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; I , % I i V Volume xxxvn SCHOOL BOY BADLY HURT Jettie Baker Taken to Hospital Returns Without Any Relief HAS VIOLENT" VOMITING Caused by Being Thrown From Automobile at Homewood School Jettie Baker, twelve-year-old son of a farmer living near Allen, S. C., is said to be in a serious condition, and permanently injured from the effects of a fall that he received some time ago as he was about to leave an automobile driven by Paul Gause, son of J. A. Gause, of near Homewood. The boy was on his way to school when Gause passed along with his car and asked the boy to ride in the car to school. The boy got into the machine and rode with Gause to the school house at Homewood. According* to the story told by the boy, the car did not stop at the school house long enough for him to get clear of the running board; that he stepped on the running board and reached back inside the car to get his bundle of books; that the last thing he remembers was getting hold of the books and before he had time to step ofT on the ground the car was jerked forward and he was thrown violently on the ground, striking on the back of his head. A physician was called to attend Jettie, who was knocked unconscious by the fall. The physician advised taking him to the hospital at Florence, S. C., and this was done. At the hospital an X-ray picture of the head was taken, showing fractures of some kind on both sides of the skull, caused evidently by severe pressure of the blow that was sustained by the back part of the head. Nothing was done for the boy at the hospital and be was brought back home. At last accounts he was not well, but still suffering from violent fits of vomiting whenever excited or making any exertion of himself. His father said last week that the boy had not been in his-right mind all the time since the accident. SPACE ASKERS' WILL GET MAD When Refused Admittance, Yet They Give Away no Goods PRACTICE VERY COMMON Business Men Should Regard A Good Paper as Asset in General Way The Herald well remembers years ago when some business man would come in with a half column article, ( telling of what his business had done and intended to do; or that he inte ided to lay in a new supply of goods and his buyers were on the markets even then to purchase thuse goods, or that he was going to begin some new plan or put in some new improvement. The editor would look this over and tell him, in response to his request that it be run free, that it could not be regarded otherwise than as advertising, and that it could not be printed without the regular advertising rates. Then the man would leave. He was perhaps a subscriber or a patron of the job work department. In a few d/iys The Herald would receive a kind letter asking that his subscrip ? i J.! 1 i:A?? tion DC aisconunueu, or uie cuitui would learn in a short time that the printing the shop had formerly gotten was now being sent off to another town to be done. The Herald has been dealing with things like this ever since it was established. No man has ever gained anything by such treatment accorded the paper. The Herald wishes to boost every business in the town and county, but it must be left to do this in its own way. Prepared copy of this kind cannot be accepted unless it is to be run as an advertisement and paid for as other advertising space is paid for. If we do it for one then we must do it for all, and were we ever to begin such a practice, the whole paper would be full of free matter that would be prepared by the free publicity seekers, and without funds to / pay its bills there would not be any paper published very long. This idea of asking for free space in the paper is not different in principle from asking the groceryman to lot the printer have his bacon or lard free, or asking the dry goods man to nu Iimvo n nioro of shootincr to iv; v i o ? make a now tympan on the press, or the hardware man to let us have a new wrench or a new piece of piping for nothing, or the light company to let The Herald have its electric power free. There is absolutely no difference in it. Men would not ask such things if they had the right view of the value of a newspaper in their community. Take the paper out and then this same man would put up m* AN ACCESSORY RECENT MURDER Another Negro Furnished th< Gun With Which Ellerbe Shot Richard Ellerbe, the negro niai who deliberately shot and killed hii wife some time ago, and was cap Mrod and placed in the jail to awai trial, is evidently much unconcerne( about the consequences of his act. His father and mother recently re ceived letter from an attorney of th< Conway bar stating that he repre sented their son and that he was \i need of assistance. The father ant mother of the man arrived here lasi Wednesday, bringing the letter of th< attorney and visiting the necrro in hi! cell at the county jail. The father is William Elerbe They appear to be above the avev.?.g< negro in intelligence. The attorney representing the case was not in hii office on the day of their visit am 'hey left a message for him to the ef feet that they would return later, 01 if they did not that he might com municate with them by maii. Tiieri w.as nothing they coidd do for th< man who is self-condemned. For hin :t looks like a case for the electrii ?hair and he is evidently withou 'iope. but still appears to be indif ferent to his fate. Last week the magistrate court a Conway was considering issuing .another warrant in order to plac< under indictment another negro mai who furnished the gun with whicl Ellerbe killed his wife. This second defendant will b< brought in as an accessory before th< fact and if found guilty he may suf fer the same penalty as the princi pal offender. The reason why this second mai in the case has not been taken up be fore is because it appears that fact concerning him were unknown to th< authorities. After Ellerbe committed th# crim< he went to the home of another negr< with whom he was friendly and la; down and went to sleep the same a; if nothing had happened. He slep until after his victim had passed awa; in another house. Then the churcl bells, according to negro custom here began to toll. This waked him an< he got up and stated that he woul< be going. There was no attemp made by the other negroes to sto] him as he still carried the gun whicl he had committed the crime with. I was later that same day that th* sheriff caught Ellert)e as he wa walking along the public road nea Gallivants Ferry, making his escapc There appears to be but little that a: attorney can do for a man like this. INJURED MAN RECOVERING Bright Williamson, the man wh was '.severely injured here som weeks ago when he lost his balanc and fell olT the top of the nev school house /building, is now slowl; recovering in the hospital at Mul lins, S. C., where he was taken fo expert attention following his in jury. When he left here for the hospi tal he was paralyzed from the hip downward. He had no feeling in hi feet or legs as a hot bulb coul< be laid on his limbs and he woul< not flinch. A card received from Williamsoi by a friend in Conway last weel stated that the feeling was comini back in his feet and /that after ; long time the doctors said he woul be well again and able to walk. There is apparently nothing th matter with the man now excep the lack (of power to use his fee and legs, and this, according to th doctors will gradually come back t him. o MULLINS IS READY According to the Mullins Entei prise, the potato curing house I now open to receive potatoes. Farm ers Jiave been asked to call at th curing house and receive basket that they will need for handling c this season's crop. They are aske to grade their potatoes in the fiel and reserve only No. 1 /potatoes fo storage. The county agent, Mr. M( Laurin, and Mr. Ropp, secretary c Chamber 'of Commerce, will bo gla to furnish information to anyon having potatoes for curing. The p< tato house is said to be lone of th largest in this section of the Stat< Tt has a capacity of 12,000 bushel and has been erected at a cost c approximate $4,000. several hundred dollars to help c; tablish one as he would say that tl town would not he what it should 1 without a good ljve newspaper. I should take the same view now tin he would take in case the town hr none and he wanted to pet a pap< established. As we hr'vo before said such a thin never pays the man who does it. lowers him in the estimation of tl paper and its management and the 1 are likely to have less to say abc ! him and his affairs in a general wr. The general benefits accruing to ar [ business are sufficient consideration Hon CONWAY, S. P., THURSDAY -************************** : I DO YOUR CHP | PING I ) * u i : ( < \\ Let us induce you to < }| early this year. Why not a jj bustle, of the few days ju J jc when you could just as v 1 * business early in the seas I % # A 1 ! 1 I 1 A - 5 uiings easily ana quietly t 1 * In the first place we |w * Conway to get in their Chri 5 | The merchant is going to 1 - 4 and he had as well get tl J J ready. No man wants to w t $ put the work of weeks ; * Then in the \second pla 3 % want to do a lot of Christr | get better bargains and gc ; * they spend their money foi "7 * ing early in'the season wh< s * One of the things mosi 1 | the few days just <before " * from now on. . $ 3 <>************************** a ; HOOVER SALE ON SATURDAY ? The sale which was recently adver5 tised in The Herald of farming ma1 chinery and implements at Green Sea, took place last Saturday at the aps pointed time and the prices realized s for modern farming machinery were - very low. A tractor made by the International Harvester Co., and in use for ? ? % ii i only lour years, ana oniy a smaii pro portion of the time at that, brought s less than fifty dollars. Some fine e cows of improved breeds sold for less than forty dollars. e These things were sold under cha*0 tel mortgages made by Mr. Hoover y when times were better than thev s have been since and he had had bad t luck with the fine herd of high-bred y cattle that he bought for his place, \\ most of them dying. i, He has been living on the A. M. 1 Lee place near Green Sea ever since d he purchased it from Mr. Lee about i four years ago, and has had bad p lufck with his crops and with his (i crops and with his stock, and this t explains the reason for his failure to e meet the debts under which this s property was sold at sacrifice prices, r The farm is being advertised to i. be sold on the first Monday in Decemn ber under a purchase money mortgage, given to Mr. Lee when Mr. Hoover bought the place. He has never been able to pay off the debt and save the property. There is a 1 total of about thirteen thousand and J five hundred dollars against the land, by three different mortgages and it 0 is not thought that the land can possibly bring more than enough to pay r these off, even if it does that much e in full. v The farm is regarded as one of the y best in that section of the county and it is located in a section where l;?isds bring a good price as a usual rule. r O : GOV. APPOINTS : OUR JUSTICES s j 1 Governor Harvey has an pointed two new members of the State inn surance commission, Holmes P? k Springs, of Greenville, and T. B. K Stackhouse, of Columbia, a Th*? ^overno'' I?as also appointed d a new set of magistrates for Horry County: W. H. Chestnut, of Conway, ft ols, of Gallivants Ferry, for Dog t S. M. Paul, of Toddville; R. B. Nich* Bluff Township; B. L. Carter, of Allse brook; F. F. Vaught, Vina; F. B. 0 Black, Gurley; B. F. Harrelson, Loris; J. I. Ward, Little River; W. M. Wise Gallivants Ferry, for Gallivants Ferry Township; W. It. Gainus, Nichols, and J. A. Bryant, Loris. The governor has appointed J. A, s Altraan, H. B. Nettles, and Marion C. Nettles, all of Yamasee, as game c wardens. 5 0 d ARTISTS AT WORK .1 ,r The Herald will call on the artists this time to make for the use of it? . patrons some of the finest Christmas cuts ever produced. A big lot oi l0 these cuts will arrive here this week >_ and prdofs of them can be had for 10 the asking. 1 There will be a big Christmas tnidc P beginning away after the next weeV or two. Nothing will assist in telling the o_ advertisers story better than ndvor IC tising cuts. )0 Plan your advertising now while [e there is plenty of time. Select tin ^ outs you want for your store at Th< l(l Herald office and they will be se aside for you. o iK RIG CHRISTMAS TRADE It \e Merchants of Horry County ar< ?y looking f?i* a Rood Christmas trade ut The merchant who puts in the bos y. stock of that class of poods, and ad ly vertises what he has to offer the bes i. will make the biggest success. u> , NOVEMBER 9, 1922 *************************** tISTMAS SHOP- 1 LARLY | 0 * do your Christmas shopping * void the senseless rush, the %' ist preceding the holidays. * fell attend to this shopping [ on and be so you can take * * ant to ask the merchants of * istmas goods early this time. * buy plenty of holiday goods * lem in now and have them % ork himself to death trying * into two or three days. ce we s;iv to thp neonla who * nas shopping, that they can % it better satisfied with what | r, if they will do their trad- * m there is plenty of time. * t dreaded is the rush during % Christmas. Lets cut it out ij: * * * ERRORS SHOWN IN AN ARTICLE Editor Herald: The article referred to states that on l^st Thursday, October 26th, V. D. Johnson, rural policeman, with Federal prohibition agents went to Causey, S. C., where they raided the premises of John Barfield. The article states that the officers searched the lower floor in vain, as there was nothing to indicate a still. I wish to state that I was present. I broke the door of Barfield's dining room and found in this room one still worm. Barfield's wife refused to unlock the door. I went up in the loft from this room. I found at once two five?gallon stills, . which I handed down to Mr. Harrelson. Also one keg of mash made of corn and water and probably sugar. .The article also states that Barfteld is a white man. I do not know him personally as to his race, but do know that his wife and children are negroes. In my opinion these stills were operated in Barfield's house and were never carried into the woods as we made a careful search and could not find any sign that a still had been operated there. The proof that I was present is that I have the two stills and worm. Mr. Johnson has the rum. J. K. KING, Rural Policeman. OFFICERS RUN BOOTLEGGERS More Than Fifteen Hundred Gallons of Beer and Mash CLEANING UP A CROWD Beer Made From Apples is The Latest Wrinklp Sppti , By the Officers Bootleggers of this section have been kept on the jump during* the past few days to dodge the activities of state and county oiFicers who have been more than usually busy since Sunday. Yesterday three . separate raids were pulled ofV by the officers in all of which stills ! were found, along* with large quantities of beer, mash and whiskey. It is estimated that around 1,500 gallons of mash was poured out on ' the "raids. Yesterday afternoon sheriff de' puty Sonnor, state deputies Yeomans and Stacey and magistrate's ' deputy Williams of Timmonsville, raided a*still on the farm of C. W. DuBose about two miles from Timmonsville '.in which shots were exchanged, and only the quickness of Mr. Connor in pulling his gun and firing saved his life, -when Pete Flyn, a notorious colored bootlegger, attempted to shoot him. The officers had received a tip ! that there was perhaps a still in ! that particular section and spread out to flush ,in in a more than usu. ally thick swamp a short distance I off the main road. Two of the officers \vent down one side and two down the other. Connor and Wil, Hams shortly came to a beaten- path k *% i - ii * . which ifti into me swamp, wnicn ? tliey followed until they came within about 80 yards of the still and could see the smoke from the fur, nace curling above the thicket. Pete I and another negro saw the officer? ^ about the same time the officer? . saw them and Pete made a gral: for his gun. Connor beat him tc the draw and shot the pistol from the negro's hands bringing the man to the ground. As the officers rushed up to the ? .still Flyn (sprang up dashed into . the thicket, where he fell the se t cond time, but managed to get tr - his feet hnd make his escape ir t the thicket undergrowth. He lefl his pistol and hat behind, which th( raid. HORRY TAXES -1 SLOW IN PAY Time Was Again Extended by I Comptroller Until November 15th \ Recently another extension of the time for payment of the taxes of 1922 was made by the Comptroller ' General, making1 the last day on which they can he paid before issuing executions November 15th, instead of thp rliitn jik fiv^fl in t.Vio pvtpnsinn granted before that. Owing to the frequent extensions granted this year for the payment of taxes, resulting in much extra work on the part of the county auditor and treasurer, the tax duplicates for the taxes of 1922 were not ready for delivery to the county treasurer when The Herald reporter called at the tax collector's office last week. He said that in his opinion the duplicates might not he ready so that he could begin the collection of the taxes of this year before about December 1st. At this time last year the tax books had been open for some time and a quantity of tax money had been paid. The Treasurer said that if possible he would get his schedule of appointments fixed up in time to attend at a number of places in the county some time in the month of December. There appears to be many taxpayers who have so far taken advani i i ? .%. 1 uige 01 uie extensions granted them and have not yet paid their 1921 taxes. Before they are through paying their taxes for 1921 the taxes for the fiscal year of 1922 will be due. The tax gatherers are expecting more than the ordinary amount of slowness in paying the 1922 taxes, for for the reason that the numerous extensions granted this year have gotten the taxpayers into the habit of waiting, feeling that still another grant of time will be made. It is feared that this will retard many in making payments on the 1922 duplicates. The levy will be a little lower this time than it was last year. It will not be any lower, however, in the school district number 10, where the Burroughs High School is located, owing-to the coming in of the bonds recently voted for the building of the new school building. The extra tax that will be required by these bonds will equal or exceed all that has been saved in other ways since the levy was figured up for 1921. The people who owned dogs have been tired out this year over the exactions of the dog tax. In addition to their other troubles, they had to pay the tax cn the dogs and purchase tags to put on the dogs to show that the tax had been paid. Many new ways of raising revenue will be provided by the General Assembly within the next few years. Perhaps some other new methods will be carried through at the approaching session in the early part of 1923. The burden of taxation on the visi] ble property of the people is heavy as it is now. Other means of raising revenue will take some of the burden off this property and place it on other things that will not feel it so keenly. HIDES GINGER WITHIN STALL Rural Policeman King raided the premises of John D. Sarvis on October 30th, and found buried in a horse stall twenty-four bottles of double strength ginger, showing on the hot; i.i i- - i - wtiM to oe composed ot ninety-three | per cent alcohol. The policeman found in the store which is conducted by Sarvis, five more bottles of this ginger. The store of Sarvis, which is located on the road between Sanford and Loris was suspected by the officers of being a place where the whiskey laws were being violated. The officer lay in wait and watched the store. Finally he he saw Sarvis making a sale of four bottles of ginger to a customer. The offiicer then approached and made the raid. It is stated that there is a suspended sentence against Sarvis for a similar offense. officers took. In the meantime Williams set off in pursuit of the other negro, but could not come up with him and he finally got completely away. The still was a very fine one of, 1'copper construction and held about j 40 gallons. On the scene were 8 barrels of mash and 5 gallons of . Iwhiskev. The \vn? do^fi-nvo/l and the mash and liquor .poured out. j On this same spot about a year afto deputy Connor and other officers destroyed a still, the remains of which were still there when they i made the raid y? storday. t Just before daylight this morning , special officer Sims, state constable ? Eichelberger and deputy Connor > came upon the scene of a still near i the old Brown mill and destroyed i r>00 gallons of apple mash. The operators had got wind of the offi? cers approach and removed it be> fore they arrived. The apple mash - the officers stated, was the first > made of apples they had yet seen. \ Rut it smelled awful pood, one of t them stated this morning. i Yesterday officer Eichelbergcr NO 20 WHITE WHISKEY ON COCA COLA Found in Ford Machine Driven by Carter and Faircloth EACH GET~20 DOLLARS Both Men Denied They Owned the Whiskey. Could not Tell its Source According to Monroe Carter and Martin Faircloth. both of the Simpson Creek section, they got into trouble with the authorities of Conway without their ever knowing just how it happened to he. T'lis is in accordance with the testimony of these two well-known men when they were "jacked up" in the Mayor's Court at Conway last Saturday afternoon to answer to a charge of having on the back seat of their automobile a quantity of "monkey rum," and a chaser in the shape of a bottle of innocent Coca Cola. The mystery lies in the finding of the whiskey and Coca Cola on the back seat and who was responsible for its being there. There could have been no doubt about the stuff being found on that back seat, but, according to the drivers of the car, neither of them could tell how it got there, and both of them disclaimed the ownership of both of the articles found by the officer. Chief E. E. Dusenbury was on his beat near the corner of the F. C. Todd Company when he saw this Ford car pass along the street. He noticed that the two men in the car were evidently under the influence of something or other and that they could not hold up their heads like sober men. He chased after the car and arrested both occupants and they were brought before the Mayor on the charges above mentioned. He found the whiskey and the Coca Cola on the back seat of the Ford they had been driving. They did not plead guilty to the charges but on the other hand said that they did not know how' these things got into the car, neither did they know who these things belonged to. They said they were not drunk and this charge was also flatly denied by them. They had no witnesses it appears and the town had none except the policeman who made the arrest. The defendants said that one of them had hired the other to bring him to Conway; that they had no knowledge of the ownership of the? whiskey that the officer found. The court heard these statements on the part of the defendants and found them guilty of at least a portion of the charges lodged against them by the policeman. Each was fined in the sum of $20.00. So far as could be learned there will be no appeal to the Court of General Sessions. Roth men livr in the Simpson Creek district, and are well known to be men of industry and good standing so far as could be learned. If they were imposed upon, as they stated, by some man who wanted to use their machine as a place to hide whiskey, the case should bo investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. In the absence of some clue, however, to the identity of the party or parties who placed the whiskey in the car in order to make trouble for these two men, it would be hard for an officer, even the best detective, to accomplish anything along that line. BAND MASTER BACK IN TOWN Lew A. Shell returned to Conway last week and will remain here for at least sixty clays, during which time he will be in charge of the Conway Band. Changes take place in the membership of the band from time to time, and the recruits taken to supply the places of those who happen to move away and quit, always need training. Mr. Shell says that the band win not have as many instruments in it as at one time in its history, but tliat they expect to make a good showing. Mr. Shell has been in Georgetown for some time before coming back to Conway. While in Georgetown during the past year or more he has trained a tine band, and they can now render the latest pieces. ?o ANOTHER PAYMENT. According to news sent out from Raleigh last week another advance on the tobacco of members of the cooperative marketing association, will be imade as soon as the chocks for that purpose can be prepared and mailed out. The checks may be received about November 15th. and policeman Hicks of Hartsvillcv made a raid near town in which they destroyed two stills, six fer^ menters. The stills were of 0 and MO gallon capacity. A warrant was issued for the arrest of one man ?Florence Time?.