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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
NEWS OF AN1NLSTON
 AND CAMP MCCLELLAN

camp last week under the same charge.
 Divitto testified at the trial of his al legged partner in the crime, and sub stantiated the story told by the first defendant in the case
 Private Carey was murdered and robbed while in charge Of the four prisoners who are charged with killing him. Musa confessed that he held the gun of the Baltimore soldier while another mem Der of the quartet beat him over the head with a club, after which they es- capped by freight train to Baltimore thence to Asbury Park and on to New ark, where they separated
 The Jersey soldier who is credited with striking the blows which resulted in the death Of the guard. Is believed to have gone to South America
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
Open Letter to the Housekeepers of Birmingham Dear Madam:--

Dear Madam:--
 In one of our advert sements we related the fact that we had our own trucks to bring us fresh eggs chickens butter, sausage and vegetables regular i from Gull 1man Some of OUT patrons have te1ephoned l asking us to please get them some. We have decided to accommodate them You can therefore, phone yonr order| to Main S4O6, The Pan Transfer Co.,, stat ing what you want. We will turn yourl order over to some farmer at Culman. There will be no charge for this ex- cept1ng the cost of transportat1on. This part will be looked after by The Pan Transfer Co.,. Main S4e6, in oh we own controlling interest. Or l f you prefer, when dining at The New Norris Cafe, leave your orders wi tn the head waiter.
 Yours truly,
 NEW MORRIS HOTEL CAFE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
Lcew's Bijou

The SiX Wh1rIWlnd Gypsles heaf Loew's excellent vaudeville bill for the last half of the week. There are four 3tner star acts, and a most eXtraordi-. fsry pnotodrama The Divorcee,' in which Ethel 3arrymore stars. The pro. siamme is unique in it's unusualness and has the Loew snap and novelty that always cha aoterIzes his va Ideville of- ferings. The Current Events and New Weekly is also a feature of the movie programme.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
Allowance Too Small;
 Girl Forced to Steal
Rx AssnniafAd Rrnss

Brookline. Mass. February "A fash ionably dressed young woman giving the name of Mabel E. Norris of Little Rock. Ark, was arrested here today. The police found several hundred dollars worth of clothing and jewelry in her room which were identified as having been taken from dormitories of Simmons col lege and other institutions. She said she was a student in Boston school of music and had taken the jewelry and clothing because her monthly allow ance of 1855 was insufficient.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
Mines Rescind Wage
 Decrease Decision
Rv Assonia,ed Prass

Jerome, Ariz., February 7.-Mining companies of this section tonight re- scinded an order for cut in copper miners wages of 75 cents day The reduction was to have gone into effect tomorrow, but final decision has been withheld until next week, when les ser decrease may be made. A 75-cent reduction would have placed the base wage at $5 .15, where it was before the federal order raised 1t last July. Near ly 1000 men are employed in this dis triCt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08

providing for the abolition of the jury commissions of the counties in Alabama, was taken from the adverse calendar and placed on the regular calendar in the house Friday afternoon.
 Dickson of Jefferson county favored the motion to take the bill from the adverse calendar He said that fair trials In Jefferson county could not be secured be- cause of the poor system of selecting jurors Truss of Jefferson county saiG the jury commission law permitted men ir his county to serve on the jury every two weeks. This has been the custom, he said.
 The vote to put the bill on the favor able calendar was almost unanimous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
Ex-Jester to Czar Declares He's Robbed
~ A...ei.t.e rr.,.

New York. February 7.-Giacomo Serini. a Milanese. who claims that he was once jester to the late Czar Mich olas, appeared in court here today IS complainant against Arthur A. Digman, electrician at Broadway cabaret, charging that Digman had stolen from him ring encrusted with MT. Roman offs initials and other royal baubles valued at nearly S8000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
I. w. w. Agitators Are
 Driven From Paissac
ey AssorIa.ss Press

Passaic. x. J., February 1.-Two I. w. w. agitators seeking 10 organize strik- ing weavers in this city were driven out of twon tonight by the police. This development was followed by the lorna ton of central committee of 9 to n.anage the strike. The weavers who have quit work number about 10000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
War Is Declared Upon
 Scanty Evening Gowns
ev Associated Pre,s

New York. February 7.-Asserting that designers of women's evening gowns "have led ia ashion to the extreme limit of indecency," which gis having "a most dem moralizing influence upon the youth of the country" the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs at a meeting today adopted a resolution call ing on women to dress modestly" and on designers and shopkeepers to con- trol indecency in dress" committee was apointed to rush the war on scanty evening gowns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08

to have the members vote to take the bill from the adverse calendar.
 At the beginning of his argument the author denied the bill would require ne-
 groes in Alabama to pay poll taxes. Mr.
 Longshire is a republican and there de- veloped strong opposition to the poll tax
 bill.
 Tompkins of Houston, opposing the mo
 tion of Longshore, said: When we begin to tamper with the suffrage laws of the state we open the
 way for what may be a 'hell. " The motion died by an overwhelming vote of the house members.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
FRIDAY HOSPITAL REPORT

Annlston, February Especial Two new cases of influenza 1e men admitted for treatment II men returned to duty. leaving 591 remaining in the institution was the Friday morning report from the base hospital at Camp Mcclellan for the a. hour period endcI at midnight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
COTTON EMBARGO |FT|NG IS ASKED
 IN RESOLUTIONS
Resolution Calls for Sending the Facts to President Wilson in Hrance
 by Cablk

Montbmery, Februarj 7-(Special) ] After rIles of the house Niad been sus- pended IFriday a resolutidn of Long of sumter memoralizing Congress to lift the emlargo on cotton. was unanimously adopted Within 10 minutes the senate also adopted the resolutioni The resolu !. tion calls for the cabling of the facts to the President of the United States in France
 The resolution in full follows:
 pse joint resolution No. 49. by Mir. LongNf Sumter: Whereas. in as much as. IF nonnal times cotton is the one sta s.e VI Sonimerce which brings more gold rom feTeign countries to America than any otfer one commodity thareb,, +,,r, ihs the balance of the jworId,s trada i,, iaVor q the United sta tes and aiSi,.. cotton national impottance. s,d
 w hersas, the mills of, 4,urona .o .,,. .argest consumers of lcbv-orade de ,.,.tat' 1a.e put owirg to war conditions tba s,i,, Ias Ter those countries are prhc4icsil,, z,,i+,1a,,, ka supply and as.,n rfesident Wilson in his last o1,a Soiisress dedlared. The war any necessity of retairbins tba restr;c 'n on exports and intports of con,- sTcs, and
 Whereas, the Americak rrercb.nt
 U" on estaolsMed and assured and the slogan sho,ilIl he .An,er;oo,, toms controlled by Allnericsn citizans ooiiiiiierce Now therefore
 olved by the housa of rerresepta-
 .e oohs'ee concurMhg, that we in-
 oui sehatoflal Representatives in
 Ss take immediata stems to soc
 ei,ioa goes on coqton be instant ssolved. that CongreAs ha urgsd to ie Immediately foru the oeta blisto oi t'niei ieaH steer feamship lines en the gIlf and soutH Atlantic norts a praATotih of AmeE) Jean commerce,
 t reasonhle.~ : txfidardzed rates
 further
 olved. that cable to this end be
 President Wilson, that a copy
 be sent to the chairman of the
 States shipping board, to the
 m of the war trade board, and to
 our senators and representatives
 labama.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
Kautsky Is Elected
 Secretary of State
 for Foreign Affairs
sY Assoclateu Press

Weimar. February 7.-Cari kaut- sky, under secretary of state for foreign affairs in tho Ebert cabi- net, was today elected president of the German national assembly by n vote of 374 out of 399 cast by the assembly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
M'DoNALp FUNERAL THURSDAY

Annistou, February 1.-CSpecial) The body of Mrs. Louise Mcdonald who died at her home here Wednesday, was inferred at New Bethel cemetery Thursday afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
At the 1rianOn

Anita Stewart in her greatest success, "virtuous Wives" a play of New York society life, has filled the Trianon de- spite the had weather playing at the Trianon again today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08

For That CHILLY Feeling Take Groves Tasteless CHILL Tonic, It Warns the Body by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. You can soon feel it's Strengthening. Invigorating Ef- feet Price Soc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08

Only per cent of the thousands of women who were employed in the British munition factories were found to be them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
MEMORIAL SERVICE PROCLAMATION IS
 ISSUED BY K|LBY
People Urged to Hold Memo rial Services for Colonel Roosevelt on Sunday,
 February g

Montgomery, February 7.-tSpecal)-In
 proclamation issued by Governor J<ilby 1 Friday the people of Alabama are urged tc hold memorial services for Theodore
 Roosevelt. deceased, former President of the United States, on Sunday. February 9. Says the proclamation:
 Whereas, the death of Theodore Roose- welt On January 6. 1919. removes from
 the theatre of action a great statesman
 an patriot of whom President Wilson las said; In Theodore Roosevelt's death the United States has lost one of it's
 most distinguished and patriotic citizens
 who had endesred himself to the people by his strenuous devotion to their in
 terests and to the public interests of
 the country; and
 Whereas. it has been suggested to the governors of the several states by Ex- President Taft Secretary Lane Senator Lodge, Judge Hughes and other men of national prominence, that memorial ser. vices in his honor be simultaneously held
 u roughout the country on Sunday, Feb ruary 9, 19l9
 Now, therefore, I, Thomas E. Kilby.
 governor of Alabama. formally advise
 the people of the state of the request
 herein above set forth, with the sugges
 ton that such exercises be held as may be deemed appropriate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
POLL TAX BILL LOST

bill No. IF, relating to com poll tax payment in Alabama will
 he adverse calendar of the house ientatives. The author of the ashore of Shelby, made a brave en the house convened Friday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
ACk FER KILL PASSED

The senate bill of MT. Acker, relating to the removal of appointed state of. ficers by the governor will not be on the calendar of either house the next legislative day The house, by a vote of sl to 4. passed the senate bill. and. after it is properly enrolled, will go to the officers of the two houses for their signature. and then to the office of Gov ernor kilby The bill becomes effective immediately.
 The governor is authorized to remove at his discretion. all officers who are serving under appointment of the gov ernor. with the exception of trustees of educational institutions.
 The bill of Graham of Clarke county.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-12

A great many merchants and 9TH
ers have an erroneous idea of adver-
tising. Many expect immediate and
direct results. Such results would
depend entirely upon the nature OF
the advertising, as is evidenced by an
incident that occurred the other day.
Some several weeks ago we carried
an advertisement of land for sale.
We do not know whether the adver-
tisement resulted in the sale of the
land of not, but a gentleman inquired
of The Herald one day last week as
to the name of the party, stating that
he expected to take up with him the
matter of buying the property. Al
though the advertisement appeared
weeks ago, this gentle eman remem-
bered it, though he had forgotten
the name of the advertiser: All of
which goes to show that immediate
results are not the only benefits of
advertising. An advertisement may
easily get business weeks and months
afterward.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-12
Denmark Doings.

Denmark, June Mrs. S. G. May
field and Miss Christabel Mayfelt
have returned from Greenville, where
Miss Mayfeld has just graduated
from the Greenville Woman's college
During commencement week they Wis
tied relatives at Dacusville.
Wednesday afternoon the Daugh
ters Of the Confederacy held a recep.
lon at the home of Mrs. Shelley
Love. Their guests were the veterans
the elderly people of the community
and the returned soldiers. A male
quartette sang songs of yore that ap.
pealed to all.
Mesdames Algernon and st. Clail
Guess have been visiting Mrs. Strait
Mrs. Guess's mother, in Rock Hill
Miss Willie Dell Hutto is at home
from Winthrop college.
Mrs. w. D. Mayfeld is visiting a
classmate at Bennettsville.
Mrs. Virgins and Miss Martha
Virgins have returned from Dur
ham, N. c., where Miss Vera Wiggins
has just graduated from Trinity col
lege.
Miss Vicky Fogel is at home, aftel
a short vacation in North Carolina.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-12
Fighting the Boil Weevil With Lime

Clemson College, May 30.-"The
results so far secured with the use
of arsenate of lime against the boil
weevil will want thorough expert
menting with a view of developing
this remedy into practical control
measure" says Prof. A. F. Conradi,
of the division of entomology, who
announces that in addition to estab-
fishing series Of cooperative expert
ments at points in this State where
serious weevil injury may be expect
ed this season, the division will be
glad to give any information to farm
ers who are interested in the subject.
The division of entomology has avail
able all Of the important records of
the bureau of entomology of the U.
S. department of agriculture.
The time for starting the applica-
tion of arsenate Of lime for poisoning
depends upon the severity of weevil
infestation. Generally speaking, the
grower is advised to start poisoning
whenever fairly severe weevil injury
is indicated by the fallen squares. In
other words, it is not considered nee
essary to poison early in the season
unless the weevils are very numer-
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-12
Down With Poetic License.

"This poetry stuff is all right in
it's place." remarked the reminiscent
man with the scar on his forehead,
,"but you'd better let the poets handle
it. I found that out several years
ago when I attempted to pay pretty
compliment to a handsome dame on
whom I was calling. I had read
somewhere of a poets reference to
the eyes as the windows of the soul,
and the sight of her beautiful eyes
inspired me to reckless daring. I told
her of her ravishing beauty, of her
shapely arms and shoulders and then
like a doddering idiot exclaimed:
"'Oh, I could gaze into your win
dows all night
Eyes, they patched me up pretty
well at the hospital, but don't take
any more poetic license in ordinary
speech"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-12
SHOOTING AT BRANCHVILLE.
L. d. Fairey Killed on Public Road by
j. p. Browning.

Branchville, June 10.-Mr. L. D.
Fairey, of Branchville, was shot yes
terday afternoon about o'clock by
a Mr.. ]. P. Browning. He was rushed
to Charleston for treatment but died
soon after reaching the hospital.
There were no eyewitnesses to the af-
fair, but just before leaving Branch
vile Mr.. Fairey gave a statement in
substance as follows:
Monday morning, he said, he was
operating a road machine on the pub
lie road leading from Branchville to
Orangeburg. He was working the
road in slips of about $50 to 200
yards, and in working one from the
Southern railway track to point in
front of Mr.. Browning's place the
negro driver drove too close, and the
swingletree of the lead mule knocked
two or three pickets out of Mr..
Browning's fence. The latter, Mr..
Fairey said, became angry and
abused the negro. Mr.. Fairey turned
the machine around and after going
about $50 yards a bolt broke. Mr..
Fairey sent the negro back to town
for another bolt and a wrench. In
the meantime, he said, he (Fairey)
had come down from the machine and
was working on the old bolt, being
somewhat under the machine. Brown
ing, Mr.. Fairey said, had shotgun
and fired at him, Mr.. Fairey falling
and the mules pulling off rolled him
to one side of the road.
The affair occurred very near Mr..
J. A. Watson's house, members of
whose family we're the first to reach
Mr.. Fairey's side. He was hurried to
Charleston and was operated on at
once in the faint hope of saving his
life.
Mr.. Browning was placed under ar
rest by the mayor of Branchville and
carried to Orangeburg yesterday aft
ernoon.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-12
NO TRACE OF death TRAIN"
Box Cars Loaded With Prisoners
Lost" on Siberian Railroads.

The Red Cross has lost all track OF
the Death Train, which seems to be
the essence of cruelty and Infection
The Death Train, with it's hundreds
of famishing prisoners, was last seen
by American Red Cross workers in
December at Vladivostok. Since then
it had been reported in Eastern ST.
IBERIA and in Western Siberia. But
the Red Cross Siberian commission
has not been able to locate it.
The prison train was made up OF
ordinary box cars at the time the
prisoners were emptied in one of the
revolutions in Samara. Several thou
sand men and women, and even chill
dren, were placed in the box cars
in charge of a small guard of Rus
sian soldiers. Then the train began
it's endless journey over the Siberian
railroads, shunted here and there, al
ways moving or about to move.
Theoretically the prisoners were
to have been fed by the officials along
the railway. But this never was
done. The kind hearted townspeople
shared their scanty provender with
prisoners. Soon the train was pest
train; the cars never clean, reeked
and the prisoners, With no change of
clothing nor water, soon became half
crazed, animal-like creatures. Sool,
disease began to lessen the conges-
tion in the cars. The dead were
dumped out along the tracks.
The people of the towns along the
railroad soon protested at the pres
ence of the train, fearing plague as
a result.
Of several thousand prisoners on
the Death Train, only seven or eight
hundred persons survived when the
train was inspected at Vladivostok in
December by Rudolph Berkley, for
merly a banker of Honolulu; Mrs.
Dorothy NJ. Thompson and other
American Red Cross workers. The
Red Cross officials succeeded in hold
ing the train until the cars could be
cleaned and succor be given the mis-
erable ones confined there. But the
Russian officials would permit no
more, and the train continued on it's
endless journey.
81 have seen, through the windows
of box cars, whose dimensions were
24x10 feet, 40 animals who once
were human men, women and chill
dren," Mr.. Berkley wrote in a re-
port to the Washington headquarters
of the Red Cross. "Faces glared at
me which I could not recognize as
those Of human beings. Stark mad
ness and terror stared from their
eyes and over all the unmistakable
sign of death. I have seen dead lying
along the roadside and so or 60 men
thrown to them by the sympathetic
people Of Nikolsky."-New York
Herald.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-12
HE HAD HARD LUCK.
Fate Certainly Has Not Dealt Lightly
With This Man.

Here is the story-as he told it
of E. L. Cummins, who was tried last
week in the United States court,
charged with fraudulent use of the
mails. If what he says is true, he
has certainly experienced some "hard
luck"
Cummins, charged with using the
mails to defraud, presented an inter
esting defense. He lived at Johnson
vile, and operated the Atlantic Coast
Plant company, selling potato plants,
and from Cummins's testimony he was
the victim of circumstances. The
government used nineteen witnesses
from different parts of the country
who testified that they had sent
money to Cummins by money order
in amounts from So to $40 and re-
ceived no reply and never got any of
the plants ordered.
Cummins, when he got on the
stand, testified that he was doing a
business of selling plants by mail;
that he had placed an order with the
Black, of Blackshear, Ca, for mil
lion potato plants, and that on get
ting an order he would forward it on
to them to be filed. His shippers
failed to fill the contract, he said, and
he started then to getting his orders
filled anywhere he could. In the
height of the season, after the Black
shear people had failed him, his place
Of business at Johnsonville was
burned and his records destroyed.
His adverses did not stop there, he
said. He was telegraph operator and
soon after the fire he was ordered to
Dillon. He had son living at Meg
gets and turned his plant business
over to him, and forwarded all or
ders to him, and he supposed that all
was going we'll until he went to Meg
gets and found that his son had been
declared insane and sent to the asy-
lum. A diligent search failed to find
any of the records of the Atlantic
Coast Plant company.
Cummins testified that the reason
he had to leave Jacksonville was that
the military service draft took many
of the younger men to the army and
he was ordered to more important
position, and had to shift his side
line to his son.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-12

The serious scarcity of houses IN
Bamberg is a matter that will not
down. People are being kept away
from Bamberg because there are no
houses to live in. Those people who
have been waiting until building ma
terial gets cheap we are afraid will
be doomed to disappointment. Our
idea, gathered from building condi-
tions all over the country, is that it
will be many years before there will
be any material reduction in the
cost of erecting residences. In the
meantimel there are those who want
to come to Bamberg and cannot.
Something should be done. Let those
who intend to build some time in
vestigate building conditions for
themselves and if there is no hkeli-
hood of a reduction soon, go ahead
with their plans. Many Bamberg
people are contemplating building
houses, and it is very likely that they
will be able to build now as cheaply
as at any time in the next few years.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-12
Thursday, June II, 1919

All but four counties in the State
have applied for federal aid in build
ing good roads. This is very en-
couraging. Once a county has one
or two good roads, built Jointly with
county and federal money, there will
be a demand for more good roads.
Every county in South Carolina
should see to it that every dollar
available from the government is en-
ployed. 1t is too good an opportuni-
ty to pass up.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-06-12

Gus. Poisoning is usually started
when the weevils are puncturing Is
per cent. of the squares, and is re-
peated often enough to keep the per-
centage of punctured squares below
% per cent. until after laying-by
time. This would mean starting g
some time from the first to the mid
die of July.
The material must be correct, the
proper busting gun must be used,
the time of applying it is of great
Importance, as we'll as the conditions
of the surrounding plantation.