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A ' One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1917. Established 1891 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME IX TE REST I X(* HAPPENINGS IX VARIOUS SECTIOXS. News Items Gathered All Around thej County and Elsewhere, f Colston Clippings. / * Colston. Aug. 7.?Miss Laura Mcmillan was the pleasant guest of .Miss % Alberta Kearse Sunday. .Miss Azile Donald, of Norway, returned to her home Sunday after a short visit to friends here. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Clayton spent Sunday with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Rentz. Mrs. Matt Inabinet departed this life last Wednesday at the home of her niece. Mrs. W. P. Sandifer. at I Denmark, and her body was laid to rest in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. The bereaved family have the sympthy of the entire community. Miss Nettie Clayton spent Saturday night with her sister. Mrs. B. \Y. Beard. Mr. Perry Lee McMillan, of Cheraw, is at home on a vacation. Mrs. Ogreta Beard spent last week with Mrs. B. D. Bishop. Mcsdames Thos. Clayton and D. J. Zorn. Miss Mary Clayton and Messrs. Samuel Clayton and Vernon McMil> lan spent Sunday with friends at Govan. ~~ Messrs. Vernon McMillan and Malone Varn were the guests of Mr. * Sammie Clayton Saturday night. "V T J ^ ? D c- i I.'irl.-ldnfl was tllo JTllOSt ->i I OS- UCJ-'IC IV 11 aiuuu .. ...v ^ ^ of Jier cousin, Miss Hattie Kirkland. Saturday night. The many friends of Master Monroe Kolk are very sorry to learn of his illness. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beard and family visited relatives at Ehrhardt Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. All and Mr. and Mrs. C. B. All and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. F. \Y. McMil^ lan. ^ Miss Evelyn Kirkland was the guest of Mrs. Leila Bessinger Saturday night and Sunday. Messrs. B. \Y. and J. C. Beard and J. B. Yarn motored to Atlanta Tuesday. Miss Inez Clayton spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. B. W. Beard. Clear Pond Cullings. ^ Clear Pond, August 6.?Miss Ethel W Collins, of Govan, is the attractive guest of Mrs. Herbert Folk this week. Miss Mamie Morris returned to Aui f gusta Saturday to resume her studies L'> at Osborne's business college. [ Messrs. Roy Williams and Claude Kirkland, of Charleston, were visi^ tors in this section Sunday afternoon. Mr. C. E. Hughes, of Varnville. visited his uncle. Mr. P. K. Hughes, last \<eek. Mrs. Mac Creech, of rimers, spent last week in the community with relatives. ^ Miss Doris Folk is visiting her sister near Denmark. Messrs. Earl Summers and David Smoak. of Branc-hville. visited at Mr. J. B. Folk's Saturday and Sunday. | f Mrs. J. F. Mitchell is spending ' some time here with her sister. Mrs. P. K. Hughes. Miss Ruth Morris is visiting rela tives in Augusta. .Miss Gracia Black, of Hilda, is visiting .Miss Reba Steedly this week. .Miss Allie Morris, of Ehrhardt. is the guest of her aunt. .Mrs. J. J. ( Hughes. t Branohville Breezes. ! Branchville, August 4.?Mrs. J. B. Henderson is visiting relatives in Atr * lanta. hMiss Katherine Minus is spending some time with relatives in Ashe-1 ville. | L ' Miss Freda Butts, of Charleston. m is the guest of Mrs. P. E. Dukes. Mrs. L. H. Thomas is visiting relatives in Spartanburg. Mrs. C. E. McHonaker has returned from a visit to relatives in Auc gusta. Mr. C. L. Bruce, Jr.. of Lynchburg. \i Va.. is on a visit to relatives here. Mr. J. R. Henderson is spending k some time with his father in Laurens county. Misses Thelnia Witiiersnoon and gne Dukes aiv visiting Miss Louise McKeown. SchotieM Skotrh<">. Schofield. August 7.?Miss Verna French has returned homo after an extended visit with friends in GeorI gia. | Mr. C. A. Peters, who has been I sawing here for the past two vears r m: \tii pkx.alty roit i:i:sisi i:ks; rederal Government Will Press Case' Against Two Hundred in Okla. I Oklahoma City. Okla.. Aug. ? Without waiting for a conclusion of| the State's campaign against organized resistance ot the selective draft in Centra! Oklahoma, the United! States government today moved to I punish the men under arrest in J connection with armed opposition to military service. Warrants charging j treason, were served on the prisoners who were taken to the penitentiary at McAlister or the jail at Muskogee j to await trial at which United States District Attorney McGinni> will ask | that the death penalty he imposed. Viinminepmenr that extreme nun isment would bo asked was expected to aid materially in bringing to terms the few resisters still sheltered in the hills. Posses in three counties?Seminole. Hughes and Pottawatomie?reported tonight that isolated groups refused to surrender, but that they apparently were discouraged and seeking to avoid encounter. Except for the fact that several agitators, regarded as leaders in the disturbance and dangerous to remain at large, are among those maintaining a show of resistance, the authorities would be inclined to let the bands break up. confident that the less important members could be arrested later. Dynamite is Seized. Determination of the possemen to run down all of the leaders was strengthened today by confiscation of half a freight car of dynamite found on a siding in Seminole county. An investigation is being made to establish ownership. The car was unaccompanied. Clashes between the resisters and posses have cost three lives and numerous injuries. Two objectors to the draft have been killed and a traveler was shot when he failed to heed a posse's .warning to halt. Will Have Their Way. It was at an evening party in Cambridge and Dodge asked Keller: "Who is that impressive-looking woman over there?" "That's Mrs. Moore." was the reply. "She's a remarkably strong minded woman. It is said she commands a large salary." "Indeed." said Dodge, reflectively as he looked at the woman with interest. "How does she earn it?" "She doesn'r earn it," said Keller. "Her husband earns it. and she commands it."?Denver News. has accepted a position at Owensburg. Ky. Mr. G. D. Inabinet. who is in camp with the -nd S. C. national guard at Columbia, spent the week-end with his parents here, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Inabinet. The men who were drawn in the national army from here are being examined every day. and we notice that the majority of them are passed upon as able bodied men. The recent rains that have fallen horn have caused a considerable drop! in the temperature, which was glad-j ly welcomed hy our citizens. Mr. R. \V. Schotield. general manager of the Saltkeatehie Lumber Co.. [ was a visitor here last week. I Mrs. X. G. Calahan. of North, is spending a few days here with her daughter. Mrs. A. T. Inabinet. * Oak Grove Greetings. Oak Grove. August 6.?Some of the farmers are very busy pulling fodder now. Mr. G. C. Folk, of the Colston section. was the pleasant guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Rentz last Sunday. Mrs. L. \V. - Copeland spent last Saturday night and Sunday with her sister. Mrs. D. E. Fender, at Ehrhardt. A good many of the folks around here attended the meeting at Carter's Ford last Sunday. Mrs. J. L. Copeland and Miss Lonie Copeland dined with Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Smith last Friday. Miss Kate Hiers spent several days last week with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Fender, of the Colston section. Miss Grace Hoffman dined with her aunt. Mrs. George McMillan last j Sunday. The protracted meeting will start: ! -T >?* i.ovt Cnnil-H' TllO lillll-! T ill I'VllUKi* 1 i I ?-.Ui tu.- . * j' ? - - | ! lie is cordially invited to attend, j Messrs. C,. F. McMillan and Till-; I man Carter atl'-nded the picino at ! I Crochet ville "last Wednesday. They I , repotted a jolly uood time, j Mrs. Monnie Rontz and her son.! | Monnie. Jr.. of Columbia, spent last j I week at the home of Mr. 1. W. Rent/.. I There is a lot ol" sickness in our section. IN THE PALMETTO STATE somi: o( <ti;i;i:\< i:s of vaiuofs KINDS IN SOI TH ( AKOLINA. State News Hoi led Down lor Quirk j Heading.?Paragraphs About .Men and Happenings. Henry Lindsay, 17. of Greenville, was drowned Tuesday of last week j while swimming. Forty \\ hitc and ten colored couples were married in Spartanburg county during the month of July. Harry Fauhert and \\\ P. Ritts, white prisoners in tiie State peniten-j tiary. made their escape last Thursday. The third infantry regiment, national guard of the district of Columbia. will lie sent to Cunp Sevier. t:i Green\ille. I). \V. Gaston, of Aiken, sold o.'ll bales of cotton last week at IF" cents a pound. A check for SJ^. k ,x 4 wagiven in payment. Farmers of Orangeburg county ar<? making an effort to secure a licensed federal cotton grader for the Orangeburg market this fall. Jacob Ford, a negro of Charleston. must answer at the next term of court to tlie ciiarge 01 receiving mu quarts of liquor in a month. Walter Burns is under arrest in Spartanburg, charged with obtaining several hundred dolar- by means'of bogus mortgages and checks. During the month of July the office of the secretary of State collected i'lom corporation fees, notary public fees, etc. a total of Sl.TL^.SS. The first car of wheat ever shipped j from. .McBee, Chesterfield county, was! shipped to Darlington Tuesday, where it will be milled. Several more cars will be forwarded at an early date. The largest and most perfect specimen of pure bred Jersey cow that was ever seen in Gaffney was sold in that town Thursday for beef. The cow weighed 1,13"> pounds. John Sharpe Williams, distinguished United States senator from Mississippi, has accepted an invitation to deliver an address at a picnic to be held at Bisliopville this month. The city council of Florence has passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of Jamaica ginger in that city except upon the prescription of a physician. Grocers 01 norence na\ei been selling Jamaica ginger mixed with cider, it is said. A shortage of S9.3"0.50 has been discovered in the accounts of \V. \\\ Huckabee. deceased, formerly sheriff of Kershaw county. The sheriff is alleged to have failed to turn over to the county treasurer a large sum of money collected on tax executions. SLAVS HIS WIFE. Objected to Her Visiting Her Parents, at Whose Home Tragedy Occurred. Greenwood. August t'?.?Enraged because bis wife had left him to visit her parents, after he had told her she should not do so. Frank Boyd, aged 2o. shot and killed his wife yesterday afternoon at four o'clock and wounded his mother-in-law with four shots from his automatic pistol. The mother-in-law, Mrs. Crane, is now in ' 1 ^ ? ? "* -3 K 1 o /I it ie l\n_ 1116 Lxl'6611 w U(JH iiu>i'iiai anu n 10 lieved she will recover. She has two bullet wounds in the face and one in each arm. The dead wife. Mrs. Minnie Crane Boyd, was shot twice in the left breast and once in the head. The shooting ocurred at the Crane home in Grendel mill village Xo. 2 in South Greenwood. Boyd and his wife lived in the Greenwood mill village. Mrs. Boyd wanted to visit her parents and he told her not to go. She went anyway and Boyd followed later in the day and as soon as he walked up on the front piazza began shooting at his wife and when she fell, turned on his mother-in-law. After the shoot-j ing he submitted quietly to arrest at the hands of Deputy Sprouse of the { village and made no resistance what-j ...1.^., OI,?,.;(V My.Milloji n rl Mr ! ever wneii onei in .< ?. .m n.?<. , Chandler, chief of police, put liiin in! an automobile and earned him to J the county jail. He is still in jail1 and refuses to make anv statement! I or even answer ?jitestions. maintain-; inir a stolid silence. He is a native! of Laurens county but litis lived in Hreenwood county almost all of his life. Last year the State of California from " (?.nun acres harvested oon,nun pounds of rice. This cereal; is a very stood substitute for potatoes.1 and much cheaper at current prices, i \ IIIJY i i:\v i:.\I:MPTI<>\S. I Jural Carriers and i'ostoflire KniploytVs Not Kxemptcd from Draft. A ruling by the postofliee department. Frida> shows that department officials will make few requests for the exemption of postal employees from military service. Postmasters are instructed not to ask for exemption for carriers or laborers or for clerks in second class oliices below the Sl.nno grade, clerks in fir>t class offices below the $1.1 ho grade, or any above these grades unless they are qualified distributers of mail. The ruling is the brst formal action by an executive department in com-j pliance with President Wilson's order' directing that department officials in-j dicntp evonmtions and that the re-1 uuirement ot' indispensability lie rigidly enforced. As generally construed. the postal ruling shows the purpose of the administration to inakei the government leaders in freeing valuable employees for war service. I The entire mail carrier force, numbering thousands of men. of whom a considerable percentage are within the draft age limits, is excluded from exemption unless for physical reasons or because they have dependent families. Every portion of the country is reached by the ruling, as even the rural carriers are included. The department's ruling in regard to clerks leaves railway mail clerks within the exemption class, as they are highly specialized distributers. Reduces Exemptions. Provost Marshal General Crowder took steps Friday to reduce the number of exemptions because of dependent families. Instructions were sent j to tlie governors of all States pointing out that the minimum pay of soldiers is now .>*:;< a month, and that local boards must consider whether a man's dependents could not be supported on that amount. The telegram follows: "Please call attention of local hoards to the fact that a soldier's pay is not less than thirty dollars a month, and that all clothing, subsistence medical treatment and hous ing are furnished him. Under the law he may allot any portion of his pay to a dependent. .Many soldiers receiving thirty dollars a month are easily able to allot twenty-five dollars monthly to the support of dependents. Tn case of death in line of duty, the government will pay to the beneficiary designated by the soldier six months' pay. "Section 4 of the selective service act provides that those in a status with respect to persons dependent upon them for support which renders their exclusion or discharge advisable may he discharged, but it does not require that they shall be discharged in all such cases. The discretion of local boards is invoked by this provision and such boards may well take the facts recited above into consideration in deciding claims for discharge due to dependency with a view of fact, the person claiming such discharge will not be in as good or better position to support his de .I,....,. .,^,1 ^,.t; m, tVw niiiifflvv Lft Ullt'l J5 V IC V t. I'?/11 i v / i iiutMu.,' . service than lie was before. If such is tlie case, of course, the discharge I should not he granted*." Knotty Problems. Government officials generally are beginning to take tip the individual questions that arise where government employees are called for service. Secretary Daniels said Friday that knotty problems were arising in the navy department as to what individuals in the clerical force, navy draughsmen or skilled workers at the navy yards are absolutely indispensable. The number of exemptions asked by the various departments will be reduced to the absolute minimum, it is indicated, even if some temporary derangement of the clerical work results. General Crowder has suggested to the governors that each assemble full membership of all district boards in his State for a general conference to insure uniform proceedings regarding appeals. The gov. ernors were asked also to appoint o? > in oofli lncnl district TO clll UliiV 1U1 lit \.UV U ? V/ v?? ? X,.. v. .? V j file appeals. County attorneys were | suggested. eleventh Hour Ties NO Immunity. Washington. August _.? Local exemption hoards were .formally in-| structed hv lTovosu Marshal C.en.l Crowder tonight thai the> ma> well j hold that a marriage recent 1> r-on-j suniniated. especially !>y a registrant j j after he has been called for examination. does nor create a status ofj ! dependency justifying immunity j from conscription. The hoards are instructed to exercise their disc-re-j tion in such cases. I i MEN EXAMINED FOR DRAFT j Mom; i;i:<;ist!l\ms will ilw to in: i:\.\mi\i:i). About Half I ailed to I'ass Physical Examination.?Very Few Who Do Not Claim Exemption. - ? On Saturday. Monday and Tuesday tlier^ were without doubt more men in Bamberg between the ages of 21 and do. inclusive, than on anv three clays previously in the history of the town. The occasion was the examination by ihe local selective draft board of men summoned for the selective draft army. The examination began early Saturday morniflg. One hundred and twenty-five young men were summoned before the board Saturday to stand the physical examination. Dr. Cleckley. the physician-member of the local board, was assisted Saturday by Drs. S. P. Rentz and Copeland. The board and physicians worked far into the night before the work was concluded. Monday two hundred were summoned before the board. Dr. Cleckley was assisted that day by Drs. Hartzog, Rentz, Wyman and Roberts. The remaining two hundred were summoned for Tuesday, when the examining physician was assisted by Drs. Wyman, Rentz and Hartzog. More than half of those examined failed to pass the physical test, and were given certificates of discharge on that ground. About i?0 per cent, of those passing the-physical examination claimnvfiiniitinii /-v.-, niio o-rninul fllirl fin-i CU CAC1I11. LiUli uu Uiiv. %?* % v- ? other. Of course, all those who claim exemption will not be exempted, but it is apparent that another increment of registrants will have to be summoned before the board. More notices will be sent out just as soon as the board can get the time to makei them out. The question of exemptions will be J considered by the board at once. All I persons who have claims for exemption were given the proper blanks to be filled out, sworn to before a notary, and returned to the board. Within the next few days all persons: passing the physical examination will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their claims. At present it appears that many more of the registrants of the county may have to be examined before the county's quota of 1S3 is secured. Below is printed a list of all those who passed the physical examination, those not appearing on this list having failed to pass: 91!) Jesse C. Rentz. i>19 Samuel Edward Baxter. 90li Stacy Kearse. 1 ">43 Troy E. Ayer. 93 William R. McKenna. 1 I > I \ V 1111 cl 111 1. v. til Iti . S71 Charlie Lionel Clayton. 14S."? .John Bessinger. MO Spencer Scott. 07.0 Cleveland Faust. ! 44 Murphy Brelanu. I 12SS Lennie Johnson. I 1132 E. \V. Walker. 7,7.7 Ralph Archer Goolsby. 130 Charley Brabham Wiggins, j 7,25 J. E. Bass, j 7>7.o Winchester Graham. 7)30 Henry J. Creech. 7,71 Charles Wesley Jones. 10SS Sullivan Myers. 403 Arthur Halyard. 1217 Ezra Stewart. 12S2 Henry Green. 0S3 Hammond Green. 707 Frank Robinson. 147?7> Henry Wroton. 1 070 John Wilbur Kearse. I 7,13 Timothy Washington, i 1 0S7) Adolphus Kirkland. 072 John Harrison Ealey. 1178 Eddie Jennings. 437 Johnnie Walker, in-ir. Daniel Sease. 1292 George Patterson Johnson. 784 Hosea Roney. l.">39 Fletcher Wright, r.4S Henry Wilbur Gibson. l."72 Aaron D. Hair. Reginald Hubert Driggs. f*>(in Hardy Marion Tant. 148 L. Osborne Brabham. 12Hi Wilbur P. Williams. 12?',t; lien-ion Zorn. 1<',\ J? >! n Frank Connelly. 1:i 1 Barney Bessinger. 7." ^Jolin Knight. Charley Henry Carroll. 1 \ 1 ! John Henry Dyckes. ]o7 James Kdwar-l Sanuii'er. 1 I'd Auuns'int- Sin>the Week ley. I John S.-hwarting. 1Co William Otto Cook. ?; ?4 John .Shannon Tyler. :V.m> Sam Saiulerowitz. 4 Bonnie Lee Hair. 10 James Clyde Boland. I l?;si? James Kirk land. Jr. It.7k l.onnie Kearse. 27". Monnie Jones, ".on Duck Ross. 17:;2 Willie Shepherd. 1 :!! ". Sam Richards. 17of. Bennie Orr. 12o Jinimie Walker. 1 s2 George Daniels, r. 1 7 Shellie Guess. 7S:i Carey Reed. 7JO Edward Lebby. 77 "> Albert Bow. 04 " Harvey Beard. 002 Edgar Hart/.og. 8:;7 Willie Williams, Jr. 1184 Ross Williams. ~?n7 Arthur Rice. S."4 Sam Washington. 1066 Lee Williams, Jr. 433 Henry Washington. 966 Henry Dokes. 332 Ernest Moore. 373 Willie Robinson. 1441 Charles H. Holmes. 1 536 James Varn. 3 79 Luscius Staley. 390 Willie Stewart. 239 James Hartzog. 1020 Perry Loadholt. 1 636 Paris Draper, Jr. 1763 James Jamison. 1771 Robert Woods. 1751 Henry All. 1651 David Draper. 514 William Wright. 1014 James Kearse. 757 Henry Xelson. 721 Laurie Johnson. S74 Bqu Carter. 114S Adam Carter. 1370 C. B. Garrett. 31 Manford Dubois. 14 17 R. L. Morris. 1 SO H. O. .Morris. 1016 Henry Lincoln. 130." Charley Odom. 15G5 L. I. Drawdv. 12.76 L. E. McCormack. r?SS J. E. Stokes. S7,6 Robert Williams. 1346 J. R. Peters. " 1337 J. P. Hiers. 1250 W. W. Lancaster. 1101 J. F. Hutto. 1339 J. H. Johns. 12S7 Solomon Jeter. 1010 Hab Kirkland. 1007 Wilson Kirkland. 711 John D. Jones. 1764 Sawyer Mines. 1765 George McMillan. 355 Julius Paul. 685 George Gregg. 760 Sammie Odom. 335 Clide Middleton. 1714 James Ray. 1677 Garrie Kirkland. 174 4 Jack Walker. Jr. 957 George Bamberg. 1730 David Stroman. 163S Jim Dyches; 1611 Dave Breland. 327 Albert Myers. 1167 Moses Green. 222 Y. R. Grant. 620 Ben Beavers. 441 J. D. Washington. 1S5 Willie Easterling. 12S1 John Green. 194 Caleb Frederick. 1 276 Joe Daniels. 105$ J. F. Gilbert. 356 Ben Patrick. 736 Monnie Kel ley. I7t>!t Nelson Odom. S09 Harry E. Storne. 7.".", W. H. Norton. 1300 Solomon Ximmons. 7 1 Franklin Kirkland Graham. 34.7 Ernest Nelson. 738 Joe Kelley. 664 Johnnie Fickling. 1 430 Raymon Donnelson. 726 Arthur Johnson. 391 Queenie Saxton. 1032 Bill Porter. 1366 Benjamin Franklin. 343 Curtis Nelson. 717 Thomas Jefferson. 1077 Willie Wright. 341 Joe Nelson, Jr. 12 77 William Daniels. S14 John Sanders. 981 Johnnie Givins. 171 James Dowling. 1142 Clarence Barnwell. 4SS Norman Grimes. 1627 Willie Connelly. 1617 John Henry Bryant. 1054 Willie Stephens. 00 Tom Moody. 11 2 1 Ralph Rentz. 12??0 Henry Murray Ray. 1itfi L. McD. Reid. 1P?7 Rashie Ham Jolly. 1:141 George Kinard. ill! John (1. Matthews. sClarence J. Parish, li'." I John Henry Morris. S7S R. Tillman Carter. 11 ms Wilbert Lawcv Jones. lit Fred Gaskins. (522 Theodore Bellinger. 1774 Arthur L. Baxter. 1700 Elijah Trotty. 23 W. I). Coleman. 1284 Richard Holman. ??????ti (.Continued on page 2, column 3.)