The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-03-25
Tbe Banrberg Dtralo
Thursday, March %, 1920.
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items Of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.

the Town and County.
DR.. C. E. Burts, Of Columbia,
preached at the Bamberg Baptist
church last Sunday evening.
The fire alarm was sounded last
Saturday afternoon. A small blaze
occurred at the home of H. F. Bam-
berg, but resulted in practically no
damage. The fire had been extln-
guished when the fire department ar
rived.
Work was started Monday morn
ing on the erection of the Farmers
tobacco warehouse here. This large
structure is being erected on the B.,
F.. and w. railroad in the wholesale
district" This gives Bamberg two
tobacco warehouses, and insures a
strong market for the weed here
this summer.
The friends of H. F. Floyd, who
was formerly county farm demonstra-
tor in Bamberg, will be pleased to
learn that he has about recovered his
health. Mr.. Floyd had to resign his
position here because of failing
health He went to health resort
from here, but has now returned to
South Carolina, his physician pro-
nouncing him cured.
The influenza condition in the Ehr-
hardt and Hunters Chapel sections
has greatly improved recently, and
there is now very little of the cpl
demic in the county. Most of the
schools have been re-opened and
work resumed.
Courtney brothers, of Aiken, have
opened a vulcanizing plant on Rail-
road avenue in the new building re-
Gently erected by B. F. Free.
Bamberg county has received two,
more large automobile trucks from
the United States government,
through the state highway depart
ment. This makes five trucks the
county has received from the war de-
partment, and the officials expect to
receive kitchen outfit for the use of
the county chain gang. All of this
equipment has been received at no
expense to the county except freight
charges.
The land auction firm of Matheny
Bros, which is composed Of Raymond
and Pinckney Matheny, former citi-
zens of Bamberg, recently made one
of the biggest auction sales ever held
in the south. This sale took place in
Savannah and nearly two million dol
lars worth of real estate was auction
ed off in a few minutes. This sale
was considered of such proportions
that it was carried as an Associated
Press dispatch in the newspapers
throughout the country.
The recent meeting of the stock
holders of the W., B. & S. railroad,
of which c. J. Field, formerly of this
city, is general manager, showed Mr..
Fields road to be in fourishing
condition. In a writeup of the meet
ing in the Wilmington Star, the fol-
lowing statement is made: more
than 10000 passengers were carried
over the line during the year in addi-
tion to heavy freight traffic. Four
teen saw mills between Wilmington
and Southport are shipping their to-
tai output over the w., B. & S., it
was reported" The road has a track
age of 80 miles, with general offices
in Southport.
Work is expected to be started at
once on the repairing and rebuilding
of the streets of the city. The city
officials have purchased street work
ing equipment, and it is planned to
go over all the streets as early as
possible. In order to do this, the
authorities ask that the people bear
patiently with the street department
in the matter Of removing trash, as
there is not sufficient teams to carry
on all work at the same time. Every
effort will be made to get the trash
off the streets as promptly as posi-
BILE, but for the present the teams
will be used alternately for street
work and moving trash.