The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-08-16
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.-Paragrap About
Men and Happenings.

Columbia is contemplating inaugu-
rating an up-to-date barge line on
the Congaree river.
Spartanburg has completed the lay
ing of three miles of water main to
Camp Wadsworth, the army canton
ment there.
Voters of Abbeville county last
week defeated a proposition to issue
bonds in the sum of 100000 for
road construction.
A farm loan association was or
ganized in Aiken last week. Appll-
cations for loans tbtaling about $79,-
900 will be made.
Contracts have been awarded for
the building of number of good
roads in Mccormick, the baby county
of South Carolina.
At Pamplico, Florence county Tues
day, 53,51S pounds of tobacco were
sold for s14,31O.36, or an average of
26.74 cents per pound.
The FIVE companies of artillery of
the South Carolina National Guard
are now at Fort Moultrie, off Charles
ton, where they will at once go into
training to man the big guns.
Father Joseph D. Budds, rector of
the Cathedral of ST. John the Baptist,
died at his home in Charleston recen-
ly. He had been "a priest of the
Catholic church twenty-five years.
Major julius J.. Wagner, a we'll
known citizen of Charleston, died at
his home in that city Thursday, aged
II years. He served throughout the
War Between the Sections and as
major of the First Infantry, S. c. B..
G.. during the Spanish American war.
Decaying vegetation in the Goose
Creek reservoir at Charleston has
caused oxidation of the water, and as
a result hundreds of fish have been
smothered from inability to get re-
ouired oxygen. The dead fish are be-
ing removed as rapidly as possible, so
as to keep the water uncontaminated.
Rev. J. A. Sigh, a well-knoWn
Lutheran minister died at his home
near Columbia, early Tuesday morn
ing. Rev. Sigh served three terms
as a representative in the legislature
from Newberry county and later serv-
ed as railroad commissioner. He
was closely associated with the Farm
ers' Alliance and the Reform move
ment led by B. R. Tillman.
Ralph G. Neves, stable sergeant OF
the supply company of the First South
Carolina Regiment at Greenvllle was
shot through the head last week on
the Travellers Rest road near Green
Vile. while returning from the funeral
of his uncle. He is seriously wound
ed. Seven men are held charged with
the shooting, which is believed to
have been the outcome of an old
grudge.
The department of agriculture,
commerce and industries is seizlng
inferior quality corn meal over the
State. The pure food laws require
that all meal below certain stand
ard be seized by the department and
destroyed. Within the past two weeks
nearly twenty seizures have been
made. The meal is the product OF the
fag end of last years crop.
John Williams Robinson, IL, OF
Great Falls, Chester county, was
drowned last week while trying to
save Franklin Watts from drowning.
Young Robinson with three other
bows were in bathing. Franklin
Watts got in water over his head
and the Robinson lad went to his
rescue. The Watts boy managed to
get hold of limb and pull out, while
the Robinson boy drowned.