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? $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 11,1922. Established in 1891.
, Bamberg Has <
Ground Flc
Friday night at 8:30 at the town
lhall in Bamberg a most important
meeting is to be held, the purpose of
which is to start a movement for the
organization of a chamber of commerce
in this town. The meeting is
called by J. Frank Folk with the comnerfttiYm
of a number of other citi
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zens. A book has been placed at
Mack's Drug Stors for the purpose of
Registering the names of all parties
interested in the matter of organizing
a chamber of commerce, and all such
; . 'citizens are asked to place their
names thereon, and then attend the
ineeting Friday night..
* This meeting is called because of
the unexcelled opportunity Bamberg
i has right at this present time. There
ire many opportunities that exist, but
hick require the services of some
good boosters to put them across.
, it ia lully realized that the boll
yreeVil is here tb stay, and that this
county has no reasonable excuse fo*
believing that we will ever enjoy
ihuCh profit from the cotton crop
^ again. It is therefore necessary that
this entire section of the state must
branch out into some other fields. The
* iact that our principal source of revenue
has gone demands that something
? * Voon Ramhor? in her
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riigjhtful place in industrial and commercial
lines.
Bamberg has the opportunity, for
i one thing, of becoming the central
tobacco market of southern Carolina.
If all interested persons will refer to
k map of Soulth Carolina, they will
aote that the nearest tobacco market
tj); Bamberg is located at Sumter, with
ICingstree about the same distance.
,?he market that once existed at Sum,
iherville has been discontinued, and
tills tobacco should come to Bamberg.
BUYS RADIO TELEPHONE.
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v 6oard of Trustees for Cope School
Appointed.
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- Cope, May 4.?W. M. Hughes is
* having a radio telephone installed at
his home here. Mr. .Hughes expects
fco hear the news from New York and
mother distant points.
\ About two inches of rain fell here
' last Friday afternoon and night and
. was considered of much value to the
. hat crop and also the truck farms that
i . have, been planted around here last
fail and the first of the year.
"The board of trustees for the Cope
I Eroded school .was appointed last
I week and is composed of five memj
hers, instead of three, as heretofore,
f : as follows: , S. B. Cope, J. I. Valente,
B. E. Hitter, Winfleld Clark and
ti. Carter. The "first three men:
tioned were reappointed, the last two
} being new members. It was learned
5 thai the entire faculty was reelected,
; but it is not known as yet whether all
?. members will accept.
Iii the absence of J. Fisher Cleckjj
ley, superintendent of Union Methou
4iBt Sunday school, the exercises were
conducted bt.the assistant, R. K. Hen"
;; ery, and ninety-three were in attend
ance. ! It being the fifth Sunday,
') there was no regular appointment,
I but the Rey. C. T. Easterling at 11:30
Q'clock 'announced that hereafter
fihere would be preaching every fifth
Sunday at the church.
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. : : Miss Daisy Ritter, a deaconess in
. , the Spofford Missionary home of Kan.
sas City, Mo., is here for a vacation
- and visit to hei> mother and other
relatives an.d friends. - She has with
: her one of the little boys of that insti
tution.
' Columbia Bank Gets Ten Million,
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$150>,000,000#faTm loan bonds put
on the market today the federal farm
loan board will allot $10,000,000 to
the federal land bank at Columbia,
according to Commissioner Lobdell
. tonight. This amount will be $2,500,000
in excess of the amount allot^
ted to the Columbia bank from previous
bond issues and $1,500,000 in
excess of the amount allotted to any
other bank of the current issue. The
officials of the Columbia bank have
advised Washington th&t they plan
the resumption of farm ioan applications
within the next fortnight.
Sure Sign.
- Jack?"Halloa, Bert, who's the
girl?"
Bert?"What do you mean?"
Jack?"Well, you're not wearing a
collar like that for fun, are you "?
London Tit-Bits.
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in Unexcelled
m Opportunity
J. F. Lane, tobacco warehouse manager
for the Cooperative Tobacco
Marketing association, has been assured
by the officers of the association
that they consider Bamberg the logical
distributing point for the entire
southern section of the state. This
includes all of the counties below
Sumter and Kingstree, embracing
fifteen or twenty counties that are
I now planting more or less tobacco
and wihich will doubtless develop the
industry much more in future years.
There is no doubt of the fact that
some town in this portion of the state
will become the central marketing
point for all these counties. Bamberg
ought to be that point and will be if
the proper enthusiasm is put behind
the movement. A chamber of commerce
will perform a great part in
putting Bamberg on the tobacco map.
Truck is the newest industry of
this county and section of the state.
There are great possibilities in this
industry, and Bamberg can easily become
the distributing point for truckers
of a large territory. Some organization
is needed to push this end of
the business.
Then there is the matter of securing
new industries of all kinds. The
Herald knows of one or two enterprises
that could probably have been
I located in Bamberg if it had been
j somebody's business to have interestI
ed the parties in tms section.
It is also a fact that nearly every
to.wn in the state has an organization
of this kind and the advantages
of other places are being placed before
investors. Bamberg is the best
town between Augusta and Charleston,
but not everybody knows it. We
know it, and should tell folks about
it. But everybody's business is nobody's
business.
OLD CITADEL ENDS CAREERNew
Quarters Have Been Provided at
Cost of More Than a Million.
Charleston, May 3.?Charleston's
historic Citadel, which produced
many of the heroes of the ConfederI
ata war ia about to be abandoned as
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a military school. The city and the
state have provided new quarters for
the college at a cost of more than
$1,000,000.
Ahout the buildings which have
become known as The Citadel, much
history has been wrought. The main
building was used prior to 1830 as a
tobacco inspection warehouse, and
into it rolled great hogsheads drawn
by mule, horse and ox from interior
farms. Upper stories were added
from time to%time until today the
building is a stalwart structure four
stories high with accommodations for
325 cadets.
After services as a tobacco inspection
warehouse the Citadel was used
for guards who partrolled the city's
magazines on the outskirts of Charleston,
and it was during this period
that the name Citadel came into common
use in describing the building.
The guards were called citaaei
guards.
In 1842 the state decided to convert
the Citadel into a military college,
and on December 20, of that
year, the South Carolina Military
college had its genesis, the "Arsenal"
then at Columbia being used as a
preparatory school.
With the outbreak of the Con
federate war Citadel cadets joined
the Confederate army, and some of
the south's most famous soldiers developed
from among them. Citadel
men are said to have fired the first
shot of the war when the steamer
Star of the West endeavored to bring
, supplies to beleaguered Fort Sumter.
A piece of wood from the Star of the
wests nuu was rasmonea into a
star, and for upwards of 30 years a
replica has adorned a gold medal
awarded at the school for efficiency
at drill.
The Citadel was occupied by federal
troops during reconstruction days,
but was returned to the state and reopened
as a military college in 1882.
It is located on Marion square in tihe
heart of the city.
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An Authority.
Willie: Papa, teacher asked us to
find some new words that have just
come into the English language. Can
you tell me some?
Papa: Go ask your mother, Willie.
She always has the last word.?Exchange.
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Haile Kills Carolina
Professor and Himself
Columbia, May 6.?This morning
Benjamin Haile, marshal at^the University
of South Carolina, shot to
death M. Goode Homes, professor of
engineering, and then blew out his
own brains. There had been a long
standing controversy between Prof.
Homes and Mr. Haile relative t}o
Prof. Homes's participation in the
awarding of contracts for certain
minor repairs to buildings at the university.
About six months ago certain
anonymous letters were received
by members of the board of trustees,
impugning the integrity of Prof.
Homes in the awarding of building
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contracts. mcsc ic^cio ncn, xu
vestigated and found to be trivial.
The matter was brought to the atention
of the board of trustees of the
university and the board's sub-committee
found Prof. Homes not at
fault at all.
It appears that Mr. Haile was instructed
by the president of the university
to investigate the authenticity
of these anonymous letters, which
he did. A feeling of animosity arose
between Prof. Homes and Mr. Haile
relative to' these charges, it seems.
The board of trustees through its
sub-committee investigated the
charges and found Prof. 4 Homes
blameless and came to the conclusion
that Mr. Haile, through instructions
as he thought from the presi-j
dent of the univedsity, had himself
probed into the charges against Ptof. |
Homes?and as the sub-committee
thought?believed that Prof. Homes
was guilty of "petty graft." Prof.
Homes was of the opinion that Mr.
Haile had a ' personal grievance
against him. Mr. Haile likewise
thoueht Chat Prof Homes was l
tempting to persecute him, it appears.
Both men were under the delusion
that each was persecuting the other.
This, according to W. J. Cormack,
member of the board of trustess of
the University of South Carolina, who
in conjunction with D. M. Winter, of
Columbia, and B. A. Hagood, of Charleston,
investigated the charges which
Mr. Cormack believed were the cause j
of today's tragedy.
It appears in the testimony of Dr.
Currell and Dean L. T. Baker that
several shots were fired before cognizance
was taken of the tragedy.
George H. Huggins, treasurer of the
university at the time of the killing,
was using a telephone and Miss Sawyer,
assistant bookkeeper, was in the
office.
Mr. Haile, according to Miss Sawyer,
asked her to leave the office as
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;ne came in co gei uis weetvij ivn.
Prof. Homes was already in the office,
inspecting certain repairs made to the
office. That is all that is definitely
known as to the killing.
' Shots were fired in the office. Dr.
Currell went to the office and was
threatened by Mr. Haile, who pointed
a pistol at his head and ordered the
president to get away, according to
President Currell's testimony. Short-'
ly afterwards (the elapse of a few
seconds) Dean Baker went to the
door of the marshal's office and Mr.
Haile directed ihim to leave, and peremptorily
fired at him, but not to hit,
as Mr. Haile was an expert shot, and
the ball went over I>ean Baker's head.
A few minutes later another shot was
heard by Dr. Currell and others, and
when the peace officers appeared they
found Prof. Homes dead in am anteroom
to the treasurer's office and the
body of Marshal Haile lying near the
southeastern end of the treasurer's
office with a revolver lying near his
feet.
Five exploded shells were scattered
on the floor near him and two
empty chambers were in the revolver.
The supposition is that Mr. Haile
killed Prof. Homes and then to have
privacy drove all away from his office
and wrote a letter. However, the accuracy
of expression and the composed
manner in which the letter was
apparently written, leads to the belief
that the letter was composed before
Mr. Haile went to the office. The
letter purported to be signed by Mr.
Kaile was identified by Christie
Benet, to whom the envelope containing
it was addressed.
The letter referred to Mr. Homes
as trying to save himself and also
referred to others connected with the
university as being responsible for
the tragedy. The letter contained the
hope that ,4I have a friend that will
demand a fair, honest and thorough
investigation and let the truth be
known."
A notation oa a slip of yellow
paper which Mr. Homes was aecustomed
to use contained the following:
Prisoners Mutinied;
Fourteen Wounded
Columbia, May 8.?Prisoners at the
state penitentiary mutinied at the
noon hour today and city policemen,
state officers and county deputies called
in as reinforcements, fired on the
prisoners, shooting fourteen of them,
two being wounded seriously. The
two prisoners who were seriously
wounded were taken to the city hospital.
An attempt was made to burn
the chair factory of the penitentiary.
The riot took place following the
dinner hour. Capt. Roberts ordered
the men to bring from their cells their
civillian clothes and other articles
which would not be needed for their
prison lives. The men obeyed, but
some of the leaders were sullen,
thinking the officers were planning
to take away their personal effects
used daily. Capt. Roberts assured
the leaders that there was no intention
of depriving them of their personal
epects, but what was' wanted
was for the unnecessary articles to be
stored in the commissary building.
Tho men filed nnt nf the ehair fa*?.
tory and announced through their
leaders that they would not go to
work. There was mutterings and
cursing and the men were armed
with sticks and knives, mostly tools
used in the manufacture of the furniture
in the chair factory.
* The penitentiary officials telephoned
for reinforcements. A score
of city policemen and a dozen county
and state officers responded, armed
with riot guns.
The prisoners during the mutiny,
set fire to the chair factory in the
basement. Those outside cut the fire
hose of the prison. At this point,
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with a view to putting water on the
prisoners in order to drive them bac&
into the chair factory.
After the city, county and state
officers arrived the mob of prisoners,
about 150, workmen on the second
floor of the chair factory, surged toward
the detachment of officers. They
cursed the officers and threatened to
kill them. It was at this point that
the officers opened fire. Eleven men
fell wounded, the others scrambling
back into the chair factory. With
probably a half hundred officers on
duty, quiet was maintained and within
a short time the prisoners were
marched back to their cells and locked
up.
The ring leaders of the trouble, it
is said, were: Frank, a Nbrth Carolina
prisoner; A. J. Rowe, a prisoner
nomad Qonrcv Howard Clark and
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David Suggs, the latter from Columbia.
It is reported that a man named
Rosen, sent up from Charleston, is
the most seriously injured and will
probably die.
After the trouble had subsided and
the prisoners wgre locked in their
cells, one of the men ordered to remove
some of his effects from the
dobrway of the main building, stood
before a group of officers and cursed
them. One officer struck him vwith a
walking stick ind knocked him down
and he was taken to the prison hospital,
bleeding profusely, but not seriously
hurt.
The prisoners are being treated in
the prison hospital except for the two
who were brought to a city nospuai.
All the convicts employed on the
second floors of the chair factory were
involved in the mutiny, there being
about 150 prisoners, only a few of
them negroes.
The officers of the prison, assisted
by the Richland officers, city policemen
and all available peace officers,
had the mutineers under control and
in the "new prison" building by 2
o'clock. The wounded were taken to
the hospital and given medical treatment
by Drs. Jennings and Payne.
Among the wounded were Dave
Suggs, of Columbia, who was shot
twice in the legs; Prank Portner, nature
of the wound not stated, and
Howard Clark. Dr. Jennings said he
would prepare a complete list of the
wounded prisoners later in the day.
Two of the most seriously wounded
prisoners were taken to city hospitals
for further treatment. Jack Davis
was also hurt in the clash with the
officers.
That one of the prisoners was arm'
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ea "wiifl <x guu ui icvuiici noj
ally believed, as Rural Policeman
Koon, of Richland, and his son, heard
a bullet whizz past their hats
"But I have been dissuaded from doing
this by my friends through consideration
for the welfare of this institution."
A coroner's jury found that Mr.
Haile killed Prof. Homes and himself
while temporarily insane.
Value of Sout
Crops ^ Gn
According to estimates of B. B.
Hare, agricultural statistician in
South Carolina for the bureau of
markets and crop estimates, U. S.
department of agriculture, the total
value of the 13 leading crops in the
state last year amounted to $123,937,552,
which means that if all the
crops had been sold and converted
into money there would have been
an average cash income of $643 per
farm, the estimates being based on
number of farms in the state as reported
by the census of 1920. The
aversere value of these CTOPS Per
plow is estimated at $452. The crops
considered are as follows: Cotton,
corn, wheat, oats, Irish potatoes,
Value of the
13 crops named
County based on pri'c >
Dec. 1, 1921.
Abbeville $2,211,684
Aiken .... 3,105,626
Allendale 1,231,853
Anderson 7,015,300
Bamberg 1,547,038
Barnwell .'. 2,154,697
Beaufort .... 1,376,730
Berkeley : .... 1,163,218
Calhoun 1,456,694
Charleston 1,646,750
Cherokee 6,821,315
Chester 3,132,772
Chesterfield 3,299,090
Clearendon 2,213,643
Colleton 1,948,899
Darlington 3,781,120
Dillon 4,0-33,884
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Edgefield 1,772,297
Fairfield 1,742,595
Florence 3,948,477
Georgetown 641,993
Greenville 4,917,954
Greenwood 2,030,539
Hampton 1,268,180
Horry 2,744,107
Jasper 594,360
Kershaw 2,203,255
Lancaster 2,167,527
Laurens 4,373,630
Lee 2,862,167
Lexington .... 2,611,725
McCormick 939.154
Marlboro .... 5,501,762
Marion 2,235,533
Newberry 2,926,294
Oconee 2,894,627
Orangeburg..' 4,371,709
Pickens .... : 2,929,240
Richland 1,961,175
Saluda 1,861,489
Spartanburg 7,550,986'
Sumter 3,163,170
Union .. 2,061,494
Williamsburg 2,933,270
York 4,610,955
It should be noted that the average
production of cotton per plow is based
YEGGMEN GET MONEY.
$1,200 2n Cash Secured at Two Stores
at Scran ton. Near Florence.
Florence, May 5.?Yeggs blew open
safes in the postoffice and store of B.
B. Myers and the drug store of J. G.
Singletary at Scranton Wednesday
night and secured approximately $1,200
in cash, besides papers of value to
the owners only, it became known
here Thursday afternoon. Residents
, of Scranton iheard the discharge of
the explosives, but no investigation
was made until morning.
The two large safes entered were
wrecked by the force of the explosive.
In addition to the money taken deeds,
mortgages, insurance policies and
ther papers, none : of them negotiable,
were stolen.
Included in the money was $860
in gold belonging to Mr. Singletary.
i This represented an accumulation of
gold which he had been collecting for
years. It was Mr. Singletary's habit
to save evry gold piece that came into
his hands.
Mr. Myers lost $250. The balance
of loot was postoffice property. It is
not known how many yeggs were in
the party. It is thought they escaped
on a passing freight train.
Try Him With Hash.
Mrs. Jones was entertaining some of
iher son's little friends. "Willie," she
said, addressing a six-year-old who
was enjoying a cold beef, "are you
sure you can cut your own meat?"
The child, who was making desperate
efforts with his knife and fork, replied:
"Yes, thanks. I've often had it as
tough as this at home."?The Christian
Evangelist.
h Carolina
own Past Year
sweet potatoes, tobacco, peanuts,
rye, sorghum for syrup, cow peas,
hav and rice.
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The table below shows the total
value of the 13 crops, the average
value per farm and the average value
per plow, as well as the average
number bales of cotton produced per
plow in 1921, .by counties. It will
be observed that the highest average
farm value and the average value
per plow is in the northwestern and
eastern counties where boll weevil
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damage last year was less severe
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wihen compared with the other sections.
The figures will furnish some
index as to the purchasing power bf
farmers in the various counties.
Average val- Average val- Average
ue per farm, ue per plow, number
based on based on bales cotprice
Dec. price Dec. ton pbr
1, 1921. 1, 1921. plow '21.
$ . i $381 2.9
622 357 1.6
699 351 * 1.3
787 585 5.2 .
608 387 1.0 /
693 458 1.7
435 299 0.1
432 314 0.3
502 364 1.3
427 366 0.1 '
602 396 3.0
756 513 4.4
713 492 4.1
437 340 1.2
490 336 0.3 ' ; l&i
768 455 .. 2.6 ?
1,172 823 7.0 J
355 263 , 0.5
444 322 1.3
i 439 328 1.9
746 448 2.4 -;.y SJJ
35 0 320 0.2
727 558 6.1 i / .gi
507 369 2.5
630 352 0.8 '
585 457 S 0.6
4 A 4 AA? *
so* u.3
601 408 2.4
582 416 3.1
720 573 '4.6 '
678 493 3.3
542 414 1.5
322 1 247 1.1 ]
866 638 3.4 '
1,228 949 8.7
632 496 3.1- ~
693 507 3.8
512 336 1.4
848 552 4.3 '
504 327 1.4 475
320 1.6
912 640 6.1
645 452 2.6
732 >480 4.0
492 291 1.0
789 523 4.7
Vr$
| on tike total number of plows operated
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McLENDON JOINS BAPTISTS.
Dr. Norris Says He Was One of the
400 Added to Ft. Worth Church. ; j
The Raleigh News and Observer
says
iRev. Baxter McLendon, known as
"Cyclone Mack," has joined the Baptist
church, according to a message
to the News and Observer from Dr. J.
Frank Norris, pastor of the First Baptist
church in For?. Worth Texas.
McLendon started his career as a
Methodist church circuit rider. Dr.
Norris wires as follows:
"Evangelist 'Cyclone' McLendon
has just closed the greatest meeting
in the history of Fort Worth. Sam
Jones and Billy Sunday have been
here, but McLendon held the greatest
meeting. The meeting was held in
the First Baptist church and was held
while the pastor, Dr. J. Frank Norris.
was in New York eitv Ov?r 40ft
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have united with the church. The
results will go over a thousand. Baxter
McLendon is the greatest evangelist
on the American platform.- He
joined the first Baptist church Monday
night.
The Bhrhardt Cooking Club.
The Ehrhardt Cooking club held its
regular meeting on May 2nd at the
school auditorium.
The meeting was called to order by
the president. Then the minutes of
the last meeGng were read and roll . /
called.
Miss Emma Jane Varn was then
asked to take charge of the meeting.
She gave the club a demonstration on
"How to cook a devil's food cake."
After the cake was cooked it was cut #
and served to the members of the
club. This was indeed a very interesting
meeting,
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