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MFT v~'*' i~r - . ^ v "* x ' W^t lamforg feral^ One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1916. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. ' v News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Jan. 18.?Last Thursf day/ afternoon while putting her chickens to bed and gathering up the eggs Mrs. Charles Ehrhardt found an egg that is quite a freak. It is two eggs joined together by a string about one-half of an inch long and three-eights of an inch in diameter. The eggs are of the soft shell L variety, each egg has a yolk and is perfect with the exception of the soft shell and one being about onefourth size smaller than the average size hen egg. Mrs. F. G. Lemacks and children . returned last Wednesday from Ashpoo7 where she has been on a visit to her husband. 1 The weather is so changeable now hat one has to do some good dodg ing not to be 6ick with colds and lagrippe. /Qu^te a number of folks from town and this section of the county are attending court at Bamberg this I week. ' Mr. C. C. Moore has been confined t , to his bed for the past week with w a severe case of lagrippe and fever. \ Mr. George McKenzie and children, *\ of route No. 1, have been sick with g ' \ lagrippe, but are able to be out again. [ \ Mr. Broadus Copeland, of Ravenel, ' was in town Sunday, on his way to attend court at Bamberg this week as a witness in the Morris and Barnes case. Mr. Jno. F. Chassereau is now ? chief of police (since Mr. Priester re* , , sigped) or, at least, he is wearing the badge and carrying the club; if he has any sand in his mouth he bettef swallow it as he will need it in his system when some rowdies come along. V y The A. C. L. railroad company used to run a special train to accom/" modate the public during court at WaKerboro before the freight train . ^ was put on. Why not have such an accommodation now in getting to Bamberg during court, especially on Monday morning? There would N; hfcve been at least twenty-five pas^ sengers last Monday morning from here. Mrs. E. P. Copeland added much ( the merriment of the young folks last Friday evening by giving a party ^7 in honor of her cousin, Miss Myrtie Stafford. Those invited were: Misses r Myrtie Stalford, Clara Copeland, ? ' Pretto Hiers, Genie Ramsey, Mamie Davis, Inez Hutson, Ella Moore, Ora Bigby, Lalla Salley, and Ruth Shuler; Messrs. John Copeland, Harry Copeland, Roy Kearse, Windel Ramsey, k j Dick Roberts, Stacy Kearse, Clar| * ence Moore, S. C. Paysinger, Bobbie . Bennet, Ralph Goodson, Charles Henerey, Harry Ehrhardt, Harry McMillan and Raleigh Kinard. ProV gressive rook was the popular game ' for all. . Later the guests were shown i into the dining room when a bounteous spread of jello, cream, and * cake were at their mercy. The evening was pleasantly spent. ? A Colston Clippings. . ' r . " - - /* . t \ Colston, Jan. 17.?We had some . sleet on Saturday night. Hope that it will be a more successful year than the last two years have been. Some of the farmers are talking of using some fertilizers , while others are not going to use "any at all: Don't know what side f^ill come out ahead in the long run. ? Lagrippe holds the key now to nearly everybody's home. Miss Hattie Fender, of Lodge, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. W. Beard. Mrs. Bertha Williams and little Mildred, of Norway, are visiting their mother and grandmother, Mrs. J. B. I All. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hughes, of W Bhrhardt. were among the visiting friends Saturday and Sunday. Miss Laura McMillan, of Bamberg, spent Saturday and Sunday at home with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McMillan. Miss Mamie MpMillan was a visitor I at Colston on Sunday evening. Mr. Jones McMillan, of Augusta. V Ga., spent the week-end with his f father, Mr. W. P. McMillan. I Mr. Albert McMillan, of Bamberg, I is a Regular visitor in Colston now I every Sunday. I Mr. Duffy Williams and family (have moved in to our community. Glad to have them with us. The annual birthday dinner will be given at Mrs. Mary E. Beard'9. i QUESTION LEFT TO STATE. McComfos Gives Opinion on Delegates. Difference in Views. Washington, Jan. 13.?Congressman Byrnes today received the following letter from Democratic Chairman McCombs in reference to the se lections of delegates to the St. Louis convention: "Your letter of January 8 was received in my absence from the city. I have just returned. I find quite a divergence of opinion on the construction of the plank in the platform with reference to the States where no primary lawT exists for the selection of delegates and alternates to the convention. The matter, of course, is "peculiarly one for the na* tional committee and the convention and of course, in my official capacity, , I should not attempt to foreshadow their ^ction by a construction on the plank/ I was erroneously quoted in Little Rock. The local papers afterward made the correction. Personally my opinion would be that if the State organization fails to make provision for the selection of delegates in a primary the convention should recognize the delegates chosen under the custom of the State. In other! words, I would not construe it as a condition precedent to the seating of delegates that they must be chosen under the primary system. "In my opinion, it lies distinctly with the various State organizations, where no legalized primary exists to select their delegates 'and members of the national committee in the manner and form their best judgment indicates." POSTOFFICE NOMINATIONS. * Wilson Sends Three Names to Senate for Confirmation. Washington, Jan. 13.?President Wilson today sent to the senate the nominations of the following South Carolina postmasters: Albert C. Ligon, at Orangeburg; Richard T. King, Jr., at Georgetown; M. J. Spears, at Lamar. (better known as Aunt Mary) on the 22nd of January. Everybody is in -vited to come and bring well filled baskets. She will celebrate her 89th birthday. Come too, Mr. Editor, and take a feast with us at the commencement of the- new year. Colston, Jan. 18.?On last Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. B6b Lee Kearse entertained Quite a number of their young friends by giving a rook party. Music was furnished by Mr. Jack Kearse and Miss Minnie Kirkland. Those who attended were: Misses Pearl and Lena Kearse, Minnie Lee V Ayer, Frozine McMillan, -Elvie Kearse, Minnie Kirkland, Mamie McMillan, Evelyn Kirkland, Rosalie Kirk ley; Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Varn; Messrs. Albert' and Will McMillan, John Copeland, Henry and Jack Kearse, Monnie Varn, Frankie Kirkland, Horace Ray, Lonie Bloom, Jones McMillan, and Mr. Tebow, of Augusta. All present enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Kearse very much. Mrs. Thomas Williams and little daughter, of Norway, are visiting relatives at Colston this week. Mrs. Ogreta Beard is spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Bishop, while Mr. Bishop is juryman. Mrs. Mary Wooley, who has been spending some time with Mrs. Thomas Clayton left last Friday to visit in Barnwell. We are sorry to see so many folks are suffering from grippe. Among them are Messrs. P. M. Varn, H. Z. McMillan, J. F. Kearse, and Dawson Kearse. Mr. Ramsey Rice, who has been with his sister, Mrs. Julius McMillan, left last week for Savannah, Ga., where he will visit his other sisters, Mrs. C. S. Cutts and Miss Fannie Rice. The many friends of Mr. Havelock Clayton and Mrs. Sarah Ayer will be surprised to know of their approaching marriage on January 19th. Mr. Clayton is from Colston, while Mrs. Ayer is from the Kearse locality. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Varn were among the visitors at Glendale Spring and Bamberg Sunday afternoon. Miss Annie Lou Dickerson and brother, of Ulmer, were' the guests of Miss Alberta Kearse Saturday and Sunday. Miss Rosalie Kirkley took tea with | Mrs. Mattie McMillan on Saturday! night. Misses Natalie and Alberta Kearse were "at home" to quite a number of their friends on last Saturday evening. We are sorry to say that Mr. Marion McMillan is ill. ! IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Donnnvanhc A hmiE liCttUJltig.?i ai a^> upno Men and Happenings. W. L. Harrigan, fish commissioner of South Carolina, has forwarded to Governor Manning his resignation. Mr. Harrigan has occupied this posi.tiPn for four years. The senate Tuesday confirmed the nominations of J. William Thurman to be United States attorney, western district South Carolina, and Charles J. Lyons to be United States marshal, western district South Carolina. Will Rivers, the negro convict who escaped while working with a squad on the State house grounds, was captured Sunday near the Congaree river, where he had been in hiding since his escape. He was recommitted to the State penitentiary. The senate Tuesday passed a bill enacting the railroad employers' liability feature, which was featured by a speech from Senator LeGrand Walker praising the work which the railroads had brought to this state and the prosperity as a result of their coming. Fanner Went One Better. An American tourist had been boasting again in the village inn. "Talking of scarecrows," he said, i with a drawl,, "why, my father once put one up, and it frightened the cr^ws so much that not one entered the field again for over a year." He looked triumphantly around his audience. Surely that had settled .those country bumpkins! But he was to meet his match. "That's nothing," retorted one farmer. "A neighbor o' mine once put a scarecrow into his potato patch and it terrified the birds so much that one rascal of a crow, who had stolen some potatoes, came next day and put them hack." Nothing Serious. The wife was tenderly sympathetic. "Why, George, dear," she said, when she noted her husband's tense attitude and set eyes, "what is the trouble?" He looked at her absently, as upon a total stranger. "Oh," he said at length, "there was something I was going to worry about?I know there was?but for tfte life of me I can't think what it is."?Puck. Honor Roll Denmark School. First grade?Albert Bean, J. Z. Brooker, Louis Spann, G. W. Goolsby, Hoyt Smoak Govan Zeigler, Dorothy Hightower. Second grade?Helen Brooker, Dorothy Crum, Winnie Cox, Mamie | Turner, Miriam Turner, Mary Hane Walker, Grace Wiggins, Koger Smoak, Joe Wyman. Third grade?Ada Hutto, Myrtle Walker, Wedell LaCroy, Thelma Sharpe, Claudia Holton, Sarah Califf, Beatrice Chitty, Dorothy Matthews, Julia Ray, Edward Zeigler. Fourth grade?Albert Folk, Richard Sojourner, Curtis Faust, James McCrae, Frances Dozier, Margaret Brooker, George Hightower. Fifth grade?Ruby Abstance, Eldridge Hightower, Joe Matthews, Evelyn Cain, Lillie Grimes, Byrl Price, Dorothy Riley, Dottie B. Smoak, Helen Turner. Sixth grade?Carlisle Folk, Fred Wiggins, Ruth Califf, Louise Ray, Leoline Walker. Seventh grade?Edna Creech,/Anna Matthews, Pearl Barr, Julia M. Riley, James Wiggins, Samuel McGeiver. Eighth grade?Harold Sojourner, Ruth Folk, Elizabeth McCrae, Julia McCrae, Daisy Tillman. Ninth grade?Sadelle Cain, Julia Cox, Katherine Faust, Willie D. Hutto. ( Tenth grade?Barnwell Huggins, Clara Wyman, Martha Wiggins. Eleventh grade?Virginia Hutto. Xo Further Election. Cope, Jan. 18.?Mr. R. K. Henerey having withdrawn from the race for warden, this leaves his competitor, Mr. G. S. Griffith, the duly elected warden to fill the fourth place on the ticket, voted on the tenth. Mr. Sandifer as intendant, is now pnt^rinsr imon his second term, and Mr. Griffith as warden upon his third term. The other three wardens, Messrs. J. K. Myers, W. W. Kittrell, and Dr. T. M. Stuckey, are entering I upon their first term. MR. TILLMAN NOT ALARMED. | Asked Alx>ut Chances of Western District. ] Washington, Jan. 1 7.?Senator Tillmor /lif) poom tn ho qIqVTIIpH X X i 1 ill ct X U1U JIUl O^V-/ 111 tu wv < when asked what he thought of the chances of the passage of a provision in the general judiciary bill, introduced recently by Senator Overman, of North Carolina, which would abolish the offices of district attorney . and marshall of the Western District of South Carolina. The general feel- ( ing here is that the forces which were strong enough to have these offices created are strong enough to keep them in existence, and there is a good deal of ungratified curiosity as to how the provision came to be ( inserted in the judiciary bill. Nobody seems willing to talk much on the subject. YEGGMEN AT GREENVILLE. Two Safes Reported Cracked Sunday 1 Night. / Greenville, Jan. 17.?Greenville last night experienced an incursion 1 of safe-crackers, who blew open and 1 robbed two safes more than a mile apart within two hours. The Mutual Supply company's safe was cracked and $50 taken, and the L. C. Hart Grocery company's safe broken into, hut nn pach wnc frmnd PMtv and county officials are working on the case. One arrest has been made. A man giving his name as James McKay is under arrest. He is suspected of having been implicated in , the double robbery. LIQUOR ADVERTISING BILL. Measure Would Forbid Printed Publicity of Intoxicating Liquors. John J. McMahan, of the Richland delegation, has introduced in the low- < er house of the general assembly a bill as fol^ws: - > "Section 1. That the public ad- : vertising of liquors or beverages, ! which, if drunk to excess, will produce intoxication, is hereby prohibited; and any persons, firm or corpora- i tion that prints, publishes, dis-M tributes, circulates, delivers, sens, keeps or offers for sale, or otherwise aids in exhibiting or bringing to public attention, any printed matter, 1 writing or drawing, whether in mag- ' azine, newspaper, pamphlet, leaflet, < bill board, placard or other form of printing or symbol, containing any recommendation or information in : regard to any such liquor or beverage : shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and i upon conviction shail be punished by : a fine of not less than $5 and not 1 more than $100, or by imprisonment < of not less than five days and not more than 30 days". "Sec. 2. That the provisions hereof shall not apply to beers containing not mor^ than seven per cent, of alcohol or to wines containing not more than 12 1-2 per cent, of alcohol." Strange. _ j T it + lck WilHo hoH or?t bim?plf into V? 1HXV 11UVA QV V ??. trouble. He had thrown a big stone at the parish priest and injured his eye. That same night his father took him in his arms, the whole six years of him, and told him to ask God to forgive him for -what he had done. He reminded Willie that God was a witness of all his actions. "Could God see me in Mrs. Johnson's garden when I threw that stone j at the priest, dad?" asked Willie. "Certainly, Willie," replied hi^ J father. "He did see you." t "Strange,'' answered Willie, with a provoking grin, "I was never in 1 Mrs. Johnson's garden because she 1 ain't got one."?Liverpool Mercury. ^ Xot the Same. 1 < As illustrating the haziness of. < conception which prevailed years! ( ago as to what and where the Philip- s pines were, Dean Worcester tells in his book, "The Philippines, Past and 1 Present," of a good old lady who < came to him on his first return from 1 the islands for a bit of information, s "Deanie," she said, "are them i Philippians you have been a-visitin' t the people that Paul wrote the epis- t tie to?" ' < Origin of the Christmas Tree. ? . i St. Winifred, who was in mei < eighth century a missionary to the! Scandinavians, is credited in an an-j cient legend with having caused to ] be set up in the home the first Christ- < mas tree. He told the people: "You | 1 shall go no more into the shadows i of the forest to keep your feast with ] secret rites, but you shall keep them i at home with laughter, song and; 1 love." i 1 J FIRST WEEK OF SESSION DISPOSITION TO GAFF THF SPl'RS OF PROHIBITION. Settled Resolution to Hold Down Fx penditures Insofar as Practicable Has Been Clearly Defined. Instilled with the knowledge that prohibition carried in South Carolina by a majority of two to one in a poll of 55,000, members of the general assembly in considerable numbers feel it their bounden duty to help make prohibition really prohibit'. Bills regarding liquor or its effects have been pouring in pell-mell and each new measure, however stringent its provisions, brings out a number of advocates. Such is the history of the lower branch during the first week of the'1916 session. On the other hand the senate has been considering such issues as woman suffrage. The two houses have as yet met. on but two common grounds, one the indorsement of the national Democratic administration and Wilson's renomi nation to the presidency, and the other a pledge to support the efforts of -the governor and the board of regents in building up the State Hospital for the Insane. The former met with some opposition in the upper house, some senators being unready to indorse "preparedness," but the latter resolution was adopted without a dissenting voice. Resolved on Economy. The one substantial and all-pervading note that has been sounded from the time the gavel dropped last Tuesday to the adjournment Friday has been economy. Governor Manning stressed it in his annual message and reiterated it in his message on the asylum for .the insane; the ways and means committee at its first meeting adopted a resolution to keep the amount of money to be raised by State levy within $2,000,000, as a result of which the appropriation bill will aggregate about $2,350,000, since -the difference is accounted for in miscellaneous fees and taxes; bills providing for an appropriation have * with few exceptions been unfavorably reported by the ways and means committee; the senate killed a bill providing for a circulating library because it carried an appropriation. The first act enrolled for ratification at the 1916 session was the one making simple drunkenness on the public highway a misdemeanor in itself. The legislature still has before it .the determination of its course in disposing of the liquor left over in county dispensaries when prohibition became effective January 1. Indications are that the legislature .will likely declare all such liquor contraband and order it destroyed. Other bills, covering points recommended in the governor's annual message, will probably be introduced this week in time for enactment, should they pass, before the last few days of the session. For Enforcing Prohibition. TTia rmo hiV PYCPntiOTl tn thp DOli X 11V/ V41V WAQ V4??vr w.w. - ? ? r cy of retrenchment his been the indorsement by the ways and means committee of the bill providing for a fund of $50,000 for the enforcement of the prohibition and gallon- ' a-month laws. Withal it is expected j that the State levy will be kept down to six mills. A number of bills on taxation presage the fight that has been freely predicted. The latest rumor, however, is that opposition to the South Carolina tax commission will not j come to a head, the fight being con-| fined to the methods to be pursued in 1 the assessment and equalization ofj property. Various measures and' * nr onnctitll. I |Oini I ^SUiUllUUd pi upuom^ w/a^tibu i tional amendments have been intro-| iuced, debate on which will hardly j jommence untiL after many of the i contested matters left from the 1915 session have been disposed of. The South Carolina cotton ware-! lousing system will also come in for j iiscussion, as it is understood that a! lill will be introduced along the lines' suggested in Gov. Manning's annual j nessage, providing for a board of j :hree commissioners. A bill intended! .0 make the State's warehouse receipt j i safe collateral for loans has already been introduced and it is prob-1 ible that the matter will be disposed j if during this week. Bar Admissions. Th? unrtpr branch throueh its ap-! proval of the Wightman bill has gone! 3n record as favoring an open pas-: cure for lawyers. The Saluda sena- j tor by a small majority carried his point abolishing the present require-1 ment of two years of specified study j before one is eligible for the State; bar examination. The bill will be j HIGH SCHOOLS IX THE STATE. Total Number Has Almost Doubled in Nine Years. Columbia, Jan. 16.?The total number of high schools in South Carolina has almost doubled in nine years, according to the annual report of W. H. Hand, State high school inspector. For at least three years no. special effort has.been made to organize new high schools. Instead the effort has been made to increase the efficiency of those already in existence. "My conviction is strong that the State's attention for the next few """ ? years should be centred upon the making better high schools of those we have and not upon establishing new ones," says Mr. Hand. According to the report there were 10,481 pupils enrolled in the high schools in 1914-1915. The total number enrolled in 1906 was 4,812. Mr. Hand again advocates the creation of a State board of teachers' examiners, and says: "When the bill was on the calendar for its second i reading two business firms in the State employed an attorney to go before the committee on education to v defeat the bill. It was defeated, and unless my information is incorrect, it is one of these same firms that is now advertising the keys and trans- '] ? .1 i i_. i lation for teacners. Are me scuouis to continue to suffer from incompetent teachers because certain busi- v y ness firms oppose a State examining - board?" - . 'v '.V ASKS U. S. TO USE PLANTS. Yonge's Island Man Suggests New | Plan Instead of Seed. . Washington, January 15.?John VV. Geraty, of Yonge's Island, appeared before the agricultural committee of the house today and urged that . \ cabbage plants be substituted for cabbage seeds in the annual distribution by the government to the extent of $10,000 worth. The committee showed decided interest in Mr. Geraty's argument. ; * -,$3 Child Labor Bill Will Pass. ) V - i Washington, Jan. 12.?Congress- \f%j? man Byrnes, of South Carolina, who * ^ has .taken a deep interest in the phild labor hill now nendiner here be fore the house committee on labor, which would prevent goods and wares made by children from entering into ' z| interstate commerce, believes that |j the bill will again pass the house. It passed the lower body of congress j last winter by a large majority, but 4^ Mr. Byrnes does not believe the ma- y-^ jority will be so large this time. Today several well known cotton mill men from South Carolina were here and attended the committee hearing, showing wThy, from their standpdint, .the bill should not become law. Wanted His Money's Worth. Apropos of war prices and the high cost of living, Senator Root said in New York, according to the Buffalo News: "And many of us can remember the time when a youth could get good board at $4 a week in all our principal cities. "There's a good story that would sound strange today?a story about . two country lads who shared a room in a comfortable New York boarding house. "Their first day in their new quar ters one of the lads muttered to the other during dinner: % " 'Take plenty of apple sauce with your duck, Silas?$3.75 is no joke.' " ^ | "The Island of Black Cats" is a name applied to Chatham Island in the Pacific Ocean, about 730 miles west of the coast of Ecuador. It/is overrun with black cats; indeed, cats of no other color are seen there These animals live in the crevices of the lava foundation near the coast and subsist by catching fish and crabs. ?? ??????wmammmmmmmm sent to the house this week. ' ' q A number of elections to fill vacancies in various appointive State offices and boards will probably occur in the joint assembly this week. Interest centres largely on candidates for warehouse commissioner, and for code commissioner. John L. McLauren, warehouse commissioner, will be opposed for reelection, it is said, * * T ^l " T ssn A TTVovfclr Dy JOlin J. .\ii:>ianau duu r iaun Carey. The vacancy in the office of code commissioner on cccount of the death of the late Marshall P. DeBruhl is sought by Rion McKissick, of Greenville, J. C. Townsend and F. F. Carroll, of Bamberg. Qther elections will be held for insurance commissioner, two trustees of Winthrop college, two members of the penitentiary board and two circuit judges. / * / ' - \