Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\;r-' v - - - * . * ' . ' [ (Elj? lamkrg Iipralb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1916. Established 1891 ily, of Branchviiie, were in tnis sec tion Sunday. Miss Bessie Lee Walker, who ha been teaching school in Florida, ha returned home. 3-'. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Rentz, of Bam berg, visited at Dr. S. P. Rentz's Sun day. Messrs. Herman Walker and Char lie Smith, of Little Swamp, visited i: | this section yesterday. ^ Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Fender an* Bk little son, Carter, and Misses Kath erine and Annie Rhoad returnei g? \ home last week after a lengthy visi \ ito Mrs. N. H. Fender's former horn in Woodruff. Mr. Rice Steedly, accompanied b his father, Mr. D. O. Steedly, and hi * ^ister, Miss Kate Steedly, motored t Ehrhardt Sunday afternoon. Mis , , Eva Steedly, who has been spendini ^ a few days in that section, returnei home with them. The work of rebuilding Hunter' IB ' Chapel school is progressing nicel; at present. MR. RETNUH. v ^ Denmark Dots. Denmark, Aug. 19.?Misses Gene vieve and Lula Bess Wroton an< Doris Goolsby, of Ithis place, witl Misses Martha Ray and Louise Folk of Bamberg, Louise Wilson o Georgetown, and Gladys Milhous, o Columbia, left Wednesday night fo Washington, Baltimore and othe points North. ^ NMrs. J. W. Crum, Jr., entertainer on Wednesday evening in honor o ^ her young guests, Misses Jacqueli] Hart and Cordelia Morrison, of Es till. Progressive games were player during the evening. Willie Foil made the highest score and was pre sented with an attractive box of sta .tionery. An ice course was server by Miss Virginia Hutto. Mrs. H. W. Goolsby and daughter Miss Frances Goolsby, of Hartsville x left Saturday for Barnwell, after sev eral days' visit to relatives here. W. L.'Riley, Otis Sandifer and R A. Goolsby and Mr. and Mrs. S. R Love are spending several weeks ii Baltimore. Mice Willia "Halle* Wnttn is visitinj \f friends in Allendale. Mrs. John Turner, of Texas, an< ^ Miss Edna Phillips, of Sumter, ar visiting Mrs. S. D. Guess. Miss Gertrude Cox is at home, af ter an extended visit to relatives ii Rowesville. After spending several weeks wit] friends here, Miss Irene Andrews re turned to her home in Chester. Cope Cullings. s Cope, August 20.^?New cotton i coming into this market very rapid ly. Sixteen bales were bought her on Friday and thirty-five Saturda; up to 3 p. m. The aDOve were bough by the Cope Supply company, th <"?r?ifr Vmvwc iipr#> nn t.n this time, ani k V**4 J v* v v v?r ,, the price paid was 13 1-4 cents pe jy pound. Cotton seed is bringinj f $1.50 per hundredweight. Several bales have been haulei home or to other markets, so wit) ^Friday's and Saturday's receipts, to gether with the three bales of las week, and one or two others durin, ' * the early part of the week, the tota is over sixty bale$ for this place u; to this time, which is etyual to o ahead of any other place in th State. It is learned that S. B. Cope ha jk several bales picked out, but not gin j ned, as he gins his own cotton, bu ' his machinery, wl^ich is undergoin some needed repairs, is not quit ready. Caney L. Fogle and brothers, 01 lie, Joe, Frank and Burley, are in stalling a new system ginnery of th latest Lyddell patent, consisting o two sixty-saw gins, rotary pre>s, sue atn and 20-horsps Dower boilei W1VU J VtV.J VWMM vr i- The buildings, which are all com ^ pleted, are near C. L. Fogle's place and it will only be a few days befor everything will be in running ordei * The outfit has been delayed on th railroad for nearly two weeks. J. I. Vallentine's ginnery in tow r has been running quite frequent!} ginning new cotton. * COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENING! IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around th rWintv and Elsewhere. Hunger's Chapel Happenings. Hunter's Chapel, Aug. 21.?Fod der pulling is about over and cottoi picking is the order of the day. Rev. Mr. Felder filled his regula twice-a-month appointment at Zio] Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Miley and.fam J Oak Grove Greetings. Oak Grove, Aug. 21.?The people 5 of this section are busy picking cotton. Some fifteen or twenty bales have been marketed at Ehrhardt for an average of 13 1-2 cents per pound. e It is hoped the price will increase instead of decrease, for the crop has been much damaged by heavy rains and now it seems we are going to have a drought, which will continue ' to damage the cotton crop. Mrs. Herbert Hayden has returned to her home at Cope, after spending ? some time with her mother, Mrs. n Rose Hoffman. Mrs. J. L. Copeland spent last u Tuesday with her daughter, Mrs. D. M. Smith. Mrs. W. H. Copeland spent last Tuesday with her sister, Mrs. C. L. Clayton. Rev. J. R. Smith dined with Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Smith last Monday. We are very sorry to know that Mr. G. W. Clayton is not improving Q very fast. Mr. L. W. Copeland spent last SatA urday night in Cope with relatives. Mrs. Monnie McKenzie, of Walter^ boro, is visiting her mother, Mrs. C. t F. Rentz. e Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Copeland spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. D. M. v Smith7v g Miss Grace Hoffman is spending 0 some time with her sister, Mrs. Hers bert Hayden, of Cope, g We are very sorry to know that jj Mr. D. M. Smith is very ill. We hope he will be out again soon. s Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Copeland spent y la^t Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Brook Kinard. Miss Ethel Smith and her little brother, M. H., spent part of last week with their brother, Mr. Albert Smith, of Charleston, j Messrs. Ryan and Wilsie Clayton, j and Lennie Zeigler spent last Saturday night week with Mr. and Mrs. C. f L. Clayton. f Mr. Leroy Smith has accepted a r position in Columbia. r Miss Lonie Copeland spent last Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. j Clayton. f Mrs. Mary McKenzie* and Mrs. 1 Monnie McKenzie spent last Monday _ with Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Carter, j Miss Lonie Copeland spent last { Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. C. C. _ Smith. We ar? very sorry to know that j Mr. Geo. McKenzie had to go to Charleston to undergo an operation. Ott's Outings. '9 ^ Ott's, Aug. 22.?Oh my, the hot weather and dust! The darkies seem to enjoy it; they are picking cotton and singing the pld time negro songs. Mr. L. D. Odom is on the sick list today. ' x Mrs. W. M. McCue and little j daughter, Clara, returned Saturday from a visit of a month at her daughter's, Mrs. Martin Campbell's, of Anderson. Mr. Henry Q. Jennings is away for a month'? vacation. ^ Mrs. O. M. Spurlin and Mrs. Henry Cave, of Denmark, were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Odom last Thursday. . Mrs. Laura Willis and little son, Otis, of Cottageville, have been s spending some time with her sister, _ Mrs. C. E. Sandifer. e Mr. Otis Sandifer, of Denmark, Y was a gue^t at the home of Mr. and t Mrs. W. M. McCue last Sunday. e Mr. Lt. u. UQOm nas rtxeuu/ ic-i i turned from a visit to his daughter, r Mrs. L. S. Dennis, of Kingstree. He g reports that the high water and floods did much damage to crops and d property in that vicinity, h Mr. Harry Free, of Norway, was a visitor at Ott's lasit week, t Ott's ginned her first bale of cotg ton today. \ Mr. Charley Free and sister, Mrs. p Lizzie Griffith, and two daughters, r Ina May and Dot, of Cottageville, moe tored to Ott's lasit Tuesday and spent several days at the home of Mr. and s Mrs. C. E. Sandifer. Mrs. Hammie Hiers spent the day I Sunday with her .mother, Mrs. Johnj g Hadwin. Schofield Sketches. Schofield, Aug. 22.?Some autumnlike weather we are having now. It e f is welcomed by everyone, after a period of real summer weather. Some of the farmers in this community are picking cotton. They seem to be in a rush to get it to mar' ket while the price is good. Messrs. J. Leon Owen and J. W. r. Smith and son spent Sunday at Tybee island, Ga. Mr. Lawrence French, with his _ mother and sister, motored to San? / (Continued on page 5, column 4.) , % / IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Chris. Coker, a pool room proprietor of Columbia, was fined $5 Thursday for allowing" a minor in his pool room. Fish in Charleston waters are said j to be very scarce just now and fishermen are getting good prices for their catches. Three persons were injured near Pickens Thursday when a car in which they were riding was run over an embankment. Unknown robbers entered the store of O. M. Moore, at Duncan, Spartanburg county, Saturday night and stole i a quantity of merchandise. A. M. Stokes, a white man, was fined $100 in Columbia police court Friday, following his conviction on the charge of beating his wife. ' The Prudential Fire Insurance company, of Greenville, has been licensed to do a fire insurance business in the State of South Carolina. Samuel S. Buist, a prominent lawyer of Charleston, died Sunday, aged 67 years. He was one of the few 33rd degree Masons in soutn Carolina. A military expert estimates that it will cost the United States government $1,500,000 to keep the two South Carolina regiments on the border six months. Plato Roberts, aged 17, of Laurens county, was arrested in Columbia Friday, whence he had come to join the army. He has been returned to his father. Ellis Jonathan, a negro, was coni victed in Edgefield Tuesday of atI tempted criminal assault upon a j white woman and was sentenced to die on September 15. | David Sloan, aged 8 years, of Spartanburg, was run over in that city Sunday afternoon by an automobile driven by R. L. Elliott. Sloan's leg . was broken and he received other injuries. H. L. Bomar, a well known Spartanburg lawyer, was^ seriously hurt ... . Tuesday when a pony which he was , driving became unmanageable, kick[ ing him from the cart and causing his head to strike a curb. Sheriff Hendrix Rector, of Greenville county, was fired on by unknown parties Saturday night while going home. He returned his assailant's fire and chased him but was i unable to catch the would be assas! sin. Seven negro prisoners in the Richland county jail attacked Jailer W. F. Medlin Sunday night and attempted to escape, but their plans were frustrated when other prisoners, both white and colored, came to the jailer's assistance. The mayor of Columbia has been ordered to appear before the governor to show cause why he should not be maclamused to order an election upon the question of recalling the commission form of government for the city of Columbia. Both of the amendments to the naval appropriation bill for the ^ ^ ^ +1. ^ wlAnt/wi r?"TT ieugtaeuiiig ui nic Vjiiancaiun uij dock and the items for the foundry and forge shop have been dropped, and there will be no appropriation for (this purpose at this session of congress. Maj. J. Shapter Caldwell, who recently resigned as assistant adjutant general of South Carolina, has been appointed adjutant of the brigade composed of the First and Second South Carolina regiments and the Second Florida infantry which is now at El Paso, Texas. The annual meeting of the South Carolina Federation of Labor was held in Greenville last week. The next meeting will be held in Columbia. Reports of the 60 or more dele gates in attendance were encouraging, showing that organized labor is making headway in South Carolina. James D. Evans and Congressman J. W. Ragsdale, candidates for election to congress from the sixth district, came to blows at Mullins, Saturday. Mr. Evans said that Congressman Ragsdale had offered to employ him as his secretary at $100 a month when the place pays $125. Congressman Ragsdale denied this and Mr. Evans called him a liar. Then came the fight which resulted without injury to either of the combatants. The two men were each fined $50. FIVE SWUNG BY MOB. Three Men and Two Women Taken From Jail in Florida Town. Gainesville, Fla., August 19.?Five negroes, three men and two women, were taken from the jail at NewKnwri' l?lo rtorlv f aHot OflH Vl Q T1 cr&f] uci i?' ) x' ia., cai ij IUUUJ uuu nwuguu by a mob, and another negro was shot and killed by a posse near Jonesville, Fla., as the result of the killing yesterday of Constable S. W, Wynne and the shooting of Dr. L. G. Harris by Boisey- Long, a negro. The lynched negroes were accused oi aiding Long to escape. Further trouble is feared. Dispatches from Newberry tonight said that the mob, which lynched the five negroes, was composed of about 200 men and worked quietly and rapidly. After gaining entrance tc the jail they took their victims to a point about a mile from town and hanged all on one large oak tree Not a shot was fired, the dispatches said. The negro shot near Jonesville also was said to have aided Long tc escape. Wynne and Dr. Harris were shot when they went to Long's home at Newberry early yesterday morning to arrest him on a charge of stealing hogs. It is said Long drew a pistol from his night clothing and fired Wynne Vas rushed to Jacksonville where he died yesterday at noon. Several hundred negroes are employed in phosphate mines near New berry. Desperate Negro Caught. Gainesville, Fla., August 20.?Boibaxt T nnor flio nno-rrv wVin FriflflV shfti iJCJ UUUg) liiv UV^Ql v ? ??_ and killed Constable S. G. Wynn? and wounded Dr. L. G. Harris, ai Jonesville, Fla., when they went tc his home to arrest him for hog stealing, last night, was. captured by twc negroes. Long, who was capturec by Squire and Jackson Long, fathei and son, when he sought food ai their home, was brought to th( Gainesville jail early today and latei removed to a point unknown hen for safekeeping. Squire and Jackson Long are said to be no kin to th< prisoner. ? PALMETTO TROOPS SUFFER. Water Runs Through the Camps ol Guardsmen Camped at El Paso. El Paso, August 18.-4?One soldie] was killed and thousands of other* encamped in and near El Paso suf fered great discomfort as a result o: heavy rains which fell throughoui last night. During the.all-night storm Private Charles Johnston, headquarters com pany, 7th United States infantry, o: Chouteau, Montana, was killed dj lightning in his tent at Fort Bliss Other soldiers were stunned. Water ran through the camps 01 the Massachusetts, Pennsylvania South Carolina and Michigan Nation al Guard, nearly inundating some tents, and ran three feet deep in the company streets of the 31st Michigar infantry. DRY IN CHARLESTON. Liquor Laws More Rigidly Enforcec Than in Past Forty Years. Magistrate O'Shaughnessy, o. Charleston, in commenting on the arrest and conviction of a mar named Ford on the charge of trans porting liquor, on Wednesday, said: "I have been here 50 years and ] have never seen the liquor laws sc rigidly enforced. When a mar breaks the prohibition law now he if certainly taking long chances wit! his freedom, or else doesn't love freedom." No wonder the blind tigers hiss Manning, who is responsible for this condition of affairs in Charleston But it must be remembered that the majority of the crowd attending the Charleston campaign meeting was for Manning and that he was applauded to the echo when he boldlj announced^ his determination to enforce the law in Charleston in the future as in the past. The majority of the people o] Charleston are law respecting anc will uphold the hands of the governor who shows a determination tc put a curb on crime and disorder In the past they have endured the condition of lawlessness fastened upon the city by the blind tigers, because they saw no hope for bettei things under the administration, but they have never denied the existence of a rule of lawlessness or defended the conditions that have been a disgrace to the community.?Sumtei Item. - > v. . v. . /: z'' . MUCH INTEREST AT OLAR i demonstrative crowd heard campaigners. Good Order Marked Meeting.?Candidates Made Usual Speeches, and Many Liberally Applauded. The fourth campaign meeting in Bamberg county was held at Olar last Thursday. This is the last meeting which will be reported in The Herald, as the Bamberg meeting will be held today?too late for publica. tion before the primary. The Olar wt M /v rivAM A a * VM frt I meeting wao a guuu vine, 111 laet tnc ; only meeting so far where there was 5 much interest manifested. Nearly ; all of the candidates were received [ with applause, and some of them met i with quite an enthusiastic reception. i There was an entire absence of all I disorder, and if there was a person in town who was under the influence 5 of whiskey, no one remarked the fact. The meeting was held on the cot> ton platform, being presided over by Mr. W. B. Chitty, -who made a good presiding officer. Rev. Achille Sas: sard opened the meeting with pray; er. Chairman Chitty requested that r every candidate be given an-espectful I hearing. A crowd of perhaps 200 men heard the candidates, only a few ladies being present. State Senate. The candidates for the State senr ate were the first to speak at the Olar meeting, Mr. Miley being the first speaker. Mr. Miley said that if the people will elect him senator, he will,work [. for the county as he did when he was !? U aho/\ Ua ftfnn/4o f al? nra ct_ J ill LUU UUUOC. 1XU oiauuo J Ul JJ1 v/t3~ J 9 t ress, law and order and a high type ) of manhood; and he promised to be guided by those principles if elected. ) The county is progressing and we L cannot afford to lie dormant. He is r a staunch believer in good schools, t and as good roads go hand in hand ; with good schools, Mr. Miley believes r that the time has arrived when we > must have a better system of high. ways. He had written into the ap> propriation measure when he was in the house one-half ;mill for good roads and one mifl for permanent bridges, and also had introduced a law, and had it passed, increasing f the width of public roads from .24 to 30 feet. He cited his record in the house, and added that he would , endeavor to represent the county in , every way that would be beneficial. He had had passed a law protecting ^ the people against wild-cat insurance ^ companies. If he is elected he will serve the people to the best of his 5 ability. Senator J. B. Black, who stands f for reelection, said that he has done 7 the best he could in the senate. He said that he is not. much on introducing bills in the legislature, not f usually offering more than two or three during a session, while many ' members would offer maybe a dozen ^ a day, about "thirteen of which > should be killed." He asserted that L he has no axe to grind in the senate, and knows no duty except his duty to his constituents. He reiterated his stand for a better system of common schools, declaring "that he alI ways had supported every measure for their betterment. He cited the record of the county in being free ? of debt. He wants to keep it so, and a promised the people that if he is reelected he will never do anything to bring shame on the county. House of Representatives. [ J. Wesley, Crum, Jr., was the first cnoakor fnr thp hniisp Hfi said that ) ? { he has given the county his best ser3 vice. In reply to an alleged rumor l 'that he had offered a bill providing . that no one but real estate owners should be allowed to vote, he said it 3 was preposterous; that he had more 3 friends who did not own real property than who did. He promised to ? give $50 to anyone who could bring ? forth evidence to show that there was 5 any 'truth in the charge. In regard . to the "insurance muddle," Mr. Crum r asserted that he had failed to see . wherein the State had been discrimi> nated against in regard to fire insur ance rates, and he cited the rates of f several other Southern States to j show that this State had the lowest rate of any of them, and also stated ) that the rate in 1915 had been reduced from 1.24, the average for the , previous eleven years, to 1.23. He j further stated that facts show the rates are increased in every State . where anti-compact laws had been . passed. The law will have to be re-, 4 pealed, he stated. In regard to the county expenses, Mr. Crum stated that the chain gang had required a crpatpr anDroDriation the last two ? o - A (Continued on page 2, column 1.) ^ * i. " . I - U: ' ..-v *.. . S.' c PITCHFORK BURIED. From Its Grave an Olive Tree Has Grown, Says Senator Tillman. _____ ? Washington, August 19.?Senator Tillman, in addressing the senate today, referred to the recent speech of Charles E. Hughes in which he said that the majority of the leaders of congress were from the South. "It must have shocked and surprised you senators," said the South n i < * ? j .i . r-i v^ttx uiiuct seuaiur, tu linu uia,i o jl years after Appomatox, that a candidate for the high office of president of these re-United States has thought it necessary to drag forth that old blood-and-mud bespattered banner of sectionalism and wave it over the heads of the present generation of Americans.'' He declared that if the majority of the leaders in congress were from the South they had attained to their present rank through long service, just as he had done. "I did not earn the nickname of 'Pitchfork' on account of my partisanship," continued Senator Tillman, "It was due to the bluntness and frankness with which I spoke. My mother taught me to despise * hypocrisy and lying above all else, and I owe this personal characteristic to her. If I ever did hate the Northern people?and I confessed to that the last time I spoke here?that hatred and partisanship have died out of my heart; and the pitchfork, if it was considered the emblem of it, has long since been buried. From -v its grave an olive tree has grown and \ I am tendering the olive branch, claiming to represent the South in doing so, to all Northern people. "Let me before taking leave, to _ o " >x meet you again, by the mercy of God, in December, hold it out to you and through all of you, to the constituencies which you represent, in the earnest hope that it may silence this unjustifiable and1 unseeming cry of 'sectionalism,' even as it once herded the receding waters of the deluge." SORRY HE DIDN'T SLAY MORE. - 3 IsMM Former Convict Makes Confession' Admitting Three Homicides. ^ Lake Charlee, La., Aug. 17.?Hel- / . aire Carriere, former convict and slayer of Sheriff Swords, of Saint' Landry parish, tonight made a state- ' ' a* ment to District Attorney Edwards, N .< > of Calcasieu parish, in which he admitted he had killed three persons during the past year, and expressed regret that he had not made the total , greater. Besides Sheriff Sworde, ~~ Carriere said, he killed Daye Pierce, a negro, near Jennings, La., in selfdefence, and shot and killed an 18year-old negro boy in the Mallett section of Saint Landry parish, because he had learned the boy had t been promised $25 if he would reveal his hiding place after he had escaped from the Jennings jail. Carriere was captured early today near Elton, by Sheriff Reid, of Cal- , -casieu parish, and five deputies. Carriere, attempting to escape, received a charge of buckshot through the lungs, fired from Sheriff Reid's gun. At the Calcasieu parish jail, where Carriere is being held, it was stated tonight that the prisoner would not recover. x f WHY HE TOOK HIS LIFE. /' Mississippian Preferred Death to Ridicule, Says Note. - * j/Z San Francisco, August 16.?J. Kelley Neal, aged 35, of Duck Hill, Miss., ended his life by poison here yesterday because friends in his home town . ridiculed an impediment in his speech, which he had tried in vain ^ . to overcome. The story of why he took his life was told in letters found with his body and made public by the coroner today. He wrote that he preferred to die in San Francisco rather than to give his acquaintances in Duck Hill the satisfaction of knowing they had driven him to desperation. HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT. W. F. Forrester's Car Falls Over Mountain Side. Greenville, August 16.?As a re! suit of his racing car toppling zt> feet down the side of Saluda Mountain, W. F. Forrester, of Augusta, lies in a serious condition at a farm house, about seven miles from Greenville. W. T. Garrett, of Greenville, was also injured, but not seriously. ?Miss Josie Lou Lightsey, of Savannah, after spending several weeks in the city with friends, has returned to her home. 4 J . V '