The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-03-26
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

was in session here Tuesday.
Read Herald advertisements and
find out where to do your spring
shopping.
Goolsby & Son, of Denmark, have
petitioned the secretary of State for
a. charter. The capital stock is So
600.
New automobiles continue to make
their appearance on the streets OF
Bamberg. Our people must be pros
porous.
The Sunbeam Band of the Baptist
church will give a public program
Sunday evening at 7.45. The public
is invited.
Senator E. D. Smith will deliver
the memorial address at Rivers
Bridge this year. The date is an
nounced in another column.
Several from Bamberg motored
over to Orangeburg Monday evening
OF see The Rose Maid," which was
presented at the theatre in that
city.
Route No. bids fair to be one of
the best rural routes from the Bam-
berg Office. Although this route has
been in operation only few weeks,
there are now "a boxes already
erected and more to come.
The contract for the completion of
the Bamberg-Ehrhardt railroad calls
for it to be finished by May 1st, 1914,
but the rails will be laid here before
that date. April 18th will no doubt
witness the completion of the road.
This season the Cotton Oil Com
pany will run it's mill until after the
first of June. This will be the long
est run in the history of the COM
pany. The mill usually closes down
in March or April The mill
runs day and night.
We are afraid some patrons of the
Bamberg postofice will not be able
to open their boxes on the morning
Of the first of April, but they will
have no one to blame but themselves
if this is the case. Box rent must
be paid by the last night in this
month
Ben Daniels, colored, who died at
Orangeburg Monday, was buried in
Bamberg Tuesday. Daniels was for
a number of years postmaster at Den
mark. A large number of colored
people came over with the remains
from Orangeburg to attend the
funeral.
Ben Holmes, a cofored farmer,
brought nto The Herald Office Satur-
day quite a curiosity. 1t was a
chicken, recently hatched, with three
legs and feet. The two usual pedes-
tails were in their proper places, and
another we'll formed foot and leg
was attached to the chickens back.
Mr.. B. F: Free, rural carrier on
Route No. 4, has purchased Ford
touring car and now travels over his
route in the machine, which admits
of his making much quicker sched-
uIe than by horse and buggy. 1t
is likely that others of the carriers
will purchase machines to use in
making their trips.
Track laying continues to progress
on the Bamberg-Ehrhardt railroad.
The rails are now laid to a point
about FIVE miles below town, and
the contractors are endeavoring to
procure another fat car so that some
thing like half mile day can be
laid. If they get the car the rails
will be laid to Bamberg in the next
three weeks.
Col. ]. R. Owens has been accord
ed quite an honor by being elected
an honorary member of the Luther
Burbank Society, of Santa Rosa, Cal.
, His election is a recognition of his
work in matters pertaining to agri-
culture and allied subjects. The
Burbank organization is one of the
leading societies in the country, and
membership is eagerly sought. Many
special privileges go with honorary
membership in the society.
1t looks like the postmaster will
have to invoke the aid of the civic
league ladies to help him prevail on
the public to cooperate in keeping
the postofice lobby clean. People
spit tobacco juice on the floor and
walls and throw waste paper on the
floor, yet there is cuspidors and large
waste baskets in the lobby. We GER
tainly would appreciate it if the men
would use the waste baskets and
cuspidors. They were placed in the