The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 22, 1921, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C.
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Entered as second-class matter April
1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. ,
$2.00 PER YEAR.
Volume 30. , Xo. 38.
Thursday, Sept. 22,1921.
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The rise in the price of cotton is
furnishing the usual opportunity for
the cotton exchange gamblers to shear
the lambs and the cotton exchange
gamblers are doing just that. The
situation nearly always raises a myriad
of little pikers who yield to the
material temptation to get rich quick,
and who are generally trimmed to a
nicety.?Yor^ville Enquirer.
A friend of ours tells us that an acquaintance
informed his first cousin
that his brother's brother-in-law, etc.,
informed him there were a few lambs
in Bamberg who were present at the
shearing and profited thereby immensely?in
experience.
The little town of Elko shipped
during the past season 127 solid carloads
watermelons and truck. This
was a wonderful showing for that
section and goes to show that the
farmers there are not depending on
their cotton crops entirely. It is to
he remembered, in this connection,
that Elko has some of the finest cotton
lands in the country. Last year,
: we believe it was, the finest field of
cotton perhaps in this section of the
state could be seen a short distance
;; - from Elko on -the railroad. The
rows appeared to be six feet apart
and the stalks were so rank that one
could hardly walk in the field. Such
lands afford a great temptation to
plant cotton, but the past season 84
carloads of melons were loaded at
Elko; 12 carloads of cucumbers, and
27 carloads of asparagus. In addi+
Viie oovorol tliAiicon/1 dnllore
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worth of similar crops was shipped by
express in smaller lots. However, it
may be remarked, the freight rates on
this enormous shipment amounted to
a tremendous sum, eating a large
hole in the profits. The total freight,
x we are told, amounted to about $18,120,
and the gentleman giving the information
says that the shippers received
only about one-half of the net
proceeds of the sales.
|r . ' An exchange has compiled some
figures on the comparative cost of
printing a newspaper. Folks often
ask us about reducing the price of
the paper. As a matter of fact The
Herald made a very slight increase in
subscription price, from $1.50 to
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$2.00, and we weathered all the, high
prices on this single advance. It is
not likely, under new conditions, that
a paper of the standard of The Her.
aid can ever be printed for less than
$2.00 a year; in fact this was the
^ . pre-war price of most of the papers
carrying similar amounts of reading
matter as The Herald. The figures
referred to show, that 1907 is taken
as a basis.. That year wages are figtired
at 100 percent. In 1914 they
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J^au auvauvcu iu x t u, axux iu xcmxi
? "v they stand at 393. News print paper
was 100 in 1907 an-d was 623 last
year, and slightly less now. Newspaper
postage was 100 in 1907 and is
now 3j37. News ink was 100 in 1907
? ', and is now 331. Editorial expenses
were 100 in 1907 and 241 now. Miscellaneous
expenses advancedt from
100 in 1907 to 244 in 1921. An average
of all costs show 100 in 1907
and 411 in 1921. This does not take
into consideration the cost of machinery,
which is all the way from
10i0 to 300 per cent, more than in
1907. Incidentally, 4,000 newspapers,
according to this authority, have
suspended publication.
PRISONERS LEAVE JAIL.
Seven Make Escape by Sawing
Through Door.
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Orangeburg, Sept. 18.?Seven ne.
gro prisoners escaped from the
Orangeburg jail here early tonight.
One of the negroes had been previously
tried on the charge of arson and
sentenced to life imprisonment, but
his case was appealed and a new trial
ordered. Another was being held on
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the charge of murder, while a third
was a waiting trial on the charge of
placing ties on the railroad track in
effort to wreck a train. The other
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four were being held for minor offenses.
The escape was discovered about
11:30 o'clock tonight by Sheriff R.
Fulton Dukes when he arrived here
' from Columbia with Abraham Mays,
who has been in the state penitentiary
awaiting trial on the charge of
criminal assault.
The prisoners sawed through a
door and then climbed down the
scaffold which surrounds a new section
which is being built to the jail.
Those escaping were: Howard Dannlly,
awaiting a new trial on the
s*charge of arson; Arthur. Moore,
charged with murder," Spencer Oliver,
held on the charge of placing railroad
ties on the railroad track; Walter
Buyck. Ben Green, Alonzo Cannon
and Emanuel Bradley.
FORECAST BY DUTCH PROPHET.
Early Cold Wave Predicted and Severest
Winter Since 1917-18.
September 25 is tbe central date
for a predicted change in the weather
from hot to cold?possibly to cold,
says the Dutch Weather Prophet. In
northern and northwestern latitudes,
he predicts it will be cold with frost
previous even to the central date,
which will move the cold wave for
the west forward to Wednesday and
probably to the same time for the
east and southeast, the time for the
"germination" of cool wave extending
from September 18 to 25. September
7 was another period for a
cool wave and it occurred in the West
and passed northward, having been
deflected by the San Antonio disturbance.
The coming winter will be the
coldest since 1917-18 he says. Three
snows are indicated for the territory
south and east of the Blue Ridge.
Indications at the same time are to
the effect that snow will extend far
south, and the winter will be accompanied
besides by numbers of snow
flurries.
"These forecasts will be confirmed
more decidedly October 1, together
with predictions as to possible
amount of precipitation during the
winter and prospects for a grain crop
(wheat and oats) in this section,"
the prophet said.
Precipitation will occur September
in the south and southwest and it
may include Columbia and vicinity in
its progress northeastward, according
to his prediction.
WHOLE FAM3L IX STATE PEN.
Five Folks Make Plea of Guilty With
Recommendation.
Columbia, Sept. 17.?A whole family,
mother, son, and daughter, and
two male friends of the family, took
up their abode in the state penitentiray
Thursday afternoon to spend
Vio rest r\f tVioir rlavc tVlPrP PR e'UPRt.R
of the state. They were convicted in
the court of general sessions at Lexington
this morning for the killing of
Marcellus Cook, head of the family,
an aged paralytic.
Mrs. Julia Cook, Minnie Cook, Ira
Cook, Henry Wheeler, Minnie's fiancee
and James Barfield, Sr., are the
prisoners. The verdict against them
was directed by Judge Sease, after
attorneys for both sides had consented
to it. It was "guilty of murder,
with recommendation to mercy."
Marcellus Cook was killed on August
5. His throat was cat from ear
to ear as he sat in his invalid's chair
in his home near Steadman, in the
Batesburg section of Lexington county.
Ira Cook, his son, killed him.
while his daughter, Minnie, and her
fiancee, Henry Wheeler, held the old
man's feet and hands. His wife,
Julia, was accused of having instigated
the crime, and Barfield was charged
with having plotted the deed.
Barfield and Ira Cook confessed
their crime, after being arrested, and
later other members of the family
confessed complicity in it.
The only witness sworn in the case
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iams, of the state board of public
welfare, and Miss Louise Bishop, psychiatrist
for the board, both of whom
testified that the Cooks were mentally
deficient.
CAMP JACKSON ABANDONED. I
Only Troops Enough to Guard Property
Now Remain Near Capitol. !
Columbia, Sept. 17.?Camp Jackson
ceased to be an army post Friday,
when the last outfit departed for
a future military home. The Fiftyfirst
coast artillery regiment left for
Camp Eustice, Va., and Camp Jackson
now has only about 350 men
making up its personnel, these being
men of the hospital and quartermaster
corps, and enough men of the line
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The fifty-first, one of the famous
regiments of the army, one that formed
a part of the thirty-ninth coast artillery
brigade, left with about 850
men and thirty officers. The travel
was by motor truck and the outfit will
camp tonight at Charlotte, tomorrow
night at Durham, the next night at
Camp Eustice, Va., the future home
of the outfit. i
About 800 motor trucks and several
hundred field pieces comprise the
equipment of the regiment. The outfit
paraded through the business section
of the city, as it departed, and
was reviewed by the governor, Mayor
Blalock, of Columbia, and President
Black, of the Columbia Chamber of
Commerce.
Grew On Him.
"Did you really call this gentleman
an old fool last night?" asked the
judge.
The prisoner tried hard to collect
his thoughts.
"Well, the more I look at him, the
more likely it seems that I did," he
replied.?Lawyer and Banker.
COLUMBIA ELKS' HOME BURNED.
Midnight Blazes Causes Damage in
Heart of the City.
Columbia, Sept. IS.?Firemen early
this morning succeeded in getting under
control the fire that shortly after
midnight Saturday night threatened
an entire city block in the heart of
the business section.
The fire originated in a small vulcanizing
plant in a rear wing of a
three-story building, and was for
more than thirty minutes smothered
between the ceiling and roof, finally
breaking through to completely de*
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i stroy tne structure. me uuuumg was
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occupied by Wingfield's drug s\ire,
Haltiwanger's, a fashionable woman's
dress shop; the Elks' home, a small
vulcanizing plant and a barber shop.
All these buildings were wiped out
and, including the building itself, entailed
a loss of $250,000.
200 Gallons Wine Permissible.
Internal revenue officials frankly
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acknowledged, says a wasnmgion
dispatch, that heads of families may
upon filing of notification with local
revenue collectors manufacture 200
gallons of wine yearly for home use.
Treasury regulations making effective
such a provision of the law were
issued by internal revenue commissioner
Roper with the approval of
Secretary McAdoo in October, 1918,
and because of the general lack of
public knowledge respecting the provision
congress never has enacted
legislation nullifying it, officials said.
The law applies specifically to exemption
from payment of tax officials
pointed out, but its application makes
manufacture of wine at home possible
provided the manufacture is by
the head of a family and the wine
produced be not sold or otherwise removed
from the place of manufacture.
CONSCIENCE HURTS HIM.
And Man Pavs For Iron Stolen From
Anderson County.
Xo one ever forgets to collect money
from Anderson county when it is
due them, but it remained for a middle
aged white man to break all precedents
in coming forward and paying
a debt to the county that is ten
years old, and fulfilling an oblagation
which the county had no record of.
According to J. S. Acker, a clerk
in- the supervisor's office, a middle
aged white man came in his office the
other day seemingly rather ill at ease.
The man was rather poorly dressed,
and seemed to be in very moderate
circumstances. He hemmed and
hawed about his business with Mr.
Acker for a few minutes and finally
stated that he wanted to make a confpssinn
and sret straight.
Mr. Acker did not know what to expect.
Whether this was a man wanted
for some crime, an escaped convict
or what not, Mr. Acker did not know,
but he just sat and waited. The man
finally told his story.
Some ten or eleven years ago a new
bridge was built near Portman. This
bridge was used to replace another
structure, and after the job was completed,
much of the iron was left on
the banks of the river. The man had
taken a small piece of iron and made
himself a plow, using it a great deal
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him to come to Anderson and pay for
it.
"Friend,*' he said, "I owe this county
some money and I want to pay it.
You remember ten or eleven years
ago when the county was building
Earle's bridge, near Portman. Well,
there was a whole lot of iron left on
the side of the river and I took a
piece of it to make me a plow. I
have used this plow a whole lot, but
I'll tell you it has bothered me ever
since. I don't feel like I did right,
and I want to Day the county for the;
iron."
"Well, sir," I told him, "I don't
know what the iron was worth, nor
Anything about it, but if it will ease
your mind any, I'll be glad to accept
payment for the piece and give you a
receipt for it."
"The man paid me 50 cents," continued
Mr. Acker, "saying that it was
just a little piece of iron, and he
guessed 50 cents would pay for the
iron and interest on the debt."?Anderson
Mail.
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Fits and Fits.
"That gown is a beautiful fit," said
the modiste, "and you don't seem
pleased."
"I wasn't thinking about the fit of
tho frntcn " rpnlipri Mrs. FashionDlate.
"I was thinking about the fit my husband
will have when he gets the bill."
His Natural Inquiry.
"Women are killing their husbands
entirely too often today!" said Professor
Pate, laying down his paper.
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"very iii\eiy, repneu j. r unci
Gloom. "But about how often in your
judgment, professor, should a woman
kill her husband?"
MEANEST MAN.
In Charleston is Charged With Taking
Fans From Church.
A young white man giving his
name as Henry Martin, was arrested
yesterday morning by Police Detec
tive Brennan, and lodged at the police
station, on the charge of having stolen
three electric fans and one electric
iron from the churches in this city,
the entire booty being valued at $75,
according to the police, says the News
and Courier, Charleston.
Another turn was taken in this
case when the detectives questioned
Martin as to what disposition had
been made of the stolen goods. He
admitted having sold them to one
George Armenakis, who operates a
pool room at S2 Calhoun street. Armenakis
was arrested and he will
have to answer to a charge of receiving
stolen goods.
Armenakis is also charged with
carrying a concealed weapon, this according
to the police blotter, being a
knife.
The cases will be called in police
court this morning and both Martin
and Armenakis will probably be referred
to a magistrate for a preliminary
hearing.
IT WAS A DIRTY TRICK.
Stole Pastor's Suit While He Was
H1nrrQOrp(1 in Rnntkm.
It is reported that while Rev. J.
N. Wrenn was administering the ordinance
of baptism at Fork Shoals
church last week, some one took his
suit of clothes from the dressing
room, relates a Pelzer dispatch.- He
was forced'to borrow a suit before
he could return to his home in the
VILJ KJI
Fork Shoals is without a pastor
and Mr. Wrenn conducted a series of
meetings there two weeks ago and
at the close of the meeting he was
asked to come hack and administer
the ordinance of baptism which he
did and at which time his suit of
clothes was stolen. The parson took
it in good humor, and it is reported
that he said, "lie had heard of money
being taken from the eyes of a
dead man, but never heard of a Baptist
preacher having his clothes stolen
while burying a man in the watery
grave."
THEY PREPARE FOR WORST.
IFederal Officers Take Undertaker
Along When After Smugglers.
An army would not move to battle
without having the ambulance, and
first aid corps close behind. Neither
would federal officers stationed along
the Mexican border go after smugglers
without taking precautions
against injury or death.
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r cuciai univ;ci s ai jjji j. aou,
often take with them an undertaker
ancl his outfit. The undertaker and
his assistants follow near the offiecrs
cars. They stop in the distance and
wait until the fight is over.
When the shooting ceases, or if a
call for aid comes, the ambulance
moves to the scene of the fight. With
the officers the undertaker surveys
the field, assisting any officer who
might be wounded, or carrying any
dead to the ambulance. Then he
goes to hunt for the killed or wounded
smugglers, who often are found
in clumps of mesquite bushes or half
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Pray for Rain.
Alice: "Why don't you wear your
new silk stockings?"
Virginia: "I'm saving them for a
rainy day."
Buy tablets by the dozen, only 45c,
at Herald Book Store.
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Big as a Profiteer's Heart.
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From giants the conversation had
turned to dwarfs and then the city
I prevaricator spoke,
i "All those dwarfs you've mention-;
ed may have been very small," he
declaired, airly "but none of them I
! can compare with a stunted speci-j
j men I once came across. He was so
! short that every time his corns hurt!
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| who had remained to hear the story, j
"Every time his corns hurt him," j
i said the narrator, "he imagined he;
I had a headache."?Houston Post.
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facturers in the world and is con
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logs without injury to machine
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he Grocery Line, Fancy or He
ley. We are displaying a $!
that you look it over, and co:
your $25.00 would have purch;
first in Bamberg to put the hai
11 the price fixers. " Whether
that we have saved you mar
during the prices.
PRECIATE YOUR PATRON
LK & McMILL
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SHERIFF'S SALE. J
In accordance with the executions J
to me directed by G. A. Jennings, f
treasurer of Bamberg county, I have M
levied upon and will sell for cash, on
Monday, October 3rd, 1921, during ||
the legal hours of sale, the following fl
described personal property in the H
county of Bamberg, at the court flj
house door, Bamberg, S. C? said per- fjj
sonal property to be sold for taxes B
due and owing the said county and H
state: H
Personal property of Raymond
Ehrhardt, consisting of one Ford au- |W|
tomobile, two mules, and saw mill MS
located at Clear Pond siding, in said fin
county and state. Said personal prop- j|j||
erty being the property of Raymond jjl!]
Ehrhardt. S. G. RAY,
Sheriff Bamberg County.
Sept. 12, 1921. 9-29
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