The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-02-16
Brief Items From
Town and County

The Herald has been handicapped
this week by reason of the fact that
r. M. Bruce has been laid up for
several days at his home on New
Bridge street.
Clarence Black, Jr., H. N. FOLK
Jr., and Helen and Frances Kirsch
after recent illnesses are all back in
school again, to the delight of their
little friends
j. w. Hill, progressive farmer, was
taken suddenly ill at his home Tues
day about three miles from BamDerg'
and is still much indisposed to the
regret of numerous friends.
sAn unusually large number OF
Bamberg folks attended the musical
comedy performance at the Academy
of Music in Orangeburg Saturday
night and report a good show.
The friends of J. B. Black, Jr., who
has been i'll for several weeks, will
he glad to know that he is greatly
improved, and it is expected that he
will be out again in a short time.
The regular business meeting OF
the Baptist Woman's Missionary So
ciety will be held at the church next
Wednesday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
A full attendance of the membership
is urged.
81 enclose check for The Herald
for another year." writes a valued
subscriber in North Carolina, who
adds: "Mrs.-- says she cant well
do without it, The compliment is
appreciated.
The Bamberg Herald thinks that
.'the legislature as at present COM
posed is a liability on the state II
the income tax bill goes through in
its present shape this will be the gen.
eraf verdict The News and Courier.
The annual appropriation bill was
introduced in the house Tuesday by
the ways and means committee. The
bill carries appropriations of $751;
6s4.47, which is less by $1,095,450.-.
65 than the measure of last year, and
is s794,555.4S less than the budget
commission recommended.
F. X. Graham, trading as the Kirk
land Graham Furniture company, at
Bamberg yesterday filed petition in
voluntary bankruptcy in the United
States district court here. In the
schedules fled liabilities are given at
s32,S2S.55 and assets at S31,S77.7l.
The News and Courier, 14th.
The many friends of Mrs. B. D.
Carter, who has been critically i'll in
an infirmary in Charleston for the
past two weeks, will be delighted to
know that she is very much improv-
ed. Mr.. Carter, who has been con-
stantly at her bedside for more than
week: returned to Bamberg Tues
day morning.
The mayors court Monday morning
was of short duration; only two cas-
es were on docket, and both were
disposed of and netted the city s55
in fines. One was minor charge
against a negro who was fined IS,
while the other was against white
man for violation Of the prohibition
ordinance. He entered a plea of
guilty and handed over $50.
The HeraIh has no way of knowing
whether the subscribers asking for
the Southern Agricurturist are receiv-
ing that paper or not. If no copies
are received in three or four weeks
after order is given, we will be glad
to be informed, so we can look after
it. It takes about that length of
time, however, to get the farm paper
started, as it is receiving thousands
of subscriptions from all over the
south, and it takes time to get them
on the mailing lists.
Many of the old trees on Carlisle
school campus and the streets ada
cent thereto have been cut down
during the last few days and sawed
or cut into firewood. Most of them
were already dead and of little value
for shade or as objects of beauty.
Two hickory trees on Elm street were
included, one dead; the other which
was alive has stood there it seems
almost from time immemorial as a
landmark. New and more attractive