The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-07-26
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

The Red Cross chapter will meet
at the court house Thursday after
noon at 3 o'clock.
The Domestic Science club will
meet Friday afternoon at 5 O'Clock
at the Carlisle auditorium.
Chief of Police Bruce requests that
everybody see that the grass and
weeds on their premises be cut.
Mr.. LaVerne Thomas and family
have moved into their handsome new
cottage, recently completed. on Elm
street.
Mr.. ]. Allen Higgins died in Flor
ence last week. Mr. Higgins will
be remembered by many in Bamberg,
as he ran a grocery store here for
several years.
Yesterday Mr. C. E. Sandifer, OF
R.F. D. 4, presented The Herald with
the largest cabbage We have seen in
a good many years. 1t weighed l6
1-2 pounds. He says he has many
others nearly as large.
Some excitement was created on
Main street Friday morning, when
a team of horses hitched to a wagon
loaded With watermelons became
frightened and ran away. The team
was stopped On Railroad avenue.
A negro named Jay from the Den
mark section was placed in jail a
few days ago charged with failure to
register for the selective draft. The
negro's father made affidavit that he
was not 21 years of age, and the
man was released.
DR.. A. S. Weekley has been ap-
pointed first lieutenant in the medical
reserve corps. DR.. Weekley has been
practicing medicine in the city for
some time, and has won numerous
friends throughout the city and coun-
ty, who will be pleased to know OF
his appointment.
During the second week in August
trip will be made by Bamberg peo-
pie by automobile to the boil weevil
section of Georgia, to gain first hand
information concerning the pest Any
one desiring to go in the party should
communicate with Secretary Pau
Whitaker of the Chamber of Com
merce.
The Herald has stated repeatedly
that it will not publish communi-
cations and notices unless the writer
signs his or her name to the letter.
In spite of this we continually re-
ceive such notices. This week we
received an announcement which was
unsigned; therefore it is not pub
lished.
Mr.. Tnurmond Herndon sustained
slight injuries last Friday when he
collided with MIR. G. H. Mitchells
automobile on Railroad avenue. Mr..
Herndon was riding a bicycle, which
was demolished, and he was
dragged some distance but other
than a few scratches and bruises,
he was uninjured.
Miss Vera Mcmillan, of the Clear
Pond section, and Mr.. D.-Rice Steed-
ly, son of Mr.. and Mrs. D. o. Steed-
ly, of Hunters Chapel, were married
Sunday, July 18th. Both are well
known throughout the county and
number their friends by the score.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steedly are now receiv-
ing the gratulations of their &C
guaintances.
The officers last week seized two
kegs Ct cider at Ehrnardt, upon COM
plant that it caused intoxication.
The party from whom the cider was
seized stated that it had been sold to
him under guarantee that it was a
lawful drink. 1t appearing that he
was innocent in the matter, no case
was made against him, ), but warning
was given that no drinks containing
over the legal percentage Of alcohol
will be permitted to be sold.
Mrs. J. Frank Folk was the charm
ing hostess at a shower given Monday
afternoon for Bamberg's bride of the
week, Miss Josephine Adams. Mrs.
Miles Black and Mrs. Folk received
at the door. Punch was served in
the hallway by Misses Eunice Hunter
and Lurline Herndon. Advice given
the bride by the guests was read
aloud, causing much merriment. The
shower gifts were gathered from a
clothes lire on the porch and placed
in an artistically covered basket held
by Miss Adams. Late in the after,
noon an ice course was served.