The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-28
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Thursday, March %, 1907
Short Locals.

Better register II you wish TO vote
at the coming municipal election.
Mr.. J. A. Spann is erecting two
story stores. He will put Offices in
the upper story.
Next Sunday is Easter, and there
will be special services at the Metho-
dist church in this city.
A nice cement sidewalk is being
put down in front of the Bamberg
Banking Company's new building.
We would like a copy of The Her
aid of January 31st. Will not some
friend bring US paper of that date!
< Mrs. Cox has moved into the resi-
dence, on Railroad Avenue, which
she bought from Mr.. Geo. A. Jen-
nings.
The dispensaries in this county
were opened last week. Inspector
Floyd was here and checked up the
stock on hand.
We wish city council would pass
an ordinance requiring all bicycles to
be equipped with bells and carry a
lighted lantern at night.
The postofice at Jenny has been
; discontinued, and mail for this point
now goes to Brunson and Ulmer and
from there by rural routes.
The dispensary board of control Of
Barnwell county elected n. u: W.:
Walker as book-keeper and clerk of
the board at a salary of $75 per
month.
In another column County Su-
perintendent of Education Rowell
gives notice of the spring examina-
ton of applicants for teachers GER
tifcates.
The union meeting of the second
division of the Barnwell Association
will meet with the Colston church
next Saturday and Sunday. A full
attendance is requested.
Remember that Friday, April 26th,
will be observed as memorial day at
Rivers Bridge memorial grounds.
Col. w. w. Lumpkin; of Columbia,
will be the orator of the day.
There was a regular meeting of
Bamberg lodge, Knights of Pythias,
last Monday evening, at which the
rank of Knight was conferred upon
Clarence Free and J. NJ. Sizemore.
It is said that last Wednesday and
Friday were the hottest days that
has been felt in March in thirty
years. The thermometer played
around the 80 mark for several
hours. -.-..>...-. ...:.2.... ,.'.e
j.. w. Smith, of Olar, and Mrs. Ray
were married Sunday, March 10.
After the ceremony they left for
Jacksonville, where they will spend
while.-Walterboro Press and
Standard.
You must sign your name now,
when you buy liquor at the dispensa-
ries. The attorney general says the
request, books must be used, and
Dispensary Auditor West has notified
all dispensers that they must comply
with the law strictly, The request
books are being used at the Bamberg
dispensary.
The trucks under the tender of the
engine of the afternoon train came
loose Tuesday afternoon while the
train was near the oil mill on its way
to Branchville. This delayed pas
sengers here for several hours. A
wrecking train was sent from
Branchville to get the tender back
on the track.
How quickly you can tell a live
! town from a dead one by simply
looking over it's newspaper. A poor
skim milk sort of paper with few
small advertisements, and those look
ing as though they we're run at cut
rates, betokens a dead town just as
sure as corpse indicates funeral,
while good lively, wel-printed
newspaper, filled with good fresh
ads. and displayed locals, shows that
the town is prospering and thriving.
Male Quartette on Lyceum Course.