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Pamfcerg ^eralb Thursday, April 11,1918. The Woman's Missionary society of the Baptist church will meet next Wednesday afternoon at the church at 4:30 o'clock. A full attendance is requested. Thos. Ducker & Co., are having their upper Main street store remodeled, and will combine their two grocery stores in the near future, occupying the upper store. The many friends in Bamberg of Dr. Ed. Kirkland, who resided here a few years ago, will learn with much / regret that he suffered a stroke of paralysis last week at his home at Olar. Much needed rains have fallen throughout the county this week, the rains being followed by disagreeably ' cold weather. The grain props and parHAnfi wprp verv much in need of the rains. ^frs. John H. Cope and Mrs. Glenn Cope will be hostesses to the U. D. C. chapter next Tuesday afternoon, April 16th, at 4:30 o'clock. All the members are urgently requested to be present. . Henry Zeigler & Co. is the firm name of a new dry goods and furnish- ; ing establishment just opened in the store formerly occupied by Mr. D. A. Reid. Mr. Henry Zeigler is the head of the new concern. 1 Monday was salesday in Bamberg, but there were no legal sales to be made. The county ' commissioners held a short session, at which the | regular monthly routine of busjness ! was gone througn with. Sheriff S. G. Ray officially destroy- ; ed a quantity of whiskey this week, , by pouring it out on the ground. The ) whiskey was confiscated some time ] ago at Denmark, while in transit, \ its ownership being unknown. All persons v having mortgages, deeds, etc., to record in the cleqk of court's office are reminded again that revenue stamps must be affixed be- J, fore the clerk can record them. Many ( papers have lately been received with j J no stamps on them. j In the statement of sales issued i by the director of war savings stamps to March SO, Bamberg stood-34th in i the State, with per capita sales of 11 < cents. In sales for the week ending 1 March 30th the county stood 35th i ( with per capita sales of .006. i The sixth grade at the Bamberg a graded school has purchased up to 1 date $123.96, worth of wax stamps. * This is a fine ?howiug, and if every \ grade in all the schools of the coun- < ty will do as well the standing of I , ; Bamberg county will go up rapidly, ? ' ... The Cope Telephone company, of j Cope, has been chartered by the ? secretary of State, with a capital e stock of $2,000. The officers of the new concern are: President, A. J. ^ Thomas; vice president, W. H. Zeig- 1 . ' ler; secretary and treasurer, E. E. c Ritter. , c r Ten per cent, of the county's allot- t ment of nitrate of soda has been dis- e tributed by Mr. C. W. Rentz, distributer for this county. This soda* was shipped in for immediate use on the grain crops,- The remainder of c the allotment is expected to be ship- 1 . ped here soon.j The people are gradually becoming accustomed to the new time, although 2 ' .some confusion still, prevails when < people attend public gatherings. The t meeting of the liberty loan/committee j at the court house Monday afternoon was nearly an hour late on account c of some of the. committeemen arriv- t ing late. / Mr. M. Zimmerman, who former- t ly operated a dry. goods store here, f was in the city a few days this we^k. /Mr. Zimmerman denies that he is l dead, as was generally reported several months ago. In fact, he is a lively looking corpse. He has been quite sick, however, in a sanitarium in ^ North Carolina, but his health has e greatly improved. c , The chain gang qn Saturday com- t pleted the Ehrhardt road to the town n limits of Bamberg. This is now one t I of the finest roads in this part of the State. We suggest that city council t should now work Carlisle street to- a ^ v?jn-iiu. 3 , mu. connect wmr iue uew iwu. mo c gang is now starting work on the t; Hunter's Chapel road, which will re- 4 quire probably several ninths to n complete. 11 Mr. A. M. Denbow calls attention . * to the fact that the Peoples Bank . ' during the last liberty loan handled their subscriptions through one of the Columbia banks, and for this reason the county did not secure credit for these subscriptions. It is likely that other banks of the county handled subscriptions through their correspondents,- which doubtless accounted for the low standing of the 0 county in the second loan. S The stores of Bamberg have agreed * to close on Saturday afternoon from d four to five o'clock,. on account of the patriotic rally to be herd at the : court house. The people are asked * to' bear this in mind and transact their business before the stores close rather wait until after the meeting. J AH of the visitors in the city Satur- 1 day afternoon are invited and ex pected to attend the meeting at the court house in the interest of the sale of liberty bonds. c A few nights ago while returning from Orangeburg in a car several j young Bamberg men met some ne- r groes in a car near Cope. Upon seeing the Bamberg men, the negroes t ran their car into a ditch, jumped out ana ran. i ne young men urougm me car on to Bamberg and notified the Orangeburg authorities. It was j found that the car had been stolen from an Orangeburg citizen sometime ; . ago. The next day the car was returned to its owner. < The local postoffice has been advised by the postoffice department that hereafter no parcels or pack- j ages can be accepted for transmission through the mails to soldiers or sailors in the American expeditionary forces abroad, unless the sender can produce a request in writing from the ] party to whom the package is addressed. This action became necessary on account or the increasing < quantity of such packages, and the great amount of ship space consumed ] _ in transporting them. J ' SALES OF W. S. S. Sales for March Show Big Inci^ase Over Preceding Months. The sales of war savings stamps show a marked increased during the month of March in Bamberg county, and excellent sales are reported since April 1st. The total sales at all offices* in the county up to Monday morning amount to $2,546.39, with Bamberg leading the list. The following are the sales to Monday morning of the various postoffices in this county, and the amount allotted to Allot- Total ment Sales 1. Bamberg ....$135,000 $1,262.49 2. Denmark .... 91,000 890.58 3. Olar 60,000 130.77 4. Ehrhardt .. 60,000 102.28 5. Embree 5,000 94.47 6. Schofield .... 5,000 65.80 7. Govan 10,000 8. Lees 5,000 The following are the sales bymonths for the entire county: December $ 192.68 January 288.97 February 475.28 March 1,101.90 April (first 7 days 408.50 During the month of March, Denmark led the county with sales amounting to $644.84. Other sales were: Bamberg, $243.SO; Olar, $95,01; Ehrhardt, $58.32; Embree, $2.00. Since April 1, Bamberg shows sales of $454.15, and Denmark, $91.45. Bamberg county is expected to buy $371,000 worth of war stamps during the year. Up to Monday the county had bought only a little more than $2,500, which makes a very small start toward the final goal. Every child, man and woman in the county ought to start to buying stamps. Twenty dollars per capita is the allotted amount throughout the United States. A Patriotic Colored Man. This great war is serving in many ways, in bringing the best qualities }f people to the front, and every day there are individual incidents worth -ecording and worth telling to other people. One such incident occurred Monday ifternoon, when L. L. Butler, a colorid registrant *of Ehrhardt, appeared )efore the local exemption board and equested permission to enter the irmy at once. Butler is registered, ,nd was a substitute in the last quota, >ut did not have to go. Last week le went to Charleston and tried to jet into the service and later went to Columbia for the same purpose, but le was told that lie would have to jet permission from his local board. This Butler did Monday, and he left ct once for Ganfp Jackson at his own expense. This is the second one of the substitutes ih the last quota to volunarily enter the militar service of the :ountry, the other being L. H. Lan:aster, of Denmark, a young white nan, who left for Camp Jackson at he same time the county's last quota mtered the service. Bamberg Water ist Pure. Under date of March 2i*th, the State board of health made the folowing report of analysis of the Bam)erg water supply: "Color, 5.00; chlorine. 8.00; free imonia, 0.01; albuminoid ammonia, ).06; nitrogen in nitrates, 0.00; nirogen in nitrites, 0.00; total'solids, L 09.00. "Bacterial analysis: Bacterial inlications of contaminations, negaive. v "Remarks: Analyses indicate wa ^ ^ .#-v ^3 AimUfv o r? A froci er iu ue ui guuu quaui.i rom contamination." The figures indicate parts per milion. 150,000 Men Called This Month. Provost Marshal General Crowder as issued a call for 150,000 men to nter the military service of the ountry this month. The mobilizaion of these drafted men will comlence on April 26th, and continue hrough a five-day period. Capt. R. E. Carwile, in charge of he selective service regulations, has nnounced the quotas for the various ounties of South Carolina^ The toal number from this State will be 58 white men and 1,515 colored len. The quotas for Bamberg and eighboring counties follow: White Colored Total Bamberg :6 21 27 Barnwell 12 40 52 Colleton 8 28 36 Hampton 6 20 26 Orangeburg 1..11 35 . 46 Orangeburg 2.) 7 24 31 T m < > m v S. S. Convention Programme. The following is the programme f the Bamberg County Sundayichool convention, to be held at the Shrhardt Lutheran church next Sunlav, April 14: MORNING SESSION 10:00?Devotional. Conducted by lev. P. D. Risinger. 10:15?Music. 10:25?An Organization for Serrice. By Miss Millwee Davis, State elementary and Rural Superintending 10:55?"Service." By W. E. Wilis, President Colleton County Assosiation. 11:25?Music. 11:30?Service for All and by All. 3y R. D. Webb, State General Secretary. 12:00?Appointment of Commit;ees. Adjournment. Basket dinner on the ground. AFTERNOON SESSION 1:30?Devotional. Conducted by Etev. C. S. Felder. 1 . a r ? u ~ c?,, ~ ,r> i.to ivicttvuig uie ouuuaj-ocuuui Missionary. By W. E. Willis. 2:15?Thoroughly Furnished for Service. By R. D. Webb. 2:45?Song. 2:50?The Elementary Programme. By Miss Millwee Davis. 3:20?Matters of business. 3:30?Adjournment. NIGHT SESSION 8:00?Devotional. Conducted by Rev. D. H. Owings. 8:15?Music. 8:20?The Needs of the Rural School. By Miss Millwee Davis. 8:50?The Growing Teacher. By R. D. Webb. 9:30?Adjournment. I ? . i LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE ON- ! County Organization Now Going Over the Top for Liberty. Monday afternoon a meeting of the liberty loan drive committeemen of the county was held at the court house for the purpose of receiving j instructions and arranging to get down to business. It is Bamberg! county's aim to "go over the top" j with the liberty loan this week. The public was invited to attend a portion j of the meeting, during which time the audience was given the opportunity of hearing one of the most gifted j speakers in the State, Hon. Christie i Benet, of Columbia, who is devoting 1 a large part of his time to war work. The meeting was opened with prayer j by Rev. R. H. Jones, after which \ County Chairman J. A. Wyman intro-. duced Mr. Benet. Mr. Benet said that it is hard fori the people at home to realize that { men are dying across the water for us, or to realize that thousands of j people are starving to death in war-; ridden Europe, and yet such is the I case. With us here, the most vital j question is that of food production.; Many articles of food cannot be had j in Europe at all, particularly fats, j and the people are suffering for this article of diet, which is absolutely' necessary to the human system. The : speaker said that Herbert Hoover has ; a bigger responsibility on him than any other man in the country except- 1 ing President Wilson, for it is he who ! Bag ft |v< '-% Every I Count' 4 young, this m Unit. f .1 1/ I WAR You i I The Bamb< Pe / /"N vrfe- . . " -._ ' _ -. ' .' . '. must say which nation shall starve and which shall live. The American people can be trusted when the matter is put up to them, however. For instance, last fall the appeal was made to conserve beef. To the credit of America it can be said that enough beef was conserved since August to feed the allied armies. .Mr. Benet paid a glowing tribute to the Red Cross, and urged the people to back it up. The Red Cross, he said, saved the morale of the French, when it fare to break down some time back. The soldiers were receiving letters from home telling them their families were suffering for the lack of food and clothing and medical attention. The Red Cross came to the rescue, and claimed the everlasting thanks of France and completely restored the spirit of the French soldiers. "What will your money be worth if we lose this war?" asked the speaker. "It will be absolutely worthless. It is not a question of how many bonds you have bought, but how many can you buy." We nfust have ships, we must have guns and ammunition, and we must have food, and it takes money to get these things. Every man or woman is either for or against us, he said, and every person will have to account for-his actions during the war. "Shall we permit people to drop slimy poison at home, when our boys are dying for us at the front?" he asked. He does not condone lynching, but such i ij.1 lor J ~ \ Loyal Ame y, white ai , rich and p< onth to im 0 pd Sta t< ?.Bl IBERTY ...Al : SAVIN can get the ? ;rg County Council of D space, patriotic Anl o upi V/ Bamberg, S< i- * i I I persons should be respectably shot,! and the goverment estimates that i there are 250,000 spies in America, j If the buying of bonds is all you : | can do to win the war, buy them, is ; the advice of Mr. Benet. Back up the government, back up the chairman, I let the boys at the front know that j everyone of us to a man is behind them to the last ditch. The speaker believes in his heart with all his might that we will win, and he wants to win on the battle field of France, j "and by the help of God we will do j | it." | Senator J. H. Johnson, of Allen- j i dale, field chairman of this district,: ; followed with some facts about the j work in his district. It developed; i that during the last campaign, only 1 ! one per cent, of the population of1 1 Bamberg county bought bonds. Mr. J. C. Guilds, chairman of war j | stamp sales, made a short talk on his i work. It is the aim, Mr.. Guilds j i said, to make this U. S. S. month? | ! United States securities month?and j i it is the ambition of the county com- j mittees to Dlace in the hands of every I man, woman and child in the county, j ; white and colored, either liberty; bonds or war stamp?. After the public meeting the com-, j mittees held a meeting,' at which the ; campaign in the county was mapped j out. j, , m la* m "Can you spell horse?" "I could if I wanted to, but what is the use of spelling anything so out of style?"?Harper's Magazine. / ^TI srican in Bai \ id black, ol oor, is callec rest, TO THE L / isSecur JY... r BOND ND... IGS STA 3m from 25 efense gratefully acknowl ally donated by rath Carolina New Advertisements. 1 Lost Advertisement. 1 Tom Ducker?For Sale. Klauber's?Special Sale. J. B. Brickie?Call Us Up. Enterprise Bank?The Boy. PeoDles Bank?U. S. S. Month. Planters Fertilizer Co.?America. J W. D. Rowell?Teachers' Examiaa- A tion. Chero Cola Co.?Ask for Chero Cola. F. K. Graham?Large Stock No Item. Henry Zeigler & Co.?Announcement. Peoples Bank?The Man With Money. Estate William Williams?Citation Notice. N Peoples Bank?The Tidal Wave of Victory. * i F. K. Graham?Colored Man I Wanted. J Bamberg Banking Co.?Estate of J H. G. Smith. ^ ^ Bamberg Banking Co.?Your Home Desolated. ' Bamberg Banking Co.?The Bank of North America. ? Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.?The Great Wartime Sweetmeat. Farmers and Merchants Bank? All the Richest Men. - I mm I nberg I 1 n rl ?nrl I lupon I !MIT, in || ' 1 ities Q ' - II I MPS I c up I edges this S' j * W-yJ M n It II m