The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 12, 1911, Page 5, Image 5
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t PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and
at Other Points.
?Mr. J. R. Linder, of the Smoaks
section, was in the city Monday.
?Mr. W. L. Mitchum, of Ehr%
hardt, was in the city yesterday.
?Mr. Geo. A. Jennings has accepted
a position with G. O. Simmons.
?Mr. Thos. Black left Sunday
night for St. Louis to buy stock.
?(Hon. C. W. Gams, of Denmark,
"was in the city last Friday morning.
?Mr. J. Laz Copeland, of the Ehrfcardt
section, was in the city Tuesday.
t ?Mr. G. Frank Bamberg went to
St Louis last week to buy horses
and mules.
?Mr. W. P. Jones left last Saturday
for St. Louis to buy horses
a and mules for Jones Bros.
?Mr. J. J. Smoak has returned
from Virginia, where he has been
buying a car load of fine horses and
|V mules.
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?Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Owens, of
Denmark, spent last Friday and Saturday
night in the city on a visit to
* relatives.
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?Dr. O. D. Faust returned to the
city Monday night, after spending
the holidays with relatives in Macon,
Ga.
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?Senator J. B. Black and Representative
J. A. Hunter have gone to
! Columbia to attend the session of
the general assembly.
? ?Messrs. Isaac W. Carter, D. P.
Smith, J. H. Fender, Henry Ehrhardt,
I. D. Copeland, and J. I. Copelonri
r?f TTIhrharrit wprp in fho citV I
(yesterday.
?Mr. J. B. Traywick, of the Cope
section, was in the city last Friday.
, He came to buy mules, and bought a
beautiful matched pair from G. Frank
Bamberg.
?Mr. W. D. Bennett, of Lodge,
was in the city last Thursday. He
was here to meet Mrs. Bennett, who
has been on a visit to relatives over
in Georgia.
v ?Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Barr, who
were married here several weeks
ago, have returned to the city on a .
visit to relatives. We hope they will
make their home in Bamberg, but
we learn they will live at Leesville.
?Mr. F. M. Smoak, who has been
IraAnlnar Krtrvlro fnr the flnttnn Oil
PAwpiUg UVVIIO &v? , VA4V www ?r..
Company here, left Monday for Allendale,
where he has accepted a poiyt
sition as book-keeper for the Allendale
Cotton Oil & Fertilizer Company..
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?-Mr. J. D. Miley and his son, of
the Smoaks section, spent last Friday
night and Saturday in the city. Mr.
Miley is one of the very good citiv
zens "we will get if the annexation of
a part of Warren township to Bamberg
county is carried,
jf ?Dr. C. R. May, of BennettsI
ville, was in the city last Friday. He
was over in Orangeburg county on
^ ip a visift to relatives and came over to
. ~ see his old friends. Dr. May formerly
lived in Bamberg, and his many
friends here were mighty glad to see
him again.
?Mr. S. w. uiayton, 01 tne uoisV.;
ton section, was in the city last SatP
urday and renewed for The Herald
another year, although his time was
not out for some time yet. He says
he can't do without it, and that it is
f certainly the best paper he ever read.
Mr. Clayton takes seven papers, but
he says he always wants to read
The Herald first. He has been a
subscriber for more than fifteen
IgpL years.
| ALLEGED LAURENS SHORTAGE.
Comptroller General to Report Matter
to General Assembly.
Columbia, Jan. 7.?Comptroller
General Jones will report a shortage
; of over $8,000 in the finances of Lau
rens county to the general assembly,
and in this connection will have several
recommendations as to the
^ special examinations of the books of
the counties by auditing companies.
According to the report of the Comptroller
General, which covers an investigation
on the part of an auditing
company and his office, the shortage
occurred during the administration
of Messrs. Babb, ex-county treasurer,
and J. H. Copeland, deceased.
y The shortages are alleged to have
occurred during the past several
years, there being charged to Mr.
Babb the sum of $3,546.95 and to
Mr. Copeland the sum of $5,057.40.
Discussing special reports by auditing
companies on the finances of
counties, Mr. Jones has the following
to say: "An examination of the
* reports of these experts show that
s such examinations are of little pracic
tical value, because such experts are
"* not familiar with the ordinary administrative
law governing the conduct
of affairs to be investigated,
and on that account cannot properly
* check up or verify even the settlej
ment sheets, much less make up an
accurate statement of the legal
charges against the county treasurer
and the credits to be allowed."
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COAST LINE PUT IN CROSSING.
Road Must Show Cause Before Supreme
Court in Cheraw Case.
Columbia, Jan. 7.?Working under
an armed body of deputies and
disregarding the explicit orders of
the railroad commission, the Atlantic
Coast Line railway to-day put in a
grade crossing at Front street, in the
town of Cheraw, across the main line
of the Seaboard Air Line. The Coaat
Line claimed to be proceeding under
an order from Judge R. C. Watts.
This order permitted the crossing at
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liie yLULLt in qucsLiuu. runuwiug iuc
action of the Coast Line, attorneys
representing the Seaboard Air Line
appeared before the South Carolina
Supreme Court and secured an order
restraining, the Atlantic Coast
Line from proceeding with the enforcement
of the order of Judge
Watts. The Coast Line has been
ordered to show cause before the Supreme
Court on January 16 why it
should not be permanently enjoined.
Two weeks ago the Coast Line put
in a nrnsftine at. the DOint which re
suited in a clash with employees of
the Seaboard Air Line. ' Attorneys
for the Seaboard Air Line say that
several freight trains were delayed
as a result of the puting in of the
crossing. On Friday the railroad
commission issued an order which
refused to allow the Atlantic Coast
Line to cross the main line of the
Seaboard Air Line at Front street,
in Cheraw, unless the road go over
on a bridge.
Yesterday morning J. B. S. Lyles,
of this city, district counsel for the
Seaboard Air Line, received the following
telegram from W. A. Gore,
division superintendent of the Seaboard
Air Line:
"At 9:50 a. m. I am advised that
A. C. L. are breaking our main line
at Front street. Think you should
notify raliroad commission. The
sheriff has our crews arrested.
Please advise me what steps to take."
The commission was informed of
the action, and the following telegram
was addressed to W. N. Royal,
the general manager of the Atlantic
Coast Line Road: "We are informed
that Coast Liife is attempting to
put in grade crossing at Front street,
Cheraw, and is interef ring"** with
Seaboard track. The majority decision
of the commission of yesterday
forbids any crossing at Front street.'
Later in the day the railroad commission
addressed a telegram delegating
W. F. Stevenson, as a reprecontaHvo
nf the* commissi on to sorve
notice of the commission on any and
all persons engaged in laying the
spur track of the Atlantic Coast Line
across the main line of the Seaboard
Air Line. During the afternoon the
following telegram wars received by
Mr. Lyles, from W. A. Gore: "Crossing
is in at 12.07 P. M., but interlocking
not O. K., but they are working
on it I am not permitting any
engines or cars to go over the crossing
and feel that something should
be done with the crossing matter
with reference to our use thereof on
former order of the commission not
to use same until inspected by them."
* Story from Cheraw.
Cheraw, Jan. 7.?Another chapter
in the crossing muddle closed to-day.
Last Friday Judge Watts ordered the
Seaboard not to interfere, and continued
his injunction until the final
hearing before the raliroad commission
Tuesday. Commissioner Hampton
would not act until he had seen
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the place. He and Commissioner
Caughman came on a special Seaboard
train Wednesday afternoon.
The commission reversed its former
decision and ordered the Coast Line
to cease work. This morning the
Coast Line officials Dut a large force
to work, under the protection of
Sheriff Douglas. The Seaboard ran
trains on the spot, but the sheriff arrested
and held the crews while the
Coast Line continued work. The
railroad commission sent a telegram
ordering the Coast Line to cease
work, but it was disregarded by the
workmen.
Later to-day the Supreme Court
ordered that nothing further be done
until the matter could be heard by
them. The affair caused great excitement
in town, but no violence
was attempted.
WANT CLEAN ELECTION
Detectives May Prevent Buying of
Votes in Savannah.
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 7.?A number
of Pinkerton and other private detectives
are believed to have reached
here to-night, as the result of the
formation of a clean election committee,
with Sigo Myer, bank presi *
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aent ana urumer ui luimci .ua^ui
Herman Myer, at its head. However,
they will not report to Mr.
Myer until after the municipal election,
which will be held Tuesday.
The hot campaign now waging
caused the detectives to be employed
| to prevent any buying or selling of
votes. Prosecution without favor is
promised any one arrested on evidence
furnished by the detectives.
For news read The Herald
KIXCAID REAL INVENTOR
Of Cotton Gin?Story of Whitney
Stealing the Honor Recalled.
December 8, 1910 was the 145th
birthday of Eli Whitney who enjoys
the distinction of having been the
inventor of the cotton gin. Through
the press association of the North
this fact has been greatly emphasized
within the past few weet*However,
there is another side to
the story of the invention of the cotton
gin, one that gives this great invention
to a citizen of Fairfield rather
than to Whitney. Mr. Oscar
Chappell, of Richland, in a recent issue
of The Columbia Record has recalled
Mr. Kincaid's part in this great
invention ana tnis is reproaucea
here.
"I see in the papers that whole
days are taken to teach the children
about Eli Whitney, the foremost' inventor
of the age, but nothing is
said about how he pilfered the invention
from a South Carolinian. I was
born and raised in the same neighborhood,
and my father was, too,
with this South Carolinian. The history
that I am writing is true; I
heard my father tell it over often,
and other old men in the neighborhood.
"Eli Whitney came from Westboro,
Mass., the last of the eighteenth
century; put up a cabinet shop near
Augusta, Ga. He dammed up a
branch and turned his lathes by
water; he was a mechanic himself
and employed others to turn bed
posts and table legs for his furniture.
"This South Carolinian that made
the first gin was named Kincaid, also
a mechanic. Mr. Kincaid owned,
a large tract of land on Little River
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in tne soutnwestern pan ui r airfield
county, with Mill creek running
through it. On this creek he
built a mill, in fact he put up the
only grist mill that was then in the
county. He was a fine wheelwright.
"Back in that time, before railroads,
the farmers in that neighborhood
would go at least once a year
to Augusta and Hamburg in wagons
for sugar, coffee, salt and iron. On
one of Mr. Kincaid's trips he met on
the streets of Augusta a Scotchman,
fellow-countryman, and asked him
to come home with him in the wagon;
which he did, and worked for
Mr. Kincaid for several years. This
Scotchman (I have forgotten his
name) was one of Eli Whitney's
workmen in his shop on the branch.
This man helped Kincaid in all his
mechanical work in his mill on the
plantation, and mill work in the
country. Mr. Kincaid had hundreds
of sheep. His pasture was infested
with cockleburrs; when he would
shear his sheep the wool would be a
mat of cockleburrs. To fingerpick
this quantity of wool, or even for
home use was a big job. So Mr.
Kincaid, with the aid of this Whitney
man, made him a gin to get burs
out of the wool?ran it by water in
his mill house. He made improvements
on it for two or three years;
finally it cleaned the wool from the
cockleburrs satsifactorily. All the
neighbors far and near brought.their
wool to Mr. Kincaid's mill to be
cleaned on shares. ?
"In those days every farmer had
a flock of sheep. Mr. Kincaid had
run cotton through his gin enough
for his own use and some for his
neighbors.
"In the meantime Mr. Kincaid
made trips to Augusta and this
workman would go with him to visit
his friends and kinsmen at Whitney's
shop. Not thinking what
harm he was doing Mr} Kincaid, he
told it in Whitney's shop what he
and Mr. Kincaid had done ginning
burrs out of wool. Eli Whitney?
smart Yankee-like?heard of it by
these visits. One morning a nice
looking man, riding a splendid
horse, rode up to Mr. Kincaid's
house. Kincaid was not at home.
This man asked Mrs. Kincaid if he
could look at the wool machine. She
said yes; that she would get him the
mill key. Mrs. Kincaid said he was
in the mill about three or four
hours. Nobody knew who this man
was at the time.
"In a short time Eli Whitney got
a patent on a cotton gin. The whole
thing was plain then?Eli Whitney
rode horseback from Augusta to Kincaid's
home and took a diagram of
that wool gin and beat Kincaid out
of the cotton gin. Sherman burned
this old mill house in February,
1865. Whitney made his gin and
ran it by water exactly as Kincaid
j did on his branch near Augusta.
| Kincaid was a genius: his terraced
i garden, built on a hillside, and the
i buildings of his place attest that to
! this day. The only male descendant
1 1 - x T ? ^ ?' ^ ^ Tt?rtn Pont
i or Kincaia tnat i kuow ui ?as
; Thomas Anderson, a great-grandson,
who died near Columbia last sumI
mer, a comparatively poor man when
! he and his children ought to have
j been worth the Whitney millions
. now in t"he North."
Governor Ansel has ordered an
election to be held February 3rd in
Colleton county for Probate Judge,
i to fill the vacany caused by the death
j of John D. \ Edwards. There are
; several candidates.
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will file the same with the
undersigned qualified executrix, duly
sworn to, on or before the 28th day
of January, 1911, and all claims not
filed within time aforesaid will be
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executrix.
MAGGIE HAMILTON,
Qualified Executrix.
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If any one should be caught doing
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