Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Stiff lambfrg foralfr ?????? 1??^???? ?f?? ??^1 ?????????^? ?? $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23,1919 Established in 1891 STUDY WEEVIL AT CLOSE RANGE CITIZENS OF BLACKY!LLE TELL v WHAT THEY SAW. Cotton is Done For Poison Has Xo Effect On the Boll Weevil.?More Money in Pea: nuts and Livestock. Ten of Blackville's business men, VUU013HU5 ui uautveis, mercnanis ana farmers, made a trip through the boll weevil infested territory of Georgia and Alabama, going through MilledgeviPe. Macon, Americus and on across tne Chattahoochie river into Dothan, Ala., then up through Enterprise, the county seat of Cocee county, and then to Montgomery and back "by way of Columbus and on back home again. The party reports an extremely short crop of cotton in both States and that it is almost entirely gathered. They report having seen only one gin running on the trip through Georgia and one in Alabama on the i{ trip going. ? In some cases the crop is almost an _ __ _ entire failure. The boll weevil has done the worst damage he has ever done. Many farmers state they will never plant cotton again. The party talked with numbers of men who said they had lost everything they had ever made trying to make a big crop of cotton this year, regardless of the boll weevil. Around Dothan, Ala., they found some very fine farming land and a very progressive and prosperous people. They visited the plantation of Spann Brothers, two former Bamberg men. They have the finest farm the members of the party had ever seen. Mr. Spann stated he had sold $12,000 worth of hogs from their farm last year. The folks in that section are making cotton regardless of the boll wee > yil, but by new methods and by planting only six or eight acres to the plow. Many of them are making their money from peanuts, corn, velvet ? ? ? ? J - MM AM A UtJctliS a.LIU. UUgb. UL1C ptl/gicooi'c | farmer stated that he wouldn't return to making cotton If it was 50 cents a pound and he had a guarantee that there would never be another boll weevil. His principal money crop is peanuts, with the byproducts that come with it of hay, hogs, etc. The peanut is grown with so much less labor and practically no fertilizer bill when compared with cotton. They are getting on the market there from ^$130 to $150 a ton for their peanuts, and many of them make a ton to the acre. Then they get the hay which is made of the vine, which is baled when the peanut Is picked with the Benthal pickers. They say it is an excellent food and they have very fine, fat mules. Then the hog runs on the field and gets the peanuts left in the ground and fattens on them. Many make a wheat crop and follow it with peanuts and'then make around a ton to the acre, thus, with +>?/* >1 oTT TY1 oIrin cr throo rrr?nc nr> thfi bUU ) iXJL UU14*5 VAAA W V^K/ W? ? ? land. With one accord the banks, merchants and farmers advised the party very strongly to come home and cut the cotton crop to six and not more than eight acres to the plow. To break land very early and thoroughly, to plant as early as possible not to be killed, to plow rapidly, plowing it at least once a week, to pick up the squares that are punctured and fall to the ground by all means, then apply a late application of top dressing to make the late forms for him to feed on and thus let the early bolls alone. Then plant the rest of the farm in oats, wheat, peanuts, corn, velvet Deans, ana raise nogs and cattle and grow prosperous.. * These people are surely doing this, and the banks are full of money. They impressed the party with the fact that next year would be the trying year with them, and that the farmer who went on and tried to make 12 or 15 acres of cotton to the plow would surely go broke. On Spann Brothers' farm at Dothan, Ala., a government expert was stationed during this year and made experiments with the boll weevil. A machine was used that carried seven rows at a time and put out calcium arsenate as a poison for them. Mr. Spann states that it did no good and was a failure. It appeared to our party that the plot on which the calvV \ J I POSSE CAPTTttKI) BY BAXDITS. i I Boy Bandits Barricaded Dixie High-1 way and Hold up Travelers. Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 19.? When indignant citizens of James county put a rope around the neck of James Oliver and strung him up | to the limb of a tree near Ooltewah shortly after midnight Saturday night, he is said to have broken down and told them the name of his companion who shot and killed Deputy Sheriff W. B. Mcintosh a few hours j earlier. Oliver, who is not yet 21, and Ed. Martin, who is charged with having killed Mcintosh, are said to have barricaded a point on the Dixie highway just South ojf Ooltewah shortly after dark Saturday night, and held it until nearly midnight, while they held up and robbed occupants of all automobiles and other vehicles that passed. Citizens who heard of their activities and went armed with pistols and shotguns to arrest them, were themselves captured by the boy bandits and at one time six men and one woman were huddled along the roadside, covered with the pistol of one robber, while the other waited behind his barricade for other vehicles to bring victims. . This was after Mcintosh had been shot and for some time his body lay by the side of his automobile, his friends not knowing whether he was dead or alive. They know that he lived for a few minutes after he was shot but the bandits would not permit them to attend to his injuries and they do not know when he died. But for the wound that Oliver received from the pistol of K. I. Johnson, who accompanied Mcintosh to the barricaded spot on the road, the "road agents" might have stayed on until daylight. Oliver kept complaining that he was bleeding to death and Martin, he said, finally ordered his victims to take the boy back to Ooltewrah where a physician could at- j tend him. When they started, Martin slipped away, in the darkness, Oliver said. Officers Discover Big Liquor Outfit, Williston, Oct. 18.- -State Constable W. E. Ussery and Sheriff How-1 ard, of Aiken county, with several revenue officers made a raid near Montmorenci in Aiken county yesterday and discovered 11 fermenters and over 1,100 gallons of mash made frnm snear and meal, enough to make 2,500 gallons of beer or 250 gallons of whiskey. No arrests were made but warrants were '.ssued for W. L. Seigler, Joe Craig and Wayman Hank, all white. NEW CROP ESTIMATE. Houston Preparing to Carry Byrnes's Cotton Resolution Out. I Washington, Oct. 19.?The secretary of agriculture advises Representative Byrnes, of South Carolina, that in carrying out his resolution providing for a supplementary report on the' condition of the cotton crop he is setting the machinery in motion and without waiting for the president to sign the resolution he will issue the report October 3*1. Resolution provides that the report shall be issued not later than November 1. To Study Cattle Issue. Mr. W. I. Johns, Allendale; L. M. Bryant, Barton; and Z. D. Robertson, county farm agent, have gone to Atlanta for the purpose of looking over the cattle, situation, and it is probable that when they return some active steps toward increasing cattle raising in this section will be taken. ?Allendale Citizen. ^ i ? ? Ab Young, a farmer, 40 years of oge, was shot and killed near Central,; Pickens county, last Monday, by Walter James, also a farmer, following a difficulty. James is in jail. j ^ ? ? ? Bookter Bennett, 44, was killed at j a cotton gin near Cannon's camp j ground, Spartanburg county, Tuesday by being crushed under falling cotton bales. cium arsenate was used was about +V10 nnnrost rmo nr? the* farm. Mr. Spann showed us six acres tended by one of his share croppers that had already had seven bales picked from it, regardless of the boll j weevil, which goes to show that cot! ton can still be made regardless of j the boll weevil, even one of his worst years?if planted right, tended right and not too large an acreage put to the plow.?Allendale Citizen. 1 MASS MEETING OF CI AFTERNOON AT People to Decide Questi Malaria is to be Erac This, Thursday, aftern will be a mass meeting of to decide the question of will undertake the work as outlined in the last "Whether you are in favor ject, be present. Every n berg is urged to attend th ' Captain L. M. Fisher, o: lie health service and the will be present and explai Bamberg lias the opporl assistance on the work if en. Come to the meeting is to be done. Bamberg will stand or SENTENCED TO ELECTRIC CHAIR.! i Witherspoon is Found Guilty of Kill- j ing Luther Horton. Lancaster, Oct. 16.?Moses Witherspoon, charged with the murder ofj Luther Horton, of Kershaw, on May 23 last, was found guilty in the court of general sessions Thursday and was sentenced by Judge Sease to die in the chair November 14. It will be recalled that at the time of the killing Witherspoon made his escape and was chased into Fairfield county by a posse of Kershaw citizens. Feeling ran high and threats of lynching were made. Sheriff Huntter was so close on his track that three days after the crime Witherspoon surrendered to the sheriff of T-l. _ ,C ?1 J 1 A. 1..* i ^ ilNA r aimeiu, who iuuk mm lu mc ycmtentiary for safe keeping, where he has remained until a few days ago, j when he was brought to Lancaster ? to face trial. j Owing to the prominence of the deceased, keen interest was manifested, the case being tried before a packed court house. ^ i?I m* Trophies at State Fair. One of the biggest features of the United States Government exhibits, to be shown at the State fair, Oct. 27-31, will be made up of trophies' land other enemy material captured on the battlefields of France by American soldiers. The captured articles, including almost everything from a big trench mortar to a canteen, have just been brought to this country and have never before been on exhibition. With them will be shown military and naval equipment of the American forces, in addition to displays from other departments of the government. The character of the display of captured material is indicated by the following partial list: Light and heavy machine guns, anti-tank guns, rifles and carbines, small-arms amunition, grenatenwerfers, trench mortars, hand grenades, helmets of various kinds, sabers, officers' and enlisted men's canteens, shells and cartridge cases of various sizes, trench periscopes, gas shellssmoke hand grenades, smoke pots, anti-gas alarm devices, field telephones and switchboards, signal lamps, greast reels and trench lanterns. Visitors to the exhibit will have an opportunity to compare the German equipment with that used by the American fighters. One of the feature exhibits is a collection of 32 enlarged photographs, selected from 20,000 taken by Army photographers in France. The Navy will exhibit two complete exhibition models of fighting ships, and five small models showing the application of camouflage. Other paval exhibits will be radio telephones, fni-rvoHnoe and their trucks, machine IV/i , guns and rifles, guns of the kind that were mounted on submarine chasers, Y-guns for launching depth charges, projectiles of various sizes, and winter clothing including a set of the kind worn on submarines. The Marine Corps will exhibit a large number 9f articles of equipment. ^ hi m Destroyers for Fair. Washington, Oct. 20.?Representative Byrnes today arranged with the ! secretary of the navy to have sent to Beaufort on November 14 a fleet of six destroyers. The day named will be "Naval Day'' at the Beaufort < | county fair. TIZENS THIS 1 THE COURT HOUSE. ! on of Whether or Not iicated in Bamberg. 0011 at 6 o'clock, there the citizens of Bamberg whether or not the city of malaria eradication, issue of The Herald, of or opposed to the prolan and woman in Bamis meeting. f the United States pubj State board of health, n the matter in detail, tunitv of securing $8,000 immediate action is takand help decide on what fall on its decision. WOULD HASTEN AWARDS. In Case of Property Taken for Marine Training Base. I i Washington, Oct. 20.?Representative James F. Byrnes, of the Second South Carolina District, today urged ? ecretary of the Navy Daniels to have tfe awards expedited in the case of properties acquired by the government in taking over all of Paris Island as a training base for the mefines. j This matter has been hanging fire Ior more than five months. Congress uthorized an expenditure of $150,|)00 for the purpose of acquiring the Additional land, but the claims will robably amount to considerably more. A board of appraisal from the Navy Department has been at work at Paris Island and submitted its report last Saturday. The report is now in hands of the nf tho naw donnrtmpnt and OUUVllUl Ut VUU UMT J V4vrv*. Secret" *y Daniels told Mr. Byrnes that the solicitor would act on the report within the next few days. The procedure is that if a property owner is not satisfied with the award made by the board, the government will pay him 75 per cent, of the amount awarded, and the owner can then sue in the Federal Court of Claims for the rest of the money. If the property owner accepts the award the full amount of the award is paid him and that particular transaction is closed. Colston News. Colston, Oct. 21.?We had a very nice rain last week and a little cool weather. The Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Beard were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beard and family, of Bamberg; and the week-end guests were Mr. illie Beach, of Walterboro, and Mr. and Mrs. Linnie Beach, of New York. Misses Ethel and Dora McMillan and Mr. Albert McMillan, of Bamberg, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMillan. Mr. and Mrs. Ehraim Bishop dined with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McMillan Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clayton spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Clayton. Miss Evie Kirkland spent Saturday night with Miss Mamie McMillan. Miss Laura ^IcMillan was at home Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. Horace Ray, or Denmark, was at home Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. Vernon McMillan spent Saturday night with Mr. Calvin McMillan. mm ? Home Service Work. The home service office has quite a number of letters concerning exservice men who are entitled to compensations, allotment fees, and pay backs. The management is exhausting every source of information available in order to locate the allotees. Aside from this phase of the work a more direct appeal is made to us by civilian families residing in our midst, some of whom are in extreme need. JULIAN C. EASTERLING. Building operations totaling more than $1,000,000 have been started In Greenville between January 1, 1919, and October 1, 1919. Electric pumps, storage tanks, gasoline engines, septic tank outfits. See Faulkner Electric Service Coo. TWO AMENDMENTS KILLED. Senator From New Mexico Concede*" Defeat in Advance of Vote. Washington, Oct. 17.?After a brief debate and without the formality of a record vote, the senate today threw out two more of the amend; ments written into the peace treaty by the foreign relations committee. The two amendments had been introduced by Senator Fall, Republican, of New Mexico, and had as their common purpose to curtail the power of the Amercan representatives on the reparation commission. The vote came sooner than had been expected, the leaders agreeing to it as part of a plan to complete the consideration of amendments early as possible so that the senate might get down to the real work of drafting a ratification resolution. Only two of the committee's 45 amendments now remain to be considered and it is hoped to bring them to a vote early next week. They both relate to equalization of voting strength in the I league of nations. First Aid to the Sick and Injured. The following are extracts from a letter written by David J. Yates, bureau of first aid, to me in reference to first aid instruction: "Your very good letter received. It is surely encouraging to know that you are interested in first aid. My only regret is that we cannot arouse such interest in some of the other chapters. "The supply department has* been requested to send eighteen edition first aid text books. They will be charged to the chapter through the accounting department in the regular way. "Accept my thanks for your interest in this work. Yours very cordially, "DAVID J. YATES, "Bureau of Frst Aid." The inclusion of first aid teaching in the school curriculum, while to some extent an innovation is based on logical reasoning. 1. Increased complexity of industrial life and of traffic conditions in the city and with so many'automobiles and machines accidents are becoming jnore and more frequent. 2. Many of these accidents occur at places and at times where the services of a physician cannot be secured, yet immediate treatment is demanded and must be given. First aid teaching will render any one capable of treating such cases, some of which may be so slight that such treatment may be all that is necessary. Again it may be a case of life and death, where all depends upon the care given during the first fiffnon minulas Tiiat hp ahlp tf) I keep the sick or injured person com-1 fortable until a physician can be called is valuable. There is a great demand for first aid courses and justly so. The right place for such teaching is in the high or preparatory school, and the ideal time for such teaching is in the second year of such schools, because having mastered the principles of first aid, the pupils have an opportunity to apply them directly to all the little mishaps that characterize school activities on the playground, athletic field, etc. Now, this course ought to be required not merely elective, but since it is not at all compulsory, then all the more reason for a hearty re-1 -sponse to membership. Twenty is considered an ideal number to teach j at one time, but classes as high as forty can be successfully handled. I The number of high school pupils who are desirous of pursuing this course has dwindled to twelve. I have eighteen books on hand. If a few more want to join the class nlease give me your names right away. It is desirable that a medical inspector have charge of first aid classes. Dr. Weekley has gladly consented to instruct the class. Two periods of forty-five minutes weekly will be devoted to this work. The material is simplified to an extreme with very few technical medical terms used. The equipment required by the work will consist of six triangular bandages, one dozen rolled bandages, four or five pieces of light wood, three to five inches wide by twelve to eighteen inches long (for splints), a little cotton, and a series or sixteen first aid wall charts. Each person successfully passing an examination is entitled to a red cross certificate of first aid. All members of the senior first aid class desirous of obtaining their certificates may do so by giving me their names as early as it is convenient to do so. JULIEN C. EASTERLING. i MAYNARD WINS -AIR MARATHON MAKES TRIP IX 24 HOURS, 45 MINUTES AM) 8 SECONDS. Flies Total 5,400 Miles Announces That He Will Attempt One-stop Flight From Coast to Coast. Mineola, N. Y., Oct. 18.?Steering by compass and flying at an average speed of nearly two miles a minute, 5,400 miles across the continent and return through snow, fog, clouds and ram, Lieut. B. W. Maynard landed on Roosevelt field at 1.50 o'clock this afternoon, - the first aviator to finish in the army's great transconti nental air race and reliability test. He carried as passenger Master Electrician William E. Kline, of Harrisburg, Penn., who, he described as deserving the "greatest credit" and and "Trixie," a German police dog. Unofficial figures compiled here tonight by the American Flying Club, which has cooperated with the army aid service officials in conducting the race, show that Lieut. Maynard's actual flying time on the return trip was twenty-four hours, forty-five minutes, and eight seconds, only a few minutes less than the unofficial flying time on his westbound trip. ' Under the rules of the contest, t however, time spent between the control stations must be counted in the actual flying time as computed by the army in deciding the winner of the race. This means that the eighteen hours Lieut. Maynard spent changing motors in a corn field in Wahoo, Neb., where he was forced to land because of a broken crankshaft, will be added to his official flying time. Thp linnffipial fetal alanco^ time en I * A VVSWU.A VIU^CV/U VIA uu U u. the return trip was nintey-two hours, thirty-two minutes and forty-eight seconds. Including three days spent in San Francisco, the round trip was made in approximately ten days and five hours. Undaunted by the fact that teu lives have been lost directly or indirectly as a result of the race, Lieut. Maynard announced within an hour after he had landed that within a ( few weeks he would attempt a onestop flight from Mineola to San Diego, Cal., with Dallas, Texas, the only stopping point. A modified type of De Haviland plane, somewhat similar to that he used in the cross country race, has been fitted up for^him here and the start will be made as soon as he has had an opportunity to make a few trial flights and become familiar with the new machine. Lieut. L. D. Bradshaw, who has been flying since 1912 * and entred the army as an enlisted man, will be his companion on his attempted one-stop flight. Invitations to Wedding. The following invitation has been received in Bamberg: "Mrs. Welcome Adams Moore invites you to be present at the marriage of her daughter, Nancy Mozelle, to Mr. Laurie Clinton Smoak, on Tuesday evening, November the fourth, at eight o'clock, Pine Grove Methodist church, McColl, S. C. At home after November the twelfth, Bamberg, South Carolina." Time Changes Next Sunday. Next Saturday will be the last day of the daylight savings law, enacted by congress as a war measure. The official clocks will be turned back one hour at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, and the regular old time will be restored for good, as congress has repealed the law making daylight sav| ings official throughout the country. Wilson Rouse, a negro, was shot and seriously injured by the chief of police of Belton, Monday, following a difficulty. m m | See our Westinghouse irons, also | grills, toasters and heaters. FaulkFaulkner Electric Service Co. An Exception. "Happiness," declaimed the philosopher pompously, "is only the pursuit of something, not the catching of it." "Oh, I don't know," answered the plain citizen. "Have you ever chased the last car on a rainy night?" ^ * m i P. T. Faulkner has been appointed coroner of Greenwood county to succeed Dock Owens, resigned.