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FOUR BAMBERG'S COTTON ACREAGE ILL BE CUT IB HALF NEXT YEAR AND FARMERS WILL CO IB FOB GUI At Bamberg Patriotic Woman Leads in “Buy-a-Bale” Move ment to Back Up Farmers Who Are Holding, Even Though Better Price is Offered in Open Market Than Elsewhere. Carlisle School Accepts Cotton For Tuition and Fees and Will Hold For Farmers---Trend Toward Farmers Living at Home Hastened By Situation Thrust Upon South. WALTER E. DUNCAN, Staff Correspondent, Tha Augusta Herald. Bamberg, S. C.—Bamberg, city and county, has arisen magnificently to meet and cope with the situation thrust upon the .South by disturbed business conditions because of the European war—a market depressed In consequence of four world powers gripping In a mighty struggle for mastery—and an overproduction of cotton. With Inadequate warehousing fa cilities. the holding of cotton pre sented a problem which has been speedily solved. I'nwllllng to hold their cotton at home, unprotected, and unable so long as they old so to secure the temporary relief based upon warehouse receipts available elsewhere, (he farmers were, tor a brief season, put to It to find a way out. But the way was made clear for them. Two weeks ago last Saturday a meeting of progressive citizens was held at Bamberg, called by Hon. H O. Mavfleld, warehouse oommlt teaman for Mouth Carolina of the Southern Cotton Congress. At that time a stock company was formed, a warehouse compa ny organized. No time was lost in preliminaries. Within the al most Incredible spare of two weeks the Bamberg Cotton Warehouse Company haa erected lta ware house. Monday of this week there were stored within its walls 250 hales of out loti. Thrss Bonded Warehouses. Moreover, it is a bonded warehouse, built to conform with federal regula tions. Mr. W. I). It bond Is president, Mr. <5. Frank Bamberg, first vice president, Mr. C. It. Free, second vice-president, and Mr. H. M. Gra ham, secretary of the company, which Is capitalized at 12.000. The ware house already built has a capacity of 1,000 hales, and the building lias been so constructed thsl whenever It be comes netcHsnry the capacity may no easily increased to 5,000 bales At Denmark and Ehrhart, In Bam berg County, bunded warehouses have also been erected wllhln the past three weeks through the efforts at lion H O. Mayfield, and are now storing cotton. T makn particular mention of this activity merely to substantiate -ny statement that Bamberg, city and county, have arisen lo meet and deal adequately with the situation, to pro vide all possible relief for the far mer. The erection of these three, bonded warehouses is by no means all that has been done here. The "Buy a-Bale" movement has gained a firm foothold, hanks and business houses, In accepting cotton and either can celling debt or granting extensions, hsve made cotton Jus! as good as money if not a legal tender; ami as elsewhere the merchants have for eeveral weeks offered a premium, over and above the market price, for cot ton. 200 Bales Sold at 9 Cents. As a matter of fact, practically all the cotton that has been sold at Bamberg this season has been sold at a premium Friday of last week 200 bales were sold in lh<> open market at it cents' a pound. Cotton buyers were freely offer ing It cents last Haturday, but succeeded In buying only a few bates even at shout half a cent above the market quotation Prior to Friday not SOO bales, all to d. had been marketed here, though Ba inherit County produced uu aver»ire of about 21,000 bales a year, upwards of 16.000 bates of which are handled here, and In aplte of the fact that this yeir there la a splendid crop which, t am told, promises to reach the high water mark of the couni / for production. 21.000 hales. The temper of the people In times of stress, when ns unruffled ns 1 find It here after talking with formers, merchants, bankers, and fee linn them out, ta a mnrvelmni thing. With on<) accord the farmers have put away nil Idea of sacrificing their crops, if in deed they ever entertained such mu Idea, they have apparently determin ed to sit tight and wait, and while they are waiting they are working getting out the remainder of th*Mr cotton, ami confidently looking to ward the future, they find It full of promise, for they, as a whole, ore planning new and better things for 191 b. they are right now at the forks In the road, and begpoiing next year they are going to travel a new mod— the highway of progresa towards emancipation from dependenoe upon cotton. Business people are cheerful, hopeful ami confident. They. too. see the rift In the clouds, and through It have read the promise of the future. It Is admirable But while all apparently realise, is Mr. A. W. Knight, the postmaster, put It to me, that the trend of the move ment In thla section toward sclentif.o agriculture and diversified farming, by this visitation upon the cult * t farmers, has been hastened, no one iwnif* to have discounted the neces sity of the first consideration taking care of the present big crop. As * relief measure, the “Buy-a-Bale*' movement was Inaugurated here soon after the idea was conceived Woman First to Buy Bslo. As sn evidence of the splendid list riot tc spirit of the women In ihe prwnl crisis, a woman sal the example for the rtttssns of Bant - bat g to follow Tha first b via iHioght at 10 rents was bough’ by s woman, Mrs W. IV Illume, a saleswoman at the store of Hiatt.t A Munitions, anil with the big, now hale placet! on exhih.tlon in front of that store, the firm em ploying Mrs Blums was by no means the only purchaser to Weep the movement going B W. Simmons A Co.. Mr J M. Kina Ml. UNsm* Thomas A Co , and Mr. W. G. Hoffman were quick to Jo likewise Other firm* and other In dividuals atepped Into Hite The idea spread and there have- been many hales bought up and taken off the market throughout thla section. Bought B> An Infant. Among the first tfules so be | bought on the "Buy-a-Ka!e" plan was purchased by little Franklin Blzer Ilartzog, the 6-monlhs-olri son of Dr. and Mra. L. A. Hart z of Olar, In this county. Weighing 500 pounds, and bought at 10 cents, the bale was ware housed for the little hoy by hit grandfather, Mr. C. F. lUzor, In a Columbia warehouse; and little Franklin Hlzer Ilartzog is proud ly claiming to he the youngest member of the "Buy-a-Bale” club In South Carolina. For Hon, Jornes F Byrne*, repre senting the Second Mouth Carolina District in congress, Mr. J. D. Cope land bought the other day a bale of cotton si 10 cents. Congressman Byrnes, who live* at Aiken, has bought a hale In each of the several counties in his district. While buying al as nearly the mar ket price as he could get I lie cotton. Mr. I. N. Dunn, superintendent of the Bamberg Cotton Mill, has bought on hi* own account a great deal of cot ton, compared with the amount of tho staple that has been sold here, and Is holding It for fin Investment. Mr. Dttnn believes that the price of cot ton 1s bound lo Improve rapidly, and his intention Is to hold for a fair price and a fair profit, then market his holdings. The Bamberg Cotton Mill is In the market' for more cotton titan at any time In the past, the mill having re cently Increased Its output, making a heavier grade of cloth. Mr. Dunn 1s not, however, buying for the mill. A splendid spirit has been shown A Chorus Group With Klaw & Erlanger’s Musi cal Comedy, “Oh! Oh! Delphine”, at the Grand Tonight. - - ■ - - m ip* - ail 1 Sp 5 *' ■ W' Scene from Act First of “Today” at tho Grand, Thursday, October Ist. by the Carlisle School, located at Bamberg, where each year many young men and young women are fitted for college. Mo far as i have heard, this is the first educational institution In the state to accept cot ton at 10 cents a pound for tuition and school fees. That it has done so is proving not only a popular p'an, but is enabling many boys and girls who otherwise could not do so to attend the school. Two bales of cotton and S6O, it was announced by Prof. J. G. Guiles, (he headmaster, several weeks ago, would be accepted In payment for tuition and term fees, the cotton to be held, and when sold if it brings more than 10 cents a pound, the dif ference to be rebated. There have been many acceptances on this plan. Bast year the school had only 77 pu pils. This year, on the opening day, ItS were enrolled, and Professor Guiles is authority for the statement that a large majority of these could not have enrolled except for the cotton arrangement, made. Business bouses of Bamberg have stepped Into the breach, offering all the relief that they could give. Mr. G. Frank Bamberg and Jones Broth ers have been accepting cotton on ac count at 10 cents, and others sent out letters some time ago stating that they would allow a cent above the market price. Among those granting premiums are Mr. H. C. Folk, Mr. J. D. Copeland, Mr. J. A. Hunter and C. R Brabham ft Hons. The three hanks, the Enterprise Bank, the People Bank and the Bamberg Banking Company. I aer granting extensions when ware house receipts are deposited with them. Bank Deposits Largsr. That there is no money famine ill Bamberg is evidenced by the fact that the deposits of the Peo ples Bank, for instance, are at present between S4OO and SSOO more than what tiiey were this lime last year, as I am informed, although this time last year cot ton was bringing a good price and was being rapidly marketed. Favor Crop Legislation. There Is an •mtnistakaole sentiment prevailing here fa voring legislation j making curtailment of the 1915 cot- | ton crop compulsory, not only in 1 Mouth Carolina, but throughout the cotton belt. But, as 1 am informed, legislation or no legislation, the Bam berg County cotton acreage will be cut at least one-half next year. As I have said, the trentk has been for Ihe past few years toward diversified farming and more particularly towarl living at home, raising home product* fHE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. pvt; ft '. **4 '/>/ ' % 9 War m*. ** - , WfUKBE Scene from “The Only Son” With Thos. W. Ross, at the Orand Tomorrow, Paramount, Afternoon and Night. and food crops. Less and less west ern corn and hay have been shipped here. It has grown to be an uncom mon sight to see a farmer hauling a bale of bought hay out of town. It is a thing of the past. And that the farmers are now making all the corn they need to feed their stock and themselves is already an accomplish led fact. Throughout the county there j have been put into operation in the last few years several grist mills. Wagon Load of Hams. Many hogs are raised in Bam berg County. They thrive and fatten on com and penders. Un willing to sell his cotton at the prevailing price and needing some ready cash, a farmer living not , ’ far from the city brought into town the other day a wagon load of hams, which he had no diffi culty in retailing to ready pur chasers at a fair price. Bamberg farmers have also been successful in producing a big potato crop and there isqdenty of new syrup for home and market. Ehrhart Farmers Happy. With the example of the farmers of the -Ehrhart section before them, far mers throughout Bamberg County will produce more meat In the future than e\ek before Down In the Ehrhart section and the lower part of the county no man Is accounted a good farmer unless he makes meat enough to supply at least his own needs. On Mr. G. Frank Bamberg’s place jin that section, for instance, he has now about 200 head of hogs. Mr. , Bamberg runs 40 plows, but jMiough j the price of cotton may stay below cost of production for some time, ha has plenty of corn and potatoes and is assured of a bulging smokehouse. Mr. D. M. Eve is making arrange ments to stock his Edisto River plan tation with hogs.' Col. J. F. Folk, one of the biggest farmers in the county, is going in next year for'cattle raising at his Ehrhart plantation. Turn Now to Raising Hogs. "There is good money in hogs," said Mr. James Wyman, former mayor of Bamberg and one of the most ex- of Bamberg County. “We aAi all determined down this way to raise something to eat next year. That will be our first consid eration. Nobody in the county but who will cut the cotton acreage 'at least one-half. We are selling only a little cotton," he added, "just what we must to ease up the merchants and the supply houses and to let the tenants pay their accounts, and every body around here is detrmined to hold just as long as possible." There is no mistaking the fact that the farmers are getting out the cot ton as rapidly as they can. As much as 60 cents a hundred Is paid pickers. The Carolina Gin Company at Ehr hart is kept busy until late at night, and at Bamberg the Cotton Oil Com pany's ginnery is running night and day This modern ginnery has a ca pacity of 4(10 bales a day—one every three minutes. Bamberg’s Nsw Railroad. Bamberg has a new railroad, of which big things are expected toward the development of the city and sec tion. The Bamberg, Ehrhart & Wal terboro Railroad will begin running regular trains between here and Ehr hart, 20 miles distant, within the next few days. A depot is now being built at Bamberg. Already freight is being hauled over the line on an ir regular schedule, but the road has not been yet inspected by the railroad commission, and as soon as that is done passenger trains will be put on. .The road will connect at Ehrhart with the Atlantic Coast Line. It is the in tention to extend th<i line later to Cope and Orangeburg. The company behind the new railroad is composed almost entirely of Bamberg capital. The Bamberg County Medical As sociation held a meeting Wednesday of last week at New Bridge. A fish fry was an enjoyable feature. Mrs. C. J. S. Booker is visiting friends and relatives in Richmond, Va. Mrs. E. J. Wannamaker, of Orange burg, is visiting in the city. Mr. Norman Kirsch has returned to Bamberg from Charleston, where he has been In the hospital undergoing treatment for appendicitis. Messrs. J. B. Rice, Ben Black and Roy Cooper are attending the Uni versity of South Carolina. From Bamberg, Messrs. John Folk, Francis M. Bamberg and W. D. Rhoad, Jr., are attending Wofford College at Spartanburg. Mr. W. C. Whitesides, who bought cotton here last sdhson, has returned to Bamberg. AFTER THE STORM: THE BOW OF HOPE Be Clean! Inside and Outside ant that the system be cleansed of the poisonous impurities caused by weakness of the digestive organs or by inactivity of the liver. DR. PIERCE’S Golden Medical Discovery (In Tablet or Liquid Form) Cleanse® the system—and more. It puts the liver in such a condition of health that it purifies the blood—as it should. It helps the stomach digest food so that it r. # .akes good blood—rich, red blood to nourish and strengthen all the organs. You may avail yourself of its tonic, revivifying influence by getting a bottle or a box of tablets from your medicine dealer—or send 60c for a trial box. Address as below. I7DITI? *' 'Dr Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser”— a French eloth bo** d book of s’ Krr, 1008 paaes on receipt of 81 one-cent stamps to cover mailing charges. Addrees * Dr. V.M. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. LANDSLIDE FOR MS', VIRGINIA The Majority May Go to Over 35,000 in State-Wide Prohi bition Vote. Richmond, Va—Returns from re mote precincts coming in slowly are Increasing little by little the 30,384 majority for state wide prohibition conceded last night by the Local Self- Government League. The “dry” ma jority, anti-saloon league workers think, may go to 35,000. "Wet” Virginia newspapers, after expressing astonishment at the “dry” landslide, are calling upon all citizens loyally to accept the decision and are urging the legislative tax commission to provide promptly for the prospec tive lnqs of revenue. TODAY’S CRUISE. New York.—Beginning today the sessions of the Atlantic Deeper Wa terways Association convention which opened here yesterday, will be held aboard the steamship Berkshire. To day’s trip included a circuit of New York harbor and a cruise to Perth, Amboy, N. J„ where the delegates were to be addressed- late tilts after noon by Governor Fielder, of New Jersey. BANKERS IN SESSION. Dallas, Texas.—Bankers attending the second day’s session of the con vention of the American Insjjkute of Banging here today considered the federal reserve system and the ques tion of government ownership of the telephone and telograph lines. Men’s and Roys’Vllovea at Martins. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23. if you would be healthy, strong and MjP r happy. Baths keep the skin clean and in good condition. But what about the inside of the body? You can no more afford to neglect it than the outside. It is just as import- RUSSIANS BURNING ALL UNREMOVABLES London, 5:05 a. m.—A Petrograd spe cial to Reuter’s says the railways lead ing to Przemysl are in the hands of the Russians and that the Austrians are falling back behind the Przemysl forts. The dispatch declares that in tercepted reports show Przemysl is not prepared for a siege. In Eastern Prussia, according to the same dispatch, the Russian troops are failing back in perfect order, taking with them ail their stores and wound ed. What they are unable to take they are burning. The Russian government has decid ed to profit by the presence of the enormous number of prisoners to put into execution several large plans for canal construction and other public works. AUGUSTAN VICE PRES’T NAT’L DRUGGISTS ASS’N Indianapolis, Ind. —Chas. A. West, of Boston, has been elected president of the National Wholesale Druggists Association in convention here. Among the vice-presidents elected is John Phinizy, of Augusta, Ga. THE CORWIN AGROUND. Nome, Alaska —The ste-amer Corwin is aground at Cape Douglass, mid way between Nome and Teller. The revenue cutter Bear and the Nome live saving crew are alongside and are trying to get the Corwin Into deep water by lightening her cargo of tin ore. QUAKER OATB SUIT. Chicago.—Taking testimony for the government in Us anti-trust suit against the Quaker Oats Company was completed before the examiner here to day. Testimony for the defendant re mains to be taken.