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' One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1917. Established 1891
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS |
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Colston Clipping^.
' Colston, June 26.?A good many
visitors wprp nresent at Dreachin?
Sunday. Welcome, visitors, come
again.
Miss Alberta Kearse was the welcome
guest of Misses Cora and Dora
McMillan Saturday night and Sunday.
Messrs. John G. Clayton and Jones,
of Walterboro. were visitors in this
section Sunday and Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. McMillan and
children spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Clayton.
? Mrs. Nelle Pate and little daughter,
Frances, of North Carolina, are spending
some time with relatives in this
section.
Misses Leona and Vista Brabham
and Ethel McMillan and. Messrs. i
Claude Smoak, Belton Hair, Willie |
Dickinson and Albert McMillan visited
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
McMillan Sunday.
" J ' V Til ,,
A11SS .Natalie ivcaise ojjcin, IUUI^day
night with her sister, Mrs. G. A.
McMillan.
Mr. Willie Beard is now the owner
of a touring car.
. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Clayton and
} , family visited their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Clayton, JSund&y.
Miss Minnie Kirkland spent several
days last week with Mrs. T. D. Beard,
who, we are glad to say, is now improving.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Sandifer, of
Bamberg, and Mrs. Purdy Aver and
and children, of Olar, visited their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Clayton,
Sunday.
Mr. J. A. Jennings, Sr., spent Sunday.
with Mr. Thos. Clayton.
Mr. Wilburn Howard, "of Blackville,
spent Sunday in this section.
Denmark s.
Denmark, June 23.?Miss Mitchell,
of Batesburg, accompanied by Miss
k * Barr, is visiting the former's sister,
Mrs. J. B. Guess, Sr.
Miss Lillian Goolsbv, who has been*
teaching in Florence, has returned
home.
Miss Isabel Strait, of Rock Hill, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. A. P. Guess.
Mrs. George Turner and family
have returned home after a pleasant
visit to the| former's sister, Mrs.
Morse Holman, of St. Matthews.
Mrs. James H. Sherard, who is
is visiting Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Boozer.
Mrs. J. A. Wiggins is in Florence
- for several weeks.
Reynolds Wiggins and sister. Miss
Vera, are at home from Trinity college,
Durham, N. C.
Miss Onie Brux, of Midville, Ga.,
Spartanburg, are visiting friends
here.
Mrs. Roy Faust and children, of
pleasantly remembered here as Miss
Minnie Blount, has returned to Abbeville,
after spending last week with
Mrs. Winchester Graham.
^ * Misses Virginia Hutto, Agnes Goza.
Kathleen and Genie Fogle, Annie MayGriffith
and Elizabeth Hutto are at
home from Winthrop college.
Miss Dorothy Hart, of Estill, is visiting
her sister, Mrs. J. W. Crum, Jr.
Miss Gertrude Riley, of St. Matthews,
has returned home after an
extended visit to relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Gillam. Mr.
and Mrs. R. A. Goolsby, Wesley and
Malcolm Crum and A. P. Guess attended
the Dixon-Crura wedding in
Bishopville Wedenesday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Goolsby spent!
the week-end with the latter's sister.
Mrs. J. P. Carter, in Fairfax.
Boyce and Elmore Steadman, of
A Fort Screven, Ga., spent the week*
end with their mother here.
W. E. Osteen and daughters, Misses
. Hazel and Jean and Miss Lucile Cole,
of Florence, spent a few days with H.
C. Rice and family this week.
Mrs. T. Stokes and daughter. Miss
? Ruth, have rturned to Orangeburg,
. * after a pleasant visit to Mrs. R. A.
* Goolsby.
Mrs. Janie Sojourner is spending
a month at Winthrop.
Mrs. F. H. McCrae, Jr., of Atlanta,
is visiting at the home of F. H. Me
Urae nere. j
Mrs. John G. Richards, of Liberty)
Hll. is spending several weeks with!
her daughter, Mrs. Tom McCrae.
"Occasional" Visits Washington."
Olar, June 25.?The writer of this|
knows that newspaper correspondents
keep the newspapers well posted in
regard to current events. And what
I am about to write will be purely j
from a plow-boy standpoint: (This;
may seem a little strange for a man
over 70 years of age to say.) But I!
have visited the great city of Washington.
What impressed me most
along the route was the smallness of!
the different crops. But I noticed j
one thing, and that was this: The!
crops were well cultivated; they were
free from grass. Unexpectedly to
to me I did not see the broad' fields
of perhaps 100 acres, such as we
hflva iiprp in Rambers and Barnwell
counties, where the country is comparatively
flat. This hilly country,
of course, was terraced, and, as well
as I can judge, it was done to perfection.
i was impressed with a place called
Aberdeen, because it reminded me of
home. There was a cypress pond
near this place, and a good supply of
water, and I imagined there were
fish there. There was near this place
also the finest field of little peach
trees I ever saw. Again, there were
sycamore trees, there All this reminded
me of Home, sweet
Home." I sat by my friend, M. A.
Moye, and he was impressed with
Henderson more than any other place
along the route.
Finally we got to Washington,
about 1 o'clock at night, stopped at
the Vendome hotel. One regret I had
was that we passed through Richmond
at night, and I didn't see much
of the town.
I also visited Baltimore, stopped
at the Caswell hotel, and if the street
cars can show you a town, I saw it,
for I rode on them all.
Now about my return trip. I boarded
the train after showing my ticket
twice, and thought that everything
was correct, so I spent about all the
money I had and finally the porter
came through the tram ana saia
change cars for Atlanta and Charlotte."
This seemed strange to me,
so I inquired of the conductor, and
told him I did not think I had to
change cars. But he told me I was
mistaken, "You ought to have changed
cars at Hamlett." Now I was at
a place called Monroe, and Hamlett
was 100 miles back, and me with
12c in my pdcket and hungry! I
wanted to write something and found
that I had dropped my pencil. I asked
a negro if he had seen it, and he
said, "No, sir, but I will sell you one
for lc." I have got that pencil now.
This left me<with 11c. A long ways
from home and no one that I knew
was in sight?all strangers.
But there is something good everywhere
(except one place and I wont
eof that Hnwn r>n naner.> But I met
OVV bliMV WV "4* V? ^ ^ ,
a gentleman?and it is nice to meet
a gentleman. And he noticed I had a
South Carolina band on my hat, and
inquired if I had been to dinner. I
told him no, but I wanted some. He
said, "Follow me." After dining lie
asked me if he could do anything
else fftr me. I asked him if he would
cash a check for me. He did not
hesitate to do this, and made it for
a larger amount than I asked him for.
His name was B. C. Ashcraft; I am
not a betting man, but if I was I
would bet that he is a gentleman.
While in Washington I was in
company with Capt J. W. Jenny. We
went to hear President Wilson speak,
but every place was crowded, so I
told my friend Jenny it didn't suit
me, and I was going to the Washington
monument. While walking
through the streets alone I heard my
name called. This was by our'Congressman,
Jimmie Byrnes, and he
had Col. Alfred Aldrich with him in
his automobile. He invited me to
ride with him over the town. I appreciated
this. Later I went through
the park and up in the Washington
monument.
I had seen pictures of birdseye
views of cities before, but then I real
ized it.
I had read about the Congressmen
in Washington feeding the squirrels
in the park on peanuts. I saw some
boys doing this, and the squirrels
there are as gentle as Robbie Kearse's
tabby cat. And there are great big
black birds there. They are as gentle
as Miss Pinkie Breland's dominick
hen that is now setting on 14 eggs.
And now, in conclusion, I will say
upon the whole I had a very good
time. I will also mention that I struck
numerous other friends, like J. D.
Jenny, George Folk, Frank Jenny.
Josiah Loadholdt. and others.
1 said something already about beng
impressed with the only cypressi
pond I saw on the route. But I will
say this: I went 011 the trolley line
from Washington to Baltimore, and
thought for a while I saw a plenty
of cypress trees in the distance.
But later I found out that these were
not cypress trees, although their foliage
looked like cypress, but those
near the trolley line let me know they
Rl'ILD AIRCRAFT, SAVS WILSOX.
Nation's Chief Approves Programme
Calling for $600,000,000.
Washington. June 22.?Unqualified
approval of the great aircraft programme,
for which congress will be
asked to provide an initial appropriation
of $600,000,000, is given by
President Wilson in a lett< - to Secretary
Baker, made public today by
the war department. The president
wrote:
*T have your letter of yesterday
about the production of aircraft and
the training of men to operate them,
f a co V f hof T o m V
CllXU ^ aai ou j tuat & um vuwi>
willing to back up sucn a programme
as you suggest. I hope that you will
present it in the strongest possible
way to the proper committees of the
congress."
A bill to authorize the programme
will be introduced in congress next
week. It will propose the construction
of 35,000 airplanes and the training
of many thousand flyers.
How Could It Be?
First Office Boy?Wotcher doin'
lookin' at the office wot fired you last
week? Tryin' to git took back?
Second Office Boy?Naw; I jes'
dropped roun' to see if they wuz still
in bizzinenss!"?Pittsburgh Post.. |
wrere some kind of pine by the bark.
This reminded me of a riddle. The
riddle was this: Why is a dog's tail
like the heart of a tree? The answer
is "Its the farthest from the bark."
Shakespeare wrote: "An honest man
is the noblest work of God." Let me
add this, the Confederate soldiers
are following in his footprints.
OCCASIONAL.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, June 25.?The readers
of The Herald found in last week's
edition that there lives in town a
"Mutt and Jeff," not of the Bud Fisher
type like we used to see in the
daily papers, but a real Mutt and
Jeff; not pictures, but human beings,
walking, looking, feeling around, real
live men. Very few people know
them; they will not have their faces
made public by a photo in the paper.
No, never; they want the public to
judge their wits from the manner in
which they correspond with the paper,
and I daresay that they are the
biggest set of cranks that ever held
a pen between the thumb and forefinger.
Their photo would be a credit
to the news that they, contribute
from our flourishing little city?especially
when "Mutt" grows his longed
for mustache. I don't know when
this will be, as at present he hasn't
enough fertility in his top lip to
sprout a single hair, to say nothing
of a set in full, so I guess he will just
continue to be a correspondent. Jeff
used to try to fill up several columns
some time, but he must be too busy
on the submarine question or shooting
his projectiles at some other boat.
Xo. he got ashamed of his letters and
his face, and has submerged, so when
he comes to the top again, we will
get a photo and a letter, providing
there is not a "fish story" to tell.
This is the contrast between the two
?Jeff loves to fish and catch them;
Mutt loves the girls and loses them.
Messrs. J. E. Folk--and James Roberts
made a frying trip to Bamberg
Saturday afternoon.
Old "Sol" is descending some direct
rays n,ow and, oh, how hot! Ice,
parasols, f^ns?what a time to keep
the degrees down.
Dr. Roberts has moved his stock
of drugs, etc., to the new brick store
adjoining the Farmers and Merchants
Bank. Quite an improvement over
the old store?all new fixtures and
he is complimented for the manner in
which he has arranged the interior.
Plenty of picnics now. The annual
Sunday-school picnic of St. John's
Baptist church was pulled off on the
grounds last Thursday. Plenty of
lemonade and chicken "free gratis"!
to make the day a success.
The Methodists held their annual
Sunday-school convention at the
Methodist church last week?two
days. Thursday and Friday. Quite a
number of delegates were present
p/.Ii Anle ninnoi' vrne
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served on the grounds both days.
One of our married men in town
says "a man who can walk the floor
for two hours at night with a baby
howling to the top of his voice'" without
murmuring a word certainly be-,
longs in the class of Job.
The prevailing price of cotton
caused several of the old rusty bales
to come out last week.
A new grocery store for the city.
Who? Oh, wait an<1 see.
With much love for Mutt and Jeff,
sincerely, SELDOM.
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UK FUSES TO APPOINT ADAMS.
Governor Returns to Audubon President
His Own Name.
Columbia. June 22.?Governor
.Manning has returned to the Audubon
society of South Carolina the
name of Dr. E. C. L. Adams, of Columbia,
president of the society, as
being not suitable for appointment
as chief game warden of the State.
Dr. Adams, as president, on Thursday,
transmitted his name to the governor
as being the choice of the society,
as expressed in a poll of the
members bv use of the mail. Gover
nor Manning today renews his request
that a meeting of the society
be held in the "regular and usual
way" for the purpose of sending a
recommendation suitable to the chief
executive. Governor Manning's letter
to Dr. Adams follows:
"I have your letter of June 21 enclosing
circular letter sent out by
you, dated June 12, 1917, together
with a blank vote for chief game warden
of South Carolina.
"Your letter of June 21 transmits
your name as having been selected
by the proceedings which have been
entered into on June 20.
"You will recall that, in my conversation
with you several days before
June 20, in which you discussed
the proceedings you contemplated
taking on June 20, I requested you to
call a meeting of the Audubon society
in the regular and usual way and stat.
ed to you that no name sent to me
as the result of such an irregular
proceeding would be suitable to me,
and I asked you to call a regular
meeting for the purpose of making
a recommendation.
In view of my statement to you,
and my desire that this matter shall
be determined in a regular and legal
way, I am returning the name of E.
C. L. Adams as not suitable to me.
"I, therefore, renew my request
that you call a meeting of the Audubon
society and send me the name
of a person recommended by it for
the position of chief game warden at
as early date as possible."
The Great Stupidity.
It would almost seem that censorships
abroad have been manned by
those mentally incapacitated from any
other participation in the war and
that, in the press of other concerns,
governments have permitted censors
to have their own sweet way, regardless
of discretion, experience or
reason.
At the very hour that England and
her allies are seeking for a fighting
bond with the United States the British
authorities have barred from the
foreign mails another eminent publication,
"The Nation." "Cambridge
Magazine," "Labor Leader," and
"Common-Sense" are already denied
circulation in this country, although
o vri a 11 /I Ki* Via L1 n orl rvn K
L"C? aic an icau u> lue uiignsu yuir
lie. Through her control of the
mails, England has also cut us off
from the German newspapers; although
our correspondents have access
to them and supply American
readers with translations of significant
contents. Private correspondence
with other netrals is also prohibited.
The incomprehensible stupidity of
censors abroad, who have been successful
in irritating their loyal victims,
should be a warning to American
authorities. Censorship is needful,
but irrational censorship is as
bad as none.?Detroit News.
Much Food in a Small Bulk.
The British "Tommy," when fresh
bread is not available, is supplied
with what it calls "dog biscuit." It
It looks just like that, being a thick
cracker four inches square and weighing
three ounces. Of whole wheat
flour pressed solid, it might be described
as a condensed loaf of bread.
The French have a "war bread"
somewhat similar, which, when put
into hot water or soup, swells up like
a sponge.
The famous German "pea sausage"
is composed of pea meal, bacon and
fat. It was the invention of a Berlin
cook, who discovered a process whereby
pea meal could be made proof
against deterioration. One sausage,
eight inches long, yields twelve plates
of nutrious soup.
He Knew.
"Father," said the minister's son,
"my teacher says that 'collect' and
f>nii9TP2atp' mean the same thing.
Do they?"
"Perhaps they do my son," said the
clergyman; "but you may tell your
teacher that there is a vast difference
between a congregation and a collection."?Christian
Herald.
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Slew Wife aad Children.
New York, June 21.?After a quarrel
with his wife over money matters
Richard Barrett, a well known athlete
of Brooklyn, early today shot
and killed his wife; his son, Kilton,
aged four; a baby boy, Donald, one
and one-half years old, and then
committed suicide by slashing his
throat with a razor and shooting
himself in the head.
The woman and the two boys died
instantly. In an adjoining room were
sleeping two other children, Helen,
13, and John, nine.
Barrett was a Spanish war veteran.
He was a sergeant in the regular army
at Fort Barrancas, Fla., in 189S.
Vpwsnanftrs Imnosed On.
The Progress is in receipt this
week of a rather lengthy article from
the State Warehouse Commissioner
with the request that we publish the
same, free of course, as it is for the
benefit of the poor, down-trodden
farmer. We have also been flooded
for the past few months with literature
from various sources in regard
to the Selective Draft and&he Liberty
Bonds. We suppose that it is our
patriotic duty to publish all these
things without money and without
price, or be branded as a traitor to
our country. We confess that when
we open one of these rather bulky
envelopes expecting to find a big advertisement
and it turps out to be
nothing more than a request for some
free advertising, a sick tired feeling
comes over us and we find ourselves
asking the question, "How long, oh,
how long, will it be before newspaper
people are treated like other people."
We are required to pa^ State,
county and municipal taxes, also a
State license to do business. A city
1
license and a Federal income tax, and
Congress is now planning to place a
larger tax on the business. We are
told that unless we invest in a Liberty
Loan Bond we are nothing more
than a German sympathizer. We find
that the money we have worked so
hard in past years .to make has lost
at least one-half its purchasing power,
and yet we are expected to go and
publish a lot of stuff,, free, and then
after making the subscription price
of the paper less than the cost of the
material, we find it necessary to pay
an agent to collect it. We again ask,
"is it right?"?Easley Progress.
A Strategist.
There was an old lady who rented
a furnished villa for the summer, and
with the villa also went a large dog.
In the sitting room of the villa there
was a comfortable armchair. The
old lady liked this chair better than
any other in the house.
But, alas! she nearly always found
the chair occupied by the large dog.
Being afraid of the dog, she never
dared bid it harshly to get out of the
chair, as she feared it might bite her;
but instead she would go to the windowr
and call "Cats!"
Then the dog would rush to the
window and bark, and the old lady
would slip into the vacant chair
quietly.
One day the dog entered the room
and found the old lady in possession
of the chair. He strolled over to the
window and, looking out, appeared
very much excited and set up a tremendous
barking.
The old lady rose and hastened to
the window to see what was the matter.
Then the dog quietly climbed
into the chair.?Our Dumb Animals.
The Parson's Farewell.
A flftlrtrorl minister ^ettinfir into *he
bad graces of his congregation was,
through the medium of an "Investigating
Meeting." asked for his resignation,
to take effect at once. The
following Sunday the Rev. Gent ascended
the pulpit, addressed his flock
as .follows:
"Brethren and Sisters, I received
your little note statin' that I's fired,
and I accept the resignation. It is
but fittin' therefore for me to say a
few partin' words. These I aim to
make 'FEW.'
"I shall not say FAREWELL,
'cause that seems for too long a
period; nor shall I say GOOD-BYE.
'cause well?'cause that am not jest
the word I would like: nor can I say
XV RIVER, 'cause you'11 brethren
and sisters, would not understand
that?BUT. I simply call the par1
"-1 1 - ~ A f oooh m'corar
iiCKiar aiiexisuuii cuvu
what's here present to that little
piece of mistletoe hangin' from the
end of my coat-tail as I passes down
the isle."
The awful question "what shall I
have for dinner?" is easily answered
if your shelves are full of home canned
products.
IN IDE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
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State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
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i Men and Happenings.
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Over 1,000 liquor permits were issued
in Charleston county during
: the month of May.
1 T*. 1 k !.! ??
it aa-s uceu positively announced
that army cantonments will be located
at Greenville and Spartanburg.
Ben walker, a negro 30 years old,
is under arrest in Barnwell charged
with assaulting a negro woman 83
years old.
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Thirty-four homeless dogs were
t
killed in Columbia Friday by the
city authorities. During the past
)
few weeks 389 homeless dogs have
been killed in Columbia.
J. H. Thornwell, of Winnsboro, has
. been appointed chief clerk to the
secretary of State, succeeding R. M.
McCown, resigned. Mr. Thornwell
. has been superintendent of the
, Winnsboro schools for many years.
; W. B. Moore, of York, has been sei
lected as one of a committee to su.
pervise the purchase of 50,000,000
I yards of duck for use in making tents . .
. i for the army camps. The other memi
bers of the committee are J. A. Man?
deville, of Carrollton, Ga., and An;
drew Webb, of Philadelphia,
i A new Columbia is being built six
, miles east of the old Columbia. The
new Columbia will have just as many
inhabitants and possibly more. The
, Hardaway Construction company, of
? Columbus, Ga., has been charged by
" the United States war department
I: with the work of building the new
i city which must be completed with>
in ninety days. From 4,000 to 6.000
workmen will be employed.
1 Will Hopkins, a negro who was
i paroled several months ago by Gov1
ernor Manning, has been arrested on
; the charge of murdering his wife. 1
' About two years ago Hopkihs was
convicted of killing a negro woman and
was sentenced to a term in the
! penitentiary. His wife refused to
! live with him when he returned to
his home in Saluda county a few
weeks ago. Three weeks ago the woman
was found dead in her bed.
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Can Yon Do It?
A smart military officer once bet ;
an athlete that he could not hop up a
nartoin lnnor flight nf ctona tvn #t A
taiu *V/U5 Ulgut V& WVVJ^M VfT V V?v W
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I The athlete accepted the wager and
made the trial, to find that there - ^
were forty-one steps to the flight, and
II that, after making twenty hops he
j had lost.
He paid up, but accused the other
1 of sharp practice.
"Sharp practice?" was the retort
' indignant. "Well, I'll make the same
bet with you that I can do it."
! The other, expecting to win his
money back, assented. The officer
then hopped up forfr steps in twenty
hops, and hopping back one, finished
1 in the prescribed manner, and won
lj the wager.?New York Herald. *
[ . The Sky Pilot.
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Owing to a fog, a steamer stopped
, at the mouth of a river. An old
, lady became very nervous and inquired
of the captain the cause of the
delay.
"Can't see up the river," replied
the officer.
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"But, captain, I can see the stars
1 overhead," she argued.
"Vrto " coij Via orilfflv "hut until
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the boilers bust we ain't a-going that
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' way."?Denver News.
Very Hard to Catch.
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When Bill Rigs, from the far West,
went to London for the first time,
an Englishman who did not feel sure
of Bill's nationality, asked him: "Do
you understand English?"
"Well, ye'es," answered Bill, "toler'ble?toler'ble.
I kin git it, if you
go slow."?Denver News.
Rank Injustice.
"Now, my son," said the conscientious
father, "tell me why I punished
you."
"That's it," blubbered the boy infiKiu
JCfruit(quielyla.stoe
dignantly. "First you pounded the
life out of me, an' now you don't
know what you done it for."?Chicago
Record-Herald.
When whitening a hearth or step,
dip the cloth in a drop of milk and
rub over after applying the hearthstone;
this prevents the white from
coming off.
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