The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 17, 1915, Image 1
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I VOL. XXX. KINGSTltEE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1915. ~ ~ NO. 15
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H Ice Cream Freezers
W Ice Tea Tumblers
Hammocks
H We have a full and coi
I tion. You know we always
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I Coffins and Cask
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(Morgan i
Under the above firn
Burlington, N. C., well s
successful tobacco ware!
smith, merchant-farmer
Kingstree, will conduct a
ness this season in the K<
occupied by Mr. Morgan.
They wish to thank th
r business given each of th
A sure each customer of th
5 tinuance of their influenc
Scranton Snao-Shots.
Scranton, June 15:?The annual
Masonic picnic will take place here
p, Thursday, June 24! The public is cor/
dially invited to attend. The only
prerequisites are well filled baskets.
The annual sermon will be delivered
by Rev T G Herbert, pastor of Central
Methodist church of Florence.
Tuesday night, June 22, the Manning
Literary society will hold a
1 public meeting at the school house
^ here. The most interesting number
on the programme is the query for
debate: 'Resolved,That the Town of
Scranton Should Issue Bonds in the
Sum of $3,000 for Paving the
Streets". As this subject may be put
before the town some time in reality,
a large audience is expected to
attend.
Arrived at the home of Mr and
Mrs J M Myers, a fine boy.
Mr J G Singletary is home for a
few days.
Dr W S Lynch, president, mid Mr
J M Myers, Jr, cashier of the Peo^
pie's bank, are- attending the State
Bankers' convention now in session
at the Isle of Palms, Charleston.
All members of Scranton Cquncil,
Jr 0 U A M,are urged to attend the
rally meeting and banquet June 18.
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Bloomlngvale Gleanings.
IBloomingvale, J,une 11:?Farmers
of this section are very busy trying
to rid their crops of "General Green"
but some of them are very much
, "pifteburgh
UALIJY FAR
We wish to say that
ed our *rew hardware s
had calls for "Pittsburg f
but as we were not agent
tifically designed fence a
any in stock, we simply lc
of the fence business. T
solved. We are agents i
fence and can take care (
/ are unloading a car of se
I When it comes to buyin:
wants a fence that has
k rability. These are just
[ burg Perfect Fence" has
perfect. We are satisfiei
we now have the f
a?. purpose. Just req
f ures on what we cj
That is all v
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mplete stock of any of the above
have a most complete stock of H
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i name E. L. Morgan of 5
ind favorably known as a j
louseman, and W. E. Ne- ;
now of the town of 1
tobacco warehouse busi- j
ellahan building, formerly ;
1
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eir many friends for the \
iem last season and to as- ^
eir appreciation of a conic
ana business. \
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disheartened over the progress mac
by this noxious grass.
Mr? R W Smith and little sor
Rob, have just returned from a vis
1 to the former's sister, Mrs W ]
Foxworth, near Cades.
We are very sorry to note th
trouble that Mr and Mrs R M Can
ley are having with that awful dis
ease.whooDincr coueh. Some of thei
! children are critically ill. Mr an
I Mrs W G Cantley have also ha
, quite a fierce battle with it. Thei
baby died Saturday, June 5, and ii
1 terment was made in the Cantle
! burying ground next day at 11 a. n
! Their many friends condole wit
them in their bereavement.
Among Bloomingvale's most plea;
ant visitors last Sunday were Mr .
D Brown and Miss Ruth Phillip:
Mr Brown is a member of the Unite
States navy. He has been visitin
friends and relatives at Ceda
Swamp. He is always welcome
here by his host of friends.
Rev W 0 Henderson came ove
last Sunday in his new fast Ford t
fill his regular appointment,bringin
with him his wife and her siste;
Miss Dodye Hinnant of Suttons.
Miss Anna Smith left today fc
Columbia, where she will continu
her studies for the profession c
trained nurse. Sweet Sixteen.
Move lively, girls. Our crop (
marriageable young men may, I
considerably reduced before anothe
June rolls around.
peBjfec^r
M FENCE
since we open- ^
;tore we have W.' 1
'erfect Fence," v! ,|i\
s for this scien- N/* v &
nd not having T""f%gj
>st the greater part
hat question is now
for this guaranteed v||
)f the fence trade. We ,jS|
veral styles this week. v'f
g fence, every person
quality, strength and duthe
features that "Pitts.
Every rod guaranteed
dwithout a doubt, that
ence for your particular
uest us to give you figin
do your fencing for.
le ask you to do.
Hardware Company
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ipular naraware otore
5, - - So. Car.
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WILL 5
red to Supply Y
rire Doors
Wire Windows
raps Rubber Garden Hose
items. Also any and everything vc
[ardwap and Chinaware. At no oil"
igstree Hi
VENTUALLY-V
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j| We have
I which we can
I of any Twine
, I WILLIAM
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JUSTICE 1ERRI
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^ i said to have been uttered. The
Sheriff and his prisoner reached here
in safety. With the negro walking
between him and Policeman Haynes,
the^Sberiff had started up the steps
to the court house, his deputies following
in the rear, when a fusillade
of shots broke out. The first bullet
struck the negro prisioner in the
stomach "with fatal results. The
second bullet from the mob hit
Sheriff Hood.
PROMISCUOUS FIRING.
By this time the fusillade had become
general, the mob firing promiscuously
into the crowd which
was following the Sheriff and his
party ud the steps to the court
room. As scon a? he could draw
his DistoirSheritf Hood returned the
fire and several of his deputies join-'
ed in the affray. Sheriff Hood was J
shot five times, three times in the
stomach, in his right side, in left
arm, between shoulder and elbow.
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? Sheriff and Prisoner Sli
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ir House Steps by a Mc
I Wounded?Leader
^ VVinnsboro, June 15:?Sheriff A
, D Hood killed in performance of his
A duty, Jules Smith, a negro charged
3. with criminal assault, and Clyde
d Isenhower, a relative of Smith's al*
leged intended victim, dead; Deputy
r
j Sheriff Earle Stevenson desperately
wounded, his left arm being practi>r
cally shot off, Rural Policeman J R
0 Boulware shot in the pit of, his
^ stomach and barely living, and Jesse
Morrison, brother-in-law of IsenU/.tifAif*
on! o mom nf thp afrtaok- I
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ie inpr party, shot in the head, and several
other deputy sheriffs wounded,
tell the horrible results of an attack
by a small mob on the Sheriff here
^ this morning while he was ascendV0
^ ing the court house steps with the
negro who was to be placed on trial
. for his life.
Sheriff Hood went to Columbia
this morning and brought Jules
Smith, the negro who was to be
tried for the awful crime, back to
Winnsboro to put him on trial for
his life. The negro had been in the
State penitentiary for safe-keeping
and the Sheriff was accompanied by
several deputies. This precaution
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our Needs With i
Cotton Garden Hose
Florence Automatic Oil St
Florence Blue Flame Oi
iu can think of or need in the Hardv
ler store will you find as great a vari
ardware (
mY NOT NOW;
a limited amour
. sell for 10c per
see ours before ]
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tot to Death -on Court"
>b?Several Deputies t
of Outlaws Dead.
Deputy Sheriff Earle Stevenson, who Pr
was right behind him, was shot twice
in the left arm, practically severing ta
it from his body. One bullet struck tri
Rural Policeman J R Boulware in CIJ
his stomach, probably fatally wounding
him. Deputy Sheriff B R Beck- ^
man was shot in the left leg. Constable
R L Kelley was shot in the h?i
thumb and right arm. Deputy
Sheriff J W Broom received several
bullets through his pants and one a
grazed his left foot.
From all the information obtain- W(
able the consensus of opinion is that
Clyde Isenhower began the shooting
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killed the negro prisoner. He him- g
self was fatally wounded, being shot II
several times, and received thirteen J(
openings in his body as a result of 8
bullets lodging there. It is thought w
that Sheriff Hood directed his fire at 3
Clyde Isenhower, for the Sheriff n
emptied his pistol. Isenhower, af- a
ter being shot to pieces, staggered I'
into the Sheriff's office and had un- 9
breeched his pistol and reloaded it 3
before he fell faint from the loss of
blood. ;
OTHERS WOUNDED.
Jesse Mofrison, a brother-in-law !
ofi'Isenhower, and said to have been jj
a member of the mob, received a J
scalp wound in the head and had a jj
thumb shot away. D F Smith, a by- M
stander, took refuge behind a tree jj
and a bullet just grazed his stomach. 1
Probate Judge W L Holley was H
standing in the door of the court
house at the time of the shooting g
and a bullet buried itself in the door fl
facing at[his side. Although mor- 9
tally) wounded. Sheriff Hood took I
the negro prisoner, who was sinking a
from the effects of the fatal bullet 8
in his stomach, up the steps of the g
court house and into the room and ?j
pushed hiin into the dock before he g
succumbed. As he fell to the floor, 9
he said to Solicitor Henry: "They 9
have got me at last." The negro pris- g
oner lived only about ten minutes. I
Sheriff Hood, Deputy Sheriffs J R |
Boulware and B R Beckham were 1
taken to Columbia on a special n
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ain, arriving about 1:30 o'clock,
irgeons had Sheriff Hood upon
e operating table several hours
id eighteen perforations were
und in his intestines. He was
ven every attention, but his concion
from the first was hopeless,
id he died tonight at 7:50 o'clock.
?puty Buhvare has only a fighting
ance for recovery, the bullet hav
g lodged in the pit of his abdomen.
ISENHOWER SHOT SIX TIMES.
Clyde Isenhower, said to be the
incipal in the fatal tragedy, and
?putv Sheriff Earle Stevenson were
ken to Chester on * the afternoon
I
ain. Dr S W Pryor, their physiin,
said that Isenhower had been
ot six or seven times, and had
irteen openings in his body. Depy
Stevenson will probably lose
3 left arm, 4
The other deputies received only
ght wounds. Ernest Isenhower,
brother of Clyde Isenhower, and
sse Morrison, a brother-in-law,
?re arrested this afternoon and
iged in jail, charged with the
ooting. Other arrests are expect
are you a brick-layer?
IF YOU ARE YOU KNOW THAT
ER FINALLY BUILDS A HOUSE 1
IF YOU ARE NOT A BRICK-LA\
LAR ON TOP OF ANOTHER BUIl
SOME DAY PROTECT AND SHEl
PILE UP YOUR MONEY IN THE
BANK V
WE PAY H PER CENT INTERE
Farmers &Merclu
"ABSOLUTELY SAFE"
Branches at Johnsonville
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at prices that defy compel- I
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ed to follow. The grand jury has
taken charge of the situation and is
making a sweeping and rigid investigation.
Foreman J H Coleman and
his associates listened with serious
attention this afternoon during the
charge by Judge Wilson and the
general opinion is that those responsible
for the affair are going 10
have to answer for it.
Clyde Isenhower, said to be the
principal in the shooting, was a farmer,
and resided in the Wateree
section, about seven miles from here.
He has a large number of brothers;
one of them, Ernest, who is in jail
charged with taking part in the attack,
has been teaching school in
Clarendon county for two years.
Another brother is a rural policeman,
another a town policeman here
| and still another pastor of a string of
Baptist churches in this county.
Clyde Isenhower was put in the baggage
car of the north-bound train
this afternoon and taken to a hospital
at Chester. He was accompanied
by his wife. His aged n.other
was in tears when the train r;u!l(Concluded
on page 4)
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