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PERSON AL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Rex Smith, of Columbia, is in the city. ?Mr. and Mrs. I. X. Dunn spent last Saturday in Augusta. ?Miss Vista Brabham visited friends in Orangeburg this week. ?Col. W. C. Duncan spent a few days in Washington, D. C., last week. ?Miss Urma Dixon, of Greenville, j has been visiting relatives in Bamberg. ?Mrs. J. C. Hewitt and children are visiting relatives in Timmonsville. ?Wesley Stokes has returned to the city from the mountains of North Carolina. ?Miss Claire Kearse, of Columbia, spent the past week-end with relatives near town. ?Capt. William R. Watson has returned to the city after a visit to relatives at Johnston. ?B. F. Free left Saturday for Asheville, N. C., to visit his daugh ter, Mrs. Thomas Ducker. ?Mrs. H. L. Stokes and Mrs. R. C. Stokes left last week to spend a few days at Lake tfunaluska, N. CL?Mrs. W. B. Tarkington has returned to her home in Laurinburg, N. C., after a visit to relatives here. ?Clerk of Court A. L. Kirkland spent a few days last week on a deer hunt on the lower Savannah river. ' ?Mrs. J. A. Wyman and Miss Mary Aldrich Wyman have been the guests of Mrs. Ben Wyman in Aiken. ?Mrs. H. E. Godbee, of Waynesboro, Ga., is spending some time with her sister, Mrs. W. H. Chandler. ?Mrs. R. C. Jones and little daughter'have returned to the city after a visit to relatives in Westminster. ?Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. Smith have returned to their home in the city after a stay in the North Carolina mountains. ?Miss Lillie Mouzon, who has been in a hospital in Charleston for some time past, is visiting Mrs. Henry F. Bamberg. ?Mrs. L. P. Tobin and little daughter arrived in Bamberg last week. For the past several months Mrs. Tobin has been in Barnwell. ?Miss Louise Beatty, of GeorgetQwn, returned home last week week after a visit to her sister, .Mrs. after a visit to her sister, Mrs. I. B. Felder. ?Mrs. Miles Black and children, of Bamberg, will arrive in town this afternoon for a visit to the former's aunt, Mrs. C. B. Gahagan.?Walterboro Press and Standard. \ -?Mrs. Iona Owdom, who has been spending the summer in Bamberg, returned to Jacksonville, Fla., Friday. She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Quattlebaum. ?Sergeant Albert Simth, who for the past two years has ?been connected with the military staff of Carlisle school, left Monday night for his home in San Francisco, Calif. Sergt. Smith was detailed to Carlisle by the war department, but he has now received his discharge from the service. Sergt. Smith made many friends in Bamberg who regret to see him leave. LIGHTS OF IMMENSE POWER. Kays From Points on United States Coast are Visible Seventy Miles. The highest beacon light maintained by the United States for warning navigators is at Cape Mendocino, Cal., 422 feet above sea level. It has a range of 28 miles. The brightest light and one of the most brilliant in the world is at Navesink, N. J., on the highlands at the entrance of New York bay. It is 25,000,000 candle power and its v glare has been seen from 70 miles out in the ocean. The largest lighthouse "lens" is at Makapuu point, on the island of Oahu ("Hawaiian group). Its beam at night brings first news to voyagers from the United States that they are Hearing the mid-Pacific archipelago. It is called a "hyperradient," the inside diameter of the lens being about nine feet and that of the glass lantern inclosing it 16 feet. The lens of the Navesink light incloses a powerful electric arc. But, generally speaking, kerosene is the , preferred illminant for many lightI houses. A lens frequently is built up of glass prisms arranged in panels, the object being to concentrate tne iignt into a beam of maximum brilliancy and range. Some lighthouse lenses) are so arranged as to revolve, a con-' trivance of the sort, weighing perhaps ?.000 pounds, being floated upon mercury and thereby turned so easily that a small bit of clockwork actuated by a 100-pound weight will operate it. Renew your subscription today. \ % I EHRHARDT BUREAU l! i I W. F. Hiers, Manager. j JAIL IS DEFIED. I J Eh hardt Prisoner Escapes Regardless j of Brick, Cuffs and Chains. Ehrhardt, Sept. 6.?J. D. Williams, I colored, charged with stealing: clothing at Olar, was apprehended here Saturday afternoon and placed in the guard house, which, to say the least, is considered an absolutely safe place to keep a culprit, however strong may be his desire to change his address, it being constructed of brick, concrete and iron. Nevertheless, at a late hour Saturday night smoke was seen coming from the building. Chief Priester was notified, and upon investiga tion it was found Williams bad ati tacked the only vulnerable spot in the structure, the strong wooden door, by building a fire against it, using some bedding for this purpose. | A hole covering about one fourth of the door's surface had burned through, and in a short time the prisoner would have made good his escape. To make it doubly sure that he would have no further chance to get away he was cuffed and securely chained to the wall, but the said prisoner took the poet literally, who said something to the effect that stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage, for when Sunday morning dawned bright and fair ?and hot?it was found that Will iams had left sumcient evidence to lead one to conclude that he preferred the blue sky for his roof and the ocean for his front door. Mr. and Mrs. H. Karesh and Mrs. R. M. Krawcheck have gone to Baltimore and other points north. Miss Miriam Winter, of Jacksonville, is visiting the family of H. R. Pearlstine. Capt. J. M. Smith, who runs between Charleston and Savannah on the Atlantic Coast Line, is at home spending a tew days witn nis iamny. M. Leinwand is spending the week in New York city on business. ^ Abie and Julian Krawcheck are visiting relatives in Charleston. Mrs. J. W. "Priester and children -are visiting in Fairfax. Mrs. Mattie Fender is visiting her; son, Dr. M. S. Fender. Little Miss Rosalee Carter, of Hendersonville, S. C., is visiting her uncle, J. P. Griffin. Mrs. E>.-B. Groseclo6e, of Fairfax, is visiting her daughters. 1. J Jttev. UT. KJ. cj. uuns yreacueu aix able sermon Sunday morning at the Baptist church. Miss Bessie Ehrhardt, of Augusta, is here visiting the family of Chas. Ehrhardt. Miss Hildergard Dannelly has returned home after a pleasant stay with relatives in Norway. S. W. Copeland went to Baltimore this week to take his sister, Miss Josephine Copeland, to the Johns Hopkins hospital. He reports she is getting along nicely. 8 YEARS TO BUILD; 4 TO REMOVE. ? -j. u?i^.?i?,1 irjii Ltrvosiauuu at nci^uiauu n in jlanr 1,000 Men 4 Years. Every day is a fourth of July celebration on the little rocky island of Helgoland. And not a safe and sane celebration at that. At sunrise the 1,000 German workmen who are dynamiting thel pet fortress and naval harbor of Kaiser William II set off their blasts. The bombardment keeps up throughout the day. Charges of TNT make the water in the naval harbor spout up like geysers in the Yellowstone park and the big gun pits on the summit of the rocky cliff give an occasional roar like Vesuvius and belch out Igreat clouds of black smoke and pulverized concrete. For two years more the work of devastation will continue night and day. It took Kaiser William II eight voorc ir\ Kiii'M orraot fftrtrfse a n rl J O K.\J WUiiU *V* V* vww v*. naval harbor which defended the Kiel canal and afforded Germany's navy a base close to England. It cost Germany 50,000,000 of gold marks. The cost of diminishing it, which Germany must also bear in accordance with the terms of the Versailles treaty, will probably be about 4,000,000 of gold marks. Helgoland pr.oper is a stony triangle less than a mile long and scarcely a quarter of a mile wide in the broadest section. It stands nearly 200 feet above the waters of the North sea at a point 31 miles northwest of Cuxhaven, the entrance to the Kiel canal. The walls of the island are practically perpendicular, but at its southeastern end is a small beach, upon which the german navy erected a coaling and oil station, fresh-water reservoirs seaplane sheds and docks. Here also was constructed a naval harbor thoroughly protected by sea walls, which was capable of accommodating eight or ten destroyers or cruisers and an unlimited number of submarines. Already the 11-inch guns and their OLAR BUREAU R. Fair Goodwin, Manager. Address by J. A. Wiggins. Olar, Sept. 7.?The Olar public, and especially the Sunday school public, was treated to a lecture Sunday by J. A. Wiggins, of Denmark. We suspect it would not be technically correct to say that Mr. Wiggins was in "rare form," as he always seems to be in the same kind of condition. It is quite safe, however, to say mat nis iaxK uxi me respuu&xuiuues of fatherhood" was a real treat. It was given the strictest attention, because those present came expecting something, and from what we can learn, everybody went home with their expectations ..fully satisfied. School Opens Next Monday. Next .Monday morning at nine o'clock the Olar high school will open its doors and begin work for another nine months session. J. W. Chitty, the superintendent, States that he has what he considers, from knoVledge and information, an able body of teachers. Beginning with the assistant high school teacher and taking them in order down to the first grade and music teacher, they are as follows: Miss Sara Xeeley, of Olar; Miss Maggie Milhous, Olar; Miss Cornelia Sanders, Greensboro,. Ga.; Miss Catherine Porter, Springfield, and Miss Sadie Harter, Fairfax. Prof. Chitty has not yet decided upon a teacher for the seventh grade, although he has two or three applications and will very likely know Thursday who will direct this end" of the work. Personals. Miss Sara Xeeley has just returned from Atlanta, where she has been visiting her sister, Miss Juanita Xeeley. Miss Alma Lain spent last week at the home of her mother, Mrs. O. J. C. Lain, vacationing, we understand. Mrs. Mattie Black, of Barnwell, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. F. M. Guess, for a few days. Mrs. F. O. Brabham, of Bamberg, was at the home of Mrs. W. B. Creech for the past week-end. Mrs. W. E. Lake, with her grand daughter, little Elizabeth, has just returned to her home in Newberry after several days visit to her daughter, Mrs. A. R. Morris. Mrs. C. C. Morris has as her guests this week her two sisters of Batesburg, Misses Obera and May Baulknight. Mrs. Willie Thomas, of Fairfax, is ralline on -her mother, Mrs. G. J. Bessinger. Mrs. L. A. Brabham, of Thomasville, Ga., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. F. Starr, and son, L. 0. Brabham. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smoak, of Branchville, drove over from Branchville Sunday to revive old acquaintance with Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Hartzog. \Tr \Trs .T J. .Tones and fami ly, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Jones and family, Mrs. Josephine Beach and Mrs. Beulah Risher, all of Bamberg, spent several hours with Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Rizer Sunday afternoon. Mr. Rizer is just recovering from a several weeks spell of la grippe, a near relative of le flu. J. H. Chitty, of Norway, and Geo. Chittv, ol Chester, were in town uu Tuesday, visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Chitty. We still have three patients in Columbia hospitals: Mrs. T. W. Morris, Mrs. J. G. Brabham and Miss Mildred Cook. We are glad to learn that all are doing nicely. G. R. Barker, of Norway, Ray Barker and W. P. Harrison, of Columbia, spent the week-end and labor day with their respective parents here last week and this week. carriages 'have been sawed into small bits and thrown into scrap steel piles. Workmen are now plying electrical drills in the concrete walls and bases, preparatory to shooting down all the masonry. The seaplane sheds, coal bins, oil, tanks and water reservoirs along the sea front have also been burned and dynamited and hundreds of workmen are grinding away at the gun bases of the sea-level guns and the foundation of the great sea wall inclosing v./-, nn'oi Vio-rVinr> nroriflrfltdrv tn re liic uavai uai uvi ^/* ?- ? moving every improvement which might he of use to Germany's future navy. Helgoland once was a popular summer resort, but the German visitors do not stay long at the island this year because of the constant blasting and the evidence of devastation which affords a sad monument to Germany's once proud navy. The native residents of the island are indifferent to the devastation, as most r>f thoni werp hnrn under the British flag before Helgoland was transferred by the British to the Germans. After August 1st I will sell only for cash. I will have no books and will not charge anything. G. 0. SIMMONS.?adv. I REPORT SMALLEST CROP IX 33 YEARS. (Continued from page 1. column 2.) about two thirds of a crop. ^Mississippi and the northern portions of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina still forecasts better than a.half a crop." Condition by States. The condition of the crop on August 25 and the forecast of production based on the condition by states, were: Virginia: Condition 63 and production 11,000 bales. North Carolina: 62 and 523,000. South Carolina: 50 and 744,000. Georgia: 21 and S72,000. Florida: 59 and 16,000. Alabama: 53 and 472.000. Mississippi: 57 and 679,000. Louisiana: 45 and 244,000. Texas: 42 and 1,938,000. Arkansas: 63 and 729,000. Tennessee: 74 and 235,000. Missouri: 78 and 50,000. Oklahoma: 4S and 474,000. California: 83 and 75,000. Arizona: So and 47,000. All other states: 85 and . Lower California's production forecast is 34,000 hales which included California figures but was excluded from the United States total. SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON CROP. 50 Per Ct. Normal August 25 Against 62 Per Ct. July 25. According to report of B. B. Hare, Agricultural Statistician in South Carolina for the Division of Crop Estimates. United States Department of Agriculture, condition of cotton in the State on August 25, was 50 per cent, of normal, against 62 per cent, on July 25 and 71 per cent, on August 25, 1920. A condition of 50 per cent, indicates a total production in the State - - ? ' A A A 1 1 TT of approximately Y44,uuu oaies. nuwever, the final outturn will be larger or smaller as conditions hereafter are better or worse than the average. The total production in the state last year, approximatld 1,640,000 bales, while in 1919 it was 1,422,000 bales and 1,570,000 bales in 1918. ^ The condition for the entire United States on August 25 was 49.3 per cent, of normal, as against 64.7 per cent, on July 25 and 67.5 per cent on August 2o last year, t>i.* per ceuu 1919 and 55.7 per cent, on the corresponding date of 1918. The forecast of total production for the United States at present is 7,037,000 bales, against 13,365,000 bales last year. 'Speaking of the report Mr. Hare says: "The unusual amount of rainfall in southern half of state during July and August was not only unfavorable for cotton but was highly favorable for boll weevil propagation and in festation. Little or none of tne irmt formed during the past thirty days has escaped the boll weevil ravages in the central and southern counties, and for the past fifteen days or more the weevil has been attacking bolls three-fourths grown and younger. Fields personally inspected show from 40 to 90 per cent, of the bolls have been punctured in the sections rpfprrpd tn While no wide spread damage has been observed in Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg, Cherokee and York counties the weevil has made its appearance in this section, and while not so severe as in the mere southerly counties considerable damage is found in sections of Abbeville, Anderson, Laurens, Union, Chester and Lancaster counties. In sections of Greenwood, Newberry. Fairfield, Kershaw, Chesterfield, I Marlboro and union counties miesiiition has been limited, whereas in other portions of these counties it has been more or less severe." Condition July 25 and August 25 is shown by counties in table below. Condition Condition County July 25 Aug. 25 Abbeville 66 58 Aiken 56 38 Allendale 48 30 Anderson 67 60 Bamberg 53 34 Barnwell 50 33 Beaufort 42 20 RptVpIPV 53 32 Calhoun 58 35 Charleston 50 20 Cherokee 69 70 Chester 64 57 Chesterfield 58 53 : f Clarendon 54 36 Colleton 50 23 Darlington 65 50 Dillon 64 57 j Dorchester 50 30 Edgefield 62 40 Fairfield 60 52 Florence 60 4 6 : Georgetown 50 22 Greenville 67 65 Greenwood.. 62 50 Hampton 40 25 Horry 61 50 Jasper 40 15 Kershaw 59 4 9 ? /\ - r* j Lancaster r>j> ,:?n | Laurens 63 60 i Lee 64 52 ; Lexington 60 39 y \ RUSE DID NOT FAIL. j Unarmed Citizens Capture Escaped Convict Near Greenwood. Greenwood, Sept. 3.?Unarmed ; and by accident, W. T. Bailey, bank i president, and F. S. Evans, prominent cotton seed oil man, captured Elmer Ledford, an escaped convict, Wednesday afternoon. While out riding near Greenwood they were attracted by the peculiar actions of a stranger and stopped. "I guess you have come after me,'' he said. They assured him that they had. While they were talking with the stranger, an officer approached and arrested him. Neither the prisoner nor his captors had any weapons. Ledford had been serving a 60 day sentence for stealing a suit of clothes from a laundry w^igon on the streets. McCormick 60 41 Marion 60 50 Marlboro 66 59 Newberry 61 46 Oconee 68 66 Orangeburg 58 35 Pickens 68 67 Richland 56 40 Saluda 61 40 Spartanburg 66 66 Sumter 57 45 Union 59 56 Williamsburg 52 23 York 62 62 Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. NOI On account of the money compelled to discontiue and after September 1st cash. This applies to a supplies. Cars will be se BEARD'S | EHRHA I FIRST NATI | M^inber Federal X BAMBE f 5 PER CT. PA < Y f -OFF) it & PRESIDENT f W. A. KLAUBER T 1 A CAS it W. D. C T ^ vVTVVVVVVvV^ I Back from after a few w Fall and W *n _ . J i TTT A ? ATi vi Ineaay-uu- w car ui uuuii again with us. Truly 01 found the markets full \ styles, just ready to picl sure did buy them ab( prices, with Designs and Suits, Coats, Dresse Styles and size MISSES. JUNIORS, RI IV I need not advise you t Cotton Goods. Prices a salers are advancing ea must buy again, so be w that simply will astonisl Today Will Be Be JMOSE 1 ORANGI X i. .rrr,. DEAD IN BALL PARK. Children Come Upon Body in GrandI stand in Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Sept. 4.?William Jackson, 55, of Tucapau, painter by : trade, was found dead this afternoon ! ^ 1. _ ^ x _ ^ i J ~ ? ~ ~ J on me top seal 01 me granusiauu J of the Tucapau base ball park, by , children playing about the grounds. Mrs. Abbie Davis, living near the , park, saw a man on the grandstand : and heard a pistol shot shortly before ; the body was found. The verdict at the coroner's inquest was that the de| ceased came to his death by causes | unknown to the jury. If you want to buy or sell anything use The Herald Want column. The Herald Book Store carries the largest^stock of tablets, pencils memorandum books, and school supplies in Bamberg county. Innl1 A VtfllTAf] JUMftlllVCU New line of WINDOW SASH AND DOORS I Bamberg Lumber Co. Bamberg, S. C. net! I | stringency, we, find we are ! all credit. Therefore, on , our terms will be strictly ill repair work, parts and ;nt for and delivered. j Garage RDT, S. C. i 4 HOHHHnnnmi ONAL BANK| I Reserve System I | :eo, s. c. x ID ON SAVINGS | | ICERS- f 1 VICE-PRESIDENT ?? DR. ROBT. BLACK 3HIER 4? OLEMAN ? ?? . C i New York I eeks buying our m ^IMI-AI^ C^Anlr I UIICI JIUUll gam se is one of the big items || ir values are wonderful. I || vith practical and sensible M : out and send home, and I p out one-half of last year's ? Materials nicer. || is. Waists and Skirts I s to fit all figures I SGULARSAND STOUTS I 0 lay in your wants in all H ire o. k. today, but whole- II ,ch day, and of course we If rise. I can proinise values Egj 1 you. 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