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I vtiir Bamhrrg iirralD Thursday, January 4, 1917. SHORT LOCALS. Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. Mr. G. C. Padgett, who has been salesman for Mr. H. C. Folk, has acceptec a similar position with the M. E. Aver company. Mr. H. W. McMillan has accepted a position as bookkeeper for Mr. G. "*" 1-1 rvlooo of \Tr H r raiiK Damucig, m -? ? N. Bellinger, who is now with Mr. A. Rice. A check has been mailed to the county treasurer for $198.50 by the chief game warden as Bamberg county's portion of the fund collected by the warden. Mrs. Blanche W. Faust left Tuesday for Rock Hill, where she is taking the annual month's training course at Winthrop college. Mrs. Faust is the girls' club demonstrator of this county. The Philathea class of the Baptist church will hold its regular monthly business meeting at the church Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. All members are urged to be present, as there is special business to be transacted. At the regular convention of the ' 1 ^ ? Tr?*?aP r)f + in*Qp Bamoerg ioage, rvuigms ui ? J Ui.li.drOy I Monday night, the officers for the ensuing year were installed by the district deputy grand chancellor, Dr. J. B. Black. .The lodge is entering upon a very promising year, and the officers have pledged themselves to do some good work. Mr. J. J. Chassereau, of Bartow, Fla., has moved to Tennille, Ga., where he will farm this year. Mr. Chassereau recently killed seven hogs, and he has now on hand about 500 pounds of the finest lard. One of his hogs weighed 6S2 pounds after being dressed, and he thinks that his hogs will grow even larger next year?if that is possible. Vbw Arirertiswnents. Thielen Theatre?Billie Burke. J. B. Brickie?The Tired Tires. Standard Oil Co.?Rayo Lamps. Mutual Garage?In Tire Trouble. Peoples Bank?Ten Cents a Week. .Standard Oil Co.?Wherever You Go. Enterprise Bank?Don't Carry a Safe. Peoples Bank?Xmas Banking Club. H. G. Hastings Co.?Free Flower Seeds. Estate Mrs. Jane M. Rizer?Final Discharge. Bamberg Banking Co.?Safeguard Your Estate. Farmers & Merchants Bank?The Careful Man Banked. Bamberg Banking Co.?Are You ' Thinking of Marriage. Denmark K. of P. Installs Officers. Last Monday night the Denmark lodge, No. 35, Knights of Pythias, held its regular semi-monthly meeting, at which the officers for the ensuing year were installed, as follows: (J. C.?R. C. Hardwick. ^ V. C.?P. L. Bean. P.?T. P. MoCrae. M. of W.?Fred Turner. M. at A.?L. O. Mitchell. K. of R. & S. and M. of F.?Cecil S. Rice. ' M/ of E.?J. B. Guess. ' I. G.?W. W. Cain. O. G.?I. G. Jennings. Grand Vice Chancellor W. E. Derrick, of Orangeburg, was a visitor, and made an interesting talk. Revs. Huggins, Rogers, and Stokes, tht ministers of Denmark, were also visitors of the evening. The Denmark lodge is in a flourishing condition, and much interest is being taken in the lodge work. Bank Officers Iteelected. v 1 At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Bamberg Banking Co., held a few days ago, all the present officers and directors were reelected for the ensuing year. A handsome dividend was declared, and a nice sum was carried over to the undivided profits. Five per cent, was carried over for depreciation to banking house and 10 per cent, for depreciation to furniture and fix tures. Don't Feaze Him. "Bang!" went the rifles at the manoeuvers. "Oo-o!" screamed the pretty girl?a nice, decorous, surprised little scream. She stepped backward into the arms of a young man. "Oh!" she said, blushing. "I was frightened by the rifles. I beg your pardon." k "Not at all," said the young man. "Let's go over and watch the artillery."?Baltimore Sun. J GOOD ItOADS MKETIXG. iliii' Dally Will Be Held Xevt Monday at the Court House. Next .Monday, January Sth, is the date of the big good roads rally to be held at the county court house. The organization and publicity committees held a meeting Tuesday, at v/hich final arrangements were made for the holding of the meeting next Monday. . It is believed that the meeting will be one of the most enthusiastic gatherings ever held in this county. During the past week or two, since the meeting was first arranged for, many expressions of approval have been heard from all sections of the coun+i* onH co^mc that tliA DeoDle are thoroughly aroused to the fact that the time has arrived for something definite and tangible to be done. This meeting is to be held for the purpose of discussing and formally launching some plan for the attainment of a system of good roads for the county and for the proper maintenance of the roads after they are built. The meeting is to be free and open, and everyone should feel that it is a public affair?and that the views of everyone interested in this great problem will be received with thanks. Whether you favor a bond issue, a direct tax, an automobile tax, or whatever you do favor in regard to securing money for roads, come to the meeting and give those present the benefit of your suggestions. The meeting will be held at 11 o'clock at the court house next Monday morning. Enjoyed Duck Hunt. Messrs. G. Frank Bamberg and H. F. Bamberg spent a few days last week duck hunting down in Berkeley county, on the duck preserve of Mr. Albert Hayne, of Fort Motte, as the guests of Mr. Hayne^ Mr. Hayne has been spoken of for chief game warden. It is understood that a warden will be elected by the coming legislature. Mr. Hayne is a lover of birds, and one who has taken much interest in the matter of bird preservation, and we understand that he is peculiarly fitted for ] the position. He knows bird life like a book, and is one of the best informed men on game laws and like subjects in the State, and his Bamberg friends would be delighted to see him occupying the position of chief game warden. We Are Entirely Innocent. Our esteemed contemporary, The Bamberg Herald, may be perfectly innocent in the matter. It may be a mere coincidence that, with the exception of the n^mes signed to them, the letters to Santa Claus published in that paper were almost identical with those in the Journal and Re view.?Aiken Journal and Keview. Changes of Residence. Mr. B. C. McDuffie has moved to Mr. I. B. Felder's cottage on Bridge street, recently vacated by Mr. Griffin, who moved to Ehrhardt. Mrs. C. E. Simmons has moved into the J. E. Felder cottage on Bridge street, recently purchased by her. Mr. W. H. Chandler and family, who have been occupying the cottage, have moved to the Morris cottage on Railroad avenue, which he recently purchased from Mr. Morris, who moved to Augusta. Mr. F. E. Steedly has moved from the Brabham hall to his farm in the country. Prof. J. A. Klein and family have taken rooms in the Brabham hall, and moved into their new quarters. Mr. F. C. Ayer is now occupying the cottage recently vacated by Mr. A. W. Hunter, who has moved back to the Hunter's Chapel section. Mr. J. A. Mitchell has moved back into his cottage near the B., E. & W. station, and Mr. W. M. Sandifer, who has been occupying Mr. Mitchell's residence, has moved to Mr. H. N. Folk's cottage, on Midway avenue. Mr. E. W. Watson has moved from the Price cottage to the Harmon cottage on Carlisle street. Mr. F. O. Brabham, who will be deputy clerk of court under the new administration, has moved to the city and is occupying the Carroll cottage, Mr. Carroll having recently moved to Charleston. Stockholders' Meeting Held. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Peoples bank was held at the bank's offices Tuesday. Mr. H. C. Folk was elected president. Mr. A. M. Denbow was promoted to active president, and Mr. C. E. Black | was elected cashier at increased salaries. Capt. W. S. Bamberg and Mr. G. Moye Dickinson were added to the board of directors. The bank officials reported that the past year was the best in the history of the bank; that the bank owes no monies and has nearly $100,000 on deposit in reserve banks. The deposits of the bank were stated to be approximately $175,000. Bamberg County Bananas. We always did think that practically everything could be grown in Bamberg county. We were not, however, prepared to believe that we could grow nice, luscious South American (or South Sea Islands, which is it?) bananas right here at home. But that's what can be done. What is more than that, it is exactly what has already been accomplished. And Mr. D. J. Hartzog, of Govan, is the wizard who did it. And they are good bananas. We know, because we ate one of them. Mr. Hartzog the other day walked into The Herald office and handed us a banana. People fre quently do that. (Not so frequently, either, come to think about it.) But they don't often hand you a banana grown by themselves, do they? That is what Mr. Hartzog did. A real Bamberg county banana. Those Argentine, Brazil, Chili, or whatever *t is, kind of bananas are not in the class of these Bamberg bananas. No, sir. When our non-plussed, loudly spoken silence declaimed the fact that didn't know what he was driving at, Mr. Hartzog proceeded to enlighten us. Some few years ago he secured a banana tree from some friend and planted it out. When it became cold, he dug the tree up and "banked ' it, just iiKe potatoes, ue said, and when it was warm again, he re-planted the tree, continuing the process until the tree had grown to considerable size. And then it began to bear fruit. The first time the tree only brought forth a few bananas, but it continued to increase, until the other day Mr. Hartzog gathered about 25 bananas. The only trouble is, says Mr. Hartzog, the tree has grown to such magnitude that it is quite a task to transplant it every year. Now, if anybody can beat this banana tree of Mr. Hartzog's, we would like to know about it. Change of B., E. & W. Schedule. Beginning last Monday, January 1, the schedule on the B., E. & W. railroad was changed. The .following schedule is now effective: No. 345 leave Ehrhardt 7:30 a. m., arrive Bamberg 8:15 a. m. No. 10 leave Bamberg 1:10 p. m., arrive Ehrhardt 1:55 p. m. No. 7 leave Ehrhardt 2:15 p. m., arrive Bamberg 3 p. m. No. 344 leave Bamberg 5.15 p. m., arrive Ehrhardt 6 p. m. Nos. 345 and 10 make connection at Bamberg with Southern trains to and from Augusta, Columbia^ and Charleston. Nos. 7 and 344 make connection at Ehrhardt with A. C. L. trains to and from Charleston and Savannah. Wilson-Young. Fairfax, Dec. 31.?Miss Ruth Wilson, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Wilson, and Horace Young were married Thursday at the homq of the bride's parents in the presence of a few relatives and friends of the bride. The marriage was solemnized at noon, the Rev. D. B. Groseclose, of the Lutheran church, performing the ceremony. \ The parlor in which the marriage was solemnized was decorated with ferns and pot flowers. The bride and bridegroom entered the parlor at the appointed hour preceded by Wilbur Wilson, only brother of the bride, with Miss Willie Timmons, of Batesburg, and Ben Best, of Fairfax, with Miss Fannie Kate Marsh, of McCormick, as Mendelssohn's wedding march was played by Miss Lizzie Gelzer, of Eutawville. While the ceremony was being performed Miss Gelzer rendered "O Promise Me." Little Misses Hattie Ruddell and Lorna Knopff acted as ribbon bearers. The Rev. Mr. Groseclose stood under an arch of evergreens as he pronounced the ceremony which made the young couple man and wife. Some of the out-of-town guests were: Misses Lizzie Gelzer, of Eutawville; Willie Timmons, of Batesburg, and Fannie Kate Marsh, of McCormick, former college mates of the bride, and Mrs. F. L. Marsh, of Vidalia, Ga., .while some of the Fairfax guests were Misses Alma Knight, Mildred Loadholt, Sadie Harter, Lylete Wilson and Annie Harter and Ben Best, James Buckner, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Thomas, Walter and Mrs. Ruddell, John Harter and others. Immediately after the marriage the guests repaired to the dining room, where refreshments were served by Mesdames Mary Wilson, Hattie Harter and Delia Marsh. The bride wore a traveling suit with hat to match. The bride is a young woman of rare beauty and by her kindly disposition and pleasant manners she has won popular favor and a large circle of friends. The bridegroom is a young man of fine qualities. He came here a fewyears ago from Tonwsend, Ga., where he was reared and where his parents now reside. He is at present one of the telegraph operators at the union station here. Mr. and Mrs. Young left here on one of the afternoon trains for Miami and other points South, where they will spend a few weeks, after w-hich they will return to Fairfax where they will be at home. - DEFICIT IS FACED. Plea for Funds is Made to Congressman Byrnes. The Herald is in receipt of the letter below from the Democratic national committee to Congressman James F. Byrnes in regard to the deficit in Democratic campaign funds. Bamberg county did not contribute very liberally to this fund, and we hope that there will be many who will respond to this plea for funds to pay TVio 14 or a 1H will {rlnrl UID U.CAA VyA C. x UU A1V1 ?? *** wv Q.v?? to receive any funds and forward them to Mr. Byrnes, who is charged with the duty of raising $1,000 in this district. The letter follows. Democratic National Committee, Headquarters, 504 Nibbs Building, Washington, D. C., Dec. 13, 1916. Hon. James F. Byrnes, House of Representatives. Dear Mr. Byrnes:?The Democratic party won the greatest victory of its history at the present election. Never before did it battle with a more active foe to popular government. Violent publicity attacks were propelled by large volumes of money. The necessity of meeting quickly and thoroughly those propaganda in the closing hours of the campaign resulted in a large deficit, which must be promptly met. South Carolina since the election has contributed about $1,000 towards this deficit, out aDoui $7,000 more is required from the State to meet its proper allotment. This is $1,000 per congressional district, regarding this matter. It requires but ten contributors of $100 each, or one hundred contributors of $10 each to raise the $1,000 for your district. The contributors may be given until February 15th to complete their payments, but it is necessary that the subscriptions be secured at once, in order that the entire deficit may be met before President Wilson is inaugurated Jfor his second term on March 4th. Checks should be made payable tc W. W. Marsh, treasurer, but forwarded, if you please, through me as I have been charged as a membei of the campaign committee with the State. This is a party emergency, and 1 am sure you appreciate its great importance. I, therefore, thank you ir advance for the cooperation requestvAiire CU. 01UV/C1C1J juuis, DANIEL C. ROPER. THE NORTHCLIFFE ATTACK. * Editorial Assailing the Asquith Cabinet Just Before Its Fall. "The Limpets, a National Danger,' was the title of the editorial in The London Mail which is said to have precipitated the cabinet crisis in England. This is the article: "A moment in our struggle for existence has now been reached when government by these 23 men who can never make up their minds has become a danger to the Empire. "The burden of administration in war makes demands on the body and mind which cannot possibly be supported by idle septaugenarians like Mr. JBalfour and Lord Lansdowne, or by such a semi-invalid as Lord Grey of Fallodon. One of the wisest and ablest historians of the Napoleonic wars has declared thai the age and feeble health of so many of Napoleon's earlier adversaries wftrft the causes of his astounding triumphs. It was not till the young and vigorous men took the field against the Corsican that success came in sight. Canning and th British diplomats of the period ol victory were, as we should now say very young men. Nelson was not 4C when he won his greatest victory Wellington was only 40 when he began his career of victory in the Peninsula. "With advancing age our Lansdownes and Balfours find it hardei and ever harder to make up theii minds and to face grave responsibility. The notorious characteristic ol our 'government' of 23 is indecision There are at this moment no fewei than seven questions urgently waiting to be decided. Most of then Vioitci hoon 'nnHor prmsirieratinn' b"S the 23 for weeks or even months Energy, promptitude, speed are indispensable for success in war. Tim< has today a surpassing value. Bui our 'government,' though it has more than 100 committees endeavoring tc make up its mind for it, can nevei decide. It just waits till the press and the Germans have done something which forces it to decide in z hurry?and too late. "For nearly two months a q>uarre has raged Between the Air Board which the 23 set up in aenance oj wiser advice, and the Admiralty?i e., old Mr. Balfour, advised by Ad mirals Tudor and Vaughan-Lee. N( authority but that of the 'govern ment' can settle which of these twc bodies is in the wrong. Until thai point is settled the whole air pro gram for the army is held up anc delayed. Sir Douglas Haig is wait ing for powerful machines in abund ant numbers to meet the new Ger man aeroplanes. But the 'govern ment' delays and hesitates, judging the question only from the political standpoint. If it decides for the Air Board it will upset Mr. Balfour. If it decides for the Admiralty it will upset Lord Curzon. whose ill health has robbed him of power of decision. So it does not decide at all in order to keep both Mr. Balfour and Lord Curzon in good humor. "Mr. Balfour's Admiralty Board has failed to make good his indecent mansion house boast regarding German raids on the channel, has failed to cope with the new German submarine campaign on definite and systamahV linexs atiH has failpd to arm our merchantmen. "It requires reconstruction from top to bottom. The 'government,' instead of recognizing the gravity of the situation and the sped with which the rapidly increasing German submarines are sinking merchantmen, Allied and neutral, is waiting, like Mr. Micawber, for something to 'turn up.' Fresh changes in the Admiralty are believed to be imminent. Why are they not swiftly made so as to give the country a board of young and vigorous officers? The real food dictator, as Gibson Bowl.es said yesterday, is the German submarine. Things have come to a pretty pass when, because of the age and indolwa of Mr Ralfonr food is soaring to fancy prices. "The supply of recruits to Sir Douglas Haig's magnificent armies on the Somme is a matter of the most urgent need. The Man-Power Distribution Board was set to work . in September, and nearly three | months have passed without any visible result other than the promise of a debate in the house of commons next week. Without an assured supply of recruits no general can make plans for his campaign. Through the procrastination of ministers the whole of this autumn has been thrown away while the Germans un( der Hindenburg have been -working might and main. "The 'government' told us more [ than a fortnight ago that the appointment of a food controller was necessary. It admitted that a scarci^ ty of food (against which the daily Mail has been warning ministers for t more, than a year and which it has begged them again and again to prepare for) was certain, and that the most energetic measures were necessary to cope with the danger. But having said that, these well-paid time-wasters relapsed into their ac, customed sloth. The food controller ic not annointed. No adeauate meas ures have been taken. -The talkers > are drifting again and discussing se, riously such points as the sale of j sweets in theatre. It is no wonder . that Lancashire people are asking how much longer Lord Derby, with . his reputation for robust energy, will continue to associate with these peo. pl6. "To increase the area of land under wheat it is necessary to offer farmers some guarantee against loss , in the shape of a minimum price of , wheat. Each year for the last two ( years the 'government' has been entreated to give this guarantee. It owl PUT IN OUR CHRISTMAS I BANKING CLUB > ; and increased/ : 104 WEEKLY \ WILL MAKE " ; wjey-mJ This happens In 50 WEI We also have a 5 cei ) pays $63.75. ? Our 2 cent cl 5 Our 2 cent cl We also have clubs wh $2.00 or $5.00 each wee i or $100 $250. We add 4 per cent inter f Come in and get a " book FREE. It costs nothi ) I This is not a pianjusc I also for MEN ahd WOMEf > I You can start 1 i I People ; I BAMBE j would have been of inestimable ser- ' vice. There is no possible objection to it. Even the most fanatical of free traders are calling for it. But it is not given. Mr. Runciman and Lord Crawford are mute as oysters, and meantime the weeks when win- ( ter wheat could be sown are nearly gone. Is the nation to starve because ministers will not decide? "It has been obvious for months that King Constantine was a German puppet and would turn on the Allies when he could. But Lord Grey of Fallodon, being in feeble health?a fact which every one will regret, though it is preposterous that a man in feeble health should be in office in these tremendous days?never grappled resolutely with him in time. Ac- ^ j* tion has been taken at last, six ~ mrmfVic f nn In to Tn MflV it mifirht j ! have saved Roumania and cut Ger- ^ ! many's Balkan artery. Now it i achieves nothing and brings a fresh i embarrassment. | "The 'government' has promised ' ^ ; soldiers the vote, and has done nothi ing to redeem its promise. It has pretended difficulties when none ex; ist, because its Radical ministers j know perfectly well that the millions i of soldiers in the field will vote fjj against their party and for the nation, i "The 'government' has promised :v:S , to wind up the German banks, but " '.A up to date?and this is the twenty- 0 eighth month of the war?not one of them has been dosed down. It promised to end tbe German firms, + T\r, oof WAI*V * -ISS uui until luc JL/anj luan ow w ??v* ? * and stirred up day after daiy not one single German firm was rooted out. tM "The country, despite the fact that it knows very little of the truth, is < /< exasperated by this record, which is 'iff by no means complete. In every di- . gj rection it is the same. But exasper^tion is not enough. The waste of time, which means waste of life I and all that is dearest to us, can only v, ':M 1 be ended if the nation ends this > S 'government.' And it can only bring1 ^ this dangerous 'government' down by showing its will very forcihly indeed. -M "The nation has the greatest grounds for complaint against Mr. ^ Bonar Law. As former leader of the ' Pf ! opposition, he is responsible, by bowing down to Mr. Asquith and ac- : ':U J cepting office in a cabinet which contained a multitude of elderly men, some of whom oppose the war, and - ^ | according to statements of ? their ^ ! sympathizers still secretly oppose it, i for depriving the nation of the one ' constitutional safeguard?an altera- a ative administration. For all the | tens of thousands of lives sacrificed, for all the weeks and months thrown L away for all the hundreds of mil- : ; lions wasted by purse indolence, he | is responsible in the sight of posterity and of this generation. Messrs. ||f McKenna and Runciman, by their ho/1 ovumnlo toon Inc vnnnc mAn flt UUU "V?r?0 J ?O ? r . 4 girls' work in 'government' offices? ? are ruining thousands of small bus- ' inesses. owned by older folk who have to go to the trenches, where, by the way, they &e not of great X use. Mr. Lloyd-George alone shows jr | foresight and courage. We, the na- v tion, look to him to end this tragedy, * A. for it is a tragedy that these appall ing blunders should be in control of \ & | our affairs at this time. * >?N ^ aD0U1 EKS. :^|| it club which in 50 weeks lub pays $25.50 J lub pays $ 12.75 V ere you can pay in $1.00 or I jk and in 50 week get $50 J est. "Christmas Banking Club" ng to join. for BOYS and GIRLS: it is rODAY? START! is Bank ,RG, S. C. I JH