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* volume xxxvn TODD OUTWITS TWO ATTACKERS Travel Over One Hundred and Fifty Yards During Conflict BOUND TO HIGH COURT * Some Whiskey Tale Appears to be Bottom of Disagreement There is pending- in the Court of General Sessions warrants taken out by W. M. Todd against Melvin Owens and Clarence Causey, charging assault and battery on September 3rd, 1922. There was a preliminary hearing before the magistrate some time ago *ind the cases bound over for trial during the February term of the criminal court. All of the parties live near Myrtle Beach. They may be said to be members of the same community. On September 3rd, ?as W. M. Todd ' was walking along the public highway, he noticed outside the road Thedford DuBoise and three others, but did not recognize the three others as he passed by. After he had gone along the road for some distance, Melvin Owens, .according to the testimony, callod Todd and said for him to stop as he wanted to talk to him. Todd tKfen walked slowly along the road for Owens to come up with him. Clarence Causey had stepped across the ditch into the road, in the mean-time. When Owens came up to Todd, he (Todd) said, or words to that effect: "I heard that you have told that 1 carried the whiskey that made Joe Sarkis drunk." Todd denied that he had told any such thing. About that time Clarence Causey had slipped alonp; down the road and was behind To/Id at the time and when the denial came, he knocked Todd with all his might. Todd jumped back to get away from Causey and at the fame time pulled out of his bosom a pistol.. He explained that he had b?nn off at the time to get some new shells to go into this pistol as he was *nder promise to pro with the rural police the next day to hunt for some whiskey stills. The show of the pistol, although it liad but two old cartridges in it, one of which had been snapped upon and would not fire, caused the trouble to lull, but not fc'k-,.0^. Clarence Causey asked Owens to hand him his pistol; that Todd did not have the nerve to shoot no how, and he would kill Todd, according to the threats as reported. Todd says that something was handed Causey by Owens but he could not tell whether it was a pistol or a pair of knucks. Todd repeatedly told the men that he did not want to do them any injury but only wanted to protect himself and that they must stay away from him and let him alone. But they did not let him alone. About this time Owens had slipped ground Todd and caught Todd by his side thus attempting to hold him while Causey caught Todd by the other side and began hitting lum. He hit Todd a number of times, according to the testimony and left severe looking bruises on the person of Todd. , Todd managed to jerk himself loose from the two and they fell almost flat in the road. Causey recovered and came again and tried to aim blows at about to get the best of Causey so as Todd. Every time that Todd was to get away, Owens would come up and take hold of Todd. On one turn in the mele Todd had Causey down where he could administer a beating, but the ever present Owens was right there to pull him off. Causey bit Todd on the finger .and left a si^n which he will carry as long as h* lives. He also bit Todd on his eljoulder during the fight. During all this time Todd was going on his way the best that he could, ever trying to get away; protecting himself from the blows and the kicks of his assailants. During the time they passed over at least one hundred and fifty yards of the public highway. Finally he got clean away from the two and went o nhome. With the two who have been mentioned as taking part in the attack, were two other men, Thedford DuBoise and Grayer Collins. The two last named took no nart in the difficulty. o Conway wants and needs a sweet potato storage house, and the people of the town must not let the movement drop. The railroad company refused the side traclfc one time but they dare not do it the second time. The> will he afvnid when they know thai we mean bbysiness. o ITnvrv O ty has the best land! and the m varied kinds c f soils. > ?mw/jwmfwww 5 Let us not spend this year in j chasing rainbows. The fortune 3 I. supposed to be at the end there- * Jr of will never be found. Let's t* make the best that we can out of the things that we have all I V during the course of the good 1 year 1923. I fflie NEW YEAR'S Hi STUNTS FAIL Boys so Closely Watched by Town Officers Have to Quit For the first time in many years, the police department was able to control the boys on New Year's niftlit so that they did not play the usual pranks. ' It was nothing unusual to come down town on New Year's morning to find the entrances to stores blocked \vith rolls of fence wire or old automobiles. Chicken coops would be moved away from market lots to block the sidewalks. Signs came in for their attention.. The sign of a grocery store would appear in front of a drug store, while a physician's little sign might grace the fronts of a cobbler shop. These and many other stunts were done in years gone by the young men of Conway. On last Sunday night the night policeman, Addie Holt, pressed in two others to assist him. They watched the business section so closly that nothing could go on to celebrate the coming in of the New Year except the ringing of the church bells. The boys gathered, however, in groups, and they kept the policemen busy. They were warned that all violations of the ordinance would be followed by an appearance before the town cotirt. A group of the boys slipped away from the view of the policemen and managed to roll an old car across the sidewalk. Before the boys could get away from the car the policeman got in sight and saw one of them as he removed his hands from the car. This boy was arrested and was required to make bond or go to the guard house. He put up a cash bond. This bad luck of one of the crowd seemed to discourage the others and put a stop to their frequent attempts to outwit the officers. The boys remained up until about 3 o'clock in their efforts to celebrbate, but finally gave it up as impossible job and went back home and to bed. BUS TRAVELERS mot mxm.Tfii'ii X 1 V / A. Jl A Ji X 1 1/ Jl Roads Put Bia Machine Out But Made With Cars TOURING CAR IS INJURED Second Bus Line Established Also Had Trouble in Keeping Schedule The Conway-Marion Bus Line had a hard season for the end of the old year on account of the wet weather nnd the^efTect of this on the roads. For about n week or longer it was impossible to run the regular bus. It is a very heavy truck and where the ground is soft it will sink down by the wheels, owing to its great weight. Instead of using this during the bad season they used a tour in)? car that was purchased by the bus line some time ago, and hired transfer drivers for the passengers where this touring car could not t.ike care of the travel. But even the touring car, a Hupmobile, was put out of business for a time by reason of the hard service iL.i !i I 1 i. _ 1 tl.. ,1 ? nine h. naci u? uikici^u oil, tne rt??iu?. It burned out a coil and this part, had to he obtained from the supply shops in Columbia before the car could be used again. The big truck on one of its trips broke a spring and this caused delay in getting the large machine back on the road after these had become better from a few days of dry weather and sunshine. Other cars were used}* however; and'the business of the bus line did not suffer any, apparently. It is hard work on any machine to make trips twice dailv over any road, no matter how good the condition of this road may be. When the entire surface of the road is turned into muck bv the daily rains it becomes a strain that steel will stand for a tirnr i but even it must yield to the hard work that is put upon it. The travel over the bus line so fa> as appearances went continued to bf more than the usual amount owing tr i the holiday travel. While the big machine was laid off because of the rea1 -J t- 1 i.nnrl if sons aoove Htttieu uic uu.i uncu n ; its place kept coming in about on th< ; scheduled time loaded with passen gers. The other bus line leading out o ' Conway also had some trouble in mak r ing its regular trips from Conway t< t Little River during the days of ha< weather just before Christmas. Thi, is the new Ford truck put on thi: ? new run by W. Fred Stanley, a car rier of the mail between Little Rive an i Conway. j, It is expected that by the time o , the opening of the season at Myrtl Be.ach this year, there will be a {hlf J bus line in operation, this one havmi 1 Conway and Myrtle Beach as it p terminals. J o C The Christmas mail at the Conwa jj postofflce was handled in double quic C | time considering the lateness of *>ir W. of the (rains in making their ache< Plules. % Mmt: CONWAY, 8. P., THURSDAY, WAVV.WWWJW.VV.W.VV 1 AIMING AT GR i oS Farmers of Horry Coun Ij degree of success in this Nev % We will take it for gran jt farm. We also take it for gi -* rvrAflii/jinflr nlon+v nf fAnrl fnr ^ JU VUUVIII5 [iivii tj VA. *. v* ieed for the live stock. > That part being dispose^ % the matter of a money crop. 5 If you decide to try cott< plant do more than you think Ij weevil conditions. For the s 5! sane and intelligent human I I of raising the cotton patch a Ij gardless of the boll weevil. J* the best methods and you can < and learning by your actual < % you learn. Never agree to J and let it turn out with only S If you have decided to % money crop, get ready right j tion and a closer study than I Say that you are going to pr< 3; the very finest grade of brig 5 the experience of other good J other farmers who made moi J the face of heavy rains ever 3; you have to some purpose a > with a grade of the leaf th < Remember that a lazy and ci i any money out of tobacco. Ij always alive to the main thi > with it. > .V.,,V.V?W.W,V.V.W.W.V.V CHANGE MADE DURING YEARS Mr. C. E. Hemingway was in Conway to spend a day with his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. 13. V.-iught, spending the time while here with Judge J. S. Vaught. Mr. Hemingway was hack at Conw.ay after an absence of forty-five years. About forty-five years ago he came through Conway on his way to Charlotte, N. C., where he went and settled and has remained since. He stopnoH Hif?n hojirdiniy house which was kept by Mrs. Jane Norman, in a building which stood near the cedar tree on the eastward side of Main Street, the place where the Horry Drue* Company and Rurroughs <Sr Colons Company now have their places of business. Mr. Hern inn-way said that he traveled through tho country with some other boys and when he arrived at Conway that time he needed a clean "ollar and had none along with him. He could not buy one in Conway. It was nlso in his mind to buy some "Art riders for his pistol and he could >ot find any of these. Strange to say it appears that Conway at that ti?^e had a number of saloons, .at least places where hard drinks were dispenser! open and above board. Mr. Hemingway sees a great change in Conway since that time. It was interesting to hear him talk about those timetf. COIINTYUNIT JANUARY 10TH The reerular meeting of the Horry County Unit of the Tobacco and Cotton Growers' Co-opera !;ive Associations will be held in the County Court House at 11:00 o'clock, Wednesday, January 10th. This organization is composed of all the chairmen and delegates from the local units throughout the county. At this meeting a permanent; county organization will he formed. Ten stronglocal units have been set up in thi* county so far and it is expected that there will be formed at least ten more within the next rtionth. Darlington County held its first 1 regular meeting Saturday, December 30th. The local units in this county 1 were represented by over GO delegates I at this meeting. A great deal of detail business of vital interest to the association was attended to. Director ' T. B. Young made a splendid address * on the success and future outlook of the tobacco association. W. E Lea. of the Tobacco Field Service Division 1 made a short talk on the necessity of more thorough organization. R. D. Darpyin, of the Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association, gave the mem' hers quite a bit of valuable information as to the pi ogress of this AssoJ ciation. In addition to the regular de1 legate.--, there was a large attendance of members of both associations from 3 throughout the county. * ? ? it f?? I I nivery member or tne : >??occo ai'.i r Cotton Growers' Co-operative Associations in Horry County is? especially * invited to attend this first rcrrular ? meefing of the county unit on Wed^ nesday, January 10th. There will be * an address by some prominent nems ber of the association on this occasion. o The citizens of Conway want the y streets of Conway paved. k Streets and sidewalks are prood ir 'e dry weather but bad in wet weathei *- unless they are "bilt rite." Get the idea. ~ \\ pi "JANUARY 4,T?2 3 ~ WAWMWWAV.W.W/ EAT SUCCESS % ty may you aim at a high % v Year of 1923. % ited that you are going to ranted that you will aim at ^ ' the family and plenty of S > d of it remains to consider ; 5 :>n then let us advise you to 5 ; you can manage under boil ; f lake of your reputation as % c >eings, study the best ways J knd making- it profitable re- t To do this you must know ^ t understand this by reading " experience in applying what > i plant the whole of creation ? I a few pods next fall. t use tobacco this year as a I; ? now to give it better atten- . you have ever done before. \ sduce here in Horry County. < j ht leaf ever raised. Study i tobacco raisers. Talk with Ij' ney on it last year, even in \ ' y day. Use the brain that ; J ,nd come out next Summer ; , lat will bring you a profit. !; 1 ireless man will never make J* You must be awake and < lig in view which is success "? r .W.W.V.V.V.V.'.W.V.W.V WONDER CANE BY BARNHILL C. W. Bartjhill, a prosperous farmer near Bayboro, brought to Conway last Wednesday a sample of blue sugar cane that ought to have a prominent place at some fair. It was n well developed stalk of this variety and it measured eight and one half feet in length. Mr. Rirnhill planted about oreeighth of an acre in this cane on his farm, three ini'es from Baybcvo. 11 produced for him thirty gallons of syrilp; The cane was planted in the usual way, but it was fertilized and worked about the same as a field of corn would have been. The cane w.is plowed three times before being laid by for harvest. PEACEBROKEN NEAR MYRTLE The peace was seriously broken near Myrtle Beach on Christmas day, ren Clarence Causey and Dozier Edge fell out over something and only the elforts of those who ware nearby prevented probably a serious matter. The fuss took place in front of the home of P. J. Owens. It appears that Causey accused Edge of something which the latter denied. One word brought on another until the first thing anybody knew the were trying to fight. There were several shot guns in the crowd and a number of threats are said to have been made before the fuss was over. Cooler heads in the party prevailed 11 ii. . _j_i i.. i 'vnn 'lie otriers id ueuome ?<?ti?ucu and further troul)le was thus prevented. o ? GOOD WORK BY THE SANTA CLAUS CLUB The men's classes of the respective Sunday schools of the town are the promoters of the Santa Claus club. To become a member of this club required the payment of a one dr.llar membership fee, which constituted the purchasing- funds, unless somecne wished to make a donation. The purpose was to dispense Christmas cheer, to bring; sunshine out of the clouds; to put laughter into the hearts of little children and smiles on the faces of the aged and infirm. So far as The Herald has heard the effort was a crowning success. Of course, no human plan is perfect; hence some may have been overlooked. If this is true, the S/inta Claus club is truly sorry, the oversight being purely accidental. Scores of baskets filled with Christmas cheer were sent out to homes or to individuals. These remembrances of the club reached a few hundred people nnd is is hoped that Christmas, be A _ lHil. Kii cause of this, meant just a nine un more to each and every one. The Santa Claus club wishes to thank the ladies especially and the friends generally for the splendid service rendered in the purchase, preparing baskets, and distribution of these simple expressions of love and good cheer. May the highest and holiest of all gifts, the love of Christ, 1 - VialnA/1 n i? ro - I)P upon mi wim ^a*c, uci^vu v. ~ ceived. The Herald in voicing this wish, best expresses the wish of all ! thoughtful people. o i MaV the homes of Conway take or * a still better look during 1923. They i only need another coat of paint ir some eases. nlil \PPEAL TAKEN J1 1U 1tiKj 15UAKU .oris School Matter Under Ap- I peal From Refusal of Mr Allen Following the decision of Judge S. ( V. G. Shipp, recently, to the efTect bat a writ of mandamus would not i >e issued against E. C. Allen, superntendent of education, requiring him o approve certain school claims in he Loris School district, the attorney 'or the Farmers Rank, of Loris, as to ertain claims, and for D. W. Haixlvick and Dr. Huger Richardson, of ( he trustee board, took an anpeal from 1 he decision of Allen to the full coun- i ;y board of education. i This notice of appeal w.as promptly ] riven and the hearing before the fuP ward was set for December 27th. Hie hearing began at about the usual ime and was rot finished on that dav i md was wound up last Friday night ] it a continued meeting of the full I ward of education, consisting* of the ] 'unevh>t'?r>d*mt.. K. O. Al'en, and T. B. < Lewis and Arland J. Baker, the other < nemb^rs. At the hearing which began on the 27th, several preliminary questions were raised and disposed of by the aoard. The position of the appellant ( was that the vouchers should have been approved by the superintendent, and as they were not they should now he ordered approved by the full board on the grounds that the money is in the treasury to pay the vouchers; that fhe vouchers are properly drawn up und Attested; and that the debts rep'hie and owing by the district. E. S. C. Baker and M. A. Wright, representing the position taken by the superintendent, raised a technical defense to the effect that Arland J. Baker, member of the board, is a first cousin of the superintendent and therefore was not qualified to sit on the hoard in this case. This defense the board refused to*allow and the motion was overruled by it. Then the objection was raised that the br.ard had no jurisdiction to hear the appeal for tho reason that Robt. B. Scarborough, the attorney for the trustees had not made O. C. Cox a nartv to the proceedings, as originally instituted, now as they now stood, and that O. C. Cox had no notice cf the hearing on these questions. This objection was also decided against the nn4p?ition of Messrs Baker and Wrinht. Then tho board considered another oucstion vaised hv the defense to the effect that all testimony \nd evidence tending to f<how the legality of the appointment of Dr. Hug^r Richardson, as a lawful trestee, should be excluded from the hearing and held to be incompetent. The board held that if thev were to exclude such testimonv then the entire nroceedings would fall and the hearing of the case could not go on and tlmv nrdnred tho bearing to go ahead regardless of this further objection. I The homing is set to be continued , this Friday night as this article isi written, and if the board decide the' auestio*> in time for the current issue of The Herald the order of the board will appear either in connection with this article or in another column of this issue. No ma Her which way the full board decides the matter, either side may f.ike a further appeal to the State Board of Education. turnover" old cotton Columbia, Jan. 1.?Members of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association are being urged to turn over all of their old cotton to the association. A great many of the members of the organization have already done this,, but some have held on to their old staple. It is pointed out that members of the association who sell their old cotton on the open market are selling it in competition to the association. The officials of the association are delighted with the delivery record to date, but naturally are anxious to ret every lv\!e sold through the association that can possiblv be obtained,; the more cotton sold through the astVvn lmttnr thp rprnrrl which it will make. Members of the association are expressing great delight with the man-> ner in which the association is functioning and express the belief that in 1923 the bulk of the cotton in this state will bo sold through it. o FIRST CONFERENCE The first Quarterly Conference of the current vear, of the Gurlev circuit was held at Durants on Saturday l.ost, with the presiding elder, Tlnv. D. A. Phillips, presiding. PHns were inaurrurated for a progressive year's work in the hounds rf the charge. Durante church taking- M;c lead in the point of physical equipment, raising- money to install a heater and make other necessary improvements. The Gurley charge starts weli the year 1928. , ' Last Monday was salegday but onl) i a few sates were made at the cour house. ? I** ^ ^ V' ' . ' <1 H!S TRIP HOME BRINGS ARREST 3. 0. TnHH t pf tr? Rail After ? - w. - - v.v. ?wt w wun ni ivi Being in Jail One Night DUT OF ~19?9 AFFAIR Man's Family Returned Without Him to Home in Waycross Just Oi 'I'o11(1 whs nbout to ;nter tho afternoon train here last Wednesday with his family, he was placed under arrest hy J. O. Chestnut, magistrate's constable, with a warrant which had been sworn out by Van Owens charging the defendant with disposing- of a crop under l;en. Todd had been spent' .'t? tho ChiisVmas holidays with ii< parents noar Myrtle Beach and was accompanied by his wife and children. Following his arrest his family went on to Charleston and thence to Waycross, Ga., where Todd has been holding a position with the railroad company for some time. There was no chance to obtain bail on Wednesday evening. The defendant remained in the county jail that night. On Thursday morning he sent a transfer driver to Myrtle Beach after his father, W. T. Todd. The latter came back with the transfer and arranged bail for his son. B. O. Todd took the afternoon train for his home as soon as the bond had been fixed, , Tn conversation with Todd, he said that thore was Ho ground for the charge against hint, at least no ground that could result in making1 him guilty of the charge brought in the papers. He said in substance, that ho had been fanning in the year 1010 on shares with Van Owens and raised a good crop of cotton. He also planted and marketed a tobacco crop. When it was time to sell the tobacco crop, according to the defendant's statement, he was told by Owens that the cotton crop would pay the debt that he owed Owens, namely the sum of about ^2()0.00; and that as the cotton would be held for higher prices that were thought sure to follow, that he, Todd, might dispose of the tobacco and could pay the account out of the cotton when it was sold. According to him, he then turned everything over to Owens, but the price of cotton wont down instead of up and according to the papers served on him, there is standing against him still the sum of money above mentioned and which is claimed as being due on account secured by the crops raised by Todd that year. Since a year or two ago Todd hast been working for the railroad company and now lives at Waycross, Ga. He had come back with his wife and young folks to spend the holidays with their parents. It was a rainy evening when the warrant was served upon him and he found it impossible to arrange a bond until better weather the next morning. B. O. Todd is the same who was engaged in a small mercantile business in Conway about 1916. Before thut time he ran a small restaurant business in one of the shops near the ? __ I it Lou n mm. NEGROES FIGHT AND THEN PAY A cutting1 scrape between the two negro women in Conway last week led them both to the city court, also the husband of the woman who did the cutting', and the whole bunch had to pay fines. Beulah Gore, one negro woman met Baby Risley, another negro woman, walking along the street with Jamea Gore, snid to he the husband of Bewlab. Without any warning the Gore woman plunged a sharp knife into the body of the other woman, evident^ aiming at the heart. As soon as attacked, the woman ran and got out of the way. In the town court the Risley woman paid a fine of *15.00 the Gore woman oaid $5.00, while James Gore, the mam in the case, paid a fine of $5.00. The rest of sentence imposed by the court was suspended on his good behavior. o MET FRIDAY NIGHT % i The county board of education met again on last Friday night to go on with the hearing of the appeal made bv Lorisites from the decision of the county superintendent of education refusing to approve certain school vouchers. The hearing went on buf was not finished and the board adjourned until Tuesday, at which time it is expected that the hearing* will beconcluded and the decision soon rendered. * T AvmvMMmw.sw.vw1 Things are better than they were. We start the year of ij 1923 with business much better J* along: all lines. It will be bet- J * ter for the farmers of this coun- ? J try this year than in the past ! J two years of our history. j ?