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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1912. One Dollar and a Half a Year.
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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, April 1.?To-day is all
fools' day, and many will participate
in the sports of the day, especially
the young folks.
v < The Sunday afternoons in this
year so far have been too rainy and
wet for the young folks to indulge in
promenades and talking taffy and
building air castles.
The place to put the school house
on is creating quite a stir in our
little town and has them divided.
The most of them, if it possibly can
be done, would rather have the building
put 9n the grounds given them
^y the late Conrad Ehrhardt. Now,
in order to gather the patrons together
again and get them thinking
the same way, the trustees will give
the patrons of the school a chance
to vote as to the site wanted by most
of them so work can be begun on
the new building. The majority will
rule and be listened to.
Our freight train has been very
\ late one or two nights last week.
Something was wrong with the engine
both nights.
Some of the idle gossip about candidates
now is right laughable, the
way some of them are cussed and
discussed. When a man wants to
fin/1 Viie frionris inst let him
enter politics.
The Ehrhardt Hardware Co.'s
? stock was sold to Mr. Harvey Wichman,
of Walterboro, recently. While
it will retain its original name, the
business will be enlarged, and we
hope prosperous under the new owners
and management.
Mr. Editor, what would your idea
be as to what you would be doing if
a young lady to whom you had been
showing a good deal of attention
v -were to tell you that you needed a
shave? Don't you think there would
he labial approximations participated
in on your and her part, especially if
darkened by evening shadows. Ha!
ha! ha! Don't answer; just think
about it. The comiscations will do
t you good these sleepy days.
Dr^ J. H. Roberts is speaking of
putting a soda fount in his drug store
this coming season.
Misses Kathleen and Thelma
Kearse, of Olar, have been spending
some time with Mrs. Max Walker,
their sister.
Mr. Prentice Griffin, the popular
brakeman on the passenger train
from Greenpond to Ehrhardt, was
called home last week to see the remains
of his father, who lived in
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WalterDoro, laia 10 rest. ms menus
here are inxsympathy with Mr. Griffin
in his''great bereavement.
Some of the school girls are countl
ing the days and hours before starting
home for Easter holidays at
home. JEE.
?. ' Denmark Doings.
Denmark, April 2.?On Friday last
Misses Josephine and Virginia Faust
entertained a few of their friends.
A very interesting contest was carried
out. The winning point was made
by Miss Minnie Blunt, who was prel
sented with a box of candy. A delicious
sweet course was served.
Those enjoying Misses Faust's hospitality
were: Misses Minnie Blunt,
Katherin Wilkinson, Louise Zeigler,
Euine Mayfield, Ruth Guess; Messrs.
John Tyler, Thomas Wilkinson, Elmore
Steadman, Ira Garris and Walf
i ter Gilliam.
On Saturday evening Miss Katherine
"Wilkinson entertained a few
friends with a Virginia reel. Those
invited were: Misses Louise Zeigler,
Josephine Faust, Minnie Blunt, Julia
Goolsbv, Virginia Faust; Messrs.
Herman Brunson, John Tyler, Thomas
Wilkinson, Elmore Steadman, Ira
Garris, Walter Gilliam.
Miss Sadelle Guess came home
Thursday from Converse college, to
spend a few days. The Misses Allen
accompanied her.
Mrs. Dendie Miller, of Abbeville,
is visiting her parents here, Mr. and
Mrs. Blount.
Mrs. H. A. Ray, of Black ville,
spent a few days last week with Mrs.
M. J. LaFitte here.
Mrs. H. W. Goolsby and daughter,
Frances, of Fort Motte, are the
v guests of Mrs. G. W. Goolsby, of this
cify.
Miss Ruby Guess is at home from
Converse for Easter.
Mr. C. R. Gillam spent Sunday
with his brother here, Mr. W. B. Gillam.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Gilmore Simms,
: Jr., of Barnwell, were the guests of
Mrs. L. C. Rice this week.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
I>R. MITCHELL AT OLAR.
President of University of South Carolina
Delivered Address.
Olar, March 31.?Friday night in
the Methodist church, Dr. S. C.
Mitchell, president of the University
of South Carolina, delivered a lecture,
"Civic Patriotism," to a large
audience. The speaker introduced
his lecture by comparing national
patriotism with civic patriotism, giving
as an illustration the story of the
Englishman, Cameron, who was captured
by the natives of Abyssinia and
afterwards rescued by England at a
cost of $25,000,000 and 300 lives.
As an illustration of "Civic Patriotism"
he spoke of the Farm Demonstration
movement, the church, the
school and boards of health.
Fairfax Fancies.
Fairfax, April 1.?The big circus
brought lots of visitors to our town
last week. Among those from Allendale
were Misses Allen and Malcolm
Hay, Mrs. Angus Brabham, and many
others from Brunson. Messrs E. L.
Otis, Grover and Lonnie Sanders,
Misses Crum and Ada Sanders, Mesdames
Tuten and Griffin depresented
Ulmers.
The millinery openings brought
another crowd.
Mesdames Jacob and Henry Lightsey
and daughters, of Crocketville,
were recent visitors of Mrs. F. M.
Young.
G. D. Sanders visited a class-mate
at St. Matthews who runs a seed
house. He thinks it is a fine thing
and purchased seed. '
Powell Harrison, an attractive
youth from Johnston, visited his
sister here recently, to the delight of
the younger set.
Mrs. Lily Rivers and Mr. Hughes,
from Brunson were recent visitors.
Little John Young Wideman had
a narrow escape recently, swallowing
a quantity of stuff from a bottle that
was intended for floor polish. But
Dr. Young soon got him "o. k."
Little Lee Brabham fell and injured
himself seriously.
Miss Annie H&lford, now of Olar,
was a recent visitor here.
All are congratulating Mr. Benjamin
Thomas upon the arrival of a
daughter. But Mr. Martin Lightsey
is glad that his new arrival is a son.
There was a pleasant gathering
Friday evening at the residence of
Mrs. Benjamin Loadholt. The teachers
and some of their friends were
present. After sweet music, rendered
by Miss Harrison, and spicy, animated
conversation, delicious refreshments
were served.
Miss Lucile Youmans is home from
o four Havs
UUUYCiOC 1V1 C4> JLVTf
Prof. Campbell was a recent guest
of Mrs. Geneva Barber.
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Advice to Negroes.
Olar, S. C., March 23, 1912.
Editor The Bamberg Herald:?
Will you please allow me a little
space in your worthy journal to give
my race of people a little good advice.
This is to the colored people only.
Where is the excuses for so much
law breaking? I will answer there
is none. I am quite sure that our
people have good leaders, both in
their own race and that of the
whites, but here is the great
trouble: The negroes have become
so mean to each other that they will
not heed their leader's advice and
hence here they7 go into mischief
and from there they must be checked
and brought to justice, and that
is right. Every evil doer has to give
an account of his sin, so you see
that it is better to do the right than
it is to do the wrong.
Our people have school houses and
churches, hence I cannot see any excuse
for doing wrong. I might ask
this question: Why do we work the
little plants? We work the plants
to keep down the weeds and grass.
Well, then why do you want to keep
down the weeds and grass? For this
cause: If they grow to a certain
extent they will damage the plants.
So it is with our law-makers. They
have to show the law-breakers the!
extent of their wrong doing in order!
to save those who are living up to
the constitution of the lav/. So let
me say to you: Don't shudder at
these punishments when they come
to you. You must understand that
just what you sow you are going to
reap it. So let me say to you as a
friend, be good servants, for this is
honorable, and I am sure that our
white friends will ever take care j
of you. Be truthful and honest and
obtain a clean character and then
these fearful things will flee from us
all. B. J. KEARSE.
The Ford is the simplest and most
reliable car on the market. Write
the Ford Sales Co., Bamberg, S. C.
for catalogue and prices. Stock of
cars on hand.
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SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Bud Davis killed Eugene Dargan
in Sumter a few days ago by hitting
him on the head with a bottle. They
were both negro boys.
The Greenville county board of
equalization raised the assessment of
the Paris Mountain water company
from $143,000 to $650,000.
C. B. Gregory, the Union policeman
who disappeared last fall with $600
of the city's money, has returned and
has paid back the amount. He had
been in Texas and New Orleans. He
will not be prosecuted.
A jury at Sumter on Friday gave
J. A. Miller, former engineer, a verdict
for $35,000 against the Atlantic
Coast Line for injuries received
" ? '- 1 -e at ^ rp>, n
wmie in toe empxuy ui tut; iuau. jlu?=
road will appeal of course.
Marguerite Louise, the 12-year-old
daughter of Dr. H. L. Henry, of Chapin,
was so badly burned on Monday
night that she died next morning.
Her clothing caught while she was
standing in f::ont of an open fire.
Commissioner Watson publishes a
statement saying that numbers of
mils are still employing children under
12, in violation of the law, and
he gives warning that the law will
be enforced against them if they do
not stop it at once.
John Holman, a substitute rural
mail carrier, on his route out of Orangeburg
on Monday, was attacked
and shot at by a man by the name of
Beck. The attack was unprovoked.
Beck has been arrested by both the
State and federal authorities.
Jno. A. Wagener, a young married
man and son of Geo. A. Wagener, a
millionaire of Charleston, was found
dying a few nights ago in the house
of a negro woman of bad character in
Augusta, Ga. Death resulted from
opium, taken, it is presumed, with
j suicidal intent during a drunken debauch.
Three White Men Arrested.
Barnwell, April 1.?As the result
i of an affray, in which Silas Miley, an
j old negro man, was badly beaten up,
j and Ethel Moody, a negro woman,
! was shot in the arm, Chester Riley,
Monroe Beasley and John Sanders
I were arrested in Willistort Saturday
night and lodged in the jail here yesterday.
These three white men, it is
alleged, met Miley on the streets of
Williston Saturday night and beat
him unmercifully and left him lying
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Dy tne roaa. iveLuiumg iaici auu i
finding him still there, they put him '
in their buggy and drove down to a
branch, which is just within the corporate
limits of the town of Williston.
While at ,the branch, Ethel
Moody and her father-in-law drove
up, and one of the white men demanded
that Miley be taken in their
buggy. Because they seemed to hesitate,
it is alleged that young Beasley,
making the remark that he would kill
them all, fired a shotgun at the woman.
The entire load took effect in
her right arm, just below the shoulder,
tearing out the entire muscle.
A few shot entered her body. Magistrate
Kitchens made the arrest a
short time after the affair, and the
men were brought here yesterday. In
Williston a fund was raised to employ
a lawyer to help prosecute the case.
A motion for bail was made to-day
and granted in the sum of $500 each.
Flood in Middle West.
St. Louis, April 1.?The floods in
this section of the country including
Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky are
the worst on record. Property losses
have already run into millions of dollars.
Rain has been falling throughout
the flooded district for the last
| 12 hours and no relief is in sight.
The Mississippi has ben stationary
for 24 hours at 29.8 feet and a fur'
ther rise is not expected for 24 hours.
I Cairo and the drainage district
| above the city are the only two dry
| places in that section of the country,
j the entire territory north and south
[ of Cairo being covered with several
I feet of water.
j The Ohio river reached 48 feet
! to-night which is eight-tenths of a
i foot higher than the previous- record.
A stage of 54 feet is predicted before
the flood subsides.
Large forces of men patrol the
levees constantly and everything is
being done to keep the embankments
in condition to withstand the flood.
Trains are still running, but in many
cases are being routed over foreign
routes.
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SHOT WIFE'S VISITOR.
Coining Home Early, Saw Man i
Wife's Room.
Knoxville, Tenn., March 27.?A
Crestmont, N. C., at an early hou
this morning Alex Jenkins shot an
fatally injured William Mann, age
20. Jenkins, who is a night watct
man at an industrial plant, wee
home at 2 o'clock and, seeing a ligh
in his wife's room, rapped on th
window glass. Immediately he sa^
the form of a man fully dressed aris
to a sitting position. Jenkins fire
through the window and, as the fori
inside the room began retreatini
fired a second shot. Both took el
feet, one passing through Mann'
body and the second entering on
thigh. Physicians say Mann cannc
recover. Jenkins surrendered to
deputy sheriff.
SAVED FROM FATAL FALL.
Commander Moffett Barely Escape
Slide Over 200-Foot Cliff.
The many friends here of Con:
mander William A. Moffett, U. S. N
superintendent of the lighthouse dis
trict at San Fransico, and a brothe
of Corporation Counsel George I
Moffett, will be interested in a nai
row escape from aeatn wnicn uon
mander Moffett had receptly at Ana
capa Island, on the coast of Souther
California. For a long five minute
he faced death on a cliff 200 fee
abov j the ocean, and was sliding t
a horrible fate on the rocks, belc
him, when his. descent was stoppe
by a bit of cactus. A gale was blo^
ing at the time, and the escape c
the young naval officer is regarde
as mirac-ilous. His men above hii
lowered a rope and rescued Con
mander Moffett from his perilous pc
sition.
The story of his adventure is tol
in the San Francisco Chronicle c
Tuesday, February 27, as follows:
In the teeth of a terrific northwes
gale, and dangling from the face of
precipice 200 feet from the breaker
and jagged rocks below, Commande
William A. Moffett, superintendent c
the; United States Lghthonse Servict
looked death in the face for a Ion
fbe minutes last Thursday.
Commander Moffett and 10 me
connected with the service went t
Anacapa Island, on the coast c
Southern California for tne purpos
of installing a steel tower lighthous
on the island at a point about 15
feet from the surface of the waten
In order to reach the proposed sit
it was necessary for the party t
scale the almost vertical rocky wall
of the island at a point where th
rock rises 360 feet above the level c
the surrounding water.
There was only one place where th
cliff could be scaled and that wa
where a mass of loose rock an
bowlders' had slidden down from th
top wearing a crack along the sui
face. With their backs against on
of the walls of this fissure and thei
knees braced against the others,- th
men slowly worked themselves tc
ward the top.
Moffett had proceeded about 20
feet from the surface of the ocea
when a small bowlder that he ha
grasped to draw himself up, cam
loose and went tearing down the fac
of the precipice with a mass of loos
dirt and stones in its wake. Ther
Was nothing but loose dirt to tak
hold of, and Moffett began to slide
each second adding to the speed c
the descent. Prone on his abdomei
he clutched wildly at Dits 01 cactu
and small bowlders, which checke
the rapidity of his descent, and a
last he managed to catch hold of
bowlder large enough to bear hi
weight. Here he dropped anchor, s
to speak, until a bowline was lowere
to him, by which means he was en
abled to work his way to the top c
the island.
He was badly bruised by the stone
over which he had been sliding, an
his body resembled a pincushion, fo
cactus spines bristled from all part
of his person. In fact, the cactus
which grew abundantly on the clifl
prevented him from being dashed t
death upon the rocks below.
In the face of the strong gale th
party erected a derrick on the to
and succeeded in hoisting to its sit
the material for the steel tower o
tfte ngntnouse ana *ne resi oi ui
paraphernalia. Commander Moffet
returned yesterday on the lighthous
tender Sequoia.?Charleston Evenin;
Post.
Texas is now producing peaches t<
the annual value of $7,000,000.
A tree that gives thee shade, do no
order it cut down.?Arabian.
If blindfolded, it is said no mai
is able to stand five minutes withou
moving.
:reed sentenced to die.
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ANDERSON XEGRO TO MEET
FATE AT HANDS OF LAW.
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r Saved From Mob Violence, Negro is
d Given Speedy Trial on Charge
^ of Attempted Assault.
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it Anderson, April 1.?For attemptit
ing criminal assault on the wife of a
e prominent farmer of Dean Station,
v this county, February 26, last, Wile
liam Reed, a negro, must die in the
d electric chair at the State penitenn
tiary in Columbia July 12, next.
*, A special term of court was con?
vened here to-day for the purpose of
s giving Reed a speedy trial. He ape
peared in the court room without a
it lawyer and Judge Prince appointed
a three prominent members of the local
bar to defend him. The indictment
was handed to the grand jury and a
true bill was returned within a few
minutes. The jury was-selected with151
out much delay and the case was entered
upon.
For the State Sheriff King and
i- Supervisor Pearman, who brought
Reed to the county jail, testified, tell3
ing of Reed's confession of having
r gone into the house of his intended
victim for the purpose of burglary.
- The woman upon whom the attack
l- was made was next called to the witi
ness stand. The court room was
n cleared by Judge Prince, only the
is persons directly interested in the
it case being allowed to hear the testio
mony.
v She testified that* when she awoke
d on the. night of the attack she found
r- Reed in bed with her.
>f Reed was the only witness to take
d the stand for the defense. He declarM
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11 11 t licit 11 WCill iliiu tuu uvuo^ jlv*
t- the purpose of stealing some money
>- with which he intended to buy some
corn; that he entered the room ocd
cupied by the woman, not knowing
'f she was in the room, and that he
stumbled over a chair, causing him
^ to fall across the bed. Reed was
a subjected to a severe cross-examins
ation by the solicitor and made a very
r poor witness for himself. Many material
facts strongly against him
could not be explained by Reed.
S The jury retired with the case
about noon and returned a verdict of
n guilty at 3:30 o'clock, when court re0
sumed business after a receSs for
dinner.- The jury reached' a verdict
e a few minutes after retiring with the
e case.
0 Th^ night Reed was lodged in the
p- county jail a large mob gathered on
e the streets here to storm the jail,
0 with the intention of summarily deals
ing with Reed. The attack on the
e jail was called off because some
plans of the mob miscarried, as reinforcements
expected from two sec
e tions of the county did not appear on
,s the scene. Great excitement pre^
vailed at the time.
e The court room was crowded to its
capacity to-day, many spectators have
ing' been unable to gain admittance.
r When asked by Judge Prince if he
e' knew of any reason why sentence
)_ should not be passed upon him, Reed
shook his head.. He has maintained
? his silence since the death sentence
11 was pronounced, refusing to make
d any comment on the trial and its oute
come.
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Fourth Class Postal Banks,
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e Washington, March 29.?The first
3' designation cf the fourth class postal
' Trrna mo/lo trt.HaV
savings pusiumtco w ao uiaub w ?
' by Postmaster General Hitchcock.
s The plan is to add to this list at the
d rate of 1,000 a month until all the ofLt
fices are designated. The South Cara
olina fourth class offices in the first
s list to be ready for deposits May 1
0 next are as follows:
Bethune, Bowman, Chappels, ChaL~
pin, Chesterfield, Ehrhardt, Estill,
1 North Augusta, Pelion, Pomaria,
Reevesville, Ruby, Smoaks, Swanj
f sea and Turbeville.
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His Veracity.
5' Jim Slocum, of Montgomery coun '
tv, avers the Kansas City Journal,
0 was called as a witness to impeach
the testimony of a man in that coune
ty. Jim was asked if he was
p acquainted with the reputation of the
e witness for truth and veracity. Jim
f said that he guessed maybe he was.
e "Is it good or bad?"
* "Well," said Jim, "I don't want
e to do the man no injustice, but I
? will say that if his neighbors were
tn qpp him looking as if he was dead
they would want some corroboratin'
D
evidence before they would be willing
to bury him."
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A man who always kicks when
2 things don't suit him, always kicks.
t It is easier to bump up against the
law than it is to back away from it.
KILLING AT OLAR.
Town Marslial H. W. Moody Kills J.
L. McDaniel.
Last Sunday at Olar, this county,
the town marshal Henry W. Moody,
shot and killed J. L. McDaniel, a
white man. Moody himself was dangerously
wounded by McDaniel, and
now lies in bed too badly hurt to be
moved.
The trouble seems to have been
brought about by whiskey. McDaniel
is a young white man from Georgia,
but had been living in that section
for several years, being in the
timber business. He married a
daughter of Mr. Gunnels, of the Olar
section.
Coroner Zeigler went down Sunday
and held the inquest, and from
the testimony taken at the inquest
iu ? a
we gamer mat xueuauiei uau uecu
drinking and had some trouble or
words with Mr. William Bessinger
the day before. On Sunday he again
approached Mr. Bessinger in reference
to the previous trouble, and after
some words he stepped back several
steps and told Mr. Bessinger
not to come on him, to which Mr.
Bessinger replied that he did not intend
coming on him. Then Mr.
Reed, who was with McDaniel, told
him to keep quiet or Moody would
arrest him. Just then Moody walked
up and McDaniel stepped back
still further and told Moody not to
come on him. O. B. Lain's testimony
and that of Mr. Reed differ as to who
begun firing first, Mr. Lain testifying
that as McDaniel stepped back
he drew his pistol and Moody knocked
at him with his club, evidently
trying to knock the pistol out of his '
hand, and that McDaniel then began
firing and fired several shots before
Moody drew his pistol and began reaurning
the fire. Both men emptied
their pistols and then used them to
club each other over the head until*
McDaniel fell dead. Mr. Reed testified
that when McDaniel drew his
pistol and told Moody to stand back,
that Moody began shooting first.
McDaniel was hit several times*and
only lived a few minutes. Moody 'j?i
was shot twice, one arm being
broken by a bullet. He is alsowounded
in the lung and abdomen.
His condition is serious, but ,he is;
likely to recover. The jury of inquest
returned a simple verdict that
McDaniel came to his death at the .
hands of H. W. Moody.
Moody was night policeman at
Bamberg until some months ago,
w-hen he resigned and accepted the
position of policeman at Olar. He
A number of years ago he was shot
and dangerously wounded by a
negro one night on the streets or
Bamberg, one of these bullets being
still in his body.
Cinderellas Fit Slippers.
Lawrence, Kans., April 1.?A Cinderella
dance, said to be the bizarre
invention of a Kansas university sorority,
has been given a try-out at a
fraternity ball. The problem, so far
as the young men were concerned,
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was:
"Given a slipper, find the foot it
fits, for it belongs to your partner.*'
The young men withdrew from the
ball room after the twelfth number.
The lights were turned low.
When the music started again, the
men returned to find a pile of dainty
slippers in the middle of the floor.
Each co-ed had hidden an unshod
foot in the folds of her gown. The
lights were bright again.
Accounts vary as to how long it
took for each young man to find his
Cinderella.
It also leaked out that two or
three of the slippers, plainly the
largest in the bunch, were not placed
until the others had found their
mates and were gliding over the floor
to the strains of "Hearts and Flowers."
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Blease Commutes Sentence.
Columbia, March 30.?John G.
Wham, a farmer of considerable
means, who resides near the town of.
Clinton, in Laurens county, was saved
the sum of $1,000 to-day by Gov.
Blease. Wham is said to be financially
able to pay a much larger sum
than was imposed by the Laurens
county, court. He was convicted in
Laurens county at the last term of
court on the charge of assault and
battery of a high and aggravated nature
and was sentenced to serve two
years in the penitentiary or on the
public works of Laurens county or to
pay a fine of $1,500.
Gov. Blease yesterday commuted
the sentence of Wham to a fine of
1
$500 with the alternative jail sentence,
which means that the farmer
was saved $1,000 by the chi6f executive.
Wham was convicted of
striking W. Ed. Nash, a well known
citizen of Clinton.
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