The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 03, 1916, Page 5, Image 5
PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and at
Other Points.
?Mr. C. F. Rizer, of Olar, spent
Wednesday in the city.
?Miss Ethel Black spent the
L week-end at home from Olar.
?Miss Kate Rentz spent the weekend
at home from Walterboro.
?Mr. J. G. Black spent last Saturday
in Beaufort with relatives.
?Col. and Mrs. J. R. Owens are
spending a few weeks in Augusta.
?Senator J. B. Black spent the
week-end at home from Columbia.
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?J. S. Jennings, of Kingstree,
spent a few hours in the city Wednesday.
?Mrs. C. P. Hooton is spending
some time in Savannah with rela\
?
?Mr. A. H. Bruce, of Branchvillespent
several days in the city this
week.
?Miss Gertrude Smoak spent several
days last week in Blackville
with friends.
v ?Mr. and Mrs.' J. W. Barr are
spending a few weeks at Leesville,
with relatives. ,
?Mr. Claude Smoak is spending
a week at home from the University
^ of South Carolina.
,
i ?Mrs. J. Z. Harrison, of Smoaks,
spent a few days in town this week
\ with Mrs. Sam Harrison.
?Mrs. J. B. Black returned to her
home in Beaufort Saturday, after
visiting relatives in the city.
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?Mrs. Leon Gaffney and little
son, of Shreveport, La., are visiting
^ Mrs. Gaffney's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
' v A. S. Easter ling.
f . ?Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Denbow left
IA . Monday for a trip to Washington,
|^L . and other points, where Mr. Denbow
goes on business.
?Dr. George F. Hair is in Colum[^^^^k>ia
attending the Laymen's Mis^Ponmeeting.
Dr. Hair is county
jH^H^iairman for Bamberg.
?Miss Josephine Free returned
on Sunday to the Greenville Woman's
college, after spending some time
at home on account of illness.
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j v ?Miss Clara McMillan has returned
to the city from Varnville, where
she was called last week by the illness
of her father. Her friends will
he glad to know that her father is
rapidly improving.
?Rev. W. C. Owen, of Spartanburg,
field Sunday-school secretary
of the Methodist church, arrived in
the city yesterday and will be a
guest of Dr. E. 0/ Watson- for the
balance of the week and during the
Bible class anniversary.
r. Baptist Bible Class.
At the Sunday morning meeting
of the men's Bible class of the Baptist
church, an invitation was received
from the Business Men's class,
i'; of Trinity church, to attend the anniversary
exercises and banq,uet "of
, that class to be held next Sunday and
' -y Monday. The invitation was accept;
ed. The Baptist class is a large one,
the average attendance nowr being
something liKe 30 to 4j0 each Sunday.
Dr. C. F. Black is president of
^ ; the class, and Mr. C. W. Rentz is
teacher. ?
L 41 Unfavorable Report.
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uoiumDia, reoruary i.?ine senate
railroad committee tonight re
turned a majority unfavorable, report
- on the 2-cent rate bill, which lias already
passed the house. A minority
favorable report was made on the
same bill. The committee gave a
hearing on the bill this afternoon, at
which were present atcornevs and officials
of the various railroads in
y this State. No one appeared in favor
of the bill.
The following railroad* officials
were present: W. J. Craig, of Washington,
passenger traffic manager of
the Atlantic Coast Line; W. H. Taylor,
of Washington, passenger traffic
. manager of the Southern railway; W.
* E. McGhee, of Columbia, assistant
general passenger agent of the Southern;
S. H: McLain, of Columbia^ div
~ vision passenger agent of the Southt
ern; C. B. Ryan, of Norfolk, general
passenger agent of the Seaboard Air
Line; Jonn r. Livingston, ot Columbia,
president of the Columbia, Newberry
and Laurens railroad; E. F.
^ Reid, of Chester, general passenger
*-^v^ agent, and L. T. Nichols, of Chester,
general manager, of the Carolina and
I Northwestern railroad; F. Barron
Grier, president of the Charleston
and Western Carolina; D. W. Alder^"\
^ -man, of Alcolu, president of the Alcolu
roalroad, and John H. Clifton,
of Sumter, representing the Northi
western Railway of South Carolina.
Women are to be employed as
tramcar conductors in Bradford,
England/ Wages and hours will be
the same as for men in the city of
. Sheffield, England, it is reported
5 that there are already 250 women
k car conductors out of a total of 520
W employed.
Charlie Chaplin will make you
^Hftytaj^gwFriday night at Thielen Theareels,
10c ?
Things in Which S. C. Has Keen First
(Continued from page 4, column 3.),
"The South Carolina Gazette," published
in Charleston in 1 74 4, by Mrs.
Elizabeth Timothy.
21. "Printer John Miller," who
published the famous letters of "Junius,"
and removed to Pendleton, S.
C., in ITS5, published the first paper
in the "Up-Country," the first to be
established so far West in the United
States.
22. The first Baptist church in
the South, was the old "First
Church," of Charleston.
23. It is usually claimed that the
firet firp insnrflTifp com nan v in the
United States was established in
Philadelphia in 1753. But the honor
of having introduced the practice of
insuring against fire upon the Western
continent belongs to Charleston,
S. C., where in 1735 was launched
"The Friendly Society for the Mutual
Insurance of Houses Against Fire."
This society flourished until 1740,
when it fell in the great conflagration
of that devastated city.
24. South Carolina had a cotton
manufactory for making homespun
cloth, run by water power several
years before 1790. The first in the
South at least.
25. Before the Revolutionary war
the Carolinas and Florida supplied
clays for the first porcelain works in
England, and Wedgewood long continued
to get material for some of
his finest productions from South
Carolina. There were porcelain potteries
established near Camden
which causedgreat concern to
Wedgewood.
26. The first Bible society in
America was organized in Charleston
in 1810, antedating by some
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years aiji ouiers, muiuuiug me r unadelphia
and the American Baptist
Publication societies.
27. William Wells, of Charleston,
in 1814, was the first scientist to announce
the present accepted theory
of dew, and preceded Darwin in his
teaching relating to the origin of
species..
28. Dr. Marion Sims, of Charleston,
introduced new methods of
surgery, invented new surgical instruments
which made operations
possible which were never before attempted,
and built, or instigated- the
first hospital in the world for womem
29. The first elaborate research
work in organic chemistry done -by
an American, was performed by J.
Laurence Smith, of Charleston, in
1842.
30. Dr. Norwood, of South Carolina,
was the first person to call attention
to the medicinal value of
veratum viride, now used extensively
in medicine.
31. Indigo was first grown in
America and used as a dye, by a
young girl of Charleston, many years
before the Revolutionary war. The
girl was Eliza Lucas, afterwards the
wife of (jhief Justice Pinckney, and
the mother of Charles Cotesworth
and Thomas Pinckney.
32. Rice was first grown in South
Carolina before 1671, years earlier
than the date usually assigned to its
introduction by Landgrave Smith.
33. South Carolina was the first
State in the union, and until 1888,
the only one, to establish phosphate
industries from native phosphate
rock.
34. South Carolina was the first
State in the union to plant sea island
or long staple cotton, introduced
from the Barbadoes in 1776.
35. Mr. Lewis M. Ayer, of old
Barnwell district, who died in 1860,
at the age of 95 years, for many
years used on his plantation ccftton
seed as a fertilizer.
36. The honey peach was firs*
1 TT T ?
grown oy'Air. nuuiv jlouiis, ui uulumbia,
in 18*56, in 1857 they were
propagated by Berckmans, of Augusta,
Ga.
37". L. Vanuxen, while a professor
in the South Carolina College,
was the first scientist to point out
the probable absorption of atmospheric
gases by the earth's crust,
and consequent secular changes of
the terrestrial atmosphere.
38. The first publication in America
for very small children was "The
Rosebud," edited by Mrs. Caroline
Gilman, of Charleston, in 1832, five
years after "The Youths' Companion"
for older children had been established
in Boston.
39. It is probable that Dr. Elliet,
professor of chemistry in the South
Carolina College, made the first gun
cotton manufactured in the United
States. It is certain that he fired
the first gun ever fired in the South,
on the University campus, with cotton
made in his laboratory.
40. Robert Goulding, a South
Carolinian, son of the man who
founded the Theological Seminary,
in Columbia, in 1814, and was its
first president, a year before Howe's
patent was issued, made a sewing
machine on which his wife made
their children's clothes. Mr. Gouldin
cr wqc nactftr of covoral nlmrPllP? ill
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Sumter county, and afterwards moved
to Eaton, Ga. He is known to
the world as the author of "The
Young Marooners."
41. In 1S47 a department of agriculture
was organized in the South
Carolina College, the first in the!
South, perhaps the first in the country.
42. The first permanent course in !
economics to be established in the
South was that organized in 1 S20 by:
President Cooper, of the South Carolina
College, and continued by Prof.
Lieber.
43. The first national thanksgiv
ing day in America was appointed
by Henry Laurens, of South Carolina,
when he was president of the
continental congress, upon hearing
of the surrender of Burgoyne.
44. Michaux, a famous French
botanist, visited Charleston in 1S40,
and established there the first botanical
garden in America.
45. South Carolina was the first |
State in America to attempt to raise j
tea. In 1S50, Francis Bonynge, who!
had lived in China and India, urged !
his fellow citizens to attempt it, be-1
lieving their climate and agricul-i
tural conditions favorable. It was
tried, but without much success, that
reserved for the famous Summerville
enterprise of the present day.
However, there has been for many
years a tea tree in the county of
Anderson. Unlike pictures and descriptions
of the tea farms of Summerville
and the far east, this is a
tall tree. It is on the McFall estate
at High Shoals, a few miles out of
Anderson, it has been there for many
years and the tea made from its
leaves is very fine.
46. William Gilmore Simms, of
South Carolina, was the first Southerner
to make literature a profes
sional business.
4 7. South Carolina is the first,
perhaps the only State to erect a
statue to an Indian. The turret of
the opera house, in Camden, is surmounted
by a gilded iron statue of
"King Haiglar." In 1826 the statue,
which is a masterpiece of art, was
executed by a Frenchman, J. B.
Mathieu, and placed on the summit
of the old Market House steeple,
whence it was removed to its present
resting place just in time to escape
destruction when the Market was
burned.
48. Fort Mill, South Carolina,
boasts the first, probably the only,
monument in America to the slaves
of the old South. It is a marble
shaft 15 feet high, and bears "the
inscription: "I860. The faithful
slaves who,, loyal to a sacred trust,
toiled for the support of the army
with matchless devotion, and with
sterling fidelity guarded our defenceless
homes, )men and children
during the struggle for the prin-*
ciples of our Confederate States of
America. 1865. This shaft was unveiled
in 1806." There is opposite
the State house, in Boston, a bronze
mural tablet o^large dimensions, on
the wall of the Boston Common, commemorating
a negro regiment which
belonged to Massachusetts, and took
part in the war. But that represents
the sentiment of abolition, not
the personality of the slave. The
one is a monument to an idea, the
other, though not so beautiful as a
work of art, commemorates the actual
slave as a beloved personality.
49. The first railroad in America
was built between' Charleston and
Hamburg, now North Augusta. It was
built by "The South Carolina Company"
in 1832, and was for some
time the longest railroad in the
world. A short road in England, I
think from London to Bristol, was
completed only a few weeks before
the South Carolina road.
50. Prof.' Charles Eliot Norton,
of Harvard University, /called John
Izzard Middleton, of Charleston, the
first American archaeologist, and
dwells on the accuracy and excellence
of the drawings reproduced in
his chief work, a folio published in
London in 1818, .entitled Grecian re
mains in Italy, a description or uyclopean
walls and of Roman antiquities
with topographical and picturesque
views of ancient Latium by J.
I. Middleton. Mr. Middleton was an
artist of no mean ability and could
have achieved distinction in several
lines had not his life been too easy
and pleasant for laborious days. His
ample fortune, variety of talents and
social success combined to make him
careless of the reputation which he
might have won had necessity or
ambition spurred him on.
51. Dr. John Edwards Holbrook,
a native of Charleston, and professor
/\f QTiotAmv in the \TprtiP5il C!nllP2"P.
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of Charleston, was, upon the authority
of Prof. Agassiz,. the first American
to receive recognition and esteem
among the zoologists of Europe.
52./ The first edifice in America
built for- the sole use of a library was
that of the University of South Carolina,
which contains some very rare
and valuable books, having escaped
Sherman's torch, because it, with all
the unoccupied buildings of the University,
was used during the last
days of the war as a hospital. But
in spite of this fact, some vandals
would have made a holocaust of the
sick and wounded in those buildings,
as well as of other defenceless people
and houses, but for the watchful
care of three of the college professors,
Prof. Maxmilian Laborde, Prof.
W. J. Rivers, and Prof. J. L. Reynolds.
The library building was
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55. Dr. Kinloch, of Charleston,
in 1862, operated on the abdomen of ^
a wounded Confederate soldier,
remedied the trouble and the man
recovered. The account is buried in
a medical history of the war, being w w "1 ,1
seen by only an occasional student. . I1"! I ^4
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operation was performed by a Swiss '
doctor, a few months later by a New ? ?
York doctor, and heralded to the 1 S , SIS
world. Hi
56. The first ironclad batteries,
floating and stationary/(in the world, j
were built in South Carolina, and i
used in the defence of Charleston
harbor in the War Between the
States. /!? r
57. The first cotton seed oil man- ^ IIL
ufactured in the world, was made in UJLllJ
Columbia by Dr. Benjamin Waring
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template the step, South Carolina 11**1 *
was the first State actually to secede /^T\V^
from the union. V UIJ
59. The first response to the ap- | f| II
peal of the surgeon general of the
Confederate States for funds, came DA MSI
from the Jewish women of Charles- 1
60. The first "wayside hospital"
during the War Between the States'
was organized by the women of Co- j
lumbia to meet the needs of wound-j
ed soldiers in transit on trains. Soon!
every railroad junction had its way-1
side hospital, the women of the com-' j 1
munity took turns in nursing and I
caring for the sick. i I HERXIK>X'S GROCERY
61. The first mill Y. M. C. A. ;n j | ?
the world was established at Mono-! I' , ?
ghan Mills, in Greenville.
62. The first alfalfa in this coun-! the world to generate at high
try was raised in South Carolina. I aS? (11,000 volts) and transm
63. South Carolina is the first; this voltage without the use of
State in the union to commeinorafe' UP transformers, was the And*
by a monument the virtue, courage j Water and Light Power compan;
and patriotism of ner women. It! 66. The first cotton gin in
stands on the grounds of the State j world operated by electricity
Capitol in Columbia, and one inscrip-; that of Mr. Oliver Bolt, of And*
tion is as follows: "To the South county, in 1S97.
Carolina Women of the Confederacy, j 67. The first world's chart:
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64. South Carolina is, so far as J the Florence lad, Jerry Moore, i
I have been able to learn, the only! his sensational yield per acre,
State in the American union which! turned the eyes of the countr;
has in a public park a statue erected i South Carolina.
to the honor of a member of the! 68. The first high school in A
British parliament when these States ica to introduce a military fej
were British colonies. There stands and make it a success, is the
in Marion Square, in Charleston, a school of Sumter, S. C., which
statue of William Pitt, which was used this system since 1900.?Li
first erected in 1770. Ayer Vandiver, member national
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