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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
COT LICENSE TO WE'D CHILD.
Maryland Minister, Aged 81. Want
ed to Marry Girl Of 10.

Baltimore. Md. August 22.-The.
intended marriage of the Rev. Geo.
S. Fitzhugh, aged 81 years, and the
ten-year-old Lula Virginia Frazier.
a license authorizing which was is-i
sued at Ellicott City, Md, a few days
ago., will not take place. The IL
cense is in the possession of one OF
the sons of Mr.. Fitzhugh and viii
be returned to the issuing Office.
The intending bridegroom is stili
suffering from the heart attack to
which he fell victim shortly after.
obtaining the marriage license. hut.
will be removed to sanitarium to-
morrow, two doctors having examin-
ed him at the request of his chill
dren and declared him in need >of
treatment for mental trouble. Lit
tie Miss Frazier will in a few days
be taken back to her home in AlbeS
marie County by one OF the men.
whose stepmother she had a narrow
escape from becoming. The Rev;
Mr.. Fitzhugh, who is Virginian,
has been rector Of st. Barnabas
Protestant Episcopal Church IA
Anne, Aroundel county, not far from
this city, for about three years, and
members of his family believe that
his hard work for his parish tens;
porarily unhinged his mind, and
that to this Is attributable his ex-i
pressed intention to marry the child,
as Mr.. Fitzhugh himself stated, to in-,
sure her the inheritance of his prop,
erty.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
Negro Kills Father-in-Law.

Waterloo, Sept. AT Cedar
Grove negro church, two miles from
this place, John Henry Anderson
yesterday afternoon fatally shot Josh
Carter, the latter dying this morn
ing at daylight.
For some months Anderson has
not lived with his wife, but she has
lived with her father, Carter. One
of Anderson's children died Sunday
and it was just before the burial be-
gan that the shooting took place.
Carter is an aged colored man,
who bears a good reputation.
Anderson is regarded as danger
Gus negro. Six months ago he shot
a young Mr.. Benjamin of this coun-
ty.
The inquest over Carter's body
was held this morning by Magistrate
w. w. Campbell, acting for the coro-
,ner. Anderson made good his es-
cape, but so or more determined
men, whites and blacks, are securing
the country for him. A family feud
was the cause of the trouble.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
WOMAN SHOOTS HUSBAND.
Found Him Drinking and Fired at
the jug and Hit His Hand.

Statesboro, Ca, Sept. News
reached Statesboro of lively Incl
dent which occurred at Stilson, 10
miles from here, Saturday night be-
tween prominent citizens of that
place.
1t is said that Joe Brown and r..
C.. Barnhill were in the house drink
ing from jug of whiskey, when the
wife of Barnhill appeared upon the
scene. Failing to get the men sepa-
rate, and go home, she told her
daughter who had accompanied her
to the scene to go home and get a
pistol, which was done.
Upon returning the wife of Barn
hill opened fire, first firing at the jug,
it is said. She shot again, and this
time hit Barnhill, her husband, in
the hand, the bullet going through.
Brown, the other man, then ran,
it is said, out of the house and
through to the back fence, which was
SO high he could not get over. He
fell back to the ground, it is said,
laid there and begged for mercy.
B. F. Ferrill, a farmer, near Dan
vile, KY, narrowly escaped death af-
ter he had sucked mouthful of bees
into his windpipe while removing
honey from a beehive. Ferrill was
using a large wooden pipe, blowing
smoke into the beehive to keep the
bees from singing him.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
Use for All.

Three ministers wanted to cross
the Mississippi river to attend re-
vival at a place which boasted of no
regular ferry. Brother Styles and
Brother Beamish weighed at leas,
200 pounds apiece, but their com
panion was a mite of man weigh
ing scarcely 100. They got a boat
man to take them over, but in mid
stream a severe thunder shower came
up and the waves threatened to cap
size the boat.
Brother Syles," said Brother
Beamish, Il think we had better join
in prayer"
do you. thought" shouted the
boatman. "Wall, I say you don't!
You two big ones come here an lend
a hand at the oars-an' let the skin
ny fellow pray"
W. J. Bryan, the Democratic nomi-
nee for president, will be heard at
G. A. Ducker's, Bamberg, S. c. Hear
the famous orator on the Victor
Talking machine at Ducker's.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
FORTUNE IN A WEEK.
Detroit Woman Used Up Over $1OV,-
900 in Six Days.

Spending 100000 in six days is
going some, even for New York. And
just to add a touch of interest to the
story the party who has been max
ing money flow like water for the
past week along Broadway is a very
intelligent and pleasant little woman
from Detroit, Mich.
What makes this story seem all
the stranger is that Martins, Sher-
ry's-none Of those popular resorts
were any the wiser for the fact she
was here, no theatre parties, wine
parties, dinner parties, nor any other
parties were formed by her or in her
honor. She just came, spent her
money quietly and to-day will go
away again
This record-breaking spender is
Mrs. H. Sterns and she is stopping
at the Astor. She is buyer for two
big Detroit houses and she dropped
in here, quietly just six days ago.
Since she arrived she has got away
with a small fortune, but she is 60
ing to take back to Detroit value re-
ceived, which is more than Detroiters
and others do who come here to blow
in the money somebody has made in
numbering, or in iron mines, or rails
ing celery at Kalamazoo.
Mrs. Sterns was asked how she en-
joyed the trip.
Fine" she replied.
There are other women buyers
of course; but they devote their tai
ents entirely to specialties, such as
millinery. In fact, there are COM
paratively few outside the milling
line.
II buy anything The stores for
which I am working this trip are de-
partment stores, and of course, that
means that the buyer takes in every
thing.
"In the past six days I have spent
more than 100000. I think / have
bought pretty nearly everything un'
der the sun" New York Telegram
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
LAW AND THE SABBATH.
Supreme Court Says the Selling of
Ice on Sunday is Illegal.

Under this decision of the State
supreme court rendered in the case
of the State against William James,
the selling of meat and ice, or meat
or ice, on Sunday in this state is a
violation of the law, unless perhaps
in a great city, The supreme
court upholds the decision of Circuit
Judge Prince and it's terms are quite
strong in enunciating the Sunday
law. The decision is written by AS
sociate Justice C. A. Woods, who is
a Methodist, and is concurred in by
the other members of the court,
Chief Justice Pope being a Baptist,
Justice Gary an Episcopalian and
Justice Jones Seceder.
If the law as stated by the court is
enforced it may cause serious incon-
venience in many towns where the
delivery of ice on Sunday is the COM
mon thing.
In Columbia and other towns the
delivery of not only ice, but ice
cream, is common, though in other
respects in Columbia the law is strict
ly enforced by the municipal author
tiles, and it is impossible to buy a ci-
gar or a drink of soda water on Sun
day in this city. In fact, it Is easier
to buy a drink of whiskey in Colum-
bia on Sunday than a drink Of lem
onade. The court intimates, howev-
er, that in the matter Of what is a
necessity there may be a difference
between a town and city.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
KILLED ON RAILROAD TRACK.
Aiken County Merchants Head Is
Crushed by Train.

Aiken, Sept. 6.-This morning
short distance from his home, near
Montmorenci, the mangled body OF
Mr.. w. Hampton Woodward, pros
porous resident of that community,
was found on the railroad track.
Coroner Owens was Immediately no
titled of the occurrence and went; TO
the scene as soon as possible. The
result of the inquest has not yet been
learned, but several witnesses testi-
fed to the fact that the train last
night which killed Mr.. Woodward
had no headlight at all. The road is
straight for at least half mile on
either side of where he lay, and the
body could have been seen in all
probability had there been a good
headlight. &
Last night Mr.. Woodward was at
Montmorenci until some time pre-
vious to half past nine o'clock.
He kept butcher shop at
Montmorenci. It is known that he
was intoxicated, and some one asked
him If he did not wish some one to
accompany him home, to which he
replied that he did not, and went on
toward his home by himself, walking
on the railroad track. A little while
later, before the train came going to
Augusta, one of the brothers went TO
see if he had gotten there all right.
AS he was passing the place, where
afterwards Mr.. Woodward's body was,
found, a little dog belonging to the
dead man barked at him, but he did
not think of looking there for his
brother. He, found that he was not
at home and began looking for him.
He could find no trace Of him, and
returned to Montmorenci. Before he
had gotten to the station the train
passed him, having no headlight
The morning train this morning
found the body, which was lying be-
side the track, with the head crushed
and the brains spattered out. Appar,
emily he had lain down with his head
on q crosstie and fallen asleep, and
had never moved. There was only
one wound on him, that on his head,
which completely crushed his skull 4
Mr.. Woodward resided about q.
mile from Montmorenci and was
killed halfway from his home. His
house, a pretty one, was situated by;
the railroad. He was a brother OF
Cliff Woodward, for whose murder.
Luke Gray was hanged last summer.
He had good deal Of property and
was well to do. He owned fine
farm, and ran store and a butcher
business. He attended to business
strictly, and had accumulated some
| wealth. He is survived by his wife
and several small children.
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Goes Into Bankruptcy.

Laurens. Sept. News was re-
ceived here Monday that Mr.. Henry
q. Rees, manager of the Harris
Lithia Springs Hotel, had gone into
bankruptcy. The Harris Springs
Company leased the hotel this season
to Mr.. Rees, an experienced hotel
man from Augusta. and because OF
poor patronage the management was
forced to close down. Mr.. John NJ.
Cannon, representing Mr.. Rees, and
Mr.. A. C. Todd, representing the
creditors, went down to Harris's
Springs Monday afternoon to look
into the condition of affairs and af-
feet a settlement if possible. Just
the amount of liabilities cannot be
learned at present.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
He Did Not Bid.

The other day a local merchant
happened to see a farmer with some
goods that came from mail order
house. He noticed also that the
goods were right in his store for
years. He Immediately approached
the farmer and said:
Il could have sold you the very
same article you have there for less
money and saved you freight be-
sides"
"Then why didn't you say so?" an
swered the farmer. l have taken
the home paper for years and have
never seen a line about your selling
these goods. The mail order house
sent advertising matter to me, asking
for my trade, and they got it. If you
had any bargains, why didn't you
have them put in the paper, so we
can see what you have to offer?''
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
Boy Accidentally Killed.

Spartanburg, Sept. 5.-James Po-
sey, aged 8 years, who was accident
ally shot yesterday afternoon with a
parlor rife in the hands of Roger
Phillips, playmate, died in the Spar
tanburg hospital this morning at 5
o'clock. Everything possible was
done to save the little boys life and
five physicians worked with him yes
terday afternoon and last night. The
body will be taken to Hendersonville,
N. c., tomorrow for burial. The
death of the child is still being kept
from his mother, who is critically Ill
in the hospital in which her son
died.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
Bridge Washed Away.

Abbeville, Sept. 5.-At o'clock
this morning the Seaboard Air Line
bridge over Haskell creek was wash
ed away. Passenger train No. 3S had
crossed this bridge at 4 o'clock. Dur
ing the bigh water last week this
bridge was damaged. The Seaboard
had just got three trains across their
Savannah rivel bridge yesterday af-
ternoon and last night. Now the main
line is blocked again. Train No. II
and about 40 passengers are held up
here at Abbeville. The Seaboard Of
fcers hope to have the washout re-
placed by IL o'clock Sunday.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
An Effective Appeal.

John Shobenay, a we'll known Pot
tawattomie Indian, is not as artless
as he looks.
Recently he was engaged in the
risky business of bootlegging in Ok
lahoma. AS a consequence he land
ed in jail and had no funds to pay
his fine. In his direful extremity
he evolved a plan which he thought
would work out his liberation. He
sent the following message to his
stepfather, Kack Kack: II am
dead. Send me SO to bury myself" "
The appeal was too strong for Rack
Kack to resist and the money was
forthcoming.-Holton Recorder.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
SMITH ELECTED SENATOR
DEFEATS JOHN GARY EVANS BY
BIG MAJORITY.
Swearingen Defeats Mellichampe.
Cansler and Caughman Run
ming Neck and Neck.

Columbia, Sept. 9.-At one O'Clock
this morning The State had received
returns from all but two counties,
but of course but few of the counties
were complete. Nearly eighty thous-
and votes had been accounted for at
this hour, and it is not thought the
total vote will reach one hundred
thousand. Evans is away behind
Smith and is defeated. Swearingen
defeats Melichampe, while Cansler
and Caughman are running neck and
neck for "ailroad commissioner.
However, the odds are in favor Of
Cansler, and he will no doubt defeat
Caughman. The totals are:
U. s. SENATOR.
John Gary Evans 30,O43
f. u. Smith 41,359
sUPT. OF EDUCATION.
s. r. Mellichampe 81, ,4O7
J. E.. Swearingen 4O,959
r. r. COMMISSIONER.
Jas. Cansler 36,521
B. L. Caughman 36,178
In the judicial circuit in which Co.
lumbia is situated, w. Hampton Cobb
defeats Geo. r. Rembert by good
majority for solicitor.
Over in the Pee Dee country the
returns are coming in slow, and 1t
cannot be stated with any degree OF
certainty whether Wells or Quattle-
baum will win for solicitor of that
circuit. The race seems to be close.
For congress, j. E. Ellerbe has de-
feated j. w. Ragsdale, of Florence,
very handsomely, and D. E. Finley
will succeed himself in congress, he
defeating T. B. Butler, Of Gaffney, by
good majority.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10

Zeigler elected.
No report of the vote for magis-
trate at Ehrhardt was received, and
as stated above, no report at all was
received from Kearse. L. A. Brab-
ham and Jacob C. HERS, Jr., are the
candidates for magistrate at Ehr-
hal DIT, and these two races for mag
istrate were the only second races in
this county.
The election was quiet. 1t rained
pretty well all the morning, and in
consequence very light vote was
polled.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10

City council held a regular monthly
meeting Monday evening, but only
routine business was transacted.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
The Result in Bamberg.

Following is the result of the Sec
ond primary held in this county Tues
day. Sept. 8th:
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10
Smith Leading by Big Majority.

Charleston, Sept. 8. 10000 p. H.
To H. C. Folk, Bamberg, S. c. At
eight O'Clock, with about forty thous-
and votes reported, the returns were
as follows:
Evans I4,'44
Smith %, 100
Cansler 16,25z
Caughman 14,S69
MelIchampe 14'2Ss
swearineen 1896
Smith appears to have carried the
following counties: T. 49,.
Charleston, Saluda, Fairfield, Mari-
boro, Williamsburg, Chesterfield,
Berkeley, Orangeburg, Lancaster,
Florence, Sumter, Chester, Green
Vile, Greenwood, Newbery, Rich
land, Clarendon, Darlington, and Abb
beville.
Vote is close in Aiken, Union, Laur-
ems, and Spartanburg. No others
heard from yet.
Vote in Charleston stands now:
Evans, 1,214; Smith, 1000. In Spar
tanburg Evans has 2,744 votes;
Smith, 1880. NEWS & COURIER.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-09-10

No report was received from the
Kearse box Tuesday night. The vote
for magistrate at Fishpond was as
follows:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

AS it was, Field was quite Ill for
several days afterward, and unable to
work. When he got back to the Office
the boy whose life had been saved came
to see his rescuer. The boy proved
to be such an insolent and tough little
wretch that talking to him made Field
stammer more than usual, but he man.
aged to say:
"L-l-look here, you little scamp.
D-d-don't you ever t-t-tell anybody
that | s-s-saved your life. I've g-g-got
sins enough to answer for without
t-t-that"
Shortly after Field came to Chicago
to liye he took Paul Hull home with
him to his Christmas dinner. At the
table Hull was seated, by Fields direc-
tion, between two very young Messrs.
Field. Eugene himself sat opposite
this trio, the other members of the
family in their accustomed places.
Before the dinner began Field ad-
dressed the youngsters with severe
seriousness.
"This man Hull" he said, has come
here, unlimited, to eat up your Christ
mas turkey, which has cost me a great
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

posed that the real Wilde, who was
to lecture at the Tabor Grand on the
next evening, but one was on view.
When the Dainty Bunthorne" arrived
the next day, he was astonished to
learn of the sensation he had created
the day before. When the performance
was explained to him in the light of a
joke he accepted it as "Quite valuable
advertisement for my lecture, doncher
knaw." Field, for once, felt the recall
citrance of joke boomerang Wilde's
obtuseness as to humor became the un-
whiting rebuke of the joke and the
jokers.
When Eugene Field lived in Denver
he went frequently in summertime to
pond in the suburbs to swim. On
one of these occasions a newsboy who
was engaged in the same sport was
about to drown, when Field, who was
not an expert swimmer, went to the
lads assistance and saved his life at
the imminent risk of his own. In fact,
Field was pulled out of the place by
other men who happened to get to him
in time, and much patience and skill
were required to resuscitate the poet
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

this chair that by children of century
ago was called "rush-bottom," be-
cause the bottom had rushed out, but
he alluded to it once and his RE
marks" in that connection convey a
clear description of the affair-noun
and verb. He says:
"As the 'Nonpareil Writer of the
Denver Tribune, 1t was a mystery to
me when he did the work which the
paper showed each day as his own.
You would sometimes find him at his
desk writing on large sheets of print
paper with pen and violet ink, in
a hand that was as delicate as the
steel plate of bank note and the kind
of work that printers would skirmish
for. He would ask you to sit down in
the chair opposite his desk,' which had
two or three old exchanges thrown on
it. He would probably say, Never
mind those papers. I've read them.
Just sit down on them if you want to-"
Encouraged by his hearty manner,
you would sit down until you had pro-
truded about three-fourths of your sys-
tenn through that hollow mockery of
a chair Then he would run to help
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

you out and curse the chair, and feel
panied because he had enormously
given you the ruin with no seat to 1t.
He always felt panied over such things.
He always suffered and felt shocked
over the accident until you had gone
away, and then he would sigh heavily
and set" the chair again"
The day before Oscar Wilde was to
arrive in Denver, Field, made up to
personate the poet, and arrayed in the
laces, lilies and other aesthetics af-
fected by that more or less distinguish
ed and extinguished bard, accompanied
by ottoman Rothacker, the brilliant
editor of the Tribune and r. ]. ".
Skiff, business manager of the news
paper, in splendid carriage, rode
about the streets of Denver, attracting
much attention. The populace sup
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

Field was the most incessant and
insistent practical joker that biogra-
phy has ever mentioned. Funny
pranks were jolly mania with him
and of those he perpetrated in his life
time a huge volume might be written.
even though each were tersely told.
While some of those tricks were hilar-
iously cruel-so to speak-they were
never physically painful or in any man.
ner unforgiveable. His bottomless
chair was perhaps the instrument of
that one which more palpably than any
other was calculated to crush the dig
nifty of victim. This chair was for
several months the leading feature of
Fields room in the Denver tribune
building. Bill Nye sat in this chair
once-and 'in" is the word. Nye does
not mention his personal experience in
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

deal of money, and your mother much
trouble TO have 1t nicely prepared
The youngsters looked daggers al
Hull.
Continuing, Field said: 'Of course.
now that he is here. 1t would not be
exactly the right thing to turn him
out"
The Field boys exhibited shade OF
compassion.
"But in order to make him pay for
his dinner, you are to insist upon his
serving you, and you are not to bother
me. that's all"
The kids grabbed Hull by both
arms. They wanted everything in
sight, and they wanted 1t in hurry.
Hull piled their plates, and they
handled his Sunday clothes with I'M
gloved Christmas fingers.
After it was all over Field said
Hull | wish you would go into the
bathroom and wash yourself I'm ex-
pecting company this evening and see.
ing that you are about my size. you
will do me the kindness to put on a
suit of my clothes that you will find
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18
! Will Sell it to You
for $500 a Week

then only four $50 notes year years
to pay out of your Income.
Can you hope In any other way, so safe and sure
this TO have 80 large an independent income In 50
believe the purchase OF Texas Irrigated Land TO be
self independent And believe am qualified 20 pass
Judgment as have been Interested In Irrigation mat
ters locally and nationally for 10 years.
The results are simply astounding 10 those who
unfamiliar with the great su biect OF irrigation.
And believe the happiest man these dnys is the
man with the little ten irrigated fart President
Roosevelt says Even acres Is enough to support
The owner OF q Ten Acre Irrigated Farm doesn't
have to "knuekle to the boss, strain his Con.
science In the struggle Of the intense comercialzm
HIS Income is practically untouched by "inanciai
Depression
His living and peace Of mind are not dependent
upon the whim OF any man.
He Ia king In his own little domain.
He can make his little ten acres earn much q
- much between twenty and eighty Thousand
dollars In cash would bring. loaned ont at per
He has his close neighbors his telephone. good
roads, schools and churchesin fact. all the comforts
and conveniencee OF life that with the prosper
Gus close knit community, though they pass by the
great isolated farm.
in the most approved modern fashion and carrying
an abundant supply OF water taken from the ever
flowing Pecos River.
1t Is within few miles Of arssow Texas and recos
City Texas, (the two towns only 81 miles apart
the land lies between the towns and little to the
north) and served by the Texas q Pacific Railway and
the Pecos Valley Line Of the Santa Fe system.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18
New Safe Land Plan

will deliver at to the Citizens State Bank of
Barstow, Texas. a Warranty Deed TO ten the
land OF Pecos Valley Land and Irrigation Company
per the subdivision OF the Company's property
made by John Wilson and filed for record with the
County Clerk OF Ward County. Texas.
win deliver at once 70 you, one Of our Secured