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Knn P? Year in Ad^oe BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 21,1921. Estebltobed to MM
CLAUDE J. RAST DENIES
UGLY CHARGE
ASKS PUBLIC TO WAIT AND
HEAR HIM.
Warrant Issued
Charges Official With Attempted Assault?Resigns
from Office.
WTiereabouts Unknown.
The Orangeburg Times and Demoorot
cava* A nharco nf accaiilt xcith
intent to ravish has been preferred
against Claude J. Rast, county superintendent
of education, who is said
to have left the city following a severe
beating and an attempt on his
life early Tuesday morning by the
father and other relations of the girl,
threats of death on the part of the
father in the event that he did not
leave the state within three days.
The warrant was sworn out by the
father before Magistrate D. B. Berry,
Wednesday afternoon for service
Thursday morning according to the
reported instructions of the magis
trate. The warrant was placed in
the hands of Rural Policemen George
Dukes by the sheriff and the former
went to the home of the county superintendent
of education on Clarendon
avenue Thursday morning, returning
with the report that Mr. Rast
was not there.
It is stated in reliable quarters
mat Mr. itast leu nome weauesday
afternoon some time after three
o'clock. His family, it is stated, is
staying now with relatives several
miles from the city. The whereahonts
of Mr. Rast are unknown; efforts
are being made by officials, however,
to locate him and serve the
warrant upon him.
No warrants have been sworn out
against the father and other relatives
of the girl and no arrests have
been made.
Mr. Rast has issued a written
statement through J. Leroy Dukes, a
member of the county board of education.
Mr. Dukes states that Mr.
Rast appeared to be very apprehensive
of further trouble in the matter
and expressed his hope that no one
would harm him or he have to harm
anyone. The statement carries an
emphatic denial of guilt of any misdoing.
When asked why he thought
Mr. Rast left, Mr. Dukes stated that
Mr. Rafct made no intimation whatever
to him that he would leave and
that he presumed that Mr. Rast left
from the fear of bodily harm. Mr.
Dukes stated that he didn't know
just what would be done concerning
the office of county superintendent of
education, but that he had officially
reported the situation to J. E. Swearingen,
state superintendent of education,
and pending hearing from Mr.
Swearingen the office would be kept
open by the clerk of the county,
board, and the remaining members of
the county board, J. Allen Axson
and Mr. Dukes.
The written statement of Mr. Rast
is as follows: "On Tuesday, July 12,
very early in the morning, one Mr.
Myers called me to the door of my
residence in the city of Orangeburg,
stating that some one (naming him)
was at the store of Mr. Willis Stro
man nearby, ana wisnea to see me.
I readily assented and went to Stroman's
store where lx found the man
(naming him) his brother and son.
Mr. Myers was also present, as were
Mr. Stroman and his son. I spoke to
all of them pleasantly and they to me
and I made a remark to the man
(naming him) and expressing my
sympathty concerning a loss which
had recently come to him. Then suddenly
this man, his brother and son
and Myers fell upon me. Mr. Myers
caught me in the collar and knocked
me down, while some one were pelting
me with bottles, then the man referred
to ran out in front of the store
and got an automatic gun from their
car. The gun was finally taken from
him and his son by Mr. Stroman. I
then broke loose from Mr. Myers and
ran to my house, but slipped and fell,
- when I was overtaken by Mr. Myers,
who felled me to the ground and as I
arose he picked up a piece of scantling
and struck me. When they fell
upon me with bottles at--the store 1
was so astonished that I did not know
what to do and begged them to tell
me why they were beating me. They
replied: "That I knew what it was,"
or some similar expression. They
.tiied to shoot me, but Mr. Stroman
prevented this, and finally T managed
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to get away ana ran uacK luwaiuo mj
house, they following heating me in
my own yard in the presence of my
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TAR AND FEATHER PREACHER.
Following Sermon to Negroes in
Miami, Florida.
Miami, July 17.?Eight masked
men waylaid Rev. Philip S. Irwin,
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Episcopal church and head of the
work of that church among South
Florida negroes, at the close of his
evening services tonight and applied
a coat of tar and feathers to him. He
was then placed in a sack and taken
in an automobile to a spot near the
business center of this city and dumped
on to the street from the car.
Certain doctrines of uplift to the negroes
delivered by Archdeacon Irwin,
objectionable to white residents, are
said to have been the reason for the
deed. His assailants have not as yet
been apprehended.
Three other white men and several
negroes are to receive the same
treatment as that accorded Archdeacon
Irwin, according to the story related
by the victim of the tar and
feather party. The masked men,
while applying the coat of'tar, told
him that they were prepared to give
these others the same punishment
and warning.
RED, WHITE AND BLUE CORN.
Northwestern University Professor
Claims New Discovery.
After three years of experiment,
Prof. William L. Woodburn, of Northwestern
university, has produced red,
white and blue corn, he announced
last week. The patriotic colored
corn, showing banded red, white and
blue grains, was produced by crossing
red and white ears to make blue
ears, and then grafting the three
varieties.
Professor Woodburn asserts that
he will be able soon to perfect his
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corn so mat xne rows 01 a-erneis wm
show solid bars of red, white and
blue.
A Pious Female Pugilist.
The late Archdeacon Madden, of
Liverpool, used to relate how on one
occasion he separated two women,
one a Roman Catholic and .one a Protestant,
who were fighting in the
street. Afterwards he asked the latter,
whom he knew, how she, as a
professing Christian, could justify
her behavior, to which she replied,
"Well, sir, I was only obeying you. I
have often heard you say, 'Fight the
good fight!' That other woman came
into my house and she saw a picture
of you on the mantlepiece. 'That's
no priest,' said she. 'Nor no parson,
neither! He's only an old quack.'
Do you think I could stand that, sir?
No! 'Touch not the Lord's annointed,'
I says, and I ups with my fist and
I hits her!"
wife and daughters and the neighbors,
including ladies. Finally I escaped.
having been frightfully beaten
up. I have heard that they accuse
me of having had improper relations
with one of the man's (naming him)
daughters. I emphatically deny this
and I assure the public that I have
been greatly wronged and beg them
to suspend judgment until the matter
has been investigated. I assume that
the proper authorities will take necessary
steps to apprehend and punish
those four men who committed this
assault upon me, ana i unaersiana
that they went upon the streets and
boasted of their acts. At present I
am confined to my room on account
of the injuries received. My office is
in charge of my daughter, as clerk,
and she will for the present attend to
all official matters there. Again I
ask that the public suspend judgment
until the facts are established, when
it will be seen that I have been grievously
wronged and that I am innocent
of the charges made."'
Rast Resigns Office.
Oarngeburg, July 15.?Claude J^
Rast has written a letter to J. Leroy
Dukes, a member of Orangeburg
county board of education, asking
that his resignation as superintendent
of education for Orangeburg
county be tendered to the state superintendent
of education, John E.
Swearingen. JUr. JJUKes stares tnai
the post mark upon the envelope, is
obscure, but appears to have been
mailed at a railway postoffice and
that the letter carried no information
as to the ^whereabouts of Prof. Rast.
Everything is quiet in Orangeburg,
the parties administering the beating
to Prof. Rast being out on bond and
Prof. Rast, it is believed, gone beyond
the state. The warrant, it is
stated, charges Claude J. Rast with
attempt to ravish.
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Census Farm Figu
berg and Sur
The department of commerce, bureau
of the census, has furnished
The Herald with farm census figures.
These figures, for Bamberg
and neighDoring counties, iorm au
interesting study. It is not possible
to give the comparative figures for
either of these counties for 1910 by
reason of changes in boundaries in
each of the counties named below.
The figures are for January 1, 1920, 1
and have just been announced*:
Bamberg County.
Farms 2,543
Operated by?
White farmers 646
Colored farmers 1,897
Operated by?
Owners and managers .. 644
Tenants 1,899
Land in farms?
Total. sores .... .... 169.929
Improved, acres 105,645
Value of lands and build
ings $9,159,920
Farms reporting domestic
animals 2,493
Animals reported?
Horses 1,052
Mules 3,348
Cattle 4,278
Sheep 2
Swine 17,929
Principal crops?
A AM/\n Hnonlitr
n.UCO v^uautit;
harvested harvested
Corn 37,961 462,447 bu. '
Oats 3,140 63,754 bu.
Hay 6,847 4,269 to.
Cotton 46,303 25,672 ba.
Dry peas 3,825 15,647 bu.
Orangeburg County.
Farms 8,558
Operated by?
White farmers 2,774
Colored farmers 5,784
Operated by? :
Owners and managers 2,914
Tenants 5,644
Land in farms?
Total, acres 496,306
Improved, acres ' 288,227
Farms reporting domestic
animals 7,665
Animals reported?
Horses .... 5,124
Mules 9,905
Cattle 16,405
Sheep 624
Swine 56,838
Goats .... 1,201
Value of land and buildings
$38,436,374
Principal crops?
Acres Quantity (
harvested harvested
Corn 84,548 1,460,318 bu.
Oats 10,734 212,283 bu. (
Hay 23,713 17,786 to.
Cotton .. ..139,831 85,445 ba.
Colleton County.
Farms 3,976
Operated by?
White farmers 1,888
Colored farmers 2,088
Operated by? ]
Owners and managers 2,515
Tenants 1,461 i .
Land in farms?
Total, acres 401,190
Improved, acres 141,05/7
Value of land and buildings
$10,661,084 |
Farms reporting domes
I
tic animals 3,845 '
Animals reported?
Horses 2,134
Mules 4,071
Cattle 21,380
Sheep 1,498
Swine 40,894
LIGHTNING KILLS BOY.
Leading Mule From Field to House !
When Hit.
Saluda, July 14.?Ira DeLoach,
twelve-year-old son of Hillery DeLoach,
who lives about three miles
west of Saluda, was killed by lightning
Tuesday afternoon while leading
a mule from the field to the house.
The child got within about fifty
yards of the house when the bolt bit |
him. The mule was not killed, al-|
though it is stated that the gearing;
was torn from his body.
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Learning Quickly.
"I'm not at all sure," said the profiteer's
wife to the head master of the
fashionable preparatory school, "how
your school is going to suit my dear
boy."
The head master smiled confidently.
"You need not worry about that,
madam," he said; "we've taught him
how to hold his knife already."
ires for Barnrounding
Counties
Principal crops?
Acres Quantity
harvested, harvested
Corn 50,509 542,894 bu.
uats 3,1 < ? o /,5yo du.
Hay 10,601 7,193 to.
Cotton 42,246 14,357 ba.
Allendale County.
Farms 1,764
Operated by?
White farmers 37S
Colored farmers 1,3S6
Operated by?
Owners and managers 331
Tenants 1,433
Land in farms?
Total, acres 151,187
Improved, acres 97,354
Value of land and buildings
$7,671,512
Farms reporting domestic
animals 1^753*
Animals reported?
Horses 651
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Cattle 4,288
Sheep S5
Swine 13,676
Goats 492
Principal crops?
Acres Quantity
harvested harvested
Corn 30,411 393,166 bu.
Oats 1,470 19,472 bu.
Hay 2,971 1,929 to.
Cotton 42,736 20,753 ba.
Barnwell County.
Farms 3,105
Operated by?
White farmers 1,012
Colored farmers 2,093
Operated by?
Owners and managers 983
Tenants 2,122
Land in farms?
Total, acres 222,047
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Improved, acres jlojl,*^
Value of land and buildings
$9,782,020
Farms reporting domestic
animals 3,008
Animals reported?
Horses 1,123
Mules 4,483
Cattle 4,864
Sheep 1 3
Swine .... is,zzy
Goats 418
Principal crops?
Acres Quantity
harvested harvested
Corn 55,611 527,704 bu.
Hay 5,057 3,056 to.
Cotton 57,627 30,290 ba.
Dry peas 9,609 23,597 bu.
Hampton County.
Farms 2,003
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White farmers 921
Colored farmers 1,082
Operated by?
Owners and managers 755
Tenants 1,248
Land in farms?
Total, acres ' 175,484
Improved, acres 88,029
bailie of land and buildings
$6,752,257
Farms reporting domestic
animals 1,924
Animals reported?
Horses 784
Mules 2.647
Cattle 5,171
Sheep 244
Swine 16,225
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Principal crops?
Acres Quantity
harvested harvested
Corn 29,717 326.062 bu.
Oats 3,741 42.879 bu.
Hay 6,049 3,687 to.
Cotton 25,107 8.980 ba.
MARRIED PEOPLE SUICIDE.
Statistics Show Them More Liable
Than Single Persons,
Suicides in New York were more
prevalent among married persons
than single ones in 1920, it was
shown in the report of Chief Medical
Examiner Morris, of New York, made
public last week.
The total number of suicides for
the year was placed at 707. Of the
victims 352 were married. 185 single.
100 widows, 2 divorced and 68
social status was undetermined. Figures
for the first six months of this
T-Aor. cV>rtTT- + Vi?j + Qfl ni^ro nprcrmS kill
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ed themselves than during the corresponding
period of 1920.
In Japan "reeling girls" who are
apprenticed to the silk manufacturers
at the ag? of twelve to thirteen years,
live in the factory inclosure, where
there are dormitories.
BILLIONS FOB LUXURIES.
Gigantic Sum Spent for Purchase of
Foibles.
Approximately ?13,000,000,000 a
year is now being spent on luxuries,
recreation, movies and other amusements
and personal finery federal tax
receipts show.
More than $1,000,000,000 a year in
taxes now is being received by the
al) V CI illliCJLK. as a 1 touil U1 puiv.nao^o
of foibles. This is nearly one-Q,uarter
of the total ordinary receipts of the
government.
Sporting goods, autos and motorcycles,
amusement parks, fancy bathing
suits, summer hats for women and
Panamas for father are now netting
the government thousands daily. Cigarettes,
cigars, and candies bring in
millions each month. The pennies that
are pai<^ with the purchase of soft
drinks and soda water are helping to
pay the annual interest charge of
$900,000,000 on the national debt.
Battleships are being built with the
tax on motion picture films, sporting
goods, face powder, cosmetics and
other beautifiers.
Chewers of gum in the past twelve
montns nave coniriouiea more cuau
$1,000,000 in taxes to the federal
treasury. Tennis racquets and sporting
goods paid nearly $4,000,000.
Summer furs alone cost approximately
$5,000,000, and netted the
government the tidy little sum of.
$500,000 in tax money, the report
shows.
Toilet soaps and powders brought
more than $2,000,000 in taxes into
'.he gavernment's coffers in the fiscal
3 ear just ended, indicating total purchases
of those articles of about $20,000,000.
Smokers in the past year paid the
government in excess of $232,000,000
in taxes over and above the actual
cost of tobacco and cigars to the
dealers.
More than $23,000,000 poured into
the government's pocketbook from
taxes on engagement diamonds and
other jewelry indicating total purchase
of taxable jewelry of something
like ten times the tax collected.
Combating Peach Tree Borer.
The peach tree borer, which is a
small grub, causes much damage to
the orchards in Bamberg county. It
bores into the body of the tree just
below the surface of the ground. In
many instances the trees are completely
girdled, and so weakened as
to offer ideal conditions for the destructive
work of the shot hole borer.
A simple and practical method of
controlling une peacn tree Dorer is uy
"mounding" or throwing up dirt
around the trunk of the trees to a
height of ten or twelve inches.
The tree should be "mounded"
from the 1st to the 15th of July.
Preparatory to mounding, a coat of
trunk wash should be applied by
washing the trunk of the tree from
the branches downward. This keeps
the tree in a healthy condition and
repels insects and diseases.
A standard trunk wash consist of
20 lbs. lime, 3 lbs. laundry soap;' 4
lbs. of sulphur and 20 gallons of
water. The directions for making is
to dissolve the soap in warm water
and make a paste of the sulphur,
add this to the slacking lime and
dilute up to 25 gallons. This .'is
enough to wash from 200 to 300
trees. f
The method of mounding consist
of pulling the earth up around the
base of the tree to a height of ten
or twelve inches and may be done
h-?r fVio lieo of O chnVPl fir hoe.
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The tree should be examined before
mounding and if there are any
borers present, they should be removed
with the aid of a knife or
wire.
This mound should be pulled down
from the 1st to the 15th of October
and trees examined for borer. The
borer will be detected by the exuda
tion of gum and may be easily removed
with aid of a knife or wire.
After the trees have been wormed
a second coat of trunk wash should
be applied, and when wood ashes are
available, two or three quarts may be
applied around the base of the tree.
It is very important that this mound
be pulled down at the proper time;
otherwise it will be detrimental to
+ nF tho tTPA AS it furnishes
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an excellent place for the borer to
work. J. D. BRANDON,
County Agent.
London bootmakers claim that the
English woman's foot is growing
larger, due .probably to their ad^
diction to golf, tennis and other
sports.
GOOD TOBACCO
ONLYJOEMAND
ADVICE GIVEN SOUTH CAROLINA
GROWERS.
For Careful Culling
Believed That Somewhat Unusual
Conditions Will Prevail in
Market This Year.
Florence, July 13.?"If the tobacco
planters of South Carolina are to realize
finally any benefits from their
cutting of acreage this year they
must now exert every effort on good
curing and careful culling of their
crop," says T. Benton Young, secretary
of the South Carolina Tobacco ,
association, speaking for this association,
for the South Qarolina Warehousemen's
association, and for the
buyers' association. "We are dependent
this year, absolutely, on the
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uiu line or uujers, uecause me muependent
buyers are unable to make
the financial arrangements to operate.
The buyers have indicated that
they will do their best by the growers
and pay as much money for good tobacco
as they can possibly pay. But
they are demanding of the growers
that the growers shall offer only good \
stuff."
Through the various associations of
the different interests of the industry,
the extension service of the state has
been inerested in the situation and is
aiding in spreading the information
regarding it. Over the signature of
W. W. Long, director, 15,000 letters >
are being mailed to individual growers
in every section of the tobacco
belt.
Two important points are stressed
in this letter, as follows:
"First. It will be useless waste of . v time
and money to harvest the lower
'nlant hpd' leaves or inferior 'luzs.'
Of course this does not mean that'
none of the lower leaves are desirable,
but the cheap, trashy leaves and '
such leaves as become burnt would
best be left in the field for manure, .
as we can not hope for them to bring
cost of curing- and handling. Some
think that such grades will not even
get a 'bid' on the warehouse floor.
About this we do not know, but we do
know that such goods, if sold, will
only stand out statistically against
the farmer and make prices lower
next season.
"Second. We get from good surces
that this year it will be absolutely
necessary for the farmer to let his
tobacco get ripe before gathering.
The green grades which have been
selling well in the past are apt to be
a drag on the market. These grades
have been exported in the past, but
the foreign market is in such shape
that you can not depend on it. If
the hands or 'croppers' pull some
green leaves, cull them out from the
curing before marketing. At the end
of the season, after having them bulked
down, market these green leaves
from all your curings."
Bright Williamson, 4of Darlington,
president of the South Carolina
Tobacco association,, is making every
effort possible to induce the com
panies to come into the market July
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all markets and taking all grades.
He is handling this matter through
T. M. Carrington, of Washington,
president of the United States Tobacco
association. Such an opening
would tend to establish proper
prices, Mr. Williamson believes.
COLUMBIA MEN" ACQUITTED.
Charsred With Robbing Bank at Ln
goff; All Rearrested.
Camden, July 13.?William Brawley,
Alex Cartledge, Lloyd Lorick,
and Dewey Dennis, the four Columbia
boys who were charged with robbing
the Bank of Lugoff of $240, February
4, were found not guilty by a jury
here about 7:45 o'clock tonight. The
four young men, were however, im- j
mediately remanded to jail on a .
charge of housebreaking and larceny
of the store adjoining the bank building.
where the robbery was alleged to
have taken place.
The state closed its testimony
shortly after 11 o'clock this morning
and the defense announced that it had
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no esumunv i unci. mv ^? , ?
relying upon its contention that the I
testimony of George Gunn. of Pennsylvania,
who claims that the defendants
were with him at the time of the
robbery, is unworthy of belief, and ; .
that his testimony was not corrobbo- x
rated. ;|9
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