Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fc^ePamfrenj^erafo ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1801. Thursday, Dec. 20,1917. j The Herald takes this opportunity! of wishing each and every one of its j friends, readers and patrons a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. May all jov the season affords be theirs. * A lawyer was given a severe call down last week by Chief Justice White for uttering unbecomng remarks in the course of an argument before the United States supreme court. The remarks in question were characterized by the chief justice as being very improper and unpatriotic. It is a peculiar fact that there are some lawyers?we are glad to say the number is not considerable who seem to be obsessed with the idea that it is not only their privilege but their unbounden duty to resort to every means at their command to swing a point in favor of their clients in court, to take ad/ vantage of every technicality to free the guilty and cause a travesty or an inequality of justice. We know nothing of the legal profession, but, it has always been our idea that the purpose of legal counsel is to see that their clients get justice?but, of course, justice is just what is not always desired. * * * * * * According to figures published in the last issue of The Herald, there is more money on deposit in the banks of the county than the total assessed valuation of all the real estate in the county. This is a most gratifying condition?that is, it is gratifying to know there abounds so much prosperity. It is not so gratifying, however, to realize that the county collects taxes on land valuation less than the money on deposit. There is a grave discrepancy^ between these amounts. - Real estate is selling in the county for $100 per acre and more. How much land is returned at sixty per cent, of this amount? Thousands . of acres of land are returned at $5 per acre, and many more thousands at less. How much land can be bought at these figures? As this is the year for fixing the valuation of real estate, this matter should have the serious consideration of the peo5r ' pie. There is no reason why land holders should not pay their just pori 'tion of the taxes?and there is no excuse for $100 per acre land being I returned for $5 per acre. Personal I and town property is now bearing i the burden of the county taxes. The I system of taxation should be so reI vised as to equalize the taxes among I all classes of real and personal propI erty, town ayd country. I LETTERS TO SANTA dLAUS. What The Little Folks Want for * Christmas. Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little boy 3 years old. I . want you to please bring me a Big Teddy bear and Horse a Little beat Drum. Black train a Little gun some Blocks fire works candy and fruit and please dont forget to bring my little baby Brother some toys too. and all the girls and boys too. Wishing you a Merry Xmas and Happy New year, I a^i your Little Boy. D. K. SANDIFER, JR. Bamberg, S. C., R. F. D. 3. Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 10, 1917. Dear Santa Claus: i am going to ask you to help me get ready for Christmas. First i want you help soldiers that are fighting /war then i want you to bring me / some fruit a box of candy a doll a / pencil box doll carriage a graphaj phone. Your little friend / REBA O'NEAL. J r Bamberg, S. C. Dear Santa Claus: please love the little children that in distress I am one of the nomber ebrismas is most here I don't want much but charity began hame but if you have army to spair if it the poor children that left a lone there pwll a way to the war if you can spare send me pino big doll and stove beauro tea set your GLADAS PAGGETTE. bed too Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a wagon full of blocks, and brother James a sand machine and sister Grace a doll baby. And please bring all of us some fruit and fire works. Your little friend, R. M. BRUCE, JR. Denmark, S. C.,^Dec. 14, 1917. Dear Santa: I want you to bring me for Xmas a shot gun five boxes of Xo. 8 shells a bycicle some fire works some fruit on/3 r>f all tinH T.nviri jrl V auu vi. v*** *****v*. ? w . ?0-v , LIGGIE CARROLL. Denmark, S. C., Dec. 14, 1917. Dear Santa Clause: Please bring me for Xmas an air Rifle a little motor cycle some* nuts, candy and fire works of every kind. Lovingly MOXXIE CARROLL. Denmark, S. C., Dec. 14, 1917. Dear sweet Santie Clause: j I am a Little boy only one year old But I want you to bring me for Xmas some apples oranges candy and nuts and a Rattle Box a mouth organ and that is all I will ask for this Christmas as I am so Little Hoping for you to come to my home Early Christmas night, your little friend < WINIFRED DAVID CARROLL. < 1 Denmark, S. C., Dec. 14, 1917. ! Dear Santa: I I want you to bring me for Xmas J 3. dolls and let one be a sleeping one | a doll carriage a set of little chairs < I some nuts fruit and candy of all kind. Lovingly, 1 BESSIE MAIL CARROLL. c Denmark, S. C., Dec. 14, 1917. Dear Santa: I am a little girl four years old ] and I want you to bring me for Xmas Some chewing gum a new dress some j ribbon and a pair of Pink Beads a crying doll and bring my mother an ice cream set. Lovingly, TESSIE LEE CARROLL. ] Denmark, S. C., Dec. 14, 1917. t Dear Santa Clause: < I want you to bring me for Xmas ; a little piano a little tea set a little < set of dishes a set of chairs a big j Sleeping doll 2 little one; one dress- 1 ed in blue one in pink and the mother one i nlavender; some candy and fruit of all kind. Your loving Friend, LIZZIE CARROLL. Denmark, S. C., Dec. 15, 1917. Dear Santa: I am a little boy 6 years old I like Xmas fine and I love you dear old q Santa and I want you to bring me for i Xmas four little horses and a little c wagon a little Tedy bare one that can p kry, some candy nuts fire crackers, i roman candle and a little cap pistol t and some caps and some money and c a little knife with two blades. Your ^ Loving little Friend, e McKINLEY CARROLL. r Denmark, S. C., Dec. 14, 1917. i; Dear Santie: o I am a little Boy 9 years old I want r you to Bring me for Christmas a Road i cart and a little mule Lett the mule 7 be named Jack. Bring me a buggie I whip and a pop gun and a Rabbit c some candy and fruits and that is all I Fruits! Frui 1 Fruits are scarce at fi we have a full sto ff ply your Chris I BUY ORANGES B Telephone No. 15 f I Tom D H j TWO ST Prompt i It is the duty operator to ascert; . wanted and ring the called. If the calle< answer the operator you are. Most of what is "slow service" is < scribers not ansv You can help the s< ing your telephone ] When you Telep SOUTHERN BELL TE AND TELEGRAPH ( I want so come to my home Early Xmas night. Your friend. CHARLIE GARVIN CARROLL. Dear Santa Claus: I am writing to tell you what I want for Christmas. I am not going to ask for many toys this Christmas because it is hard time. I want a bicycle and a foot ball and some fire works and some fruit this is all I want for this Christmas. With lot 3f love to you and Mrs. Santa Claus. 3ood by. Don't forget my little brother Tommy. JOHNNY DUCKER. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a doll a tea set a loll bed. THELMA WILSON. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a wrist watch and 1 i piano with pedals. THERESA BLUME. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a doll a tea set md a doll bed and a piano. IRENE THOMAS. Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 12, 1917. Dear Santa Claus: I am six years old, and I am in :he first grade I go to school every lay I am a nice little girl and I want rou to please bring me a doll and a carriage a piano, and a teset and some fruit and fire works. Yours truly, SADIE CREECH. m Alcohol in B^er Limited. There is in the country from two o three years' supply of whiskey, >randy and gin which may be comnandeered by the government if re[uired for purposes of manufacture >f alcohol for munitions. The retirements for industrial alcohol, lowever, in addition to the normal lutput from sawdust and other waste >roducts, is negligible. The desira>ility of saving all the grain used in irewing from the standpoint of food onservation is therefore limited by he social question involved in the^ ixclusive use of whiskey. The president has approved the ecommendation of the food adminstration that the alcoholic content f beer be reduced to a three per cent, caximum and the volume of grain lsed be reduced to approximately 0 per cent, of that formerly used, 'rovisions are made to increase the , >utput of cattle feed from brewing ;stabli#hments. its! Fruits! I id hard to get, but I. ck, and can sup >tmas needs. I H i I BY THE BOX I 1 H 1 or Quick Delivery ucker's II ORES. I I *?^i*^m? J ???????? Answers of the telephone ain the number bell of the party J party is slow to < is' as helpless as , ( < i i you might think < :aused by the sub-. ] vering promptly. ;rvice by answerpromptly. bone?Smile LEPHONE COMPANY I New Foodstuffs in Germany. Concentrated straw fodder and ground grape pips are recommended for table use in Germany. In a published list of new foodstuffs, with description of use, the following are also found: Rhubarb leaves, seaweeld, strawmeal, crushed and ground maize ears, heather stalks, ground sugar beet seeds, parsley seed, wild radish husks, bran, wine yeast, beechnut cake, fish meal, and various mixed foods. > Attempts have recently been made in England to establish the use of rhubarb leaves as greens, but it appears that such food is dangerous. English newspapers have reported several cases of illness following the eating of rhubarb leaf blades. WARRIOR, ALA., SEES YOUNG BOY'S NARROW ESCAPE Mrs. Tliice Morgan Tells the Story of Her Son's Close Call. "He did indeed have a close call," said Mrs. Morgan to a Birmingham representative. "We had seen him failing for three years and the doctor had said he could live but a week more at best. It was an awful blood disease and he suffered pitifully, I think they called it Pellagra but it was terrible to see him all broken out and so thin and weak. You could hardly believe to look at him playing around now that he was the same boy." "Little Ottis is a living tribute to the wonderful merits of Sulferro-Sol for after he had been given up by the doctor I mad? up my mind to try ( this great nature remedy as a last hope and we are so glad we did for ? it seemed to be just the one almost Divine help that he needed." "We could see him gaining right under our very eyes, almost the first = dose seefned to do its blessed work and can I say more than just to tell you to see him now strong and well and he is happy to be well and we are happy to have him with us instead of losing him." "We don't feel that we can ever say enough for Solferro-Sol for we think it is more than a medicine." "I know that if more people would believe in this great Nature remedy instead of trying so many patent remedies more people would get well." (Note?Mr. Morgan, the father, is * a miner for the Central Coal Co., at Warrior, Ala., and will gladly verify this.) Sulferro-Sol is sold and recommended by all druggists in Bamberg and vicinity. Murrayv Drug Co., wholesale distributers.?adv. MASTER'S SALE. = Pursuant to an order 01 the Court of Common Pleas for Bamberg County in the case of Nettie Nimmons, et al, plaintiffs, vs. J. E. Kennedy et al, defendants, the undersigned will sell to the highest bidder for cash, at oublic auction, before the court house door, at Bamberg, S. C., between the legal hours of sale, on the 7th day of January, 1918, the following lot of land, to wit: All that certain tract or parcel of land, siniate in the county of Bamberg, State of South Carolina, containing ninety five (95) acres, more or less, bounded as follows: on the North by, lands of M. B. Kennedy and Richmond Wroton, on the East by lands of Dave Jeter, known as the Bolen lands, South by lands of Mrs. D. E. Hutto and ^ettie Nimmons and on the West by lands of Nettie Simmons. Purchaser to pay for papers. J. J. BRABHAM, JR., * Judge of Probate for Bamberg* County, acting as Master for Bamberg County. December 10th, 1917. (WheiYi t RI | ? Country Butter ? We will Country Eggs , Celery | >! When You Want Thi I J. E V V r u C.This building is a monument to the I thrifty Scots. Through its portals I pass the millions of savings of a g 4a 1?A * T &A I v/uxiboiiiou }JOUJJIO, w ija loiuxiicu iu them at a time when these savings are needed g^Our banh is a monument to the thrifty people of this community. It ' is the burglar proof vault of our judicious depositors who have contracted the valuable habit of saving. We want those who are not numbered among our small army of depositors to enlist under the savings banner and let their money grow with us. . -V.-'V.' C. Money in the b&nh produces a J feeling of prosperity. Enjoy that I pleasure ' g , Start a banh. account with us today. ^ 4 Per Gent. Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. \ 3APITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.00 Bamberg Banking Co. i !j 11 WE DO NOT DIE jj|| If you name us as your Executor we do not die. Any individual you name is likely to die before your estate is wound up and throw it . into confusion. May we see you here about \ iN; . your Will?. x!' V ? SMI BAMBERG BANKING COMPANY Bamberg, S. C. V * HHHHmBHRHnBnBHHBHHBBM'4 I " :v" HHHnBUnHBHHBIDHHHHHHHmiHii; ? \ ?:r' ; ? ? r * , An "Expressed" Desire. t | \ r Nunnally's Candies are made, packed and . . ' H sealed in refrigerated rooms, ventilated with >>; cold filtered air. They are then sent to us by / fast express, direct from the factory; while ? most of the other candies sold here come by slow freight, and even if they escape accident in this rough mode of shipment, the time takes the delicate edge off of their freshness. When you buy XUNNALLY'S you get tffe utmost in quality, purity and freshness. BAMBERG FRUIT CO. g Restaurant and Fruit Store ' Bamberg S. C. 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