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% 0 (Eijp Hantbrrg fcralb % $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1919. Established in 1891 1 * i i BAMBERG COUNTY j A GARDEN SPOT; > ?. DEMONSTRATING WONDERFUL*! ADAPTABILITY. TRIAL CROPS GOOD. Particular Attention iieing Given Right Now to Tobacco and Peanuts. The following is from the South Carolina Development edition of the News and Courier published last Thursday: ? -Daiuuerg couniy, in? norne 01 William Gilmore Simms, the poet, and the scene, according to authentic tradition, of the invention of the submarine, is one of the garden spots of South Carolina, if not the United States. Here the soil is adapted not only to the raising of staple crops, hut it has been amply proven, on a small scale, that the county can and will produce almost any crop or commodity on the face of the globe. Let us not be misunderstood as say " ing that the county does these things commercially. It does not. More has eaten a banana grown in Bamberg county, has tasted a luscious orange raised right here and has seen as fine lemons as one would like to see?products of Bamberg county. inese are products inat it may never be found profitable to grow commercially, but that they can be grown here shows how wonderfully versatile the soil and cHmate is. Saw-milling is a big industry of the county. Numerous mills are cutting thousands of feet of lumber daily from the timber lands of the county. One section of Bamberg county, particularly, raises hogs for market and has done so for many years past. This is the lower section from Midway, down the line to and past Ehrhardt. There are many farmers in * r this section who have never been slaves of cotton. Every year when cotton is bringing 'a good price and when it is not they have pork to sell. They make "pudding and sausage.'' and there is none so good anywhere as they make. They always make a comfortable living. They live at ' home, and if they have two or three acres to spare they plant a little cotton. There was one farmer a few months back who had" his entire cotton crop in his shed that he had made for the last four or five years. It '. consisted of only a few bales for each J year, and he said whenever the price suited him he would sell, but that the cotton price never worried him. Peanuts and velvet bqans are two crops which have been given much attention in late yet^s. These are grown primarily for the hogs, fo^ marketing conditions so far do not permit the crop to be grown on a commercial scale. This is also one of the best trucking sections of the South, but the industry has never been developed . ? here. In the upper part of the county there are many farmers who truck on a more or less large scale, where also watermelons and cantaloupes and cucumbers are grown for the Northern markets. In casting about for a substitute for cotton, the cultivation of which will be rendered very difficult hereafter on account of the Mexican boll weevil, many Bamberg county farmf ers have hit upon the happy idea of growing peanuts. While peanuts have never been grown commercially in this county, it has been demonstrated since man remembereth that no finer peanuts are grown than those produced in Bamberg county. The land here is ideally adapted to the growing of this crop, and most progressive farmers have planted for years a small acreage each season for use on their farms. As a hog feed the peanut is said to be a most superior crop. Now that other crops are a necessitv. it is understood that extensive plans are being made to gr^w peanuts on a large scale in this county. With a prospect of the shortage of cotton ^ seed in this section, there is very strong demand for peanuts, and many of the oil mills throughout the State are installing peanut crushing machinery. It is understood that very important local announcements are to be made soon in this connection. Strong bids have been made for peanuts by out of the State concerns, and there is already considerable rivalry in the market for Bamberg county peanuts. Long years ago an abortive effort was made in this county to. plant tobacco. A few farmers did plant it: $105,000 SHOUT IN CASH. The Fairburn Hanking Company Was Wrwked. Atlanta. Nov. 1.?A shortage of $105,000, of the Fairburn Banking company was reported here today to \V. .T. Speer. State Bank Examiner, by the auditing company which has been checking up the bank's affairs since the <ashier, W. B. Green, was arrested as a defaulter. The report as announced by Mr. Speer laid blame to wrongful acts of Green for a shortage of ninety thousand dollars and asserted that the loss of fifteen thousand dollars could not be definitely accounted for because of a fire in the bank shortly before Green's arrest. Green is at liberty on $15,000 bond. Mrs. Katherine Bradstreet, who, with her husband and chauffeur, were arrested in the case, was recently granted liberty on $5,000 bond. Bradstreet and the negro chauffeur are still in jail. The police assert that Green gave the woman large sums of money. Commitment hearings are expected to follow. the report of the auditors, -who will supplant their brief report of today by a lengthy one in a few days. The hank's capital is SoU.OUU ancl its surplus $30,000, so that it would appear, it was said at the State bank examiner's office, that the stockholders would have to make up the deficit or have the institution closed. Mr. Speer said every legal means to keep the bank going would be given. W. T. Roberts, president of the bank, announced tonight that the shortage would be made good. Green, when told of the auditor's report, characterized the shortage as imaginary. nobody succeeded very well, and they fell back to the old reliable?cotton, and forgot all about tobacco. Could the tobacco industry be resurrected? Well, we shall see. Last winter a year ago a few farmers gathered in a back room here and talked the matter over. They believed that tobacco was possible. They felt that it meant, perhaps, years of struggle, overcoming obstacles, etc., for they did not really know or believe that tobacco would be a sure crop here. People here looked upon the Pee Dee as the tobacco section of South Carolina. Maybe it would prove successful here. Anyway, something had to be done?might as well try tobacco as anything else. A tobacco man was summoned from the Pee Dee to give counsel. He looked the situation over and said tobacco would grow in Bamberg. Some of the farmers right around town decided to venture, and after a lot of real work succeeded in indue-' ing some dozen or so to plant a few acres in the weed and try the thing out. The first crop, about 100 acres in all, turned out exceptionally well. It exceeded the fondest expectations. Without the slightest previous experience some of the barn?about six acres were planted for a barn? resulted in really enormous profits. ~ ^ ^ 1 4 r\ f iinncjuoll V 1 Hill, as UUC iaigci,< LUC uuuouuK.) high prices last year. Nobody lost anything on the first crop. That set people to thinking, and this year close to 1.000 acres were planted in tobacco. But prices were not so favorable this year, and that is where experience came in handy. Those who did not thoroughly under- i stand harvesting and curing their product did not make very large profits. But this was not the fault of the land. It is a foregone conclusion that Bamberg lands will make tobacco. Not only that, but it is an established fact that Bamberg tobacco outclassed anything in the State in quality in the markets this summer. Now the thing is established. One large warehouse has already gone up. A company has been organized for the erection of a second, and a pri A - s? 1 Z 4- ii -*-? /I 1 Q vaie niuiviu u<i i, n i& unuci oiwu, 10 to build a third. Tobacco will be a staple crop in Bamberg hereafter. The farmers will profit by the experience of others who have already tried !t. The crop has been so eminently successful here that tobacco farmers in other sections have been attracted to Bamberg and a number of farms has been sold recently to these outsiders who will come to Bamberg to plant tobacco. These men are experienced in the industry, and they know a good thing when they see it. This or something else, perhaps a natural boom, has caused Bamberg lands to soar. Lands that sold a year or two ago for $50 per acre are now bringing as high as $100. / Rod Need Not B Attorney Says There Is No Law For ment of Old-Fashioned Carolina Sc Columbia, Nov. 2.?That there is no statute preventing teachers from inflicting corporal punishment on refractory students is the interpretation of the law, Samuel M. Wolfe, attorney General, gives in an opinion in aiiawci lu <x icuci inaiMii^ luijuu > un the subject. Holding that disciplinary measures are in the discretion of the board and directors of a school, the opinion says that "if to compel obedience and conform the pupils of the school to proper decorum it is necessary in some instances to resort to corporal punishment, the law does not prohibit it being inflicted." While in the school the teacher, the opinion holds, in relation to the child is in loco parentis, and logically must adopt the same disciplinary methods as the child's natural guardian. "Of course," continues the opinion, "if the teacher inflicts punishment which is wanton or malicious in its ENORMOUS LOSS. Results From Damage to Cotton Not Not Properly Stored. As regional director of the United States Railroad Administration I want to call attention to the importance of the proper storage of cotton. \fillinnc rvf rJnllarc tiro lr?<at ovorv *** 4 A A 4 V Ai u v/l V4VHMA u Mi v 1VU V T V 4 ^ year through improper storage of this staple. This has been known in a general way for a long time by everybody interested in cotton, but probably very few of us have even suspected what a tremendous factor storage is in the trade, or the astounding lot of money thrown away by the individual owner who lets a bale of cotton stay on the ground.. Some tests conducted by the United States department of agriculture recently were brought to the attention of the United States Railroad Administration, and their results "were so startling that the administration desires to aid in gaining for them the widest dissemination and most careful consideration. The most striking fact disclosed was that a 492-pound bale of cotton stored flat on the ground for six months last 232 pounds leaving 260 pounds for the market, while another bale stored properly in a warehouse lost only tw6 pounds. This means that, if the price was thirty cents a pound, the loss on the first bale was $69.60. The loss on the bale in the warenouse was out sixty cents. The tests occurred at Press No. 1 of the St. Louis Cotton Compress Company, Little Rock, Ark. Seven bales of cotton were purchased by the department of agriculture and stored under various conditions from November 2o, 1918, to Juno 13, 191 9. Weekly observations were conducted and complete reports prepared upon the condition of the cotton throughout the period. Briefly, here is what the tests disclosed: Bale No. 1, fully protected in warehouse. weighed 494 pounds at the start and had a net marketable weight of 4 92 pounds when reconditioned at the end of the test. Bale No. 2, exposed on dunnage and turned after each rain or once a week, dropped in net marketable cotton from 4 87 to 480 pounds. (Seven pounds lost.) Bale No. 3, on dunnage on edge, covered with tarpaulin and left with * * X i. out further attention during test, dropped from 489 to 485 pounds. ("Four pounds lost.) Bale No. 4, flat on ground during1 entire test, same surface down at all times, dropped from 492 to 260 pounds. (23 2 pounds lost.) During the test this bale absorbed moisture until it weighed 912 pounds on June 7. Tn reconditioning, 420 nnnnds nf moisture went out and 232 pounds of moulded and ruined cotton were thrown awav. Bale Xo. 5. on end on ground during the entire test, with same surface down at all times, dropped from HO." pounds to 385 pounds. (Loss 1 20 pounds.) Bale Xo. 0. on edge during entire (Continued on page 4, column t.) e Spared, General's Ruling bidding Reasonable Employ"Persuader" in South hool Rooms. nature, or which results from some 1 other motive than that of punishing the school, the law wouid hold him the child for some misdemeanor in ; responsible. It will likewise hold him responsible for punishmnt which was 1 brutal in its nature and out of pro' portion to the offense committed by the child." Mr. Wolfe takes the position that j when a parent objects to punishment for the child in conformity with the j regulations of the school and the; i Jfoard of trustees, he should be re; o.uested to withdraw the child from ! the school. Mr. Wolfe recited his ! own experience as a teacher, in which ! he had a rule that if a child got I sixty demerits the parent had the i option of selecting expulsion or pun: ishment. This method, he said, did ' much to obviate parental objection I to just methods of discipline. He , further said that no child should be punished unless fully cognizant of | the offense for which chastised. Carlisle School News. Clipped From the Bngle. . ! Col. Bailey Speaks in Chapel. On Wednesday morning during chapel hour Colonel F. X. K. Bailey, ; superintendent of Bailey Military Ini stitute at Greenwood, made a very | Interesting and instructive talk. Col. ! onel Bailey has devotpd his entire life i to Ihe education of the voung people j of the State. The past few years he has devoted entirely to work with boys. Colonel Bailev spoke very feelingly j of his connection with Bamberg. The early ye?rs of his life were spent here and 'twas here that he married. Military Department. The regular daily drill iias gone forward each afternoon in spite of the hot weather. Some of the boys have to fall out now and then, but most of them are getting accustomed to it and can stand a great deal more hard work than before. A review is had each week and new movements I added each day. Some work has) been done in extended order. The! rifles will be issued next week. Seventy-five new ones have just been received and each boy will have a rifle. Personals. Mrs. R. D. Deason, of Estill, visited friends at Carlisle recently. Mrs. R. R. Peebles, of Estill, visited her son. Henry. Sunday. Capt. William Watson spent last week-end at his home in Johnston, S. C. Mrs. Fred Duffie, of Tampa. Fla., ? -1 - 3 ??tv,ni,r. Onn/lor | V1S116Q menus un mc campus Mrs. R. H. Solomons, of Estill, visited her sons. Lewis and Gifford, Sunday. Rev. Peter Stokes and family, of i Orangeburg, were on the campus j Thursday. I Mr. and Mrs. Coy Johnson visited j their sons. Jordan, Coy and. Hooks, | Sunday. Coy returned home with j them. j Captains Lupo and Boland attend-j ed the Clemson-Carolina football i game at the State fair in Columbia' Thursday. Cadets Walter H. Rowell, A. 'H. | Silcox and Sergt. Charlie Move at| tended the Carlisle-Porter football | game in Charleston. ?? ** * 1 ?nva of f {T j iT16 ionowmg uaucis aic ; the State fair in Columbia: Sergts. j McCall Hvman, Drayton Sanders, ! Corpls. Fred Brigman. James Sandl ers. Key Caughman, Privates Wayj land Hogan. Richard Browning, Brat| ton Lewis, Xeil Lewis, Ralph Jordan, | Douglas and Ros^oe Bryant. Purley j Tompkins, L. D. Brunson. j The following cadets spent the j week-end at home: Capt. Paul K. j Smith, Sergts. George Muckenfuss. ! Gerard Warren. Corpls. Rhett Harley. Hubert McLin- Arthur Graham, Richard Hutto. Loyd Hayden, Privates Eddie Muckenfuss, Marshall MrLin. Hubert Grambling. Carl Felder, Joe Buff, LeRoy Dantzler. Fred Piatt. Odell Lyons, Alpheus Connor. I HIGHWAY COXSTKITTIOX. Interesting Figures From New* and Courier Special Edition. The following facts and figures are gleaned from the South Carolina Development edition of the News and Courier, issued last Thursday: Following is a statement of the road projects now under way and approved for future construct-on in Bamberg and nearby counties by the State highway commission: Estimate Amt. of of Cost. Federal Aid. Aiken $104,000.00 $50,000.00 Allendale .... 00,000.00 25,000.00 Bamberg .. .. 130,023.'7S 31,511.80 Barnwell 4 0 000 0 0 ." 0 00 00 Colleton .. .. 30,000.00 1 5.000.00 Hampton .. .. 205,000.00 90,000.00 Orangeburg- 1 70,000.00 70,000.00 The following table shows the number of automobiles in 191 S: Aiken : 1,4 45 Bamberg 881 Barnwell 1,441 Colleton 759 Hampton 919 Orangeburg 2.839 The figures below indicate the amount of license fees collected in 1918 and the amount returned to the various counties: Amount Returned to Collected. Counties. Aiken $. 7,883.73 $ 6.300.98 Bamberg .. .. 4.881.80 3,905.44 .Barnwell .. .. 8.627.39 6.901.92 Colleton .. .. 4.115.40 3,292.33 Hampton .. .. 4,644.67 3.71 5.73 Orangeburg.. 1 6,1 15.91 1 2,892.72 A large increase in the number of automobiles in 1919 over 1918 is shown by the following figures, which are up to Oct 1, of the present year: Aiken /. 1,812 Allendale i 198 Bamberg 1.060 Barnwell 7 1,480 Colleton 775 Hampton ...j .... 881 Orangeburg 3,331 The corresponding increase in liI cense fees collected and refunded to the counties is shown by the figures below: A D Atii r?r* A/4 t A 1 /VlllUUiil uciui lieu Liy Collected. Counties. Aiken $10,214.13 $ 8.171.30 Allendale .. .. 2,182.39 1.745.91 Bamberg .. .. .6,273.06 v ^.018.45 Barnwell .. .. 7,685.43 6,1 48.34 Colleton .. .. 4,388.48 3,510.78 Hampton .. .. 5,050.33 4.040.26 Orangeburg.. 1 9,1 65.56 15,332.45 The table below indicates the apportionment by counties of funds alloted to this State under the federal road act and subsequent amendments after deducting the 20 per cent, for projects of a State-wide nature: Road Federal Mileage Allotment. Aiken 104 $104,784.31 Allendale 26 30,614.69 Bamberg 41 37,242.62 Barnwell 51 4 7,657.93 Colleton 76 83,638.08 Hampton 52 44,817.39 Orangeburg 144 125,614.93 The following is a digest of road construction in this section of the State by counties: Allendale?Surveys have been I completed for a sand clay road from Fairfax to the Bamberg county line at Buford's Bridge, a distance of 10.16 miles, which, when completed, will cost $60,000, of which $25,000 will be federal aid. Bamberg?A sand clay road from the Orangeburg county line to the Allendale county line, a distance of 12.17 miles, was started on May 26. When completed it will cost $35.023.78. of which $17.5*11.89 will be federal aid. The commission has approved a sand clay road from the Barnwell line to the Orangeburg line, a distance of 17 miles, which, when completed, will cost $95,000, of which $1 4,000 will be federal aid. Barnwell?The commission has approved a ten-mile stretch of sand clay highway from Barnwell to Kline, the estimated cost of which is $40,000, of which $5,000 will be federal aid. Hampton?Surveys have been completed for 15.62 miles of top soil highway from Varnville to Yemassee, the estimated cost being $90,000, and the estimated federal aid $40,000. The commission has approved the r>nnctmr?tinn nf 25 miles of tOP SOil I road from Brunson to the Jasper county line. The estimated cost of I the project is $1 15,000 and tlie esti[ mated federal aid $50,000. Orangeburg?Surveys have been ! completed for the top soiling and sand claying of the Columbia-Savannah highway from the Calhoun line to the Bamberg line, a distance of 24 miles, the estimated cost to be $1 70,000 and the estimated federal I aid $70,000. . Just So. "De surest way to beep out o' bad company," said Uncle Eben. "is to mind yoh own business so close dat bad company won't take no interest in you."?Washington Star. I % NON-UNION MEN "REMAIN AT WORK THOUSANDS OF MINERS FAIL TO JOIN" STRIKE. SITUATION IN DOUBT. Over Four Hundred Thousand Out But Effect On Production Not Yet (Teai'. % Chicago. Nov. 1.?Although to uism, luunu neariy an tne nation's vast bituminous coal fields idle as a result of the miner's strike effective Friday midnight, thousands of nonunion miners were at work and in scattered districts where contracts still were in force union miners reported today as usual. Figures compiled tonight and based chiefly upon union leader's claims, although in many cases conceded by the operat ors, showed that 435,820 men were on strike. In its physical aspects the strike apparently had largely stopped production of soft coal, but with large non - union fields in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia still operating at somewhere near normal and with a number of smaller fields also working with union contract miners, the actual effect on production could not be definitely stated. The first day of the strike was All Saints day and also Saturday, a virtual holiday in many mining regions and the full power of the <*nited Mine Workers of America, which ordered the strike, can not be fully guaged until Monday, operators said. Coal operators said thousands of non-union miners were producing coal in usual quantities, although conceding that in union fields the stride was effective. Union leaders reported in most in- N stances that the strike was virtually 100 per cent, effective throughout the country. The number of men reported on strike is considerably in excess of th? 401,480 members in good standing on the union roster at the end of August, but union leaders explained that at that time fully 15 per cent, of the union men were behind in their dues and had since been reinstated. While union mines were tied up in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, as - * well as in other important coal producing states, about half of Kentucky's 40,000 miners were still at work. That was said to be due to the fact that in the western Kentucky field the miners and operators signed an agreement about six weeks ago providing that those mines would not be affected by the strike. An unusual situation prevailed In Utah, where most of the miners remninpd at wnrk .Tnhn H McLennan. Utah representative of the union, called off the strike Friday, announcing that he had received a telegram from John L. Lewis, head of the organization, that the strike was off. That was repudiated by Lewis, but McLennan apparently made no move to further the strike. North Dakota's 1,500 lignite miners remained at work with the exception of 120 who struck in the Burlington field. The only development in Illinois where approximately 90,000 mine workers are idle, according to Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois district, was preparation for a meeting Monday of members of the executive board of Illinois district, summoned by President Farrington before the restraining order of Judge Anderson was issued at Indianapolis. The meeting originally was for the purpose of perfecting state strike plans. The call for the meeting, it was said, had not been rescinded. A new element in the strike was the acknowledgement by the management of the O'Gara mine near Springfield that an order had been received from the office of the quartermaster general of the United. States army directing tnar me mine, which is engaged in furnishing coal for Camp Grant at Rockford, continue to fill its contract. With the mine closed by the strike the mine officials were confronted by a difficult problem. Troop orders transpired tonight at various places, indicating that milifor-i fnrop m<? eettin? into position to protect all miners who would work. National Guard troops assembled at (Continued on page 4, column 3.) ?