The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 17, 1922, Page 4, Image 4
Clje fgamberg Heralb
ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C.
Entered as second-class matter April
1891, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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Volume 31. Number 33.
Thursday, August 17, 1922.
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The Barnwell Sentinel contains almost
one column on the editorial
page headed "Something About Alcohol."
The article is an exhaustive
nvocroeic rm thic suhipot and is writ
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ten as if the writer knows what he is
talking about.
The Chesterfield Advertiser: "The
Dearborn Independent says that during
the 19 months that we were at
/ war 91,000 persons were killed on
our highways?almost twice the number
of Americans killed in battle or
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died of wounds." And yet millions?billions?were
spent to win
the war, which was well* Compared
with the cost of the war nothing was
spent to prevent these unnecessary
deaths at home.
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^ We don't know what is the matter
with Mr. William Coleman. We don't
know anything about him, because
he has not seen fit, for some reason
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"WHICH we ao not. kiiuw, l<j man*?
sort of campaign for the (governorship.
We should like to see someone
champion a platform like that he
started out with. He started in a
vigorous manner, and suddenly virtually
dropped out of the running.
It is to be hoped that the voters in
the primary on t'he 29th of this
} X month will bear in mind that this is
a Democratic primary, to nominate
Democratic candidates to run on the
Democratic ticket in the general
election in November. In the past
South Garolinians have made rather
strict demands of the candidates as
Pto their Democracy; those w<ho have
flirted with the Republican party, or
whose Democracy was tainted, were
not given much consideration in the
'Democratic primaries. Bolters were
never popular in this state.
The state tax commission claims
to have put $110,000,000 worth of
property on the tax books. It is no
trouble to increase the taxable property
under the methods employed by
the commission?simply increasing
m ' property at will. Much of this additional
property is represented in the
stocks of the merchants, who are required
to return their mercantile
stocks at full value, whereas other
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tax books at only a part of jts value.
Of course much <^J*fpToperty that
has been put ojj'lhe books should be
taxed. ^ *
^ Georgians Highway Inertia.
Georgia is not only the largest
state in the south east of the Mississippi
in area and population, but
in wealth. She has unlimited means
and resources, but no legislative vision.
The pain, for instance, that is
being expressed over a proposed bond
issue for roads, is excrutiating. The
legislature is all torn up over it.
Two separate proposals are before
the law-makers, proposing bond
Issues of $5,000,000 and $30,000,000,
each to be floated in equal subi;
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divisions over a period of three years.
There are stout advocates of both
plans and still another faction that
does not advocate either one.
Quite singularly Georgia called
upon Frank Page, chairman of the
North Carolina road commission, to
come down and tell what North Carolina
waS|doing in the way of building
roads. Georgia is better able to
build roads than the Tarheel state,
but she doesn't do it. And as a consequence
North Carolina is forging
ahead of the Empire state year by
year. * What Mr. Page told them
must have made them open their
eyes?and their mouths. North Caro
lina issued $50,000,000 Donas ior
roads last year and proposes to
spend $10,000,000 a year until the
state is thoroughly covered with a
system of improved highways. At
present the state is spending $82,000
a day on her roads. x In 1923 it is
proposed to float another $15,000,000
bond issue and later on more if
necessary. North Carolina now has
6,000 miles of public highways and
will have 3,000 additional miles before
the work is completed, 1,000 of
which will be hardsurfaced.
Georgia, on the contrary, has no
state highway development plan and
\ what good roads she boasts are intermittent
because they are con
structea ana maintainea oy me individual
counties.
Good roads are not to be looked
upon as an expense. They are as
vital a part of a state's equipment as
are the looms of a cotton factory.
North Carolina is going to reap big
dividends from her highway development
and Georgia will lose if she
does not develop hers. This is a
matter in which no state can afford
to be recalitrant. Not even South
Carolina.
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Woods Charged With
Killing of Hill
Barnwell, Aug. 12.?The inquest
over the body of Alfred M. Hill, who,
j it is alleged, was shot and killed yesterday
afternoon by Jobe Wood near
Patterson's Mill, albout seven miles
from Barnwell, was held this morning,
the verdict of the coroner's jury
being that "A. M. Hill came to his
death by a gunshot wound at the
hands of J. S. Wood," and that "E.
M. Harley was accessory before and
after the fact." Harley, it is alleged,
was with Wood at the time the homi
cide occurred.
In addition to the statement made
by Dr. Charles A. Hensley as to the
nature of the wounds that caused
Mr. Hill's death, statements were
made by Sheriff C. K. Sanders and
W. F. Bates.
Sheriff Sanders testified that he
was called over the phone from Dunbarton
and was told that Wood had j
shot Mr. Hill. He went there immediately.
He further testified that
Wood told him that he (Wood) and
E. M. Harley were going down the
road^ toward Patterson's mill an,d
met him; that Mr. Hill said: "Jobe,
now is the time to settle it." and
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shot at him with a pistol, and he shot
Hill twice with a shotgun, killing
him.
W. F. Bates testified as follows: "I
was standing talking to Mr. Cochrane,
Silas Rountree and Dr. Anderson.
I heard three shots, two gunshots
in quick succession and a pistol
shot some twenty-five or thirty sec|
onds after the gunshots. I was working
a piece of public road from Patterson
to Millett. In consequence of
what my son told me I rode up to
where the body was. I found A. M.
Hill dead. There were present when
I got there T. B. Harley, Sr., Willie
Wood and Reuben and Clifford
Wood. T. B. Harley, Sr., told me
that Jobe Wood had just gone by ihis
house and had told him that he
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Hill was lying on his face. His .coat
was turned up at the ibottom and his
left hip pocket was turned wrong
side outward."
Wood was lodged in the Barnwell
jail about 12 o'clock last night. Following
the verdict of the coroner's
inquest a warrant was sworn out for
Harley, who was arrested, and is
also in jail. The accused men have
retained Brown & Bush, who left
here this afternoon for Aiken to
make application for bail before
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Hill was a one-armed man, -having
lost his right arm in a gin accident
several years ago.
SHERMAN L. WHIPPLE IS
OUT FOR LODGE'S SEAT.
New York Times.
Boston.?Sherman L. Whipple, of
Boston, has announced that he is a
candidate for the Democratic nomination
for United States senator "to
contest the reelection of Senator
Lodge."
"I have no illusions as to the contest
upon which we are entering,"
Mr. Whipple's statement declared.
"Senator Lodge represents in the
senate the senate power of organized
money interests. They wilf fight to
the last ditch to retain him.
''We can win against such odds
only, if, and because we are fighting
for right." .
In a reference to William A. Gaston,
already in the field for the Dem
ocratic nomination, Mr. Whipple
said:
"Can we expect that victory win
come to us if all we offer is the same
thing under a different guise or the |
; old master under a new name? What J
| would it amount to to ask the peoI
pie to replace Senator Lodge by one
I whose instinct, training and associations
would lead him to think and
feel on the vital issues which affect
the plain people just as Senator
Lodge thinks and feels, and whose
instinct and inclinations would lead
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Him to do ana to vote regaramg mose
i great issues just as Senator Lodge
J has done and voted?"
Senator Lodge and other Republican
leaders were held responsible by
Mr. Whipple in his manifesto for conditions
of unrest prevailing in the
country today.
"He has been leading backward
and not forward," the statement said.
"He has been leading against the
movement of the times and not with
it. He has been leading directly
against the great swing of progressive
principles. He has been leading
back to the old days, to the days of
prosperity of tariff, feed trusts and
industrial serfdom, the days when
prosperity was reckoned by millions
of profits to the capitalists and not
by the standards of living and well
being of the masses.
"The people have refused to be
led back. They insist upon going
forward. Hence the revolt, the confusion,
the unrest, the bitterness, the
resentment, the crying sense of injustice.
Hence the defeat of the Republican
leaders that seems to puzzle
htem so."
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SOME NOTABLE BRIDGES.
The attempted scare over the condition
o? the Brooklyn bridge is not
| taken very seriously by New York
I newspapers. The fact that.two of the
bridge cables have slipped a little
over an inch is not accepted as indicating
the disintegration of the
structure as a whole. Washington
A. Roebling, who supervised the
completion of the bridge back in the
eighties, declares emphatically that
it is eood for two centuries at least.
The New York Tribune says that the
thing to do is to seek the advice of
the very best bridge engineers. This
would seem to be the only sensible
course.
What the Brooklyn bridge has
meant to the development of Greater
New York is beyond all calculation.
It was the first tremendous step in
the development of lower Manhattan
island into the heart of the business
world. There are four other
great suspension bridges across the
East river but the Brooklyn bridge
has never lost its supremacy. Longer
bridges have been built elsewhere
but no other bridge has the fame of
the Brooklyn bridge, no other bridge
is used daily by so vast a number of
people.
It is interesting to note in this
connection how large a part bridges
are accustomed to play in city building;
especially is it interesting for
Charleston to do this at the present
time. Springfield, Massachusetts, is
dedicating this week a superb bridge
across the Connecticut river, built as
a memorial to the patriotism of the
men of Hampden county. The bridge*
which has a length across the river
of 1,180 feet and a total length, including
railroad viaduct, of' 1,494
feet, is of reinforced concrete, archribbed
type, and has been completed
at a rost of $6.000.000. It is a thing
of beauty as well as of the utmost
permanency. During the period of
its projection and building the bridge
has been the subject of much controversy
but this seems to have died
down and Springfield is to celebrate
the opening in great style. With
reference to the width, one of the
matters formerly in dispute, the
Springfield Republican says that "it
is clearly recognized now that it
would have been a mistake to have
built a bridge less than 80 feet
wide."
There are numbers of fine bridges
across the Connecticut river, one at
Hartford which is similar to that at
Springfield and which iiKe tne i
Springfield bridge has a width of 80
feet. The most remarkable bridge
now under construction in this country
is that across the Delaware river
between Philadelphia and Camden,
a structure, which, to take care of
the navigation requirements of the
situation, must be the longest suspension
bridge in the world, with a
center span 1,750 feet in length, 135
feet above mean high water. This
bridge is to cost $28,871,000, the
state of Pennsylvania putting up $8,221,000,
the city of Philadelphia
$8,221,000, and the state of New
Jersey $12,429,000.
Probably not many people know
of the proposed bridge across the
Hudson river between New York and
New Jersey, a bridge intended to
take care of vehicular traffic as well
as of nasseneer traffic of all the
steam railroads which have terminals
on the New Jersey water front.
According to the Springfield Republican
President Rea of the Pennsylvania
railroad and President Willard
of the Baltimore & Ohio have
both given their approval to this
project and a company has been organized
for its promotion, but the
difficulties are so great that "an actual
beginning within the next five
years is improbable."
Few things more strikingly typify
the spirit of progress than does a
handsome bridge. The spanning of
| the Santee, the fine new structure
j soon to be built across the Ashley,
the bridging of the Savannah and
! the numerous other bridges which
have linked the islands 01 tne coast |
with the mainland and opened the
way over such smaller streams as
the Edisto will mean the joining up
for the first time of the country
which lies along the immediate
South Atlantic seaboard and should
mean the beginning of a new era for
the low country of South Carolina.
?News and Courier. /
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Work or Fight.
A prim proper young miss was
much horrified on the street to find a
small boy, apparently not over six
t years old, smoking a cigarette.
"Little boy," she commanded.
"Throw down that horrid thing this
minute."
"Go chase yerself, lady," answered
the infant disdainfully. "Hunt
yer own. I found dis one meself."?
American Legion Weekly.
"Be a good felloe," says the wheel.
"Keep cool." says the fan.
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Never turn off the ignition on a
hill or the car will drag the engine.
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Notice of Primary Election
August 29.
For the purpose of nominating
candidates for state officers, a congressman,
and county officers, notice
is hereby given, pursuant to the rules
of the Democratic Party of South
Carolina, that a direct Primary
Election will be held in Bamberg
County, August 29th, 1922, and the
following named managers have been
appointed by the County Executive
v^uinmniee lo cuuuuct me eiecnon
at the several Democratic Clubs, to
wit:
Bamberg?E. L. Price, Sr., H. D.
Free, and L. C. Price, Managers. J.
W. Folk, Clerk. Election to be held
at the Court House.
Colston?G. W. Kearse, G. W.
Beard and Perry Lee McMillan, Managers.
C. M. Varn, Clerk. Election
to (be held at the Colston School
Building.
Denmark?T. P. McCrae, R. A.
Goolsby, and W. H. Cain, Managers.
James Wiggins, Clerk. Election to
be held at the Sandifer Store Building.
lEdisto?Hubert Herndon, B. C.
Kinsey, and Jeanny Dempsey, Managrs.
Clayton Jolly, Clerk. Election
to be held at Farrell's Store Building.
Embree?L. E. Cooner. .T. .T Ener
land, and Clarence Irvin Hughes,
Managers. James M. Watterson,
Clerk. Election to be held at the
Embree School Building.
Ehrhardt?H. W. Chitty, I. D.
Copeland, and J..E. McMillan, Managers.
W. R. Copeland, Clerk. Election
to be held at Copeland Hall.
Govan?R. L. Lancaster, Joseph
Gunnells, Jr., and Clifton Eubanks,
Managers. Stoney Kennedy. Clerk.
Election will be held at the Govan
School Building.
Kearse?G. E. Kearse, J. S. Breland,
and L. M. Ayer, Managers. J.
O. Ritter, Clerk. Election to be held
at the Kearse Store Building.
Lees?J. C. Kemp, H. A. Cave, and
F. L. Cox, Managers. J. W. Grimes,
Clerk. Election to be held at the
store building of J. W. Grimes.
Little Swamp?J. Z. Harrison,
Jr., R. M. Goodwin, and Q. H. Miley,
Managers. J. C. Goodwin, Clerk.
Election to be held at the Little
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owamp ocnuui nouse.
Midway?Q. H. Sandifer, B. D.
Donalds, and J. P. O'Quinn, Managers.
Gilmore Simms, Clerk. Election
to be held at the store building
of Q. H. Sandifer.
Hightower's Mill?E. H. Hartzog,
J. W. Hightower, and W. B. Gillam,
Managers. L. W. Abstance, Clerk.
Election to be "held at Hightower's
Mill Building.
Hunter's Chapel?N. H. Fender,
Arnold Walker, and David M. Smoak,
Managers. Horace Rentz, Clerk.
Election to be held at Hunter's Chapel
School House.
Olar?G. M. Neeley, H. F. Starr,
and G. O. Barker, Managers. E. C.
Barker, Clerk. Election to be held
at store building of H. H. Kearse.
iSpringtown?G. Marion McMillan,
C \\7 o n "YT ?T Mon,
vj. ?v. ai i cu, auu .u. u . i i tt, .uuuagers.
R. L. Kearse, Clerk. Election
to be held at Duncanville School
Building.
Pursuant to a resolution passed by
the County Executive Committee, the
voters of the clubs of Bamberg and
Midway will vote for Magistrate at
the Town of Bamberg; the voters
of the clubs of Denmark, Lees and
Hightower's Mill will vote for Magistrate
at Denmark; the voters of the
clubs of Olar, Govan, Springtown
and Colston will vote for Magistrate
at the Town of Olar; the voters of the
clubs of Embree, Edisto, Hunter's
Chapel and Little Swamp will vote
for Magistrate in Fishpond Townsnip,
and the voters of the clubs of
Ehrhardt and Kearse will vote for
Magistrate at Ehrhardt.
The voters of the clubs of Bamberg,
Midway, Embree, Edisto. Hunter's
Chapel and Little Swamp will
vote for cotton weigher at Ban berg;
the voters 01 tne ciuds oi feumaik,
Lees, and Hightower's Mill will vote
for cotton-weigher at Denmark; the
voters of the clubs of Olar, Govan,
Springtown, and Colston will vote
for cotton-weigher at Olar, and the
voters of the clubs of Ehrhardt and
Kearse will vote for cotton weigher
at Ehrhardt.
. Under resolution of the County Executive
Committee, J. S. Tant and W.
H. Collins, candidates for County
Commissioner, were declared to be
in the Upper District, and G. W.
Hunter, J. B. McCormack, and J. W.
Zeigler, candidates for County Commissioner,
were" declared to be in
the Lower District. The voters of
the entire County will vote for one
person for the Upper District and
one for the Lower District.
Under the rules of the Democratic
Party and the law of South Carolina,
all clubs having an enrollment
of fifty (50) voters or more are required
to conduct the election according
to the Australian Ballot Act.
Therefore, the election at all clulbs
except Midway, Lees, Hightowers'
Mill and Springtown, under the law,
will have -to be conducted according
to the provisions of the Australian
Ballot Act, and each club will require
one booth for every one hundred
enrolled voters, or a majority
fraction thereof.
Under the rules, the polls will be
opened at eight (8) o'clock, a. m.,
and close at four (4) o'clock, p. m.
The managers are requested to
designate one of their number to
procure the ballots and ballot-boxes
from the Secretary of the County
Executive Committee, W. D. Rowell,
at .Bamberg.
The County Executive Committee
will assemble at the Court House,
Bamberg, S. C., at 12 o'clock, noon,
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on tne <sist ua y ui Auguot, * ~ , ?.v
tabulate the returns and declare the
results of the Primary.
There will be a second Primary for
the nomination of Officers not nominated
in the first Primary, to be held
the 12th day of September, which
Primary will be held under the rules
and regulations of the first Primary
and the Managers named for the first
Primary will act as Manners for the
second Primary.
J. F. CARTER,
County Chairman.
Bamberg, South Carolina, August
14, 1922.
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CONGRESS.
I hereby announce myself a candi-!
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ua.Lt; lor me .uemocratic nomination j
for Representative in Congress from \
the 2nd Congressional District.
. JAMES F. BYRNES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for reelection as a member of
the House of Representatives from j
Bamberg county. I pledge myself to j
support the nominees of the Demo- i
cratic party. J. CARL KEARSE.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for reelection as a member of
the House of Representatives. I
pledge myself to abide the rules of
the Democratic party, and to support
the nominees thereof.
W. L. RILEY. 1
AUDITOR AND SUPT. EDUCATION.
Thanking the voters of the county
for their generous support in the past
and asking a continuance of same, I
hereby anounce myself a candidate
for reelection to the office of Auditor
and Superintendent of Education of
Bamberg county, subject to the rules
and regulations of the Democratic
primary. W. D. ROWELL.
SUPERVISOR. ,
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for relection to the office of
Supervisor of Bamberg county in the
Democratic primary. I pledge myself
to abide by the rules of the party and
support the nominees thereof.
W. B. SMOAK.
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I hereby announce myself a candidate
for the office of County Supervisor,
subject to the rules and regulations
of the Democratic primary,
pledging my support to the nominees
thereof. G. VICTOR KEARSE.
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Lower District.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for the office of County Commissioner
from the lower district in the
Democratic primary. I pledge myself
to abide by the rules of the Democratic
party.
J. B. McCORMACK.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for the office of County Commissioner
for the lower district, subject
to the rules of the Democratic primary
and nledsre mvself to suDDort
the nominees thereof.
GEORGE W. HUNTER.
Upper District.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for reelection as County Com- i
missioner from the upper district. I
pledge myself to abide by the rules
and support the nominees of the Democratic
primary. J. S. TANT.
MAGISTRATE, FISH POND.
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I hereby announce myself a candidate
for Magistrate of Fish Pond
Township, subject to the rules of the
Democratic primary, pledging my 4
support to the nominees thereof.
F. E. STEEDLY.
At the earnest solicitation of numerous
friends, I hereby withdraw a
from the race for County Commis- 1
sioner for the Lower District, and
hereby announce my candidacy for
the office of Magistrate of Fish Pond
Township, subject to the rules and
regulations of the Democratic party, A
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I hereby announce mysolf a candidate
for Magistrate at Fish Pond,
subject to the rules of the Democratic
party. I also wish to thank the \
voters for their support in the last
primary election. J. M. CARTER.
MAGISTRATE AT EHRHARDT.
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date for magistrate at Ehrhardt j
(Three-Mile Township), subject to
the rules and regulations of the Democratic
primary, pledging my support
to the nominees thereof.
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