The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-02
IN THE PALMETTO STATE

In l1E PALMEllU SlAlE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
WATERFORD Is to organize q. law
and order league. -
C. A. Best, Esq, has, announced
himself as a candidate for intendant
of the town Of Barnwell at the ap-
preaching election.
DR.. F. Williams, secretary OF the
state board of health. has called
meeting of the doctors OF the state
in Columbia during fair week to dis
cuss pellagra.
The citizens of Blackville have
organized gun club with DR.. Ryan
A. Gyles as president. The club will
prosecute all violaters Of the game
and fish laws.
Mrs. NJ. A. Gwinn died at her home
In Chester on Wednesday Of pellagra.
There are two other undoubted cases
of the disease in that city and several
suspected cases.
The State board Of canvassers 1s to
hear the Aiken county contest over
the dispensary election tomorrow. In
the meantime the dispensaries In
Aiken county are closed.
Gus Prather, an employe of the
Walhalla cotton mill, had his hand
crushed in the carding machinery on
Wednesday, and the arm had to be
amputated near the elbow.
Mrs. J. L. Brooks, of Buffalo, Un-
ion county, died on Saturday of pei
lagra. She was about th1rty-f1ve
years old and was the mother of six
children, the youngest being about
three years old.
Clemson college will open the 9Th
of September. More than twelve
hundred students have been entered
for the season, and many who have
applied have been refused because OF
lack of room for them.
The bonding company has paid
to the county Of Hampton $4,000
for the shortage Of ]. c. Langford,
county treasurer, who was reported
short last year and suspended from
Office by Governor Ansel. The re-
ported shortage is s24,171.22, and
this leaves a balance still due the
county by the bonding company OF
$4,171.22.
DR.. W. H. Brown has been arrest
ed and lodged in Jail at Orange
burg, charged with storing liquor,
a quantity of whiskey having been
found stored at the Edisto Social
club, of which he was manager. He
is in Jail in default of bond. The
authorities in Orangeburg seem de-
termined to enforce the law, and
the social club has disbanded.
Rebecca Taylor, colored, was COM
mitted to Richland Jail last week on
the charge Of poisoning the we'll of
her neighbor, Daphne Summers, like
wise colored. A cow and pig died
after drinking the water, and an in
vestigation found two partly empied
bottles in the well with some sort of
poison in them, supposed 70 be bioh-
chloride Of mercury. Daphne's family
used spout water, and not the well,
or they might have suffered the fate
of the COW and the pig. The two wo-
men had been on bad terms for a
year or more.
The State board Of canvassers had
q deadlock at their meeting last
Thursday, as Comptroller General
A. w. Jones absented himself from
the meeting when the board begun to
discuss the constitutionality of the
act under which the elections were
held, he holding that the board had
no right to take action on such a
question. However q mandamus was
secured from the Supreme Court
which compelled his attendance, and
the board met on Saturday and dis
missed all contsts before it, The
county boards of Florence and Aiken
are to hear the contests in those
counties tomorrow.
The Edisto Social Club at Orange
burg was raided last Thursday morn
ing, and 3S1 half pints and. 80
quarts of whiskey, also 49 pints Of
beer were seized. The raid was
made by the policemen of the city.
The whiskey and beer was in the
the lockers of members of the club,
and these lockers were broken open.
DR.. W. H. Brown, the veterinary
surgeon, who Is well-known in Bam-
berg, is the treasurer of this club
and appears to be the manager. The
officials say the club was selling
LIQUOR. There are cases now against
DR.. Brown for selling liquor, this not
being the first time his club has
been raided.
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