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Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-10
RARITAN TOWNSHIP

Mr.. and Mrs. Martin O'Hara
spent Sunday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. j. Engel at Nixon. MIR
Engel is the Democratic candl-
date for tax collector. while Mr.
O'Hara is the Democratic candidate
fo- committeeman in the township,
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Mullen spent the
week end with Mrs. Ole Jensen.
The chicken dinner planned for
last Saturday afternoon in honor of
j. S. Marshal was postponed.
Mrs. William Gross spent Monday
in New York City shopping.
Mrs. Andrew Nogradi entertained
out of town friends Sunday.
Mrs. A. Nonnenberg will give q
musicale tomorrow night at her
home,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-10
Begin Here Today

IL WdS
QUlNTANA and his band of inter-
national thieves who first stole
the priceless gem, the Flaming
Jewel, from the
COUNTESS OF ESTHONIA. Love of
the now beggarded countess forced
JAMES DARRAGH to seek the gem
and trace it to the disreputable
hotel" in the Adirondacks owned
by
NIKE CLINCH. Under the name Of
HAL SMITH, Darragh works at the
Clinch "hotel" where he meets
Clinch's beautiful step-daughter
EVE STRAYER, the one great in
fiuence for good in the crime
stained career of CHnch. When
Quintana and his gang arrive in
the vicinity. both Clipch and Hal
Smith know they will stop at
nothing to regain the loot flched
from the royal casket. Clinch
gives the jewel packet to Eve and
tells her to go to the mountains
and hide it in the "hootch-cache."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-10
When Weak and Nervous Try This
Advice

When Weak and Nervous Try This
Advice
Trenton, N. J.-"In my early married
Life / was rather frail and extremely nerv-
GUS, and the sFavorite Prescription built
me up in health and strength and proved
to be q splendid nervine. Afterwards I
took this same medicine during expect
ancy as a tonic and strengthener. 1t was
q wonderful help to me all thru that try
ing period and my strength returned rap
idly afterwards. Ihaye taken DIR. Pierces
Favorite Prescription at various times
when rundown, weak and nervous, and
IT has eve failed me, therefore I con-
sider it all that could be desired as a tonic
and nervine and an excellent medicine for
ailments peculiar to women."-Mrs. G.
Il. Hamilton, 10 Mechanics Ave.
AL druggists sell the Prescription in
tablets or liquid. Write DR.. Pierce, pres
ident Invalids' Hotel IN Buffalo. III 70
for frse medical advice.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-07-06
CROCKER GETS LIFE SENTENCE
jury Recommends Mercy to Slayer Of
Rev. j. V. Davis.

Columbia, July 1.-"Guilty, with
recommendation to mercy was the
verdict returned last evening by the
jury which had heard the testimony
in the case against John Watts
Crocker, who was tried in the court
of general sessions on the charge of
numbering the Rev. John Vincent
Davis, well known minister, and, at
the time Of his death, superintendent
Of the Richland county home, of
which Crocker was an inmate. The
tragedy occurred May 2S.
The echo of the words of the ver-
dict had hardly died in the court
room when Judge Townsend, after
asking Crocker if he had anything to
say, to which he replied in the mega
tive, sentenced the prisoner TO serve
the remainder of his life in the state
penitentiary. The convicted man, af-
ter asking for his hat, was at once
taken from the court room and spent
the night at the county Jail. Today
he will be transferred to the state
penitentiary to begin the service OF
his life sentence. Crocker is ga years
of age. The Rev. Mr.. Davis was 72
at the time Of his death.
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HARVEY WINS SUIT.
Verdict for Plaintiff for Sc, 6,5OO-Jury
Out All Night at Barnwel.

Barnwell, July 1.-After deliberat-
ing all night, the jury in the case of
w. l.. Harvey VS.. Southern Railway
company brought in the verdict at
1880 o'clock this morning for the
plaintiff in the amount of $500. This
was a suit for 100000 for the death
of Mrs. Daisy Harvey, wife of the
plaintiff, at a crossing in the lower
part of Barnwell county on June T.,
1921.
The plaintiff contended that the
buggy in which Mrs. Harvey was rid
ing was on the crossing at the time
the train approached and in turning
the buggy from the crossing to pre-
vent a collision with the train, Mrs.
Harvey fell out of the vehicle, her
leg being caught in the front wheel.
The mule ran away and Mrs. Harvey
received injuries which resulted in
her death a week later at Colum-
bia hospital:
The defendant contended that the
mule and buggy was in the road as
the train passed, at least Is feet from
the crossing and that the signal
statute did not apply.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-07-06
HIGH PRICES NO HELP.
Melons Bring From Seventy Cents
to One Dollar and Half.

New York, July 1.-Watermelons
for which Georgia growers are glad
to get from three to 1 II cents each
are selling in the retail markets here
at 70 cents to $3.50, said state
ment issued today by Herschel S.
Jones, director of the state depart
ment of farms and markets.
High freight rates, almost equally
high carriage charges and the bit
taken in turn by four middlemen,
make up the difference, he said. The
freight cost is about II cents a mel
on and the carriage cost for trans
porting the melons from the receiving
station at Karney, N. j., is about
eight cents.
The four middlemen get the rest.
The high prices are causing the
melons to move very slowly in the
New York market, he said, despite a
campaign his department has been
trying to induce New Workers to help
the Georgia farmers out with their
bumper crop by eating lots Of mel
OnS
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Kinards.

The State has obtained the desired
information from the records at the
secretary of states Office and from
other reliable sources. The records
show that Governor Blease granted
1,70S pardons, paroles and commuta-
tions Of sentences during his four
years as governor against 3O3 par
dons, paroles, communications Of SEN
tences and restorations of citizenship
by Governor Cooper during the three
years and four months he was COVER
nor. These figures may contain a
few Implications, but ther are very
nearly accurate. In the 1908 grant
ed by Governor Blease are not in
cluded a large number of pardons
granted to some persons he had al
ready paroled under his "blanket par
don" granted a short time before he
went out Of office. In this "blanket
pardon" Governor Blease restored all
the persons he had paroled during
good behavior to citizenship.
Governor Cooper's record was 2O3
paroles during good behavior, IL par
dons, 63 restorations of citizenship
and 25 combinations of sentences.
Governor Manning granted PIT
pardons, paroles, restorations Of cit
izenship and combinations Of sent
ences during his four years, divided
as follows: 157 paroles during good
behavior, seven pardons, 20 comma-
tations Of sentences and "a restora-
tions of citizenship.-Columbia State
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Look For Man; Find Cow.

Greenwood, July Awhile Sher-
iff E. NJ. White and Coroner P. T.
Faulkner stood ready Saturday for
the uncovering Of the grewsome re-
mains of murdered man, grave
discovered by excited passersby in
wood near Greenwood yielded up
body bearing two\ horns and hoofs,-
a body that proved to be the corpse
of Buttercup, a Jersey cow buried
some time before by A. B. Outzs, her
sorrowful owner.
The discovery of the grave caused
considerable excitement in the COM
munity where it was found. Reports
were rife that a man had been muir
dered in the woods there and had
been buried by night. The proper
officers were notified at once and the
body disinterred, only to prove the
corpse of COW.
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MOVE TO DISMISS APPEAL.
Solicitor Gasque Wants Supreme
Court to Act Under New Rule.

Columbia, June 30.-Solicitor L.
NJ. Gasque, of Florence, is expected
to make motion before the supreme
court for dismissal of the appeal of
Edmund D. Bigham, now in the death
house at the penitentiary, on the
ground that the court has already re-
viewed the question of fact involved
in the case and the solicitor predicts
that the court will grant his motion
and throw out the appeal.
Recently the supreme court adopt
ed new rule whereby it refuses to
review a question of fact as dis
tinguished from a question of law
and judiciary discretion, once the
lower court has passed on the facts
in the premises. Under this rule the
solicitor may move, after ten days
notice to the attorney on the other
side of the case, to discuss the mo-
tion the motion for a new trial and
get an answer without waiting for
the tedious processes of the court.
''I intend to advise the state of
this rule" the solicitor says ''if the
supreme court follows the rule it has
laid down, as there is no reason to
think it would not do, the Bigham
case will not hang in the supreme
court year longer"
A. L. King, attorney for Bigham,
filed formal notice of intention to ap-
peal last week. He has forty days
in which to perfect his notice to dis
miss the appeal. If Bigham thus loses
his appeal he will have to be resent
enced.
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FALL ASLEEP ON TRACK.
Two Men Killed and Another Badly
Injured by Train.

Sumter, July 4.-Ben and William
Brewer were killed outright and Will
liam C. Mcleod was badly injured
when struck Sunday night by a
freight train of the A. G.. L. railroad
company at Broadway's siding, be-
tween Sumter and Pinewood. All of
the parties are white men Of the Pine
wood neighborhood. Mr.. McLeod's
leg was broken in two place and he is
now in the Tomey hospital for treat
ment. From the testimony adduced
at the coroner's inquest today, Will
liam G. Mcleod, the only surviving
member, testified that about 10 o.
clock Sunday night he and the two
Brewer boys were sitting on the rail-
road track and all were drinking.
He said that the Brewer boys stretch
ed out on the track and in few min
utes were fast asleep. The first he
knew of the accident was when he
awoke, finding himself to the side
of the track, having been knocked
off the track. He said that he did
not realize he was hurt until he tried
to get up and found numbness in
his limbs. He was about eight or
ten feet from the track when he
awoke. After hearing the evidence
the jury brought in a verdict that
Ben Brewer and William Brewer
came to their death on July 2, 1922,
by being run over by an A. c. L..
freight train. 1t is said that the
bodies of the dead men were badly
mangled and mutilated. The plight
of the injured man and the discov-
cry of the two dead men was made
early this morning just prior to the
time for the regular passenger train
from Augusta to pass this siding.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-07-06
MOVEMENT OF MELONS.
Carload Lots Being Shipped Out
From Fairfax.

Fairfax, June 2S.-Watermelons
from this section have commenced to
move. J. E. Johnston and Luther
Barber loaded a car of thirty-four-
pound average melons Monday and
Julius Gray loaded a car of large
melons Tuesday. These care were
handled by the Fairfax Melon Grow
ers' Association. This association
will probably handle more than 400
carloads of melons during the next
sixty days. The acreage to melons
in this section is larger than usual,
but on account of too much rain,
some hail and in many cases lack OF
a sufficient quantity of fertilizer, it is
not likely that more than half a crop
of marketable melons will be made.
The corn crop is very good, and the
cotton crop, too, is improving, but
the stands are bad and boil weevils
are already becoming numerous.
Notwithstanding these drawbacks,
the farmers are working hard. Some
of the well-to-do farmers are using
two-horse dusting machines in ap-
plying calcium arsenate; others are
using smaller machines, and some
are picking up and destroying the
punctured squares. The weather
during the last few days has been
favorable for cotton and the indica-
tions are that considerably more cot
ton will be produced in this section
this year than was produced here last
YEAR. The acreage to peanuts in this
section is smaller than last year, but
this crop is looking very promising.
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Cotton Forecast
I1MlLionBaLes

Washington, July 3.-Prospects of
larger cotton crop than last year
were seen in the first forecast of the
season announced today by the de-
partment of agriculture.
The yield estimated on the condi-
ton of the crop June 25, was forecast
at 11,O65,000 bales which compares
with a production of 7,953,641 bales
last year; 1S439,6O3 bales in 1920,
II, 1,420,763 bales in 1919, and 12,-
040,532 bales in 1918.
The condition of the crop on June
25 was 71.2 per cent. of normal, an
Improvement over the report issued
the month previous when it was
placed at 69.6. The condition COM
pares with 69.2 per cent. on June 25,
1921, and with the ten-year June 25,
average of 76.9.
The acreage devoted to cotton this
year was placed by the department
at 34,S52,000 acres, an increase OF
10 per cent. over the area planted to
cotton last year:
The area under cultivation June
25, and the condition of the crop on
that date by states follows:
Virginia-Acreage $1,000, condi-
ton IS per cent. .
North Carolina sol 900 and 76.
South Carolina-2,230,000 and so,
a-4,129,OOO and 5s.,
Florida-122,OO0 and IS.
Alabama-2,995,000 and 6S.
Mississippi-3, 200, 900 and 76.
Louisiana-1,311,O 900 and So.
Texas-12,312,OO0 and 72.
Arkansas-2,S53,000 and 80.
Tennessee-S1s,ooo and S3.
Missouri-156,000 and 92.
Oklahoma-2,S40,OOO and 76.
California-21O,0 and 81.
Arizona-105,000 and IS.
New 5000 and IS.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-07-06
STILL WILL FACE TRIAL.
Accuses BarnWell
Man of killing Barnie Diamond.

BarnweIl, June 30.-NIilton Still,
white farmer, who lives few miles
from this city, has been arrested on
a warrant charging him with the
murder of Barnie Diamond IS years
ago.
The arrest is said to have resulted
from a difficulty between Still and
his brother-in-law, Frank Owens,
about ten days ago, at which time
the latter shot Still in the leg. Still
had Owens arrested whereupon
Owens's mother, Mrs. NJ. A. Owens,
divulged information which led to
the arrest of Still on the charge of
murder.
From the best information avail
able, it seems that the evidence
against Still is very meager as no
eyewitnesses to the alleged murder
can be located. In May, 1904, the
body of Barnie Diamond was found
lying by the Southern railway tracks
about two miles south of Barnwell,
and it was thought he had been kill
ed by a train during the night. On
the night of his death Mrs. Owens
was at the home of Milton still, her
son-in-law, and now states that she
heard cries and the sound of blows
coming from the house of a white
woman named Mamie Phillips, who
lived just across the railroad track
from Stills home. Mrs. Owens, it is
understood, charges that Diamond
was killed at the Phillips house and
his body placed on the track by Still
in an effort to hide his alleged crime.
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consists of 5000 acres, about 500
of which are planted to cotton, and
is farmed by seventy tenants. Each
tenant has prominent part in the
fight being made by Mr.. Cowart and
DR.. DeLoach."
No Longer Fear Weevil.
Mr.. Harper states further that he
talked with some of these tenants,
and from the results thus far obtain
ed, they are enthusiastic as any one
else. One old darkey said that he
was not afraid of the boil weeVil
any more.
. From present indications, the crop
of cotton on these 500 acres will be
saved at cost of about 81 per acre.
Three applications of the poison
have already been made and two
more will probably be necessary to
control the weevil during the re-
mainder of the season.
Mr.. Harper states that the one out
standing point Of the demonstration
is that it proves the profitable grow
ing of cotton to be entirely within
the limits Of the ability of the aver
age cotton farmer.
It is apparent that the cotton farm
er will eventually surmount this in
sect difficulty in the same manner in
which other farmers have overcome
the ravages' of insects and diseases
in the growing of the crops such as
peaches, apples or potatoes.
sThis demonstration" says Mr..
Harper, "has impressed many i'm
portant farmers from all parts Of the
southeast. 1t has given an import
ant lesson and an incentive to follow
the methods used on this farm and
which have been advocated by the
government and state departments
of agriculture Of the different states
of the southeast in order to bring the
cotton crop through this year with
profitable yields.
From these pioneer cotton pro-
ducers, under new conditions brought
about by the boil weevil, the meth
ods necessary to be used will spread
until they reach each progressive cot
ton farmer. There will, of course,
be some who will drift with the tide
of circumstances making what the
boil weevil and weather allow, but
these will in no way be able to COM
pete with these progressive growers
who produce cotton by improved
methods. The methods of course, in
volve rigid fight on the boil wee
wills. ."-Aalanta Constitution.
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PARDON RECORD OF GOVERNORS

Figures Secured at Request of "A
Voter
To the Editor of The State:
Some of.us have gotten into an ar
gument as to the pardoning records
of Governor Blease and Governor
Cooper, some contend;ng that Cooper
pardoned nearly as 1.ny as Blease.
AS it might be of peculiar interest to
some of your readers to have their
memory refreshed as to some Of our
past history I would appreciate your
giving us the pardoning records of
both governors, and ask also, that
you quote the proper authorities in
order to settle our controversy.
"A VOTER"
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Postmaster at Cope.

Cope, July 81. Ashlow Antley,
postmaster, having resigned to enter
the race for clerk of court. ". NJ.
Ritter, was appointed to fill the place
until the office could be supplied
through the regular channels. A
civil service examination was held at
Orangeburg July /, and the follow
ing stood the examination
W. NJ. Ritter, incumbent; Jerome
Garick and R. X. Henery, of Cope;
Mrs. Meets and Olin F. Hunt of the
Fork section, and a lady from
Orangeburg.
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To Sue Town.

Walterboro, June 29.-Notice has
been filed with Messrs, Howell &
Fishburne, the towns attorneys. Of
a suit against Walterboro for $4,000
damages, the suit being entered by
Mrs. Adelaide B. Smokes, of Charles
ton. through her attorneys, Whaley,
Barnwell & Grimball. Of Charleston.
It is alleged that Mrs. Smokes, while
on visit to a relative in WATERFORD,
fell over a pile of stringers being
used to build a sidewalk, from which
she suffered injuries, etc., to the ex-
tent of the sum asked.
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had resulted in reducing the percent
age of farms under mortgage from
60 per cent. to two per cent.
July 10th is the last day on which
tobacco growers may sign up with
the association.
Evening star., 1922-10-28
WASHINGTONIANA EXPERT
TO ENTERTAIN MASONS
Thomas Savage Clay's illustrated
Lecture to Be Given Before
Railroad Square Club.

Thomas Savage Clay of Astor
Lodge SOB. New York city. who has
devoted many years to research work
on washingtoniana, will entertain the
Railroad Square Club and a few spe-
cial guests tonight at Northeast TEN.
ple, sth and F. streets northeast.
Among the special guests are Grand
Master c. c. Coombs, Call Me Henry"
Lansburgh. gold card member Of the
club; Justice Frederick L. Siddons,
District Supreme Court; Lyman H.
Troutman, past president National
League Of Masonic Clubs: Edward w.
Lfbbey, grand marshal Supreme Coun-
Gil. M. o. ". P. e. R.: Marshal w.
Pickering. monarch Kallipolis Grot-
to; Philip Herman. president National
University Club.
This illustrated lecture, which is al
ways . popular feature at Masonic
entertainments. shows the neglected,
unkempt condition of Wakefield, Va,
Washineton's bisthnlace; rapidly
Evening star., 1922-10-28
Ex-PREMIER URGES PEACE.
BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GLASGOW. October 28.-Former
Prime Minister Lloyd George, ad-
who received him enthusiastically to-
day, declared in referring to the
breaking up of the coalition, that
"the world is In such trouble, it is in
such condition that you cannot afford
to indulge in party chickering's and
quarrels until the nation Is on firm
rock again..
TOO Energetic on Green
Mr. Lloyd George said the con-
servatives wanted a premier with
less vitality and 60 To use a golfing
phrase, as he put it. they said he
CLloyd George) was very good with
the niblick. excellent for getting the
ball out of the rough, but that on
the green he was too energetic, and
they wanted somebody with a feebier
stroke.
Well" he continued. "it is not for
me to say whether they've got It,.
But we are really out of the rough?
Go to tho Glasgow shipyards for the
I.
employed, then read the labor mani
festo and then ask the question, Are
we out Of the rough? It Is a mani
festo issued to a people crushed with
taxation, sore with the wounds of q
great war and exhausted and worried
with anxiety about their daily bread.
We are not out OF danger. It is a
formidable challenge and it will ap-
peal to millions.
All Calling for Change.
THE e-hards are not the only
people who are calling for a change.
They are not the only people in a
democratic country who have the
right to call for a change.
They call for one change. there
are millions calling for another
change. This Is not the time for
moderate men Of like mind who think
of the security OF the state to fall
out among themselves.
There is a menace to the left, a
menace to the right. . menace to the
front. The nation 10 surrounded with
menacing clouds and darkness
Mr.. Lloyd George asserted Premier
Bonar Law had said it was better to
split the nation than to split the
party.
II deeply deplore this decision," he
said, "and all my friends and I can
do is to do our best to avert the
worst evils of bad blunder-and
that is what we propose to do"
Evening star., 1922-10-28

limning scenes OF the most eventful
and wonderful epoch in the worlds
history-colonial America-to the
present day. will be put upon the
screen, including views that will de-
pict the high regard the present
Homer ]. Councillor, raconteur, short
story writer and lecturer. will make
an Introductory address preceding
Mr.. Clay's tribute to the first Presi-
dent of the United States.
George D. Sullivan. J. J. Cunning
ham, Oscar Riley. Harry B. B. Bower
sox, James o. lotion, George w. Win
slow, Rawley Dorme and the mem
bers OF the, Railroad Square Club
promise an evening unique and in
teresting. with a banquet and cigars
at the close Of the entertainment.