The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 17, 1919, Page 5, Image 5
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.
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?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
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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:
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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
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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.
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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
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NOTICE.
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Of Special Meeting of Stockholders
of Bamberg Banking Company,
Bamberg, S. C.
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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
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| 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.
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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
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ATTRACTIVE NEW MODELS
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standards they are worth mor
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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
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