The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-02-10
TIrR Banthrrg Nfraln
Thursday, Feb6 10, 1916.
SHORT LOCALS.
Rrief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

Thomas & Co.
Mrs. Leila B. Walsh has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Lees, in this
county, to succeed H. B. Grimes.
The friends of Mrs. Henry F. Bam-
berg, who is under treatment at
Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore,
will be glad to learn that she is i'm
proving.
The F. M. Bamberg charter, U. D.
c., will meet next Tuesday at
o'clock at the residence Of Mrs. John
Eooner. All the members are urged
to be present.
Two new students we're enrolled at
Carlisle school last week. They were
Miss Lula Belle Stabler, Of Calhoun,
and Mr.. Charles Biggerstaff, OF
Orangeburg county.
The Carlisle baseball team has
been organized, and is now engaged
In practice for the coming season.
Coach Merchant is pleased with the
team, and believes it has excellent
prospects.
A charter has been granted by the
secretary of State to the Peoples
Bank, of Lodge, with capital stock
of SIS, 200. The corpcrators are c.
+. Rizer, Carrie B. Rizar- and G. M.
Neeley, all of Olar.
A commission has been issued by
the secretary Of State 10 the Citizens
Building and Loan association, of
Bamberg, with a capital stock of
$4,000. The corporators are
Messrs. "A. W.. knight and W. A.
Klauber and DR.. George F. Hair.
At the recent annual meeting of
the United States Good Roads asso-
citation, Congressman James F..
Byrnes was elected life member of
{ that organization. There are only
fifty life members. Others from
South Carolina are E. J. Watson and
r. Horton Colcock.
Last Thursday there was partial
eclipse Of the sun. The eclipse was
witnessed by a number of Bamberg
people, who used smoked glasses.
The sun entered the eclipse at 10:45,
leaving about noon. About one
fourth Of the area of the sun was COW
cred by the shadow.
SIS DR.. E. o. Watson, pastor of Trini-
tys Methodist church, left Tuesday
afternoon for the Johns Hopkins hos
pitai, Baltimore, where he will under
go treatment. The doctor has not
been very well for some time, and his
many friends trust that he will re-
turn soon entirely well.
Miss Biddie Carter was married
February to Mr.. Marvin Bishop,
OF Lodge, the ceremony being per-
formed by Rev. J. c. Lawson. The
bride is the daughter of Mr.. Henry
Carter, and the groom a son of Mr..
L. M. Bishop, both living in Bamberg
county. Mr.. and Mrs Bishop will
make their home in Lodge.
If you have not yet renewed your
subscription to The Herald, do so to-
day, and add fifty cents to your year
~ subscription for the Progressive
{ Farmer a year, new or renewal, and
the Housewife a year; or add one
dollar to your yearly subscription to
The Herald for the Ladies World, the
Mothers Magazine and McCalls Mag
azine one year each.
Mr.. W. II. Morgan, of Nashville,
Tenn, spent several days at Carlisle
school last week. Mr. Morgan is one
of the international secretaries of the
7. M. C, A. In addition to several
helpful addresses, Mr.. Morgan start
ed a movement looking toward the
organization of voluntary groups for
daily Bible study. The groups are
to be led by the students themselves.
Wednesday of last week was
grounding day, According to the
popular superstition, if the ground
hog, when he comes out on this day,
sees his shadow, he goes back, and
there will be a late spring. AS the
day was cloudy, he did not behold
his profile around Bamberg, so we
are to have an early spring, the
grounding remaining out of his
hole.
Very little fertilizer has been ship
ped to Bamberg this year. Our in
formation is that it is the same way
all over the county. There will not
be much guano used by the farmers
this season. 1t is usual at this time
of the year to see several carloads o1
fertilizer being hauled from Bam'
berg. AS this is the second year that