The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-11
THE BkhBERG HERALD
Thursday, May Ii, 1905
Short Locals.

Hulls and meal can now be had at the
Cotton Oil Company.
CITY council will hold another speclal
meeting Friday evening.
It's up to you-what?.--dry wood'-Where
at Murphy's wood yard.
CITY council expects to hold weekly
meeting, for the next month OF 1"o'
The friends of Mr. W. a. Klauber are
congratulating him over the arrival OF a
son.
Stop, look, listen, and when in need OF
stove wood, send your orders to j. harry
Murphy.
Preparations are being made for the
closing exercises at the Fitting scnool
and graded school.
Mr.. L. C. Price received handsome
oak refrigerator on Tuesday for use IN
his meat business.
Capt. w. "A. Riley, town clerk and
treasurer. has fitted up an office upstairs
in the town hall building.
Panama hats, Manhattan shirts, Shaw
knit sox. Perfection in each line. You
can get them at w. D. Rhoads.
Our new city council has gone to WORK
in an energetic manner, and we expect
GOOD results from their administration.
Now the summer girl will soon begin
to freeze on the reckless youth who has a
mania for squandering his money for ice
cream.
Bicycle riders better be careful about
riding fast and keep off the sidewalks of
Main street. Fast driving on Main street
will also be stopped.
G. Frank Bamberg sold his fine colt
last Monday to Mr.. Whisnonant from
Orangeburg county. We understand ne
received fancy price.
The many friends of Mr.. NJ. N. Rice
will regret to hear of his illness. Dr.
Jennings, of Orangeburg county, went
down to see him on Monday.
MIC. Redmon, formerly one OF the
faculty of the Carlisle Fitting School, was
admitted to the practice sof law by the
State Supreme Court last THURSDAY. -.
Better pay your street tax before the
18th of this month. Council does not;
propose to extend the time indefinitely,
as has been largely the custom heretofore.
The grand lodge Knights of Pythias
will convene in Beaufort next week. Col:
Jno, F. Folk and B. W. Miley, Esq, will
attend as delegates from Bamberg lodge
Mr.. J. NJ. Jennings has finished the
artesian we'll for Mr.. j. A. Spann and DR..
H. F. Hoover, and he obtained fine flow.
He will now 60 to Allendalet to bore wells
there.
Mr. s. A. Hand desires through this
paper to express his thanks and gratitude
to the citizens of Denmark who so kindly
recommended him for the position o.
marshal at Bamberg.
Miss Nettie Seward, who was formerly
milliner for Mrs. K. |. Shuck & Co., was
married recently in New York to Mr.. }:
3. Brooke, of Quitman, Ga. They will
make their home in Quitman..
The new artesian well Just completed
by Mr.. J. NJ. Jennings for Mr.. ]. A.Spann
and DR.. 81. F. Hoover is one OF the finest
in town. The water is exceptionally hne,
and the flow is no doubt the largest of any
well in the city.
The sidewalks of Bamberg are clear
for the first time in many years. The
merchants moved all their goods this
week. and now pedestrians can walk the
street without having to walk around
boxes, barrels, etc.
Our merchants should remember that
conncil intends to enforce the law against
nnttinp goods of any kind or any obstruc-
tion on the sidewalks. After Saturday
night offenders will be arrested and nned.
Remember this and save trouble.
The regular examination of teachers
for the public schools of the county will
he held in this city on Friday the 10Th
instant. The notice of the county super.
intendent of education in reference to
the examination appears IN another
column.
We have spoken to several OF cur bus''
ness men and they are all IN favor OF
business league or board OF trade or
something of the kind. Somebody ought
to start the movement to organize. Who
will do it? There is plenty OF WORE Tor
such an organization to do.
It is violation of law to ride bicycle
on the sidewalks of Main street between
the railroad and the cotton mills. Riders
have been careless about this recently,
and council intends to enforce the ordl-
dance rigidly. So you had better ride IN
the street if you want to avoid arrest.
Rev: Frank Willcock, the Presbyterian
minister, is making Bamberg his head
quarters, and will be here for the next
two months. Mrs. Willcock and the
children have gone North, and he also
expects to go about the first OF July,
when he will have vacation.
Congressman Patterson is interested IN
establishing free rural mail deliveries
throughout this county and district, and
invites correspondence fom everyone
interested in rural mail deliveries, and he
viii be glad to render his his, aid and as
sistance, and will forward to them blank
petitions and information concerning
same.
CONGRESSMAN J. O. Patterson will be
Glad to have all persons interested in tish
and fish culture to write him, and he will
have the department in Washington to
send each of them blank applications for
fish. with information and instructions as
to fish culture, and will procure from the
,A.sx - eupplu of all kinds 0f fish to