The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-02
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.


It is said that no negroes will be
appointed as notaries public by Gov
ernor Blease.
A handsome brick church fo1
the Presbyterian congregation has
just been completed at Blackville al
a cost of about $1,000.
The new law in reference to nota
ries public makes term of Office
ten years. They must register with
the clerk of the court, and the com.
mission will cost $500 instead o.
1925 as heretofore.
The dispensary winding-up com
mission and Attorney General Lyo1
have addressed letters to the legis'
lature asking that an investigation
be had of the charges against them
by Governor Blease.
A case of small pox developed al
Cope Last week, and as a consequence
there was a general vaccination OF
school children and others. The
town council passed a compulsory
vaccination ordinance as we'll.
DR.. G. E. Burts, who has served
the Baptist church at Edgefield for
eight years, has accepted the call ex-
tended him by the First Baptist
church of Columbia, and he will en-
ter his new field the first of March,
Lawyers Weston & Aycock OBJ
tanned a judgment in the Richland
court on Wednesday for $4,000
against Clarke Bros. & Co., of Pc
oria, ILL.,, wholesale liquor dealers,
whom they represented before the
winding-up commission.
J. J. Jones, who was sentenced to
serve ten years in the penitentiary
for the killing of Abe Pearlstine,
was carried to Columbia last Friday
to begin his sentence. Jones says
that he will do cheerfully whatever
task is assigned him there, and that
he will endeavor to make model
prisoner.
Jno. D. Williams, a well known
farmer of Greenwood county, COM
mitted suicide on Sunday morning
by shooting himself in the head with
pistol, leaving a wife and eight
children. Bad health was the sup
posed cause. Mr.. Williams's father
committed suicide many years ago
in Edgefeld county.
Col. F.. M. Nixon, formerly of
Barnwell county, has been elected
superintendent of the Confederate
home in Columbia, in place Of Capt.
w. D. Startling. The election was
held by the new board appointed by
Governor Blease. The governor did
not reappoint a number Of the old
board.
The North Carolina Press Associ-
alton did not come to Florence and
Charleston last week, as was pro-
posed. It is stated that the reason
was a part of the new road from
Winston-Salem down this way was
not open for traffic. This is the new
connection which the Atlantic Coast
Line has been building for some
months.
Governor Blease last Saturday sent
a message to the legislature in re-
gard to members of the general as
sembly holding two offices. Several
members of that body are trustees
of State colleges, and the governor
says this is in violation of the State
constitution. A committee will in
vestigate the matter and report at
this session.
R. L. Gunter, of Aiken, has been
appointed solicitor of the second cir
cult by Governor Blease, to fill the
unexpired term of James F. Byrnes,
who was elected to congress. There
were several applicants for the posi-
ton, among them being c.. A. Best,
of Barnwell, and H. NJ. Graham, of
Bamberg. J. F. Carter, Esq, of this
city, was not an applicant, as was
stated in the daily papers.