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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
IL POUNDS OF FLOUR MONTH.
Byrnes Secures Modification of Order
of Amount of Wheat.

Washington, June Pas result
of conference Representative Byrnes
held with the food administration
with reference to the restrictions
placed upon the supply of wheat that
farmers could grind, Mr.. Hoover in
formed Mr.. Byrnes that he today
wired food administrators of South
ern States that the 80 day order here
tofore issued was revoked and here
after farmers will be allowed to grind
and take from the mill supply suffi-
cient to last them until October l and
in determining the supply the farmer
will be allowed u pounds per month
per person, including not only mem
bers of his family, but his tenants
and others dependent upon him for
-four. By October the food admins
tration will be able to determine the
wheat supply of the nation and it can
then make plans for the future.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
NO MORE ICED DRINKS.
Fountains, Hotels, ETC., Can't Use
Cracked or Shaved Ice.

Columbia. June 21.-Soda foun-
tains, hotels, restaurants, boarding
houses and public eating places are
advised, in official orders just issued
by William Elliott, food administra-
tor for South Carolina, of the new
regulations regarding the use of ice,
which have already become effective.
Soda fountain and soft drink deal
ers are notified that no crushed or
shaved ice shall be used or served in
drinks.
Hotels, restaurants, boarding
houses and public eating places are
forbidden to serve crushed ice or
shaved ice in drinking water.
No crushed ice or shaved ice shall
be served around fruits or other
dishes, or in finger bowls, says the
order.
1t is further provided that no ice
shall be bought except for necessary
uses.
These steps have become necessary,
says the Food Administration, on ac-
count of the great shortage of ice,
and these rules will be rigidly en-
forced.
The necessity for conservation of
ice in private homes is as great as in
public places where ice is used, and
the appeal is made to the people of
South Carolina. to make only abso-
lutely necessary use of ice.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
Those Bad Boys of Uncle Sans

With American Army in France,
June 22.-The American soldiers
now are regarded by their German
antagonists as bad boys" for whom
the German soldiers are cautioned to
"look out" according to young Ger
man deserter, who surrendered in
the American lines on the Narne last
night.
This willing prisoner added that
conditions in the German lines con-
stantly were growing worse. He had
deserted because he was war weary
and underfed and he declared that
many of his fellows also would de-
sert if they had the chance.
There have been lively machine
gun and rifle fire actions and inter-
mittent artillery fire in the northern
section of the Belleau wood, where
the Americans are gradually smoking
out the remnants of the German ma
chine gun nests. Otherwise the
Marne front has been quiet.
The twenty-eighth German division
has been relieved by the Eighty-sev-
enth. The newcomers are said to be
only second-rate division, whereas
the twenty-eighth was considered by
the Germans as one of their best.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
,AMBERG, S. c., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1918.
SUGAR SUPPLY TO BE REDUCED.
Three Pounds Per Capita Per Month,
Governments Aim.

WASHINGTON, June 22.-Restric-
tions on the use of sugar by manufac-
turers will be drawn much tighter by
new regulations, effective July l, an
nounced today by Food Administra-
tor Hoover. The new measures are
expected to prevent any serious scar
city of sugar for home consumption,
and at the same time to put the ma
tion as a whole on three pound
per capita monthly ration.
Less essential manufactured pro-
ducts will be allowed so per cent. of
the normal requirements in compari-
son with the allotment of 80 per cent.
now effective.
Sugar allowed ice cream manufac-
turers after July l will be decreased
to Is per cent. of the normal con-
sumption. Soda fountains will be
cut to so per cent. Of normal and
manufacturers of preserved fruits for
soda fountains will be placed on the
so per cent. basis. Ice cream made
by soda fountains and confectioners
on the premises will have its sugar
content cut to so per cent. of normal.
Responsible for Cut.
Lack of shipping facilities, subma-
rine activities and decrease in i'm
portations from Cuba are held re-
sponsible for the new restrictions.
Included in a less essential list of
lowed only so per cent. of their nor
NAL sugar are: Barrooms, brewers,
California fruit cider, cough drops,
dental preparations, dessert powder,
druggists using sugar for reducing
concentrated syrups, heney manufac-
turers, hotel bars, gelatine, ginger
ale, manufacturers of ice cream cones,
ice cream powder, jelly powder,
marshmellow, matted milk, maple
ugar compound, molasses and syrups,
patent medicine, pickles, printing
press rollers, salmon egg preserving
for sale to fishermen, table syrups,
vinegar, for blending whiskey and
grape juice unless for preserving or
bottling when 80 per cent. will be al
lowed.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
To Colored Red Cross Contributors.

To all the colored citizens who
subscribed to the Red Cross fund.-
You will please remember that your
first installment will be due on July
1st, which will be next Monday. The
committeeman are as follows:
Mt. NJ. E. church,. G. Stephens,
Paul Reddish, J. A. Nimmons.
Thankful Baptist church-Wash
Rivers, H. w. Johnson, Wash Grimes.
Midway-B. J. Lawson, A.. J..
Johnson, William Stokes, Kelley Will
liams.
Bethel NJ. E. church-Rev. D.
Richberg, Haney Murray.
Orange Grove NJ. E. church,. S.
Nimmons, Gus Nimmons.
Eden Baptist church-Eddie Dow
ling, Rev. J. S. Daniels, Davis Jeter.
ST.. Johns Baptist church-S. J.
Curry, Arthur Brabham, Josiah
Brown.
St. Luke's NJ. E. church-Rev. A.
NJ. Wright, C. R. Abel, L. S. Davis.
Each committeeman at each of the
above named places will please see
each subscriber and get the first in
stallment for the Red Cross fund on
the first of July and turn the same
over to me or to Mr.. w. D. Rhoad,
the treasurer for Bamberg county of
the Red Cross fund. l take this
method of notifying each subscriber
to this very worthy cause which will
help to hearten the boys in the
trenches l trust that each subscri-
Der will pay his or her installments
as they come due. The white COM
mittees will collect from the colored
people in the vicinities where there
are no colored committees. Pay
ments may be made at following
places in Bamberg: Hayward John
son, L. c.. Stephens, Chappelle &
Stewart.
H. H. MATTHEWES,
Chairman solicitation and local
cashier committee for colored
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
New Advertisements.

L. B. Fowler-See Me.
T. G.. Croft Card.
E. Observation-Disclosures Card.
Standard Oil Co.-Give and Gain.
Estate of W. B. Kennedy-Cita-
ton.
F. &. NJ. Bank-We Want to Get the
Ear.
U. S. Rubber Co.-Speed-Speed-
Speed.
J. B. Brickle-Freedom From
Trouble.
Chero-Cola Co.-A Cold-Crisp-
Sparkling.
Enterprise Bank-The Money
Question.
Bamberg Banking Co.-Life's
Pleasures. -.
John L. AIcLaurin-Political Ad-
vertisement.
Tom Ducker-Fresh Cantaloupes
Received Daily.
Bamberg Banking Co.-The Peo-
pie Who Select a Trust Co.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
NUMBERS IN NEW LOTTERY.
Men Recently Registered to Be Placed
in Line for Classification.

WASHINGTON, June PA second
national lottery to determine the or
der numbers of the 744,S65 men en-
rolled last June under the selective
service law will be held here this
week. The date has not been definite
ly determined, but the drawing prob
able will be Thursday or Friday de-
pending upon the time the final COM
plete reports are received from the
district boards. The procedure to be
followed, it was stated officially to-
day, will be similar to that of last
year when nearly 100000 men
were given their relative places in the
draft. The same bowl will be used
with capsules containing numbers up
to the largest number of registrants
in any district in the country. Last
year 10000 capsules were provided
but the number this year will be much
smaller and it is expected that the
Ill " Ill UC COluplCICu uuCA
more quickly.
The lottery system is used on the
selection Of master numbers each of
which govern similar numbers in
every one of the 4,500 local districts
over the country. Under the system
of classifying registrants adopted
since the first drawing last year, how
ever, it would not necessarily follow
that the men holding the first num-
Der drawn would be the first called
for service. Distribution of the ques-
tionnaire blanks from which will be
determined the class into which each
man will go was begun today. When
the new registrants fill these out and
return them the numbers assigned
them in the lottery will then become
operative to determine their relative
liability at the foot of the class in
which they are placed.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
Three Months Supply Allowed.

Columbia, June 21.-The thirty
day rule, which provided that farmers
could have ground into flour for their
own use no more homegrown wheat
than would be required for their fami-
lies for period of thirty days, has
been suspended by the food admins
tration and regulations governing the
grinding of wheat have been laid
down in bulletin just issued.
Under the new regulations farmers
are permitted to draw their years
supply of -four from the mill or in
exchange for their own wheat, but
for the present they must draw only
for a three months period, or from
the time of grinding to October 1.
They sho ould not draw this from mills
in excess of twelve pounds of -four
per person per month for use of their
household and tenants, and they
should continue in respect to the use
of substitutes on the present basis
until such time as the general sub
stitute program for the whole coun-
try shall be changed. This means
simply that farmers who have grown
their own wheat are expected to use
wheat substitutes, with wheat -four,
the same as heretofore.
Theswheat mills of South Carolina
are being notified by the food admin
istrator of the new regulations, ef-
fective Immediately.
Mills must not grind for farmers
more than enough wheat to supply
the farmers themselves and their fam
lilies and tenants from the date of
grinding to October l. The amount
should be estimated upon the basis of
twelve pounds per person per month.
Until the new rules in regard to
wheat substitutes are enacted mills
must not deliver any flour to farmers
unless they sign the pledge card,
agreeing to use one pound of flour
substitutes for every pound of -four
used.
Bakers, retailers, and the general
public are not released from the reg
ular programme, already announced
by this new regulation, which ap-
plies only to farmers who have grown
their own wheat.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
longed to an uncle.
Carried to Penitentiary.


Boliver was arrested May Is, and
hurriedly carried to Columbia and
lodged in the State penitentiary. So
licitor Mann and others Immediately
demanded a special term of court
which was ordered by Governor Man.
ming for June "a. Later bail was de-
MED Boliver by the supreme court.
Judge Hayne F. Rice was first ap-
pointed to preside at the special term
of court, but was later prevented by
a conflict in court schedule. Judge
Thomas S. Sease was then designated
with like consequences. Judge Mem
minger was recommended by the SUI
preme court last Saturday.
Court convened promptly at 10
o'clock. By - o'clock witnesses had
been examined by the grand jury and
a true bill returned. Only 25 minutes
were occupied in selecting the II
men who were to determine Boliver's
fate. The case went to the jury at
1855 o'clock and a verdict of guilty
was returned at 9 o'clock. The un-
qualified verdict of guilty carried
with it the death penalty. With rae
ommendation to mercy, the sentence
could range from five to 40 years.
The jurors who sat on the case were
under guard throughout the day,
their meals being served in the court
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
Naxs Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Colston Clippings.

Colston, June 25.-Members OF
the Red Cross branch OF this
community, don't forget the
meeting at the school house every
Saturday afternoon at five o'clock.
Mr. Dawson Kearse spent Saturday
night with Mr. Marion Mcmillan.
Misses Evamae and Blanche spann,
of Bamberg, spent Friday and Satur-
dav night with Miss Mamie Mcmillan
Miss Alberta Kearse was the guest
of Miss Mary Clayton Saturday night.
Miss Hermine Beard was the Satur-
day night guest of Miss Hattie Kirk
land.
Miss Evelyn Kirkland, Messrs. Ger
aid and Clint Free dined with Mr.. and
Mrs. J. A. Jennings Sunday.
The friends of Mrs. J. F. Clayton
are sorry to learn of her illness dur
ing the past several days.
Misses Mamie Mcmillan, Mary Clay
ton, Evamae and Blanche Spann, and
Mr.. Marion Mcmillan dined with Miss
Alberta Kearse Sunday.
Mr.. Henry Kearse, of the .. S. NJ
and sister, Miss Cleo, of Kearse S.
spent Saturday night with Mr.. and
Mrs. r. L. Kearse.
Mrs. J. B. All has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. Rebecca O'Quinn, of Ehr-
hardt. who was injured a few weeks
ago by passing train while she was
attempting to move COW from the
railroad. .
Miss Natalie Kearse was the guest
Of Miss Laura Mcmillan Saturday
night and Sunday.
Messrs. Frank Kirkland, IT,, and
Wesley Kearse dined with Mr.. Sam
mie Clayton Sunday.
Miss Ethel Mcmillan, of Bamberg,
spent Saturday night and Sunday at
home.
Little Willy Maud Aver is spending
some time with her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. S. W. Clayton. V
Messrs. Layton Kinard and George
Folk, of this vicinity, left Monday for
Camp Jackson. Messrs. Horace =.
Ray and Gary Blume were among the
crowd that left in the last contingent
sent from this county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Beard, and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. George Kinard
and family, and Mr.. and Mrs. Halcod
Aver and family dined Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Isham Goodwin.
Rev. and Mrs. Walter Black spent
Sunday night with Mr.. and Mrs. Thos.
Clayton.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Clayton visited
their parents, fMr. and Mrs. George
Rentz Sunday.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
ACRE FOOD ACRE COTTON.
ADOPTED BY STATE
COTTON GROWERS ASSO.
30 Cents Pound For COtton-ResOlu.
ton Adopted Calling For Inves-
tigation of Cotton Exchange.

Columbia, June 24.-The South
Carolina State Cotton Growers Asso-
citation held it's second meeting in the
State Library this afternoon. The fol-
lowing resolutions introduced by DR..
Stackhouse, of Dillon, were adopted:
"Be it resolved, That the South
Carolina Cotton Growers Association
meeting this day in Columbia and
having representatives of the various
counties in the State hereby requests
our delegation representing us in the
New Orleans meeting on July 1st to
support the following resolutions:
"'That we request the president of
the United States, through the food
administration, as wartime neces-
sity, to require that at least one acre
food crop be planted in 1919 for each
acre planted in cotton and that the
grain crop be fertilized pro rata with
corresponding cotton acreage and cul-
tivated with the same skill. We re-
quest that the president, through the
food administration, will appoint a
commission to determine fair value
for cotton and a reasonable profit. AS
patriotic citizens we only ask a fair
profit on this and the 1919 crop and
agree to abide by any price fixing
programme which seems just to this
board. We request that copy OF
these resolutions be sent to each
commissioner. of agriculture in the
cotton growing States and also a
copy to each representative in the
house and senate from South Caro-
lima"
DR.. Stackhouse introduced fur
ther resolution, which was adopted,
that the South Carolina representa-
tives in congress be requested to use
their infuence to have the cotton ex-
CHI. $ of the country investigated
and to require the cotton exchanges
to give contracts providing for the
delivery of cotton bought in the
South at Southern points.
A resolution urging farmers to
hold cotton for 35 cents and not to
sell for less than 80 cents per pound
was passed unanimcusi7. The reso-
luton was introduced by E. w.
Dabbs, of Mayesville.
That it is the sense of the South
Carolina Cotton Growers Association
that a farmer ougla: not to sell his
cotton before it is produced was the
subject of a resolution introduced by
Mr.. Frost.
Senator Smith. Congressman
Lever. and Mr.. Stevenson were re-
queste,1 as part CT the South Caro-
lima delegation to attend the joint
meeting of cotton growers and bank
ers which is to be held in New
Orleans on July 1st The chairman
of the meeting was empowered to
appoint the other members Of the
delegation. The South Carolina
Cotton Growers Association was or
ganized at a meeting in Columbia
on May 14th, last. The meeting to-
dow voc tho cacopd noootino of the
association Assistant Warehouse
Commissioner Thackston goes this
week on the 9th, 2Sth and 29th to
Anderson, Greenwood and Newberry
respectively to organize county mark
citing associations at those points.
DR.. Long and others will accompany
him.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
Evaders Will Be Watched.

Men of selective service age who
leave the United States to evade mill
tary duty will have to stand trial on
charges of violations of the selective
service act when they return to the
country, according to the Department
of Justice, even though they do not
return until after the war.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27

The nearer the U-boats bring the
war to American shores, the greater
the effort to strengthen Americas
fighting arm in France.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27

Put not off until the last day allot-
ed you that matter of hunting war
work lob. Procra estimation aids the
kaiser.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
Insanity Plea Fails.

The plea of the defense was broken
down by opposing attorneys, who had
the strong arm of the argument on
their side in that Irresistible I'M
pulse" does not hold in the South
Carolina code and in that the per-
son pleading insanity must be un-
able to distinguish between right
and wrong. The most damaging
testimony against the plea was that
Boliver had offered the little girl Is
cents to keep a close mouth, remind
ing her that she would get whip
ping and also get him in trouble.
When arrested Boliver also denied
having been cup town. for three
days, which was introduced as evil
dence of his knowledge of the crimi-
nal character of his act.
The State had IA witnesses and
the defense five or six. 1t was de-
veloped in the trial that Boliver
on different occasions had been sus-
pected of attempted interference
with little girls about the city. His
relatives are among the best families
in Orangeburg and the community
has been exceedingly wrought up.
The machine driven by Boliver
May 13 had a non-skid tire on the
left rear wheel and Identification was
not effected for two days. Witnesses
who recognized the little girls in the
did not recognize Boil
yer, and it was through the owner
ship of the car that identity was es-
tablished. Boliver worked at ga
rage as cashier and the machine be-
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
NORMAN BOLIYER MUST DIE
CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED GRIM
NAL ASSAULT SUSTAINED.
Victim Little Girl.-Young Orange
burg Man Sentenced to Pay Ex-
treme. Penalty July 9Th.

Orangeburg, June 24.-Norman H..
Boliver, a white married man 26
years old, was convicted here late
today of attempted criminal assault
and sentenced to die in the electric
chair at the State penitentiary July
9TH.
The crime was committed May 13,
the victim being a little girl, nine
years old. She and her sister were
on their way to school that morning
when they were picked up by Boil
yer and driven in an automobile to a
nearby patch of woods. The younger
sister, who was just seven years old
the day the crime was committed,
was made to stay in the automobile
while the older of the two children
was taken by Boliver to the clump
of bushes under the pretext of gath
ering plums.
Boliver was unmoved by the SEN
tence and made no reply when Judge
Robert w. Memminger asked the
prisoner if there were any reasons
why the death sentence should not
be imposed. Throughout the day he
maintained a calm demeanor, his i'm
mobile features giving no indication
of perturbation.
No Motion for Rehearing.
No motion was made by attorneys
for new trial, but an appeal can be
made to the supreme court within
ten days. Sheriff Dukes and five
deputies left Immediately for Colum-
bia with the prisoner.
The largest crowd ever attending a
trial in Orangeburg gathered early
in the day. AS a precaution against
any possible violence, Sheriff Dukes
and court deputies searched each of
the 500 or more people who jammed
the court rooms until standing room
was no longer available and many
persons perched in the windows. The
crowd was so unWieldly that Judge
Memminger at noon ordered that
only those obtaining seats would be
allowed to remain in the court room
for the afternoon session.
Solicitor Ed. C. Mann, of St. Mat
thews, was assisted in the prosecu-
tion by NJ. E. Zeigler, of Orangeburg.
The attorneys for the defense were
William c.. Wolfe and Adam H. Moss,
of Orangeburg and James H. Fan
ming, of Springfield.
Attorneys for the defense fought
bravely throughout the day to save
Boliver from the electric chair. A
plea of guilty would have been en-
tered Immediately upon the organiza-
tion of the court had Solicitor Mann
consented to a recommendation to
mercy. His objection having been
interposed, the plea of imbecility be-
came the focus, and the family his
tory of the young man was unmask-
ed. With many irregularities as a
ground work, expert testimony was
introduced in the afternoon, DR.. ].
W. Babcock, specialist in mental and
nervous diseases and for % years
superintendent of the State Hospital
for the Insane, being the chief wit
ness.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27

Read The Herald, $3.50 a year.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-02-28
&. SUMNER DIED LAST WEEK
NEARLY SS YEARS OF AGE

c. Sumner, who died at the home OF
his daughter, Mrs. Harry Grubbs, in
this city, last week would have been
sc years old had he lived until next
November 10. He was born in 1881
in Orange county, Vermont, near the
city of Bradford. He came TO Dan
vile, H., in 1852, where he made trips
to Chicago with teams before rail
roads had been built in that part OF
the state. At that time Chicago was
not rs large as Tucumcari.
He was married to Miss Mary
Smoot while at Danville, to which
union a number of children were born
five of whom are still alive, Mrs. Gil
bert Henline of Lincoln, Nebr, l.. NJ
Sumner, Denver, Colo, Byron Sum
ner of Danville, Ill, and Sherman Sum-
ner and Mrs. Harry Grubbs of this
city.
Mr.. Sumner came to this city in
1905 remaining only one month. lie
then went to Lincoln, Nebr, but did
not like Nebraska and returned to
Tucumcar in 1906 where he remained
until his death last week. He was Il
man who loved u read and his eye
sight was exceptionally strong. He
read the daily papers up until few
days before his death.