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?' , - ; i ' igg[ ?li? Hambfrg $jrral& | One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, AUGUAS 19, 1915. Established 1891. 'M COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENING! IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. * News Items Gathered All Around th< County and Elsewhere. Khrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt. August 17.?We ar having plenty of showers now am the cool breeze that generally come with them seems to add new life t< a fellow. Several of our autoists motored u; to St. Matthews last Wednesday ti witness the ball game between Si I Matthews and Williston. Some of our lovers of "fox hunt ing" were out last week trying thei dogs. Don't think any foxes hav been caught yet. Quite a good deal of excitemen occurred in Messrs. Folk's am 1 Moore's front yard last Sunday even ing, when a snake of the water rattl specimen made its appearance. The succeeded in killing it after a ligh and a hoe was secured. The snak measured four feet and two inche in Itin^Th The Rev. J. L. Hiers and family, o Cope, are down visiting their par ents. Joe is one of our home boy and we are always glad to see him He has recently added the title o "Rev." to his name. We doubt hi ever becoming a "Sam Jones" or "Billy Sunday," but we wish hir much success with his* new work. Mrs. Angus Kearse, of route No. ? was taken to the Columbia hospita last week for an operation. It i reported that she is quite ill. Ehrhardt and Bamberg played wet game of ball here last Friday j m., Bamberg, winning the game b *. the score of 5 to 4. V Miss Claire Weimer, of Fernandi na, Fla., is visiting her grand-father Mr. Chas. Hartz. Mi6s Bessie Priester, of Bamberg is visiting her uncle. Mr. Jame Priester. Miss Annie Mae Yarn, of Bamberg is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Joe Cop land. Miss Grace Moore, who has bee: i on an extended visit to her aunts Mrs. Billie Jaycocks and Mrs. C. P McTeer, both of Hendersonville, S C., returned home today accom V?v "VTicc A 1 i ri P PeeDles. 0 pauivu ~ ^ , Hampton. i Mrs. J. S. Dannelly is visiting he parents. Rev. and Mrs. T. L. Behin of Holly Hill. JEF. ? Ehrhardt News. Ehrhardt, August 15.?Miss Ed Belle Morris, who has been very il for several weeks with typhoid fevei left Wednesday with her motbei Mrs. J. M. Morris, for Da^isboro, Gt While here she was very popula , among the young folks, and he * *' many friends will regret to hear c her leaving. Miss Allie Morris, of Ehrhard' who has been very ill for severs weeks, is improving. ? Cope Callings. Cope, August 16.?Since the dr spell was broken on August 1. ther has been rain of greater or lesser d< gree almost every day, and the farn ers have had to bestir themselves i gathering the enormous fodder cro during the past two weeks. Th greater part of same has been hous 1 ed in fair condition, while the res will be gathered in the next week c l, .. ten days. Cotton picking has begun, and wi soon be in full swing. S. B. Cop comenced picking early in the montl and had not rain interfered, woul have had out several bales by now. The Atlantic Coast Line is havin , the large terra cotta pipe drains tba cross First and Second streets lowei ed several inches, and town counc % is grading out the ditch to corn spond with same. This is being don to thoroughly drain a pond in th northeast section of town that wa ^ being complained or by propert holders in that vicinity. Miss Bertha Reed, of North, wh has been spending a week op te days with her aunt. Mrs. J. H. Clarl returned home Friday. Mrs. Julia A. Brabham and daugl ter. Miss Hattie Sue. leit Cope yes terday morning for Denmark. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Stuckey, c Birmingham, Ala., are here for th week-end with Dr. and Mrs. T. ,v Stuckey. They leave this afternoo for Bishopville. Mr. Stuckey"s ol home. Mrs. Paul Black, of Millettville, i spending a few days with her brot> er, Dr. Ed Kirkland. Miss Mary Livingston, of North, i * * * I ? MEMORIES OF TOURAIXK. j >! t I Where the Sunshine Sparkles Rut! j Never Burns. I suppose?indeed 1 remember?| that rain tails in that country, writes I ejOwen Wister. in the Atlantic: vet., (when 1 think about it. sunshine in variably sparkles through the picture ?not the kind that glares and burns, but the kind that plays gently among ^ leaves and shores and shadows; suni shine upon the twinkling, feathered i q! i " i silver of the poplars, the grapes in i Dj sloping vineyards, the green islands ' and tawny bluffs of the Loire, the P i quiet waters of the Indre and the ?jOher; a jocund harmony seems to " i play about the very names?BeauI lieu, Montresor, Saint-Symphorien? "but were I to begin upon the music I in the names of France, I should run far beyond the limits of Touraine I and of your patience. Say to yourS self aloud, properly, Amboise, Chateaurenault. La Chapelle-Blanche, " Saint-Martin-le-Beau. and then say e:Xaugatuck, Saugatuck. Pawtucket, 'V j Woonsocket, Manayunk, Manunka^anH vAti will rntrh m\* drift. 8 I Stevenson's joy in our names was s; at bottom purely that of the colI lector. f: -! visiting relatives and friends of Cope, s ; and near Cope. 1.1 Mr. Glenn* W. Cope left yesterday f j for Orangeburg. He will be today sjin Cordova, and return tomorrow, a! Mrs. M. L. Cope, of Bamberg, is u here, spending some time at her old home. !, Mr. Sheldon B. Cope left yesterday j il for Pendleton to spend a week or s ten days. Mrs. Cope and the children are there for the summer, they a having gone*a week or so earlier. y. Ott's Outings. [. Ott's, Aug. 16r?Mrs. W. M. Mc. Cue has returned to her home after a month's stay with her daughter, ? Mrs. Martin Campbell, of Anderson. 'J Misses Inez, Sandifer and Gladys Free returned today from a very , pleasant visit to relatives and friends ^ at Cottageville. Miss Eva McCue is on an extendQ ed visit to relatives and friend6 at Sumter, Kingstree and other points. J > Mrs. Debby Copeland, of Ehrhardt.j . spent the week-end with her aunt J Mrs. W. M. McCue. - Mrs. John W. McCue has returned to her home in Charleston after a r month's visit to her parents, Mr. and x Mrs. W. M. McCue. Mrs. L. D. Odom and little daughter. Myrtle, spent last week with her sister, Mrs. Florrie Free, at Blackville. a Mr. E. C. Hays has been putting in [] some new machinery at his mill. We r, will soon hear the buzz of the saw r, and the hum of the gin. t. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Odom spent r Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr. x and Mrs. W. P. Sandifer, at Bam?f berg. The many friends of Mrs. Gertie t, Hightower will be glad to know that il she is improving after several days of illness. Quite a number from around here attended the unveiling of the late Riley Hightower's monument vestery day at Ghent^ Branch. r> 1 111 _ nmiHiiviuc dvims. 1 Branchville, August 13.?Dr. B. X. Minus, whose farm is about six miles P from town, in Colleton county, lost his tobacco warehouse with about ' eight hundred pounds of tobacco. He had removed the fire about twelve hours previous. ^ Mrs. W. A. Dukes and children have gone to the mountains for the e summer. Miss Evelyn Bethea has returned to her home after several weeks' stay | with relatives in Dillon county. Sj Mr. A. N. Whetstone and family it motored to Florence county last week 1 i visiting relatives. v 1 i Mrs. J. B. Henderson left on Weda I nesdav for Baltimore and New York, 6 I I to purchase her fall millinery. el Mr. Wallace Bethea. of Spartanq ! " I burg, spent a few days with his par* ] ents this week. J Mr. and Mrs. Lee Connor and chil?! dren, of Florida, are visiting at the | home of Mrs. Connor's father. Mr. J. C" B. Williams. We are having too much rain for 'jgood fodder pulling. Our crops are i nor equal to last year. Some rust ! in cotton showing the shortage of ?f 1 , potash. e. Quite a curiosity in the shape of a ' large alligator was exhibited on our n l streets this week. It measured nine ^ j feet and ten inches and was killed i bv Messrs. J.iP. Browning and D. R. Steelley. This was the largest ever j seen here. is; Read The Herald, $1.50 per year. I ' . & ' - v-* h - v-. * - . IN THE PALMETTO STATE I 1 Byi SOME (KTTRRKXCKS OF VARIOUS KIXI>S IX-SOUTH CAROLINA. a c State Xeus BoiIe<l Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About me Men and Happenings. Coi fro A bale of new cotton was sold at l?v Allendale on Saturday. Gov. Manning will attend the conference of governors to be held in ex i Koston August 24-27. to The total sales of liquor in the 15 dispensary counties for the month of tjj July were $245,.716.99. th The federal government has allot- tat rpft $4?.7fi6_0T> to the South Carolina: an* militia for the year 1916. pre Lewis W. Parker, of Greenville, tio has become assistant editor of the Greenville Evening Piedmont. the The governor has appointed spec- the ial iudges to hold all the courts assigned to Judge Spain for a year to tov coine. ' es* Victor, the 6-year-old child of Har- 4 * wil rv C. Mcl/endon. was drowned in a SU1 reservoir at the Granbv mills, Columcai bia. on Saturday. tin Labin Mauldin, of Easley, who died last week, left the bulk of his Br | estate, amounting to $13,000. to the 1 9 | Connie Maxwell Orphanage at Green- th( w00d- th< J. B. Halfacre has been named by bet Governor Manning as auditor of g0' Newberry county, vice E. S. Wertz, who was suspended from office for alleged misconduct. wa L. C. Harris, inspector on the At- frc lantic Coast Line road, fell under a of switch engine at Florence Saturday coi while tr> mg to get on it while in mo- sta tion. and his leg was so crushed that die it had to be amputated. toi A row occurred in a Greenville du negro house on Friday night over the Eu suitableness of the coffin provided for a dead man; the police were called ob: in to quell the disturbance, and am found 17 pints of whiskey in the me house. j. After causing a good deal of trouble throughout the day. Fat Ward, a Mi negro, was finally arrested in Spartanburg county Monday, and had to be spirited away to jail to prevent summary vengeance being wrought ni( on him. yei Joe Malloy, a negro convicted in Ca Marlboro of the murder of two white thi boys, Guy Rogers and Prestiss Moore, in 1910, has been granted a respite tei from electrocution from August 18 ^ to September 29. Affidavits were furnished the governor alleging that yei other parties had been heard to ad- s0] mit the killing. The respite is for Gr the purpose of investigating these af- ?'c fidavits. * tic ARMY FLYER IS KILLED. fir fe( Capt. Knox Loses Life and Lieut. Sutton Suffers Probably Fatal Hurts, at! * Mi Fort Sill, Okla., Aug. 12.?Quar- m< termaster Capt. George H. Knox, of tb< the First aero squadron, U. S. A., on was killed and Lieut. R. B. Sutton, Wi his aide, probably was fatally injured ha today when an aeroplane in which int they were flying fell 500 feet. The we squadron had just been transferred he from California. so] The officers had been conducting be experiments on the army reservation go since Tuesday. co The aviators ascended about nine De o'clock this morning. They had been as aloft only a few minutes when the aeroplane was observed to be failing. Cant. Knox and his aide made des perate efforts to control the machine. \ Knox was instantly killed. Sutton j tlc was hurried to the army hospital, |^e t TT where an operation was performed in an effort to save his life. The cause le< of the accident has not been ascer- ^ tained. * _ up A Long-Winded Clock. $4 $4 On arriving in this country Pat was* rei met at the pier by his brother Mike, it who had been in America some years, on and was taken to his home. Early pi( on the following morning the new arrival was awakened by an alarm clock, an invention that was entirely new to him. "Share and Oi say. Moike," he exclaimed, springing out of bed, "the noights here in America must be the longest av any place in the worruld." wc "Begorra. Oi don't know about 'n tliot." was the sleepy rejoinder of da ? .... ,? tv_ Krotner .Mine. rum think so?" ru "Didn't yez liear that clock?" returned Pat. pointing: toward the bu- th. j reau. "It must have struck at least j j a thousand."?Kansas City Star. Head The Herald, SI.50 year. . Dr AS TO COTTON SHIPMENTS. mes (iets letter From State I>e[tartnient. Aiken, August la.?In response to omniunication forwarding the letof a constituent as to the shipnt of cotton to neutral countries, igressman Byrnes has received m the State department the folding communication: 'I have the honor of acknowledg: the receipt of your letter of July relative to the difficulties being >erienced in the shipment of cotton the neutral countries of Europe. 'In reply you are informed that > department keenly appreciates : difficulties surrounding the exporion of cotton from this country, 3 is endeavoring to do all that it >perlv can to relieve the situan. .TTTU51- 5A 5- ~ AiitU'nA Willie 11 1? UUL (1U3S1UIC 1U uuuiug > exact methods to be pursued by - department, you may rest assured it strong representations looking vard the protection of the inters of this important commodity and >se connected with it are being and II be made. Further than this as ance the department would not e to indicate the method at this te. "Thefe are enclosed copies of the itish order in council of March 11, 15. and the department's reply ?reto. The order in council is etill } subject of diplomatic discussion tween this government and the vernment of Great Britain. "Realizing the limitation of the irket for cotton arising from the r situation, the department has ?m time to time called for reports the market for cotton in foreign jntries from its consular officers itioned abroad with a view to in:ate any possible openings for cot1 that might relieve the situation e to the decreased exportations to rope. "Copies of these reports may be tained from the bureau of foreign d domestic commerce of the depart>nt of commerce." :nds her life with pistol. s. Minnie Napier Johnson, of Colombia, Commits Suicide. Columbia, August 12.?Mrs. Min> Napier Johnson, aged about 40 ars. wife of J. J. Johnson, State pitol Policeman, committed suicide is morning at her home her by Doting herself through the right nple with her husband's revolver, ath resulted within thirty minutes, s. Johnson is survived by an 18ar-old daughter and a 15-year-old a. The remains were taken to aniteville this afternoon at 6:30 Jock for interment.' Mrs. Johnson has been ill for some ae, having been treated since the st of the month for a nervous af:tion. It is alleged tliat her husnd feared that she would make an tempt on her lire, ana ne waicnea s. Johnson very closely. This >rning at 5 o'clock he went on to 3 back porch, leaving his revolver the dresser in his wife's bed room, bile he was bathing his face and nds a shot rang out, and, rushing :o the bed room, found his wife dtering in her blood. As soon as r husband left the room Mrs. Johna secured the revolver and shot rself in the right temple, the bullet ing clear through the head and ming out above the left temple, spondency over her illness is given a motive for the deed. Wagons For National- Guard. Columbia, August 14.?The Na>nal Guard of South Carolina has en furnished with a complement of enty army wagons, forty sets ol id harness and forty 6ets of wheels. ie wagon parts are now at the ite armory, but have not been set yet. The cost of the material is ,460, which is paid out of the 00,000 contingent fund of the sectary of war?the "unlotted fund" is called. Twenty-four more wags will make up the complete com yment of the state rvauonai uuam. KMY WORM IX GKKKXYILLE. .perts Hushed to County to Combat Situation. Creenville. August 1 fi.?The army >rm has invaded Greenville county droves, and farmers report crops magred from every part of the counClemson college experts were shed here to combat the situation, ich anxiety has been aroused over e invasion. Glendale springs water for sale at jrndon's Grocery Store and Mack's ug Store.?adv. ; FRANK LYNCHED BY MOE TAKEN" FltOM STATE PRISON HA MOB MONDAY. Was Carried to Mary Phagan's Hoirn Town and Hanged to Tr^e.?Mob Quiet and Orderly. .Marietta, Ga., August 17.?Leo M i Frank is dead, a victim of mob law J Shortly before 7 o'clock this morn | ing he was hanged to an oak tree ir ! a woods two miles east of here, af ter having been removed from the Georgia prison farm one hundrec miles away late last night by a banc of about twenty-five men. Thus end ed the career of the man who foi two years had maintained his in nocence of the murder of Mary Pha 6<iu. Frank, on his ride to death, wa< clothed in a silk night shirt, with th< letters "L. M. F." embroidered ovei his heart. When found today 2 white handkerchier had been placet over his face and a piece of brow: cloth boufad around his limbs. Hi< hands.were bracketed before him ant his feet were bound with a piece o rope. The hangman's knot la; against his right jaw. Discovery of the body was made a 8:30 this morning by searching par ties, which had been organized afte Frank's removal from the prisoi farm became known. The new spread with lightning-like rapidit; and within half an hour hundreds 0 people, including scores of womei and children, from Marietta and th surrounding country-side began t arrive to view it. This continue! until Coroner Booth amved thre hours later. Judge Appeals to Crowd. Objection was made by some, t the coroner's announcement that th body would be cut down at once an< taken to Marietta. Cries of "Don' move the Jew's body till we shoo it full of holes," were heard. Thei former Superior Judge N. A. Morrit of Cobb county, appealed to th crowd. "Let there be no further violence, he pleaded. "The work of the mo is done. Leo M. Frank has given hi life for the crime he is alleged t have committed. Do not mutilat the body. Let' it be sent to hi mother. I appeal to your bette judgment and I ask all who agre with the course I suggest to rais ( their right hands." For a moment the crowd seeme to hesitate as the speaker concluded Then simultaneously hands appear ed everywhere. A moment later th swish of a knife cut the rope tha held Frank's body suspended thre 1 feet above the gound. It was quick ly placed in an undertaker's wago: and started to Marietta. Two scor automobiles loaded with people im mediatelv followed. Body Put in Automobile. Officials evidently feared the earl ier mood of the crowd might retur: and some form of vengeance resuli To avoid this possibility, the bod hurriedly wSs taken from the undei taker's wagon at the edge of Mariet ta, placed in an automobile with foi mer Judge Morris and hurried to Al lanta. With the departure of the bod the excitement that had stirred th town, rapidly diminished. The dens ' crowds that had filled the 6treet during the early morning hours thir ned quickly, and by noon only an o< casional small knot of people discus sing the lynching was to be found. The scene of the lynching wa within 200 feet of the roadway an within a few hundred yards of tw farmhouses. Occupants of both sai they had noticed nothing unusua during the early morning hour; However. William J. Frey, a forme sherifT, in whose woods Frank wa j hanged, living a half mile I'urthe I east, said four automobiles passe ' his house shortly before 7 o'cloc : this morning, each containing six o seven men. Never Thought of Lynching. "I paid no particular attention t them," .Mr. Frey. added, "and th possibility of a lynching did not oc cur to me." After the disposal of the bod . officials turned their attention to a investigation of the crime. Corone Booth empanelled a jury and ar , nounced that Cobb county commit sinners at a called meeting a shor , time previous had empowered him t liire a special attorney for the in quirv. Two witnesses testified as t the identity of Frank as the ma . lynched. An adjournment then wa taken for a week to allow time fo Sheriff Hicks and other officers t . collect evidence. i No sympathy for Frank was hear from any of the hundreds that pack ,| HOMICIDK IX COLLKTOX. Wilkes Lane riiarge<l With Shooting Win. Padgett. Walterboro. August 14.?Wilkes ? Lane, a white man of nearly sixty ' years of age, is in jail here charged with the killing of one Willie Padgett near Sniders 'Cross Roads, this county, the killing occurring with a ^ shotgun and buckshot. The story of t the shooting as generally circulated 1 here relates that Lane and Padgett A had some words recently which rej' suited in Padgett making a violent j assault Lane, beating him very badly. Lane had a warrant sworn out for Padgett and the shooting occurred when the warrant was to have ? been executed. Lane, it appears, went with the two constables to show , them where Padgett was. It is al- ' & ^ leged that Padgett covered one of y r the constables with a single-barrel ^ shotgun, whereupon-the constable rej treated. He then turned and cover1 ed Lane with the same gun, whereupon Lane fired, killing Padgett inj stantly. It was later discovered that f Padgett's gun was unloaded and that Padgett was attempting a bluff. Magistrate Bryan and Deputy Shert iff Lucas C. Padgett went to the scene . and held the inquest, Dr.- W. B. Acr kerman serving as physician. A ver 3 diet was found that Padgett came to it 8 his death from gunshot wounds from y the hands of Lane. Mr. Lane came f to Walterboro soon after the shoota ing and surrendered to the sheriff, x-|g| e when he was lodged in jail. ? SAVE MAX FROM DROWNING. e Young Man of Beaufort Performs Brave Act. 0 Beaufort, August 12.?An act of ^ heroism of more than passing interI aof hao ?>ii hut psr?rw?d notice on ac- / "f.'-ap t count of the modesty of those concerned. A marine named V. W. Gordon, located at the Port Royal naval ' station, was rescued from drowning by James L. Carbery, son of the coun? ty farm demonstration agint, about . three weeks ago. Mr. Gordon was b i i> va j swimming off the front of town when j he was seen by some ladies on the e j water front to be in distress. Upoh J their raising. an alarm young Car- ^ bery, who was near by in his bathing suit, dove overboard and went to the rescue. He succeeded in getting the . - 5gjl I man to the wharf, when they were d, both pulled in by onlookers. PhysiI j cians were summoned and" worked i over the man for some time before i they succeeded in bringing him back to life. ej Young Mr. Carbery is remembered | here as the youth who Was so severen ly wounded by a Beaufort policeman e on New Year's Eve last. He_ has ont. ly recently recovered sufficiently to ' ' be- able to swim, and in consideration of this hie pluck^ rescue was com- V'Msi mented on all the more by the onlookers. * a A report has been sent to the Car' negie Hero Foundation by officials of ; the town, who feel that young Mr. Carbery deserves this recognition at their hands. She Probably Did. . '^1 y "When I was a small girl," said El6; 6ie's mother, "I never kicked and . % e ?crpamprt because I could not get s! what I wanted." Elsie looked im'"I pressed. "I say, muni," she said, af;"!ter a pause, "you must have had a > $ i_| rotten time."?Chicago Herald. ,s|ed the streets here and viewed the / v/1 d body as it hung suspended. o! "I hate'to hear of people being d! lynched," said one woman, "but this tl: ?this is different. I think it is the s. | justice of God." >r I Similar sentiments were expressed ,s by scores of others. The womep as r! a rule, however, were more free to d make public their feelings than the k I men.r ' Only One Changed Course. It became fairly well .established '41 tonight that only one automobile o that left Milledgeville with Frank e continued for any considerable dis-' tance towards Eatonton. This machine was fitted with chains on the v tires and was easily traced. The n men in this automobile did a great r! deal of shooting at a bridge over i-1 Little River, n$g,r Eatonton, which . j- i led to reports that Frank had been t I killed there. Tnen, u is reueveu, 11 0! they took a shorter course to the * ^ t-' road traversed by their companies o! and joined them in the trip here, n j Another evidence of the care with sj which the raid was planned was r: shown when it was ascertained that o gasoline in tanks of automobiles used by officials at the prison farm were d emptied before the gang made the - ush for Frank. . j