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Sambfrg tieraib = V Thursday, Sept. 10, 1914. SHORT LOCALS. c Brief Items of Interest Throughout P the Town and County. 0 f< A distinct chilliness is felt in tne early mornings now, indicating the ^ approach of fall. Q .Mr. J. J. Smoak's new residence is p" near completion, and Mr. Smoak expects to move in soon. The sales of the Bamberg county . dispensaries for the month of Au- ^ gust amounted to $8,715.57. ^ The election Tuesday passed off c, quietly, no disturbance of any sort q being reported anywhere in the county. o: Monday was labor day. The holi- b< day was observed in Bamberg by on- ft ly the postoffice, which kept Sunday si hours, and the dispensary. u: Rev. W. H. Hodges will conduct t{ services at the Methodist church C( Sunday morning and evening. The fl( public is cordially invited. Work is being pushed on Mr. J. 111 fc B. Brickie's new garage building on " Main street. The new building will 84 G( afford Mr. Brickie much more room. ^ Several firms in the city are paying a cent above market quotations for cotton where it is applied on account. Circulars have been sent out tj. to this effect. ej The city graded school opened w Monday morning with a good attend- C( ance. Prof. Allen and his efficient <}< corps of teachers were all in their places. The school has splendid pros- j i pects this term. w The mock wedding this (Thurs- ti day) evening at the Carlisle school cr auditorium promises to be a ludicrous affair, and no doubt will be hugely enjoyed by the large crowd that is certain to attend. ta The postoffice observed Sunday jn hours Monday and the carriers did g{ not go out on their routes, as it was labor day am4 a legal holiday. The dispensary was also closed, but the banks were upen as usual. *0 The county dispensaries were b< j closed this week for three days. This p( unusual coincidence came about be- bJ cause the first day of the week was 4 Sunday, the second day labor day, gj and the third day primary eiecuon Si day. f0 The Denmark Warehouse company ec has been commissioned by the secre- 1, tary of state. The capital stock is a: $1,000, and the petitioners are W. L. bi Riley, W. S. Cooper and R. L. Zeigler. The company was formed for fa the purpose of affording immediate h< storage for cotton. tc tt Cotton is being picked' out and ginned rather slowly. Many of the farmers are finding it difficult to secure money to pay the pickers. The farmers say that cotton has opened unusually fast this year, and that h perhaps the bulk of the cotton crop e: is now open on the stalks. Mr. R. Pinckney, Bellinger, who lo recently graduated from the law de- ^ partment of the University of South a1 Carolina at Columbia, has opened an office in 3amberg for the practice of m his profession. Mr. Bellinger is the youngest son of the late Jno. R. Bellinger, who will be remembered as sc one of the most prominent members *c of the Bamberg bar. w Sc The chaingang is now in camp near Mrs. M. E. Bamberg's plantation, and work is being done on the t road to Govan and Olar. The road CJ is being widened and clayed, and will be a fine highway when completed. ^ The idea of permanent work is being carried out, and as a result wherea] ever the gang goes over a piece of road it is left in fine condition. iC A lortra fr\rr*cx nf hands is fineaeed R on the work of remodeling the pas- tl senger depot here. The sidetrack fc has been moved about six feet out- ai ward, and the main track is being B moved a like distance from the depot. In order to move the tracks, bi it was necessary to cut away several rr feet of the freight platform. A force gi of hands is also engaged in the in- c< terior work of the station. if 1 o Linen Shower. v, The Bamberg County Infirmary will be tendered a linen shower by C) the Civic asociation Friday afternoon. September 18th. to which the ladies r< of the community are invited. Ev- b, erv one interested in neiping toe m- ^ firmarv is solicited to send one or more articles of linen to assist in this worthy cause. The articles most needed will be sheets (single bed), counterpanes, pillow cases, tow- ei els, table cloths. 2 or 2 1-2 yards, ta- B ble napkins, tray covers, etc. P Mrs. Robert Black will be the hos- h tess and in her spacious new home 01 she and the Civic members will gra- b' ciously receive all callers. h ^ w Girls and boys will soon be going a away to college. They should mark d their clothes b.efore going. Carter's e: stamping outfit is the very thing. t< 25c at The Herald Book Store. h WILL SOON BE READY. Warehouse (Xmipany is Organized. Officers and Itfrectors. The organization of the Bamberg otton Warehouse company was conileted Friday last, when a meeting f the stockholders was held. The allowing officers were elected President, W. D. Road; vice presients, G. Frank Bamberg and C. B. 'ree: secretary and treasurer. H. M. raham: directors: W. D. Road. G. 'rank Bamberg, C. B. Free, H. M. raham, J. W. Stokes, D. F. Hooton, ames Aldrich Wyman, W. M. Brabam. C. R. Brabham. G. Move Dicklson; by-laws committee: G. Moye dckinson. H. M. Graham: building ammittee: J. W. Stokes, C. B. Free, . Frank Bamberg. The charter will be secured at nee material for the warehouse has een ordered, and within the next }w days cotton will be received for orage. The company will not wait ntil the entire building is completed > receive cotton, but storage will be >mmenced as soon as the ground Dor is laid. A warehouseman and night watchtan will be elected within the next sw days. These officers, with the scretary and treasurer, will be bond1. Receipts for storage of cotton in le warehouse will be recognized by ly bank, and advances will be made a such cotton stored. The company wishes it understood i lat all parties, whether stoekhold- ; "s or not, may store cotton in the arehouse; and cotton will be wel>med from anyone, whether a resi?nt of this county or not. , To begin with storage facilities for 000 bales will be provided, and the , arehouse will be added on to from ^ oo t Vi HnmonH i q in I1J VZ LU lliuc oo Uit uviuuu V. | eased. Warehousing Cotton. The citizens of Bamberg are cerdnly doing their part toward holdg cotton. Last week Ehrhardt be- * in her warehouse to hold 2,500 ! ties. ' The farmers around the town of charter and ordered the material i begin the erection of their ware juse. It is expected that at this )int there will be more than 5,000 lies of cotton held. At Denmark a meeting was held iturday, which completed their ormization. A charter was applied ' ir, and the material has been order- 1 I to errect a warehouse to hold 000 bales and they expect to hold, ( ound Denmark, 3,500 to 4,000 lies. Let the good work go on. The .rmers have long needed ware- ; suses, in which to store their cotin, so as to lake care of it and sell le cotton throughout the entire 1 jar instead of a few months. The Carlisle School and Cotton. Head Master Guilds furnishes The , erald the following, which is self ; cplanatory: A very important meeting-of the cal board of control of Carlisle , 'HOOl was Iieiu lUUiiUajr anciuuuu ; which the present financial situaon in the South was discussed. The en behind the Carlisle school reaze that many a boy and girl will be jnied the privilege of attending :hool this winter unless parents put irth extraordinary effort and are illing to undergo much personal icrifice. The Carlisle school has alays been run for the good it could d and never as a money-making en- 1 xprise. Wo want to do what we in to help in the present crisis. 1 Prospects were never brighter. Aplications are fifty per cent, in admce of last year. We have enough pplications in hand to fill Guilds ill, our handsome new dormitory , ir boys, and to all but fill Mary Ann amberg hall with girls. However, lere are accomodations for about >rty boys in the H. J. Brabham hall ad eight more girls in the Mary Ann amberg hall. Until these places are taken the oard has agreed to accept as paylent two bales (1,000 pounds) of ood cotton, delivered here, at 10 mts a pound and $60 cash, payable. desired, in six monthly payments f $10 each, the total expense for the ear being sitio. This will make it possible fof many irmers to send their boy or girl who luld not otherwise. We advise lose interested to write at once for jom as these places will doubtless e rapidly applied for. The session egins September 23. Work on I)eiH?t. Material has been ordered for the rection of the warehouse of the amberg Cotton Warehouse comany. It is expected that the wareouse will be ready for storage of atton in a few days. As has already een stated in The Herald, the wareouse will simply be an enclosed lot ith temporary covering?the whole in be built in a short time. I-mmeiate relief is sought, and the farmrs will be enabled to draw on cotJn stored in any approved wareouse. % / GRADED SCHOOL OPENS. About 230 Pupils Enrolled on Opening Daj. The Bamberg graded school began the session of 1914-15 Monday Sept. 7. The prospects are the brightest. Many parents and other visitors were av liic UVCUJU5 cises. The Rev. W. R. McMillan and I?r. J. B. Black made suggestive 3nd encouraging talks which were appreciated and enjoyed. We are much pleased with the enrollment of about 250 pupils. But we are particularly happy to see the entire tenth grade of last year returning to the eleventh grade this year. This is a wise step. Our school offers the best opportunity for excellent preparation. Our graduates do well and never regret having finished the whole course. We would like to see this become a custom?enter the high school and finish the course. Our faculty is strong. All of them have diplomas from one good institution. Many of them h ave done post-graduate work. We fee! that we are beginning the year under the best conditions and we bespeak a session full of the finest results. As many of our teachers are of the same alma mater as others of our town and as we all love the "college tie that binds," I shall give the institutions attended by each. The degree received will follow the college from which each was graduated: HIGH SCHOOL. Miss Hattie Newsom, Williston, S. C., principal of high school; teacher of mathematics, science and stenography. Winthrop college, A. B. Special course University of Va. Miss Sarah Lesley, Norway, S. C., teacher of Latin and history. Winthrop college, A. B. Special course University of Tennessee, Columbia University, N. Y. Mies Julia Kibler, Newbery, S. C., teacher of Eftglish and history. Randolph-Macon college, A. B. Limestone college. Special course Columbia University, N. Y. Seventh grade?Miss Mary Molton, Birmingham, Ala. Converse college, A. B. Special course Columbia University. N. Y. Sixth grade?Miss Kate LaFoy, Anderson, S. C. Winthrop college, A. B. Fifth grade?Mies Mary Morgan, Central, S. C. Lander college, A. B., Columbia college, S. C. Fourth grade?Miss Alma Davis, Orangeburg, S. C. Winthrop college, A. B. Third grade?Miss Alma Black. O n Winthron r?nl OdUiUCXg, V. Tf VW..WQ-, A. B. Special course University of Virginia. Second grade?Miss Ruth Anderson, Lowryville, S. C. Winthrop college, A. B. Lander college. First grade and primary supervisor?Miss May Zeigler, Cope, S. C. Winthrop college, A. B. Special course S. C. summer school, University of Chicago, Columbia University, N. Y. Miss Urma Black has her music studio in the school auditorium. She was graduated from Greenville Female college. She was at Chatauqua, N. Y. this summer. New Advertisement*. J. F. Kilgus?Notice. E. C. Bruce?Card of Taanks. D. W. Phillips?Card of Thanks. Bamberg Banking Co.?The Bride and the Groom. Bamberg Cotton Mills Co.?Notice of Stockholders' Meeting. B. W. Simmons & Co.?War. Farmers & Merchants Bank? Diploma. Delk's Market?The Little Giri of Today. Enterprise Bank?When Opportunity Beckons. J. B. Brickie?A Far Sighted Man. Ehrhardt Bargain House?Announcement. rriii X I IVV1 w kTVllt Thursday night Percy White, a negro, tried to commit suicide in the county jail. White was committed some days previous, the authorities j believing that he was insane. Thurs-1 day night he broke one of the window panes and cut himself in the throat. Dr. H. J. Stuckey was hurriedly called, and he succeeded in stopping the flow of blood. It was thought one time that the negro would not recover, but it is now believed that the injury is not serious. House Party. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. R. Martin, of Denmark, are giving a house party at their handsome home in Denmark this week. Among the guests are: Miss Reba Wiggins, Augusta: Miss Kate Dickert, Columbia; Miss Nell Pilcher, Augusta; Miss Marguerite McMillan. Savannah: Miss Lillian Jaeger, Florence; Miss Katherine Martin, Salley. They have enjoyed a number of automobile and etrawrides, and dances. To the Farmers I have iust received a car load of the FAMOUS HACKNEY BUGGIES J and can suit you in either a Run- v 1 I i - T" D A 1 _ 11 aooui or 1 op ouggy. /\iso a run line of the old reliable Rock Hill Buggies and that Chase City or Oxford Bugffv about which vou have heard so much favorable comment If it is a wagon you want I can sell | you the ^3 14 o /* lr w A if W O Of A r? v 11 a w iv ii u y it a ? v 11 in either the one-horse or two- ? j horse size, and there is no better f made. See me before buying ' g| anything in Harness and Saddlery ^ G. FRANK BAMBERG | BAMBERG, SOUTH CAROLINA Barnwell-Bamberg 8. S. Convention. The School Question. only a left arm could never hope to / j make a living on the farm as a laborThis interesting occasion opened Editor Bamberg Herald:?My work er and that some education would be - * " ?" ? - 1 i-i- tAllAmt.o. A# trvaat honofit tn him in Slinnort its 4Yth annual session ai neauug nas taaen me iuiu me iuuumu6 0*v-v ?? ? ? ?,, ? Springs Wednesday morning last and counties: Aiken, Chester, Darling- ing himself in some way. He replied, ' continued in session till Friday af- ton, Williamsburg, Florence, Lexing- "Well, I don't know. I just haven't ternoon. ton, Berkeley, Union, Greenwood,' done it." The boy was decentlyR. B. Fickling was reelected pres- Greenville, parts of Chesterfield, Sa- dressed and it was a season of the ident: Dr. Robert Black and R. R. luda, Edgefield and Barnwell. In year when very little work was being ; 'rV$ Johnston, 1st and 2nd vice preei- every county I have found the done on the farm. tv dents; W. G. Britton, secretary; and amount of illiteracy to be appalling. i could cite hundreds and hun- ' V A. B. Hair, treasurer. In Lexington county two years ago, dreds of just such cases. Those I Thirtv-three schools were repre- a white woman who lived within one have mentioned all refer to rural sented by delegates. The attendance mile of a school told me that neither schools. I have not touched on the was the largest ever gathered for the she nor her husband could read or conditions in the towns and in the occasion, from start to finish, and write. Her children, eight in num- mills. My work is largely among much interest wa<3 manifested. The ber, had never been to school. I was rural districts. In mill villages we topics for discussion were well chosen told this by her when I gave her | fin(j the conditions just as bad or and lively debates grew out of some medicine with printed directions. I worse. Little boys from six to of them. asked her to get her neighbor to read twelve years of age may be seen any / Every one who has ever had an the directions and she told me a fam- day in the week smoking cigarettes, ^ opportunity of visiting this hospita- jiy 0f negroes lived near and she chewing tobacco, and shooting craps *v > ble, big-hearted people want to go could get one of them to read the around the stations and on the was no px- hirootinna fnr hpr flould anything atrppfs Tt seems to be considered. CLgaiLl, auu VVM* vmwawm - ?? ?? \iuvw*v**M Aw. ception to the rule. be more mortifying to a white citizen as a matter of course, and is taken Rev. W. R. McMillan, of Bamberg, of South Carolina? as an every-day event?which it.is. preached the introductory sermon in .pwo months ago at Monetta, in Compulsory education is not needhis usual forceful style. Dr. C. E. Aiken county, I found the white ed for the negro. I have cited exBurts made an able and well studied 6Cb00i ciosed and the negro school amples to show you how determined address. running. When I asked why this they are to get an education and A good many of the schools seem- was j was toj? that tjj6 pubiic school they are accomplishing this without ed to think that there was no expense fyn(js f0r tbe negroes had been ex- our public school aid. Compulsory ? ' in getting up a convention of this bausted two months previous but education is needed for the white character and sent up no funds; trust they were now running the school man who is too sorry and indolent that next year this matter will be on private subscriptions. In another to send his children to school but considered. ^ county I found this same condition, prefers to keep them at home and in The exercises on Friday evening The> negroes were paying the teacher ignorance in order that they may were good; it would not be fair to ten cents per weeb for eacb child. make the living and allow him to those taking part to make any one ^ Clarendon county this week I around and do nothing, more nromment than the others; all a ^ Are we going to allow this thing J , , T r ?T ? | LUl U \JJ a uuoivv v/i. M , were good, but can t forbear men-1 ^ ^ .q Wg dig_j t0 go on, or will we say, like Cain of tiomng the little tot. from Blackwlle had nteen | 0lfl, "Am I my brother's keeper?" jgjj who talked out without a nervous! , , , t ' r . prcpp ..... . ,, , ; pupils and that the negro school had j u Atremor, little Merl Wroton. God . , J , I . . . , . . i one hundred and twenty-seven. He ~ ' bless her and may she devote her, SPECIAL NOTICES. talents as she grows older and larger i . , a, , ? . ran only three months and the white ? . ? to the service of God. sohoo| bu( wh n (he negr0! Advertisement, Under This Head 25c. The Healing Springs school gave a closed a n|ght schuol was For 25 Words or Less, dialogue: each verse representing a opened bJ. them apd u jn ses_ == letter in the word "convention," ten tMo nilTuf 0_Q ?ino. Fulghum Seed Oats?2o0 bushels children sDoke It was eood school are going welI matured, for sale. Apply to J. cnnaren spoKe. u was gooa. grown negro men and women and t. O'NEAL & SON, Bamberg, s. c. tf ; i The banner for the largest con- ten cents per capita .g charged each |g tribution per capita was won by Bam- k b tbe teacber Seed Rye for Sale?Genuine Son- berg. The one for largest average * thern Seed Rye for sale at $2.50 the attendance was won by Denmark. u In Berkeley COunty at one school bushel; also a few bushels of Abruz- ? ^ _ _a. . , house where no school was in session zi Rye, at $3.00 the bushel. W. S. ? nuiBUPr. & SDN Rambere . S. i ne nexi cuiivemiuu gun iu vuiaton , w G b. ln November, I asked how long the ? -_1Q school term was and a trustee told ___________________________ IJ. D. C. Meeting. me that it ran only three weeks the Young man, would you marry if " year before. suited? Many beautiful Indian girls, ? .... ? ? ... , . in Oklahoma, who own rich oil and The Francis Marion Bamberg Some time ago a father with his farming lands, that are looking for* chapter, U. D. C., will hold its first sixteen-year-old son came into my of- husbands. information furnished meeting of the fall next Tuesday af- fice. The boy was a lad with a good free. MRS. M. D. SMITH, Box 597, ternoon at 4:30 o'clock sharp, at the i intelligent face, and had the misfor- ^luskogee. Okla. 9-20 * residence of Mrs. J. Harry Murphy. I tune to have his right hand cut off CARD FROM MR. PHILLIPS. * fof nnr she and Mrs. Grayton Bamberg being tnree years ago. ixeuuei hostesses to the chapter. A large at- nor the son could read or write. I I desire to express my sincere aptendance of the members is asked asked why he did not send his boy preciation for the vote given me in for, to greet the new chapter presi- to school?they lived within a stone's JL1!6 Primary election Tuesday, a*?* x* ? v i,,\. , lV m ^ u , x. * . , , Though defeated, I appreciate just as dent, Mrs. M. E. Ayer, who will be in throw of the school house. I tried much6as If elected the support given . the chair. to explain to him that this boy with me, D. W. PHILLIPS. %,