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I * W$t pamberg peralb Thursday, August 2,1917. j SHORT LOCALS. j I Brief items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. Rev. Mr. Mitchell, a student in theology, preached at the Baptist church last Sunday morning and evening. ( On account of the .illness of Dr. Watson, no services were held at Trinity Methodist church last Sunday. Mr. Ioham Goodwin, of R. F. D. 2, rr"? J n nanr ornn Sen l l lie xrci aiu a uv n va vy k/ " v^v potato Monday?the first that has been sent us. Married, at the court house, by . Probate Judge Brabham on July 24th, Miss Minnie Sease, of Kline, and Mr. Wilbur Morris, of Olar. The friends of Dr. E. O. Watson will learn with much regret of his illness. The doctor was confined to his bed for several days, but is now ; ' able to be up. Rev. S. R. Haynes, who is conducting a tent meeting in this city, will lecture at Crystal Springs on August 5, at 3:30 p. m. The public is cor dially invited. Mr. J. P. Hiers displayed a branch from one o fhis peach trees in the J city Tuesday on which there were twelve peaches within a space of six or eight inches. y . v Treasurer G. A. Jennings Tuesday . morning received a warrant from the comptroller general for $1,108.11, as tbis county's share of the automoDiie license fees collected to (late. > Messrs. DeWitt Smoak* and W. E. . Hutto left last week for Orange- \ burg to mobilize with company M. The company will soon be sent to the training camp preparatory to being ' sent to France. Rev. L. W. Williams, pastor of the Bamberg colored M. E. church, brought the first open cotton bollsto The Herald office Tuesday morning. Rev. Williams says he had open bolls several days ago. Through the efforts of Congressman James F. Byrnes, a large United States flag has been sent by the government to Postmaster Knight to be hoisted over the postoffice. Within the next few days Old Glory will be proudly waving in Bamberg. Much interest is attached locally to the dismissal of Capt. F. F. Pooser, of company M, Orangeburg. Capt. Pooser is known to a number of . Bamberg people. Several others were discharged at the same time, the cause alleged being inefficiency. The district conference of the Beaufort district, A. M. E. church, was held in Bamberg Sunday. The conference was largely attended. The meetings of the Laymen's association . and the Methodist brotherhood were also held Sunday at this place. Y\. 1 ' Med Fields, of Olar, K. f. d. i,j lias been one of The Herald's colored subscribers for many years. In renewing his subscription,. Med says he can't well do without The Herald. We try to publish a newspaper to interest everybody, white and colored. The many Bamberg friends of Mr. E. D. Rainey will be gla? to know that he has been reappointed postmaster at Beaufort by the president. Mr. Rainey is a former resident of Bamberg county, and Mrs. Rainey, who was Miss Eaves, is a former V.V Bamberg resident. . % The hottest weather of the season was experienced in Bamberg (Turing the past week. The thermometer ranged around the century mark sev - ^ - ? r~ll eral days, une gooa siiower icu uui.-| ing the week, but it is feared that the intense heat is damaging the crops to a serious extent. Rev. W. E. Wiggins left Monday morning for Olar, where he is as- i sisting in a meeting this week. Mr. Wiggins reports a good meeting at Ebenezer church on the Bowman 1 charge last week. He will return for his services here next Sunday.? Dorchester Eagle, July 26. Prof J. C. Guilds, who has been spending the past several weeks in the upper sections of the State, reports that crop conditions are very favorable. This, he said, is especially true in the tobacco counties. A fine crop of tobacco was made this year and record-breaking prices are being secured. Prof. Guilds is very much encouraged over the prospects - ^ ** * ?1 1 cr coocinn 01 uarnsie SCIIOU1 uie tuinm& The annual reunion of Company G was held at Bethesda church last Thursday. Congressman James F. | Byrnes, who was to be present, could; not leave his official duties at Wash-, ington. The reunion was largely at-, tended, and a good many of the | members of this historic organization! were present to exchange war stories! and talk of the old'times. Mem-j bers of Company G from-many dis-j tant sections were among those pres-J ent. A basket picnic was served on j the grounds. | FIRST DRAFT NOTIFIED. 525 Registrants Notified to Appear for Examination. The Bamberg county local board of exemption, composed of Messrs. H. C. Folk and A. L. Kirkland, and Dr. J. J. Cleckley, last week received from the government at Washington the master list of numbers drawn for the selective draft. The board began at once to prepare the official county list. The list of 525?the first draft ?was completed Tuesday and notices were mailed to these men to appear before the county board for physical examination. The master list contains the numbers of all registered men, in the order in which they were drawn at the big lottery in Washington. Only the first 525 have been notified to appear for examination. The county is required to furnish 183 men now. If the required number cannot be secured, after exemptions and discharges are made, from the 525 men notified, others will be, called on to appear before the board i for examination at a later date. It was first intended to notify only 366 in the first draft, but the board later received instructions to increase this number. The unofficial list of the first 366 drawn was published in the last issue of The Herald. A few errors were found in the unofficial list, due to incorrect transmission of num bers. The official list is published today. This list will furnish a permanent record of the men summoned from Bamberg county to defend the nation's honor on the battlefield in the conflict with Germany. The men notified to appear must do so regardless of whether they have reasons for exemption or discharge. The matter of exemption or discharge will be considered at a later date. A.11 persons who are summoned before the board for examination have the right to claim either exemption or discharge. Such claims must be made on the proper blanks which are in possession of the board, and must be filed within seven days from the date of the mailing of the notice to appear for physical examination. The local board considers all claims for exemption except those relating to industrial reasons. Exemption for industrial reasons is considered by the district exemption boards. Below will be found a list prescribing the grounds upon which exemption or discharge may be claimed. Quite a number of the young men who are in the first draft have already entered the army or navy. | These men will, of course, be exempted, but affidavits from superior officers are required. It is indicated in dispatches from Washington that other calls for men will soon be made. As these calls are made, The Herald will publish the names of those summoned. It is also likely that others will have to be called to complete the first draft A /?Aiinfr i of accepted men nuiu U1C V/UUU | While only 525 men are summoned,! it has been1 semi-officially estimated that at least four will have to be ex-| amined in order to secure one eligible. No married men are exempted as a class. It is indicated that all married men, whose wives and families are / j actually dependent upon their labor for support, will be exempt, but if it is shown that the wife has property of her own, upon which she can secure a reasonable income, exemption will not be allowed. Claims for Exemption. For the information of The Herald's readers the following claims for exemption are reprinted, the list of claims having been published in this newspaper several weks ago: 1. That you are an officer, legislative, executive or judicial, of the rrnitpri states, a State or territory, or the district of Columbia. 2. That you are a registrar or duly ordained minister of religion. 3. That you were May 18, 1917, a student preparing for the ministry in any recognized theological or divinity school. 4. That you are in the military or naval service of the United States. 5. That you are a subject of Germany, whether you have taken out papers or not. 6. That you are a reside^ alien tthn has not taken out first papers. In addition to claims for exemption, claims for discharge may be made on any of the following grounds which are the only grounds for discharge by a local board: 1. That you are a county or municipal officer. 2. That you are a custom house clerk. 3. That you are employed uy the United States in the transmission of mails. 4. That you are an artificer or workman employed in an armory, arsenal or navy yard ?f the United States. 5. That you are employed in the service of the United States (under certain conditions.) 6. That you are a licensed pilot regularly employed in the pursuit of your vocation. 7. That you are a mariner actually employed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the Unit Liquor is Hard to Get. * Bamberg is having a close approach to real prohibition. The drinkers are finding it difficult to get whiskey since the federal law went into effect on July 1. The State laws permit the importation of one quart a month for medicinal purposes only, and at least one liquor house is refusing to ship whiskey into this territory. A good many remittances for whiskey have been returned to the senders. Under the new law, the whiskey houses are not allowed to solicit orders in any way; therefore, when an order is sent in if it is not made out in a legal manner, the house can do nothing but return it, as liquor houses are liable to a penalty of $1,000 for making shipments contrary to law. The buyer is liable o nL-a nonoitv This is in addi IU CL linw yVAAM*Vv' tion to the penalties prescribed by the State laws. Even a liquor house cannot explain the matter to the buyer when the order is wrong; to do so would possibly be construed as soliciting business. < There is no doubt of the fact that the new federal law is decreasing the consumption of whiskey in Bamberg county. The fact that the illegal securing of permits, that is if false affidavits are made for this purpose, lays a person liable to being prosecuted in the federal courts, makes even those who are inclined to go any length to get whiskey to hesitate. Many people who do not fear the State laws balk when it comes to incurring the anger of Uncle Sam. And Uncle Sam evidently means that this whiskey law shall be obeyed. Already numbers of prosecutions have been made in various parts of the State. Cope-Wilkinson. 5 Ulmers, July 28.?The many friends of Miss Mauae uope ana :ur. Perry Wilkinson, both of this place, will be interested to learn of their marriage, which took place Wednes! day evening at 5:30 o'clock at the ! Baptist parsonage at Sycamore, the Rev. S. L. Shealy officiating. The marriage was a very quiet affair and was witnessed by a few close friends only.v The bride wore a dark blue tailored suit and a becoming black hat. She is the charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cope. Her charming personality has won for her scores of friends and sincere congratulations are extended Mr. Wilkinson. Mr. .Wilkinson is a popular young merchant here, and his many friends are congratulating him upon winning the hand of so fair a life companion. After a short trip Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson will reside here. Making Comfort Bags. . The committee appointed by the Red Cross Chapter to arrange for the making of comfort bags for the soldiers held a meeting Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. O. Kirsch. Through donations of the merchants, materials sufficient to " ? 1 Jn nnceaccinn flf maKe 20 wcic m w? the committee. The materials were cut and distributed among the committee to make the bags. About half the necessary articles to go in the bags have been donated. The ladies will also make a number of hospital shirts for wounded soldiers. The services of a number of ladies will be appreciated in helping in this work. There are yet several bags to be distributed for making, and it is urged that those who have not yet volun\ teered their services call on Mrs. W. D. Rhoad, who will furnish them with the necessary materials. Compliments The Herald. . The Bamberg Herald- tells a little story about itself as a newspaper printed in Bamberg, without the assistance of the "pot metal" makers and "ready-prints"?to which the State adds that The Herald is always as neat as a pin, that it is a model of clean printing and that everybody who hasn't seen Bamberg, town and county, derives a pleasant impression of them from The Herald?which, of 'course, is always confirmed on closer acquaintance.?Columbia State. ed States. 8. That you are a married man with a wife or child dependent on you for support. 9. That you have a widowed mother dependent on your labor for support. 10. That you have aged or infirm parents dependent upon your labor for support. 11. That you are the father ef a motherless child under sixteen years dependent upon your labor for supIport. 12. That you are a brother of an orphan child or children under 16 (years dependent on your labor for support. 13. That you a member of any well recognized religious sect or organization recognized and existant on May 18, 1917, and whose then existing creed or principles forbade its members to participate in war in any jform and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein in accordance with the creed or principles of said religious organization. X KG I JO WOMAN KILLED. Eloi-e Nimmons Slain by llutli Ella | Nimmons, Another Negro. Last Sunday afternoon Eloise Nimmons, colored, wife of Elliott Ximmons, was shot and killed by Ruth Ella Nimmons, also colored, near Olar. Ruth Ella Nimmons is in jail, charged with the crinfe, and Elliott Nimmons is held as an accessory to the homicide. The inquest over the body of the dead woman was held .Monday, and the verdict was that Eloise Nimmons came to her death from pistol shot wounds at the hands of Ruth Ella Nimmons. Domestic infelicity appears to have been the cause of the homicide. The following is the testimony taken at the inquest: Elliott Nimmons, sworn, said: "I was on my way home yesterday p. m. I met Ruth Ella Nimmons in the road. I said to her: "Where are you going* I thought I had left you home." She said that she was going to her Cousin Amos's. She said "Mr. ElliQtt, I wanted to explain to you what your wife said to me the other day about what she had heard." "Ruth, I am hungry, and on my way home to get something to eat. I don't care to sit down here and allow someone to see me here and tell my wife about that. If you will explain any of what you have to say, come from the roadside near the end of the corn rows, Ruth." And I did go near the corn field and she was explaining to me; after we had been there 15 or 20 minutes, my wife came up. We were sitting with our backs toward the field. My wife, Eloise Nimmons, came up behind us. *? *- - A A A -C A. ^ J J She got witnin aDOui zu ieei auu said: "Oh, you, I've got you." Her apron (Eloise's) was turned up to waistband and as she approached closely, she began to reach back into the apron for something. I first took it to be a pistol, but it was later found to be a razor. While Ruth Ella and I were sitting on the ground, my pistol all the while was lying on the ground in front of us. The sight of my wife frightened me so much that I turned around partly sideways, when Ruth Ella picked up the pistol, and, as far as I could tell then, I thought both were shooting, as several shots were fired. My wife walked off about ten steps and exclaimed: "Ruth Ella, you have shot me." Ruth Ella then ran. I called my wife and she stopped and said she was hit; said she was hit in her stomach. She put both arms on my shoulders and said she wanted to go home. I found she was not able to walk home and I ran up to Med Fields's house for his wife. We both went back and carried water. her that I hadn't seen her (Ruth Ella.) I am Med Fields's wife. When Elliott and myself first got to Eloise, the shot woman, Elliott picked her up and I noticed when he did so that her pipe and pipe stem and razor case were lying on the ground near by her." New Advertisements. P. O. Box 154?Wanted. W. G. Kirkland?Strayed. Black & Black?Crow-Elkhart. Mack's Drug Store?Girls Need. Klauber's?Sale Closes Saturday. > Peoples Bank?We Never Know. Standard Oil Co.?Nothing Slow. Enterprise Bank?Draw a Check. Dor?Knror RanUinf Co Do YOU uaiiiucij, uuu...?0 Want. Farmers & Merchants Bank? School Days Again. Bamberg Dry Goods Store?Last, Week o? the July Sale. Kearse Community Club?Notice of Sale of Refreshments. Bamberg Banking Co.?Perhaps He May be on a Vacation. Mulligan?Cassidy's married a woman that weighs 300 pounds. O'Brien?The sly devil! He knows that nobody can fight at that weight. Delegation to Bool Weevil Section. | A number of the citizens of Bamberg and Bamberg county will leave Monday morning, August 6th, to visit the boll weevil sections of the neighboring States, Georgia and Alabama. The party will leave Bamberg early Monday morning by automobile, hoping to reach Macon, Ga.,' by night. After exploring that section, the party will cross the line into the 'stricken section of Alabama. The party will be composed or bankers, lawyers merchants and farmers, representing the different sections of the county It is to be not only a pleasure seeking party, but a representation of the county going to get ideas of the manner in which the experienced sections are handling the boll weevil problem. The painty will return Thursday or Friday of the same week. Any citizen of Bamberg county is urged to go whether he has been asked or not. If he can furnish a car that, too, will be appreciated. Any further information can be had from Paul Whitaker, secretary chamber of commerce, or J. J. fleard, county farm demonstrator. Red Cross Fund. The Enterprise Bank, of Bamberg, S. C., has been designated by the department as the depository for the funds contributed by this county, and those that have not yet paid their subscriptions will kindly make payment to the Enterprise Bank. The allotment for Bamberg county was three thousand dollars, but not all of this amount has yet been subscribed. If there are others that have not yet been solicited, feel inclined to contribute to this worthy cause, the chairman will be pleased to receive such subscription. A complete list of the contributors with the amounts contributed will be published as soon as complete returns have been received by me. H. M. GRAHAM, ?adv. Chairman. Chambers-Zeigler. The following is from the Gainesville' (Ga.) Daily Sun, and will be of interest to the many friends of Mr. Zeigler in this city. The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Alice Zeigler, of Bamberg: Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Chambers announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Frances, to Mr. Jacob Alonzo Zeigler, of Gainesville. The wedding will be a very quiet affair and will take place on' Wednesday, August 1, at high noon, with only a few close friends and relatives in attendance. This announcement will come as a pleasant surprise to the many friends When we got back, we found ner lying down. Med Fields's wife, Sallie, and myself helped her up and gave her water. Finding she was not able to walk, I immediately went and got Med Fields's mule and buggy to take her home, \?hich I did. After putting her to bed, I left Sallie with her and rushed on for the doctor. When I returned, I found my wife dead. This was about 6 o'clock p. m." Sallie Fields* sworn, said: ?I was at my home yesterday p. m. and Elliott Nimmons came up and requested me to go down to the corn field with him, that Ruth Eyia had shot his wife. We carried some. water with us and found his wife lying down. We helped her up and gave her water. Finding her unable to Walk, Elliott Nimmons hurried back to my house and got Med Fields's mule and buggy, and came back to get her, which he did, and carried her to his house and put her to bed, and rushed for the doctor. Whi^le Elliott Nimmons was gone for the * ' ?J V, +V>a ohnt wr? Duggy, 1 reiimiiieu >>*1.11 ? man. She asked me while there what did Ruth Ella tell me. I told Little could Alexander III have ! thought that the world was so near i the time when his son would run the | chance of becoming the "last of the emperors of Russia."?Dundee Advertiser. At the Tent. For the week of August 5th the subjects at thfe tent will be as follows: Sunday, "The Coming- of Elijah;" Monday. "Walking in the Light;" Tuesday, "The Third Angel's Message;" Wednesday, "The True Church of God;" hursday, "The United States in Prophecy;" Friday, "The Mark of the Beast;" Sunday, "Faith." \ of Miss Chambers in this city, sne is one of the most popular of the younger set and all of her friends will wish her all of life's happiness in her married life.?Tampa Tribune. ? Mr. Zeigler is the valued linotype operator in the Sun office, and he leaves today for Tampa followed by the best wishes of the entire office force. Mr. Zeigler is a young man of many sterling qualities. He will return with his bride to this city, where they will reside. Echoes of the Past, The passing of the czardom of Russia seems already a somewhat remote event. The late czar is now known as Nicholas Romanoff in the great land over which he held autocratic sway. It is not the title by which he expected to go down to posterity. M. de Blowitz, the famous correspondent of the Times at Paris, was responsible for putting on record a story regarding Alexander III, the father of Nicholas, which is worm recalling in this connection. The czar and his courtiers had been discussing by what added title he should be known in history. His father had been called Alexander "the Liberator and Alexander the Martyr. What should the son be called? "Alexander the Just," suggested one. "Oh, no," replied the czar. "I am, and shall remain, the peasant emperor. So some of my nobility have styled me in derision, scoffing at my affection for the moujik. But I accept the title as an honor. I have tried to procure for the humble the means of livelihood, and this, I think, is the best and only means of keeping the world going. * * * My greatest ambition is to deserve to bear to the last the title nf the Deasant emperor." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS. Short Paragraphs About Men .and Tilings Boiled Down. C. A. An man, a lawyer of Beaufort, was acquitted last week of the murder of a negro. N. B. Rogers, for twenty years treasurer of Marlboro county, died at his home in Bennettsville last week. He was 62 years old.Chief of Police Black, of Charles- ^ ton, has invited the members of the Women's Preparedness club and kindred organizations of Charleston to visit the police station and try their marksmanship on the police station ^ range. A deplorable accident occurred at Florence Wednesday when Misses Rita and Jessie Haynesworth, of Sumter, sisters, were drowned while bathing in a pond. Another young lady, Miss Evelyn Barnes, of Flor- _ ence, was rescued. Claude Carroll, aged 19, was shot and instantly killed by his cousin, Homer Carroll, who mistook him for , a burglar. The tragedy occurred at ' the Anderson mill village in Anderson early Friday morning. A coroner's Jury exonerated the slayer. . Albert J. Fox, wanted in Lexing- j ton on the charge of embezzling $27,>? 000 of the funds of the Home Nation/ ? al bank of Lexington, of which he ' was cashier, was arrested in Washington last week, after being a fu- % J gitive from justice since October 30, , 1916. Tisbie Thomas, a. negro woman, died at her home near Manning recently. > it is estimated that she was : 127 vears of aee. One of her chil * - -- dren is now over 95 years old. The woman was highly respectable, and was liked by everybody, white and colored. ? A squad of policemen visited all the houses of prostitution in Columbia last week and notified inmates & that they would have to close up on ; August 1. The news was received quietly and without comment. Ac?. . cording to police statistics there were 99 prostitutes in Columbia at the recognized houses. * H. K. Drew, general manager ^ vice president of tne Santee cottoa mills of Orangeburg, was struck by V lightning and instantly killed in Or-; . : angeburg Friday afternoon. Mr. Drew formerly lived in Union, having gone to Orangeburg from that town v v about two months ago. , y Of the 60,981 white men between Vv'. 21 and 31 years of age registered in the State, only 20,301 do not indicate claims for exemption. Of the 67,5^7 negroes registered, ohl^ 22,007 do not indicate claims of exemption. The. (] summaiy shows that there are 460 aliens registered in the State and 37 y alien enemies. The American Shipyard & Dock fM corporation; of Beaufort, which was t iy ^ recently organized apd chartered, is , already constructing flieir plant. The ^ present plans call for two ways, each } 355 feet long, together with neces- i sary buildings for machine shops, ./? $ water sheds, etc. In the general plan, , ample room is left for addi- 3 tional ways. r ? Fruit Marking Machine. i * ': t?Jj& / .. il The electrical fruit marking ma- i . chine which a California company * has been developing has a* big wheel with a branding iron or die at the ^ ?fend of each contractile spoke. The ' ~ dies are electrically heated, a ther-. mostad automatically controlling the temperature so that it may neither -' > bum nor fail to brand, and as the orange or other fruit is passed under a die, the spoke is pressed into a tube or chamber, shortening it as the size of the fruit may make necessary. A' gummy black or blue ink taken from a ribbon at the top of the wheel is ^ < softened by the hot die so that it is -, pressed into the pores of the fruit - -;J A nrPnnl Viae 1 C cnnlroo onH ot 5HV.1JLI. A YVUCCl U(M7 XU y wmw WV , one revolution in three seconds it brands 360 oranges, or an everage of , two boxes per minute. Buyer (fingering the dog collar)? "Well, rn take this collar." Salesman (very absent-minded)? -:i?S "Yes, sir. Shall I send it up, or will you wear it?"?Store News. v SPECIAL NOTICES. ' ft. Advertisements Under This Head 25c. For 25 Words or Less. = V For Sale?:Dry stove wood;-delivered on short notica B. F. FREE, Bamberg, S. C. V .v tf. Notice?The Community Club ladies will serve ice cream and other refreshments at Kearse church Friday. August 3rd, beginning at 6:00 o'clock p. ra. Prooeeds for churcji furniture. It ' t - * Wanted?Lady Clerk for dry goods and ready-to-wear. Must have had experience. Apply by letter and en close recommendations. Address P. O. BOX 154, Bamberg, S. C. It Strayed?Several weeks ago a fe- ' male fox terrier, brown and blaclc ears. Answers to name of "Monkey." Reward for return to W. G. I?IRKLAND, Bamberg, S. C., R. F. D. 2. l."? v iAf ' . . -? : \ * ' . 5.. >7;' ?V. . r. 1 ..