The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-11-05
Chr Banthrrg Nrralh
Thursday, Nov. 5, 1914.
SHORT LOCALS.
nrief Items OF Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

she has been confined to her room
by illness for some days.
The colored graded school opened
Monday morning with large at
tendance. 1t is stated that the pros
poets of the school this year are good.
Cotton Weigher F. E. SteedleE
states that up to the present time
there have been about 5000 bales OF
cotton less than last year weighed on
the Bamberg market.
The moving picture theatre in the
town hall opened on Monday evening.
The house was crowded and many
had to wait for the second show.
THE Prisoner of Zenda" was shown.
The court of general sessions will
convene in Bamberg next Monday,
with Judge Bowman. of Orangeburg,
presiding. The court will last for
two weeks, the first week criminal
cases will be tried, and the second
will be taken up with the civil busi-
ness.
The Tom Thumb Wedding" CIV
en- at the auditorium of the Carlisle
school Tuesday evening, was great
success. The play was produced un-
der the auspices of the L. D. c. chap
ter. of Bamberg. About IS small
boys and girls were in the wed
ding" The house was packed for
the performance.
Mr.. G. H. Jennings, artesian we'll
contractor, is at work on clearing
the artesian we'll on Mr.. Copeland's
corner. While the we'll is being
cleaned and put into condition, the
Main street users of artesian water
have been connected with the we'll
on Bridge street.
The State railroad commission
visited Denmark yesterday, where a
hearing was held on the matter of
improving the passenger station at
mark are endeavoring to secure bet
ter depot facilities and requested the
commission to visit Denmark and see
what could be done.
Monday morning Rural Carrier H.
W. Adams delivered a unique piece
of parcel post matter on his route.
A friend of Miss Leona Stalvey, teach
er of the Clear Pond school, residing
in Florida, had sent her two small
alligators The gators were neatly
boxed. labelled and stamped, and
came through the mail o. K.
The Bamberg Warehouse company
is erecting another warehouse near
the first one built at the first of the
season. The first warehousear|was
filed to its apacity.~&ithiH a few
days afterxs completion, and it was
found necessary to add another. The
new warehouse will have similar
capacity as the present one, 1000
bales.
Within the next few days The
Herald expects to mail out state
ments to all subscribers whose sub
scriptions have expired. The amount
due US by each one of our subscrib-
ers is very small, and most Of them
can be met without any difficulty,
and We will thank our friends to re-
spond to the statements as early as
possible.
Mr.. J. D. Copeland, Jr., corre-
spondent for the census bureau Of
the United States department of ag-
riculture, reports that up to October
18th, there had been ginned in Bam-
berg county 1874 bales of cotton,
as compared with 16,064 in 1918.
This seems to indicate that the crop
in this county will not be as large
as previously predicted.
A large number of Bamberg citi-
ZSQS ElSllSu luG OldlS loll III Soiu1ll
bla last week. Those who saw the
fair state that it was perhaps the
best ever held, the various county
exhibits being especially fine. Most
of the county exhibits were pre-
pared by the county demonstration
agents. The attendance this year
was nothing to compare with that
of former years, it is stated.
The Bamberg delegation to the
general assembly returned to the city
Tuesday from the special session.
The session came to- close Monday
night. The only legislation passed
concerning the cotton situation was
the cotton acreage reduction bill, pro-
viding for only one-third of the lands
to be planted in cotton, the bond
issue bill, which died a natural death
in the governors office, and the
warehouse bill.