^|je ^BamtierQ: ^eralb Thursday, November 1,1917. SHOIIT LOCALS. Brief Items of Interest Throughout, the Town and County. 1 i The regular quarterly conference; for the local district of the Methodist church was held here Monday morn-' ing, with Presiding Elder, the Rev.J A. J. Cauthen, and other leaders of, tho r?hnrr?h nrpsent. James Chiles, a colored farmer, presented The Herald Saturday with a bunch of yam potatoes weiging nine j and one-half pounds. There were; three large potatoes on the bunch J and two smaller ones, all being dug from one hill. The local chapter of th? Red Cross j has been requested to collect and for-; word to Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, all the old magazines possible. Accordingly, the members are asked to forward all the magazines they can get to the local headquarters at once. The mail boxes ordered for Baml-?*?T-or orrivorl tho first nf the week. and will be erected within the next day or While the department has asked that bids be secured for the erection of the boxes, Postmaster Knight is endeavoring to have them placed without cost to the department. The Herald is requested to announce that Judge M. L. Smith, of Camden, will deliver an address to men at the First Baptist church, Orangeburg, next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Orchestra music will be furnished and a souvenir will be given to all present. The men of Bamberg are cordially invited. The young ladies of the Bamberg high school defeated the Barnwell high school basket ball team in a game at Barnwell last Friday by the score of 12 to 10. This was the first game of the season for the Bamberg team. Last year the local team won 12 games out of 14 played, which speaks well for the efficient coaching of Miss Lucy Bomar, one of their teachers who again has the girls in charge this year. v The ladies of the Francis Marion Bamberg chapter of the United) Daughters of the Confedercy held a! rummage sale under the direction of Mrs. J. 'R. Owens at the Thielen theatre here last Saturday. They had recently voted to donate $100 to the local chapter of the Red Cross and needed the money to help in this and other expenses. . So the old clothes were put on the market and ' the sale was a success, $25.80 being realized therefrom. x Mr. Alex Barton suffered an exceedingly painful accident last Friday at the gin of the Farmers Gin Company here in town. In some way his right hand got caught in the gin and three of the fingers were badly cut, the flesh being literally taken off of them to the bone on one side. However, medical attention was quickly obtained, and the injury will not be permanent, as none of the fingers had to be amputated. Mr. Barton was working at the gin. A Bamberg county student in one of' the State colleges recently subscribed to The Herald for the school year. In sending his remittance for the paper he says: "1 am receiving your paper, and I don't see how I could do without it. It is next to being at home. All the Bamberg county boys come around to read it." If your boy is in college, you could not do anything more pleasing to him than sending him The Herald for the school term, which costs only one dollar. Tobacco Meeting is Called. / ? Mr. J. J. Heard, county demonstrator, has. issued the following letter ^ fnwrvtAr*c? /\f Do nnimfv tU lire lexx iiiui O v/4 x^aui wi ^ vvw*ivw' "A meeting will be held at Bamberg Thursday, November 8th, to discu&s tobacco growing. "Sixty million pounds of tobacco was crown th? past season in the Fee Dee section of this State. The average was about $200 per acre. "Our soil in this section is equally as we'l adapted to tobacco growing as theirs. Two-thirds of the work j is done aftep plowing season is over I and before other crops are harvested. "It is the custom in the tobacco districts to plant four or five acres to the plow. The seed beds are prepared in January, plants set out in April. The curing season begins the last week in June and the crop is sold by August 1 5th. "The entire world is now looking to the United States for tobacco. The demand is increasing faster than the production. Prices are now the highest ever known and likely to continue for several years regardless of war conditions. "A market will be established at Bamberg if the acreage is sufficient j to justify it. Come, to Bamberg Thursday, Nov. 8tli, and hear the matter discussed." COUKT ADJOURNS. I \ erdict for $4*000 Awarded for the Death of Soldier I Soy. As The Herald went to press last I week the case of Ella Morris against; the Seaboard Air Line railway for alleged water damage to her land was being tried in the court of common pleas here. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $100. This was the second time the case has been tried, the first trial resulting in a verdict of $150 in favor of niaintiff The defendant anDeal V..c *,* ? ed from that and the supreme court! reversed the lower court and sent the case back here for trial which was concluded last week. After this case there were no other jury cases ready for trial last week, and consequently court adjourned last Wednesday night until Monday morning of this week. The second week of court began with the case of G. M. Rogers, as administrator of the estate of his son, Merritt Rogers, against the Seaboard also. The case attracted quite a little interest and brought lawyers here from various points in the State. It was a suit for $50,000 damages, alleging the death of the plaintiff's son through the negligence of the defendant's employees. Young Merritt, who was only 18 years old at the time he was billed, was from Onnrtonlinror onH u'Qc a mpmhpr of O^/ai LUiXUUi 5, UUV4 ? v? the Spartanburg company, 1st regiment, national guard of South Carolina, at the time they were encamped at Denmark last summer. On one night last June he was assigned to the duty of guarding the railroad track of the Seaboard at Schofield in this county. It was alleged that early in the morning just before daylight he was killed by a train. The jury rendered a verdict for $4,000 against the defendant. Several phases of the Spann case were taken up at this term of court, and it is now said that this case, which has created quite a bit of interest and attracted State-wide attention, will in all probability be definitely and finally wound up at a very early date. Considerable equity business was transacted and numbers of other matters settled. There being no further jury cases, court adjourned Wednesday. Judge Sease believes in getting through with the cases on hand. He disposes of business with dispatch, and the docket here has accordingly been pretty well cleared with this term of court. * The next term of court in Bamberg will be held in January for the trial of criminal cases only with Judge Ernest .Moore, of Lancaster, on the bench. Denmark Boy in France. It will probably be interesting to our people to know that at least one Bamberg county boy is with General Pershing's troops in France. This young man is .Mr. Boyce M. Steadman, a son of Mrs. J. E. Steadman, of Denmark. He is well known throughout the county, having played base ball all through this section for the past few years. At the beginning of the war he and his younger brother, Elmore Steadman, volunteered for service in the regular army. They were both accepted and for a while were kept together, being stationed at Fort Screven, near Savannah. Howevpr, they were finally separated> an?fe Boyce sailed from New York several weeks ago, and has now been with the American expeditionary forces in France for some time. His friends will be proudjof his bravery or?,i iricli him all bindc r?f p-nnd fnr ?"U " """ v. v, ~ - O ~ ~ ? tune. The other brother is now stationed "somewhere in Texas." She Heaths the Advertisements. Mary Sanders is a colored woman who lives near Bamberg, out in the country. She walked into one of Bamberg's, leading dry goods stores the other day, and purchased a nice bill of goods, amounting some $30 or $35. She paid for the goods and then told the merchant the reason she came to his store was because she read his advertisemennt in The Bamberg Herald. Of course the merchant was delighted to know that his advertisement in The Herald is profitable. Mary had learned that it pays to vo ur\ tho nHvortispmpntQ in Thp Herald. A good many of the merchants of the city know the value of space bought in this newspaper, and the readers of The Herald realize that when a merchant buys space and pays for it he must have something worth advertising. This is no exceptional instance of advertising in The Herald paying a handsome profit to the space users. Not one customer perhaps in one hundred will ever tell the merchant that the reading of his advertisement caused the customer to buy from him. The point is that it pays to advertise and also pays to read the advertisements in The Herald. When you get your paper every week don't fail to read the ads. They form one of the most interesting and important parts of the paper. Fourth Contingent Leaves. Bamberg county's fourth contingent of soldiers for the national army, this contingent being composed entirely of negroes, left here Saturday morning, 18 .strong, in a special car over the Southern railway for the training camp near Columbia. This was ten per cent, of Bamberg county's full Quota of troops to be drafted in the first call of 687,000 men for the entire country. It was the second contingent of nfegroes to be sent from here, the other contingent including 4 8 men. The men were bade good-bye and good luck 1 CIHUQ O fatv AnlrvroH U1CH 11 1C11US, 1{U11& " H, M VVW> VU people being at the train to see them off. The departing negroes appeared to be the happiest ones in the crowd. They evidently realized that $30 per month and all food and clothing free is no mean salary for some of them to be getting. The 18 men who made the trip were: Chas. Owens, Garris Kirkland, Pearly Bennett, Wm. G. Carter, Sullivan Myers, Moses Green, McKinley Grimes, Isaiah Williams, Sam Rivers, James Grant? Stanley Moore, Samuel Wells, Walter Kirkland, Peter Carter. Ben Kinard, Grant Elliott, Marion Winn, Hobert Myers. Two More Boys Called. Messrs. E. Roy Cooner and J. Bennie Black, Jr., received their orders last week to report at Charleston for active service in the naval reserves, in which they had enlisted several months ago. They left for their post of duty Monday morning. They will probably be at Charleston for quite a while, and will get to return home real often for the week-end. It may be that they will not have to leave the American coast during the war. Two other Bamberg boys, Messrs. Glenn W. Cope and J. Garland Smoak, have recently been called into this same service in the navy, and have been at Charleston for some time. There were four others from here, Messrs. M. P. Watson, W. K. Herndon, George Fender and Lau rie C. SnioaK wno aiso voiumeereu for the naval reserves about the time those above mentioned did and consequently they are now expecting to be called out at any time. These are among the most important young \ men in business and socially of our town, and the very best wishes of their friends and the community at large go with them on their patriotic mission Since the above was put into type Mc. Laurie C. Smoak has received notice to report at the navy yard in Charleston for service. Mr. Smoak expects to leave this morning to take up his naval duties in the service of Uncle Sam. Have Ordered Uniforms. In keeping with her progress and the additional feature this year of military discipline and drilling under the commandant, J. C. Major, a Clemson graduate, Carlisle school will soon have all her students in military uniforms. They have? all been ordered and will be here at an early date. By reason of the large quantity they were obtained much cheaper than uniforms ordinarily cost, although a splendid quality of material has been purchased. The government would not allow the use of the olive drab khaki, as is worn by soldiers in the army, so the school authorities decided to use a pretty gray in the same material with shirt and hat to match. A complete outfit as ordered for each student will consist of one coat, two pair of trousers, two flannel shirts, one hat and one pair of leggins. The boys are being drilled lively now each t day, the squad including something over a hundred men, and when their uniforms arrive the drills will be well .worth seeing and the boys should have a neat military appearance. Many Attend State Fair. Following are some of the Bamberg people who attended the State fair in Columbia last week whose names were not mentioned in last week's I issue of The Herald: Mrs. R. A. Delk, Miss Mary Williams. Miss Alma Blacky Mr. and Mrs. J. Bennie Black, Jr., and Messrs. W. D. and S. T. Rowell, C. R. Brabham, Sr., F. M. Rhoad, R. M. Smoak, Harold A. Rice, A. Wilkes Knight, Jr., L. A. Brooks, C. L. Andrew, W. M. Brabham, Jr., Leland Sandifer, George Fender, Dr. H. J. Stuckey and- the Rev. E. O. Watson. D. D., nubers of Carlisle students and others. Non-magnetic composition metal is used in the construction of watches made especially for those who work around electrical machinery. BAPTIST ASSOCIATION MEETS. Baiuheig and Barnwell Churches Hold Annual Session at (*eor?e\s Creek. The Barnwell Baptist association, composed of the Barnwell and Bamberg county churches, has just closed one of its best meetings at the George's Creek church. R. B. Fickling, of Blackville, was elected moderator; Dr. Robert Black, of Bamberg, vice-moderator; the Rev. W. L. Hayes, of Barnwell, clerk, and J. B. n -11 ^ fraoenrnr A jjrl I let ill, U1 L/CUIIiai IV, tiuaoui^i . great majority of the 40 churches in the association were represented with delegates. Dr. C. C. Brown, of Columbia, spoke of the aged ministers' relief work. The Rev. A. T. Jamison, superintendent of the Connie Maxwell orphanage at Greenwoood, made a strong appeal in behalf of that institution. Dr. Charles A. Jones, of Columbia, delivered an able address and appeal for Christian education. The Rev. John K. Goode, of the Shandon Baptist church, Columbia, represented the Rev. Louis J. Bristow and / the work of the Baptist hospital. The Rev. Geo. P. White, of the Bamberg church, who is a new pastor in the association, made a very favorable impression on the brotherhood. -. Most of the churches sent up excellent reports and exceeded their apportionments. The Blackville church proved to be the banner church, having raised over $4,000 for all purposes. A resoiuiiuu wctb uueieu auu uiiammously carried that the association indorse the action of President Wilson in severing relations with Germany. A resolution was also presented and unanimously adopted placing the association behind the enforcement of law and order and condemning the actions of individuals, either as merchants, druggists or any one whomsoever, who offers for sale any substance or ingredient which produces intoxication. The association condemned also the indiscriminate issuing of permits by officers to individuals for importation of liquor through the exptess companies. ! Carlisle School Notes. ^ Carlisle School, Oct. 27.?Interest | in the Liberty loan campaign caused the students of Carlisle to subscribe -$200 one morning the past week. Professor Guilds explained to the students that those who wanted to save from their spending money could give a small amount each month until their subscription was paid. The students were eager to subscribe and as a result a $200 bond has been purchased. The Rev. E. 0. Watson, D. D., addressed the Y. P. C .A. last Friday evening. His Christian influence is a big factor in the life of the Carlisle students. About 50 boys and girls are enrolled in his Sunday-school classes which meet in the class rooms every week. Arthur W. Ayers was a visitor at chapel Friday morning. He explained the work of the war Y. *^I. C. A. among the students. His talk was one of interest to the faculty and students. Professor Guilds spent Sunday in Timmonsville where he spoke in one of the local churches. ? ? Warns People of Boll ,Weevil. Mr. C. F. McMillan* of Hahira, Ga., was in the city one day last week. He is an old resident of Bamberg, but for several years he has been farming in Georgia. He said he wanted The Herald to warn the 'people of Bamberg county of the approach of the bool weevil. The weevil is now a real problem in his section, and is causing havoc to the planters. In his county last year, 1916, 3,500 bales of cotton were harvested. This year, since the boll weevil has appeared, the ?ame county has up to date ginned only 900 bales, with not much more to be harvested. This shows in a most convincing manner what the boll weevil will do when it comes to Bamberg county. The boll weevil is no joke, said Mr. McMillan, and he wants the farmers of his old home county to know just what they are going to be up against when the weevil appears. And the appearance of the weevil is closer this year than ever before. It has finally appeared in South Carolina, having been discovered in Beaufort county a week or two ago. This means that the,whole of Southern South Carolina will soon be infested, for it spreads rapidly. By the creation of a boll weevil zone between South Carolina and Georgia, the appearance of the weevil has been delayed at least a year or two in this State, but it has finally crossed the line, and this section of the State will soon have the pest to contend with. The occasion of the visit of Mr. McMillan to Bamberg county was to attend the funeral of his mother, who died last week at her home in the country. Mr. McMillan is remembered and known by a large number of people of the city and county and they are always glad to see him. THE COUNTY'S SHARE. Took $120,04)0 in Bonds.?Now For Food Campaign. The Liberty loan campaign closed Saturday night after some diligent ' work, and while Bamberg county failed to realize the goal set for us by the government authorities, it is felt that the drive was, nevertheless, a success and much credit is due those who labored so zealously in behalf of this great movement. The farmers and some of the smaller places failed to respond to the needs of their country at this crucial hour, but it was possibly not altogether their fault. However, the towns of Bamberg and Denmark are credited with practically five-sixth of the total subscriptions for the county. The subscriptions of the town of Bamberg ran slightly over $65,000. Of this amount the Bamberg Banking Company obtained $53,400, the Peoples Bank $11,350 and there were a few scattering subscriptions. Subscriptions applied for through the Bank of Denmark amount to around $43,000. Denmark's large individual subscriptions are riot known at headquarters here, but the town of Bamberg furnished one subscription of $10,000, one for $9,000, two for $5,000 each* one for $4,500, one for $4,000, one for $3,000 and one for $2,000. Th^ total subscriptions for the county are approximately $120,000. ' The success of the loan in Bamberg and Denmark is due largely to the efficient work of a few leading citizens. This week a strenuous campaign is being conducted throughout the coun ty in an effort to obtain 2,000 pledges for the conservation of food. Everywhere the government is urging upon the people the importance and necessity of eliminating all waste if the war is to be won. This is a small matter from an individual standpoint, but means wonderfhl things to the country at large if everyone would but do his or her bit along this simple line. It is a service which costs nothing, and therefore in which absolutely every single individual, both white and black, young and old, can help if they only will. And as can readily be seen, it will not only help the country, but also the individuals who observe it. The drive began Monday morning, and the' housewives of Bamberg are now wellj under way in this important under-' taking. The movement here is in { charge of Mrs. WK D. Rhoad and Mrs. J. R. Owens, who have a number of young ladies of the town assisting" them. Navy Yard 4o; Carlisle 7. In a well olaved clean game of football at Rhoad park Monday afternoon Carlisle was defeated by the team from the Naval Training Camp at Charleston by the scork of 45 to 7. The navy team was composed of physical giants, and the light Carlisle boys did well to score on them. The Carlisle line could not! withstand the powerful charges of the! navy backs .though and time and again they went through for good gains. The navy scored seven touchdowns and kicked three goals after I touchdown, while Carlisle scored one % touchdown and kicked goal. Carlisle's touchdown was made by Altee on right end during the second period on a long forward pass from Tiirnipseed. The Carlisle boys were too light to gain anything through the heavy line of their opponents, but made-several long gains through forward passes and the game ended with Carlisle having the ball on the navy's 15 yard . line. The whole 1 ? 1 - J ?" D^rnr on/1 navy nne piayeu ?en, auu uci g uuu McKinnon did fine work in the backfield for them. The officials were: referee, Whitaker (Wofford) umpire; Watson (Carlisle) head linesman. Rowell, (Clemson.) 3-Cent Letter Postage. Postmaster Knight wishes it stated that beginning Friday morning pf this week all letters mailed, except for local delivery, must have three cents postage attached, and ail postcards must bear two cents postage. This means an increase in postage on both letters and postcards of one cent. All letters for delivery in Bamberg or on the rural routes^ out of Bamberg/can be mailed for two cents. All postcards, for delivery in Bamberg or elsewhere, must have a twocent stamp. The new revenue law becomes effective on Friday, November 2nd, when Uncle Sam begins the collec tion of immense sums to pay the expenses of the war with Germany. All stamped envelopes, bearing two cent stamps, must have a one cent stamp attached to tbem before mailing, and all government postal cards, which have the one cent stamp printed thereon, must have another one cent stamp attached. This will probably cause some confusion, as people are liable to overlook attaching the necessary stamps under the new law, but it will save delay in dispatching mail if the patrons will remember this new regulation. V 1 New Yorker Buys Bamberg Sugar. The importance of food conservation was evidenced by an occurrence < which actually happened in Bamberg one day last week. A traveling man with headquarters in New York city entered a grocery store on Main street and purchased a sack of sugar weigh- , ing one hundred pounds. He then sent the sugar by express to his family in New York city, and paid $2.50 express on it, and said that his family would consider it a big luxury when it should be received. He paid ten cents a pound for the sugar and the express made it cost him 12 1-2 cents a pound, and, he was delighted to get it at that. He said that sugar ? could hardly ever be found In New? w York now, and when a little was dis- J covered no person was allowed to buy more than a pound a day and . then it sold for 15 cents per pound. His family had written him and, asked him to see if he could not get them some in the South." This is no fairy tale, but is an actual fact, and should be an eye opener as a taste of what we are shrely coming to if we do not eliminate waste and conserve all the food possible. , ^ m ? Ham berg Cotton Market. Quotation for Wednesday, October 31, 2 p. m.: * Middling 27% ?f AN OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESSMAN J. F. BYRNES. . t Dear Sir:?The Liberty bond cam- ' paign is now over. On reading the many newspaper reports to my and " many others' surprise, your speeches were largely devoted to an effort to bolster up your record and positions \ in congress. t Since you have seen fit to do so, I ^ now feel fully at liberty to write you this public letter in justice to the people and enter into the discussion of a few matters of general interest. In the several places I visited and t-' made speeches for the sale of Liberty bonds, I confined my remarks solely to the cause of our country's peril. - \ v You are serving your fourth term > in congress, and have not volunteered. I conclude you will ask for a fifth. I. Are you willing to stand for re-election oh your whole record in congress? ? . II. ' Why did you vote to lease (which was practically a sale) cer- . ' tain coal government lands "in .Montana to the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company? Mr*. Hilliard and others were begging yon to keep this land and. lease it to small cities and towns to preveht the > children and women from freezing to death. I ^ III. Why did you vote to'exempt your salary of $7,500.00 from the in- ' Vome tax law and impose the tar on all cither citizens of a certain class? What did vnn do nrevfint this?* IV. You could have asked the people by a rising vote if they would have refused to vote with the President to "turn on the light" as Mr. Borland, of Missouri, wanted you to y do, when he introduced this amendment on" the Civil Sundry bill calling for an investigation of the HIGH COST OF LIVING, and MANIPULA- : : TION of FOOD-STUFFS by the SPECULATORS when the meat trust and great milling interests of the country had made exhorbit^nt. prices on the necessaries of life? WHY DID YOU VOTE AGAINST THIS INVESTIGATION? V. Did you request aid or encourage Congressman Clark to distribute at the expense of the gbvernment his anti-draft speeches in this district? VI. Why did you not ask the people for rising votes as to whether you did right in making your vicious speech against the DRAFT LAW, calling it, to use your own words: "thev most infamous proposition ever submitted to an American congress?" And then, did you in a few days thereafter, vote for it? IU *rikes me that you should have ue? fair enough to have asked that. These are a few of the questions which I desire you to answer in public to the people. I therefore ask you to meet me in open, friendly and ! high-toned debate, between now and the re-assembling of congress in'December, as after that time you may ho on era crod anrl rtnt hpuihlo tn nnm# before the people. can name dates and places. Respectfully ?adv. G. L. TOOLE, Aiken, S.*C. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements Under This Head 25c. For 25 Words or Less. For Sale?Chrysanthemums, 12^ c > and 15c each. MRS. G. A. JENNINGS, Bamberg, S. C. It Notice?Choice lot of farm land ^ for sale. Call on J. T. O'NEAL, \ Real Estate Agent, Bamberg, S. C. Wanted?We want to buy sweet ^ potatoes. Write or wire us for prices. WILLIAMS CO, Greenville, S. C. 11-2 Wanted?To buy 1,000 to 1,500 bushels corn. Apply to L. P. MCMILLAN, Supervisor, or H. D. FREE, Clerk. Bamberg, S. C. 11-7 For Sale?Lots at Denmark for sale, varying in size from 30 x 100 A- /?/-> .. AAA .nJ in nnlnoc frnm And 10 0 U A VV, dUU ill ^ 1 ivvo 11 vui vmv hundred to two hundred and fifty dollars. C. H. DORSETT, Savannah, GA. 11-15 For Sale?One lot in the town of Bamberg, containing one and onethird acres, adjoining L. P. McMil- ' lan. for cash. Apply to J. F. Hunter, Orangeburg, S. C., or B. W. Miley, Bamberg, S. C. J. FELDER > HUNTER. 11-26 Lost?One black silk handbag near H. C. Folk's store. Contained Waltham watch with "R. L. H. to E. A. H." in back; on front name "Alice," with picture of Bob Hightower. Bag also contained other articles. Reward if returned to THE HERALD OFFICE. It ' -K< y *