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, ['Volume xxxvn v I CONWAY STORY BACK IN 1865 The Leading Men and Where i They Lived Their Lives i, * w | WOMEN RAID&RS IN WAR Facts Written in Three Chapters as Told by One "Who Remembers MVWAWAW.V.W.WWV/A; % % !tJfi Here is a story of Conway, % J which begins in the spring of I" 1864, and ends in the following ! year when the Civil War ended. J The facts stated in it are giv.Ji en to the writer by G. J. Watts, Jb who came to Conway as a boy ? 4 in the spring of 1864, with his ?? ^ father, Everette Watts, the latpj ter having been appointed to Jt the position of jailer of the J county. The family occupied '.Ji the old jail which was located JB in the exact spot where the J" C Grace Hotel now stands. i WWWVWJVWUVWWWVWWJ-"" CHAPTER I The Town Itself and its Leading People. Tn the spring of the year of 1864, the only buildings of brick within the town of Conwayborough (this was the name of the town at that time) were the court house and the jail, both erected, probably about thirty-five yeavfi oerore tnat date, What was then the court house is now the city hall of the town of Conway (the name of th? town changed to Conway years afterwards) and the county now enjoys a magnificient new structure in a new location. The county also has a new jail, and at the location of the old jail, there now stands a threestory brick hotel in operation since 1915. On the westward side of Main street in the main business block (from the corner where now stands the Peoples National Bank to the corner where now stands the store of F. C. Todd) was a row of old wooden shacks, some shops, some dwellings, while the op> posite side of this street had a few of the same kind of buildings, that side was not full but had large gap* in the housing line. A bout the center of the western sidt was the dwelling of the widow Hanmon, and with her was her young son , Henry Harmon. H(y* grandson, R. 1. Harmon, was a merchant in Conway many years afterward. On the corner of Main street and Third 'avenue, where the New York Cafe now stands, there was a wooden . st >re, occupied by Inimanual, a Jew. This store was owned by an old man, a paralytic, by the name of Fisk. Fisk does not appear to have been a permanent resident of Conway, but he had a friend, Richwood, who lived in a house where the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McKeithan now stands. He would come to Conway at regular intervals to collect his rent from the old Jew, and while here he would spend his time with Richwood. Fisk could hardly express himself in such a way as to make j what he said understood, but he knew how to make Immanual pay up his rent. The first barroom opened in the town was located at the place where the livery stalls of the J. A. McDer- ' mott ' ompany was later built and where now a brick building is being 1 erected by the Burroughs & Collins Company. Out in front of this bar room, in the center of the avenue, or about that point, stood an ancient oak i as large or larger than the one wshich now grows in the Methodist cemetery. < Around this tree rude benches had been built out of slabs and this place ' was known as the "loafer's rest." The 1 *eats extended all the way around the < tree and it was as popular as a park 1 would have been. Later other bar 1 rooms were opened for business and < there were many places among the i wooden shanties where strong1 drink was dispensed to all who wanted to < my. 1 Aunt Jane Norman lived in an old i 'rame dwelling about the place where < the Horry Drug Company now has ] i building. She was the leading j warding house keeper at that" time ind for long afterward. , Dr. Norman was the only doctor. . 1e lived in the house which is still . standing, just below the corner now . >ccopied by the Buck Motor Com- . jany. In the county were two other J loctors, Dr. Harrell, and Dr. Grant. Tn another old home where the At- j t J VAV.V/.V.VV.V/.V.WAV ' | J Most of the tobacco plant beds "J s in the county have been plant1 ed with the seeds and you can tj t | see the white canvas as you 1 pass along the public roads. ! j J Planting the bed and stretch- ! i ing the canvas is not all. The ! A safety of the plants from de- 5 J struction by frost and snow 4 must be provided for. Have the I* ( J materials near at hand in case "I * i of a sudden freeze, and cover J" \ ? the beds with boards if neces- ' I sary. JB j V Wkt BIBLE MEETING I IS ENJOYABLE Dr. Ramsey and Rev. Mr. McQuilkin Leave For | Columbia The Christian Life Conference, held under the leadership of Dr. A. J. Ramsey, the well known Bible teacher, of Pasadena, Calif., and the Rev. Robt. C. McQuilkin, formerly of Philadelphia, and who has recently moved to Columbia, with his family, camc to a close at the Conway Methodist church last Sunday. The meetings lasted throughout the whole of last week. The meetings were well attended and the teachings thoroughly enjoyed by the congregation. The conference here was supported and pushed forward by all of the churches of Conway. Dr. Ramsey dealt with lessons of the message for present day living as given in First John, while Mr. McQuilkin handled the problems of the Christian life. n. ? i i notn maae a great and lasting impression on their hearers at each and every meeting. The influence for good in this community can hardly be estimated. Dr. Ramsey and Mr. McQuilkin for a number of years have conducted Christian life conferences in many parts of the United States and Canada. After the present series of meetings that is being conducted in the Southern states, the two Bible teachers join for a series in northern and southern California in the spring and early summer. The opening conference of the southern series was in Conway from January 21st to 28th, the second meeting of the kind for Conway in which all the churches of the town have united. Dr. Atkinson of the Methodist church told his people that this gospel preaching give them Bible holiness in its truest and highest foflfn..; Dr. Gordon of the Baptist church said the meetings were one of the jjpfceatest blessings that had come to his people. The Rev. Mr. Lemmon of the Presbyterian church said that this was the one kind of revival that the town and surrounding country needed, a revival that struck .first at the lives of the Christians and Of 1 O n#\?' fU nf 1 f n 1 i\ {' i v- nci i l? ^ \ l a u?npci liKll/ ICiiUIW III righteousness in every day living of those outside the church. ?. These meetings dealt with vital matters of everyday living and are of interest to Christians of whatever denomination as well as to those outside the church. From here Dr. Ramsey and the Rev. Mr. McQuilkin went to Columbia, where they opened last Monday the fourth conference of the kind that has been held in that city. HAS^REFERENCE IN TYLER CASE The Clerk of the court held a reference at his office here last Thursday in the case of Morris Fertilizer Company, plaintifT against W. P. Tyler, et al., in which the plaintiff is seeking to foreclose a mortgage of"" the lands of Tyler under a mortgage which was given by Tyler to D. D. Harrelson, by Harrison trasferred to L. D. Suggs, and by Suggs turned over to the Morris Fertilizer.Company. Testimony in the case was taken in Atlanta, Ga., in August, 1922, on the part of the fertilizer company, consisting to some extent of various letters passing between the parties about the matter. The defendant, Tyler, 1*1. i? l! A claims a crecm ior me sum ot aDout $64.00 as having been made by him to J. A. Goodwin, a representative of the plaintiff. In the testimony taken in Atlanta, Ga., this is explained as having been credited to other items m the L. D. Suggs account. Thomas A. Ratcliflf, an officer of the company, j testifying in Atlanta, Ga., said that the $64.00 was applied to an open account of Mr. Suggs, as to a part, and , the balance applied on another note that was due on the account of an- ] [>ther year's business in the fertilizer . account. At the hearing on last Thursday snly this testimony taken by deposition in Atlanta, was read before the , referee, the notes and mortgages placed in evidence, and the record com- , _ I _ J. 1 A. - 1 _ J 1 ! i 1.1 i. 1 pieteu as to certain admissions mm the parties make in the case. The hearing was then continued , jntil another date to be agreed upon among the parties. ^ antic Coast Line Railroad depot now ] s, there lived another man of that < ;ime, Major Holmes. He was remark- < jble in appearance, by reason of the ^ ?act that he did not carry one single ] ;ooth in his head. He was not regard- ] id as being more unfortunate than ( >ld brother Richwood, who could not ^ *how on his head one single hair. ( Over in the woods, behind where { he new court house now displays its f walls of pressed brick. Mike Sellers < ived and there he raised a large fam- ( ly in a little crude dwelling that ( you Id not be counted as adequate for luch purposes at this time. He had t i large tract of land which had come j lown to him from the Dunanta. In f ihe course of time this land of Sell- \ irs' came into the possession of the 1 Lewis family, and this land was sold i is a part of the estate lands of the ^ ate w. Lewis some time ago. 1 Yround the humble home of old Sell- 1 Im; CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY, /.VW/AVWWWMMWWWW ? HORRY BARBEI < The Koken Companies, i 5 fered a total of seventy-five < > number of applications of a h 5 barber shops and prepared J prizes ranged from the grant < a number of five dollar prizes Ij This contest was nationwi > sands of barbers all over the C contest for the prizes* % N. P. Anderson of numl ^ town entered the contest and 5; announcing that he won th % sum of $15.00, and he receivc I with the letter. By winnin; ? tirAUOU fliot Vta IVlllof Koi?n ' ji V i vu vnuv uu niuot nave i Ij salesman, especially as he h? 5 great number and along wit % the country. V VWA'.V.VAW.V.V.WNW.NW KU KLUX KLAN I FRIGHTENS LEE While Passing Near Lake ( Swamp is Overtaken by Klan According to reports made in Conway last Saturday, the Ku Klux Klan n has made another recent appearance, 0 this tinie in the Lake Swamp section c of the county. Si It is reported that Refus Lee, a son tl of William Lee, had an experience f< with the hooded members of "the in- ii visible empire," on the night of Sun- d day, January 21st. as he was travel- tl ing along the public road. d< Lee had been passing along near Lake Swamp and was nearing Wood- 0 yard Bay when he heard the noise of y a number of automobiles. He passed s on for a short distance and saw the # klan, or hooded men, whom he took C) to he klansmen, near the road. e As he passed they made a start to jy get at him, or he thought they did, but he went by running his horse at great speed. The automobile party i went, after him he was pursued ^ for about half a mile. ,, When he finally stopped and the _1 hooded band came up, they delivered jl a warning to him, to the effect that 1 he must change his way of life; that Ij he must stay with his mother at 1 nights. Tt is said that Lee tremblingly promised to comply with all demands !' and he lost no opportunity to get ,x away as soon as he could. The young man was greatly worried and frightened by his experience and it was said that he had not recovered from his fright the next week after the occurrence. Mrs. Lee, his mother, is also very 01 much excited about the matter. She ? has been in a worried state ever since P it happened. BOY RECOVERS :! RETURNS HOME : ic Leo Johnson, young- son of W. H. Johnson, recently shot by accident 111 while playing with a rifle, was P1 brought back from the hospital last ^ week well on the road to recovery. He was suffering from a partial n< paralysis of one leg but this difficulty' will doubtless disappear as he be- ?' comes stronger and is able to walk ? some. He can sit up and stand up at the present time but is not strong . enough to walk about. He says that he will let guns alone hereafter. The bullet which caused this injury j,( Is still in the boy's body, lodged near h the spine in the back and not far beneath the skin. It may not ever be fa extracted. The cost of the operation and hos- m pital bill amounted to nearly $200. <ji ???sj ers there grew dense thickets of gallberry and sweet gum, with here and T there a frog pond in which grew big 1 trees. There was an old winding path leading to his house from the wider road behind the present main business square. Between Main street and the home of Sellers there was a thick bay. This disappeared in later years. At one "time the store of Israelite " Immanual was the only one in Con- 2* ^vayborough. Before long Buck & 11 nnf nn a u-v^.v %T I'VIV %m I* IV OVVVIi v/ 1 ^^llCiai II1C1 " ihandise in an old wooden store that Pe rtood immediately on the corner vhere the two-story brick building of w: Hal L. Buck now stands; and next an Burroughs & Gurganus opened up and da ;onducted business in this same store to vhere Buck & Beaty had done a mer- of ;antile business. There was probably *ome other stores conducted about te ;his same time, but the ones mention- a id were the leading ones and the )thers have now passed out of mem- in >ry. no There were some lawyers at that in ;ime. The leading members of the st< 3ar were Col. Joseph T. Walsh and of Thomas F. Gissespie. The law ibrary of Colonel Gissespie can now wi >e found in the library of H. H. Wood- <? arard, while many of the books that fr< were used by Colonel Walsh are in th ;he library of Hon. R. B. Scarborough, tr; fhere were other lawyers coming in g 11*1 FEBRUAEY 1, 1923 wv.mww.w.v.'.mw } WINS PRIZE i ? 5 :>f St. Louis, last year of- { cash prizes for the largest ^ lair tonic or lotion used in V anct- sold by them. The 1 prize of $100.00 down to % s de and hundreds of thou- ^ United States entered the S ber 34 Third Avenue, this ?|| I has just received a letter ^ e twenty-eighth prize, the % id a check for this amount ? g- this prize Mr. Anderson considerable ability as a Ij id to romnpfp with snr?h ? % __ ! ...... ? By h barbers located all over % uiTjywjMuuwwuwmm^ M'DERMOTT IS ONE DIRECTOR Jives Testimony in Examination Made by Legislature The Legislature is still engaged in Taking an investigation of the affairs f the State penitentiary. They have ailed all of the directorsr of the intitution and taken their testimony on lie various questions recently raised allowing a mutiny at the pen, includes: certain members of the board of irectoi's who seem to he at outs with lie superintendent, Col. A. K. Saners. Th^re is an Horryite on the board f directors, Mr. J. A. McDermott, of tie Petoples National Batik. He was worn jas a witness in the investigate!! lite last week just before the 5mmittee adjourned for the weeknd. Xccprding to the Daily Record Ir. MlDetrmott testified as follows: J. A McDermott another member f theoprd testified along- practically agJP the ?Uior. directors, fa twSks were kept on the pcfifaeniary farms. He had heard rumors hont the cotton fire but not such as e thought worth "running down." Ho 2stified as to the sale of cotton by [r. Hawkins and Colonel Sanders and aid that it was his understanding lat the firm buying the cotton had fceived a commission of 50 cents a ale. The same firm stored the cot>n which bought it. Colonel Sanders, io witness said, seemed to be surrised at the claim as well as the oard. Mr. McDermott said "things looked ettor in 1022 than in 1021." speaking f discipline at the ppnitentiarv. Prisners never came to him with comlaints. Should Segregate. Mr. McDermott thought prisoners lould be segregated as he considered a shame to keep certain classes ith others. Asked if he had seen ay stocks, he said he was of the opinni they had been done away with and Ein not seen any. lie thought the lutiny was caused by lack of dicipline rior to the trouble. He denied that board tried to usurp any authority 'rom Colonel Sanders. Board did :>t investigate mutiny. He testified that he had refunded art of his $150 expense account aliwed for his trip to the prison confess. Said he had spent more than ? charged to expense account but out ? his own pocket. A. H. Hawkins, another director, ;ated that one of the duties of the >ard was to revise and modify rules, e had heard of some gambling by risoners. Board did not go to the irms as often as required. G. A. Moseley also testified as a ember of the board of directors but d not throw any new light on the tuation. HINTS OFFICER RUTIN VAIN According to Sam W. Todd, a farm of the Cedar Grove community, of uck's township, he was notified to >pear here before the officers on last nirsday on account of the sale of me stock that he made without any irmit first obtained for moving them. Todd says that be attended in Consty to find out what it was all about id spent most of the day on Thursy here, but that there was no one toll him what to do or the nature the charges against him. He knows, however, that the matr concerns his sale of some livestock few days ago to his neighbor, H. ?rbert Lawrimore. Lawrimore lives the same community and it was t thought that there would be any terdiction against the removal of :>ck no further than that from one the farms to the other. The full particulars of the matter 11 doubtless come out later. om Marion by private conveyances rough the Pee Dee river swamps to y cases at court. (To Be Continued Next Week.) raltl. RETAILERS IN ASSOCIATION Secretary From Florence Explains in Detail The general pood which may be derived from the retail merchants association, by the public in general, is indicated by the very enthusiastic ' meeting held in the city hall on the 1 evening of Thursday, January 26th. Mr. D. S. McCarthy, secretary of the j florence association, explained in dej tail the workings of that association and the many benefits derived therei from. Nearly all of the merchants of | the city were present together with a number of professional men. There were 22 additions to the enrollment of the organization and several more | merchants expressed a desire to join. | The objects of the association are to safeguard the interests of the merchants and the trading public in general; to create a better fellowship between the merchant and the consumer; to correct trade abuses; and to disseminate trade information. The scope of activities cover a wide range of usefulness. The exnerience of the Florence as socintion has been that the trading: public is well pleased with the results obtained. j Every merchant in Conway should | join, so that the general public may be better served; membership is entirely voluntary and unsolicited. The organization is open for membership from all merchants, and professional men. who have dealings with the general public. It niay be said that the aim of the association is based on a constructive program and will not work a hardship on anyone. TOO OIL TANKS CAUSE OF SUIT A law suit was about to develop last week concerning two filling systems that had been used at the store of the Sasser Company, at Gurley, before the stock was sold out under chattel mortgage held by one of the Wilmington banks. Several months the stock of goods and machinery used in making tobacco flues were "fcold at public auction and the proceeds applied on a debt that was due to the Murchinson National Hank by the Sasser Company. It appears that among: the equipment disposed of was a Wayne gasoline tank and pumping outfit of a similar nature for dispensing lubricating oils. These were wanted by J. T. Dorsey and he placed a bid on them. Finding that it might be possible for the heirs of the late Mr. John Sasser to save this equipment by obtaining funds to pay on the debt of the bank, they were taken by the agents of the bank and held a while for this money to be put up. After a time there was no money put up and the agents then turned the things over to J. T. Dorsey and it now appears that J. T. Mishoe, of Conway, became interested in the matter with Mr. Dorsey, and it may be that he was connected with Dorsey in the bidding from the first. Dorsey sold the tanks to Sims M. Allen, and when AllenWent. to take the tanks, he found a notice posted ip at the place forbidding any trespassing or words to the effect that he must not take the tanks. It appears that young1 James Sasser employed attorneys to advise him in the matter and the result was a determination to hold the tanks. At last accounts the parties were endeavoring to avoid a law suit. The Dorsey interests will, however, insist upon a delivery of the property under their purchase when the things were disposed of under the chattel mortgage. Having sold the tanks to Allen, they are bound to deliver them the purchasers they will bring claim paid by Allen. If the tanks are not delivered to the purcher s they will bring claim and delivery action in the Court of Common Please to recover the property, according to a statement made in Conway last week by J. T. Dorsey. The tanks will be valued in the case in the sum of $300. It is not believed that new tanks could be purr\ 4 nnnfUiMM iUirt A Alinf i:iuim:u cii. ciii%v 11 iiivc uiid ainwuiiv, W. L. MISHOE HAS ACCIDENT W. L. Mishoe was in an automobile > accident occurring on January 15th, i 1923, the particulars not appearing before on account of his having been confined at his home from illness brought about by the injuries reteiv2d. The car in which he was riding turned out of the road at Aynor, running into a hole and throwing Mr. Mishoe up in the back part of the nachine and injuring him in the back. His injuries were, fortunately, ?ot erious, but so painful that he was aid up at his home for two weeks before he had sufficiently recovered to 3e able to walk out again. His friends will be glad to know rtiat his hurts did not prove to be serious, and that he has recovered so fa to be able to attend to his business iflFairs once more. a ? NO. 41 A. BELL FAILS AT BAYBORO Statement of Assets and liabilities Given From Schedule CREDITORS WILL MEET Two Bad Crop Years Given as Reason For Failure of This Store On January 25th, Arnold Bell, of Bayhoro, was .adjudged a bankrupt upon a voluntary petition filed by him on that day in the district court of the United Staates, in Charleston, S. C. The case has been referred by the court to R. J. Kirk, referee, Florence, S. C., and no.tices have been mailed ta all of the creditors of Mr. Bell to meet at the office of Mr. Kirk at 12 o'clock, noon, on February 9th, fpr th? purpose of electing a trustee of the estate and considering a sale of tha property of the bankrupt. It is stated in1 the notice that the sale of the stock of merchandise of Mr. Bell wiH lit* nnncidovo/l .r*. ...Al 1' ? ?luumi lui tiier notice to the creditors of this estate. An examination of the schedules filed by the bankrupt, shows his assets and liabilities appear as follows, using the round numbers Riven in the papers: Total Assets $12,000.0# Total debts and liabilities .. 9,000.00 The value of the stock of goods in the store at Bayboro is placed at $2,000.00. Nearly one-half of the assets given in the above figures consists of debts due to the store by people of Bayboro and nearby sections. The store hos been closed since the petition was filed more than a week ago. A. Bell started in business on January 1st, 1003, using a store that is still at Bayboro, located near the present residence of Mr. Bell. He did business in that store until in May 1910, when he bought another store from the Burroughs & Collins Company, in the corner, at the Cross Roads, and the business has been kept in the Burroughs & Collins Company store ever since. During that time Mr. Bell has been a useful membor of t.hp rnmrminit.v. fillinw th*> nosi. tlon of poa&m&ster, school trustee, and many? useful places on behalf of the peonle of that section. His failure is laid to the failure of the crops of the last two years. In 1922. the farmers made a complete failure almost, owing to the heavyrains which fell during the main cropping season. The year before that was a very bad year for the farmers of that community. Running a time business, when the farmers failed to make any money crops with which to pay, Mr. Hell kept up the struggle to pay his creditors jis long as he could and when there appeared no further hope for his business, he closed the doors of his store and filed a petition in bankruptcy. HIGHER COURT . ON BELL CASE ? S* Interesting Opinion Dismisses Complaint Against Thompson ILL CONSIDERED CONTRACT Refuses to Set Aside Deed WTq /IA t A Mro On *i*ufuv vvr Jiiil a i V/CVA X 1C Thompson The opinion of the Supreme Court in the case of O. J. Bell against Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Thompson, written by Associate Justice T. B. Fraser, is an interesting document. The opinion takes up the salient facts in the transaction whereby it was sought to hold the defendant for much more land than he claimed he had sold, and threshes out each phase oi cne matter in such a way as to make the substance very plain. The receipt on which the action had to he based, for it could be based on nothing else, contained an addition which included the old store lot across the private road running between the Tones place and the Jake Floyd place, [f it had been intended to include the Jake Floyd land also, why did the receipt fail to say so. Again the complaint sought to set aside, for fraud, a deed which Thompson had made to Mrs. Thompson for this Jake Floyd place, and yet there (Continued On Back Page.) ,V.V.WA%VW.V.W.ViWAV C % i[ An examination of the rec- % Iords at the court house shows that many farmers are borrow- IB ing money, some from the banks and from others who have -I money to loan. J? A word of advice is needed ** here. Borrow no money unless it is absolutely necessary. If it is necessary, then see that not % one cent of the loan is spent for y pleasure, or things that can be ?J ij done without. ^SSVrtVWWWWWWVVW