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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.
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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-.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 !
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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| 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.
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J. E. Steadman, .Manager.
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("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.
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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.
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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.
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ADJUTANT GENERAL
CLAIMED BY DEATH
BKIG. GEX. WILLIAM W. MOOKE
PASSES A WAV.
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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
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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
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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. .
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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.
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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
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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.
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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