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(Eh? Slambrrg Ifrralii Thursday, Jan. 22, 1914 SHORT LOCALS. Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Jonnson, of Ellenton, have moved to Bamberg and will make this city their home. Mr. R. P. Searson has been reappointed as postmaster at Allendale. He has held the position for several years. We learn that Mrs. Mamie Ridge?in .. o io/4i??si' ctnrp in Sy Will UpCil Up a lauivo wvw* the building recently occupied by the restaurant. The banks here were closed Monday, as it was Lee's birthday and a legal holiday. The postoffice was open as usual. Mr. W. Frank Johnson has op<*ned up a repair shop in the building recently occupied by Adams & Warren as a grocery store. Mr. H. C. Herndon, who has been conducting a grocery store in the store next to Peoples Bank, has moved His stock of gods to his farm in the country. The new subscribers and renewals have been coming in mighty nice recently. If they would keep up this way all the time we would have no reason to complain. Mrs. Seanie Wilson, of Ulmer, moved to the city this week, and is boarding with her mother, Mrs. M. L. Johns. Mrs. Wilson will make Bamberg her home. Messrs. E. B. Price and M. T. Johnson will soon open up here a ladies' store with dressmaking in connection. They will occupy the store now used as the pool room. The bank statements published this week show that the people of Bamberg county are prosperous. The deposits in the various banks of the county are larger than ever before. In the election of officers of the law association at the University of South Carolina, at Columbia, held last week we note that Mr. H. J. Riley was elected clerk and Mr. R. P. Bellinger law editor of The Gamecock, the college magazine. Mr. C. R. Gillam, who has been keeping books for C. R. Brabham/S Sons for the past two years, has accepted the position of book-keeper for J. D. Copeland. Mr. Gillam will also assist in managing the insurance business of ftiley & Copeland. The auditor will be at Ehrhardt Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday January 26, 27, and 2,8, to receive tax returns of real and personal property. Every tax payer in Three Mile Township should avail himself of this opportunity to make his tax returns. We have received a copy of the 1 program of the sixth annual farmers' one week course in agriculture 'i " " 1.-" given Dy me isew nampsnue v^uncgc, to be held at Durham, N. H., Jan' uary 26th to 30th. We note on the 1 program for Monday, January 26th, Prof. W. E. Stokes will* speak on "Pure Seeds and Seed Testing." 1 Invitations are out announcing the approaching marriage of Mr. W. Frank Johnson, of this city, to Miss Bertha Inez Trent, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. T. Trent, the wedding to take place at the home of the bride's parents in Leaksville. N. C., Wednesday, the 28th instant. Mr. ' and Mrs. Johnson will make their 1 home in this city. Mr. C. H. Mitchell was again taken to the hospital in Charleston this week. He was operated on mere ior appendicitis some months ago and the wound had never healed well, and in jumping from the depot platform on Monday the jar he received . reopened the wound. He is getting along very nicely at the hospital, and he will be home in a week or ten days. The Sunday hours now adopted by the postoffice here seem to be giving universal satisfaction, and it shows the wisdom of the department in requiring that the office shall not be opened during the hours of, church services. There is not a crowd around the office now in the mornings waiting for their mail and consequently not attending church. Both mails are put up immediately after church, but the daily papers, which arrtve on the early morning train, are put up at nine o'clock. The two young Greeks who came here from Charleston some time ago and bought the restaurant of H. F. Free, left town some time Sunday night without notice to any one. They ran the restaurant as usual up to closing time, and since then have not been seen, nor does any one know anything of them. They left all j their clothes and other effects. They had been befriended by Mr. G. A. Ducker, and they owed him considerable money. They were to move the restaurant Monday to the building recently occupied by the postoffice, which had been repainted and remodeled for them by the Messrs. Murphy, the owners. New Adverisements. /^. D. Rhoad?For Rent. l/P. Connelly?Overcoat Lost. /Mrs. J. M. Felder?Dress Making. <>H.. \V. Johnson?For Sale. W. S. Bamberg & Son?For Sale. /Farmers & Merchants Bank?Statement. ^For Sale. -'Bamberg Banking Co.?Statement. /Mf. G. Hoffman?Sample Can Free. * Stewart Cotton Co.?Fertilizers. /J. M. Dannelly & Co.?Xew Stock Coming. lA?'. F. and C. B. Rizer?Notice. AUaTerne Thomas & Co.?Ladies. <^eopIes Bank?Statement. Bank of Olar?Statement. /Bank of Denmark?Statement. /J. D. Copeland. Jr., applies for letters of administration on estate of H. H. Copeland. New Bank Organized. A meeting of the stockholders of the proposed new bank for Bamberg was held last Friday and the bank was formally organized, the name being Enterprise Bank instead of the Panama Canal. Bank, as was first advertised. H. M. Grham, Esq., was elected president; N. A. Hunt, vice president; and C. E. Black, cashier. The cash capital is $30,000. The bank expects to open up for business Saturday of this week, and the law offices of Graham & Black will be used as a banking house for the present. ????? V ? Another Homicide. "Judge" Bamberg, a negro man, was shot near Ulmer Saturday night, sustaining injuries from which he died Monday. Before his death he stated that he had been fired at from a buggy containing three white men and that the shooting was unprovoked. The sheriff was notified ana went to the scene of the crime Monday afternoon, at which time the inquest was held. The jury withheld its verdict until Saturday. Howe/er, a warrant has been sworn out for Quince Brabham, a white man, who was tried some time ago in Bambeig county for killing a negro.?Barnwell People. Appeal From Dr. Derieuv. Dr. W. T. Derieux, corresponding secretary of the State mission board, with headquarters at Greenville, S. C., has issued the following appeal to the Baptists of Bamberg and vicinity: '"I am addressing you through your community paper, as well as through the Baptist Courier, appealing to you to enable me by personal gift from, each of you?to pay an embarrassing debt now resting on your State mission board. "Quite a number of people have sent contributions, varying from twenty-five cents to ten dollars, but the amount does not near pay the debt. By just a small sacrifice and some self-denial, hundreds of our people could send me at least one dollar on this' debt. This, Tbeg you to do. Please do not imagine that your neighbors will send theirs and therefore you need not bother to send yours. This is probably just what your neighbor is thinking about you. "If you send cash, you will receive a receipt at once; but if you send a check or postoffice order, you will need no retaeipt. The name of each giver, and amount given, is put on my book of remembrance. Act at once, so we can settle this early in February." Home Mission Society. The Home Mission Society of Trinity church elected officers for the year 1914, at its meeting Tuesday afternoon at the parsonage: President?Mrs. E. O. Kirsch. First Vice President?Mrs. J. W. Barr. Second Vice President?Mrs. B. \V. Simmons. Third Vice President?Mrs. Clarence R. Brabham. Fourth Vice President?Mrs. G. Frank Bamberg. Treasurer?Miss L. CJeckley. Corresponding Secretary?Mrs. Henry F. Bamberg. Agent for Missionary Voice?Mrs. Herbert G. Delk. In Charge of Parsonage?Mrs. D. J. Delk. Publicity Superintendent?Mrs. W. H. Hodges. The society has had the most prosperous year of its existence: $259.60 has been forwarded to the State treasurer and $159.30 has been expended locally. ^ In addition to this a Christmas box valued at $85.00 was sent to a minister of the conference It was a joy to give this box, and it carried a blessing to the parsonage home. In a spirit of consecration and prayer the home mission women race a new year of service. God grant that each one doing "what she can" may look up and see the "shining of His face in loving approval. - J DIRECTORY OF TRINITY METHO- I ODIST CHURCH. Preaching every Sunday morning 9 at 11 o'clock. I Preaching every Sunday evening S at 7:30 o'clock. 4k Sunday-school every Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Mid-week prayermeeting every Wednesday evenipg at 7:30 o'clock, Epworth League every Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Everybody is cordially invited to Ol attend -these services. ^1 W H. HODGES, Pastor, Ik/1 Railroad Avenue, Bamberg, S. C. v Subject for Sunday morning: "Gideon's Call." For Sunday evening: "The Broken Idol." The Good Roads Matter. Editor The Bamberg Herald: The report of the so called committee published in your paper, recommending that the U. S. government aid in building roads, in Bamberg county, nfforoH hv Ton pressman Bvrnes. "be not accepted" is a surprise to us. Where was this meeting held which created that committee? How many people were present? Who explained the proposition of the government to this committee and who does this committee represent? Was this committee gotten up and this report made and published for the purpose of giving our county officials an excuse for not giving us good roads or was it for the purpose of keeping the good work of Congressman Byrnes from being seen and thereby the way made easier for some one who wishes to run for congress against Byrnes, to influence votes against him? It certainly would be a great thing if the building of -roads could be kept entirely out of politics. Bamberg county has gpent over one hundred thousand dollars in road building and hasn't a single permanent road in the county. Isn't It time that we were learning how to build good roads? At a meeting held at the court house there were present seventy-five to one hundred of the best business a men in {he county who heard the M proposition of the U. S. government B presented by Congressman! Byrnes B and the plan of road building by the B government presented oy .ur. roms, m a government road engineer. The financial condition of the county was looked into and the proposition was considered and it was resolved by unanimous vote. "That it is the sense of this meeting that the county of- s ficials of Bamberg county make such arrangements as is necessary to accept ten thousand dollars of the ^ funds offered by the government for rroad building." rive Now, Mr. Editor, if you needed a good house on your farm and a re- that liable person were to come to you and ing say: "You need a gQOd house, I want whe you to have it, I will furnish a good .ye architect and the very best plans and COUj specifications and superintend the w^e building of the house and give you jive, one-third of the cost of the house and when it is finished it shall be agai all your own," is there a man in j e Bamberg county who would not ac- ^ee cept the proposition? THAT IS tjon JUST WHAT THE GOVERNMENT T OFFERS BAMBERG COUNTY g0 through Congressman Byrnes, yet qqa this so-called committee recommends pac] that this offer BE NOT ACCEPTED. gom We are inclined to believe that this part committee and its report was gotten ^ed up and published as a political s scheme to prevent the acceptance of foncthe government aid and the building an(j of a model road in this county, knowing that a model government road in __ do this county would be a monument gur( to Congressman Byrnes and that it are would be a very hard matter to in- an(j fluence our people to vote against iR t, him after this road had been built. grar Are we, the citizens of Bamberg pj^ county, going to allow ourselves de- t)ak) prived of good roads to gratify the men desire of some person who wishes to ^gg gain some political advantage in a mai) race for congress against Byrnes? di(j Some steps should be taken at once h00( to wipe out the report of that so-call- B ed committee and secure tftat ten ing thousand dollars from the govern- ones ment for tRe roads of our county. ^a(j FARMERS. T BYRNES OX IMPROVEMENT. look Bou Appropriation for Charleston-Savan- hav( ! nah Route Is Urged. in t Washington, January. 20.?Repre- is cl sentative James F. Byrnes to-day ap- deci peared before the rivers and harbors hav< committee, urging an appropriation han< to improve the inland waterway be- to g tween Beaufort and Savannah and in n Beufort and Charleston. This is part, such of the proposed inland waterway O from New England to the Gulf. imp< Mr. Byrnes also joined the citizens serv of Augusta asking for assistance in man the construction of a levee for pro- Ame oMinct floods of the Savan- did nah River, provided that similar as- char sistance is rendered in the construe- tuns tion of a levee on the Sonth Caro- who lina side of the river. sum Slow? That the holid ETTLE DOWN TO . * A 1 l 1 i Ana to ao < HAVE ( I Have Ju E And. CASH # iil BAMBERG, l?ose the Immigrants Would All j with the Go Back Home. made to rf x lucky to orth of the Potomac and Ohio more w rs and east of the Mississippi other o r live about half of all the people more cl ontinental United States. Within America section, included in the forego- human half, are 10,000,000 persons who knew. n -the census man comes round on a sc him some place in a foreign cost nev ltry as that of their birth. Hence, Those n starting out for the day, if one hustle ii s in this industrial section of English >rica, one is likely to run up America nst a foreign born person in near- kind, th very fourth, man or woman ,one ed in a ts. And the stream of immigra- men had has not dried ud. they fou here is no danger that it will do here an< but just suppose that these 10,- win at ,000 of men and women were to worthy* i up their belongings late on but by i e afternoon and that night de- the Irisl for the lands they came from! acter ha red in rural regions of Europe, of value e people ,can have no special practice Iness for our stifling tenements have in our unprotected coal mines, even Ir mican cities can show many quite selves, unpardonable tenements as can Politi< opean cities, and American mines contribu constantly imprisoning hefpless made by hapless men,and taking bfg tolls Christm; ragic deaths. Why should immi- music w its remain? What base of com- the Ger: at would Americans have if their beer we 3rs, confectioners, clothiers, ice- brought * 1 1 ?^~ ^ nollor nhiafl,- J , coal [leavers, ramuitu auu v-vi'ui ^jucii> i ;ers, their almost every form of them to ual labor, and small tradesmen, America go back to scenes of their child- of their 1? have gi ut the days immediately follow- frugalit; their departure would be desolate trial tra ; for those of us who remain. A How night for America indeed! characte his is the day when Americans Dutch tl : to their waterpower, their soils, their soi ndless in resources, Americans cleanlim j been prodigal in the use. often zeal? "I he waste, of them. But now all so their iianged. What we have we have .that in. ded to take care of. What we Scot, fai ; not, but may have by proper in his iling, we are training ourselves ments o et. Efficiency in shop, on farm. home. ! line, in publicity, in salescraft? stand i: t is the order everywhere. campaig ne commodity of transcendent deavor e srtanee is left out of these con- not lay ative considerations by a good Scotch d ijr people. That commodity is Today srican national character. Where who arr America get it? It is unlike the America acter of any other nation. For- young 1 itely these foreign-born peoples are Jew might go away between some prepare iown and sunrise cannot take sages hi' > w , '\>S, V avs liavp nassed. vou must WORK h , ' jood Work You Must IOOD STOCK J \ '* st Received Another Car of XTRA FINE MULES . . 117*11 C-ll V (L. wilt jeii iuu ai uic RIGHT PRICEl or CREDIT K BAMBERG . SOUTH CAROLINA A(i :m the contribution they have to pay their fares, but they give no. American character. We are thought to their characters. These - . i that extent. These millions last they bring along, little considerho enter at New York and ing their value, and willing to drop [ cean harbors are bringing them for American kinds. 1 - ' Vi-C tiaracteristics to dump into \ The Jew is bringing with him to ?the most remarkable I America an intensely earnest and val- ' . melting pot Jhe world ever | uable family life. He is loyal to his It is Pentecost repeated, but; blood relatives. He guards the home. ' * ale that the original Pente- Fairly free from crime, he is temperer dreamed of. ate and he has a passion for rightwho know say we got our ecusness. ? J i politics from the Irish. The Italians are moral. While fond of , have politics, but it is not the dancing, there is only one dance hall n kind. Our kind is the Irish in New York city that is kept by an . e land on top quality. Cramp- Italian. And into that hall no Italian small if fertile island Irish- girl goes. Mothers of Italian girls t 1 need for larger quarters and have the conscientious cooperation of I nd them here. Irishmen came the proprietor of this one hall to seo mm i taught us how to fight and that Italian girls do not go there. the ballot box. A few un- So this new Christian conservation, , r men and methods floated in, this character making for new \' 1 ind large the contribution of America, are what churches have eni to American political char- tered upon. Tenets are that mistakes ! s been tremendous in volume and neglect of past immigrant years " " i. And through America as a are not to be repeated. The immiplace Irishmen in politics grants are not to be exploited. They 1 - w tfluenced the whole world, are not to be urged to drop their v 7 eland and England them-' individualism. They are to be encouraged to make their largest con* cs was by no means all of the tribution of American character and tion to our national traits in turn America is to gi,ve them of the Irish, any more than the its best. No risks are to be taken, as tree, sausage, beer and It is to be a conservation that con-; 4re all of the contributions of serves and that eventually will make , mans. Politics, sausage and an American character worthy and re things Irish and German lasting, one that the rest of the world with them over the ocean will admit to be in keeping with our lecause it never occurred to position as a world power. ~ inovn tViam hohind And I : ? ?? KILLING IN AIKEN COUNT*. is infinitely richer because _ -v thoughtfulness. Germans "Cfrapg" Alleged Cause of Beach Is- ' ven to American character land Tragedy. i v, thoroughness and indus- _ __ ining. Aiken, January 19.?Sunday afpoor would be American ternoon about 5 o'clock Sheriff How- *' v, for example, had not the ard received word that a negro had ' irown in their stubbornness, been killed at Beech Island, and he t in their way makeup, their and Rural Policeman S. E. Holley imjss and their missionary mediately went to the scene. Upon ^ 'he Scotch brought hither al- reaching Beech Island it was found missionary zeal and threw out that Joree Barrett had killed A. * But the kindly and canny B. Hart on the place of Mr. Dawson i ->' ned for certain drinks made Atkinson, about 3 o'clock. From all " '>. highlands, kept advertise- accounts it seems that the killing <- \;/ f them in his newspaper at was the result of trouble which start- ' %' Such part of America as may ed during a game of craps, u need of the anti-saloon It was some time after Sheriff .*% n on which Christian En- Howard and Policeman Holley reachtnd others are launched can- ed Beech Tsland before the negro was blame for their plight at found. When arrested he had & V ; oors. made away with the gun and was three great types of peoples walking around. The officers went to ive at immigrant stations of the scene of the shooting with Ctfron ports, bringing with them ner Spnadley and found the dead nejlood and strong character, gro lying where he had fallen, with s, Slavs and Latins. They no one else around. The body was their baggage for their pas- placed in an outhouse and the inther and they provide money quest was held yesterday afternoon,