The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-03
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Througnou'
the Town and County.

A number of picnics are scheduled
for Friday, the 4th, in this county.
There will be preaching at the
Baptist church next Sunday morning
and evening.
Kaiser & Walker, of Aiken, adver-
tise that they are prepared to install
sanitary septic tanks.
Next Monday is the first Monday
in July and legal salesday, but there
are no sales to be made by any Of our
county officials.
The first cotton boil Of the season
was received by us last Saturday
morning, and it came from the farm
of Mrs. E. r: Hays.
Rev. w. R. Mcmillan preached at
the Baptist church last Sunday, this
being the first time he had conducted
services since his return from the
hospital.
Just as we go to press We learn
that the old Fielder house, just be-
yond the Oil Mill, was destroyed
by fire. The house was occupied by
Mr.. J. NJ. Fielder, Jr.
J. A. Nimmons, the barber, asks
that his customers will please call
early Friday morning to have their
work done. as he will close for the
fourth at twelve o'clock noon.
Tomorrow (Friday, July 4th) be-
ing legal holiday, the banks will be
closed and the post office Will keep
Sunday hours. We are not advised
so far whether the stores will close.
This week marks the Introduction
of the c. O. d. parcels post system.
1t ought to be a good thing for the
country merchants if they will wake
up and go after the mail order bus
iness.
A letter received from Mr.. j. C..
Dickinson gives the information that
he is now in Birmingham, Ala, and
he asks that The Herald be again
sent to him, as he wants to learn what
is going on in the old town.
Presiding Elder NJ. L. Banks held
the third quarterly conference for
the Bamberg charge Monday morn
ing at the Office of Bamberg Bank
ing Company. Only the regular rou-
tine business was transacted.
Rev. w. H. Hodges, who has been
in Charleston on account of the i'll
ness of Mrs. Hodges, returned to
Bamberg and preached at the Metho-
dist church Sunday morning. Presid-
ing Elder NJ. L. Banks preached Sun
day night. Mr.. Hodges returned to
Charleston Monday night.
Rev. P. e. Monroe, of Johnston,
has been elected president of Summer
land college at Batesburg, this being
the Lutheran college for girls. Mr..
Monroe was formerly pastor of the
Lutheran church at Ehrhardt, and
has many friends in this county who
will be glad to hear of his selection
Miss Hattie Bessinger, who was en-
titled to first choice of the remaining
prizes in the Herald's contest, was
in town last Saturday and she chose
the ready to wear dress given by
Hooton's Ladies Store. We would be
glad if the other young ladies who
have next choice of prizes would in
dicate which they prefer as soon as
possible.
The board of health has adopted a
regulation requiring all dry earth
closets to be built according to GER
tain model. The board also condemn
ed all dry wells or cess pools and for
bid the emptying of any sewerage in
to the bitches in town. This means
that every dry earth closet in town
will have to be rebuilt and that
every person having toilet with
water connection will have to build
septic tank. This action of the
board will do much for the health of
the town. There are number of
people in town who have toilets with
water connection, and yet there is
only one septic tank in the entire
town.