The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-09
Thr Bamthrrg 4rralh
Thursday, Feb. 9, 1911.
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

Brief Items OF Interest ThrOugnOut
the Town and County.
THE mar. who doesn't advertise
because it costs money, should quit
paying rent for the same reason.
], Services will be held in the .Presby-
terian church in this city Sunday oy
Rev. Jno. A. McNIurray at II a. m.
and 1880 p. m. All are invited.
Our subscribers continue to treat
US mighty nice these days in the way
of renewals and new subscriptions.
In renewing for his paper, Mr.. }.
e. Carter, of the Smoaks section,
says he gets too much news from
the paper to let it drop.
CITY council is determined to
break up the business of illict whls-
key selling in Bamberg, and other
arrests will follow shortly.
A boys corn club has been organ
lied in Orangeburg county with
twenty-one members. We trust the
boys of Bamberg county will organ
ize a corn club.
The Bamberg County Medical So
ciety is in session here to-day (Wed-
nesday.) Quite number of visiting
physicians of different parts of the
county are here in attendance.
We understand that small pox is
developing in the country, and that
one or more negroes have the dis
ease. People should learn that vacci-
nation is the only preventative.
Mr.. J. H. Hutto has had work COM
menced on handsome two-story
residence on his lot on New Bridge
street, next to Mr.. ]. F. Kilgus. Mr..
]. w. Jennings has charge of the
work. Mr.. Hutto will move to town
as soon as mis- house is completed.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
E. Fielder, of Young's Island, was
brought here last Saturday evening
on the eight o'clock train and inter-
red at South-end cemetery immedi-
ately after the arrival of the train.
The little one was only few days
old.
The marriage license law passed
by the legislature makes it the duty
of the probate judge to issue license
to those persons who want to get
married, but what We want to know
is who is going to issue a license
when the probate judge wants to
get married.
Mr.. M. E. Matthews, who has been
manager of the telephone exchange
at Orangeburg for the past four
years, has resigned to accept a posi-
ton as travelling salesman for the
Western Electric Co. Mr.. Matthews
has visited Bamberg often, and is
well-known here.
Rev. j.. B. Thomas, pastor of the
colored Methodist church here, died
at his home in Camden Sunday. He
was assigned to this charge the first
of the year, and week ago went to
Camden to visit his family, as they
had not yet moved. He was taken
sick while there and died after an
illness of only few days.
County Commissioner G. B. Kin
ard, of Ehrhardt, was in the city
last Monday and assumed the duties
of the Office to which he was elected
at the primaries last summer. The
board held a meeting here Monday,
this being the first meeting of the
new body. Mr. G. W. Folk is the
other commissioner, he having also
been elected last summer.
Mrs. J. NJ. Jennings and Mrs. j.
w. McCue, representing the U. D. c.
chapter, went up to Columbia last
week to confer with the delegation
from this county as to an appropri-
alton of $500 for the Confederate
monument, this amount to come out
of the county funds. They were in
formed that the appropriation bill
had already been made up and moth
ing could be done.