The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-05-02
Thf Bamthrrg Nrralh
Thursday, May 2, 1912.
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.


going up in Bamberg? The OLD
town is coming right along all the
time
Don't forget to clean up around
your home or store next Wednesday,
as that has been designated as clean
up day for Bamberg by the Civic
League.
The Denmark letter, dated April
22nd, was intended for last weeks
issue, but reached us too late. AS
it is an interesting communication,
we publish it, if it is a little late.
The graded school gave holiday
last Friday in order that Superin-
tendent E. Paul Allen and the lady
teachers might attend the sessions
of the State Teachers Association,
which were held in Charleston.
Owing to the delay in the ship
ment of the fixtures for the store of
Mr.. Arndt, which he will open at
Ehrhardt, the opening will not take
place until May the 18th instead of
May 1st, as announced in his ad.
The editor interviewed Supervisor
J. B. Kearse last Monday and we in
tended having an article upon the
present system of working the roads,
giving some figures, etc., but owing
to the illness of the editor the article
is unavoidably delayed until next
week.
An interesting game of base ball
was played here last Saturday af-
ternoon between the Charleston High
School and the Carlisle Fitting
School. The Charleston boys won,
the score being four to three. The
game was hotly contested, and it
was an exciting finish.
In the State intercollegiate ora
torical contest held at Rock Hill last
Friday night Clemson college was
represented by Bamberg boy, Mr..
D. B. Hill, a son of Mr.. J. W. Hill.
Mr.. Hill chose for his subject "The
Needs of a Nation" The contest
was won by Newberry college.
We have received from the CEN
sus bureau a report of the number
of bales OF cotton ginned in Bam-
berg county for the years 1909,
1910, and 1911. In 1909 this coun-
ty produced 1886 bales; in 1910
1852 bales; and in 1911 the figures
to date are 2s,019 bales. What an
increase!
The annual meeting of stockhold-
ers of the Cotton Oil Company will
be held at the mill Office in this city
next Tuesday, May 7th, as required
by the bylaws. The report of the
years work cannot be submitted,
however, as both mills will be run
ming for several weeks yet on ac-
count of the late cotton crop the past
season.
Hon. NJ. L. Smith, speaker of the
house of Representatives of South
Carolina and prominent lawyer of
Camden, has accepted the invitation
to deliver the literary address at the
Carlisle Fitting School commence
ment nextmonth. Mr.. Smith is most
entertaining speaker, and we feel
sure our people will be delighted
with his address.
Headmaster J. C. Guilds attended
the session of the Charleston district
conference at Mt. Pleasant last week
in the interest of the Carlisle Fitting
School. Mr.. Guilds says that the
presiding elder and the delegates
were much in sympathy with the
work of the school and that no doubt
there will be a larger number of
students in the school from the
Charleston district next year.
The many friends of Rev. E. A.
Mcdowell, pastor of the Ehrhardt
Baptist church, will be pleased to
learn that he has won his suit against
the Anderson Traction Company. The
case has been pending for several
years. The verdict was for $1,000,
Mr.. Mcdowell being injured by a
trolley car which ran into an auto
mobile in which he was riding. AT
the same time two passengers in the
machine were killed.
Wait for O'Riley.
Next Wednesday, May Sth, has
been designated as Cleanup day fol
Bamberg by the Civic league, and
housekeepers and merchants are
urged to use that day to cleanup
around their premises and in theil
homes and stores. Let everyone helI
to make this day success, so far as
cleaning up goes, by sweeping al