The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 07, 1922, Page 5, Image 5
Visitors in the Town
And the Community
?Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Carter spent
Sunday in Kline.
?Charles Strom spent a few days
last week in McCormick.
?George Price left this week to
re-enter Clemson college.
?Miss Edna Rice has just returned
from a visit to Charleston.
?John Dixon spent several days
last week in Greenville county.
?H. Wick Johnson, of Charlotte,
is in the city visiting relatives.
?Miss Vivian Kinsey is visiting
relatives and friends in Augusta.
?J. B. Rice, of Columbia, spent
the week-end here with relatives.
?Mrs. C. P. Hooton is spending
some time with relatives at Estill.
?Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Black spent
Sunday in Orangeburg with relatives.
?John C. Lanham, of Spartanburg,
spent the pest week-end in the
city.
?Rev. and Mrs. P. K. Rhoad and
family spent a day in the city last
week. ** ?v>" *
?Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Groce, of
Wellford, were visitors in the city
recently. ,
?M. A. Moye, of Charleston, spent
several days here last week with
relatives.
?Miss Ida Brabham is spending
several days on a visit to friends in
Florence.
?J. A. McMillan, Jr., of Afeheville,
N. C., has been visiting relatives in
the county.
?Miss Dorothy Van Orsdell is at
home after a visit to relatives at
Newberry.
?Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Henderson
returned to the city Sunday from the
mountains.
?Mrs a. W. Farrell. of Embree,
is visiting the family of her son,
John Cooner.
?Mrs. K. .C. Riley has returned
to the city from the mountains of
North Carolina.
?Miss Nell Black has gone to
Bennettsville, where she will teach
school this term.
?Mrs. J. F. Lane has returned to
the city after spending a few weeks
in the mountains.
?Miss Alma Richbourg, of Summerton,
was the guest of Miss Isabel
Cantey last week.
?L. P. Tobin returned to the city
Saturday from Greer, where he spent
a week's vacation.
?Miss Mildred Guilds, of Columbia,
spent several days in town last
week with relatives.
?Mrs. J. W. Craven and son, Fred
Craven, of Marion, are visiting Rev.
and Mrs. O. B. Falls.
?L. B. Fowler is spending several
weeks at Smoaks, where he is doing
some construction work.
?J. A. Richbourg and children, of
Asheville, N. C., have been visiting
Rev. and Mrs. S. 0. Cantey.
?Mrs. Mamie Murdaugh has returned
to the city after a vacation
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ter.
- -Misses Martha Ray and Lalla
Byrd left last week for Charlotte,
where they will teach the coming
session.
?Mrs. Cornelia J. Dunn has returned
to the city after spending
some time with relatives in Aiken
county.
?Miss Florence Roach and little
nephew, Judson Pringle, Jr., of
Charleston, spent the week-end in
the city.
?Miss Mary Frances Walker has
returned to the city after a tour of
Europe covering several weeks during
the summer.
?Lonnie Price left Tuesday morning
for Clemson college. Lonnie was
awarded the Clemson scholarship
from this county. ,
?Misses Eunice and Lerline Herndon
have returned to the city after
spending several weeks in Wrights
ville Beach, N. C.
?Misses Ochie Maie and Margaret
Jennings returned last week from
Billon, where they spent some time
with Mrs. A. B. Jorhan.
?Sergeant and Mrs. L. A. Trawick
have returned to the city. Sgt. Trawick
has been on duty at Camp McClellan,
at Anniston, Ala.
?Misses Eunice Hunter and Lerlene
Herndon have returned to the
city after spending several weeks in
Wrightsville Beach, N. C.
?Mrs. J. W. Barr has gone to
Leesville, where Mr. Barr is ill. The
friends of Mr. Barr will be pleased to
know that he is improving.
?Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Lane, Miss
Carolina Lane, Mrs. A. C. Schumpert
and Miss Marie Schumpert, of
Newberry, visited Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Whitaker last week.
Mrs. Henry Ford is said to use the
most luxurious and complete private
railway car ever built.
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Two Watchmen
Done to Death
Aiken, Aug. 30.?Eugene Feaster,
of Bath, and J. Reedy Booth, of Aiken,
were shot, stabbed and clubbed to
death by six or seven men about 5
o'clock this morning at the Southern
railway shops -at Hamburg, where
they had been employed as night
watchmen during the shopmen's
strike.
When the watchmen were found
about an hour after the attack, Feaster
was dead, but Booth was conscious
and was able to give some details
of the affair. He died a few
hours later at the University hospital
in Augusta. Feaster's body had been
riddled with bullets from a rifle,
pistols and shotgun; three balls from
a high power rifle had passed through j
his left side and there was a deep i
gash in the right shoulder, severing,
the collar bone. This wound appeared
to have been inflicted} with some
bayonet-like instrtfment.
Booth said after being shot through
the thigh he feigned death to escape
the murderous shots of their assailants,
who fired on Feaster after he
wfas down. Booth, after falling from
the shot, was brutally kicked about
the face and neck, the back of his
head being crushed in as from a blow
from a rifle butt. He attempted to
crawl away from the scene after the
men had left and had managed to
make about 20 yards when loss of
blood caused him to stop where he
was discovered by Special Agent
Britt and others. He was immediately
rushed to Augusta to a hospital.
It was thought at first that he would
survive, but weakened by the loss of
blood and the terrible blow on the
head he died at 9 o'clock.
One or two" clues have been dis/-./ v-rsn
for not mnph is known
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of the affair. About 4:30 a. m. two
men walked into the yard and were
followed by the two night watchmen.
They were led outside the yards a
short distance, where the for or five
othec men were waiting and were
fired upon with pistols, shotguns
loaded with buckshot and rifles.
Eugene Feaster was 34 years of
age and formerly resided at Graniteville.
He is survived by a wife and
one small child. J. Reedy Booth was
23 years of age and a young man of
quiet ways and sterling qualities. He
resided with his mother and father.,
Mr. and Mrs. James Booth, .on upper
Laurens street in Aiken. He was a
member of the Aiken post, American
Legion.
Funeral services for Reedy Booth
will be held tomorrow morning at
the First Baptist church in Aiken.
Interment will take place in the fami*
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Lancaster-Craig.
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Govan, Sept. 3.?One of the prettiest
weddings of the season was that
of Miss Lila Lancaster and Julian
Craig? which took place here Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock at the
home of the bride's * mother, Mrs.
Annie Lancaster.
The parlors were beautifully decorated
in southern smilax and goldenrod.
An arch of white entwined with
festoons of southern smilax from
which a white wedding bell was suspended,
marked the place of the
I briday party.
Prior to the entrance of the bridal
party, Miss Eloise Hutto, of Elko,
played Traumerrie, "Melody in F,"
and "Humoresque." Then the bridal
party entered to the strains of the
wedding march from "Lohengrin."
First came the ribbon bearers, little
Misses Alma Lancaster and Estelle
Bolen, a sister and niece of the bride
wearing dainty dresses of yellow organdie.
Next came the bridegroom
and his best man, Julian Craig, of
Wilmington, N. C. The bride entered
with her maid of honor, Miss Stella
Lancaster, of Denmark. Miss Lancaster
wore a pale green organdie
dress and hat and carried a bouquet
of purple asters. The bride, who is a
lovely blond, never looked more beautiful
than on this occasion. She wore
a handsome suit of dark blue cloth
with tan accessories and carried a
bouquet of bride roses, lillies of the
valley and maiden hair fern.
They were met at the altar by the
bridegroom, where the beautiful and
impressive ring ceremony was performed
by Rev. Paul A. Bolen, of
Orangeburg, a brother-in-law of the
bride. McDowell's "To a Wild Rose"
was played very softly during the
ceremony, Mendelssohn's wedding
march being used as a recessional.
Mr. and Mrs. Craig left immediately
after the ceremony to spend a few
weeks in the mountains of North
Carolina, after which they. will be at
home in Ridgeland, where Mr. Craig
holds the position of superintendent
of the Ridgeland school.
Mrs. Craig as Miss Lancaster was
one of Bamberg county's most popular
young women and has a host of
friends in this state where she has
taught for several years.
Mr. Craig is a young man of ster
Moves to Dismiss
Bigham Appeal
Columbia, Sept. 1.?Solicitor Gasque
yesterday moved before the supreme
court for a dismissal of the
Edmund D. Bigham appeal on the
grounds that it was "manifestly without
merit." The court took the motion
under advisement and will render
an opinion later.
The solicitor moved under Rule 30
for a dismissal and presented his
arguments to the; court, claiming
that the appeal had no merit whatever.
A. L. King and Mendel L.
Smith, attorneys for Bigham, resist
ed the motion.
Mr. Gasque read the order of Judgei
S. W. G. Shipp declining a new. trial
when the motion was made before
him. Judge Shipp refused the motion
on a question of fact, the alleged
new evidence not being sufficient to
warrant a new trial, Mr. Gastfue said.
Would Not Change Result.
In regard to the 12 letters on
which the defendant is basing his
plea for a new trial, Mr. Gasque said
both Bigham and his wife knew of
these at the time of the trial, but no
effort was made to produce them.
These letters would not change the
result of the verdict against Bi?ham,
Mr. Gasque argued. Among the letters
was one in which Smiley Bigham
said he was going to kill all the
family and "leave no one to tell the
tale" He also said "you will not See
me alive again." This letter is one
of the main ones relied upon by the
defense, but the solicitor said it
would not have changed the verdict
if it had been introduced.
Mr. Gasque said an end to the litigation
in this ease should be reached
some day. He spoKe or tne nrst iriaj,.
the appeal and the affirmation by the
supreme court and now this appeal.
*'It looks like an endless chain of
litigation,'" the solicitor said. He
cited procedure to show that Bigham
may continue to appeal for many
more times and asked the court to
dismiss the present one as he did not
think it had any merit. It does not
come within any of the requirements
set down by the supreme court for
an appeal, Mr. Gasque said.
A. L. King, attorney for Bigham,
said the appeal had sufficient merit
to stay the execution of Bigham and
told the court that if there had been
no merit in the appeal it could not
have stayed the sentence. Mr. King
dealt at length on the letters alleged
to have been written by Smiley Bigham
to Edmund Bigham. Mr. King
also produced an affidavit from J. G.
Miller to the effect that Smiley Bigham
had told him in Florence prior to
the crime that he (Smiley) was going
to "kill every?one of them," meaning
the Bigham family.
Another affidavit of much importance,
according to Attorney King,
was the one in which Mrs. Margie
Black, sister of the Bighams, was
quoted as having said that the family
sent for Edmund to protect them
from Smiley, this being when Edmund
was living in south Georgia.
Mr. King also brought out the suicide
theory, claiming that the coroner
himself when he first saw the
body of Smiley Bigham said "it certainly
looks like suicide to me."
Circumstantial Evidence.
Mendel L. Smith said the case was
one entirely of circumstantial evidence
and had been built up on the
theory that Edmund came from Georgia
to kill the whole family. Mr.
Smith read the letter alleged to have
been written by Smiley in which
Smiley said he was going to kill all
the family, and stressed the fact that
eight pxperts in penmanship have
sworn that the signature to the letter
is Smiley's.
At this point Justice Watts said
from his experience with the family.,
he having tried two or three of them,
the Bighams always did things differently.
This was in reply to a statement
of Mr. Smith.
Solicitor Gasque in reply told the
court Judge Shipp had examined the
letter alleged to have been written
by Smiley in which Smiley said he
was going to kill the whole family
and had found the signatures thereon
to have been traced. Mr. Gasque
said the original signature was not
traced very good and part of the
"I" and "s" in the name was left untraced,
this being apparent under a
magnifying glass. Mr. Gasque also
pointed out that all the letters were
on the same stationery for a period
of nearly three years. The solicitor
said this "looks a little peculiar."
, They were all typewritten, Mr.
Gasque said, when Smiley was known
to have transacted his business in
long hand with his banks and other
places.
ling qualities and is widely connected
throughout the Carolinas.
The great number of handsome
wedding presents attested to the popularity
of the bride and bridegroom,
among them being a chest of silver
| a gift of the bridegroom's family.
Man Kills Wife
on Public Road
Walterboro, Aug. 31.?Mrs. Myrtie
Evans, wife of Tudor Evanst was shot
and killed in the public road near
Thayer's mill, five miles from Walterboro,
Tuesday night, by her husband.
At the. time she was shot she was in
an automobile with Robbie L. Hiers.
There had been trouble between Mr.
and Mrs. Evans, and they were not
living together, and it is said that the
relationship between Mr. Hiers and
Mrs. Evans was largely responsible
for the domestic infelicity. They had
been together a great deal for some
time and it is understood that Evans
had made threats. At the time of the
killing Mrs. Evans was living with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Herndon.
Her brother was working at
Thayer's mill and Mrs. Evans had
gone there to pay him a visit. Mr.
Hiers, who is a contractor, was engaged
in erecting a building for the
mill, and Mrs. Evans had requested
him to take her back to her parents'
home. While in the car just after
starting Mr. Evans,, who had also
been working at the mill hauling
logs, met them in the road and ordered
them to stop the car. Mr. Hiers
fearing trouble declined to stop.
Evans fired just as the car passed
him, the entire load of buckshot entering
the left side of the back of his
wife and penetrating her heart caused
instant death. Other shots were
fired at the car but none other took
effect.
Coroner Dopson was notified and
held the inquest at the home of her
parents where the body had been taken
by Mr. Hiers. The funeral will be
at Grace church this afternoon.
Mr. Evans was brought to jail yesterday
morning by Deputy Sheriff
Benton. It is thought he will arrange
for bail immediately.
Civilization.
"What is civilization?" asks a
California writer. It's where you
stand on a street corner and wait for
10 street cars, 300 automobiles, f?0
motorcycles, 25 bikes, a dozen motor
trucks, a few fire engJnesI the police
patrol, a hurry-'ip ambulance and a
funeral to pass before yoi dare make
a try for the opposite corner.
During the world war and since
Uncle Sam has decorated but thirteen
women of this country for the
part they played in it.
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A Thought for the Week.
My readers may wish to know
what constitutes a good farmer. I
i think the requirements of a good
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(1) The ability to make a full and 1
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(2) To rear a family carefully and j'
well;
(3) To be of good service to the!
community;
(4) To leave the farm more pro- '
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
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 pledge myself to support
the nominees thereof.
GEORGE W. HUNTER.
MAGISTRATE- FISH POND.
At the earnest solicitation of numerous
friends, I hereby withdraw
from the race for County Commissioner
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.
R. H. JOLLY.
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION.
Notice is given that on Sept. 11,
1922, the undersigned intend to file
with the Secretary of State a written
declaration for the purpose of securing,
in accordance with the statute
law of this State,'a charter for the
Edisto Building and Loan Association,
a corporation to be established,
with its principal place of business at
Bamberg, S. C.
A. W. KNIGHT,
* E. H. HENDERSON,
<R. M. HITT,
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TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF
BAMBERG COUNTY.
It is with genuine gratitude that I
again announce to the public that I
am in the second primary for County
Commissioner for the Lower District.
I appreciate more than I can
express the handsome vote given me
on the 29th of August}, and Urge my
friends to go to the polls on the 12th
of September, and if this is done I
feel sure that I will be your commissioner
for the next two years.
Again promising that if elected, I will
be found trying to do my full duty
and will be the commissioner to
friends and foes alike. Yours faithfully,
J. B. McCORMACK.
CARD FROM J. S. TANT.
In reelecting me upper district
county commissioner, the voters of
Bamberg county have placed me
deeply under obligation. I have sincerely
tried to do my full duty during
my term of office, and I pledge
my best efforts to continue the same
service. I appreciate every vote given
me, and I assure you one and all
that I am going to give my whole
hearted service to the county.
J. S. TAXT.
CARD FROM W. B. SMOAK.
I desire to express my heartfelt
thanks to the voters of Bamberg
county for the magnificent vote given
me August 29th. I feel that this is
an approval of my administration as
sur.?- ' ;or of this county, and the
fact t t I was overwhelmingly elected
on the first ballot will be an incentive
for me to render even better
service than I have in the past.
For each individual vote, and for the
generous support in other ways of
all my friends. I wish to extend my
"'"OflT-o o-nnrPPiatlOTl.
W. B. SMOAK.
CARD OF THANKS. :f
I wish to take this means of thank*
ing the voters of Bamberg county for
the magnificent vote given me in the
primary.
.1 appreciate the confidence which
the people have reposed in me, and I
wish to assure you that I will do all
in my power to protect your interest
in the lawmaking body of the state,
and that I will endeavor to represent
all sections of the county impartially.
Yours for service,
J. CARL KEARSE.
CARD OP THANKS.
I wish to express to the voters of
Ehrhardt and Kearse my sincere
thanks for the splendid vote given J
me in the primary for magistrate.
I appreciate the confidence of the
people, and I promise you to continue
to conduct the affairs of my office
.to the best of my ability. ;.<*
L. G. YARLEY.
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