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f * PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. and .Mrs. John H. Cope spent Tuesday in Columbia. l ?Miss Mary Mellett spent the. f week-end in Branchville with friends. ?-Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Herndon, of Ehrhardt, were in the city on .Monday. ?W. D. Bennett. Esq.. of Ehrhardt, was a visitor in the city Monday. ?Mrs. W. Z. Ayer is visiting rela-j . tives at Olar.?Walterboro Press and Standard. ?Mr. Paul J. Zeigler, of Camp, Jackson, spent a few days in the city ! W this week. W ?Mr. and Mrs. M. Zorn spent the f week-end in Blackville with Mr. Zorn's parents. | ?Mrs. A. L. Edwins, has returned to the city after spending a few days J in Charleston. ?Mr and Mrs. G. B. Hoover and children, of Hampton, spent Sunday in the city with relatives. ?Misses Bernice and Carrie Sim-; mons spent the last week-end in Blackville with Mrs. R. A. Ayer. j i ?Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cams left Sunday for Washington, where they j will spend a few days with relatives.' ?Messrs. D. J. Delk, W. D. Rhoad and A. B. Utsey are attending the district Methodist conference at Cameron. ?Mrs. Prentiss Griffin, of Ehrhardt, is in Walterboro visiting relatives.?Walterboro Press &nd Stan-1 dard. ?Mrs. Donald M. Eaves, after a visit in the city to Mr. and Mrs. D.. Dowling, returned to her home at ^ Union last Friday. W ?Prof. J. C. Guilds left Monday I morning for Mount Pleasant. He is spending this week on a speaking rtour in the lower part of the State, j ?Private Luke Bellinger, of Camp Sevier, is spending a few days at 1 home. Mr. Bellinger was one of thet first selected mfen from this county. ?Miss Urma Black returned on Sunday afternoon from Greenwood, where she has been spending a few weeks with Col. and Mrs. F. N. K. Bailey. i ?S. G. Mayfield, Esq., returned! ' " " ' nv + nndod trin ! tnis W66K iruiii (til caicuucu 1,1 if | through the West. Mr. Mayfield spent a considerable portion of the ^ past two and a haif months in California. s ?Miss Estelle Toole, of Denmark, \ is spending the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Toole J and has as her guest Miss Annie Herbert, also of Denmark.?Aiken Journal and Review. ?Mrs. R. W. Faust and }!rs. F. V.' James attended the council of defense conference in Columbia on Tuesday. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw addressed the conference at the Jefferson hotel and also spoke at the ; Columbia theatre in the evening. f ?Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rainey, of Beaufort, motored to Bamberg Sun-: t day. Mrs. Rainey and children are spending a few days in Bamberg,' while Mr. Rainey has gone on to! Atlanta. He will return in a few days, and Mrs. Rainey will accom-; pany him home. ?Mr. Ola J. Zeigler has completed training at the reserve officers' training camp at Chattanooga, and is spending some time at home in the county. No commissions have been . awarded to any of the applicants yet, but Mr. Zeigler has been recommend-1 ed for a commission. y COUNTY INSTITUTIONS. Report of Inspection by State Board of Charities and Corrections. Following is the report of the State Board of Charities and Corrections of inspection recently made of the Bamberg county chain gang and the county jail: Report of Bamberg Co. Chaingang. Mr. J. R. Morris, foreman. Visited ! April 4, 1918, by Assistant Secretary Broyles. Gang camped on Hunter's Chapel road, just outside of Bamberg, r working the Ehrhardt road about a mile out of town. Convicts present, 24 negro men, 1 white man, of whom 5 are trusties, the white man being a r guard over the negro prisoners. The average daily population on the Bamberg gang for the past two and a half * years has been 43, but recently the trn-n&si have* bean consolidated be cause the number of prisoners has fallen far below that number. Conditions at this camp are bad, especially as regards sanitary matters. We found the pit, into which sewerage is dumped daily, located approximately 25 yards from the prisoner^' sleeping quarters, and the slop ^ from the cooking was in an open tarW ret in the middle of the camp. Withu in three yards of where the cooking r is done, a shallow pit has been dug, and into this the dish water and other thin slop is poured, and left uncovered to serve as a breeding place for flies. The barrel in which water is hauled from the oil mill half a mile distant was standing open, and many tubs and basins in camp were half full of dirty water, which had been standing there since morn ing, though we inspected the camp in the afternoon. Finally, the foreman allows three men to bathe in the same water. On inspection of this i gang last year pretty much the same < conditions were found, and detailed i recommendations were made to the j foreman regarding proper sanitation, |< but practically nothing has been done j: to remedy the evils. With so little j 1 attention paid to hygienic laws on the 11 gang, the county is lucky in having j escaped an epidemic of fever among . the prisoners. We repeat our recom- 1 mendations in this report to both the commissioners and the foreman. i Recommendations to the Supervisor ' and Foreman. Buy a stove for the camp, and provide a shelter for cooking, eithe. a ] good tent, a portable house or a car, and have it screened fo keep away ( flies, hi a suitable book in the Sup * 3 ..i? ervisor's office. Keep a recoru 01 me men on tne gang showing name, age, race", date commit4?*' length ::f sentence, date discharged, whether a trusty or has a family, and the reason ! for discharge?that is, whether served sentence, paid fine, escaped, etc. Finally, obey the law whicn recuiires one-tenth off for good behaviour where the sentence is longer than six months. Recommendations to the Foreman. Have the blankets washed regularly once a month. Have the kitchen i utensils cleaned thoroughly, and make the cook keep them clean hereafter. Keep the water barrel tightly covered at all times. Dig the sewerage pit at least 150 yards from the camp, and 100 yards from the water supply, and when the buckets are emptied into it, or when the men use it, have the waste, covered immediately with at least three inches of dirt. Burn this pit out at least weekly with straw and oil. Have the manure from the mule | pen raked up daily, and hauled away from camp every week. Keep the kitchen refuse barrel covered always, sprinkle lime around it frequently, and do not allow the cook to pour slops into the pit in the middle of camp. Never allow more than one man to use the same water in bathing. The practice of allowing several men to use the same water lias been stopped by most foremen, and should be stopped by all, since the custom is dirty and filthy, besides being liable to spread disease which the prisoners may have unknown to the foreman. State Board of Charities and Corrections, Columbia, 4S. C., April 4, 1918. Bamberg county chaingang, J. R. Morris, Foreman. 1. Co. Com. and Cliaingang: SCORES Possible Actual 1. The Camp and- Its Equipment: (1) Guards' quarters .... 25 21 (2) Convicts' quarters ....105 62 (3) Kitchen 50 15 ' (4) Storeroom 15 15 , (5) Stock adquately sheltered 5 3 ' 2. Convicts (1) Medical attention .... 65 13 :< (2) Records of convicts ..30 0 , (3) Convicts' food and .feeding .., 70 50 (4) Classification as re- . quired by la;w 60 60 < (5) Ten per cent, off for , good conduct 50 42 | 3. ..Miscellaneous 25 4 1' j (Total score under sec.l )..500 285 I II. Foreman's Management: Methods and Results: 1. Camp and Equipment: Conditions: (1) Camp grounds 10 8 (2) Guards'quarters 10 9 (3) Convicts' quarters ....80 59 (4) Kitchen and equipment *.... 15 10 (5) Storeroom ....> 10 10 t C \ Otnnt " 5 5 \ u ; tjtwA 1 2. Camp sanitation (1) Water supply; source unsuspicious 30 10 (2) Disposal of sewerage.. 50 33 (3) Disposal of manure.... 30 0 (4) Disposal of kitchen refuse 10 3 3. Convicts (1) Personal hygiene .... 75 58 (2) Discipline 150 112 (3) Records 25 13 (Total under Sec. II) ....500 330 Complete score on this chaingang .. ....1000 615 Report on Bamberg County Jail. .Mr. Edgar Dickinson, jailer; Mrs. Dickinson really in charge. Visited April 4, 1918, by Assistant Secretary Broyles. Inmates present day of inspection, 3 white males, 3 negro males, 1 negro female child, age 13; total 7. The average daily population in this jail for the past two and a half years has been approximately 2.5. Since our last inspection, the jailer has begun to keep' an excellent set of " * - T1V. ? records or tne prisoners, mo ?ucuu should keep a duplicate of the jailer's book and entries in his office. When the jail was visited, it was spotlessly clean, and from the appearance of the premises we judge that it is kept that way by the capable matron, Mrs. Dickinson. On ihe section of our report devoted to "Conditions in Prisoner's Quarters" she secures the highest possible score, 70 points out a possible 70; and out of a possible 400 points awarded to "Management" in our system of scoring she gets 360. It is a pity that the%Commissioners do not take the same pride in their building that the matron takes in running it, but we regret to say that our recommendations to them in the past have met little response. We repeat those of last year, and again j recommend that tfte Commissioners have the walls of the jailer's resi- . dence calcirr^ined, have the jail kitchen painted, especially the ceiling, and paint the inside of the jail proper, first scraping off the whitewash now on the walls. The planking used in the jail is dressed lumber, and therefore will not hold whitewash well. We further recommend that the commissioners pay the county physician a salary for, and require him to, make a physicah examination of each prisoner committed to the jail within 12 hours, vaccinate against small-pox when indicated, and make weekly inspection of the prisoners' food and quarters. We recommend that the jailer ar? range to give the negroes as well as the whites clean blankets when admitted to the jail. On account of the negro's natural carelessness about disease, probably it is more impartant to take precautions with them than with the white prisoners. Because the little negro girl will not profit by too much conversation with the other prisoners, we recommend that she be shut up in her own room when there are other prisoners in the jail, instead of being allowed to have the freedom of the hall, from which she can see into every room, and talk to all other prisoners in the quarters. State Board of Charities and Corrections, Columbia, S. C., April 4, 1 91 S. Score card report of Bamberg ?ounty jail, SCORES Possible Actual 1. Jail Plant: Permanent Features: 1. Location 15 15 2. Separation of prisers' quarters from jailer's residence 10 0 3. Prisoners' quarters: (1) Fire hazard 45 14 (2) Ventilation ,.... 70 62 ( 3 ) Facilities for classification 100 65 (4) Sanitary facilities ....100 34 (5) Cell facilities and type 60 55 (Total score under Sec.l) 400 245' II. Sheriff's .Manage ment: Methods and Results: 1. Jailer's general duties 5 0 34 2. Records .of prisoners 30 27 3. Prisoners' quarters: conditions 70 70 4. Classification of prisoners 80 70 5. Personal hygiene of prisoners 80 70 6. Prisoners' food and feeding 6o 64 7. Discipline and occupation of prisoners .. 25 25 (Total score under Sec. II) 400 360 III. County Commissioners and the Jail: 1. Jail's equipment and repair 110 78 2. Medical service for prisoner's 80 13 3. Financial management 10 0 (Total score under Sec. III) 200 91 Complete score on this jail 1000 696 All airplanes manufactured in the United States for the Army and Navy will bear a red, white and blue bull'ssye of three concentric circles, similar to the insignia of allied planes, ju the Willis, and \ertical red, white, and blue stripes on the rudders I'hese markings were adopted by rhe joint Army and Navy Technical Aircraft board and approved by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of tlic Navy. Estate of Henry G Smith, aged 37?drowi children?all boys-^-and^ relatives. Court named i Trustee of Estate, also s age their shares were pai protect them during theii norance. One boy was sdropped his all. Anothe living. The last lost on could have been avoided ing the boys until they money. May we tell you to any Estate where w will be glad to advise yoi sultations strictly-confide BAMBERG BAB Bambe BHHnHHHBHBHHi [ llllllllll ; Although bakers who use less than j 3 barrels of flour and meal a month are not required to secure food administration licenses, a recent rule ! gives them the right to come under j ! license. ^ m >i ^ Don't miss the .Minstrel at the ! Court House May 1st, 8:30 p. m. | Laugh and forget your troubles.? I adv. 10 Wfii x X x x v x x x x x x xH? J*.iJl 0wiv 0 /j Suffer? [i] / Mrs. J. A. Cox, of Al- t/J V derson. W. Va., writes: ,/J "My Aughter . . . suf- 1^1 fered terribly. She could w^m /\ not turn in bed ... the w^m /. doctors gave her up, and w/A /a we brought her home to wym 'a die. She had suffered so Wyt * a much at... time. Hav- fy^ ing heard of Cardui, we WyA Tj4 got it for her." WsA CARDUI y mThe Woman's Tonic ^j| /I i?T_ . r- 1/1 I in aicw udp, due uc- > / gan to improve," Mrs. / / Cox continues, "and had / / no trouble at... 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We have a number of styles in u Buggies and Harness, and we can suit I ; you. We handle only the best ve- 8 \ hides to be had, and our prices are 8 always right. Come to see us; you a are always welcome. 8 1 Jones Bros. RAILROAD AVENUE BAMBERG, S. C. bpbbbbbbmbbbmmbmwmwbmbmwwmbi it$, like Freedom, In thought, deed and action I has stood the test of time. I Dl 1t?l" ! ? ? WrttwrtnllVMrtrit 8 J. ci/ I Li/ an lciicsiiiiicntj for the tired and thirsty is of lasting satisfaction. Chero-Cola ust something to drink"?it is pure and wholend has the refreshing qualities that satisfy. (iiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil