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I Hmnfarrg Ifpralli =r==T=r===r=============== * ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KXIGHT, Editor. ?; V Published every Thursday in Thej r Herald building, on Main street, in j s the live and growing City of Bam-1 berg, being issued from a printing1 d office which is equipped with Mer- j r genthaler linotype machine, Babcock | ^ cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a; fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by | electric power with other material i and machinery in keeping, the whole f equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?Bv the year $150; six months, 75 cents; three months, " 50 cents. All subscriptions payable g strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch " for first insertion, subsequent inser- c tions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad- r vertisements at the rates allowed by h law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and c ether advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. a Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates, y Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions. cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political char- g acter are charged for as regular ad- ^ vertising. Contracts for advertising L not subject to cancellation after first c insertion. n Communications?We are always ( , glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public inter- n est. We require the name and ad- e dress of the writer in every case. i_ No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in 11 our columns at any price, and we are v not responsible for the opinions ex- t pressed in any communication. 1 j Thursday, June 12, 1913 o ============================= \ ^ Dynamite Goes Off in Pocket. a r* ??? h Jesup. Ga., June 8.?The 15-year- -n !old son of Bud Kennedy, a farmer, >. living near Jesup, wa9 fatally wound- t( ed this morning when a box of dyna- ^ mite percussion caps exploded in his ? pocket. A playmate of the lad slap- k ped him, causing the caps to explode. p His leg was almost blown off and the thigh bone was shattered. The leg n will have to be amputated below the g hip joint. The other lad lost two e fingers from the explosion. ^ He Knew His Uncle. a "Suppose," said the parsimonious uncle to the little boy, "you have 11 half an apple and I give you another n half. How much have you?'' e "A whole apple," said the boy. "Well," continued the uncle, "sup- Sl pose yuo had a half dollar and I gave vou another half dollar. What W- "" > * c would you have then?" | "A fit," .promptly answered the n boy.?Yonkers Gazette. New Submarine Unique Boat. Washington. June 5.?Plans for the c 1 submarine tender Bushnell, made ? public at the navy department to-day, disclosed the fact that the vessel will be unique as a war craft. ** The contract for the construction P of the Bushnell was awarded to a a shipbuilding concern in Seattle, a Wash. Her cost will be close to one b million dollars and she is to be com- ^ pleted within 21 months. a The Bushnell is designed as a "mother ship" for a squadron of submarines, and many roomy staterooms will be provided for the offi- 11 cers and crews of the submarines ^ when they are not actually cruising. c Powerful hoisting apparatus will ^ be installed where, with a subiriferine c damaged or sunk, can speedily be v lifted to the surface of the sea and ^ a towing maching will enable the "mother boat" to tow five of her r< brood at one time. A machine shop will be installed on the Bushnell. ? . si C. J. Herbert Gives $8,000 Bond. Columbia. June 5.?C. J. Herbert, b who is under indictment in this coun- tl ty, charged with misappropriating n funds of the late Seminole Securities ^ Company, arrived here this afternoon via Augusta, and was released on it bond of $8,000. Hebert was accom- c; panied by Jesse M. Littleton, an at- o torney of Chattanooga, Tenn. He- c bert's long fight in the Courts of Ten% nessee to avoid being brought back to South Carolina under requisition proceedings has kept his case from 0 coming to trial. e h lieaten and Bobbed. t: Charged with assault and battery n with intent to kill and highway rob- e bery, two young white men, Ben e Smith and Harrison Payne, are confined in the county jail in default of p bond. It is alleged that the defend- v ants beat and robbed J. L. Lynch, a e young white man of Pacolet, Spar- o tanburg county, who came to Green- e ville in search of employment. The f offense, it is alleged, occurred in a t railroad cut near Woodside mill, the t boy being robbed of his money, watch t and a part of his clothing. t Lynch got off a trolley car near E ? " i ? ii f- - 11 1 J ~ ~ 1 - ~ .3 ? tJranaon mm, it is auegeu, unu uskcu i the defendants if they could inform d him where he could find a boarding s place, as he had just come to Green- s ville to work in one of the mills. Instead of directing Lynch to a board- i] ing house, it is charged, the defend- s ants led him off to the railroad cut t and beat and robbed him.?Green- h ville News. r L t be? ELOPEKS WILL NOW WED. "ormer Preacher Will Marry Womar Wlio Han A Way With Him. New York. June 7.?Sometime rithin the next week or ten days Jer y Knode Cooke, the former Hemp tead, X. Y., clergyman whose wife [ivorced him yesterday, will be mar ied to Floretta Whaley, with whon ie eloped six years ago. The date o; he marriage. Cooke's lawyer, W. J innisrm said to-dav. has been sei or the day Cooke receives a certified opy of the divorce decree. "The honeymoon." said the lawyer will probably be an afternoon off, ? ;ood dinner and an evening at th? heater. The ceremony will be z ivil one, although one of the mosi espected clergymen in New Yorl ;as expressed his willingness to offi iate." Cooke was working as usual todaj t his trade of painter and decorator Vhite Man Knocked Down by Xegro On Tuesday morning, on Mr. P. E Icott's place in No. 6 township. Mr ,. J. Hunt, the overseer, had a diffiulty with one of his farm hands, z egro by the name of Atkinson. Ii eems that Mr. Hunt had called th? egro to get out his hands and dc ertain hoeing. The negro gave Mr lunt some impertinence and told hin: e was his own boss and would go tc - ork when he got ready. Of course his enraged the white man who tolc he negro what he would do for hin: r he didn't do as he said. Whereupn the negro seized a hoe and struck lr. Hunt, who threw up his right t ?? 1 1- - VI C ^ _ rm and waraea on me uiow irom xus ead or body, receiving the lick or is arm. Mr. Hunt went into the ouse for his gun, returning with il d the yard, prepared for the negro hen the negro with desperate courge again attacked the w-hite mam nocking him down with the-hoe.and robablv would have killed him but 3r the timely interference of anothei egro. Mr. Hunt was cut on the boulder and had a thumb nearly sevred from the hand. Dr. W. D. Senc :essed his wounds and he is doing 11 light. The ne^ro came to town that mornig, after he had the difficulty, bu1 lade his departure and is still at librty. Magistrate J. C. Sample and >eputy Wm. Dorroh had gone to the cene upon learning of the fuss, bul idn't see the negro. There was some natural excitemenl reated by the row, but all is quiet ow.?Newberry Herald and News. Cabbage Head Weighs 27 Pounds. Atlanta, June 29.?Not to stick toe losely to botanical metaphors, Georia has added a 27-pound cabbage D her crown of agricultural laurels Effingham county, already proud of :s record for snap beans and Irish otatoes, has sent to the State capito] monster cabbage that tips the scales little further than any other cabage Georgians have ever seen before t measures 38 inches in diametei nd 144 inches in circumference. Calls for Reform. Charleston, June 10.?At the meetig of city council today the commitse on city affairs, to which was reently referred the petition of the Iemminger School and Home assoiation for the betterment of the enironments of the Memminger school uilding, reported, recommending bat "after a full hearing it would ecommend that the mayor take steps j remove any disorderly houses or 'lifford, Beaufain and Archdale treets." The report is signed by the memers of the committee, consisting o! be mayor, its chairman, and Alderien Pinkney, J. E. Rafferty, W. C Iacmurphy. The report goes much further than ; was expected of the committee and alls on Mayor Grace to close up the bjectionable establishments without onditions. Winder Widow a Tragic Fate. Atlanta, June 6.?To be left a widw anywhere is one of the saddesl xperiences in human life, but to be 3ft a widow in Winder is a terriblj ragic fate. The complications which lay beset a widow there are unequald probably in any other town or arth. A few days ago, one of Winder's rominent citizens died, leaving his ridow and children property in sevral sections of the city. Tfie towr f Winder is located in three differnt counties, and the widow is conronted with the necessity of going hrougn the legal complications o! hree different courts of ordinaries o secure three seperate sets of letrs of administration on the estate lach of these courts is 1 5 or 20 miles rom Winder, and all three are ir ifferent directions. She has- to make uccessive trips into Gwinnett, Jackon and Walton counties. The citizens of Winder, complainng of this situation, are asking th* tate legislature to give them a couny of their own. The movemen ias already received general endorse nent throughout the state. COLUMBIAN SHOOTS HIMSELF. CH i Frank H. Holland, Jr., Attempts to Proi Commit Suicide. i Columbia, June 5.?Frank L. Hoi- C 1 " " J T " ? i r\ AM + T*Anr\ flr Kn Pl'n ACC 1 Al' lauu, ji , a pi uuiiuciu ?? UU115 uuonicoD , - man of Ridgewood, a suburb of Col- Aik< ? umbia, shot himself several times to- wit! - night, it is claimed, with the declar- dro) 1 ed intention of committing suicide, spit' f At a late hour the young man, al- tods . though said to be badly wounded, erec t was still alive. No cause is assigned end 1 for the alleged attempt at self-de- tion struction. peai , It is said that Mr. Holland, just be- the 1 fore the Ridgewood car reached Price whe ? avenue to-night, where he was wait- beat 1 ing to board it, turned an automatic tion t pistol which he was holding in his the c. hands on himself and inflicted a cut - wound in the neighborhood of his deei heart Then, according to the re- self. : port, he boarded the car and fired en f . another shot from the automatic, M which penetrated the seat of the car at s and glancing tore a hole through the nooi . rim of a hat on a passenger's head, and . but fortunately hit none of the oc- of < - cupants of the car. . wen 1 It is said that the conductor im- tage t mediately brought the car to a stop prog i near the residence of a physician him ) and requested Mr. Holland to go to a re . the doctor, which he refused to do, wav 1 saying, so it was stated, that he want- tim< ) ed to go home and die there. joyi 1 1 Affar frnni thp far near Via/1 I his home and after having gone a part i short distance another shot was fired. Ash Neighbors went to Mr. Holland's as- Cut : sistance. At a late hour he was re- fam : ported as still alive, but desperately he t: 5 wounded. ing t Hr. Holland was removed to the sejf ! Columbia Hospital. It is thought an(j : that he may have a fighting chance \ey , for recovery. Two bullets are said jng to have taken effect in his body. He but , is a prominent young man and well thin 1 known. to fc app< A Methusaleh of the Sea. nior f alth There was broken up lately at by 0 l Teneriffe, the 'Canary islands, what as t] : was undoubtedly the oldest ship in that the world. It was the Italian ship 0f t Anita, built in Genoa in 1548, and al- tinu : most an exact duplicate of the Santa His Maria, the famous galleon in which safe I Columbus made his voyage of discov- ^asl > ery. The Anita was built for strength t : rather than for grace or speed. She cott was broad beamed and clumsy, but tion : she had weathered hurricanes and whe : typhoons in all parts of the seas, and mot escaped unharmed from the perils of ove] the deep, from Cape Horn to Hudson S0I1) Bay. She had a world's record as the tim< ) slowest ship afloat, averaging 20-d bad davs between Baltimore. Maryland, PT1if 5 and Rio de Janeiro. As her lack of a(jm . speed was losing money for her own- tion l er, and as she. seemed destined to de- p i fy the elements and enrich Lloyds in- wbe 1 definitely as long as she remained beei 5 afloat it was decided to sell her for usjn what she would bring piecemeal and san( . employ the proceeds in the construe- the tion of a new vessel.?Harper's a j0 Weekly. that ? is t A Sure Shot. witl way A sporting gentleman who had the ]0Wj ' reputation of being a very bad shot, fun, ' invited some of his friends to dine take with him. stra Before dinner he showed them a tion L target painted on a barn door, with a by t ? bullet right in the bull's eye. v g00( This he claimed to have shot at 1,- dree 5 000 yards' distance. acci( 1 As nobody believed him, he offered the ! to bet the price of an oyster supper jowe on it. On one of his guests accept- m ing the wager, he produced two wit- and nesses whose veracity could not be exte ' doubted to prove his assertion. Qinr-o both stated that he had I done what he claimed, he won his bet. 1 During the dinner the loser of the ? 1 wager inquired how the host had ? ! managed to fire such an excellent : shot. 2L y The host answered: "Well, I shot the bullet at the ies. criti door at a distance of 1,000 yards, , nG 1 and then I painted the target around ' it."?Boston Journal. belt PARDON AFTER A PAROLE. step i T - Gov. Blease and Gov. Ansel Looked afte 1 With Favor on Herbert Boyles. ^n< user ; Governor Blease Saturday granted Edd 5 a full pardon to Herbert Boyles, a was white man,.who was convicted at the skul t March, 1907, term of court for Bam- opei berg county, of house-breaking and and - larceny, and sentenced to five years' i?us ; imprisonment upon the public works f or in the State penitentiary. Former : I cvvflrnni' \fartin F_ Ansel eranted ' - " \J - Boyles a parole 011 April 13, 1909. \Y ciS i On a petition being presented by , > S. G. Mayfield, of Bamberg, signed by thi Sheriff S. G. Ray, Supervisor E. C. i Bruce, B. W. Miley, member of the " ' peo; - house of representatives; Clerk of . ? inso Court C. B. Free, Intendant G. W. an(j - Hightower, Dr. J. S. Matthews, the QUn( i prosecutor, former Magistrate J. A. l - Walker, and other prominent citizens .j t of Bamberg and the community, a . ^ - pardon was granted.?Columbia Record, June 9th. R [ARLES ASHLEY LOSES LIFE. minent Young Aiken Lawyer J Drowns?Out Off by the Tide. j harleston, June 5.?Charles Ash-1 a prominent young lawyer of, 3n, visiting on Sullivan's Island j 1 his mother at station 28, was j vned yesterday afternoon and de- j - I e a vigorous search last night and ly the body has not been recov1. He was fishing at the upper of the island, having taken posion a reef with his dog. It ap*s that be must have lost sight of rapidity of the incoming tide and n he determined to return to the ;h, instead of taking the circula- ' route by which he had reached reef, he attempted to take a short and he suddenly found himself in ) water and unable to help himHis calls for help were mistakor calls to his dog to follow him. !r. Ashley left his boarding house ibout 1 o'clock yesterday after- I 2, taking with him a crabbing net basket, planning to catch a mess irabs for supper. His pet dog t along with him. Friends in cot- j (S along the beach watched his jress toward Beach Inlet and saw go out, the tide being low, along ef that is notably treacherous. He ( ed his hand to watchers from i to time, and was apparently enng the excursion. Meanwhile tide come in, shutting from sight s of the sand reef, and when Mr. ley discovered that he was being off, he turned shoreward. Uniliar wi;h the safe course to take, ried to wade back across intervenwaters and suddenly found himover his head. Unable to swim being physically weak, Mr. Ashcalled for help, his voice reach children playing on the beacn, they misunderstood his calls, | king he was commanding his dog )llow hirn. The young lawyer disjared from sight and up to this ning his body had not been found, ough diligent search was made irganized parties, who went as far le Isle of Palms, thinking perhaps he had succeeded in getting out he water's grasp, and had coned his outing across Beach* inlet, dog made its way to the shore ly, and later the crab net and tet were found on the beach, here is deep gloom at the Laird age known as Aikenden, at sta28, and in the neighborhood re Mr. Ashley and his 'widowed her were staying. Mrs. Ashley is come with grief. He was an only his brother meeting death some> ago from fatal burns. Mr. Ashley visited Sullivan's Island before, >ying a large circle of friends who lired him for his genial disposiand charming manner, or the past year or two the reef re Mr. Ashley met his death^has i considered dangerous Dy tnose g it for bass fishing. The shifting is in this section have changed character of the beach, and now ng reef runs off from the shore is covered by water when tide = iigh, although any one familiar i the lay of the land can make his back safely to the shore by fol- h; ng the course of the reef care- t j. However, Mr. Ashley did not la s this fact into account, and came n; ight in from where he was sta- v< ed when he found himself cut off ?] ;he rising waters. He was not a 1 swimmer. He was several hun- *1 I yards from his cottage when the dent happened, but in sight from = shore, his movements being foljd through opera glasses. p( r. Ashley was in his early '30s S. unmarried. Deep sympathy is 41 nded to his bereaved mother. KAX'S SKULL FRACTURED. p B -1- t". + I ^ IK rjUUt> k3ic[/pcu VII Ifivf 111^ X^vxv J^J tnd Probably Fatally Injured. C reenwood, June 7.?Frank Eddy, g. oung white man 18 years old, at the Greenwood Hospital in a C cal condition. In all probabitity s fatally injured by being thrown nst an engine boiler by a moving q on which he had unwittingly Si ped. U he accident happened yesterday rnoon at the Eddy home, near ^ sty-Six. The engine was being I to drive a threshing machine. D y stepped on a moving belt and 11 thrown against the engine, his g. 1 being badly fractured. He was Ti ated upon yesterday afternoon, is still alive, but is in a precarcondition. Champion Onion Raisers. raugeburg, June 5.?An article ! St s I recently published in the News ; Courier telling of an onion of j ci year's crop weighing 26 ounces, j w i record has been broken by two i at )le in this city. Mr. W. F. Rob- i i m n has one weighing 32 ounces, j Mr. D. H. Marchant raised a zs-i m | :e one. Mr. Robinson states that ised no fertilzer whatever on the ^ where the two-pounder was raisead The Herald, only $1.50 year. ^=0=00=0=^ The Plain Truth Q { | As to Why We Want Your Business 1 u O -j It is our one aim and desire to place at your disposal the best equipped Drug Store in Western Carolina. A Drug Store 1 > that you can depend on. A q | Drug Store where you know you can get what you want when you want it. To make 1 this possibleof course we must ! have your co-operation. We s l q strive to give you polite and Q ] 4 prompt service. Our stock is complete, Drugs Pure and Fresh, Prices Right. Call and ? see us or phone your order now. J 4 H. 1 ^ Bamberg Pharmacy j ? Phone 44 J* || ^f==aOBOOBOl_Jy | (?7 CO f a Wrightsville Beach, N.C. 10 Wilmington, N.C. | Tickets sold each Thursday?June 5th to and including September 11th, 1913, limit- 1 ed to reach Denmark, returning, prior to^ j midnight of the second Monday following l date of sale. , ^ lip|a EXCURSION RATES NORTH AND EAST J For Any Information Address I T. C. WHITE, General Passenger Agent, J- LILES, Wilmington, N. C. Ticket Agent. ? ,?pi 11 ? ? ? Horse Bites Off Finger. BANK STATEMENT. At Elberton, Ga., Mr. Jim Fleming Statement of the condition of tha < ad the end of his index finger bit- Bank of Olar, located at Olar, S. C., m off by a hungry horse in his stable close of business June 4th, ist Saturday afternoon. The entire v RESOURCES ail was bitten, and the wound was Loans and discounts $171,010.50 sry painful. He had a bundle of Overdrafts 5,165.07 reen oats in his hand which he was Banking housfe 500.00 . , , Due from banks and / t the act of feeding the horse, and bankers 6 440.50 le impatient animal took a prema- Currency 182.00 ire bite. Silver and other minor ' ' t coin 50.50 BANK STATEMENT. Checks and cash items.... 62.25 Statement of the condition of the . eoples Bank, located at Bamberg, total . $i5d,4iu.5Z ? at the close of business June Capital st0^! ES$ 2M00.00 RESOURCES. n"?1 m f^Dd" ? ; 25,000.00 : : oans and diseouts $141,463.76 Undivided profits, less verdrafts r 2,047.88 current expenses and . J urniture and fixtures .... 2,459.36 5S? p,a'j 3" H>016.63 jM anking house 3,329.40 * 24 046 26 " A ue from banks and *ct l? <*ec? 2o,046.26 M bankers 9,125.77 Time certificates of de urrencv 1,984.00 ^_POSlt H " 110 00 ^asuier s cxiecK? lver and other minor Bills payable including V coin 485.40 certificates for money ^ hecks and cash itmes.... 243.84 borrowed 81,000.00 Reserve fund carried on . / Total $161,249.41 general individual or LIABILITIES. savings ledger 4,319.18 apital stock paid in $ 25,000.00 tieoAineo iirnlns fund 6 000 00 Total Jploo,4IU.o^ ndilided profits,""less State of South Carolina-County of , , tazesntpafdXPenSeS ^ 5,942.50 Be^fme came G. M. Neeley. ue to banks and bank- who> bein.g fuly sworn, says that the evs 117 93 above and foregoing statement Is a ividends unpaid'::::::::.'.:: s.'oo true c?nd;tj?n. 88 to'check' deP0SUS SUb' 33 117 14 g! M. hffiELEY, Cas^r." I Sxrnrn to and* subscribed before A ivings deposits zz,b4u.uu .v. ? T ? __ [me certificates of de- me ^kis Hth day of June, 1913. posit 2,861.32 ' NEELEY, 8 ashier's checks 562.52 Notary Public. M ills payable, including ^?JJre?~ -n,certificates for money C. F. RIZER, Director. - jfljf borrowed 65,000.00 PEOPLE SHOULD GUARD Total $161,249.41 AGAINST APPENDICITIS ^ ;ate of South Carolina?County of _ , ?; , W Bamberg. Bamberg people who have stom- -<: Before me came A. M. Denbow, acb an<^ bowel trouble should guard ^ tshier, of the above named bank, ^mst appendicitis by taking simple } ho, being duly sworn, says that the buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as f jove and foregoing statement is a compounded in Adler-i-ka, the Ger- ^ ue condition of said bank, as shown man remedy which became famous r the books of said bank. ^y curing appendicitis. JUST ONE Sworn to and subscribed before DOSE relieves sour stomach, gas on e this 11th day of June, 1913. th* stomash and constipation INt7> u xjtj'xtnfit?cjo\t STANTLY because this simple mix" 1 - -l-tn or Kni-arv" PiThli9 n ture draws on sucn a surprisiue orrect-Attest- ' amount of old foul matter from the H C FOLK body. Bamberg Pharmacy. .< r' ?' no Paper, envelopes, pen staff and pen J. A. WILLIAAIS, _ TT ,. ?I , ^ Directors. for 5c at Herald Book Store. /