The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 17, 1908, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. W. KNIGHT, Editor.
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m Thursday, Dec. 17th, 1908
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The Christmas edition of the Edge.
field Advertiser was a good one. The
write-up of the S. C. C. I. was es!,
pecially good.
? : As a rule the merchants of Bamgju'
berg say their sales this fall have
| been better than for years. . This
does not sound much like times arej
7 hard and money scarce.
gjV' There are no evidences of race
suicide in Bamberg. Just watch the
gg^5 children on their way to school these
f:M[ - mornings. It will not d? many year?
SPv? before we will need an additional!
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school building. !
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Times may be hard, but the peo-i
pie of Bamberg are going ahead undismayed,
notwithstanding the
scarcity of money. Building and improvement
is going on right along,
and work on the waterworks system
will soon be commenced.
- Prohibition seems to have been a |
, success in Atlanta this year. The I
State of Georgia 'hah s been dry since
l last January, and during 1908 the police
court records of Atlanta show a
I decrease of nearly fifty per cent, in
f the number of cases. There was also
' * small decrease in the cases in Augusta's
city court.
If every man in Bamberg county
.who carried a pistol was fined ten
dollars the public treasury would be
\SO replete with money that we would
have to levy very little taxes next
year.?Bamberg Herald. Why don't
you report some of them to the grand
jury??Anderson Advocate. BeAonco
itc not our business in the first
,'f~ place, and the grand jury knows as
' much about it already as we do. If
you think *it's a newspaper man's
C7 7 duty, why don't you report the pis&
: tol toters of Anderson?
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Why wouldn't it be a good idea
Z^\;YV'tor the town of Bamberg to secure
the Carlisle Fitting School and es%
tablish there the high school and
commercial departments of our city
graded school? It will only be a
?r.V few years until an additional school
building is needed, and if the FitIting
School property was secured
and used as above stated we would
have as fine school system as any
town in the State. Students would
fe-' then be attracted here from all over
7 the low country as no tuition would
be charged, the only expense being
? ; V for board in one of the halls. What
i \ say our citizens? For our part, we
' favor the plan. We know of nothing
which would benefit the town
more, and we believe if the plan
above outlined was carried out, ad/
ditional halls would have to be
built to accommodate the boarding
; students who would come here.
In a recent address before the conrc
vention of mayors at Charlottte, the
mayor of Yorkville stated that his
town furnished electric lights at 6%
* . cents per kilowatt, 'and that the
power rate up to ten horse power
. was as low as two cents per kilowatt.
Yorkville owns her water and light
plant, but we imagine their electric
current is not generated by steam,
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else they could not furnish electricity
at the prices named. In Bamberg we
charge 12 cents per kilowatt, and
find no big money in it at that price,
while The Bamberg Herald pays
seven cents a kilowatt and furnishes
generator and all equipment. We
have a genet-ator at the cotton mill
here, with a private line to our office.
We furnished the entire equipment
and paid for the installation
and pay the mill seven cents a kilowatt
to generate the current, and
the minimum charge to us is $10 a
month. We can't see how Yorkville
furnishes power at two cents a kilowatt,
even if, as we suspect, they
purchase power from the Southern
Power Co., which has a big plant on
the Catawba River, near Yorkville.
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Don't cry hard times. Push ahead
with a brave heart and strive to
make things better.
We congratulate Brother Lorenz,
of the Aiken Journal and Review,
on his Christmas issue of this week.
It was a very creditable paper.
Every dollar spent with The Bamberg
Herald goes right back into
Bamberg. We do not send off what
money we get hold of, but it goes to
people who live here and have interests
identical with the town.
In a news article in reference to
the coming session of the legislature,
the Columbia Record says the prohibitionists
will not attempt to have
the legislature enact a prohibition
law, but# prefer an election on the
subject. All the same, we oeneve a
prohibition bill will be introduced in
the general assembly. As to whether
it will pass or not we are not prepared
to say.
Every few days some merchant of
the town tells us of having a customer
come in his store and tell him
that he came in to buy because he
saw the merchant's ad. in The
Herald. That is the right way for
our readers to do. The merchant
appreciates it, and naturally he
takes extra care to give good values
and make a permanent customer.
Always tell the merchant you saw'
his ad. in The Herald. It helps the
newspaper as well as the customer.
We want to print a semi-weekly
paper after January, but we cannot
do it unless our merchants will
keep^up their advertising. During
last spring and summer we had to
cut down to four pages because advertising
dropped off so after January,
and we can only print a fourpage
weekly if we do not get a
number or yearly contracts irum ivcal
advertisers. As it is, we have a
lot of advertising during the three
fall months, and for the other nine
months of the year we have very little.
It rests with the business men
of Bamberg as to whether they will
have a semi-weekly newspaper or
not. We have the equipment to give
it to them, but we must have more
business throughout the year?not
spasmodic advertising during a few
months, but contracts running every
week in the year. We do not expect
to inake money out of the venture.
All we want to do is to come
out even, but we cannot, print a
semi-weekly at a loss. We have reduced
our advertising rates for advertisements
to run twice-a-week,
and will soon call on our merchants
to ask them for yearly contracts. If
ao thov cVinnlH Ram
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berg will have a semi-weekly paper,
but if we do not get the advertising
patronage we cannot afford the additional
expense.
?^ % COUNTRY
NEWSPAPERS.
"I ain't never had no chance."
These words in the valedictory of
Mr. J. T. Bigham, who retired two
weeks ago from the editorship of
the Chester Lantern, expresses exactly
the feelings of the editor of this
newspaper and we have wanted to
say something along this line since
his article appeared, but we have
simply not had time. Often have
we desired and still long to be in a
position where we can edit a newspaper
as we believe it should be,
without being called on for so many
other duties. As it is, we are any
thing and everything from office boy
to editor?printer, pressman, bookkeeper,
salesman, and so on and so
on?in fact our work is like a woman's:
never done. Were we to tell
of the many different things we do in
one day most people would not believe
us, and yet we are not different
from the average country newspaper
editor. We never find time to
edit our papers carefully because of
the pressing demands of the mechanical
and business departments.
Few country newspaper, men there
are who are not overworked, and the
reason is that their income is not
sufficient to employ enough competent
help. Too few of us know what
our work is worth, and we do entirely
too much free work, which costs
us money and yet we do not seem to
realize it.
This editor does not lose sight of
the fact that a newspaper is in a
measure a public servant, and therefore
cannot expect remuneration for
all the service it renders, but it is
nevertheless true that if the average
weekly editor would employ real
ness methods in the management of
his business he would materially increase
his income.
tsut me reai reason is mere are
too many newspapers, and as a result
too much price-cutting, poorly
edited and printed newspapers, and
overworked, always-hard-up editors.
Most county seat towns ih South
Carolina cannot do more than furnish
enough business for one firstclass
newspaper, and yet how many
have two in the same town, with
others possibly in the county. And
so it goes. There they all are, doing
no more than holding soul and body
together, hanging on by the skin of
the teeth as it were, eking out a pre
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carious existence, with no capital to
make improvements in their plant?
many of them having only a shirttail
full of type and the bare necessities
needed for printing a newspaper,
oftentimes quarreling like dogs over
a bone, having no fixed rates for advertising
or job work, but taking
any price they can get, with an humble.
servile attitude toward the public,
taking pay for subscriptions in
produce, wood, or anything they can
get, and agreeing to "trade out" with
the merchant the amount of his advertising
bill. Is the picture overdrawn?
Answer truthfully and about
seventy-five per cent, of the weekly
editors will agree with us.
But there is a remedy. Improve
your paper, make it newsy, print it
neatly, use attractive type faces if
you have to go in debt to buy it, find
out what your work is worth and
charge accordingly, have fixed rates
and make all customers pay the same
prices. Some of you editors quit the
newspaper business. Go to farming.
It's a blamed sight more healthy and
independent.
Good advice, all of this, possibly
you will say. Maybe so, and the
writer ought to take evefy bit of it to
himself. But will he do it? We
guess not.
THE RURAL TELEPHONE.
What appears to be one of the
surest signs of progress among the
farmers of this section of the State
is the keen interest manifested in
the rural telephone. Already in
neighboring towns the managers of
the local telephone exchanges have
been petitioned for lines extending
into the country which will connect
some of the most progressive farmers
not only with their nearest
towns, but also with all of the
through lines to the larger cities all
over the United States. The advantage
to be gained by the use of the
telephone in the sale of the products
of the farm is obvious. These farmers
who have taken this step forward
can now remain at home and,
while attending to affairs which
claim their immediate attention,
keep posted as to the fluctuations
of the cotton and other markets and
thus save much valuable time.
Gradually, it seems, the farmers in
this section of the State are awakening
to the necessity of better facilities
of Communication, and we
predict that the time will not be far
distant until the farmers of Bamberg
county will, in most cases, receive
daily reports on the cotton
market by rural telephone.
At Blackville and Allendale these
rural lines have already been established
and the demand for other
lines in those sections is increasing
rapidly. Denmark has joined the
ranks, and active steps are being
taken toward supplying the bes?
farmers in that community with telephones.
This is a1 splendid idea
and as far as possible the example
of these towns should be emulated
by Bamberg's farmers.
BUSINESS GOOD.
We are glad to hear from our merchants
that trade has been so good
this fall, and from the reports we get
from our business men generally, no
doubt Bamberg's merchants have
sold more goods this fall than ever
before. We are delighted to hear
this, as it shows that our merchants
are reaching out for new business
and that the trade of the town is being
extended. '
There is no reason why business in
Bamberg should not increase. We
have the territory to draw trade
from, and all we have to do is to go
out after it. We are pleased to know
that our town is getting to be
known as the best shopping center
in this section.
Our merchants should do more
advertising, and thereby extend the
territory from which they draw
trade, for The Herald circulates
largely in four counties: Bamberg,
Barnwell, Orangeburg, and Colleton,
with a number of subscribers in
Hampton. Come in and look at our
subscription list, and you will see
why advertising in The Herald pays
so well.
Lynching Feared.
Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 15.?The
usually quiet county of Stanly is in
a stater of intense excitement tonight
over the first case in the history of
the county of criminal assault of a
white woman by a negro, and it is
feared that there may be mob violence
before to-morrow at Albemarle,
[ whbre Henry Young, colored, is in
j jail, having been beaten into unconj
sciousness at the home of John R.
I Moss, near Whitney, late to-day by
Moss and George Lefler, who, attracted
to the home of Moss by the
screams of Mrs. Moss, found her in
the clutches of the negro, making
desperate efforts to reach the telephone
to call for help.
When the negro attacked Mrs.
Moss she ran into the house and
locked the doors. Young broke
down a door and entered, and seizing
the woman, a desperate struggle
ensued. Upor the arrival of Moss
and Lefler, they had a struggle and
fist fight with the negro before they
subdued him. Sheriff Green was
cdlled and took the prisoner to the
jail at Albemarle, six miles away,
after he had been guarded for two
hours at the Moss home.
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Whisk Broom Sets,
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