n J ?hr Hamhrni iirralii & * One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1917. Established 1891 ~ : ' " T" "" i " COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. f News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere, r Colston Clippings. ^ Colston. June 19.?There will be preaching service at Colston Branch Baptist church Sunday afternoon. The public is invited. Mrs. S. P. Chisolm. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Beard and little son. Williard, and Miss Inez Clayton spent Sunday with relatives in Norway. Mr. J. A. Padgett, of Walterboro. was the guest of his brother. Mr. Calvin Padgett, Sunday. Miss kudv Kinara, 01 auruarui, is * visiting Miss Annie Florence Fender at present. Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Kearse and children, Miss Minnie Kirkland and Mr. Preston McMillan spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kearse, of Buford's Bridge section. The friends of Mrs. T. D. Beard are very sorry to know that she is confined to her bed with illness. They hope for her a speedy recovery. Mr. Frank Kirkland. Jr., spent Saturday night \. M. Hoover. O. W. Barker. Ed Bowers. Dr. .1. \V. Weekly. J. F. Preacher. H. M. Preacher. V. W. Manuel and M. M. Liahtsey. M. A. Moye and J. F. Preacher gave a very entertaining account of their trip to Washington: Miss V.oe Thomas gracefully recited "The Old Butktle Flag." Then came the Cnited Daughters of the Confederacy's song AHMV CANTOX.MKNT SITES. lia.st Four (ities of Total of Sixteen Announced. Washington. June 14.?Four sites for war army divisional cantonments were approved today, completing the list of sixteen points at which military towns are to be built by September 1. when the first draft of troops will be called to the colors. At each cantonment a full division will be given its preliminary training) before being sent to Europe for final] instructions behind the firing line. They will be located as follows: Aver. .Mass.: Yaphank, L. I.. X. Y.: Wrightstown, X. J.; Annapolis Junction. Md.: Petersburg. Ya.: Atlanta. Ga.: Columbia. S. C.: Chillicothe. Ohio: Louisville, Ky.: Battle Creek. - T O/-./%! A i?L- T?r\r>L-fnrH | -MIL" II.. LillUC nin n, .11 n. , ituvm v> v.< I 111.; Des Moines. Iowa: Fort Riley, j Kan.: Fort Sam Houston. Texas; j American Lake. Washington. How Houses Kxplode. | | The most remarkable phenomenon connected with tornadoes (such as j have recently devastated towns in the middle west) is the explosion of j houses, which literally burst, scatI tering their fragments in all directions. Somarimes substantial dwellings are carried high in the air and | then explode. It is now understood that this is due to the fact that the "funnel I cloud" (revolving at a rate of at least 300 miles an hour) has a vacj uum inside. Thus it sucks up everything in its path, even emptying wells. It sucks all the air fro maround a j house over which it passes, and the house la vacuum being thus created outside of it) promptly explodes, owing to the pressure of the air, at thirty pounds to the square inch, from within. The house, in a word, is transformed into a bomb. Knlistmerts in tlie Navy. Washington, June 19.?Since the beginning of the war with Germany 56,246 men have enlisted in the navy. The total now is 120,915, recruiting j today and yesterday bringing a net gain in enlisted men of 1,203. by Mesdames J. F. Johnston, J. E. Harter, Ruth W. Young, J. F; Light| sey and Miss Maude Barber. Miss j Sadie Harter played a beautiful solo. After the dinner M. A. Move charmed all with his violin selections, ac[ companied on the piano by Mrs. J. ; E. Johnston. The occasion was enj joyed by all and the Daughters were happy in the knowledge that they I had added a bit of sunshine for a j few hours. Khrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt. June 18.?We are having fine weather now; the farmers are very busy getting their crops in shape after the recent rains. They say that Gen. Green with colors hying and bands playing is steadily advancing. We are sorry to learn of the illness of Mrs. T. D. Beard, of the j Colston section Mr. G. F. McMillan was in town 'Saturday afternoon. Mr. Merrick Kinard, of the St. John's section, was here Saturday. Mr. George Kearse. of Kearse's, was in town Saturday afternoon. Mr. G. P. Sease is making good headway on his new dwelling, which will soon be completed. Mr. D. C. Copeland was here Saturday afternoon. Dr. J. L. Copeland has purchased a new car. Mr. J. L. Kinard, of the St. John's j section, was in town Saturday. He i says his daughter, Josephine, who ' has joined the tomato club, has some [ very fine tomatoes promising a large I violH Mr. F. E. Copeland was here Fri, day and Saturday on business. | We hear that there are plans afoot ; for selling the warehouse at this place. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Clayton and ; Mr. 0. .1. Hiers visited at Mr. F. E. Copeland's Sunday afternoon. | What has become of our old cor respondent Jet'?'' Let us hear from ! you again. ; Mr. Harry Hiers. who has been attending the medical college in I j Charleston, has returned home for the summer vacation, j Messrs. J. J. Hiers. F. K. Copeland ' and daughter. Miss Julia, visited at Mr. W. S. Mullen's, in Colleton cou:i. ty. Sunday aiternoon. They report very nice crops in that section, j Mr. Editor, we already have "J?*i" j as a correspondent from here, so why not have .Mutt"? M L'TT. i>r\( a \-ka v i:s \vki>1 >i sa. Mr. I). >1. Haves, of Bamberg, We-ls Miss Louisa l>uncan, of I'nion. Gnion. June 16.?The culminating event in the series of affairs preceding the marriage of Miss Louisa Merriman Duncan and Mr. Donald Matheson Eaves, of Bamberg, Thursday evening at Grace Methodist church at 9 o'clock was the reception at the church. The marriage was of cordial interest by reason of the popularity of the couple and their extensive acquaintance not only in South Carolina but many places outside the State. For some time before the ceremony tho hanrtsnmplv downed women and their escorts were arriving until the church was entirely filled with guests and friends. Miss Mary Jones, Miss Kathrin Thompson and Mrs. Henry S. Adams, of Chester, rendered the following programme: "Cortege Nuptial." "Salnut d'Amour." "March Pontificate." "Traumerie." At the conclusion of the programme Miss Kathrin Layton sang "O Perfect Love." The "Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin was played as a processional and during the ceremony improvisations were softly rendered. The altar was banked with palms and ferns ana lighted with cathedral candelabra. Southern smilax and ivy traced the chancel railing and tiny* ; wedding bells were artistically swaying in the double arches. The pews for the reception guests were marked by tall standards, topped with bunches of pink and white sweet r peas tied with fluffy hows of white tulle. Stationed at the ribbons were little Misses Henrietta Jordan and Roberta Wallace, escorted by Thomas McXaliy and Alex Garner. The little girls wore white organdie with pink sashes and their escorts white suits and a botonniere of sweet peas. The bridal procession was led to the chancel by the ushers, R. P. Harry. Sam Layton. .Maurice Garner, and Dr. I. M. Hair, of Spartanburg: then followed the groomsmen, who entered singly and down opposite aisles. The maids were: .Miss Mary DuPre. Miss Kathrin Clinckscales, of Spartanburg, Miss Margaret Gage, of Birmingham. Ala., Miss Dorothy Bettis, of Trenton, Miss Mary Ellen Eaves, of Bamberg. Miss Jenny Robinson, of Easley, Miss Kathleen James, Miss Ludie Jordan, Miss Eliza: beth Arthur, Miss Virgina Poole, and Miss Theo Young, of Union. They were modishly gowned in turqoise i blue satin with silver trimmings and carried arm bouquets of pink sweet peas tied with pink satin streamers. The groomsmen were: A. W. Knight. Will Duncan, J. D. Copeland, Jr.. W. A. Klauber. Lane Ethridge. Jack Burnett. Byrd Miller. Duncan Bellinger. Jim McGowan, R. P. Morgan. Gordon Hughes. Stuart Smith. Following the maids and groomsmen was the matron of honor, Mrs. Turner Fitten, of Atlanta. Ga.. sister of the bride. She ! wore a gown of pink satin crepe with j bodice of lace and pearl embroidery. l An arm bouquet of pink sweet peas tied with tulle ends completed the costume. Next came the dame of honor. .Mrs. T. C. Duncan, mother of the bride, who wore orchid satin, combined with Venetian lace, richly embellished with seed pearls and carried a shower of orchids and sweet peas. Miss Fanny Duncan, youngest sister of the bride, was maid of honor and wore a girlish gown of silver cloth overdraped with tulle and held in place by a silver girdle. An armful of sweet peas tied with pink tulle was the flower carried. The little flower girls, Ruth Alston and Frances Keller, came next and wore lace frocks with pink sashes and from silver baskets sprinkled the pathway of the bride with pink sweet peas and valley lillies. Just preceeding the bride was the ring bearer. Turner Fitten, carrying the ring on a silver tray. The bride was given in marriage by her father. Colonel T. C. Duncan, and the groom, attended by his best man. Havelock Eaves, joined her at the * ' T-* T chancel steps ana nere tne rtev. j. w. Speake performed the ceremony, assisted bv the Rev. J. F. .Matheson. The impressive ring ceremony was used and the vows were spoken l?eneath a wedding hell made of white carnations and ferns brilliantly illuminated, j The bride was a beautiful picture | of youth and beauty in her wedding gown of georgette crepe fashioned with grac eful draperies of chiffon and dainty hand run tucks. The bodice ! was embroidered in seed pearls and roses and handsome Venetian lac? formed Hie yoke. This lace was par: J of her mother's wedding gown, thus i adding a bit of sentiment. The tulle! j veil was caught to the hair with aj j bandeau of pearls and orange bios COTTOX AND SPl'IW. >larl!?oro Fanners are Trying; Fvperinient.?Good Potato Yields. Bennettsville. June 16.?Crop conditions in .Marlboro county have never been more promising than they are at this time. The rains of the past week or ten days have caused the grass to make some headway, but taken as a whole cotton, corn and other crops are looking unusually well. In the Clio section of .Marlboro county a number of live, aggressive farmers have made quite a success with Irish potatoes this year. They have made'good crops and have got good prices ror menu i iieir geueui: plan of cultivation was to plant the potatoes so that they could put in a row of cotton, making the distance between the cotton rows about five and a half feet, whereas they have heretofore planted their cotton in rows of about four feet. They have chopped to a stand much thicker in the drill than they have done heretofore and now that the potatoes have been harvested, the cotton is looking fine and the probabilities are that they will realize practically as much cotton as they would have done otherwise. Arrangements are also being made for planting a fall crop of potatoes. Quite a good deal of corn is being planted after small grain and in this county experience shows that with a reasonably late fall good results are obtained from this late corn. Undoubtedly there are more gardens and better gardens in the county than ever before. This is noticeable on every hand and a drive through ,any section of the county reveais splendid gardens on every hand, showing a greater variety of vegetables than (is usually seen in this section. All Alcoholic Drinks Included. Washington, June 10.?Any drink containing alcohol was defined by the postoffice department today as intoxicating liquor within the meaning of the law forbidding mailing of advertisements of liquor into dry territory after July 1. Methyl, wood and denatured alcohol are excepted. The department ruled also that the prohibition against advertisements applies to liquor for scientific, sacramental, medicinal and mechanical purposes. Must Serve His Sentence. Charleston, June 19.?P. Pappas was ordered to serve the sentence which was pronounced upon him and suspended during good behavior at the February term of the Court of General Sessions for violating the whiskey law yesterday afternoon af 1 ~ Tn/ln-o Mini mine. ter a Hearing ufiuic .mu^ .uiun.....;, er in the County Court House. Pappas lias a four months' sentence to serve. Xo notice of appeal had been filed with the clerk of court last night. The case of Mrs. F. Aschenbeck. who was ordered to show cause why a suspended sentence against her should not be made operative, will be heard today. To Fight Wire Worm. Washington. June 14.?Representative Byrnes, upon receipt of information from Hampton county that wire worms was doing considerable damage to crops in Hampton and adjoining counties, took the matter up today with department of agriculture and the authorities at Clemson college and has asked that an expert be sent to that section of the State to inspect and determine whether or not anything can be done to stop the destruction of the crops by this pest. In previous years this worm has done considerable damage in that section of the county and Mr. Byrnes is informed that it has already begun its destructive work this year. soms and fell the length of the long court train, caught here and there with clusters of fragrant bride flowprs. She carried a bouquet of orchids with valley lillies in the shower ends. To the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march the bride and groom left the church followed by their attendants. The bride is a daughter of Col. arc! Mrs. T. C. Duncan and is an attractive girl. Since her graduation from the College for Women several years ago she lias been an acknowledged be'le. and in this her home town numbers her friends by the score. The groom is a member of the Eaves family of Hamberg and is a prominent and successful business man. The wedding gifts fi 1 !?m! an entire room and represented the thought of hundreds of friends and relatives from far and near. Mr. and Mrs. Eaves left that night j for a honeymoon trip North. LirH OF MK.V IX TKFXCHFS. German Propaganda at Work in the Training Camps. Fort Sheridan. III., June 19.? German propaganda has entered the officers" reserve training camp here in the opinion of officers of the regular army who are acting as instructors. and orders have been given that every effort should be made to ascertain the source of "baseless reports" concerning the risks taken by men who go to the front in France. "There has been a determined effort." said Major H. L. Cavenaugh, "to spread baseless reports that the average life of a man in the trenches is three davs. I haven't any doubt this emanates from a German source." H IS EYES SENT TO EIAXCE. Joking Threat Against Ivaiser Ilesults in l>eath of Erench Prisoner. A grewsome story of an almost incredible act* of brutality perpetrated by Prussians was told yesterday by Peter Debrolles, a merchant returning from a business trip to France, and who stopped here en route to his home in Montreal, sayi a New York dispatch of last week "At Harve. I met Mile. Gabrielle Dalbert, whom I had known in .Montreal." said Mr. Debrolles. "She had gone abroad to try to reach her fiance, Lieut. Francois Bourdain, also of Montreal, who had distinguished himself greatly in many battles. "When she reached France. Mile. Dalbert learned that her sweetheart had been taken prisoner and was being held in a camp somewhere near Berlin. In some manner she managed to communicate with him, and in ins replying letter to me yuuiig wuman he expressed the deepest sort of gratitude for the sacrifices she had made to try to see him. He closed his letter by assuring her that lie would always be happy to be at her service, no matter what she might ask him to do. "Half jokingly, Mile. Dalbert told him in her next letter that she had often wished she might have an opportunity to meet the kaiser. 'If my wish ever comes true,' she added, 'I surely will scratch out his eyes. And here is a good chance for you to prove that you meant what you have written about being anxious to do my bidding. As you are so near the kaiser's residence, send me his eyes.' "It is poor policy to joke with the Prussians. Less than two weeks after Mile. Dalbert had written that letter she received a parcel from the prison camp. It contained a pair of blue eyes. There was no writing with the grewsome present. "The young woman's mind became unbalanced and for many weeks she hoveredvon the brink of the grave. I saw her after she had recovered her health and reason. She told me that her fiance had not replied to any of her letters since. He had blue eyes, she said." Twelve Years for Kx-Auditor. Dillon. June 14.?The case of the State vs. C. G. Bruce for alleged embezzlement of county funds, was concluded this morning and went to the jury about noon. After about two hours' deliberation he was found guilty on 13 county and sentence was passed upon him by Judge Spain to serve twelve years at hard labor in the State penitentiary. Another bill of indictment has been handed out by the grand jury against Bruce, former auditor, and Will Mclnnis, former treasurer, of Dillon county. Thomas Barfield, Sr., and Thomas Barfield, Jr., father and son. who were tried for the murder of Jack Barfield. pleaaed guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to twenty years and two years, respectively, at hard labor in the State penitentiary. Cliarged With Bigamy. H. P. Parish, a barber of Greenwood, was arrested last week charged with bigamy. A few days ago Parish married the daughter of Whit Finley of Greenwood. Later it was discovered that he had a wife and four children living in Swainsboro. Ga. Parish was released later on the intercession of his second wife and Iter father on condition that he leave the State. The Berlin electric central station under private ownership paid all its operation costs, set aside reserves and a pension fund, and also turned into the treasury of the city in one year $ 1.9."-!.;<*>> to cover the usual franchise tax and other levies. The lighting rate charged in Berlin is 9 1-2 cents. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Construction work lias been begun in Charleston on a large naval hospital. .j . J 1 A J v,ieiusuii cunege awaraea 1 iu uiplomas this year: Commencement exexcises began Sunday and concluded Tuesday. Jerry Dix. a negro man. and one of his young children, were killed by lightning near Cameron Wednesday afternoon. Fred E. Rochester, a private in Co. E. First regiment. S. C. X. G., died in a Columbia hospital Friday of ptomaine poisoning. Will Gilliard, serving a two-year sentence on the Andersin county chain gang for forgery, made good his escape last week. Ninety-five students received degrees from the University of South j Carolina, Columbia, at the closing | exercises last Wednesday. Ten white women between the ages of 15 and 20 are incarcerated in the Greenville county jail. Most of them are charged with vagrancy. A flag was raised over the Cowpens battleground monument* in Cherokee county Thursday unnder the auspices of the Gaffney chapter D. A. R. J. Martin fell out of a second storv window of a house in Charleston Sunday night and received injuries from which he died later in a hos| pital. A. C. .Mann has resigned as magisi trate of Union township which in| eludes the town of Union. He will bei come associated with a law firm in Greenville. The .Methodist congregation of Conway, Horry county, has recently completed a handsome parsonage which is now occupied by the pastor, Rev. E. L. McCoy. Lester Taylor, aged 11, of Fair Forest, Spartanburg county, was killed Friday afternoon in the cake room of the Fair Forest oil mill when a stack of cakes fell on him. Christian W. Muller, a Charleston grocer, said to have been born in ! Germany, committed suicide by j dirowning himself in a lake near Asheville, N. C. He was 59 years I old. J Capt. Robert C. Heyward, of PelI zer has been promoted to the rank of I major of the first regiment S. C. N. ! G. He succeeds T. B. Spratt, who ! was appointed lieutenant colonel I some time ago. Lampley Whisenant, salesman for j the \V. D. Arthur company, was se' riouly injured and Albert Reid, ne! gro driver was killed near Lockhart, Tuesday morning when the heavy truck in which they were riding crashed into a 15-foot ditch. I An unknown negro attempted asault upon a young white woman living near Easley last Tuesday afternoon. The negro has not been captured. The negro is said to have been coal black and to have weighed about 175 pounds. He wore a black 'I 1-1 1- -1 U 1, ? ?. i suit ana a oiacK siuucu uat. I i Alester G. Furman, of Greenville, [ was reelected president of the South Carolina Underwriters association at . the annual meeting in Charleston last week. L. M. Pinckney. of Charleston. was elected vice president, ; and Simpson F. Cannon, of SpartanII burg, was elected secretary and treasI urer. succeeding Sam M. Grist, of . Yorkville. Paul Heymann, receiver of the R. M. Rose company, an interstate liquor concern, well known to many people of this section, has filed a petition in federal court in Chattanooga, seeking to wind up the affairs of the R. I M. Rose company, a Florida corporai tion. as bankrupt. The liabilities of I the Florida concern were placed at j $263.623, and the assets at $352,623, i much of which, it was said, is stock I of other bankrupt concerns. ! The Columbia canal property under ~ ^ lAnriclntn MA ?* position from the "Robertson interests. " The ninety days allowed by the act under which an agreement might be reached having expired .Monday, the act automatically de , clares the title in tlie State. The i property is valued at S.".u')0.000. The next step now to be taken is awaited j with a great deal of interest. i