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i t f She Hamburg 2f?ralb Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1911. One Dollar and a Half a Year. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. > News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. l Ehrhardt, Sept. IS.?Our school will om*n on the first Monday in October, and hope to have a good many new pupils added to last year's number. Prof. C. J. Shealy, Misses Jennie Milling and Mary Wright will be on hand and ready to dispense knowledge to all the children sent to them or be found trying. # One hundred and fifty-three bales of cotton changed hands here on Saturday. If the weather remains fair the whole crop will soon be placed on the market. Some one has said that the rains make mosquitoes. Well, if this be the case, we don't want heavier rains that we have had. One party says that he went out for a night's fishing and all at once he thought some one" had an umbrella with the staff out and was trying to cover his head in same. When he found out what it was, he left at once for fear ^ that he could not do so if two or more came for him at once. It was what is called in this section a gallanipper. Say. Mr. Editor, have any # of them in your section? [None that we have heard of.?Editor.] When they fly about they look more like one of the wireless instruments one sees erected about some of our cities. When they light on you to bite they { are painstaking enough to find you. As to where and when they are careless about it as they light on youi and place their bill and with their ? hind legs used as pump handles they will soon have a feast of claret from your veins if left alone. The pea crop will be very short in this section. Some of our farmers1 will not make near the seed theyj planted. Will have to buy for 1912. Our boys will leave for college Tuesday. We will miss them. Bethany Baptist church, near Ehrf hardt, Rev. E. A. McDowell, pastor, will be dedicated Sunday morning, October 8th. Rev. W. T. Derieux, D. D., of Greenville. S. C., recording secretary of the Baptist State mission board, will preach the dedication sermon. Mr. McDowell has just closed a very successful meeting with this church. Among other results, \ three candidates await baptism; which ordinance will be received by them at Carter's Ford on Saturday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, September 23. Mr. George W. Folk, of Colleton county, in the vicinity of the old Folk's Store section, has opened up a T\ ppIpv Institute. Cure guaranteed if directions are followed. Any one will do well to get his figures before trying elsewhere. JEE. Fairfax Fancies. ?? Fairfax, Sept. 18.?Miss Rubye Myrick. from Seigling, is spending # some time with Mrs. Lily Myrick. A new daughter has arrived at the home of Rev. J. B. All. Miss Hattie Lightsey, of Brunson, is spending some time with her family. An entertainment was given at the school house Thursday evening for the organ fund of the Baptist church. An interesting program was beautifully carried out and the children did remarkably well. The acting of Misses Zella Loadholt and Lucile Griner was the best ever heard in Fairfax from home talent. f These young ladies are destined to make their mark in the world. Miss Claudia O'Xeal, a bright high school girl of Florida, rendered valuable assistance in reciting and playing most beautifully. A nice sum wls realized. Mrs. Sam Talley gave a party Frt day .evening to the "big girls and X boys." They enjoyed the refreshments, games, etc., immensely. Mr. Maner Lawton, of Savannah, was here this week. Mr. W. Gandy, of Williston, an attractive young gent, is visiting at the home of Mr. G. W. Barber. Mr. Porter Barber has returned from a pleasant vacation trip. Dogs Were Chief Mourners. San Francisco, Sept. 14.?One hundred thousand dollars' worth of dogs?100 animals in all?in the - * - * ?i!cfi>occ o + t un rl Pr? custody ui UITU imontoo, a canine funeral yesterday that was marked by all pomp generally disf played in an eminent human. The funeral cortege wended its way from the Crocker kennels to a little dog cemetery, where the two % terriers were laid away in coffins of * concrete fashioned on the Egyptian style. j? XKWS FROM OLA It. jj A Hatch of Interesting; Items from a j i Live Coi'res|/oii(lent. Olar, Sept. IN.?The Olar grade?? school opened this morning with a large enrollment and a full corps of i teachers, who are as follows: Superintendent. D. K. McKain, of McCormack; Miss Porter, of Gaffney; Miss Loadholt, of Fairfax; Miss Hooton and Mrs. Yarn, of Olar: and Miss ( Halford, of Blackville. The opening exercises were largely attended and much interest manifested. A profitable year is anticipated. Prof. Floyd C. Chitty left Satur- ( day to take charge of the school at c Lees. He is a young man of sterling qualities, and we trust that he will * be successful in his undertaking. * Rev. A. C. Walker preached to a ? large congregation Sunday evening. 1 The many friends of Miss Celeste Holloway, Mr. C. F. Rizer's popular c milliner, were glad to see her re- t turn last week. The Baptist congregation was dis- ? appointed last Sunday by the absence of their pastor. Rev. W. C. Baxlev. j The following visitors were in c town to-day: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dan- j nelly and Rev. D. B. Groseclose, of s Ehrhardt; Rev. T. M. Belvin, of Woodford; and Mr. Green, of Dun- j I 1i ovtnn I T, WU1 iva. The high prices paid for cotton here seems to attract the attention 0 of the farmers. The farmers are ^ taking advantage of the fair weather, and cotton is being put on the market rapidly. c The contractors will soon com- ^ plete the brick' work on the Farm- * ers' Mercantile Co.'s new store. The lady folks seem to be inter- r ested in the new style hats, which 1 have just arrived. * The Knights of Pythias have mov ed into their new nan. mis oraer * seems to be growing rapidly here. 11 They have recently received several d applications. r Rev. Sam W. Danner will assist t Rev. A. C. Walker, of the Methodist E church, with protracted services, be- T ginning Friday evening before the ? first Sunday in October. Mr. G. M. Xeeley is having his c residence remodeled. i] | Mr. Ed Xeeley, of Denmark, vis- P ited Olar this week. v Several Olar boys went up to Co- h lumbia to witness the ball games 1< this week. t Mr. J. W. Pearlstine spent Sun- f day in Ehrhardt with relatives. t Terry Bros., who have been operating a saw mill near here, moved to Elloree last Saturday. These young men made many friends in ^ Olar. We hope they will do well at Elloree. Mrs. G. V. Kearse has returned from Fayetteville, X. C., where she I has been visiting her grand parents. * Mr. Willie Rogers and family, of c Pennsylvania, are new residents of r our town. Mr. Rogers has a position t with Saltkehatchie Lumber Co. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hires, of 8 Georgia, visited their parents here last week. r Mr. Willie Fishburne was in town t last Thursday afternoon with an au- f tomobile full of pretty girls from i Barnwell. ? Mr. Charlie Chitty has accepted a t position with Mr. C. F. Rizer. I rtf Tool-onniTillo ic \ -W I i>. llllCi y VI ?;avnova? i**v, visiting Mrs. H. W. Pearlstine. I Mrs. Owen Barker visited her sis- t ter in Columbia last week. 1 Mr. Wyatt Cook, who won the 1 Clemson scholarship, made his de- ? parture last week. Wyatt is a smart f boy, and we look forward to his sue- i cess. I Mrs. Lewis Howard, of George- ? town, is visiting her parents, Mr. t and Mrs. J. E. Cook. ? Mrs. Joe Chitty, of Norway, vis- i ited her parents, Capt. and Mrs. W. t T. Cave, last week. | Mr. Sol Knolf has accepted a poI sition with Mr. J. G. Brabham. Mrs. G. M. Xeeley is visting her J mother in Richmond. I Dr. Kerrison, of Fairfax, will open 1 a dental office in Olar in the near i future. H. 1 ^ i CAR INSPECTOR KILLED. { i c Body of George W. Bell to be Buried } at Carroll ton, Cia. j i Columbia, Sept. 14.?The body of j s Mr. George W. Bell, a car inspector Is for the Southern Railway, who died i from injuries received yesterday at i St. George, will be taken early to- i morrow to Carrollton. Ga., his form- j er home, for interment. Mr. Bell < has been a resident of Columbia for < several years past. He was 43 years ] of age and is survived by a wife and j ten children. He was injured, it is : stated, at 2 o'clock Wednesday in a j 1 j train accident at St. George, and died < about 7 o'clock last night. Funeral < services were held over the oody this ] evening. . ] IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCUKitEXCKS OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. i state Xews Boiled Down for Quick Beading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The postoffice department has orlered free mail delivery for Union he 1st of December. Mack Hood killed Walter Denlee, joth colored, in Lancaster, on Saturlav afternoon, cutting his throat with 1 knife. Dr. R. M. Crimm of the United states marine hospital service has )een assigned to South Carolina to ;tudy pellagra and is now at work n Spartanburg. Isaac Gambler, colored, was bitten >n Saturday at Mullins, Marion coun* - --xxl A y, uy 'd ranitJbiiciKt; uvc iccl anu fight inches long. It had 16 rattles md a button. J. Frank Leysath and Robert Lee 3ool, young men of North, were acluitted in court at Orangeburg on Friday of the charge of burning their tore to get the insurance. The store of J. B. Henderson at Branchville was broken into last Wednesday night and robbed of sevsral suits of clothes, shoes, hats, a ;old watch, and other articles. So ar the robbers have not been caught. Paul B. Clarke, aged 70, was found lead in woods near his home on 7uesday, in Lexington county, by lis wife. He had taken his gun and ind gone in search of a hawk, and lot returning promptly his wife went n search of him, finding him dead, le died from heart failure. At the city election in Orangeburg ast week W. M. Sain was elected -a*. W7 w Wnnnamaker bv LI a J KJl VJ YtJi i? . T? . ?? The vote. City Engineer Hawes has esigned since the election, stating hat he would not serve under the lew mayor, who, it is understood, ^as opposed to having a city en;ineer. Mr. David Judy, of Orangeburg ounty, died last week after a short llness from a stroke of paralysis, lad he lived until next January he rould have been 102 years old. He iad been in fine health during his ong life, and was out in the field he day before his death, stripping odder. He died a few hours after he stroke. TRIED THE BLACK HAND ACT. foung Salisbury Man Captured by Clever Scheme of Official. Salisbury, X. C., Sept. 16.?Chas. * ?? ~ l-nnn-n vAiinir m Q ri a \\ cu-nuu??11 .luuut, iving near the city, is under arrest, harged with using the United States nails in an alleged black hand atempt to obtain money from Cashier V. F. Snider, of the Wachovia Bank md Trust Company, of this city. Stewart is alleged to have written lumber of letters threatening death o Snyder and every member of his amily if a large sum of money was lot left in a certain spot last night. Jnyder communicated with the auhorities, and Postoffice Inspector 3olar, of Washington, laid a trap, vhich led to the capture of Stewart, mpersonating Snyder, he went to he outskirts of the city along a rm^iv marl as the black hand letter lad directed. As soon as he heard l bell ring, as the directions speciied, he stopped, and, finding a bag n which the money was to have been )laced, followed a cord which was ittached to it. The string led him o a thick underbrush at the roadside, where Stewart was found holdng the other end. The young man vas arrested and placed in jail. Messenger Boy Claims Victim. Atlanta, Sept. 13.?Many localities ire wont to boast that their messenger boys really hurry, but Atlanta las come to the front with one who roes with such lightning-like speed - -1 - 3 . X l? ^ ? J ^li'nnnlnv ;hat ft0 spreaas ci^ain ctnu ui^asici j n his path, a veritable car of juggernaut. William Dozier, of this lity. was walking across the street | lere to-day when an unknown negro i messenger boy, who has not been j seen since, came whizzing down the street at a speed that is said to have esembled a meteor. The negro, be t known, was mounted on a bicycle. So rapidly did the messenger approach that Dozier had 110 chance to escape and was knocked flat. With- j put a pause, the flying messenger j passed over him and disappeared from view. Dozier failed to rise.] md "when bystanders raised him it svas found that his skull was crushed. He was rushed to the nearest irug store and an ambulance called. He died while on the way to the hospital. STKIKK OX COAST LINK. Car Inspectors and Workers Walk | i Out at Florence. Florence, Sept. 16.?About 4 0 car inspectors of the Coast Line, including a number of car workers on the yard here, walked out on strike at an early hour this morning, and at a late hour to-night are still out, although it is unofficially stated that the differences are about to be arranged and an amicable adjustment of the troubles made so that the men will probably return to work to-morrow or Monday. The cause of the walk-out is hard to learn, as there are various rumors ofan unauthenticnature, and itseems none of the men will give out any information, other than the Coast Line people were not living up to .their agreement. However that's without authority, and until the matter is up before the officials nothing will be given out. It is stated that a number of men at Rocky Mount, Wilmington, Charleston and Waycross are also out. Rocky Mount. X. C., Sept. 16.? Car repairers in the Atlantic Coast Line shops, numbering 37r> men, walked out here to-day, and the unions of boilermakers, machinists and blacksmiths were in session tonight, considering a sympathetic strike on .Aionciay. It is stated that car repairers in the Florence, S. C., shops are out also, and that the men at Waycross, Ga., and other shops will be asked to join. The men complain that they are required to work out caboose cars at piece rates the same as on box cars, and that they are unable to make remunerative wages on the caboose cars. Officials at headquarters at Wilmington. N. C., profess to know little, if anything, of the trouble. Xo Trouble Likely in Charleston. Division Superintendent J. C. Murchison, when asked last night if any trouble was anticipated here as a result of the strike, made the following + . <'T Vioira haon at wfirk all did l-C 1X1 C11 L ? X 11U T V ly v v <u. m v day among the men and I have heard nothing that would lead one to believe that a strike might be anticipated at this end of the line. So far as I know, there is no dissatisfaction among the employees here, and I believe there will be no trouble experienced." Father Tells a Pitiful Story. Laurens, Sept. 15.?Roy A. ZNIcKnight, of Lynchburg, Va., who was arrested several days ago in Florence, Ala., and brought back to Laurens by Deputy Sheriff Reid on a warrant issued by Magistrate Milam, of Clinton, charging the young man with fraud in cashtng at a Clinton bank a draft on his father after the check had been indorsed by a friend, was today released on bond and taken back to Lynchburg by his father. The accused was released by Judge Gage after hearing the sworn statement of the elder McKnight, made in open court, to the effect that his son had twice been an inmate of an insane asylum and suffered from insanity. His fath^-'s statements were corroborated by the commitment papers of the two asylums-, and j.i? +Viof ho xvniild earrv IctUiCT Sicn,v.*a mm ? his son back to Virginia and have him recommitted. Solicitor Cooper stated that as soon as he received the papers showing that McKnight had been committed he would consent to the discharge of the bond. It was a pathetic story, borne out by the official records, that the father related to Judge Gage this morning. Once, he said, the young man had escaped from the asylum, and the second time he was discharged as improved. This was sometime ago, and the father did not know where he was until this trouble came to his attention. The father had honored his drafts as long as he had the money in order to protect the boy, but his funds had given out. Father and son went back to Virginia this afternoon. J. Frank Fooshe has sold the Winnsboro News and Herald to J. Q. Davis and C. W. McCants, who have turned it into a joint stock company. Mr. Fooshe will live in Western North Carolina for the benefit of his health. S. B.- Morgan, of Rock Hill, late of Chester, who was charged with burning his own houses in Chester to get the insurance, was discharged by the magistrate for lack of evidence. Tt is rumored that the case may be put before the grand jury anyhow. Mr. W. T. Johns, recently or Summerville, has purchased the plant of the Hampton County News and will conduct a weekly newspaper at Hampton court house, to be known as the "Farmers' Review." The first issue of the new paper is expected next Thursday.?Summerville News, j HAPPENINGS IN DENMARK. POSTOFFICK KOBBLi) LAST SCXDAV XIGHT. Boys and Girls Leave for College. Car of Cotton Burned on Side Track Friday Night. Denmark, Sept. 19.?.Miss Bertha Auld spent Sunday in Blackville with relatives. .Mr. B. M. Steadman left Saturday morning for Carolina University at Columbia. .Messrs. J. H. Faulkner and John Taylor spent Monday in Columbia. The children of Mr. C. C. Ellzey, Cecil, Maud, and Leslie, have returned from their summer home in the mountains of North Carolina, to begin school. Mrs. Ellzey and daughter. Eulee, are expected Monday. School opened yesterday with a large attendance and the prospects of a very prosperous year. Rev. F. M. Hauser left for Leesville Monday, where he has accepted the pastorate of that church. Mrs. W. D. Rice, while on her way to Appleton where she is to teach, spent a few days here this past week, visiting her friends. Mr. Randall Gillam, of Kline, spent Sunday with relatives here. Miss Annie Stokes, of Orangeburg, is visiting relatives here this week. Misses Gladys Milhous, Marion Riley, and Blonde Barton left Saturday morning for Winthrop college. Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Boozer entertained last Friday night in honor of the college students. The Misses Folk entertained in honor of the new school teachers Monday night. Mrs. George Hope returned Monday from a stay of two weeks in Augusta, where she has been visiting her sister. Miss Addie Glover, of Aiken, spent Sunday with Miss Edna Steadman. The many friends of Mr. Joe Guess will learn with much regret of his being confined with a stroke of paralysis. Mn Henry Wroton is stil quite sick. Mr. J. E. Steadman, Jr., spent Saturday in Columbia. Mr. S. T. Naff, who is connected with the American Tel. & Tel. Co., has moved into the house recently occupied by Rev. F. M. Hauser. Mr. I. G. Jennings, special agent for the Southern Bell Co., spent Sunday in this city with his family. Mr. C. R. Hooton spent Monday in Augusta. Mr. W. H. Craig, special agent of the A. T. & T. Co., spent Tuesday in town. On last Friday night a car of cotton burned on the track in the freight yards. The fire is supposed to have started by sparks from a switch en gine in the yards. Thirteen bales were burned. Mr. W. H. Cain, who has been quite ill for the past two months, is now able to be up again. Mr. W. H. Keesey, the general foreman of the A. T. & T. Co.. spent a few days in this city the past week on business. Mr. A. H. Pregnall, of Charleston, formerly of this place, spent Sunday here visiting friends. Last Sunday night between eleven o'clock and daylight the postoffice was entered by the breaking of the upper sash of one of the windows. With the exception of a few stamps and a small amount of money their efforts were fruitless. No "clue has vet been found as to who was the guilty party or parties. DON'T WANT NEGRO SCHOOL. Ashland, Ya., Stirred by Rumors of a Ri-nnrh of Tuskeeoe. * Richmond, Sept. 13.?Residents of. Ashland are angry over a report that the Laurens homestead there is to be converted into a branch of the Tuskegee Institute for Negroes. The city council met last night and framed a segregation ordinance, which will make the proposed school impossible. * The report of the contemplated venture originated two days ago, when Mrs. Marian Pierce, a descendant of the Laurenses who built the old homestead, which has been practically abandoned for several years, returned to Ashland for a visit to friends and set about cleaning out the place and placing it in order. Asked why she was doing this, Mrs. Pierce is reported to htwe replied that she was contemplating selling the property to a .representative of the Tuskegee Institute, of m Wnqhirig'ton is pres W 1111 11 JJVV/ftVl M T * WW 0 ident, and that a preparatory branch of the negro university might be established in the town. The news spread and practically nothing else has been talked about in Ashland since. "We will never allow a negro school to stand opposite old Randolph-Macon." declared the heads of that institution. "We will never allow* a negro boarding school to be established in this town anywhere at all," declared another resident of Ashland, heatedly. The famous label case?one of the cases of alleged graft in connection with the late State dispensary?will be tried in Columbia next week. The attorney general will call the case on the 25th. /v $ kll.KI) MAX, KAYISHKI) WOMAN". Fiendish Heed <?1 Xegro in Jacksonville Suburb. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 1 7.?Cicero Thompson, a carpenter, aged 45, was killed and a woman companion, whom he was accompanying home, was criminally assaulted by an un- ,, known negro at Ortego, a suburb, early this morning. The white couple had taken the last car home and were accosted by the negro about half a mile from the car line. Without preliminaries the negro fired point blank at Thompson, killing him instantly, one bullet going through the brain and the second near the heart. The woman stood terror-stricken and #was next attacked by the. negro, who choked her to unconsciousness before accomplishing his fiendish deed. The locality where the deed was committed is sparsely settled and no one heard the shots pr screams at ..is the time. The woman finally regained consciouness and sought out some neighbors when the alarm was turned 'in. Immediately a posse was formed and the woods in tlie vicinity have been scoured without result. It is feared that lynching will follow an arrest unless the authorities can spirit the negro to jail without giving the alarm. LAURENS DOCTOR GUILTY. Dr. C. L. Poole Fined for Selling Cocaine to Negroes. Laurens, Sept. 18.?Dr. C. L. Poole, a well-known physician of this city, was this afternoon found guilty in the mayor's court on a charge of selling cocaine. Mayor Babb imposed a fine of $100 or serve a sentence of thirty days. Dr. Poole gave notice that he would pay. The mayor announced that the defendant would be tried to-morrow on a like charge, and it is understood that several cases are pending against him for selling the stuff. In all the cases the witnesses are negroes, who have bought the drug from the accused. The conviction of Dr. Poole caused a mild sensation, although it came as a climax to a long series of efforts on the part of the city au- j thorities to place the responsibility for the sale of a large amount of the drug to negroes in the city. A package of the "dust" which Dr. Poole is alleged to have sold to a negro who was arrested as he .jvas leaving the premises of the defendant a few nights ago, was analyzed by J. E. Mills, a Columbia chemi&t, who testified at the trial this afternoon that the sample submitted was cocaine hydrochlorate. The trial was bv jurv and Dr. Poole went on the stand and denied in toto the testi- * monv of the witnesses for the prosecution. Won't Contest Texas Election. Dallas, Tex., Sept. 16.?There will be no court contest of the July 22 State-wide prohibition election which the anti-prohibitionists won. A recommendation to this effect by l#g the State-wide prohibition sub-committee was adopted to-day by the full committee in session here. The committee decided that there wil be another "contest before the people" which probably means another State-wide election or an effort in that direction. Such an election can not be held before 1913. The sub-committee report statea that while there were irregularities .in the election, there were only those that were incident to almost all x State-wide elections. The sub-commit", ^e declared it had abundant evidence that the liquor interests entered into a conspiracy to secure the payment of a large number of poll taxes. It was claimed that in some cases deputy collectors were paid by the liquor interests to go into the country, to collect on poll taxes. May Impeach Governor. Columbia, Sept. 14.?It is openly asserted to-day by oponents of Gov. Blease that he will be charged with accepting bribes when a member of the legislature and general malfeasance in office. When the legislature meets efforts will be made to impeach him. Atlanta. Go., Sept. 14.?Thomas B. Felder. the well known Atlanta attorney, who has had some interesting passages at arms with Gov. Cole. L. Blease, was asked to-day if he had heard anything of the proposed impeachment proceedings. Mr. Felder said: "T 3 ' ^ ..-lint + Vi n locricl a til TP J UUI1 L K IIU>v ? ua l mi- t^giwiv>vv>. of South Carolina proposes to do in relation to the matter, but if it discharges its plain duty in the premises, it will not only pass the reso- ' lution to investigate his conduct, but the investigation in my judgment, if conducted, will undoubtedly result in his impeachment." *