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r ???????????????????????????? $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 19,1921. Established in 1891 Carlisle Claims C as Result oj By reason of its victory at Rhoadi park Tuesday over Wofford Fitting school, of Spartanburg, Carlisle school claims the prep championship j of South Carolina base ball for 1921.: "The Fighters" came down from! Spartanburg very chesty, with an al most unbroken string of victories to their credit and tooted to be world beaters. But in the very first inning the visitnvc .arrmnpri their candv. They fail i W \y X KJ V** vrx w ed to reach first for several innings and Carlisle got the jump on them. The final score was 7 to 2. The home lads should have tallied enough runs in the first round to win, but poor base running held them to two counters in this frame. However, the entire club displayed a complete reversal of form from the rather mediocre specimen shown in the last three | previous games, ahd were never out; of the lead Tuesday. They played an! errorless game, and batted well, especially Warren, Prosser and Large. The local cadets started out with a rush and blood in their eyes. They had the pep, and played as if their lives rather than just the state championship rested on the game. James Sanders, the vNery first man up. took j the starch out of the visitors when he hit a clean three-bagger over right center. A moment later he scored TRI-COUXTY SUMMER SCHOOL. Session To Open in Orangeburg June 6th With Capable Instructors. I Beginning June 6th and running! until July loth the annual summer! school of Bamberg-Barnwell-Orange-j burg counties will be held in tliej Orangeburg high school building with! the following instructors: A. J. Thackston, superintendent of: the Orangeburg city schools, educa-j tion and supervision. -T D Robinson, superintendent of, the Barnwell city schools, algebra and arithmetic. E. P. Allen, superintendent of the Bamberg city schools, geography and civics. Miss Ruth Creighton, English department of the Orangeburg high school, English grammar and literature. Miss Louise Welhorne, state normal teacher, methods and demonstration class. This summer school was organized several years ago, in order that the teachers of lower South Carolina might meet the urgent needs and added responsibilities of the rural schools. The county boards of Bamberg, Barnwell, and Orangeburg counties realizing these needs organized the summer school known as the Bamberg-Barnwell-Orangeburg summer school for teachers. This school has already been in session for several six-week sessions and has done much toward increasing the effiiency of the rural schools of these and adjacent counties by giving just such courses as better equip teachers for these schools. The summer school will be largely a continuation of the work of the j State Teacher-Training department j of the Orangeburg high school, and j will be under the direction of tne! county boards of education of counties supporting the school. The work to be done by the summer school has been planned to meet the needs of the teachers who secured their certifi^ tates by examination and not by diploma; for those who are preparing to take the teacher's examination, and for those teachers who have had no normal training. The work done will be elemental, the kind to meet the needs of the grade and rural teacher. The text books used will be those used in the elementary schools. Full certificate credit will be given toward renewal of teachers' certificates. The following letter from State Superintendent of Education J. E. Swearingen, will explain: "The continuance of the Bamberg-Barnwell-Orangeburg summer : school is most desirable. The ses-j sion ought to be six weeks, requiring i thirty days attendance. Credit will j be given to only those teachers who | do at least twenty days' work, taking j examination and ni*aking a passing i grade. Teachers holding licenses | subject to renewal will be allowed an j extension by one year upon such li- j census LUX IIIC UUiill'ltH iUiX L'L HI XtX.lSl ; three courses." Xo tuition is charged for any of; these courses and board can be se-: cured at a very reasonable price. Let j the teachers write to Miss Louise Wel-j borne, of Orangeburg. S. C., concern-! ins: board and courses. I v, hampionship r Victory Tuesday on a passed ball and from then on it was all over but the shouting and church was out for the fighters. Warren, along with the gilt edge support accorded him by his team mates, also pitched a splendid game. Only two clean hits were garnered from his delivery and two scratches. "Old Hard Luck" was as usual there with the stick too, and fattened his batting average with three safeties. Dantzler /piayea nis usuai jam-up game at third and Ambrose pulled down some nice catches in right field. Wofford's third sacker electrified the crowd with a sensational stop and bagged his man at first. Carlisle put the game on ice in the 2nd when three more runs were scored, and sewed it up with two more later in the game. Murph, pitching for Wofford, appeared to have pretty good stuff on the ball and with tighter fielding behind him would have showed to far better advantage. He deserved a closer game. ' This was probably the last game of the season for Carlisle. The crowd was the best yet. but the showing of the Wofford team was somewhat disappointing. Wofford .... 2 4 5 Carlisle 7- 12 0 Batteries: Murph and Gault; Warren and Thompson. ORGANIZE BALL TEAM. Will Join League on Condition No Players Must Be Hired. A meeting of a number of base ball players and fans of the town was held Tuesday afternoon at LaVictoire theatre for the purpose of organizing a local team to play this summer. An organization was effected, and J. M. Kinard was elected manager, and Mr. Kinard has accepted the position. It was decided to send delegates to the base ball meeting in Barnwell yesterday, with instructions to join * J ~ ^ the proposed league proviueu cm agreement was entered into that no outside players are to be hired by any team. If this agreement is not entered into, the local club will play independent ball during the summer months. A good sum was raised among those present for the support of the team, and it is contemplated that playing will begin in abo'ut two weeks. C. W. Retnz, Jr., and J. M. Bamberg were sent to Barnwell to represent the local team at the meeting, the outcome of which is not known at this writing. $75,000 FIRE AT ALLENDALE. Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Company Suffered Loss in Fire. Allendale, May 16.?Fire of an unknown origin here last night destroyed cotton and fertilizer material in the plant of the Allendale Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Company amounting to about $75,000. At daylight this morning the flames were under control and the larger part of the mill property had been saved from the flames by the local volunteer fire department. Their efforts were aided by a heavy rain fall, which prevented the spreading of the flames. The flames were discovered about three o'clock Monday morning by the night watchman. He experienced some difficulty in arousing aid and it is said it was an hour before the work on the checking of the flames had begun. The increased pressure on the water resulted in the bursting of several of the fire department's hose. Had it not been for a heavy rain fall, the flames would have had far more reaching effects. The large brick and crushing plant operated by the Alendale Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Company adjoining the burned property was saved almost miraculously from destruction by the flames. A branch of the state warehouse system was operated in connection j with the fertilizer plant and contain-1 ?Vn.,4- O A A V>o7/-vc if iro c otiforl fTlIC! ! tJU rtUUllt OW UCUU.I H il uo .Jl >.?. i.v^v?. . | morning, all of which was completely j destroyed. i?i*| Owner of small sheet?"Mv adveri tising man was sick yesterday and. \ my wife undertook to fill his place temporarily." Friend?"What success did she " have?" Owner?-"'Well she solicited millinery and dressmaking ads mainly and agreed to take the cost up in trade."?Exchange. I DORSEY IS SCORED BY GEORGIA PEOPLE FOR PUBLICATION OF BOOKLET REGARDING NEGRO. "SLANDER ON THE STATE." President of Senate, Superior Court Judges and Others Hay Executive. Atlanta, May 15.?Publication of the booklet, "The Negro in Georgia," by Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, charging 135 cases of mistreatment of negroes, was assailed in three statements published here today by prominent men of the state. Advices received from Macon were to the effect that a mass meeting had been called for next Sunday to take steps toward impeaching the governor. J. Gordon Jones, mayor of Cordele, Ga., was announced as one of the speakers. The replies were in the form of public statements issued by Sam L. Olive, president of the state senate and ranking state official next to the governor, and by Judge E. R. Searcy, of the Flint circuit superior court, and an address at McDonough by Thomas W. Hardwick, former United States senator, and governor-elect. Slander on the StaTe. Mr. Hjardwick, who declared he would issue a detailed reply as soon as he takes office in June made a general answer to the charge contained in the booklet, branding them as untrue and as a "slander on the state " Judge Searcy went into charges that Ed. White, a negro of Union county, had been sent to the chain gang on trumped up charges. He said the court proved the negro's guilt and added that no negro ever has been lynched in Upson county. "Such attitude on the part oF your investigator and yo 1, as governor, beggar contempt," Judge Starcv said. Mr. Olive denounce;! the charges in general and, taking up a. case, that of a negro burned at *he stake, declared it referred to a happening in Oglethrope county. Mr. 01iv3 declared the governor's booklet referred to the negro as "a negro suspected ot the murder of a white woman.'1 and then proceeded to describe what he saiu were the facts. The negro, he declared, attempted to attack the wife of a young farmer, and failing, murdered her with a hoe. Negroes and whites joined in the search and negroes aided in applying the tcrch, Mr. Oiive added. There was ample evidence of the negro's guilt :n addition to his confession, he declared. Engagement Announced. Mrs. Alexander Sallev Easterling announces the engagement of her niece, v Pearle Counts, to Joseph Fletcher Lane, of Sanford, N. C., the wedding to take place the latter part of June. r* TT7 1 J t\ev. vv. j, onycn on Edm What was characterized as one of the strongest discourses on Christian education ever heard in Bamberg was delivered Sunday morning at Trinity Methodist church by the Rev. W. J. Snyder, associate headmaster of Carlisle school. Rev. Mr. Snyder has been designated as one of the speakers in putting the educational drive of the Southern Methodist church across, and Sunday morning he made his first appeal to the people of Bamberg. Mr. Snyder took for his text the third verse of the eleventh Psalm: "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" He said the first thing people who are interested in the drive must do is to get it out of their systems that there will have to be sacrifice to give. The Methodists of Bamberg are apncr tioned 514,000: tiiere is a nomwership here of 4.">0. T3v leaving off a possible fifty who may not participate in the campaign, the remaining 400 will only have to contribute an average of two cents a clay each to make up the apportionment. God must be considered in the matter, he said, and with His divine help the campaign can he successfully put over with ease. The person of wealth and the poorer one will be called on io give only what God requires that he or she should give. The speaker related the awful con% I COMPTROLLER FIXES THE 1921 TAX LEVY | RATES TO BE 11.5 MILLS AND | ONE-HALF MILL FOR CITADEL. OVER SIX MILLION XEEDEf>. | Maximum Rates Will Not Produce Amount Necessary, Says Duncan. i Columbia, May 14.?The tax levy : for 1921 as determined by Walter E. j Duncan, comptroller general, and announced this afternoon, is 11.5 | mills, to which is added the one-half ! mill for the Citadel, the military col ! lege of South Carolina, provided in I the acts of 1920, making a total for state purposes of twelve mills, the ! same as the levy for 1920. The gen, er l appropriation provided a twelve j mill levy and an additional levy of a ! half mill for the Citadel. The Compj troller General reduced the levy a j half mill. The Comptroller General ! in detemining the levy for the curi rent year, has found it necessary to l | fix this as the minimum as provided i in the general appropriation bill and gives the following figures as the baI sis of his calculation: j Total amount approved for 1921, | $6,534,925.82, less revenue from j sources other than taxes 1921 Cestimated ), $1,035,000. Amount to be ! raised by taxation, $5,499,925.82. ; Total taxable property 1920, $44 8,1222,786. Estimated increase over | 1920, $30,000,0*00. Total taxable I property 1921, $478,222,785. Levy I of eleven an<? one-half mills amount j to be raised, $5,499,562.03. "As will be seen by these figures," i said Mr. Duncan, "even the maximum i levy will fall short by a fow dollars ! of producing the total amount it will / : be necessary to raise by taxation, as| suming fhat the revenues from sourcI es and increases in taxable property j for the present year will be as large ! as I have estimated." ^1 ! > 1 Mrs. Mary Ray Hutto. Blackville, May 13.?Mrs. Mary ! Ray Hutto, wife of Thomas Asbury j Hutto, died very suddenly Wednesday night. Mrs. Hutto was a lovable woman and endeared herself to all 1 whom she came in contact with. She i ~ was 67 years of age, a consistent member of the Methodist church and was regarded with the respect and honor accorded to women of piety. The funeral and intermen- t.ok place at the Blackvilte cemetery today at 12:30 o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Glennan conducting the services. Mrs. Hutto is survived by her hus? band and six children: Mrs. J. M. Halford, Misses Rosa Hutto, Kachael Hutto, of Blackvilte, Mrs. m\vV H. Walker, of Beech 'sland, W. B. Hutto, of Charleston, and David A Hue to, of Hildebrand, N. C. zr Speaks zational Campaign ; dition of the foreign countries; how they had once been prosperous, culj tured, educated, and how the leaders and educators had forgot God. He told of the condition of France, Germany and England as they are today, and' pictured to the audience | what the destiny of our own country : will be if the Christian people do not | soon wake up to the real conditions. Statistics show that even now there are 20,000 students in northern colleges who do not acknowledge God. ^ ? ?a ^ ^ 4-X-* oaII aota ' mgnty-nve per ceui. ui mc | professors of the country are not | Christians. I He demonstrated how the respon' sibility rests on the Christian schools to keep our community, state, and ' nation free from sovietism and ungodliness. Mr. Snyder told his hearers how anxious the conference is to enlarge Carlisle school, as this is the only Methodist school in this section of the state. If the quota of $14,000 is raised in Bamberg, the conference will subscribe $98,000 to the school, and this will put Carlisle in the junior college class, a goal that the friends of the school are contemplating with much enthusiasm, and this goal will mean much not only to this section of our state, but still more to our town and community, and the speaker sincerely hoped that the peoI pie of Bamberg will not allow this i opportunity to pass. Columbia-Savanna Links to hi Hon. J. C. Kearse, member of the i county delegation to the general as-;J sembly, has been advised by the state; ( highway commission that steps have! been taken by the authorities of Al-Lj lendale county to let the contract for 1 the building of the link of the Co- } lumbia-Savannah highway from Bu-jj Ijjprd's bridge to Fairfax. The matter j of this road construction has been un- j : der consideration in Allendale county j 1 for the past several years, but for j 1 one reason and another the work has [ ] been delayed, but the state highway! ] commission assures Mr. Kearse that; i definite arrangements are now being; made looking to the completion of the ; work at an early date. < With the Orangeburg link now un- < der construction and the Bamberg i link completed, with the exception of; s about a half mile through the Edisto: i swamp, there will soon be a complete; highway from Columbia to Fairfax. < The present contemplated work' will ; not carry the road through Allendale' i county, but doubtless the remaining 11 portion will be built as soon as prac-! ticable. j; It will also be news to the readers, i of The Herald to learn that bids for i the construction of Orangeburg's por- ] tion of the Edisto swamp road were 1 opened in Orangeburg Monday. The < THE EMPTY GUX AG AIX. Comes Very Xoar Costing Sank John- 1 son His Life by Pointing It. Safety slogans have frequently warned the public that empty guns .1 are dangerous things; sometimes fa- i tal. An empty pistol came very near < causing a fatality last Saturday, when I ] Sank Johnson, a negro, tried to j "bluff" J-immie Stukes, a man of like < ' i color, with an pistol that was after- i ward found to be empty. Stukes 1 promptly produced the real article < and sent a bullet through the lung of his adversary, inflicting a wound that i is very serious and perhaps fatal. i It seems that the negroes, who < farm near Bamberg, were disputing 1 about a saddle, which Johnson was said to have left out in the rain. The 1 difference seems to have been tempor. < arily patched between them, and the 'I men went to dinner. On their re- 1 turn, the quarrel was resumed'or re- ] newed, and Johnson is said to have ! threatened Stukes, pistol in hand, i whereupon Stukes shot him one time, the bullet going through one lung. < It was not learned until afterward j: that Johnson's pistol was unloaded, j ! Stukes was arrested and placed in j' jail awaiting" the outcome -of then wound he inflicted on Johnson. j < J. D. Miley. j t :\ Walterboro, May 13.?J. D. Aliley, | known as "Little Jim" Miley, died at j his home near the Litr.le Swamu se."*- j ' - -? TT .r ^ V.V, ! < lion 01 upper uuhuluu iuuuutt,' xiiuijuing. He had a stroke of paralysis ten days ago and died as a result of! i i ' this attack, which was the second,! he having suffered a similar attack a few years ago from which he partially recovered. The funeral and; interment took place at Little Swamp Methodist church Tuesday. He was! a member of the Carter's Ford Baptist church and a member of the Bamberg Masonic lodge. i Mr. Miley is survived by his widow j and the following children: Mrs. H. j K. Strickland, of Williams, H. D., Q. j. H., J. K., and F. M. Miley, all of; whom lived at or near their father's j home. Mrs. J. A. Padgett, of Walter- ; boro, was a full sister, and he had the following half sisters and brothers, his mother having been twice married: J. N. Kinsey, W. D. Kinsey, Mrs. E. W. Strickland, Mrs. J. W. Miley and Mrs. J. H. Garris. He was one of the.best known and! most popular citizens of the county.'' 'He was a farmer and business man , and was successful in his business! career. ^ i m t m* Modern Mana. Manna, still foijnd in upper Meso- ' potamia and Kurdistan and along , the Persian frontier, is stated by a j ^ consular report to fall in September, j October and November as a dew, j which collects on vegetation. It quickly hardens into the farm of a grain. Collectors, working only in the early morning, shake it into sheets from the oak trees?but no others?and store it for winter, when natives eat < ; it as a substitute for sugar or honey, j / ih Highway i Completed Soon road involved measures about on? ^nd one-eighth miles. This is the causeway on the Orangeburg side of the river leading up to the proposed new bridge to be constructed jointly by the two counties in cooperation with the government. Among the bids for the work were proposals from McMillan and Watson, of Bamherg, and J. F. Cleckley, of Cope, neither of whose bids, however, was the lowest. The lowest bid submitted was about $13,000. Mr. Cleckley's was about $17,000, the second lowest. Other bids ranged upward to about $25,000. It is understood that the Bamberg authorities will proceed at an early date to award the contract for the construction of the causeway on this side of the river, and that.thereafter as soon as possible the authorities of the two counties will get together* with the highway commission for the erection of a steel or concrete bridge across the Edisto at a point further down the river than the present bridge. Highway construction in Bamberg and adjacent counties is proceeding in a most gratifying manner, and it is predicted that before many years have elapsed this entire section will be connected with a system of mod?rn highways. ; " MRS HATTIE M. WIGGINS. Relict of Late T. L. Wiggins IMed Suddenly Tuesday Afternoon. i The many friends of Mrs. Hattie ? . VI. Wiggins were shocked Tuesday K. afternoon to learn of her sudden v ^ death at her home on Midway street, Bamberg. Mrs. Wiggins was in her garden when she suffered an attack Df heart trouble. Some passers-by loticed her struggling to get into her louse, and gave assistance, but she / died in a few minutes. The remains will be carried tomorrow to Barnwell, where interment will take place at 11 o'clock 1 - -1 _ 11. V i. in., uesiae ine grave ui ner ?usDand. Mrs. Wiggins was the relict of the late T. L. Wiggins, a former editor of The Herald, who died suddenly in / Savannah some fifteen years ago. She _ was 51 years of age, and was a wonan of estimable Christian character. She wa? a member of Trinity Meth3dist church. Mrs. Wiggins is survived by three children, Charlie Wiggins, of Savan- > riah; Willie Wiggins, of Macon, and Miss Louise Wiggins, of Bamberg. Two brothers, C. R. Brabham, Sr., of this city, and C. H. Brabham, of Olar, and one sister, Mrs. Julia Brabham, of Cope, also survive her. High School Funds Received. * " 1 ? s Last Saturday the state superin-? I . tendent of education mailed out checks to the various high schools of the state qualifying for state aid to the extent of more than $250,000. The following schools in Bamberg county received the sums indicated: Bamberg, $1,490; Denmark, $1,339; Ehrhardt, $1,881; Olar, $951; total, $5,661. Other schools in this section re- * ceiving state aid were: Allendale, $1,369; Fairfax, $990; Barnwell, $1,285; Blackville, $1,228; Williston, $1,387; St. Matthews, $1,805; Walterboro, $1,402; St. George, $1,477; Brunson, $927; Estill, $1,400; Hampton, $2,119; Orangeburg, v $3,083; Springfield, $1,339; Norway, $1,240; North, $1,195; Holly Hill, | $1,431; Elloree, $1,400; Branchville, $1,490; Bowman, $800; Wagner, 1,474; Salley, $800. Scoreless Tie at Ehrhardt. . x The Ehrhardt ball team and the Fairfax team battled nine innings Thursday without either team mak- . ing a score. It was a pitchers' battle between Purcell and Preacher. Preacher, of Fairfax, allowed but one hit (a little three-bagger), struck 3ut five. Purcell, the home team hurler, allowed two hits, struck out nine men and was faced by only twentynine men during the nine innings. The feature of the game was a peg by Copeland from deep right to third getting the runner. Rain ended the ?ame in the first of the tenth. Last Resort. "I hear that Jinks is married." "Is he. I knew he was deeply in debt, but I didn't know he was desperate."?New York Sun. . ;/J