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/ ' ' : . / " .. . ' Ufa? !amb?rn f?ralb j I . ^ ) = I One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1915. Established 1891. . J ? ? ????????? ^ ?? ^^"1-1 t -L_ , t = 1 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS ? S- ' v . SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS n IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. fl li V * v % News Items Gathered All Around the n / County and Elsewhere. C / Colston Captions. a E % / a .Colston, Nov. 9.?^-The new road 3 through our section is nearly completed, we are glad to say. Miss Rosalie Kirkley and Mr. Albert McMillan motored to Olar Sun- ^ - e , . day afternoon. . v ? Mrs. J. P. Clayton and daughter, Q J Miss Nettie, was the guest of Mrs. J. g A. McMillan Sunday. Miss Natalie ^ v Kearse joined the jolly *crowd. h On account of the awful weather before the box party, it was not a success at Colston high school, but we have decided to have it again Nol vember 17. We hope for pretty vi. " . weather this time and a great success. Everybody is invited to attend. ^ s. ^ /Mrs. Nettie Fishburne, of Black- f ville, visited her step-mother, Mrs. S. P. Chisolm, Sunday, returning the same day; Mrs. Chisolm returning with her. t T-rrjii' _ ?V. XXT* 1+AT?h/vrsv a - W line DCitt/U, UL ?t ai bci uvi v/| u 1M . ' S f\ photographer, visited in this section \ >- for a few days. He photographed ^ 1 our school Monday morning. The ^ U only thing we regret is that all the 1 ' scholars were not present. b Mr. and Mrs. S. W. ClaytoiHiad for . their guest Sunday their children and grand children, Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot t- r -k. g * Shpdiferv and Mr. and Mrs. Purdy Ayer a - r? N. . o Salem Sailings. \ Salem, Nov. 9.?News was receiv- 1 ed here of Mr. Ernest Templeton, f jwho is in the employment of the S. 1 L, railroad being real badly hurt h in Savannah, and his parents and ti sister hastened to his bed side. c Mr. Hugh Ray, of Columbia, is a visiting his brother, Mr. Willie Ray. c V . The Watkins remedies are much ^ Regular preaching services will he p held) at iSpubfe Pond church Sun- ? ^ day morning by Rev. P. E. Bolen, : and in the afternoon at Ghents s h Branch by Rev. Geo. Hopkins, also t at Georges Creeh by Rev. P. E. Bolen. a On Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock n at the home of Mr. W. H. Collins his 0 daughter, Corrie, was married to Mr. 8 ?. V TTilvi. ?. K of D Uttueri nigiiiuw W ) Of I Kf \J viv/vn. u>v ^ I the home of Mr. James Hartzog, his^ ^ daughter, Minnie Maie, was married to Mr. Edgar Delk. Rev. J. D. Hug- 8 gins performed both ceremonies. Both brides were pretty in their ? girlish beauty, being attired in white with white rose buds. The writer is P loathe to give them up as school girls, but wish for both couples a IV- ^ long life of happiness and/prosperity. ^ The same crowd that witnessed the ^ , above marriages also spent a pleas- ^ L'- ant hour at Ghent's Branch church from 3:30 till 4:30, it being the occasion 9i appropriate exercises to State missions by the children of the SuAday school. Rev. Goode, of s< Blackville, made an address, which a f' was much enjoyed. % Th? pastor and s< ^ 4. Hugging also assisted the Sunday school during exercise^. The P church was filled and all seemed to f< enjoy the exercises. 7 Salem school is doing nicely. fj Branchville Bolts. ! - - Branchville, November 6.?Mrs. n f George Reeves has returned from ^ Hendersonville, N. C. ^ The Rev. T. A. Campbell spent ^ ? Thursday here with the Rev. A. J. Allen. Mrs. Black, of Holly Hill, is yisit- B ing her sisters here, Misses Rebecca # and Alice Evans. - . m . . Mrs. Hutto, of Charleston, is here / - c< lv '' for a few days with her parents, Mr. _ * and Mrs. Sam Byrd. <" Lieut. Gov. A. J. Bethea was here ^ \ Friday enroute to Lodge, where he ^ delivered an address Saturday. , n _ Crystal Spring Happenings.^ t< m ; <t> Crystal Spring, Nov. 12.?The farP mers have been very busy during the C V past week gathering their sweet po- la tatoes. The weather has been most I ideal for the work. " 'Tater digging," d; as it is called sometimes, refreshes a ? little story about a school teacher that was canvassing her patrons as- It certaining the ages of her pupils. % f She called on one of her lady patrons ! j . and as1'ed for the age of Mary, Mary's || I mother said she had forgotten her j age exactly but said she- was borne in y "'tater time" but did not know weth- ^ er they were digging them or plants' ing them. h The farmers have made potatoes .7 in abundance, and have planted almost* all varieties known, the "Georgia Bucks," "Nancy Hall," if h tf - Queen of the South," "Forty to the v [ill* "The Gibson," and "Vineless." * Mr. C. K. Smoak's potato crop lade an average of two hundred and ? ifty bushels to the acre, with very ttle fertilizer used. Mr. Jeff J. Hughes is one of the lost energetic farmers living near S irystal Spring. He planted four cres in potatoes, planting the Nancy [all. It took 25 laborers to gather nd house a acre in a day. His crop 4 veraged three hundred and twentyve bushels per acre. He used com ost and a little rertinzer. Mr. J. M. Goodwin, the unexcell- c d farmer and superintendent of the irge farm of Mr. H. C. Folk, resides * ne mile and a quarter from Crystal 1 pring; he planted largely in potatoes ' his year. His crop averaged three undred add eighty-five bushels per 1 ere; he used five hundred pounds f otton seed mpal and acid mixed per i crev Mr. J. T. Smoak is the oldest far- j ier living* near Crystal Spring. ^Ie e veraged two hundred and forty-five t ushels per acre, using just a little j ertilizer- per acre. There are several other crops of j otajtoes near Crystal Spring that are ot reported but the above will show ^ he reader that the farmers are well upplied with potatoes. They are j veil supplied with hogs for bacon, 'heir gardens are full of fine vegetables, such as winter cabbage, turnips, ( tc. : ( The "panic" struck a year ago and f hey assumed the idea that if they did .1 iot get busy and make those^ thiiigs, ^ tarvation might set in. Hence they dotted the sweet "potato as a great [fe saver. < in benair or tnos? Diessings mey re all going to meet at Crystal Spring thanksgiving Day and spend the day easting on those good things to eat. ^ey are hopeful that the public at arge will join in and have a good ime. The ladies are well versed in the ulinary art, they will have nice cakes nd pies of all sorts?pork pies, hicken pies, Georgia' Buck pies, fcueen of the South pies, Nancy Hall lies, Gibson pies, Forty to the Hill ?ies, and Vineless pies. ' * The farmers have made a very J l hort crop of cotton. They say when hey have cotton they have no price nd when they have price they have o cotton. It reminds them of the Id negro, his boss, the meat and the reens. H? said when his boss had neat'he had no greens, and when he ad greens he had na meat. He aid it "was: the hardest matter to it dem togeder he eber saw." . Sassafras school is progressing icely under the management of Miss laggie Padgett as teacher. The atrons are running it so far by priate subscription, which is right hard, nd pay their taxes also. They rould be glad if the trustees of the istrict would be patriotic enough to elp them from the school funds of tie district. * Schofield Sketches "V Schofield, Nov. 8.?We are having 3me delightful weather these days, nd it is also unusually warm for the sason of the year. Mr. R. W. Schofield returned to hiladelphia last Saturday after a 3W days' visit here. Mr. F. G. P. Wiegand visited his imily at Fairfax on last Saturday. s Messrs James Parler and R. L. leard visited friends -and relatives ear Ehrhardt last Sunday. Several of the Employes of the ( larnwell Lumber company, includ- ( lg the sawyer and filer, were visi- t )rs here "last week. c Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence French c 11 r> TT OVinUn m n+rtro/1 tn r\ QCL 311". r, IV OllUiU mvvvi^u wv j arnwel! last Sunday. a Mr. G. W. Sowers is spending some \ me with his family here; he has re- f ?ntly been employed by the Edisto g umber company, of Embree, but y as been ill for some time and was iken to the hospital at Columbia, s here he gained some strength, and s e has come home for complete res- ^ >ration before returnng to his po- y tion at EmbreeT ^ Mr. G. Lawrence Bishop, of the v olston. section, was a visitor here g ist week. j Mr. J. I. Johnston spent last Sun- t ay at Denmark. RIP SAW. j, BIG LINER SUNK. 0 j alian Passenger Steamer Sent to C Bottom by Austrians. v Rome, via Paris, Nov. 9.?The ii alian liner Ancona has been sunk h yT a large submarine flying thte Aus- f' ian colors. She carried 422 pas- b mgers and sixty in the crew. Two ^ undred and seventy survivors, some t them wounded, have been landed t Bizerta. n b Read The Herald, $1.50 a year s \ \y N THE PALMETTO STATE OME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS I}T SOUTH CAROLINA. itate News Boiled. Down for Quick . Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. On account of the illness of Judge r. S. Sease, courl; was adjourned in ^exington until November 22nd, by :onsent of the attorneys. James E. Dunbar and Belton D. Clarke, Lexington county farmers, eport yields of potatoes of 600 and fOO bushels per acre, respectively. George Brown, an Edgefield negro, ost his residence a few days ago by ire^ Two of his children were caught n the flames and burned to death.A negro living at Little Mountain, dewberry county, the other day killid an eagle measuring eight feet from ;rp to tip. No one had ever heard of in eagle being in that section before, County fairs were held last week n Bennettsville, Lancaster, Abbeville md Spartahburg. Large attendances vere registered at each of them. The iounty fair at Orangeburg is being leld this week. A petition has been filed with Govsrnor Manning asking for the recall )f Mayor Floyd and Councilmen fielding and Waller, of Spartanburg, rhe petition is signed by 392, of Rrhom 312 are alleged to be valid voters. '' v'/ R. M. Fincher, aged 72, narrowly escaped death near Union Monday, svhen his buggy was struck by a :rain. Fincher was thrown from the iwiggy and was caught up by the engine and held suspended until the ^rain was brought to a stop. He. was badly bruised, but no bones were broken. Forgiving. One day little Flora .was taken to bave an aching tooth removed. That light while she was saying her prayers her mother was surprised to^hear tier say: "And forgive ua our debts as we forgive our dentists." I STANDING OF CONTESTi PRIZE GIVING CONT Miss Eulh O'Quinn Miss Pretto Hiers Miss Wilhelmina Folk Miss Germaine Sandifer ...... Miss Cressie Breland Miss Evelyn Kirkland Miss Frozijie McMillan Miss Fannie L. Free Mrs. G. W. Bessinger Miss Prettoe Fender T N Miss Sallie Richardson Miss Ethel McMillan Miss Edna Rice Miss Leila Templeton Mrs. Herbert Folk *, SUMTER PICKED FOR MEETING. ' V | >tate C. E. Convention at Laurens Also Reelects President and Secretary. Laurens, November 6.?The Christian Endeavor union of South Carolina, in session -here since yeserday, tonight elected the following >fficers: President, Wyatt A. Taylor, >f Columbia, reelected; secretary, A. ?. Corcoran, of Charleston, reelected, md Eugene H. Wilkes, of Laurens, va,s chosen vice president at large or the State. The union selected lumter for the meeting place next ear. _ y > The Laurens Christian Endeavor ociety offered a trophy cup to the ociety sending the largest delegaion to the convention. The cup was t'on by the society of the First Preslyterian church, of Columbia, which ras represented by twenty-two deletes. The trophy was presented by l. C. Todd, l?sq., and accepted for he winner by W. E. Davis, of Co' iimbia. Karl Lehmann delivered anther strong address tonight, his subect being ''Circumnavigation of the T?TiflaQvr\r dlr?V?o ** 'Ill lOliau 1JUUV/U> U1 U'VUV. Two sessions of the convention! rere held today, morning and even-l ig. The juniors and seniors also eld their meetings and mapped out uture work. Several sessions will e held tomorrow and the meeting rill come to a close tomorrow night. A simple but accurate method for leasuring the surface of a human eing has been invented by a French cientist. X . : ' % r . BLOCKADE DECLARED ILLEGAL. England Notified America Cannot Submit to Curtailments of Rights. Washington, Nov. 7.?The United States, in its latest note to Great Britain, made public here today, cov| ering exhaustively British interferj ence with American trade since the I beginning of the European war, de| clares that the so-called blockade ini stituted by the allies iagainst enemy ; countries on March 11 is "ineffective, illegal and indefensible." Notice is served that the American government "cannot submit to the curtailment of its neutral rights," 'and it cannot "with complacence suffer further subordination of its rights and interests." ^Ambassador Page, by whom the note was sent by special messenger for delivery to the London foreign office, was instructed by Secretary Lansing "to impress most earnestly" upon the British government that the United States "must insist that the relations between it and his majesty's government be governed, not by a policy of expediency, but by those established rules of international conduct to which Great Britain in the past has held the United States to account when the latter nation was a belligerent engaged in a struggle for national existence. Declaring the United States "unhesitatingly assumes" the task of championing the integrity of neutral rights, the note proclaims that the American government will devote its energies to the task, exercising always an impartial attitude. The note, nearly 15,000 words in . length, was made public by agreement between the State department t and the British foreign office. It j carries with it a voluminous appen Idix, giving the text of American naval instructions issued in 1862, and >a summary and table showing hundreds of vessels detained by British authorities since the beginning of the present war. The body of the note is divided into . thirty-five points, dealing with all phases of the contraband question, seizures and detentions, prior to, as l well as after, the so-called blockade was instituted, and announces that a ?mm INTS IN THE HER AID'S I EST NOVEMBER 9th ,72,500 71,000 70,500 : 70,000 58,500 55,000 52,500 . . 50,500 50,500 50,000 ' 49,000 46,500 - . 39,000 N. .... .30,000 29,000 f separate communication will be sent soon dealing particularly with the "property and right of the British government to include in their list of contraband of war certain articles which have been so included." Blockade Ineffective. In conclusion, after an argument on the law and facts, Secretary Lansing says: "I believe it has been, conclusively s^iown that the methods sought ' to be employed by Great Britain to j obtain and use evidence of enemy | destination of cargoes bound for neu: tral ports and to impose a contraband [ character upon such cargoes are j without justification; that the block1 ade, upon which such methods are j partly founded, is ineffective, illegal j and undefensible; that the judicial | procedure offered as a means of rep' aration for an international injury is inherently defective for the purpose, and that in many cases jurisdiction is asserted in violation of the law of nations. The United States, therefore, cannot submit to the curtailment of its neutral rights by these measures, which are admitted retaliatory, and, therefore, illegal, in conception and in nature, and intended nn Am,'oc? riroo f Rn'_ ! IU pu?10U LUC CI1CU11CO KJ L ui A tain for alleged illegalities on their part. The United States might not be in a position to object to them if it* interests and the interests of all neutrals were unaffected by them, but, being affected, it cannot with complacence suffer further subordination of its rights and interests to the plea that the 'exceptional geo-j graphical position of the enemies of \ 4 . ? ? TWO MILLION BALES SHORT 11 FOURTH REPORT SHOWS 7,384,871 BALES. Compared With 9,826,912 for Same Period Last Year.?South Carolina Shows Large Decrease. Washington, Nov. 8.?The fourth cotton ginning report of the season, compiled from reports of census bureau correspondents and agents throughout the cotton belt and issued at 10 a. m. today, announced that 7,384,871 bales of cotton, cctfmting round as half bales, of the growth of 1915, has been ginned prior to November 1. That compares with 9,826,912 bales or 61.-8 per cent, of the ^ntife crop, ginned prior to November 1 last year, 8,830,396 bales or 63.2 per cent, in 1913 and 8,869,222 bales or 65.8 per cent, in 1912. The average quantity of cotton ginned prior to November 1 in the past ten years was 7,954,534 bales or 62 per cent, of the crop. Included in the ginnings were 69,204 round bales compared with 23,182 last year, 61,577 in 1913 and 54,539 in 1912. * Sea Island cotton included numbered 55,358 bales compared with 43,115 last year, 42,804 in 1913 and 28,887 in 1912. Ginnings prior to November 1, by States: Alabama?1915, 727,368; 1914, 1,0.68,771: Florida?1915, 40,380; 1914, 56,645. . - " Louisiana?1015, 772,379; 1914, .297,356. North Carolina?1915, 408,056; 1914, 427,949. South Carolina?1915, 772,481; 1914, 910,558. Texas?1915, 2,345,566; 1914, 3,168,786. 4 Arkansas?1915, 444,908; 1914, 573,571. Georgia?1915, 1,431,290; 1914, 1,763,374. Mississippi?1915, 584,069; 1914, 669,143. Oklahoma?1915, 171,229; 1914, 649,367. "Tennessee?1915, 146,869; 1914, 172,485. All other States?1915, 40,267; 1914, 58,907. The next ginning report of the census bureau will be issued at. 10 a. m. Monday, November 22, and will - show the quantity of cotton ginned prior to November 14. SHOOTING AT LANCASTER. Officers in Pursuit of Negro Accused of Crime, j Lancaster. November 6.?E. W. Watkins, general superintendent of the Lancaster Cotton Oil Company, was shot and perhaps fatally injured this afternoon. John ^cllwain, a negro he had discharged this morning, is accused of the shooting. The negro immediately made- his escape, but officers are in pursuit of him and it is thought he will be captured. Mr. Watkins is a native of Anderson, where his mother and two brothers reside. He has only been a resident of Lancaster for a month, coming here from Augusta. Mr. Watkins was immediately rushed on a special train to a hospital in Rock Hill for an operation. Excitement in the city is intense. The negro accused of the shooting is five feet five inches tall, black, smooth shaven, weight 130 pounds. Great Britain require or justny oppressive and illegal practices. "The government of the United States desires, therefore) to ,impress most earnestly "upon his majesty's government that it must insist that the relations between it and his majesty's government is governed, not by, a policy of expediency, but by those established rules of international conduct upon which Great Britain in the past has held the United States to account when the latter was a belligerent engaged in a struggle for national existence. It is of the highest importance to neutrals not only, nf thA nresenf dav. but of the future. that the principles of international right be maintained unimpaired. "This task of championing the integrity of neutral rights?- which have received the sanction of the civilised world, against the lawless conduct of belligerents arising out of the bitterness of the great conflict which is now wasting the countries of Europe, the United States unhesitatingly assumes, and to the accomplishment of that task it will devote its energies, exercising always that impartiality which from the outbreak of the war it has sought to exercise in its relations with the warring na tions." ! - \ - ' . " ' . - . * ' ? ?* v ' * ??: ,V<C ~ ' v ' k r v' :>Jg? NAVY USES WIRELESS 'PHOXE. ??? Secretary Daniels Transmits Order to ? Admiral l7sher at New York. Washington, Nov. 5.?Secretary ^ , Daniels today transmitted the first naval order ever sent by wireless telephone to Rear Admiral Usher at the New York navy yard. From his desk in the navy department the secretary talked to the commandant of the New York yard by way of the big government radio towers at Arlington and ordered a report on re- r-' - Impairs to the dreadnaught New York. \ - :V'5 Navy officials say the achievement brings closer the day when a secre- ;^| tary of the navy may sit at his desk / N: here and talk to the fleet comanders all over the world. . f ; J Secretary Daniels transmitted this ' J verbal order, which was taken down ^ '? by a stenographer in Admiral Ush- , '* J er's office and acknowledged verbally by the. admiral himself: "Rear Admiral Usher, commandantant, New York navy yard: Re- . > >* ^ port as soon as practicable after the arrival of the New York how soon T the repairs recommended can be completed. ' . "(signed) "DANIELS." Navy wireless stations in all parts of the country were eavesdropping to catch the conversation. While ? Secretary Daniels was still talking with Admiral Usher the Charleston, ' . v -'*3 S. C., station telegraphed that the k order had been overheard and copied there. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt followed Secretary Daniels at the radio ^ telephone and latei^Mrs. Daniels was , accorded the distinction of being the * \ first woman to converse by wireless waves. Many at Demonstration. \. L '' The secretary's office was crowded with naval officers and bureau offi- t cials during the demonstration, - .3 which lasted half an hour. Many of }. them conversed with Admiral Usher. 1 Later Secretary Daniels and Secretary Lansing, of the State depart- 'yi ment, went to the radio room across the hall from Secretary Daniels' office, and there "listened in" on*?he department's radio sets. They heard the voices of those at the radio 'phone ? V; coming back to them through the .... aerials on the State, war and navy building. t Admiral Usher said that the voices sent by wireless from Washington were plainly audible in his office, despite a heavy static discharge, which sounded, he said, like stage thunder. The instrument used was the regular desk telephone on Mr. Daniels' ' 1* : ! desk. It carried the sound to the great Arlington, Va., radio station, where the transfer was made auto- } matically by delicate mechanism and . the voices of the speakers hurled out into the air be audible thousands of miles away tq any radio operator whose set happened to be turned up . to the right pitch and who was listenFollowed a Loop. In effect the conversation followed a loop, going first by telephone wire to Arlington, by radio to the towers of the navy yard station in New York by wire^to the instrument on Admiral Usher's desk and the rejoinders directly by wire from New York to ' ). Washington. To all appearances it was an ordinary long distance telephone fconversation. No effort was made to subdue the hum of voices in SecreI tary Daniels' office and apparently ! the noise di<Knot affect the clearness of the voices as heard in New York, for replies to questions came back instantly and with little need for i repetitions. Secretary Daniels was enthusiastic over the success of the test and paid v ^ high tribute to the engineers of the Vj American Telephone and Telegraph company, who designed the instruments and arranged the demonstration. He declared it was the greatest scientific achievement for the na- \ vy since the development and adoption of the aeroplane. *. Two Sides. ? v * "ThprA arp two sides to every / question." "Friend," replied Broncho Bob, "there's only two sides to a deck of cards, a top side and a bottom side, but that ain't no call to assume that one is as good as the other."?Washington Star Since the acquisition of Alaska by the United States, the waters in and contiguous to the territory have yielded fishery products having a first value of more than a quarter of a billion dollars. Far exceeding all the other products in importance are the salmon, after which comes the fur seal, the sea otter, the halibut and the cod. i v ~v ' ' ' . V J I ^ ^ ^ I^ I