The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-05-25
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Thursday, May Is, 1911.
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

The commencement exercises OF
the Carlisle Fitting School will take
place next Saturday, Sunday, and
Monday.
Considerable new advertising came
in at the last moment last week, and
as a result lot of news matter had
to be left out.
The speed of automobiles on Main
street is said to be pretty fast.
Somebody will be run over and hurt
possibly. then it will be too late to
call down speeders.
Not only is all mail matter being
counted at the post office here during
this month, but the rural route car
riers also have to count every piece
of mail they handle.
New residences are constantly 60
ing up in Bamberg. The town keeps
growing right along. With the COM
pletion of the railroad, additional
growth is no doubt assured.
No, the handsome invitations sent
out by the Carlisle Fitting School
for it's eighteenth annual commence
ment are not, engraved. They were
printed at The Herald office.
Mr.. Walter S. Eaves died last week
at the home of his sister, Mrs. F. F..
Copeland, in the Ehrhardt section.
He was about fifty years old, and had
been in bad health for some time.
The young ladies of the graded
school faculty have returned to their
homes, school having closed for the
summer. Most of them will be with
us again next fall, however. All but
two will teach here again next year.
Miss Pearle Black, who has been
teaching in the Florence graded
school the past year, has been re-
elected. Miss Black is one of the
first grade teachers. She is daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Black, of
this city.
A, meeting of Bamberg lodge,
knights of Pythias, was not held
Monday evening. The lodge as
sembled, but on learning of the
death of Mr.. j. J. Simmons, one Of
it's charter members, the lodge ad-
journed in respect to his memory.
Mr.. w. S. Bars, of the Farrell's
Store section, died on the 29th OF
April. He was fifty years old, and
leaves wife and eight children. He
was buried at Tabernacle church by
the Woodmen of the World, of which
order he was member, and Rev. j..
G., Kinsey conducted the religious
services.
MIR. and Mrs. C. J. S. Brooker,
Misses Annie Lou and Ruth Byrd,
and FRANKIE Folk, and Mr.. Tillman
zeigler will go on an extended West
ern trip next month. The trip will
include Yellowstone Park, Pixies
Peak, the Garden of the Gods, and
many other points of interest as well
as several cities, San Francisco be-
ing among them.
We would like to see the fire COM
pany get out and practice some these
afternoons. There should be a rival
ry between the two hose teams, and
it would be a fine idea to get up
some races between the boys in the
afternoons. Nothing will do more
to develop a irst-class department
than a healthy rivalry between the
teams. By all means let us have the
races.
President C. W. Rentz and Secre-
tary Olar Aver were out this week
calling on the business men for help
in the matter of buying instruments.
They met with encouraging sue
cess, and the instruments will be Or
dered this week. The young men
have gone into the organization OF
a band in earnest, and with such a
manager as Mr.. Rentz, We know the
band will be success.
Bamberg possesses school advant-
ages not enjoyed by many towns it's
size, and the Carlisle Fitting School
and the Bamberg graded school Of
fer inducements to persons looking
for a good town in which to educate
their children. Our graded school
ranks as one of the very best schools
in the State, in fact there are only
a few in the same class with it, ac-
cording to the report of the high
school inspector, and the Carlisle
Fitting School has been put in Glass
ga" with the preparatory schools of
the South by the board of education
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