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$2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1920. Established in 1891
* STRANGERS COLLECT
| $7,000FROM FARMER
1 RECOVER $5,933 AVHEX MEN ARE
ARRESTED IN COLUMBIA.
| Sheriff Finds 3 Guns.
Strangers Deposit Bond of $400 Each
- and Hastily Leave
Town.
A prominent Calhoun county, farmer,
in the opinion of Sheriff F. F. Hill,
came near losing $7,000 one day last
week in what the sheriff thinks to be
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an attempted swindle on tne part ui
two men, J. F. Smith and J. M. Anderson,
wTho claim to be from North
Carolina. The two men were arrested
by Sheriff Hill soon after the
Calhoun county man had turned over
to them $7,000 in Liberty Bonds,
which, the bond owner says, -^as to
be held by the two men as security
tor stock purchased in a Texas concern
by the farmer.
The salesmen, one of whom form.
erly canvassed this county selling
stock in a fish concern in Virginia,
iS approached the farmer and suggestfjV
ed that he subscribe to stock in the
^ Texas concern to the amount of
$7,000, and agreed to take Liberty 1
bonds for this amount, have them
transferred to the company they represented
and have the company hold
the bonds as security for the stock.
The farmer agreed to the transaction
I and turned the bonds over to the
V salesmen.
' The bonds were brought to St.
Matthews by the two men, accompanied
by the farmer, and were
transferred in blank, the salesmen
claiming that this procedure was necessary
in order that the bonds might
be held as security for the stock. The
cashier of the local bank where the
transfer was made became suspicious
I of the strangers, however the alacrity
> with which the farmer agreed to the
^transfer so clearly indicated that the
deal had been thoroughly investigated
and was above reproach that the
cashier made the transfer without
comment.
Shortly after the two men had left
this county Solicitor A. J. Hydrick
was informed of the deal and immediate!
began an investigation. He ascertained
that the men were doing
business in St. Matthews without a
license and he", accompanied by Sheriff
Hill, began a search for the two
men and the bonds. Their chase led
to the Jefferson hotel, Columbia,
where the men, who were heavily
armed, were arrested at 4 p. m. Cash
to the amount of $5,933 was found
on their persons.
Sheriff Hill went to tne room occupied
by the men at the Jefferson
hotel, accompanied by the hotel detective,
aroused the occupants and
informed them that they were under
arrest. The men appeared very
much perturbed and declared that
their dealings with the Calhoun
farmer were absolutely fair. However,
the sheriff ascertained that the
Liberty bonds had been sold to a
Columbia bank, and the money and
check found on the person of the
two men were evidently funds derived
from the sale.
The prisoners were brought back
to St. Matthews and each required to
put up bail in the sum of $400. After
their release, the officers says, the
? men hired an automobile and went to
* North, and it is understood that they
hired an automobile there to go to
Denmark. Shortly after leaving here
a telephone call was received from
Columbia asking if the men had left
St. Matthews. It is said that the men
will be re-arrested when located.
The money found in the pillow of
one of the men was returned to St.
Matthews. Sheriff Hill says three
revolvers were found scattered about
the room in the hotel, and an empty
whiskey bottle also was in evidence.
He says the men declared their prop*
osition to be legal and immediately
upon being aroused said they would
give the money back if the farmer
was not satisnea. rney naa ieit a
call at the hotel desk so as to catch
an early-morning train.?St. Matthews
Carolinian.
Fell Into Fortune.
"Sure, it's Mike, that's the lucky
man."
"How's that?"
"Why, he just took out an insur?
ance policy for ten thousand dollars
and the very next day he fell off the
bridge and got drowned in the river/,'
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i lSITS CAPITAL AFTER 60 YEARS.
Formtr Bamberg Woman Sees Columbia
First Time Since the War.
To have paid her first visit to Columbia
before it was burned by Sherman
and then to drop in for her second
visit yesterday was the remarkable
experience of Mrs. Mollie Bailey,
of Edisto Island, who is visiting
friends in the city.
On that first visit in the distant
fifties, Mrs. Bailey, who at that
time was Miss Mollie Rice, of Bamberg,
says she was inordinately proud
of her homespun dress elaborately
adorned with horn buttons. Yesterday
she was clad in georgette and
wore it with that air of distinction
and easy grace that somehow seems
to have passed from the realm of
+ Viir> cro fcimirn'no -nrifh the COmin2T of
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"rights." But the pride she had in
her costume on that former occasion
could not assauge the homesickness
that filled her heart, for she was on
her way to college at Limestone, and
she says, "I did not see much of Columbia
for the tears that filled my
eyes. I cried the night through and
prayed that I might die so that I
would not have to go to college,"
she said yesterday with eyes alight
with memories aroused by her second
visit to Columbia.
."Professor Curtis met me here in
Columbia and I went with him to
college. Everything, it'seemed to me,
has changed in Columbia since that
time.
"I have, had one other unusual experience
in this matter of visiting
towns," she continued. "The first
time I visited Orangeburg I was 17
years old?the next time I was 70.
Why do I remember that first visit?"
and she dropped her eyes and smoothed
a fold in her black dress. "Well,
the young man whom I afterwards
married was courting me then?oh, I
remember it well enough," and she
laughed like a school girl. "Mind
you," she said, raising a protesting
finger, "we wrere not engaged?just
good friends?and matters like that
will develop, you knowr," she exclaim?
"? ? * ini, I
ed. sue was taKing in me iea ouup
in the Arcade at the dinner hour and
when the guests at the various tables
heard the clear, soft voice recalling
the days "when I was 17," they listened
closely and they did not wonder
that "matters had developed" and
probably envied the young man his >
part in the development.
Mrs. Bailey is a delightful conversationalist,
her memory is remarkably
clear, and she brought to Columbia
an atmosphere that one does not
often come in cantact with in these
days of rush and hurry. She is visiting
Miss Carrie Laysath and is making
many acquaintances in this city.
?Columbia State.
An APpeal by E. D. Jenkins.
Because of the great loss and fodder
shortage, we should see to it that
we get in a very large acreage of all
small grains this fall, as cover crops
and for harvesting. Let us plant an
overwhelming crop of oats this fall.
They are easier to grow than to buy.
At certain seasons they can be used
as both corn and fodder.
Some soils in our country are not
suitable for successful wheat production.
There should be a number of
acres of wheat planted on every farm
in the county, where land can be
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UJL1U OUitawi^ ivj vjjlau f V* ^
portant grain. It is easy to buy^f
you have money, but it will be easier
to grow it under boll weevil conditions.
You have some of the finest
grain growing lands in the world.
Don't forget the rye. Plant a good
quantity for cover crops, grazing
purposes, etc Be getting ready; the
time is practically at hand.?E. D.
Jenkins, local agent.
PRESIDENT WILL RESIGN.
Deschanel Expected to Retire to Private
Life Within Week.
Paris, Sept. 15.?"The tragedy of
Deschanel," which for nearly four
months has been the secret of a few
persons has become public property
and nothing but the warmest
sympathy is being expressed on all
sides for the president of the republic,
as it is announced that he has decided
irrevocably to resign. President
Deschanel's four months against illness
has been a courageous one, but
since l is accident at Montargis May
23, when he fell from a moving train,
it has been a losing one, and the
hope for his early recovery now has
been abandoned.
Before another week has passed,
it may now safely be said, M. Deschanel
will be retired to private life.
DEATH IN WAKE
OF EXPLOSION
EYE WITNESS DESCRIBES CRASH
FROM CLEAR SKY*.
Many Lifeless Forms.
Bodies on Sidewalk Discolored With
Blood When Associated Press
Reporter Arrives.
?
New York, Sept. 16.?"It was a
crash out of a blue sky?an unexpected
death dealing bolt which in a
twinkling turned into a shamble tne
busiest corner of America's financial
center and sent scurrying to places
of shelter hundreds of wounded,
dumb stricken, white faced men and
women?fleeing from an unknown
danger."
A reported for the Associated
Press, who was an eye witness of today's
explosion in New York's financial
district, thus described the scene.
"I was jusf turning into wall street
from Broadway," he said, "when I
first felt, rather than heard, the explosion.
A concussion of air similar
to that experienced on the subway
when a train dashes into one of the
under river tubes was felt. Its force
was sufficient to all but throw me off
my balance. Instantly following the
concussion, came a sharp resounding
crash which shook to their foundations
the larger buildings facing either
side of Wall street. With the roar
of the blast came the rattle of falling
glass, and from the Junction of Wall,
Nassau, and Broad streets?a block
distant, screams of injured men and
women.
\fnclirnmn Shanp/1 rrmvd.
"I dodged into a convenient doorway
to escape falling glass and to
reach a telephone and call the office.
Looking down Wall street later, I
could see arising from the vicinity
of the subtreasury building and the
J. P. Morgan and company bank a
mushroom shaped cloud of yellowish, '
green smoke which mounted to a
height of more than 100 sfeet, the
smoke being lioked by darting
tongues of flame.
"I reached the scene a few moments
after the explosion took place.
The smoke had practically cleared
from the street, but from the Morgan
building there was belching forth
through the broken windows clouds
of dust and white vapor. In the
street an overturned automobile was
blazing fiercely, and nearby, close to
the body of a dead horse, was another
fire, evidently from a pile of wreckage.
"Almost in front of, the steps leading
up to the Morgan bank was the
mutilated body of a man. Other
bodies, most of them silent in death,
lay nearby. As I gazed horror stricken
at the sight, one of these forms,
half naked, and seared with burns,
started to rise. It struggled, then
toppled and fell lifeless into the gutter.
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juncicas i i/iiua att".
"On the opposite side of the street
were other forms. One of them was
that of a young woman, her clothing
torn and burned away. It was moving?not
in an effort to rise, but in
the agony of death. I started to/
ward her?but as I did, she became
still. Glancing doWn I sawr that the
pavement was discolored with blood.
In plain sight, within a radius of 30
to 50 feet, were nine lifeless forms.
"The body of the dead horse in the
middle of the street showed plain evidence
of having been in close proximity
to the scene of the blast. It was
literally torn to pieces.
"The windows of the Morgan building
were blown out and through the
openings could be seen, the smokeblackened
interior of what but a few
moments previous had been one of
the handsomest banking rooms in the
city. Opposite the entrance to the
npwlv onmDleteri white exterior of
the subtreasury annex was battered!
and torn as if having been subjected
to a bombardment of machine gun
fire. The doorway, with its massive
steel grill work, "was hattered and
the stone surrounding the door
cracked and battered awTay.
"By this time the crowd was pressing
in, held in check by the hastily
gathering police. At the doorway of
the Morgan bank was an uniformed
guard, apparently half dazed, but
sticking to his r?3t and holding back
those who sought to enter the structure.
'
"The crowd was strangely quiet and
over it seemed to hang a feeling of
awe and horror. At the commands of
the police, it moved and fell back si
HUNT WILL IS SUSTAINED.
Probate Court's Decision Upheld by
Circuit Judge.
Judge W. H. Townsend, of the
State Circuit Court, has affirmed the
decision of the probate court of Charleston
county holding that the 'will of
the late A. Morton Hunt, as filed for
probate, is valid. J. A. Guerin, executor,
was authorized to carry out
the provisions of the document, including
a clause written into the
typewritten copy which was the cause
of the contest.
This handwritten clause, which
Mrs. Rita B. Hunt, the widow, alleged
was added after the last will and
testament of the deceased had been
AVAAiif A/1 rvwAiri/I A/I f liof nr*AnAT?f Tr h^_
CAcoutcu. (Jiuuucu tnai i,j u^~
queathed to Miss Florence G. Hunt,
a daughter, should be held ip trust
for her until she attained the age of
thirty, providing, also, that the interest
should go to her from her
twenty-first birthday.
According to the testimony of Mrs.
J. A. Guerin, one of the witnesses,
the margin of the will showed handwriting
at the time of tne execution.
Second Primary Election.
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P 2 < P p P
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: p : p vDenmark
.. 61 I03JT26 44 33 137
H. Mill 13 13' 8 18 8 18
Embree - - 4 16 18 2 2 18
Edisto .. .. 7 41 20 28 10 38 j
[Colston .... 9 23 19 13 4 28
H. Chapel.. 31 17 39 9 18 30
Bamberg.... 54|119 112 60 95 77
Kearse .... 14 14 19 9 14 14
Lees 15 12 19 8 7 20
Olar 29 99 104 24 37 91
Govan 22 25 30 17 17 30
Clear Pond 16 16 7
Ehrhardt .. 36 70 81 25 50 56
L. Swamp 9 25 23 11 -7 27
'Midway .... 9 1 19 9 1
Tntal 21415 2 4116 2012821121 11592
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Magistrate at Fish Pond.
Carter Hill
Embree 7 13
Edisto 6 42
Hunter's Chapel ....31 17 .
Little Swamp 27 7/
Total 71 79
The Great Unrest.
We believe that one of the most vital
problems of today is that of keeping
the youth content on the iarm.
We are passing through a critical period.
Industry, prices, and all the
old standards and force in our life,
unsettled and upset.
You need no reminder that the
contagion of this restlessness has infected
the growing generation on the
farm. We believe in the glorious future
of agriculture.
Even now the winds of unrest are
carrying multitudes from the farms
to the big towns. Thousands of our
boys and girls are responding to the
distant glitter that will prove a mirage.
Thousands of our colored boys
and girls are forsaking their heritage,
are being lost forever to agriculture.
In this hopeful journeying to the
crowded cities is a national tragedy;
for the sake of the nation, and for the
sake of the boys themselves, it must
be stopped.
What wilj you do?
We, as extension workers, must
make them see behind the false mask
of the city, and teach them this truth,
that health, wealth and happiness are
far more certain to be found on the
farm.?H. E. Daniels, assistant district
agent in colored demonstration
work.
Hospital for Insane Crowded.
Columbia, Sept. 19.?C. Fred Williams,
superintendent jOf the State
Hospital for the Insane, has called
on judges of probate in all counties
of the state to send only emergency
cases as pertaining to negroes to the
hospital for treatment because of the
crowded condition at the institution.
There are now more than, 2,200
patients being treated and the quarters
are crowded to capacity. At
State Park, where the negroes are
cared for, there are 537, negro males
and 462 females.
lently. On the steps of the old subtreasury
building, the spot where
years ago stirring scenes connected
with the American Revolution were
enacted, stands a stute of George
Washington. Looking down from
its pedestal between the massive
granite columns scarred by missies
from the explosion, the outstretched
hand of the Father of His Country
seemed to carry a silent command to
be calm."
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BISHOP GUERRY
TELLS OF MEETINI
RETURNS FROM LAMBETH COS
FEREXCE IX LONDON.
In Very Good Health.
Discusses Divorce and Prohibition
England Desires Friendship
of America.
"It may be of some interest t
South Carolinans to know that th
nnsition which the state has take
on marriage and divorce was brougb
to the attention of Lambeth confei
ence in London," said Bishop W. A
Guerry yesterday afternoon. Bisho
Guerry arrived in Columbia Frida
from New York after having spen
about six weeks in London, and spen
the night with Dr. LeGrande Guerry
leaving this city yesterday for Lan
rens and Newberry.
"When the subject of marriage an
divorce was before the conferenc*
one bishop said that to view marriag
as an indissoluble union betwee
one man and one woman was impra(
ticable and that the people woul
not stand for it. In answer to thi
statement, I told the conference tha
the people of South Carolina stoo
for it and that it was written in th
organic law of our state and that i
had the approval of an overwhelmin
majority of our people. I believe tha
the statement had some influence o
the conference which went on recor
as saying tllat the Christian standar
of marriage was the indissolubl
union of one man and one woman til
parted by death.
"The American bishops," continue
Dr. Guerry, "exercised a decided ir
fluence on the conference on the sut
ject of prohibition. The Englis!
bishops were disposed to bring in
noncommittal resolution on prohibi
tion, but the American bishops, back
ed up by the Canadian and the Aus
j. i* __ i i '
iranan Disnops, were aDie to swm
the conference to a position indorsin
prohibition. Out of 50 votes cast o
the motion, only three were agains
it."
Wants American Friendship.
Bishop Guerry did not care to dis
cuss the hunger strike of Lord Mayo
MacSwiney, of Cork, nor did he sa
what attitude the English people too
on the candidacies of Cox and Hare
ing.
"The general attitude in England,
said the bishop, "is to cement i
every way possible the.ties betwee
the two nations. I was present whe
the Lincoln statute, given by Elih
Root, to the English people, was ur
veiled and I heard Lord George's r<
sponse on that occasion. He said tha
the face of Lincoln was the most f?
miliar and the best bdloved of an
stateman throughout the Englis
speaking world. The world need:
Lloyd George said, men of the typ
of Lincoln and Lee. The Englis
people favor anything that will brin
about a better understanding b<
tween the two great nations.
"The most notable utterance of tb
conference is the manifesto or appej
to Christians throughout the worl
on the subject of church unity. I
England," says Dr. Guerry, "it :
said that this appeal marks an epoc
in the religious history of that coui
try and of the world. I would con
mend this appeal to the careful a
tention of all Christians who ha\
not yet read it in the religious pres
Out of the 250 bishops present on]
four voted against adopting the a]
peal, and three of them were fro)
the United States. This rote is a
the more remarkable because s
many schools of thought were repri
sented at the conference; the vei
fact that representatives of these di
ferent schools could agree upon
platform of unity was not only a
evidence of deep desire for unit;
but was also evidence of the leadin
of the Holy Spirit."
An American bishop was requeste
to preach the concluding sermon i
St. Paul's cathedral, Bishop Guen
said.
Bishop Guerry returned to tl
states in good health and is glad to 1
once again in South Carolina and i
work in this state.
"While the old world has much i
teach us," said the bishop, "and v
have much to learn from it, I hai
come back to this country a bett<
American than when I went over,
am convinced that we have the grea
est country in the world, a count]
full of opportunity, and with a pr
found sense of gratitude and a groi
MEN BE MORE DOMESTIC.
Woman's I>arty Advocates Training
of Boys in Art of Home Making.
J
A programme to "free" women
_ within five years has been presented
to the executive committee of the
national woman's party, which held
an informal meeting here Saturday.
It advocates the training of boys
in home-making, the education of
all girls toward economic independence
and voluntary motherhood.
Miss Crystal Eastman, feminist
and a .member of the advisory council
of the national woman's party,
0 who proposed the programme, said
e if a strong woman's political party
n is organized to carry it out, women
t will be fully emancipated in five
years at least.
"Thp and immediate concern
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of women," she said, "should be freey
dom of choice in occupation and the
t assurance of economic independence
t for every woman, even though she
chose house work and child-raising
as her occupation.
"This may sound simple and easy
but it is really a much more revoluj
tionary step than gaining political
equality. It means tremendous
e changes in the early training of both
n boys and girls.
"Girls pf all classes must be edud
cated toward economic independs
ence, boys must be educated toward
t
co-operating in the enterprise of
d home-making. It must be womanly
e as well as manly to earn your own
' living. It must be manly as well as
g womanly to know how to cook and
1 clean.
n "Motherhood must be voluntary,"
^ Miss Eastman continued, "and wod
men must not inevitably sink into
e economic dependence because, by
^ their own choice or otherwise, their
occupation is child-bearing. This
d means we must have a generous enL_
dowment of motherhood, not motht_
ers' pensions to widows and deserted
h wives, but money from the state to
a mothers whose husbands are too
l~ poor to support them, but the liberal
endowment of all mothers of
5- young children on the ground that
? they are perfoming a special and
& direct service to the state. We aln
ready have free public schools with
teachers paid by the state, so why ' ^
should the endowment of mothers
be considered an extreme departure
5~ in public economy?"
r Mrs. Hariet Stanton Blatch, pioy
neer suffrage leader and also a memk
ber of the advisory council of the
I- woman's party, went on record
against the movement for a separate
" political party for women,
n "It would be a waste of effort to
n organize such a party," she told the
n executive committee of her organizau
tion. "Women would go^nto it with
l- men's ideas and then never get rid
5- -of them. It wou^d not be long before
it the bottom dropped out of your party,
i- "To continue the national woman's /
it rkortxr olnrtcr nnri-nnrHsan lines, is a
J f""- v?7 ?1V"0 x ?J ? ?
h wiser idea. We should remain to
3, aether in a militant group and standie
ing as a unit, we could do tremendh
dous work now that all women of
g the nation are enfranchised."?New
5- York dispatch.
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can Wire Fence. See me at once if
il you need fencing. G. O. SIMMONS.
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h ing sense of responsibility, jve, the
i- people of the United States, should
i- live worthy of our great heritage and
t- of the splendid ideals and traditions
re of our fathers."
s. Revisits France,
ly While absent from South Carolina
?- Bishop Guerry again visited France,
m He visited Paris, Chateau-Thierry and
11 the Belleau Wood cemetery,
so "The government has made won3
derful provision for caring for and
*y beautifying the cemeteries in which
f- the dead soldiers sleep," said Dr.
a Guerry, "and it se&ns a pity to take
n up the remains of our brave lads and
y, transport them to this country. Much
g better, it seems to me,- would it be,
to let them lie in the soil of France,
sd an everlasting monument to the mun
tual friendship between the two sister
y republics."
The Lambeth conference was comle
posed of bishops of the Anglician
)e communion throughout the world,
it There were in attendance at tht conference
253 bishops, 50 of whom
to were from the United States.
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7e These conferences are called every
7Q ten years by order of the archbishop
3r of Canterbury to consider problems
I affecting the moral and spiritual con,t
tions of people throughout the world,
ry Moral and religious issues are involvo
ed in the various discussions held.?
jr- The State.
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