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. I l ^ / , sectioni ^ iatttbfrg feralbPAGES170 8 One Dollar an J a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., TBDtJRSDAY, NOVEMBER 30,1916. Established 1891 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS EN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Clear Pond Clippings. i Clear Pond, Nov. 28.?We were grlad to see so many visitors at church Suirday morning. The pastor, Rev. J. R. Smith, delivered a very im pressive sermon. ^ Mr. Oren Drawdy and Miss Alice Garrick, of Norway, were married Sunday at high noon, at the home of the bride. They motored to the home of their sister, Mrs. J. B. Folk, where supper was served the bridal party. They left Monday for their home in the Farrell's section. We extend congratulations to this happy young couple. Mr. Ottie Nix and Miss Ethel Collins, of Hilda, spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of Mr. G. W. w Folk. Mrs. Avis Steedlv visited in Denmark last. week. Miss Florence Hughes was the guest of Miss Ruth Morris Sunday. Spring Branch Sayings. t Spring Branch, Nov. 27.?Only a . few more days until Thanksgiving! Everybody is planning to attend a picnic, visit or be visited, and expectM. ing a jolly time. But, while we are enjoying our Thanksgiving, we should remember that the best way to be happy ourselves is to make someone 1 HI else happy. We have many things to H|lbe thankful for, if we'll only take the ; H^F^ime and trouble to think of them. vA large crowd attended services at ^ Spring Branch yesterday afternoon. The pastor, Rev. Walter ^ Black, preached an inspiring sermon. Among the visitors were: Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Gibson, daughter and two sons, from Denmark, and Mr. Lay ton Kinard, from Colston. i Miss Dottie Goodwin was the jollly guest of Miss Minnie Crider yester, ? < UUJ Mr. W. C. Zeigler, of Bamberg, ' spent Sunday with his brother, Mr. , J. E. Zeigler. . Mr. Bennie Bennett and Mr. Wayne Sandifer were the Sunday guests of . Mr. T. J. Crider. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Donalds and . family were visitors in the home of Mr. J. P. O'Quinn yesterday. Miss Minnie Crider spent last Thursday night with her sister, Mrs. H. C. Herndon. Mrs. Hattie Hutto, of Bamberg, is visiting Mrs. N. E. Hutto. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Padgett and little Mary Ellen spent a few days last week with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Clayton, of the ! Colston section, Saturday night and Sunday. Those who are grinding cane this ( week are: Mrs. N. E. Hutto, Mr, J. P. O'Quinn, Mr. E. M. Zeigler and Mr. H. C. Herndon. A Messrs. Frank and Charlie Goodwin wArft tho sruosts of Mr. Lavton Kinard, of Colston, Saturday night. Rev. Walter Black spent last night at Mr. J. P. O'Quinn's. Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Smoak were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Herndon yesterday. Miss Dottie Goodwin visited Misses Berta and Adrine Goodwin last night. Mrs. Wayne Sandifer spent today with Mrs. B. S. Smoak. v Pine Grove school closes Wednes# day and will open again Monday morning. Below is the honor roll of the school: Second grade, Carrie Zeigler; fourth grade, Hughie Hutto A and Beaty Zeigler; fifth grade, Donnie Crider; eighth grade, Minnie Crider, Lottie Crider, Inez Zeigler, Reba! U yuinn ana iuonroe triuw . Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Nov. 27.?A brand new enterprise for Ehrhardt! If all rumors are true, the hum of machinery will soon be heard turning out barrel and keg heads, etc., by the wholesale. Messrs. H. Ehrhardt, E. E. Hughes, and A. B. Coggins are the principal stock holders and so far they are meaning business. All machinery has been bargained for, only one object to overcome yet, and that is the place of location; if the proper * transaction can be made with Col. J. F. Folk, the whole plant will be located on the lot where the old Ehrhardt mill was, bordering Main street on the east, right in the heart of town. Mary had a little man, His nerve was soft as dough; He would not smack his lips, So Mary kisses him no more. If all the little boys and girls in i this section will give me their letters for Santa Class I will send them to The Herald so Santa can get the things in time. Santa Claus is a regular subscriber to The Herald and will try hard to get what you ask for. Messrs. John F. and H. C. Folk, of Bamberg, visited town several times last week, while en route to their old home in the old Folk store section, where their aged father, Mr. H. N. Folk, is very ill. Mr. C. C. Fender, of the Colston vicinity, gave the youngsters a good, sweet time last Friday evening, at an old time cane grinding. Several visited the Barnwell fair from here last week. rr\ _ rr x 1 TT - J /~1? ine AeuiuuR.v nuise auu imuic \^u. has a new way of selling their stock, by putting them up and auctioning them off. They had a car of firstclass stock here last Saturday, but don't think that they overran the country with horses. Dr. J. H. Roberts carried his little son, Furman, to the Baker sanitarium, Charleston, last Saturday, where he underwent an operation for appendicitis. So far he is getting on nicely. Preparations are being made down this way to make a good merry Xmas. Xmas trees, visitors, heavily feeding the turkies, and the old man is holding back his gallon-a-month order until Xmas week. Another Thanksgiving is at hand; ' * t- a XT anotner year nas oeen passeu. rsow let us give thanks for the great harvest, the fruits and v.he grain, the stability of our government, and all in authority. The Methodist ministers are at conference now and we will not have any more preaching until their assignments are made. JEF. Branchville Breezes. Branchville, Nov. 25.?Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Buie and their daughter, Miss Vernelle Buie, returned from Charleston Sunday. The Rev. T. J. White will leave for Florence Tuesday to attend the South Carolina conference. Mrs. W. H. Dodenhoff and children, of Blackville, were visitors at J. B. Dodenhoff's this week. Miss Luna Martin has arrived from Richburg to spend the winter with her brother, C. W. Martin. Mesdames McHonaker, Bird, and Rnshtnn will snend Thanksaivine with their daughters at Columbia college. Miss Evelyn Bethea is at home from Columbia college. Mr. and Mrs. Powell, of Sumter, were guests of Miss Blanche Edwins last week. Denmark Dots. i Denmark, Nov. 25.?Mrs. Strait, of Rock Hill has recently come to spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Algie Guess. Mrs. G. W. Goolsby is spending some time in Florence and Hartsville. Miss Onie Brux has returned to her home in Midville, Ga., after a week's stay with friends here. Mrs. J. B. Guess, Sr., is visiting at her home in Batesburg. Mr. and Mrs. Winchester Graham and daughter, with Miss Onie Brux, motored to Johnston to attend the Blount-Sherard wedding. Mrs. Edwin Stokes is at home after several weeks' stay with her mother in Lake City. J. Kennerlv Mayfield is visiting in New York city. On Saturday he attended the Annapolis-West Point foot ball game. Mrs. Jim Lathrop, of Orangeburg, is the guest of Mrs. H. R. Gillam. Colston Clippings. Colston, Nov. 28.?Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning services at Colston branch Baptist church were well attended. Misses Sadie Boyd and Ethel Logan spent Wednesday night week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Fender. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Ussery, Miss Gertie Ussery, and Mr. Hampton Ussery, of Barnwell, spent Sunday at Colston with relatives. Messrs. Charlie and Frank Goodwin, of the Spring Branch section, spent Sunday here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Bishop visited relatives here Sunday afternoon. Miss Nell Clayton spent Saturday night and Sunday at home, bringing with her as her guest Miss Reba O'Quinn. Mr. J. C. Beard, Misses Evelyn Kirkland, Sadie Boyd, and Ethel Logan spent Saturday in Bamberg. Mrs. M. S. Wooley is spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. Thos. Clayton. Mrs. A. L. McMillan left Wednesday week for the Baptist Hospital in \ IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Stat? New? Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The Easley, Alice and Glenwood cotton mills of Easley have granted a ten per cent, increase in wages to their employes. John Dewberry, a, 17-year-old white boy' of Cowpens, was caught under an automobile which he was driving Sunday, and was killed. Trustees of the South Carolina Medical college at Charleston, have decided that hereafter women may be admitted to the institution. The governor has appointed R. B. Epting, of Greenwood, a member of the board of visitors of the State Hospital for the Insane, to succeed Dr. G. A. Neuffeur, resigned. Wade Morgan, a negro, was shot and killed at a hot supper in Greenwood county Saturday night by Callison and Ivy Harrison, negroes, who escaped following the shooting. Because the railway refused to reinstate five discharged motormen, a strike of all motormen employed on the South Carolina line of the Piedmont & Northern railroad has been ordered. Carey Jones, a negro who is wanted in Mountville, Laurens county, for killing William Martin, a negro fifteen years ago, has been arrested in Washington, where he' was working as a blacksmith. The United States census bureau on Friday made public figures showing the population of the States to January 1/1917. South Carolina increased from 1,607,745 to 1,634,340 oil January 1, next. Seventeen pieces of property were sold under the hammer at the Charleston real estate exchange Thursday morning, bringing a total sum of nearly $100,000, this being the record for the year in that city in the disposition of comparatively small lots. A party of autoists traveling near Dillon had a narrow escape from death Thursday when their car was struck by an Atlantic Coast' Line freight train. All escaped from the accident with no more injury than severe shock. The train was proceeding slowly and the car was but little damaged. John Harri.s, a negro, has been arrested in Easley, charged with the .Liieit ui tt quantity ui geuciai uicichandise from Robinson & Thornton, of Easley. He has been entering and stealing from the store at intervals since September, taking a small amount of goods each time. He confessed his crime. Enoch Adams, colored, employed on the night shift at the Cheraw oil mill, was smothered to death last Thursday morning by cotton seed failing on him. There were no witnesses to the accident, but the most plausible theory is that while pushing# seed from the funnel to the trough he went to sleep. A Newberry county jury recently awarded W. J. Hentz $3,250 damages against the Parr Shoals Power company. Mr. Hentz sued for $20,000 damages by reason of back water caused by the Parr Shoals dam and alleged also that his home was rendered less desirable on account of the dam and back water. Three persons were injured Friday near Greenville, when a passenger coach of an outgoing train fell from a trestle and was smashed when it struck the ground some thirty feet below. The rear car of the train jumped the track before reaching the trestle. This car, however, did not fall. The middle car was tilted and it 'fell from the trestle. The engine did not leave the rail. Columbia to undergo an operation. Her friends will be pleased to know that she is getting along nicely. Misses Natalie and Alberta Kearse spent Sunday with Miss Nettie Clayton. Mr. Malone Varn, of Carlisle school, spent last week-end with his grand parents. Mr. John G. Clayton, of Walterboro, spent Sunday and Sunday night with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Clayton. Kearse Klippings. Kearse, Nov. 28.?Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Kearse, Mrs. J. J. Kearse and Faber Kearse spent Sunday in Fairfax with Mrs. G. D. Sanders. Mrs. W. H. Ritter spent last week in Charleston. Miss Zelda Halford, of Blackville, is visiting Miss Elma Chitty. Miss Winnie Davis Kearse, of the Lodge school, spent the week-end at home. G. B. Kearse and W. H. Ritter are on a deer hunt on Savannah river. Mrs. Havelock Clayton entertained the young folks with a candy cooking Tuesday evening. Mr. G. E. Kearse, who has been ill for the past week, is improving. Buford Bridge Budget. Buford Bridge, Nov. 28.?Miss Minnie Kirkland and Mr. Jack Kirk land, of Colston, spent the past week-end in the community. Mrs. Neta Armstrong, of Bamberg, spent the past week-end with her sister, Mrs. A. L. Kirkland. Bessie and Fletcher Kirkland and Cleo Kearse, of Carlisle school, spent the week-end at home. Rev. Sassard filled his regular appointment at Mizpah last Sunday. Miss Pearle Kearse spent a few days this week in Olar. Masters Lyles and Marshall Copeland and sister, Louise, of Ehrhardt, spent the week-end with Mr. Henry Kirkland and family. Mr. Joe Frank Brabham, of Bamberg and daughters, Norma and Carolyn, spent Sunday with M^s. R. M. Kearse. Little Miss Gladys Brabham, of Olar, spent a few days with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kearse. Quite a large crowd attended the marriage and box party at the school house last Friday night. Ehrhardt and Olar were well represented. /v A 4-*% AniAtr fVi nm_ XL( V Ci vV UUU) OCC111CU IU selves. , f Schofield Sketches. Schofield, Nov. 28.?Mr. J. I. Johnston will leave this week for Jasper county, where he has accepted a position with the Savannah River Lumber company. - Mr. and Mrs. Luther Morris, of Olar, spent Sunday here the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Peeples. Miss Ida Gunnels, of Govan, is spending some time with Mrs. S. D. Lain* Messrs. P. H. Shultz and Lawrence French motored over to Barnwell Sunday. Mr. R. W. Schofield returned to Philadelphia Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Jones Lain, of Fairfax, spent yesterday with Mrs. G. W. Sowers and family. DRAEBLR. Oak Grove Greetings. Oak Grove, Nov. 27.?A good many of the young folk around here attended the play at Hunter's Chapel last Friday night. Mr. Charlie Carter, of Charleston, spent part of last week with his sister, Mrs. C. C. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Copeland spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Willie Bishop. Miss Pattie Miley, of Lodge, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Carter and family. Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. Copeland spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Smith. ' We are very glad to know that Mr. G. W. Clayton is able to sit up again. Mr. J. W. Copeland, Jr., Misses Mamie Copeland and Pattie Miley, Jennie Lou Martin, and Grace Hoff man motored to Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Carter's last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. W.' Hunter, of the Hunter's Chapel section, spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Rentz. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Smith have purchased an automobile. Mr. and Mfs. L. W. Copeland spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Zeigler. We hear of little sickness in our neighborhood. Miss Lonie Copeland spent last Saturday night with Miss Mamie Copeland. Mrs. Lucius Mitchell, of Denmark, spent part of last week with her P. TXT Plflvf ATI paicuis, iui. auu ium, u. it. ui?^ivu. Mr. Leroy Smith, of Columbia, motored to his brother's, Mr. D. P. Smith's, last Sunday. > Oh, my, the good old sugar boilings have been going on around here for the past week and will go on for the next week, for all the young folks to sit around and chew cane and drink juice and say: "Oh, nice!" and the old folks say: "Look out boys, I will get Vou when my 'soo-cat' makes. Last Saturday night a good many of the young folks met at Mr. I. W. Rentz's to attend the sugar boiling, and when they got there they were through, but all of them went in the parlor and had a jolly good time( WILL PAY' DEATH PENALTY OVERTON CONVICTED OF MURDERING JUDGE LAWLER. Sentenced to Re Electrocuted January 12.?Plea Was Self Defense. Huntsville, Nov. 28.?"Guilty of murder in the first degree," with a recommendation that the death pen alty, hanging, be imposed, was the verdict of a jury today in the case of David D. Overton, accused of the murder near here last June Of Probate Judge J. T. Lawler, his political opponent. The verdict was returned at 11:30 o'clock this morning, after the jury had deliberated since 6:30 p. m. yesterday. The execution was set for January 12 by Judge B. M. Miller, but suspension was ordered when counsel for the defense filed a motion for a new trial. Date for a hearing on the motion has not been fixed. When the verdict was read Overton remained calm; but a perceptible expression of surprise came over his face. He was asked by Judge Miller if he had anything to say. He was oilonf norhono ton eocnnHc Ul IV/lXb y\yi VVU UVVVAAVftt^t "I Am Not Guilty." "Nothing, Judge," he replied, "except that I am not guilty." The words came from his lips in almost a whisper. Judge Miller then pronounced the sentence, counsel for the defense filed their motions for a new trial and Overton was taken to the Madison county jail, where he will remain until his case finally is disposed of. Mystery surrounding the discovery on June 17 of the body of1 Judge Lawler in a Tennessee river slough under the Whitesburg bridge, ten miles from here, was not cleared up until November 24, when Overton at his trial admitted he shot and killed the jurist on the bridge the night of June 14. He declared, however, that he killed Judge Lawler after the latter had attacked him with a knife. The attack, he said, followed his (Overton's) refusal to join Lawler in a plan to try to delay a report which was expected from a special grand jury of the Madison county circuit court. Denied Moving Body. The grand jury was understood to be investigating alleged irregularities in the election last spring, in which Lawler defeated Overton for the probate judgeship. Overton denied he had anything to do with the disposition of Lawler's body. He asserted he and the jurist had driven in his buggy from the county court house in Huntsville to the Whitesburg bridge to discuss political differences which they hoped to settle. These alleged differences were not explained. At the trial the disposition of the body was not entirely cleared up, ?n A + + mouga Lllti 1l1 llHiaLiuii was ii.1au.c7 ihol "only Sheriff Phillips could explain." The sheriff was a political friend of OvAton and he committed suicide a few days after the discdvery of Lawler's body, saying he could not stand the suspicion directed at him. Shelby Pleasants, a prominent attorney, also committed suicide soon after the "killing, though there had been nothing developed to establish any connection between him and the crime. Gives Bond of $25'000. Chattanooga, Nov. 28.?As the result of a preliminary hearing Frederick Cornellson, under arrest on the charge of larceny of $40,000 from the Southern Express company's wagon last Monday night, has been admitted to a bond of $25,000 by the criminal court today. No new evidence was brought out and the defense did not introduce any witnesses. Cornellson had no trouble in making bond. Will Build Ships. New York, Nov. 28.?Announcement was made here tonight of the organization under the laws of this State of the New York Shipbuilding corporation capitalized at $25,000,000. The concern will take over the business of the New York Shipbuilding company, of Camden, N. J? recently acquired by the American International corporation, the International Mercantile Marine and W. R. Grace & Co. dancing. Messrs. Rice Steadly and Clifton Rhoad, of Hunter's Chapel, motored to Mr. I. W. Rentz's last Saturday night. i | BOILER JARS ORANGEBURG. Near-Miracle Wrought When Nobody is Badly Injured in Terrific Blast. Orangeburg, Nov. 28.?What is unanimously considered little short of a miracle occurred here today, shortly after noon when the boiler at the Orangeburg steam laundry exploded and the two ends traveled , through the air in opposite directions about a half block. The re markable part lay in the fact that no one was seriously and, it is said, only one child slightly, injured. The plant had closed down for dinner and the steam was rather low. Goes Through Clear Space. From what could be learned, when the boiled exploded the head arose to a considerable height and started in the direction of Russell street. Fortunately it headed for an opening about fifteen feet wide, between the brick garage of Crum Brothers and the small wooden store of W. T. Brickie. With'the exception of making three stops, striking a fence, the v ground and a corner of the frame / ' J; j building, it proceeded straight through this opening into Russell street. Here it landed, though reluctantly, for it is told by eyewit-^ nesses that the wandering boiler head seemed inclined to rise again, but too much steam had been spent. ' HH Little Damage Done. , ' The other end landed near the corner of Calhoun and Windsor streets, and evidently succeeded in getting there through open space, for no serious damage was done. A small frame dwelling house, in which some of the employes of the laundry live, was damaged to some extent by hot water and mud thrown \up. Small damage was done in several places along the routes taken by the parts of the boiler by fire falling, but these were quickly extinguished. While the realization of what might have been the result left room for little other than serious thought about the occurrence, it is said that on first hearing the terrific explosion, ^ v shaking houses for some distance ~ around, the conjecture of some was that one of the huge guns used in the European war was being tested to ascertain the degree of its effectiveness on a town like Orangeburg. British Black Troope. ? 5 If as a result of the vast attrition ' :v |5 of the European armies the British forces should suffer for lack of men undoubtedly the great reserves of ' black and brown men in South Africa. India, Egypt and other southern parts of the empire would be utilized. Already the British Government has brought to Prance, to serve in the hrmy service corps behind the lines,. ten thousand African natives. The utility of natives of / the southern '' '' ^88 climes for service corps work is not ? to be doubted. They are better fitted for such duties, where only routine is . required, than Anglo-Saxon soldiers. The South African natives are recruit ed and organized on military lines,. - ? with white officers, and the experiment is being watched with keenest interest in Britain. If successful the vast black and brown races under the British flag may be brought into war service. In fact, many British members of Parliament are now urging the recruiting of blacks for fighting. A resolution was passed a couple of weeks ago to this effect by a group of members. The splendid fighting qualities of the Soudanese and other African tribes, such as the Zulus, have never been doubted. The French have generously used black troops from their African colonies, and the Germans feared them. If there were a wide call to natives of T-J;- "-J T3?: + A nACcaccinnQ I Li Li 1CL CUi Li D1 lllOil mi ivau yvkTovwuAVMw for service the status of the colored races of the empire would be materially altered, and their preponder- - r ^ ating millions would be attached to the flag. Undoubtedly, if the need arises, Britain would not hesitate to call for help from that quarter, though before it does arise the United Kingdom and Dominions * must put into play their available strength. ? Thirty-Nine Cent Cotton. Mr. W. P. Baskin brought in a lot of 20 bales of long staple cotton last Monday. He sold seven bales at 39 cents and 13 bales at 38 cents. Mr. Baskin is one of Lee county's most successful growers of long staple cotton. The variety he plants, he says, turns out nearly as much to the acre as the short style variety.?Bishopville Leader and Vindicator. The Baptist Sunbeams will have a bazaar at the court house Friday af- ' 4 ternoon, December 1st. Home made candy will also be sold.?adv. v ..