The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-06-22
Tl1r Bamthrrg Hrralh
Thursday, June %, 1911.
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

There will be no jury trials at the
July term of court. The grand jury
will please take notice and act &C
cordingly.
There will be a meeting of the
Business League Friday afternoon OF
this week. Election of officers, etc.,
to take place.
Work has commenced on the hand
some brick residence of Mr.. W. G.
Hoffman, which he will erect on New
Bridge street.
The annual Bessinger reunion will
be held at Spring Branch church
July 4th. Everybody invited to come
with we'll filled baskets.
The generator which is to be in
stalled at the power house was ship
ped from Pittsburg, Pa, on the 10th
instant, and will arrive this week.
Mr.. B. v. Kearse, of the Ehrhardt
section, sent us cotton bloom last
week which was plucked on the 18th
instant from a field of twenty acres.
The people of Bamberg can get day
current if they are willing to pay for
it, but the board of public works do
not feel warranted in furnishing day
current at loss.
On July fourth there will be a pic
mic in the beech grove near the river
bridge between Bamberg and Cope.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend and bring we'll filled baskets.
The cotton report for last year
gives the production of cotton for
Bamberg county as 10000 bales,
while the report of the previous year
states that $4,000 bales were raised
in this county.
Crop reports from all over the
county are very encouraging, al
though in some sections the farmers
says there has not been rain enough.
1t looks now like there will be
full crop made in this county this
year.
The new dwelling of Matthew Stew
art, the colored barber, is about COM
pleted, and he has moved into 1t. 1t
will be remembered that Matthew
lost his house by fire a few months
ago, but he has rebuilt larger and
nicer dwelling.
Among the graduates of Clemson
college last week were the following
young men from this county: w. +.
Stokes, Bamberg, agriculture and
chemistry; J. A. Riley, Denmark, ag-
culture; C. R. Gillian, Denmark,
civil engineering.
Chief of the fire department, Mr..
. w. D. Rhoad, requests us to state
that every member of the fire compa-
MES is notified to meet at the city
hall tomorrow (Friday) evening at
$50 O'Clock without fail, as import
ant business is to be transacted.
After the first of July it will be
necessary to obtain a license from
the probate judge before you can get
married, and this license must be
returned to the probate's Office by
the minister performing the cere-
mony. The license will cost one dol
lar.
The annual picnic and barbecue of
the Colored Farmers Fair Assocl-
alton is to be held in Bamberg July
4th. There will be addresses by sew
eral gentlemen, and it is proposed to
make the day a pleasant and pro1t-
able occasion for the negro farmers
and their families.
Miss Florine Rhode, a daughter of
Mr.. o. G. Rhode, of Branchville, was
married Sunday afternoon, June
18th, to Mr.. J. C. Holley, of Aiken
county, Rev. S. D. Bailey being the
officiating minister. The young
couple will make their home on the
farm of the groom, near Aiken.
j The exact figures for the cotton
production of Bamberg county in
1909 are 22,329 bales, and for 1910
16,800 bales. Marlboro raised more
cotton than any county in the State
last year, the number of bales be-
ing 67,343, Anderson comes next
with 61,611, Spartanburg third with
56,312, and Orangeburg fourth with
$1,000 bales.
We have received an announce
ment of the marriage of our friend,
Mr.. Jones J. Darby, formerly of
Gaffney but now of Columbia, who
was married in Asheville, N. c., June
18th, to Miss Laura Schroll, daugh-
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