The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-06-03
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
the Town and County.


of the Baptist church will meet next
Wednesday afternoon at o clock.
full attendance is urged.
E. E. Ritter has purchased the
City Market from G. r. Simmons. He
has also purchased the building IN
which are located the market and the
barber shop.
w. O. Guess and A. B. Utsey have
purchased the grocery stock and pus-
mess of B. w. Simmons. The deal
was negotiated last week, and the
store is now under the new manage
ment.
Fire at the cotton mill last Fri
day did small amount OF damage.
The fire occurred in wooden out
building in which baled waste was
stored. A considerable quantity OF
waste was burned and the building
was damaged.
Colonel J. C. Guilds will be one CT
the instructors at the training school
for Sunday school workers at Myrtle
Beach June s to Is. He will teach
q course on the ''Adolescent Pupil. y
Col. Guilds will leave Saturday for
Mvrtle Beach and will be away ten
days.
The Herald acknowledges receipt
of an invitation to the commence
ment exercises of Washington and
Lee University, Lexington, Va, June
II to Is. Francis Theodore Rice,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Rice, of Bam-
berg. is a member of the graduating
class, with B.L. degree.
J. D. Kittrell, Of Cope, had his
right leg broken while operating a
wood saw one day last week. A large
tree that had been cut down lodged
in the limbs of another tree, and
while Mr.. kittrell was saving OFT the
first cut the tree loosened and fell,
striking him and breaking his leg.
The Olar high and graded school
closed it's session with commence
ment exercises the past weekend. The
baccalaureate sermon was preached
on Friday evening, and the annual
address to the graduating class was
made Monday night by Dr.. John G.
Clinkscales, of Wofford callege, Spar
tanburg.
NJ. R. Monday, of Cope, a truck
driver for J. w. Sheriff, had a very
narrow escape from death few days
ago when a pile Of lumber he was
loading fell on him. He was quite
painfully injured, and had it not
been for several mill hands who held
the greater part of the weight off of
him, he would probably have been
instantly killed.
Harry Grayson HERS was among
the graduates in medicine at the
South Carolina Medical college last
week. Mr.. HERS is a we'll known
young man of Ehrhardt, and has
many relatives and friends through
out the county. The name of Miss
Lena Rivers Padgett, Of Smoaks, ap-
pears on the list of graduates in nurs-
ing from the same institution.
The next meeting of the F. NJ.
Bamberg chapter of the U. D. c. will
be held on June Is, place of meeting
to be decided later. All those having
membership blanks are urged to I'LL
them out and present at this meeting.
The Herald is also requested to say
that some of the dishes used at the
memorial day dinner are still on
hand, and it is urged that owners
call for the same.
Fairfax defeated Denmark in an in
teresting game of ball played at Dem
mark last Thursday afternoon, the
score being to 3. Denmark had
three-run lead from the jump, but
through ragged playing by both the
infeld and outfeld the game was lost
in the sixth inning. IN this round
Fairfax made all four scores. Bat
teries: For Denmark, Goldsmith and
Stewart; for Fairfax, Barker and
Keel
Postmaster knight requests The
Herald IT, state that those desiring to
purchase printed stamped envelopes
from the postofice must hand in their
order several weeks in advance of the
date the envelopes are desired, as
the government printing office is far
behind in filing orders. We sug
gest that patrons buy their plain en-
velopes and let The Herald print
them, which is the quickest method of
getting printed envelopes.