The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-10-26
Short Items From
Town and County

Thirty students are enrolled at
The State A. and NJ. college, Orange
burg (colored), from Bamberg.
county. Barnwell county has % en-
rolled, while Orangeburg has l67.
In the receivers sale last week of
land involved in the case of Mac
Murphy Fertilizer company versus
J. NJ. Kirkland, sixty-fve acres were
sold to ]. NJ. kirkland for s435, in
volving a life estate of ]. NJ. Kirk
land
Furman Roberts, of Ehrhardt,
brother of Mrs. B. D. Carter, Of this
city, who will be remembered as the
star player on the Ehrhardt base ball
team, is making good with the Wof-
ford foot ball eleven. He starred IN
the recent game between Woford
and Erskine, when the latter was de-
feated.
The tax books will officially open
here on November 18th, but Treas
urer Jennings is not refusing taxes
from any taxpayers who care to pay
now, as quite few of them are DO
ing In fact some folks insist on
paving now, as they say they had
hard enough time paying the past
The first number Of the Carlisle
lyceum course was presented last
Friday evening at the school to
large audience. The entertainment
was provided by quintet of Welsh
singers, and was one finest entertain
ments seen in Bamberg in a long
time. The singers possess fine voices,
we'll trained, and the audience was
delighted in every way with them.
This is the state fair week. AS
usual hundreds of Bamberg county
folks are attending the fair, which is
said to be the best in the history OF
the association. Today, Thursday,
there will be scores of county peo-
ple at the fair to see the annual bout
between Carolina and Clemson. Like
wise tomorrow many will go to see
the big circus, as we'll as to take in
the fair.
J. A. kennedy, of Guyton, Ca, an
uncle of S. S. Williams, Of Govan, is
visiting relatives in the county. MT.
Kennedy left Govan for Georgia four
teen years ago. Since then he has
been engaged in truck farming and
truck buying, and has made quite a
success of it. He says that conditions
in his section, regarding the boil wee
vii, are pretty much the same as pre-
vail here. He plants only few acres
of cotton.
Members of the Welsh musicians
who entertained the lyceum audi
ence last Friday evening, gave con-
cert in Ehrhardt Saturday night, and
returned to Bamberg to spend Sum
day. Members of the organization
sang at the Baptist and Methodist
churches Sunday morning, and again
Sunday evening at the Baptist
church. there being no services at the
Methodist church. Sunday afternoon
q sacred concert was given at the
Methodist church.
J. Wesley Crum, Of the Bamberg
bar, was speaker by invitation at
the Lions club and the Orangeburg
county medical association meeting
last week in Orangeburg. Speaking
of Mr.. Crum's address, the Times
and Democrat says: y. Wesley Crum
was introduced by Lion John S.
Bowman, and in few happy re-
marks spoke of his connection with
this community through close rela-
tives, ,latives, which, he said, made
him feel just like an Orangeburg
boy
Every farm home, as we'll as all
others, should have some good read
ing matter. With this in view, The
Herald has arranged to include with
a subscription, either new or old,
four magazines, all for s2.55. The
four periodicals given with The Her
aid In this club are: Peoples Popu-
lar Monthly, Good Stories, The Farm
Journal, and The Household. The ex-
ira cost is only 55c. The Herald loses
money bv making this club, and it is