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SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
i County and Elsewhere.
\ - Colston Clippings.
Colston, August 8.?This commuA
nity has been visited by a heavy rainfall,
but we are truly glad to say that
we have been very fortunate in not
having our crops destroyed as a good
many have.
Mr. Willie Zorn and sister, Miss
Florine, of Charleston, are visiting
relatives in this community at ores
ent.
Miss Idell Peters, of Ehrhardt, was
the welcome visitor of the Misses
* Fender for the past week.
Mr. Malone Varn is visiting at the
; >v > home of his grandparents, Mr. and '
4 Mrs. P. M. Yarn. Mr.
Sandy Witt, Misses Clara and
Ruby Quattlebaum and Miss Ruth
Reynolds, of Greenwood, were the
J / guests of Miss Nelle Clayton last
j|V-:' week.
Hfe- The revival meeting was held at
the Colston Branch Baptist church
last week. We had a very thriving
meeting. Rev. S. P. Carbon, of
Hampton, assisted the pastor, Rev.
Walter Black, in the meeting.
|Hv Miss Julia Clayton, of Ehrhardt,
visited relatives in this community
' \ last week.
; Mrs. T. W. Dicks and sister, Miss
Rosalie Rogers, of Dunbarton, are
j the guests of Miss Nelle Clayton this
H week.
Quite a number from this community
attended the old soldiers' reunion
at the Bethesda Baptist church
last Thursday. There was a large
crowd present and everyone- seemed
^ to enjoy the day immensely; if they
didn't it was their own fault.
Miss Carter was the welcome visitor
of Miss Laura McMillan last week.
Miss Bessie Kirkland has been
visiting relatives in Savannah for the
past three weeks.
Miss Evelyn Sandifer, of Bamberg,
visited Miss Nettie Clayton last week.
; * JMiss Ethel McMillan, of Bamberg,
spent week before last as her vacation
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. McMillan, of this community.
- - The campaign meeting will be held
f at the Colston Branch church next
Friday. There will be dinner on the
grounds and the public is invited to
attend and bring well filled baskets.
Miss Nettie Clayton, of this community,
left Thursday to visit relatives
around Denmark and Bamberg.
Miss Cleo Kearse, of Olar, visited
her brother, Mr. B. L. Kearse, of this
section, last week.
J Mrs. Nelle Pate and children, of
North Carolina, have been visiting
iy relatives and friends in tfiis section
and around Ehrhardt for the past
p?. few weeks.
Mrs. Ogreta Beard spent last week
with Mrs. B. *D. Bishop.
Mrs. Bertha Williams and little
daughter, of Norway, spent last week
y with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
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Branehville Breezes.
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Branchville, August 5.-?Miss Lizzie
Heape, who has been in Saluda,
N. C., has returned home.
Misses Selma Witherspoon and Sue
Dukes, of Orangeburg, are guests of
Miss Louise McKewn.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Morris, of
Rocky Mount, N. C., were recent visi%
> tors at the Rev. T. J. White's home.
Mr. and Mrs. Pratt Watson, of Self
/ lars, are visiting the latter's parents,
, Mr. andvMrs. J. E. Berry.
Miss Blanche Oeland, of Charleston,
is the guest of Miss Annie
Oeland.
Mrs. J. A. Buie has as her guest
Miss Clara Buie, of Bladenboro, N.
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Mrs. J. N. Byrd and N. E. Byrd
have gone to Hendersonville, N. C.,
^ to spend some time.
Mrs. P. C. Dukes and sister, Mrs.
~Z.'
- Fairy, have gone to Alexandria, Va.,
r and Washington to visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Berry, of Alden,
Fla., are at the home of Mr.
i Berry's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. !
Berry. {
Miss Butt, of Charleston, is the {
guest of Mrs. P. Earl Dukes.
Mrs. Roy Edwards is visiting her 1
sister, Mrs. Izlar, in Augusta.
Mrs. S. H. Thomas has returned
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from Union.
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? Schofield Sketches.
Sohnfiold Aneust 8.?Messrs^/C. J. i
S. Brooker and R. P. Bellinger, of
; Bamberg, were visitors here yesterday.
Mr. J. L. Owen visited friends and
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CHILD DIES OF PARALYSIS.
First Case for Anderson Reported to
Health Board.
Anderson, August 4.?Anderson's
first case of infantile paralysis was
reported to the board of health. The
13-months-old son of R. A. Holcombe
was attacked last night with
paralysis, which became very pronounced
during the night, spreading
over the entire body. The child died
this afternoon. All children under
fifteen years of age are forbidden to
attend moving picture shows, Sunday-schools
and other gatherings and
are forbidden to ride on street cars
and in public hacks. Dr. L. H. Riser,
of the board of health, is here and.is
advising the authorities.
The great salt mine at Weileska in
Galici^, has galleries which are more
than thirty miles in length. The total
yearly yield is 5(5,000 tons.
relatives at Estill last Sunday.
Mr. Dan Hartman spent last Sunday
with relatives at Fairfax.
Mr. F. B. Drawdy and family motored
to Colleton county last Sunday
where they attended services at Carter's
Ford church.
Mrs. A. T. Inabinet visited at Fairfax
yesterday.
Messrs. D. L. Shiplett, Lewis Clust,
and G. W. Mcintosh motored to Barnwell
Sunday .last.
Mr. Geo. F. Beard returned from
Columbia last.Friday very much improved
after undergoing an opera*tion
for appendicitis.*
Mrs. G. W. Sowers and daughter,
Miss Mabel, will leave this week for
several weeks' visit to relatives in
Pennsylvania.
Mr.' Joe Tyler, our agent and operator,
visited relatives at Swansea
last Sunday. DRAEBLR.
Oak Grove Greetings.
Oak Grove, August 7.?We have
been having plenty of rain for the
last few days.
Miss Mattie Lou Carter, of Augusta,
Ga., spent last Friday night
with Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Carter and
family. .
Miss Nina Hayden, of Cope, is
spending some time with her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Copeland.
Miss Quin Hoffman spent last
Tuesday night with Miss Lonie Copeland.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Rentz spent
last Tuesday night with Mr. I. W.
Rentz.
The protracted meeting has been
going on at Pleasant Hill for the last
week, and a good many folks attended.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Copeland spent
last Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs.
M. W. Rentz.
Miss Quin Hoffman left Monday
for Greenville, where she will study
to be a trained nurse.
Misses Lillie and Josephine Kinard
spent last Tuesday night with Miss
Lonie Copeland.
Mr. Willie Carter, of Augusta, Ga.,
is spending some time with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Carter.
Misses Clara Copeland and Nina
Hayden spent last Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. L. W. Copeland.
Miss Julia Clayton spent last week
with relatives at Colston.
Mr. J. W. Copeland has returned
from a pleasant visit to Cope.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Fender, of Ehrhardt,
spent last Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. B. H. Carter.
Miss Bertha Kinard spent last
Friday with Miss Lonie Copeland.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Carter gave a
party last Thursday night and a good
many of the young folks attended.
They returned home saying they had
had a "dandy time."
We are very sorry to hear of little
Lenora Copeland's illness. We hope
she will soon be out again.
Miss Nina Hayden spent last-Sunday
night with Misses Quin and
Grace Hoffman.
Miss Essie Carter spent last Tuesday
with Miss Bertha Kinard.
Cope Cullings.
Cope, August 6.?Mr. Herbert N.
Antley, of near Cope, gave his friends
an old-time pinder boiling Monday
evening and the same proved a most
enjoyable affair. Rook and a num
ber of old-time parlor games were
enjoyed by the following: Misses
Agnes Kearse, of Olar; Annie Laurie
and Kathleen Kirkland, Lilly May
Brickie, Bettie Beckham, Rita Barton,
Hattie Sue Brabham, of Bamberg:
Permetta Smoak, of Cordova,
and Willie Leon Hayden; Messrs.
Otis Hayden, Glenn Smoak, Ashton
Antley, Winfield Clark, Buist Brickie,
Fred Brickie and Basil Antley.
Chaperones, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar L. j
Brickie and Mrs. W. H. Smith. [
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Farmers in #the vicinity of Lake
City sold approximately 700,000
pounds of tobacco valued at $83,000
last week.
John Powers, a railway freight;
conductor, shot and seriously wound- j
ed Jack Speegle'and Janie Terry in
Greenville Thursday.
Carrie Price, a negro woman, of i
Columbia, committed suicide by j
shooting herself through the heart
with a pistol last week.
Julian E. Wingo, president of a;
Charleston cigar factory, was prob-jj
'ably fatally injured in Charleston'
Tuesday, when he fell down an ele-!
vator shaft.
. Citizens of Columbia propose to I
make a united effort to sfecure one|
of the twelve land banks provided
for under the recently enacted rural
credits law.
Rev. S. D. Ferguson, for the last
35 years bishop of the Episcopal
church in Liberia, died this week.
The negro bishop was born in Charleston
in 1842.
John C. Pruitt, of Starr, Anderson
county, probably has the largest cotton
acreage of any farmer in South
Carolina. He has 3,000 acres planted
in cotton and the crop is looking
well.
Insurance Commissioner F. H. McMaster
reports that during the seven
months ending August 1, he collected
from the insurance companies and
turned into the State treasury $141,021.54.
A petition containing approximately
700 names, has been filed
with Mayor Griffith, of Columbia,
asking him to call an election on the
question of abandoning the commission
form of government which Columbia
has.
Governor Manning has accepted an
invitation to address the meeting of
the State Federation of. Labor in
Greenville on August 14 and 15.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has
been invited to attend and make an
address.
Following the refusal on the part
of the management of the Gluck Cotton
mills at Anderson to grant a request
for a l\) per cent, increase in'
wages throughout the mills, the 285:
employees of these mills walked out
in concert action Tuesday afternoon.;
The machinery in all departments,
became idle three minutes later.
The testimony in the trial by
courtmartial of Lieutenant W. S.
Nicholas, who was tried at Charles-1
ton last week on the charge of allow- j
ing the torpedo boat destroyer Terry
to run aground in the harbor of
Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, has
been completed and the findings of <
the court have been forwarded to the
navy department in Washington.
Fire at Blacksburg Wednesday
night destroyed the Blacksburg Cotton
Oil mill. The ginnery and office
was saved. The burned property
was valued at about $20,000 and the'
owners carried about $15,000 insurance.
The fire occurred between 11
and 12 o'clock and the owners have
no idea concerning the origin of the
fire. The mill has been fired before.
MYSTERIOUS SHIP SEEN.
Stranger Playing Searclilight on
Charleston.
Mystery surrounds the source of
searchlight rays that played on the
harbor entrance and Sullivan's Island
Saturday night, the rays coming
apparently from the open sea.
The most probable explanation of the'
origin of the blinding flashes is that
an allied cruiser was off the harbor
entrance keeping an eye open for the
possible appearance in this vicinity
of the submarine Bremen. A week
or so ago about 9 o'clock in the evening,
persons on the Battery noted
searchlight rays flashing toward all j
points of the compass and apparent-1
ly coming from the vicinity of the;
Isle of Palms. It was afterward j
learned that the government searchlight
op Sullivan's Island was not
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used tnat nigni ana aenniteiy ascertained
that the searchlight on the
submarine at the Isle of Palms is not
powerful enough to be seen from the
city. Very evident, it is, that some
ship not far at sea, is keeping Charleston
harbor under surveillance.?
Charleston Post.
MANNING IS CONFIDENT.
Pleased With Campaign So Far, and
Believes He Will Be Reelected.
Columbia, August 3.?"I am very
much pleased with the progress of
the campaign and am confident of
my reelection," said Governor Manning
here Tuesday before leaving for
Sumter to begin the sixth week swing
around the State. Governor Manning
is bearing up well under the incessant
strain of campaigning, is
very enthusiastic over the support
that he has found in every part of
South Carolina and is thoroughly optimistic
over his chances of serving
the people a second term as their
executive.
"It is a campaign that is worth
fighting," emphatically continued the
governor; "there is no place in it for
compromise or for a neutral position.
The issues are as closely defined
as they were in 1914. The main
question is simply whether the law
shall continue to be enforced and respect
for the law upheld on the plane
to which it has been restored in the
past year and a half, or whether the
verdicts of the juries and the decrees
of the courts shall be set aside.
"Besides this there is the improvement
in conditions of labor to be carried
on; the education of our boys
and girls to be continued along tin.
line already mapped out; and the
welfare of the unfortunates in thfe
State Hospital for the Insane to be
safeguarded with sympathy, intelligence
and care. For all these things
I stand.
"Those who would violate the law
will vote against me, those who oppose
the legislation I have recommended
and signed for labor's better
ment will vote against me; those who
oppose better education for the children
of the State will vote against
me?and they will be wise to do so,
for these things to my mind are fundamental
and I will not compromise
tljem.
"But the course of the campaign
has already shown that these persons
are in the minority; that they
do not and cannot control the State; j
the cause of progress in law enforcement
and education will go forward.
This cause, which was my platform
two years ago and is my platform
now, is becoming each day more and
more a fixed policy demanded by the
level-headed masses of the people."
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\ Correspondents Wanted.
The Bamberg Herald wants a
live correspondent at each of the |
places mentioned below. If you
are interested in having the news
of your section appear regularly
in The Herald every week, communicate
with us at once. We
will provide you with stationery
and stamps. The Herald expects
to inject some new life into the
correspondents' department, and
if you want your section represented,
let us know right away,
for there's going to be "big do^
in's" in the near future. Now if
you live at either of the places
mentioned below, send us your
name. It doesn't matter whether
you are a good writer or not. Send
us the news; we will print it if it
can be read. The following are
the points we wish represented at
once:
Hunter's Chapel
Midway
Farrell's
Cope
Embree
Govan4
Olar
Denmark
Lees
Binnaker'j3 Bridge
Buford's Bridge
Clear Pond
Hightower's
Lodge
Smoak's
Ulmer's
And if there is any vicinity in
this territory we have overlooked, j
we want a correspondent there.
No matter where you live, if
there's news around you, we want
you to write it and send it in. If
you cannot write yourself, but
know of someone in your section
who can correspond for us, send
us his or her name, and we will
take the matter up with him or
her.
Bad Year for Heat Boasting.
We cannot kick aoout tne near,
That joy this year we may not
know,
The other chaps will merely say
"It's hotter down in Mexico."
?New York Sun.
OFF FOR TEXAS BORDEI
FIRST REGIMENT LEFT FOI
FORT BLISS.
Three Trains Take South Carolin;
National Guard to Texas for
Border Service.
Camp Moore, Styx, August 7.?
"Practically on time and in good or
der," as officially reported to Wash
ington, the 1st South Carolina infan
try, National Guard of the Unite*
States, left this morning for th
Texas frontier, traveling in thre
special trains via the Southern Rail
wav. with Fort Bliss, five miles froc
El Paso, Texas, as its destination
Breakfast time tomorrow should fin*
the troop trains passing Chattanoo
ga.
Aboard the first section, depart
ing from Styx at 9.04 o'clock, Lieut
Col. P. K. McCully, Jr., command
ing, was the 3rd battalion, ninetee:
officers and 339 enlisted meji. Th
train consisted of seven tourist sleet
ers, one baggage car, one box cai
three flat cars, containing eight wg
gons; one standard sleeper.
Second Section.
Aboard the second section, deparl
ing from Styx at 10!44, Major T. E
Spratt commanding, was the 2nd bal
talion, fifteen officers and 326 met
The train consisted of seven touris
sleepers, one baggage car, one bo
car, three flat cars, containing eigt
wagons; one standard sleeper.
Aboard the third section, depan
ing from Styx at 12.10 p. m., Col. I
M. Blythe commanding, was the Is
battalion, fifteen officers, 355 mei
ciotnrl nf + f All ric
sleepers, one baggage car, one bo
car, two flat cars, containing si
wagons; one standard sleeper.
With Each Section.
Each section carried also a med
cal officer, a supply officer and a ba
talion adjutant. Medical officei
were assigned as follows: First se<
tion, Lieut. C. M. Tripp; second se<
tion, Capt. Campbell; third sectioi
Major J. E. Poore. Chaplain Jete
was aboard the first section. Tw
men of the sanitary detachment wei
with the first section, two with th
third and fifteen with the secon<
The machine gun unit was in the firs
section, the supply company in th
second, the headquarters company i
the third. The trains pulled throug
Cayce and through the southwester
edge of Columbia and then straigh
ened out for the run to Greenvill
| and thence westward.
The time of departure of the 2n
regiment depends largely on the a]
rival of rolling stock. It is probabl
that the troops of the remainin
units will leave tomorrow, but the
may be delayed until early Wednei
day morning. Up until this mon
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i mg me zna regiment expeciea i
leave tomorrow before noon, follov
ing very much the same schedule 2
the 1st regiment this morning.
Camp officials were not prepare
i to 6ay whether the section which
I to carry the independent units, th
Charleston Light Dragoons, the fiel
hospital corps, and the engineei
company, would leave before the 2n
regiment or behind it. It w?
; thought .yesterday that they woul
i leave before, but their departure wi
! probably depend very largely on tou:
! ist cars available tomorrow. Cap
Wyndom Manning, of the Charlesto
Light Dragoons, is to be in comman
of this section.
Eager to Be Off.
Whenever they may go all of th
units still remaining are ready an
i eager, and prepared to move withoi
confusion or friction. Col. Holmes I
Springs, of the 2nd regiment, issue
traveling orders today, explaining i
| detail how the troops were to leav
j camp, the equipment they are to ca]
ry, how they are to entrain and the:
conduct on the train. In the ord
I Col. Springs called the attention c
: his men to the fact that they wer
I representatives of South Carolina o
the coming journey to Texas, and h
hoped that their conduct, as it ha
always been in the past, would b
worthy of the State. Guards will b
placed at all of the doors to pre
serve order, and for protection a
night. Non-commissioned office
schools, and similar meetings will b
held along the way.
Explains Details.
Capt. J. M. Graham, federal mus
tering officer, had a meeting with th
nffiporc nf flip 2nd rpsriment at
o'clock today and explained fully fins
orders for entraining.
The 2nd regiment will travel i
three sections: Major Bradford wil
command the first section; Majo
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Marchant the second, and Co!
Springs the third. With each c
| MANNING AND BLEASE.
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Only Two Candidates to Be Consideri
ed, Says B. Frank McLeod.
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Charleston, August 3.?"Because
of the sharply drawn lines, definite
a and unequivocal, on public questions
stirring the State of South Carolina
today, I believe that only two candi,
dates for governor?the incumbent,
Richard I. Manning, and Cole L.
Blease?are to be considered," said
B. Frank McLeod, president of the
Charleston Chamber of Commerce,
. today. ^
"Particularly is'this so in the lowfc
country," continued the Charleston
b business man, "where the people consider
that a neutral position is not
Q the proper attitude to take towards
^ great and growing questions of the
hour, questions that are constantly
finding reiteration in the minds of
South Carolinians. Manning and
Blease have come out boldly and emphatically
on pointedly cleaved issiipq
and thpv arp thp nnps that arp
n being given grave consideration in
e the coming primary. Being in daily,
intimate touch with Charleston coun''
ty I am satisfied that Governor ManL"
ning will receive the perponderating
consideration of the anti-Blease sen-,
timent at the polls; and being familiar
with the political sentiment in
* other parts of the low-country I am
satisfied that the Sumter candidate ,
1# will receive enough votes in this section
to give him a majority in the
x first primary over the four other
gubernatorial candidates?if not a
majority, then a tremendous plurality.
I make this statement after care- *
ful consideration and a close scruti5t
ny of this section of the State."
1* Mr. McLeod said that he is firmly
5t of the belief that the people of South
,x Carolina want all the laws of the
x State enforced impartially, and that,
in this respect, the people have con
lidence in uovernor Manning ior me
i- splendid success that he hsfa made
t- in the enforcement of the law and
*s the maintaining of order throughout
the commonwealth.
> "Further, I am of the unqualified
opinion," continued Mr. McLeod, . ....
-r "that the people believe in the pro- ^
0 motion of education in the public
'e schools; believe that the officials uj
te should do all in their power to see
i. that the laboring man gets a 'square '
3t deal;' believe that every comfort poste
sible and tender care should be given
n the unfortunate patients in the State
h Hospital for the Insane; believe that
n the verdicts of the juries and the det
crees of the courts should be respect- > ;&
le ed; believe that agriculture should
be taught in the common schools;
d and believing these things and havi>
ing the knowledge that Governor
le Manning stands for all these views,
g they are going to support him at the
>y polls and stamp their approval on
3- his administration by reelecting him
i- for a second term. ^
;o Expressions like those from the
7-, president of the Charleston Chamber
is of Commerce are being voiced in
every section of the low country and
d the popularity of Gov. Manning is
is I constantly increasing and many who
ie | have not supported him are coming , ^
d i over to his side?knowing that he
"S stands for concrete issues and will
d be unswerving in the fulfillment of
is his pledges. # . >3
Tribute Paid Gov. Manning.
t Georgetown, August 4.?One of
n the smallest crowds of the campaign . j
d season greeted the candidates for
State offices here today. Not more
than two hundred voters attended
the meeting, and they were largely of
d the undemonstrative type. All speak'
ers were well received, but there was
^ little animated enthusiasm. Gover^
nor Manning was easily the favorite,
he receiving as many flowers as three
assistants could bear in automobiles.
The floral tributes were borne to the
. stage by a group of little boys and
r girls, who took up twenty-five
' bunches of flowers. Seasoned cam)l
paigners regarded it as the most eloquent
tribute ever paid a candidate -4
e in South Carolina.
LS j these officers will go an adjutant, a
e| medical officer, a sanitary sq,uad, and
e j an officer of the supply company.
I Lieut. Harrison will be the medical
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Ll officer with the first section, Cdpt.
ir Schaver with the second, and Major
e Jervey with the third. Lieut. Watkins
will be the supply officer with
the first section, Lieut. Mazyck with
5" the second, and Capt. Doyle with the
e third. Companies I, K, L and M go
2 in the first section; companies E, F,
L* G and H go with the second, and
companies A, B, C and D go with the ' / a
n third.
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r Columbia, August y.?rne zna
I. regiment left for the border this
?t morning.