The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-03
THE BAhBERG HERALD
Thursday, May 8. 1906
Short Locals.


Next Monday is the first Monday in the
month. No public sales are to be held.
The Herald is unavoidably delayed this
week, on account of the sickness OF the
editor.
If YOU need meals or hulls, you had
better buy at once, as prices will go up
rapidly.
A movement is on foot to put electric
fans in both the Methodist and Baptist
churches.
Keeprout the flies by using wire screens
for your doors and windows. l.. 3. FoW-
ler sells them.
A number of people from Bamberg at
tended the memorial exercises at Rivers
Bridge last Thursday.
Col. Jno. F. Folk announces in this
issue as candidate for re election to the
Office of County Treasurer.
Ii seems hard to get enough rain to
settle the dust these days. April and
; Nav showers have not been coming our
way much.
On account of the delay in procuring
the rights of way blanks, the railroad
meeting has been postponed until the first
The annual meeting of stockholders OF
the Cotton Oil Company will be held at
the mill office in this city next Monday,
the 7th instant at eleven o'clock in the
morning
The road from this place to Odom's
bridge is now in most excellent condition,
the heavy sand beds on it being all clay
ed. Is is now fine hard road most OF
the distance.
Bamberg will soon be known as the
"city of elms." The shade trees on the
streets are mostly elms, and they are
growing beautifully and add very much
to the looks of the town.
The county convention, railroad meet.
ing. and address of E. D. Smith will take
place in the court house next Monday.
for the railroad meeting.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist church will meet
in the ladies' parlor of the church next
Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. A
full attendance of the members is re-
quested.
From present indications there will be
number of congressional candidates in
the field for the second district this year.
We hear of several men in the various
counties of the district who would like to
represent the district in congress.
1t is probable that Col. W. g. Smith
will be q candidate for the legislature
from Orargeburg county. A card signed
"Citizens" has appeared in all the Orange
2 burg papers calling on him to make the
race. Col. Smith would make q good one.
An assortment of clocks at $1.00 to
$500, at Dickinson's jewelry store.
Some fellow appropriated newspaper
belonging to the editor of The Herald at
the Methodist church last Sunday morn
ing. As we do not know who did it,
4 this notice is written to ask him not to do
it again.
Mr.. J. F. Byrnes, one of the editors of
the Aiken Journal and Review, and court
stenogrspher of the second judicial cir
cult, was married in Aiken yesterday to
Miss Maude Busch, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Busch, MI. Byrnes has many
friends in Bamberg who extend congratu.
lations,
Nice lot of box paper at cost and below,
to close out, at Dickinson's jewelry store.
The financial statement in another
column showing the cost of the new
Methodist church, as we'll as the names
of contributors and amounts paid, will be
of abiding interest to our readers. We
suggest that those who wish to preserve
this statement, clip it out of the paper and
put it away.
You can sing "shoo fly, don't bother
me-" if you will use the wire doors and
window screens I am selling. Call at
Brickle's bicycle shop and see them.
L. B. FOWLER.
There were q number of changes in
railroad schedules last Sunday, and new
train was put on between Blackville and
Kingville. This train runs daily, leaving
Blackville 7:30 a. M, arriving Branch
Vile $50, and Kingville 1855. The
morning train from Charleston arrives
here ten minutes earlier.
Mr.. Chas. McGeiver brought to our
office few days ago two eggs, laid by the
same hen. but entirely different in size.
One is very large and the other is very
small. One would appear to be the egg
of turkey or some large bird, while the
other is small enough to have been laid
by q pigeon. Both eggs are perfectly
formed.
NOTICE-Laundry bills must be paid
weekly as / have to remit every Monday.
Persons having work done must pay the
collector every week when he calls:
F. w. FREE.
A lot of material for the city's electric
light plant is on the ground, and the
wiring of residences has begun. The
poles are being delivered, and the work
of constructing the lines will begin soon.
A lot Of the wire, crossarms, etc., has
been received. In the sales room of the
company are being displayed a lot of nice
fixtures. Call and see them and get prices
on having your house wired.
The directors of Bamberg Banking
Company have employed Messrs. Ed
wards & Walter, architects of Columbia,
to prepare plans and specifications for
the new bank building to be erected on
Main street. Mr.. Edwards was here this
week getting data preparatory to draw
ing the plans. It has not been definitely
decided yet whether two.story or three.
story building will be erected, as this will