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V, f v.VOL XXII. ill Gathered by a Herald Man on His Rounds. > CAUGHT ON THE BOUNCE. Stray Bits of News Gathered by the Wayside for the Information and Instruction of Herald Kcadcrs--Happenings of Interest About ttie City. Court convened here Monday. The Waccamaw is about as low now as it ever gets to be. A. P, Johnson was in the city Monday. TTow about the cotton factory and cotton seed oil mill? The farmers are making ha}' while the sun shines. Monroe Carter has moved back from Dillon to Hardy. The children aro are all delighted with their new teachers. There is plenty of all kinds of game but the trouble is to bag it. Dr. J. A. Norton recently went to Charleston on business. The street brigade is doing some excellent work on the streets. The best medium a retail mer- J chant has is the home paper. Col D. A. Spivey spent several days otT last week on business. Jailor Bruton has been on the sick list, but is improving. C. F. Spivey, of Gideon, was in Conway the (irst of tho week. Uev. George Jones, of the Gideon section, was in the city Monday. r S A. Tindall, of Dongola spont last Friday in Conway on legal business. The students were returing to tho various colleges in the Ssate last week. f The ''bonoyard" is not as busy this court as it was in the days of yore. Messrs Park and Joe Rabon were seen on our streets Monday from Burcol. There was quite a number of neople in attendance upon court on Monday. Miss Fdith Rabon of Burcol was in town Saturday and Sunday visiting friends. It is a red hot campaign tho Democrats of the old North Stato are putting up. Tho mornings and evenings are now cool, but the middays are hot and sultry. W. J. ICd wards a prosperous farmer near Conway, spent last Saturday in the city. The Burroughs Graded school has had a large attendance during the opening week. J. C. Powell, E, T. Sanders, A.M. flardoe, and D. J. McCall were in the city last week, The young child of Mr. and Mrs. Y n n - j. vj. opivey is rapidly recovering from a recent illness. / ' . G. B. Jenkins roturned last week from a business trip which kept him away for several davs. T Goo. J. Hojliday, of Galivants Ferry, was in towp Monday and Tuesday attending court. Mrs. M. W. Collins and children left Monday for BennotUville, to visit relatives and friends, There is much complaint about the continuous and unnecessary Kl . V r?? ! ?? <* ' I ? - 1 - * * 4 uiuwiu^ m locomouve wnisties. Bring your old shoos to me and I will repair them nicely. D L Davis, next to Conway Live Stock Co. The new dwelling being erected by Mr Chas H. Snider, on the Mayo old property is bearing completion. W. F, Elenderson, the popular Amercan Tobacco buyer, leaves today for his home in North Carolina ft is said that John Cole's big circus, usintf 29 cars for transpotation purposes, is making its way forConway, DIt was Dincolq, wo bolleve, who said that ('God must have loved the common people for he created so many of them-" J. W. Prince, on of Howell's most reliable and popular merohants, was In town Monday and Tuesday attending court, Remember the Orphanage "Work Day" next Saturday Oct. 3rd. Give one day'8 work to the orphanage ol your choice. There will be a meeting of the city council Friday at which time policemen and other city employees will be elected. . 1 itii. . git? Conway merchants will do the right thing by their customers ever> time. A, Li. Lewis of Gal wants Ferry j spent several days in Conway lasi week, the guest of his brother Auditor James A. Lewis. Mr S B Mooro, a prominent citizen of the Box section, was among those who visited the Herald office Monday. Ned Doak left Tuesday for Wil mington where ho will s]>ent tin winter, he will be engaged in tin skating rink business. J. C. Arnott, one of Tabor's bos', citizens and an all round good fel low, was among those who visited the Herald office Tuesday. H I) Bullock, a successful colored farmer of Nichols, R F 1) No 2, wain the Herald offico Monday and renewed his subscription. W. J. Singleton, who was recent ly very ill at his residence at Enterprise, has fully recovered and was in town on business last Friday. The Cooler will soon have quarters in the store now used by the Hal L, Buck Co., as a furniture department. From cool drinks it is now serving hot coiTee and lunches. Rev EO Watson, Presiding Elder ot Marion District Methodist Church South, preached an eloquent sermon S n Kn Vi nth /~v/l i of L 1 - 4 I* ? uiiw lui^uiiuuiou i;uui Ull iii'It" Iil.s I Sunday evening. Miss Katherine Doak returned to her home last week after spending the sutnmor with friends and relati ves in Tenneseee.she was accompanied by her sister Mrs. Wilson of Knoxville. Mr W H Rollinson, one of our most progressive berry growers and truckers, is preparing to build a handsome surburban residence just beyond the city limits on the Potato Bed Ferry road. The Georgetown Outlook of September 26th says: SheritT Hodge, of Conway, and Miss Myrtle Humbert, of Georgetown, were married on Monday afternoon at the Haptisi parsonage by the Kev W. L. U. Ca hall. J. P. Ludlam came to Conway last Friday with a wagon load of tobacco weighing 956 pounds, which he sold at the Horry Warehouse for the net sura of $159 45. It was a very lino grade of leaf suitable for making the best variety of cigarettes A flue at the residence of Mr J . hi. Dojcier on upper main street, caught fire Tuesday morning and at one time things looked serious, but fortunately the flames were extinguished before any damage was done. P. O Snowden, a prosperous farmer of the Forney section, was a visitor at the Herald office Tuesday. He had the Herald started to his son, who is in Florida, remarking that ho know of no better way of informing his son of homo nows than by sending him the Herald. Wise father! Fortunate son! Workmen are making rapid progress at the plant of Conway Light & Power Company, and the management says that in something less than two months they cxpeot to turn on the olectric lights. Many residences in town have been wired in readiness for the opening of the power house. From the Georgetown Outlook we learn thot Presiding Elder J. E. Carlisle preached at the Methodist church in that place, Sunday, September 2(>th. Kev Carlisle is pleasantly remembered by Conway people, by whom he is greatly beloved, he having been stationed here several years ago. Tho Eddy Eake and Northern ttailroad company will tako steps to improve tho drainage in the Brown Swamp section on Pee Dee whprp tho el Tl'l I nnun nf .. ..? v ?uu viiuiim^u ?I lilt! * Willi) p has been somowhat impaired by the felling of timber trees. The people of that section sulTered from fever all summer. The doctors declare that it was caused by the filling up of the swamp by tops of timber trees. The Kanawha Lumber Corporation began operations again the first of last week after having a shut down extending over several weeks. Thev first shut down on account of the nigh waters, and by the time the waters had subsided they were involved in some legal contest in the United States court in which the re ceivers wero involved. i , The Georgetown Outlook of Bop , tember 2fHh says; The Lucy V., formerly the old Bessoms which went to the bottom of the Waeca* maw near Waverly Mills last Feb1 ruary, arrived in port Monday, having been practically rebuilt. She is owned by F. R. Lachicotte & Son* ard Capt A. A. Springs. The boat ? is in command of Capt F. J. Sarvis, ' with Mr J. Wilson, chief ongineer. , Mr Causee. of Nichols, U. F. D. , No. 2 was a visitor at the Herald > office Tuesday. i "Tom Gray's Dream" will appoar shortly. # CONWAY, S. C., THURS i ii i iff The Dockets are Heavily Congested. AN EXTRA TERM PROBABLE Jones Put* I'p a Plea of Insanity ami is Convicted of Assault au<1 lattery Willi Intent to Kill. Murder 1 rial Set for I'rltlay, MUXOAY Tlio court of CJcnoral Sessions was , called to order at o'clock on Mon- , day afternoon, J udee C. (. . D.mt/.ler . presiding. The Judj^e, Solicitor \\\ ll. Well- and Stenographer Coving ; ton all did not arrive in town until the I 15 train. ; The witnesses in sever d cases | were sworn for the^rand jury and | thev retired to consider them after | a most able charge by .lud^e Dant/.ler. ? The eontinoent docket was called i but none of the cases wore tried j 'PI./. ..I.,.. .1/W.I...I ....... .,! /. /...O^/l i. 2v" i r^u uvi uin?i\ru wan ai^u v-aiilMi | but the three casus thereon were laid over until the following day. , The ease of the Stale vs. Kli/.a t Parker and Jess Parker was called | and Kliza Parker plead guilty and . was lined which was paid No hill was found against Jess Par kor. j tuksday. . Couri convened at IkliO a. in. The \ solicitor noli pressed the two cases t against Harry Hughes, assault with ^ intent to Kill upon payment of $10,- < Ob in each case. The grand jury returned the following bills: State vs Pat McDonald, assault and battery with intent to ravish, true bill. 1 The State vs Kirt (J rah am, as- } sault and battery with with intent 1 to kill, true bill. v State vs William (Jreen, murder, 1 truo bill. J1 The court took up the ease ol ' the State vs Jesse Jones, assault and battery with intent to kill. 1 Thiscase grewoutof the shooting t of the Syrian peddler, Joe Rabal, [ near Peach Tree Perry on the Iftth 1 of last July. Hon H. II. Wood ward J, appeared for the defendant and So licitor Wells was assisted in the prosecution by Mr H. W. Wait. The : defendant plead not guilty and on- 1 tered a special plea of insanity. Tlwe following jury was drawn and sworn : I!! D. E Moore,foreman; W. M Car- 1 tor, T. W. Dorman, I). I). Ed^e, C, Ij. Williamson, J. J. Jones, N. (J. Hughes, J. 11. Dusenhury, C, T. Harden, J. T. Altiqun, Ceo [). Itabon, 1\ A. Gerrald. The prosecu- v tion swore the following witnesses: j Joo Kabul, 1 Infus Graham, Hob Oliver, VV. J. Singleton, Mack Dick- t son and G rover MeCormick. The ? defense put up VV. J. Ilowell, Julius ? Owens, Frank Hruton, J. A. Jones, t Ed Green and Jesse Jones, the dc- ? fendant. t A t this junoturo the court took a recess to 2;H0 p. m, < ATFEUNOQN SESSION, < Court convened at w.db p. in. The ' grand jury reported as follows: The State vs Frank Connor, viola- ( tion of the Carey-Cothran law, no ' bill. 5 The State vs A. 11. Dunear. and ' Cyntha L'hipps adultry, no bill. ' The State vs Daniel A!ford, miscegenation, tre bill. j lie solicitor nol pressed the ease of the State vs L'earl Hooks and ( JohnT. Hooks, assault with intent , to kill, upon payment of The casp of the Stipe vs Jesse , Jones,assault and battery with inten , to Uifl wi\s yesipqed. Mr Woodward , addressed the jury on behalf of theV, defendant, followed by the solicitor for the SlSltA llitt lunwu- I -? ?.t.v. ???? viuii j^i:u tho jury, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. William Green charged with murder was arranged anil entered a plea | of not guilty lie had no attorney and his honor appointed Hon. H H Woodward and Mr. U W Wait to represent him. Counsel demanded the three days and Friday was set for the trial. ( The next case called was that of 1 The State vs Cat ppnald, charged with ausaplt with intent to ravish. ; Mr. Wait represented the defendant ' who pled not guilty. The court was engaged with the trial of this case i when court adjournei\? 1 The grand jury retried on bills : [ as follows: I T\\o State vs Jot Urice, assault and battery with intint to kill* true j bill State vs Frank f^ee, assault and battery with Intent to <uli, true bill. State vs L. .Jt. Watts, assault and , battery with intent to kill, true bill, State vs J. U. Williamson; assault ' with intent to kill, true bill. State vs John Lewis, violation of , the Carey-Cotnrun law, no bill. I State vs R. T. Harmon, assault with intent to kill, no bill. State vs J. (I. Rhodes, abtainin^ I property by false pretences, (two cases) no bill. DAY, 7.OCTOBER 1, 1908. . . WKDNKSDAY. The jury in the case of the State vs Pat Donald, assault with intent to ravish, brought in a verdict of guilty. The grand jury retuMied tree bills in tlio eases of the State vs John Todd, (Jehu Todd and Dennett rodd, assault with intent to kill. State vs Paul Smith and six other negroes, gambling with cards No bill in the case of the State vs I). (). (Iraluiin, assault and battery with intent to kill. The lirst ease taken no by the court was that of the State vs. Prank Lee, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Mr Wait represented the defendant. J U Williamson charged with an assault with intent to kill, entered a plea of guilty on assault of an high and aggravated nature. .let Price charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, entered a plea of guilty of an assault iLid battery of an high an aggravated nature and was sentenced to three months in the county gang or pay a line of $."?<> 00 Pat Donald, convicted of an assault with intent, to ravish uhk - ?... , ?* OUI I j fenced by his honor to two years , n county chain gang or State penitentiary. ( The jury in the case of the State | vs Frank Lee charged with assault md battery with intent to kill, wrought in a verdict of guilty of an ( iss?iult and battery of a high and ( tggravated nat ute. KirtCraham charged with an asdiult and intent to kill intered a )lea of guilty of an assault and battery of an high and aggravated nature. Sentenced to pay a lino of DdOor serve six months in chain ;ang or pen i ten tary. AdrianThe Hev Mr Davis, our pastor is jonducting a protracted meeting at 1 L'oplar. Mr Davis is a hard worker ' u the cause of Christ, lie has been vith us for four years and very ( nuch regret giving him up. There 1 ire few who can lill his place as he * las filled it. Our school is going on under the 1 Management of Mr Hi C. Allen. He ' .aught for us last year and is one 1 if the best teachers we have had n many years. No one will make a . nistake in giving him a school. I 1 eel safe in saying that if you once 1 rv him as a teacher you will want 1 lim again, fie is a good boy and 1 s making his mark. No deaths to report, at this time md with few exceptions the health j s generally good. K. T. j linrroniili k (iradcd School. ' The Burroughs school opened j villi an enrollment of Other | mpils are coining in daily ( The primary department is crowd . id and the patrons who have chil- ( Iron to enter this department are | o juostod to send them at once, Af,er the lath of October t hey will, of | leeessity, have to wait until after , Christmas. , The music department has a large ^ mrollment and under the direction >f Miss Hurriss, the most satisfacory results will he realized. The high school department, iniluding the Stli, ht.h and 10th grades las been added to the school. The ipplicat ion for State aid has been i avorahly passed upon by the State ' High School Board. [Notice Toftacco iirower*. ! The MuUius tobacco market will dose October Kith, BKIH. After that date there will bo no more, motion sales, and would advise all who have tobacco on hand to sell as 3arly as possible as we. do not expect to sec prices any bolter this season. Y^<?rv fnilu . " .? " " .7 1 Dixon & Boat wright, Props Plan tors Warehouse, Mulling, S. C At Huptist Cluircli. At the Baptist church next Samday morning at 11 o'clock. Special program. Public cor;V?aliy invited. Sunday Scliool Institute. The next session of the Mt Tabor | Sunday School fnstitu e will meet with Pleasant iMeadow Sunday school on Saturday before the second Sunday in October. Wo hope to have a full representation from all the schools that compose the | tute. We also ask food hohavlnr and hope no one will oouve under the in lluence of intoxicating drink. No selling or trattfeing on the church grounds will be allowed. Lot us have a day of pleasure I*, B Goats, General Superintendent, Attention is directed to the advortisment of the Old North Stato Lifo Insurance company of Kington, N. C. This is one of tho strongest companies south and writes insurance on very liberal terms. T. 11. Smith, at the Kingston Hotel, this place. A W Singleton, one of Horry's best and most prominicnt citizens, wno resides in Bucksvillo section was in the city yesterday. Vil 1 lL n HUB II. P. Little and the New Council Sworn in. PROGRESS AND ENTERPRISE, Civic I ii pro vent c n f and I.aw and Order will Mark (lie Policy of (lie New Admintftirutloit. Ill* Little, who is now head of our municipal government, was born in Tennessee and moved to Conway in 1000. He sprang from pious parentage, his father bointf tho Kev .1 K Little, a prominent and devout man of CJod. Mr Little is what is generally known as a self made man. Some time in HUM) he came to Conway and near about, (if not the first,) work he did was the erection of the building, under contract, now occupied by the Spivey Mercantile Co. Since then he lias been a successful contractor and builder and it was under his workmanship that nearly every brick building in the city, and many frame structures were erected. In his business relations he has been remarkably successful and is connected with several successful industrial enterprises, lie is the sole proprietor of the brick yard and the Con way Novelty Works, l>oth of which art* valuable properties and by his wise and judicious management have become to be important factors | in the. development of the industrial interests of the city and county. Mr Littlo is energetic, progressive and has always taken a leading and prominent part in all things tending Lo the upbuilding of the place and the improvement of the moral and linaucial well being of the people. He has acceptably served as an alierinan and during his encumbency many improvements to the streets ind pavements were made and from Lhis begilining we can trace the improvements which has marked the growth of our little town and made l as progressive as it is today. Lie has the courage of his convictions and is firm and positive in dong what he conceives to be his luty and it is safe to say that he will uphold the majesty of tho law ind maintain the peace and dignity >f the city. We have his word for it that he will use all the authority with which :ie is clothed to continue tho work )f civic improvement which has peon so vigorously prosecnted durng the administration of Mayor Smith. In fact we believe that it s the purpose of Mr Little to make lis administration a record breaking mo along the line of progress and levelopmenl the likb of which has never been witnessed hero before . Tho city is indeed to be congratuated on tho elevation of Mr Little to the Mayorality who, together with his council will see to it that the wheels of progress avo not clogged New Officer* Take Ctiarjrc. Tho reconMy elected town ollicers were, sworn in hist V1 rid ay night and Look charge of the municipal offices, riicy are 11. P. Little, Mayor; J. M, McKeithan, Alderman from ward 1: J. K. Nicholas, Alderman from ward Z\ Chas J. Epps, Alterman from ward 51; II. L. Huck, Alderman from ward 1; W, E. McCord, Alderman from ward 5; E .1 Sherwood, Alderman from ward (5. The election of the alderman from this ward was contested by V. V. Anderson the regular nominee, but the result was in favor of tho encumbent, Mr. Thomas Hell was, elected city clerk and treasurer, succeeding Mr E. J. Sherwood. There was no election for Marshals and this important matter will be attended to at another meeting. Dcatli of \ title MI?h fitIicI llurroughs. lCkhel, the only daughter of Dr and Mrs H. fl. burroughs, died at the home of her parents in this place, last Sunday afternoon, after an illness of about a week. The funeral services were at the home and conducted by the Rev A. S. Do'jtk, pastor of tho Presbyterian enurcn. rue, interment was at Lakeside cemetery in the presence of a hove assoindatfc of relatives and friends, ? ?? - - ? Pink McQueen a well to do colored farmer of the Green Sea section, was in town Monday and paid the Herald a business call. P D Owens, a promient farmer, who tfets the Herald at Myrtle Beach came to see us Monday, U L Dunn, one of Socasc-eo's most successful farmers, was ataon^ the visitors to the city Tuesday. ?mm* m i mm I HcWltt's &? .? Salvs For PUas, Burns, l?n> * V No. 25 l:or Hotter Fire Protection. Conway needs oetter firo protection. As it is now one half of 1 the town could burn up before the other half would tind it out. There should at least be a ni^ht watchman so that in case of fire an alarm could be ipven and the bucket brigade called out. In the absence of water works there should be wells similar to those at the city liali and the Commercial hotel located in every section of the city. A supply of hose should be purchased and the members of the lire company should be called out for practice at least once a week. An ordinance should be enacted requiring every owner of reality who has dwellings to rent to furnish a ladder sufficient to reach the top of the building and making the rector responsible for the safe keeping ofthcsanio. Some may say that we are necessarily alarming ourselves over this matter, but then it should be remembered that fire is liablo to break out at any moment at a place least expected and without adequate means to fight it, there is no telling where it will stop and how much property will he destroyed before it is cheeked. Then it will he too late "to lock the stable door after the horse is gone." The progressiveness of Conway demands better protection against tire and it is the duty of not only '?<< city fathers hut every citizen, whether own r of reality or not, to interest themselves in an effort for the putting in (if a water works system and the encouragement of a lire company. Itail a ClOsc Call. Mrs Ada L Croom, tho widely known proprietor of tho Croom Hotel Vaughn, Miss, says: For several years, I sulTered with a severe cough, and consumption seemed to have its grip on me, when a friend recommended Dr King's New Discovery. I began taking it. and three bottles a (Tec ted a completo cure." The fame of this life saving cough and cold remedy, and lung and throat healer is world wide. Sold at Norton Drug Co's drugstore, hoc and fl 00. Trial bottle free ? ' ? Bliell. The health of tho community is not very good. Cotton picking is the order of the day. Miss Mollic McDowell visited Mrs J. T. Anderson last Saturday J. M. McDowell visited his brother VV. J. McDowell, at Wainpoe last week. J. T. Todd visited J. F. Todd last Sunday. J. K. Anderson and wife wero soen on our streets last Saturday. L. 1\ Todd visited J. M. McDowell last Suuday, Best wishes to the Herald and its many readers. Jump Off. Protrctcd Mfi'tlmr at Ccro Gordo. Editor Herald?I am a subscriber to your paper, and I kindly ask for space in your paper to say a fevv words in regard to a series of meetings conducted at the Methodist church at this place by the liov. J. Davis ilurrelson of Hurley, S. C. Our beloved brother arrived here Saturday, the lilth on the 5.30 train and the spirit of the Lord came widi him.Ue was missed at the train by the brothers who went to meet bun, but after a few minutes he found the home of a friend, an oldtime playmate who was overjoyed to meet him. After a short rest he and many friends assembled at the church building which was kindly offered to the Baptist people to hold tho'ur meeting in as the building formerly occupied is toosmall. The sermons were vory forceful from the first and was gieatly enjoyed by all and our beloved brother holds his congregation as a magnet holds steel, and you could almost hear a pin full on the lloor while he is delivering tho message of the Lord. His earnest and loviug appeals has caused muuy to seek Jesus and find peace (or their souls by believing on the i ^.-.1 ?- * i " ljuru uiiu l r 11 s i 111 Lr in DlS word. On Friday afternoon the church wa? called to order by our Deacon for the purpose of calling a pastor for the coining yeur. It was <jiven to the Kov. Davis Ilarreltton, of Gurley, S. C., and was accepted, Bro- ^ ther Harrelson is not like many who ur^c everybody to join the church, hut would perfer to repair their hear s and make their peace :a n - i * T wihi uou. we tbank the Lord for the manife: tat ions of his spirit in our midst during our meeting, which was one of the best it has ever beeu the pleasure of the writer to visit it and may God help each and every one that lias now made a start to follow ihe Lord. And may tho Lord go with our brother aud stand by him in his field of labor wherever he may roam until his toil and trouble shall end and may he lean on the strong arm of Josus while passing through tho shadow of death and secure a crown of glory in the bright remins abov^ . W. Pf Pridgeo, f