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?0M'3!E LIT., SCHBEH^ JJfclWBERBY, S? C? TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 101' **?*?? . -u.; - *?>i ? ? . . I I I I ?MBMgB Hill I I M ? iff! MM?^ WAR Ot AMERICANS DECLARES WILSON President Tells Lojal Northwest That ' Tills Struggle is "Straighout" and Not One of Class?Nation in Arms Has but One Common rerpuse. St. Paul, Nov. 17.?As a demonstrar tion of the loyalty of Minnesota and the whole Northwest, representatives for ev$ry county of the State and the other commonwealths gathereu *iere tonight and affirmed their purpose to stand back of the government in its ? *?? acainst Gor t>roseouuv>jj mi wC many. The audience, through adoption of resolution, pledged its support in "deeds, scarifices and service'' as a message from President Wilson read the meeting sugge9ter. e I The message from the president was ^ as follows: N "Nothing could be more significant than your gathering to express the loyalty of the great Northwest. If St ar^rA nossible I should gladly be with you. You have come together as rep-^ resentatives of that Western empire in which the sons of ail sections of America and of the stocks of all the nations of Europe have made the prairie and the forest the home of a new race and the temple of a new faith. "The time has come when that home ir.r.st be protected and that faith affirmed in deeds. Sacrifice and service nr.mck frAm pvArv class. every illlOC V/V'iiAO i.4 ^ ^ ^ profession, every party, every / race, every -creed, every section. This is not a bankers' war or a farmers' war or a manufacturers' war, or a laboring man's war?it is a war for everv f straight-out American whether our flag be his by birth, or by adoption. We are today a nation in arms, and we must fight, farm, mine and manufacture. conserve food and fuel, save and spend to the one common purpose. "It is to the great Northwest that the nation looks as once before in critical days, for that steadiness of purpose and firmness of determination which shall see the strugo-le through / to a decision that shall make the masters of Germany rne the day they unmasked their nurpose and challenged our republic." T. P. O'Connor. Irish member of tho British parliament, taking as his text an American flasr which ho fteirt in his hand dwelt on the opportunities <% afforded emigrants to this country as the "basis for a. lovaltv that should bo untarnisheid by a divided allegiance.. "When a United States senator tolls you that the United States went to war to protect munition manufacturers and the Motor leans he- slanders vo ir honor and patriotism," sniri Senator Frank F TC^osr?. "This is the tinv> to effve the lie to th^ statement'' Semtor Ke'lo^r: d^'lared there wer? onlv two parties in thp nation in this time of war. "One with the nation and one against it." he said. Germany becran to brood over the world war from the Asadir episode. T'nited States Senator Knuto Nelson declared. "And Germany has been plotting against TtS since Admiral Dewey called time on Admiral Dietrich at Manila Bav/' he added. Williamson-Zimmerman The editor has received the following invitation which will be possibly of interest to others as the contracting parties have many friends in this county. Mr. Zimmerman's father lived #at. Chappells for several years and Miss Williamson has relatives In this city and county. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Richard Williamson invite you to be present at the marriage of their daughter Xarcissa Floride to Mr. John Hubert Zimmerman on Saturday afternoon the twentyfrtnrth of Xowmber at fivp o'clock ^At Home Dyson. South Carolina.. A r<d e>:z was found the other day by Miss Drfisy Thelmer.. Wilson, tlie daughter of Mr. and Mrs H. C. 'Wilson. She found rne "luck eg^;" in tfie yard. Even the hens are feeling the f effects of the red handed war that- is raining fire on the world. / i FOI'MHXJ OF LLTHERAMSM IX THE DUTCH FORK (By A. H Kohn) In this Quadricentennial year it is highly fitting that we take a backward look. With satisfaction we refle't upon the work of Luther and thank God that he gave Protestantism to the world. In America we cannot boast j of four hundred years of Lutheran efj forts; we can, however, say that when 1 tv,orA wftrp Lutherans in America over ! two hundred years aoo, there were Lutheran ministers also. It is one of i these pioneers that we wish to see j through the vista of a changeful century. : ! Rev. Frederick Joseph Wallern was born in the Kingdom of Saxony April , 6, 1759. Of his life in the Fatherland we know nothing save that he was educated for the ministry at the Universtiy of Goettingen. Tharo was a s weening: tide of mi gration to America from 1836 to 1783. Realizing that his countrymen were a sheep without a shepherd in the new country h<.' resolved to follow them and minister to their spiritual needs. Kis first charge was the old St. John's Church near Broad River. In order to make his flock feel at home he modeled his church after their old church home in Germany. v * x*"? fi $yy Under tne gauie were tuesc ?uiuo an oval form; "Der St. Johannes 9 Evangeliische Luterische Kirke." The year of his arrival in this country is not known, but it must have been ab ut the close of the Revolution as be was recorded as a member of the i "Corpus Evangelicorum/' a religious l organization composed of Lutheran . and German Reformed ministers and . laymen in 1718. For thirty or more years he served a number of churches in Xewberrv and Lexington districts. I . among them were Bethlehem (then called Marpole), St Paul's and Bethel. i * I In 1790 Pastor Wallern was married to Mary Ursula Stairly who was? a ; ladv of means. They settled on the j land that came to her as a part of I her dowry. For thost days and times j they were considered quite well-to-do. They left no heirs. The ''religious conditions in the German settlements of South Caro !ina at the close of the Revolutionary ' War were far from ideal. The settle| ments Ave re far apart; the roads : we^e mere bridle paths and travel was ! slow. There were Lutheran settle I ments with churches in Amelia Town! s'Mrfr- OrAPgebur* County, at Sandy t * ?' i Hun in Saxe Gotha Township and i in the Dutch Fork. There were other j settlements and churches but they were not included in the act of incor. poration by the Legislature ol South Carolina, in 1787. (See Bernheim's ; German Settlements of the Caroljnas.) j The largest number of Germans wa3 to Ve found in the lower part of ' "ev.^xcry County nncl tne f orK i>e, t ween t'"0 iroad and Saluda Rivers in i Lexington county. In these settlements the^e were two or three Ger| man Lutheran pastors and one or two German Reformed. i j Contemporaneous with Pastor Wallern we find the following Lutheran ministers: Reverends Frederick Au; John George Bnmberg. Frederick August '" V'ailberg, M O.rl Binni her; Ger_ ! man Reformed ministers, Reverends i Christian Theus, Carl Frederick Froei lich (the blind preacher of the Dutch Fork). These ministers together with ; fourteen laymen orgi ized the Corpus j Evangelicorum in Zion L.umeran I Church. Lexington District, August S, | 1787. The purpose of this orsanizai tion was the supervision of all the i German Protestant Churches in the j State of South Carolina. All the congregations of the two denominations j were connected with this ecclesiastical j body except St. John's Lutheran . Church. Charleston S. C. The body j was known as Trnio Ecclesiastica of the German Protestant churches in the State of South Carolina. The following ministers signed the ConstiU } ?' lion: Frederick Daser. President. ; Christian Theus, J. 0. Bamberg, j Frederic k August Wallherg, Carl : Frederick Froelisch. Lay delegates or ! deputies to the number of fourteen also signed the Constitution. r Rev. Frederick Daser was a Lutii | eran minister and labored in Orangej burg district. It is not known where i he was buried unless it is in the old Lutheran church cemetery in the town of Orangeburg. Rev. Christian Thpus was a German Reformed pastor. His work was ( on the1 Congaree River in Lexington j . County. He lies in a marked grave; i near the old State Road se\vn or eight miles from Columbia. j Rev. John George Bamberg was a ? - TT * 1- J Lutheran minister, i-ie lauoreu m Lexington district till 179S as pastor of Zion Church. He moved to Barn-' well and died in 1S00. The place of his burial in unknown. Frederick Augustus Wallberg, Lutheran, labored in the Fork of Broad and Saluda Rivers about the time of the Corpus Evangelicorum. He was Bamberg's predecessor. The place of his burial in unknown. Carl Frederick Froelisch (the elo'je^* b'-'n 1 }}? (? ? '? of tit^ Dutch Fork) was a German Reformed minis-, ter. Tradition says he preached to the in fho Fnvk and was a most eloquent man. (Sep Blind Preacher of the Dutch Fork in Southern Reatl-; er and Speaker) His grave is unmarked and unknown. i Rev. Frederick Joseph Wallern, Lutheran, was pastor of churches in u I'i'c:; I.cahi^ ?-.'n i. v Ne v. berry. He preached in those churches until his death. October G. 1818. He was buried on his farm two miles east of St. Paul's Church. His grave was marked. Tt is his ashe.> th?.t we so tenderly recommit today to the bosom of Mother Earth in the cemetery of the ehurch in which lie labored for -so many years and which he loved so well. Rc>v. Carl Binnicher \v?s a Lutheran mister, but his field of labor is unknown. Tt was possibly in the churches on the south side of Saluda River 'rnd also the German Congregation on Hard Labor Creek, Abbeville County, and church on SlippeTy Creek in v?nety Six district. The place of his burial is unknown. T!" misrbt not be amiss to say that the Rev. Bernard Michael Houseal prenched for a short time prior to the Revolution in St. Paul's and possibly St. John's as his brother. Cap*. \Vn\ Frederick Houseal. lived near and was an officer in St. John's. On March 10, 177*. the Legislature of South Carolina incorporated the "following churches of Tlie Ecclesiastic! T'^ion of the several German Protestant congregations in the back part of the State of South Carolina:" The Federation Church on Cattels Creek. The German Calvinistic Church of St." John's on Four Hole. The German Lutheran .Church of St. Matthews in Amelia Township. The German Lutheran '.Church of Salem on Sandy Run. The German Lutheran Church of Mt. Zion on Twelve Mile Creek. The German Lutheran Church of Bethel on High TTill Creek. The German Lutheran Church of St. Peter (Mec-tze's) 18 Mile Creek. The German Lutheran iChurch of St. Martin. The German Lutheran -.Church of Bethlehem on Fursts Ford. I The German Protestant Church of Bethany on Green Creek. *j The German Protestant Church of Appii Forum. Cedar Creek. The German Protestant Church dedicated to Queen Charlotte on Slip-; perv Creek. j The German Lutheran 'Church of St. George 011 Hard Labor Creek. i The German Protestant Church of < St. Jacob on Wateree Creek. i The German Protestant Church or St. George on Indian Field Swamp. \ Of these fifteen German churches; chartered by the Legislature nine were Lutheran: seven are existence to-' day. The other two, St. Martin's lo-j cation not known and St. George on : i Hard Labor Creek. Abbeville district., passed.out of existence as early as' 1S11. ' > i Of the six that were Gorman Re t former! all have ceased to exist so farj as is known. Tn the same locality; where these churches were located in ' Orangeburg and Barnwell districts' are several flourishing Lutheran con-! gregations today. . On the territory in which Pastor, ; Wallorn labored there are to be found j to'Jay too following Lutheran I Churches: St. Matthews, Pomaria, Mt. | Horeb, Colony, Mt. Hermon, Mt. 011. vet, (Spring Hill,) Mt. Olivet (Xew1 i / 31EASLKS EPIDEMIC! AMO>G SOLDI EKS ? Men -\<>t Allowed to (io Off Military, Keservation and All Amuse meiit. Houses Closed. ^ The State. Camp Sevier, Greenville, Xov. 16-^-: Maj. L. D, Gasser, acting chief of i Staff, Thirtieth Division, authorized the ; 1UUUV> lnj, O LCI L ivuifellt. "Due io an epidemic of measles and 1 some few cases of pneumonfa and j meningitis, the soldiers will be quar- j an ined and not permitted to leave tiie I reservation nor to visit Greenville, i pmp S-evier or Paris. "All amusement houses in the reservation will be suspended and not permitted to open, including the Y. C. A. buildings, the Knights of Columbus hall, The "Hostess House" i und any other such buildings. Th>? l>ost exchanges "will be closed so far as allowing- men to enter. 'Miey will be required to make opening so that the men can be served on the outside. The usual program of instruction administration and i.applyvwill be carried on. "This quarantine does not prohi'it visitors from entering the camp, the object beimrtn pr ver?.f n:^:i from gnr'?ering in closed buildinv.;. The quarantine g.;es into effect Saturday moaning." Major Gasser state:! over the te'e phone that the situation was not considered serious, hut that the quarantine had been decided upon a? ? nrecaut'onary measure. Tt is believed that the disease will be entirely eradicated in this way in the shortest possible time. The length of the quarantine. Major Oassr-r 'thinks, will do pend entirely on the cooperation the men accord the authorities. The quarantine, sweeping in its natur.\ will be rigidly enforced and applies i officers as well as men. Thomas D. Enright, Pittsburg, Pa. JaiPoa P.. Gresham. Evansville. Ind. ATer<? T). Hay. T.ndineton. Mich. The-e are tlv. first three Americans v.-ho sl-.el their blood in Prance for the -i^crty of the world. Their names - ill l-o honored throughout all time, f Who wa-nts to wear mourning for them? I Tnd?,v will decide the contest in 'he wrrds in which the aldermen are opposed. <;ot. County, i Macedonia. Grac~. Mt. Tabor, Holy Trinity. St Phillip and Bachman Chanel The early churches, $t. Jacob's. Wateree, St. Peters, (Tiney Woodsy St. .John's n.vhite church), retiiiehem and St. Paul's are still in existence and doing the work of the Master. And so today we come to c-ommemo rotf> the hunUreMtii rtrrniversarv .n Pastor Wail-rn's death. In viewing the work That has been done, the territory that has been covered and the laborers who have given their service to the cause, we have reason to feel both clad and sad. With our wonderful history we should have been as mighty as an army with banners. Our pioneer preachers were a glorious band, a chosen few. Today their spirit of perseverance remains. At last we have we trust awakened from our slumbers, at least sitting up. If we, the heirs of these grand men. sons of froe America, with all the modem benefits, eniignienment. missionary spirit and social betterment. do not be up and doing on a great, grand scale in the next generation and century more than we have in this generation, we shall not be worthy successors to those who Inid the first cornerstones in the churches that have fostered our <rrandr-arents for four generations. This is t^e only generation we can reach.! Vow. todav. is our time. Tf we al-' j lew other denominations to reap where our pioneers >.ave sov>'n. if we r~rmit th<? ideas of oth^r refo-^iers t>)on nnr> nwn e-rpnt Reformer I ' .* HJ X HICUJ UiM r-) tri mould the lives of our children, we p o not trne to the great man whoso r mi- we hear and whose memory all denominations ar^ keeping green dur- i i" r this Quadricentennial year. "Let us then h>> up and doing V?Tith a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait." AN OLD LANDMARK NOW FAST PASSING AWAY When I was a boy in Ferginyer, At de planation down on de Jeems, Years aback 'fo' de war kim, an' freedoom? TXTViof o Vin <-r timo O o'a if till 1 f Ti;:: sine have changed since those I ,days and yet while it seems a long " time ago it is not so awfully long after. all. And yet there are not manv rf; i the old time darkies of the days gone, and I often wonder if the negro of to| day is really better off than he was I ; in the days ' fo' de war kim, an' free' tijm." and when he lived at "dp plan! ration down on de .Teems.'' Most of i them were well cared for and were , happy and carefree. T am not under- j , t iking to justify slavery, because 71 i elieve it was wrong, and yet I some ?*'mes feel that I would have bee-1! -.-lad to have had my sojourn in this world during > those good old days | , befo' de war. r ! I We doesn't live as onst we did: ! De grub's done struck a change; i .Mi wnen 1 mentions ?;\c uu < , | My wife she thinks it strange. J i ?hc ojill me "Ichabod." Or "Ich," or "01c Fool." now; , An' ef T mentioned "Anmky," 'T'ud sartin raise a row. , 'Tis "Mister Brown'' an4 **Mistis Brown, Onr.vil if seems ter ire v"e's done sone changed o.;r nat'rel selves F'cm what we "sed ter be. But the negro *on the whole has removed beautifully and murh better \ " r'.(iT V!! ine Ciivumsiauws uuu ::';(>rs i!" .*! o:: - might br.ve err-a.?* rrT. if be v/ill onlv s*ov fO;- p. Trinuie to think. .As a rule, he is a gool laborer and knows his place in the er-onomio and social strata, of the country. But this is not the story T started to write. There is a familiar figure on the streets that one may see almost any j morning or after v:r \ trudging along pulling his cart, and his body bent l ! in the shape of a horse shoe, from whom many of the -younger and more ; robust men and women of his' race, ! ?nd those of any race, might learn 1 some valuable lessons in energy and I industry and perseverarcp. He never ! lets up. but is constantly 'gathering ' up the fragments of hay and whatever will do to feed his cow, for he savs that it is the milk from his cow upon which he and his wife manage | to live. And yet T have been told that j he is not as poor as one might think, but as to that I do not know Mose Thompson, according to his il. - T?K Tr,lin_ story, was a suave in me tuu stone family when fredom came. My flr?t recollection of him is when he cnt wood for my aunt. Mrs. L. C. Hunter, while 1 was hoarding ther > , j'oinsr to college, and that has been a little while auo. and he was then a ' ?v\v old man and somewhat stoope-i . \ fth <I:o burden of his years. Mo~-> t does not know himself how old lie is. 4 Ho spys he takes his name from C..4 A:i P ter Thompson of Luremberg county, Va., in which county is located the city of Petersburg. He' says that he frequently drove ani went with the tobacco wagons to Petersburg in his young days. His. "master," as he called it, was Billie Seymore and his daughter married. Captain Peter Thompson and he vas given to thern by Mr. Seymore. After a few years he was sold on the Irfcrfc: and was bought by a man name** nicker who was a negro speculator.. After about a vear in the possessfou of Tucker he was brought to Sojitb Carolina along with a good more negroes and was sold to .Chaucellor Job Johnstone. Moses does not Know now old he wa9 then, but according to hi a story he must fcavsbeen between 20 and 30. He says had been in the possession of Chancellor Johnstone about two years foefore the Chancellor's second marriage and that he was present and remembers very well when Chancellor Johnstone was married to Miss Amelia Dc^Walt. That t^e marriage took place in the house in Caldweil street now occupied Mr. Hamilton and known to most Of thfi IVrOfiPTVt rooiflATi-fr. ->" ? vwvmv uwj 1 volu^ili^ ?..> the Thompson house. That was in the year 1844. And Moses says that bis wife is older than he is. The photographers tell me that Moses thinks it is a sin to have pictures made, ^ct he readily posed for the kodak aw*l is standing on the sidewalk alongside the Baptist church and the background of the picture is the rear ot the residence of F. R. Hunter, Speaking of the marriage of Chancellor Johnstone and Miss DeWalt it may be of interest to some to say slie was the daughter of David Dewalt who was a farmer and owned the pice at Tolly Sreet known as the ''DeWalt Quarters," and his family lived in the town. Soon after the marriage oS Chancellor Johnstone Mr. Dewalt moved to a house which stood in rear or near where the present store of Mr. Paul Johnstone now is in Main street in front of the Tiiompsoni Inn. thebolne of Dr. Thompson, which stood just across the street. After a short time Mrs. DeWalt bought a lot ft'ona: Mr. W. R. Lane, whose widow died only a few days, where the home of Dr. 0. B. Mayor now is, and built there. Dr. Mayer says that the old house which he tore down to build his present residence had on the gutter, as was the custom in those days, 1851, which indicated the year in which the house was built. He still preserves that part or the old gutter. Mr. Del V'p.It dio-d hefor(. the famffy made the move to the Mayer Icrt. There is a legend in the family that ere evenng'aho;'?: dark whil?- Mr. DeWalt was standing in his field on his planation an object appeared before him and very distinctly counted seven rows, and then disappeared. -Just seven months after that, and the same field, an object appeared aerain and Connie:! rcvcr. r<- : Ho came to Ms t'lrt r.inv and had an attack of group and died suddenly. What significance th?;re was in the appearance 'of the object and the counting of the seven ro'>v? [ do not know. . I I saw Moses the other day. or night rather, and he had his budget on his * back, and u^on inquiry I found that his wagon had broken down and was unable to travel. But he was still going his rounds and gathering up the^ fragments with which to feed his cow. Pity is, it seems to me. especially for the happine?s and contentment of this fair Southland, tnat mese ur? types and oid landmarks, are rast passing away. A new era **as dawned and w?< must adjust ourselves to the new conditions or we will be crushed usder the juggernaut of modern progress. E. H. ,4. ?? r*" crtomc liirp n midwav along corner of Dr P. E. Way's drugstore, with the lively music from Salter's studio and the crowd? passing to an<l fro. The town is not dead in th<U I<>-. cality. If you did not reatf R. H. .Anderson's in the last issue of The Herald and Xews you missed somethin^. but you will miss a .sreat <le?? more if you fail to 20 to his store. where the most oi his goods are soi'i at the old price?. Just join the "Larpv throng." and 20 along. Follow the crowds.