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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1915. Established 1891. v J
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
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SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Fairfax Fancies.
Fairfax, Sept. 25.?The following
young people have left for th^ colleges:
Miss Sadie Harter, to Colum
bia college; Misses Leylite Wilson,
Alma and Lucy Googe, to Winthrop
college; Misses Ruth Wilson, Alma
Loadholt and Kate Fennell, to the
Greenville Womans college; Charley
Fennell, Wilbur Wilson and Edward
n MacDowell, to Furman university.
The civic league held a meeting at
the home of Mrs. M. A. Moye, Wednesday
afternoon of last week. Owing
to the inclement weather, there
was not a full attendance of members
and some important business
matters tfere left over for the next
meeting in October which will be
held with Mrs. MacDowell. A salad
course folowed by a sweet course was
served.
Mrs. J. E. Johnston and children
are at home again after an extended
visit to Greenville, Chester and other
points '
Mrs Grimes. Mrs. Hogart and Miss
Elsie Grimes, of Brunson, were re^
cent visitors to Mrs.E. A. Ha ter.
Mrs. Rosa C. Platts, of HrCkory
Grove, is spending /some time with
v her daughter, Mrs. William Harter.
Mrs. D. B. Groseclose has returned
from a visit to Prosperity, Newberry
and Columbia. *
Country Correspondence.
' The health in this community
(Lemon Spur)'is good. We fully
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believe in a few more years, with
^ good drinking water and vigorous
ii ^fights against mosquitoes, and other
germ laden insects, that malaria and
the dreadfed typhoid, and hemmorrhagic
fever will be a thing of\he
past in Bamberg county. Only a
few years ago there was a great
deal of sickness every fall, that now
lb so much lessened by determined
methods of screening, draining, etc.
On last Wednesday about noon a
tenant house on Mrs. Eugenia Whet"
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stone nice s< pmuiaiiuu. nao uui uvu
and in it the eighteen months' old
child of Raleigh Williams, colored,
was burned beyond recognition of
humanity.
Hampton school began its session
last Monday with Miss JCate'Kornegay
as teacher. There are only a
very few pupils in the district of
. . Hampton.
We must comment on some of Supervisor
McMillan's road management.
Some beautiful work has
been done on the road leading from
Bamberg to Spring Branch and on
* to the swamp. Then some much
needed repairing has been done on
the Bamberg-Ehrhardt road, but
there's more to follow. The office
? of- supervisor is much before the
public all the time, as everybody
travels some, and never fail to criticize
the failures, but seldom compliment
the successes.
The writer attended the mission>
ary picnics given by the W. M. S. of
$ " Spring Branch church on the l?th.
Ice cream and lemonade was sold all
* . day and s, neat sum realized to be
reported at the Blackville meeting.
On Sunday, the 19th, at the
\ home of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mr% T. J. -Crider, of Spring Branch,
their daughter, Blanche, ?xand Mr.
Loiless Euge$e Murray, of Summerville,
were married. Quite a crowd
^ witnessed the ceremony, performed
by Rev. B. D. Bolen, her pastor. The
young couple left immediately after
the ceremony for their future home
at Charleston. We wish for them
much happiness, as Blanche -seems
quite near the writer after three
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years reiationsmp as leacner emu
pupil.
In last week's issue The Herald
t commented on th^ soil adaptibility
I of Bamberg county to rice. The
writer has often been told of the efforts
made during slavery times to
grow rice along Lemon Swamp. A
canal that is across the Southern
part of causeway on Ehrhardt-Bamberg
road, was cut by a Mr. Bailey's
slaves during the early 60's. This
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production and it was iouna to De
a profitable undertaking. After the
war and during reconstruction, the
scarcity of labor caused a discontinuance
of that. To show how far
away rice production has been to our
people a pupil in agriculture asked
us last year if "home. made" rice
tastes 'as good as "'store bought"
rice, Bamberg county has tasted
and enjoye the appetizing "home
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TO RECALL DU3IBA.
Assurances Given at Vienna Foreign
Office to the American Ambassador. I
Washington, Sept. 27.?Dr. Constantin
Dumba, Austro-Hungarian
ambassador to the United States, will
be formally recalled by his govern
ment, according to assurances given
American Ambassador Penfield at
Vienna foreign office.
Mr. Penfield had been instructed
to make cloar informally that "leave
- of absence" for Dr. Dumba would
not satisfy the United States. A note
on the subject is being prepared in
Vienna, and immediately upon its receipt
safe conduct home for Dr. Dumba
will be arranged. Dr. Dumba hao
engaged passage on the steamer
Nieuw Amsterdam, sailing October
5, it was said.
Charge d'Affaires Barclay, of the
British embassy, called on Acting
Secretary Polk at the State department
today, and later the secretary
stafori that Fir Diimhn'e unmnlest.ed
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passage could be arranged by wire
1 in a few hours after Vienna's official
recall. /
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Written assurances that Madam
Dumba cpuld proceed without interference
from British or French authorities
was mailed Saturday,1 the
allied embassies having > notified the
department that safe conduct was
1 superfluous in the case bra non-combatant.
STRAY BULLET FATAL.
Negro Loses Life on _ Allendale
Street.
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f Allendale, Sept. 25.?Jake Saxson,
a negro boy about 15 years of age,
died Wednesday from the result of a
pistol shot inflicted Sunday night
' while on his way from church. Elazer
Daniels, who is charged with the
crime, was shooting ~At a negress,
Nannie Fitts, at the time and a stray
bullet pierced the boy's stomach. The
attack Was a result of a general row
among the negroes the night before
on the J. J. Walker place several
miles from Allendale. *
The verdict of the coroner's jury
is that Jake Saxson came to his
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death from a gunshot wound in the
hands of Elazer Daniels, He made
his escape, it is thought, into Georgia
and is still at large. A number
of arrests are to be made among the
negroes who took part inlthe Satur'day
and Sunday night rows.
made"N flour an<* we hope the rising
price of cotton will not make her
k neglect to grow plenty of rice and
I flour' next year. Not only Lenion
p t
Swamp vicinity is adapted to rice
culture, but there's enough soil in
the county to grow rice enough to
feed its people.
. When will a depot, or some kind
of shelter be built at Lemon;; Spur?
There is a good deal of get-off-and-on
at this point and the irregular sched- I
ule of the afternoon service makes
it very uncomfortable in rainy
weather and since, days are shorten
ing.
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Colston Clippings. .
Colston, September 27.?Well, the
good old summertime; is almost past
and gone; no more picnics, and, oh,
I my, how they will be missed by the
. young folks. ' *
Mr. Hamie Folk and sister, Miss
, Bessie, visited.Miss Alberta Kearse
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last Sunday.
t Mr. Will McMillan spent last Sunday
with friends and relatives in Ulmers.
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Mr. Clyde Dickinson and Mr. Eldon
Kirkland were visitors at Colston
last Sunday evening.
Mr. Wesley Kearse spent last Sun,
day with Mr. Barbot McMillan.
Mr. Preston McMillan spent Saturday
night and Sunday with his
brother, Mr. Jake McMillan.
A certain young man took a girl to
Sunday-school Sunday afternoon and
forgot to take her* home.
Miss Evelyn. Kirkland and Miss
Bessie Kirkland spent last Friday afternoon
with Mrs. Jule Ray.
Mr. Vernon McMillan and Mr.
Gerald Kearse visited friends at Ulmers
last Saturday night and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kirkland, of
the Beuford's bridge section, visited
Mr. Frank Kirkland and family last
Saturday evening.
Mr. Jake Folk was also a visitor
in Colston Sunday evening.
Mr. Horace Ray has been sick for
rlovo' Vir\r>c ho will cnnti hp
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out again.
Mr. Johnnie Kirkland, who has
been ill for several weeks, is improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hughes, of
Ehrhardt, visited their sister, MVs.
i C. B. All, last Sunday.
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Charles C. Langston, former editor
of the Anderson Intelligencer, died
in Anderson Tuesday, at the age of
56.
Five negroes were in the death
house in the State penitentiary Tuesday,
awaiting execution. All of
them were convicted of murder.
Manson Shuler, a negro 21 years
old, was shot and killed by a posse
of citizens Tuesday at Ellorree, while
attempting to enter the home of a
resident of that place. He was killed
on the premises, after he had
flashed a pistol in the face of the
owner of the residence.
The city of Augusta is seeking an
injunction against the county of
Edgefield to prevent the foreclosure
by pubfic sale for taxes of the dam
across the Savannah river. The
amount of taxes claimed is $774.35.
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1 lit! 111J UiltLlVJll IB SUUfelH UU LUC
ground that the dam is public necessity.
FOLLY TO STAND PREPARED.
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Nebraskan Tells Columbia Audience
Doctrine of Preparedness is Failure.
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Columbia, S. C., September 23.?
William J. Bryan, former secretary
of State, speaking here tonight under
the auspices of the Y. M. C. A.;
attacked "preparedness" as inciting
to war and stressed the opportunities
which, he said, America now had to
advance the cause of peace.^
"I had hoped," said Mr. Bryan,
"that this war would show all Americans
that preparedness is the original
cause of war. Had w^e been as prepared
as some of our citizens now
want, we would be in. the war now,
I firmly believe. The doctrine of
preparedness will not stand the test
of logic and this war shows that it
will not stand the test of experience.
No nation is challenging us and if
there was we should answer that we
have the welfare of many people and
hieh ideals to take care of and can
not go to war without a cause.
"Not a nation in the world desires
to attack vus," he continued.
".Why, then, Should we let alternate
scares result in getting ourselves in
a state of preparedness? It is pure
folly." ^ .
Mr. Bryan, in an interview this
afternoon, said he hoped that national
prohibition would not be an
issue in the campaign of 1916. He
hoped, he said, that the campaign
would be fought out on the issue of
economic reforms foistered *by the
administration, which needed the inV,
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dorsement of the electorate.
WANT RESULTS "DECLARED.
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Steering Committee of Prohibitionists
Enter Protest Against Delay.
Columbia, September 24.?Letters
of protest against the delay in declaring
the result of the prohibition
referendum election were written today
by the steering committee of the
prohibitionists to Governor Manning
and R. M. McCown, secretary of
State. The prohibitionists say that
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tne aeiay in declaring me result ui
tlie election will give the dispensary
boards opportunity to buy more liquor
which they cannot do after the
result is declared.
This brought* forth a statement
from the secretary of State, who said
that he was the only member of the'
board of banvassers in the city yes-1
terday, and he had to call in Lieutenant
Governor Andrew J. Bethea.
He also points out that all the returns
have fiot been received and
"for the State board to declare the
result before the returns have been
received, if the county boards are
within the statutes in transmitting
their returns, would be gross partisanship,"
he said. He does not think
there is any possibility of the dispensary
boards ordering morfe whiskey,
calling it a "bugaboo."
The State board of canvassers assembled
this afternoon at 5 o'clock
and had, to recess because all the
returfts have not been received.
Got Stage-Struck.
One of our good paid-in-advance
subscribers has finally succeeded in
er??*iir?o' A r\f tho fleas that inhabit
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ed his bird dog. He took the dog to
De Queen and while there visited a
show where a man had a bunch of
performing fleas. The fleas on the
dog got stage-struck and followed
the performing fleas off.?Exchange.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Stat? News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
PARTIAL RETURNS.*
Over 57,000 Votes Cast in State.
Canvasser^,, Meet October 5.
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Columbia, Sept. 28.?Samplete and
certified returns of the referendum
election from 42 of the 44 counties
in South Carolina, as filed with {?e
secretary of State give for prohibition
40,581 votes and against prohibition
16,538 votes. The counties
from which complete returns have
not been received are Clarendon and
Marion. ^
The State board of canvassers,
whifch was called to meet last Tuesday
to declare the results of the election
on September 14, will meet October
5 at the call of the chairman,
R. M. McCown, secretary of State.
The vote was not declared last Thurs
day because complete returns had
not been received from all counties.
Vote by Counties.
The vote by counties, exclusive of
Clarendon and Marion, is as follows:
Dry Wet.
Abbeville 723 246
Aiken 1,126 315
Anderson .. ? .... 1,985 847
Bamberg 448 232
Barnwell 543 488
Beaufort .. 203 164
Berkeley 248 186
Calhoun 346 185
Charleston 370 2,607
Cherokee 1,209 259
Chester 625 # 234
Chesterfield 887 496
Colleton 801 226
Darlington 1,152 149
Dillon .. .. 494 162
Dorchester 454 497
Edgefield 710 70
Fairfield 453 138
Florence 1,514 362
Georgetown 319 , 154
Greenville 4,096 ' 1,028
Greenwood 1,172 234
Hampton .. .. .. .. ,545 ^ 227
Horry .. 861 727
Jasper 152 46
Kershaw .. .. /. .... 620 ' 335
Lancaster 989 202
Laurens 1,446 370
Lee .. <- 473 236
Lexington 1,405 572
Marlboro 828 38
Newberry '.. 1,170 398
Oconee ..1,108 162
Orangeburg 1,415 493
Pickens ,.. 1,028 315
Richland 1,257 784
Saluda ?.... 787 > 136
Spartanburg 3,338 1,251
Sumter .. ~ 652 244
Union v- 1,281 427
Williamsburg .. .... 565 -132
York ' 813 164
Total - -.4(1,581 16,538
SHOOTS J. W. ROUSE.
Injured Man Taken to Hospital ini
Augusta.
Brunson, September 27.?This
morning about 8:30 o'clock Mr. Angus
M. Brabham and Mr. J. W. Rouse
met at the town council chamber,
one of the most frequented localities
in the town of Brunson and entered
into a discussion of a business transaction,
pending, in which both were
directly interested. Mr. Rouse is
said to have reproached Mr. Brabham
with insincerity and of being
guilty of "a dirty trick." Mr. Brabham
replied, it is said: "I cannot
fight you. I am a physical wreck,
but if you advance on me I will shoot
you." Rouse struck at Brabham, the
blow glancing on the side of Brab
ham's face. Brahhanf staggered
backward, reaching for his pistol.
Rouse struck again and grasped
Brabham, as Brabham's pistol was
presented. Brabham fired once and
lost hold of the pistol, which fell to
the ground, two or three paces from
where he stood. Bystanders quickly
interfered.
A ball from the 32-calibre pistol
entered just above and to the right
of the left hip and did not pass
through* or out. The wound bled
profusely and the three local physicians,
hastening to the scene of the
difficulty, were for some length of
time engaged in staunching the flow
of blood.
Mr. Rouse was hurriedly made
ready and carriedly to a hospital in
Augusta for treatment. Mr. BrabT-.OVV.
nrnn + r? Vli C TlPTYlP ^PVPTfl.l
ua.in vvao tamcu iv um
blocks distant, where he is in bed,
suffering from complete nervous
prostration and other ailments from
which he has been for some time
suffering.
The latest account of Mr. Rouse
states that he is resting easily. Mr.
Rouse is a graduate of the Citadel.
He taught as principal in several of
the hieh schools of Hampton and for
the past several terms has served as
county superintendent of education
and has generally been regarded as
a capable and an efficient official.
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RECALL ELECTION FAILS
BANNER AND MARSCHER DEFEAT
LEGARE AND DODIX
Both Discuss tlie Question of the Negro
Vote.?Election Was
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Beaufort, September 28.?Charles
E. Danner, mayor, and W. F. Marscher,
councilman, will continue as
members of the Beaufort city council,
the recall election held her& torlflv
hflvinp' hppn rarripd hv them
by large majorities.
The vote was: For Mayor, Danner,
incumbent, 144; for councilman,
Marscher, incumbent, 144. The
unsuccessful candidates put out by
the faction which sought the recall
of Danner .and Marscher, with the
vote of each follow: it. R. Legare
75, J. B. Dodd 77.
Two tickets - had neither candidates
for mayor scratched, but had
Marscher scratched.
Quiet and Orderly Election.
Th^ election was conducted in an
absolutely quiet and orderly manner,
and at no time during the balloting
was there any semblance of a
disturbance over the contest, proving
that rumors which had gained
wide circulation during the past few
days were evidently groundless.
While practically everybody here
discussed more or less the political
situation, and great interest was
manifested, still each citizen ''kept
his head," and the result, so far, is
the peaceful solution of the political
problem that has confronted this
city for the past month.
The negro vote, which each side
charged the other with trying to
control, was 66. About eighty negroes
were registered. Five ballots
Vl Allf Kooonoo r> ATI Q A f
nolo luiunu uui i uou uuuc ui
the four names on them was scratched.
CAVE-IN OVER NEW SUBWAY.
One Woman Dead and Three Men Injured
in New York City Accident.
New York, September 25?One
death and the injury of three other
persons resulted from the caving in
of thq street over the new subway
in Broadway near 38th\street tonight.
An unidentified woman, who
was caught in the falling debris,
died later in a hospital. I
The others injured were men. Police
and firemen continued their
search for several workmen rc porteld
missing.
The accident occurred a few blocks
from the heart of the theatre ?r".is trict
shortly before 8 o'clock and
Broadway was crowded with people.
The weakening of supports in the
subway, due to weight of traffic, is
believed to have caused the superstructure
to collapse.
A crowded street car was approaching
the spot just prior to the
cave-in. The motorman saw the
car tracks ahead sag and applied the
breaks in time to prevent the car
from being carried down. Many of
the passengete became hysterical.
Tonight's accident occurred less
than a mile from that of Wednesday,
when the superstructure of the new
subway at 7th avenue and 1 25th
street collapsed, causing seven
deaths.
SIZE OF TERRITORY TAKEN. '
Area Occupied by Allies 4,266 Square
Miles; .by Central Powers 69,498.
Washington^ September 22.?A
German estimate of the physical results
of the first war year received
by the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce today from the
American Association of Commerce
and Trade, of Berlin, says:
"It is of interest at the close of
the first war year to record the
amount of hostile territory occupied
by the belligerents. In regard to
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prisoners'taken only German data is
available. The territory occupied by
the allies consists of: Galicia, 3,861
square miles; in Alsace-Lorraine,
405 square miles, a total of 4,266
square miles.
"This territory is about the size
of the State of Connecticut.
"The territory occupied by the
central powers consists of:- In Belgium,
11,197 square miles; in
France, 8,018 square miles; in Russia,
50,193 square miles; a total of
69,498 square miles.
"This territory is about the size
of the State of Missouri and about
one-third the size of the German empire."
' The estimate fixed the number of
prisoners taken by the central powers
at 1,694,869, of which 8,790 are
officers, and the numDer or gun^ captured
at 8,000 field pieces and 3,000
machine guns.
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Former Beaufort City Manager Attacked
on Street.
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Beaufort, September 25.?The city
registrar is under bond of $1,000 to
answer to the charge of issuing
fraudulent registration certificates.
A white voter, Esau Levy, is under a
$500 bond for alleged fraudulent >- *
registration, and a negro voter is .. 3
eluding the service of a warrant for
the same alleged offence.
Ex-City Manager Home is out on . . ' *
a'$200 bond charged with carrying
concealed weapons, and Levy is under
like bond charged with assaulting
Horne. ^
The Alleged Assault. ^
The alleged assault occurred in
front of the postoffice tonight. Sur- >
rounded by a party of over twenty . V
Danner partisans, Levy is said, to
have stopped Horne, who came along ; f - the
sidewalk in company with J. W.
Gray, and cursed hint. for swearing
out the warrant for false registra- .
tion. Levy, who, it is said, jhad been
threatening violence during th"e afternoon,
urged on by the crowd, it
appears, struck Horne, and ran into
a nearby store calling out: "He 1
is going to shoot me!" . vrV
Horne went after the^crowd in an
uproar. Others stepped in> a policeman
came up. Horne was charged
witA being armed and turned over a
revolver to the policeman and de- %,
manded the arrest of Levy, which the /)
policeman refused to do. Horne
weighs 115 pounds.
Tonight at a meeting of indignant . -
citizens the following resolution was
passed and presented to the mayor
by a committee, consisting of Messrs.
George W.N Beckett, George Waterhouse
and W. E. Richardson:
Resolutions of Protest.
"Be it resolved, That the mayor 1 .4
of the city, Mr. C. E. Danner, be requested
to guarantee police protec- '
tion for Mr. R. C. Home, Jr., who
has been attacked by political adherents
of the mayor on the streets of ; \
Beaufort in the presence of the police,
who refuse to make any arrests
upon the ground that the chief of police
has ordered them' not to interfere
in the event of disturbances
arising from politics, but only ta
summon the parties involved7 to appear
in court. We present this reso- J 1 : ^
lution in the face of many rumors of v
threats of violence directed against
Mr. Home." ' -'9;
The meeting then resolved, That
"whereas, the committee appointed
by the mayor and chief of police have \ *
given explicit promises that the peace
will be preserved and the chief of
police requests that any threat
against Mr. Home or any other citizen
be reported to him, upon which /.
information he will make the arrest
of said person; therefore, be it resolved,
That the meeting accept the V J promises."
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The meeting also voted to ask the
county commissioners to keep the
rural police in the city until after y''-\
,the election.
The city registrar has turned down
many men who are registered in the
county, but who had lost their coufi- ' ^
ty registration certificates. The re- 1 - ^
call advocates some 'time ago tpresented
a protest to the mayor, after
which the names of two of their opponents
were stricken from the registration
list.
Last night a number of the leaders v
discussed other alleged irregularis
ties and decided on taking out the ,
warrants, which were sworn to this
morning by Mr. Horne before magisD{1/\.t
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case of the two charged it was found r .
'their names do not appear on the ?
county registration books and, there- , ^ \
fore, are not entitled to the city registration
certificates that were given
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them. Other evidence is in hand - 'rKS
warranting other arrests, it is said.?
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"BUCK?" "NO; WM. JENNINGS."
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Very Jjaiest xeiepnone awry involving
Peerless Leader. v
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Washington, Sept. 25.?Here is the
latest one which is making Washington
newspaperdom laugh:
One day this week?it was the
day the former secretary of State
called on the president?a clerk at
a certain government department answered
a ring at the telephone.
"Who is this?" said the clerk.
"Bryan," was the answer. /
"Who, Buck?"
"No; William Jennings."
The clerk was considerably flustered
at the denouement of the little
drama. "Buck" Bryant, as H. E. C.
Bryant, of the Charlotte Observer
and the New York World, is known
to his friends, was the person whom
the department clerk had in mind
when he misunderstood Mr. Bryan's
name over the 'phone.
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