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H hh * i i y * I/- ( ( VOL. XXIX CARNIVAL COMPANY WAS SHORT THEY CLAIMED _____ 0 ' NUMBERS OF HANDS WORKING FOR THE SHOWS HAD TO GO WITHOUT PAY. / SEEKING WINTER QUARTERS Were They Really Short of Cash as They Claimed Owing to the War Tlmoe i\v Worn Tlinv InwA Plavimr * .?.v ?-?j fv/* ?? v* v ? ??v j -* tin t/ * au J nif^ A game of Bluff to Keep From Paying. The first of 1M ^ week when it came time to pay off rho hands working with the various ? ows connected with the Rogers Carnival, the bosses claim^ ed to the employees that they were short of funds. Many of the employees working for small weekly salaries applied to legal authorities toward the latter part of the week as time went on and they were still unpaid, but they were told that it was necessary to file a bond in attachment proceedings and thus hold up the property of the shows in order to force them to pay off. This was dseouraging to start with for it is always difficult for a stranger in a place to make a bond in any legal proceeding. The hands who had played in the Wild West aggregation and those who worked them selves nearly to death in some of the other attractions, had to go without their pay, or only such small portions of their wages as the bosses of the shows would pay. This friction concerning pay caused the shows trouble in various ways for many of the hands | quit and others let it be understood that they would file suits for their pay whenever the carnival should return to winter quarters in New Jersey * There were three real live young Jndian men and maidens with the wild ' ~ west show. To these the wages of several weeks were due and they ) threatened several times to give trou' ble. However, whenever it was time to put on the- show these Indians were generally in place ready to dash ofT on the ponies and give the war whoop they understand so well. Some of the people refusing to pay these wages are said to be quite wealthy, owning considerable property in the State of Pennsylvania. When the parties return to their homes there is no doubt but what they will be met with several suits that will be filed there by their employees. Manv thought thnt fhn V by the managers that they were short of money, having had hard luck at Conway, as a reason for not paying off,, was all false. This was the last performance before going into winter quarters of the carnnival, and the gen erallly discharge employees at such time and start out with a new set the ^ next Spring. | OBITUARY. Death Angels visited our home on December 1st, and took from us our loving father, Daniel Tyler. He was 65 years, 10 months and 16 days old. lb He was twice married. First to Miss ^ Eva Jane Grainger, who only lived a short time after their' marriage, and the second time to Miss C. M. Bullock, who now lives to mourn the loss. Ele ven children were born to them. Ten of whom now mourn the loss. One preceded him to the grave three years * ago and fourteen grand-children mourn the loss. His sufferings though great for eight weeks before he departed this ]|//V ? 1 1 9 tuc nric uunic wiui great patience till the end. He was a Mason for more than forty years and was laid to rest by the members of his lodge in * the presence of a large crowd. Dear Father thou hast gone from our home The charmed circle broken, A dear face missed day'by day From it's accustomed place. I. One voice of welcome husband * And evermore, one farewell word unspoken, * On the shore where parting comes not, One soul landed more. l. A sense of loss that meets us at the gate , Within a place unfilled and desolate, And far away our coming to wait One loss at home. His Loving Children. J. M. Cox was a pleasant visitor | one day last week. Wkt "HO ERECTING LARGE TOWER. i # Which Will Carry the Large Water Tank Intended to Supply Water. The large tower, with its foundations, has been in course of construction for several weeks past. Last week a number of men came here from a distant city to erect the tower and place the tank in position. The tower is composed of heavy steel beams and girders, and the tower has been erected without the use of scaf folding of any kind. Laborers in Conr way were unused to the manner in which men trained to this work will do. The men worked last week on the tower high above the ground, apparently without any fear whatever of falling, and running across the side pieces and up and down the columns as nimly as squirrels. The work is being put in for the' purpose of supplying the lower sec-1 tion of Conway with plenty of river water for fire protection. A proportion of the cost is paid by the Conway kumber Company. The company is also under contract to keep the tank mi?#i fl-. ..* ..11 <: Ta iiuvtl vvii/it Hrtvfl til/ till llllll'f). 1\, JJ> the largest .tank ever erected in this immediate section of the country. SOCASTEE ITEMS The Calhoun Literary Society is Still doing good work. The Epworth League held its regular meeting Sunday night. Mrs. S. S. Sarvis, Jr., of Conway is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Cooper. Mrs. Willie Dusenbury and her son, Herbert, of Toddville, S. C., visited Mrs. It. B. Singleton last week. We are glad to have our same preacher, Mr. E. F. Scoggins with us again. Messrs. Joe Singleton, Ben and Jess Williams of Bucksville visited near Socastee Sunday. Miss Elnita Sarvis has accepted a position as clerk in Georgetown <|uring the Christmas holidays. Mr. Mack Elks and family left Sunday for Florida. Mrs. G. W. Watts is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. E. Buxton of Georgetown. We are anticipating a jolly good time Christmas. Thanksgiving passed away very quietly in Socastee. MULLINS BOY AN INVENTOR. B. W. Jordan, a former Mullins boy having attended school here in the '90s, and a son of the late William Jordan, is the inventor of an electric alarm tllprmninptor rwVnhifrwl I to many old friends he met in this town last week. Mr. Jordan is here for a few days' visit, after an absence of ten or twelve years in Georgia. Mr. Jordan has perfected an invention and has been granted patent rights on a model thermometer for tobacco bams that will be regulated by the heat in the barn while the curing is in process. Its purpose is to obviate the necessity of overlooking the rise and fall of heat. If the invention works as claimed by the patentee, it will fill a long felt want for tobacco farmers and is destined to save them money and many sleepless nights. It is equipped with electric bells which ring continually in event there is a rise or fall of heat. Each bell has a different sound and a difference in the rise or fall of the temperature, from a given degree, is thus indicated. The use of the instrument should be a great hejp to the farmers, as it practically eliminates the many dangers to leaf tobacco during the curing season. Mr. Jordan will organize a stock company at once and expects to manufacture these instruments by the first of the year.?Mullins Enterprise., ITEMS FROM FINKLEA SCHOOL. Mrs. G. W. Grainger visited the school Wednesday. The play-ground committee %has almAol /i1ao%mi/I iU. * - 0 1 1 ...vni numcu wie jri?yKruunu OI OUSnes and stumps so one can play foot ball and basket ball. The Superintendent of Education visited our school Thursday. We are always glad to have him with us. Minnie Grainger, who has been, ill with diptheria returned to school recently. The following names compose the honor roll for the past month: ?Eighth Grade 1 Leila Hardee. ?Seventh Grade, < Docia Hardee, Furman Fowler, Har vey Fowler,. ?Fifth Grade < Nell Watson and Ernestine Watson 1 ?Fourth Grade Rheubcn Brunson, and Coy Hardee Pupils. Mm RRY COUNTY ANDHER PEOPLK CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY Dl MOSELY-BRUNSON CASE CHECKERS IN COURT I OVER STOCK OF GOODS MORTGAGED BY MOSELY TO BRUN,SON. omen imnrn winDTPAnc uLlLLU UHULfl INUfllUHUL Sheriff J. A. Lewis, While Taking Inventory Was Served With Claim and Delivery Papers and Goods Hetaken. Some time since, the sheriff of Horry, County, acting under a mortgage held by Mrs. Sarah B run son against the mercantile stock of A. R. Mosely & Co.. at Loris, seized the stock of goods and closed the store. The store remained closed for some time and finally the stock was advertised to sell on the 10th day of December under this mortgage . The mortgage was given to Mrs. Brunson, or A. J. Brunson, at the time of purchase of the business by Mosely from Brunson several months ago. The mortgage provided for small payments at frequent intervals. Default was made in the making of these payments, hence the action taken in closing the business. The sheriff was at Loris last Friday taking an inventory of the goods pre paratory to his sale of the goods on December 19th, when he was served with a claim and delivery writ which in the mean time had been taken out by Mr. Mosely. After the purchase of the goods from Brunson Mr. Mosely started up the business in the name of A. R. Mosely & Co., A. R. Mosely is his wife. A little later the business flourished out under a flaring letter head bearing the name "Loris Bargain House," and the name of N. Mosely appeared on the heading as manager. In the claim and delivery proceeding started last week, at last accounts there seemed to be some trouble about the bond that the plaintiff had offered in the case and the matter was standing as it was in order to give him a chance of filing a new and better bond. NEGRO GIVES LIVELY RACE. Stole a Pair of Shoes and Ran Away With Them. Last week while persons were packing up the bankrupt stock of the Lewis Mercantile Co., preparatory to shipping it to Charleston, a negro slipped a pair of shoes into his pockets and was going out of the back way when he was discovered by D. G. Hinson, employed in the store next door. Hinson gave the alarm and the man was chased through town up on the hill and was finally caught and brought before the town authorities to answer for his crime. ANNOUNCEMENT. By the will of the Father and in remembrance of our Savior, it is announced that there will be at Mt. Aeriel Free Will Baptist Church on Christmas Day at 2 o'clock p. m., a religious worship, with one or more ministers to expond the Gospel. It is for the benefit of all. Everybody is cordially invited to attend. Rev. M. S. Todd, Pastor. Per James R. Singletary, NORA DEWETT ARRESTED. Nora Dewett, a colored woman, was arrested last week under a warrant sworn out by Nick Davis, charging her with assault and battery upon Da vis with intent to kill, with deadly weapons and the other necessary legations. It appears that Nick is a cripple and has lived about the place of Nora Dewett for several years. Last week she became angry with him and struck him with a hoe inflicting a dangerous and painful wound just above the left eye. v Notice A>f Discharge. Notice is he^epy given Nthat the undersigned guardihn of Ellen L. Hardee, Minor, will apply before the JudfTO of Prnhnf** fvf Hftrru rV\nr?f?r of his office at Conway, S. C.f at 11 o'clock in the forenoon on the 18th day of January A. D., 1915, for a final dis charge as such guardian. W. A. Prince, Guardian of Ellen L. Hardee, Minor. Conway, S. C. , Dec. 17th, 1914. H. H. Woodward, Att'y. td. T. B. Cooper of Socastee spent last Thursday in Conway on business. 1 IP FIRST. LAST. NOW AM) FOKKVKti 5CEMBER 17th, 1914. REVENUE OFFICIALS SHOT BY UNKNOWN : a ? AFTER MAKING A RAID ON IL- 1 LICIT WHISKEY STILL AND r ARRESTING SEVERAL. ^ s LODGED UNDER SKIN : ________ \ c Occurrence in Same Section Where ; Prisoners Were Rescued Once Re- < fore.?Bad Section Near North Car- ; olina Line. R. F. Jenkins and R. Q. Merrick, c two revenue officials, accompanied by \ \V. J. Johnson and his son, went into A bad section lying on the North and . South Carolina State line the latter < part of last week to break up an illicit v/hiskey still. The defendants were ( caught in the act of measuring out and , dividing the "moon-shine," the prod- j uct of the still they were running not far off. \ They took George Beck, Spencer Bozeman, Will Huett, David Faulk and Asa Coles as prisoners. They were engaged in the illicit liquor traffic when surprised by the officials. A crowd of ruffians gathered and demanded the release of the prisoners which was refused and shortly < after this some of the would-be res- ] cuii.g party fired on the officials, and < the fire was returned. In the confus- 1 ion two of the prisoners escaped but tyere recaptured and next day one man recaptured again made his escape < One of the prisoners was wounded by ; the shots from the rescuing party. < Another of the prisoners got severely clubbed in order to resist his ef- < forts to break away. W. J. Johnson was struck on the body by several of the shot but these did not penetrate . the flesh. One ball struck his hat. A preliminary hearing was held before United States Commissioner C. P. Quattlebaum. Faulk and Coles were released on bond which they succeeded in putting up before the commissioner. "MUSNT TOUCH." Remember when you were a little tad, or taddess, and your mother or father pointed out something to your little eyes and said, "Musn't touch?" Of course you remember it. You'll never forget as long as you live how i those $ very words threw a cloak of i mystery around the object that you 1 "musn't touch,' 'and how that phrase 1 started the determination in your i mind that you would Touch. ; The other day a mother took her 2- ; year old baby to call on a neighbor, i The first thing the child noticed in the room was the glare of the fire in 1 a stove. She pointed at it and said, in i her childish lisp: i "Pitty!" "Mustn't touch, baby," warned the mother, drawing her away from the 1 stove. 1 Then the mother turned to talk with i her friend. The very first thing the i baby did was to touch the hot stove. * The "mustn't touch" command only 1 whetted her curiosity and MADE her t touch the stove. But she burned her * hand and learned through experience I not to touch. c The other day the mother of a boy in a town made some pumpkin pies. * As she placed them near a window to * cool she saw her young son looking t longingly at the steaming pies. a "Mustn't touch" she warned, shak- c ing a finger at him. Then she left s the room. The first thing her son did was to grab one of the pies and eat it all. He became very ill,' He learned, through. experience, t that he shouldn't eat too much pie. ^ The "mustn't touch" warning had only j made him all the more curious. v Men and women are only big boys t and girls. They have almost the same t thoughts and identically the same av- ^ ersion to the phrase "Mustn't touch." 0 Only in the realm of big boy and girl- * hood it isn't a father or mother who says "Mustn't touch," but some law, framed by a zealo who would try to make legislation do what nothing but ti education or experience will accom- s; plish. Such laws are always broken e and thus is generated a disrespect for v good and necessary laws. v If a law was passed today prohibit- t< ing a man having ham and eggs for it breakfast it would be a safe wager i\ that he would have ham and eggs for ii breakfast for 364 days out of the year li and on the 365th day he would have? c< ham and eggs. p vail ? t? PORT HARRELSON NEWS. I Iidway and Inland schools cordially nvite the public to attend their exrcises and Christmas tree to be held t Inland school house, Port Harrelson 5. C., on Tuesday night, Dec. 22nd, yi4. Exercises will begin at b:i?u p. ^ n. Mrs. Walker A. Moore and Miss 3elle Moore of Bucksville left here lome time ago for Fruitville, Fla, vhere they will spend the winter with j elatives. Miss Lorena Mercer, teacher of Mid vay school, spent a delightful week! ;nd with her friend. Miss Maude} VIoore. Misses Moore and Mercer ' mjovcd a very pleasant day in Con-1 vay Saturday, doing their Christmas; shopping. Mrs. G. C. Anderson returned home} m Friday last from her school at Col- t ins Creek, for the Chrismas holidays. 1 Mr. W. W. Shelley and family spent 1 \ few days of last week with Mrs. < Shelley's father, Mr. Henry Howell. \ Mr. Willard Parker has just return- 1 mI home from Georgetown, St. Steph- <. "'lis and other places. He reports aj( pleasant time. ; t With host wishes to the Herald and J its many readers. i "Black Eyes." i FERRY MATTER CLOSED . I Lands Donated For Public lTse at i Peach Tree by Adjoining Owners Last week deeds were passed to the , county by Messrs. Burroughs & Col- | I ins Co., and J. M. and Robbie Stalvey af Soeastee, whereby public rights of , way were donated to the public use , for a public landing at Peach Tree , Ferry. The deeds grew out of a pro- ( reeding strated in the court of Gener- , Ell Sessions last Spring when upon the , rail of the case, the matter was set- j tied by a contract between T. B. Coop er and J. M. and Robbie Stalvey that < the latter should convey, in considera- ] tion of $5.00 and other considerations a small strip on their land at this ferry, and that the prosecutor, T. B. Cooper, should, procure the conveyance of a similar right from Burroughs & Collins Co., over a small portion of their adjoining lands. The new landing for the use of the public is not at the place where the landing was formerly but is to the eastward of the old landing place. ITALY READY FOR WAR Premier's Statement in Parliament Excites the Keenest Interest. . Rome, Dec. 4.?Many members of < Parliament consider that the state- 1 ment of Premier Salandra, in Parlia- J ment yesterday in which he advised that Italy maintain her attitude of 1 watchful and armed neutrality and < made reference to what he termed the just aspirations of Italy together with i demonstration by the members, means that Italy is now ready. i Deputy Labriola, a prominent mem- * 3er, summarized his opinion of the sit 1 aation by saying that "one word more from Salandra would have mean 1 i declaration of war." ( Others think that the phrase of the * premier regarding the aspirations of [taly was misunderstood and that he night instead have alluded to the exstence of an Italian-Austrian agreement delimiting the Italian frontier ( )y the peaceful annexation of a por- ^ J ;ion of the province of Trent. A few express fear that Austria may inter>ret the events in Parliament as a ihallenge. ? A committee of deputies has been ormed and its members are endeavoring to induce their colleagues to re- ^ rain from speaking on the premier's itatement in order to give the vote of onfidence in the government greater ^ olemnity. DEATH OF W. A. DUSENBURY. Mr. W. A. Dusenbury died at Socas- ^ ee, at his residence there, on Thurslay of last week, as the result of inuries received from a falling tree. He yas cutting the tree down and the ^ ree in falling struck against another ree and bounded back. He was a rother of the late J. E. Dusenbury f near Conway and has a number of elatives in Conway. ^ f; Larceny is Charge. gl The Kings county grand jury inves- 'c igation which resulted in the dismis- a al of Thomas F. McCormick as ward- v n of Sing* Sing prison because of fa- tl ors shown by him to David A. Sulli- n an, who is serving a two years' sen- ii ?nce for the part he played in wreck- f lg the Union Dank of Brooklyn, vir- tl Lially ended last Friday with the find- o lg of three indictments against Su\- tj van charging him with grand lar- w any while a prisoner at Sing Sing n rison. si _ No. 34 I IENRY B. BAKER IS STRUCK BY GOGHRMI TAKING A BLOODY WOUND* WHICH DOES NOT PROVE SERIOUS THOUGH PAINFUL ASSAILANT BAN AWAY frouble Started Over Words Passed at One of the Booths of the RGgers Carnival Company a Few Minutes Before. Some excitement was created last Saturday night about 8 o'clock in the ower part of the town, when Henry k Baker, a prominent merchant and saw mill man of near Cool Springs, ,vas struck in the back of the head jy Joe Cochran, a negro. The force >f the blow knocked Mr. Baker down >n the ground. Ho was quickly assist Hi by friends and taken to Main Street where his wound was examined md found to be only a scalp wound, which though bloody and painful, was :iot of a serious nature. The trouble whie)^ culminated in [his blow began in front^^ one of the looths in the Rogers Carnival Showa*_ v In the booth a game was conducted by means of balls and a bell to be rung by hitting it with the balls if possible. Mr. Baker in a playful manner took up three of the balls paying the price i>f live cents. He struck the bell with some of them and played again. Joe Cochran went up close to Mr. Baker and began talking to him about the way in which the games could take a man's money and his talk became offensive. He was shoved away from Ihe place and told to hush. A little later Mr. Henry B. Baker in company with several other white men left the grounds and walked off toward the store and plant of W. R. Lewis and the incident of the negro was forgotten, but as the corner of the store waa nearly reached, Cochran ran out and wont up behind Mr. Baker and hit him in the head. The negro then ran and was not caught that night. A warrant was sworn out for the assailant and the officers were looking for him at last accounts, DEATH OF DANIEL TYLER. Daniel Tyler, a prominent resident and farmer of Floyds township passed away last week leaving a large family surviving him. He was at an advanced age at the time of his death. Ho had many friends over the county who will be pained to learn of hi* leath. ARRESTED FOR LARCENY. The Magistrate's court last week ssucd a warrant for the arrest of Jinr Jordan, a colored man, a tenant, or aborer on the farm of A. P. Jofmaaau rhe warrant charged the defewianfc ,vith stealing an ox. The prostewftMT ? omes from Little River, and he thr \lso colored. fj:\ j 4 MISS ELIZABETH DURAN*! Miss Elizabeth Durant, a memhorr )f Conway Methodist Church fSer 8?; rears, died on November 29th, ltth it the ripe age of 95 years andLeMte juried the following day at Sta^pr 5lains Cemetery, Methodist. Frmoaeh f \ mrin A A D"1* h . ? icitivc v.wimuv,vcvi ?y ivcv. OT. Ab >acken. Oh, let us trust with holy ' lMMfeoflb old, lot all the story here begun UataAfe. So the tired spirit waiting tmbWi freed, )n life'8 last leaf, with tranqp&em shall read, By the pale glimmer of thn tMUt reversed, lot finis but the end ef volume*-Gbafca. Life's race well run, life'a- wadfe. well done, .ife's crown well wen, now tmmam* rest. v A Frinwdii, The RogdNi Shown l?A rouble last MondiPjIa getting ampr rom Conway. As flMted efsewfcsnmr ome of the employees of tin atom* *V~. V-J _ i ?*-* Mtmvu vuAb uicy ntui iiUT/ otcu pw ny wages for several weeks. tere made to collect this money ftm hem, but failed. Early on Msaalapr lorning several members of in band sued out writs of attachMfcr rom Magistrate W. H. Chestnutbe writs were levied on the propositi f the show so that the train could [ike it away, and the men had to stay nth it. By afternoon some adjuafc* \ent of the matter was made and the.