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Hp ': "'' " ' '* * '?. ' '. '. * '...- ' 'i ''-fj-lsh'- .-'/'V' " ? A T ? j uty? IBamhrcg iferalft :j K __ I Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,1911. One Dollar a Year |?j ?-? \ ===== COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS | SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Sept. 4.?Last Friday afternoon we had the heaviest rain of the season. Did much damage to the cotton that the wind blew out, and it will no doubt make a bad showing on the market. Rev. E. A. McDowell returned from his vacation and filled his pulpit Sunday afternoon. Mr. Laurie Clayton and Miss Anna Bishop were happily united in matrimony on Sunday .afternoon at the bride's parent's home by their pastor, - Rev. D. B. Groseclose. Wish them a long and happy life together. Mr. P. R. Moore, of North Carolina, paid our town a short visit last week, or ax least a resiueat ui uui iutvu, There is a young man in town who says that he intends to select him a young lady next week and sit to her until she says yes or no. Miss Minnie Fender is spending (some time "with Misses Edrie and Mamie Ehrhardt. Mr. Frank Robinson was in Charleston when the storm commenced. He gives a glowing account of it, and says that he rather liked the breeze ^ if it had not shaken the hotel and blew out so many window panes. Says that he left as soon as he could next morning for his home in tne pines. Mrs. Kearsc and her daughter, Mrs. Max Walker, reached Ehrhardt Sunday afternoon. Mr. W. P. Hiers will have to procure a cradle to lull his fine daughter to her slumbers. The merchants are putting in large stocks of goods for the fall trade. The young men and ladies are preparing to return to their college work. Mr. W. L. Warren brought the writer the largest matured stalk of sugar cane that I have seen this year. * H. B. Loadholt, a colored farmer of this section, brought in the largest pumpkin of the season; weighed 102 pounds. Was a huge one, and old farmers say it was the largest they ha^e ever looked at. The raiser says that the vine has ten on it and still has one larger than the one he brought to exhibit. He is fixed for pumpkin chips, don't you think, Mr. Editor? Mrs. G. L, Kinard, after a long illness, died yesterday at her old home, the old W. E. Sease mansion, surrounded by mother, sisters, and brothers. She will be buried this afternoon. She will be funeralized at Mt. Pleasant church, at about the hour mentioned. She leaves a husband and one daughter behind to mourn her departure, in connection with her mother, sisters, brothers, and a host of relatives and friends. To Visit Experiment Station. Bamberg, S. C., Sept. 4, 1911. Editor The Bamberg Herald:? Please say in your paper this week that Mr. Garrison, of the Clemson College coast experiment station, lias returned irom ms summer trip, and will expect the party from Bamberg, that were expecting to visit the station sometime ago, next Tuesday, September 12th. We believe it will pay any farmer in this section to go and see what Mr. Garrison is doing and hear him talk tile drainage. I hope all who intend going will drop me a postal, so that I can write Mr. Garrison and let him know how many to prepare dinner for. All who can are cordially invited to go with us. D. R. MATHENY. I Risked Life on Freak Bet. Philadelphia, Sept. 2.?Making r. bet with a number of acquaintances that he could jump into a water trough with his clothes on and not get them wet, John Miles, 30 years old, of Fourth and Oxford streets, dived head first into a trough at Third and Oxford streets and in doing so struck his head. The force of the blow stunned him and he sank * A1 ?nf nrotar onrl Deiow me sunav,? IUO T? UWV1 UUU | after several minutes, when he did not get out of the trough or pull his head to the top, the onlookers became alarmed and pulled him out. He was in an unconscious condition and almost drowned. Miles was rushed to the Episcopal hospital, where the water was pumped out of him. It was said that he will recover. How he expected to accomplish the feat is a mystery. He would not explain to the physicians, but he was evidently satisfied with the experiment. -V' ' * - . . ; v ' ? v. * ' ^ \ DOINGS AT DENMARK. Personal Mention?Agent Lyles Married?Town Election. Denmark, Sept. 5.?Judge J. D. Milhous is out again after a very se rious illness. Dr. Robert Willis has returned from a stay of several days in Hendersonville. Mr. H. B. Rice and family, who have been spending some time in Charleston, returned several days ago. Mr. Isaac Jennings, now located at Florence, S. C., spent Sunday in town with his family. Mr. John F. Bronson has returned from a business trip to Texas. Mr. Clifton R. Goza left this morning for Marathon, Fla., where he has accepted a position with the government. Miss Evelyn Free, of Bamberg, spent several days here this week with relatives. _ Miss Ruth Byrd has returned to Bamberg, after a stay of several days i with relatives. Miss Louise Albergotti, who has been an operator in the telephone office here, has returned to her home in Orangeburg, and will leave in a few days to resume her studies in Winthrop College. Mr. G. W. Sturgess, of Harlem, Ga., spent the week-end with Mr. G. W. Riley. Miss Hattie Wroton has returned from Hendersonville, where she has been spending some time. Miss Victorine Robbins is visiting friends in Denmark and Cope this week. Miss Lizzie McNab, of Barnwell, is visiting relatives in Denmark. Rev. P. M. Hauser will leave on the 17th for Leesville, S. C., where he has accepted the pastorate of the Baptist church. Mr. C. R. Hooton, who has been supervising the repairing of the American Tel. & Tel. Co.'s poles and wires at and in the vicinty of Charleston, returned to Denmark Saturday. Work is being done on the streets which was greatly needed, and it also improves the looks of the town. Mr. Leon ^fetz, who has been spending his vacation at Saluda, has returned to Denmark to make preparations to return to Clemson College this fall. Mrs. T. E. Dowling, of Saluda, is on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Metz, this week. Mr. J. B. Lyies, the efficient agent of the A. C. L. Ry., who was married to Miss Mildred Thomas, of Hartsville, at Sumter on August 8th, spent several weeks in the North on their bridal tour, visiting New York, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Can., and other points of interest, returning September 1st to Denmark, which will be their future home. Miss Livy Ray is visiting in Rowesville, the guest of Mrs. Charlie Hopkins. Miss Christine Riley, who has been visiting relatives here for the past two weeks, returned to her home in St. Matthews on Saturday. The many friends of Mr. C. C. Califf, of Brunswick, Ga., formerly of this place, will regret *to learn of his death at the hospital in Columbia on Saturday. He was interred in the cemetery at Barnwell on Sunday. An election was held yesterday for councilmen, and the following is the resut: For Intendant, J. Z. Brooker was elected by a vote of 77 to 3; W. S. Cooper 1; J. A. Walker, 2 For wardens: C. W. Garris, 77; J. S. J. Faust, 77; G. W. Hightower 78; W. D. Garvin, 78. The election passed off very quietly. Financier Suicides. The financial district of New York j was thrown into a panic last Wednesday when Arthur Velt, the 22-year old son of R. C. Yelt, a millionaire head of the lighterage department of the Standard Oil company, shot and killed himself on the street in front of the Produce Exchange building. Hundreds of people were passing and for a time the report was generally credited that an attempt had been made to kill a big financier. Young Velt worked in the foreign department of the oil trust. That morning he went into the lighterage department and then walked out of the rear entrance of the oil company's building and down New street to Beaver where he stood for a minute as though trying to make up his mind. Suddenly he drew a revolver and pressing it tightly against his left breast, fired a shot into his heart. He dropped dead in his tracks. At his father's office nothing could be learned as to the cause of the suicide. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?-Paragraphs About Men and Happenings.' B. M. Langford & Co., of Woodruff, received one day last week a solid carload of products from Mr. Langford's 400 acre farm in Anderson county, consisting of oats, flour, molasses, lard, hay, etc. Orangeburg is now on the eve an interesting municipal election. There are four candidates for mayor and quite a number who want to be aldermen. The candidates for mayor are: W. W. Wannamaker, O. K. Wilson, Jeff. L. Ashe, and W. M. Sain. Two little negroes were playing in a house together near Watts mills, Laurens, on Thursday when the older - - ? - * i 11_ _ accidentally snot ana Kinea me younger with an old gun. Their names were Woody. Yarborough and Isadore Meredith and their ages A2 and nine. The publishers of the "Heart of Oak" readers have agreed to take out the objectionable phrase, "dark fei? Vi<-.r>+ " TrrVii/tVi onnoare in 3 UtJUlUUO nuivu u^i/vuiu ? poem referring to the Southern army, and which was condemned by the Confederate veterans, and the books will remain on the list. The hurricane that swept over Hampton county Sunday night and Monday, besides blowing down some small houses and trees, has seriously damaged the corn and cotton crops, j A great portion of the corn was blown flat and the open cotton blown away leaving the stalk on the ground without enough vitality to cause the same to again straighten. The wind blew at intervals from 40 to 50 miles I VtAllf* UUU1. Clerk of Court Salley of Orangeburg has received a decree from Judge Prince ordering the city of Orangeburg, through its attorney, to interpose an answer in the next 20 days in the case of Kennie BradweH versus the city of Orangeburg, Judge ) Prince overruling the demurrer ottered to the plaintiff's complaint. This case is an important one and is a damage suit for $2,000 because of injuries inflicted to a child of the plaintiff by means of a live wire hanging on a sidewalk. BURIAL OF C. C. CALIFF. Body of Barnwell Man Taken from Colombia for Burial. Barnwell, Sept. 4.?The body of Mr. C. C. Califf, who died in a Columbia hospital early Sunday morning, was brought here yesterday morning. Last evening at, at 6:15 o'clock, it was laid to rest in the Episcopal churchyard, the Rev. John Goode, pastor of the Barnwell Baptist church, conducting the funeral. Mr. Califf lived in Barnwell for a number of years, during which time he made many friends, whose sympathy goes out to the bereaved familv. He was married twice, two children from each union, besides his wife, surviving him. Mrs. Califf and her two little daughters will return to their home in Brunswick, Ga., to-morrow morning. The Cat Came Back. The grayness of evening was creeping over the little suburb. Far away, the shrill voices of newspaper boys could be heard calling the 6:30 editions, and the moon cast its pale beams on the worried womah who stood anxiously leaning over her garden gate. "I can't make out where my husband has got to," she remarked to a neighbor. "He went out nearly three hours ago with our cat, a bag, two bricks, and the clothes line. He was going to the river to drown the cat. Oh, what can have happened to him?" "Don't worry, dear," said the sympathetic neighbor. "Cats take an awful time to drown, you know." "But it can't be that keeping him," soDDea tne aisiraciea wne, uecausc the cat came back mo?e than an hour ago." Let us cultivate a public spirit and talk less and work more. Encourage our local authorities in making improvements. Speak up, speak well, talk encouragingly of our town and its bright prospects. It is these many little considerations that make a town grow. Nature has showered upon us her choicest blessings, and with perfect unity and effort for the good of our common cause, great will be the result. i . SUMTER BOND ISSUE LOSES. State Board of Canvassers Reverses County Board's Ruling. Columbia, Sept. 4.?The State board of canvassers to-day reversed the Sumter county board of canvassers on the finding of the election held in that county for the issue of $150,000 in bonds for the improvements of the roads. The county board threw out the Mayesville box because it was found that fourteen voters were not registered on the precinct book, and the State board | found that there was no testimony presented to show that the fourteen voters did aot hold registration certificates prior to 1898. This defeats the bond issue. The county board was represented at the hearing by L. D. Jennings and R. D. Epps and W. B. Boyle, the protestor, by Judge R. O. Purdy. Mr. Jennings stated this afternoon that an act would be pushed through the next general assembly for an election on the same question next summer. The case will not be carried to the supreme court. The county board found that there was a tie vote, 403 to 403. The Mayesville bax was thrown out and the vote was in favor of the bond issue. At the Mayesville box there were 49 votes against the issue and 14 for it. Anagram Party. Misses Pearle and Alma Black gave a very unique and entertaining party at their home Monday evening last, which was instructive as well as entertaining. The principal game was called "Progressive Anagrams." Each table represented some study. Those present were: Misses Ruth Byrd, Genevieve Kirsch, Louise Risher, Bessie Armstrong, Leonard Folk, Belle Cooner, Ethel Black, Urma T3in.ni*. Dn+Vi T? Hqtt \fiea flnnrl W1 fl xv u tu iiriibj) .uiwi -.?, Annie Laurie Rice, Minnie Lee Ayer, Lallah Byrd, Eulalie Coleman, Kate Rentz, Elise Rentz, May JBrabham, Cressie Breland, Estelle Smoak, Louise Felder; Messrs. Carl Kirsch, H. N. Folk, Marion Cooner, Charlie Ayer, Ola Ayer, Robert Ayer, Bissell Beach, Jas. Halford, D. L. Betts, Tillman Felder, Pinckney Bellinger, Glenn Hutto, Clarence Black, Henry Kearse, Henry Stokes, Vance Bounds, Charlie D. Free, Larry Smoak, John fiimmnns. Willie Dickinson. Charlie Black. The refreshments were ice cream and cake, and punch was served by Misses Nelle Black and Kate Rentz. The back-ground of the punch bowl was profusely decorated with ferns and over the bowl were these words: "Drink of the Fountain of Knowl edge." The rooms were decorated with ferns and college pennants. Miss Cressie Breland rendered several good recitations. Several instrumental solos were given by Misses Elise and Kate Rentz and Urma Black. Miss Ethel Black also rendered a vocal selection. Miss Genevieve Kirsch won the first prize, which consisted of a box of stationery and Mr. Larry Smoak won the booby prize, which was a dictionary. Miss Kirsch advanced 13 tables and Mr. Larry Smoak advanced three. Pellagra Victim Shoots Herself. Pelzer, Aug. 31.?Mrs. W. W. Adams, wife of Mr. W. W. Adams, a prominent farmer and liveryman of this place, committed suicide at 7 o'clock this morning by shooting herself in the left temple with a pistol. She had been suffering from pellagra for some time and her mind had become affected. Her self-destruction has been a great shock to the community. Mrs. Adams was about 35 years old and leaves, besides her husband, five small children. She was a daughter of the late John Charles, of Greenville county. ? rvincf ocfimahlp woman. one was a uiuob The interment will take place at the family burying ground, in Greenville county, to-morrow afternoon. Again Appointed. Columbia, Sept. 4.?The governor yesterday appointed John A. Horton, of Belton, as a notary public. On August 10 the governor revoked the commission of M>r. Horton because he, as a notary public, took an affidavit on the railway affair at the Belton station involving the ungentlcmanly conduct of the governor. The commissions of two other notaries public, were also revoked on the same charge. The new commission for Mr. Horton was made out yesterday upon the payment of an additional fee. It is not known whether Mr. Horton made application for the commission. BAILEY QUITS POLITICS TEXAS PAPER ANNOUNCES HIS COMING RETIREMENT. According to Senator, He Will Not Reconsider?Hopes for Successor of Greater Ability. Fort Worth, Texas. Sept. 5.?The Record to-morrow will publish a dispatch from Gainesville, Texas, announcing that United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey will not be a candidate for reelection. "You can say for me that I will not be a candidate for reelection to the senate next year, and you can also say that this decision is irrevocable," the dispatch quotes Senator Bailey as saying in reply to the direct question. "I know that the State can not find a successor who will be more faithful to the welfare of her people than I have been, but I sincerely hope that she will find one who can represent her iff'the senate with greater ability than I have." Spnfltnr "Rnilpv rptiirnorl tn flninpfi ville from Washington to-day. A SURPRISE TO WASHINGTON. Intimate Friends of Senator Had Known of His Intentions. Washington, Sept. 5.?Senator Bailey's announcement that he would not be a candidate for reelection was received here with some surprise, though it is understood that before he left Washington a few weeks ago he confided to friends here that he proposed to retire at the end of his term. His differences with the controlling forces in the senate Democratic minority reached a clima* last March, when, after the Democrats insisted upon approving the recall feature of the Arizona resolution, the senator sent his resignation to Gov. Colquitt. The governor, by telegraph, declined to accept the resignation. Since that time various things have occurred to increase Senator Bailey's dissatisfaction with his position and to put him more and more out of touch with his party. DEAD FROM POISONED MILK. Carbolic Acid in Fluid Taken by Birmingham Girl. ' Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 2.?Miss Mary Emerson, the 20-year-old daughter of Rev. and Mrs. S. R. Emerson, of Birmingham, died to-day soon after drinking milk, and investigation by physicians called in immediately pronounced the case carbolic acid poisoning. As was her usual custom, Miss Emerson took up the milk bottle off the front porch and made malted milk, which she drank. She tasted something strange in the milk and immediately summoned her mother, ?hn in turn onllpd in nhvsicians. but the girl died in less than an hour. There is suspicion that the milk was poisoned after it was placed on the porch by the dairy people. WON'T RESIGN SAYS LEWIS. First of Race Elected Member American Bar Association. Boston, Aug. 31.?Wm. H. Lewis, assistant United States attorney, declared to-day that he would not resign his membership in the American Bar Association, to which he was elected Tuesday, notwithstanding protests by several members of the association. There is no bar to the admission of colored members, but Attorney Lewis is the first of his race to be so honored. Lewis's name went in with others submitted by the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Southern 'members said they did not know he was nAlnrod until V)a onnooroH in fha cnn WlViVU UlA^A* uv V\? AM V~V ? yention hall to-day. CAN'T IDENTIFY ASSAILANT. Husband Killed, Woman Attacked in North Carolina Town. Lumberton, N. C., Sept. 3.?Grey Tolar, a wealthy lumberman, was probably fatally injured and his wife attacked by an unknown negro, at their home in this town early to-day. Tolar's head was crushed by a blow with a plough bar and Mrs. Tolar was nearly choked into insensibility before her screams frightened off her assailant. As soon as the negro escaped, Mrs. Tolar seized her two children and ran to their nearest neighbor's, a half mile away. A posse was quickly organized and took up the chase. Three suspects have been arrested, but Mrs. Tolar is unable to identify her assailant. ; % . # - ... y.} TILLMAN, RICHARDS AND JONES Visit to Liberty Hill Without Politi. t-r cal Significance. Columbia, Sept. 4.?That the re? cent visit of Senator B. R. Tillman to his home recently has no political significance whatever, was the declaration of Mr. John G. Richards this afternoon. Mr. Richards. also says that conclusions which have ben drawn from a supposed visit of Senator Tillman and Chief Justice Jones to his home at the same time, to the effect that Mr. Jones would have the political support of Senator Tillman and Mr. Richards, should he make the race for governor next year, are entirely erroneous. Comment by Papers. This statement was called forth . ||? by an editorial in the Sumter Item which has been copied in various State papers. This comment is as fol- /g| lows: "We have been wondering what would be the political outcome ? Senator Tillman's and Chief Jus- V$| tice Jones's visit to Mr. John G. 4 ^ Richards, of Liberty Hill, and while we have not yet found the answer ^ ^ the following editorial in the Lan- \ | caster News is somewhat illuminat- ~|| ing." The editorial in the Lancaster pa- 4:|S| per referred to is merely a comment upon the current reports that Chief * Justice Jones would enter the race J}. for governor next year. After quot- ' ;||j ???/? ^Vt/v Cnrvif a*? nonoi* nr\nHnnna tili.3 tliC OUiiltUl ycvpvi WUUUU^D % . . as follows: "If Chief Justice Jones should enter the race for governor ^^Jgjj against Gov. Blease and if he has ~ the assurance of the support of Senator Tillman, Mr. Richards, and their ^|g| friends, Cole Blease, will not serve :v two terms as governor, all preced- '"SS ents to the contrary notwithstandv Mr. Richards Talks. "I have read comment in the col- JjpjB umns of The News and Courier," ;^|8 said Mir. Richards, "this statement from the Sumter paper of a visit of I Chief Justice Jones and Senator */' Tillman to my house surprised me very much. Senator Tillman and I, as is well known, have been warm personal friends for a number of ' %Btt years. His visit to me had no politi- ; cal significance whatever. Chief Justice Jones did- not visit my home, while Senator Tillman was there, jlBi and therefore I do not see how the Sumter paper drew or came to Its: vjjaB conclusions, which were entirely er- ^ roneous." GOV. DENEEN BREAKS LEG. Injured in Collision Between Auto -r>|| and Carriage. Springfield, 111., Sept. 2.?In an at- ^||8 tempt to prevent a collision between his automobile and a two-seated con ? Aflnan veyance, uear uicuaiiii, auuui uncvu miles from this city, Gov. Charles S. Deneen was seriously injured when he fell, breaking both bones of his left ankle, this afternoon. * The governor seeing that a col- 4jj|a lision was unavoidable, sprang to the running board of the machine In^aBB which he was riding and grasped the ?|Bi bridle of the horses to keep them from plunging and injuring the occupants of the carriage. He fell be- 'kkgm neath the carriage, breaking his leg. He was immediately brought to this city and taken to the governor's man- ;||n nriwi? ppnvt TVfTVT. UV/1KJ > ??... . . __ Disappearance of Gold Attribated to JWm Careless Mating. Denver, Col., Sept. 1.?Another 1 strange disappearance of gold from the Denver mint has resulted in a xl visit here and investigation by Mint ?|S Director Roberts. This time $25,1 000 has vanished. The investigators Sj? say the loss is due to careless melting and recommend the discharge of :?%S| an assistant melter. Several months ago a man called 3R3j on an assayer at his residence late -|||l at night and offered him $1,500 worth of gold in unstamped coins at ?|| his own price. The man said he knew - v$8 where to get $25,000 more. The ^ assayer refused to buy and the man disappeared. Too Much Time. The late Sylvanus Miller, civil engineer, who was engaged in a railroad enterprise in Central America, ^ was seeking local support for a road and attempted to give tne matter point. He asked a native: "How long does it take you to car- ' ry your goods to market by mule- :^||3 "Three days," was the reply. "There's the point," said Miller. -?||s "With our road in operation you could take your goods to market and v|g be back home in one day." ^-}||| "Very good, senor," answered the native. "But what would we do with the other two days?"?Boston Rec- jj