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W$t Pamtierg^eralb Thursday, June 16,1921. SHORT LOCALS. Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. Tobacco curing is progressing rapidly throughout the county. The hot weather of the past week has ripened the weed at a lively rate. W. A. Ballenger. inspector of the state highway department, returned yesterday from Bamberg, where he has been checking up the license violators.?Columbia State. G. Frank Bamberg has purchased a carload of cattle to fatten in his pastures. Mr. Bamberg was the first * to introduce this custom in Bamberg county, and he is finding it a profitable investment. The Graham Seed and Stock Co., is the latest addition to the business activity of the town, operated by F. K. Graham, as an exchange for the "buying and selling of pedigreed seeds j and pure livestock. . Much needed showers have fallen an the community during the last day or two, though up to this writing Bamberg has not been so favored, . with the exception of a dust-layer on Tuesday afternoon. Real summer weather has prevail- J ed since Saturday. Monday the ther- j mometer registered nearly 100 in the j shade, and no telling how much in 1 the sun, as no one risked putting out an instrument for fear of it being . hursted. The friends of "Uncle Calvin" Rentz note his improved appearance; lately. He has been bewhiskered. ^ Uncle Calvin is only some eighty-odd years young and getting younger all the time. He is one of .the most optimistic men in town. Edward D. Raney, Jr., of Beaufort, L I V S. C., has been authorized by the war department to submit an educational certificate with a view to admission to , the United States Military Academy at West Point July 1, next. Young : Raney is an appointee of Congress-! man James F. Byrnes. G. Moye Dickinson remarked thej : + /low ('TVici T^ToraTd ia portflinlv : VtliUi UCIJ JL XX Vi Uiu * kj VV/A i " all right when it comes to advertis-' < ing.'' He advertised a product in j , The Herald classified column, and it j j is needless to say the goods were sold.! j Replies to the advertisement were1 ( prompt and satisfactory. ^ Th? practice of planting rape in j < rows has been sufficiently demonstrat- i ; ed in Bamberg county to prove its1 < value over rape sown broadcast. At: j some time during the spring it is1 1 sure to suffer from a drought and if | ? *we haven't practiced some means of j < -conserving the moisture in the soil { we find that rape suffers. Rape i \ planted in thirty-inch rows and plow- j j ?d with a 14-inch sweep will double j j the yield or revive a crop when graz-. \ ed down.?J. D. Brandon, in News! 1 ; Bulletin. ( BUILDINGS BURN AT COPE. j Store and Residence of Henry W. 1 Livingston Lost. Cope, June 14.?This morning at j ( "3:20 o'clock the cry of fire and the 1 firing of pistols and guns awakened, 1 the citizens from their slumbers to j * find a house, formerly built for a! s store, and owned by Henry W. Liv-1 * ingston, in flames. This house was j 1 on the same lot and about 15 or 20 1 feet from Mr. Livingston's dwelling which soon caught, and both were "burned to the ground. Mr. Livingston saved all of his; household effects except a feather ] , C tied, winter bedding and a few other | j things that were in the outhouse. He ^ carried about $700 insurance on the 1 two houses, which does not anything like cover the loss. Mr. Livingston had planned to go fishing, and awoke about 3 o'clock, when he discovered j the flames. The bucket brigade did j good work in preventing other houses j from being destroyed. It is supposed that the fire was started by rats. WOLFE AGAIN PRESIDENT. Head of Bamberg, Ehrhardt and Walterboro Road. A meeting of the stockholders of the Bamberg, Ehrhardt and Walterboro Railway company was recently held at the offices of the company in Bamberg. The report of the officials indicated that the road had enjoyed a prosperous year. The following directors were elect^ 1- T-? V ~ T* n Uovf (1! ij. r rauK Damueig, ju. v^. na>o, J. A. Williams, W. C. Wolfe, W. D. : Rhoad, Dr. G. F. Hair, J. D. Copeland, C. W. Rentz and J. W. Barr. After the stockholders' meeting the directors elected the following officers for the ensuing year: William C. Wolfe, president; G. Frank Bamberg and J. A. Williams, vice presidents; E. C. Hays, treasurer, and C. W. Rentz, secretary. J. Frank Folk, who has managed the road very successfully for some time past, was reelected general man- ( ager of the road. THE FIRST COTTOX BLOSSOM. G. \V. Hunter Finds Bloom in Field Tuesday of Ijast Week. What appears to have been the first j cotton blossom in South Carolina was | discovered by G. W. Hunter, of Hunt-j er's Chapel, in his cotton field on j Tuesday of last week. When he saw j the bloom, Mr. Hunter did not attach ] much importance to it, thinking that the first honors had already been reported, but-when he saw 110 mention of a blossom in the last isue of The Herald, he went back to his field to get the blossom. He was chagrinned, however, to find that it had already UrrvrmpU nff and had been blown away. However, he brought in the proof of the presence of the blossom Saturday by presenting The Herald with a small sized cotton boll. He also brought along another bloom. The first bloom reported elsewhere in the state came from Hartsville, according to R. H. Sullivan, state meteorologist, and this blossom was picked on Thursday, two days later than Mr. Hunter found the blossom in his field. While other blossoms may have been found somewhere in the state, they have not been reported in any of the papers coming to The Herald's exchange table, and Mr. Hunter is claiming the state honors this year. Mr. Hunter added that he had a fine crop of weevils in his cotton fields. A blossom was brought to The Herald yesterday from the farm of J. A. Wyman, and another was brought in by E. D. Goodwin. ALLENDALE TO LET CONTRACT. iVill Build Highway from County Line to Fairfax City Limits. The state highway department is advertising for bids from contractors for the building of the link of the Columbia-Savannah highway from the Bamberg county line, in Allendale county, to the town limits of Fairfax. The bids for this work will be opened [>n Tuesday, June 28, at which time the contract will be awarded. The link involves the building of 10.165 miles of road, beginning on the Allendale side of the crossing at Buford's bridge, and the road will be sand-clay in structure. The work also involves the erection of one reinforced concrete bridge of four 2(\feet spans, and three reinforced concrete bridges of three 20-feet spans. Separate bids are asked for the road construction and the bridge work, and a $500 check must accompany 3ach bid, although one check will be accepted from contractors making bids on both propositions. Plans and specifications may be had from the state highway engineer. The prospect for the awarding of the contract for the building of this [important link of roadway is a mat:er of keen interest in Bamberg county. This link will connect with Bamberg's link through the county on the ane side and with the Orangeburg's ink on the other. The work on Orangeburg's link is progressing satsfactorily. The contract for the building of Orangeburg's link of the Edisto river crossing has also been awarded, and jvork will soon be started. Arrangements have been made for letting Samberg's portion of the swamp road, ind the matter is now in the hands >f the state highway commission, ft s exDected that bids for this work ivill be advertised for shortly. Culture Club Entertained. Mrs. J. D. Copeland, Jr., was hostess to the Self Culture club Saturday ifternoon. Mrs. Copeland read and ead the discussion of the paper, "The falue of an acquaintance with great iterature to parents in choosing and ;elling stories to children and in ;raining them in right conduct." 'Story telling," Mrs. G. P. White. 'Song," Mrs. H. X. Folk. "Stories vith the children," Mrs. W. P. Jones. 'Introduction," Mrs. C. E. Black. 'Instrumental solo," Mrs. E. H. Henlerson. At the close of the programme the hostess served delicious ice cream ind angel cake. It was decided that the club will meet only once instead of twice a month during the summer months. Mrs. E. H. Henderson will be the next hostess, JuneJ24th, at 6 o'clock. Visitors of the afternoon were Mesdames Katherine Riley and Elson Whitacre, of Wavnesburg, Ohio. ^ ^ Here for Counts-Lane Wedding. The visitors in town for the CountsLane wedding, which will be solemnized Thursday, are: Mrs. Harry Swepson Saunders, Miss Emily Saunders, Mrs. J. D. Smvser, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Chandler, of Florence; Mrs. Iv. t ov,?ni, nf Atlanta- ~\Irs. R. Leon I. Oil Utiv, v/i ? I Gaffnev, of Shreveport, La.; Will Lane and Cabell Wall, of Leaksville. X. C.; Judge and Mrs. Lane, of Reidsville, X. C.; Misses Donie and Mildred Counts, of Laurens; Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. Bryan, Miss Louise Bryan, and Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Lawton, of Allendale; Henry Counts and Richard Counts, of Laurens. PRESBYTERIAN' MEETING CLOSES Several Conversions During Revival the Past Week. The revival meeting at the Presbyterian church was closed on Friday night by the pastor, Rev. Phillip A. Mickel, who conducted the meeting beginning on the previous Sunday. A number of conversions resulted from the influence of the meeting. The last service of the meeting was held Friday evening. The pastor selected for his text for the evening John 3:16, one of the favorite passages of the Holy Book. His discourse was pronounced by all who heard it as one of the strongest appeals for the Christian life ever heard in Bamberg. In a manner that revealed the speaker's innermost ambition and thought, he appealed to the unbeliev er to forsake their lives of sin and take up their cross and follow Jesus. The simplicity of the plan of salvation was stressed, and at the conclusion when the invitation was extended three young people gave their lives to Christ. Regular services are held at the Presbyterian church each Sunday, alternating Sunday morning and Sunday evening. Services are similarly held by the pastor at the Denmark church. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. Doctors Lodge, of Gaffney, and Lee, of Chester, Make Addresses. ( Tuesday evening two of south Carolina's leading educators and preachers addressed an audience at the Baptist church. They were Dr. Lee Davis Lodge, president of Limestone college, Gaffney, and Dr. R. G. Lee, ( pastor of the First Baptist church, of Chester. They had been to Ehrhardt during the day in attendance upon a Baptist rally, and were engaged to stop over in Bamberg on their way home. ( Dr. Lee is well known in Bamberg, having conducted a revival here last fall. He is a most gifted speaker, and delighted his audience. Dr. Lodge is one of the most eloquent speakers in the south, and his subject of Christian education was one which he was most capable of developing. Attention! Of all ex-soldiers who served in the war with Spain at home or abroad, or those who saw service in the Philippine Insurrection or the China relief expedition and their widows. The late Congress passed laws of the utmost interest to soldiers and if they will send name and address to Walter S. Buchanan, National Aid-de-Camp, Army and Navy Union, Route 2, Louisa, Va., he will be glad to advise them fully as to their rights under the new law. Prompt action will mean tne possiDie saving 01 muuey, as the pension commences from the filing of the claim. * Mr. Buchanan wishes to assist his comrades in every possible manner. Write him and enclose stamp for reply. 268 Needless Dead! On? of the most cruel and heartless facts of the world war, to our mind, ! was the fact that after the Germans had signed the terms of the armis- . tice and the putting into operation . of the armistice many brave soldiers were needlessly and callously sacrificed by military ideas of glory and , determination. This criticism is not directed . against British and French troops i . alone, but the same condemning charge can be made against the Am- ' erican soldiers. If one will turn back to the magazine of November and December, 1918, he can read how up to the last minute of 11 a. m. on the 11th day of November, 1918, American troops were engaged in attacking an enemy which had already agreed to terms which made his power impotent. The New York Times Current History even records the fact that the officers knew, but the men didn't, until promptly at 11 o'clock, just as if stage directed, a whistle blew, and the soldiers were informed that the war was done. Of course, it made a fine impression of being everlastingly at the job until it was done! Imagine Grant and- Lee fighting one more bloody battle after the signature of Appomattox! But, even on Armistice Day, so celebrated in America, and elsewhere, it is a matter of record that 268 American soldiers were killed in battle, although for at least twenty-four hours prior to that hour the officers had known that the German military chieftains had accepted the harsh terms of Marshal Foeh. Well, 268 needless dead is a small item when we had over two million over there? In a way yes, but what if it had been your boy, or, more per'sonal yet. if it had been you who had to be the 268th man on that fateful morning. You wouldn't be quite so firm in your ideas as to the glory involved in fighting to the last second, would you??Times and Democrat. Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. REPORT MOSQUITOES. Presence in City of Pest Should l>e Reported to J. C. Moye. The Herald is requested by the board of health to state that the presence of mosquitoes in the city of Bamberg should be reported to the local health officer, J. C. Moye. Mr. Move is superintending the oiling of ditches, keeping the drains open, etc., and when reports are received of the infestation of any section of the city, Mr. Moye will proceed at once to Investigate the cause of the presence of the mosquito and take the neces- j sarv steps to eliminate the malaria pest. The work of malaria control is being continued with funds raised by special levy in the Bamberg malaria control district, which was irrigated last year by funds supplied by the town and the various health agencies of the country. Some $25,000 was spent for this purpose, and it is the purpose of the special fund to conserve the results obtained by this large expenditure. It is stated that with the splendid system of drainage that has been completed the presence of mosquitoes in any section of the town is the result of local trouble, either with the drainage system, or some standing water about the premises. In either case, Mr. Move will see to it that such undesirable conditions are remedied at once. As a matter of convenience reports may also be made to the city clerk. ^ i?I ? Make Life "Clean and Joyous." The "fourteen points" of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Episcopal church in the United States, are being printed everywhere. They are part of an "appeal for a nation-wide return to sanity and right living in order that the lives of all the people may be clean and joyous," as well as "a denouncement of present conditions." These "fourteen points" have, we believe, haen given in these columns, but they will bear repetition: Silence vulgar conversations. Don't swear. Refrain from indecent dress. Avoid improper drinking. Quit gambling. Cease painting your face. Stop joy riding. Shun suggestive motion pictures. Eliminate promisciqus dance halls. Ban immoral plays. Bar salacious litrature. Beware of the general indifference nf nTonor ^ X U 11 d W1C OCI> JL ^ (A U> X U V A A v j?-? w A conduct. Make life clean and joyous. The Florida Times-Union regards these appeals as being, made to the elders more than to the young people, saying: "There is nothing that parents of today need to do so much as to have regard* for their personal conduct, especially, as they are setting examples for their children. What can be expected of children whose parents disregard the niceties of life? "Generally speaking it is well for all people to decide to make these "fourteen points," as put forth by the woman's auxiliary, their individual guide to conduct. Their observance will not only help their own lives to be "clean and joyous" but will have a very decided influence for good on the younger members of the family and of society of today." The women's auxiliary has undertaken a splendid work, and its effort is sure to result in good. There is in the world today?in our world? too pronounced a departure from the simplicity and purity of language and manners. It is, probably, more noticeable among the young people. However, the young people will not go far astray, and wrill not remain long astray, if their elders proceed along the lines of refinement and purity in their conduct.?Augusta Chronicle. ADVANCE COTTON FUNDS. $2,000,000 Available in Connection With Loan. Washington, June 9.?The War Finance Corporation announced tonight that actual advances of $2,000,000 in connection with a loan to assist in the export of cotton have been completed. At the same time the corporation said it had advanced $500,000, on a loan approved for a total of $1,000,000 for the shipment of cotton to Japan to be marketed out of the warehouses of the American exporter in that country. ?Miss Nettie Sandifer, who has been teaching school in Spartanburg county, has returned home for the summer. "Vanity also causes many a man to try and squeeze an 'EE' foot into an 'A' shoe." says Carl Weimer in Driblets of Dope. m ? "Sales lady wanted ready to wear," says a recent advertisement. Brains can be trained, but can good sense be taught. PICTURE WEEVIL CONDITION'S. i Cinema Points Way to Making Cotton in Spite of the Weevil. On Wednesday afternoon of last ! week, Mr. Taylor, of Tallulak, La., visited Bamberg and with the aid of a motion picture demonstrated to about 150 farmers in this county the approved methods of growing cotton under weevil conditions. The picture was shown in Bamberg and Denmark, accompanied by Mr. Taylor's lecture. Tt was demonstrated that cotton can be grown in spite of the weevil, and the speaker said that the prospect of successfully combating the weevil in this section is very promising. Mr. Taylor's talk and picture can be summed up briefly as follows: It will pay to poison if the weevils are really injuring your crop, and if your land is sufficiently fertile to yield one half bale per acre with weevil injury eliminated. If your farming organization Is such that you feel assured that the! poison applications will be made at the right time and in the right manner. If you are willing to spend the full amount necessary to provide an adequate supply of dusting machinery and poison. The general gains from poisoning is from 200 to 400 pounds of seed cotton per acre and you should not poison if the cost of calcium arsenate, labor and depreciation on machinery will total more than the current value 4f 100 pounds of seed cotton. Hand guns will depreciate 100% and larger machines 25%. Decide on the dusting machine that you should use by the number of acres that you wish to poison. For hand guns do not allot more than 8 acres, for one-mule machine not over 60 acres and for a wi/i nViinn 1 AH onros io fho limif (Jell L liiav^liiuc J. v u avi vo iu nuiivi The one mule machine is most suitable for the farmers in this county. How to Poison. Adopt a schedule and follow it out closely, leaving a check plot to compare results. Have the county agent sample the poison for free analysis to make sure that it will not injure the cotton. Begin poisoning when the weevils puncture 15 per cent of all forms on the plant. Use from five to seven pounds of poison per acre for each application. Poison at night when the air is calm and the plants are moist. Stop poisoning when the number of punctured forms drop below 15 per cent, of the total on the plants. Keep the plants covered with poison, which means an application every four days and will take three applications usually. If it rains within 24 hours after application, make another application. Poisoning should be done right or not at all. Farmers should secure a copy of bulletin No. 162, "Some Rules for Poisoning the Cotton Boll Weevil," before attempting to poi* ? V. of fVlO son. A UUy V CiiXi UO sc^ui cu a i/ tuv county agentXpffice. The poisoning practuced in the county last year did not show' as good results as it would have, as we made practically a full crop in spite of the weevils. Discard the Coat. An innovation that promises to meet with popular favor among the men was announced at the Baptist church last Sunday, when the pastor extended to the men a cordial invitation to leave their coats at home when they come to church. While, at first, it may require a bit more boldness than most men usually possess. several have already signified their intention of going to church next Sunday without the usual sweltering coat. About 99 men out of every 100 go six days in the week without a coat during the warm weather, and all day Sunday, too, excepting the period they are at worship. Consequently when the don their "Sunday-go-to-meeting" coats Sunday morning to attend chruch services thev experience the height of discomfort. There is really no reason why men should wear coats to church on Sunday, unless as was stated by one gentleman the other day, the condition of their supply of shirts 4+ inadvisable IllQirvuo xi/ XX&MV4 w. A Tough Proposition. Getting out a newspaper is no picnic. If we print jokes, folks say we are silly?if we don't, they say we are too serious. If we publish original matter they say we lack variety ?if we publish things from other papers, they say we are too lazy to write. If we don't go to church we are heathens?if we go we are hypocrites. If we stay in the office we ought to be out rustling for news? if we rustle for news we are not attending to business in the office. If we wear old clothes we are slovens? if we wear new clothes they are not paid for. What in thunderation is a j poor editor to do anyhow? Like as not some one will say we swiped this from an exchange. And so we did, by gum! BODY RETURNED HOME. * _____ Corp. Henry Myrick, Died in France, Buried at Allendale. The body of Henry Carlisle Myrick, who lost his life in France from pneumonia contracted while on duty there with the American expeditionary forces, on January 7th, 1918, was brought to his old home last Thursday and buried in the family cemetery attended by a large concourse of friends and relatives together with a large group of members of the Allen! dale county post of the American Legion who acted as pallbearers and escort to the body. Corporal Myrick was, previous to his enlistment, a salesman in the town of Kingstree. When the troops were called out following the border I troubles he volunteered his services I to his country and his enlistment was marked from Camp Moore, Styx, S. C., and dated early in the year of 1916. He served on the border from July 25th, 1916, to August 5th, 1917, ! when he was transferred to the 17th I infantry regiment and went overseas with that organization. Later he was warranted a corporal and died ; as such from a case of pneumonia Jg contracted in the line of duty. m Corporal Myrick ia survived by his m father, Wilson W. Harvey, of Savan- 11 nah, two brothers, R. F. Myrick, of ig Jacksonville, Fla., and Eugene My rick, of Petersburg, Va., and a grand- S father, C. A. Milhous, of Bamberg. ? He was a faithful and devoted mem- I ber of the Baptist church of Kingstree H and bore an excellent reputation for H honesty, sobriety and clean living in g| the town of his adoption. The sym- I pathy of this entire section is extend- || ed to his bereaved relatives in the re- || newal of their deep distress.?Allen- ||| dale Citizen. H| Corp. Myrick was well known here, 11 having lived with his grandfather ?1 several years. || Cotton Graders Assigned. || Division of the state into 12 dis- II tricts, with an expert cotton grader for each district to handle the ware- fl houses of the districts and grade cot- I ton in the counties of each, was an nounced Monday by J. Clifton Rivers, 11 state warehouse commissioner. 11 The establishment of these dis- 11 tricts and placing the graders in the i| field is due in a large measure to the || revised state warehouse act passed || last session and the increased ap- || propriation for this work. I The local district is composed of 8 the following counties: Barnwell, 1 Bamberg, Hampton, Colleton and I Jasper, with headquarters at Fairfax. I Harry Miller, of Jasper, has been named as the official cotton grader. I SPECIAL NOTICES. | LOST AND POUND. - * N / T T71~; A T-.-. ^ 1 Aik . J .L/vsir?x- iiua.v, o uiitJ iviu, d.1 xvuuaa park, or returning therefrom, a pink i land white cameo broach. Finder please return to KIRSCH'S STORE, 1 Bamberg, S. C., and receive reward. MISCELLANEOUS. r For Sale?Domestic Lump Coal. $8.00 per ton at mill. THE COTTON OIL CO, Bamberg, S. C. tfn For Sale-?Woed for stove and chimney, oak or pine. LELAND F. SANDIFER, Bamberg, S. C. tfn Jersey Bull?For service. Fee, $3.00 in advance. Pasture at mill. * THE COTTON OIL CO., Bamberg, . ; S. C. tfn ) For Sale or Rent?One three-room house for good white family, also one three room house for rent to colored. F. K. GRAHAM, Bamberg, S. C. tfn For Sale?Glendale Mineral Water, "For Health's Sake," 10c per gallon delivered daily. F. K. GRAHAM, Bamberg, S. C. ltn Liberty Bonds?If you are think- I ing of selling your Liberty Bonds see j us at once, as we are in the market A m oor AAA TXTn. nrill nor rnn I lor WUlLil. H O yv 111 ^ va ? New York quotations. FIRST NA- 1 TIONAL BANK, Bamberg, S. 0. tfn 1 I For Sale?12 registered Holstein I bull calves, one registered Jersey bull I i calf 6 months old, registered Hamp- 1 shire hogs, all ages, Duroc Jersey hogs, Fulghum seed oats, Abruzzl jg seed Rye, potato plants. Write for 1 full information. We advertise your M for sales and wants free.?F. K. m GRAHAM, Bamberg, S. C. ltn i FARM PRODUCTS. I I Wanted?Peas at $3.00 cash. f? GRAHAM SEED & STOCK CO., Bam- 1 berg, S. C. tfn. 1 HELP WANTED. Wanted?Salesmen for 6,000 mile * guaranteed tires. Salary ' $100.00 weekly with , extra commissions. COWAN TIRE & RUBBER CO., Box '784, Chicago, Illinois. ltp t * Wanted?Men or women to take orders among friends and neighbors g for the genuine guaranteed hosiery, 1 full line for men, women and child- 1 ren. Eliminates darning. We pay 1 75c an hour spare time, or $36.00 a week for full time. Experience unnecessary. 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