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t CtiJir Hamburg frralb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1917. Established 1891 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IX VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Colston Clippings. I There will be preaching at Colston Branch church Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and Sunday morning at 11 o'clock by the pastor. Rev. Walter Black. .Mr. Vernon .McMillan spent Saturday night with Messrs. Claude and Frank Kirkland. .Miss Dora McMillan, 01" Bamberg, spent last week-end at home. Mrs. Thos. Clayton spent several days last week with relatives in Charleston. Misses Sadie Boyd and Ethel Logan attended the teachers* meeting in Columbia last week. Miss Alberta Kearse spent Saturday night with Miss Laura McMillan. Misses Laura, Thyra. and Eleanor Goodwin spent Saturday night and Sunday with relatives in the St. John's section. M^srs. Layton Kinard and Otis Bishop and Miss Inez Clayton spent Saturday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Clayton. Mrs. S. P. Chisolm spent last week with her son. Mr. Henry Beard, in , Bamberg. Miss Bessie Kirkland spent Saturday night with her cousin. Miss Evelyn Kirkland. Miss Lottie Rentz spent Saturday night with relatives in this section. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clayton and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Clayton. Mr. R. L. Jackson, who has recent1a ,v " ^ 1 1 t 'h i c ^ i IV pill up u sa? mm in inio cmiuu, spent several days last week in Columbia. .Misses Reba Williams and Octavie McMillan spent Tuesday night with Miss Laura Goodwin. 4 Miss Xelle Clayton, of the Spring Branch section, spent last week-end at home. Ladies, dont forget that Sunday is our regular missionary meeting day. Come prepared to meet all obligations. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Beard and family visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Folk. Spring Branch Sayings. Spring Branch, March 2(?.?The good old picnics have started and it's a time of the year that most everybody likes but it's a very busy time * of the year for the farmers to enjoy such pleasure as that. Miss Sanie Goodwin spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Lottie Crider. Mr. E. M. Zeigler spent a few hours last Sunday at Mr. J. P. O'Quinn's. Messes Coonie and Jack Crider spent Saturday night with Mr. Monroe Crider. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Crider and daughter spent Sunday with her mother. Mrs. Emma Goodwin. Miss Clara O'Quinn spent Saturday night with Miss Dottie Goodwin. Messrs. James and Jesse Johnson * spent Saturday night at the home of Mr. T. J. Crider. Mr. Hansford O'Quinn spent Saturday night with .Mr. Mayfield Bessinger. .Mr. Charlie Goodwin spent Sunday with .Mr. Elige Goodwin. Miss Reba O'Quinn spent Sunday with Miss Dottie Goodwin. Miss Clara O'Quinn was the guest, of Mr. T. J. Crider Sunday. There will be a missionary meeting at Spring Branch Saturday. March 24th. It will be to the interest of v the young and old to be present. The public is cordially invited to come and bring well filled baskets. Speakjng will begin at 10.30 o'clock. Mr. John Bessinger spent Saturday night and Sunday with his daughter. Mrs. Emma Goodwin. Clear Pond Culling;*. Clear Pond. March 10.?Misses Pet and Doris Folk and Mrs. Avis Steedly were the guests at Mr. John Padgett's Thursday. Miss Kate Kornegay attended the Teachers' association in Columbia. " The .Misses Padgett were the guests at Air. G. \V. Folk's Thursdav night. Rev. Smith will preach his farewell sermon at Betiiesda Siuitlay. His many friends reuret to see him leave. .Mrs. (1. W". Folk and daughters. Mrs. .\vi.< Steediy and .Misses Pet and Doris Folk, and .Mrs. Herbert Folk, were the quests at .Mr. 1>. F. Hill's T Jin rsday. .Mr. and -Mrs. B. F. Hill visited .Mr. w * k MKN H()M?:\VAltl> All ITiits Mustered Out of Federal Service.?( amp Deserted. Camp .Moore. Styx. .March 1!?.? Tiie Second South Carolina regiment of infantry was mustered out of the service of the Cnited States this afternoon, and tonight and tomorrow I :?11 pnTiinanips will en to their homes. | The Charleston battalion, comprising ! the Washington Light Infantry, the | Sumter Guards, the Irish Volunteers, j and the German Fusiliers, will leave in a special train for Charleston over J the Southern railway at 0 o'clock toI morrow morning. With them will go the Tillman Volunteers and the band from Orangeburg. Sad Case ol" Paranoia. T. C. Wrench, who made his anj nual visit to this office Saturday, had | a supply of cigars he won from some | other Republican on the proposition j that Texas would go Democratic. | The name of the loser is withheld for j fear of action by the probate court.? | Beloit (Kan.) Gazette. David F. Houston, secretary of j agriculture in a statement of the food situation says American housewives I waste $700,000,000 worth of food by I carelessness in preparation, poor : cooking, lack of economy, etc. : J. W. Hill Thursday night. I Messrs. J. D. DuBois and L. M. j Ayer visited Mr. P. K. Hughes last 1 week. Misses Pet and Doris Folk and Mrs. Avis Steedly were guests at the home of Mr. Ed McMillan Saturday. i \licc M-jniift Mnrrw visited Fill' j liardt \Vednesda> and Thursday. ! .Mesdames DuBois and Bunch were ! guests at the home of .Mr. R. M. Morris. Mr. J. D. DuBois and little son visited Mr. G. \V. Folk Saturday. Misses Mamie and Ruth Morris visited Mrs. P. K. Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. P. K. Hughes ar.u | family were the guests of Mr. and! i Mrs. B. F. Hill Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. DuBois visited at the home of Mr. J. D.-Hughes Sunday. Kearse! Klippings. Kearse. March 20.?The home | demonstration club held its regular meeting with Mrs. George Kearse Friday afternoon. March 9. Eighteen members and a few visitors were present. The March lessons 011 care j of food, and several other bulletins j along this line were discussed by Mrs. j Faust. The next meeting will be : held April 6, with Mrs. \V. H. Ritter { hostess. A splendid programme has ! been arranged for this meeting. Af | ter the meeting adjourned .Mrs. i Kearse served a delightful salad I course and coffee, and all spent a pleasant social hour. A committee of ladies met with Mrs. \V. H. Ritter on Saturday after: noon of last week, in regard to raisj ing funds for the church organ. Miss | Ariel dispensed punch, while the la: dies made their plans. At six o'clock I Mrs. Ritter served a salad course. The oyster supper given at White j Point school house last Wednesday i afternoon and evening was a success : socially and financially, a nice sum ! of money was realized for tiie church I organ. Buford Bridge Budget. | Buford Bridge. March i'?>.? Mrs. | James Darlington, of Atlanta, is a j pleasant visitor at the home of Mr. j S. E. Xeeley for a few weeks. Mr. S. W. Copeiand and family and i Mr. W. C. Sease and family, of Ehrj hardt. spent last Sunday very pleas; antly with Mr. H. C. Kirkland and I family. I j Mr. A. L. Kirkland and son and j daughter, of Bamberg, came home j Saturday night. They were accomj panied by Miss Hazel Armstrong. | Messrs. Henry Kearse and Frank Herndon and Miss Cleo Kearse. of Bamberg, were callers at the home of Mr. J. B. Kearse last Sunday. Mrs. Roscoe Kearse was taken to ! ^oiumuia to Ixit? nospnai lasi wet-u j for an operation. Miss Pea:ie Kearse is visiting in j Olar. Mr. it. M. Kearse came home ironi> I Khrhardt Saturday to spend Sunda> i ; with his i'aniil>. j Among those who attended the j oyster sapper a' White Point last i week from around re were: Misses] Belle and /kdmu iP'ekuid, Mvrt'e ! * i Kverette. Ruth Skuier and Mr. Tone> j i j Kirk land. Mr. S. K. Xeeiev and I>r. X. K. J j Kirkland attended the distriet con-j j j'erence at Oeiimark last week. They : i reported a great meeting. BO AG US. I VIRTUALLY STATE OF WARl WILSON COXTKMPLATKS IMMK1)1 ATI] SPSS I OX OK COXGIIKSS. Washington is Aroused.?Some Officials Declare President Has Power to Take Aggressive Steps. Washington. March IS.?With the announcement of the ruthless destruction of three unarmed American merchant ships by submarines, it was unofficially admitted Here tonignt that virtually a state of war exists between the United States and Germany. Technically the United States remains in a position of armed neutrality. Whether this shall be changed before April 16, the date fixed for a special session of Congress. the war making branch of the government. President Wilson has not decided. One step the president is contemplating is a call for an immediate session of congress to hear an address asking for authority to adopt aggressive measures against the submarine menace. Already American ships are being armed to defend themselves: the next move must be to send warships with orders to seek out submarines and clear the trans-Atlantic lanes. President's Powers. Some of the highest officials of the! government hold that tlie executive has power to declare that a state of j war exists and to proceed with aggressive protective steps pending the' assembling of congress. There is no indication, however, that President Wilson will follow that course. Of the three ships destroyed, two were unloaded and homeward bound. All were American built. American owned and officered and manned largely by American citizensr .Meagre dispatches indicate that all were sunk with complete disregard for the safety of those on board and that some of the members of the crew may have been lost. Today's developments brought the government face to face with the problem of formulating a definite policy for the nation in case the United States actually enters the war. This possibility was mentioned by the president in his inaugural address March All of the conditions outlined by the president in his message announcing the diplomatic break with Germany as leading to a state of armed neutrality have now been fulfilled. "The overt act." described by him then lias actually come. if. in fact, it had not already been committed when the president went before con gress. men. since ne csiauusucu a state of "armed neutrality" without the specific authority of congress. President Wilson was out autoinobiling when the Associated Press dispatch telling of the three disasters came in quick succession. Through Secretary Tumulty he was given all available facts immediately on his return. In the meantime Secretary Lansing and other State department officials, as well as cabinet members, were given the information. Several hours later official reports came from Consul Frost, at Queenstown. and Consul General Skinner, at London, telling of the sinking of the City of Memphis, the Vigilancia and the Illinois. These dispatches confirmed press reports, but added few details. International lawyers and constitutional experts here showed no hesitancy tonight in saying that President Wilson has full authority to interpret this as an act of war and announce that this country considers that an actual state of war exists by reason of Germany's flagrant assault 011 American shipping. Such action would be subject to the approval of congress. Despite the sinking of big passenger liners like the California and the i nrnnin the iponardi/.ing of Ameri" cans on nearly a score of other vessels and the sinking of three other American ships, the Housatonie. the Lyman M. Law. and the Algonquin, since the unrestricted warfare began, some ollicials. inspired by the president's reluctance to believe that Germany would carry through her threat, have clung desperately to the hope that some slight respect for international law might still he shown. German sea warfare may fairly be stated, however, to have surpassed even the most pessimistic forecasts here. That she actually means to send every vessel to the bottom that dares to venture within her forbidden zones is now accepted as a fact. THKKi; VKSSKLS SI NK. American Craft Ho I <?\vn Ilefore (Jerman Submarine**. London. March IS.?The sinking of the American steamships City of Memphis. Illinois and Vigilancia was announced today. Fourteen men from the Vigilancia are missing, as are some of the men from the City of Memphis. The crew of the Illinois landed safely. The City of .Memphis, in ballast from Cardiff for New York, was sunk by gunfire. The second officer and fifteen men of the crew have been landed. A patrol boat lias gone in search of the other members of the crew. The Illinois, from London for Port Arthur, Texas, in ballast, was sunk at eight o'clock this morning. The Vigilancia was torpedoed without warning. The submarine did not appear. The captain, first and second mates, first, second and third enj gineers and twenty-three men of the crew have been landed at the Scilly Islands. The fourth engineer and thirteen men are missing. The American steamship City of Memphis, which left Cardiff Friday in ballast for New York, was sunk Saturday when she left port. The City of Memphis had the Stars and Stripes painted on both sides. She encountered a submarine about five o'clock Saturday evening. The German commander ordered the captain of the steamer to leave his ship witli| in fifteen minutes. The entire crew entered live boats | and the submarine then fired a tori tip/1 rs whirh vtrnpl.- flip vps^pI nil flip i 1 - - ?? - j side, tearing a great hole, through j which the pea poured. The steamer settled down quickly and foundered within a few minutes. During the night the boats became separated and at 4 o'clock Sunday morning three boat crews were picked up by a patrol vessel and landed. These boats contained thirty-three men, mostly Americans. All of the officers were Americans. The officers believe that the other boats will be rescued. Two Men Drowned. Charleston March IS.?Alex J. Ferguson, chief clerk for the Carolina company here, and Herbert Rivers, of Atlanta, were drowned yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock off the extreme end of the Isle of Palms, when their small boat capsized with them. Horace Rivers, also aii employe of the Carolina company, and a brother of Herbert Rivers, was saved only by a life preserver, which kept him afloat until he was rescued by three Charleston young men, who swam Qirt from the shore. The three men. who. after returnI ing to the beach after a stroll 011 the | island, saw Horace Rivers struggling j near exhaustion in the life belt, and j swam out to the motor boat, which | the unfortunate trio was attempting | to reach, were Messrs. Harelston j Lesesne, Waring Hazelhurst and Lawrence Haig. They picked Mr. Rivers up and found that he could | not have survived much longer. Strike is (5If. 1 Xew York. March IN.?An official ! of the conference committee of rail! road managers announced at 12:4f> j o'clock that the railroad strike was j off. A feu minutes after the announcement was made the railroad managI ers went from the Grand Central terminal to the conference hotel and were joined immediately by the mediators. They refused to make any statement on the way to the meeting room. It was presumed the announcement would be made through Secretary Lane. The mediators and managers were believed to be awaiting the arrival of the brotherhood chiefs, who had retired, before making the announce ment that the strike had been averted. I'ttered His Sentiments Anyhow. The leader of the brass hand was a British sympathizer. "Any member of this band." he I ! said, "who stands up for them bar! ; barons Boers had better keep it to i himself. The first man that raises I his voice for old Krusrer will get his ' walkin' papers. That's all I've got to say." 1'ive minutes later the band was ; playing and the fierce-eyed old C'.eri man with the bass horn was defiantly j shouting into it: | "OO.M-Paui: OO.M-Paul! OOMj Paul!"?Chicago Tribune. The Thames carries to the sea an I average of 1 !) ?:; cubic feet of sediment a year. RUSSIAN CZAR IS DEPOSED ROMANO!K DYNASTY COMKS TO I SI DDKN KXD. With lint Little Casualties Revolution in Russia Overthrows the Government of Nicholas. Petrograd. March 1~>.?Tiie Emperor of Russia has abdicated and ! Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch. j his younger brother, lias been named as regent. The Russian ministry, charged with corruption and incompetence, has been swept out of office, une minister. Alexander Protopopoff. head of the interior department, is reported to have been killed and the other ministers, as well as the president of the imperial council, are under arrest. A new national cabinet 'is announced with Prince Lvoff as president of the council and premier, and the other offices held by the men who are close to the Russian people. For several days Petrograd has been the scene of one of the most re-j niarkable risings in history. Beginning with minor food riots j and labor strikes, the cry for food j reached the hearts of the soldiers and ; one by one the regiments rebelled.! until finally those troops that had for j a time stood loyal to the government i took up their arms and marched into; the ranks of the revolutionists. The Leading; Figure. The president of the duma, Michael V. Rodzianko. was the leading figure I among the delegates who unanimous-1 ly decided to oppose the imperial or- j der for a dissolution of the house.. They continued their session and R.' Rodzianko informed the emperor.! then at the front, that the hour had I struck when the will of the people; must prevail. Even the imperial council realized' the gravity of the situation and added its appeal to that of the duma that the emperor should take stops to give the people a policy and government in accordance with their desire ana in order that there should be no in-j terference with carrying on the war to a victorious ending. The emperor hastened back from the front, only to find that the revo-j lution had been successful and that a new government was in control. The empress, who it is alleged has! i been influential in the councils op- | posed to the wishes of the people, is j reported to be under arrest. Casualties Xot Heavy. Although considerable fighting! took place, it is not believed that the j casualties are large. The early period of the uprising j bore the character rather cf a mock revolution staged for an immense audience. Cossacks tearing down the j street did so in a half-hearted j fashion, plainly without malice or in-J tent to harm the crowds that they playfully dispersed. The troops ex- j changed good natured raillery with1 the working men and women and asj they rode were cheered by the popu-j lace. Long lines of soldiers stationed in i dramatic attitudes across Xevskv prospect, with their guns pointed at j an imaginarv foe. appeared to be taking part in a realistic tableau, j .Machine guns firing roulades of j blank cartridges seemed only to add j another realistic touch to a tremen-l dous theatric production which was j using the whole city as a stage. rntil Sunday night this pageant I continued without serious opposition. Then in a flash the whole scene lost its theatric quality: it became a genuine revolution. The regiments had received an or-} der from the commandant to fire! upon persons assembled in the street. This caused immediate dissension among the troops, who did not understand why they should be compelled to take violent measures against fellow citizens, whose chief defense wasj that they were hungry and were asking the government to supply bread. Several regiments deserted and a j pitched battle began between the i troops who stood with the govern inent and tnose unu inuseu iu j orders had mutinied. j La>t of the KomanolVs. Petrograd. March id.?via London, i .March ! 7. :t: M"? a. m. ? Kmperor; Nicholas abdicated at midnight last night on behalf of himself and the j heir apparent, (irand Duke Alexis, in, favor of (Irand Duke Michael Alexan-j drovitch. At IMP' o'clock this afternoon; (Irand Duke Michael himself abdicat-l ed. thus bringing the Romanoff dynasty to an end. The government, pending a meet WAS OX I'111ST STOMA KIXK. W. (?. Keid, of Greenville, a Meinl>er of Hundley's Crew. Greenville. .March 16.?That other person has been found who went on the world's first submarine, the Hundley, and that is W. J. Reid, of .Monaghan .Mill, near Greenville. In a story from Columbia several days ago Col. D. \V. Mc-Laurin. State land agent, was quoted as saying that he was perhaps the only person now living who was on the submarine. \ I r* I) A1/1 !.' A f* R A A?\i I f U A f .mi. nciu ir? ui uiJiuiuii uiac Col. McLaurin has the facts confused in regard to the ill-fated submarine. In the Columbia story it is stated that the submarine was not raised until after the war, many years after it sank. However, .Mr. Reid says the vessel was raised only fifteen days after being sunk and that he was one of those who went on the submarine and viewed dead bodies of the crew. The crew consisted of eight men, according to both authorities and both are agreed on the general construction of the vessel. .Mr. Reid said the submarine was propelled by hand, cranks being used and these were fashioned much 011 the order of brace and bit. Mr. Reid was a member of the naval reserves at the time, having enlisted from Anderson. He remained in Charleston until the summer of 1S04 when he returned to Anderson and enlisted in the First regiment of engineers. He was at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, finally returning to South Carolina 011 May 20, at the age of seventeen years. What is said to be the first sub marine boat was tested in the Plymouth harbor in 1774. ing of the constitutional assembly, is vested in the executive committee of the duma and the newly chosen council of ministers. A manifesto to this effect was issued by the duma committee today and it will be telegraphed to the general army headquarters this evening. Michael to Kule. London, March 17.?Grand Duke Michael has accepted the throne of Russia, conditioned on the consent of the Russian people, according to a statement here today from the semi-official Russian news agency. The statement follows: "Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, accepting the throne from his brother declares that he does so only with the consent of the Russian people, who should by a plebiscite establish a new form of government and new fundamental laws." The declaration made by the grand duke on his acceptance of the throne as given out by the news agency, reads as follows: "This heavy responsibility has come to me at the voluntary request of my brother, who has transferred the imperial throne to me during a period of warfare which is accompanied with unprecedented popular disturbances. "Moved by the thought which is in the minds of the entire people, that the good of the country is paramount, I have adopted the firm resolution to accept the supreme power r\ii l it' tMc 1 iq tho will n i* nur <?rpnt 1| UilC ?/V V 4 4 ^ v c. people, who by a plebiscite organized by their representatives in a constituent assembly, shall establish a form of government and new fundamental laws for the Russian State. "Consequently invoking the benediction of our Lord, I urge all citizens 01' Russia to submit to the provisional government established upon the initiative of the duma and invested with full plenary powers, until such time which will follow with as little delay as possible, as the constituent assembly on a basis of universal, direct, equal and secret suffrage shall by its decision as to the new form of government express the will of the people." To Set I'p Republic. New York. .March 17.?The Rus- \ sian empress and crown prince are safe in Finland and the emperor at the Snotgorsky monastery in Pskoff, according to a cablegram made public here today by the Russian-American-Asiatic corporation. According to Ivan Xorodny. head of the corporation, the cablegram was from their representatives in Petrograd and was transmitted through the Belgian minister. Mi* Vnrftilnv nnnniincpfi file re ceipt of the dispatches also saying that the duma is promulgating orders for the formation of a government to be known as the I'nited States of Russia with Prince Lvoft' as president. Read the Herald, $1.50 per year.