Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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In Small Arkansas Town Hallom By Feature Writer Halloween! The very name conjures up images of hobgob lins, various demons, and the omnipresent witches skirting the clouds in wild abandon. How ever, October 31 has a very dif ferent meaning for a small com munity in Arkansas. For days the returning trappers had re ported a strange quiet in the. woods surrounding the little town of Habby. It was too quiet. The First World War had not yet reached this far back into the Ozarks, as the only worry of this year of Our Lord 1915 was a dry season that made the woods tinder for a careless spark. Cares were forgotten though, as the small town prepared for an invasion from the big city. The occasion was the golden anniversary of the now-forgot Come in and see our latesi Fall and 9 Sport Coc Sport You'll be glad yoi COPELA 1409 MAI DUAL F Filters as for mild, full fl Here's how the 1. It combines a u nitely proved to mi ny 2. with an efficient real thing in mildrn NEW DUAL FILTER~ reen Ta ten battle between a band of foraging Confederate soldiers and elements of Yankee raiders that had penetrated into the heart of the beleagured state. Ex-Confederate Speaks Jeb Stokes, aged 76, was the principal attraction in this re creation of a historic moment. He had been a corporal in .the Confederate Army, and was the only living witness to tell of the massacre, as the surprised Johnny Rebs had been mowed down by the carefully planned ambus-h. "I was standing lookout on the far side of the slough, when all of a sudden there they was musta been 50 or 60. One of 'eM clipped me on the head and fig gered I was.dead, 'cause when I come to, there warn't nothin' left but the bodies." The years had added polish to his rendi selection of Ivy styles for inter wear. its Shirts Slacks &dropped by'... ND C0. N STREET LTER O POPAULAR FItTER PRICE D no single fill aver! Qual Filter does it: aique inner filter of ACTIVATED CI ke the smoke of a cigarette mild an~ pure white outer filter. Together thi 'ss and fine tobacco taste I le Of R tion, and his position in the community had improved so since the war that he and the entire Stokes family were looked on as leaders in the backwoods community. Big Night Comes The big night came. Horses, buggies, and city cars thronged the ravine as the speeches be gan. The firelight cast an eerie glow on a lone figure of an old woman standing on the edges of the crowd. Her homespun dress was ragged and the October chill was warded off by a single gray doublet, faded almost be yond recognition as a Confede, rate officer's coat. The brass buttons were gone, but the single gold collar stripe gleamed oddly in the fire light. Jeb Stokes was just launching into his well-known but still loved account of the "big fight." He was dressed in his honorary captain's uniform donated by the people of the community. There was a slight pause in -his narrative, and the thin reedy voice of the old woman cut like a knife into the hush: "He's a lyin'." Jeb Stokes' Treason She edged to the center of the gathering in the silence. "He's always was a lyin'. My son was in charge of that outfit . . . but he warn't killed right off. I -held him and sung to him jist like I did when he was a kid. 'Jeb Stokes let 'em through,' he told me. I was a wipin' the blood from his head while he was a tellin' me how Jeb was taking Yankee Gold to let 'em through." She flung "Yankee Gold" as a curse word. "That were 50 year ago," ES IT! areyton0 er Can1 1 ' 2 ARCOAL. ..defi sy bring you the 0on evenge she said, in a low voice, "and he put the bullets through my son's coat just as .if he'd shot him 'hisself." The light gleamed through the unmended butternut coat. The silence was unbroken save for a slight far-off crackle in the underbrush. The crackle grew louder. Suddenly the light from the central campfire was outshown by the glow from the burning underbrush. Dead Man's Revenge "Fire" s h o u t e d someone. "The woods are afire!" Panic spread through the crowd as all sought to escape the rushing flames of the now furious forest fire. They found Jeb Stokes and the old woman the next day in the burned clearing. The grimy, smoke-sickened fire f i g h t e r s brought them in from ,where they had been unable to escape from the flaming death. "Some city slicker dropped a cigarette," say those who would explain it away, but those that were there said they saw a face in the flames. The face was young and bronzed, and the single officer's stripe twinkled in the firelight. It happened in a little town in Arkansas, on Halloween. ... Seen. "eerd. Spoke ON CAMPUS Basketball players r-eturning fromt the fair with their arms full of teddy bears, which they w11on1 by throwing "baskets." Carolina "Gamecock" having his tail feathers removed before gamine by Clemsoni students. Student, while chasing a cat across caimipus, falling flat on his face. * * * Student seen after game, try ing to persuade his roommate not to go for a swim in the nad puddles aronid the park ing area. Photography student carefully aiming his camerts, but fidiny himself unable to lIoate the shutter. Student seen trying to walk the fence in front of library after gamIe'. Students comiplaining o f strained mnuscles aifter a week enda of muountatn climbing. Student co mpla ilning hiis car ran hot on way to school--in 40 dlegree weather. Sev'eral professors seen pa tronlizing side showsq at the fair. th nc ar re fu th GRAY 1347 MAI 'Carolina Wii Judy Penlnid, Carolina's attractil thle mninds of Carolinta fanim from t cocks were trailing Clemson 13.0 a foriiance ont the ast Big Thurmd to win the game, Judy, tihe Ca Gaylord, drum major Don Clary efforts to get the Ie-t of tihe h Photographer.) Much Study, Few Dates Hong Kong Described I By BARBARA ABLE Feature Writer Wai-Kit Leung, a petite, at tractive graduate student working for her master's degree in niathe matics at the University finds her life on campus very similar to that at the four-year, state-supported university she graduated from in her native Hong Kong. The main difference, she ex plained, is that the students at the Chinese institution study much harder, often from morning until night during exams. In addition t they take advantage of every spare moment by studying in the can teen and du ritig neals as well asI in their dormitory rooms. Otherwise, the university inl Hong Kong is very similar to USC; the students have clubs, cantteens, libraries, etc. and date on4 weekendls. However, Wai-Kit 's lifCe at Carolina consists primarily of study and she does not date because she feels that this wvould defiunitely conflict with her' effort to obt tain her degree. hsy Schedule ( Teaching as wvell as learning i p)art of Wai-K it's busy schedule In addit ion to the three courses t CAMPUS FAVORITE h O Is sensational sport outfitisurtob a slimline jacket Is Ancient Madder ed and accented with flashing metal ttons. Styled for easy comfort with tural shoulders and narrow lapels. itching Post-Grad slacks are .118 tin d tapered. And the matching vest is ally 2 vests in 1-it reverses to a color | Ancient Madder print. All in all mn, this smooth Corduroy Combo Is "miost"l 29.95 SON'S N STREET 18 Halftime' -XZW e head majorette helped turn hle unhappy fact that the Gane t the half with a mparklinig per ay. Although Clemson went on olina Coquettes, twirler Robin anld the USCu hand collbinled aifftime Amw. (Photo I Staff University ly Co-ed he is taking herself, she has two lasses in freshman math. "Kitty." is her American friends call her, ias had difficulty understanding ier professors and fears that her Own students may have the same rouble. Referring to her students, she ays: "They are smart and even hough I may use the incorrect vord, I feel they understand what 'mean." This language difficulty, iowever, is not serious and Kitt.y ins high hopes of returning to long Kong to teach mathematics ipon completion of her work at he University. Kitty finds the American peo >e friendly and hospitable and IIIefers life in the United States o that of .J a p a n and Honolulu, lawaii, although she has visited ot h of these pilaces. Sheath Drea On the campus of the university he attended at Hong Kong, the 'heunig San or slit-skirt dress was ammnnrpla(ce atire for (co-ed stu ents, and Kitty wore hers regu :irly. The Cheung Sari is form itt ing like an A merican sheath ress, but is slit on bo0th sides of he skirt from the hem to several 'aches above the knees. Kitty's American professor of nglishi warned her not to wear his comlmonpllac.e Clinese school ttirei while teachinrg in the United tates because it is "too attrac e"so she wears American style resses in p)ublic here. However, she prefers her native ress for wear around her rooms tthe Graduate House where she as been staying since her arrival 'i September. Quite naturally. Vai-Kit is homesick for her ,ved oneis in China (she is one f five children) but the friends he has made at the University ave made things very pleasant or her. Only recently, when she 'as in the infirmary, her Grad ate House friends showved her xtra kindness for which she ex ressed her appreciation. Stap er no higger+n a 'pack of gum! SWNUNE~a -'0-' MiUns now in ass. Uncondi. tionaRF akes book canst, Awtdds, tet. AvaB. able as your ooeso~ "C.b ser1t3 Baseball Incident Recalled By BILL LUMPKIN Feature Editor It was May 28, 1897 and the baseball team of the South Caro lina College was peacefully en gaging in a game with the Inde pendent Fire Company of Colum bia team, when the playing field was suddenly invaded by the adju tant general of South Carolina and the state militia. This unexpected intrusion was to lead to a brief but violent skirmish and a later investiga tion by a military court into one of the strangest incidents in the history of the University. The serio-comic clash between John Gary Watts' militiamen and a pair of baseball teams caused by a conflict over use of the athletic field has been over shadowed by the f a m o u s 1902 football dispute., just as football has long since gained ascendency over baseball as the dominant sport on the University campus. Permisioa Given It all started when President Woodirow gave adjutant general WVatts permission to hold a drill and inspection of his militia troops on the baseball field May 26. Watts and the militia felt that this permission still held good two days later. On May 28 Woodrow was out of town and Professor Sloan was in charge during his absence. According to Professor Daniel W. Hollis's history of the Uni versity, volume two, the situation rapidly worsened. When Sloan sug gested that the drill be held on the east half of the field while the game continued on the west half, Watts became belligerent. He asserted that the athletic field was state property and therefore subject to his jurisdiction. Although Watts finally complied with Sloan's request, somewhat ungraciously, the game and the drill did not precede side by side very long. A line-drive foul down the third base line which struck the horse of one of Watts' staff officers apparently was the last strawv. Melee Resulhs No doubt livid with rage at this unprovoked "flank attack" on his forces, the general ordered his troops to clear the field. Sloan contended that Watts had no such authority, and the student players resisted. Professor R. Means Davis, for whom the present Davis College is named, was slightly injured in t-he resulting melee while student Dun can D. McColl of Marlboro County was sufficiently hurt by a blowv on the head to postpone his fin a) exam inations uniitilI the followinrg Oc~to)be r. .Most of the press condemned the ac tions of the adjutant general, who was rep)rimanded by the spe eial military court which investi gated the affair. For example, the Edlgefield "Advertiser" declared: "Gene'ral Watts should be put in a pickle barrel and corked down tnt il war actually breaks out. He is entirely' too belIi cose for these piping times of peace.'" Iomn of (ourt In a similar vein the investigat mg military court commented with dlisfavor on Watts' "serious lack of judgment" and "unwise, unnec e'ssary and unwarranted assumip tion of authority.'' This did not metan that the University was not also criticized, however. The Wal halla "News" observedl indig nantly that: "This is a fine repu tation for this classic institution to be making, especially so since the taxpayers have set 'em up to) $25,000 a year." Although there wvas less danger of bloodshed dlue to a clash be tween two contending armed groups in 1897 than in 1902, the former incident resulted in two casualties and the latter in nione. A baseball proved inadequate ar tillery to hold off two troops of militia, and no Christie Benet was there to challenge the general. Nonetheless, since most of the press supported the University, the baseball players might be said to have won the wvar, even though they lost the battle. 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