The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-20
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt News.

tie daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. P.
Pate, who has been quite i'll with
pneumonia, is convalescent.
Mrs. DR.. J. L. Copeland, who has
been on an extended visit to St.
Augustine, Fla, and other points, is
at home again.
Mr.. J. G. Padgett, of Walterboro,
candidate for congress from the first
district, was shaking hands with his
friends in Ehrhardt on Friday.
News has been received here of the
death Of Mrs. Frank Burney, sister of
Mrs. w. P. Pate, who was buried last
Friday at Elkton, n. c., Mr.. Pate
attending her funeral.
Town council has convicted a white
man for selling whiskey and impos
ed a fine of s1O0 or thirty days on
the county chain gang. He chose the
latter. This was commendable SER
vice on the part of our city fathers.
but we do not believe the above
mentioned the only white man in
these parts engaging in this nefarious
and damnable business, and we trust
council will have both the alertness
and courage to discover and expose
them.
If there should be enough of this
kind of work done, there should be
no reason why prohibition should not
prohibit A most preposterously ab-
surd remedy is the suggestion to re-
instate the dispensary. This would
be like quenching fire with fire, or
draining an area by flooding it. At
it's worst now, we only have blind
tigers. Then we would have blind
tigers plus the dispensary. We do
truly hope that no good citizen of
this town or community will suffer
such a travesty upon his intelll-
gence, to say nothing of his morality,
as to vote for so ridiculously absurd
a measure!
Meagre information concerning
Clyde Rentz, the little son of D. P.
Rentz, who disappeared from his
fathers home at Lakeland, Fla, on
January 23rd, has been received by
his grandfather, Jacob G. Rentz, Of
the Hunters Chapel section. The in
formation is to the effect that a Mr..
Williams, observing in the News and
Courier of February 18th, an &C
count of the boys disappearance, at
once recalled that on January 23rd,
he was riding on a train near Way
cross, Ca, and that he saw boy who
said his name was Clyde Rentz, and
who answered to the description CIV
en- of him in the News and Courier
of February 18th, put off of the train
on account of his not having money
to pay his fare.
By this it is supposed that the boy
is trying to make his way back to the
home of his grandfather, Jacob G.
Rentz, R. F. D., Branchville, S. G.
However, though it has been more
than month since the incident re-
ported by Mr.. Williams occurred, no
further tidings have been received
of the missing boy.
A newspaper cut has been made
from a good photograph of Clyde,
taken something more than year
ago, that will be used in a number of
the leading daily papers of the coun-
try. in the hope that it may lead to
his Identification and recovery. In
the meantime, let all sympathizlng
friends mingle their prayers with
those of the dear old couple at Hunt
er's Chapel, who are anxiously await
ing further tidings from their lost
boy. Of course much sympathy is
felt for the father, but it must chiefly
center around the aged grandparents
who took him to their home and
hearts when only two days old and
up to a few months ago cared for him
with that tenderness and devotion SO
characteristic of that awakened by
the youngest child OF ones old age.
With tremulous voice the intellectu-
ally strong, kind hearted, aged man,
said to the writer: Il loved him
better than l ever loved one of my
own children, and because of his
loss | am experiencing the greatest
sorrow of my life" See Gen. 37:3
and "a for a similar case.