The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-08-17
Cleaned Up "Jockey Corners
and Made Things Better.
TAR AND FEATHERS
Used by d Whole Town on Four Womer
and One Man Out Ia Michigan Be.
cause They Would Not Behave
Themselves After Being
Warned.

1 w Suu .Ckey OOrueTS IOr Gnlf-
" years, and I'm going to keep on
cunning it just about as 1 please .
said old George Simpson, Civil War
veteran, when other farmers of the
vicinity Of Fowlerville, Mich, sug
gesteo certain reforms for tho good Of
the community.
Thereupon the protesting farmers
hold council with their wives, and
shortly u 1ckcy Corners" was the
mcoDlit BCeno Of one Cf those weird
and semi savage ceremonies which
seldom occur except In remote rural
neighborhoods. Ia this instar CO the
hustling town Of Fowlerv lie Ia closely
iden tilted with the affair.
Az g. result, Veteran George Simp.
son is 'rampa!gin' around threaten.
Ing heavy damage suits against half a
a. zsn young farmers, while his house
keeper one young woman guest and biz
former wife, who dwelt nearby, are Ia
the csre cf doctors whose caief task ia
to overcome the effects Of a recent coat
Of tar and feathers.
This Is n OF those cases where tho
law was unable to mako up its mind
that It's majesty had been IF aided.
Accordingly the law was appealed to
in vain to "clean up" Jockey Cor.
uers."
Old George Simpson's remark quot
ed above was VOL calculated to
strengthen ncighborhood suspicious
that the cornwall dolpgs AZ bis house
we're prcjudicial to the interests Of
strict morality at Jockey Corners y
The veteran is about sixty, five years
old and quite Il stubb Jrn character.
A f,w years ago Simpson aud his
wife were divorced. The sans pro-
ceedings divided the Simpson proper
ty, d house and thirteen acres Of land
falling to tic snare Of tho wife, while
Simpson retained the homestead and
twenty acres. This homestead is al
the juucture OF t%o highways, and,
owing to the general sporting prccliv-
tiles Of old George Simpson, came to
be known 81 Jockey Corners"
Divorced persons are not socially
popular around about "Jockey Cor
ners." When the divorced Simpson
promptly engaged as his ~houSckeeper
Mrs. Cora Eliott, herself recently dl.
vorcsd, bis populaI iUy, ami hers also,
experienced a still further decline.
With growing resentment TIL
neiRhbor farmers and their Wiv!s dis
cuSSed various anecdotes tending to
throw unfavorable reflections upon the
character Of Mrs Elliott. Ole of these
tales undoubtedly had its DUE share IL
her subse qlent humiliation.
On the day Mrs. Elliott left her
husband she IS ssid to ha 7e gone into
the corn1ield where he was at work
and, tossing her youngest child upon
a shock Of corn he had just cut, re.
marked:
There's your brat; take H." and
thereupon Left the premises, never to
return.
In the discussion Of these and othe,
tales 1t was usual for these fermera
and their wives to speculate upou the
occasion for the prolonged visit of o
rather handsome young woWan-Miss
B sssle O.iYer, CT Gcwen, Mich.-at
Simpsons house. When, recently
Miss Oliver "a jlined there by anO.
Their girl from the same place-a very
young and delicabe. looking girl named
Glayds EnmOns-the specuiations
took an indignant tonc-eSpecially
with the farmers Wlvss-Whicn bode6
III Tor the Boss OF Jockey Corners "
In fact, 1t WAS only three days after
Miss Emmons's arrival that the start.
ling crisis occurred.
All day there was suppressed ex-
element at a dcZsn farmhouses
where the influence Of Jockey Cor
nerS" vas felt. Several Of the young.
ar man uiOitnA nonh ,tloc o,,,,,l.
comforting with each other mysterious.
~ while pretending TO oe examining
each others live stock.
In the afternoon the neWs was car.
RED about that Simpson and Mrs. E!
lott, hia houBekeepor, had driven into
town, but would oe back In the early
evening. They had left the two young
women at home. Ii wal further signi
ticantlY mentioned that the former
Mrs. Simpson was at home in her own
mouse a short distance away across the
fields.
On the road to FoWleryille, q short
distance from the Simpson house.,
there is q grove whgre a small stream
Is CROSSED by a wooden bridge. When
horses and vehicles cross this bridge
there Is always q c~lattorlng on the
ioosc planks that can be hear6 for a
quartef OF a mile.
Soon after dusk q farmer driving y
light wagon In which there were sew.
eral bundles and something covered
with q horse blanket turned his horse
slleutly into the gro 70 by the bridge
and hitched IL to q tree. Presently he
was j)ined by two more who had ar
on foot. Then came others.
and in pairs. All disappeared
lmong the trees and made no noise
that could be audible to any one ir
the road.
They busted themselves in taking
articles from the light wagon and IL
IN wrapping the contents Of the bun.
lies.
Suddenly the men In the grove has.
tened their mysterious preparation
Tor there fell upon their ears the clat,
-er OF wagon wheels on the bridge.
1t was Simpson driving homo from
own. Beside him was the hougakeep
,r, Mrs. Elliott, and on the rear sea
vas 3 young man OF such nigh stand
ng In the community that his name
las been mentioned only la whispers
md only among those who know him
Ih9 Simpson team WaB tired anu
"as proceeding at a walk. just as tho
wagon rolled tf the bridge the nigh
lorse snorted and SHE'D.
'GiddapV" said Simpson.