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* ~ ? 1 $amb?rg feralb | J ? _ One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1913. Established 1891. | I COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. l + News Items Gathered All Around the c County and Elsewhere. c Ehrhardt Etchings. * s Ehrhardt, November 17.?The dis- 1 pensary opened up its doors to the H public on Saturday last. Its trade 1 R commenced from the opening. Was L Kr good all day, so much until all the f ? ^ 1 x- :i M V oaiance 01 toe mercuaxits iei?. it. rum or five was locked up in the red top r inn and one or two fights. Fairly a good start for the first day. t Pres. Pleasant E. Monroe, of SumH merland College, preached for us on m Sunday night. He is a good preacher W and his talk showed that he had faith A in what he was saying. Come again, reverend. The fishermen on Ashepoo river K last week had good luck and the o K catch was good and fine average * Bp trout and jack of good flavor. Bel Cotton does not come in so fast . H now. Must be about gathered. Oats are being planted now. . SflK The young folks are making bar- ^ Rk gains, or at least trying to perfect ^ HB them. Just when to close them ^ H B seems to be the trouble. Hffi Some hunters went Saturday to try J Hp their guns and birds. Don't think ^ HPT they were in good practice as one ^ PS young man made the remark after the birds had been flushed and flew BE away, "Wonder why I did not shoot?'' * C BBK Had his gun in hand in position. S8? Starting up the Hacker Co. seems MM to be as slow as anything starting H up again. I Mr. K. L.. Williams, 01 ceuiune, S. was in town Sunday. Did not find'out his business, unless he was looking for men to work for him. Mr. Sam W. Copeland is making l headway with the brick work on his I store. s Mr. J. I. Copeland is hauling brick f on the ground for two brick stores on \ his lot. Let them come, they are \ needed to make insurance cheaper, i Mrs. Julia O. Hiers went to Barn- i well, S. C., to spend a few days with c her lister, Mrs. John Reid. a Mr. Knight, inspector for the post- \ office department, made the assertion t that Postmaster Jacob Ehrhardt, of c Ehrhardt, S. C., holds the oldest com- c mission as postmaster in the State. JEE. { j Fairfax Fancies. j . c Fairfax, November 16.?There was I a "Dime Reading" Thursday evening a for the benefit of the library. The pieces were most amusing and a e pleasant evening was spent. The , "Song by the Teachers" was especi- ? ally amusing. f Misses Harrison and Albergotti t took a trip to Orangeburg last week, r the home of the latter. They report s o totv finp timp m Hugh Craddock, who has been do- c * ing house building work in Camden ^ for some time, is here now and finds j ^ plenty to do here in that line. 1 Rev. D. B. Groseclose and family ^ are comfortably ensconced in the g Lutheran manse here, which is like a new house now. We welcome them j cordially here, as he was popular ^ when he left here several years ago. Mrs. Otis Compton, from Clio, spent j I some time here with relatives. f The little child of Mr,. Farnham Compton (who lived with Mrs Marion ? Craddock) died last week. g Mrs. Mamie Getsinger, of Wash- J ington, D. C., visited here last week. ^ The U. D. C. held its last meeting at Mrs. W. White Anderson's. Quite ( a pleasant hour was spent. t Mr. and Mrs. Perry Lightsey, of nwypkAtvllle. visited friends here re- , HP . cently. B Mr. and Mrs. Ketch in and son are B spending a week with Mrs. John Harter. g The Woman's Home and Foreign t missionary societies, of Fairfax Luth- r eran church, executed a very inter- \ esting program for Sunday evening. ( Music by Misses Kenney, Harrison, Albergotti, Mesdames Johnston and < * Lightsey. Little Helen Lightsey and i Lonie Folk did well, and of course little Fannie Wilson captivated the 1 crowd. Eight little girls sang very I 6weetly. Mesdames Wideman, Young, Wing- ? ard, Connelly and children have re- 1 turned from a visit to Augusta. Several speak of going to Charles- ? ton for fair week. ? Allen Harter, Wm. Thomas and ! Frank Thomas also visited Augusta ! 1 recently. |1 All are congratulating Mr. and j IMrs. P. H. Loadholt, a little daughter. J Mr. Gordon Kearse has been quite ' sick but is up again, Mrs. Wm. McDaniel and Mrs. Ken-' PHYSICIAN SHOOTS SALESMAN. | tilling; Said to be Result of Talk Over*Family Troubles. ? Kansas City, Mo., November 18.? )r. W. T. Elam, former city physi- <; ian of St. Louis, now a prominent itizen there, this afternoon shot and tilled W. T. Cramer, of Chicago, alesman for a magazine, at the Baltiaore Hotel, in this city. Cramer was about 40 years old. c )r. Elam is 45. The two went up to 1 Cramer's room to talk over some ^ amily trouble and when the shot c t*as heard employees rushed into the oom. Cramer was dead. Dr. Elam e .dmitted the killing and was taken \ o police headquarters. f ? C A County Fair. g UftwnnkirA pAll/iarn 11 T?11 O ?>Ctt naiiiusuuc uun iuiu, J. H., Nov. 11, 1913. 1 Mr. A. W. Knight, Bamberg, S. 0 < Dear Sir: Several weeks ago I no- J iced a piece in the "Herald"* in re- ? :ard to a county fair for Bamberg t ounty the coming year. Just allow I ue to say that I certainly do most c leartily second Dr. Black's motion. '< In a number of the Western States, t has been my pleasure to make a -j ery close study of agricultural con- s Litions, and it would seem that in j he most prosperous counties in these f (articular States, we find the people t aking a very great interest in coun- j y fairs, particularly of an agricul- ? ural and educational value. A It would seem that a county fair g >roperlv conducted, and of an eduational and agricultural value, would >e one of the greatest movements to- 1 rard better agriculture for Bam- t >erg county. Yours very truly, ? W. E. STOKES. 1 a i Court Proceedings. < c When The Herald went to press j ast week the case of G. Victor j Cearse for the killing of Joe M. Kin- j ey was being tried. This case was i inished Friday, the jury returning a -erdict of guilty of manslaughter. He vas given a sentence of three years ] n the penitentiary, without hard | abor, on account of his physical conli+inn inH hie? nrrtvrw>fl tinn fnr the UCXUU O.UU 111Q y* \/ t V W.V4V- ?w. ^ ict. Appeal to the Supreme Court ras taken, and the judge granted c >ail. Bond was at once given. This ase concluded the general sessions :ourt. Monday, civil cases were taken up, he first case being that of Miss Alma rolk against the Seaboard Air Line lailway, a suit for damages. A ver- t lict for $1,750 damages was return- 1 :d by the jury, $1,000 actual dam- i iges and $750 punitive damages. f A number of cases were marked ? snded. and in the case of R. R. Coney 1 igainst Saltkeatchie Lumber Com>any a consent verdict was rendered \ or $3,500 damages. This case has > )een tried twice, and each time a t nistrial was the result. It was a ? uit for damages for personal injuries J lustained while in the employ of the < lompany. In the cases of O. J. C. Lain and r. R. Morris against the Seaboard Ur Line Railway, consent verdicts vere rendered for $250 each, the lame jury acting in each case. The case of H. C. Folk against \ A. Carroll resulted in a verdict of J ! 1,100 for plaintiff. ' Nixon Grocery Co. against J. A. o rarrti>t fnr $831.28 for ^ lUUL^l, U f V* v**w T daintiff. The jury was dismissed yesterday it noon, and in the the afternoon everal orders were taken and equity msiness transacted, court finally adourning during the afternoon. While the civil court only consumjded two and a half days, much msiness was transacted, and the cal>ndar is in better shape than for a ong time. Walter Wyatt, white, aged 16, was irrested in Greenville on Tuesday by Sheriff Rector. The boy confessed hat he has been concerned in five obberies in and near the city withn the past two months. He impliiater two other youths. Iricks, of Hazen, Ga., are visiting elatives here. Miss Effie Wates, who teaches rear lere, spent Saturday with Mrs. H. larveley. J Mrs. Eliza Hickson, of Williston, is (pending some time with Mrs. G. W. 3arber. Miss Margaret Folk has accepted i position with the Bank of Estill. She will be much missed here. Rev. M. H. Shuman and daughter, Sdith, also Mr. Hanimie Crapps, of Airman, visited J. W. Tuten recently. Rev. E. N. Nungazer and E. O. t uawton, of Estill, visited Rev. Wm. i Simpson Sunday. i Miss Carrie Weekly, of Ulmer, is I vith her sister, Mrs. Otis Weekly. I N THE PALMETTO STATE >OME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. itate News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The damage suits against the Lancaster & Chester road for deaths and njuries at the Hoopers creek trestle ^reck last July now amount to $338,.00. In characteristic language the governor denies the story sent out from iVashington that he has withdrawn rom the race for the United States Senate and will ask a third term as governor. W. C. Davern, former South Atantic league umpire, and two of his companions, named Schwab and tones, have been bound over to the iessions court of Richland county on he charge of forging the name of Dr. M. M. Rice to a prescription for *>caine. They all seem to be cocaine ienda. The nine young men, seniors and uniors at Wofford College, recently suspended by the faculty for becomng members of the Kappa Alpha raternity in violation of the rules of he college, have left for Trinity Colege in North Carolina. It is understood that they will enter Trinity vith the same grading as they held it Wofford. It is said ,in Columbia that a bill vill very probably be introduced at ;he next session of the general assembly to abolish the state income ax law as a result of the national ncome tax law. Comptroller General Jones has repeatedly pointed )ut in his annual reports that the aw is not being enforced because of nadequate means. The tax has imounted to only about $14,000 durng the past several years. Thomas E. Fischer, Jr., a twelve;ear-old boy of Charleston, was shot md killed Monday of this week by lis playmate, Jewel Bremer, 14 years >ld. The boys were shooting at a arget and the shooting was entirely tccidental. Bremer was shooting at he target when Fischer stooped lown to pick up an empty shell and ?ot in line of fire just as Bremer ired. The bullet took effect in his lead and he lived only a short time. A report comes from Washington he Blease will not enter the race or the Senate next year, but will *un for governor again, and will run or the Senate later, possibly against senator Tillman should the Senator's ite be spared to make the race again, rhere are so many political rumors ?oing around that-one does not know vhat to believe. Certain it is that he Blease banquet in Columbia has split the governor's forces oaaiy, ana iust now they do know "where they ire at." County Pair. To the Editor of The Bamberg Berald: I see what our good friend. Dr. J. B. Black, has to say about a Bamberg county fair, which I must ;ay I am heartily in favor of and liink we should get busy and organze same. From what I know of the jood people of Bamberg county and heir progressive spirit, I am sure ve can get the hearty co-operation of ill the farmers, merchants, and busiless men of the county, especially do think the good ladies will take a ?reat interest in same, displaying heir fancy work, canned fruits, preserves, flowers and good cakes. I inow a great number of chicken Tanks with their various breeds, all >f the best, who would like to come orward and show what the hen is loing for Bamberg county. Best of ill I hear of the progressive farmers )f the Denmark section beginning to aise Bamberg county mules for their arms, which I think shows a very )rogressive spirit. I know these gentlemen would take great pleasure n competing against their neighbors, vith the best looking mule. I don't enow just what our good friends in he Olar and Ehrhardt sections are loing, but I know if it is not mules, hey will have something equally as ?ood looking to show at the fair. Gentlemen, fellow citizens, and neigh>ors, let us all hear from you, and :ome forward and organize the Bamberg County Fair Association, which vill require a few shares of stock :rom each one of you, and, I am ,rery sure it will pay you a small lividend on vour investment and at ;he same time put us in line with ill of our sister counties surroundng us, all having the best county ?air. Yours for success, GEORGE F. HAIR. SCHOONER'S HOLD FULL OF FISH c jl Xot a Soul on Hoard?ISaffling Mys- j tery of th? Sea. { I New Bedford, Mass., Nov. 6.?The j faded, yellow pages of the logbooks ; of the New Bedford whaling fleet * fail to record a mystery of the sea more baffling that that presented today when the revenue cutter Gresham towed into port the Gloucester fishing schooner, Annie M. Parker, p which was picked up Monday jvith all p, sails set, her hold filled with fish and f ?? K/\or/1 P C\ miloc I W 1UIUUI a 5UUA UU uua.1 u, u v uuivu j east of the Nantucket lightship, j. There is no trace of any of the nine- t teen men composing the schooner's ^ crew. ^ In its details the mystery recalls c the case of the Boston brig Marie s Celeste, which was found abandoned f at sea some forty years ago. The fate of her crew never was known c to the world. i 1 The British steamer Astrakhan c bound from New York for France, sighted the Parker Monday drifting c with all sails set. Boarding the j schooner, officers of the steamer f found four of the dories missing, A ^ few burned pieces of bread was all ^ the food in the galley, indicating t that before leaving the crew had has- c tily gathered together a supply of t provisions. The schooner was not leaking and g was in perfect condition, except for g the loss of one jib. Salt fish, valued ? at about $8,000, filled the hold. t A prize crew from the Astrakhan took charge of the Parker and turn- c ed her over to the Gresham. The Parker's owners said she sail- t ed from Sydney, N. S., for her home port October 26, after a fishing trip , to the New Foundland Grand Banlfs. She was in command of Capt. Vincent Nelson, a verteran Gloucester t skipper, and was manned by a crew ; of eighteen, rne owners courn oner no explanation of the abandonment of the vessel. There is a possibility that the Parker's crew was picked up by some sailing vessel. Had they been taken on board a steamer the rescue probably would have been reported by wireless. Husband's Fidelity Stands Test. Erie, Kans., Nov. 12.?The ornaments are on the mantel over the fireplace, the knives and forks are in place on the dinner table, and every other thing in the Martin Brewer home here is just as it was a dozen years ago, although no one has set foot inside the house in that time. Mrs. Brewer died 12 years ago. "Just leave the things the same as 1 if I was here," she told her husband. 1 Her wish has been respected. I The top of the sewing machine is c up just as she left it when she was c taken sick. The tea kettle, pots and S pans she had set on the kitchen t stove still are there. No one has been 1 allowed to touch a thing in tne nouse. i After his wife's death Brewer lock- ^ ed tha house. In all the time that has elapsed since then it has not been i unlocked. i The old place possessed tender memories for Brewer, and after the l; death of his wife he used to go there t and sit on the front porch in the i evening, living over in his mind the \ days that had gone by. But he never i went into the house. Everything ( there was just as his wife had left it. t Neighbors used to suggest to ( Brewer that he hire carpenters to i fix up the house and sell its effects c he could not use. Everything in it c for years has been deep covered with dust. The floors have sagged and broken through. The paper hangs in strips from the wall. c "No, I don't believe I'll bother the 2 place," Brewer replied. "I told mam- ( ma I'd Let the things alone just as * she left them. That's the best way." ^ The house and its owner seemed to slip downward with time togeth- j er. As the building became more dilapidated Brewer became more frail and infirm. When he sat on the porch on summer evenings it 1 made a harmonious picture?the * husband devoted, just as he was 2 when his wife died, the house just 3 the way she had left it. ^ Brewer died recently. The house s still stands locked. No one would * disturb it. The building is in what was the best residential district of " Erie, but the city has grown away s from it. The people know its story, 1 however, and for the place all seem s to have a reverence. The house was * owned by Brewer when he died. No ? heirs have come to claim it. It stands as it always did, a monument 8 to a husband's devotion. ' The Cotton Market. c Cotton is selling in Bamberg to-day i (Wednesday) at 13% cents the 1 pound. Receipts here for the season t amount to 10,693 bales. f / :OTTON PICKING MACHINE CI 'ATENTEI) BY NORTHERN MAN IS GIVEN A TRIAL. Economy Question All That Remains j to lie aeiueii lieiore i>eiiig ^ Put on the Market. ci V? Anderson, November 18.?Mr. W. 01 C. Dana, of Westbrook, Maine, is to iere with one of his patented cotton oc lickers, making experiments to learn to ts actual commercial value. He was tc iere 17 years ago making investiga-, fc ions along this line and at that time m vas the guest of Mr. Jos. J. Fret- t! veil. He is back here again with the s utput of his ideas and his plans, Vi md is making experiments in the cc ields of Mr. Fretwell. w Mr. Dana Saturday tried out his es otton picker on a place planted by st dr. J. L. Cochran, former manager oi >f the county farm. The picker op- 2i irates on the pneumatic suction prin- tl :iple, and is operated by three men. g< Sis there are negro hands who can T >ick from 350 to 400 pounds a day it gi vould be necessary for this machine ei o pick about 1,500 pounds a day and tl 0 pick it clean, for it to be a finan- e< ial success. There is no doubt about ir he fact that it will pick the cotton. The picker sits between two rows md is a squatty little contrivance ^ ibout the size of a cultivator with 1 four horse motor swung to it. Beween the handles is the sack into ^ vhich the cotton is dropped as it is sucked from the bolls by the long . ii ubber tentacles operated by the mo111 or. There are two of these tenta- . D :les or pickers and each is operated . D! )y one person. The rubber hose terninating in the patent picking ar- ^ angement will stretch over about hree rows of cotton so the machine o; vi 11 cover five or six rows at a time. r< The operator merely pokes the end >f the rubber hose at open bolls >f cotton and the machine does the j est. The picker at the end of the ^ lose has a kind of rotary motion, tnd when the pin points at its end ^ ouch the open locks of cotton, the tl" ibre is given a little twist which g emoves it from the boll. Mr. Dana's . D; mderstanding of the nature of the cotton is shown in his having a juard on the end of the picker ^ vhich catches against the end of ^ ;he bolls and prevents them from D1 leing sucked in also. ^ r< Woman Fights the Union. ^ New York, Nov. 13.?Mrs. Catherine Haverty, who for four years has ** )een conducting a taxicab business ai eft without a head when her hus- n land died, defied her sixty striking a] chauffeurs today by sending out her 0 cars with twenty non-union drivers. e: She decided even to ride herself on ** - fr ;he front seat of the first car out of ? ler garage notwithstanding that she oelieved the strikers contemplated 81 riolence. w Anticipating trouble, the police ar- w anged to give Mrs. Haverty and her ^ ion-union men ample protection. s Mrs. Haverty asserts that her late ** lusband aided with money and advice 51 ;he creation of the union that is w iow threatening to ruin her and a vhich she declares has depreciated 11 ler property from $150,000 to $50,- r< *00. She was ill, she asserts, at the S( ime her agreement with the union Bxpired on November 1 and the inion would not agree to wait a few a< rp lays until she might be able to dis- x :uss terms. g< m tc S. Tom Bailey, a citizen of advanc- a >d age, was struck by an automobile ii >n the streets of Clinton Thursday md badly hurt. The automobile was iriven by Milem Hellans of Dials ownship. 11 ii UEGRO IS RIDDLED WITH SHOT. v >osse Surrounds and Kills Man Who . <p] Shot Sheriff McCain. ^ Columbia, S. C., November IS.? pi Sdward Winbush, a negro, was killed pi his afternoon by a sheriff's posse in l canebrake near Frost, a station w ibout five miles from Columbia, ir -Vinbush was almost shot to pieces, tt eventeen bullets taking effect in his di >ody. st The negro is the one who shot at tl sheriff McCain yesterday and was m :urrounded in the swamp to-day. t is said that he was in the act of tz ihooting at one of the posse when a S< mllet ended his life. Winbush was fc ibout 20 years old. N Winbush had founght off his pur- bj iuers all night and all morning, ir Bloodhounds were used to trail the bj legro this morning. The negro fired li: >n a crowded street car when his ar- ei est was attempted. This morning te Kw wi ro 1 nnlii^Tnon ct le WiU* luuatcu UJ lUitti W )ut escaped after firing at the of- aj icers. tfc \ ' ' ' :7" 'tj&Xk GOES TO FOURTH PLACE. narleston Attains High Rank as a Cotton Port. For the first time in at least 20 ;ars Charleston has, according to atistics compiled up until last Frily, taken fourth position among ties of the United States in the ilue of cotton exportations. The der of standing of the leading cotn exporting ports, according to this mtpilation, is as follows: Galves>n, Savannah, New Orleans, Chariesm. The exports from Charleston ir the season are valued at approximately $12,000,000 and are greater lan they have been at any previous' sason up to th s time. It is conseritively estimated that the season's >tton export business from this port iH amount to $25,000,000. This * ftimate holding good, the export :ason for this year is now about half rer. This is the first season in some 0 years, it is authoritatively stated, 11| lat Charleston's cotton exports have one beyond those of Wilmington, his port's cotton business has been radually* increasing for the past ght years. It will be remembered iat the cotton export business reach3 the low water mark of $600,000 1 the year 1906. AEROPLANE HITS CROWD. erveral Are Hart in Accident at ? 19 Camden. several peopie were mjureu nueu le aeroplane of Frank Terrell crash1 into the crowd that was witnessig his flight at Camden Friday afteroon. Mr. Terrell attempted to land, at as the claw which is used as a rake on his trailer refused to pene^ate the hard ground, he lost control ' his machine with the above results. [rs. King, mother of Walter King, f Camden, was hurt the worst. She Vj jceived.the full force of the machine * ad was severely bruised. It is feared lat she received a broken bone in le shoulder. Wilmer King, of Be- v lune, also received the full compact I the machine and was knocked unmseious for a few moments. His.Iite daughter was slightly bruised. Jas. hearn was bruised and his clothes adly torn. McDowell Lewis received cut f on the temple and a negro urse was knocked down. Little Jack ettles, who was with the nurse, was 4 irown on one of the planes of the lachine but was uninjured. Mr. Ter- ^ * ell received a bruised arm when irown from his seat. The accident happened so quickly lat people were dumfounded, women nrt ehiidren became hysterical and ished toward the injured to see if y were their friends or relatives, there, more timid, ran towards the ?hibit building fearing to look upon le injured, who lay writhing on. the round. Dr. Corbett was immediately to the de of Mr. King and Dr. Brasington ent to Mrs. King's rescue. They ere hurt the worst. Others went to ? Ir. Terrell's aid, who was on the round near the fence, in front of ie machine. For several minutes a - * nail panic reigned, but the crowd as soon calmed by the assurance of number of influential men that the ijuries were not serious. Mr. TeriU broke down and wept, and it was >me time before he could be induced """t > leave the ground and return to ie hotel where he is stopping. The n-Anorontlv TL-?IC* 11 na vniffflhlp ' t appai^uvi/ ft MK7 he crowd had been warned not to j on the ground where the accident >ok place, but in their anxiety to get good view did not heed the warnSouth Carolina Ranks Third. With an output valued more than 525,000,000 the cotton mill industry i 1909'among the industries of the nited States, South Carolina ranki third in number of persons emloyed and seventh in value of goods roduced. These figures were comiled by the census bureau and made ablic today. The striking feature of the report as the discovery that the increase i manufacturing is much greater in ie South than in the North. The inastry is confined almost wholly to ates east of the Mississippi river, lere heing only twenty establishients west of the river reported. Massachusetts is the most impormt state, North Carolina second, auth Carolina third, Rhode Island >uth, and Georgia, Pennsylvania, ew Hampshire, Connecticut and Alaima in the order named are next i rank. In these three states Alaima, North Carolina and South Carona nearly nineteen percent of all nployees are boys, and under six ieD years of age. In New England ates the bureau found the percentof women employes much greater lan in the South.