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?h? lambrrg frralh Thursday, Feb. 8, 1912. SHOKT LOCALS. Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. Real winter weather we are having this week. In renewing for his paper, Mr. B. R. Loadholt writes "It seems that we must have it. We enjoy it each week!" Mr. H. W. Chitty is the first an-1 nounced candidate in this county. His announcement for county commissioner appears this week. The Herald force has been working day and night this week on some out-of-town rush job printing. People from a distance send us their work because they know we are equipped to turn it out on time* and satisfactorily. The regular February meeting of the F. M. Bamberg Chapter U. D. C. will be held next Tuesday afternoon, the 13th, at four o'clock at the home of Mrs. Geo. F. Hair. The hostess hopes for a large attendance of the members. Brother O. J. Frier, Bamberg, accepts the call to the pastorate of the First Baptist church of Winnsboro and begins work on his new field at once. We are glad to retain this fnrrpfnl T>r?acher and noble brother in South Carolina.?Baptist Courier. * Rev. E. M. Taylor, A. M., D. D. of Boston, Mass., lectured at the Baptist church Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of this week on the subject of alcohol, treating the question from a scientific standpoint. Those who heard him were well pleased. Mr. H. G. Askins, who has been practicing law here for some time in partnership with Mr. H. M. Graham, moved back to Lake City, his former home, last week, the firm of Graham & Askins being dissolved. Mr. Askins and family made many friends while'here, who regret their departure. Mr. Graham will continue to practice by himself. Congressman James F. Byrnes has sent to this office two hundred packages of vegetable seed, which he asks that we distribute to those whom we think will most Appreciate tfiem. We shall be glad to give them to those who will call for them, and remember, it is first come first served. Come quickly before they are all gone. They are absolutely free. The lands of the estate of Angus Patterson, deceased, situated near Edisto, were sold at public auction here last Monday by Master H. C. Folk at request of the heirs, Dr. A. B. Patterson representing them. The plantation contained 860 acres and was divided into two tracts. The first tract of 350 acres was sold to C. F. Smoak for $3,500. The second tract of 610 acres was oia in Dy iue heirs at $3,600. Master H. C. Folk sold at public auction last Monday two tracts of land in the case of Black vs. Tucker et al. There were 316 acres in the two tracts, which were sold together. The land was bid in by Mr. B. S. Smoak, of Pregnalls, for Mr. C. W. Jaques, of the same section, $2,600 being the price ifaid. We understand that Mr. Jaques will utilize the timber on the land and possibly will open a wood yard in Bamberg, the wood coming from this land. ? Negroes Lynch Negro. Vidalia, Ga., Feb. 6.?Homer ~ ?ltmrtViAil Ktr Stewart, a negru, was i^uv;ucu uj members of his own race to-day at Cedar Crossing, a small town in a remote section of this county, according to reports received here. Stewart is alleged to have killed another negro and fatally wounded two others at a negro festival. Stewart was arrested soon after the killing, it is stated, and was being taken by an officer to the Toombs county jail when they were overtaken by a mob of negroes. The officer was overpowered and his prisoner taken to a tree and hanged. Scores of bullets were then fired into his body. CHECKS FOUND IN TRASH PILE. Lost by President J. Henry Harms in Washington Station. Washington, D. C., Feb. 4.?When the Rev. Henry Harms, president of Newberry College, left Washington for South Carolina, after his recent Northern tour in the interest of the fund which the college is raising in order to clinch an offer made by Mr. Carnegie, he discovered that he had lost checks aggregating $325 drawn in his favor by Senator Murray Crane, of Massachusetts. President Harms at the first opportunity telegraphed the banks here to stop payment. The missing checks were found here yesterday by a policeman in a pile of trash on the floor of the union station and have been mailed to President Harms. No more photographs after Feb. 15 New Advertisements. G. Frank Bamberg?Bring the Best Horses. A. J. Hydrick, Jr., Referee in Bankruptcy?Bankrupt Notice. The Bamberg Pharmacy?Free for Three Days Only. Pearlstin Bros.?Piercing Arrow Sale. J. A. Richardson?Strayed. H. W. Chitty?Candidate's Card. W. A. Klauber?Hundreds Have Been Turned Away. Van Orsdell, Photo Artist?At Denmark. Rev. O. J. Frier Has Moved. Rev. O. J. Frier, the new Baptist minister, with his family, has moved into the Baptist parsonage on East Washington street. Mr. Fryer comes from Bamberg, and though we sympathize with them in their loss, we feel that it has been our gain, and not only his immediate congregation, but the entire community, unites in welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Fryer into our midst.?Winnsboro News and Herald. Married Last Sunday. Miss Pearl Sandifer was happily married last Sunday afternoon to Mr. W. D. Trent, the ceremony occurring at the home of the bride's mother in this city. Rev. W. H. Hodges was the officiating minister. Soon after the wedding the young couple left by automobile for Blackville and other points, returning to the city Tuesday night. Mr. Trent is originally from North Carolina, but he has been living in Blackville for a year or more, where he was manager of the electric light plant. Kecentiy ne accepted a yusition as assistant at the electric light plant here, and has been making Bamberg his home. The bride has been a faithful employee of The Herald Book Store for some time, and we hope we will have to give her up only temporarily. Their many friends extend congratulations and good wishes. Senator Summers Friday Night. ' Senator S. J. Summers, of Calhoun county, will deliver the first of the life work lectures at the Carlisle Fitting School auditorium Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Senator Ontyimore taicps a ereat deal of in kJU&lliUVAM ^ w terest in .his farm, and he has one of which to feel proud. In addition to his regular farm work, he raises some of the finest stock and chickens in South Carolina. He takes pride in these and has won prize after prize at the State fair. Senator Summers will not give us theory in his lecture?he will not have to. He is a ready speaker, and we trust that a large and representative audience will greet him. v Bamberg Graded School. 1 Honor roll for the month ending I January 26th. I FIRST GRADE. | Marion Askins, David Askins, James Grimes, Louis Klauber, Willie Moody, John McCormack, Launie Price, Robert Wilkerson, Clyde Varn, Thomas Yeitrakis, Lizzie Beard, Myrtle Black, Elizabeth Free, Moselle Gillam, Kate Herndon, Aline Hutto, Gladys McMillan, Sallie Richardson, Imel Smoak, Jaunita Sandifer, Carrie Simmons, Harriet Wiggins, Florence Griffith, Chausserean Hubert, George Ducker, Jr., Grace Hughes, Dottye Maye Vanorsdell. I SECOND GRADE. I Irma Dixon, Theresa Fowler, Yancey Graham, Beulah Jennings, John Henry Adams, Robert Hodges, Wal-1 ter Hutto, Lawrence Kirkland, Geo. I Vni+ralris X Vfi ??# THIRD GRADE. I Daisy Free, Vivian Free, Natalie I Hooton, Bernice Simmons, Cassie Belle Sandifer, Maggie Zeigler, Julia Price, Wilkes Knight, Henry Wilkerson, FOURTH GRADE. Charlie Moye, Hartwell Dixon, Jefferson Riley, Hazel Armstrong, I Lee Dell Bessinger, Meta Bessinger, Marguerite Dixon, Nannie Faust, Gwendolyn Fowler, Rebekah Graham, Nell Hutto, Elizabeth Inabinet, Aegina Knight, Florine Morris, Cathleen Rentz, Gladys Varn. FIFTH GRADE. Rebecca Dickinson, Roy Free, Tom Felder, Mary Lee Grimes, Gene Price. SIXTH GRADE. Lucile Hunter, Eunice Hunter, Garris Zeigler. j SEVENTH GRADE. Lerline Herndon, Josephine Free, Carey Graham, Francis Rice, PincKney Smoak. EIGHTH GRADE. Homer Godbee, Marie Ducker, Arrie Free. TENTH GRADE. Bennie Black, Marian Simmons. ELEVENTH GRADE. Kate Rentz. The following made 90 per cent, on every study except one: J. B. Rice, Samuel Rowell, Nell Black, Nettie Mitchell, Edith Rice, Reuby Beard, James Griffith, Egmond Arndt, Eugina Beard, Eloise Kirkland. No more photographs after Feb. 15 PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Magistrate O. J. C. Lain, of Olar, was here Monday. ?Magistrate J. L. Herndon, of the Hunter's Chapel section, was here Monday. ?Mr. J. Crum Smoak, of the Hunter's Chapel section, was in the city Monday. ?Messrs. J. D. Turner ana W. P. Sandifer, of the Denmark section, were jn the city Monday. ?Mr. G. Frank Bamberg left Monday night for St. Louis, Mo., to buy a car load of horses and mules. ?Capt. J. R. Hamilton and Mr. J. W. Black, of Branchville, were here Monday attending the public sales. ?Mrs. G. B. Hoover and children, of Hampton, spent several days last week in the city with Mrs. G. W. Garland. ?Messrs. Glenn Hutto and Bart Price, of Bamberg, were in town Sunday with friends.?St. Matthews Advance. ?Messrs. J. F. Breland, Henry W. Chitty, and A. D. Williams, of the Buford's Bridge section, were in the city Monday. ?Mr. Pinckney Bellinger, who is attending the University of South Carolina at Columbia, spent several days here this "week. ?Mrs. Hebron Berry and children and Mrs. J. R. C. Bruce, of Branchville, spent Tuesday in the city with Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Bruce. ?Magistrate J. C. Copeland, Messrs. H. L. Brown, Isaac W. Carter, and M. Li. Warren, of the Ehrhardt section, were in the city Monday. ?Mr. B. S. Smoak, of Pregnalls, was in the city Monday. While here he renewed for The Herald another year, as he says that he cannot do without it. ?Mr. W. D. Mayfield, formerly State superintendent of education, who is now living in Texas, spent a few days last week with his brother, Hon. S. G. Mayfield. : , ?Mrs. E. V. Camp left last Saturday morning for Dalton, Ga., where KAlftfitrAc f Ar . o Tuhito B11C Will viaiu iciaiMcs iui i* ? ? From there she will go to Savannah, Ga., her future home. \ ?Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Hutto, of Midway, were the guests of Treas. and Mrs. R. E. Jones Thursday and Friday. Mrs. Huttb is a sister of Mrs. Jones. They were accompanied by his daughter, Miss Florine, and granddaughter, Miss Edith.?Wttterboro Press and Standard. / *T. Mob Searching for Negro. v Macon, Ga., Feb. 4.?Following an attack by a negro upon a young white woman early this morning, a' mob has gone to a junction point to head off a train on which the assailant, Charlie Powell by name, is said to be in custody of officers. At 12:30 this morning, aS^the young woman was returning to her home after her night's work in the downtown district, she was set upon by the negro and assaulted and robbed. Policemen Moseley and Metz arrived on the scene just in time to see the negro scramble away with the young woman's purse in his hand. As soon as the negro saw the policemen he drew a pistol and fired five shots at them, all of which went ? - 11 wild, the officers returning tne nre, in the meantime closing in on the negro, and finally captured him. The negro was quickly hurried away to the county jail. At 1:20 o'clock this morning Sheriff Hix threw the doors of the jail open to the crowd that had hammered for admittance. The prisoner was not inside. He had been gotten away by the officers in the automobile, and is said to be headed for Atlanta. Later the mob proceeded to a junction crossing to head off a passenger train, on which it was believed the negro had been placed. Four automobiles loaded with men have left Macon on four different roads in the hope of overtaking the sheriff's party. The crowd at the jail has dispersed. The mob has given up the theory that the prisoner is to be put on board a train. The train for Savannah was searched before leaving the union depot at 1:25. At a junction four miles out waitinjg men saw that he was not placed on board there. Nearly Finished. A stranger entered a church in the middle of the sermon, and seated himself in the back pew. After a while h< o gan to fidget. Leaning over to the white haired man at his side, evidently an old member of the congregation, he whispered: "How long has 'e been preachin'?" "Thirty or forty years, I think," the old man answered. "I don't know exactly." "I'll stay, then," decided the stranger. "He maun be nearly dune." O'Riley closes February 15th. HOUSE PASSES LEVER'S BILL. Would Change Time for Issuing Cotton Crop Reports. Washington, Feb. 5.?The house to-day passed Representative Lever's bill directing the secretary of agriculture to change the system of crop reporting relating to cotton, so that the acreage repcrt will be issued on the 1st of July instead of the 1st of June, as heretofore, and so that the condition reports will begin on the 1st of August instead of on the 1st of June, as heretofore. The committee on agriculture reported that in its opinion the passage of the bill would materially strengthen the system and make it of more value to both producer and consumer of cotton. Stole Tombstone for Child's Grave. Macon, Ga., Feb. 2.?A tombstone was stolen from a marble yard here last night. The tombstone, an artistics production, surmounted by a lamb, was found to-day in a cemetery at the head of a grave where rests the body of Henry Sikes's only child, who died recently. So the police are looking for Sikes, a middle-aged white man. They have discovered that he hired a horse and wagon last night and the wagon wheel tracks are plainly traceable from the marble yard to the grave yard. But the police have not found that Sikes had accomplices in the theft laid to him and they cannot under? . 3 1- - AAAAfMnllnkA/1 ? + linlAflC stand now ut; atcuuipiioucu n. umtoo his parental grief and his yearning to mark his child's grave lent him the strength of a dozen men. Woman's Life Worth $1,200,000. Chicago, Feb. 2.?The largest amount of life insurance held by any woman in the world is now carried by Mrs. Charles Netcher, known here as the "Merchant Princess" because she owns and personally operates one of the largest department stores in this country, employing 3,200 men and women, besides being an extensive owner of "Loop" real estate. Mrs. Netcher has just taken out ^ life policy for $200,000, which raises the total insurance on her life to $1,200,000, a sum larger than that carried by any other person in Chicago and which, for a woman, compares very favorably with the $4,500,000 insurance carried by Rodman Wanamaker, and the most heavily insured man in the world. Mrs. Netcher is now the most heavily insured woman in the world and consequently one of the healthiest. Mrs. Netcher last year ordered the erection of a new building covering an entire city block at a cost of over $6,000,000. Mrs. Netcher believes that the secret of her success lies in the fact that she is personally acquainted with each one of her 3,000 employees. O'Riley closes February 15th. Fort Worth Church Burned. Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 4.?Fire, believed by the fire department to have been of incendiary origin, early to-day destroyed the First Baptist church, of Fort Worth. Shortly afterward the residence of the Rev. J. Frank Morris, pastor of the church, was found to be on fire. A lot of blazing oil-soaked rags and paper was found on the back porch. The Rev. Mr. Morris and his wife succeeded in extinguishing the blaze at their honie before much damage resulted. The church was valued at $80,000. The Rev. Mr. Morris for several months has taken considerable interest in local politics. What was apparently an attempt to burn the church was made on January 10, and a few minutes later two shots were fired at the pastor, who sat in his study. The shots did no damage. Negro Sues White Planters. Montgomery, Ala:, Feb. 3.?Ben Salter, an aged negro of Pensacola, to-day entered suits for $70,000 damages in the federal court here, - ? ' ? A 4. through United states uisinct ait torney Warren S. Reese, against seven prominent white farmers of Crenshaw county, Alabama, alleging that they were members of a mob which in December, 1910, drove him and his family from their farm in Crenshaw county, burned Salter's dwelling house, destroyed and carried off property to the value of $2,500 and forced Salter to leave the State. Salter alleges that he was beaten by the mob and taken i to custody by the sheriff of the county to save his life and that after liberation he moved from Albania to protect his life. nnifc n'flro filer! olaim OCVCU OUltO M Vi V U4VM) Vfw J ing $10,000 damages-. The proceed-j ings are directed against Joseph Pate, Jim Shelley, Newt Shelley, Brock Norman, George King and Jodie Byrd. When you want to hire a livery team you want to the best. J. M. Dannelly & Co. at Ehrhardt can serve you with good teams and careful drivers. Im J BAKI I POV E Absolute R0 Economizes I m < Eggs; makes 1 H appetizing an || - The only Baking W from Royal Grap< LAD GOES TO ROADS. Knee-Pants Boy of Greensboro Convicted of Retailing. Greensboro, Feb. 3.?Will Busick, a son of former Policeman Busick and a lad not yet past the knee-pants stage, was carried to the county road force to-day to begin a four-months' I sentence for retailing. Busick wasJ caught by a local policeman delivering a pint at the passenger station and offered no defense at the city court trial. Though he has good parents and is himself a bright and always neat-appearing lad, Busick is of that class just a stage beyond the incorrigible and he has before this faced charges of burglary, highway robbery, larceny and others of less serious nature. Heretofore, "he has escaped punishment because of his youth, but for the latest offense Judge Bure decided that a road term might prove good where kinder remedies had failed. When you want a good team, call on J. M. Dannelly & Co. at EhrhardtThey operate a first-class livery stable. O'Riley. On February 15th, next Wednesday, O'Riley will close his Bamberg engagement. See him now for photographs. A DARING WAGER. The Liberty Major Vaksel Took with The Eccentric Czar, Paul I. Paul I, the eccentric czar of Russia, assassinated in 1801, was very particular as to his dress and consid- I ered trifling matters as of supreme' importance. This peculiarity was once taken advantage of by an officer of the guards, Major Vaksel, to win a wager. The major, the joker of the army, had bet several hundred roubles that he would tweak the tail of the emperor's wig on parade. The next day, the story runs, the emperor happened to be present at early parade and, as chance would have it, took position for a moment immediately in front of the daring major. Breathless with excitement and terror. Vaksel's companions beheld that rash officer's right hand steal slowly from his side, rise to the level of the czar's neck and give the wig's hanging tail a most decided tweak. In an instant the emperor's face, pale with fury, was tftrned upon Vaksel's countenance, which, however, reflected only an expression of childlike innocence, mingled with the most deferential astonishment. "Who dared do that?" demanded the enraged czar, his eyes flashing evidence that his most dangerous mood was uppn him. "I. did, your majesty," said Vaksel, who, however his heart may have fluttered, managed to preserve out wardly unruffled calm, together with an expression of innocent surprise. "It was crooked, your majesty," he added in a confidential undertone, "and I straighetened it for fear the younger officers should see it." Paul's countenance cleared at once. He stared fixedly, however, at Vaksel's innocent looking face for some seconds. Vaksel admitted afterward that this was the trying moment, but he had said to himself, "If I waver I am lost!" Then the czar spoke, and spoke so that all might hear: "I thank you, colonel!" If ever a step in rank was gained by purest effrontery it was so acquired on this occasion, and Vaksel left the field not only promoted to a coveted position in the guards, but richer by many hundred roubles as the result of his wager.?Chicago Record Herald. g ?? ? The Ford is the automobile of satisfaction. Ask any user. Four new models just received. Ask for a demonstration. FORD MOTOR CO., Bamberg, S. C. 1 . . 1 " : , ?ri, N8 I < VDER I ly Pure $)/ ^ 11 the food more " d wholesome <g? YOUNG SAIiUDA MAN SHOT. ' M I V : George DeLoach Probably Fatally Shot by Arthur Stidham. ' t Saluda, Feb. 2.?News has reached here of the shooting Wednesday night of George DeLoach by Arthur . Stidham near Big Creek, in this conn ty. Both are white and both quite 1 young. Stidham is the 18-year-old son of J. C. Stidham. Blind tiger M liquor it is said led up to the trouble ' M which resulted in the shooting. The fl shot took effect in the abdomen and found its exit near the left hip bone. 1 The physician who attended DeLoach 1 expressed little hope of his recovery. " He is quoted as saying that the in- y. testines are punctured in several ? places. DeLoach has been carried to $ the hospital in Columbia for treat- /M ment. Stidham has not been arrested as s <: far as is at present known. ' > Don't fool yourself with an unre- \ liable automobile. You can depend on the Ford. We have four new models, just received. FORD MOTOR CO., Bamberg, S. C. ^ SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements Under This Head 25& For 25 Words or Less. . ============== Wanted.?Fifty thousand cypress 1 ^ shingles. J. A. WYMAN. For Sale.?Full blood Shepherd pups for sale. Males, $4.00; females, $3.00. W. H. ZEIGLER, COPE, S. C. ; : Money to Loan?We have for a client several thousand dollars to lend on farm lands. CARTER 6 CARTER, Attorneye-at-Law Bamberg, S. C. ' Strayed.?Two black mare ^mules. Got loose in Bamberg last Saturday night. Information as to them will be gladly received. J. A. RICHARD- > SON, Bamberg, S. C. . ^ 'S ?? For Sale.?The ^two-story brick building on Main street in the Town 4M of Bamberg, now occupied by The ^ Bamberg Herald. Part cash and ] balance terms if desired, also eight shares of stock of the uotton uu Company. Apply to A. W. KNIGHT; Bamberg, S. C. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. V * I hereby announce myself as a can- i didate for County Commissioner of Bamberg county, and will abide the M result of the Democratic primary. 1 H. W. CHITTY. ( BANKRUPT NOTICE. In the District Court of the United States, for the District of South Carolina, in Bankruptcy. In the matter of Rubin & Peskpn, bankrupts. To the creditors of Rubin & Pes- 4 ken of Bamberg, in the County of - % Bamberg and District aforesaid, J bankrupts. I Notice is hereby given that on - J the 18th day of January, A.: D., 1912, ] the said Rubin & Pesken were duly | adjudicated bankrupts, and that the I first meeting of their creditors will I be held at my office in Bamberg, S. J C., on the 12th day of February, A D., 1912, at eleven o'clock a. m., at 4 which time the said creditors may at- M tend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupts, and transact such other business as may tproperly come before said meeting. Notice is further given that at this meeting application will be made for an order for sale of both < real and personal property, and, if offered, a composition to creditors will be voted on. ANDREW J. HYDRICK, JR., Referee in Bankruptcy. Dated at Orangeburg, S. C., January 31,1912. Bankrupt's Notice for Discharge. In accordance with an order of the Court in the matter of J. W. McCue, bankrupt the said bankrupt will ask < for an order of discharge at a hearing before the Hon. H. A. M. Smith, U. S. District -Judge, at Charleston, S. C. on the 20th day of February, A. D. 1912, at ten o'clock in the fore- : noon, and all creditors and persona * interested will govern themselves accordingly. CARTER & CARTER, A t+iro. frtr T W TWf?C!np. "Ranlmmt January 17th, 1912. TAX NOTICE. Town taxes for the year 1911 are now due and payable to the Town Treasurer at his office over the Bam- * berg Banking Co. TREASURER. >> ;<