The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 21, 1912, Image 1
Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21,1912. One Dollar and a Half a Year.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTER,1
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENING
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around tli
# County and Elsewhere.
Denmark Doings.
Dpnmark. March 20.?Mrs. J. \\
Wyman entertained the young folk
on Thursday evening very jleasantl
in honor of Miss Frances Mayfield, c
Texas, and Miss Kate Dickert, c
, Union. During the course of th
evening a delicious sweet course wa
served by Miss Clara Wyman. Thos
enjoying Mrs. Wyman's hospitalit
? were: Misses Kate Dickert, Mayfielc
Emma Thompson, Ruth Stokes, Ros
Strait, Lillian Gentry, Esther Polaii
Margaret Thorpe, Josie Pratt, Bei
triand Perritt, Edna Steadman, Ha1
tie Lee Guess, and Miss Dial, of Lau
rens; Messrs. Algie Guess, R. A
Goolsby, J. W. Crum, Jr., St. Clai
W v Guess, W. D. Mayfield, J. K. Mayfieic
I Cecil Crum, Elbert Steadman, and C
| H. Milhous.
V Misses Kate Dickert and Emm
jf Thompson and Mr. E. M. McCow:
spent the week-end with Miss Ros
McCown, of Darlington.
Mrs. W. D. Mayfield and daughtei
Frances, have returned to their horn
in Texas, after spending some tim
with the family of Hon. S. G. May
field.
Misses Hattie Lee Guess and Wes
sie Lee Dial are visiting at Fergu
son. Miss Dial has been spending
few weeks with Miss Guess here.
Miss Kate Dickert, who has bee:
^ visiting Mrs. J. R. Martin here, re
turned to her home in Union o:
Monday.
The many friends of Mr. Malcolo
* McCrae will be glad to know tha
he is at home on a short visit. H<
has been for some time in Jackson
ville, Fla.
Mr. D. B. Reed, of Columbia, wa
here last week.
v Mrs. C. A. Brux and family haw
returned from Lanark, Fla., wher
they have resided for the past year
They have decided "there is no placi
like home."
Mrs. C. C. Meyer, of Meyers's Mil]
, was the guest of Mrs. G. W. Gools
by last week.
Mr. S. D. Guess and Mrs. L. A
Martin spent a few* days in Charles
ton this week at the bedside of thei
brother, Mr. D. E. Guess, of Hen
dersonville.
The many friends of Mr. W. L
Califf will be very glad to know tha
he is able to be out again.
Mr. H. W. Goolsby, of Fort Motte
was in town Friday.
Denmark High School.
? The following is the roll of hono
for the Denmark high school for th<
sixth month:
First Grade?Ruby Abstance, Wy
ont Bean, Jacob Fogle, Eldridgi
Hightower, Joe Matthews, Judsoi
Mayfield, Briggs Walker, Hilary Wil
kinson, Wyman Sandifer, Evely
Cain, Sudie Ruth Fogle, Byrl Price
Dorothy Riley, Helen Turner.
Second Grade?Ruth Califf, Anni<
Belle Way, Hattie May Way, James
Bean, Robert Califf, Edward Cox
David Hutto. Fred Wiggins, Carlish
Folk, Lagree Patrick, Ollie Bes
singer.
Third Grade?Walter Long, Willi<
ft Naff, James Wiggins, Edna Creech
Anna, Goolsby, Julia Margaret Riley
Anna Mathews.
Fourth Grade?Daisy Tillman
Lester Bean, Kathryn Faust, Eliza
beth McCrae.
Fifth Grade?Julia Cox, Willi<
Delle Hutto, Robert Zeigler, Henr:
> Naff, William Garvin.
Sixth Grade?Clifton Long, Marthz
Wiggins, Ella M. Wilkinson, Davie
Souiourner, Ethel Patrick, Geni*
* Fogle, Jasper Soujourner, Clare
Wyman.
Seventh Grade?Annie Mae urn
fith, Vera Wiggins, Christabell May
field. Frances Guess, Virginia Hutto
Eighth Grade?Euine Mayfield
Fitzhugh Cox. Frank Creech, Samue
Ray, Maude Ellzey, Kathleen Fogle
Victoria Fogle, Agnes Goza.
Ninth Grade?Reynold Wiggins
Sigrid Owens, Louise Zeigler.
Eleventh Grade?Elmore Stead
man.
Will Serve Term on Gang.
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spartanourg .wcticu xo.?vuauc;
H. Barber, the Spartanburg broke:
t convicted of breach of trust and sen
tenced to two years' imprisonment
who surrendered to the sheriff her*
last Saturday night, has decided t<
serve his term on the county chain
gang and will be taken to the convic
camps in the lower part of the count:
to-morrow. Barber was visited ii
jail Sunday by many of his friends
>
? A ROCK BOUND PRISON.
An Arizona County Has One Blown
5 Out of Solid Quartz.
When the authorities of Graham
Countv, Arizona, decided to look
e
about for a place in which to confine
criminals they found a natural depression
in the side of a hill. This
they enlarged into what might be
' called an artificial cave, divided into
6 four compartments.
The cave was excavated parallel
to the side of the mountain in which
it was made, says the Wide World,
e and daylight admitted by holes blown
s out of the wall with explosives, the
e windows being guarded by a network
* of heavy steel bars.
The entrance to the depression
a was also closed in the same manner,
and a vestibule or porch of masonry
built out from it to provide quarters
" for the sheriff and his assistants.
This vestibule is also divided into
L* compartments, which are connected
r by gates of steel bars.
The only way of entering the pris'
rm ic fhrnnp-h fhp vpstihule of ma
sonry, and in order to escape the ina
mates would have to cut their
Q through three sets of bars which are
a an inch in thickness, as the windows
are so high up above the rock form'?
ing the floor of the cells that they
e could not reach them.
e It is necessary, however, to have a
' very secure place, as the criminals in
this part of the country are of a most
desperate class, and the inmates fre
quently include murderers and higha
waymen. The mountain which has
thus been turned into a prison is
n composed of solid quartz rock, and
the excavation was made principally
n by the use of explosives. The jail
is located in the town of Clifton, the
a county seat.
e Home Mission District School.
Promptly at four o'clock Tuesday
afternoon the Home Mission district
s school opened with the song, "My
Country, 'Tis of Thee," and the
e Lord's prayer in concert.
& The Bible class recited the giving
' alphabet.
e Roll call showed very few missing
pupils. A number of visitors were
? present.
Eleven pupils rang the chimes of
or>Vi /ivwlc" eiinnnrtfxl hv thp
CICVCil OVUVUlO ouy^/vi vv\4 WJ v? N,
Home Mission Society, each -telling
- some interesting fact about her
r school.
Next the geography class was called.
This lesson was promptly recited,
giving names and location of
t Wesley Houses, Immigrant Homes,
Co-operative Homes. We learned
? from the class that a Wesley House
is a settlement house, "an oasis in a
wilderness of sin," that a co-operative
home is a home for working
girls where they are given home
life and protection at the lowest possible
rates, some times as little as
thirty cents a day; that an Immigrant
Home is a place where Christian
welcome is given to the stranger,
where he is protected from those
who would prey upon him, and helped
to find employment if necessary.
Each one passing through the home
is given a Bible in his own language.
The one member of the arithmetic
s
class, Mrs. Henry F. Bamberg, prov
ed herself a fine mathematician.
This was her problem:
Amount raised for dues $19.20
Brigade enrollment 80
Baby roll 3.95
Brigade mite boxes 7.83
Conference pledge 75.75
Sallie Capers scholarship 10.00
Scarritt Bible and Training
School 2.00
Expense fund 1.70
f Total amount sent to State
treasurer $121.23
i Adding to this the following:
1 Local work?supplies $ 4.80
2 Cash expended for needy 17.15
i Expense fund used locally 2.55
$24.50
Grand Total $145.73
These figures give the tabulated
results of the Home Mission work
' for the first three months of 1912.
^ The reading class gave a lesson on
' social service. It was a beautiful
call, showing the open doors of ser'
vice for the Master.
Next the spelling class came forward.
This lesson was not quite so
good as the others. It was a co-incidence
that the only boy had to spell
all the girls' names.
5 Lessons were now for a few minr
utes suspended, and teacher and pu
pils enjoyed a recess and were re,
freshed by a lunch of delicious sand2
wiches and lemonade.
3 After recess there were one dia
logue and two readings by the elocu
t tion class.
Y The music class sang "Rescue the
1 Perishing," and after a short prayer
i. by the pastor, "school was out."
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
I
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
i Men and Happenings.
i J. S. Bailey will rebuild on the site
of the burned Oregon hotel, Greenwood,
the new building to be five
stories high and to cost $75,000.
Jas. G. Wham was convicted at
Laurens on Wednesday of assault and
; battery of a high and aggravated
nature, the offense consisting in
horsewhipping W. E. Nash, of Clinton,
last fall.
TTTr. rl _ ?xt J
WLiue uiussmg liie iuiuiu duuicc
river, in Spartanburg county, swelled
to three times its normal state by
, the heavy rains, Cheves C. Ligon,
cotton buyer for the Enoree Manufacturing
Company, was drowned
when a small row boat in which he
was attempting to cross the roaring
. torrent was struck by a huge piece
of floating debris and smashed to
splinters. His companion in the boat
at the time, William Pulley, was
thrown into the raging torrent, but
saved himself in a miraculous manner.
A Clever Safe-Blower.
The confidence of German manufacturers
of safes in the resistance of
their works against ordinary safeblowing
operations was rudely
shaken not long ago by the feat of
a single robber in Berlin, who oper
ated in this fashion:
In a hotel a room was secured
which was situated immediately
above the office of a money broker.,
At night a hole was pierced in the
ceiling of this office. By the use of
a drill and saw a circular piece of
the flooring was easily raised. Beneath
lay a thick layer of cement. A
small orifice was made in this and an
umbrella shoved down into the space
below. The umbrella was attached
firmly from above, and when opened
received without noise the fragments
of cement which were distedged as
the hole was enlarged so. as to allow
of the easy passage of a person. By
means of a rope ladder the descent
was made readily into the office below.
The next steps of the thief's
work consisted in the bringing down
of two cylinders of compressed oxygen
and an acetylene generator
charged with calcium carbide and water.
With th^se he was able to produce
a blowpipe flame of such intensity
that steel fuses in it like lead in
an ordinary gas jet. It required only
a brief space of time to melt away so
much of the door that the contents of
the safe were accessible.?New York
Press.
Two White Boys Arrested.
Aiken, March 18.?Two white
boys, Tom Bennett, alias Tom Wat
son, alias Jim Jackson, alias Tom
Barnes, aged 19 years, and Jim
Johnson, alias Gerald Armstrong, 15
years of age, were arrested Saturday
night at Langley, in this county. It
is charged they had broken into the
store of Chaffee & Marchant, packed
up about $300 worth of merchandise
and broken open and smashed the
cash register. They were brought
here yesterday and lodged in jail.
These two boys were released from
the county jail Saturday after having
served 30 days each, having been
convicted a little more than a month
ago of intent to break into and rob
a store at Ellenton in this county.
Because of their youth, the judge
gave them light sentences when they
were convicted.
The elder boy, Bennett, has served
a time in a reformatory in Georgia,
according to his own statement, and
the younger claims to come from
Phoenix City, Ala.
Father Meets Son's Fate.
Birmingham, Ala., March 18.?
Felix J. Ellard, one of the best
known men of the Lewisburg section,
where many acts of violence
I have been committed in recent
months, was ambushed and assassinated
late to-day two miles from his
home. His son, Constable Will Ellard.
was assassinated only a few
weeks ago. The assassins in both
cases are unknown. The other Ellard
was- in a buggy when fired upon
and his body fell to the ground. The
horse took fright and ran home. His
son drove Vtmk and found the body J
at the roauside, where it had fallen.
Felix Ellard made a personal appeal
to Gov. O'Neal Friday to take
special steps to break up the lawlessness
in what is known as "Bloody I
Beat 22," claiming that the sheriff!
is unable to give relief.
FELDEDR HAS WRITTEN BOOK.
Said to Be Some "Hot Stuff?Felder
Had Burns Shadow Blease.
There has been considerable talk
in the State about the book that Mr.
Tom Felder, of Atlanta, is said to
have written and a great many
people have come to the conclusion
that he was a bluff and they were indisposed
to pay any attention to the
stories of the man from Atlanta. The
Times reporter has several times been
told of the book that Mr. Felder has
written but always under the seal of
secrecy but recently it has come to
the paper in a way that the reporter
feels at liberty to use, that Rev. J.
L. Harley, one of the most reliable
men in the State, has seen the book
and read enough of it to make him
sick. He has recently been in this
section of the State and he has told a
number or people or nis reading or
the book in the office of Mr. Felder,
and that he really does not believe
that Cole L. Blease will be a candidate
for the governorship when this
book comes out. It has been prepared
for use as an official document,
and can be used in no other way
without giving the best opportunity
in the world for prosecution for
criminal libel.
It is understood that the commission
could not use the evidence that
they had against the governor, both
as a senator from Newberry county
and in other ways, but that in an
investigating commiossion the story
as Mr. Felder has it can be used,
and Mr. Harley says that it is the
red hottest thing that ever was put
into a book.
It is also understood from several
sources, but none of them what
? /"vV* + Vv v-v Anll/N/3 f Vl a
Uil&llL UC LailCU WlilV^iai, UUt LUC OlUi J
is told in places that ought to be informed
that Detective W. J. Burns,
the greatest detective on earth, has
been trailing the governor, and that
his report may possibly constitute a
part of the evidence that is to be
submitted to the committee of inquiry
in this investigation."
It is thought that this book and
the stories therein contained, will be
a part of the testimony given by Mr.
Thomas Felder at the investigation
on Thursday.
The story of the presence and
work of Detective Burns in this State
as the shadow of Cole L. Blease has
been told to the Times twice under
the seal of "swear you won't tell,"
and once without that restriction,
which removes all of the restrictions.
If the attorney general or Mr. W.
F. Stevenson, or any of the others
who have been active in this matter
in Columbia know anything about
this matter they are as close as clams
and it is impossible to get anything
at an trom tnern.
If Mr. Felder has been working on
these lines he has been doing it at
his own instance and not at the instance
of the winding up commission,
as seems very plain from these
attempts to get "a line on the Burns
story."
It is supposed by some knowledge
of these stories that prompted the
editor of the News and Courier to
suggest that Cole L. Blease might
not be in the race for governor this
summer.
It is then unquestioned that Mr.
Felder has a book and that it is a
red hot book, and that it does tell
things on the governor, but that does
not make the things that are told as
sound as evidence in the court room.
There is also a story of a matter
which might bring the governor into
conflict with the United States authorities
in the matter of the use of
the mails, but that is like a good
many other things that are just in
circulation, and is probably not at all
true.
ine contents 01 tms dook nave
been told of in various ways, but the
Times has no reliable information on
that line.
It is expected that Mr. Felder will
be in Columbia on Thursday and that
his evidence will be most highly sensational.?Florence
Times.
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Pointed Paragraphs.
And all men are alike?except
those who are different.
He who would achieve fame must
pay the press agent.
It takes a financial artist to draw
a satisfactory check.
A hammer sometimes misses its
mark, but a bouquet, never.
No, Cordelia, you can't keep a secret
by putting it on ice.
A woman's intuition enables her
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to got aiong wuu juugiiiem.
Some women seem to think a
painted face should go with a picture
hat.
Th> woman who has occasion to
forgive her husband never allows
him to forget it.
CREIGHTON A DETECTIVE
GOVERNOR GIVES OUT CHARAC
TERISTTC INTERVIEW.
Bleuse Tells of Work of Deposed Mir
ister?Green Investigating Lynching
in Bamberg County.
Governor Blease was in Newberr
a few days ago and while there gav
out the following interview:
Governor Blease was asked for
statement as to several matters c
general interest with which he an
his administration are now bein
connected in the newspapers and i
the dispensary investigation now i
progress. His attention was direcl
ed to the comments and inquiries c
several newspapers as to the $90
paid the Rev. C. W. Creighton, c
Greenwood, out of the public fundi
Rev. C. W. Creighton Inspector.
"Well," said Governor Bleas<
"instead of Mr. Creighton gettin
$900, I presume that by now he ha
been paid $1,200. Along during th
first of my administration I secure
the services of Mr. Creighton for th
purpose of giving me general ii
formation in regard to how the oi
ficers in different counties of th
State were enforcing the law, and a
to violations of the dispensary la1
and other laws throughout the Stat<
Mr. Creighton has made his regula
reports to my office from differer
parts of the State, and in those n
ports I have received very valuabl
information, and from them I hav
gained information which I hav
transmitted by letter or otherwise t
the sheriffs of the different countiei
to my detectives, which I have ha
working in the various counties, an
to other officials whose duty it wa
to enforce the law, and in this wa
j
I have been enabled to have a bette
enforcement of the law than I woul
have otherwise had.
Creighton's Services Valuable.
Creighton's services have been ver
valuable in the assistance he ha
rendered my administration by secui
ing this information, and thus ei
abling me to keep in touch with th
situation throughout the State. Hi
reports are on file in the office, an
are public property, and can be ii
vestigated at any time by any on
who wishes to see them. His vouct
ers were made out regularly and ser
to the comptroller general's offic<
The amounts were deducted from th
law and order fund, and not froi
the contingent fund, as was falsel
stated by the newspaper report!
They are on file in the coihptrolle
general's office. The comptrolle
general then furnished him a checl
which he endorsed, and these check
are filed' in the treasurer's offic(
They are all public property. Nott
ing has been secret or under covei
and the public are entirely welcom
to the whole transaction.
Salary $100 Per Month.
"Mr. Creighton is still, in my set
vice in this particular line of wort
and will so remain, at the salary o
$100 per month, if he desires to hoi
the position, until his services be
come unnecessary, or he tenders hi
resignation, regardless of what an
newspaper or others may think o
say or do. Of course, his useful
ness, to some extent, will be impair
ed by its now becoming public prop
erty that he is doing this line o
work, because, until it was so mad
public, he could gather much in
formation which, of course, now, th
world knowing his business, will b
a little more cautious in allowini
him to catch on to.
Leon M. Green Inspector.
"On Saturday I gave a like com
mission to Col. Leon M. Green, wh<
Thrill A'rm o 1 ilrtVirnnP*h
will yr^i JLVl 111 a ixnv w 1VV vxxxw?0~
out different parts of the State,
presume the newspapers would lik<
to have this, in order that they ma;
know that Col. Leon Green is no
starving, notwithstanding the fac
the News and Courier beheaded hifn
It is true I am cursed for standin;
by my friends, but I am continuing
to do so, and am doing business a
the same old stand?Room No. 1
State house building, Columbia, S. C.
where I will be for the balance o
this and the next two years, unles,
Providence takes a hand by bringinj
into play the all-powerful death."
"What work is Col. Green doin;
just now?" was asked.
Green Sent to Olar.
"I have sent him to Olar," repliec
Governor Blease, " to make a thor
ough examination of the lynching o
the three negroes a few days ago
His thorough knowledge of newspa
per work, bringing him in close ob
servation, and his knack of getting
right into things, made him, in m:
opinion, particularly well suited fo'
this job. I also sent another part:
with him, who will do some of th<
< TRAGEDY ON ( HERAW FARM.
10
Col. C. F. Moore Kills Randall Jack'*
son After Being Attacked.
Cheraw, March 16.?Col: Clarence
lm F. Moore, a prominent farmer, shot
and instantly killed Randall Jackson,
a young negro, at Col. Moore's excelsior
seed farm, two miles from
town, late this afternoon.
It seems that Col. Moore had
e
trouble with Jackson about some
wood, while talking to his overseer,
Mr. McKinnon, at the latter's house,
^ and Col. Moore ordered Jackson off
the place. Jackson went home and
got his wife and pistol and returned
to Moore's commissary, where
t_ the latter and his overseer were settling
with their hands. Jackson imq
mediately fired on Moore four or five
times, one bullet going through his
toat and another giving him a flesh
wound in the arm.
a Col. Moore returned the fire and
g shot the negro in the breast, killing
g him instantly.
e During the firing another negro,
^ William Brown, was also hit by one
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g Ul JdUhSUU B UU11CIO, LIUI nuu uvv ov
' riously hurt. There is some excite
ment' among the negroes, but no
trouble is feared.
18 Practical Advice on How to Succeed.
w
3. No human being can remain sta.r
tionary; he either advances or retroit
grades.
J- Napoleon said of the failure of the
e Bourbon family: "They never learne
ed anything and never forgot anye
thing." You must develop,
o From day to day you must bring
3, to bear an ever increasing wisdom
d ?the application of lessons learned,
d Every incident of your daily toil
ls should be made an educational inciy
dent.
sr The average young man does not
d learn, until perhaps too late, that it
does not pay to fritter and idle away
his time.
y Make a study of those who have
L8 gone to the head; ascertain what
they did in any given emergency.
i- In any emergency a man's conduct
e is the result of the way in which,
is from earliest youth, he has met the
d obstacles he encountered.
i- Thomas A. Edison says: "Do not
e watch the clock; do not chase aside
i- after rainbows; keep everlastingly at
it and master the task of the time be3.
ing!"
e The truly successful man recogn
nizes that, from time to time, he will
y receive setbacks. The man who over3.
comes these is the man of achievet
ment and of eventful success?Henry
t I M. Byellesby.
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g Got Things Mixed.
At one of the recent State dinners
[ one of the speakers was assigned to
r' speak on "The Babies." At the last
e f
moment his toast was changed to
"The Ladies," and he made a really
brilliant speech. His wife, who is
very deaf, and who had not been informed
of the change, was present at
, the dinner and enjoyed it hugely.
A lady congratulated the major's
' wife upon her husband's brilliant efs
fort.
J "Oh, Mrs. ," she replied, "you
r don't know how fond the major is of
them. I've seen him with two or three
on his lap at once ."
"Oh, Carolina," gasped the major,
f who had overheard the conversation.
"Just teasing the life out of the
poor things," the innocent lady con- .
e tinued. '''Every chance he gets he's
e sure to have them in his arms or
^ romping with them. Knowing his
IV? mr'l 1 />Amn f A him
HJ V lug uaiuic, tucj IX buuib l,u uim
when they won't go to any one else."
And the major fell back in his
0 chair with a groan.
1 Negro Hanged from Tank.
s
y Shreveport, La., March 18.?Act
cording to a dispatch to the Times
t from Mer Rouge, La., Henry Lee, a
negro, was hanged to a water tank
, near Mer Rouge early yesterday.
y Saturday night, the dispatch says, '
3
t Lee insulted a white man and fired
into a party returning from an eny
tertainment. The negro resisted ar9
f rest, was wounded, his wounds were
s dressed and later in the night he
r was taken from prison and hanged.
A coroner's jury found that Lee came
y to his death at the hands of persons
unknown.
Conservatism and rheumatism
* case a man to make haste slowly.
A bad temper never gets any worse
from staying unmarried.
- secret work, looking into the investi
gation.
* "I presume that if I had not inj
vestigated it I would have been critir
cised, and, of course, as I am investi7
gating it, I will most assuredly be
? criticised."
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