The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18
Ube Banrberg .Deralo
Thursday, Dec. Is, 1919.
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

the Town and County.
The Bamberg Cotton Mills will
close next Wednesday at noon for the
holidays.
The many friends of Mr.. R. L..
Risher will be glad to know that ne
is improving after two very severe
attacks of acute Indigestion.
At the grand lodge meeting of the
Masons in Charleston last week, J..
Wesley Crum, Jr., Esq, of Denmark,
was appointed grand lodge steward.
Mr.. G. NJ. Neeley, for many years
cashier of the Bank of Olar, has re-
signed his position, and Mr.. R. Fair
Goodwin has been chosen as his sue
cessor.
While cranking.a Ford last Satur-
day night Mr.. J. Grimes Hutto had
his right wrist jerked out of place.
The injury was very painful but it is
rapidly improving.
The friends throughout the county
of Mr.. Robert Lee Kearse will regret
very much to know that he is criti-
cally ill with pneumonia at his home
in the Colston section.
The friends Of Mrs. E. F. Free Will
learn with much regret of her Sc
rious illness. She was carried by DR..
]. T. Carter yesterday to hospital
in Charleston for treatment.
The coal shortage locally has been
improved recently and several car
loads of the fuel have been received
in the city within the past week, and
a few private individuals have sue
ceeded in getting supply.
Mr. Gilbert Beard, the young man
who accidentally shot himself through
the head last week while cleaning a
revolver near town, has about gotten
all right again, and his friends are
glad to know that he was not serious
ly hurt. .......-.
The coolest weather OF the season
was experienced in Bamberg this
week. The thermometer took tum-
BILE Sunday night and did not stop
until % had been reached, dropping
again Monday night to a. Many wa
ter pipes were frozen.
This is the season OF the year when
many farm hands are changing their
surroundings and making arrange
ments for the coming year, and it
seems that more changes are being
made along this line in this section
than for many years past.
A Christmas cantata, The Gift
of God,'' will be rendered next
Sunday evening at the Baptist
church by the choir during the usual
evening service hour. There will be
no preaching services Sunday even
ing. The public is cordially invited.
It will be of interest to the friends
of Miss Blanch Spann to know Of the
splendid progress she is making in
her work at Brenau College Conser-
vatory, Gainesville, Ga. Besidesl
very creditable standing in all de-
partments~ Miss Spann has received
special mention in geology, which
means she has averaged over 95 per
cent. in this subject.
While Bamberg county has been
experiencing a drought for the past
several months excessive rains
throughout the state of Georgia have
caused the Savannah river as we'll as
practically all other rivers in that
state to reach the food stage, and
near Atlanta several people have
been drowned in the raging waters
of the Chattahoochie river.
Many of our people attended the
plays at the Academy Of Music in
Orangeburg last week, and the plays
and business generally over. there are
being literally patronized by Bam-
berg people this year. Judging from
the way Orangeburg county keeps up,
or falls to keep up, the road and
bridges on that side of the line.
however, this patronage is neither
appreciated nor desired.