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Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1,1917. ^ Established 1891*
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Colston Clippings.
Colston, October 30.?A good
many of the Colston people attended
the State fair last week.
, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beard and family
were the Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Clayton.
Miss Cora McMillan is spending
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aoveiai ua>s wiiii musses auu
Alberta Kearse.
Miss Mamie McMillan, of Bamberg,
spent last week-end at'home.
Miss Sadie Boyd spent last weekend
with Mrs. T. H. Whitlock at
Edgefield.
Misses Evelyn Kirkland, Mary
Clayton and Messrs. Gerald Kearse
and Frank Kirkland, Jr., visited Mrs.
Anna Kirkland, of Ulmers, Saturday
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night and Sunday.'
^fiss Bessie Kirkland spent Saturday
night with Miss Mamie McMillan.
Mr. Sammie Clayton was the guest
of Mr. Grady McMillan Saturday
might. _
Mr. Talbert Padgett, of Bamberg,
was at home Sunday.
Miss Minnie Kirkland spent Sunday
night with Miss Mamie McMillan.
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Schofield Sketches.
Schofield, October 30.?Mr. D. L.
Shiplett spent Sunday last in Columbia.
Mr. James L. Owen visited Bamberg
yesterday.
Messrs./G. C. Sanders and F. B.
Drawdy motored over to Donora on
last Sunday.
Mr. L. E. Drawdy visited relatives
> here last Sunday.
Mrs. J. M. Odom, of Govan, was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. S. D.
Lain, last Sunday. DRAEBLR.
Buford Bridge Budget.
Buford Bridge, October 31.?The
farmers are having excellent weather
for gathering thei rcrops. They are
making good progress with their
gathering and they seem to be dej
lighted over the high price of cotton.
Mrs. H. C. Kirkland has been confined
to her bed for several days with
tonsilitis.
. Misses Leita Everette, of Columbia,
and Myrtle Everette, of Columbia
college, are visiting their sisters,
Mesdames Victbr and Roscoe Kearse.
Misses Ruby Kinard and Louise
Copeland, of Ehrhardt, spent last
-uroolr-onH with thoir aunt Mrs T-T
n C. Kirkland.
Mr. S. W. Copeland and family, of
Ehrhardt, spent last Sunday with
Mr. H. C. Kirkland and family.
Dr. Frank Kirkland and son, Robert
Alfred, of Allendale, were in the
community last Sunday.
Mr. Wallace Kirkland attended the
Georgia-Carolina fair in Augusta last
week.
Several from this community attended
the State fair last week.
Mr. Roscoe Kearse has purchased
a handsome new seven-passenger car.
It is to be hoped that John Gilbert
has found his lost dog, although it
would be difficult to find one that
would answer his description.
Little Mary was found one day
teaching her dolls to say this:
"I have a little finger,
I have a little toe,
And when I get a little bigger,
I'll have a little beau."
BOAGUS.
Billy Sunday in Atlanta.
Billy Sunday, the world famous
evangelist, will conduct a series of
meetings beginning next Sunday, NoK
vember 4th, in a great tabernacle bein
or or?xr?t?ri fr?r thp nnnnsinn in At
lata. He will be there several weeks,
~ and we have already heard of several
Bamberg people who are going to
make the trip to Atlanta to hear him.
This will be Billy's first public appearance
in this section of the country,
and doubtless quite a few of our
people will hear him before he leaves.
Thf boys in the military branches
of the government seryice are not
only offering their lives upon the
alter of their country, but they sub
scribed generously to the second
Liberty loan. The men in the army
subscribed $75,000,u00. while those
in the navy purchased $6,000,000
worth of bonds. That's a fine example
of true loyalty and patriotism.
Bullets and Si.wi. fragments are located
in the human body by me&ns of
a wireless detector.
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FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Mr. Wilson Gives Full Endorsement
as Issue in Every State.
Washington, Oct. 25.?President
Wilson today gave full endorsement
to woman suffrage as an immediate
issue in every State. Addressing a
delegation of one hundred leaders of
the New York State Woman Suffrage
party, who called at the White House
to obtain an expression in support of
the campaign, in that State, the President,
in emphatic terms, declared that
woman suffrage is one of the fundamental
questions of democracy, whose
proper settlemnt is demanded by the
issues of the war. He praised the
on/1 TrioiAn nf A mar?
syii IL, lapatii,! auu vjoivsu. \j i. M.
can women in the war.
"I believe," he said, "that just because
we are quickened by the questions
of this war, we ought to be
quickened to give this question of woman
suffrage our immediate consideration."
Speaking as "one of the spokesmen
of a great party" the t resident
pledged his hearty support, and added:
"I want to speak for myself and say
that it seems to me thfet this is the
time for the States of this Union to
take this action."
LONDQN TELEPHONE GIRLS.
Bombs Did Not Drive One of Them
From Their Duty.
Scenes of bravery among the girls
of a London telophone exchange dur4
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scribed by J. W. Kennedy, ^.ho was
present. He says:
"Bombs were actually dropping in
the immediate vicinity, while the
presence over and on both sides
of the building was reported and
while the smoke from exploded
bombs was distinctly seen from the
windows, and through- it all the supervisor
nearest to me hovered over
her section like a strong spirit seeking
to help those under her charge.
I can paint no picture of stoical
insensibility. Some .nervous cries
there were as the bombs dropped,
white faces were the rule, but in
many of these lines of determination
were the strongest. Silent tears were
dropped but only for a mojnent. No
one near me left her post', and calls
! were passing and cords connected
with the music of death in our ears.
"So near and insistent was the horrible
thud of the bombs that most of
us thought that some part of the
building had been struck. It seemed
to us that the rattle of guns continued
longer than during the Zeppelin
raids. Some day it may add some
value to our lives to know that there
were times when, for duty's sake,
we faced the chance of death. It
must add infinitely more to the lives
of women whose finer nervous and
physical organization makes them
feel more acutely."?London Tele
graph and Telephone News.
THEN AND NOW.
Granfather Lived a More "Real" Life.
Had But One Chance.
I walk on bricks, and my harbinger
of spring issusually a cold in the
head; my New England forebear
heard the-whistling wings of northbound
wild fowl, the whisper of unsealed
streams, acta saw the greening
grass and foliage, says the author of
"The Point of View," in the October
Scribner. To me summer is a matter
of wilted collars and a few hurried
weeks at the seashore; to him it
meant the sober work of the year,
bending the back with nature in the
efficient aid of her great task, lightened
by the camavaderi of having
time. I know autumn by her chill;
he knew her by her ruddy warmth of
fruition in red apple, golden apple,
and wigwam shocks of corn. Winter
w
gives m? slush and snow; for him
the northeaster and blizzard lent an
added grace to the homely sittingroom
and the quiet family circle. And
about him, from cradle to grave, the
shuttle of real social intercourse wove
its homespun thread. That old life
was so neighborly. Xot all neighbors
were good neighbors; there were bitter
and petty hatreds and backbitings
but in the long run of a life time a
man stood forth to his community
pretty much as he was. The twin acid
tests of affliction and good fortune
were applied to him in broad day; ii
he flinched or rioted it was known
My worldly goods are a secret banP
balance, not patent acres, and I car
lose an evil reputation by moving t(
the next block. I think my grand
father's was the more manly part;
he had but the one life and the one
chance; he lived the life and did noi
mar it.
SAVING SWEET POTATOES.
York rounty Farmer Wraps Them in
Newspapers.
Yorkville, Oct. 24.?Isaac Boyd,
superintendent of the county home of
York county, is a farmer of no mean
ability, and he is doing his bit to win
the war for America. Besides being
one of the most successful truck
farmers in York county, Mr. Boyd has
made a discovery in the way of saving
sweet potatoes through the winter
that is as effective as it is simple,
and which requires no expensive special
buildings or a special cellar to
save the tubers, which heretofore
have caused lots of worry to farmers
who would keep the sweet potato for
consumption through the winter
months. ,
Mr. Boyd when, in town showed a
sample of sweet potatos that were
dug a year ago, and that had been
saved in perfect condition by his
method that is in use at the county
home. Instead of putting the potatoes
away in "hacks" or pits, or in
dry cellars as do many potato growers,
Mr. Boyd when he digs his crop
simply has his children and other
help to wrap each individuartuber in
a piece of newspaper, torn to convenient
size, and then packs the potatoes
away in barrels or boxes, or
piles them on floors wherever it may
be convenient to do so. The potatoes
so packed away keep in perfect condition
for months, and the specimen
he was showing today was still in
good condition and fit for food.
At first thought this metnoa migiu
seem to be a rather tedious one, but
it is hardly any more trouble than
is the process of putting the potatoes
in "hacks" and running the risk of
losing the whole crop. Mr. Boyd's
method has been tried by-him thoroughly
and it works to perfection.
Another wrinkle in regard to sweet
potatoes that Mr. Boyd works in getting
sweet potatoes for next year's
crop is this: Along in the middle of
the summer he clips cuttings from his
vines and sticks these in the ground,
and these clippings will at once start
growing, and will produce tubers of
sufficient size to use for bedding to
furnish "slips" for next year's potato
crop.
Mr. Boyd contributes these two
ideas as a contribution in food conservation.
Killed By Window Sash.
Newberry, Oct. 24.?A very peculiar
accident, which cost the life of a
young negro, Coleman McMorries,
occurred Monday night near Whitmire.
The boy in some manner got
his head fastened under a window
sash, and when found by his family
life was extinct.
It is supposed that McMorries attempted
to enter his home through a
window, the doors being locked at the
time, and in order to reach the window
he stood upon a box. Upon raising
the window the box slipped from
under him and the sash fell upon his
neck, and he was unable to extricate
himself before being smothered to
! death. His body was-found some time
l^ter.
S. C. Does Her Part.
The old Palmetto State did herself
proud in the matter of subscriptions*
to the second Liberty loan,
' and everyone should feel mighty good
. over it. This state's allotment* by
the government authorities was $15,000,000
and for a time the chances
of obtaining that amount in bonds
; for South Carolina appeared to be
j very gloomy. But the campaign
' closed Saturday night in a blaze of
glory and as South Carolinians have
made history in the past they again
rallied to the nation's cause, and the
. state's total subscriptions mounted to
practically $19,000,000, thus exceed|
ing our allotment by $4,000,000
1 The old city of Charleston is far in
1 front with over $5,000,000 worth of
bonds purchased and and the boys
^ from the "Bottry" are to be congratulated.
The minimum which the
entire country was to subscribe in
order to make the loan a success was
' three billion dollars, while the
government hoped for a maximum of
five billion if possible. It is announced
from official headquarters in
| Washington that the maximum of
five billion had been exceeded by
several hundred million. The loan
' was offered to the public on Octo^
ber 1st. Thus the answer is hurled
* back to the Kaiser "More than a
L billion a week for the' boys in the
1 trenches."
Probably many people will be sur;
prised to know that already 2S offii
cers and men of the American navy
t have been killed in the war with
Germany, but it is a fact.
PERSHING VIEWS BATTLE.
General Visits German Second Line
Trenches on the Aisne.
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American Training Camp in
France, Oct. 24.?Gen. Pershing accompanied
one of the French generals
yesterday as far as the second
German line in the French attack on
the Aisne front.
Gen. Pershing was with Gen. D' Esperey
at first observing the attack
from a favorable post some distance
in the rear of the French front line.
Then Gen. Pershing suggested going
into the French trenches.
This they did, but Gen. Pershing
was not satisfied and went on through
the shell fire into the first line of
the captured German trenches and
then into the second line. Gen. Pershing's
imperturabable attitude during
this time is. the talk of the French
army.
The American general ^afterwards
went with Gen. Frenchet D' Espereyj
to Gen. Pershing's headquarters and
was present when Franchet D' E$perey
gave the commander-in-chief ^
detailed report of the successful attack.
PORK CURING METHODS.
Meat May Be Preserved Dry or in
Brine.
Hog killing time is coming. It is
especially important this year that
each family cure an abundant supply
of meat. P. F. Trowbridge of the
University of Missouri College of
Agriculture offers two methods of
curing pork, as follows:
Dry Cure?Do not cut up the pork
till the carass is well chilled. Make
mixture of 40 pounds of clean, fine
salt; ten pounds of sugar, four
pounds of white or' black pepper and
one-half pound of red pepper. This
will make enough cure for about
1,000 founds of pork. It-saltpeter
(is desired, use two pounds in the
above mixture. It will^give a red
color to the lean meat, but has a
tendency to harden the meat too
much. Chili saltpeter may be used
instead of the regular saltpeter by
taking about 20 per cent. less.
Bub each f^lece of meat thoroughly
with the cure. Take special care to
work the cure around the ends of
the bones of hams and shoulders.
Pack skinside down on a table or in
a box, in a cool, airy place. Do not
place in direct sunlight nor in a
damp, musty cellar. After four or
five days overhaul the meat, rub
thoroughly with the cure and repack.
Repeat this in about a week. Hams
and shoulders should remain' in the
cure from one and one-half to two
days per pound freight of piece; the
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to be kept during the summer. Bacon
should be in the cure a shorter time.
Ten days will give a very nice, mild
cure to a six or eight pourid piece.
Brine Cure?Make a brine by boiling
seven, pounds of clean salt and
two pounds of white or brown sugar
with two gallons of water. If saltpeter
is desired, add one-fourth
pound. This gives about enough to
cover 100 pounds of pork when well
packed, sprinkle a little, clean fine
salt in the bottom of the barrel, rub
each pfece of meat lightly with salt,
sprjnkle a light layer of salt on each
layer of meat. Put a board on and
weight it down with a ro?k. Allow
to stand over night. Tip barrel on
side and allow the liquor to run out.
Cover the meat with the cold brine
and allow it to stand in a cool place
for four or five days. Overhaul, repack
and cover with the same brine.
Repeat in about a week. Give the
meat the same length of time for
curing as with the dry cure. \x
When the curing is complete, wash
off the excess cure and hang the meat
in the smoke house. Meat kept in
the cure too long should be soaked
in warm water to remove the excess
of the cure. Smoke with hickory,
oak, apple or any non-resinous wood.
Avoid all wood of the pine family.
With a continuous smudge, the
the smoking can be completed In 24
hours. With intermittent smoking,
a longer time is necessary, as cold
meat takes the smoke slowly. Wrap
the meat to keep it away from the
skippers. If rats or mice get at the
meat, they open a way for the skippers.
In damp .weather cured meats
will mold. This is not injurious,
except that it is advisable to use
' up shoulders, as the mold grows in
the cracks and calls for excessive
trimming.?Wallace's Farmer.
Another Loan to Britain.
Washington, Oct. 24.?An addi
tional loan of $30,000,000 to Great
" Britain was today granted by the
i government. This makes the total
loaned the Allies $2,806,400,000.
THE BAMBERG COUNTY JAIL.
Report of the State Board of Chanties
and Corrections.
The following is the report of the
State Board of Charities and Corrections
on the Bamberg county jail, the
inspection having been made on July
10, 1917:
"Average daily population, 4.4 prisoners.
"Plant, Management and Equipment.?The
seriousness of the fire
hazard at this jail has been pointed
out in previous reports, but attention
is again directed to it. The jail needs
repairs in several particulars, pointed
out below under recommendations
to the supervisor and county commissioners.
These officials ought to
cooperate with the management of
this jail by doing their part toward
keeping it in a good state of repair
and as adequately equipped as deficiencies
in the plant will admit. The
jail is county property and as such
should not be neglected by the supervisor
and his board o? commissioners.
"Three meals a day are served to
the prisoners in this jail, though
the dieting fee is only 30 cents a day.
Bamberg' county would do well to
abolish the sheriff's fee for dieting
prisoners, as has been done in several
counties, and substitute for the
fee the system of purchasing food
supplies for the prisoners in jail in
the same manner food is bought for
the convicts on the chain gang. The
jailer ought to be paid an adequate
salary for managing the jail and the
i county ought tp pay a cook for preparing
the prisoners' meals.
"A new prisoners' record book
has been bought for the jail. Improvement
of the record keeping of
the prisoners is expected.
"Recommendations to the Sheriff
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on .Management.?1. As to 'records
of prisoners:' Keep at the sheriff's
office in a suitable book a record of
each prisoner committed te the Bamberg-jail,
which will show his name,
race, sex, the date of his commitment,
the reason for his commitment
(that is, whether awaiting trial, serving
sentence, witness, or insane,) the
date of discharge, ana the reason
for discharge; that is, whether discharged
adsolutely as being cleared
in court, on bond, to chain gang, etc.
"Recommendations to Supervisor
and County Commissioners dn Equip
rnent, etc.?1. As to 'jail's equipment
and repair:*' Have the walls
of the jailer's quarters, calcimined.
Have the walls and ceilings of the
prisoners' quarters scraped and painted
white. Have the roof of the jail
porch repaired. Have the post on
the jail porch which is giving away
repaired.
"2. As to 'medical service:* Pay
the jail physician for and require
him to make a physical examination
of each prisoner within 24 hours of
his commitment to jail, to vaccinate
prisoners against smallpox when indicated,
to visit the jail regularly
once a week and inspect the prisoners'
quarters and their food; to treat
sick prisoiers as at present."
Score Card Report.
I. Jail plant; permanent features:
Scores.
Posible. Actual.
1. Location .. 15 15
2. Separation of prisoners'
quarters
from jailer's residence
10 0
, 3. -Prisoners' quarters:
(1) Fire hazard .... 45 14
(2) Ventilation 70 62
(3) Facilities for i
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ciass^iiuauuii xw v??
(4) ? Sanitary facilities
100 34
(5) Cell facilities
type 60 55
Total sc're under sec. 1 400 247
II. Sheriff's management; methods
and results:
1. Jailer's general
duties 50 33
2. Records of prisoners
30 16
3. Prisoners' quarters:
Conditions.. 70 68
4. Classification of
prisoners 80 80
5. Personal hygiene
of prisoners 80 78
6. Prisoners' food
and feeding 65 ? 63
7. Discipline and occupation
of prisoners
25 25
Tot'l sc're under sec. II 400 363
III. County commissioners and
the jail:
1. Jail's equipment
and repair 110 69
A j; 1
z. .weuiuai service
for prisoners 80 13
3. Financial management
10 0
Total score under sec.
Ill 200 82
Complete score on
this jail 1000 692
An automatic electrically operated
machine dispatches elevators and enables
skyscrapers to give more uniform
elevator service.
IN TUB PALMETTO STATE
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SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
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The South Carolina negro State
fafr is being conducted this week in
Columbia.
The University of South Carolina
has eight of its professors in the
government service.
The 1917 meeting the State conference
of the Daughters of the
American Revolution will be held at
Camden on November 13. /
Governor Manning has paroled, during
good behavior, John Mouzon,
convicted in Darlington in 1912, of
manslaughter, and sentenced to serve
eight years.
A school for 1(H) horseshoers has
been opene? at he remount station
at Camp Sevier. The course will require
three months to complete.
Other schools are to be established
shortly.
B. B. Gossett, a cotton manufacturer
of Anderson, has been appointed
federal fuel administrator for,
South Carolina by Dr. H. A. Garfield,
national administrator. Mr. Gossett \
has accepted the appointment.
, Greenville suffered a gasoline fain- < .#i
ine during last Saturday and Sunday. From
one to three thousand cars were
stranded for. lack of gas during Saturday
and Sunday. The last 500 gal- -
Ions of gasoline was sold at 40 cents >
a gallon. -1
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At the various training camps
throughout the country athletics
and exercise are urged upon the men.
All the camps in this section have
organized splendid football team|sy
and the government furnishes them >
with excellent paid coaches. The
teams are made up of former great * .
i university and college stars.
Willie Parks and Robert Norton,
two young white men^ have been >
charged with manslaughter as the
result of the death of David Cf. Briggs
in Columbia on Thursday night of
fair week. Briggs was run over by
an automobile, which it is alleged
was being driven by either Parks or
Norton. Parks is out on a $1,500
bond and Norton has been released
under a $500 bond.
Governor Manning has ordered an
election to be held on December 11th * .
for the purpose of determining
whether or not the people of the
territory involved desire a new
county to be formed from certain
portions of Florence and Williamsburg
counties. If the new county ts
formed Lake City will probably be
the county seat, and John Rutledge
is the name proposed for the county,
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which will include 436 sauare miles.
Pershing's Men in Battle.
_ Three cheers for Pershing's men.
They are in action, and may the
hearts and prayers of every American
be with them in their godgiven task
of teaching the Hun something. The
first American gun of the war barked
across "No man's land" at six
o'clock one morning of the past
week. It was firfed by a red haired
American artilleryman amid the
cheers of his fellow comrades and
'
officers. Our boys are now actually
in the trenches on the front line fight- ^
ing forces. So the enemy might as
well sit up and take notice, for their c
old uncle will be on the job from
now on.
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Exposed to Literature.
"Why cannot literature be taught?"
asks a professor of English. "Why
can you not teach a person how to
fall in love, or have the measles?
Expose him and if he be susceptible,
the trick is done, and you may wisely
nail in the narsnn nr the doctofl
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as the case may be. But no amount
of lecturing will improve or hasten
the matter. I have analyzed with loving
care the dark beauty of Shelley's
maiden spirit! and found no
man among about forty, willing even
to acknowledge the introduction later,
I have paraded the 'sturdy English
virtues of Tom Jones before damsels
whose economic dependence, and
need to be supported in literature,
was all too evident, and they have
turned up their noses at him as not
in our set. And then suddenly I
have discovered the oddest matings
?the two mile runner eloping with
Jane Austen, to whom he had never ?
been formally presented, and a formar
nrflpontraco flf mQthpmfltipq with
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neck bottle shoulders, dizzilly delighted
by the rough wooing of George
Borrow, whom she had met by chance
I in the stacks."?New Republic.
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