The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-05-17

PLANT DESTROYEDS
in Ohio COUNTY.
Citizens of Herbert Neighbour
hood Wrought up.
But Investigation Proved That
Two Calves Were The
Night Riders.

A dispatch from Pellville to the Ow-
ensboro Inquirer says:
About two and one-half miles south
of here, in Ohio county, is the village
of Herbert. The good farmers in and
around that place are noted for their
kindness to each other and their low
ing and tender solicitude for the
stranger within their gates. In that
community is Panther creek church,
where the farmers and their families
have assembled at stated times for
sixty-five years, TO worship and to
listen to preaching by pastor who
was always well paid. The descen-
dents of the old settlers are inhabi-
tants. of nearly every state in the
union. Two. lc.rT c~@nsboro's best
lawyers first 4 - ifsNt OF day
there. And several of the best business
men of that thriving city were born
and reared near where the church
now stands. Nothing o, a criminal
nature ever happened in that neigh
borhood; for the first settlers adopt
ed the Golden Rule and their chill
dren and grandchildren lived up to
it. They have a good word for every
one and a man afflicted with the
blues" need go no further than TO
spend a short time with these people
in order to be convinced that life has
a bright side.
When the A. S. of +. movement
struck this neighborhood every man
joined it, and they have all been
faithful honest workers for the cause
and have been very bitter in their
condemnation of might riders" and
those who try to force men to
join the organization against their
will. When they heard of tobac-
co beds being ruined just over the
line in Hancock county by wick
ed men they were bumbfounded and
said that around Herbert and Pan
Their creek church, there had been
chicken eating sows and sheepkill-
ing dogs, but they we'll knew that
they never had with them so low and
debased a creature as one who would
go at night and destroy man S
property. Several of them were talk
ing this way one day last week at
the village store when breathless
fellow rushed in and reported that
two of Jim Ford's beds had been to-
tally ruined. AS Mr.. Ford was con-
sidered as one of the best men in
the world, excitement and Indignation
was high in an instant. The neigh
borhood was. notified Immediately by
telephone and a crowd went TO look
at the ruined tobacco beds. If they
lust knew who the guilty parties
were they would sure make it warm
for them, was said more than once
before they arrived at the place OF
destruction. Sure enough the beds
were ruined. II appeared as II the
guilty party had made several trips
in order to make the destruction OF
the beds complete. The canvass
was torn in shreds and tramped IN
the ground, some of it in the beds
and some of it several yards away.
The plants were totally ruined, be-
ing tramped in the mud and rolled
around until they were wholly worth
less. Mr.. Ford was hurt, badly hurt.
He knew that he had always tried 10
live right, and thought that he knew
that he did not have an enemy IN
the world. Not that he was bound
to raise tobacco, for he already mad
enough of this worlds goods laid by
for rainy day. He was simply hurl
because he had been so badly treat
ed. at a time, too, perhaps, when
he was asleep. \ vigilance committee
was formed which soon got on the
track of the culprits. The men fol-
lowed the trail with some difficulty
across the field where 1t entered
thicket and were startled to find the
miscreants reposing quietly. They
were accused of destroying the beds
but were sullen and refused TO
speak. After a short consultation IL
was decided to force them out OF the
thicket and bind them In order 10
preyent their escape. This was al
once done and the rascals were soon
each at the end of rope being led
out of the neighborhood. They were
Arthur Ford's calves.
DeWitt's CarboliZed Which Hazel
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