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1 - I Wbt Bamberg ^cralb 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 YEAH. Volume 31. No. 8. ?nv,??s/joTT H/ToroVi 9 1Q99 JL X1UI OUUlJf y AT1W1VU M) *VMa. | The people of the Ehrhardt section are delighted at the new passenger service ordered between Green Pond and Ehnhardt on the Coast Line. However, the service is in the nature only of an experiment. For Jthirty days the double daily passenger service will be tried out. At the expiration of that time, the railroad Hhas the permission of the railroad commission to again bring the matter up, and the commission will take the service off if it is found to be too expensive for the amount of travel. It is therefore up to the people to use the service as much as possible. fPprshans the first definite political V move of the present political year was the resignation recently of Senator Christensen from the senate finance committee. Of course the' senator and this friends say there is no politiV' cal significance attached to the resignation. But the senator has laid his foundation well. One would think "he is the champion tax-reducer in ??&'*" the state from some of the articles that have been written about him. J- Already (he is "spoken of" for gov|'5-; ernor, and hinted at for United States senator. However, it is too early tof a definite political announcement. That may, with con iiWence, be expected a little later. The so called "new source of taxation" began to take effect Wednesday, when the gasoline tax of two cents a gallon became effective. A small tax on gasoline would probably not be offensive to the people, but two cents a gallon is unreasonable. It puts a terrible burden on those Individuals and concerns that use gas for industrial and necessary purposes. The legislature has throughout, seemingly, acted on the hypothesis that gasoline is purely a luxury and tihat every person who drives an automobile is a joy-rider. As a mat fter of fact, we do not believe that oven one-half of the gasoline consnmed by automobiles is used for pleasure riding. The biggest consumers of gasoline for automobile driving are probably the small town and -country doctors, on whom the tax will fall heavily. The joy-riders can easily dispense with pleasure riding, tout we cannot very well do without the good doctors. In its final analysis, it will be found that the bulk of the taxes will be paid by a certain class. This has always been the systeih, and we presume it always will he. Still, we do not think a small and reasonable tax on gasoline for road purposes would be objectionable to most people. The corporation license tax and the inheritance tax we think are without any~ justification. The corporations are ridden to \ death in taxes already. If the jlp' present system of when you can't anything . else to tax put }' it on the corporations coninues the state will soon be blackballed by investors. We do not beplieve in placing an unequal burden of taxes on anybody, corporations or i-X'MX. / individuals. The Skunk. He was a struggling Scottish farmer and he had the good fortune to win the hand of a widow who possessed in her own right the sum of 5,000 pounds. Shortly before the wedding a \ friend went to congratulate him. "It's a fine thing for ye, this wed<v ' din', Sandy!" he said. "Aye, it's no bad," replied the farmer. "No bad? Why, it's worth 5,000 & pounds tae ye, isn't it?" "No," sighed Sandy, "less than that. Ye see, 'twill cost me 17 and 6 pence for a marriage license." ? If She Had Been There. \ ?? ??? Father was trying to read his evening paper to while away the time until mother returned from shopping. He was being pestered all the | time by the persistent questioning of - ?- i j * I His young son, wno asaeu ior im? j most impossible information about i the most improbable things. Father j was becoming irritated. Then, at the worst point of par-1 ental irritation, the boy said: "Dad-j dy, tell me what is a she-dragon?" The man replied, in sheer exasperation: "Now, look here, Tommy; one more word about your mother and off you go to bed." Necessary Evil. "So you desire to become my sonin-law?" "No, I don't. But if I marry your daughter, sir, I don't very well see how I can get out of it."?Weekly I Telegraph. i > . ' ' Marketing Basis Changed by Time Lexington, Kentucky. ? From the days when buyers went from barn to barn and bought tobacco, to the highly organized Burley Tobacco Cooperative Marketing association, which this year is advancing as much money to growers on a 40 per cent, basis is was paid for the entire crop last season, is the progress made in marketing Kentucky's annual burley tobacco crop of approximately 200,000,000 pounds. The farmer's fight for good prices for his product has been one of ups and downs. The 1920 crop brought him the highest price is ever received for his tobacco, but the 1921 crop, that cost upward of 18 cents a pound to grow, was sold at a loss, the season's average being 14 \ cents. With a view to averting a repetition of this, Judge Robert W. Bingnam, Louisville newspaper owner, became interested in the cooperative marketing plan, and, in company with sev' eral growers, visited Barney Barucb in New York and laid before him a plan for financing the crop. Meeting of Growers. On March 28 a meeting of tobaccc growers from Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia was held here, at which Aaron Shapiro presented the plan under which California fruit ' - and grain growers and other producers were organized. From this meeting the movement to organize the Burley tobacco growers was launched, and after several months 85 per cent, of the crop was pledged for the Burley Tobacco Cooperative Marketing association incorporated in North Carolina. When the Kentucky general assembly met the first of the year, the Bingham cooperative marketing bill was passed in record time and the association then incorporated in Kentucky. In the meantime, however, the association had secured 117 tobacco warehouses in Ohio, Indiana, West'Virginia and Kentucky for its - - ? * exclusive use. me war iiucuiue v;uiporation and banks in the interested districts pledged almost $6,000,000 to the association. On January 26 the warehouses here were opened for the receipt of pledged tobacco and it was graded upon delivery by the grower and a check for an estimated value of 40 per cent, of the worth of the crop advanced to the growers. Four days later the houses throughout the. Burley district were opened and tobacco began to pour in. For Five Years. The plan will be in operation for at least five years, the farmers having signed up for this period of time. Prior to 1904, the barn to barn sale was in vogue. After this period the loose leaf warehouse, where the tobacco was taken by farmers and auctioned off, was used extensively. The first attempt to form a tobacco pool took place in Cincinnati in 1879, but was short-lived. The famous Equity society with its attendant night riding and other evidence^ of dissatisfaction, was organized in 1905. The Burley society was organized along similar lines the next spring. After several years the Equity disbanded. The Burley society, however, continued to operate. It is said that never more than 30 per cent, of the crop was pledged to it in any year. The loose leaf warehouse system has been in use during the last few years and there now are several hundred such houses in Kentucky alone, with many others in the adjoining states. The crux was reached in January, 1921, when farmers offered their high priced 1920 crops for sale. The average price paid on the opening | I day on the whole was rar Deiow tne cost of production, and many grow! ers faced ruin. Their Time Would Come. "An old man was dying back in Europe somewhere, and he gathered his children around him and said: " 'Listen, kinder, I am dying and I know I'm dying, so therefore I tell you the names of all these people that owe me money.' "After he had finished the eldest son said, 'Popper, you are dying and you know you're dying, so you should also please tell us the names of those people which you owe money to.' "Ana tne aying man repneu, ue11 them die. and they will tell you.' " NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. All persons having claims against 'he estate of Mrs. M. A. Adams, debased. will file same, duly itemized 1 and verified, with the undersigned, and all persons indebted to the said estate will likewise make payment to he undersigned. C. D. C. ADAMS, Administrator of Mrs. M. A. Adams, Deceased. Walterboro, 6. C. 3-9 I STORES CLOSE AT 6 P. M. We, the undersigned merchants, of Bamberg, hereby agree to close our stores at six o'clock p. m., all days except Saturdays, beginning Wednesday, March 1st, 1922, until September 1, 1922: E. A. Hooton, H. C. Folk Co., Rentz & Felder, A. Rice, G. 0. Simmons, Herald Book Store, Milton Shapiro, J. Cooner & Sons, L. Kobetz, Sam Zimmerman, J. R. Black, M. E. Aver Co.. Albin Kirscb, A McB. Speaks, W. D. Rhoad, Riley & Copeland, Smoak & Moye, LaVerne Thomas, rviauuci &, n.c<iise-rau5eii ^.u Graham's 5c & 10c Store, Spann Mercantile Co., Faulkner Elec. Ser Co., J. D. Copeland, Mgr. NOTICE CONCERNING PLOWING IN PUBLIC ROOADS. Pursuant to recommendation of the Bamberg County Grand Jury, the landowners of the county cultivating lands adjacent and adjoining public roads are hereby urgently requested not to plow into or allow their hands to plow into the roads. Landowners are requested to plant two or three rows of crops adjacent to roads parallel with the road, so that there may be proper turning space without the necessity of turning plows in the roads. It is against the law to allow plows to damage the roads, < and ~ it is an unnecessary practice. The county spends large sums ( of money in road building, and the roads belong to the people. I have no desire to piosecute anybody, but T rnnci inoict o f tViic nrnrtipp hp JL mUOb lUOAUb ViiM w vu?g stopped immediately. The farmers and tenants can cooperate in this re- ' spect, and there should be no necessity to bring action against anybody. Full notice is being given before I take such action. W. B. SMOAK, Supervisor. January 31, 1922. tf ' To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets.) It stops the Ceogh and Headache and works off the Cold. E. W. GROVE'S signature an each box. 30c. WHY THAUAME BACK? That morning lameness ? those sharp pains when bending or lifting, make work a burden and rest impos* I aible. Don't be handicapped bj a bad back?loot to your kidneys. You will make no mistake by following this Bamberg resident's example. L. B. Fowler, contractor and builder, Church St.,* says: "My kidneys ere weak and the secretions unnatural and highly colored. My back was as stiff as leather and so lame I couldn't bend over. Doan's Kidney Pillfc rid me of all this trouble and fixed me up in A-l shape again." 60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milbora Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. MASTER'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Bamberg. Court of Common Pleas. Savilla Orr, as Administratrix of the Estate of Ben Orr, Deceased, and 1 in Her Own Right, Plaintiff, Against Mattie Orr, and Others, ; Defendants | " * I Pursuant to a decree of the Circuit Court herein, daceo Jan. 23, 1922, I will sell at public sale, for cash to the highest bidder, in front of the court house door at Bamberg, S. C.? during the legal hours of sale on salesday in March, 1922, being March 6, 1922, the following descriD- ( ed property: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in Fishpond Township, Bamberg County, State of South Carolina, containing fifty-six and one-half (56J) acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: On the north by the rightof-way of the Southern Railway Company; on the east by lands of W. L. McPhail; on the -South by run of branch adjoining lands of W. L. McPhail, David Morrow, and Brutus McCormack; and on the west by lands of W. L. McPhail. Being the same tract of land conveyed to George Barnwell, Henry Barnwell, and Ben Orr, by J. D. Copeland, Jr., by his deed dated Dec. 7, 1918, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court of Bamberg County in Book N, page 211. J. J. BRABHAM, JR., Probate Judge for Bamberg County, Acting as Master. Dated Feb. 10, 1922. MASTER'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Bamberg County. Court of Common Pleas. Mrs. Alma B. Barr, Plaintiff, against Martin Holman, Defendant. Pursuant to a decree of the Court of Common Pleas, herein, dated Jan. 23, 1922, I will sell at public sale, for cash to the highest bidder, in front of the court house door at Bamberg, S. C., during the legal hours of sale on salesday in March, 1922, being March 6, 1922, the following described property: All that piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in the ; county of Bamberg, South Carolina, ibout one mile north of the town of Bamberg, containing twenty-two and ! one-half (22S) acres, more or less, 1 and bounded on the north by lands of D. J. Delk: on the east by lands of Tena Salley; on the south by lands < E. B. Price and Fanny Brabham; " a i i j. ~ m t r t ana on tne west uy minis at v. o. Hartzog and E. B. Price. J. J. BRABHAM, JR., Probate Judge for Bamberg Coun- ' ty, Acting as Master. Dated Feb. 10, 1922. J! Hastings' Seeds 1922 Catalog Free It's ready now. 100 handsomely Illustrated pages of worth-while seed and garden news for Southern garden- ] ere and farmers. This new catalog, we believe, Is the most valuable seed = book ever published. It contains 100 full pages of the most popular vegetables, flowers and farm crop plants, the finest work of its kind ever attempted. With our photographic illustrations nlMiirao QIOA frnm <U|U VA/il/l ^/IVVUIVO Uiuv uvut yuvw graphs, we show you just what you can grow with Hastings' Seeds even before you order the seeds. Our cats log makes garden and flower bee planning easy and it should be in every single Southern home. Write us a poet-card for it, giving your name and address. It will come to you by return mail and you will be mighty glad you've got it. Hastings' Seeds are the Standard of the South, and the largest mail order seed house in the world is back of them. They've got to be the best. Write now for the 1922 catalog. It is absolutely free. H. G. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN, ATLANTA, GA. R. P. BELLINGER = ATTORKKY-AT-LAW General Practice in All Courts. Office Work and Civil Business a Specialty. Offices in rear over Hoffman's store, i RAMREnn. s. n. Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a speciallyarepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual Denstipation. It relieves promptly bat ihould be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days :o induce regular action It Stimulates and Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c per bottle. ng PORTABLE AND STATIONARY Enginis AND BOILERS Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injectors, Pumps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, * Belting, Gasoline Engines LARQB6TOCK LOMBARD _ Foundry, Machine, Boiler Worke, Supply Store. AUGUSTA, GA. Colds Cause Grip and Influenza LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove the cause. There is only one "Brorao Quinine." E. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30c. TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 1921, until the 15th day of March, 19$2, inclusive. From the first day of January, 1922, until the 31st day of January, 1922, a penalty of 1 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the first day of February, 1922, until the O OlV? si /\ 9 FrtViWiinwrr 1 QOO r% TVrtn O TIt? &OULL \1CLJ U1 ruui Uttl/, J. & Li Lt , a of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From tbe first day of March, 19.22, until the 15ifch of March, 1922, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. The Levy, For State purposes 12 mills For county purposes 7% mills Constitutional school tax ....3 mills For highway purposes 3 mills Total 24% mills Special School Levies. Bamberg, No. 14 18 mills Binnaker's, No. 12 3 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 .... 4 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Colston, No. 18 9 mills _ Denmark, No. 21 16 mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 19 mills Fish Pond, No. 5 2 mills Govan, No. 11 12 mills' Hutto, No. 6 6 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Hey ward, No. 24 z mms Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 ....12 mills Lees, No. 23 8 mills Little Swamp, No. 17 8 mills Lemon Swamp, No. 13 .... 4 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Oakland, No. 15 8 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 10 mills Olar, No. S 16 mills St. John's, No. 10 8 mills Salem, No. 9 12 mills Three-Mile, No. 4 8 mills All persons between the ages of 2i and 60 years, except Confederate soldiers and sailors, who are exempt at 50 years, are liable to a poll tax of $1.00. Capitation dog tax, $1.25. All male persons who were 21 years of aee on or before the first day of January, 1921, are liable to a poll tax of $1, and all who have not made returns to the auditor are requested to do so on or before the first day of January, 1922, and thereby save penalty and costs. I will receive the commutation road tax of four (|4.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1921, to the 15th day of March, 1922. In addition to the above levies there is a three mill levy for drainage on all property in the town of Bamberg and some of the surrounding territory. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer of Bamberg County. To Stop a Cough Quick take HAYES' HEALING HONEY, a cough medicine which stops the cough by healing the inflamed and irritated tissues. mtfi A nrxr TO A TV A bOX 01 UKUVJL.O KJ~r x i-i SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds and Croup is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The salve should be rubbed on the chest and throat of children suffering from a Cold or Group. The healing effect of Hayes' Healing Honey inside the throat combined with the healing effect of Grove's O-Pen-Trate Salve through the pores of the skin soon stops a cough. Both remedies are packed in one carton and the cost of the combined treatment is 36c. Just ask your druggist for HAYES' HEALING HONEY. , J. WESLEY CRUM, JR., ATTOJOCEY-A T- LA W Bamborg, 8. C. Offices in Herald Building Practice in State and Federal Courts. Loans negotiated. BHBnHHHBHHBI Four BarbersFour Tonsorial Artii vice continuously at shop: M. DeRITA (Spaghei L. O. LEE, Lake City, J. B. SOARBORO, Th< F. B. HOOKS, Proprie These men are ready you the very best poss licit your patronage. SANITARY By BAMBERG, I farrnll mi Teaches lllttS lll< Watches WEDDING P YE Tefl I?* itti Don't forget this is IDC them, the kind Trmh S. S. CA The Jeweler ? ??i utuaiiu Fine for Si HAYONNAIf We Will Intro- Al,'Vp dute Next Week v Good things to t r 1 U1U L BAMBEI QUALITY. PHO] ??^? 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