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p ' I ' I ' * r h | VOLUMEJCXXVII WHITE ROBED | KLAN VISITS Masked Band Brings Terror to Several Near Green i Sea WARNING NOTES WRITTEN ?. B. Shelley Case Follows the Manhandliner of Mace u Horn ************************** * The activities of white robed % J hands, said to indicate the Ku J * Klux Klan, so Car as reported * j in this county to date: t * Mace Horn, ears clipped, made % * to tell what he knows of Bal'.ey J ^ shooting:, and Grainger whis- X * key case. j % G. B. Shelley, taken to a J * grave yard and made to kneel. * * After measuring him on the J * ground, he is warned against * * several things. jr * J. C. Grainger, warned by a ^ * note to change his way of liv- * * ing. X * E. B. Sarvis, warned by A J means of a letter to go to Sun- t * day school, etc. A * J. D. Anderson asked to * sfc limit amount of meal ground $ * each Saturday at his mill. * ************************** It was on one of the nights of week before last that' masked men, robed in white went to the home of Grainier, where Mace Horn was calling :?nd handled him in a manner which was only partially explained in the last issue of The Horry Herald. The acts of the white robed visitors did not cease with the Mace Horn incident. News of other instances kept coming to Conway during last week. Before detailing the r ? ? r... ai i ? iatis, .>?u iiii ii? niey nave neen "brought to light, concerning the subsequent acts of the masked tiiri'ves, members doubtless of the now secret J oidei known as the Ku kiu< K!an, at least ho'ding out to be ^ucn, the Mece TTorn matter will oe agained mention-] e l in order to bring out sorry? facts that were apparently overlooked be-j fere. Mace Horn Case. After being taken out, Mace Horn vras asked to tell the truth about the shooting scrape in which the Ba^ey*. Jim Gibson, and his brothei. Oshp Horn, had been concerned, and which M-as Aired in the court or Ho' *; County, at one of the terms of criminal court recently. At first he hesitated to say he did not know much about it, it was something in which he was not concerned from the way he acted. Then, it is reported, questioners took out some tool" and laid them down. He took t>p a sharp knife, perhaps a razor, and begun cutting Horn's ears. Soon thereafter Horn agreed to tell, and he has said that he did, and that he told the truth about who shot Bailey ?Jid what connection Ossie and Jim Gibson had with it. He was also questioned about Rob Grainger and the whiskey stilling case, and he says Vie told the truth about that. He was then required to come off the bond of Jhn Gibson and he did. Jim Gibson at last accounts had left and gone to North Carolina, it is supposed in answer to a warning, or perhaps because he feared he could not furnish another bond. Rob Grainger is no longer to be found in his usual haunts. After warning Horn to tell the svune tale in court thereafter that he told them about the Railey case and the Grainger case, he was left alone and L. L ~ U..I11 1 t- - ' incii wcnu w muiiinH, wnere ne sougnt nedical attention. G. Bright Shelley Case. Ad above stated there were other incidents occurring last week. One concerned G. Bright Shelley, a son of (Continued On Back Page.) HEALTH NURSE BIG ADVANTAGE Children's Welfare Among the Masses is an Example Knowledge is power in the matter of diseases. Ignorance has led to many a death. If the right thing to do had been known in time many Yives would have been saved. With two public health nurses in the county and *he holding of clinics Sm different sections of Horry during the next several weeks while they vr<* h*?re. will placc nn opportunity ,at the floor of many who would not Irmve a chance of Retting: their sons and daughters examined for the bertfnninor of some sickness that might Tater nrove fatal. On last Tuesday there was a clinic at Bnrksport, at which Mr8. Henrietta Ablard was in attendance. She ta one of the nurses assigned to this Li., i? J. rm.- -xi j r-"?ttt " i" i'"" v-ur". J oinur js Mfss Laura Blackwell. She wilt attend at a clinic to be held at Aynor on Friday, December 1st, the day nfter Thanksfrlrinir. On last Thursday the eltate took place at Lerla. The public can we tike importance ' m* Jr.? % WESTON WATTS HAS OPERATION For Removal of a Safety Pin the Child Took Mr. and Mrs. Willie E. Watts, of near Nixonville, have had an experience that is trying in the extremes. Their baby, ten months of ape, placed a safety pin in its mouth and swal lowed it, before its mother found out : that it had happened. Mrs. Watts was dressing the baby and had this pin fastened in her bosom. The child apparently was slightly choked and soon got over it. Then the pin was missing from where Mrs. W.atts had placed it, and she knew that the baby had gotten it. After the incident of the choking sensation, there was no further signs of any discomfort on the part of the baby. Under the advice of friends .and physicians, they decided to take the baby to a hospital for examination immediately. They went to Mullins with the baby on November 14th, where Xray pictures of the haby were made, showing the safety pin caught up just before the entrance to the stomach. Under advice of doctors they took the infant to the Columbia Hospital. Steps were being taken there, at .last accounts, to try to move the pin further on, and pictures were being taken daily to ascertain if the pin had changed its position. At last accounts the baby was in good spirits, apparently perfectly well and wanting to play all the time. The result of efforts at the hospital to get the pin out will appear later in this paper. Later: After waiting for some time, during which the baby did not appear to be any worse off on account of the pin, .and as the pin did not move from its location where first discovered. or about that position, an operation was decided upon, and at last accounts the baby was suffering from the effects of the operation, as appeared in a local item appearing in the Columbia State: "Baby Weston Watts, . ten montns-oia son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Watts, of Conway, is at the Columbia hospital, suffering from an operation performed yesterday to remove a small safety pin that he had swallowed a week ago. "The mother said that she missed the pin while she was dressing the child and was afraid that it hkd been swallowed by the baby. The child was taken to Mullins, where an X-ray picture was made and the pin located. \ The trip to Columbia and the his- j pital was made immediately and the _ operation performed. "Mrs. Watts said that during the ' entire time the lodged pin had given < the baby no trouble so far as she could .ascertain." An item in the New York World < of recent date concerning a similar ? case is of interest in this connection, i The item in The World stated that j in a similar case the surgeon had { some small tools made up for use in } that special case, consisting of some i pincers, a hook, and a small light t bulb. The pin w,as open in that case < and with the tools he'made, he first ; closed the pin, then caught the hook ( in the end of the pin, and while guid- ( ing the tools with the light he drew i the pin out. ^ According to the newspaper report , the operation was not only success- c ful, but a remarkable example of t care and mechanical skill, combined f with accurate knowledge of the hu- 1 man body, or at least the parts of the I body involved with the pin. J ? i of having a public nurse handy from f a consideration of the difficulties at- j tending childbirth in the rural dis- t tricts. * ( Everyone is excited over the arrival t of a baby. It is the one time in his \ life, save for his wedding day and his funeral, when he is practically sure j of holding the center of the stage, t D.u J1 ? - uuv, uubwiwiHvanainR tne ueciara- " tion of Independence, there is a pitiful inequality in the baby's debut. " Some babies, for instance, are attend- j ed by a retinue of nurses and have e piles of fine fluffy garments and pow- r der puffs and delicate afghans, but t many of the babies in your town Kive j none of these things. They come in- c to the world somehow, often at 1ne t expense of their mothers, and they 1 linger, according to government Fta- o tistics, about twelve months and many c of them only six. One baby out of 0 every ten in the United States dies h before its first year is out; 125,000 c\ before their sixth week. One hundred u thousand babies in this county, more h than the entire population of the state of Nevada, die yearly of pre- s ventable causes such as bad feeding. cold milk, draughts and ignorant * care. t Mr. Average Baby is lucky indeed g if he has a Red Cross Public Health a Nurse to meet l>im when he comes, h If the nurse has had anything: to say a about it ,he is practically certain to p have a. doctor, too, unlike many of t! his baby associates. One of the v nurse's chief objects is to persuade c the mother to have~a doctor, Birth d and death are eo frequent in some y districts and run so close together p that people do not even bother to o have a doctor. But when the M>y h Has once Arrived he Is Made tbe t wm OONWAY, S. Ol, THURSDAY, *************************** ! thanks; thou( " The Horry Herald reac \ on Thanksgiving, a national ; ing thanks in return for bless < Thinking it all over on sc to raise any great complaint \\ It is true that some of '' couraged on account of the 1 5; irom raising the usual amour * are blue over the condition wl * the great difficulty of borro\ x There are still others \ | wet season. f On the other hand there % we should be thankful. Sor & by reason of the varied soils * as a money crop instead of < 5 ey on it. Those who must * more about the control of tl % other year with more heart * In many parts of Horry > over which the people now * view of their condition some % small areas the farmers fa jjj. food crops, in the greater ar :i- crops of corn, hay, and swe< - other food crops have been 1 % We are also thankful tl * volved in war, but are actual * mal condition of affairs, that * and just after the world war t Beyond all particular th X list, we are thankful that th< ? 'in this county, is toward h * for the masses -of the peopl * tion, independent living, obs< J improvement of the homes < * better stock, and in many c rnnnf in cni + n n-f oil fKo T \>v VIII u ill tv V/V CV1I HIC HI | in the last two years. ************************* EVA M. ALLEN SUES JOHNSON Complaint Seeks to Set Aside a Deed For Land A complaint has been filed in the Court Of Common Pleas by Mrs. Eva M. Allen against Mrs. Ginno Johnson, widow of the late Leslie Johnson of Dog- I-iii.fT township, to set aside a leed lor a tnact cf land of sixty three [icres more or less. , The complaint alleges that on April ( 1st, 1920, the defendant, Ginno Johnson. gave the plaintiff, Eva M. Allen, \ deed for this: tract of land, re*eivng to herself a life time right ?n the premises; that before that time , mother tract of forty-five acres, : noreor less, had fallen to Eva A. j A.llen as her share in her father's es- . :ate and this was sold by court pro- , leedings to the defendant , C. V. , Johnson for the sum of one thousand ] lollars, which was thereafter paid >ver to the clerk of the corut by C. /. Johnson, and afterwards collected ' ?rom the clerk by the defendant, Gin- ! to Johnson; that this one thousand ; lollars was intended to educate and ;rain the plaintiff who was then and J ;till is under the age of twenty-one fears, but was spent for other purposes by the defendant Ginno John- ' ion, the latter and the defendant . Hack Johnson using the money to- t aether; that then the defendant, Gin10 Johnson made this deed to the J plaintiff for the sixty-three acres in j >rder to pay plaintiff the one thousind dollars that the complaint says ' tad been used. Then the complaint goes on to ,al- \ ege that in August, oif 1921, the de- f 'endant, Ginno Johnson, assisted and < idvised as she believes, by Mack John- { ect of constant rites. The nurse calls J ivery morning to see him ana his \ nother. and starts him on the path j *> health with warm water, soap, >owder, vaseline and little soft, clean J lothes. When she has ministered o the mother, aired the room and J aid the baby in a little bed of his ?wn, sometimes made from the lothes haskct. a large wash boiler v >r any sort of box that may be on J land, she leaves a little advice about t liet, rest and care, and leaves them a intil the next day. She is, next to t lis mother, the baby's best friend. It r she who regulates his diet and t aves him from colic and colds. It s she who knows what is the matter a rith him when he cries and just what t o do for him in every emergency, t !he knows all hi a little problems, p ,nd when the novelty of his arrival ? las worn off and he is apt to suffer r loss of popularity, it is she who b ersuades his mother to brinfc him to t he baby clinic to be weiprhed each n reek. Hert he becomes a disciple of tl lean, fresh milk, soft clothes, no J raufchts and A quiet life, so that the s ear's end finds him plump ancf dim- C iled and healthy, a living refutation tl f those pitiful quarter of a mitlion p Abtei dying every year of {improper ? *rft. o ' \ **fTT "s" j_S? NOVEMBER 30, 1922 GIVING ^ ;hes its readers this week 4 holiday, set apart for giv- Jj ings received. 3 the whole, there is nothing nhnni * t^iPky v\? v? #| thte people are rather dis- 3 roll weevil which kept them ^ it oif cotton per acre; others hicft they described as being ving money. jj vho lost their crops by the \ arevmany things for which ne farmers in this county, i, Were able to raise tobacco cotton, and they made mon; plant cotton have learned le weevil and will begin anthan before. County thre are good roads travel. They are great in i years ago. While in some iled to raise plenty of the eas of the county bounteous it potatoes, sugar cane, and larvested. lat. we are not only not inly getting back to that norwe missed so much, during ings that the Herald might 5 trend of affairs, generally, tighter and better conditions * .... - . * e, aaong: tne lines ot ecluca- j irvance of the laws, general J )f the people, better farms, * ^ases an enlarged bank ac- > awbjacks that we have had I * ? HOLLIDAY IS BURNED OUT Loses all of Fine Lot of Furni ture Except Very Few Pieces The home of Mr. and Mrs. Pr.anci G .Holliday caught on fire about on< o'clock last Saturday, while Mr. Holli day was absent in Conway, and th< dwelling, together with all of the fim furnishings, got destroyed, with th< exception of only a few thing's, in eluding the silver. Mrs. Holliday was in the home alon< with the three children at the time As soon as she discovered the fire, sh< went to a store and got a Mr. Ander son, who went to do what lie could [t is said that if he had had a laddei he may have saved the house. As i was there was no way to prevent the total loss of the dwelling. Help couk not be obtained in time to do an> o:ood. This home was located at Rose Lakt i few miles out of Conway, on wha< is known as the Grissette place. T1 nad been built several years ago anc ^ O /J KAAM 1 -1 1 i??w i/ccu uvcMiiiuisn iiiid mucn lm proved by Mr. HollicLr\y after he movHi ther several years ago. It is said that the fire was started 3y a spark from the flue. ?on and C. V. Johnson, came to the plaintiff, yet under af?e, and presentid her with a paper to siR-n, telling ler that it was for the purpose ol ?traiprhteninpr out her interest in \he state, and for Retting her money cut >f same, and by that means t>-ot hei ,o si^n back to Ginno Johnson a deed 'or the sixty-three acres of land; that she, the plaintiff, Eva M. Allen, aferwards learned that this paper they *ad gotten her to sipm was /t deed lonveying- the sixty-three acres back ,o Ginno Johnson; and the pLaintifT ilso says in her complaint that &1houfth this deed back to Ginno Johnion calls for a consideration of one ;housand dollars, that no money w#.? >aid her either then or at any othre ime. The complaint asks that the deed vhich Mrs. Allen made back to Mrs. ohnson be cancelled by the court on wo prrounds, one of which is on the iccount of fraud in obtaining it, and l-i n nfVtAi< 1 11 iiv uwi*j? wii vnv kiuuiki ot me nonipre of the plaintiff when she signed he deed. The defendant, Ginno Johnson, htis inswered the complaint and set up hat she sold the sixty-three-acre ract to Eva M. Allen for the agreed rice of one thousand dollars, which /Irs. Allen promised to pay but did iot. and that later she sold the tract ack to her to settle the debt of one housand dollars; and the answer deies all fraud or misrepresentation in he matter; that the sale back to Mrs. ohnson was at the reouest and intance of Mrs. Allen. The answer of J. V. Johnson admits that he bought he forty-five acre tract of land and aid for it but denies any further onnection with the transactions ?et ut in the complaint I rati \ I DAMAGE CASE WON BY WATTS | Plaintiff Represented i n 5 ; Georgetown by Conway ! Firm t Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Watts, in a I suit against the city of Georgetown, and the Georgetown Railway & Light i Company, tried in the Georgetown court last week, recovered a verdict against the defendants for the sum of < $3,000.00. c The plaintiff, Daniel Watts, is a [ son of Thomas Watts, of near Conic way. His wife, the other plaintiff in [ ? the action is a daughter of Mr. and ' P Mrs. Ole Anderson, of this county. * ? Mr. and Mrs. Watts were living in ( ? Georgetown at the time of the inju- j |? lies alleged in the complaint. They ? asked for judgment in the sum of ten ! k thousand d hilars. J l The plaintiffs? were represented by <. ? Capers G. Barr and Iredell Hillinrd, ? attorneys, of Georgetown, and by the jt firm of Sherwood & McMillan, of r Conway. The case was by far the ' ? most interesting of any tried in the ? Georgetown courts within tho las ? several years. j jj The way in which the injuries oc- ] fc curred and the allegations of negiig- , ? ence of the defendants, whlen led t. j ? the accident, are all set forth in para- ] f: graphs of the complaint as follows: ( 6. That on or about the 23rd day ' of April, A. D. 1920, at about 7:46 j f. P. M., the plaintiff, DANIEL MON- < h ROE WATTS, with his wife, FANj; NIK WATTS, on the front seat with H him, and several other persons on the . ? back seat, was driving an automobile, ' k at a moderate rate of speed, over and ( F along Hutts >Street, near its inter- j ? section with Fraser Street, in the y K said City of Georgetown, South Caro- j jj Una, in a Southeastward!y direction, (; when the front of his car, about the . ? wind shield, came in contact with a jc live electric wire, heavily charged j ? with electricity and not properly inu sulated, and hanuinir across said t Butts Street within Five feet of Ihe ( ? ground, so that his automobile became charged with a heavy and dead- y ly electiric current, which said wire the Defendants herein had negligently ly, carelessly, wilfully and wantonly L and. in utter disregard of the rights of 1 the traveling public and of the Plain- , titTs herein, allowed to become and re- | main in such position and condition, by reason of which said automobile was badly damaged by fire, in addi- j tion to matters and things herein- j after alleged. I * 7. That siid Plaintiff, DANIEL j e MONROE WATTS, immediately stop- \ ped his automobile, and his said wife, t p FANNIE WATTS, being greatly t Q freightened. and believing that she would be immediately killed if she re- [ mained in said automobile, by the i sparks resulting from the contact of c - said live wire on the front of said automobile, attempted to alight ther- - from, and while holding to said auto- t mobile to support herself as she ;tep- n ped to the ground and as she placed t her feet upon the ground, received a * very severe electric shock, causing her e j to suffer severe pain, and a terrible p | nervous shock, from which she suffered for a long time thereafter and f from which she has never entirelv f - recovered. t H. That the Defendant, E. C. p t Haselden, as Receiver, as aforesaid, p 1 and Charles E. Wolbert, George C. t Allen and C. Taylor LeVmd, Trus- a * tees, as aforesaid, maintained and c operated said electiric system in a r I I -f _ ! J-'ii? i ? t uiiiiKciuuK una unsuie condition, ana i negligently and carelessly, wilfully I and wantonly, and in utter disregard h of the rights of Plaintiffs, maintained t said wire, heavily charged with elec- o tricity, over and across said street, t! without being properly insulated and li supported by a rotten and defective ft cross arm, attached to a rotten and c defective pole, for a long period of c time, and the Defendant, the City of ft ' Georgetown, carelessly, negligently, tl : wilfully and wantonly, permitted said w ' rotten and defective cross arm and pole to be maintained, and said wire, tl heavily charged with electricity, to be a ; maintained without proper insulation ti thereon, in total disregard to Plain- a tiff's and the public's right use and v> travel over and upon said street. n< and that the said Defendant, E. C. IV 1 Haselden, as Receiver, as aforesaid, d ,nnd Charles E. Wolbert. George C. p Allen and C. Taylor Leland, Trus- n< tees, as aforesaid, carelessly, negli- 01 gently, wilfully and wantonly, permit- a| ted said rotten and defective cross e^ arm to become broken so that said ai electric wire, without being properly li insulated, swung thereby obstructing D the same, said wire being highly cc charged with electricity, ,and main- p< tained the same in such condition in utter disregrd of the rights of the TV! Plaintiffs and the public to use and al travel said street, and the said De- ti fendant, the City of Georgetown, neg- o1 ligently, carelessly, wilfully and wan- ai tonly, permitted and allowed said m street to be so obstructed by said wire vi not properly insulated., while heavily ol charged with electricity, and Raid obstructing wire to he maintained r< and used in said defective and dan- 11 perous condition within about five \it feet of the surface of said street, qi as aforesaid, in utter disregard of the ir rlKhts of Plaintiffs unci the public ix Who travel said street. fi The defendants in the case contend st I % * 9 1 t hI NO. 38 CARTER GIVEN NEW TRIAL ^ ? ? snowing betore Conway Mayor Results in Setting Aside Fine cACTS TO COME OUT barter is Rcspected and Leading Citizen of Daisy Section Since the hearing- in the Conway ^ourt of a charge of having whiskey n their possession, by Monroe Carer and Martin Faircloth, facts have leveloped which show that Mr. Carer did not own the bottle of whin*.ey that was taken by the city officer* lor was he responsible for its havng been found ther?, nor did he know :hat Faircloth had it ?n his possession. Monroe Carter is W. Monroe Carter, of Daisy, S. C., one among the ^ery best citizens of that section of Horry. Never before in all his Ufa a-as he ever mixed up in such an affair. nor in any affair even similar to this. He was taken up by the po1 ice man and brought before the may>r on short notice and being rather ignorant of the processes of the law, io allowed the case to be heard without the examination of any outs id? witnesses to prove the responsibility for the whiskey and bottle of Cooa Cola. The facts appear to be these: W. Monroe Carter is the owner of :i Ford touring car. Martin Fair loth hired Carter to take him to Conway on Friday before the trouble in order to obtain some money by signing up some papers so that Fair loth could purchase a car at Loris. On the way back on Friday it wax earned that the car at Loris had been sold, and that it was useless to go ;here to purchase the car. * ?? - i -? vy11 vne nc.xt nay, wmcn was saturlay on which the arrests were made,, haircloth went hack to Carter's and wanted to hire him to bring him to Conway agflin, so that he might u^e the money in purchasing a car from the Buck Motor Company. Carter did not want to leave his work that lay, hut on the promise of prompt pay for the trip, he brought Faircloth l>ack to Conway that day. Carter did not agree to bring F.air;loth if he brought any whiskey with iim, and boforo leaving the Faircloth tome, the mother of Faircloth told ler son that he must not drink any More, and that he must not take any vhiskey on the way with him. With :his understanding Carter got int? ;he car and came to Conway. On the way over here Carter saw 10 whiskey in the car, and saw none n the possession of Faircloth. H# Irove the Ford car with Faircloth in (Continued on Editorial Page.) hat suit upon the grounds which ire set forth in their answer, as to he material parts as follows: 2. This Defendant denies each and very other allegation in said Cono>laint contained. Further answering the said Comdaint this Defendant alleges on inormation and belief that the injury o the Plaintiff as alleged in the Comilaint, if so injured, was the result cf :ross negligence and carelessness of he Plaintiff, D.aniel Monroe \Vatt?< nd the absence of due or ordinary are on the part of the Daniel Monoe Watts ,in that said Plaintiff,. )aniel Monroe Watts, in that said Maintiff, Daniel Monroe Watts (hove is automobile on the loft side or in he center of F>aid street in violation . i me i?vccjncu ruie ana cusrom of he careful drivers, and also that the iffhts on the car of the said Daniel lonroe Watts were not in proper ; ondition and were not tfivinff suffiient lijrht to enable the said Daniel lonroe Watts to avoid obstacles in he way of said c&r, if said Ugrhts rere ffivinR any liffht at all. Further answering said Complaint lis Defendant alleges on information nd belief that whatever injury Plains iffs may have suffered, at the time nd place stated in the Complaint, 'as due to and caused by the prrosa efcliprence of the Plaintiff, Daniel lonroe Watts, and by the want of ue, proper or ordinary care on his art, combined with the supposed ptflipfence of the Defendant or some ne of them and contributed as th? ^proximate cause thereof to wh/it/er injury may have been suffered id without which contributory neffcrence on the part of the Plaintiff, aniel Monroe Watts, the injury >mp1ained of would not have hap fined. (e) In that the Plaintiff, Daniel 'onroe Watts, drove his autuomobiW onpr Butts Street ne.ar the interse?con of Fraser Street on the left side f said street in violation of all rules ad customs refcardinff driving autolohiles and other vehicles, and in iolation of the ordanance of the City P Georgetown. (b) In that Plaintiff, Daniel Mon>e Watts, did not have anv /ideate prhts on his automobile; if the prhts on said automobile were debate, the said liffhts were not at tttae i such condition as to fcive the pfca>r illumination necessary for caf%i\ driving and the avoidance of .actes. . N m ' fl J