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One Dollar and a Half a Year! BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15,1917. Established 1891
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Colston Clippings.
Colston, March 13.?We are having
spring weather again. The woods
are blooming with yellow jasmine
and wild violets.
Misses Sadie Boyd and Ethel Lov,
gan spent Saturday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McMillan.
Messrs. Frank and G. Hugh Goodwin,
and Misses Adrine and Berty
Goodwin, of Spring Branch, spent
Saturday night and Sunday in this
section.
Mr. W. G. Kirkland, foreman on
the chain gang, spent Saturday night
and Sunday at home.
The friends of Mrs. Sudie Barnes
will regret to know that she is not
progressing very well since her return
from the hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Herndon, Mrs.
Hattie Hutto and Miss Nelle Clayton,
spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Thos. Clayton.
The Colston rural graded school
will close Wednesday of this week
until Monday of next, for the teachers
to attend the teachers' meeting in
Columbia.
Mr. George McMillan, of Newberry,
was at home for a few days last week
i in the Oak Grove section. He was a
visitor in this section Sunday evening.
Messrs. Claude Kirkland and Will
McMillan and Miss Evelyn Kirkland
were visitors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Thos. Clayton Sunday. ?
Miss Mamie McMillan, of Bamberg,
spent last week-end at home.
It seems as if lagrippe holds the
day at present in most of homes.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clayton and Mr.
J. B. Varn motored to Fairfax Sun*
day afternoon.
Miss Hattie Kirkland spent Sunday
with her cousin, Miss Bessie Kirkland.
>Ir. and Mrs. Lawrence Bishop
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Ephraim Bishop.
Spring Branch Sayings.
Spring Branch, March 13.?We
are having fine weather for corn
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Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Crider were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Herndon
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hutto and
L children spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. O'Quinn.
Mrs. Laura Bessinger and her
grandson, Mr. Mayfield Bessinger,
were visitors in Denmark section
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Herndon, Mrs.
Hattie Hutto, and Miss Nell Clayton
were visitors in Colston section Sun/
day.
Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Donald and
children, of Brier Creek, were the
guests of Mr. J. P. O'Quinn Sunday.
Mr. Monroe Crider and Misses Minnie
and Lottie Crider were visitors
in Denmark section Saturday night
and Sunday.
Mr. W. R. Bessinger spent a few
hours at Mr. J. P. O'Quinn's last Sunday
afternoon.
There will be missionary speaking
at Spring Branch Saturday, March
24th. It will be to the interest of
the young and old. The public is
cordially invited to attend and bring
well filled baskets. Speaking will
begin at 10:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Georgeanne Padgett spent
Sunday night and Monday with Mr.
and Mrs. Elige Goodwin.
Misses Aline and Gussie Hutto
spent Sunday with Misses Edith
and Hughie Hutto.
Briar Creek Bustlings.
Briar Creek, March 13.?Miss Cleo
Richardson and Mr. Wade Richardson
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Cooner. \
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Richardson
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Bessinger.
Miss Eloise Stevenson and Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. McPhail dined with Mr:
and Mrs. Thelmore Hicks.
Miss Beulah Sineath, of Orangeburg,
spent the week-end with her
sister, Mrs. Jim Hicks.
Mr. D. D. Steedly has returned i
from Atlanta, Ga., where he spent
the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Donald dined
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
O'Quinn Sunday.
Mr. Clayton Jolly spent Sunday
with his mother, Mrs. Julia Hicks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Williams spent
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Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Steedly.
Mrs. W. H. Steedly spent Sunday
in the Spring Branch section.
Little Mr. Wimberly Morris fell
out the loft last Friday and cut his
leg very bad.
Mrs. D. O. Steedly spent Sunday
with Mrs. Jane Bessinger.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Smith spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Steedly. .
Miss Reba Steedly spent Sunday
with Mrs. W. W. Steedly.
Mr. Eddie McMillan spent Sunday
afternoon at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. F. M. Steedly.
Mrs. B. D. Donald spent Wednesday
afternoon in Denmark. .
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Richardson
spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Stokes.
Misses Annie May and Josie Richardson
spent Sunday with Miss Marie
Lena Rhoad.
W^are very glad to learn that Mrs.
Jane Bessinger is improving.
Miss Hattie May Morris spent Saturday
afternoon with Mrs. B. D.
Donald.
Little Sallie Smith spent Saturday
night and Sunday with little Miss
Letha Morris.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Jolly spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Thelmore
Hicks.
Mrs. J. A. England spent Saturdaynight
and Sunday in Bamberg.
Mr. Earl Summers spent Sunday
afternoon at the home of Mr. T. W.
Richardson.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Steedly spent
Sunday afternoon at Midway.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hicks spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. King Hicks.
Clear Pond Cullings.
Clear Pond, March 13.?Mr. R. F.
McMillan gave the young folks
around Clear Pond a peanut shelling
last Thursday night. Everybody
present enjoyed themselves.
Mrs. Herbert Folk and son, H. M.,
visited relatives near Denmark last
week.
Mrs. Ben Hill and children visited
Mrs. P. K. Hughes last Saturday.
The visitors at the home of Mr. G.
W. Folk Saturday and Sunday were:
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Isadore Redmond, of Hilda, and Rice
and Ruby Steedly, of Hunter's!
Chapel, and Misses Vera McMillan
and Meta Hughes.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hill and Mrs. P.
K. Hughes visited at the home of Mr.
J. R. Morris Sunday. x
Mr. Jimmie Richardson, of Bamberg,
visited his sister, Mrs. P. K.
Hughes, last week.
Miss Dorris Folk spent last Thursday
night with Miss Vera McMillan.
Misses Mamie and Ruth Morris
spent last Tuesday night with Miss
Meta Hughes.
Mr. Frank Goodwin and sister,
Miss Adrine, visited relatives at Colston
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Tant and children,
and sister, Miss Oddie Padgett,
are visiting relatives and friends
near Williston.
Mr. Leland Sandifer visited at the
home of Mr. J. R. Morris last Sunday.
Mr. Roy Williams, of Colston,
visited at the home of Mr. P. K.
Hughes Sunday.
Mr. G. Hugh Goodwin and sister,
Miss Berta Goodwin, spent the weekend
with Miss Laura Goodwin, of
Colston.
iurs. Annie zeigier, or Bamberg,
and Mr. Probbie Hughes, of Ehrhardt,
visited at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. K. Smoak Sunday.
Buford Bridge Budget.
Buford Bridge, March 13.?Mrs.
R. M. Kearse, who has been in the
hospital in Charleston, has returned
home.
The friends of Mrs. Roscoe Kearse
regret to learn that she is very sick
at present. A speedy recovery is
wished for her.
Mrs. S. W. Copeland, of Ehrhardt,
spent last Friday with her sister,
Mrs. H. C. Kirkland.
Mrs. Oneda Armstrong, of Bamberg,
spent last Sunday with her sister,
Mrs. A. L. Kirkland.
Mrs. J. B. Kearse is spending a
few days in Olar.
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and Gladys Brabham, of Olar, spent
last Sunday at the home of Mr. J. B.
Kearse. BOAGUS.
Schofield Sketches.
Scliofield, March 13.?Mr. F. G. P.
Weigand and family motored over to
Bamberg Saturday evening to see
"Civilization."
Mrs. S. D. Lain went up to Columbia
on Sunday to bring home her son,
Lewis, who was operated on for appendicitis
at the Baptist hospital.
Mrs. Ogreta Beard and Mrs. R. L.
Beard are visiting friends at Norway
this week.
Mr. J. G. Bessinger spent Saturday
in Charleston on business.
Mr. Jones Bishop, of the Colston
section, was a visitor here Saturday
last.
Mr. A. T. Inabinet has accepted a
position with the Seaboard railroad,
at Savannah. He will leave this
week to take up his duties.
Mrs. G. F. Beard and family are
visiting relatives at Columbia this
week.
Mr. C. R. Peeples and family spent
Sunday witn relatives at Jtistin.
Mrs. Mkttie McDaniel, of Leary,
Ga., was a visitor here on last Sunday.
DRAEBLR.
Oak Grove Greetings.
Oak Grove, March 12.?Spring has
come at last, and how welcome it is!
Farmers everywhere are taking advantage
of this fine weather.
Mr. and Mrs. John Miley and family,
of the Lodge section, and Mesdames
J. L. and L. W. Copeland
dined with Mr. I. W. Rentz and family
Sunday.
Mr. Doc Smoak, of the Hunter's
Chapel section, spent l&st Saturday
night and Sunday with Mr. J. L.
Cothran.
Mrs. J. L. Copeland and Miss Lonie
Copeland spent last Saturday with
Mrs. D. M. Smith.
Rev. J. H. Smith will preach his
farewell sermon at Bethany the first
Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip McCants, of
Orangeburg, spent last Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Carter.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Rentz and family,
Mr. and Mrs. George McKenzie,
Mr. C. F. Rentz, Mrs. Mary McKenzie,
and Mrs. Monnie McKenzie, of
Walterboro, dined with Mr. and Mrs.
J. F. Fender last Sunday.
Mesdames J. L. Copeland and O.
L. Copeland spent last Friday with
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Copeland, of
Mount Pleasant.
Mr. Tillman Carter and Misses Lea
and Essie Carter spent last Sunday '
with their aunt, Mrs. Bennie Goodwin,
of Little Swamp. i
Messrs. J. W. Copeland and George
McMillan and Misses Pattie Miley,
Grace Hoffman and Jennie Lou Martin
motored to Clear Pond last Sunday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. A. Carter visited
in Hunter's Chapel section recently.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hunter and
Miss Lucy Carter spent last Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Rentz.
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the home of her sister, Mrs. Bill Warren,
last Sunday on account of the
death of her sister.
Mr. J. L. Copeland and Miss Lonie
and his little granddaughter spent
last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. B. B.
Bishop.
Honor Roll Primary Department.
Fourth grade?Roberts Smith,
Kate Rentz, Dora George.
Third grade?Helen Carter, Hugh
Carter, Jack Carter.
Second grade?Callie Bishop.
Advanced first grade?Esther
Smith, Mary Rentz.
Primers?Elizabeth Hiers, John
Jacob Carter, J. C. Cothran.
Honor Roll Denmark School.
Denmark, March 13.?The following
is the honor roll of the Denmark
school:
First grade?Jennings Keller, Robert
Sojourner, Laura Abstance, Martha
Council, Ethel Hartzog, Esther
Riley, Rosa Sanders, Mary Smoak,
Frances Wiggins.
Second grade?Albert Bean, J. Z.
Brooker, Leslie Easterling, G. W.
Goolsby, Hoyt Smoak, Louis Spann,
Fletcher Sojourner, Govan Zeigler,
Dorothy Hightower, Dorothy Stevenson.
Third grade?Clyde Gillam, Koger
Smoak, Joe Wyman, Hagood Zorn,
Helen Brooker, Winnie Cox, Mamie
Turner, Miriam Turner, Mary Hane
Walker, Grace Wiggins.
Fourth grade?John Turner, Edward
Zeigler, Sarah Califf, Blanche
Collins, Inez Finch, Dorothy Matthews,
Julia Ray. t
Fifth grade?Everdell Hartzog,
Leona Hartzog, Margaret Brooker,
Sadie Spires, George Hope, Richard
Sojourner, Frances Dozier, Albert
Folk, Stanwix Hutto.
Sixth grade?Joe Matthews, Per
nelle Collins, JCveiyn cam, Jennie
Gillam, Lillie Grimes, Margaret Hoffman,
Dorothy Riley, Helen Turner.
Seventh grade?Mabel Gillam,
Ruth Califf, Leoline Walker, Thelma
Ray, Louise Thomas, Georgia Le;
Croy, Louise Ray, Fred Wiggins, CarI
lisle Folk.
Eighth grade?Samuel McGieyer,
I Edna Creech, Anna Matthews.
Ninth grade?Lela Gillam, Cecile
POLICEMAN KILLEI).
Sergt. Franklin Slain by Burglar in
Orangeburg.
Orangeburg, March 9.?Police
Sergt. H. H. Franklin was shot and
mortally wounded here this morning
by Mackey Palmer, colored, whom he
was trying to arrest. The wounded
officer was rushed to a hospital in
Columbia for treatment, but died of
his wounds early tonight. After an
wViinb 1 O A/1 oil
mail llUUl n llltu taoi^u an
day Palmer was arrested this evening
by Sheriff R. F. Dukes just outside
of the city. The sheriff flagged
a passing freight train and took his
prisoner to Denmark, there to catch
another train for Columbia, the plan
being to spirit the prisoner away
from the angry crowds searching for
him. As soon %s it was learned that
the sheriff had gotten off with hia
prisoner two parties are reported to
have left Orangeburg in an attempt
to intercept the officer. It was feared
there would be a lynching if the
men succeeded in getting their hands
on the prisoner.
The shooting of Officer Franklin
stirred the city, and as soon as the
report got out men armed themselves
and went out to look for Palmer.
The negro escaped from the county
jail last Tuesday night, where he was
being held pending his trial on the
charge of robbing the home of Mrs.
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was in progress this morning it was
learned that the escaped prisoner
was in a house on Calhoun street.
Sergt. Franklin started at once for
the scene determined to arrest the
man. He was joined on the way by
Officer 'Marion Wolfe. Mr. Franklin
entered at the front of the house,
while Mr. Wolfe guarded the rear.
When Mr. Franklin attempted to arrest
Palmer, the negro fired three
times at the officer, one shot taking
effect in the chest, another in the abdomen
and a third in the thigh. The
negro left the building by way of the
front and made his escape.
Crowds of angry citizens searched
the woods all d^y in the direction the
negro was reported to have taken.
Toward evening Sheriff Dukes, accompanied
by Sheriff Hill, of Calhoun
county and other officers, found
Palmer hiding in a hollow log. The
negro was armed with two pistols.
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The arrest took place near the river
by the coal chute on the Atlantic
Coast Line. A freight train was
passing and the officer's flagged and
boarded it with their prisoner, presumably
to take him to Columbia and
place him in the penitentiary for
safekeeping.
Policeman Dies of Wonnd.
Columbia, March 9.?Sergt. H. H.
Franklin, of the Orangeburg police
force, who was shot at Orangeburg
this morning by Mackey Palmer, a
negro who escaped from the county
jail there last Tuesday, died at a local
hospital this afternoon while on
the operating table. He was brought
to Columbia on the Carolina special
for treatment.
Taken to Charleston.
Charleston, March 10.?Mackey
Palmer, the Orangeburg negro who
killed Sergt. H. H. Franklin, of the
Orangeburg police force yesterday
morning, is locked up in Charleston
county jail, having been brought here
at about 11:30 o'clock this morning
by train from as far as Ashley Junction,
at least, and at the union sta
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accompanied by a second machine
filled with officers, to the county jail
for safekeeping. No official statement
was had as to the arrival or
incarceration of the negro. Sheriff
Martin declining to talk about the
affair at all. Sheriff Dukes, of
Orangeburg, could not be found, it
being reported that he expected to
depart this afternoon for Orangeburg,
leaving the prisoner here. How
Palmer reached Ashley Junction is
not known, but the arrival of the
heavily guarded prisoner at the union
station and his trip to the jail attracted
no little attention. Sheriff
Martin, Deputy Sheriff Leonard, and
Rural Policemen Nelson and Kelly
are said to have been in the Charles
ton party which met the Orangeburg
officials with their prisoner at Ashley
Junction. What further disposition
of the prisoner will be made is
not known here.
New line of sample box paper just
received at the Herald Book Store.
Hope, Elizabeth McCrae, Julia McCrae,
Daisy Tillman, Ruth Folk, Lester
Bean, Harold Sojourner.
Tenth grade?Julia Cox, Willie
Dell Hutto, Laura Ray.
Eleventh grade?Martha Wiggins,
Clara Wyman.
IN THE PALMEIIO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
James M. Baker, of South Carolina,
was on Tuesday reelected secretary
of the United States senate.
Considerable damage to property
was done by a cyclone which encircled
the southern and western sides
of Calhoun county Sunday afternoon.
D. M. Dentsdale, a white man, is
in jail at Lexington, charged with
having ordered and received two gallons
of liquor in the same month.
An unknown negro about 65 years
of age, was run over and killed by a
Southern railway work train on the
Southern trestle between Kingville
and Camden, Tuesday.
Bachman Langford, aged 36, a
prosperous farmer of the Blythewood
section of Richland county, committed
suicide Friday, by shooting himself
in the breast with a shotgun.
The store of R. S. Calhoun, at Baldoc,
Barnwell county, was recently
broken into and robbed. His safe
was opened and robbed of about $100
and a quantity of merchandise taken.
Governor Manning has paroled C.
W. Powers, of Marlboro county, who
was serving a five year sentence in
the penitentiary for killing Tom
Wright. Powers is said to be in bad
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ucanii.
A number of Lexington county farmers
have organized a peanut club.
Members of the club will plant the
Spanish variety, said to be the oest
peanut for marketing and also the
best for yields.
Governor Manning has appointed
H. E. Thompson, of Columbia; S. R.
Dendy, of Walhalla, and S. E. Welch,
of Charleston, members of the board
of commissioners of the Confederate
infirmary in Columbia.
Governor Manning has granted a
parole to William M. Reardon, who
was convicted of murder in Edgefield
county and sentenced to life imprisonment,
which sentence the governor
later commuted to ten years.
Walter A. Simmons is in a critical
condition at the Baptist hospital in
Columbia, suffering from injuries received
Tuesday at Barre, Lexington
county, when a telephone pole on
which he was working broke and fell.
About 50,000 old cans were col
lectea in urangeDurg lasi weeK as me
result of a clean-up campaign inaugurated
in that city. Boys and girls
were given a free ticket to the moving
picture show for every twenty
cans they collected?hence the large
pile of cans.
The round house, shops, gas-electric
motor car, drill presses, laths,'
tools and miscellaneous supplies of
the Blue Ridge railway at Anderson,
were destroyed by fire early Thursday
morning. The total loss amounts
to about $25,000, with comparatively
little insurance.
Two brothers, H. and J. Graham,
of Charleston, are under arrest in
that city, charged with the theft of
codeine and morphine from drug
stores. Both of,the Grahams admitted
the theft of the drugs and declared
that they had to have the
"dope" and were without money.
W. B. Hoover plead guilty in the
federal court at Florence, Thursday,
to the charge of operating an illicit
still. He plead for mercy on the
ground that he was the father of
thirteen children, nine living, and
that he had no other means of obtaining
whiskey, which the doctor
said his wife must have.
As Congressman J. Willard Ragsdale,
of the Sixth South Carolina district,
was returning from the capitol
in Washington, about 1 o'clock Sunday
morning with Chairman Flood,
of the house foreign affairs committee,
in an automobile, their machine
was run into by a taxicab and Mr.
Flood was badly cut about the head
by flying glass. Mr. Ragsdale was
shaken up considerably but was uninjured.
Charlie Turner, a white man, was
acquitted in the Clarendon county
court of general sessions last week
of killing his neighbor, Bud Berry.
Turner heard a noise in the rear of
his home one night, and seizing his
gun, went out to investigate. Upon
going to the rear of his residence he
observed the form of a man in tl\e
act of entering a window of one room
of the house. He hailed the intruder
and receiving no reply, after waiting
a sufficient length of time for a reply,
fired with fatal effects.
BIG VARNYTLLE BLAZE.
Only Two Stores Left Standing in
Business Section.?Loss $75,000.
Hampton, March 10.?One of the
most disastrous fires in the history
of the town occurred in Varnville at
an early hour this morning, when
practically all the business houses on
both sides of Main street were destroyed,
entailing an estimated loss
of between sixty and seventy-five
thousand dollars, partly covered by
insurance.
The fire originated in a lot sepa
rating tne stores 01 u. w. layior ana
W. O. Guess. A number of banana
cartons and a quantity of excelsior
had been piled up on this vacant lot,
and it is supposed that someone passing
by carelessly threw a lighted
cigarette on this pile of refuse, igniting
it. Vv
Had Gained Mnch Headway.
The fire was discovered, by the
night watchman shortly after midnight,
and it had then reached the
store of C. W. Taylor. This being a
wooden building the flames spread
rapidly, destroying the adjoining
store, that of W. G. Gooding, in short
order, and spreading thence in both
directions, crossing the street and
burning the large store of L. R.
Dowling & Sons. Then the fire swept
aown Dotn streets at tne same time.
Only by heroic efforts were the Charleston
and Western Carolina Railway
station, the residence of W. B.
Dowling and the only two stores on
the entire street left standing, saved.
The fire was gotten under control
about 2:15 a. m.
Ike L. Lightsey was seriously injured
when a part of the burning
building of ^IV. G. Gooding fell upon
him. He was burned badly over his
body, as well as bruised by the falling
structure. The attending physician
states that his condition is
grave.
. Losses and Insurance.
The stores destroyed, together
with an estimated loss of stock and
amount of insurance carried, are as
follows: North side: L. R. Dowling
& Sons, general merchants, store and
goods, $20,000, insurance $7,500; L.
R. Dowling & Sons, grocery warehouse,
$1,000, no insurance; Jesse
Thomas, general merchandise, stock
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Lee Welch, confections, stock $1,000,
no insurance; Vaco Theatre, $700,
no insurance; Leland Sanders, stock
$1,200, no insurance. South side:
W. G. Gooding, general merchandise,
stock $4,000, partly covered by insurance;
C. W. Taylor, meat market
and fancy grocery, stock $4,000, no
insurance; W. 0. Guess, general merchant,
stock $4,000, insurance $1,500;
Mrs. B. F. Varn, millinery, loss
$5,000, insurance $2,200; S. G. Varn,
Esq., law office, $1,500, no insurance;
Mrs. R. L. Chisolm, store, $2,000,
no insurance. >
No Contents Saved.
Absolutely nothing was saved from
the several stores destroyed, due to
the rapidity with which the flames
spread, except that of Jesse Thomas,
from which a quantity of merchandise
was moved before the flames
reached it, the most of which, how
ever, was badly damaged/ The stores
occupied by Thomas, the Vaco Theatre
and Welch were owned by Mrs.
J. A. Smoak. of Varnville; the stores
occupied by Gooding, Taylor and
Guess were owned by J. J. andjA. R.
Speaks. Mrs. Smoak's loss was about
$3,000; the Speaks brothers about
$4,000 with $1,800 insurance.
Other Places Damaged.
The Varnville Lighting company
sustained damages of about $500,
due to the burning of street lights,
wires, posts, etc. The store of Mrs. *
N. W. Rentz was damaged in the sum
of $300, caused by the breaking of
large plate glass front windows. The
store of J. B. Youmans, occupied by ^
Chisolm Brothers, was damaged likewise
and in about the same amount.
The manager for the store of L. R.
Dowling & Sons stated that while
their losses were heavy, they would
begin immediately upon the construction
of a modern brick building on
the site of the old store. The other
merchants will also rebuild at once,
and in each instance a brick building
will replace the former wooden
structure.
At a public auction sale on a farm
near Grashville, Pa., Friday, Irish
potatoes sold at $3.30 a bushel.
A Copenhagen dispatch says that
the government of Denmark, has
temporarily put the ban on the sale
of alcoholic spirits.
A Pliildelphia widow has been given
a verdict of $5,000 against a barkeeper
for selling liquor to her
husband from the effects of which he
died.
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