The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 15, 1915, Image 1

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* 01?p lambfrg ijmli _ ????^?????? One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1915. Established 1891. *g - ' COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS If SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. ___ fo News Items Gathered All Around the _ ti ar County and Elsewhere. e(j Sassafras Dots. \vi of Sassafras, July 12.?We are having pleasant weather at present. Mr. J. H. Pearson and family visit- *** 'I ed Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Smoak Sun- ov day. ed Messrs. Grover Lee Crider and en fp Charlie Goodwin spent Sunday with Mr. Odelle Sandifer. Mr. Connor W. Smoak visited his rl brother, Mr. J. L. Smoak, at Den- co * er mark, Saturday and Sunday. Misses Minnie Crider and Dbttie Goodwin, of Spring Branch section, re spent Saturday night with Mies * Adrine Goodwin. Miss Virginia Zeigler spent Sun- u I S6 day with Misses Bertie and Ebbier 1st Goodwin. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Goodwin anditu little son, Johnnie Goodwin, visited { friends and relatives in St. John's Im section Sunday. jof 'Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Beard, and little son, Malone Beard, visited Mrs. | ea Beard's father, Mr. George Clayton, a l Q 1 of Oak Grove section, who is very \ 1 ill, on Sunday. Misses Adrine Goodwin. Dot'tie ; to Goodwin and Minnie Crider spent j . Sunday with Miss Jonnie Zeigler. We have a nice little Sunday-school w at Sassafras school house, which we i Pc have recently organized and hope it i p* will continue that way, but we want | to try and make it better. We want! all who can to come, and help us all * LX v they can. V. A. Z. C< _ cc \ Ehrhardt News. W C. Ehrhardt, July 10.?More rain and h< plenty of grass! St Mr. Laurie Kinard and brother, Bi ,. Master George, 6pent a few days at cc Walterboro with relatives recently. la Quite a crowd enjoyed a fish fry Jc on the third of July at Maj. Joe Car- h( ter's. p< v' Mr. Jessie Rentz and Mr. Allie T. Kinard spent Sunday at Mr. A. W. be Kinard's. ai Base ball seems to be all the sport th ^.. these hot days. "I Mi6s Julia Copeland visited at Mrs. H. W. Kinard's yesterday. , h< Mr. Laurie Kinard, of Columbia, cc is home for the summer. sa Mr. E. P. Kinard lost a mule by op death Friday. m Mrs. Joe T. Copeland has returned home after a visit tovher parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Carter, of Lodge. - L'KDenmark Dots. n< Denmark, July 10.?A number of F young folk are on a camping trip at hi Hallman's bridge, given in honor of fc Wesley Folk and his bride. oi Misses Ruth and Frances Guess m toft Wodnesdav for an extended visit si to their sister, Mrs. Hubert Matthews, w in Birmingham, Ala. to H. W. Goolsbv, of Hartsville, spent i D; Sunday here. sp Miss Gandy, of Pickens, is the t guest of Miss Lola Folk. Mrs. R. A. Goolsbv is at home af- . ter several weeks' stay in Orangeburg. ]a Mr. and Mrs. Milton Crum, of Orangeburg, have been visiting the latter's father here, J. B. Guess. t6 Mr. Davis, of Jacksonville, is ar spending some time with Mr. Lucius _ TTl Willis. Miss Euine Mayfield, of Greenville, ar is visiting at the home of her uncle, ,. Mr. S. G. Mayfield. Invitations have been issued to El- , ai bert Steadman's fishing party, which will take place the last of this month. | A large crowd attended a picnic j at the mill pond on Friday. ! gi Miss Anna Goolsby is at home, af- [ a ter a short stay with her sister, Mrs. j W. F. Marvin, in Yemassee. ti: Mrs. St. Clair Guess has returned Jc from a stay of several weeks in Sumter. Si ? b> Hunter's Chapel News. 0f Hunter's Chapel, July 13th.?Pas- ar tor J. R. Smith preached a fine ser- re mon last Sunday. A large congregation was present, this being the first ^ of a series of meetings now in progress. The pastor is being assisted j ,-rj by Rev. Mr. Reid, of Cameron, S. C.! Our community is full of visitors! attending the meetings and calling on i Wl relatives and friends. "? T w StoodIv of Marion is at i jll f , V. y Me father's, Mr. D. O. Steedlv's. Dr. Ben Steedly, of Spartanburg. Oj -was here Sunday shaking hands withist old friends. I ta Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Hunter and son.'ri' \ LOOKS BKlCiHT FOR SOl'TH. | I Uncle Sam and John Hull Agree ?n Cotton. . I Columbia. July 12.?The prospects] r the South in the coming crop year! e recognized with optimism, provid-. the United States can clear up] th satisfaction certain differences! opinion between this country and j agland over the embargo placed) >on cotton being shipped through; e neutral ports of Holland, and the andinavian countries?and, provid. further, the proper support is giv-l . by the regional reserve bank sysm in financing the new crop. This is the concensus of opinion ar-j red at Saturday during the informal I nference among some of the leads in the cotton movement. x Congressman A. P. Lever, who was j quested to act as chairman, was: >signated with Commissioner E. J. atson and T. B. Stackhouse, of Co-i mbia to prepare a letter to be pre-i nted to the President of the United ates, expressing strongly the atti- i de of the people of the State. Mr. Lever, as chairman of the com-' ittee on agriculture of the House; Representatives, was requested to ( 't the co-operation of the leaders in ch Southern State, in order to make solid phalanx in presenting this! lestion, and to ^.sk an audience ith the President. It is understood that this matter is be made immediate and impera-, re. and the sense of the meeting! as that public agitation and news-1 iper discussion might be suspended mding the outcome of a hearing in : 'ashington. Among those in the conference, hich was entirely informal, were: mgressman Lever, chairman of the immittee on agriculture: Col. E. J. ratson, president of the Southern itton congress; Dr. Wade Stackjuse, of Dillon, president of the ate Cotton congress: Col. J. Arthur inks, Senator from Calhoun and aj >tton planter: Col. R. M. Cooper, a rge cotton planter: Ex-Senator >hn L. McLaurin, State cotton ware>use commissioner, who made a re>rt on conditions in Georgia also; B. Stackhouse, manager of a num:r of cotton warehouses in the State, id Walter B. Sullivan, publisher of e Columbia Record, who led in the 3uv-a-Bale" movement last year. Mr. T. B. Stackhouse stated that > had heard one of the strongest >tton merchants of the Piedmont y that he expected to see cotton ten at 9 cents on the new crop and aintain the price. HOW HOLT MET HIS DEATH. imped Head Foremost 18 Feet From Bar in Cell. Mineola. N. Y., July 9.?A coro ar's inquest today into the death of rank Holt established clearly that a killed himself by jumping head >remost 18 feet from an iron bar a the side of his cell. There was athing to indicate that he had been lot or had shot himself, an opinion hich appeared in certain quarters have survived the autopsy. aniel, of Washington, D. C., are lending some time with Mr. Hunr's parents. Miss Lucile Hunter, of Bamberg, visiting her grandfather. Messrs Carl and Clarence McMiln, of Hahira. Ga., are making headlarters at Dr. Rentz's. Mrs. H. D. Steedly and two daughrs, Annie and Edna, of Branchville, e at present with Mrs. Steedly's other. Farm work is not so pushing now id crops are being put in good contion. I guess we old grumblers are ?ginning to say it is getting too y. A. B. C. I^emon Spur News. Lemon Spur, July 13.?Miss Geore Emma Jordan has returned from pleasant visit to Neeses. Mies Grace Hill is spending some me with relatives and friends at ihnston. Misses Eva and Meta Hughes spent inday in Charleston, accompanied r their brother, Mr. C. E. Hughes, Rranrhville. Missess Edith Black. Olive Varn id Mr. Deneal Black are visiting latives and friends at Bamberg. Miss Eva Hughes visited near yer and Hughes last week. Quite a large crowd spent the day Charleston Sunday. All report a dightful lime. The farmers are having some good eather to kill out the hay crop now. "VIOLET." Ross Santos, a two-year-old boy of rangeburg. fell from the second ory of a building on Monday, a dis,nce of 20 feet. He sustained seous injuries. IN THE PALMETTO STAI SOME OCCURRENCES OF YARIOl KINDS IN SOl'TH CAROLINA. State News Ikiiled Down for Qui Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Hogan C. Trippett was acquitted the murder of W. S. Jones in Su ter last week. Trippett shot Jor several months ago. George Sanders, a colored boyyears old, met instant detah at S lers, S. C., Monday by falling from log train wnwe oeanng a nue. The Black River Cypress Lumt Co., of Sardinia, in Clarendon coun has been commissioned by the sec: tary of State, with a capital of $25 000. Charlton DuRant was nominat Tuesday to succeed the late Loi Appelt as senator from Clarend county, defeating his two opponei in the first primary. M. E. Coward has resigned as : pervisor of Marlboro county. It understood that there were diff ences between the supervisor and t Marlboro grand jury. The differences between the ope tives and employers of the Bros mills, Anderson, were adjusted Tuesday, and work was resumed the mill Wednesday morning. John H. Earle, former railrc commissioner, was painfully hi when his automobile collided with street car in Greenville Friday nig His injuries are not considered fat Frank Hudgens, secretary of 1 Chiquola Cotton mill at Honea Pa shot and killed Coot Burts, a neg Thursday afternoon. Hudgens leges that the negro insulted wife. Mag Hudgens, a negro woman, k ed Tenis Fuller, also a colored ? man, by slashing her throat with razor in Laurens county, last wei The Hudgens woman, who admits 1 killing, has been arrested. Governor Manning has been nc fied by W. S. Benson, acting sec tary of the navy, that divisions of I South Carolina naval militia, havi complied with law, will participate the annual allotment of federal fur for the fiscal year 1916. Governor Manning on Mond granted a parole to Bob Dawson, white man of Spartanburg coun It is stated in the record that Daws was serving a seven-year senten and is suffering from pellagra. 1 parole is granted for six months allow the Drisoner to improve health. The jury of inquest into the det of Sheriff Hood and Deputy Bo ware, which occurred at Winnsb* on June 14th, found that Hood ca to his death at the hands of Clj and Ernest Isenhower, Jesse Moi eon and Jim Rawls; and that Bo ware met his death at the hands Ernest Isenhower. The jury a found that the mob fired first. A temporary injunction has b< filed against the State tax comm sion. enjoining the commission fr collecting income license taxe6 fr< the Pullman company and the Sou ern Express company. The heari is set for the 15th inst. The pt tioners take the stand that the St; tax commission cannot legally ass the income derived from interet; shipments and fares. News and Courier: The body ol baby with two perfectly formed he? was brought to Charleston yesterc to be embalmed for preservation. T child was born in the interior a brought here by a physician from t vicinity. It was taken to the Soi Carolina Medical college laborato where it will be embalmed. It stated that the baby had two perfe ly shaped heads and necks, whi joined the body as in normal cas and that the remainder of the bo was perfect. The body weighs ab( nine and a half pounds. That the legislature of South Ca: lina has the constitutional right delegate to city councils the pow of establishing city courts was < tahlished in a decision handed do1 by the supreme court of South Ca: lina in the case of the city of C.ret ville vs. William Foster, decided 1; rnursaay. me ease ag?iusi rw. for selling liquor was brought in t Greenville municipal court. Foste attorneys appealed, alleging, amo other things that the legislature h no right to give municipalities t power to set up city courts, tin claims being that a court must be State institution. Every municij court in South Carolina is said to affected by the decision. * . v - i.' T JI LV CROP REPORT. For South Carolina and The Cnited L'S States. Bureau of crop estimates, in co^ operation with the weather bureau. United States department of agriculture. Corn?July 1 forecast. South Carolina, 4O.SOO.0OO bushels; United of States, 2.SI0,000.000 bushels. Fim nal. 1914, South Carolina, 36.53S,les 000 bushels; United States, 2,672,804,000 bushels. 15 All wheat?July 1 forecast, South j el- Carolina, 2,610,000 bushels; United1 i a States, 963,000,000 bushels. Final,' 1914, South Carolina, 920,000 bush-! ,er els; United States, 891,017,000 bushty* els* re_ Oa.ts?July 1 forecast, South Caroq . lina, 10,400,000 bushels; United States. 1.400,000,000 bushels. Final, . 1914, South Carolina, 7,500,000 busn6. els: United States, 1,141,060,000 u1s k u . bushels. itg Tobacco?July 1 forecast. South Carolina, .19,200,000 pounds: United States. 1,100,000,000 pounds. Final, 1914. South Carolina, 36,500,000 *s pounds: United States, 1.034,679,er" 000 pounds. iip Potatoes?July I forecast, South Carolina, 944,000 bushels; United ra"' States. 393.000,000 bushels. Final 011J 1914, South Carolina, 770,000 bushon | els; United States, 405,921,000 bushin | els. Sweet Potatoes?July 1 forecast, tad[ South Carolina, 5,130.000 bushels; urt| United States. 64.100,000 bushels, i a; Final, 1914, South Carolina, 4,080,ht. 000 bushels; United States, 56,574,al. 000 bushels. he Apples?July 1 forecast, South th, Carolina, 669,000 bushels; United r0( States, 194,000,000 bushels. Final, al_ 1914, South Carolina, 800,000 bushhis els; United States, 253,200,000 bushels. jjj_ Peaches?July 1 forecast, South Carolina, 899,000 bushels; United a States, 58,300,000 bushels. Final, 1Q14 Smith Carolina. 1.166.000 *v* *? ?' he bushels; United States, 54,109,000 bushels. Hay, all?Condition July 1, 1915, " South Carolina, 87; United States, 85.2. Condition July 1, 7-year aver'hp age. South Carolina, 83; United ing States, 81.7. 'n Pastures?Condition July 1, 1915, 1(1^ South Carolina, 89; United States, 91.3. Condition July l, 10-year averlay age, South Carolina, 86; United , a States, 86.3. ty. Cotton?Condition June 25, 1915, ion South Carolina, 76; United States, ce, 80.3. Condition June 25, 10-year 'he average, South Carolina, 79; United to States, 79.9. hiS MYSTERY NOT"YET CLEARED. tth Inquest Fails to Disclose Slayer of ul- , Frank Benton. )ro me Walterboro, July 8.?The inquest 'de into the death of Frank Benton, Ti- white, whose body was found in Salul kehatchie swamp, near Yemassee, of this county, Saturday morning, was lcn oHinnvnflH vonterrtflV without, the iurv being able to identify the slayer. ;en The verdict was that the deceased [js_ came to his death by gunshot wounds om in the hands of an unknown person. om The officers, in particular Deputy Sheriff L. C. Padgett and Magistrate ng H. J. Givens, are busily engaged on ;ti_ the case and have certain clues which lte may lead to an arrest. ess Benton left home early Saturday lte morning to look after certain fish traps which he had in the Salkehatchie stream near his home. Hi6 ^ a failure to return caused uneasiness, lc*s which resulted in a search revealing [ay his body near one of his traps. Every circumstance points to the conclun<* sion that he was shot in the back '^e just as he was in the act of stooplth ing over to draw up a trap, ry, ? is Orphanage Has No Solicitors. ct" Editor The Bamberg Herald: ? 'c^ Please be kind enough to state in es> your next issue that Connie Maxwell orphanage has no solicitors on the >ut road, and that any person making effort to gather funds as an agent of ro- the institution does so without auto thority. This statement is called for ;er by the fact that report has come to ps- me that a lady in your section of the An!State has been canvassing the streets ro- posing as our agent. ;n- A. T. JAMISON, Supt. ist Greenwood, S. C.. July 7. ler j,e Summer Chances, r's How about boys' pig clubs and ngI girls' canning clubs for I^ncasterj ad county? The summer vacation is ai he j good time to organize farm children eir into useful and prontaDie producers. a Why should they remain idle when )aljthere is so much happiness to be be found in training along scientific lines??Lancaster News. ' ' '.L'f-- . v ? J}' ' \ . %' WILSON STUDIES PROBLE WILL DISCUSS CEKMAX XO WITH CABINET. Crave Situation With Cermany to Thoroagltly Considered IJefore Action is Taken. Washington, July 13.?The fi official announcement of Presid Wilson's immediate plans for de ing with the situation that has arii ? fViQ TTni UCl?CCU UCi Uiauj aukx wuv ??>*** States came tonight in a telegr from Cornish, N, H., to Secretary ' multy, stating that the presid would return to Washington soon [ lay the subject before the cabii The message indicated that the pr< dent had arrived at no decision to the American policy. A wl house statement said: "Referring to statements app ing .in certain morning newspap with reference to the attitude of president toward the reply of German government, Secretary' ' multy this evening gave out the lowing telegram which he had ceived from the president: " "Please say that from the i ? V?/v af ho nffioiol I HieiJl Ul me atu>ai vyi w**v.?c*? v I of the German 'note. I have given j matter the closest attention, keep constantly in touch with the se< tary of State and with every sou that would throw light on the sit tion; that so soon as the secretarj State and I have both maturely c sidered the situation, I shall go Washington to get into personal c ference with him and with the cj net and that there will be as proi an announcement as possible of purposes of the government.' " Takes It Less Seriously. The statement set at rest rep< that the president already had m up his mind on the German reply ; that he did not view the situation seriously as did high officials in Wa ington. Word from the preeid was sought by officials here, it is der6tood, as a result of the spreac varying interpretations of repc from Cornish of the executive's : tentions. Official opinion here continued regard the situation as grave. Se< tary Lansing and other members the cabinet who are here hold 1 view, but are giving no intimati of how they think the problem 6ho be dealt with. Tonight's statement from white house made it apparent t the president has definitely aband ed the idea of summoning Mr. L ?ing to the summer capital. 1 programme conforms to the se< tary's desire to study the prob carpfullv before exchanging vi with the president. It is assu: however, that Mr. Wilson will ret here the last of the week, and t the subject will be laid before cabinet next Tuesday. So far as can be gathered here, president will find his advisers pi tically unanimous in the belief t the crucial point in the correspc ence with Germany over submai warfare has arrived and that if American government is not to cede from its previously announ position the next note must con more or less pointedly the purpc of the United States in the evenl further violations of American rig To State Purpose. The general view in official qi ters is that irrespective of w course should be followed in Lusitania case, a statement of purpose of the United States to sert its rights notwithstanding C many's inhibitions on the use of 1 ligerent ships by Americans se( seems most likely to be made in next note. That such action wo not necessarily lead to a rupture relations is generally recognized less an overt act or flagrant violat of the principles for which the Ui ed States has been contending sbo ensue. I Large Crowd Attended Game. The base ball game Tuesday aft noon between Bamberg and Ba well was ttended by a large num of out-of-town people. Among th were: Messrs. E. F. Boyleston. C. Boyleston, C. R. Boyleston. H man Brown, Wyatt Brown. J. M. F rell. John O'Gormon. Jake Blatt, W. Gyles. L. C. Still, H. I). Still. H. Still, and Isadore Brown, of Bla ville: Dick Riley and Angus Patt ?c T T omv Vmimans sou, hi Daiii?cii, un'v Fairfax. Phone Herndon's grocery store a five-gallon bottle of Glend Springs water. Only 50c. Read The Herald, $1.50 per yea * | CROP LARGEST OX RECORD. America I*ro<luced 16,134,9:10 Bales, TE According to Census Bureau. ; Washington, July 8.?The American cotton crop of 1914 was the largest ever produced, having reached / 16,134,930 equivalent 500-pound bales, which, if placed end to end, ; would reach more than half way . around the world at the equator. ret These figures, announced today by the census bureau, constitute the government's final report. They re^ move any doubt whether last year's crop exceeded the former record crop jj"1 of 1911, and show that 442,229 equivalent 500-pound bales more were grown last year than in 1911. 0 These statistics are 32,787 bales .* more than the census bureau's pre&si liminary estimate of last March and 168,930 bales more than estimated by the department of agriculture's crop reporting board last December. Linters cotton, now being used exi6rs tensively in manufacturing shells .for big guns, amounted to 791,464 bales, making a total production of 16,fQlj 926,394 equivalent 500-pound bales of cotton, including linters. reTexas alone produced more than ! one-fourth of the crop?4,592,112 bales?Georgia one-sixth of the crop, 2,718,032 bales. Those states, with . 18 Alabama, South Carolina, Oklahoma * and Mississippi, produced more than four-fifths of the entire crop. Ala- , ; rce AS&f bama's total was 1,751.375 bales; Ua South Carolina 1,533,810; Oklahoma 0 1.262,176; and Mississippi 1,245,on 535. The remainder of the 18 cotton growing States each grew less ^ than one million bales. } -.;~J Cotton produced in California is increasing rapidly, 49,835 bales having been ginned there, or more than double the 1913 ginning. Arizona also ?hnwa a ranid increase, although the quantity is insignificant, 7,142 bales . having been reported against 2,299 1Dd in 1913. Ellis county, Texas, was the ban18 ~ ner cotton county of the United ent States, having grown 145,714, or approximately 75 per cent, more than 0 the entire crop of Missouri or Florida, about three times that of Calin~ fornia, and nearly six times that of Virginia. Ellis county has an area of t0 975 square miles and a population "r^ of about 55,000. this SCORE KILLED IX STORM. ons uld Resides Heavy Toll in Life, Property Loss Many Millions. . hat Cincinnati, July 8.?With twentylon" .five known dead, missing and a prop'an" erty loss that will exceed a million >h's dollars, Cincinnati tonight was mak-re~ ing a valiant efTort to recover from lem probably the worst storm in its hisews tory. Twelve of the dead were claimred, e(j by the Ohio river. urn f At 9:30 o'clock last night the hat atnrm hrrtkp* nnp-half hour later the the City an(j its suburbs lay stricken. Its telephone system had been paralyzed, the its street car service suspended and ' rac- jtjg citizens were groping in darkness, v , ^ :hat trying to ascertain the toll the storm in(1" had taken. rine Two steamboats had gone down in the the Ohio river; probably a hundred re_ houses were leveled; half-dozen ce^ church spires had fallen and when vey the full extent of the damage was as- . " >?es certained late today it was found that of few houses had escaped damage, hts. Down-town streets were strewn with electric signs and glass, while iar_ in the residence district and in the hat suburbs all traffic was blocked by trees thrown across the thoroughthe fares. 3?- Some fifty club houses along the ^ Ohio river were swept into the bel- stream and floated away, sms City Recovering, the Tonight found the city with its old | street car service virtually normal. 1 in The telephone service is rapidly reun covering and 'the city had done ai> ion most miraculous work in cleaning up the debris. Search for bodies in u,d the collapsed houses continues. At Terrace park, a suburb, a special train carrying race horses from Latonia to the Eastern tracks was wrecked and nineteen thoroughbreds ,er" were killed. Three of their caretakrn~ ers were killed and a number of er others, including several jockeys, eni | were injured. "Lt "O "5*! I The Kentucky side cf the river er" i was hit as hard as was Cincinnati ar" itself. Damage to Newport, Covington, Bellevue, Dayton, Fort Thomas, Fort .Mitchell, Latonia and Ludlow, c'v" it is believed, almost will equal damer~ age done in this county. Three more bodies were recovered tonight from the ruins of a dwelling. for This puts the total of known dead at ale 25. Downing street, London, was namr. ed after a native American.