The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-09-30
DISCUSSES 100000 HOTEL.
Writer Tells Something of Bamberg
and Needs of HOstelry.

lSdu Will lulC1 OoI sou1 oi IANAS IL
your last issue in regard to Bam-
berg's 100000 hotel. Perhaps the
readers of your valued paper thought
these figures were only intended as
burlesque, as they doubtless thought
that a hotel of this value would ex-
cell other institutions and industries
of the town. For this reason the
writer gathered together few facts
relative to WHAT BAMBERG IS.
First. We are a small bunch of
hustlers, numbering almost 5000.
Every man in our town pulls for a
better town, more progressive bus
mess center and for new enterprises
of various nature which are benef-
cial to the country as a whole. We
have a graded and high school which
ranks as A-No.-1 in South Carolina.
We have Carlisle school, which is a
branch of Wofford college, and has
enrolled at this writing 225 of the
best southern boys, who are our boys
for nine months in the year, and Oft
en- times longer. "Once a Bamberg-
ian always Bambergian.' We have
three good churches, about sixty re-
tail<stores, five sales stables, two
large tobacco warehouses, which are
new and progressive, and enemies Of
the boil weevil (rnany of our farmers
have been so successful they expect
to make tobacco their main crop here
after.) These warehouses are al
ready rented for storage houses for
our new crop of peanuts and cotton
during the months they are not oc-
cupied by tobacco. We have an oil
mill which is doing fine business, and
modern cotton mill which is work
ing at the present time $50 employees.
The mill is running every day. There
is an ice factory with capacity of 1 2
tons per day, and three strong, ac
commodating and progressive banks
with resources ranging around ST.
100000. Government statistics show
that Bamberg is the richest town per
capita in South Carolina.
We have two weekly newspapers
which are alive and always welcom-
ed, a postofice modern in every re-
spect. We have wholesale grocery,
anG a wholesale furniture company,
which are both shipping goods every
day. We have a new potato curing
plant which will soon be crowded
with our new crop of sweet potatoes.
1t is understood that by next season
we will have two more tobacco ware
houses in addition to the two. we
have.
Bamberg is the county seat of Bam-
berg county And we have at last
grown to the point that you can ac-
tually live in Bamberg and not be
on Railroad avenue. Bamberg is un-
questionably the best and most pro-
gressive town between Charleston
and Augusta, and we are growing
every day. No one need ever be sur
prised at anything that they hear
about the growth and progress of our
live town.
We are no more a malaria town,
for we are now exempt after an
expenditure of almost 100000 worth
of ACTUAL MONEY, and our old
wet, boggy Main street is a thing
of the past Today in it's stead we
have a beautiful paved white way,
which would be credit to any city.
We are on the highway leading
from Columbia to Savannah, which
causes quite a. number of pleasure
seekers as we'll as business men to
come through our town on their jour-
ney.
Now, the question arises, do we
need a hotel to back up our town?
Are Bamberg citizens lying asleep to
this extent and allowing the travel
ing public to leave our town for ho-
tel accommodations in smaller
towns? No! We have stood for it
too long now, and every business
man who really thinks what he is
doing, and every citizen of Bamberg
who loves his old home town and
wants it to grow, as we all do, will
be only too glad to join hands and
put the deal lover the top" without
a single kick.
Yours for a 100000 hotel,
F. K. GRAHAM.
Sent % 1920