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KEGRO LYNCHED ] BY GEORGIA MOB Pays With Life For Murder Of Wo man?Removed From Jail Athens, Ga., Feb. 16.?Seven thousand ni?n composing a mob from Clarke, Oconce and adjoining eou.r.?Ics tonight stormed the Clarke county jail and secured John Lee Eberhardt ,a negro, held for the axurder of Mrs. Walter E. Lee., aged 24 years, of Oconee county. The aegro was taken from the jail to the scene of the crime, seven miles east vof here and bunted, according to re ports received here at midnight. Eberhardt paid the penalty 'for sue of the most startling and foul murders in the history of this sec-1 tian, when at 8 o'clock this morning " " ~ ' ? i '11. J HIT T he is alleged to nave Kiuea mrs. ucc, the wife of Walter/ E. Lee who is employed at the Mallison Braided <?ord company in Clarke county, near the Oconee county line. A double barreled shotgun was used, both loads entering the head and the back of the woman. The method empolyed by the mob in securing the negro from jail, which is said.tjo be the most modern ra the state, established a precedent onheard of in this section and prob acy the first in the history of the country. A huge modern blow torch was employed by the mob to allow its members to gain entrance after Sheriff Jackson resisted the mob to me last. v ' It is said that members of the ob climbed up the elevator shaft ?f the Clarke county court house to the top floor where the jail is loca ted. There they put the torch in play on a lock, which secured one of the zeax entrances to the prison. While liber members of the mob kept the \ county officials 'busy in front, Uhe touch melted the big brass padlock and an entrance was effected. Th same men entered the prison, vent to the negro's cell and Over powered him. They lowered him 4own the elevator snaft and made / their escape into the seething mass af angry men awaiting outside. 1 With a nighty shout the mob yelled, "Lynch him here! Lynch him lfcreT' But'the ringleaders placed hk negro in an automoDiie ana started off in the direction of the Oconee county line.' Hundreds of automobiles fell in line in the rear af Che car containing the negro. Men'by the score ran along at the side of the machines. One hour later file mob arrived at the scene of the f sine. They formed a circle around Ike ringleaders' automobile. 'They waited a few minutes until prelimi nary arrangements could be made aad then the negro was taken from ) * ' the machine and led to a spot in a field directly across the road from A where BTrs. Lee was shot down. A stake was immediately driven into the ground. Small twigs and fioe wood were thrown around it / aad Eberhardt was olaced in the center. He was tied to the stake and fke torch applied. Twenty minutes later the fire died out. The negro's dberred foody fell into its ashes. Legal blanks for sale?Press and Burner Co. 1 | WANTS | FOR SALE?Hive Possums for sale at 50c to $2.00: each. 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C 12, 14?2, 28.c THOMAS MARSHALL'S YARNS TURN TABLES Washington, Feb. 17.?When Vice President Marshall lays down^ the javel in the senate on March 4 There will be genu'ne regret. Marshall ha? Jignified the office of vicc president / IridcV "X hr*"tlcr than anybody .r-,z ? r.:iJ t'irn brfrging humor an^d :o"jrtesy to it. He plans to go upon the Chautau qua c:rcuit and he will be a headlin ar. An examp'.ej?f his facility in meet ing any situation, awkward or un pleasant, is shown'by two of his prize stories. He was in a company of ju bilant Republicans who were glokting over the late election landslide. The gloats grew more and more pronounc | ed and the dreams of future more and more rosy. Then Marshall wac given a chance. He said: "Well, you folks are feeling migh ty cockey. That's all right. You're telling what you are going to do. That's all. right. Dream on. Only you sort of remind me of the colored boy, homeward bound from France, who leaning on the ship's rail, said to hisf black buddy: "Boy, when k.'gits ashore do you know what I'm gqin' to do? Well, I'm agoin' to git me a white hat an' white pants, an' white gloves, an' a white vest an' I'm goin' to walk right up Fifth avenue with a white gal on each arm. What are you agoin' to do, boy?" "Well," sa:d the other, 'I reckon I'll git me a black coat, an' black pants, an' a black tie, an' black shoes an' tie some crepe on my left arm, an* be all ready to go to yo' funeral.' "But," continued the vice presi dent, "I shouldn't tell that story. In fact I shouldn't say anything. We Democrats shouldn't talk just .now. No, we are like the colored congre gation that ran short of communion wine. "They asked one of the sisters who was especially skilled in some of the more modern domestic arts and science to manufacture a supply. She couldn't get her usual ingredi ents so she made her wine out of persimmons?green persimmons. It was good stuff. It had a kick. But af ter communion the congregation j was so puckered it had to whistle the doxology. ' That's us. If we can't sing we can whistle." SAFE-GUARDING FRUIT. Clemson College, February?The occurrence of destructive frosts dur ing the blooming season is one of the most discouragjng'factors which fruit growersSwive to contend with in this 3tate. Experiments in frost preven tion were undertaken to a limited ex tent during the past season, by the! horticultural division of the South Carolina Experiment Station. Thej spraying of the trees with whitewash and other mixtures was found to be without effect in delaying the open ing of the buds or the period of bloom. Orchard heating by means of small open fires at frequent intervals through the orchard was practiced on two occasions. In this way it was found possible to raise tjtfi tempera ture in the orchard from two to three degrees. The method of ,pruning was found to have considerable effect upon the production of a crop following frosts in Jhe blooming season. Those peach trees the tops of which were left rather dense have produced a satisfactory crop of fruit while those that were severely pruned gave little j or no fruit. In the former case much j of the fruit was on the inner portion of the tree or near the base of the fruiting branches where the blossoms were somewhat protected from cold air or excessive radiation of heat. Moreover, the greater number of blooms resulting from the enlarged fruiting surface increases the chance for a crop. ' PIECE CUT OUT OF PAPER II is a dangerous thing for a man to bring home a daily paper with an item clipped out. His wife will no tice that column and that spot in the column immediately. "What was it that you cut out 1 here?" she asks. "Oh, it wasn't much of anything, j Just a little item that caught my ; eye. I cut it out and left it on my ; desk in the office." j That does not satisfy her. She i wants to know what the item was ! about. She is not easily satisfied, i That item must have been a particu* tj&l .rV in? lar good one or it would not have in terested you so much; and now, you can hardly give an intelligent idea of what it was about! Men are very stupid. , There are, as I take it, two good reasons behind this interest which we must all confess in the little square hole in the paper where a clipping has been cut out. In the first, place, the mind demands com pleteness, and the hole is direct evi dence of vacuity. Nature abhors a vacuum. Tf the paper were complete we might skim over the page and never notice that item,* but we can not fail to see the hole. The other reason is that we have a right to be intersted in what man ifestly has interested some one else. Someone must have thought that was a ffood item, or he would not have gone to the trouble of cutting it out. It is a' fair assumption that that item was the best thing there was in the paper. v There is in Springfield, 111., a single file of a paper which has been published continuously in that city since the day of Abraham Lin coln. It was originally the office file and #ow it is in the State Historical Library. On a certain page an item is missing. There is reason to believe that Lincoln himself wrote that item, for he was a close friend of the editor, Mr. Francis,' and a fre quent contributor of signed and un signed artices in the Journal. It is believed, also, that Lincoln himself cut the article out. A great many people have specula ted about that article, which was a short one, and why Lincoln was sorry he wrote it; for it is assumed that he changed his mind and wished he had not written it. jBut no or e can be quite cejrtain. All that lies be hind these opinions is a vague ru mor and a hole. A hole in the center of a newsp;i irrfttinil /vP a crr\r rl deal of speculation* N- V SANTUC ^/L0CAL3 V Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Haddon and children, Mrs. Ermie Haddon and Miss Lila Morrison, spent Sunday in Abbeville with Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Haddon. We are glad to note that Mr3. Boyd is improving after a two weeks illness. Her many friends hope she] will soon be well again. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Harris and~ son, of Greenwood, came up Friday to attend the funeral of their aunt, Mrs E. J. Botts. Mr. Herbert Wright, of ^Hodges spent Sunday with Mr. M. D. Wright. Mrs. K. I. Bryant is visiting her; mother, Mrs. Boyd. Mrs. Ermie Haddon is spending this week with Mrs. R. B. Haddon. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Falmer enter tained the young, folks at a dance Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hunter spent Sunday with Mr. ana xnrs. joe ADie. Mr. Miles Morrison spent Monday night with Mr. Eakin Nickles. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Kay spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Otto Price. Messrs. M. D. Wright, J. R. Had don, M. B. Kay and George Morri son were business visitors in Don alds Wednesday. The many friends of Miss Malinda Bowie, of the Gilgal section, are sorry to know she still ill. Mr. Davis spent Wednesday night at the home of Mr. T. S. Palmer. Mr. Henry Cochran and sister, Xfi'ce Marnrip Mr. W. H. Sharn and lAtiM ?? " r Miss Annie Kay spent Thursday | with Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Wright. * Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Haddon and chidh-en spent Monday near Donalds with relatives. Mr. M. D. 'Wright was a business i vsitor to the city Saturday. ? ' ^ j PHYSICIANS WATCH RESULT . OF OPERATION ON BRAIN OF WASHINGTON YOUTH | Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 15.?Phy ; sitians were watehing closely today the result of an operation on the brain of George A. Raw son, ama teur athlete of Seattle, who has been unconscious since January 20 when foe engaged in a boxing bout ] at Pasadena, California. The opera-1 tion was performed at Los Angeles' late yesterday. It was stated at the hospital Rawson was doing fairly ! well." I i i I - TT . Rosenberg Men Four Stores Departm* - ' Abbeville, Sc \ You wouldn't hunt bears with \ " I We wouldn't be using a half pa have the goods. \ ' I While times are hard and rnone to offer unusual values. * ! \ Values throughout our Four wc your most\areful inspect It makes no difference to you vt taking a loss or making a your business to know thai worth on todays market, ' months ago. ? / We make the statement that wc ( on fourteen cent cotton* e We just forgot what our good* they s^e worth today, anc . v It will pay you to take adyants By saving on your necessities j \ t lies. /[ \ \ 4 The Rosenberg M \ 7 IE entile Company ^nt Stores Many Dep ts mith Carolina -r bird shot. ge in this paper if we didn't y scarce is the very time for us ill stocked stores that will stand ' i: y s"' :ion. r hat our goods cost. If we are oirofit. thats ud to us: but it is t .your dol|ar gets you a dollars and not on a mtaket of six ; are selling merchandise based tnd we are doing it.< i cost and remembered what I went to work for 1921 values. - ; : ' " I tge of the savings we offer. ou can afford some of ihe luxu ercantile Company