The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-15
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
acknowledgements About
Men and Happenings.

Hampton, Friday, of killing his
brother-in-law.
Farm demonstration agents of
South Carolina had a meeting at
Clemson college last week.
Marshall Jackson, a negro man
who lived near Campobello, was
found frozen to death Sunday.
President Wilson has nominated T.
H. Pope to be postmaster at Green
vile, to succeed David B. Traxler.
C. S. Kennerly, we'll known citi-
zen of Cokesbury, was found frozen
to death in his back yard, Sunday.
Scores of tobacco beds in Claren-
don county have been killed by the
cold weather of the past few days.
While hunting near Cheraw, Thurs
day, DR.. o. H. Purvis was wounded
in the hand by the explosion of his
gun.
James A. Galloway, of Mallory,
broke his arm Sunday afternoon
while attempting to crank his auto
mobile.
Most of the South Carolina troops
stationed on the Mexican border near
Ell Paso, Texas, left for home last
Saturday.
The Employees Savings Bank, OF
Pacolet Mills, Spartanburg county,
has been commissioned by the secre-
tary of State.
During the month of January, a
total of 2A3 persons were tried in the
Greenville police court. Fines total
ing s1,273.15 were paid during the
month.
The body of Lieutenant ]. Karl
Bolton, of Greenwood, who was kill
ed January 10 on the island of San
to Domingo, was buried in Green
wood on Monday:
Col. A. ]. Mattheson, one of the
wealthiest citizens of Bennettsville,
is at the point of death as the result
of a stroke Of paralysis sustained
several days ago.
David A. Houston, of Monroe, N.
c., has been appointed director and
treasurer Of the federal farm loan
bank to be located in Columbia. The
position pays $4,000.
The Greenville Farm Loan associa-
ton has been organized in Green
Vile, last week with a membership
of twenty-six. Applications for loans
totalling $4,000 have been made.
Rev. Walter E. Scheutte, a mem
ber of the staff of the American
Lutheran Survey which is published
in Columbia, has accepted call to a
Lutheran pastorate at Wheeling, w.
Va.
Yeggmen entered the postofice at
Bath, S. c., near Augusta, Ca, some
time Sunday night, February 4, blew
open the safe and escaped with
money and stamps valued at ST.
O74.23.
CONGRESSMAN Lever has secured
an order from the house setting
apart Sunday, February 25, as the
time when eulogies to the memory
of the late Congressman D. E. Fin
ley will be paid.
The supreme court has affirmed the
verdict of guilty of murder in the case
of the State against Will Stevens, who
was convicted in Greenwood county
The lower court will set new date
for the execution.
After the South Carolina national
Guard stationed on the Mexican bor-
der near Ell Paso, Texas, had en-
trained Monday and was ready to re-
turn home, General Funston issued
an order suspending their return at
present.
F. ]. H. Won Engelken, recently
elected president Of the Federal Farm
Loan bank which is to be located in
Columbia, will leave Washington, for
his new post in Columbia, about Feb
ruary Is. Mr.. Won Engelken is at
present director of.the mint.
1.-THE South Carolina Inaugural
special" bearing Governor Manning
and his staff and contingents from
the student body of Clemson college,
the Citadel, the University Of South
Carolina and possibly other colleges,
will leave Columbia Saturday night,
March 8, for Washington.
Henry Hutchinson, a white youth,
10 years of age, was found frozen to
death near Landrum, Spartanburg
t ,or11, N1on6ov morning