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f ___ . PERSONAL MENTION. ' People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. k. ?Mr. A. M. Denbow spent Wednesday in Charleston. ?H. F. Buist. Esq., of Blackville. was in the city yesterday. ?Col. W. G. Smith, of Orangeburg. was in the city yesterday. * ?Mr. E. V. Camp, of Savannah, spent yesterday in the city. ?Mr. E. H. Henderson spent Sunk day in Aiken with relatives. ^ ?Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Still spent Sunday with relatives in Blackville. ?Miss Hattie Xewsom spent the week-end with relatives in Williston. " t ?Mrs. E. H. Henderson visited relatives in Aiken last and this week. ; ?Messrs. H. D. and L. C. Still, of Blackville, were visitors in the city on Tuesday. ?Mrs. C. R. Hooton, of Denmark, r. has been visiting her mother, Mrs. X. Z. Felder. ?Mr. Roy Cooner spent Sunday in the city from the University- of South Carolina. ?Mrs. A. A. Zeigler left Friday for Tarpon Springs, Fla., to visit her son, Mr. Alonzo Zeigler. , ?Miss Zee Wright, of Clinton, is spending some time in the city at the home of Mrs. J. A. Byrd. ?Mr. Raymond Smoak left Sunday for Columbia to enter the University of South Carolina. ?Miss Blanche Hair has returned to her home after spending several weeks in Fort Valley. Ga. ?Mrs. R. Z. Wright, of Clinton, is r spending some time in the city* visiting the family of Dr. Johnson. ?S. G. Mayfield, Esq.. of Denmark, spent Tuesday in the city on professional business.?Hampton Guardian. ?Mrs. Seabrook, of John's Island, spent Friday in the city with Mrs. E. F. Free, enroute to Govan to visit relatives. ?Mrs. X. Z. Felder left Tuesday for Savannah, where,' she will spend some time with her brother, Mr. S. W. Parnell. ?Miss Olive Dixon, of Denmark, was the guest for the week-enti of Miss Emily Glaze.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. ?Messrs. R. T. Fairey "and S. A. Merchant went to Augusta Monday to witness the production of "11 Trovatore" at the opera house. ! ?Miss Alma Davis, who teaches in Bamberg, spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. Cornelia Davis.? j Orangeburg Times and Democrat. J ?Mr. and Mrs. C. J. S. Brooker and Mrs. L. E. Livingston and Miss Mary Livingston motored over to Springfield Sunday and spent the day. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Smoak and little son, and Mr. Laurie Smoak spent Sunday with their parents in i the Fork section of Orangeburg coun ty. ?Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, of Apple> ton, was in the city Tuesday, enroute home from Ehrhardt, where she has been visiting her son, Mr. W. Max Walker. ?Messrs. D. Dowling and G. D. t Ryan and Drs. H. J. Stuckey and F. B. McCrackin went to Orangeburg Tuesday night to attend a meeting of W\ >the Royal Arch Masonic chapter. f,. ^ _ , Censorial Stupidity. A returned^visitor to Scarborough, England, who was there when German warships tried to knock the city to pieces, relates that he visited the office of a Scarborough newspaper -that day and found the editor elbow r deep in glowing, highly-adjectived descriptions of the attack. They had to be submitted to the censor, of course, and that worthy sent this message to the editor, "This is all you can print. 'One German cruiser bombarded Scarborough this morning. The situation is developing.* " The chances are that nobody ever said more about the British war censor in the same length of time than the editor did in the hour directly following the receipt of that message. How silly to prevent the people of Scarborough from reading about something they actually saw! Would the censor have censored their eyesight if that had been possible? Maybe it will be thought proper for English coast people to shut their eyes \ and not even take a quick peep the next time German cruisers knock * their houses down on their heads.? % Savannah Morning News. Possible Reason. "I don't understand a woman getting a divorce immediately after the honeymoon ended." "Perhaps her husband spent all his money on the wedding trip."?Kansas City Journal. For The Defense. Judge?and you still claim to be innocent, although six witnesses say they saw you commit the crime? Prisoner?Your honor, I can produce 6,000*who didn't see me.?Cort nell Widow. f Moie Cotton For Germany. Shipments of cotton to Germany are increasing in volume and it was estimated yesterday that by the end of this month Germany will have received a total of 2">0,000 bales. Direct shipments began only a few weeks ago, but indirect shipments have been going through Rotterdam and other Holland ports and through Swedish and Italian ports. It was learned yesterday that the two largest ships that have yet been chartered for this German cotton trade are now being loaded at Southern ports for Bremen and Rotterdam. These are the Xebraskan, one of the fleet of the American Hawaiian line, and the Medina, a Mallerv line steamer, which is a 1914 ship and has been in the coast trade The Xebraskan is loading at Gal A * D?/v?,/vr? f\y\A loavo vesiuil lor oiciueu duu .vi..v about December 30 with 11,000 bales of cotton. The fUedina, loading at Savannah for Rotterdam, will leave probably on Christmas day with a cargo of 14,000 bales. The total value of the cotton, plus charges, is $70 a bale, making the two cargoes worth $1,750,000. The ships are rated at $1,500,000, and the insurance to be covered is therefore $3,250,000. All of the war insurance on the Nebraskan has been covered by the government agency, while of the $1,750,000 approximate insurance on the Medina the government has taken $1,000,000. At the present rate of exporting of cotton to Germany it was estimated yesterday that by the end of a year the total shipments will be about f.00,000 bales. This is an encouraging quantity, considering the great difficulties in the way of transportation, although a small quantity when compared with the experts of more than 3,000,000 bales to Germany in normal years. There is much hope among shipping men and others interested in the extension of these German exports of being able to secure shortly a number of neutral vessels for the trade in addition to the American boats. The rates for chartering steamers for this work, as reflected in the rates for space charged on the cotton transported, are very attracI tive to ship operators despite the [ large element or risk. ' The chief difficulty in the way is that of getting marine insurance This obstacle is being worked on ir efforts to persuade the governmenl war risk insurance bureau to tak( straight marine insurance on these shipments. The demand for ships to carry tc Germany the enormous quantity ol | cotton that country is looking for is being actively reflected in the efforts of ship operators to have steamers engaged in the coastwise trade per mitted by the insurance underwriters to enter the cross Atlantic service The lack of ships, however, is muct less a deterrent factor than the lacl of marine insurance to cover cottor and ships going to Germany.?Nev York Sun. % Four Weeks Unfilled. First Modern Parent?Aren't youi two children something of a prob lem? Second Modern Parent?Yes, in deed. They go away to schools foi 38 weeks, to camp for ten, and tha leaves four whole weeks after when ' don't know where to send them.? Life. ^ Not a "Cooperative" Country. The failure of the Glenwood co J.! *? I?1 of V*11 cV? TL'hip} operative stuie m *- io.v.v?*>", -? started so hopefully two years ago is one more evidence that our econo mic and social conditions do no make the soil on which cooperative trading enterprises thrive. It takes the pinch of real poverty or else an infatuation with the com munal idea, to make cooperation pay The latter motive is very seldon found in this country, while mei with business experience or skil enough to run a successful commer cial enterprise are so far above pov erty that their families feel free t< indulge their fancies or their con venience in purchasing househok supplies. The old fashioned farm er used to make money by selling everything he raised, which was fi to sell, and making his family ea what no one would buy. That wa: one of the reasons why so man; ! American bovs and girls of that pe riod left t!\e farms for the cityAmericans hate to pinch. We are ex travagant by instinct, and our idei of prosperity is not to save mone: by self-denial, but to make mone: enqugh to indulge our fancies. Thi English communities in which coop eration has succeeded have very mucl more limited social aspirations an< less money to live on. It would tak( a long continuance of hard times t< " bring our Americans of the largi towns back to the penny-saving way of their ancestors. Unless we shal return to the habits of a more fruga generation, cooperation here wil have a hard fight against the variet: and convenience of free lance buy ing.?Brooklyn Eagle. "Buy it Now." It" every one of the rural population of the I'nited States, as it was 2c five years ago. were to spend one dol- \2/ lar for some product of American ? mills or manufactories which he or @ she expected to buy within the next thirty, sixty or ninety days, instead igk of waiting until the need became 5c pressing, it would add immediately v2? some $49,348,883 to the amount of ? money in circulation, help to clear @ the shelves of jobbers and retail mer- @ chants of accumulated stocks and cause a demand for the immediate Ssf manufacture of fresh goods. If $10 were spent for each farm in the v?7 I'nited States under the same cir- ? cumstanees. the sum added to the @ channels of trade would be $63,615,020?made immediately available. If 5s each American farmer were to spend Jar today 10 cents for such products for ? each acre of his farm, the sum @ would amount to $S7,879,S22, a still ? more decided stimulus to the trade /gs and industry of the whole country, .g. Money in circulation is the life- Jx blood of trade. Stagnant, it produces ? nothing. It can be imagined what ? omollncf omAiint nf I CilCtl C?Cil IUC OUIU11WV uuivuuv VI it named above would have if sud- A denly added to the channels of trade. )g\ The American farmers are the only it people who. as a class, have made vg any money during the fall and win- ? ! ter. Some manufacturers have re- ? ceived big orders from Europe, but ? the majority of the mills and factories are closed or^running on reduc- at ed time. . Thousands of worthy, ? skilled and industrious men are un- 68 1 employed, and in a majority of cases ? ' their families are on the verge of ? ! starvation. E. T. Meredith, publish I er of Successful Farming, a farm at paper of Des Moines, la., which has 800 subscribers, says in a recent 68 signed editorial: ' ? "If every person living on the farm A in this county would spend anVxtra igk 1 ^10 with the merchants and manu- at facturers in the cities and towns dur- w r ing the next thirty days, it would 68 put thousands of idle men to work ? 1 and bring joy to thousands of liomes. A > You are planning to spend some of ? L your extra profits from your grain ! and live stock. You are going to buy S& new clothes or build an addition to ! your house, or buy new rugs or build ? a new barn or a' new fence or buy new ? ? machinery. You twill keep the money ? moving and it will soon come back * 1 to you in better prices for farm ^ t products." ? - To be sure, the farmer is independ- ? 5 ent, so far as any man can be inde- A pefident of all other men, which is ? ) only to a very limited extent ^fter f all. He could exist if there were no, * J towns or cities. Yet he would' not ? care to be restricted entirely to bar- ? 5 tering farm products with his brother ? farmers. When business is poor ? 5 among the city populations, the de- 5K mand for and the prices of farm 1 products decline, the farmer makes ? 1 less money. ? 1 Money in circulation is "dynamic" ? ' ?11 is money ai ?urn. iu . uoc a uy trite illustration: If A owes B a S dollar, and B owes C, and C owes Sc D the same amount, then if someone vg pays A for work or commodities he @ r can pay B, and B, C; and C, D. @ Thus one dollar pays four dollars of debt. This chain can be kept up Ss indefinitely, and the one dollar will r pay an 'unlimited amount of debt. t The prompt payer is a valuable citi- @ * zen. @ It is not proposed that the farmer 25 shall spend money for something he ^ shall not want for a year or so, or * perhaps never. Let him consider ? whether there is not something he @ may intend to Duy, or some pei ma- ^ nent improvement he may wish to have made, within a few months and buy the ^jticle or have the work ^ done now instead of at some time vg in the near future. The response @ will come back in the shape of in- @ creased demand for his products ?& from the laborer, clerk or mechanic 3! whose family is able to live better * because, its head is employed; the ? merchant who is able to buy more ~ because his custom is improved or because long-standing debts have gta been paid; from the manufacturer ] who has been sarved from bankruptcy, perhaps, because money is easier. ' There never was a time in the his- cjj tory of the country when there was I \ so much need that all classes should Soi pll together. This "Buy-It-Now" movement is nation-wide. In the cit- ecj ies it is taking the form of the ed "Build-Now" movement. There is t rg, it as prosperous as could be desired . enough money in the country to make goi if it could all, or most of it, be foi ^ brought into circulation.?Florida P01 r T. . bei ' Times-l nion. of 5 , - 17~T Dil A Missing Feature. ga 1 "Good heavens! Whats wrong with P1) ^ Chollv's face?" '< 5 "I don't see anything the matter pU 3 with it." . sta e "It's so vacant. Oh, I know how. s He hasn't a cigarette in his mouth." tll( 1 ?Birmingham Age-Herald. th( 1 mi da. I Incidentally, notorious unprepared- er. y ness was one of the chief reasons - why the United States had to fight England in 1812.?Kansas City Star. / > . t ^ . LaVerne Thomas & Co. LaVerne Thomas & Co. # Where the New [ Things Are I ^ Shown i NEW COAT SUITS 1 : | Come in at once and let us show- you our New Coat |j Suits for spring. They are being shown in various j| shades and materials and the Short and Flaring Coats ? ' with Belt effects are very attractive. In ordinary times i| Amp suits would not sell for less than $25.00. but 1 >. H being familiar with conditions we have marked them <1 r very low. The paices range from $15.50 to $19.50. j| Come in and look them over TO-DAY. ? I '' ? ' '^11 P. & B. WAISTS I \\T*? UoiTA oIca incf roraivpr) an affrarhvA linA of Ollf * TIC 11 CI V V/ aicv juov i wvi i vm v>?? . _ noted P. & B. Waists. They are made of Crepe De- @ Chine, and various kinds of Silks. You will want one ? the minute you see them. # .. J 1 . Crepe DeChine (f*Q A A Silks FA ^ ' j ; only $O.0U only $Z.5U | A i J^lain Crepes, Organdies, and dj 1 FA I @ ^ | l 11 ^11 I ? Utner wasn iviaienais y j w ' "'$f SPRING GOODS I We are receiving Spring Goods daily. We will have |? ? something new to show you every day. We are al- ? ; x ways glad to show you whether you-want to buy or not. a LaVeme Thomas & Co.} ? Successors to K. I. Shuck & Co. and Rentz's Millinery Store ^ V^jj Just received attractive line of Col- jkj| A TT ADnCDC /5v ' lars and Cuffs in Organdie and the iWAI^ UKULKj @ . ? . >' I Stiff Kind?They don't stay with as . SOLICITED g> MASTER'S SALE. BLASTER'S SALE. j complying with his bid within a reann,,n*v .. ' Isonable time thereafter. Bamberg?In Common Pleas?O. By virtue of a decretal order is- i I? 8 CaSh' ^H^^FOLK* f?T lan^^^XiSSnf" Pllas Tor B^mb^rg^ounty in^e I Feb^erf?r Bamberg County. ? ? n,(ior nf the of Eugenia M. Rice, plaintiff, vs.! ceoruar} otn, i^io. ^ Di V li tat: ui a u?.i _ cuit Court in the above stated case Charlie Glover, defendant, and upon j rill sell at Bamberg Court House, the authority of a supplemental de- MASTER'S SALE. ith Carolina, on Monday, Salesdav cree rendered in said case on the 4th ' Pursuant to a decree issued out of March next, during the legal hours day of February, 1D15, I, H. C. Folk, lthe Court of CommonPleas for Bam sales at public auction to the Master for Bamberg County will on ; berg County, in the case of Enterpremises: March the 1st, 1915, between the j Prise Bank vs. D. M. Eaves, 1 will on premises:? legal hours of sale on said day in Monday, March 1, 1915, between All that certain piec^, parcel or front of the Court House door atithe legal hours of sale on said day, ,et of land situate, lying and being Bamberg, S. C., sell to the highest Iin front of the Court House door, at Bamberg County, in the State of bidder for cash, the rollowing describ-! Bamberg, S. C.t sell to the highest nth Carolina containing ninety-Jed real estate: j bidder for cash, the following de * - nrnnortv tf? Wit ' ir (94) acres, more or less; and" ? "All that certain piece, parcel or:^"?? .. anded on the North by tracts num- lottof land situate, lying and being ' All that lot, piece or parcel of rs one. two, four and six of a plat in Bamberg County, said State, meas- jland. lying and being in the town of the original tract made by Samuel uring an^containing sixty-five acres j Bamberg, County and State aforeable, Jr., on ,January 10th., 1910; more or less and bounded as follows: 'said, containing five acres more or st by J. H. Fender; South by tract On the North by lands of H. F. Pear-1 less, bounded North by lot of F. W. mber seven on said plat; and West json; on the East by Eugenia M. Rice; jFree; East by lots of J. F. Kilgus, Public Highway to Valterboro. [on the South by Eugenia M. Rice, J- H. Hutto, Mrs. Jordan and South-^ rerms of Sale:?Cash; and the and on the West by George Toomer. !?rn Railway and on the West by lot rchaser to pay for papers and formerly G. W. Beard." of W. P. Blume. mps and all taxes Tailing due after This being a resale of said property It is also ordered, in the said dev of sale; and in case the purchaser and at the risk of the former purchas- cree. that the successful bidder or hirtrinrs dn immediately deposit with 1 to comply with the terms of sale er. ?n the premises will be resold on It is further required that in said ithe undersigned, or Master for Bam} same or some subsequent sales- supplemental decree that the success- berg County the sum of One Hun- xy at the risk of the former purchas- ful bidder or bidders at said sale, dred ($100.00) Dollars, either in , shall be required to deposit with the cash or certified check as earnest H. C. FOLK, undersigned Master the sum of Two money. Terms cash, purchaser t? Feb. 8th, 1915. Master. Hundred ($200.00) Dollars, either in pay for papers. H. C. FOLK, W. C. WOLFE. cash or certified check, as good faith Master for Bamberg County. ? Plaintiff's Atty. . f-er earnest money predicated on his Feb. 1, 1915. f * V ^ _ '\'J' t>;. s'iS} # V;S -r-% / . r%: ; V ' '**'- ^ '