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tE$t|tembetg$era&! ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. / ? ???p\ Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. , $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 30. , Xo. 38. Thursday, Sept. 22,1921. ? The rise in the price of cotton is furnishing the usual opportunity for the cotton exchange gamblers to shear the lambs and the cotton exchange gamblers are doing just that. The situation nearly always raises a myriad of little pikers who yield to the material temptation to get rich quick, and who are generally trimmed to a nicety.?Yor^ville Enquirer. A friend of ours tells us that an acquaintance informed his first cousin that his brother's brother-in-law, etc., informed him there were a few lambs in Bamberg who were present at the shearing and profited thereby immensely?in experience. The little town of Elko shipped during the past season 127 solid carloads watermelons and truck. This was a wonderful showing for that section and goes to show that the farmers there are not depending on their cotton crops entirely. It is to he remembered, in this connection, that Elko has some of the finest cotton lands in the country. Last year, : we believe it was, the finest field of cotton perhaps in this section of the state could be seen a short distance ;; - from Elko on -the railroad. The rows appeared to be six feet apart and the stalks were so rank that one could hardly walk in the field. Such lands afford a great temptation to plant cotton, but the past season 84 carloads of melons were loaded at Elko; 12 carloads of cucumbers, and 27 carloads of asparagus. In addi+ Viie oovorol tliAiicon/1 dnllore ip iXVU iu lilli? OV V Vi U1 VUVUOUUV& UVA4M4W worth of similar crops was shipped by express in smaller lots. However, it may be remarked, the freight rates on this enormous shipment amounted to a tremendous sum, eating a large hole in the profits. The total freight, x we are told, amounted to about $18,120, and the gentleman giving the information says that the shippers received only about one-half of the net proceeds of the sales. |r . ' An exchange has compiled some figures on the comparative cost of printing a newspaper. Folks often ask us about reducing the price of the paper. As a matter of fact The Herald made a very slight increase in subscription price, from $1.50 to ft> $2.00, and we weathered all the, high prices on this single advance. It is not likely, under new conditions, that a paper of the standard of The Her. aid can ever be printed for less than $2.00 a year; in fact this was the ^ . pre-war price of most of the papers carrying similar amounts of reading matter as The Herald. The figures referred to show, that 1907 is taken as a basis.. That year wages are figtired at 100 percent. In 1914 they V.J - A 1 * ? i <T c A 1 Q O 1 J^au auvauvcu iu x t u, axux iu xcmxi ? "v they stand at 393. News print paper was 100 in 1907 an-d was 623 last year, and slightly less now. Newspaper postage was 100 in 1907 and is now 3j37. News ink was 100 in 1907 ? ', and is now 331. Editorial expenses were 100 in 1907 and 241 now. Miscellaneous expenses advancedt from 100 in 1907 to 244 in 1921. An average of all costs show 100 in 1907 and 411 in 1921. This does not take into consideration the cost of machinery, which is all the way from 10i0 to 300 per cent, more than in 1907. Incidentally, 4,000 newspapers, according to this authority, have suspended publication. PRISONERS LEAVE JAIL. Seven Make Escape by Sawing Through Door. ? . Orangeburg, Sept. 18.?Seven ne. gro prisoners escaped from the Orangeburg jail here early tonight. One of the negroes had been previously tried on the charge of arson and sentenced to life imprisonment, but his case was appealed and a new trial ordered. Another was being held on 0 the charge of murder, while a third was a waiting trial on the charge of placing ties on the railroad track in effort to wreck a train. The other ,v~. , four were being held for minor offenses. The escape was discovered about 11:30 o'clock tonight by Sheriff R. Fulton Dukes when he arrived here ' from Columbia with Abraham Mays, who has been in the state penitentiary awaiting trial on the charge of criminal assault. The prisoners sawed through a door and then climbed down the scaffold which surrounds a new section which is being built to the jail. Those escaping were: Howard Dannlly, awaiting a new trial on the s*charge of arson; Arthur. Moore, charged with murder," Spencer Oliver, held on the charge of placing railroad ties on the railroad track; Walter Buyck. Ben Green, Alonzo Cannon and Emanuel Bradley. FORECAST BY DUTCH PROPHET. Early Cold Wave Predicted and Severest Winter Since 1917-18. September 25 is tbe central date for a predicted change in the weather from hot to cold?possibly to cold, says the Dutch Weather Prophet. In northern and northwestern latitudes, he predicts it will be cold with frost previous even to the central date, which will move the cold wave for the west forward to Wednesday and probably to the same time for the east and southeast, the time for the "germination" of cool wave extending from September 18 to 25. September 7 was another period for a cool wave and it occurred in the West and passed northward, having been deflected by the San Antonio disturbance. The coming winter will be the coldest since 1917-18 he says. Three snows are indicated for the territory south and east of the Blue Ridge. Indications at the same time are to the effect that snow will extend far south, and the winter will be accompanied besides by numbers of snow flurries. "These forecasts will be confirmed more decidedly October 1, together with predictions as to possible amount of precipitation during the winter and prospects for a grain crop (wheat and oats) in this section," the prophet said. Precipitation will occur September in the south and southwest and it may include Columbia and vicinity in its progress northeastward, according to his prediction. WHOLE FAM3L IX STATE PEN. Five Folks Make Plea of Guilty With Recommendation. Columbia, Sept. 17.?A whole family, mother, son, and daughter, and two male friends of the family, took up their abode in the state penitentiray Thursday afternoon to spend Vio rest r\f tVioir rlavc tVlPrP PR e'UPRt.R of the state. They were convicted in the court of general sessions at Lexington this morning for the killing of Marcellus Cook, head of the family, an aged paralytic. Mrs. Julia Cook, Minnie Cook, Ira Cook, Henry Wheeler, Minnie's fiancee and James Barfield, Sr., are the prisoners. The verdict against them was directed by Judge Sease, after attorneys for both sides had consented to it. It was "guilty of murder, with recommendation to mercy." Marcellus Cook was killed on August 5. His throat was cat from ear to ear as he sat in his invalid's chair in his home near Steadman, in the Batesburg section of Lexington county. Ira Cook, his son, killed him. while his daughter, Minnie, and her fiancee, Henry Wheeler, held the old man's feet and hands. His wife, Julia, was accused of having instigated the crime, and Barfield was charged with having plotted the deed. Barfield and Ira Cook confessed their crime, after being arrested, and later other members of the family confessed complicity in it. The only witness sworn in the case + nrtoT- woro Gonrotarv n Prnft Will WV/\*V*J ?? VI v VVV%? ^ VI* v* w*.w ? ? I iams, of the state board of public welfare, and Miss Louise Bishop, psychiatrist for the board, both of whom testified that the Cooks were mentally deficient. CAMP JACKSON ABANDONED. I Only Troops Enough to Guard Property Now Remain Near Capitol. ! Columbia, Sept. 17.?Camp Jackson ceased to be an army post Friday, when the last outfit departed for a future military home. The Fiftyfirst coast artillery regiment left for Camp Eustice, Va., and Camp Jackson now has only about 350 men making up its personnel, these being men of the hospital and quartermaster corps, and enough men of the line mi AW/1 f Via n*?AnAT?fv O ?/I Kll 11 H 1 TVCC i IU 5 uai u 111C px V/p^x CJ anu muiiuau^u. | The fifty-first, one of the famous regiments of the army, one that formed a part of the thirty-ninth coast artillery brigade, left with about 850 men and thirty officers. The travel was by motor truck and the outfit will camp tonight at Charlotte, tomorrow night at Durham, the next night at Camp Eustice, Va., the future home of the outfit. i About 800 motor trucks and several hundred field pieces comprise the equipment of the regiment. The outfit paraded through the business section of the city, as it departed, and was reviewed by the governor, Mayor Blalock, of Columbia, and President Black, of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Grew On Him. "Did you really call this gentleman an old fool last night?" asked the judge. The prisoner tried hard to collect his thoughts. "Well, the more I look at him, the more likely it seems that I did," he replied.?Lawyer and Banker. COLUMBIA ELKS' HOME BURNED. Midnight Blazes Causes Damage in Heart of the City. Columbia, Sept. IS.?Firemen early this morning succeeded in getting under control the fire that shortly after midnight Saturday night threatened an entire city block in the heart of the business section. The fire originated in a small vulcanizing plant in a rear wing of a three-story building, and was for more than thirty minutes smothered between the ceiling and roof, finally breaking through to completely de* rrt? i stroy tne structure. me uuuumg was l occupied by Wingfield's drug s\ire, Haltiwanger's, a fashionable woman's dress shop; the Elks' home, a small vulcanizing plant and a barber shop. All these buildings were wiped out and, including the building itself, entailed a loss of $250,000. 200 Gallons Wine Permissible. Internal revenue officials frankly - * ? - TTT acknowledged, says a wasnmgion dispatch, that heads of families may upon filing of notification with local revenue collectors manufacture 200 gallons of wine yearly for home use. Treasury regulations making effective such a provision of the law were issued by internal revenue commissioner Roper with the approval of Secretary McAdoo in October, 1918, and because of the general lack of public knowledge respecting the provision congress never has enacted legislation nullifying it, officials said. The law applies specifically to exemption from payment of tax officials pointed out, but its application makes manufacture of wine at home possible provided the manufacture is by the head of a family and the wine produced be not sold or otherwise removed from the place of manufacture. CONSCIENCE HURTS HIM. And Man Pavs For Iron Stolen From Anderson County. Xo one ever forgets to collect money from Anderson county when it is due them, but it remained for a middle aged white man to break all precedents in coming forward and paying a debt to the county that is ten years old, and fulfilling an oblagation which the county had no record of. According to J. S. Acker, a clerk in- the supervisor's office, a middle aged white man came in his office the other day seemingly rather ill at ease. The man was rather poorly dressed, and seemed to be in very moderate circumstances. He hemmed and hawed about his business with Mr. Acker for a few minutes and finally stated that he wanted to make a confpssinn and sret straight. Mr. Acker did not know what to expect. Whether this was a man wanted for some crime, an escaped convict or what not, Mr. Acker did not know, but he just sat and waited. The man finally told his story. Some ten or eleven years ago a new bridge was built near Portman. This bridge was used to replace another structure, and after the job was completed, much of the iron was left on the banks of the river. The man had taken a small piece of iron and made himself a plow, using it a great deal ?' Ufn n/MioAiflnna nrnmntod S1UCC liiCU. IJL13 >.uuobi^uv.v yi vu^vuu him to come to Anderson and pay for it. "Friend,*' he said, "I owe this county some money and I want to pay it. You remember ten or eleven years ago when the county was building Earle's bridge, near Portman. Well, there was a whole lot of iron left on the side of the river and I took a piece of it to make me a plow. I have used this plow a whole lot, but I'll tell you it has bothered me ever since. I don't feel like I did right, and I want to Day the county for the; iron." "Well, sir," I told him, "I don't know what the iron was worth, nor Anything about it, but if it will ease your mind any, I'll be glad to accept payment for the piece and give you a receipt for it." "The man paid me 50 cents," continued Mr. Acker, "saying that it was just a little piece of iron, and he guessed 50 cents would pay for the iron and interest on the debt."?Anderson Mail. I , Fits and Fits. "That gown is a beautiful fit," said the modiste, "and you don't seem pleased." "I wasn't thinking about the fit of tho frntcn " rpnlipri Mrs. FashionDlate. "I was thinking about the fit my husband will have when he gets the bill." His Natural Inquiry. "Women are killing their husbands entirely too often today!" said Professor Pate, laying down his paper. tc-TT ? ~i~T "very iii\eiy, repneu j. r unci Gloom. "But about how often in your judgment, professor, should a woman kill her husband?" MEANEST MAN. In Charleston is Charged With Taking Fans From Church. A young white man giving his name as Henry Martin, was arrested yesterday morning by Police Detec tive Brennan, and lodged at the police station, on the charge of having stolen three electric fans and one electric iron from the churches in this city, the entire booty being valued at $75, according to the police, says the News and Courier, Charleston. Another turn was taken in this case when the detectives questioned Martin as to what disposition had been made of the stolen goods. He admitted having sold them to one George Armenakis, who operates a pool room at S2 Calhoun street. Armenakis was arrested and he will have to answer to a charge of receiving stolen goods. Armenakis is also charged with carrying a concealed weapon, this according to the police blotter, being a knife. The cases will be called in police court this morning and both Martin and Armenakis will probably be referred to a magistrate for a preliminary hearing. IT WAS A DIRTY TRICK. Stole Pastor's Suit While He Was H1nrrQOrp(1 in Rnntkm. It is reported that while Rev. J. N. Wrenn was administering the ordinance of baptism at Fork Shoals church last week, some one took his suit of clothes from the dressing room, relates a Pelzer dispatch.- He was forced'to borrow a suit before he could return to his home in the VILJ KJI Fork Shoals is without a pastor and Mr. Wrenn conducted a series of meetings there two weeks ago and at the close of the meeting he was asked to come hack and administer the ordinance of baptism which he did and at which time his suit of clothes was stolen. The parson took it in good humor, and it is reported that he said, "lie had heard of money being taken from the eyes of a dead man, but never heard of a Baptist preacher having his clothes stolen while burying a man in the watery grave." THEY PREPARE FOR WORST. IFederal Officers Take Undertaker Along When After Smugglers. An army would not move to battle without having the ambulance, and first aid corps close behind. Neither would federal officers stationed along the Mexican border go after smugglers without taking precautions against injury or death. ama 1 n 4- XT* 1 "D r% c r\ Tnv r cuciai univ;ci s ai jjji j. aou, often take with them an undertaker ancl his outfit. The undertaker and his assistants follow near the offiecrs cars. They stop in the distance and wait until the fight is over. When the shooting ceases, or if a call for aid comes, the ambulance moves to the scene of the fight. With the officers the undertaker surveys the field, assisting any officer who might be wounded, or carrying any dead to the ambulance. Then he goes to hunt for the killed or wounded smugglers, who often are found in clumps of mesquite bushes or half VIIP/9AT) Oons? rlimoe liiuucu u^uiuu oanu uuuvoi Pray for Rain. Alice: "Why don't you wear your new silk stockings?" Virginia: "I'm saving them for a rainy day." Buy tablets by the dozen, only 45c, at Herald Book Store. mm ^ CAS1 m Anything in t H will save you moi EI ??*AAlr nvi/^ TfTfl ooV I wee a. auu we cwa quantity of goods We were the: es, and we are sti or not, remember grocery bills by re WEAP ?F0 Bamberg I I Big as a Profiteer's Heart. i From giants the conversation had turned to dwarfs and then the city I prevaricator spoke, i "All those dwarfs you've mention-; ed may have been very small," he declaired, airly "but none of them I ! can compare with a stunted speci-j j men I once came across. He was so ! short that every time his corns hurt! ' him?" | I "Well," asked the only listener | who had remained to hear the story, j "Every time his corns hurt him," j i said the narrator, "he imagined he; I had a headache."?Houston Post. ^ A A A A A A A JWWWWWVV II FIRST NATK | |> Member Federal J? BAMBE !*f 5 PER CT. PA] -OFFI president J W. A. KLAUBER ? cas: i. iir t% r>i ^ w. u. w ! SAW 25 CORDS ( WITHOUT BEND / It costs less than to saw woe VAU( I The Drag-Si fi^9 The machine is built and hackee facturers in the world and is con Pays for Itse The VAUGHAN is the only dra] time and labor sa^ Jiffy Sai which grips or releases the saw i hole d] Safety which gives operator full and ins log on break from rolling A Light Ports Can be carried anywhere by twc can be dragged through mud,.] logs without injury to machine CLEAR OF THE BOTTOM FR. Provides Power fo When your VAUGHAN isn't' saw other farm machinery. It's 4 E and dependable worker. Write for full in J. W. -5 ORANGEBURG, S< J??????? i and CA he Grocery Line, Fancy or He ley. We are displaying a $! that you look it over, and co: your $25.00 would have purch; first in Bamberg to put the hai 11 the price fixers. " Whether that we have saved you mar during the prices. PRECIATE YOUR PATRON LK & McMILL ... * ... _ . : ... . ... SHERIFF'S SALE. J In accordance with the executions J to me directed by G. A. Jennings, f treasurer of Bamberg county, I have M levied upon and will sell for cash, on Monday, October 3rd, 1921, during || the legal hours of sale, the following fl described personal property in the H county of Bamberg, at the court flj house door, Bamberg, S. C? said per- fjj sonal property to be sold for taxes B due and owing the said county and H state: H Personal property of Raymond Ehrhardt, consisting of one Ford au- |W| tomobile, two mules, and saw mill MS located at Clear Pond siding, in said fin county and state. Said personal prop- j|j|| erty being the property of Raymond jjl!] Ehrhardt. S. G. RAY, Sheriff Bamberg County. Sept. 12, 1921. 9-29 ONALBANK! 1 n o * J I Reserve System & M eg, s. c. f I ID ON SAVINGS | 1 CERS- | ^ VICE-PRESIDENT O DR. ROBT. BLACK | HIER 1 OLEMAN J " 9 j )F WOOD A DAY < ING YOUR BACK , five cents a cord *1 with th#> IHAN ' iw Supreme |g^ | 1 by the largest drag saw manu- I j structed for a long, hard service. ^ If in a Month I g saw made with such exclusive J ring devices as the . I w Holder n an instant and does away with j rilling; A TTotiHIP MWUVUV ? itant control of saw and prevents A ; and crushing his hands. ^ ible Drag Saw ) men. Is so constructed that it J nulled through brus>h or slid over $ iry. ALL PARTS ARE BUILT I A.ME. \ \ + r Other Machinery 'ing wood, put it to work driving . [. P. gasoline motor is a willing f formation today. ^ JMOAK < 3UTH CAROLINA. SSS! j lRry'II j avy, at prices that II 25.00 window this IB J mpare it with the IB i ased one year ago. | M poon to mgn pric- g w ' you patronize usi |? ly dollars in your H AGE. I AN I South Carolina. ^