The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt EtchingS.

Ehrhardt last week. My, what pro-
%astinating place. The pencil point
was Broken and wiley had used all
the ink doctoring the sore headed
chickens, but alaA we found sharp
knife and sharpened the old pencil
and now it is so short, just look how
it is writing, and the writer has been
cooped in by the fire during the cold
weather and has not been out to find
out much news. To describe the
scenery around the fireside with the
''old woman" wrapped in her shawl
and the bandanna around her head
might lead to an unpleasant Christ
mas for my Santa Claus, so I will
favor the linotype operator this time
and not send in much to worry his
patience.
The best news we have heard is
that concerning the sick folks. DR..
Roberts brought his little son Fur
man home last week from the Baker
sanitarium, Charleston; where he had
been for several weeks and had been
operated on for appendicitis. He is
now o. K, and will soon be we'll
} again.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Kirkland's little
daughter had a minor operation OF
the throat at Charleston last week
and is at home again.
Mr.. O. E. .~Kearse, who has been
confined to his room for the past few
months, is getting on very we'll.
The many friends of Conductor j.
NJ Smith, of Bamberg, are glad to
learn that he is doing we'll and sim
eerely hope that he will be able to be
out again soon.
; Christmas is upon us again and
Santa is rich this year, and he needs
to be, for his presents are very high.
Only a few more nights now before
he will hitch up his team of reindeer
and over the world! Oh! such jour
ney, to make the little folks happy.
It is a mystery how that old fellow
can come down chimney with pres
ents and not get sooty, and l get so
sooty just in building fire in the
mornings. He is wise old man.
Mr.. ]. G. Black, Of the Thielen
theatre, Bamberg, was in town last
week on business.
We will have dark nights this
Christmas, which will be fine for fire
works. Especially is this true in the
larger cities.
The Ehrhardt high school basket
ball team played the Olar team on the
Iatter's court last Friday, one week
ago and gotta good fiouncing.
Electric signs have commenced to
arrive in town. The Farmers & Mer-
chants bank has one winking and
blinking and telling you what to do
with your money, if you have any.
Mrs. R. o. Rice, of Holly Hill, ar
rived in town last Saturday on her
annual Christmas visit among her old
home folks.
Mr.. P. NJ. Kinard and Miss Ella
HERS made their solemn pledge at
the Baptist parsonage before their
pastor, Rev. J. R. Smith, last Thurs
day afternoon to live together and
share each others troubles and pleas
ures as long as they both shall live.
The lumbermen who ship their
lumber from this station have about
gotten the whole side track from the
depot down as far as they can go
completely blocked. There is lot OF
travelling with buggies, wagons and
autos over this street and owing to
the blocking they are forced to drive
across the side walk and are running
into some fencing and telephone
poles, damaging both. We foot pas
sengers that live on the other side OF
the railroad only have small path
to get to and from our work and now
it is filled with lumber so that we
have to go around or scratch under,
as over would be dangerous. We
think that if the town officials were
to perambulate it would be our per-
dition.
Ehrhardt high school will have the
usual respite for Christmas, about
two weeks. JEF.
Occasional Writes.