month. The class having the largest q per centage of members present, dur- f ing the month will be awarded the ^ hnnnpr for attendance and will be r given charge of the banner for the { ensuing month; the plan for offering a will be based upon the largest per ^ centage of offering to pupils present; 0 for instance, if one class with forty ^ present gave two dollars and another 3 class with ten present gave one dol- 7 lar, the class giving the dollar would receive the banner, because they gave more per member. Organization seems to be in the fj air. Aside from the Herbert Adult b Bible Class there are two other fully 0 organized classes in the school now. F The Busy B's and the "I T's" are e hard at work to prefect the organiza- t tion, and they will doubtless he p heard from in the near future. The I work of organized classes throughout I the country is attracting great attention. fj The attendance this summer has d not yet fallen below one hundred and five. The average attendance has * been about one hundred and twenty i1 or more. This is one of the results f of organization. Last summer the t ottonHonco drnnneri down to about S a tivuuuuw vrr - eighty five several Sundays. This C summer there are probably more b members out of town than ever before. When a visiting pastor came to the school lately and was asked to ad- s dress the Bible Class, he seemed in- n credulous when told that that large 0 number occupying one entire side of 1 the auditorium was the Bible Class. ^ If all the members had been present, D he would have doubtless wondered f still more. p Smelling gasoline is no sign of a ownership of an automobile. j [ILLS HIMSELF WITH HAMMER fid Negro Accidentally Strikes Him self on Leg. St. Matthews, August 15.?Bei Sutler, a negro railroad section hand Dst his life in a most peculiar man er to-day. While working with hi ammer he missed his mark, the en ire force of the blow falling on hi eg in the vicinity of the knee. But er suffered great pain and lost con iderable blood. In about an hour h< ied. The blow is supposed to hav< o completely shocked the entire sys em that it caused a paralysis of th< eart. tiutier naa Deen m me cuusia.ii ervice of the railroad for about 2' ears and was considered one of it lost faithful employees. He was : egro of advanced age. Sunday-school Convention. Since Mr. J. M. May has been th eneral secretary of the Methodis inference Sunday-school Associa ion, he has been hard at work or anizing every district and pushini he denomination work very intelli ently. In all but two districts, con entions have been held. Organge istrict, in which Bamberg is located 3 one of the unorganized districts n a letter to some of the Sunday chool workers here, he urges tha omething be done to get this distric a line. It is likely that some ste] *ill be taken in the near future am - -*11 T 1 1 J nat a convention win ue ueiu aom ;here in the district. Bamberg ough o make a bid for the convention Ve are plenty able to entertain ; luch lerger gathering than thi irould be, and there is nothing tha dvertises a town to good advantag ike having visitors come and the: o away speaking a good word for th lace. Ion. J. O. Patterson Should Be Rc turned to Congress. The following editorial appeare a the New Era, an Aiken county pa er, on the 11th instant, and seem o express the sentiment of the entir iistrict: "Hon. J. O. Patterson, who i gain in the field for renominatio or congress from this district, d erves the thoughtful and critics onsideration of every voter. Hi ecord as it comes to us from those i: irhose judgment we have every cob Idence is good and clean and Demc ratic to the core, which is a rar ufet now. "Handicapped, as all Souther v ?orinor fA th -lemucrauj <tic, uj uciuugiu^ tv KU Qinority in congress, lie is to be com tended for what he has accomplish d by his great tact and good judg Qent "As there is a good prospect for )emocratic majority in congress th text term, it would be good politic or all congressmen from this Stat vho "have made good' to be re urned, and Mr. Patterson has cei ainly done so." Very Good Corn Crop. Mr. J. H. Cope, near Cope, has leld of ninety acres in corn whic pill average forty bushels to th ,cre. This means a crop of 3,60 tushels, and upon being asked hot auch it took to run the place, th oanager said 1,500 bushels, whic pould run it to its full capacity. Mi Jope has corn and cotton on five oot rows, and his cotton just at thi ime is as good as cotton can be aeeting in the row and fruitful t ts full capacity. Mr. Cope ha .lso another profitable crop, hogs taving a fine drove of somethin ver a hundred head, rnese ne iai ens on peanuts, planting from 20 t 0 acres generally.?Orangebur Mmes and Democrat. A Good Fish Story. Orangeburg, August 12.?A grea ish and alligator story has beei rought back to the city by a part; f Orangeburgers, who visited th "our Holes on Wednesday, havin; ,one down to Ridgeville and fror here on to the fishing grounds. Th nnneiotoH of P!nl. W. G. Smith CV1 CJ VyVUOiVVVu V*. vv.. . ^red Hughes, J. P. Mattheny am dgon. Besides catching an abundance o ish, as many as ten alligators wer liscovered. Col. Smith succeeded in killing twc "urther down the stream, near wher t empties into the Edisto river, the; ound sturgeon jumping, and two o hese were caught in a net Th turgeon weighed 125 pounds eacl Jol. Smith also killed a rattlesnak laving seven rattles and a button Home Mission Meeting. Owing to the fact of there bein; o many of the members of the Wc aan's Home Mission Society ou f town, Mrs. E. 0. Kirsch cordiall nvites those remaining to meet a ler residence, next Tuesday after ioon, at five o'clock, the regular tim or the August meeting. We do not want the earth. A sma! art of it will satisfy us. Try us fo , "square deal." C. H. MILHOUS Ianager Denmark Realty Co. : '-tA* V TO TRY BARNWELL SOLDIER. Orders Issued Appointing Court to Hear Charges Preferred. 3 Charleston, August 15.?Orders have been issued appointing Major _ R. Boyd Cole, a summary court to s try Sergt. Patterson, son of J. O. Pat. terson, congressman from the second s district, on the charge of drunken_ ness, disorderly conduct and threat. ening an officer. e The trouble occurred, it is said, on e the train coming back from the en campment of the third reigment at e Chickamauga. Patterson is a noncommissioned officer of the Barnwell t company. Death of Mr. John C. Reeves. s a. The many friends of Mr. John C. Reeves who was well known in this city, will regret to learn of his death. The following is taken from the e Orangeburg Evening News of the t 13th instant: "Mr. John C. Reeves, who has been - in failing health for sometime past, s passed away at 9:45 o'clock this - morning at the home of his son, Mr. - E. D. Reeves, in South Russell street. - The funeral services will be held to [t morrow afternoon at the Baptist i. church at 4:30 o'clock and the inter. ment will take place at Sunnyside t cemetery. t Mr. Reeves has been a resident of p Orangeburg for a great number of i years, but was formally a resident of e Branchville. At the time of his t death he was 76 years of age. He i. was a member of the Masons also a a member of the United Confederate s Veterans. The deceased engaged in t business here for a number of years e but on account of his failing health a he has not been actively engaged for e some years. The deceased is survived by three sons and two daughters: Mr. E. D. " Reeves, of this city; Mr. G. W. Reevs, of Branchville, and Mr. J. Ligon Reeves, of North; Mrs. W. F. Fairey, d of this city, and Mrs. E. E. Fairey, L- of Gracewood, Ga. The sympathy of s their many friends is extended to the e saddened relatives." Death of Little Child s n After a long illness Edwin Stokes, the ten-months-old infant of Mr. and tl Mrs. M. W. Brabham died last Weds nesday evening at o'clock, on n Sullivan's Island, where he had been i- taken with the hope that the change >- might prove beneficial, e The interment took place Thursday evening at 8:15, Southside cemetery, n Rev. T. G. Herbert conducting the e funeral services. i- The pall bearers were Messrs. J. i- J. Brabham, F. M. Moye and Eugene ;- and Henry Stokes. A large crowd followed this little a one to his resting place, and loving e hands hid away the tiny mound bes neath a great quantity of the most e beautiful flowers. !- Mr. and Mrs. Brabham have the - warmest sympathy of their scores of friends. COUNTY EXPENSES. To the Democratic Voters of Bama berg County: h f A statement having been circulata/1 r,V. rtTTTir\nr on lnnrooao ln fiv. 0 r*l, ouu VY 1115 au mci^aoc iu tuv VA q' penses of the county for the year 1909-10 over 1908-09, I beg to say v that if you will examine the statee ment given below that there has been h really no increase at all. The settle. ment between the auditor and treasurer for the fiscal year 1908-09 shows total paid out on County Coms missioners order $17691.05, the settlement for 1909-10 shows a total 0 paid out of $20116.51. This would show an apparent increase of s $2425.46, read statement below J. showing extra expenses, which were g not published for the previous year, _ and you will see that the increase has only been $593.58. Now, as in0 telligent men, I ask you to connsider S the fact that for the year 1908-09 the convicts on the chain gang averaged about 25, while for the year 1909-10 the average was about 35, and at no time since the first of Oct tober, 1909, there has been not less a than 35 convicts. Now, when you y take into consideration the increased cost of all commodities, and the ine crease in the gang, you will see that S there has been no increase in actual a expenses for 1909-10 over 1908-09. e STATEMENT. 1, Expenses (per settlement) d 1909-10 $20116.51 Expenses (per settlement) 1908-09 17691.05 fj , e Increase $ 2425.46 Extra Expenses. * Trying Hampton murder e case $ 522.56 y Repairs court house and f jail 479.93 ~ Attorneys Carter & TownaonH 80.00 l- Ehrhardt and Bamberg e road 95.00 i. Extra for Lunatics 70.97 Extra for capture of Nixmurderer 81.40 Increase in Salaries 282.14 g Increase in Paupers 215.88 't $1827.88 y Net increase $ 597.58 t J. B. KEARSE, e August 19, 1910. Supervisor. New Advertisements. 11 r M. R. Campbell?Found. 5. H. C. Folk, County Chairman? Primary Notice. BAIL REDUCED TO NO AVAIL. J. A. Goodwin, Charged with Swindling, Still in Jail. Sumter, August 15.?Prof. J. A. Goodwin, the palmist and clairvoyant and all-round swindler, who was arrested ia Felair. Oh.o, ?rd brought back here on a swindling charge, has been trying to get his bond reduced from $3,000. His lawyers went before Judge Gary and succeeded in having the bond lowered to $2,000 and returned to find that Ralph Hill, the victim, had instituted attachment Droceedings. Attachment was made and his effects attached, and something over two dollars seized. This is the case where the victim consulted the professor on making an investment of $700, all he had. The money was put into a pitcher, and ^ doubled. On the third trial the money had changed to brown paper * and the professor had left town. ? Kills Self at Last ~~ * % Chicago, August 13.?Having been prevented five times by attendants of the Illinois State asylum for the insane from committing suicide, Mrs. * Mary C. McArdle yesterday eluded her guards and hanged herself in her room at the asylum. During the three months she was at the asylum Mrs. McArdle once g tried to cut her throat with a razor, three times she tried to drown herself, and once before she tried to commit suicide by hanging. CONGRESSMAN J. O. PATERSON. \ ? The Man with a Spotless Record Praised by a Northern Writer. _____ ' : J. E. Jones, writing in the National Monthly, a Boston publication, under the head of "Flashlights of Public Men," speaks in the following complimentary terms of Congressman J. O. Patterson, of this district: "The member of congress from the second district of South Carolina, Judge James O'H. Patterson, has rather upset the popular impression 1 that a man in order to get congressional favors must belong to the ? regular Republican organization. Now while Congress Patterson is a Democrat and got 8,440 votes in his district in the last election, against "J fifty-eight for the Republican nomi- V . nee, yet he has done what no Republican has been able to accomplish. r:X The established rule in connection with appropriations for public buildings is that they will be granted to only cities of ten thousand inhabitants or where the gross receipts of the office exceed ten thousand dollars per year; but Mr. Patterson got ten 1 thousand dollars for a site and fifty thousand dollars for a building for Aiken, South Carolina, which is a place of about four thousand popula- : A tion, and with receipts running fpr below the usual amount required, and ton ntt nil that has nrii.ct.icfl.llv UUU tv UVJ/ VM V*.. VMM V MW- r . m arranged for free delivery. This is, of course, a local matter, but simply ^ goes to show what the right kind . _ of congressman can accomplish by keeping everlastingly after things. "There is a delicious air of south-. land about room 409 in the house office building, and in it I spent a - * pleasant half hour with Judge Patterson, while he told me of his great interest in the projects to drain the swamp lands of the South. 'We are realizing the greatness of the irri- , 4 gation projects in the West,' he said, but it seems to be rather difficult to 'si make our people understand the greater advantages that attach to drainage problems. In the West, the irrigations systems must be first installed, and then it is necessary to get people to come in and settle on the lands; while in my State the people are already there and the moment the lands are supplied with a satisfactroy system cultivation begins; and these lands are as valuable as any . of the lands that are being talked about so much in the West.' Judge Patterson made a speech upon his subject that attracted a great deal of favorable comment among Congressmen at the time and did much to enlighten his colleagues in reference to the needs of the South. , . "Judge Patterson has covered his district with rural free delivery routes, and in this matter as well as in the instance cited of the Aiken | public building has demonstrated his ability to 'get things.' He has also secured a soil survey for Saluda county which will be of great value to the agricultural regions as it will clearly thft chemical and physical Uvauv v**" ? value of the soil in the different regions, and show conclusively the kind of crops to which each section is best adapted. V In the way of local legislation it is found that the Congressman has i been unusually successful in securing appropriations indemnifying suffer- 9 ers from outrages perpetrated during the Civil War, but in the broader and more comprehensive field of national affairs he has addressed the house upon the subject of the tariff, and threw some hot shells into the Republican camp in his argument along the line that the opposition was attempting to serve the interests rather than the consumers of the country, while his speech upon the Federal Judiciary System has been 4 circulated pretty well over the country. He elicits great applause from members of his party when he declared that 'federal judges are the sappers and miners of despotism.' and characterized the system as ^ 'against the policy and principles of our government and of all civilized nations' because it places 'the machinery of the courts of justice beyond the reach of the poorest and humblest citizen who seeks redress for a wrong or remedy for an existing evil.' e "No matter how much one may disagree with Judge Patterson upon TnoTTQ vet it is doubtless true that , ^ XX AO V A v WW m+y . the Republicans in congress maintain .? the highest respect for the ability and fairness with which the South Carolina member has presented his argument from his party's standpoint."