The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 31, 1914, Image 1
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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
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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
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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"
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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(
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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.
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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. <
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Christmas was a very rainy day. s
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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