The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-08
Wbe q ,rrberg Deralo
Thursday, November 8, 1917
SHORT LOCALS.
brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.


ing held this week in Orangeburg
and numbers of Bamberg people are
enjoying the festivities.
Bamberg can now boast OF beau
tiful electric sign. Coz. w. A. klau
Der has purchased large one for his
store, and Friday night it blazed forth
for the first time.
The home of 8. W. Miley, Esq.
on Carlisle street has been recently
remodeled and made over almos,
new, and now presents quite an at
tractive appearance.
Mrs. Harry Murphy and Mrs. w
e.. Free will be hostesses to the F
NJ. Bamberg chapter Of the U. D. c..
on November 18th, at O'Clock, al
the home Of Mrs. Murphy.
The girls of the Denmark high
school defeated the girls OF the Or
angeburg high school in game OF
basket ball at Denmark Thursday OF
last week by the score of 26 to O.
Rev. DR.. Hale, travelling represent
ative of the Southern Baptist
Theological seminary, Louisville, Ky,
occupied the pulpit Of the Baptist
congregation last Sunday morning.
The Jenkins Orphanage band (col-
ored,) of Charleston, paid its annual
visit to Bamberg Saturday. The lit
tie negroes gave several concerts on
Main street and collected a nice sum
of money for the benefit of the or
phanage.
Last Sunday was observed
throughout the United States as Go
to-Sunday-school day" The attend
ance at the Baptist Sunday-school
here for the day was 210, while $50
we're present at the Methodist Sun
day-school
The new police force seems to be
trying to do it's duty, and number
of people were up before the mayor
Monday morning on the charge of
violating the city ordinance as to
driving automobiles around the signs
at the corners.
Considerable property is changing
hands in and around Bamberg now
The negroes especially are putting
their money into real estate, and
they appear to have lots Of it. Dur
ing the month of October more than
200 private sales of land were record
ed In Bamberg county.
Mrs, James r. Owens asks the
ladies of the Bamberg Red Cross
chapter to call her up at the May
flower Inn to meet them at the Red
Cross headquarters to deliver work
to them and give instructions. There
are piles of garments cut waiting to
be made up and shipped.
After December first war tax
must be paid on all parcel post
PACK ages where the charges are
twenty-five cents or more. The tax
is one cent for each twenty-five
cents ro- fraction. No tax is levied
, on packages where the charges are
less than twenty-five cents.
The coal shortage all over the
country, or rather, the difficulty in
obtaining the fuel, has been brought
home to Bamberg people, and many
individuals right here are now suffer
ing for the want of coal, and offering
almost fabulous prices in an effort
to get some. The situation is moth
ing short of serious even from our
small local standpoint.
State Fuel Administrator Gossett
has appointed Mr.. J. A. Wyman as
county chairman Of the fuel COM
rittee for Bamberg county. Mr..
Wyman went to Columbia yesterday
to attend meeting OF the commit
tee, which will endeavor to secure
re'iee for the people who have been
urahle to seizure their winters sup
Ely of coal this season.
M. Fred Steedly brought the
largest rotate of the season to The
Head Office last week. The tuber
was Porto Rica, tipped the scales
at siv and one-half mounds, and was
r~urd and symmetrical. without a
t1erieh. Nr. Steedly says that he
g~there1 about forty bushels OF pota-
toes from a patch containing only
a sra!l fra ton o. an acre Of land.
pr. L. P. Weeks, APPRAISER Cor the
Fe7e~a, Ta"r' Loan bank in Colum-
Tia. his 'een IN Bomherg for the past
week or more on official business.
He ras teen here under the auspices
o. TIE Ramte"g County Farm Loan