The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 27, 1911, Page 4, Image 4
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||| 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
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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
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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.,
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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.,
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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
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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*
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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A Malcolm Moye, Mgr.' Telephone 24 Bamberg, S. C. ?
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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
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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
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9J2C x be surprised at the great 5T* 1 ill
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