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II To the A 0 0X1 I ^ XIXI I Do ^ 0X1 Do ^ o j? Do ox I I will b || A. M )t Bamberg geralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. ' . ?????????????? ??? i Entered as second-class matter April I 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume XXXI, Number 45. Thursday, Nov. 9,1922. The writer did not visit the Ehrhardt community fair last year. We are told it was better than it was this year. However that may be, a most creditable exhibit was made at the school house in Ehrhardt last week, and we thoroughly enjoyed a short stay on the grounds. The spirit of the fair is the main thing as we see it. It affords an occasion for the I J A "* 1 " ^ f V? A ! P60pi6 to get togeiuer <tuu clijuj i comradeship of each other. It affords an opportunity for people to exhibit their products with very little expense attached, and it encourages the production of good crops, Some fine samples of Bamberg county crops jrere shown at the fair, as well as fancy work, home products, etc., and the antique room was full of interesting things. The Colston fair is to be held soon, and then will come the county fair at Bamberg. We hope the people of the county will take a deep interest in the county fair this year. Those fur* thering the fair are putting in some hard work to make it a success, but these efforts will come to naught if the people do not cooperate. Every farmer in the county should not only take part in the fair but have an exhibit. There is scarcely a farm in the county that could not exhibit some-1 thing of interest and instruction to! others. The fair programme will be full of interesting things, and the four days will be complete with instruction and entertainment for all. We hope to see all booths filled with farm products, home canning and j fancy work products, etc. The county j has many interesting antiques, and! we hope the owners of such articles! will arrange for their exhibition, i Mrs. Sallie Owens is chairman of j this committee. ^ ' * " The Bamberg Herald favors pay-1 ing state and county taxes on the in- i stallment plan and seems to think! that this would make tax-paying j easier for the rural population. But j does The nearald realize that in j places where the installment plan of > tp,xpaying prevails the taxpayer is [ called on to make his first tax pay-i ment for the current year in the! spring, whereas 9tate taxes are not j payable until the last day of the year??News and Courier. It appears to The Herald that it j would be just as practicable to have ! the first installment paid in October j as in the spring. The payments may j be made payable at any time most j convenient to the average taxpayer.! The fact that cities employing this j plan make the first payment in the; early part of the year does not de- j tract from the idea in the least. We : presume in such places the first payment is made in the spring because it suits most people to pay then. In the case of the installment plan be- [ ing used for collection of 9tate and j county taxes, it would, o? course, provide for the first payment to be| made in the fall of the year. The! whole idea is simply to make the! payment of taxes easier on the mass j of taxpayers. A great many people! would not care to bother with in-; stallments at all. whereas to others) it would provide a great convenience, j mi on m Of the twent.v-frhree women j students in the X'nited States Oon-j cr?'>. two want to ho Senators. j Mexican women have smaller and; more regularly shaped feet than! American or European women. i mi?hw lethodist: P know that the money you pat . know that Carlisle gets more . know that Bamberg is one oi remember that Bamberg look know that Carlisle does more know that when you made tlii >t week in November is pay-up e glad to receive your paymen . Brabh; mmiiiiiiiiiiim liiiiiiiiiiiiiwwaTTiiMrirnwrm Succeeding With Asparagus. Congressman James F. Byrnes, who made a short speech at the annual meeting of the South Carolina | Asparagus Growers Association in; Ridge Spring, said that his organi-j zation was "the greatest forward; step in agriculture in the lower part : of the State within his recollection."' The Williston Way believes that in this judgment Mr. Byrnes is probably | well within the mark; not becausej this association has promoted good! feeling among its members and not' because it is now nearing the million! dollar mark in the value of its annual j output, but because "it is demon-! strating that cooperative marketing,! properly managed, is not only practic-j able but the only feasible thing for the farmer." It is only laterly that the aspara-j gus growers have gotten their association on a sound basis. For a long! time, says the Williston Way, it wasp an association in name only so far as the actual selling of the crop was concerned. But about a year ago it 1 set up a real organization "and today," says tihe Way, "after having sold its product through its own appointed representatives in the large cities of the nation, with an experienced manager and an able and efficient president, it stands out a bright light to farmers raising other crops." During the past season, it was stated by General Manager J. W. Jones, of Ridge Springs, 116 refrigerated cars of asparagus were shipped out by the association members and!< with express shipments nearly 60,000 J crates of Dixie asparagus went to the b consumer, Mr. Jones believes that the: South Carolina growers are going to < secure a reduction in refrigeration, charges, for whiah they have been | contending, and after a thorough j i survey of the markets he declares | < that he does not think the asparagus;: growers have anything to fear from 1 increased acreage if they will or-; i ganize and work together. One of the most valuable lessons ' the members of the South Carolina Asparagus Growers Association have learned is in grading and packing! their crop. Chief Inspector W. H. j Wooley stated at the recent annual j; meeting that fully two-thirds of the;; members are now putting out practi-!, cally perfect asparagus and told of j one grower who offered him a dollar j, ^ o of-no-io ciiri<t nf thp wrons: size b 1 i. CI C * * C> ~ - - w J, could be found in one of bis packages. |, The inspector, much to his surprise, j failed to earn the dollar. J( With such a spirit it is not sur-j prising that the Williston Way should . confidently predict that the asparagus industry in South Carolina is only in its infancy and that it has a bright < future before it.?News and Courier.' m tmt m> FAMOUSCHARACTER DIED FRIDAY AT YORK ! i York, Nov. 1.?Hose Norman 73.1 original of the character "Hose Xor-j man" in Tom Dixon's famous south-! ern novel. "The Leopard's Spots."! was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, j Sharon Friday morning having died j at his home. Hose Norman is said to j have been born and raised in the | house with Thomas Dixon in Cleve-! t ji n ? ? i? X" C* fa Irian ! iana LUUIHV -\. na ? His tutvvii i care of by Dixon's father. He had1 lived in York county for thirty years! or more, being engaged in farming! and horse trading. His widow and six : children survive. Must Raise Cotton. ????? "Despite the Doll weevil." says The Charleston Post, and "despite the j many yp.ars of argument for diversi-! ficatiori of crops, anybody going! through the country at least in this1 section of Pouth Carolina, can not! nonrannHHi ay Your Plec ft ' stays here in your town? than the folks of Bamberg si : the few towns in the State tl ed dead the years Carlisle wa s to advertise Bamberg, than e v< s pledge that you made it to y< > week. Some of us have not p ai ts and give you a receipt. Let i am, Colli fail to be struck with the unanimity! with which leading men in the rural! districts hold the opinion that South! Carolina must, in some manner, learn | to grow cotton under boll weevil con-j ditions and that cotton must be in J the future, as it has been in the past, j the chief money crop of this section, j There are some good reasons behind j this opinion and while the movement ' for substitute will no aouot con- j tinue. the fact is to be faced that! coastal South Carolina will continue, as a cotton region if any way can be, found to produce the staple. Although, says the Charleston j newspaper, "perhaps this section will: gradually work its way into other j money crops besides cotton or dairy j production, but for the present atj least the great majority of farmers j will strive to produce as much cot-j ton as they can and that is a con-! dition that should and must be faced ! by the agricultural advisers of this I i state. They should bend their energies 1 chiefly to teaching farmers how to j make cotton in the presence of the] boll weevil, a thing wlhich can be done! by the proper methods, as experience in other weevil-infected states has demonstrated. Moreover, the department of agriculture at Washington should leave no stone unturned to work out methods of weevil control, subordinating most of its work for the time being to this end, which is by far the most important agricultural problem facing the country at this time. "It is certain that the world will be starving for cotton for a long time to :ome. Not only have recent crops been small, but the demand, already great, is sure to increase rapidly as Europe's buying power increases with its recuperation. The world needs more cot-! ton than it has been getting or can j get at present ana, wnn care m mam- j? eting, the Southern farmer can count jl on good prices for the staple for an|B indefinite time to come. But in order | to sell it he must learn to make itj_ inder the new conditions and to teach j him should now be the chief task of I ^ his agricultural advisers." GREAT NOVELIST PASSES. di ra Richmond, Ya., Nov. 1.?Thomas; n< Nelson Page, author, diplomat and in lawyer, died suddenly to day in the it0 garden of his boyhood home, "Oak-j^ land," in Hanover county, situated1 ec upon an original grant from the i ^i crown of England to the "colonial' *n magnate, Thomas Xelson." Nearby, at I O the Old Fork church, where he wasjtr christened, simple funeral ceremonies! ^ will be held at 10 o'clock Friday i*1' morning the body will be put aboard !xv the northbound train at Ashland at!ei noon and at 4 o'clock of the same;sI lay the American ambassador to Italy i P during the troublous days of the^|jjp: Why pay high (LADIES I When you can The Bost FOR LESS Wo specialize oil L Dresses. No two 1 Vow Shipments Sam Zimmerman, Prop. HnHHHHHBnHHnHHi Ige to the Educatii lbscribed? lat gets any of this money? closed? nything else in it? )iir Maker? Do you think you can afford not d last year's pledge; shall we have two paynn is pay as Carlisle needs the money. ector, rSambi BDBBnnRBMHBanBHHB Does Your H Your Com The Williston Way. Or is it helping building up sen demand better streets, better side^ throughout the county?are you d< funds of these improvements? N< from a mail order catalog or in so helping build roads, maintain sch improvements but others will obtai purchases in Cook County, Illinois moved from Williston and Barnwel merchants and banks of Williston their business, more their taxes an* the coffers of the tcftvn and county Every nickel you send away mal poorer, for the people who receive i ever heard o fa Chicago mail order or otherwise investing a cent in Bai just as much, and in many cases m * Williston, than anywhere else in tl chants at all times. If they haven't for you. In so doing you are contr: truthfully say as you ride over a g this. rorld war will be laid to eternal rest HHmmHIH jside ihis wife in Washington. jg?g Mr. Page died of "acute cardiac H A M lation." He returned to the ancest- H V^ZXjTTLI 1 J home Saturday, apparently in his | jB Drmal health and had spent his time ! H having it put in order with the view | B B9 spending his remaining years B B^^^p ere. He spent this morning in dir- B V :t.ing work in the garden. Between B B B Ji mes he would go to the house to B dulge in ;his beloved literary work. ||s n his return from the last of these B ips to the house his sister-in-law, MB Tk Y rs. Rosewell Page, accompanied B j^y f\\Y m. 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Your money has B uch greater buffing power in B le world. Patronize home mer- lg what you want, they can get it B ibuting your part and you can B ood highway "I helped build" B IGEBURG COUNTY I g Fair I 14th to 17th I e You to the Best County Fair in S. C. I Y DAY A BIG DAY I our Friends, Renew Old injoy the FREE SHOWS, I RACING?See all for one I course a visit to the BEST I 1 GIVING STORE in the g IWqL-p fhic vnur stnnnina H LTAIAIW illiu J len in the city. I iSELEY'S 1 5, S. C. PHOXE 500. ?? i -v.... .. >-'A