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ttlbr lambrrg Sirralh ^ ? Thursday, Feb. 23,1911. SHORT LOCALS. Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. Njn and after March 1st the penalty on town property taxes will be increased to 7 per cent. The banks and post office were closed yesterday, as it was a legal holiday, Washington's birthday. Our representatives in the legislature are at home again, the general assembly having adjourned early last Sunday morning. Miss Camille Price is managing the millinery store of Mrs. A. McB. Speaks, while the latter is in Northern markets purchasing spring goods. The time for making tax returns expired last Monday, and yet a number of tax payers in this county have not made returns. Why will people ' neglect this important matter? Br Mrs. B. H. Carter, of the Ehrhardt section, sent us yesterday a bunch of garden peas in full bloom. These were grown right out in the garden, 'o norlv cro On in P" tfJiU 11 auic 10 can; quiuvu.uq. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold its regular monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon, February 28, in the Baptist church. The meeting will begin promptly at 4 o'clock. Clarence Mixson, who has been a barber at J. A. Nimmons's barber' shop for the past two years or more, has returned to Fairfax, but Arthur has secured another good barber from Orangeburg. rT1v- ~ A# ^orriofrotlAn fftr the (1 11UUUAd VI l^glOliatiVU JkN/A VMV municipal election to be held May 2, are now open at the office of the clerk and treasurer of the town. All qualified voters can get their certificates by applying to M. W. Brabham at the Bamberg Banking Co. By the way, how did you like the design of the Confederate monument, a cut of which we published last week? Pretty, wasn't it? Well, come across with your subscription right away and make the monument a reality. Now is the tim9 to give. One of the members of the boys* corn club in this county is only 12 years old, and he is a son of a mighty good farmer, Mr. Thos. Clayton. This little fellow is enthusiastic and like as not he'll carry off a prize. Work has commenced on the two stores occupied by G. O. Simmons for his furniture and hardware business. Plate glass fronts will be put iin and the improvements will make them handsome stores. They are the property of Mr. G. Moye Dickinson. It might be well to compare the tax levy of Barnwell county for the present year with Bamberg. In this ? ; county the levy is 5% mills, and in ||lp- Barnwell it is seven mills. This ?|f county is out of debt and yet Barnwell has considerable back indebted^ ; V ness. Does this look like taxes are irkTXTOT in Pafnwoll than Ramher?? I Secretary B. D. Carter, of the business league, has received a letter from the railroad commission in reference to the poor railroad and mail service Bamberg is getting under the new schedule of the Southern Railway. The commission said that the matter would be taken up, and we "trust they will be quick about it, for we want relief promptly. Mr. W. T. Riley, Jr., of Allendale, was married in Columbia yesterday to Miss Katherine Allen. Mr. Riley is a son of Mr. W. T. Riley, who formerly lived here, and he has many friends and relatives in Bamberg who extend congratulations. The youg couple left for a trip soon after the ceremony. Mr. Riley is cashier of the Bank of Allendale. We had hoped this week to publish a list of the subscribers to the < Confederate monument fund, but, rm oAArmnt nf thf> absence of Mr. I Bomar, who has been in Spartanburg for several days, we are not able to do so. Mr. Bomar, who is soliciting funds for this purpose under the direction, of the local Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy, states that he is getting along nicely and that the monument will certainly be erected. H&Married at Ridgeland. Mr. S. C. Rhode, formerly of this county, but who has been living at Wiggins for several years, where he is a machinist for the Westmoreland Lumber Company, was married at m Ridgeland Sunday t<? Miss Daisy Dunning. The ceremony took place at the home of the bride's parents, and, was a most beautiful wedding, the color scheme being purple and white. . .... Forty-six guests were entertained at a course dinner soon after the ceremony, and the bride and groom left for a trip to Charleston and other points. They will make their home at Wiggins. Mr. Rhode is wellknown in this county and has many friends, who extend best wishes to him and his bride. d" .... ' "" Boys' Corn Club. The boys' corn club will hold a meeting on the 4th of March for the purpose of getting new members and getting our club in business shape. We have written to the Hon. 0. B. Martin asking him to be present and to lecture for us, and we are sure those present will hear something good on the line of raising corn. We want, as many parents as possible to come and bring their sons to join us. For any information you may address, BENJAMIN F. HILL, President, Bamberg, S. C. Fire Saturday Night. Last Saturday night about half past eleven o'clock the house of Matthew Stewart, colored, on New Bridge street, near the colored Baptist church, was totally destroyed by fire with its contents. Matthew is a barber at Nimmons's shop and when the alarm was given he was just leaving the shop to go home, as they keep open late on Saturday nights. Little of the furinture was saved, as the flames had gained such headway when the fire was discovered, in fact Matthew's wife and children barely had time to get out of the house, and they had to escape without being fully dressed. It is not known how the fire originated, but it is supposed to have caught in the kitchen some way. The house was a neat one of several rooms, painted and fixed up nicely, and the loss falls heavily on Stewart. He had $700 insurance on the house and $300 on the furniture, but this will not cover tVia 1 nco til Vz XVOOt Coining Court. The March term of the court of general sessions and common pleas for Bamberg county will convene here Monday morning, March 6th, Judge George E. Prince presiding. The grand and petit jurors were drawn Tuesday, and are as follows: GRAND JURY. J. A. Murdaugh, C. S. Folk, J. S. J. Faust, G. W. Goolsby, J. H. Fender, D. B. Rhoad, >H. M. Bishop, J. A. Tant, W. P. Bishop, S. W. Love, G. W. Kearse, H. L. Kinard, G. Frank Bamberg, C. E. Walker, L. W. Fender, H. W. Chitty, G. L. Sandifer, J. H. Atterberry. The first six are jurors who hold over from last year. PETIT JURORS?FIRST WEEK. V. J. Hartzog, J. W. Jennings, Cooper Gunnells, L. D. Odom, L. H. Folk, J. J. W. Johnson, J. J. Simmons, S. M. Goodwin, J. C. Hiers, Jr., P. A. Carroll, W. H. Connelly, J. H. Lancaster, J. M. Kinsey, C. J. S. Brooker, C. R. Brabham, T. N. Rhoad, R. J. Hightower, R. E. Hoffman, H. A. Cave, S. S. Ray, C. J. Creech, J. A. Williams, J. A. Gillam, G. F. Rentz, T\ D. Beard, J. H. Hadwin, H. H. Copeland, J. T. Griffith, H. E. Warren, W. H. Varn, J. E. McMillan, Eugene Hutto, Eugene Carroll. PETIT JURY?SECOND WEEW. W. B. Chitty, L. A. Brabam, J. L. Cothran, R. T. Wililams, C. M. Varn, G. T. Kinard, J. B. Brickie, C. B. Steedly, Henry Fail, A. J. Fail, N. W. Sojourner, D. O. Hunter, Jeif Gunnells, G. H. Smoak, W. K. Best, J. O. Kearse, S. J. Still, W. B. Smith, C. H. Brabham, J. H. Walker, J. E. Free, T. R. Steedley, H. M. Herndon, G. D. Hanberry, Jr., Asa Baxter, S. B. Black,, H. W. * " n rrz -J TT 13 n*l jonnson,, jr. xviua.ru, xx. xv. uulam, A. W. Kinard, 0. A. Simmons, J. H. Hutto, J. W. Main, E. C. Bruce, A. J. Sanders, L. G. Sandifer. Corn Club Organized. Pursuant to the call issued by Co. Superintendent of Education R. W. D. Rowell, a good number of the substantial farmers of the county and a number of boys met at the court house Tuesday to organize a boys' corn club for this county. Mr. L. L. Baker, of Bishopville, district agent, was present and made an interesting address on the movement. The club was orgaized with the following officers: Benjamin Hill, president; Leland ? J J * . T i/innl r?lotr_ oanuuer, vice yresiueiiL, ?ji\ju.m ton, secretary; R. W. D. Rowell, treasurer. The following boys were enrolled as members of the club: Sammie Clayton, Leland Sandifer, Roy M. Hunter, James Griffith, Walter Delk, D. P. Matheny, Lionel Clayton, Ryan Clayton, Wilson Harrison, Benjamin Hill, Francis Bamberg, S. G. Mayfield, Jr., Clifton Kinard, Joe Willie Chitty. This makes 14 members to commence with, ~nd another meeting of the club will be held at the court house on the first Saturday in March. The boys and the treasurer will soon call on the farmers and business men for contributions in the way of prizes, and they should meet with a liberal response for we know of nothing that will give a greater inincentive to farming and keep the boys on the farm than these corn clubs for boys. It will make them study and take an interest in scientific agriculture, and cannot but be of great benefit to the county. We feel sure many prizes will be offered for various yields. The details of tbe contest will soon be arranged. The Proper Spirit. We are glad to publish the letter below, not only for the libera1 contribution therein, but for the beautiful sentiment it expresses. It is a glorious day for our country when all sections of the country are united and men contribute just as freely to monuments to those who fought against them as they do to those who fought with them. In the face of such a letter, the people of Bamberg county should readily subscribe the balance needed for the erection of a Confederate monument to the Conan.ncnl/^iore nf fVio r>nn ntv ICUtl aiC cuiuitig ui KUV vj . "Chicago, February 11, 1911. "Mrs. Thos. Black, Bamberg, S. C.? "Dear Mrs. Black: It gives us great pleasure to enclose check for $25.00 for the worthy cause you represent. We wish it were much more, but we have very many calls on us, as you no doubt can imagine. "We are glad to send this because it will help you to erect a monument to the heroes of the South, who were just as brave and just as honest in their endeavors as were the men of the North, and we are glad to know that the time is here when there is no North and no South, but all one happy united country of brothers and sisters of the republic. "Yours truly, "GEO. P. BENT COMPANY, "Chas. A. Bent, Vice Pres't & Treas." Civic League. The year is as yet young enough for new year resolutions. Let this be one which the citizens of Bamberg shall make and keep: "Resolved, that wre are going to do all within our power to aid the ladies of the civic league to make our town a clean one." Garbage cans will soon be placed upon. Main street and near public buildings; is it asking too much to beg that everybody will put their waste paper, banana peelings, and all trasn 11110 inese receptacles, mstead of throwing them upon the streets to be wafted here and there by the winds or left to repose in unsightly heaps by the sidewalks. If possible, more unsightly even than the waste paper are the piles of tin cans, bottles, etc., heaped on the streets, or at best placed in some battered box, an eye-sore to every passer-by, remaining there often times for weeks. To relieve this state of affairs a committee submitted a map of the streets to Mr. Hand asking that the street wagon be sent on certain davs to remove the trash from certain streets. Each housekeeper will then know just what day of the week to put out her trash, taking in her box from the street as soon as emptied. Letting the railroad divide the town in two, the town on each side is again divided into two wards, the wards on north side being No. and No. 2?these the cart will visit on Monday and Tuesday. The wards on south side of Railroad Avenue No. 3 and No. 4? these will be visited by crat on Wednesdays and Thursdays, while it will go to ward No. 5 on Fridays ?that part of town west of Main and south of the railroad. The regular meeting of the league will be held Thursday afternoon at four o'clock in the Fitting School chapel. It is hoped that every member will be present. Bamberg Graded School. Honor roll of Bamberg graded school for the month ending January the 27th: FIRST GRADE. Heinrich Arndt, Walter Hutto, Fred Sanders, Cornelius Van Orsdell, George Yeitrakis, Irma Dixon, Yancey Graham, Theresa Fowler, Beulah Jennings, Annie May Scott, Mildred Rice, May Lillie Sanders. SECOND GRADE. Norma Brabham, Daisy Free, Vivian Free, Natalie Hooton, Marie Phillips, Maggie Zeigler, Sallie Tyler, Bernice Simmons, Thurman Herndon, Wilkes Knight, Jim Rhoad, Willie Sanders, Louis Sutton. THIRD GRADE. Dorothy Watson, Hazel Armstrong, Marguerite Dixon, Rebecca Graham, Aegina Knight, Elizabeth Inabinet, Lucile Folk, Charlie Moye, Bertie Watson, Jefferson Riley, Harwell Dixon, Marion Rhoad. FOURTH GRADE. Benjamin Rentz, Roy Free, Tom Felder, Rebecca Dickinson, Margaret' Jennings. FIFTH GRADE. Margaret Easterling, Eunice Hunter, Virgie Folk, Garris Zeigler, Lucile Hunter, Von Etta Rentz. SIXTH GRADE. Josephine Free, Carey Graham, Francis Rice, Pinckney Smoak, Nelson Wright. ELEVENTH GRADE. Helen Easterling. Those who made an average of 90 per cent, on every subject except one are Leone Bamberg, Bennie Black, Arrie Free, Homer Godbee, and Eulalie Coleman. Men and women, sell guaranteed hose. 70 per cent, profit. Make $10 daily. Full or part time. Beginners investigate. Wear Proof, 3038 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. I Baptist Church News and Notices. DIRECTORY. Preaching service every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and at night, by the pastor, Rev. 0. J. Frier. Sunday-school every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, J. A. Hunter, superintendent. B. Y. P. U. every Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Prayer meeting every Thursday night. Woman's Missionary Society meets Wednesday afternoons after the second Sunday in each month. Sunbeam Band meets every two weeks on Friday afternoons. Monthly conference each fourth Sunday. Observance of Lord's Supper tne first Sunday in each quart r. NEWS AND NOTICES. The Sunday-school reached high water mark again Sunday. There were 108 present and the collection was $6.01, and no special appeal either. Very good congregations attended both morning and evening services. Pastor Frier preached in the morning from Paul's shipwreck, in the 27th chapter of Acts; and at night on "Being Let Alone." B. Y. P. U. had about 40 present Suday afternoon and an interesting temperance program was carried out. Our pledge for the rebuilding of the boys' dormitory at the orphans' home, recently burned, was gathered up and forwarded the first of the week. The Sunbeam Band meets this week, Friday afternoon. Subject of the prayermeeting this week is, "Imprisored by Giant Despair, and How to Get Deliverance." Remember next Sunday is conference day and time for mission offerings. Sunday-School Association. The South Carolina Sunday-School Association will meet in Spartanburg this year, the dates being March 28, 29 and 30. Bamberg county has been alloted 15 delegates to be chosen from all denominations throughout the county. Any officer, teacher or other delegate elected Dy the schools, will have a chance to go if they will make application to Mr. M. W. Brabham, the member of the executive committee from this county. The association is one of the largest gatherings ever held in the State and includes men and women from every denomination and from every walk in life. It is being planned to have a parade of men from Bible clesses in which over 2,000 are expected to tajce part. Messrs. Tuller and Meredith, of New York, will be in charge of the singing. The Great Pattern. Our chats on dress naturally lead to the subject of patterns. Even more important than the material itself is the pattern, for without a correct guide you cannot get good results. Think of the number of dresses made for one person in a lifetime. Yet even after so much practice, unless one is an expert designer and cutter, they are rarely ever made to suit your fancy. There is more than apt to be some defect, even after so many repeated efforts. This should make us think of the great?the supreme importance of having the very best pattern to shape our lives by, for we have only one trial, and at the best our efforts to mold our lives are apt to be crude and ill-shapen. We must select some one higher than ourselves to imitate. Some boys will take Washington, Lincoln, or Lee; the girls, perhaps Martha Washington, Susanna Wesley, or to borrow a most lovable character from the old world, Florence Nightingale. These are all shining examples, worthy of emulation, but there is one character that stands out even above them?the only really perfect man that has ever lived?the Man of Love. We must try to he like Him. Although the Son of a King, He came to earth in the most humble manner, and all His life, instead of being served by otrfers, He ministered unto them. He went about healing the sick, opening the eyes of the blind, cleansing the lepers, and even raising people from the dead. Does it not seem that such a person would be welcomed everywhere? But He was not. He had many bitter enemies who were continually trying him with difficult questions, but even they had to admit they could find no fault in Him. It is heart-rending?but let us go a little farther?one of His own disciples betrayed Him into the hands of His enemies, and sold Him for thirty pieces of silver. Truly a sad commentary on the weakness of men! Yet, after all this, He cherishes no bitter feelings, but is still the Man of Love. Is not this the character we should try to emulate? Try to get a picture in our minds of what Christ's ideal woman would be like, then put your thoughts in writing, for future reference, and what may still be more difficult, try to live up to it. You can't do all at once, but little by little you can grow more and more like Him. "Be noble; and that nobleness that lies In others sleeping but never dead, Will rise to meet thine own." P, B. P. GOVERNOR PAROLES HIM. G. Wash Hunter Given Until July 1 for Motion for Retrial. Columbia, Feb. 20.?A parole until July 1, 1911, has been granted by Gov. Blease of G. Wash Hunter, recently convicted in Greenwood couiiiv lor mansiaugnter ana sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. Hunter desired to make a motion for a new trial, and the judge before whom the motion should be made being ill at this time, the parole was granted as the motion could not be made after the execution of the sentence began. The petition was presented through F. H. Dominick, with whom Gov. Blease acted as partner during the defense of Hunter. Letter from Texas. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 12, 1911. The Editor Bamberg Herald, Bamberg, S. C. Dear Sir:?Of all of our cities El Paso is coming in for her amount of attention just at tne present time. The international aviators ' are here at Washington park with such bird men as Hamilton and Simon "cutting up something scandalous" in the air, and the Mexican rebels just over the Rio Grand singing songs and building their campflres almost within gunshot of the besieged city of Juarez. "Our Uncle Sammy" has his boys in blue and drab parading the international line from lower- Texas to the Pacific Ocean endeavoring to enforce the neutrality laws. At this place there are enough and to spare to eat up the whole Mexican family ?"sombreros" and all. The insurrecto chief Pascual Orosco has been at the borders of Ciudad Juarez for the past 10 days. He allowed Colonel Robago with his remnant of worn out federal veterans from Casas Grandas to march into town for its defense last Sunday night when he had enough men in his command to have annihilated them. Then he camped in the hills less than three miles west of the city on the banks of the Rio Grande and rested easy all the week and ate apples, bananas, etc., thrown over the river by admiring American crowds. They are indeed a happy bunch and are confident of victory. I saw and conversed with Gen. Orosco yesterday. He is an ordinary looking Mexican at a distance but on close observation you can see a determined mouth and chin combined with an intelligent forehead and fiery eyes. You readily size him up as the fighting man he has proved himself to be so far. After talking with him and asking him all the questions I felt like it didn't take me long to sum up all I had learned. He treats all Americans with tne greatest of courtesy and is always pleased to talk but he is giving no information about his movements. Yesterday afternoon he with the combined forces of Blanco and Alanis marched South to intercept Gen. Navarro who with about 1,500 men are marching from Chihuahua to the relief of Cindad Juarez. A big battle is expected to take place about 25 miles south of here. And as the insurrectos want the General very much, to pay their respects to him for the way he bayonetted the - - - _ _ wounded, snot nis prisoners aiter the battle of Cerro Prieto (Black Hill,) it will be a safe bet to say that it will be a warm scrap. This revolution has been looked upon as a volcanic overflow that the Latin-American nations are subject to once in a while but its steady growth discounts such an idea. These men started out a mere handful, to fight the Mexican government, whom they accused of all kinds of oppression, and now* for three months the government has been trying to quell them and they are growing all the time. They have marched all over the country, fighting only when they felt like it, tore up all the railroads they wanted to and have been victorious in nearly every fight they have entered. To have done all this it is easy to see that they undoubtedly have had the moral as well as financial support of so-called neutral citizens, and the government has shown itself absolutely incapable of stamping them out or protecting property so far. There are numbers of times * when the federal troops are entirely on the defensive, as is the Case here in the seizing of Cindad Juarez and both forces here are about equal. I could go on to describe the qualities, behavior and equipment of both sides but it would be too lengthy. There is no use trying to get at the correct number of men in the field south of here as there are countless reports. The government also enforces a strict censorship and only meagre and unconfirmed reports of fights in other States ever reach us. Some of these times I may be able to find out something interesting. Here's wishing for South Carolina and Bamberg county, particularly, all grades of prosperity for the present year. A DANE. . . -v v?: -V'$ . . f ^ Makes Rome Baking Easy * pMH yfii^ kftKlHC 1 POWDER % Absolutely Pure J The only baking powder made from Royal Orepe Oream of Tartar NOALUMJHUMEHBSHUTt . MAD AT COLUMBIA. || Governor Blease Orders Whiskey Cases to Magistrate. Gov. Blease has instructed his b, whiskey constables in Richland county not to bring any moye cases before the recorder of the city of Columbia. He has instructed them to bring all violations of the dispensary law before a magistrate. Gov. Blease said that the fines re- jp|| ceived from th? cases of violation of the dispensary were considerable and ? went into the city treasury of Columbia. Gov. Blease takes the position because there was some talk of cutting the water off from the governor's f tel mansion should the veto of the item |g of $7,500 for water have been up- v* held. There is some question as to whether the governor's mansion is a public building or not. Receiver Asked- 2 >| Washington, Feb. 18.?Petitions for an injunction to prevent the in- rJ crease of certain insurance rates and ^ for the appointment of a receiver for the supreme lodge of the Knights of -iSi Pythias, a corporation, and G. M. Hanson and U. D. Hunt, have been filed in the District Supreme court by John H. Turpin, of Greensboro, ^j: J Ala., and Joe Williams, of this cit^y, both members of the fourth class of Y:|l the endowment rank of the Knights of Pythias. Justice Gould signed a rule, returnable March 3, to show cause why /J the order should not be enjoined .' v3 from collecting the monthly assess1 Atria rrr\ ino+ fVh lUCUlO uun icyicu agaiuow uav yywtioners. It is the contention of the , petitioners that an increase in the Wjl amount of their assessments destroys their rights under their contract with the order. * : Just in Time. A German shoemaker left the gas ' ^j| turned on in his shop one night, and upon arriving in the morning struck a match to light it. There was a ter- 4.j|| rific explosion, and the shoemaker was blown out through the door almost to the middle of the street. A passer-by rushed to his assist- jjg ance, and, after helping him to arise, inquired if he was injured. The little German gazed at his place of business, which was now burning briskly, and said: "No, I ain't hurt. But I got out -/J shust in time. Eh?"?Lippincotts. BANKRUPT NOTICE. > In the District Court of the United States, for the District of South Carolina?In bankruptcy. In the matter of H. C. Copeland, bankrupt: To the creditors of the above bank- , rupt: Notice is hereby given that On the 8th day of February, A. D., 1911, the above named bankrupt waa duly adjudicated bankrupt, and that the first meeting of his creditors will be held at the store of H. C. 4 Copeland & Co., Ehrhardt, S. C. on the 2nd day of March, A. D. 1911, at "J 12 o'clock, at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their j claims, appoint a trustee, examine i the bankrupt and transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting. It is proposed to consider at this meeting a propo- % y sition for composition. G. M. GREENE, Referee in Bankruptcy. Dated February 8, 1911. , BANKRUPT NOTICE. In the District Court of the United States, for the District of South Carolina?In bankruptcy. In the matter of H. C. Copeland \^: & Co., bankrupts. , To the creditors of the above bankrupts: -^3 v./v?/vW criuon that nn thp iNOUlue 1? uc? cuj ~??. ? 8th day of February, A. D., 1911, , , -2 the above named bankrupts was duly adjudicated bankrupts, and that the first meeting of their creditors will be held at the store of H. C. Copeland & Co., Ehrhardt, S. C. on the 2nd day of March, A. D. 1911, at 12 o'clock, at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupts and transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting. It is proposed to consider at this meeting a proposition for composition. G. M. GREENE, , ?% ^ Referee in Bankruptcy. 1, % Dated February 8, 1911. ^ ^ ^ ^