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I 1Hamb?rg ifrntlb Thursday, August 15, 1912. j SHOKT LOCALS. Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. We can all be thankful that the election will soon be over. Miss Louise Zeigler, of Denmark, * 3 J ^ Lrrvn nas Deen awaraea uit wmimui, scholarship from this county. That dollar of Mr. Byrd's is powerful lonesome. Won't others send something along to Keep it company? We understand that a large majority of the candidates for office in Bamberg county favor Judge Jones for governor. The Sunbeam Society will give a free missionary play at the Baptist church Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. The public cordially invited to attend. Rev. E. T. Snubbs, a missionary from China, will lecture on foreign ' - j-i-- i? T>? -r,* ;r,f miSSlOIlS at tue V^uistuu uaynov church next Sunday at eleven o'clock a. m. The excursion over the Georgia & Florida Railway, from Augusta, on Tuesday, August 20th, is advertised in this issue. Notice the advertisement. The article in another column In reference to Governor Blease, which is an endorsement of him by Rev. J. A. Sligh, is a political advertisement and is paid for as such. The general opinion is that there will be an average crop made in this county this year, after all the bad weather. Crops have improved during the past few weeks. The fall season will soon be here, and the merchants and others will need a lot of printing. Send in your orders early in order that you may be served promptly. We are hoping to be mighty busy in a few weeks. The voters seem to be getting more anxious to know how the candidates in this county stand for governor, and it seems likely that the question will be squarely put betore the primary takes place. It is being done all over the State. Lots of Bamberg people left on the mountain excursion yesterday morning, and ho doubt more would have gone if they could have raised the price. The newspaper man has to stay at home because those who owe him have to take summer trips. The first contributor to the Woodrow Wilson campaign fund was Mr. J. A. Byrd, president of Bamberg Banking Company, who came into our office after reading last week's paper and handed us a dollar. Let others do likewise. Bamberg county has made a miserably poor showing so far in this matter. Hookworm Treatment. Dr. Routh, who is giving the hookworm treatment in this county under the direction of the State board of health, has given us the result of the first week's treatment of patients in this county. Pos. Neg. Ask for Spec. Bamberg 21 14 iu Olar 39 10 Hunter's Chapel 9 2 1 Ehrhardt 48 17 2 Denmark 16 17 10 This shows that scores of people in Bamberg county are affected with the disease. Remember that a second treatment is necessary for a cure, and those who have taken one treatment should come back for the second. First Bale of Cotton. The first bale of cotton for Bamberg county and the State of South Carolina this season came to market Tuesday of this week. It was raised by G. Frank Bamberg on his Pinckney plantation, but W. G. Kirkland, the overseer, deserves the credit of it. The hale weighed 520 pounds, was ginned at Mr. R. F. Kirkland's gin on Tuesday morning, and was sold to Henry J. Brabham, Jr., a merchant of this city, for fifteen cents a pound. Mr. Brabham shipped the cotton to Charleston Tuesday night by express. It was consigned to Rogers, McCabe & Co., cotton merchants of that city. Barnwell county furnished the first bale for the State last year, but the honor goes to Bamberg this year, which is not the first time that Bamberg has furnished the first bale for the State. Fire Tuesday Night. Tuesday night about 8-JIG o'clock the house of Caleb Guignard, a respected colored man, out near the negro Baptist church, was destroyed by fire. Most of the furniture in the house was saved, but the house was totally burned. Guignard had insurance of $650 on the house. We do not know what insurance was on the furniture, but most of this was snvpd ktiq loss on the house will be considerable, as the building could hardly be replaced for less $1000 or $1200. I SHOOTING AFFitAY. j Difficulty at Negro Church Last Sunday, and Three Negroes Wounded. Last Sunday at Capernaum Baptist church, a negro church, about six miles above town, there was a shootj ing affray, in which Andrew Bennett, j Ambrose Taylor, and Washington j Hampton were wounded, none of them seriously. Bennett lives in Bamberg, and he was out on the street yesterday morning and we asked him for a statement of the difficulty. His story is that the selling of liquor and consequent disorder at the protracted meetings at the various negro churches in this county has gotten so bad that last Sunday he was asked by the officers of the church to assist them in stopping it. That he and a man who was helping him caught a negro from Bamberg named John Paul selling liquor. Paul by the way drives one of the city carts nere. The news that Paul had been caught soon spread, and it appears that Ambrose Taylor, a negro who lives on Hon. S. G. Mayfield's place, and his brother-in-law, Washington Hampton, were also selling liquor, and they took their stand down the road a little distance from the church and held up all who passed, cursing and abusing people and trying to find out who the man was that had caught Paul. That a little later both came up to where Bennett was and Hampton got to questioning him and pulled his pistol and flourished it around. Bennett says that he then drew his pistol and fired at Hampton twice, the first shot missing and the second bullet taking effect in Hampton's leg. That Hampton also fired at Bennett but missed. However, in the meantime Taylor was shooting at Bennett, one shot taking effect in Bennett's breast, the bullet entering from the side at one nipple and going through to the other, making only a flesh wound. Bennett then turned and fired on Taylor, who was running away, and wounded him in the hip, but he got safely away.. However, Hampton's wound in the leg incapacitated him, and he had to be hauled home. Hampton is a convict on the county chain gang, having been sent there a few years ago for killing his brother-in-law, his sentence being ten years. He is said to be a trusty on the gang. Bennett says that Paul had 23 half pints of liquor at the church for sale, and that practically everybody on the ground was displaying pistols, from little boys up. That both of these negroes he shot had been openly displaying their pistols before the difficulty with him, and had threatened people with their weapons. That these same parties had been selling liquor and bull-dozing the other negroes at protracted meetings before last Sunday. Bennett is not hurt much, and will be all right soon. The bullet, a 38-calibre, lodged in his breast just under the skin, and he cut it out himself. The bullet is a little battered where it struck the breast bone. We have not been able to interview any one who was present at the difficulty except Bennett, but he says the best negroes and the officers of the church will corroborate the above statement of the affair. Bennett says he will prosecute the negroes for shooting him. The Orangeburg Boosters. 1 The citizens of Bamberg were glad to "welcome to our city" the Orangeburg boosters Tuesday morning of ' this week. These gentlemen, who are out on trips to the near-by towns, advertising the advantages of their enterprising city, were in Bamberg for only a short time, but we were all glad to see them. Most of those comprising the party are well-known and have many friends in Bamberg. The newspaper men, the Messrs. Sims and Mr. R. Lewis Berry, were along, helping to advertise the "city on the Edisto," but we missed our old friend, Fred Wannamaker. Hope he wasn't too busy at home working for Blease. By the way, the Sims boys must be prospering, as one of the cars carried a large banner inscribed: "Times and Democrat car." The party went from here on to Denmark. These booster trips do a great deal to bring about better feeling between near-by towns, and should be encouraged. The idea is a most excellent one, and other towns could profit by Orangeburg's example. There were thirteen or more automobiles used by the party. SMALLEST BABY THRIVES. Two Weeks Old ;uid Weighs One Pound and Eleven Ounces. Philadelphia, Aug. 13.?Russell Dailey, the smallest baby ever bora here, is making rapid strides at the University hospital. Now nearly two weeks old he has attained a weight of one pound, eleven ounces and a length of 6% inches. Physicians say that his digestive apparatus is normal and that he should thrive, barring unforeseen circumstances. Some Election Figures. In the primary election two years ago the vote in Bamberg county in the first primary for governor stood as follows: Blease 114; Duncan 16; Featherstone 304; Hyatt 47; McLeod 326; Richards 96. In the second primary the vote for governor was: Blease 491; Featherstone 4 ">3. We give below the vote by boxes in the second primary. Blease Featherstone Bamberg 118 114 Clear Pond .... S 14 Denmark 92 64 Govan 19 28 Colston 21 14 Midway 19 7 Olar 66 65 Fishpond 8 33 Lees 5 10 Edisto 21 9 Ehrhardt 72 68 Kearse 25 17 Milhous Mill .. 17 10 Total 491 453 In the primary two years ago Blease carried Bamberg, Denmark, Colston, Midway, Olar, Edisto, Ehrhardt, Kearse, and Milhous Mill. This year it seems reasonably certain that Jones will get a good majority at the following boxes carried by Blease two years ago: Bamberg, Colston, Ehrhardt, and Kearse, with the prospect of Blease's majority being greatly reduced at the other boxes carried by him two years ago. The boxes which went against Blease two years ago will go against him this year by increased majorities. Baptist Church Aews. Prayer meeting at the Baptist church Thursday evening, August 15th, at 8:15, just one hour. Subject: "Where Will It End?" Sur -'ay morning at 11 o'clock a special sermon to women. Subject: "Two Famous Women." Sunday night a special sermon to men. Come and bring your pencils. Public cordially invited to attend each of the above services. W. R. MCMILLAN. Jones Must Serve Sentence. Columbia, Aug. 10.?John J. J.ones, the Branchville attorney, must serve 10 years and 30 days in the State penitentiary on the charge of killing Abe Pearlstine more than a year ago. The supreme court today for the second time denies a new trial to Jones. He has been confined at the State penitentiary for several months. The judgment of the Orangeburg court was affirmed on the first appeal. Later the attorneys appealed to the supreme court on the ground of after-discovered evidence and that the jury box was irregularly made up. The circuit judge refused the motion and the attorneys for the defendant appealed to the supreme court on the ground that the failure of the jury commissioners to pass jointly on each name placed in the box was a violation or tne law. A Farm for Unemployed. . Prof. Charles R. Henderson and Malcolm McDowell have proposed that a municipal farm be established near Chicago on the lands owned by the sanitary district for the relief of the unemployed. The commission on the unemployed has appointed a committee headed by Mr. McDowell, to report on the project after investigating municipal farms in other places and conferring with the sanitary district trustees. A municipal farm, properly managed, ought to be valuable in many ways. It should provide a place where all the homeless and jobless find temporary work and shelter; it should also be a school in practical agriculture, from which many men could go out into the world prepared to earn a living, since the call for farm workers is loud nawadays. It could be run in connection with the house of correction as an expansion of that institution's farm, and employment given to "trusties" or those serving light sentences. Perhaps it could be made a means of revenue by providing farm products for city institutions. Since the number of the unemployed in Chicago is greatest in winter, the greatest problem in maintaining such a farm would be to provide winter work for all applicants, and it might be found desirable to add other work, but the farm needs would form the nucleus of an industrial colony from which great and permanent benfits should come. The sanitarv district owns an abundance of 9 good land along the drainage canal; its trustees should co-operate in every way possible in the carrying out of so excellent a plan.?Chicago Record-Herald. How He Got His Name. "Why do you always sign your name P. P. P. Peter H. H. H. Hancke?" "Because that's my name. The minister who christened me stuttered." Barnwell and Bamberg Baptist Sui day School Convention. Will meet with the Blackville Ba] tist Sunday-school Wednesda Thursday and Friday, August 28, 2 30, 1912. PROGRAMME. Wednesday. 11a. m. Service of song and pra; er.?R. M. Mixson. 11:15. Introductory sermon? C. Collum. Organization. Address of welcome and respons Colportage, by W. G. Britton. Report of committee on entertaii ment. 1:30. Adjourn. 3:30 to 3:45. Service of soe and prayer?J. A. Jenkins. 3:45 to 4:30. The Model Teach< in and out of the Sunday-schoolW. R. McMillan and S. G. Mayfiel 4:30 to 5:00. The Sunday-schoc How Financed??A. E. McDowell, 1 O. Hunter. 5:00 to 5:30. Missions in the Sui day-school??Geo. Hopkins, D. "V Heckle. Adjourn. 8:00 to 8:15. Service of sor and prayer?T. J. Grubbs. 8:15 to 8.45. What is a sunaa; school? Are Our Adult Churc Members Obligated to Attend ar Support it??Paul Bolen, Georj Smoak. 8:45. Verbal reports from del gates. Adjourn. THURSDAY, 10. A. M. Service of song and prayerFrank F. Whilden. 10:15 to 10:45. The Orphanaj and Orphanage day in the Sunda; school?R. P. Galphin, H. J. Hair. 10:45 to 11:15. Officers and Su: day-school Management?Frank ] Whilden. 11:15 to 11:45. Grading Class* in Sunday-school and New Grad( Lessons.?A. B. Hair, W. G. Mathi 11:45 to 12:15. Music and Sin; ing in Sunday-school?Frank 3 Whilden. 12:15 to 1:00 p. m. The Tempe ance Lesson, in our Quarterlies?: G. Mayfield, R. M. Mixson. Adjourn. 3:30 p. m. Service of song ar prayer?M. J. Free. The Blackville Sunday-school pre ent, to be taught Bible lesson illu trative work by Frank F. Whilden Adjourn. 8:00 p. m. Service of song ar prayer?G. E. Birt. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Bo; are Marching?Frank F. Whilden. Difficulties in my Sunday-scho work by teachers and superintem ents present. Adjourn. FRIDAY, 10:00 A. M. 10:00 to 10:15. Service of sor and prayer?Frank P. Whilden. 10:15 to 10:30. The Pastor's Pla< in the Sunday-school?J. D. Pitts. 10:30 to 11:00. The Ideal Sui day-school?J. A. Hunter, R. ] Johnston. 11:00 to 11:30. The Bible in tl Sunday-school?R. E. Woodward, i E. McDowell. 11:30 to 11:45. The Quarterly J the Sunday-school?Frank F. Whi den. 11:45 to 12:00. Punctuality i the Sunday-school?J. B. Black. 12:00 to 1:00. Report of commi tees. Question Box, answered by Fran F. Whilden. Adiourn. 3:30 p. m. Service of song ae prayer?L. W. Abstance. Presentation of Banners, by Pre ident. Soul-winning the Motto for a Sunday-school Endeavor?Frank J Whilden, J. D. Pitts, Geo. Hopkin R. P. Galphin. Adjourn. W. T. CAVE, A. D. WILLIAMS, J. W. KENNEDY, J. A. JENKINS, W. G. BRITTON, Committe Each school is entitled to five de egates, and it is earnestly desire that each school will be represente by full delegation and complete r port. Gospel Hymns 1 to 6 will t used. Every one kindly bring yoi book. Death of F. M. Zeigler. % Mr. F. M. Zeigler, a prominei farmer of the Clear Pond sectioi died suddenly yesterday morning. K an attack of acute indigestion. P was taken suddenly sick Tuesda night, and his death occurred a fe hours later. Mr. Zeigler was fift; nine years old, and leaves eight chi dren, five boys and three girls, a of whom are grown. His wife dic some years ago. He was a membf of the Methodist church, and the bi ; - 1 ? -'11 + <-> 1- nlono tn.Hav fThnr 11(11 111 lane yiav_o iv/uu.? aav) at Pleasant Hill church. P leaves a number of relatives in th county. Mother may J go out to vote? "Yes, my darling daughter, Don't you vote for a dollar note? Charge 'em two and a quaghter, ?Milwaukee Sentine l- NEGRO BOY LYNCHED. Sentenced to Prison, but Unsatisfied P- Mob Diddles Body with Bullets. y, 1_ 9, Columbus. Ga., Aug. 13.?Holding up officials in the court house at pistol points, a mob of about 40 men here this afternoon at 5 o'clock took y- T. Z. Cotton, alias T. Z. McElhenny, a 16-year-old negro on trial, and J. lynched him just beyond the city limits. The negro had been convicted of e. killing Young Cedron Land, a white boy, near town two months ago. a- Land was found in a field, his face riddled with bird shot. It was reported that he had trouble with the Lg negro and the latter was arrested. At the trial to-day the negro was sr speedily convicted of "unlawful man? slaughter," Judge Gilbert sentenced d. him to three years in the penitenil. tiary. D. The spectators made no show of their dissatisfaction with the verdict a- and as soon as court adjourned, V. many of the court officials left. When deputies started away with their prisoner, they were surrounded ig and disarmed. They were held in the court house while members of y- the mob. all unmasked, took the ne;h gro out to a street car. ^ ? - - - 1 l."U ^ id Keacnmg tne negro quarter, tuts je passengers were ordered off the car, which was taken about one hundred e- yards farther. Then the negro was taken off the car and his body riddled with bullets. An investigation of the lynching _ will be held to-morrow. New Advertisments. Vernon Brabham?For Sale. F. K. Graham?Uncle Sam's Pressex ing Club. P. G. Frank Bamberg?Have Your Your Wife Drive Out. 3S Spartanburg School of Telegraphy !<* ?Learn Telegraphy. S _ Vernon Brabham?For Sale. Sp H. C. Folk, County Chairman? Primary Election Notice. r_ Bamberg Pharmacy?Do You S. Drink? H. C. Folk, Master?Sale of real estate in case of T. N. Rhoad against id Malinda Smalls et al. H. C. Folk, Master?Sale of real S" oc+oto in /iooo nf Tnnnna Fnerlft aeainst AU VUUV VA ~ 0 w s" S. Kathleen Fogle et al. G. Frank Bamberg?The Carriage , Your Wife Drives Out In. id __ WATSOX TALKS HARSHLY. ys (Continued from Page 1, Column 5.) ^ and save us the expense of carrying it up to the supreme court until we could get a petition asking him to commute the negro's sentence to life imprisonment in the penitentiary, but in a very abrupt and enraged manner he invited me to leave the premises at once, which I did. :e Made Statement?Then Saw Jones. In his statement he claims that Q~ Judge Ira B. Jones went to the State office with us when we macte the statement of our treatment. This is ie a lie out of the while cloth; we did not see Ira B. Jones until we had gone up and written our statement in of the treatment we had received. We did, however, after leaving the State office meet Judge Jones on the 'n street and had a short conference with him, and saw him no more after that time. This was between the hours of 7 and 8 o'clock, after the ^ lights were burning in the city. Xot Surprised at Blease. Mr. Blease talks of us as hoboes, - *' - + V.Q 1U ana ne maae tne siaiemem, wai would pardon any man who would s" kil either King or myself if we went to his house and used the lan11 guage that we used in the mansion. I am not surprised at this states' ment, for if a man will pardon three negroes for whipping a poor white man, robbiig him and leaving him tied to a tree, when they had served less than one-half of their sentence, I would not be surprised at a man of his low and dirty character would pardon any man who would kill any e- good citizen in South Carolina, if the man who did the killing had enough id money. He talks about hoboes, I ^ notice he has one W. P. Beard as a e~ body' guard with his pistol in his )e pocket. We would like the good peoir pie who wish to know anything about this W. P. Beard to write to Piedmont, Mfg. Co. Piedmont, S. C., in which town he worked, or to any 1(: good citizen in Greenville, S. C., a' where he lived for quite a long time, [e and his character is well known by ie the citizens of this town. IV ? - ? i ?~ u I defy any living man iu piitue ma u finger upon any dark spot in my character. I have lived in the city " of Greenville practically all my life, and have always conducted myself as a gentleman, and I ask the said r grafter, Cole L. Blease, and the peoJ" pie who know him if he can say as s" much. ,e I dislike to have to come in the pa1S pers with such a dirty liar and grafter, but sense of honor is such that I could not withstand it any longer. OLIN M. WATSON. All children's wash suits at half ' price. Write F. G. MERTINS, Au>1. gusta, Ga. REPORT CORRECTED. To the Voters of Bamberg County: I desire to correct a malicious report perpetrated by my opponents to do me harm among my friends. | I am informed that it is reported ! "that I said that I didn't want a Blease man to vote for me." Gentlemen, 1 have never intimated such; and do most emphatically deny the charge. Such within itself is prepos terous and absurd. I am merely asking the good people of Bamberg county who consider me trustworthy and honest to re-elect me to represent the whole people of my county in the State legislature. I would not uc Li ut; iu iijyseir nor me uemocrauc party of which I am a very strong member. The Blease supporters are as dear friends to me as that of any other, and I shall appreciate their support as much as that of any man. When the question was asked by the voters at Ehrhardt, with reference to the governor, I said unless my mind changed I should vote for Mr. Jones, but as a Democrat abide the results of the election. I am not the man to dodge the question pertaining to the welfare of the whole 4 people when it is put square up to me, as it was to all the candidates for both the House and the Senate. And just here I beg to say that if you fail to locate your representatives 4 while asking for your support, what might you expect of them after they are elected? It is justly due the voters of Bamberg county to demand 1 of each candidate for every office both his qualifications and his idea of a just administration under which the whole people of a State must live. Yours, J. A. HUNTER. # PRIMARY ELECTION NOTICE. For the purpose of conducting the Democratic primary election to be held on Tuesday, August 27, 1912, and a second primary two weeks later, if one be necessary, the following managers have been appointed: Bamberg?F. M. Simmons, G. E. 4,': Bamberg, D. J. Delk. Clear Pond?R. F. McMillan, J. F. Mitchell, P. K. Hughes. uoison?u. w. ivearse, u. ivi. varn, G. W. Beard. Denmark?I. G. Jennings, S. S. Ray, J. D. Turner. Edisto?J. Crum Smoak, Thos. R. McMillan, Clinton N. Jones. Ehrhardt?H. A. Hughes, G. J. * 3 Hiers, J. E. McMillan. Govan?W. L. Kennedy, R. L. Lancaster, Joseph Gunnels. Hightowers?C. J. Creech, H. B. Hightower, C. D. Hutto. Hunter's Chapel?J. G. Rhoad, B. * W. Smith, J. W. Wilson. Kearse?G. E. Kearse, J. A. Peters, Jr., W. H. Ritter. Lees?H. B. Grimes, J. Z. Copeland, H. A. Cave. Midway?J. P. O'Quinn, A. J. Page, J. M. Stokes. Olar?A. L. Kirkland, J. L. Pro- . veaux, G. O. Barker. Managers of election shall open ? , the polls at 8 o'clock a. m. and shall close them at 4 o'clock p. m. Under the constitution and rules of the party, all Democrats who are ' now, or shall become twenty-one years of age before the general elec- . .1 tion to be held Tuesday, November 5, 1912, and shall have resided in the State one year and in the county sixty days prior to said gen eral election, are entitled to be enrolled and vote at any club in the county regardless of residence, provided they are enrolled on the club list at least five days before the first primary. In case of transfer from one club to another the voter's name should be removed from the old club list before it is entered upon the new club list. Managers of election will call on R. W. D. Rowell, seoretary, at the court house for ballot boxes and tickets. The executive committee will meet 4 at the court house on the first Thursday after each election to tabulate the votes and declare the result of the primary, and all ballot boxes must be delivered to the county chairman by or before noon of said day. H. C. FOLK, County Chairman. August 12, 1912. ? * SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements Under This ftead 25c. For 25 Words or Less. For Sale.?315 acres one mile of Cope, S. C. About one-half cleared. Adjoining lands can't be bought for less than $50 per acre. For quick sale I offer this land for $30 per acre. VERNON BRABHAM, Columbia, S. C. For Sale.?67 acres or gooa tana, what is known as the Delk place, about one mile from Bamberg. Two dwellings, barn and stables, land in good state of cultivation. 40 acres t / cleared. Price only $3,000. VERNON BRABHAM, Columbia, S. C. ^ NOTICE! -! Bring all your Cow Hides to me, 1 will pay you the highest price for them, also Bees' Wax. Now don't forget this , Beard's 5c & 10c Store Bamberg, S. C. FARMERS' UXIOX MEETINGS. The local Bamberg Farmers' Union meets at the court house in Bamberg on the first and third Friday morn- 4 ? ings in every month. Meeting at 11 o'clock. Applications for membership received at every meeting. Let all members be present. J. W. STEWART. J. P. O'QUINN, President. Secretary. Write for the shirt we are selling for 79c and $1.15, F. G. MERTINS, Augusta, Ga.