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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 2,1918. Established 1891.
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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
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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.
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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
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* 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."
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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
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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.
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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 !
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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I! ssm INDIVID
I Hotels 11^
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|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
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under German bombardment is little
short of miraculous.
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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.
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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.
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! Thomas A. Edison, remarking on
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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
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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.
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London, April 26.?Details of the
' British naval raid on the German
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' 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
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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
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, 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.