The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-11-24
ETCHINGS FROM EHRHARDT
WHAT OUR NEIGHBORS IN THAT
SECTION ARE DOING.
New Bank Opened-Mr. Priester
Buys Farm, and MIR. Ehrhardt
an Automobile.

moon went lulO ECLIPSE, wednesday
of last week, The Herald's CORE
spondent was stopping with friend
living several miles Bambergward
from here. While discussing the
cause of the eclipse the aforesaid
friend explained that 1T was the tail
of Halls Comic crossin' over the face
of the MOON" Wow!
The jolt showed us into a back seat,
where we sat ruminating till the mys-
|terious and following resolve opened
to our astonished vision plain as the
handwriting on the wall:
Resolved, That a statute of the
aforesaid man living Bambergward
be placed in the hall of fame in honor
of the great Captain whose astronom-
ical discoveries may yet startle the
scientific world
The Merchants and Farmers Bank,
the second bank for this place, open
ed it's doors for business Tuesday, the
18th instant. John NJ. Kirkland,
manager of the Farmers Mercantile
Co., is president; Haigler A. Hughes,
vice president; and W. Max Walker,
cashier. The directors are: H. l..
Kinard, DR.. ]. H. Roberts, J. NJ. Dan
nelly, J. E. Mcmillan, G. J. Herndon,
H. A. Hughes, and John NJ. Kirkland.
The bank is capitally differed, and
with it's present force of brains and
energy to direct it's course, the be-
lief is current that it will be the me-
dunn to be reckoned with in trade
circles of this community for long
while to come.
Mr.. Charles Ehrhardt has just
bought an up-to-date and decidedly the
handsomest automobile that was
ever brought to this town. The cost
of the car, it is said, is $1,000. We
do not expect the honor Of a ride in
the costly tlier, but will experience
no little pleasure in being permitted
to stand on the corner and see
Charley go by.
Chief of Police w. Priester con-
|cluded negotiations last week for, the
purchase of the Joiner place, in the
Mrs. Esther sease community, three
miles from town, containing some
354 acres of valuable farming lands,
for the spot cash price of $1,000.
The land is very desirable, and Mr..
Priester now has the coveted and
well-deserved opportunity Of his
life in which to show what past sue
cess in the field proves him to be
farmer in the full sense of the
word.
Messrs. w. L. Mitchum and j. W..
Priester were in attendance upon
the Federal Court in Columbia for
several days of last week, awaiting
trial of cause pending, in which the
former is plaintiff and the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad Company is the
defendant. The case was continued.
Perhaps individual experience in
this connection is admissible and
worth relating here. Many, many
years ago, oh how long! the indi-
vidual in question had thirry-tWo
dollar case in the Barnwell courts,
His lawyer, whom he believed to be
something of a deity then, but who
proved to be in later years a being
of the inferno, had him hiking be-
tween the run and the fly to and
from the court house period with
out cessation embracing seven sue
cessive terms of the court, a little
over two years. When the case was
eventually tried, the individual got
for his pains what they say the devil
shot at-nothing. 1t was then he be-
gan to wabble under the strain OF
horse feed, hotel and frolic bills in
Cured at each term of the court
from the incipiency of the case,
which in the end trebled in amount
that sued for at law. 1t was then
there was some writing on the wall,
or rather upon the forehead of the
individuals little deity, and it was
as plain as that interpreted by Daniel
for Belshazzar: Thou art weighed
in the balance and found wanting
Only once since, in all these years,
has the individual sought redress for
any cause before court of law. 1t
was a small matter, indeed, but evo-
luted out of that form of meenness
that increased in rankness with eacn
passing night, when a nearby negro
tenant on an adjoining place turned
his stock on the individuals growing
crops. 1t was a grave offense, and
tho individual believed he had