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r Y BUY ALL THE WAR SAVINGS STAMPS YOU CAN JUlrr Uamhrnj irrali fe One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1918. ^ Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. f News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Colston Clippings. Colston, June 25.?Members of the Red Cross branch of this community, don't forget the meeting at the school house every Saturday afternoon at five o'clock. Mr. Dawson Kearse spent Saturday night with Mr. Marion McMillan. Misses Evamae and Blanche Spann, of Bamberg, spent Friday and Saturday night with Miss Mamie McMillan. Miss Alberta Kearse was the guest of Miss Mary Clayton Saturday night. > Miss Hermine Beard was the Saturday night guest of Miss Hattie Kirkland. Miss Evelyn Kirkland, Messrs. Gerald and Clint Free dined with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jennings Sunday. The friends of Mrs. J. F. Clayton are sorry to learn of her illness during the past several days. Misses Mamie McMillan, Mary Clayton, Evamae and Blanche Spann, and Mr. Marion McMillan dined with Miss Alberta Kearse Sunday. Mr. Henry Kearse, of the U. S. N., and sister, Miss Cleo, of Kearse's, spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Kearse. Mrs. J. B. All has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Rebecca O'Quinn, of Ehrhardt, who was injured a few weeks ago by a passing train while she was attempting to move a cow from the railroad. Miss Natalie Kearse was the guest of Miss Laura McMillan Saturday night and Sunday. Messrs. Frank Kirkland, Jfr., and Wesley Kearse dined with Mr. Sammie Clayton Sunday. Miss Ethel McMillan, of Bamberg,spent Saturday night and Sunday at . home. j Little Willy Maud Ayer is spending some time with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Clayton. y/ Messrs. Layton Kinard and George Folk, of this vicinity, left Monday for Camp Jackson. Messrs. Horace E.! Ray and Gary Blume were among the crowd that left in the last contingent sent from this county. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Beard, and family, Mr. and Mrs. George Kinard and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Halcod Aver and family dined Sunday wnn Mr. and Mrs. Isham Goodwin. Rev. and Mrs. Walter Black spent \ Sunday night with Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Clayton. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Clayton visited their parents, ^Mr. and Mrs. George Rentz Sunday. < ? ? ? ? ? Spring Branch Sayings. \ Spring Branch, June 24,?It seems as if the farmers are making fine headway with their farm work. Rev. and Mrs. Walter Black spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Herndon. Miss Clara O'Quinn, of Denmark, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. O'Quinn. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Padgett and family dined Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Goodwin. Mrs. Julia Sandifer spent Saturday night with Mrs. L. A. Bessinger. The protracted meeting will be begun at Spring Branch the first Sunday afternoon in July, at four o'clock, old time, and will continue through the week. Rev. Mr. White will assist. Mr. R. M. O'Quinn, of Farrell's, spent Sunday with his brother, Mr. J. P. O'Quinn. ^ < > ? Cotton Platforms May Still Be Used. "Washington, June 22.?After conference with the federal railway ofcials today, Representative Byrnes announced that an order will be issued by the Southern Railway revoking its recent order prohibiting the use of its plaforms for the weighing and marking of cotton by shippers. The original order was issued because of the liability of the railroad for cotton left on platforms and because of the congestion it caused. But in view of the representations of Mr. Byrnes that the enforcement of tl>e order would necessitate the construction of additional platforms in every little town on the Southern, at a time when materials are so expen sive and labor so scarce, the railway officials consented to revoke the order, therefore the farmers will be permitted to unload their cotton 011 railway depot platforms as heretofore. 4 MM HERS IN NEW LOTTERY. Men Recently Registered to Be Placed in Line for Classification. Washington, June 24.?A second national lottery to determine the order numbers of the 744,865 men enrolled last June 5 under the selective service law will be held here this week. The date has not been definitely determined, but the drawing probable will be Thursday or Friday depending upon the time the final complete reports are received from the district boards. The procedure to be followed, it was stated officially today, will be similar to that of last year when nearly 10,000,000 men were given their relative places in the draft. The same bowl will be used with capsules containing numbers up to the largest number of registrants in any district in the country. Last year 10,500 capsules were provided but the number this year will be much smaller and it is expected that the drawing will be completed much more quickly. The lottery system is used on the selection of master numbers each of which govern similar numbers in every one of the 4,500 local districts over the country. Under the system of classifying registrants adopted since the first drawing last year, however, it would not necessarily follow that the men holding the first number drawn would be the first called for service. Distribution of the questionnaire blanks from which will be determined the class into which each man will go was begun today. When the new registrants fill these out and return them the numbers assigned them in the lottery will tl.en become operative to determine their relativp Af f L rtlo pc ir? lid Ulllt > at Uic iuui \JL cue Viaoo iu which they are placed. To Colored Red Cross Contributors. To hll the colored citizens who subscribed to the Red Cross fund: ? You will please remember that your first installment will be due on July 1st, which will be next Monday. The committeemen are as follows: Mt. M. E. church?L. C. Stephens, Paul Reddish, J. A. Nimmons. Thankful Baptist church?Wash Rivers, H. W. Johnson, Wash Grimes. Midway?B. J. Lawson, A. J. Johnson, William Stokes, Kelley Williams. Bethel M. E. church?Rev. D. Richberg, Hanev Murray. Orange Grove M. E. church?I. S. Nimmons, Gus Nimmons. Eden Baptist church?Eddie Dowling, Rev. J. S. Daniels, Davis Jeter. St. John's Baptist church?S. J. Curry, Arthur Brabham, Josiah Brown. Sf- T.nVe'c M 751 rhnrrh?Rev. A. M. Wright, C. R. Abel, L. S. Davis. Each committeeman at each of the above named places will please see each subscriber and get the first installment for the Red Cross fund on the first of July and turn the same over to me or to Mr. W. D. Rhoad, the treasurer for Bamberg county of the Red Cross fund. I take this method of notifying each subscriber to this very worthy cause which will help to hearten the boys in the trenches. I trust that each subscriber will pay his or her installments as they come due. The white committees will collect from the colored people in the vicinities where there are no colored committees. Payments may be made at tliec following places in Bamberg: Heyward Johnson, L. C. Stephens, Chappelle & Stewart. H. H. MATTHEWES, Chairman solicitation and local cashier comimttee for colored. New Advertisements. L. B. Fowler?See Me. T. G. Croft?Candidate's Card. E. Dickinson?Candidate's Card. Standard Oil Co.?Give and Gain. Estate of W. B. Kennedy?Citation. F. &. M. Bank?We Want to Get the Ear. " U. S. Rubber Co.?Speed?Speed? opcuu. J. B. Brickie?Freedom From Trouble. Chero-Cola Co.?A Cold-CrispSparkling. Enterprise Bank?The Money \ Question. Bamberg Banking Co.?Life's Pleasures. John L. McLaurin?Political Advertisement. Tom Ducker?Fresh Cantaloupes Received Daily. Bamberg Banking Co.?The People Who Select a Trust Co. ACRE FOOD ACRE COTTON. RESORPTION ADOPTED BY STATE COTTON GROWERS' ASSO. 32 Cents Pound For Cotton?Resolution Adopted Calling For Investigation of Cotton Exchange. Columbia, June 24.?The South Carolina State Cotton Growers' Asso ciation held its second meeting in the 6tate Library this afternoon. The following resolutions introduced by Dr. Stackhouse, of Dillon, were adopted: "Be it resolved, That the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Association meeting this day in Columbia and having representatives of the various counties in the State hereby requests our delegation representing us in the New Orleans meeting on July 1st to support the following resolutions: " 'That we request the president of the United States, through the food administration, as a war-time necessity, to require that at least one acre food crop be planted in 1919 for each acre planted in cotton and that the grain crop be fertilized pro rata with corresponding cotton acreage and cultivated with the same skill. We request that the president, through the food administration, will appoint a to determine a fair value for cotton and a reasonable profit. As patriotic citizens we only ask a fair profit on this and the 1919 crop and agree to abide by any price fixing programme which seems just to this board. We request that a copy of these resolutions be sent to each commissioner- of agriculture in the cotton growing States and also a copy to each representative in the house and senate from South Carolina.' " Dr. Stackhouse introduced a further resolution, which was adopted, that the South Carolina representatives in congress be requested to use their influence to have the cotton exclic. s of the country investigated and to require the cotton exchanges to give contracts providing for the delivery of cotton bought in the South at Southern points. A resolution urging farmers to hold cotton for 35 cents and not to 'sell for less than 32 cents per pound was passed unanimously. The resolution was introduced by E. W. Dabbs, of Mayesville. That it is the sense of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Association that a larmer ought not to sell his cotton before it is produced was the subject of a resolution introduced by Mr. Frost. Senator Smith. Congressman Lever, and Mr. Stevenson were requested as a part cf the South Carolina delegation to attend the joint meeting of cotton growers and bankers which is to be held in New Orleans on July 1st. The chairman of the meeting was empowered to appoint the other members of the delegation. The South Carolina Cotton Growers' Association was organized at a meeting in Columbia on May 14th, last. The meeting today was the second meeting of the association. Assistant Warehouse Commissioner Thackston goes this week on the 27th, 2Sth and 29th to Anderson, Greenwood and Newberry respectively to organize county marketing associations at those points. Dr. Long and others will accompany him. ^ *m * ? Abney Asked to Resign. Columbia, S. C., July 21.?Dispatches to Columbia newspapers from Washington state that Ben. L. Abney, for many years general counsel for the Southern Railway at Columbia, has been relieved of his position because of alleged unpatriotic remarks. During the second Red Cross drive Mr. Abney was approached for a contribution. He is alleged to have refused and to have made unpatriotic remarks concerning the matter. The Columbia Federation of Trades, and ouuuieru nanv>a* cuipiuvcs auupicu resolutions asking his dismissal. Announcement was made in Washington yesterday that his resignation had been requested and accepted. Evaders Will Be Watched. Men of selective serf-ice age who leave the United States to evade military duty will have to stand trial on charges of violations of the selective service act when they return to the country, according to the Department of Justice, even though they do not return until after the war. Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. i SUGAR SUPPLY TO HE REDUCED. Three Pounds Per Capita Per Month, Government's Aim. Washington, June 22.?Restrictions on the use of sugar by manufacturers will be drawn much tighter by new regulations, effective July 1, announced today by Food Administrator Hoover. The new measures are expected to prevent any serious scarcity of sugar for home consumption, and at the same time to put the nation as a whole on a three pound per capita monthly ration. Less essential manufactured products will be allowed 50 per cent, of the normal requirements in comparison with the allotment of 80 per cent, now effective. Sugar allowed ice cream manufacturers after July 1 will be decreased to 75 per cent, of the normal consumption. Soda fountains will be cut to 50 per cent, of normal and manufacturers of preserved fruits for soda fountains will be placed on the 50 per cent, basis. Ice cream made by soda fountains and confectioners on the premises will have its sugar content cut to 50 per cent, of normal. Responsible for Cut. Lack of shipping facilities, submarine activities and a decrease in importations from Cuba are held responsible for the new restrictions. Included in a less essential list of lowed onlv 50 Der cent, of their nor mal sugar are: Barrooms, brewers, California fruit cider, cough drops, dental preparations, dessert powder, druggists using sugar for reducing concentrated syrups, ita.ney manufacturers, hotel bars, gelatine, ginger ale, manufacturers of ice cream cones, ice cream powder, jelly powder, marshmellow, malted milk, maple ugar compound, molasses and syrups, patent medicine, pickles, printing press rollers, salmon egg preserving for* sale to fishermen, table syrups, vinegar, for blending whiskey and grape juice unless for preserving or bottling when 80 per cent, will be allowed. ^ < i ? NO MORE ICED DRINKS. Fountains, Hotels, Etc., Can't Use Cracked or Shaved Ice. Columbia, June 21.?Soda fountains, hotels, restaurants, boarding houses and public eating places are advised, in official orders just issued by William Elliott, food administrator for South Carolina, of the new regulations regarding the use of ice, T,-hir>Vi liQva olrpaHv hpfffimft pffpctivfi. Soda fountain and soft drink dealers are notified that no crushed or shaved ice shall be used or served in drinks. Hotels, restaurants, boarding houses and public eating places are forbidden to serve crushed ice or shaved ice in drinking water. Xo crushed ice or shaved ice shall be served around fruits or other dishes, or in finger bowls, says the order. It is further provided that no ice shall be bought except for necessary uses. These steps have become necessary, says the Food Administration, on account of the great shortage of ice, and these rules will be rigidly enforced. The necessity for conservation of ice in private homes is as great as in public places where ice is used, and the appeal is made to the people of South Carolina to make only absolutely necessary use of ice. ^ Those Bad Boys of Uncle Sam's. With American Army in France, T" ^ OO ^ A rv? nnioo n cnlH i OTC <J U il C ?.?. J. lit? muci Itail oviuiv^i k; now are regarded by their German antagonists as "bad boys" for whom the German soldiers are cautioned to "look out," according to a young German deserter, who surrendered in the American lines on the Marne last night. This willing prisoner added that conditions in the German lines constantly were growing worse. He had deserted because he was war weary and underfed and he declared that many of his fellows also would desert if tliev had the chance. There have been lively machine gun and rifle fire actions and intermittent artillery fire in the northern section of the Belleau -wood, where the Americans are gradually smoking out the remnants of the German machine gun nests. -Otherwise the Marne front has been quiet. The twenty-eighth German division has been relieved by the Eighty-seventh. The newcomers are said to be only a second-rate division, whereas the twenty-eighth was considered by the Germans as one of their best. NORMAN BOLIVER MUST DIE CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED CRIMINAL ASSAULT SUSTAINED. Victim Little Girl.?Young Orangeburg Man Sentenced to Pay Extreme Penalty July 5th. Orangeburg, June 24.?Norman H. Boliver, a white married man 26 years old, was convicted here late today of attempted criminal assault and sentenced to die in the electric chair at the State penitentiary July oth. The crime was committed- May 13, the victim being a little girl, nine years old. She and her sister were on their way to school that morning when they were picked up by Boliver and driven in an automobile to a nearby patch of woods. The younger sister, who was just seven years old the day the crime was committed, was made to stay in the automobile while the older of the two children was taken by Boliver to the clump of bushes under the pretext of gathering plums. Boliver was unmoved by the sentence and made no reply when Judge Robert W. Memminger asked the prisoner if there were any reasons why the death sentence should not be imposed. Throughout the day he maintained a calm demeanor, his immobile features giving no indication of perturbation. Xo Motion for Rehearing. Xo motion was made by attorneys for a new trial, but an appeal can be made to the supreme court within ten days. Sheriff Dukes and five deputies left immediately for Columbia with the prisoner. The largest crowd ever attending a trial in Orangeburg gathered early in the day. As a precaution against any possible violence, Sheriff Dukes and court deputies searched each of the 600 or more people who jammed the court rooms until standing room was no longer available and many persons perched in the windows. The crowd was so unwieldly that Judge Memminger at noon ordered that only those obtaining seats would be allowed to remain in the court room for the afternoon sessfcn. Solicitor Ed. C. Mann, of St. Matthews, was assisted in the prosecution by M. E. Zeigler, of Orangeburg. The attorneys for the defense were William C. Wolfe and Adam H. Moss, of Orangeburg and James H. Fanning, of Springfield. Attorneys for the defense fought bravely throughout the day to save Boliver from the electric chair. A plea of guilty would have been entered immediately upon the organization of the court had Solicitor Mann consented to a recommendation to mercy. His objection having been interposed, the plea of imbecility became the focus, and the family history of the young man was unmasked. With many irregularities as a ground work, expert testimony was introduced in the afternoon, Dr. J. W. Babcock, specialist in mental and nervous diseases and for 23 years superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, being the chief witness. Insanity Plea Fails. I The plea of the defense was broken I down by opposing attorneys, who had | the strong arm of the argument on J their side in that "irresistible impulse" does not hold in the South Carolina code and in that the person pleading insanity must be unable to distinguish between right and wrong. The most damaging testimony against the plea was that Boliver had offered the little girl 75 cenis 10 Keep a ciuse inouiu, renimuing her that she would get a whipping and also get him in trouble. When arrested Boliver also denied having been "up towny for three days, which was introduced as evidence of his knowledge of the criminal character of his act. The State had 14 witnesses and the defense five or six. It was developed in the trial that Boliver on different occasions had been suspected of attempted interference with little girls about the city. His relatives are among the best families; in Orangeburg and the community has been exceedingly wrought up. T* l-? tv* r* r\ 1 ? ? ?-? r\ rlrit-nn 1\t- Pnliror i J. ii^ 111 avsiline viii>en */; L?uu?v.i j May 13 had a non-skid tire on the j left rear wheel and identification was not effected for two days. Witnesses who recognized the little girls in the automobile did not recognize Boli\ysr, and it was through the ownership of the car that identity "was established. Boliver worked at a garage as cashier and the machine be 12 POUNDS OF FLOUR MONTH. Byrnes Secures Modification of Order of Amount of Wheat. Washington, June 22.?As a result of a conference Representative Byrnes held with the food administration with reference to the restrictions placed upofi the supply of wheat that farmers could grind, Mr. Hoover informed Mr. Byrnes that he today wired food administrators of Southern States that the 30 day order heretofore issued was revoked and hereafter farmers will be allowed to grind and take from the mill a supply suffi cient to last them until October l ana in determining the supply the farmer will be allowed 12 pounds per month per person, including not only members of his family, but his tenants and others dependent upon him for flour. By October 1 the food administration will he able to determine the wheat supply of the nation and it can then make plans for the future. Three Montlis' Supply Allowed. Columbia, June 21.?The thirtyday rule, which provided that farmers could have ground into flour for their own use no more home-grown wheat than would be required for their families for a period of thirty days, has been suspended by the food administration and regulations governing the grinding of wheat have been laid down in a bulletin just issued. Under the new regulations farmers are permitted to draw tneir years supply of flour from the mill or in. exchange for their own wheat, but for the present they must draw only for a three months' period, or from the time of grinding to October 1. They should not draw this from mills in excess of twelve pounds of flour per person per month for use of their household and tenants, and they should continue in respect to the use of substitutes on the present basis until such a time as the general substitute program for the whole country shall be changed. This means simply that farmers who have grown their own wheat are expected to use wheat substitutes, with wheat flour, the same as heretofore. * J The-wheat mills of South Carolina are being notified by the food admin- istrator of the new regulations, ef- / fective immediately. Mills must not grind for farmers more than enough wheat to supply the farmers themselves and their fam- ilies and tenants from the date of grinding to October 1. The amount should be estimated upon the basis of + *rrolvo nnnndc nor norsnn nPr month. Until the new rules in regard to wheat substitutes are enacted mills must not deliver any flour to farmers unless they sign the pledge card, agreeing to use one pound of flour substitutes for every pound of flour used. Bakers, retailers, and the general public are not released from the regular programme, already announced by this new regulation, which applies only to farmers who have grown their own wheat. Put not off until the last clay alloted you that matter of hunting a warwork job. Procrastination aids the kaiser. The nearer the U-boats bring the war to American shores, the greater the effort to strengthen America's fighting arm in France. longed to an uncle. Carried to Penitentiary. Boliver was arrested May 15, and hurriedly carried to Columbia and lodged in ?he State penitentiary. Solicitor Mann and others immediately demanded a special term of court which was ordered by Governor Manning for June 24. Later bail was denied Boliver by the supreme court. Judge Hayne F. Rice was first appointed to preside at the special term of court, but was later prevented by a conflict in court schedule. Judge Thomas S. Sease was then designated with like consequences. Judge Memminger was recommended by the supreme court last Saturday. Court convened promptly at 10 o'clock. By 12 o'clock witnesses had been examined by the grand jury and a true bill returned. Only 25 minutes were occupied in selecting the 12 ?l- ? a- "Dr\lirnr'c IlitJIl WHO W CI C to UCLCi llllilC uuuivi fate. The case went to the jury at 7:35 o'clock and a verdict of guilty was returned at 9 o'clock. The unqualified verdict of guilty carried with it the death penalty. With racommendation to mercy, the sentence could range from five to 40 years. The jurors who sat on the case were under guard throughout the day, their meals being served in the court room. *