The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 14, 1916, SECTION 1 PAGES 1 TO 8, Image 3
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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.
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News Items Gathered All Around the!
County and Elsewhere.
Spring Branch Sprays.
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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
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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
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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.!
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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
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Carter visited relatives in Charleston i
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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
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! 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},
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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.
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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
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; of tomorrow to a consideration of
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i the subject of education and the coni
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I vention sermon, which will be delivI
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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.
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Hnnnr Knll rtf Hmmflrk School.
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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.
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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. ,
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