The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 25, 1911, Page 4, Image 4
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Hambrrg lirralh
ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. W. KNIGHT. Editor!
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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.
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glad to publish news letters of those
i&.v pertaining* to matters of public inter^
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No article which is defamatory or
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not responsible for the opinions ex;y_.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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