The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 11, 1920, Image 1
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$2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. 0., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1920. Established in 1891
STATE WILL SPEND
' OVER SIX MILLION
TOTAL AMOUNT APPROPRIATED
$6,091,241.39.
Little in Excess of 1919.
Provisions of Appropriation Bill Set
Forth in Detail?Stipulates How
Each Dollar Shall Be Spent.
The general appropriation bill passed
by the general assembly which
brought its session to a clo'se Sunday
carries a total of $6,091,241.39. A
levy of 12J mills will be required to
raise the amount. Total expenditures
last year were $5,811,012,35. Eliminating
the building extensions at
etate institutions, appropriations this
year will remain within the figures
of 1919.
Following is given the amount for
each office, department, institution or
organization, supplemented with detailed
information as to how this
money shall be spent:
Recapitation.
Legislative department....$ 102,291.31
Governor's office 54,200.00
Secretary of State's office 11,275.00
Comptroller Gen.'s office.. 197,277.04
, Attorney Gen.'s office .... 21,851.50
State treasurer's office .... 260,063.95
Adjutant general's office.. 19,199.29
University of S. C 209,515.00
The Citadel 398,583.33
Clemson Agricultural and
Mechanical college .... 168,070.00
Winthrop Normal and In-'
dustrial college 416,616.06
Medical college of S. C 96,067.00
Confederate college 4,000.00
State colored college .... 115,880.00
John de la Howe Industrial
school 34,316.00
School for trie dear ana
the blind 104,551.00
State superintendent of
education's office 931,090.00
State historical com 3,750.00
State library 4,215.00
Confederate museum .... 100.00
State relic room .: 1,000.00
State Hospital for the Insane
946,651.96
State penitentiary 125,715.00
State board of charities
and corrections 29,530.00
8tate board of pardons.. 400.00
State training school for
feeble-minded 40,307.00
South Carolina Industrial
school for boys 125,001.73
South Carolina industrial
school for girls 55,576.67
South Carolina reformatory
for negro boys .... 48,061.67
Catawba Indians 8,500.00
Committee on support of
deaf and blind children 500.00
State board of health 220,394.14
S. C. tax commission 35,000.00
Tax board of review 1,500.00
Insurance Com.'s office.... 15,634.00
State bank Ex.'s office .... 15,463.75
8. C. R. R. commission 19,000.00
Chief game warden's
office 13,525.00
State board of medical
examiners 3,000.00
8tate board of law ex*
aminers 450.00
State board of fisheries .. 10,500.00
State board of conciliation
1,200.00
Joint committee on printing
30,395.00
Commissioner of agricul,
ture's office 81,145.00
State warehouse commissioner's
office 34,949.00
8tate electrician and engineer's
office 30,950.00
State highway engineer's
\ ioaiioaa
U-LLLUtJ J.OV,J.JLd.UV
State pension commission 607,350.00
Confederate infirmary .... 22,159.25
Reunion of Confederate
I veterans 1,500.00
Judicial department 157,623.6b
Public Service Com 1,891.90
Canal commission 12,000.00
Miscellaneous t 98,859.12
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Grand total $6,091,241.39
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS.
Adopts Appropriation Bill of About
$6,100,000.
Columbia, March 7.?The general
assembly of South Carolina adjourned
sine die early today after a session
extending two weeks beyond the cus
tomary forty days. Total appropriations
for this year are about Sfi.lOO,000,
to raise which a levy of twelve
and one half mills will be required
This does not include a two-mill treneral
levy for permanent roads in the
state system, nor a three-mill constitutional
tax for the public schools.
LETTER PROM "OCCASIONAL."
General Admixture of Yarns, Humor
and Gossip From Kearse.
Kearse, March 10\?The people of
Kearse are perhaps as progressive
as any other rural community. I notice
numerous tobacco barns going
up and everybody seems busy and
hurrying things up. The writer in
flying around the circle notices that
our friend, J. O. Kearse. has made a
new gate to his flower garden, and
the lumber is on the ground to build
a horse rack. These are little things
but it is "the little things that tell."
L. W. Ritter is still enjoying himself
because it hog killing time
with him yet. He finds it necessary
to purchase a small amount of lard
to fry the middling with, but he does
not mind this a bit, because he goes
to Ehrhardt once a week anyhow,
and while he is there he can get the
fztf.
The friends of Eugene Brabham
want to correct a report. Eugene
drives the truck to Olar for the school
children and it was reported that he;
went a-coon hunting in the truck and |
when the dogs treed a coon Eugene
| tried to climb the tree with the truck
and broke tfte truck up. Now, tne
facts are these: The truck just simply
gave out on the road and the dogs
treed a coon right close and in true
huntsman style they brought that
coon down with a load of shot. I
t
have made some inquiry about that
coon, and understond that he had
numerous rings arour.d his tail.
We are told that out west the
cows have rings around their horns
which indicate their age. A new
ring comes once a year and the cows
some times get so old that there is
not room on their horns for any more
rings, so their owners have, to tie
poles to their horns for the rings to
grow on. Now, I do not know whether
this ring rules applies to coons
or not, but I have made some inquiry
about Eugene's coon, but as th6 parties
declare he didn't have any appendix
tied on his tail for the rings to
grow on we conclude he was not an
old coon. '
Some time ago Gen. J. S. Breland
listened to. a learned M. D. talking
on the subject of raising babies. The
Dr. and his audience agreed on this:
Give the baby plenty of fresh air,
both day and night; let the baby ^
sleep out on the porch where there
is lots of air. Now, for his health,
Breland gets in his buggy and rides
about at night, to take the night air.
He rides around and sings such airs
as "A Starry Night for a Ramble,"
and "The Lone Starry Hours," entirely
oblivious to disturbing the
slumbers of the old folks who have
retired. We think he ought to let
the old roosters and the owls run
the night line.
I have just seen L. W. Ritter. He
says he has 250 laying hens and they
don't lay anything but eggs. A few
days ago he went out to his gin house
where most of the brood stays and
gathered a stick basket full of eggs.
OCCASIONAL.
HOOVER WILL NOT RUN.
Declines to Be Candidate in California
Presidential Primary.
San Francisco, March 6.?Herbert
Hoover will not permit hi3 name to
be used in the California presidential
primary as he is not a candidate for
the cHiee, according ro a telegram
from ltim read here today l>y <ia\in
McNab, at the Democratic state committee
meeting.
4 White highly sensible the great
honor implied in the desire of many
friends to place my name in nomination
as a candidate in Democratic primaries,*'
the telegram read, "I d^oin
it due to them to advise them that 1
mi nnt a nanrlirlatp. T thprp''r.rp. pan
not approve of the use of my name
for that purpose."
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Much Easier.
Sam?Who was the first Kaiser?
Bull?How do I know? Ask me
something easy.
Com Q r\ yy> r\ f Vi { r* cr ooor9
oaJii kjunicLiiiiiuaoj
Bull?Yes; ask me Who's the last.
?London Opinion.
Chores.
First Boy (gloomily)?I've got to
cut kindling and empty three huekets
of ashes and build two Hres and;.
to the store on errands and thvn!
fill the coal bin.
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Second Boy (enviously)?You've1:
got a regular picnic, you have! Justj!
think c? me! Mother said v.hen I;
come heme from school today I'd got j
to hold the baby.?Philadelphia In- j
quirer.
UNCLE SAM URGED
TO BUY WHISKEY
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE WOULD
HAVE WHOLESALE PURCHASE.
Temptation at Hand.
If Government Takes All Liquor
Stocks in Hand Danger Will
Be Reduced.
Westerville, Ohio, March 6.?Purchase
by the federal government of
all liquor stocks in bond is urged by
the Anti-Saloon league in a statement
issued here today at the
league's headquarters by Ernest H.
Cherrington, secretary of the league's
executive committee. The statement
says:
"Now that prohibition has gone
into effect everything which the government
can do to make it easy to'
enforce the law should be done.
"With over 60,000,000 gallons of
whiskey in bonded warehouses there
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is a. cun^tant icuiptanuu UCVIDC
ways and means of utilizing that liquor
in spite of the law. Moreover,
so long as that whiskey is in existence
those who own it, realizing as
they do its great commercial value
except for prohibition, will be constantly
tempted to use millions of dollars
in efforts to repeal and break
down the prohibition laws.
"The government of the United!
States should purchase that whiskey;
at a price to be fixed by a federal j
commission, which price should represent
the actual cost of producing j
it. Upon purchasing the whiskey the^
government should convert promptly |
into denatured alcohol for which j
there is an ever increasing demand.
"By such an arrangement the dis-!
tillers will get all they actually have!
invested in the whiskey. Th? great-!
est temptation to break the prohibi-1
tory law will be removed. The incentive
to spend vast sums of money
to secure repeal of prohibition or a
serious modification of the law will!
be eliminated; the government will!
b? able* to realize almost as much j
from the sale of the whiskey in the;
form of denatured alcohol as the |
vhiskey will cost the government, and
the public will be the gainer in every
way. It will require less effort and
expense to enforce the law."
It was said the Anti-Saloon league
may ask congress for legislation au-!
thorizing purchase of all bonded;
liquors.
FKED MacL<KAi\ STIL.L. LIVES.
Mysteriously Disappeared From Newberry
College in 1916.
The many friends and acquaintances
of "Dutch" MacLean, thought
dead for three years after he mysteriously
disappeared from Newberry college
in 1916 and reported dead by
the Canadian army, will be interested
in the following account of his meeting
with his father, as told by the
Youngstown Telegram of February
24th:
"When the phone rang at the residence
of Edgar L. MacLean, 349 St.
Louis, Sunday night, MacLean left his
armchair reluctantly, for he thought
it was someone trying to transact city
business out of hours. MacLean is
clerk in the city engineer's office.
"His 'hello' was none too cherry,
but the next instant his face lighted.
Over the wire came the voice of his
son, Lieut. Fred (Dutch) MacLean,
whom he had mourned as dead for
three years.
"Lieut. MacLean -was reported dead j
by the Canadian government about
three years ago. The official an-;
nouncement said he had been killed
in action at Vimy Ridge. His father;
did not question the announcement;
but rejoiced that his other two sons, {
William and Hugh, both officers, had I
escaped.
"Lieut. MacLean had not written
home for so long that he had forgotton
the house number and the telephone
call Sunday night was to get;
directions from his father. When he:
reached home his father learned that;
he had been gassed at Vimy Ridge in j
a charge with the Princess Pats and!
tvoc in o T nnrlnn hocrffl-Jil civ months.
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"Upon his discharge from the hos-j
pital he secured a transfer to the!
American army and served through-1
out the war. Then he was given a
position with the auditing depart-j
mer>t of the army, which he still j
holds, lie expects to be discharged (
within a week or two.
"iUscLcrn, known as 'Dutch,' to j
his friends, was one of the best ath-j
lotes Rayen High school ever produc- j
Carlisle School Notes.
Clipped From The Bugle.
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Summer R. O. T. C.
Announcement as to the Ft. O. T. C
summer camps was made by the professor
of military science and tactics
during the week. These are to be
held from June 17th to July 28th. The
infantry camp this year will be al
CamD Benin?. Columbus, Ga. This
the infantry training center of the
United States army, and has splendid
facilities for instruction. The infantry
officers' school is here, and preparations
are being made to have the
best R. 0. T. C. camp ever attempted.
Attendance from junior units is permitted
of students sixteen years ol
age or over upon the date of opening
camp, provided they have had at least
one year's military training. Sixtyone
Carlisle members have signified
their desire to go, but unfortunately
! the attendance from any single junior
| unit will not be approved for more
| than ten per cent, of enrollment, sc
that all can not be cared for.
j Students authorized to attend camp
: from the school will be transported
| to and from such camp at the expense
of the United States. No article oi
I uniform or equipment issued at the
i institution should be taken. Uniform
j and equipment will be furnished afi
ter arrival at camp.
' The substence of students will be
at government expense, and the ration
| allowance will be the same as that
authorized for the cadets of the United
States Military academy. Athletics,
etc., will form an important
part of the camp programme.
Drive for Athletic Field.
Wednesday, afternoon, March 4,
marked the beginning of a drive to
secure funds for the building of a
new grand stand and the general improvement
of the Carlisle athletic
fiol/l A fionVQO r\f tVio lnval r?ltl70n<3
11VIU. V/UU ? uu Ui. bu^/ iw; ma
of Bamberg was begun in the persons
of Captains Herlong and Shieder, and
this canva3 is being continued. All
indications are that the plans in the
minds of the members of the Carlisle
faculty who are interested in athletics
and enthusiastic supporters in
Bamberg will materialize just as soon
as building material can be gotten.
It has been estimated that a minimum
cost to add the needed improvements
will be about $1,000. The
canvas for subscriptions has not been
completed, but the amount raised
and promised has reached approximately
$800.00. Much more is needed
and it is hoped that more than
$1,000.00 can be raised.
Personals.
Harold Long is a new and welcomed
member at Carlisle.
Capt. Boland paid a visit recently
to his home in Springfield.
We are delighted to see Mrs.
Beach and Maj. Duncan out again
after ten days illness.
Capt. Lanham left Friday for his
home in Spartanburg, where he will
spend a few days.
Sgt. Campbell has returned to the
campus after a short leave on account
of illness at his home.
Sgt. James W. Milton, of U. S. infantry,
will arrive at Carlisle in a
few days and assist in thd military
W U1A..
Maj. Snyder spent the week-end at
his home in Batesburg. His father
returned with him Tuesday.
Sanford Silverstein has returned to
the campus after spending a ten-day
sick leave at his home in Savannah,
Georgia.
Word has just been ^received on
the campus that Captain Van C. Walton
is now at Walter Reed hospital,
Tacoma Park, Washington, D. C.
Captain Walton was formerly professor
military science and tactics at
Carlisle. Last November he was
transferred to Hume-Fogg high
o^'h cViTrillo Tonn Tf its witTi
genuine regret that we learn of our
former commandant's illness. His
many friends on the campus wish him
a speedy recovery.
ed. Later he starred in athletics at
Brown and was coach at Newberry
college, S. C., a year before sailing
with the Princess Pats.
" 'Dutch' is a rather uncommunicative
chap about his own achievements.
He returned to his work in
New York Monday night without telling
his father much about what he
had peen through. He did tell him,
however, that if he had only known
his father thought him dead, ho surely
would have written a letter denying:
the report."
C-<p * O-'
Read The Herald, $2.00 per year.
iJACK DEMPSEY TO
FACE TWO CHARGES
CHARGES ALSO MADE AGAINST
JACK KEARNS.
Grand Jury Action.
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Champion Pugilist and Manager Alleged
to Have Conspired
to Evade Draft.
San Francisco, Feb. 27.?William
Harrison (Jack) Dempsey, heavyweight
champion of the world, and
his manager, Jack Kearns, were indicted
by the federal grand jury here
today on a charge that they conspired
to have Dempsey evade the selective
- draft. A second indictment against
[ Dempsey charged actula evasion of
r the draft.
! Warrants were sworn out for their
arrest and their bonds fixed at SI.000
) each. The conspiracy charge provides
for a maximum penalty of two
)| years in the penitentiary and $2,00U
[! fine and the evasion charge one year
! I in prison.
:j The indictment followed weeks of
s i investigation conducted by E. M.
t Blanford, chief of the department of
justice bureau, and Col. C. W. Thomas,
assistant United States district ati
torney here.' The investigation was
i prompted by public charges by Max;
ine Dempsey, divorced wife of the
pugilist, that she had been compelled
to attest Dempsey's claims for ex;
emption.
Subsequently Mrs. Dempsey presented
an affidavit to Col. Thomas
in which she retracted the charges,
saying they had been caused by pique
j against Dempsey. This affidavit figi
ured in the grand jury investigation.
Mrs. Dempsey, Frank Spellman, a
representative of a company in which
Dempsey is interested, a number of
persons prominent in state sport circles
and executives of the draft board
| which exempted Dempsey appeared
before the jury.
Federal officials said they were advised
that Dempsey and Kearns
would arrive here tomorrow from Los
Angeles to surrender themselves.
Dempsey was charged with having
falsely sworn that his father, mother,
widowed sister, and the latter's two
children were dependent on him, that
j he had contributed $20 a month each
to their support during the year 1917
and that they were receiving support
from no other source.
Dempsey's statement to the draft
hnard that his wifp had lived with
him for 18 months previous to his appearance
before the board and that
his parents and widowed sister had
made their home with him for four
years were false, according to the indictment.
"Say, dear, if I ask you would you,
if I wanted you to, swear to an affidavit
that I was supporting you
(see)," Dempsey wrote his wife, Maxine
Dempsey in August 1917, the indictment
asserted.
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More "Red Tape" for Veterans.
Columbia, March 6.?After Janu" w
"1 (1 O 1 ?n rtVrt f Vl A n nvf
ai j f ? a u x, auu uciuio iuc u^ai,
sion of the General Assembly, the
office of D. W. McLaurin, state pension
commissioner, will be abolished,
the result being brought about by the
adoption tonight of the conference reI
port of the house of representatives,
Mr. McLaurin, a Confederate veteran,
remains in office under the measure
as ratified, at a salary of $2,000, but
his clerical help is dispensed with.
Under the law as passed the Confederate
veterans are placed on the
honor roll and will receive their proj
portionate share of the appropriation
| without the formality of the previous
| "red tape."
The tentative abolition of the com
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; missioner s unice was me ie?un ui lug
I fight made in the house this after!
noon and tonight on the conference
: report by Eugene H. Buckingham,
| of Ellenton, and H. H. Evans, of
j Newberry, who stated that they were
j voicing the sentiment of the Confed'
erate veterans when they attempted
to abolish the present commission.
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To Wiiithrop Alumnae.
Each one of the 6,000 daughters
of Winthrop college are asked to give
j the school a post card shower on
: March in. giving her home address,
j teaching or business address, maiden
J name as well as married name, If
J married, and date and years of at|
tendance at the college. Any other in-.
! formation is also requested. These
cards should he addressed to Miss
Leila A. Russell, Alumnae Secretary,
at Winthrop college, Rock Hill, S. C.
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HID MILLIONS IN SAND.
San Franciscoans to Search for Shipwrecked
Ciew's Gold.
It's a story of $5,000,000 in gold
bullion; of disaster of sea; of massacre
of savages; or buried treasure
hidden for nearly half a century; a
tale that all but out-Stevensons Robert
Louis Stevenson.
But a group of business-minded
lawyers, bankers and capitalists 01
San Francisco hav? enough faith in
it, with all its smacking of Munchausen,
to fit out an expedition to
test its foundation in fact.
Within a short time this expedition
will sail from San Francisco to
recover, if possible, the golden hoard
from the sands of a barren coast near
Balboa, Central America.
The promoters of the scheme are
not very communicative about tbeir
plans, but it is known that they recently
dispatched one of their number
on a "diplomatic mission" to Balboa
to ascertain, if possible, the truth of
the story of hidden treasure. He returned,
and apparently his report
confirmed the tale; At any rate, one
of the most able attorneys in the city
has been retained as counsel for the
enterprise, and an opinion has been
obtained upon the international and
salvage pnases 01 tne law.
The only nam9 which has come to
light as one of those actively interested
in the expedition is that of
Isaac Grant, pioneer druggist and
hotel man. He is as secretive as the
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others about present plans, but this
.-'At,
is the basis of the story, partly from
records, but mostly from memory:
The British schooner City of Dunraven
set sail from San Francisco in
1878, bound for New York with a
cargo containing $5,000,000 in gold
bullion from California's gold fields. .
In September of last year the ship
no 11 or V* 4- r? r* /I At* a 1/-v*r?r* Ka^^Ta
KsCL UGUL Uic auu dlLCi Ck 1U115 Udu 10
against the flames the crew lowered
the gold into lighters and made for
shore.
Eighteen of the crew landed safely
on the" beach and they lighted
beacons to attract passing vessels. A
band of Yaqui Indians saw the lights,
swooped down on the survivors, and,
in a pitched battle, killed 13 of the
seamen.
Only Two Survivors.
The five remaining survivors then
buried most of the gold in the sand
and started to the Isthmus, carrying
with them a small quantity of the
precious metal. So severe were the
trials of this trip that three of the
little band died during the journey.
One of the two final survivors, according
to the story, was Capt. John
Goodrich, of Oakland. After a wait
of one year, the two caught a boat
which took them to Australia and
thence to England. y- :;kj
In 1905 Captain Goodrich and the
^other survivor came to San Francisco
and planned an expedition to recover
the gold. They were to have
left in 1906, but the earthquake and
fire disrupted their plans, and separated
the two men. Captain Goodrich
is now the only known survivor, and
he is reported to have interested the
present group in its attempt to salvage
the gold.
PASTOR BITTEN BY CAT.
Animal Attacks the Rev. G. M. Taylor
at Edgefield.
Edgefield. March 7.?Last Thnra
day afternoon the Rev. G. M. Taylor,
pastor of the local Methodist church, .
was bitten by a cat. Mrw Taylor
went to the well for water and saw
the animal near by, but was uot especially
attracted by it. As he left to
return to the house the cat without
<
warning sprang upon him, inflicting
a wound in the leg. Apprehensive
that the cat was affected with rabies
Mr. Taylor succeeded in killing it and
the head was sent to the medical au|
thorities at Columbia for medical ex:
amination, from whom a report has
I been received to the effect that the
i animal had hydrophobia. Mr. Taylor
j is receiving the Pasteur treatment.
A Sight for Sore Eyes.
j Charlie and his thre e sisters had
| been to visit a relative in the country.
Though the invitation had only
been for a week, their stay was gradually
lengthened to a month. In
fact, the uncle was beginning to fear
I it was going to be a permanent infliction.
But eventually they went.
"Well," asked the father, upon tho
return of his oCT-springs, "was your
j uncle glad to see you?"
Charlie's face lit up with deli^'i1:
at the question.
"Glad!" he echoed. "Uncle glad!*
Why, dad, he wanted to know why
1 wo HMn't hrinsr vou. mother, tha / '
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j maid, the cat, the canary and th?
j gold fish,"?Tit-Bits.
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