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Sty? Bamberg Sferalb 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, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, cylinder press, folder, two jobbers, all run by electric power, with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. ~ - ... rv._ - *? *1 a A Subscriptions?ay me year, fi.vu, or 10 cents a month for less than one year. All subscriptions payable itrictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch lor first Insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. 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 of those pertaining to matters of public interest We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions ex.. pressed in any communication. mmmmm?? ??????? Thursday, April 7, 1910 Thic ia anason that you feel ? . glad that you are living and that you live in Bamberg. , What's in a name? A contemporary publishes news letters from "Horse Gall," "Scuffletown," and "Tillman." The railroad proposition is taking definite shape, and we may expect results with the business men of Bamberg, Orangeburg, and other places backing the scheme. There are never any poker stories In the Sunday News now, since Col. v Billy Ball left that paper. We always thought he was the poker editor. ... Talk up your town at home and abroad, and it will have a good effect. Strangers will not think much of a town unless those who live here have something good to say about it. You don't have to watch to see Bamberg grow. Any casual observer can see that Bamberg is growing right along. The best of it is that the growth is substantial, there is nothing of the mushroom about it. There are men in Bamberg who never do anything for the benefit of the town or which will assist in its progress and prosperity, and yet they expect the town to keep on growing. It Is every man's duty to help the town he is living in or move. ???? j Bamberg is certainly ahead of most towns in the State when it comes to a hotel. Few places have anything like so nice a hotel as Bamv berg. This is only one of the many evidences of the enterprise and growth of this good old town. ? WHI not some progressive citizen start the movement to organize a chamber of commerce? We need such an organization and need it badly. There is now nonorganized bodyj ' to take up any work for the good of our city, and we are suffering from anch a condition. Let's organize, and that at once. It is really getting so that the con./ viction of a white man in South Carolina is so common now that it occasions but little comment?Bamberg Herald. What does it mean?that the white men are getting worse or that Jurors are getting better??Newberry Observer. Jurrors getting better. The News and Courier supposes that the eight car loads of cattle shipped from Bamberg county recently were raised in Bamberg county. We regret this was not the case, although we can safely say that the raising of cattle in this county is on the increase. However, the cattle shipped from this place recently (and something like 700 or 800 head have been shipped) were bought by our farmers in Tennessee last fall and shipped here to be fattened, their idea being to obtain the compost for their farms. The cattle were fattened on meal and hulls purchased lrorn the local oil mill, and they all brought something like six cents or more a pound when sold. In this connection it may be noted that the fattening of cattle each winter by the farmers around Bamberg is getting to be quite an industry, so we were correct in saying that Bamberg is getting to be quite a market for fceef cattle. I We have not heard from a single newspaper which received pay for the cotton chopper advertisement. Sure- M ly the brethren must have business judgment enough not to insert an ad. without some assurance of getting pay. u ir It might as well be understood . right now in reference to this railroad question, that railroads are not j built to unbottie towns, itauroaas are built to make money primarily, and to develop undeveloped sections incidentally. If the people of Ehr- y) hardt and Bamberg want better railroad facilities they will either have ^ to build a railroad with their own a< money or make such a showing in H the way of business, rights of way w obtained, money raised, etc., that ej the officials will conclude it is good business to build the extension. It takes more than talk and petitions to induce railroad building. But we j believe that if the people of the towns interested are willing to make ^ m the necessary showing, the road can be built, but they need not expect -r that it will be built without it costing them some money. If they are prepared to make an outlay, results j may be obtained, but otherwise all h this railroad talk will amount to nothing. We can speak for some of the business men of Bamberg at least, for we know they will put up q their money. Let us all get together on this proposition, for the good of this whole section. We will all be ^ benefitted, so let's work together. fr Arrests in Bucket Shop Cases. ? ni Washington, April 4.?Twenty- 01 three arrests of persons indicted in p( connection with the operations of * bucket shops in the district of Co- 131 lumbia last Saturday have been made cc through the instrumentality of the In department of justice. Assurances have been given that two other defendants will be surrendered in this * jurisdiction to-morrow. Four persons yet remain to be apprehended, their names, according to the de- p partment of justice, being Wm. H. Lillis, Edward S. Beggs and Robert * A. Guy at New York and Jos. Gas- ai kins at Baltimore. The officials say they have no doubt these persons will be arrested within a short time. ^ Pour arrests in Baltimore were re- 1 ported to the department of justice T?Q this afternoon. They were Edward Altemus, whose bail was fixed at $5,- ^ 000 and Samuel Raymond, Oscar J. \ ' n ? Rappel and Robert Hall whose bail ' was fixed at $2,500 each. Altemus, Raymond and Rappel are said to be 1 associated with the Standard Stock ^ and Grain Dealers of Jersey City. According to official statements it is not contemplated raiding the vast number of offices, said to aggregate ^ more than 250 throughout the country, maintained by the three concerns whose principal members 'have been 1 indicted nor to subpoena the persons a immediately conducting them. 1 Held Cotton 38 Years, b Oi Jackson, Ga., April 4.?So far as 01 known the oldest bale of cotton in as the world was sold here this week, al being bought by Etheridge, Smith & Sfi Co., from T. H. Greer. The bale of t0 cotton was ginned on December 19, 1872, by water power and was packed on an old hand lever press in use at that time. During that season of L1 1872 cotton had been selling for 16 C( cents per pound, but as this bale co was late in being prepared for mar- m ket, that price could not be obtained b when it was taken to Griffin. So the gr cotton was carried back home, its owner declaring that he would never *8 ip. sell for less than 16 cents. He was 1C 38 years in having his promise ful- gr filled. Only once since 1872 has cotton st been above 16 cents and that was c0 during the Sully boom, when it went pc half a cent above that figure. Mr. Greer did not sell at that time thinking the market would reach 20 cents. a In this he was mistaken, however, n and he has held the cotton for 16 p in cents ever since. Local cotton buy- 4" ers have had their eyes on this cotton th for some time. A fancy price was nc offered for it during the St. Louis ci exposition, it being desired for expo- ca sition purposes, but Mr. Greer would pi not sell. aa This week he drove to town and at was offered 16 cents per pound for ai the bale, which weighed when it was first ginned 505 pounds. After 38 years it now weighs 488 pounds. Only once has it been repacked, and that was in 1904, when the cotton aci was found to be perfectly sound. The In bale has been placed on exhibition in the window of Ethridge, Smith & te Co., and is being viewed by hundreds st of persons. w Tree Fell on Him. of c< A most distressing accident happened Saturday on the Nicholson at farm, about two miles from States- m ville, N. C., where Messrs. Adderholdt M and Dishman were cutting trees. A G young man, Lawrence May, was se caught beneath a falling tree and ui badly crushed about the head, chest ai and shoulders. No hopes are enter- st tained (or his recovery. tc YOUNG MAN DROWNED. [r. James Glover Meets With Sad * Fate in Utah. Col. Mortimer Glover received a degram Saturday bringing the sad t itelligence from Ogden, Utah, that < is son, James, who held a position i itn a construction company of that i ty, had been accidentally drowned i hile at work on Saturday morning < ti a bridge. ] The young man, who is about 23 1 sars of age, has been West for some ! ears seeking his fortune, and was oing well when overtaken by the i ;cident which cost him his life. 1 :ad he lived he would have done j ell in the line of work he had chos- ] n as he was a brieht industrious ( 3ung man. The announcement of Mr. Glover'3 agic death was a great shoch to 11 the citizens of this place, where e was born and raised to young lanhood. Col and Mrs. Glover have le sympathy and condolence of all l their sudden and sad bereavement, he remains of the lamented young ian will be brought to this city and iterred beside the loved one3 who ave proceeded him to the better tnd.?Orangeburg Times and Demo at. rangeburg Helps in Railroad Plans. The extension of the Green Pond ranch of the Atlantic Coast Line om Ehrhardt to Bamberg, Denmark r Barnwell is being discussed in a umber of the towns of that section ' the State and it is expected that a stition will be presented asking for Le new road. The chambers of comerce of Columbia and Augusta will >-operate with the towns in securtg the extension. Ehrhardt is practically isolated om the market. To reach the town om Columbia requires about 15 Durs at the present time and with ie extension to either of the above i aces the time would be cut down to 1 iree hours. Ehrhardt is located in f te lower part of Bamberg county c id is surrounded by a rich agricul- i iral section. ( The following special has been re- 1 dved by The State from Orange- i lrg: 1 "A movement is on foot to build a 1 lilroad in a northerly direction out c om F.hrhardt to open a section of amberg and Colleton counties that t ive for a long time been bottled up. ( ugusta is trying to get the line lilt from Ehrhardt to Blackville, i bile Bamberg wants the road run to ( tat city. t "President Robert H. Jennings of t te local chamber of commerce has icome interested in the matter and ilieves that Orangeburg should help a imberg to get the road and then to a lild the track on from Bamberg to I point between Cope and Denmark c i the Atlantic Coast Line railway. "This road would be of great mefit to Ehrhardt, Bamberg and rangeburg and would give continu- t is route from this city to Savannah, t the Atlantic Coast Line railroad e ready runs from its Charleston and & ivannah line up from Green Pond j Ehrhardt. t 'The distance from. Ehrhardt to ^ imberg Is about 12 miles, and from i imberg on to the Atlantic Coast t ne railroad at a point just below 8 >pe is only four miles. With the 3 instruction of an additional 16 t ilea of track Ehrhardt and Bam- c srg, as well as this city, will be j eatly benefitted. The country r rough which this additional track a contemplated to be laid is very vel and will require very little c ading in its construction. The 1 ilkehatchie swamp is the only t ream of any consequence to be en- p untered and it is very small at the t >int to be crossed by this proposed ^ le. 3 "President Jennings has appointed t committee to go to Bamberg on ( jxt Tuesday to confer with Bamberg 3 sople and other parties interested a the construction of this line. At T is meeting very likely whether or t >t the road will be built will be de- r rtert nnnn. From all nresent indi .tions the new railroad will in all i obability be built as the enthusi- ^ im for ita building is not only high s this point, but alBO in Bamberg x id Colleton counties." c Inter-State Laws Condemned. Atlanta, Ga., April 4.?Resolutions i ivocating nal.onal prohibition, call- t g upon churches to aid in the fight b r prohibition and condemning In- i r-State commerce laws as they now i and, allowing the shipment of c juors from a wet to a dry State, y ere adopted at the closing session y 1 A On1a/\n T oni/i Y UC OUUIUC1U AUU*umuuu j~rwu?>uvs j Dnvention here to-day. A separate resolution also was j lopted, urging Southern Congressien and Senators to support the 1 [iller-Curtis bill, now pending in i cngress which provides for the 1 gregation of liquor in its treatment 1 ader Inter-State commerce laws, id permits any State to seize liquors t lipped within its territory contrary ( ? its laws. I / CYCLONE DOES DAMAGE. kore Injured and Houses Wrecked at Youngs town, Ohio. Youngstown, Ohio, April 4.?In :hree minutes' time a cyclone wind wmo ??/< nront In mi/lot nf a ^aiuu auu n vuw iu vuv miuuv v*. m rain storm, late to-day, and left in ts wake to the southeast of the city i score of injured people, thousands )f frightened ones, ten demolished bouses, and a hundred partially wrecked. The loss is upwards of *100,000. The storm did the heaviest damage n Landsville, where it razed five bouses and wrecked three others. U Hazelton, it wrecked the power plant of the Republic Iron and Steel Company's works, crushed in the jtore and saloon fronts on both sides of Centre street, unroofed and iemolished the gable of the Methoiist church, blew in windows of the public schools and continuing over i hill uprooted trees and pulled down poles and wires. Miss Grace Wheat, a teacher, was trying to close the windows in a school house, when the wind blew n the panes of all the windows, and aer pupils fled panic-stricken, to the aalls, where a janitor controlled ihern. The home of Mrs. Elizabeth 2ox, in Landsville, was blown off its 'oundation, and fell upon the home )f George Hambury. Mrs. Hambury literally threw her 6-year-old girl :rom a window and jumped herself, aut neither was seriously hurt. The' louse was demolished. Similar experiences were had in dozens of aomes. The injured include S. T. jlover, a carpenter, who was pinned n the debris of a fallen building, ind George B. Gallott, whose leg vas almost severed with flying slate. Sallott probably will die. The others vill recover. Would Beat Wet Candidates. Atlanta, April 3.?"As a soldier s compelled to swear allegiance to lis oniintrv hpfnre hp is allowed to ight her battles, so should a candiLate be made to swear allegiance to i position of authority," declared 3ov. Charles N. Haskell, of Oklaloma, in an address before the conrention of the Southern Anti-Saloon eague here this afternoon. Gov. Saskell was urging the election of >nly anti-liquor candidates to offices. Discussing the right of government ;o prohibit the sale of intoxicants, Jov. Haskell said: "Anti-prohibitionists argue that >rohibition hinders the private rights >f citizens. This is undoubtedly rue, but the government has a right o do this. "The selling of poisons is prohibitsd by law. A man who buys carbolic icid is buying it with his own money md if he wishes to drink it it is rnrely a personal matter, but the law Lenies him the right." Want Better Trains. Washington, April 4.?Represenative Patterson has been busying limself to-day, trying to get a better express service for the asparagus ihippers of Williston and Elko in 3arnwell county. Last night he got elegrams from A. M. Kennedy, at Villiston, and B. Stringfellow, at Clko, asking him to make complaint o the interstate commerce commisIati tViof fliq nnpthhnimil limitAfl No. iVU VUttb VUV UVA VMWVMMM w? ? 0 on the Southern has ceased to ake up at Blackville the express ars loaded with asparagus for the forth. This means a delay in shipDent and a consequent loss to the isparagus growers. Mr. Patterson called on the officials of the Southern railway and aid the matter before them. They old him that the shipments of aslaragus at Blackville, Elko, Willison and other points in that section ?ere too heavy to be handled by No. ! 0, but that they had arranged to landle them on local train No. 20 to ,'olumbia and thence North by No. 16. This train arrives in New York it 7 a. m., whereas train No, 30 arives there the night before. This he officials of the road claim is a easonable service. Mr. Patterson then called on the nterstate commerce commissioners rho promised to take up the matter it once, and if the service is found mreasonable to insist on a better >ne. Not So Darned Famished. A man was telling about an excitng experience in Russia. His sleigh vas pursued over the frozen wastes >y a pack of at least a dozen famished solves. He arose and shot the forenost one, and the others stopped to levour it. But they soon caught up vith him, and he shot another, which vas in turn devoured. This was related until the last famished wolf va8 almost upon him with yearning aws, when? "Say, partner," broke in one of the isteners, "acording to your reckon ng that last famished wolfe must lave had the other 'leven inside of lim." "Well, come to think It over," said he story teller, /'maybe he wasn't so lamed famished after all."?Breryjody's. i / * r ' | I WE HA' tAJirw) ilVivy V 2 This week we move 2 handsome new stoi 2 higher up the street, i 2 Simmons's Furniture 2 we are ready to serve 2 than ever before. W< 2 shape for business. *. 2 Everything in the D 1 Prescriptions onr S 2 Don't forget to call on us at PEOPLES DI T BAMBERG SO fTTTTTvTVTyTTTTl i Excursion Rates via Soi Account presentation of silver ser ship "South Carolina," the Souther] very low excursion rates to Charle points in South Carolina and from ets will be sold April 11th and 12 destination up to and including but night of April 16th, 1910. Account South Atlantic States M Southern Railway also announces rates to Spartanburg, S.C., tickets 12th, 13th, 14th, and for trains sche tanburg before noon April 15th. T to leave Spartanburg returning up t not later than midnight of April 1 ther information, tickets, etc., app way ticket agents or address, J. L. MEEK, Asst. Gen. Pass, Agt., Atlanta, Ga. BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of the Bank of Olar, located at Olar, S. C., at the close of business March 24th, ??r?ari 1910. Ehrhar* RESOURCES. ne8S M Loans and discounts $118,597.96 Overdrafts 12.79 Loans Banking House .x 915.50 ?ankini Furniture and fixtures.. . 1,105.54 Due from Banks and Du? * J bankers 9,305.92 bank Currency 500.00 Curren< Silver and other minor / ~ coin 164.24 Sllver coin ni? Total $130,661.95 LIABILITIES. Total Capital stock paid in... .? 20,000.00 Surplus fund 14,000.00 Undivided profits, less sS?nl^ current expenses and taxes paid 9,848.03 Unj"*,W Individual Deposits sub- *"??J Ject to check 61,813.92 r Frjt Bills payable, including , . certificates for money *?2?f . borrowed ....! 25,000.00 Total ..$130,661.95 State of South Carolina?County of "State o Bamberg. Baml Before me came G. M. Neeley, Befoi Cashier of the above named bank. Cashier who, being duly s^orn, says that the who, b above and foregoing statement is a above t true condition of said bank, as true coi shown by the books of said bank. by the 1 G. M. NEELEY, Cashier. * A Sworn to and subscribed before Swon me this 30th day of March, 1910. this 31 E. D. BESSINGER, Notary Public, S. C. Correct Attest Correct C. F. RIZER, Director. j. ^ return You'll Not "Split" a?' nibit ti fr m I tion cei Your Trade r*.el with others once you try mins s; our SODA. The most delicious pure to the fruit flavors?lnscious as if*/.1.1, well as palate tickling. The 1 We serve your favorite anl.cl2 drink best. r. m. m jj J---*- Aeers t lry our iouiiuiiii. Hoover's DRUG STORE ? BAMBERG, S. 0. Baml veZ I ED d into our ? re, located JL next door to ? Store. Here ? j you better ? ^ ^ are now in ? * < ; <: i^ia ' rug line C i 1 r ipeciany T : our new stand. tUG CO. UTH CAMLINA^jj : . V; ithera Railway V-$ trice to U. 8. Battle a Railway announces ston, S. C., from all i, Augusta, Ga. Tick- ? 5th, limited to leave fl t not later than midll ^ [usical Festival, the * ^ very low round trip to be on sale April tduled to arrive Spar- . . ickets will be limited to and including, but 0th, 1910. For furly to Southern Rail W. E. McGEE, | , Division Pass. Agt., I Charleston, S. C. BANK STATEMENT. ment of the condition of the it Banking Co., located at ^ it, S. C., at the close of busiarch 24, 1910. RESOURCES. and disconnt8 $34,745.58 5 house 2,250.00 - Vf; - % ire and fixtures,. 1,396.47 'rom banks and ers 74,531.71 jy 2,000.00 .. 57.50 and other ' minor 4i>; 560.47 'M and cash items.... 16.05 I - ^ - -MUjMM ' I LIABILITIES. stock paid 20,600.00 > fund 3,000.00 led profits lees curexpenses and taxes ' ^ fr Z1 2,884.71 v aal deposits sub- .. to check, 60,375.4* * certificates of de- ; ' ) 39,34748 4115,567.88 f South Carolina?County of >erg. / V; e me came A. P; Henderson, v. or tne above namaa d&hx, 4ns duly eworn, says thai tfea ' V tnd foregofag statement A*, a idition of said-bank, at shown > ^ rooks of said bank. ; . F. HENDERSON. Cashier. ... i to and subscribed be tare me. st day of .March. 1910? J. M. KIRKLAND, " :f Notary Public. S. C. < Attest L. COPELAND. M. D.. [ARLES EHRHARDT, WMS. CARTER, . $ Directors. <9., X>L ELECTION NOTICE. v, ''.ft e is hereby given that upon . . itten petition of more than ~ rd of the resident electors, Ike proportion of the resident lers of Buford's Bridge District No. 7, of Bamberg S. C., of the age of 21 years, . ; :tlon will be held at M. N. "uefday, April 19th, 1910, for rpoae of levying a special tax of. 2 mills on all real and 1 property in Bnford's Bridge No. 7. - Only such electors aa ;7 real or personal property for l, are residents of Bnford's School District No. 7, and ex- / teir tax receipts and registrar t rtificates, as required in genections, shall be allowed to ors favoring the levy of i 17 pecial tax will cast a ballot ' Ing the word "yes" printed or thereon, and electors opposed ievying of the 2 mills special I cast a ballot containing the 10" printed or written thereon 4 polls will bp opened at 7 a. m. se at 4 p. m. . Kearse, A. L. Kirkland, and > Kearse are appointed man- . r ? o conduct said election. O TTT n DftTOWTT XV. W J-/. IVV IT ClUUy S. G. MAYPIELD, J. H. A. GARTER, ? J lunty Board of Education. ??rg, S. C., April 6, 191t. ' IIS? : /S . ' ' ? -4