The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-10-24
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

The Clarendon County Farmers
Union passed a resolution asking
that all the farmers keep their cotton
off the market at the prevailing
prices.
CONGRESSMAN Lever, who is in the
West speaking for the Wilson cause,
is very much encouraged. He says
he is confident Missouri will go Dem
ocratic.
A Kershaw county farmer, ]. W.
Holden, made this year 12S bushels
of corn and 1915 bundles of fodder
on one acre. His clear profit on that
acre was S1O0.75.
The Greek colony at Florence has
sent several volunteer members to
the homeland to join in the war
against Turkey. A subscription list
is now being circulated.
John J. Jones, the Branchville law
yer, who killed Abe Pearlstine, was
taken to the penitentiary last week
and has commenced serving his SEN
tence of ten years and three months.
The annual meeting of the Wo-
mans Missionary Union of the Bap-
tist church of South Carolina will be
held in Columbia, November 1922,
and will be attended by about 300
delegates.
Perhaps one reason that we are so
popular is that the women in South
Carolina outnumber the men. In
only four other States is this true.
The proportion is 1O6 to 100, in
these five States.
w. Gilmore Simms, Jr., has been
appointed by the governor as clerk of
court of Barnwell county, to fill the
unexpired term of his father. A
primary has been ordered to nomi-
nate his successor.
Frank Green, colored, aged twenty,
was committed to jail in Marlboro
county on Thursday upon the charge
of attempted assault upon a white
girl. He was shot in being captured,
but not seriously hurt.
Rev. Benjamin Palmer Reid, pas
tor of the Presbyterian church at
Reidville, Spartanburg county, was
stricken with paralysis on Friday and
is in a critical condition. Mr.. Reid
is about so years of age.
President Watson has been in cor
respondence with railway and steam
ship officials in reference to the pro-
posed trip to Cuba, and he has sent
US the letters. The rate seems to us
to be prohibitive, and it looks like
the trip cannot be arranged for. It's
too far to walk.
The preliminary examination of T.
u. Vaughn, late superintendent OF
the Odd Fellows orphanage, was held
in Greenville on Thursday. Three
little girl inmates of the home testl-
fed against him. His trial was fix
ed for this week at a special term
before Special Judge Purdy.
The nomination of Thos. H. Pee
pies over J. Fraser Lyon, for attor-
ney general is taken to mean for
Charleston, that hereafter there will
be no objection to horse racing being
carried on in connection with the
fair association. Arrangements are
said to be already inaugurated to-
ward that end.
While fishing near the jetties, Fred
Shiver, of Charleston, caught a
sheepshead few days ago, which,
on being opened, was found to have
two diamond rings in it, worth it is
said, several hundred dollars. How
the diamonds got there is mystery;
possibly some woman lost them while
in the surf at Sullivan's Island or al
the Isle of Palms.
Maj. Micah Jenkins, late collector
of internal revenue in South Caro-
lima, died in Charleston on Thurs
day, in his 56th year, survived by a
widow and six children He was a
son of Gen. Micah Jenkins of the
Confederate army and himself com
manded a company of Rough Rid
eds" in the Spanish war under Col
Roosevelt and was promoted to ma
iOr for gallantry.