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* PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. P. Belton Hair has returned to Atlanta to resume his studies !n Dentistry. ?Francis F. Carroll, Esq.. of Summerville, was a visitor in the city last Friday. ?United States Deputy Marshal v James L. Sims, of Orangeburg, was a visitor in the city last Friday. ?Rev. and Mrs. T. C. O'Dell, of C9lumbia, have returned home after V* a visit to Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Brab ham, Sr. * ?Mrs. Janie C. Dewis has returned from the Conderate reunion in Atlanta, where she went with a party of friends from Augusta. ?Mrs. E. V. Camp left this week ; > Waycross, Ga., to join Mr. Camp, who has a large engineering contract for road construction there. ?Messrs. William E. Hutto, L. S. Bellinger and Mr. Dukes, veterans of the world war, attended the reunion f of the thirtieth division in Greenville & last week. ?Mr. C. R. Strom, U. S. naval rei serves, has been released from active | - duty, and is visiting in the city be' foTe going to McCormick, where he has accepted a position as pharma*52**$ T-. & cist. ?Miss Mary Williams, accompanied by Mrs. Francis Bamberg, left m v for New York, where she will attend -Mrs. Semple's school. Mrs. Bamberg attended this school before her marriage. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stokes left - ? ' ? TTT i n P a last fTiaay ior wasumgiuu, ,u. v/., to attend the wedding of their son, Mr. Rex. C. Stokes, to Miss Elbird IBurfoot, of Petersburg, Va. The marriage took place Saturday last. Miss > Burfoot has a large number of '-yl 'w \ friends here, having visited here some-time ago, and she is a most v / charming young woman. Mr. Stokes has been located in Petersburg for some time past. UK. AMERICA'S BIGEST FARM. 200,000 Acres in Wheat and Not a Single Horse Used. , flfcw' ~~" fj; .. Farming two hundred thousand acres is certainly a regular job. But doing it without the use of a single v ft horse is something else again. Yet, preposterous as it may sound, this feat is actually being performed by a Montana man, Thomas D. Campbell. %'v v...This huge farm, probably the largest Ain the world, is a direct result of the government's efforts to stimulate the growing of wheat during the past two years. The farm is devoted entirely to wheat, and if it produces somewhere around the country's average or twen / ty-eight bushels per acre, which is practically certain it will add approx\ imately five million six hundred and fifty thousand bushels to the 1919 , wheat crop. At the government's guaranteed price of two dollars and ' twepty-six cents per bushel, this represents the tidy sum of twelve million six thousand dollars. Of course all this won't be net profit. But* there should be enough left, after all exr penses are paid, to make the venture !r "^worthwhile. Thomas D. Campbell is the man ? who conceived the idea of the world's largest wheat farm, or any other sort of farm for that matter. Originally St of Grand Folks, North Dakota, more :-0f\ recently of Los Angeles, California, and now a resident of the Crow In?p dian reservation in Montana, where he stands an excellent chance of be w " ing elected chief of the Crows, Mr. Campbell has astonished the wheat> growers of the country, as well as a : v lot of other people, by the vastness of the enterprise under his management. It was during the summer of 1917 that Mr. Campbell first thought of raising wheat on a large scale on unused Indian lands, and wrote to the Indian Bureau at Washington outlinjf* ing his plans and asking how to pro. ceed to lease some of the tracts. He was courteously informed by the sundry obscure clerks in the department that it couldn't be done. *They cited certain rules and regulations and laws to prove their assertions. m? But some tftirty years ago ium Campbell took them seriously when they told him there was no such word ** as "can't" in the dictionary. It is rumored that he doesn't even believe f^ much in cantaloupe or cantatas. So, he tried again, the men higher up this time, and the result was a long telegram to President Wilson. Almost imw mediately came back a reply saying ^ that the president was much interested in the project and had referred it to Secretary Lane, who would give the matter his personal attention. The upshot of the matter was thai a week or two later found Mr. Campbell in the presence of the Secretar> of the Interior. The first thing the Secretary asked him was what kinc of contract he wanted. "Any kind.' r-* was the reply, "just so I get a chanc* to raise a lot of wheat." > "What do you want for vourself?' <*r i asked the Secretary. "Nothing," Campbell replied. "I am willing to enroll with the dollar- i a-year men if the government finances \ the project, and if I finance it my- r self, all I want is a chance to break ! I even. The Secretary saw that he was j dealing with a man and a patriot as : well as an extra-size farmer, so he asked him why he didn't make it two hundred thousand acres instead of twenty thousand. j "Could you handle that many acres?" asked Mr. Lane. "Certainly," replied Mr. Campbell,' "only it will take more capital than I had figured on." Secretary Lane said he thought that could be arranged and told Mr. j Campbell to go ahead and draw up a contract. The contract was drawn and in due time bore the signature of Secretary Lane, all the bureau chiefs and Mr. Campbell. The Indians, of course, were well taken care of under the terms of the contract. They will receive one-tenth of the crop during the first five years, and one-fifth of the crop during the second five year period, at the end of wtych the lease expires. The next step was to finance the project, so Mr. Campbell hurried to New York, presented himself at the - *** " T ti 11? Omces OI J. r. .-Uuigau auu scui m word that Secretary Lane had asked him to call on a matter of business. Whether Mr. Morgan had received advance information of Mr. Campbell's coming or not is unimportant. The fact remains that he was immediately invited in for a conference. Mr. Morgan listened while Mr. Campbell told his story. AX the end of the story Mr. Morgan asked how much money would be required. , "Five million dollars," replied Mr. Campbell calmly, as one might say, "I'll take another bag of peanuts." "Very well," said Mr. Morgan, "you may have it. And if that isn't enough ^.as much more lyill be available." And so tha two-hundred-thousandacre wheat farm came into existence, with Mr. Capbell as president of the Montana Farming Corporation and general manager of the whole project. But about the absence of horses on the farm. All of the work is being done with tractors. Last fall, when the first ground was broken, there were fifty monster machines at work tearing up j the prairie sod. This spring others j have been at work. They plow on an average, of one acre a minute for the working time. A record wras made one day of eighteen hundred and eighty acres turned and broken. All the seeding, harvesting, etc., will also be done by tractors, and then, of course, there are the threshing-machines. Hence the absolute no-acNcountness of horses about this place. One of the first problems Mr. - Campbell had to solve was the number of the various kind of machines that would be required to do the work on the entire farm. He solved this by dividing the farm into units of five thousand acres and the^allowing a certain period of each operation on each unit. Mr. Campbell, as active as he is, couldn't reasonably be expected to personally oversee the wo^k on two hundred thousand acres of land throughout the season. So each unit is put in charge of a foreman and a crew of men. Each unit also has its group of permanent and moderately equipped buildings. It is a gigantic propositicm any way you look at it. And, incidentally, the man who is behind it is only thirty-six years old. ?Robert H. Moulton, in July Everybody's. ^ 01 ? CORONER TO BE NAMED. Death of Orangeburg Official Calls for Appointment. Orangeburg, Oct. 4.?As a result of the death of Coroner Z. E. Cramming, , it will be necessary for Governor Cooper to make an appointment for the vacant term. Numerous citizens j over the county are writing to the . governor to appoint W. Hampton Dukes, a well known citizen of Orangeburg. Mr. Dukes says if the people want him to have the office, he will accept it. Universal Military Training Urged. ; Washington, Oct. 2.?Despite the i grim memories of the world war and , with returning soldiers glad to quit ; the army, sentiment throughout the country favors universal military training, the house military commit; tee was told today by Bishop Samuel Fallows, of the Protestant Episcopal ; Church, and H. H. Gross, president of > the Universal Training League. "We must train our men in peace; ; for peace and to prevent war," de. clared Bishop Fallows. Mr. Gross ad ded "that if we had had three or four > million men ready a few years ago. [ the Lusitania would be afloat today." ^ i?I mm ? E. W. Holinan, magistrate at Barnwell for a number of years, has tendered his resignation to the governor. OBITUARY. Upon the death of Phillippe Bamberg Murphy there passed from among us one universally loved for his cheerful, obliging and affectionate nature. His friends, and they are many, were confident they could depend on Phillippe to befriend them in time of need. Possessing an unusually cheerful disposition, his presence seemed to impart to others mir h of his joy in living?so he was always a welcome addition to assemblages of young and old. Death depriving him of his mother at an early age. he was reared by his devoted aunt,- Miss Carrie Bamberg, to whose unchanging love and faithful guidance he owed much that went to make the man whose heart was always kind. She sowed good seeds in good ofrAiind onrl t-lio frnitc vvprd <;ppn in his daily life. Truly he seemed to fulfill that greatest and last commandment "thai ye love one another." While many sorrow that he is no more, those nearest and dearest to him, his aunt. Miss Carrie Bamberg, his wife, Mrs. Reba Murphy, and his brother, Harry Murphy, have the sympathy of the entire community. MRS. A. S. EASTERLING. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARGE To all and singular persons interested: Take notice, that the undersigned will file with the Judge of probate, at Bamberg, S. C., on Monday, November 10, 1919, at 11 o'clock a. m? a Final Report of the estate of Aaron Ayer, deceased, and will apply for a Final Discharge from the office of Administratrix of said estate. MRS. SARAH CLAYTON, Oct. 8, 1919. 4t Administratrix. NOTICE OF OPENING OF BOOKS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Notice is hereby given that the books of subscription to the capital stock (100 shares at $100.00) of the Bamberg Bottling Co.. located at Bamberg, S. C., will be open at the store of Thos. Ducker & -Co., Bamberg, S. C., on October 14th, 1919, ^4 1 1 A di ii <& in. THOMAS DUCKER, B. F. FREE, Itn Board of Corporators. FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that I, Mrs. Lillian B. Faulkner, administratrix of the estate of H. N. Bellinger, deceased, will on Saturday, November 1st, 1919, at ten o'clock a. m. make application before J. J. Brabham, Jr., judge of probate for Bamberg county, at his office at Bamberg, S. C., for Letters Dismissory and a Final Discharge as administratrix of the said estate of H. N. Bellinger, deceased. MRS..LILLIAN B. FAULKNER, Administratrix. Bamberg, S. C., Oct. 7, 1919. 10-31 NOTICE OF OPENING OF BOOKS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Notice is hereby given that the books for subscription to the capital stock (200 shares of $50.0(f) of the Denmark Wholesale Grocery, located at Denmark, S. C.. will be open at the office of the Peoples Brokerage Co., Branchville, S. C., on Wednesday, October 14th, at noon. P. E. DUKES, F. A. BRUCE, ltn . Board of Corporators. NOTICE OF OPENING BOOKS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pursuant to authority granted the undersigned by a Commission from the Secretary of State, the books of subscription to the capital stock of the Kearse-Padgett Company, a proposed corporation under the laws of South Carolina, will be opened at the office of W. E. Free, Attorney, Bamberg, S. C., on the 11th day of October, 1919, at 10 o'clock, A. M., and remain open until the capital stock of said Corporation is, subscribed. H. L. KEARSE, G. C. PADGETT, J. M. GRIMES, R. L. KEARSE, Board of Corporators. James Stucky Says "Rat Cost Me $125 for Plumbing Bills. "We couldn't tell what was clogging up our toilet and drains. We had to tear up floor, pipes, etc., found rats nest in basement. They had choked the pipes with refuse. The plumber's bill was $125. RAT-SNAP cleaned the rodent out." Three sizes, 25c, 50c, $1.00. Sold and guaranteed by Smoak &. Moye, Bamberg, S. C. Will You Spend 50c on Rat-Snap to Save $100? One 50c pkg. can kill 50 rats. The average rat will rob you of $10 every year in feed, chicks and property destruction. RAT-SNAP is deadly to rats. Cremates after killing. Leaves no smell. Comes in cakes. Rats will pass up meat, grain, cheese (to feast on RAT-SNAP. Three sizes, 25c, 50c, SI.00. Sold and guaranteed by Srroak and Moye, Bamberg, S. C. MAXTONE?The guaranteed tonic for chills, fever and malaria. 25c and 50c bottle. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CRED[ ITORS. \ All persons having claims against the estate of P. B. Murphy, deceased, will file same, itemized and verified, with the undersigned, and all persons owing the said estate will likewise make .payment unto the undersigned. MRS. REBA F. MURPHY. Qualified Executrix of the last Will and Testament of P. B. Murphy, deceased. 10-9 Where There's a Baby on Farm Keep Bat-Snap. Rats are on most farms. Once they get inside the house?look out. Rats kill infants?biting them is not unusual. Nursing bottles attract rats. Pieak a cake of RAT-SNAP and throw it around. It will surely rid you of rats and mice. Three sizes, L-f.c, 50c, $1.00. Sold and guaranteed *\ Smoak & Moye, Bamberg, S. C. 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VV XT be lectured upon at each perfoimy in detail of the affair and plac- VV XT :o the quality of the production. ? <* mid widely known, not alone as a x Xj? c deed he did for the country by ng up the Spanish fleet during the eedless for us to tell you as to the , AX will leave that to your own sound Date of this Picture II TY Tt rt1 h ier 21 I ??? |*|* si e Theatre ERG, S. C. XX AT 4:30 P. M. XX . i -'ifS ' V '. .-' ! .. . :,;:J V. /