The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-01-28
THE BANBERG HERALD
Thursday, Jan. %. 1904.
Short Locals.

Short Locals.
Auditor Rowell is out on his rounds
this week, taking tax returns.
Quantities of commercial fertilizer is
being shipped to this point now.
For SALE.-My saw mill, planer and
tram road. ). A. SPANN.
The corner stone of new court house
for Darlington county was laid last week
Mr.. n. O'Neal has established new
connections in the real estate business
and is now prepared to buy as we'll as sell
property.
Miss Bessie Bruce, niece of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. b. Bruce, of this place, will be
married in Williston this evening to MIR
Harry Hazel.
In another column thecity council offers
areward of ten dollars for the apprehen'
sion and conviction of parties who break
the street lamps.
Large naval oranges at NJ. Moye's, 80
cents dozen.
In the election of Club Evans as chair
man of the board of dispensary directors
we have manifestation of the eternal
fitness of things.-Charleston Post.
Mrs. Laura Sharpe, who has been spend
ing several weeks with her daughter, Mrs
81. s. Bowling, at Bamberg, S: c., has
returned home.-Anderson Intelligencer'
A white man near Savannah, Ca, is
charged with having beaten his wife so
SEVERELY that she died from the effects.
Such brute as this deserves burning at
the stake.
Ornan lodge, A. F. NJ, will hold an
interesting meeting tomorrow (Frlday)
evening, at which the Masters degree is
to be conferred.
Notwithstanding the case in the State
courts against the fertilizer trust, prices
of fertilizers have been largely increased.
It seems that there is no aid for the farm
er in our laws.
Mr.. r. 81. Sonntag, of Denmark, won
the second prize of $500 in the port
receipts contest of the Atlanta Constr
tuition. His estimate was within one bale
of the correct number.
Tapioca at N. Moye's.
A white man charged with murder and
3 having been refused bail, is not confined
in Jail but is living with the jailer, over
at Monck's Corner. Queer prison rules
they must have in that county.
Judge Ernest Gary has rendered decis-
s ion in the case of the State against the
Virginia Carolina Chemical Co. He decld-
ed against the company, and now the case
will likely 60 to the State supreme court.
The legislature has killed the bill to
authorize and require the directors ofthe
State penitentiary to erect and equip
fertilizer plants and warehouses for the
manufacture and sale of commercial
fertilizers.
G.. Frank Bamberg has just received
another car load of stock. While the
prices are high this season, he will sell
YOU cheaper than you can buy the same
grade of stock elsewhere. See him if you
. need an animal.
% Alva Smith, prominent turpentlne
! manufacturer of Stark, Fla, was arrested
in Kingstree last week on the charge OF
being an emigrant agent without license.
BE gave bond for $500 for his appearance
\ at the circuit court.
Col. Jno. F. Folk has bought the inter
est of his brother, Hon. n. G. Folk, in
the handsome brick building on Main
street. Col. Folk will fix up an up-to-
date opera house on the second hoor,
which is much needed here.
Matthew F. Tighe, formerly a South
Carolina newspaper man, but who has
been living in Washington Tor several
wears, has been in this state recently IN
( the interest of the candidacy of W. 4.
Hearst for the presidency.
An exchange very truly remarks that
that if you, like some other people, are
so thoughtless as to take up ashes in a
wooden or pasteboard box and set them
on the back steps, don't say it was an
incendiary should you be awakened by
the burning of your house.
A mass meeting of citizens was held in
8 Aiken last Saturday in reference to law
lessness in the State. The meeting was
held in view of Gov. Heyward's special
message to the legislature on the subject
of lynchings and other lawlessness. All
: this agitation does good, and it should be
kept up.
Judge Purdy has rendered decision
which provides that dispensaries may be
established at Lake City and Scranton,
twotown in Williamsburg county. These
towns have been opposing the opening OF
dispensaries, as the citizens know from
the experience of other places, how hard
they would be to get rid of.
I will have the last of the week full
line of seed potatoes and can give close
prices on same. NJ. MOVE.
Our job printing business has amount
!. ed to more this month than any month
since the paper was established. We have
simply been overrun with work, but with
the help of our very faithful workmen,
we can breathe easy again. In addition
to the extra heavy rush OF work, we were
badly handicapped by shipment of paper
being lost by the railroad.
The body of Miss Sophia Mcmillan,
who died in Greenville last Saturday,
was brought here on the train Sunday
morning, where it was met by number
of relatives. The deceased lady was a
sister of Capt J. c. and Mr.. 81. q. Nc
MILAN, and was born and raised in this
. county, although she had made her home