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$2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 15,1922. Established in 1891.
Weather Favors
Growing Crops
For the past several weeks the
weather has been about all that the
farmers have not desired, and the result
has been a general atmosphere
of pessimism about the outcome of
the 1922 crops. To begin with the
spring weather was not favorable for
planting purposes, and then the rains
set in with fury, continuing until a
week ago with a more or less general
nature.
cmm infests nracticallv every field,
and the planters are having the time
; of their lives fighting "General
, Green/' but the hot days and fair
weather now favor the planters and
excellent work is being put in everywhere.
? One farmer stated Sunday that his
corn had the appearance Qf having
grown several inches since the preceding
I^iday; the color had changed
from a sickly yellow to a vigorous
{green, and the plants were in a generally
healthy condition.
Cotton?a strictly hot and dry
weather plant?has taken on new
life, and is growing rapidly, especially
where cultivation has been possible
during the past several days.
The old adage that cotton does not
grow until one cannot sleep at night
is doing the work for the cotton crop
now, for, verily, one has .difficulty in
securing enough breeze at night to
enter into slumberland.
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What is pleasing the planters more,
perhaps, than anything else is the
fine hot sunshine, for the opinion generally
prevails that this is the best
boll weevil poison to be h?d. The
v "bug" authorities all agree that the
weevil cannot thrive when the sand
becomes hot.. The weevil punctures
a Vsquare," which falls to the ground
a few days later. This square contains
eggs or "grubs," andvthe eggs
trrnho have small chance of ever
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reaching maturity in the hot sand,
especially when it is possible to cul
tivate rapidly to that the top soil
keeps hot.
> The rains have been rather peculiar
in this county, as well as in this part
of the state. Some sections, we are
informed, have not been visited by a
great excess of rain, while others
> have been literally' washed away.
"While .some planters have been able
to do a little cultivation all along,
some others have not been able to
put a plow in the ground for several
weeks. Thus, . many farmers find
their farms eaten- up with grass;
some of them will perhaps never be
sble to clean the crops out, and this
-Brill necessarily cause much hard
ship. Fortunately this condition does
not prevail all over this section.
Visitors to other parts of the state
also say that this' section is well fav*
ored compared to some other coun^
ties; that the rajns have not been
as excessive, and that crops generally
are better tiian the average.
All in all,xBamberg county farmers
are "looking up." There is not present
the same discouraging appearance
\ as was noticed a couple of weeks ago.
The fact that the authorities all say
that June and July weather will determine
in large measure the success
of the 1922 cotton crop, coupled with
the fine weather now prevailing, is
most encouraging.
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Seegars-Cain.
V. McBee, June 11.?The lfome of
Mrs. J. W. Seegars was the scene of
a very simple but impressive wedding
Thursday afternoon when Miss Corinne
Seegars became the bride of Dr.
* Herman Earl Cain. The Rev. R. R.
Tucker, pastor of the bride, performed
the ceremony, at which only the
near relatives of the couple were
: present. The living room was taste1
* fully decorated with pot plants and
cut flowers. The bride and bridegroom
entered alone to the strains
of Mendelssohn's wedding march. The
bride's striking beauty was enhanced
^ - by her traveling suit of midnight blue
crepe with accessories to match. After
the ceremony the couple left for
a short bridal trip, after which they
will be at home to their friends in
. McBee.
> The bride is the youngest daughter
of . Mrs. J. W. Seegars and is one of
the most popular of McBee's younger
set. She is a young woman of un^
usual charm and beauty and her
friends are delighted that her marriage
will not take her away from
MoBee.
The bridegroom is a successful
> pharmacist, having come to McBee
from Denmark only a few months
ago, and is a young man of sterling
.character and business ability.
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Flyer s Harrowing
Experience in Swamp
Arcadia, Fla. June 11.?Treed by
a panther and compelled to spend
the greater part of the night in the
branches of a large cypress ip the
urilHo nf tVio hio- nvnrPSS country;
?f V & W*iv r- ? ? devoured
by mosquitoes, his clothes
torn to tatters by the cruel teeth
of the giant sawgrass of the south
Florida swamps; without food for
nearly forty-eight hours?these were
among the exeperiences of Cadet Raymond
White, Carlstrom Field aviator,
whose plane crashed in the
wilds of southeastern Lee county last
Thursday about noon, and who returned
to the flying field this afternoon
intone of the planes that had
searched for him since last Thursday.
Cadet White, whose home is at
Pritchett, Texas, was making a practice
flightrfrom Carlstrom Field to
Okeechobee City and return last
Thursday. The first part of the trip
was completed without incident and
Cadet White, flying alone, started
on the return trip, becoming turned
around and losing his bearings and
his sense of direction completely almost
as soon as he started.
Instead of flying northwestwardly,
White headed his plane almost
due south. When at a point about
forty miles southeast of Immokalee,
Lee county, his fuel tank ran dry
and his plane crashed. The plane
was completely wrecked, but White
escaped injury.
He stayed with the wrecked plane
until the sun had sank far enough
to give him his direction. Then
White started to walk toward the
northwest, looking for signs of human
habitation but finding none.
With his clothing torn to tatter3,
bitten almost beyond endurance by
the swarms of mosquitoes in the edge
of the big cypress and he prepared
to spend the night under a tree.
During the night one of the huge
panthers that infest that remote section
chased the aviator into the
branches of the tree, and there he
remained until daylight drove the
beast away.
Continuing his tramp, foodless and
with only the swamp water to quench
his thirst, young White was picked
up Friday evening, about 5 o'clock by
a Seminole Indian and was taken to
the camp of a small band of the
Southern Seminoles. There he spent
the night, proceeding Saturday to another
camp several miles distant. On
the way two of the searching planes
from Carlstrom were sighted, but
gether for a short distance until Mr.
his Seminole guide were not seen and
the planes passed on.
Saturday afternoon the aviator and
his Indian guide reached Kennedy
Carson's ranch, where the night was
passed and White had the first meal
of a white man's grub he had eaten
since Thursday morning. Early this
morning Carson started with White
in a buckboard -for Immokalee. On
the way another of the searching
planes was sighted and Carson and
Whit.e. siznallina. attracted the at
tention of the ^fliers, and the planes
made a landing.
White was taken aboard and the
plane made the return flight to
Carlstrom Field, reaching there
shortly before dark this evening.
White suffered no ill effects of his
harrowing experience beyond a myriad
bites of mosquitoes, the fright
caused by the visit of the panther
and the exhaustion of his walk, in
which he covered at least fifty miles
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OI CLlfc! worst tllUUlj xix ouuxu x ivi iuu.
Four big De Haviland planes, requested
by Commandant Royse, of
Carlstrom Field, from Montgomery,
Ala., arrived at the field about 5
o'clock this evening. The planes left
Montgomery at daylight this morn-*
ing and made the trip of approximately
six hundred miles without
difficulty.
ATTEMPT TO ROB OFFICE.
Thieves Fail to Make Entrance at
Barnwell. v
Barnwell, June 11.?An unsuccessful
attempt was made one night
thic week to rob the county treasur
er's office at Barnwell, a crowbar or
some such instrument being used in
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an effort to pry open the doors. Although
one lock was partly broken
and the screws holding the other
were torn loose from the woodwork,
it is not believed that the would-be
thief effected an entrance, as nothing
whatever was disturbed inside of the
office. The supposition is that he
was frightened away before completing
the job.
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Enrollment Books
Are Now Open
The club books for the enrollment
of Democratic voters are now open
at tJhe respective places heretofore
advertised in The Herald. Under the
rules of the party the books were
opened for enrollment on Tuesday of
last week, and will remain open until
July 25, at which time they will be
closed. The county chairman has
made an appeal to the women voters
to enroll on their club books, so that
they will be enabled to vote in the
primary elections.
The first campaign meeting will be
held on July 14, and the time for filing
pledges as candidates will expire
at 12 o'clock noon on July .13. Very
few candidates have as yet filed their
pledges.
The following gentlemen comprise
the enrollment committees througlhout
the.couhty.and Che places of keeping
the enrollment books are stated
for each club; see that your name
'is properly enrolled at once:
Bamberg?J. C. Kearse, R. M. Hitt,
and W. D. Rowell?books of enrollment
to be kept in the auditor's office.
Denmark?J. Arthur Wiggins, Miss
Lilly Cooper, R. A. Easterling?books
of enrollment to be kept at the bank
of Denmark.
x Edisto?H. E. Warren, F. A. Byrd,
T TXT + Knnlro nf onrnllmont
ti vv *y cuoici uuuao vi vaim*vmv
to be kept at the home of J. W.
Webster.
Ehrhardt?J. E. McMillan, G. J.
Herndon, and H. W. Chitty?books
of enrollment to be kept at the drug
store of Copeland & Farrell.
Govan?S. S. Williams, J. E. Kennedy,
W. A. Hay, Jr.?books of enrollment
to be kept at W. A. Hay's
store.
Hunter's Chapel?A. W. Hunter, J.
G. Rhoad, and F. E. Steedly?rbooks
of enrollment to be lsfept at the store
of A. W. Hunter.
Kearse?H. A. Kearse, J. 0. Ritter,
and L. M. Ayer?books of enrollment
to be kept at the home of H. A.
Kearse.
Lees?C. M. Cox, J. W. Grimes,
and H. B. Grimes?books of enrollment
to be kept at the store of H. B.
Grimes. - .
Little Swamp?J. M. Strickland, J.
C. Goodwin, and Q. H. Miley?books
of enrollment to be kept at the home
of J. C. Goodwin.
Midway?Q. H. Sandifer, J. P. OQuinn,
and J. Y. Hicks?books of enrollment
to be kept at the store of Q.
H. Sandifer. .
Springtown?M. J., Free, G. W.
Warren, and G. Marion McMillan?
books of enrollment to be kept at the
residence of the secretary, R. L.
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rv.c<tisc. .
Olar?G. M. -Neeley, Dr. L. A. Hart-1
zog, and H. F. Starr?books of enrollment
to be kept at the R. &. H.
Drug Store.
Colston?C. M. Varn, G. W. Kearse,
and W. P. McMillan?books of enrollment
to be kept at the residence of
C. M. Varn.
Hightower's Mill?L. W. Abstance,
C. J. Creech, and J. W. Hightower?
books of enrollment to be kept at the
residence of L. W. Abstanoe.
Embree?L. C. Kissam, R. F. Carter,
and S. E. Lingard?books of enrollment
to be kept at the office of
the Edisto River Lumber company.
KILLED WHILE HOLDING BABY.
Anderson Man Shoots His Brother.
Whiskey Blamed.
Anderson, June 12.?Peter Shaw,
thirty-six, was shot and killed hy his
brother, Eugene Shaw, at the home
of their parents near Anderson this
morning. Witnesses at an inquest
held by the coroner told of an unusual
killing, where one brother shot
down another brother who was standing
in yard holding 'his little baby in
his arms. Three different stories
were told by witnesses at the inquest,
but all agreed that Peter Shaw was
shot by his brother Eugene Shaw,
who was standing 1l the hack door
of his house where he did the shooting.
Mrs. Shaw, wife of Peter Shaw,
testified that she was in about one
hundred yards of the house, when
the shooting occurred, and immediately
ran to the house. She found
Shaw lying on the ground. She volunteered
the ir jrmation that the
! cause of the shooting was whiskey
and said that Peter Shaw had told
her that he owed Eugene Shaw money
for whiskey and that Eugene said he
would not let him 'have more whis
key because of Mrs. Shaw, whom
he said, had "more mouth than
sense." Shaw is being held at Anderson
county jail.
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Anderson Couple
Taken to Woods
Anderson, S. C., June 8.?Robert
W Qlnllivan conro+arv nf fhp Orr
Cotton Mills, and Miss Ruby Floyd
were kidnapped from an automobile
in front of the young woman's
home here late tonight, by a band
of masked men who "gave them a
lecture" as they described it, and
dropped them in the woods some
three miles out of town.
The man was warned not to be seen
in Miss Floyd's company again, he
tnlrl thp r>n1ir>P hilt hp. Hp
nied reports that had reached
them that he had been beaten.
He and Miss Floyd and the latter's
mother, Mrs. Ada Floyd, informed
police that the men were dressed
in regalia resembling that of the Ku
Klux Klan and Miss Floyd asserted
she was positive one of the men was
a negro. The couple said they would
be unable to identify any of their abductors.
Sullivan, who is about thirty-one
years of age, was recently taken in
custody at Miss Floyd's home but
no charge was made against him.
A charge of "disorderly conduct"
was made against her, however, as
a result of remarks attributed to her
Sv* n rrrif V? Q Y1O^Vl ViHT*
ill a tuuicioaviuu ti hu u
who had complained to the police.
She is about eighteen years old.
The masked band came up tonight
in two automobiles and four men put
Sullivan in one machine while three
took Miss Floyd in the other and
rapidly left town. Police were informed
by Miss Floyd but the only
clue they had until the couple made
their way back to town was the marks
of a struggle around the cars. They
were unable to ascertain* which way
the cars went.
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MASKED MEX ARE ACTIVE.
Another Anderson Man Taken Oyt
and Warned.
Anderson, June 10.?Verification
of reports received here that a band
of masked and white-robed men,
about thirty in number, seized Ollie
Crompton," Anderson county farmer,
residing near Williamston, some sixteen
miles from this city, Thursday
night, taking him to a point near the
boundary line of Anderson and
Greenville counties, where it is alleged
"ho was severelr beaten and cau
tioned by members of the party to
cease dealing in whiskey, was made
today by Chief of Police E. M. Patterson,
of Williamston.
\ Chief Patterson stated that he has
been unable to apprehend members
of the band.
Senators for Bonus.
Washingt<yi, June 10.?Informal
canvasses made by leading opponents
of the soldiers' bonus bill were said
today to have disclosed a senate majority
for the measure of practically
three to one. This compares with
the nearly five to one vote by which
the Kill nacspd thp house.
Both sides in the impending fight
were understood to have found somesatisfaction
in the result of the canvasses.
Opponents said defeat of
any cloture rule to limit debate on
the bill practically was assured,
while some proponents pointed out
that if a three to one majority could
be held there would be the necessary
votes to pass the measure over President
Harding's veto, should he disapprove
it, as some opponents contend
that he will, if passed in its
present form.
Thirty senators were listed as definitely
against the amended house bill,
with this number possible to be aug
mented by one senator who is absent
from Washington and whose position
has not yet been definitely established.
The thirty senators were divided
twenty-one on the Republican side
and ten on the Democratic side.
A number of senators who are
counted now as supporters of the present
bill if no different^one can be put
through will join in a fight to amend
the measure reported by the finance
committee. Some of them favor a
cash feature with other important
changes, but the extent to which it
will be possible to change the pending
bill is regarded now as problematical.
But He Shells Out.
Willie had been reading The
American Weekly.
"Pop," he asked, "what are Bursts
and Duds?"
"Duds, Willie," explained pop, "are
what your mother orders from the department
store. The bursts occur
when I get the bills."
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Death Sentence
Given to Bighan
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Florence, June 9.?Judge S. W. G
Shipp in the sessions court here thi;
afternoon refused to grant Edmunc
D. Bighara a new trial and sentence<
him to be put to death in the electrii
Chair July 14.
Bigham was convicted of murder 11
connection with the killing of hi:
brother, Smiley Bigham, and is in
dieted for murder also for the death:
of his mother and sister and the lat
ter's two adopted Children. Th<
wholesale murder took place on th<
Bigham plantation in January, 1921
Bigham was tried in March of las
year. The supreme court dismissec
the appeal and Righam's atttorney:
sought a new trial on the ground o
after discovered evidence which, the:
declared, tended to show that Smile:
and not Edmund Bigham did the kill
ing. It is not thought the case wil
end here.
Unabashe^. by the sentence o
death, Bigham argued with the cour
this afternoon before hundreds o
spectators for the privilege of saying
"Some things I would like to tel
now, as this may be my last chanc<
to speak before these people." Th<
court replied that "depended on hov
long you will take to tell them." Thei
as in afterthought, the court added
"You might as well tell it, though."
Abuses State Witness.
Immediately the doomed mai
Dounced UDon Philip H. Arrowsmith
local attorney, who was an importan
witness in the connection of Bighan
for the wholesale murder. ,
"I woufd have liked to have seei
Mr. Arrowsmit'h here," he said, ii
opening. "I would like to have hin
standing right here," indicating th<
center of the court room. "I woul(
tell the reason Arrowsmith accusec
me right to his?"
Whatever he intended to have sai<
probably will never be spoken, foi
the fcourt stopped him summarily witl
the reminder he was not up there to
make a speech but to state any lega
reason he might have why sentence
of death should not be passed upoi
him.
"I never studied law," said Big
ham, beginning on the line which th<
court had indicated he must follov
in his discussion. "I am ready t(
meet my God and am not guilty. Th(
reason I am convicted is because o:
the falsehoods which have been pilet
up against me. I may nave to cue. 11
fact, that's what I am up here ir
this prisoner's dock for now. It's
'hard to die for something one did noi
do.
"Jesus Christ had to die so. He
prayed for the night to pass fron
Him. The people who testified againsi
me and stuck out,to have me killec
did it.
Pleads for Himself.
"If I knew the law, maybe I coulc
state some reason why I should hav<
a new trial?one more chance. No on*
knows it alL except God and myself
If there's aiy way you could giv*
me another trial, just one day mor*
in court, I would appreciate it. Th*
state 'has four other cases against me
I never had a fair trial. The verdici
of that trial stands against me."
Bigham repeatedly avowed his in
nocence and as often averred that in
nocent blood would be shed when h(
was executed. v
"I worked hard and laid by some
means," he said in the earlier part oi
his statement to the court. "But foi
my property, no one ever would hav*
accused me. _ But they know thai
when the juice is turned onto me
it'll be money in their pockets."
Thereafter he likened himself fc
St. Paul, to JOhn, the Baptist, and tc
/-tltt:if oTT fhotr hlnnrt havin?
vill lM Xlliliocii) an buvn i/iWM . ?w
been shed innocently. "But I'll ris<
in glory with them." "* *
He challenged the state to confronl
him, even When he will be buckled
into the death chair in the penitentiary
in Columbia, with one persor
who can truthfully say that he evei
did him a single wrong or injury.
Letters Do Not Impress.
A. L. King, the attorney for the defense,
betrayed far more emotion ir
conducting the hearing than Bigham
T-rincr impressed
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his audience deeply that he does believe
Bigham is an innocent inan. But
the facts presented by the solicitor
L. M. Gasque, weighed aganst him,
Considering the letters and signatures,
which were alleged to have
been written by Smiley, for whose
murder Edmund is sentenced to die
to Edmund while the latter was ir
Georgia, the court stated frankly he
doubted their authenticity. He prac
tieally as good as said they were
Warrenville Man
Kills Wife's Keeper \|
Birmingham, Ala., June 9.?"I killed
in defense of my home."
g This was the statement Thursday
T> tr T r> n /-> OA tt. Vi ~
J ui x . v. x^aiic, ov, w iiu vv cuucauajf
j night fired six shots into the body
? of John Foland, of Alexander City,
Ala., killing him instantly.
x The death of Foland followed
3 ony a few days after a dramatic reconciliation
of Lane and his 19-year3
old wife.
Lane recently came to Birmingham
3 from Warrenville, S. C., where he
3 was a cotton mill operative seeking
news of his wife who had been misst
ing for two weeks.
I Newspapers were appealed to in an
a effort to locate her.
f Lane said his wife while on her
7 way to Augusta, Ga., from Manoula,
7 Mo., became stranded in Birmingham
_ and wired for money. "There had
1 been a big cyclone at Warrenville,and
I could not raise the money that
f day. When I wired her later, she
I had disappeared. I spent weeks
f searching for her and my two year
old baby." t
Coming to Birmingham, Lane toid
a his story to the newspapers. The next
3 day he announced that his wife had '
7 communicated with him. and that they \ x
j were going to Warrenville.
After the shooting Lane told the
nolice and coroner that he found his
wife had been accosted by'John Fo- /
1 land, while stranded here, and that
Foland took her to a hotel where he
^ virtually kept her a prisoner.
1 He declared he met Foland and
persuaded him to go to his home
where Mrs. Lane identified him.
"Is that the man?" Lane.said he
1 asked. <1
a "Yes," his wife is said to have anj
swered.
j Lane then opened fire with two revolvers,
six shots taking effect, it is
j alleged.
r "Justifiable homicide. Go . on
1 home." This was the announcement
of Coroner J. B. Russum, following
j conclusion ^ of an ina_,uest at which
a Mrs. P. V.'Lane, 19 years old, haif
J told how her husband killed John'Foland,
of Alexander City, Ala. .\ j
[ BOOTLEGGER PICKS WRONG MAN.
7 Mayor of Camden Agrees to Purchase
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i . Wigf
P . Camden, June 10.?Mayor H. G.
j Carrison, Jr., turned a clever trick
l this morning. A^stout, well dressed 4
t man, who gave -his name as Ward,
5 called upon him at the Bank of Caml
den, where Mr. Carrison is the cashier,
and told him that his name had
^ been given' him by a friend who
t thought he would like to buy some
t ,Scotch whiskey. Mr. Carrison an1
swered in the affirmative and told him
he had a friend who would like to
get some, and invited him to go with
, him. They walked up the street to
i.? e ~v. YTt.
j geeitsr iur <x suun uisiauv>c uuvu iui
} Carrison located a policeman and
called the officer. The alleged vender
' of Scotch wares asked him if he were
[ going to put a policeman on him.
^ iMr. Carrisqn told him that was exactly
what he was going to do for him;
^ that he was the mayor of this town.
Ward started running the officer right
behind him. As he reached DeKalb
street Ward called to a confederate
s in a car to move on. Sheriff Welch
happened to be crossing the street
j at the time and caught Ward and
f he was taken in charge by the police.
man and locked up. He said he was
> from Aiken. His confederate was
J caught in Columbia. Officers will go
to Columbia and bring him back and .
the two will be tried here in the cir)
cuit court. These fellows did not
} fare as well as one did here a, few
r days ago who went around quietly
j and took some orders and received
the cash for the goods and then left
^ for parts unknown. Mr. Carrison
^ is being congratulated by his friends
for the clever part he played in turnL
ing up these fellows.
frauds and forgeries.
Bigham began to show the strain
of the trial for*his life when the so
licitor in the afternoon took the floor
i to argue against giving him a new
i trial on the alleged after discovered
I evidence. First, he turned almost
livid white. Later, under the stress
i of taking the sentence of death, he
, turned ashen in color. As the judge
. pronounced the date of execution, his
- jaw dropped. As the case wore on,
J evidently with diminishing hope for
> the defense, Bigham seemed to take
, on a desperate, haunted look.
i /t was the first betrayal of any feel>
ing in the matter that has escaped
him, in words or appearance, since
i the,trial more than a year ago.
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