The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-12-15
SHORT LOCALS.

SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of interest Throughout
g the Town and County.
A truly good man has gone in the
death of Mr.. A. E. H. Simmons.
Would that we had more like him.
Financial difficulties caused the
closing of the store of H. G. Cope
land & Co., at Ehrhardt last Friday.
Read The Herald for Christmas
bargains, and then buy from our ad-
vertisers. Tell them. you saw their
ad. in The Herald.
Rev. A. w. Hill, who has been
pastor of the colored Baptist church
here for the past year, has resigned.
His successor has not yet been Sc
lected.
The people of Bamberg are GER
tainly the most long-sunering and
patient individuals We ever saw. They
endure conditions here which would
not be tolerated for a minute In
other towns.
The Home Mission Society will
hold the regular monthly meeting
next Tuesday afternoon, at 4 o'clock,
IN the ladies' parlor Of Methodist
church. Come and bring some one
else with you.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Calhoun Folk
have issued invitations to the mar
Srsage Of their daughter. Lucille, to
sAr. John Caldwell Guilds, the cere-
mony to take place Wednesday even
ing, December 2Sth, at six O'Clock,
Trinity Methodist church.
AT meeting of Bamberg lodge,
knights of Pythias, held last Mon
day evening, the rank of Page was
sconferred ON Mr.. Bissell Beach. The
rank Of Esquire will be conferred at
the next meeting. Let there be a
full attendance of the members.
Mrs. J. Aldrich Wyman will enter
tain this Wednesday afternoon and
to-p1ght in honor OF her guests,
Misses Wyman, McNair, and Wanna
maker. The reception this afternoon
srIll be for the married ladies and to-
night there will be an entertainment
Tor the young folks.
A Mr.. B. s. Smoak, q Bamberg boy
who is now living near Pfegnails,
Ras ii the city last week and renew
ssed tor the Herald another, year. He
says the weekly visits Of the news
paper are like some member Of his
family had come to see him, and he
cannot afford to be without it.
Mr.. J. F. Jones, Adjutant, requests
sus to state there will be q meeting Of
Camp Jenkins, United Confederate
Veterans, in the court house at Bam-
berg on Monday, January End, 1911,
Sat twelve o'clock noon. for the pur-
pose OF recognizing and attending
10 such business az, shall come before
the camp.
Mr. g. Moye Dickinson will soon
have plate glass fronts put in his
stores on Main street, the ones oc-
copied by the Planters Mercantile
Company and the Simmons Hardware
Company. Mr.. L. B. Fowler will
have charge of the work, and the i'm
sproYements to be made will make
these two handsome business houses.
The news that Rev. T. G.. Herbert
Had been moved from Bamberg and
sent to Main street, Columbia, for
next year, was received with general
Tegrct in Bamberg, not only by the
members of his own church, but Of
other denominations as well. 1t was
not thought that he would be moved,
as this would have completed his
fourth year here. He has the love
ndzesteem of the Bamberg folk, and
they hate to give him up.
Rev. T. G. Herbert returned from
conference Monday night, and Mrs.
SHerbert, and children returned from
Sumter Tuesday morning. They will
stay here until Saturday, when they
viii return to Sumter to stay until
they go to Columbia Mr.. Herbert
will remain until Tuesday of next
week, and he will preach next Sun
day morning and night. Rev. w. H.
Hodges, the new pastor, will arrive
some time next week.
j. l. Valentine, OF the Cope
section, was in the city Monday, cir
scIiating a petition to Governor An
xSsF ~ hich asked that the law take its