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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.
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? 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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