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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
Readlng-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

The Richland county grand jury
found mo bill" against Wolfe, the
dispenser who was short in his ac-
counts. His friends paid up the short
age.
The annual meeting of the South
Carolina Woman's Foreign Mission
ary conference of the Methodist
church is being held in Laurens this
week.
T.. B. Teal, manager of the Ban
nockburn Lumber company of Flor
ence county, fell into a hot water
vat at the lumber mill on Thursday
and was so badly scalded that he died
next day..
JudgeJ. S. Vossier of New Orleans.
La, fell from a Southern train near
Easley on Wednesday and was killed.
He was Confederate veteran, and
was returning from the reunion at
Richmond, Va.
The union passenger station at
Newberry was robbed Sunday night
Of $131. Entrance was obtained
through window. The thief was
evidently in a hurry, as he left $35
in the drawer.
John Richardson, a negro who
climbed into the room of two young
ladies in Columbia by means of a lad
der in March, was convicted on Tues
day of attempted assault and was
sentenced to 80 years in the peniten-
tiary.
Christon and Bertha Harmon were
convicted of manslaughter at Able
vile on Thursday for the killing OF
j. E. Willis at McC Cormick on the 26th
of last October. This is the second
trial, the first having resulted in a
rnistrial.
In Columbia a few months ago
John Jacobs, a negro, killed his wife
and a negro man named John john
son. He went home one night and
found the couple in bed together.
Jacobs crushed the skulls Of both with
d hatchet. He was tried for the crime
IN Columbia last week and acquitted, !,
the jury giving him the advantage of
the ssunwritten law"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13
Oil rllIl Management.

Mr.. P. ]. Quattlebaum, who man
aged the Denmark plant of the Cot
ton Oil Company last year, has been
selected as manager of both the Bam-
berg and Denmark mills for the COM
ing year. He will make this city
headquarters however, and will move
his family here at once. He has rent
ed the T. S. Rice residence on North
street.
Mr.. J.. B. Watkins, formerly of this
State, but who has been assistant
superintendent of large plant in
Mississippi for several years past, has
been selected as superintendent OF
the Bamberg mill. He arrived Mon
day and will assume his duties at
once.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13

A man may go to hell from the
sacrament table.
God pity Methodist the devil has
got INTO the woods running a saw
mill instead of a passenger engine a
mile a,minute.
If you can't follow a creed it's got
no legs. You have got to tote it.
am sorry for a woman who will
sit and listen to gossip about her hus-
hand.
Religion don't help a fellow to quit
his meanness, but it helps him to stay
quit.
God can't elect man unless he is
candidate.
The biggest fool in the world is the
woman who will act as barkeeper
for her husband.
am sorry for a fellow who's got
nothing but money, for when that's
out. he's out.
I've got as much respect for those
fellows with striped clothes as have
for you who hop around at every
tap of the devils drum.
have seen men converted from
the barroom and from everything
else, but never, never have l seen a
man converted from q club.
/ never saw a first class billiard
player that was worth the powder
and lead to kill him.
What is a town woman but coun.
try woman with Sunday clothes on!
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13
RACING TRAIN KILLS NEGRO.
Fatally Injured While Crossing Track
at Clinton.

CLINTON, June 10.-Abe Jackson,
a negro, was struck by the Seaboard
Air Line train yesterday about 2::3O
o'clock and died from his injuries
about 4 o'clock. The train was racing
with the c.. N. & L. train No. So.
The negro was crossing the track
when he saw one approaching. AS
he stepped out of the way of it the
other struck him. At the coroner's
inquest to-day it was brought out
that he was somewhat deaf: After
considering all testimony the jury
acquitted the railroad of all blame.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13
WatSOn.Felder.

Monday morning at 7:30 O'Clock
Bamberg gave to Greenwood groom
one of it's richest gifts, when MIR.
Alpheus M. Watson was married to
Miss Mabel Fielder. The home Of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mr.. j. D.
Fielder, was the scene of the cere-
mony, and therei in the quiet morning
hour when the world was yet scarce
awake, the family and relatives and
a few near friends, gathered to wit
ness one of the prettiest home we'd
dings which has taken place here in
many day. The always attractive
bride looked beautiful on her wed
ding day, and her winning ways were
all the more so in that glad hour: A
very becoming suit of navy blue
voile with tucked silk and trimmings
of braid tastily arranged, made up
the bridal robe, and then with a
bouquet of ever beautiful brides
roses in her arms, truly she looked
her best. Preceding the bridal couple,
as Mrs. Frederick w. Free played
Mendelssohn's march, little Miss Eliz-
abeth Inabinet led the way into the
festal bower, where Rev. A. ]. Foster
of the Baptist church was in waiting
and where after a brief pause the
ceremony of that church was per-
formed. And in that glad hour the
birds chirped sweetly, and all nature
seemed to echo the wishes for con-
tinual happiness which were delved
deep down in the hearts of every
one present.
The groom was attended by his
friend, Mr.. Thaddeus W. Coleman,
of Whitmire.
Soon after the ceremony the bridal
pair were driven to the depot where
they boarded the train for Green
wood. After a short stay in that
city with the mother of the groom,
Mr.. and Mrs. Watson will 60 to their
future home in Whitmire, where Mr..
Watson is held in high esteem by his
associates in the world of bustling
finance and commerce. He carries
with him the very best wishes for
happiness which this town can be-
stow, for he has carried away one of
our rarest flowers, one who will be
always held in remembrance as a
Bamberg girl although she has cast
her lot in other realms than our
own. Although there were no inv:
tations sent out many handsome and
useful presents were bestowed on
the young couple. b.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13
Our Military Company.

Adjutant and Inspector General
Boyd was in the city last Thursday
for the purpose of checking up the
rifles and other property of the
Bamberg Guards and to see what
arrangements were being made to
reorganize the company. His trip
was a most satisfactory one. Thurs
day evening a meeting Of the re-
organized company was held at the
armory, at which addresses were
made by Gen. Boyd, Col. John F.
Folk, now captain of the company,
Mr.. C. C. Rowell. and Senator j. B.
Black.
General Boyd has consented to a
reorganization of the company, but
it cannot participate in the appro-
priation this year, as the showing
made at the last annual inspection
was not up to the standard. He has
been assured, however, by the new
officers that the reorganized company
proposes to be really and truly q
military company, therefore it will
be tried for the coming year. If it
does not make a creditable showing
at the next animal inspection, it
will be disbanded. The matter now
rests with the members of the COM
mand and our citizens generally. II
we are in earnest in wanting a mill
tary organization, we can have it,
but everything depends on the in:
terest shown by the officers, enlisted
men, and the public at large.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13
Picked His Pallbearers.

SPARTANBURG, June 9.-Claud
Beechman. a young white man, at
midnight Saturday purchased two
ounces of laudanum from Maddux's 8
drug store, telling the drug clerk he
had toothache. Beechman walked
across the street to an all-night res
taurant and swallowed the contents
of the bottle. He said he wanted to
kill himself and invited all present to
attend his funeral. Out of the crowd
he appointed one man as foreman OF
his pallbearers, requesting him to re-
port to the undertaker's early Sun
day morning. Beechman died sev-
eral hours after drinking the lauda-
mum.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt EtchiugS.

EHRHARDT, June 10.-A high wind
in this section last Wednesday after
noon made US all feel uneasy and
ready to run if given a chance. The
wind handled trees, limbs. and even
car boxes as if they were not in its
way. Some small fields had as many
as four hundred small pines felled in
them, literally covering the ground
with them. Judge ]. G. Copeland
was busy holding inquests over them
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Fencing was badly torn up and the
crop injured by the trees, where
there were many standing.
Messrs. w. P. Pate, Frank HERS,
and Willie Hughes spent Sunday in
Charleston. Pleasure bent they say.
The school picnic was very quiet
Saturday in Ehrhardt's grove. One or
two good speeches; think all who at
tended had a good time and plenty
to eat.
Ehrhardt town election on the 4th
of June resulted in electing Isaac D.
Copeland, intendant; Conrad Hartz,
w. L. Mitchum, Joe S. Dannelly,
and Charlie Kinsey, wardens. Conrad
,Hartz is clerk and w. L. Mitchum
treasurer.
Mr.. J. D. Dannelly came in Satur-
day on visit from Bayard, Fla. He
and his wife will return on Tuesday:
Mr.. Wayne Copeland, who has
been trying his fortune in the land
of flowers, came home Saturday.
Says it will have to be colder weather
when he returns if he ever returns
to his work in Florida. ;
Miss Ned Ehrhardt came home
last week from Columbia, where she
has been attending school. .JEE.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13
Ehrhardt News.

EHRHARDT, June 10.-There was
not a very large crowd at our school
picnic last Saturday, but the day was
enjoyed by those who were there.
Rev. P. E. Monroe made a most ex-
cellent speech, and Mr.. Jones made
a areport of work done during the past
session.
The cobweb prize, a gold badge, was
won by Eddie Rentz, and the writing
prize was won by Sidney Padgett:
The graduating class consisted OF
Eddie Wilson Rentz and Harry Earle
Copeland.
Those who attended the lecture in
Dannelly's hall Saturday night say
it was worth the money. The enter
tainment will be repeated at ,Jenny's
next Saturday night.
The result of town election last
Tuesday is as follows: |: D. Cope
land, intendant; w. L. Mitchum, G.
E. Kinsey, Conrad Hartz, and Joe S.
Dannelly, wardens.
Rev. P. E. Monroe and family at
tended fish fry at Mr.. Jones Will
liams's last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Rentz spent
Saturday night and Sunday with the
formers parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Chassereau
and Miss Lizzie Kinard spent last
Sunday.with the family of Mr.. How
ard Folk.
Our section was visited by severe
storm last Wednesday evening. Con-
siderable damage was done by blow
ing down fences and dead trees in
the fields.
Mrs. Jones Lane and Miss Jo-Ella
Padgett spent last week with their
father. Mr.. Perry Padgett. Mr.. Lane
came for them Sunday.
A very hard rain fell in this com
munity last Sunday afternoon. This
will give the grass two days the
start.
Mr.. Jacob Carter was in town last
Friday afternoon.
DR.. Kinsey's little daughter, Pau
line. is visiting her brother, Mr.. c..
E. Kinsey, Jr.
Mr.. Jessie Jones and little daugh-
ter, Maggie, spent last Sunday with
the family of Mr.. J. F. Copeland.
Mrs. Ed Kirkland, Of Olar, was
here at the picnic Saturday.
Mr.. D. Dannelly returned home
from Florida a few dayS last week.
Mr.. Ernest HERS visited Mr.. Geo.
Folk last Saturday night.
Mrs. H. G.. Kirkland and little son,
Wallace, spent last Saturday and
Sunday with Mrs. w. E. Sease.
The school desires to thank Mr..
Conrad Ehrhardt for kindly furnish
ing lumber for the picnic table last
Saturday. !
Rev. P. E. Monroe preached a very
instructive sermon at the Lutheran
church last Sunday afternoon.
A mass meeting of patrons of the
school is advertised for June 22nd.
E. w. RENTZ.
Ehrhardt graded school.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13
Our New York Letter.

III COuf0ESdClOll Oll LllS u olI1 q Lew
days ago with wholesale grocer
of Italian birth, discussing the rush
of life in New York City and the
little time and interest the inhabi-
tants take in current events, he re-
marked: ''All you do is ah read a
newspaper and 60 where you got to
go" It expressed it so well, your
correspondent reproduces. To a non
resident New Workers appear rough,
uncouth in their manners, abrupt in
replies, discourteous in department
at times. The dense population here
makes it necessary to take short
cuts" even in words, and he or she
who does not do so will lag behind.
People run over others, push, crowd,
elbow, not because they want to, but
to keep from being run over them
selves. An idler, loafer has no use for
data; the busy man has, especially
if he is engaged in furnishing read
ing for the papers, and this data
must be grabbed on the go. One
must be open cared, wide eyed, quick
to recognize a piece of news and use
it. The people as rule do as the
Italian said, attend to affairs at a
break-neck speed, 'read ah news
paper and go where they got to 60. -
On every side can be seen evi-
dences of vacant mind and bad bring
ing up, yet some of the best behaved
and brainiest people in the world are
to be found here. As a rule the
people are a one idea race. They
concentrate all their energies and
powers on one single thing, become
expert on it and ignorant of all else
in the land.
Southerners, generally speaking,
possess an all round information;
with Northerners it is different.
Meet a man South conversation takes
a wide range, interesting to both
parties, meet one here it must be
that ones speciality or the discus
sion will be tiresome. Oh, how South
erners resident here, and there are
500, 900, like to greet each other and
Chin while of pleasures of the
past, peculiarities of the present.
Scores of people, men and women,
write your correspondent for advice
of employment, business, investment
in New York. At this time the most
inviting thing is lots in the suburban
section-4O,O 900 new houses are being
built and 100000 will follow. The
people are going to get out of the
cramped city quarters. The new
transportation facilities now nearing
completion bring these suburban Sec
tions within easy reach. Lots are
being sold $225 up, S. cash, SIS month:
ly, and people all over the United
States are buying. These lots will
double, treble, quadruple in value.
This has been the history of such in
the city, and will be of the new sec
tions. In event of death, free deeds
are given. Out there to select two
for two persons. who had written
me to do so, was astonished at
the crowds buying and the improve
ments going on. The excitement re-
sembles the Klonkyke fever, only this
is lasting, permanent.
H. w. FINLAYSON.
$50 Broadway.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13

During the progress of a gambling
game down near the oil mill Satur-
day night Charlie Jones was LIBERAL
sprinkled in the legs with bird shot,
the gun being used by Mike Guess.
Jones is not hurt much, but Guess
has left town. All parties are ne
groeS.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13
Dots From SmOakS.

SMoAKs, June 10.-We have been
having very nice weather for the
last week, and crops have come out
considerably. Some farmers are lay
ing by corn.
Miss Leila Padgett. of this section,
who has been attending the Cokes-
bury conference school, has returned
home for vacation.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13

The medicine that sets the whole world
thinking;
The remedy on which all doctors agree,
The prescription all your friends are
taking is
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea. H.
F. Hoover.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13

Fairfax has voted bonds for $4,000
to erect new school building.
The Brabham bath house is now
open for the season. Come and get
your bath.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-13

You can't tell a woman's age after she
takes HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
Her complexion is fine. She is round,
plump, and handsome; in fact she is
young again. IS cents, Tea or Tablets.
H. F. Hoover.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-03-21
Autos in the Congo

uninterrupted steam communications
by steamboat and railroad between
the mouth of the Congo and this min
ing district. To reach the Katanga
province heretofore steamboats, have
ascemded the Congo, the Kasai and
Sankuru rivers, a thousand miles to
the head of navigation on the Sankuru
at the western edge of Katanga.
From this point many hundreds of
porters have carried freight across
country to Lake Mwero, the air line
distance being about 400 miles. For
half this distance navigable waters
may be utilized.
Automobile roads have now been
built to connect these navigable wa
terways leading in the desired direc-
ton. Bridges have been thrown across
rivers, the sections of the road have
been built in the best European man
ner and the automobile service is in
operation, though as yet with made
quate equipment.
A more northerly road has also been
constructed from the head of naviga-
ton on the Sankuru to a large collect
ing and distributing center, where
parties of porters are kept to carry the
auto freightage in various directions.
The Congo State was encouraged to
carry out these enterprises by the sue
cess of the automobile route from the
tai, Antananarivo, about 100 miles in
land, which has revolutionized trans
p%ortation.
AS late as 1901 the cost of moving
freight between the sea and the CAPT
tai was SIS a ton. The fine new road
completed in 1902 has reduced rates
three-fourths.
A daily service of automobiles for
passengers and freight is maintained
between the Indian ocean and Antana-
narivo. The people are happy over
the change, but the automobile will
resign in favor of the railroad to the
capital, which, it is expected, will be
completed in 1908.
Automobile transportation in a com
mercial sense can be only a temporary
expedient, for cheap transportation
cannot be secured by dividing freight,
often of small value in proportion to
bulk and weight, into small automo.
bile loads. 1t is as true in Africa as
elsewhere that cheap freight carriage
can be secured only by the concentra.
ton of a large bulk of merchandise
in large loads moved by the most pow.
erful means of traction.
The automobile roads, however, will
probably pay for themselves many
times over before railroads supersede
them.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-03-21
BIG WOODEN FIGUREHEAD o.
THE WARsHlP NIAGARA.
Relic of the Old United States Navy
VIII Be Sent to jamestown Expo
sition from the Charles
town Navy Yard.

BOston.-An immense eagle, ten feet
high and IL feet long and weighing
hbont a ton, is inclosed in a great
wooden cage at the Charlestown navy
yard, and within a day or two will
Btart for the jamestown exposition on
b special car, in compliance with or
ders from the navy department at
Washington.
For many years this bird, which is
carved in wood, has made it's home at
the local yard, for a good part of the
time resting on a large wooden pedes-
tai in the middle of the gun park,
where it has been the wonder of thou
sands of visitors from all parts of the
world.
Carved with wonderful skill and
made in the strongest and most care
full manner, the eagle originally was de-
signed for use as a stem ornament ON
the United States ship Niagara, and
for several years, or during the life
of that ship, on the active service list
of the navy the big bird proudly float
ed at the Niagara's prov, his head pro-
truding over the water and the wings,
partly extended, resting against the
sides Of the stem.
In order that the wings might fit
/ properly, a section of the birds back
WAS removed, and when the Niagara
WAS put out of commission and
stripped of it's fittings at this yard
boon after the civil wal the eagle vas
removed and placed in one of the
buildings. Finally it was brought out
again, the back filled in, and it was
painted and set up on the pedestal
which had been built especially for it.
In order to make the bird still more
lifelike a pair of the largest artificial
eyes manufactured was purchased and
set in place. Probably no wooden
ship of the American navy ever had a
more striking or artistic stem orna-
ment than this great eagle.
While the local navy yards officials
are glad to be able to send so striking
pm exhibit to the exposition, they are
Fearful lest it never be returned. They
feel that it properly belongs to the
Charlestown navy yard, and ought to
be kept here permanently. The Nj
agara was built here, in one of the OLD
wooden ship houses, which was re
Gently torn down to make for a
modern building, and the %igureheao
has long been one of the sights of the
reservation.
Besides the eagle the navy yard is
to send to jamestown the historic
steel scroll which graced the stern Of
the flagship Olympia of Admiral Dew
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-03-21
Is An Oklahoma Pioneer
Judge" Embry Made Federal District
Attorney of New State.

Chandler, Ok.-John Embry, whose
appointment as United States district
attorney for Oklahoma has been con-
irmed by the senate, has successfully
undergone four Investigations by the
federal authorities. He was first ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt last
spring, but the senate refused to sane
ton his name and the president ap-
pointed him again during the recess.
In the meantime the Investigations
have been carried on 1t is significant
that no objection was made to him in
the senate at his last appointment.
Mr.. Embry, who is known as Judge"
was one of the pioneers of the terri
tory and has been prominent in Re-
publican politics. He has served this
city as mayor and is a member of the
Methodist church. In his younger
days John Embry worked in almost
every state of the south and south
west, travelling on foot the most of the
time. At different times he mined
coal in Kentucky, worked in the lum-