The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-08-15
WHITE CAP RAID
Cleaned Up "Jockey Corners
and Made Things Better.
TAR AND FEATHERS

Used by a Whole Town on -Four Women
aud Oae Man Out Ia Michigan Be.
cause They Would Not Behave
Themselves After Being
Warned.
i've run j .ckey Corners for tht''
ty years, and I'm going to keep On
running it just about as l please.
said old George Simpson, Civil War
veteran, when other farmers Of tie
vicinity Of Fovlerville, Mich, sug
gested certain reforms for t1e good OF
the communitV.
Taereupon the protesting farmers
hald coancIl with their wives, and
shortly J ;cksy Corners" was the
ncoolit scene of one Ct those weirc
and semi savage cere monies which
saloon occur except in remote rural
aeighborhoods. II this instance the
hus;ltpg town Of FJwlelV:lle is closely
identified with the affair.
As z result, Veteran George Simp,
son is "ranps:gin'" sEound threaten
ing heavy damage suits against half a
d a young farmers, while bis hcuEe
keeper one young womsn guest and bis
former wife, who dweit nearby, are IN
tie care If doctors whose c1tef task Is
to overcome the effects Of recent cost
of tar and feathers.
This is ore OF those cases where the
law was u,:aols to make up It's mind
that its majesty bad bean II :lded.
Accordingly tbs law was appealed to
IN vain to ''clesn app Jockey Coz
ners."
Old George Simpsons remark quot
ed above vas we'll calculated to
strengthen neighboEhood suspicious
that TIE conv:!v;al doiEgs al his houSs
vers prejrd!cial to the interests Of
strict morality st Jockey Cofners ;
Tae veteran Is about st6.y.h7e years
old and quite a stubborn character.
A few years ago Simpson and his
wife were divorced. The sams pro-
ceedings divided the Simpson proper
ty, house ano thirteen acres OF lane
r2ll.rg 20 the share Of the wife, while
Sim oson retained the homestead and
twenty sc:es. This homestead Is at
the juncture Of t1o highways, AMI,
owing to the general sporting procliV-
tiles Of old George Simpson, came TO
be known IS jockey Corners. !"
Divorced psroons s-e not socially
popular around about Jockey Cor
ners." Waen the divorced Simpson
promptly engaged "a bis bousekeeper
Mrs. Cora Elliott, herself recently d.
v6rced, lis popularity, and hers also,
experienced still further dsciine.
With growing resentment th'
1eighbor farmers and t.,eir wives DIS
cussed various anecdotes tending t.
throw uriavorabls reflections upon tue
character Of Mis- Elliott. Ols Of thess
tales undoubtedly hsd it's Due share Il
her subseq q1cnt humiliation.
On the day Mrs. Elliott left hel
husband she s Ssid TO ha 'e gone into
the corniisid Were be was at WcrE
and, tossing her youngest child upon
g shcck of cJrn he had just cut, re-
marked:
THERE'S your brat; take IT," snd
thereupon left the premises, never te
return.
IL tie discussion Of these and otte:
tales it was usual for these ferDocrS
and Their. wives to speculate upon the
occasion Tor the prolonged visit CT
rather handsome young wonan-Miss
Bessie O.iYer, OF Gowen, Mich.-a'
Simpsons house. When, recently
Miss Oliver was j1ined there by ano.
ther girl from the same place. very
young and delicaue.looking girl named
Glayds Enmons-the specu!a5ions
took an indignant tcns-especia:ly
With the farmers Wives-which bodec
i'll for the BOSS OF Jockey Corners. u
In fact, it was only three days after
Miss Emmons's arrival that the start.
ling crisis occurred.
All day there was suppressed e2'
citemenG st dczen farnhouses
where the Influence OF - Jockey Cor
ners" was felt. Several Of the youcg-
er men visited each other casually.
co1ferring With each other mysterious
ly while pretending to be examining
esch nfher's live stock,
In the afternoon the news vas car
ried about that Simpson and Mrs. Ell.
lott, his housekeepsr, had driven into
town, but would be back In the early
evening. They had left the two young
women at home. It was further Signi
fcsntl7 mentioned that the former
Mrs. Simpson vas at home in her owp
house short distance away across the
fields.
On the road to Fowlerville, shor.
distance from the Simpson house,
there is grove wh:re small stream
Is crossed by a wooden bri5ge. When
horses and vehicles cross tnis bridge
there is always clattering on the
loose pi&ukS oA6u SSh W A9@Ao AoA
quartet Of mile.
Soon after dusk farmer driving 6
light wagon In which there were seV.
eral bundles and something covered
with q horse blanket turned his hcrse
silently into the groie by the bricge
and bitched IL to tree. Presently be
vas joined by two more who had az
rived on foot. Then came others,
s,ngly and in pairs. All disappeared
among the trees and made nc noise
that could be audible TO any one In
the road.
They busted themselves in taking
articles from the light wagon and In
unwraping the contents OF the bun
dies.