The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-02-23
THE BAMBERG HERALD
Thursday, Feb. %. 1905
: Short Locals.

year for lights ana wafer!
A number of farmers were in the city
last Saturday attending the meeting o
cotton growers.
Ornan lodge, A. F. NJ, held their regu
lar monthly meeting last Friday. night
The Fellow Craft degree was conferred.
The first of March will soon be here
Better be preparing to move your hog
out of town, as council expects to strict!
enforce the law.
The price of cotton is going up. 1fth'
farmers will just stand firm the price viii
90 higher, for much of last years crop Il
still in the hands of planters.
Married, at the residence of the bride'
parents, Feb. 1S, 1905, Mr.. D. P. Ocain, O
Orangeburg, to Miss Matte d. Steedly
Rev. j. 81. Stoudenmire officiating.
Mr.. A. Shep Pearlstine asks that th'
address of his paper be changed IRON
Branchville to New Orleans. Mr.. Pearl
stine is now in business in that city.
City council has had some much.needec
work done on Main street. Now If they
would REQUIRE the sidewalks and street
to be kept clear, we would be still more
grateful.
The graded school suspended exercises
Monday and part of Tuesday out OF re-
spect for Mrs. Finger, who was the mother
of Mrs. J. A. Murdaugh, one of the
teachers.
We expect Bamberg to have water
works and electric lights before long
The negotiations now in progress will no
doubt result in our people having these
necessities.
Mrs. w. 81. Gunnels, on South Main
street, next to the graded school building,
will do all kinds Of sewing at reasonable
prices. VIII guarantee to please all who
favor her with work.
The pungent aroma of guano still fills
theair. Thousands of tons of it are going
to the farms, though the farmers are GER
tainly not buying on as large scale as
they did last year.
When a young man has no more re-
spect for q young woman than to walk
along Main street with her, while smok.
ing cigarette, she should have too much
self-respect to accept his company.
At smoker" given at the Columbia
hotel in Columbia last Friday evening
gby Col. D. A. Spivey, of Horny, to men,
bers Of the house of representatives, Mr..
81. 8. j. Faust, of Bamberg, responded to
the toast, 'sThe Silent Member"
# Bamberg county possesses the ideal
climate and soil for the hOmeseeker or
healthseeker. No better lands can be
found anywhere. Hundreds of farms,
suitable for raising any kind of crop, can
{ be had at ridiculously low prices and on
easy terms.
q Bamberg can well afford water as well
as lights, and we trust that city council
win look carefully into the matter before
signing contract We believe the town
can get fire hydrants and street lights for
the same price Mr.. Chase wanted for the
lights alone.
Mr.. Geo. A. Jennings has purchased
the property known as the Cope hotel,
and will take charge of the house about
April 1st, MI. Jno. 81. Cope retiring from
the hotel business. This is q valuable
piece Of property, and its location makes
il very desirable.
The man who puts in his hard licks on
q farm in 1905, raising chickens and eggs,
vegetables and fruits, corn and wheat,
pess and potatoes, will win out next fall.
The fellow who plants all in cotton will
give away his labor. at cents q pound,
and find himself in debt wben everything
he has made is sold.
The con ngregation of the First Baptist
church in Orangeburg met for worship
last Sunday in the court house, their
church being in the hands OF the carpen-
ders. Extensive Improvements are to be
made and it is probable that it will betWo
or three months before these improve
ments are finally completed.
The dead body of Mr.. W. 81. Hunger
ford. of ,Barnwell, was brought here last
Saturday night on the eight o'clock train,
he having died in the hospital in Colum-
bia af pneumonia. The burial took place
at Springtown Sunday. Deceased was
about forty-fve years old and unmarried.
Hewas brother of Mrs. Arrie Free.
The district meeting of Knights of
Pythias is being held at Denmark today
"wednesday A number OF prominent
public men and Pythians from various
sections of the State are to be present,
and some fine addresses will be made.
Tonight the secret work is to be exemp-
lifed, but the day sessions will be public.
There will be four eclipses, two Of the
sun and two of the moon this year. There
win be partial eclipse of the moon Feb.
10 and an annular eclipse of the sun Mar. 8
both invisible in the United States. There
will be a partial eclipse of the moon
August IA, visible here to II p. m. There
viii be partial eclipse of the sun visible
in this State the morning of August 80.
The editor of this paper is in cores
pondence with parties who desire to put
In waterworks and electric lights for
Bamberg, and it is possible that they may
visit the town this week in order to look
over the situation and make application
to council for franchise. In case the
company does make proposition, the
price of lights will be considerably less
than $50 year.
There was fire in Walterboro last
Wednesday morning, which originated
in the interior of W. J. Fishburne's law
Office. This with its contents was totally
DESTROYED. The Office of G. G. Henderson
next door also caught and was burned
Int most of the furniture, etc., was saved