The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 17, 1919, Page 4, Image 4
?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".
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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.
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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
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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 (
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have them occupied by checker players
and others who had more time
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. Chitty hath
made suit to me to grant him letters
of administration of the estate and
effects of Robert Williams, deceased,
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all and singular the kindred
and creditors of the said Robert Williams,
deceased, that they be and
appear before me, in the court of
probate, to be held at Bamberg on
the 2Sth day of Julv, next, after
publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in
the forenoon, to show cause, if any
they have, why the said administration
should not be granted.
Given under my hand this
the 14th day of July, anno domini
1919. J. J. BRABHAM, JR.
Judge of Probate.
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considering the quality of the goods i
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G. R. SIMMONS
AGOODJIEND
A good friend stands by you when
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"I bad weak kidneys and pains in
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bambe:
LOST CERTIFICATE OF STOCK. ! NOTICE.
The undersigned will on the 8 th . ^copartnership heretofore sueday
of August, 1919, apply to Bam-j ? between B. W. Shaw and I. H.
berg Cotton Mills Company for one l^tchT\^eT th* r? *?m<? n?f
new certificate of preferred stock ? Mltchum ^ ^
and one new certificate of common:. . s a* keen dissolved by(
stock of said corporation in lieu of Vj consent. I. H. Mitchum will conpreferred
stock certificate No. 174 |tinue business on his own acand
common stock certificate No. 161 i ?ount aad pay all debts owing by the
of one share each, which certificates ! ?rm an.d aR Parties indebted to the
have been lost or destroyed. firm will make payment to I. H.
(Signed) MRS. W. J. FAULKNER, i M.tchum.^ ^ ^ ^ g >
I. H. MITCHUM (L. S.)
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HAVE CONFIDENCE, THE MAN WHO
STANDS FOR- PROGRESS, ACCOMPLISHMENT,
IN OUR COMMUNITY INVARIABLY
HAS A BANK ACCOUNT. . |
It is not difficult to have such an acI
count. The hard part is to start and . '
we make that easy.
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All of the furniture factories are mailing out letters
to the retail firms advising that they buy now to
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save the additional 15 per cent, advance which shall
soon go on almost every article in my line. For this
reason I take great pleasure in advising my friends
and. customers that they be not surprised when new i
goods that come in are higher than the ones now on
our floors. It's true that this advance will not affect
my prices very much before January 1st, except on
.1 be forced to buy, but as to
lwavs contract for them in
have a large stock of well
lophone" talking machines
f the latest records, includs
of religious music, dances,
and Hawaiian music.
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other talking machine com;
my line and be convinced. ^
your account as your money, so come and buy on easy
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Bottom Prices and Easy Terms/'
GRAHAM
3 FURNITURE MAIS
RG, S. C. EHRHARDT, S. C.
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