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?jePamberg^eralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. ~ Volume 28. No. 29. Thursday, July 17,1919. THAT BLACKVIIXE PROPOSITION". # What has become of the movement of Blackville voting itself into Bamberg county? A rousing meeting was held in Blackville several months ago and at that time we understood? . from citizens of that community? that they were willing and anxious to join Bamberg. At that meeting the proposition was made that Bamberg should pay for the survey of the territory proposed and if the vote was not favorable or the movement failed for any reason, that Blackville would reimburse Bamberg for the amount expended. This proposition on the part of Blackville was accepted by Bamberg, and the survey was made, and we presume has been paid for by citizens of Bamberg. "We have not heard anything of the matter in . months, and we do not know the status. Will some one in position to give the facts in the case write a communication for publication in this paper, telling the people just how the matter stands? Many are interested in the matter, and would appreciate this information. Is the movement dead, or will the election be held? At the meeting referred to it appeared to be the unanimous opinion of the Blackville citizens that the election should be held at once. ? v BAMBERG WAKING UP. At last Bamberg is beginning to put on city airs, and it delights the heart of the writer to know that at last we have a city council who recognizes that the streets of the city belong to the pedestrians and not to any individual who cares to use them for his own purposes. For years it has been the practice here for any one to dig up the streets, to blockade the sidewalks, or to do anything that happened to suit his individual purposes, regardless of the rights cf the people who paid taxes for the use of the streets and sidewalks. Merchants i have displayed their wares on the . sidewalks of Main street, to the dis1 comfort and incinvenience of pedestrians, and although this newspaper years ago made such a fight against ' this practice that it was discontinued 1 for a time, gradually the old ways 1 were resumed. But nowva new era 1 has come, and no longer can one dig up the streets and sidewalks without 1 a permit from city council, nor can ( the sidewalks be longer littered with j the displays of merchants. The good < old days when you could put half a ] dozen chairs out on the sidewalk and ( i have them occupied by checker players and others who had more time - \T* man anyinmg eise, are guue. i\u longer can these, sidewalk loungers spit tobacco juice all around tb^ { chairs, as we have seen in times gone * by, with the walk so filthy that ladies ( would lift their skirts as they with 1 difficulty made their way by. (But { in those days ladies' skirts were long- < er than they are now.) We have * made a long step forward in Bamberg j when we realize that the streets and t sidewalks are for people to drive and 1 walk on and for that only. Glory be, 1 the times are changing! Let the good work go on! HELP THE HOUSEWIFE. This hot weather makes us sorry for the average housewife, especially in the country. The average farm housewife has practically no conveniences to do her work with,^and yet in most cases the husband has plenty of labor saving machinery. Plenty of money to spend for new ^ plows, mowers, reapers and binders, and all sorts of farm implements, but in most cases his wife is doing her work with the same old tools her mother before her used. No water works, no electric lights nor fans, no bath room, no k^osene stove, with the thermometer in the kitchen ranging around 125 when she lights the r old wood stove to cook dinner, and yet it is not because her "old man" has not the money. He could afford all these things and make her burden lighter and her work more pleasant, as well as adding years to her life and keeping the wrinkles out of her brow and the gray hairs out of her head, if he jiyfet would. There are so many labor saving appliances as well as conveniences that can now be had in country homes that it is little short of criminal not to have them. Electricity has been made so practical that now in country homes it can cook a meal, run a cooling fan, run a sewing machine, run a washing machine, heat an iron to press clothes, pump water tor a water system, run a knife sharpener, a silver polisher, and a thousand and one uses, at little cost. Some of you men who own big farms in the country and have plenty of money ought to be ashamed of yourselves for not providing all these conveniences for your wives years ago, but we know you just never thought of it. You love your wives, you want to keep them young and good-looking as long as possible, so now that you know what to do, go and do it. Why, bless your soul, old man, if you make your home modern in this respect and then go away for a few weeks, the old lady would be so young and pretty when you got back you'd hardly know her. And you'll get a whole lot more out of life, too. Try it and see. THE SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATIOX. As city council has started a programme of street improvement, we txust thev will excuse us for suggest ing that they adopt a plan followed very successfully here some years ago, which resulted in great improvement to several streets in the city and at little cost. It is the plan of co-operation. The crops will soon be laid by, and as many of our large farmers near town live in the city they use the streets and will no doubt be glad to furnish teams and wagons and drivers for a few days without cost to the city for the purpose of bauling clay to clay the principal residence streets. The city can have the clay dug and furnish labor at the clay pits for loading the wagons, and the work can be done at very little cost j to any one. . We feel sure that many j farmers would be willing to furnish j teams for one or two days, and asj there are so many of them who would j be benefitted by improved streets, j more teams could be secured than i would be needed and thousands of iollars' worth of street work could be done without any burden on anybody. The teams and hands would be idle for a few days just after 'laying by" time, and we feel sure :hey could be easily secured without lost if only a little work is done. It's really astonishing what can be lone with a little co-operation, so iet's all get together along the lines Df improving our town. A SEWER SYSTEM. We trust that city council or the commissioners of public works will :ake up at an early day the matter Df installing a sewer system in BamDerg. The septic tanks now in use ire very well, no doubt, but no town can keep on using these septic tanks ndefinitely, nor can the town be what it ought to be without a sewer sysem. A sewer system will cost money, Df course, and we understand that the present bonded debt of the town will not admit of any more bonds being issued without a constitutional amendment allowing a bond issue of more than ten per cent, of the taxable property. This matter could be easily attended to. Have the general assembly pass a joint resolution to this effect at its session this winter, and it could be ratified in the general election of next year. Of course all this is some time off, but the movement should be started, for if it is' never started it will never be finished. The bonded debt of Bamberg is Ridiculously small, and it is less than ten per cent, of a totally inadequate tax valuation. Our recollection is that the total bonded debt of the town is less than forty thousand dollars, and to show for this we have the electric light and water plant, and the city hall building, property worth at least one hundred thousand dollars. Of 1 I the forty thousand dollars mentioned, $15,000 went to pay for the court house and jail, but this debt has been practically paid off. We are in good shape financially as a municipality, and there is no reason in the world why the legal requirements should not be gone through with and bonds issued for installing a sewer system just as soon as possible. Lack of such a system hurts the growth of the town as well as making it a much less desirable place to live. We are of the opinion that it would pay for its cost in the increased liealthfulness of our city. ^ ?o> ? By the way, did you ever see a city or a hustling, bustling town where the people sat out in front of their stores in chairs? Of course it is expected that the new city council will encounter some opposition in the progressive moves they are making, but that cannot be helped. The town must go through a process of what we call in a child "growing pains," and a few years from now those who most oppose some things they are doing will be delighted that the changes were made. If we expect to grow we must get out of the old cross-roads town methods. Water as a Medicine. Until very recently people suffering from fever were denied water. "A little cracked ice to relieve the thirst, but no water," said the doctor. Thus the patient, craving water, was systematically starved for exactly the thing he most needed. Today the enlightened physician, in a fever case, prescribes quantities of water?all the sufferer can be persuaded to drink. It is beyond a doubt that water-deprivation under the old method has killed its tens of thousands. rr"?i _ _ A A J _ .er? J _ Ti ine water nas two gooa euecis. it tends to reduce the fever, and it flushes out the alimentary canal, incidentally getting rid of the bacterial "toxins" that are true poisons. Nowadays, in all Winds of sicknesses, the thing of first- importance is to accomplish a thorough and immediate cleansing of the patient's inside works. Water, the "universal solvent," is used for the purpose, helped perhaps by a little medicine. Thus in a case of acute indigestion or of ptomaine poisoning, the sufferer is required to swallow glass after glass of water as hot as he can drink ?as much water as he can manage to pour into himself/ The simple treatment, supplemented by five half grain doses of calomel at half hour intervals brings quick recovery. There used to be quite a fad for drinking one or two tumblers of hot water before breakfast every day. Excellent idea. But it is not an agreeable dose, and water at the temperature of the air will serve the purpose just as well. Most people who make a habit of taking drugs to encourage proper functioning of the body will find that a daily pint of water before breakfast is equally serviceable. The benefits derivable from the waters of mineral springs have for centuries gained popularity and profitable patronage for various "spas" in this country and abroad, but the fact is tliat tne salts contained in them have little to do with their curative effects. People who go to such places usually imbibe the waters in great quantity day after day, and the "cures" accomplished are due to thorough internal cleansing. If they drank an equal quantity of ordinary water it is likely that the effects would be no less beneficial? even more so, perhaps, inasmuch as the waters of the spas are heavily charged with mineral salts that are true medicinal drugs and liable to be injurious when taken so recklessly.?Popular Science. No one who observes the latest bathing suits can doubt that the gov ernment's request for economy m material has been carefully followed. CITATION NOTICE. . The State of South Carolina.? County of Bamberg. By J. J. Brabham, Jr., probate judge. Whereas, J. R. 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