The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-07
Thf Bamthrrg Frralh
Thursday, July 7, 1910
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town apd County.

The Bamberg Guards will leave
next Saturday for the encampment at
Chickamauga.
Attend the good roads meeting in
Bamberg on Tuesday, July 18th. You
will be benefited.
No freight trains were run here
Monday and Tuesday, on account OF
fourth of July holiday.
The Denmark Realty Company Is
delivering the goods. Try them ii
you want to buy or sell real estate or
stocks. c. H. MILHOUS, Manager.
Wofford College Quartette at Car
Isle Fitting School Wednesday even
ing July 18th. Prices 35c, soc, 75c.
Seats on sale at Peoples Drug Co.
Have your clothes cleaned at Frees
Pressing Club. Dry cleaning done.
Satisfaction guaranteed. We send
for and deliver your clothes. Phone
No. 81.
Wesley Banks, a colored man,
brought us few days ago an ear OF
corn which was twelve inches long
and shaped very much like the head
of a catfish.
Monday, being legal holiday, Tues
day was sales day. Few people came
to town, however, and the only public
sales were some tracts of land sold
by the sheriff for taxes.
The State board of equalization is
to meet in Columbia on Wednesday,
July goth, to assess railroads, cotton
mills, etc. Mr.. S. D. Guess, of Den
mark, is the member from this
county.
Don't fail to hear the Wofford Col
lege Quartette which will appear at
the Carlisle Fitting School in this
city Wednesday evening, July 18th.
Prices, 35c, soc, 75c. Seats on sale
at Peoples Drug Co.
DR.. L. A. Hartzog, of Olar, recently
stood his examination before the
State board of medical examiners
and passed successfully. He has been
granted a license by the State board
to practice medicine.
At a regular quarterly meeting of
the board of county commissioners,
held here Monday, the following cot
ton weighers were elected. Geo. A.
Jennings, Bamberg; Asa Baxter, Den
mark; B. w. HERS, Ehrhardt; S. L..
HERS, Olar.
The Francis Marion Bamberg
Chapter of the U. D. G. will meet next
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. NJ. E. Aver, promptly at five
o'clock. 1t is hoped that all mem
bers will be present, and chairmen of
the committees are urged to attend.
The recent heavy rains have done
material damage to crops in this Sec
ton; and the farmers are not feeling
good over the outlook. The cotton
crop in this county will be short,
many predicting that not more than
fifty per cent. of the usual yield can
be made.
In 1906 there were ten automo-
biles registered in Bamberg county.
In 1910 thirty-six are registered, and
we sbelieve the number at this date
is possibly greater. The money in
vested. in automobiles in this county
would establish several manufacture
ing enterprises.
The protracted services at the
Methodist church closed last Friday
night, and Rev. E. K. Hardin, who
had been assisting Rev. T. G. Her
bert, left Saturday morning for
, Orangeburg, where he will preach at
of the illness of the pastor, Rev. H..
st. Jaul during the summer, because
W. Bays.
The catalogues of the Carlisle Fit
ting School were issued from the job
printing department of this newspa-
per this week, and they are now be-
ing sent out The catalogue gives in
teresting information to those who
have sons and daughters to educate.
Send to Head Master Guilds for a
copy.
Now that the county supervisor
has improved the Ehrhardt road very
materially, it seems to us that it is
up to city council to do some work
on Carlisle street. This is now a
sand bed and should be clayed. 1t
looks bad to have traveller ind
this street in worse shape than the
county road.
There were eight applications fol
the Winthrop college scholarship