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P ; ; p . , || * ' \ (Eh? Hamburg feralb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1916. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS T SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. F 7 News Items Gathered All Around the p County and Elsewhere. n Ott's Outings. & ^ n ! h Ott's, April 10.?We are having strange weather for the time of the ^ , year. Sunday night we had a heavy g, frost and today 'tis a real Spring j day. Frost did some damage to young corn, watermelons, gardens, _ <L etc. Our most extensive farmer, Mr. E. _ n C. Hayes, has planted a large crop of melons this year. Our little berg is still hustling? two saw mills running, and farmers ^re planting cotton; corn is up and t| looking fine. ^ Mr. E. L. Price is back after an v absence of two weeks. b Mr. Henry Q. Jennings is among ^ us again after an absence of a week. Mrs. Florrie Free and Miss Ger- F ' / > maine Sandifer, of Blackville, were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Odom Saturday and Sunday. E ^Mr. C. C. Rowell, our merchant, b has been sick for several days, but v , is able to be up at this writing. s ?? T T-v J ? 4- f. Mrs. la. U. Kjaum was a guest at the home of Mrs. 0. M. Spurlin Mon- a j. * .day. fa f Since our last writing Mr. L. D. n ML Odom had a valuable calf killed by h mm the train. a KB Our berg can boast of having had a MB two fish stews last week. h M Mr. Joe Frank Brabham visited t HR Ott's Friday and Saturday, as a guest t< MP ' of Mr.. E. L. Price. v M Honor Roll Hunter's Chapel School. ^ The following is the honor roll if Hunter's Chapel school for the month of March: F 4 First grade?Ned Rhoad. Advanced first?Annie McCormack, Jannie Steedly, Kate Berry, Mazie Smoak, Hazel Stokes. c Second grade?Agnes Stokes, J. C. ti Smoak, Lurline Smoak,' Mary and G Leila Rhoad, Henry Steedly. I ^hird grade?Pete Gaskin. o Fourth grade?Eunice McCormack, n Elise Smoak, Lottie Steedly, John o Henry Rhoac^ Harry Steedly, Eliza- v beth Hunter. p Fifth grade?Heyward Garris, fl Jake Hunter, Olive Steedly, Leila si Wilson^ Annie and Lena Rhoad. f< Sixth grade?Bettie, Steedly. - t: Seventh grade?Katherine Rhoad, f< " Rufus Rhoad. b Eighth grade?Arnold Walker, S Clyde Rentz, Thelma Hunter. - a Ninth grade?Kate and? Marie t] Steedly. f< 7 ' Victory for Denmark. - y < - Denmark, April 6.?The Denmark high school baseball nine defeated J the Norway high in a very exciting game by a score pf 11 to 10. The ( . features for Norway were the pitching of R. Gibson and batting of H. J Gibson, while the features for Den- d mark were the batting of Zeigler and h all round good playing of E. Rice and n fielding of Ray and Califf. c ! n Tomato Culture. T * v P The culture of tomatoes is com- p paratively simple. The land is plow- f< r. ed and harrowed the same as for r; corn. Lay off rows four feet apart, v and apply fertilizer in drill. As it is impossible now to get a fertilizer containing more than 1 or 2 per cent, of --? - .? i * - ?i? ?fl potasn, save an me asnes yuu can get ? and use as a top dressing after the \ plants are 6et out. Lime is also * good, but neither ashes nor lime , should be mixed with stable manure, F as the ammonia in the latter is set d free and so lost. Apply them at different times. For the girls' tenth- ^ . acre plat, we advise 50 pound acid acre plat, we advise 50 pounds acid ^ meal, and it is a good plan to use n half of this wheu the plants are set k out. and to apply the rest after they s< are growing well. Stable manure t] tends to cause black rot, a fungus growth that attacks the "blossom end ^ of the tomato. This, however, can t( i be controlled by spraying with Bor- a deaux mixture, the formula for which a we give the girls, so they can mix a small quantity at a time. Plants ^ should be set out as soon as danger 0 from killing frost is over. Set them n in a furrow, three feet apart in the c< * ? ? i u i i. P TOW. Tne Dest son iur lumaiues is a well-drained sandy loam; avoid soil that has been in tomatoes the previous year. Furthermore, they should 111 | * not follow Irish potatoes or watermelons. MRS. B. W. FAUST, c< P Home Demonstration Agt. M s< Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. a I FUNSTOX GETS MOKE TRUCKS. o Re Used in Transporting Supplies to U. S. Forces in Mexico. San Antonio, Texas, April 5.?Gen. 'unston was advised by the war deartment today that his request for lore automobile trucks had been ranted. While the addition of 108 lore trucks to those already carryig supplies along the line of comlunications to the troops in Mexico rill serve to relieve the situation, taff officers still regarded the use of tie railroads from El Paso as essenial to the success of the campaign gainst Villa. With six thousand horses and lules to feed every day and approxilately that many men, the quartermster's department reailized the difculties with which it had to contend. No reports from Gen. Pershing as o operations south of Namiquipa rere received and officers here are et lacking details of the skirmish etween Col. Brown's cavalry and rilla's men on April 1. 'ound Dead in Lonely Spot in Woods. Greenville, April 8.?Miss Dora >arby, the twenty-six-year-old daugher and only child of C. H. Darby, a rell-to-do farmer of the Fork Shoals ection of Greenville county, was Dund dead in a lonely patch of woods bout' two miles from her father's > ome. By the side of the young woman's body, an investigation showed, iy an empty vial, labelled "carbolic cid." The young woman's lips were aid to be slightly scorched, accordag to reports from police officers of hat section, and all indications seem o show that the young woman had oluntarily taken her own life. The aotive for the deed is an absolute lystery. i __ \ EDGEFIELD CASE REVERSED. / 'ederal Supreme Court Holds Different Opinion. Washington, April .10.?By a deision of the federal supreme court oday the supreme court of South iarolina was reversed in the case of >r. W. E. Prescott, of Edgefield, who btained from the State courts judglent against the Southern Railway n a consignment of shoes, which ras burned when the railroad's deot at Edgefield was destroyed by re after the goods had remained in torage beyond the forty-eight hours or which the bill of lading holds the ransportation (company responsible or the shipment. The case goes ack for a new trial, with costs. The / tate supreme court held, that the ase should have been considered on ' / tie basis of the federal statutes; the sderal supreme court rules that this ras the wrong view. FOUND DEAD UNDER CAR. no. R. Joyce, of New Mexico, Victim of Accident. Columbia, April 10.?John R. oyce, of Carlsbad, N. M., was found aid under his automobile, which id turned turtle into a creek three liles from Patrick, in Chesterfield ounty, this afternoon. The autolobile carried a Florida number. 'he dead man is said to have been resident of the Joyce Fruit coinany. His body has been prepared L>r burial by an undertaker of Cheaw and information concerning the ictim's relatives is being sought. LEWIS W. PARKER DEAD. leaded Vast Interests in Textile Field. Greenville, April 11.?Lewis W. arker, organizer and former presient of the Parker Cotton Mills comany and formerly president of tlie ^pierican Cotton Manufacturers' asociation, died at his home on east Washington street in Greenville, this 1 nrnin v ahmit fi nVlnnlc Mr. Par AVI UAUQ MK/VM v w v - - er had been in failing health for Dme time. He was a figure of naional prominence in the manufaciring world, rising rapidly after iaving the practice of law and enuring the cotton mill field. He was {filiated with other great industries Iso. He was a leader in the efforts ) have the Piedmont & Northern ne constructed and was a director f that electric railway. He was forlerly a member of the executive ^mmittee of that corporation. The arker Cotton Mills company was the irgest cotton mill combination in the outh, including 16 mills and operatig some 514,708 spindles. The capiil stock of the company, after its ompletion, was $12,200,000. Mr. arker has for some months been asnciate editor of the Piedmont, an fternoon newspaper of Greenville. IN THE PALMETTO STATE c S031E OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. t] Stat? News Boiled Down for Quick b Reading.?Paragraphs About r Men and Happenings. s V a The State high school oratorical G and athletic contest is to be held in Columbia April 17 and 28. q The annual cruise of the naval r militia of South Carolina will be held C( July 15 to 29, according to Adjutant t General W. W. Moore. a Ernest Anderson, for the past three t years superintendent of the Newberry d city schools, has announced that he o will not seek reelection. s Governor Manning has accepted an e invitation to attend the annual re- e nninn nf Confederate veterans which a is to be held in Rock Hill this month. A Dr. J. L. Mann, superintendent of the public schools of Greensboro, N. a C., has accepted the position of superintendent of the public schools of a g Greenville. Between 300 and 400 delegates from the various tribes of the State ^ are in Greenwood this week attending the Great Council of the Improv- ^ ed Order of Red Men. p Charley Penland, a young white t man, was convicted of white slavery f in the federal court in Greenville last v week, and sentenced to two years' D imprisonment in Atlanta. t Major H. M. Ross, one of the best known citizens of Chester county, g died at his home in Bascomville Fri- n day, aged 84 years. He had been in t feeble health for a year. h Trustees of the State negro col- * lege at Orangeburg have decided to erect three buildings to take the r place of the large dormitory which s was destroyed by fire several weeks v ago. a The annual convention of the South Carolina branch of the Inter .IX) national Order of King s Daughters was held in Charleston last week. g The meeting next year will be held e in Florence. * .Randall Williamson, aged 24, who ^ lived near Conway, was instantly killed Monday afternoon when a mule which he was driving ran away and threw him out of the wagon, breaking his back and neck. G. C. Gause was killed by Coleman * Squires *at the Trexler Lumber company's camp in Horry county, Sunday, following a quarrel over a bottle of liquor. After the killing Squires c made his escape and has not been ^ captured. t . Alice Gregory, the four-year-old 1 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Greg- !c ory, of Greenville, fell to the ground from a second story window of a Chester hotel T *-day and sustained several broken :*ibs and other injuries. She will recover. BODY OF MAN FOUND ON ROAD. 1 -James Johnson Shot to Death in a Night.?No Clue as to Slayer. a * y _ Orangeburg, April 10.?James E Johnson, a white man pf the Neeses * section of Orangeburg county, was ^ found dead early Sunday morning ^ beside a public road near Neeses with three bullet wounds in his body. ^ Johnson was going from Neeses to a his home and was walking along the 9 highway that leads to Springfield, f The shooting took place at about midnight. Witnesses examined before the coroner's jury did not know who did the shooting. . A negro testi- S fied that he heard the shot about midnight, but he was not alarmed, as he often hears shooting on that road. This negro found the body 0 early Sunday morning. n Sheriff Salley and Rural Police- g man Hall worked hard on Sunday to g secure some evidence as to who did a the shooting, but were unsuccessful, g Johnson was about 35 years of age a and married. He had been living in e southern Alabama for a number of c years and has been back in Orange- ti burg county about two years. a c Base Ball. o ii Carlisle will open the regular n schedule games for this season with b Orangeburg high school, at Rhoad si park Thursday afternoon, April 13, L at 4:00 sharp. The boys have been g doing some very hard practicing and s: "Smoky Joe" says he is ready for tl them. A good game is promised, n The next games at Rhoad park will h be with Charleston high school, April 17 nnrl 1 Sth f!arlislp has nlavcd Y three practice games with Ehrhardt, N won two and lost one.?adv. "V i ' / GERMANY'S SYSTEM. p 'an Move Army From Eastern to Western Front in Five Days. Germany's system for the rapid ransportation of troops from one attle ront to another was described ^ ecently by Captain Frank E. Kleinchmidt, says a New York dispatch, -ho has returned to his home here fter 16 months with the Austrorerman forces on three war fronts. "The rapidity of movement of the ^ German armies," said he, "may be ai ealiied when it is seen that entire .01 orps may be moved from the western e> o the eastern fronts, or back, in two st nd a half days. What the limit of he transportation facilities, may be I ec o not know, but I do know of my n< wn personal knowledge of 40,000 ^ oldiers being started from the west- ai rn lines to a position on the east- ?* rn front and made ready for action ai gainst the Russians in 60 hours." C Captain Kleinschmidt, who is an al Lmerican, is known here for his work s commander of the Arctic expedi- r ion sent out by the Carnegie Museum ^ t Pittsburg and as a big hunter and pi xplorer in Alaska. ? "With the most perfect and wellonstructed roads and rails that I tci iave ever seen,' the troops move p* wiftly in comfortable cars to any lesignated point," said Captain ta Heinschmidt. "To mo it appears as V( he last word in mobile fighting al orees. Ennallv remarkable, too. yas the ease with which supplies, ^ nunitions and guns kept pace with he movement of the men. ei "Another thing I noticed as distin- Si ruished the German and Austrian m node of advance or retirement from ni hat of the Russians was in the tandling of the railroads. Whereas w he Russians destroyed towns and vil- CJ ages and attempted usually in their E etiring movement to wipe out food E upplies, even growing crops, they inariably left rails and road intact, t ,nd often failed to destroy important G ridges. "When General von Hindenburg withdrew after his first attempt to :et to Warsaw failed, he blasted out t( very rail in his rear and left the ^ oadbed a hopeless wreck. Further a. o impede the pursuing Russians, he ir elled poles and trees over parallel oads, and was soon safely out of each." WINTER WHEAT CROP. A tl Condition on April'1st 78.3 Per Cent. ti Rye Crop 87.8 Per Cent. C) Washington, April 7.?A total proluction of 495,000,000 bushels of vinter wheat was forecasted today by he department of agriculture, basing ts estimate on the condition of the Top April 1 and on an assumption of ^ average abandonment of acreage and iverage influences on the crop to har- ^ est.? That compares with 655,045,>00 bushels, the estimated producion in 1915 and 684,990,000 bushels n 1914. Condition of winter wheat on April . was 78.3 per cent. *of normal,' w Lgainst 88.8 last year, 95.6 in 1914 o: md 87.3, the average for the last ten p ears. There was a decrease of 9.4 ,a; oints in condition from December 1 V( o April 1, compared with an average e( lecline of 3.5 points between those lates in the last ten years. } \ The average condition of rye on Lpril 1 was 87.8 per cent, of normal, Lgainst 89.5 on April 1 last year, o< >1.3 in 1914 and 89.9, the average C or the last ten years. 2 ti INSURANCE INJUNCTION. el ti Supreme Court Grants Temporary Order. Charleston, April 11.?On petition f David B. Henderson, an insurance 4 TTI ian of Charleston, Eugene B. lary, chief justice, at Abbeville, has A ranted a temporary injunction ** gainst Thomas H. Peeples, attorney *r eneral, and F. H. McMaster, insur- cc nee commissioner, temporarily, ai njoining them from enforcing the dom-Laney act, known as the "anl-compact" law. The defendants re directed to show in the supreme ourt room in Columbia at 10 o'clock f the morning of April 17, why this n< ljunction should not be made per- ai lanent. The petitioner alleges that fa oth the spirit and letter of the con- fa titution is violated by the Odom- of aney statute. Both the attorney j hi eneral and the insurance commis- ar ioner were served with copies of ti< he petition and the order yesterday in lorning. Copies have been received ere. so Mr. Henderson is represented by. lordecai & Gadsden & Rutledge, it' fathans & Sinkler and Smythe & it' isanska^ law firms of Charleston. dr i ' hr:. . i -.: . ..... J . -v.- .. * ' ENV THE RESPONSIBILITY ; (KltTAIX GKKMAIX TOKPFDO DIDX'T DESTROY SUSSEX. enies Other Cases Too.?Germany's Disclaimer Surrounds Position ot' V. S. With More Difficulties. Berlin, April 8.? (Via London.) ? lie German government is able to inounce that no German submarine warship was responsible for the :plosion which damaged the British eamship Sussex. When Germany, on April 5, han.'li Ambassador Gerard an interim )te replying to the inquiries of the nited States regarding the Sussex id four other steamers, the matter : responsibility still was in doubt id the investigation still was proceding. The German foreign office, ipreciating the agitation in the nited States, transmitted an interim csponse declaring the readiness of le government, should the Sussex rove to have been destroyed by a erman torpedo contrary to the outstanding with the United States, i make all reparation, including the iyment of compensation. The Associated Press was authoriitively informed today that the instigation has been completed, that .1 the craft which might possibly ave been involved in an attack on le Sussex have reported, and that om the reports of their command's it is absolutely certain that the ussex was not destroyed by a Geran torpedo, and that Germany is in o wise responsible for the disaster. From the material at hand it also ill be possible to reply to the Ameriin inquiries regarding the steamers nglishman, Manchester*.. Engineer, agle Point and Berwindvale and esiblish, according to the German condition, that no blame attaches to ermany. n?mru>rflUf> Olnh MftetinffS. (Note.?The Herald will be glad > publish free of charge notices of ub meetings. The club chairmen re urged to send in notices of meetigs not later than next Tuesday.) N EHRHARDT CLUB. The Ehrhardt Democratic club ill meet at Ehrhardt, on Saturday, pril 22nd, at 3 o'clock p. m., for le purpose of reorganizing and to *ansact such other business as may Dme before the club. D. P. SMITH, Chairman. r-' KEARSE CLUB. The members of Kearse Mill Demcratic club will meet at J. J. [earse's on Saturday, 22nd,#at 3:30 . m., for'the purpose of reorganizlg and transacting any other busiess that may/ come before the club. J. F. KEARSE, SR.^Chairman. CLEAR POND CLUB. The Clear Pond Democratic club ill meet at Clear Pond school house u Saturday, April 22nd, at 4 o'clock . m., for the purpose of reorganizing nd to elect delegates to county conention. All members are- requesti to attend. G. W. FOLK. Chairman. . COLSTON CLUB. The members of the Colston Dem?ratic club are requested to meet at olston school house on Saturday, 2nd of April, at 3 o'clock p. m., for le purpose of reorganizing and ecting delegates to county convenor G. H. KEARSE, P. M. VARN, Chairman. Secretary. BAMBERG CLUB. The Bamberg Democratic club will eet in the court house on Saturday, pril 22nd, at 4 o'clock, p. m., for ie purpose 01 organizing auu iu ansact such other business as may >me before the club. A full attendlce of the members is requested. J. B. BLACK, Chairman. Jealous. A minister spending a holiday in the )rth of Ireland was out walking, id feeling very thirsty, called at a ,rm house for a drink of milk. The rmer's wife gave him a large bowl ' milk, and while he was quenching s thirst a number of pigs got ound about him. The minister no2ed that the pigs were very strange their manner, so he said: "My- good lady, why are the pigs i excited?" The farmer's wife replied: "Sure, s 110 wonder they are excited, sir; s their own little bowl you are inking out of!"?Tit-Bits. -V RKPORT OS' PARDON BOARD. Forty-nine Petitions for Clemency Considered. Columbia, April 7.?The State board of pardons this morning filed their report and recommendations with Governor Manning on the applications for clemency which they have been considering for three days. Forty-nine petitions for pardons, paroles or commutations of sentence were considered by the board. The most widely known of the cases were those of Joe Grant, the Edgefield negro under sentence of electrocution for killing a white man at Johnston in 1906, and A. C. Tolbert, of Greenville, unJ . c J . U />.. 4 tier sentence ui uecttn iui uavmg ^ * his wife's throat. Grant is to die on ?. the 14th and Tolbert on the 12th of this month unless the governor grants a stay of sentence. Tolbert, a white man, cut his wife's throat in a mill village in Greenwood. His attorneys are claiming that he is insane and are asking for commutation of the sentence ^to life impris- ;M onment. Attorneys for the negro, Joe Grant, are making a similar request for commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment. \ rjjl Clyde Clement, serving a ten-year sentence from Spartanburg for the v death of a little baby, asked for a <^Jjj pardon. Clement was given life im- 7 ' prisonment, but former Governor Blease reduced the sentence to ten ' years. Governor Manning will go over the pardon board's report when he has opportunity and either approve or disapprove of their findings. President May Visit South Carolina. Columbia, April 5.?President William Banks, of the South Carolina Press association, is in receipt of a | leilCI 11UU1 V^uugicoouiau JJVI v/1 , which says that he thinks there is some chance of getting President .j.| Wilson to visit Columbia on* May 20. An invitation for the president to v;; be the guest of Columbia, of South Carolina and of the State Press association will go forward immediately, and Governor Manning, Mayor Grif- fith and the chamber of commerce will unite in their efforts to get the president here. > < Senators Tillman and Smith and Congressman Lever will do everything in their power to get t}ie president to accept the invitation. TWO QUART BILL NOT SIGNED. <1 Gallon-a-Month Law Stands for the Present. Columbia, April 12.?Holding that v f||| the gallon-a-month law has made "a M distinct advance for prohibition/* Gov. Manning yesterday announced ' that he would not sign the two-q,uarts a-month law at the present time. '"I aeem 11 Dest mai 11 suouiu swuu, said the governor, speaking of the v fj gallon-a-month measure, which . was passed by the 1915 legislature. Gov. Manning has held conferences with prohibition leaders from various rf sections of the State concerning the new liquor law. It was said yesterday that he had reached the decision 4'after a careful consideration of the subject from various angles." The statement by the governor fol- ' ^ "The gallon-a-month law will stand > . ;Jj as the law regulating the importation of liquor into South Carolina for personal use. This was the law enacted by the legislature at the same time as the referendum act ordering the prohibition election, and was in force when the election was Held, this law nas maae a distinct advance for prohibition by limiting the amount of liquor used, and I deem it best that it should stand, unless something occurs to change the situation. To retain the gallon-amonth law is to keep faith with the people, and, in my judgment, will go a long way to promote temperance, so long as it is rigidly enforced. "I shall continue to direct a vigorous enforcement. I will not, therefore, at this time, sign the two- ' quarts-a-month act, but will hold same in abeyance pending any - S 2S change in conditions that may occur." Confirms Sale of Mill. :'*|j Charleston, April 9.?An order was issued by Judge Henry A. M. Smith in the United States district courtf eastern district, here yesterday confirming the sale of the Hilton-Dodge Lumber company to Mr. John Rae Oilman for the sum of $250,000. The property was sold to the highest bidder at Walterboro Monday. Don't forget the "Iron Claw" will 'start on Monday, April 24th, at the Thielen Theatre. The best serial vet.?adv. \ j