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v i lamforg frnto $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1920. Established in 1891 ? . i ? i MIND OF PEOPLE , FULLY MADE UP WHITE SAYS GOVERNOR COX 1 WILL WIN. , Ohio and Illinois. Democratic Cliairman Issues State- < ment After Paying a Visit to Two of the States. ] i New York, Oct. 21.?Returning to < his headquarters here today after a trip of inspection through Ohio and j Illinois, George White, chairman of j the Democratic national pommittoo ? ? M V? WMVWA issued the following statement: "The American people have made lip their minds to elect Governor Cox and a Democratic senate in order to avert the infamy of a separate peace with Germany and to save the league. They are weary of the chorus of Republican katydids who are croaking 'he did,' 'he didn't.' They have finally concluded to entrust to its friends the only plan for world peace ever agreed to by great nations and small. They will select a four square president instead of a human weather vane. Senator Harding has only stopped oscillating once, and that was when he said c. me league and its ' T\ if.-' t y - i eaci vitLiuas at iuomes: 1 uo < not want any clearing reservations. I stand for rejection.' "Senator Johnson points out that Senator Harding has put the league "behind him and he does not want the league or any modification of it. The American people agree with Sen/ ator Johnson and they will vote for Governor Cox, who has put the league in front of him. Senator Johnson speaks with proper resentment of 'individuals and newspapers' which misrepresent and misinterpret Senator Harding's words, challenges their falsification and he properly calls it, and says bluntly they may save their faces but not the league. "In that list of newspapers and individuals I am sure that Senator Johnson silently puts the name of . Senator Harding himself. No one has been more credulous in trying to fool the people than the Republican candidate, but Des Moines was enough for the voters as it was for Senator Johnson. p "When the election is over, 3 Senator Johnson will publicly add a | name to the list of those who misrepresented. "This campaign has become a cru-sade for world peace through disarmament, for truth against falsehood, for straight forwardness as against double doubt and for American ideals against a policy of disastrous isolation." 4 256 Votes Certain, Says White. New York, Oct. 24.?George White, 1 -chairman of the Democratic national committee, in a statement here to- t day forecasting the election, predicted that Cox and Roosevelt will have 1 * 256 electoral votes, "as good as counted," the Republicans 164, and 1 that the Democrats will win a majority of the remaining 111. 1 "I have been making a detailed investigation of conditions in the va- 1 rious states," the statement said. For two days I have been receiving revised reports. It is now possible ,?] to give to the public a statement of 1 our prospects of election. I realize / that the customary act of a national chairman at this stage of the fight is to claim everything in the hope ( that he can persuade wavering voters to line up with his side. "Mr. Hays, my antagonist, has given me several public lessons in this 1 obsolete practice lately by claiming { everything except a part of the "sou- 2 thern states. i "Nevertheless, I am prepared to ^ < make a fair and honest statement of ' the situation. I shall reserve the , names of the states we will carry because the public would not expect me to acquaint the Republican managers with our campaign plans. i "But I do say this: ' Governor Cox and Mr. Roosevelt will have 222 electoral votes east of the Missouri riv- * pr. and 34 west of the Missouri river, . a total of 256 as good as counted. This is within ten of the number nec- ^ essary to elect. The Republicans have 164, which I regard as good as counted for them. This leaves 111 votes in contest. In the decided swing now in progress toward the Democratic ticket we will carry the majority of this 111, a very comfortable victory indeed. ETCHINGS FROM EHRHARDT. J [tems of Social and Person Mention From Neighbor on South. Ehrhardt, Oct. 26.?Miss Thelma Priester, who is teaching the Spring- ^ town school, spent Saturday and Sunday at home. Misses Anie and Nettie Godbold spent the week-end with their sister, Mrs. Jesse Hawkins. Mrs. Edgar Fender and little -A CA LA ^ 11 LCI AJ LA L 11L- V XOllL/ tl A vam h ? vu v* w Walterboro last week. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden, of Rock rtfcl, have returned home after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ben Folk on Kershaw street. ^ Miss Merrill Bennett, of Holly Hill, ^ is on a visit to her uncle, W. D. Benaett. t Mr. and Mrs. Berd D. Carter, of Bamberg, visited Mrs. Laura Rob3rts recently. . Mr. and Mrs. P. B. McLeod and ^ Mrs. Joe S. Daanelly visited Woodford, S. C., last Sunday. ^ Mrs. Mamie Varn and daughter Emma visited relatives in Smoaks t last week. Mrs. F. H. Copeland and Miss Milired Copeland are spending a few lays in Charleston. j Edward Clinkscales, a student at Carlisle school, Bamberg, spent the t past week-end with his sister, Mrs. 3. S. Henerey. C. R. Mears and Rev. T. W. God bold are in Columbia this week vis- ? iting relatives and attending the date fair. ^ Gerald Varn, of Smoaks, visited his nother, Mrs. Mamie Varn last Sun- , iay- S Miss Caroline Brabham, of Wal- ^ :erboro, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Bertie K. Walker. ^ S. W. Copeland was called to An- ^ lapolis, Md., last week on account of c lis son Lyles having been hurt. Mr. * Bopeland returned Saturday and reports that Lyles is doing nicely, al;hough suffering from a broken anUe. Stacy Kearse has accepted a posi- ., don in Walterboro. His many friends :egret that he has left Ehrhardt. It !s consoling, however, to know that ^ le will be at least a frequent visitor. Plans are being made to organize i U. D. C. chapter here In the near iuture. All ladies who are eligible e :or membership are requested to give ;heir names to Miss Emma Varn or r Mrs. J. J. Farrell. ^ Mrs. J. F. Chassereau, Mr. and r Mrs. E. D. Dannelly, J. D. Dannel- . ly and daughter Hildegarde, motored ' - AT/-\nd ott avonire ,U UX clUgCUUI 5 iuuuuaj vvu?u0. ^ How to Treat Your Town. Praise it. v J Improve it. 1 Talk about it. r Trade at home. s % T Be public spirited. Take a home pride in it. * Tell of its business men. Tell of its natural advantages. a Trade and induce others to trade t lere. 1 When strangers come to town use ;hem well. Don't call your best citizens frauds 1 ind imposters. Support your local institutions that f Denefit your town. ^ s Look ahead of self when all the c :own is to be considered. * Help the public officers do the most *ood for the most people. Don't advertise fn the local paper 'to help the editor," but advertise to j help yourself.?Arkansas Thomas c Cat" } SOLDIER KILLS SISTER. 1 Committed Deed at Her Request to Relieve Her Suffering. Johann Strugger, formerly a cap- * tain in the Australian army, has been irrestea on a cnarge ui muruei iui shooting and killing his sister at her 1 Dwn request, according to a dispatch * trom Constance, Switzerland. The * sister suffered a fracture of her spine * in an Alpine accident last year, knew her illness to be incurable and had repeatedly begged the physicians of a ^ sanitarium of which she was a patient to relieve hep of her sufferings by an overdose of morphine. Strugger delivered an ultimatum to ^ the physicians that if they failed to * comply with his sister's wishes ^ within five days he would shoot her himself. This he did with the full j consent of the girl. : j " * * ? U A An I ?Marion Moore, ui v^uaixcatun, spent the past week-end in the city 1 with his sister, Mrs. J. B.' Black, Jr. 1 j ?Mr. and Mrs. John Bandy, of Bath, spent the week-end in the city with the latter's parents, Prof, and < Mrs. J. A. Klein. i PROPOSE COHON EXPORT COMPANY 12,000,000 CONCERN TO FINANCE COTTON CROP. Reserve System Endorsed. > 111 Resolutions Adopted at Group Meetings Must Come Before Convention For Action. Washington, Oct. 21.?Blanket inlorsement of the federal reserve sys- ; em coimled with a nleds:e to aid the iational-railway equipment corporaion, organized to help the carriers >btain equipment, marked the concluion today of group meetings of the American Cotton association convenion. As an outgrowth of the convention, lowever, bankers and others, from otton states, took steps preliminary o the organization of a $12,000,000 rop export financing corporation, irhich led to numerous appeals from otton growers for government reief. The corporation will be formed mder the Edge act and start operaions with an initial capital and sur lus of $6,000,000. The federal reserve system was ;iven unstinted praise by the nation,1 bankers' group in resolutions .dopted at their final meeting while he approval of the equipment corloration and the pledge to go before he state legislatures where necesary to obtain revision of laws prolibiting investment of trust funds in uch securities was voted by the savngs banks sections. Their action ^as based on the increased values >riven all railroad securtities through reation of the equipment corporation he resolution said. SharP Opposition. Endorsement of the federal reserve ystem, which included approval of ts administration, brought the naional bankers again in sharp opposiion to the stand taken by the state ankers who yesterday denounced the everal phases of the reserve board's fork. Leaders in. the twro groups of ankers believed tonight the differnce between the two sections might ome to light when the report of the ^solutions committee reaches ioor of the convention tomorrow. All esolutions adopted in sectional meetngs will be considered by the assoiation committee and final action be aken by the whole convention. Several Hundred Bankers. The crop financing corporation proect took shape at an informal meetng of several hundred bankers and epresentatives of cotton interests. A pecial committee, headed.by Robert <\ Maddox, of Atlanta, presented a avorable report. Although specific mention was .voided, speakers indicated that esablishment of the corporation would nean an early opening of sales negotiations with European manufacurers, who were said to be in the narket for 3,000,000 bales of cotton. Mr. ^laddox declared that the cor>oration was not proposed in any ense as a vehicle for the holding of :rops but as a facility for their mar:eting. a m i m < 30 Bales of Cotton Burn. Barnwell, Oct. 22.?W. A. Owens ost about 19 bales of cotton in the ;eed by fire of unknown origin Frilay night on his farm near Snelling. fortunately he had taken out insurmce only the day before. Sunday night or early Monday norning about eleven bales of seed cotton were destroyed by fire on {he :arm of, Col. N. G. W. Walker, several miles from Barnwell. His loss vas also covered by insurance. It s thought that these fires were caus)y reckless acts of incendiarism in he misguided efforts of some parties ,o boost the price of cotton. OLD WOMAN WON. Hother of Mississippi Veteran is Most Accomplished Horsewoman. Mrs. Mary C. Solomon, ninety-three rears old, the only living mother of i Confederate soldier in Mississippi, von the first prize at the Do Soto ounty fair at Senatorio, Miss., recenty, for being the most accomplished lorsewoman. 'Mrs. Solomon won the prize from a large field of contestants. According :o the judges she rode the horse with the ease and grace of a young girl. Most heaters waste half your fuel, dole's Hot Blast Heaters save and lse that wasted portion.?adv. PILGRIMS SEEK MEXICAN RELIC. { t Image of Virgin at Guanajuato OVer 1,000 Years Old. Now that travel safety in Mexico has been restored pilgrimages of de- ^ vout worshipers to the image of Nuestra Senora de Guanajuato, in the Church of San Francisco at Guanajui aot, have set in again. .Of the many figures in the Catholic churches of Mexico none has a more remarkable , history, perhaps, than this image of 'the Virgin. Aside from the reverance attached to. it by worshipers, it is an object of unusual scientific interest, due to the fact that it is more than 1,200 years old and is in a per- j feet state of preservation, although it is of wood. Huw much farther back than twelve hundred years the image dates there is no way of knowing. The imag^ was in a church at Santa Fe, near Granada, Spain, in 714, when the Moorish invasion occurred. When the infidels advanced upon Santa Fe a few religious devotees hid the image in the deep recesses of a dark damp cave. It remained there eight and one-holf centuries. During all that time it was held in deepestreverence. by the church worshipers, and many were the secret pilgrimages made to the shrine. Notwithstanding the cave's dampness the wooden image was not affected. The image was sent to Mexico in 155 7 by King Felipe II as a gift to the mining camp of Guanajuato in l recognition of the vast store of pre- i cious minerals which had been sent c from there to the Spanish govern- t: ment. It was placed in the church i of San Francisco and in 1907 it be- 2 came the patroness of the city of ( Guanajuato by papal decree. The ^ vestments of this crudely made wood- i en image are very rich. It stands upon a silver pedestal and wears a gold crown, studded with gems.?- i Kansas City Star. ( Mrs. Brickie Observes Birthday. j i Cope, Oct. 23.?Mrs. John Brickie ( celebrated her fifty-first birthday with a party Wednesday afternoon. The c guests were met at the door by Misses " Nina Hayden and Eloise Antley, and j were carried to the punch bowl which ^ was presided over by Misses Connie Brickie and Nettie Lee Kittrell. Conversation and music were the amusements of the evening. These four < k young ladies later served cakes and ice cream. Those present were: Mes dames G. W. Dukes, C. E. Cope, Joe moiOr v "R fionlrlov .T F Clecklev. \jiCli XV j I-J, XV* ViWiiiv; J v * ? * w , Calvin Hayden, E. L. Brickie, E. E. Ritter, J. D. Cleckley, and Misses Julia Cope, Vera Durant, Marie C0US7 ley, Mary Cornelia Barton. The hostess received many beautiful presents on this occasion. Little Homer Clark invited two ^ dozen of his little friends to his birth- ^ day party last Friday afternoon. The , house was decorated in japonicas and goldenrod, the colors scheme of yel- ^ low being carried out in detail. Several childish games were played. He had a little cake cutting contest for the four-year-old tots. Little Marga- < ret Cope won the prize?a beautiful , handkerchief. The guests were giv- ^ en a souvenir, a bunch of japonicas and goldenrod tied with yellow rib- . bon. A sweet course was served. Miss Evelyn Henerey leaves tomorrow to visit her friend, Miss Wilhelmina Stuckey, of Bishopville. Misses Georgia Gregg and Margaret Atkinson, of Hunter's Chapel, < spent last week-end with Miss Lillian j Tatum. ^ Marion Durant, of Alcolu, is on a ( visit to his sister, Miss Vera Dnrant, ; our popular principal. j Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henerey, of Ehrhardt, spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Henerey. Mrs. Laura Livingston and daughters, of Bamberg, spent Tuesday with S. B. Cope. . ' i The Wrong Man. ] The meek looking man approached 1 the floor walker nervously. "Please, there's a mistake in this bill your firm sent me the other day," he began. < '"M- - ? 1 OM .-V,-. flnnr - UI1, IS LiltJI'ti J luquncu i.uc nuui walker, who was in r. sarcastic frame < of mind. "And what's wrong with it? Too big, I suppose." "Oh, no; but?"v "Some mistake in the figures?" ? "No; it's not that. It's?* "Indeed! Don't you think this bill has been running long enough?" "I dare say; but?" "Then, what are you kicking : about?" "I'm trying to tell you. There's a i mistake in the name. You sent it to the wrong man. I don't owe you a cent and never will." ' 1 5AYS MEN BEAT HIM UP IN S. C. L'OXKERS, X. VM MAX ALLEGES HE WAS MISUSED. Scarred by Rope. Attempted to Aid Aiken Woman, He Says, in Getting Her Share of Father's Estate. Philadelphia, Oct. 20.?A man givng the name of Peter McMahon, of ifonkers, N. Y., with his wrists scarrid by a rope and his back bearing the narks of a whip, left a northbound Pennsylvania railroad train here eary today and sought the police for nedical attention. He says he was teized and whipped Monday night a 'ew miles from Trenton, S. C., after le attempted to assist a young lady )f Aiken, S. C., in a settlement, which nvolved a division of her father's es;ate. His underclothing was stiff with Dlood and besides lash marks his Dody and neck bore the marks of *opes with which he said his tormen;ors had attempted to hang him. Poice here are investigating his stor^ )f attempted lynching and mistreatnent. McMahon, who is 55 years old, said le believed his assailants were adopt ncr mpthnHe nf thp TCn TClay TCIari. Hp said he was seized when he left the rain at Trenton, S. C., and was driven nto the country in an automobile. Vt the point where the mistreatment >ccurred, he said, eight men wearing vhite hoods gathered around and seat him. v Rope Around Neck. , I "They threw a rope around my leek, then tried to put the other end >ver a tree, but it would not reach," VIoMahon said at the Hahnnemann hospital today. "After a severe beatng the men told me they had decided to let me go." "They blindfolded me," MoMahon said, " putting a hood over my head jxactly like the ones they wore, then ed me to an automobile and we drove ;o a house where I was fed. They sailed a physician to examine my i vounds. "Then they drove me to Denmark, i 3. C. They gave me money to buy, ny ticket to New York, after maknKrtniiciQ T TITOlllH n rvf TPt 11TTI .11? U1C UUllot x nuuiu ill the way from Denmark to Washington some one came into the car jccasionally and, after looking at me, e^ired into another coach. This nan acted as guard to see that I did lot leave the train." "Friend and Adviser/' McMahon said he was too weak to eave the train at Washington. He told the police he was a friend and idviser of the lady. Recently, according to McMahon, the father made a division of his property among his children. The laughter's share was $50,,000. "I did lot believe that sufficient," he said, 'and she and- I went to Aiken last week to see if we could not get a better share for her." McMahon described his movements in South Carolina and the feelings engendered by the interest he took in the case which resulted in the alleged mistreatment. McMahon also said that when one of the men who beat him asked if he would sign a paper saying the lady was incompetent to handle her own or her father's affairs, he refused, and was beaten with slubs. - A rope was tied around his deck, he said, and he was dragged for a long time. Absent Several Months. Yonkers, N. Y., Oct. 20.?Peter McMahon, who reported to the police of Philadelphia today, that he narrowly escaped death at the hands of a band of masked men near Trenton, S. C., has been absent from his home here for several months. Yonkers police officials at the request of Philadelphia police, interviewed Mrs. McMahon and her three children who live here. Mrs. McMahon said she had not heard from her husband since he left Yonkers early in the year. McMahon was formerly employed here as a hostler. Arrest Made in Edgefield. Edgefield, Oct. 21.?A. A. Edmunds, county supervisor-elect of Edgefield county, was arrested today charged with being implicated in the alleged beating of Peter McMahon, who claims he was attacked by several men near Trenton Monday "CAN'T VOTE FOR HAKDIDNG." Says Man Just Ilefoi'e Going to His Death at Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Oct 22.? Before the eyes of a score of sightseers at Prospect Point today a man climbed over the railing, waded out into the river and was carried over . # the American falls. Too astonished to act, the spectators stood by while the man drifted to the brink of the falls waving his hands and shouting: "Here's where I leave you; goodbye." In a black derby hat found near the | place where the man climbed the railI ing was. found a piece of paper on which was written: "This hat belongs to Carl A. Ellis, of Hamburg, N. Y." The description of the suicide corresponds to that of Ellis, who' could not be located in Hamburg tonight. The owner of a souvenir stand near the falls told the police that the man approached him and laughingly QQlfJ* ""WToll T T7/V+/1 frtr UariJ hjMj.NA* TV Vli, A VttU C T V/ IU 1U1 llAi U ,. *w ing, so I may as well go over the falls." - ' /| Troubled. v "It's no use," sighed the nature wizard, "I may as well give up." "What is troubling you?" asked his companion sympathetically. "I started a few years ago on a whim of mine. I took a head of cabbage and crossed it with a white potato, and grew some eyes on it, then i > x, . I crossed that with a cornstalk and grew ears on it; then I crossed that with celery and grew a neck on it; then I crossed that with a cocoanut and grew hair on it, but darned if I can figure out what to do for the nose and mouth." Why She Le*t. A fussy bachelor engaged a cook, whose professional skill was conspicuous by its absence. He bore up bravely for one dyspeptic month against .her culinary experiments. Tnen ne mnted tnat ner taients were wasted upon him and she departed. Shortly afterward she applied to him for a reference. He gave it thus: "Mrs. Muggins was employed by me for one month as cook. Left on account of illness?my illness." Get your school books and school supplies from Herald Book Store. night. Edmunds has been released ' V. on bond and it is rumored that other arrests ma^ be expected here in connection with the charge. The arrest resulted in the efforts of Governor Cooper to have the entire matter thoroughly investigated. McMahon gave out a statement that he was whipped and put on a traih at Denmark. ' /. Court Records in Aiken. * . Aiken, Oct. 23.?Report of the whipping of 'Peter McMahon has been discussed freely in Aiken since widespread publication. No one, however, can be found who professes to have any knowledge of the affair. A search of the records at the " ' * . * *, ",V. Aiken court house, shows that prior y-' </J to this summer the daughter in quesf irvn Vi o A tVin nnefn^v nf Vior Lll/u iiau me V/UOtV/Uj vj. hvi xmvuv* ) who is aged and infirm, in New York, Atlantic City and other places, and that the court determined that his daughter's mental condition was such that she wa? not a fit custodian of her father, she having suffered from various mental troubles, and having been the inmate of several sanitariums. The legal custody of the father was then vested for the balance of his life in his two sons-in-law, and he is now in Aiken living at the home of his married daughters. The court records further show that with his consent and the written consent of the daughter the ' . property was divided, unoer tne supervision of teh court, and with its approval, and that the daughter in question, because she was unmarried, was allowed $20,000 more than the other two daughters. Her share under the division amounted to $50,000, while the two married daughters, who assumed the care of their invalid father for the balance of his life and gave heavy bond for his proper support, received but $30,000 each. In this court proceeding the daughter in question was represented by reputable attorneys of Columbia, and she consented, in writing, to every step taken by the court. She has recently had the proceedings examined by other counsel, who advised her that they -were regular in every respect, and that she had been most bountifully provided for. , i r_- "ft :gti.