The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-11-09
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and county.


This is fine weather for colds and
sore throat
Try Herald ad. and see your
business increase.
Look at the date on the label of
your paper and renew promptly as
your time expires. We do not send
the paper on credit.
Last Monday was the first Monday
in the month and salesday, but there
were no public sales and there was
not a large crowd here from the
country.
Cotton is selling in, Bamberg to-
day "wednesday at 81 cents the
pound. The receipts continue light
and the staple bad Oh account of the
bad weather.
DR.. o. D. Faust showed us last
Friday a mammoth radish, in fact
the largest we ever saw or heard of.
1t was grown by Capt. w. S. Bam-
berg and weighed seven pounds.
A very pleasant social event was
the miscellaneous shower given Tues
day afternoon by Mrs. ]. Clarence
Moye for Miss Annye Moye, who is
to be married November 30th to Mr..
G. S. O'Neal.
The board of county commissioners
was in session at the court house
here Monday, but mostly routine
business was transacted, the passing
bills, etc. A new road was granted
for the Ehrhardt section.
The Francis Marion Bamberg
Chapter United Daughters of the
Confederacy will meet next Tuesday
afternoon at four o'clock at the home
Of Mrs. G. Moye Dickinson. A full
attendance of the members is re-
quested.
Sanger's Circus was about one of
the greatest fakes that has struck
Bamberg recently. 1t was the same
circus which was here two years ago,
although under different name, and
about half what it was then, with no
menagerie this time.
On Saturday, Nov. 18th, at II
O'Clock a. m, a Teachers Association
will be organized at the Ehrhardt
school building for that portion of
Colleton and Bamberg counties. The
promoters urge all teachers in reach
of Ehrhardt to be present.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Peoples Building & Loan Associ-
alton will be held in the town hall
this (Thursday) afternoon at four
o'clock. Every stockholder is asked
to be present, as this meeting is held
to wind up the affairs of the Associ-
alton.
Prof. J. C. Guilds, Headmaster Of
the Carlisle Fitting School at Bam-
berg, made two fine talks at the
Rowesville Methodist church on last
Sunday morning and evening. While
at Rowesville Prof. Guilds was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Hopkins.
-Orangeburg Times and Democrat.
Mr.. T. S. Delk, who is now in
Punta Gorda, Fla, sends a money
order for The Herald and says: Il
think it is the most newsy paper In
the South, and gives me tho news
from home and lets me hear from my
folks" Mr.. Delk is brother OF Mr..
D. j. Delk, of this city, and he spent
most of last year in Bamberg.
Hon. Jas. F. Byrnes, congressman
from the second district, and D. D. G.
C. of this district for the Knights Of
Pythias, will deliver an address on
Pythianism at Olar next Monday
evening, the 18th, under the auspices
of Olar lodge. The address is free,
and all Knights and the public gen.
orally are cordially invited to be
present.
The carnival which was here last
week did not do rushing business,
and we are glad to see that our peo-
pie are not wasting SO much money
on the class of shows seen at such
attractions. At one time a carnival
in Bamberg was demoralizing, but
that day is past. We have no idea
that the shows here last week did
more than pay expenses, If so much.
Our good friend, Mr.. H. W. Chit
ty writes lis as follows: 81 will be
at Bamberg when court convenes
and will renew my subscription, for
it is the best county paper l ever
saw. Long live The Herald and its
editor We trust our friend will
forgive us for publishing this, as he
did not write for publication, but we
are proud enough Of his good opinion
to want other people to know it.
If you have made up your mind to
live in this town, then stand up for
1t, and if you know positively no
good, then silence is golden. Do all
you can to help along every man
who is engaged in legitimate busi-
ness. Do not send away for every
thing nice you want and still *
pect the home men to keep stock
to suit the whim of one or two Gus
toners. The success Of your fellow
townsmen will be your success.
From the article in this issue from
the Laurens Advertiser, it appears
that Rev. J. II. Walker has been in
another church row and the officers
of the law had to be called in to re-
store order. It was similar case
as happened here when the colored
panfisf church wanted to get rid of