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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-11-09

COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Oak Grove Greetings.

Oak Grove, Oct. Give had some
frost last Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Hayden, OF
Cope, were the guests of Mrs. Rose
Hoffman last Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. George Mcmillan spent last
Saturday night with Mr.. J. w. Cope
land, Jr.
Miss Ethel Smith left sometime
ago to resume her work at Benefits
Vile.
We are very sorry to hear of Mes
danes D. NJ. Smiths and ]. l.. Cope
lands illness. We hope they will be
out again soon.
Misses Pattie AIiley and Grace
Hoffman, of Lodge, spent the week
end with Mrs. Rose Hoffman.
Those who dined with Mr.. and
Mrs. J. l.. Copeland last Sunday
were: Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Hayden
and family, of Cope, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. W. Copeland and family, Mr..
and Mrs. l.. w. Copeland and daugh-
ter. :
Miss Pearl Martin spent last Sun
day with Mrs. Rose Hoffman and
family.
Mr.. NJ. A. Kinard and daughter
Lizzie, spent last Saturday night and
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Cope
land.
We are very sorry to know that
Mr.. G. w. Clayton is not getting
along so well.
Miss Jennie Lou Martin was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. D. P. Smith
last Thursday night.
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ColstOn Clippings.

Colston, November 7.-On account
of sudden and important business,
Prof. ]. X. Breedin could not be with
US on last Sunday. However, Prof.
Guilds, of the Carlisle school, deliv-
cred an address which was much en-
joyed by everybody. His subject
was The Measure of Man."
Miss nellie Clayton spent last week
end with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thos. Clayton, bringing with her as
her guest, Mrs. w. H. Herndon.
Misses Dora and Mamie Mcmillan,
of Bamberg high school, spent last
weekend at home.
MIR. and Mrs. George Bessinger
and family spent Sunday in Colston
with relatives.
A good many of the young people
enjoyed party given by Miss Nettie
Clayton last Friday night at her
home.
Mr.. John G.. Clayton, of Walterbo-
70, spent last Sunday and Sunday
night with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thos. Clayton.
Miss Natalie Kearse spent Sunday
with Misses Sadie Boyd and Ethel
Logan.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Zeigler spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. J. c.
Beard.
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Schofield Sketches.

Schofield, Nov. 6.-Mr. James L.
Owen left yesterday morning for Sa-
vannah, where he goes to undergo
an operation.
Mrs. Ogreta Beard, OF the Colston
section, is spending few days here
with relatives.
Miss Aggie Mccormick, of Eden,
Ga.. visite., Ear sister, Mrs. S. d.
Lain, last ZEE.
Mr.. J. F. RS--l:e, of Williamsport,
Pa, arrived here last night to accept
a temporary position as log scaler.
Mr.. w. G. Mcintosh left last even
ing for Williamsport, Pa, where he
will spend several weeks with his
family. He is expected to return for
duty about January 1st.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cooper Gunnels, of
the Govan section, spent Sunday here
with relatives.
We are glad to see Clarence, the
little son of Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Beard,
who has been confined to the bed for
several days, improving.
DRAEBLR.
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Late Returns Give the President Lead Over
Hughes. Little Doubt Remains. The
West Goes for Wilson.

message received in the city Wednesday at o'clock
announced the reelection of President Wilson without
doubt.
telephone message from Columbia at 23O p. m. We'd
nesday gave the following summary of the election at that
time: Positive votes for Wilson 232 for Hughes 212.
Reasonably certain for Wilson 257 for Hughes 23O, III
doubt A. The outstanding States California; Mime
sofa, Deeware New hampshire New Mexico and Idaho.
Wilson is neck and neck with Hughes i'll Deleware will in
all probability carry California, others still in doubt bur
lean to Wilson, Prevailing sentiment in Columbia is that
Wilson is elected The Wilson managers claim than
800 electoral votes
Returns received Tuesday night indicated the election
of Hughes, and it not until yesterday that
Wilson, vote began outcmb 1ughess. Bamberg peo-
pie had practically given up all hopes of Wilson's election
when bulletins announced that he going strong and
every return showed gains for Wilson.
Late advces indicated that the official count of votes IN
the close States would put Wilson we'll in the ead and his
election was practically assured at yesterday.
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Olar News.

Olar, Nov. 2.-(Written for last
week. Mr.. and Mrs: E. D. Bessinger
and Mrs. Elizabeth Bessinger spent
Sunday in Fairfax.
Mrs. E. A. THAN spent the week
end with relatives in Fairfax.
Misses Sadie Boyd and Mary Clay
ton, of Colston, spent the weekend
with Miss Boyd's sister, Mrs. C. B,
Ray.
Among the many who attended the
State fair were: Mr.. and Mrs. H. F,
Starr, Misses Daisy and Zelma Rizer
DR.. and Mrs. L. A. Hartzog, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. A. Brabham, Miss Belle Cook
Mrs. G.. J. Wescoat and Miss Norma
Brabham.
We are glad that Mr.. Earl Rizel
is able to return to college again.
Miss Maude Williams, of Allendale
has been visiting relatives at this
place,
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News Notes From Carlisle.

Carlisle School, Nov. 5.-Carlisle' S
next game of foot ball is with Porter
Military Academy next Wednesday,
in Walterboro, at the Southern Caro-
lima fair. A hard fought contest is
to be expected.
On Thursday evening the board OF
control met. After the meeting they
we're served a delightful dinner in
Guilds hall.
On Friday morning the Rev. A. J.
Cauthen, chairman of the board or
control, and the Rev. F. w. Shuler'
conference commissioner of educa-
tion, gave short, but interesting and
beneficial talks at the chapel exer-
cises
DR.. H. n. Snyder, president of Wof-
ford college, was a visitor to Car
Isle on Thursday evening. In his
usual forceful and penetrating style
he addressed the student body on
Are You Growing?"
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WE'RE NOT on TICKETS.
County Comes Near Not Having any
County Commissioners.

Bamberg county came dangerously
near to not having any county COM
missioners for the next two years.
By an oversight or error the names
of the two commissioners nominated
in the recent primaries were left OF
the State and county Democratic tick
cts. About half past three O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon, Mr.. w. D. Bes-
singer, one of the Democratic noml-
nees. discovered the error while he
was at Denmark. He fastened to a
telephone and called up Representa-
tive Carter to Investigate the mat
ter.
Mr.. Carter hastily looked up the
election rules and found that the
tickets may be either written in black
ink or printed, or partly written and
partly printed. A few TICKETS with
the names of Mr.. Bessinger and Mr..
Otis l.. Copeland, the other nominee,
were placed at the ballot box and
voted by a few persons, thus saving
the day, for even a. half dozen votes
will elect, where there is no opposi-
ton.
The error probably came about by
this offic> having been an appointlve
one up until few years ago, when
the law was changed, and the office
was made elective. The same error
occurred before, and was remedied
in the same way just before the clos
ing of the polls.
This is rather serious matter, al
though, under the circumstances not
dangerous to this county. There be-
ing no candidates other than the
Democratic nominees, there was, OF
course-no chance for some one else
to have been elected, but if there had
been another county ticket, the Dem
ocratic nominees would have been
left out.
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Carlisle Loses to Freshmen.

Although the Carolina freshmen
won from Carlisle school of Bam-
berg, Friday afternoon, 19 to s, they
had to play about the best football of
the season to turn the trick. The
preps put up a terrific battle and the
first half ended with the count in a
knot, 6 to 6. The score at the end
Of the third quarter was the same
and the collegians could not tuck the
pastime away until the last quarter
when they made two touchdowns,
both coming from long forward
passes.
The Bamberg contingent launched
a distinct surprise. Fosters follow
ers expected to win handily but they
reckoned without Lenoir, Hough,
Luther, Sistrunk and others. Lenoir
the captain of the visitors, played. a
wonderful game. He made Carlisle's
lone touchdown by running punt
back 35 yards to the goal line and
time after time he cut loose for daz-
zling runs. He did not depend on
skirting the ends but threw his di'
minutive body through the line fol
substantial gains. He also threw a
dozen or so perfect forward passes
He had plenty of nerve and negotiat'
ed forward passes when almost in
the shadow of his goal posts. He
was guilty Of only one error during
! the afternoon. He tried long for
ward pass on the third down, witt
only about six yards to go for
touchdown and two downs to make
it in. The pass went over the goa
line and the ball went to Carolina or
the 20-yard line.
Hough played sensational game
for Carlisle. The big fullback buck
ed the line in impressive style. HI
made several first downs in one dive
and divided first downs into two
! plays more than once. The othe:
backs, Luther and Sistrunk, alst
played we'll. Luther is Columbis
boy and got good hand from tht
home folk at the game. The lineup
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OIar News.

Olar, Nov. 7.-Misses Daisy Rizer
and Bessie Mae Cave were the guests
of Miss Floye Sauls, of Brunson, re-
Gently.
Mrs. Garry C. Starr and children
were the guests of Mrs. Ulmers, OF
Brunson, recently.
Misses Leona Thain and Marie
Bessinger spent the weekend with
relatives in Fairfax.
Mrs. E. A. Thain and Mrs. P. e.
Aver motored to- yBamberg Friday.
DR.. and Mrs. L. A. Hartzog and
son, Franklin Rizer,, attended the
surgeons meeting at Jacksonville,
Fla, and then visited relatives in
Ocala, Fla.
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Ehrhardt Etchings.
DRAEBLR.

Ehrhardt, Nov. 7.-Another year
has rolled around and no fair for
Bamberg county. Why is it that no
one will make start? The water is
fine, and now is time to go on in, SO
let the proper ones begin to prepare
for next fall. Bamberg is ahead OF
some of the counties and could ex-
hibit a fair that would make others
get busy to compete with her.
Mr.. Abe Bennett, Of near Lodge,
died last Friday and was buried Sat-
urday at Carter's Ford cemetery. Mr..
Bennett was one of the wealthlest
planters of northern Colleton coun-
ty.
He leaves a large family and
numerous friends to mourn his death.
Considering how wonderfully ma
ture has blended things, when the
average length around a woman's
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over the head with bottle, but some
days later it was supposed they had
made friends. Our information is
that on one day last week George
HERS went to Kinsey's store and
found him standing in the door and
poured two loads of shot from gun
into him and then fired five pistol
balls into his body. 1t is said Kin
sey's little boy begged him not to
shoot his father any more. We un-
derstand that HERS has a family and
that Kinsey had two little boys, and
8 years old, their mother having died
sometime since. The tragedy . is
greatly to be regretted.-Denmark
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G.. f. Kinsey Shot to Death.

The following account of the kill
ing which took place at .Ehrhardt
will be of interest to the readers of
The Press and Standard. Mr.. Kin
sey; who was killed, was a son of the
late C. E. Kinsey, of Williams, and
had many relatives and friends in
that community. The killing is
greatly deplored and, from the news
which has been received here, seems
to have been unprovoked at the time.
Account taken from dispatches
to The News and Courier:
Bamberg, Oct. 2S.-Charley Kin
sey, a merchant of Ehrhardt, in this
county, was shot and almost instant
ly killed by George J. HERS, a prom
inent farmer of that community, last
night in front of his store in Ehr-
hardt. 1t is said that Kinsey was
first shot with a shotgun loaded with
buckshot, and after he had fallen to
the ground that HERS emptied his
pistol into his body. 1t is said that
bad feeling had existed between the
two men for some time but full par
ticulars of the affair and an explana-
ton of the immediate cause of the
shooting have not yet reached here.
Coroner Zeigler went to Ehrhardt
this morning to hold an inquest over
the body of Mr.. Kinsey. Mr.. HERS
has not yet been placed under arrest,
but it is understood that he tele-
phoned friends here today that he
would come to Bamberg Monday and
surrender to Sheriff Ray.
HERS and the deceased belong to
large and very influential families
and the tragedy is greatly regretted
by the friends of both.-Walterboro
Press and Standard
The following, signed "a Friend
of George Hers appeared in last
weeks Bamberg County Times. The
publisher of the Times informed The
Herald that the article was handed
him by Attorney S. G. Mayfeld:
To the Public.
Sensational accounts of the unfor'
tunate tragedy which occurred in
Ehrhardt; in which Charles E. Kin
sey was killed, have been published
in the county papers.
If the reader will stop to analyze
the articles which have appeared lr
the press, it will be seen at once the
causes which impelled these publica
tions to print the articles:
Looking back through the recen
months of political troubles and the
efforts of the courts to enforce the
prohibition laws in this county vii
tell what forced George ]. HERS tt
kill c.. E. Kinsey. Therein will ht
found a reason which animates some
to misrepresent and condemn a mar
in advance of his trial by a jury o.
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Carlisle (6)
Legal Sales.

The following public sales were
made Monday by the master, Mr.. H.
G. Folk:
In the case of B. H. Walker, plain
tiff, versus Mrs. S. ]. Walker, ct al,
the following tracts Of land were
sold:
Tract No. l -, home place, sold to H
w. Walker for $4,000; tracts Nos. 2
3, and 4 sold to Mrs. S. ]. Walker,
B. H. Walker, w. G. S. Walker, Mrs.
H. H. Cauthen, and Mrs. A. L. New
ton, jointly. for s1.325, S1,425, and
s2,100, respectively.
In the case of Jones A. Williams
versus Adam Grimes, ct al, the sale
was withdrawn, settlement being ef-
fected privately.
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his county.
In behalf of Mr.. HERS his friends
ask that the public suspend judg-
ment; set aside the 'sensatlonally
false reports and await the produc-
ton of the true story as it will come
out when the case is tried-not to
condemn a man on newspaper arti-
cles Let the light be turned on. Re-
spectfully,
A FRIEND OF GEORGE HERS,
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THE kINSEY HOMICIDE.
Versions of Ehrhardt Tragedy as
Printed in Other Papers.

: The following account of the kill
ing of Mr.. C. E. kinsey at Ehrhardt
by Mr.. G. J. HERS appeared in last
weeks Bamberg County Times. This
account differs from that told by wit
nesses at the inquest. AS The Herald
wishes to print all the facts obtain
able, we herewith reprint the Bam-
berg County Times version, also ac-
counts from other papers.
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G. j. HERS Killed c. E. Kinsey.

VI. y. hlcrS h1llou =. T.. hlASSSs
An unfortunate tragedy occurred
at Ehrhardt on Friday afternoon of
last week. From the best informa-
ton that can be obtained. Mr.. c. E.
Kinsey had been violating the prohi-
bition laws, and warrants had been
sworn out against him. He regard
ed Haskell and George HERS as his
principal prosecutors in these mat
tiers, and it was said that Kinsey's
mind turned to revenge. The Of
ficers of the law recently disarmed
Kinsey and took his pistol away;
that recently he had gotten a new
five-shooter, six-inch barrel, and
showed it to his friends and told
them what he intended to do with
this pistol. That he had gotten it
expressly to use upon the HERS peo-
pie. On Friday he bought a new
double-barrelled shot gun, and told
his friends on the streets of Ehrhardt
that he wanted a gun that would
shoot buck shot; that he was tired OF
hunting small game, and that he was
now after men. Also said that he ex-
pected that either he, or George
HERS or Haskell HERS, or all OF
them would die with their shoes on,
and said that he expected to kill six
men in the town of Ehrhardt, and
then blow his own brains out.
Late Friday afternoon, Mr.. Geo. j.
HERS, being near Ehrhardt, drove in
to the town; and afterwards IN pass
ing the store where kinsey was
standing, he was spoken to by Kin
sey, and words passed between them
and an alteration arose, and Kinsey
began drawing his pistol out OF bis
pocket, the hammer hung, and HERS
tried to stop Kinsey, but failing fired.
The shots took effect in the shoulder
and neck and in Kinsey's struggle to
get his pistol which had hung in the
pocket, he was shot three times. The
pistol was taken later from the body
by Magistrate Kinard, and is still IN
his possession.
This is an exceedingly unfortunate
tragedy as it is now believed thai
Kinsey's mind by reason of liquor
and drugs had been worked up tc
such a state as made him almost ir,
responsible and deadly dangerous
It is doubly sad for it forced a gooo
man to take his life.
There are several who saw the kill
ing but only one or two know the
details County Times.
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Fatal Shooting.

Charles Kinsey was shot to pieces
and killed last week and we are told
George HERS is charged with the kill
ing. We hear he surrendered to the
sheriff. 1t is said there had been a
feud between Kinsey and George
HERS and his son, Haskell. Some
time ago Haskell and Kinsey had a
difficulty and Kinsey struck Haskell
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COW HAD RABIES.
Animal Owned by j. f. Attaway, Bit.
ten by Dog, Killed.

On Sunday afternoon J. E. Alta
way, of near town, killed one of his
milk COWS on account of her having
rabies. The COW was bitten by a
mad dog several weeks ago. A few
days ago she began acting queer. The
negroes who had her in charge
thought she was sick and gave her
medicine, one or two of the negroes
putting their hands in the cows
mouth the day before she was killed.
1t is said that they are considerably
frightened and are thinking of 60
ing to Columbia for the pasteur
treatment.
At the same time when the COW
was bitten, several dogs we're also
bitten by the mad dog, and have
since been killed.-Saluda Standard.
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Oldest Living Thing.

One of the wonders of the ancient
world, and probably the greatest of
them, was the pyramids of Egypt.
And yet some of the giant sequoias
of California that are now thrifty
trees had bark on them a foot thick
when Cheops began building the
great pyramid that bears his name.
Beneath the shadow of the pyramids
Napoleon said to his troops: Forty
centuries look down upon you." In
the shadow of the big trees of Cali
fornia one might say: Eighty cen
turies look down upon you." There
are trees in the grove estimated by
scientists, among them John Muir,
the eminent naturalist, to be 5000
and even 10000 years old.
The oldest living things in the
world today are these giant trees.
Also the species of vegetation to
which they belong is the oldest in
the world. The sequoia tree, exactly
like that of California, fourished
several millions of years ago. We
know that because we find their fos-
sill remains buried beneath thousands
of feet of rock, and geologists are
able, by reading the leaves of those
rocks as an ordinary man would read
a book, to tell when the sequoias be-
meath them lived.-Kansas City Star.
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Italy, and Spain. A year or two later
he defeated all who met him at the
St. Louis Worlds Fair. Fonst was
designed by nature for fencer. Six
feet tall and lean as greyhound, he
has narrow, sloping shoulders. and
long arms with muscles of steel. His
hips are considerably broader than
his shoulders, and his long legs are
very powerful, enabling him on oc-
casion to escape dangerous lunges by
phenomenal backward leaps. But
the most striking thing about him is
his eyes. which are strangely large
and prominent, suggesting exception
al power and scope of vision. Pos
sessing such prestige as swordsman,
Fonst is often asked to act as a Sec
ond but as a principal is not in much
demand.
Sought by Politicians.
Aside from the farces between COL
lege boys, to whom an affair of hon.
or" Glance de honor') seems neces-
sary to mark the full attainment. Of
mans estate, most Cuban duels are
fought by politicians, particularly
legislators, and newspaper men. The
duels chief function would seem to
be the shielding of the truth from in
decent exposure, a sort of protest
against the nude in statement, any
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legislator or editor who dares tell the
naked truth about public men or
measures, as Senator Mazary Artola
did recently about the notorious
squandering of the public moneys on
sinecures and the no less notorious
venality of the press, must be pre-
pared to answer for his words on the
field of honor, even though, in the
case of legislator, the words be ut
tered in debate on the floor of the
house or the senate. Many measures
that would not bear too close analy-
sis are thus enabled to reach vote
unchallenged.
While from what has been said it
may be inferred that the duel as prac-
ticed in Cuba is not brutal or a
dangerous sport, some risk may at
tend the impertinent participation of
foreigners in the national pastime.
During the Ten Years war Span
ish editor was killed in a duel by a
Cuban, and in the only fatal duel of
the last seventeen years young
American, named Warren, was the
victim. A quarrel between Warren
and a wealthy young Cuban named
Mesa, had led to the Gaming of the lat
ter by Warren. Mesa challenged War
rem, and the seconds, one of whom
on behalf of Mesa was Orestes Fer
rara, speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives, found that Mesa was the
aggrieved party, and pistols were
chosen to avenge the affront. War
ren was heavy youth, nearly six
feet in height and half as much in
breadth, and was exceedingly near
sighted. Mesa is small and slender
and a winner of prizes in amateur
pistol tournaments. Friends of War
rem have said that at the distance Sc
lected, ten PAGES, he could see his an
tagonist only as a mere blur. At the
first fire Mesa placed his bullet right
in the centre of the huge target, ana
Warren died of peritonitis.
A dispute on the floor of the house
or the senate, or any other quarrel
among caballeros that is likely to
lead to a duel, is invariably describ-
ed by the newspapers as an "inci-
dente," and it's sequel is duly chron-
icled
Notwithstanding the occasional
casualties, insurance actuaries seem
to consider duelling a healthful exer-
else conductive to longevity, making
the inveterate battler on the field of
honor better risk on the whole than
the sedentary pacifist.