The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 08, 1914, Page 4, Image 4
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~ ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
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herald building, on Main street,
the live and growing City of B;
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Thursday, October 8, 19.
The Anderson Daily Intelligen
announces that Editor Willi
Banks has resigned to accept a p
tion with the State department
agriculture, and that Mr. W.
Smoak. formerly editor of the V
terboro Press and Standard, s
ceeds him as editor of the Int<
gencer. Editor Smoak and the In
ligencer has our best wishes for
abundance of success. Our t
wishes also accompany Mr. Banks
his departure from-the Fourth
tate.
In another column we repaint a
ter, published in the Sunday di
newspapers, from Hon. Wade Sta
house, advocating a law prohibit
the planting of any cotton next y<
Mr. Stackhouse argues that if it
constitutional to restrict the acre;
by statute, ii is constitutional to f
hibit it altogether.^ We are not s
about the wisdom of any legislat
governing what the farmers shall
shall not plant, but we are qi
sure of the wisdom of planting li
or no cotton next year. Fact
where farmers plant no cotton t
are more prosperous as a class tl
here in the South with our
"mnnov ornn." The farmer can 1
most comfortably and plant noi
bill of cotton. If this year the 1
raers had first planted every f<
crop that could be grown, in suffici
quantities to furnish the family,
war would have had no terrors
them. The main argument agai
the "no cotton" plan seems to
where to get spending money, r
and fertilizer money, etc., from. ]
in refutation to this argument it r
well be said that in the great \V
and North no cotton is grown, J
there is plenty of money. In
the West has been vastly enricl
on account of the war, raising
prices on food stuffs, their ban
crops.
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What Can Be Done With Small Pa
"Talk about thrift," says the L
ington, Ky., Leader, "what do :
think of this?" A. S. Drake, of 1
South Second street, Louisvi
writes to the Leader as follows: "
haok vard is 25 bv "0 feet. T
year I raised fourteen bushels
peaches on four trees, a bushel
pears on one young tree, fully
bushel of grapes and about five ?
Ions o:' cherries. The fruit was la
and without defect, as I sprayed
trees three times, thereby do
away with the insects. I raised fi
croDs of radishes and plenty of .tr
beans. I had fifteen tomato vi
(three Cali.ornia), which grew
be twenty feet high, and produ
very abundantly, from which
picked tomatoes that weighed t
and one-half pounds. The ot
twelve vines are 'Kaiser Imperi
which grew about eight feet hi
and from all the vines we h
enough tomatoes for ourselves i
to supply our neighboring famil
I sold seven bushels of the peac
at $4 per bushel."
It is surprising what can be
complished, for table use, e
though the back yard may be o
a 10 by 10. Thrifty housewives
' therefrom many a "help for the
ble"?securing not only the com!
and advantage of the supply,
saving to the family purse riicl
and dimes which count quickly i
dollars and tens of dollars.
There are hundreds of these li
"backyard gardens" in Augu
There are hundreds of other li
"backyards" in Augusta now i
which could, at a few cents expe
and a small amount of work,
turned into prosperous and prodi
ive gardens.?Augusta Chronicle.
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j OLKAN-IP DAYS.
! October 14tli and 15th l>e>i?jnated
Civic League.
The! The civic league requests publi
in tion of the following:
Wednesday. October 14. as cle
ler- up day for all public places ?
ock Thursday, October 1as clean
r' ^ day for all places of business and
ria"l each home in town, be it the dv
lole ling of the wealthiest man or
est- hut of the poorest negro, have bi
_q. set aside by the civic league,
ths' every lady in Bamberg would wi
ible just these two days of the year
put the town in a perfectly clean ?
?_C_ sanitary condition, the improvem
seiad
would be so marvelous, our stre
by would look so ciean and wholeso
,?ml that the ???(* vvork would kel)l
gjaj and every day in the year would
ion. elean-up day.
six, The league has gone about
tes* plans in a systematic way and o
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no- the cooperation of the people as
lar- whole is needed to insure success
The preachers of the town, b(
irst wllite and colored, are asked to
liver a special sermon on civic rig
ays eousness 011 Sunday. October 11
l0se Everv merchant will be asked
ter-j
sign a paper promising to thoroug
(tu- - ise.
clean his place of business on Oc
or her 15, each hoaiekeeper will be a
i in ed to do the same thing. The di
are
ex- stores' grocery stores, meat mark<
bakery and restaurants are expec
= to make their stores especially cl<
L4. and inviting. A committee of lad
=== will inspect these places from ti
icer to time and report their condition
the league. The members are plei
osi- ed hereafter to only buy from p
of fectly clean and sanitary stores.
W. All of the schools of the town j
*al- expected to thoroughly clean th
too- buildings and play grounds, as 1
-Hi- health of the child depends to a gr
tel- extend on the sanitary condition
an the school-room, and the deve1*1
>est ment of his character is influent
?n to a certain extent by the appearai
Es- of the school grounds. There is
incentive to higher, noble things
life when surrounded by play groui
let- over-grown with weeds, while beat
lily ful trees, well-mown grass and b<
,ck- of flowers awaken in the child a 1<
ing of the beautiful and a longing
;ar. something better and purer,
is Mr. Dunn, manager of the cotl
age j mills, will be asked to address I
iro- j operatives on the subject of cleanure
day. offering from the league thi
ion prizes for the three homes in the n
or village which have been put izito 1
lite most perfect sanitary conditi
ttle $2.50 will be given as first pri
is, $1.50 as the second prize and $1
hey as third prize.
ian Two ladies?one selected by 1
big league and one by Mr. Dunn?will
live spect on Friday, October 16 a
I a award the prizes,
far- It is hoped that the ladies of 1
ood town will finish their house-cleani
ent before clean-up day so that all b
the ties, tin cans and rubbish may
for cleared from the house, also tl
nst they may be able to give more
be, their time to putting their premi
ent in good condition.
But One request the league makes
nay peciallv, that is for th.e housekeep<
rest to burn all papers, and anythi
and which is burnable, please do i
act, dump such trash in the streets?e\
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Ilea tliUUgll it Uia; UC a, Ctuv. ?V4vv<. v.
the they are requested to place th
ner cans, bottles, etc., in a box or bar
as early on next Thursday as pos
ble?do not throw them loosely
tch the ground,
ground.
,ex- The following committees hj
rou been appointed for this work:
UO For graded school building a
lie. grounds?Mesdames Robt. Black.
My L. Risher, J. J. Smoak, J. C. Mo
his E. P. Allen and Oscar Simmons,
of This to be done on Saturday Oc
of ber 10tn.
a Fitting school grounds?.Mesdan
?al- J- A. Williams, H. C. Folk and Jo
rge phine Beach.
my Court house square?Mrs. C.
ing Free and Mrs. Laura Livingston,
our Restland cemetery?Mrs. J.
ing Copeland, Sr., Mrs. J. W. Barr, M
nes M- E. Aver, Mrs. J. W. Price and M
to H. F. Bamberg,
ced Simmons' cemetery?Mesdames
we P- Hooton. G. F. Hair, B. \V. Si
;wo mons and Jno. Simmons,
her Methodist church?Mesdames
al,' 0. Kirsch, M. A. Bamberg, Clarei
gh, Brabham and J. J. Jones.
aVe Baptist church?Mesdames Al
md Zeigler and Coleman,
ies. Presbyterian church?Mesdames
hes A. Wvman, L. P. McMillan and El
Walker.
ac_ Committee to have merchants si
ven papers promising to observe clsannlv
day?Miss Lewellyn Cleckley a
get Mrs. J. J. Cleckley.
r.a- Mrs. G. F. Bamberg will sei
ort with someone, selected by Mr. Dui
but to inspect homes of the mill vilh
cels and to award prizes.
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Women in the old world are g
ttle ting into almost every profession a
sta. line of business. More than 3,0
ttle women clerks are now employed
die, British postal service, and thousar
nse are employed in the Italian te
be phone and telegraph service. Th<
act- are many women employed sp
in the German war department.
j < H1CKKX-SLIDK: KAZOK-KMXG. j ^
by When It's Cotton lilossoni Time in u/y
Zambesi and Charleston. (((( 1
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i For some unknown. yet significant ;
reason, the first night of the working
an" week is cal ed among circles of the I
Lnd dusky initiated, "washerwoman's;
~up night." Whether the sobriquet is;
for , i
merely a gen tie muuie iu me yiuw-i
e " ess of a profession, or commemorates!
the
in a monument more noisy than j
?en brass the charms of an individual
I f
beauty, has not been ascertained.
">r" Ten dancing acts at ten separate!
0 halls is no uncommon occurence in I
ind Charleston on "washerwoman's!
ent night." No hall is overlooked in the;
ets round of entertainment, but over-j
e shadowing in their popularity at!
up present are the arenas at Line street,!
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Carpenters' hall: State street. Long-!
shoremen's hall: Society street. Odd;
ItQ !
Fe.lows' hall, and Chalmers street,
n * Carolina hall. I
' a l*p to the last word and sometimes
' ahead of it are the dances that are;
0 1 permitted bv the chaperone. remarkQP
ably original are the costumes, and
in the hot and lengthy reaches of the
early dawn, it is to wheeze for fresh
ozone. String bands, refreshments, II
colors that are not fast, and innum- II
'to- . I
. erable rows of grinning ivories per^K~
vade the scene. The good humor ill
Ug that accompanies the local entertain- III
' ments?even after supper has been In
served?has proved a very noticeable |||
n feature in the past.
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All dances are given for the bene- |||
m fit of some church, society, charitable III
or otherwise, by the black purchaser |||
of licenses who appears periodically II
er" at tae office of the city assessor in III
the city hall and produces his five ||
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eir dollars which obtains permission and II
a policeman. Admission prices vary |||
[H0 I f I
_ from 10 to 25 cents per ticket, but |||
the admission price is always there. II
Just to what percentage the oft-re- |||
*ed peated charities participate in the |||
spoils is not known, but it's a safe III
bet that Caesar remembers to "ren- |||
no der unto Caesar the things that are I
^ Caesar's." '
In round numbers, the city asses- ||j
sor has collected $1,400 as revenue |||
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* for local colored dances, during the ||l
^ past 12 months. . II!
When the sun in mid-July beats |||
down upon the tangled banks of the III
" 1 Zambesi river?which is in South |||
the 15
Africa?the dusky bucks and maids III
Up of the region congregate and dance j||
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fine new steps. The old women of l|j
the the tribe sit around the revellers. II
chew refreshments, such as hippopo- |||
on
tamus hide, and complain that the |||
^ lame duck was not like that in their |||
era of- terpsichorean activity. Ex- III
the C6pt ^?r faCt tbat tbere is no ad~ HI
jn mission and the performance is for |||
^ the benefit of no charitable organiza- |||
tion, great is the parrallel. j
When the sun of mid-July beats III
the ill
down between the level banks of the III
i rig |] I
Ashley and Cooper rivers?which are III
in South Carolina?the dusky and III
yellow bucks and maids of the region III
congregate and execute fine new III
steps. Maybe the habit draws its |||
ses III
origin from the continent across the |||
Atlantic. The fact remains indisput- |||
66 able. |
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. When the warm weather approach- |||
ngloc Pitv Accessor Daniel Sinkler be- III
comes aware of a startling boom j| I
lso that steadily swells among the dusky || |
inhabitants of the city of Charleston, !|
eir II
dwindling to a perfunctory- echo 'ere II
g. the season of frost and cold winds j|
arrives. Averaging about 290 dances |||
to the year, the colored population I
of the city make the most of the I |
hot season. As many as ten purvey- III
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ors of popular dancing have been III
known to pay their five dollar tax 11
for the privilege of staging enter- |||
tainments upon Monday night. It |||
" ' may be that numerous Charleston |||
families have come to dread the ap- II
proach of the Tuesday breakfast lH
hour; for in their heart of hearts. |||
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experience has taught them to feel |||
that that hour would never come; I
B in other words no servant arrived on I
Tuesday morning. The answer lies 11
P not in Tuesday morning but in the |||
mvsteriously potent attraction of |||
rs. jj
'l \i<inriav nie-hr fnr dancine revelers. Ill
rs" ?Charleston Post.
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Deadly Inventors.
m
Though the rifles that Ifear his
name have mown down thousands
1C6
and are now killing their hundreds
in Mexico, Dr. Paul von Mauser, the
ice
inventor, dies peacefully in his bed
j at the age of 76. Dr. Richard Gat'.
' ling, father of the Gatling gun was
i?e
an amiable physician, loving nothing
else so well as his family circle and
cn
quiet home. When Dr. Guillotine
^ proposed, as a substitute for hanging,
"swift and painless" exe'uti'"'
bv machine, he never dreamed that
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his name would be forever associat'
ed with the bloodiest period in
I ?6
French history. The donor of the
peace prize, who left millions for
"the furtherance of international 1
et" brotherhood anil the reduction of
nd ctanriincr armies " was Alfrprl Vrthpl I
I - , .
00 who invented dynamite and pow- I
in ders that belched from countless I
lds cannon.?Baltimore Sun. I
?re The magic influence of the plow
ies will make a desert bloom and bios- \Sg
som. ^
LaVeme Thonas&co. ?f],e S[0re Xhat Leads in Style, Quality and Price" LaVerae Thomas
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In order to show the fanners and our friends that it is
our earnest desire to cooperate and help them in every way
possible, and to show them that we have confidence in the
real worth of cotton, we have decided, until further notice, *
to pay 10c per pound for Cotton in exchange for our goods.
All cotton must grade strict middling, bales must
weigh around 500 pounds each. We positively cannot pay
any cash on any difference in price of cotton and merchandise
bought.
. If any one farmer does not see his way clear to trade |j
out a bale with us, we see no reason why one or more farm- || .
ers cannot get together and arrange it among themselves, I
In other words, if a farmer trades $5.00 or $10.00 worth II ^SlfP
with us, we will issue due bills good for $5.00 or $10.00 in
trade to cover one bale of cotton. Of course the due bills
will be interchangeable, and in many cases it appears a
farmer should be able to dispose of his due bills for GASH.
. We simply make this offer to help the farmer.
This offer is subject to withdrawal at any time.
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Hats for girls, boys and ladies, Hosiery (all sizes and V.-.y
prices), Coat Suits and Cloaks, Warner's Rust Proof Cor- :4
sets (every one guaranteed), Ribbons, Dress Goods (all
prices), come to us.
Most complete line of Laces in Bamberg County, " r ;
Sheets, Spreads and Pillow Cases (medium prices), Underwear
to fit sipall tots br grown ups, all prices.
Gloves?we can't be beat in this line, not even in the
larger cities. . / ^
Table Damask?fine quality, 75c and $1.00 per yard.
New supply ladies' Collars (the flaring kind.) ..J?
Complete line of Jewelry including Mesh Bags, Beaded
Bags (something new), Broaches, Bar Pins, Infant
Rings, Gent's Scarf Pins and Cuff Buttons, Ladies' Cuff
Buttons, Lavallieres, Necklaces, all kinds of Beauty Pins, i :m *
Party Boxes, Tie Clasps, and many other pretty things in
this line.
Don't fail to visit this store. ,
Our stock is complete in every department. We are
always glad to have vou visit our store whether you want
to buy or not. *%
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LaVERNt THOMAS & CO.
Formerly K. I. Shuck & Co. and IWe
Are Always Rentz's Millinery store Buy WhUe Our Stock
f?eadv To Heln te Fre5h and New*
Keaay i o neip Qur Qoods ^ Not ^
The Farmers | Bamberg, S. SUy w"b Us L<""t' I JJJJ
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