The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 14, 1910, Page 2, Image 2
THE OLD AND THE NEW. j
Fouth of July Musters, Corn Shuckings
and Quiltings of the Old Days. '
Wanderer's Rest, July 4.?July
the fourth is being observed by a <
large part of the people, and big
picnics, ball games and dancing are
all gentle reminders that this great
republic was born on that day, and
as the years roll by let it be remem- (
bered. Well does the writer recall* the
old-time fourth of July muster
ifV when all turned out in wagons, carts, ,
and a few in buggies or old-time j
gigs or chairs, many walking, and }
the cider and ginger cake stands, the j
bie dinners and the silent awe that .
a small boy looked on the crowds, j
and as these old days come back ,
they bring back the happy days of ,
the old-time corn shucking, when (
hundreds of bushels of corn was
hauled and placed in a long half (
circle pile all evened up as. nearly the j
same as could be placed, all the j
neighbors invited and brought all the j
help on their farms. Then was all .
hurry bustle, as the women lent j
a helping hand, and how they laugh- ,
- . ed and joked at each other, with j
Maum Zena or Clary or Hester (
giving orders to the young ones, with t
orders to the boys with long aprons j
on to hurry with the wood as they
made the pots boil hung on a crane
in tlie chimney,- and to some girl: (
"Make haste, der gal, fur de crowd ^
y" is now comin' an' supper's not done." (
Soon they all gathered to the corn ^
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pile 111 Lilts Udl U ;aiut i> v?v
chosen, the length of pile measured, (
the hands chosen by each one, Tots j
drawn for one or the other end of ]
the pile of corn, then with a shout t
and a yell all hands were soon busy
taking the shucks off amidst loud (
? ' * r;. talk, songs and laughter, as the captains
halloaed and yelled, each trying
to encourage their side to out ,
work the other. Then the great fun j
as one side finished a little while be- (
fore the other, the good natured jest t
< - and joke as one captain would slap j
the other on the shoulder and say: j
"I told you so, my side never bin (
beat yet." Then supper, the white ?
folks all going to the dining room /(
where the table was groaning under {
the weight of the good things to eat, j
the colored under the trees in the
yard where a long table was built, j
and all was life, fun and laughter, (
V. in a land of plenty raised at home, :
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and that flowed with milk and 1
I* honey.
Then the quiltings often were
along with the corn shuckings, and
such good natured all round enjoyment
was indulged in that the evening
was the talk of the settlement
' * until the next one.
But my! the roads of the good old
days. Mud holes, water, deep sand,
then a bog down and a prize out, then
go again with hills all gullied on the
side and bogs at the foot, logs to
drive round, limbs to dodge, leaving
;* T two hours before day to go to Bamberg
and getting home perhaps y
o'clock at night, the team fagged out,
drivers sore and weary, and seldom
was more than a ton hauled with a
four horse or mule team, and they
the best. Now all is changed, and
> often three or four bales and never
? lees than a ton is put on two and
hauled over many of our roads with
case, the driver leaving home after
' breakfast and back before night if he
chooses, with his team ready for
work next day, and where sand beds
or mud holes once held sway, now
all is level and firm made of sand
1 .'/ and clay, and where three miles an
hour was thought good time with a
load now five is made with ease, and
A cjr\oorli! foetor than thp I
tJLiC (tUlUUiUUll^ Oj^?V>VUO XtWOV,*. VUMU vuy j
railroad' train did in the years gone (
Let the good work go on for in j
them lie the only hope for the country
people, and with the telephone, |
jp ;> rural mail routes, motor cars and mo- }
tor wagons to haul the crops to market,
motor or steam plows will en- 3
thuse our young men to stay on the ]
farm, then will it he pleasure as wvli
fe'V as profit. Then with pride can the ]
good roads builders look at the new 1
P order of things and say or feel thus ^
have I helped to make the desert j
' , a pleasant place to behold and have
been a benefactor to mankind. All ,
honor to the good road builders is ]
f; . the wish of OLD TIMER.
APPEAL IX EDWARDS CASE.
Supreme Court to Finally Decide
Berkeley County Matter. <
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Columbia, July 7.?The Edwards i
case will be carried to the supreme i
court for a decision, notice of appeal
haying been filed to-day by attorneys :
for J. 0. Edwards and the sureties on
his bond with Attorney General
Lyon.
J. O. Edwards was removed from
the office of treasurer of Berkeley
county on the charge of being short
in his accounts to the extent of over
it* rT
$5,500. The State brought suit in the
Berkeley county court for the shortage
and a verdict was rendered
against J. O. Edwards and his sureties.
The State was represented at
the trial by Attorney General Lyon.
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LYNCH DETECTIVE IN OHIO
LEAGUE DETECTIVE HANGED
FOR KILLING BARKEEPER.
Culmination of Mob Violence Comes
After Raids on Alleged Blind Tigers
and Continued Disorder.
Newark, Ohio, July 8.?Carl Eth?rington,
22 years old, employed
Thursday night by the State anti>aloon
league as a blind tiger raider,
svas lynched here at 10:35 to-night,
following a day of almost continuous
doting. The heavy doors of the
Licking county jail were battered
lown and Etherington was dragged
from his cell. He was shot, kicked
md bruised before the street was
'eached and the finish followed
juiCKiy.
Etherington, early in the evening,
confessed he killed William Howard,
proprietor of the Last Chance res:aurant,
and former chief of police,
n a raid of alleged "speak easies" in
i raiding scuffle at 1:35 this afterloon
and narrowly escaped lynching
it that time. When news from the
lospital that Howard had died passed
over the city at 6 o'clock to-night,
;he fury of the mob took a definite
!orm.
Jail Doors Battered In.
Large battering rams were directed
against the doors of the jail, and
he deputies were powerless. The
ioors fell after nearly an hour's at;ack.
Crying piteously, Etherington, a
iurly, headed Kentuckian, who has
ieen serving as strike-breaker since
le was released from marine service.
;hree months ago, was dragged forth.
"I did not mean to do it," he wailid.
His cries fell upon deaf ears.
Fearing the mob. spirit would
Fearing that the mob spirit would
lot be satisfied by one victim, Sheriff
Linke immediately asked Adjutant
General Wevbrecht for troops to pro
;ect six other "dry raiders" held at
:he city prison in another section of
die town. A hurried guard was
;hrown out in their defense. The mob,
ifte^ the first taste of blood, seemed
juiet, but it is feared that they will
ittack the city prison before the
light is done.
Etherington's last moments, while
le heard the mob battering down the
loor, were spent in praying and writng
a note to his parents, farmers
esiding near Willisburg, Ky.
"What will mother say when she
lears of this?" he kept moaning to
:he jailer.
Sought Refuge in Death.
While the mob was battering down
he doors, Etherington was in his cell,
[n an attempt to commit suicide he
imothered his head in his coat and
jet fire to the garment. He was
:aught in time.
In the melee as the mob was leavng
the jail eight prisoners, held for
jetty offenses, escaped. One refused
;o leave.
As Etherington mounted the block
eady for the swing he was asked
;o make a speech.
"I want to warn all young fellows
lot to try to make a living the way
: have done?by strike breaking and
;aking jobs like this," he declared.
"I had better have worked and I
vould not be here now.
The swing of the rope cut him
short. He hung there for an hour,
ivhen the crowd quietly left. After
:he fifst excitement there was no
iisordfer.
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An Elevating Spectacle.
At the finish there were hundreds
)f women and little children in the
irowd. No member of the mob was
nasked and no attempt was made to
conceal their identity. The leaders
vere personal friends of the dead
nan.
After the body had dangled from
she pole for an hour, the rop9 broke
mder the weight of the body.
The city ambulance rolled up,
packed the limp form aboard and
hauled it to the city morgue.
An hour later the city was absolutely
quiet, with little chance of further
disturbance. The other "dry"
prisoners in the city prison, are safe
for the present.
Howard, it is charged, did not re
3ist the detectives when they entered
bis place on the outskirts of Newark,
be, it is said, put his arms about
Etherington and attempted to hold
him, whereupon the boy fired a bullet
into Howard's head.
It is claimed that Etherington recently
came here as a strike breaker,
and the ill feeling caused by this intensified
the feeling following to-day's
occurrence. To-night a strike breaker
was pursued through the streets for
several blocks. He saved himself by
jumping through the window of a
laundry.
Had Search Warrants.
TV,,-. whn made the raids
A lit ?' "VT -? ? !
arrived this morning armed with
search and seizure warrants, secured
from the mayor of Granville, a nearby
village. One of the first saloons
visited was that of Louis Bolton,
where a bartender, Edward McKenna,
was hit over the head with brass
knucks. The detective who hit him
was set upon by the crowd which
quickly assembled, and he was rescued
by the police with difficulty. The
officers, with their prisoners, were
followed to the jail.
Licking county, of which Newark
is the county seat, is dry under the
Rose local option law, but it is said
the law is not enforced.
Wayne B. Wheeler, State superintendent,
at Columbus to-night declared
to-day's situation was brought
about by negligence on the part of
Mayor Atherton in not upholding the
law. Wheeler said that the detectives
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were secureu ai uevciauu.
LINEMAN ELECTROCUTED*
B. C. Graves Meets Instant and Tragic
Death at Columbia.
Columbia, July 7.?Inadvertently
touching a heavily charged electric
light wire,-while at work on a telephone
pole at Gervais and Oak
streets, in Waverly, to-day, B. C.
Graves, a lineman in the employ of
the Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company, was instantly
electrocuted. It was some minutes before
the current could be turned off,
and during this time the dead lineman's
body, lying across the fatal cable,
was badly burned. Mr. Graves
was about 17 years old, unmarried.
He came here about four months ig ?
from Harriman Junction, Tenn.
Graves had been employed by the
Bell Telephone Company for about a
year. He has one Drotner, h. n.
Graves, who is also a lineman for the
same company in Columbia. He was
at work in the vicinity of the union
station when he received the news of
the tragic death of his young brother.
He and his friends came to the undertakers,
where the body had been caried
soon after the accident, and instructions
were given that the remains
of the young man be shipped to his
old home for burial.
The dead man was terribly burned
before the current could be shut off
on the neck and lower extremities of
the body are burned places showing
unmistakably where the death-laden
wires had come in contact with the
flesh. The clothing also was burned.
When the current had been cut off
the body fell from the wires to the
ground, a distance of about thirty
feet.
DROWNING NEAR COLUMBIA.
Husband and Companion Held for
Death of Woman.
Columbia, July 7.?The wife of
Bookter T. Martin, better known as
Clio Starnes, was downed late to-day
in Hampton's pond, near Columbia.
The suspicious circumstances surrounding
her death led to the arrest
of Bookter T. Martin, her husband,
T nnfio VoolfiTT ti-Vi n d rp hpld
CliiU JUCTTIO iltViV; y ff uvf maw
pending the coroner s inquest, which
will take place on Sunday afternoon.
Constable J. D. Dunnaway, who arrived
at Hampton's before the body
had been recovered, placed Neeley
and Martin under arrest Mabel
Blackburn, the fourth member of the
party, who lives in a disorderly "house
run by Dallas Starnes, was not arrested.
The two men are said to have been
drinking heavily and were still under
the influence of liquor when they
were arrested. A few small boys
were the only eye-witnesses of the
tragedy, besides Neeley, Martin and
the Blackburn woman. One of the
boys said last night' that one of the
men had Mrs. Martin on his back out
in the water. In some way she fell
off and was drowned. It is alleged
that the men had previously threatened
to drown one of the boys.
Mrs. Bookter Martin, the dead wo
man, is said to have led a very
checkered career previous to her
marriage to Martin, who loves eighteen
miles out on the Camden road.
The two did not stay together long
after they were married Lewis Neely,
now being held on suspicion, was
recently releasel from the county
jail, where he was held pending the
investigation of the disappearance of
Morgan Smoak, a 15-year-old boy of
Waverly, who has not been heard of
since June 8.
STABS HIS WIFE.
White Man in Augusta Kills Her
With Sl^arp Razor.
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Tom Desmuke, a white man, who
lives out on the Savannah road, sev-j
eral miles from Augusta, Ga., cut
the brachial artery in the left arm
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OI His wiie last uigui, nibu u auxw.
and she bled to death shortly afterwards.
Desmuke was arrested after
the crime by a county officer and
did not offer any resistance. The
crime was a horrible one and there
seems to be no motive for it. Desmuke
was drunk at the time.
When the officer went to Desmuke's
house to arrest him, Desmuke
met him at the door, attired
in only one garment, a top shirt,
which was stained with blood. The
only witness to the crime was Desmuke's
little daughter. She said
her mother was sitting in the back
door when her father suddenly rushed
to her and stabbed her with a
razor.
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WITHDRAWS SERVICE.
Western Union Declines to Give Wire
Accommodation in Ten Cities.
New York, July 7.?Without explanation
and without warning the
Western Union Telegraph Company
discontinued its service to-day to
brokers in 10 cities of this State and
Pennsylvania. The cities affecte4 are
Pittsburg and Johnstown, Pa., and
Syracuse, Ithaca, Rome, Utict, Gloversville,
Auburn, Watertown and
Cortland of this State.
Executive officers of the company
took the stand to-day that under advice
of counsel they could not discuss
the company's policies. Officers
of the New York stock exchange deny
that the cut off of service was in an>
way instigated by them or that they
had any knowledge of it. Officeis
of the Consolidated stock exchange,
"the little leader," cannot be found
to-night. There are many subterranean
rumors that the company
was acting on the advice of some out
in Washington, supposed to be very
close to the policy of the attorney
general's office, but this could not' be
confirmed.
Hitherto the Western Union has
always taken the stand that as a
common carrier it had no right to
refuse any business offered it, provided
such business is couched in decent
language. In fact, the company
argued earnestly that any attempt
by it to investigate the private affairs
of its customers would be inquisitorial
and intolerable.
Of Its Own Accord.
Washington, July 7.?It is on its
own initiative, not on orders from trie
department of justice here, that the
Western Union Telegraph Company
has discontinued its service to a num
ber of stock brokers' offices in NewYork
and elsewhere. This was the
declaration made to-night by an official
of the department of justice, who
played a prominent part in the recent
raids made on so-called "bucket
shops" by the department. He declared
that the department would
have no right to order the telegraph
company to discontinue its service
unless it could be proved that it had
broken some federal statute and that
this had not been done. One of the
brokerage concerns, a Baltimore firm,
whose service was stopped yesterday,
had an injunction issued to-day, he
said, against the telegraph company
to compel it to renew its service.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional
remedies. * Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous lining
of the eustachian tube. When this
tube is inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, deafness is
the result, and unless the inflammation
can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars
for any case of deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circui?
t Sr. CO..
iai a ncc. jl . u.
Toledo, 0.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Brought 50 Cents a Pound
The first bale of the cotton crop of
1910-1911 was sold at auction in New
York Monday of last week and
brought 50 cents per pound, the proceeds
being for the usual charity.
This bale^ was picked at Hildalgo
; county, Texas, weighed about 416
I pounds and was classed as good midI
dling cotton. It was first sold at
Houston, Texas, on June 23 for $375
and was shipped from there to New
York. The cotton purchased on that
day wilr be shipped to Liverpool,,
where it will again be auctioned. 1
Queer Destination.
A Washington car conductor, Doru
in London and still a cockney, has
succeeded in extracting thrills from
the alphabet?imparting excitement
to the names of the national capital's
streets. On a recent Sunday
morning he was calling the streets
thus:.
"Haitch! '
"High!"
"Kay!"
"Hell!"
At this point three prim ladies
picked up their prater books and left
the car.?Lippincott's.
First Freighter Through the Air.
Douglas, Ariz.,, July 7.?Dr. J. J.
P. Armstrong has contracted with A.
M. Williams, an aviator of this city,
*-- mininir manViinprv
I [U CUllVcjr yiai/ti
from Douglass to a property in the
Chihuahua mountains, Mexico.
The distance is about 3000 miles.
The machinery is such that it can be
carried only in 100-pound lots.
Williams owns and operates a monoplane.
This is probably the first contract
made calling for the commercial
use of a heavier-than-air-machine.
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hot days when yo
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livered in any qua
pounds up at any
We Sell No. 1 Tlmot
SALE AND
f DO YOU NEE1
I Right now, perhaps, you are wishing
? to invest in some good business pr
off an old debt, or possibly, to enlarg
I And it's just this way every mont]
.1 save many of the nickels and dime:
time comes for profitable investmei
there would always be something wii
I ency.
Take care of the nickels and din
I count here. We pay 4 per cent. int<
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I pleased to meet or correspond with
ing changes or opening new accounts
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WEEK-END AND SUNDAY
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CHARLESTON AND ISLE
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SOUTHERN R
Effective Sunday, May 29th, and coi
son, Southern Railway will have on sale i
to Charleston and Isle of Palms, S. C., wi
also week-end tickets to be sold on Satin
trains, beginning Saturday, May 28th, fina
midnight the following Tuesday.
Also cheap Sunday excursion ticket*
trains, good returning on last train leav
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UttJ luguv.
For further information, rates, etc., i
agents or address,
J. L. MEEK,
Asst. Gen'l. Passenger Agents
Atlanta, Ga.
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EXCURSION RATES
OF PALMS, SC.
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itinuing daring the summer searegular
summer excursion tickets
th final limit October 31st, 1910,
rdays, and for Sunday morning
1 limit to leave destination before
;
3 sold only for Sunday morning
fag Charleston 8:15 p. m. Sun- '
apply to Southern Railway ticket *' m
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TO. JEl. nCUUUEt, I
Division Passenger Agent,
Charleston, S. C. J