Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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y. 3% Smnherg Sjrralii ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 i. W. KNIGHT, Editor, Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?fi.oo per inch for first insertion, 50c. for each subsequent insertion Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. afterwards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must be paid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on ? ?-ii, ji? subjects ol general interest win ue giauiy welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not i>e published unless paid for. Thursday, Oct. 31,1907. A PLAIN STATEflENT. The Bamberg Herald is a cash paper, and all subscriptions are payable cash in advance. We do not follow strictly the rule of discontinuing subs. scriptions as soon as they expire, for v we have many good men on our list who we know will pay as soon as they have opportunity, and as they don't 1 want to miss a single copy of the pa' ?1 J '* unlope nro oro I per, wny we senu un umvoo nvu?v notified to stop. However, in many eases we stop a paper when the time 1 it is paid for expires. But we write A ' this to impress upon every subscriber on our list who does not seem to . realize it, that cash in advance is our ; ^A I rule. About seventy-five per cent, of our subscribers understand this, and at least that proportion or more pay strictly in advance. But some . few don't seem to understand it and . get mad when we notify them that 1 their time is out, say that they will 1 pay at the end of the year, etc. Well, there is no good business reas6n 1 why we should wait a whole year for our money, and besides, we could ; not afford to carry a large number < if of accounts that long. So we will 1 wiia ftf nocli in vnnpp 1 ClliUlVC Ul^ 1 UiV VA VMM** *** , and those who don't want to do bus- ] iness our way are respectfully in- ( formed that there is nothing compul- < sory about it. You don't have to take 3 the paper if you don't want to. We 1 don't force it on anybody. We want \ all the subscribers we can get, but < we will not send the paper on long i credit. The Herald is worth $1.00 a year, and we don't have to beg ?4*/v Qawq 117 Vin ] miy uiAij w ouuoti kA/uiv n"v are behind need not be surprised if 1 the paper stops coming to tlfem ( / < pretty soon: ] We are glad to see that Supervisor J Kearse is working the old roads in- ^ stead of making new ones. There \ ] are enough roads in the county now, ] until all the roads are clayed and ^ put in first-class condition. The policy of improving present high- j ways instead of building new roads ^ is a gpod one. ^ 0 / - One mighty nice thing about an j all home print paper is that we get rid of those patent medicine advertisements. We do not care to take them, and it will be noticed that our paper is singularly free from such 1 objectionable stuff. We try to keep ? our columns clean, so that the paper i may be really and truly what it claims < to be; a paper for the home, one that ] ? can be read by every -member of the j family. No doubt The Herald car- ] ries less of this class of advertising 1 than any newspaper in the State ex- 1 . cept the Yorkville Enquirer. < * This era of of high prices hits the 1 newspaper man hard. Everything ; that he uses in printing his paper is : way up?type, paper, labor, etc. Livincr exoenses are hierher. too. and of course he has to pay his help more. But he gets the same subscription price for his paper and the same advertising rates. The Herald was put at one dollar a year when cotton was five and six cents and when you could buy twice as much with that dollar as we can to-day. Our advertising rates have only been raised once in the last six years, that being two years ago. So it can readily be seen why a newspaper is not making money in these times of great pros perity. Still we are not at all discouraged. Our subscription list is larger than it has ever been, with more paid-in-advance subscribers and a much larger advertising patronage. Bamberg merchants, who never thought of advertising, before now use space in the Herald. On the whole we are glad to say that the future for this newspaper is brighter than it ever has been. t There are ninety-seven dispensaries in South Carolina?to say nothing of the blind tigers. If you want good school advantages for your children, move to Bamberg. Property is cheaper here than any town its size we know of, and good citizens are always welcome. Our local building and loan association has plenty of money to lend to assist vou in buildine a house or store, and we need and want enterprising men to move here. If you are th: iking of changing your location, come and see Bamberg's advantages. We hope soon to report further progress in the matter of organizing a company to erect a cotton warehouse in Bamberg. Too much stock has been subscribed for the project to die, and those in charge of it do not propose that it shall. A meeting of those who subscribed to the capital stock will soon be called for the purpose of organizing, electing directors, etc. But everybody ought to take some interest in this matter. The building of a warehouse here is too important to our business inter ests to let it drop. Ed. DeCamp, the hustling editor of the Gaffney Ledger, will get out a daily ,editon of his paper for the* week the annual conference of the M. E. Church, South, is session in that city, and he will publish detailed reports of the proceedings each day. The paper will be sent to any address for 25 cents for the week, and it will no doubt prove very interesting to the great number of Methodists in the State. Send DeCamp 25 cents and get the daily edition for the week and thus get all the news of the conference. It will be well worth the money. Notwithstanding the poor crops in this section this year, Bamberg is growing and improving right along. New buildings are going up, while others are preparing to build resin^nvnn rtf/i TV, n will ??/,orV -1CI1UCO, atuico, civ# j# nc; iouivnu project is moving along nicely, and it is hoped to have the warehouse matter in shape before very long. Considerable stock has already been subscribed, the commission received from the Secretary of State, and all that is necessary now to put the enterprise well under way is to have a meeting of subscribers to the capital stock and elect directors, etc. Let is keep up the good work of pushing Bamberg. Editor DeCamp, of the Gaffney Ledger, says he thinks there have been fewer business failfres in Gaffney during the past ten years than any town in the State of like population. We were under the impression that Bamberg had the finest record in this respect, but we may be mistaken. However, we wouldn't nind comparing records with Gaffney or any other town. Our observation for eight years and more nakes us believe that there are fewer business failures in Bamberg and less real estate sold under mortgage than n any county in South Carolina. We ire glad to know that Cherokee is so nandsomely sustaining the reputa;ion of new counties for progress md prosperity. The editor of this newspaper does not care to fill up space about him>elf or the Herald. We do more of It than we want to, but we do it because we want its subscribers and readers to come in close contact with md feel a personal interest in the paper. We are here to serve every interest of every community in Bamberg county, and we want the co-operation and support of all good citizens in the work. If you have anything worth booming in your town * ?ii ana community, we want to Know it and we want to help. Don't think because the paper is printed in the town of Bamberg that we lose sight of the balance of the county. Now, another thing: Some people don't like the editor or the paper, and their only reason is that they say he is getting rich; making too much money. Well, this is not correct. We are not getting rich nor are we making any money. But we are still here and expect The Herald to have a long life. We are not losing any sleep over the future. Our subscription list is larger than it has ever been; more paid-in-advance subscribers, and a larger advertising patronage. On account of the high prices prevailing at this time, we are not accumulating anything, but we are not complaining yet. But suppose we were making money? We are giving value received for every dollar we get, and if some of these fellows who don't like The Herald would work as hard as the editor they'd have more money. The News and Courier very properly remarks that Charleston people have something to learn in the matter of restaurants. We have never seen poorer eating houses in any city of its size. Superintendent of Education Martin will recommend that the legislature take the examination of applicants for teachers' certificates out of the hands of the county boards of education and let the State board handle the examination papers of applicants. A most admirable suggestion and one we hope to see the legislature adopt. I The Orangehurgauthorities should take vigorous measures to apprehend the parties who shot into the house of the negro, Handy Gloster, near Cope. This was a dastardly outrage. No doubt the purpose was to kill the negro's wife, who was said to be sick in bed at the time. Now she has disappeared, no doubt being frightened away. The shooting was the act of a coward. Governor Ansel has not yet denied that story sent out from Columbia as to his purpose in appointing memj bers of the State board of education because of their attitude in the rec! ognizing of certain schools as colljeges jand allowing graduates of these schools to teach in the public schools without examination. We would think more of him if he would make a public denial. Future developments will show whether the story is true, and in case the State board does recognize the schools in question, this newspaper will give publicity to their action and endeavor to place the responsibility where it properly belongs. While we are on this matter we want ^to say that no person should be allowed to teach in a school without standing the examination prescribed by the State board, and they should be required to stand the examination every two years. Suppose they do graduate from a college, that does not prove that they are qualified to teach. The questions of teachers' examinations are supposed to be especially prepared for teachers, and as text books and methods are constantly changing, it is highly important that all teachers, no matter from what college they have graduated, should stand these examinations at regular intervals, for only by such methods can it be shown that they are keeping un with the imDrovements in the manner of training children, as well as Jjeing posted on the text books they are teaching. PETTY JOURNALISM. One of the smallest things we have noted in journalism recently was the action of the Spartanburg Journal in regard to the Columbia State. True the Journal does not like the State and possibly the feeling is mutual. But that should not lead the I Spartanburg paper to such a display of petty meanness as that recently exhibited. Senator Latimer made a speech at the Batesburg fair, and some fellow sent a report of it to the State, which was not published. Then the report was sent to the Anderson Mail with the statement that the State had refused to print it. Immediately the Journal came out in a long editorial, charging the State with petty spite in refusing to publish the article and saying the reason was Mr. Latimer's views on immigration did not coincide with the Qtofo'o TVio P.nlnmVn'n rinnpr vprv UUCAUV kJ* AA&Vf, V/V4 V?4*?A/*V? properly ignored the Journal, but replied to the statement in the Mail in a short paragraph which satisfacI torily explained the matter. The State did not publish the report sent by an unauthorized party, but it did publish the account sent by its regular correspondent at Batesburg, which was entirely right and proper. The Journal must have seen this statement, yet \t has not had the manliness to acknowledge its error. We have no ill-will for either newspaper, and we are not the self-constituted champion of the State, but An Viofo fn ccxo cnpVi a snirit. His WC UV 1JOVV wv WW K/v*v*? M V..W played in South Carolina journalism. Missing floney Returned. Gaffney, Oct. 26.?Quite a sensation has been caused here by the mysterious disappearance of an express package, containing a large sum of money, some say as much as $10,000, in transit between Spartanburg and Charlotte some days ago. The matter has been kept very quiet and nothing can be had from the authorities about it, but it has leaked out, or is rumored, that a detective working on the case came to Gaffney and registered at the hotel, He left his room for while and during his absence the package containing the money was left in his room. I % THEIR HOME AN AUTO. Huston Family of Chicago Havs Started Across the Continent. George M. Huston, a retired jeweler of Chicago; his wife and his son Arthur, who acts as chauffeur, started from the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadelphia the other morning in a sixty horsepower touring car, bound for San Francisco and thence to Florida, says a Philadelphia special to the New York Times. For the last seven years the Hustons have practically made their home fn automobiles, in which they have traveled 120,000 miles In the United States and Canada. Mr. Huston carries sixty pounds of paraphernalia, which includes a complete camping outfit, hammocks, a large tent, cooking utensils, bedding, guns, ammunition, fishing tackle and many other articles. Mr. Huston says that his hobby has cost about $10,000 a year, not including the cost of five cars in the last seven years. He says he was the first autoist to obtain permission to drive his car into Yellowstone park. Shovels had to be used a portion of the way to clear away the snow. He has also gone over portions of the Alleghany and Cumberland mountains where others have turned back, discouraged by steep and rocky roads.. Mr. Huston is more than sixty years old and is the picture of health. The trip to San Francisco is expected to take thirty-five days. The Huston = schedule calls for only eight hours' au toing a day. After San Francisco has ' been reached the tour will be continued down the Pacific coast, thence to El Paso, New Orleans and the winter home of the Hustons at Rock Ledge, Fla. . ENGINEER'S ODD MISHAP. Missouri Pacific Train Delayed Until Teeth He Lost Were Found. , When the Missouri Pacific train from s Sedalia, Mo., by way of Sweet Springs j and the Lexington branch, reached the a Union depot at Kansas City ten minutes late the other morning Frank M. Lowe, who was a passenger on the train, explained what caused the delay, says the Kansas City Star. r "I boarded the train at Sweet Springs 1 at 6 o'clock in the morning," he said. "We were on time then. About two miles this side of Sweet Springs, while we were running at full speed, the emergency air brakes were set sudden- J ly, and we came to a quick stop with t a jerk that woke up the memDers or a theatrical troupe riding in the rear car and scared the passengers who were awake. Xhe train backed down half a mile or so, and I supposed it had filled { somebody. I got off when it stopped and saw the engineer searching for something in the weeds. "Along with several passengers I went forward to see what was the mater. The engineer, Mr. Daniels, a veteran on the road, has been an engineer for thirty years. When we asked what was the matter he said: "'I was coughing and lost my false teeth.' "We all pitched in and helped hunt fok the teeth: The women joined in the search. The fireman finally found them, but by that time we were abeut thirty minutes late. The engineer had his head out of the cab window and coughed them out The young people on the train thought it was a good joke, but if losing them meant three or four days on soup diet I don't blame Mr. Daniels " A horse belonging to Mr. Herbert . G. Delk died Tuesday night. This ~ is the second horse he has lost by ! death in the last few weeks. i SPECIAL NOTICES.! i Advertisements Under this Head 25c j For 25 Words or Less. i i FOR RENT OR SALE ?The resi- < denceintown of Bamberg now occupied < by me. Has six rooms, and is in nice condition. Six acres of land or more if wanted can be had with house. J. I. KINARD, Bamberg, S. C. FOR SALE.?Five room cottage on New Bridge street, nice lot. A bargain for a quick buyer. R. M. BRUCE WANTED?A live agent for the largest exclusive personal accident and health Insurance Co. in the world, for Bamberg county. The right party can j get an excellent contract. Apply to W. < Carlisle Furse, Manager, 303 Loan and < l?v/?Vio?crc?Tlank Rnildinc Columbia. S C. : CHILD WANTED?We want to adopt a girl between two and five years old.Call on or write MRS J J ELkINS, Bamberg, S. C. ATTENTION FARMERS?Klauber's selected long staple cotton, grown by L A Klauber, St George, S C, is best suited for this country. Makes as much per acre as ordinary cotton. Sales of thirteen bales October 5th brought 26? cents the pound. Seed can be had of W A Klauber, Bamberg, S C, $1.00 per bushel. Place your order now. FOR SALE.?Ten building lots in the town of Pamberg, situated in respectable colored neighborhood. Low prices and easy terms. JNO. F. FOLK. FOR SALE.?150 acres virgin pine I timber. Finest kind of saw mill timber. 1 Located f mile from side track on Southern Railway, and three miles west of Bamberg. Cheap tor casn. , JONES A. WILLIAMS, Bamberg, S. C. BEFORE buying or selling a farm or any property, write THE CAROLINA REALTY & TRUST COMPANY, Bish- I opville, S. C. ' nr j j Local representative for BamU an tea berg and vicinity to look after uhuiwu renewals and Increase subscrip- * tlon list of a prominent monthly magazine, J on a salary and commission basis. Experi- ' ence desirable, but not necessary. Good op- j portunity for right person. Address Pud- 1 llsher, Box 59, Station O, New York. 1 t \ <^FANCY^, DRIVING HORSES | * ; The first car load of Horses and Mules for this season for Bamberg has arrived at our stables. In this load we have some fancy driving and fast trotting horses. Also cheaper ones if you want them. Lot of fine farm and timber mules in the load. Come and look at them. ' < ^ Buggies and Wagons ' ' : hbMfm We have an unusually large stock of the very best makes of Buggiesand Wagons, made by the best builders In the country, all new and up-to-date styles. Can suit you In any sort of a vehicle. s Harness, Lap Robes, Whips rJ illf : ?, r-^| We can furnish anything you want in these lines. Our stocfc of Harness was carefuliy selected, Is made well, of good leather, and will last long, Come in and get prices. ? * ' fSm - mm Jones Bros Railroad Avenue Bamberg, S. C. WORKS OF ART wM ThatX PYQctlv what, the handsome lot of nicture we have are. / Really they are good enbugh for anybody. Prices from 50 cents up to $10.00. Come in and let us show them to you. In Furniture ' If ve don't take a back seat for anybody. We buy In car load lots and can sell as cheap as my body, no matter where they are located, and we can save you the freight. A full line of iedroom Suites, Wardrobes, Sideboards, Beds, Mattresses, Tables, Chairs, Office Desks, Iron y leds, Rockers, Dining Tables, in fact anything to furnish the office or home complete We dso have a fine line of Mattings and Rugs, all styles and prices. 4 Cooking and Heating Stoves Cooking and Heating Stoves and Ranges, a variety of styles to select from and fell at ock bottom prices. See us before you buy the new stove or range you have been promsing your wife so long. v- . In Our Hardware Department > jS re carry about anything In the line of hardware no matter what It Is. Cutlery, Guns, both Ingle and double barrel, shells, a good line of bouse building material, tools of all kinds, * ** "? J U a linn a/ fevmln a imnlnmnnto Wn bovA onmA bAhltftlh nciuamg piUWS <%I1U CV?J turng Ul WC UU? U1 IW uuug iui^ivuivuw .. V w, ,T ,.. ul carving sets which must be seen to be appreciated. \ ^ Coffins and Caskets All kinds and prices, from the cheapest go the best. We are proud of our undertafc- , ng department. Hearse for service at funerals. We also handle brick, lime and cement, mylng In car load lots. Get our prices before you buy. % : Bamberg Furniture & Hardware Co. BAMBERG, SOUTH CAROLINA ' . \ =========================================== .v, , A BANK'S SUCCESS ENTIRE COMMUNITY'S GAIN < pf| In conducting the affairs of this bank, the management has always believed that men of good business judgment and con- * servatlve Ideas appreciate the progressive Bank, conducted on ; safe and strictly business lines; tnat us growin ana success us f m - x the community's gain; that such a bank best protects the interests of Its depositors, and thus proves Its greatest, help * to the commercial development and credit of the community. A . >: (.'-t, BAMBERG BANKING COMPANY ||f Bamberg x : : South Carolina ^- ^ ? gGSBESSSa^S HZ i ai nciru uivuiiL I atto?N??A*JW I Civil and Office upstairs, over I Criminal Practice Bamberg Banking Co. fl RHEUMATIC FOLKS! _ ?? * ' n?? A n paiicf Are You Sure Your Kid* Ul \J? U rauoi neys are Well? f) p T IST Many rheumatic attacks are due to uric acid in the blood. But the duty of Bamberg, s. c. the kidneys is to remove all uric add OFFICE IN FOLK BUILDING fr?m the blood. Its presence there shows the kidneys are inactive. Don't ??1???wmmS dally witfy "uric add solvents." Yoa ? ? ? ? might go on till doomsday with them, m/ < but until you cure the kidneys you will MONEY TO LEND it never get well. Doan's Kidney Fills not i > only remove uric acid, but cure the kid We are prepared to negotiate < \ neys and then all danger from uric acid loans on Improved farms for jg ended. ( 1 meentSdJ|hty^cen?inteS" < > Rupert B. Calvo, bookbinder, empty Don't write, come and see us. ed at The State Publishing Co., official * \ [ printers for the State of South Carolina. * J- Patterson, Jr. J. VI. Patterson i > fiving at 1010 Lumber St., Columbians. _ ^ barnwell, a c.^ _o c., say s i "I thought I had rheumatism and treated for it on that belief. I used all kinds of liniments. The pain was in /\? a my back and in my hips clear to the / a* f-ef M IRLIFrJrOR shoulders. The liniments did no good M * Jr \ and I took to blood medicines but they ^ qiq not neip me. a wwa o ivu^ u iy u> . hopes that the change of climate might H, VH^r * help me I was away for three months osrpERFECT ( v but could see no change for the better, bnii coEVmS? poODUCtO, j heard of Doan's Kidney Pills and de~ jjOILEBr^yr1 ^ termined to try them, and got a box at k | . m v TXT 1 itt x a drug store. They completely removed / i /vk* I' A 111 HA II I P the pains out of my back and I have not Lip SA ff MILLS ?^'of the old trcubie aince'1 " For sale by all dealers. Price 50c. _UTH MO SHIIIBLE MACHINES ' 5AU/Q AND SUPPLIES. STEAM AND Ib.l.U rt,* narmx-TWa-and "gasoline ENGINES. I ? Try LOMBARD, ACgJSTA "? other' HOLLISTER'S , (j . DELK Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets PDP<IH M, T1VB ANin A Busy Medicine for Busy People. FRESH NATIVE AND Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. U/ pCTCn\j MCaT^ A specific for Constipation, Indigestion, Liver " 1 men J ^ md Kidney troubles. Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Pad Breath, Sluggish Bowels. Headache md Backache. Its Rocky Mountair.Twin tab- ALL ORDERS DELIVERED PROMPTLY et form. 35 cents a box. Genuine made by Hollistkb Drug Compahy. Madison, Wia n u n-_i. w. m VOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PE0PL3 vppOSIie TOt UlllCe ?WW M. tt ? .V.- 'j/Jf. Vt _ ' vy : . y .