The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.
Cotton is opening rapidly in this
section, and the various gins Will
start work next week.
Mr.. R. O. kirkland was in the city
Monday moving his family to Den
mark, where they will live in the
future.
Mr.. J. R. Owens, who is now at
Ensley, Ala, kindly remembered us
by sending US copies Of the Birm1ng-
ham Age-Herald.
Mr.. H. G. Askins and family will
20 to housekeeping this week in the
Fitting School cottage vacated by the
family of Mr.. r. o. Kirkland.
Misses Edrie and Mamie Ehrhardt,
of Ehrhardt, and Mr.. w. H. Ehrhardt,
of Atlanta, are in the city to attend
the Cline Wicker wedding.-NeW-
berry Herald, and News.
In sending in his subscription a
friend writes us: *It affords me
great pleasure to read your weekly" "
Evidently he likes the paper so well
he wants one of his own.
We hear of some candidates being
spoken of for county offices, AS next
year every official in the county Will
have to be elected, an interesting
campaign may be expected.
We understand that the cotton mill
here will resume operations just as
soon as some necessary work on the
boilers can be completed. It is ex-
pected to start up about the 21st.
We hope this is true.
The little two-year-old child Of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Delk got hold OF
some gasoline Monday night and
drank some of it, becoming very Ill.
However, the little one is getting
along as well as could be expected,
and will recover.
For the first time in it's history,
The Herald is publishing a paid ad-
yertisement from railroad COM
pany. The ad. of excursion in this
issue is paid for, and it is the first
time we have received cash for an
advertisement from railroad COM
pany.
Prof. J. G. Guilds, Headmaster
of the Carlisle Fitting School at Bam-
berg, will speak at st. Paul Metho-
dist church on Sunday morning. He
is a very talented young gentleman
and all who go to hear him will be
repaid.-Orangeburg Times and
Democrat.
Every lodge of knights of Pythias
in the third district should send del
egates to the district convention at
Ehrhardt, to be held to-day, the 18th.
There are no better people in the
State than those in the Ehrhardt
community, and they will give the
visitors a mighty nice time.
Wednesday afternoon of last week,
at the home of the brides mother
in st. George, Mr.. Frank Elmo Cope
and Miss Irene Louise Rumph were
happily married. The groom is a
prominent young farmer of the Cope
section. and has many friends In
Bamberg who extend congratula-
tions.
See the advertisement of excursion
rates over the Georgia & Florida
Railway from Augusta to points in
Georgia, Tuesday, August 22nd.
Tickets are. good returning until
August 31st. This is an exceptional
opportunity to visit South Georgia
and see the fine farming lands Of that
section.
At a meeting of Bamberg lodge,
Knights of Pythias, Monday even
ing of this week, the rank of Knight
was conferred on Mr.. J. G. Wilker-
son, while the rank of Page was
given Mr.. j. Rubin. A. w. knight,
J. F. Carter, and J. C. Folk, Jr., were
elected as delegates to the district
lodge, which meets at Ehrhardt to-
day.
Mr.. G. L. Kinard returned last
week from Columbia, and is on the
job as cotton weigher at Bamberg.
He is ready to handle the new crop of
cotton, but none has been received
here so far. Mrs. Kinard, who has
been i'll for several weeks with ty-
phoid fever, has recovered sufficiently
to go to Ehrhardt, where she is with
relatives.
We had conference last Satur-