The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-08-01
COUNTRY NEWS LETTER.

SUC1NAN1 lNA w - AAA AAAs
A BUDGET OF NEWS FROM A LIVE
CORRESPONDENT.
Personal and News Items-Reunion of
Confederate Veterans at Be-
thesda Church.
Quite number of things have
happened since we wrote to The
Herald's columns, butso much of the
happenings have been sad ones we
have refrained from writing, and
now we find lot of sickness, and
some of an aggravated type, that we
have to chronicle.
Several members of Mr.. William
Hughes family, Miss Ora Smoak
and Miss Lillian Sandifer are sick,
but we trust that each will soon be
restored to their usual strength.
Mrs. S. w. Sandifer spent few
days of last week with her parents at
Ehrhardt and returned homeM Monday.
Mrs. Henry Wilson and Miss Eva
Hanberry, of Denmark, spent last
Wednesday at the home Of Mr.. 0. P.
Jordan.
The rain and winds have done con-
siderable damage to the crops. The
corn is badly broken down in some
places, and the farmers face is full
Of crows feet.
Misses Minnie and Daisy and Mr..
Ola Aver, of Clear Pond, were in our
midst Monday.
Protracted services were held at
Spring Branch Baptist church last
week. Five members were added to
the church. Rev. S. P. Chisolm, Of
Colston, is the beloved pastor there.
Protracted services will begin at
Pleasant Hill NJ. E. church Thursday,
August 1st. Hope all a spiritual feast.
Your humble scribe spent a few
days at Clear Pond last week. While
there was Hospitality entertained at
the home of Mrs. E. E. Mitchell; also
spent a very pleasant evening at
social gathering with the Misses
Walker and another with the Misses
Zeigler. These young hostess are
ever ready to make their guests enjoy
themselves, and withal Clear Pond
hospitality is typical of friendliness
devoid of sarcasm. -
The old soldiers reunion of Go. G,
held at Bethesda last Thursday, was
real reunion in every sense of the
word. At an early hour folks began
filling the grove that is studded with
rustling oaks and stately pines, till it
began to be difficult to find room for
the many vehicles and animals that
graced the grounds.
A special program had been ar
ranged, and an address of welcome
was delivered by Miss Deborah Zeig-
ler, after prayers and music. A flag
drill by the Clear Pond school pupils
was very pretty and appropriate, the
music being furnished to that by
Messrs. Lucius Mitchell, John Folk,
J. H. Pearson, and Charlie Aver,
which was sweet and melodious. The
soldiers nearly shouted when the stars
and stripes began to wave to the song
of Dixie being sung by the children.
Col. D. S. Henderson, of Aiken,
was the orator of the day, and was
introduced by Capt. J. B. Hunter.
Capt. Hunter, in his jovial way, in
troduced him as the product Of the
gall-berry bush region, and presented
him to the old soldiers as Dan. " The
pen of this writer is too feeble to de-
scribe the address presented to all,
each and every one, by this very able
speaker. His hearers are wont to
think he had studied every individual
under his voice, as he had a fitting
remark in his address suited to every
vocation, never forgetting to empha-
size the full meaning and necessity of
heroism and bravery that goes to the
making of any life, be it on the bat
tle-feld, surrounded by the shell and
storm of a raging battle, or nesting
closely to strong protector. He paid
greatest respect to our Southern wo-
men during the struggles of the COS,
and impressed the younger women of
the great responsibility they are hold
ing in their hands, speaking in strong,
chastising terms of the boys and their
pistols, never forgetting to try to in
still it in us Of how we are enjoying
what our fathers suffered, bled, and
died for, and showing us those few
that were there to tell the tale. We
feel sure that the love of country and
this dear old Carolina of ours is
stronger in every heart than before
hearing Col. Henderson's speech. And
may it please the gall-berry regions
of Bamberg county to send forth men
who love their country and her honor
as Capt. J. B. Hunters orator OF
Colleton county tried to beg them to
love, and we think we can safely say
there is plenty of love, bravery and
patriotism among the present gener-
alton. Col. Henderson's speech was
not devoid of mirth, and feel sure
every person enjoyed it, as it was v
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