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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-07-20
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Denmark Dots.

Denmark, July 15.-On Friday
Misses Ruth and Frances Guess re-
turned home from weeks house
party in Winnsboro, accompanied by
Misses Cornelia Mayer, of Newberry
and Kate Doty, Of Winnsboro, both
being members of the house party OF
the week before.
On Friday evening Miss Ruth
Guess entertained in honor OF her
visitors, Misses Cornelia Mayer and
Kate Doty. After the guests were
introduced to those in the receiving
line, they were invited to the lawn
where they were entertained with
progressive conversation. Numerous
Japanese lanterns added much to the
beauty of the scene. Later in the
evening the guests were served with
refreshments. The out OF town
guests were: Misses Killingsworth
of Columbia and Martha Ray, OF
Bamberg, Winchester Smith, Kenne-
dy Rogers and Robert Kennedy, OF
Williston.
Mr.. and Mrs G.. NJ. Crum, of Glenn
son College, are spending some time
at the home of Mrs. Crum's father
J. B. Guess.
On Saturday morning Miss Kate
Doty left for Myrtle Beach.
An enjoyable event of the week
was the picnic at Hallman's bridge
on Thursday, given for the visitors
of Misses Ruth and Frances Guess.
Miss Kate Doty returned to Den
mark on Thursday to resume her
visit to the Misses Guess of that
place.
On Friday evening Misses Ruth
and Frances Guess acted as hostesses
at a Converse tea given in honor OF
their visitors, Misses Doty and Mayer
The guests found their places by
miniature Converse pennants, from
which ribbon streamers of purple
and gold, Converse colors, led to the
favors, skillfully concealed beneath
the centrepiece of yellow daisies.
From the chandelier above were ar
tistically suspended two large Cs, cut
from purple and gold cardboard. At
ter the tea was served the guests
spent the remainder of the evening
in conversation.
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Part of Cargo to Anderson.

Anderson, July 15.--The Brogon
cotton mills, manufacturers of print
cloth goods, are assured by the
American representatives of the Ger
man dyestuff manufacturers that the
mills will receive a share of the car
go of $50 tons of dyestuff that arriv-
ed on the German submarine
Deutschland in Baltimore few days
ago. President Gossett said today
that he had made applications for a
part of the cargo and that the Amer
lean representatives stated that it
would be distributed among their
customers on the basis of past sales.
Mr.. Gossett says the American rep
resentatives have not been Informed
as to the character of the dyestuff on
board the submarine, but he is hop
ing that it is indantrine, because the
mills are short in the supply of this
particular stuff. Indantrine is an
important ingredient in manufacture
ing fast colors, colors that are wash
able. The Brogon Mills are one of
the two mills in the South that man
ufacture this kind of print cloth
goods.
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Georgetown Hard Hit.

Conway, July 16.-Georgetown
was in the vortex of the tropical hur-
ricane which swept the Carolina
coast Thursday and Friday, accord
ing to Capt. James H. Porter, who
brought a party from that city to-
day in the Atlantic Coast, Corpora
tons tug, w. H, Andrews, to COM
municate with the president of the
corporation, R. J. Clifford, George
town having had no communication
with the outside world since Thurs
day night. Capt. Porter said that he
would not begin to estimate the dam
age wrought to the city and to crops
in the county, but that the loss must
have been exceedingly great.
During the storm the wharves and
stores along the water front were
flooded with water several feet deep,
while the Seaboard railways tracks
were washed away around George
town for three or four miles. There
have been no trains in or out of the
city since the storm. Telegraph and
telephone communication with the
outside world has been cut off since
Friday morning. Parties had been
sent out in automobiles in every di-
rection, but all returned after hav-
ing travelled four or five miles.
The damage done the Atlantic
Coast Lumber Corporations plants is
estimated by Capt. Porter at $4,000.
The whole town, he said, presented
a mass of wires, upturned trees and
wrecked buildings. A number of
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Otis Outings.

Otis, July 1S.-Our little burg is
still hustling; shipping melons is the
order of the day. They are being
shipped daily from here.
Mrs. L. S. Dennis, of Kingstree
has returned to her home after a
visit to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L.
D. Odom.
Miss Maggie Smith has returned
to her home in Charleston after a
two weeks visit to Misses Eva and
Lila McCue.
Mr.. Otis Sandifer, of Denmark, was
a visitor at Otis Sunday
Master Carrere Hiedtman, OF
Charleston, is visiting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. McCue.
Mrs. O. NJ. Spurlin and Miss Ruth
Seymour, of Denmark, visited at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. L. D. Odom
last week.
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Floods i'm North Carolina.

Asheville, N. c., July 16.-Taking
toll of five human lives, with a
property loss estimated from s6,000,-
900 to $10,00O,0O0, and with hun
dreds of people rendered homeless
by the destruction of more than one
hundred houses, the worst flood in
the history of the State swept the
river section of Asheville and the
French Broad Valley early this
morning, and at 8 o'clock tonight
the waters of the Swanannoa and
French Broad rivers were fifteen feet
above their banks, although believed
to be receding. Reports from towns
in the French Broad Valley, covering
a territory from the lake Toxaway
section to Hot Springs, near the
Tennessee line, put the property
losses at nearly $10,000,000. Re-
ports from these sections are difficult
to obtain owing to the interruption
of telegraph and telephone communi-
cation, lines being down everywhere.
At 1 O'Clock today the Western Union
Telegraph company succeeded in
looping up a telephone wire to At
lanta, thus getting the only line of
communication to the outside world
at that time.
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TO PAY TWO CLAIMS.
Senate Passes Two Measures for Re
lief for COrbins.

Washington, July 15.-Senato1
Tillman today had the senate pass
bills paying two important South
Carolina claims. One of them pro-
poses to pay to Mrs. S. Corbin. OF
Oconee county, widow of w. B. Cor
bin, who while in the discharge OF
his duty as a deputy United States
marshal was killed by Robert Belch-
or, Lou Belcher, J. B. Palmer and
Charles Palmer, alleged violators OF
the United States laws, March 8.
1909, the sum of $1,000 on account
of the murder of her husband while
in the service of the government OF
the United States.
The other would pay to Mrs. G. D.
Corbin, of Oconee county, a similar
amount for the same reason.
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DAMAGE BY WIND And RAIN
UNPRECEDENTED HEAVY RAIN
FALL IN CAROLINAS.
Fourteen Inches of Rain Fell at Flor
ence.-Crops Damaged.-Sev-
eral Cities Inundated.

Columbia, July 16.-Unprecedent-
edly heavy rains, which have trans
formed creeks into rivers, rivers into
torrents and lowlands into lakes, fol-
lowed the track of the coast hurri-
cane which swept over South Caro-
lima, starting at Charleston Thurs
day night. The Pee Dee section,
which seems to have felt the chief
force of the disturbance, reports
crops flattened, bridges swept away
by raging streams, roads all but i'm
passable on account of debris and
railway communication badly Grip
pied.
Thus far there have been no re-
ports of loss of life, but it is possible
that some lives have been lost in the
swollen streams. The rising of the
river and creeks now becomes the
most serious factor in the situation
The weather bureau has announced
that warnings for the Santee, Wa
teree, Catawba and Saluda rivers
stand, and reports from points on
these streams indicate that the wa
ters will be very high indeed. +
The precipitation was the heaviest
ever seen in some sections. Flor
ence had nearly IA inches in sc
hours and Kingstree had more than
ten. In Kingstree the drniaage cana
through the. centre of the town left
it's banks and caused much damage
to property.
Estimates of crop damage vary
Some reports have it that especially
in the Pee Dee section the loss has
been terrible, while others indicate
that first accounts were pessimistic.
Yesterdays reports showed that as
the storm swept inland it brought its
toll of damage and inconvenience tc
the Piedmont, where rising streams
embarrassed railway communication
and damaged crops and bridges.
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Established 1891

tugs and other craft were sunk,
among them being the yacht Palmet-
to, owned by E. w. Kaminski, and
number of gasoline launches owned
by J. E. McQuade, of the George
town canning factory. AS many
more craft were washed ashore. The
Winyah Lumber company's plant
was practically total loss. The
smokestacks of all the mills were
blown away by the high wind. The
power house was almost total
wreck and wires were blown helter
skelter about the streets and wound
about the trees. 1t will be many
days before it can be repaired.
The Scurry garage was demolish-
ed by a large tree falling on the
building. The high school building
was unroofed and considerable dam
age wrought inside by the beating
rains and terrific winds.
There are great many other
buildings that suffered" said Capt.
Porter, "of which 1 know nothing,
but merely observed those already
mentioned. The crops in the county
must be practically total loss, judg-
ing from the gardens in the town;
they we're literally torn to shreds and
levelled to the ground"
The buildings on the island did
not suffer correspondence as those
in town, said Capt. Porter. No lives
were lost.
Just as soon as T. c.. Clifford, who
has sent several messages to his
father, R. J. Clifford, president of
the Atlantic Coast Corporation,
gains an answer to his kilograms, the
party will return to Georgetown.
Conway is still cut off from the
rest of the State so far as mails are
concerned, none having been receiv-
ed here since Thursday.
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GIRL SAVES SISTERS LIFE.
Miss Ina Wood the Heroine of Nea
Tragedy in the Saluda River.

Laurens, July 15.-The brave,
quick action of Miss Ina Wood saved
her younger sister, Miss Cornelia
Wood, from almost certain death by
drowning in Saluda river, not far
above Ware Shoals, last Wednesday
afternoon, according to information
brought from that section of the
county.
It seems that a party of young
women, including the Misses Wood,
daughters of Mrs. James E. Wood,
Of the Harmony church neighbor-
hood, this county, were spending the
afternoon on the banks of the river
enjoying quiet picnic. Arriving at
the big Rock" noted and interest
ing point on the Saluda, Miss Cornelia
Wood, with some of her companions,
ventured out on the rock to the wa
ter's edge. Suddenly Miss Wood lost
her footing, probably from dizziness,
and fell into the deep current, at the
upper end of the rock. Being unable
to swim she sank at once. All of her
companions were horror-stricken,
save her elder sister, who quickly
threw aside her big sun hat, plunged
into the rushing water and made her
way to her sister, then apparently
unconscious, just as she was being
swept out into the main current OF
the river.
Throwing her arms about the limp
form of the drowning girl, both were
carried down stream until they came
near enough to the shore to cling to
projecting bushes. Here both, as
sisted by other members of the par
ty, were brought safely ashore, and
after some heroic work, Miss Cor
nelia was revived and taken home.
The cool, heroic performance of Miss
Ina Wood no doubt averted trage-
dy, and her bravery is commented
upon on all sides.
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Five Perish in Explosion.

Haskell, N. j., July 13.-At leas
five men were killed, thirty injured
several of them fatally, and sixteer
small buildings containing approx
mately six hundred pounds of nitro
glycerine were destroyed as the re
suit of a terrific explosion in the nj
troglycerine mixing house of the Du
pont powder plant here today. The
cause of the explosion is as yet un
known.
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Held to Be Merchantmen.

Washington, July 15.-The State
department formally ruled today that
the German submarine Deutschland
is a merchant vessel and entitled to
treatment as such.
'In view of the facts in this par
ticular case," said Mr. Polk" there is
no reason why the Deutschland
should be considered war vessel"
In announcing the ruling Acting
Secretary Polk said it was not to be
taken as a precedent, and that any
similar cases arising in the future
would be dealt with on their own
merits.
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Says They Must Be Loyal.

Washington, July 13.-President
Wilson told a citizenship committee
here today that the American govern
ment must insist that foreigners be-
coming citizens remain loyal even if
they are not pleased with the way
affairs are conducted.
Loyalty means nothing, he declar-
ed, unless 1t is coupled with self-sac-
rifce. He added that Americans
cannot teach loyalty unless they
practice it.
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Damage in Charleston.

Charleston, July 15.-The loss OF
the naval collier Hector off the
Charleston lightship, was by far the
worst phase of the damage done by
the hurricane which struck this Sec
tion Thursday afternoon.
The torpedo boat destroyer, Terry,
according to the Clyde Line steam
ship Arapahoe, had weathered the
storm and was heading in for this
port, being towed by large tug,t
when the liner sighted her.
Only one life was lost as result
of the hurricane here. An unknown
negro man walked into dangling
electric wire and was electrocuted.
Several people are reported to have
suffered minor injuries, due to Slip
ping on the debris-strewn pave
ments.
Sullivan's island and the Isle Of
Palms escaped damage. Neither ts-
land was under water and the wind
does not seem to have been any
heavier than it was in Charleston.
Crops in the vicinity of Charleston
are reported to have been badly
damaged by the heavy winds. Corn
and cotton are stated to have been
laid low. Reports from Yonge's is
land were more favorable.
In Dorchester county, about fifty
miles from Charleston, a large pine
tree fell between two young chill
dren. Neither was harmed, although
the brush barely missed them.
The telephone company reports
between 1900 and 1000 telephones
out of order. For ten hours yester-
day Charleston was out Of telegraphic
communication with the outside
world.
The highest wind velocity record
ed by the local office of the weather
bureau was sixty-tWo miles an hour,
at o'clock Thursday afternoon. For
time yesterday morning it blew at
the rate of forty-fve miles an hour,
while about 7:30 o'clock last night
the velocity was stated to be thirty
five miles.
The fire alarm system being put
out of commission by the storm,
Chief Louis Behrens has stationed
lookouts in the steeple of st.
Michael's church and in the dome Of
the Charleston Orphan House, and
the police are cooperating.
Water had subsided early yester-
day in the lower sections of the city.
With the backing out of the tide wa
ter, the drains were able to carry off
all the surface water.
Much of the water covering the
Battery Boulevard was caused by the
inability of drains in Ashley avenue
and Rutledge avenue to carry off the
rain, though a considerable quantity
was poured over the long sea wall.
The navy yard escaped with slight
damage. Owing to the lack of street
car service there was a great short
age of labor at the yard yesterday.
Plants along the meek" are stated
to have sustained only inconsequen-
tial damage.
The Seaboard Air Line and the At
lantic Coast Line railroads had Sc
rious washouts near Goose creek yes
terday. The train from New York,
due at 1880 o'clock last night, was
very late. A rainfall of cloudburst
proportions occurred in that vicinity.
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NAVAL COLLIER SUNK.
All of Crew and Passengers Were
Saved.


naval collier Hector, carrying
sixty marines in addition to her
crew of seventy men and twelve
officers, sank off Charleston yester-
day, according to report made here
by Capt. F. R. Hunt, of the tug Vigi-
liant, which tried to go to the Hec-
tors assistance. The steamer Alamo
had been standing by the collier, hav-
ing responded to her calls when the
collier was disabled some sixty miles
off here in Thursday nights hurri-
cane.
Capt. Hunt did not get within
more than three miles of the Hec-
tor and no wireless report could be
obtained from the Alamo. 1t was
not known here whether the Alamo
had been able to take off the 142
persons aboard the Hector.
From the steamer Arapahoe, which
arrived here yesterday afternoon,
came the report that the torpedo boat
destroyer No. 25 was being towed in
by a tug. It was not known what
damage had been done to the de-
stroyer.
With Marines From Port Royal.
The Hector left Port Royal for
Santo Domingo carrying the marines
who were recruits for United States
forces in Santo Domingo and Cuba.
She attempted to put into port here
when the storm disabled her, but, &C
cording to Capt. Hunt, was unable
to get nearer than to within about
nine and half miles from the
Charleston lightship before she sank.
Capt. Hunt said part of the Golfers
superstructure remained above wa
ter.
The naval collier Hector was built
at Sparrows Point, Md, in 1908, and
was one of the first of the new type
of naval fuel ships to be completed.
She carried a crew of 73 men.
The vessel was of 1 200 tons dis
placement, $3.50 feet long, 52.5 feet
broad and had draft Of 24.5 feet.
Her speed was IL knots an hour and
her carrying capacity S,12S tons Of
coal.
Went Down i'm Shallow Water.
The Hector went down in shallow
water and was breaking up, accord
ing to a message sent to the navy
department from Charleston. The
message added that the collier was
lowering her small boats, but did not
say whether or not the 142 persons
aboard had reached rescue ships in
safety. The message was filed at
Charleston at o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon.
The Hector was commanded by
Capt. G. F. Newell, and besides a
crew of seventy men and twelve Of
fcers, carried sixty marines, who
had been taken on from the Port
Royal naval training station and
who were to join commands in Santo
Domingo.
Up to late last night all efforts of
the naval wireless to ascertain
whether there had been loss of life in
the sinking of the Hector had been
unavailing. A series of calls for help
from the collier, stopping abruptly
at p. M, gave rise to grave fears
for the safety of those aboard, but
officials believed there still was a
possibility that they had escaped.
1t was reported last night that the
destroyer Terry, in tow of the tug
Relief, was off the Charleston light
ship and would not enter port until
today.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

Two cases of Infantile paralysis
have been reported from Greenville.
H. H. Granger, of Loris, was run
over and killed by train near Con-
way last week.
Andrew Keys, a we'll known farm
er of Anderson county, was bitten by
a highland moccasin last week. He
will recover.
1t is announced that it will prob
ably be ten days yet before the South
Carolina National Guard will be or
dered to the Mexican border.
A number of her former students
are planning a memorial to Miss Re-
becca Albergottie, who taught in the
Orangeburg city schools for more
than SO years.
The board of health of the city of
Columbia revoked the licenses of
three dairies in that city last week
because of the unsanitary methods
they employed.
Major j. Shapter Caldwell has
handed his resignation to Governor
Manning as assistant adjutant gen.
eral. Friction between himself and
Adjutant General Moore is the cause
of the resignation.
A slight slip of a BARRIERS razor
about a week ago has proved fatal to
former Policeman w. D. Howard,
who died at the City hospital in
Greenville last week, as a result of
blood poisoning. When Mr.. How
ard visited the barber shop he had
q slight pimple on his chin, which
was cut by a razor. The former Of
ficer gave no thought to the wound
until infection was noticed. He was
then rushed to the City hospital; but
the poison worked so quick that he
lived less than 4S hours.
Major Johnson Hagood, coast ar
tillery corps, is under orders to re
linquish his present duty as COM
manding officer of the coast defense
of, Portland, Oregon, and report to
the commanding officer of the South
Atlantic coast artillery district for
duty on his staff as material officer.
simultaneously an order is published
relieving Capt. VIM. H. Raymond
from his present assignment in the
coast defnces of Charleston, and d.
recting him to report to the COM
manding officer at Portland, Oregon.
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The average life of the ordinary
walking plough is little less than
twelve years.
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Louishkin, the giant Russian drum
major of the Imperial Guards, was
eight feet five inches high.
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Later-All of the crew and the
marines on the Hector were rescued,
and safely landed.
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Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-11-15
Lectures In Historical
Series Announced

The first of the series of lectures
under the direction of the depart
ment of history, of Delaware Col
lege, will be hello in college gym
nasium next Thursday, Nov. 23rd,
when Prof. William Starr Myers
of Princeton University will dis
cuss "Our international Prob
lems." The second lecture of tne
series, to be given on Tuesday, De-
cember 5th will be by Professor
Carl Kelsey of the University Of
Pennsylvania, on "The Cost of
Progress" The public is cor
daily invited 20 these lectures.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-11-15

"Who can sing this one?" The
ouestion drifted out to the hall as
the door opened to admit the Vlsl-
tor. and the lesson proceeded, un-
interrupted. The children OF the
fourth and fifth grade overflow,
were intent upon their music les.
son. Miss Shepardson, the new
music teacher, throughout the
grades, pointed to several bars OF
music she had written upon the
hoard. and a dozen hands waved
enthusiastically. Child after chlld
in turn responded to the teachers
nod reading the simple little mel
odies with remarkable accuracy,
"Not quite right, That's BETTER
exactly right" and like encour-
acing comments punctuated the CT.
forts of the childish singers, and
explained the delight with Which
each little learner made the at
tempt. And right here, II there
are any taxpayers, parents OF
friends of education, unconVlncec
&c to the wisdom Of making music
even under present circumstances
mart of the curriculum, the visl
tor would recommend an hour
observation in the schools. I'M
absolute fearlessness with Whlci
each child in the younger grace
attempts, alone, the exercise De
fore him, the utter lac OF sell
consciousness, even Wnen the ii
Fort is an absolute failure, IS
iov to behold; the value OF IN
training as an aid in the develop
ment of the power of observatlo
E and concentrated attention car
{ not but be apparent to anyone:
: Following the reading exercise
in the overflow grade, the teache
! tapped" tune after tune win
a ruler. the children reproducin
the song by the rhythm, repeatih
, the beats, with proper accent an
rhvthm, and distinguishing I'll