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1 One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13,1913. Established 1891. *
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
> News Items Gathered All Around the j
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, Feb. 10.?The farmers ,
of this section are lamenting about
their spoiled hams and shoulder ,
bacon. Heard of some parties burying
for a few days and then trying
it for food. Farmers of t'iis section
have had it tough this season. Cholera
and now warm weather.
The pastors of the three churches
here are going to lock efforts and see
if they can't do something this week, j
every evening at Methodist church.
Mt. Pleasant Lutheran church
congregation is requested to attend
a meeting on the 4th Sunday morning,
as business of importance will
be brought up before them for consideration.
Want to make improvements
on their church and want their
views, etc. Requested by council
- i? ? -1 _ 7
oi saia cnurcii.
Did not have a marriage in town
Sunday as usual, but had a fight
among the colored inhabitants. One
negro hit another with an axe on
the head. Did not kill him brtt
knocked him fool. Did not know
where he was, or what they were '
arguing about or who struck him.
It's well the party did not knock
< i
the coon on the heel or we would
? have had to make a box.
The authorities are after a negro
that used his gun on another in the
widow McMillan section of the county
and broke a thigh bone. The 1
widow McMillan had gone to some
expense to give the darkey a farm.
Now he can't work it on account of
attending a frolic and getting shot.
. Spring of the year always brings 1
fights among the coons.
Mr. H. Karesh left to-day for New
York. Will be gone about ten days
looking up goods for his store.
JEE.
Ehrhardt News.
Ehrhardt, Feb. 11.?The meeting <
"YT/lie* fihlirph tt'35 r>T1 Si] n- 1
CL L IUC 1U CIUUUIOV VUUi vu .. w .? _
? day night merged into a union meet- 1
ing of all the churches in town, and <
as such will be continued through
the week. The pastor of the Metho- ]
dist church deserves much credit for j
the zeal with which he has pushed it i
to the present successful stage. May
much good yet be accomplished. >1
> Clyde Rentz, 13 years and 6 <
months old, son of D. P. Rentz, of
Lakeland, Fla., mysteriously disap- ]
peared from his father's home on i
* January 23. All efforts to locate ;
him have utterly failed. He left
home one morning as usual for
school and has not been heard from
since. ' <
When the little fellow was two
days old his mother died, and he was ]
taken to the home of his grandpar- ]
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob G. Rentz, ]
of the Hunter's Chapel section,
where he was tenderly cared for till i
the latter part of last summer, when j
he went to make his home with his
father at Lakeland, Fla., from which ]
place he recently disappeared. t
Much sympathy is felt for his i
orronHnarpntc who are most af- (
Cj^u
i fectionately devoted to him and who <
are anxiously and prayerfully hoping 1
for some tidings from him. <
Ehrhardt is in dire need of better i
mail and passenger facilities. With i
even our one railroad these might be t
greatly improved by a little change 3
in its schedules. If instead of spend- ]
; ing the night in Walterboro, our t
passenger train should make the trip t
on through to Ehrhardt, spending the t
nights here, and starting from this 1
point in the mornings, it would give i
us two mail and passenger trains (
daily. With this schedule we could s
make two trips daily to Walterboro f
and return and one round trip daily (
to Charleston, with four hours and a 1
quarter in which to attend to busi- 1
ness in that city. At the present <
"poor dying rate" it takes two days 1
to make the round trip even to Wal- 1
terboro.
The fact is, Ehrhardt ought to s
arouse herself out of the dust and 1
take a good shake! If her business 1
men were organized into an active 1
chamber of commerce, all such hind- 1
ranees to her more rapid progress 1
might be removed. There is nothing ]
like wise agitation with relentless I
determination. With such, even i
revolutions have been and are to-day j
being wrought. <
It sometimes happens that when a
man arrives home at 2 a. m. and his
wife comamnds him to go straight <
upstairs to bed she is asking the im- 1
possible. s
>
FORMER CLERK UNDER ARREST |
Lonnie Wooten Charged with Entering
Woodruff Postoffice. ! S
Spartanburg, Feb. 10.?Lonnie
Wooten, a young white man, was ar- <
rested last night on a charge of entering
the Woodruff postoffice, where
he was formerly employed as a clerk.
The postoffice has been entered several
times of late and last night a
watch was set. After a while a man t
entered and struck a match. Mayor 1
Kilgo, one of the watchers, placed 1
Wooten, the alleged intruder, under ?
arrest.
Events at Winthrop. t
On January the twenty-fourth the
general assmebly met with us here
inprvAA+iAn r\ P A KllllHintyC
1UI lilC lllopcV/llV/il \JL IU^/ UUX1U1U(,o.
After the inspection dinner was served
in the college dining hall by the
members of the Winthrop Chapter
of United Daughters of the Confederacy.
We were glad that Bamberg
was so well represented here. The
following were here: Dr. J. B. Black,
Mr. Hunter, Mr. Miley, and Mr.
Benjamin Black, who is attending,
the University of South Carolina.
On Thursday evening Mrs. Charlotte
Perkins Gilman gave a most
interesting lecture on "The Woman's
Movement and What It Means."
Mrs. Gilman made many points clear
and we are sure more pepole would
be put in sympathy with this movement
if the could have heard Mrs.
Gilman's lecture.
Winthrop Day at the corn exposition
was indeed a great day. About
525 girls left Rock Hill at 6:30 Mon
day morning on a special train and a
spent the whole day at the exposi- j.
tion. t
Dr. Johnson has engaged Dr. Wal- ^
ter Page, editor of the World's a
Work, to deliver a lecture here
sometime in the near future. He
g
has also engaged Reed Miller, the
famous tenor, who was born in An- ^
derson, S. C., to give a concert in
the auditorium on the evening of
February 21. We are looking for- ^
ward to both of the entertainments
with much pleasure.
For three or four years Dr. Johnson
has been trying to arrange to 1
take the senior class to Washington *
but he has never been able to make r
satisfactory arrangements with the T
railroad company. This year he 1
hopes to secure rates which are with- 2
in reach of all, and he hopes to take q
the senior class to the inauguration.
The greatest obstacle at present is c
the question of board, but Dr. John- ?
son is going to Washington to see c
what can be done about this. We t
hope he will be able to secure ^eas- t
anable board, for we are very c
anxious to take this trip. ?
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Country Correspondence.
Our little neighborhood is quiet as
*ver.
Miss Jerolee Sandifer, of our c
nidst, spent last week with the fami- ?
y of her brother-in-law, Mr. R. L. ?
Hightower, at Denmark. ?
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Smoak, of a
Savannah, are visiting the former's e
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Smoak. i
Five weeks ago Sunday, a cow be- I
onging to Mr. G. A. McMillan, of i
:he Colston neighborhood, strayed off t
md they instituted a diligent search 1
)ver the entire and surrounding I
communities, never being able to "v
:race her anywhere. We have learn
>d that a colored man, Cape Grimes, a
vas on his way going fishing last Sat- ^
lrday morning and in passing A
chrough a field that had lain out last I
rear, on the farm of what was Jas- 1
per Yarn, colored, just a short dis- t
:ance from the Springtown ford on i
:he Colston-Bamberg road, he caught
:he odor of decaying animal, and it
ceing in a big open field, and not beng
able to see any carcass, till sud.
^ . r
ienly he found an opening aoout me
>ize of a buggy wheel and about 12 *
eet below he could discern the form 1
)f some animal. He immediately re- s
ated his find and folks, we have
been told who saw it, say that the *
opening about the size of the buggy z
cvheel was about three feet deep and *
t
Delow to the bottom where she fell
f
svas about ten feet in diameter from
>ide to side a cave was under the c
:hree-foot surface, and that cave was v
v
ibout nine feet deep.* Now the
svriter did not see this but has been J
:old of it as a fact and no joke. The r
in n-hiVh this was found was
1XZIKJ. 1U ?? XAA^A* ,
planted in corn, we understand, year s
before last. Mr. McMillan dug down a
:o see if it was his cow and found s
"he bell and horns which were the
f
:>nly signs of recognition. It was a
valuable milk cow. s
t
The railroad commission has 1
changed the time required for notice e
for passenger trains to change their \
schedules from five days to eight. a
N THE PALMETTO STATE
IOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The total amount of fines collected
hrough the activity of the rural poice
of Spartanburg county for the
)ast year was $6,711.30, while their
>alaries amounted to $4,643.17.
The delegation of Fairfield county
lave got a bill through the legislaure
for the commission form of
government for the county. An elecion
will be held the 25*h instant for
he four commissioners.
Gov. Blease refuses to let the, South
Carolina militia take part in the
Wilson inaugural parade because, as
le understands, negro militia from
;he District of Columbia and from
Maryland will be in the parade.
Five hundred laborers are now enraged
in building the interurban
"nllmr Viofmoori Craon viT 1? a ri H SnflT
'IVliCJ VVli VIAVVM ? ?**V MMVk N/r ?
;anburg, and are working day and
light. They expect to be ready to
ay the rails by August.
"The York Publishing Company,"
vith $12,000 capital, has been formid
for the purpose of starting an>ther
newspaper in that town. Among
he. largest stockholders are Congressman
Finley and ex-Senator T.
?. McDow.
The store of S. L. Shirley, near
seal's Creek, Anderson county, was
mtered by burglars Thursday night
tnd a large quantity of goods wa?
lauled away in wagons. It is thought
here were two or more in the party,
rhey broke in the front door witty
i o vD
I JUL UAV.
A primary election will be held to
elect a successor to the late Congressman
Geo. S. Legare. Four canlidates
are announced so far: Richird
S. Whaley and Geo. F. vonKollitz,
of Charleston, and Solicitor J.
2. Peurifoy, and Jas. G. Padgett, of
>Valterboro.
The big sales stables of the JonesDlliott
company at Lancaster were
turned down at three o'clock Friday
norning, entailing a loss of $13,500,
vith insurance of $10,000. Included
n the loss were 48 mules and horses,
t number of vehicles and a large
luantity of hay, fodder, etc.
Fire damaged the Methodist
:hurch in Lancaster to the extent of
ibout $5,000 last Sunday. The fire
)riginated from the furnace and
mrned through the floor, destroying
he carpet and some pews. The Sunlay-school
room was also badly damiged
by fire and water. The loss is
:overed by insurance.
Old Orangeburg District.
Columbia, Feb. 10.?Orangeburg
listrict, before the sub-dividing bejan,
was one of the largest in the
>tate. Orangeburg county to-day is
>ne of the largest and most importint
in the State, but the old district
>mbraced the territory that is now
ncluded in large part in Barnwell,
Uken,. Bamberg, and Calhoun. Mr.
Uex S. Salley, Jr., who is always
V> i t> b- i r, cr Vi i ct r?r i r> thing's had a
UlllXY V1 UiUV-Vi *V
ittle dinner party at the St. John
iotel in Columbia, to which he inrited
the representatives of the moth;r
and children, so to speak, of Oringeburg
district. At the party Mr.
Earner spoke for Barnwell, Senator
rVilliams for Aiken, Dr. Black for
Bamberg, Senator Banks for Calloun
and Senator Lide for Orangernrg.
It was a most pleasant gatherng
of members.
Strength of Grizzly Bear.
It is related that a grizzly bear that
lad one of its forepaws so shot as to
ender it useless employed the other
o draw its weight of 1,100 pounds
ip an incline almost precipitous, a
eemingly impossible feat.
A Californian asserts that while in
he mountains he observed a big grizly
in the act of carrying a dead cow
lome to her cubs. From his posi
ion on the mountainside tne uanornian
could follow every movement
if the bear in the sparsely timbered
alley below. He contends that the
iig beast carried the cow in her fore>aws
for three miles across jagged
ocks several feet in height, over fallin
logs around the rocky mountain
ide where even a mule could not get
l foothold, to a narrow trail up the
teep mountain.
This bear, it appears, stopped not
or a moment's rest but proceeded
traight on. The observer followed
ler and about half a mile from her
air shot. her. The cow, it is report;d.
weighed at least 200 pounds,
vhile the weight of the grizzly was
.bout 450.?Fur News.
BILL PASSED BY BIG VOTE.
Would Stop Liquor Shipment Into
l>ry Territory.
Washintgon, Feb. 8.?The Webb
bill, to prohibit the interstate shipment
of liquor into dry States for
purposes of sale "or in any manner
used" in violation of the State laws,
was passed by the house late to-day,
240 to 65.
The passage of the bill ended one
of the most stubbornly fought all-day
contests of this * congress. Senator
Kenyon, of Iowa, author of a senate
measure of the same general purport,
sat in the house most of the
day watching the fight, which opened
with a con 't over the rule to
bring up the Webb bill. Representatives
of organized anti-saloon advocates
sat in the galleries and kept
tallies on the roll-calls.
Representative Fitzgerald, of New
York, criticised his fellow Democratic
leaders for not devoting more
time to essential appropriation bills.
Representative Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
Republican, said this Democratic
house would go down in history
as one of "masterly inactivity."
Representative Mann, of Illinois,
characterized as "flim-flam" the
bringing up of the bill at this time.
Former Speaker Cannon declared
that the States should regulate traffic
themselves. Representative Berger,
of Wisconsin, Socialist, contended
that all great men, from Julius
Caesar down to Cannon, were temperate
drinkers.
Representative Shirley, of Ken
tucky, attacked the validity of the
bill, and Representative Rucker, of
Missouri, said he represented numerous
const'tuents whose homes
had been wrecked by liquor.
All amendments offered to the bill
were rejected. One of these would
have substituted the bill already
passed by the senate and another
would have added a penalizing clause
with fine and imprisonment provisions,
which some members declared
would have made -the measure unconstitutional.
The bill now goes to
the senate.
CHILD SCALDED TO DEATH.
Sumter Lad Falls Into Barrel of
Scalding Water.
Sumter, Feb. 8.?News reached
here to-day of the terrible death of
little Willie Hays Workman, the 6year-old
son of the Rev. W. H. Workman,
of Salem Brick Church, Mayesville,
$t his home there Friday afternoon.
The little fellow was watching
his elders prepare hogs for
butchering, when he fell into a barrel
n 1 '* ' J
I or DOiiing waier wiiicu was micuucu
for scalding hogs.
He was terribly scalded and the
pain was intense. Medical assistance
was summoned at once and all that
could be done was done for him, but
all to no purpose. Death came during
the night and put an end to the
horrible suffering. The people of the
community were shocked by the
tragic end of the little boy, and their
heartfelt sympathy goes out to the
bereaved parents.
German City Government.
, German cities are perhaps the
best governed of any in the world.
The German burgomaster, or mayor,
is selected by the council for a term,
in many instances, of 12 years, is
generally re-elected to a second terra
and is therefore eligible to a pension.
He is selected because of his special
fitness; and training for the work
is as elaborate as training for the
physician or lawyer in this country.
When a German mayoralty is vacant
candidates from other cities present
themselves to the council with their
credentials.
German burgomasters are far better
paid than American mayors. They
have a corps of trained assistants
who also are specialists with definite
training for their particular work.
The police department is under the
direction of the central government.
Municipal ownership is both common
and profitable. Street railways
and waterworks are operated at a
profit. Some cities operate savings
banks which have accumulated vast
surpluses to loan to people who buy
homes.
This country has much to learn
from Germany in the management of
J-? 1 pvcfom ic
its municipal au.auo. v-?ui iu
notoriously cumbersome and inefficient.
We have intrusted our ideals
of the "city beautiful" too long to
hack politicians and retainers of special
interests. We cannot have a
government of the whole people, for
the whole people or by the whole
people as long as we permit the city
to be ruled with a shepard's crook.
I ?Indianapolis Sun.
ALMOST READY FOR TAF1
SENATE PASSES WEBB MEASURE
WITHOUT BOLL CALL.
Bill Already Adopted by House Substituted
for Sheppard-Kenyon
Measure After Debate.
Washington, Feb. 10.?The senatf
to-day, by a viva voce vote, passec
the Webb liquor bijl already passec
by the house as a substitute for th<
Kenyon-Sheppard bill.
The Webb bill would prohibit ship
ments of intoxicating liquors fron
one State to another when intendec
to be received or sold in violation o:
the law of the State to which the
shipment is made.
Friends of the legislation now wil
seek to have the house concur in th<
senate bill, which differs from the bil
passed by the house only in number
Should that be done the bills will no
"be considered in conference, but th<
measure passed by the senate will g(
to the president for his signature.
The substitution of the Webb bil
for the Kenyon-Sheppard bill cam<
at the close of prolonged debate an(
was by viva voce vote, no roll cal
being demanded.
Senator Sheppard during the da:
had failed to get unanimous consen
for the substitution of the Webb bil
for the measure of which he was <
joint author. Senator Kenyon, co
author of the senate bill, closed th<
debate by asking that the Webb bil
be substituted, as the order of th<
day did not permit the voting 01
the Webb bill as an independen
measure. The vote was first upon th<
perfection of the Kenyon-Sheppan
bill.
By a vote of 61 to 23 the senat<
agreed to the committee amendment
adding a section to the bill, whicl
provided in terms that intoxicatinj
liquors should become subject t<
State laws on crossing State boun
o -r?i AO
| uanco,
Senator Hitchcock's amendment t<
except liquor intended for persona
use v,as defeated without a roll call
and one by Senator O'Gorman except
ing liquor intended for personal an<
for sacramental use was likewise de
feated, 31 to 50. Senator Kenyoj
succeeded in having his measun
amended to become operative Jul:
1, 1913. Thereupon Senator Gall
inger asked for the substitution o
the Webb bill for the Senate meas
ure. He likewise succeeded in hav
ing the title amended so as to brinj
the houses in accord except as tovth:
number of the bills.
SPARTANBURG'S SKYSCRAPER.
$200,000 Building, Eight Stories, t<
be First of City's TaH Structures.
Spartanburg, Feb. 8.?A contrac
has been awarded to the George A
1 Fuller Construction Company* of Nev
York, for the building of Spartan
burg's first skyscraper. The edifice
which will be the property of C
Brewster Chapman, a New Jersey eel
luloid manufacturer, will be callec
the Commercial Building, and wil
cost about $200,000. It will stand oi
Morgan square property, for whicl
| Mr. Chapman paid $80,000.
The building will be eight stone:
high and will be constructed of steel
concrete and pressed brick, witl
granite trimmings. The first floo
will be given to stores and the re
mainder of the building, save possi
bly the highest floor, will be devotee
to offices. It is proposed to establisl
a business men's club on the to]
floor.
He Was Justly Suspicious.
A big mass meeting was being helc
in Blimville.
The well-groomed and slick-look
ing individual who was trying to sep
arate the town from its money arose
to make a few remarks.
"Fellow-citizens," he opened up
"apropos"?
"Jist a minute, mister," said i
smallish, sandy-whiskered man.
A look of annoyance crossed the
speaker's face.
"What can I do for you?" he asked.
"I have here a pocket edition o]
Webster's Dictionary, and I want tc
look up that word 'apropos.' I don'1
intend to sit here and let some oilytongued
stranger slip one over or
us," replied the sandy-whiskered
man.
"You are a little suspicious, J
see," said the speaker. "Now, that
word to which you refer means"?
"Never mind what it means," enjoined
the little man. "I'm looking
it up. I let a smooth talker sell me
a unicycle one time. He said it was
the last word in conveyances', and
when I paid the freight on it from
Chicago I found I had purchased a
wheelbarrow."?Judge.
< JOEL E. BRUNSON DROPS DEAD.
Body Found Near Railroad Tracks
in Sumter.
Sumter, Feb. 8.?The people of
Sumter were shocked and saddened
V,* 4 r
this morning to hear of the finding
of the dead body of Mr. Joel E. Brunson
alongside the railroad track, '
v.'/*.,
? near New Sumter, a station on the .
1 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, about vj'j
1 five miles froth Sumter, where he
i had dropped when returning from ??
his farm to that place to take the
- train for home.
i Mr. Brunson was a well-known *: ^
' ' " ' ' ?i 1 -n: _ c iV.
1 ana nigniy esieeniea citizen ui iui?
f city and was well known throughout'
3 the State because of his fight against
the liquor traffic. He ran for gov1
ernor of the State twice, the second
X *" j
time in 1906 on the prohibition tick1
et. He was also publisher and edi.
tor of the Broad Axe, the official ort
gan of the Prohibition party in
3 South Carolina, for a number of
> years, in which he continued his fight
for prohibition.
1 Mr. Brunson left home with his 7 ]'4M
3 wife this morning on an early morn1
ing train. He got off at New Sumter to
1 go to his farm, several miles further
on, while his wife went on to Mayes- 7
r ville to spend the day with his daught
ter. When returning from his farm,
1 where some work was going on, he - 7
i dropped dead by the railroad track,
- a quarter of a mile from New Sum3
ter. It was stated by a member of ;v$j|
1 the family to-day that members of
2 the family had tried to dissuade him .
i from this trip, but he said he was
t compelled to go, as r~ W not been
? out to sp? about the vork in several ,
1 day;:. His- body was found by an
old negro, Ben Franklin, who sum2
moned some white neighbors. The
, Atlantic Coast Line train to Sumter
i came along shortly after this and was
; flagged and the body put on it to'be ' . %
3 brought here.
There were only two witnesses at
the inquest, Dr. Mood, who examined , 2
3 the body, and pronounced death to
1 be due to natural causes, probably
, from apoplexy, and Ben Franklin,
- who had discovered the body. The
I jury returned a verdict in accord
ance with the testimony of Dr. Mood.
1 The deceased started out in life as' '
e a printer in the old Watchman and
F Southron printing office. This was . ^
- during the war, in which he was too
f young to serve actively in the field,
- although he was a member of the re- >
- serves and ready to serve at home at
; any time. Later he entered into the
2 lumber business, in which he was in- /
terested up to the time of his death.
He was also interested for the past
few years in farming, although he j
f sold his farm between here and
Mayesville some time ago. jjSS
t The funeral services will be held
here to-morrow afternoon and will^
.. be conducted by Dr. C. Cr Brown, of
A ?1!.* -1
1116 f irst BiAJJUSl UliUlcii, ut w uiv/ii
the deceased was for many years an ^
earnest member.
BATTLE WITH OFFICERS.
1
1 Sixteen Killed in Fight in West Virl
ginia Coal District.
i Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 10.?
Sixteen are dead including twelve
s miners and four mine guards, after
, a desperate battle between striking
i coal miners and officers of the Kar
nawha County coal fields to-day. Five 1
- companies.of the State militia reach
ed the trouble zone to-night. *
i The .clash occurred near Mucklow. .
i Fred W. Lester, in charge of mine m
? guards; sought to head off several
hundred strikers attempting to gain
a position from which they could fire
on the town of Mucklow and avoid
the range of machine guns. In this
skirmish two of the officers were shot
dead. Reinforcements appeared and
during the afternoon kept up a con"
ctoni- snipriiin warfare. At every
OVUUl' 0v.v? , - point
they were met by strikers and
' were steadily driven back.
The two Charleston companies
1 reached Ronda at 9:45 to-night. Im- /. .
mediately squads were sent through'
out the trouble zone. Every train
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
into the strike territory to-night
is
equipped with a machine gun. The
L gun is screwed to the rear platform.
[ It is manned at all times and ready
' for instant use.
i Oak Grove School. , ?
I Honor roll of Oak Grove School
for January, 1913.
First grade?Kate Rentz, J. C.
: Smith, Hydra Till.
Second Grade?Alva Hoffman,
Carolyn Rentz. -"Jm
; Third grade?Lewis Copeland,
s Isaac Copeland, Sallie George. ;
i Fifth grade?Essie Carter, Ru- r*^|
1 dolph Carter, Laz Gibson, Thelma
i Rentz.
4 * a fry
Seventh grade?Pollie Carter,
Julia Clayton.
I