The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 21, 1916, Page 6, Image 6
TAKKES POISON AND DIES.
Sumter Farmer Puts an End to His
Life.
Sumter, September 13.?William
Edward Dick, a well-known farmer
of Sumter county, put an end to his
life this morning by taking poison al
his home at about 8 o'clock. Deatfc
was almost instantaneous. Mr. Diet
had been in poor spirits for a long
time, but yesterday seemed verj
much better. He went to the polls
to vote and remained there a gooc
part of the day, showing a great dea'
. -of interest in the election. The news
of his death this morning at his owe
hands came as a great shock to his
family and friends.
Mr. Dick was in his fifty-sixtt
year. He was the son of the late Dr
Leonard White Dick and a native o\
Sumter county. He attended the
Citadel as a young man and always
took an interest in that instution. He
is survived dv ms wuc, nuu
marriage was Miss Annie Blanding
youngest daughter of the late Col
James D. Blanding, of Sumter; twc
daughters, Mrs. James W. Fowler
of Fountain Inn; Miss Gertrude E
Dick; two sons, Messrs. W. E., Jr.
and Anthony White Dick. The fuis.
neral.services will be held Friday and
the interment will be at St. Philip's
Bradford Springs, burying ground.
STREAM FLOWING WITH LIQUOR
Strange Actions of Children Led tc
Investigation and Disclosure.
Sailors hundreds of miles from
land may draw fresh water from the
ocean at the mouths of the mighty
Amazon, says the San Antonio Express.
In East Texas there's a
stream flowing with beer and whiskey
or was, until a few weeks ago,
when internal revenue officers traced
it to its source and exposed among
the pines fringing its winding sides
a home-made plant manufacturing
moonshine whiskey.
Stills whose localities are unknown
to government officers usually are associated
with mountains, Kentucky
and Tennessee. Recently the internal
revenue department has discovered
two perfect specimens of this type
in the rolling prairie country of East
||^|:' v Texas. '
Each nestled among towering pines
beside a meandering creek miles from
I
any town, and each was as well protected
from the gaze of "revenooers"
F- '
^ as though it lay in a deep canyon
beneath a towering mountain side.
None but the invited likely ever
would have any business in the neigh
[i borhood.
The descipline of a country school
with its giggling girls and gawky
youths sometimes larger than the
' teacher herself, often weighs heavy
on pretty misses of 20 years. But
when the school house sits on the
bank of a stream flowing with beer
and whiskey the task of keeping order
is doubly hard.
Such a job confronted such a teacher
in a country school 20 miles northoast
of Carthage, Texas, a few weeks
ago, and it was the teacher's efforts
to meet the situation that resulted
in the discovery of the first illicit
liquor distillery in Texas in many a
v day.
The school was situated two to
three miles below a still on the banks
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?I me sueauj.
For a long time the teacher won
\ dered why her boy pupils came to
study after noon recess "wobbly" and
v "woozy." She began to grow sus'
picious when she noted the boys
seemed especially fond of drinking
in the creek after lunch, and that the
'4- ' girls who <5rank there soon began to
: . act queerly.
She wrote J. O. Bender, internal
revenue agent for Texas, stationed at
San Antonio. Mr. Bender sent C. A.
Wood, general deputy collector, tc
f Carthage. Mr. Wood solved the
problem. As he approached the
creek he noted there was liquor in
it, and he reasoned that if there were
liquor it came from above. Noting
the way the current flowed, he pro
ceeded up the creek, keeping a snarp
lookout on every side. He was accompanied
by two other officers.
They had gone only a few miles
when they discovered the still. The
officers confiscated the still, whicli
consisted of an iron pot, a brick furnace,
a barrel for cap, a galvanizec
iron pipe running through the watei
obtained from the creek and various
home-made parts.
The farmer lived in a tent near 2
spring close to the still. He was
feeding 24 hogs on the mash.
He claimed when arrested that m
was manufacturing only a smal
amount of liq,uor, and that for the
benefit of his wife's health. She mus
have been "powerful" sick, for the
revenue omcers proved 10 meir saus
faction that 52 gallons of corn whis
key had passed through the grape
vine-like worm since January 1
About 20 gallons was on hand whei
the still was examined.
The farmer pleaded guilty to con
ducting an illicit distillery in the dis
trict court of the United States fo]
the eastern district of Texas and wai
CLAIMED BY DEATH.
Mrs. Howe's Body Rests in Same Plot
With Father and Mother.
t New London, Conn., Sept. 16.?
Mrs. Anne E. Howe, only sister of
; President Wilson, died in a local hot
tel early today.
t Mrs. Howe had been extremely ill
fnr nhnni a wppk with neritonitis and
r the end had been expected at any
t moment for the last two days,
j Mrs. Howe came from her Philal
delphia home in the early summer
( with her niece, Miss Margaret Wil5
son, daughter of the president, staple
ping at a summer hotel in the su5
burbs. Her health had long been
impaired. When her condition be{
came a matter of grave concern, Mrs.
Howe was brought to a city hotel.
I With her were her two sons,
? George Howe, of North Carolina, and
5 Wilson Howe, of Richmond, and a
\ daughter, Mrs. Cothran, of Philadel?
phia, besides Miss Wilson.
' She Asked to Know.
) Stella called on her newly married
' friend, Bella, and found her attired
in a businesslike overall, while her
' arms were full of fashion papers and
cookery books.
^ "Hello!" she exclaimed. "What
' are you going to maKe?"
"Some cakes," replied the young
wife proudly.
"But why have you got out those
fashion papers, as well as the cookery
books?"
"You see," confessed Bella, rather |
shamefacedly, "I'm a bit of a novice |
1 at cooking. Tell me, do you make!
' cakes from a recipe or a pattern?"?
Minneapolis Journal.
, Angelic Treatment.
"The late Jno. Townsend Trow[
bridge, author of 'Darius Green and
; His Flying Machine,' had a quaint
! way of expressing himself," said a
; New York editor.
"A girl asked Mr. Trowbridge's
l advice one day about marrying an
. impecunious young poet.
" 'How much does he make?' Mr.
. Trowbridge asked.
. " 'Oh,' said the girl, 'he only
i makes about six dollars.a week. He's
; no pay-your-own-way poet. But,'
she added, fervently, 'but he says
; he'll treat me like an angel.'
" 'Humph,' said Mr. Trowbridge,
. 'I suppose so. Nothing to eat and
less to wear."?Philadelphia Ledger.
Some Kicker.
A man who lives in Savannah and
owns a plantation in Chatman county,
Georgia, bought a mule with a
reputation for owning a set of gifted
and hair-triggered hind legs and
shipped her out to his place to be
used in plowing for cotton.
A Sunday or so later he visited
1 the plantation. The darky whose
particular job it was to take care of
the working stock came up to him to
report.
"Jim," asked the owner of the
' plantation, "does that new mule kick
1 much?"
1 "Kick?" said Jim. "Bos, dat der
mule kin kick de sweeten' right out
of your coffee."?Atlanta Journal.
Could He?
i
; He was a perfect wonder, was the
parliamentary candidate for a certain
agricultural district. And he
i was never shy of telling the voters
why they should return him as their
. M. P.
i "I am a practical farmer," said he,
; boastfully, at one meeting. "I can
( plow, reap, milk cows, work a chari
cutter, shoe a horse?in fact," he
went on, proudly, "I should like you
i to tell me one thing about a farm
fc wViioVi T nnnnnt rln "
Then, in the impressive silence, a
i small voice asked from the back of
. the crowd:
, "Can you lay an egg?"?Baltimore
- Sun.
; Tlirifty.
It is said that Scottish humor is
1 an, electric spark that flies back and
forth between the two extremes of
whiskey and religion. But the fol-j
' lowing anecdote is Scottish, without
J touching either extreme.
1 A wife-was asked by her husband
what kind of a bonnet one would like
^ him to bring her frae Glasgow, and
she replied:
"Weel, ye'd best make it a straw
bunnet, Jock, and when I'm done wi'
" it I'll feed it to the coo."
If silence is golden, the man who
invents a process of smelting it ought
' to make a fortune up Oyster Bay
^ way.
t sent to the penitentiary.
5 Only two weeks later Collector
- Wood ran down a still 14 miles
- northeast of Hughes Spring, Texas.
- This still was of copper. It had a
.. capacity of 55 gallons. It also was
i conducted by a farmer. The farmer
was arrested, escaped and was re
captured three days later by Collec
tor Wood at a railroad station while
r buying a ticket out of the country,
s He was sentenced to the penitentiary.
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Edisto 4 5 4 2 J 73 14| 2J 61 j
Colston 18 43 22 40' 4<i 1011
Hunter's Chapel 8 39 23 24 11! 36|!
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SHAM'S SUINS I
rg, South Carolina I
I # MASTER'S SALE.
fu ! By virtue of a decree of the Court
r*l I II IB I I I III 1/1 I V in the case of B- Frank Smoak. et
VVvlIU * JL M1MM1AA J al. vs. Hattie Gaskin, et al., I, H. C.
w ; Folk, Master for Bamberg county,
_ 4 will sell to the highest bidder for
L 1 04-1* 1 Q I & ' cas5 *n front of the court house door
JCI J. ?<1.11, It/lU ! at Bamberg, s. <j., on tne zna aay or
October, 1916, ^between the legal
^?^_? hours of sale on said day, the followstateoffices
ing described tract of land:
?- - .. All that certain tract or parcel of
.0. Com mis. Governor K. R. Com. , ,an(J gituate jn Ulg c?mnty Qf Bam_
Q I EC C | 2 Q [ 3 j berg, State of South Carolina, con
? ? g g 5 5 taming one nunarea ana nneen
2L ? s ^ (115) acres, more or less, known as
? ? 5' ? j the Jake Rentz place, and bounded 1
^ ^ I on the North by lands of Lewis Kinj
sey and Delia Childs, East by lands
iT fj 31 ' D. Gaskin, South by lands of D.
29 14 17 26! 39! 4 Gaskin and lands of D. B. Rhoad, and
228 152 140 240' 207 177 j west by lands of D. B. Rhoad.
~q 22 G **22' ~23j 5 Purchaser to pay for papers.
1 80 17 34 161 i 106| 91 H. C. FOLK,
53 ii 14' 511: 45 20 Master Bamberg County.
15 70:j 38 4 9:1 77! 9 Sept. 13th, 1916.
53 9 i I 24 36|| 17? 45 ~ " ; = 25j
22!j 3j 43| 17 30 Manning Thanks Cooler.
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103! 103 ji 61! 148 j 181 j 33 Columbia, Sept. 12.?Governor
20j 17j| 111 261 371 ^ Manning at 11 o'clock tonight sent
jJI y|| 2g| |q| '{q j the following telegram to Robert A.
934! 4751! 41 11 99711 872' 550 ! Co?Per> of Laurens: Permit me to
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