The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-08
U5e 8antberg Btratn
Thursday, September 8, 1921
SHORT LOCALS.
Brief Items of Interest Throughout
The Town and County.

berg next MOQQdS, SepteA1ooA 1-tn'
The rise in the price of cotton has
proved a tremendous stlmulant to
business. There is already marked
Improvement in conditions generally
Monday was legal holiday-laDor
day. 1t was observed in Bamberg oy
the closing of the banks and the
postofice, and the rural mail car
riers had the day off. Otherwise
things went along as usual.
Monnie Hightower and "Muddy'
Wright were arrested Saturday for
disorderly conduct by the Bamberg
police. Hightower shot at Wright,
but missed his aim. Hightower was
fined SIS and Wright SIS in the city
court Tuesday morning.
Walter D. Hutto, Of Bamberg, has
been awarded a four-year scholar
ship to Clemson college; Jacob Fogle,
of Denmark, has been awarded one
year scholarship, and Walter Rowell,
of Bamberg, has been awarded one
year scholarship from the state at
large.
Due to the fact that the pastor,
Rev. S. o. Cantey, has been ordered
to Cattle Creek camp meeting to re-
main through Sunday, there will be
no preaching services at the Meth
odist church Sunday, Sept. II. The
Epworth league will hold services at
500 o'clock p. m.
The Herald received very enter
tanning communication last week
which it is unable to print because
the writer's name was omitted. The
letter was mailed in Branchville, and
if the writer will let us know who
he or she is, The Herald will be glad
to use the communication.
J. D. Brandon, county agent, in
Weekly News Notes: "a general
live at home' programme is being
adopted and hogs will come in for
large share of consideration. Truck
crops, vegetables and hogs will large
" replace cotton and tobacco unless
the markets for these two crops ad-
vance,"
The F. NJ. Bamberg chapter of the
U. D. G.. will meet next Tuesday aft
ernoon at five o'clock with Mrs. c.
F. Gilchrist. The members are urged
to attend this meeting, as the annual
election of officers will take place,
and those who have not paid their
dues are requested to bring the same
with them.
Clemson college will be we'll rep
resented from Bamberg this year.
The following left Tuesday to enter
the college: Fred Sanders, George
Price, Lonnie Price, George Bamberg,
and lizard Luck" Warren. Walter
Rowell and Walter Hutto, who hold
Clemson scholarships, will leave Tor
Clemson next week.
There are two Jasper warns IN
Bamberg county. One is white and
the other is colored. Jasper Warn,
colored. is charged in the court OF
general sessions with obtaining mon
ey under false pretences. Jasper
Warn. white, is a most respectable
citizen, and wishes it clearly under
stood that he is not the man under
charges.
Cotton continues to advance. Sat-
urday and Monday were holidays in
the cotton exchanges and there was,
therefore, no market quotations.
Tuesday morning the market open
ed 120 points above the close Friday
afternoon, when spots were quoted
at IS cents, and closed. 200 points up.
Yesterday the market advanced about
$50 points before noon.
A party of York county farmers
passed through Bamberg last week
on a tour of the boil weevil terri
tory. The purpose of the visit of the
party was to secure first-hand infor-
nation concerning the work of the
yeeyi]. Members of the party ex-
pressed much surprise when they
noted the devastation of the weevil
throughout Orangeburg, Barnwe1
Bamberg and Allendale counties.
A severe electric storm passed over
Bamberg Thursday night last. For
several minutes there was a fierce
blow of wind, accompanied by deaf
ening peals of thunder and vivid dis
plays of electricity. A bolt of light
ming struck an electric wire running
into the LaVictoire theater while a
show was in progress. While no dam