The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 28, 1911, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. W. KXIGHT, Editor.
Published every Thursday in The
Herald building, on Main street, in
the live and growing City of Bamberg,
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ft'j Thursday, Sept. 28,1911.
A number of newspapers are publishing
a remedy to cure sore head
l in chickens. Can't they suggest some
remedy that will cure sore head in
(individuals?
We have no idea there is anything
in this story about the impeachment
of Blease, but it reads well, hence we
publish it. No doubt it was started
by some friend of Blease in order to
create sentiment in his favor.
One of the few good things about
Blease as governor was his opposition
to the present commissioner of
.agriculture, and now he's disappointed
us by saying that Watson is doing
a good work and he intends to keep
About the biggest farce we know
of in South Carolina just now is the
new dispensary commission, which
has never done anything except spend
* the people's money. The commission
and the agricultural department
are two great jokes.
Several lawyers who have been
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U1AUC U11UU1C JUUgco ait atuncu vau
Ididates for associate justice of the
: supreme court, a position which is
not a political one and one for which
there should be no active candidates.
We do hope the general assembly
will elect good lawyers who have not
been spoken of as candidates.
Bamberg is developing at a great
rate, and is rapidly becoming the leading
cotton market and shopping centre
of the low country. We notice lots
of people here from a distance, sellf
ing cotton an<f buying goods. All
: our business men need ito do is to
advertise the advantages of Bamfibers
The Carlisle Fitting School and the
Bamberg graded school have opened
most auspiciously for the fall session.
The enrollment at the graded school
is larger than ever, and with an ad
Idltional teacher better work than ever
will be done. The Fitting School has
the largest enrollment in its history,
and both boarding halls are full.
I Bamberg has a right to be proud of its
educational institutions, and we
ought to get to work on the matter
of building a large brick dormitory
at .the Fitting School. The students
will come if we only provide for them.
The school is a valuable asset to the
town, and pays handsomely on the
investment. Let us equip it for greater
usefulness to the youth of the low
country who need just such training
as they get here.
TO HELP COTTON FARMERS.
Big Company to Aid in Marketing of
Staple.
Macon, Ga., Sept. 20.?The organization
of a $4,000,000 concern, to be
known as the Southern Cotton corporation,
with an eye to controlling the
marketing of the cotton of the South,
was announced here to-day by George
Dole Wadley, of Boiling Broke, one of
TiTaoUViioet man in fionr^ia anH
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g.V controlling financial interests of great
extent. Associated with Mr. Wadley,
who will he president, are John E.
Wadley, of Waycross, and John T.
, . Moore, Leon S. Dure, Jesse H. Hall,,
John T. McKay and W. E. Dunwody,
of Macon.
The concern will work in connection
with a string of banks operated by the
National Bank Audit Company, of
which William Barrett Ridgely, former
comptroller of the currency, is
jfC;' president. The Southern Cotton corc
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up to 75 per cent, of the normal price
on cotton deposited in warehouses.
U This cotton will be held and when
the time arrives each year when a
correct estimate of the crop can be
made, a price will be fixed and .he
cotton held until such price is paid.
The Kelly guaranteed axes and
tools at Hunter's Hardware Store.
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BUTCHERED WHILE ASLEEP.
.Mystery Surrounds Sextuple Murder
in Colorado.
Colorado Springs, Col., Sept. 20.
?Butchered in their beds by some
persons as yet unknown, who used
an axe, the bodies of six persons,
three in each of two neighboring
houses, were found here to-day. The
heads of all the victims had been
smashed in and the appearance of
the bodies indicated that they had
been dead several days and that
death came while they slept.
A report says that the murderer
has been caught and that he has confessed,
but this is denied by the police
officials, who, it is intimated,
fear a lynching might follow such
an announcement.
Bloodstained Axe Found.
An axe, which had been loaned
to Mrs. Henry F. Wayne, one of the
victims, by J. R. Evans, a neighbor,
last week, was found bloodstained
by Mrs. Evans on Monday near the
back door, of the Wayne home. No
attention was paid to this fact, however,
as it was thought the axe had
been used in killing chickens.
The dead: Mrs. Alice May Burnham,
wife of A. J. Burnham, their
two children, Alice, aged 6, and
John, aged 3 years; Henry F. Wayne,
a consumptive, until recently a patient
at the Woodmen Sanitarium;
Mrs. Wayne and their 1-year-old
baby girl.
The Burnham house is situated at
Dale street and Harrison Place, and
the two houses next to it, on Dale
street, are vacant. Directly in the
rear is the Wayne home and close to
it is that of Evans.
Met by Gruesome Sights.
The discovery of the bodies was
made by a neighbor, who called at
the Burnham home. Not getting
any response and noticing a strong
odor, she forced an entrance. The
bodies of Mrs. Burnham and those
of her two children were found in
their beds, which were covered with
blood and the walls and ceiling were
also spattered.
The woman rushed to the street
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dozen persons went to the Wayne
house, where there had been no
signs of life since Sunday and the
same terrible scene was presented.
In the beds were the bodies of Mr.
and Mrs. Wayne and their child, horribly
mangled, as in the case of the
bodies in the Burnham home.
That such a crime had been committed
in a thickly settled neighborhood
and left unrevealed for three
days is regarded as incredible. Not
even a footprint is to be found on
the floor of either house and no one
could be found who had seen anyone
about the premises since Sunday,
when all the murdered persons at
different times in a neighboring grocery
storfe.
Arrested on Suspicion.
Burnham, who lives at the sanitarium
where he is employed, about
.ten miles from the city, was arrested
soon after the discovery of the crime,
but there seems nothing to implicate
him in" the tragedy. His employers
say he was at work when the crime
must have been committed. He was
last seen at his home Sunday afternoon
and is said to have left there
about 5 o'clock.
Little is known of the Wayne
family here, except that Wayne came
to the Modern Woodmen Sanitarium
about ten months ago from Indiana,
as a patient. One month ago his
term in the institution was up and
he brought his wife and child here
and rented the house in which tbey
were murdered.
When brought into the morgue
the bodies were almost unrecognizable.
The head of every one of the
six victims was either cut or smashed
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open ana in aimusi every ease iue
number of wounds indicated that the
murderer had cut and smashed until
he was sure that he had destroyed
life.
MAINE WET BY 26 VOTES.
However Figures when Corrected
May be* Changed.
Augusta, Me., Sept. 19.?After
having completed the tabulating of
the official returns on all four questions
on which appeared upon the
ballot at the special election a week
a*. ?j
ago, me governor a.uu tuuutu iunight
adjourned until Thursday, September
28, when they will meet to
consider corrections.
The results as announced to-day
were as follows:
On repeal of the constitutional
prohibitory amendment: For repeal
60,487; against repeal 60,461. Majority
for repeal 26.
The State-wide primary system
was adopted by a majority of 44,036.
The majority of locating the State
capitol permanently at Augusta was
18,384, and that for increasing the
debt limit in cities of 40,000 and
over 530.
Attorney General Pangell stated
to-night that the question of repeal
of the prohibitory amendment was
still in doubt, and it was his belief
that corrections would show a considerable
majority against repeal.
The time for receiving corrections
will not expire until October 9.
Governor Plaisted said to-night
that corrections would be made in
the returns of several towns which
might materially alter the result.
A. C? L. TROUBLE ENDED.
Men Return to Work To-day?De
tails of Settlement Withheld.
Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 20.?FolI
lowing a conference here to-day, between
D. E. Smith, general superintendent
of motive power of the Atlantic
Coast Line, and E. M. Doughty,
chairman of the grievance committee
of the carmakers of the company,
with representatives of the
men from the Rocky Mount and Wilmington
shops, it was announced
that the strike of repairers and inspectors
of the system had been settled,
hnd that the men who are now
out would return to work to-morrow
morning. No details of the settlement
were given out.
See me now about your cotton
seed. Will buy or exchange for meal.
W. G. HUTTO, at Copeland's store.
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TAX NOTICE.
Tlick troaeiiror'B nffipe will he ODen
for the collection of State, county,
school and all other taxes from the
15th day of October, 1911 until the
15th day of March, 1912, inclusive.
From the fir3t day of January,
1912, until the 31st day of January,
1912, a penalty of one per cent will
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1912, until
the 28th day of February, 1912,' a
penalty of 2 per cent, will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of March, 1912, until the 15th
day of March, 1912, a penalty of 7
per cent, will be added to all unpaid
taxes.
THE LEVY.
For State purposes 5% mills
For County purposes 5% mills
1 +oxr O millfl
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Total 14% mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills
Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills
Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills
Colston, No. 18 2 iftills
Cuffie Creek, No. 17 2 mills
Denmark, No. 21 6% mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills
Govan, No. 11 4 mills
Hutto, No. 6 - 2 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
Heyward, No. 24 2 mills
Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 1 mill
Lees, No. 23 .....4 mills
Midway, No. 2 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mills
Olar, No. 8 4 mills
St. Johns, No. 10 2 mills
Salem, No. 9 3 mills
Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills
All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years of age,
except Confederate soldiers and sailors,
who are exempt at 50 years of
age, are liable to a poll tax of one
dollar.
Capitation dog tax 50 cents.
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All persuiis wuo WCI O o a j Dai S3 ML
age on or before the 1st day of January,
1911, are liable to a poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor, are requested
to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1912.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day of October, 1911, until
the 1st day of March, 1912.
JOHN F. FOLK,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
NOTICE OF SALE.
State of South Carolina?County
of Bamberg?In the Probate Court.
W. G. Hutto, administrator of the
estate of L. B. Lee, deceased, plaintiff,
against Annie Lancaster, Mary
Hutto, R. F. Lee, R. E. Lee, Irene
Rush, Mildred Lee, Henry Lee and
Mrs. M. C. Bellinger, defendants.
Pursuant to an order of this Court,
in the above stated action, bearing
date the 31st day of August, 1911,
I will sell at public auction to the
righest bidder, for cash, on the first
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2nd day of the month,) within the
" legal hours of sale, before the court
house door in Bamberg, S .C., the
following described tract of land, to
wit:
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land lying, being-and situate
in the County of Bamberg and State
of South Carolina, containing one
hundred and seventeen (117) acres,
more or less, and bounded on the
North by lands of R. F. Lee, on
the East by lands formerly of Wade
H. Faust, now of Williams, on the
South by lands of Scott Kennedy,
and on the West by lands of Mrs. S.
H. Counts.
G. P. HARMON,
Judge of Probate, Bamberg County.
GRAHAM & ASKINS,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Before disposing of your cotton
seed, see me. Will buy or exchange.
W. G. HUTTO, at Copeland's store.
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the showing of Pattern Hat
and more complete assortmen
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Crushed by Tree.
Sumter, Sept. 15.?G. I. Seitzner,
superintendent of the Sumter Pine
and Cypress Lumber company, was
killed at Rock Bluff, about three
miles from here, Thursday afternoon
at 1:30 o'clock, while overseeing
the cutting of timber in the Rock
Bluff cypress swamp, by being hit in
the head by a falling tree. The
skull was crushed and death was instantaneous.
Mr. Seitzner has been
at Rock Bluff since the first of the
year. He was 36 years of age and
married. His body will be taken
back to Williamsport, Pa., his former
home, this afternoon, for burial.
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