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$2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1921. Established in 1891 LaVerne Thomas of Bamberg in ' Elected. Mayor?LaVerne Thomas. Aldermen?M. G. Cooner, Dr. H. J. i Stuckey, C. W. Rentz, Jr., W. M. | Brabham, H. L. Kearse, B. T. Felder. j The Vote. MAYOR. LaVerne Thomas 124 John Cooner 77 W. D. Coleman 69 F. K. Graham 34 D. J. Delk 4 ALDERMEN. M. G. Cooner 228 Dr. H. J. Stuckey 204 C. W. Rentz, Jr., 180 W. M. Brabham 175 H. L. Kearse 173 B. T. Felder 167 W. D. Rhoad 143 E. L. Price, Jr., 141 C. B. Free 140' 0. A. Simmons 136 w. H. Chandler 130 Hotly Contested Campaign. I Decidedly the most hotly contested | election in many years in Bamberg Tuesday resulted in the election of the gentlemen above named as mayor and aldermen. ^Vhile the friends of each of the candidates for mayor j thought their man was a sure winner, j it was apparent to the open mind j that it was a free-for-all contest, and, the result could not be accurately 1 guessed in advance. The number of voters this year was considerable in excess of that of former elections, due to the registration of women,, quite a number of whom parin fho plpfmn and for the I reason that there was more interest in the election this year than usual. Quite a surprise was sprung at the last minute when it was announced, contrary to expectations, that the voting would he done through the Australian ballot system. Tickets had been prepared for voting in the usual way, but Monday night the consent of all the candidates for mayor was secured for using the Australian system. To do this The Her aid force was summoned to the office early Tuesday morning to print and number the tickets for the Australian ballot, and the tickets wrere delivered to the managers before eight o'clock Tuesday morning. The campaign lasted only about two weeks, but these weeks were filled with hard work on the part of supporters for the various aspirants, especially those for mayor. Thursday nfght a campaign meeting was held at the court house, a thing unheard of in town politics before, and speeches were made by a number of the candidates, including Messrs. Cooner, Graham and Thomas for mayor. and Chandler, Free and Rentz for aldermen. Mr. Coleman, a mayoralty candidate, was unable to be present on account of sickness, and a short address to the voters was read from him. Hon. B. D. Carter presided over the meeting, which was attended by''a large number of voters, both male and female. A last minute change occurred in the ticket. Wl D. Rhoad, who had previously withdrawn from the race, consented upon the solicitation of a number of his friends, to get back into the running, and he permitted his name to appear as a candidate for alderman. All those who have desired to see live politics in Bamberg have full reason to feel satisfied. If it is true that a town without politics is dead, it may be safely predicted that Bamberg has taken on a new lease of life. . After the spirited campaign that has been conducted, either by the candidates themselves or their friends in their behalf, the gentlemen elected have every reason to feel that they have been honored by being chosen as the city fathers for th? next two years. For commissioner of public works, Mr. Dickinson was unanimously elected, he having no opposition. The city is very fortunate in securing Mr. Dickinson's consent to retain this' office, and all citizens, regardless of their preference for councilmen, are i agreed that there is not a better qualified citizen of Bamberg to hold this responsible position. F[e is chairman of the board of commissioners. Mrs. Georg? F. Hair holds the interesting distinction of being the first woman to cast a ballot in a Bamberg city election. Mrs. Hair was one of . the first to cast her ballot early Tuesday morning, and was the first wo Elected Mayor Tuesday's Election man. An interesting phase, unthought of before this election, was the fact that the candidate for mayor and six candidates for aldermen receiving the highest number of votes are elected. It was the general idea up to a few days ago that a second election would be held if no candidate received a majority of the votes cast, but this is not true of general elections in towns of less than 5,000 population. A large number of citizens congregated about the polls throughout the day, and this number, was greatly augmented when the counting of the ballots was started. There being eight names on each ballot to be call! ed, the counting was not concluded ! until late in the afternoon Tuesday. LaVerne Thomas, elected mayor in Tuesday's election, is a native of Florence. Before coming to Bamberg j in 1914 he was connected with the l Southern Bell Telephone and Telej graph company. He fs the proprieI tor of the store of LaVerne Thomas I & Co., LaVictoire Theatre and Thomas Service Station, and is one of the city's young progressive business men. Mr. Thomas wishes to express his thanks to the people of the city for the confidence expressed in him in Tuesday's election, and wishes to give the citizens of the town the assurance that his best efforts will be given to Bamberg during the next two years. He begs for the coopera, tion of all the people, and says that all differences, which are usually a part of hotly contested campaigns, so far as he is concerned are things of the past. It will be his endeavor to give Bamberg an economical administration. He says that he feels that the stringency of the times demand economy in all departments, and he would like to see a reduction of taxes in the near future. TRAGEDY ON ROAD I COSTS TWO LIVES CAR RUNS INTO NEGRO CARRYING STEEL DRILL. Man in Car KilledNegro Run Down and Also Dies of Injuries?Accident Near Newberry. Newberry, April 28.?John A. Payne, white, and John Gilder, a negro, were killed at Gum Spring, three miles northwest of Newberry, on the Piedmont highway in an automobile accident this afternoon. Mr. Payne was formerly of Whitmire, but for the past two years lived in Greenwood, j He was 26 years old and "was recent! y married to Miss Johnson of Lanford | Station, Laurens county. He and his brother-in-law, H. M. Cashion,. of Greenwood, were in a Ford coupe on their way toward Greenwood from a baseball game at Newberry. At Gum Springs the Newell Construction company had just knocked off work | for the day. Gilder, a negro laborer, wTas coming toward Newberry with a steel drill rod about ten feet long on his shoulder. Getting out of the way of a truck, he stepped right in front of the coupe. The rod went endwise through the coupe's windshield and pierced Mr. Payne's eye and entered his brain, killing him instantly. The coupe ran against the negro and knocked him down and the injuries he received from the car and from the rod he was carrying caused his death an hour or so later. The negro was 45 years old. Mr. Cashion, whose wife is Mr. Payne's sister, was not seriously injured, but was badly shaken up and the shock to his nerves rendered him unable to testify this evening. The inquest was postponed until morning. The families of Messrs. Payne and Cashion were notified of the tragedy ! and their wives and some Greenwood | friends came to Newberry tonight. "Mr. Payne's "body, by direction of Sheriff Blease. a.ter being viewed by the coroner's jury, was immediately carried to an undertaking establishment and cared for. The time of the funeral has not been fixed. Women and young girls wearing short skirts are forbidden admission to Notre Dame Roman Catholic church, in North Adams, Mass. 9 SAVINGS DEPOSITS SHOW BIG ADVANCE INCREASE IN SOUTH CAROLINA OVER $5,000,000. i Many New AccountsFifth Federal Reserve District Makes Fine Showing, Statement Says. Savings deposits in South Carolina banks and trust companies increased more than 5,300,000 last year, and more than 32,000 additional savings accounts were added to the 1920 total. These figures are from a statement just made public by the government savings organization of the Fifth Federal Reserve district to show the development of the general savings movement and to emphasize the progress which has been made in checkin the tendency towards unwise spending and waste. In South Carolina the are 491 banks of which 311 replied to the questionaire sent out by the government savings organization of the Fifth district. Among this number are most of the larger banks, the reporting institutions representing probably more than 90 per cent, of the" banking resources of the state. Their figures which are for January 1, 1920, and January 1, 1921, show that last year their savings deposits increased from $74,770,231.26 to $80,086,676.31, a gain of more than $5,300,000. The number of savings accounts in South Carolina increased during the same period from 135,757 to 168,195. Total deposits for 1921 were listed as $144,467,477.^0. nnv.o mr?ro than S80.000.000 in sav JL U.V-/ liivA ^ Y w ? 7 . > _ , _ ings deposits does not by any means represent the total savings of the state, the statement shows, since many hundreds of thousands of dollars were saved and safely invested in government savings stamps and certificates, Liberty bonds and other standard securities. The large sum of money in the savin deposits of South Carolina banks is regarded as strong evidence of the progress of the general savings movement in this state. The saving idea is one of the principles to which the war gave strong impetus, and many persons learned to save for the first time in their lives, the records show, when they subscribed for Liberty bonds, paying for them out of their current savings. The bonds bought represented, when paid for, millions of dollars saved, a statement from the Fifth district says. That the savings movement is making forward strides throughout the whole of the Fifth Federal Reserve district (Maryland, the District of Columbia, the two Virginias and tAe two Carolinas) is shown by the fact that fast year the savings deposits in 1,687 reporting banks and trust companies out of 2,260 increased more than $65,000,000, while the number of individual savings accounts advanced from 1,887,741 to 2,324,427, an increase of 436,686. This means that there are now in this district something like 400,000 more savers on the books of the banks than last year. Total 1921 deposits in the 1,685 reporting banks were given as $2,083,535,390, of which more than $805,300,000 represented savings deposits. Besides the money saved and deposited in banks and that invested in government savings securities the records show that more than $1,000,000,000 was invested by the people of the Fifth Federal Reserve district in the five issues of Liberty bonds, the per capita, that is the average total amount subscribed by every person in the district?men, 'women and children?being $115.33, this sum of course representing savings in addition to other money invested or deposited in banks. It is to be taken into account, however, that many individuals and other purchasers of government bonds have not yet fully I paid for them and the banks are now ! carrying these securities.^ This | amount so carried is nevertheless j mall in proportion to the whole. " gfc ? JIow It Works. "Apples are very high at the I stores." "Yes?because they are scarce in the wholesale marhets." "But I read that the crop was enormous?that laden trees were left untouched in the orchards." "Yes?with such a big crop, it doesn't pay to pick them." % SENATE ADOPTED KNOX RESOLUTION PLAX OF HARDING AMIXISTRAJIOX STARTED OX WAV. Townsend Effort Failure- I Michigan Republican Tries in Vain to Have Amendment Accepted Inserting Peace Clause. Washington, April 23.?The administration's first step towards placing the United States on a tecnnical, legal basis of peace was taken tonight by the senate in adopting the Knox peace resolution. Before tne preparation ior a vu^ by theNsenate tonight on the Knox peace resolution an amendment was introduced by Senator Townsend. Republican, Michigan, proposing to substitute for the provision repealing the declaration of war a simple clause declaring peace/ Senator Townsend argued that it was unnecessary to repeal the war declaration and pointed out that the repeal plan had been attacked vigorously. He- therefore proposed as a substitute clause "Providing that the state of war declared to exist by congress on April 6/1917, between the imperial German government and the government and people of the United States of America is hereby declared at an end." Senator Townsend's amendment was defeated, 26 to 44. It was supported only by the Democratis and three Republicans, Senators Nelson of Minnesota, Sterling of South Dakota, and Townsend. The vote for adoption of the resolution was 49 to 23. ? ? * * 1.1. ~ Three Democrats votea ror me resolution, and although no Republican voted against it. Senator Nelson of Minnesota paired against it. The Debmocrats voting for it were Senators Myers, Montana; Shields, Tennessee, and Watson, Georgia. Twp others, Reed and Walsh, were announced as favoring the resolution. The resolution now goes to the house with prospects of prompt action there. No change was made hv th? senate in the Knox resolution as reported by the foreign relations committee. It would repeal the war resolutions affecting Germany and Austria-Hungary, impound alien enemy property and remove the United States all rights and privileges under the treaty of Versailles and other peace treaties. An effort to amend the Knox reso' lution made by Senator TOwnsend, Republican, Michigan, was moved to strike out the clause repeating the war declaration and substitute a simple declaration of peace, was defeated 44 to 26, shortly before the final vote. Senator Lodge, Republican leader, opposed tne Townsend amendment, stating that it had been considered carefully by the foreign relations committee, which decided that "the direct method was the best." Senator Lodge, inaugurating debate for the day, told, the senate that treaties with Germany and others with other nations with which the United States has been at war would follow the Knox resolution. He also gave notice that the United States would not abandon the allies. Washington, April 20.?The acceptance by the house this afternoon of the amendment ohered by Representative Byrnes of South Carolina to the army appropriation bill, under which the size of the army would be limited to 150,000 men, constituted a jolt to the Republican machine from which it required half an hour to recover. Representative Kahn of California, j chairman of the committee on military affairs, who desires an army as large as 250,000 men, declared tonight the house would reverse itself and that it would prepare for an army of'at least 175,000 men. The Democrats, however, are delighted in that they developed real | sentiment of the house irrespective | of what subsequent action the Re' miblicans in obedience to the narty lash may take. Representative Byrnes is delighted at the result because of the fact that even Secretary ! of War Weeks stands for what is regarded as a large army. If congress does the surprising thing and enacts a bill providing for j only 150,000 men, it will be necessary | that the troops in Germany be hastily i recalled inasmuch as they will not I be a sufifcient number in the United j States to fill domestic assignments. I Annual Memorial at Rivers Brid i The annual memorial exercises of i the Rivers Bridge Memorial associa-j tion were very fittingly observed on! Thursday, April 28. The day was I ideal for the people to gather at this sacred old spot and they came from the four corners of the earth, it seemed. It was estimated that there ^were two thousand persons on the grounds. There were as many Fords as the writer ha3 ever seen in one place, to say nothing of the "real" automobiles and the buggies. The memorial ground is a very hard place to reach, as the place is surrrmririori hv canri boric airi SWamDS and those who go annually must make the trip for the love of commemorating the brave lads who fell there for their beloved southland. The moss hanging trees, the pretty wild foliage and the few graves form a picture beautiful beyond description. On arriving the spirited music by the Carlisle band wafted over the hill to i greet the crowds as they assembled at the gathering. Vice President J. A. Peters, of the' association, called the meeting to order, and turned the chair over to Prof. F. C. Chitty, who presided. He spoke a few words of welcome and told briefly why this reunion is held annually. Rev. C. E. Peeler led the great concourse of people in prayer, and with much feeling the Bamberg quartette sang "Under the Flag." Mrs. Lawton, of Charleston, state president of the IT. D. C., made a short address, in which she told of the splendid work the daughters are carrying on, how they are helping to educate so many of our boys and girls, and how they are holding up the standards for which our forefathers fought. Among the greatest. things they are doing is the building of a highway from Washington city! to Oregon, which has been named the Jefferson Davis highway, in memFORCES OF ARMY MAY BE REDUCED AMENDMENT FORCED. AT HOUSE SESSION. But May Be Reversed* Action Taken in Committee of Whole and Another Vote May Follow. i Washington, April 30.?Holding a solid front against a Republican split, Democrats forced through the house today an amendment to the army appropriation bill cutting down the enlisted force to 150,000 men. The Kahn proposal for a bigger force never got to a vote. The bill as approved by Secretai'y Weeks made provision for 168,000 men, or 12,000 more than the number fixed by the measure passed last session and vetoed. There was no certainty, however, | that the 150,000 figure would stand, ' - ?: + + ? A ! as the vote today was m uumm of the wrhole and the house may demand a separate vote on the amendments in passing the bill next week. The amendment for reduction of the enlisted strength to 150,000, the lowest figure suggested in the long debate, was offered by Representative Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina. Only two Democrats opposed it and many Repulicans gave it their support. The vote was 109 to 82. The house previously had adopted as a substitute for the Kahn proposal an amendment by Representative Fish, Republican, New York, for an army of 156,000, but the Byrnes * 3 amendment went through ana wiyeu it out. Representative Mondell, the Republican leader, in closing debate, urged Republicans to stand by the bill as framed by the appropriations committee with its enlisted total of 168,000, but many members of the party deserted him as the march was started down the aisle for an actual count. Chairman Kahn of the military af-j fairs committee pleaded for at least 175,000 men, declaring the timsrfc too troublous for wholesale slashing of forces. Representative Wood, Republican, Indiana, taking issue with the Californian, insisted that if the world was on the verge of a fire a few thousand extra men could not put it out. Exercises Held ge Last Thursday ory of our one and only Confederate president. After the address of Mrs. Lawton, the quartette sang "Scatter the Flowers." Prof. Chitty then introduced Hon. J. F. Carter, of Bamberg, who eulogized the deceased members of the association. Mr. Carter said that he hoped before long steps may be taken so that the wives of our veterans may be remembered along with the men who wore the gray. -They deserve some memorial. Mr. Carter thpn cnnto pf fVio Triifai>an0 o J/ v Ul. LUt T DLC1 aiiO| who had passed away since the last memorial was held. Comrade M. 0. Kinard was the first to go into the great beyond during the past year. He fought in twelve battles and was wounded three times. , . Mr. Carter related how brave Mr. Kinard was, how he never gave up even when wounded. John F. Breland was the next to \ \ ' -a give up life's battles. He enlisted when a boy, went through the entire four years of war, and was wounded five times, once desperately, the bullet passing through his body. But for the care of an old mountain wo?V man he would have died of his wound. George H. Kearse, "Uncle Jim," as he was commonly known, was the next to join his old comrades in arms. He -was recognized in the beginning of the war for his ability as a leader and was made a lieutenant, then captain. He led his men in many battles, in woods, over hills, and through the mud. He was twice wounded, but stuck to his post to j tho on/1 .5-a W4JLV VUU* Dr. N. F. Kirkland, known as the grand old man of the county, was the last to answer the summons to come , up higher. Mr. Carter said that few - s: men have lived in a community who are mor? highly respected than Dr. Kirkland. He lived to a ripe oldage and his life was filled with good deeds. He was a surgeon and phy- v~ sician in the army, was at his post the entire four years, and many times his life was in danger, hut he continued to minister to the wounded and dying. Dr. Kirkland was the president of the association at the time of his death, a position he had I held for many,, many years. Mr. Carter spoke feelingly of the bravery of these four loyal comrades, how they had helped to reconstruct their devastated land after they had < laid their guns aside. ? The address of Mr. Carter was followed by a reading by Miss Amabel Neeley, of Olar, in negro dialect, "High Culture in Dixie." The reading carried one back to the good olddays of the "mammy" period. The memorial address was made by Hon. George Warren, of Hampton. He very eloquently carried his hearers back to the scenes of the days of the war; how our men fought for the principles pronounced at Philadelphia in the days of Jefferson, and not for slavery. He begged the young people of today to imbibe that fact into their beings and strive to render to their government the things their forefathers fought and suffered ; .rrto preserve. He deplored the fact that there has been a tendency to centralization, and asserted that the federal government controls too much We must come' agaTh to th? realization that there are states' rights, and a monument should be erected to the Confederate dead with this inV , <fi. scription: "These men endured, suffered, died, in the belief that they were fighting for a principle that will not be forgotten." Beautiful flowers were put on the graves of the fallen heroes, and taps . were blown by the Carlisle school bugler. This ended the exercises of the day. .The rest of the day wa3 spent by the crowd in renewing old acquaintances. Though the ranks of the. old soldiers grow thinner every year making the memorial a sad event, yet they must have felt very happy to know how the younger generations feel toward them. Surely this annual memorial will never be discarded, judging from the interest and gathering last Thursday. The officers of the memorial association wish to express their appreciation to all those who participated in the exercises, and especially to the o.uartette, consisting of C. W. Rentz, Sr., C. W. Rentz, Jr., LeVerne Thorn- / as and J. J. Heard, and to the band of Carlisle school, for the splendid musical programme rendered Thursday which contributed so much to the success of the occasion. j : \