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^ ' m W eltr Samtern ffirralft i ' i One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1915. Established 1891. . M - 4 i m COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS < SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. > News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt. June 2S.?In a game, featured by fast double plays and sensational leats, Ehrhardt defeated Walterboro on the local diamond Friday afternoon. Hiers. for the lo4 cals, pitched high class ball, not a visitor reaching the keystone sack, and only two hits being registered off his delivery. Witsell, for Walterboro,. who relieved Rice in the third, pitched- a steady game, striking out nine men in six innings. This is the second game played. Walterboro winning the first. The third of the se V ries will be played on Friday at \\ aiterboro. Score: Ehrhardt .. ..320 000 01*?6 5 1 Walterboro ..000 000 000?0 2 5 Umpires. Dannelly and Kearse. The annual Newberry college reunion will be held at Mt. Pleasant church on July 14th, with Dr. Geo. B. Cromer, of Newberry, as the principal speaker. The public and all *V N graduates and ex-students of the col!'^ ^ lege are cordially invited to attend. This reunion is not for Newberry Students exclusively, but for all college men. The programme will be a long educational lines and promises to be very interesting and instructive. The committee will be glad for all who , deem it possible to attend. Dinner will be served on the grounds. t News From Lemon Spur. Lemon Spur, June 29.?More rain; more grass! Prospects are good for hay if it does not get drowned. Miss Eva Hughes, who attended the Ulmer's high school the past session, is at home for the 'summer vacation. Miss Virginia Hill is at home from Limestone college. V Mesdames W. M. Berry and Alonzo Clark, with their four childrer, also their sister. Miss Minnie Jordan, of Johnston, are visiting relatives here. Posts are being put up to place telegraph wires on along the B., E. & W. railroad. The road proves a good deal of service to the farmers in the lower and interior sections of the county. Miss Georgie Emma Jordan, of Salem school, is at home. The wheat crop has proven a splendid investment. The flour is fine -and it looks like living to all those good things in the farmers' barn. * , ? Clear Pond Breezes. i Clear Pond, June 25.?We are >?Qv4njr vorv -warm weather now. The farmers of this vicinity are taking advan\age of every opportunity to kill the grass. Miss Allie Morris, of Ehrhardt, with her cousin. Miss Eda Belle Morris, of Davisboro, Ga., visited friends and relatives here recently. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Folk and Miss Dorris Folk have returned from a pleasant visit at Hilda. Miss Clara Priester has returned to her home in Bamberg after a short visit to Miss Mamie Morris. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Folk, and Miss Wilhelmina Folk attended the Salem school picnic Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pearson and children visited at the home of Mr. * C. K. Smoak Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Folk visited relatives at Farrell's Cross Roads Sunday. M" inr-?ic.?Nr1 xi,ico rt f Hamilton. iU 4 . ?? 11CUU 4'iu^V) V X , visited at the home of Mr. J. R. Morris Saturday. Hunter's Chapel News. Hunter's Chapel. June 29.?Pastor J. R.-Smith filled his appointment at Hunter'6 Chapel last Sunday and announced that the annual protracted meeting at this place would begin the second Sunday in July, Mr. J. W. Steedly is the first to have real home grown wheat bread. others will have some before Ions. ^ Mr. and Mrs. X. H. Fender and little son spent Saturday and Sunday 4 "over the swamp" with relatives. Mrs. Julia Steedlv went to Holly Hill last Friday to visit her daughter, Mrs. J. Francis Folk, her granddaughters. Bettie and Olive Steedly. accompanied her. Mr. J. A. McCormick, of Orangeburg county, is in the neighborhood shaking hands with old friends. He has headquarters at his son's, Mr. J. - KITAKilZKS WAR COD. | JJ| Maxim Comes Near Breaking l"p Stu-j <!ent Conference. ! SC ( Ithaca. N. Y., June 2t>.?An ad-j dress bv Hudson Maxim, the inventor,! St today, threatened to disrupt the stu-j dent conference on international re-j latious, which is in sessions here. .Mr. Maxim spoke on armament, na-1 tiona! i repnrdiiess and neutrality, and after !:e concluded his remarks' ^ thirty delegates, who disagreed with ; ^ his expressed \iews. left the hall.j.^ One delegate moved to adjourn, but ' the motion was lost. An apology! 1 pr was offered the hiventor and harmony was restored. t v Mr. Maxim characterized Pontius* Pilate as the "arch typical neutral;"! declared modern style guns and arm- [ *1( aments are life saving machines ana jV-1 asserted that it is more dangerous to; Si ride in an automobile than to go in j lr the trenches. He said that war hasj never done harm, but always has,1*1 done good and asserted that the Unit-j ed States needed an army "strong, enough to defeat any coalition of na-J tions that could possibly stand j ag against us." ! J. ; d< Oil in Orangeburg. le I se .Mr. L. A. Carson, one of the prom-| inent farmers of the eastern portion j of Orangeburg county, was in Orange-; j burg Monday, and had with him a j I Co i sample of oil which he found upon j , his farm near Holly Hill. It seems j ! that Sunday Mr. Carson found one of j ec I ? j ' his wells tainted with oil, and he had 1 the well drawn out. When the wa- st ter was taken out, one of the men; found a trickling little stream of j ' what appeared to be oil coming out, s and it burnt just like ordinary ker- w h osene. Mr. Carson showed some of 1 cc the oil on Monday, and to all appear$ ' cnoh as sieht and smell, it seems i to be oil. He intends to have an expert come down and look into the m situation if the oil trickling contin- w ues.?Orangeburg Times and Demo- 01 crat. hi TOLLS FROM PANAMA CANAL. fo bs Total of Four Million Since Oj>eningj ^ of Big IWtch. Washington. June 28.?A total of *n $4,000,000 in tolls was collected for the use of the Panama canal in the period between the opening of the waterway for traffic in May last year la up to June 6 last. During April the tolls for the first time were greater than the cost of operation and maintenance of the ev canal by $84,112, the total for the m month being $442,415. and the cost re of operation of the canal $358,000. Partial returns for May indicate m the tolls for that month will swell tr the total for the eleven months pre- u ceding to a figure, sufficient to wipe t0 out the previous existing deficit. e(B. McCormick's. Mr Hnhert Carter and family, of Lodge, were the guests of Mr. and p~ Mrs. F. J. Summers last Sunday. cc Capt. Rice Steedly and Roy Hunter m crossed the Howell old mill last Sunday evening "going west," but when the moon was shining they came u east. re Mr. and Mrs. \V. D. Rhoad ai d Mr. N. P. Smoak and family, of Bamberg, w visited at Mr. N. B. Rhoad's last Sun- cc day.' in Mr. Rubin Steedly dined out Sun- a day. A. B. C. News From Kearse. Olar, June 29.?Farmers are still bravely fighting grass. The Rev. Mr. Sassard filled his Jv regular appointment at Kearse Sun- th day morning. -He preached a splen- st I did sermon and we are glad to say is.1 i our congregations are growing. Much fo j interest is taken in our Sunday- T1 school by old and young alike, which b\ goes to prove the need of a church di in every community. Li Miss Bessie Lee Black and Mrs. rii M. T. Johnson, of Bamberg, spent! se Sunday, at the home of Mr. L. A. ca Brabham. th Prof, and Mrs. W. D. Roberts re- m turned to Columbia Monday after a fe visit to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. p? J. J. Kearse. a Mr. Carl Kearse is at home for the co summer. i in Misses Kathleen Oswald, Hilda I g* Kearse and Salome Brabham are at g? home from the Confederate Homej in college, Charleston. 1 w Miss Cressie Breeland. aceompan-1 st ied l?y Miss Annie Halford, return-j as |ed Saturday after several weeks'1 wi visit to Charleston and Blackville. j or Mr. and Mrs. Frank Starr, of Olar. is spent Sunday with the old folks ar pr i home. Cleopatra's needle weighs ISO fr tons. ac ,4t : ^ - v V ? THE PALMETTO STATE: | C ).ME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLIXA. ate News Boiled Down for Quick ^ Reading?Paragraphs About ' w Men and Happenings. c d Govan Oswald, aged sixty, was kill-' a 1 at Cayce, near Columbia. Satur-i w iv, by taking hold of a live wire Sl at had fallen to the ground. ! b A seven-story hotel is to be erect-; ^ I in Spartanburg on the site of the ^ d Spartanburg hotel, to cost be- j >-een $225,000 and $250,000. j p The South Carolina Pres6 associa- d on and the Master Printers' asso-j e ation are in joint session at Chick ! j wrings this week. An excursion j, ip to the mountains of North Caro-j la is a part of the programme of! a ie meeting. E. H. DeCamp. of the, jj affney Ledger, is the retiring presi- a ;nt. t] In a $25,000 law suit at Lexington f tainst the Parr Shoals company by' f E. Weissinger, a verdict was ren-: h ?red for the defendant. It was al-| ged that the company fraudulently! tcured an option to a tract of land,: id that a :>00-acre tract of land'*id been made uninhabitable by mos ' * ?- .1 a/1 aft?Am o Tinn rl I UlUtJS itnu uau UUUio Hum a. iused by tl\e defendant's dam. An investigation is being conduct- 11 i by the State board of charities ! id corrections into the financial, 11 atus of the inmates of. the State |s I T ospital for the Insane. Of about J 700 patients in the* hospital, it is'*1 ated that not more than 1 6 pay in 1 11 hole or part for their treatment. * e remainder being beneficiaries, sting the State approximately e >0.60 each per month. a George .McGregor jumped into a ill pond near Bennettsville last! eek to take a swim. When he came j. it he complained that he had hurt s head. Examination showed that ^ s scalp had been peeled from his ^ rehead back. He pulled the scalp j ick in place and held it with one I o ind while he drove his car back to . D wn, and the doctor sewed it back .. c< the proper place. He seems little g e worse for his experience. IIDEXCE OP CEXSOREI) MAIL, it 1 stter Pried Into in England and c Marked "Opened by Censor." i c: v 4 Washington. June 23.?Further idence of interference of neutral ails passing through England was si celved at the State department to- w iv in the form of an envelope, post- e: arked in a neutral European coun- o v addressed to a Derson in the o Qited States, and bearing on its S rn flap the printed legend "open- c I by censor." q An investigation of this subject has tl ten in progress in the poetoffice de- tl irtment since the Swedish minister a miplained several days ago that n ail from the United States to f> veden had been opened in England, s1 There has been no indication as to tl hether the United States will make fi presentations to Great Britain, ti aubt has been expressed as to c: hether existing treaties and postal t< inventions aie violated by censor- tl g of private mail transmitted across a belligerent country. a ANSEL REFUSES INJUNCTION. P ill Not Restrain Issuing of Green- n ville Road Bonds. c< Greenville, June 28.?Special .? idge Martin F. Ansel today denied Ci e request for an injunction to rerain the county supervisor from t] suing on July 1 $400,000 in bonds ^ r the public roads of the county. ^ le notice of appeal, however, given Lewis W. Parker and O. K. Maul- ^ n, counsel for the plaintiff, J. W. tic m?ane that if the case is car XI ed to the supreme court it will be tveral months before the matter n be decided and thereby will stop e road work for the present sum- \ er. There is keen disappointment It here and many hope that the ap- s :al will not be perfected, for which ^ period of ten days is granted. The >urt answered the four points w ought up by counsel, as to the le- y ility of the road commission, le- ^ ility of the act of the legislature ^ granting the right to issue, as to hether or not the county had overepped its constitutional limitation ; ro borrowing powers and as to lietiier or not the people should vote ft 1 the issue. He ruled that the leglature is supreme and the entire d oceedings legal. s< Glendale Springs water always ^ esh at Herndon's grocery store.? K- k KILLED XKAK PORT ROYAL. lias. Handy, Jr., Probably Victim of .Motorcycle Accident. Beaufort, June 2S.?Charles Hanv, Jr.. about 22 years of age. lost is life tonight near Port Royal, in hat appears to have been a motorvole accident. He was probably ead when discovered in the road bout 8:30 o'clock by two negroes.-1 ho hailed a passing automobile and ent word of the accident to BeauDrt. Dr. .M. G. Elliott, accompanied v Mr. Sam Levin, immediately left 3r the scene, but Itfe was extinct hen he arrived. Mr. Handy was coming from Port i loyal to Beaufort, and when a short | istance from Port Royal hi6 motor yele. it is supposed, struck a stump, he body bore a gash about six inches )ng in the right side. The young man was a son of Mr. nd Mrs. Charles Handy, who came ere from Maryland several years! go and located on Cat Island, where j hey are engaged in truck farming.! lis parents are expected to return j omorrow from a visit to their old ome in Maryland. BE SENT TO SUPREME COURT. ??? 'onstitutionality of State Tax Com-! mission May lie Tested. Columbia. June 27i?It is believed i well-informed circles in Columia that the matter of the constituinnoiitv ot* thp State tax commis ion will find its way into the courts.! 'he bankers allege the law creating' he body is unconstitutional, this be-j lg made in their protest filed with he commission some days ago. The attorney general has been askd to render an opinion concerning! he power of the commission in bank \ ssessments. The State tax commis-l ion has decided to assess and equal-j :e all corporations in South Caro-i na, it has been announced. The following letter has been ad- i ressed to Attorney General Poppies! y the tax commission: "The question has arisen whether j r not the banks of this State are to e assessed for taxation for the year ommencing January 1, 1915, by the tate tax commission, under subdiision 16, section 8 of the act creatlg the commission?28 statutes, 31?or by the county auditor and' ounty boards of assessors, under1 ivil code, 1912, section 345, 423 and, 27. Took Effect February 20. "The act creating the tax commis-l ion took effect February 20, 1915, j 'hen the time for making tax returns I xpired, but before the local boards f assessors acted on the returns, upn its organization in March, the tate tax commission notified thej ounty auditors of the State to reuire banking corporations to give tie itemized information required by tie bank tax returns heretofore used, nd if such information was not furished return the tax return to bank or correction. The commission intructed the county auditors to place tie returns made by the banks beore the county boards of equalizaion, and if the boards should inrease the valuation returned, then o give notice to the corporation of tie amount of the increase and have time 6et to hear their protest or ppeal. "Some of the banks now take the osition that the commission has othing to do with the assessments f banks, and that the action of the ountv board fixing such assessments > final and not reviewable by this ommission. "Do the assessments as made bile county boards and the county auitor govern for the year 1915, or as the tax commission the power o review the action of the county auitor and county boards in the mat?r of assessments on banks, or to lake such assessments so as to rjualize the assessments on them lis year? We would appreciate our advice at the earliest date posible." Rankers from several parts of the tate have appeared before the tax ommission in the last few /days and le opinion of the attorney general ill be awaited with much interest, he tax commission is composed of . W. Jones, chairman: W. G. Querv and J. P. Derham. ( Wishing Ifiin Luck. t. rvitVi q cir?V "i ve soi iu an. ui-i "m. ^ "iend tonight." lie said. "Well," she retorted. "I hope you o liini good." and from the way she lid it he knew that he hadn't "got v."?Detroit Free Press. The older a man gets the lesa he nows he knows. ATTY. GENERAL'S OPINION ' U INTIMATES REORGANIZATION OF MILITIA MAY BE ANNULLED. ec Election of OlficOrs to Fill Places of ^ Men Displaced Occasions pj Opinion. hi Cc 1 Columbia, June 29.?"This being m only a reorganization, or a rearrangement or re-assignment?as you may be pleased to term it?of the re- at maining companies of the militia, I 1 am of the opinion that the officers of m these regiments have not been re- Jl1 moved in accordance with law, and ^ that they cannot be removed or mustered out of service except as is provided by statute so long as the mili- s< tary companies themselves remain tr a part of the organized militia," says c| Thomas H. Peeples, attorney general, j p a in an exhaustive opinion rendered J this morning on the reorganization j of the South Carolina National Guard. | He goes into^ the history of the State j c< militia from January 11, 1915, when; former Governor Blease, by.procla-' ( mation mustered out the National \ ni Guard, up to the present time. "Un-j S6 111 der date of January 13, 1913, after f r\ CtotlltOC rotatim? to! ^ I CiCI 1 IU3 IU. cue ewvuvvc 4V.WV...Q . ^ . the militia, I advised the adjutant c' general that "from an examination 1 of the proclamation and applying it'p< to the law quoted, I am of the opinion! 111 that the organized militia of South;'1 Carolina has been legally disbanded: ' and mustered out of service,'" saysjf* the opinion. "Nothing has been jin brought to my attention to cause any \ r< change in my view then expressed, 1 e( nor have* later investigations done so." continues the opinion. If the opinion of the attorney gen- ^ eral is upheld by the courts, the re-j'S< cent elections of militia officers arejH vitiated and the former regimental; tc officers are still in command. Also, | e) if the opinion is upheld, the prccla-! mation of Governor Manning, issued; January 22, 1915, declaring null and ** void the proclamation of former Gov- i * ?J Vo ! ec ernor Jtwease iuusiermg me owic i.-**-, tional Guard out of service, is il- bi legal, and South Carolina has no or-j a* ganized militia authorized by the statutes. ai May Stop Encampments. ft Military authorities think probably j tr the opinion of the attorney general ci will cause a discontinuance of the te plans for encampments for this year; J m for they think that it is improbable^ that the comptroller general will j tt honor warrants for pay to what might 1 01 be an illegally organized militia. Al-! Ju so, they say that the probabilities; are that the United States disbursing, th officer, Major J. Shapter Caldwell,! aJ will refuse to pay out government j fund6 until the matter is finally ad-;ci judicated in the courts. I m The opinion says that W. W. w Moore, adjutant general, on January | cl 20. 1915, was "of the opinion that j SI thp order (of former Governor Blease; disbanding the militia) was legal"; H and again "that he considered the A actions of the former governor il- to legal." This afternoon Gen. Moore j tb denied that he had made any such Ma conflicting statements. The opinion was given at the request of Major J. Shapter Caldwell, p inspector general of the South Carolina National Guard, assistant to the adjutant general. Major Caldwell wanted to know if the regimental offleers of the old 1st, 2nd and 3rd ^ regiments should be mustered out of j service. v The attorney general, in his opinion, quotes the proclamation of former Governor Blease, under date of m January 11, 1915, which dissolved, gfi mustered out and disbanded all the militia in the State, both National tQ Guard and volunteer organizations. On the request of the office of the 6C adjutant general, under date of January 12, 1915, Attorney General gr Peeples said that he rendered an opinion in which he held the action . of former Governor Blease legal andl . 0( he is "of the same opinion still." This opinion was delivered January _ _ _ i?l 15, 1915. to iv\ DL'Trnv .T?rk'!Sn\'S FLAG b Governor of Illinois Signs Rill to This 5t Effect. re Springfield. 111., June 28.?A legis- H lative bill providing for return to the ^ women of New Orleans of a flag pre- 00 serited to Gen. Jackson and captured | in 1863 by Illinois troops was signed J by Governor Dunne today. The governor also signed a bill creating the Vicksburg military sfa- pe tue commission and appropriating w< S.'O.OOO for erection in the National vc Cemetery at Vicksburg. Miss, of sta- 'e tues to U. S. Grant and other generals from Illinois who participated ni in the siege of Vick6burg. pa i * ? t - ;kxki:al hi kiita aickksted. ?ite<l States Frustrates Plans of Former J)Lstator. Washington, June 27.?The Unit- * I States government has frustratl for the present an attempt on the irt of Gen. Victoriano Huerta and s associates to launch from Araeriin territory a new revolutionary ovement in Mexico. Detention of the former Mexican ctator with Gen. Orozco and others ; El Paso today rollowed nearly iree months of espionage by governent agents. The department of \ , jj istice had instructed United States . '-3 ttorney Camp, of the Western disict of Texas, to take into custody iese men, who, seemingly were eniged in violations of American neuality lgws. which forbid the reuiting of men, pu/chase of supies therefor and the organizing of _ military expedition on the soil of le United States ta.be used in operaon against a people with which this mntry is at peace. Mr. Camp was ordered to place ;fore a grand jury at El Paso imediately all the evidence in his pos>ssion in order that indictments ;,| ay be returned against any one lilty of an intent to violate Ameriin neutrality laws. Apart from any considerations of jlicy which the Washington governent may have in mind for the setement of the Mexican problem, the ?pdrtment of justice has the full -mpathy of the department of State i enforcing the neutrality laws, irsspective of the individuals concernArrests Ordered. When Assistant Attorney General barren called to the attention of % jcretary Lansing the fact that Gen. ?3 uerta and his supporters appeared jS i be ready to set on foot an armed cpedition into Mexico, Mr. Lansing J. . - J .U.X uicaieu mat was a suujc^i iui spartraent of justice to handle and le arrests were ordered forthwith. . M The developments at El Paso caus1 a sensation in Mexican quarters - .'Jj are, both the Carranza and Villa "f<5 jencies issuing statements rejoicing lat the United States had checked ^ l effort on the part of the so-called actionary interests to regain conol of Mexican affairs. Both agen- / es had repeatedly called to the atntion of the State department the k'"jf ovements of the Huerta group, al- ' lough today's action it was said at ie Staje department, was entirely 1 the initiative of he department of istice. While officials were reticent as to te probable development of the case jainst Huerta, it was indicated that' ie United States would retain in its istody. for the present at least, the ' 1 an who6e overthrow of Madero and hose dictatorship in Mexico was de- , ared by President Wilson to be re- \ ?onsible for the resulting turbulence . the Southern republic. When Gen. . * uerta returned from Spain the J merican government made no effort i deport him, accepting his pledge ^ tat he did not intend to violate the ws of neutrality. SLATON LEAVES ATLANTA. oriner Governor and Wife Off for Pacific Coast. Atlanta, June 28.?Former Goverjr John M. Slaton, accompanied by rs. Slaton, left Atlanta late today tr the Pacific coast by way of New / .||| ork and.tl^ military guard station1 at his suburban home as a result ' demonstrations against the comutation of Leo M. Frank's death ntence was withdrawn tonight. The departure of Mr. and Mrs. Slan was without incident. Accominied by a few friends, they motor[ from their home to the terminal ation, where they boarded a Southn railway passenger train. The fftur men arrested at the Slan estate early today will be releas1 tomorrow, according to an anmncement tonight by the military ithorities. The twenty-six taken incustody Saturday, however, are to i prosecuted. Col. Orville Hall, commanding the h regiment, today made a written port of their arrest to Governor arris, who is to decide whether e trial shall be by military or civil urt. No formal charges have yet >en placed against them. _ ? Properly Named. "Why do .they call reni fountain ;ns? I should say reservoir pen auld be the better name. A reser>ir contains liquids, fountain throws # jji m around." "I think fountain pen is the proper ' rU, ime," said the party of the second ,rt.?Louisville Courier-Journal. --v.