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NEWS NOTES FROM SCRANTON TOWN. ARBOR DAY OBSERVED?POPULAR PASTOR RETURNED-BETHLEHEM UNION MEETS- PERSONAL (Received too Tate for last week's IssueT. Special to The County Record. Scranton, December 2:?Arbor day was fittingly observed by the school here; a number of trees were set out on the two-acre play-ground, walks laid out and street lamps and hitching racks erected. His many friends will be glad that Rev J B Prosser will remain on this charge another Conference year. Mr and Mrs Winslow Wright are visiting relatives in the "Land of Flowers". We are glad to report that little Ruby Baker is convalescing from her illness of typhoid fever; also Mr3 Hilliard Baker is improving from a "spell" of chill and fever. Mr E Max Husbands of Florence | was in town Tuesday a short while. He is back from a recent sojourn in Florida and reports that times are hard there; that more people are loafing there than are noted here out of a job. Tm vnnnp men from town have gone to Columbus, 0, and joined the Coast Artillery, viz, Messrs Alexander Fountain and W Reddin Wall. Guess they can give the countersign when they return for a visit. Any youth who is thinking of emulating their example should commit to memory O'Hara's "Bivouac of the Dead," and repeat it before each rising of the sun for a week before finally deciding. It will no doubt make a patriot of the fellow, and he will "double-quick" to the recruiting officer and become one of "the boys." If it be not asking too much of the u?ill hp nlease tell the won-1 dering public what day in next month, or what month in next year will the price of cotton be ten cents? Or will it ever be? And when will the war cease? And how many more days before an empty house will be announced? The Bethlehem Union convened at the Baptist church here last Friday and the sessions continued through Sunday morning. Eight or nine churches were represented, and the ; difoussions were timely and interesting. Resides the pastor of this < church,Rev J W Truluck, Revs J C i C Gaskins and E P Easterling were < present and preached forceful sermons. IMG. 1 NICHOLS BANK ROBBED. ] Burglars Wreck Building and I Dynamite Safe. x Mullins, December 3:?The bank ' building at Nichols, five miles from ! here,was practically destroyed when < the safe was blown open by yegg- ? men at 2:30 o'clock this morning. I Portions of the heavy safe were blown into the ceiling, tearing through the roof. All the windows 1 in the bank were shattered and the 1 building was generally demolished. ' Just how much money was taken cannot yet be determined. The final charge, which was to open an inner 1 chest containing the mbney, was so 1 powerful that 1,300 one-dollar bills ' were torn into shreds. Of the $1,854 * in currency in the safe, $36.64 was > picked up in the debri- this morning. 5 Three men have been arrested. ' Two coming from the direction of 1 Nichols were arrested early this ( morning by Policeman Byrd. Another, giving his name as Tom Reynolds and his home as Richmond, Va, was arrested at Pee Dee by Officers Ber- I ry and Davis. Reynolds is apparently about 30 years of age. His left 5 arm is off just below the shoulder. < He vigorously protests his innocence, i Several shote were exchanged with 1 the robbers when the bank was be- ] ing robbed. Later, when the yegg- i men were leaving, Karl Griffin came 1 to the porch of his house and in- 1 quired what the trouble was. The 1 answer was one or two shots fired c at him by the escaping safe-blowers. 1 Rural Policeman Hunter withsev- t eral deputies left here by daylight for Nichols, Sheriff Dozier with Of- i ficers Berry and Davis going to Pee s Dee, believing that the yeggmen j might possibly attempt to board a t i train at that junction. Shortly after J daylight, Officer Byrd arrested two | suspicious characters,v.-ho were lodgjedin the Mullins jail. These were coming down the railroad from Nichols. A few minutes later a message was received, telling of the arrest of Reynolds at Pee Dee. The same train that bore the Pee Dee prisoner to Nichols also brought Guard Robbins from the State penitentiary with his bloodhounds, they having been called over the long distance i telephone in order to catch the early j morning train. As a matter of precaution, the . UnrJ Koon rnnoH r\ff lUilllft UU1IUU1& uau uccu ?vpvu v?<? | The trail was readily picked up by the dogs and followed several hundred yards down the rail road .thence into the public road to the new ' bridge. Here the trail was lost, the conclusion being drawn that the robbers had entered a vehicle in waiting. Robbins then took the dogs back to Nichols, where 300 or 400 people had gathered. Instructions were then given to have the 3uspect taken to the woods and made to climb a tree. Several i people were made to follow close by to oruard the movements of Rey nolds. The dogs were then turned loose over the yard traversed by the crowd. They at once picked up the trail of Reynolds, which was followed to the tree. Others were made to strike trails, but the dogs repeatedly refused to follow these. Reynolds was placed in the jail at Marion to await developments in the case. | In the adjoining building on the second story is the telephone exchange. Here the operator was asleep and in an adjoining room almost over the bank was a negeo barber. The impact from the explosion almost threw these out of bed. They rushed to the windows to see what the noise was and discovered ! three men directly underneath them. By this time many persons living ! nearby were up and were running through the darkness toward the ! bank when the second charge was touched off. Dr Ayers,\vho lives directly across the street, ventured out with his ? shotgun and fired three cartridges 5 in the direction of the bank. One ^ struck the end of a freight car and jr two were said to have gone through m the bank windows. The shots were 5] answered with pistol shots by the R robbers and so far as could be learn- n( ed no one else attempted to inter- in w cept the looters. By some it is claim- q ed that there were as many as 30 minutes between the first and the T: last report. Entrance was effected by breakingthe heavy bolts with a sledge hammer. It is believed that little money was secured. B B Elvington says that the bank is covered fully by insurance. W McG Buck, of the Bank of Mullins. is president of the Nichols bank. fumpKin ne necipt. A valued friend has kindly sent us a recipe for making pumpkin pies. We pass it along for the benefit of our readers: Cut the pumpkin into broad slices I (don't peel rind off). Put pieces 1 n baking pan and set the pan in itove and bake until done, just as pou would a loaf of bread. Then Lake a spoon and scrape out all that s Rood. Mix with cream and sweeten and season to taste. Turn [ :he rind up while baking. If you ? ffant pies, make thin paste and hake 57 iver again. j The Church Militant. The following is from The Spar:anburg Herald: "The long controversy in the South Carolina Methodist Confer- if nt-iar tKo cn.r?nllpfl VpttlpS CHRP l> ,vas the indirect cause of a street Ight in Sumt?r Saturday, when [lev A J Cauthen, formerly prosidng elder of the Spartanburg district, was attacked by Stephen Nettles of Greenville, according to information reaching this city yesterlay. Stephen Nettles is a son of rtev S A Nettles, former editor of the Southern Christian Advocate. 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