Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r \ One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10,1912. Established '1891. * COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. niuniitiui, \jvi. i. oaiK nusi is uii the way to see us. Heard some one say that the grass and weeds had grown so thick and high on the Bamberg & Ehrhardt Railroad grade until could not see where to lay ties and place rail on t same. But would soon be able to > see all right as the frost would kill the grass and weeds, then there will be no excuse. The merchants of this place don't get more trade than they can man W. H. Ritter, Mr. Harry Ehrhardt and L. G. Jackson went to camp meeting at Indian Fields camp ground. JEE. Denmark Doings. v ? Denmark, Oct. 8.?The following invitations have been issued: Mr. and Mrs. James Barre Guess request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Hattie Lee, to Mr. Hubert Willard Matthews, on the evening of Wednesday, October sixteenth, nineteen hundred v I and twelve, at nine o'clock, Bethel Park Methodist Episcopal church, Denmark, South Carolina. Misses Priscilla Hart and Sara * ? Herriot were visitors in Bamberg last week. Mrs. J. B. Guess was a visitor in Batesburg several days last week. Misses Carrie Cave and Kathleen Califf are spending a short while with friends here. Mrs. Lynn Bernhardt and Miss * Rosalie Bernhardt, of Salisbury, N. C,. are the guests of Miss Hattie Lee Guess. Wm. Califf, Jr., or Orangeburg, was here for a short while this week. Miss Lillian Gentry spent the week-end at her home in Florence. Death of Mr. Califf. J Danmark, Oct. 8.?It is with deep regret that we learn to-day of the death of Mr. William Langdon Califf, at his home in Denmark, after a lingering illness of many months. Mr. Califf was held in high esteem by all who knew him, and his death * v has cast quite a gloom over this community. V ) He was twice married, first to Miss Eva Walker, of this place, and of V * this union one daughter, Miss Ina, survives. Later he married Miss Ruth Tindal, also of this place, who, with six children, are left to mourn his loss. They are: S. Tindal,, Wm. S? Jr., Wieters, Robert, Ruth and Sarah. His remains were laid to rest in the cemetery here this afternoon, the * ? large crowd attending, giving evidence of his popularity. TO RESULT IN ACQUITTAL? Reports as to Finding of Augusta Miltary Company. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 5.?Reports that the Natiorial Guardsman courtmartialed at Augusta this week in connection with the killing of three citizens, will be acquitted, were current to-day following the return of the court-martial officers. The finding of the miltary court will be made public by Gov. Brown at a later date, and will settle the case, k the civil authorities having no jtris* diction in the matter. \ ' t % age. Mr. F. F. Bellinger, of Branchville, and his two daughters visited Mr. > L. C. McKenzie, of this place. School is about booked up, and is "now in working order and will have no excuse for non supply of books for this week. So will get down to business. Our town council are busy- after license collections now. > Eighty-five bales of cotton left this place Saturday, notwithstanding the bad weather for gathering. Farmers are having a bad time to get cotton out. As soon as they go in field to pick cotton the 'skeeters present their bills so fast that they take nearly all the time to be waited -% on It is reported that a young man in town is getting somewhat mangy, or > at least he is using a cure for that * disease. What's wrong? His best girl must be off. Everybody is busy these days trying to work all they can. Mr. Chas. Ehrhardt, is tfbrking up 'phones and says that his railroad work will soon commence again. Must go through, he says. Dr. J. L. Copeland and wife, Mrs. ' HOLD OPPOSITE VIEWS. > Augusta Strike Broken, Says Com> pany; Xot, Declare Men. Augusta, Ga., Oct. S.?The street railway situation in Augusta to-night remains unchanged. The company takes the position that it has broken the strike, but the cars are even more scantily patronized than they were three days ago. The union strikers and other labor organizations in the 1 city take the position to-night that the strike is not broken, and will not ' be until something is done in the nature of a settlement. However, cars on the city lines are being operated on schedule, no effort being made to operate on the Aiken line under the order issued yesterday by Gov. Blease that cars must not be run until the situation is quiet. The only incident to-day was a fist fight between the crews of two cars on the belt line over four passengers riding on the car. Fares collected are divided between the strike-breakers. Events at Winthrop. On Monday evening, the "Edwin R. Weeks Co.," the first number of our star course, gave us a very enjoyable entertainment. It may well be called an evening of mirth and music. President and Mrs. D. B. Johnson were host and hostess to the officers of Winthrop college on Tuesday evening, October the first. The reception halls and parlor were beautifully deci orated in palms and ferns. Tables were arranged for Progressive Old Maid. The evening was very pleasantly spent by all. Mr. Tate a member of our faculty, has been appointed by the United States commissioner of education to visit and make a special study of the miVilif enVinnlc! rif Swit-zorln n d and Jk/ H k/liv OVUWW Vi. K/ ?? v??V. other countries. Mr. Tate left home on a two hours' notice and will be gone several weeks. The girls are taking great advantage of the twenty tennis courts on the campus. Every day they are filled with interested players. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, Oct. 7.?The Edwards family, of Jacksonville, Fla.,^stopped a while here last week on their return home in their auto, having spent the summer at Hendersonville, N. C. Mr. Herbert Googe, of Augusta, a Fairfax raised boy, is visiting relatives here. Maggie Snidersine and brother, Oliver, recently of Albany. Ga.. are visiting their mother here. Miss Hobson, the new stenographer for F. M. Young Co., is "at home" with Mrs. Marion Buckner. Mr. and Mrs. Connelly have moved back here and are keeping house in rooms rented from Mrs. E. S. U1mer. Little Hattie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ruddell, delighted all of her friends with a birthday party last week. Games were played and delicious refreshments were served and the little ones repeated in dreams the delights of the afternoon, which to them was all too short. The Baptists gave a box party Friday evening for their new church. Miss Harrison, Mrs. S. L. Sanders, and some of the music pupils gave the music. Thirty dollars ,was taken in. Mrs. Sam Talley has returned from a pleasant visit to Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Aull, of N. ^ ? r\?i.i- - c u., ana ivuss uanieis, ujl ^uiumuia, are visiting the family of Rev. W. E. Aull. Miss Porter, of Gaffney, one of our bright teachers, is able to be at her post of duty once more. Miss Marion Hennegan, of St. Matthews, and Mr. Herman Lightsey, of Brunson, are guests of Mrs. Martin Lightsey. Prof. Campbell and Miss Aull, of Brunson, were recent visitors here. Mr. Brooks Jenkins, of Savannah, is visiting relatives here. Will Cut Off Strike Breakers' Ears. Atlanta, Oct. 7.?Angry strikers and strike sympathizers along the Georgia Railroad between Atlanta and Augusta threaten this morning that they will seize and cut off the ears of the first strike-breakers they can lay hands on; and that they will nail their ears on the doors of the railway coaches as a warning to other strike-breakers. The brutal picturesqueness of the threat has arousd no little exictement here, and the view is taken among railroad men that the strikers may mean literally to carry it out, inasmuch as they have already fired on, stoned and beaten members of the strike-breaking crews. IN HE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. James Frederick, an old negro, negro dropped dead on the streets of Orangeburg last Thursday. He was subject to epileptic fits, and was orig.inally from Calhoun county. The North Courier is the latest newspaper candidate for public fa vor. It is published at North, Orangeburg county, by W. Walton, who ran the Blackville Builder for some months but suspended some time ago. Now he has moved his outfit to North. S. E. Moore, a farmer living near Anderson, shot and probably fatally wounded Romus Reynolds, a negro, Saturday afternoon at Mr. Moore's home. The trouble occurred over a settlement with the negro over some work. He does not bear a very good reputation and the community at large are sympathizing with Mr. Moore. It is said that there was a fighting chance for the negro Saturday evening, late. Are You a Common Maniac? How do you know you are not crazy? You think you are sane, but that doesn't make it so, says the Toronto Mail. Your friends also consider you perfectly balanced mentally, but at the same time you may be a maniac; harmless, it is true, but nevertheless a maniac. There is a big difference between maniacs and lunatics, but comparatively few maniacs are confined under lock and key. That's because their manias are of such a harmless nature as to be considered habits and Eccentricities. It often requires a long^nd careful examination by an alienist to determine whether a person is sane or crazy, and even then the judgment of the mind expert may be wrong. So, you see, it isn't any easy matter, after all, to determine whether you are absolutely sound mentally. The chances are about 1,000 to 1 that you will go through life without ever having your sanity tested. But if you should undergo an examination at the hands'of the alienists the odds are not so great that you would sucnntiefnHv ollfh Q tpst V/COOJ.U1IJ TT 1VU0VMUU k/uvu v? V^wv. Do you bite your finger nails? If you do you are a maniac. Worse still, you are an onychopagomaniac. That sounds bad enough to send you to the asylum for the rest of your life, doesn't it? But cheer up. If that is the only mania you have your case is not serious, and you can easily cure 'yourself by exerting enough will power. Still you are a maniac, according to scientists. You may comfort yourself by knowing that all your friends are maniacs, too, for there is hardly a person in the world who is not the victim of some mania more or less serious than yours. The next time you meet a trepodomaniac do not be alarmed. His mania is* no worse than yours. In fact you would probably not know he is a trepodomaniac unless some one told you that such a person is one who constantly crosses, and recrosses his legs while sitting or stand ing. Lord Salisbury was a victim ot this awful sounding mania. The harmoniomaniac is equally harmless, but is nevertheless a nuisance. His mania consists of drumming on the window .pane or desk, or in humming tunes in utter disregard of the composer's original intentions. The odds are about 100 to 1 that baby Mary is a maniac. She is if she sucks her thumb. This mania is one of the worst known?in name ?because it is called "stomafodactylomania." Nearly everybody has had it, and yet no one ever was sent to the asylum on that account. The world is full of "cappiliorriomaniacs," and you probably have met hundreds of them without know-, ing it. The next time you see a man - - * - x 1? t. . scratch his neaa meaiauveiy ueiuie answering your question you may rest assured that you are face to face with a real "cappilliorriomaniac." These are only a few of the awful sounding names which mental scientists have invented for the most common maniacs of mankind, and some even go so far as to advocate that such maniacs should he shut up away from their fellow men until they are cured. Of course, that is rediculous, but it goes to show what a hairlike thread separates most of us from the asylum. Many a man looks like a statesman who is not guilty. TAKEN FROM HAVANA BANK? Mystery Surrounds Loss of Registered Package Containing $200,000. Havana, Oct. 7.?The mystery surrounding the disappearance of $200,000, supposed to have been sent by registered mail by the National Bank of Cuba, to the National Park Bank, of New York, has been deepened by a discovery this afternoon, indicating that the money never reached the postoffice in Havana. It now appears very probable that the money was abstracted from the bank in Havana. The Royal Bank of Cafiada, a braRCh of which is located in Havana, i notified the National Bank of Cuba this afternoon that it had in its possession one of the missing $1,000 notes, which formed part of a large payment made by the latter to the former bank on October 5. The note ' was not discovered until to-day, the package in which it was contained not having been opened until then. The Royal Bank of Canada, also notified the agent of the company which had insured the lost remittance. It has been learned that only one . registered package was sent out by the National Bank of Cuba on September 28, the date cn which the missing package was supposed to have been mailed. This proved to contain only printed matter. Whether this envelope ever contained i money appears to be a most important piece of evidence, but the bank officials fear it was not preserved after being opened in New York. $1.00 a Day to Wife. Is one dollar a day enough for a wife to conduct a household on and provide food and clothes for a hus- ; hand and four children in these davs of the high living cost? 1 That is the question raised by Mrs. 1 Helen Julia Hazel in the separation suit against Richard H. Hazel, a 1 Greenpoint druggist. 1 Is a husband supposed to attend 1 the children, do the cooking, wash the dishes and sew for the family? That is the question which Mr. ! Hazel asks. < Soon after the marriage, the wife ' alleges, Mr. Hazel adopted the sys- < tem of handing her a dollar bill each day and not a cent more. When the children came the amount was not increased. This daily pittance is 1 not enough, she says. Since their : disagreement he has sent the dollar < to her by their son. Her case is in ; the hands of Attorney C. A. Ober- i wager, of 203 Broadway. Mr. Hazel denies his wife's charges and says she had a habit of staying ; away from home all day, so that he had to do all the housework.?N. Y. 1 American. * A Dull Dog. There is a very sweet girl in a Kan- ( sas town who stutters dreadfully. : One night not long ago when her | beau was leaving, she accompanied him to the porch and said: "George, are you coming again next S-s-s-s?" The dog was on the porch. After ; George was half a mile down the road, with the dog gaining on him at every leap, it occurred to him that possibly the young lady had intended to say "Sunday" instead of ""Seize him;" but it didn't occur to the dog for as much as a mile or so beyond that.?Saturday Evening Post. Has a Sea Gull for a Pet. Louis H. Hamm, of Bangor, has a strange pet, a sea gull, the survivor ; of a pair, which has attracted a great deal of attention during the last four weeks on his lawn at his home. The other gull, when it was found that it could fly, left its home at Hamm's, and since then has been swimming i in the pool at Chapin park and also ] in the stream. 1 Both birds were well tamed, and 1 their strange appearance excited a i great deal of comment. Early in July i Hamm was an a filling trip. He J found the two young gulls, then just 3 a week old. He captured them and brought them home, since that time, up to three days ago, when one of them flew away, they have been well < contented, catching angle worms and 1 finding their own living on his lawn. 1 ?Kennebec (Me.) Joural. Prince Can't Enter. 3 New York, Oct. 4.?Prince Ludovic < Pignatelli d'Aragon, son of Don ] Jaime, pretender of the Spanish ] throne, who was expelled from France recently on the charge of infringement of the gaming laws, was held upon his arrival here to-day on 1 the steamer France, and sent to Ellis j Island. He is held to be ineligible to 1 enter this country because he at- 1 tprnntfld siiinirip in Paris last July 1 and may be ordered deported. In i this case, the prince's plight will be i a peculiar one. * ] ? NEWBERRY FARMER KILLED * >1 SPURGEOX JOHSOX KILLED IX PRESEXCE OF FAMILY. Fatal Load Fired Through Window o: at Xight?Officers and Blood- li hounds Rushed to Scene. ^ C Newberry, Oct. 8.?News was re- T ceived in Newberry e^rly this morn- si ing of the horrible assassination of oi Spurgeon Johnson, a white man, in w the northwestern section of Newberry county, near the Laurens line, at tl about 9 o'clock last night. While se sitting in a room of his home, in com- A pany with his wife, his little son and fi: an aunt, Mr. Johnson was shot on the ci left side of the head, about the re- a] gion of the ear, with a shotgun, the pi load coming through a window and lc killing him instantly. b: Mr. Johnson's home is on the plan- cc tation known as the old* Jim Hill gi Place. He was about 35 years of ti age. h< Bloodhounds Taken to Scene. tr The peace officers in Newberry re- ** ceived telephone messages telling of the tragedy at about 1 o'clock this ^ morning. Sheriff Buford, accompanied by his two rural policemen, left 113 - . . " ^ _ tc immediately ior me scene m an an- ? tomobile driven by Mr. Forrest Sum- 113 mer. Constable and Sheriff-elect ** Cannon G. Blease waited in Newber- iD ry until about 5 o'clock this morn- 01 ing for bloodhounds, which had been requested from Columbia, and driven tc by Mr. Waldrop in an automobile, he pi left with the bloodhounds immedi- ai ately upon the arrival of the train. A message from the section of the killing this morning to newspaper m men here was to the effect that Mr. r Johnson had just come in the house, to after hauling some cotton, and had w sat down near a window, when the fatal shot was fired. It is said he le bad had no trouble with any one recently, and f the perpetrator of the 1 deed and its motive are unknown. ra Suspect Released. ^ The message stated that a negro, Billy-Thomas, had been arrested in connection with the affair, but later w was released after he had shown con- , K( clusively that he was 'possum hunting with white genetlemen last night. It was stated this morning that the bloodhounds carried to the scene had . 36 trailed from the house where the killing occurred to the public road, a ^ distance of some six hundred yards, nnH had thprp lr>st the trail. The ~ 7" A scene of the killing is about eight miles this side of Cross Hill. Coroner John Henry Chappell held bt an inquest this morning, the verdict yc being that Spurgeon Johnson came hi to his death at the hands of unknown tc parties. to Party Fired Upon. S< Early this morning, while in search of a negro who was suspected in con- M Qection with the killing Magistrate p] William Dorroh and a party were at- ol tempting to enter a house when they m were fired upon by a negro in the tt house. The fire was returned and O. w S. Atkin and his son, both colored, were wounded. Both were shot in rs the fleshy part of their legs, and v< neither wound is serious. The party tl was being conducted to the house by n< the wife of the negro who was sus- li* n<v?tpd This rieerrn has not vet been d( located. w Sheriff Buford and Constable fc Blease returned to the city this afternoon. The rural policemen remained on the scene to continue the investigation into the affair. They are assisted .by a number of citizens. ai ^ m ? E To Accept Life Sentences. ai ? ei Knoxville, Oct. 7.?Sidna Allen e( and Wesley Edwards, alleged princi- te pal conspirators in the Hillsville, Va.,. sc court room tragedy, may accept life term sentences to the penitentiary as a compromise and in lieu of standing js trial. It is reported that negotiations for such a compromise are now pending. Their cases are set for trial at w Wytheville, Va., October 28th. er It is definitely stated that Miss Iroler, Edwards's sweetheart, will re- ^? ceive none of the reward for the cap- cc ture of the two men. Detectives foi- n( Inwpd her from Mount Airy, N. C., to th Des Moines, where Allen and Ed- Wi ivards were recently captured. The qi girl's father, who is said to have as- ^ sisted the detectives, is reported to th have received $500 of the reward a jj( few days ago. it Killed Wrong Man. ^ Cadiz, Oct. 5.?While acting as hc witness at a marriage, Dr. Jacinte ^ &maya, a leading physician, was shot ^ :hrough the heart by a young mil- ^ iner, named Maria Pertz, who mis:ook him for the bridegroom, by vhom she had been jilted. On leaning that she had killed the wrong fa: nan the girl went insane. go IKEX TO BARNWELL IS ROUTE. [ovement Looking to Establishment of a New Electric Road. Barnwell, Oct.- 4.?A movement is * o foot here looking to the estab- , shment of an electric road from % iken to Barnwell and possibly on to harleston, via Olar and Ehrhardt. he plan is entirely feasible and lould meet with the encouragement f every one in the territory through hich it is proposed to run the road. Rosemary is the only township in lis county that is without railway >rvice, and there are townships in iken county which are in the same k., Millbrook and Sleepy Hollow. The tizens of these communities are [ive to the advantages of such a roposition and will lend every aid >oking to its establishment. Ehrardt is "bottled up" and would wel>me the coming of a road that would ive its people an outlet other than le very unsatisfactory one they now ave. The territory that would be aversed by the proposed line is, lerefore, practically virgin and the roject should be a paying one from ie start. ? . % At an early date it is probable that An ATT -nrill VkA CAllAlf A/1 IT* . UUCJ Will UC 111 tug 11 ry affected for the purpose of havig a survey made. It is hoped then tat. outside capital can be interested l the scheme and the plans carried * it. It is said that the right of way om Barnwell to Aiken, through the iwnships mentioned, can he had actically for the asking, so anxious e the people for railroad connecon. Barnwell has been the lpser on ore than one occasion in the past by tason of the failure of its citizens i see and grasp op^prtunities that ere within their reach, and it is to i hoped that they have learned a sson from their experience and will ive no occasion to grieve over the night have been" in this instance, tie old South Carolina & Georgia .ilroad was kept from* going through arnwell by reason of the shortghtedness of her old land owning sidents, who feared that the trains ould kill their young slaves and tur*vs. Another road, what is now the ^aboard Air Line between Columa and Savannah, was also lost beuise.the advantages of such a proct weie not realized. The co-operaon of the people is needed to make le road a certainty. 100-Lb. Mother and 60-Lb. Baby. Atlanta, Oct. 7.?Georgia's giant iby, the' handsome Gargantuan mngster who made such a hit when s parents brought him to the capi1 this summer, has opposition now i the title of the biggest baby in the )uth, for his age. , Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crawford, of ontgomery county, N. C., are the *oud parents of an eleven months d son who weighs sixty pounds; easures 38 inches in the chest over le arms; 35 inches around the aist; knee 13; thigh 18% inches. The baby is a bright little fellow, ither pretty, and its abnormal dejlopment in size is all that mark3 le difference between. it and the \rmol infant Thp mother of the ttle giant weighs less than 100 lunds, from which one may imagine hat a task she has playing nurse ir her 60-pound son. Baby Crisis is Solved. V Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 5.?Maxim id his silencer has nothing on Mrs.' sther Prouty, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., id her baby muffler. Mrs. grouty itered Hotel Batlimore and plac- ' 1 her two year old baby on a setse while she registered. The baby [uirmed and kicked and made faces it there was no noise. "Poor thing," some one said, "it deaf and dumb." N The mother smiled and said: "No, b is crying his best, but he is earing his shock and noise absorb? 77 / A thin rubber hood fitted over the iby's chin and mouth of the same iIot of the baby's skin, so it couia >t be seen at a distance. Around e mouth was a pocket in which as a flimsy cloth resembling moslito bar, or silk. Mrs. Prouty langes this padding every day and e baby wears it only when in pub;. The child can breathe through and it is removed when the baby ants a drink. The absorber is fasned in the back under the baby's >od, and cry as much as it wishes, e noise sounds no louder than a ill buzz. Mrs. Prouty will not patit her device, as she wants every other to take the advantage of it. This has been fine weather for the rmers and they have been making od use of it. * ?