The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, November 09, 1922, Page 7, Image 7
Still Explodes
As the result of an explosion oc-j
curring at a "moonshine" still about;
S o'clock yesterday morning on
John's Island, near Grimball's plantation,
Tyre Middleton sustained injuries
which caused his death about
noon yesterday at the Roper Hospital
where he was taken for treatment, j
Arthur Champagne was painfully j
burned on the hand and Dick Sin-;
gleton escaped unhurt. After being!
given medical treatment Champagne:
was lodged in the county jail, for'
Sheriff Poulnoi had been notified of!
the affair and had hastened to the i
scene, accompanied by Rural Police-j
man Limehouse ana .Magistrate
Geraty. In spite of his name, the
prisoner denied that he had any
NEGROES FLEECED
New Skin Game Brought to Light in
Greenwood.
With two negro artists in high fi-'
nance in the county jail, Greenwood
police officers have uncovered a new j
scheme to separate the unsuspecting'
from his coin, and A. A. Pinckney, |
negro preacher of Promise Land, is a
poorer and a wiser man. Telling
Pinckney that they had a child whose!
guardianship they wanted him to
take, along with $1,600 for its board
and keep, three negroes, claiming to
represent a fraternal order, suggested
that it would be necessary for him
to put up a $500 cash bond. Pinckney
agreed to raise the $500 and met the
mree uueuiuers 01 uie iraienicu
order in the woods near Connie Maxwell
Orphanage about 4:30 Saturday
afternoon. There, lest he might
change his mind, the three alleged to
have taken the preacher's money by
force and left him to nurse his wrath
alone, sans money, sans child, sans
$1,6*00 for its upkeep.
Through the prompt action of
Chief of Police M. B. Chandler and
Sheriff E. M. White. J. P. Johnson,
claiming to be from Birmingham and
Thomas Williams, claiming New Orleans
as his native heath, are now in
jail charged with fleecing the preacher,
while the country is being scoured
for the third of the fraternal brethren.
When the negroes were searched,
officers found $10.60 on the person of
Johnson and $7.15 on Williams. The
search was continued and Officer C. T.
Nelson found ten $20 bills in the toe
of Williams's shoe. "1 made that
workin' " Williams declared, "and I
been usin' my shoe for a bank." After
the run on the bank, the two financiers
were lodged in jail.
Chief Chandler states that the ne
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grues were uressea in monies uj. me |
latest cut and had soft hands that
seemed foreign to labor. "On October
14, a negro in Anderson was robbed
of $200 in a similar game, and he
came here the next day with a description
of the swindlers that seem to
fit the pair in jail," Chief Candler
said this morning. "I wish anyone
who has been flim-flammed would
come and try to identify them," he
added.
Porterfieid Robbinson, Greenwood
negro, savg he worked with Johnson;
in a New York hotel, and that John-1
son had a police record there.
The third negro, who is still at j
large, is described as stout, about j
five feet, eight inches tall, weighing!
about 165 pounds. He is said to be I
rather black, with a scar over and un- j
der one eye.
WHIPPING FOR BOOTLEGGERS
(From The Greenwood IndexJournal)
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
publishes the following communication
from one of its subscribers:
Sir?The six-line dispatch from
Turkey telling of the English bootlegger
getting thirty lashes for sell-;
inz his stock in that country is de-j
cidedly refreshing and is very sug-l
gestive. Our lawmakers should take >
the hint, and whenever a bootlegger
is caught he should be treated to a
full does of the lash at a whipping
post. It must assuredly would act as
a deterrent. With such an absolutely
necessary law, rigidly enforced,
our neighbors, the Bermudians, and
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our British cousins, to say noming ui
our home bootleggers, would not be
giving the authorities so much
trouble. The Turk has his failures,
but he has the right "dope" when he
comes to dealing with the anti-Koran
bootlegger. Let us have the "cat". It
is a great aid to law and order in j
Deleware. Why not in Pennsylvania? i
The Pennsylvania bootlegger may j
need that kind of treatment to make*!
him behave, but down this way we j
look upon public whipping as a relic!
of a somewhat barbarous period, j
Anyway we don't have to worry j
about new methods of punishment, j
We sent them to the chaingan? with-!
out the alternate of a fine.
>; Man Killed
connection with the liquor making,
operations. Singleton was also
arrested as a witness in the case.
The fatal explosion occurred in a
i
large can, resembling the kind of
container used for trash. It was
unknown yesterday just how the
unusual accident happened, but it:
was supposed that the can was
covered tightly and that the heat J
from the fire, combining with other
causes, led to the explosion that
resulted in the death of one man and
the arrest of his two companions. All
three are said to be colored.
Middleton's arni9 and his left leg
were broken as a result of the explosion
and he was also badly scalded.
He was about twenty-five years
of age.?News and Courier.
MIGRATORY BIRDS.
Thousands of Them Are Now On
Their Way South.
(Yorkville Enquire.)
Migratory birds are on their way
south again and may be observed,
stopping to feed and to rest. A few
ducks have been noticed passing over
Yorkville, and occasionally, a phalanx
of wild geese, flying so high
that their "honk," "honk" is barely
audible, is seen.
The marking of migratory waterfowl,
which has been practiced by the
collaborators of the Biological Survey,
United States department of
agriculture, has given evidence that
it will be a most interesting and important
investigation. Although the
work has been in progress for only
two years it has had noticeable results,
it is announced. Ducks and
other birds, the movements of which
are being studied by this method,
are caught, mainly by the use of special
traps, light aluminum bands are
placed on one leg and the captives
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are reieasea, says a ucpauiucm, import.
Every band bears a serial
number and the legend "Biol. Surv.
Wash., D. C." j
In the Washington office of the
Biological Survey these banded birds
are card indexed, so that when a
hunter bags a duck bearing a band
and reports its capture, by referring
to the card file the route covered
by the bird in question can be
ascertained. When such records are
received the hunter is advised where
the bird was banded, while the person
who attached the band is informed
where the bird fell.
During the fall seasons for the
last few years a large number of mallards
and black ducks, with a few
American, because the species also
winters in small numbers in the Gulf
region, ana it is to that area that the
more northern birds might be expected
to go.
AIKEN CITIZENS /
NOMINATE COUNCIL
Gaston Leads in Mayoralty Race. Mrs.
W. E. Duncan Defeated.
Aiken, Nov. 6.?In the municipal
election held here today, Dave W.
Gaston, Jr., incumbent, lead the
ticket for mayor, lacking only 23
votes of defeating his two opponents,
W. J. Mosely, former mayor, and B.
F. Etheredge. on the first ballot.
In the second primary to be held
next Monday, Mr. Gaston and Mr.
Moseley will run over. Mr. Gaston's
vote was 310. Moseley received 1S3
and Mr. Etheredge 172.
Six members of city council were
elected, these being: Dr. Ben Wyman
with 4 93 votes, O. S. Dukes with 396,
B. M. Surasky with 355, John Shuler
with 379, M. T. Dyches with 352 and
Flint Hendrix with 272.
Mrs. Walter Duncan lacked only
11 votes of being elected. A large
number of incorrectly marked tickets
for council were thrown out and not
counted. Mrs. Duncan received 262
votes. P. B. Glover 269. Robert Laird
205. and OIlie Xappier 4 9. It is generally
conceded that Mrs. Duncan
would have been elected except for
the throwing out of approximately
100 votes.
A Xew Kind of Friction.
The insurance adjuster who had
been investigating the fire turned to j
go. I
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" i came aown nere to una uui lub
cause of this fire, and I have done
so," he remarked.
"That's what I want to know.
What caused it?" demanded the
house owner.
"It's a plain case of friction?"
"What-va-mean?friction?"
"The fire was undoubtedly caused
by rubbing a three-thousand-dollar
insurance policy on a two-thousanddollar
house."?Everybody's Magazine.
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Miss Dorothy Gray, noted beauty
sculptor, recently insured her hands
for ?1 00,000.
ATTY. GEN. ASKS DAMAGES.
Wolfe Sues Anderson Newspaper for
$30,000 Over Criticism.
Anderson, Nov. 3.?Asking damages
in the sum of $50,000 of the Advocate
Publishing company, G. P.
Browne, as editor and publisher of
the Anderson Daily Mail, Samuel
Wolfe, attorney general of South
Carolina has instituted proceedings
alleging that the defendant allowed
to be published in the columns of the
Daily Mail, newspaper articles signed
by John V. Stribling, in connection
with the recent Georgia-Carolina
boundary suit, which made "vituperative
and libelous attacks upon the
plaintiff."
The attorney general was in the
city today and a copy of the summons
was served upon Mr. Browne
by Sheriff Marett this afternoon.
The summons deals at much length
with the boundary suit which was
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court and that after settlement there
the defendants "persistently and relentlessly
continued to publish said
defamatory articles and said false
and malicious charges, of the said
John V. Stribling, giving editorial
and tentative endorsement and sanction
to said defamatory articles and
charges furnishing the medium of
disseminating said defamatory articles,
language and charges,, to the
public, wilfully and maliciously designing
and intending said publication
to impeach the honesty of the
plaintiff, expose him to contempt,
ridicule or obloquy and to injure him
socially, officially, politically and
professionally, to his damage in the
sum of fifty thousand dollars."
The summons further charges that
on June 18. 1920, issue of the Daily
Mail over the signature of John V.
Stribling, "an article discrediting to
plaintiff's conduct of said case appeared
and in which occurs particularly
the following words:
TWOfa folio for short of his
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duty to the state and people in resting
his defense plea upon a document
so defective, inadequate, questionable
as to that of the socalled
Beaufort treaty."
Work.
John Wannamaker is authority
for this story by John D. Rockefeller,
Jr.:
"I sat one evening over my Shakespeare,
when a sentence popped up
that puzzled me, so I said to my
father, siting near: 'Father, what
does this mean:
" 'There is a tide in the affairs of
men, which taken at the flood, leads
on to fortune.' What kind of tide
would that be, father?"
"Tied down to business, son!" my
father replied.?Savannah Morning
News.
TAX NOTICE.
The treasurer's office will be open
for the collection of state, county,
school and all other taxes from the
15:h day of November, 1922, until
the 15th day of March, 1923, inclusive.
From the' first day of January,
1923, until the 31st day of January,
1923, a penalty of 1 per cent, will be
added to all unpaid t:-xes. From the
first d<-,v of February, 1923, unt:i ibe
28th day of February,1923, a penalty
of 2 per cent, will be added to all
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.March, 1923, until the 15th of
March 1923, a penalty of 7 per cent,
will be added to all unpaid taxes.
The Levy.
For State purposes 7 1-2 mills
For county purposes 7 mills
Constitution school tax....3 mills
For highway purposes ....1 1-2 mills
Total 19 mills
Special School Levies.
Bamberg, Xo. 14 21 1-2 mills
Binnaker's Xo. 12 3 mills
Buford's Bridge, Xo. 7 ....4 mills
Clear Pond, Xo. 19 2 mills
Colston, Xo. 18 9 mills
Denmark, Xo. 21 16 mills
Ehrhardt, Xo. 22 19 mills
Fish Pond, Xo. 5 2 mills
Go van, Xo. 11 12 mills
Hutto, Xo. 6 6 mills
Hampton, Xo. 3 2 mills
Hey ward, Xo. 24 2 mills
Hopewell, Xo 1 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, Xo. 16 12 mills
Lees, Xo. 23 8 mills
Lemon Swamp, Xo. 13 4 mills
T.ittlo SvnTrm "NTn 17 8 milla
Midway, Xo. 2 2 mills
Oak Grove, Xo. 20 10 mills
Olar, Xo. 8 16 mills
Oakland, No. 15 8 mills
St. John's, Xo. 10 8 mills
Salem, Xo. 9 12 mills
Three-Mile, Xo. 4 8 mills
West End, Xo. 25 10 mills
All persons between the ages of 21
and 60 years, except Confederate soldiers
and sailors, who are exempt at
50 vears, are liable to a poll tax of
$1.00.
Capitation dog tax, $1.25.
All male persons who were 21
years of age on or before the first
day of January, 1921, are liable to a
poll tax of SI, and all who have not
made re:urns to the auditor are re!
quested to do 90 on or before the
I first day of January, 1922. and there1
by save penalty and costs.
I will receive the commutation
I road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day of Xovember. 1922 to
[ the 15th day of March. 1923.
In addition to the above levies
I there is a three mill levy for drain!
age on all property in the town of
Bamberg and some of the surrounding
territory.
G. A. JEXXIXGS,
Treasurer of Bamberg County.
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