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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Honor Roll Govan High School.

Following is the honor roll of Go
van High School for the sixth month,
ending March 1st, 1907. To merit a
place on the honor roll pupils must
@ave a clean record and make nine
ty per cent or above general average:
High school-Misses Lizzie Kenne-
dy, Matte Lena Mather, Lillian Lam
caster, Estelle Lancaster.
Eighth grade Spurgeon Mather,
J. Frank Lancaster, Lewis Williams,
Lizzie Collins.
Seventh grade-.Leda Williams,
Nettie Nimmons, Talbert Lancaster,
Monnie Lain, Dan Izlar Mather.
Fifth grade-Jessie Zorn, Letha
Collins, Corrie Kennedy, Lila Lancas-
ter, Wilbur Williams.
Third grade-May Eubanks, Cary
Zorn.
Second grade-Corrie Collins, Min
ME McC Cormick, Hattie Sue Williams,
Gilmore Lancaster, David Zorn,
Frank Creech.
First grade-Angus Mccormick.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Freight Conductor Killed.

LANCASTER, March 9.-Conductor
L. P. Brown. of freight train No.
372, extra, on the Southern, was kill
ed by being caught between the
bumpers of two cars while coupling
them at the depot here, about noon
today. Notwithstanding the fact
that the lower part of his body was
terribly crushed, he took several
steps, crossing the ditch alongside
the track and sat down, dying in less
than a minute afterwards.
Mr.. Brown was from Greenville.
where he has a family living. He
was apparently about As years OF
age, and had been conductor on
this branch of the Southern only a
few days, this being his second trip
on the road.
The body will be carried to Green
vile tonight for interment.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
The Local Paper.

The local paper should be found in
every home. No children should
grow up ignorant who can be taught
to appreciate the home paper. It is
said to be the stepping stone Of intel
ligence in all those matters not to be
found in books. Give your children
a foreign paper which contains not
a word about any person, place or
thing, which they saw or perhaps
ever heard of, and how could you ex-
pect. them to be interested? But let
them have the home paper and read
of people, whom they meet and OF
places of which they are familiar and
soon an interest is awakened which
increases with every arrival OF the
local paper. Thus a habit of reading
is formed and those children will
read papers all their lives and become
intelligent men and women, a credit
to their ancestors, strong in mowl-
edge of the world as it is to-day
Seneca Journal.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
BURNED TO'DEATH.
MIR. j. T. Wilkins Cremated in His
Home Near Cowpens.

SPARTANBURG, March 6.-Mr.
John Terrell Wilkins, aged 70 years,
was burned to death this morning at
his home near Cowpens in a fire
which destroyed the Wilkins house.
Mr.. Wilkins has for many years been
a paralytic and has been practically
HELPLESS. This morning he was left
in front of an open fire place by his
wife with bed quilt wrapped around
him. 1t is thought that coal fell
from the fire and ignited the quilt.
The helpless man remained IN this
position. Mr.. Wilkins was unable to
call for assistance owing to the fact
that his paralysis extended to his
throat. Mrs. Wilkins, upon smell
ing the burning cloth, ran into the
room and endeavored to extinguish
the flames. Failing in this, she ran
to the home of her son, Mr.. B: Viii
kins, a short distance away, and sum-
n1oned help. Those called upon ran
with haste to the house, which by this
time, was wrapped in flames. The
assistance was too late and the unfor-
funate man was burned up along
with the house. The blackened and
seharred remains were found in the
debris.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
An Accidental Shooting.

MANNING, March III. G.. Pack,
a young white man of this place,
was accidentally shot by the dis
charge of parlor rifle, held by Mr..
Wilson, an employe of the Clarendon
Sentinel, here today about 1890
o'clock. Wilson had loaded, the rifle
to shoot at a target when it was dis
charged, the ball taking effect In the
abdomen. The wounded man was
taken Immediately to the Mccall
House and DR.. Geiger was summon
ed at once and upon examination
found an operation necessary, as the
wound is thought by him to be ex-
ceedingly dangerous. There is little
hope of recovery at this time, though
the operation may change the situa.
ton.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt News.

EHRHARDT, March 11.-Messrs. J.
F. Copeland, j. C. Copeland, I. W.
Carter, H. A. Hughes, and H. c.
Bishop went to Bamberg last Mon
day to attend court.
Miss Minnie Copeland is visiting
her sister, Mrs. T. J. HERS, of Dun
barton.
Mr.. Rambsey, his little daughter,
and Miss Mamie Carter, Of Williams,
came up Saturday to visit Mrs.
Lorenzo Copeland.
Messrs. Willie Bishop and Eddie
Rentz visited friends in Colleton
county last Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Alice Sease, of Kline, has
been visiting friends and relatives
in this community during the past
week.
Mrs. H. C. Kirkland, of Olar,
spent last Saturday night with her
sister, Mrs. S. w. Copeland:
Mrs. ]. L. Kinard spent last Fri
day with Mrs. Henry Planer.
Mr.. J. D. Dannelly has his saw
mill loaded, and will start for Bay
ard, Fla, today. Mr.. Tom Dannelly
and his family will go with them.
We are sorry to see them leave Ehr-
hardt, but we wish them much sue
cess in their new field.
In the spelling match last Friday
afternoon at the school house, Annie
Rentz won the prize.
Mr.. w. D. Sease was in town last
Sunday.
Mr.. G. l.. Kinard went to Bam-
berg last Monday.
Mr.. S. w. Copeland leaves today
for Columbia as a delegate from the
Woodmen lodge here to the Wood
men meeting there tomorrow.
ANNIE RENTZ.
Ehrhardt Graded School.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Higher Than Law.

I. Joaquin Miller, the poet Of the 81
.erras, in an address in Oakland at
;tacked the trusts. ,o,.
what if their sins are legal?', he
ended. ''They are sins none the less,
and / wished when trusts sin legally
we could prevent the law from pro-
tecting them. I wish, in short, we
could all act as one Of our Oakland
farmers did last year. He, one day
last year, found a score OF men put
ting up telegraph poles all over his
best field. He ordered the men
away but they wouldn't go. They
showed him a paper that gave them
authority to put up their poles wher-
ever they wished. The old man look
ed at the paper, saw it was lawful,
walked away in silence. He went to
the barn and turned a savage req
bull into the field. The mad bull
made for the men, the men fled at
top speed, and the farmer shouted
after them:
..'Show him your paper! Show
him your paper. Washington
Star.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Skin Grating Saves Girl.

B PITTsBuRG, Pa, March Sur
geons at the Presbyterian hospital
announced that Iowa Mckenzie, the
six-year-old daughter of George Nc
Kenzie, who was burned over more
than one-third of her body. by her
clothing, catching fire at an open
crate, several weeks ago, would re-
cover. When one-third OF a person S
body is burned the surgeons always
say they cannot recover, so that ut
tie Miss McKenzie's case is a most
remarkable one.
Skin grating is responsible for re-
coyery, the surgeons say. -Four per
Sons contributed 32O pieces OF cutlcle
from their own bodies, which were
grated to the burned surface of the
ehild's body.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
rlortgaged Team Ten Times.

ANDERSON, March s. There is a
negro in the Anderson county jail by
the name Of William Cureton who
can give Mrs. Cassie Chadwick cards
and spades and beat her in high
fnanciering. This darkey bought a
pair of mules and a wagon from a
gentleman of this city, giving him a
mortgage to secure the balance Of
the purchase price. The negro got
busy and in a few days mortgaged
his team to about 10 persons. He
was lodged in jail Friday on the
charge Of disposing of property un:
der mortgage. His team was sold
Saturday and brought enough to
satisfy the first mortgage and leave
some to be applied on the second
mortgage. His Creditors" held a
meeting Saturday.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Bad Beef Condemned.

Four large front cuts Of Western
beef shipped by a Columbia packing
house agent Of Spartanburg Satur-
day were rejected because of alleged
unsound condition and were return
ed to this city. The Spartanburg
consignee was C. F. Younger.
Mr.. Younger refused to receive
the shipment and the express com
pany, acting on instructions from the
agent, was about to dispose Of the
consignment elsewhere in Spartan
burg, when the health officer heard
of the car and forbade sale of the
meat in that city. It was according
ly returned to the agent here.-Co-
lumbia Record.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
What 1t Felt Like.

LLOYD Griscom, the new ambassa-
dor to Italy, says the Washington
Stat, described at a dinner in Wash
ington diplomatic game OF base
hall in Brazil.
An Fngiishman," he said, caught
for his side, though the poor fellow
was strange to the catcher's box.
The Englishman grew confused IN
the second inning, missed a ball and
ait struck him on the nose, kee1ng
him over. -,
S g What was it?' he said feebly, as
The came to. :,
SEssss "A foul, only FOUL said the
umpire. -,
81 Man alive said thea eaEnglish-
man. I thought it was a mule. "
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Place He Was Fitted For.

The village carpenter had given so
generously of his services and sound
advice toward rebuilding the little
memorial chapel that when it was
completed all the summer people
agreed that he should be asked to
sneak after the luncheon which was
{ to follow the dedication exercises.
The day and the carpenters turn
came.
"Ladies and gentlemen dear
friends" he began, his good, brown
face very red indeed, Il am good
deal better fitted for the scaffold
than for public speaking!''
Then he realized what he had said
and sat down amid roars Of laughter
Youths Companion.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
A Hungry Ear.

SIS In q little school house in the north
of Scotland, the school master keeps
his boys grinding steadily at their
desks, but gives them permission to
nibble from their lunch baskets some
times as. they work.
One day, while the master was IN
structing a class in the rule of three,
he noticed that one of his pupils was
paying more attention to a small
tart than to his lesson.
Tom Balm, listen to the lesson,
will YER said the master:
I'm listening, sir, said the boy.
Listening, are yer exclaimed
the master. Then ye're listening
wi' one ear and eating pie WI the
other.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Ehrhardt EtchingS.

EHRHARDT, March 11.-Nearly all
of our town folks were courting last
week, even our chief Of police was
summoned to appear there to give in
evidence, but was disappointed and
did not get a chance to tell the
gentlemen of the jury what he knew.
Think all of them were tired OF the
week at Bamberg. -,
MIR. j. D. Dannelly has his mill
torn down and loaded on the cars
ready to go Monday.
Mr.. David Dannelly will take
with him Mr.. Tom Dannelly and his
family, also Mr.. Ed. Steady and his
family and several of his hands to
Florida to work his saw mill.
Ablind tiger must have been neal
town Saturday. We did not hear
him growl but saw the effects OF
some of his work on several on. oui
streets.
Mr.. S. W. Copeland goes to Colum-
bia on business today.
C. Ehrhardt & Sons had their saw
mill shut down last week, putting IN
a new boiler. They will be ready to
commence work Tuesday again. We
miss their whistle.
Miss Alice Sease is visiting Mrs.
T. D. Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs Jones Lane are visit
ing her father Mr.. Perry Padgett.
Farmers are all anxious about
their fertilizer. These warm days
are making them think about plant
ing corn.
Mr.. Henry Ehrhardt was summon
ed to Florence last week as a juro,
in the United States Court.
Clear Pond annual picnic comes
this year on the 29th day Of TINS
month. Some of the ruling spirits
are talking about it, and preparing
for entertaining the crowd on thai
day and want the public to remem
Der the basket part Of the occasion
and assist to make it an enjoyable
occasion as usual. JEE.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
A Cows Appetite.

Several years ago a farmer near
Chesterfield whose modesty forbids
the publication of his name, hung
his vest on a barnyard fence. A
calf chewed up a pocket on the gar
ment in which was contained a stand
ard gold watch. Last week the ami
NAL, a staid old mich. cow, was
butchered for beef and the time
piece was found in such a position
between the lungs Of the cow that
the process of respiration had kept
the stem winder wound up, the
watch had lost but four minutes and
two and a half ticks in seven years.
It is one of the most remarkable oc-
curences ever heard of.-Carolina
Citizen.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
In THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

w. D. Ellison, a white man, charg-
ed with grand larceny, escaped from
the Richland county Jail on Tuesday
night by saving the steel bars IN
two.
Lewis w. Byers killed his step-son
Oliver G. Lanham in the Olympia
mill village, Columbia, with a gun
on Wednesday. The young man was
% years old and a carpenter. The
deed looks like cold-blooded murder.
Jacob Taylor, aged 20, was killed
by David Gunter, aged 10, in Green
wood county on Tuesday. Taylor
was shot three times with a pistol.
Gunter, who has been committed to
Jail, says Taylor was trying to cut
him with a knife.
LII. Reading, a citizen of Ches-
ter, was committed to Jail on Tues
day charged with forging the name
of L. D. Childs to a number of
checks. Mr.. Reading came from
Ohio two years ago to manage the
Bafalo Lick springs near Chester.
He has confessed the forgeries.
Under the recent act of the legis-
lature appropriating $4,000 for the
supplying of artificial limbs to Con-
federate soldiers it will not be allow
able to pay the applicant the money.
The limb itself must be furnished.
Application blanks are now being
sent out by the comptroller general.
Principal Sam Rogers Of the Boy
kin school of Marlboro county was
acquitted by a jury on Wednesday
of the charge of assault and battery
of a high and aggravated nature in
the whipping of a bad boy in the
school. The trial lasted two days,
and the jury found verdict in two
hours.
Recently several members Of the
sophomore class of the South Caro-
lima University were suspended for
hazing, and another student was sus-
pended for having a pistol on the
campus. It appears that the sopho-
mores attempted to haze him and ne
drew a pistol. This week three ca
diets were expelled from the Citadel
for breaking barracks.
Congressman Aiken and others
who have been working for years to
secure an increase in the pay OF
rural mail carriers have at last sue
ceeded in having the salaries OF
carriers increased to 5000 year,
SIS per month. Heretofore the
salary has been $720 year. The IN
crease in salary will probably go into
effect the first of next July, which is
the beginning of the government
fiscal year.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Reasons Enough.

Although political opponents, Con-
gressman Jerry Simpson, of Kansas,
and Speaker Reed, of Maine, became
great friends on account of the abil-
ity of each to see joke.
At one time, Simpson, wanting a
private pension bill passed, went to
the speaker and told him the bill af-
fected the fortunes of a poor widow
down in Kansas.
"Why" asked Reed, "do you want
this bill passed when you have been
opposing pension legislation during
this session especially sucha bill as
this which comes in without a favor
able report?''
''There are thirty reasons why l
support this bill," replied Jerry.
''The first one is that the woman
needs the money. l have forgotten
the other twenty-nine."
The bill passed.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Getting Her Legal Rights.

An old colored woman, arrayed in
a rusty black dress and a gorgeous
purple picture hat over which was
a black crepe veil, appeared at the
courthouse of a Carolina town not
long ago.
"Am yo' de jedge Oh reprobates,
sah?" she asked, cautiously opening
a crack of the office door.
Eyes, l am the Judge of probate,
aunty; what can I do for you?" was
the smiling reply. :,
''Yassah! Thanky, sab! Use heah
cause NAH ole man done died detest-
ed an lef' fo' ILL infidels, an All
wanter be 'pinted ter be dere exc
cutioner, eff yo' please, sah!'
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
This is Nauseating.

WASHINGTON, March IA club in
Minneapolis is composed exclusively
of negroes having white wives or who
have white sweethearts. No white
man and no colored woman may at
tend it's dances. For years its annu-
al ball was held in Minneapolis, but
there was so much violent comment
upon it that recently it has been
transferred to St. Paul.
Of this Senator Tillman says:
"These people insist upon social
equality. That is the great danger
in the whole problem; a menace to
the whole white race" /"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
SISTER BURNED TO DEATH.
Two Aged Members of Prominent
Family Share Peculiar Fate.

SPARTANBURG, March 8.-Mrs.
Mary E. Littlejohn, aged 79 years,
sister of Mr.. J. T. Wilkins, who was
burned to death at his home near
Cowpens, Wednesday, was burned
to death this evening about 7:3O
o'clock.
Mrs. Littlejohn resided at Cow
pens, living in her home alone. This
evening the neighbors were attracted
by Pickering light which was seen
in the Littlejohn home and upon en-
tering found the form of the old lady
wrapped in flames. She had evident
ly caught fire from fire which was
burning briskly but a few feet away.
A strenuous effort was made to ex-
'tinguish the flames during which Mr..
J. w. Wilkins, a nephew of the old
lady, was severely burned. The fire
was checked before the house caught
fire, but the aged woman was dead
before assistance reached her.
Mrs. Littlejohn was one of the best
known women in this section of the
State and had & very large family
connection. She is survived by one
son, Mr.. Milton Littlejohn, and one
daughter, Mrs. Henry Litlejohn,
both of whom reside in Pacolet.
The prominence of the family and
the strange coincidence of the death
of Mrs. Littlejohn and that of her
brother, Mr.. Wilkins, caused consid-
cradle excitement in Cowpens.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Rhett Predicts Fair Rates.

WASHINGTON, March 9.-Mayor
Rhett, Mr.. P. H. Gadsden and Mr..
H., R. Jackson, manager Of the
Charleston Freight Bureau, tonight
appeared before railroad officials Of
the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line
systems and appealed for fairer
freight rates for Charleston.
The party was about seven hours
late in reaching Washington, conse-
quently the hearing did not begin
until night. There were present, on
behalf of the Southern Railway,
President Finley and ]. M. Culp; Of
the Atlantic Coast Line, Messrs Wal
ter and Emerson, besides B. I.
Abney, Claudian Northrop and A. P.
Thorn, of the legal department OF
the Southern.
Armed with numerous papers and
documents of various kinds, Mayor
Rhett made a strong plea, for better
and more equitable freight rates for
Charleston.
After the conference Mr.. Rhett
said that the railroads had agreed,
as a result of the consultation, to
send a special agent to Charleston
next week who will be empowered
to make a careful investigation into
the whole situation. President Fin
ley, Mr.. Rhett said, has not yet
named the man who will be sent
here, but he will be one of the best
in the employ of the road and one
able to take a broad and comprehen-
siye view of the entire situation.
Besides promising to send a repre-
sentative to Charleston to go over
the matter no other promises were
made by the railroad people.
"You may say" said Mr.. Rhett,
"that the conference has been salts
factory in every way. We believe
we will get what we want, fairer
freight rates"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Law and Morals.

A Missouri graduate in law, saysa
politician of that state wrote to q
prominent lawyer in Arkansas to M
ouire what chance there was in that
section for such a one as he described
himself to be. He said: Il am a Re
publican in politics and an honest
young lawyer.
The reply that came seemed en-
couraging in it's interest: II you
are a Republican, the game laws
here will protect you, and if you are
an honest lawyer, you will have no
competition. .''-Harper's Weekly. +
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Havemeyer Purchases Land.

BEAUFORT, March 8.-Mr. H. O.
Havemeyer, the sugar king, has just
concluded the purchase Of the two
tracts of land at Sheldon Station on
the line of the C.. & w. c. railroad
formerly the property of the Fuller
families; also the Timothy plantation,
formerly the property Of Col. Charles
Hutson. The price paid was S35, 600.
The land will be converted into one
continuous hunting preserve, to
which it is we'll adapted.
Mr.. Havemeyer will erect mag
nifcent mansion on the estate for
his hunting and sporting purposes.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
Revival Meeting Closes.

The revival meeting at the Metho-
dist church in this city, which has
been going on for the past three
weeks. closed last Sunday night
Rev. Thos. H. Leitch and his SINGER,
Mr.. Marshall, left Monday morning
for Morven, N. c., where they com.
menced a meeting Tuesday night.
Much good has been done as a result
of the meeting. About seventy-fiyea
persons have professed conversion,
and there will be number OF ac,
cessions to both the Methodist and
Baptist churches.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14

$50 this is a typical frontier town,
eh? I suppose you have citizens who
have killed their men?'
s'There goes one now"
"A peaceable looking chap. How
MANY notches has he on his gum
"He doesn't carry gun.
"Not carry gum!
Nope; he's a, doctor. Houston
Post. - - 'gs. .ss. 3.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14

Say" growled the first hobo,
why didn't yer go up ter dat big
house an git a handout?'
"Why, | started ter" replied the
other. "but a minister-lookin' guy
gimme a tip not ter. He sez. Turn
from yer present path. yer going
ter de dogs. "-Phi!adelphia Ledger.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-17
OLDEST NEWSPAPER I'M OHIO.

sThe tscioto Gazette, Founded III 1895
by N, e Willis,s Grandfather.
- The Snioto Gazette is the Oldest.
paper, CT continuous publication under
The same name, est Of the Allegheny
tdoEnt aims. 1t was founded in 1896 by
Nathaniel Willis, grandfather 81 1T. p.
Willis. the poet, The older Willis was
corn in Boston and, tradition has it.
learned The printers trade under BEN
iamin Franklin, and was q member Of
the famous Boston Tea Party.
e AS nearly as can be ascertained the
Gazette was intermitted for time
but on April %, 1900, Willis began
q new series with Vol. Il, No. i, and
the old paper has gone on continuously
since that dale. ~
HI addition to being the oldest ex.
listing paper west Of the mountains the:
Gazette may fairly lay claim, by col.
lateral descent at least, to being the.
6rst paper published in the Northwest
Territory In 17s3, In Cincinnati, Will
liam Maxwell started the Sentinel OF
the Northwest Territory, the first
newspaper in the Territory IN i 786
he sold 1t to Edmund Freeman, who
changed the name to Freeman's Jour.
) hal, and In 1900 removed to Chillicothe
where he died in the following year
Willis bought the plant and good will
81 the paper, and incorporated the
/ Journal with the Gazette.