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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-12-14
MASTERS SALE.

Pursuant to a decree of the Court
of Common Pleas in the case of
Florrie Mcmillan ct al, plaintiffs,
against Clarence E. Hughes ct al,
defendants, I, H. G. Folk, Master for
Bamberg county, will sell 1T public
auction to the highest bidder for
cash, on January first, 1912, the
same being legal sales day, between
the legal hours of sale on said day,
before the court house door, at BAN.
berg, S. c., the following described
tract of land:
All that certain tract of land situ-
ated in Bamberg County, S. c., con-
tanning 225 acres, more or less,
known as the Henrietta Mcmillan
tract, having the following bounda-
ries to wit: North by lands formerly
of the estate of w. H. Rice; East by
lands of Miss Llewellyn Cleckley,
formerly lands of Jim Morris; South
by lands now or formerly of F. M.
Zeigler; and West by lands formerly
of F. NJ. Bamberg. Purchaser to pay
for papers.
H. C. FOLK,
Master for Bamberg County.
Bamberg, S. c., Dec. 4, 1911.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-12-14
Home Mission Meeting.

Don't let the Christmas rush keep
YOU from the Home Mission Society
next Tuesday afternoon at the Metho-
dist church. According to the new
constitution, the election of officers
will take place at the December
meeting instead of February as here
tofore, therefore a large attendance
of the members is requested at this
meeting, which will begin promptly
at o'clock.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-12-14

Many cotton fields remain white
unto the harvest and gathering on
cold days is not popular. Pickers
who worked diligently early, in the
season are said to be saving their
money and taking life easily. No
doubt quite a lot of cotton will never
be gathered. 1t will, however, make
a good fertilizer for corn next year.
Barnwell People.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-12-14
PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and
at Other Points.

Mr.. Jno. II. Cope, of Cope, was
here Tuesday.
MAGISTRATE J. c. Copeland, of
Ehrhardt, was in the city Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Brabham
spent Sunday at Denmark with rela-
tives.
Mr.. w. S. Miley, of the Bu-
ford's Bridge section, was in the city
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Williams, of
the Govan section, were in the city
Tuesday.
-Messrs, H. A. Hughes and J. M.
Kirkland, of Ehrhardt, were in the
city Tuesday.
Mrs. ALI. G. Hays and little son,
of Atlanta are in the city on Wis
it to relatives.
Mr.. NJ. A. Moye, Jr., and chill
dren spent Sunday with his fathers
family at Fairfax.
-Messrs. Geo. J. and J. J. HERS,
of the Ehrhard section, were in the
city last Thursday.
Geo. H. Bates, Esq, of Barnwell,
was in the city last Friday on pro-
fessional business.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. M. Bruce and
little son spent Sunday with rela-
tives in Branchville.
Miss Alice Smoak returned Sat-
urday from an extended visit to
friends in Columbia and Newberry.
Mrs. A. E. Miley, of Bamberg,
spent Thanksgiving with relatives in
Branchville. e.-Branchville Journal.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Brickle and
little Corine Fowler visited relatives
and friends in Branchville last Sun
day.
Mr.. George Counts, who has
been staying in Florida for some
time, is in the city on visit to rela-
tives.
Miss Kathleen Kearse, of the
Buford's Bridge section, visited her
sister, Mrs. J. Frank Brabham, this
week.
Mr.. H. NJ. Frier left Tuesday
morning for Florida, where he has
accepted a position as express mes
senger.
Rev. 0. J. Frier returned Tues
day night from the Baptist conven-
ton in Greenwood and trip over
in Georgia.
: Mrs. w. Max Walker, of Ehr-
hardt, spent a few days in the city
this week on visit to her sister,
Mrs. J. Frank Brabham.
Mr.. G. A. Best, of Ulmer, was in
the city last Thursday and Friday on
account of the illness ad death of
his brother-ir-law, Mr.. Reuben Kirk
land.
= Miss Eunice Hunter, who is at
tending school at Bamberg, spent
Thanksgiving with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. E. c. Hunter.-Branchville
Journal.
Mr.. H. Spann Bowling and DR..
Frazier, of Anderson, arrived in the
city Tuesday night in an automobile
from Anderson. They came down
for a hunting trip of several days.
Mrs. w. P. Jones is at home
from a visit to her sister, Mrs. w.
D. Roberts, at Clio, Marlboro coun-
ty. She also attended the Methodist
conference at Bennettsville while
away.
Rev. w. H. Hodges is spending
several days here looking after his
farming interests near town. Mr..
Hodges was returned to Bamberg,
this being his second year at that
station. -Kingstree Record.
MIR. S. w. Clayton, of the Coils
ton section, was in the city Monday.
He says he can't do without The
Herald, even if it does cost more,
and he renewed for another year, al
though his subscription does not ex-
pire for several months yet.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23
ROBBERY AT PICABO
BURGLARS Secure s11OO in Cash

Burglars Secure 81 100 in Cash
And Stamps
Robbers again made big haul at
Picabo Tuesday night, when they got
away with $500 in cash, 5000 in stamps
and $2l5 in pay checks, which they
took from the safe and cash register of
the Fitzpatrick Bros store.
That the work was that of profess
sional yeggs was evidenced by the fact
that the combination to the safe was
cleverly made, and as suspicion points
to no local person it is believed by the
authorities that the man who opened
the safe must haye had a wonderful
sense of touch and ''felt the tumblers.
If that is so, Idaho has to deal with a
member of one of the ablest and
most dangerous classes Of criminals, it
is said, and warning is being sent out
to bankers and big storekeepers all
over the state.
The robbers entered the Fitzpatrick
establishment through the cellar win
dow. The place includes a large gen
eral store and the postofice AS there
is no bank in Pieabo, the people of the
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23
May Enter Richfeld
Great ShOshone Light and Power Co.
May Enter This Field With Chap
Electric Power

A representative of the Great Sho-
shone Light and Power Company was
investigating the market for electric
current in Richfeld, a few days ago,
and there is a good possibility that the
company may arrange to run line to
this point the coming season.
1t has been estimated that close to
$50 h. p. would be used, more or less
steadily, for lights and power here in
Richfeld. There is the city water
system, that uses a 3O-h p. gasoline
engine for pumping; and several small
gasoline engines for power purposes.
With few street lights, and the lights
in the homes that would gladly install
electricity instead of keresone lamps,
the total would be not far from $50 h.
p. This should make enough to insure
market for the company to reach.
Electricity for heating is coming to
be a common thing here in Idaho;
the Great Shoshone comgany is now
using $500 horse power for that one
purpose alone, down on the Twin Falls
and adjoining tracts Current is sup
piled at low enough rate that it is
easily comparable with cool; indeed, at
Twin Falls it is considered cheaper,
while the convenience, cleanliness and
safety put it in class far above coal
heating. The company is offering the
same rates all over its system as it
does right at home, so that Richfeld
could have whatever advantages any
one else has.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23
Can Set Trees Along Roads
Whoever Destroys or Injuries Them is Responsible to
Owner for Damages

acres to the tillable area of the country
when the land becomes generally
fenced; would reduce the danger from
weed patches along the road or in
fence corners, and would in every way
be an admirable thing to do. In very
few places is it necessary to MAINTAIN
a road wider than 35 to 40 feet. A DO
foot highway was indicated as about
the proper thing by the last legislat-
ure; to take off of this IL feet for trees
on either side, would reduce the width
to 3S feet, enough for almost any road
in Southern Idaho.
The Recorder would suggest that
farmers who want windbreaks OF
trees. should take immediate advantage
of this law, and set their trees out in
the road. Most of them would live,
the weed emidemics would be far cas-
ier to control, and that 6 to IL foot
strip on every farm would add i'm
mensely to the value of the tract as
crop producer. And to cut down the
width of roads, making them run
straight, instead of allowing them to
me ander all over the face Of Nature,
would save miles of travel.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23

It may not be known to every one
that the state laws de not give in fee
simple any road or highway to the pub
lie; but merely the use of the,ground for
travelling purposes. Under the Idaho
state law, any land owner who has
given ground for road, can utilize q
part of the ground for tree Eplanting.
and whoever destroys or Injuries the
trees $50 set is liable for damages.
Where the road is not less than rods
wide; the land owner can set his row
of trees out as much as 6 feet in the
road; on one or both sides of the high
way, according as he owns the land on
one or both sides. If the road is six
rods wide, or wider, the row of trees
may be out as much as IL feet.
While the first few years of life for
trees planted out in the public highway
might be somewhat precarious, it.
would be only short time until the
trees would be beyond harm from
stock. To plant trees SO, and let them
overhang the road on either side, leav-
ing the fields on either side of the road
fences free to be cultivated clear up to
the fence line, would add great many
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23
Tracklayers at Wood River

Work on the Central Idaho railroad is still be-
ing rushed rapidly as possible, and things are
looking more like trains will be running clear
through to the end of the line at Prairie City by
the first of the year.
The track laying is completed to the Big Wood
river bridge and the material for the bridge is all
on the ground, and before this time next week, if
the weather stays good the bridge will be COM
pleted and track-laying resumed
Work on the MaIad bridge is moving along
rapidly and it is thought that after the Big Wood
river is crossed, there will be no more delays, but
that the tract laying will move steadily along, as
the grading is practically all completed and it
takes sure enough storm to stop the men who
have the track laying in charge.
1t now looks as though Richfed and Camas
Prairie would celebrate Christmas together.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23
Accidentally Shoots Himself
Harry Burton, a Machinist From Boise Accidentally
Shoots Himself and Wanders Desert

became bewildered and after driving
around over the desert until dark, came
to this city, arriving here about ten
O'clock Wednesday night.
Two Of the party remained with the
injured man on the desert, but some
how they became separated from him,
and Mr.. Burton, as badly injured as he
was, wandered over the desert the en-
tire day, until about $50 O. clock Wed
nesday evening when he was found by
two fellows, who were travelling along
the track, sitting on the track, holding
his head in his hands.
The men who found him were
strangers, but took him to the section
house at Pagari, where they secured
hand car and the assistance Of the
section foreman at that place and
brought him to Richfield, arriving here
a few minutes ahead of Mr.. Murray
and Mr. Taper
The fortitude of Mr. Burton is some
thing wonderful, he having roamed the
desert for fourteen hours, after being
injured, before he received medical as
sistance.
The injured man is now at the Rich
field Hotel, where he is being attended
by DR.. Davies.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23

Richfeld could organize good roads
district and get back about three dol
lars for every one in.
Would't that be good investment?
Enough of the land on the tract is
now proved up on, and what little is
not already proved up on will have to
be within the next two years. 1t
would be no one-sided tax proposition,
for every one would have to begin pay
ing on his land within that time at the
latest; and if debt were assumed in
the form of bonds, only the interest
would be paid within this time, so that
the few delinquents in making proof
would pay their full share Of the bonds,
and all the interest save the one year
between the time the district was
formed and the time they had to ac-
quire title.
Probably the strongest argument
against good roads district in any
section like the Richfeld tract, has
been the fact that the tax-dodgers who
will not prove up have owned so large
a proportion of the land. By next
spring, however. there will not be
much if any more than 20 per cent of
the land that is not decided; more than
one-half of this will be decided next
season, of necessity, and every acre is
due to be patented year later.
There can be so little tax-dodging here,
tnat the only question that needs to be
settled is the desirability Of doing it
now, or ever.
Any one who has travelled out over
the Richfield tract this season must
have been impressed with the fact
that, where it is so easy to build and
grade roads, so little has been done.
Some places, where mile Of the best
kind of road could be built for S25 and
maintained year for SIS, have been
almost impossible. Stones, bitches,
futs, crooks that could be eliminated,
mud holes where irrigation bitches
have broken, and every kind of a
fatality that can overtake a public
highway, have been the rule. The
time lost in driving painfully over
these roads on a walk where a team
could trot easily, is really heavy loss
to the people. The time lost in the
busy season would several times over
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23
In Denmark
Cooperative Dairy With Membership
lof 240 Members --Mighgt Work
i'm the United States

are posted the days prices for first,
second and third quality hogs, so that
anyone can see current quotations, or a
farmer can by telephone, ascertain
the current price, and then decide
whether he will send in his hogs or
not.
All these societies are purely COOP
erative. The farmers in district
meet together to establish co-opera-
tive society to deal with their produce
milk, hogs and eggs. Face one und-
ertakes to supply the factory with a
certain amount of produce. A dairy
has to be built and machinery bought.
No prospectus is issued, nor are there
any shareholders. How then is the
money raised? Each farmer signs a
document by which he is held response
BILE, not for part of the money that
must be borrowed, but for all. Say,
for example, that $4,000 has to be
raised for cost of building, plant, etc,
and that 200 farmers become members
of the society. Everyone of the 200
signs his responsibility for the $40, 600,
so that if the 1919 cannot meet their
liabilities the remaining one is bound
for the loan. Actual experience, how
ever, proves that in Denmark no risk
whatever is attached to this. Armed
with such a bond there is not the
slightest difficulty in borrowing the
money at low rate of interest.
Banks or loan companies are only to
glad to lend on such security. The
dairy is them built and equipped, a
chairman and small committee of
appointed, their pay be-
ing practically nothing; these in turn
appoint a skilled manager, the milk is
delivered at the dairy, made into but
ter and either sold by the dairy direct
to England, or if the dairy is too small
t affiliates itself with larger dairy,
and so the produce is disposed Of The
price to be paid for milk, hogs and
eggs is settled by the weekly quotat-
ons for butter, bacon and eggs in
or London, certain
margin being left for working ex-
oenses. At the end of the year the
balance sheet is made out, all expenses
oaid, including interest on loan and
leprication, and the balance is dis
ributed as bonus to each farmer in ac
:ordance with the amount of produce
le has sent. Bacon factories are
in the same way. The Egg
Society is the simplest and least costly
# all, and is often worked as branch
# the Bacon or Butter Society.
The tanners of England, Russia and
canada and other countries are study
ng these cooperative methods Of the
Danish farmers in order to introduce
hem elsewhere. 1t might be well for
American farmers to take the same
rouble. Consul W. c. Hamm of Hull,
England, in the Cooperative Journal,
Oakland, California.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23
Good Roads District
Would Be Paying Investment For
the Richfeld Tract, to Say Moth
ing of the Comfort

pay the annual interest on good road
bonds.
The writer recently saw fine horse
that pulled so hard to drag a load
throught mud hole that shouldn have
been there, that it broke blood vessel
and died. The owner paid 5000 con-
tribution to the bad roads fund-and he
still has only bad roads left. One
fourth of what he lost would have
built road there. Instead. hundreds
of other people take the same risks for
their teams; lose their days and days
in driving slowly and painfully over the
bad roads, wreck their wagons, abuse
their horses, and all for the sake of
bad roads.that get worse every year.
1t is SO objectionable from business
point of view, that the wonder is how
it can endure week.
1t isn't necessary to talk about ex
travagsnce just because one goes into
a good roads district. The money is
administered by the people, through
their elected commissioners, and dol
lars worth of work, can be had for
every dollar paid in. The old work
out-your-r -road-tax idea is to be done
away with; all road dues are collected
in cash, and all important works can
be let by contract under competitive
bids. If there were a lot of heavy
work to do in this district, so that the
bonds had to be heavy enough to make
a real tax burden. it would be differ
nt-though the worse the country is,
the more it needs roads. 1t is probable
that bond issue of $25.00 would care
for all of the Richfeld tract, build
bridges, grade up all the roads, and
make this one of the finest highway
districts in the state. Perhaps it could
be done for lot less money than that;
but it would be worth twice that, and
then some more.
1t is suggested that public meeting
be held, for the purpose of discussing
this matter. The district could be
formed this whites, if it meets with
public approval, and by spring every
thing could be ready for active work.
Road work should be done in the spring
so as to be ready for summer travel;
and right now is the time to get busy
on plans for the coming season.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23

Harry Burton, striking macllinis
of Boise, was shot and seriouly injured
about O'Clock Wednesday morning,
while out hunting in the lavas west of
Pagara.
Last Friday Mr. Burton, in company
with his brother-in-law, Fred Murray,
Tom Burke, Mike Casey and Joe
Balatshy left Boise for this city on a
hunting trip, and on arriving here had
hunted ducks up the river near the
Pagari station, where they had their
camp. Wednesday morning they were
out in the lavas, after some coyotes
when Burton, who was armed with an
old army rifle, in crossing a creviee in
the rocks fell the gun in some manner
being discharged, the bail striking him
in the mouth, tearing out his teeth and
ranging upward tearing out the right
eye.
Two of the party went to the Taper
ranch, north of this city for assistance,
and one Of them accompanied by Mr..
Taper, started for the scene of the
accident, while the other after securing
a horse, went after DR.. Davies.
Mr. Murray, brother-in-law of the
injured man, who was with Mr. Tap
per, thought he could go direct to
where the accident happened, but
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23

Since the town was first laid out, it
has been expected that the Little Wood
river would be utilized for power pur-
poses. There is a fine small power
site below town, where 200 or 300
horse power could be generated. 1t
would not be an ideal winter power.
however, because of the snow and ice;
and it would not be big enough to go
far into the electric heating business.
During the summer it would be as fine
a power proposition as one could wish;
in that, with all the stored water for
the South Gooding tract going down
the channel, besides the full regular
flow, there is ample water supply.
But for winter it would be short for
the ideal electric power. supply.
Richfeld could without doubt secure
the big company current, generated at
the Lower Salmon Falls and now being
distributed all over Southern Idaho, if
the people here would show a dis
position to encourage the project. 1t
would be one of the best moves ever
made, for the building up of the town.
as it would afford unlimited power op-
portunities for the manufacturing in
dustries that now go elsewhere; and it
would attract the people who have be-
come dependent upon electricity as an
every day necessity that they will not
locate without it. And it would be
such boon to the people already here,
who want things at least as good as
any one else has.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23

The Cooperative Dairy at Esbjerg,
Denmark, has a membership of 2SO
farmers, milking 800 cows. A small
quantity of milk is retailed in Esbjerg;
the bulk however is made into butter,
and practically speaking, all exported
to England. The milk is paid for by
weight and quality. The manager,
who receives $3.50 per annum, embraces
in himself the functions of managing
director, manager, working foreman
and clerk, his clerking being done dur
ing the afternoon after the butter is
made. The board of directors of such
a concern get virtually no remuner-
alton. This society has fifty separate
dairies scattered out over different
parts of the north and west of Den
mark. The membership embraces 30
900 farmers, and the society is shipping
4,O00, 600 pounds of butter yearly
Eggs a1e sent in weekly from the
different depots, each egg being
stamped by the farmer with a rubber
stamp with figures representing name
of farmer, district and date so that any
bad egg can be easily traced back to
the farmer who sent it. Every egg is
tested. On the farmer who has sent
the bad ones a fine is imposed for
each bad egg. This method soon
sharpens the farmers wife, and she
takes good care to see that the nests
are cleared every day. The eggs are
paid for by weight, so much a pound,
not by number and are graded in pack
ing, into three different sizes. The
farmer is paid weekly on a quotation
fixed in accordance with market prices
in London and Copenhagen. In order
to avoid putting so many eggs on the
market when the price is low, and still
further depressing it, immense quaint
tiles are preserved in hugh vats of lime
and wates, with an air-tight covering
IF water glass. These are sold as
eggs become scarcer and dearer, so
that the farmer has not to dispose of
MS eggs when there is glut on the
market. They can stay at home and
ook after the work of the farm. The
turnover in this society in butter and
eggs is about So. 500, 600 per annum;
cost of buildings and plant between
;65, 900 and $76, 600. 1t has only been
ten years and is still grow
ng, especially in the egg department
The estimated cost of collecting, for
garding to central depot, grading,
,esting and packing for export is
about two cents per dozen.
The bacon factory at Hesley has
of 900 farmers, who sup
,led 13, 900 hogs last year. That at
)dense has a membership of 900 farm
RS, who supplied $4,000 hogs last year.
n has been established eight years.
That at Odense has a membership of
1000 farmers, who last year supplied
e, coo hogs from all over the Isle of
Vyen. At the entrance to the factory
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-23
TO MERCHANTS AND 9TH.
ERS CONCERNED

Notice is hereby given that, in
future, bills for purchases will not be
paid by the village authorities unless
ordered upon requisite signed by
the Village Marshal or Clerk. Such
roqusitions must be attached to the
bills when presented for payment.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF
RICHFIELD,
d. G. BRAKE, Village Clerk.
Resolution passed by the Board Nov.
18th, 1911.