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Pamfcerg Heralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of .March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 30. Number 4.r>. Thursday, Nov. 10,1921. The Herald takes pleasure in announcing that our gifted young I ' friend, R. P. Bellinger, is again connected with the reportorial staff of Ittiis paper. Any courtesy snowu .ur. Bellinger will be appreciated by The Herald's management. Armistice day will be celebrated Friday. A religious service has been arranged among the churches of the city to be held at the Baptist church Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, to "Which the public is invited. In the dark days of the war, when American boys were endeavoring to break the Hindenburg line, and when the outlook was dark and the situation extraordinarily grave, a service of prayer for the success of the allied armies was held in this town, and the Baptist church could scarcely hold the people. The people were in trouble then, and they did not hesitate to take their troubles to the Lord. We recall that Pastor Jones, of the Methodist church, said on that occasion that he wondered how many of those of those so earnestly I praying lor tne success 01 our cause "V -would remember to give tbanks if their prayers were answered. Success came, and it is merely stating history when it is said that it came almost from the day the American people united in prayer services on that particular day. Now the meeting Friday evening is for the purpose of celebrating, not in a boisterous manner, but in earnest thanksgiving, and certainly every person who attended the prayer meeting during the war ought to be present at this thanksgiving service Friday evening?and everybody else. The church should not have sufficient capacity to seat the people. From little acorns big oaks grow. (1^ tne people will unue nearuiy in the Farmers' Exchange Week, there is no reason why a county fair cannot be organized in Bamberg. The present time, as no other in the history of Bamberg, is the ideal one for a fair here. The county needs it, the people need it. Everybody feels the pinch of hard times, and any occasion that will provide the people with wholesome amusement and take - their minds for a time from their surroundings is worth while. Let everybody come together and make this little event a big success, and thereby put Bamberg on the map. Farmers Exchange Weeks have been successful elsewhere, not in this immediate section, and if Bamberg can put it across successfully, it will be a big advertisement for this county and section. The initial idea was to arrange that farmers and others hav?ing country produce could exchange their goods for the goods of the merchants. This will serve a fine purXiii it i o Tinnofi tn IIIUBC ILL uui lh ? luvfvu - ? broaden out the scope of Bamberg's week so that it will be of far more benefit to the people. But the principal thing is to make the occasion, even though it may be necessary to make it a small beginning, an entire success. A small event successfully held is worth far more than a big affair that is a failure. In order to make this event a certain success, everybody should cooperate. Enter into the spirit of the thing, and boost it for all you are worth. Of course Bamberg county is the garden spot of the world; you believe it; then let's tell the world about it. She Knew the Cure. Tho vnnn? mother was worried !over her youngsterr "Sometimes I think there is something the matter with his ears," she said, "for he does not answer me when I speak to him, and often he doesn't seem to understand that I've given him any directions. I wonder if I should take him to an ear specialist." The mother of four grinned. "I've found just such deafness among my children," she said, "but I didn't let . m it worry me." "What did you do for it?" inquired the young mother anxiously. "Why, I just spanked 'em all round," was the reply, "and they heard beautifully for several months after that." Didn't' Land. "What is that?" asked a visitor on board a man-of-war of a sailor as he pointed to a badge on the mariner's I cap. The mariner thought he would he funny. "That's a turnip," answered the sailor. "No, I asked about the badge," replied the visitor, "not about your liead." Z&iii*. -v ; v. I " BLACKVILLE BUREAU Death of B. J. Hanmiet. Black ville Xov. S.?Postmaster Benjamin J. Hammet died here last Friday evening at 6 o'clock after a brief illness. He was stricken Friday morning in the posioffice with apoplexy while writing a money order and never regained consciousness. He was postmaster for eighteen years and was liked by both old and young who will miss him greatly from his post of duty, where he served so faithfully. He was an active member of the Methodist church here and was about 71 years of age. About 4S years ago he was married to Miss Mary Briggs, who survives him, with the following sons and one daughter: Dr. Ben Hammet, of Allendale; Willie Hammet, of Texas; Harry Hammet, of Mississippi; Newton Hammet and Mrs. Sara Hammer Johnson, of Blackville. The funeral was held at his home Monday at three o'clock and his remains were laid to rest in the Blackville cemetery. The grave was a mass of beautiful flowers. Smith-Pickling. Friends of Frank Fickling and Miss Ruth Smith, of Richmond, Va., ? will be interested to learn of their marriage which occurred Monday af- ! I ternoon at 5 o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Matthews. , Mrs. Matthews being a sister of the bride. Rev. L. H. Miller performed the ceremony. The best wishes of ; rheir friends go with this popular couple on their matrimonial journey. . Suffers Broken Leg. Friends of Master Wade Hutto will , regret to learn that he is suffering ( with a broken leg, the accident oc- 3 " ? ? _ X ? ? ? W.T. il A I. A TT'O A currmg yesierua.y wuue uc ?ao n.>- ^ ing to "break a yearling." % . 2 I>r. Burts a Visitor. ( The many friends of Dr. C. E. j Burts were delighted to have him j at prayer meeting last Wednesday ^ night. While attending the asso- j ciation at Denmark, Mr. Miller, the . Baptist preacher here, prevailed on ^ Dr. Burts to come over for a while . and talk to his flock at prayer meet- ( ing, which was indeed the "best treat 1 imaginable." Move to Savannah. 1 Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Mack will regret to learn that they will move to Savannah soon. Mr. Mack has been the efficient clerk at ' the Blackville Hardware company. Personal Items. 'riotriri a Wnttn of Hildebran. X. C., visited relatives in Blackville and 1 Denmark recently. Mrs. Xelline Hay Hammet, of Allendale, is visiting her husband's ' mother, Mrs. B. J. Hammet. 1 Mrs. J. K. Corley, of McCormick, 1 has returned home after a visit to ' her daughter, Mrs. Milledge Hankinson. : Friends of Samuel Guess, Jr., will be glad to learn that he has recover- < ed from a painful injury sustained some time ago while unloading come 1 calves on his farm. i STATISTICS OX A GES. , Census Bureau Makes Announcement of Interest in South Carolina. ( ~ ' i According to the census of 1920, ^ 40.S Der cent., or about two-fifths, of , the people in the State of South Caro- 1 lina are either infants or children under fifteen years of age; 10.9 per cent, are young people fifteen to nine- ^ teen years old; 33.8 per cent, about . third, are men and women in the prime of life, being from twenty to ' forty-four years old, while 14.4 per cent., being forty-five years of age and over, are well along in middle life if they have not reached old age, according to an announcement by the bureau of the census, United States Department of Commerce. The urban population as compared with the rural shows some rather ] striking differences in age, the per centage twenty to forty-four ye^rs of age being 43.2 for the urban population as compared with 31.8 for the ; rural, while the percentage under fif- , teen years of age is 30.2 in the ur- i ban population as against 43.1 in the rural. These differences may indicate larger families of children in the country than in the city, but probably indicate also the fact that country children as they grow up have a tendency to flock to the cities, thereby increasing the active adult population of the cities at the expense of the rural districts. Over two-fifths of the population. 4 6.3 per cent, are old enough to vote, being twenty-one or over, and in this class the men and women are practically equal in number. The males of military or fighting age, eighteen to forty-four, constitute 36.5 per cent, of the male population and 18.2 per cent, of the total population. THREE DEAD IX BALDOC FAMILY. Most Mysterious A flair Ever Occuring in this Part of State. , * \ One of the most mysterious affairs ever occurring in this section came t to light here on Wednesday afternoon j when the third member of the family j of Joe Lee, constable oi .Magistrate G. W. Owens, of Baldock, succumbed to an unknown illness, dying at 1, ' o'clock on the afternoon of that day. Previous to the death of this child, J two others had passed away, one at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening and another, 1 at 1 o'clock on the same night. Lee! 1 himself, and his wife, the only two re? 1 maining members of the family, are J lying at the point of death with very | little hope for their recovery. *' The peculiarity of the affair lies in the fact that every member of the ] family has been affected the same! ' way. In addition to this, it is re- i ported that all the livestock around J the home of Lee has been affected. 1 Two boys have died, all the poultry J have died and the cow has been vom- ' iting for two days. The facts, to-, 2 ?,-, + Vior. pirpiimctancps I ' ? C L II C I Wltli Ulllui VAA j have brought out the opinion in this j section that the family has in some j way been poisoned. Allendale phy-l sicians called to attend the patients j at first diagnosed all the cases as ma-j laria of an acute stage, but circum-J stances have been so peculiar that j the poison theory has established { some credence even among them and j the stomach of one of the victims wasj cut out and sent on Wednesday to the | laboratory of the state board of j health for examination. The board; has further been requested to send; to the scene an expert to examine at j the source the probability of the poi-j' soning theory. This in all probability, will be done and a correct diagnosis; of the case be in hand in a few days, j One physician in attendance on the j Famiiv u-prit. sn far as to admit thatj the symptoms in all the cases were I almost identical to those evident in j irsenic poisoning. The theory of pois- j >ning is given further credence hv the tact that the victims themselves firmly believe that such is the case and go further and state that the poisoning is the result of foul play and go so far as to give the name of the alleged poisoner. It seems that Lee or some member of his family had had a difficulty with a nearby neighbor and there was bad. blood between them. Lee voluntarily gave the name of the person supposed to have committed the dastardly crime alleged. So far 10 action has been taken officially due to an utter lack of evidence. Lee seems to think, and the peculiar circumstances arising from the death of the - livestock about the place bears this out, in a way, that the well, from which the supply of water was hoton "had hppn noisoned. It is for I the purpose of examining the water in the well and to look into other peculiar circumstances surrounding the strange death of the victims, that the presence of an expert from the state t board has been requested. j While all three of the physicians so far called into the case cling to the j hypothesis that acute malaria is the j c cause of the deaths, there is an ob-j j rious doubt in all their minds that I the poisoning theory is not altogether! impossible. Every effort will, of t course, be made to clear the mystery i of the affair up. : It was said to have been a most 8 distressing sight, to have seen the 2 dead bodies of the three children ly- * ing side by side and the mother and * father lying at the point of death. I - - - , i a Physicians appear to norn no nope \ that either of the latter will survive. * If the poisoning theory be true, this will be the most dastardly crime that * has ever occurred in this entire state, c it is believed. Every effort will be . made to clear the matter up within the next few days.?Allendale Citizen. Later:?Mrs. Lee died Monday j to ? disr>atch in vester-! day's News and Courier. j GROOMING A TvAISER. Rumor Says Financier Stinnes Favors Son of Ex-Emperor. Over all of Central Europe, and and many more distant fields, looms an economic figure whom the favorite German adjective klossal fits perfectly. says the Boston Transcript. That is Hugo Stinnes, variously described as a Bismark of business, a German Rockefeller, or, if the word painter is unfriendly, an octopus or a Frankenstein. All the facts go to show that he is at least organizing a huge German cartel, or trust or trusts, and that his ambition is to dominate the industry and commerce of Central Europe. Popular comment in Germany has' his entertaining far-flung internation-j al ambitions. No large project in j Germany without his being accredit- j ed the guiding eenius. The mystery j in which he often plans and works! lends easy color to such stories. Stinnes is looked on as the great.] FROM MR. SPOTTER Fish Pon-Township, S. C., Nov. S,, 1021, A. D. Editer Bamburg Herulcl. Deer .Mr. Editer:?We hav not saw enytilingj in yore papur frum here in a long! time. Therefore I seet myself and! take pen in han to drop you a few' line to let vu no the news down here which I hope you will put it in the j papur as a news piece and not a advertisement on occk of payin. Wei,! everything is gud, ceptin the craps, j and the rodes an I don't no which is the wurse, the craps or the rodes. We al sed when we got Barney | Smoke elected we wud git rodes biltj but he is wusssern Lary McMillon. | We don't blame him for the craps, but we du fer the rodes?him and j Mister Jup. Pluvius. The schules and the churches is j ?ud?when we have any, but since they put on this compulshun education drive, the rodes is bad fer the ihildern on account they can't go to 3chule, the rodes bein that sloppy and bad, they al ketch the ground itch and can't ware thur shoes if j they had enny and that puts us in j aad with Mr. Swearenger on account | ae wunt help nun, onless we have so j nutch childern fer each teecher to j ;eech, an hits all on account of the! :odes as I sed aforesed. Everything else is gud?gud, ihurches, gud peeple, an all?an wej aave got the onliest Free Rural De- j ivery Dockter there is in the coun:y, and he sez iffen Barney don't do aimpin purty quick fer the rodes he s gwinter put him up.one of these ash and carry places at his house? nd that will be bad?on account they s so menny who haint irot the cash j tor nuthin to carry him in and hits! ill on account of the rodes,and not! jein able to git the little childern to! i ichule that makes me rite this peece.! i er we al want our childern educated I he same as we wuz: in readin, writ-j n, spellin, etc., ectry, and so forth, md now they are teechin ai sucn hin/?s as natural born histery and ;ech like in the schules we want our ihildern to learn hit, and they can't >n account the rodes and Barney. Mister Editer, they say that corte ets in Bamberg soon, and if it laint sot when yu git this I want yu ;o show it to the judge and Robbie Junter and if they wont do nuthin tbout our rodes; then I am goin to ite to Cole Blease and tel him an I )etcher when he is Guvener next' rear he will see that we git sumthin! lun on our rodes. Now, Mister Edi-| ;er, there is a whole lot of news down | lere, and if yu put this in the papurj will write yu a peace on the licker li'tuasion down here for hits bad as he rodes, and Im gwinter put a peace n the paper about it Yours truly, etc., HIGHBALL SPOTTER. The Finale. Mrs. Brown?"I hear the vicar! hinks your daughter has a real gen- j us for reciting, Mrs. Smith." Mrs. Smith?"Yes. All she wants, j le says to me, is a course of electro- j :ution, just to finish 'er off like."? ?ondon Opinion. The "flying pay" of an aviator in he United States navy is $300 a nonth. ;ecret power in German politics, with t potent influence also in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. His views on eparations are notorious. He wants tie Hohenzollerns eventually restored md he is confident that the rank and ile of Germany also desire it. In Berlin they told me that one of the ounger sons of the ex-kaiser, now ;mployed in a Berlin bank, is being j luickly groomed as the next emperor, j |j CASt ICOFF Seeded Raisins, 1 lb Seedless Raisins, 1 ] Dromedary Dates, p] Figs, 3 1-2 oz Currants, 1 lb . . . Citron, lb Brazil Xuts, lb . . . Pecans, lb English Walnuts, IT) J, g | Bamberg ? / . . . Would Do Likewise. ! o S A country man strayed into a print shop. He seemed struck with a picture representing a lion stalking g in solitary majesty through the ruins _ of an ancient temple, and inquired <j the name of it. "A Lion, after Gerome," answer-1 ed the proprietor. "You seem pleas-' ed with that picture.*' "Yes," replied the man, "I do like it. That's a powerful uglv-looking n beast there, and I don't know as I a blame Gerome for gettin' out of the n way wnen ne couia. " * m tmt m tl An official list of tlie heroes, who b fell in the world war is being pub- 2 lished by British Government.. It comprises 80 volumes. t] IX THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE *t] UNITED STATES. a o FOR THE EASERX DISTRICT OF t( SOUTH CAROLINA. o IN BANKRUPTCY. v o In the matter of Denmark Planing o Mill Co., Bankrupt. C To the creditors of said bankrupt ii iof Denmark, in the County of Bam- ii berg, and District aforesaid: p Notice is hereby given, -that on the C 17th day of November, 1921, at v, eleven o clock, a. m., the personal c( (property belonging to said estate will be sold at public auction by the o trustee at. the bankrupt's recent place I PRICES RI HAIR CUT MASSAGES SHAVE TOXICS PLAIN SHAMPOO . . | SINGE i SHINES OTHER PRICES IN I Sanitary Bai F. B. HOOKS, Prop. IAnnounc ? I We are prepai loans on Libei any amount at We will lend 80 per ILibertys and 90 per No requirements exci your deposits with ui I First Natio I BAMBERG, SOU' i and CA EE FRUIT 23c 1 lb White House tb 32c 1 lb Maxwell Hor kg 23c 1 lb Monogram . 11c 1 lb Franco-Amer 23c 1 lb Luzianne . . 45c 3 lb Monogram . . . .... .. 19c 3 lb White House 19c 3 lb Maxwell Hou 4 - H* T o v?r>i ore1 FVltf ? lVt' U 1U I (U1UVAC A . FRANK FOLK f business in the town of Den!^9^^^HRB Huy PELHAM H. FEEDER, Referee in BankruptC3^^^HHH|H8 Dated at Orangeburg, S. C., ABijSffiH RRKR FOR SPEC IAL TERM COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. WHBh| he State of South Carolina.?In the^BBRH Supreme Court.?Order. A satisfactory showing having been lade, by petition signed by members f the Bar of Bamberg county, that J| special term of the Court of Comion Pleas for Bamberg County is eeded to attend to the business of le said Court; H And it appearing that the week eginning with Monday, November S, 1921, will be a suitable time for nMincr tho caiH rniint: Now. fiSfl nerefore, It is ordered that a special term of ie Court of Common Pleas be held JE t Bamberg, South Carolina, to begin jH n Monday, November 28, 1921, and ^ ) last one week. It is further ordered that the Clerk 9| f Court for Bamberg county forth ith notify the jury commissioners jfi| f said county of the contents of this JgH rder; and that the said Clerk of |? ourt publish a notice of the hold- V ig of the said special term of court fl 1 The Bamberg Herald, a newspa- JjH er published at Bamberg, South fl| Carolina, once a week for three Jra -eeks preceding the opening of said 19 )urt. EUGENE B. GARY, H Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 89 f* South Carolina. flB Dated Cctober 26, 1921. 11-24 fl|j| EDUCED! I I 35c BB . . . . . . 15c' M MB H 35c I . 35c H| IfflBj .5c in 1?B| PROPORTION IS V rber Shop i 1 BAMBERG, S. C- M :ement!| I ed to moke 1 k ty Bonds in | < j 7 per cent. I 1 IB 3 H ; j cent of value on I M cent on Victorys. I 1 ept that yon keep I a ^^^i * , ~sh H v M mol Dank I j mill uunit a m Carolina! ll DDV ill 1\1V I I i CAKE I J 39c I mm ise 3?? dvc ran lean .. .. .. 39c H BB&Bm 20c $1.16 MflBB $1.16 m jHH ?nd . . . . . . $1.39 / ' jPPIIIl "M j