The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-07-19
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading About
Men and Happenings.

massachusetts National Guardsmen
will be sent to Greenville for training.
Over 5000 men of South Carolina
have enlisted for army service.
Chinch bugs are causing much de-
struction to crops in Saluda county.
Hebe Smith, a negro, was drowned
in the Saluda river in Lexington coun-
ty, last week.
The annual convention of negro
Sunday-schools on South Carolina was
held in Columbia last week.
Since the State quart a month law
became effective 2,750 quarts of IL
quor have been delivered in Charles
ton.
Joe Shadd, a white man, was con-
victed in Edgefeld last week of en-
ticing labor and fined 5000 or two
months on the chaingang.
Spartanburg police captured a trunk
containing a fve-gallon keg of rye
whiskey last Thursday. The owner of
the trunk wasn't found.
An election for municipal officers
is to be held in St. Matthews this
week. Up to Thursday there was not
a single candidate for mayor.
Rev. w. P. Meadors, one of the
most widely known ministers of the
Methodist church in South Carolina,
died suddenly at his home at Kings
tree last week.
q. T. Wright, mayor of Newberry,
was elected president of the South
Carolina association of mayors at the
annual meeting of the association in
Charleston last week.
Mayor Godfrey, Alderman King and
City Attorney Sullivan, of Anderson.
were fined S5 each in the recorders
court in Anderson last week on the
charge of exceeding the speed limit in
an automobile.
While boring a deep well at his
summer home near St. Matthews, J.
S. Wannamaker discovered variety
of teeth at depth of $50 feet. Some
of the teeth are of curious shape and
belong to either beast or reptile.
The annual convention of the South
Carolina Sheriffs' association is to be
held in Newberry this week, July 18-
20, inclusive. Sheriff Cannon G.
Blease of Newberry proposes to give
an old fashioned barbecue in honor Of
the visitors.
Probate Judge Milton McLaurin, of
Marlboro county, has given notice
that hereafter he will not issue mar
riage licenses on Sunday, because
among other good things the Bible
says: IF thou wilt enter into life,
keep the commandments.
Tobacco markets of South Carolina
opened last Thursday. The average
price was in excess of Is cents
pound. Several hundred thousand
pounds were sold at Florence, Man
ming, Sumter, Latta, Dillon, Timmons-
Vile, Hartsville and other markets of
the State.
R. E. Mansfield, Jr., of Charleston,
is held in Charleston by the federal
authorities under $500 bond, charged
with selling liquor to Fort Moultrie
artillerymen in uniform. This is in
violation of the selective draft act
and is the first case of the kind
brought in Charleston.
While gathering vegetables in her
garden last Wednesday morning, Mrs.
Peter Jordan, of Olanta, was bitten by
rattlesnake pilot On Thursday
morning Mrs. Jordan's mother was
bitten by a rattlesnake pilot at al
most the same spot. The snake was y
later killed. Both ladies will recover.
T. w. Mappus and A. J. Barton,
white men who have been in the Ii
quor business in Charleston for years,
and who were recently convicted of
violating the liquor laws, were taken
to the State penitentiary at Columbia
Thursday to begin service of their
sentence. Mappus will serve SIX
months and Barton three.