The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 04, 1917, Page 8, Image 8
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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. *
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