The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 07, 1909, Image 4
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(Eh? Bamberg ijrralb
ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. W. KNIGHT, Editor.
Published every Thursday in The
Herald building, on Main street, in
the live and growing City of Bamberg,
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Thursday, Oct. 7, 1909.
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How many merchants are sweeping
the sidewalk in front of their stores
on Saturday night?
In the opinion of a Charleston
judge it has gotten to be something
t of a crime to read the State newspaper.
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The main business street of Bamberg
ought to be paved, and it would
be a money saving proposition, too,
for in a few years we spend in temi
. porary work what it would cost to
pave it.
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The receipts of cotton at this place
continue large, and the high prices
prevailing is of much benefit to the
farmers and merchants. Our people
generally are in good financial shape,
; i and the fact that the lien law will
not be of force next year will no
doubt result in a betterment of their
condition.
Some newspapers in the State are
of the opinion that Mr. Wylie should
return to the State the money which
be received from the liquor houses as
bribes. These newspapers evident
ly forget that Wylie stated this money
did him no good, and of course he
hasn't any of it now, so how could
he return it?
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Cotton is bringing good prices on
the Bamberg market, and much of
the stalple is being brought here
from a distance on account of the
good prices paid by our buyers.
Bamberg has always had a good reputation
as a cotton market, and this
year Is no exception to the rule.
Bring your cotton to Bamberg.
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Bamberg is not the only county
where the farmers are sore because
they sold cotton during the summer
at less than the market price now.
The same condition exists in other
counties in the State where cotton
was sold for future delivery, and the
reports are that farmers are very
slow about delivering cotton on these
contracts.
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It is rather a startling proposition
that a juror should not be allowed
to read a newspaper while serving
as such. Men who have sufficient in
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telligence to act as jurors are not
affected in their opinions by reading
, * newspapers, and it seems to us that
Judge Memminger ordered a mistrial
in the Black case on very flimsy
grounds.
City council should remember that
the sidewalks of the town are for the
use of pedestrians, and should not be
used as display windows for merchants.
There would be no objection
if the sidewalks were wider, but now
people are often inconvenienced on
daye when there is a large crowd on
the streets by there being goods displayed
on the sidewalks.
The Sumter Item thinks that the
State fair should pay all the expenses
of the president's visit to Columbia.
The trouble with the State fair is that
it is rarely ever able to pay its own
expenses. Columbia ought to do
more for that organization which
brings her in more cash money each
year than any other half dozen things
combined.?Florence Times.
And yet the State of South Carolina
has in the past made an appropriation
to the State fair on the
ground that it was a State institution.
We could never see the justice in
spending the State's money for any
such purpose. What good does the
State fair do the poor, hard working
farmer out in the country who never
gets to attend any fair? Yet he pays
taxes, and the money received from
taxation helps support the State fair.
KIDNAPPER ARRRESTED.
Accused of Holding Young Cousin
in a Care,
Spartanburg, Oct. 5.?Charged with
kidnapping Joe Chumley, his cousin,
Frank Chumley, son of a well to do
farmer, living near Woodruff, this
county, was arrested and bound over
to the court of general sessions. The
alleged kidnapping occurred last
Thursday while young Chumley was
driving through the country in a buggy
en route to school. It is said that
Frank Chumley pulled the boy from
the buggy, tied him with rope, and
carried him to a cave which had
been dug out in a deep gulley, and
then barricaded with heavy boards,
where Joe was held prisoner day and
night. It is said that a grave had
been dug in the cave and when pointed
out to the boy he was told he was
going to be buried there. Some time
during Friday young Chumley was
taken out for his last walk, so the
story goes, and while he was taking
what he thought was his last exer
cise, the boy made his escape, and
reached home in safety. He told his
story to his father, which resulted in
a warrant b^ing sworn out for Frank
Chumley. It is said that others are
implicated in the charge.
The absence of Chumley from his
home caused his parents and friends
great concern. Searching parties
were organized and the woods were
searched without success. It is rumored
that sensational features may
develop in connection with the kidnapping,
for it is said that there has 1
been ill feeling among members of
the Chumley family for some time
about some cotton and a cotton gin.
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Mr. Bell to Conduct Paper.
Gaffney, Oct. 4.?The good will,
plant, etc., of The Cherokee News on
Saturday was turned over to J. B.
Bell by the Messrs. Parrott, who have
been conducting the paper for Beveral
years. The lessee has announced
that he will conduct a first-class
weekly paper and feels sure that he
will get his portion of the public
patronage.
Farmer Robbed and Slain.
Athens, Ga., Oct. 4.?Vonderau
Kennon, aged 25, a white farmer living
a few miles from Watkinsville,
was robbed and it is believed murdered
in this city on the night of
Saturday, September 25, and his
body thrown in the Oconee river at
the cemetery bridge.
He left home on that day to go to
Atlanta to have his eyes treated. He
had with him $65. He was here on
that date and was not later seen alive.
This morning the body was found in
the river. His skull had been crushed
with a blunt instrument.
The coroner's jury is making a
sweeping investigation.
Music Festival Week.
Charleston is making great preparations
for the entertainment of
hundreds of visitors from all parts of
South Carolina during the week beginning
October 25.
The special feature of the week
will be a series of five musical concerts,
features of which promise to
surpass anything of the sort ever attempted
in the South. The Russian
Symphony Orchestra, an organization
of fifty high-class musicians,
conducted by Modest Altschuler, has
been engaged and the services of soloists
of ability and special fitness for
thf* musical numbers to be given
have been contracted for.
The Ruussian Symphony Orchestra
has never before visited the
South but during the last two years
its fame has been spreading throughout
the East and West. Its journey
across the continent last Spring to
the Pacific Coast was marked by a
chorus of enthusiastic praise, and
crtitics in New York, Boston, Pittsburg,
Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles,
San trancisco and dozens of other
cities have proclaimed its excellence.
A chorus of one hundred male
voices and one of one hundred and
fifty female voices have been organized
and the immense auditorium of
the new Charleston Museum is being
specially fitted up for the occasion.
A fund of six thousand dollars has
been promised by leading business
men of the city to assist in defraying
the expenses of this great festival.
Numerous other amusement features
are to be provided. King Street
is to be made the most brilliantly
illuminated thoroughfare in the
South. The score of torpedo boats
and submarines of the Atlantic Torpedo
Boat Flotilla will be returning
to their home station at the Navy
yard here and it is hoped to have
other naval attractions.
Charleston is never more attractive
than at this season of the year
and the business and professional
men of the city are united in the
determination to make the present
undertaking a splendid success, one
which will be thoroughly enjoyed by
he host of visitors whom they hope
to have the pleasure of entertaining.
Frightful Fate Averted.
"I would have been a cripple for
life, from a terrible cut on my knee
cap," writes Frank Disberry, Kelliher,
Minn., "without Bucklen's Arnica
Salve, which soon cured me." Infallible
for wounds, cuts and bruises,
it soon cures burns, scalds, old sores,
boils, skin eruptions. World's best
for piles. 25c at Peoples Drug Co.,
Bamberg, S. C.
Guaranty Law Works Well.
New York, Oct. 2.?The Oklahoma
law guaranteeing bank depositors
has been found to work successfully
in the instance of the Columbia Bank
and Trust Company, which failed for
more than $3,000,000, according to
a dispatch received here from A. M.
Young, the Oklahoma bank commissioner.
Mr. Young telegraphs: "The Oklahoma
banking law is a complete success,
even against the persistent opposition
of a strong element of the
other class of bankers.
"We adjust the affairs of an embarrassed
State bank with perfect
ease in a very few days and with no
public clamor whatever.
"Everybody is in good humor and
conditions are normal. Other State
banks are quiet and gaining in deposits."
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SENSATION IN GREENWOOD.
Four Whie Men Charged With Beating
Negro to Death.
Four white men, Henry R. Williamson,
Sloan Williamson, Ashby
King and Sam Cooper, were arrested
and lodged in jail last Thursday by
Sheriff McMillan, of Greenwood, on
the charge of having caused the death
of a negro, Gus Gilcrease, near Dyson's,
Greenwood county, by whipping
him. An inquest was held Saturday
by Magistrate James Rogers
of Ninety-Six. An old negro named
Robinson testified at the inquest, but
stated that he knew nothing of the
affair.
Dr. John Lyon, of Ninety-Six, examined
the body, and with Magistrate
Rogers saw the marks of whipping
but nothing further developed.
However, the old negro, Robinson,
came to Capt. Jas. Rogers, the magistrate
and told him he knew he had
not told him the truth, that he
knew that he was a dead man
if he told the truth, but he had
to tell the truth. He then told that
the four men above named had whipped
the old negro, and he afterwards
dropped dead. Magistrate Rogers
sent the old negro on to Greenwood,
and he is now in jail.
According to a letter received at
the governor's office from Sheriff McMillan,
of Greenwood county, Gus
Gilchrist, the negro who is alleged
to have been whipped to death by
four white men at Dyson in that
county was not taken from the Greenwood
jail, as has been reported, but
was turned over to the deputy by the
Greenwood chief of police at the station
at that place, to be taken to
Ninety-Six for trial. From the letter
it seems that Gus Gilchrist, the
negro had violated a contract with
Henry Williamson, one of the men
charged with beating the negro, and
that a brother of Williamson went
before Magistrate Rogers and swore
out a warrant for the arrest and that
Henry Williamson was deputized to
make the arrest. The negro was
held by the Greenwood chief of police
and Williamson went to Greenwood
to get him. It is stated in the letter
that the negro was turned., over to
Williamson at the station. It seems
that the negro was carried by Williamson
not to Ninety-Six, the place
where the negro should have been
tried, but on to Dyson. One of the
laborers of Henry Williamson,. according
to the letter, met Williamson
and the negro at the station and
the three went home in a buggy. It
is stated that the three in the buggy
were met by Sham Williamson, Ash-r
by King and Sam Cooper. It is stated
further that the negro was taken
from the buggy and whipped and that
he died shortly after.
BAN PUT ON CIGARETTES.
Business Considerations, Reasons for
Laws Passed in the West.
The States of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin,
Indiana and Illinois have recently
forbidden the manufacture or sale
or both, of cigarettes. The reasons
involved in this Western prohibition
of cigarette smoking?for that is
what is aimed at?spring from physiological
and business considerations.
So far as the Times has ascertained,
moral reasons and preaching
did not weigh. As in the case of the
railways which require total abstinence
from intoxicants from their
employes, the Western business men
noted that the boys and young men
in their employ who were addicted
to the smoking of cigarettes were inefficient.
Their nervous energies
were thought to be continually running
loose and could not be concentrated
upon their tasks. The Western
doctors talked about the rapid,
weak and irregular hearts of those
whose fingers were stained from too
much smokine. It became customary
to refuse employment to persons
bearing the badge of servitude to
nicotine. Then, we are told, the
habit began to be universally discarded.
In the East, if cigarette smoking
were considered very harmful, we
would be satisfied with this result
If considerations of health and of
business opportunities were effective
in quelling a habit not regarded as
immoral, a law against it would be
deemed superfluous. In fact, such a
law might be opposed on the ground
that it would make what was an open
vice secret and more vicious. But
our Western brethren have long
made a fetich of their status, which
they have enacted into huge volumes.?New
York Times.
REMARKABLE MAIL ROUTE.
Postal Matter Travels 234 Miles in
Order to Get Across Room.
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due OI tile UlUSk l crnai nauic uiau
routes in the world is that in which a
letter journeys in going from Beebe
Plain, Vt., to Beebe Plain, Quebec,
Canada, says the Philadelphia North
American. While the two offices are
within ten feet of each other?are located
in the same room, in fact?a
letter mailed from one office to the
other must make a trip of 234 miles
?sixty-seven miles in Canada and the
remainder in the United States.
The plain, old-fashioned store
building which is situated on the international
boundary line contains
both the United States and Canadian
offices. There are separate entrances
to each, but both are in the same
room, have the same lobby and there
are no partitions to mark the division
between the domains of Uncle Sam
and the possession of King Edward.
"If you mail a letter from the Vermont
side addressed to the Quebec
side," said the postmaster, "it goes
from here to ?"he junction and back to
Newport then to White River Junction
and back to Lennoxville, Quebec,
over the Boston and Maine. There it
is transferred to the Grand Trunk
and goes to a south bound mail pouch
and comes to Standard Junction and
then back to this same building a distance
of 234 miles."
When you see a banana peel resting
on the sidewalk and a fat man unconsciously
approaching it, the indications
point to an early fall.
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Furniture that
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I to be right is the kind you'll find in this careful store. (
That "nothing succeeds better than success" is exemplified
in our growing Furniture trade. All the time we strive
for new ideals that embody every good idea that is helpful,
both to our trade and to ourselves. It means, of
course, the getting away from trashy furniture, which is 1
absolutely the most expensive investment you can make. i
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We carry a general line of Furniture and Housefurnishing
Goods, which embraces
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Bedroom Suites, Wardrobes, Tables, ]
Chairs, Rockers, Bedsteads, Mattings, ]
Rugs, Carpets, Stoves and Ranges.
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We candidly believe we can save you money in purchases
in our lines, as we buy in carload lots for cash, and take
advantage of all discounts. A visit to our store is well
worth while.
G. 0. Simmons
THE FURNITURE STORE
^ Opposite Hoover's Drug Store. BAMBERG, S. C.
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Invitation! :
You are cordially invited to visit the Just
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nthe old stand of Mrs. Jones's Millinery
Store, and inspect the complete line of
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suitable for Ladies and Gentlemen, young
and old. Most anybody ought to find
something that would suit them. We guarantee
the quality of everything we sell
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We will give to any purchaser of 25 cents
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Uin casn, a numoer, wim me privilege iu m
obtain a $15 outfit, Disk Graphophone JJ
f with a half dozen records. The outfit M
may be inspected at the store.
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E. 0. Kirsch offers for Monday, October 11th the ?
following prices, all big reductions, but for this day &
only and for spot cash. ?
6 pounds of Starch for 25 cents. *
3 lb. cans Jumbo brand Tomatoes, per can..8 cents. X
20 cents Boasted Coffee, per pound 15 cents. X
8 cents Apron Ginghams, per yard 6% cents. j||
10-4 Sheeting, price 30 cents the yard, per X
yard 25 cents. q
10-4 Sheeting, price 35 cents the yard, per a
I yard zu cenws. a
25 cents Red Flannel, per yard 22% cents, q
30 cents Red Flannel, per yard 25 cents, a
20c. and 25c. Oil Cloth, per yard 15 cents. q
12%. Lace Curtains, per yard 10 cents. q
$4.50 Genuine Marseilles Bed Spreads at $3.85. @
$1.50 Spreads at $1.29. jfe
90c. Spreads reduced to each 74 cents. A
We will also give great reductions in ?
Dress Goods, Shoes, Clothing and Trunks.
Come to see us. You'll never regret buying
at our store.
Remember these prices hold good for one day only, q
Monday, October 11th, and for spot cash. ?
No goods charged at these prices. Q
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Idvertisements Under This Head 25c*
For 25 Words or Less.
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Rye and oats seed for sale.?Rye J?
$1.75 a bushel; oats 65 cents a bush- \
el, f. o. b. Cope. These grown by
me. Cash must accompany order.
J. B. TRAYWICK,
Cope, S. C.
For Sale.?Feather beds, forty \ ,
cents the pound. Apply at residence
of G. A. RICE.
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Wanted.?First class man to act as
book-keeper and manager of new
mercantile business. Must give surety
bond. Salary $1,000 a year. Will
also pay for bond. None but experienced
man need apply.?FARMER'S v
MERCANTILE CO., Ehrhardt, S. C. >
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For Exchange.?I have a quantity
of pure Toole cotton seed which I
will exchange for other seed on a
basis of two bushels for one. Exchange
seed to be delivered at Bam
berg oil mill. J. J. SIMMONS, Bamberg,
S. C.
For Sale?Two thousand bushels
Appier seed oats raised by Mr.
George Salley, Orangeburg county.
Delivered in 25 bushel lots in Bamberg,
at 67 cents per bushel. Sample
at The Herald office. GREEN-BRABHAM
CO., Cope, S. C.
FOR SALE.
137 acres land, known as a part
of the Dr. C. I. Faust estate, three
miles south of Denmark, S. C.
One hundred acres open; three
good tenant houses; has seven pecan
trees bearing 300 to 400 pounds
yearly; good water, and rents for .' ?$%
six (6) bales cotton.
Price, $23.50 per acre. Object of
selling: bought lands in Aiken county.
Apply to
W. H. FAUST,
Denmark, S. C.
or O. R. FAUST,
White Pond, S. C.
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EHRHARDT BANKING CO.
Statement of the condition of the
Ehrhardt Banking Co., located at
Ehrhardt, S. C., at the close of busi- .
ness September 18, 1909.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts $29,041.61
Banking house 2,250.00
Furniture and fixtures 1,396.47
Due from banks 53,712.15
Currency 3,500.00 v ^
Silver and other coin 578.65 , j ^
Total $90,478.88 C|
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in $20,000.00
Surplus fund 1,200.00 j
Undivided profits 2,148.59
Deposits, individual.. 48,140.84 'M
Time certificates 17,663.87 /-fa
Unpaid dividends 1,325.58 >U|
Total $90,478.88 ' ?
Before me came A. F. Henderson,
Cashier of the above named bank,
who, being duly sworn, says that the
above and foregoing statement Is a
true condition of said bank, as shown
by the books of said bank.
A. F. HENDERSON. Cashier. . ?
FRANK H. COPELAND, (L. S.) -M
Notary Public, S. C.
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We invite your attention, and respectfully
solicit your account. 4
per cent. interest on
deposits in our savings .
department
TAX NOTICE.
The treasurer's office will be open
for the collection of State, county, p
school and all other taxes from the N
15th day of October, 1909, until the
15th day of March, 1910, inclusiye.
From the first day of January, %
1910, until the 31st day of January, j
1910, a penalty of 1 per cent will -ogl
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1910, until
the 28th day of February, 1910, a 't.
penalty of 2 per cent will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st ' f.
day of March, 1910, until the 15th i
day of March, 1910, a ('penalty of 7
per cent will be added to all unpaid
taxes.
THE LEVY.
For State purposes ?5% mills For
county purposes, 3% mills
Constitutional school tax,..3 mills
Total 11% mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL ?EVIES. <
Bamberg, No. 14, 7 mills
Binnakers, No. 12, 3 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19, 2 mills
Colston, No. 18, 2 mills
Cuffie Creek, No. 17, 2 mills
Denmark, No. 21 6 mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 4 mills
Govan, No. 11, 4 mills
Hampton, No. 3, 2 mills
Heyward, No. 24, 2 mills
Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 1 mill *
Lees, No. 23, 4 mills
Midway, No. 2, 2 mills
Oak Grove. No. 20 2 mills
Olar, No. 8, : 4 mills j
St. Johns, No. 10, 2 mills *
All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years, except
Confederat soldiers and sailors, who
are exempt at fifty years of age, are
liable to a poll tax of one dollar.
Capitation dog tax, 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years of p .
age on or before the 1st day of Jan- *
ary, 1909, are liable to a poll tax of
one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor are requested
to do so on or before 1st of
January, 1910, and thereby save the
penalty and costs.
I will receive the commutation ;
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day of October, 1909, until *
the 1st day of March, 1910.
JOHN F. FOLK.
Treasurer Bamberg County.
Bamberg, S. C., Sept. 30, 19G9. *
J. Aldrich Wyman E. H. Henderson j
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Wyman & Henderson j
Attorneys-at-Law
BAMBERG, S. C.
General Practice. Loans Negotiated
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