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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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?
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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