The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-06-04
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhar1t Etchings.

Ehrhardt, May 25.-Mr. c. F. Car
ter, who has been farming for Mr.
R. E. Jones near Lodge and living II
Mr.. Jones's dwelling house, lostall his
household goods and house by lire
last week. Have not learned If Mr.
Jones carried any insurance on the
building. Don't think Mr.. Garter
had any insurance on his household
goods. The loss is very heavy on Mr.
Carter.
Quite crowd Of ladies and gen
tlemen went over to Howell's old mill
site and had fish fry last week
Fish was plentiful, appetites good
and all enjoyed the sports of the day
The only draw back to the occasion
was the red bugs. The young ladies
said they were sassy, and then tc
help out the enjoyment most of the
young ladies got drenched with rain
on their way home. This belongs to
fishermen, however, and was appro'
pirate to make the day complete.
Crops are improving, and there Is
plenty room for it to continue.
Farmers have been very busy get
ting their various crops In good
shape.
A farmer brought me a stalk OF
cotton that was about ten inches high
and had four fairly well matured
forms on it. The beauty of it was he
was not in want Of an extension on
his lien.
A colored farmer, Miles Williams
on Col. c., Ehrhardt's Aver planta.
ton, has twenty acres of the finest
corn I expect in the county. Will
average as high as mans shoulder
all over. He say he is weary paying
the West such high prices for corn
and intends to try to make 1t himself
This is the right idea for all the
farmers to follow. Make plenty OF
corn and hay and then all the cotton
they can, and when this Is done we
will be independent, and 1t can be
done 80 easily.
Mr.. George Folk says the plums
are plentiful on his route and very
juicy and sweet, but says they are not
near as sweet as the young ladies.
Col. Jno. F. Folk and brother,
Henry, took an automobile ride Sun
day to the Folk section. Took din
|ner visa their father, Mr.. H. N.
Folk, and stopped as they passed
back through town. The roads are
in fine fix now for such riding.
Practically no, water and rain
enough to settle the dust. -
Mr.. C.. r. Clayton was bitten, or
stung by spider last week. The
doctor soon overcame the poison,
but Mr.. Clayton at one time thought
it was time for him to pass in his
checks. He was a sick man. He
hasn't gotten able to get out yet,
but think he will. soon be about his
work again.
Mrs. Lizzie Mcmillan, of Colston,
spent Saturday with her sister; Mrs.
Phil Padget.
Mrs. S. M. Brown is spending
some time with her daughter, Mrs.
DR.. kirkland, who is very i'll. Hope
that she may have speedy recovery.
Some rains are reported in various
parts of the county, but not general.
Messrs. Marvin Bishop and Talbert
Warren, sons of Messrs. l.. M. Bishop
and w. L. Warren, left these parts
without notice last night. They took
from Mr.. Lewis Bishops lot his best
mule. The buggy belonged to Mr..
Marvin Bishop. The mule was
worked by a contract hand on Mr..
Bishops plantation, so it makes 1t
very bad for him at this season of
the year. These two young men left
home in company year or 80 ago,
and their absence this morning
makes their parents believe that they
have gone again, this time with con-
veyance so they can't be captured by
their parents as easily as on the
previous occasion. JEE.