The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-04-09
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

berg and vicinity. the first in about
three weeks.
The friends of Mr.. Charlie Mitchell
are glad to see him in the ticket
Office after several days illness.
The board of county commission
ers held the regular monthly meeting
Monday. Only routine matters were
transacted.
Large congregations will no doubt
attend the church services next Sun
= day. as it is Easter and people Will
want to show their new clothes.
Good progress is being made on
the Bamberg-Denmark road. Super
visor Bruce says the road Will De
completed in about three months.
Monday was the first Monday in
the month, but there were no public
sales and few people from the coun-
trv came to town. They are too busy
now to visit much.
Messrs. ]. A. Hunter, G. D. Ryan
and A. NJ. Denbow, of Bamberg,
motored over to Barnwell Thursday
and attended the barbecue at
Hagood's mill in honor of Judge
Sease.-Barnwell People.
A commission has been issued by
the secretary of State to the Home
Building and Loan association, OF
Ramberg, with a capital stock of
$4,000, the petitioners being DR..
George F. Hair and Mr.. W. Des-
Portes Coleman.
Rev. w. R. Mcmillan assisted
in the dedication of the new Baptist
church at Hilda on Sunday. In
his absence, Rev. Mr.. Bozeman,
travelling representative of the Bap-
tist Courier, preached at the Baptist
church, morning and evening.
Mr.. w. D. Rhoad says the races
are certainly mixed up badly in Cuba,
and it is a pretty hard matter to
tell who is really white. He also
says there is considerable social
equality among the races, that he
saw all colors at a masquerade ball,
all dancing together.
The new county board of registra-
ton met at the court house Monday
of this week, this being their first
meeting. The board organized and
elected Geo. J. HERS chairman. The
members of the board are: Geo. ).
HERS, Ehrhardt; Geo. Turner, Den
Mark; J. G. Rhoad, Fishpond.
The rails of the Bamberg-Ehr-
hardt railroad are laid to point
Just outside of town, and the whls-
tie of the locomotive can be plain
" heard. There is some work to
be done on the Lemon swamp tres
tie, and this will cause some delay.
Otherwise the rails would be laid to
town this week.
We learn that Mr.. H. w. McMil-
Ian, the new depot agent, will occupy
the residence of Capt. w. R. Wright,
on Bridge street. Capt. Wrights
family will move either to Savannah
or Augusta. At present Mrs. Wright
and daughter are spending a while
in the country with her daughter,
Mrs. B. F. Hill.
Supervisor Bruce tells us that he
started work last Friday on the new
road from Bamberg to Denmark.
Work was started on the Denmark
end. He proposes to make this the
widest and best road in the county,
and it should be, as it is the most
important highway we have. The
work is being done with the county
chain gang.
If you don't believe that advertis-
ing pays, ask any patron of The Her
aid. Two weeks ago Mr.. H. NJ.
Graham advertised that he was start
ing a new series of the Standard
Building & Loan Association, and
he showed us letters from number
of out-of-town parties stating they
had seen the advertisement and
wanted some shares. He says the
advertisement paid him handsomely
Advertising in The Herald Ger,
tainly pays, as our advertising pat
ronage has increased very much over
what it formerly was. In fact we
are growing little all the time, for
which we thank our customers and
for which we try to give them full
value for their money. Our circula-
tion continues to grow steadily. We
have added more new subscribers
this year so far than ever before
except when we were running con-
test