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$2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1922. " Established in 1891. I
Democratic Clubs
Meet this Month
H. N. Edmunds, secretary of the
state Democratic executive committee,
Monday addressed a letter to
all the county chairmen of the Democratic
party in the state calling their
attention to the fact that the various
Democratic clubs are to meet on the
fourth Saturday of this month for
reorganization and to elect delegates
to the county conventions.
. The county conventions are to oe
held on the first Monday in May
throughout the state and the state
convention will be held on the first
Wednesday in May.
Mr. Edmunds's letter sent to the
county chairmen is as follows:
Edmunds's Letter.
"I beg to call your attention to
the fact that the time is approaching
lor the calling together of the clubs
in your county as provided by Rule
5, which rule reads as follows: 'The
clubs shall meet on the fourth Saturday
in April of each election year
lor cue reorganization: rruviucu,
That the county committee may name
any other day within the same week
for such club meeting by giving at
- least two weeks' notice by advertisement
in one or more county papers.
In case any existing club shall fail
\ to reorganize on the day fixed, the
county committee may fix a day for
such club to meet for reorganization
\ 1 hy giving two weeks' notice, as provided
in this section.'
' "You will note that except as provided
for by giving two weeks' notice
by advertisement the clubs must meet
on the fourth Saturday in April."
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Wlien the county conventions meet
delegates to the state convention will
* be chosen.
To Choose Officers.
In addition to making what rules
or changing any rules that the state
convention .may deem advisable officers
of the party in the state are to
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begchosen.
In regard to the county conventions
the rules provide: "Every general
election year county conventions
snan be caned by tne county committees
to meet on the first Monday
' in May at the county seat. The con"
vention shall be composed of delegates
elected from the clubs in the
county, one delegate for every 2t>
members, and one delegate for a majority
fraction thereof, based upon
the number of votes polled in the
first primary of the preceding elec,
tion year."
At the state convention the rules
provide: "The state convention shall
'A be called by the state committee to
d meet at Columbia every general elec
> ; tion year on the third Wednesday in
.. May. The convention shall be comT
posed of delegates elected by the
, . county conventions, each county to
be entitled to as many delegates as
double the number of its members in
f the general assembly."
One Way of Looking at It.
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lA Denmark man was addressing
several persons at the court house
* the other day. "I don't know what
the farmers are going to do with
/ their cucumbers this year," said he.
"They have increased the acreage
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mis year aim 1 uuu i see auy noye ui
"being able to sell them. It is not
reasonable that more cucumbers can
be sold this year than last. During
the past year lots of the old Yankees
. have died, and the babies that have
: been born to take their place are too
small to eat cucumbers, therefore
the demand is not going to be so
great. I don't see what in the world
" we are to do with our cucumbers this
- * year.*'
One of the listeners was ready
?; with a possible solution. "Pickle
'em," was his suggestion.
Another auditor suggested: "Sell
'em to the pickle factories up north;
they can ship them back to Bamberg
. county ana we can ouy em oac&. at
two for a nickle."
That last idea is not so bad at that.
? Anyway, that is about what most of
us do.
Arests White Boys.
Denmark, April 1.?Two white
boys were caught here last night by
Night Policeman Lancaster while attempting
to break into the store of
Buist Brickie. They gave their names
t as Osburn Williams, of Jacksonville,
Fla., and William Cantz, of Baltimore.
They said this morning that they
l tried to get into the store of Goolsby
i & Son to get some' groceries and
clothing, but they could not get in
so they decided to try Brickie's store.
Death Sentence for j
Wallace Confirmed
Sumter, April 2.?An order refusing
a new trial to J. C. Wallace has
been filed with the clerk of court by
Judge S. W. G. Shipp, the motion for
a new trial having been made before
him at the close of the spring term
of court of general sessions in February.
Wallace, a white man, was
convicted of attempted criminal assault
on a young girl and was sentpnoed
to die in the electric chair.
The motion for a new trial was based
on an affidavit made by N. B. Cockerill,
chief witness against Wallace,
to the effect that his, Cackerill's testimony
at the trial was false.
The state, however, also presented
an affidavit from Cockerill of a later
date, alleging that this first affidavit
had been made when he was intoxi-j
cated and that he did not know what
! he was doing.
A number of affidavits were filed
by both sides as to the character of
the witnesses, sane condition of Cock^fiii
when hp made his first affidavit.
and testimony given at the trial.
Judge Shipp in his order said:
"Several affidavits set forth that
N. B. Cockerill and Mrs. Dora E.
Wallace, witnesses in the trial of this
case for the state, had made statements
since the trial contradicting
and repudiating their testimony. One
Laffidavit is made by X. B. Cockerill
in which he state that he repudiates
his testimony given on the trial. However,
he makes an affidavit in reply
that he was drunk when he signed
the affidavit in question and did not
know* what he was signing and that
he has never made statements in conflict
with his testimony and that he
reaffirms the testimony as given at
the trial. An affidavit in reply is
made by Mrs. Dora E. Wallace that
v.oo nQvor ma/in stntpmpnts in
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conflict with her testimony and that
: she reaffirms the same.
I "I have carefully read the testimony
in the trial of this case and all
the affidavits produced "before me and
under the law as laid down in the
following cases, to wit: State vs.
Workman, 38 S. C. 550; State vs.
Adams, 78 S. C. 523, and State vs.
Bethune, 104 S. C. 353,1 do not think
it proper to grant a new trial. There*
fore, the motion for a new trial in
this case is hereby refused, and it is
so ordered."
! $225,000 Fire Loss at Union.
.
Union, April l.-r-Union was visited
this morning at 3:30 o'clock with one
of the most disastrous fires since
1905, when the same -block, known
as the Townsend block, was completely
wiped out, and which was destroyed
this morning, with the exception
of the Bailey Builders Supply building.
Late estimates show that on
conservative basis the loss of property
known as the Townsend block
and People's Supply Company by fire
early this morning will amount to j
$225,000, with about 40 per cent, insurance.
Senator Dial Wins Battle.
Washington, March 29.?Senator
Dial secured the passage by the senate
of a resolution calling on the Federal
Trade Commission to investigate
the causes of the present de
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yresseu yriv;e ui wunuu m vu^ uunvu
States, especially with reference to
the operations of cotton exchanges,
and asking the commission to ascertain
whether the trading on these exchanges
is done in a fair and legal
way and equitably to the grower, and
to recommend legislation, if it seems
necessary.
Recognizes Voice Over Wireless.
Greenwood, March 31.?So plain
that the voice could be easily recognized
by relatives in Greenwood, a
baritone recital bv John Humbert in I
Pittsburg was heard last night over
an amateur radio apparatus operated
by William Hood, Jr.
The recital consisted of vocal solos
by Mr. Gumbert and several violin
selections by his wife. His voice was
instantly recognized by Mrs. R. H.
Blake, a cousin of Mrs. Gumbert's,
who was listening to the concert.
Baptist W. M. S.
The Womans Missionary society of
the Baptist church will hold its regular
circle meetings on Wednesday
next at the following homes:
Circle No. 1 with Miss Mamie Hartzog.
Circle No. 2 with Mrs. Cornelia
Hooton. Circle No. 3 with Mrs.
Blume.
A full attendance is requested.?
Cor. Sec.
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Sketch of W. (
Paper Read Before Friday
Mrs. Francis 1
William Gilmore Simms was born i
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in Charleston in 1S06. His mother,!
who was the grand daughter of Thorn-1
as Singleton, died at his birth. Wil- j
liam Gilmore Simms, the father, in 1
despair left Charleston never to re- j
turn, so he said. His biographies;
tell that his grief for his young wife j
was such that his hair turned white!
in a single night. The baby was
taken by his grandmother, Mrs.
Gates, and the child did not see his
father until he was nine years old.
Simms's freat grandfather was
Thomas Singleton, by birth a rich !
tobacco planter and merchant. It is j
said Tobacco street, in front of the
Citadel, takes its name from the
large crops brought by the wagons
from Virginia and stored in the
warehouses fronting upon it. This
warehouse stood ^*here the Citadel
now stands. Thomas Sineleton own
ed the entire square, then called "Inspection,"
but he lived in Church,
street, his house being a great meeting
place for rebels. He aided men
who stole into the city at night and
forwarded the information to the
camps. He was bravely assisted by
his daughter, Mrs. Gates. Mr. Singleton
was as liberal as rich and lost
the greater part of his fortune by
lending it to the government ana
being paid in depreciated currency.
Mrs. Gates, his daughter, was the
grandmother 'of William Gilmore
Simms, the novelist.
There is very little known of the
paternal side of his ancestry. Simms's
father was from Ireland. He came
to American after the revolution.
There was financial trouble in his
family which estranged him from the
rest of his family. He would not
discuss the matter with his son.
Thus we know very little about his
family in Ireland and nothing about
his brothers who came to this country
with him and settled in the west.
But we not only have a wealth of tradition
of his father, whom the nove
list loved dearly, Out in ail his hooks
we can see his strong influence upon
the author.
William jGilmore Simms, the fath-^
er of the novelist, married Thomas
Singleton's granddaughter, who was
the daughter of Mrs. Gates, the herione
of the war period. At the time
of the birth of their son, William Gilmore
Simms, the /novelist, the for
tunes of their family were reaching
their ebb. Old Tom Singleton's
wealth had dwindled away through
the fortunes of war, and his great
grandson grew up as a poor boy. He
had to attend the public schools of
Charleston. We of the present time
cannot realize what it meant to attend
the public schools of those days.
It was unthinkable for one of gentle
birth to have to attend them. Charlestonians
had tutors and governesses
i for their children and later finished
their ^education in Europe. Even in
1806, when the Columbia university
was organized, it required a lot of
patriotism for the wealthy youth to
I forego his fofeign education in favI
or of the home institution,
It is necessary to remember the
public school life of Simms in order
to get Simms's background as he began
life. Even this schooling was
not allowed in the north, for at the
age of nine he had to go to work in
a drug store to help out the slender
means for himself and his grandmother,
who was getting very old.
His father in the mean time had
ridden on horse back, breaking the
iade bwstooping at the rude cabin of
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some pioneer, or sometimes resting
in a friendly Indian camp. He stored
up many experiences during the trip
which he was later to impart to the
infant son whom he had left behind
in Charleston. He at last settled
in Tpnnpsspe. where he made a fast
friend of Andrew Jackson, who was
then not known so well to fame. This
was the period when the-war of 1812
was brewing. Early in the war of
1812 the Creek Indians falling upon
Fort Mimes in Alabama massacred
500 men. women and children gathered
there for safety. The country
was horrified at the massacre ana
Tennessee first came to the rescue by
voting 35,000 men to go into the
Indian country under the leadership
of Jackson, with a band of cavalry
under General Goffe. Simms was a
member of Goffe's brigade, and took
part in the battle of New Orleans.
Simms was a fighter not a writer,
but a few of his poems have survived
and have been handed down
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jilmore Simms
Afternoon Book Club Bp
M. Bamberg
by wond or mouth.. What we do
know throws light on the possibilities
of the son. After the fighting at
Xew Orleans he began to think more
and more about his son. The following
year he undertook to make the
trip back to Charleston on horse
back, resolved to bring the boy back
with him1. He found the boy more
than he had hoped for, of fine
physique, a lover of adventure and
burning with a fiery imagination. He
gained the boy at first with stories
of his Indian fights, stories of the
pioneers and wild escapades in the
frontier country. When he broached
the subject of taking the boy
back with him to Mrs. Gates, she opposed'
bitterly and refused to give
him up. Simms demanded it. The
latter went into the courts and the
ljudge left it with the little boy,
who decided to stay with his grandTY,
Viqp 'PViio Hom'cinn had a rpnl
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and apparent affect upon his tforks in
later years. His grandfather having
lived during the war times her
tales to him of the numerous experiences,
escapades, etc., were his
Mother Goose and nursery rhymes.
The little boy devoured her stories
of thrilling experiences. It has often
been said that a child's impressions
are all made at the age of seven, and
if that is true, Simms at that age
must have had his mind saturated
with historic tales. When he began
to write he -had a wealth of material
to draw from. Add to these his
father's adventures, and we have his
extensive storehouse.
From the time that his apprenticeship
at the drug store began his life
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was uue ui uaie uppui iuuuj' aiiu uaiu
work. His nights still were his own.
Any spare money he could keep he
bought books from secondhand shops
and read and studied far into the
night. He studied Latin and French
by himself. He even made surreptitious
attempts at composing poetry.
During the following years he acquired
an immense amount of knowledge.
He always regretted that he did not
have a college education, though
there were few men of that day who
were possessed of a wider range of
information than he had acquired
for himself. At. the age of 18 he began
the study of law. Even in his
poverty he clung to the.idea of giving
himself the requirements of a
gentleman, although he had to work
hard for them. In no other state
could it have been harder for him
than in South Carolina. He was
determined to work out his destiny
and bring 'himself to the eminence
which his grandfather had in the city
in his day. His adversities were
many and would have broken the
spirit of a weaker man.
At the age of 18 his father wrote
him begging him to come on a visit
to him. He accepted readily and
sailed from Charleston by boat to
New Orleans and from there on
horse back to Mississippi where his
father was then living. He stopped
at night in the frontier cabins and
Indian villages as his father had
done. It must have been a wonderful
experience to the boy who hau
'Deen snut up in a druggist suup must
of his life. When he reachetf his
father he found him just returned
from the Indian country several hundred
miles to the west. He took
similar trips with his father visiting
the Creek and Cherokee nations. He
spent days with the Indians learning
their languages and customs. He
often spoke of the idea of the taciturnity
of the Indians being a mistaken
one, that after they trusted
you they were the greatest chatterboxes
in the world.
When Simms began to write 'he
had all the material for his Indian
stories first hand. He does not present
us, as Cooper did, with the In
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cuan wno oniy exisieu iu uio uimu.
During his visit to his father he ate,
slept and lived with all manner of
man, the pioneer, the robber, the
scout, the pioneer woman, the peddler.
He was picturing people he
actually knew lived at the time and
when he described scenes and conditions
he was telling about places he
had seen with his own eyes. At the
height of his popularity many men of
his warmest admirers complained
that he should not have pictured
such ruffianly characters in his border
stories. They had not 'been used
to his type of work and thought it
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Patrick. Succumbs
to February Wound
Charleston, April 1.?John A. Patrick
died at the Baker Sanatorium
last night as the result of a gunshot
wound received on the night of February
25, near St. George, having
been brought to Charleston the following
day for treatment. His body
will be shipped to St. George this
morning by Mr. J. Henry Stuhr, and
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tne iunerai wm ue ueiu iu Appier a
Methodist church. Mr. Patrick's
father is the Rev. W. T. Patrick, of
Dorchester.
Mr. Patrick was wounded while on
on his way home from his store on
the "wire road" about five miles from
St. George. He was walking alone at
the time and as he was passing a
clump of trees he was fired on. Later
Willie Carr was arrested in St.
George, charged with the shooting.
It is alleged that the tragedy resulted
from Mr. Patrick's statement
that Carr had interferred with his
boat and Carr is quoted as saying
that he resented Mr. Patrick's charge,
while not denying its truth. Both of
the men belong to well-known families.
Mr. Patrick was only about
thirty feet from his assailant when
he was wounded.
There has been very little hope for
Mr. -Patrick's recovery and latterly
it was realized that his chances were
desperate. He was about forty years
of age. He is survived by a widow
and several children.
GOVERNOR SIGN'S 'PHONE BILL.
Charges Same as Those Prior to January
1, 1921.
Columbia, April 3.?Governoi
Cooper today signed the Foster Act
requiring the Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph company to reduce
its service rates to where they
were before the South Carolina Railroad
commission authorized an increase
on January 1, 1921. The signature
of the governor makes the act
the law of the state.
The act gives the company right,
to appeal the promulgated rate of
the commission to the circuit court
and supreme court for adjudication.
The provisions of the act, according
to interpretation, will not interfere
with the bills rendered by the
company for the month of March, but
will provide for a 20 per cent, reducx
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I lion in UI113 I CUUC1CU IU1 oci ui,g uuting
the month of April.
The act exempts independent lines
! operating in not more than two counf
ties owned by citizens residing within
those counties. The act, it is believed,
would require independent
companies having stockholders outside
the specified distances to -come
under its provisions and reduce their
rates also.
While no statement to the effect
has been made, it is believed that the
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
company will ^est the validity
[ of the act in the courts.
j Walhalla Preacher Found Near Still.
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Walhalla, March 29.?Tuesda>
morning between 3 and 4 o'clock,
Sheriff Alexander, Deputy Sheriff Sullivan
and Federal Agent Baskin captured
h forty gallon still in operation
and two gallons of w1hiskey near Old
Pickens in Oconee county. There
were three men at the still, of whicn
number two escaped, and the "man"
captured turned out to be the Rev.
S. 0. Whitman, superintendent of the
Oconee Orphanage. Whitman is now
in Walhalla jail. A distillery sig*ht
was located very near the orphanage.
The officers have been waging a war
"TnnnnQhinprs " and theV
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have averaged capturing a still a
day for the past two weeks. One still,
the largest ever captured in the county,
was of 300 gallons capacity.
Sues Ehrhardt Men.
Suit for $18,558.33, with certain
interest amounts was brought in the
United States district court here yesterday
by the Hanover National Bank
of New York, against J. 0. Barnes, S.
W. Copeland, J. E. McMillan, G. B.
Clayton, G. W. Folk, and H. Karesh,
as thk guarantors of loans made by
the plaintiff to the Farmers and Merchants
Bank of Ehrhardt. It is alleged
that the defendants named,
with the late Dr. J. H. Roberts, entered
a signed agreement in 1920
with the Hanover National Bank to
guarantee paper discounted by theFarmers
and Merchants Bank with
the Hanover National to the amount
of $70,000.?Charleston News and
Courier, April 4.
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Late Taxpayers May
Lose Right to Vote
Columbia, April 3.?Persons paying
their 1921 taxes .late, under the
resolution of the recent legislature,
which authorizes postponement of
tai^s, will not have the right to vote
in certain elections of this year, according
to the opinion of the attorney
general's office. The opinion of
the attorney general was expressed
in a letter written unofficially to Cornelius
Otts of Spartanburg, attorney
for parties interested in a school trustee
election in Spartanburg, county;
and while it .was not an official opin- '
ion, it expressed the legal view of the
situation as taken by the state's attorney.
At the same time, the attorney
genyaj's office stated that the
matter of the legality of a vote by a .
person who postponed paying his taxes
under the recent legislation would
have to be settled by the courts.
The attorney general takes the
position that the resolution of the
legislature, ' which provided that
late payment of taxes would not disqualify
an elector, is contrary to the
constitution, and he quotes court rulings
to substantiate his contention. \
The constitution provides that as a |
qualification for voting all taxes for j
the year must be paid by December |
31, or the elector cannot have the |
right to vote in any election for six 1
months thereafter. |
T . resolution of the legislature j
postpones payment of taxes without g
actual execution by. the sheriff until I
September, but with penalties rang- * i
ing as high as seven per cent, after ?
May 1. There . is a proviso to the |
resolution which says that the pay- 9
ment of tax under this resolution will j
not disqualify fen elector from voting. I
The attorney general takes the posi- I
tion that this is contrary to the-con- j
stitution. The opinion of the attor- jj
ney general's office was writen by As- |
sistant Attorney General Daniel, as a
unofficial advice to the Spartanburg j
school authorities. J
FLAMES DAMAGE AIKEN HOTEL.? 9
Fire Destroys One Wing of Highland a
Park. * j
Aiken, April 2.?One wing of the j
Highland Park hotel here was burned
in a fire which began at 11:30
o'clock tonight. For a time the
flames threatened the entire structure
and a call on Augusta for 'help . "*
was made. However, the flames were > J
under control before the Georgia
city unit fire fighting apparatus arrived.
The loss is estimated beween
$25,000 and $30,000. The company
plans to rebuild the burned portion at
once.
The wing destroyed was at right
angles to the main building and was |
two stories high. The lower floor -J
consisted of the dining room, sun par- j
lor, kitchen and pantry. The second i
floor was cut up into 12 rooms occupied
by hotel help. These saved all j
thpir pffnrts and no one was injured.
The hotel is owned by an Aiken *
the time the fire was discovered.
These all left their rooms without
mishap, and returned to the hotel as
soon as the fire was put out.
Thus far it is not known just how
the flames originated.
The hitel is owned by an Aiken
company of business men, incorporated
as the Highland Park Hotel company.
J. C. Hill is president and J.
J. Sweeney, manager. ]
Tex Rickard Freed l>y X. Y. Jury.
New York.?George L (Tex) Rickard,
international sports promoter,
Tuesday was found not guilty of
criminal assault on Sarah Schoenfield,
fifteen-year old school girl, by a
jury in the supreme court. The ver
diet was 'handed down after the jury
had deliberated an hour and a half.
When the verdict was announced,
Rickard, his face flushed, went over
to his counsel, Max D. Stener, and
embraced him.
Drinking Lye Causes Death.
The infant child of Boysie Sharp
met with a terrible death Monday
night. During the day the child got
hold of a can of concentrated lye,
drank a quantity of the fluid, from
which death followed several hours
later. Physicians could do nothing to
save the child's life, and it died in
great agony. The child was about
a year and a half old.
Late advices from the bedside of *
Dr. Frank Kirkland, of Savannah,
are to the effect that he is still very
vj
seriously ill. Dr. Kirkland Is suffering
from poisoning caused by an abcess
on leg.