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/ $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 23,1921. Established in 1891 NEGRO PAYS FOR ~ CRIME WITH LIFE MOB KIBBLES FUGITIVE WITH | BULLETS. \ Hundreds in Search. Herbert Quarles Identified By Victim. Forced to Climb Tree, Then Chained and Volley Fired. McCormick, June 19.?A posse of J citizens this afternoon lvnched Her-. * i bert Quarles, a negro, charged with criminal assault on a white woman of this county. The negro was identified by the victim and was ordered j to climb a tree. His body was then riddled with bullets. The posse was hourly increased in number and at the time Quarles was caught at 3 o'clock this afternoon there were probably 2,000 men engaged in the search. The negro was found hiding under some brush about fifteen miles from the place where the crime was " " ^ J ^ ? VvaiiI am a mi fr Am cum in i LLC u anu auuui unc mms nuu^ where he was reared. When a party of men was in about ten feet of him he jumped up out of the brush. Hundreds of shots were fired in the air as an alarm and the news spread faster than the local telephone company could get it through the country. Members of the posse soon gathered on the scene. Edgefield, Aiken, Abbeville, Newberry and Lincoln county joined McCormick county in the hunt. i Frpm the spot where Ihe was! found Quarles was taken to the home of the victim. Says "This is Wrong." The negro himself, it is declared, admitted having committed the crime and while he gave no reason for committing the deed he issued this statement: "Tell all the colored people that this is the wrong thing and tell them to try and be better people and , never try the deed that I tried." After being identified by the victim and making a full confession the negro was taken to a point within the Robinson graveyard in the j slump of woods where the deed was j committed, about 100 yards from his! "home, and with a plow line around j his neck and a trace chain around! his body he was ordered to climb a | cedar tree. With the same degree of coolness | he might have gone about climbing j for an o'possum, he broke the limbs j and climbed the tree about fifteen feet. When he had reached this point someone went up and chained and tied him to the tree. When all was in readiness a volley of prob ably 5,000 shots was fired. J3e was' left hanging to the tree by the posse. This is the first lynching that has ever occurred in McCormick county and although the regular June term ; of the court of general sessions for j McCormick county is to begin here! tomorrow, the appeal of the officers and those who do not favor lvnchings fell on deaf ears as the quiet, undemonstrative assemblage of men j went about their work. In fact, not more than half the j number in the hunt were present j when the negro was put to death, it j is said. Those in charge of the ne-; gro, who had taken him to the home of his victim to be identified, had stated, it is alleged, that they would return to the town before going about the work of lynching him. The victim lives in a sparcely settled community between the town of Plum .Branch and Savannah river about one hundred yards from her -n A ic. -roliuhlv Stfltpd HI it 11 UU A cX li Li it ao w?. | that she went to the mail box yesterday morning about 8 o'clock and the negro, Herbert Quarles, who also lives near by and who was at the time working in a field near by, left the work and in some way caught the lady and immediately choked her and dragged her to a nearby wood. The victim is married and about j thirty years of age. Her husband! was not at home at the time and she ! was choked, strangled or frightened ! I into unconsciousness by the brute, j who. after committing the crime, went to his own home, obtained his' best clothes and immediately left j with them under his arm. wearing j the ove^ 'Is in which he had been j working. ? ?rtfi J. M. Kinard has resigned his po-; sition as manager of the Bamberg j base ball club, and F. M. Hove has been elected as his successor. HOME DKMOXSTKATIOX 1>K1?T. Emma Jane Yarn, Dem. Agt. County Short Course at Carlisle June 30-J illy 2, Inclusive. The annual county short course for club members of Bamberg county will be held at Carlisle school June 30th, July 1st and 2nd. Col. Duncan most kindly gave us the use of Guilds Hall during this time. The club members are all delighted over the idea of staying in the dormitory. Each member attending will bring bed linen for her room and some "eats." The stay will have a touch of camp life to it which makes it so much more interesting. The boys and ladies will come in on Saturday as the programme on that day will be especially interesting to them. The town people are invited to be present at all the demonstrations which will be held in the auditorium. Misses Bailey, Snyder and Mrs. Walker, of the state force, Miss Harper, district agent, Misses Cave, of Barnwell, and Miley, of Hampton, Y-'ill also assist and with such splendid trained help we are sure that the programme will be interesting. _ A special phase of the work this year will be along health lines and special emphasis will be placed 011 physical exercises and drills which will be in charge of Miss Bailey. __ The annual state short course which is held at Winthrop each sum- j mer just after commencement wasi one of the best and most profitable j yet held. The theme of the course' was "Live at Home" and "Makej Money at Home." The following! club members won scholarships and attended: Effie Smoak, Denmark club; Annie Ruth Carter, St. John's club; Rowena Hanberry, Denmark club; Maude Agnes Ximmons, Govan club; Dorothy Crum, Denmark club; Mrs. A. B. Coggins, Ehrhardt; Mrs. G. B. Kinard. Ehrhardt; Miss Lillie Cooper, Denmark; Miss sara ;\eeiey, Kearse; Mrs. J. E. McMillan, Ehrhardt. Each year Miss Laura Bailey, specialist in girls club work, gets the j girls to write a letter home while: she is up there, and from these .the i best from each county is selected and sent to be published in the county papers. Effie Smoak, of Duncanville club, has won this honor. Her letter follows: Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C. June 6, 1921. Dear Home Folks: T have been so busy having a good time that I have not had time to write you before. Now I want to tell you what a grand place Winthrop college is. I think Winthrop college is i the most beautiful place I ever saw, and it is also an interesting place. Every girl would learn so much if thev could have the opportunity of coming here. I have learned many new things since I've been up here. One that I'm so proud of is how to make rugs, which I shall tell you all about when I come home. Miss Taylor is teach-! ing us that. Miss Jenkins is giving | us recreation at the gymnasium and j we surely enjoy it. Miss Sellers gave us a very interesting talk on "School lunches, and what we should eat." Mr. Slade will take all of the poultry club girls out to the poultry farm in trucks this afternoon. I will get to go as I was sick the first day and couldn't go with the sewing club. Miss Jenkins will take all of us in this wonderful swimming pool this afternoon and then tonight we will go to see Charlie Chaplin in "The Kid." Miss Streeter will also give a musical programme. We are going to have "Daddy Long Legs" too, and all of these nice things are free and cost us nothing. You should have been with us the evening of the third. We had a grand time. They gave us a reception at which we met Dr. Johnson and lots of others in the receiving line. Then we played games on the lawn and they served us ice cream. You all just ought to be with Miss Yarn. She is the sweetest one and everybody enjoys being with her. I'm sure without her we couldn't have such a course. I have met so many nice girls and I hope when I come back to Winthrop they will all be here. I know every girl wants to come back. Miss Dinwiddie is teaching us "Health Education." We have ten daily rules of health and are making a picture book illustrating these rules. It's lots of fun. Xow, I bet you want to know what T did Sunday, don't you? Miss Hamilton took us to the Baptist church ! in the morning and we attended Sun-1 ' ' -Ll A 1 i. day school and preacnin?. men nun afternoon we had Vesper services 011 the library steps. ! Miss Bailey is with us now. You i remember her from the short course at Bamberg last year. I'll stop and tell you the rest when I come home for this isn't near half. Much love. EFFIE SMOAK. Duncanrill? Club. The Duncanville sewing and poul-i try clubs met Monday. June 13, at I ! WHITE CRIMINALS OUTNUMBER NEGRO XEAPLY FOl'K TIMES AS MAW IX STATE PEXITETIAUY. Mostly Young Men. Sixty-two Added to Population Since Last Year, According to Figures of G. Williams. White men in the .state penitentiary outnumber negro men nearly four to one, there being 151 white men and only 4 2 negro men. The majority of these white men are also young men. Last year about this time there were S9 white men and 146 negro men, making an addition of 62 more white men to the population in only one year. These figures are according to Secretary G. Croft Williams of the state board of public welfare, who made an unofficial visit to the state penitentiary last week. There are also five white women and 43 negro women in the state penitentiary at the present time. Last year there were 25 negro women and three white women. Negro men are shifted from the penitentiary to the state farms when crop conditions demand it, but the white men are kept at the penitentiary. Mr. Williams says that he was particularly struck with the number of young men in the prison. These j young men are healthy and appear to -be of normal intelligence, Mr. Williams says. "At the time of life when they should be building up businesses and homes and in other way doing their part in the affairs of their communities, they are serving time in a state prison for stealing, killing, or some other grave offenses," he says, "Many have been startled at the idea of a crime wave going over the country. However, there can be no doubt that for the last year crime has increased 'in South Carolina and this increase has been much larger among the whites than among the negroes." "As there are thousands of youthful soldiers at Camp Jackson and as these are drawn from all parts of the country and have a certain per cent, of anti-social characters among them, it might be exp.cted that some would find their way to the penientiary. Yet the growth of the white population of the penitentiary cannot be attributed entirely to the proximity of the camp as there are a number of South Carolinians in it." "It -was dinner time when I visited the institution," Air. Williams says, "so I went into the dining room and kitchen. I found the fare wholesome and well prepared. The inmates showed a good spirit and no evidences of having a cowering attitude. The humane administration of Col. A. K. Sanders should be commended." the home of Mrs. R. L. Kearse. The meeting was called to order by the president, minutes read and roll called by the secretary. A short talk was given concerning the short course at Winthrop by Effie Smoak. Then Miss Varn gave the sewing club a lesson in cutting. They also made a dress, which was very interesting to all members. Miss Yarn also gave instruction about the short course which will be held at Carlisle June 30 and July 1st and 2nd. I Our next meeting win meet on r ridav before the 2nd Sunday as usual. EFFIE SMOAK, Secretary. Short Course at Winthrop. The annual state short course for home demonstration club members was held at Winthrop college June 3-9, inclusive. These short courses have been held each year since 1914, Winthrop college cooperating with the United States department of agriculture. At the first short course there were only forty-eight canning girls in attendance?this year there 1 -I J | were two nunaren women ana | hundred sprls representing the different clubs. The subjects were: "How to live at home" and "How to make money at home." Each day's programme was full of good inspiring demonstrations. The name "demonstration" is well applied as we are not told "how to do things." hut "shown how to do things." After classos we had demonstrations and lectures by fine speakers from this and other states, amon? whom, besides the state agent. her assistants and the county agents, were: Dr. "l j m:\M\KK nritEAU. J. E. Steadman, .Manager. i I , ! I ("omnienccment Exercises. The commencement exercises of the Denmark high school were held in the school auditorium last Tuesday night. Those receiving diplomas were: .Mabel Gillam. Louise Thomas. Louise Ray, Sue Cox, Pansy Staley. F:ed Wiggins and Carlisle Folk. The D. A. R. offered a medal to the pupil receiving the highest average! in the high school and one to the pu-j pil receiving the highest a\erage in i j the grammar school. These were i j awarded to Mabel Gillam, of the I graduating class, and Lime /.einrz. i ! of the seventh grade. Hon. W. L. Riley awarded certlfi-1 cates to the pupils advancing from | grammar school into the high school. The address of the evening was de; livered by Dr. Daniels, of Sumter. He j delivered quite an interesting and j instructive talk which was enjoyed ; by all present. He said he was glad j to learn that Denmark has a high school second to none in the state. College Boys and Girls Home. Denmark is well represented in | the colleges of this and other states. The following students are at home for the summer: Hisses Leila Gillam, Elizabeth McCrae, Julia McCrae and Cecile Hope. Winthrop" college; Hazel and Georgia LeCroy, Limestone; Anna Matthews, Coker; Clara Wyman and Kathryn Faust, Converse; Martha Wiggins, Trinity; Thelma Ray and Ruth Folk, Columbia college; David Hutto, Judson Mayfield and Frank Wyman. Bailey; Curtis Faust, Por ! ter; James Wiggins, Washington and i Lee, and Francis Zeigler, Clemson college. Board of Health Appointed. An active board of health has been i appointed and will make a thorough ! inspection of the sanitary conditions of the town. It is the aim of this town to eliminate disease in every way possible. Negro Resisted Arrest. Last Thursday night a Bamberg negro by the name of Copeland was shot by Policeman Lancaster while resisting arrest. He was taken to Voorhees hospital for attention. His condition is not thought to be serious Epworth League Picnic. The Epworth league gave a picnic for the little folks Monday at Holman's Bridge. From the reports of those present it seems to have been quite an enjoyable affair. Renew your subscription today. I Johnson, president of Winthrop; Dr. J. R. Stokes, dentist, of Rock Hill; J Miss Martha Dinwiddie, specialist in health education of U. S. bureau of education; 0. B. Martin, U. S. department of agriculture; Mrs. S. 0. Plowden, president U. S. Federation of Women's clubs; Mrs. Bertha Munsell, president of S. C. League of Women j Voters, and a number of others who were equally as good, but mention these to show the variety of subjects. It was also beneficial to meet together and exchange views with other club members. This is a wonderful work especially for rural districts where the women and girls were shown how to utilize, market and improve their products. The recreation part was not overlooked. Some delightful pastimes were arranged for idle moments. Visiting Winthrop was a large consideration in this short course, just to see the work they are doing and how wonderfully well they are equipDed for this work. TJhe members representing the women's clubs of Bamberg county were: \ Miss Lillie Cooper, Denmark; Miss Sara Neeley, Olar; Mesdames G. B. Kinard, J. E. McMillan and A. B. Coggins, Ehrhardt, and several members of the girls' clubs. MRS. A. B. COGGINS. Colston Club Organized. j On June 13th the Colston ladies : met and organized a club under Miss Yarn. The following were elected as officers: President, Mrs. A. L. McMillan; vice-president. Mrs. R. D. Wright; secretary, Mrs. J. Vernon McMillan. Then Miss Yarn gave irs an idea what we have to do and also j planned a schedule for the year. The afternoon was enjoyed very much. The next meeting will be held July 15, 1921. at Mrs. A. L. McMillan's. MRS. J. VERNON MCMILLAN, i Secretary. i i ADJUTANT GENERAL CLAIMED BY DEATH BKIG. GEX. WILLIAM W. MOOKE PASSES A WAV. s Sick Short Time. Popular Military Leader of State Knds Career of Service. Columbia, June 17.?Brig. Gen. William Woodbury Moore, the adutant general of South Carolina, died at the Columbia hospital last night at 7 o'clock from diabetic trouble and an operation to remove a carf buncle from his neck. Gen. Moore, although suffering from diabetes for a long time, had been in his office all last week and only Monday was forced to remain at home. Yesterday morning attending physicians decided to carry the adjutant general to the Columbia hospital to operate for the carbuncle. Then General went on the operating table about 1 o'clock but never regained; consciousness, dying shortly after 7 o'clock. General Moore was born at Hendersonville, Colleton county, December 30, 1868, and received his primary education from the common a Vi <-\ r, 1 c rtf Vi i e na+4\-ci pnnnftr on<^ Viic kJV/lLV/Vl^' Vi. iiiij UUCi T W UU V J HilVi UL 1U academic education from the Citadel, which he attended in 1884-1885. He left the Citadel when he was 17 years of age, entering upon commercial pursuits. In 1887 he moved to Barnwell, where he was employed as a clerk in a mercantile establishment, and- was identified with various commercial enterprises as an employee, until 1895 when he went into the mercantile business for himself. From 1901 to 1910 he was a cotton buyer and a traveling salesman for various firms. Since his college days General Moore was actively engaged with and displayed intense interest in the organized militia of his state. He became a member of the Barnwell guards in 1S89. Later he was first sergeant of the Brown guards of Barnwell and from 1891 to 1893 he was second lieutenant of this organization. He was elected captain of company E, third regiment, national guard May 12, 1904, resigning this commission, February 16, 1907, at which time he was appointed on the staff of Governor Ansel. He held this appointment for four years, until 1910, when he was elected the adjutant general of South Carolina, to fill out the unexpired term of the late Gen. J. C. Boyd. He was successively reelected the adjutant general in all the biennial elections since, and at his death was in the first year of his fifth term. November 5, 18 90, General Moore married Miss Loulie M. Peebles, and to this union were born two children, .Miss Catherine .Moore and Capt. I James Tillinghast Moore. The daughter was married to the Rev. W. E. Davis, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Clemson college, August 1, 1917. General Moore married his second wife. Miss Florella M. Saunders, October 20, 1900. Adjutant General is Laid to Rest. Barnwell, June 19./-W. W. Moore was laid to rest here this afternoon in in the presence of a large number of ?orrowing relatives and friends with full military honors. Two representatives from each militia company in the State acted as the military escort and a firing squad from the Washington Light Infantry and the Sumter Guards, of Charleston, fired a military salute over the grave while James Henderson, bugler from the Sumter Guards, sounded taps. The body was carried to the First Baptist church here on the arrival of the train and lay ii* state in the church until 5 o'clock when the funeral services were held. The fun eral services were conducted by the Rev. J. I\. Goode, of Clemson college, a friend of Gen. Moore. He was assisted bv the pastor of the Baptist church here. Dr. Jones. ?Mr. and Mrs. Carl Buck, of Chicago. are visiting relatives in the ' county. * ?F. K. Graham is attending the Southern Furniture exposition in High Point, X. C. He represents several of the factory lines at the exposition and looks forward to this show being a turning point for better business conditions in the furniture business. OLA IS BIBKAC. R. Fair Goodwin, Manager. . J Sell Autos and Get Cash. The manager of one of the local automobile agencies reports to your correspondent that he had a great day Monday in the automobile business. having placed three new cars in one day, and that for cash. We claim that is not bad business, and further, we trust that this sudden rise in the pulse of the auto business locally hough it may be is a sure symptom of gradual and general business recuperation, followed closely by a permanent recovery. Visitor From Bridgeport, Conn. K. A. Mayer, of Bridgeport, Conn., has been in Olar for the past week and will be here the greater part of this week. He is the representative of the A. W. Merritt Co., the largest wholesale lumber concern Qf Bridgeport, and he is working among the various saw mills around Olar, Govan. <-? r* Li"* V? t* V? a f dUU JDU1 Udl Ul. Dr. Sniilh Goes to Jacksonville. Dr. J. F. Smith, who has been druggist for the Olar Drug company for several months, has accepted a position with a similar business in Jacksonville, Fla., and entered upon his new duties last week. Dr. Smith made many friends during his sojourn among us, all of whom regret to see him leave. He is a native of Florence. j Interested in Education. We will have to assume very little to state that Olar is going over the top so far as educational enthusiasm is concerned, and here is the . , proof: J. W. and F. C. Chitty are attending the summer school at ClemsOn college; Benjamin Cave is at the University of South Carolina; while Misses Marie Bessinger, Cove Barker, Girlie Barker, Elma Chitty, Hilda Kearse and Edna Thain are taking summer courses at Winthropfc We AATMVrt Anrl tv? * f\y\ t Vi 11 ci O C TY* glad to have them with us. Miss Carrie Brabham, of Walterboro, is spending several days with her cousin and ex-schoolmate, Miss Louise Kearse. J. G. Brabham is in Charleston on business for a few days. The bankrupt stock of D. A. Reid was sold at auction Monday last at noon. There were only ^ few bidders. and the ^highest bid was offered by Dr. Robt. Black, of Bamberg, whose bid was accepted subject to the approval of the court, the amount' of which was $1,455. The stock was inventoried at approximately $5,400, while the appraisers valued it at approximately $3,S00. The stock was first offered in lots and then as a whole. Dr. Black's bid for the stock as a whole exceeding previous offers. It is understood that as soon as the legal matters involved are cleared up, the store will again be opened for business. \ || 'V':=3 . zsmai i; U ill Hi CliU. lilt) Climuoiacui, Olar Men Discard Coats. We do not court unpopularity among the elite, or something, but we wish to say that wq read with interest the bit of news in last week's Herald about this coat-in-church. proposition during this kind of roasting weather. So we guess it will be all right to mention the fact that the men in Olar went even a step further in THeearly part of last week. It was "big meetin' " week, and without going further into details about the weather, we had circulated and signed a petition that all morning services at least should be coatless so long as the weather man remembered us so warmly, .and, of course, we excused the preacher from signing, and later for taking off his coat. Death of Little ^Boy. Mr. and Sirs. B. Frank Sadler, of Charleston, had the misfortune last week to lose their little boy, Benjamin Franklin Sadler, Jr. The burial took place at Georges Creek Baptist church about four miles from Olar. Mr. Sadler is a native of this place, and has been away only a few years. He and Mrs. Sadler left Tuesday for Charleston. Personals. v James H. Black, of Allendale, was calling on friends in Olar Sunday. Miss Sadie Harter, of Fairfax, has been visiting Miss Sara Xeeley and Miss Daisy Rizer for the past few days. Miss Winnie Lee Duggan, of Davisboro, Ga., has been the week-end guest of Mrs. C. C. Morris. Both Miss Duggan and Miss Harter have been -connected with the Olar high school recently, and we are