The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-02-11
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.

News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, Feb. S.-We have had a
week Of very fine, cool weather. The
farmers killed more, or better said,
their remaining porkers, and, as they
term it, hung their meat" that they
had in salt for some time.
Sunday the wind rose high and the
temperature has registered several
degrees lower.
1t is thought by most of our best
farmers that the oat crop in this sec
ton has been greatly damaged by the
cold. Some fields show that they are
In bad shape, as the oats are yellow.
Even the rye patches about have
spots in them, where the grain was
advanced, have been killed.
Miss Moye Brabham is spending
some time with her uncle. Chief J.
W. Priester.
Our town was crowded on Satur-
day, hunting prices of fertilizer and
advances. Some are not securing
the latter as readily as last year.
MIR. and Mrs. Geo. F. Kinard
spent Sunday with their daughter,
Mrs. Sim Sandifer.
Mrs. Bertha Jones left Sunday for
Augusta, Ca, where she will spend
a few days with her husband. From
there she will 60 to Atlanta, Ca. to
see the fashions and buy pattern
hats.
A few bales of cotton still come
to town every week. Some few bales
are still left for the farmers to look
at. JEE.
Colston Cuttings.
Colston, Feb. s.-We are having
some very fine weather for the past
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Bishop visited
their parents. MIR. and Mrs. w. c..
Folk, last Sunday.
MIR. Willie Bishop and sister,
Miss Emma, from Ehrhardt, visited
friends and relatives on Colston last
Saturday night and Sunday.
Mrs. J. P. Bishop and daughter,
Ida, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Beard
and two daughters, and Mr.. and Mrs.
w. B. Fender and daughter, Hllma,
were the guests of MIR. }. G. Bishop
last Sunday.
Pindar shellings are the go
around here There was one at Mr..
c. C. Tenders last Friday night, and
one at Mr.. Abner Tenders last Sat-
urday night.
Mr.. C. F. Padgett went to Olar
Monday to see about ordering fertl-
lizer for this crop.
Mrs. Lizzie Walker and daughter,
Miss Reba, who have been spend
ing some time with friends and rela-
tives, returned home this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Fender visited
friends near Olar Saturday and Sun
day.
MIR. Philip Padgett is all smiles.
They are two boys.
Mr.. C. C. Fender has real sick
cow. 1t can't stand up. 1t seems to
have rheumatism or weak knees.
Mr.. J. G.. Avant and Mr.. Frank
Padgett, from Lodge, visited Colston
last Sunday.
Miss Letitia Bishop spent last Sat-
urday night with Mr.. and Mrs. W. A.
Fender.
Mrs. w. C.. Folk, who has been
suffering with rheumatism. is still in
bed.
Mrs. J. NJ. Grimes and Miss
Adrine Padgett, from Bamberg, Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Padgett last
Saturday.
Mr.. J. E. Bishop and Mr.. c. F.
Spiessegger went to Bamberg last
Saturday.
Mr.. J. C. Bishop went to Olar last
Thursday. A. l.. b.
Crap Shooters Fight.
Atlanta, Ca, Feb. S.-Searcn is
being made for six negroes who were
engaged in crap game Sunday in
the outskirts of Atlanta, when two
policemen were assaulted and a
seventh crap-shooter was killed. 1t is
thought the negroes who escaped are
mostly seriously injured as probably
two dozen shots were fired in the
dark room and the negroes jumped