The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-02-12
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

The Herald wants one thousand
new subscribers this year.
The Herald Office has recently
printed up q lot of wages contracts,
and those who wish them can now
be supplied.
Those who expect to stand the ex-
animation for rural carrier. to be
held here next Saturday, the 14th,
had best read carefully the rules and
regulations governing the eXamina-
ton.
The political pot is beginning to
boil in this county. We hear rumors
of candidates, and Mr.. H. w. Chitty
announces his candidacy this week
for REFLECTION as county commits
sioner.
We have been gratified at the num-
Der of new subscribers received re-
Gently, and they continue to come.
There are plenty of people who
should quit borrowing the paper and
subscribe for themselves, and we
hope to receive many news names
this month. Let the January record
keep up.
Miss Llewellyn Cleckley will con-
duct the Woman's Home Mission
Society meeting next Tuesday after
noon in the ladies' parlor of the
Methodist church. The meeting Will
begin promptly at four O'Clock. An
interesting program has been prepar-
ed, and the members are urged to
be present.
Mr.. R. NJ. Hit, who has accepted
a position with The Herald, arrived
in the city last Thursday evening,
and is now ION the job If prospec-
tive advertisers or those wanting
lob printing will call our phone, he
will be glad to assist them in pre-
pairing copy for ads. or job work.
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~ toners right often, and he will also
appreciate items OF news given him.
The Herald hopes and expects to
do more business this year than ever
before. Our expenses have increas-
ed wonderfully in the last year or so,
until now it has gotten to be that
Saturday night is time to be dread
ed, as the force must be paid off each
week. We trust that our patrons
will realize that as these salaries
must be paid cash every Saturday
night, that we cannot afford to car
ry accounts for job printing and ads.
for several months, but must collect
promptly. We want all the business
we can get, and will be in position
to take care of it.
The examination for rural carriers
for the two new rural routes out OF
Bamberg will be held at the graded
school building in this city next Sat-
urday morning, the 14th, beginning
at $50 o'clock. So far seventeen
applicants have been issued permits
to stand the examination. Service
on these routes is to commence on
Monday, March End, and all patrons
of the routes are requested to have
their mail boxes up by that time.
Mail is not delivered to persons on
the rural routes unless they have a
box, but two or more persons are
allowed to use one box.
The Herald has been obliged to
discontinue furnishing day current to
a number of people in town. Our
generator at the cotton mill was
overloaded, and we could not cut off
one without cutting off ALL Since
we have erected the postoffice build
ing next door, it makes our Office
dark and we have to use lights prac-
tically all the time, and we need all
the current from the generator for
our own purposes, especially as we
have added another job press to our
equipment. We trust that the town
electric plant will put on day cur
rent this summer, if not earlier. 1t
is needed, but whether it would be
y paying proposition is exceedingly
doubtful.