The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-04-28
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Thursday, April %, 1910
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

the Town and County.
The county convention meets at
the court house here next Monday.
Be sure to attend the meeting Fri
day afternoon to organize a business
league.
If you had 'em off, you were in
bad fix during the cold weather this
week.
We venture the assertion that
there is as much building going on
in Bamberg as any town It's size IN
the State.
Next Monday is the first Monday
in the month and salesday. There
is one tract of real estate to be sold
by the Master.
See the announcement in this issue
of the contest inaugurated by the
Columbia Record for seven free trips
to Europe, to be awarded to young
ladies.
Rev. Geo. Hopkins, of Allendale,
q brother of the groom, was the
officiating minister at the Hopkins
Jennings marriage in this city last
Wednesday.
The annual meeting of stockhold-
ers of the Cotton Oil Company will
be held at the Office of the company
in this city on Tuesday, May 3rd, at
ten O'Clock a. m.
Married at the home Of the ofici-
ating minister, Sunday, April oath,
Mr.. Willie Christian Hughes and
Miss Ida Lou HERS, Rev. j. Earle
Freeman, officiating.
The committee of ladies appointed
some time ago to buy bell for the
Methodist church have succeeded in
raising sufficient funds, and the bell
was ordered this week.
Remember the graded school mass
meeting in the court house next
Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock.
If you are interested in the welfare
of our graded school, you will be
present.
It seems to us it would be good
idea if city council would procure
!. the old bell at the Methodist church
! for a fire alarm bell. The present
bell is not of sufficient size to be
heard very far.
A gentleman in the city who is
well posted estimates the population
OF Bamberg at 2,765. The guesses
continue to come in, and it will be
seen from those published that the
figures vary great deal.
The Herald Office has been very
busy the past week printing argu-
ments for the Supreme Court, and as
q consequence we issue only four
page paper this week. Next week
we will return to our usual size.
Mr.. J. F. Coggins, local manager
! OF the telephone exchanges at Bam-
! berg, Barnwell, Blackville, and Al
! lendale, has removed his headQuar-
I ters from this city to Blackville, as
that point is more central in his ter
Z ritory.
Don't commit suicide If your real
4 estate does not sell. List it with the
j Denmark Realty Co. c. H. MIL
HOUs, Manager.
Are you intereste in the growth and
!, prosperity of Bamberg? If so, at
: tend the meeting in the city hall
Friday afternoon Of this week and
1 assist in the organization of a busi-
ness league i The organization is
needed here.
Josh Johnson, a negro drayman,
was tried before Mayor Wyman last
week on the charge of selling wh1s-
I key and found guilty. He was fined
500 sor thirty days on the chain
honH ona onnoolod
{ to the circuit court.
The Denmark Realty Co. was or
) ganized to buy and sell real estate,
and incidentally Ito meet long
felt need''-the need of funds. c..
] II. MILHOUS, Manager.
We learn that Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ.
Stubbs, of Augusta, will soon re-
move to this city to live. Mrs.
Stubbs will be remembered at her
old home at Miss Hattie Bamberg,
and Bamberg people will gladly well
come her and Mr.. Stubbs.
If you want to buy or sell real
estate here or elsewhere, take your
Z pen in hand and write the Denmark
Realty Co. c. H. MILHoUs, Man
I ager.
On account of his health, Mr.. H.
j. Brabham has resigned as mem
ber Of the local board of control of
the Carlisle Fitting School,, and j.
Aldrich Wyman, ESQ.,, has been elect
ed to fill the vacancy. The board
sincerely regrets the retirement OF
Mr.. Brabham.
The Denmark Realty Co., Den
mark, S. c., makes it's bow to the
! public and solicits share of your
business. Real estate bought and
sold. c. H. MILHOUS, Manager.
We liked him for his good faith
er's sake before we saw him, and
after making his acquaintance for
his own strong, handsome face and
bright and brainy talk. We are writ
ing of Attorney w. E. Free, Of Bam-
berg, son of Clerk of Court C. B.
Free, an unforgetting friend.-Barn-