The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-06-15
Thr Banthrrg Hfralh
Thursday, June Is, 1911.
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.


The catalogues of the Carlisle Fit
ting School were issued this week
by the job department of The Herald,
and will be sent out at once to pros
pective patrons of the school.
Among the most delightful enter
tainments given for Miss Nell kearse
this week, was an eight o'clock din
ing by Miss Monte Best on Tuesday
evening.-Barnwell Sentinel.
Mr.. c. J. S. Brooker told us on
Monday that he started from his farm
with a cotton bloom to show us, but
lost it on the way. He is the second
man to report blooms this season.
DR.. Henry S. Hartzog has resigned
as president of Ouchita college at Ar
kadelphia, Ark, and has moved to
st. Louis, Mo. He will represent a
large text book publishing house.
The instruments for the brass band
have arrived, and the boys have gone
to practicing. It has been suggested
that it would be a good idea If most
of their first practicing was done at
the river.
The third quarterly conference OF
Trinity Methodist church was held
In this city last Wednesday after
noon, Presiding Elder c.. B. Smith,
presiding. Only routine business
was transacted, however.
Miss Kate Lenoir, who has been
teaching at Denmark, has returned
home for the summer. We regret
to note that on account of sickness
she had to take her bed Immediately
upon her arrival.-Camden News.
The game of base ball Monday af-
ternoon between Denmark and Bam-
berg was stopped by the rain after
the first inning. However, Denmark
had scored four runs, while the Bam-
berg boys had not crossed the home
plate.
Mr.. w. G. Kirkland, who is man
.ager of the large farming interest of
G. Frank Bamberg, told us last Sun
day that there were plenty of cotton
blooms on some Of the farms under
his management. He Is the first to
report blooms this season.
A card from Mr.. Ira M. Cope, re-
newing his subscription for another
year, states that he is now on the
Vermont, and with the feet has been
ct Philadelphia and Pensacola re-
Gently. His ship is now at Galveston,
but will leave the 14th Of this month,
and will be in New York or Boston
for the 4th of July. He says he likes
the navy fine.
The annual ,Sunday-school picnic
at st. Johns Baptist church will be
held on Tuesday, June 22nd. Rev.
w. NJ. Jones, OF Williston, will de-
liver an address. This picnic is al
ways a most pleasant gathering, and
no doubt there will be large crowd
present, as usual. The public is cor
daily invited to attend. Services
will commence at eleven O'Clock a. m.
AS usual Bamberg boys are ahead.
In the examination for cadetship at
Annapolis, held at Blackville recent
II, NJ. L. McCrae, of Denmark, a son
of Mr.. F. H. McCrae, won the schol-
arship. But the finest record was
made by son of Hon. S. G. Mayfeld,
who was not eligible, being too
young, but was allowed to stand the
examination. He came out ahead,
and would have won the scholarship
had he not been debarred because Of
his youth.
Just at this time we are exceeding
ly. busy. On account Of having to
run our plant at night, We are up
good part of the night and all day
as well, which handicaps us very
much in our work. Sickness in our
home also interferes with our Office
duties, and we would appreciate If
those who are indebted to us will
settle without waiting for statements
to be sent them. Never have we
needed money more than now.
Mr.. Hewitt Dickinson, only son of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Dickinson, of this
city, went to Charleston last Wednes-
day morning, where he was married
the same afternoon to Miss Mamie
Schultz, of that city. The young
couple returned home Thursday
morning, and are at the home of his
parents for the present. They will
live in Bamberg, where Mr.. Dick
inson is employed by the Bell Tele-
phone Company. His many friends