The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-01-15
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

days.
Bamberg people generally are IN
better financial shape this year tnau
ever before.
From the way Bamberg is growing
it is sure going to be some town be-
fore very long.
Numbers of new subscribers and
renewals are coming in these days,
but we want more. We need the
money.
The streets of Bamberg have pre-
sented a busy appearance since the
holidays, something rather unusual
for this season of the year.
Mr.. F. E. Copeland, of the Ehr-
hardt section, has issued invitations
to the wedding of his daughter, Miss
SOPHIE, to Mr.. VIM. G. Muller, the
ceremony to occur at the home of the
bride on Wednesday evening, Jan
uary 21st.
City council has never undertaken
more important work than the
brick culvert they are preparing to
build. This will be a great thing
for the health of the town. Pity
the ditch couldn't be covered all the
way through town.
Saturday.
The number of bales of cotton
ginned in Bamberg county for this
season up to January 1st was 27,0O6
bales, as against 19,4S5 for the sea-
SON of 1912. 1t seems that Bamberg
county will produce for the past sea-
son about thirty thousand bales,
which will be the largest number OF
bales in the history of the county.
Mr.. J. A. Byrd had letter from
his son, Cliff, a few days ago, and he
is now in France, touring with a par
ty. Mr.. Byrd had not heard from
Cliff in some time, and was under
the impression that he was still in
San Francisco. Cliffs party is tour
ing Europe by automobile, and they
will not be home possibly until next
fall.
The Herald has been issued very
irregularly the past two weeks. Last
week we did not print until Fri
day One reason was we have been
simply oyerruh with work and a
short force as we'll, and last Thurs
day our belt which drives our gen.
orator at the cotton mill broke and
delayed us very much. However,
the boys are working hard and We
will catch up in few weeks.
Box rents have nearly doubled
since the new postofice was occupied.
and if there is demand for still
more boxes the postmaster will pu;
in another section of key boxes right
away. If any considerable number
of the patrons want boxes and will
register their names for same at the
postofhce, another section will be
procured right away if needed. We
have some combination boxes now
which are unrented.
Generally at this season of the
year we print a six-page papers but
we are going to give. our readers tae
best paper this year we have ever
published, and, carrying out this
policy, we are printing each week
a paper of eight pages, although tho
amount of advertising we are carry
ing is very small. To print paper
of this size each week is very ex-
pensive, and we trust our subscrib-
ers will appreciate it, even if our ad-
vertisers do not. -,
Some of our contemporaries have
been complaining about their powt:
hills recently. We note that none of
them who published the figures 'S
their bills came anywhere near what
il: costs this newspaper each mont:
for light and power, We have little
doubt but that The Herald pays mo: c
each month for lights and power
than any weekly newspaper in the
State. But we are not complaining,
Tor it shows that our presses ani
machine are not idle.
In another column will be found
the notice of opening books of sub
scription to the capital stock of the
Panama Canal Bank, the books to be
opened tomorrow (Friday.) We
learn that most of the capital stock
has already been subscribed and chat
the bank is certainty. An option
has been secured on the two-story
brick building of G. A. Ducker. Oh
Main street, and the matter of the
purchase of this building will be ie-
cided at the meeting tomorrow.