The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 02, 1911, Image 4
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PEOPLE ARE $f ARVING
Family Condition* Described by a
Minister Who Is Out There.?A
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Pathetic Story o/ Starving Men
ain{ Women and Little Children.?
Th* Crops Failed.
Probably not in several years has
there passed through the mails of
this section of the country letters j
bearing more distressing news than
communications which have been re~
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ceived by the Rev. P. D. Jenkins,
pastor of fhe Piedmont Presbyterian
Church, from his brother, Dr. W. F.
Jenkins, who is a missionary to
China, says tlie Greenville News.
Floods last summer and fall near
Suchien, China, destroyed crops and
the gaunt spectre of famine is now
stalking through the land. The letters
received by the Rev. Mr. Jenkins
tell of the most terrible conditions
which exist in the famine stricken j
t)i? Pipdmont nastor has!
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very kindly consented to allow the J
publication of extracts from some of
the letters he has received from his
brother. They are as follows:
I am away from home?out in a
Chinese house?that means in the
cold. I have a small charcoal fire
in a little furnace beside me but
that don't begin to warm a room.
My bones are so near my skin those
days that I feel the cold more than
ever and I always was a coward
about it.
I have on for outer clothing now
a heavy overcoat lined with sheep- (
skin with the wool on, my hat (I
don't take it off except to pray or
feing or sleep, and heavy wadded i
Chinese shoes with two pair of woolen
socks to keep my feet warm.
Don't pity me. I'm not suffering |
physically, but oh it does hurt me
to see the famine sights and hear
the famine cries.
I just had to buy a pair of pantB
the other day for a fellow. He kept
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these freezing clays with only one
garment 011 his lower limbs and that
was thinner than my summer underclothes
and he had no socks at all.
He had pawned everything heavier.
It is freezing cold day and night
and this poor fellow like a raft of
others has no sign of quilt at night?
pawned or sold for food you know.
His face is swollen from the food
he has been eating?utterly indigestible
stuff and not nourishing?
weeds, greens, bark, ground up with
a little barley or potatoes and made,
, into thin gruel to fill up the stomach.
He has Q little hoy in the hut with
him clothed 110 better than he and
his wife, carrying a baby, is out begging,
gone a week now. Who knows
but that she and the baby are dead
on the wayside, starved or frozen
to death. Alas, alas, the sufferings ;
of these noor people. A young man
in the ullage a mile from here where
we have a Christian mission, starv-i
ed. to death the other day and an old
lady near, of the same disease, lately.
He was thrown out of work by
hard times?begged, but few could
firive?110 work to be had?pawned
his only thick clothing, got so weak
and stiff he could not get about. J lis
sister-in-law gave him five cents in
gold. He sent by a friend for food,
ate it all at one meal and died, too
much for his wasted stomach.
In that same village there are 20
odd families and only three of them
are now eating "dry" food, the re^t;
are eating thin gruel made of a little
coarse tlour or beans mixed with
much greens (?) really just almost
any weeds, grass, etc., because gruel
fills up bet*er.
And this is only December! What
will things he like in the early
spring? Other vintages are better
off but they say that half the people
through this section are now eating
gruel and much of that exceedingly
thin. If it should snow and so, shut
the people off from gathering greens
(weeds) in the fields many will just
have to die.
Some of our Christians have already
changed color, a sign of advanced
starvation, have been eating
gruel some time. Christians and
friends look at me with longing eyes
(I gave out so much famine relief
four years ago.) They dog my stops
to seek a private interview to tea
me their troubles. And what can I
v do?
Already I've given out more money
than I possess of my own and besides
one has to he very careful how
he gives or he will be utterly swamped
by crowd.? begging. I don't see
how I can come back hero before
harvest If I cannot bear to see their
distress and hear their cries. I wish
I could put my head In a hole and
not see or hear anything till next
summer!
It Is going to bo awful later and
It Is bad eilough now. Any monej
sent will swe life. I'll see to that,
I have been holding a "Bible stud)
class" here for a week or more and
they have been coming very well but
pserarf
fA SPAJt^ANJ^G . IiAI>Y IfAS
THKIU4NQ KX|?KKLK>TCK.
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She.I^rcamecl That a Burglar Was In
Her Itoon\ Which She Feuiid True
oil Awaking. -*
Mrs. Max Henrici, wife of the city
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editor of the sparumuurg ucum,
dreamed during the early hours of
! Monday night that bufglars would
enter her room before morning and
a few hours after having this weird
dream awoke to find that reailv and
truly there stood a burglar in tho
centre of her room.
She retired Monday night as usual,
but. did not sleep soundly during tne
early part of the evening. After experiencing
such a dream she fell
asleep. At S:30 o'clock she awoke
and at once noticed that her room
was very cold. Looking toward the
window which she had left close 1 :t
was open and the outside shutters
had also been thrown wide open. The
inner shade was pulled down and
this had been left up.
She lay still for a moment and
soon heard tho footsteps of the midnight
intruder. Creeping out of her
bed on the opposite side from the
robber she could plainly see him j
standing by the dresser and presently
he flashed his electric pocket
flash-light on the bureau and was
ransacking this for valuables. The
brave young woman attempted lo
creep out of the room without being
detected but just as she reached
the door pud was on the point of
getting into the adjoining room,
wUorrt hnr husband was asleep, the
robber flashed his light squarely into
her face.
This so frightened the young woman
that she screamed at the top of
her voice and wakened every one in
the house. Her husband rushed into
the room, but at this time the
burglar had jumped out of the open
window onto the front porch and
once .gaining the street, easily made
his escape. Positively no clue was
left.
The fright of Mrs. ITenrici was awful
and almost threw her into hysterics.
However she soon recovered,
and is now in her usual good health.
It was a peculiar coincidence that
Mrs. Henrici should dream of the
approach of the burglar and wake
up several hours later and find one
standing in the centre of the room.
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MAD DOG RITES FIVE.
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Rabid Animal Runs Amuck and Succeeds
in Escaping.
A mad dog ran amuck at Anderson
on Thursday, biting two white boys
and three negroes, besides several
dogs. It disappeared before it could
be captured. The dog started his
run at Cox's Creek, just east of the
city, when it attacked a negro man
named Ware, who was working in
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on rubber boots and the dog's teeth
did not reach his flesh. The dog
then circled through the Bailey
place, attacked and severely bit another
negro man. The dog then proceeded
through the city, through
Calhoun street. It attacked Hlinira
Henderson, the young son of E. \V.
Henderson, a travelling salesman,
biting him in several places. The
next person attacked was a small
white boy named Duvall, in the Cox
Mill village. The last person reported
bitten was a negro near the Cox
Mills. The dog attacked him from
behind, and it was necessary for the
negro to fight the beast off.
Fatal How About Koad.
Bailey P. Turner, a planter was
shot and probably fatally wounded
while driving in the roadway near
Cameron, Texas, Wednesday. The
shooting followed a quarrel with Ed.
Tompkins, another planter as to the
right of way on the county road. In
the midst of the dispute Tompkins
; buggy was overturned and his leg
i broken. He is under arrest.
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OX1A" WHITE MEN.
Will lie Appointed Notaries by Governor
ltlcnse.
It is stated that Governor Mease
issued his proclamation revoking the
commissions ol all notaries jnblic in
i South Carolina for the purpose of
!eliminating the negro. After Febi
rnary 10 lie will refuse to .srue a
'commission to a negro as a notary
} public.
Hundreds cf applications are bei
inr received for a commission as
! notary public. The one most Important
requirement is that the applicant
must prove ocyond a doubt that
he is a white man and of good
standing.
It is expected that at least 5,000
notaries nnbiic will bo commissioned
. in South Carolina within the next
i several weeks.
some just :nn't walk every day tc
i come?it takes a little grain to give
, one leg force to walk; gruel mostlj
; weeds and water, won't give It!
Contributions to help tho starv<
1 lng Chinese may be forwarded tc
r the famine district by being Bent tc
, Rev. Mr. Jenkins at Piedmont, or e
r New York Exchange sent to Rev. W
I' F. Jenkins, Suchien, China, will b(
, good for its face value.
CANfM ffiHJND
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The Myslerhis Disappearance of a
Young Woman irliw York.
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PRETTY AND RICH GIRL
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Family Convinced She Had No Lovo
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A Hair unu That k8he Is Alive?liv- (
erything That Money Can l)o and
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(trains nuve int-ii iwmj
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in Hunt.
'Seven weeks ago last Monday Dorothy
II. C. Arnold, the beautiful
daughter of Francis It. Arnold, a
millionaire Importer of perfumes in
Xew York, and a niece of the late
Rufus H. Peckham, Associate Justice
of the United States Supreme Court,
bought a novel at Drentano's, in
Fifth avenue, that city.
From that moment no news/ of her
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has reached her family. She disappeared
as completely as though the
earth had swallowed her, and though
both the Pinkertons and the Central
Office detectives have searched for
j her everywhere no trace has been
found.
Miss Arnold's aged parents, her
two brothers and her sister, are
I heartbroken over the mystery. They
have assured themselves in the most
positive way that no romance attaches
to the vanishing of Dorothy,
and they and those whom they have
consulted fear that some tragic crime
lies behind the disappearance of the
girl.
For six weeks Mr. Arnold, who is
seventy-three years old, refused to
allow a general alarm to be stmt out
for his daughter. Tie hoped against
hope that she would announce herself
to him in some way, and he told
his advisers that his riches were at
their helping if they would find her
without the publicity which, he
feared, might lead to unpleasant notoriety
for the family.
Dut Deputy Police Commissioner
Flvnn and former Assistant DistrictAttorney
Francis P. Garvan, Mr.
Arnold's counsel, persuaded the aged
father that the only remaining hope
lay in the publication of the story of
her disappearance. They also urged
the reproduction broadcast of her
photograph.
Mr. Arnold was brought around
with difficulty. With tears in his
eyes he begged Mr. Garvan to think
of some other way than publicity.
'Money, he assured his counsel, meant
nothing. Me would willingly spend
all he possessed in finding his child,
he said.
Mr. Arnold is so heartbroken over
the mystery that he has been unable
to attend to his business since the
| day she left home. Mrs. Arnold,
I who was a Miss Samuel, is bowed
with grief, for she was the last of
the family to sec Dorothy and speak
with her.
It was around 11:'0 on the morning
of Dee. 12 that Miss Arnold left'
her home, Xo. 108 East Seventyninth
street. She told her mother
she was going down-town to pick out
an evening gown for the approaching
holiday festivities.
| "I'll go with you," said Mrs. Ar-i
nold, but her daughter, kissing Mrs.
Arnold softly, answered:
"Xo, mother, don't bother. If I'
I
see anything I really think I want to:
get T'll telephone you, and you can j
come down and look it over. But j
you don't feel just right, and it's no |
use going to the trouble of coming
with me. 1 mightn't see a thing 1
want to wear."
With another kiss they parted and I
from that moment Mrs. Arnold has
never seen her child. When Dorothy
did not appear home for dinner
the family became alarmed, for
though she was twenty-five years old
and a college graduate she had never
absented herself from home for a
single meal without letting her
mother, who is somewhat of an invalid,
know just where she was going
to he, when she would he home
and why she wished to stay out.
John It. Arnold, a brother, arrived
from ftp rope Saturday. lie
knew nothing hut the bare fact that
his sister was missing, and inquired
eagerly for details. It. came out
through counsel for the family this
afternoon, that Mrs. Arnold had
broken down under the strain and is
being kept in seclusion with friends
out of town.
Circulars reproducing three of
Miss Arnold's latest photographs,
and giving a minute description of
her appearance, were mailed to every
police, town marshal and detective
agency in the United States
and Canada, with the offer of a v *i
ward of $1,000 for information lending
to her recovery.
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Sent l*p lor Life.
Guilty of murder in tne first, de>
gree was the verdict returned at
? Marsh field, Mo., by the party in tho
r case of Walter A. Dipley and Goldic
Smith, charged with the murder 01
. Stanley Ketchel, pugilist. Sentence?
> of lifo imprisonment were recom>
mended for each defendant. Th<
i Jury was out seven hours.
? Don't expect to find peace in life
t>y hiding from your neighbors.
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ANJJEKSOX nSFEAKS WAHMLY, IN
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DEFENSE OF PARTNER*
.tiiiiaJ'j XMH'X' 1^*2 flfcyoO
He
Declares Insinuations in Gover7
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nor*8 i>lcn*s8tfe Which Refer to FoA
cler Are Absolutely Untrue.
An Atlanta dispatch says Cr< h.
Anderson, law partner of Thomas B.
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Felder, the Atlanta lawyer who has
figured h?ite prominently in winding
up the old State dispensary, in
Felder's absence from Atlanta, made
a statement Wednesday in reierenue
to the Associated Press dispaten
from Columbia, in which Cov. Bleaso
is
quoted as inquiring why Feidei
"was not prosecuted when it was
found that he was the attorney for
a liquor house and was favored with
liquor purchases and rebates were
paid fo' these purchases." Anderson
sa>s:
"Since the Goodman and Fleischman
compromises referred to were
also made under the advice and
through the instrumentality of IWr.
Felder, I assume that the governor's
reference to these matters and demand
that they be inquired into, is
likewise an attempt to reflect upon
Mr. Felder.
"Througnout the entire course of
the investigation of the South Carolina
State dispensary and the disposition
of the matters connected
therewith by the winding-up commission,
I have been closely associated
with Mr. Felder, and am familiar
with all the facts connected
therewith.
"Mr. Felder is out of the city, and
in his behalf 1 desire to say that the
charges and insinuations contained
in the governor's message, which refer
to Mr. Kelder, are absolutely untrue
and without foundation in fact.
"If Gov. Blease has been informed
by any persons that there are existing
facts giving foundation to these
charges he has been wilfully misled
by designing persons, who probably
have felt the weight of the law, growing
out of their own nefarious
transactions with the State dispensary,
and seek this method of revenge."
WHAT Hl'H KVANS SAYS.
Ife Talks About That Alleged Atlanta
Meeting.
"Yes," said H. H. Evans, of Newberry,
known as "Hub" Evans, once
chairman of the State dispensary
board of directors, whose name was
mentioned in Governor Blease's message
to the General Assembly wit h '
reference to a meeting in Atlanta,
"Felder did send for me to come to j
Atlanta." This was in reply to a
Question about the meeting. Air. Evans
continued: "When we were ?n
the room together I said to him,
'Hnon that floor, von. and let. the At
torney General come in ami hear ev- !
erything I have pot. to say.' "
"Then 'vhat did you tell?" "1
told hi in e"en if I knew anything I
would not toll it to him," and Mi.
Evans concluded, with his words ju t ,
a bit stronger. The former dispensary
chairman while in Columbia
Wednesday //as shaking hands in legislative
circles. Ho talked freely o
newspaper representatives, as is Us
wont.
Mr. Evans said if he went on rhe
stand there would be some "hoi
stuff." fie continued: "The county
dispensaries are now buying !h<
u-imn Unnnr the State dispensary li'i
paying the same prices and higher
You talk about a firm turning over
$30,000 the other day, well, then th 1
county dispensaries ])av back $L0U,000
for that."
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TIM301) TO SAY10 CHILD.
Lost 11 or Own Life as Well as Thai
of Her 15aby.
A heart-rending tragedy occurred
near Klza, On., on last Wednesda
by which a mother and her two chi
dren lost their lives. Trying in va n
to save the life of her 1 1-year-o'
daughter, whose clothing was cant n<
in the shafting of a cotton gin, Mr
.). Tt. Wilkes sacrificed her own li
and that, of her six-months-old ha
near 101 za, this county. The lin
I girl screamed for aid as she felt t
!solf being drawn toward tin4 in.
ehlnery and her moth c, w o \\
' ljearhy, sprang to aid p r. She, too
j was caught and the baby, which w
| in lior arum, was minnl ,,
j floor and killed Inslan ly. Tiic mo.
! or and daughter booh perished a Re
being torn from the shat'tin .
LiUie Sniloi or Ibivsos.
The one year-old infant of Proi.
'a. II. MeCraeken, of Spnrtnnbnr
.turned a koit.le of boiling water over
on itself several days ago and died
Sunday as a result of burns. The
entire body of the child was covered
with blisters and death put an end
to the unbearable suiT'
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The Democrats in Congress ought
i to let the dead past bury its dead,
and press on to victory. Their votes
> in the last Congress should not count
against any member. We believe all
Democratic Senators and Repreaenta\
tives will do their duty when the
time comes.
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Has largest capitaland surplus of t
than the combinech capital and surf
CAPITAL fttCi&K',. '
/} SURPLUS, ...
PlXM LITIES STOCK
SECURITY OF.PEP.OS
DIRE(
Robert B. Scarborough,
3. L. Buck, '
Gteorge J. Holiday,
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We offer our customers every acc
| will justify, and we
*ob?rt b. scarborough, i
President.
We continue to pay 5 pe
Ifirst natk
A\ CONWA
2? CAPITAL* STOCK
SURPLUS PROFITS
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J. A. MCDormori, juiiu i
A\ B. G. Collins, H. L. 1
I? M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui
^ Successor to the Bank ol
jli Horry County, and a pioneer
(vJ ly allied with the recent dev
Republic. Backed by the 1
;TC United States Bonds, we are i
' toniers any reasonable acconu
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?H. A. SI'IVKY,
Cashier.
\V'UNLESS TELLS OF BATTLE.
.Many Killed and Wounded Near
Oeilm is Reported.
That Commandant Guerrero and
thirty soldiers were killed and fifty
others wounded in a battle, which
lasted two hours near Ceiba, Honduras,
was information contained in
scraps of a message picked up by the
local wireless station at 1 I o'clock
Thursday night.
The revolutionists in the depart
ment of La, Pase, Honduras, under
the leadership of (Jen. Solo, were
routed by Government troops yesterday,
according to dispatches received
Thursday by Consul General
I'Uoa, of Honduras, at New Orleans.
No details of the battle, which occurred
near the Salvadorean border,
were given.
(Jen. Clloa expressed the belief
that (Jen. Guitterex, vice president
and commanding general of Government
troops in the field, would shortly
strike -t telling blow against the
rebels commanded by Gen. Lee
Christmas. I!" expects the two armies
to meet in the vicinity of San
Pedro Sulla, about 2a miles south of
Puerto Cortez.
doped on One llorse.
P.oth riding astride on one horse
rom their home near Xuckols, Ky.,
Marv Kllon Tirhonor, aged lb,
daughter of Magistrate Golem.n
ennnr, and her hoy lover, William
Wells, I rt, wc re arrested Wednesi..>
in midllght on their way to
.ouisville to lie wed. The fugitives
re caught by ofheers who had be m
warnetl by the girl's father of the
eiopenieii t.
Will Itehuild at Once.
A dispatch from Cameron to The
State says if is understood that Geo
Timer, who ie t his new dwelling u\
lire a week ago, will take steps to
rebuild at oiu-e. Although he had
no in-are' e. i t saved $200 or $ftoO
v?ori of m Me nil from the burning
hutldin , J his, with several hun(io
i an rously contributed
oy 1 s. trieni.s, will help him consid
era 1)1 y.
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Sena t of v mine, of New Jorseyj
gliVo out a si n i i 'ui after .his
'ion in wiir h b said his can
<1 iiif-v i. f an t iernal trnta
i?, ?> ? \ i was vitalized
iiv rali r (.i ! i . I it victory, Ik
of in individual
t *??I Vj the 'i ;,i and .i!)i v)|! til (it be
di- t, r i 11 oim dollar in soohin;;
Ms pi on.
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Wo r .n i u w t t o the Torrem
law' woi)lo it i ; o?-* i .k vers If it wat
Wnaotd . I \w.n !d e? eve them ol
11 o. iT.-m mlliy of searching foi
nud t;u ir.i t,.voiii?; titles to laud, uj
under the I o. reus I nv tho i>iat<
. would do i'ant. We see no reastii
, v\ i v ain lawyer ihould op nose t.i<
bill tor fear of its hurting lus busi
mss.
Tho Columbia itocord says "th<
babyish conduct of tho Uopuhlicai
senators in tho West Virginia gen
eral assembly, in absontlng them
, solves from the sessions in order tha
Democrats might not be elected t<
the federal senate, merely empha
sizes the necessity for the electioi
, of senators by popular vote." Wei
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' HORRY, ttjffi
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iny bank in Horry county. More
>lu? of all other banks in; the county.
150/000
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:holdeks .. .. 50,000 ?
cms 112/500 4 1
:ioks
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D. V. Richardson,
W. A. Johnson,
Will A. Freeman,
ommodation which their accounts j
solicit your business.
*' * * "'*? t . rn trpuite
), V . l(I(,HAKI)>?UINf vy 1 liij a n^
Vice {'resident Casbibb
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x cent, on yearly deposits.
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DNAL BANK?! %
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$25,000.00 f
2,500.00 m I
125,000.00 M?j; h
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3. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, /ft
hick, W. H. Lewis, L). r
Evttlebauiri, D. A. Spivey. *1^
C Conway, the oldest Bank in Mk
o., . ..I {,, ? Clnao.
Ill I'iiiai' in v_.cn ^?n ???? ...
elopment of the Independent
Government and secured by A
>repared to extend to our cua- 5KV
iiodations. Cv hi
It. O, COLLINS, A jjl
President. I'j
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PROFESSION A L CARDS.
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H. H. WOODWARD b
attorney and Couucelor At Law.
CONWAY, S. O.
ftt. B. SCARBROIJGH
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CONWAY, S. C.
Attorney at Law.
A. It. BURROUGHS
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Physician and Surgeon.
CON WAV. 8. C. ,1mA
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B. WOFFOItl) WAIT.
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Attornoy nt La> .
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Hank of Iforry lluildini;.
CON WAV, H. O. |
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(HE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE '
k jLIGHT RUNNING
NBffloMr
(fyon wnnt either a Vlhmtlni^Hhuttlo, fe
Shuttle or a Single Thread [Chain&Uilch\
Sewing Machine write to
m NEW HOME 8EWIN0 MACHINE COMPAIf
Orange, Mass*
JiswrseMrlnsrmachinrs am made to sell regardlessdf
but tlic New Home is made to west.
Out guaranty never runs out.
*?* *9 authorized dealers snlf*'
sad dai n km* ' '
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M{KOI'(.Hs tv i(M/lAN8 OO., 1
Umw?y, <).
oolin ; \\ i; h (?nsolInc.
At V/adeira, Cm 1.. Mold Miner, aged 1
S years and Horace Russet, age{l
< in, were burnc<l to death when a i
fifty -lion gasoline lank was ex- ?J
i ploded by matches with which they I
4 were playing. Roth boys ran three
blocks with their clothes tlazing.
: Then they were stopped arid Che lire
j extinguished.
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i Door Kno'dis Farmer Against Saw.
" | A circular saw, a gust of wind ai^d
", a barn door combined to flepriyo
I Schuyler Wiley, a farmer residing
3 j near Pottstown, Fa., pf his right af^n u
below. the elbow*. ..The wind picked 1
II the barn door off its hinges, and J
1 hurled it upon Wiley when, he ^s j
near the saw. (i , , ; ? ,1V/ u
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