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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. J. A. Wyman visited relatives in Aiken last week. ?Dr. E. O. Watson spent last Wednesday in Columbia on ^business. ?Messrs. D. F. Hooton and Paul Whitaker motored to Columbia Monday. ?Mrs. George S. Smith, of Columbia, is visiting relatives in the city. ?Dr. George F. Hair spent the week-end at his farm on Yonge's Island. ?Col. R. J. Southal, of Augusta, Ga., was in the city yesterday on business. ?Mr. A. L. Kirkland and family motored to Beafort to spend the week-end. % ?Mrs. Emma Glover, of Aiken, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. W. McMillan. ?Mrs. S. W. Sandifer has return^ ed to the city from Charleston, after a short visit. ?Mrs. J. W. Stokes has returned to the city from the mountains of North Carolina. ?Mrs. C. J. Field and children are spending a few weeks with relatives in North Carolina. ?Miss Hattie Sue Brabham, of Cope, is spending a few days in the city with relatives. ?Miss Marian Simmons has gone to Blackburg, where she will teach the coding session. ?Miss Laura Johnson, of- Blackville, spent a few days in the city this week with friends. ?Mrs. W. H. Faust, of Denmark, is here visiting her father, Mr. W. V. ? - Blythe.?Greenwood Index. ?Miss Carrie White has returned to the city from Columbia after an absence of several months. ?Miss Lila Lancaster, of Govan, | is spending some time in the city at % the home of Mr. W. G. Hutto. ?Mrs. K. I. Shuck returned to the city last week from Barnesville, Ga., where she spent the summer months. ?Miss Lula Bess Wroton, of Denmark, is a membei' of the faculty of the Graniteville high school this ses; sion. ?Ex-Governor D. C. Heyward, of Columbia, collector of internal revenue, spent a short while in the city Saturday. ?Mr. C. D. C. Adams, of Round, S. C., was in the city yesterday. He came to Bamberg to put his son in Carlisle school. ?Miss Mildred Knight, of Bamberg, has been the guest of Miss . Louise Porter for the past few days. Rarnwpll Ppnnle. ?Mrs. Bessie Atteberry and Miss Myrtis Atteberry left last week for Portsmouth, Va., where they will i reside in the future. * ?Miss Genevieve Kirsch has returned to the city from Charleston, where she spent a few weeks with friends and relatives. ?Miss Ruth Senn, of Woodford, is attending the graded school this session. She is residing at the home of Mrs. L. E. Livingston. ?Mr. B. C. McDuffie left Monday " morning^ for Savannah, Jacksonville, and several other points. He will be away for about ten days or two weeks. ?Miss Reba Smoak returned to her home in Columbia last week after a most pleasant visit to her cousin, Miss Inez Sandifer, of Denmark.? The State. ?Mr. B. T. Rice, of Barnwell, has accepted a position as bookkeeper for Mr. A. Rice, Mr. H. N. Bellinger having resigned to accept a position as bookkeeper for Mr. G. Frank Bamberg. ?Dr. G. W. Garland returned to the <iity last week from New York where he spent the surtimer months with his sons.' The doctor is looking fine. He says the people up there are more thoroughly aroused over the t war than we are down here. Only Dry Spot. Adolphus Bush, the millionaire brewer, told apropos of prohibition, a story at a St. Louis banquet. "Two drummers," he began, "were taken dry in a prohibition town. They started accordingly to look for a drink. On a corner they saw a policeman and they decided to ask his advice. "Officer," they said, "is it possible to get a drink in this town?" "The officer led the two drummers up to an imposing church. " 'But surely," they said in shocked tones, 'we aren't going to get what we want here!' " 'Gents,' said the officer, solemnly, 'do you see that church?' " 'Yes,' they answered. " 'Well, gents,' said the officer, "that's the only place in this State where you can't get it.' "?Detroit Free Press. ? v "Nothing But the Truth." The hilarious farce that will be seen at the Academy of Music, Orangeburg, next Friday, September 21, had better been christened "Nothing But Laughter," but James Montgomery, having given his play a name that most fittingly covers the theme of it. he was possibly a better judge than the New York critics who sat in judgment upon it during its year of joyous success at <hej Longacre Theatre. It was the concensus of critical opinion that it was the best farce seen in years. It is a play built upon a simple idea of its hero speaking nothing but the absolute truth for a stated period. He bets a friend ten thousand dollars he can do it, and boldly tackles truth to win the money. For a very short time the task is placidly easy, but truth routs old man Trouble, and then things begin to happen. Trouble doesn't seem very large and aggressive, when he first pokes his nose into the noble resolve of our hero, but he grows rapidly and soon we see our dealer in truth, disrupting the domestic relations of his partner; in fact Trouble works overtime, and reputations that have been unblemished are smirched. Situations that are absurd and complicated pile up, all credited to truth and the result of the wager to foster and cherish that great virtue from the lips of the man who has espoused the cause of truth, to win a wager. It is a novel idea and so well has it been worked out that an audience is kept in the throes of laughter at the seemingly impossible to untangle snarl into which Hero has involved all those with whom he comes in contact. It is a clean, bright farce of well drawn characters, each one of which we are promised will have the interpretation of the very best of farceurs. It is a play offered for laughing purposes only and comes to us with the record of a year's continuous success in the \ \ metropolis. We should, therefore, not hesitate to accept the big town's verdict that it is funny and enjoyable.?adv. Eight Box Cars of Coin. Is there someone hereabouts who can make use of eight box cars full of money? This unusual freight shipment passed through Detroit the other day and is now on a siding at Sarnia, Ont., while efforts are being made to find somebody who can use it, to haul it away. The Muller Manufacturing company, of Sarnia, filling a gun contract for the British government, recently contracted in Japan for a quantity of brass. The consignment came by j way of Vancouver, through Detroit over the Pere Marquette, and was duly delivered. A number of bars of the metal were thrown into the smelter. They ? wouldn't smelt. Perplexed, the concern's chemist cut into one of the ingots, and made a remarkable discovery. Under a thin coating of brass were several rows of Chinese coins, each with the characteristic square hole for stringing in the sentre. Some of them were of the denomination known as "cash," about the size of a quarter-dollar, and supposed to be worth one-seventeenth of a cent. Oth ers were smaller. Apparently, molten brass had been poured over the rows of coins. \ .'Officials of the Muller company believe they have located a smelting plant in the east with facilities to handle the material, but a new problem has arisen, for the railroads have an iron-clad rule against shipment of coin as freight. So it is quite likely that anyone ; who thinks he can use eight carloads of money will be able to get it at a reasonable figure. Millionaires in Draft. Pasadena's quota for the selective draft represents a selection of men whose aggregate fortunes exceed $100,000,000, it was learned today. Among must; unuseu ?cic. Lowell McAdams, athlete and banker, whose fortune is placed at between $7,000,000 and $9,000,000. Leroy Reidman, former coxswain of the Stanford university crew and banker, whose bank account uses up a good many figures. Leroy Linnard, son of D. M. Linnard, manager of the three large hotels in Pasadena and one in San Francisco, whose wealth exceeds /?i/\ A A A AAA q> iu,vuv,?vu. Thaddeus Updegriff, social leader, whose fortune is estimated all the way from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000. John Coulston. now with the American Ambulance corps in France, and very wealthy. Donald Daniel, a student in aviation at the school at Gerkeley, who could not possibly carry his wealth into the air were it all put in gold.? Pasadena (Cal.) correspondence to the Chicago Tribune. Read The Herald $1.50 the year. Passing it Down the Line. One mistake often leads'to another ?and sometimes to a third?as it does fn a story that the Secretary of War told in the course of an address not long ago when he was speaking of United States army regulations. One hot day recently a private sat in a train with his tunic unbuttoned. Presently a sergeant strode up to him and said: "Button up that tunic! Did you ever hear of by-law 217, subsection D? I'm Sergt. Winterbottom." A gentleman in the seat behind tapped the sergeant sternly on the shoulder. "How dare you issue orders," he said, "with a pipe in your mouth. Go home and read paragraph 174, section M, part IX. I am Major Carroll." At that a gentleman with a drooping white mustache interposed from the other side of the aisle. "If Major Carroll," he said coldly, "will consult 9 1 rsf T.T Via will loarn 1 V V ?ia ? OX U1 OC/V/V.XVJU XX) UV TV AAA AVM* *1 that to reprimand a sergeant in the presence of a private is an offense not lightly to be overlooked. I am Gen. Atchison, retired." Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. BANK STATEMENT. Statement of ^he condition of the Bamberg Banking Co.,. located at Bamberg, S. C., at the close of business Sept. 11th, 1917. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ....$425,063.75 Overdrafts 2,735.32 Bonds and stocks owned by the bank 6,300.00 Furniture and fixtures.... 2,942.79 Banking house 4,982.59 Due from banks and bankers v 117,408.44 Currency 5,993.00 Gold 72.50 Silver and other minor coin 4,243.51 Checks and cash items.... 937.39 Total $570,679.29 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ....$ 55,000.00 Surplus fund 4o,uuu.uu Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 23,768.53 Indivi dual depo sits sub j e c t to check..$198,936.82 Savings de- , posits .. .. 120,235.93 Time certificates of deposit .. 2,105.91 Cert ified checks .. - 5.22 CChecksFS 626.88, 321,910.76 Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed $125,000.00 Total $570,(^79.29 State of South Carolina, County of Bamberg. Before me came D. F. Hooton, cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. D. F. HOOTON, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of Sept. 1917. H. H. STOKES, Correct-Attest: Notary Public S. C. G. FRANK BAMBERG, v H. J. BRABHAM, JNO. H. COPE, Directors. TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 1917, until the loth day or juarcn, iyis, inclusive. Erom the first day of January, 1918, until the 31st day of January, 1918, a penalty of one per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of February, 191S, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1918, until the loth day of March, 1918, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. THE LEVY. /For State purposes 8% mills For county purposes 7% mills Constitutional school tax....3 mills Total 19 mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills Fish Pond, No. 5 2 mills Hutto, No. 6 ._. 2 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Olar, No. 8 9 mills Salem, No. 9 4 mills St. John's,"""Xo. 10 2 mills Govan, No. 11 8 mills Binnaker's, No. 12 3 mills Lemon Swamp, No. 13 4 mills' Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Oakland, No. 15 8 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills Colston, No. 18 4 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 4 mills Denmark, No. 21 6% mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 13 mills Lees, No. 23 4 mills Hey ward, No. 24 2 mills All persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years of age, except Confederate veterans and sailArc wlirv oro pvpmnt at T> 0 VPflrs of age, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of age on cr before the 1st day of January, 1917, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the Auditor are requested to do so on or before the 1st of January, 191 S. \ I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1917, until the 1st day of March, 1918. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg County. \ Hapsburg Rose in Switzerland. The Hapsburgs, or Habsburgs, of whom the Emperor Francis Joseph was the head, derived their name! from the castle of Habichtsburg, or Hawk's castle, in the Swiss canton of Aargau. In the 12th century the family became one of the most powerful in Swabia. Rudolf 3rd was I elected Emperor of Austria in the; j following century. While thus extending their possessions and acquiring influence the Hapsburgs lost their; original family possessions, which were gradually absorbed by the can-; tons. Some 35 years ago the Aus-j trians proposed to purchase the castle! sif Unn.k...,. A ~ : J* ut napauuig diiu givts il ax> a vveuu.1115 gift to the crown prince of Austria, but the people of Aargau refused to, hear of the sale.?London Globe. BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of The Farmers & Merchants Bank, located; at Ehrhardt, S. C., at the close of! business Sept. 11th, 1917. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $188,015.31 s Overdrafts 278.13 j Furniture and fixtures.... 2,515.00 Banking house 1,435.75 Other real estate owned.. 545.23 Due from banks and jankers 64,611.71 Currency ., 5,735.00 Gold 115.00 Silver and other minor coin 1,744.53 Checks and cash items.... 421.76 Total .' $265,417.42 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ....$ 20,000.00 Surplus fund $ 7,000.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 7,114.02 Individual de posits sub- ( ject to chk..$64,561.58 Savings deposits 45,657.18 Time certificates of deposit 25,361.85 Cashier's checks 722.79* 136,303.40 Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed 95,000.00 j Total $265,417.42 j State of South Carolina, County of! Bamberg. Before me came W. Max Walker, j cashier of the above named bank,| who, being duly sworn, says that j Hhe above and foregoing statement; is a true condition of said bank, as j shown by the books of said bank. W. MAX WALKER, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before! me this 18th day of September, 1917.1 W. B. MOORE, Notary Public for S. C. Correct-Attest: S. W. COPELAND, J. H. ROBERTS, M. D., W. MAX WALKER, Directors, j YOUR hfl ?| We take this: H are now in pos S| having just r? 1m 1 ^ 1 M am ntvi Kg | WJ large ui biLi || 1 cost us in case If 1 Then, too 9 I plete as now9 I coe and Rati] 9 1 . Skuifer Shoes I I this Skuifer S Km M i I We are al 5 I us figure with | TELEPHONE 26-"tt W' Is Wealth yjL ^COn?my an^ * The bank is the goal of the man who economizes. Skills% This country is waking up to ^"5^* f/re value of economy. It throws * ? ?ac& fAe charge that it is a spendthrift nation. mj M You cannot economize an ^ UMII? jrv**i oiuf/tiu? ^ 5ee ot about your banking * * 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.00 5 ^ I Bamberg Banking Co. ' \ S > estate op Ames k. elum, Dec'd. Elum, aged 32, died leaving estate of $20,000, a widow ond baby daughter. Widow married again a v man named Parr. Parr took-the money, put it in. his own business. Then in a few years wife died, leaving daughter by Ellum and three children by Parr. On . Parr's death he left the money that had come from Ellum to be divided among four children. Ellum's daughter only got $5,000 of her father's $20,000. Do tTAIl TTTOTlf O nn hor man to Hivide vour Estate among I 1 his children ? ' I May we tell you why this could not happen to ANY I Estate where we are Executor? We will be glad to 8 advise you without charge. All consultations strictly I confidential. x I BAMBERG BANKING COMPANY $ I Bamberg, S. C. x WINTER NEEDS! j Ijfi f ' .* %? . * :/i> .. v *v * : m > ! I c;., A >-? :1 . ^ -C. P. Ford's Shoes for women, smitn-jsns- ill .le Shoes for men, R. T. Wood's and E. C. | 9 3 for children. We especially recommend | 9 hoe for the child that is hard on Shoes. i I | so able to serve you in the grocery line. Let II you on the next bill. I 9 1/ t ruiA it T BAMBERG, S.C. SB /'-/ ' . % "' $} ' ' ' \ . M