The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-02-25
THE BAhBERG HERALD
Thursday, Feb. rs, 1904.
Short Locals.

SUOEt AVC6Ass
Some work on the streets would be a
good thing just now.
For SALE.-My saw mill, planer and
tram road. j. A. SPANN.
Business lot in town Of Denmark for
sale. Apply to P.J. 4eigler, Allendale'
sc.
The garden seed are all gone. They
went in a hurry after our subscribers
found they had arrived.
Sunday was a wet, disagreeable day,
and the attendance on services at the
churches was not large.
MI. F. NJ. Simmons is erecting hand.
some two-story residence on his lot next
to DR.. F. F. Johnson's.
WANTED-To buy, secondhand mans
bicycle. Must be in good condition and
cheap. Apply at this Office.
Col. J. J. Brown died in Barnwell
Wednesday of last week, and was buried
at the Baptist churchyard Thursday morn
ing.
The growth of Bamberg is well illus
trated BY the fact that there is not a
single vacant house in town and none for
rent.
Next Monday is the first Monday in
March and salesday, but there are no
public sales of any kind to be held at the
court house that day.
If everybody would attend to their own
business and let other peoples affairs
alone, this world would be much pleas
anter place to live in.
Mr.. vi. Johns recently sold pair of
Berkshire pigs to Missouri stock raiser,
thereby reversing the old smoke house in
the west custom.-Barnwell People.
Last Monday was Washington's birth
day, and the graded school gave holiday
in consequence. The bank was closed,
and the postofice kept Sunday hours.
Desirable residence lots in Bamberg for
sale. Apply to J..A. Byrd, Bamberg, sc.
MIR. E.. l.. Smoak and family left last
week for Winston, N. c., where they will
live in the future. Mr.. Smoak will go
into the sale stable business at that place.
The weather begins to feel like spring,
but the extreme wet weather we've had
recently has greatly retarded the farmers
with their preparations for this years
crop.
MI. Skinner, of Summerville, president
of the ice factory at that place, was in
the city Tuesday prospecting with view
to establishing an ice house here the COM
ing summer.
Good Friday falls on April 1st this year.
It is little early and many people believe
that an early spring is indicated. The
earliest possible day for Good Friday is
March 20; the latest, April 25.
For SALE.-Jersey heifer; will drop
calf March 1st. Or will sell Jersey COW
with heifer calf, now milking.
Mrs. James T. O'Neal, of Bamberg, has
been on visit to relatives in Fairfax,
and her sister, Mrs. Ogilvie, near Allen
dale. She returned to Bamberg on last
Monday afternoon.-Fairfax Enterprise.
1t seems quite probable now that this
will be favorable season for fruit.
Should the cold continue much longer
there will be fruit in abundance, which
will be needed to feed the large crop OF
candidates.
Hon. n. C. Folk is having the walls of
his burnt building torn down, preparatory
to erecting new two-story brick store.
It will be larger than the old building,
as he intends to make it one hundred
feet long.
WANTED.-Two statesmen in each State;
$50 and expenses; permanent position.
Penicks Tobacco Works Co., Penicks, Va.
Members of the building committee say
their attention was not called to the de-
fective lumber being used by the contrac.
tor in the construction Of the new graded
school building. That they discovered 1t
themselves and condemned it.
Call on 81. G. Folk, under the johnson
hotel, and get some big bargains. All
goods, in the least damaged, will be closed
out at great sacrifice. His settlement
with the insurance companies enables him
to cut the bottom out of prices. Don't
fail to call at once.
The warehouse project has been review
ed again, and there is some talk OF a build.
ing being erected to cost about seven
thousand dollars. With $4,000 graded
school building going up, and a $4,000
church and $1,000 warehouse being
spoken of, it can truly be said that Bam-
berg is progressing.
The building committee OF the new
Methodist church are not idle in the mat
ter of erecting new church ediice. Plans
have been secured for handsome brick
building, to cost $500, and it is probable
that this design will be selected: There
is no doubt about it, the church is gong
to be built, and very soon, too.
We are requested by Capt. J. B. Hunter,
chairman of the county pension board, to
announce that the board will meet next
Monday, the first Monday in March, at
the court house, for the purpose of pass.
ing on unfinished business, etc. This will
be the last meeting of the board for this
year: So all interested will please take
notice.
We have discontinued THE HERALD to
several parties this week. They showed
no disposition to pay, and so we were
forced to stop the paper to them. We
cannot afford to send out the kind OF
paper we do at $1.00 per year and then
take more than dollars worth of time
and trouble to collect it. One thing is
certain; those who read The HERALD
must pay for it.
Mr. and Mrs. 8. s. Williams, of the
Govan section, have the sympathy of their
many friends in the death of their thir-