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tEifp lamhrrg feral& One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1912. Established 1891. * _________________?_____________?_____?______________. - - ; - - - - j ? COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. v News Items Gathered All Around the * County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, July 29.?This warm sultry weather has heated some of , the colored folks to the fighting pitch. Saturday afternoon Folk and Bryant locked horns for a battle ( ^ royal. Folk knocked Bryant out in ; the first round without receiving a scratch. Bryant's face was badly , beaten up around the eyes. Chief ( took a hand in the wind up and would : have lodged them in the Red Top Inn ( but Messrs. McKenzie Bros, stood for , Folk's bond and Mr. Sam W. Cope- { land stood for Bryant. Expect the proprietors of the inn will make their charges after talking over the grievances of the two fighting bullies and 1 thus it will end. ] Melons are all that farmers have to 1 bring to town to sell now. So far have been very poor in quality on * account of too much rain. Mr. Mosquito is busy presenting ? his bill these days and nights. Every * body must owe him, as he makes no ' exceptions. * Mr. A. F. Henderson's dwelling will soon be ready for the paint T brush?a nice cosy little home. Can't say who the lucky one will be as yet. Our barber, Louis L. Butler, has A put in some new and up-to-date 1 * furniture and is ready to give his customers prompt and better service * as a tonsorial artist. I i <> Miss Annie May Ritchie, of Ritchfield, N. C., is spending some time 1 with friends and old school mates in 1 Ehrhardt. 1 Misses Mamie Cline, Lucile Epting * and Helen Heitman left for Savannah, Ga., the home of the two latter, 1 Saturday. * College reunion Wednesday, at Mt. Pleasant Lutheran church. Speeches of interest will be heard 1 and will pay all to attend and listen. T Dinner on the grounds, Capt. Jack M. Smith has returned 8 to his job (conductor.) He did not * leave his jovial ways behind. Mrs. Alma McKeithan is with us ? ? now, and will take charge of the cen- * tral office. She will be glad to serve * friends with promptness and dispatch c iaenps as discussed in this ^ State, especially, among the higher a offices, the candidates are a disgrace to our dear old State. JEE. 15 ? I t Fairfax Fancies. ^ Fairfax, July 27.?Mrs. G. W. Bar- ^ ber and family have gone to Hen, dersonville, N. C., to spend the heated term. j Misses Joyner and Still, of Blackville, are spending some time with Mrs. Rubye Williams. Mrs. Sam Jenkins, of Florida, is on a visit to relatives here. t There was a picnic on Tuesday at Stokes's mill. Miss Joella Padgett chaperoned the younger set. On Tuesday evening Mrs. M. Move entertained quite a number of young folks, complimentary to the Misses n Brooker. A lovely contest in forest- t ry, composed by Misses Ethel and 1< Blanche Brooker, was entered into n with spirit. Miss Georgia Brooker t and her partner, Frank Wilson, won t the prize. Our gifted home girls, v Misses Zelle Loadholt and Lucile c Youmans, recited beautifully. There n was a delicious salad and ice course 1 served. All pronounced the occa- g sion a happy one. o The many friends of Dr. and Mrs. b tTr211 rr?_.x ^ntrn** Vi vvnoer l uisu cue iw?xxw xj great change for the better, as fever seems to be subsiding. Miss Theresa 1< Lightsey, of Columbia, is her special t nurse. v The Misses Brooker, of Columbia, o have returned home, after a pleasant visit to Mrs. W. H. Simpson. v Rev. W. H. Simpson and Mrs. Lily v Myrick attended the Sunday-school I convention at Brunson. t Misses Margaret and Lucile You- n mans now own a lovely new piano, e Miss Annie Cleeland was a recent visitor at Mrs. Lily Myrick's. She 1< is now visiting in Florda. c Mrs. S. L. Sanders leaves this week h for Hendersonville and other places, s Mrs. Gibbs, of Chicago, is with b Mrs. Sam. Talley. l< Country Correspondence. p Misses Virginia and Grace Hill en- c tertained Misses Edith Rice and Xel- b son Wright, of Bamberg, and Miss Elvy Sease, of Odom's Bridge last v week. Mr. J. L. Smoak spent part of his R. F. D. vacation in our community. . 1< Protracted services begin at Spring- j y town to-day (Wednesday.) b BOTH BADLY AVOUXDED. i White Men in Cutting Scrape Near Lake City. ! Lake City, July 27.?In an altercation about 9 o'clock this evening near his home, one mile from town, J. W. Barnes, a prominent farmer, and B. W. Story, a tenant on his place, were both badly cut. The former has several gashes across his chest and stomach, which seem to ! have been inflicted with a razor, 1 while the latter is badly cut and 1 otherwise bruised in the face and 3 head, it is thought, by the use of the jaws of a knife. ] The difficulty is said to be the out- ] come of differences between the two i men since the purchase by Barnes 1 of the interest of Story in his tobacco 1 crop. Both men came here from Virginia. Denmark Personals. i T,, 19 7 Tho Miecoc l/CiiUi(ll XV j O U1J A x 4UI0WVW Bryner and Brunson, of Brunson, are visiting Mrs. Brunson. Miss Minnie Blount is on an ex;ened visit to her sister in Abbeville. Herman Brunson, of Columbia, spent a short while last week with 'riends here. Mrs. Harold, of Bainbridge, Ga., is ;he guest of Mrs. C. A. Brux. Miss Ruth Seymour spent last veek in Norway as the guest of Miss daude Goodwin. Misses Wvman and Hart, of Estill, vere the guests of Mrs. J. W. Wynan last week. Mrs. Muller has returned to her lome in Abbeville after a visit to her )arents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Blount. Edna Naff entertained quite a lumber of her little friends with her lirthday celebration Thursday after- ^ loon, and Mary Brux and Lucile Ray Friday afternoon. t Miss Doris Goolsby has returned j lome after an extended visit to r riends in Charleston and Henderson- j 'ille. t Miss Genevieve Wroton, of Ham- f et, N. C., is spending several days vith her sister, Mrs. M. Robt. Willis. Rev. and Mrs. T. E. Morris are pending several weeks with friends n Union. ^ An informal tea was given by the lisses Goolsby Tuesday evening in lonor of Miss Kathleen Califf, of Jarnwell, who is the charming guest if Miss Ina Califf. The evening was t ery pleasantly spent with games 1 nd music. a Miss Gladys Milhous, of Columbia, c f rho has been visiting friends here, tas gone to Barnwell for a few c reeks' stay. * Wieters Califf is visiting friends in Norway. c Christian Folk has returned home c ,fter a visit of several days to Wil- f iam Moss, in Norway. t Miss Mary Moss, of Norway, spent 3 everal days last week with Misses J jola and Alma Folk. t Mrs. Turrentine and little son have ieen for some time visiting the for- 1 oer's father, H. C. Rice. c 1 c Farmers Needn't Worry. ^ Editor Bamberg Herald: Farmers | ;eed not worry about the small worm a hat is eating the grass and corn saves in the low places. There is .0 harm in this insect, except it helps he farmer to kill out the grass in he low lands. Some times when t /hen grass is scarce they will eat the r orn leaves off up to the ear, but they t ever go above the ear or injure it. f 'hey eat the tender leaves of the p rass, and soon die, the grass sprouts d ut again, and later on the grass will 0 e just as good as it would have been c ad no worms came. p These worms always come after a I [>ng wet spell, and when you see d hem come, you can put it down that a ret weather has gone for that seas- t n. Were I to take the time to look up t: ,-hat the books say in regard to this e *orm, I could give your readers its 0 .atin or Greek name and so on, but b he little said above is all that is e ecessary. It never eats anything n ypont PTfiss nr mrn t A few days ago I went to all the b 3w places in ray cotton to see what v ould be done with the grass that C ad been giving us trouble all the eason, but J found the worm had c een there and had hoed out all ray a )w places cleaner than the average f< oe-hand would have done, so the e lows went through, and left the n otton in better shape than it has 1? een this season. So don't be alarmed. These J- x ~ ~ x urnis uo iiul eat uutcvu. ^ A. W. BRABHAM. k i e Just received a new line of the a itest 10c music. Call for catalog, h lEARD'S 5c and 10c STORE, Bam- s; erg, S. C. ? IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. J. J. Ross, Sr., who lives four miles south of Pinewood has a field of cotton ready to be picked. The staple is of the 90 days variety and was planted the middle of April. J. Sparks Cunningham, an employee of the Chester Power company, fell from a pole 25 feet to the ground and suffered several injuries. He was removed to the Magdalene hospital. Eleven white men and two negroes were arrested at St. Matthews on Tuesday on the charge of running Plind tigers. It is thought most of :he negroes are in the business for ivhite men. The publication place of the Southern Christian Advocate, of which Rev. S. A. Nettles is editor, will be noved soon from Spartanburg to areenville. Wm. B. Werts will have jharge of the printing. James Soute, colored, was arrested n Charleston on Friday on the charge ef shooting and killing his wife the lay before on James Island. He confessed, saying he killed her because she was not at home when he went ;here. J. C. Manus, an employe of the 3ox cotton mills in Anderson, shot limself in the abdomen with a pistol )n Sunday afternoon while intoxi:ated. He was taken to the hospital ind operated on, and it is thought vill get well. A franchise has been granted the Florence Gas company to furnish gas n Darlington, and work will comnence at once of laying pipes from rinpon/io tr? Hqrlinctnn Tt ic thnne'ht *V1 VAAVV. vvr ?V ^O" hat gas will be there for use by the irst of October. Robert Corley, an Aiken negro, reurning Saturday night from a frolic, ihot a horse belonging to Olin Grice ?"just to see it jump," he said. The torse died next day, and Corley will | ikely serve a term on the chain gang or malicious mischief. Col. V. B. Cheshire, publisher of he Anderson Intelligencer, of which >aper Col. L. M. Green is editor, was .rrested in Anderson on Monday, iharged with toting a pistol. In deense of his conduct, he exhibited a ommission as "detective" from Gov. Mease. When the campaign in Richland :ounty opened on Thursday all the andidates for the legislature were died by Blease men with the quesion, "Are you for Blease or Jones?" lost of them declared they were for ones. There are 12 candidates for he legislature. Rev. E. Olin Watson, D. D., of Coumbia, has been elected president if the Industrial school in Horry ounty, which is to .be opened in Sepember of next year. He will accept f the South Carolina conference of he Methodist church, of which he is . member, consents Judge Dropped Dead, Tampa, Fla., July 29.?Following tempestuous session of his court oom during' the hearing of an elecion fraud case brought by socialists, isticuffs being engaged in and weaions drawn, Judge Thomas James Iropped dead from apoplexy at 6 'clock this afternoon. Judge James ollapsed immediately following a lersonal encounter between Dan tobinson, defeated Socialist candiate for mayor, and Mitchell McKay, , brother of D. E. McKay, who was he opponent of Robinson. The trial had been one of sensa ions which drew a crowd which filld the court room to suffocation and verflowed into the street. The fight etwen Robinson and McKay followd a recess taken by the court imlediately after W. J. Stafford, one of he accused election inspectors, atempted to assault S. Camparetti, a witness for the prosecution, while lamparetti was testifying. Immediately on readjournment ounsel for the defense commenced rguing a motion to dismiss the deendants when Judge James collapsd. He was hurried to his home earby where he died a few minutes I will come to Bamberg about the rst week in August, on my second rip. I clean, adjust and repair all inds of sewing machines. (Nothing lse.) Drop me a card or 'phone, nd if you live in the country take ead off machine and bring it in. Repectfully, H. A. ALDRICH, Jennings louse. FORMER BLEASITE IN CHARG Judge Jones's Supporters in Gre< ville to Open Headquarters. Greenville, July 29.?A bureau advance the interests of Judge 1 B. Jones in Greenville county w be opened in the city to-morrow. T local supporters of the ex-chief ji tice feel the need of concerted acti and hence have decided to open hea quarters from which to manage t fight in this vicinity. This action taken independently of any Sta wide Jones organization. Two rooms have been rented in t Cleveland building, one of the b< office buildings in Greenville; a ste ographer secured and all preparatio made to distribute Jones literatu; send speakers over the county and other ways promote the candidacy Judge Jones. The most striking feature of t headquarters here is that the ma ager of the organization is G. H< ward Mahon, twice mayor of tl city and until recently an ardent su porter of Gov. Blease. Mr. Mahoi rupture with the governor was due the Blease-King-Watson episode. ^ King was one of the political lead* of this section and he and Mr. Mah control a large element of the vote: Their break with Gov. Blease, it freely predicted, will do more th any other one thing to cut down t Blease vote in Greenville county. Messrs. Mahon and King, previo to the break with the governor, we what might be termed the "Blea bosses" of Greenville. Explorers Saved After Two Years Christiania, Norway, July 28.Capt E. Janar Mikkelsen, the Da ish Arctic explorer, and the engine* Iverson, who were rescued July on the coast of Greenland by a Nc wegian fishing vessel, after havi spent more than two years in that i gion, looked like wild animals wh their rescuers found them. They h spent the previous winter at Bs Rock Island, not Shamrock Islai as previously stated, and it was the that the Norwegians came upon tin in a cabin which they had built. The first sign that there were h man beings in that neighborhood w a'wooden oar with the date 1912 c in it, set up as a signal which t Norwegians happened upon. Inves gation disclosed the cabin. The fiE ermen knocked on the door and Mi kelson and Iverson rushed out neai naked, with guns' in their hands, u der the impression that the knoc ing was caused by beasts of pr< Mikkelsen had been very ill on t long journey to Bass Rock Isla: and Iverson had dragged him 1' miles on a sledge. Fortunately t men had enough ammunition to e able them at all times to procu food. Played Hide and Seek While Mj Burned. Memphis, Tenn., July 28.?Mite ell Cabaniss, aged 18, just out of j insane asylum, and Clarence Sha aged 10, taking refuge behind tl monument of Gen. Forrest in ti park here which bears his nam watched policemen Friday night te the clothing from Robert Mills, wl was burned to death after the bo had made a living torch of him wi the aid of a match and a mixture gasoline and pilfered whiskey. Wh( arrested early to-day the boys sm: ingly confessed. They said the fi did not turn out as they had expec ed. Ellis, employe of a local ice cor pany, had gone into the park to "co off" and fell asleep on a bench. Tl boys say they tried to set fire to hii expecting he would "skin" his clot ing and jump into the lagoon, but h clothes were damp and the light we: out. Taking a quart of whiskey fro Ellis's pocket, they mixed the beve age with gasoline which a park a tendant had hidden under the shru bery, threw the mixture over tl sleeper and applied the torch. Thov thon ninvpfi hide-and-se 4. 44VJ with the police as Ellis burned. Ellis leaves a wife prominent connected in the South. Bestowal of Crosses of Honor. Since there were so many Confei erate veterans and descendants < veterans, who did not enter the applications for crosses of hon< in time for the last bestowal, Mr C. E. Graham, State President U. J C., has arranged for another ar final date of bestowal. The day set apart for this will t Friday, Dec. 20th, 1912. All applications must be hand< in before October 1st. Those wl are interested please take notice ar file applications at once. ,E GRACE TELLS ALL OF IT ?n SPEAKS OF THINGS TOLI) HI>J CONFIDENTIALLY BY BLEASE. to [ra Sflys McDuffie Hampton's Campaigr ill Expenses Were Paid by Soutlir he ern Railway Through Blease. is- ______ on Glenn Springs, July 30.?John P id- Grace, mayor of Charleston, in ? he public statement issued last night is said if Cole L. Blease would releas* te- him from any confidence surrounding conversations they have had, he he would tell things about Blease whict sst would nauseate the white people ol >u- South Carolina. ns Blease, in a statement issued ir re, Columbia to-day, said there had nevei in been any confidences between himsell of and Grace, and invited the mayor tc go ahea'd and tell everything he knew he ?and Mayor Grace has told, in- In his room at the Glenn Springs jy- hotel to-night, Mr. Grace dictatec lis to newspaper men a statement of 4,ip 000 words, which, in its entirety i's would hardly pass muster with th< to United States postal authorities Ir. Were it published in full Mr. Grace ?rs would have quite fulfilled his promon ise to "nauseate the white people ol rs. South Carolina," It is, beyond quesis tion, the "yellowest" public revelaan tion ever made in direct connectior he with the name of a chief magistrate of a Southern State, and, in certair us of its features, overshadows anything ire in the same connection which had ye1 ise been made public, or which was offered for public use. Mr. Grace's statement purports tc reveal conversations between himseli ? and the governor, while they were in- political allies, and, "more or less sr, friendly" toward each other, whici 17 bear in high coloring upon the pri>r vate life of the governor, ng Further, Mr. Grace goes over in de e tail a conversation he says he had en with the governor, in which Blease ad says the people were fooled in betss lieving they had elected McDuffie id, Hampton railroad commissioner; thai ire he was elected on the money of the :m Southern Railway Company, handled by Blease; that Blease paid the ex iu- penses of Hampton's campaign oul as of money given Blease for the purut pose by the Southern Railway Combe pany and sent the company the ti- vouchers signed by Hampton. This ih- compaign occurred two years ago. k- In part Mr. Grace's statement?al] ly of which he intended should be made n- public?is as follows: k- "I read Gov. Blcase's release tc ?y. me, if I may so call it, under which 1 he now feel at liberty to make the statend ments to which I referred in my in00 terview last night. I notice he says he T have never made a confidante oi n- John P. Grace in any manner, shape re nor form.' This only confirms what I said to the effect that I did not regard the conversation as confidential, an and it removes the last scruple that I might have in the matter, h- An Unprintable Review. in I, therefore, now state that during a conversation in Charleston, while he Gov. Blease was in a very convivial he mood, he saw fit to direct his ie> thoughts along the line of some of his ar experiences in matters so delicate a0 that I will expect the public to judge ys of their meaning." th Here Mr. Grace relates an unprint0f able review, which he says was rein hearsed in conversation with Blease, of an attack by Blease on a "colored m girl" in Newberry. The governor, ac>t cording to the story, was crossing a little bridge in or near the town of q. Newberry at the time, and was wearol lag a " new suit of clothes." 3e "In the twinkle of an eye she pushn> ed him over in the creek, new clothes h- and all." js Mr. Grace said the governor told Qt this as if it was a great joke on himself. m "He laughed very heartily when r_ telling this story and said: 'Didn't I t- cut a pretty figure in my new suit of 5. clothes, down in the creek and the ie colored girl up on the bridge, running away and laughing at me?' "As I said in my interview yesterday," Mr. Grace went on to say, "it ly seems to me that a man who, with such vaunted audacity undertook to occupy this role should at least be gin by being able to show that he had lived a life compatible with such 0f claims. ir "Gov. Blease by all sorts of ob}] lique insinuations has created the ims. pression that Judge Jones's private 3. life, in reference to the colored race, l(j is not what it should be. I am not in a position to say anything as to that, )e either pro or con, but unless Gov. Blease told me a lie, which of course, }(j is not improbable, just by this one I0 episode his is certainly not what it l(j should be and I have heard many ru(Continued on page 5, Column 4.) KILLING IN AIKEN COUNTY. White Farmer Shoots Man Found in 1 Chicken House. Aiken, July 29.?On Saturday 1 night Mr. George Walker, Jr., shot and killed a negro who has been passing under the name of Jenkins, at his place near Belvedere. The negro re. ceived the full discharge of a shotgun t in his side, and died soon after being , shot. i The full details of the affair could ; not be learned to-day. The coroner 5 knew nothing of the matter, and it i is understood that the magistrate at I North Augusta held the inquest and the body of the negro was interred i Sunday. From the story as gathered to-day t it seems that the darky was em> ployed by Mr. Walker. Late Satur' day night Mr. Walker heard a noise of someone trying to enter his front i door. He got up and later heard a I dog bark in the back yard. He got - his gun and went into the back yard , and discovered the chicken house i open. He shouted to the fellow to . come out as he knew he was in there, i and hardly before he realized it the - negro rushed out and struck Mr. : Walker several times with a heavy - stick. Mr. Walker raised his gun - and fired, with the above stated reL SUlt. i Mr. Walker was not seriously hurt, i but it was necessary for him to have ; the aid of a physician. NEGRO KILLED IN TENT. , Will Grover Murdered at Railroad : Camp Near Belton. . Belton, July 29.?Will Grover, a { negro laborer on the Greenville, Spar. tanburg & Anderson interurban railroad, was killed in his tent here Sun. day night by his head being crushed [ with a rock. The person or persona , who committed the murder is supDosed to have done it for robbery, as > it is alleged be bad saved up some $40 or $50. His suit case, clothing ? and what money be had saved were [ carried away by the party who com. mitted the murder. - Coroner J. E. Beasley empanelled . a jury and after taking ' testimony . from several witnesses adjourned to > meet on next Friday for further tes5 timony before a verdict will be rendered. "J [ Man Faces Charge of Murder. ' ??? v.: Montgomery, Ala., July 29.?I. E. . Boyette, manager of the Montgomery Cooperage company and prominently connected, was arrested here to, day, charged with the murder of P. J. . Westhofen, also of the cooperage . company. Westhofen died of lockjaw. The arrest comes as the culmination . of a shooting two weeks ago. Isaac White, negro chauffeur of the Boyettes, told the sheriff to-day that Mrs. Boyette started on an afternoon drive about two weeks ago. Westhofen was . taken in the car, White says, and about eight miles from the city Westhofen ordered the car stopped and went about 100 yards in the woods. Immediately a shot rang out. At Mrs. Boyette's command White investigated and found Westhofen shot in the arm with a revolver at his feet Westhofen declined to get back in the car and told the negro he shot himself. In his delirium Westhofen said that Boyette did the shooting. He died later. It is believed that Westhofen could not have shot himself on account of the location of the wound. Boyette denied the charge and refused to make a statement. i No Wonder He Hated War. ''War," cried the old gentleman in the Pugsby Arms smoking room, "is a curse and a disgrace. War,." he continued, thumping the table with his fist, "is an abomination, and a blot on civilization! The very name of war," he shouted, sweeping two glasses and a pint pot off the board ' -? -- "fVirt vrAKtr nomo Af Ill II1S VAUllCUiCUk, tlic V ci J uumv ui war is enough to make a decent, respectable man go and 'ang himself out of pure disgust!" He then rose and left the room, his face showing signs of emotion. "Gentleman seems to feel rather deeply on the subject," said a commercial traveler who had been listening to his remarks. "He do," assented one of the na tives. "Has he lost some near relative through the war?" inquired the commercial traveler. "He *ave" replied the other oracularly. "Who was it?" asked the querist. " 'is wife's first 'usband," was the reply.?N. Y. American. i . a v.