The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 08, 1914, Page 4, Image 4
(Thr fBamlirrg Brralb
ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. W. KNIGHT, Editor.
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Thursday, Jan. 8, 1914
With two rural routes now leaving
the Bamberg office and with two additional
ones to be established in the
near future the merchants of Bam
berg ought to extend their trading
operations by parcel post, not only
to customers on these routes but to
many others. The rates for transportation
are low, and the business
of the town can be greatly increased
if our merchants will go after the
business.
One great drain on the resources
of Bamberg county is the money that
goes off to mail order houses which
should be spent at home with our
merchants. We trust every merchant
in Bamberg and in every town in the
county will make a determined effort
this year to get this trade which is
going to the mail order houses. People
generally have little idea of (he
amount of money that goes out of
the county for goods which could be
bought just as cheaply and possibly
cheaper at home. But the catalogue
mail order house advertises and gets
the business. The wise merchant will
see the point.
The people of Bamberg should not
let pass the opportunity to secure an
election on the question of sewerage.
There must be a constitutional
amendment voted on by the State at
large to allow the town to issue
bonds for this purpose, and our representatives
should be instructed
by petition to secure the passage of
a joint resolution at the approaching
session of the general assembly
o trAtn An tliic omonrl_
uuwuv* C* * vvv V/U ttiiiViixl
ment. This procedure must be gone
through with, and if the amendment
is not voted at the general election
next fall, we will have to wait two
years more. Now is the time to act.
The old town is coming right along.
Let's give her another boost, and
nothing will be of more benefit than
extension of the water mains and
sewerage.
GOOD WORK.
Bamberg county certainly took a
long step forward Monday in
the effort to obtain better roads.
True the meeting was small, but
it was most certainly a representative
body of men, representing
most if not all sections
of the county. In the meeting we
heartily. favored appropriating the
entire dispensary profits to roads and
bridges, and we still think it the
best thing to do. As *to the government
offer, that is another matter.
It the contract to be entered into is
one that could be accepted by the
county, well and good, but it seems
to us that we can certainly build good
roads in this county for less than
51,000 a mile. However, the matter
of government help can be investigated
fully later.
The recommendation of the committee
that the towns also contribute
a portion of their dispensary
profits to this purpose is commendable,
and Bamberg has in the past
shown her appreciation of good
roads by an appropriation from the
city treasury of $2,000 for this purpose.
That our present city council
will continue to do all that they
consistently can for better highways
we feel certain. However, the treasury
is very much depleted at present,
and we do not know how the other
towns of the county are fixed financially.
Jtfut wnetner tne towns contrioiue
the proportion of their profits asked
by the committee, we feel sure that
something is going to be done to im
i prove our highways?that is, give us j
\ permanent roads. And when vvo do
J start, for Heaven's sake, let's build }!
! them wide enough for two tracks and
keep them so. Any practical plan :
i for better roads will have the hearty j,
j support of this newspaper, and if j;
I any pet idea we may have is not J1
j carried out we will not stand back j
j or kick out of harness, but continue ! ]
I to assist as best we can those pro;
gressive and public-spirited citizens ;
i who are endeavoring to develop the ,
! county. There is no better invest|
ment than money in good roads, but j?
| remember, all places cannot be \
I reached at once. There must be a i
1
definite plan laid out and followed, 1
j and in the end each section of the ]
I county will receive the benent. me <
! committee appointed at Monday's j
j meeting has done well, and we feel
I sure the interest of these gentle!
men is not temporary but abiding.
YOUXf* WOMAN WOIXDK1). (
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j Miss Margaret McFaddin Accidental- ,
ly Shoots Herself With Pistol. <
Miss Margaret McFaddin. a popular
and attractive young woman of .
Columbia, acidentally shot herseU
j with a pistol late yesterday afternoon
i while she was closing a safe at the
court house in the office of her '
brother, A. D. McFaddin, master in '
equity^of Richland county. She was 4
taken to a hospital immediately after *
j the accident. Her condition, while (
grave, is not regarded as desperate. 1
Miss McFaddin was alone in her 1
j brother's office, where she is employ- '
i ed as stenographer, when the acci- 1
dent happened about 6 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. The exact circum- (
stances surrounding the accident are 3
not known, but tbose who reached 1
j Miss McFaddin first are of the opin- '
! ion that the pistol fell on the floor ,
[while she was stowing some papeis
j in the safe and was either discharged 1
! then or while she was putting it
j back.
| W. R. Couturier, deputy clerk of (
I .court, whose office-is across the hall !
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from tttat or tne master, was uie mm
person to come to Miss McFaddin's
assistance. J. Frost Walker, clerk of ,
court, reached her side a few minutes
after Mr. Couturier. Together '
they assisted her into an automobile
and she was rushed to a hospital. A.
D. McFaddin and Miss Edith McFad- 1
din, a sister of Miss Margaret McFaddin,
who is the stenographer for '
Sylvan Brothers, hurried to the has- 1
pital as soon as they were notified of
the accident.
The bullet from the pistol went J
through Miss McFaddin's body. The
| wound was regarded at first as very 4
serious, but after an operation last
night the physicians announced that *
the internal organs were not per- !
forated and that the wound was not
of the desperate character they had 1
feared.
Besides her brother and sister in 1
Columbia. Miss McFaddin has a wide
family connection in Clarendon county,
where her mother, another broth- 1
er and five sisters live. Miss McFaddin
has many friends in Columbia
who were shocked when they heard 1
of the accident and who hope that
she will recover speedily from the ef- ,
fects of the wound. t
At a late hour last night it wag ,
said at the hospital that Miss McFad- .
din was resting well.?The State, .
Tan. 8.
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MERCHANT SELF SLAIX.
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Kartsville Retailer, C. L. English, j
tires Bullet Into His Temple. ,
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C. L. English, a young merchant of 1
Hartsville, killed himself iast night .
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at the Keeley institute, 1329 Lady ,
street, by discharging into his brain .
a 3S calibre bullet from one of two (
revolvers in his possession. J. a. (
Scott, coroner, had the body removed
to the McCormick undertaking estab- J
lishment and will decide today (
whether an inquest shall be held. <
Young English, according to the
coroner's information, had been in .
Columbia for some days. He was not .
a patient at the Keeley institute, but (
came there to see a kinsman. Last ,
night his relative gave the young
man some medicine to quiet his .
nerves. The sedative apparently had
the intended effect and Mr. English
undressed and went to bed. But he
had been alone in the room less than
five minutes when the shot was heard ,
at 10.15 o'clock. He was unconscious
and dying when found. The
heavy ball had entered the right temple
and emerged through the left
eye.
Mr. English was in his early thirties
and was unmarried. He went to
Hartsville from Union and for five or;
six years was a shoe salesman in the
store of J. L. Coker & Co. About two
years ago he entered into a partner~u:_
t p ATnT.^rul under the I
Siup ? llll .J. 1 .
style of English & McLeod. and the j
firm opened a men's furnishings store !
in HartsviJle. They have been sue-1
cessful in business, it is said. Mr. |
English was of attractive address and j
enjoyed considerable popularity.? j
The State, Jan. S.
BORN ON TRAIN. I
Stork Calls on Mrs. Murdock in Pull
man at Atlanta Depot.
Atlanta, Jan. 3.?When J. A. Mur-j
Jock of 147 Kelly street went to meet j
his wife and her mother at the train i j
this morning a strange physician
whom he never had seen before met
him at the Pullman door and told
him that Dr. Stork was attending
Mrs. Murdock just then and that
everything was fine.
One hour later, or at 7.30 o'clock,
i tiny cry was heard in the dark car
under the train shed of the union depot.
A little son had come just in
time to be met by his father and to
leave the train with his mother and
grandmother. An ambulance carried
them all to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Murdock.
By good fortune a physician hap- 1
pened to be on the train wnkh I
brought .Mrs. Murdoch and her moth-j
?.r. The physician's own wife was ill
in another car and after Mr. Mur- t
clock's arrival a second doctor was
?al!ed to relieve him.
ACCIDENT, SAYS JUDY.
Coroner Investigates Killing of
Spurgeon Kelly at Union.
Union, January 6.?Spurgeon Kel!y,
a young white man, was snot, and
killed Saturday night near the Excelsior
Knitting Mills. Henry Rec,or
had handed Kelly a pistol to
examine. Kelly returned the weapon
:o Rector, who was in the act of
putting it in his pocket, when the
pistol was discharged, the hall strikng
Kelly in the chin, ranging upward
and causing almost instant
ieath. The coroner's jury, after
investigating the circumstances,
?ound that Kelly came to his dfcath
is the result of an accident.
MRS. CANXOX WILL RECOVER.
Woman Accused of Attacking Her
Xot Yet Caught.
Orangeburg. January 6.?Mrs.
Sue C. Cannon, who was seriously
injured several weeks ago, during an
attack made upon her by a negro woman,
at Mrs. Cannon's home, near
ranee, this county, is making good
progress toward recovery, her physi
?ians having pronounced her out of
ianger, Mrs. Cannon sustained a
number of cuts and bruises, and A
while none of them in itself was con- "
sidered dangerous, there was a fear
that blood poison would set in.
Mrs. Cannon is still in this city, at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. J.
Morgan.
The woman, Mary Gaillard, who is
alleged to have attacked Mrs. Can^r,
non, has not yet been caught. At
nne time it was believed that she
had gone, by the Santee river, to
Charleston, where it is said, she formerly
lived, but the county authorities
now seem to be of the opinion
that the Gaillard woman is still in
aiding n the vicinity of Vance, and
the officers are still on the lookout
For her.
Elections by Legislature.
Columbia, Jan. 7.?Elections will
take up several days of the session
Df the general assembly which con- 1
renes here next Tuesday. Investigar
tion of the records in the office of the
secretary of State shows that there
ire 22 places to be filled by election
it this session.
Following are the places to be
filled: Two directors of the State
incnratifio r>r?m r?i i&sion
^CllILCilUUl J , uiuuiuuw ^ w ---...
sr. State librarian, two trustees of
:he University of South Carolina, ore
trustee of the Medical College of
South Caroiina, two trustees of Wintlirop
Normal and Industrial college,
three trustees of Clemson Agricultural
and Mechanical college, one 4
member board of visitors of the Cita- *
iel, two trustees of the State negro college,
judge of the Third circuit, I
judge of the Fourth circuit, judge of .
the Sixth circuit, judge of the Eighth
:ircuit and associate justice of the
Supreme Court. '
The general assembly will this
year elect a chief justice of the Supreme
Court. The late Y. J. Pope was
elected chief justice in 1906 for a
term of eight years. Upon his death *
Ira B. Jones was elected to fill out
the unexpired term. Eugene B. Gary
was elected chief justice when Judge
Jones resigned in 1912 to enter the
race for governor. The asociate
justice and the chief justice will be
elected for terms of ten years each.
Bridge Builder Killed.
Florence. January 6.?R. \.
Robertson, of Winston-Salem, N. C.,
a bridge builder of the Atlantic Coast
iJne, was struck and instantly jailed
by extra train engine No. 289 at Pee
Dee late Sunday evening.
The body was brought to Florence
and taken to Waters' undertaking establishment
and prepared for burial.
The coroner held an inquest and the
verdict was in accordanoe with the
above.
The remains were carried to Win- i
ston-Salem Monday morning, acompanied
by A. L. Deacker, for burial.
Mr. Robertson was about 32 years .
old.
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