The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 05, 1924, Image 11
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IS BEING RAZED
72-Year-Old Schoolhoute
Hat Romantic History.
Austin, Tex.—Austin’s first school*
house, the parent of all Texas educa
tional institutions and a landmark in
the Southwest, Is being rased in prep
aration for the erection of a modern
residence upon the site where the
school has stood the last 72 years.
A bride's wedding gift, the old struc
ture has in turn been a home, a school-
house, a powder magazine for the Con
federate army, a public meeting place,
and in the later days a boarding house
for university students.
It was built In 1852 by the slaves of
Louis Horst, a land baron of those
days. It has-changed hands only twice
in Its history and is now owned by Ed
ward Booth, who wants to erect a
modern dwelling on the site.
, Its limerock walls have withstood
even an attack by the federal army,
whose soldiers, dur’ng the reconstruc
tion period, ripped off Its roof and all
Its floors to make platforms for their
tents.
Erected In 1852.
The occasion for the erection of the
house was the marriage of Miss
Louise Horst, daughter of the great
landowner, to George Robinson in 1852.
The bride's father owned a vast tract
of land, including the present univer
sity neighborhood and all north Aus
tin, extending approximately as far
south as Fifteenth street, which then
marked the northern boundary of the
city limits, though the town Itself was
at that time a full mile away, situ
ated upon the hanks of the Colorado.
Horst desired to build his daughter
a home ns a wedding gift. According
ly, in the year of her marriage, he
built the ancient structure which stood
until recently in as firm a condition as
It was on the day of its completion.
The "lot" which went with the house
Included practically all of present
north Austin. »v
Used as Powder House.
In JSC2, when the Yankees captured
New Orleans and Galveston, excite
ment ran high in the southern part of
the state, and three forts were erected
to g^ard_jBpproacites to the capital
city.■‘ The rock edifice was then turned
Into a powder house and magazine for
high explosives. But when Dick Tay
lor with a handful of Texans defeated
Banks .and I’orter at Sabine Cross
Bonds in April of 1803, the excitement
died out, and the old house was emp
tied of its military equipment and
again made into a schoolhouse.
Louis Horst, grandson of the elder
Horst who erected the house, and a
^resident of Austin at the present time,
apent his first school days in this old
hall.
Refuge in Indian Attaoka.
For many years the seven-room rock
house was a refuge for people living
in the neighborhood when Indian at
tacks were made. Numerous legends
concerning sculpings and Indian atroci
ties that occurred around the old land
mark are yet told.
The nearest to destruction that has
ever fallen to the lot of the ancient
ballding, prior to the razing now going
on, occurred during the first days of _ M
the period of reconstruction following ! York grows steadily. The region de-
Only an Idea h Needed
to Put Town on the Map
In Oberammergau, long ago, thay
found aomethlng else to do bealdea
going to the poat office four times a
day or sitting around the stove In the
grocery store, or dallying In the vli*
lage poolroom.
Any small town can become famous
and busy, only let It find an Idea, de
clares F. H. Collier In "Echoes of the
Streets,” In the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
The world may be too much with us,
as Wordsworth said—In the cities, but
it Is a vague, far-off matter of languid
Interest In the village. Very well,
then, let the village go about interest
ing* Itself In something. Every one of
them would do well to get a hobby.
We think of one town In Kansas,
which has a huge chorus that offers a
musical festival every year that has
now become famous. Another In a dif
ferent state Is devoted to a narrow
htrt““fyi , »Hnatlng line of horticulture.
There is East Aurora, N. Y., wbtgh El
bert Hubbard gave something to talk
about.
If a small community can do noth
ing else It can organize a botany class
and carry on until It attracts attention
as a scientific center in its chosen field.
Srlnriet*. literature, art and music: hor
ticulture, the liberal arts, mechanics,
the drama nnd metaphysics are all
open to villagers to devote their intel
lectual powers to a sperlnl feature.
They can’t all be Obernnimergnus,
hut they know not what thev can be
until they try. And "trying” itself
breaks the deadening husk of the
small-town existence.
To Direct Growth of Gotham
The Russell Si»ge Foundation now
proimses a magnificent plan for the
future growth oj; New York. It loo',#
forward to a time when as many as
thirty million people will be. living
within a-iVadius of fifty miles of Madi
son square. Radical changes on Man
hattan Island and in the older part
of Brooklyn are unlikely, but It is the
ambition of the foundation to direct
(The anticipated growth a f the metropo
lis In the most convenient manner
and provide ♦ranslt facilities, street
and park systems and commercial and
Industrial districts for the newer
parts of the city, according to the best
judgment of some of the most eminent
engineers and architects. Its plan will
not only make the newest New York
beautiful and convenient, but'wlU he»p
to rednee the congestion on Manhat
tan Island, especially on Mie East side.
The territory that It will study Is vir
tually covered by the proposed Port
of New York authority, from New
burgh on the north to Monmouth
county In New Jersey on the south,
and from Morristown on the west to
Bridgeport nnd central Long island
on the east.
It Is hard to conceive of a great
metropolitan population of thirty mil
lion or more, nnd It may be that events
will falsify the prediction of the Sage
“The Negro Sermon”
A. ■ ^ '
Beloved fellow>trabblers, in boldin'
forth today,
I doesn't quote no special verse for
what I has to say.
De sermon will be very short, and
dish yar am de text,
Dat half-way doln's ain't no 'count
for dis worl' or de nex\
Dis worl' dat wp are libben in am
like a cotton row,
Where ebery colored gentleman has
got his line to hoe.
An' when a lazy nigger stops, to take
a nap,
De grass keeps on growin' to smud-
der up his crap.
When Moses led de Jews across de
waters ob de sea,
Dey'had to keep agoin’, jes' as fast
• as fast could be.
Do you suppose that dey could eber
succeeded in der wish
And reached de promised land at last
if dey .bad stopped to fish?
My frens, dey was a garden once,
. where Adam libed wid Eve,
Wid no one 'round to boJj&er dem, no
neighbors for to thieve.
And ebery v day was Sunday, and dey
got der rations free,
And ebery thing belonged to them ex
cept an apple tree.
You all know ’bout de story, how de
snake come snoopin’ round,
A rusty, stump-tail moccasin, acrawl-
in* on de ground.
How Eve and Adam et de fruit, and
went and hid der face,
Till de Angel Oberseer come and
drove deni off de place.
Now spose dal man and woman hadn’t
’tempted for to shirk,
An’ had gone about der business, and
’tended to der work.
Dey wouldn’t ha’ been no loafin’
where dey had no business to,
An’ de debbil would nebber gob a
chance to tell dem what to do.
No half-way doin’s, brederen, it will
neber do, I say,
Go 'bout your work and finish it, and
dens de time to play;
For when you sees a nigger foolin’
den as sure as you are born,
You’se gwine to see him cornin’ out
de small end of de horn.
Keep a plowin’ and a hocin’ and a
scrapin’ ob de rows,
And when de ginnin’s ober, den you
pays up what you owes.
But if you keeps a stoppin’ ebery
time de sun is hot,
De sheriff’s gwine to lebby upon ebery
thing you got.
I tank you for de ’tontion you has
gib dis afternoon,
Sister Williams will oblige us by rais
in’ ob a tune.
I see dat Brudder Johnson’s ’bout to
pass round de hat,
the Civil war, when Union troops were
stytloned la Austin to reinstate federal
power and the state government. Thejr
pitched their tents on College hill,
where the plant of the University of
Texas stands today; but when Jt
rained the ground became too damp
for their convenience. The soldiers
were then ordered to make lumber
floors for the tents, wood for which
was to be taken from the old rock
schoolhouse. The ’school was broken
up and every board In and on the
house was taken—the porch, window
frames, blinds, doors, roofing, floors
and all. Nothing was left but the
rock walls.
The elder Horst appealed several
times to the legislature for damage
done to the building by federal troops,
hut Indemnity was never obtained.
MiRc-Buraing Engine
Draws Cars 20 Miles
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Chicago.—Dr. Herman N. Bundeaen,
health commissioner of Chicago, ran a
train over the Rock Island tracks from
the Englewood station to Beverly Hills
and back, about twenty miles, using for
fuel chunks of dry milk Instead of
coal..
When the skeptical crowd reached
the station Doctor Bundesen was at
the throttle In the engine cab and E.
Worthmlller, the fireman, was shovel
ing chunks of dried cow’s milk Into the
firebox. During the entire experiment
milk was the only thing fad to the fire.
The locomotive pulled a train of five
earn, carrying more than 200 pussan
gers, mostly children, from the Chica
go Home for Frlendleaa Children and
the Chicago Orhpnn asylum.
scribed already contains some nine
million people. It will be an addi
tional source of pride to the future
citizen if he can think of New York
'as the most beautiful and commodious
of great cities as well as the largest.
The report of the Sage planning
commission will be awaited with In
terest. It can hardly be ready for
several years. And when It does ap
pear It will remain to be ssen whether
the authorities of New York and of
all the other municipalities concerned
will be willing to adopt Its suggestion.
Water-Well Fight of '
Bible Timet Recalled
Jerusalem.—The old quarrels over
water wells In the times of Abraham,
as recorded In the BWe, were recalled
by a serious quarrel which broke out
between two Arab tubes it the neigh
borhood of Valndxf. -
In p dispute over the rights to tbe
only water well In the vicinity, file two
tribes engaged In a battle which re
mit ed in the death of one person and
the wounding of eight others.
The autborlttM have started asm
Paya Teacher a Higheat Wage
High school teachers In Newark,
N. J., receive the highest salaries paid
for regular public school Instruction Ir
the United States, for they begin at
$2,100 and reach $4,400 by annual In
crease, according to City School Leaf
let No. 15, Just Issued by the Depart
ment of the Interior through the bu
reau of education. Casper. Wyo., a
city of only about 12,000 people, pays
to beginning elementary teachen
$1,600 a year, which Is $100 more than
New York and Chicago pay for Ilka
service.
In general the great cities offer the
best salaries, but their highest en
trance salary, $1,500. Is matched in
some of the smaller places in the West,
including Ban Jose, Richmond and
Piedmont, Cal. Many other cities do
nearly as wall, and the sum which is
paid mo«t often to beginners Is $1,000.
At the lower end of the list Is Savan
nah, Ga., which is reported In the
leaflet as paying only $400, wlih an-
anal Increaaes of $86 to a maximum of
$1,143. Colored elementary teachers
In Rome, Ga.. receive even less, for
they begin at $382. and their maxi
mum Is $450.
.foundation in that respect; hut Now let’s donT have no half-way
doin’s when it comes to dat.
Spartanburg Farmer
Is Killed By Son
John Blalock Was Hit On Head And
Has Skull Crushed.
Spartanburg, June 2.—John Bla
lock, 60-yearold farmer of the Boiling
Springs community, died shortly be
fore 2 o'clock this afternoon in the
General hospital as the result of
wounds which he received shortly af
ter 8 o’clock this morning when his
head was beaten into a pulp by a
stone alleged to have beep wielded by
Clarence Blalock, his young married
son.
, Young Blalock surrendered at the
sheriff's office about an hour after
the occurrence and was lodged in the
county jail to await the outcome of hip
father’s wounds. Upon being notified
of the death of the elder Blalock, it
was announced that Clarence would
be held on a charge of murder.
An inquest will be held in Floyd’s
undertaking parlors at 6 o’clock this
evening, it was announced by Cor
oner Turner.
The difficulty arose out of an at*
tempt of the father to attack his
son’s wife yesterday, according to the
story by young Blalock when inter
viewed at the jail today. The son
bore marks as of a struggle, his face
being scratched, as were his hands
and one arm.
According to the story told by the
son, his father struck him with a rock
which he carried in one hand, and
slashed at him with the large knife
which he carried in the other. Young
Blalock declared that he attempted to
dodge and then stumbled backward to
the ground. His hand coming in con
tact with a large rock, he picked it up
and struck his father as he came
nfarer, he stated. Jnst how many
times he wielded the stone, he was
not certain. t
The junior EJlalock stated that his
wife had been crying during the night
Look Ahead in
A big consideration in your sprint
tree-planting plans is beauty, says th<
American Tree association of Wash
Ington, D. C. T,h!f Involves form, vlg
or, and suitability to locution and an
vtromnent. Factor* of beauty also In
elude the coloring et the leaver «m
the nature and* appearance of flower*
or fruit. The (orgeousmea of the ms
pies la autumn coloring makes thee*
trees general larorites for
side. He was not aware of the alleg
ed act of his father until after he had
gone to work this morning, when his
wife complained of the pain in the
presence of the father while the trio
were at work in the field, he said.
The elder Blalock ordered her back to
the house, but she refused to go and
told her husband of the attempted as
sault yesterday, according to the man
now in jail. He declared that his
father did not accomplish the pur
pose of his assault.
Whilo his wife was narrating the
occurrence of yesterday, the father
went back and unhitched his mule
from the plow. The younger man
turned to see him advancing with a
knife in one hand and a large stone
in the other, according to the story
It was then that the fight occurred,
it was stated.
Young Blalock was accompanied to
the city by the father of his wife and
surrendered at the sheriff’s office be
fore word of the affair had been re
ceived. Tho injured man was rushed
to the General hospital by neighbors,
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THE CORNER STORE
The Cottier • Store ha<? jtist
ouened a few snanpy advance
styles of Poll Parrott for
the women and ffirls of Clinton.
Let us prove to you that we are
offering this well known moke
from $1.00* to 32.00 i er fair
lower than ever sold in Clinton.
and was given examination by Dr. O.
C. Bennett and Dr. A. D. Cudd, who
reported that death might be expect
ed momentarily.
Tbe father and son lived at the
same house a short distance beyond
Boiling Springs. The young man
when seen in the yard of the county
jail, where he was permitted to roam,
appeared highly nervous. He stated
that he had sent his wife to the home
of her father. Sip is —St
been the only eye-witness.
Officers knew little of the
except from hearsay. The pt
walked, into the offices shortly after
9 o’clock and stolidly stated Uu^t he
had beaten his father with a
about an hour before. He was
questioned closely, but upon hia
statements and those of his
in-law, was committed to jail.
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alter hearty eating.
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Silvertowns are built
to the
highest stanched cf tire qualify—
not down to a price. Ard yet
they cost no more than ordinary
cords.
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SILVERTOWN
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Edwards Auto Service
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