Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ Hamburg tforalh One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 9,1914. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS j ] SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. ] News Items Gathered All Around the , rv?nntv and Elsewhere. | ] * ? , News From Kearse. Hearse, July 6.?The new church at Kearse is to be dedicated next Sunday, the 12th, and on Saturday, the 11th, quarterly conference will be held, Rev. M. L. Banks presiding. On Sunday he will preach the - . sermon dedicating the house. Dinner "will be served and two sermons that - day. All are invited to attend, especially those who gave so liberally to the erection of the church. Fine rain on Sautrday, the 4th, the first good rain of the year. Just in time to save the corn crop, the most promising in years. The farmers are all smiles now. How a needed rain cheers. No eardene here, and vegetables scarcer than ever before, it seems. j Quite a number are to go on a ' fish this week in the low country. ' Hope the fish will bite. . Several of the young ladies are on | a summer outing, visiting kindred m? and friends at several places. A good public road is sadly needed * from Olar to Ehrhardt. Fifty-eight automobiles passed over this route in one day, not counting v,cher ve- , hides, which shows that we need a . better highway. How long before , we get it? Don't forget the farmers meet at i St. John's church July 31st. There is much to be learned by the farmers ( on their line. B. , ; . * j Wedding at Olar. , Olar, July 2.?A quiet but beautiv ful home wedding was solemnized 1 on last Tuesday, June 30th, when j / N Miss Mildred Kearse, youngest < daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. i Kearse, and Mr. George DuPre San- < ders, of Fairfax, were united in holy bonds of wedlock. j The pretty country home was a , scene of purity and freshness on this : occasion, so tastily decorated in white i and green. Only the immediate fam- i ilies and a few friends were present. The guests were received in front i parlors and then arranged in line , along the spacious hallway, where i promptly at 12 o'clock, to the strains of the wedding marcn, Deauuiuny 11 rendered by Miss Myrtle Roberts, an I ' accomplished pianist and intimate i 1- friend of the bride, the young couple entered, carrying a rich bouquet of white carnations and delicate ferns, gracefully marching to the rear of i the hall and stood upon a dainty I ' platform, exquisitely erected with snowy back ground, effectively drap[ v> ed with long trailing vines, surround[ ed by potted plants and ferns. >' The picture was made complete > when the man of God, Rev. C.. Walker, pastor of the Methodist church, stepped forward , and with all the grace and dignity becoming such an hour, impressively ^ performed the solemn vows which made them one, while sweet music , 60ftly floated from an adjoining room. ; The bride, at all times attractive, I never appeared lovelier, modestly atkT tired in a going-away suit of new , blue with corresponding accessories, and the very expression of her sweet innocent face during the ceremony , typified the real beauty of her character. After congratulations and sincere good wishes, ah invitation to the din ing-room came, and there indeed was *. an enjoyable part of the day. A ' tempting salad course, followed by f delicious cream and pound cake, was served amid the charms of pink and ; white flowers. The many magnificent gifts, attest- j ing popularity and esteem, were displayed, and soon the happy pair, abundantly showered with rice, departed in their handsome motoring I car for an extensive honeymoon, visI ? iting 'several points before reaching their summer home at Hendersonville, X. C., where they will spend I . the warm months, after which they I will return to Fairfax, S. C., and be I at home to friends. 1 Mrs. Sanders is a model young I woman, of rare beauty and accomI plishments, loved and admired by all I who know her, and will be greatlv n missed in the community she leaves. * , Mr. Sanders is an exceptional young business man of estimable character. May their future be one long scene of sunshine, with but few clouds to darken life's pathway. , It is better to have a boil than a grouch. You can usually cure the i boil. & +4 BABY SLAIN BY BOY. JJ Little Negro Kills Negro Infant With Stick. S( Lancaster, July 7.?News reached here to-day of the killing of a negro si child by a small boy in one of the rural districts of the county Saturday. The child's mother, it seems, had asked a little negro boy 5 years Df age to look after and amuse her baby while she went on 6ome errand Dr to do some work somewhere a w short distance from the house. The n< boy replied that he wouldn't mind the baby but would kill it if left with d< him. Thinking that the youthful t3> picaninnv might carry out his threat 01 Df killing her baby if left to his keep- w ing, the mother locked the child in in i room until she could get back, as *he thoueht. But she had not been gi ;one long ere she was called back to E riew the remains of her dead baby, ir for the little boy, who had been re- Si luested to attend the child during the M mother's absence, had climbed in at C! the window, it is said, and with a 3tick had beaten the baby to death. pj Sheriff Hunter went yesterday to the C scene of the murder, where he interviewed the youthful alleged murderer pT md his parents and found the facts ^ in the case as stated above. q Schedule of Protracted Meetings in ?* the Pastorate of Rev. E. A. ^ McDowell. Hunter's Chapel?The meeting Si will begin at Hunter's Chapel Thurs- S] lay morning, July 9, and continue si through Sunday morning, July 12. tc Hours for daily service 11 a. m. and th 5 p. m. gi J- ? MA ? 4- D rtf V? ftp C r DtJluesua. me mccwug, aL ucmta- aj 3a will begin at 5 o'clock Sunday ei afternoon, July 12, and continue pi through Wednesday, July 15. After tl Sunday there will be two services in iaily and dinner on the grounds. M Colston?The Colston meeting will Ij begin Wednesday afternoon, July 15, ' at 5 o'clock, and continue through Saturday, July IS. After Wednesday there will be two daily services and It dinner on the grounds. St. John's?At St. John's the meeting will begin on Sunday morning, July 19, and continue through Wed- tl nesday, July 22. There will be two pj services each day and dinner will be a] served on the grounds. p] Springtown?The meeting* at rj Springtown will begin on Sunday, j jt July 26, and continue through Wed- fl, lesday, July 29. At this church there j will be two services daily and dinner jn on the grounds. e] At the four meetings first mentioned the pastor will have the assist- a) ance of the Rev. W. R. McMillan, of g: Bamberg. At Springtown he will be gl assisted by the Rev. T. V. McCaul, of jr Clemson College. The public invited to all of these meetings. m w Denmark Personals. m Denmark, July 4.?Mrs. Annie Calhoun, of Barnwell, is a guest at ei Locksley Hall, the residence of her fj niece, Mrs. L. C. Rice, visiting her ei sister, Mrs. Mary Hartzog. ei Mr. and Mrs. F. V. James have re- a turned home from the Isle of Palms, n< where Mr. James attended the bank- ri ers' convetnion. They came back by pc Kingtree, where they stopped on a ir visit to friends. m Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Minor have re- ri turned from their bridal trip and are n nn-ar r,* liAma ir? tlio Rrnv rocirtpnpp CI UV n at 1X1 I>UV * ? wwswvmvw. w% H. D. Pierson, of Tampa, Fla., is on ir a visit to his father, A. D. Pierson. tl Mrs. J. K. Breedin, of Manning, is tl visiting in Denmark. m PASTOR SEEKS ARREST. [J ni In Order to Show Wrongs of Exist- c, ing Personal Laws. Y Boston, Mass.. July 4.?W. Lathrop Meaker. a former clergyman, is p the leader of a new movement, the aim of which is an attack upon existing personal laws. He already has j h violated the law, he claims, and if A this does not cause his arrest, he tl plans to steal a loaf of bread, a pie, a: or something more valuable, which n: will land him in a cell. t( Mr. Meaker, his wife, and Mrs. tl Herbert E. Smith and her two daughters, formerly of Jamaica Plain, are * d now the only ones in the movement. They all live together on Mrs. S Smith's farm near Phillipston, Mass. o "Mrs. Smith has refused to make U any accounting of the property left li by her husband to the Probate d court," Meaker says. "She has spent the money left her just as she pleas- s< ed. She has torn up every warrant, h summons, and order received from the court. si "I expect to be arrested and so a does Mrs. Smith. If we can awaken a the great mass of the people to the o inadquacy and unfairness of existing personal laws we shall be satisfied." h I THE PALMETTO STATE )ME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS EN SOUTH CAROLINA. tate News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The rural letter carriers' associaon, which met in Spartanburg last eek, decided to meet in Florence ?xt year. A few days ago the governor par)ned a white man in Cherokee coun' who was convicted of selling liqu\ He promised to issue the pardon hen he spoke at the campaign meetg at Gaffney last week. The campaign in the first con essional district is now going on. . J. Dennis and R. S. Whaley, the icumbent, are the candidates. peecbe6 were delivered tnis ween at banning, Monck's Corner, and harleston. Charleston has inaugurated a camtign against rats by paying three snts a head for the rodents, dead or ive. The campaign is taken as a ecaution against the introduction of ie bubonic plague with which New rleans has been infected. Thousands dead rats are being brought into ie health department. The most disorderly meeting of the snatorial campaign was held at partanburg last Saturday, when ipporters of the governor attempted ? howl down Senator Smith. Even lough they were appealed to by the avernor to give Smith the same relectful hearing that he (the gov nor) had been accorded at other aces b'y Senator Smith's supporters, le noise kept up and Mr. Smiti ade his speech with great difficulty, essrs. Pollock and Jennings severe' criticised the governor as usual. A PERILOUS CATCH. , Takes Good Nerve to Stay Long in This Game. What would baseball experts do if ley were suddenly called upon to itch red-hot rivets? Could they pitch ad catch red-hot rivets standing on lanks on the 18th story, say, of a sing skyscraper as cleverly as they lggle with baseballs on the baseball eld? It is just as absorbing and interestig to many folks to watch iron work's pitch and catch red-hot rivets as is to watch two baseball teams in :tion. Undoubtedly it requires a reat deal of cleverness. The dansr in two forms is ever near the nn workers?. Thev mav have a bad ill or be severely burned by a misirected red-hot bolt. Judging by the lanner in which they work, one ould imagine they possessed as any lives as a cat. A new steel skyscraper is being ected at Franklin, White and Latyette streets and the iron workers igaged in putting the frame togeth: are always successful in causing crowd to gather by their expertess in pitching and catching red-hot vets. Spectators gather on the opjsite side of the street and watch the on workers hour after hour. The ien who are in charge of the actual veting are continually supplied with id-hot bolts by a young man who ands near them with an empty keg i his hands. His duty is to catch le flying rivets as they are thrown irough the air by another young an who heats the rivets at a small irnace situated some distance from ie man with the barrel. The pitcher ever makes a wild pitch and the ither never makes a miss.?New ork Sun. icks Clinkscales for Next Governor. Augusta, July 6.?Harry D. Caloun, former traveling man out of ugusta and at one time president of ie T. P. A.'s of Georgia, who is now a influential banker and business lan of Barnwell, S. (J., is in tne city )-day and he talks interestingly of le South Carolina political situation. "Governor Blease is facing certain efeat this year," said .Mr. Calhoun, and 1 am confident that Senator mith will be returned. There will, f course, be a second primary beveen Blease and Smith, and 1 beeve the Senator's majority will be ecisive. "Governor Blease will be effectively inelched once and for all time and is forces are already demoralized. "As for the governor's race, it ?ems to be that Clinkscales has bout as good or better chance than nv, although it will require a secnd primary to decide it." .Mr. Calhoun says that the crops in is section of Carolina are fine. DIES FROM INJURIES. J. H. Keil, Well Known Planter, Succumbs. Walhalla, July 7.?J. H. Keil, a prosperous and widely known farmer of this section, died at his home, two miles south of Walhalla, early this morning from injuries received last Friday afternoon. It is believed that Mr. Keil mounted his mule to ride home after a day's work and that the mule became frightened and threw the rider, who became tangled in the harness and was dragged a considerable distance. He was never conscious except for a few moments at intervals. Served Forty Years in Penitentiary. Milwaukee, July 7.?The most unpaid man in America, if not in the entire world, is a temporary resident of Milwaukee. He is Thomas Henry Murphy, 59 years old, alias Thomas Mclntyre. alias "Snake" Murphy, alias twenty other names and his record (considered one of the most remarkable of any criminal) is in every police station in the United States. Murphy he says himself, is a "cheap crook." He has served thirty-six years in penitentiaries in three States. This does not include sentences in houses of correction, county jails and callabooses for minor offences nor the time lying in jail while awaiting trial, about five or six years. "The wages of sin are small," "" t. J? yv .1 ? n V\ C\r> t TVtQn QO V? WUlliCU liic agcu, ucut Uiau uv crouched on a seat in district court. "I have spent more than forty years of my life in prison, but the total value of all I have stolen will not reach $100." "I started when I was a kid," he explained, after some wheedling. "I was living with my mother in St. Louis. A negro washerwoman was drunk on the street and a cop stopped an express wagon to take her to jail. I picked up a stone and hit the cop back of the ear, laying him out. I was sentenced to the reformatory until I was 21. In two years my mother got me out. "After this I was in no serious trouble until I moved to Colorado. This time I stole about $5 worth of stuff and got 12 years in the penitentiary. I had broken into a place and the charge was burglary. I was sentenced three times in Colorado, serving about 18 years in all. "Then I went back to Missouri, but it was no use. I kept getting in bad there and in Kansas. As fast as I got out I would steal some small thine and eet back in again. I haven't had a free summer in twenty years. Every, summer I have been locked up. That's why I came up to Wisconsin. 1 planned to have a great time, working around the lake hotels and taking it easy, I had made up my mind to be honest." Murphy was arrested in a saloon. He was drunk and was trying to sell a new pair of shoes for twenty-five cents. He said he bought the shoes, but could not name the place, so was sentenced to ninety days on a vagrancy charge. He had been in Milwaukee four hours. Murphy protested he had bought the shoes and declared he was being sentenced because of his past record. "If you really bought these shoes, Murphy," a man who heard the storytold him, "I will help you, I will go to every shoe store within a mile of where you think you got them. If it is found that you bought them I believe the judge will let you go." Murphy scratched his head, "Maybe we had better let well enough I alone," he said, ".Maybe if you found the place I would be in more trouble than I am now." "Why is it that you were never straight?never really tried?" .Murphy was asked. "Booze," he replied. "I never had sense enough to let it alone. It is hard enough for a man who has never been in prison to beat the booze game. A man with a record can never do it. As soon as 1 get out of jail I beat it for a saloon. I might as well walk right back to the police station. During the forty years I have been locked up 1 have thought of an epitaph that I would like to have placed upon the headstone of my grave?if I am lucky enough to have a headstone. Here it is: "Here lies 'Snake Murphy,' He was in jail forty years. Cheap booze kept him there. They still sell it." Considerate. "Mother, why do they play some of the music so low and some so loud?" "So that the people who are hard of hearing can get their money's worth."?Philadelphia Ledger. CROPS INJURED BY BAIL SEVERAL COUNTIES IN UPPER STATE SUFFER. York, Laurens, .Anderson and Cherokee Among Sections Visited. Yorkville, July 7.?York county was visited by another crop-destroying hail storm early this morning. It extended over an area, so far as known at this time, from Dallas, N. C., to Rock Hill, S. C., and was from three to five miles wide, literally wiping out everything in the way of vegetation in its path. The storm passed down the eastern border of the county for eight or ten miles and then diverged to the southeast. While the full extent of the damage cannot be learned, it is not likely that it will amount to less than $500,000. At some points the hail stones were as large as hen eggs and drifted to a depth of one to six feet. The storm commenced between 8 and 9 o'clock last night. There was considerable wind and great damage from this source. At the same time there was another destructive hail storm southwest of Yorkville, but it did not cover a very extensive area, only wiping out the crops on three or four farms. The damage in the county is estimated to be far greater than the storm that visited the Clover section on August 2, 1912, owing to the fact that the area covered is so much more extensive. Terrific Hail at Laurens. Laurens, July 7.?Hail storms wrought havoc to the growing crops in two sections of Laurens county early this morning. In the vicinity of Woodrow Wilson School, a few miles west of the city, and along the Greenville branch of the Charleston and Western Carolina Road, as far as Barksdale, a great destruction to the crops is reported. The hail storm lasted twenty minutes and in that time corn and cotton were beaten to a frazzle on many farms. Samples of corn and cotton stalks stripped of their foliage were exhibited here to-day. One farmer reported his watermelon patch literally beaten to strings and a melon the size of a quart cup shows forty or fifty indentations, some as large as a quarter and the punctures a half an inch in depth. The other locality visited by the storm is east of Clinton and includes | Goldville. Here the crops sunerea greatly and are said to be practically ruined. It is said that after the storm the ice pellets were gathered up in great quantities in drift places. Biings Bag of Hail to Town. Gaffney, July 7.?A severe hail storm passed over Cherokee county la6t night between 9 and 10 o'clock, devastating certain sections west of Gaffney. The path of the storm was about one mile in width and a number of farms are practically ruined. One farmer brought to Gaffney a bag filled with hail stones, many of them being as large as guinea eggs. Heavy rain accompanied the hail, increasing the damage. None of the farmers damaged so far as could be learned carried storm insurance. Storm in Anderson. Anderson, July 7.?A severe wind and rain storm, accompanied by heavy hail and electricity, played conI siderable havoc in the fertile MounI tain Creek section of the county early I tn Jn,. TVio urinrlc hlew Hnwn SPV tVUtt J . iiiv ./-V ?. eral houses and the corn and cotton crops were practically ruined by the hail and downpour of rain. This same section was visited by a terrific wind and hail storm last Friday. Lightning struck the pump station at ! Brogdon Mill and it was destroyed by I fire, putting out of commission the 1 transmission wires from Portman j Shoals for about four hours. Constable Killed. Wilmington, N. C.. July 5.?Deputy Sheriff Isaac W. Skipper, of Brunswick county, this State, was instantly killed, G. W. Skipper, Jack Skipper and a negro named Cap. Kooinson, were wounded by James Tomoney, a negro, when the latter resisted arrest after shooting up a negro lodge meeting at Northwest near here last night. The attempted arrest was made in a crowded store and after shooting the officer, the negro opened fire on the crowd, fighting his way to freedom. As he was crossing the road in front of the store, some one in the crowd opened fire with a double barreled shot gun, both loads taking effect in the fleeing negro's side. He was brought to a local hospital where he ; is expected to die. S? 1.". ..vtsi i _ THE CEMENT PEDDLER. How He Demonstrates the Qualities of . His Wares. . ' The old style street vender of crockery cement sets up a tripod from which he suspends a mended plate *-ith two blocks of paving stone hanging from its lower edge. The nh-ioet of the eYhihit nf ronrse Is to show how surely dishes mended with the cement will withstand a tremendous strain. This makes what might be called the demonstration positive. The tripod man rarely or never speaks. But there is another street vender of crockery cement who goes about his business in quite a different fashion, giving what might be called the demonstration active. No silent man is the demonstrator. He is a fluent talker, and between talk and action he keeps busy all the time. He has a push cart containing a stock of cement, an alcohol lamp, a broken pitcher, perhaps, and two or three crockery plates, whole or broken and a hammer. Such is the outfit, and here is the seller, proceeding to demonstrate as he talks. Hammer in hand, he picks up the broken pitcher or one of the plates and knocks off a generous size piece, telling you as he does so how truly invaluable this marvelous cement is in every household. As he talks he uses the hammer again and breaks the fragment that he had knocked from pitcher or plate into two pieces, which in a moment he will once more unite. . . ;? Still talking he picks up a stick of cement and strips off the wrapper, and then he warms the edges of the " broken pieces of china in the flame of the alcohol lamp. Then, still talking on its amazing merits, he warms the stick of cement, gives just a sweep of it along the edges of the china and then sticks the two broken pieces together. Usually, he says, they stick instantaneously, but this is a cold day and it may take a few seconds, and holds the two pieces pressed tightly together for half a v ? minute. Then with quick earnestness and energy he raises th?-. piece of monHpH fhin.i hieh above his head and dashes it to the ground. "You can't break it," he says, "you couldn't if you tried," and sure enough there the just mended piece ' of china li?s on the street pavement i unbroken. The demonstrator stops, picks it up and then, with the crowd looking on, he hurls it to the ground again, and again with all his force. "You can't break it," he says, "voux couldn't if you tried. You may break it somewhere else, but never at the joint united with this cement." il This is the demonstration active, in fact it is4 full of live action, and also it is convincing and now the people step up and buy.?New York Sun. Greenville Man Attempts Suicide. Lynchburg, Va., July 5.?Despondent, David M. Hoke has made three attempts at suicide in this city within the past three days. Hoke- locked himself in a room of the Virginian Hotel Thursday evening and swallowed seventy-five grains of morphine, so he stated. He then fell asleep on the bed and remained there until Friday evening, when he was discovered by hotel employees. The ambulance was quickly summoned and he was rushed to the hospital, apparently at the point of death. In the act of cutting his throat with a pocket knife, Hoke was discovered by a nurse at the Lynchburg hospital that night. The nurse grabbed the man's arm, but when he attacked her with the knife, she became frightened and fled from the room. Hoke locked the door after her. Bleeding freely from the throat and with a pool of blood on the floor, Hoke was found a short while later, when peple at the hospital broke through the door. Hoke seemed to be disappointed that he (fid not die. He stated'that he thought he had cut the jugular vein, and when he was informed that he had not, he asked the physician where the vital blood vessel lay in his neck. While the man was locked in the room at the hospital, he stabbed himself in the neck twice, inflicting deep and ugly wounds, but they may not prove ffetal. Yesterday morning he attempted to end his life again when he broke an electric light bulb and opened the veins in his wrist with the fragments of glass. Physcians again thwarted his attempts and his chances for recovery are still good. He says that he has no desire to live and really wants to die. : !; .:.A-.