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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 16,1918. Established 1891.
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
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SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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News Items Gathered All Around the ,
County and Elsewhere.
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Colston, May 14.?The Colston
f graded school will close next Friday.
The children are all planning how i
they can best and most profitably
spend their summer vacation. *
Mrs. J. C. Beard, Misses Pearle ,
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week-end with Mrs. John Cook, of
Williston. - '
Miss Mamie McMillan, of Bamberg, ?
spent last week-end at her home in ]
this section.
Misses Inez Clayton and Aileen
' Beard were the Saturday night and j
Sunday guests of Miss Octavia Mc- .
* Millan.
Mr. Ralph Simmons, of Bamberg,
visited friends in this section Saturday
night and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jennings and .
children spent Sunday with Mr. and
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airs. J. v. JXirKiaiiu.
Misses Sadie Boyd, Minne, Evelyn
and Bessie Kirkland, Mrs. J. W. Mc- '
Millan, Miss Natalie Kearse and Mr. ,
Frank Kirkland, Jr., dined Sunday
with Mrs. B. L. Kearse.
Miss Nettie Clayton spent Satur- 1
day night and Sunday with Mrs. '
Laura Goodwin. ^
Miss Sadie Boyd was the week-end 1
guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McMillan.
Messrs. Bob Lee Kearse, Johnnie
* Kirkland and Jones McMillan "Forded
it" to Augusta Saturday returning
Sunday. J
Mr. Edgar Fender and little daughter,
Lucille, and Miss Pretto Fender, ]
of Ehrhardt, spent Sunday with Mr. *
and Mrs. C. C. Fender.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Kirkland and .
Mr. Norman Hsrtar, of Ulmers, were
visitors in this section Shnday after- ]
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Beard and chiljdren
and Mrs. S. P. Chisolm dined
with Mrs. Sudie Barnes Sunday.
Miss Queenie Kearse spent Satur.
day night and Sunday with Miss Lau-'j
ra McMillan.
Miss Bessie Kirkland spent Saturday
night with Miss Evelyn Kirk- t
land. j
Mr. Grady McMillan was the Satur- ,
day night guest of Mr. Sammie Clay- 1
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y ~ Death of Mrs- Pauline Craddock. .
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Fairfax, May 7.?Thar people here .
were saddened Friday morning by ,
the death of Mrs. Pauline Craddock, ^
f wife of Hugh H. Craddock at their ]
home on DaTlington Avenue after an ;
illness of about two weeks. The ,
funeral took place at the Lutheran .
f- church, of which she was a member. ,
Saturday morning in the presence :
of a large congregation, the seryices i
being conducted by her pastor, the
Rev. D. B. Groseclose, Mrs. '
f!r*ulrirw?lr was lair! . tn rest She 1
was only 21 years of age and 1
had only lived here about two years, '
hut by her gentle and amiable dispo- <
feition she had in that brief time en- <
deared herself to all with whom she <
came in contact. Mrs. Craddock is j
survived by her husband and her 1
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bowman, i
* * of Crystal River, Fla., and one broth- 1
er. The burial was at the cemetery :
just beyond the town limits. :
^ New Advertisements. .
?. A. Uooton?Home. <
J. B. Brickie?When.
Tom Ducker?Groceries.
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Enterprise Bank?Don't.
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L. B. Fowler?For Sale. <
Thielen Theatre?Tbeda Bara.
Peoples Bank?Did Their Duty.
C. F. Rizer?Horses and Mules.
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/ Estate C. W. Bessinger?Notice.
LaVerne Thomas & Co.?Our
Prices.
~ Bamberg Banking Co.?Outing
Money.
Farmers and Merchants Bank?
Money.
Owen Bros. Marble and Granite
Co.?Wanted.
^ Winthrop College?Scholarship
and Entrance Examinations.
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Have you 25c worth of patriotism?
Prove it by buying a Thrift Stamp.
They improve with age?
-"V. Worth one cent more each month?
. i War Savings Stamps.
If we fail to lend Uncle Sam the
millions he needs for defence, we
will have to pay billions for tribute.
Buy War Savings Stamps.
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10-YEAR DRAFT AGE DISCUSSED.
Hatter Considered By Crowder and
House Committee.
Washington, May 8.?Legislation
raising the draft age to forty years
was discussed as a possibility within
i few months at a meeting today
pf Provost Marshal General Crowder
md the house military committee. Although
Gen. Crowder made no specific
recommendations, members of
the committee said afterwards that
the war department was considering
tv plan for changes.
An appropriation of $15,762,000
was asked by Gen. Crowder for expenses
of the draft for the next fiscal
rear. Registration of men reaching
the age of twenty-one will require
the examination, he said, of half a
million more men than originally
provided for.' Class 1, the general
said, now has a total of about 2,265,000
men, of whom 2,000,000 are effectives.
No Credit for Volunteers.
Chairman Dent, of the committee,
announced today that he would ask
the house to eliminate from the draft
legislation pending an amendment
?iving States credit for volunteers,
[n a letter to Mr. Dent President Wilson
today came out in opposition to
the credit plan, and asked that the
measure be passed as approved by
the war department. i
The conference report on the bill
for registration of youths becoming
twenty-one will be called up in the
bouse tomorrow, with prospects of a
lively debate over the proposal to
exempt ministers from the ?Iaw.
Gen. Crowder explained that of the
$15,000,000 asked, $4,870,000 is for
allowances to- draft board members
for additional registrations and classifications,
$8,000,000 for clerk hire
and $3,000,000 for physical examinations.
"It is estimated," he said, "that
It will be necessary to examine 1,D00,090
men in addition to those already
examined, including men who
were minors at the date of the first
registration and who will have to be
classified in class 1 before June 30,
1919."
Hebrew Christian to Speak.
A unique service is to be held in
cur city on Sunday, May 19th at 8:30
p. m. Subject: "Why the Jews do
tiot accept Christ." The speaker is
to be Mr. Elias Zimmerman, a Jewish
Christian of wide fame. He was con
Fertea in a remarKaDie way in uara
Russia, by the accidental finding of
i Christian tract in the street. As
i result, he accepted the Lord Jesus
Christ as hiS Saviour. Soon bitter
persecution was heaped on/him, and
be- was driven from Russia to Germany.
Not long after he was again
compelled to 'seek safety elsewhere,
md sailed for America. In this country
he has been preparing himself
for the ministry in a theological
seminary. .
Mr. Zimmerman is now connected
with the Williamsburg Mission to
the Jews of Brooklyn, N. Y., of which
the founder is the former Rabbi,
Leopold Cohn, the story of whose
conversion is one of the thrilling recards
of Christian history. Led by a
divine instinct to search for the Messiah
of Israel, for whom he had been
taught to look, his search led him \
in a marvelous way to America. Here
he found the Messiah, and then i
founded what is now the largest
mission to the Jews in America.
Mr. Zimmerman will give a brief
account of his own conversion, and
will also tell the story of Mr. Cohn's
conversion, and about the Jewish
problem of the present day. His
coming to our city will offer Christians
a rare privilege of hearing first
hand from a Jew about a people
concerning whom we know so little.
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meeting is entirely free, and the public
of Bamberg is cordially urged to
attend. All of the churches of the
city will unite in a union service for
this occasion.
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Pictures of Germany Wanted.
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At the request of the war department,
the American Protective j
League has undertaken to procure j
for that department for immediate i
use for intelligence purposes, photo- I
graphs, drawings and descriptions of 1
bridges, buildings, towns, and lo- j
calities now occupied by the Ger-j
man forces in France, Belgium and
Luxembourg and likewise in that
portion of Germany lying west of a
line running north and south through
Hamburg. The entire organization
of the league throughout the country
will be employed in this work in
order that a large result may be obtained.
CAROLINA TROOPS OVERSEAS.
Col. McCully Notifies Gov. Manning i ]
of Safe Voyage.
Columbia, May 13.?Governor;
Manning has received a card from! ,
Col. P. K. McCully, commander of ,
the 118th infantry, formerly the;.
First South Carolina infantry, oe- ,
fore the National Guard was federal-'
ized, notifying him that Col. McCully
had arrived safely overseas. This .
indicates that the first regiment has 1
joined the expeditionary forces under
Gen. Pershing. |
The First South Carolina Regi-',
ment was mobilized after toe war and \.
placed on duty guarding bridges j (
throughout the State. During the,,
last summer the regiment was trans- j
ferred to Camp Sevier, Greenville, be-;
coming a part of the Thirteenth Di- j (
vision, federalized National Guard. I (
Since that time the men have been j
trained at the Greenville camp for ,
ovrseas duty. Tfce old regiment was
filled out to the new regulation size ^
by men who were inducted into the
national army at Camp Jackson from
the first draft.
Four persons had a narrow escape
Wednesday morning when Southern
passenger train, No. 9, Columbia to 1
Spartanburg, ran into and demolished
a public transfer car at the Union
street crossing, in 9partanburg. Two
ladies and a soldier who were in the
car were, injured, the soldier suffer
mg a. oroKen 'arm auu mc ?utucu
slight bruises on the arm.
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If John Doe will put his dough in 1
W. S. S., he will help the doughboys
in France. 1
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Baiton-Shuler.
Elloree, May 11.?On Wednesday,
May 8, at the Methodist parsonage in j
"EllorftA Mr. Wvman E. Shuler was!
married to Miss Blanch E. Barton, of
Denmark. Mr. Shuler is an officer in
the Elloree National Bank and Miss
Barton is a teacher in the Elloree
high school. The marriage was a
surprise. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. J. W. Wolling,
D. D., in the presence of a few
friends.
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Miss Barton is a popular young
lady of Denmark, and has numerous
friends throughout the section who
extend their best wishes.
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Blackville Briefs.
Blackville, May 11.?Mrs. Sybil
Buist returned home after a visit to
her sister, Miss Rosamond Buist, in
Batesburg.
Miss Bertha Rich spent several
weeks away from home, during which
time she visited her sister, Miss Eva
'Rich, in Inman and Miss Hannah Cohen,
in Columbia.
Mrs. Sarah H. Johnson and Mrs.
X. T. Hammet spent last Monday in
Columbia.
Mrs. Harry A. Rich and little
daughter, Doris, spent several days
in Orangeburg with Mrs. J. P. Moseley,
Mrs. Rich rendered several solos
at memorial services held in that
city.
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FOUR DIE IX OXE WEEK.
Fairfax Family Almost Exterminated
by Attack of Measles.
Fairfax, May 10.?Mrs. James
Horton and her three little sons,
aged five years, three years and the
youngest 15 months, died here in the
same house within exactly one week.
Five weeks ago today Mr. J. M. Sul
nvan, cmer marsnai, was stncKen
with paralysis and two days later
there was a birth in the family and
Mrs. Horton, sister of Mrs. Sullivan,
left her country home, two miles
away, and cpe here to help
take care of her sister and brother-in-law,
bringing her three handsome,
rosy cheeked little sons with
her. After being here a few days
Mrs. Horton and her three children
contracted measles which in each
case was followed by a fatal altack
of pneumonia. The eldest child died
Thursday of last week, the baby died
last Sunday and both the mother and
;he other little boy died yesterday and
were buried today at the Primitive
Baptist church, two miles from Fairfax.
The people here have been unremitting
in their attentions, rendering
every assistance possible during the
illness of the unfortunate ones. Two
trained nurses were employed to minister
to them with the hope of restoring
-them to health.
Mrs. Horton, who is survivd by
her husband and father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. George Deason, and
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Olliy Slbier, IVIIS. ouiuvau, >1' ao cllx
estimable woman, who was ever willing
to help others, regardless of her
own welfare and comfort.
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Bamberg Seventh in the State.
In the report of war savings per
capita sales issued by the War Savings
committee for this State for the
tveek ending May 4th, Bamberg shows
a marked change in its relative position/
among the several counties of
the State. Previous reports have put
the county anywhere from 34th to
42nd in the amount of stamp sales
per capita. This report puts Bamberg
in seventh in the State for sales
during the week stated, with sales
of $1,862.50, or .095 per capita.
The total sales noted in the report
for this county are $10,888.50,
or .559 per capita, putting the COUntv
1 7th in th? State.
It is interesting to note that the
sales throughout the State have passed
the one million mark, the total
being up to May 4th, $1,113,740.00.
The sales in the State for the week
ending May 4th were $155,486.75.
In spite of unsettled conditions,
the total American trade with Russia
amounted to $438,000,000 in 1917, a
decrease of only $39,000,000 as compared
with 1916. This decrease was
in the trade with Asiatic Russia and
is attributed to congestion and import
restrictions at Vladivostock.
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In a great measure the war will
be won by the sacrifices of those who
remain at home. Sacrifice useless
luxuries and invest the savings in
War Savings Stamps.
EXCITEMENT IN COLLETON.
Chain Gang Trusty Attempts to
Assault. White Woman.
Walterboro, May 11.?Great excitement
was caused here last night
by an attempted assault upon a wellknown
white woman by Sam Holman
a negro trusty of the chain gang. The
alleged attempt occurred about 111
o'clock last .night, and while the
negro failed of his purpose, the
woman is badly bruised and finger
prints are on her throat where her
assailant attempted to ch(oke her.
Holman has been on the chain gang
for two years and bore such an excellent
record that Commissioner
Ulmer made him a trusty.
He went to the woman's home last
night, it is alleged, nuder pretext of
borrowing a buggy for Mr. Ulmer.
When the lady, whose husband was
absent from home, went out, he
caught her saying that it was she
that he wanted. She broke loose
and ran. The negro ran after her,
caught her, dragged her back almost
to her home, and then became frightened
and ran away. A posse was
quickly formed by the sheriff and
chief of police and bloodhounds were
called from Branchville, but they
could not take the trail and the
negro is still at large. Had he been
caught a lynching would very probably
have resulted. A reward of
$100 has been offered for his apprehension.
Officers Capture Convict.
Walterboro, May 12 ?Sam Holman,
the negro convict who is accused
of attempting criminal assault
on a white woman of this locality
Friday night, was captured yesterday
afternoon about 4 o'clock by Sheriff
L. B. Baggott and Highway Commissioner
Bolmer, of this city. The negro
was placed in the State peni_
tentiary last night about 8 o'clock to
await trial at the coming term of
court.
Serious trouble was feared for a
time, but the quick work of the officers
obviated any disturbance. Several
rewards had been offered by the
city of Walterboro for the captui% of
the accused man.
Dowling Motor Co.'s New Home.
The historic Wadsworth building,
No. 226 North Tryon street, now a
homd for the Tryon Garage, is to be
torn down and a home for the Dowling
Motor Company erected on the
site by W. L. Nicholson, owner of
The nnnfrant has been let
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to J. P. Probst, of this city, and
work will begin tomorrow morning.
It is said the building when completed
will be one of the handsomest,
if not the handsomest, automobile
"homes" in North Carolina. The cost
of the new structure of the type contemplated
is estimated at between
$45,000 and* $50,000, but in view of
the fact that the side walls of the
present building will be utilized the'
cost of the structure will be reduced
much below that figure.
The lot on which the reconstructed
building will sit has 40 feet and 7
inches frontage on Tryon street and
has a depth of 14(7 feet. Thev building
will be of a high type of brick with
pressed brick and limestone front and
with tile floors throughout. The
building will also be two stories in
height, with ornate ceiling. The other
sections of the building will be in
keeping with the attractive design
for the front and will throughout be
most substantially arranged.
A mezzonine gallery for the office
force will be one of the features. Behind
this will extend the 107 feet of
the story 'part of the main building.
The Dowling Motor Company, of
which H. S. Dowling, of Charlotte,
and D. Dowling, of Bamberg, S. C.,
are the owners, handles the PierceArrow,
Nash and Laxton cars. It.
has been in business here since Januuary,
1917, and the increase of busi
ness has necessitated the finding of
new* quarters. The company has acquired
a lease of five years on the
new building.
The Wadswortlf building, which is
to be replaced with the new.one, is
one of the oldest on North Tryon
street and was for years the home
of the largest livery and sales stable
business in North Carolina.?Charlotte
News.
Speaking in the house last Thursday,
Representative Kahn, of California,
ranking Republican on the
house military committee, declared
that in his opinion class one of the
draft would be exhausted ^wfthin a
year and that before the war was
over the United States would need
8,000,000 men in Europe.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of
the president, will give two recitals at
Camp Sevier for soldiers only on May
22 and 23. Miss Wilson is touring
the camps under the auspices of the
Army Y. M. C. A.
a nornoie muraer was perpetrated
in the heart of Columbia at an early
hour Saturday morning at 1330 Main
street. James McLouglin, for many
years the faithful steward of the
Eagles' Home was murdered while he
lay on his bed asleep.
Will Ferguson, the negro who was
convicted at Barnwell recently for
alleged attempted assault on a young
white woman at Allendale on April
14, was electrocuted at the State
penitentiary in Columbia Friday
morning at 11.25 o'clock. Ferguson
died without making a statement.
Charged with an attempt to assault
the nine-year-old daughter of a
prominent farmer of the Antioch ,
section of Edgefield county, George
Blocker, a negro boy about sixteen
years of age, was carried to the State
penitentiary by Sheriff Swearingen,
it being feared that he might be
lynched.
State Constable Smyrl, assisted by v
Deputy Robinson, of Aiken, and sev
erai otner siaie omcers, seized several
gallons of booze which was made
in illicit stills near Shaw's Fork section.
Two negroes, Bob Kennedy
and Mose Riley, were caught operating
the affair and have been lodged
in the Aiken jail.
The Augusta-Aiken Railway Company
was ordered Thursday by the
State Railroad Commission to reduce
its passenger fares on its electric
cars between Aiken and Augusta
from forty cents to thirty-five cents.
This/ruling instructs the traction
company to rearrange its "zone" system,
decreasing its "zone" from
eight to seven miles.
Aubrey Richardson, aged nine
years, was run over and killed on
East Evans street near-the Atlantic
Coast line passenger station at Florence
Wednesday night by an automobile
driven by Lonnie Wilson, a negro.
For a time it looked as though
trouble would result, threats being
made against the life of the negro
by some of the men who gathered
soon/after the accident.
Saturday a federal warrant was
issued for the arrest of W. P. Beard,
lurwer tjuuur ui mc >\uuc<nic
tar, charged with making disloyal v~~ i
utterances against the government,
thus hindering the prosecution of the
waV: Beard was convicted on a similar
charge last November and sentenced
to one year in the federal penitentiary
at Atlanta. This case was
appealed and Beard was released on
bond. After his arrest on the second
charge he abandoned his appeal and v
'was sent to the federal penitentiary
to serve out his sentence.
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Bamberg Doctors in Session.
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. The monthly meeting of the Bamberg
County Medical association was
held in the city last Wednesday, with
a representative attendance. Reports
on the State Medical association
meeting recently held in Aiken were
made by Drs. Robert Black and J. ;
S. JVIatthews.
Dr. James A. Hayne, secretary of
the State Board of Health, was present
and addressed the association on
meningitis. He stated that the death
rate of this disease had been decreased
from about 33- 1-3 per cent, to
about 12 per cent., as a result of the
modern treatment of this malady.
Dr. Hayne outlined plans for fighting
this disease during the forthcoming
winter.
The meeting was a very interesting
one, as the monthly sessions usually
are.
It was Pinckney, of South Carolina,
who, when European tyranny
threatened us more than a century
ago, defiantly exclaimed: "Millions
for defence, but net one cent for tribute!"
?Mrs. W. E. Stokes, of Edgefield,
spent the week-end in the city.
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spending some time with her brother,,
Mr. J. A. Griffith, near the city. This
is Mrs. O'Cain's first visit to her old
home in several years.