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pamherg geraiti ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. fe $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 31. Number 34. | Thursday, August 24, 1922. m The record shows that during the I four years Cole L. Blease was gover^ nor of this state there were pardon|p v * ed no less than 1,708 persons convicted of crimes all the way down from | murder to larceny. The countly candidates ought to be complimented on the high-toned | - campaign they have conducted this I year. There has not been the slightest unpleasantness connected with the campaign meetings, or outside of &> 1Jhem so far as we know. The voters may make their choice of candidates in a calm and clear manner, and . there is no reason why Bamberg county should not have representative men in office. It is a rule with The Herald that a political advertisement cannot be , published in the last issue before an ^election without the right of reply. After Mr. Riley sent in his adver I tisement in this issue, Mr. Kearse was given the opportunity of referring to matters ill the advertisement concerning his campaign. The Herald ha3 the highest regard for both gentlemen, and is sincerely sorry both cannot be elected. The Bamberg Herald has prirfted no less than twenty columns of reading matter reporting the county cam-p^ign meetings. So far as we have looked over our exchanges, not another weekly newspaper in South Carolina has covered the 'county meetings so fully. Practically every important utterance of every candidate has been printed for the infortion of the voters. Not a single statement printed in these reports has been questioned by any candi (date; therefore the readers of The Herald have had the record of the meetings to guide tjhem in casting their ballots. Incidentally, The Herald would remind the people of Bamberg county that this newspaper printed more news about the county campaign than all other weekly newspapers in ^he southern part of South Carolina Combined. However, The Herald deserves no special credit for that. It was nothing more than we should have done, and nothing more than the readers of The Herald expected it to do. At the state campaign meeting Monday at Walhalla, each candidate for governor was asked the question: "In the general election of 1920 did you vote for Cox for presi+ dent and the Democratic ticket?" Five candidates, Messrs. ^IcLeod, Duncan, Laney, Cantey, and Coleman, answered in t^ie affirmative, while one candidate, Mr. Blease, ignored the q.uestion entirely. This was to have been expected. In 1919, Mr. Blease told an audience at Rock Hill, as reported by the Charlotte Observer, that he could not vote the f / Democratic ticket. Mr. Blease has jlfrl never denied the correctness of this W.' report. Again, in 1921, after the 1920 election had been held. Mr. Blease wrote to Joe W. Tolbert, the Republican boss of the plunderbund 5r- ^ in South Carolina, declaring that he was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian ; variety who rejoiced over Harding's ' election and the downfall of ideal-J ism. The evidence appears fo be all' in. Nobody but a blind man could | ? -1 ? UIW.AIT + Vl O f I persuaut; mmscu mui j Blease voted the Democratic ticket j > in 1920. ! > ? ^ Social Meeting of Fidelis Class. ( What proved 'to be an enjoyable | affair was the social meeting of the Fidelis class, of the Bamberg Baptist church, which was held at the home of Mrs. O. B. Falls on Friday after!?" noon. The hostess is teacher and takes great interest in her class. The home was very tastefully decorated j for the occasion and the members j '?/ were received at the door by the officers of the class. Several guessing contests were engaged in which proved to be highly entertaining as well as instructive. After the various contests had been completed the hostess served delicious refreshments. About 30 members of the class were jjjcscui. A postcard from Rev. O. B. Falls, j mailed in Dallas, Tex., states that Be' the -weather was dry there and the j temperature 106. Mr. Falls stated . that he had had a good meeting at! f ^ Range, Tex., and that he would be home before next Sunday, to resume . ^ his regular services at the Baptist j church. Vote for 0. D. Seay for state sup-! erintendent.?adv. W- ' 1 :rv < r r J % ^ No Profit in Ramie, j? Says Specialist] g | s Readers of The Herald will recall o that some weeks ago 0. D. Faust, of e this city, took up with Congressman c James F. Byrnes the matter of culti- t rating ramie commercially in this | t county. Mr. Byrnes, in turn, referred j ]. the matter to the department of agri- ? culture. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace wrote Mr. Byrnes that the department did not have any bulletins on the subject of ramie culti- 1 ration, but that he had had prepared * an article on the subject by one of ^ the specialists of the bureau of * plant industry. Mr. Wallace says in c his letter to Mr. Byrnes: J "While the ramie plant has been quite successfully grown at a number of points in the United States, its 0 commercial production has not yet f developed successfully because of the 1 high cost of preparation of the fiber for use." . ^ It will be noted in tne memoran- i dum of the specialist that the ramie 1 plant can probably be successfully 1 grown in portions of Bamberg coun- 3 ty, and it is possible that with the t further development of the process * of converting the plant into fiber the ^ growing of the ramie plant may be- T come a profitable industry, although f under present conditions it seems ^ likely there would be no profit in e growing ramie here. The memoran- * dum prepared by the bureau of plant 1 industry on the subject for Mr. Faust's information follows: e Ramie, Boehmeria nivea, is a plant belonging to the nettle family. It has 1 perennial roots which send up her- 1 baceous shoots each season and when 1 f these shoots or canes are cut during the growing season new ones grow s up. Two crops, or sometimes tnree ~ are therefore harvested each season. Two crops are usually secured from the experimental plants of the department of agriculture here in Washington. The ramie plant is cul- ^ g tivated commercially in China and Japan. It is usually propagated by 1 root cuttings and the wark of cultivating and preparing the fiber is per- J formed entirely by hand. Various Q methods are used in different localities in China and Japan for the preparation of the fiber, but one of the ? common methods/is as follows: Each stalk is cut by itself, the leaves are stripped off, then the bark, . including the fiber, is peeled off from the woody inner portion of the stalk, the ribbon-like strips of bark are j J n-T hnnfl urawn uccv>ccu a uamuuuv \jx mvuv g knife and a bamboo thimble worn on .jthe thumb, scraping away the thin t outer bark, most of the coloring mat- t ter and some of the gum. The fiber j. thus prepared is dried, and in this c form, known as China grass, it is r placed upon the market. The plants j yield 1? to 3 per cent, of their green weight: in the form of dry China j grass. The China grass is partly p degummed in China and Japan by r repeatedly washing it, and it is after- c ward spun and woven into yarns. It ^ is there used for practically the same g purposes as flax fiber in this country.. Small quantities of ramie fiber in p the form of China gras^ are exported to Europe and into this country and j is degummed by chemical methods. b combed and spun. At the present I ^ j.: nnlr nnQ emnll mill in ! lime uicic 10 uui; uin. ? ?... ? 1 ? this country engaged in degumming, t combing and spinning ramie. This ^ mill has been in operation about 10 j, years, but as yet it is scarcely beyond the experimental stage. Most of its ? yarns are used in the manufacture of ^ incandescent gas mantles and this t limited market, tending to decrease ' ? rather than increase, as illuminating j gas is being superceded by electricity. | r does not afford a very great demand t fo^r the yarns. Ramie has been cultivated experi- f mentally in the United States since y - -t o / a v* + 4- "u ^ avt\at? i m a'?! to i rr aDOUt. lOOU, uui. Liic im&uLd I j have never resulted in the establish- v ment of the industry on a commercial t scale. At the present time George = William Schlichten, who was American agent for the Ringheim-Schlichten Ramie Manufacturing company at ti the time rhat he was sending out the ? ; r pamphlets mentioned in the accom-. ^ panying letter about 1908, is grow- c ing about 50 acres of ramie at Davis, E California. He has devised machin- ^ o ery for preparing the fiber. Manu- e facturers state that the fiber pre- s pared by the machinery is not equal 0 in quality to that prepared by hand in China. Machines for cleaning ramie have been devised by more than 30 differ- ^ ent inventors, including J. G. Pratt, ? whose letter of October 5, 1S98, ad- ^ J J a- rv "Conot ic cnhmitted V aresseu tu kj. xj. a ~ ~ ? with the letter from Mr. Byrnes. None J 6 of these machines, so far as the department specialists have been able > to learn, have been efficient enough b to compete successfully with the hand ^ methods of China and Japan. Mr. 2 Pratt's machine, which was to be i, completed, according to his letter, u "In 2 or 3 weeks," seems never to 11 have been built so as to actually do he work in the preparation of the ber. It is probable that ramie could be rown successfully on the rich, moist oils along the streams in the vicinity f Bamberg, South Carolina, but it is xtremely doubtful whether the work ould be carried on profitably with he uncertain methods for preparing he fiber and the very uncertain mar;et for the fiber, even if it can be Prepared successfully. Wiggins-McCown. Denmark, Aug. 20.?A wedding -1../1 xniimtol Km ,, t f r o r> o i m _ ! licUKCU u v u11uouux ul; uuu oiuidicity was solemnized in the MethoList church at Denmark, August 10 at ! o'clock, when Miss Vera Wiggins, harming daughter of Mr. and Mrs. r. A. Wiggins, became the bride of I". K. McCown, of Darlington. Preceding the ceremony a program if music for organ and violin was entered by Eugene C. Craft, organst of Tryon street Methodist church, Charlotte, X. C., and Robert Sumvalt, of Cheraw, S. C. Promptly at 6 o'clock the organ >ealetl forth the well known wedding narch from "Lohengrin." To the trains of this inspiring, processional he candle lighters, Miss Grace Wiggins, sister of the bride, and Miss fivia Wiggins approached the altar, vhich was exquisitely decorated with B erns and Southern smilax on a back- B ground of white candelabra, the ush- y irs, James Wiggins, brother of the I iride, and Laurie Gillam, of Den- B nark Stanwix Mayfield, of Charles- B on, and Robert Bradshaw of Durlam, N. C., came and took their plac;s on each side of the altar rail. These were followed by the bridesnaids, Miss Gladys Price, of Wilnington, N. C., and Miss Clara Wynan, of Denmark, wearing pink chifon and carrying pink roses. These tood within the altar rail where hey were joined by the groomsmen, Dudley Ward, of Darlington, and lobert Sumwalt, of Cheraw. The dame of honor, Mrs. C. D. Barr, Jr., of Leesville, charmingly rowned in silver lace over duchess :atin parrvine white roses, entered lext and took her place beside the iltar. She was followed by the maid >f honor, Miss Martha Wiggins, sis-< er of the bride, beautiful in her Iress of Spanish lace and with a >ouquet of Kilarney roses. The flow>r girl,, Frances Wiggins, attractive ittle sister of the bride, scattered ose petals along the bride's path, vhile the little ring bearer* Catherne Turner, approached from the >ther side. The bridegroom entered vith his best man, Frank Bynum, of Arlington, and as the organ's slight' well announced her approach, the >ride entered on the arm of her faher and joined the bridegroom at * - -11 rni i--.r J ~ ~ ne anar. me uriue wa,? iuvcij iu ier beautiful gown of imported lace >ver duchess satin and presented a dost exquisite picture as she took ier place beside the groom. While the soft strains of Mac-. Swell's "To a Wild Rose" were layed by Mr. Craft, the impressive ing ceremony of the Methodist Episopal church was performed by the Tide's pastor, the Rev. W. E. Wigins. Then to the notes of Mendelohn's "Wedding March," the bridal >arty leftt he church. Immediately after-the ceremony an nformal reception was\tendered the ridal party and relatives at the I ome of the bride's parents. The g uests were greeted by Mrs. J. Ar- B hur Wiggins, who wore a gown of || lack Italian lace. During tne even tig a delicious ice course was served. E The bride and bridegroom left for b 'olumbia, whence they started Fri- E av morning on an extensive motor 8 rip through the mountains of North tf 'arolina. After September 1, Mr. and g Irs. McCown will be at home in Che- K aw, where Mr. McCown is superinendent of schools. The young couple have a host of riends throughout the Carolinas, Irs. McCown being a graduate of 'rinitv -college. Durham, N. C., -*hile Mr. McCown is a graduate of he Citadel. \ TAX EXECUTION SALE. In accordance with the executions o me directed by B. F. Folk, Jr., city lerk and treasurer of the city of lamberg, state of South Carolina, I ave levied upon and will sell for o^V> in frrtnt tVio nmirt hrmcp rlr?nr UOil Ail A* WliW U ? V1AW VV/V1* V AAVMS/V VAVV/J > B lamberg, S. C., on Monday, Septem- m er 11, 1922, during the legal hours I f public sales, the following describ- |j d property in the city of Bamberg, g aid lots to be sold for taxes due and B wing the said city of Bamberg: B One piano and household goods; i aid household goods to be sold as B he property of E. F. Free. g One house^ and lot situated in the 'own of Bamberg, measuring 120 eet north and south, 202 fee: ast and west; bounded on the south y 2nd street, east by A. M. Denbow. rest by Mrs. Nettie Steedly, north by . C. Moye: to be sold as the proprty of J. W. Price. Two lots, Xos. 24 and 25, in llock io. 3, situated in the Town of Bamerg, each 50 feet wide and 145 feet eep, bounded as follows: North by Dts Xos. 18 and 19, east by lot No. 6, south by Broad street, wesrt by B ot No. 23. The above lots are sit- H ated in the parcel of land divided |f nto iots and sold by H. J. Brabham. B J. W. McCORMACK. g Chief of Police of Bamberg, S. C. g VOTE FO W. L. RI! For the House of Repn Vote for the man member of the cc that deals with al cial matters of th Vote for the man always itood for e Read the followin Ways and Means Committee, House of J lumbia, S. C., August 12,1922. Hon. W. L. Eiley, Denmark, S. C. Dear Sir:?This is to acknowledge your> stant. The statement that you offered motior Means Committee that the increased approp perintendent of Education's Office be reduced that were actually required in 1921 and that ployees of the state government be cut 10 pe correct. In the case of one institution which with which to complete a building, you offeree feet that only $500 be allowed and that this erect a shed to cover the building material on to apply strict economy in making appropriat and the record will show that the motions of PrtnnA/1 nl^ArrA in line nTDi?fl orln'nfDrl IXClijCU tU ClUU V C .111 lliio ititLi) ?t vi ^ uuu^/vv/vi. u have no desire whatever to have anything to d your county, but you have asked me for this h giving it to you cheerfully and willingly. Yoi resentative and your experience was a great tee. With best wishes, I am, Yerv truly yours, | " I Chairman Wavs and I j These motions alone repress more than $350,0001< payers of the St< Who is responsible for the reducti< ment in Bamberg County? Rea letter and be your own State of South Carolina, South Carolina 1 liunbia, August 15,1922. Hon. W. L. Riley, Denmark, S. C. Dear Sir:?Your letter of the 8th inst. re governed the Commission in reducing the av< farm lands in Bamberg County from $6.40 t( I lOOO The reduction of the assessment of fain County was made after Mr. Lyon and myself bia and went over ALL THE FACTS with Mi presented at the open meeting in Bamberg. T_ sessment was made and only the facts present ing were considered in making the reduction. Yours verv trulv, SOUTH CAROLINA TAX CO J. Copy to Hon. J. Carl Kearse, Bamberg, S. C. Vote for the man who knows the cc of the farmers as well as other Vote for the man with Legislati Vote for W. 1 R f I7V ' La La 1 isentatives who is a 1 >mmittee , 11 finan- . leState j . ; who has i t iconomy | ' K'i i ' . . ibr lpftprr 'O * I J : Representatives, Co- 4 % . ' |j .letter of the 9th in- j is in the Ways and J >riations for the Suto the same amounts ; the salaries of emir cent, is absolutely requested $25,000.00 4 d a motion to the ef amount be used to hand. Your efforts ions were successful Fo-rorl Iw vmi onrl ro. LVA VVA KTJ J VIA U/J-J- VA XV n y the committee. I I 0 with the politics of 1 ^formation and I am I 1 are a very safe rep- j help to our commit- i ]. T. HUGHES, 1 f Means Committee. - { jnt a saving of , > the' tax- " * f ite. , J I ""I on of land assessd the following | judge: | a 'ax Commission, Co- | ; \ : > ceiv.ed, asking what | erage assessment of ) $4.69 for the vear - ! ?- * 4 i lands in Bamberg returned to Colum\ Query which were Flie reduction of as- , , ?d at the open meetMMISSIOX,^ i . ujLJtiriiiJi, Commissioner. ; ^ /? ? !; V mdition and needs business men. 2* we experience. I ? Riley :1 I \ * i 11 r~r i