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r i, THE FIGHT 18 8r iSite -;' '^SmpwHt1 'tfJK^ifflfiSli^^W M If A ^SiS|QflysEfflHH . l^Hn ISB^^^^HflHP^ J^HhmSBQBk^? I / fSEUsxm^m ' ?WBwBa? 1 fiaES^Ifir f4 COL. JOHX F. HOBBES. THE FIGHTING HOBBSES. The following story of the Hobbs is taken from the Caterer, a publication owned by Col. John F. Hobbes and *c published in Xew York. As the Hobbes are from the lower section of Newberry county or the upper section of Lexington and have many relatives in the countv we are sure the story I will be read with interest. * (From the October Caterer, 1918.) g The Hobses in this sketch came >\ from hard fighting blood on three lines. They descend from a noble Scotch strain, from Chief Llewellyn, the famous fighting king of Wales and j from a teutonic line of liberty loving, fighting barons, some of whom were A driven out of Germany as far back as 1697 and tiieir esiaies cuimscatcu. Col. John F, Ilobbs was told that he could recover the title and feudal estate of at least one of these. His reply was characteristic of his blood: "It wasn't good enough for my libertyloving forefathers, and it's not good ^ enough for me. Besides, I am a citizen, the blood of whose forebears flowed for freedom in 1776, and my blood ^^ ^ ? v* 4" V? ft fro Q. IS IlOW HgXlllilg VrCl iuanj iui luc 11 w dom of mankind." Dr. Llewellyn Pickens Hobbs, the J father of Col. John F. Hobbs, president and editor of The Caterer, had the relative rank of Brigadier General at the close of the Civil War. He was a noted physician and surgeon in those days, in the South. Col. John Fletcher Hobbs is the first born of his family, and received the commission of Lieutenant Colonel before he was of age. He decline^ the commission of Brigadier General of the Ninth Brigade in his native State, succeeding Gen. B. F. Nicholson. He did so for conscientious reasons. The legislature made the position elective ^ and the dashing young officer refused H to run for it, even at the most urgent ^ Tequest of the governor and the Major Oeneral commanding. He took the j ground that general officers should be ?. appointed and not elected by the rank and file. The legislature took that view too/later, and repealed the election law. Col. John F. Hobbs was the "man-of?. mystery" who commanded the native troops and the hero of the battle of Apia in which the opposing Germans were badly whipped. He was seyere ly wounded in action in that fight, but fought it out. He has been wounded several times in battle; once entirely through the body. He has asked President Wilson to let him fight now. John Fletcher Hobbs, Jr., was too young to enlist with the American forces. His patriotic fighting blood was up and boiling. He went to Australia before he was 18 years old and enlisted as an \anzau wiui me aus^alian Light Horse and has been fighting with the forces that captured Jerusalem and which has just annihilated the Turks and captured Nazareth and the country up to the sacred Sea of Gallilee. The spirit of the ^ American boy which actuated young | ^.ronn r ieicner hoods to go iu mr Australia where there is neither draft nor other compulsion, to enlist, is the same true flame which burns in the heart of millions of the American youth. He writes Colonel Hobbs from the front that it is hard to get cigarettes over there in Palestine, so a big supply goes to this young man daredevil Yankee Anzac ea"h month from his native home, America. Kenneia G. Hobbs, the oldest brother of John Fletcher Hobbs, Jr., is now !n uniform and under orders. He says his baby brother won't havk any thing on him, when he gets his trench legs going. Lonnie Hobbs enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, in New York City, but was rejected because of his heart. He has been turned clown twice since for the same cause. He is trying every crook and turn to enter the service, and is encouraged. These Hobbs boys and the "old rooster" c.~? c'oins: their bit and are * w. ING HOBBES I! ' I % I I giving, or ready to give, all there is in j them in the service of Old Glory. A I Hobbs was never known to turn his back to an enemy, nor to evade duty. I Miss Ethel fJIobbs, Col. Hobbs' oMI est daughter, is a junior in Hunter ! College, volunteered her services, like ! many other Hunter College girls, and . i . ! ; has made an enviable reputation in i Draft Board and Red Cross work. Little Claire Hobbs, though only 111 j years old, the baby girl of Col. and Mrs. Hobbs, gives her heart, soul, and j every minute of her spare time to Red i Cross work and to her bandage asso! ciation. She is president of her class in the Model School of Hunter College and her whole spirit is one of surging loyal enthusiasm. I Some Additional Facts About "The Fiahtina Hobbes." ? Kenneth G. Hobbs, Lonnie Hobbs j | and John Fletcher Hobbs, Jr., are sons j J of Dr. James H. Hobbs, son of Dr. j j Llewellyn Pickens Hobbs and Mary i Hope Hobbs. Dr. James H. Hobbs is | ! a brother of Col. John F. Hobbs. j ! ! Kenneth is the first born, Lonnie; second and John Fletcher the baby j boy.- Their father and mother died , when the boys were quite young. They j were reared by their uncle, Col. John; F. Hobbs, in New York City, where I Lonnie is circulation manager of Col. Hobbs' hotel club and restaurant magazine, The Caterer and Hotel /"> j ;irietors' Gazette. I Dr. James H. Hobbs, or "Jimmie"! Hobbs as he was affectionately called, j in the Pomaria and Hope section down ; about old St. John's (white church) j i * _ i.* i m T.1 ?_ TT ^ ' Degan ms eaucauon ai ai. jonn s. ne | went jo Bethel academy, a noted school at Pomaria, when he was a boy. His brother, Col. John F. Hobbs, ' graduated from Bethel and went from i * i ' - flHuyg wi .^B jHfflHWlWM11 naJ '' I l^ij w m m ! Kcnnrtii G, HcbVs, sc:i < there to Newberrv college. then at | Walhalla, S. C. i By the way, Col. Hobbs learned bis j A. B. C.'s at old St. John's and his first j teacher, Mrs. Capt. George Swygert', i of Pomaria was his first teacher, | when she was Miss Cummins Chapi man. She still lives there in the home of Mr. Wm. W. Berley. j ' "Jimmie" Hobbs went from Pomar- : ! ia, or Hopes, to the Kings Mountain ; Military School, then headed by Col. 5 Coward. He won a scholarship to the ! Citadel academy at Charleston. There he won the appointment to the Maryi land Military and Naval academy, 1 where he graduated with the rank of ' an officer. Lieutenant Hobbs chose : the medical profession?the profession i ?????? ? ^ (enter: John Fletcher IIobbe?. j of his father?as his life work. He ! went to the Louisville Medical College, at Louisville, Ky., and graduated ! as a Thesis man. The privilege thus : won of attending the Kentucky School of Medicine was taken advantage of. ' He entered there and graduated as a Thesis man. This gave him the right of an interne to "Walk the hospitals' for six months. Young Dr. James H. Hobbs, his father having died, settled in the Pomaria sor t ion and practiced his profession with brilliant success. He was in duced 10 move to Lexington Court. House where he repeated his success. breaking down from overwork, after a close call, the gallant phvsician-soldied moved to Louisville, Ky., where he met and Ti^_.3d Miss Olivia Price. His sons, Kenneth and Lonnie were born there. Later, he moved to Chicago, broke his leg helping in a friendly way to put out a neighbor's fire, and subsequently died from blood poisoning. His wife died some time before his demise. The orphan boys thus left were brought to New lork City by their uncle and reared. Dr. Liewellvn Pickens Hobbs, the father of Col. John F. Hobbs, William Hughes Hobbs (Supt. of yards of the c. u. ?sc a. k. k. m uoiumDia years ago, and killed by a freight train in the yards in 1884) and Dr. James H. Hobbs, were bom in the Liberty Hill section of Edgefield county. His parents died while he was a boy and he was reared by his guardian, Major Hughes, near Edgefield village. He received a military education, graduated at the Charleston Medical College, then at Jefferson, in Philadelphia, where he was of the medical staff. He was the boyhood friend of Gov. M. L. Bonham, Gens. M. C. Butler and Mart. \V. Gary. He settled in Batesburg, S. C., until he met and married Miss Mary Hope, only daughter of Senator John C. Hope. She was said to have been the handsomest woman in the Palmetto State at that time. The wedding was the biggest in the history of the State; over 1,000 in atendance. Mrs. Hobbs was the sister of Mr. James C. Hope, of Hopes, just below Pomaria, and was the aunt of John J. *? ' -yigte % ! aSBaBSMB^-' 9 BPf fl^HHff^ "V : vi 9E9RIP} Vv M^yiPv )i Dr. James Hobbes. (Duce) Hope of the Hope-Davis Co., in Columbia, and of Mrs. R. H. Hipp of Pomaria. "Duce" Hope and Miss Mary Hipp are first cousins of Col. Hobbs. Dr. Llewellyn Pickens Hobbs, the grandfather of Kenenth, Lonnie and Fletcher Hobbs was on the Confederate side in the Civil War. The Yankees kept him in the woods for a year after the war. He is the man who left the dead Yank in the cotton patch when that uniformed individual was gunning for the Confed. The late Col. D. A. Dickert is authority to Col. Hobbs, as to that fact. He was one of the organizers and most fearless of the Klu Klux Klan. He and Col. Dickert were its most J I ' "f. son of Dr. .James Hobbes daring members. It is not generally known?probably not hitherto known at all outside of a charmed cir^l??that Col. John F. Hobbs, as "Johnnie" Hobbs, was the daring horses, o vho rode lite '"Still i I I ^III I lAk Jh : mmmw I Sv 'Jj? -J' ... ' i?i I 1 Copyright 1919 by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. : Alarm" under direction of Col. Dicki ert and tlie late James C. Hope, his | uncle, to save his mother's life. The j negroes had planned to kill her for the | cotton money, while Dr. Hobbs was i !iwav A faithful nlrl np?rn. nlri TTn<YIe I ! Abner, given her as a wedding present , by Senator Hope, acted as spy in the negro camp and revealed to her the plot. At a quarter to eleven that night Mrs. Hobbs warned her son Johnnie of her peril, having just received the startling news. j "Ride to your uncle's son, and to Col. Dickert, as fast as legs can carry ! your horse. Tell them your mother is to be murdered at midnight by negroes who are now in our Glymph House." j This place was half a mile away, i Johnnie Hobbs wasn't yet eight I years old, but he could ride anything | on the plantation, and he rode that ! night as a boy never rode before. In , half an hour the clan began to quietly ' assemble and to deploy. The life of a ( beautiful and fearless - white woman ! was saved. There was one white rasi | cal and two villainous "niggers" less i when old Sol peeped over on the fatej ful peach orchard back of the "white house" of the Hobbs' the next morni j ing. It was this same Johnnie Hobbs I that sat by his mother's side, when i two soldiers of Sherman's army forced her wedding ring from her finger and took it away. It was the same boy, who toia one or uen. jvnpatricK s calvary that he was no gentleman f^>r shooting his papa's pet fox hound and who, with a Yankee carbine thrust in his breast with the threat, "If you don't shut up I'll shoot you?also," picked up a half a brick and replied, "If vou don't let me alone. Til knock you off that horse." A Federal officer looking on said, "Let that young Reb alone. He's got more grit than you have right now." ; There you have the spirit and something about "The Fighting Hobbses." KINKY ! _ f? HAIR Exalento Medicine Cot, 1 Gentlemen: Before I u*ed your Exelonto Cuinin? Pomade my hair wti short, coarse and nappy, bat now it has grown to 32 inches Ion;, and is so soft and silky that I can do it up any way I want to. I lure to show you h>>w pretty toelento has mad* 1 it. SlAJLJUiii tu^u. i Don't let some fake Kink Remover fool you. 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