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Itamberg ^eraUi Kf ESTABLISHED AMD, 1891. I Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. fe Entered as second-class matter April |j*- 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. Kjp; Volume 30. No. 51. | Thursday, December 22,1921 [ . MERRY CHRISTMAS. E; The Herald takes this occasion | to wish each and every friend and reader a very Merry Christmas and a Rj|~~ Happy and Prosperous New Year. At | the same time, we urge our friends I to lay aside the cares of material H' things and for a season let joy be ? J _ ?tv> tliaf i C 1C uncouuneu. acmtmuu uiat the season of joy for the little folks. RIt would be a crime to den^them the ijfe pleasures of the Christmas season, especially when it takes so little giv:f en in a pirit of love, to make the heart of the child merry. Happiness cannot be bought, neither/ er can it be sold, but it can be given j|- freely. You can make your children I or the cmiaren arounu yvu lr by very slight remembrances, given I lovingly. I&- >Let the Christmas spirit abound I plentifully. Make others hap py, and you will thereby find a happi|l|i; A ness you have hitherto not known. I Pass the good word on. A word ! oheerfully spoken may cheer up some fellow who feels down and out. I This is the season of joy, not gloom. 1 Bury your troubles. | Again, we wish each and every one Hp.: of you a Merry Christmas. 1 REDUCE TAXES. Kg The Aiken Journal and Review, I ||fj. under the above caption, says, in IS: : The Bamberg Herald calls for the ^ firing of all the present tax assessment machinery and making a new assessment at the true valuation of ;r. all property. If this could be done it would result in a low tax rate s equally borne and we would be glad to have The Herald tell us just how ^t could be accomplished while, human nature is as it is. A great deal can be done by the legislature in curtailing expenditures and cutting off useless office holders. The state should live within its income and its inoome is what the people as a whole ? v ohio ta nav ITHie Herald is not a tax expert; but ?. when it comes to that, we are. rather of the opinion that the state of gg South Carolina has already suffered much ^t the hands of "experts." However, we very frankly say there jg are phases of the tax question that require a greater mind than we lay Jr J. claim to ^possessing. As to putting /\f fha nn the tax i books at the real value, it can cer;;v tainly be done. It can be assessed at !-A-; its true value with much less red tape than the present system of special || privileges can be carried out. Everybody knows there are business men in the state who pay five or ten times as much taxes as others whose inqcmies are perhaps equally greater. U In one intance the tax commission Ips will assess a man's property accordBslt: Jne- to the new fangled "reform" I: V idea, while in another it will allow the profc>erty owner to make his own return. T\he state tax commission will accept a valuation, even during good times, of $50 to $100 for household furnitifre, mules and horse& at v *10 a head, wagons and buggies at > $5 alfifcce, while another property owner will pay 42 per cent. Of the actual valuation of his property Any 4nati/?p in that? Is there any consti B tionality in it? The system has al ways been bad, and is now sworse H than ever under the tax commission. 8^..How About This One? They were thrown into each othB erV society in a country house, withV \ put common interests or the least at traction for each other. I Finally, atter easnnv aooui iui ai lertile snbject of conversation, only * ' / v to fail in every attempt, he said, desperately: "Will you marry me?" She considered long and deeply. "I think I'll say yes," she replied at last. "It will give u^ so much . more to talk about while we're here." I*-" J " Almost Perfect.. fv* ?. i If: . Movie fan, after reading the names | |t of the author, the scenerio writer, adapter, director, supervisor, photographer, art-titler, and property man I , on the screen: "Now, if I knew the name of the man who sweeps out the studio or jg-pV; 1'; ' who brings the onions for the star's tears, I could set right back and en HHj joy the picture." HS| Approaching Wedding. Of widespread interest to a large circle of friends will be the news of H9B the engagement of Mrs. Elberta HSj Steadman Rice, of Denmark, to HP David A. Hutto, of Hildebran, N. C., BP the marriage to be solemnized Jan. 3, BBp": r at 7 oclock, at the home of Mrs. B Rice's sister, Mrs. Sigmund Walker, H of Denmark. Dillon Man's \ Weevil Siti A. B. Jordan in Dillon Herald I am writing this in the first person singular. I want to take Herald 11.. J readers on a personally cuuuuticu tour through a boll weevil infested county and give t'hem first-hand facts. Last week I spent two days in Bamberg county. Bamberg has been hard hit. It is a county the size of Dillon and there is very little difference in the character of the lands or the methods of farming them. Bamberg I makes a normal crop of 30,000 bales; this year it made 4,000. This is Bamberg's third year with the boll weevil. The weevil made its appearance there in small numbers late in the summer of 1919, just the same as it made its appearance here the latter part of July in this year. Bamberg made a short crop in 1919, but in 1920 the seasons were good and the county made almost a normal crop. The farmers tried cotton again this year, but the drought came and then folTrftflVn ftf OV/ipCSM VP faiTl IUVVCU LUC ncvno ui. vnuvuw.. w fall and Bamberg's crop was cut from 30,000 to 4,000 bales. From the reports that had reached here concerning' conditions in the lower tier of counties I expected to find things as flat as a flounder; I expected to find the streets deserted, half the stores closed, no traffic, smokeless factory chimneys and a general spirit of dejection and depression. But I was agreeably surprised. The only idle inT A TtfarA ?r> DriOC Thp uupil ICS X 1UUUU nvit _ most of them had closed weeks ago. Saturday morning I found the streets alive with traffic. Business men were hurrying here and there. The usual stream of customers was puring in and out of the banks, the clerks in the stores were fairly busy and busisness seemed to be normal. There was no general spirit of dejection and depression. 'Phe people were not blue. They were smiling. They were optimistic. They have plenty to eat?food is found everywhere in the greatest abundance?many of them have a little money ahead, and those who have no money sell a hog, a few chickens or eggs or some corn when they find it necessary to go to town and trade. One man with whom I talked said conditions as a w&ole were better than *vlot.* #oii Wo oaid thp hif Ulicy HCIC iaov iuu. ? v, ~ | slump iirthe price of cotton was such a shock that it paralyzed the people. The boll weevil came on gradually, his work of destruction covered a period of several months and the people had in a way adjusted themselves to conditions before the cotton crop was harevsted. They will plant some cotton next year?about 4 to 6 acres to the plow. They take a hopeful view of the future, and' are confident that when they emerge "from the wilderness of doubt and uncertainty by which they are surround ed at the present moment that it'will mark the beginning of an era of prosperity, the like of which the county has never known, 75 Per Cent. Seasons. I talked with banker, merchant and farmer. I talked with big farmers, medium class farmers and small farmers, and as I progressed from top to bottom pessimism decreased and optimism increased, me nig iarmer has been hard hit; the small farmer has not suffered to any great extent. I gathered opinions here and there; I told them that in my judgment reports reaching my county concerning conditions in the low county had been greatly exaggerated; that it was like the indiscretion committed at home?the farther it got away from the point of origin the more scadalous it became. That I was there for the purpose of getting the truth; that the farmers of my section were facing the same conditions they had faced in 1920; that they had had three years of the boll weevil and we wanted the benefit of their experience. I had related to me a hundred different experiences, scores of different methods for fighting the boll weevil and dozens of difI ferent plans for growing other money crocs, but after adding and subtractin? and multiplying and deducting all tbese opinions and experiences and plans T divided the sum total by personal conclusions and observations and find that the net result is 75 per cent, of season and 25 per cent, of ef fort. There are good farmers in Dillon county, but they haven't a monopoly on good farming methods. There are other men who 'have the "knowhow." I talked with C. R. Brabham. a progressive and conservative business man. Mr. Brabham was raised on the farm, went to town when a young man. entered the mercantile business, made a fortune, in vested it in good farming lands, retired from tlie mercantile "business and for the past ten years has devoted his entire time to his farming interests, He farms along intelligent and progressive lines and made mon* / riew of the lation in Bamberg ey till the boll weevil came. "Man alone can beat the boll weevil," said Mr. Brabham. "The success of his efforts in fighting the weevil depends] to a large extent on the seasons. If it is a favorable season and ihe uses the most approved methods?the calp.inm arsenate treatment?he can make a normal crop, but if it is an! unfavorable season the weevil will eat him up. Even the molasses mixture will not prove effective in wet weather. The rain washes it off as fast as you put it on., It is impossible to tell what kind of seasons you will have and the safest plan is to plant only a few acres to the plow, use a a quick-acting fertilizer, work the crop fast and even if the season is unfavorable and if your crop is a failure you have not lost much." Mr. Brabham owns both stiff and light lands. He owns a place in the lower part of the county and a place in the upper end. When gathering time came the results were the same. I did not put the figures down at the time, but my recollection is that he told me he gathered about 40 bales from 250 acres. That was the experience of one of the best farmers in the lower part of the state. The general opinion seemed to be V.r.4- qwoh tliniitrh thA Cnillltv was IsJLlX* It UT^ii i.uwm0u v?w ? ? ? passing through its worst year with the weevil?the third year that a fairly good crop would have been made with the calcium-arsenate-molasses treatment if the season had been favorable, but one veteran farmer told me it had been the worst 9 season he ever saw. The crop was doing fairly well until the July and August rains came. It rained in torrents day after day and for weeks it was impossible to worl^ in stiff land. It was during this wet spell that the weevil got in its most destructive work. G. Frank Bamberg, live-stock deal" * '?J er ana large ianu uwutri, uau icu acres of cotton near his residence. It was a pet field. He ignored the heavy rains and right after each rain he put his hands in the field and applied the calcium-arsenate-molasses treatment. As fast as the rains washed it off (he applied it again and again. He he does not know how many applications he made, but all during the long wet spell he kept up the treatment. He made 7 bales on 10 acres, which I think, was the record for the county. I did not find out (how much it cost, but the treatments must have been expensive. "T Miinnt account for it." said H. F.- Bamberg, another large planter, "but the weevil seeme'" to work in spots. I saw fields in T aich the werk had been intelligently directed. The sa.uares were either picked up or plowed under as fast as they fell, the calcium-arsenate-molasses trcatment was used liberally, but still the crop was a failure, while just across the road where the methods of fighting the weevil had not been used, where the crop you mignt say na-a oeen ueslected, I saw fairly good crops made." Mr. Bamberg said it was 75 per cent, season and 25 per cent. man. I could tell of dozens of other cases, but it would be to repeat the story over and over. There was some little difference in the methods employed in fighting the progress of the weevil, but in nearly every case the iresults were the same. Light land with good drainage, intelligent cultivation and quick-acting fertilizers made from 30 to 40 per cpnt. of a crop, but this was in spots, stiff lands with good drainage made from 10 to 20 per cent, of a crop while stiff lands with poor drainage and indifferent cultivation made practically nothing. The merchants and bankers take a hopeful view of the situation. All the stores are carrying average stocks and the bank statements analyze fairly well. The banks have been liberal with their customers. They have not found it necessary to press j them. They too have received liberal treatment from their correspondent banks. Old debts are being gradually liquidated. Here and there where a landowner's lien at the local bank is too heavy and his crop has been a failure he is going into the land bank. This has relieved the situation to a considerable extent. New money ! is not available, but as one business man told me, if a fellow gets to the point where he is compelled to get a loan to save himself he usual ly 'gets it. A banker told me Saturday night that he had made a new loan that day?something unusual for this time of the year. Good farming lands have not depre-J ciated in value; they are not on the market, and if a man is looking for j bargains in real estate he will have to go somewhere else. Taken as a whole the situation was agreeably surprising. The county is not broke ?not by a long shot?and in the next year or two when the people have adjusted themselves to new conditions the county will be more prosperous than ever. The Brigfrt Side. The philosophers tell us that out of all evil there comes some good; that there is a bright side to every dark spot, and particularly is this true of the misfortunes following tne in-1 vasion of the boll weevil. In every calamity that befalls a nation or section there are always one or more outstanding lights that lead the way! out of the valley of despair to bhe! peaks of happiness and prosperity. Saturday afternoon in company with Fnrm Demonstration Agent Brandon I wont to the home of J. A. Hartzog who lives a few miles out from Denmark. Mr. Hartzog is one of the live-at-ihome farmers. He J ~ ~ A 1 uws iiui pmui mu^ii tuiuuii. n.1though, it was 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon when we arrived at Mr. Hartzog's' home we found him at his cane mill punching up the fire under a syrup pot. Mr. Hartzog makes a | very fine quality of ribbon cane syrup. He does it by giving it his personal attention. "Well," said Mr. Hartzog, "let's go up to the house." Arriving at the house he took me to an nuthouse where he showed me 1,500 gallons of pure ribbon cane syrup put up in (gallon cans and bar. rels. "Here, try some of these paper shell pecans," said Mr. Hartzog, "they came off my private tree." At this moment Farm Demonstration Agent Brandon pulled out a telegram calling for 200 pounds of pecans and an inquiry for prices on several hundred gallons of syrup which he turned over to Mr. Hartzog. In the outhouse I saw some lye soap and. remarked that it had been a long time since I naa seen any or rne oia-ume ivt* soap. Mr. Hartzog went down into a box and took out several cakes 20 years old. He .had quantities of 4$ representing different years of manufacture. In his commissary he had hundreds of jars and cans of fruit and other foodstuffs all made at home. He showed me a jar of blackberries he and his wife put up just after they were married, some 20 years ago. From the house we went to the lot where he showed us a pen of fine hogs averaging 400 pounds, ready for the slaughter. Down in his pasture he had many other fine hogs ready for shipping. They were fattening on the pulp from his cane mill. From the lot we went to a field where we found grazing on the cut over nanA fioirt nf little more than two acres ten head of ihorses and mules, some six or eight of which were | home-raised. In his barn and stables we found six jacks. "Did you make all that syrup on that small patch of land?" I inquired. "Yes, sir," was the reply, "and the stand was not very good, either." "I understand you ! are not a very large cotton planter, Mr. Hartzog. How much cotton will ; you plant next year?" "I may plant three or four acres, or I may not plant any at all," was the reply. "I do not think much- of cotton." he continued. "There are so many more things a farmer can raise that will turn him out a bigger profit that it is an actual 'loss to neglect those things for cotton." Mr. Hartzog lives in the heart of the weevil infested section, but he is one of the most independent men in the state. He has something to sell the year round. The boll weevil never ihas and does not give him a moment's uneasiness. He is always ahead of the world, has no worries, lives at home and takes great pride in his farm. .Mr. Hartzog's methods of farming are hound to become universal throughout the south. And so this is the brief story of | how a cotton community is passing through its worst year with the boll weevil. T do not wish to make a comparison but I will draw a parallel between the two counties. To summer. ize briefly: Bamberg faces another year of uncertainty with plenty ofj food and feedstuffs, with many debts unpaid, with only 4,000 bales of cot-! ton on hand and a large colored ten-' o?+ nnmilatinn tn rnrp fnr and still ail U p V|/UlU'b4V*A WW WWW* w . v. the people are confident they will overcome these conditions. Optimism runs high. And on the other hand tfiere is Dillon county with its 25,000 bales of unsold cotton still on hand, most of which is unpledged, with the bills payable of its nine banks almost wiped out, with its small per capita indebtedness, with a recordbreaking food crop safely tucked away in storage houses, with its annual production of 4,000,000 pounds of tobacco to fall back upon as a second money crop in the event its next cotton crop is a failure, with only a small colored tenant population to care for an# yet we are living in a wilderness of fear and doubt and suspicion and uncertainty, all of which is of our own making. There is every reason why we should be happy and contented.?A. B. Jordan in Dillon Herald. Oregon licensed 9,400 insurance agents in 1920. Renew your subscription toaay. | t ' v * > ' ' . , >? & -r' The Herald Book Store can cell you ledgers, cash books, etc., at prices j cheaper than elsewhere. CITATION FOR LETTERS OF AI>MINISTRATION. I i The State of South Carolina?County j of Bamberg. By J. J. Brabham, Jr., j Probate Judge. 1 Wfnereas, F. O. Brabham made suit j to me to grant him Letters of Ad-! ministration of the Estate and Ef-11 1 rects 01 uecn titers. These are, therefore, to cite and |; admonish all and singular the kin-1 dred and creditors of the saidj Cecil Hiers. deceased, that theyj be and appear before me, in the court1, jof probate, to be held at Bamberg, on, the 29th day of Dec., next, after pub-; lication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the! forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 14th day of December, Anno Domini 1921. J. J. BRABHAM, JR., 12-29 Judge of Probate. Carroll A Teaches | Watches J?U Had You Just one week left The seasonable gifts - - blem Brooches, Mesh Troth Is "GIFTS TH |{S. 5. UAKKULL i_^ fc 4 Va enn f Y Y AFFORDS AN 0 Y EXPRESS AGAI Y URE WE DERI Y BUSINESS RELA A AND ON BEHALF Y ORGANIZATION J YOU AND YOU! Y CHRISTMAS ANI Y PROSPEROUS NE % I Mack's D Y ' > BAMB1 i 1 ATA AYa ATL ATAA^AA. AYA jjfefc ATA AT^ATA-AA^I ^ ly y y ^ We take this method of ? customers for their patro \ ing to a close, and to wish Mftn>n Ymn> ?iul Imcujr /uuao auu We solicit your continu year 1922, assuring you have our closest attention KEARSE-PADGI ? BAMBE I THINGS FOR A box of our fine cigars will be men friends. We have just the bacco in holiday packages. H We Wish You a Merry xi I BAMBERG FRUIT i NOTICE OF INCORPORATION. 9 Notice is given that on December jB 26, 1921, the undersigned will file V I with the Secretary of State a written | declaration in connection with the a formation of Grahams 5c and 10c fl Store, a corporation to have its prin- a cipal place of business at Bamberg. fl S. C., to conduct a genefal aner- ^$9 chandising business, with a capital ' S stock of $1,000; the said declaration B to set forth all the matters and 1 things required by the statute 1A ( m OI IIUS omc. ? F. KIRK LAND GRAHAM, MRS. F. K. GRAHAM. ~ JB mtnm 1 Money back without question mtn if HUNT'S GUARANTEED M SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES .^Bfl (Hunt's Salve and Soap),fail in f Jst/ ry) flSB the treatment ofltch, Eczema, Ij VH Rinsrworm,Tetterorotheritch- ? If # #1 SUB ing akin disease*. Try tbie* B treatment at our risk. H MACK'S DRUG STORE. W Thought Of It? J to do your Christmas shopping. ^ see our Bracelet Watches, Em- J Bags, Card Gases and Toilet Ware J ook for the sign: fl [AT LAST 11^ , Jeweler, Bamberg, S. C. | V V V V V V V V V V V V ' - Mel >liday 1 I V I>PAPnnT!VTtV TYl 1 N THE PLEAS- ^ > 1 [VE FROM OUR % | TIOX. WITH YOU & / ' I ' OF OUR ENTIRE A I WE WISH FOR I | SS A MERRT \ f 1 > A HAPPY AND | W YEAR. y T 1 'rug Store | J BBG, S. C. % A .A A A A A A A A A A A A A 'v J " V V V V V V V V V V V < M thanking our friends and J Wk nage during the year com- Y |H . each one a f?l Happy New Year 1 ied patronage during the JBj that your business will 9 EH COMPANY | 1 EG, S. C. % CHRISTMAS I J Nothing is more accept- H | >able or appropriate for Xmas H gml gifts than a nice box of H . .s^B Candy?Nunnallys' or other H jB well known brands. We have ra JS it in plain or holiday boxes. H W Our stock of Fruits is com- ]9 I ~ , plete. Fresh from the grow- j -J ers:?coming in every day. Ill H Full stock of nuts of all H J Kill US. ? ^ appreciated by "Hubby" or your B H kind the smokers like. Also to- Era iB H V*nn XTOy\r>T7 "KTonr VOUT iSe 'U 11 do auu ?>J nvn * VMM. <_ CO., Bamberg, S.C. | I /'- ' ' Jj9|