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Sambrrg fprali) $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1922. Established in 1891. Greater Ban Held 7 Next week is county fair week. There will be four of the biggest days Bamberg county has ever known. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The programme has been completed and appears in this issue of The Herald. Read it. President Thomas and the various committees have done practically nothing for the past week or two but work on the county fair. Every phase of the fair programme has been gone over carefully. Everybody connected with the fair has given of time and talent freely and cheerfully, without pay, or hope of any sort of remuneration. It is all for Bamberg county. President Thomas announces that the fair has contracted with one of the best carnival companies on the road to show here during the next week. We are assured that the shows are of high class, and that there will be plenty of riding devices for the kiddies and such of the grownups who like to ride also. The big exhibit building has been divided into numbers of booths, and the interest in the fair may be guaged by the fact that they have been readily taken by exhibitors all over the county. The livestock and poul this year. The barbecue will be served at one o'clock on Tuesday. Eat all you can-. It's free. Wednesday, school day, will be featured by a basket ball game and a foot ball game. Bamberg high and St. Matthews will combat for basket ball honors, while Carlisle and the College of Charleston will do battle on the gridiron at Rhoad park. At night there will be a free dance on Main 9treet. The colored people have worked out an excellent programme for Friday, which appears elsewhere in this paper. The day will be started off I with the school parade, and this will be a real event. It will be recalled what a tremendous crowd appeared in the parade last year?and it was a "bad day under foot. There will he speeches and in the afternoon a foot hall game and horse races. Chairman Klauber, of the committee on music, announces the engagement of a good colored band, which will furnish music throughout the four days. Concerts will be given at least three times a day, and there will be plenty of music in the air. Those who fail to attend the second annual Bamberg county fair are going to miss a great treat. Bamberg try committees are reserving space lor an unusually large number of exhibitors from many sections, and they state that this feature of the fair will be a revelation to our people. The farm exhibits, fancy work and art department, the home booths, the club booths, etc., will be a scene of beauty and a joy forever. The visitors to the fair will be astounded at the things that will be on exhibit here. Chairman Smoak, of be race committee, states that there will be a fine entry of horses from this and nearby counties. The race track is ' a place of activity every day now, the possessors of good horses "warming" them up on the track daily. Mr. Smoak predicts that there are going to be some fine races this year. He is receiving entries now. The saddle horse show, in connection with the races, promises to be a splendid feature of fair week. It is a well known fact that there are some fine horses in this section, and this will afford the owners of such animal che opportunity to let people know about them. Bill Brabham i:; the moving spirit in the guinea trot, whica is a new feature he will introduce during the fair. You are erased for knowing nothing about such an affair. Neither do we. but Bill says it is a great event, and you know Bill. He says there is more fun in it than the proverbial barrel of monkeys. This will be pulled off on Wednesday rignt after the school parade and will take place on Main street. The big event of the opening day will be the free barbecue. It will i be recalled that last year no less than around 2,000 persons were fed on the finest barbecue ever tasted in these parts. The affair went through without a hitoh, and there will be a renetition of the same thing again nberg County uesday, Wee Official Progra TUESDAY, N< Free B* 10 a. m.?Official Opening of the Fa Free Band Concert. Complete Exhibits in all 1 Judging in Women's and . 1 p. m.?Free Barbecue (Fair Gi Midway in Full Blast. Free Band Concert. inspection or ah ii,xniDiis 7 p. n.?Midway Opens. Exhibit Building Open. Free Band Concert. :r WEDNESDAY, Schoo It a. m?Exhibit Building Opens. Free Band Concert 11a. m.?Big Parade. Guinea Trot Following Pa 11:30 a.m.?Address Honorable Th 1 p. m.?Midway in Full Blast. Free Band Concert 2:30 p.m.?Basket Ball Game, Bam 3:39 p. m.?Big Foot Ball Game, Rh< leston. 4 p. m.?Inspection of Exhibits. Judging of Cattle and Swi Judging in Poultry Depart Special Demonstrations in 7 p. m.?Midway Opens. Exhibit Building Open. Free Band Concert 9 p. m.?Free Street Dance on Mair THURSDAY, N Bis Hon ! 10 a. m.?Exhibit Building Opens. Judging in Agricultural D< Free Band Concert 11a. m.?Trotting and Running Ra( Saddle Horse Show. 1 f>. m.?Midway Opens. Free Band Concert Inspection of Exhibits. Special Exhibits in All Da 7 p. m.?Midway Opens. Exhibit Building Open. Free Band Concert. FRIDAY, NO1 ' Colored Pe It a. m.?Exhibit Building Opens. Free Band Concert. Judging in All Departmen 12:30 p. m.?Big Parade, Graded Sch 1 p. m.?Speaking. Welcome Address, Rev. H Other Speakers, Mayor Th Midway Opens. Free Band Concert. 3 p. m.?Big Foot Ball Game, Voor Inspection of Exhibits. 4 p. m.?Horse Races at Race Tracl 7 p. m.?Midway Opens. Exhibit Building Oj^en. Free Band Concert. Ben BroWn Kills an T T L \J , C Ao LJTlf^Tluwri i > cgru ui ^muui^o (Walterboro Press and Standard) Smoaks, Nov. 6.?Ben Brown Sunday morning shot and instantly killed a strange man whose name your correspodent has failed to ascertain. Both parties are colored. The homicide occurred at the home of Ben Brown's son on W. H. Varn's farm, know as the Eugene Padgett place. It is said that quite a number of negroes had gathered for a supper or some sort of a frolic and that about 2 o'clock Sunday morning Brown was attacked by two men, one of whom was the man he killed. The two being too much for Brown, he ran to the house of his son a short distance away where the entertainment was in progress and went in and closed the doors. About the time he did so the assaliant came upon the door in an effort to break it down and get in, at the same time threatening Brown. Just as soon as he succeeded in opening the door in part Brown fired a load of shot in his chest and heart at close range. It is very evident from reports that liquor dealt out by some tiger played j its part in the killing. | Many planters are still busy with tli air trrnin nlflntiri? Tt sppttw that perhaps the biggest crop of grain on record is being planted this fall. Planting by some farmers is a little late on account of the dry weather. It is not going to be a great while before the people of the Palmetto State are going to wake up to their oportunities. is the finest county in the 9tate; we all concede that, and now the thing to do is to come right out and make this the greatest fair in the state. We ought to do it. Some others might out-exhibit us, but in the quality of the exhibits, we cannot be excelled. Fair Will t Inesday, Thui mmefor OVEMBER 21 irbecue. ir. Departments. A.rt Departments. *ounds.) NOVEMBER 22 1 Day. rade, On Main Street (A Big Hit.) os. G. McLeod. berg High vs. St. Matthews. >ad Park, Carlisle vs. College of Charne. ment. . Exhibit Building. i Street. IOVEMBER 23 so Races. apartment. les at Race Track. partments. MEMBER 24 ople's Day. ts. ool to Fair Grounds. . H. Matthews. omas, Senator Mayfield, J. B. Blanton. hees vs. Savannah, Rhoad Park. t. Tobacco dissociation 'Pays Out Much Money Florence, Nov. 12.?Florence County's share of the million and a | quarter dollars which will be distrij buted as the second payment to members of the tobacco association Monday will amount to $200,000, officials! of the association stated today. The third payment to association members will be made as soon as the pools are cleared up. This may some time close in the first of the year. Much interest is felt in the visit here Monday of Oliver J. Sands, ex ecutive secretary of the Tobacco Growers' Association. Mr. Sands will make an address in the county court house at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon. He is also to speak at a number of other places in the tobacco belt, having engagements at Kingstree at 10:30 Monday morning; at Mullins at 10:30 Tuesday and Conway at 3 o'clock Tuesday. Mr. Craig, the treasurer, will speak at Fairmont and Dillon on the Thirteenth and will be at Cowards in Florence County on the following day at 11 o'clock. Game to Blackville. j Denmark, Nov. 11.?Blackville and Denmark fought one of the prettiest games Friday afternoon that has been seen here in some time. Blackville taking the long end by the count of 12 to 0. Denmark threatened a time or but seems to lack the necessary push to score. Blackville won the' game on line plays that netted from j four to six yards nearly every play, | for Denmark the entire backfield played a good game. The game was' clean and free from disputes. Den-i mart nlnvc Rpmifnrt at Dpnmark ! next Friday and a large crowd is ex-j pected. Seventy-nine per cent, of the growing cotton in the United States last year was destroyed by the boll weeTil. 'sday, Friday Meeting Called to Rap Weevil Columbia, Nov. 14.?A conference, 1 to be participated in by a score or ( more scientific farmers and agricul- ( tural scientists, to prescribe a for- ; ? rw AArnKnf innr f V? rv ir?T?AO Ha OTlH propagation of the cotton boll weevil, was called this aftenoon by Governor Harvey to meet here in the State Library at noon, Saturday, November : 18. < "The degree of prosperity in South Carolina," said the letter of the Gov- , ernor to those invited, "is dependent^ in the near future at least, on the degree of success attained in the control of the boll weevil; and the degree of , such control seems dependent upon the degree of unanimity with which cotton growers adopt approved protective measures. ; 1 "To reach the ear and fix the attention of the multitude of small farmers in the State, will require much systematic work and sustained effort, and the employment of every possible agency for publicity and influence. Reasonable success would be a notable achievement. "While it is true that every known method of attacking the weevil has been publicly urged many times, it has been represented to me that the position of the press and other agencies, willing and anxious to make a systematic campaign to bring into line all cotton growers in the State would be greatly strengthened and 4-l? s-vvtl-r r\ A r\ 11 aVi m r\ ff lTfO LlieiI WUliv mauc iuut.il muic cutv/int, should they be furnished one fixed point around which to concentrate such as would be presented in a pronouncement as official is practicable to be made, by a body of scientists and successful scientific farmers, as to the proper methods of combatting the inroads of the boll weevil. "That this material may be furnished, I write you as I am writing a score of other gentlemen to meet in the State Library at Columbia at 12 o'clock noon, Saturday, November 18. I sincerely trust you will make every effort to attend this meeting. Your recommendations will be urged upon the attention of farmers in every township in which cotton is grown in South Carolina. "It is, in general, desired that the recommendations, presented be as simple and sufficiently as practicable, shall include the approved plan for procedure for the farmer from the present time to next August, with such suggestions as to time of planting, quality of land, etc., as you con- < sider pertinent." Those invited to the conference are: David R. Coker, Hartsville; W. W. Long, director extension department, Clemson College; A F Conradi, Clemson College; H. G. Kammer, Columhia; R. C. Haraer, Eastover; B. Harris, State Department of Agriculture. Columbia; Skottowe Wannamaker, president American Cotton Association, St.Matthew*; Dr. J. B. Johnson, Rock Hill; R. M. Cooper, Jr., Wisacky; L. I. Cuion, Lugoff; W. M. Riggs, Clemson College; Wade Drake, Anderson; L. D. Jennings, Sumter; Thomas G. McLeod, Bishopville; A. R. Johnston, St. George; Dr. W. C. Brown, Newberry; Neils Christon9en, Beaufort; A. F. Lever, Columbia; C. F. Rizer, Olar; Richard I. Manning, Columbia; J. P. Poole, Greenville; J. W. Gaston, Spartanburg; Edgar L. Culler, Jr., Orange- . urbg. AUTO STRIKES BUGGY ??? ] Woman and Two Children Have Nar- 1 row Escape. . 1 Cope. Nov. 12.?As J. B. Ashe i and children were returning home on < Friday afternoon they were struck < by an automobile just as they turned i io leave me urangeDurg-joainueio Highway, and (Mr. Ashe was thrown 1 from the buggy and considerably i shaken up, but not seriously injured, 1 and the children also escaped any 1 real injuries, but it is almost mira- ] culou9 that they escaped, for the car that struck them was making rapid speed to pass another car at the time. 1 The upper class women of China 1 give little attention to serious affairs, I spending most of their time gossip- 1 ing and gambling. i 4 Republican M Suffers Fire Did Much , Damage in Cope j Cope, Nov. 10.?Fire was discov- j ered between 9.30 and 10 o'clock j Thursday morning in the dwelling < Dwned by Mrs. M. E. Vallentine and j Dccupied by L. E. Spann and family, j and was burned to the ground in a remarkably short time. A brisk j breeze found the flames and scat- j tered burning shingles from 150 to j 200 feet on the houses occupied by R. C. Carter, Mrs. M. E. Ritter and . Gr. C. Mackey. . "VT?D /vnn/N r?o orV* f f r AA ->1 IS. XVitlCi S liuuoo waugui. i.ui times and Mr. Mackey's one or more , times, but parties on lop of them put out the fire immediately. The house . on the lot by Ihe side of the fire, ( owned by M. K. Myers, and occupied , by M. L. Sandifer and family, had a 1 very narrow escape, and was saved by the hard and prompt work of the bucket brigade. Everything was taken out of the Sandifer home, and a lot . of bedding, furniture, etc., was re- ( moved from the Carter home. . Mrs. Vallentine lost everything ( on her lot. consisting of dwelling, a tenement house in the rear of the 1 lot, barn, stables and shed, and it is , understood there was no insurance. Mr. Spann carried some insurance on his household goods and estimates that he lost about half of what he owned. All of his dining room furniture, together with crockery and , silverware were lost. Kitchen furni ture, a large range, two oil stoves, ,< etc., were a complete loss. ( R. C. Carter's home was directly , in the path of the flames, but by be- , ing kept thoroughly soaked was . saved by hard work. J. E. Felder's . residence across the street, in front of Carter's, was at one time in the path of the flames, but the wind shifted and relieved the situation , somewhat. It was also thoroughly soaked with a water hose from his . premises. . During the worst of the fire and , when it looked as if Sandifer'9,. Car- , ters, Mackey's and .Mrs. Ritter's , homes were all doomed, Rev. C. T. Easterling phoned to Orangeburg for help*, and Chief Fisher, with a bunch . of fire fighters, responded immediately. They arrived in short order but as the worst was over and the fire under control and for lack of adequate water supply the apparatus from Orangeburg was not used. The hearty response and action on the part of the fire department of Orangeburg, was greatly appreciated. The origan of the fire is supposed to have been the explosion of an oil stove in the Spann home. The cook had just left to go to the postoffice a 1 short distance, and, hearing a report, 1 turned and saw smoke. She returned immediately but could not enter the kitchen on account of the flames. Apollo Music Club. The Apollo Music Club held its regular meeting Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. H. Henderson-, which was decorated with cut flowers, i After much business was discussed i and disposed of. the following programme was enjoyed by.all: Subject, "Comique Opera"^)d=| , era Bouffe. i "Discussion of development and < difference 'between Comique and ] Bouffe Opera," Mrs. G. W. Cope. "Auber as representative of Com- ] ique Opera," Mrs. Henry Zeigler. "On Yonder Rock ((Fra Diavolo) 3 by Auber," Miss Vista Brabham. "Offenbach and the Opera Bouffe," r Mrs. Olin Watson. ! Duet, "Barcarrole Contes de Hoff- , man." (Offenbah), Mrs. B .D. Car- ( ter and Miss Vista Brabham. ^ The guests were then invited into [he dining room, where delicious refreshments were served, consisting of | chicken a la king in patties, j ? . j M ?heese straws, sanawicnes, loasieu nuts, coffee and cream. i The club was delighted to have 1 vith them as visitors Mrs. Paul Car- roll and Mrs. Smith, who are now i living at Carlisle school, also Mrs. 3arber, of Rock Hill, Misses Easter- e ing and Bryan. f ? ' ? I .Cotton made a bi/g advance last veek, going to above 26 cents for spots. The market broke Saturday, lowever, and suffered another break Monday. The general belief is that s ;he market will recover and reach lew high levels. c ajority Big Reduction Washington, Nov. 10.?On the 'act of practically complete, but un)fficial returns from Tuesday's elec:ions the exact line-up by parties n the sixty-eighth congress will be: House. Republicans 225 Democrats 207 Socialists 1 independent 1 farmer-labor 1 Senate. Republicans 53 Democrats 42 Farmer-labor ... 1 The republican total in the senate is predicted upon a victory for that party in the senatorial contest in North Dakota. Should final returns show the election of J. F. T. O'Connor. the democratic candidate, the republicans would 'have 52 and the democrats 43. In the present senate the republicans have 60 members and the democrats 36, a republican majority of 24. In the house the republicans, on K. the basis of the unofficial returns, will have a majority of 15 over the combined strength which could be mustered against them by the demo- % crats and others, and a plurality of 18 over the democrats as a party unit. In the present house the rer publicans have a majority of 165 over* all, and a plurality of 166 over the , iemocrats. Immediate Changes. In addition to these dhanges, all uf which become effective after the Sixty-seventh congress expires on March 4, next, there will be some immediate shifts in the totals through the filling of vacancies at Tuesday's election. There were eight vacancies in tfhe present house, due t A f Via r? T-i rl Iatio nn zl ? uvs u^ftuio auu ico^uaiiuiio, auu IU the unofficial returns, show that of these eight seats, the republicans captured six?the Sixth California, [llinois-at-large, the Sixteenth Massachusetts, the First and Sixth Nebraska and the Eleventh Pennsylvania?while democratic nominees won. in the Third North Carolina and Seventh Tennessee. There were no upsets in the result, although the seat of former Representative Reavis, republican, First Nebraska district, went to R. H. Thorpe, republican, for the remainder of the present term, while John H. Morehead, democrat, will represent the district in the next congress. Filling of the vacancies will make the house line-up at the start of the forthcoming special session, 302 re" publicans 132 democrats and one socialist. The official tabulation, it appeared today, might give Senator Dupont, republican, Delaware, a seat in the senate until next March 4, regardless of the outcome of his contest with Thomas F. Bayard, democrat, for the term beginning March 4. If Bayard is seated for the unexpired term the republican majority would be cut to 22. # Carlisle Beats St. George. 4 St. George, Nov. 9.?In a hotly contested game of football between Carlisle Fitting School and St. George ^ High School, the Carlisle boys won by a score of 19 to 13. Both teams playivoll qtiH Qt ripnre'P tvss first, to cross iiiie .first quarter, but could not 'hold on m TPuiit of_ the heavy boys of Carlisle. This is the first game St. George has lost on her home diamond, they having won every game played so far on the home diamond and only lost several games off from home. They have scheduled to play Wal^erboro fair week and no doubt this will be a well-fought game. Last Frilay, St. George won over Denmark 3v score of 26 to 0. W right "Weekl ey. Olar, Nov. 12.?John Francis iVeekley, one of the most prosperous 'armers of Allendale county, who ives near Ulmer, was married to Misg darv Wright, a charming young wonan of the same community at the dethodist parsonage here Wednesday jvening, the ceremony being perormed by the Rev. Charles M. Peeler, )astor of the Methodist church. ?mmmm? Reason Enough. _____ " 1 "Say, Pop, why are all the drugtores on corners?" "So they will be handy for auto :ollision8, my son."