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VOLUME XXXvn
S\ CONWAY IRON
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nUIVIVIS DUKl>li5
Loss is Estimated Between
Ten and Twenty Thousand
i Dollars
KEPT FROM- SPREADING
Second Time That Fire Has
Destroyed Company's
Plant
The fire alarm broke the stillness of
the night about 12:30 last Friday
morning causing residents to get out
of bed to see the whole eastern part of
the business section of Conway lighted
up by a huge fire such as the business
district has not had in many years.
The plant of the Conway Iron
Works was on fire from some unknown
origin. The fire company arrived
quickly and began to play a number
of streams on the flames which
were becoming hotter and hotter as
known as the shops, began to f,all in.
The efforts of the company were directed
to keeping the flames within
1 Im unpfimi liriiwr i ?> ? Mifwl i ?i nn t
lakeside and save the wooden warebouses
and small buildings in the rear
of stores from spreading the flames to
the modern business buildings lining
Main street on the Eastward side its
tfitire length through the block.
* The two story building close to the
shops occupied by the cotton ginnery
and grist mill were kept cool for some
time by the streams from the fire
pumps, but it caught among lint and
cobwebs on the upper floors and burstod
into flames .and black smoke. Near
the opposite end of the shop building
was located a small wooden building
4 occupied by Dozier Dewett as a restaurant.
This also caught and was destroyed.
The efforts of the fire company
only retarded the complete destruction
of the shops, which were one
story high, the ginnery, which was
two stories high, and the restaurant
which was a one story building. All of
these were soon burned up. There was
^ no spread of the fire to other sections.
w It was fortunate for the remainder of
the business section that no wind was
blowing in that direction. The air was
very still at the time of the fire. All
of the buildings destroyed were of
wood. The land on which the buildings
stood is the property of D. A. Spivey,
while the machinery in the two large
i i * i I n
buildings, oeiongea to cue ^onwa.x
Iron Works, a corporation in which
the most of the shares are held by I).
A. Spivey and J. C. Spivey. Milton
Pittnian had the property under lease,
as to the iron shops, until January
1923, for several years; but he was
not connected with the business at the
tij^r of the fire. The whole business
waj under the charge of J. L. Dozier
as manager or superintendent. There
was valuable machinery contained in
both buildings. The ginnery was the
only business of its kind in Conway
at the time. It contained the only grist
mill in operation at the time. Only a
small amount of insurance was carried
as the rates were very high on that
kind of property. Recently a small cottage
located between these buildings
and the warehouses of the Spivey
Mercantile Company, was torn down
in order to decrease the fire .risk in
that section of the town. Buildings
consisting of two residences on the opposite
side of third avenue from the
place of the fire got very hot while
1 the other buildings were being consumed
but as they were kept constantly
wet by playing the file hose, the
danger passed without any damage to
the property there.
i This is the second time that the
Conway Iron Works has been burned
I out. The first time was ten or tweve
"?ni'8 nrm when instead of the ginnery
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in connection with the shops, the comI1
pany was running a small saw mill
and planing mill in a wooden building
' I located on exactly the same spot
J where the ginnery was later built
Fimt icaught in the boiler room of the
woodworking part about the middle of
the day. The mill building and also
the building which carried the ironworking
machinery at that time were
quickly consumed, and just as it was
this time, there was luckily no wind
blowing to spread the fire to other
parts of the town. Nothing was saved
: from the flames the first time and
1 nothing was saved this time. J. L.
IDozier was at that t^me one of the
stockholders in the corporation, and
lie has remained with the company for
the most of the time since, in charge
of the grist mill and ginnery which
was later erected at the same
place, ^r as gneral manager of the
whole enterprise.
The fire of last Friday morning
1 -wi k?
I caused the heaviest loss musuihicu
I fire here in some time. The total losi
I is e- ti* ui'ed as between ten and twen*
8 'lv~"v thousand dollars with a very smal
Rk*w$jmount of insurance carried owing tc
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I * We may brag all we want to ?|
I jj about our town and the people jj
k ); in it, but we are really no bet- jj
ter than hundreds of other small 3
towns all over the country. We \
I Tt think we are entitled to every- >
K thing, but put up with what we j
E A can get.
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SOUR MASHJS
FULL OF FROGS
No Arrest is Made in the Matter
as Owner Did not
Appear
On last Friday, May 11th, D. Frank
Bellamy, of the rural police, tore up
and destroyed containers in which
there was standing about one hundred
gallons of sour beer, ready to be
placed into a still and made into
moonshine whiskey.
It was located in the head of Shingle
Bay in Little River township, near
an old neighborhood road leading from
near Wampee toward the seaside.
The officer located the mash and
watched it for about a week in the
hope that the owner of it would come
with the still to make a location and
begin stilling the mash. The mash
was more than ready to be run. It
was contained in two barrels. In one
sugar had been melted and le<ft to
ferment while in the other molasses
had been used. The barrel containing
the sugar mash was past condition.
I lie ofhcer finally decided that tlie
man who had placed it there got wind
of trouble and decided to leave it
alone.
In this mash when poured out by
the officer were found five dead toad
frogs, not only were they dead, but
they were rotten. He feels sure that
the mash would have been used, toad i
frogs and all, if it had not been for]
the discovery of the place made by
him and watching the place.
The officer says he has found various
unclean things in this mash before
but this is the first time that it
has contained dead frogs.
TYPHOID FROM
WAYSIDE SPOT
Cree! Children Believed to have
Got Germs From A
Ditch
ONE CHILD SUCCUMBS
Investigation Made to Try to
Determine Source of
Germs
One of the children of Mr. and Mrs.
Nick Creel died last Wednesday night,
after an illness from typhoid fever
lasting several weeks.
Two of the children were taken sick
with the disease at about the same
time. They range from eight to ten or
twelve years of age and were both in
school when taken with the fever.
The women's organizations of the
town found out about the sickness of
the young school children and at c nee
devised plans for aiding the family in
their misfortune. They live in one of
the new cottages on some of the I^ewis
property in the new residence section
of Conway which lies to the
Southward and Westward of the county
court house. Regular visits were
made to the stricken home and everytV?i>wr
wif.hin t l^r? lmnnrls; of l'fiiLSfin
were done by kind friends and neighbors
to save the lives of the children.
Enquiry was made as to where they
could have acquired the germs of the
fever. It was not from the water supply
of the town because thsy did not
use water from that source. They
drank water from a well on the premises.
Steps were taken to have that
condemned at once and a ban put on
the use of water from it, though none
could say or be sure that the sickness
came from germs which it contained.
The condemning of this well was a
precaution to prevent the possibility
of others catching the deadly germs
if the water contained any.
It was learned that these children
while playing games at the school
building had wandered off after a lost
ball, or something of that kind, and,
being thirsty, they drank long and
deep from a spring by the side of the
old road leading out by the fields of
B. G. Collins in the direction of the
McDermott farm. They were taken ill
within just the right time after drinking
from the spring, fir them to have
taken the germs with the water from
the spring by the road ditch.
Other children have confirmed the
, story of the sick children about arinK!
ing the water by the side of the road.
1 Other children also drank water at the
same place but this may have been at
! a different time. No other children
i have been reported as sick. It is
t known, however, that it is not every
; person who is susceptible to the typhoid
fever germs and the other child.
ren may have been stronger than the
r Creel children and their systems ward,
ed off the germs of the disease.
The other child, at last accounts,
I was improving and it was believed at
> the time this article is written that
the sister of the little dead girl will
recover from the attack.
f o
k The Trexler Lumber Company art
|c winding up their affairs in this sectior
? of the country and will not be engage<
? ! in the timber and lumber business an>
k I further here as they have cut out an<
n : sold out all the timber that they own
|c J ed with very few exceptions.
? the nature of the property and the al
jc ways high rates that are charged fo
the policies.
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"OONWAY, S. 6~THPRSDAY."
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| THINGS NEVER E
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% You will find some who h
* intending to carry out some i
to do, or accomplish some
said was the ambition of th<
* started any such action, nc
| dertaking, for the reason tl
* things got exactly right.
Experience shows that cc
| the right shape for any big
It is not in nature for this t
% that the best time is now ar
% any more right as to all of t
who would do and accomplis
blows while the iron is hot.
* exactly right, opportunities
$ less the more they are put (
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FURNEY WARD
UNDER ARREST
Charged With Two Counts on
Whiskey and Non Support
Furney Ward was landed in the
Horry County jail last Thursday
morning after he had remained in hiding
for about a week, following the
discovery and tearing up of his whiskey
still in the woods in Conway township.
The officers did not capture Ward
when they took the still. He had slipped
out of the way. They waited for
him a few days in the belief that he
would come out of hiding and then the
nrnppfis rvf tVip Imav vvmiM bo ntlt into
effect against him.
Ward came out of the bays last
Wednesday evening carrying a gun.
He was seen and this was reported to
the officers here.
V. D. Johnson, J. O. Chestnut and
H. N. Sessions went to nvike the arrest
expecting that the defendant
might make some resistance, as it was
reported lie was heavily armed.
He had gone to his house where his
wife, it is alleged, was abandoned by
him some time ago, so that she had
left the home and was living elsewhere
at the time of his arrest.
The house was closed up and silent
when the officers approached. They
knocked and for some time Ward did
not answer. They finally got him up
and out about midnight last Wednesday
night. Before the magistrate in
Conway his bond was fixed at one
thousand dollars with good sureties,
and at last accounts he had not succeeded
in furnishing bail to that or
any other amount.
He is charged with stilling and selling
whiskey; abandonment and nonsuppcrt
of his v.ife aw- children: also
with adultery with a woman who
goes by the name of Mary Baker.
Since he went away recently it was reported
in Conway that a son of Ward's
had marrj/id this Baker woman and
the two had left for some place in
North Carolina.
It is expected that these charges
against Ward will be called up and
tried at the approaching term of the
criminal court in June.
MONTGOMERY IS
UNDER CHARGE
Daniel Montgomery was arrested in
the night of May 1th, 1923, by J. O.
Chestnut, constable under Magistrate
W. H. Chestnut, and V. D. Johnson,
of the rural police force, on a warrant
charging the serious offense of criminal
assault, alleging a young girl as
the victim. The warrant states that
she was under sixteen years of age.
It was expected that officers might
have some trouble in making the arrest,
so they used precautions. J. O.
nilf f A hlift f i?Anf rl aai? /if 4 Un I
VIlV/OVllUl; I 1 V/llt V1WWI \J I 1/1 IV*
house where Montgomery was locat-1
ed, and V. D. Johnson went to the
hack door. Chestnut knocked on the
door and heard someone going out
toward the back. They were slow
about opening the door from the inside.
Chestnut went in and asked
for Daniel, and those in the house sj.id
that Daniel was not there. They
claimed they did not know where
Daniel was.
It turned out that as Montgomery
was going out near the back door
Johnson nabbed him, and in a few
minutes the defendant was on his
way to the jail. He could not furnish
bail and was locked up to await
trial.
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j I UUINli 1V1AIN
HAS INJURY
\ Bertrand Garren, son of A. B.
\ Garren, the contractor, sustained a
^ broken leg last Friday when the car
\ he was cranking slipped into gear and
_ jammed him against a post.
He was taken to Dr. J. A. Norton
- where an examination showed the
- larger bone of the leg broken in two,
r and the small bone considerably
bruised.
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MAY 17. 1923
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important action they meant *
big undertaking that they *
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CITY CHAMBER
MAKES REPORT
Annual Meeting Last Friday
Discloses Number of
Activities
The Conway Chamber of Commerce
held its annual meeting on last Friday
nipht.
At this meetintr the spcvrhir \ Mr.
M. A. Wright, made report covering
the activities of the chamber for the
vear ^beginning February 11, 1922 to
February 11, 1923.
Th4 report contains much of interest
and is published in full as follows:
* Publicity
It may well be assumed that one of
the chief functions of the Chamber of
Commerce is to jrive desirable publicity
to the attractions and points of
excellence of its town. This has been
a constant endeavor of our own Chamber.
Many articles calculated to draw
favorable attention to this town and
section have been written for the
newspapers of South Carolina.
Five thousand copies of a booklet
of 40 pages profusely illustrated have
been prtnted and many of these have
been driven judicious distribution. The
photographs and reading matter are
of such nature as to create a very favorable
impression in the public mind.
To the growing1 number of persons
writing for information in regard to
Conway and Horry County, these
booklets are the best advertisement
of the section's resources and attractions.
Requests for copies of the hooklet
have come from all over South
Carolina, from Georgia, Florida,
North Carolina, California, Kansas,
Massachusetts, and other states
The supply on hand is ample to
meet the normal demands of the next
few years. All cuts used in connection
with the publication are in the possession
of the Chamber of Commerce.
and if it should be desired at any future
time to prepare a similar booklet,
much of the trouble and expense in
connection with it will be eliminated.
The Methodist Sunday School convention
which meets at Myrtle Beach
has made use of one of the cuts in its
advertising campaign. A thousand or
more leaflets showing photographs of
Myrtle Beach have been distributed
through Methodist channels.
The State Superintendent of Education
has requested permission to use
certain of these cuts and to reprint extracts
from the pamphlet in an educational
bulletin shortly to be issued by
his department. In view of the publicity
given this section through that
medium, this permission, of course,
will be given.
State Press Association
Closely allied with the publicity feature
of its work, is the entertainment
of conventions. In that connection it is
safe to say that the outstanding feature
of the past year in Chamber of
Commerce work was the entertainment
of the South Carolina Press Association
at MyrtU Beach on June ID,
20 and 21. This occasion is still too ]
fresh and its memorv too fragrant in
the minds of members of the Chamber
of Commerce to require elaboration.
Suffice it to say that the hundred
or more newspaper people in attendance,
iu letters and in the columns of
their papers, have been very warm
and apparently very sincere in their
praise of this section. These comments
are not confined to favorable impressions
of the hospitality received, but
include also evidences of a high admiration
for the unrealized possibilities
of Horry County. For many of the
editors present, the occasion was in
the nature of a tour of discovery, this
being the initial trip which many of
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DOCTOR ROGERS
PASSES AWAY
Dr. J. G. Rogers, a brother of Mrs.
G. I?. Jenkins, of Conway, died last
week at the home of his brother,
Major Rogers, at Lake View in the
Fair Bluff section of North Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Jenkins and
( family left here upon receipt of the
sad news and attended the funeral.
Nothing could be learned at the
time as to the cause of his death,
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WOULD RUN ON
AUCTION PLAN
Proposition Under Three Heads
For Independent
House
At the recent annual meeting1 of the
Conway Chamber of Commerce a letter
was received from J. R. Bowles, a
well-known tobacco buyer and warehouse
man of experience, making* a
proposition for the running of another
independent warehouse in Conway for
the approaching tobacco season.
He proposed to go into the enterprise
under any one of three different
plans: First, he would run the
warehouse if the business men would
contribute five hundred on the rent of
$1,500 that he would have to pay for
the rent of the building; second, if the
business man would go in and pay the
rent lie would work for the organization
on a salary basis; or third, he
would go in with them as partners in
the running of the warehouse and on
terms which would he agreeable to all
parties, or words to that effect.
The proposition was taken as information
and an answer will l>e given
in due course, it is understood .
This matter of a second warehouse
in the town to he run on the auction
plan is the outgrowth of the tendency
which now exists on the part of growers
who are not members of the association
to send their product to markets
where there is more than one
independent warehouse.
It appears that there is a chance to
obtain another building in Conway to
be used for this second warehouse and
it is beSieved that such a warehouse
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W I I I ue I IIII il> il [HI I I Ul Ult? WUlMcIN
nuirket this year.
MAN TREMBLES
OFFICERS ACT
Mirk Faircloth Shakes in His
Boots When Officer
Talks
UNDER SECOND CHARGE
May Not be Easy to Make
Bail This
Time
Mirk Faircloth was lodged in the
county jail last Monday morning" by
J. K. King of the rural police, charged
with stilling whiskey; this l>eing the
second charge brought against him of
this nature within the recent past.
He is already under bond for his appearance
to plead to a charge of storing
illicit whiskey.
Faircloth was caught in a bay near
Red Bluff as he was preparing to put
in a charge of mash and start to make
:i vim /if "ivinnlfov viini " With Offii<Pi'
King at the time were VV. B. Graham
and Will James.
The raid was made at night and the
officer and his assistant concealed
themselves in the bushes about ten
feet away from the still. They waited
until Faircloth came to the place
to go to work. They then waited
just long enough to see what he was
going to do. They jumped from their
hiding place anil placed him under arrest.
Faircloth was frightened until ho
actually "shook in his boots." He
was trembling and shaking so that he
could hardly stand up. As soon as ho
could get a full breath he said: "I'll
swear it aint mine." He did not go
on to explain just who the outfit did
belong to.
Near the still wore two barrels of
molasses and water already sufliciently
sour to make good food for the
gasoline drum. He was at work getting
ready to place this in the still
when the officer placed him under
arrest.
It had been about five weeks since
Faircloth was arrested on a charge of
storing whiskey and placed in the
/ /mtitir mil irUnvn \^ n oftn'ml I
vvviii v> jc.%11 ?? jii;i c 111; cia y tu uiivii uv/
could make bond and get out. It is
said that lie will not find it easy to
make bail this time. At the next
term of the court there will l>e two
charges against him instead of one.
though it was said that he had been
shot.
The Mullins Enterprise of last
week contained the following account
of the death of Dr. Rogers:
"The report reached Mullins early
Tuesday morning that Dr. J. C?
Rogers, one of Lake View's most influential
cittizens, died at 11:30 Monday
night from gun shot wounds
supposed to he self-inflicted.
"Mr. Rogers was at the home of his
brother, Major Rogers, it was stated
at the time of the tragedy. Ill health
it is believed was the cause of his
death. Mr. Rogers had retired to his
room abo|ut 10:00 P. M., and in the
opinion of some, it was stated tluit
he appeared to he under a dope. A
lamp was found placed on the floor
near the bed. He had deliberately
placed the pistol to his head, firing
one shot and fell across the bed,
tii 11 i in* i 11 ?i n 11 \?
V?v HI II I V O V? I V I I I ^ Iiu vivitvi ?
"The death has cast a ffloom over
the I*ike View community where deceased
was a resident for many years,
The funeral arrangements were not
announced at an early hour Tuesday
morning:."
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SEVEN MEN ARE
DUE TO APPEAR
Will Have to Answer at Court
For Duncan Shooting
TESTIMONY AT~PRELIMIN'RY
One Out of Eight Let Off
As Material Witness
One of the cases now pending in the
court to he tried at the criminal term
when it convenes on Monday, June
-1th, is tHe State against J. W. Hill,
Monroe Hill, May bury Hill. Albert
Pridgeon, and Lloyd Jolly; all hound
over by Magistrate W. H. Chestnut on
a charge of assault and battery with
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uiLt-ni iu kiii aria riot.
The whole case prows out of the affair
in Floyds township some months
ago when I). A. Duncan was shot at
Grassy Bay church. A full account of
the affair appeared in the Horry Herald
at the time. Later a detective was
sent to that neighborhood from the
governor's office to investigate the
matter and try to apprehend those
who had committed the act. An account
of this also appeared and it waa
stated that one of the parties implicated
had confessed to the detective and
the arrest warrants for assault and
battery and riot resulted soon thereafter.
Heavy bonds were fixed for the
seven men whose names are above
given and one more, Stog Grainger by
name, who was later struck out of the
warrant and used as a witness against
the others above named.
The preliminary took place before
magistrate W. H. Chestnut on May
4th, attended by the detective who had
worked up the case for the authorities.
On May 4th, the seven men whose
names appear above were held for the
court of general sessions under heavy
bonds and it is supposed that this case
will be called up for trial at the approaching
term.
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i nc (jieiiiuiimry mvesugauon was
very interesting1 in view of the fact
that the act charged against the defendants
was a most heinous crime,
under the circumstances as detailed by
Duncan, the prosecutor; and because
it was done by a band of men standing
in the dark who made their escape
after tlie shooting although efforts
were made to track them to their hiding
places by the use of blood hounds
secured from North Carolina. Nothing
much was accomplished toward charging
anyone with the crime until the
detective came on the job. Then the
alleged confession was reported and
the other events follow.
The testimony taken at the preliminary
hearing shows the details of the
affair better than they have yet been
published, and the testimony in full
follows as taken down in the magistrate's
office the day of the investigation
:
Stog Grainger sworn says: I know
this gun (Long Tom). It is Maybury
Hill's gun. (12-guage gun is introduc
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eu. 1 khow cms gun { 1 --guage). it is
Monroe Hill's gun. I know D. A. Duncan.
I know about the shooting that
took place at Grassy Ray church on
the night of January 27th, 1923.
Monroe Hill was at the shooting. Albert
Pridgeon was there also. Lloyd
Jolly was there also. Lloyd Jolly had
a gun. It was John Hill's gun. Lloyd
Jolly said it was John Hill's gun. M.
C. Blackwell and Memory Pridgeon
was at the shooting. I saw J. W.
Hill at Monroe Hill's home before the
shooting. J. VY. Hill says: 'Let's
have some fun out of I). A. Duncan,
by going out to the church and shooting
at him.' Monroe Hill said hat if
we did not go that we did not have
the nerve. D. A. Duncan came along
by the church. We were behind the
church and as D. A. Duncan was passing
there was a great number of
shots fired at him by these men.
Duncan's horse run. After the shooting
at him.' Monroe Hill said that if
his mother's house, I went home, the
balance went in the other direction.
It was agreed by all of us that if anyone
of us told about the shooting they
would be treated the same as D. A.
Duncan.
This statement is free and voluntarily.
No one has paid or offered me
anything1 to make this statement. No
officer has threatened me or enticed
me to tell about the shooting. I was
present and heard with my own ears
, and saw with my own eyes all that
I have testified in this investigation."
; STOG GRAINGER.
O. I. Blanton, sworn says:
"I am constable for Horry County,
this State. 1 know Lloyd Jolly.
. lie told 10. J. Sherwood, Hoyt McMillan
and myself something. Tt
was purely voluntary on his part. I
. saw it written down in the form of an
. affidavit and I saw Lloyd Jolly sign
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