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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17

There should be merchants as
sociation formed in connection with
the business league, in order that the
business men may be protected
against those who can and will not
pay their debts. Bamberg merchants
would be much better off if it was
known that customer must pay his
account at one store before he could
obtain credit elsewhere. Let us have
the organization by all means. The
credit system in Bamberg is entirely
too lax, and as a consequence many
merchants lose money by bad debts.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17
Boy Kills Step-Father.

Walter Seaport, negro boy
charged with killing his step-father
Dave Green, was brought to Aiken
Sunday morning b. Magistrate Gar
vim and lodged in Jail. ..
The shooting occurred Saturday
night, about two miles south OF
Wagner at the home of Green and
Seaport.
Owing to the fact that the report
ers were denied admission to the cell
of young Seaport, very little can be
learned concerning the affair, but
from the meagre details at hand, it
was gathered, that Dave Green had
spent the day in Wagner among his
friends, drinking and having big
time, and, incidentally, quarreling
with two or three people that had
incurred his dislike.
He left Wagner about dark in
highly drunken condition, and went
to his home which, as before stated,
was some two or three miles south
of Wagner. When he reached his
home, he proceeded to have what he
termed "a cleaning out and began
to curse and abuse the other mem
bers of the family, favoring his wife
especially.
Efforts were made to quiet him
and place him in his bed, but all
these he resisted, and began to whip
his wife most cruelty. Seaport beg
ged and warned him to cease, but to
no avail, and, unable to endure it
any longer, Seaport shot his STEP
father, with the result that Green
died a few hours later.
Green is known in and around
Wagner as a notoriously bad char
acter, and at the time Of his death
he had just been dismissed from the
chain-gang. Little sympathy seems
to attach itself to his death, and the
opinion has been expressed that Sea.
port was justified in the step which
he took.-Aiken Journal and Review
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17
BOOKER IS BARRED.
Negro Educator Not Allowed TO Use
Capitol Hall.

Austin, Texas, Aug. 10.-Bookef
T. Washington, the negro educator
of Tuskegee, Ala, will not be allow
ed to speak in the representative hall
of the State capitol during his pro-
posed visit to Austin in September
or October. A resolution seeking to
accord him this privilege was intro
duced in the house this morning, but
was cried down without a second
reading. The volume OF noes
which greeted the reading of the
resolution put further consideration
of the measure out OF the question
and it was laid aside without formal
action.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17
Wedding Ring Kills Wearer.

Chicago, Aug. 9.-Mrs. Jessie
Stewart Gardner is dead because she
refused to take her wedding ring
from her finger.
The gold band was placed on Mrs.
Gardner's finger on the day she be-
came a bride. 1t remained there un-
till it had to be filed off, but the filing
was done too late.
Mrs. Gardner's finger had increas-
ed gradually in size. The pressure
of the ring became correspondingly
greater. The ring finally became i'm
bedded in the flesh and caused an
interruption of the blood circulation
With much reluctance Mrs. Gard
ner consented to have the ring filed
off! Owing to the delay blood pois-
oning developed. She was 60 years
old.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17
LYNCHING MAY ENSUE.
Posse of Several Hundred Hunting
Negro.

Durango, Okla, Aug. ia posse
of several hundred armed men is
securing the country tonight for a
negro who to-day shot and probably
fatally wounded Mrs. Redeem Camp
bell, wife of a farmer living nea1
here. It is feared a lynching may
result if the negro is captured. Mrs
Campbell says the negro came to hel
home and asked for food. After she
had given him something to eat, he
attacked her. AS the negro fed from
the house he drew a revolver and
shot Mrs. Campbell.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17
Woman Catches Blackmailers.

Chicago, Aug. 11.-While G. G. K.
Billings, driving his champion geld
ing, Uhlan, was hanging up a new
worlds record at Cleveland to-day,
his mother, Mrs. A. M. Billings, Of
Chicago, despite her SO years, was
making little record of her own
in capturing a would-be blackmailer,
or blackmailers, who are alleged to
have made threats in true "black
hand" fashion.
John Mills, a colored man, who
says Cairo, ILL.,, is his home, and John
Hendricks, "a white man about 27
years old, and whom the police styled
a "hobo" from his appearance, were
arrested.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Billings
received a letter demanding that
$500 be wrapped in bundle of old
clothes and given to a man who
would call to-day and ask for work,
also a package" Mrs. Billings
promptly notified firm Of private
detectives, who called the official po-
lice to their aid. They were secreted
about the grounds of the Billings
home at 1921 West Lake street to-
day when Mills appeared. ,
81 want job about the horses
here,,'' Mills said to the maid who
answered the door and who had been
coached by Mrs. Billings in her part.
eve have no such work here,' she
replied.
"Well, then how about that pack
age?" Mills is said to have asked.
At this point the maid invited the
mysterious visitor into the house and
notified Mrs. Billings, who, owing to
the infirmities of her years, was in
bed.
The maid was given a bundle Of
old clothes, but there was no money
concealed within it and this she
handed to the negro, asking him to
wait for few moments. Then the
detectives were notified and Mills
arrest followed.
He expressed surprise at his deten-
ton. He declared that he came to
Chicago from Cairo last night and
that he met a stranger, who gave his
name as John Hendricks, at saloon
in West Madison street. Hendricks,
he said, asked him if he wanted to
earn $50. Mills was willing and, he
said, he was told to visit the Billings
home and to ask the questions about
work and in particular about the
package. He was to receive his pay
upon the completion of his mission.
Mills, after his arrest, led the off,
GERS to a West Side saloon, where he
pointed out Hendricks, who is Ger
man and speaks little English. He
was sullen and refused to answer the
questions put to him by the police.
Mills said that he was the tool OF
Hendricks and knew nothing OF the
threatening letter received by Mrs.
Billings.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17
A COURAGEOUS. SCHOLAR.

A. courageous scholar is DR.. VIM. E
Dodd, formerly of Randolph-Macol
College, Virginia, and now of Chicago
University. The fact that Rockefel
Ter gave millions to his institution
has not shut his mouth as to tn
evils of monopoly and the corruptln&
influence of money in politics. DR.
Dodd has recently been warning thu
whole South against the alliance O.
big corporations with our politica
machines. The North, he declares
is thoroughly walked up as to thi'
matter; but what of our own sec
tion? DR.. Dodd, in a speech at Rich
mond ,said:
When we turn our eyes to
this old South which has always
I stood for low tariff or free
/ trade, a region where men are
/ not too rich to vote honestly, a
/ region where men have always
boasted that their State govern ,
: ments were the models of de-
/! cency, what do we find? A con-
& dition which calls for all the
-. courage, all the patience and
resolute purpose of which a vir-
tuous people are capable.
Z ''The great capitalists have
. been busy with us, too. They
-. have seized or stolen valuable
properties like the Seaboard
Railway, the Georgia Central
and the Southern. Thomas F.
Ryan, one of the worst of all
the, Wall Street gang, has more
power in Virginia to-day than
any governor you have had in
dozen years. The Goulds have
got possession of the trolley sys-
tenn in and about Richmond, and
the representative of these prop
critics has more power in Wash
ington than any Virginia mem
ber of Congress. In Georgia, J.
P. Morgan dictates terms to the
people through his agents, who
were actually able two years ago
toelect the governor of the State.
: And all over the South the
{. Southern Railway threatens,
blusters and domineers; and
s small congressman tremble be-
fore it's president and it's great
lawyers in a manner positively
shameful to Southern manhood"
Progressive Farmer.
And yet newspaper editors in Sout
Carolina accept favors from the raj
roads and tell us all this talk of col
poration rule is a myth. We thin
some of them would change the
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17
A. w. KNIGHT, Editor.

Published every Thursday in The
Herald building, on Main street, in
the live and growing City Of Bam-
berg, being issued from a printing
Office which is equipped with Mer-
genthaler linotype machine, Babcock
cylinder press, folder, one Jobber, a
fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by
electric power, with other material
and machinery in keeping, the whole
equipment representing an invest
ment of $4,000 and upwards.
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Communications-We are always
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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17
Dispensaries Treating Thousands.

Washington, Aug. 14.-Steady in
crease in the number of cases of
hookworm treated at the four Rookie
feller hookworm dispensaries in
North Carolina have been shown
during the past four weeks, accord
ing to information received at the
headquarters of the commission here.
During the four weeks, 1926 cases
were under observation.
The dispensaries are now operating
in Sampson, Robson, Columbus and
Halifax counties and within the next
two weeks it is proposed to move
them to Wayne, Cumberland, OnsloW
and Northampton counties, leaving
the work in the former countless to
the county health officers.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17
Thursday, August IL, 1911

Here's betting that the Laurens
Herald under it's new management
will not be supporter of the pres
ent State administration. 1t has
been one of the governors strongest
adherents heretofore.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17

opinion if they visited the general
assembly and studied the situation
closely. To our mind the greatest
menace which confironts South Caro-
lima at this time is domination of our
politics by public service corpora
tions.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17

The Hartsville Messenger is now
one of the neatest papers that comes
to this Office. There has been won
derful improvement in newspapers
generally in South Carolina during
the past year or two.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17

Wouldn't it be fine if all the streets
in town could be clayed. The fine
condition of Midway, Carlisle, and
Bridge streets should put every one
i'm the notion not to rest satisfied un-
till all the streets are put in fine
shape like the ones mentioned.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17

The governor did just what we ex-
pected him to do in reference to the
Bolton matter. When we read the
afidavits we said right away that the
governor would remove the notaries,
and he did so promptly. He wasted
no time in showing his spite. y
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24
Hen MAKES A DEPOSIT
While owner IS BUYING
Stir Created in the Retail
District

When a morning or two ago large
dominecker hen of truly rural mein
cackled Justly from the dashboard of a
pretty carriage drawn up in front OF
Warlick Bros. store, the passers-by
looked askance and marveled muchly,
wondering just what new-fangled kind
of incubator on wheels had rolled into
town. Everybody guessed that the hen
had laid an egg all right enough, but
why the time, the place, the occasion?
Soon the fair owner of the equipage
emerged from the store, and was as
much astounded as any of the hum
dred onIookers at seeing her pretty
rig converted into a hennery 1t de-
veloped that "Old Speck" was schedul-
ed to lay an egg that morning, and
had settled upon her improyised nest
in the carriage when, Unexpectedly, it
was whisked away to the city. The
hen was game-though a dominecker
and held on to the job until it was
finished in front Of Warlick's store.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24
SURPRISE AWAITS PUPILS
OF This SUNDAY SCHOOL
Presbyterian Sunday School
Has One in Store

At the Presbyterian church it was
announced last Sunday that there was
a surprise in store for all who attend
ed Sabbath school tomorrow morning.
1t is not possible to guess it, but
every one is asked to bring Bible,
two sheets of ruled paper and a lead
pencil.
At the IL o'clock service the subject
of the sermon by Mr.. Stokes will be
THE Presbyterian Church in the Unit
ed States" The services at night will
be as usual of an evangelistic nature,
Last Sunday night the subject was
THE Sin of the World and the Sin Of
Americus. Tomorrow night the sub
iect will be How May | Know l Am a
Christian" This is a subject of in>
terest to all
Beginning next Wednesday even
ing there will be services every even
ing at els, preparatory to the quar-
terly celebration of the Lords supper
on the following Sabbath. Rev Charles
L. Crane of Decatur, will be present
Wednesday and Thursday The mem
bers are urged to have this in mind
and arrange matters so as to attend
the services.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24
MOULTRIE WOMAN
COMMITS suicide
Mrs. Glass Kills Self Because
Of Bad Health

Moultrie, Ga, June 23-Mrs. H. B.
Glass, wife of well known local in
surance man, committed suiicde in her
room at the Hotel Colquit this mora
ing at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Glass has been
in very poor health since the death OF
her mother in Atlanta some years ago
She was extremely nervous and
hysterical all day yesterday and was
under physicians care.
This morning shortly before 8
o'clock her husband left her alone and
went to consult her physician, when
he returned to their room a few mo-
ments later she was in the last throes
OF death with a gaping pistol bullet
wound just above her heart.
She had covered herself with the
bed clothes before firing and the
sound of the shot was so muffed that
it was not even heard by lady in a
room two doors away.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24
FOLKS In ATLANTA A
BUNCH OF TIGHTWADS
Bride Thus Wrote Of the
Bunch There

New York, June 23-The suit for
separation by Mrs. Edith Russell Gam
bier against her husband, Edward Vic
tor Gambler, cashier of the Merch-
ants Exchange National Bank has
brought out some sensational Incl
dents in Mrs. Gamblers life She IS
an Atlanta woman, Of about half the
age of her husband
The testimony showed that the re-
ception at the church following their
wedding was abandoned because Mrs.
Gambler couldn't bear to have her
new husband near her.
''He treated me as he might have
treated a piece of stone," said Mrs.
Gambler
"A number of letters have been in
troduced in evidence. In ten of them
Mrs. Gambler in writing to her fiance,
she usually addressed him as My
Dear Mr. Gambler" although once she
called him Dearest Man"
Mrs. Gambler wrote in one of her
engagement letters from Atlanta that
she hoped she could have some lin
gerie from Paris. because nothing she
got in Atlanta fitted her.
The plaintiff wrote that her Atlanta
friends were giving her a number of
parties and that she hoped that she
would get many gifts, but said that
atlanta people are such tightwads
that they want a run for their money.
She told Gambler to have all his
friends give silverware.
Mrs. Gambler said that after the
marriage ceremony she went into a
state of collapse and even had hys-
terical attack.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24
WEDDING A PRETTY One
AT HOME OF BRIDE
marriage Of Miss Clements
and Judge Sheppard

A marriage of much prominence in
state and of interest in Americus as in
Buena Vista, the home of the bride,
was that of Miss Hattie Clements and
Judge Walter Wade Sheppard of Sa-
vannah, which took place Wednesday
evening at the home of the brides pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. R, E. Clements
The Rev D. F. Sheppard, a brother
of the groom, performed the ceremony
and at its conclusion a reception was
held.
The bride was attended by her
cousin, Miss Eva jefferson, as maid of
honor; Mrs. j. Gordon Lowe, her sis
ter, as matron of honor, and by little
Miss Sarah Frances Lowe, flower girl,
and Miss Thelma Clements and Pearl
Lowe Hammer, ribbon bearers.
The rooms were decorated in white
carnations, ferns and palms. The GER
emony was performed before an altar
of palms and ferns.
The brides gown was of Brussels
lace over satin embroidered in pearls
She wore wreath of orange bios
some in her veil and carried a shower
boquet of lilies and roses.
The maids and matrons of honor's
dresses were white marquuisette, and
each carried a very beautiful boquet Of
pink roses. The ribbon bea%ers and
flower girls wore white lingerie over
pink with pink ribbons The flower
girls carried baskets of pink rose
petals
Quite a number of Americus friends
of the bride attended the beautiful
wedding. Miss Cldnents is well
known here, where she has oftimes
been charming visitor, as is also
Judge Sheppard They left next morn
ing for Savannah, carrying with them
the good wishes of a host of friends.
Later they will go upon an ex-
tended bridal tour
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24
MIR SHEFFIELD A DELEGATE
TO GAINESVILLE MEETING

On account of an unintentional over.
sight in arranging the list of names 0i
the delegates appointed from the mem
bers of the Board of Trade to attend
the meeting of the GAINESVILLE Cham
Der of Commerce July 1920, the name
of Mr.. Frank Sheffield was omitted
Mr.. Sheffield was named with the 9TH
ers mentioned in the Americus delega-
ton to take the trip to Barnesville for
the purpose of organizing there a
State Chamber of Commerce.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24
BANDIT WHITNEY STILL
ROAMS AT LARGE
Posses Have Abandoned the
Chase

Pocatello, Idaho. June 23.-That
Hugh Whitney, the Idaho bandit, is
safe in the mountains near the Idaho
Wyoming line, is the report received
late yesterday from the posses which
have abandoned the chase in the Will
Creek country He apparently struck
northeast from the Grey lake region,
and is now in the heart of one of the
widest pieces of country in Idaho.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24
TENNESSEE LEGISLATORS
MEET With A QUORUM
First Time Since April SOIODS
Have Quorum

Nashville, Tenn, June 23.-The
Tennessee legislature resumed busi-
ness this morning. The senate met At
10 o'clock with % members present.
The house met at II o'clock with rs
present, both having quorums for the
first time since April 13, when fusion
members flibustered to Alabama and
broke a quorum.
The long filibuster was broken by
members of the delegation going to
the fusionists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24
The Blue Serge
for Happiness

Consider the Blue Serge Suit from
every angle:-
No other color can compare in rich
beauty to the deep blue of the right
kind OF a serge suit. No other color
is SO adaptable to every occasion.
No other fabric wears better than
the fine Close-woven silky worsted
of the serge.
The Blue Serge is the "sure satisfac-
ton" suit. We want you to see our
special serge. 1t will win the price
away from you in an instant, be-
cause it really looks, and is worth,
SO very much more.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24
SHOPS ON SHORTER TIME
DURING THE DULL PERIOD

Today the Seaboard shops here 20
upon the midsummer schedule OF
forty hours weekly-fve days If
eight hours each. Up to this date the
summer schedule has been five days Of
nine hours each-a difference of five
hours in each week The full sched-
ule, when the shops are busy, is six
days, of nine hours each, which will
be resumed in the fall when work in
creases.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24
Package Delivered to Wrong Address

The party who received package ot
shirtwaists, etc, by mistake will con-
fer a favor upon us by phoning our
porter to call for same.
CHAS. /. ANSIEY.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24

A woman hates to go away from her
husband even on duty; "a man likes
to go away from his wife for any old
reason.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24

A girl likes to ride those thrilling
roller coasters so she can show hor
courage by clinging to the nearest man.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24

J. T. Carson, Jr., Of Columbus was
among others from that city in Amer
icus yesterday morning.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24

Try to be different from your neigh
bors and no doubt they will appreciate
the effort.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24

A mans first love isn't his last, and
his last knows she's not his first
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24

Even the most astute police official
cannot arrest the flight of time
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24

Money might go farther if It dldnt
travel so fast.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24

Dull business produces a sharp appe-
tite.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-24

to order.
Heroes like sermons, are often made
Okolona messenger., 1911-05-04
TRUSTEES SALE.

By virtue Of the authority conferred
upon me by a certain deed Of trnst
executed on the 5th day Of November.
1906, by L. HoyIe, George Berks.
and |. S. Moore, trustees Of the
School Street Baptist Church to COW
er an indebtness therein named to
Hawkins & Hodges. in whi,h Trust
Deed | was made trustee, and which
trust deed appears of record in the
Chancery Clerks Office in the Town
Of Houston, Cickasaw County. Miss.
in Book l07, page |. | will on the
5th day Of June, 1911, within legal
hours. in front Of the Court House
door in the City of Okolona, Miss.
sell to the highest bidder for cash the
following described property, situated
in said County and State to-wit
Fractional part Of lot 391 in Block
46 the following dimentions: 361.2
feet in width, and SIS feet in length,
situated in the North East corner Of
said lot, on School Street, in the City
Of Okolona, Miss.
Said sale will be made to satisfy
said debt, and costs Of executing this
trust, and will convey such title as
is vested in me as trustee.
Witness my hand this the 26 day Of
April, 1911. c. c. JOLLY,
Trustee.