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The Herald and News Entered at the Postoffice nt NVWW > . ,. -T). u... as 2*vi class matter. ? 'TV T PriTT/l]) L. ?1. AULL, H.LJ1 1UI\, 1 Friday, October 10, 1913. I I ! WORTH CONSIDERING IN NEWKERRY. Talking about the little genius thai presides over the destinies of tfie Lancaster News we are tempted to quote several paragraphs from the editorial j columns of a recent issue of that paper and give them to the people of Newberry for their consideration. They are applicable here as well as in i Lancaster. Listen to them and apply them to Newberry: If Lancaster is your town, speak out. During the approaching win:er,1 will England put off or put on, her Ulster? If we don't need a chamber of com-' merce in Lancaster, what do we need?# When strangers come here show them around and try to induce them to cast their lot with us. The Bennettsville chamber of com-! merce is to have a "get-together" din- j cer. Call it what you may, "get to-! gether" is the idea. Lancaster continues to keep abreast' of tJhe best cotton market and it is having the effect of bringing both the cotton and trade as well to this place.1 I ??? # i The Spartanburg Herald says it j takes big men to make big towns.' Likewise one will never build up his 1\?% a. ??/>? Vt* 4" r\ T 1 ATT ?* * UUMilCSS uy ctlLCUipLIiig IU pull UUWil that of the other fellow. i If you are not for the town, you are against it, so we want you to get busy boosting or get out. We have* no room for knockers here. We agree with The State that "good roaas are necessary to gooa temper and good temper to good digestion." j The business men of ifae town very rarely assemble themselves together in a social way. We ought to have some kind of gatherings. The ladies have their social clubs at which they j discuss civic improvement and such mauers, out me men are ail scattered, each after his owd business. We 1 are now in a state of innocuous desuetude in Lancaster or to speak more plainly are affected with the dry rot. Let's give ourselves a good shaking up. The good old game of "household and kitchen furniture," might do us all good. , ' I GOOD MEN, BUT? Given the entire population to select from, it would be difficult to get together any better group of citizens than those composing the directors of the company owning the Oakwood cemetery, yet these same gentlemen, to the very certain knowledge of ev- j eryDOdy in town, nave allowed thai: ; cemetery to be neglected and have treated with supreme indifference the j many appeals that have been made 1 by the faithful band of women who ; have been working to make the cemetery more attractive. What's the trouble??Spartanburg Herald. We do not know who is responsible j in Newberry, but similar conditions j exist at our own Rosemont cemetery. Xo one can controvert the fact that j Rosemont cemetery is sadly neglecti ed. "We have not 'heard of even a "faithful band of women" in Xewberry j doing anything. Of course, there are a few lots that are kept properly, but thp drivpwavs nnd tVip ^pnpral an pearance of the place is dreadful to behold. How about organizing a faithful j hand of women to start the movement j for a cemetery beautiful? It can be 1 done. Who will lead. There should be one or more public i parks in every municipality.?Abbe- j ville Medium. Wonder if that is really a fact, j Seems to us that a long time ago we I heard something about a park in ' Newberry, but it has been "fo long that j it is now only a pleasant memory. The people of rhis community Liave j no time for parks and beautifying | cemeteries and such like things. The Florence Times sppms ohspcs- ! ed with the idea of local reform for "the social evil" and seldom brings out an issue without a sermon on the subject. The sermons are all right, but there are many other subjects de serving editorial mention in jrence. How about a poem on the split log drag just for a change? If T'.:e Times doesn't feel quire up to the task The ; -\ewoerry neraia uiiu -News i-au i one off in a jiffy.?Chester Lanrern. The split log drag is the bosc device ever invented for keeping the roads | in good repair. You could preach sermons, write poetry and prose about j it without end, but what is most need ed is to use it on the roads and then the roads will be sermons and poetry i and prose, just as there are sermons in the hobbling brooks and so for h I and so on. But above all get the farmers interested in the use of the split log drag. ' i , V <?> <$> THE KILLING OF CROZIER. <S> | $> <?> | ^><$><^^><$><$>^><$><$><$>^>^>^><$><^<^<$'1 To the Editor of The State: Recencly the members of Calvin Crozier chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy of Newberry erected a marble slab as a marker at the spot i at which .Calvin Crozier fell. He did j not fall in battle, nor in defense of j his country, but for the honor of j Southern womanhood. The place at j which he yielded up his young life is near the site of the present Farmers' j oil mill, but then, a waste lot in the | suburbs of the little village. Who was j Calvin Crozier? Perhaps none . in , South Carolina ever remembered hav- J ing seen faim or even heard of him, j outside of the little town in which ! the sad tragedy of his life was enacted. All that was then known of j him was that he was a returning sol- j dier of Texas, from a Northern prison, a passing stranger, whose stern ideas of duty and honor caused him to be murdered here. A beautiful shaft in Rosemont cemetery. erected over his remains by ladies and gentlemen of the county, tells the story. On the western side I is cut in large letters the simple name "CROZIER." Above it on the second die is cut the following: "Born at Brandon, Miss., Aug. 1840. Murdered at Newberry, S. C., Sept. 8, 1865." After the surrender of the Confederate i ormioc nr'hila nn fho tvq v tn hie hnmp i CU iiliVOj M UiiV Ull WJUV/ " **?' vv *AV***N/ in Texas from a federal prison, he was called upon at the railroad station at Newberry, S. C.. on the night of September 7 to protect a young white woman, temporarily under his c:lu..ge, from gross insults offered by a negro federal soldier of the garrison stationed there. "A difficult} ensued in which the negro was slightly cut. ine intimated i soldiers seized a citizen of Newberry, upon whom they were about to exe- j cute savage revenge, when Crozier j came promptly forward and avowed j his own responsibility for the deed, thus refusing to accept safety from allowing a stranger to receive the violence intended tor nimseir. He was hurried in the night time to the Tbivouac of the regiment, to which EXCLl Hand - tailorc i No ore Bp? Wo Less ^ nammmaEmcaamma Our Uni $2. No More iiu CAiia uiaigu^ double breasteds to youi individual workshops. 1109 Caldwell St. Opposite Ne^ the soldier belonged, was kept under guard all nigh:, was not allowed to ! communicate with any citizen, was , condemned to die, without even the j i form of a trial, and was shot to death about daylight the following' morning and his body mu.ilated.'' From what was gathered of the af-: fair at t>.e time by the citizens of the town who disinterred the remains from the shallow pit in which [lie brave soldier was put at the time of the execution, the facts are tnese: j After a long and fatiguing march from : a Northern prison, Crozier, sick, '.ired and footsore reached Alston, 2~> j miles from Columbia, there expecting ? ' AKV.o_l to taKe tne xrcim y.s itti its n.uu^- ; ville and from thence foot it across j the continent to his far away home ! in Galveston, Texas. About the same time, two ladies, accompanied by a j gentleman, entered the waiting room in which the tired and ragged soldier sat. It seems that for some cause the gentleman had to leave tne lauies aim (> return to his home. On learning that j Crozier intended to take the same j train with dhe ladies, the gentleman asked him to see after them as far as they should travel together. Crozier readily and willingly undertook the j trust. Reaching Newberry near night, ac which point a ne^ro regiment was garrisoning the village and during the stop, a negro soldier entered the car in which Crozier and the ladies (had j passage and in a boisterous ana 01- j fensive manner accosted one of the! ladies in a brutal manner and j attempted a conversation. These ladies were strangers to Crozier, but they were under his care and the conduct of the insolent negro aroused all the fire and indignation in the young To van's breast.. He ordered the sol dier to desist from such behavior or j to leave the coach at once, whidh the I villian as promptly and insolently refused to do. He felt his power, with a horde of negro soldiers at his back, and the helplessness of Crozier, without friends or assistance within call. A clash ensued. Crozier grappled with the stalwart ruffian. Having no weapon but an insignificant little pocket - * "-.s- + j I knife, he used mat upon ms absauai.i,; causing a slight face wound. Yelling at the top of his voice, the negro rushed from the car bleeding from his wound. No doubt the young Texan intended to drive the blade home, but the smallness of the weapon no doubt j saved the negro's life. The negroes outside raised a great howl and prepared to make a rusih for the car the 1-J- HHVi /-> >? c noinff tllO rl 3 D - i! iciuies UUL'UpiCU. JLUCJ octiuo v?v*~ ger in which their champion was placed, urged and entreated Crozier to leave the car until it started, as he 1 could not be recognized outside in the dark. This he did. The howling J mob rushed in on the defenseless women and demanded the where- j about of their friend. They were told | he had left the car. Rushing back to the station platform, just as Jacob Bowers, the supervisor for many years of the Greenville & Columbia railroad, was passing, and mistaking him for their prey they laid violent hands USIVE id Garments I ! No More ; ^ No Less | it^rl Haf !" * !1 1\L~t I I: h for extra sizes, j! or Norf oiks made { [ measure in oar ' I I, : c i L. I. Blalock, Mgr. I vberry Hotel i ! Capital $5C D We want to Bank has done fc To some mi] us dispel that ich In the last te INTEREST or was just INTEF After the IP had their origina To better gr the $60,449.76 1 $2,500 each?res itors. Invested in ! farms for our de This amounl flf rnllpap fnr nr?i the difference be The above i means to have a is to conserve yc -i n t t rtn f\ the SAVliNUd u TheC I The Bank JUS' From The P At Richmond, an We picked up numerous art in the lectures, demons in our profession, besides t The benefits are yours f Something especially attrai O. & T. E I TTocf Main St. JUUUV ^ " m '-"1 jpon him, and it appeared for a time i is if they would rend him limb b} ( imb on the spot. The ladies came to j he rescue of Mr. Bowers and declared ' nost positively t'hat he was not the I nan who did the cutting. But all to j io avail. They wanted the blood of i victim and started away with him o camp, there to inflict summary punshment upon the supposed assailant . )f one of their number. j 'As they started away with Mr. Bow- f >rs the manhood of Calvin Crozier j vas put to the supreme test. In a j ew moments the train would leare j md all he 'had to do was to step out rom the darkness on to the moving rain, then before him stood safety and j lis home. Would he meet the issue like he brave man that he was? He did. Pushing into the maddening throng ie told the negroes to "turn thai man >,000 Profits $ eposits $3SB,237.8J figive a few facts as to what t >r this community. n/Jc /I ir>fQi-oef eaame incinnil IA v4 O T 3 lUlVi VOW OWlllO AUClglin ;a. ;n years this bank has paic 1 their deposits $60,449.76? IEST. <ITEREST was paid to depo: 1 deposits remaining int he Ba asp the amount mentioned, let lad been invested in homes, lc ?ult 24 good comfortable home 50 acre farms, at $20.00 per i positors. t would pay all expenses for 2 ok *atV*5/?V C y ^cii at y^u\/?u v vuvn^ i? mvi ?tween failure and success in 1 llustrations are made to demo Savings Account with us, an >ur INTEREST and make a d< EPARTMENT. Commercial Slewberry, S. C i : that Always Treats "V r RETUR] l?- A i * W < A M A ?J At ^ noiograpueis d a Visit to the Swell Studio new points of information f( trations and personal talks w he close study of the Exqui or the asking Watch our c ctive will be ready for your Ci i. SALTER'S : -' y\; r' fiBfflla " I fit wB^^^BSBSIh flnfl i*jp.;TlP> jj^iWMWpi J loose, 1 am the man who did the cutting.'' So Mr. Bowers was re- | leased. Crczier was bound and kept guarded all night in a tent. Word went out in all the countryside that a white man was to be shot by the , negro soldiers in the morning. The j negroes, old and young, men and worn- j en, from the town and country crowa- ( ed to the scene of execution. There a perfect saturnalia of rioting, whooping and yelling was kept up all nigfci. , It was said by an eye witness, a negro of the town, that during the night . a white officer came to Crozier's tent, j told him of his danger and urged the j Texan to beg the wounded negro's | pardon, sue for mercy, make proper : amends and perhaps his fate might' be averted, Crozier indignantly | spurned the overtures and said: "Un- ] tie me and give me my rifle; that is I ?I *71 Qtaaa 1,UUU.UV ml ) J he Commercial ficant. But let j 1 1 depositors as -mind you this sitors they still nk. iL.i us suppose inai it's say costing is for our depos- J 1 acre?result 60 / 40 boys or girls i might result in ite tor them. nstrate what it 1 d the MORAL J *posit NOW in Bank * I ou Right. | ^ mmmaaaammammmmimmmaammmmm -mmmmcmmwmmmmmmmmmmmmm*. NED N f (invention V V V W W mm y is in Washington. . >r the improvement of our ? ath the "Leading Lights" J site Portraits on display, lisplay for the new things. |1 hristmas orders. STUDIO, - I Phone 358 liMH O m ? -~:a H all I crave." Near dawn next morning lie wasj carried out to the vacant lot unde a guard of soldiers, followed by the^H - ** J am +?V? a r* /si rrV\ _ enirenzieu iiegiues nuui iuc uci&u~h borhood. On reaching the spot se-^ lected for execution he was given- a fl pick and shovel, told to dig his grave j and when he had finished to notify the jH guard. In the early twilight he duflfl away at his grave and when he readh^B ed about two feet in depth, he laid^H the shovel and pick aside, calmly fold-1 ed his arms across his breast said: "I am ready." A volley rang the young soldier falling withouH struggle or a groan, i win not <n^m row up the feelings of the public wiH a recitation of the barbaric, brutal^H and hellish indignities heaped upon I his lifeless form. -j The citizens of the town went cau- ?