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VOLu. ME XXXVII ANDREWS CASES G$T DISMISSED AAA AA A 4 A i ivu oicuu\ wiuit^oeo Hpjjedi iu Testify \Before Magistrate \ Rouse EICHELBEF^GER NOW TALKS Was Told CoViviction Could Not Be Had in \The Georgetown Courts, 'fake Warrants The wholesale^, raiding of liquor dens in Andrews,\ S. C., turned out to he a farce, according to the Georgetown Times as intiVnated in a recent issue of that excellent publication. The readers of thk Herald remember the story of the fyig raid made at Andrews recently wherein a numbw of storekeepers and including two magistrates were hailed before the officers, their places searched under search warrants and a sensation created such as that section of the state never had before. All of the accused stillers and retailers of the joy juice were bound over to appear before the magistrate ih Georgetown t6 answer to these crimes. On the day appointed for the hearings there was not a single state witness present to testify against the defendants. Even W. C. Kichelberger, the state prohibition constable, failed to meet the Georgetown preliminaries. In the meantime the people of Georgetown as well as those of Andrews felt astonished that following such a wholesale exposure of whiskey rottenness there had not been better attention paid to the handling of the parties in the courts. "I was never summoned for the preliminary trial of the Andrews liquor cases; and so far as I know, none of the ofiicers in the raid were ever summoned for it," W. C. Kichelberger, state prohibition constable in Florence, said in reply to the report of the Georgetown Times of the preliminary trials of these cases. "If the magistrate released the defendants it was not because the ofiicers ignored any summons and failed willfully to attend the hearing. That much 1 know. "Further. I want the public to know that the courts are not closed to me at all, and everyone of these defen i dants will bo brought to trial before this case is closed. If the state courts do not wish to handle the cases I will carry them to the federal courts. As a state officer I had wished merely to give the state courts some of the business. "W e've got the evidence of these parties selling whiskey, with dates and persons, and the public, along with them may rest assured they will be tried" In this connection Mr. Eichelberger displayed a letter from the attorney of some of the defendants. This attorney' says his clients will be compel le<i to plead guilty if they are brought into court. "When I went to the sheriff's office, Georgetown county," further said Mr. Eichelberger, "one of the officers told me he did not believe we could get a conviction in Georgetown county of anyone for doing liquor business. He said he had brought several cases to court, with positive evidence, and every one of them had been turned loose. "The state courts of Georgetown county can turn loose their bootleggers if they wish, but they cannot o*?t iii'mind Hip fpdpvnl ronrt with mp. 0 T've been an officer for thirteen years, in various capacities and have yet to .ail to answer my first summons to court." Mr. Eichelberger was quite emphatic in his statements and position and impresses one that he means business in the Andrews cases. These cases, involving a number of leading merchants and some magistrates of that section, were made in a wholesale roundup of alleged and suspected bootleggers in Andrews. When t *.r cases were called before Magistrate "House in Georgetown for preliminary hearing, the state's witnesses were not present. Attorneys for the defense moved to dismiss for want of prosecution, and the magistrate did go, stating, however, that the defendants were still liable for prosecution under the charges. The Georgetown Times did not mince matters in calling to ta?V tlu. state's officers for arresting prominent citizens of Andrews and then failing, it is alleged, to meet them in court. o VISITS CONWAY George W. McCay of Charlotte, general agent of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., visited Conway last weeft and has arranged to advertise ' the products of the company in the Herald, hrough their local dealers, O.w.l, VI ,.4 .\i< PAnmonif tlie I >in. I\ W/Ilipuiltr. o RUNS FOR JUDGE Tho friends of C. Hinson Spivej placod his card in our last issue announcing him as a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate. For several years past he has been engaged in farming and }in the general real estate business, handling fertilizers from the leading companies. / (Thr HORRY'S QUOTA AT CONVENTION 'Itinerary For State Campaign 1 Will Come Out Next Week OPENS END OF JUNE First Primary Will be Pulled off On Tuesday August 2 9th The State Democratic Convention met in Columbia, S. C., yesterday, May 17. The delegates from Horry county, so far as could be learned, were all present and participated in the deliberations of the body. The delegates from this county were Mrs. George J. Holliday of GalJivant's Ferry;-Miss Annie Derham, oV Green Sea; Mrs. M. J. Bullock, of Lori'w; Messrs. W. L. Bryan, D. A. Spivey and E. J. Sherwood, all of Conway; precinct. The alternates were H. K. Cooke, George J. Holiidav, S. H. Brown, W. A. Prince, G. L. Ford, E. S. C. Baker and J. P. Derham. It was, not known that any local contests 'from the different counties would be \presented in the state convention. /A full report of the proceedings will appear in the Herald in It was* understood that several counties would present protests against the action taken in some of the county conventions recently held. I The first primary election will be held on Tuesday, August 29. There) may be a second and a third primary '?o follow. Politics will likely be hotter than for several years past, the contests for state office will be warm and tfciere will be a contest over the congressional seat from the sixth district. ; W is expected that the campaign for counly and state oinces win start out about the last week in June. On last 11 iKhl, in Columbia, the state democratic committee met for the purpose of attending to important business affairs of the party, and among the things they are supposed to have done is the fixing of the itinerary for the candidates in the campaign for state offices. * There will be much more about these matters in the next issue of the Herald. An examination of the candidates' column of the Herald will show that there is yet but a few announcements' for offices in this county. The race for Congress in the sixth district promises to be warm as there are tv.'o candidates out from the same place, Florence, S. C. o CANNON TAKEN UNDER WARRANT Charging Criminal-Offense Alleged as Happening on Sunday, May 7th Carl Cannon, a young man of from 2~) to 80 years of age, was arrested at his home in Green Sea township last Thursday morning and lodged in the county jail at Conway under the csqim/mio Minvtro nf rriminfil assault upon a young lady of that township. Last winter Cannon was employed around Nichols, S. C., and worked some as a painter. He was favorably known to a number of people. For the past several months ne lias been engaged in farming and lives with his sister near Green Sea. The warrant was sworn out by the woman on Wednesday of last week and placed in the hands of an officer for service. In order to obtain bail under a charge of tljis nature the man will have to obtain an order from a circuit judge. At last accounts no steps had ijeen taken to obtain an order for bail. The court of general sessions will convene here on May 22, and the defendant may be tried at that time or his case may bo continued and the man let to bail in the meantime. According to the allegations made, ofTense was committed on Sunday afternoon, May 7, at about 5 o'clock. o TWO ARRESTED AT SAME TIME rPlm cltnvifT nvractorl Iwn men in Floyds township last work and lodged tlieni in the county jail. They were Tillnvin Hammond, charged with sell, ing whiskey, and Guss Griffin, charged with resisting officers, and perhaps , other ofTienses against the laws of i South Carolina. Gus GriHin is the one who is sus, pected of having shot the officers some months ago, when they approached a still to raid it in the Pee Dee islands in Floyds township. A report of this occurrence appeared in r the Herald at the time and is well re memhered by the officer and the men i who had been pressed in to aid in making a raid. * I Griffin made bond without delay r l...i .. i. 1 i and waa soon iree* nut m, ium ?vi counts Hammond was still in the county jail. Www: ?' V CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY, ????? **************************** | CHARLES AUSTIi | "THE TIME TO ^ | IS A * % PJ 1 11 1 A I ***4 Alter a nan stares to ron u > ^ by reason of its own momentum. * The heavier and bigger it is ^ have been pretty hard to start it in * it going a little push now and then * If the ground is soft and rot sj. hard. When you get to smooth pla The ball of business is hard ^ ground is more or less sticky and t * Still, if you push hard enough, you iji In the fall, when cool weath % easier and smoother, you will not li ^ want the ball to go faster. If you }? to standstill even on a sheet of gli Somebody has said, "The tin * That is one of the smartest * If you do not advertise in t ^ the ball at all?it will stop. If yc $ season, business will go on for a cer1 * But if you want to get over a good % you had better push it along lively. * The best thing to push it v * in the best paper you know of, a ] * instance. A peculiar thing about th< 3: it runs uphill?if you stop pushing > * There is no such thing as sta 4c BOOKLETS MAKE . I IISTI .Y PROGR AM May Benefit of Course But < Newspaper Space is The Best LARGE SUM SUBSCRIBED I Temporary Effect of Booklet < Idea Now Being Much Used Over The County The Chamber of Commerce has voted to spend about $700 on the print- f ing of a booklet of about thirty-two 1 pages, giving an account of the many advantages of Conway, th.3 resources < of the county and the man,' attrac- 1 tions. The Herald understands there 1 will be about 5.000 of the books print- i ed in all for distribution. < We admire the public spirit of ihe business men who originated this idea. They show by their liberality (as the ( money is raised by private subscription) that they wish to advertise their town and coun'.y and spread knowledge of the many advantages far and near. We are obliged to take issue with them, however, on the way they have i gone about the scheme. They have tUKi'n up lik: nio.st ji-jiim vt? < 1111 yet tlie? least effective means of ad- . vertising these things. There is en- \ tirely too much of the booklet idea ' today. Every day, almost, we j?et a . booklet or large folder from the secretary of some chamber of commerce. ' Further than a mere glancing over of the gaudy colors of its backing there is no attention paid to it and il is j immediately consigned to the wastebasket. As we do this we cast away , the product of someone's brain and also his money. His money is gone for nothing more than that. 1 This amount that is or will be < raised should be spent in newspaper i space in papers of general circulation < in this section of the United States. < A series of advertisements prepared < by the right kind of talent would be i run from time to time in the leading daily and Sunday newspapers. In ; this way the money would result in keeping Conway before the eyes and in the minds pf those in other places who would help us in a business way. ( We see no adequate return from ? money spent in that way. There | would be better results from spend- ' ing in the use of envelope sUnfers ' which every business man here mipht use in mailin g his business letters : for the next twelve months. 1 REFUSE CHANGE IN HOT DEBATE 1 Hot Springs, Ark.?Following a ' hot debate in which one speaker I1 1 . warned ctgciinst wnat nr riiiu<itit;i i/.uu as a i*vowinj? form of radicalism within the church, the 10th general quad- ' rcnnial cpnference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in session ] here, rejected, hy a majority of eight votes a recommendation that tho right to administer the sacrament he invested in unordained ministers. The 1 vote on the recommendation which was in a minority report was 17S to 1 170. The conference then adopted, by a vote of 188 to 115, the majority report recommending the legislation he not enacted. Half a dozen speakers argued the merits of the sacrament issue, hut it remained for Dr. -T "P mihtirn of Orlnndo. Plft.. tn swing the conference against the proposal through an impassioned address in which he injected his charge of growing radicalism in church affairs. He said he did not believe the church should depart from time-honored customs and traditions which had stood the test of years. V )N WAY, S. C., MAY 18, 1 .***** * . V BAT. TfH R DVEKi ILL THiVLE SX^ A'ill ?o a certain di: the further it will 10 < the first place, but one I will he all that is nece* igh you will have to pus ces it will be easier. to move in hot weather. I] ,here is a great deal of fric ^ i can move it. ^ er has made the road to trac. 0 lave to push so hard unless you do not push at all it will come i ass. jJ ic to advertise is all the time." * ; things that was ever uttered. * he summer?it" you do not push ^ >u do not advertise in the busy tain time at a slow rate of speed. ^ deal of ground in a short time, * * . . Jk vith is good, liveral advertising ^ paper like the Horry Herald for 3^ e road to business success is that ^ 'our ball it will roll down. * nding still. ^ * fr * -X- -X- -X- -X- * -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- * X- -X- -X- -X-* -* * -7.- -X- -X JUSTICE DOWNS LATEST MURDER Columbia is Scene of Foulest Murder of The Year VIEN CONFESS HRIMF Dwner of Nice Little Filling Station is Laid Low by Blows of Assassins Columbia.?The Richland county grand jury returned true hills against K M. Jeflords, Ira Harrison and Glenn Freece, charging them with the mur:ler of J. C. Arnette, who operated a filling station on Main street. Solicitor Spigner presented the indictments and within an hour the report of the grand jury had been made. This was record-breaking speed. The murder was committed on Tuesday night, when Mr. Arnette waf killed at His place of business, th< body being taken to a lonely spot ii the suburbs and sent over an embank ment in his own car. The three men confessed to Sherifl Heise that they had committed the rleed. Confessions of what is possibly the most brutal murder ever committed in Columbia were related by witnesses ut a corner's inquest, investigating the murder of J. C. Arnette, wellknown Columbia business man, wlu: operated a handsome filling station at Main street and Klmwood avenue, and for which three men are held in the county jail, charged with the deed, The three men, F. M. Jeffords, Ini Harrison and Glenn Treece, all wellknown young Columbians, murdered Mr. Arnette in his place of business ut midnight on Tuesday night, and then hauling his body through the city in the man's own automobile, look it to a lonely place in tho edge of tho city and drove the car headlong oil' a steep embankment, leaving the car and the corpse, with the idea of conveying to the public mind the impression that the man was killed in an accident. A physician who examined the dead man's body and then talked to the prisoners in the county jail, testified that the young men confessed t^him, JefVords and Mr. Arnette were mrtners in the business and each had an insurance policy for $1,000 on the life of the other. The younger man, Jeffords, wanted to get full possession of the business, and for days he had planned the undoing of his business associate. The other two mer were in the employe of the filling station and assisted in the plot. Mr. Arnette, according to the confession. was struck in the head first by Harrison, in the back compartments of tho place of business ,and Ihen Jeffords felled him with an iron bar. Treece stood outside and watched. After the murder the bod> was placed in the doad man's car which was in the back part of the building, and Treece and Harrison started with it toward the edge of the rit.y. Harrison drove the car and Treece held the body upright. Thot\ took a round-about way, but Treecf lost his nerve and he soon jumped out of the car. Harrison wont <>n t< a spot near the Old Soldiers' Hom< r>n Kirkland avonnn. in lbo northotr part of tho city, where lie found ; stoop embankment, on tho roadside and over this ho shoved the car will its dead passenger. The car sulVerec little damage and in a few minute: some passers-by discovered the tragedy. It is understood tho three men arc to l?e tried at the term of court now sitting in Columbia. o There are bad things before oui very eyes that we yet do not see be cause we do not choose to see. 922 ARfVAlMQ iRTS FRL MAY ? <x><??v^<x> v* * c* .> >< 5c CALICOS AND HOME On Saturday and Monday, May 20 a lomespuns, in all colors and patterns, 2.00 or over, between the hours of 11 yards limit to a customer. 5c CALICOS AND HOML s?- *IU<diy, ma P. V. Harct, George T. i?n !?.?. J. F. Rogers. Fan J. Frank Bothca, LaiT H. L. Hemmingway, S. (TK'E R. M. Winn, Marion, S. C. ''?n, 10 v< I. T. Scoggin, Conway, S. C/.'pri| *3 Nat H. Lewis, Rowland, N. C. sinc W. K. Mcintosh, Kingstree, S. C. -e M. D. Stevens, Loris, S. C. L. B. Capps, Loris, S. C. A. V. Bethea, Dillon, S. C. W. J. Stem, Darlington, S. 0, These warehousemen are known in the association as field warehousemen and recently the field service division, which li.as headquarters at Florence, under W. E. Lea, mailed copies of the by-laws and constitution to each of these warehousemen, and also sent them copies of the April issue of the Tri-State Tobacco Grower. Mr. Lea advises these warehouse men to study each and every clause in tho constitution and each by-law in the contract .and advises them to write to him if they do not understand any part of the contract. In a recent letter from Mr. Lea to these warehousemen he stated hat the association is getting some i\ood results from some of the men who i are at work in the field in the matter of securing signers on these contracts. One of the workers reported he had secured fourteen contracts in one day by large growers of tobacco and obtained all of them following a meeting held on short notice m his coun. ty. Another reports that Darhngtoo , and Williamsburg will sign up 00 per cent of the growers in those counties. Williamsburg is at this time the largest tobacco-producing county in the r state. Darlington now takes second 1 place, but was formerly at the head of the list in tobacco raisin.!**. o MOVABLE STILL, THE NEW STUNT Take Still From Place to Place and Make Runs Then Moving On Prohibition olTicers are discovering that moonshiners are hauling their stills around over the country, usually in automobiles, to evade the officers? in fact, stills roam around about as fast as the Irishman's tenth pig that ran about so fast he could not count him, according to VV. C. Eichelherder, state prohibition constable. In one instance he caught a still which he Ie.arned had made runs in different places lor the past 'several nights, | distances ranging as great as ten to twenty miles in localities and extending into two counties. It may have been doing better than that for aught the state constable has been able yet to discover, he says. In Chesterfield county near to ' Hartsville, the officers caught this still, a small one, and issued a warrant for a white man, alleged to bo operating it. This operator hauled his 1 still 13 miles out of Darlington county into Chesterfield county, and at 3 o'clock in the morning awakened an old man to demand the privilege of making a run at his house. Then he brought his still back down the 1 state. I ? FARMKRS SKLL ( RIOAM | Chester.?The Chester Community Creamery had a most auspicious open> ing on Monday morning and a conI siderable amount of cream was . brought in on that day as well as , sinco. On the opening day 7;~>0 j pounds of cream was brought .to the creamery by the farmers of Chester , county. The 7r?<) pounds of cream tested 202 'j pounds of butterfat, which was 27 per cent of the amount of cream brought in and approximately $S0 will bo paid out to the farmers for the cream brought in on the opening day. o GROWING BKRRIHS The farmers of this section have n <r/ww1 nr/kl'if of lunitUAuuir.. IUHUV I* I I V III l ll'S this year, but entirely in a small way, as the number en^a^in^ it it were not many. There will be more next i* year. The boll weevils make it neces sary to plant something else than cotton as a money crop. r Take Advantage ' 19th, 9.30 A. M. SPUNS, 5c PER YARD j ml 22, we will sel! I k* Calicos and to tho<e who make a purchase of" 3:30 and 12:80, and 3:30 and 5:30. :SPUNS, 5c PER YARD ty 19th. wm?HnaamtiianuuunniianBHBaMaBMBHBHHMi *?* Drink Chero-Cola in bottles. Made ?ars old, from pure, distilled water.?Adv. 1, and 1 -1-27-tf e gGy ? s stout "HoW I ATTENTION! f SOWMits toMfollol Safety Razor Users t he sown at the f-?i^row -r0ur J ment after the crop is cut. t + For seed production the best practice is to sow in rows three feet apart, while for forage or soil improvement broadcasting is most generally practiced. Cowpea hay is an excellent hay for all kinds of stock. When cut at the right stage of growth and properly handled the cowpea is equally as nu truious as nay irom omer legumes and is great! yrelished by all farm animals. For further information soo United States Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletins 1148, 1153, 1125 and 980. Soy Means Soy beans are. fine for feed and fine for fertility. Time of planting1 extends from early spring until midsummer, depending on latitude and use to be made of the crop. For grain or as a main hay crop, the best time is about that for planting corn, when the ground lias become thoroughly warm. Soy beans are more generally grown with corn than with any oilier crop, and may be combined advantageously with many systems of crop rotations. The glowing of soy beanseed enables the fanner to produce at moderate cost, part of the high protein concentrates necessary for stock feed and milk production. As a pasture, green manure, soiling, or even as a hay crop, the soy bean may be sown as late as August 1. For further information see United States Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin 1)73, !)8(), 1 125 and 1008. Velvet Brans The velvet bean is the most vigorous growing annual legume cultivated in the United States. As velvet beans are very susceptible to cool weather, they should not be planted until the soil has become warm. Plant velvet beans with corn. They may be planted in the same row with corn or in separate rows. Two rows of corn to one of velvet beans is the most popular method of planting. Plant the beans when the corn is about two feet high. The yield of corn may be decreased slightly by the beans, but the value of the beans for green manure and feeding purposes will be much greater than the loss to the corn crop. The velvet bean is a splendid soilimproving legume. It produces a vast amount of leaves and vines, which add both humus and fertility to the soil. An acre of good velvet bean vines when plowed under will add as much ammonia to the soil as will an application of 1,1)00 pounds of cottonseed meal. mi./. .*4*1 .ia4 I : ?/.? *? ??* I lit- NriM'l lit till l> (III I II I J JIM 111 (I t protein for the production of boot* and dairy products and furnishes excellent winter foraging for cattle. The most important use of the velvet bean is as a grazing* crop for cattle and hogs in the autumn and winter. Complete information about varieties. planting, soil renovation, pasturing, hay, meal, feeding value, etc., can he obtained from Farmers' Bulletin 9(>2 United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, l>. C? and Farmers' Bulletin 112*>, Iand 100.S. Information relative to the crops mentioned can also he had upon application to your county agent, state agricultural college, or the agricultural and industrial department A. C. L. R. R., Wilmington, N. C. G. A. CAR DWELL, Agricultural & Industrial Agent, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Ce. o While the weather remains cool the insects continue their picnic. t' '