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. , I ?fyr Bamberg itrralb v . ? ' ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1801. A. W. KNIGHT. Editor. t ? Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and* growing City of Bamberg, 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 Tirifv, nthor material eiectliu nuu vouv. ~ 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 subscription payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch ?for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and 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 no ftices of a personal or political cnar: acter are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first Insertion. x Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters of those pertaining to matters of public interest We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or |H:offensively personal can find place in ' our columns at any price, and we are |||^ not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. ||| Thursday, July 27,1911. Bamberg real estate is going to go higher and that rapidly. Now is the time to invest. We have discussed the matter of sewerage with numbers of our citi[5. zens, and all are heartily in favor of the project. Now is the time to buy real .estate in Bamberg. Prices will advance and that rapidly, so be wise in time if l'nvoet JAJU WlOU i,vy 1U> wv. A marriage license costs $1.00, but the Judge of probate only gets . 25 cents of this, 75 cents going to the school fund. That's beginning to pay for the education of your phildren early. In commencing an investigation of the Southern Express Company, .the ?2 1 V> o o ctartpd fl vV" lairVclU L'UJLLliiilOOlUU JUUU wvw* vvr?? ?. Efe "work which will be of much benefit to the shippers of this State, provid|gf 1 ed the investigation is thorough and jp searching. The State Supreme Court didn't fe: give Attorney Gadsden much of a vin~ dication. This , experience should teach lawyers generally that they had hf y,? best be careful of their actions. The -^ ' ? ~e nrrtfoceinn orp hpins' dis CU1JC& ui ;tuc pivivouivu v 0 |p regarded entirely too much in South||&v Carolina these days. ?| Candidates for solicitor of the ||| second circuit are getting numerous &V when it is considered that the campaign is yet a long time off. J. F. / Carter, Esq., of this city, will be in f y the race, and the other candidates so far announced are: R. L. Gunter, of Aiken, the present appointee; Edgar r - A. Brown, of Barnwell, the present stenographer of this circuit; and C ; Thos. H. Peeples, Esq., of Blackville. Possibly there may be others who will announce later. fe "The. sympathy of a large circle of friends goes out to Col. E. H. Aull, ieditor of the Newberry Herald and News, in the death of his wife, which sfe'" occurred at their home in Newberry |g>' last Friday morning, after'hn illness of three weeks with typhoid fever. |p' , Mrs. Aull was an ideal wife and another, and her devotion to her hust>and and family was a beautiful example. For years she had attended the meetings of the State Press Association, of which Col. Aull was president, and she was exceedingly popular with all the members atfd their families. Many hearts will sorrow because of her death, and the p. ' 'bereaved husband and family have the sincere sympathy of the newspaper fraternity., |H ? \ The Herald is glad to commend the is, ' stand taken by the governor in the . matter of organizing high school students into military 'Companies and equipping them with Krag-^orgenson rifles. It is a wrong idea, and we heartily agree with the governor when he says: "I do not believe in t educating every boy that he has to ehoot somebody," and bis otner ground of opposition to the scheme is well-funded, that being that he is opposed to arming negro school children with rifles and ammunition. We do not want nor need negro soldiers?their presence even - in the regular army is a constant menace ?o any community where they are located, and we would no doubt soon v iave a lot of trouble here if the young negroes who go to school were armed and drilled. The governor is exactly riglit in this matter, and we are glad to commend him., * # LIVED UNDER 24 PRESIDENTS. Real Daughter of Revolution is Found in Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., July 23.?Mrs. Mary Trawick Proctor, aged 111 years, a real daughter of the American Revolution, a woman who has lived in three centuries when stirring things were making the history of natictas, has just been discovered in a hymble one-room cabin in Bartow county, Ga. Her sole companions are her daughter, Miss Mary Proctor, aged 90, and two great-greatgrandchildren, descendants of another daughter, all who-are left of six generations of her family. Mrs. Proctor was born in -Wake county, North Carolina. She is the daughter of Wiley Trawick, who left North Carolina about 1800 and moved to Alabama when that State was in its pioneer days and where Mary was married to Hiram Proctor when she was 19 years of age. She was Mr. Proctor's third wife. . Her husband was a veteran of two wars, the Revolution and the War of 1812. Is Almost a Skeleton. On a bedding of straw constituting a mattress so thin that the rough plank slats can be seen, this Daughter of the Revolution lies, her form \ 9 emaciated, skin crinkled, almost a skeleton. Her aged daughter never tiring of ier feeble efforts to give her mother every possible comfort, administers to the wants and necessities of the little household and be times tills the soil in a small cotton and garden patch nearby. The meagre profits derived from1 this labor she adds to the $12 a month pension Mrs." Proctor receives for the services her husband rendered in the War of 1812. Luxuries Unknown. Luxuries are unknown in the Proctor home; even necessities are often denied. Food of the plainest kind is eaten, half a cracker for Mrs. Proctor beine: usually sufficient for her, while sometimes a whole one. Born but few years after George Washington was elected president on April 30, 1789, her infancy was spent when American liberty was in its swaddling clothes. She moved and had her being at the very close of the 18th century, when John Adams was chief executive. George Washington was the only president who served before Mrs. Proctor became a native of Alabama. She has lived under the administration of 24 presidents, inrinriiner Jefferson and William H. Taft. Told of Former Days. Until a year ago, when her mind became so enfeebled from the assaults of time, Mrs. Proctor would tell her great-great-grandchildren of the epoch-making incidents in 11 decades over which her life has spanned. Her stories were vivid kaleidoscopic pictures, treating of her personal knowledge of the barly stages nf thp bistorv of her-own land. The morning of her life she-spent when the United States government had just been established, the liberty of the people was in travail, and the afternoon in the 19 th, when her brother fought against a brother in the civil strife of 1861, and now in the night in the 20th, when the shadows lenghthen across her pathway she hears of the discussions of world* * ' -I/M1 YV_ 1 wiae peace muveuieuis, ui ^ug j^u*neys by airships, in striking contrast to the slow methods of travel when she was a girl, of voyages by gigantic, swift moving steamships thati have replaced the tiny vessels she, knew as a young woman, and the modern methods of doing a thousand things in as many different ways so foreign to those employed a hundred years ago when she was 11 years old. A movement has been started in J Atlanta during the past few days to raise funds that wili be sufficient to care for the two old women the rest of their lives. SHOT INTO CROWDED CAR. The - Fiendish Act of an Infuriated Young Syrian. At North Adams, Mass., Saturday infuriated at the command of the motorman to get back from the running board and remain in his seat until the car stopped, Fadlo Mallak, a Syrian, 21 years old, suddenly drew an automatic revolver and fired 10 shots into a crowded electric car on the Cheshire street railway, instantly killing the motorman George E. Hoyt, of Pittsfield, and Miss Martha Esler, aged" 21, of Adams, wounding two women probably fatally and severely injuring three other women. As he fired the last shot Mallak was seized by J. J. Moonev, of Pittsfield, who took away the revolver. Drawing a knife, the Syrian jumped from the running board and down an embankment, where he was captured by other passengers. NOTICE. Complaint has been made by lot owners in South End cemetery of parties meddling with plants and flowers placed on graves and planted on lots. This is strictly forbidden. Such acts are violation of Is,Tr? ?and offenders will hereafter be dealt with. C. W. RENtfZ. / KILLS CLERK, GRABS GEMS. Murder and Robbery Committed in View of Many New Yorkers. I New York, July 22.?Three alleged thieves invaded the heart of the "Tenderloin" district in its gayest hour to-night, smashed a Sixth avenue jewelry window, shot a clerk, grabbed $5,000 worth of diamond rings and got away in an automobile, pursued by scores of persons who had witnessed the murder and robbery. A woman, who, the police believe, was a confederate, entered the store of Jacob Jacoby a few minutes prior to the shooting and asked Mr. Jacoby to test her eyes for glasses. While she engaged him, the window j glass was smashed and Adolph Stern, a clerk, rushed to the street. An undersized man with a revolver blocked him at the door. Stern tried to brush past him to get at a man who had poked his hand through the broken window and grasped a tray* of diamond rings. The undersized man shot twice and Stern fell. "My God, I'm shot," he cried. A moment later he was dead. Passersbv saw the man at the win dow withdraw the tray of rings, tuck it under his coat and dart across the street. He disappeared through the open door of a red touring car. The engine coughed and the machine was gone, with half a hundred men% pursuing. n These soon were outdistanced, but not until the first three numbers of the machine's number had been caught. They were 532. The murderer fired a wild shot at Jacoby, eluded him and escaped. Detectives took up the trail within a few minutes,, and, armed with descriptions of the slayer and' the automobile, are confident of heading off the thieves. Kills Three and Himself. La Grange, Ga., July 22.?Charlie Reese, a negro, killed three other negroes, wounded another and a white man, and committed suicide -during last night near Big Springs, Ga., ten miles from here. Word was brought to this place this morning that Reese suddenly went insane, probably from liquor. j Reese came to La Grange late yesterday evening to see his wife, from whom he had been separated. He persuaded her to go with him to Big Springs. Her body was found to-day by the roadside. From appearances She had been kicked to death. Reese then went to the home of Jesse Bray, a negro, and borrowed a shotgun, ostensibly for the purpose nrrtWJmr his chicken vard. He Vi V* "VVV..?0 immediately shot and killed Bray. He met Hall Smith on .the road and promptly killed him and shot Smith's sister, who is expected to die. Reese then went to1 the home of James Hamby, a white farmer, and put a load of small shot into his face. Hamby probably will live, but it is thought he will be blind. A baby he had in his arms was not injured. The negro then departed and his body was found this morning in a swamp. He had shot himself. Capt. Gonzales Injured. Greenville, S. C., July 21.?W. E. Gonzales, editor of the State, newspaper, who was injured in an auto wreck near Fountain Inn this morni ing, was brought to the Greenville Infirmary about noon, where his physiqian, Dr. C. B. Earle, said to-night, after thorough examination, there are no injuries besides a contusion on the back of the head and a slight wound in the back, and that Mr. Gonzales will be out in a few days. Mr. Gonzales was ' en route to Asheville and when the driver of his car saw a number of wires hanging across the road where telephone men were at work, though out of sight of the chauffeur, he threw the emergency brake on the machine and the car swerved to one side of the road, a tire exploded, and the car turned turtle, pinning Mr. Gonzales and the Hrivpr underneath. They managed to extricate themselves, however, the driver being given attention at Fountain Inn and Mr. Gonzale^ being brought to Greenville. Lightning Saves a Man's Life. Spartanburg, July 22.?From Greer comes a weird story. Of all the curious pranks played by lightning none perhaps, surpasses in oddity the effect of a thunderbolt which fell in that city. Instead of killing, it saved a man's life. While cleaning machinery in the carding room of the Greer Manufacturing company, William Heffner was caught in a whirling belt. His left arm was crushed to a pulp and v>a cuctoinori spvpre iniuries on his 1XV# UUkJIiUAMww ? v head and scalp. Witnesses of the accident rushed J to stop the machinery, but they J would not have been in time to save the man's life. At that time, how-: ever, an electrical storm was raging1 outside. Lightning struck near the mill and presumably put the dynamo out of commission, for the ma-j chinery suddenly stopped and Heffner was saved. I / | For Home Fruit Preserving 1 ? Our lines of Staple Those housekeepers 2 1 Groceries alway, in- who put up their own I X sure success, because * X 2 that what you put up ^3 spirits and otheir es- 2/1 ? will be found good t:_i. i j_ |,a ? / ' ji on in the winter, are best purchased at ^ ^ 1 Herndon's Grocery Store I J A Malcolm Moye, Mgr.' Telephone 24 Bamberg, S. C. ? I Big Bargains 1 I_ _ e In order to turn some or our Cut I^rfl Glass and Fancy China into cash f we are offering every article at a I ; discount of 20 per cent for the mjm next 10 days, or until August 1, as We Need the Money fa ^=^============== vs II I We have some of the <13 t , IS* nicest Hand Painted China II ^ ?1111 mU and Cut Glass in the city, I ^ I:Sll gj marked at prices that can I |lj *J3 not be matched, and now I '^i we are making a discount i l?| pg of 20 per cent on every | ? I? 9mm|| article. Come and look Q' i'-l 'I ii ?n II w St IJrt at our goods ana you win 11 x ji 9J2C x be surprised at the great 5T* 1 ill ^ values we are offering. ^ I Positively every article at I ^ "1 20 percent Discount I 11 g-g | | es; | |j Herald Book Store I j i MAIL ORDERS FILLED PROMPLY I ' ' y ' : . ... '