The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-08-11
THE BAMBERG HERALD
Thursday, August II. 1904
Short Locals.

start up again next Monday.
There is small flow at the new arte-
sian we'll, and work on it has been stop
ped.
The store of c. r. Brabham s Sons has
been much improved by repaintlng the
interior.
Mr.. 81. A. Ray is now occupying the
Fitting School cottage vacated by MIR. }.
/. Kinard.
The primary election comes on apace,
and the candidates are out busy hustllng
for votes.
To RENT-The store now occupied by
81. c. Folk. Apply to S. W. johnson,
Bamberg, S. c.
The Young Peoples Missionary Society
will meet at Mrs H 8 Sheridan's Saturday
afternoon at $50 o'clock.
All street work has been discontinued
for the present on account of the depleted
condition of the towns treasury.
The Midway school opened Monday
morning, August 1st, with fourteen schol-
ars. Mr. D T Smoak is the principal.
Messrs Charles W Rice and Monnie Lee
Sandifer have been awarded the scholar
ships in Clemson College from this
county.
The list of managers for the primary
election will be printed next week. They
were not given to US in time for insertion
in this issue.
A county campaign meeting is to be
held at Milhouss spring, arranged tor oy
the Denmark and Milhous Mill Demo-
cratic clubs.
Dry stove wood delivered anywhere in
town on short notice. j. P. MATHEW.
Dr.JB Black and Messrs. Robert Black
and G. 81 Smoak attended the meeting at
Carter's Ford Baptist church, in Colleton
county, last Sunday.
We would be glad for city council to
remember that we have to wade to get
into our house some times on account OF
the condition of the street.
A force of carpenters has been at the
depot this week making repairs at the
passenge and freight stations. A lot OF
much needed work is being done.
There are rumors that the Ehrhardt
campaign meeting is to be called OH put
so far as we have been able to learn the
meeting will be held as advertised
Mr. Bennyfeld, overseer of the card
room at the cotton mill, has moved into
the Fishburne house on Carlisle street,
lately occupied by Mr.. H. A. Ray.
The store occupied by W. A. Klauber
and owned by G. Moye Dickinson has
been heightened by an addition of forty
feet and new shelving is now being put IN.
Misses Lula and Gwendolyn .Risher, of
Bamberg, who have been visiting the
family Of Capt. G. W. Raysor, returned
to their home this week.-Walterboro
Press and Standard.
For the next forty days NJ. Moye will
give away free $1,000 in gold.
Crops in this section have been badly
damaged by the recent heavy rains. There
has been entirely too much water, and
cotton is shedding badly. The yield will
be cut short in consequence.
A party consisting of Messrs j A Byrd,
7 A Spann, W E Spann, W NJ Brab-
ham, q F Spann, and DR.. F F johnson
win leave tomorrow for atrip to Boston,
New York, and other Northen cities.
A county campaign meeting has been
appointed for Friday, August 18th. Inc Inc
Denmark, Lees, and Hightower's Mill
clubs asked for the meeting and County
Chairman Folk appointed it as an offlclal
campaign meeting.
Mr. R. Matheny has erected a nice
residence on the old Hartzog place near
town. 1t is situated on the hill at the
site of the old residence which was burn
ed some years ago, and is an admirable
location for dwelling.
We understand that Mr. VIM Toney, of
Johnston, will not move to Bamberg and
open cotton Office, as was announced
last week. He has given up the lease on
the store now occupied by h Z Folk, and
it is now advertised for rent.
Everything points to a prosperous fall
, season in Bamberg. Our merchants are
on their mettle, and propose to make this
a record breaking season in the high
prices paid for cotton and the low prices
at which they will sell goods.
M. Moye will give away free $1,000 in
gold for the next forty days.
The friends in this county of DR. A F
Langford will regret to learn that he tell
and broke his leg near the hip last week,
and Is now IN q Crltlcal conuitiou. ho -
the father of Mrs J D Quattlebaum, and
lives at Prosperity, Newberry county.
MIR W A Mobley, of Denmark, who has
been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs A
C Mobley, is at the city hospital OF Au-
gusta where he underwent an operation
for appendicitis, and is now recovering
very rapidly under the circumstances
Johnston News
Mr. Ben F Brown, a we'll known young
man, died at the residence of Mr. q w
Beard ip the Colston section Monday of
last week. BE had been in bad health for
long time he leaves widowed moth
er and other relatives as well as many
friends. BE was about thirty years old.
Some people think fine apples cannot
be raised in this part of the country, but
they would have changed their minds had
they seen the fine ones shown US by Miss
Caro- Lee Kistler, of Denmark. The fruit
from this tree is exceptionally fine and
large, the apples weighing one pound
each.
Our "devil" is now in the market for
IL ;e olroo6v uo,6 iunner