The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 26, 1923, Image 1
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FJ OtfTFTT TAKEN
rom Tobacco Barn Near The
Corporate Limits of
^L,~< Conway
TWO ARRESTS ARE MADE
.fetill Had Been Recently Operated/There
More Than
A Year
* On f^atuvday, April 21st, J. K.
King, of the rural police force made a I
raid at the plantation of O. B. Gillispte.
As a result, Thornton Johnson,
alias Jessie Johnson, a negro, find jal.
so G. B. Gillispie, the owner of jkhe
farm on which the negro lives, was
placed under arrest. Later that same
day in tpe court of Magistrate W* H.
Chestnut both parties were let to bail.
They will await .the trial of changes
of violation of the prohibition law/s at
the next term of the court of General
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sessions, wmcn win convene nere in
Cony^r ^vlt|jn about the next month
^ sUU which was captured <~ r the
y pnjmises by the,policeman, was locatiGtrin
a tobacco barn. It was connect*
MA up in readiness to run. In the
UIMcurn there was about 180 gallons of
I^HoqjCtd corn and molasses in a high
HBta^f^rmciiitatioi), and about ready.
|flr running, i iccOrdlng to the state^^ jLde
by the p oliceman. The still had
^^Heh recently operated' as shown by
^^He fire .coals under the furnace and
^^H[e other sign s of work having been
^Bt-ried on aro und it.
^^pfThe search on the premises did not.
f ^end with the tobacco barn and the
things found there. Continuing the
search, on the pUce, in a hay barn the
| officer found about two and one-half
gallons of wh skey.
Then a search was made in the loft
over the hay I am. In this room over
. th& place whe re the hay was kept,
there was a >arrel containing about
sixty gallons (of beer. It had been
nlade out of grapes, fruits and cereals
[ o4 different kinds and underneath the
barrel, or nearby, was a drinking
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barrels, one keg, one Ave gallon jug,
otie funnel and a pitcher. The buildings
in Which thesentfere-found ar? located
near the home-of Mr. Gillispie,
Thornton .Johnson is known as the
cook on the plantation. The house of
Johnson was also searched. It is located
ftear the Gillispie honje. In the
negro's house there (was another half
g&llon of the whiskey.
The still consisted of gasoline
2 drum rigged up wijth a galvanized
V Iron worm. It appeared to have been
use for a long tiniie. Thk negro was
-^fcuestioned about tfie use pf the still
^ow- long it had been jfchere. Ac^cowing
to the negro the still had been
Jn/peration for more than a year. He
, Jpu1 that the still did not belong to
J?Gliepie. but was the proisrty of the
^Wlis raid took place on the old GilIjrae
place just outside tie corporate
of Conway It is situated on
tie Potato Bed Ferry public road. It
Jay be less than a mile from the corprate
limits. Not far this side of
fe plantation, it is a tiickly settled
nburb of Conway, whe-e lots were
Id out at.a public auction sale about
in or fifteen years aro and where
ie houses have pone \w more or less
^ery year. Leading flown through
lis settlement the rnd and street
nown as the Race PMh connects up
nd on both sides arJmany homes,
lostly colored residerls of Conway.
Complaints had beel made which
aufced the police to taie notice of the
ituation. f
miiCKTUENS
% ROAD
accident on Wednesday of last
came near to serious conaequen^^Bes
to LeGrand Richardson, the driver
a truck for the Conway Coca Cola
^^PlCo. Richardson had the truck along
IB/the Kates Bay public road, five or six
r'l miles from Conway, loaded with about
fifty crates of bottled drinks. As he
drove on a bridge, spanning a ditch,
i the stringer on one end gave away, so
I that the truck toppled over and a part
V J <yf it caught his arm as it went.
7 A large proportion of the load was
I broken and spilled. The man's arm
I was cut and bruised so that about j
eleven stitches had to be taken in the
gash. He was painfully bruised in
several other places, but none so bad
aa the one on his arm.
The truck was not badly damaged
[ ^ by the fall. One side of the cab on
M it trot split and a part of the cranking
arrangement was broken but was
easfly wended. The load of soft
was intended for a number of
customers of the company in the Pee
pc(J sectiacof Bucks township-^
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I J lone of > the most unusual ! \\
L t we heard of lately '*
I. j >i- the chafrging of big fees \\
I * Win?t the Civic league for the 11
Wk X *** of th? new sohool auditor- ![
* itim ^ bofiing their recent en- 1(
W 1 tertainmelk The light bill is "
2 til they. jp?t to pay and all ,,
M m they shougxonaider paying.
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Erecting Planing MiHs at Howard
Near Tabor, N.
C.
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The Green Sea Lumber Co., is the
name of one of the new lumber companies
that is now getting: ready to
operate in Horry County, by cutting
off the timber from a number of big
tracts that the company has purchased.
It is a corporation under the laws
of the State of Virginia. B. L. Hume,
of Causey, S. C., is the president of
the company; S. P. Crawford, with
headquarters at Tabor, N. C., is the
general manager, and E. M. Barnes
is t.hA t.lmVtAf hnvar nnH AaMmotA?< -fV>v
.? ...v j >/* M?IV4 V?V4?B?MWft AVI
the company. All of these gentlemen
are deeply interested in the success
of the company. Tt will control and
operate a number of ground mills near
Tabor, N. C., and is now developing
a big business in the making of lumber.
The headquarters and postoffice of
the company is at Tabor, N. C., but
the plant is being erected at Howard,
S. C., some distance this side of Tabor.
Their offices are at Howard. At
the present time they are erecting a
planing mill at Howard. This work
was started on February 15th, 1923,
and the planing mill will be in operation
by May 1st, 1923. The various
ground mills which will supply the
green lumber to this planing mill are
already in operation, or getting ready
to operate on tracts owped by the
company.
At Howard the company has secured
a long time lease on some land belonging
to the estate of the late W.
J. Fipps. On this the offices and
planing mill are now being put vp.
Other lands nearby have been purchased
and will be used for the erection
and maintenance of lumber s^eds
and lumber yards.
a r? n ?i ~ ?i 1
u> x . viumuiu, uic ^cnridi IJittllctger,
is also interested in the Lcris
Lumber Co./ which has a plant at
Loris. The details of this company
were set forth in The Horry Herald
some time ago. Like the Green Sea
Lumber Co., the organization at Loris
is o&rating by means of ground mills
movtig from one big tract of timber
to another, all transporting. their
pro??7?t to the common plant o't Loriti,
where the lumber is jent through the
dry kilns.
Mr. Crawford was in Conway last
week attending to various matters
connected with his companies.
STORE FIXTURE
IS TAKEN BACK
Firm of Johnson and Todd
Claims to Have Dissolved
H. K Sessions, deputy sheriff, went
to Myrtle Beach one day last week
and returned with a lot of office equip- ,
ment, taken under mortgage contracts
from tne firm of Johnson & Todd.
Among the lot of things taken from
the store, or place of business formerly
cccupied by L. M. Johnson, was
a gasoline outfit sold to the concern j
by S. F. Bowser & Co. j
L. M. Johnson and E. It. Todd were
partner? in thin store for several j
years. About August, 1922, E. R.
Todd clrims to have sold his interest
out to j. M. Johnson, and took a 1
mortgage against the store to secure 1
the purchase money that he was to 1
get for his interest. This was never i
paid by .Johnson, and some months ago ,
Todd caused the store to be seized and
the things in it were advertised and <
sold, and Todd became the purchaser
at the sale.
Before that time Johnson had given
up the drjve and went away to Way- j
cross, Gaj to work for wages, giving
up the mercantile business at the seaside
resort as a rather slow go when ,
the season is not on. Todd, after purchasing
the store at the nnhlfo auction
sale, whicV he had under mortgage, it I
is supposed continued the business.
Todd denies all liability for claims
against thu firm of Johnson & Todd,
though mMe before the wholesale 1
houses say "hey had absolutely no no- I
tice or ever intimation that Todd, one
of the partners, had sold out his interest
to Jolnson.
The thing's taken last week from
this store aro business equipment pur- '
chased und?'r contracts, whereby it
was agreed fty both parties that title
would remd | in tho sellers until all
of the defetf Id installments, if any at
all, vere ' \1- paid by these parties!
and, of courlp, the makers of the
equipment haB the right to seize and
take the thinlp back. <
Among thd equipment taken is a
McCasky Rewster system, con^sting j
of a cabinet br the keeping of small
store accounts and an adding and
listing machrie invented to go with 1
Kis. There las also a whole lot of
lea books u ed in the operation of
e bookkeepi ? system.
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The Clerk 6\ the Court has put on !
extra help at t e Clerk's office, to take
care of the la toe accumulation of
work there. Business of this section
is rapidly incremng as shown by the
great inerease in the number of deeds
and ether papef placed with the
Clerk for recorcjhg.
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OOWWAY, 8 0., THTO8DA1
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' t The greatest exertion is
jj carrying out schemes whic
;; other man down. "In doing
j attention to their own line <
: 1 be the same or different f]
! \ pany they are fighting. N
| J are about the same.
Such people have forgo
? counts in this world, in an;
\\ dividual action of men in 1
\\ good. The man who wor]
jj working against himself.
time, but it is so. In the c<
!E His life is gone. His tinu
\\ efforts to keep the other r
| he has done nothing hims<
been paying attention to
* had a bigger success by re
!! to stop him and hold him hi
IS One man will succeed in
\\ other starts a like business
* keep the first man from "i
\! Things never turn out like
\\ business thought it would.
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BONDING CASE
FILED BY BANK
Alleges a Shortage Occuring in
1920 at Little
River
MATTER IS MADE GOOD
Other Officers of Bank Made
the Shortage Up in
Time
A suit was recently filed in the
Court of Common Pleas for Horry
County by the Bank of Little River
against the United States Fidelity &
Guaranty Co., of Baltimore, Md., to
recover the sum of five thousand dollars
on the bond of Moore Thompson,
former cashier of the bank.
It is alleged in the complaint,
among other things, in substance .as
follows; and sets out a copy of the
bond which was signed by the company
and Moore Thompson under date
of* October 8th, 1910, and which it is
alleged was renewed from year to
year, under a provision for that purpose
contained in the instrument, up
to the end of the year, under the bond,
which expired with October 8th, 1920:
Fifth.?That on or about the 13th
day of October, 1920, or shortly prior
thereto, an audit of the books of the
bank was made, and that it was then
and there discovered and found that
the cashier, Mr. Moore Thompson, had
of the papers, goods and chattels of
the bank, coming into his hands and
possession, fraudulently and felonously,
as plaintiff had been informed
and believes, misappropriated and
converted to his own use, sums aggregating
the sum of sixteen thousand
dollars, in breach of his duty
and in breach of the guaranty and
bond which the defendant had put up
in the case, and to the hurt and dam(ive
thousand dollars.
Sixth.?That notice of the peculation,
fraud and misappropriation of
the bank's funds had been given to
the United States Fidelity & Guaranty
Co., and of the breach in said bond,
brought about by this alleged conduct
on the part of the cashier, within the
time required by law; and that the
said sum of five thousand dollars was
then and there demanded of the defendant;
and that the bonding company
had refused to meet the demands
and requirements of the said bond and
that the sum of five thousand dollars
has not been paid, or words to that
utfect.
/The complaint winds up with a demand
for the sum of five thousand
dollars with interest thereon at the
rate of seven per cent per annum
from the 13th day of October, 1920.
The exact date on which Mr.
Thompson severed his connection with
the Bank of Little River does not appear
in the papers. It is supposed to
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awuui nic btlUV lllitb 1(16 oona cx*
pired, probably not long before the
hst renewal of it expired. Mr.
Thompson is now located at Danville,
Va., where he holds a responsible
position with one of the leading companies
in that city.
The United States Fidelity &
Guaranty Co., is fighting liability on
the bond for a number of reasons as
stated by a representative of the
company when lie was here some time
ago looking after the matter, aftei
this suit had been entered.
This alleged shortage did not injure
any of the depositors of the bank,
There was nothing known of it ir
banking circles ?o far as was heard
Stockholders of the bank living ir
Wilmington, N. C., it is said took ovei
some property belonging to Moor*
Thompson the former cashier of the
bank, and paid the amount of it ir
to the accounts of the bank. The Her
aid could not verify any exact detail*
of the matter, but gained most of th<
information published in this article
from the complaint in the actioi
brought on this bond.
26, 1923
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ND STRIKE BACK !|
i pot forth by some men in \\
h they intend to keep the \\
r this they pay less and less \;
of work. Their business may j ?
rom that of the man or com- \!
b matter, the results to both \\
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tten that the tiling which \ \
y business or plan, is the in- \!
the direction of the common "
ks against the other man is x
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ne may not Know it ax tne j
Durse of time he finds it out. 3?
3 has been spent in fruitless \\
ian from doing anything and \\
elf. The other man who has jj
his own business may have ?
lason of the efforts put forth \\
ack.
l some line of business. An- J [
j for no other reason than to j \
naking "so much money." j ?
the founder of the opposition \ \
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BOY ADMITTED
WITHOUT BOND
1 His Appearance Indicates Him
Older Than Claimed
By Harding
1 probate Judge matter
1 Boy May be Committed to One
of The Several Orphanages
1 The boy, Ernest Hayes, charged
' with the killing of his baby brother,
1 Luther Hayes, on Monday, April 16th,
; 1923, was taken to Marion on the day
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i iouowing tne Killing ana after the
findknjer of a jury of inquest had fa$tened
the crime upon th.i youthful defendant.
i The purpose of the visit to the judge
! was to obtain an order for bail, or
custody of some kind, pending the disposition
of the boy's case.
Judge W. H. Townsend was holding
? the term of civil court in the town of
Marion. A case was in progress when
the boy arrived in the Marion court
house, accompanied by his attorney,
H. N. Sessions, deputy sheriff, and
i Joe Harding, who is called "grandpa"
' by the defendant The court was sus
pended when the arrival of the youthi
ful prisoner was announced and the
- court took up the consideration of his
case.
After consideration of the matter
and a close questioning of the boy,
his grandfather, Joe Harding, and
; such other information as the court
was able to obtain in a summary manner,
an order was passed to the effect
that as the age of the boy was shown
to be six years, thus being within the
age at which responsibility for a
crime could be fixed, he was allowed
to be discharged without recognizance,
without .any required bail, but
, that his case must be investigated by
the Judge of Probate of Horry County,
with the view of committing him
to the orphanage. The court added
a recommendation to the order that
the Judge of Probate inquire and investigate
to see if the boy cannot be
1 committed to the rescue orphanage,
or Carlysle Courtney Orphanage in
Columbia, or the Le La Howe school
In McCormick County. With this or
der the boy was returned here ana it
is supposed that the direction of the
court's order are being carried out by
the Judge of Probate.
The appearance of the !>oy is said
to indicate that he is at least eij?ht
years of age. If so he . would be
trialable in the court of General Sessions
for the crime of murder or manslaughter.
Joe Harding, who is called
"grandfather" by the boy, gave
dates in his examination by the court,
showing that the defendant . could be
only six years of age. This would
make it so that he could not be responsible
for any crime. The court
seemed to have strong doubts about
this boy being as young as he claimed
to be. This was the reason for the
searching questions which the court
put to the boy and to Joe Harding.
| It appears that the boy has no fa,
ther. Joe Harding vnarried the grand!
mother of the boy, and among the
mAmhars nf fVia familir ara fViO /lailcrVl.
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ter of Mrs. Harding, the mother of
this boy and the intent who was slain.
The officers say that the boy showed
remarkable skill in trying to evade
the facts about the killing-, and in
the way that he went about concealing
the evidences of his crime.
He framed up a story at ftr$t when
he went; into the fields to inform his
relatives of the killing:, to the effect
that the little b6y had shot himself
with the gun. Other members of the
i family claimed that they had hidden
? the shells over a window where they
? were supposed to be out of reach of
1 the children and they gay that the gun
was unloaded at thf.tin^^|?Mg|
CITIZEN HAS
MADE CHARGE
Complaint Lodged With Governor
Against Magistrate
Harrelson
Rumors gathered thick and fast in
Conway last week concerning the filing
of complaint with the Governor of
South Carolina against B. P. Harrelson,
the magistrate who haft been filling
that position in Green Sea township
for a long number of ye&rs.
The rumors, when chased down,
show that beyond a doubt such a complaint
containing charges against the
magistrate has been filed in that office,
and that the Governor is making a
careful investigation, and an investi-l
gation which appears to be not only!
careful but thorough.
It is said that the charges were fil- j
ed by E. L. Buff kin, of Tabor, N. C.,
and that the charges cover malfeasance
in the magistrate's office, in that
he is alleged to have placed a f?ne at
the sum of ten dollars for carrying a
concealed weapon, or gun of unlawful
sise ahd weight, whereas the law requires
that a fine of ax least twenty
dollars shall be imposed for this offense;
that he compromised cases that
were beyond his jurisdiction by allowing
parties to withdraw the more serious
charge allowed in the warrants
and substituting ,a crime of a lesser
degree and then imposing a fine for
the lesser crime upon the defendant.
One of the charges that is being
made seems to be to the effect that
fines had not been turned over to the
county treasury as required by law.
An examination of the offices at the
court house does not bear out this last
accusation.
Aside from the complaint filed in
the office of the Chief Magistrate, it
appears that there are various complaints
being: made by others who
have not filed their complaints with
the Governor. Four or five of these,
it is said, have made affidavits and
their affidavits have been sent on to
the Governor. They were all asked if
they would be willing to appear and
testify to the charges that they make,
and they offered to do so in case their
expenses were paid to Columbia and
back, as they, were unable to bqar this
expense themselves.
'Hie Horry Herald is not at liberty to
give the names of any of those employed
by the Governor to gather the
information for him, but it is known
that a big batch of affidavits, statements
and showings were mailed to
the Governor from Conway a few days
ago.
It also appears that Harrelson was
presented by the grand jury upon
charges made acrainst him by Pete
Graham last fall. Under the presentments
made by the grand jury,
the defendant duly made his bond. At
the recent term of the criminal court
held at Conway, it appears that warrants
wene issued and sent forward to
be signed, requiring the appearance
of Harrelson, but at last accounts
these bench warrants could not be located
in the Clerk's office, and a certificate
was made by Clerk of Court.
W. L. Bryan, to the effect that he had
sent these warrants to Solicitor L. "ft.
Gasque, and that this was the last he
had heard from them. They were not
in his office. It appears that a certificate
to this effect has been sent on
to the Governor, together with a lot of
other information tb.it he requested.
In the meantime rumors are rife in
several quarters concerning the compromising
of cases, the lessening of
fines, and other acts which the people
say they object to. Many of these reports
it is impossible to run down to
find out the exact facts at the bottom
of them.
One of the matters which has been
called in question, appears to be the
arrest of some boys, who w?re on the
public road, having two buggies and
a breach of the peace was either committed
or about to be committed when
Rural Eoliceman J. K. King was sent
for and he came. He found a pistol
in one of the buggies, probably under
the seat, and another hid somewhere
about the machine; that he took the
boys before magistrate Harrelson and
they were let off with a fine of ten
dollars. J. K. King was seen in Conway
last Saturday and he says that
there was no charge of carrying pis
tola lodged against the boys, but they
were charged with disorderly conduct.
The charges may result in the summoning
of the magistrate to Columbia
to attend before the Governor and
make such a showing as he can
against the allegations.
OLD NEWS MAN
LIKES CONWAY
J. W. Ryan, of Barnwell, S> C., and
a newspaper man of long experience,
and formerly editor of both of
the newspapers published at Bamwell",
S. C., now a contributor to the
press under the name of U. Jay, was
in Cohway last Saturday morning for
about an hour.
While here he called at The Herald
office. He is much impressed with our
little city by> the Wa*cam*w, and he
thinks, along with the rest of Horry
County, its future depends almost Entirely
upon the enterprise*!*! eWMfft
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BIGGEST YET
NOW OUR AIM
Advance Agent of Radbiitte
Chautauqua Comes to
Our Town
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OUR COMMUNITY BUILDING
Spring is the Season When
All Things Take on New
Growth
Conway is looking for the biggest'
chautauqua we have yet had, to comeon
May 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
All arrangements have been mi^le
to make this the biggest And best of
all the Radcliffe Chautauqua gatherings
in the history of the county,
Last week the y advance agent, T,
D. Clinkscales, came for the purpose
of Pftllil)cr tf?*? miBMnfrtvo
? n vu^vw 1^1 qiiu
making the - preliminary plans to hold
the chautaaqua.
In last week's issue of this paper \
there appeared a writeup of the various
attractions coming with the Chautauqua
this year. They are all new.
They will be here for the .first time in
their successful operations with shows
and chautauquas in all parts of the n
country. They are high class. This is
guaranteed. Among them will be the
best men and women performers on
the stage.
By far the best feature of the Chautauqua,
as in the past, will be the
community interest feature. Men will
deliver lectures on community subjects
that are of the greatest to the
people of this time. If there is anything
which is more important now
than ever before it is the spirit of \
community improvement. All of the
people are gaining interest Along that \
line. They only need a little encouragement
in order to make great J
community builders. Even thp small I
boys and girls are easily interested in <
the things which go to make their
homes better, and a bigger and better
chance to develop where co-operation
and not opposition is the rule of conduct.
It is in this spirit of commiinitv in
terest and community building that
the chautauqua comes each year to. /
awaken the interest and zeal and \
cause us to realize the mahy cppor- ,
tunities which lie at our very doors
for progress and improvement. We J
do tiot need to look off yonder f?r m
what we want. The things we need ^
and want are right here and we must
reach out after them, oresevve and
improve them.
We want the biggest crowds of all
the seasons this time. The more the
hearers, the more interest will be
awakened. The lectures alone will
be worth the price of the ' season
ticket.
There is no other season of the f ebr
wherein the thoughts of the progres- ;
sive men and women of a community
will turn more to the advancement of
their home town than in the spring.
It is the time of the year when all
things in the vegetable kingdom begin h
to germinate and put for^h new A
shoots. This spirit of gVowtli atvdl de- H
velopment seems to have its effect
the human race. This spring weV 1
must make one of the best in histoiy V i
in the laying and carrying out of f
plans to make oiir community better. I
Our town has some really big men I
and women in it. We are proud of '
that fact. All that they need to exert. |
themselves in any community is to
ask them. They are at onco enthused.
We want them to be so in the
matter of this chautauqua.
S. S. TRAINING |
MYRTLE BEACH
Trainina Snhrml Comes ti/w
Myrtle Beach on June
12-19
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Marion, April 20.?The annuat
South Carolina conference training
school and young people's i conference
will be held at Myrtle Beach June 1
12-19, according* to T. C. j?asterling, v
superintendent of the Metiiodist Sun- < ^
day school and the Marfon graded ^
schools. M|ss Grace Killingswortly ' q
6f Orangeburg, assistant superintendent
of the conference, announce* a
that at this session only a genera) *
unit of the standard training courtt^^
will be offered with the exception of li |
course on young people's organisation- |
and administration. }
The following courses will be offfih 1
ed: Bible; The Methodist Church antf M
Its Works; the Sunday School; Infest M
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