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n v \ - - ' - , . - . i.r " - * t / / lamliprg ijmtUi to One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1017. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Hems Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Colston Clippings. I Colston, November 20.?Cane * grinding is the chief occupation at present in this community, and the sugar boilings at night are the delight of the young people. Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Kearse spent Sunday with relatives in the Buford Bridge section. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Watson and son, T>?mhoror fipitarT CJ t thf> h CUT) ft Of U1 JViOltVU MW VMW ? Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beard Sunday. Mr. Jones McMillan,, of the chain gang management, spent Sunday at his home in this section. Misses Laura McMillan and Minnie Kirkland and Messrs. Willie Best and Claude Kirkland spent Saturday night and Sunday in Ulmers. Miss Mamie McMillan, of Bamberg, was at home last week-end. Miss Mary Clayton spent Saturday ? -?J TT'tfVi Xfipc PaOCTD Hlgill eUlU OUUUctj mui .11100 iw.o.v Kirkland. A good many of the Colston people attended the Walterboro fair last week. Mr. W. G. Kirkland, chief of police of Bamberg, spent Sunday at his home in this section. Mrs. H. K. Clayton and children ^ and Miss Eleanor Goodwin spent Sun1 day night and Monday with relatives in the Spring Branch section. Master Wilbin Kirsch, of Bamberg, was the guest of Masters Ralph and W. G. Kirkland Sunday. Preaching services by the pastor will be held at Colston Branch church Saturday afternoon at 3:30 and Sunday morning at 11:00. Sundayschool scholars ure urged to be present promptly at ten o'clock. rrr>*" Jo l'nvJtDrJ tn ho nrPKPnt 1UO puunv ID 1U > ivvu vv r., at Colston church on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 29. The pastor, Rev. Walter Black, will be the speaker of the day. The ladies are requested to bring well-filled baskets. Among those who enjoyed the sugar boiling at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMillan Monday night were: Misses Ruth Senn, Gene Price, Mary Williams, Rebecca Dickinson, Elvie Kearse, Ethel McMillan, Mrs. Eugene Smokes; Messrs. Willie Dickinson, Will Brabham, Walter Curry, Roy Free, Edwin Fields, Otis Black, Jim Rhoad, Talbert Padgett, Odell Sihoak, Eddie Jackson, Malone Yarn, Frank Folk and Albert McMillan. Buford Bridge Budget. Buford Bridge, November 20.? ^ The dry weather is still with us. While it is excellent weather for the farmers to gather their crops, rain would help the feelings of everybody ? and the iooks or everyiumg. i Miss Ada Kearse, of Columbia, spent last week-end at home. Mr. J. W. Smith is at present in Blackstone, Va., on business. Many people from here attended the lyceum in Olar last Friday and Saturday evenings. The Sunday visitors at Mr. J. B. Kearse's last Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Kearse and little son, Francis, Mr. R. L. Kearse and family, Mr. Henry Kearse, and Miss Lena Kearse. Miss Ethel Houck, who teaches the Camp Hill school, spent last week-end very pleasantly with Mrs. John Rush. Miss Yancy Graham, of Bamberg, was the pleasant' guest of Miss Eliz abeth Kirkland last Sunday. BOAGUS. I Honor Roll Buford Bridge School. The following is the honor roll of Bnford Bridge school for the month rending November 16: First grade?Sarah Kirkland, Gladys Johns, Marion Brabham. Third grade?Frank Kirkland, Daima Johns, lone Kirkland, Asbury Kirkland, Walter Brabham. Fifth grade?Nic Kirkland, Blanch 3rabham. ' Seventh grade?Inez Kirkland, Eugene Brabham. npor^A Herring was convicted at Greenwood a few days ago of vio-j lating the espoinage act, and was sentenced to prison for a year and a! day, also pay a fine of $500. Wit-j nesses testified that Herring had; severely criticised the Wilson administration, charging it with having smuggled ammunition to the enemy. Also it was testified that he had advised young men not to enlist and had said that the Liberty Bonds were without value. y RUSSIA'S SUPPLIES DETAINED. U. S. Government Must Know More About Russia First. Washington, Nov. 20.?No shipments of supplies will be permitted to go from the United States to Russia until the situation in that country clears. The American government before allowing the export of goods already on the docks wants to know into whose hands they will fall on their arrival. The cessation of shipments is temporary only if a stable government is formed which the United States can recognize. If the Bolsheviki gain control and pursue their programme calling for a peace with Germany the embargo will be permanent. A pro tracted civil war also would work to keep the embargo tight, as the United States then would fear that supplies might go to the Bolsheviki faction. The provisional Russian government was given credits amounting in all to $325,000,000, of which $191,000 already has been advanced. Much of this money has been spent for supplies now awaiting shipment and the Russians have been given vessels for its transport. Shipments will be held up by denial of bunker coal to the ships. Thomas D. Jones, vice chairman of the war trade board, called at the white house today and conferred with President Wilson. No statement was forthcoming, but it was believed he Russian situation was discussed. Conditions in Russia are far from clear. The state department today had no additional dispatches from Ambassador Francis at Petrograd but unofficial messages from Sweden were that General Kaledines, hetman of the Don Cossacks, held the master hand in Russia through domination of the country's coal and bread supply in the Don Cossack region and was marching on Varonez, 200 miles! south of Moscow. Passengers arriving at the Swedish frontier from Russia also reported that soldiers were parading the Petrograd streets bearing banners de? ft ftftnnfUnf mnol oooomhlv nf lllitliUiUg d UUliSUluuvuai OtM&mui; ul all Russia, and declaring that the Bolsheviki regime was more tyrannical than that of Nicholas. IDEAL HUSBAND. Volunteers to Do Wife's Jail Term; Refuses to Pay Fine. There are some who maintain that the age of chivalry is deader than a doornail, but it seems that is a mistake. Listen to the story of John Skwarek, of North Chicago, who not only qualifies as a model husband, but also gallops off with the laurels of Sir Walter Raleigh. Mrs. Skwarek has a flock of geese that are as the apple of her eye. This week they wandered off into the garden of a neighbor, Joseph Belakey, who caused the arrest of Mrs. Shwarek. This was because the geese did not leave much of the garden. The woman was arraigned before Justice of the Peace Neahaus, of; North Chicago, ordered to keep the! geese at home, and fined $2 and costs, with the alternative of going to jail if she refused to pay. She refused. Here's where the age of chivalry was revived. "Three days in jail," said the justice, sentencing the woman. Her husband stepped forward. "Hold," he said, "let me go to jail in the place of my wife. It is my place to face hardships for her." "It doesn't matter to us," said the Belakeys. "It's all right, as long as some one suffers for this raid on our garden. The law is the law, and we demand justice." So Skwarek went to jail in place of his wife. In the evening she came to the jail with a fat basket of lunch, which they ate together.?Chicago Dispatch. ' Killed at Causeway. Walterboro, Nov. 20.?Thursday night Miss Georgia Atkinson, of Stokes, while on the way to the Walterboro fair, accompanied by a friend, Jasper Carter, met her death on Jones's causeway, a few miles from town. The horse they were driving became frightened at a number of automobiles and backed off one of the causeway bridges, the buggy and horse falling upon Miss Atkinson. Death resulted almost instantly. The matter is being investigated by the authorities who will make every effort to ascertain the names of those in the cars. The funeral of Miss Atkinson was , held at Dry Creek church Friday afternoon with interment following at the cemetery of the church. She was a member of an influential family. IN THE PALMETTO STATEj SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. South Carolinians' subscriptions to the Liberty loan totaled $18,862,200, exclusive of the amounts subscribed at the various army cantonments. South Carolina has qualified under, the vocational educational act of con-j grass to receive Federal funds for the salaries of teachers and for teacher training activities. The South Carolina Lutheran Synod, which held its annual meeting at Pomaria last week, adopted a patriotic resolution pledging its loyalty and faith to the nation in the great war crisis. Seven thousand Porto Rican troops will be mobilized in January and! transferred to Camp Jackson for! training. These will all be white soldiers, however, and none of the negroes from Porto Rica will be sent into this State. Jame9 Jacobs, of Pontiac, was convicted in the Federal district court in Columbia Monday, on a charge of selling half a pint of whiskey to a soldier. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and spend three months in the Richland county jan. The first death among the 16,000 soldiers mobilized at Camp Jackson near Columbia since September occurred there last Thursday. Private Flurry Howard, of Lenox, Tenn., succumbed to pneumonia, which developed after a case of measles. He was a drafted man and was married. An epidemic of measles has broken out among the soldiers at Camp Sevier near Greenville, and the men have been quarantined. Great numbers of South Carolina troops are in this camp, and quite a few Bamberg county boys, but so far we have not heard of any of our boys who have contracted the malady. The officials of the Orangeburg county fair association announce that j the total receipts for the week of the 1 fair recently held there amount to approximately $16,500. The association now has a plant fully paid for, valued at $30,000 and has $3,500 cash on hand, and has. only been runnning seven years. What about a fair, Bamberg county? The football team of the Bailey j Military institute from Greenwood will play the Carlisle boys on the local gridiron Friday afternoon of this week. Coach Major is also endeavoring to arrange a game with tne Florence Jtiign scuuui iu uc placed here Thanksgiving day. Florence has one of the best teams in the Pee Dee section of the State. The State railroad commission has refused the petition of the brotherhood of. railway clerks, which requested a reduction in the hours for receiving freight. The commission stated as its reason that a decrease in hours would tend to congest traffic which is out of the q.uestion under the present circumstances which comfront the nation with regard to shipping of all kinds. AMERICANS GIVEN UP FOR LOST. No Trace of Boat from Steamer Rochester Torpedoed Nov. 2d. Washington, Nov. 17.?Twelve men, including five members of the naval armed guard who left in the second officer's boat when the American steamer Rochester was torpedoed *T 1 o in tne war zone iNovemuer c, uavc been given up for lost by the Navy Department. Vice Admiral Sims cabled today that no trace of the boat had been found. He also advised the department that Ernest H. Gragg, seaman, and member of the guard, and three members of the Rochester crew died from exposure in another boat.1 The Valuable Salesman. Using all his eloquence, the experimental salesman had been displaying his stock to the lady custo mer. Green, purple and pink velvet; muslin and cloth had he tempted her with, but so far in vain. "Now, madam," he said, confident-] ly, "this is a lovely line. Color fast] and unshrinkable, guaranteed to wash like a rag and make up splendidly. Madam this piece of cloth speaks for itself?" "Then," interrupted the fed-up customer, "suppose you keep quie^ for a moment and give it a chance." ?Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. TRAGEDY IN COLLETON. C. W. Ulnier Dead; His Son, Raysor Ulraer, Accused. Walterboro, Nov. 19.?As the result of one of the most tragic shootings ever occurring in this county, C. W. Ulmer, one of the county's best citizens, is dead, and his son, Raysor, is in jail charged with the killing. He will not talk, and as there were no eye witnesses to the shooting, it is not definitely known what was the cause of the killing. It has been reported that on Wednesday of last week the young man came to Walterboro to attend the fair in company with a young womVlin fnftln* trt hl'fl o,ii n iiuiu 111o lainci v/uj^vn/u ?-v> mu son's going with, and that on Thursday he upbraided his son for the act, and that Mrs. Ulmer, seeing that it was likely there would be a fuss between father and son, left the house and was not present when the shooting occurred. Three shots were fired, only one taking effect, which caused death almost instantly. Mr. J. S. Sanders, of Moselle, was near the house, having stopped to repair his car, and when he heard the shots he went to the house to ascertain the cause. It is said he met Mr. Ulmer coming out of the house and was told that he (Ulmer) had shot his father. When pressed by Mr. Sanders for an explanation, he is said to have stated: "I did it to save my own life." Further than this nothing is known as to the tragedy. The sheriff and coroner were notified and when they arrived the inquest was held in accordance with the above facts. Mr. Ulmer accompanied the sheriff to Walterboro and has since been in jail. It is understood that he will apply for bail through his attorney, M. P. Howell, Esq. FUND GOES FAR BEYOND GOAL. Y. M. A. C. War Fund Campaign Raises Forty-Nine Millions. New York, Nov. 20.?The national war work council of the Y. M. C. A. announced here tonight that the grand total of the nation wide war fund campaign is $49,209,411. This exceeds by nearly $15,000,000 the $35,000,000 goal set at the beginning of the campaign on November 12. President Wilson on being informed that the fund was greatly oversubscribed, telegraphed congratulations to Dr. John R. Mott, general secretary of the council. "My heartfelt congratulations on this remarkable and gratifying result," the president's telegram read. "I think it is a national blessing." The southeastern department with headquarters at Atlanta collected $1,207,588. Its quota was $1,500,000. The eastern department with its headquarters in this city collected $20,091,665. Its quota was fixed at $15,400,000. The totals and the quotas for the other departments are as follows: Central, Chicago, $18,380,733, quota $12,500,000. Northeastern, Boston, $6,368,925, quota $5,000,000. Western, San Francisco, $1,773,500, quota $1,250,000. Southwestern, Dallas, $1,387,000, quota $1,000,000. A. P. Whitford, national campaign director, announced that the final figures may exceed $50,000,000. He congratulated the 300,000 workers. Dr. Mott in his message to the president said it is "the desire of our movement to strengthen your hands in every way in our power, in rendering a larger and better service to the enlisted men of our army and navy and also the forces of the nations which have made common cause with us." Dances to H?r Grave. Fort Yates, N. D., Nov. 14.?Mrs. Red Tomahawk, wife of the Indian policeman who is said to have killed the famous Sioux chief, Sitting Bull, danced herself to death on thjB Standing Rock Indian reservation, near J - *- - > ? ^ i (Jannon tsaii, according to wwu ic-j ceived here today. Reports indicated; that Mrs. Tomahawk, about sixty years of age, participated in an Indian dance last Sunday night and overexerted herself. So He Does. "Why don't you open the door?| That may bet he opportunity knocking." "It's much more apt to be a bill collector." "Well, if you only knew it, a bill collector offers a good opportunity to get out of debt." Watennan8 Ideal Fountain Pens at Herald Book Store. NO PEACE BEFORE WW BECAUSE OF COLLAPSE OF RUSSIA, SAYS McCORMICK. Looks for Change in 1919.?Believes Full Force of America Will Turn Scales for the Allies. Chicago. Nov. 18.?Russia's collapse and the unreadiness of the United States makes hopeless any thoughts of peace before 1919 in the opinion of Medill McCormick, Con-^ gressman at large of Illinois, who has just returned from a visit to most of the important fronts of t{ie European battle line. Mr. McCormick in a statemnt tonight, said: "The Germans are not winning tne war. "Neither are we. "The war presents a stalemate from which we are unable to exricate ourselves because of the collapse of Russia and the unreadiness of the United States. "Nowhere in Europe did I find an informed soldier or public man who believed that a military decision could be accomplished before 1919, when the United States might add effectively to press the- Central Empires. There is practically no hope that Russia can be useful during 1918. Russia is so disordered that she cannot make war. Happily, in all probability, neither can she make peace. Teutons Act With Unity. "The resources of the Central Powers have been energetically?spent. They are bleeding terribly. But they act with greater energy, unity and skill than their enemies. Thus they ; made a seemingly successful drive into Italy. The real object of their political foray into Venitia was partly to make camouflage to conceal their losses from Verdun to Passchendaele and partly to provoke revolution in Italy. The Italians were under-gunned, neither had they enough ammunition. But even so they would not have been driven back as they were if two or three divisions, debauched by the; spy system of Germany had not thrown down their arms. Outfight the Huns. "The French and British have a moderate preponderance in guns and mam for man they out-flght the Germans. "While there ar? still excellent German divisions in Flanders, there was an appreciable diminution in the morale and the physical quality of the German troops on the French and British battle fronts. At the battle of the Chemin-Des-Dames the German batteries were so drenched with fire they they were unable to reply. With mathematical exactness the French took the terrain. Hundreds of heavy guns were employed to wreck the enemy defenses. This is an artillery and industrial war. That mustj never be forgotten. Above all heavy | guns are necessary?heavy guns, their obivious complements of aircraft and rail transportation, but heavy guns and still more heavy guns; twenty-five thousand cannon to be made in American factories and shipped to France before March 1, 1919. This is the essence of victory and great guns offer the only means by which it can be won. Decided by America. "This jssue of the war will be decided in/Washington and by the furnaces of America. "The splendid little American army which already has crossed the seas renaerd a great service when the echo of the first American fleet on the soil of France carried to every home the promise that that strength and still more the industrial genius of America will bring succor to France. "France is fighting with heroic and dogged courage. Her steady thoughtful soldiery are ready to spend their blood and to die, in the belief that America will forge the weapons to win the war. They must not be mistaken. "I say very earnestly that we must have greater coordination of effort. We must have a true war council such as does not exist in Washington ?a council of men who represent in the greatest degree the energy and genius of America. It will be fruitless if we are ready too late." Miss Mary B. Poppenheim, of Charleston, was elected president of the entire organization of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at their annual convention in Chattanooga last week. Miss Mary Custis Lee, a daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, was elected honorary president. I TO INCREASE WHEAT. South Carolina Congressmen to Conduct Quick Campaign. Columbia, Nov. 19.?At the urgent request of Governor Manning, W. W. Long, chief farm demonstration agent, and D. R. Coker, United States ^ food administrator for South Carolina, the South Carolina delegation to the lower branch of congress will carry out an intensive campaign of speeches in behalf of winter wheat. This plan was agreed upon at a conference held this arternoon in the governor's office with A^, F. Lever, of the seventh district; Fred H. Dominick, of the third district; James F. Byrnes, of the second district, and Mr. Long present. Three other congressmen, R. S. Whaley, W. F. Stevenson, and J. W. Ragsdale, will join in the campaign, the matter having been presented to them by telenhone. Sam J. Nicholls is out of the State in the West. To Name Places and Dates. The meetings will be held with the primary phrpose of reaching the farmer, and to that end it waq decided that as far as practicable the meet- ings be held in the smaller towns. Itineraries for the six congressmen are being made and will be announced later. The meetings will be advertised through the well organized channels of the State council of de- , fense and through the extension department of Clemson college. The slogan of the campaign, which will start Saturday, will be "Two acres of wheat to the plow." Such a campaign is necessary because of the general situation in the wheat market, coupled with the demands of the armies and the delays of transportation. m PAMPERED BERLIN. ?? ' '0. Few Heavy Burdens Imposed on the Metropolis. If there is a revolt against the , Kaiser, it will not have its origin in Berlin, declares Adele N. Phillips, in the October Atlantic. Rarely are the harrowing phases of the war reve&le^l to the people of the metropils. Berlin 4 ?a nnddled namnerpd. The burden that ' *" * ?-V ? ? is imposed on her is not as heavy as that borne by other municipalities. Her food-supply is greater, and the - ~ restrictions are not as tightly drawn. The cities in the extreme north are lifeless. Unable to contribute their share to the great conflict they are neglected, a greater toll of man power being exacted from them. Photographs were shown in private circles of the 'longshore women of Cuxhaven being driven like sheep to load ships with supplies for mother ships or submarine bases; mere shapeless snags of women?flatchested and devoid of feminine grace, slouching along with unwomanly disregard of their appearance. Yet, three years ago, these coarse, frowsy creatures were noted for the stiirdiness of their carriage and a certain rugged voluptuousness. The government considered these photographs of sufficient importance to make a house-, to-house search in the district for copies of them and to arrest the holder of the negative. r,/\T> nnnncrvri iTATCm SLiilil rVA i/rr uoxn u Murdered Because They Subscribed to Red Cross and Liberty Bonds. Virginia, Minn., Nov. 16.?Three Austrians, a woman and two men, were murdered here last night, the ^ police say, because they had subscrib- ^ ed to the Liberty Loan and Red Cross funds. They were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Alar, and Peter Trepich, a boarder in the Alar house. The skull of each had been crushed with an axe while the victims slept, and each body mutilated with a knife. On a kitchen table in the home of the Alars was a note, written in an Austrian dialect, reading: "This is what you get for being against the Kaiser. You have donated to the Red Cross and you have said the Kaiser could go to hell. Don't look for us, anyone who does will get the same dose." Red Cross and Liberty Loan purchase signs, generally displayed here, although the community has a large Austrian population, * disappeared from the windows of Austrian residents today. The Alars were each thirty-eight years of age, and Trepich was 60 * rn'1 ?vtinot*o years 01 age. mt> meu **cic mmr^o. That bunch of Congressmen who propose to visit the battle front in France should be careful. The fireworks over there are entirely different from those they are used to in Washington.