The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-11-26
SHORT LOCALS.
brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

in the city next Sunday morning at
HOO o'clock. The public is cordial
ly invited.
The woman's foreign and home
mission societies will hold their last
meeting for the year and before
union at the Methodist church on
Tuesday afternoon next at four
o'clock. Let US make this last meet
ing the best of them all.
Thanksgiving services will be held
at the Baptist church Thursday even
ing at 1880 o'clock. The pubic IS
invited to be present. A special
musical programme has been arrang-
cd for the occasion, and the services
promise to be very interesting.
If you have received a statement
from The Herald for subscription
please let US have payment on same.
The price of everything used in
printing a newspaper has advanced,
but the price Of The Herald remains
the same. We can't do business with
out money.
Since the announcement that the
Farmers Gin company would install
a -four mill in Bamberg, many farm
ers have planted, or are preparing
to plant, wheat. There will doubt
less be a large crop of wheat har-
vested in Bamberg next year. This
is practically a new crop for this
county.
Several local concerns yesterday
received notice that they must pay
to the internal revenue collector the
special war tax recently levied by
congress. The tax is imposed on to-
bacco, chewing gun, amusement
halls, ETC.. and several hundred dol
lars will be collected from this source
from Bamberg.
The graded school gave the teach
ers and students holiday today and
Friday. Thanksgiving is a usual
holiday in the school, and school was
held last Saturday in order that the
children and teachers might have the
remainder of the week for holiday.
Most of the teachers left yesterday,
or are leaving this morning, for their
respective homes to spend the week
end.
Friday was the coldest day of the
winter so far. The thermometer reg
istered % early in the morning, ris-
ing gradually during the day, but
not getting materially warmer. 1t
is stated by weather observers that
this was probably record cold wealth
er for November. Two years ago
there was snow and ice on Thanks
giving day, but it was not so cold as
it was on last Friday.
Mr.. Louis Eddleman, now at Boy
ertown, Pa, writes: Enclosed find a
money order for the continuance OF
your paper to mother (Mrs. J. D.
Eddleman, Yazoo City, Miss.) She
tells me she just couldn't be without
it. If l were situated in one place
long enough. would also subscribe
for it, but being in the construction
department of the General Electric
company, out of the Philadelphia Of
fee, am lucky if remain in place
more than two or three weeks.
Commenting on the yield of pota-
toes made by Mr.. A. J. Hunter. as
told in The Herald recently, the
Barnwell People says: What has
been done in Bamberg can be done
in Barnwell county. How many cot
tontot farmers. in normal years,
make as much profit on ten acres of
land planted in cotton as Mr.. Hun
ter has made on one acre of pota-
toes? There is usually good de-
mand for tubers and producers
should have no trouble in finding a
market
Friday Mrs. R. C. Jones received
a telegram from Lynchburg, Va, an
nouncing the death of her brother,
Mr.. D. C. Caldwell in a hospital
there. One week previously, Mr..
Caldwell had been injured in an
acetylene gas explosion, at the home
of a neighbor at Stapleton, Va. 1t
seems that the private gas plant used
was being inspected by Mr.. Caldwell,
who went into the room alone. A
moment after he entered, loud ex-
plosion was heard. Those rushing to
his rescue found his mangled body
some distance away, and the room
wrecked.
The people of the county will learn
with much regret of the intended re-
moval from the county Of the Rev.
E. A. Mcdowell, for some years pas
tor of the Ehrhardt Baptist church.