The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-11-24

Before you buy see G. E. Bamberg's
line of holiday goods.
Col. ". C. P. Breckenridge, of Ken
lucky, died last week and was buried at
Lexington, H., last Monday.
Court convenes here Monday, Decem-
ber 5th. The first and second week s
petit jurors are published in another
column.
Christmas comes on Sunday this year,
so at last there will be Christmas on
which all our merchants will have to close
their stores.
Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, has announced that he will
be a candidate for governor Of Georgia
next year.
If merchants keep on erecting stands
and putting goods on the sidewalks, it will
soon get so one cannot walk the streets
at all unless they are careful.
The vote in Bamberg county for bien-
NAL sessions of the legislature stood 647
yes to l25no. The biennial sessions won
in the State by good majority.
The amusement loving public will be
pleased with the entertainment o. Hurd,
the magician, at Folks opera house to-
morrow (Friday) evening. Seats on sale
at Hoffman's.
Any one can be suited by present from
G.. E. Bamberg.
Vic Williams, lewd white woman,
was up before Mayor johnson last Mon
day on charge of keeping a disorderly
house. She was fined S25 and admonish-
ed to "go and sin no more"
The appropriation by the State for ad-
vertising notices of election has been ex-
hausted, and some of the newspapers will
have to wait until the legislature meets
and appropriates more money.
In another column will be found the
advertisement of sale of personal property
of the estate of Govan q. Weissinger,
deceased. The sale will take place at the
plantation on Monday, December 18th.
: The building committee has let the con-
tract for erecting new church at Spring
town to A. P. Woodward, of Black7ille.
Work will begin the first of December.
A handsome modern church is to be built.
Dried apples, figs, and peaches at N. B.
Felder's.
The entertainment of Hurd, the magic
ian, with his company of musicians, in
Folks opera house Friday evening, will
be one of the very best and most pleasing
attractions of the season. Be sure to 60.
c. NJ. Van Orsdell, Jr., photographer,
is now in Bamberg, doing all the latest
work in photography. Photos Csc per
half dozen, up. He also does enlarging,
etc. Give him a call. Over DIR. 81. F.
Hoover's drug store.
The Herald Job Office no doubt does
more printing of lawyers briefs for the
State Supreme Court than any Office in
this section. We make specially Of this
kind of work, and our prices are lower
than is usually charged.
Nuts, raisins, citron, currants at right
prices at J. I. Kinard & Sons. Free de-
livery; phone 55.
Mr.. J. M. Jennings, of this place, WHO
has been boring an artesian well at Warn
vile in Hampton county, struck g. flow
last week of 100 gallons to the minute. 1t
is said that the flow will shoot up near
one hundred feet perpendicularly.
Make your friends happy by giving them
present from G. E. Bamberg's.
The county board of commissioners
held called meeting at the court house
last Saturday and changed the comnuta.
ton tax from $500 to $500. The county
treasurer will now receive this amount as
exemption from road duty for one year.
MID. J. Delk has sold his residence
on South Main street to Mrs. Williams, OF
Ulmer, who will move here. At an early
date Mr.. Delk will commence the erec-
ton of a two-story brick building on
Main street, in front Of his carriage shops,
and will occupy the upper story as
dwelling.
Nice line of ladies' and children's jack
cts just arrived at W. D. Rhoad's.
The trustees of the graded school have
donated to the colored school the old
graded school building, and the school
was transferred to that place this week.
This gives the colored school a larger and
better building than the one they were
using. There are about $50 pupils en-
rolled in the colored school.
A. McIver Bostick, Esq, is packing up
preparatory to moving to Beaufort. we
regret very much to see them 60. Bam-
berg can i'll afford to lose such citizens as
these. It has been our good fortune to
have he and his family as next-door neigh,
bors for the past four years, and we feel
a sense of personal loss in their departure.
Christmas shopping turns to pleasure
when you buy from q. E. Bamberg.
The town authorities have done well in
the matter of getting after the lewd Wo-
men Of town. The case on Monday came
up because of the protests and complaints
of residents in the neighborhood where
the woman lived, who felt outraged at the
manner in which vice was fauntcd in
their faces. There are other cases which
council should attend to.
To please your lady, get one of those 5
pound boxes of crystallized fruit from N.
B. Fielder.
There are number of appealed cases
from this county to be heard at the No
vember term of the State Supreme Court,
which convened last Tuesday. Among
them are the cases of Eugenia NJ. Rice
against F. NJ. Bamberg, J. G. Bishop, and
G. w. Beard; W. E. Osteen vs.. Southern
Railway Company; Annie Lee Lancas-