The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-06
Chr Bamherg Mfralh
Thursday, Nov. 6, 1913.
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

let us have your renewal promptly.
We need the money.
The dispensary did rushing busl-
ness last Saturday. We understand
the sales amounted to nearly $500.
Mr.. Edgar Dickinson has been
elected bother for the county. dis
pensary. He is now night policeman.
The people of Bamberg will re-
ceiye a nice Thanksgiving present
in the shape of a new post office
building and equipment.
The Herald will appreciate items
of social or personal news. We can't
keep up with everything that's going
on. Our telephone number is SO.
We have discontinued The Herald
to several subscribers recently be-
cause their subscriptions were not
renewed. We do not send the paper
on credit.
The circus will bring an immense
crowd to town Friday of next week,
and our merchants will no doubt do
a big business. Get your ad. in The
Herald in time.
The lock boxes and furniture for
the post Office will be furnished by
the Corbin Cabinet Lock Co., of New
Britain, Conn.,, who make specially
of manufacturing locks and post Of
flee fixtures. 1t is expected that the
outfit will be shipped next week,
The Francis Marion Bamberg chap
ter will meet next Tuesday, Novem-
Der 18th, with Mrs. E. P. Allen at
$50 o. m. All members that have
not given their contribution for
scholarships to Mrs. B. w. Sim
mons or Miss Mary Livingston
before this date are requested to
bring the amount they wish to con-
tribute at this meeting.
The civic league will meet at the
home of Mrs. J. c. Moye Thursday
afternoon, November 18th, at four
o'clock. Every member is cordially
invited and urged to attend. The
election of officers for the ensuing
year will be held, and many matters
pertaining to the welfare and growth
of the town are to be discussed.
D. D. Dixon, a white man Of Green
wood, who assaulted and painfully
wounded young Henry Counts, a son
of MIR. D. H. Counts, some months
ago, was tried in the general sessions
court in that city last week. He was
found guilty of assault and battery
of a high and aggravated nature and
fined $3.50 or nine months on the
chaingang. A motion for new trial
was refused, and the case will be ap-
pealed to the State Supreme Court.
Last Saturday morning about 2.3O
O'Clock the house of T. ]. Banks,
colored carpenter, situated near the
colored graded school building in
this city, was totally destroyed by
fire, with all it's contents. He and
his family barely had time to escape
from the building, and none of their
household effects or clothing was
saved. Banks says he had some in
surance but he did not know the
amount when we talked to him.
The county dispensary is now IN
operation, and the sellers of whiskey
will have to go out of business. We
learn that orders were issued last
week to all suspected of selling Whis-
key that they must go out of business
by last Saturday night. There were
no blind tigers in Bamberg when the
dispensary was in operation here
some years ago, and it is freely pre-
dicted that the town will be dry
again, except as to whiskey bought
from the dispensary.
The new telephone directories for
the Bamberg exchange were deliver
ed to subscribers this week, and 1t
shows that a number of new tele-
phones have been installed, a good
plumber having been put in since
the directory went to press. Man.
ager Halliburton says that the Bam-
berg exchange is growing more rap
idly than any other exchange in his
division, and that the company
hopes to move to new building
some time in the near future, when
a new switchboard and new equip
ment will be installed.
Capt w. S. Bamberg brought US a
few days ago several Citranges,
which is a new fruit to this section
of the country. This is the fruit
which the agricultural department
of the United States has been expert