The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-30
SHORT LOCALS.
Rrief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.


The friends of Sheriff S. G. Ray
will learn with regret that he is con-
fined to his home with illness.
The friends of Mr.. J. Frank Brab-
ham will be glad to learn that he is
up again after several days illness.
Mr.. H. NJ. Graham is preparing to
erect two nice cottages in this city.
The residences will be modern, and
equipped with modern equipment.
Mrs. ]. C. Moye has awarded a
contract for the erection of modern
cottage on Orangeburg street. Mrs.
Moye's residence was burned last
year. -
On Wednesday evening last Mr.. and
Mrs. C. J. S. Brooker entertained at
the Mayhower Inn in honor Of Judge
Devore, Solicitor R. L. Gunter and
Stenographer and Mrs. E. A. Brown.
Five tables of bridge were played, af-
ter which the guests were served an
ice course.
There will be preaching and con-
ference at Colston Branch Baptist
church next Saturday afternoon. All
members are requested to be present.
Sunday morning there will be State
mission day exercises, recitations by
the children, and preaching by Rev.
B. F. Halford.
Mr.. j. A. Griffith, of the New
Bridge section, was in the city on
Monday. He brought with him Is
rattles and a button from rattle
snake he killed Monday afternoon.
The snake was monster, measuring
four feet and II inches in length.
Mr.. Griffith says he killed another a
week or so ago with nine rattles and
a button. The swamp is full of them,
he says.
Thursday last Mr.. H. L. Hinnant
received a telephone message that
his brother, Mr.. H. M. Hinnant, had
been seriously injured in a railroad
accident near Columbia. Mr.. Hin
nant was riding on the engine when
the engine was overturned in a
wreck. Mr.. Hinnant received serious
injury from burns and scalding. He
was rushed to hospital in Colum-
( bia, where he is still in precarious
condition.
Mr.. J. J. Smoak has secured the
agency in Bamberg for the Gulf Re
f1ning company's products. Two
large tanks, for gasoline and kero-
sene, will be placed at some conven-
lent location in the city, and these
two products will be distributed to
Bamberg, Denmark, Ehrhardt, Black
vile, Olar, Springfield and Branch
vile, from this city. Mr.. H. M. Ray
will have charge of the business for
Mr.. Smoak. !
The Herald last week inadvertent-
~ did the local cotton market an in
justice. It was stated that cotton
sold on the previous Friday for
10 3-4 cents, and that the market
had declined, but that cotton was
still selling for around 10 1-2. This
was correct at the time it was writ
ten, but, like the market has way
Of doing some times, cotton advanced
to above eleven cents by the time
The Herald was in. the postoffice.
Mrs. George A. Bunch of Clarks
Fill, came here last Tuesday, accom-
panied by her son and daughter whom
she entered at the Carlisle school.
Mrs. Bunch is daughter of Hon.
George D. Tillman, who represented
this district in congress for sixteen
years, and whose memory is cherish
ed by many of the older persons who
knew and admired him in the STIR
ring times of radical rule in the
State. Mrs. Bunch says she accom-
panied her father to this town on the
memorable occasion when he met
Daniel H. Chamberlain at Midway,
and shaking his fist in Chamberlain s
face, called him great big fat,
greasy, turkey eating, wine drinking,
carpet-bagger! Mrs. Bunch, while
here spent portion of the time with
the friend of her girlhood, Mrs. A.
Mob. Speaks, to whom she expressed
her surprise and pleasure at the
growth and improvement of BAN
berg.
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