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VOLUME XXXvn
SURGERY SAVES I
. IN MANY CASES
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W. H. Moore Hopes Very Much
to Be Back at Work
Soon
MODERN METHODS USED
^ase of J. N, Martin Recently
Occurring Called to
Mind
W. H. Moore, the skilled cabinet
maker of Conway, at last accounts
was rapidly recovering from a dangerous
operation undergone by him at
the Florence hospital. His many
friends all over wide sections of Horry
will be glad to know this, and that ho
hopes, very soon to enpape in his
work once more, after taking an enforced
vacation on account of his dan
... ill
serous inness.
Mr. Motv e was stricken with disease
of the stomach. This appears to have
come on him by degrees covering a period
perhaps of several years, but not
very bad until the last four to six
months when he began to suffer so
much he was advised by his physicians
to have an X-ray examination.
He had this examination in Florence
some time ago. The photographs
showed a growth in his stomach, and
at that time the doctors were uncertain
whether it was some kind of malformation,
a tumor, ulcer or cancer.
"Tliey waited for a time and their patient
was put in the best physical condition
that was possible to undergo
the operation which it appeared was
necessary to remove the growth and
save the life of Mr. Moore.
He left here several weeks ago and
came back recently after recovering
from the operation by which the stomach
trouble had been removed and he
was able to walk about the streets but
not strong enough to do active work.
His condition has been steadily improving
and he has been able to walk
about ""ore and more when last seen
several days ago. He hopes to be able
to engage in his usual work before
long.
A similar operation was performed,
, appears in the case of J. N. Martin. '
His trouble had been of long standing
and finally reached such a stage that
he could not stand it without relief of
some kind. He tells the story himself
of how he was taken to the hospital
and. after treatment of some time, a
delicate operation was performed
wherebv an ulcer of long standing was
removed from his stomach,, the outlet
then changed from the side where nature
placed it to the opposite side, and
he left the hospital some weeks after
that feeling better than he had felt before
in many years. When seen here, it
had .been some weeks since Mr. Martin
ha deleft the hospital and he was growin?:*fJtter
and stronger every day. He
said that he had gotten to the place
where he could digest nothing in the
world, that his stomach was full of a
constant pain and heartburn and nothing
tasted good as it had before. Since
the operation and his recovery which
followed he had a fine appetite for
food and nothing that he ate would
disagree with him.
All of this, and many more cases of
a similar nature that might be cited
bv the Herald, shows that medical
science has advanced by long strides
and that modern methods in dealing
with dangerous diseases have been '
adopted and applied by the doctors of
(hiu unoti/m a n fUnl if iu n/\f on
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tirely to the experts in the large cities
to perform these wonders in surgery.
NOW~OPERATING
i NEW CORN MILL!
Tie Cov>per-Smith Company has re- 1
cently established and will begin to
operate this week a corn mill driven
by electric motor. It will produce the
finest grade of corn meal, the old fash- ;
jonclrsweet kind that used to make <
partes hoe cakes and mama's dumplir^Is*?yes,
and the kind of corn pone i
that' mother used to make. There is
no use in talking about the foreign i
i meal that is shipped in as it will not I
stand a chance with this home grown
and home produced kind that is being
made at this new mill right now, and <
it goes without saying that the new J
establishment will have a good trade.
The mill is located under the same
roof as the wholesale establishment of
the Cooper-Smith Company, with
frontage on the avenue entering by
the corner of the Horry Drug Company
and offices of the Burroughs &
Collins Co. The mill will have a manager
there at all times who will take
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United effort in the common
f" good is not to be despised. Tt is Jp
mighty and great in its way; ?
but still it is the truth that noth- 1
ing equals the force of persev- ,
ering individual effort; for the ? '
greatest things in history and J" '
present day life are due to indi- "J
viduals who acted by them- ,
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CHURCH HAVING
HOME MEETINGS
Policeman is Disturbed by
Shouting Till Learns
The Cause
The Sfcond Baptists of Conway are
attracting attention by means of then
zeal and the revival meetings held by
them at almost every appointment.
Among prominent members of this
church are E. G. Norman, Rev. J. H.
Causey, J. F. Conner, Marvin Conner.
Frank Smith, J. S. Cullifer and others
The McCracken family now living
in Conway belong to this church, and
:t was at their home that the meeting
look place on Sunday night before
last.
One of the members of the congregation
became happy under religion:-'
"erver and began to shout at the top
of her voice. At a distance the noise
resembled the cries and screams of a
woman in distress.
'1 he McCracken home is located on
>ne of the buildings lots carved out of
'lie W. It. Lewis estate lands. It is located
on the avenue which turns out
of the street near the home of Mr. and
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The cries were heard by C. H. Snider,
the city clerk, at his home on
Kingston Lake, many blocks away.
Night policeman Holt was on his
regular beat along Main Street at the
hour (.1 11 o'clock on Sunday night,
and when he heard this noise and
could not make out what it meant, he
broke into a run and went down the
avenue in double quick time. Someone
remarked to him as he ran, that some
woman was getting killed down the
new road and he had better fly if he
would save his reputation as a valiant
and attentive officer, so he increased
his speed.
Along the avenr.e he found some
people standing out in the street and
listening at the cries, not knowing
what they meant and evidently believing
that something radically wrong
was taking place. At the homes along
the way men and women and children
were out on the porches, or had their
heads sticking1 out of doors and windows
listening at the sounds which
#seemed to fill them with terror. ,
The policeman arrived at the house
^nd was relieved to find that it was .
^nly a religious gathering and that
others were engaged in the meeting
as well as the one who was doing the
shouting. The meeting was held on
that particular night at the home of
\nn McCracken. The policeman saw
^>e cars and other vehicles drawn up
it the home and knew at once that it
" as n revival meeting of the Second
Baptist church members.
The church is still without a bulidinfi
of its own. The meetings are now
being held at first one home and then
mother of the different members. The
church is in a flourishing 1 condition
nnd gaining in membership and influence
according to recent reports,
ind it is understood that a new church
will be built as soon as all of the arrangements
can be made an;l the
funds and materials are available.
The church was organized here
some time ago when Rev. J. H. Causey
'>nd others who are interested in the
church, held a series of revival meetings
in the county court house.
care of the bags of corn and see that
each order gets prompt attention and '
the right bags or sacks are delivered.
Numbered tags will be used for marking
the sacks and in many other ways
this new mill will operate as a modern
business in a prosperous and growing
community where mills like this are
not only a convenience but a necessity.
This mill will of course produce
(?rits as well as meal, and the corn 1
will of course be ground to order, but ?
the ownners of the mill will pride 1
themselves on the meal which they
will be able to produce in large quantity
and supply their customers th
very best there is to be had.
Whose mouth is it that will not !
water at the thought of the good old
:orn meal that used to be produced at 1
the water mills? Now this meal that
is neing produced at the Cooper-Smith
plant is just as pood as that was, if
lot a great deal better. Electricity is j
>etter than water to grind corn.
The large motor that turns this new '
mill was being installed last week unier
the supervision of the Conway
Light & Ice Co.
BIG GATHERING
IS EXPECTED |
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A large attendance is exnected at.
the Horry County Sunday School Association
convention, which is to be
held at the Hickory Grove Baptist ,
church on August 10th. Much interest 1
has developed in the country wide "at- ,
tendance contest" for this convention, ,
\nd Sunday schools of all denomina- 1
ions in Horry County are endeavoring .
to send large delegations so as to win <
the banner which is offered to t,he i
Sunday school with the largest attend- (
since in proportion to the distance traveled.
In order to make the contest
fair for all, it has been announced }
hat the number of persons (over si\- t
een years of age) from each Sunday '
chool will be multiplied by the dis- j,
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"conway. s. o., Thursday"
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| CANNOT STAF
5 The business men of Cor
J not begin too early to try t<
t crop to be disposed of on He
X The man who wishes to su
jjc
* overtaking will begin the nig
| beginning, if he can. It m[
* most always does.
The efforts of Conway thi;
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* 1922. It takes a clap of thi
* us up.
* We are waking up now. L
* this time onward.
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TOPERS IN VENT
NEWEST METHOD
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niey oiaim iu ue ame iu uuiivert
Denatured Alcohol
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COMMON AMONG NEGROES
Law Will Have To Be Changed
To Prohibit The
Sale r?, < *
The ways of evading the prohibition
laws multiply as time goes on and
new ways are suggested by the allconsuming
thirst which takes possession
of men.
Officers have to keep up with
changes in plans. By so doing they
ire the better able to catch up with offenders.
The latest stunt reported by prohibition
enforcement officers is the taking
of denatured alcohol and separating
from the same the unwholesome
substance placed in it to make it unpalatable.
It would appear that the
process takes the poison and unwholesome
content out of it leaving the
methyn alcohol for drinking purposes.
According to reports recently made
here it is claimed that quantities of
denatured alcohol are now being
bought by negroes and used in this
way as an intoxicating drink. After
going through the process which it is
claimed changes the nature of the liquid
it is bottled up and becomes
"Paul Jones". This is the name by
which the drink is known. Several
drunks captured recently when pressdt\
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v,u vu 11 ciio I id VUI C U i I/I1C ^UU^tUIICC
they had used gave this as the name
of the liquor they had consumed.
A chemist could no doubt make a
better explanation of how it is being
produced. There is some doubt as to
some of the stories told about it.
It is said that one method use? the
ordinary ice cream churn. By the process
of freezing the injurious ingredients
are separated in some way from
the pure alcohol used in making the
priginal mixture.
Another method is said to be by a
process of burning out the poison. According
to the story the denatured alcohol
is placed in some kind of crucible
and fire is applied, then at the
right time the fire is smothered out.
According to policemen the plan of
using denatured alcohol as a drink
was introduced in this section by a
black negro who appeared here some
time this year and was engaged as a
steeple jack. Before his coming the
use of denatured alcohol never appeared.
He introduced to the negroes the
plan of taking denatured alcohol and
changing it back to its original elements.
More or less trouble has been caused
by means of this alcohol. It has
been responsible for most of the
drunken sprees on the hill within the
last few months. Steps will undoubtedly
be taken to prohibit the sale of
denatured alcohol. The use of it and
'lie process of makincr it palatable are
^ore or less shrouded in mystery, hut
^nouorh has been told and enough seen
>v officers of the law to prove that it
is being used for the purpose of getting
drunk.
As new ways of violating the law
>how themselves the law will have to
-?tep in and make t.ho nnpocon v\r I
changes and amendments.
Denatured alcohol is nothing but the
oure grain alcohol to which has been
ndded the prescribed ingredients intended
to make it unwholesome and
^o unfit for use as a drink that it cannot
be used. This leaves it just as
,vood as ever for industrial purposes,
ft is lawful to sell as much of tho do*<\*urod
nlcohol as is wanted. Now
that it is being used as a beverage investigation
will doubtless bo made to
determine the extent of this use and
^he means emnloved in changing it.
knnoe of that Sunday school from the
-invention. so that the church at a
listance will have an equal chance
" ith those nearbv.
Interesting folks on Sunday Srhool
nethods and Bible study, have been
arranged for the program. There will
>'so bo inspirational addresses of a
general nature. Sunday school leaders 1
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MILE A MINUTE
NOT FOR AUTOS
Accidents Happen Which Are
Horrible to Contemplate
DRIVES RECKLESSLY
Over Eighty Cars Met by
Truck From Myrtle
Seaoh
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As traffic increases in this sectioi!
of the State, it becomes more and
more important to impress on the
owners and drivers of motor vehicles
the necessity of observing1 the law of
the road, and using great care in
avoiding- accidents.
There is no worse accident to he
contemplated than a motor car accident
in which the occupants of at least
two machines may lose their lives, and
even if they escape with their lives,
they have a big repair bill to pay or
perhaps will have to buy new cars to
take the place of the machines demolished
.It is horrible to think about
the consequences following the wreckless-driving
of cars within South Carolina
within the last three months.
Several men and women have lost
their lives, a number of babies have
been killed. Many others are alive but
uardly know that they are alive for
they are crippled up and maimed for
the balance of their lives and will nev~
?11 j....
ci occ a vy^ii uay a^uin.
As to the rate at which travel in
motor cars is growing in Horry county,
especially near Conway, it is plain
,on every hand, every day in the week,
.and especially on Saturdays and Sundays.
Watch it any time you wish on
the road to Myrtle Beach, on the national
highway between here and Marion,
or on the other roads of Horry
County for that matter.
A man came from Mvrtle Beach
last Saturday driving a big truck. It
took him one hour and a half to make
the trip. He kept an account of the
cars he met on the way. The number
was between eighty and ninety.
One of the machines he met was a
Ford touring car. It was going at least
the rate of thirty five miles an hour.
It was going fast enough to frighten
the driver of the truck. He slipped out
to one side before the Ford flitted by
like a whirlwind in a cloud of dust.
Driving it was a little woman who
would not tip the scales at more than
one hundred pounds. On the back seat
were several children and on the front
seat several more. It was only necessary
for the wheel of that Ford to
have struck something, or something
to have gone wrong with some part of
the running gear to have made one of
the worst accidents ever happening in
this section of the state.
Everywhere the people are buying
cars of one kind or another. The whole
family wants to drive. It may be alright
for the man to drive. He is
strong and not easily thrown off his
balance in case of an unlooked-for
emergency. But the little boys and
girls and the light-weight wife?they
want to drive it too, and this makes it
more dangerous than it would otherwise
be.
The drivers of machines must learn
to use care and foresight in driving
their machines. They must learn how
to drive and how to act before they
venture out on crowded streets and
roads. They must not try to speed too
jmuch or else they will wind up in disaster.
of all denominations in our county, as
well as representatives of the State
Sunday School Association will take
part.
Information regarding the convention
and its program may he secured
from the president, Mr. W. M. Gold- 1
finch, of Conway.
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CASE CONTINUED 1
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The negro doctor who was recently
^aught practicing medicine without a J
license and was indicted in the town '
"'Hirt. was cabled up last Friday for ^
trial. His attorneys made a motion
which resulted in the case being continued
until this week. The result of 1
his trial will appear in another article. 1
raid,
LORIS HIGH
SOON BEGINS
Will Begin First Term in New
Building August
Twentieth
The Loris High School will begin
the next term on August 20th, and
will run for nine months.
The term will begin at an earlier
date than usual on account of the
strawberry crop which it is understood
will he heavy next spring if the seasons
are good. As the term will begin
Parly commencement exercises will
come off eariler than usual next
spring, - - ... ?
The teachers of the primary and in
termediate grades are: Miss Katherine
Richardson, Mrs. Louise Kapps,
Miss Bessie Morrow, Mrs. Fannie A.
Gore, Mrs. Edna Worley and Mrs. Vic
Drake.
Miss Alma Manning, a graduate of
Converse College, has been employed
to assist Professor M. J. Bullock and
Mrs. M. J. Bullock in the teaching of
,the high school grades. The eleventh
?frade will be added in the course of
studies covered this year.
The school is now complying with
the conditions which entitle its graduates
to the usual State High School
Dinlomas. . ?
. The Lor is High School welcomes'
any high school pupil in the county to
attend at the approaching1 session.
The details and specifications of
the magnificient new school building
which has been completed have already
appeared in leading news stories
in the Horry Herald during the past
several months. The approaching session
will be the first to be held in this
new building.
The trustees of the school are:
Messrs. Dan W. Hard wick, S. M. McNabb
and Dr. Hugher Richardson.
JENRETTEMADE
SALES TO WIFE
Seems to Claim Homestead in
Stock Sold Last
Week
HAS WARRANT ISSUED
Last Accounts Shows no Delivery
of Goods to
Purchaser
The deputy sheriff last week, according
to an advertisement in the
Horry Herald, sold at auction the
small stock of goods and fixtures at
Loris, i?i the store of S. O. Jenrette.
It appears that Jenrette has been in
failing circumstances for some time,
probably due to his health which it is
said has not been good.
The goods went off at about $150.00,
but it appears at last accounts that
delivery had not been made to the purchaser,
owing to some question that
has arisen about the homestead of
Jenrette.
Judgment creditors, through their
attorneys in Conway, last week received
letters from Jenrette's attorneys
at Loris to the effect that petition
in bankruntcv had bf>on filed in Char
leston. The letters did not say that he
had been adjudicated. On the eve of
the sale which had been advertised
there had been no time to investigate
When the sale at Loris was about to
take place, the attorney for Jenrette
objected to the sale on the ground of
homestead. The attorneys representing
a creditor with perhaps the oldest
for the sale to go on.
In the mean time it appears that
Jenrette, some time ago claimed to
have sold out his stock, at least the
greater portion of it, to Mrs. Jenrette,
his wife. Since that time it appears
that creditors were informed that this
stock did not l>elong to Jenrette. Tt
was probably this fact of the claim
of ownership on the part of Mrs. Jenrette
that attorneys representing creditors
would not recognize the claim of
homestead set up by S. O. Jenrette.
Following the sale or auction of the
stuff, under which at last accounts, no
delivery had been made to the purchaser
of the stock, S. O. Jenrette, by
his attorneys took out a warrant from
magistrate J. A. Bryant, at Loris,
charging a violation of the statute
which prohibits officers from selling
property subject to homestead.
There will doubtless he a royal battle
through the courts. The bankruptcy
proceedings, however, if they have
resulted in an adjudication of Jenrette
as a bankrupt, may result in smooth
ing out all of the difficulties.
It is also rumored here that proceedings
will soon he commenced to
sot aside some deeds which it is alleged
that Jenrette made to his wife for
valuable real estate in the town of
tiOris some time ago. Creditors alleged
that this was done in order to rentier
Jenrette insolvent and make it impossible
for his creditors to collect any
fhing from the judgments which have
>een on the records at the court house
for quite a long time.
o ?Waterman
Booth spent last Friday
in town, the guest of his son, J. T.
Booth.
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NO 16"
NEWS OF DEATH
HERE BY RADIO
C. H. Snider Gets Radiogram
From Memphis Tennessee
WHOLE COUNTRY MOURNS
Calvin Coolidge Vice President
Becomes President in
Harding's Stead
Warren G. Harding', president of
lie United States, died instantaneously
and without warning1 in San Francisco
last Thursday night, a victim of
i stroke of apoplexy, which struck
, him down in his weakened condition
after an illness of exactly one week.
The chief executive of the nation,
and l>y virtue of his office and personality,
one of the world's leading figures.
passed away at the time when
his physicians, his family and his people
thought that medical skill, hope
and prayer had won the battle against
disease.
With the passing of Mr. Harding,
the office of president devolves upon
Calvin Coolidge, vice president of the
United States, a man silent in nature
but demonstrated as strong in emergencies.
He was notified of the death
Of Mr. Harding at his home in Plymouth.Vt.
.
The suddenness with which the end
came was shown hv the fact that only
Mrs. Harding and the two nurses,
Ruth Powderly and Sue Dausser, were
in the room at the time. Mrs. Harding,
with her characteristic faithfulness
and constant tenderness, was reading
to the president. >
Then without a wUrning a slight
shudder passed through the frame of
the chief executive, he collapsed and
the end came. Immediately the indications
of distress showed themselves.
Mrs. Harding ran to the door and called
for Lieutenant Commander Boone
and for the other doctors to come
quickly.
The death of the nation's chief executive
was announced in these words:
"The president died instanteously
and without warning and while conversing
with members of his family at
7:35 P. M. Death was apparently due
to some brain involvement, probably
apoplexy.
"During the day he had been free
from discomfort and there was every
indication for anticipating a prompt,
recovery. .
(Signed)
"C. E. Sawyer, M. D.,
"Ray Lvman Wilbur, M. D.,
"C. M. Cooper, M. D..
"J. T. Boone, M. D.,
"Hubert Work, M. D.
"August 2, 1923, 7:35 P. M."
The storv of the president's tragic
end was told of in this way:
"The president died at 7:30 P. M.
Mrs. Harding' and the two nurses Miss
Ruth Powderly and Miss Sue Dausser,
were in the room at the time. Mrs.
Harding was reading to the president
when utterly without warning a slight
shudder passed through his frame, he
collapsed, and all recognized that the
end had come. A stroke of apoplexy
was the cause of his death.
"Within a fe<v minutes all of the
president's official party had been
summoned."
Secretary Hoover was the first of
the four members of the president's
cabinet, to learn the sad news. He
went in the room at once and in a few
minutes came out obviously deeply
distressed and in a low voice said to
newspaper men, most of whom did not
know of the hurried call almost half
an hour previously: "Boys, I can't tell
you a thing."
Secretary Wallace was the second
member of the president's official
family to learn of the passing of his
chief.
The sudden death of the president
of the United States was known in
Conway at the hour of 12:30 o'clock
last Thursday night. The message
stating that he had died, while the
whole country thought lie was rapidly
recovering from a recent illness, was
taken over the radio by C. H. Snider,
last Thursday night.
This news was posted hv Mr. Snider
on the bulletin board at the town hall
and those who came out early on Fri
day morning and read tne message
which contradicted the despatches in
the newspapers of the evening before
to the effect that the chief executive
was recovering.
The death of Harding cast more or
less of gloom over the entire State of
South Carolina.
The Columbia State had the following
to say about the effect of the news
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