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**fc(Ub? Hambrrg lirralh ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT. Editor! 7 Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing city or jtjamberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power, with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of ?10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year, ?1.00, or 10 cents a month for less than one year. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements??1.00 per inch ^ for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad|*1 ? vertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and t other advertisements under special bead, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all nof . tices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising ? not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters of those i&.v pertaining* to matters of public inter^ - j (? est. We require tlie name ana aadress of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions ex;y_. pressed in any communication. p Thursday, May 25, 1911. Everybody who believes that Felder will appear before the dispeneary commission, send us a quarter. The newspapers of Spartanburg have evidently just found out that a municipal election was held in that jig city recently. Greenwood is a better place to ^ live and we can prove it.?Greenwood Journal. What's the use to prove it? Won't % Everybody who lives in Greenwood g . admit it? If the News and Courier does not k:i 7>egin to edit the copy of its Colum~ ' bia correspondent, there might come a time when the editorial comment |? therein and that on the editorial "na.ee do not agree. And that wpuld | be just too bad. P|p-''; Says the Bamberg Herald: "The fefc.' reputation of Columbia as a square ineal town has recently received a r|&\v severe jolt." The reputation of the gfe&v liver of The Bamberg Herald is dis.ordered. When The Herald comesto Columbia m a couple of weeks it ^pj.' is going to get stuffed.?The State. jfe-; It will do you good to go out- and see the dirt moving on the railroad. 8g|:. This means that Bamberg is determined not to stand still. True, all p^v^our business men did not help in fhifi nroient. but there is enough I public spirit and enterprise in Bamberg to still do things for the growth )f the town. A lot of sympathy is being wasted m the convicts who work in the peni;entiary hosiery mill. Conditions ?n hardly be so bad, or else the food men who have been in charge >f this matter all these years, would lave remedied conditions long ago. Jut talk is cheap, and nothing works etter than the sympathy racket. V In what other town of the low ountry can the home-seeker find the dvantages possessed by Bamberg? n climate, water, health, schools, ax rate, freedom from feuds and facionalism, orderliness, we are ahead >f any town in this section. If you pant to locate for business or for the >urpose of educating your children, ome to. Bamberg. The Bamberg Herald says: "The fcfrfBranchville Journal has just closed a Bgfe subscription contest, and now its edi?? ?' tor announces that he is going to fe* leave and turn the paper over to others." The contest people took fez about all the cream there was in that feyh contest and left the editor holding |?\ the bag.?Orangeburg Times and 6 Democrat. , Exactly. It took us just about one minute to turn down a proposition from the same contest company. The Herald has said very little H. about the railroad project up to this i time because we did not care to pub| lish anything until the building of the road was assured. This we could not do until the agreement was made, contracts signed, and work commenced. All this has been done, and the work of grading is going forward. True, the writer was in the thick of all the preliminary work and negotiations, but we felt that it was not wise to be giving publicity to a project of whose success there was some doubt. But the unselfish .efforts of some of our business men have succeeded, and the railroad is a certainty. Those who do not believe it are cordiallv invited to go out and see the large force of hands at work. 05 P&. , r.v*. r :r w 7 , v ' * - The Spartanburg Journal is au-i thority for the statement that there was considerable vote buying in that city at the recent municipal election. And yet Mr. Lee was defeated for re-election. We have received copies of the Land rum Gazette and the Jonesvil'e Gazette, new papers just started. Landruni is in Spartanburg county and Jonesville is in Union county, but the papers are edited by Richardson and printed in Spartanburg. Of course practically the same matter is used in each paper, and they are well printed on hook paper. The plan of having several papers edited by one man and printed outside of the towns where they are published may succeed. We have never heard of it being tried before in this State. 1 Mr. W. L. McDowell, editor of the Camden Chronicle, announced last week that he had taken as partners his son, Eward N. McDowell, and H. - ' D. Xiles, who would nereaner uw most of the work on the paper. Mr. | McDowell is probate judge of his county, and wants to devote much of his time to the duties of that office. He also announces that a complete job printing plant has been installed, a linotype has been bought, and the Chronicle will be improved by the discarding of the ready-print. These South Carolina newspaper men are going some! The discarding of ready-print service and the installation of type-setting machines means better newspapers and likewise better, editors, also better days ahead for the profession. We congratulate the Chronicle, and we commend its example to other newspapers- of the State. SIX MEN LYXCHED. Negroes Accused of Murder Taken from Lake City Jail. Lake City, May 21.?Masquerading as officers of the law, a dozen men appeared before the county jail at 2 o'clock this morning and presented a bogus telegram to the credulous 16-year-old son of the sheriff, ordering the release of Mark Xorris, Jr., Jerry Gusto and four other negroes. who had been -held for safe- j keeping on the charge of murdering B. B. Smith, a saw mill man at Wadesborough, Leon county, and wounding another white man named !\/I O T7 1 9 rvcgiotci, KJU +11 a,j 1 The men, who had come from Tallahassee to Lake City in automobiles, carried the negroes about a mile outside of Lake City and compelled the negroes to stand in a line. About ten men commenced firing with Winchesters and pistols until every one of the six had been riddled with bullets. The firing lasted about a half hour, and a few straggling citizens at daybreak found the negroes butchered beyond recognition, just after the automobiles left the scene of the lynching. Came from Capital. The men who planned the killing of the six came overland from Tallahassee, a distance of 106 miles and covered most of the distance at night. It is possible that the occupants of the two automobiles were never seen from the time they l(eft Tallahassee until they returned. The plans of the men were the most daring, and but for a curious combination of circumstances would never have been accomplished. The sheriff of Columbia county was out of the city and left the jail in charge of the boy, who, aroused in the early hours of the morning, allowed the six negroes to be taken from the jail without knowing the sinister purpose of the mob. The telegram which the leader of the mob showed the boy was supposedly from the sheriff of Leon r>r?nr?+v ariH ctnteri that the sheriff had received intimations that a mob was being formed in Tallahassee to take the negroes from the Lake City jail. The message ordered that the men be carried further south to frustrate the suspected mob. The telegram appeared authentic as the six negroes have been moved frequently. Actual Details Unknown. The actual details of the summary execution of the negroes are problematical. for residents of Lake City knew nothing of the lynching until a fncilbrip of distant shots werp heard. A few citizens went in the direction of the noise and found the negroes, but all traces of the mob were gone. By some it is believed that the negroes were to be hung but resisted and were instantly killed. Some indications of a struggle lead to this belief. There was strong feeling in Leon county against the negroes, as the men shot were prominent. It was proved at the trial that the negroes had established an arsenal and were prepared for trouble. The negroes were first taken to Tallahassee and then to Live Oak for safekeeping, and . brought back to Lake City six days ago. Mrs. G. B. Herndon, who formerly edited the Branchville Journal, has again taken charge of the paper. We welcome her back into the fraternity. FIRES BULLET INTO BRAIN. Col. Henry O. Seixas Conunits Suicide in New York. New York, May 19.?III health and despondency because of stock market losses are believed to have led Col. Henry O. Sexias, Southerner, financier and director in several well known corporations, to fire a bullet into his brain in Central park to-day. A balance sheet showing steady losses in the stock market was found in his coat pocket. Woman Killed by Caller. Harriman, Tenn., May 21.?Mrs. Bettie Baldwin was shot and killed here this afternoon by Fred Newton, a member of a prominent family. Newton had gone to pay a social call on Miss Meta Baldwin and the two were walking toward a spring when the little 7-year-old boy of Mrs. Bettie Baldwin threw stones at them. Newton remonstrated with the boy and finally slapped him. The boy ran home and told his mother and when Newton returned to the Baldwin home Mrs. Baldwin met him at the door, pistol in hand. Meta Baldwin jumped between the two but Newton drew his pistol and fired three shots into the woman's breast, killing her instantly. To Shut Down Indefinitely. Asheville, N. C., May 19.?The Asheville cotton mill, one of the largest industrial enterprises in the mountain metropolis, to-day posted a notice to the effect that the mill will shut down indefinitely after* June 15. The statement is set forth plainly that the mill has made no money for the past two yeaft. The enterprise is controlled by the Cones, the cotton mill magnates of Greensboro. Piano Contest. Following is the standing of the contestants in the contest for the piano now being given away by The Bamberg Herald and Hoover's drug * ^ J? x x x _ ^ _ store. l\o names or comesutms are published, each contestant having a number. Get in the game early and make the contest interesting: 1 .. .. 5,240 100 .. .. 2,000 2 .. .. 6,525 101 .. .. 2,000 3 .. - 2,000 102 .. .. 2,000 4 .. .. 2,000 103 .. .. 2,000 5 .. .. 2,000 104-.. .. 2,000 6 - - 2,000 105 .. .. 2,000 rv AAA t t\ P fi ftAn 7 Z,V\JV JLVO ? ? i.UUU g " *" 2,000 107 .. .. 2,000 9 " * 6,625 ' 108 .. .. 2,000 10 " 2,000 109 .. .. 2,000 11 " * 2,000 110 .. .. 2,000 12 " - 2,000 111 .. .. 2,000 13 "" 2,000 112 .. .. 2,000 14 2,000 113 2,000 15 "* 2,000 114 .. .. 2,000 16 2,000 115 .. .. 2,000 17 ' 2,000 116 .... 2,000 18 "* 2,000 117 .. .. 2,000 19 *" 2,000 118 .. .. 2,000 oQ 2,000 119 .. .. 2,005 9i " 29,680 120 .. .. 2,000 99 2,000 121 .. .. , 2,000 23 " 6,100 122 .. .. 2,000 94 "" 2,000 123 .. .. 2,000 25 .. 2,000 124 .. .. 2,000 96 * 2,000 125 .... 2,000 97 * 2,000 126 .. .. 2,000 28 .. 2,000 127 .. .. 2,000 *" _ n AAA 1 O O c\ n n .. j.?o .. .. <s,uuv 30 " - 2,000 129 .. .. 2,000 31 .. 2,000 130 .. .. 2,000 39 2,000 131 .. .. 2,000 93 . 2,000 132 .. .. 2,000 34 . 2,000 133 .. .. 2,000 '35 . .. 3,025 134 .. .. 2,000 36 .. 2,000 135 .... 2,000 37 .. 2,000 136 .. .. 2,000 38 .. .. , 2,000 137 .. .. 2,000 39 . 2,000 138 .. .. 2,000 40 ~ 2,000 139 .. .. 2,000 41 .. 16,825 140 .. .. 2,710 42 .. - 2,035 141 .. .. 2,040 43 .. .. 2,715 1 42 .. .. 2,000 44 .. 2,000 143 .. .. 2,000 45 .. .. 2,000 144 .. .. 2,000 46 .. 2,000 145 .. .. 2,000 47 .. .. 2,000 146 .. .. 2,285 . ? 9 ftAA 1 _l7 oner 45 - XII .. Li ,\J Li 'J 49 " .. 2,030 148 .. .. 2,000 50 2,000 146 .. .. 2,285 51 . 2,000 150 .. .. 2,000 52 .. 2,000 151 .. .. 2,000 53 . .. 2,000 152 .. .. 2,000 54 .. 2,000 153 .. .. 2,000 55 .. -> 2,000 154 .. .. 2,000 56 2,000 155 .. .. 2,000 57 .. 2,000 156 .. .. 2,000 58 .. .. 2,000 157 .. .. 2,000 59 .. .. 5,000 158 .. .. 2,000 60 .. 2,000 159 .. .. 2,000 61 .. 2,000 160 .. .. 2,000 62 .. 2,000 161 .. .. 2,000 63 .. ~ 2,000 162 .. .. 2,000 64 .. .. 2,000 163 .. .. 2,000 65 .. 2,000 164 .. .. 2,000 66 .. .. 2,785 165 .. .. 2,000 67 ~ ~ 2,000 166 .. .. 2,000 68 .. .. 2,000 *167 .. .. 2,000 l/?n 9 fkftft US .9 AAA OJ7 AJ , V V V *WV V V V 70 .. .. 2,000 169 .. .. 2,000 71 .. 2,000 170 .. .. 2,000 72 .. .. 2,000 171 .. .. 2,000 73 .. .. 2,000 172 .. .. '2,000 74 .. .. 2,000 173 .. .. 2,000 75 .. .. 19,990 174 .. .. 2,000 76 .. .. 2,000 175 .. .. 2,000 77 .. - 2,000 176 .. .. 2,000 78 .. .. 2,000 177 .. .. 2,000 79 .. .. 3,140 178 .. .. 2,000 80 .. .. " 2,000 179 .. .. 2,000 81 .. .. 2,000 180 .. .. 2,000 82 .. .. 2,000 181 .. .. 2,000 83 .. .. 2,000 182 .. .. 2,000 84 .. .. 2,000 183 .. .. 2,000 85 .. .. 2,000 184 .. .. 2,000 86 .. .. 2,000 185 .. .. 2,000 87 .. 2,000 186 .. .. 2,000 88 .. .. 2,000 187 .. .. 2,000 89 .... 2,225 188 .... 2,000 90 .. .. 3,380 189 .. .. 2,000 91 .. .. 2,000 190 .. .. 2,000 92 .. .. 2,000 191 .. .. 2,000 93 .. .. 2,000 192 .. .. 2,000 94 .. .. 2,000 193 .. .. 2,000 95 .. .. 2,000 194 .. .. 2,000 96 .. .. 2,000 195 .. .. 2,000 97 .. .. 2,000 196 .. .. 2,000 98 .. .. 2,000 197 .. .. 2,025 99 .. .. 2,000 198 .. .. 27,025 gr-I;-I-il; -:x? -:i--:i:--I- Ihihi? ti? -I--I? i CutYour Tailoi & f If * We carry the mo | of men's and yor | ing in this vicinitj ?? ' ' | the world famou | Hart, Schaffer % & lit Every garment a perfect | STYLE, - FIT, If: combine at moderate pr 4? appearance worth to yo clothes but ours make the $ 1 Qferli'eU _ Woll.ttt | uijr 11011 - tt wrin 4? No one could ask more, spect our line. 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