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k k NEGRO LABORER
* LOSES BALANCE
. Drinks Heavily of Some Moonshine
Then Goes Raving
Mad
Sheriff handles matter
Two Other Men Are Charged
With Transporting White
Liquor
Thprp is luithimr that rim rjiisf*
fright in a neighborhood any quicker
than a crazy man. The section of
Bucks township, out near Ced'ir
Grove, had its share of this kind of
excitement when a negro by the name
of Ephraem Scott, thirty-year-old
farm 'hand went mad last week, and
which resulted in his being lodged in
jail for a time by the sheriff of Horry
County.
The sheriff of the county got a message
to go out there and to go quick
before this crazy person had done
himself and the community some serious
injury. The sheriff went. The
result was the jailing of the negro,
and the placing of two other defendants
behind the bars. Hereon hangs
a tale of some length.
The two other parties locked up
were (Juss Hemingway, once tried for
pilfering a railroad car, and again put
oJ\ trial for violation of the prohibitum
laws, and Zack Johnson, who was
wflth Hemingway on Sunday.
It is told upon good authority and
the fact is testified to by the negro
Scott that his troubles began with
moonshine whiskey on Sunday, given
to him by the other two parties, Hemingway
and Johnson.
When the negro came to his senses
he told that he was given a quantity
of white mule; that he liked this stuff
'and that .he partook of it in a big
quantity. It made him not only drunk
bu^ npvfectlv crazy; but not so crazy
at first as to keep him from consulting
a doctor.
N >\v and then in the daily papers
it ;s published to the world that this
^'whit.e mule" that is concocted in
/^gavoline barrels and galvanized iron
pipes is very unsanitary as to the
making of it, and very uncertain as
to its wholesomeness as a beverage;
that it may under certain circumstances
be rank poison to tiie user. Still
it is used more or less by people who
will?to use the language of some who
use it?drink or die. This negro l<ked
the whiskey and he says he took
a big drink and that was about the
last thing he knew until he waked up
to find himself in the county jail, accused
of no crime, but with his sanity
greatly doubted.
The negro was taken to the doctor
on RJonday after he had taken the
m^Rshine on Sunday. He procured
medicine from Conway and was taken
back home to take this medicine and
try to get better so he could perform
his farm work on the land of R. B.
Glasgow, where he has been working
4 It?.-I irrto v Tin f/\f f lm morli.
I till?* tVCaii 1 lU OV/IIIV tll\y UIVV4S
cine but it did not bring relief. Later
in the day be went raving mad and
he carried on to such an extent that
the sheriff was sent for to arrest him.
He was the same as a wild man and
undoubtedly dangerous to be left
alone in the community.
After a time he had so far recovered
from the experience that he was
able to tell the sheriff how it all happened
in such a way that the sheriff
could readily understand that the
trouble was caused by the drinking of
moonshine. After the man had been
kept in the county jail over night he
appeared to be in a normal condition,
and he said that his taste for moonshine
had departed, and upon that assurance
he was allowed to go, there '
being no crime charged against him
K and his time being needed in the crop
lie ii- supposed to help work.
The neople of the community who
reported the matter were wise in act
ing in time.
M Ttofc other parties were allowed to
U ni? ^or ^beir appearance at the
pexn?^ferm of the criminal court on
the charge of transporting whiskey in
H violation of the prohibition laws.
I H AS CHARGE OF
I FAILED BANK
IT'io Burroughs Bank & Trust Co.,
is the agent of W. W. Bradley, State
Bank Examiner, in the handling and
liquidating of the Bank of Loris. The
Bank of T.oris closed its doors in the
earlv days of March, 1923, and has
not boon opened since.
Proceedings were taken whereby it
was ordered by the court that .the affair
the bank should be wound up
und?" the direction of the State bank
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j That country which is the $
^ least governed seems to be the jj
* one that gets along the best. All $
? government is by the common *
J consent of the governed. The
J tendency of some of the laws *
jc of today is to force things which 2
|j evidently is to the extreme dis- *
jt taste of a big majority. This jjj
B may not turn out well. ?
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FLOYD AGAINST 3
PAGE IS FIRST J
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Second Trial of Notable Land >
Suit Between Two
Horryites
The first case which will he taken
up for trial at the court next week
is that of John T. Floyd, plaintiff,
against William Page. It concerns
the ownership of a tract of land in
Gallivants Ferry township, near the
home of the defendant, and in the
trial of the suit an ancient deed made
to Mr. Page by Nancy Floyd, the
mother of the plaintiff, will come in
for construction. It is alleged that at
the date of this deed the plaintiff,
John T. Floyd, was under the age of
twenty-one years; that the property
conveyed did not include the interest
of the plaintiff as an heir-at-law who
had left this land as a part of his esestate.
There has already been a trial of .
the case. In the first trial the jury
failed to reach an agreement and the '
court declared a mistrial. At the trial
both sides moved the court for a directed
verdict and this was refused.
After the mistrial had been declared
both sides appealed to the Supreme
Court from the order refusing to direct
a verdict.
The appeal on both sides was dismissed
by the court of last resort and
the case remanded for a second trial,
the following bein^ the opinion of the
Supreme Court in full:
"MARION, J. This action is for i
the recovery of real estate. Tlje case 1
was tried at the October term, 1021,
of the Court of Common Pleas for 1
Horry County. At the close of all of '
the testimony, both plaintiff and defendant
moved for a directed verdict. ]
The presiding judge refused both mo-[
tions and sent the case to the jury.
The jury failed to agree, and a mis- ,
trial was ordered. The cause is j
brought to this court upon appeal by
each of the respective parties from
the refusal of the trial judge to direct
a verdict in his favor.
"The effect of the mistrial was to
leave the parties litigant in statu quo
suite, with the cause still pending for
trial in the circuit court. The rulings
of the trial judge in the court below
having eventuated in no binding adjudication
of tho rights of the parties, '
the appeal is prematurely brought,
and jurisdiction thereof may not be
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viiiQivmiiQvii in nit; tHBO Ul I aniHIIl'
Thomas-McSwain, Inc., vs. Atlantic 1
Life Ins. Co., 100 S. C., 211, 90 S. E.
1022, in which there was a mistrial on
circuit, the defendant appealed from
an order refusing a motion to direct
a verdict. In that case, Mr. Chief
Justice Gary, speaking for an unanimous
court said: '
'An order refusing- a nonsuit, or the
direction of a verdict, is not appealable
until after final judgment. The
reasons are fully stated in Agnew "s.
Adams, 24 S. C. 86. This ruling is
recognized in Barker vs. Thomas, 85
S. C. 82, 67 S. E. 1; Woods vs. Fertilizer
Co., 102 S. C. 442, 86 S. E. 817
and numerous other cases. * * As
the defendant's cause of action and
the defendant's counterclaim are dt*
pendent upon questions of fact, it
necessarily follows that judgment absolute
cannot lie rendered by this ]
court. * * * If the court should entertain
jurisdiction of the appeal under
such conditions, and should reach (
the conclusion that there was sufficient
testimony to carry the case to
a jury, it could not make any orders
changing the present status of the
case. The tendency of the court is to
discourage appeals from interlocutory
orders, in order that there may be an
end of the case. It therefore feels ]
constrained to refuse to entertain
jurisdiction of these appeals, and it is
r?u ui uci * v I.
"The appeal is therefore dismissed
without prejudice, and the cause remanded
to the circuit court for trial.
"Dismissed. :
"Gary, C. J. and Watts, Fraser, and
Cothran, J. J., concur."
FINETOBACCO
IN DOG BLUFF
Reports coming from Dog Rluff
township last week were to the effect
that the tobacco wops in that >ectiO!i
are the best in many years. Tobacco
crops were especially looking well
and likely to produce a large quantity
of bright grades for the market.
Last week the following growers of
Dog Bluff were putting in the barns
their first ripe leaves of the season:
Pearlie Sellers, J. D_. Skipper, W. H.
iMvis, John Uoyle, H. G. Turner and
W. B. Carroll. The latter was not
ready to euro before Friday of last
week but expected to gather the first
barn on that day if the weather proved
favorable.
It is said that a number of warehousemen
from Mullins, S. C., were
around in that community last week
talking to the growers and bragging
on the extra fine looking crops of tobacco
that Dog BlutT is producing
this year.
examiner. The examiner has appointed
the Burroughs Bank & Trust Co.,
as his agent to collect in the outstanding
assets of the failed bank and wind
up its affairs.
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CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY"
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i TWO EXTREME'
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: Every man, whose life be
in some business office, has
Sing- his life in the two diffe
In the first, where he h
? his hands in the sun, he cou
j: his stomach to satisfy his hi
? hold enough water to slake 1
j; On the other hand, whei
? business office and worked
? with his hands, he never f
* really wanted any food to ei
| water to drink.
* In the one place he wan
? could undertake, while in t
| what little food and drink h<
; This is a good illustratior
* not as it seems to be in the
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YOUNG BOY IS
RECOVERING
Robert Livingston Recently underwent
an Operation at
Marion Hospital
Robert Knox Livingston, six-yearaid
son of J. C. Livingston, of the
Wan)pee section, was taken home recently
from the Marion hospital where
lie had an operation following a severe
illness from pleurisy and pneumonia.
He developed the disease and went
to bed on April 27th, Dr. J. A. Stone
attending him for five weeks, then as
!iis condition did not improve another
physician, Dr. H. L. Scarborough, was
called into consultation. It was decided
to take the child to the hospital
for an operation. He had gone
through the throes of one disease only
to be attacked by another. The
attack of pneumonia left his lungs in
such condition that he could not be
Dvnopfofl f\ livo nnlnuc Q
could ho found by means of an operation.
The little fellow was taken to the
Marion hospital on June 3rd. The
operation was performed and was
successful.
He was reported last week as being
well on the way to complete recovery.
The father and mother of the
boy have asked that their thanks he
expressed through the columns of
The Horry Herald to the many friends
who extended to them their kindness,
sympathy and assistance during the
severe illness of their hoy.
HAS THE PLANS
FOR NICE HOME
Plans have been drawn for the erection
of a fine new house for Mr. and
Mrs. H. W. Ambrose. It is understood
that the plans have been submitted
to a number of conti actors and
builders and that work on the handsome
new structure will begin at an
parly date. The name of the successful
bidder for the work was not learned.
An architect in Columbia was
selected to supervise the construction
of the home.
The building will be three stories,
and will have a basement where the
heating plant and storage of fuel will
be provided for. The third floor will
be occupied by servants' rooms. The
first floor will have the living room,
sitting room, dining room, kitchen and
pantry, and breakfast room. On the
second floor will be five bed rooms,
two sleeping porches, and two bath
rooms.
The site of the building is a large
lot containing several acres lying near
the national highway in a section of
North Conway where development is
yoinir on at a vanid rnto. Tho pvpp
lion of such a structure in that section
of the town will enhance the values
of real estate in that community.
The price of building lots in the
vicinity of the new structure is expected
to he increased.
The brick veneer style of construction
will be used in this building.
Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose are at the
present time occupying a nice cottage
on Fifth avenue where they have lived
for the past ten years or more. He
is the manager of the Conway Lumber
Co., the largest timber enterprise
in this section of the State. The Conway
lumber Co., is also the owner of
valuable real estate within the town
of Conway.
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ARRIVE IN CONWAY
J. R. Rowles and his partner, Mr.
Rass, arrived in Conway on last Wednesday,
coming through the country
by motor. They arrived rather late
in the day on account of a breakdown.
They are here to perfect their
plans for opening of the Peoples Brick
Warehouse, which will be run on
the auction plan Yhis year, and will
visit the farmers in many sections of
the county during the next few weeks
soliciting the business for their place.
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JUNE 28, 1923
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5 OF REAL LIFE. ?
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his thirst. * 1
a he spent his days in the *
with his brain instead of *
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imagination of men, *
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TWO FARMFRS
DOING WELL
Florence County Furnishes
Two Examples of Successful
Men
Florence, S. C.?Two good examples
of safe and sane dairy farming in
Florence rountv nr? o-ivon Knl??'
W. J. Keegan, Extension Dairy Specialist
for the Pee Dee district, as
illustrating the important part which
the dairy cow is beginning to play in
the better farming program on many
farms in the Pee Dee section and
elsewhere.
Mr. Timmons Burch, of Florence
county, says that the cotton grown on
his farm this year will amount to only
25 acres and will be grown by his
tenants. He himself will not grow
any. In the last few years lie has developed
a grain farm and In connection
a dairy herd. This vear he will
grow the following: 100 acres of
oats, 20 acres of wheat, 75 acres of
corn, 18 acres of tobacco, 25 acres of
cotton (by tenants). In addition to
this Mr. Burch is putting out 20 acres
of lespedeza and carpet grass pasture
for his Hairv hord- Hp Vine Iipom
developing a grade Guernsey herd
for several years and as a result his
farm is in a very high state of fertility.
Last year ho grew 5 tons of
oats and vetch hay on 1% acres and
three tons of pea vine hay from the
same plot. As soon as he cut his
oats and vetch, he planted peas. Eight
tons of hay in one year on 1% acres
as a result of good manuring. Mr.
Burch could have sold this hay for
$1(>0.00, but instead he found it more
profitable to feed it to his herd i?nd
keep the fertility on his farm. He
has purchased eight purebred Guernseys
in the last few months, and besides
being one of the best farmers
in the State, in a short time will be
a good Guernsey breeder. Until recently
he was selling milk, but now
he is selling cream to the local creamery
and keeping the skim milk to
grow out good money-making heifers,
hogs and chickens.
Mr. Fred H. Young, of Timmonsville,
is using a good weapon to fight
the boll weevil. In past years Mr.
Young has become widely known as
a seedsman, especially by his cotton
seed. While he will continue producing
his well-known cotton seed, he
will before long be known as a breeder
of Jersey cattle. He has at present
about 10 head of purebred Jerseys.
For about a year he has been
milking on an average four cows.
These four cows have been bringing
in around $100 per month, some times
as much as $125. He keeps the skim
milk on the farm for his hogs, chickens
and calves. By the time this herd
reaches an appreciable size, a considerably
smaller amount of commercial
fertilizer will be needed. Also
the legumes that are now grown
will improve the land. Recently Mr.
Young purchased three other purebred
Jerseys, and in talking about
furnishing more permanent pasture
for the increasing herd, he said: "Well
for every four additional cows or
heifers I have just to take in two
more acres of my cotton and put in
lespedeza and carpet grass."
These men are only a few of the
many farmers of the State that are
now realizing what livestock means
to them.
BEACH TO HAVE
EDITORS AGAIN
The Conway Chamber of Commerce
sent a special invitation to Spartanburg
last week to invite the South
Carolina State Press Association to
come back to Myrtle Reach for its
annual meeting next year. The invitation
was accepted, according to a
telegram received here last Wednesday.
The association used Myrtle Beach
as the meeting place last year and
each member seemed pleased wi*h tb<
pleasures of the occasion. The ad
raid,
GENTS STORE I
WILL REOPEN
Satisfactory Settlements Made
With Various Creditors
Last Week
The store of Gents Furnishing Co.,
after remaining closed for nearly
three weeks, was released from the
claims of cieditors last Thursday afternoon,
satisfactory adjustments having
been made by the firm and the
creditors satisfied.
The store had been closed under
executions issued on seven different
judgments obtained within the last
three or four months in favor of the
following creditors: Royal Blue Tailoring
Co., Master Knitting Mills, International
Tailoring Co., Regal Pants
Co., J. Schoenman, Inc., Young Hat
Co., and Isaac Hamburger & Sons.
These seven judgments amounted in
the aggregate to the sum of $1,438 r>8.
This was only a fraction of the
entire amount involved on the part of
creditors, as the total indebtedness of
the firm amounted to about twelve
thousand dollars. * '* !
The cause of the failure of the firm
was laid mainly to the bad slump in
the prices of drygoods and notions following1
the inflated period during and
before which the store became heavily
stocked on very high priced goods
which they could not turn from their
shelves when the prices of goods
dropped downward.
All of the indebtedness of the firm
was finally compromised for twentyfive
cents on. the dollar. This was a
good settlement for the creditors as
it meant that the firm would have
gone into bankruptcy if the otTer of
compromise had not been made and
accepted, and in that event it is not
believed that the creditors would have
received as much as twenty per per
cent and probably not more than fifteen
per cent of what was due to
them.
The firm was composed of L. A.
Permenter and John M. Vaught as
partners. The firm first began business
i?i the small store in the rear of
the One Price Shoe Store on Laurel
Street. After remaining in business
there for a short time they moved
to the store on Main street in the
Masonic hall building, and they were
doing business there when their doors
were closed recently .
Since the failure it is understood
that Mr. John M. Vaught is no longer
connected with the business but that
the assets of the firm, including the
stock of merchandise, which is now
released and the accounts and bills
receivable belong individually to L. A.
Permenter.
It is understood that the business
will continue to run at the same stand
and will be under now nlans and now
management to some extent. The definite
plans of the store cannot be
stated just at this time. Having made
a satisfactory settlement with the
creditors the store will undoubtedly
continue to conduct business and with
new additions to the stock of merchandise
now on the shelves.
The notices of sale of the stock and
fixtures in the store will be discontinued.
These notices of sale continued
for the past two weeks while the
negotiations for a compromise of the
creditors' claims were pending.
COTTON FARMER
SENDS BLOOM
How He Knocked Out the
Weevils With Arsenate
and Molasses
The Horry Herald has received an
open cotton blossom from the cotton
farm of S. II. Harrelson in Green Sea
Township. This open blossom was
picked from the field on June 23rd.
It was a very healthy looking flower
when it reached the Herald office
through the United States m a i'.
Mr. Harrelson has twelve acres of
cotton. He is expecting to make a
good crop in spite of the boll weevils.
His crop, he says, was badly infested
with the weevils about three weeks
ago. He got busy and poisoned the insects
with arsenate ami molasses mixture
which has been highly recommended
in many sections of South
Carolina.
Mo says that in twenty-four hours
the weevils were all gone. The cotton
in his field is looking fine at this
time.
lie will poison again this week and
will report the results that he has
this time for the readers of the Herald.
vantages of Horry County were advertised
by this means to the people
of far distant corners of the State,
and to some extent outside of South
Carolina.
The coming of the editors again
next year will find this section still
further advanced along 'ines of development,
better roads, an 1 a better
outlook oil things in general. It will
be better in the way of advertising
than it was before.
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This town needs the individual efforts
of each of its business men in
bringing more business to it, and
r tNe road to future
progress and improvement.
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NO.10
SEASON READY
FOR BIG SALE
Horry Crop is Now Being
Gathered and Being
Cured
THREE AUCTION HOUSES
Some Crops May Have Been
Topped Too Low
Down
This week sees the tobacco growers
or Horry County engaged in the work
of maturing the crop of 1923 for the
market. Some of the farmers were
putting weed in the barns last week,
a number of farmers being as early
with the first barn as the fir?t of the
week.
In some sections of the county
where the crop is very late owing to
late transplanting, the work of gathering
the leaves is only beginning, in
some cases it may not yet be started.
The advice this year has been to top
the tobacco high in order to produce
a smaller and more highly colored
IpAt* it i'c colli tlli? Ifinrl hoinr*
best for the making of tine cigarettes.
There seems to have been no general
effort to comply with this advice
of the warehousemen. Most of the
growers of the weed throughout this
section have their own notions about
the raising of a tobacco crop and they
prefer using their own methods to
those of any other man or men.
The advice appeared to he good because
of the fact that the market is
said to be already well supplied with
the heavier grades of tobacco. It is
the smaller leaves, nicely colored, that
is more in demand now than the other
grades.
Looking in on some of the farms in
this county, it is very plain that the
tobacco was topped too low if the
production of a small leaf was what
was intended. Some crops are of the
heavy growth kind which produces a
wide heavy leaf.
On other farms it is to be noticed
that the tobacco plants have grown
rather tall and at the same time have
smaller leaves and to a greater number,
the leaves being all about the
same si'/e from the extreme bottom
almost to the top of the plant. These
leaves will evidently make a bright
grade that is used in the manufacture
of cigarettes.
As to the methods of selling, the
fight is on between the co-operatives
and the independent warehouses.
Last week a prominent warehouseman
of Mullins, S. C., was in this section
talking up the advantages of his
warehouses and pxtollincr flip indo
pendent plan to every farmer he met.
He was having1 something to say
about the recent decision of Judge S.
W. G. Shipp, when a case came up in
the Florence courts recently, in which
a man in that county had been sued
by the association for failing to deliver
his tobacco to the association
warehouses.
There seems to have been a great
deal of understanding: about this case
which was tried in Florence. The man
sued had planted a crop but did not
mature it, has he disposed of that
part of his farming business, in some
way, before the crop was fully cultivated
and produced. The court held
that the association contracts covered
only such tobacco as the signer of it
produced, and the mere Tact that he
had only planted it and did not succeed
in producing it for market, did
not hold him under the contract with
the association. It was on this point
that the case turned and the farmer
won. If he had produced the crop the.
decision would have peen different, of
course.
Conway will have three independent
warehouses this season. They
are the Planters Warehouse, the Peoples
Rrick Warehouse and the new
place recently decided upon on Fourth
avenue, and which is located in the
same block where the Peoples Warehouse
is.
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un tne otner nana mere are two
warehouses run on the co-operative
*'*?n. They are the Horry Tobacco
Warehouse and the Farmers Warehouse.
The firm of Bowles & Bass are already
laying their plans to make a
great effort to increase sales at Conway
on the auction plnr> at the Peoples
Brick Warehouse. They have the
house leased for a term of years. It
will he to their interest to get as
large a following as possible and to
keep that following by striving to
please their patrons. They are both
tobacco men of wide experience. Mr.
Howies is known to every grower in
the county with only a few exceptions
among those who have only lately entered
into the raising of tobacco.
Thr? Pljinfors Warp muse will be
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^ The business men of Conway J
* are neglecting1 every day the op- jjj
* portunities which lie at their X
* doors for a bigger and better ^
2 Conway; and incidentally a *
J more successful individual life. jj[
* It is time to wake up and do ?
^ something before outsiders come J
* in and do it for them. J
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