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i < The Denbow tobacco warehouse,
4 one of the two tobacco selling houses
of this city, was completely destroyeh
by fire Saturday at 12:30
I o'clock, entailing a loss of approximately
$20,000, without a dollar or
insurance, either on the contents or
the building itself.
The fire was discovered soon after
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3 working in the warehouse at the time
grading tobacco. The cause of the
f\re has not been ascertained. The
laborers were engaged in the front
^ part of the building, it is stated,
V when they saw smoke issuing from
the rear of the storage room. They
gave the alarm, but the entire build,
ing was enveloped in flames even before
the fire department could get
' on the scene.
Splendid work was done by the def
partment, however, in preventing a
spread of the flames. Just across the
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feet distant, is located the Farmers
warehouse, one of the largest
frame buildings in this part of the
state, and only a few feet distant on
the other side is located the residence
of J. A. Mitchell, both of which were
saved, the only damage being the
scorching of the walls of both build)
ings and the breaking of some window
glasses.
r The building was owned" by the
Denbow Tobacco Warehouse company,
a local corporation, of which
Mayor LaVerne Thomas is president;
A. M.. Denbow rice president,
and J. Frank Folk secretary and
^treasurer. The building was the first
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section of the state, and cost, it is
said, approximately $15,000 to build.
.It had a large floor capacity, and was
built of wood and corrugated iron.
, The warehouse was rented this
season to Ernest Lewis, a local to^
s bacco man, who was operating it as
an independent warehouse. The
Farmers warehouse, across the street,
has been taken over by the Tobacco
Growers Cooperative association. Mr.
Lewis says that he had stored in the
* warehouse between $5,000 and $6,000
worth of tobacco, and did not
have a cent of insurance. It was his
k intention, he said, to have taken out
/ insurance Saturday.
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The building was insured for $8,<*000,
but Monday the policies were
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celled. Therefore the entire ware'
house and contents were a complete
br loss. A majority of the stock, it is
stated, was owned by A. M. Denbow,
former president of the Peoples
> Bank, of this city, more recently connected
with a bank in Barnwell, and
Mrs. Denbow. A number of Bamberg
citizens, however, owned stock
^ in the corporation.
Deplores Big Fire Loss.
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Mrs. A. M. Denbow requests publication
of the following:
, "On Saturday about one o'clock
one of the most .disastrous fires that
j have occurred in Bamberg was when
> the large Denbow tobacco warehouse
was completely destroyed. The fire
is supposed to have originated from
> an oil stove which was placed* there
by Ernest Lewis, who was curing
? tobacco. It was generally known
that insurance had been carried on
4 this building since its completion un/
til a few days ago. The insurance
having expired the agent having the
; insurance in charge states he went
with the policy to the secretary and
treasurer, J. Frank Folk, and implored
him not to allow this to lapse, his
^ response being that there were no
funds in the treasury, as rents, etc.,
from last year had never been col
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k some of them, been consulted, they
would gladly have paid same rather
> than run such an awful risk. It
seems that there was gross negligence
somewhere, and times like
^ these people can ill afford to lose so
much money.
* "Mr. Denbow was the largest stockowner
and it was through his efforts
and hard work that this warehouse
was constructed, it being the first ev-1
er built in Bamberg county. In fact,
he was largely instrumental in there
being a tobacco market here two
years ago. The first year of its ex- j
istence he solely financed the tobacco
market while president of the Po?
pies' Bank. About a year ago, while
with the Federal Bank in Columbia,
he bad B. D. Carter, Esq., represent
his interests and they later had a
meeting at which LaVerne Thomas
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was elected president, and J. Frank
Folk secretary and treasurer. Mr.
Denbow is now near Washington at
a sanitarium, and, of course, the fire
was a shock to him when it became
known that he and the other stgckholders
had lost all."
FLAPPERS INVADE REFUGE.
Greenwood Girls Rush in to Have
Hair Cut.
Greenwood, July 25.?Greenwood
| men can no longer revel in barber
shops or strictly masculine privacy.
With a phenomenal increase in the
number of girls and women wearing
bobbed hair during the past few
months, Greenwood barber shops are
now freely patronized by women, and
men who a few months ago stared
aghast at the sight of a girl in a barber's
chair now only stare nonchalantly
and waits for "Next!"
So great has been the increase in
the fashion of wearing bobbed hair
that some barbers are even predicting
the time when women and girls will
wear their hair as short as men. They
are ardent propagandists in favor of
the movement, asserting that their
i business has already been increased
noticeably by the short hair fad.
Girls are not the only ones who
have adopted the bobbed hair fashion,
many grown women coming to
the barber shops to have their hair
| trimmed; the barbers say.
'Most of them at first are sentimental
over the loss" of their locks
and keep the tresses to lay up against
the time when they will need a
switch or merely in memory of thedr
unshorn selves. After a few visits
to the barber shop, Greenwood barbers,
assert they await their turn
with as much sangfroid as men, discussing
politics and the last dance
with the girl in the next chair.
Greenwood men regard the outlook
for strictly masculine barber shops
*as gloomy and maintain that their
last haven of refhge is gone.
Large Cantaloupe Crop.
States that produce a cantaloupe
crop at a time intermediate between
the early and late crops will have a
commercial crop of 13,996 cars of
350 standard crates, according to a
forecast by the United States department
of agriculture. The harvested
crop of cantaloupes in these states
in 1921 was 12,739 cars. Acreage
this year is 41,600 acres and a per
acre yield of 111 crates.
The leading region in the intermedia
to Hot fhic voar ic thp rpntral riis
trict of California, Arizona, North
Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Arkansas,
Indiana, Nevada, South Carolina,
Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma and
Alabama.
Early cantaloupe states had a commercial
crop forecast at 20,591 cars.
The total early and intermediate
commercial cantaloupe crop this year
is forecast at 34,587 cars, compared
with 25,665 cars last year. The estimated
acreage is 79,900 acres this
year compared with 66,500 in 1921;
and the indicated yield per acre is
151 crates compared with 135 crates.
Portland Cement Outpu .
The United States geological survey
reports the production, shipments,
and stocks of finished portland
cement at the end of June, 1922,
and the same month last year, as follows:
Production: June, 1921, 9,296,000
barrels. June, 1922, 11,245,000 bar
rels.
Shipments: June, 1921, 10,577,000
barrels. June, 1922, 13,470,000 barrels.
Stocks at end of month: June,
1921, 11,150,000. June, 1922, 10,668,000
barrels.
"Seal Plush."
The Federal Trade Commis^.n
has isued an order to cease and desist
against Bellas, Hess & Company,
of New York city.
The order requires the respondent
to entirely stop using the term "Seal
Plush," in its catalogues, advertising
matter, or in its trade-marks, trade
ldholo iS o v i r> o c in prmnor>tir\n
with the sale of coats manufactured
from cotton plush fabrics with a cotton
nap or pile.
The modern Chinese woman is be*
coming a confirmed cigarette smoker.
Seven billion cigarettes were imported
into China last year.
Berry Benson Tells
of March in Richmond
"T. D. M.," in his column, "Talking
It Over," in the Augusta Chronicle,
had an article the other day
about Sergt. Berry Benson. Sergt.
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was a member of Company H, first
regiment of South Carolina volunteers
(Gregg's), which was first
commanded by the knightly Capt.
William T. Haskell. When a battalion
of sharpshooters war formed
in McGowan's brigade he volunteered
for service in that famous
command. His career was probably
more remarkable and romantic than
that of any man in the brigade,
and for gallant and daring deeds it
has not been surpassed by anyone
in the Confederate army. Berry
Benson was a fearless scout, and on
one of his adventures into the lines
of the Federal army of the Potomac
-he was captured and sent to a
northern prison. A thrilling account
of his escape and return to
duty has been published. On another
occasion he went into the enemy's
lines and captured a splendid
horse which had been tied near a
tent, in which the owner of the
steed lay sleeping. The colonel, no
doubt, thought it a cade of horse
steality, as well as hostility. Berry
and his brother, Blackwood Benson,
were particularly popular with their
comrades. The latter has written
several clever books, among t'he
number "Who Goes There?" and
"Friend With the Countersign."
Berry Benson is a man or nne
scholarly attainments. Some years
age he corrected a number of errors
in a leading dictionary. One
of his admiring comrades of the
first regiment of South Carlina
volunteers jokingly said this was to
be expected, for Irishmen and their
descendants are prone to find errors
I in the English. The figure of the
! Confederate soldier which surmounts
the handsome monument in
Augusta' was designed from pictures
of Berry Benson, a merited
tribute to the chivalrous young soldier
who served for four years in
the splendid brigade or soutn uarolinians,
first commanded by Gen.
Maxcy Gregg, and after his lamentable
death \ by Gen. Samuel McGowan.
But here is the Chronicle's
article:
The True Story.
Sergt. Berry Benson is rapping me
on the knuckles because, he says, I
did not tell the story of his march in
Richmond quite right.
"You tell it to me, then," I said,
"and I will print it just as you say."
So here is the story, as he told it to
me:
To begin with, said he, you must
know that Gen. Twiggs had asked
Mrs. Leroy Hankinson to go as sponsor
for the brigade, but she had regretfully
to decline.
We were standing on a side street
waiting to file in behind the Florida
division, when I heard a voice at my
side.
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our automobile?"
I turned and saw, as I thought,
Mrs. Hankinson, and I was on the
point of saying, "I am so glad you
came," when I saw that it was not
she, but a lovely young woman whom
I did not know, wearing the sash of
the maids of honor.
"Won't you ride with us?" she ask-,
ed, pointing'to the car just behind
the general's.
"Why, no," I said. "I am ordered
to march alone, in advance of the
brigade, in this old war rig, as you
see, with my rifle. I can't ride with
you," and adding, in a spirit of mischief,
"You'd better march with me."
Instantly she answered, "I will."
Marched Side by Side.
At that I was all taken aback; I
had not anticipated that answer. I
had expected her to say that she
would have to ride with the maids
of honor. I had no right to change
the programme of the march, but,
flustered though I was, I was not to
be beaten, so I said "You may march
with me one block." Her face fell
a little at that, but just then the
drums beat and our march began.
And she at my side.
Well, by the time we had marched
the one block, I was so charmed with
her loveliness and had found her so
genial and chummy, I said:
"Here, slip your hand in my arm:
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whole way." And her face lit up.
And the cheering! You should
have heard it. For blocks it was
one continuous scream, like locomotives
letting off steam. It wasn't
just cheering either?it was the old
rebel yell. Just as it used to sound
Blease Rejoiced at
Harding's Election
In regard to the proposed drive of
the Republican party in the south
to register Republican voters, the following
taken from a Washington dispatch
to the Columbia Record, written
by the Record's Washington correspondent,
is of particular interest:
In this connection it may be said
that some of the Republicans -here
contend that Tolbert does not lack
endorsement even by South Sarolina
Democrats. In support of this coutention,
the Republicans point to a
letter written last year by Former
Governor Cole L. Blease, in which
Mr. Blease is quoted as telling Tolbert
he had been "tried and true,"
and in which Mr. Blease rejoiced at
the defeat of Woodrow Wilson and
the election of Warren G. Harding.
The letter, written to Tolbert in May,
1921, and published in Charleston,
scoffed at the leadership of a reorganized
Republican party in South
Carolina, either b? C. C. Campbell or
John L. McLaurin, and continued:
"I certainly can state that you
have been a life-long Republican;
that you have gone through strenuous
times and that your life has
often been at stake, and that through
it all you have been tried and true,
and if, after all these years of service
and devotion to your party, the
Republicans would kick you out, I
can hardly think that they would
have much of an opportunity to get
anyone here to follow them, because
the people here would realize that
no matter how devoted the service
they might render, their labors would
not be appreciated. I can hardly see
how, after a thorough investigation,
it would be possible for you to be
turned down as the leader of the Republican
party in this state, and as
for the forming of a new party with
Campbell or McLaurin, or both, such
talk is a myth, a farce and plain
d foolishness.
"You are at liberty to read this
letter to whom you please, or publish
it if you wish, as I presume everybody
knows that I speak what I
think, regardless of the consequenc
es. I have written you freely as you
requested me to do. I am a Democrat,
not a Wilson so-called Democrat,
but a Jeffersonian Democrat,
who rejoiced at Harding s election
and the downfall of idealism, which
gave us nothing but fresh-made
gravest widows, orphans and billions
of dollars taxes, under the guise of
liberty. We have less liberty now
than we ever had and fewer privileges,
as a result of Wilson and his
henchmemj^
when the musketry suddenly hushed
and the charge was on and the air
was rent with the long victorious
yell.
She turned to me: "You are getting
all the cheering."
"No, it is you!"
But I knew?it was both. It was
the combination. It was the contrast
between age and youth; between the
faded, tattered gray of the old war
rig and the bright pink shimmer of
my lady's drapery; between the grime
and dust of the field and fresh, clean
sweetness of home.
And it was Richmond! And Richmond
is Richmond, and none other
is?she is the heart and soul of the
Confederacy yet?there is none other
to match her in the hearts of us
old defenders of our beloved city.
She was our sweetheart.
Washington five years ago gave
us the hand of welcome, greeting us
wholeheartedly, but Richmond threw
her arms around us and drew us to
her bosom, crying through her smiles
and her tears: "You are ours! We
love you."
Once my comrade turned to me
and said: "There was never anything
to equal this in Richmond before;
even Marshal Foch, when he
came from France, did not get near
the cheering you are getting."
"That you are getting." I said.
And all along the line the cameras
[ were shooting us, and the women and
f children running out to seize me by
the hand, or to pat me 011 the shoulder,
or just even to touch me?oh, it
was Richmond!
Another Day Recalled.
And I remembered a day. A day
when Jackson's corps, not yet rested
from the seven days of battle, marched
through Richmond, not on parade
as now, but in the deadest of earnest,
the short way to Cedar Mountain,
where we were to do stern battle
again. And, like today, the women
and the girls (only here and there a
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County Candic
Camp Bran
The second meeting of the 1922
county campaign was held Friday
morning at Camp Branch school
house. The meeting was well attend
ed, there being perhaps 100 voters
present. The interest in the speeches
was keen, and it was apparent that
the people came together with a
genuine desire to judge accurately
of the merits of the various
candidates. Close attention was given
to each speaker, and the entire
crowd stayed until the last speaker
had concluded. The crowd was good
natured and a number of questions
was asked of several candidates,
some, serious and most of them jocular,
but in the best of humor.
Probably half of those present
came from the new section of Bamberg
county. Camp Branch school
house is located about one mile from
the old line of Bamberg county, and
is the polling precinct for the people
of that section which elected two
years ago to attach themselves to
the good county of Bamberg. They
are mighty fine people; they were
anxious to get into Bamberg county;
Bamberg was glad to welcome them,
and they are glad they are Bamberg
citizens.
Pine Crop Prospect.
The Lord has blessed these good
folks this year. Little Swamp section
has fine crops. They have not
had too much rain, or. rather had
not last Friday. The seasons have
been most favorable, and The Herald
representative was told that there
had not been enough rain any time
this season to hold up crop work
for any considerable length of time,
and that even with the heavy rains
of the week previous, there had not
been too much in that section. There
appears to be a very fine crop of
corn, and it is already made; peas
and beans are healthy, vigorous and
very promising. Some tobacco is
planted in that section, and it looks
like it is good. And cotton has a
wonderfully healthy and vigorous appearance.
It also has something
more than appearance; it has a lot
of full grown bolls, and the fields
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This is a condition that was absent
this time last year. It will be recalled
that blossoms were seen very
rarely in the last of July, 1921. The
boll weevils are not numerous. In
fact the people are optimistic. Of
course the seasons may yet ruin the
cotton crop; there is plenty of time
for that to occur, but that is something
in the future and it is not seriously
worrying the Little Swamp
and Camp Branch farmers.
Good Road Being Built.
About roads. Little Swamp people
say they can't talk about roads,
because there are none, and that is
literally true; or rather it was true.
Things are changing now. Supervisor
Smoak has had the gang in the
Little Swamp section for some weeks
past and will keep it there for some
weeks to come. He is now building
from the Salkehatchie river to
Hunter's Chapel. The people have
given him a free hand; was told to
build the road as he sees fit and anyv.^
niooood dnH hp is rioinsr
the lower district, was the next
speaker. He made his speech short
and sweet. He promised to give the
best service he possibly can if elected,
and he gave thanks in advance for
the votes he is going to get on August
29th.
Upper Commissioners Xext to Speak.
J. H. Tant, at present county commissioner
for the upper district, was
next introduced. He said his first
campaign speech was made at Camp
Branch two years ago; was scared
then and is scared now; not much of
a speaker. However he limbered up
and proved himself to be a very vigorous
orator. He said that it a
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it; making a straight boulevard highway.
If Supervisor Smoak has received
any criticism for building this
road, it is not deserved. If there
were ever a living people on the face
of the globe that needed roads, it is
these same Little Swamp people. The
oldest inhabitants can hardly remember
.the time when Colleton county
did any road work there and the
roads bear ample evidence that this
is true. This same road that is now
being built is well nigh impassible,
where it has not been worked.
Camp Branch is about five miles
from the county line, and some five
or six miles from Smoaks cross roads.
The Meeting.
The campaign meeting was presided
over in a masterly manner by J.
M. Strickland, who introduced the
various candidates in a most appro
I priate manner. He called upon Kev.
C. E. Walker to open tlie meeting
I with prayer, after which candidates
for magistrate were asked to address
the audience.
Magistrates Come First.
The first candidate was "J. M. Carter,
running for magistrate of Fish
Pond. He thanked the people for
the nice vote given him previously.
Good naturedly he referred to his opponents:
One of them is too old,
and the other two are too young,
while he is just about right. He j
promised to give the business of the I
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office close personal attention. He \
has been successful in a small way in :
his own business. He discussed the ,
labor problem, and thinks he can \
help the people if they will elect him. t ? ^
He believes in a square deal for negro
workers, but thinks the manner
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improved on. Also thinks he can
handle the bogus check problem. Has
no hard feelings if anyone does not
vote for him.
R. H. Jolly, candidate for the same
office, said if elected he will fill the
office to the best of his ability. He
will hold court wherever it is most
convenient. Feels he is capable of
handling labor (questions. Is not
much of a speaker, he says, and has
no political record, but hopes to have
one two years from now.
A. G. W. Hill, present magistrate
of Fish Pond, said he had held that
office four years, and that he is now
Detter equipped tnan ever to give
the people service. Feels that he has
performed his duty in every respect.
About bogus cheeks, Mr. Hill said
that unless the party to whom a *
check is given has absolutely good
reason to believe that the giver of
the check has funds in the bank,
there is no criminal action possible
against the giver. Said it was not Ms
place to go around over the country
hunting up loafers, and that if there
are loafers it is the duty of the peo- pie
to appear before the magistrate
and have warrants sworn out for
them. His record is clean, he says,
and he will appreciate the votes of
the people. His age is no drawback
to him, he added.
The chairman introduced F. E.
Steedley as a seeker after the votes
of men and women, but of the women
especially. Mr. Steedly is a
candidate for * magistrate in Fish
Pond also. Told a good joke about
the man who had his brains and the
brains of his dog knocked out, and
the doctor putting them in wrong,
the dog s gray matter going into the v
man's head. "The only trouble with
the man was that he would go off
hunting rabbits sometimes." The
county needs good leadership now.
Is a strong believer in the workings
of the Lord. If chosen magistrate
he will appreciate it, and do his duty.
Somebody asked his opinion of Ford's
Muscle Shoals offer; he came back
by saying that he believed in everything
righteous and holy. Jglgl
Candidates for County Commissioner
For Lower District \T?xt.
The next speaker was Joe W. Zeigler,
for county commissioner of the
Inmor /lictrint "Trn(1le .Toa" w9 9 11ti
able, physically, to ascend the rostrum
and the chairman allowed him
to speak from the ground. Has served
four years, and he thinks he has
done his duty; his supervisors have
been satisfied with him. He says he
is not fit for anything else; his health
is bad, and he can hardly get to the
stable to feed his horse. Says he
does as much in the office as anybody
else; had promised if elected he
would go to the court house every
first Monday and draw his pay, and
he has done this faithfully, and this
is about all anybody would do.
G. W. Hunter, an opponent ok Mr.
Zeigler, next fired his political gun. v
He says-he is no stranger in these
parts; in fact in his younger days he
spent about six days out of every
week among the people there, and he ,
profoundly believes he is going to
get as many votes there as the next one.
He has had experience in road
work, having been overseer for years
and years; and has also been subcommissioner.
He is 54 years old
and has lived fifty of these years in
Bamberg county. He wants the
votes, and will serve to the best of his
ability if elected.
J. B. McCormack, another candidate
for the commissioner's job in