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Wi)t Bamberg Hetalb! ESTABLISHED A PHIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. Thursday, May 6,1920. Volume 29. No. 19. The Overalls Epidemic. Somebody has accused the American negro of being the champion "joiner" of the world. Probably the indictment will hold out but the American white man will give him a run for his money. Today a great number of gentlemen are attracting attention in public, getting their names in the papers and proving beyond peradven^ure that they are saviors of society by appearing on the streets, in theatres, in hotels and other places of public congregation in the right, proper and true garb of the patriot?the well-known overalls. Overalls clubs are springing up all over the land. In some cases members have to swear by their sacred honor that they will wear no other outer garb henceforth on week days. In other cases there are penalties? in one instance ducking in public. Where this overall craze started is not certain. It is credited to a Louisiana gentleman. Whether he has large financial interests in mills making denims is not clear. If he has not he should be rewarded by denim makers even if he is damned by workingmen. There was a time when a worker could get a suit of overalls tor $i.ou or $2. Today the wholesale price is from $3 to $3.25 and the retail from $6 to $10. Within a week this craze is likely to boost it to much higher levels. The production of overalls in 1 America has been in the neighbor- < hood of 3,500,000 garments a year. There has been a shortage for the last two years as there has been of everything. This fad is likely to ' drive the price up to where a worker cannot afford overalls. Brilliant examples of the virtue of this latest splurge in economy are given. One of the first recruits to \ the overalls army paraded publicly J with a silk handkerchief in the up- ( per left hand pocket of his "jumper," ( a bright silk shirt beneath his denim and a diamond solitaire in his cravat. 1 iClothing merchants are prepared to ( meet any call society makes for ex- ( pensive and nobby styles in overalls. One designer says the rugged garb ' of the laborer may be made highly 1 ornate by the use of heavy silks and ( various trimmings and, if the ladies tak'e it up, gowns bearing a reason able resemblance to overalls may be fabricated of blue broadcloth silk, trimmed with platinum rivets, pearls, Venetian .lace and fox fur cuffs. Mayors, judges, bankers, preachers, college boys and plutocrats have rushed madly into the Overall army | ?and also into print. The politicians, of course, were in the game early. Representative Wm. David TJpshaw, of Atlanta, Ga., who has the " reputation of never failing to get j into the spotlight, appeared in Congress in a one-piece overall. With him there appeared a flock of photographers. "A man in overalls has always been my hero," Mr. Upshaw told the re. porters. Now that he is in overalls it follows that Mr. Upshaw is a hero. "Naturally," he said, "I could not indorse such a movement without practicing what I preached. I urge all members of the house and senate to follow my patriotic example." It is to be hoped his wish is gratified. "What a noble spectacle it would be to see Henry Cabot Lodge in overalls. Nothing would be more conducive to bringing contentment to the world. \How the creation of a bull market in denims is to decrease the cost of living is not clear to the naked eye. It is nuts for the notoriety seeker but it is rough on the working man. If you boost the cost of his clothes he is going to demand higher pay. No one is going to profit by this craze but the mill man and the merchant. We call the French emotional, but we are more irrational in some of our acts than our Gallic brothers. Common sense and persistent economy in purchasing wrould put a check on profiteering in short order, but few persons follow such a course. It is the testimony of merchants that never was there such a demand for silks, flimsy, short wearing and expensive articles as now. In the south there has been something of a halt because the working class, which has been the most extravagant proportionately, has about exhausted its supply of cash and credit. Any one who wants to be really patriotic can be so by working faithfully and honestly and spending no more than is absolutely necessary. Production and real economy will cure many of the present day ills.? I Richard Spillane in Commerce and Finance. (Editor's Xote?The above clipping is published at the request of J one of our county merchants. It is! not the sentiment of this newspaper. I Richard Spillane is a brilliant writer, j but not unlike most other folks, per-! haps he does not know it all. We do I not ridicule any movement the pur-! pose of which is to help along. Per-! haps the overall movement is mis-j directed?we don't admit it?but! there is benefit in it if one is lookinj? i for benefit. In the meantime those; who refuse to join the movement are \ irolnnmo tn PnntiniiA WPArin? Their' high priced clothing.) Notice to Club Members. The following is a list of the prizes offered to members of the cotton and peanut clubs, amounting to a total of $575 and three tons of fertilizer. The general prizes are open to any club member in the state while the special prizes are open to the members in the following counties: Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Orangeburg, and Williamsburg. Prizes in the other clubs will be announced later. PRIZES IX BOYS COTTON CLUB. First, $75;' second, $50; third, $25, by the Anti-Boll Weevil Association of South Carolina through W. B. West, Secretary, Columbia, S. C. SPECIAL PRIZES. Uttered ior growing couuii uuuei boll weevil conditions. First, $100, by the soil improvement committee 3f the Southern Fertilizer Association, Atlanta, Ga., through J. N. Harper, . director. Second, two tons of 9-3-3 fertilizer. Third, one ton of fertilizer by the Planters Fertilizer & Phosphate Co., Charleston, S. C., through J. R. Hanalian, president and g general manager. PRIZES IN BOYS PEANUT CLUB. First, $75; second, $50; third, $25, by the South Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers Association through W. B. West, secretary, Columbia, S. C. SPCIAL PRIZES. First, $50; second, $30; third, $20, by the South Eastern Peanut Association of Atlanta, Ga., and Sea Island Cotton Oil Co., Charleston, S. C., through E. A. Eve, "Charleston, S. \ A special prize of $50 to the member producing the most peanuts on me acre of land, by Joseph C. Brown, Columbia, S. C. A special prize of $25 to the winner Df the peanut club in Bamberg county by Edward A. Eve, Charleston, S. ; *> Applications for club membershipwill be received up until May 15, L 920. J. D. BRANDON, ] County Agent, j! Fixing Needed. "John, I hear you are ingenious in i mechanical way. Can't you fix Tommy's horn?" "What's the matter with it?" "Nothing. I wan't you to fix it >0 it won't blow?"?Louisville Gourer Journal. PARTICULARLY AS WITH A STRONG, If your Bank is r count properly ha: requirements will 1 fast as they arise. "Whether or not you are i ?/ licit your account as c business require RESOURCES OVE 4% 10 ON BjgS' 1 | SMIM6S ACCOflWTS B* MOXKY IX COCA-COLA. Big Profits Are Made By Syndicates Of the Soft Drink. Atlanta. April 28.?Prolits totaling $4,000,000 were made by the two syndicates that handled the reorganization of the Coca-Cola company, it was testified here today in the hearing of evidence in an injunction suit brought by the Atlanta and Chattanooga Bottling companies against the makers of coca-cola syrup. The Coca-Cola Company of Georgia recently was reorganized into the Coca-Cola Company of Delaware, a corporation with $25,000,000'capital stock. W. C. Wardlaw, vice presi dent of the Trust Company of Georgia, made the statement regarding profits while under cross examination by counsel for the bottlers. The bottling companies are seeking to enjoin the Coca-Cola company or Delaware from canceling their contracts for syrup, the plaintiffs contending the contracts are perpetual. Testimony is being taken before a commissioner appointed to superior court here. ANNOUNCEMENTS. Under this head The Herald will publish announcements of candidates at the following rates: Congressman, solicitor and all state offices, $10; county offices, $5, except coroner, magistrate and county commissioner, for which $3 will be charged. These fees will pay for insertion of name only in black type, and not exceeding one line in light faced small type for such notation as ' Fcr Reelection," etc. Additional lines will be charged for at $2 per line. Seven words is reckoned as one line. Cash must accompany the card. "MAGISTRATE AT^EHRHARDT. J. H. Kinard (For Reelection.) L. G-. Yarley His friends announce him. a candidate for Magistrate at Ehrhardt. MEETING OF TAXPAYERS. A meeting of the taxpayers of Bamberg school district No. 14 is hereby called to be held in the city hall in the town of Bamberg, S.* C., on Monday, May the 24th, IS2 0, at 4 o'clock, p. m., for the purpose of electing one member of the Board of Trustees and for the transaction of any other business that may legally come before the meeting. W. M. BRABHAM, Chairman Board of Trustees. Bamberg, S. C., May 3, 1920. NOTICE. Notice is given that the undersigned desire to form a corporation to be known as the Bamberg Realty Company, and intend to file a declaration with the Secretary of State. Notice is further given that a meeting of the subscribers to the said corporation will be held at the offices of Enterprise Bank, at Bamberg, S. C., at 11 o'clock in the morning of May 10, 1920. ' | W. A. KLaUBER, A. W. KNIGHT, Corporators. BANKS CLOSE MAY 10. Monday, May 10, 1920, being Southern Memorial day, the banks of Bamberg will be closed for the day. BAMBERG BANKING CO., ENTERPRISE BANK, PEOPLES BANK. BIIBililHHBBHBiHIIHiiiHEHB YOU ARE DEALING I LIBERAL BANE. I ight and your ac- 1 ndled, vour credit I 3e taken care of as I in business today, we so- | t foundation for your I imehts later on. 1 :R $1,000,000.00 I 'r/^JsQ. II IKINGCa 3j I i i / TV 'II if A Practical TV TV AA The policies of t yV upon a definite bai |*A taking tiie best pos TV tomers* interests. H A A It solicits new strength of the clu ?|n|> is rendering its old 1A A . ., . . J. l It has aided m XX many of Bamberg s II messes, and the sai YY Vv ities are available f< tf INTEREST PAj XX AOOC YY Deposits made bf Y<f> will draw interest TT YY %% Total Resources ( YY YY YY ' W 1 * m | reople %% BAMBERG, SOB 44 Y A. M. DENB< 0. W. RENTZ, SR., W. S. BAMBERG, Vice Presid is . $40,000.0 II Our deposits have increased 1 ganization of this Bank, and we I the next 60 days. Get in line ant | Money rates are higher than haw I gladly give our depositors 5 I prefer to borrow at home rather I our st I- \A.s of April I assets IE ' R. E. and Fixtures > I account $ 2,900.00 I Bills receivable 128,000.00 I Cash on hand and in I banks 35,250.00 E Total $166,150.00 I lYe <&iue Sen I Enterpri 1 - bambe: II W. A. KLAUBEB, DR. R0B1 I President Vice-P DIREC [ Aaron Rice, J. D. Cope] Dr. Geo. F. Hair, C. J. S. Br< (Dr. J. B. Black, W. E. Fr< Dr. Robt. Black, G. A. Duel WE PAY 5 PER C: WATCH 0 / * Cm %% Banking Idea || H : ; ;nis Bank are based aA yt [iking ideal?that of sible care of its ens- >?? hnsinpss rm flip YY aracter of service it tY customers. -4 the development of > XX most successful bus- 4h& ne service and facil- YY yy )r your business. < Ay *jr Jj [D ON SPECIAL XX IUNTS JT M YT ' :f 'fore or on May 10th T i from May first. Over $500,000.00 s Bank if [TH 0AE0UNA H 1 M 3W, President C. W. RENTZ, JR., ents Cashier. r I yy. - ^ ,. ?? Increase I I about $40,000.00 since the reor- I I expect them to double <up within I I ,. 1 get 5 Per Cent for your money. | i p e been seen for years, and; we will I g| 3r Cent, on their Savings, as we I fl 1 than from northern Banks. | .TEMENT I 13th follows I SsM ^ LIABILITIES I Capital 30,000.00 l\,' Surplus and profits 8,150.00 I Deposits 128,000.00 H Total $166,150.00 I vica-**Kj ru ujf ?? ? RG, S. C. I I resident Cashier I TORS: I land, ! B. 0. Cram, & joker, W. D. Coleman, a ;e, F. B. McCraekin, m ler, W. A. Klauber. m ENT. ON SAVINGS. I I US GROW. I H