The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

Major Havelock Eaves, formerl!
of this city, was last week elected
Exalted Ruler of the Elks lodge at
Orangeburg.
The fertilizer shipments to this
point are heavy just now, and the
various side tracks are filled with
loaded cars.
In renewing for another year Mrs.
E. NJ. Kinard says: I'VE consider
The Herald one of the best county
papers we read
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union will meet with Mr.. and
Mrs. D. J. Delk next Tuesday after
noon at four o'clock.
The millinery openings this week
have attracted the interest of the
ladies, and large numbers of the fair
ones have been seen on the streets.
The fair weather of this week is
much appreciated, but the lands are
still too wet to plow on account of
the very heavy rains here last Fri
day.
The books for the collection of
State and county taxes closed last
Friday, and executions will now be
issued against all persons who have
not paid.
The Ford Sales Company, of which
Col. Jno. F. Folk is president, sold
three handsome touring cars last
Friday, which is an evidence of the
popularity Of these reliable machines.
The Lyceum attraction Monday
evening, the Wilbur Starr Quartette,
was one of the very best attractions
of the course this season, end those
who attended were highly delighted.
Jones A. Williams, of this city,
has been appointed by Commissioner
Watson as a delegate to the national
drainage congress with meets in New
Orleans April 10th, 18th, 18th, and
18th.
Services will be held at the Pres
byterian church by Rev. J. w.
Sparks, an Episcopal minister, on
Sunday, the Oath instant, at 1 a. m.
and 4:30 p. m. The public is cordi-
ally invited.
The mission study class meets Fri
day afternoon at four o'clock at the
parsonage. The subject for study is
the first chapter of "Western Women
in Eastern Lands All who wish,
are invited to join.
The F. w. Free Company is having
it's store enlarged and improved. The
partition between it's store and the
store formerly occupied by the NJ. B.
Price Co. is being taken out, and
both stores will be made into one.
We had hoped to attend the cost
congress of the printers of the State,
which was held in Columbia the first
of this week, but the floods made
the trains so irregular in their sched-
ules that we could not make the trip.
A good friend at Olar, who did not
give his name, but we presume it is
Mr.. W. S. Copeland, sends us copy
of The Herald of November 16, 1911,
for which we advertised last week.
He has our sincere thanks for his
kindness.
Presiding Elder NJ L. Banks
preached at the Methodist church
here last Sunday morning and even
ing and held the second quarterly
conference Monday morning. Mr..
Banks has made a most favorable
impression here.
Commencing April 1st the Bam-
berg Banking Company and the Peo-
pies Bank will open at nine o'clock
in the morning and close at three
O'Clock in the afternoon, except Sat-
urdays. On Saturdays they will re-
main open until four o'clock.
1t is interesting to note that in
Orangeburg, where the city owns the
electric light plant, the price OF arc
lamps is put at SIS a year, and in
Bamberg, the price of arcs is $50 q
year. Yet some people seem to think
Bamberg ought to light it's streets
free.
A car loaded with fertilizer jumped
the track on the cotton mill siding
last Saturday morning and turned
over down the embankment. The
trucks were torn out from under the
car, and while it will be hard job
to get it back on the rails, the dam
age to the car was slight.
The Orangeburg district confer