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f t \ ' \ olljp lamliprg Ijmlii One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 26,1917. Established 1891 - ; ~ ; i COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS j SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Clear Pond Cullings. Clear Pond, April 24.?The many friends of Mrs. W. T. Beard will be glad to know that she is improving from her recent serious illness. Mrs. J. M. Seigler returned to her home in Augusta on Saturday, after spending several days with relatives in this vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hill and children spent the past week-end with i relatives at Govan. Messrs. Rob and Tillman Carter were visitors in this section on Sunday evening last. Miss Minnie Turner, of Ehrhardt. spent Sunday in the home of Mr. J. R. Morris. Mr. James Hughes, of the U. S. N. spent last Friday at the home of Mr P. K. Hughes. Mr. B. F. Beard and Mr. W. M. Mew, of Hampton, spent Sunday last in this vicinity. Mrs. Jasper Varn and Mrs. A. L. McMillan, of Colston, spent Thursday last in this community. Mrs. Haigler Hughes and Mrs. J. E. McMillan spent Friday afternoon last at the home of Mr. J. R. Morris. Mrs. R. C. Carter, of Augusta, is spending several days with relatives . in this community. ' Mr. MayfieltKBessinger was a visitor at the home of Mr. G. W. Folk on Sunday. Mr. Rice Steedly was a visitor in the Clear Pond section on Sunday afternoon last. / The union meeting is to be held at Bethesda no Saturday and Sunday, 28th and 29th. WeW hope for a large attendance and an interesting meeting. J. Denmark Dots. Denmark, April 21.?After several nroAL-'e vicH trt fripnds in Walterboro. u t awav w . . Mrs. S. D. Guess is at home again. Mrs. Nora Koon, of Georgia, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. George Hope. Miss Dorothy Hart, of Estill, is spending the week-end with Mrs. J. W. Crum, Jr. Mrs. G. W. Goolsby has returned home after an extended visit to Florence. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Xeely entertained about 35 of their friends at their country home on Friday evening. A tempting supper, including fish of all kinds, was spread on the lawn, which was brilliantly l^hted. \ The latter part of the evening the S^sts were entertained with familiar s^ngs rendered Dy me young men present. J.\ Elbert Steadman, Jr., Elmore Steadman and Mrs. J. E. Steadman motored to Florence last week to visit Mrs. A. H. Pregnall, who returned with them for a stay of several weeks. Mrs. S. G. Mayfield and Miss Ruby Guess lwtfe gone to Washington as delegates te the D. A. R. convention. Branchville Breezes. Branchville, April 21.?Wallace Bethea, of Spartanburg, visited relatives here during the past week. Mrs. W. A. Bass, who has been visiting relatives for several weeks in Oxford, N. C., has returned home. Mrs. A. S. Hair, of Charleston, is spending some time with relatives here. A social meeting of the Ladies' Missionary society was held sft the home of Mrs. D. L. Rhoad Friday afternoon. The young men of Branchville entertained their young lady friends at a moonlight picnic at Gressett lake on Tuesday evening. Games were played and refreshments served. Charles T. Connor, of Ashville, who has been visiting relatives and friends in Branchville and vicinity, has returned to his home. Mrs.^Essie F. Cabell is spending the week with friends in Bamberg. Oak Grove Greetings. Oak Grove, April 23.?Some of the farmers are about through planting. .Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Copeland spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Copeland. .. Rev. J. R. Smith and fcamily dined with Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Smith last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Hiers spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Willie Bishop. Everybody has been busy during! I the spring planting spring gardens, which are fine now. Among those who dined with .Mr. and .Mrs. B. H. Carter last Sundaywere: -Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Carter. .Mrs. Moros, and Mrs. Eddie Sease. of Barnwell. Mr. I. W. Rentz spent last Thursday with his daughter, Mrs. G. F. McMillan. Mr. and Mrs. L. \V. Copeland dined with Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Zeigler recently. Miss Julia Emma Clayton has accepted a position with the telephone company at Denmark. Mr. J. W. Copeland and daughter. Miss Mamie Copeland, spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Willie Bishop. Among those who have been on the sick list for the past week are: Mr. D. M. Smith, Misses Pearl Martin and Lonie Copeland. We are very glad to say at this writing that they are improving. .Mr. J. W. Copeland spent last Sunday in the Walterboro section. .Miss Joe Carter is spending soipe time with her aunt, .Mrs. G. F. McMillan. Mr. and Mrs. J.. C. Hayden, of Cope, and Mr. Hayden's mother motored to Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Copeland's last Monday. Mr. and -Mrs. D. P. Smith and Miss Pearl Martin dined with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Carter last Sunday. Mrs. J. L. Copeland has returned from a pleasant visit to the Cope section. Schofield Sketclies. Schofield, April 24.?We are having some real spring weather now. This is what the farmers like to see at this time, as favorable weather means a great thing with them at this season of the year. Miss Julia Inabinet, of North, left here today for her home, after spending a week with her brother, Mr. A. T Tnnhinpf Mr. F. M. Eliott and Miss Mable Sowers motored over to Fairfax last Sunday. Mr. Luther E. Drawdy and Miss Marcella Sanders, of Olar, were happily united in marriage at Bamberg on Sunday, April-J 5th. We extend them our best wishes and congratulations. Mr. James L. Owen visited at Fairfax last night. Several of our folks attended the play at the Olar high school last night. Mr. D. W. Phillips, of Bamberg, was here Saturday last. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Drawdy visited their parents at Olar Sunday. . Mr. W. O. Cook visited friends at Estill last Sunday. Mrs. S. D. Lain and children spent the week-end with relatives at Govan. DRAEBLR. Colston Clippings. Colston, April 24.?While only a small crowd attended the missionary meeting of the third division at Colston Saturday, those who were pres* * if ent enjoyed tne programme. .vuss Miriam Rice, president of this division, presided. Mrs. Hayes, of Barnwell, Mrs. Storne, of Blackkville, Mrs. Cleckley, of Orangeburg, and Miss Sallie Free, of Bamberg, made interesting talks on the different phases of woman's work. Messrs. George Curry and R. L. Jackson spent last week-end at their home in Sumter. Misses Annie Florence and Pretto Fender, of Ehrhardt. spent last weekend at home. Misses Laura and Thyra Goodwin visited Miss Reba Williams Saturday night and Sunday. Miss Dora McMillan, of Bamberg, spent last week-end at home. While crossing a small stream in the Buford Bridge section Thursday afternoon, Mr. J. C. Beard saw and killed an alligator which measured seven feet and t^n inches in length. Misses Sadie Boyd, Ethel Logan, and Mary Clayton took tea at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMillan Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Move Dickinson.Misses Ethel and Clara McMillan and Mrs. L. C. Price were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMillan Sunday afternoon. Mr. \V. G. Kirkland, foreman of the county chaingang, spent Saturday night and Sunday at home. Mr. J. G.. Clayton, of Walterboro, spent Sunday and Sunday night at home. Mr. and Mrs. \V. H. Folk and children were visitors at the home of Mr. R. F. Kirkland Sunday. If you don't know what to give your cows and you don't know what your cows give you, why do you keep! cows? Keep records. I CiEX. VILLA AXTI-GEKMAX. Courier Says liandit is ()pi?ose<1 to Teuton Influences. El Paso, April 20.?Coming direct from Villa's camp on the Concho river, a delegate from the Mexican j leader is said to have passed through here recently en route to the interior of the United States to deliver documents to Miguel Diaz Lombardo, who is understood to be Villa's choice for provisional president of his proposed government. The Villa courier is said to have told a Villa partisan here that he would deliver papers to Lombardo instructing him to go at .once to Washington and deny that any Germans were in Villa's command and to state that Villa would oppose by force any efforts of anv Mexican faction to align- his people with the Germans. Germans Are Outclassed. Paris, April 19.?That section of von Hindenburg's granite wall which runs from Soissons to Rheims, has been shaken- to its foundation by the terrific blows of Gen. Nivelle. The French have the whip hand now and the Germans still are staggering from tiie great rebuff dealt to them on .Monday. The French soldiers who won the first line have been relieved by fresh formations and the second phase of the battle has begun with renewed vigor. Unaffected by counter-attacks in some places and the sturdy resistance offered everywhere, the French have gained substantial advantages and have driven forward with such speed that the ^Germans have been obliged to abandon many guns. The enemy made a desperate effort to stem the tide between Juvincourt and Berry-Au-Bac. This is the weakest point of his line, being devoid of natural defenses. Awful Carnage. Thirty thousand of the best German troops were hurled forward here in a furious counter-attack, but the move had been foreseen, and . the French guns were ready. Artillery and machine guns smashed wave after wave of the green-clad soldiers until finally the attempt was given up after awful carnage. Details of yesterday's battle from j Soissons to Auberive show that the French infantry tactically outclassed the Germans. The first army operating from Soissone to Craonne, had established itself on Monday night along the front running from northeast of Margival and Vauxallont to the south of Craonne by Vregny, Chivres, Chavonne, Chivy and Ailles. f'hivroc-Chiw line the 1NU1 111 VI Ult VUl.ivw ? .. enemy retained all the heights, and a footing had to be won thereon befor the operation, so auspiciously begun, could be properly completed. Two Determined Attacks. Two simultaneous attacks were decided upon with Nanteul-La-Fosse on the left, and Chivy and Braye-EnLaonnis on the right, as the respective objectives. The attacks succeeded perfectly notwithstanding the determined resistance of the enemy, who had all the advantages of the ground. Driven out of Nanteuil and Braye the Germans nevertheless still clung to the intermediate positions, comprising Vailly and the important bridgehead on the Aisne, by which they could threaten the French flanks. The movement was then extended to the bridgehead, which was soon carried, and the attacking troops scaled the slope of the plateau north of Vailly. They advanced rapidly as far as Rouge Maison farm and a country house to the right, gaining several hundred yards of ground on the summit of the plateau. Substantial progress also w?s made east 01 ** J 1 * U - nftnrnnnn An ] V Aanteuii anu uy uic auci uuuu uu.,- . one narrow gap was left through which the Germans could withdraw the troops in the region of Conde and Sancv. These ^detachments are in serious danger of capture. The violence of the French attack threw the enemy into such disorder that he was unable to bring up reserves quickly enough, and consequently lost several guns. Toward the end of the day the Frencn maae more progress between the plateau of Vailly and Braye, all villages south of the famous Chemin Des Dames be-1 ing taken. He Was Only Cautionary. He wondered why his wife sudden- j ly turned cold on him and remained i so for several days. For all that he j said in remonstrance was: "My dear, you'll never be able to j drive that nail with a flatiron. For I heaven's sake, use your head."?Boston Globe. MUCH KILLING. East Yonkers Minister and Florida Man Slay Wife and Mother-in-Law. Yonkers, X. Y., April 22.?After a quarrel about the war with his mother-in-law, a native of Germany, and his wife, the Rev. Robert F. Berry, pastor of a Congregational church in East Yonkers, early today shot and killed both women, wounded his sister-in-law and" nhen committed suicide. He left a note containing only two words?"Insane Prussians." From Miss Caroline Bahr, the clergyman's sister-in-law, the police say they learned that the Rev. .Mr. Berry purchased a pistol several days ago, saying he had joined the home defense guard. There had been frequent quarrels, his mother-in-law, .Mrs. Caroline Bahr, seventy-two years old, and his wife, .Matilda, thirty-five years old, being strongly pro-German. A discussion which began early last night, it was said, did not end until daybreak this morning. Then all retired. A few hours later, however, the Rev. Mr. Berry entered the room in which Mrs. Bahr and Mrs. Berry were sleeping, firing a shot at his mother-in-law, which killed her instantly. He then shot his wife through the head. Miss Bahr, entering the room, was shot in the head and dropped to the floor. The clergyman thinking, it is believed, that lo?? olon Hood turn | HID S13ici*ili-ian a.ou v _ . _ ed the weapon to his own head and ended his life. \ _______ Lakeland, Fla., April 22.?What is said to have been a family quarrel about money matters resulted in the killing here this morning by W. S. Wilkes of his wife and her mother, Mrs. E. R. Rainey. Both women were shot through the head, being instantly killed. Wilkes was arrested and lodged in the county jail at Bartow. After the shooting WTilkes refused to let the police enter the house, warning them that he would surrender to none but the sheriff, and standing just inside the door, gun in hand. When the sheriff arrived an hour4ater from Bartow Wilkes gave himself up. Wilkes is about fifty, his wife about forty-five years and Mrs. Rainey seventy years of age. Wilkes is reputed to be wealthy. WON'T ESCAPE ARMY. Those Who Assume Matrimonial Burdens Now Will Not Be Exempted. <' * -- A 1 1fl Afar. f\f w asningiou, Apin i?/.?.iigu v/j. military age who have^married since a state of war against Germany was declared will not escape military service under- a war department policy formally announced today. The department's statement follows: "The war department announces that all men married since the outbreak of war will be treated upon the same basis as unmarried men in so far as their military obligations are I concerned. It is desired that the ut| most publicity be given by the press to this announcement." The department was moved to take this action in order that all men should understand exactly what is contemplated in the organization of an army to fight Germany. It was desired that there should arise no question of slackers upon the score of marriages contracted since the outbreak of war with the possible construction that the marriage in any case was hastened in order that millA nroHoH / lary uuiy uugui uc ^ Britain Expresses Appreciation. London,'April 18.?Today's sitting of the British parliament will be a historical landmark. Both the legislative houses adopted?the house of lords unanimously and the house of commons with one dissenting vote? resolutions expressing the profound appreciation of the British nation for the action of the United States government and people in -entering the world war in defense of the high cause of freedom and the rights of humanity. First to Fall Under Old Glory. - - _ Paris, April 19.?Edmund (J. c. Genet, the American aviator whose death was officially announced today, was the first American to die in France fighting under the American flag. Genet, who was a grandson of former Governor Clinton, of Xew York, and great grandson of "Citizen" Genet, French minister to the United States in Revolutionary times, was killed near Ham while escorting Sergt. Raoul Lutberry. ' Genet was known as a daring and skilfull flyer and was very popular on account of his cheery and optismistic nature. His home was in Ossining. X. Y. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Senator Tillman has been granted indefinite leave of absence from the United States senate because of illness., Paul Twitty, aged 1(5 years, of Camden, was drowned Tuesday after noon while swimming in a mill pond with a number of boy friends. The war department has shipped 300 Krag-Jorgensen rifles for use of the reserve officers' training corps of the University of South Carolina. C. B. Vincent, of Charleston, has offered to the service of the State 1,800 acres of land in Beaufort county for purposes of cultivation. The land will be given free for three years. E. F. Verdery and B. H. Moss, receivers for the Orangeburg Manufacturing company, have reported to the United States district court the sale at auction of the plant for $212,000, the upset price. At a meeting of the faculty of Clemson college held Monday, it was unanimously voted to graduate about seventy-five members of the senior class as soon as they should be called by the government., Lieutenant Colonel Peter K. McCully, Jr., of Anderson, has been named by the governor to be colonel of the First regiment, South Carolina National Guard. He succeeds Col. E. M. Bylthe, of Greenville, resigned. Unknown persons believed to have been German spies broke into the office of Senatbr Tillman, chairman of the senate naval committee at Washington, Wednesday night. The object of the attempted burglary was evidently to secure naval secrets of the United States government bearing on the war situation. Nothing of value in a naval military sense was obtained. Ragin Matthis, white, killed Ben Jones, a negro, in Clarendon county last week. The negro and the white man had some words over certain ? ' J J plowing that tne negro naa aoue auu the negro cursed the white man and later attempted to assault him with a pitchfork, whereupon the white man picked up a scantling and struck the negro a blow on the head from which he died several days later. R. J. Wilson, aged 33, chief machinist of the Ottarav mills, in Union, was killed Tuesday by explosion of a barrel containing whitewash. Mr. Wilson was experimenting with a whitewash spray made from a barrel, filling it about two thirds full of the mixture. When he applied an air pump the barrel exploded, striking him on the head and knocking him to a cement floor. He died a short time afterwards. J. T. Holleman Pardoned. : Columbia, April 19.?J. Townes j Holleman, of Anderson, was toaay i granted a full pardon by Governor Manning for the purpose of being restored to citizenship. Holleman was serving a sentence of two years in the State penitentiary, imposed by Judge Hayne F. Rice, on February 9, 1917, following Holleman's plea of guilty in the court of general sessions of Anderson county to the charge of breach of trust with fraudulent intent. Judge Rice has said: "I do not hesitate to say that I am sure Mr. i Holleman had proven himself a useful and excellent citizen until the time of his unfortunate breach, and that if pardoned he will again prove himself to be a useful and excellent citizen. I do not wish to be understood as recommending pardon, but in no sense do I oppose it." More than 5,000 citizens of Anderson and Pickens counties, and some from adjoining counties, signed the petitions urging the governor to grant a full pardon. Ordered to Charleston. Washington. April 19.?An order \ i ~ ^ ? was issued toaay relieving .w?jui Kyle Rueker, judge advocate, from duty at Washington and directing him to report May 1 at Charleston for duty as judge advocate of the Southeastern department. The commanding officer at Augusta arsenal, Augusta. Ga., is directed to report on the same date as ordnance officer of the Southeastern department. The name of this officer is not given in the order. s - ENFORCE VAGRANCY LAWS. Gov. Manning Urges Another Method of Cutting; Waste. Columbia, April 18.?Through the press of the State Governor Manning today issued an address to the county and municipal authorities throughout the State, urging upon them the advisability of enforcing the vagrancy laws. "In the case of vagrants ,hanging around a town," said Gov. Manning, "there is not only a large amount * of waste going on through the kitchens of the towns, but there is a large _ JO 1 . t ur y M i.L waste 01 iaoor. i oeueve turn through the strict enforcement of the vagrancy laws, whereby this State could be relieved of the undesirable % presence of a few triffling people, there will be a tendency towards increasing the labor on farms. I fear also that much of the discontent that V is reported and rumored comes from the idle minds of those who are not working and who are making no effort to secure work. This is a time when we should all work together, each person doing his utmost to sup- v; port the government. The campaign for raising a large amount of food [Crops for man and beast is taking hold all over the State, according to the information I have at hand. I would suggest, therefore, that wherever practicable the farmers give em- v ployment to the needy and deserving for the purpose of raising food crops. This would decrease the number of those who might be apprehended under the vagrancy laws and also increase the quantity of food produced." v| -T ? Young 6-foot 8-incher Enlists. i ' - Greenville, April. .18.?Although v Jess Willard offered his services to his country and then failed to take up Secretary Baker's acceptance of ' his offer, he will have in the army his equal in physical build by the enlistment here yesterday of Champ E. - . Martin, a young farmer of Oconee county. Martin is exactly six feet, eight and one-half inches in height, in bare feet. With practically all of 4 his clothing removed he tipped the / scales at 198 pounds, and his chest measurement is forty-four inches. Inasmuch as the Oconee farmer is above the height limit fixed for recruits, Corporal Holt today applied for special authority to waive these t regulations and accept Martin. m y ! . French Commission Arrives. I ? Fortress Monroe, Va., April 24.? France's war commissioners to the United States reached Hampton Roads today, and tonight they are ? >vj bound up-Chesapeake bay for Wash- ' ington on board the president's yacht, Mayflower. The mission, of which Rene Vivlani, vice premier and minister of jus- . tice, is {he official head, and Marsha! 1 Joffre a member, brings no .written instructions from the French govern ment, the ministry having decided to give its members unlimited powers to negotiate with the United States on all subjects, military, naval and financial, j * Would Have Army SentIt is prepared to discuss the send- J ing of an American expeditionary force to France. .Marshal Joffre and other military members will indicate to the American officials with whom they are to confer, several important military reasons which they consider renders the sending of such a force advisable. The most important of thpsp reasons is found in the moral effect to be had from the presence of American troops and the American flag on the battlefields of France. . The French idea of an American expedition calls for a fighting force ' supported by auxiliary services, such as railway staffs, railway material, base repair shops, telegraph and telephone lines, automobile transport and a strong aviation section. i Wofford Speaker Wins. ' H u Rock Hill, April 20.?Thomas H. Glen, of Wofford, won first; S. M. Derrick, of Newberry, second, and W. E. Bowen, of Furman, third, in the South Carolina intercollegiate oratorical contest here tonight. One of y.v< . _ ? ,J ; ? moa the largest crowas ever <m.euuw5 present and the judges were twentyfive minutes in deciding. Many in the audience had picked other win- , ners. Nothing to Be Ashamed Of. "I haven't done a day's work in two years." "You ought to be ashamed of yourself." . , ' "Oh, no. I'm a night-watch in a bank."?Gargoyle. , - . v tf . & ---p.-/ ?