The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 09, 1915, Page 2, Image 2
BAMBERG?A FIXE HOME TOWN.
Some Facts About This Enterprising
City Visited Monday by Boosters.
The Columbia Record last Sunday
contained the following writeup
of Bamberg:
Bamberg, South Carolina, located
on the Southern railway and the Walterboro
branch of the Atlantic Coast
Line, is situated in one of the richest
Sections of the Palmetto State. The
farming lands of the county are fertile
and adapted to the growth of
nearly every Southern crop. The
people are prosperous and, although
the war has sapped every industry
the country over, are in good financial
condition. With the prospects
of 10 cents cotton looming large,
and the evident disappearance of the
German war cloud, there is an air of
optimism among'the people not outclassed
by the population of any
other section.
There is one reason that is standing
out prominently for this condition
of contentedness. The farmers
of Bamberg county planted this year
> largely of wheat. They have made
their bread at home, instead 01 Having
to sell their cotton at any old
price, and buy their Hour from the
| / West. It is a significant fact that
there will probably be?from necessity?but
precious little flour shipv
ped into this county within the next
jfe; , 12 months.
* Diversified Agriculture.
Last fall Jones A. Williams, a
ife'JW - prominent citizen of the town, an''
nounced to the farmers that if they
would plant wheat he would profr
' . , vide* the flour mill to convert it into
the eatable product. They planted.
|.7 ' He built the flour mill, and up to
some weeks ago the mill had turned
out no less than $25,000 worth of
pt-r-' good?best in the world because
grown at home?flour and wheal
IE products. , ,
The prospects are that the mill at
that time was not half through with
the season's milling. The total outj-3,
. put of the mill for the season, which
?fe run waF up into next February,
& ' will amount to approximately $50,000
worth of wheat products. More
|; than half of this amount was grown
in Bamberg county?the remainder
being shipped in to the mill, which is
I the only one in this immediate section.
The mill has a capacity of 50
.barrels per day, and is now running
day and night.
Bamberg lands are worth gold.
The general .fertility of lands in
Bamberg county is considerably
above the average. The production
of from one to two bales per acre
is not rare with many cotton farmers,
and the same production can
doubtless be securbd by almost any
farmer of the county who will bring
his land up to the producing point
already reached by a large number.
Our people are well prepared to
live comfortably this year. ] With
their wheat?of which it is estimated
that there were at least 2,000
s acres?the farmers did not forget
their pork. /
r f Hogs for the Market.
- The largest amount of pork ever
raised in this county is awaiting
slaughter when the weather turns
cold enough. Hog raising has been
attempted on a large scale with good
success this year by numerous far
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K - raised everything on his plantation
fe-this year that he could use, therefore
even if cotton goes down, it will
J-not seriously hurt our people?as
far as their living is concerned.
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^ . is not at all improbable, it is hot unsafe
to say that our people will be in
fine condition in every way. So there
is not much worrying here over cotton
or anything else much just now
?except that they would \ like, of
^ * course, to get a good price for cotjig-V
ton and have more ready money.
Bamberg city has grown steadily,
not at a high rate of speed?but a
healthy, durable growth. The pasi
few years have witnessed many imjjtV.
provements in and about the city,
and there is good prospect for a yet
greater growth and for a number of
material improvements to be made.
Among the newer improvements in
the city are the graded school, one of
the best in the State, a new $20,000
boys' dormitory for tne Carlisle
school, a flour mill, etc. A number
of new residences have been erected,
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. $7,000 church.
Municipal Improvements.
An improvement that is promised
the city in the very near future is a
system of sewerage and a new waterworks
system. The estimated approximate
cost of these improvements
is something like $50,000 to
$60,000. The matter was recently
agitated, and there is no douht of
the matter being carried when the
election is called on the proposition.
^ The election is expected to be held
before many weeks. Already a ma1
,
jority of the taxpayers have agreed
to a bond issue for a new waterworks
system, and the sewerage matter will
be voted on at the same time. The
system that is proposed will be ademiate.
modern and up-to-date in i
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every respect. At present Bamberg
is supplied with running artesian
wells.
These are expected to be displaced
by a more elaborate system, reaching
every section of the city, furnishing
a pure and plentiful supply of
good water sufficient for all purposes,
and which will furnish any
prospective industries with plenty
of water.
The Carlisle School.
Bamberg is the home of one of
the best preparatory schools in South
Carolina, and the leading one in this
section of the State?the Carlisle
school. Prof. J. C. Guilds, an educator
of considerable note, is headmaster
of the school. Carlisle jumped
into prominence last fall by taking
cotton on tuition and fees to the
extent of more than two-thirds of
the total cost of session's work in
the school. Nearly 50 bales of cotton
were thus accepted at 10 cents.
This enabled a large number of
boys and girls to enter the school
who would otherwise have been debarred
by the condition of finances
in the South. Carlisle last term had
the biggest enrollment in its history,
as a direct result, no doubt, of accepting
cotton from the parents of
students.
The school is now receiving appli/lailv
and TTpndma.stpr Guilds
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says that the prospects are that the
school will on Septemner 22, the
opening day, have a yet larger attendance
than last session's opening
date witnessed.
The Public Schools.
Bamberg's public school is one of
the standard grade schools of the
State. Under the leadership of Prot.
E. P. Allen, the school has steadily
advanced in standard and usefulness
and the city and surrounding country
are now furnished educational advantages
excelled by no community in
the State. The school opens tomorrow,
Monday morning, with prospects
better than at any time in the
school's history.
Bamberg has two influential
churches, Baptist and Methodist.
Rev. E. O. Watson, D. D., is the
Methodist minister and Rev. W. R.
McMillan i? pastor of the Baptist
church. Both churches have large
and beautiful edifices and enjoy large
memberships.
The New Railroad.
The past year has witnessed the
nnATiinfi!' nf a new railroad into Bam
berg. The Bamberg, Ehrhradt and
Walterboro railroad, connecting Bamberg
with the Coast Line's road at
Ehrhardt, has only recently been
completed. The road to Ehrhardt
was built by local capital, mostly,
with a little outside assistance. The
line has been turned over to the Atlantic
Coast Line under lease, and
that system is now operating the
road.
The Coast Line trains from Green
Pond are operated now to Bamberg,
instead of stopping at its former terminal,
Ehrhardt, with the result that
Bamberg now has direct communication
by rail with Charleston and Savannah
by a new route.
Both freight and passenger trains
are operated over the line, and the
large amount of business being done
by the new line attests the usefulness
of the road to tfie people of the
county. The new road has been
found to be especially convenient to
shippers between Bamberg and Ehrhardt.
It has stimulated the growing
of truck and watermelons to an
extent hitherto unknown.
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been made in the Southern's depot.
The station has been' remodeled
throughout, and extensive additions
and conveniences have been added
to the station equipment.
Manufacturing Plants.
The Bamberg cotton mill is an old
and stable industry of the city. Under
the. management of I. N. Dunn,
as superintendent, the mill has recently
changed the grade of its
cloth, and now extra time has to be
employed in running the mill to supply
the demand for the goods turned
out. ^
Bamberg has two newspaper offices.
One of these, the Bamberg
Herald, enjoys the distinction of being
one of the neatest offices in the
State, and the equipment is described
by visitors as being better, perhaps,
than any to be round in a town
of similar size in the State, and com
paring very favorably witn omces in
much larger cities.
Bamberg has three stable banking
houses, and there are eight banks
in the county, each doing a large and
thriving business. The town boasts
of three good drug stores, two ladies'
furnishing stores, an enterprising
motion picture theatre, etc.
The city has one of the best
equipped postoffices of any town ot
the size in the State. The building
was recently completed, being built
and owned by Postmaster A. W.
Knight.
An industry of no mean importance
in the county is tne cotton seed
oil mills. There are two?the Cotton
Oil Co., of Bamberg, and the
Denmark Oil & Fertilizer Co., of
Denmark. Both concerns are doing
a large business and reaping nice div
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THE DEAD HEAT.
Is the Great Part of the High Cost of
Living.
You can figure the tariff and you
can figure the trust and you can figure
the combination?but you don't
get the Fight thing on the cost of
high living unless you take in the
dead beat and the delivery system.
You go to your grocer and look
over his books and you will see that
from ten to twenty per cent, is loss
on the dead beat who never pays a
bill. He gets away with the goods
somehow. The Merchants' association
has him marked; the grocer
knows he never pays?but somehow
he finally gets on the books and before
he is refused further credit he
owes anywhere from ten to a hundred
dollars. He is going to pay
next week. He has all the de luxe
hard luck stories ever dreamed of byv
mortal man. He has had sickness.
He is just going to get a job; he is
going to pay the first of the month
and wants a little further accommodation
and the merchant gives up?
and it means the man who pays cash
also pays for the dead beat?or, the
merchant goes out of business. The
dead beat means ten per cent, or
more on your grocer's bill. It means
sometimes more than that.
And then comes the delivery business.
The grocer must keep two or
three delivery wagons. It is either
horse feed or gasoline and a driver.
And Mrs. Whatsername rushes to the
'phone and wants a box of matches
sent right out?and the five cent box
of matches is delivered and it costs
twenty-five cents to deliver it?but
Whatsername is a good customer and
it wouldn't do to turn her down.
Then there is a grand rush about ten
in the morning and extra delivery
clerks arq called in?and then there
is a grand rush the rest of the day?
but the expense goes on. The merchant
m\ist charge this to some account.
He must make a profit
enough on the goods to pay his terrible
toll, and you can safely figure
that the dead beat and the delivery
system costs you $25 on every $100
worth of goods you consume?and if
that isn't a pretty toll what is? But
these figures can be verified..- Often
the merchant doesn't know it. Hardly
ever makes more than a living
and sometimes he doesn't make that
in the grocery business. He has another
ten per cent, loss on green
goods and fruits and things like that
?and by the time the ultimate con-,
sumer gets his food he has paid the
high prices which modern civilization
and modern deadbeatism demand.
Read The Herald, $1.50 year,
idends.
Two building and loan associa
tions are operating in the ci^y at this
time. One, the Young Men's Buildincr
and T,nnn association, is round
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ing out its allotted life, and will soon
wind up its existence. The other,
the Standard Serial Building and
Loan, has been operating for several
years, and is in a most healthy condition.
These associations have been of
untold benefit to the people of the
town. There are in Bamberg perhaps
more people of moderate means
who own homes than, are to be found
in most cities of the State. This con
dition is no doubt traceable to the
operation of the mutual building and
loan companies. Both associations
are entirely mutual, and are not designed
as- money-making enterprises,
but operated solely for the purpose
of helping their members.
Mineral Springs.
Near the city is located one of the
best mineral water springs in the
State?Glendale springs. The spring
has a spurting stream of water of
some 200,000 gallons per day, and
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water of great medical value. T,he
spring is owned by Col. John F. Folk,
and there is a probability of the
spring being developed some time in
the future. At present considerable
water is being shipped from Bamberg.
Bamberg is ready to welcome the
investment of capital with open!
arms. She feels that she is capable
of taking care of any industry that
any town of its size can accommodate,
and with the advantages it of-;
fers her citizens believe that any
concern could very favorably consider
this city as a possible location.
Bamberg has two of the largest
ginneries in this section of the State.
The Cotton Oil Co. ana the Farmers'
Ginning Co. are each equipped with
large system ginneries, and have a
capacity for about 200 bales per day.
Both ginneries have a large clientele
from miles around, and have to run
day and night during several months
of the ginning season to take care
of the output.
All in all, Bamberg feels a pardonable
pride in herself. While she is
not so large as some of her sister
cities, she has the making or a big,
fine city and her citizens confidently
believe that to dream of Bamberg
' being a leader among cities is not
a wasting of energy.
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