The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 23, 1915, Page 8, Image 8

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Hambrrg Ijrraih Thursday, Sept. 23, 1915. "? SHORT LOCALS. Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. Yesterday was a real "September morn" in Bamberg. During the night, the temperature fell rapidly, and heavy coats were not at all unAAmfnrtahld WUAA. W * VM v? _ Cotton sold in Bamberg this week for 10 3-4 cents, the highest price yet paid this season. The market declined slightly, but the staple is still worth around ten and a half. Mr. A. W. Hunter and family are this week. moving to Bamberg from route one, and will occupy a cottage near the Carlisle school. Mr. Hunter is the night superintendent at the Cotton Oil company. Thev Ehrhardt school will open next Monday morning, at nine o'clock, with Prof. S. C. Bessinger as principal and three lady assistants in charge. The school has excellent prospects, and a successful term is expected. Governor Manning announced Satnrday the appointment of delegates from South Carolina to the Farmers National congress, which meets in Omaha on September 28 and continues through Oct. 1. Among the / delegates appointed are Capt. W. S. Bamberg and Mr. W. E. Spann, of m Bamberg, and Mr. J. Wms. Carter, (of Ehrhardt. Saturday afternoon a negro named x Bartley resisted when Chief Miley attempted to arrest him, and drew a /knife on the chief. The chief fired ^ when the negro ran, to try to stop him. The bullet struck a brick wall * near the depot, and, glancing, struck v another negro on the leg, inflicting a rery slight wound. The offending negro made his escape. The amount to be paid the treasurer of Bamberg county on account of additional license fees on premiums collected by insurance companies for the semi-annual period i ending June 30th, 1915, is $314.74. The total for the State is $32,290.90. ; The number of? bales of cifcton ginned to September 1st in South Carolina was 4,305, against 14,633 gin Ip;- ned to the same date last year. , New Advertisements. ll||? B. P. Free?For Sale. I; / Enterprise Bank?Statement. Box 103, Denmark?Wanted. ., Bank of Denmark?Statement. O. L. Copeland & Bro.?For Sale. Itf - J. B. Brickie?An Out of Order ip ' - Car. ' b: Citizens Exchange Bank?Statement. A Rentz & Felder?Rentz & Felder Weekly. G. 0. Simmons?Paints ^and Brushes. Enterprise Bank?Start Life's ^ Journey. ' f,% R. W. D. Rowell?Teachers' Ex' amination. L. Peoples Bank?No Man Has a Lease on Time. Mack's Drug Store?Free Norria'. Candy Demonstration. - Bamberg Banking Co.?A Dollar ?f Banked is a Dollar Saved. Farmers & Merchants Bank?The Prudent Man Protects His Family., p Orphanage D^y at Trinity. Saturday, September 25th, is orphanage work day. Trinity Sundayschool -expects to give its entire collections Sunday afternoon to the orphanage work day fund. The Sunday-school pupils are expected to bring the result of their work day to Sunday-school Sunday afternoon. It is very necessary that our contributions exceed those heretofore, Kaaqhoa r?Vi i 1H ron havo b?P_PTl t/vvau OU VU^OV VXA14V4A V?A M?v* V ?' ? ~ forced to 6hare with the rest of the country the financial depression of ?f,\ the past several months. An api.. * propriate programme will be arranged by Trinity Sunday-school.?Supt. Stockholders' Meeting. " 'I On Monday the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Bamberg Cotton Mills company was held at the mill. The meeting was well attendi ed. The report of the president, BEfeiV 1 ?. Mr. Verdery, of Augusta, was presented and discussed. The same board of directors was reelected. The i mill, it was reported, like most other cotton mills, has not made a profit > for some time, but with the recent change in the grade of goods manufactured, it was expected that the mill would be in better financial condition. The manufacture of the new grade of cotton goods can be carried on with lower grades of cotton than formerly, and it is thought that this will be of benefit to the mill. v. After the stockholders' meeting, ^ the board of directors held a meeting, at which all of the present officers ,were reelected. - CARLISLE SCHOOL OPENS. Large Enrollment Registered 011 Opening Day.?Work Arranged. Carlisle School opened the 19151916 session Wednesday morning, having on the opening day a large enrollment, and the most promising outlook in the history of the school. Students have been arriving at the school auditoriums since Monday, and every indication points to a record-breaking session from every standpoint. Notwithstanding the financial depression, the enrollment this session will be larger than at any session since the school was founded. Both Guilds hall and the Mary Ann Bamberg hall will be full to capacity. The school formally opened Wednesday morning at eleven o'clock, when the students matriculated, and 1 the class work for the session was arranged. This evening (Wednesday) a pub- < lie meeting will be held, at which < addresses will be made oy several speakers. The public is cordially invited to attend this meeting, which ( will be followed by a reception. ) Approaching Marriage. i 1 ! Mr. and Mrs. Green Harrison announce the engagement of their daughter, Ida Ruth, to Mr. Corbett Hiers. The marriage will take place November 2nd, at Olar Methodist . church. The County Barn. ] The location of the county barn, 1 now being erected by Supervisor Mc- 1 Millan, was the subject of discussion 1 during the sitting of the grand jury ] this week. The barn, the erection of which was ^egun some time ago, 1 the foundation now being laid, is < located just in the rear of the court 1 house grounds. Mrs. C. J. S. Brook- i er, whose property is near the site 1 of the barn, objected to its location i on the ground that it spoiled the < appearance of the court house square < and wa6 also detrimental to her prop- 1 erty. A petition, asking that the < location of- the barn be chahged, was s presented to the grand jury, and af- i ter considering the matter the 1 grand jury recommended that the 1 barn be located near the jail, and i that no blame be attached' to the su- I pervisor for locating the barn on the * court house square. 1 :?_. ] A New Well for Carlisle. ^ 1 All efforts to restore the flow of; water at the Carlisle school well , have met with failure.1 After work* ing for several days on the wdll last week, the attempt to restore the well was abandoned, and it is stated that another well will be bored 'for the school. Work will commence, it is expected, right away, and good ar- * tesian water will be supplied the school in a few days. It is thought that the piping in the old well has rusted out and caved in, preventing * a flow of water or the passage- of a * drill through it. 1 m ( Raised Big Potatoes. ] ? Iiaiah Thompson, who farms on ( Mr. J. J. Hughes's plantation near j 1 J* i Uj. fPV.0. r?f_ junrnarui, uiuugmu iu iuc nu a.u v* fice Saturday a potato which weighed six pounds. Thompson stated that he had two acres planted in Nancy Hall sweet potatoes and that he would gather about 100 bushels per acre. He had another one that welched 5 1-4 pounds. Mr. Hughes also has several acres of the same variety ol potatoes, and has realized a good yield. Mr. Hughes says that he wishes that he had planted a larger acreage, as he has found a good market for the tubers in Bamberg. \ Suffers Injured Foot. One day last week Mr. S. W. Sandifer suffered a painful cut on the foot ^hile cutting wood. The piece N of wood was considerably decayed, and when he swung a heavy blow with the axe, it went through the wood and cut a long ugly gash in the foot. A small artery was severed, and Mr. Sandifer was weakened from loss of blood. A day or two later the cut developed into a serious wound and Mr. Sandifer had to be carried to a hospital in Charleston ! on Saturday. His many friends hope 1 | for him an early recovery. Information from Charleston Tues- 1 day was to the effect that Mr. Sandi- 1 fer was considerably improved. Baptist Church. Prayer meeting at the Baptist church Thursday at 8 p. m., conducted by Mr. Laverne Thomas. Scripture: II Kings, 4th chapter. Preaching Sunday morning, subject: "The Bible and the Battlefield," or "The Christian Attitude Toward War." Sub- , ject Sunday evening at 7:45: "A Pen Picture of Two of the Ugliest Boys in Town." W. R. McMILLAN. Try a stone's "Pure Butter Cake," 1 pnrl n ryi o V o U6&IS 111U&V illUlJlCI uocu uu maiiv) costs less than the ones you bake. 10 cents at G. A. Ducker & Brother's.?achr. r * MANY MATTERS DISCUSSED. 1 Business Men's Bible Class Enjoyed Pleasant Smoker. I i Civic righteousness, sanitation and j law enforcement, with special refer- j ence to the approaching enactment of State-wide prohibition, were among the matters discussed at the smoker given by the Business Men's! Bible class Thursday evening at \ Guilds hall. The smoker was at-i ^ J ? J U.. ~ ~ ItSIlUtJU uv SU111C ll 11? men, meiimexci of the class, and the speakers were earnest in their plea for a betterment of the social, moral and sanitary condition of Bamberg. This was the second smoker given by the class. A delightful salad course, consisting of chicken salad, sandwiches, pickles, tomatoes wTith mayonnaise dressing, followed by ice cream and cake, was served. When the cigars were passed around, Dr. Watson, acting as toastmaster, called on several of those present to discuss various questions. The first speaker called on was Prof. J. C. Guilds, head master of Carlisle school. Prof. Guilds prefaced his remarks by making the announcement that Carlisle would open with the best prospects in its history, the school having, at that time, received 115 applications for admission. Prof. Guilds then entered into a short discussion of matters pertaining to the class, stating that it was planned for the class to take 3n renewed life and vigor during the fall, after the dull slimmer season. Prof. E. P. Allen, Hon. B. D. Carter. Prof. W. C. Duncan, and Mr. A. W. Knight also made short, but pithy, talks about the class, its condition, possibilities and duties. Discussing the duties and possibilities-of the class for the betterment Df the town, Mr. A. M. Brabham, Dr. J. J. Cleckley, Mr. W. D. Rhoad, md Mr, A. B. Utsey had something to say. During the talks on this natter, the remarks seemed to unify m one matter, that Bamberg's moral condition possesses great possibilities for improvement, one speaker declaring that the town was in this respect worse than he had ever known it, and growing worse all the time. Dr. Watson appealed to tlie class to volunteer suggestions for the betterment of this condition, and drew forth the reply that the class should stand as a unit in a movement for foe uplift of the city's moral and religious improvement. Mr. W. D. Rhoad, when asked how ;o better tfoe town's moral'influences, volunteered the statement that as 'Cleanliness is next to godliness" is i generally accepted theory, an improvement in the city's sanitatipn vould tend to lift the condition of 1 _ _ ;he town to a higher'ievel. In this connection he reviewed sanitary coniitions of the city, and made some suggestions as to how this condition could be improved. Dr. Cleckley discussed, the relaionship of cleanliness, or sanitation, ;o the promulgation of disease, and lrged the people to take every precaution against unsanitary premises. Or. Cleckley said, that the present system of caring for the parents of contagious difeease is very unsatis!actory; that there seems to be no >ne who has authority to quarantine igainst contagion, to say when the rntient has reached a stage where t is safe for m or her to be out >f danger of infecting others, and 10 place to care for contagiously diseased persons. Mr. Rhoad, who is a~ nember of the board of health, volluteered the assertion that such per - - - - ' - ?? ?T~ i sons could be locKea up in jaii, wmui s the only manner in which they lould be isolated. Dr. Watson here interposed some remarks on the approaching prohibition law, which will be effective ifter January first, next, by reason 3f the State's vote against the present local option system, last week. He said that the class, which is composed of some 150 men, should stand is an organization for the enforcement of the law. He said that in this county the enforcement of the law would doubtless be more difficult than in some of the other couuirs, by reason of the fact that the prohibition majority in ithis and Barnwell county was not so pronounced as in most of the State; but that if the organization should in~ - - ' * * li. form the officials that it stands oacn of them in every movement for the enforcement of the law, it -would have great weight. That it is not the business of individuals to act in the capacity of a detective, but that if an individual knows of a violation of the law\ it is his duty to so inform the officers, and to give the officers his moral backing in enforcing the law against violations. While the fundamental purpose of the class is the study of the Bible, there are numerous ways in which it can be of benefit to the town and community, -which is shown by the discussion of pertinent questions and '?rvnhiiV int&rp?t pnr? it. aD lbbUCd U1 puUAiv auvv wv, ?? ? pears to be the intention of the class to branch out imto an organization of general usefulness. Subscribe for Th? Herald, $1.50 year. CRIMINAL COURT SESSION. Several Cases Disposed of.?Presentment of the Grand Jury. The one-week session of criminal court convened in Bamberg Monday morning, with Judge J. W. DeVore presiding. solicitor uunter ana Stenographer Brown were in their places, and t$ie court soon got down to work. A number of cases have been disposed of. The following true bills were handed out by the grand jury: Henry Frederick, obtaining money under false pretences. Charlie Morris and Virgil Dykes, assault with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. William Smith, housebreaking and larceny. Julius Hollman, larceny of bicycle. Alonzo Staley, murder. Charlie Aver, murder. William Draper, murder. Mayfield Grayson, murder. The first case tried was that of the State versus Henry Frederick, indicted for obtaining money under false pretences. He was found guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of $300 and serve two months on the public works, the balance of the sentence being suspended during good behavior. William Smith, charged with housebreaking and larceny, was next tried and found guilty, the judge imposing a sentence of thirteen months on the public works. Robert Jones was found guilty on two counts, pointing firearms and carrying a concealed weapon. He received a sentence of eighteen months. Luther Palmer plead guilty to grand larceny and was sentenced to serve ten months on the public works. The case of Ben Sheppard, indicted for murder, was next tried, and resulted in a verdict of not guilty. Sheppard was tried last winter, and a mistrial resulted. This case consumed nearly a day of the court's attention. Julius Hollman was found guilty of the larceny of a, bicycle. Grand Jury Presentment. The grand jury made the following presentment Tuesday morning: To his honor, Judge J. W. Devore: We, the grand jury, submit our report and recommendations as follows: We have passed on all bills handi ? *? xi? ?? ttt_ u? ea us Dy me solicitor, we nave visited all of the public offices and find them neatly kept and all records in apparently good condition. We commend the jailer for the very neat and clean condition in which we find the jail and premises surrounding it. The prisoners say they are well cared for. We learn with regret of the illness of our efficient superintendent of education, who has always done his work so faithfully and well, and we recommend that he be given time in which to file his report. We recommend that two dozen substantial chairs be bought for use in the court house. We recommend that open ditches be left only on one side~of the public highways except where the road bed is thirty feet wide and that all highways be widened to thirty feet as early as possible and that all ditches on the road sides be drained where it is practical. We recommend that no blame be fn snnprvisor for be aiiavii^u w ?uv > ? r ginning the erection of a barn on rear of court house- square and that the same be moved and built in the rear of jail, on a lot pointed out to the supervisor and that - the fence on the west side of jail be set in fifteen feet so the public barn may be reached without going through the jail yard. We recommend that the supervisor be instructed to buy -the necessary stock and secure the needed hands to run a road drag and repair roads continually over the county. We recommend that no live stock ' * "* 1An Artiipf of any Kina Dt3 ftUU Y* CU w 11 wu4 v house square and that the Civic league of Bamberg be allowed to beautify and ornament the court house square in front and rear of court house. We are pleased to report that the county is out of debt and has more than twenty-five thousand ("$ 25 000.00) dollars to its credit. We have been informed that some of the magistrates of the county have gone beyond the limit of the law in charging for service, and wre ask that they look up the law on the matter of fees, and be governed accordingly. We thank your honor, the solicitor and other membe/s of the court, for courtesies shown us. C. C. ELLZEY, Foreman. Mr. Frank B. Fishburne, the champion checker player of the Smith, will give an exhibition of his skill at the court house next Tuesday evening at 8:30 o'clock, for the benefit of the local U. D. C. chapter. This, his home town, should give him a crowded house. Admission loc?adv. * NATURAL COLOR COTTON. Mr. A. \V. Brabham Attracts Nationj wide Attention. That South Carolinian who an I nounces he has produced cotton ot I warm tan, yellow green, light brown, i olive green and bronze colors, and is sanguine he will produce black cot| ton in the near future, has solved I the dyestuff problem, in part at j least, if his statement is true. Luther Burbank thinks it doubtful that black cotton can be produced this generation, if ever. Still, is is possible South Carolina has a Burbank or possibly even a greater than Burbank. Americans, at least, will wish him success in his efforts to produce natural cotton colors. Nature's alchemy certainly is capable of producing more beautiful tints and colors than any German or Swiss chemist in his laboratory, but so far the open sesame to the secrets of her color scheme has not been found. And nature's colors are "fast;" they do not run, and her mordants do their work with a perfection no laboratory can achieve. \ But nature's laboratory secrets are carefully guarded. She fashions her colors in accordance with laws which the greatest chemists only happen upon occasionally, as in the discovery of the coal tar colors. The best the chemists could do, even in that case, was by the painful process of tho cvntVipfiV nrnriiirtirm nf flli7.a.rine from its constituent elements. To get nature herself to perform this work would be one of the greatest triumphs of science in modern times. In fact, it is so great that it will require abundant demonstration and confirmation before the world and cotton growers especially, can be convinced that the South Carolinian's reported discovery is genuine.?New York Sun. i Cotton in Natural Colors. Instead of having to dye cotton, we may in future grow it in whatever color we desire. Colored cotton is already grown in various parts of the world, and we have only to assemble the colored varieties in our own country, and produce intermediate tints by interbreeding, to obtain -the result suggested above. In order that this may be brought about, of course, the different colored varieties must breed.true; that is, the seeds of yellow, green, or red cotton must always produce cotton of that one particular color. That this is true, and that the colors are jiot due to the influence of soil-or other environment, have been proved by A. W. Brabham, a plant breeder, of Olar, South Carolina. Says a writer in New York World Sunday Magazine: "The production of cotton tinted - . ? t ? . _ J by nature witn any coior aesirea is the newest and most revolutionary departure attempted in the cottongrowing industry, and one which may have far-reaching effects in the United States. "Commercially, the achievement of natural colors in cotton would obviate the use of chemical dyes, which, besides their expense, are said to damage the fabric of the cheaper varieties of cotton-stuffs. With the perfection of the new process it would be possible to feed to the looms, to suit any design, cottonthreads colored by nature with tints w'hioh could not fade. ^ "The leading apostle of colored cottons is -A. W. Brabham, of Olar, S. C. He points out what is scarcely known to the American public?acquainted only with white cotton? that already there exist species of cotton of many various hues. "Besides the white cotton of the United States, Peru produces a cotton' with reddish lint; brown cottoti is grown in Egypt, Peru, and Hawaii; I vpiinw notton is produced in China; and India has a gray cotton. In addition, a green cotton has been evolved in South Carolina, and even a jet-black cotton is said to have been developed in Mexico. C. <H. Clarke, of Boston, has written to Brabham that it has proved feasible in laboratory experiments to produce a blue cotton. "Brabham's chief contribution to the introduction of colored cottons is his proof that the different species, whether from Peru, Egypt, or China, will breed true to color in whatever soil they are planted. It was at first thought that the hues of the uni were due td peculiarities of the earth in which the cotton grew. But by experiments in South Carolina, he has established that the seed from gray cotton in India produces gray cotton wherever planted; and that the same is true of red cotton from Peru, yellow cotton from China, and brown cotton from Egypt. It is well established that white cotton from North Carolina or Texas also remains white cotton in the tropics. "The American experimenter may - - - /Hf thus have at his aisposar cigu-i Ui. ferent hues of cotton?white, red, brown, yellow, gray, green, blue, and black. According to Brabham, by interbreeding it will be possible to blend these colors into all the inter % "y COUNTY VOTES DRY. Gives Almost Two to One Against Dispensary. The commissioners of State and county elections for Bamberg county met at the court house on Saturday and canvassed the vote cast in the prohibition referendum election on September 14th. The total vote polled was 680, of which 4 48 voted for State-wide prohibition and 232 voted for the continuance of local od tion. The prohibitionists lacked just g, 16 votes of casting twice as many as the local optionists. Colston and Midway voted for the dispensary, be- <| ing the only boxes in the county registering a majority against State- 1 wide prohibition. The biggest majority cast for prohibition was at Kearse, where the vote was 38 for prohibition and one for the dispen- j sary. The vote by boxes follows: Prohi- Dispenbition. sary. Bamberg 99 64 Colston 5 22 Denmark 81 '45 A Ehrhardt .. 84 50 * Farrell's .... 45 20 Govan ^ 16 14 Kearse 1 38 1 Lee's : 12 1 Midway 3 6 Olar 65 9 ^ Total 448 232 The State commissioners of elec. ,* < tion will meet in Columbia Thursday, when the vote in the State will be canvassed, and the result declar- f ed. The returns from the State differ but little from the vote published in The Herald last week. It has been estimated that the total vote ^ I in the State would not exceed 60,000, and the standing of the votes will not be known until the State , commissioners canvass the returns j today. * Raised Rice This Season. Mr. W. F. Hughes, who lives on route one, was in the office Tuesday.He brought with him a sheaf of rice, which he pulled from a two-acre field he ha^ in rice this year. The rice is a fine specimen, measuring about four feet in height, and the j heads are well filled out, being from i seven to nine inches in length. Mr. - A, *Tv Hughes says that he should harvest , something like 75 bushels from the field. It is stated that the lands : < about Bamberg are splendidly adapt- ; ed for the cultivation of rice, and that it may be easily and successful- ; ly grown here. It is stated that many . ^ years ago rice was grown somewhat extensively hereabouts, but with the advance in price of cotton years ago, rice was forgotton when the cotton fever struck the South. It is to be hoped that the rice industry may be revived here, and that the farmers will at ie^st plant enough for their ' i own consumption. The prevailing price for rice in bulk is about $1.50 ,v per bushel, and at this price good monev mav be realized from its cul tivation. "?. mediate tints. For instance, by breeding white and red cotton together, we should arrive at a fixed , Jtype of pink cotton; by blending red ^ and blue cotton we should achieve purple cotton i^and the intermixture ^ of black cotton should give us dark- . er hues of all the other colors."? Literary Digest. SPECIAL NOTICES. ' Advertisements Under This Head 25c. For 25 Words or Less. \ Wanted?12 to 16 horsepower line or oil engine. Box 103, Denmark, S. C. . It.-. ^ For Sale?Cut stove wood alwayB I ^ on hand. Delivered on short notice. $ B. F. FREE, City. , tf. W. ; is&'i For Sale?Pigeons. Colored Homers $1.50 pair; White Homers $2.00 r? v- n oe. T T PT PHIT pair, oyuaus, l IUX ?J. *J . vuvvn.* LEY. tf. For Sal??75 bushels native rye seed; also plenty of dry stove wood. Prices reasonable. 'See L. F. SANDIF*ER, City. ^ tf. Cotton Seed?In the market at all times for cotton seed; highest mar- / ket prices paid. F. C. AYER, at C. R. Brabham's Son's store. tf. For Sal??800 bushels Fulghum seed oats, heavy, sound, from field yielding over 52 bushels per acre. $1?00 per bushel., f. o. b., Bamberg, , S. C.?J. A. WYMAN. 10-7 ?????? i For Sal??One 35 horsepower en- 1 gine, one 40 horsepower boiler, and ' " saw mill complete. Perfect running condition, practically new machinery. * Located at Hughes station on railroad from Ehrhardt to Bamberg, best location in county for machinery, for quick sale, $850.00 will buy same. 0. L. COPELAND & BRO., Ehrhardt, , S. C. 9-30. ) "MONEY" The mint makes it and under the terms of the CONTINENTAL MORTGAGE COMPANY you can secure it at 6 per cent for any legal purpose ; on approved real estate. Terms easy, tell us your wants and we win cooperate with you. 908-9 Munsey Bldg., Baltimore, Md. Read The Herald, $1.50 year. i * l . ./ $:J , aHi