Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r <U. SCUTES ? s SLAYER OF GIRL Victim Manages to Break Away From Fastenings and is Shot r\ . 1 to ueatn. Savannah, Ga., June 21.?After having broken away from a stake at which he was being: burned, Phillip Gathers, negro, was shot to death by ra mob near Rincon, Effingham countoday. The negro was charged with the murder of Miss Anza Jau m don, whose body was touna a weeK ago in a ditch near the scene of today's lynching. Chased by infuriated citizens, officers of three counties and track hounds. Gathers was captured this morning near Stilson in Bulloch county. When the capture was effected and it became known that the mob would ktake the prisoner to Rincon to put ,him to death the news spread over nniintiae orwr} Vl n n fl TP H <s of <jujuiiiiiig v.uuut^o unu 44V..V..^? ? persons went to the scene to witness the execution. The negro is said to have acknowledged his guilt as he was being carried through the country in an automobile. ^ Arriving at the point where the body of his victim was found, he was chained to a sapling, gasoline poured o**er him and a match applied. As the flames enveloped his body he made a powerful lunge and broke away from the tree. At that moment hundreds of shot were fired into his body. Gathers went to'the home of Buck Stevens, a negro living near Stilson, early today and asked for food. Stevens notified the authorities. Gathers was taken as he was making for the i woods. Miss Jaudon, 17 years of age, had been in Savannah with her sister and was. returning home for the weekTTin^incr nn one at the station ^ f ? , to meet her, she started to walk the two miles to her father's house but was killed en route' The bodyxwas found within 500 yards of the home. The throat and arms were bruised and the skull crushed. Tracks in the sand on the roadside indicated a struggle. '? Gathers was missing from his ^ home, and for a week he evaded posses, officers and hounds, dodging out of swamps to procure food and disappearing again. The brutality of the crime and the long chase had so enraged the people tftiat there was *- 1 4-'Un+- f-0+VlOY*C WftlllH -- ^Dm scanl nupc tuai vimviivAw v?.? * ever reach a jail. The crowd that witnessed and participated in the lynching dispersed immediately after the negro was killed. One man, H. J. Hendricks, a con tractor, of Oliver, Ga., was accidentally shot in the leg by a stray bullet. tWILL HEAR CITIZENS ABOUT PARR SHOALS Attorney General's umce nonuc? Manning Representatives of City Will Be Heard. v The State, 22nd. A. E. Manning, vice chairman of the board of directors of the chamber of commerce, received a telegram yesterday from the attorney general's office in Washington in which it was said that no further action would "be taken in reference to the suit by the government against Parr Shoals until Columbia had been given a hearing on the matter. Earlier in ~ * * ^ <Q the day Mr. iManning nuu icwi.cu ? message saying the district attorney had all instructions and would proceed. but the later message assured , the chamber of commerce that CoJumbia would be heard before any .further action was taken. r _ At the meeting of the chamber of cojnmerce last Friday night Christie Benet and E. O. Black were appointed as representatives of the city to go to Washington to see what could be done and to investigate the whole ->-1.-- T+ nrocnmpH now that inituci- xi/ io {/i ..... the attorney general will await the arrival of Mr. Black and Mr. Benet before the suit is pressed. SPECIAL ELECTION IN FAIRVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 18. Whereas, one-third of the resident freeholders and a like proportion of the resident electors of the age of 21 years in the Fairview school district, No. 18, the county of Newberry, x ? state of South Carolina, have filed a petition with the county board of education of Newberry county, South Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be held in t ' ? We have a piy of nitra First come Anderson Pho: r f said school district on the question . i of levying a special tax of two (2) ! mills on the taxable school property within the said school district. Now, therefore, we the undersigned composing the county board of | education for Newberry county, state i n*f Smith Carolina, do hereby order . the board of trustees of the Fairview I school district, No. 18, to hold an I election on the said question of levying a special tax of two (2) mills tobe collected on the property located within the saii school district, which said election shall be held at the Fairview school house in the said school district, No. 18, on Wednesday, the 7th day of July, 1920, at which said election the polls shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. The members of the board of trustees of said school district shall act as managers of said election. Only such electors as reside in said school district and return real or I personal property for taxation, and who exhibit their tax receipts and registration certificates as required in general elections, shall be allowed to vote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes" written or printed thereon, and each elector opposed to such levy shall cast a ballot contain ! ing the word "No" written or printed |thereon. I Given under our hands and seals I this, the 21st dav of June, 1920. C. M. WILSON, 0. B. CANNON, J. B. HARMON, County Board of Education. | SPECIAL ELECTION IN SALUDA ! SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 15. ' ' - : J ~I ; Whereas, one-tnirci 01 me rcaiucm, 'freeholders and a like proportion of J the resident electors of the age of i j twenty-one years in the Saluda; (School District, No. 15, the County ;of Newberry, State of South Carolina,! have filed a petition with the County, |Board of I'.ducarion of Newberry: ; County, South Caroling petitlonir?1 j and requesting that an election be! i heid in said School District on the ! j question of levying a special tax1 J of six (6) mills on the taxable; j school property within the said school j | district : j * Now, therefore, we the undersigned j 1 composing the County Board of Edu-j j cation for Newberry County, State! ; of South Carolina, do hereby order i j the Board of Trustees of the Sa-' luda School District, No .15, to hold: " ** r\r> fVio coif} nnPStiofl Of ' I an ci^vuivu vii W4?v ^ j ! levying a special tax of six; I (6) mills to be collected on the prop-j erty located within the said School j , District, which said election shall be' i held at the Saluda school house j s in the said school district, No. 15, on' {Wednesday, the 7th day of July,; ! 1920, at which said election the polls ! 'shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed; j at 4 p. m. j Trustees of said School District shall; ! act as managers of said election, j i Only such electors as reside in said j School District and return real orj personal property for taxation, andj who exhibit their tax receipts and; registration certificates as required in; general elections, shall be allowed to; j vote. Electors favoring the levy of i ! such tax shall cast a ballot containing j I the word "Yes" written or printed' thereon, and each elector opposed to i such levy shall cast a ballot contain- j j ing the word "No" written or printed j I thereon. r 1 Hivpn under our hands and seals i ; this the 14th day of June, 1920. C. M. WILSON, (L. S.) 0. B. CANNON, (L. S.) J. B. HARMAN, (L. S.) County Board of Education, j I Winthrop College : SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE j EXAMINATION The examination for the award of j vacant Scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of new, students will be held at the County: t flonrt House on Friday. July 2, at1 j 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less j j than sixteen years of age. When j Scholarships are vacant after July 2\ they will be awarded to those making j the highest average at this examina-j tion, provided they meet the condi-j tions go erning the award. Appli-i cants for scholarships should write toi President Johnson before the examination for scholarship examination blanks. Scholarships are worth ?100 and free tuition. The next session will ope* September 15th, 1920. For further information and catalogue, Pw?* D B Joknion. 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