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' 1 ' ' ' ilia Ifombm; iMrralb j ~ ' <% One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 21,1913. Established 1891. * t.-.l ^___________ - . j COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS > SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. , u News Items Gathered All Around the u County and Elsewhere. v Ehrhardt Etchings. a li Ehrhardt, August IS.?Mr. Geo. A. 0 Carter, of the Lodge section, had the $] misfortune to lose his dwelling hy fire on Saturday between eleven and ^ twelve n'elock in the day. Lost near- j. ly everything he had in the way of a l beds and clothes. Just what the F family had on was all they saved. A g heavy blow to him. c. Our town is practically without preachers. Rev. Groseclose went to g Georgia to help a brother with a Z( meeting, and the others are away on ^ their vacation. b V Fodder pulling is about over, and cotton i6 opening to keep the farm- a ers busy. n Misses Bertha Fash and Eliza g Hollyfield, of Charleston, are spend- S1 ing 6ome time with Mrs. A. C. Taylor. C( Misses Lula Belle and Reba Cal- ^ houn, of Americus, Ga., are spending q time with Mrs. W. Max Walker. The young folks had a little dance p in the hall last Friday night. They f( enjoyed the event hugely, at least a some of the young men did. a Mr. J. Hampton Fender has opened up a horse-shoeing establishment here. He will be glad to have his friends and customers call on him with their work. Will be on hand ^ ready for business on Saturdays. The O. L. Copeland ginnery, at *i Yanceville, S. C., is about ready for trial, as soon as enough cotton can S Ko p-athprpd for a bale. h Mr. A. W. Brabham was in to wo ^ hunting bagging and ties. Says he 0 will gin a bale this week. JEE.? 0 -*--?-*? f i Fairfax 4 Fancies. S( > * Fairfax, August 18.?Miss Susie Albergotti has- joined several friends who are being entertained in a house ^ party at Sumter. Mrs. Jno. Weekley, of Ulmer, has been on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. P Otis Deer. The latter is convalescing > from a recent illness. 2 The Misses Davis, of Williston, after spending time pleasantly with Miss Maude Barber, have gone to Allendale for a visit. ^ A gentleman from North expects to move his family here and run a ^ paper, "The Fairfax Advance." Mrs. Harriet Jenny has been visiting relatives here. n Mesdames Jas. Wideman, Fred Lightsey and children are spending time with Mrs. Harry Calhoun in c Barnwell. s< 0' r V* erorto to til P 31 rs. 31. .uyve u.a.o~ s<juv i.u w?. springs. From there will visit up- M"' country towns. Miss Claudia O'Neal, after beam- ^ ing upon us for a few weeks, is visit- s< ing Mrs. G. S. O'Neal, Jr., in Jacksonk ville. p Holbrook Williams was a recent g visitor here. ? Mrs. W. E. Harter joined the family reunion at Hickory Grove, recently ti Mrs. Lily Myrick and Mrs. Anderson chaperoned quite a crowd of young folks to a fish fry Friday morning. They seem to have had a d fine time. Chas. Miley, of Statesboro, Ga., John Bjunson and daughter, from Gifford, were recent guests of Miss Mary Brunson. Mrs. W. Wingard and daughter have gone to Augusta on a visit to relatives. Miss Jennie DuRant gave a party J ? ? f+ornrifiTi tn her euests. JL uursud* en. i,ti w which all seem to "have enjoyed very , * ' much. On the evening of the 12th quite a number of couples, both married and single, drove out to the Loadholt home, where the 10th anniver- ^ sary of Mr. and Mrs, N. B. Loadholt was celebrated. Hot house plants h were exhibited, 10 years of age, which were beautiful. "Progressive I Conversation" was played, even the ^ "jolly grey heads." joining in. A poem, composed for the occasion, ^ was "^ell read by Miss Lucile Youmans. A very relishing salad course was served, then a delicious o sweet course. The presents were a numerous, useful and beautiful. One F ?a pair of scales?had on attached a * card: "Our love to you cannot be ii measured by pounds and ounces." g Little Brunson, the youngest son, gave the automatic music and man- c aged it well. All wish this popular t couple great happiness. a W. E. Harter, F. Lightsey, T. Wil- t son, B. Brunson and Allen Harter *; went on a trip to visit Washington, 3 Baltimore and other cities. f On Thursday evening Mrs. Atkins, v AGED WOMAN ATTACKED. j 'egroes of Branson Stirred over what Seems Dastardly Deed. J Brunson, Aug. 13.?Quite stirred p, temporarily, was the colored pop- < lation of Brunson and immediate icinity when on Saturday evening bout 8 o'clock a young negro man ving in Brunson went to the home f an old negro woman just beyond lie town limits, and, it is said, at- 1 icked and brutally beat her over the 1 ead and face until he had beaten her 1 lto submission to a more criminal 1 S6ault. . The aged husband of the old ne- * ress, more than 60 years of age, ( ame up in time to see his wife's al iged assailant running away and < ave the alarm. A number of citians, white and black, immediately ; ent in search of the fleeing negro, ' ut in the darkness he eluded arrest. 1 He is reported to have been back j mong his friends in town Sunday ight, but such information was not 1 iven until, it is presumed, he was apposed to be safely on his way, in j ompany with a brother with whom e had been recently working, to 1 eorgia. About a year ago, the same negro robably escaped heavy punishment ' :>r improper language to a respectble white woman of Brunson under technicality of law. . English Justice. A cablegram from London tells of < ie trial of a man in that country ] )r murder and of his execution with- < 1 60 days after his arrest. . ; In this case William Burton, a 1 ame supervisor employed by the 1 >rd of the manor at Gussage St. 1 lichael, was hanged for the murder s f Miss Winifred Mitchell, employed n the same estate, in spite of the *rt that Burton concealed his crime d ingeniously that it was more than month before the fact that the girl . ad been killed was established. , within another 60 days Burton had j een arrested, convicted and hanged. This is the kind of action that ap- ' eals to the honest, law-abiding men nd women of the United States. It ill take Americans some time to foret the case of Dr. Crippen who was . rrested in Canada, carried back to Ingland and tried, convicted and exe- , uted in a short time. There was no , urrying of the Crippen case, but at tie same time there were none, of aose long, tedious and often sense- , jss delays that mark the trials of mrder cases in this country. It is proper that a lawyer should xhaust every legal means to save a 'i lient, but when an attorney repre- , enting a criminal whom he and t veryone else knows is guilty, appeals ( d "old technicality"?to borrow a hrase from the sage of Darien? :e can see how fatally defective ome of our criminal laws are. ( We rather like the English method, , romptly executing a man after his , uilt has been firmly established.? avannah Press. ( Complete Night's Work. Have you got everything?" asked tie householder anxiously, as "he I eered at the burglar from beneath tie bedclothes. "I think so." le?" - < "Did you get my daughter's fid"Yes." "Did you get my son's phonoraph?" "Yes." "My wife's bridge outfit?" "Yes." "Her tight skirt?" "Yes." "My mother-in-law's parrot?" "Yes." "My daughter's camera?" "Yes." "Well, then call at my office tomorow morning and I'll give you $50. rou have done a good night's work." "Right-o" replied the burglar, as - - - ' - ' x e turned with his sack to cnmD oui f the window. "Just a moment," said the houseolder. "Bring three or four pals tolorrow night, and take my daugher's pianola and I'll double the regard."?Chicago Journal. f Tenn., gave a temperance address t school-hall. It was sure very fine, lev. Wm. Simpson also gave a talk nd made a prayer. On Friday evenag Dr. Richardson, of Washington, ave a talk on temperance. Mrs. Lily Myrick and Chester Lanaster got up a "fish fry" picnic for he visitors, They went in wagons, .utos, etc. They sure had a fine ime, and the visitors were charmed. Misses Margaret Youmans and larv Harrison leave tomorrow, one or Richmond, to he gone a long vhile, the other to Johnston. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. 9 John Wood, for four years secre:ary of the chamber of commerce of Spartanburg, leaves that city October 1 to take a like position in Roanoke, Va. A petition is circulating in Anderson city for an election to issue $75,)00 in bonds for street improvements, Anderson already has a bonded debt Df $209,000. Robert Richardson, colored, shot and killed his wife at Georgetown Tuesday because she refused to go with him to Alcolu, where he was ?oing to move. The governor has granted a parole to Webb Simmons, a white man of Anderson county, who was convicted in April 1910 of the murder of Bert McAdams and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. State Insurance Commissioner McMaster says that so far this year his department has collected $142,137.45 in insurance fees, and expects to collect approximately $180,000 for the year. The total fees collected in 1912 were $177,000. Capt. John M. Graham, who leases convicts from the State to operate the hosiery mill at the penitentiary in Columbia, has stated that he will not attempt to enforce his contract but svill surrender tne convicis on ;\ovember 1st, this being the date fixed by the legislature for abolishing the hosiery mill. To the Fiddlers. We hope all the fiddlers will keep in mind during the year the annual meeting appointed for next summer and keep well organized so we can have a good meeting again next year. Next year we propose to run the convention entirely for the fiddlers. The meeting this year was suggested by a member of the local board for Alkahest Lyceum, on account of a. shortage in treasury of some $72.00. Some of the board did a little <vork in getting up convention, and 537.80 was paid on Lyceum shortage This was what was left after paying expenses of advertising, printing ind postage and holding $25.00 for convention for next year. But as stated above, we will run the conven tion next year altogether for the best interest of the fiddlers. Before a great while, at some convenient time, we hope to get a good number, one from each section, and plan out work and let all work to it as much as possible. While we are writing in interest of the fiddlers, wish to mention something about an? editorial of the Sumter Herald, in July, which is as follows: . "We note there was a fiddlers' convention in Bamberg and we doubt not but that the meeting was full of harmony; that the members did C. -sharp, and, Bamberg being dry, there was no occasion for any to B. flat." Perhaps this editor does not know who made up the fiddlers' convention or the object of same, so for his information we wish to tell briefly of its mission: First of all, we wish him to understand that it is not a booze-fighting machine, as he would seem to insinuate, if Bamberg had not been dry. Its object is to create more generally musical organizations and to develop among our people higher ideals in a musical tvay. It is seen in communities where such organizations exist, stronger social relations also exist. What bet- | ter way can the young people (and older ones, too) spend their leisure than in such organizations? We wish to mention just one neighborhood where seven young men constitute the band. They always have "harmony," are bright enough to "see sharp," and not one of them never "be flat," and Bamberg being dry is not the cause, as each one of them has been wearing the white ribbon for years, and they all fully carry out its meaning. There are several others similar, and so these Danas wars j during the year and we meet once a year to hear ourselves. And, Mr. Sumter Herald, we will let you know when our next convention convenes and we will show you that our fiddlers do "see sharp," and everything will be so harmonious as to make you feel at home, unless you be A flat, -and that would be too bad, as the key of A flat is a scale of four flats, so you would have to drag three other fellows down with you to make your scale, and we couldn't spare them. SECRETARY. - / - . .7 LEMACKS SENT TO PEN. Colleton Prisoner Transferred After Attempt to Break Jail. Walterboro, Aug. 14.?I. S. Lemacks, who is in the county jail awaiting trial on the charge of having killed Aquila Blocker, of the Black Creek section of the county, nearly succeeded in escaping from the county jail yesterday morning at 10.30. Tearing up the flooring he used a piece of the floor as a club and had broken through the ceiling of one of the rooms on the first floor, which h?d been occupied by Sheriff Owens in the absence of Jailer Padgett. If the discovery had not been made as early as it was, in the course of another half hour Lemacks, in all probability, would have succeeded in making hi6 escape. The wife of the jailer, hearing a noise, gave the alarm and the sheriff immediately came upon the scene and securely shackled the prisoner. The Governor was communicated with by wire and instructions were received to send the prisoner to the - ? X .L - ' J Ci. A penitentiary yesieiuay iiuciuuuu. V. Svkes, special deputy sheriff, left with the prisoner on the 2.30 train. VAST PETRIFIED WOOD. Xntural Curiosity in the State of New , York. "Near Mumford, in the southwestern corner of Monroe county, New York," said a native of that locality, "is a stone quarry that perhaps has | no counterpart in this state or elsewhere. "A dense grove of cedars northeast of the village grows on a wide and long level of bluish gray muck down into which the prevailing lime rock dips out of sight. The grove 'and the muck land are on a thick deposit of what appears to be a white rock mottled or streaked with a mixture of green, its appearance having been described as that of huge slices of Roquefort cheese. "When the idea was'advanced that this rock would make a novel building stone and blocks of it were removed from beneath the muck, it was found that it came to the surface soft and with a tendency to crumble, thus presenting additional resemblance to Roauefort cheese and ap j parently destroying its availability. I After a few hours in the sun and wind, however, the rock became hardened to a flintlike consistency, a solidity and toughness not exceeded by the hardest granite. "The discovery was then made that there was not a particle of basric rock in the deposit at all. It was all made up of fossil vegetable fibers, petrified cedar leaves, branches, twigs, broken bark and even whole stunps and knots welded and knit together into one dense tangle. "The theory is that as those parts of cedar trees, the growth of an unknown past, fell one layer upon another into the mucky depths, once the bed of a prehistoric lake, they were saturated with the dampness of the swamp and with the lime held in solution. As the vegetable matter decayed and the water evaporated every line, fiber and grain was preserved by the lime sediment, in time to be turned into flintiest- of limestone. "A church built of this fossil stone is an architectural feature of Mumford. A stranger glancing at the walls of the church would regard them as having been constructed of rough sand-stone, smeared with an uneven coating of gritty, coarse plaster, but from a closer view he would see instead of plaster, traceries of delicate leaves, lace work of interwoven twigs, bits of broken branches, fragments of mussy bark, splinters of wood, every block of "stone in the four walls a closely cemented mass of dainty fossils, an exhibition of prehistoric vegetation standing forth in bold relief as imperishable stone." ESCAPED CONVICT SURRENDERS. Stake Morris, Colored, Said He Merely Wanted to Visit Family. Greenville, Aug 15.?Stake Morris, the Greenvflle negro who made his escape from the State Penitentiary a few days ago and for whom re wards have been isued from Columbia, surrendered himself to Sheriff Rector tonight and is in the county jail waiting to be taken back to Columbia. Morris was serving a life sentence. Sheriff Rector this afternoon got a message from Stake Morris that he had merely wished to visit his family and that he was now ready to surrender. The official immediately got busy and soon had Stake in jail. * % - - V' V / \ i: J, COUNTIES YOIE ON LIQUOR SOME VOTE BACK THE SYSTEM OTHERS DO NOT. Vote in Bamberg and Barnwell Overwhelmingly in Favor of Dispensary. The dispensary election in this m ft r> /I S A i ! 1 UU Uii U v w U.& a quiCL aumi, auu i?, rvi;i i be noted that only a little more than i half the voters of the county exercised the right of suffrage. However, much interest was taken at the Bamberg poll, and prohibition meetings had been held at various points throughout the county, at which addresses in favor of prohibition were made by S. G. Mayfield and H. M. Graham, Esqs., of Bamberg, R. O." Purdy, Esq., of Sumter, and Mrs. Atkins, of Tennessee, who addressed a good crowd on Main street, in the open air, last Friday night. Tuesday morning a wagon loaded with small boys and girls paraded through the principal streets of the town, with large signs: "Vote for Prohibition," and waving flags containing prohibition sentiments. All the blind tigers in Bamberg were closed by order of the mayor while the polls were open, and their doors remained locked until the polls closed. It will be seen that the dispensary won by a good majority, but candor compels the statement that there has been no great change in sentiment in this county since the dispensary was voted out four years ago. The people generally seem not to favor the sale of liquor, but they say they were simply disgusted with the farce of prohibition in this county, and that they preferred the dispensary as the least of evils. Following is the unofficial vote by precincts: For Sale Against Sale Bamberg 149 82 Ehrhardt 102 50 Denmark 99 53 Go van 27 11 Olar 21 * 19 Midway 23 5 Lees 5 6 Farrell's Store 47 <19 Kearse 26 11 V. t ?? Total 499 . 256 A total of 755 votes were polled, both for and against. It will be seen from the above figures that only one precinct in the county gave a majority against sale, that one being Lees. It is thought that the dispensaries in this county will be open in about sixty days, and it is likely that four will be put into operation, at Bamberg, Ehrhardt, Olar, and Denmark. Elections were held in seven counties, and three voted against the dis- i pensary, viz: Abbeville, Lexington, and Sumter. In Abbeville the majority against the dispensary was large, being more than two to one. In Lexington the vote was 939 for and 944 against, being very close. In Sumter the vote was also close, 473 for and 485 against. Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Dorchester, and Orangeburg voted the dispensary back, they having voted it I out four years ago, while Florence and Jasper voted to retain it, these j counties now having the system. In Barnwell the vote was 907 for and 297 against. Calhoun voted 363 for and 281 against. Florence's vote was 673 for and 612 against, but the figures for that county are not complete. Jasper's vote was: 87 for, 49 against, with one box missing. In Orangeburg the vote for sale was " "* ^ri 1 A 7 ocainet a i,10U lux saic auu x,j.i _ majority of only three for the dispensary. A recount has been asked by the prohibitionists there, and it is likely that there will be a contest. The smallness of the vote in all the counties shows that many people: took no interest in the matter or that they were not satisfied with I either prohibition or the dispensary. We feel sure that there were a number of such in Bamberg county. They did not feel like voting for the sale of liquor in any form, yet they did not like the present condition of affairs, and therefore did not vote at all. Shot Husband and Her Guest Dallas, Tex., Aug. 14.?Miss Bertha Neeze, aged 24, was shot and killed, and Robert Iy. Adams, aged 43, was shot through the spine and probably fatally injured at the Adams farm house, near here, last night. Mrs. Adams, who was released on i ~ ~ ~ ' 1 ?V>nr.nrn/1 TTri+Vl thfl $1,UUU DOHU, is cuaigcu mnx | shooting. In a statement she declares she found the girl, who was her guest, and her husband in a room and warned them she intended to shoot. " . .. HAMPTON MAN SHOT; MAY DIE. ' Charles S. Blocker Perhaps Fatally Wounded by Jesse Smith. ' ss Hampton, August 13.?Chas, S. , Blocker, a prominent young white man of this town, w^s shot and probably fatally wounded last night about 10 o'clock by Jesse Smith. The shooting occurred on Lee avenue, the main thoroughfare of the town, in front of the store of W. Fred Lightsey, in which Mr. Blocker works as manager for Mr. .Lightsey. The wound was inflicted in the lower intestines, and the exact nature and effects of it cannot be ascertained without an exploratory , incision. Mr. Blocker was given immediate medical attention. He was carried to * a hospital in Charleston by the early : morning train, being accompanied by Dr. J. F. Folk, of Bruhson, and 'M Messrs. W. F. Lightsey and L. F. Causey. Alleged Starting of Trouble. It seems that Smith, who prior to this time has been repeatedly incarcerated in the local jail on charges |3 ranging from drunk and disorderly to murder, and who *was tried for mur- 'vjj der and acquitted several years ago, -vjj proceeded to get drunk last night and to shoot up the town. Mr. W. M. Bishop aqd several other young men were, it is said, threatened by Smith, and the drunken man shot at Mr. J Bishop twice before the altercation ,{$8 with Mr. Blocker, but his aim proved ^.3 untrue. ';||1 Hearing the shooting, six travelling men at the local hotel went out to. investigate, but, Smith herded them into a residence on Lee avenue. Mr. Blocker, ^who had just come into the f % town, heard the shooting and thought fire had broken out. When he arrived at his store he found ^ Smith there, and tried to quiet him, placing his hand on Smith's shoulders, when he was shot at close range, the bullet taking effect in the right f side of the lower abdomen, and f 3| coming UUl itUUUl SIA IU^uco ai uuuu * -t in front. It is possible that the mus- " cles of the abdomen deflected the bullet so that there was no entry into \ypr the cavity. , ' Wounded Man Whips Assailant. After being shot, Mr. Blocker, who is a powerful man, knocked Smith : down and proceeded to give him a sound beating. Mr. Blocker was about vS to shoot Smith, when some men rushed up and prevented any further trouble. Mr. Blocker was then given. ,<f medical attention and Smith was locked up in the local jail. . . - *y '* f$8 Warrants were sworn out before Magistrate Murdaugh this morning and Smith was committed to jail to / await the outcome of the shooting;" that Is, whether or not Mr. Blocker . .. *> ! will recover from the shot. * *"^11 Information Wanted. . ; ' . ' Editor The'Bamberg Herald: Will some one, through the colums of The' O * v: Herald, give me desired information? ' Can a town council compel owners of .v .. V automobiles and of bicycles to pay- a. .... . tax or license for same and owners of other vehicles pay absolutely noth: ~ ? Or. n/% C1inT\AOn T AH7T1 IJLlg r ui liiowaiiV'C, ou^/^vov? x v *t * ( an automobile and my neighbor-over V^j|| the way is the possessor of a horse.-.* , ^ and buggy, or carriage and pair,, and. the little boy next door owns a bicy- - * ^ cle. Why should I pay $2.00 a year, the little boy pay 50 cents a year, and my neighbor nothing? He drives his buggy as I run my car, just for pleasure, and each is a mode of con-: veyance, driving through the same * streets and with the same object. This 4 rule holds in a certain small town, * < and may be perfectly right and justiliable. I only ask is it right? And.' V ;' if so, why? A RESIDENT. _ , / Among the Profession. Mr. L. M. Glenn, a native of Anderson and son of the late Laurens Glenn, was in the city yesterday arranging some affairs here preparatory"1 ? / to leaving for Charleston where he will be city editor of the Charleston Evening Post. / \fr nionn rnmmenced his-newspa per career on the Daily Mail. Since * ' that time he has worked as reporter on the Greenville Piedmont, Columbia Reoord and Charleston ?News and Courier. At present he is city editor ot the Greenville News. He goes to Charleston to take the ' i.val place vacated by Joseph Barbot, who ? . has been made city clerk. Mr. Bar bot's long experience in newspaper work, hi?|thorough understanding of the affairs of the city and his high character insure his success in a municipal position. Mr. Glenn has the best wishes of a host of friends in Anderson in his new field of labor. The editor of the Evening Post, Thomas R. Waring, is one of the *>.. 'M most respected and most successful | men of the craft.?Anderson Mail. . ' i i . ' -?3