The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-12-09
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.


c., have purchased vast. tract of
land near Great Falls in Fairfield
county, which they propose to de-
velop.
A Lexington county jury last week,
awarded Mrs. Cynthia Williams a
verdict of $4,000 against the S. A.
L. railway for the alleged killing of
her husband by a train of the de-
fendant company.
DR.. George BENEFIT, of Columbia,
who has been spending some time in
this country after serving in Red
Cross work in hospitals along the
battle line of Europe, has again re-
turned to the front.
When the dispensaries in Richland
county are closed on December 81,
under the general prohibition act,
the stock on hand will be worth from
$4,000 to $4,000 in the opinion of
L. L. Bultman, State dispensary au-
ditor.
The postofice department has an
nounced that beginning February l.,
rural delivery motor vehicle service
will be placed in operation at Campo
bello, where there will be two routes,
and Pacolet where there will be one.
Both places are in Spartanburg coun-
ty. The salary of the carrier on each
route will be $780,.
The State board of law examiners
have admitted the following to the
practice of law in South Carolina:
J. o. Havird, Newberry; l. F. Bel
ser, Columbia; w. G.. Mordecai, Char
lesion; w. NJ. Levi, Sumter; c. G.
Stogner, Hartsville; E. S. Hemphill,
Chester; J. G.. Leatherwood, Green
wood; R. N. Ward, Greenville.
J. w. Chapman, an engineer en-
ployed by a. lumber company in Col
Teton county, is being sought by the
sheriff, charged with the murder of
Alec Grubbs, negro. 1t is alleged
that the engineer beat the negro who
was stealing ride on a lumber train,
over the head with pistol, crushing
his skull and then threw him into a
deserted field, leaving him to die.
Delegates appointed to attend the
conference to be held by the commits
sion on Church and Country Life,
created by the federal council of the
Churches of Christ in America at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, December $40, are:
DR.. D. G.. Phillips, Chester; Rev. A.
S. Thomas, Cheraw; DR.. H. N. Sny-
der, Spartanburg; DR.. J. B. Hunter,
Prosperity; Rev. w. H. Mills, Glenn
son College; Rev. Geo. w. Quick:
Greenville.
Rather than go through life de-
prived of his eyesight, w. R. Pinck-
ney, surveyor of Ridgeland, and
foreman of the Jasper county grand
jury, committed suicide by cutting
his throat at the home of his brother,
near Ridgeland, Tuesday night. Mr..
Pinckney had been informed by a
specialist that he would lose his eye
sight as the result of some infection
and the theory is that he preferred
death. to blindness.
In Spartanburg's recall election
in that city on Tuesday, Mayor John
F. Floyd, was reelected, but Com
missioners John P. Fielder and c. B.
Waller, running on the ticket with
him, were defeated by J. T. Hudson
and o. T. Gallman. Messrs. Hudson
and Gallman were commissioners un-
til November 13, last, when they re-
tired through act of the legislature
reducing the number of commission
ers from four to two.
The appointments of the house of
representatives for the 1916 session
of the general assembly have been
announced by the speaker, James A.
Hoyt, as follows: Secretary to the
speaker, Miss Kate Cantwell, Colum-
bia; general desk clerk, Ralph Ar
mold, Spartanburg; Journal clerk, R..
E. Crawlie, Columbia; bill clerk, j.
A. Hammer, Columbia; pages, J. T.
B. Sharpton, Edgefield; Lindsay Od-
mon, Chesterfield; John Radcliffe,
Columbia; Ernest G. Sharpe, Lexing-
ton; Doorkeepers, w. N. Austin,
Greenville; J. w. McCreight, Colum-
bia; B. G.. Hoover, Orangeburg; mail
carrier, N. o. Pyles, Columbia.
A promissory note for ten cents,
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