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( I VOL. XXIX GATE GUY CASH STORE PLACED IN BANKRUPTCY Business Was Owned by the Rev. S. T. Creech. SHERIFF'S SALE ENJOINED Stock and Other Property Will be Handled by Trustee Appointed. In the early part of December the stock and store fixtures of the Gate City Cash Store at Loris was seized by the sheriff of the county under an execution issued on a judgment obtained by the Bank of Loris against the Rev. S. T. Creech, the proprietor of the store. Mr. Creech was the preacher in charge of the Methodist churches on the Loris circuit and this mercantile business had been run by him for the past year or more and a considerable trade had been built up it is said. The judgment order under which 4 U ? . - ?. l ~ ? ; 1 i . ? tin* ijuuut> were scizeu ami me fctore closed was obtained in the suit brought by the bank on a note for $1,000.00 given by the Loris Dublishjng Co., and which note had been endorsed by Mr. Creech and also by Mr. E. L. Sanderson. After levying on the stock of goods, the sheriff, Mr. J. A. Lewis, advertised the sale of the goods for the first I Monday in January. Last week, however, the sheriff was served with an j injunction granted by Judge H. A. M. Smith of the United States District court, for some days before that the Gate City Cash Store was adjudged bankrupt, or rather the proprietor, Mr Creech. The object of the general law of congress regulating bankruptcy was to ne ake all creditors able to share eoually in the assets of an insolvent party or firm, and all sales, levies, and transfers made within four month before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, are rendered void. The application for an injunction in the bankrupt court before Judge Smith was not opposed, as there was no grounds upon which it could be fought. The goods will not sell on the first Monday in January as advertised by the sheriff. The trustee in bankruptcy appointed by the United States District court under the nation al bankruptcy laws, will take charge! of all the property of the party and it will be wound up in that way, each I creditor sharing equally in the proceeds of the pro perl VINE!,AND, N. NEWS. All of the Items of General News Gathered for Quick Reading. The health of this place is good with the exception of colds and a few cases of diptheria. There has been some scarlet fever Mr. S. M. Mcrrett, the auto liveryman, was struck with paralysis some time ago. Mrs. N. B. Stephens returned from Chadbourne Tuesday after a Christmas visit. Mr. Hugh O. Strouthers of Grist, N. C., had the misfortune to lose his dwelling house by fire last Thursday morning about 4 o'clock. One day last week one of the White ville Lumber Co.,'s houses caught lire and was burned with its contents. Mr. J. S. Hodges of Chadbourne has been visiting his brother, C. G Hodges of this place. Mr. Joseph P. Baldwin of this place was struck with paralysis a few days ago. Messrs Sam and Mody Pike and families of Pikeville, N. C., are here on a visit to Mrs. Amanda Thompson, mother of the two Messrs. Pikes. Chief of Police Thompson of this place is keping very busy catching the law breakers. B. OBITUARY. Mrs. Caldonia Johnson died on Dec. 15th, 1914 at an advanced age and was buried the following day at Rehoboth cemetery, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. M. A. McCracken. 1914, and was buried the fololwing 1914, and was buried the folowing day at the State cemetery, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. M. A. McCracken. A. Friend. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends for their kindness shown us during the sickness and death of our dear baby, Nina May Ricks. God bless you all. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Ricks. Wm "HORR GIRLS CANNING CLUB. The General Education Board Claims To Have Borne the Entire Expense. New York, Dec. 27.?Results of the Girls' Canning Club movement in Southern States promoted jointly by the department of agriculture and the general education board, are detailed in an instalment of the latter organization's annual report made public today. "The method is simple," says the re port. "Each girl takes one-tenth of un acre and is taught how to select the seed, to plant, cultivate and perfect the growth of the tomato plant. Meanwhile portable canning outfiits have been provided, to be set up out of doors, in the orchard or in the garden, and trained teachers of domestic science instruct the local teachers in the best methods. When the tomatoes are ripe the girls come together, now at one home and now at another, to can the product. It is done in the most up-to-date manner. The girls are taught the necessity of scrupulous cleanliness, they sterilize utensils and cans, seal and label, and indeed manufacture an easily marketable product. "Three hundred and twenty-five girls were registered teh first year, 8,000 the next, 28,550 i 11 the year following. In 1918 there were upward of 80,000 in fourteen different States. "The average profit made by the Canning Club work has at all times been borne by the general education board, except for local contributions. In 1911 an initial appropriation of $5,000 was made; $25,000 the following year; in May, 1913, the {appropriation of this board for this purpose was $75,000. "Though the National Government through the department of agriculture had entire control and supervision, it has borne no part of the expenses. The States in which the work is now going forward on this basis are Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas. "The average profit made by thte girls reporting in twelve States was $21.98; but not a few made sums far in excess. A Macon County, Mississippi, girl realized a net profit just under $100 on her 950 cans of tomatoes, another neighbor made 1,008 cans with a profit to herself of $77.73; a girl living in Aiken County, South Carolina, netted $60.51. The accounts area carefully kept. "The ponderable indirect gains are certainly not less important. Canning Club day is a social occasion. Thus social interest is kindled about the doing of something worth while. There follows a spirit of mutual helpfulness mutual concern, mutual affection. This sort of thing lays the foundation for co-operation in larger and more important things?in the church, in the school, in charities, in business." BOMBS RAINED ON METZ BY FRENCH AVIATORS. In Retaliation for the Attack on the City of Nancy. Paris, Dec. 27.?French aviators have bombarded the aviation hangars a railroad station and barracks at Metz in retaliation for the bomb attack on Nancy by a German Zeppelin, acording to the official communication issued here this afternoon. The communication also said that the Germans had rcoccupied Mlawa, in Russian Poland. In Belgium and most of northern France intermitten cannonading and sligt gains were reported togeter with the repulse of German attacks at various points. The report said in part: "A dirigible dropped a dozen bombs 011 Nancv in t.hn rpnfvo rtC fU" - --- w--v/ v? vy vi. tm; ) and without military reason. Our avi ators in return bombarded aviation hangars, one of the railroad stations of Metz, where movement of trains were noted, and the barracks of St. Privat, at Metz. In Russia the Germans who resumed their march upon Mlawa have reoccupied that city. The situation in Poland remains without notable change." STRAYED. One sow, red color, small black specks on back; car mark under square, and spsquare an split in right, under square in left. Suitable reward for any information regarding her whereabouts. S. H. Mincy., Route, 2, Pox 50. Tabor, N. C. Wmxx Y COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE.'F1 CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY IX CONWAY HAD GLOOMY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Rain Cold and Steady Fell Throughout the Whole Day. FOLLOWING DAY CLOUDY No Serious Accidents in This Immediate Section of the County. Those who expected to have a fine sun-shiny day for Christmas were doomed to disappointment. Christmas Eve was cloudy with some rain and it was not quite enough to freeze, but it was enough to make some weather prophets believe that the next day would be clean, while others predicted that we would have just what we did?one of the gloomiest Christmas days in several years. Christmas morning was dark and cloudy from the very first, Ilefore 10 o'clock the rain began to fall and this continued until a late hour at night. The streets were sopn in bad condition, as well as the roads near town, and there was very little coming and going throughout the day. The crowd enjoyed itself, however, on Christmas Eve night when < they Wr>Vo tllrnnd lftiion I ?-> ,.1. V . V, V?> I1V.M n/lif-c I'J UKA1 11 (IS 11 I UL'l 1 powder as they folt like doing. The streets were covered with the remains of giant fire crackers and sky rockets. So far as reported the holiday passed off without any serious accident or shooting affray in this section of the county. STILL .USING .CLEMENCY. i Governor Blease Grants Pardons to Forty-Four More, Making in All 1,188 he has Pardoned or i Paroled. Late last Monday Governor Blease signed pardons or paroles in fortyfour more cases, making the total number of cases in which he has shown clemency 1,488. Among the list pardoned last Monday, or paroled, appear the following which are of interest here: Fred I. Stahl, convicted in Horry County in September 1912, of attenmpted criminal assault and given seven years. Paroled on condition that he leave the State. Jesse Tanner, convicted in Georgetown County, in June 1914, of larceny of livestock, and given eighteen .-V-. 4 U ~ 1111/ 11 II Jd*. Robert Chestnut, convicted in Orangeburg County, in September 1.911, of manslaughter and given fifteen years. He was paroled December 25, 1912, and the pardon was granted to restore citizenship. New Orleans Printers on Big Strike. With police and detectives stationed about the building occupied by the New Orleans Times-Picayune at New Orleans, La., the editorial staff of the publication last week operated the composing room in an effort to publish a paper the next morning. The Times-Picayune is said to have declared a lockout on composing room employes who would not return under the new conditions. The union has not yet announced what action it will take. No question of wages was involved. FINE WINTER CABBAGE. Dr. R. G. Sloan of Little River has gained the reputation during the last few years of growing the most things ilk the way of crops and garden truck. Last week he made the Herald a present of two heads of Winter cabbage grown in his garden at Little River. Judging by the size and weight of the two heads he brought, if the rest of the lot arc as good as those, it is hard to understand how he can produce such fine ones on the sandy lands of Little River. i How to Catch a Hawk. Mr. C. P. Stalvey of Socastee knows exactly how to catch a hawk that is bad about carrying off young chickens, and his plan if put into operation by the farmers over the county might result in saving many hundreds of dollars annually. His plan is to watch the hawk and set steel traps over what he leaves of the chicken. When he returns, which he will invariably do, he is sure to be nabbed by one of the traps. Several days ago Mr. Stalvey added another bad hawk to the list that he has caught this way The day after Christmas was cold and windy. i( a & RST, LAST, NOW AND FO REVK iCEMBER 31, 1914. JORDAN HAS PATENTED AUTOMATIC CARRIAGE For Which He Has Been Offer ed A Large Sum by Typewriter Company. YOU ONLY PUSH A BUTTON This is Only One of the Many Useful Things Patented by This Horryite. B. W. Jordan of Galivants Ferry has recently patented a device which pulls back the carriage of a typewriter by simply pushing a key button, just as you do when you want to back-space or change the color of the ribbon. It is intended to be used for the purpose of running the carriage back when a line has been finished and it is desired to start a new lino of writing. It is arranged so that the key can bo reached by the finger just as easily as any of the other keys on the machine and makes it possible to operate the typewriter without removing the hands from the keyboard, provided the typewriter to which it is at-! tached has all of the other recent inventions which have been put into operation for the purpose of keeping the ,hands of the operator in the same position as much as possible when doing a page of typewriting. He has a working model of the invention and there seems no reason why it should not he a success. The inventor says he has been offered twenty thousand dollars for the invention by the manufacturers of the Underwood typewriter. FEARS AN ATTACK BY OCONEE CROWD Hartwell (Ca) Mayor Asks for Troops Hartwell, Ga., Dec. 28.?Governor Slaton tonight was asked by Mayor Thornton here to send trops to Hartwell to protect negro prisoners in the county jail from possible mob violence Reports received here indicated that a mob was forming' across the State boundry in Oconee county, South Carolina, to lynch a negro who was placed in jail here after a recent stabbing affray with a white man in Oconee county. The negro was badly wounded in the fight and died tonight, but this was not known to the public. Local authorities feared that if a mob visited the jail and found the negro dead vengeance would be taken on other negro prisoners. Race feeling has been intense recently in Oconee county as a result of crimes said to have been com mi ted by negroes. Three negroes were shot and killed a few days ago in a clash with white residents near Fair Play and voday the body of Ernest Gray, another negro, was found near here. A coro-1 ncr's jury returned a verdict that ho j had been killed with an axe. An investigation of the killing is being made. WON GOLI) PRIZES. The prizes in go11 offered by the Norton Drug Co., in its recent contest were won as follows: , Elmo Hyman $10.00 Miss Ella Sessions 2.50 Whiteford Sessions 2.50 Robbie Vercen 5.00 There was quite a crowd present at the store on Christmas Eve when the drawing of these prizes took place. BROKE HIS LEG. R. L. H. Branton, while driving his team along the other day, the limb of a tree got entangled in the spokes of the wheel. Mr. Branton was riding on the back axle at the time. The limb became twisted as the wheel turned and pressed his leg up against the axle in such a way that one of the 1 bones in the leg was broken. He came 1 to the office of Dr. J. A. Norton where he received medical attention. Mr. Branton is in his 79th year and stated that he had not had such a thing happen to him in seventy years. ] Not Officially Informed. i Washington, Dec. 27.?Secretary 1 Daniels said tonight that the navy do- ' partment had not yet received replies to the inquiries addressed to Capts. '< Ingram and Decker, of the cruisers < North Carolina and Tennessee respectively concerning the alleged threats to bombard Tripoli, Syria. He thought 1 the delap was due to imperfect cable 1 communication. < V Christmas was a very rainy day. s era tel. :r." YEGGMAN GRANTED PAROLE Leaves Penitentiary to Beeome Federal Prisoner, yeggman, v^nariesuiJay, alias Charley Cross, alias "Missouri Charley," was among the convicts paroled Monday by the Governor. The parole was issued upon condition that the federal authorities take charge of O'Day when he left the penitentiary. The yeggman was charged with robbing a postoftice at Gordonsville, Va., He was arrested yesterday afternoon, as he came out of the state prison, by William Cooper, United States deputy marshal and detectives Shorter and Ford of the Columbia police force O'Day was taken before R. Reverly Sloan, Unied States commissioner, who held him under $.">,000 bond pending a preliminary hearing on January 4. He is now in the city jail. O'Day is not nearly so notorious as as some other yoggmen who have been confined in the State penitentiary. He was decidedly a lesser light among safecrackers in comparison to "Portland Ned" and "Oakland Sammy," two other yeggs paroled by the governor. Charles O'Day operated with John Fischer, the yeggman who made a Clinr>fnnnlni? rtfonn.. < ! ? uj<vvv1>v mill vuv ?[<i: i I I'l i i till* 01010 penitentiary last winter. Fischer drilled through the stool bars of his cell and got over the wall by knotting his blankets into a rope. He dived into the canal and has not boon seen since. O'Day was arrested with Fischer on April 8, 190."), at Lylesville, N. C. Both of them wore shot then by officers, O'Day through the abdomen and Fischer in the leg. They were wanted on a charge of blowing a safe in a store at Heath Springs on April 1, 1905. The yeggmen were tried at the October 1905 term of court in Lancaster and found guilty Judge Buchanan gave each of them a sentence of 15 years in the penitentiary. Fischer, as well as O'Day is charged with participating in the postofl'ice robbery at Gordonsville, Va., for which O'Day was held by the United States authorities when he was paroled yesterday. WOULD AID AMERICAN CIUJISER Calabrian Instructed to Assist at Bei rut if Needed. Rome, Dec. 27.?The Italian cruiser Calabria, now at Beirut, Syria, has been instructed to assist the American cruiser North Carolina, if necessity arises, as the result of further demonstrations against departure of Europeans from Turkish territory. The cruiser Tennessee, the fuel ship Vulcan and the gunboat Scorpion of the American navy, which are also looking after American interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, are ready I to steam to any place where they are needed, according to reports received! here. According to a dispatch from Ath- j ens me JNoi'th Carolina recently! threatened to use her guns as the, result of an incident at Tripoli, Syria. I The cruiser convoying the American steamer Virginia, entered Tripoli harbor and the commander requested the Turkish authorities to permit the British and French consuls to depart with their national resident in the city. The request was refused, but several French residents boarded the Virginia. They were attacked by a mob who wounded the captain and first of-( ficer. The North Carolina threatened to fire and the mob fled. The Virgin-) ia and the North Carolina left for Dedeagatch. Later the cruiser proceeded to Smyrna. CARD OF THANKS. T wish to extend my sincere thanks to each and every one who so generously sent me and gave me so many nice Christmas presents. May you all be blessed. Mrs. Eliza A. Olliver. I> 1. l I? ! immikiii iniHiiu'ss 111 r loruia. J. G. Rhodes, a well-known business man of the Loris section, recently visited Florida where he invested in a arge turpentine farm. He left Loris ?ome days ago for this new loctaion. l"he business will be under the management of W. M. Rhodes, a brother if J. G. Rhodes. The Farmers & Merchants Rank low have a plentiful supply of internal revenue stamps of one fourth and me eighth denominations, and can uipply them to anybody who may desire to use them.?adv. ?????H KoTM OPERATIONS IN AIR DO GREAT DAMA6E While Land Forces Seem at Standstill Along the Lines ACTIVITY IS DIMINISHING Bad Spell of Weather May Bring Decisive Results in Poland. Tllft sit.UJlt.iftn in vol r> f Ir>n frt 4-V.**. _ >> VIMV1VII IV/ tllO war as related last Tuesday was about as follows: Initiative in military operations apparently has been left for the time being to the airmen. Aerial raids i across the English channel to the low J er Thames; over Freiberg, Nancy, j Met'/, and Sochaezcw, Russian Poland, and on the German naval base at Cuxhaven inflicted considerable damage I i?i the aggregate. Details of the Cuxhaven expedition remain lacking and, although Berlin asserts the British aviators accomplished nothing, it was said in Hamburg that some damage was done. It i is evident, however, that the heavy fog prevented the British from fully executing their plans. Activity on land and sea apparently is diminishing. Even in Russian Poland the lighting is becoming less severe, without a decision having been reached. Vienna admits the Austrian^ ! nave boon compel led to retreat before I the Galician Carpathians, and in Berlin it is said that the attempt to cross the Baura river in the advance on Warsaw lias been abandoned. In the west the allies, onslaught would seem to have been checked by the counter attack of the Germans. On eastern and western battle lines the onward movement seemed today to have lost something of their headway. On the western front the allied offensive momentarily shown a lack of vigor, while Gen. von Hindenburg, German commander, seems to have come to standstill on the Vistula. Vienna admits a check to Austrian forces along the Galician Carpathians. French troops made minor advances judging from official Paris communications, but apparently not at the same rate of speed as reported a fortnight ago, Fog counts in a measure for this slackening of efforts. With the exception of the capture of certain Anglo-Indian trenches near the Lys last week, most of which the allies claim to have recaptured, the Germans' efforts to bend back the allied line appear, British observers think, io nave neon generally abortive. North of the river Vistula, in Russian Poland, the Germans, again reinforced. having taken the town of Mlavva, but south of the river they stil stand on their old ground. In southern Poland, where the German right joins the Austrian left, there has been some fierce lighting with slight gains for the Austro-Gcrman allies, judging from reports coming from Berlin and Vienna. In the Galician Carpathians the Austrians have been compelled to give ground, according to an ofVicial statement issued in Vienna, and Petrograd declares also officially that Russian forces are pursuing the Austrians into the Carpathian mountains after taking many thousand prisoners. The belated cold spell reported in Poland is expected to precipitate a definite result in the German Polish campaign, now practically at a standstill. The weather factor, always important. has become paramount there, since the whole German invasion of Poland is predicated on the freezing of the soft ground, which impedes transport of heavy guns and favors Russian trench digging. The ground usually freezes by September 15. > NOTICE OF SALE. T 1 1 ? under and Dy virtue of a distress warrant for rone and other papers duly issued, I have seized and will sell at public auction before the town hall, Conway, S. C., at 11 o'clock, in the forenoon, on Saturday, January 2nd, 1914, all and singular the following described personal property, to-wit: One bedstead, One dining room safe, One mattress, One set bed springs, Four chairs, Also one Sheffield sewing machine only used a short time. Terms of sale cash. H. H. Woodward, H. N. Sessions, Attorney. Agent. There was a Christmas Tree entertainment at the residence of Dr. and Mrs, J. A. Norton, on last Saturday afternoon, given by Mrs. Norton to the members of her Sunday School Class. -'J