The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 03, 1912, Page 8, Image 8
?be lamberg ilrralb
Thursday, Oct. 3,1912.
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.
Read Herald advertisements. It
always pays.
Mr. C. J. S. Brooker has purchas
1 3 T~^ ? vin rr nor
6a a nanasume r rauivuii wuuug \m*.
Quite a crowd from here attended
camp meeting at Cattle Creek camp
ground near Branchvilie last Sunday.
A friend, in renewing for The
Herald another year, writes: "I
think it is the best paper ever printed."
If you owe The Herald anything,
remember that we need the money
now, not next month or the month
after.
How about that subscription you
were going to give us this fall? The
more subscribers we get the better
paper we can give you.
Miss Mell Kearse, of the Kearse
section, is now making her home in
Bamberg. She is teaching expression
at the Bamberg graded school.
The Herald does not care especi
ally for reading notice advertisements,
and they will not be inserted
among reading matter in any event.
If you don't believe there is a lot
of work in getting out a weekly
newspaper, just visit The Herald office
these days. It is one of the
very busiest places in town.
The postoffice department now requires
that all editorial and other
reading matter in newspapers for
which pay is accepted or any consideration
is given shall be marked advertising.
Our pStrons should remember that
our terms for job work are positively
cash. We cannot afford to
pay our printers cash every Saturday
night and wait indefinitely for pay
for our work.
A letter from Mr. M. Herbert Varn,
f renewing for The Herald, tells us
that this is his last year at the dental
college in Atlanta, as he will graduate
next spring. He did not say
where he will locate for practice.
Mr. C. M. Kinard, one of the prosperous
farmers of the Ehrhardt section,
was in the city last Tuesday and
brought us a stalk of sugar cane that
was matured seven feet and five
inches. He says that his whole patch
* ? ^Knnf if?
IS iUil^ ctb 11UC. \jau. au,< v/u^ uvu^ iv>
Rev. W. H. Hodges, pastor of the
Methodist church, will leave this
(Wednesday) afternoon to attend
the Cattle Creek camp meeting near
Bowman. He will not conduct prayer
meeting, hut some one will conduct
the prayer meeting as usual.
However, there is likely to be no
preaching in the Methodist church
next Sunday, as he may not get back
home until after that time.
Our patrons will please remember
that our terms for job work are positively
cash, and hereafter under no
circumstances will we carry accounts
beyond the first of the month following
purchase unless by special arrangement,
which must be made at
time of having work done. Our office
expenses are increasing all the
time, while the income is not increasing,
therefore we are not financially
able to carry accounts for several
months as formerly in some
cases.
Call for Bids.
Postoffice Inspector C. F. Bean was
in the city Tuesday and advertised
for bids for lease or a Duiiaiug iur
a postoffice, it being the desire of the
department to give Bamberg a better
building and equipment. Theadvertisement
calling for bids is displayed
in postoffice lobby, and any
property owner can make a bid if he
so desires. Bids will be received until
the 31st of October, and the postmaster
will give all information to
any prospective bidder, and the
necessary blanks can also be obtained
from him. The specifications call
for good equipment.
Carlisle Fitting School.
Our Carlisle School at Bamberg
is another school of the same kind,
?ably manned and properly conducted.
It, too, is taxed to its full
capacity. Under the wise direction
of Mr. J. C. Guilds and his efficient
assistants it appeals to discriminative
parents who desire the right
sort of training for their boys and
schools. If we add the number of
students at Carlisle to the number
in the Wofford Fitting School and
college, the "Wofford System" will
show a total enrollment of nearly
fion ?s in Southern Christian Ad
vocate.
The Cotton Market.
Cotton is selling in Bamberg today
(Wednesday) at 11c the pound.
Receipts for the season up to Tuesday
evening was 3,551 bales.
Read Herald advertisements and
patronize our advertisers, i
%
*
New Advertisements.
The Herald?For Sale.
J. T. O'Neal?For Sale.
H. W. Walker?For rent.
J. A. Nimmons?For Sale.
Bamberg Pharmacy?Drugs.
G. A. Jennings?Tax Notice.
Delk & Copeland?Now Open.
Peoples Drug"Co.?Read This.
C. F. Rizer?Millinery Opening.
Mrs. J. H. Armstrong?For Sale.
S. M. Pesken?Brand New Goods.
The Millinery Store?A Beautiful
Day.
Peoples Drug Co.?Three Reasons
Why.
C. R. Brabham's Sons?Finding
Money.
G. Frank Bamberg?Elegance and
Comfort.
Farmers & Merchants Bank?We
Refer Those.
Richard W. Hutson, Clerk?Bankrupt's
Petition for Discharge.
Carter & Carter, Attorneys?Notice
of Application for Discharge in
Bankruptcy.
A Rat Crusade.
The citizens of Bamberg, at any
rate those in the business .section,
should commence a rat killing
crusade. The damage done annually
by rats even in the business
section of Bamberg would
amount to a good income, and
it is unquestionably true that these
animals are great spreaders of disease.
If every business house in
town would put out poison for one
week think what good would be
T A-.- - J ^ ^
done: It SLIOUIU UC Uieu, aim vyc
make this suggestion: Commencing
next Monday, let every business
house in the city put out rat poison
every night for one week, and we
feel sure that if all will co-operate
the rat nuisance will be greately
abated. Rats have already destroyed
much of the fire hose belonging to
the fire department, costing the tax
payers several hundred dollars, this
being done within the last year, and
the damage they have done private
citizens has been great. But aside
from the monetary consideration,
they spread disease and are a menace
to health, so" let us all make an attempt
at least to get rid of them.
This matter of putting out rat poison
for a week was suggested to us by
one of the prominent business men
of the town, and we hope everybody
will co-operate in the movement and
make it a success. Commencing next
Monday and continuing for one
week, let every business house in
town put out poison, and we hope
they will report results to us so that
it may be published. We should like
to know that hundreds of the rodents
have met death during the crusade.
If everybody will combine, good will
result, but if only a few put out
poison, why the rats will simply
change their boarding place for a
few days and few will be killed. Let's
get together and put these expensive
pests out of business.
Baptist Church News.
Prayer meeting at the Batpist
! church Thursday evening at eight
o'clock. Every Christian in town is
urged to be present to pray for coming
revival. Sunday morning we
hope to have with us Bro. James R.
Williams, of Lauring, N. C., an able
minister and successful revivalist,
rchn will oondnct. meeting morning
and evening for some days.
w. r. McMillan.
The Rev. Checezzilie.
That negro preacher with the unpronounceable
name, who claims to
be from Abyssinia, has struck
Charleston and we see in the Greenwood
Jourqffl an acocunt of an interview
which he gave the News and
Courier. The Rev. Checezzilie, (we
believe this is the way he spells it)
was in Bamberg several years ago,
and we did some printing for him
in the way of pamphlets containing
we believe an address he delivered
somewhere in England. It was the
most wonderful document the writer
ever came in contact with and, believe
us, we have seen some rare speci{
mens during our newspaper "experience
of nearly thirty years. The
Reverend claimed to be a graduate of
Oxford University, England, and the
list of high-sounding titles he used
after his name was great. He said
he came to this country as the representative
of King Menelik, of Abyssinia
at the St. Louis Exposition and
was on his wav home. He staved
around Bamberg about two months
we suppose, or possibly longer, and
during, that time he managed to separate
a number of negroes from some
of their money, by the sale of pamphlets,
collections at churches where
he delivered addresses, etc. No doubt
j the Reverend is pretty much of a
I fake, but his language is very real
and there are acres of it. We have
somewhere in our job work samples
of a copy of the pamphlet we printed
for him, and from our recollection of
it, his interview in the News and
| Courier does not do him justice.
SHOT BY HIS STEPSON.
Henry Frank, Calhoun Farmer, Kill?
ed by William Beckham.
St. Matthews, Oct. 2.?Henrj
Frank, of the Sandy Run section ol
Calhoun county, was to-day shot anc
killed by his stepson, William Beckham,
near the home of the deceased
The immediate cause of the shooting
is not known, but it is stated thai
there was a dispute of long standing
over a road, through the farms of th(
two men.
The law and order element of Calhoun
county has rejoiced over tht
fact that no white blood has beer
spilled, in mortal combat, within hei
borders since its formation four anc
a half years ago. This baptism has
1 J A iolrAcpin rr onr
nayptJiltJU UUUCl UlVOl uiou guying ciu-.
unhappy conditions. Many yean
ago Mr: Henry Frank, of the Sand]
Run section, married a widow, Mrs
Beckham, who had a sou by the name
of William Beckham. It is said thai
the young man and his step-fathe]
never got on very harmoniously anc
that, of late years, since Beckham ha:
been a farmer on his own hook, anc
upon adjoining lands, the main bon<
of contention has been a road lead
ing through the plantation of the
elder to that of Beckham. A lawsuit
befofe Magistrate Prickett, about z
year ago, resulted in Frank's beinj
forced to open the road.
Nothing more was heard of the
matter until yesterday, when Beckham
was in town and reported to the
magistrate that the old road trouble
was renewed and that he would
doubtless, be forced to the law agair
to settle their differences. As there
had been frequent word clashes
(over their cups, especially,) no serious
import was attached to the
matter until a 'phone message fronr
the seat of the trouble at noon today,
told the sad news that step-father
and stepson had had their lasl
quarrel on earth.
It appears that Beckhanm and
Frank were together at the home ol
the latter. Frank walked to the mail
box, on the old State road, nearby
where the shooting took place, soor
after. The balls went home anc
Frank is said to have lived but a
short while. There were no witnesses
to the killing and the secrel
of the last encounter rests alone ir
the bosom of Beckham.
The jury of inquest, after-' a
lengthy session, returned a verdicl
that Henry Frank came to his deatl:
from wounds inflicted by Willian:
Beckham. The testimony of Mrs
Frank and the mother of Beckham
it is said, was that he did not accompany
Frank to the postoffice box af
first reported, but that he inquired
at her home for deceased and followed
him to the mail box where the
shooting took place. Frank was unarmed.
Beckham
was brought in late this
afternoon by the sheriff" and lodged
in jail. The News and Courier correspondent
sought an interview witfe
him, but was informed by his attorneys,
Mann & Stabler, that he had
nothing to give out except admitting
that he did the shooting. Testimony
goes to show that liquor played a
heavy hand in the deplorable affair.
New Treasurer.
As Col. Jno. F. Folk did not stand
for re-election as county treasurer in
the recent primary, he has tendered
his resignation to the governor, and
'Mr. Geo. A. Jennings, the county
treasurer-elect now has charge of the
office. He has the tax notice in this
issue, as the books open the 15th instant.
Mr. Jennings finds the office
ir^ fine shape, and that he will keep
it up to its present high standard
goes without saying, and the tax
payers of the county will receive the
same careful and courteous treatment
as heretofore.
Sailor Robbed; Took Revenge.
Chicago, Sept. 30.?Michael Cooper,
a sailor who had been robbed of
his earnings two hours previous darted
across the streets in front of the
Northwestern railway station early
to-day and plunged a knife into the
jugular vein of David Weathers, a
clerk. Weathers bled to death in
two minutes.
Cooper told the policeman who arrested
him that he was sure Weathers
was the man who robbed him.
Drowned in Congaree Swamp.
Columbia, Sept. 25.?Thos. Dawson,
the 17-year-old son of a prominent
Richland county farmer, was
drowned to-night in the Congaree
Swamp, while crossing a creek twelve
miles below Columbia. His body
was recovered by a companion and
carried to Lykesland, several miles
If wisdom's ways you wisely seek,
five things observe with care: Of
whom you speak; to whom you speak
and how, and when and where!
After a small boy washes his face,
instead of looking in the mirror to
see if it is clean he looks at the
towel.
i
Civic League Meets.
The Civic Improvement League,
comprising a small band of energetic
women of Bamberg, was organ
ized a few years ago. Being actuated
l wholly by public spirit and giving
1 freely of their time and means, with
- no object in view save the desire to
. see the town a more beautfiul,
; healthful and attractive place, these
t women felt that they at least de;
served encouragement and co-operai
tion from the business men of the
town. This they did not receive,
- either from the municipal authorii
ties or the merchants, with of course
1 some exceptions?fortunately there
r are always some wide-awake indil
viduals in a town who are ready and
5 willing to aid in its growth and pros1
perity?but, as stated, they grew dis3
couraged and no meetings have lieen
j held for more than a year. But
. during the existence of the league,
j in spite of manifold discouragements
t and in the face of adverse conditions,,
r quite a great deal of civic work was
1 accomplished. Grass was planted in
3 the court house square, a hedge
1 placed the entire distance around,
; grass and flowers planted around
- the Methodist and Baptist churches,
i $65 was expended in garbage cans
t for Main street, $50 has been given
i towards the erection of a fence
l around the graded school building so
that these grounds may be beautified,
; and Restland cemetery has been put
. in good order several times by the
> members of the league. Besides
; these things, they endeavored to
I arouse public opinion continually to
t the sanitary conditions of the town,
> pleading with the housekeepers not
5 to pile tin cans, bottles, etc., on the
. streets, to burn paper, tra&h and
; everything burnable in the back of
t their premises and asking the mer.
chants simply to keep behind their
. places of business clean and to place
t their trash swept from the front door
into the garbage cans placed- all
I along the streets, and they continup
ally besought the chief of police to
| enforce the laws, especially as to the
trash piles and the grazing of cows
| on the principal streets of the town.
I At last the eyes of the town are
being opened and the physicians as
well as citizens are beginning to appreciate
what was done through the
efforts of the league and to see the
need of its work again.
In answer to a plea from many
sources a number of the members
met on last Tuesday afternoon in
the city hall and re-organized.
The following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. W. P. Jones;
vice president, Mrs. J. W. Barr; recording
secretary, Mrs. M. E. Ayer;
treasurer, Mrs. H. J. Brabham, Jr;
correnspoding secretary, Mrs. G.
Frank Bamberg.
Each former member is earnestly
requested to allow her name to remain
on the roll call, meeting with
us on the fourth Thursday afternoon
in November at the city hall and the
ladies of the town as a whole are
now called upon to rally to our aid
and help in this work by joining the
league.
TAKEN BACK FOR TRIAL.
Georgia Militiamen Escort Prisoners
to Cummings?Martial Jbaw.
Cummihgs, Ga., Oct. 2.?Escorted
by 150 enlisted men and 17 officers
of the State militia, the six negroes
charged with the assault and
death of a white girl, reached here
to-night. There was little excitement,
only a handful of men and boys
being at the station to meet the
troops.
By order of Gov. Brown, martial
law will prevail in Forsyth county
beginning to-morrow and lasting until
the end of the trials.
To Sell Xews-Scimitar.
The Greenwood Daily Journal of
October 1st, has the following to
say of the paper published in that
city by "Bodyguard Beard" during
the past campaign:
It is understood that the printing
outfit used for publishing the NewsScimitar,
the local Blease paper, will
he sold at an early date. There is
also a rumor to the effect that the
publication will be bought by parties
who intend issuing a county newspaper
instead of strictly a political
organ.
One Dead, Two Hurt, in Mutiny.
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 1.?Joss Balado,
a Spaniard, was killed, and Juan
Ramellero and Jesus Martinez were
fatally wounded in what is supposed
to have been mutiny on board the
steamship, Brunswick, Monday shortly
after noon. A tug with a United
States, deputy marshal was summoned
by wireless as the Brunswick lay
off Fort Dade.
J 3
The dead man, tne two wounueu
and one prisoner were turned over
to the marshal, who learned none of
the details before the ship proceeded
on its way.
Captain Avery, of the Brunswick,
formally charger the men with mutinous
conduct. The Brunswick is
bound for New Orleans.
A GOOD ALIGATOR STORY.
How Two Gentlemen Got TwentyOne
Little Saurians.
Branchville, Sept. 28.?Messrs. J.
W. Black and T. M. Patrick, of this
place, have started an alligator farm.
They did not originally intend this,
but circumstances have, in a way,
forced the new enterprise upon them.
Tuesday they went fishing on the
Edisto river and found an alligator
"nest" containing 26 eggs. They
"robbed" the nest, and placing the
eggs in the foot of their buggy started
home. They had not driven very
far before they heard a faint barking
and looking down into the buggy
they found two or three little 'gators
wriggling about their feet.
By the time the gentlemen reached
home 18 of the alligators had hatched
out and Messrs. Black and Patrick
were -riding with their feet upon the
dashboard, the bottom of the buggy
being too crowded for comfort.
The noise made by the little 'gators
sounded like a puppy show. Three
more of the 'gators have since
hatched out, and now the family
numbers 21. At first Messrs. Black
and Patrick were greatly concerned
over the problem of feeding and car
ing for the orphans.
Both gentlemen are men of family
and they understood the requirements
of ordiuary healthy children,
but 'gators would not respond to ordinary
ministrations. In their desperation
they have made several attempts
to -capture the mother 'gator,
but so far the old woman has eluded
them. However, after much experimenting
they have found that the
little saurians are particularly fond
of bread and bananas, and that is
now their daily diet.
How Do Ants Find Their Way?
Most people at some time or other
have lain upon the ground and watched
an ant making her way through
a forest of grass, and have wondered
that the tiny insect can go into such
a wilderness and still get back safe
to her nest. Does the ant take note
of landmarks on the outward journey,
and mentally record a fallen
twig here, a stone there, for use as
guides on her journey home?
Many observers have carefully studied
the habits of ants in this particular,
and all agree that landmarks
are not necessary to the ant; it can
find its way*, back to the nest just as
well when the landmarks are all altered.
A German scientific man, Bethe,
held that ants return to the
nest as a dog tracks a fox, by scent;
that is, by following the smell of
their own footsteps. .
But the most recent investigator
of the subject, a Swiss naturalist,
Cornetz by name, who has made records
of more than a hundred trails
actually followered by ants to and
from their nests, is quite sure that
they do not depend on smell. The
ant's path back to the nest, he says,
is never the same as the path she followed
on her outward journey.
According to Cornetz, the ant has
a curious power of remembering the
general direction of her course, in
spite \ of having to climb over and
creep under obstacles, and to make
occasional excursions to right and
left in search of food. Moreover,
when she has found food that she
wishes to carry home, she is able to
return herself about so as to follow
exactly the reverse direction home.
She acts as if she bore a minute compass
in her small body. In proof,
Cornetz cites an experiment in which
an ant returning to her nest was
transpsported on a leaf beyond her
nest; she continued to travel in the
direction that she had been pursuing,
although she was now, of course, mov
ing away from her home.
The homeward journey, Cornetz
finds is always in a course roughly
parallel to that of the outward journey.
A man who has tried to keep '
the same direction through miles of
thick woods on a cloudy day, without
a compass, and with no chance to
"view the landscape o'er" from high
ground, must respect the ant for
something more than mere industry.
?Youth's Companion.
Brother of Vaughn Does Crazy Act.
Spartanburg, October 1.?T. F. ;
Vaughn, claiming to be a brother of
T. U. Vaughn, who is now confined in
the State penitentiary to await trial
on serious charges, was arrested yesterday
afternoon and lodged in the
county jail on a charge of disorderly
conduct. It seems that the man is 1
demented to an alarming degree, and
he gave a correct imitation of his ma- ;
nia yesterday when he swung an an- 1
tomobile of A. B. Groce, while the <
machine was in rapid motion as it
passed along the national highway ,
near Wellford, en route to the city.
The man was successful in swinging
the car, and he tojDk charge of the
steering wheel and it was by main j
force that Mr. Groce was able to ,
steer the car clear of the many ob- ,
stacles on either side of the highway. '
Fortunately for those occupying the ,
car, among whom were three ladies,
the man did them no bodily harm
trotro hie whole attention to the
U.l_4Vl f ^ ***? " ?
runnig of the car.
SUICIDE NEAR SMOAKS.
Benjamin Sauls Ends His Life?No
Cause Assigned.
Branchville, Sept. 25.?Benjamin
Sauls, 30 years of age, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the head with a shotgun at his home
in Smoaks, 12 miles from Branchville,
this morning about noon. No
cause is given for the deed except
that he is supposed to have killed a
himself in a fit of desponaency. He
leaves a widow and three small children,
a stepmother and several
brothers and sisters. He will be
buried at 10 o'clock to-morrow from
the Smoaks Baptist church. 4
Mr. Sauls was a member of one of
the most prominent families in the >
Smoaks section of Colleton county^
He served for several years as a
mail carrier on one of the rural
routes from Smoaks, and his wcrk
was believed to be very satisfactory.
He was well liked by a large circle .. f
of friends for his genial disposition.
This morning he was on the streets
up to about half an hour before the
little town was shocked with the an- ?
nouncement that he had killed himself.
He talked and laughed with
his friends as usual, and nothing in
his manner indicated that he contemplated
the deed, tt is said, however,
that he had threatened to kill
himself several times before. He
went to his room shortly before 12
o'clock, entered his bedroom and a J
few minutes later a gunshot was
heard and members of his family,
rushing to his room found his life- U
less body lying on the floor with the
shotgun beside it.
Body Riddled with Ballets.
Shreveport, La., Sept. 25.?The \
body of Sam Johnson, negro, who
was taken from deputies at Grand
Cane, La., late last night by fifty
masked men, was found late to-day
swinging from a tree twenty miles
from Grand Cane.
COATED TONGUE MEANS LAZY
LIVER. '
A Lazy Liver Needs a Dose of Dodsons's
Liver Tone?Guaranteed
to Take Place of Calomel. <
t ^
When your doctor looks to see if
your tongue is coated, he is trying to
find out if your liver is working propA
ttao o rtr\ ant am V? o
el ly. a. icyt jrcaio agu uvvvui o uau
to prescribe calomel?there was f
nothing else to give. >
Recently in many sections of. the
country Dodson's Liver Tone has
practically taken the place of calomel (
as a liver remedy. Dodson's Liver
Tone is mild, pleasant tasting and
harmless?which makes it a fine
medicine for use when your children
become bilious and constipated. But a
the most remarkable feature of Dodson's
Liver Tone is the fact that
Peoples Drug Store who sells it;
guarantees it absolutely. The drug- y
gist will return your money without
argument if a bottle fails to give en-j
tire satisfaction.
' Price, 50 cents. We suggest that
you get a bottle to-day and have it / *
ready for the next member of your ' '
family whose liver goes wrong. ^
SPECIAL NOTICES.
>
Advertisements Undejf-This Head 25c.
For 25 WordS or Less.
For Sale.?600 bushels choice'na- % f
tive, rust-proof seed oats. MRS. J. *
B. TRAYWICK, Cope, S. C.
For Rent.?I have 4-horse farm to v
rent; will rent one or all. Need good
contractor also. H. W. WALKER,
Midway, S. C.
For Sale.?Three revolving dims
y harher chairs, good as new.
Big bargain. Apply to J. A. NIM- * f
MONS, Bamberg, S. C.
For Sale.?One and one-eighth
acre lot with a five-room dwelling in
good repair on Midway street. Apply
to MRS. J: H. ARMSTRONG,
Bamberg, S. C.
For Sale.?Guaranteed gentle family
horse, 9 years old, sound as a bullet,
also buggy, wagon, harness, and
farming implements, at a bargain.
Apply to The Herald.
For Sale.?Some choice farms,
from 125 acres and up, within from
1 Vz to 7 miles of town, at low prices
and easy terms. A bargain awaits
you. Apply at once to J. T. O'NEAL,
Bamberg, S. C.
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, Colum- , \
bia, S. C.
Wanted.?To buy farm of 500 to
1,000 or more acres, well located.
Must be good value at price asked.
Give full particulars in first letter.
FARMER, Box 121, Bennettsville,
S. C.
For Sale.?67 acres of good land,
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
?1-. to nnn VR!P
ciearea. rnce uui> *>o,vvv. .
NTON BRABHAM, Columbia, S. C.
Sheet Music!
Remember that you can get the
latest sheet music, 10c and 15c and ,
' 4'
upwards per copy. Any piece that
pou want that we haven't on hand
we will be too glad to order it for
pou at the very lowest price.
Catalog sent on application. Beard's
5c & 10c Store
Bamberg, S. C.
. ?'