The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 18, 1917, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Thursday, January 18,1917.
A good roads association has been
organized for the county, and we
hope that it will result in much improvement
for the road~ of the county.
Some mighty good arguments
were made at the good roads meeting
in favor of a good system of highways.
Now, we would suggest that
it would be a good thing to get the
actual work started, that the association
call for Volunteers to put in, say
a day or two days, in work on some
road of the county. As the Hunter's
Chapel road is in mighty bad condition,
this would be a good road to
work on. This plan has been carried
out in other places with fine results,
and we see no reason why it cannot
be done in Bamberg county. It is to
the interest of every member of the
good roads association, and the public
generally, to get a good road to
Hunter's Chapel, and to every other
section, for that matter, but a start
must be made on some road, and it
is a fact that traffic is being directed
away from Bamberg because of the
condition of this road. If several
hundred men would volunteer to put
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in even one aay s worn, uus iuou
could be put into good condition in a
remarkably short time.
"I AM A UNION MAN."
How Andy Johnson Dominated an Angry
Virginia Mob.
It was some time after dark when
we arrived at Lynchburg, Va., where
the largest crowd we had yet seen ,
was waiting for the train. Many of
the men bore torches, but they were
not cheering for Wigfall; they seemed
to be in an ugly humor about something.
Suddenly there were cries of
" Hang the traitor! Here is a rope!
Bring him out!" as the maddened
mob fairly swirled about the car. A
man burst through the door, rushed
up the aisle to where I was seated,
and, leaning over me, said to my
neighbor, "Are you Andy Johnson?"
"I am Mr. Johnson," replied the
stout gentleman.
"Well," said the stranger, "I want
to pull your nose!" and he made a
grab for Mr. Johnson's face.
The latter brushed the man's hand
aside, at the same time jumping to
his feet. There followed a scuffle for
a few seconds, and poor little me, being
between the combatants, got
much the worst of it; I was unpleasantly
jostled.
The crime for which they wanted
to lynch Mr. Johnson was the fact
that he was reported to be on his
way to Tennessee for the purpose of
preventing that State from seceding.
Mr. Wigfall came up to Mr. Johnson
and asked him to go out on the platform
with him. Wigfall at once adj
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give Mr. Johnson a hearing, which
they did. The latter commenced his
speech by saying, "I am a Union
man!" and he talked to them until
the train moved off, holding their attention
as though they were spellbound.
His last words were, "I am
a Union man!"?and the last cry we
heard from the crowd was, "Hang
him!"
On relating the foregoing incident
to Mr. George A. Trenholm, then
secretary of the Confederate treasury,
I expressed the opinion that it
was one of the greatest exhibitions
of courage I had ever witnessed; but
Mr. Trenholm cast a damper on my
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have known Mr. Johnson since we
were young men. He rod? into
prominence on1 the shoulders of just
such a mob as you saw at Lynchburg,
, and no man knows how to handle
such a crowd better than Mr. Johnson.
Had he weakened, they probably
would have hung him."?James
Morris Morgan, in the January Atlantic.
Where He Got It.
He was a witness in a case in the
police court.
"What is your name?" inquired
Prosecutor Robinson.
"Mah name?" from the darky in
CI CUUIUUM^ .
"Well, sah, mah name is Hallowed
Hopkins," answered the negro.
"Hallowed?Hallowed!" gasped
the judge.
"Where did you get that name?"
"Frum mah maw," answered the
negro. "It am from de Scriptures."
"From the Scriptures? What part
of the Scriptures?"
"Doan' you r'membah, judge,
wheah it says, 'Hallowed by thy
name?' "
The judge recalled the passage.
Nothing Intentional.
"Dear me, these Boston streets
seem to get more mixed up every
time I come."
"Sorry, mum," said the polite patrolman,
"I assure you we don't
shuffle 'em."?Louisville CourierJournal.
PONTARLIER SPY STRAINER. I
Rorder Si>ot Where Grim Guards
Have Niches in Their Guns.
The tightest spy strainer in all Europe
is at Pontarlier. on the French
border of Switzerland. They can
sicken your soul, those dozen Frenchmen
at Pontarlier. They've got
niches in their guns. They have
caught spies, who have been shot, and
they are trying to catch more.
"It's a matter of life and death
here," explained, in a half-heated
apology, a whiskered French officer
who had once lived in Cleveland,
Ohio. "We are constantly seiuuug
our spies into Germany by this route,
and the Germans are always trying
to get their spies into France through
this station. We're out for blood
here." But he didn't render this explanation
until I had been put
through a 24-hour grilling.
I wonder if the pretty little American
woman with the red silk knitted
sweater is still worrying her heart
out in the Hotel des Postes at Pontarlier,
where the French had held
her three weeks on suspicion. I wonder
what her name was. Wonder if
she is still alive. She, in her red
sweater, is one of the war pictures
burned most deeply into my mind . . .
There were deep black rings under
her eyes. The matron of th> little
hotel told me she had not eaten for
ten days. "I don't want to talk to
you," she said to me. "I don't want
tnem to tnmK tnat 1 snuw you re not
a spy?"
"But your name? I'll tell the
American consul at Paris that you
are held here. I'm a newspaper man
from New York."
"How do I know that? I don't
want to be seen talking to you. This
hotel is full of spies."
She returned to her room and I
never saw her again. There were 15
persons being held in that little hotel,
men and women of misty nationality
who had tried to come into France
from Switzerland and who had been
caught as suspects in the Pontarlier
spy strainer. They were afraid to
talk to me; they were afraid to talk
to each other; they suspected each
other as much as the spy catchers did.
As I look back now at those three
Sunday meals in the dining room of
the Hotel des Postes and see those
silent, mysterious worried men and
women file into the room, one at a
time, solitary, suspected ana eaten
with suspicion, it seems to me that
they were the most miserable and
unhappy lot of human beings that I
have seen in all the war.?William
Gunn Shepherd, in Collier's Weekly.
A Regular Cheer.
"I hear," said a member of the
church, to the young parson, "I
heard that you have an offer from
another church."
"Yes," the minister replied, "I
have a call offering four thousand
dollars a year."
'"And what," the friend inquired,
"are you getting now?"
"Nine hundred."
"And you call the other a call? I
should think it was nothing short of
a yell."?Brooklyn Eagle.
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GnstesB
Bees have lots of HONE^
by putting it in there a little
You can have MONEY the s
Come in?get a "Chris
FREE and put in our bank o
and increase your deposit 5
In 50 weeks YOU will have \
This is a "fine" thing fo
body.
You can also start wit
and in 50 weeks have $12.7
You can put in $1.00 or
weeks have $50 or $100 or :
We add 4 per cent inter*
I You can start T
People
BAMBE]
GOVERNOR IX AUGURATE I).
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indicated mingled disappointment
and amusement.
The audience which packed the
galleries was composed of all walks
of life and ages. There was a sprink- i
ling of gray haired veterans of the;
Confederacy, young ladies from the
colleges in Columbia, young men
from the University of South Caro-i
lina. business and professional men
from Columbia and all narts of the
State, men in the honorable garb of
the laborer, and ladies of the Equal
Suffrage League. It was a represen-'
tative and typical audience of South;
Caroliainns, rejoicing at the begin-!
ning of another term for Governor,
Manning.
j Before the governor took the oath j
of office, the inaugural prayer was!
read bv the Rev. Kirkman G. Finlay.!
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The governor's closing with an ap1
peal for a reunited and forward look-!
. ing people met with a hearty round j
of applause which swept through the j
: floor and galleries. The governor,
was given an ovation at the close of
1 hie aHdrpes
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Chief Justice Gary then delivered
j the path of office to Lieutenant Govi
ernor Andrew Jackson Bethea, who!
! succeeded himself for another term. \
The lieutenant governor made a short I
; address, the governor and his escori
retired, the joint assembly was dissolved,
and the senate returned to
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; their chamber at 1:05, the whole in;
augural exercises having consumed
i just one hour.
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Merry Christmas!
It was the week before Christ|
mas?the time of the last frantic ef:
forts to straighten out the Christi
mas list.
j "Let me see"?Edwin L. Sabin
; wrote this in the American Magazine
j ?"there's Helene. I've simply got
to give her the collar. It's almost
' done, anyway. No, I can give her
! the one I made for Winifred and send
i Winifred a card, or else give it to
I Nettie. I'm so glad I haven't finish;
ed the towel, though. A card will
do as well for Virginia. All she sent
me last year was a sample bottle of
cheap perfumery. And she's rich. I
| believe I'll send Aunt Georgia a card,
! too, or else write a nice letter to ex|
plain that we're being sensible this
j year and economizing, especially at
j Christmas. She doesn't give to anybody.
She's too close."
"But she may leave us something
some time," I hinted.
"So she may. Perhaps I'll give her
! a collar of mine, theitf that I've
I never worn. What did I have down
| for her? Oh, yes; a pin. But the
collar is just as good, as a remem|
brance, and I can save the pin. Or
j I can give the pin to ?Let's see,
j I can give it to Lois. No?I'm to
send Lois a card, wasn't t? Or Vir'
ginia."
False Success.
i Willis?I took up golf to reduce.
Gillis?Did you succeed?
Willis?Yes, I reduced my bank
! account, my hours at the office, and
| my reputation for veracity.?Puck.
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\ is what
J^^you will have
ifyou join our
anking Club.
f in their hives in the winter
bt the time while they can.
ame way.
tmas Banking Club" BOOK
nly 5 cents for the first week
cents each week.
$63.75.
r Boys and Girls?for Evefy:h
I or 2 cents or 10 cents
5. $25.50 or $127.50.
$2.00 or $5.00 and in 50
$250
JSt.
ODAY? START!
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The FisliCo' Guide.
Certain fishes are thought by Drs.
V. E. Shelford and E. B. Powers to j
be guided in their migrations by
highly developed senses of smell and j
touch. In experiments made the I
fishes recognized the presence of
slight traces of acids and alkalies
and herrings proved sensitive to
changes of a fraction of a degree in
tATnnpr.itiirp. It is concluded that
salmon find their way from far at
sea to their chosen rivers by some
chemical peculiarity of the water.
In a similar way herrings are influenced
by variations in sea water and
run in favorable localities.
(WEDNESDAY, 7iL
FEBRUARY IU1
MATINEE AND NIGHT
Henry B. Walthall
HH (Star of Birth of a Nation)
i "The Sting of Victory"
HI This is undoubtedly the best
b9 picture that Henry B. Walthall
B| has ever starred in, not exceptH
ing "The Birth of a Nation."
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.
The Auditor or his deputy will be
at the following places on the days
and dates named below" for the purpose
of taking returns of personal
property, transfers of real estate, and
income tax returns:
At the court house until Monday,
January 15, 1917.
Farrell's store, Tuesday, January
16, 1917.
Denmark, Thursday and Friday,
January 17 and 18, 1917.
Lees, Monday, January 22, 1917.
Govan, Tuesday, January 23, 1917.
Olar, Wednesday and Thursday,
January 24 and 25, 1917.
St. John's, Friday, January 26,
1917, from 9 a. m. to 12 m.
Kearse's, Friday, January 26, 1917,
from 1 p. m. to S p. m.
Ehrhardt, Monday and Tuesday,
January 29, and 30, 1917.
At the court house until February
20, 1917, after which date the 50
per cent, penalty will be added.
Every taxpayer is requested to
learn the name and number of his
school district before coming to make
his return.
Taxpayers are also urged to come
prepared to make separate returns
for town property, giving number of
acres and buildings, and lots in town.
Persons living in town will please
state the fact to the Auditor so that
they will not be charged with commutation
road tax.
All real and personal property must
be returned in the school district in
which it is located.
R. W. D. ROWELL,
Auditor Bamberg County.
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THINGS may be going well with you today. You may have
a tine position. Your business may be prospering. You
may be in the full vigor of youth and health. Of course
none cares to look on the dark side. But it always is
well to be prepared for a change in the tide. The greatest preparation
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