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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. Frank Herndon spent last week at Glenn Springs. ?Rev. J. J. Stevenson, of Beaufort, was in tae city yesterday. ?Miss Dorothy Hoover, of Hampton, is visiting Mrs. W. E. Free. ?Mr. Hence Daniel, of Fitzgerald, Ga., is visiting relatives in the city. ?Mr. McP. Eubanks and family, of Govan, were in the city Tuesday. ?Rev. R. H. Jones and family have gone to Anderson to spend some time. | ?Mr. G. O. Simmons and family spent Sunday with relatives at Wagerner. ?Miss Louise Felder, of Mullins, is visiting relatives in the city this week. ?Mrs. C. C. Fuller, of Greenwood, is visiting relatives in the city this week. ?Mrs. J. C. Lewis left Tuesday) for Savannah, where she will spend several days. ?Miss Eunice Hunter left this week for ^Orangeburg to visit Miss Mildred Lyde. 1 ?Mr. H. W. Johnson, of Charlotte, N. C., was in the city for several days last week. ?Miss Bettie Steedlv has gone to Spartanburg for treatment at the Steedlv sanitarium. ?Miss Genevieve Kirsch, after spending some time in Charleston, has returned home. ?Miss Kathleen Ortman, of Anderson, has returned home after a visit to Mrs. J. F. Kilgus. ?Mr. R. O. Rice, of Holly Hill, / spent several days in the community last week with relatives. ?Miss Mallie Patrick has returned to the city from Eastman, Ga., where she has a position as milliner. ?Mrs. T. S. Rice and Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Davisboro, Ga., visited Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Rice last week. ?Col. F. N. K. Bailey and Mr. M. T. Bailey, of Greenwood, spent several days in Bamberg last week. ?Miss Thelma, Dixie and Frances Faust, of Macon, Ga., are visiting friends and relatives in the city. ?Mrs. J. J. Beach left Friday for McColl, where she will visit her son, Mr. Bissell Beach, for several weeks. 1 ?Miss Flora Brown, of Lawtev, Fla., is spending some time in the city with the family of Mrs. M. L. Johhs. ?Mr. J. W. Stokes has gone to Lake Junaluska, N. C., where his family is summering, for a few weeks, weeks. ?Mr. Marion Smoak, U. S. X., is spending a month's furlough in the city with his mother, Mrs. E. A. Smoak. ?Mrs. Otis Guess and children have returned home from Richmond, Va., where they spent a month with relatives. ?Mr. B. F. Morris, of Culverton, N Ga., paid his annual visit to Bamberg last week to attend the reunion of company G. ?Mr. Henry W. Adams returned this week from a trip to Galveston, Texas, where he spent a few days with his son. *?Mr. and Mrs. Alfrew Williams and children, of Hampton, spent sev eral days last week with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. J. Rice. ?Mrs. M. C. Livingston and little daughter, of Washington, D. C., arrived in the city a few days ago to ^isit relatives. ?Mr. Sam Dantzler and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dantzler, of Alabama, spent a few days in the city last week with relatives. ?Col. J. C. "Guilds returned Sunday from Columbus, Ohio, where he spent several days at the Methodist centenary celebration. ?Masters Caldwell Jones, Henry Bamberg, and Louie Klauber are spending some time on a camping trip in North Carolina. ?Mrs. J. D. Copeland, Jr., left last week for Baltimore, where she carried her little daughter, Lucile, for treatment at Johns Hopkins. ?Miss Mary Mellette, of Sumter, has been visiting Mrs. A. L. Edwins. Mrs. Edwins and Miss Mellette left Tuesday morning to visit friends and relatives at Branchville. ?Mr. Willie Carter, after visiting his father, Mr. a. n. carter ucai Ehrhardt, has returned to his home 1 in the up-country, accompanied by - his brother, Mr. Isaac Carter. ?J. Carl Kearse, Esq., has arrived in the city, and has taken up the practice of law with the firm of Carter & Carter. The new name of the firm is Carter & Carter & Kearse. ?Miss Dora McMillan, of Bamberg, S. C., has arrived here and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Clarke at 252 French Broad avenue for several weeks.?Asheville (N. C.) Times. . STRENGTH OF WILL AMONG WOUNDED HEROES IX HOSPITAL ARE ALL CHEERFUL. Home Girl's Fidelity Any Visitor Can See Spirit That Shines Through All Their Talk. Exhibiting a wonderful strength of will, such as has won everything worth having in life on this earth, a wounded soldier sat on "the edge of his cot in the big military hospital in Gun Hilf Road, and frankly ignoring his terrible wounds, explained: "I had to pull through, I just had to. I had some people waiting bacK here for .me, my father and mother and?" "And a girl," a smiling visitor suggested. "Yes, a girl," said the patient earnestly, "and I want to say, she stuck to me, stuck to me fine, through all this," as he passed his hands over his burnt and defeatured face. I'll come through all right if they'll only not transfer me." Assured by one of the medical staff that they had no intention of doing so, he brightened up. "Yon, see, I've gotten along fine here?best doctors ever?and then my folk can come here to see me, and that helps; it helps a lot." It was not difficult to analyze the spirit that lay behind these words. Burned by shell fire, almost beyond recognition, last September on one of the busy American fronts in France, this young hero admitted there were days when his life hung in the balance, "but somehow I had a feeling I would pull through," he said. "I wanted to so bad, that I guess that is | the reason why I did." To find on his return that the girl he had become engaged to before going to France had kept faith, in spite of hie croat affliction had rmt him on the road to recovery with a will that surprised the most conservative members of the hospital staff. Skin grafting, a few more operations, and time, will heal the wounds and repair the damage, the doctors have assured him, and with that will power which he possesses, they are of the opinion that nothing is impossibly?that no case is hopeless. Spirit Overides. Go up and down the length of the | wards in the big military hospitals, and a visitor will observe the kind of spirit that, overriding all obstacles smashed the German lines. "I figured it out, lying there in a big hospital in France," said a young private, who was terribly burned by a powder explosion on the Verdun front last autumn. He is Henry D. Ludeman of No. 578 East 163d Street. "I came to the conclusion that I might as well be philosophical about the whole thing," he said. "For nearly two weeks I couldn't see anything an(Mhen when my sight slowly came back, I was so grateful for this, that what I suffered from my burns and f injuries was really a small matter. And from that time on I decided to be as happy as a lark. You see, being a hospital patient is really a matter of comparison. I believe all the boys feel the same way about-it. No matter how badly they have been injured, they feel they should con! sider themselves lucky to be living after what they have gone through, and so <they make up their minds to be cheerful. And, besides, when you feel happy?we've all tried it?it helps to make the days pass quicker. And besides, what's the use of worrying. Worry won't bring back a lost eye or a shattered arm or foot, so we're all determined to make the best of it." Young Ludeman, who is only 22 years of age, was a salesman for a coffee house before he enlisted to fight "The Hun." In the accident which has temporarily cost him his good looks, his left ear was burned off. "My face was so badly burned it was swollen for weeks twice its nor mal size," he said. "New skin, which nature has such a wonderful way of restoring in the young, is beginning to replace the burned tissues of his hands and arms. Just Escaped Death. "Shows how near a fellow can come to death without knowing it, and escaping it," he said brightly, as he glanced at his wounded hands. "But I'm coming along fine. Doctors say it will take some time but I will be as 1 good as new some of these days." A young New York boy who has ! entirely overcome the first shock of | the tragedy of lost sight, is Albert Silverman. He has been for some [ weeks in the special hospital for the | blinded soldiers in Baltimore. Being | a former member of the famous Twenty-seventh when he heard of the j parade which took place last week, | he insisted upon coming to New York * to participate in this celebration of the division's homecoming. He finally obtained permission and one of ( his "pals"' as he says, brought him to New York for the gala event. "I met a lot of my old friends," he , said, "and we had a fine reunion. I wouldn't have missed it for anything." Downhearted? Goodness no. Young Silverman is making plans to join some relatives in Colorado. "I haven't: j decided on what kind of work I am ! going tt> do, but I shall work at | something. I am young and life is j interesting. Every wounded soldier ought to do something," he said. "It . keeps his mind employed and is good for him." Then, while one is discussing hos! pital heroes, there is Archie Raesler. Can you imagine any greater tragedy . than this young man has suffered J during the past two years? In this short space of time the young hero, whose home is iir Auburn, X. Y., lost , his brother in the same fighting in the Argonne, in which he himself lost his right eye and partial sight of the left, received more than 50 wounds and a fracture of a leg in two places. Then he returned home to find that his mother had died in the?meantime. For a boy of 22 this is much to endure. But is he cast down? Not a bit. "Yes, there was a girl," he says, "but we quarreled before I left for I France. She has written me since, but I haven't replied. What's the use? I am not the same now, and I shan't inflict myself upon any one. I don't want sympathy. I just want to get well now and get back into business with dad and begin life over again," he explained as he limp ed to his cot in Gun Hill hospital. f "When they pick the rest of this shrapnel out of me, I'll be all right. I brought back more than 50 pieces of sharpnel in me as souvenirs. But they're gradually getting them out, and those that don't bother me, perhaps we'll just leave in. I am not worrying. Hospital here is fine, food: ~ "r" AT-; + good, doctors U. is.., Iiuimus UCUCI I and I'm a lucky bird to be alive, just let me tell you. Haven't I a lot to be thankful for?" What kind of nature does a fellow possess that does not permit him to feel moody after looking at life from a hospital cot for ten straight months, with part of these months passed in a German hospital camp? That's a natural question any one might ask meeting George H. Ringler, of Houston, Tex. Some of the hospital staff in Gun Hill hospital call him handsome, tfo one would question their opinion, and his optimism and consideration for nurses and othI er patients of his ward has pronounced him by Col. Walter Sherwood, chief surgeon of the hospital, and the | ward physician, Lieutenant Ableman, one of the pluckiest and most patient men of the 1,400 on their big list of badly wounded. Young Ringler was severely wounded at Chateau-Thierry last July. Both his legs were fractured and gashed by ragged \|t>its of shrapnel. For two days without food, without even a glass of water, he lay in the German lines before being picked up and transferred to a Germafc prison hospital. "I was in three different hospitals in Germany" he said. "My legs were operated on without anesthesia, and it took five men to hold me down. But I was determined to pull through," he explains brightly. "I knew there was nothing I could do to advance matters for me. I was helpless. I decided to make the most of my misfortune. I decided to laugh my way through to home and health. It helps, it Jaelps a lot to feel like that." "On Christmas day an English officer rescued me with some English patients, and after other experiences of being transferred from one place to the other, I finally arrived here. That British officer was certainly a fine man. I am mighty thankful to ' ? ctvi/. Ant Cormanv *' aim LVr geiUlig mc vui, VI uw . Then there's the boy who had to have his arm amputated because of gangrene setting in. "Well," he said cheerfully, "they tell me I can get another one, of course it will be a wooden affair, but it won't make me appear so mussed .up, as it is. Lucky, wasn't I, to come through with nothing worse?" The philosophy of the American wounded soldiers towards life and all things pertaining to it, is something that would doubtless make the wise old sages of another period marvel i with respect and fascination. There are no cowards, no whimperers, no whiners, no regretters among the wounded soldiers in the big bright cherry hospital in Gun Hill road. ?Misses Harriedelle and Arrie Free and Miss Kathleen McLeod, of Augusta, who has been the guest of the Misses Free, left Monday for Hendersonville, N. C., to spend a few weeks in the mountains. The Herald Book Store is again selling magazines. \ * The First Flight. One's first flight is much like one's first operation. He learns it is to be, and awakes to find that it has j been. Also he follows instructions j with lamblike obedience. When things get in full swing?that is when it is time for the ether and too late to back out?he thinks of his sins. Not long ago I was closeted with j the president of a well known aircraft corporation. Suddenly he asked if I had ever been up. I thought nf twn Infp friends, both of whom met tragic ends shortly after offering j to take me aloft, and as shortly before doing so, and replied negatively. The president looked at his watch. It was four o'clock. 1 "I'll send you up this afternoon," he said, turning to his telephone. The field was six miles distant by map, but not so by motor car. At least it was reached in scarcely that many minutes. But in six minutes of rapid driving?or in what seems to be only six minutes?many things may attract one's attention. The drone of a motor overhead was audible. Several thousand feet aloft an airplane, apparently gone crazy, was turning one somersault after another in dizzy succession. A moment later, we approached a quaint little graveyard. A cemetery that has the appearance of age?and this one had ?holds a certain fascination for some folks. Old fashioned slabs, cracked, crumbled, and askew, with weather beaten epitahs and homely American names, hold interest for one who finds enjoyment in browsing around picturesque spots. At least the place seemed interesting, as I looked again at the sky-larking plane in the distance. i We reached the field. The first guard passed me to a second, the second turned me over to an office boy on roller skates. The office boy was a speedy convoy. In less time than it takes to tell it, I was signing my name to a pink tag and a white card?a mere formality, but for the convenience of the coroner, no doubt. Then there was another walk?this time a brisk one under escort?through the factory. As we emerged from the doorway of a vacant hangar and stepped into the field, a yellow De Haviland plane, a few yards ahead, faced us. The pilot stepped forward with hand extended. It was much like getting into a prize ring by accident and shaking gloves with Jess Willard. Presently, ensconced in the heavily unholstered rear seat, I was securely strapped in place. We were off. The roar of the engine grew intense. The plane trembled. The ground, covered with dead turf, looked like yellow matting as the machine swept across it, gaining speed each inch it traveled. Flying doesn't make one think he has wings. Neither does it make him seasick, or scare him to death | by taking him to "dizzy" heights. In fact, straight flying is as nearly devoid of unusual sensations as anything possibly could be. Unfamiliarity with the district over which we STATEMEXT Of the condition of the Farmers & Merchants Bank, located at Ehrhardt, S. C., at the close of business June 30, 1919: resources: Loans and discounts $371,231.13 Overdrafts 4,251.66 Bonds and stocks owned by the bank 5,000.00 Furniture and fixtures .... 2,180.00 Banking house 1,435.75 Other real estate owned .. 525.U0 Due from -banks and bankers 15.021.44 Currency 4,252.0.0 Gold 50.00 Silver and other minor coin 1,617.14 Checks and cash items .... 404.58 Other resources, viz.: Liberty bonds bought fctr customers 39,500.00 Total $445,468.70 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ....$ 20,000.00 Surplus fu^d 10,000.00: Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 13",652.85 ? - * ?. Due to DanKs ana uiiuiters 4,130.78 Individual deposits subject to ck..$ S5,624.32 Savings deposits 99,104.40 Time certificates of deposit .... 37,893.43 Cashier's cks 62.92 222,685.07 Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed 175,000.00 Total $445,468.70 State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. Before me came C. S. Henerev, cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. C. S. HENEREY. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th dav of July, 1919. M. A. KINARD, (L. S.) Notary Public, S. C. Correct?Attest: J. H. ROBERTS, M. D., G. B. CLAYTON, H. KARESH, Directors. flew made it impossible for me to keep my bearings. I was completely bewildered. It was like riding in a train and suddenly coming in view of one's home town after years of absence, therefore, when I sighted '"miles" below, the little graveyard that I had previously passed in the motor car. As I gazed upon it, fascinated for some queer reason, the pilot suddenly throttled the engine and pointed the nose of the ship straight down. Down we went for 2,r?00 feet?as I afterward learned?in an intoxicating dive. At last flying, more literally falling, was exhilirating. All was dead quiet, except for the rush of the air, and there was no vibration. This was "swimming in space!" Again the motor roared and down we dipped reaching the normal line of flight on an even keel at full speed.?Searle Hendee in Popular .Mechanics. The Xew Tongue. two girls were quarreling. "You're always saving mean things about people,'' said one to the other. "The trouble with you is you've got a chauffeur's tongue." "A chauffeur's tongue?" echoed the other girl. "Yes," was the answer. "It's always running people down.'" STATEMENT. Of the condition of the Bank of Denmark, located at Denmark, S. C., at the close of business June 30th, 1919: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $356,711.39 Bonds and stocks owned by the bank 19,950.00 Furniture and fixtures.... 1,875.00 Banking house 4,691.98 Due from banks and bankers 36,697.89 Currency 3,100.00 Gold 40.00 Silver and other minor coin 876.00 Checks and cash items.... 1,254.52 Total $425,196.78 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $ 50,000.00 Surplus fund '. 5,000.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 17,919.43 Individual deposits subject to ck..$191,614.40 Savings deposits 88,236.00 Cashiers cks 26.95 275,877.35 Pi 11 o noroKlo in/ilnrlincr ?J LL JLO pUJ U. KJL\* f lUVlUUiU^ certificates for money borrowed 72,400.00 Total $425,196.78 State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. * Before me came J. Arthur Wiggins, cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. J. ARTHUR WIGGINS, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9 day of July, 1919. T. U. COX, Notary Jublic for S. C. Correct?Attest: W. L. RILEY, W. H. FAUST, J. ARTHUR WIGGINS, Directors. DELCO-L1GHT The complete Electric Light and Power Plant Faulkner Electric Service Co., Dealers, Bamberg, S. 0. I| I y\flrt/iooer $ // are worlfi 01 o 12 A-L-5 \ (J ki la ^Because we believe . .. iJ. - * i dollar Waist on It control their sale fot LaVerne H BAMBI NOTICE. I Of Special Meeting of Stockholders of Bamberg Banking Company, Bamberg, S. C. ______ Notice is hereby given that a special^ meeting of the stockholders of ; the Bamberg Banking Company, of Bamberg, S. C., is called to be held ;at the offices of the said Bank, at Bamberg, S. C., at 11 o'clock a. m. on the 18th day of July, 1919, to consider a resolution determined upon by the Board of Directors of the said Bank to increase the capital | stock of the said Bamberg Banking Company to an amount not more 1 than Two Hundred Thousand Doli lars. i BAMBERG BANKING COMPANY, By G. Frank Bamberg, President. Dated, June 25, 1919. 4t i ? | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS. Entrance examinations to the Univprsit.v nf Smith Carolina will he held v i by the County Superintendent of Ed| ucation at the county courthouse, Friday, July 11, 1919, at 9 a. m. Entrance examinations will also be held at the University September 17 and 18, 1919. The University offers varied courses of study in science, literature, | history, law and business. The ex| penses are moderate and many opportunities for self-support are offered. A large number of scholarships are available. Military training compulsory for freshmen and sophomores. Reserve Officers Training Corps. For full particulars write to PRESIDENT W. S. CURRELL, University of South Carolina, Colum6-3n. bia, S. C. Rub-My-Tism is a powerful antiseptic; it kills the poison caused from infected cuts, cures old sores, teeter, i etc.?Adv. ! ??? ???t J. F. Carter B. D. Carter J. Carl Kearse^ Garter & Carter & Kearse Special attention given to settlement of Estates and investiga! tion of Land Titles. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW BAMBERG, S. C. # i GOOD mi n i niiNLo TO EAT j Vr.-? m ^ ;1 I City Market Hutto & Bellinger, Props. BAMBERG,'S. C. >/ Waists that ' _ _ jer one dollar \ ; XE OF WHICH WE ILLUSTRATE. ATTRACTIVE NEW MODELS * ?That is when judged by all preiling standards they are worth mor ? tan this modest sum. These new TRTHOVER Waists that are made >r us by a firm wThose name is a symd1 of quality, have much to cornend them that is not obtainable or ardly expected in a Waist at this / w price. Every waist is cut absoitely true to size; if you wear a 36 ly a 36; it will fit correctly; if you ear a 40 buy a 40. They are caretlly m^de on full generous lines: tey are made to satisfy; we can unjsitatingly recommend them for we low they offer an over-generous (loir's worth. 4 the lYirthouer the hest V te market today we * this city. lomas&Co. :rg, s. c. j | ====== 1 ' ..j|