The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-05-14
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
acknowledgements About
Men and Happenings.

City mail delivery in Hartsville
will be inaugurated on July 1.
The Methodists of Saluda are 60
ing to build a ten thousand dollar
church.
The Greenville horse show, held
last week, came out behind from
$500 to $1,000.
The annual music festival was
held in Spartanburg last week, with
the usual large attendance.
Jas. A. Summersett of Columbia
has announced that he will run for
comptroller general in the primary.
The Wholesale Grocers association
of the South will hold its annual
meeting at the Isle of Palms June
II, Is and 19.
The line of march of the school
children at the Florence field day
exercises was mile in length, 81
600 children taking part.
A special from Graycourt to the
Greenville News says light snow
fell in Graycourt Saturday morning.
Graycourt is in Laurens county.
Henry Wedekind, young work
man on the pier of the Clyde Line
steamers in Charleston, fell from a
scaffold on Friday and was killed.
Several hundred South Carolina
Shriners are this week attending the
Imperial Council in Atlanta, where
over thirty thousand are in attend
ance.
At the second primary held in Co.
Iumbia, DR.. L. A. Griffith was nomi-
mated for mayor, receiving 1,415
votes to 1924 cast for DR.. F. S.
Earle.
Memorial day exercises were held
all over South Carolina on Sunday
and Monday, Monday being observ-
ed as a holiday in many cities and
towns.
The little town of Gilbert had an
$4,000 fire Thursday morning that
burned the stores Of D. E. Ham
mond, Ioor Hayes and DR.. W. A.
Oxner.
The State Federation of Women's
Clubs opened the annual session in
spartanbYrg, at Converse college,
Tuesday. About 200 delegates are in
attendance.
Adjutant General w. W. Moore has
gone to Washington to confer with
the war, department relative to mat
ters concerning the South Carolina
national guard.
A young woman about 20 years
old, after securing room without
registering at the Columbia hotel,
left the hotel, leaving in the room a
two-weeks' old baby boy.
The Southern Railway company
has announced that it will continue
the double-tracking of it's road, the
next work to be done from Charlotte
to Armour, Ca, distance of 263
miles.
VIM. F. Young, assistant postmas-
ter at Spartanburg for many years,
left on Saturday for Hawii to ac-
cept the postmastership of Honolulu,
to which he was recently appointed
by President Wilson.
President Wilson has been invited
to speak at Cheraw on July 8, on
the occasion of the celebration of
the founding of the city. Secretary
Daniels and Secretary Houston have
also been invited. 1t is stated that
the invitations have been accepted.
w. B. Atwater, an aviator of in
ternational note, is under bond of
5000 for hunting in South Carolina,
the alleged offense being committed
in Aiken county. Atwater told the
game warden that he would probably
20 to Mexico to engage in scouting
service for the UnUited States.
The Columbia newspapers are hav-
ing an argument about circulation,
and the State has brought suit
against the Record for $4,000 dam
ages because the Record published
an advertisement in it's columns stat
ing that the State had "misrepresent-
ed" it's circulation in Columbia and
suburbs.