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) WOMAN CRIES
AS MAN TAKEN
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Luther Paqe Cauqht as
i About to Start His
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So Far he Is Only Man Implicated
In This Warrant
Luther Page, a white man who is
said to be about twenty-three years of
age, was caught while about to begin
the operation of a whiskey still, on
last Thursday, and was placed under
arrest by H. N. Sessions, deputy sheriff,
and was lodged In the county jail
under a charge of violation of the
prohibition laws.
With Mr. Sessions at the time of
making the raid, were L. C. Best, a
constable, Rolin Johnson and J. C.
Moody. The location of the still and
its frequent operation had been reported
to the sheriff of the county
sometime before the raid. He sent H.
N. Sessions to make the capture and
to arrest the defendant. The others
above mentioned were called to assist
in making the raid.
There was on hand at the time of
V?he raid about one hundred and fifty
^gallons of sour mash, and just then in
the light state of fermentation to
place in the still tub and begin to run
on a cnarge. rne still was located
ahoutr one and one half miles from
Gallivants Ferry, and about one fourth
of a mile from the home of Page
where he lived with a young wife, but
it is said that h^ has no children.
L The officer and his assistant arrived
fj at the place without being seen sometime
after dark last Wednesday night.
They all secreted themselves about the
place, Sessions hiding behind the barrels
of mash that were .close by the
stili. There was a rather long wait and
for a while it was thought that the
operator might fail to come to the still
tha- night.
A bout two o'clock in the morning
sorneorte was heard approaching. It
was Page. He came up and after a
minute went to the barrels of mash,
perhaps to take another look at the
contents and be sure that the mash
was in the right shape to make good
whiskey. He was within five feet of
Sessions. Just as Page went to put his
hands on the barrel of mash, the deputy
sheriff raised up from behind the
barrels and ordered Page to put up his
hands. Paue had a pistol in his right
hand .at the time he was made to
put up his hands, and the officer took
pother big and ugly looking pistol
Mt of his coat pocket. Page was rathS*
slow at first in putting up his
hands, but the officer had the drop on
him and Page took the obvious course
to prevent' serious consequences to
himself. The still had not bebn run the
night before. It was evident that it
had been waiting for the molasses and
corn meal to sour first.
The still consisted of the usual gasoline
drum used for a tank. The office'/
searched in vain for the still
worm. It could not be found.
An incident connected with his arrest
and going to prison was pitiful,
according to the men who made the
arrest. The man begged them to allow
him to go by the home and let him
toll his wife that he had to go. The
men went to the house with Page and
he told his wife. His wife was awake
and so were two or three younger
brothers of Page. Mrs. Page took it
hard. She cried bitterly v^hen she realized
that her husband had been caught
and would have to leave their home fo
the county jail. Her actions showed
that her heart was breaking and it
awakened the sympathy of the men
who arrested the man when they saw
the deep grief that the young wife
felt for her erring spouse. vrhey were
pMverless to give her any relief, howan(*
they had to leave with Page
forithe county jail, leaving the wife in
tears as she told her husband a last
good-by. , '
The still tank would hold about sixty
gallons of mash. The worm had evidently
been hidden away, and the officers
could not wait until Page uncovered
it to begin operations. He would
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roc ten wnere it was.
In all cases of this kind where a
married man violates the law and is
caught and made to answer for his
crime, it is his poor wife and little
children who suffer the most by reason
of his conduct. No matter how
heavy a fine is imposed on the man,
no matter how long a term he gets
soaked for in the county chain gang
or State penitentiary, his wife and
children are the ones to stand the
brunt of the punishment and not him
, at lasr All of the courts speak of this
ft %it ti:' es and they show how much
V they sympathize with those who are
Innocent and yet have to suffer the
consequence of acts .for which they
are not themselves responsible; but
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There is a tendency toward
moral laxity that is nationwide jj
at this time. What should we try >?
to do in order to stop it? !!
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CARSCOLUDE
NEAR MARION
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Several Negro Automobtlists
Are Severely Injured in
Accident
There was an automobile wreck Jin
the suburbs of the town of Marion as
an aftermath of the ball game between
the colored teams of Conway
and Marion.
In the transfer car of Dozier Bruton,
a Ford, there were a number of
colored people returning to Conway
after the game. They were just leaving
the limits of the town, after dark,
the car being driven by Lush Hemingway.
A Dodge touring car which was
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ueing ariven uy wnue people ran into
collision with the Ford and turned
the Ford completely over pinning several
of the occupants of the Ford car
underneath and they sustained severe
injuries.
Lukey Cox was hurt by a dangerous
bruise on the head, so~also was Missie
Dewett. Mary Nixon was injured
about the chest and other p&rts of her
body and was so seriously hurt that
she was taken to a hospital in Marion
where the outcome was doubtful at
last accounts. Wm. Johnson, the keeper
of a restaurant in Conway was also
among- the injured, but his bruises
were not serious and he was back at
his place of business next day.
The Dodge was injured in the
smash, one of the wheels and some of
the other parts of the machine being
demolished and making the .Machine
almost a complete wreck. The Ford
car was badly broken up.
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i a iic tsui i,v iiau f^uuc uvci 111 mc
Ford car to witness a game of baseball
between the Marion and- Conway
teams. After the game was over se me
time was spent about the town and it
was soon after dark began to come
on that the car was started on the
back home and the lights of the car
turned on.
It is said that the case will be tried
out in the courts but no particulars of
any suit could be obtained at the time
this article was being written.
The cars struck together with considerable
force judging by the effects
on the two machines and by the severe
injuries sustained by the occupants.
The names of the owners or drivers
of the Dodge car could not be learned
here. Further particulars of the accident
may appear later.
l. bTcapps
many friends
L. B. Capps, whose sudden death at
ILoris last week, was a shock to many
friends in this section of the county,
was ;i member of Conway Lodge number
65, A. F. M. His lodge took charge
of his funeral and most of the members
of Conway attended the exer.
cises. There were prominent masons
present from the Green Sea Lodge,
and from lodges in North Carolina, the
native home of Mr. Capps.
Mr. Capps is survived by his widow
and two young children.
He had been in failing health for
about two years. He had been to a
hospital in the hope of obtaining relief
for his trouble, and upon his return
some time ago he was feeling
much better and his friends and relatives
fully expected that he would fully
recover from his malady.
On the day before his death he went
off to the river in a car, on a fishing
trip with a friend. They returned on
the &ame afternoon. Mr. Capps was in
until he went to leave the car upon the
his usual health, or thought to be so,
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return irom cne nsning trip, tie collapsed
at that time and was taken into
the house. He never recovered from
I the coma into which he passed, and his
death occurred the following day.
The funeral exercises took place at
Loris at 3 o'clock last Thursday. The
interment was in the Loris Cemetery.
Mr. Capps worked with the Trexler
Lumber Company for a number of
years as office secretary and typewritten
He was a competent man invthat
work and his services were. greatly appreciated
by his employers. He made
many friends here and at Loris.
NEGRO DRIVER
FOR SPEEDING
Policeman Holt arrested Oscar
Cochran, on a recent Sunday on a
charge of speeding beyond the limit
allowed by the ordinance, while driving
an Essex car on Main Street. The
policeman watcneci uochran as he sped
at a wreckless rate coming in from V/e
national highway.
rr,,ie fine paid by the negro was
$7.50.
the courts are powerless' to render any
assistance to tnese innocent ones. The
judges and the juries are sworn to do
their duty and they have to find the
results in accordance with the facts as
proved, regardless of the consequences
to third parties. Then again how can a
m$n expect the court and the jury to
be sorry for his folks, when he forgot
their best interests himself, when he
1 decided to violate the law and thus put
himself in the way of being caught ?
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Service is a mighty good
it in building a business,
equal it in establishing an ei
the people.
Hut there is such a thing
is a bad thing. Service in
proper proportion gets a he
it is aimed at; then over se
* Over service means the gi
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$ the same by taking advant
* ieelings that service that bi
- subjects before that time.
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SIGNERS HAD
TO MARE GOOD
Chautauqua Came and Went
Under Handicaps But
Was Good
SOME VERY GOOD TALENT
Lectures Were Much Approved
by All Who Heard
Them
The Radcliffe Chautauqua came to
Conway this time and was carried out
under a number of handicaps.
It is a wonder the guarantors did
not have to put up more than they did
to pay off the score.
As it is they got off by paying
somevyhere from eight to fifteen dollill'O
Dipll f/\ mrtb-a nn flin onmn?4
' w i uurv^ uji tuu iaiiiv/uiii tiiat
was lacking to pay the sum of $550.00
that was required to pay for the entertainers.
That was bad.^fcid such a thing happened
only once nefore as far ,as is
now recalled. It is true that the sum
of about sixty to seventy dollars was
lacking last year, but this was raised
out of a fund that had been left over
from the big success of the season before
that, and the guarantors last year
did not have to pay anything extra.
In the first place there was a mistake
made in deciding* too late to use
the school auditorium. The school auditorium
i$ a fine place. It cost a pile of
money and it is .as good as it was expected
to be with one exception as far
as this writer can find out?it is not
right in the matter, of acoustics. Many
complaints were heard this time While
the Chautauqua speakers were trying
to make themselves heard and understood
to the effect that it was too hard
to hear what the speakers said. At
first it had been planned to have the
big tent and the big tent was advertised
in all of the advertising matter
that was printed and sent out from
the town. Advertising in the paper
w.as to the effect that the chautauqua
would be held in the tent. The location
of the tent was arranged for and yet
when the committee met early last
week they decided to leave off the tent
and hold the show in the school auditorium.
It is believed that this late
change in the plans cost the committee
more than one hundred dollars in the
sale of tickets.
Another drawback was the Evening;
Star * Festival held a few weeks ago
and at which the sum of over five hundred
dollars was picked up by the organization
from the people who have
been long suffering in the matter of
going down into their pockets to support
things like this. This chautauqua
coming on the heels of the festival
was .a little bit more than the showloving
people of Conway wanted to
stand for, and who can blame them ?
Another thing was the protracted
meetings. This revival had been planned
originally for one week. People be
came interested in it and the preacher
said that he could not afford to stop it
when there was so much interest being
shown and the meetings ran three
weeks instead of one, and it was going
on just the same while the chautauqua
was being held.
There was no opposition at the
meeting to the holding of the chautauqua
sessions. The preacher arranged
his meetings so that the congregation
could attend both. But it kept the people
out too late to try to take in both
the same nigbt. They would not neg
lect the meetings* for that would not
have been right, and they could not
stand the idea of leav* ?g the church
.at 8:30 and then going to the school
house to get about 11 o'clock feeling
so tired they were sick
All these things made the Chautauqua
much less of a success than it
would have been Too many things going
on at the same time is more than
any people should be asked to tolerate
and no one can blame them for turning
up rather slim At the chautauqua.
Just as advertised the chautauqua
talent was better than it e^er has been
here. There was more good done to
those who were in position to take it
in than ever before on similar occasions
There was fine talent displayed
and some of the best lectures ever delivered
before an audience.
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thing. There is nothing like *
There is nothing which can *
nterprise in the good will of *
as over service. Over service *
its proper sense and in its *
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rvice begins to take its toll. *
ving of more than is needed $
ig and taking pay for it just *
acre of erood will and kindlv *
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GUANO CONCERN
SUING GRAHAMS
Valuable Farming Lands in
Green Sea Section Are
Involved
FRAUD IS NOW M.LEGED
New Suit Follows Rendition 'of
Big Judgment at Recent
Term
A suit of more than ordinary interest
has been filed in the court of common
pleas in .and for Horry County,
by Baugh & Sons Company, a fertjliz^
er company of Norfolk, Va., against
Graham W. Graham and Robert E.
Lee Graham, two farmers of the
Green Sea community, near Loris.
It appears that Graham W. Graham
and his brother, Robert E. Lee Graham,
were partners in the farming
and fertilizer sales business for a
number of years, and are probably yet
dealing in that manner. The contracts
for the purchase of fertilizers ;were
signed as G. W. & R. E. L. Graham.
They owned fertile lands in one of the
best developed farming sections of
Horry County. They acquired the
land of Wm. M. Graham, who it is understood,
was the father of two sons
and conveyed to them in consideration
of the love and affection he had for
his sons, each a portion of the large
tract of land on which he lived and
cleared up a farm, running an agreed
line between the two and giving each
what was estimated as containing 269
acres of the big tract. In the deeds he
attempted to make it so that in rase
of the death of one of the boys without
"leaving lawful bodily heirs" that
the tract of the one thus dying should
go then to the other of the brothers
and his lawful heirs.
This land which is in one of the
best farming districts of the county,
according to the complaint, as well as
other tracts of land otherwise acquired
by the two Grahams, stood in their
names as usual before the year 1919
when they entered into -the contract to
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purchase unu sen leniuzer.^ num mc
factories of Baugh & Sons Company.
The complaint alleges that they owed
other debts beside these, at least that
Graham W. Graham did; then the
complaint goes on to allege that after
becoming involved in a big debt, both
Graham W. Graham and Robert E.
Lee Graham in the month of November
1920, filed deeds in the clerk's ofcfie
here undertaking to convey to
their wives, Mrs. Lillous L. Graham
and Laura Jane Graham, these valuable
lands which they had owned. The
purpose of the suit is to set these
deeds aside and make the.proprty subject
to the debts of the ..wo.
Under the contract f> r the purchase
and sale of fertilise"? the Grahams
purchased commercial fertilisers to
the amount of about ten thousand dollars
worth. In the fall of 1920, they
paid four thousand dollars on this, and
after paying that amount and failing
to pay the balance they filed the deeds
set forth in the complaint. In April
1921 Baugh & Sons Company entered
suit against Graham W. Graham and
Robert E. Lee Graham for the balance
due on the notes given under the fertilizer
contract. The dockets of Horry
County courts were then congested
fnr several vears
after that, but the case finally came on
for trial at the recent term of the
court earfy in April 1923, and at that
term, although Graham contested the
case, a verdict was rendered against
him for the sum of $7,200.18. This
judgment was entered up against
Graham W. Graham and Robert E.
Lee Graham on April 12th, 1923, and
since then the sheriff has reported
that he found all of the property,.real
and personal, standing in the names of
the Mrs. Grahams. The suit to set
aside the deeds has followed. The complaint
alleges in part as follows:
13. That the plaintiff herein is informed
and believes that on or about
the 13th day of January. A. D. 19,15, the
defendant Graham W. Graham, being
at that time involved in certain debts,
and under certain obligations, which
are not concerned in this action, fori
the purpose of hindering and delaying.
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DID NOT USE
LIGHT PLANT
J. H. Hendrick Claims Company
Failed to Install
It
J. H. Hendrick says he has had an
unusual experience in regard to his
purchase of a lighting plant from the
J. B. Colt Co., some years ago when
that company was selling gas lighting
systems to farmers in all sections of
the country.
IT !? 1_ H > , n
mi. rienuricK was me last tarmer in
the Cedar Grove section of the county
to sign his name to one of the contracts
which bound him to pay the
sum of $252.75 for one of the plants
for automatically producing acetylene
gas from carbide, and including a
number of the lighting fixtures sent
along with this plant. The fixtures for
each room in Mr. Hendrick's house
were planned out ami listed on the
back of this contract.
The contract did not so provide, but
Mr. Hendrick claims, just the same,
that the .agent through whom he
bought agreed that a competent man
would be sent to put in the plant and
get it into satisfactory operation. He
says that it was understood that he
would receive the plant and keep it
there until this man should come
along to install the same.
He says that he received the p'ant
when it came to Conway, carried it
home, and stored it there and that no
one had come to put in the equipment
for him after the space of two years
from the time it was received. He says
that last f.all a collection agent or adjuster
came to see him and wished to
collect for the amount due, and that
he would not pay because no one had
offered to put in the plant tor him;
that he agieed then with the agent
that he (Hendrick) would haul the
plant to Conw.ay and ship it at his own
expense to some point in Indiana
and ,send the Bill of Lading to the
agent who would be 111 Georgetown, S.
C. He claims that he did ihis and
heard nothing else from it until quite
recently he received a letter from a
lawyer's office asking for an adjustment
of the contract.
Mr. Hendrick h,as called upon the
]n\VVPV mill iiuiHo liic ufntttmaiif
would appear to clear him of all
claims under the contract as although
the contract Mr. H end rick signd does
not make it necessary for the company
to install the plant, yet he says
thatt the agent later agreed to take
the plant back and that he complied
with this later agreement by sending
the equipment into the place agreed
upon.
NEGRO LABOR
IS ENTICED
Form Letters and Applications
Being Sent Broadcast
by Agencies
Frequent complaint is now being
made that negro labor is being induced
to go North and leaving the South,
where negroes have been well treated
by the Southern pople throughout all
these years. In some sections cf Fouth
Carolina it would appear that affairs
are rather serious \s to the supply of
labor that is needed in building and
other improvements. Certain things
coming to light indicate that certain
agencies located in the North are responsible
for a great deal of this
movement of negroes to the Northern
States. It appears to be the very com
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monest moor tney want to go ana the
skilled negro laborers are not so much
in demand. There has come to the Herald
office recently the following1 form
of circular letter, which has been sent
out broadcast by a so-called Parker
& Parker Labor Service:
Dear Sir:?
Your letter received and we are
sending application blank as you request.
We have started bringing men
North and wUl continue until September.
We have many applicants and all
must wait their turn.
We want only first class common laborers
between the ages of 18 and 45.
We want men who will remain with
the company and pay back their transportation.
If you are not that kind of
man. do not bother us by sending application.
Transportation is?sAnt fni* m?n nnlv
We handle men chiefly for steel
mills and the WA^es are around 30 and
38 cents an hour.
Please do not keep writing us letters.
We will send for you as soon as
we can. We are as anxious to get you
out of the South as you are. But it
takes time. We send you all information
about the place and job before
you leave. ,
We require $2.00 with each application.
This money is spent for postage,
telegrams, printing, clerks, and for
the other expenses of running the business.
It. also pays for our advertising
in trade magazines and newspapers to
secure jobs for present and future applicants.
As far as we know ours is
the only company that is trying to
help good negroes out of; the south and
it requires much money. This is what
your two dollars are spent for and you
are not required to pay us anymore at
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LAND DISPUTE
HAS STARTED
George W. McCracken is
Plaintiff Against Magnolia
Prescott
ESTATE OF SAM McCRACK'N
Case Brings Back to Mind the
Killing of Fulton
Davis
There was a Reference hearing held
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oeiore me uierK of Court, as special
master, at the court house last Thursday
in the case of George W. McCracken
.against Magnolia Prescott.
The hearing was held under an order
of reference granted recently by
Judge Townsend.
The case .concerns a sguill tract of
land on the Waller short cut road, not
far out of Con\Vay, which place is now
occupied by George W. McCracken under
a deed which is signed by all of
the heirs at law of the late Sam McCracken,
except one daughter of Sam
Mc-Cracken, the defendant Magnolia
Prescott. j
The case could not be concluded on
Thursday. This was on account of the
illness of Mrs. Prescott. The case i roceeded,
however, with the taking cf
the testimony of such witnesses for
the plaintiff as were present and the
hearing will be cncluded later ?,ller
the recovery of Mrs. Prescott.
The plaintiff, George McCracken,
testified. He i^ a nephew ot Sam McCracken.
He paid a total of S! 150 00
for the place, e\cept that ho is still
owing Jim McCracken, or his estate as
he is now dead, the sum of $5(5.00, Joe
McCracken, another heir, $45.00, and
Frank McCracken, another heir the
sum of $43.00. He said that he had
held this much back out oY the purchase
money for the reason that there
was a question about the interest of
the defendant Nolie McCracken. She
had not signed the deed to him, and he
had understood that she refused to
sign, and he was to pay these balances
whenever the deed was finished up. or
words to that effect.
It was apparent from the testimony
adduced by the plaintiff that he claims
under the heirs who signed his deed,
the latter setting up that a certain
seven acres described in a deed from
Sa?n McCracken to Nolie Prescott before
his death, and which parcel Nolie
still has and now lives on, was intended
and received as Nolie's share in
Sam's estate; but it was shown by the
record of the deed from Sam to hus
daughter, Mrs. Prescott, that the deed
was expressed as being in consideration
of twenty dollars paid. Nolie
Prescott sets up that she bought and
paid for this seven acres of land and
i now claims an interest in the land that
was left and which has come into the
possession of the plaintiff in the
case.
T. M. Sessions, who was a witness
to the deed for the seven acres from
Sam McCracken to Nolie Prescott, was
sworn'and said that he did not see any
money paid or passed between the
parties on the day that this seven acre
deed was executed at his father's
home. He testified to a conversation
which had taken place some time before
that in which Sam McCracken
said that he intended this land for
Nolie and the George McCracken part
for Joe, Jim and Frank.
Sam McCracken and Catherine Mcplf
on nvo f hn cq nin \*rV\r* 4#% c*?%ll
v? itvivvu I** W VIIV 0?ing T*. HU IOUU VV OC I L
wood and kindling in Conway. The old
man was a lifelong- cripple. He couid
not work. His wife drove an ok and
cart with which she hauled the wood
and lightwood splinters for sale *o tht>
residents of Conway. It is over his estate
land that this case has arisen.
It was at the little house on the seven
acre piece now occupied by the
Prescott family that Fulton Davis was
killed by Charley Prescott in the fall
of 1921. Prescott was tried the following
year and acquitted because it appeared
that he acted in defense of his
home.
The land case will go on at a later
date.
PRRSSING^LUB
BREAKS LAWS
John and Arthur Hughes, two negroes
who rum- a pressing club in
town, occupying a portion of the small
store building next door to the New
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breaking the ordinance against working
on the Sabbath day.
It appeared that the work in the
pressing room was not finished on a
recent Saturday night by midnight
. and the proprietors worked on
through Sunday morning, at least that
part of Saturday night which would be
regarded as a part of Sunday.
On their trial before the mayor they
were each fined in the sum of $5.00.
$
* Some people are so crazy to n
SS go that they have little time 16 jj
" apply to useful work. They be- it
\\ lieve in making the other fellow 1 *
n do it all. ] \
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