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(Eh? lamtarg feralb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1915. Established 1891. ___ ?? COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. \ News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Denmark Dots. Denmark, Sept, 11.?Mrs. Shuler, of Holly Hill, is with her sister, Mrs. J. A. Wiggins. Miss Ella Mosley Wilkinson left Tuesday for Greenville, N. C., to spend the winter with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Mosley. i Reynold and Miss Vera Wiggins left for Durham, N. C., on Tuesday to attend Trinity college. Miss Mahey Day, of Charleston, is visiting Mrs. G. W. Goolsby. Mr. and Mrs. James WrotonX'and femily are spending several days i with Mrs. M? R. Willis. , Miss Clara Wyman has recently returned home after spending the sum , meT in Hendersonville, N. C. Miss Virginia Faust is at home after spending several months with relatives in Virginia. Mr. H. W. Goolshy, of Hartsville, I- was in town this week. Mrs. C. H. Poole, of Alabama, is visiting friends here. The Graham chapter, U. D. C.,| - held the regular monthly meeting with Mrs. L. E. Spann Thursday afternoon. The attendance was good and an interesting houj; spent going over the business of the year. A re\ >- port was read ^by the president, Mrs. j. S. Matthews. The historian, Mrs. ' t j. S. J. Faust, read a paper on Capt. Thomas Tyler. : After the business v > was closed a sweet course was served by Mrs. /. G. Boozer and Miss - ;*Mary Belle Inabinet. BranchviDe Bolts. ' " / ? \"" ^ . RranchyiHe, September 12.?Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Collier and family spent Sunday in town with their - daughter, Mrs. S. M. Dukes. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Ott and daughter, Viola, spent Sunday in EJloree, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. f: ott. Mr. and Mts. H. W. Smoak, of R. | . F. D. No. 4, spent the. week-end with ^ relatives near Oiar, S. C. . . ' Mr. Sam Smoak, of Cordova, spent Sunday vnight with friends in town. Miss Georgie Ott, of Ridgeway, is spending a few days in town as the ^ . guest of Miss Viola Ott. Miss Ellie Dukes spent Sunday in JKllOree wnu reiauvco. Little Julius Risher, Jr., who lives a few miles from town, had a left leg broken while playing Sunday in i'C the gin house. > * Old Timer's Wanderings* , > Wander's Rest, Sept. 14.?Fall will soon be here. The yellow but.terfles have arrived and are to be seen slaking their thirst in mud pud: V dies and damp places. How lively and bright they look, all dressed in beautiful bright ^yellow coats that no r German dye can imitate, for they are fresh from the work shop of nature some where. No man - knows whence they came and where they v fco, but, they are here now on their journey South. Then too, the birds *r "*? noee. are oil losir soumwaiu uiaim, paw > ing over at night, calling to their fellows as they hasten to their winter home. "Listen to the mocking bird," wrote one poet. I write birds for this has been a prosperous year to Mr. and Mrs. Mocking Bird, for they have raised two broods and have had few enemies to destroy them, and today three, each in his tree, were caroling their happy songs and, while Old Sol poured out his heat in relentless fury, the birds were happy perched . on their boughs swaying in the breeze almost bursting their little throats in glad song for dog\days are gone and soon o'possum and sweet potatoes baked on the same dish will be here and gold and purple and crim> son will tint the scene. Soon andther mile post on the sands of time will be passed with Thanksgiving and nntninor VtAt'OJPOn Thus f Vjliiridlliiaf Vl/miug UVV? vv?> it ever is, and all is well. * The threatened ruin coming out of the European war failed the pan out. No more rags or hungry ones now than a year gone. With fields of green to draw from, and crops little grown before here to stay; with cotf ton still low and half crop average, still we live; are free from want. It should make us shout the glad strains with the mocking bird. Money talks, says the miser. Yes, it does, and some times makes a man feel above his fellows, but it can't fill an empty heart, soothe a sorrow, nor i calm a guilty conscience. So why cry for it now, only to place on honeet debts as far as it will j * V " t - ' . . I reach, then work and hope for more,! until all are paid, for we can pay| ours long before the poor people of! Europe can pay theirs. So let us be thankful that we live in a land of plenty and that this is the land of the free and the home of the brave. OLD TIMER. Country Correspondence. Ideal Indian summer weather we are having, and farmers are making hay and gathering cotton while the cnn chinos Mr. S. W. Sandifer had the misfortune of cutting his foot Monday morning while preparing to stack some hay. Schools are opening up in full now each Monday and soon all boys and girls will be at their mental labors. Mrs. N. J. Padgett, of Spring Branch, >spent Monday night with her uncle, Mr. J. W. Hill. While wre are writing, the liquor traffic question is being voted on, at the various points. Oh! if we could have prohibition in its full sense, there would be no need of legal steps to try to. establish it by force, .-p^n conversation with some gentlemen some days ago, on -the prohibition question, one of them said, "If the legal sale of liquor is continually established by the voters of today, (men) that the Christian women would be the voters of tomorrow; and that the men by their negligence would be forcing the women to do what they do not want to do." Women!?mothers, sisters, wives, sweethearts and last but not least, teachers, do your voting in (the homes, at the banquet, at the social, at the dinings, in the parlors, and in the school room, every day that you teach. If every voter was a law of temperance unto himself there would be no need of legality on the subject and so much expense to office holding and execution, and persecution could be saved our worthy nation. Baal in an alcoholic form is as evident today as in the days of Jezebel. As no special note has been made of the Sunday-school convention held / A at Colston on the first three days of this month, we will first speak of the full delegation and large crowds that attended every session. - The writer has never seen larger crowds through the entire session, estimation was about seven hundred. The programme was good and ably discussed. x While we must say that so many of the pastors of the association were absent, on account of hoiu ing or assisting in protracted meetings, we felt their absence and trust the churches will next year arrange their meetings and pastors' vacations so that every one can be present at the convention held in Barnwell. Special mention must be made of the generous hospitality offered by the entire Colston community. Every home, regardless of denomination, was thrown open for the en tertainment and pleasure of the guests, and the smokehouses, pantries and every other place representing en eatable storehouse, was well demonstrated at dinner time on the grounds, and I *think the convention wanted to be invited to return to Colston. Must be a little personal and throw a little bouquet at the untiring faithfulness of Rev. W. G. Britton, colporter, as secretary and treasurer of the convention. He is full of life and spirit, and always at his post. These Sunday-school conventions lend much to the interest and zeal of the many who attend, as all questions are vital and fully touch on the various problems of the Sunday-school sphere. r au i<u i <UIV>ivl3< Fairfax, Sept. 11.?One of the loveliest receptions ever held in Fairfax was given by Mrs. J. Fred Lightsey Friday afternoon, Complimentary to Miss Jessie Whatley, of Early Branch, Miss Margaret DuRant, of Clinton, and Miss Epting, of Newberry, new members of the teachiig force. The guests were met at the door by Misses Alma KnigXt and Hattie Googe, who ushered them into the parlor where the hostess and honor guests stood. Mesdames D. F. Moorer and G. D. Sanders then conducted them to the dining room, where a tempting salad course was served in a most unique fashion, carrying out the blue bird scheme in detail. The dining room was lovely in its ap pointments. A handsome cover with blue birds skimming across it adorned the centre table. A bowl of roses ,and fern, over which hovered a graceful group of blue birds, comprised the centrepiece. Blue birds also adorned the napkins which were given the guests as souvenirs of the i occasion. Over all the chandeliers | (Continued on page 4, column 5.) ' -1 t>. . . -j" . STOP! LOOK!I EXTRAOf The Bamberg Herald Will D Worth of Prizes Free ol Winning Prizes, Col The Bamberg Herald tod; dred dollars' worth of the : will be given away absolut prizes offered, cold cash mc biggest offer that has been many years. Turn to the bi read every word of it. Then Some of them are run to g promises are some times mi one is for the sole purpose < are in arrears and to add t< NEW SUBSCRIBERS. "V der to get them, we are goi: our profits away to those w Everybody knows that T county newspaper publishf get better acquainted with the adjoining counties, and ing to award prizes that e should have. But one of the biggest au test is that to every contes of the five big prizes offere cent, commission on all col no need, therefore, to fear tl on working for us, and not Everybody is going to be pa but one subscription to Th< of that one subscription wi] closes, if you aire not one of Any lady in this or any ( participate in this distribut cash commissions. The tei some contests. You may s where. The Herald is just counties as it is in Bamberj This is not a contest of tl nykind. We have nothing can fool the people some of fool them. The people are them to remain our friendi honesty has won a place in 1 Herald, and, you may rest a Therefore?The Herald ( contest company to run this contestants and tell thefn t] they will get the prize. Th erated by The Herald. W business too long, and we hi in it?even if our honesty i so. The contestants will c pay them into us at The There's another thing at generally customary to giv tions than old ones. This v; scription collected, whethei counts for the very same, you to get a renewal as a n? at the Outset, this is not a n subscribers?our stand-bys sideration as the new ones. Elsewhere in the paper i When properly filled out a: Herald, it will count for 5,0 allowed each contestant. 1 want to share in this prize giving campaign, is to fi and fire it in to us today. ! get in on this proposition. Let your friends know rigli ning. If you delay, your ne There are no strings tied 4-1* A Ann An ttaiiy* fo/?a pit; ctO IUC uuoc ua jfvux We want to collect all our to be governed by. The id scribers to our list. With THIS OFFICE we give a c< to the scale printed in the i be counted regularly and t berg Herald. Now, kind present subscr subscription. Make out a c The Herald for your subsc: ballot along with it, for you: ? * ? i.i J_ i. some laay to secure tnat ic ture?its a good suite beca our best furniture dealers i or that lovely cabinet talki: the old reliable Herald Boo which was purchased from ty," or one of those coats c Hooton?the two best mill: the State?will fit her up w berg Herald. ' ' v ,/ MN! . [BINARY OFFER, ?_ C 1 JmaJA ftf njlovo' ( 'isinuuie nuuuieu* ui umiaio f All Charges?To All Not Id Cash Will Be Given. ay announces that several hunmost valuable prizes to be had ely free. In addition to thd >ney will be given. This is the made in Bamberg county in ig advertisement right now and 1 e are contests and CONTESTS. 1 et in a big pile of money, and s ide that are not fulfilled. This | of collecting subscriptions that i our lists ONE THOUSAND i Ve must have them, and in or- ! ng to give the biggest part of f ho help us. j J he Bamberg Herald is the best . jd in the State. We want to i the people of the county, and I to get acquainted, we are go- } very lady wants, needs, and i i id best features about this con- 1 itant who does not receive one - 4 A id, we are going to give iu per ilections turned in.1 You have] i hat you are going to spend time ; receive pay for your worty lid. If you succeed in securing ( s Bamberg Herald, 10 per cent. ( 11 be paid you when the contest , ' the winners. j >f the adjoining counties may 7 ion of valuable merchandise or ! rritory is not restricted as in , solicit subscriptions from any- < as popular in our neighboring t ? v ' ! be get-rich-quick or catch-pento do with such schemes. You the time, but woe to those who our friends, and we expect for s. Fair dealing and strictest she hearts of the people for The ssured, ye are going to keep it. sngaged no contest manager or < s contest. No one will visit our ' bat if they pay so much money , at sort of thing will not .be tol- i e have been in the newspaper < ive too much of a desire to stay 1 * * x _ J ( were loose enougn ior us to uom ollect their subscriptions and 1 erald office. tout this contest of ours. It is i e more votes for new subscripre are not doing, and every sub- ' * it be a new one or an old one, ] It will suit us just as well for i sw subscriber, for, as we stated loney-grabbing affair. Our old ?are entitled to as much con- , t is printed a nomination ballot, ad brought or mailed to The , 00 votes. Only one nomination !Jow the thing to do, if you s 1 distribution and commission < 11 out the nomination ballot ! Pa* fV?o*n itnll V\n a Wrr rrncVl A." Ui tix^i g w xxx i\j\j w Mig x umm ww Be the first in your section, it now that you are in the rundghbor will beat you to it. to this offer. It is just as sim, There are no long set of rules irrears and add 1,000 new subea, simply stated, is just this: every subscription paid in to rapon good for votes, according advertisement. The Votes will he result printed in The Bamiber, don't wait to send in your iheck this minute, shoot it in to , <m n . j_ nption, ana mail a nomination i rself, or some lady friend. Help t ively mahogany suite of furni- ' use it was bought from one of l n the State?G. 0. Simmons? < ng machine, which comes from c k Store, or that $50 set of furs 1 Klauber's, the "Store of Quali- ? ?r coat suits, which Thomas or inery and ladies' store men in i ith at the expense of The Bam- i I AIKEX LAWYER FOUND DEAD. ^ *. Yin. Q. Davis Basses Away After Brief Illness. I Aiken, September 10.?William Quitman Davis, a well-known lawyer ^ )f Aiken, was found dead in bed Friday morning in his room at the 31 well hotel. Mr. Davis had been complaining 'or the last three or four days of nains in his head, but his condition g ,vas not thought to be serious. "The ^ hidsre " as he was familiarly called. _ vas on the streets Thursday after- ' O loon and told his friends that he4 ^ -vas going to his room early in the c evening. At 1 o'clock Thursday ' \ light a relative went to Mr. Davis' 'oom and found he was all right, but eeling a little uneasy. t Friday morning failing to come to j ireakfast his room was entered and lis body found cold in death. A phy- ( sician was summoned and announcid that death had been caused by ^ jonvulsions. j William Quitman Davis was born , n the section of Aiken county known is the Runs in March, 1850. Attend- f id Virginia Military Institute in the larly '70s, and was admitted to the iar in 1872. He leaves a wife and six children, besides a brother and :our sisters. Mr. Davis, at the time of his death, ^ vas law partner of Geo. W. Croft, rhe deceased had many friends, be- . ng well liked, his disposition'being sunny and his address that of the lest type of Southern gentleman. I ROBBED ON THE HIGHWAY. 2 c Parmer Relieved of $285 by Masked ? White Man. s Scranton, September 10.?Mi. 1 George E. Gist, a prosperous farmer I if Friendfield, this morning while 1 in his way to town to settle some 1 iccounts, was held up by a masked vhite man on the public highway in t :he community of Bass Bridge on j Lynch river and relieved of $285 in lash. The party halted Mr. Gist and I iemanded his cash. Being refused, i ;he robber then fired on Mr. Gist, c ;he entire load going through his s lat. At present there is no clue to ;he robber. t CARRANZA OBJECTS. [ ? t Declines to Acquiesce in Pan-Ameri- / can Invitation. c I Vera Cruz, September, 10.?Venus-; :iano Carranza, first chief of the! ^ Constitutionalist party, has declined :o asquiesce in the invitation of the, ^ iiplomatic representations of the', United States and the Latin-Ameri-1 ^ 2an countries that he join the leaders of the various factions in Mexi20 in an endeavor to bring about\ ^ peace. j The reply of Gen. Carranza, which ^ was handed to John R. Silliman, President Wilson's representative in ^ 4- m/vnn ooi/1 fliof flon .UCAICU, <XL liuuu tuuaj , oaiu iuai ucu. j Carranza could not consent that the interior affairs of the. republic be handled by mediation or by the initiative of any foreign government. RETALIATION PLAN. Cut Off War Munitions to Allies, Says North Carolina Congressman. Spartanburg, September 12.?The Hon. E. Y. Webb, of Shelby, N. C., representative in congress from the 3th district of North Carolina, and: chairman of the judiciary commit- j :ee of the house of representatives, j in an address here this afternoon before a men's meeting of the Y. M. C. A., suggested that the United,r -1. ...1 J ^ +V? a nUi rvm An f nf 1 isuuuiu &iup tut; siuyiucui, ui Munitions of war to the allies by way if retaliation for the attitude Engand has assumed towards our commerce. He said he believed England J should take cotton > off the contra- i land list if this country would let it I ie known that war supplies from 1 ;his country would be cut'off. He I >aid he had suggested such a course 1 ;o Secretary of State Lansing last I veek, but remarked that he would ( lot say what Mr. Lansing had re- ( ilied. C Afr? 'vxr^'h'h cqih fh^ United States C *>I 1 T K/ K/ UMAV4 V** V v ?????. ;vas the only neutral nation selling |( nunitions of war to the countries en- ( ?aged in the European conflict. He ( ntimated that legislation designed I :o stop the sale of American arm& I ibroad might be enacted by the next! I congress.. Passages of his speech j I kreated a mild sensation among mem- I )ers of his audience whose sympthies f ire with the allies. # C ? C Glendale springs water for sale at c lerndon's Grocery Store and Mack's f )rug Store.?adv. i Read The Herald. $1.50 per year. / - . * ... iTATE VOTES PROHIBITION 1 m 5V overwhelming MAJORITY dispensary loses. I ? Nearly Every County Gives Majority v Against Legal Whiskey Sale. Manning Will fliiforce Law. * After December 31 next the legal ale of alcoholic beverages will be v-j liscontinued 'in South Carolina. By i majority of more than two to one, ls shown by returns received from ruesday's election on 'the liquor luestion, the qualified electors have -oted for State wide prohibition, vhich means that the dispensaries low being operated in fifteen counies must be permanently closed by ([ ranuary 1, 1916. Although the returns from Tueslay's balloting are incomplete, an iverwhelming victory for the prohilition forces is certain; in fact, it is ikely that the majority will grow as idditional returns are received. With returns from all of the fortyour counties of the State, some com- . V | ilete and others incomplete, received, the following results are shown: For prohibition 32,944 ^ Against prohibition 14,141 It is not probable that the total rote 'will exceed 60,000 and 47,085 ? ire accounted for in the table which s appended. In the "Wet" Counties. Of the counties that now have dislensaries, Aiken has voted "dry" by it least three to one, while Barnwell, i s\r*A in or + n f Vin r/iftimo ronoitroH IVV^V/l UlUg LU l/HV> IVVUiUQ t VVV1 T ?U| jave a prohibition majority by the small margin of three votes. Calhoun has voted for prohibition )y nearly two to one, and in Orange)urg county three times as many balots were cast for prohibition as for ocal option. With one-third of the precincts to )e heard from, Beaufort gives a maority of 32 against the sale of liquorl Sixteen out of 29 precincts in Florence county return, in the aggregate, more than a four to bne lefeat of local option, and the boxes still out may increase this majority. With half of the boxes in, Georgeown gives a "dry" vote more than louble that of the "wet," and it is inlikely that this ratio will be maerially altered. i > ' Lexington, with one box missing-, shows a heavy majority for prohi)ition, and Jasper, with two boxes' >ut, votes four to one against the dis1)ensary. Richland gives a decisive majority !or prohibition, while the vote tgainst the dispensary in Union conn :y is overwhelming. Williamsburg, according to advices eceived, has gone for prohibition, al;hough figures from but one box-, ;hat at Kingstree, were available. Bamberg also reports but one pre* dnct heard from, that in the town of 3amburg, but information, received s that the county has voted "dry." At this count, Dorchester, with four boxes yet to come in^ gives a > najority of 13 for local option. Charleston is the only county that / jan with certainty be counted at this ;ime for local option, the vote being practically ten to one against prohi^ jition, with eight country boxes yet ;o come in. With perhaps an exception or two, lotably Horry, in no county which low sells liquor under the dispensary ;vptem was the vote close in Tues lay's election. The returns from ;he up-country indicate strong sen:iment against the sale of liquor. The returns by counties, up to Tuesday night at a late hour, follow: Vote by Counties. County? i Prohi- Local bition option Abbeville, 15 of 18.. 786 207 Uken, 26 of 32 .. .. 1,060 332 Anderson, 29 of 47 .. 1,423 652 Bamberg, 1 box .... 99 64 Barnwell, complete /. 517 514 Beaufort, 8 of 12 .. .. 188 156 - * "? A /? OA Berkeley, 4 ooxes .. ?o ov Calhoun, complete .... 346 185 Charleston, 29 of 37.. 284 2,541 Cherokee, 23 of 28 .. 1,057 230 Chester, 7 of 19 .. .. 441 131 Chesterfield, 10 of 24 582 "320 Clarendon, 12 of 18 .. 424 116 Colleton, 20 of 26 .. .. 653 170 i Darlington, complete 914 149 Dillon, 11 of 15 403 134 Dorchester. 10 of 14.. 387 400 Cdgefield, 10 of 17 .. 514 57 "airfield, 8 of 14 .... 391 93 Florence, 16 of 29 .. 1,274 264 Jeorgetown, 9 of 19.. 225 103 Jreenville, 28 of 54.. 1^521 778 Ireenwood, 11 boxes i,uss iyi lampton, 13 of 16 .. 520 204 lorry, 29 of 35 .. .. 736 690 (Continued on page 4, column 2.) $ ' . . " . J ^ ^