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r I $2.00 Per Year in Advance ' - BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 22,1920. Established in 1891 ' : i " ? : j " ????????????? TOBACCO MARKET WILL OPEN TODAY SELLING OF THE WEED TO START IX BAMBERG. ? New Era Begins. People of This Entire Section of the State Invited to Come to Bamberg and Witness Sales. Everything is in readiness for the ^ opening of the Bamberg tobacco mar-N ket in this city today, Thursday. The first sale of the "weed" will be held today, and the new era in the farm life of Bamberg county has formally ctartoH Both warehouses were open during the past week, am! have on hand a liberal quantity of home grown tobacco to place on the market today. An expert auctioneer will sell the tobacco. Many buyers are here representing the vbig tobacco concerns of this country and the export trade. The prospect is that the Bamberg tobacco farmers will realize fine prices on their product, as the better ' . grades of tobacco are greatly in demand. Very little encouragement is offered the farmer, however, for the poorer grades. Very little of the poor grades should be put on the market, however, as it is a well established fact Chat Bamberg county makes good tobacco, the kind that the .buyers are eager to secure. Of course, there will j naturally be some poor tobacco, but| with the past experience .our farmers have had in the curing of their crop, poor grades will be reduced to* a minimum. A vprv cordial invitation is ex * tended to the farmers and business men from all section of this part of the state to visit Bamberg during the season and see just what the Bamberg farmers are doing to combat the weevil. There is established here a" stable tobacco market affording the best nfethods of margeting tobacco, and the farmers are assured of the $ fact that prices in Bamberg will be as good as elsewhere in the state, and perl^aps better, for this market has been fortunate in interesting as managers of the warehouses tobacco men of lifetime experience. R. J. Works, manager of the Farmers warehouse, and J. L. Knight, manager of .the Denbow warehouse, are both from Lexington, Ky., which is said to be the largest tobacco market in the world. They know the business from alpha to omega, and they are' pulling strong for the-local market. They are both on the ground, although they have a string of warehouses elsewhere, to give their personal attention to their interests here. Some twenty-five to thirty-five tobacco men will be lodged in Bamberg during the tobacco season, which will afford Bamberg citizens a fine opportunity to advertise the hospitality of the town. Many of these gentlemen have their wive^ and families with them. The public is cordiflly invited to attend the opening of the market in , Bamberg today, and at any time during the season. Tobacco is sold in v a most unique manner. It is auctioned off the highest bidder, having ' previously been arranged in neat piles. It is a source of never ceasing interest to view this proceeding, which is both novel and entertaining to those who know nothing of the marketing of tobacco. It makes no difference whether you live in Bamberg or not, whether you plant tobacco or not, come out to the opening. Watch Bamberg grow. Why, Indeed. In Washington they tell a story of a young man, just returned from foreign service, who was * terribly troubled by his "affair'* with a young woman of that city. <<T nrnra ttaii fh?Q + normf" J?S 3. birth x gave j\J\X IUUV .? day present, did I not, Janet?" he asked. "Yes; but surely, Henry, you are hot going to speak of tokens as if?" f "It was young and speechless at the time, was it not?" * "Yes; and it has never been out of this parlor." "And there are no other young women in this house?" "No. Why, what on earth do you mean?" "Simply this. When I-er-when I kissed your photograph on the table there last night while waiting for you (what did that wrefched bird do but imitate your voice and said: 'Don't do that, Harold; please don't'." CAN WITHOUT SUGAR. It is Practicable and Very Much Cheaper. It will be wisdom on the part of housekeepers to can the usual amount of fruits and vegetables this year even if. part or all of the fruit must be canned without sugar, according to a statement issued by the United States department of agriculture. From all present indications, sugar will be more abundant next winter, when the fruit will be used on the table, the department says. There will apparently be an increased acreage of both cane and beet sugar this year in the United States, Cuba, and in other , countries in the Northern Hemis- , phere. The rise^in the price of sugar . has encouraged increased plantings of cane and beets. Xo Shortage in Domestic Supplies. In spite of a world shortage of . sugar and a decrease of 400,000,000 pounds in domestic production, there has been used or hoarded during the . current year in the United States 15 ^ per cent, more sugar than in former years. In fact, a greater supply of sffgar than ever before has been handled in this country during the past few years, with net imports 25 . per cent., or over 1,000,000,000 j pounds greater than in any previous period. , It is Obvious, therefore, ^ that, there has been no actual sugar . shortage here this year. The difficulties encountered have arisen from ' the inability of the consumer to secure his share of the supply. Unless enormously increased amounts have been consumed, the trouble must bb < laid to hoarding, and it is very evident that large quantities are being J held for future use both by housei wives and commercial concerns. During the past 50 years the con- j ! sumption of sugar in the United States has steadily increased, at an 1 average annual rate of 1 pound per year, until the last few years the ^ average yearly per capita consumption for all purposes is between 85 and 90 pounds. This compares with a per capita consumption of 58.9 . pounds in 1899. The increased consumption of sugar by the soft-drink, - - - - i j 1 candy, and ice-cream industries aur-| ing recent years .has helped raise the total average, but to what extent is not known.?News. ' mm ^ Grown Gorilla Can't Be Taken Alive. It is said that no gorilla has ever been captured alive after he was full grow;n.* Gorillas fear nothing. Even when mortally wounded they show an agility, strength and ferocity which is astonishing. A famous traveler once stated that it would, take 150 men to hold down a gorilla with any degree of safety. On the other hand, all other apes are said to be pathetically easy to capture: The usual .method is for a trapper to seat ifimself where he is certain to be Observed by these creatures and pretend to drink from a bottle of crude spirits. When he is sure that he has been observed, he leaves the bottle and goes away. The moment his back is turned the monkeys rush to appease their curiosity concerning the contents of the bottle. They like the taste of the spirits and quarrel among themselves until the bottle has been emptied. They are soon overcome by the intoxicant and the trapper returns and gathers them in. Schoolboy - 'Traffic Cop." One of the largest crowds in the downtown district yesterday was that - - - - . __ X at State and Devonshire streets, aur- i ing the. afternoon. The attraction c was a school boy, about 14 years old, e who for more than an hour perform- t ed the duties of a traffic officer at I that corner and his work was done a so well that he was frequently cheer- 1 ed; not only by people on the street, s but by bankers and stenographers, ? who watched him from the windows of nearby buildings. Sturdy, v clear- r eyed, ruddy cheeked, the boy conduct- c ed himself like a veteran traffic of- a ficer. His uplifted a^m and his beck- t on were religiously obeyed by the t most hardened teamsters and speed- p iest automobile operators, and when a the fire goings sounded he made ajp quicker and clearer path for the ap- t paratus than ever did a regular pa- i trolman. It all formed a bright touch \ in an otherwise most distressful day r for many.?Boston Herald. t ? L Consolation. 1 From the Agony column: "Young 1 man, recently rejected, desires apart- 2 ments adjoining those of the young c couple possessed of a baby that cries c all night, causing father to prome- e nade in pajamas; good, loud swearing a preferred." j j i WILL CONTINUE MALARIA WORK COL. L'PIUXCE ADDRESSES CITIZENS OF BAMBERG. Importance Stressed. Town Has Received Nearly $3,000 More From Outside Than Promised.?Collect Pledges. At a meeting of some of the citizens of the town at the court house Thursday night, it was resolved that the work of malaria control must be completed, and a committee was ap)ointed to collect the unpaid subscriptions and secure as much more as ^ i t i _ i i i J 1^. ? poesiDie, wmcn, supplemented uj; additional government funds that it is believed can be secured will complete the work that was started here last fall. -The immediate cause of the meeting being hastily arranged for Thursday night was the presence in the city unexpectedly Thursday of Col. J. L. LaPrince, who has charge of the ma* laria control work in a number of southern states as a representative oi the U. S. government. Col. LaPrince wa? one of those actively engaged in the work of clearing the Panama canal zone of the mosquito. It was felt by those locally behind the movement that the citizens of the town should not miss the opportuntiy 3f seeing and hearing this distinguished engineer whose career as a specialist in this line has been so eminently successful. Consequently 1 i meeting, was called and as many of ;he citizens notified as possible. C. W. Rentz stated briefly the .purDose of the meeticg, and introduced Dol.. LaPrince, who stated that vork similar to that being lone in Bamberg has been mdertaken in 87 communities hroughout the country. His experence, he stated, has been that busiless men are generally skeptical as ;o the results of malaria control vork, but that once it is secured and :ompleted, the benefits are so. marvelous and far-reaching that it beicmes a matter of local pride to all !ommunities? where the work is unlertaken. Nothing was known 20 vears ago of the control of malaria, .^eople then fought the disease with medicines, but now with scientific nethods the mosquito, the cause of j nalaria, can be and is eliminated, and esulls that appear on their face as mponsible are attained. "I know that you have the right ;pirit in Bamberg. If you had not rou would not have contributed to ;his work, the greater part of wjiich las now been done. But there is ;till some more work before the job s completed to eliminate the mosluito," said Col. LaPrince. "It would )e a pity?a great pity?to stop this vork now at this stage and thereby vaste in a large measure the work hat has already been accomplished." It is a question of benefits to fuure generations, and the people are lot yet fully aroused to the vast imlortance of malaria control, said Col. ^aPrince. One of the most insidious eatures about malaria is that it arely kills people?that is fatalities ire not traced directly to malaria, >ut if; so weakens the system that he malarial victims easily fall prey o all manner of other diseases with atal effect. "For heavens sake lnon fhio nrmnrf nrntv +r? rln thfi IUU I 1UOV LUiO U|/Jj/Uin?u?v^ VV \*v )iggest thing that you can possibly lo for your town and people/' he arnestly pleaded. "If a contagion >roke out in your town, it would not >e difficult to arouse your people," ind he reminded his headers that maaria was worse than a contagion, lapping the life and energy by decrees from old and young. "I'll tell you one thing: If you leglect this work there will be more ihildren carried to your cemetery :in l few years than you have any right o see go there," said the colonel. As o the effectiveness of malarial cam )aigns, the speaker stated that the irmv statistics afforded absolute )roof of the success of malaria .conrol. If the soldiers of the Amercan army during the woVId rar had died in the camps of nalaria in proportion to the fataliies of the camps during the SpanishAmerican war, America would have ost 5,000 soldiers from this causeAccording to Col. LaPrince, exactly II men died of malaria in the army amps during the world war. He rented briefly some of the material benifits that may be expected, giving as n instance the town of Gulfpcrt, diss., where it was found very diffi-* BOLIVIAX CHIEF KICKED OUT. President With Several Members of Cabinet Deported By New Regime. Washington, July 15.?Jose G. * Guerra, deposed president of Bolivia, , with a number of his ministers and other officials of the overthrown government were deported yesterday by the new regime, the State Department was informed today in the first dispatch from the American legation at La Paz since the revolution. The dispatch reported that W. Du- , val Brown, American consul at La Paz, American Trade Commissioner Schurts and ether representatives in the diplomatic and consular corps at the Bolivian capital had left the city with the former president. ( Americans Protect Refugees. +1, ? A mQT>inon r>r\n oil ISCy&l IUIC Ui LliO -.T.UIC1 l^cxja vuuuut and trade commissioner and of other . diplomatic and consular officials with ( Guerra was not explained in the cable- ^ gram, but officials here said they un- j doubtedly escorted the former president from the country to see that he comes to no harm. The deposed president with mem bers of his official family, the dispatch stated, were sent to Africa, a , Chilean port, where it is reported he . will take passage on some vessel call- : ing at the port. Previous to his de portation Guerra had been a refugee i in the American legation. Under Savetra's Control. Bolivia, the legation cablegram i said, was completely under the con- ] trol of the new regime headed by 1 Bautista Savetra, who had issued a j proclamation providing for the formation of a provisional government under Jose M. Escalier, reported on < his way to La Paz from Argentina. ] Business houses with the exception i of banks had been ordered to open t yesterday. i Deported with President Guerra, ( the dispatch said, were Julio Zamora, minister of finance; Ernesto C. Lanza, minister of justice; Vice President ( T7 T? Voloenrt ( v asquez., rreiat ncaiui v aiaovu, Deputy Ezequiel Romecin and eleven ( others. 1 ~ i Started >it 2 A. M. Monday. 1 1 Lima, Peru, July 15.?The revolt j in Bolivia against the government of President Jose Guitterez Guerra i started at 2 o'clock Monday morning, .1 according to details of the movement s received here today. From La Paz i fche president, learning earlier of the i conspiracy, took refuge with several 1 of his ministers in the American le- ] gation. ( The government^palace guard held 1 out for only a short time before sur- i rendering and joining the insurrection. Two persons are reported to ] have been killed, one of them the j former intendente of La Paz and the ] other a soldier, and several wounded. Guerra, according- to the advices, recognizing that the coup d'etat was successful, early Monday signed a < brief formal resignation. / ] cult to raise the necessary funds. The ( * * work was finally completed, and the ' results were so satisfactory, that within a few months three large fac- . tories located there, doubling the population. > Captain Fishef, who has been the * supervising engineer in charge of the * * ' ?J ? -3 a. T? ^ i. i 1- ttt r* ft ft* ^ Jtfamoerg worK, siaiea mat iu wa& estimated - before the work began that, the work could be completed here for 1 about $24,000, but this estimate was * based on prices at that time. It has been found necessary to pay much larger wages than anticipated, and up * to this: time approximately $23,000 f has been spent, of which $11,700 was secured from outside sources, and i $11,300 has been secured through local subscriptions. The city was assured only of $9,000 outside aid j and the town had agreed to raise $15,000. If the $15,000 had been \ raised in the city, there would have 1 been ample funds to complete the e work. ( r??Tkf TTSolm-r cfa+orl therft is t jL loiivx ??, ? still some more work to be done i and that it will require about $4,700 t to complete the malaria control work, i If the citizens of Bamberg can secure i the balance pledged at the beginning, 3 Cs.pt. Fisher feels certain that he can secure the balance from government i sources. This will be sufficient to J continue all of the malaria control t work, ditching, oiling, etc.^ until the t 15th of November. He reminded the i citizens that this would make the to- r tal of outside funds more than $4,000 1 more than they had expected when c the "tfork was started. * ( It was suggested that inasmuch as j the town has heretofore spent $2,000 i a year to maintain the ditches, which 1 will have been maintained this year i by the malaria control work, that the t council might see its way clear to 1 MACHINE GUNS PROTECT NEGROES TROOPS ORDERED TO PROTECT 4, PRISONERS IN X. C. "Shoot Straight, Is Order. Governor Bickett Declares Accused Men Must Be Saved at All Costs. Asheville, N. C., July 18.?"Capt. Fowler, protect those prisoners^at all hazards, and notify the people I have ordered you and your machine gunners to shoot straight if an attempt on the life of tne>prisoners is niaue, is the order given by Governor Bickett tonight over long distance tele)hone, from Asheville to Capt. Marion 3. Fowler, captain of the Durham machine gun company, which is protecting the jail at Graham, in which three aegroes, charged with an assault on a white woman, were lodged today. * Later Governor Bickett got into communication with Capt. Fowler and learned that the machine gunners had the situation well in hand and at 10 o'clock tonight quiet prevailed. ; The machine guns had been placed ground the Alamance jail, while troops armed with high power rifles patrolled the immediate vicinity of the county bastile, allowing no large gatherings. "Shoot Straight." Governor Bickett authorized the captain to make public a statement notifying the public of Alamance that no mob violence would be tolerated md that the lives of the prisoners must be saved at all hazards, and ordered the machine gunners to 'shoot straight if the need arose." rhe Chief Executive also informed 3apt. Fowler that other companies pf the State National Guard would be j called out if he should need them to protect the lives of the prisoners and - - - - -i ~ c : nstructed tne captain in cuarge ui: ;he situation to notify the adjutant general, who is also here, if additionil forces are necessary. County attorney for Alamance, E. 3. Parker, prevailed upon the crowd :o let the law take its course and assisted in keeping mob violence down mtil the arrival of the machine gun- J lers. Capt. Fowler was instructed\by ;he adjutant general to remove the prisoners under guard to some other county, or to the state penientiary, of ae could do so without inciting the nob to violence. At a late hour tonight Governor Bickett had heard nothing further from Graham and presumed things .iad quieted down. Mob Repulsed By Shots. Graham, N. C., July 19.?Jim Ray, 15, was killed, Willie Phillips, of Gra1am, injured, and Clement Bradshaw, )f Haw River, wounded tonight when 1 masked mob attempted to storm ;he Alamance county jail where ;hree negroes are held in connection vith an attack on a white woman according to a statement made by Cap ;ain B. Fowler, commanding tne curiam machine gun company guarding ;he jail. "Absolutely false," Fowler said ] egarding a report that no reason jould be assigned for the shooting. 'The mob," Fowler said, "fired the ^ irst shot. The machine gunner re;urned the fire." < > ^ The first wax preparations for the lse of students of anatomy were nade by a woman. Philadelphia has a building and oan association run exclusively by md for women. ending assistance to the work to this xtent. Mayor Smoak, who was, presjnt, assured the meeting that it was ;he council's desire to assist in the vork in every way possible, but .that j ;he town is pretty much up against t now on account of paving and oth^r ; mprovements, some of 'which have ( rot to ho, naid for. f Vl? W WW ? Ways and means of completing the j vork were discussed at considerable' ength, and it was generally agreed ;hat under no circumstances must ;he work be stopped. In this idea t seemed the citizens were deternined, and with the proper determi-i' lation on the part of even a few, no 11 loubt remains that the work will be ' ;ompleted. A great many of the peo- j )le of the town have been very liberal } n this matter, whereas some others 1 lave done nothing, it was stated, and ] f all the people will cooperate the J hing can be done easily without lardship on the part of anyone. J j DOES CAVE EXIST? German Spy Reported Alleged Cave Under Stone Mountain. A committee of noted geologists from three of the prominent eastern universities, together with two wellknown field investigators of the Smithsonian Institute are mobilizing'* at Hagerstown, Md., for early en? trainment to DeKalb county, Georgia, where they will conduct extensive borings and tunnelings in an effort to prove that Andrew Withfngham, of Oil City, Penn., was in his right mind when he declared that a stupendous cave exists under Stone Mountain, one of Georgia's greatest . natural curiosities. > Withingham, in a lengthy letter to the occupant of the chair of geology of a great New York University, set forth a mass of facts gathered by him while in the service of the Imperial German intelligence service in 1898. He mailed his descriptions and his drawing from Oil City on June 4. He was run down by a taxicab in Allentown, Pa., five days later. Now ' the professors, deprived by the taxicab of any possibility of conference with this German spy, have determine ed to find the truth for themselves. Withingham, who in his opening paragraph, says that his name is not Withingham at all, but is,something radically Prussian, enters into minute detail in his description of the cave under Stone Mountain., "The cave," he writes, ."is not in the granite formation. That would be impossible igneous rock. It is however, a vast hole caused by the subsidence of the clays, shales and limestones which underlie this im* mense rock. Stone Mountain is not where it was when it crystalized from its molten state, millions of years ago. Some action, probably glacial, from the scarred appearance of the nearly vertical face of the mountain, has moved its tremendous bulk over miles of ground. It is not an integral part of the earth's bed-rock formation. It is nothing> more than a pebble thrown by a child, except for. its size. It<? \v|| rests upon a compact bed of red clay and of what is known in Georgia as 'fuller earth.' Beneath the rock are compact beds of gravel, which once formed the bottom of a great prehistoric river. "The cave, which can be entered from the western side of the mountain (chart No. 4) is 986 feet long and has an average width of 350 feet. Its floor is irregular, and ravine shaped, with a deep slope toward the south. A small stream runs down ' this ravine, and in the southern waU V|| of the cave. At this point (chart No. 6) the distance from the floor of the cave to the roof, or the bottom of the rock, must be 200 feet, certainly not less, and Drobablv more. "The entrance was plainly visible / ; when I found it, in 1898, but having important plans for the use of this cave, and having communicated these >' plans to the imperial German intelligence service with recommendations for use of the. cavern as a military base for certain Qperations which I designed, I did not feel at liberty to leave the mouth of this cave open. I blew part of the mountain over the opening, and it remains buried now. '/The unhappy result of the conflict ^ n wiiich the Fatherland has been tern, porarily crippled, and the improbability of any future use of this cavern _ by the German government, moves me to disclose the facts herein set forth for the benefit of science." * Professor H. S. Terkle, in commenting upon this astonishing epistle, - * r*r_ < said only: *'it may De true, we expect to have our party and our e<yiipment in Atlanta during the month of ^ August, and will begin our work within a few days after arrival. We can not afford to be skeptical in mattefs of this kind. If Stone Mountain is a detached rock, we want to know it." Bamberg Second Class. Washington, July 15.?In the readjustment of the classification of postoffices for the fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1920, as announced today, Bamberg, S. C., has been advanced from third to second class. Paris Island has been reduced from first to second class and Moultrieville from second to third class. Colored S. B. S. Union. The S. B. S. union (colored) met at the Hon<*y Ford Baptist cnurcu July 9, 10 and 11. A successful union was held and many good things were said in behalf of education. The union is composed of a goodly number of excellent women, among whom might be mentioned Emma Rush, Rebecca Williams, Clara Wright, Banner English, Amanda McMillan, Lou Bing, Mary Williams, and many others wliich space forbids mentioning. They raised $2.80 during the session.?Contributed. ' . < . ::r. t