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"'' " ' ' ' 3Hjr lantbrrg Sfrralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. ~ A. W. KMGHT, Editors Subscriptions?By the year, $1.00, or 10 cents a month for less than one year. All subscriptions payable trictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent inser tions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local notices 8 cents the line for first insertion, 5 cents a line for subsequent insertions. Wants and other advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions. cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first Insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. ntViinV, io dofamatnrv nr nu ai UIJIC YY UiVU AO uviUUiWWi,, W Offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, May 13,1909 ???? People who have been "knockers" heretofore as regards real estate : ; ' values in the town of Bamberg have at last begun to believe that real state here has a value, and they are acting accordingly. T That auction sale of lots last Thursday was the best thing that ever happened for Bamberg. People i:have begun to have faith in the fu-J! ture of real estate in the town. \ _ > Who says the old town has not got on a boom at last, and that here in | the dull summer, too. Bamberg is going to grow rapidly in the next i two years, and the growth will be substantial, too. The automobilists of Bamberg are < getting to running their machines | entirely foo fast on the streets of : town, and this practice should be i out a stoD to at once by the city au- ? thorities. It will be too late to stop i H when somebody is run over and bad- ( ly hurt or killed. The speed of auto- J mobiles should be made slower, on j Main street much slower than on 1 ther streets, because of the nar- i rowness of the street. THE HERALD CONTEST. 1 The Herald has, commencing this week, inaugurated the greatest ( K* popularity contest for the young ladies of this county ever heard of in ( this part of the country and it is the hlggest thing ever attempted by a : weekly newspaper in this State. In the first place we are giving , the people a paper tHat is worth a ! dollar a year of any man's money in , the world and we propose to put it in . the home of every man in Bamberg county. To do this successfully we must have the cooperation of each and every one of our present subscribers. Now then, listen. If you feel that you are getting your money's worth in our paper, if you feel that we are . doing our very level best to give you a county paper that has the best in- \ V: . terests of the county at heart, then ' oM no in m a Irin c* thin ri"?n- I vvvu v ;vu a*u uu *** ' test a thing long to be remembered ' in this community? We believe you ' will and we still further believe that ' you after you have read this little article will do what we ask you to . help make it a success. Now, , listen again, if you, as a subscriber ! to The Herald, will in all your whole * neighborhood, secure us just one ; , new subscriber and send it in and if .. every one of our subscribers will do ^the same thing, don't you see that , we will double our circulation and you will receive the benefit of it in a constant improvement in the pa- . per. If you lay this paper down and ! forget all about it and every one else . does the same don't you see we will J ..accomplish nothing, but if, when -you've finished reading this, you go ] right to work and send us just one vfrubscriber and every one of our oth- . er subscribers does the same, we'll have a paper that will surpass any " other weekly in the United States. j The prizes we are going to give .away cost a lot of money and they vwill be awarded for only a little ef- ' fort on the part of the young ladies ; of Bamberg county. In addition to *; 'the enormous expense of the prizes 1 we have engaged the services of an 1 expert contest man from one of the big metropolitan dailies who will have entire charge of the contest. He will call on all young ladies who enter the contest and get them started off and show them how to work. In . order to win one of the handsome prizes all you have to do is to induce a few friends to subscribe for The Herald. We furnish receipt blanks and all necessary supplies, so that contestants are at no expense n Htfla timo snont caonr. <tl ail UU1J a lltu? kiuav oyvuv uvvui ing new subscribers or renewals. The page advertisement in this issue gives full information. Read it and then enter the contest at once and begin the work of getting votes for one of the handsome prizes. Just one more word to our present subscribers whom we have asked to secure us one new subscriber apiece is this. You may have the votes which accompany same given to any .young lady in the county you may designate and in that way help her -to secure one of the prizes, i ^ A number of young ladies from [ different sections of the county have ifltlready entered The Herald's popucontest. gfe ;vf v* > v ; ,r ?;>'*** "V: % W&l MADE ATTEMPT TO MURDER. Alleged Assailant of Butler, Ga., Citi- t s zen Arrested Yesterday. Butler, Ga., May 10.?Charley ^ Smith, of Columbus, Ga., was to-day j arrested, charged with having made c the murderous assault upon Charles t Wiggins on Sunday morning. It is r charged that Smith was induced by a c member of Wiggins's family to kill F Wiggins in order that his life insur- c ance, which is a considerable sum, s might be secured. Wiggins's family 1 had arranged to return to Butler 011 c the night of the savage assault. He e went to the station to meet thein, but s they did not arrive. Instead, it is F said. Smith came on the train and ? hurried to the Wiggins residence, 1 where he awaited Wiggins's arrival. 0 When Wiggins entered he was at- . tacked by Smith, according to Wig- 1 gins's statement. To-night Wiggins life hangs by a slender thread. Columbus, Ga., May 10.?Charles e Smith, a local painter, who was ar- ^ rested here to-day, charged with as- v saulting, with intent to murder, Chas. B. Wiggins, of Butler, Ga., J' early Sunday morning, declines to * make any statement, except to say a that he is innocent. He was arrested t at his boarding house. r It is alleged that Smith left Co- a lumbus at 10 o'clock Saturday night, D with a. round-trip ticket to Reynolds, r Ga.; that instead of continuing on to n Reynolds, he left the train at Butler, went to Wiggins's home, where he ? concealed himself, assaulted Wiggins * and left him unconscious, returning ? to Columbus Sunday night. % 11 ' V Favors Prohibition. ? b Editor The Bamberg Herald: Not ^ a word for or against prohibition in ^ Bamberg. What does this mean? It n is being agitated elsewhere. Why S] this death-like stillness? s No excuse can be given for the peo- ti pie of Bamberg county, one of the a smallest and bloodiest counties in the State, to spend each year for whiskey p over $80,000, or an equivalent of 1,- e: 800 bales of cotton at present prices., a The town people want whiskey n sold under existing conditions, be- tl a _ ? j. cause it lowers tne town rax, auu n puts plenty of money in the treas- a ury for civic improvements. tl It is the poor country people, p white and colored, that drink the a most of the liquor. I don't believe I a? would make any error when I say the o: colored people spend ten times as d much for whiskey as they pay taxes, w From December 1, 1907, to February s] 1, 1909, ten negro men and two ne- tl gro women were killed in Bamberg county, every one caused by whiskey n< md low morals?a natural sequence n :>f whiskey-drinking. No such record n stains the annals of any 399 square ti miles, when we consider that these B persons were killed by their own fel- fc lows, separately and severally. In h 3ach case a bottle of whiskey was in .h evidence. o: Before the civil war this would ii have meant a loss of $10,000 and there would have been a howl raised. c< A.s it is, nothing is said about it. n Every farmer- knows that nearly S every man on his farm must go to w 3ome town every Saturday, All his cash goes to the dispensary; his sup- d plies are bought on credit. Is it any tl wonder that they cannot pay out? s] White farmers who, several years a ago, were independent are now q "dead broke." This is not surpris- si Ing, when every tenth bale of cotton goes for whiskey. Each year the ai country is getting poorer; what will the result be? Calamity is staring us in the face. The town people are seeing only d the bright side of the situation. You S may be saving taxes, but losing ten d times more in some other way. I live G in the country and am seeing the larker side. Not only are our older M men ruined, but the young men, the J future of our country, are loyal sub- e< jects of King Alcohol. 8< What breaks up our homes threat- T ens our existence. t> The influx of dollars into your C) town has obscured your vision, and C buoyed you up, but your prosperity d is a spurious one, its foundation is an sand, and it will fall. If you are & looking at it in a business light, you P bad better change your views quick- 11 ly. c The farmers are the foundation of 0 four welfare, with them you rise or ?] fall. * Whiskey steals away men's brains and unfits them for work. Whiskey is not only expensive in itself, but the time lost, the hired bands idling, what result can you ex- d pect but ruin? Have you forgotten the miracle of Christ feeding 5,000 men with five Jj loaves of bread and two small fishes? A little with the Lord's blessing will go farther than millions without it. ?! "O, ye of little faith!" Outraged humanity cries out against it Can you stop your ears? If so, you must have hearts of stone. The burden falls-heaviest on women and children, robbing them of the sweetness of life. Right here in Bamberg county, the enlightened, the progressive, is a poor man with a large family of boys and girls. These children never attend the public schools, some of them have never been inside a .v....v Tin.*. 9 UUU1LU. Tf u/ ; The father drinks. These are facts and stubborn things. Remember, money gotten by bringing trouble on others never carries a blessing with it; hut instead, a curse, and curses, like chickens, come home to roost. 4 PRO BONO PUBLICO. * Work on C., C. & O. Track. 1 Spartanburg, May 5.?Track lay- * ing on the C. C. & O. railroad from Bostic to Spartanburg was begun at a Bostic to-day. Two miles will be laid \ without a halt, bringing the iron to second Broad river, where the con- _ struction of the bridge will require 30 days. The work of building the road- ii bed is about finished and many of ii the contractors are leaving. It Division Engineer Reed said here today that construction trains would be running between Bostic. and Spartanburg by October 16. t The Asylum Investigation. At the first session of the commitee lor the investigation of the inane asylum three witnesses were teard, two of them former patients ,nd the third a former keeper. Toe irst witness had been twice confined n the asylum for insanity. He delared that the cooking was poor, hough the food was plentiful. He eported that in some cases the nurses ruelly or disrespectfully treated tlistatients, one having been choked at ne time. He declared that the ame water was often used for a iumber of patients. He gave as his pinion that out door sports were not encouraged as they should be. He poke highly of Dr. Thompson, too hysician in attendance upon tin ^ard in which he was confined, sa>ng that Dr. Thompson was always ourteous and considerate. The second witness was a former nmate whose mental trouble had een brought about by intestinal caner. He claimed to have been negected himself and to have seen othrs abused also. The work at the lairy and kitchen he condemned as ery unclean. Every effort was made, however, o keep the rooms clean and free rom vermin. He had seen as many - ? ?L ' A? a J ? v? ft r% ?fQ | .SIS paxiems UdlllCU 111 kuc oauc n aer. He declared that he had conracted tuberculosis while in the sylum. Some of the nurses could tot read, he said, and he had often ead the directions on bottles of ledicine. The next witness examined was Ir. H. C. Wilson, of Columbia, a ormer keeper. He had seen a nurse trike an obsterprous patient and ad seen a patient's legs badly cut rith a strap used by one of the urses. Conditions would have been etter, in his opinion, -had there been jore help. The attendants were ept busy keeping down vermin. He ever allowed two patients to use the arae bathing water and knew of no uch case. The attendants and parents seemed to like Dr. Thompson nd Mr. Mitchell, the supervisor. Dr. J. L. Thompson, assistant suerintendent, was the first witness xamined on Thursday. He gave it s his opinion that the nurses were lsufficient in number and some of nem incompetent. The cooking was i many cases unsanitary and was ttended to by the patients. He lought a competent man should be ut at the head of that department, rrangements in case of fire are iniequate. He never permitted ill use P tt'Vi nn ho knOV nf it Wfi L paucuio TTU^U AAV. nuv?, eclared that Dr. Babcock had alays treated his suggestions with reject and that there had never been le slightest friction between them. Supervisor J. M. Mitchell was the ext witness. He thought more urses were needed. In cases of urses failing to carry out instrucons he had always reported to Dr. abcock or to Dr. Thompson. The )od was not palatable nor clean, ence he had his meals sent from ome. He had never heard of. a case f two patients using the same bathlg water. On Friday the examination was jntinued. Several previous witesses were called, and Dr. E. D. aunders, who is in charge of >$he hite women's ward, was called.' Judging from her reports the conitions there are altogether better lan in the white male ward. She poke very highly of Dr. Babcock nd said she had never made a reuest that was not favorably conidered. The committee after her testimony djourned to meet again on May 18. Names Democrat for Judgeship. Washington, May 10.?The presient to-day 'nominated as United tates district judge for the eastern istrict of North Carolina Henry roves Connor, of North Carolina. The vacancy on the North Carona bench, caused by the death of udge Thomas R. Purnell, has existd for some months and has been a jurce of much concern to President aft. The contest for the place nas een a bitter one and the Republics of the eastern district of North arolina recently urged the presient not to appoint a Democrat, even ' he had to go out of the district to et a suitable Republican for the lace. The president has given lore consideration to this North arolina judgeship than to all of the ther federal vacancies on the fedral bench with which he has had to eal since his inauguration. He has een in constant consultation with le North Carolina senators and rep^sentatives and has had placed be>re him the names of at least a ozen candidates. Judge Connor, a Democrat, was >r about ten years on the bench of le supreme court of North Carona and for a number of years be>re that was judge of the superior aurts. Z. & K. HAT For $3.00 and $3.50 and a Florsheim Shoe For $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00 R. BRABHAM'S SONS BAMBERG, S. C. TRESPASS NOTICE. We the undersigned, with adjoinlg lands, do prohibit any one huntlg, fishing or trespassing on our mds in any manner. W. W. BARKER, GRIFFIN PROVEAUX, L. MORRIS, O. B. LAIN. > - ' ( - -V"*- T ' gili ili ili ft ft il? ft ill ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft tl- ft ili ill ili iU il I Flaxon and T ATVTPC WP TTAT7P TTT.CtT T?P.f!PTV SIT! SPV1 ?>? " '} IT JJ A1 n. I JU V WMA AVXIVAJA w MM . 3- AND REP. WE SELL THE FLAXON AT 20c1 jjf AT 15c. HAVEN'T YOU PAID MORE? AND % WE HAVE JUST OPENED UP THE NI | High Grade Chiidr ? EVER BROUGHT TO BAMBERG. THEY A] iff THAT MAKES NOTHING BUT CHILDREN'S 4? GRADE LINE, AND YOU FOLKS WH< jg DREN'S SHOES WILL BE SAVED THE TRO jg PENSE IF YOU COME AND SEE THEM. V H TY THINGS HERE FOR THE WHOLE FAM ii PLEASE I H. J. BRABH/ ? THE NEW GOODS M ft :l?-I! il? il? il? ?! :? ili il? tl? ill !? ili 0i il? ;I? *1? ili il? il? a? ilHti 0? i] lllf Suit II EITHER IN A PACKAGE OR BY THE POUND || YOU CAN GET IT HERE. I If Canned Fruits || ABE BEQUIRED WE CAN SERVE YOU WITH I THE BEST ON THE MARKET. IN FACT || THERE'S NOTHING IN GROCERIES WE II CANNOT SUPPLY EXCEPT THE POOR i| KIND. IT IS TRUE WE CHARGE POOR If KIND PRICES, BUT WE DON'T SELL || ANY BUT HIGH GRADE GROCERIES. 'Phone No. 24. 'Phone ns your or-' WM ders. They will be filled satisfactorily ly and goods delivered promptly. | D"A. Kinard & Co. pJPhe Up-to-Date Grocers. Bamberg, S. C. i5USlTli!<SS QUUV/J!<00. Business success is always a result of small > beginnings. Most men make their business success by beginning in a small way with a SAVINGS ACCOUNT. Cultivate the saving habit. Open a bank account. We pay 4 per cent interest. Do it TO-DAY. PEOPLES BANK Bamberg, S.C \ ' ? i issjiseai] twppwis ujfi '* -V go a long way towards mak Mi A ? v j , ing a drive a pleasuraW j|| JDk ? ' IlZ r one. We've studied how t gS 1 ?I how well we have^succeed HIS mm 'I' iiHr't, Because the air is balm u$S flOU^r?" F # and foil of ozone and healti .. ^n^Tf ...... ?nr charges' continue - a moderate as ever. |g RING US UP AND TAKE WIFE OUT THIS P. M ij. r. kinard <& co, Jjjji)|j The Liveryman. Bamberg, S. ( -,^Wjl ^ I ....FOR.... LIFE HEALTH, ACCIDENT, BURGLARY, AND PLATE GLASS INSURANCE FIDELITY AND SURETY BONDS SEE I W. C. PATRICK I Spann Building Bamberg, 8. ( ; ? .i} 11 *#r4 Rep ill ?/. y aw cr :ral pieces op flaxon ? the yard and the eep the quality is there. < s CEST LINE OF $ ? en's .Shoes 1| f I $B *E MADE BY A FACTORY * ! SHOES. THIS IS A HIGH 0 ORDER YOUR CHIL- ? UBLE AND EXTRA EX- ?| rE HAVE LOTS OF PRET- :: n-T. pat vaA VISIT, jl || VM, JR. 11 J^Shield?> Just ask anyone who has ever "Shield Brand" '|| Clothing, and they will tell you one of two things, either that it was satisfactory, or that they got their money back, and ninety-nine out of a hundred will tell you that it was SATISFACTORY || The only clothing sold within the following range of prices: J MEN'S 'Im 1? $10.00 THE LOWEST $20.00 THE HIGHEST BOY'S ' "11 $3.00 THE LOWEST $0.00 THE HIGHEST With the word "GUARANTEED" ...||| printed right on price card, and attached to coat slewe. Your privilege to look, without cost; our pleasure to show, r* whether you buy or not Conrad Ehrhardt Co. .1 j EHRHARDT, S. C. f NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND f CREDITORS. % All persons having claims against the estate of the late Amanda J. Ellzey will present the same for payment on or before the first day of June, 1909, to the undersigned, as j executor, at Clyo, Ga., or to B. W. Miley, attorney, at Bamberg, S. C., and all persons owing the said estate will make payment to the aforesaid parties. U. L. ELLZEY, $ / Executor. ?????????? LETTERS DISMISSORY. On Saturday, May 15th, I will file my final account as guardian of JLlewlie B. Wyman with Geo. B. Harmon, Judge of Probate for Bamberg county, and will thereupon ask for letters dismissory as such guardian. MRS. M. A. BAMBERG. * Bamberg, S C., April 14, 1909.