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1 f * f Uty? Hamtorg feralft One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3,1914. Established 1891. - ? =======^= COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. > News Items Gathered All Around the , County and Elsewhere. St. John's News. St. John's Nov. 30.?We have had ? some bad, rainy weather for the last few days. The union meeting was held at St. John's last Saturday and Sunday. Rev. B. R. Smith preached a fine sermon Saturday a. m., also Sunday a. m. Mr. J. P. Hiers went to a picnic in the Clear Pond section Thanksgiving day. There was a candy-pulling given at Mr. H. W. Carter's last Wednes* 1 rr' ^ /NniAVorl it aay nigru. i ne ciu** u cujv,<vu *? fine. There was a candy-pulling given at Mr. G. F. Hiers' last Friday night. There were several young folks from Ehrhardt there. i A crowd of young folks went to Mr. G. S. Shaw's last Saturday night to the sugar boiling. They had a grand time, t , Mrs. Banner Mears, from Charleston, is visiting her sister. Mrs. C. L. Brant. Rev. B. R. Smith, Mr. G. J. Herndon and Mr. C. S. Hiers were the guests of Mr. C. L. Brant last Sunday. Misses Ulah and Clara O'Quinn were the guests of Miss Edna Bishop -) last Sunday, i Miss Mamie Morris, Miss Wilhelmmina Folk and Misses Ulah and Clara O'Quinn were the guests of Miss Elizabeth Hiers last Saturday night. Mr. Conner Smoak and Mr. Herbert Folk were the guests of Messrs J. P. and E. P. Hiers last Saturday night. Mr. Henry Hutson visited some of his friends in Ehrhardt last Saturday night and Sunday. * Mr. and Mrs. Henry Herndon were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Peters last Saturday night and Sunday. Mrs. Larer Bessinger was the guest of Mr.v and Mrs. G. T. Kinard last Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brant and Mrs. Banner Mears visited Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Chittv last Monday. Mr. Lewis Hiers, from Augusta, is visiting his uncles, Messrs. P. M., C. M. and G. T. Kinard. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Bishop and imio son visited their parents, Mr. y and Mrs. G. S. Shaw, last Saturday night. Mr. Ben Brown and family, from near Sycamore, were the guests of ( Mr. and Mrs. Hayston Shaw last Saturday night. Mrs. Julia Phillips and family were the guests of Mrs. Pauline Mitchum ( last Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Brown were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hiers last Sunday. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, Nov. 28.?Misses Eloise and Alma Griner, of Beaufort, visited here Thanksgiving. Miss Elizabeth Woodward, of Val1 '""''to'i \fre T.aurpns You UUbUl, VJCL.f VIOJVW *u*w? mans recently. Mrs. Oregon Lawton and mother, of Barton, visited friends here Thanksgiving. Misses Bessie Priester and Clyde Best, of Bamberg, were in town recently. Misses Lizzie Rice and Kate Calhoun, of Allendale, were here ? Thanksgiving with friends. Mrs. Sadler and daughter, of Olar, were recent guests here. Mrs. Youmans, of Estill, was here recently. Mrs. Tom Deer, of Ulmer, and Mrs. Anna Barnes and daughter were the guests of relatives this week. Mrs. Myrick is getting the young folks ready for the play. "Popping the Question." Misses Mildred and Lee Lightsey, * of Brunson, spent Thanksgiving here with relatives. Mrs. G. H.. Jarrel and children have moved here from Barton and are keeping house. Cecil Lancaster, after spending ouite a long time in Atlanta, has re turned here. Junior Epworth League. The junior league met and held a devotional meeting last Friday evening. A splendid piece on Jewish manners and customs was read by Miss Rebecca Dickinson. This coming Friday a very important business meeting will take place. ? DISASTROUS BLAZK. I ' Ooi>e Suffers Loss of Eight Business Buildings. c Cope, Nov. 27.?The most destructive fire in the history of this little town was experienced this morning > before daylight, and as a result eight buildings in the business section and most of their contents are in ashes. All of the buildings destroyed were of wood. The'fire prac- , tieally wiped out the business section. ^ About 2:15 o'clock this morning the fire alarm was sounded. The citizens responded promptly and dis- c covered, the store of E. E. Ritter ablaze, the flames having already * burned through the roof. Although ( there was no wind, other buildings c were so close that the fire spread 1 rapidly to them, the firefighters, de- 1 spite heroic efforts, being unable to prevent. . * Stopped by Brick Walls. * Had it not been for the brick ? walls of the new, but unfinished, 7 bank building, which is of brick, a 3 number of residences would have 1 been destroyed also, as they were directly in the line of danger. The t owners heaved sighs of relief when t it was evident that the bank build- c ing would check the progress of the 1 flames, thereby saving their homes, f Although it is impossible to give t accurate figures at this time, the to- j tal loss is many thousands of dol lars. 11 Following is a list of individuals { and business concerns that will suf- t fer as a result of the fire and their r losses as closely as can be estimated: c The Losses. , t E. E. Ritter, building and $6,000 t to $8,000 stock, pretty well covered t by insurance; Cope Supply company, f building, owned by W. M. Hughes, $4,000 to $6,000 stock, about $1,000 insurance; warehouse in rear of this c store burned also; J. Ashton Antley, . building and about $1,000 stock, in# c surance $500; Cope Pharmacy company and O. F. Smoak, general merchandise. occupying building owned t by J. B. Williams; Cope dispensary, ^ in building owned by J. H. Clark; j. Southern Cctton Oil company, ware- 0 house and contents. f Very Little Saved. e All of the buildings referred to v above were destroyed. Several of ? the merchants saved small portions s of their stocks, but the salvage from e the goods rescued from the flames t will not materially offset the losses, E A slight loss was also sustained ? by B. B. Brickie, who conducts a s grocery and market in a concrete building, which, on several former occasions, saved Cope from almost i: entire destruction. d Some time ago, after a bad fire, * the town council passed an ordinance F prohibiting the erection in the busi- c ness section of anything but brick i buildings, so from now on Cope will f experience a new growth on a more t substantial basis, as it is understood 1 that practically all of the burned c buildings will be replaced promptly, f BELGIANS WILL COME SOUTH. J I Ie Charleston Chamber of Commerce ^ Interested in Movement. f Charleston, Nov. 26.?The immigration committee of the chamber of c commerce has manifested much in- a terest in the various movements for f the bringing of Belgians, rendered a homeless by the European war, to ^ this country as settlers. The com- t mittee was appointed only a few t days ago by President McLeod, of r the chamber, and the members have had practical1*- no time for the dis- j cussion of concerted action, but sev- j eral of them, individually, have stat- r ed that the reports in the daily pa- i pers of the plans for encouraging the i immigration of worthy Belgians to j , the South have interested them con- c siderably. Within a few weeks, according to c the present plans, a number of Bel- t gian farmers and their families, who \ are now war refugees in Holland ( and England, will be located on lands a in several of the Southern States, t which will be sold them by the own- \ ers at such rates and upon such terms \ as should enable them to finally es-|f tablish themselves as self-supporting j t American farmers. 5 The Southern Settlement and De- t velopment organization has a repre- 1 sentative in Holland, and within a ; short time two more will leave for i England and Holland to put into ef- < feet the matured plans which have l been built on practical lines so as to 1 conform in all respects to the laws c of the several countries, but which, ? however, will be carried out ir the ? spirit of a broad philanthropy. Let- ( ters have been sent to boards of ( ; trade and similar bodies in the South. land companies and individual own-JI N THE PALMETTO STATE! IOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS j KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA. I tote News Boiled Down for Quick j Reading?Paragraphs About1Men and Happenings. Up to Tuesday only $48,000 of the >1,800,000 taxes due the State had >een received by the State treasurer. This is about half of the amount revived to the same date last year. Clarence Hart died in Johnston Saturday as a result of injuries susained at the ginnery of the People's )il Mill. While getting motes out >f the gin his coat sleeve caught in he gin saws, drawing his hand into he gin. While trying to saparate two fightng dogs by usiifrg the butt end of lis shot gun, Andrew Fowler, a nejro, was killed near Spartanburg ruesday by the discharge of the gun tccidentally. The load struck Fowpr in the abdomen. ree man. ' The grand jury of Newberry couny complains that the books of the ounty auditor, Eugene S. Werts, are n "such a deplorable 6a as to thor ughly embarass the treasurer in the lerformance of his duty," and recimmends that steps be taken to stay he collection of penalties until the [iscrepancies have been eliminated, lereliction of duty is charged by the :rand jury. rs, who have large tracts of land, rhich might be suitable for locating Belgians thereon, asking if they deire to actively cooperate in the novement. Responses to these leters indicate a South-wide desire, iot only to help the Belgian refuses, but to help them help themelves. According to latest reports over 150,000 Belgian families, aegregatng 1.250,000 men, women ancf chil[ren, are war refugees in Holland, England and France. A large pro ortion of the men are skilled agri-| ult^uralists, and thousands are spec-: alists in the growing of vegetables. | ruits or flowers, in dairying and in he raising of live stock and poultry. L large proportion of the farming lass own 6mall farms in Belgium, rom which they were driven by the ontending armies, and information rom Holland and England is to the iffect that most of them have abanloned all hope of returning to their arms for many months, if at all. The Belgian farmers, market garleners, florists, dairymen, live stock md poultry raisers are world famed or their skill, thrift and remarkable ibility. They are accustomed to corking Intensively small farms and o a large extent they understand he conservation, upbuilding and enichment of soils and the intelligent imployment of manures and ferti-j izers. Although general farming as! iracticed in th? United States was! lot followed largely in Beigium, the Belgian farmer's acre yield is largely n excess of the acre yield in the Jnited States in several crops two >r three times as large. The year book of the United States lepartment of agriculture shows hat in 1912 the Belgian wheat har-! est amounted to 15.348,000 bush-i >Is, from 397,000 acres. (This gives in average of 3S.6 bushels of wheat o the acre, and the average acre ield in the United, States for the ear was only 15.9 bushels.) The ollowing figures of Belgium agriculure, taken from the 1913 year book, ;how that Belgium raised 38,000.000 uishels of oats from 64 8,000 acres an average of 58 bushels, against }7.4 bushels in the United States;) 1,316,000 bushels of barley from 54,000 acres, (an average of 51 uishels. against 29.7 bushels in the "nited States:) ,21,342,000 bushels )f rye from 650.000 acres, (an averige of 32 bushels, against 16.8 bush>ls in the United States':) 121,481,-! 00 bushels of potatoes from 387.)00 acres, (an average of 313 bush Is, against 113.4 bushels in the Jnited States.)?News and Courier. Harry S. Durham was convicted his week in Charleston of feigning o be a cripple, and sentenced to 30 lays or $25 fine. It is alleged that ie twisted one arm and sat on one oot in such"1 manner as to pretend o. be a cripple, and beg alms of K? IctS&CI OUl . Will Miller, an Indian, was among hose paroled on Thanksgiving day. 4e was recently convicted at Lexingon. and was paroled by the goverlor on .condition that he leave the >tate within 24 hours and never reurn. Miller has refused to accept he parole, saying that he preferred o complete the sentence and be a THIJKE FOl'XI) GUILTY. i .Spartanburg; >Jen C'onvicte I of Tak-| ,, . ... mj; Part Hi Riot. Spartanburg. >'ov. Li.?W. Jt. Belcher, Robert Wi'son and Horace Finch were found guilty late tonight by a jury in the circuit court of having participated in the storming of the county jail on August 18, I hi:;, by a mob of one thousand men, who sought to sieze and lynch Will Fair, a negro, accused of attacking a white woman, but later tried and acquitted. Robert Ward and Jesse Wolfe were found not guilty. Riot and assault and battery were the technical charges against five defendants. Judge Ernest .Moore is expected to impose sentence Friday. The trial consumed the entire day and was hard fought, a large array of counsel participating. Sheriff W. J. White's testimony was the outstanding feature of the trial. He told how raenibeis of th? mob pointed pistols at his head and reviled him witl^ insulting epithets when he refused to deliver the negro over to them; how they battered at the jail gate with heavy timbers and exploded dynami'e under the wails, and how, after the gate gave way, the mob were he!d at bay only by the titles of the sneriif and a ha'f dozen deputies. Three men were shot in the all-night oattle. .At dawn Sheriff White spirited Fair out of the prison and sent him to the State penitentiary at Coiumbia. Wariants have been issued for two additional members of the alleged mob and still other prosecutions are expected. Finch, one of the convicted defendants, was a candidate for the legislature last summer. Given Three Years. Spartanburg, Nov. 28.?Judge Ernest Moore in the court of genera! sessions today sentenced Horace Finch, W. R. Belcher and Robert Wilson, the three men convicted of rioting and assaulting the Spartanburg county jail on the night of August is. 1912. to three vears in the State penitentiary. Notice of appeal to the supreme court was given by counsel for the convicted men and the court fixed their bond at $1,500 each. Horace Finch arranged bond during the morning. Belcher and Wilson are held in the county jail, pending their bond. In passing sentence Judge Moore said: "In a true sense, your criminal acts were not only violations of the criminal laws of this State, but they were directly aimed against the enforcement of the laws of the State by the due and orderly procedure of the courts, as provided by law. Those acts were such as directly tended to subversion of all law and order, being" acts which sought to substitute the rule of the mob for that of the laws by the people acting through their legally established tribunals. "If such acts were left unchecked and permitted to continue, and if such offences were left unpunished they would ultimately and necessarily result in the subversion of all law and order and eventuate in the substitution of mob rule and anarchy for the due and orderly administration of justice by the people, acting through their legally and regularly ?nnrtc anH rilllv Chosen WUOUbUbCU VVU4 vw V...U ? ^ officials in the enforcement of the laws made by the people themselves." This is the culmination of the night rioting about the Spartanburg jail when the effort was made to lynch the negro, Will Fair, who was afterwards acquitted of the charge of criminal assault. Kifies Fires 200 Shots a Minute. Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 27.?A oneman gun, guaranteed to increase a soldier's fighting efficiency twenty or thirty times, has been invented by a Rochesteh man, Harry W. Sweating. The new gun weighs only nine pounds, half a pound more than the present standard rifle, and will fire from 1 6"> to 200 shots a minute. The velocity is 2,700 feet a second. "By holding the trigger back." Mr. Sweating says, "ninety shots are fired consecutively. The ejector is on the other side. The sight is only three inches from the eye, giving a quicker and more accurate aim than the present rifles. There is not a flat spring in the gun, and all parts are enclosed, which protects them from" the weather.'* Mr. Sweating has been working on the invention for more than a year, and has thirtyeight pages of specifications registered with the pataent office. He recently admitted that he was trying to sell the gun to Germany, but hinted that there was some probability of negotiations with this government. METH0DISTAPP0INTMEN1 tt'HKKE THE PKKACH K!iS ( NEXT YEAR. Appointments Announced at Sum Monday Xight by South Carolina Conference. I Sumter, Nov. 30.?The South C olina conference of the Method Episcopal church, South, as it 1 existed for one hundred and twen nine years, concluded its last s sion here this afternoon. Mr. J. Fuller Lyon was eleci treasurer of the Upper South Ca lina conference and Mr. Henry Williams, of Charleston, was eleci treasurer for the South Caroli conference. The Rev. E. O. Watson contim as secretary of the South Carol] p.Qd the Rev. P. B. Wells was eleci temporary secretary of the Up] conference. A matter which excited conside ble interest was a motion by the R A. H. Best and others to locate 1 Rev. 3. A. Nettles, on the ground unacceptabilitv. The Rev. S. B.eatty and the Rev. P. F. Kilgo a others defended Mr. Nettles, wh the Rev. Messrs A. H. Best, J. Harley and J. C. Chandler suppori the motion for location. The r tion pfevailed and Mr. Nettles is longer a member of the conferenc Bishop Denny announced the i wtmnnto f r\v 101" OC f7\11nWC* puill Lilian 10 l\J I uvi w. South Carolina Conference?-Charl ton IWstrict. J. W. Daniel, presiding elder. Allendale, H. G. Murphy. % Appleton, W. A. Kirby. Beaufort, J. H. Xoland. ' Bethel circuit, J. D, Bell. \ Black Swamp, W. H. "Ariail. . Bluffton,~Benj. L. Knight. Charleston, Bethel, S. B. Harp< Hampstead Square, G. C. Hutchinst Spring Street, Marvin Auld; Trini D. M. McLeod; S. A. Webber, sup numerary. Cartersville, G. L. Ingram. Cypress, D. N. Busbee. y Ehrhardt, E. J. Guess. Estill, W. V. Dibble. Furman, J. B. Kilgore. Hampton. J. T. Felder. Hendersonville, J. P. Patton. Lodge, F. E. Hodges. Ridgeland, George K. Way. Ridgeville, S. D. Vaughan. Summerville, J. P. Simpson? Walterboro, J. W. Wolling. Florence District. W. A. Massabeau, presiding eld Bennettsville, Peter Stokes. Bennettsville circuit, M. W. Hq Brightsville, G. W. Davis. j Bethlehem, J. T. McFarlane. Cheraw, G. T. Harmon, Jr. Chesterfield, J. L. Tyler. Darlington, Trinity, L. L. Bed baugh; W. L. Wait, supernumera Epworth, Henry T. Morrison. Darlington circuit, R. W. Hu phreys. East Chesterfield. T. R. Owen. Florence, Central, T. G. Herber Hartsville, T. R. Morris. Jefferson, J. A. White. Lamar, Hamlin Etheredge. Liberty, Paul T. Wood. Marlboro, J. R. Sojourner. McBee, S. W. Henry. McColl, J. T. Fowler. Middendorf, W. V. German, si ply. Pageland, J. A. McGraw. Timmonsville and Pisgah, J. Graves. Timmonsville circuit, G. T. Rho Conference secretary of ediicati Peter Stokes. Kingstree IHstrict. H. B. Browne, presiding elder. Andrews, W. 0. Henderson. Wades. L. E. Peeler. Co'rdesville, W. H. Perry. Georgetown, Duncan Memorial, J. Cauthen; West End, R. R. Tuck Greelyville, W. P. Way; H. Whitaker, supernumerary. Hemingway, P. B. Ingraham. Honey Hill. J. C. Davis. Johnsonville. S. C. Morris. Jordan, J. O. Burnett. Kingstree, D. Arthur Phillips. Lake City, W. H. Hodges. MeCleHanville, G. A. Teasley. Pinopolis, W. T. Bedenbaugh. Rome, P. A. Murray. Salters, J. W. Bailey. Sampft, G. C. Gardner. Scranton, J. B. Prosser. Summerton, C. C. Derrick. Turberville, P. K. Rhoad. Marion District. R. H. Jones, presiding elder, ing elder. Aynor, J. E. Ford. Blenheim, J. S. Beasley. Briton's Xeck, T. H. Bain, supp Brownsville, L. T. Phillips. Bucksville, W. A. Youngblo< rC I COTTOX FIliE AT BARNWELL. LS 165. Bales Burned in Farmers Union [JO Wareliou.se?Set? i Barnwell, Nov. 29.?Fire was discovered at an early hoiir last evening ter in the emergency warehouse of the ,x Farmers' Union Warehouse company on East .Main street. A high wind was blowing at the time, and it was possible to save only a small num ar- ber of bales from the flames, about list 165 bales being totally destroyed. , las Insurance to the amount of $8,500 ty- was carried. es- About three or four weeks ago an emergency - warehouse on the same ted lot was destroyed, together with 662 ? ro- bales of cotton, at almost the same P. hour of the evening. Coming so close ted together it would seem, in the opininu ion of many people here, that the fires must have been caused by incenles diaries, who evidently hope to inina creaee the price of the staple by deted stroying a part of the crop. _____??????? per , ? supply. ra Centenary, H. R. Doyle. Conway, E. L. McCoy. . - :K ev j - zijt * Conway circuit, W. R. Phillips. ? Clio, A. D. Betts. ? Dillon, A. L. Cauthen. " Floyds, F. S. Hook, supply. ,11(1 ' 3 .. Gallivants, H. W. Shealey. v. tile s Latta, F. H. Shuler. t ^ Latta circuit, D. H. Everett. Little River, J. E. Cook. Q0- ? Little Rock, F. L. Glenman. no Loris, D. D. Jones; H. L. Singleton, e. . oupciuuuici Ul J , Marion, B. H. Turnipseed. Marion circuit, M. M. McLendon. esMullins, E. S. Jones. , Mullins circuit, M. F. Dukes. Little Pee-Dee, E. H. Beckman. *Waccamaw, E. F. Scoggins. . 'A Sunday-school field secretary, W. ) ,v/J9 C. Owen, Dillon quarterly conference. Editor Southern Christian Advo- I cate, W. C. Kirkland, Mullins quarterly conference. er* Orangeburg District. )n M. L. Banks, presiding elder. Bamberg and Bamberg mills, E. O. er Watson. x Barnwell, J. W. Ariail. Branchville, T. J. White. Cameron, T. W. Godbold. Denmark, H. G. Hardin. Edisto, C. B. Burns. Eutawville, to be supplied. x'j.-, Grover, T. A. Shealey. Harleyville, H. 'C. Boulware. Norway, A. S. Lesley. Olar, Achille Sassard. , Orangeburg, St. Pauls, W. B. Dun can; w. S. stokes, supernumerary; Elliott Street, J. S. Rice. Orangeburg circuit, W. A. Becker* ham. Orange, J. J. Stephenson. * " 3: Providence, T. L. Belvin; J. F. Way, supernumerary. Howesville, J. A. Graham; G. W. Dukes, supernumerary. Smoaks, J. C. Counts. en" Springfield, E. P. Hutson. ,ry* St. George, W. E. Wiggins. Sumter District. m H. W. Bays, presiding elder. Rothanv O. M Rrmntrpp t Bishopville, G. E. Edwards. Camden, C. B. Smith.Camden circuit, A. C. Corbett, sup, piy. :M Elloree, J. L. Mullinnix. Fort Motte, W. C. Gleaton. Heath Springs, J. B. Weldon. Kershaw, S. D. Bailey. Lynchburg, S. J. Bethea. Manning, G. P. Watson. Oswego, J. P. Inabinet. . ' H Pinewood, R. M. DuBose. Providence, J. E. Carter, supply. ad Richland, W. S. Myers. St. Johns and Rembert, J. P. Attaon, way. St. Matthews, G. F. Kirby. Sumter, Trinity, R. S. Truesdale, Broad Street, J. M. Hodgers; Sum ter mission, W. G. Elwell. Wateree, J. L. Morgan, supply. H Transferred, J. B. Mahaffey, to Tennessee conference. er. Upper South Carolina Conference? Anderson District. T. C. O'Dell, presiding elder. Anderson, St. John, J. W. Speake. Orville and Toxaway, W. T. Belvin. Bethel, S. W. Danner. Antreville. B. M. Robertson. Calhoun Falls, George Gary-Lee. Clemson, J. M. Steadman. Central, Elzie Myers. Honea Path, S. T. Blackman. Lowndesville, J. C. Chandler. "\ T IT An^orcnn. *?1V,VVI iuivn, / . a. . ?141N?V4UVM. Pelzer, J. H. Danner. v Pendleton, W. M. 0wings. Seneca circuit, X. G. Ballenger. Starr, J. L. Singleton. Towiville, R. H. Lupo. Walhalla, J. L. Stokes. (jv Walhalla circuit, H. A. Whitten. Westminister, D. O. Spires. od, (Continued on page 4, column 2.) -4