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?be pamberg Herald ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 28. ^'o.37. Thursday, Sept. 11, 1919. Looks like the government would not take any action to reduce the cost of living until the railroad employees made a demand for such an enormous increase in wages. Well, we are glad finmpthinff made them get busy. A town ordinance, which has been on the books for a number of years, says that no salt water fish shall be \ sold in Bamberg from the 15th day of May until the 15th of September, \ yet salt water fish have been sold right here on the main business street all summer. f- ?-. *The Yorkville Enquirer came to our exchange table last week in a new dress. The Enquirer has been published as an eight-column paper 1 > for many years." Now it has gone to the more convenient seven-column size, increasing the number of pages from four to eight. The Enquirer occupies a distinctive position among South Carolina newspapers and deservedly so. It is without question one of the best edited and printed papers in the country, and it should be the pride of York county. This is the day of investigations. 1 Investigating committees are in their ' glory now. And if they ever accom- ' plished much we have not heard of it. Congressional appropriations ' for investigations have piounted into the" hundreds of thousands of dollars. : 1 \ These ? committees travel over the ' !;j? C nannla xrifh + V>oiT ( tUUIiU J y UU1UCU tuu nii.il ^"V*A thousands of dollars of expenses, re- 1 . > main in session for months, make voluminous reports covering hundreds of printed pages, receive the thanks of congress, and that about ends it. In conversation with a friend several days ago we stated that we were trying to organize a "patched breeches club" in Bamberg, the object of ^hich was to reduce the cost of goods, each member pledging himself not to buy any article of wearing apparel which was not absolutely necessary, wearing his old clothing and ir having them patched if necessary. Since then we have noticed-in the daily press where in some town out West the men pledged themselves to wear r'-,r , , their old clothes as long as necessary or until prices were reduced. If men * $11 over the country would do this prices would soorf take a tumble. : Aim I Thursda; X The Brabham PI Gues: X on the main high ? This land is a] to cotton, tobacc Y cotton per acre 1 > in Bamberg cour , farms. X THU X Valuable Prizi X Sale Y TEEMS: ONEi I 4 | ? | SE] If city council will pardon us for the suggestion, we would recommend as a most important piece of legislation the extending of the fire limits of the town, that is, increasing the area in which wooden buildings cannot be erected. Our recollection is that wooden buildings cannot be erected within 150 feet of Main street, but this limit should be extended. The fire risk on wooden buildings is too great to allow them anywhere near Main street. < i?I ? ""* The suggestion has been made that it would be a good thing for the Bam berg city council to fix the fees charged by drays. At present there is no uniformity in rates. The draymen usually charge not what the job is worth, but what they can get. A few days ago one dray made a charge of 40 cents to haul a trunk less than a block; others charge 15 cents for the same hauling, and still others 25 1 cents. In other words if they can get 40 cents or 50 cents they charge it,'according to whom they are hauling for. Of course the strangers in town have to invariably pay the higher rate. Other cities and towns have found It necessary to fix uniform rates for the protection oMhe people, and it would not be a bad idea for the Bamberg council to take similar action. ^ tm* ^ THE RED CROSS. Do the people of Bamberg and Bamberg county desire the Red Cross organiation to be disbanded? The organization to be disbanded. The chairman, Rev. Geo. P. White, in a communication in The Herald today, calls for a meeting of the Red Cross Friday afternoon at the Red Cross rooms to determine this question. Mr. White has tried repeatedly to get a meeting of the Red Cross here without success. Not enough members jan be induced to attend the meetings :o transact any business whatever. Now there is something like $4,300 in the local treasury. This monsy is available for use in Bamberg md feamberg county. If the organisation disbands, this money will be :urned into the general treasury, and | Bamberg will not be very likely to jver hear of it again. In order $o ise this money, the organization nust be continued. The matter is strictly up to the people as to whethiT they desire to retain this $4,000 :or use in the county or turn it into he sreneral treasurv. The county is! entitled to the money. Under the Red Cross campaign plan, a certain percentage of all money collected was :o go for local wCrk. The chairman states that he is absolutely discouraged in his efforts to ?et a meeting of the local Red Cross ihapter, and that, failing in this last :tion S; \ j, Sept. 18,10 lace, consisting of 325 acres 3 3 and H. C. Cram, and located DENMARK AND BAMBE] way and will be sold to the hi H in a high state of cultivate o and*corn. It will produce < his year. This is one of the : ity and has been sub-divided rRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, es to be Given Away. Mus Rain or Shine. Everybody THIRD CASH, BALANCE 1 CONSOLII [.LING AGENTS. ! effort, he will make no further at| tempt in this direction. The meeting is to be held at five o'clock Friday afternoon at the Red Cross rooms in the main building of Carlisle school. Let everyone rememl ber the date, the hour, and the place, : and if they value these four thousand dollars, let them come to the meet. ing to decide on the important matter I of their disposition. i THE ATLANTA SUFFRAGISTS. | Considerable interest has been cen; tered in the recent election in Atlanj ta because the women voted, this bei ing, we believe, the first Southern ! election in which the women partici! pated. As an indication of what woI men taking part in politics will lead to, we have only to read an account the Augusta Chronicle of Tuesday of | what one of the suffragists herself says about it. Mrs. Mary L. McLendon is described as being "the-oldest and among the very first advocates of woman suffrage, not -only in Georgia, but in this section of the South." Mrs. McLendon has issued a statement in regard to the action of the central committee of women voters, 4 in which she says the methods and tactics employed by that committee was "as dirty a political trick as I have ever heard charged to men." This is sad news. We thought when the women got into politics politics would be cleansed. Now comes this leading suffffragist who says the women were as "dirty as the men." Well, it tftey are as airtv as some of the male politicians they are j a pretty bad lot. Mrs. McLendon | goes on to say that the work of this committee was underhanded, and several other things. We dp not imagine that the ^firing of these troubles will be any impetus to the woman suflrage movements although we don't suppose it will stay woman suffrage. It goes to show that if women dabble in politics it will not be long before they will be about on an equality with the men in other ways than merely voting. And we have enough bad politics without the addition of women. This same woman writer says that because of the Atlanta affair there "has been a dreadful setback for woman suffrage" in Georgia. ^ m* EXTRAVAGANCE. There is no use for people to complain about the high prices and keep on buying expensive luxuries. The prices on clothing of all kinds wOuld soon go down if everybody, men and women, would wear their old clothes. True, one must eat, but they can wear old clothing, hats, etc. Think what a difference it wouia maKe-nsui next: in Bamberg if no man would buy any t article of clothing except what he was A A lie of I * a. :30 a. m. now owned by A. P. between RG ghest bidder. on and well adapted r\nrv ftn/1 +-fTT/\ holoC <Vp J1LC ailU L VV \j kjuivu va most valuable farms into desirable small AT 10:30 A. M. ic by Brass Band. Invited. [N1 AND 2 YEARS )ATED RI t I absolutely compelled to have, and ev: ery woman would wear her last seaj son's coat suit, cloak, hat, etc. In i short reduce the buying of all articles : of apparel to actual necessities. If this was done don't you know that ; .there would soon be a drop in prices right here at home? One great reason why goods are high is because of 1 the extravagance of the people. | Silk socks and stockings are now at least three times as high as they were a few years ago, but it is certain that if everybody would q,uit wearing them prices would soon drop to normal. And so with other luxuries which can easily be laid aside. Let. us have nlain livine and Dlain dressing for a while and soon there'll be no holler about profiteering. The writer has not bought a suit of clothes in more than two years, and is wearing his old ones. He has refused to buy clothing which he can do without at present prices, and will wear patched breeches if he has to before he will pay the outrageous prices now being charged. But, alas, * there are few like him. And the women, why bless your soul, they are are wearing more finery than ever before. We'll warrant there will be few trimmed over hats worn by Bamterg women this winter. And so it goes. People who can and who can't afford it are getting more extravagant all the time in the matter of dress, and 3s long as this continues prices are going to be too high in proportion to the actual value of all kinds of dry goods. -A rising of Polish workmen against the Germans is taking place in many towns in Upper Silesia. ^ < > pi Lake Erie produces more fish to the square mile than any other body -of water in the world. Please Don't Ask Us \ V \ . To Charge School Books \ * The Herald Hook More 7ine Fa Thursday, The Elvira Walker 1 H. C. and J. W 8 MIL 5 MIL! and will be sold to th This valuable farn -i . J "I J such easy terms tnat The Elvira Walkei in the State and will j of the country. THURSD/ Valuable prizes to Sale Rail TERMS: ONE-THI ?ALTY C( ItAAAAA a4A I | MURDERED AND ROBBED ! * George Gladden Waylaid and Killed in West Wateree. Camden, Sept. 6.?George Gladden, ; a seventy-year-old white man, was | waylaid and murdered early Wednesday morning as he was going to his work on at the Wateree power dam in West Wateree, and his b.ody was rob bed of a considerable sum of money. He is known to have carried a large sum of money with him at all times and his relatives state that he was relieved of around fifteen hunI J J -11 v. 1 .1. . i . mi ureu uunars oy me muraerer. ine crime occurred just before daylight on a by road leading to the Hardaway Company's works, and two negroes following close behind Mr. Gladden state that they saw the revolver flashes and could hear the . murderer as he made his way through the woods. The assassin evidently sat beside the road and awaited his victim. Three shots were fired two taking effect, one passing through the body, entering from the back, > causing instant death. Meltofc Banks, a white man who worked alongside of the old man at the Hardaway works, was arrested soon after the crime was committed as being a suspect. MarrTrw ^V.l I ^ /< ARE YOU EXERTIN UTMOST TO MAK YOUR BUSINES, TIVITIES 100 fic: Do you need money, adv I activities ir THIS BANE STANDS AGE TO THE UT] MATE PR Capital and Sur] >f(y interest fctofcm nrfO paid on ^ i hum 11 V ? : ?f A^A A^A A^A A^A rm Lai Sept 18, 2:00 Place, consisting of 182 acres, '. Crum. This valuable farm i ES NORTH OF DENMAR !S EAST OF BLACKVILI e highest bidder. l lias been cut into several si it is possible for anybody to o1 place is known as one of tbe i *row any crops that can be grc k.Y, SEPTEMBER 18, AT 2 ] be given away. Music by a or Shine. Everybody Invit RD CASH, BALANCE IN 11 DMPANY GREENSBORO, N. ' ' .* , V * - ' *->'' -- 'l '-X Place your order for any magazine ! with The Herald Book Store. It will be reserved for you. ? MAXTOXE?The guaranteed tonic for chills, fever and malaria. 25c and 50c bottle. = = NOTICE TO SCHOOL TRUSTEES. The law provides that all teachers employed by trustees shall register , their certificates with the county superintendent of education as soon after beginning work as possible, so I urge you to see that all teachers engaged will register in my "office before the end of the first month of the school term. Xo claim will be approved for any teacher unless he or she is register ed. W. D. ROWELL, County Supt. of Education. Sept. 8, 1919. It NOTICE OF TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. The regular fall examination for teachers' certificates will be held at the court house in Bamberg, S. C., on Saturday, October the 4th, 1919, beginning at 9 o'clock a. m. Teachers holding second and third grade certificates are urged to take this' examination. The usual subjects will be given as follows: Algebra, arithmetic, English grammar, pedagogy, geography, physiology and hygiene, .history, civ- . ics and current events and agriculture. W. D. ROWELL, County Supt. of Education. * Sept. 8, 1919. HHH hMM; jfjj ffli mIHHHI |M h \ * ' G- YOURSELF TO THE E YOUR FARMING, S, YOUR PRODUC- f| PER CENT. EF- *0^ EENT? ice or help to enlarge your ' i these lines 5 READY TO ENCOUR- " *? MOST ALL LEGITIiODUCTION. plus $100,000.00 J SSNGTCO^ I B!Eu5BBSB._ _..J i ; ? I p. m. I 1 now owned by X s located X K Y E ;'|? y 'v^i nail farms and V rtm part of it. *f ^ ; :ery best farms V iwn in this part P. M. X Brass Band. ^ ed. , iND 2 YEARS Y X f . ' T ' t 31 c. I . . . V ' . . . ^