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"KU KLUX KLAN" IN NEWBERRY, S. C. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1). taken by them on the side of the South during the war. Homes were freely opened to them, but many of them rewarded this South ern hospitality by turning robbers, highwaymen and assassins. One of the most noted raids made by the clans was a descent upon Newberry, the object being to mete out summary justice to a lot of murderers and house-burners, protected in the jail by the United States soldiers. On a particular night these silent riders began collecting from everywhere; clans came from Union county, others from Laurens, and from every section of this eounty silent bands wended their way to a place of general rendezvous. Near midnight these five hundred riders came into the town from every main thor oughfare and over-ran the city. But tidings had been bro: ght to the authorities, of the proposed invasion of. the Ku Klux, and, as a ccnsequence, the well-laid plan was frustrated, and the whole affair turned out a failure. The Ku Klux, however, lost none of its num ber. Some being ov er-zealous, others too timid, a general misun derstanding or a failure to carry out instructions was the prime cause of the unfortunate fiasco. Another more ludicrous and harmless raid was made on a squad ron of soldiers stationed near Pomaria. These soldiers had much to say to the negroes in regard to the object and strength of the clan, and urged the negroes to retaliate, to waylay the riders and shoot them. This came to the ears of the leaders of the order. The clans were called toge:ther, and began their silent march to the camp of the soldiers. It was a moon-light night, and at the first sight of these white horsemen the sentry fired his gun and ran to his quar ters. In a mament the whole troop were under arms, while hail after hail was made. But these spectral riders rode on silently, quiet and grim, around the camp, completely encircling it. Then, 0 with a momentary halt, as silently as they had come they silently rode away. Whether the soldiers suspected any violence, perhaps will never be known, but they folded their tents next day, and, like Arabs, "silently stole away." When the government came into the hands of our own people, and order and quiet reigned, the clans broke up and disbanded, their work being done. No one can bell what might have been the results had the white people quietly borne their afflictions and made no show of a disposition to defend their women and their homes. In looking over the many exciting and bloody events in other counties during those times "that tried men's souls," we find that Newberry during the Ku Klux Klan regime was comparatively quiet. For political purposes, many of our men were for,ced to flee the State for their participation in the Ku Klux raids, and many mcre were placed in prison, but none was ever convicted, and but few were brought to trial. (The Herald and News will publish in its next issue a historical sketch of the "Red Shirts of '76," by the same author, which is a valuable contribution to the history of South Carolina and of New berry county). W. R. HEARST HAS BOUGHT chain of newspapers. A glance at the THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN map gives some idea of the enormous .,,,-.. growth of the 11 Southern States of "No Changes Necessary in Its Charac- which Atlanta is the axis. ter and Habit to Make it a Typi- "Few people realize that there are cal Hearst Newspaper." 200,000 people in Atlanta; 150,000 in The New York American announced vle 0,0 nNwOlas 2, 'editorially that William Randolph 00i ahil,ntt pa fMm Hearst has purchased the Atlanta pi,Catnoa aanh oie Georgian. Elsewhere in the same pa- Ltl ok aeg,Calte o per there appears a newS story to thelubaRihodLuivleJc same effect. In neither announcementsOladcutesohrmrplin is there given any indication of theciestacorths eton Te price that Mr. Hearst paid for the At-Sotisavrrchouryaiu lanta publication.tuay.Ispicplro c-otn The editorial announcement appears--ltethwod.Tevuefte under the caption: "Mr. Hearst buysctonheSuh xprsofrig the Atlanta Daily Georgian." The an-conre,ahyarialegetr 3ouncement follows: "It is noted else-thnheaulprdcinogldn where in this paper that W. R. Hearst tewoewrd has purchased the Atlanta Daily Geor- "TeGogaisnefthwdt gian and will assume immediate con-redaiesnthSaesndfo is trol.-. Atlanta is practically the capitalbeinghabenfmufoitin of the New South, and the New Southdpeeneadisucsfu igt is a section of enormous present andfohuaiy Nocngsreee even greater prospective growth. sr niscaatradhbtt "The completion of the Panama mk tamme fteHas an canal will make these Southeasterniyofnwper. States the geographical center of the world's commerce.STPTA ,CR KSFE "The South is a splendid section of our country, supports in its American-FieRbrsDNatob er fe ism and catholicism proven patriotism h~E ostnWrcsCmi K and loyalty. The rebuilding of thenainCr South in wealth and population since the Civil war has been the material Mepi,Fb7.ivmnhldu miracle of our history. Rc sadpsagrtanIo 3 "In extending his newspaper chain into the centre of this great SouthernAr.dyaieasfeoth xes country, Mr. Hearst is simply enlarg ing his capacity to help the great peo- o hc a o endfntl e ple who live there and to do his fulltrin. share of work in the greater futureNo SotFrd which is before them. Teepoiebe h uesrc "In the Georgian Mr. Hearst findstueothcmbninbagead a newspaper which was founded sev-exrscato plnr ndafe en years ago by his friends, and uponwhcfoledruedte rckg the principle for which he has longofbgaeexrsmttrndw t and consistently fought. It is already wslf ftecrt se.Teps estab!ished and successful, and withsngrwee otmltdadth the facilities nov behind it must de- rbeywsacmlse ihu h "Th Hers nespper away g wosi different diectiorens. 1, to ta. Teyca benethr blled inashile, notw ovserkefd. m upon hetings hichbeingvitaito e maskd Radlei, Carlote, im the eope oghtto edur, adw lumdia,yafe R itchmond, toishle, westrn "The andlcountlessgothersmetropolitan a fxedandbenfiien fatorin heItie thuat outi Needction. Te Thethnews veryorihccmuntr appicus Stats."Overthi hedingtheea-clohesn t.e AericanThele o t not ton~ te Souh txort at There i Atlntaas ts ente, nd ivigte nrieso each dyserialoegrae ,~pouIaio f ech o th Staes. th anDgetti theenua reocionef-i has i urchaed the Atlant"Th Georgian ofA-isetreey T osnds of theoplde hae fdaile iteSae n from its ueThi lant, Ga, whch tday ecoms eg nng statm s oen fileous for oicein andimprtat lnk n hs ~.tl:w fo r proof.it. No cangesi fore yorelfs sary i its caracte and abi o :erminus of the br:.'ge over the luis ,issippi river from Memphis. Crawl .ng over the tender of the engine, the :wo took charge of the engine crew :nd several miles further the train vas stopped at their direction, where :heir three companicns were in wait ng about a camp fire. H&re the bag ,age and mail cars were detached rom the passenger coaches, the en ineer made to disembark and the ireman forced to drive the engine Zith the tv:o cars attached sev'eral niles. In the meantime four of the and had forced their way into the 3xpress and mai,l cars and had brought ;he postal clerks and express messen ers to subjection. Safe Dynamiced. Practically no resistance was offer d. When a point about a mile east >f Hulburt and within a few yards of where the same train was robbed last ovember, was reached, the engine vas brought to a stop, the express safe dynamited and registered mail >ouches rifled. BIG OAKLAND MILL PUT IN OPERATION THURSDAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1). 9. Mower, I. H. Hunt, Jno. M. Kinard, . N. Martin, W. H. Hunt. A unique and appropriate feature of he starting of the mill on Thursday norning was the feeding of the first otton into the machinery by the wives >f the officers and directors of the mill. When the first bale had been open >d, the wives of the officers and di ectors fed the first cotton, and then heir lad-y friends fed into the machin "ry the balance of the bale. When the otton had gone through the suction lue to the third floor, into the picker oom, it was put into the machines by 3rnest Digby, son of T. J. Digby, the ;uperintendent; Jno. M. Kinard, Jr., ;on of Jno. M. Kinard, vice president, and George and Foster Martin, sons of 3ecretary Foster N. Martin. The mill starts out under most aus icious circumstances, and Newberry .s proud of it. This gives Newberry county four sig mills, three in and around the ,ity, and one at Whitmire. The subordinate officers of'the mill, n addition to Superintendent T. J. igby, mentioned above, are: Superintendent weave room--Clif ~ord Barnes. Superintendent card room-W. H. ones. Superintendent spinning room--J. . Thompson. Superintendent cloth room-C. E. R~ikard. Master mechanic and electrician D. C. Leonard. Outside overseer-L. A. Land. Among those present at the starting f the mill on Thursday morning were i large number of ladies. LAYMEN GATHER. resbyt'erian Convention Opens in Chattanooga-Work in Foreign Fields. Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 6.-Bring ng the slogan "Evangelization of the orld in this Generation," 2,000 lay nen of the Southern Presbyterian ,hurch and leaders of other denomi iations met here today for the second reneral convention of the laymen's nissionary movement in the Presby erian church in the United States. Today's session was given over to ~ecounting the history of the church's oreign mission work. HEYBUTRN'S USUAL TACTICS. locks Consideration of Bill for Con federate Naval Monument. Washington, Feb. 5 -The fight over he $125,000 bill, for a Confederate na al monument in the Vicksburg Na lonal Military park, which caused vig rous debate at the recent extra ses ion of congress, was renewed in the enate today. Senator Williams, of Iississippi, its author, urged action. enator Heyburn, of Idaho, vigorous y opposed it and in the end his ob ection postponed action for the day. Senator Williams said that the mon iment had been suggested by the hairman of the Vicksburg commis ion, a Federal soldier. Senator Hey iurn retorted that he would have no xplanation that would revive the bit er memories of the war of the six New Relief For Indigestion vithout any risk-if it fails to give ou absolute satisfaction your money vill be returned. "Digestit" is a lit le tablet easy to swallow and abso utely harmless. It relieves indiges ion almost instantly, stops food fer entation, prevents distress after eat ng and cures dyspepsia. You need it en though you are not sick-it aids igestion and gives you all the nour sment from your food-50c. Ask at Gilder & Weeks,ATNerherry. j ' " , ' ii III ",, Il tn~ III I :I I I II Il I I I 1 1 III i I II I I I ],t Hav Your Spin C 11l Iii J t e ,aead aei I! !, t I II 1 1 WA IH y h1111 11r m n 'I,, I I I gll111 I Ill iEl I ,1: I I ,I I I, I , a' t youI Ie ta g r t t Id , I II! ji. I, I r l, - e. Id c r t ea lousf I I for hll r! tuc e ntenI i thaI)y th e , ft Ive r trei , eIff,oIII rts,h . II T . 1e,N " I IiI I, I I I I I I I~ I, p~.I; I l II l l 1 I(I I { 1i 1'; Iit:. j :II II II I l I " Il!II I I +hii I AllmNicipa txes mute ad aeit woa by Mach1. Inot toi b tat outo-e, t excio ns I er Claletinte Man & Co.ds Fe 1 1 e, c r t i al T r e a s r e r a Hio u s iw holds o m h e s dIeti fro CIInnat. . 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I~ L ..r. l II .!1 - Mayer-Cincinnati Tailoring is2anted satisfacte'ry ia evr deta f iE l oft stle I" and finish. And the fabrics are 'all-pure-wooL. Yet the price. w areno 'hghrtan other tailor as yo RY COMPANY 'ER A HOUISE~ day, February 13 This Date in Mind hr ,E NA IEE T For.* o cI"etain al Production of Eugene Walter's LID IN FULL * i by F -Pranmatic Critic in this Country illers, urdred Tousand Persons TH ST f Y O7(F fIS GENERATION. ears' ai Astor Theatre New York. arquet $ 1.00, iress Circle 75c, General Admission 50c, Gallery 25c. vill be warm and comfertable duriug entira J. R. SCURRY, Manager. e orthe lease of the fat.ucs l b e Suned toun eInnn April 25 , IlI, be rq ire t Ie surety bond' n eberr conty. gurantee perfran ce of conditions io of 6,000. Bids of lease. Right reserved to reject any otoA l 1 a nd adr ,bis.d For further info r i on motl avne 'I dr, an f ieI i w i Jno'; . ompaned by a certi- Scurry, Clerk and Treasurer, New as evidence of good berry, 8.:0. -11 I