The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-10-12
Short Items From
Town and County

changed the hours of the evening
services from eight to seven-thlrty
O'Clock. This hour applies to the
mid-week prayer services as we'll as
to the Sunday preaching services.
Nice showers this week have put
new heart into the winter gardeners,
who have been waiting on rain for
several weeks to get winter Vege-
tables under way. The rains are also
very acceptable on the farm, as they
enable the farmers to prepare their
land for planting of grain crops.
The Woman's Missionary society
of the Methodist church will be en-
tertained at the home Of Mrs. James
Burch on Tuesday afternoon, Octo-
ber II. at $3.50 o'clock. Assistant
hostesses, Mrs. Claude Gilchrist, Mrs.
Alfred Utsey, and Mrs. W. o. Guess.
All members are urged to be present.
R. w. Riley, of Barnwell, who died
recently, was we'll known and related
in Bamberg county, DR.. Riley had
been auditor of Barnwell county for
many years, and the news of his
death came as a shock to his many
Bamberg county friends w. H. Man
ming, of Williston, has been appointed
as his successor in Office.
The Cotton Oil company has petit
toned for a license to trade ana
traffic in seed cotton. Under the
law a special license has to be grant
ed for this purpose, but this year
there are so many small lots of less
than a bale of cotton that service
Will be rendered to many farmers II
they can have method of disposlng
Of small lots of cotton in the seed.
The Orangeburg county authorities
are building two miles of hard sur
faced road on the Columbia-Savannah
highway just this side of Orange
burg city. The work is now pro-
crossing rapidly. This viii be the
first concrete stretch of roadway in
this section of the state. It is also
understood that the steel bridge over
the North Edisto river at Orangeburg
will be replaced by concrete bridge.
DR.. Melton Clark, of Columbia,
preached at the local Presbyterian
church last Sunday. At the morning
service the cadets and faculty of Car
Isle school were given special in
yitation to attend the Presbyterian
church and the invitation was ac-
cepted. The cadets were given a
warm welcome to Bamberg. DR.. Clark
preached one of his characteristic
excellent sermons to large congre-
CATION.
Major John Black and David Black,
both of Walterboro, and both broth
ers of DR.. J. B. Black, were recently
honored. The former has been ap-
pointed by Governor Harvey as act
ing sheriff of Colleton county, pend
ing the outcome of charges ,of NAL
feasance against Sheriff Alderman,
and the latter has been appointed
grand master at arms of the grand
lodge, Knights of Pythias, to succeed
the late E. D. Lemacks.
Horace McCaskill, we'll known
negro man of Ehrhardt, died sudden
" on his farm near there Monday
morning. 1t is said that McCaskil
was having a dispute with tenant
on his place, and that the excitement
brought on an. attack of apoplexy,
death resulting in few minutes.
MAGISTRATE Yafley made an investiga-
ton of the death, and no inquest was
held as there were several witnesses,
all of whom agreed that death came
from natural causes.
The trustees of the Cope high
school have let the contract for the
new school building to Creary & Com
pany, Of Columbia, whose bid was
S20,75O. The contractors started
work Wednesday morning of last
weeI-. Bonds for defraying the ex-
rease OF erecting this building were
.voted ONLY. few weeks ago. The
bonds were issued under date Of Oc-
to3er /, and the contract was award
ed Immediately after. The Herald
Office supplied the autographed
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