The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
Tl1r Banthfrg Grralh
Thursday, June 20, 1912.
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

Mr.. Harry D. Calhoun, of Barnwell,
announces his candidacy for con-
gress in this issue.
The candidates for the United
Senate are to speak at Bamberg on
Saturday, June 29th.
See the ad. of the Citadel in this
issue. There is a vacant scholarship
from this county, and the examlna-
ton will be held August 9Th.
The weather for the past week has
ben very warm, and soon the sum-
mer swallows will begin to HE them
selves away to the mountains and
summer resorts.
The cotton oil mill will shut down
Tuesday for the season. The run has
been an especially long one, the mill
having been in operation day and
night since last September.
Rev. J. W. Sparks, Episcopal min
lister, will hold divine services at the
Presbyterian church on Sunday, the
23rd instant, at IL G. m. and 4:30
D. m. The public is cordially invited.
Considerable building is going on
in Bamberg now. A number Of new
residences are being erected. Work
commenced last week on the new
residence of Mr.. A. NJ. Brabham on
Railroad Avenue.
A farmers institute is to be held
in Bamberg on Wednesday, July
18th. This institute will be conduct
ed by the United States farm demon
stration workers and the extension
department of Clemson college.
The many friends of Mayor N. P.
Smoak will be glad to learn that he
is getting on as we'll as could be ex-
pected. Mr.. Smoak is i'll with typhoid
fever at an infirmary in Charleston.
It is hoped he will soon recover.
Miss Mary Simms will entertain a
number of friends on house party
at Woodlands in Bamberg county
commencing Friday of this week. The
house party will be chaperoned by
Mrs. W. Gilmore Simms.-Barnwell
Sentinel. t. ~.
We received a very pleasant call
yesterday from Prof. E. N. McCown,
superintendent of the Denmark grad
ed school. Prof. McCown was pass
ing through in his car on his way
to spend vacation at his home in
Darlington.-Camden News.
Rev. w. H. Hodges, pastor of the
Bamberg Methodist church, preach
ed in the Methodist church here last
Sunday morning and evening. Rev.
Mr.. Hodges is an excellent preacher,
and the attendance was unusually
large at both services.
Eagle.
A postal card from Rev. o. J. Frier
brings the very pleasant news that
he is getting along nicely in Wins
boro. He also says that The Herald
is one of the best weekly newspapers
he knows Of, and he congratulates the
editor on his appointment as post
master.
At the State meeting of the Ep-
worth League in Spartanburg last
week, Mr.. J. C. Guilds, Headmaster
of the Carlisle Fitting School in this
city, was elected president. Rev. E.
K. Hardin, who formerly taught in
the Fitting School, was elected first
vice president. ...
We appreciate more than we can
say the efforts of our many friends in
the postofice matter. It is our de-
sire to give such good service to the
people that they will never regret
their action. The endorsement given
us is enough to make any man feel
proud, and we are proud to have the
good opinion of our people.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of The Cotton Oil Company
will be held at the Office of the COM
pany next Monday, June Oath, at
eleven o'clock. This meeting was to
have been held in May, but was post
poned on account of the mill being
still running. No doubt the mill here
had the longest season of any in the
State. 49,.
Building and Improvement is the
order of the day in Bamberg now.
Mr.. L. c. Price has just had his resi-
dence overhauled and repainted, and
Mr.. A. Mob. Speaks has repalnted
and otherwise greatly improved his
residence. The people Of Bamberg
believe in attractive homes, and the
residence section of this city will COM