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/ / J v. ^ ?1}F Sambrrg Jjmli fc One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 2,1918. Established 1891. i ? ~ 4 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Colston Clippings. Colston, April 30.?Rev. George P. White, of Bamberg, will make an address at Colston Branch church next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The public is cordially invited. Misses Elvie Kearse, Ethel McMil. Ian and Mr. Albert McMillan spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMillan. Mr. George C. Beard, formerly of Myers, visited relatives in this section last Thursday. H? left with the Barnwell county contingent of soldiers for Camp Jackson on Friday. Mrs. Laurie Copeland and daughter, Lenora, and Mr. Ola Zeigler spent Thursday with Mrs. J. C. Beard. Messrs. Claude Kirkland and Geo. Kearse were the Saturday night visitors of Mr. Willie McMillan. Mr. Frank Folk and Miss Dora Lee Folk dined at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Folk Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Keorge Kinard and nltil/lrAn cnnn f CunHov n-ith Air :QTirl VU11U1UU VAAAVAW. J VI AVM M**v? Mrs. Isham Goodwin. Misses Evelyn Kirkland and Pearle Hutson spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Mamie McMillan, who was at home from Bamberg for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clayton dined with Mr. and Mrs. F. W. McMillan Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. McMillan and family spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMillan. Mrs. R. L. Ussery, ,of Barnwell, visited relatives in this section last Thursday. / A large crowd from this section attended the memorial at Rivers Bridge last Thursday. Mr. Willie Clayton, of Ehrhardt, was a visitor in this section Sunday afternoon.Mr. Frank Kearse visited his son, , Mr. Reuben Kearse, at Camp Jackson a few days the first of the week. 1 Meeting of Colston Clnb. The Colston Democratic club met at Colston school house at 3:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, April 27, n XT Voqrca u*aa auu luuigaui^cu. u* xjl. ai.vmiwv elected president; P. M. Vara, vice prsident; C. M. Varn, secretary; G. A. McMillan, executive committeeman; T. D. Beard, G. W. Kearse, C. C. Fender, delegates to tne county convention; J. W. McMillan, G. W. Kearse, C. M. Varn, committee on enrollment. The club recommended the continuance of the county-to-county canvass by candidates for State offices. The club also heartily endorsed President Wilson and the administration of Governor Manning. Being no further business, the club adjourned until further call. G. H. KEARSE, Pres., C. M. VARN, Secretary. KILLS SEVEN GERMANS. , Oio Boy Had Heap of Dead Before Him When Struck From Behind. Washington, April 23.?The American soldier in France has the "endurance of the English, the^ charge of the French and the pep that belongs to the American alone," according to Lieutenant Daniel C.' Roper, Jr., son of Internal Revenue Com missioner Roper. In a letter to his father made public today Lieutenant Roper tells of the gallant fight of a young South Carolina officer named David, who overwhelmed by Germans, accounted for seven of the enemy before he was killed. "You will be proud to know of the -? - n? il ??? * case OI a OUUUI taiuuuiau, ouu ul Dr. David, of near Clio, S. C. He was overwhelmed by the boche but he had a pile of human flsh in front of him. He fought like a tiger?accounted for seven boches with his pistol and then was fighting with an empty rifle when struck from behind. My friend was a Citadel man and a fine officer." t An excerpt of the letter regarding young David was sent to his father -> . in Dillon, S. C., by Commissioner V Roper and Dr. David in acknowledgv . ing the letter said: ' v "Your son's account of my dear boy's death was the best that we have had and as he states, it was glorious and I feel quite sure that if he had had tho choosing of the way that he was to go, this would have been his choice." * DRAFT TO GET THEM. j Senate Resolution With Amendment For Lads to Foot List Adopted. < Washington, April 25.?The house late today adopted the senate resolution for the registration for military 1 service of young men who have reached the age of twenty-one years since June 5 last. The measure now goes +?-. onnforonfp An amendment offer ed by Representative Hull, of Iowa, and adopted 119 to eighty-one, pro- . vides that men registered under the (' bill shall be placed at the bottom of the class to which they may be i i i assigned. j The house sustained the military j committee in striking out a provision | of the bill as it passed the senate 11 which would exempt from registra-1; tion those eligibles who have entered ; s i medical or divinity schools since i j June 5 last. ? Representative Kahn of California ' j told the house the proposed new reg- < istration would place from 500,000 to 700,000 registrants available for military service. In that connection r he recalled that Germany recently . called into service its class of 1919. Chairman Dent, of the military , committee, opposed the amendment j of Mr. Hull. He said he understood . it is the plan of the war department to place the newly registered men at the bottom of the respective classes unless something unforeseen occurs j to prevent, but did not believe it ' proper to tie the hands of the de- 1 partment by an amendment which j1 would require that action. ' Card From Rev. Matthews. 1 To the editor of The Bamberg Herald, Dear Sir: I wish to inform j' you and the public that the tide is still rising rapidly among the col- j I ored citizens of Bamberg county, on ! * . 1 the third liberty bond drive. I visited ( the Orange Grove Settlement on the j '* i third Sunday of this month, and addressed an audience of^bout 400 or^ 500 persons, along the line of purchasing third liberty bonds and showed how each couftl help our govern-! i ment by buying liberty bonds, W. S. n S., and thrift stamps. We had sev-h eral to subscribe for liberty bonds, and some for the W. S. S. On Tuesday evening of last week I went to the Midway section and had a fairly good meeting; the following persons subscribed to the liberty loan ; cause: Manny Curry, $50.00; A. G. |Maynard, $50.00; K. W. Williams,. $50.00; James Rumph, $50.00; Frank j Smith, $50.00. The following have taken W.^S. S.: Harrison Curry,; Charlie Irons, John Maynard, Eddie j McLaughlin, A. J. Johnson, Martin j j Toomer. | On last Thursday the following i enofll-drs frnm Ram her? oitv accom w?,w j . panied the chairman and secretary?of; i the colored council of defense to St.; | Luke M. E. church, on the main road j | which leads from Bamberg to 'Ehr-; ; hardt: J. A. Kimmons, principal! speaker; Rev. W. W. Chappelle, Dr. j j Coleman, of Ridgewav, S. C., and de-! | livered addresses, which were timely, j | The pastor, the Rev. A. M. Wright, I gave a short and helpful talk, after j j which the subscription wais opened | I for the third liberty bond drive, and I i several persons registered their i names for liberty bonds. Since our last list of liberty bond j I purchasers were published in The | Herald the following persons have j (subscribed: Paul Williams, $50.00; i 1 H. W. Johnson, $50,00; J. H. Holmes,! $50.00; H. W. Washington, $50.00; j E. C. Redford, $50.00. I-went to Eden Baptist church on; last Sunday and addressed the con- j gregation and strove to impress them ; and urged the hearers to get liberty bonds, W. S. S.,' and thrift stamps. The following took each a bond: Aleck Dowling, J. D. Jeter, G. S. Nimmons, Henry Grimes, and Schofield j Davis. W. S. S. was taken by Willie j Brown. I distributed literature,, touching on liberty bonds. We went to Union Baptist church j of A A ~ r> rr> mof o fow nonrtlp nnd Ut "X "I %J m?y UiVb Ml AV ?T v*?? distributed literature. H. H. MATTHEWS, Chairman. < > ? Otlier Fish to Fry. An Italian having applied for citi-1 zenship, was being examined in natu-j ralization courts, says Everybody's, Magazine. "Who is the president of the United States?"' "Mr. Wils." "Who is the vice president?" "Mr. Marsh." "Could you be president?" "No." "Why?" "Mister, you 'cuse, please, I vera busy worka da mine." i IN THE PALMETTO ST1TE SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Few British officers are better qualified to speak on the war than Lord Dunmore. who will come to South Carolina for a speaking tour Df one week from May 30th to June 6th, under the auspices of the State Council of Defense. R. J. Blalock, insurance man of Co lumbia, was nominated ior mavur, and M. M. Rice, M. D., for commissioner, in the second primary held in Columbia Tuesday. Mr. Blaloek almost doubled his opponent, Mayor L. A. Griffith and Dr. Rice worsted C. M. Asbill, incumbent, by 181 votes. Fred Wannamaker, editor and proprietor of the Orangeburg Sun, anlounces that the newspaper and printing plant has been sold to Arthur Fields, of this city, the transfer to take place at once. Mr. Wannamaker has not announced any plans for the future, but it is thought that he will go to Washington. All plans for South Carolina day, with a review of the troops in the morning by Governor Manning and entertainment features in the afternoon and evening, have been called off at Camp Sevier. A large crowd of visitors had been expected to bid farewell to the guardsmen before their derarture overseas. The hunt for a swallow's nest in Columbia Wednesday nearly lost the life and cost the fingers of the right hand of Johnnie Windham, a thirteen-yeir old white boy. when he climbed a pole on which was strung a high voltage electric wire. In some manner he grasped the wire and 3,500 volts of electricity passed through his body. Soldiers at Camp Sevier who fail to eat all the food they take on their plates are deprived of their class A . -rf: ! ^ ~ ' I! ssm INDIVID I Hotels 11^ I , .. , |5. ?^f|| |j||| ||i| cards, which entitles them to leave on all general leave days, and as a result wastage of food has been reduced to almost unbelievably small point. Noncommissioned officers are stationed at the doors of all mess halls to take the names of all soldiers who leave edible food on their plates. The election of officers at the Fed eration of Women's clubs meeting in Aiken resulted as follows: President, Mrs. Leroy Springs, of Lancaster; vice president at large, Mrs. Ellerbe, of Marion district; vice president for the Piedmont district, Mrs. B. A. Morgan, of Greenville; Ridge district, Mrs. James Cathcart, of Columbia; Pee Dee district, Mrs. M. G. Scott, of Florence; Edisto district, Mrs. Adam Moss, of Orangeburg; corresponding secretary, Miss Marion Moore, of Lancaster; recording secretary, Mrs. John Drake, of Bennettsville; treasurer, Mrs. C. C. Featherstone, of Greenwood; auditor, Mrs. Huger T. Hall, of Aiken. o?Reports received from State and federal employment bureaus by the United States employment service, department of labor, indicate a shortage of woman labor in 34 cities.' The greatest demand is for domestics and next factory workers. Twenty of the 34 cities report a scarcity of domestics. Nine report a demand for factory workers. ALIVE AFTER 5 DAYS OX FIELD. Two Wounded Americans Discovered in Dugout. With American Army in France, Thursday, April 25.?Two American soldiers wounded in the engagement around Seicheprey last Saturday, we^e found alive today in a dugout in Xo Man's Land. The dugout had been badly smashed by German shell fire and how the men managed to keep alive in the rain and mud and / under German bombardment is little short of miraculous. | Another soldier. Raymond Demunsky, of New Haven, Conn., was buried alive for three days when he craw lea to tne sunace. uemunsnv was found by American Red Cross stretcher bearers, who went into No | Man's Land this morning. The Germans fired on the Red Cross flag, but the stretcher bearers kept waving it ' and the enemy fire stopped. i Americans Outnumbered. The American troops in the Seich; eprey fight, additional details show, were outnumbered, in some instances, eight to one. The latest advices are that the American casualties are much under the first estimate. Edward Jacques, a Xew Haven boy, told the correspondent he was one of a hundred and fifty Americans who at one time were almost surrounded and captured when French troops came to their assistance. Sergt. John A. Dickman, formerly a printer of Somerville, Mass., and who is now wounded in a hospital, told an interesting story. He and his men were in charge of two Stokes guns, They were isolated for twelve minutes in an enemy barrage and were unable to signal the American lines. Dickman was wounded but kept pouring a hot fire into the German attack ing waves and broke up the formation. He and his men returned only when their guns became jammed. "Machine Gunj' Parker, who manned a gun by himself, was asked by his superior officer at one stage of the engagement whether he could hold the line. He replied that he could, unless killed, and he did. Father William J. Farrell, of West UAL PORJiONS. &b Learned M 1 pilil * -vr?:'r''7S'-v. Newton, .Mass.,'a regimental chap lain, proved such a good fighter that a high officer offered him a commission in his command. Father Farrell went to the assistance or a battery when four of the American gunners were killed, carried up ammunition and helped the prew to keep the J gun working. He was wounded slightI iy. i Raymond Connor, of New Haven, a sanitary squad runner, was another hero. He was one of eight men captured by the Germans, who escaped ; and went to Seicheprey. They took ! charge of the first aid station there 1 until a doctor arrived. Connor then ! went to the rear and organized a new | squad, returned to the front and was ; wrmridprh A New Invention. % i j ! Thomas A. Edison, remarking on / j a new style air-plane, said its makeup was, to say the, least, novel. "It j is, in fact, a striking idea. I have jspen nothing to beat it since last j month. Then a young man from i Orange showed me an engagement ! ring he was going to patent, j " 'But,' said I, examining the very ordinary locking b:a:eiet, 'what is ; there patentable about this?' " " 'It is adjustable, sir,' answered the young man proudly."?Philadelphia Bulletin. v ZEBRUME IS BOTTLED BP DARIXG ATTACK OX OSTEXD A PARTIAL SUCCESS. Greatest Bravery Displayed by British and French.?Concrete leaden Sliips Block Passage. London, April 26.?According to the official narrative issued by the admirality on the Zebrugge raid, nothing but a change in the wind prevented the success of the operation at Ostend. The Sivius and Brilliant were already past the Stroom bank l ? ? ?*f K ^ h /\ *t?i ? /i nh r\ t"? nr watfa r\ 1 UUU> ? XlCii LUC v> 111 u Luau^cu ic*cciiing the arrangement of the fleet to the enemy, who with gunfire extinguished the flares which the British had lighted under cover of the smoke cloud. The difficulty under which the operations were carried out may be guaged from the fact that the enemy batteries from Zebrugge to Ostend numbered fully 120' guns, able to concentrate their fire during daylight on retiring ships to a distance 1 of 16 miles. Hence the attempt was only possible at night time and at high tide. From latest reports two old cruisers are lying across the Zebrugge channel in a "V" position and it is * believed the canal is effectively blocked. ' Details of the Raid. i London, April 26.?Details of the ' British naval raid on the German ! 1 i - x n^i ^ ' suomanne Dase ai ^eurugge us uuu' tained in the official narrative issued by the admiralty show to what lengths the crews of the cruiser Vindictive and the Liverpool ferryboats Iris and Daffodil went to draw the attention of the Germans from the three cruisers assigned to block the canal. Concerning the engagement on the mole wjiere the Vindictive ! landed storming parties, the account 1 says: The Daffodil, after aiding to berth the Vindictive, should have proceed; ed to land her own men, but Capt, Carpenter ordered her to remain as she was with her bows against the Vindictive's quarter, pressing the latter into the mole. Her casualties, owing to her position during the fight, were small, one killed and eight wounded, among the latter being her commander, Lieut. Campbell. Under Heavy Fire. The Iris had the most trouble. Her own first attempt to make fast to the mole ahead of the Vindictive failed, as her grapnels were not large enough to span the parapet. Two officers, Bradford and Hawkins, climbed ashore and sat astride the parapet, trying to make the grapnels fast, till each was killed aird fell down between the ship and wall. Commander Gibbs had both legs shot away and died next morning. Lieut. Spencer, though wounded, took command and refused to be relieved. The Iris was obliged at last to change her position and fall in astern from the Vindictive. She suffered heavily from fire. A single big shell' plunged through the upper deck and burst below at the point where 56 marines awaited the order to go to the gangways. Forty-nine were killed, the remaining seven being wounded. Another shell burst in a wardroom which was serving as a "sick bay," and killed four officers and 26 men. Her total casualties were eight officers and 69 men killed, 102 men and six officers wounded. Unremitting Fire. T116 storming aim ueniun?unis ties upon the mole met with no re1 sistance from the Germans other than intense and unremitting fire The geography of the great mole was L already well known and the demoli; tion parties moved to their appoint' ed work in perfect order. And while they worked and destroyed. the covering party below 1 the parapet could see the shapes ol the block ships making for the mouth of the canal. The Thetis came first, running into a tornado of shells. The crew, save a regiment which had remained to steam her in and sink her, had already been taken off by launches. But the regiments spared hands '| enough to keep her foreguns going. | It was hers to show the road to tne Intrepid and Iphigenia which followed. She cleared a score of armed barges but fouled her propeller upon the net device which flanks its shore side. The propeller caught in the ; net and rendered her practically unmanageable. The shore batteries pounded her until she bumped into the bank, edged off and found herhelf in the channel again, still some RIVERS BRIDGE MEMORIAL. Annual Address by Col. I). S. Henderof Aiken. The annual memorial exercises at Rivers Bridge were held last Thursday. The exercises this year were attended by a large crowd, and qjuite a number of old veterans, who are now growing scarce, were to be seen about the grounds. About twentyfive veterans occupied places on the stage. The exercises were presided over by Hon. B. D. Carter, of this city, who acted in this capacity for the venerable president of the Rivers Bridge Memorial association, Dr. N. F. Kirkland. The meeting opened with a very feeling prayer by Rev. P. D. Risinger, of Ehrhardt, after which Mr. Carter made a short introductory talk. Music for the occasion was furnished by the Dixie orchestra, of Bamberg. A very interesting part of the exercises was a short address by Mr. S. L. , Thompson, a Georgia veteran. Mr. Thompson was stationed at the time , of the battle at Rivers Bridge at ' , Broxton bridge, where it was thought . the federal troops would attempt a crossing over the Salkehatchie. Instead of crossing at Broxton bridge, , however, the attempt was made at , Rivers Bridge, where the battle took > place. After the exercises were over, the veterans marched to the monument, where the remains of the defenders of Rivers Bridge are buried, and decorated it with flowers. Col. D. S. Henderson, of Aiken, was the orator of the day. Mr. Hen^ derson was introduced in a short. . speech by Mr. Carter. In opening his extemporaneous ad. dress, which was delivered without > , notes or manuscript of any kind, Col. ? Henderson felicitated himself on be, ing privileged to attend the meeting ! of the people of Colleton, Hampton, [ Barnwell and Bamberg counties on . the historic spot, where was fought the battle of Rivers Bridge, between , a small band of Confederate forces and a portion of the right wing of Sherman's army, in the spring of ! 1865. He said that he was proud of , the fact he himself was born in this section of the State, for he was a native of old Colleton county, and he | looked upon Colleton and the counties adjoining it as embracing his own . people; that he was always devoted to their traditions and interests, and that they had nothing to be ashamed , of in their history in the past, as they had always been faithful to every call of patriotism and public duty. | Col. Henderson referred to the fact ( that he had addressed the people at this historic place twice before. In | 1887 on the invitatioft of the associa, tion he had come to this place in company with the late John W. Holmes, of Barnwell, to whom he paid a tribute. Again, in 1902, thirty-seven years after the civil war, he addressed the people here, and he re| minded them of what he told them that General Sherman in his great book on the war told of the fight at Rivers Bridge and the importance of , it, and related the fact that in going . from Savannah through South Caro. lina he followed his right wing, which . was led by General Logan, because t he expected when lie got to the South Carolina railway, about Midway, a . great battle would have to be fought, , as that was quite a strategic point, ' and the capture of the railroad a very important matter, but to his utter astonishment when he got in reach . of the railroad his foragers reported (Continued on page 5, column 3.) . hundreds of yards from the mouth . of the canal. While in practically . a sinking condition as she lay there, she signalled invaluable directions i to the others and her commander, . Sneyed, accordingly, blew charges and i . sank ner. ine moior lauuuu iawu alongside and took oft her crew. Her . loss was five killed and five wounded. Smoking Like Volcano. ; The Intrepid, smoking like a voli cano, with all her guns blazing, was followed by her motor launch which . failed to get alongside in the outside . harbor, and she had enough men for anything. Straight into the harbor . she steered. T 1-* ft TV* Or) rf or nloO? ; JUieUl. J5lt:\va.it Diriiiiam v/a.i yiuv ed the nose of his ship neatly on the i mud of the western bank. He order. ed the crew away and blew up the vessel. Lieut. Billyard Leake, command! ing the Iphigenia, beached her on : the eastern side, blew her up and saw her drop nicely across the chani nel, and left her there with her eni gines still going to hold her in po. sition tintil she should have settled ! on the bottom.