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OFFICIAL Go I BOXES g | ? 3 National Guard 1 1 Clear Pond 2 2 Midway 19 5 Colston 19 13 Ehrhardt 42 29 Govan 26 7 Denmark 52 55 Hightower's Mill 7 15 Olar 58 14 Lees 6 1 Kearse 10 7 Bamberg 136 85 Hunter's Chapel 2) 17 Edisto 42 22 Total 422| 273f ? Blli STRIKE IS AVERTED. _ EIGHT-HOUR LAW EXACTED BY fi CONGRESS. (II0V Upon Insistence of President Wilson, Congress Takes Action to Prevent Tie-up of Railroads. _____ 1 Washington, Sept. 2.?The threat of a general railroad strike, which has been hanging like a pall over the country for nearly a month, was lifted tonight. Three hours after the senate had passed without amendment the I Adamson eight hour day bill, passed by the house yesterday, the heads of the four great railroad employes' brotherhoods telegraphed 600 odd code messages to their general chairmen in all parts of the country cancelling the strike order issued a ?V week ago to take effect next Monday morning at 7 o'clock. The legislative expedient to avert the strike was passed in the senate by a vote of 43 to 28?almost a strict party vote?amid stirring fk ' scenes, after many senators, Democrats and Republicans, had fought desperately to amend the measure by j||: ; > * provisions designed to prevent industrial disasters in the future. I Some senators, thoroughly aroused, declared congress was being coerced into enactment of legislation that it did not desire and that it knew would return to plague it in the future. In both houses the measure was signed within a few minutes after the final vote in the senate and it was sent at once to the white house, where President Wilson will sign it at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning after S . his return from Shadow Lawn. Officials of the brotherhoods who witnessed the final passage of the bill had announced early in the night that cancellation of the strike would fe.-. not be ordered until the bill had been signed by the president and actually . had become law. But later they con^ ferred, changed their minds and flashed the code messages signaling to the waiting trainmen of the country through their chairmen the mesfe - sage that a satisfactory settlement > had been secured. S. y The bill that stopped the strike provides that after January 1, 1917. p; \ . eight hours shall be regarded as a V * basis of reckoning for a day's pay for men engaged in the operation oi railroad trains in inter-State commarfta (ovnontinor rnaHo Iocq than 1 Of] ?UL\^1 W A VMV&U 1VW bAAMXA * V w miles long and electric lines), thai they shall receive pro rata pay foi work in excess of eight hours and that their rate of compensation shall not be changed pending an investigation for from six to nine months oJ the effect of the eight hour day railroads by a commission to be appointed by the president. Underwood Fight Fails. Efforts to amend the bill in the senate were futile, the supreme efforl to alter it having been led by Senator Underwood, who sought to provide that the inter-State commerce * commission should have power to fix raiiroaa wages ana nours or service in the future. This amendment was defeated by a vote of 57 to 14. Only two Democratic senators Hardwick, of Georgia, and Clarke, oi Arkansas, voted against the bill, and one Republican?La Follette, of Wisconsin?for it. ^ Blue Jay Stopped Scrap. * A black hen, a game rooster and a guinea hen on the farm of Samuel Dodd, near the Passaic county line, * discovered and fought for nearly an hour yesterday over a good sized rat which had been crippled by the rooster. Each bird asserted its claim to the prize in the best way it could. When the fight was tiring the combatants along came a blue jay, which settled the ownership by picking up the rat and flying into a corn crib. The farm hands and others who had watched the battle asserted that the blue jay's trick entitled the bird to all the honors that have been S&r heaped upon the species.?Brookdale (N. J.) correspondence New York Sun. Doylestown, Pa., has dedicated a new museum building costing $75,000. % ' RESULT FOR ST A' ivernor Lt.Gov. Sec. State CG c i > i c g & s S s 5 g a 5 Egg I 2 P 3 3 3 3 or? P d 3 ? _ I] 3 3" 13! 3 14 12 5 14! 18 20 16 22 30! 4 57 33 27 118; 28 155 129 53 1 371 6 64 47 , 23 5 1 9 9 i 71 138 139 77 2 1 14; 8 25 11 24 97 25 140 104 63 1 18 1 24 19 7 1 50 25 40 29 38 1 1 159 73 303 240 138 3 28 4 44 32 16 22 13 70 3 S j 47 j 81 2[ 700 [ 27~9 10971 8491 543jjl4 CROP OF 11,800,000 BALES. ! Condition of Plant on August 25th 1 61.2. Washington, August 31.?Further , deterioration of the growing cotton ? i z crop during August has reduced the) j. estimated final production to 11,800,- ' 000 bales. That forecast of produc- t ; tion was made today by the depart- j ment of agriculture, basing its cali culations on the condition of the i crop on August 25. That compares with 12,916,000 j bales forecast from July 25 condition t reports, and 14,266,000 bales fore-j.. cast from conditions existing June | ^ 25. Last year's production was 11,191,820 bales, two years ago 16,134,930, three years ago 14,156,- ^ 486, and four years ago 13,703,421. . During July heavy storms caused f damage to the crop, causing a loss * in production calculated at 1,350,000 bales. f Weather conditions during August t were not the best for cotton. In par's t of the belt there was too much rain j. and in others the weather was too t hot and dry, and there was a lack of ^ rainfall. Toward the end of the pe- y riod there was some improvement in and nnrthwMtpm districts. VUllt&ai UUV4 UVJ. V4A ?* WWW* M g but the crop was in a very unsatisfactory condition in practically all s of the gulf States. Excessive heat j was making rapid progress difficult a ' in pfcking in Arkansas, although this r work was making satisfactory prog- s ress in the remainder of the cotton a i States. % j Comparisons of condition on Au; gust 25, by States, follow: s Aug. 25 July 25 t : 1916 1915 1916 1 Virginia 90 85 87 ^ *: North Carolina .... 65 76 70 t '/South Carolina .... 57 71 65 t Georgia 62 69 68 i ; Florida 58 70 62 | ' Alabama 45 65 54 1 L Mississippi 49 69 '65 Louisiana 64 65 77 ' Texas 66 67 78 ^ Arkansas 71 72 85 ? Tennessee 80 82 82 ( ' Missouri 80 81 80 ' Oklahoma 56 71 84 s : California .. * 92 93 100 * United States 61.2 69.2 72.3 s 1 In a statement summarizing condi- c > tions, the department said: - "August was unfavorable for cot- 1 r r ton in almost alL sections of the cot ton belt. In; the western section, the -I - A A - J 1 -- _ A1.1? { crop aeierioraieu severely iu utua1 homa and Texas because of extreme ' drought over large areas, whic? ' caused the plant to stop fruiting am I shed. Weevils damaged the crop I considerably in eastern and southern Texas, southern Arkansas, western Florida and southwestern Georgia, and disastrously in Mississippi, Ala bama and portions of Louisiana. "Much of the crop in southern Mississippi and Alabama, ^because of * rain and weevil damage, will require - from ten to 20 acres of land to pro duce a bale of cotton. In the Caro linas and Georgia hot sunshine fol lowing the July rain on the sappy : plant caused much shedding. ' "Lack of fertilizer, which was 5 leached from the soil by the July rain, or withdrawn by grass and ? weeds, is shown by the appearance of the plant, which seems to have 1 roonViad mofnritw Tritfi Q email ctnllr X V/UVXiV/U UiatUAXi^ TT i UU M WXAAMIAX k/vvwft*? and lack of fruit. There are many grassy fields in the Eastern States, j Caterpillars are reported in Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Georgia, but \ have done no material damage as iyet"Picking is general over the southern half of the belt, and even ' in Oklahoma, where there is much ' premature opening. Virginia, Tennessee, northwest Mississippi, east- ? ern Arkansas and Missouri have good t to splendid crops of cotton. ? 1 Anti-Aircraft Searchlights. ( A curious difference in the light 1 projected from the London anti-aircraft searchlights seems to be due to 1 varying atmospheric conditions, t Sometimes the beam shows uniform i illumination throughout its entire 1 ' > J-l- xi xl 1 _ xl ? i. 1 lengui, men me ueaai is raosu> lcum with bright knots or patches at ir- t regular intervals, and at other times 1 only a bright patch on the clouds is 1 seen, the course of the light being 1 invisible. J * IE OFFICES IN R en State Treas. Ad.G. Sup.E lA.Gen co.Aj ~ o Ef" ~~E~~ w ~c ~<r ! g o o 3 5 : Z r- o o ? ?. 1 ? p 2 2 ? 55 i " = % s ? = g 3 3!| 21 II! II 3 j [ 811 17 | 16| 1|| 17j| 17; 17j| 1 3 S | i 171 211! 3 S11 38 38j| 3 62l| 561 61; 62|| 62 | 62 | 6 911 157 3 4 1911 1911 189 19 70; 55 14 j 70 j 70; 70 7 15 154 611 2l4j 215 213 21 37 30 61 3 7 j 37j 37 3 69 111 581 16 6 j 169' 169 16 26 19 7 2 6} 26 26 2 68 46 21 68 68 68 6 81 322 59 351 385 361 37 48 44 4 48 48 48 4 86 70j 1611 86 j 86 | 86|| 8 11 ['110991 309j~! 1374~|114151j 1387[flTO THIS SNAKE IS TALENTED. t Can I>o Grapevine Twists and Blow Itself Up. Keeper Charley Snyder, of the nake house up at the Bronx Park oo, got a new bunch yesterday for lis old scheme of crossing the hoop nake with the puff adder, and there>y turning out a constant supply of iving tires for automobiles. For the first time in the experience of even the noted snake expert the Bronx Park reptile house, Dr. taymond Ditmars, a snake came to he park yesterday which can blow tself up like a Wall street bull mar:et. The snake was sent to the zoo by , party of naturalists now in South imerica looking up specimens for 1? onniofv Tt ia ahnnt JLlt? L/UU1U5IV/CH UV/ViVVJ. AW .w our feet long and normally not fater than a broom handle. The minute that sightseers stop in ront of its glass house it first seems 0 become obsessed with the notion hat it is another Charlotte of the lippodrome ice ballet and begins to hrow itself into grapevine twists, igure eights and capital S's. There /ere hopes that it could also write ts name with itself, but this feat eemed beyond it. When it takes a deep breath or omething, however, is the time that ts great mental and physical gifts ire displayed at their best. One monent the crowd yesterday saw a make an inch or less in diameter tnd the next moment it was a Zep>elin. All four feet of snake begin to iwell until the body measures from hree to four inches in diameter from lead to steering gear. The snake vill remain inflated for some time ;hen, or until it reaches a decision hat enough is enough. Thereupon t collapses with the suddenness and general hullabaloon of an automo)ile tire.?New York Sun. Mexico's New Army. The Mexican army of today is as lifferent from that of the time when Porfirio Diaz thought he had 32,000 soldiers and woke to find barely 14,)00, as is the German army that wept through Belgium different from )ur handful of 50,000 down in Texas, vri+oa itnrrv it. Dunn in Cartoons Magazine. Six years ago the Mexican irmy was composed of the riffraff of Mexico, convicts, political prisoners, Irab slaves, who served because they >wed money to some friend of the government, or wretches who had lad the misfortune to marry women vhose beauty attracted the eye of >ome other friend of those in power. [Jnlike the "rurales," who having peen bandits and highwaymen, still preserved their air of freedom and ndependence because they had been >ought and not enslaved, the regular irmy of the Diaz administration was lerded to its work as the Russians vere driven into battle at Port Ar:hur, or bound, as Guatemalan solliers are chained to their barracks est they flee. , Today the Mexican army is composed of free men, most of them banlits, it is true, many of them murlerers, few of them to be trusted out )f sight of their commanding officers, put all fighting because they want to ight, not because they have to fight. \.nd those who judge the coming opposition of the Mexican army of 1916 )y that which the forces of Santa \nna put up nearly seventy years igo are as mistaken as those who vould attempt to compare the Arnada with the British North sea fleet. Where His Faith Broke Down. "The late Bishop Hare," said a Sioux Falls physician, according to ;he Living Church, "used, very reasonably, to impute scepticism to mismderstanding. "He once told me about a Philalelphia business man of sceptical ;endencies, who said to him: " 'My dear Mr. Hare, I do not refuse to believe in the story of the irk. I can accept the ark's enornous size, its. odd shape, and the fast number of animals it contained, but when I am asked, my dear doc;or, to believe that the children of [srael carried this unwieldly thing for fortj* years in the wilderness? well, there I'm bound to say, my faith breaks down.' " AMBERG CO. g. Railroad Commissioner ~ ~9 3 = *1 d~~ ' P P 52 o 5* Cfl rt- ? ?"7 C ffl X =? *1 O ? 3 2 r 7 6 7 4 8 27 3 5 3 2 11 43 5 2 1 1 96 48 36 5 7 0 231 '22 24 1 n 1041 2 0 57 7 17 7 17 21 17 1! 9 61 57 29 12 10 6 15 3 4 2 1 8 26 17 22 2 1 8 158 125 68 12 12 8 15 25 2 3 3 6 47 9 22 6 2 811 608j 391[ 2911 61| 54 The Strong Withstand the Heat of Summer Better Than the Weak Old people who are feeble, and younger people who are weak, will be strengthened and enabled to go through the depressing heat of summer by taking regularly I Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It purifies I and enriches the blood and builds up the whole system. 50c. W. RENTZ, JR. Life, Health, Accident and Fire Insurance ALL RELIABLE COMPANIES J. F. Carter B. D. Carter CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law GENERAL PRACTICE BAMBERG, S. C. tmm PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGINES AND BOILERS Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injectors, Pumps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gasoline Engines LARCiESTOCK LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works, Supply Store. AUGUSTA, GA. SUMMONS. State of South Carolina, County of Bamberg?Court of Common Pleas.?British & American Mortgage Company, Limited, Plaintiff, against Sam Copeland, J. 0. Patterson, C. F. Rizer, W. H. Ritter, Mrs. i J. A. Byrd, as Executrix of the last Will and Testament of J. A. Byrd, deceased, S. E. Neeley, Bank of Olar, H. H. Kearse, J. J. Wilson, and Saltkeatchie Lumber Company, Defendants. To the defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve [ a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office at Orangeburg, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to ' the Court for the relief demanded in itVio onmnlnint. Dated. ADril 8th, 1916. J. STOKES SALLEY, E. H. HENDERSON, ' Plaintiff's Attorneys. To the defendant, J. J. Wilson: ( Take notice that the complaint in this action, together with the summons, of which the foregoing is a I copy, was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Bamberg County, S. C., on the 2nd day of June, 1916. J. STOKES SALLEY, E. H. HENDERSON, 9-26. Plaintiff's Attorneys. The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head > Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary l Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor ringing in head. Remember the full name and ' look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c. ??UB-MY-TISM Will cure your Rheumatism Neuralgia, Headaches, * Cramps, Crifoino Rrniapa Puta anH UpiOlUiJ) JL^l UAUVW) VU% w V4 44 V* , Boras, OM Sores, Stings of Insects Etc. Antiseptic Anedyne, used internally and externally. Price 25c. E. H. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law BAMBERG. S. C. ' General Practice. Loans Negotiated. . FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law Office Over Bamberg Banking Co. GENERAL PRACTICE. BAMBERG, S. C. J. A. Klein Mrs. J. A. Klein Teachers of Piano and Organ Studio Over Herndon's Storts 1 Duos and Quartets for Two Pianos and the Proper Training of Beginners a Specialty * Dr. THOMAS BLACK, JR. DENTAL SURGEON. Graduate Dental Department Uni' versity of Maryland. Member S. C. : State Dental Association. Office opposite new post office and over office of H. M. Graham. Office hours, 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. BAMBERG, S. C. | DON'T CARR1 full of money when you can easily open an account with us Bfl and then use checks instead of BB cash in making payments. You Bfe are protected thoroughly HI against burglars and fire with- H|| out extra cost to you, besides enjoying all the conveniences of a bank account. Enternris J 5 ~** ".< . ?| INSTANT S! J THE MUTUAL 5" House Phone 55 C. A. ASENDOR T DENMARK TtTttTttTtTttt ELECTION NOTICE. For the purpose of nominating II candidates for governor and all other State officers, congressman, solicitor and all county officers, a direct primary election will be held at the Vei usual places of voting in Bamberg county on Tuesday, September 12, 1916. * The managers shall open the polls Pil at 8 o'clock a. m., and shall close its< them at 4 o'clock p. m. Coj For the purpose of holding said str( election the following managers and zeE clerks are hereby appointed: . . Bamberg?P. B. Murphy, G. A. if Rice, E. F. Free, W. D. Rowell, clerk. is Clear Pond?J. B. Padgett, J. B. j cor Folk, C. K. Smoak, R. F. McMillan, I pie clerk. aej Colston?G. W. Kearse, G. W. ?] Beard, Jr., G. A. McMillan, C. M. ^ ' Varn, clerk. , Denmark?W. B. Kittrell D. S. Hartzog, D. M. Cox, Sr., I. G. Jen- ne* nings, clerk. * Edisto?J. W. Webster, Aquilla kid Drawdy, C. S. Herndon, B. C. Kin- oft sey, clerk. jai Ehrhardt?J. E. McMillan, M. W. Rentz, I. D. Copeland. J. J. Hiers, un clerk Go'van?B. P. Hartzog, D. W. Kit- ar trell, J. B. Zorn, L. V. Williams, ua] clerk. < Hightower's?C. J. Creech, A. B. sai Hightower, J. H. Hartzog, L. W. of Abstance, clerk. tal Hunter's Chapel?J. G. Rhoad, J. eV( W. Wilson, J. W. Steedly, C. S. -s Rhoad, clerk. , Kearse?L. A. Brabham, vv. ti. Ritter, G. E. Kearse, H. W. Chitty, clerk. Do Lee's?H. B. Grimes, H. S. Walsh, Mi J. C. Kemp, W. D. Mayfield, clerk. mf Midway?B: D. Donald, W. E. Ut- Bu sey, J. Y. Hicks, E. W. Duensing, clerk. Olar?H. C. Kirkland, J. J. Brab ham, G. W. Cave, G. O. Barker, _ clerk. | Sf After tabulating the result the i l> managers shall certify the same and j mjl forward the ballot boxes, containing j yr the ballots, poll list and all other ! papers relating to the election, by JL one of their number to the chairman pf of the county committee within 36 iw hours after the close of the polls. Bl The county committee will assemble at the court house on the morning i |i of the second day (Thursday) after j 111 the election, at 10 o'clock, to tabu- 11 V late the returns and declare the re- 11 I suit of the primary. Managers will ! I I please telephone, telegraph or send I I by messinger to the county chair- i | I man, immediately after the votes are | tabulated, a full statement of the re- j suit. The expense of same will be ; paid by the county chairman. The I same managers and clerks will serve in second and third primaries if they j are necessary. The ballot boxes and ballots will ! I be ready for delivery to managers of i I election on and after the Thursday j I before each primary election. Please j j call at the court house for same. I H. C. FOLK, County Chairman. I RILEY & COPELAND Successors to W. P. Riley. I Fire, Life I Accident I INSURANCE I Office in J. D. Copeland's Store WT\ j BAMBERG, 8. O. I A R, P. BELLINGER j { ATTORNEY AT LAW ! t Office Over Bamberg Banking Co. j \ General Practice j f i A SAFE! I 13gg / e Bank Deposits. Bamberg, S. C. Bring It bi! iu had brought your auto to le last time, it wouldn't need i* tier overhauling now. M* cvork is by experts and is thorly dependable. You will find ing in our moderate bill that 'A not absolutely necessary. y iptness and thoroughness at ninimum charge, is our motto, y ERVICE ?? GARAGE J . F, Prop. Shop Phone 45 , S. 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I haven't 4 ten them for a long time but if 1 Br have occasion to, I will use them I know they have no equal." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't aply ask for a Mdney remedy?get an's Kidney Pills?the same that < White has twice publicly recorn ?nded. Foster-Milburn Co., Props. flalo, N. Y. 1 | Colds | k| should be "nipped in the|MJ fjbud",forif allowed to run|f\/ W unchecked, serious results yf Mmay follow. Numerous mi I cases of consumption, pneu- I monia, and other fetal dis- 1 eases, can be traced back to I a cold. At the first sign of a I cold, protect yourself by I thoroughly cleansing your I system with a few doses of I * THEDFORD'S BUCK DRAUGHT III the old reliable, vegetable III liver powder. fjj Mr. Chas. A. Ragland, o< ||| Madison Heights, Va., says: ||| 'I have been using Thed- III 1 ford's Black-Draught for JUU| 1 stomach troubles, indiges-f/Il W tion. and colds, and find ittoftAl Li be the very best medicine inAjfl Clever used. It makes an oWm/i 0 man feel like a young one." jtfl N Insist on Thedford's, thenCM jl original and genuine. ?*67 iMfl i -1- '" ' ' -%.j ->'-V~>^.?C*' .