The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-03-29
SWINGING ROUND III! Circle.
People and Places Within 20
Miles Of Bamberg,
FARMERS AND THEIR FARMS.
What a Staff Correspondent of The
Herald Saw and Heard Along the
County's Highways and Byways.

mill. that was used for time during the
war by the government contractors to
furnish meal, and, sometimes flour, Tor
the brave soldiers of the Confederacy. 1t
formerly belonged to the Milhous family,
and is still carried on the Auditors and
Treasurer's books by that title. MIR. ChaS.
Henry Hutt0 is the present enterprlslnS
lessee. He not only runs the mill, and a
ginnery, but conducts Il store, profltably
tills two-horse farm, raises hog meat to
sell, tends a water tank on the Atlantic
Coast Line, is interested in Pekin and
Muscovy duck culture, and finds time III
between whiles to catch lots of fish. and
the past winter has trapped three line "t-
tiers, the pelts of which netted him some
thing over sci. One would imagine from
this that MIR. Hutto is very busy man,
who wants twenty-five hours out OF the
twenty-four in which to attend I" Ills
multifarious duties. On the contrary, he
has plenty of time in which to hospitality
entertain his friends, and THE BAMBERG
HERALD correspondent, being an old, "ld
friend, was super-hospitably taken cale
of Sherman's cohorts burned the old
mill when they passed through here, and
it was not rebuilt until aftcrthc surrender
When it was the Touring attachment was
left out. The mill pond is famous fish
ing place, and the grove OF superb GA
trees south of the mill has resoundcd
with the shouts and laughter of merry
picnickers, and the rebald bacchanalian-
ism of fish fry" parties, from time immc-
mortal. Below the old mill is a deep pool
of water which is used by the followers
of Christ's precursor, from the Clients
Branch and Graham's churches, as bap-
tistry. Mr.. Hutto raises Berkshire and
Durock Jersey pigs, which he finds a
splendid cross, and he now has meat
enough in sight to last him two years.
Last wear he sold $25 worth of fine pigs
and reserved half that amount for fresh
meat.
I passed through Denmark en- route
here. and could not help noticing the air
of suppressed excitement and prospective
importance which her worthy citizens
have taken upon themselves lately. The
town is beginning to awake to full
knowledge of it's importance geographl-
cally as a location for those industries and
enterprises which are forging South Car
oliua to the front as great manulactnr-
ing State. They have established several
minor industries which pay their pro-
moters and give employment to many
persons. Now they have in contcmpla-
ton a big cotton mill, and it looks as
though the idea was far from being IAN
idle dream" One thing they have done,
which is much to their credit and deserves
commendation they have as tinea graded
school as can be found in the State, anu
the able gentleman at the head, Superin-
tendent ]. Arthur Wiggins, has been the
most important factor in it's upbulldlng
The trustees of the school have given him
wide latitude for development, and SUD-
stantial encouragement for expansion.
That is what we want, and want badly
for the benefit of the generation now
growing up which will manage and con-
troll the magnificent mills and factories,
busy stores and splendid farms which Will
in future distinguish the Baby County
above all her sister shires in the old Pal
metto State-GooD SCHOOLS
There is something else that we netd
eaually as badly-GooD:RoADs-and the
Danes are forging to the front with very
creditable specimens of these necessary
adiuncts to civilization Township Con-
missioner Charles McGiever is not an or
namental officer. He works, and the cX-
ample of his tireless energy forces other
people to work. AS consequence we
have in sight a real road, nearly straight,
running from your city to Denmark; that
old abomination of deep sand, rutty clay
and boggy mudholes, the Clients Branch
road, converted into travelable thorough
fare; the upper and lower roads to Lees
and Blackville vastly improved; the Fin
makers Bridge road widened and finely
piked, and that portion of the old Chal-
lesion and Augusta telegraph road which
runs through the upper end of the county
rehabilitated. And the good work still
goes on. Supervisor Kearse's pied work
men are now digging and ditching and
piking the roads in the vicinity of High
towers Mill. The gang, which is camred
in the grove before mentioned, just be-
yond the old mill, although small in num-
bers, is doing excellent work under Fore
man ]. Frank Brabham and Guard w. c..
Kirkland. They have only seven hands,
but with the road machine, which cost
the county less than two dollars, and the
latest additions to their stock of tools, a
four-horse plow and three two-horse scoop
shovels, they are able to do in a day an
amount of work that would make fifty
strong force of "road hands" drop dead
from pure astonishment. That latter arch
aic relic of "grandfather's days" is, think,
doomed. The people in this section have
set their faces against the yearly road
duty" required of them. They prefer
direct taxation and the employment of
competent hands, under competent super,
intendency, to render our so-called public
roads, smooth and sure-enough highways
of travel. If, according to the provisions OF
the bill introduced by Senator Mayfield in
the last legislature, the different school
districts in the county assess themselves
three mill yearly tax for road purposes
we'll have roads in Bamberg county with
in five years that will be the best roads in