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* sectioni Hamburg ijmUs PAGES1T08 One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14,1916. Established 1891 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. * News Items Gathered All Around the! County and Elsewhere. Spring Branch Sprays. " Spring Branch, Dec. 11.?It is rumored that wedding bells will soon nng'in, this section. Girls, you have only a "Short time now to take advantage of*igap year. If some of you don't hustle,^our names may be placed on the maid" list before another leap year. finndov.opVinAl woe vorv well at. i w'UUUUJ OVilVVl ? V* J " Vi* v*V tended at Spring Branch yesterday afternoon. Our superintendent, Mr. B. S.*Smoak, has moved to Pregnall, but we think that our little school will thrive under the direction of his successor. Mr. J. H. Hutto and family and Mr. Brown, of Bamberg, were out riding in this section Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Copeland, of Ehrhardt, enjoyed dinner with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Herndon last Thursday. Miss Adrine Goodwin, Messrs. Russel Sandifer and G. Hugh Goodwin, and Master Beaty Zeigler were visitors at Mr. T. J. Crider's Saturday night and Sunday. Miss Dottie Goodwin spent Saturday night with Mrs. H. C. Herndon. Mrs. Wayne Sandifer and children were the guests of Mrs. E. M. Zeigler Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Herndon, Mrs. [HvHattie Hutto and Miss Xelle Clayton Hprisited Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Padgett, of Denmark, yesterday. ^ Mrs. H. C. Herndon and Miss Lottie Crider returned from a visit to their sister's, at Charleston, last Thursday. They report quite a nice time. Mrs. Hattie Hutto has been the guest of Mrs. N. E. Hutto for several weeks. She spent Saturday and Sunday nights with Mrs. H. W. Herndon. Our school is in a thriving condition at present. We have 27 pupils enrolled. Below is the honor roll: Fourth grade, Hughie Hutto and Beaty Zeigler; sixth grade, Edith Hutto; eighth grade, Minnie Crider, Inez Zeigler, Reba O'Quinn and J. D. Patrick. Kearse Klippings. Kearse, Dec. 12.?Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Youmans, of Fairfax, spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. lieo. t5. ivearse. Dr. Baker, from Fairfield, is enjoying a hunting and fishing trip with the boys of this section. Little Gladys Virginia Kearse celebrated her fifth birthday last Friday afternoon. About twenty-six little folks enjoyed the afternoon with her. Mrs. Dorcas Chitty has been very sick, but is some better at this time. The Home Demonstration club met Friday afternoon. Only a few were present, but those few seemed to enjoy the lesson very much. A general swapping of recipes Xor Christmas cakes, etc., was a feature of this J--? ^ ^ I'1** OATT/% +Vl/\ meeting. .Vlis. r &UM gave uic lauico 4 a recipe for eggless, butterless fruit cake. Another lady said she could equal that\on economy. She has a recipe "tried and proved" for milkless, butterless and creamless cake. These cakes will be reported on at our next meeting. Buford Bridge Budget. Buford Bridge, Dec. 12.?Messrs. A. L. Kirkland and J. Hammond Kirkland and Messrs. Charlie and Joe Frank Brabham motored to Charleston last Monday to attend the Grand Lodge. Mrs. Jennie Graham and children, of Bamberg, and Fletcher Kirkland, of Carlisle school, spent last MonJ day very pleasantly with Mrs. A. L. V"iv?V 1 oriH onH familv What a time the men folks are| having now hunting. Think of it! j Mr. Henry Kirkland, in company with Anderson Paper Out of Business. Anderson, Dec. 7.?The Anderson j Daily Intelligencer, a morning news-* paper established about four years j ago, has suspended publication. The j company was placed in the hands of i a receiver about three months ago and the plant has been advertised for sale on three different occasions. Federal Judge Johnson recently signed a decree continuing the sale until December 15. The management states in the afternoon paper that it will make a definite announcement as to its future plans within the next few days. Make it a home Christmas for home people with home money in the home town. a few others, is spending this week hunting deer on the Savannah river. Several from around here witnessed the game of basket ball last Friday afternoon between Olar and Ehrhardt, played on the Olar court. Mr. Victor Kearse and family left Monday afternoon for Orangeburg, where they will spend some time. Mr. Kearse is engaged in business there and much success is wished for him. Several of the men folks of this community went to Fairfax last Monday to hear the lecture on the boll weevil by Prof. Long, of Clemson college. Clyde Kearse, of Carlisle school, spent last Sunday at home. Mr. R. M. Kearse is engaged in the timber business and has now moved ' his mill to Ehrhardt. His son, Mr. Roscoe Kearse, is in the business with him. Mr. and Mrs. S. Breland, Mrs. R.! - ? ? ? W T r* T T _ 1 m. Kearse, ana airs. j. d. rveursei motored to Ehrhardt last Sunday afternoon for a few hours. Master Robert Alfred Kirk land,, who has been visiting at the home j of Mr. A. L. Kirkland for the past month, has returned to his home at! Allendale. Mr. Henry Kearse, of Bamberg,' and Miss Cleo Kearse and Dora Mc-' Millan, of Carlisle school, spent Sun-^ day afternoon with Mr. J. B. Kearse; and family. Gee! the Christmas /, turkeys! When you visit a home now the first thing you see or hear is a turkey. BOAGUS. Colston Clippings. Colston, Dec. 12.?Everybody is in a rush preparing for Christmas, which is nearly here. The children are especially glad, because Christ mas is the time for the visit of old Santa; so look out bad boys and girls, you might find a whip in your stocking Christmas morning. Miss Sadie Boyd was the pleasant guest of her sister, Mrs. C. B. Ray, of. Olar, last week-end. Mr. Roy Williams and Miss Reba Williams attended church services in Olar Sunday. The friends of Mrs. A. L. McMillan are glad to know that she is improving nicely at the Baptist hospital, I and will soon be home again. Mr. Hammie Varn, of Columbia, vicitoH hie narpTits. Mr and Mrs. P.! M. Varn, last week. Misses Dora and Clara McMillan and Cleo Kearse and Mr. Albert McMillan, of Bamberg, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMillan. St. John's News. St. John's, Dec. 12.?We are glad! to know that Mr. H. L. Kinard, who \ has been seriously ill for the past j week, is improving. Misses Belle Nichols and Lennie McLaurin, who taught in St. John's j school a few years ago, were visitors in the community last week. Wej were glad to see them again. Mr. Percy Hiers, with friends from Charleston, spent Thanksgiving day! with his father, Mr. G. F. Hiers. Messrs. M. A. Kinard and H. W. i ' Carter visited relatives in Charleston i i last week. Quite a number of young people! attended the candy pulling at Mr. J. j B. Hiers's Tuesday night. We are alad to know that Miss \ Sue Carter, who has been sick for the i past week, is better. \gP^ |p %That Xv ' by thei 5 the people of i GERNANV PROPOSES PEACE NOTE IS TRANSMITTED TO ENGLAND AND HER ALLIES. Sentiment in London Does Not Favor Peace as Proposed by the Tuetonic Powers. Tuesday Germany transmitted to the allies a note proposing peace. The note is said not-to have been received with enthusiasm in London. Based upon information from their home governments, the entente diplomats believe Germany's terms are in general about as follows: D D/\1 orln m nri f V* f bo XVCaiUiailUll Ul ucigiuui, nun mc i conditions which would practically leave it under German control and probably give over the pdrt* of Antwerp to Germany. Restoration of the occupied por- j tions of Northern France, but with economic control, which would guarantee to Germany supplies of iron and other raw materials drawn from there. Domination of Mesopotamia by Germany and Austria to give them a I path to the Persian Gulf and break | England's gateway to India and Egypt. To award to Bulgaria all of Serbia' as far south as Nish, which would take from Serbia as much territory as she gained in the Balkan wars. They expect Germany will demand the return of her African colonies or j at least propose to excnange tneiq tor the French colonies. Turkey's interests are considered a' minor affair and not fully developed in consideration of peace. The attitude of the Balkan nations i of the Germanic allies, it was ex-! plained, will be set forth in the notes I which have been dispatched from Sofia and Constantinople and nothing of them is known at the Balkan; legations here, except that Bulgaria! probably will expect to get Macedonia; and Dobrudja, which formerly be-i longed to her, making the Danube the | boundary between Bulgaria and Rou-j mania and shutting the latter from j the Black sea. The Outlook for $30 Shoes. I The shoe manufacturer who, at the banquet of the Boot and Shoe club last night, predicted the price of $30 for an all leather shoe "in a few years," is probably not altogether an idle alarmist. More people to be shod, fewer cattle and horses to supply them with leather for shoes; increasing gold supplies and less di-l minishing purchasing power in the | dollar; what else can we expect than to have to pay more for shoes? The shoemaker no longer pegs his shoes, but he continues to peg up the price. Leather is already a luxury. But in the remarks of Mr. Donovan, who uttered his $30 warning, we may find some small encouragement. This is to be the price of shoes "made en tirely of high-grade leather." There may be nothing like leather but there are other things in the world. We may yet be wearing beautiful shoes made of wood pulp or of old rubber mixed with cotton waste. The ingenuity of man is not yet exhausted.?Boston Transcript. Progressive. The reformer heard of a case which interested him more than the ordinary so he sought out the reformed one and asked, "You stopped smoking because she asked you to?" "Yes." "And you stopped drinking because she asked you to?" "Yes." "And you stopped swearing because she asked you to?" "Yes." "And you gave up your bridge parties and went right into refined, se rious society for the same reason?" "Yes, yess." "And yet you never married her!" "Well, you see, after I'd reformed like that I found I could do better."?Washington Post. Careless sneezing, coughing, spitting spread colds. wneemaii&jri mese~Ci fhe community for eve 10,359,346 BALES GINNED. Figures to December 1st Exceed Those of Last Year. Washington, Dec. 8.?Cotton ginned to December 1 amounted to 10,'359,346 running bales, including 1 77,662 rounds and 101,620 bales of sea island, the census bureau today announced. Last year 9,703,612 running bales, including 93,361 round bales and 77,165 bales of sea island were ginned to December 1. Ginning by States prior to December 1 follows: State. Bales. Alabama 504,714 Arkansas 99,184 California : 19,886 Florida 46,999 Georgia 1,694.398 Louisiana 420,575 Mississippi 726,205 Missouri 51,073 North Carolina 567,136 Oklahoma 743,875 South Carolina 832,141 Tennessee 318,086 Texas 3,404,344 ! Virginia 23,161 All others 7,587 Suicide Follows Murder. 1 Spartanburg, Dec. 12.?Shortly be; fore 12 o'clock today Arthur Martin, a white man, 30 years of age, entered his home at Chesnee, shot his wife three times with a pistol, and once In A ? V, A + rvii r\ n /I A?n ^11 a/1 + V, a wiiii a biiuiguii, aiiu meu tuiucu tuc ! latter weapon upon himself, inflicting wounds from which he died instantly. His wife's body was pierced by each pistol bullet and the load from the gun took effect below her shoulder in the back, causing almost instant death. The wife was only 22 years of age and the couple had been married for but three months. It is said that Martin had been married three times and he is survived by three children. A coroner's inquest failed to throw any light on the tragedy. Cotton Experiences Exciting Decline. New Orleans, Dec. 8.?The most violent fluctuation of the season and one of the wildest declines ever recorded in any session of the Ideal market carried the price of cotton j at one pediod today 103 to 113 points, or $5 to $5.50, a bale below the level of yesterday's close. Heavy liquidation of long contracts and terrific hammering by short sellers caused the break, which followed the large census bureau returns on ginning to December 1. The early market was active and business reached enormous proportions by noon, when brokers were unable to keep abreast of the selling orders wired in from all directions. The close was a net loss for the day of 76 to 92 Doints. Snake Has Not Eaten in 8 Months. Martinsburg, W. Va., Dec. 1.?A rattlesnake owned by Jacob Cline, of ! this city, has undertaken to break the world's record. It has gone without food for eight months and is as i strong as the day it was caught and | penned in the box. Mice, toads and young rabbits have been placed in the box, but the snake refuses to eat. The reptile has nine rattles and is four feet long. The Babies. Lincoln Springfield, the London editor, was talking to an American correspondent. "I know a regiment," he said, "where the subalterns are so young that not one of them is able to raise the Charlie Chaplin mustache required by etiquette. "A handful of privates from this regiment swaggered back to quarters I lata niip nieht sineine the DODular ditty, 'Another Little Drink Won't Do Us Any Harm.' "As they passed the officers' billets, the guard on duty growled at them: " 'Shut up, you noisy fools, or you'll wake the war babies!'"? Washington Star. d bountifully, for our. rlumnf^They are em rythtng7Hat4s-~desim IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Stat? News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. A movement has been started in Chesterfield county in which no noninjurious birds will be killed for two years. Eighty-eight arrests were made in the town of Greenwood, during the month of November. There were eighty-one convictions. Charlie Perry, aged three years, son of Scott Perry, of Chester, was burned to death Thursday morning when he supposedly crawled into the fire. Joe Cartledge, aged 65, of Edgefield county, made his first trip to Columbia last week. Cartledge had not traveled on a railway train since he was four years of age. Andrew Kelly, a negro, escaped from the Kershaw county jail in Camden, last week by knocking down the jailer's wife as she opened the door of the jail. Sixty-five business men of Anderson on Tuesday subscribed $20,125 toward a fund of $40,000 to be spent on doubling the dormitory capacity of Anderson college. Robert Miller, a negro of Chesterfield county, was killed recently when he was buried under several feet of dirt caused by the caving in of a well. The special commission appointed by Governor Manning will meet in Columbia, December 18, to outline insurance legislation which will be recommended in the general assembly. Pnllv Snntz asred 6 vears. dauah ter of John Sputz, of Great Falls, was burned to death Friday, when her dress caught fire from a grate of red hot coals before wrhich she was standing. C. A. Rogers, magistrate at Olympia, Richland county, has been summoned to appear before the governor December 13, to make answer to charges of misconduct and neglect of duty. Robert L. Bowick, manager of a Charleston market, shot and killed Thomas Brown, a negro driver in Charleston Wednesday. Brown attacked Bowick with a knife and the latter shot him with a pistol. A coroner's jury exonerated Bowick. Maj. Richard F. Watson, commanding the first battalion, First infantr}, ""J O Wnrlrmon nnm auu bapiaiu IT . ly. II VI iiiuuu, manding Company A of the same regiment, have resigned their commissions, pleading pressure of private business. Both officers have recently returned from the Mexican border: Dawson Sinkler and his daughter, Ida Belle Sinkler, sustained broken legs Wednesday when the buggy in which they were riding was struck by an Atlantic Coast Line train near Green Swamp, Sumter county. The buggy was demolished and the horse they were driving sustained a broken leg. A complete line of Christmas Toys. See them before buying elsewhere. L. M. Hiers & Son, Ehrhardt, S. C. \f a^Ani/t UaM 1'jawuvift a&vwvi* At the regular meeting of the Oman lodge, No. 38, A. F. M., held last Friday night, the following officers were elected and installed: Thomas Ducker, W. M.; Henry H. Stokes, S. W.; B. T. Felder, J. W.; W. A. Dickinson, treasurer; Robert Black, secretary; H. Lawrence Hinnant, S. D.; Wilmot T. Jennings, J. D.; B. F. Free and Henry Zeigler, stewards; D. W. Phillips, tiler. After installation of officers the lodge repaired to the dining room where refreshments were served. The lodge has had a very successful year. A complete line of Christmas Toys. See them before buying elsewhere. L. M. Hiers & Son, Ehrhardt, S. C. Holiday wants 'itled to the patronage I in Christmas merck BAPTISTS OF STATE MEET. | Many Delegates Attending 96th Session of Convention in Newberry. ! Newberry, Dec. 11.?The ninth ses| sion of the South Carolina Baptist | convention convened in the Newberry : court house at 7:30 this evening. An ; address was delivered by President j T. T. Hyde, of Charleston. Addresses j of welcome were delivered by Mayor | Z. F. Wright, Prof. A. G. Bowers and } Col. W. H. Hunt. The response was ! by Rev. T. V. MeCall. of Clemson col lege. Reports were read showing receipts as follows: State missions, $42,000; orphanage, $67,000; aged ministers relief, $16,000; ministerial education, $5,600, and Christian education, $5,000; Baptist hospital, $6,300. Reports from the colleges were also heard. These reports were re; ferred to committees to report later. A large number of delegates have | already arrived and the convention j bids fair to be well attended; ample | provisions have been made for enter' taining by the people of Newberry. The order of business devotes all > ; of tomorrow to a consideration of i i the subject of education and the coni ' I vention sermon, which will be delivI * ered at 11 o'clock by Rev. J. H. | Mitchell, of Scranton, the alternate in his absence of the Rev. J. I. Allen, I of Dillon, the appointee. ' v 2 Hnnnr Knll rtf Hmmflrk School. , ! * "v Denmark, Dec. 12.?The following | is the honor roll of the Denmark pubI lie school: First grade?Laura Abstance, Mary Boozer, Martha Council, Thelma Lee, Mary McCrae, Esther Riley, Rosa Sanders, Mary Smoak, Annie L. Turner, Frances Wiggins, Jennings Keller, Robert Sojourner. Second grade?Albert Bean, J. Z. Brooker, Leslie Easterling, G. W. Goolsby, Hoyt Smoak f Louis Spann, Govan Zeigler, Dorothy Hightower, Dorothy Stevenson, Fletcher Sojourner. Third grade?Mary Hayne Walker, Miriam Tunjer, Mamie Turner, Winnie Cox, Hagood Zorn, Roger Smoak, - Clifford Ray, Joe Collins. Fourth grade?Angus Cooper, John Turner, Edward Zeigler, Sarah Califf, Blanche Collins, Inez Finch, v , Ada Hutto, Wendell Leuroy, juna Ray, Lena Stevenson, Myrtle Walker. Fifth grade?Margaret Brooker, George Hightower, James McCrae, Emma Bogen, Stanwix Hutto, George Marion Hope, Albert Folk, 'Curtis Faust, Frances Dozier. Sixth grade?Wyman Sandifer, Pernelle Collins, Evelyn Cain, Byrl Price, Dorothy Riley, Helen Turner, Eva Zorn. Seventh grade?Louise Ray, Louise Thomas, Selma Seymour, Ruth Califf, Leoline Walker, Georgia LeCroy, Fred Wiggins, James Bean, Edward Cox, Carlisle Folk, William Henry Ray, Legare Patrick. Eighth grade?Mary Louise Finch. Ninth grade?Lester Bean, Cecil? Hope, Elizabeth McCrae, Julia McCrae, Daisy Tillman. Tenth grade?Kathryn Faust, Willie Delle Hutto, Laura Ray. Eleventh grade?Hazel LeCroy, Martha Wiggins, Clara Wyman. Many .Newspapers Lone. San Francisco, Dec. 9.?Assertion that 800 country town newspapers" had suspended publication in. the United States since the price of news print paper began advancing after the beginning of the European war, was made today before the California Press association by C. L. Day, a publisher of San Luis Obispo, Cal. FISH HATCHERIES MEASURE. Bill Passed by House Would Benefit South Carolina. v Washington, Dec. 7.?Twenty fish hatcheries in as many States would be provided at a cost of about <$1,000,000 by a bill which passed the house today. Among the States benefiting are Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, South or North Carolina, Maryland or Virginia, Texas and Oklahoma. , mndise - ^ . vi ' : ;"rV;,r ' /-X'-?r^ V . ; ' .;>V.' rr