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n ' 'm r l - '.- ' - \-?lS f^lll ?ltp iamherg feralb | One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1915. Established 1891. - COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS " ' P SOME IXTEKESTIXG HAPPENINGS IX VARIOUS SECTIONS. t i News Items Gathered All Around the ^ ' County and Elsewhere. t Khrhardt Etchings. P J \ Ehrhardt. Aug. 10.?"Say, wife, f n-Vicr-^. u that n)H rnnetpr rhfl.r prow ed so every morning, and the old t hen that was carrying those little ^ chickens, and my box of cigars? c They are all gone." "Oh,'hubby, c please hush. Don't you know that we have had a lot of picnics and big a meetings this summer, and the j. preacher ate dinner with us last Sunday? All those kind of things -j , are chicken callers." "Please par- c don me. I did not know. I will get j some more cigars and plenty more t V chickens soon will be crowing." Come again, brother. j. Miss Virgie Ehrhardt came last | Monday on a visit to her father, a friends and relatives. c The theatrical troop of the Lodge School Improvement association, of v Lodge, gave a play in Copeland's hall v last Tuesday evening. It was given . by all home talent and these young folks deserve much credit for the manner in which they rendered their selections. Quite a nice little sum of I money was realized. p Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Pate are mov- s ing to Albemarle, N. C. Mr. Pate has been there for some time, working as railroad agent and oft^ttitor. t The railroad company had a\eang a of workmen here last week repai^ng ^ the roof on their freight warehouse, j It is with much regret that^ we learn of Mr. I. J. Zeigler not doing t ^ so well. He has been sick now for g several weeks. We hope that he , will soon be well and out again. 2 Well, our base ball team got disoil a!? cro moc o/>hoH. nyyuiu lcu w nu an ui^st wmw j uled for last week. They were to t play Branchville and Smoak's but ^ for some reason neither came. < ) j Some of our farmers are selling corn in carload lots. Say they have this to do in order to house this ( year's crop. Others are sun-drying v some of the new crop in order that v they can have some to take to mill " for grits and meal. We are glad to see that some of ? our prominent men are starting a c ^ fight on the whiskey question. Hope it will be a fight to the flnisn. Much t success to you; trust that you will S be able to conquer. JEF. Denmark Dots. 1 Denmark, Aug. 7.?Miss Heriot, of Sumter, is visiting her sister, Mrs. j St. Clair Guess. t i. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Pregnall, I c / of Florence, are visiting at the lat? ter's home. c RMiss Doris Goolsby is at home af- t ,ter attending the summer school at f Winthrop college and visiting friend6 in Chester. a Misses King, Smith and Phillips, J of Sumter, are guests of Mrs. S. D. t p Guess. | Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Guess and Mr. ( b and Mrs. Hugh Guess, of Henderson- c ville, have been visifing relatives s here. / \ Misses Carro and Dorothy Hart, of ] Estill, are visiting at the home of I their sister, Mrs. J. Wesley Crum, Jr. <3 W. L. Califf, Jr., gave an annual <3 ' peanut boiling on Thursday evening ? at the home of his mother. t Mr. and Mrs. David LaFitte, of r Bethune, 6pent several days with rel- j atives here this week. c Misses Marguerite McMillan and Rebia Wiggins have returned to j their homes in Savannah and Augus- f ta, after two weeks' stay with Mrs! J. R. Martin. j j>. x The regular monthly meeting of i / the Graham chapter of the U. D. C., ? was held with Mrs. J. S. Matthews p on Thursday afternoon. The attend- (j ance was small on account of the showers in the early afternoon but I some business was attended to and c -L a talk on home economics given by 3 Mrs. F. H. McCrae, after which a f salad course was served by the hosr . tess assisted by Mrs. L. E. Spann. - v Springtown ^ Sprays. Springtown, Aug. 9.?The protract- ' ed meeting at^Springtown ci.urch be- h |f gan Sunday morning with a large a (congregation, and win continue nu several days. The meeting is being conducted by Rev. Mr. Hopkins. A very sad death in this community J:M was that of John Frank Hiers. the litI tie son of Mr. and Mrs. Hampton r Hiers, which occurred Saturday morn- j i< ing. The body was interred atja Springtown cemetery Sunday. John y Frank was a bright little fellow ofjc: > i ine years and will be sadly missed. Ve extend sympathy to the bereaved arents. Miss Ruth Ray, of Denmark, and Irs. R. L. Hughes, of Ehrhardt, are he guests of Mrs. F. M. Ray. Miss Mamie McMillan returned tome last week after spending some ime in Augusta. She was accomianied by her brother. Mr. J. J. Mc lillan. Miss Evelyn Kirkland returned rom Savannah last Thursday. An enjoyable little affair was the larbecue given at the home of Mr. V. P. McMillan last Tuesday in honor if Messrs. J. J. McMillan and Joe hone, of Augusta. Miss Elvie Kearse is at home .gain after a fortnight's stay in Ehrlardt. Mrs. W. P. Pate and children, of Jhrhardt, were visitors at the home if Mr. W. G. Kearse Sunday. Mrs. >ate leaves next Sunday for her fu ure home in Norwood, N. C. Messrs. W. I. Rice and M. N. Rice iave gone to Glenn Springs. Messrs. F. M. Ray, R. L. Hughes md B. W. Beard went to Columbia Saturday in Mr. Hughes" automobile. Mr, C. R. Hooton. of Denmark, 'isited Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Ray last reek. Colston Clippings. Colston, Aug. 10.?We have been laving an abundance of rain the last week and everybody was glad to ee it, especially the farmers. We had a nice little crowd at Sunlay-eehool Sunday afternoon. Among he visitors were Mr. Olar Zeigler md Mr. Laurie Copeland, of Ehrlardt, and Mr. Osborne Reed, of Barnwell. Miss Hattie Mae Sandifer returned o her home near Denniark Saturday, tfter a pleasant stay at Mr. Charlie lender's; Miss Alma returning with ler. Mrs. C. W. Clayton returned to ler home in Columbia Saturday af er a pleasant stay of two weeks at ler husband's parents', Mr. and Mrs. rhomas Clayton; Mrs. Clayton reurning with her. Misses Evelyn Kirkland and Mary Clayton were the pleasant guests of disses Natile and Alberta Kearse Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. Osborne Reed was the happy ;ue6t of Mr. Clarence Fender -Sunlay. Mr. J. C. Beard and family were he happy guests of his mother, Mrs. 5. P. Chisolm, Saturday night. Messrs. Gerald Kearse and Johnnie tirkland were the welcome guests of dr. Dawson Kearse Saturday night md Sunday. , Little Miss Inez Clayton was the )leasant guest of her sister, Mrs. B. IV. Beard, Saturday night and Sunlay. Camphill and Colston crossed bats >n the latter's diamond Saturday afernoon, the score being 15 to 16 in avor of the home team. Mr. J. A. Jennings, Jr., is having i nice little home erected at Colston, dr. Gerald Kearse was given the conrapt. Miss Nettie Clayton attended the ieorge's creek meeting near Govan luring the past week. While there he visited Barnwell and other points. Messrs J. B. All, Charlie All, B. V. Beard, Mac Ray, and Robert iughes motored to Columbia Saturlay in the latter's car, returning Sunlay. Mr. B. D. Bishop and family were he pleasant guests of Mr. J. A. Jentings Sunday, Miss Minnie Kirkland, Jrs. Jennings's sister, joiniDg the xowd. We were very sorry to learn of .Irs. J. A. McMillan's illness. Hope or a speedy recovery. We are glad to hear of the im rovement of Mrs. Edgar Fender, lope she will continue to Improve. 5he was able to visit her husband's arents. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Fenler. Mr. L. A. Wooley and Mr. Hasting Jeasley. of Barnwell, were the welome guests of the former's sister, Irs. Thos. Clayton. Thursday and Friday, returning home Saturday. O. U. KID. A IHfficult Trial. "Yes," said the meek-looking man. T*? -? v.* Viorl tnme crpat 1 ll\J UWUUl . v/L, ...... unting experiences in your travels broad." "I have indeed." "Buffalo hunting"? "Yes." "And bear hunting"? "Of course." "Well, you just come round and ?t my wife take you house hunting nd bargain hunting with her. Then ou'll begin to know what real exitement is." | IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA. 1 State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About . Men and Happenings. t Bishop Collins Denny has named < Rev. P. B. Wells, of Rock Hill, as pre- j J siding elder of the Rock Hill district | ] to succeed the late Rev. Robt. H. Hoi- J royd. , i Saturday the Secretarv of state 1 f t granted incorporation papers to the;' Victor Flour mills of Greenville with | a capital of $100,000.-T. Frank Hunt!' and H. L. Todd were the petitioners. ' There will be a second race in the fourth district for congress between Sam Nicholls, of Spartanburg, nad B. i ( A. Morgan, of Greenville. Nicholls led Morgan by over 1.000 votes in thft first nrimarv. The only high grade veneer plant) south of Louisville is to be located in Columbia within the next sixty days. The plant comes from Biltmore, N. C., and employs about 50 workmen, and has a monthly pay roll of about j $3,000. An organization of county treasurers and auditors will be formed at a meeting of these officials to be held in Columbia Thursday, August 12, at 12 o'clock. The meeting is called by R. F. Howie, county treasurer of Dar-j ington. A small boy about six years of age and tagged with the name of James Robinson reached Patrick, S. C., last j Friday. He was taking the trip alone i1 from St. Louis to his grandmother, Mrs. B. F. Timmons, who lives near Patrick. Florence city and school bonds to the amount of $222,000 were bought Wednesday by the First National Bank, of Florence; $52,000 Is to be used for the erection of a new school and the balance for paying debts and for street improvements. Trouble caused by the affection of James Samuels for the wife of Elija Wilson, both colored, resulted in the fatal shooting of Samuels by Wilson at Donalds last Monday. The shot took effect in the back of Samuels's head, but he may recover. George Turner, a 16-year-old white boy, of Clinton, died in Greenwood 1 from injuries received while riding a! freight train to Clinton Thursday morning. Several cars passed over him and he was terribly mangled. I His father is dead, and he made his < home with his grandmother. What is said to be the largest chain gang Lexington county ever had is now working the county roads. There are at present 75 convicts, 20 of them being white. They are divided into two sections, one composed of those serving long terms and the other of those who are to serve but a few weeks. Edward Philips and Joel Petty, two prominent farmers of Cherokee county, got into a quarrel Thursday over the conviction of a young boy for the ; stealing of a purse belonging to Pet- ? ty and the paying of the fine by Phillips. This ^ngered Petty, who cut Phillips with a knife. Phillips is at the Gaffney hoepital in a serious con- . dition. ( SUSPENDS NEWBERRY AUDITOR. ] Action Follows Hearing on Alleged ' Errors Reported by Grand Jury. ! ?? Columbia, August 10.?Governor i Manning this morning suspended Eu- < gene S. Werts from the office of au- < ditor of Newberry county. He will report the suspension to the next 11 meeting of the State Senate and that) body can either confirm or disap- j i ' prove of his action. The Governor i will designate some one to fill the 1 vacancy until the Senate meets. ] The suspension of Mr. Werts fol- i lowed two hearings. The grand juryr presented the auditor for alleged er- (; | rors. these, it is said, amounting to < over $700. The Governor summoned ' Mr. Werts some six weeks ago anan gave him time to straighten every- n thing out and attend to his duties. < Some days ago. it was reported to11 the Governor, that the auditor de-j clined to meet with the foreman of c j the Newberry grand jury, Haskell i Wright, and Treasurer Epps. and j have an annual settlement, telling < the foreman that he could have a < settlement with the treasurer if he 1 wanted one. The matter was again j i reported to the Governor and at ajs hearing last week he had all the par- ^ j ties before him. and after considering i ! the testimony and everything exhaus- 1 | tively for several days, he this morn- j J ing suspended Mr. Werts from office, i THINK OF ENDING CIRCUS. Hatter of Abolishing County-to-County Canvass Deceiving Attention. Columbia. August 4.?That the ;ounty-to-county canvass, which has jeen conducted every two years just preceding the Democratic primary in :his State should be abolished is receiving attention in several quarters putside of political circles. There is i feeling, to judge from many expressions. that the biennial "circus." is it has been dubbed, has outgrown ts usefulness and that its continua:lon only serves to keep alive factional feeling. A great many politicians strenupuslv oppose any suggestion looking to the elimination of the county to county tour and declare that it is the only way the "poor man" has of reaching the people with his views. Some of these admit privately that 'ho rormiromento fnr PntPrinz the canvass ought to be more stringent and a few of them have suggested that it would be a good thing to require that a candidate must file a petition signed by a certain number of voters, say 5 per cent, before he could ent^r the canvass. This, they claim, would do away withjthe running of candidates who have no sarthly chance of election and whose vote each year is so negligible as not to amount to anything. But they insist that it would never do to abolish the "circus ring" because they assert it would sound the end of any but rich candidates. This is not agreed on by all the politicians and by a great many people. Those opposed to this canvass emphasize the incentive to' personal abuse and the opportunity it affords for the campaign to degenerate into villification and the impossibility of the discussion of issues. Not only this, they say, but the crowding of the lists affords 60 little time to the individual candidate that about all they can do is to state their name and the office for which they are running and then give away to the next, and so on all day/until the patience of the voter is exhausted and he ?oes away no wiser as to platforms than when he came. Even if the villification incentive and opportunity were absent?which probably a majority of the people will 6ay is not?the fact that the individual candidate does not have enough time to discuss issues, makes it, in the opinion of many, absurd to have the canvass. Tn the last State -campaign party there were about twenty-seven candidates for the vanous State offices, and even allowing them ten minutes?and many of them had less than half that time?meant an allday's speaking, wearying alike to voters and candidates. The strenuosRy of the canvass doubtless keeps many men from running for office, for many object to being dragged around from county to county like actors in a show, placed on exhibition and then hurried off to the next county seat and this for forty-four days. The canvass comes right in the middle of the hottest of the summer and the strenuous life and physical discomforts has broken down men in some instances and very few go through the campaign without some ailment. South Carolina is the only State in the union which has a pre-election canvass under a party regulation. Other States let each candidate run his own campaign and there are many in South Carolina who want to see this State do away with the staging every two years of a ring of the aspirants for office and sending them out to play one-day engagements at every county seat in the State. It is believed by many who have made a close study of this matter and who have no political ambitions that it would materially lessen the cose of a campaign to do away with the canrass. The candidates have to spend money for railroad fare and board and this makes a considerable item, which advocates of the movement to abolish the canvass point out would anable poor men to run for office where they are now barred by this terrific expense of making the cant-ass. They believe also that it would io away with factionalism and personal abuse and would mean that the candidates would dis :uss issues and not one anoxner so | nuch. It has been stated that less than jne-fourth of the voters attend the! campaign meetings anyway and that) by eliminating the canvass there; vould he opportunity for more quiet, sober judgment on the part of the j voters and less chance that they! ivould be incited to factionalism and aitterness. A great many believe I :bat it would be a constructive and J 'orward step to abolish the canvass, j WILL ANNUL REFERENDUM? PROCEKDIXGS IJKGUX TO PRETEXT PKOHIBITIOX ELECTION. Watts Refuses Injunction, but Refers Matter to South Carolina Justices. Columbia, August 7.?If proceedings begun in the supreme court of this State to prevent the prohibition referendum election on September 14 faifs an appeal to the supreme court of the United States may knock out the referendum. An application was made at Laurens yesterday by Cole L. Blease, former governor of South Carolina, and Frank G. Thoriipkins, of Columbia, attorneys representing John Henry Chappell, a tax paver of Newberry, asking for an injunction preventing the referendum. Associate Justice Watts, before whom the application was made, refused to sign an injunction, but referred the matter to the whole supreme court and set August 20 in Columbia for that body to hear the question and to pass on the matter. Significance is attached to that section in the petition asking for the injunction in that it is alleged that the referendum is in violation of the constitution of the State and of the United States. Observers see in the federal question an opening to take the case to the United States supreme court should the anti-prohibitionists lose out in the State courts. This could be done either by getting a writ of error from the chief justice of the State supreme court or by applying to a United States supreme court justice for a writ of error and a temporary injunction preventing the referendum. Dendine the hearing of the appeal. The nearness of the referendum would prevent the supreme court of the United States from hearing the matter until after the date for the election would have passed, and the anti-prohibitionists would have won their point even if the highest tribunal would later decide that the referendum was regular. If the date for the election is passed it would be a victory for the antis and the whole question would be postponed until the next meeting of the legistature. Contention of Petitioner. The contention of the petitioner is that it is a power granted the general assembly by the constitutions of the United States and of the State to say whether or not the State shall ha,ve prohibition or what form of regulation of the liquor traffic shall prevail, and that this power cannot be passed or delegated to the people througn a reierenaum eiecuon. mej also point out that the referendum act provides for the winding up of the dispensaries in case prohibition wins, and this they declare is legislating on a contingency which is invalid and unconstitutional. The general public thought the prohibitionists were certain of victory and that the antis were not even going to make a fight, and on every hand one could hear that the result was a foregone conclusion. The first move against prohibiticm came yesterday, when attorneys representing Mr. Chappell, a taxpayer of Newberry county, applied to Associate Justice Watts for an injunction preventing the election on the ground that the act passed by the legislature providing for the referendum on September 14 is unconstitutional and invalid. The action was directed' against Secretary of State R. M. McCown, State Treasurer- S. T. Carter, Comptroller General Carlton W. Sawyer and C. T. Gravdon, Zeb Hope, and J. F. Howell, State commissioners -.f aia/.tinn fur Pirhlanrt rountv. Jus tioe Watts refused to grant an injunction, but referred the whole question to the supreme court, which meets in Columbia on August 20. Personally a Prohibitionist. Mr. Chappell says in his petition that he is a personal prohibitionist, and expects to vote for State-wide prohibition in the referendum election, but that he thinks it is unconstitutional. and the election would be invalid, and it would, therefore involve an unnecessary expense to the taxpayers, reciting that $35,800 is provided for meeting the expenses of the referendum. After reciting the referendum act, in which provision is made for winding up the dispensaries in case prohibition carries, the petitioner says: "The aforesaid provisions and sec tions of said act are in vioiauuu ui article 4. section 4. of the constitution of the United States; of article 3. section 1, of the constitution of the State of South Carolina, and ar(Continued on page 4, column 2.) TEUTONS TAKE WARSAW. _____ .".' I'i Honor of Taking Over Polish Capital Falls to Prince Leopold. ??? ... London, August 5.?The Germans hold Warsaw, capital of Poland, and the third largest city in the Russian empire. Bavarian troops entered X the city this morning, having taken successfully the Blonie lines and the outer and inner fortresses of the city itself, the Russians only fighting rear guard actions to allow their main army to escape. While to the Bavarians under Prince Leopold has fallen ! j'M the honor of taking over Warsaw in v the name of the German emperor and his consort, who are expected to make a state entry within a few days, the real conquerors are Von Hindenberg's troops fighting along the Nt^- ^ nsw river tv tilts uuiuiwcai, cue n.uir tro-Germans who crossed the Vistula . / s' to the south of the city and the armies of the Austrian Archduke Joseph Ferdinand and the German field marshal, Von Mackensen, advancing northward between the Vistula and the Bug rivers. The Russians are fighting desperately and stubbornly to check the _ gj progress of these four armies, and have had successes, inflicting heavy losses on their pursuers, but they are jbeing steadily pressed back, which J made the longer occupation of the Warsaw Polish salient a hazardous undertaking. /.jBB Even now, although the steadi- . ness of Russian troops and their fierce counter attacks have gained much valuable time for them, it is - < problematical whether the whole Russian army will reach new positions k chosen or whether, if it should get there it will not find those positions turned by the Austrians, who have 'stgi J *U - T~> A# nttAlm tji usseu cue Joug suuiunot vi uuciui, and the Germans, under Von Scholz and Von Gailwitz, who have crossed || the Narew. At the northeastern end of the line the -Russian communications are fur- $|a ther threatened by Gen. Von Bue- \7JjS low, advancing towards Dvinsk, on >4S? the Vilna-Petrograd railway. Indeed, the Austro Germans have set three traps to catch and destroy the > -1 Russian army. None of them was ' sprung, but one was so near to cloeing that Grand Duke Nicholas was 1 v^i forced to evacuate Warsaw and now is fighting with all his might tb prevent the others-from cutting off his retreat Thus far he seemingly has been successful, for, although the Germans claim the capture of many 7 prisoners, the aggregate is small ? > * when compared with the Immense V; forces engaged. In addition the ~ tfra Russian guns apparently are will on their way to the rear. - % From refugees, who left Warsaw some days ago and have arrived at Moscow, "it has been learned that Warsaw, even at that early aate, naa been denuded of virtually everything that might be useful to the Teutons. Factories have been stripped of their machinery and all war stores moved into the interior of i Russia, and the government of the city left to the Polish population. The Russians are also preparing to evacuate Riga, in the north. The arrival of the Germans ten miles south of that city already has been the cause of the civilian population departing. . While expressing the fullest confidence in the future, the British mil- * itary critics make no attempt to belittle the achievements of the Teutons or the effect their success is likely to have in the near east and the west. Since early in May, when they started their great counter-offensive, in western Galicia, against the Russians, who were* debouching through the Carpathians onto the plains of Hungary the troops of the Germanic powers nave ciearea iue Russians out of Galicia, with the exception of a narrow strip of territory in the southeast, have recaptured Przemysl and Lemberg, taken Lublin, Chelm and Warsaw and in military occupation of virtually the whole of ?> Poland. What their next move will be is a matter of conjecture. Some * ' * ?in military observers Deneve mey win continue to attack the Russians in the hope of finally crushing them, a task considered difficult by the fact that the Russians in their retreat lay the country in waste. Others of the observers think Serbia will be attacked to impress the Balkan States \ while stilf others look for a big offensive in the west., All of the ob- ^ servers are of the opinion that wher. ? ever the new operation is begun it will be on a big scale. The Germans have also had local successes in the west, recapturing on ? ihe crest of the line in the Vosges a portion of the trenches, which the f French took from them some time ago.