The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-12-13
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.


last week to attend the performance
of the Hawaiian musical comedy at
the opera house there that night.
Mr.. J. C. Byrd has purchased the
home place of Mr.. NJ. William Brab-
ham on the outskirts Of town and has
moved there, where on January 1st
he will begin the operation of his
poultry farm. ..>.
The Women's Missionary society
of the Methodist church will meet
at the church next Tuesday after
noon at $3.50. Business of impor-
tance will come up and full at
tendance is requested.
The recent cold weather is caus-
ing thousands of wild ducks; to mi
crate southwark, and the ponds and
river swamps around Bamberg now
contain quantities of this fine game.
Many hunters are enjoying good sport
with them and bagging considerable
number.
Mr.. E. Olin Watson, Jr., son of DIR.
and Mrs. E. o. Watson, who with his
bride has recently spent some time
in Bamberg, was recently draft
en- into the army from Horny
county, where he had formerly been
in business. He is now in military
training at Camp Jackson.
Mr.. R. NJ. McCartha. formerly su-
perintendent of the oil mill here, but
who has been at Denmark for some
time past, has again accepted the po-
sition as superintendent of the local
plant, which he will handle the COM
ing year. He and his family have
already returned to Bamberg.
Bamberg for the past few days has
been experiencing what some claim
to be the coldest weather ever known
SO early in the winter. Sunday morn
ing the thermometer registered about
20 degrees, Monday morning 26 de-
grees, and on Tuesday morning 1t
had fallen again, going to l9 degrees.
A. big auction sale of building lots
from the land of Mr.. Jones A. VIII
liams in the Clear Pond neighborhood
is being held this Thursday, Decem-
Der 18th. This with the B., E. & W.
railroad operating through that sec
ton should be an incentive for a nice
little station to be built about Clear
Pond.
The mail collection boxes distrib-
uted throughout the city are now
ready to receive mail, and persons
wishing to take advantage of this
convenience may now safely drop
their letters in the boxes. Letters
will be taken up twice daily from the
Main street boxes, and once daily
from the others.
Mr.. Ira NJ. Cope, who is well known
in Bamberg and has numerous friends
and relatives here, has for some time
been enlisted in the American navy,
and is now stationed at Norfolk on
the United States ship Biddle. The
navy life will be no novelty to Mr..
Cope, as he had already spent four
years in this service previous to his
latest enlistment.
Prof. ]. C. Guilds, county chair
man for the war savings stamp cam
paign, has addressed letters to prom
inent citizens all over the county
with reference to his work. asking
for their cooperation. Prof. Guilds
also intends to visit the various
schools of the county in order to get
his campaign launched. before the
Christmas holidays.
Messrs. Glenn W. Cope and E. Roy
'Cooner, of this city, who are enlist
ed in the navy and have been sta
toned at Charleston for some time
past, have now been transferred by
the navy department to Norfolk, Va,
and are already at their new post OF
duty. Their many friends here at
home regret that they are removed
further away from Bamberg, but wish
them well.
Quite a number of Bamberg boys
enlisted in the navy are now at the
Norfolk station, or at least have re-
Gently been on duty there and prob
ably are still, and if they could all
get together at one time they ought
to have a regular celebration. Some
OF those there are Messrs. E. Roy
Cooner, Elvin Sandifer. Ira M. Cope,
Clifford Kinard, Glenn W. Cope, b.
F. Folk, Jr., and possibly others from
here.