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Nw Sip lamherg Ifrcalb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2,1916. Established 1891 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS] SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. I News Items Gathered All Around the! County and Else\tfiere. Bufortl Bridge Budget. I | Buford Bridge, Oct. 30.?Several j persons from around here attended j the State fair. ' Mrs. Everette and daughter, Myr- j tie, who have been with Mrs. Victor i Kearse for some time, have left for Charleston, where they will spend some time. Mrs. Mamie Williams, of Allen's dale, visited relatives in this comBRpnity the past week. Mrs. Sarah Reynolds has returned: to heishome in Lancaster after visit- j ing her son here. Mrs. Victor Kearse spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Olar with rela^ tives. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Kearse spent some time in Bamberg the past week. | Mrs. Hammond Kirkland is at j home after spending a few weeks in | Columbia at the hospital with her little son, Xic. Mr. Kirkland is now with him. Mr. Henry Kearse, of Bamberg, was at home last Sunday. Mrs. Victor Kearse and Mrs. Roscoe Kearse spent Tuesday afternoon (in Denmark. Misses Pearle Kearse and Ruth Shuler spent Wednesday afternoon in Ehrhardt with friends. There is still a good bit of sickness / around here. "BOAGUS." v Oak Grove Greetings. , Oak Grove, Oct. 30.?Mrs. D. M. Smith dined with Mrs. Maggie Mions last Friday. Mrs. C. O. Freeman and son, Robert, of Talbotton, Ga., spent last Friday with Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Copeland. We are glad to see Mester Isaac . Carter out again after a recent ill- , ness. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Copeland returned last Sunday after a pleasant visit to Charlotte, N. C., where they visited Mr. and Mrs. G. E. dopeland. Misses Lea and Polly Carter spent last Friday night at the home of theii uncle, Mr. W. Rentz. Mrs. O. L. Copeland is spending some time with her motherz,31rs. C. O. Freeman, of Talbotton, Ga. Miss Lonie Copeland spent last Saturday night with Miss Mamie Copeland. Mr. and Mrs. George McMillan spent last Sunday with Mr. I. W. ?Rentz. ^ Colston Clippings. Colston, Oct. 31.?A. large crowd from this community attended -.the State fair last week. The Colston graded school closed Wednesday so that the teachers and pupils could attend the fair. Mr. Perry Lee McMillan, of Columbia, spent last week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McMillan. ^ . Misses Alberta Kearse and Bessie Kirkland spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs. J. A. Jennings. Mr. George McMillan, of Ehrhardt, has been a visitor at Colston for the past two Sundays. Mr. B. W. Beard happened to a painful accident last Wednesday. While on his way to Columbia his car turned turtle, pinning him under it. There were two other occupants of the car, but fortunately neither was injured. There were other cars be. hind them, or Mr. Beard might have been killed before help could have been secured. He was rushed to the Baptist hospital in Columbia, where it was found that his ribs were fractured and his collar bone broken. He t returned home Friday, but is still in a painful condition. His many friends hope for him a speedy re covery. Mr. Hammie Varn, of Columbia, spent last week-end here with relatives. The friends of Miss Laura McMillan are glad to know that she is now improving. Messrs. Milburn Howard and Ernest Tickle, of Blackville, visited friends in this section this week. Prof. J. K. Breedin, head of the Anti-Saloon league of South Carolina, will deliver an address at Colston Branch Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The public is invited to attend, and we hope to see a large crowd present. Schofield Sketches. Schofield, Oct. 30.?Mr. J. I. John^ ston spent several days in Columbia WORTHY OF APPRECIATION. j| Help the Man Who Shows He lie-, serves It. ; ^ The November Woman's Homei Companion prints an editorial about a man who wrote a letter praising a i young railroad man. It says: j "A busy New York man returned last summer from his country home. The statioh agent in that little country town had been particularly helpful to him. in caring for his trunks I , and arranging for the comfort of his i family. "The New York man was grateful j to the station agent. He told him so. j He wondered, as he rode along whatl chance the young fellow had in that1 ' country station. Would any officer < of the road ever pass that way? : Would the lad's willingness and efficiency ever gain him a reward? "When he reached his office he ] wrote a letter to me presiueiu oi uiai i railroad. 'I want to congratulate you on the young man who represents you at Smithton,' he said; 'he | is courteous and intelligent, and the , good will that he secures for your j road in that section is worth real money to you. He is a young chap worth watching.' "A little thing it was. The cost was only a few minutes of a stenog- , rapher's time and a 2-cent stamp. Yet that letter stood out like a diamond on the president's desk amid 1 the bundle of querulous complaints. ' It brightened the day in that big of- 1 See. It may have changed the whole ' career of the young chap in the country depot." Alabama Mules in Europe. 1 n < The Age-Herald says 10,000 mules and horses have been shipped from j Birmingham to Europe for service in ( Mr. G. W. Mcintosh will leave this week for Williamsport, Pa., where he will celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary. Clear Pond News. , Clear Pond, Oct. 31.?Quite a number of folks from here attended the Union meeting at Spring Branch Saturday and Sunday. Miss Ellen Bellinger, of Texas, spent last week here with relatives j and friends. Mrs. C. H. Sandifer and children are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Folk. Mr. C. E. Hughes, of Varnville, is spending some time at the home of Mr. P. K. Hughes. Mrs. R. F. McMillan visited in Bamberg last week. Mrs. Kistler Rentz, of Ehrhardt, visited her brother, Mr. P. K. Hughes, last week. Mesdaipes S. M. Brown, and J. F. Morris, of Ehrhardt, were visitors at Mrs. J. J. Hughes's last Monday. Mr. G. W. Folk left Sunday for a few days' stay with his son at Hilda. I Mr. and Mrs. Manford DuBois and; children are expected home in a few i days after an extended visit to rel-j atives in the county. Mr. Shelly Padgett, of Govan, is the guest of Mr. O. L. Tant. the war. Birmingham has received over $1,000,000 from this traffic. It , is estimated that upwards of 800,000 mules and horses have gone from this country to Europe. Over $100,000,000 have been involved in the sales gf these animals. The mule that goes to the war will live about two weeks on an average. In 1915 there were about 25,000,000 mules and horses in this country,* there were less than 5,000,000 ' mules. For several years mules and 1 horses have been expensive. They 1 have been fco costly in fact that even ; in times of peace it was considered sound economics to raise mule colts j and horses for sale. It's a mighty poor mule that ^ brings less than $200 on the market. And it doesn't cost much to raise a few colts. Prices in future will be^1 very high. Can't you find room for the advent i ofp colt or two a year on your farm? 1 ?Montgomery Advertiser. 1 I last week with his wife, who is un- ] dergoing treatment there. . Mr. R. L. Beard and family visited relatives at Olar last Sunday. Mrs. C. R. Peeples and son spent several days with relatives at Estill , last week. Mr. James L. Owens went down to i Savannah to spend the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Sanders have i been confined to the bed for .the past week. We hope to see them . out again soon. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Drawdy at- 1 tended the State fair in Columbia ' last week. Mr. R. W. Schofield, of Philadelphia, was a visitor here last week. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Clemson defeated Carolina in the! football game at the State fair on! Thursday by 27 to 0. Lee Jones, colored, got caught in a. corn shredder in Anderson county Thursday and was killed. A. L. Hamer, a Marlboro farmer, sold a 500-pound bale of long staple cotton in Bennettsville Thursday for 30 cents a pound. Clemson college has appointed E. E. Hall, farm demonstrator of Richland cotinty, to devote his entire time to cotton breeding work. A meeting of the South Carolina Press association has been called to be held in Columbia, November 10, to consider the shortage of news print paper. The amount subscribed by Spartanburg people for the endowment of Wofford college within the five days the committees were at work was $38,588.50. r\ %-* A hud'nOCC U lii Ulct auu uictu > mu uuun^^ i men are trying to secure the location | Df one of the Federal Farm Loan banks to be established by the United States government. The Charleston jury in the case of Vincent Chicco, charged with storing beer in his place of business, failed to agree on a verdict ana Judge Rice ardered a mistrial Thursaay. Jno. B. Tennent, of Chester, was killed on a street of Atlanta a few 3ays ago by a friend, J. J. Burchel. Burchel was drunk and Tennent was trying to persuade him to go home. Two brothers, Claude and Rudford Phillips, white men, were convicted af manslaughter in Greenville last week. They killed Bessie Sutton, a aegro woman of Greenville's under world. A mass meeting of the citizens of Winnsboro was held Tuesday night to consider three subjects of interest to the community: The blind tigers; the town roads, and the purchase of representing tne state 01 soutn Carolina in the National rifle matches recently held in Jacksonville, Fla., finished in class B. South Carolina has moved up from 43rd to 31st in standing among the others. Price of Spangles Soars. The demand for beads and spangles this season is the heaviest leading factor in the trade ever seen, but goods are about the scarcest they have ever been. Steel beads are particularly in demand, and they are so hard to get that prices have advanced on them from 7 cents a small bunch to 19 cents or more. Cut steel beads are especially scarce, being in demand for trimmings on shoes, dresses, hats, gowns and other wearing apparel and on velvet and crocheted bags. ' Seed beads in all colors, some 300 shades in all, are also much called for, many of the colors being hard to get now. Oriental and French pearl beads are much wanted for use in necklaces. The spangles, jet and irridescent effects are in heavy demand for use on party dresses. Prices on all kinds of beads now average 25 to 30 per cent, higher than normal.?Boston Transcript. l 1 AX IMPORTANT WORK. Plans Being Made for Distribution of Immigrants After War. v. The suggestion recently was made to officials in Washington that some organized effort should be made by the government to distribute the immigrants who come to this country after the war in Europe, says Thomas F. Logan, in Leslie's. It was pointed out that there are a large number of farms in Vermont and New Hampshire and other Eastern States, as well as many other sections, and especially in the South and on the Pacific coast, which are now vacant or can be bought on easy terms. This is a laree factor in the develoDment of the financial prosperity of the United States, and with the population growing so steadily, with consumers increasing and agricultural producers decreasing, it is about the only practical plan for the reduction of the cost of living. Commissioner Caminetti, of the bureau of immigration, said recently that to facilitate settlements of this kind, the new farm loan system will be helpful. Authority was recently vested in the bureau to promote the distribution of laborers and settlers upon lands. Efforts are being made to evolve a practical system of farm colonization and to enlist the cooperation of the individual States. The States are be a nose wagon. Paul Kerr, 10-year-od son of Lee Kerr, of Columbia, was run down and injured by an automobile driven by a negro in Columbia Friday, young Kerr's injuries are not serious. The car and the negro driver have lot been identified. The main building of the Pee Dee fair plant in Florence was destroyed by fire Sunday night. It was the work of incendiaries since the building was fired in several places.. The building was valued at about $5,000 and was insured for half that sum. E. E. Hall, farm demonstrator of Richland county, has been appointed by the federal government cottonbreeder, the purpose being to find and cultivate the kind of cotton seed that will best meet the boll weevil menace?the seed that will mature the quickest. At a meeting held in Abbeville,' Monday afternoon resolutions were passed ordering the family of Anthony Crawford, the negro who was Ivnohed in Abbeville Saturday, to! leave Abbeville county by November 15. It is said the step was taken in the interest of peace. Adjutant General W. W. Moore, has announced that the Citadel team, ing asked to reserve lands to solve the problem of immigrant distribution. Commissioner Caminetti has been working with Secretary Wilson of the department of labor and Secretary Lane, of the department of the interior, to develop a practical plan for the distribution of immigrants. Jobless Man and Job Meet, Columbia, Oct. 28.?One of the features of the State fair this year was the booth set aside by E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture, for the use of the United States department of labor, in connection with the work being done under the supervision of the department of labor by the federal government. * * J ' ?? ? ? ?? ? ? mis Doom was very uisuuvtiy marked, "United States Employment Service. The jobless man and the manless job; Uncle Sam is his friend." On both sides of the entrance were the signs, "Do you want a job? Ask the Inspector. Do you need labor? Ask the Inspector." Over the entrance was the sign, "Welcome." The headquarters of the director, W. Vaughan Howard, is at Charleston, and any application sent to him there will be promptly acknowledged and cared for, and if it be within his power to place the applicant in a position itvis his duty to do so; should it be an applicant for labor, or any other form of work, it is his duty to ? - - -L X ^11 find those wfto are competent to mi the applicant's needs. It is understood from the inspector that it is the idea of the department of labor to establish headquarters permanently in Columbia, to work in cooperation with the State commissioner of agriculture, as soon as plans can be affected. The thorough cooperation between the commissioner of agriculture and the director of employment has resulted in many benefits to both the employer and the employe, and it is thought that the future will lead to very substantial results. UNUSUAL HAPPENING. S How a Tiny Screw Held Up a Great N City's Business. A diminutive screw worked loose in one of the big steel safes in the treasury department of Cincinnati recently, and dropped into the mechanism operating the combination. Thereafter there was trouble, says the Popular Science Monthly for November. The screw took its tumble on a Thursday night and it was not until the following Tuesday that the safe was opened. On Friday morning, when 500 people were standing in line waiting for $25,000 in pay envelopes reposing behind sixteen inches of steel, the paymaster discovered that something . was wrong. He asked the people to wail until he found a Jimmy Valentine. After several men who admitted that they knew uncanny things about opening safes were tested out, the big safe was just as obdurate as ever, and the line of watchful waiting ones was dismissed. Friday night the safe was ordered drilled open. A crew of four men worked from that time until Tuesday morning before they undid the mischief caused by that one little screw when it dropped out of its alloted place. The additional work cost the city $75, besides the patience of 500 citizens. jTDE DUTY OF ALL VOTERS SOUTHERXERS SHOULD GO TO THE POLLS. Sneer From G. O. P.?Statement Calls Attention to SmaJlness of Total Vote in This Section. Washington, Oct. 2S.?The national Republican congressional committee today issued a statement which should appeal forcibly to Democratic voters in South Carolina and which should be the means of bringing out a record breaking vote in the election of November 7. What is called the "gross inequality" between the representation in congress from the South and from other sections is pointed out, and this should make Southern Democrats guard their election rights with more than ordinary value at the present time, for the reason that should the vote in the South this year be no larger than heretofore, Republicans in congress will undoubtedly make the situation embarrassing for members below the Mason and Dixon iine hereafter. "Statements have been issued demonstrating clearly that in congress the 'South is in the saddle' in respect to chairmanships of the most important committees and in regard to general domination of this section in important legislation which affects the whole country. I wish to emphasize these facts and to particularly direct attention to the largely disportionate share which the South Avnym'pnr in + V> /-> alontirtn f\f tTtT\ OTP <5 <5 CAUA L IOUO 111 v x. ww men," declared Hon. Frank M. Downer, secretary of the Western headquarters of the national Republican congressional committee, in a statement here today. "As constituted at the beginning of the Sixty-fourth congress, there were 435 members, classified as follows: Democrats, 233; Republicans, 193; Progressives, 7; Independents, 1, and Socialists, 1. "Eight Southern States, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia have a total representation of 66 members in congress; 64 of these are Democrats, 1 a Republican and 1 a Progressive. "There was a total vote cast for all candidates for congress in these Southern districts of 511,199, an average of 7,745 votes to each district. "Seven Northern States, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio, - Michigan, Iowa, New Mexico and Idaho, likewise have a total representation of 66 members, 50 of whom are Republicans and 16 Democrats. "There was a total vote cast for all candidates in these 66 Northern districts of 2,587,402, an average of 39,203 votes to each district, so that one vote in eight Southern States was as potential in the election of a congressman as five votes in the Northern States enumerated. "South Carolina's total vote cast for congressmen, of whom she has 7, was 33,414, an average of 4,773 votes to each district. Minnesota's total | vote cast for congressmen, of whom she has 10, was 322,811, an average of 32,281 votes to each district. Is there any good reason why a voter in South Carolina should have nearly seven times as much to say in respect to the legislation which shall be enacted for all the people, as a voter in Minnesota? "Florida has four members of congress. All candidates received 24,076 votes, an average of 6,019 votes ' oii.x. ~ ^ in each district, ine state ui v,uiurado likewise has four members of congress. All candidates received 247,506 votes. Colorado being an equal suffrage State, we divide the total vote by two, which gives us 123,753, an average of 30,938 votes to each district. The average voter in Colorado, both men and women, believe he or she is just as good and should have just as much to say in regard to governmental affairs as any other voter. It is not believed that Colorado voters will relish the idea when they discover that a Florida voter has five times as much power to elect a congressman as they. "Georgia has 12 congressmen. Indiana has 13. Georgia cast 81,472 votes for all candidates for congress; Indiana cast 630,249, an average of 6,790 votes per district in Georgia and 48,480 per district in Indiana. "Louisiana has eight congressmen. New Mexico has one. Louisiana cast 51,090 votes for all candidates for congress, an average of 6,386 per district. New Mexico, one of the newest States in the.Union, cast 46, 413 for all candidates for congress. Certainly a voter in Louisiana should not be allowed seven times as much power in respect to the election of CLASSED STATE OFFICERS. Killing as to Clerks of Court and Sheriffs. Columbia, Oct. 27.?That clerks of court and sheriffs of South Carolina are State officers and should take office on the third Tuesday in January, when the governor is inaugurated, is the opinion of Attorney General Peeples, which was forwarded today in answer to an inquiry from York. It has been customary heretofore to regard sheriffs and clerks of court as county officers and they have assumed the duties of their respective offices on the first Tuesday in January after the general election. French Farm Products. It has been a great problem of the war how to cultivate the farms of France. The valley of the Loire is x the very garden of France, with its long strips of ploughed land sown in wheat, oats, luzerne, Indian corn for nr nlonto^ nritVi irinae nr ivuutl , \J 1 piautvu TTAIAA ? liito VTA UV\/VO or other vegetables, sparingly with-7" potatoes, for the soil is too good. I drove back twenty-five miles through the Beauce, the lond of vast wheat fields reaching golden to the horizon. It was harvest time, and it seemed to me there was more than the usual proportion of women handling the sheaves. Old men and boys are doing more than the work of the}r age. Gen. Joffre has seen to it that, so far as the military situation allows, soldiers should be sent back to aid in the harvest, and there have been workmen imported from North Africa. And an attempt has been made to use the help of German prisoners, but they seem to have left their efficiency behind them in their own country. When the treatment of prisoners is investigated at the end of the war it will be found that the French have carried their courtesy even into their relations with captured enemies. The sum of the present matter is that France, agricultural France, is keeping up her intensive cultivation in spite of the strain of war. It is this which has made France in ordinary years self-sufficient in wheat and most other grain. An American r- M may surely add that, where the loosely cultivated, but less worn, fields of his own country yield seventeen bushels to the acre, thi > French soil, worn with crops for a thousand years, but cultivated like a garden, gives twenty-three bushels. French peasants were always Quick to profit by experience and infinitely patient in their individual labor at their land, but this triumph of intensive cultivation is scientific as well. The increase in the yield of French wheat fields since government aided in spreading these scientific methods has often been as much as a third. All this will tell for the recovery of France from the losses and waste of war, and it should tell for the con tinued igood name of France. If French peasants had not been good farmers before the war, willing to learn as well as to labor, they would not now be such good soldiers. All the world knows now how they fight, but I fear many Americans have very v little idea how they farm. This peasant population of France numbers something over 14,000,000 adults. More peasant men in proportion are fighting than townsmen' are, for it is the latter who have to furnish hands for the war munitions factories. So, too, more peasant women are doing men's work in these harvest fields than there are townswomen working in war factories.? New York Post. Behind the Times. Lettie is ten, and consequently knows little of politics, while Ben, only nine, has already begun to learn something about the subject. "Which side are you on, Lettie?" he asked, as they were looking over the pictures of the candidates. "On papa's side," said Lettie, with* a sweet smile. "But is your papa a Democrat or a Republican?" asked Ben. "Who is he going to vote for for president?" "He hasn't told me," said Lettie, "but I think he is for Washington." ?Saturday Evening Post. Just received a carload of wire fence. See me at once if you are in the market for fencing. S. W. Copeland, Ehrhardt, S. C.?adv. congressmen as a voter in New Mexico. * "These comparisons could be multiplied indefinitely. A sufficient number have been shown to focus attention upon the gross inequality which exists in respect to this matter." / JV ^^1