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. r5K 5r , wlte Hamburg i^ralb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1916. Established 1891 V ' "' ! I COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the * 4 County and Elsewhere. | , Colston Clippings. Colston, June 18.?We are badly - - ? i.1. . In need or rain again, especially me farmers, although it would do everybody good to have a nice shower. Miss Dora McMillan spent week before last with friends and relatives in Bamberg. Miss Evelyn Kirk land was the pleasant guest of Miss Mamie McMil; lan Saturday night. Col. F. N. K. Bailey, his son, Mr. \ Bailey, 'and - Miss Black passed through this section Sunday on their way to St. John's. The many friends of Col. Bailey were very glad to see him. i There will be preaching at Colston Branch Baptist church Sunday. We hope to see a large crowd present. *' ' Miss Nelle Clayton was called to Walterboro Saturday to the bedside of her sick brother, Mr. John G. Clayton. Mr. Clyde Padgett spent Saturday '* night with Messrs. Frankie and W Claude Kirxiana. fL The Colston ball team was defeat. Jr ^ ed by the Govan team last Saturday. I^v ' The score was 12 to 13 in favor of Govan; but look out, Govan, next Saturday! Perhaps Colston will have better luck this time. Miss Mary Zorn spent Friday and Saturday night with Mrs. B. D. Bishop. , Mr. Talbert Padgett 6pent Satur^flp day night with Mr. George Kearse. Misses Bessie and Hattie Kirkland were the welcome guests of Mrs. J. A. Jennings, Jr., Saturday night and Sunday. v Mr.' Barney Bishop and little son, Otis, spent Saturday night with Mrs. fr Rosanne Thomas, in Colleton county, returning Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clayton were the pleasant guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Bishop Suhday. Mrs. Ogreta Beard, of this section, Is spending some time with her son, Mr. R. L. Beard, of Schofield. Mrs. B. D. Bishop and children spent Sunday with Mrs. Calvin Padgett V Masters Marion and Alvin Sandifer, of Bamberg, have been spending f some time with their grandparents, Mi;, and Mrs. S. W.. Clayton, of this p $ ' section. ^ . . Ott's On tings. k Ott's, June 18.?Mrs. L. D. Odom is on the sick list this week, hut is some better at this writing. Mrs. Lizzie Griffith and daughter, Ina May, of Cottageville, accompanied by Mr. Shep Pierce, motored to Ott's Sunday and spent the day at the # home of Mrs. Griffith's sister, Mrs. C. E. Sandifer. Mr. Henry Q. Jennings has returned to Ott's after a week's absence. Mr. W. P. Sandifer, of Blackville and Mr. G. L. Sandifer, of Binaker's, wer8 guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. It. D. Odom Friday. Miss Lila McCue is visiting her brother, Mi. J. W. MeCue, m Char'V v leston. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Matheny, of f Bamberg, were guests at the home of j ! the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Sandifer, Sunday """ A ** c*\,irlin nf "Dan mark. lttr&a V/. /U. uyuilltl) Vi ?' spent Friday at tlie home of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Odcm. Mr. Edgar Price is back at Ott's after an ab.serce of several weeks. Denmark Dots. Denmark, June 17.?Mrs. G. T. Andrews, of Chester, and Miss Monroe Owens, of Dunbarton, are visit/ ing at the home of Mrs. G. W. Goolsby. * Mrs. L?. A. Martin spent a short # - while in Columbia this week. Mrs. Edgar Pearson, of Florida, f is visiting at the home of Mr.' and Mrs. A. D. Pearson. ' V v 0. iry Mrs. J. R. Martin entertained with a miscellaneous shower on Wednesday evening last for Miss Daisy Hair, of Blackville. The attractive little twins of Mr. f w and Mrs. Charlie Mathis, of Blackville, were bearers of the basket, filled ^with useful and beautiful gifts ' for t^e bride. An ice course was served Stanwix Mayfield is at home for a short while, after his graduation at Annapolis. tOut of 18,000 houses in Schenec& tady, N. Y? only 417 are not wired v ' for electricity. gift 4 : ISr.. " WHY ACT WAS NOT SIGNED. I Governor Manning Explains Position ? on Two-quart Law. Columbia, June 17.?In answer to a letter inquiring about the two-quart act, Gov. Manning wrote as follows: "In the beginning permit me to state that I am very glad indeed that your interest in the administration . of affairs of government and in the , enforcement of law in South Carolina is such that you feel free to write me in reference to the two-quart bill. I am. glad to have the opportunity to , advise you that my refusal to sign this bill at the present time is purely ; in the interest of temperance in South Carolina, and with all regard for the views of its advocates and with great admiration for their high purpose and fine service. "You will recall that the legisla, ture at its 1915 session passed what , is known as the gallon-a-month act. This same legislature passed an act referring the question of prohibition , or local option to the voters of South Carolina in a special election held in , September, 1915. "It has been claimed by some that there are constitutional defects in the gallon-a-month law) As the head of the executive department of the State I would not presume to pass on this question. That is a matter for the judicial department. My duty is to direct the enforcement of this act so long as it remains on the statute books unchanged by legislative enactment or judicial decision. Pending in Court. "I have been informed that this law is now being tested in the courts, and the friends of prohibition having knowledge of this action introduced during the 1916 session of the legislature a bill intended to reenact + orollnn.Q.mnnth law in Qllph a lUlO goil'lvuu uivuvu twii ? ? manner as to leave no question as to its constitutionality. When this bill was introduced and finally passed / through both houses of the general assembly, a good many changes had been made in it and a number of amendments tacked on. In fact, the act as finally passed was widely different, I am told, from the bill originally introduced. When this act came to me for approval or disapproval, I discussed the entire matter with the authors of the bill, together with some of the leading prohibitionists of the State. In addition to the advice and counsel gained from these gentlemen, who are very much interested in the cause of prohibition, I received a large number of letters from citizens in various parts of the State, urging me for various reasons not to approve this act. Liquor ad Libitum? "This condition confronted me: The gallon-a-month act was before the courts and this new act, if signed, would automatically repeal the gallon-a-month act; and in case it was attacked and set aside by the courts, we would be left without any legal limitation upon the amount of liquor that might be imported. "It seemed to me, therefore, that in view of the information that had been placed before me, the highest interests of the State would best be served were I to hold this act in abeyance rather than take chances. For these and other reasons which I deem inadvisable to make public at the present time, I deemed it in the interest of temperance and in fairness to the people of the State that the two-quart act be not signed at present, but that it be held here pending the outcome of the legal fight on the gallon-a-month act. The twoquart act has not been vetoed, but is merely held in this office as above stated. "I have written you frankly in ref erence to the matter and I trust you will understand and appreciate my position. The principle of law enforcement is very dear to my heart and in m<y opinion is of paramount importance in South Carolina at the present time. I am doing all in my power to see that the present laws are enforced and shall continue this policy with unabated vigor and without compromise so long as I am governor. "Vox Populi." "Since the State has spoken so clearly for prohibition, it becomes the duty of a Democrat and certainly that of a public official to accept the expression of the will of the peopie as the policy of the State. It seems to me, therefore, that we have had our course determined by a greatly preponderant vote, and so far as I am concerned the liquor question is a settled one. It is no longer a political issue. The people have spoken in no uncertain terms on the matter. "I take this occasion to state that the acceptance of prohibition by the IN TIE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick ' Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Prof. D. W. Daniel, of Clemson college, has declined the presidency of Columbia college. Henry Carter, a Laurens county negro was dragged to death last week by a run-away mule. The Woman's Missionary Union of the Upper South Carolina Methodist conference will hold its 1917 meeting in Rock Hill. John Gary Evans has been appointed national executive committeeman from South Carolina to succeed Senator B. R. Tillman. Work on Columbia's new postoffice building will be begun next month. The building when completed will have cost $265,000. Will Carter, a negro, is under arrest in Union charged with attempting criminal assault upon a young white woman of Union county. J. M. Harby, a contractor of Sumter, has been awarded a contract to build a Carnegie library in Sumter. The building will cost about $10,000. / A petition asking for a receiver ship for the Parker Cotton mills company has been filed before Judge Johnson in the federal court at Spartanburg. At the quarterly meeting of the South Carolina Religious Press association held in Columbia last week it was decided to hold the next meeting at Due West. According to L. L. Baker, of Bishopville, supervising agent of the Boy's Corn club work in South Carolina, there are between 2,000 and 2,500 boys enlisted in the corn and pig clubs of the State. A concern capitalized at $75,000 has been organized in Sumter for the purpose of working the kaolin works at Blaney, and James Crossing, Sumter county. The plant will deal in crude and refined clays. H. Jefferson Fetner, a member of the Columbia fire department, died in Columbia Thursday night of a pistol wound accidentally inflicted upon him by W. F. Hicks, a Columbia policeman. The policeman was in the act of handing a pistol to Fetner 1 A-U - 11-.T wnen Liie weayuu was a^uimsiiLaw.y discharged. CANVAS BOOK COVERS. > ? Done in Cross Stitch They Are Quaint and Artistic. If you like to give the artistic touch to your books by making covers for them of fine canvas you may work them in the old-fashioned cross stitch exactly like that used by our great-grandmothers. The fccover is made the same as the calico and gingham cover for school books used , to be made, but on the outer side little conventional designs and the name are worked. Sometimes the only working will be the name. All of us have a few books which are very dear because of association, or thA helnfiilness af their contents, but the bindings have become worn and shabby. The canvas binding in cross stitcb. is not only pretty, but it is quaint and .will save the books.? Baltimore American. RESPOND TO STATE'S CALL. Many South Carolina Men Enlisting for Border Service. South Carolina's patriotism and devotion to the "Stars and Stripes" today is of the same brand that prompted the members of the famous "Palmetto Regiment" to shoulder their muskets and defend their flag in Mexico more than three score years ago. i This is evidenced by the alacrity with which the young men of this State , are responding to the call for recruits for the National Guard to go to the , Mexican border, and perhaps further. Gratifying reports have been receiv ?i ?i l ~ ea rrom various piaees wuere are iu- 1 cated the campanies comprising the National Guard of South Carolina, and every indication is that when the < time comes to move southward the different commands will have been < recruited to their full strength. Read The Herald, $1.50 per year. people of South Carolina and their hearty cooperation with the officers in the enforcement of this law have < been remarkable and very gratifying indeed.'' i 1 TWENTY-ONE CANDIDATES. Q Will Make Up Party for County-toCounty Canvass. C Columbia, June 19.?Twenty-one candidates will make up the State campaign party. Five of these will contest for the office of chief executive and five for the office of railroad commissioner. W. W. Moore, adju * 1. tant ana inspector general; oamuu W. Sawyer, comptroller general; John ^ E. Swearingen, superintendent of education; Thomas H. Peeples, attorney general, and E. J. Watson, com- c< missioner of agriculture, commerce d and industries, will be unopposed. ' Two surprises were sprung in the ^ race for State offices. These were TV supplied by W. Banks Dove, of Columbia, who filed his pledge yester- , day for secretary of State to succeed R. M. McCown, and Dr. E. C. L. ^ Adams, who will oppose A. J. Bethea for lieutenant governor. Mr. Dove ^ has been assistant secretary of State for eight years. Dr. Adams had previously announced his candidacy for the legislature in Richland county. ^ Mr. McCown did not offer for reelecr< tion. a; A. P. Lever, from the Seventh conn gressional district, will again be unopposed. Wyatt Aiken, the present incumbent from the Third district, will have four opponents. These are: ^ Henry C. Tillman, John A. Horton, h Fred H. Dominick and A. H. Dagnall. Many in Race. n e; No candidates have announced for ( si solicitor for the Twelfth judicial cir.cuit. A. H. Gasque, the incumbent, holds the position by appointment, ^ which was sustained by the State supreme court, and will retain the office the full four vears. R. L. Gunter in ^ the Second, Philip H. Stoll in the ^ Third, J. Monroe Spears in the r< Fourth and Wade Hampton Cobb in the Fifth will be without opposition. Seventy-four candidates are in the race for State offices, which include a congressmen and solicitors. Assess- 1 CJ ments approximate $6,000. Candidates for governor were assessed . $100 each, railroad commissioner ^ $.75, all other State offices $50, congressmen $200, solicitors $50. Can- ^ didates for the different offices are: , For State Offices. V( Governor?C. L. Blease, R. A. c< Cooper, J. M. DesChamps, John T. c Duncan and R. I. Manning. tc Lieutenant governor?E. C. L. ai Adams and Andrew J. Bethea. , v< Secretary of State?W. Banks p, Dove and George W. Wightman. 0] State treasurer?S. T. Carter and iE D. W. McLaurin. a1 a/Untant and insnector eeneral? ?.UJUVM>4*g MTM%? ??^ w W. W. Moore. gi Comptroller general?Carlton W. e< Sawyer. w State superintendent of education m ?John E. Swearingen. k Attorney general?Thomas H. Peeples. gi Commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries?E. J. Watson. j Railroad commissioner?James t( Cansler, Albert S. Fant, G. McDuffie a, Hampton, W. H. Kelley and W. P. tl Thrower. Ci Congressional Candidates. q First district?J. G. Padgett and g Richard S. Whaley. Is Second district?J. F. Byrnes and G Alvin Etheredge. ir Third district?Wyatt Aiken, A. H. m Dagnall, Fred H. Dominick, John A. a] Horton and Henry C. Tillman. r( Fourth district?A. H. Miller, Sam ti J. Nicholls and D. B. Traxler. Fifth district?D. E. Finley and W. pi F. Stevenson. Si Sixth district?James D. Evans, J. a S. Mclnnes and J. W. Ragsdale. o] Seventh district?A. F. Lever. a< For Solicitor, pi First circuit?L. A. Hutson, An- st drew J. Hydrick, Ed. C. Mann and J. Stokes Salley. fc Second circuit?It. L. Gunter. F Third circuit?Philip H. Stoll. L Fourth circuit?J. Monroe Spears, in Fifth circuit?Wade Hampton B Cobb. T\ Sixth circuit?J. Harry Foster and tt J. K. Henry. ti Seventh circuit?I. C. Blackwood and A. E. Hill. B Eighth circuit?H. S. Blackwell, oi B. V. Chapman, Geo. T. McGill and ei T. Frank McCord. tt Ninth circuit?F. M. Bryan, William H. Grimball and Thomas P. lit Stoney. tt Tenth circuit?Leon L. Rice, K. P. sc Smith and J. R. Earle. h< Eleventh circuit?E. L. Asbill, J. W. Cox and George Bell Timmerman. v< Twelfth circuit?None. G Thirteenth circuit?Jno. M. Daniel, SI H. H. Harris, J. D. Langford, J. Rob- ai ert Martin and D. W. Smoak. ui Fourteenth circuit?Heber R. Pad- ti gett and George Warren. ^ 9 AMPAIGN OPENS IEESDAY AXDIDATES ADDRESS SPARTANBURG VOTERS. bout 1,000 Present at the Meeting, About Half Being From Other Counties. Spartanburg, June 20.?Devoid of jatures and likened by many season3 campaigners to a Sunday-school icnic, the initial meeting of the junty-to-county canvass of candiates took place here today. The leeting began in the court house, ut was adjourned to the outside, here the candidates stood on a dry oods box under the low-hanging ranches of a water oak and addressi the people. The tree under which le candidates stood was so thick nd the limbs so close to them that ley had to stoop to see the people n tne outer rringe or tne crowa. Of the 1,000 people present, not ver half were citizens of Spartanurg, the others coming from sur[>unding counties, some as far away s Columbia. There was absolutely o enthusiasm and very little aplause, one campaigner, who has paricipated in county and State camaigns since 1898, dubbing the Sparinburg meeting "the worst farce I ave ever seen." The candidates for governor led fif, being given twenty-four minutes ach. Former Governor C. L. Blease tarted the ball to rolling with an ttack on the record of Mr. Manning s senator and governor. He said ae administration had been run exravagantly, many useless offices ereted, and that much lawlessness had iken place in the last two years, le also jumped on the pardoning ecord of the governor. Robert A. Cooper, the next guberatnrial nanriiriata tn snpalr said hp ras in the race on his own account nd was not brought out by any Lique or interest. He stressed law uforcement and advocated a State lsurance rate-making bureau. Mr. ooper advocated extension of the dpcation privileges of every child. J. M. Deschamps was the third guernatorial candidate to address the oters and he outlined the magnifisnt opportunity now before South arolina. He called on the people ) get together and work in unity long all lines. He said he wanted ocational training in the schools, opDsed capital punishment and called a the people to interest themselves l constructive measures and do way with factionalism and strife. John T. Duncan came next in the ubernatorial candidates. He chargi that the State warehouse system as being built up into a political lachine, and reiterated his wellnown attack on a "system." Governor Richard I. Manning bean his speech with an appeal to emloyers of National Guardsmen to snd every cooperation to the soldiers ) respond to the call of the presient and, touching on the record of le Palmetto regiment in the Mexim war of 1845, said he knew South arolina today ^vould maintain that lorious reputation. He congratuited the people and the National uardsmen on the prompt and unaniious response of the militia to the lobilization orders. The governor [so praised President Wilson. He ^viewed the work of his administraon. Attorney General Thomas H. Peeles, Comptroller General Carlton W. awyer and Superintendent of Edu- ition J. E. Swearingen, who are unpposed for reelection, made short idresses, in which they thanked the < sople and pledged anew their best in their offices. i Dr. E. C. L. Adams, of Columbia, >r lieutenant governor, ridiculed the 1 ord peace expedition to Europe and 1 ieutenant Governor Bethea for goig a member of it. He pictured Mr. 1 ethea as weeping on the neck o 1 William Jennings Bryan and said 1 lat as a pacifist he was in opposi- ! on to President Wilson. Lieutenant Governor Andrew J. ethea favored four-year terms for Beers, biennial sessions of the gen al assembly, education and praised ie record of the Democracy. By the time the candidates for sutenant governor were speaking Le audience had dwindled to a few ;ore and the other speakers were 3ard by only a few. Other speakers who addressed the . TTT "O l._ J ners were: w. .dcuiks jltuvo emu . W. Wightman, for secretary of :ate; S. T. Carter, for reelection, id D. W. McLaurin, for State treasrer; G. McD. Hampton, for reelecon, James Cansler, Albert S. Fant, T. H. Kelley and W. P. Thrower for TRACED TO KING'S ARMY. Brother Believes Newberry College Tutor to Be ill Canada. Columbia, June 16.?Information received in Columbia yesterday would indicate that Fred D. MacLean, the young tutor at Newberry college who mysteriously disappeared May 14, has crossed the border of the United States into Canada and has / joined the forces of the dominion in either Ottawa or Toronto. President Harms, of Newberry college, explained over the telephone last night that a letter had been received from a brother, W. M. MacLean, superintendent of public schools in Topeka. Kan., intimating that all traces of his movements led to this conclusion. The brother in Kansas has been following up all possible clues since his disappearance last month. President Harms further expressed the opinion that he did not believe the young man had been the victim of foul play and believes that the matter will be cleared up soon. Investigation into the Columbia end of the case yesterday developed that Young MacLean registered at * *, " the Imperial hotel on Saturday afternoon, May 13; occupying for the night room 235. The hotel record shows that he paid his bill Sunday noon and checked out. President Harms came to Columbia on Monday, May 15, and by' a strange coincidence was assigned the room that had been occupied by Mr. MacLean. Dr. Harms said that he n /n 4> 1r% ^ tr /v A TTT V* 4 1 /\ {n U1U UUl SCO lilt? vuuug mail W UHO iu Columbia. When the young man f. ' left Newberry he told his friends that* he would return Monday. Young MacLean was treasurer of the athletic association at Newberry college and left all accounts properly checked. He also had $90 to his credit in one of the Newberry banks and had a salary balance of $200 due him. , He was a member of the class of 1915. During the four years of his college course he did clerical work in the office of President Harms and was in the -close confidence at all times of the administration. He was captain of the college football eleven ; 1 and had numerous other college honors to his credit. During the past session he has been a tutor in the institution and was favorably known throughout the city as well as in the college community. His home is in Youngstown,, Ohio. TO THE BACHELORS. ? j Hints to Those Who are Contemplating Matrimony. In the June Woman's Home Companion is an article, entitled "How I Made a Good Husband of My Son," 1-T--L 1 J ' V'1 in wmcn me writer lays uuwu sumo rules for a course of domestic training for bachelors, who are thinking of being married. "Besides heating the house," he says, "a man should have a thorough theoretical and a simple practical knowledge of plumbing, so he can be beyond the mercy of an ignorant or * dishonest plumber. The upkeep of all the furniture is your province; you should be able to replace a cas^ tor automatically, or in your sleep put on the pull of a bureau drawer. "Of course, he will not call in a painter when floors or woodwork need painting or a man to replace panes of glass or put up shelves, or any of the smaller tinkering around the house, any more than his ^rife should hire a woman to darn the stockings or do the small mending. "One of the most important duties is to see that each window and door is properly screened. He should keep all the shades in proper order and see that the windows work easily and smoothly, also keep the locks of all doors in perfect order. He should have a general knowledge of building materials, so he will be able to advise his carpenter. Naturally, too, he will keep the knives in proper condition, and no young man should wait until he is married to loarn hnw tr? rsrvp." Little to Eat. "This is a toy tea set I got for my little girl's Christmas present. She likes to serve make believe tea and make believe sandwiches. A harmless fancy." "Perfectly. I've been to grown up affairs where they did it."?Kansas City Journal. railroad commissioner. The candidates, at a meeting this morning, elected W. Banks Dove as chairman and secretary. They apportioned the time of speaking. The meeting today was presided over by S. T. D. Lancaster, county chairman. t ?l. . .<cX?M