The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-02-16
THE BAMBERG HERALD
Thursday, Feb. IS, 1905
Short Locals.

Short Locals.
We are glad February is a short month
If the weather is to continue like it has
thus far.
If any subscriber fails to get his paper
regularly and promptly, he will confer
favor by letting it be known at this office
Few realize that some work should be
done in the gardens every month IN the
year, with the possible exception of De-
cember.
Florida strawberries are said to be late
this year, no doubt being retarded by the
cold. Only one shipment has been made
so far.
The ground hog, if sensible animal
must have gone deeper in its burrow on
Thursday than at the beginning of the
winter.
If you don't put plenty of thought work
into your garden in spring, you need
not expect much of a crop of vegetables
in summer.
The wayfaring man though fool can
tell that there is more money in ten acres
in cotton at ten cents than in twenty
acres at five cents.
Ten acres in cotton at ten cents is more
money than twenty acres with cotton at
five cents. Remember this, farmer, when
planting your crop.
The rural mail carriers have hard
time when the billiards come. Taking
one consideration with another, their life
is not altogether happy one.
The latest "fad' among the young girls
in some of our neighboring towns is the
collection of boys handkerchiefs and
making Friendship shirtwaist."
If you don't believe country editor
has tough life, take his place about one
month and try it: then you will say that
he earns every dollar that is owing him.
Mr.. Ernest Hoffman who was so badly
scalded at the cotton mills little more
than two weeks ago, has recovered
enough from his injuries to be out again.
If the demand for wood increases for
the next twenty years as it has for the
last, people out in the country will burn
coal, cornstalks, cobs or anything except
wood.
Our paper has not as much reading
matter as usual this issue, but we think
we have done pretty well to set out any
paper at all, considering the difficulties
We have labored under.
February Goth will soon be here, and
very few people have, returned their
property for taxation. The auditor can
not make up his books that way, and will
be compelled to put on the penalty for
non return after the Goth.
The Woman's Home Missionary Soci-
ETY. of the Methodist church will hold its
regular monthly meeting, next Tuesday
afternoon, at 8 o'clock, at the home of
Mrs. H. J. Bra5ham, Sr. All members are
urgently requested to be present.
The appropriation bill passed by the
LEGISLATURE increases State taxes from to
81 mills It is claimed that this is done to
get the State out of debt. yet expenses are
being increased every year. The levy for
Bamberg county was fixed at a mills.
MIR. J. o. Kearse, of the Kearse section,
was in the city last Saturday. He has
about recovered from severe fall he re-
ceiyed just before Christmas. He fell
from his buggy and injured his spine, but
I he is about well again, although for six
weeks he was confined to his bed.
This kind of weather is good time to
plan for the future 1t is high time to-
decide which fields should be planted in
each crop and how the land should be
prepared and fertilized. Don't fail when
doing this, to assign plenty of room to the
truck patches and fodder crops.
Cards are out announcing the coming
marriage of Miss Dora Frances Ehrhardt,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Ehr-
hardt, to Mr.. Frank Hawkins Copeland.
]. The ceremony is to take place at the
home of the brides parents in Ehrhardt
on Wednesday evening, March 1st.
81 If cotton does not bring good price
this fall, we do not think it will be the
fault of Bamberg county's planters.
Many of them will reduce their acreage
Of cotton and the amount of fertilizer
used. If every farmer will do this cotton
will bring a legitimate price. The price
now is below its value.
q We have our engine up now and it is
running in nice shape. BY the time our
paper is printed no doubt our electric
lights will be installed, aswe have all the
flaL6Ildl OH uouO ouO OdlS "oIe oA 9dO
workmen to wire the building. Our
friends are cordially invited to drop in at
any time and see the most up-to-date
ablishment in Bamberg.
& Why will not the farmers house their
cotton and protect it from the weather?
On the train to Augusta last week we
noticed numbers of bales of cotton lying
out on the ground, exposed entirely to
the weather. This damages cotton, and a
little care would save it. If you haven't
3 house to put it in, at least lay some
boards or scantling under it to keep it off
the ground.
Mr.. Clarence Baxter and Miss Jessie
Walker were married at the Methodist
parsonage in Denmark last Sunday even
ing, Rev. E. 81. Beckham officiating.
There were no attendants, the marriage
being quiet one. Mr.. Baxter is superin-
stendent of the Denmark oil mill, while
the bride is neice of Mr.. J. A. Walker.
They have the congratulations and best
wishes of their friends.
/ was at Bamberg, the guest of DR..
George F. Hair and Pastor J. B. Holly.