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Bamberg ^eraft ESTABLISHED A PHIL, 1S91. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S, C. Entered as second-class matter April 1S91, under Act of .March 3, IS79. ? $?.00 I'KK VKAH. Volume 30. Xo. 31. Thursday, August 4, 1921. A young woman riding on the running board of an automobile in Greenville the other days stepped off as the car was moving and lost her life. This'is such a common practice that it is Dassinglv peculiar that there are not more accidents. It is a common and dangerous thfng for one to step right off a moving car, and the surprising part of it is that there appears to be few serious accidents from the practice. Charleston is showing growth according to the new city directory. Charleston and all her suburbs, according to the directory, shows a population of 101,974, a gain of 1,6SS over the 1920 directory. The good old American name of Smith, according to this test, suffers heavily in the count. It appears only 396 times, compared with 635 Browns. There are 350 Johnsons, 341 Williamses, 261 Greens, and Jones appears only 215 times. That the south is threatened with pestilence and famine is a child ol > -3 ? ? A HP V? /\ Ar> 1 someuouy s miasma, uuu. j.uc uiu.govermental assistance that the south asks is that provisions be made for proper marketing, at a profit, of her products. The south is the agricultu.ral garden spot of the world, and . * that starvation is near is ridiculous. What the south is suffering from * now is a money stringency, and we do not imagine we are in much worse condition than the rest of the I country. It is impossible for the south to starve, and if there is any j imminence of a pellagra plague it is unknown to these parts. The government can help the south by ex-1 tending credits to tide over the present crisis. The government did not hesitate to give millions to tide over the railroads. As much as the railroads are vital to American indus-| try, they can more easily be dispensed with than the farming industry. A friend of The Herald suggests that steps be taken to have a paper pulp mill locate in Bamberg. The * suggestion is a good one, ana aouoiless if the matter were properly presented to interested parties the thing could be done. There are thousands of pulp wood trees in Bamberg county. Much of this wood has been shipped recently to pulp mills in North Carolina, but we are informed that not even a good dent has been made in the available pulp wood in this section. If it is profitable to j ship this wood to North Carolina for manufacture into pulp, it appears that it would surely be profitable for a mill located here on the ground. From what we are told, there Is enough" pulp wood in this county to run a large mill for years. If a mill were located at this point, it would afford the owners of this pulp wood a market for a product that is now of no use. In addition, it would bring the county hundreds of thousands of dollars by adding hundreds of acres to the tillable soil of this section. The announcement that Camp Jackson will be abandoned will not he bad news for many Columbians, judging from opinions expressed by some of them. A man was heard to say on the train recently that while he was a poor man, he would gladly contribute fifty dollars, if that were any inducement, to have the camp abandoned. While the financial part of the camp is attractive to many Columbia concerns, the moral influence of the camp is very bad, it is said. So long as the camp was filled with drafted men, the camp was a good tilings out tne cnaracter ui resuiai army men, taken as a whole, is far different from that of drafted men. Recently an average of more than one criminal was discharged, dishonorably, each day from Camp Jackson, it is said, without bonus or advance pay, and even without a railroad ticket home. The consequence was that many of these men, who were discharged for criminal reasons, chose to rob somebody to get away from town. This condition became so acute that the Columbia c .y council agreed to buy them tickets home to get rid of this element. The Herald is. we believe, one of the few weeklies in the state paying its correspondents. The Herald has - - 1.1: _ l .3 -U,rv,. esia Illisueu ucw? uuicaus HI r>mhardt, Olar, Denmark and Blackville. on a paid basis. The Herald regrets that it cannot extend its paid service to cover the entire county. Perhaps this can be done at some later * time. We trust that our news service is being appreciated by our readers. Our readers can materially assist our bureau managers by cooper ating with them. The .Herald wants every item of news, and if you, kind ! reader, have a visitor at your home, j call up the correspondent and tell him or her about it. See that all the ; news of your town and community is I sent in. and. in turn. The Herald will j guarantee that it is published. Xothj in? will assist your town as much as j publicity. Let The Herald know the news. We don't mind saying that this news service is costing The Herald quite a bit: we don't know whether we can keep it up or not, but our friends can help us by supporting the paper that gives the news. If The Herald is pleasing you, pass the good word along, and remember if you want your advertising to pay you best, put. it in the paper that the people read. It is the ambition of this paper to be the best local paper in the state, and the more support we receive the better paper we can and will issue. Some folks still say that advertising does not pay. These folks are few in number, yet tney uo exist, n such an one is reading this, pause, friend, and listen to this: The inside cover page of the August Pictorial Review was sold to the Palmolive Soap company for $11,000 to advertise a ten-cent cake of soap. The outside cover page of the same magazine was sold to Colgate and company for $16,000 to advertise a can of talcum powder. Three and a half million dollars was expended last year by the makers of Wrigley's chewing gum, of which The Herald received quite a liberal share. If advertising did not pay, these concerns would have gone bankrupt vears ago. They are still in businness, and they are increasing their advertising appropriations every year. The Standard Oil company spends several millions yearly in advertising, by far the greater portion of wnich goes to newspapers,, country weeklies of high standard all over the country being used, among which The Herald has been numbered for several years. Nobody suspects the Standard Oil company of going broke. About a million dollars a year is spent to advertise Prince Albert smoking tobacco, and about as much for Camel cigarettes. These are going products. Lots of folks, who ordinarily believe in advertising, say now they are not able to advertise. That is the very reasson they should advertise. Two Cases of Child Murder. Last Saturday Simmons Byrd came to St. George on the afternoon train, his mission being of a peculiar nature. He had with him a small paper box in which was the foot and leg of an infant, which he turned over to the sheriff for investigation. Mr. Byrd stated that the limb of the infant was delivered to him by a colored woman just a little while before train time, requesting that he advise the authorities, claiming that a doghad brought it to her house. The limb seemed to be that of a well developed child and foul play was at once suspected. Deputy Sheriff J. L. Piatt, accompanied by a physician and another _? + Viunmfl nf o pnlnrpd UlllCCl W Gil L IU ILlt uv/iuv ^.. I* . woman on Saturday night and after investigating, it was decided to hold Mary McDaniel, a colored woman for the crime. This is the second case of a similar nature which has been handled by the sheriff recently in almost the same neighborhood. The woman in the other case is being held in the county jail here for trial. It is also stated that this latter alleged criminal will be placed in jail in a short time to answer for the crime.?Dorchester Eagle. Easily Fixed. "Say," the angry citizen* exclaimed as he stormed-his way to the desk in the newspaper office. "What'd you mos-n hv listir.e me in the Deaths Reported column this morning?" "Was it a mistake, sir?" the wantad clerk, on whom he had picked, asked mildly. "Of course it was. Don't you see I'm alive? You've caused me a great deal of annoyance. What are you going to do about it?" "It is a rule of this paper never to admit having made an error, or to publish a correction," the clerk told him firmly. "But," he added consolingly, "we wish to please our readers, and we'll fix you up all right. We'll rmt von in the Births column tomor row." Sentry Story Xo. 198,766. As in every other sentry story, the new recruit was (loin? guard duty for the first time. " In the wee* sma' hours, there was a rattlin-r that might have come from milk cans (because this happened on Long island). The milkman drove by. Halt!" yelled the sentry. "Who's there?" inquired the milkman. "Why?why?that's what I got to say," retorted the guard agitatedly. I BLACKVILLE BUREAU | Mrs. J. M. Halford, Manager. > ???????????? Blackville, Aug. 2.?Mr. and Mrs. Grover Strobel and children, of Greenville, Texas, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. \V. W. Molony. Mr. Strobel is one of our boys and a brother of Mrs. Molony. His many friends here are delighted to meet him again and become acquainted with his ihteresting family. Misc flair Mnlonv. of Charleston. who was the guest of .Miss Eleanor O'Gorman recently, has returned home. .Mr. and Mrs. Roy Still and children and Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Buist and children left last week, motoring through the country for a camping trip in the mountains of North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Keeler, of the Healing Springs section, have returned from a two weeks visit to their two daughters who are trained nurses in Savannah. After a visit to Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Free and other relatives at Springfield and Brunson, Mrs. R. O. Free. Miss Blanche Jumper and little Elizabeth Free have returned to their home in Savannah. Prof, and Mrs. C. W. Riser and lit-] tie daughter are in Blackville again, j after attending summer school at Clemson, and visiting other points of interest this summer. Misses Isabel Free. Ola Grimes and Xatalie Rammer are at home again after attending summer school at the University of Virginia. The old song "Carry me back to old Virginny" has i found a tender spot in their hearts. Mrs. Ed. X. Clark and little son Billy, of Allendale, were visitors in Blackville Tuesday. Billy was the winner in the state-wide "better babies" contest at Columbia Palmafesta | April 30. The Allendale candidate} won over 600 original entrants in this contest. Mrs. H. L. DeWitt and her daughter, Miss Sadie, are visiting relatives in Columbia. T-* ? T\ _ TT?? ix <1 T~? _ 1_ T /"I- ^ ? n.ari juevwu ana cou i^ee tave, ui Columbia, motored to Blackville Sunday. Mrs. Xonie Williams, Miss Addie Altman and J. R. Johnson have returned from Andelusia, -Ala., where they went several weeks ago to visit their sister, Mrs. Sanders Cooper. After a visit to Charleston and other places of interest, Mrs. Ellen Izlar has returned to the home of her daughter, Mrs. C: S. Buist. Mrs. Carl Martin and little daughters have returned to their home in Kingstree after a visit to her mother, Mrs. Smith, and to her husband's parents. Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Martin. REXBOW GIVES VIEWS. Uives Suggestions as to Making Capitol Financial Center. The following was clipped from The Washington Post of July 26th: Banks of Washington are missing an ODPortunitv to increase the city's importance as a financial center by their failure to solicit the patronage of the country banks, in the opinion of A. M. Denbow, of the Federal Land bank, at Columbia, S. C., who declares that many of these country banks would have Washington banks act as their correspondents instead of New York banks if they were informed of the "vast resources and splendid condition"' of the banks here. Mr. Denbow was so much impressed by the condition of the Washington financial institutions as revealed by the reports published in response to the comptroller's call of June 30 that he addressed a letter to The Post, in which he expresses amazement at the fact that only four or five of the banks here have found it necessary to discount any of their paper with the Federal reserve bank of Richmond, nor had theyborrowed elsewhere. "Many a large bank in New York," he says, "that up to this year owed nothing, itemized their rediscounts and bills at a startling figure." Says Bank Should Advertise. "I am at a loss to understand," h$ continues, "why the banks of the capital do not advertise their vast banking resources, and at the same time call upon America's country banks to select a Washington institution as their main correspondent. Up to the time of the organization of the Federal reserve system, it seemed imperative for small banks to have a Xew York correspondent. Now a correspondent in Washington would be just as advantageous. i ne hankers ot \\ asmngton should join hands in a movement to make known far and wide their desire to make Washington a main financial center, and ! venture to state that within a few years the capital city will not be very far behind New York." After August 1st 1 will sell only for cash. 1 will have no books and will not charge anything. G. 0. SIMMONS?adv. Friends of Mrs. W. H. DeWitt, Sr.. will be glad to know that he is up again after a serious illness of Several weeks. Miss Ada Sanders Inabinett, of Greenville, who has been the guest of Mrs. C. S. Buist, left for Savannah today, where she will set sail for northern points and places in Canada. Mr. Satterlee. of Columbia, an Episcopalian divinity student, has accepted the charge of the Barnwell. Allendale and Blackville entireties.: His sermon was listened to with much pleasure last Sunday in Blackville at the Presbyterian church, where ser-i vices are held, since the Episcopal! church was blown down. Friends of W. H. Baisden, whose I home is here but who has a position : as engineer on the Coast Line rail-j road Florida division, will regret 10 j learn that his health continues poor,, and after being at home for some time hoping to recuperate, he will j leave today for Wilmington. X. C.,i for medical treatment. W. W. Ward and his interesting! family, of Augusta, have moved to Blackville and are occupying 'the Johnson residence on Hampton aveISpecii WK HAVE H. \ SINCE MAKC1 I RONAGE Wt OVER THE C THAT ALL A MONEY ON E WE ARE DO! SI RLE, AND A THING IN Ol SPEC1 I Fruit Jars, Ja I? AND I> CASt | Bamberg I AND I A MA I Conditions cannot cor cided that discontimn I cash basis. In doing tl dise cheapi profits.to c We thank; m may contin I fcTA DC I RLftlXO nue. Mr. Ward is depot agent of the Southern railway. James Grubbs has purchased the mercantile business of Glenn BoylsI FIRST NATL Member Federal * BAMBE | 5 PER CT. PA * ? V T f -OFFI PRESIDENT f W. A. KLAUBER CAS t W. D. C A* aA AL AA A A. ^ W V WV V* V V V V V BBBHHBHBHHI =d! Sp r A I) OCR PRICES BEFORE YOU IX HI 1st, AND .JUDGING FROM THE LI : HAVE RECEIVED FROM CUST OUNTY, WE HAVE COME TO THE RE CONVINCED THAT WE HAVE VERY PURCHASE. XG BUSINESS ON THE CLOSEST > LSK EVERYBODY TO GET OUR PRC R LINE BEFORE BUYING. [ALS OX THE FOLLOWING THIS W! ir Caps, Jar Rings, Vinegar,! i FACT ALMOST ANYTHING YOU 2 I and C/ folk & McMillan. 17/11 \IR i BUY IT FOR I are such at the present tin itinue charge accounts, so w on and after August 15, 19! 3 all credit business, and pr lis we shall be able to sell yoi 5r, and we will pass on a ] inr mictnmprs ' MA VMM VVMAV* you for your past business, ai ue to serve you. BAMBERG, S. C. J ton, and has moved his family in the house formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Claude Vernon, on Hampton avenue. ONAL BANKJ Reserve System % va ft r? & AVV4 ) N/? ^ IDWjJAVINGS ? CERS- ? VICE-PRESIDENT X I DR. ROBT. BLACK f HIER & OLEMAN > 4^* *&?. .A?. .At. Jl 'V "V V V iecial! II THIS SPACE If BERAL PAT- fi OMERS ALL ?1 CONCLUSION gg SAVED YOU M URGIN POS- H CES ON ANY- g ' ?. ggjjl v EEK || Spices, Sugar I need# hi lRRY South Carolina ] M Lull I | jss I le that we H e have de- B 21, we will ! |H oceed on a | || i merchan part of our ; j || id trust we | nrn I I 1 W. || <