The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-08-11
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS.
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Country Correspondence.

The heretofore dry spell has been per:
manently broken by the rainy season, so
to speak, and again the face Of the farmer
is drawn in long lines, as the fodder is
going to decay by the continued rain.
Mr. II H Hill and family, of Sanford,
Fla, visited relatives and friends in our
midst Sunday and Monday.
Miss Pearl Sandifer returned home Sat-
urday, after weeks pleasant visit to Miss
Kathleen Chisolm at Colston.
Miss Edna Stokes, charming young
lady of Walterboro, was a guest in our
midst Sunday and Monday. She will ac-
company Mr. Hills family to Florida for
the winter season.
Your humble scribe visited relatives and
friends at Colston last week, incidentally
attending the protracted services at that
place. Rev T Sandifer, assisted by Revs
J Il Stoudenmire and S P Chisolm,
preached some eloquent sermons and as
reward for their diligent work twenty or
more names were added to the member
ship of the church.
The meeting was continuation OF
pleasure and plain. The former was made
manifest by the entertainment, both at
church aad at home, as the Colston folks
are happy, jolly, and hospitable people
and know we'll how to satisfy the hungry.
The latter was made manifest by sickness
and death, as so many in that neighbor-
hood were and are lying on beds of aflic-
ton, and on last Monday morning at 9
o'clock the angel of death, who has been
lowering so closely around the form Of
Mr. Ben F Brown, came and claimed him
for it's own. His health has been on the
decline for number of years, and for the
last two months or more his many friends
have felt quite anxious about him. he
passed away at the home of his grand
mother, at Colston, having come there for
medical attention from his brother-in-law,
DR. Ed Kirkland. Ben numbered his
friends bv the score, as was clearly shown
bv the visitors who fingered at his bed
side and the many who paid the last trib-
ute of respect on Tuesday morning at
Bethesda, where he was laid to rest by his
wife, who went before three years age.
The funeral was preached by Rev j b
Stoudenmire, as his pastor, Rev S P
Chisolm, was sick, and the Knights Of
Pythias of Ehrhardt took charge of the
service at the grave, where he was laid to
rest under Pythian honors. he was a
young man of about twenty-seven years,
and leaves widowed mother and sister,
Mrs Kirkland, to mourn his death, and
scores of friends and relatives to sympa-
thize with them. May they realize that
He doeth all things wisely.
Mr. W G. Folk, of Clear, Pond, has Or
ganized singing school at Spring Branch
We understand that later on he is to con-
duct Sunday-school at the same place.
The entire family of Mr. John Strong
have typhoid fever.
DR. W A Hanberry, Of Denmark, visited
his niece, Mrs O P Jordan, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs N J Padgett, OF Spring
Branch, spent Saturday and Sunday with
their mother, Mrs Julia Sandifer, of this
vicinity.
We return many thanks to Supervisor
Bruce and Overseer E Smoak for cut
ting out the hedge row on Lemon Swamp
crossing.
The protracted rleetings, picnics, fish
fries, etc, are about passed and there's
nothing left for the country folks in the
line of amusement to do. So guess the
men folks can kill time by eating melons,
watching the clouds, etc, while the ladies
have to can fruit and vegetables and la.
ment over the hot weather and soiled
dresses that they have as souvenirs OF
recent rains, etc.