The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 13, 1915, Image 1
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XXX.
GREAT EVANGELISTIC
; RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN
' Decided Upon at Meeting of
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nominations
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SECURED THE SERVICES
?. u OF REV. A. H. GRIFFITH
Meetings Will Begin Fifth Sunday
Night in May at Brick
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. At a meeting of representative
members of the various denominations
of the town held at Epworth Hall or.
Monday night, plans were laid for a
revival and evangelistic campaign to
include the entire population of Conway
and the surrounding country.
The Committee has secured the serk
vicos of Rev. A. H. Griffith of Spartanburi,
S. C. Mr. Griffith comes
well equipped as an evangelist, having
devoted ten or twelve years of his
life exclusively to this work throughout
the Central, West and North,
where thousands have been brought to
Christ through his Ministry.
Evangelist A. H. Griffith.
The meeting will begin the fifth
Sunday night in May, and will be held
in the People's brick warehouse on
Laurel Street. This building is clean
and commodious, and will easily seat
^ every man, woman and child in Conway
and the surrounding country for
miles.
A large chorus choir of fifty to a
hundred voices will lead the singing.
Special music will be given by experienced
soloists from time to time.
All the Churches of the town are cooperating
heartily in this great movem
ment and are planning a scries of cottage
prayer meetings to be held in
every block in the town during the
I 4^vo weeks preceding the meeting.
A house-to-house visitation will be
ktv, made under the direction of the comtomV
IT1'ttee charge on Sunday afternoon,
X. May lOth, 1915. for the nurnnsp of so
/ ^Sf.viring a religious census of the town.
" 4 p;r$fye information secured in this cenCof?/
i will be of immense value to the
k tall/, angelist and Personal Workers dur\
atfr k the meeting.
V The following committees have been
4p* appointed:
GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS? C
H. Snider; McQueen Quattlebaum, J.
S. Battle, R.' W. Lane, and S. O. Green
M FINANCE?J. C. Spivey, H. W.
Ambrose and J. W. Little.
ADVERTISING? E. L. McCoy, P.
W. Bethea, A. E. Goldfinch, and Mrs.
C. H. Snider.
MUSIC?Mrs. Geo. L. Marsh, Mrs.
J. S. Battle, Miss Dorothy Officer, Dr.
J. S. Dusenbury, and W. R. Phillips.
PRAYER MEETING?J. C. Spivey,
Mrs L. H. Burroughs, Mrs R. G.
Dusenbury, Mrs. J. A. Norton, W. T.
Goldfinch, Dr. J. S. Dusenbury, B. G.
Collins, >T. G. Phillips, E. L. McCoy,
W R Pllilli*w?
VISITATION? Paul Quattlebaum,
A. H. Long, and Wm. Goldfinch.
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Lost Their Daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Chester Hooks of
A Floyds township, were recently bereaved
by the loss of their child, a
daughter, who had suffered from a
lingering illness from cancer of the
throat. Everything in the bounds of
reason had been done for the sick
child. As a last resort she was taken
to John Hopkins hospital in Balti<*
more and the radium treatment was
* tried without avail. She died at the
home of her parents on Monday of
last week. The bereaved parents have
the sympathy and love of a large circle
of friends and relatives.
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CONWAY LEAGUERS
MAKING PLANS
For Entertaining the District
Conference of the Epworth
League?Program.
Following is the program of the
Marion District Epworth League Conference,
which convenes at Conway,
S. C., on May 18, 19 and 20, 1915:
Tuesday, May 18?Afternoon.
3:30?Devotional.
3:45?Organization.
4:00?The Missionary Department
?Round Table Talk?Rev. W. R.
Phillips.
4:30?Mission Study, A Present
Day Necessity?Miss Eloise Roberts.
4:45?Christian Stewardship ? Rev
E. L. McCoy.
Evening.
7:45?Song service.
8:00?Addres of welcome?Mr. H.
W. Ambrose.
8:10?Response?Mr. S. J. Bland.
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8:30?Illustrated Lecture on Africa?Miss
Sallie Bell Watt, Field Secretary
South Carolina Ep worth
Leagues.
Wednesday, May 19?Morning.
6:30?Prayer and Praise Service?
Rev. F. L. Glennan, Leader.
9:30?Devotional.
9:45?Enrollment of Delegates and
Appointment of Committees.
10:00?Reports: District Secretary,
Miss Belle Powell. Local chapters.
10:20?The League and Its Oflicers
?Round Table?Miss Sallie Bell
vVatt.
10:50?The League, A Young People's
Organization?Mr. W. M. Goldfinch.
11:10?Publicity in League Work?
Miss Marie L. Zimmerman, Editor
League Page, Southern Christian Advocate.
11:30?Council and Business Meetings?Mr
Claude Dusenbury.
11:45?League Finances?Miss Sallie
Bell Watt.
12.00?The Department of Spiritual
Work?Round Table?Mr B. A.
Robeson.
Afternoon.
Entertainment of Delegates by Con
way Chapter.
7:45?Song Service.
8:00?Social Service?Round Table
?Mr. A. E. Goldfinch.
8:30?The League and Rural Problems?Miss
Emily Broadway.
8:45?The Relation of the Sunday
school and the League?Rev. W. C.
Owen, Field Secretary S. C. Methodist
Sunday schools.
9:15?The Demands for Equipped
and Trained Leadership?Mr. J. C.
Spivey.
Thursday, May 20?Morning.
6:30?Prayer and Praise Service?
Rev. D. D. Jones, Leader.
9:30?Devotional.
. 9:45?The Junior League ? Miss
Marie L. Zimmerman.
10:25?Recreation and Culture?
Round Table?Miss Belle Powell.
11:00?Reports of Committees on
Constitution and Nomination.
11:15?Election and Installation of
Officers.
11:30?Our Aim for the Coming
Year.
12:00?Reading of Resolutions and
Minutes.
12:3 5?Adjournment.
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R. T. HARMON DROWNED.
R. T. Harmon, who was formerly a
resident of Conway, having resided in
the town for several years previous to
1911, was drowned on Thursday before
last while on a fishing trip in
Clark's Creek, near Johnsonville, S. C.
He was one of a party consisting of
himself and two boys. These boys
stated that they had camned on tiin
bank of the Creek and that Mr Harmon
started across the Creek in a
boat to hunt fish bait on the other
shore and that he propelled the boat
while standing up therein; that while
out in the stream he stumbled and fell
backwards, his feet becoming entangled
in something that was in the boat
so that although he was a good swimmer,
he could not save himself and the
boys it seems could not swim.
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CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY, 1Y
irs GETTING WARN
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JIM VEREEN INJURED
BY BENJ. TOMPKINS
Vereen Brought to Burroughs
Hospital for Surgical Attention
Sunday
TWO MEN ARRESTED
CHARGED WITH CRIME
Affair Took Place it is Said
Over Family
Matters.
Jim Vereen, a farmer of Dogwood
Neck Township, was brought to the
Burroughs Hospital here last Sunday
evening suffering from a very serious
knife wound in the abdomen, this bein
inflicted upon him by one Ben
Tompkins, of the same neighborhood,
at 10 o'clock the same day. The fight
took place at the home of a widow,
Mrs. Sarah Gerrald. The fight started
between Jim Vereen and a relative
of Ben Tompkins familiarly known as
"Putty" Tompkins. The report is to
the effect that Vereen went to Mrs.
Gerrald's house and found there his
daughter in conversation with Putty
Tompkins. He spoke to the young
lady and asked her if he had not trained
her up better than to be talking
to such trash, or words to such effect.
This made Tompkins mad and they
went to fighting with sticks. While
this was going on, Ben Tompkins
rushed in with a pocket knife and
standing behind Vereen cut the gash
which the physicians say will no
doubt finally result in the oeath 01.
Vereen, as they have very little hope
for him.
Warrants were sworn out before a
Magistrate for both of the Tompkins
men and they were committed to jail
last Monday, by Constable FVnnklin
L. Edge. They will be tried, no doubt,
at the approaching term of Court.
There are three men by the name of
Ben Tompkins. The one concerned in
this affray is known as Ben Tompkins
third.
LATER.?Jim Vereen died on Monwound.
An inquest was held on Tuesday
night from the effects of his
day morning. The finding of the Coroner's
jury is self evident.
WEATHER
For Week Beginning Wei
Issued by the U. S. Weath<
FOR SOUTH ATLANTIC AND EJ
There will be rain Wednes<
States, but otherwise fair wei
week. Temperatures will ris<
normal thereafter.
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IRST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER"
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OFFICERS ARRESTED
ONE ELLIS PRINCE
Charged With Arson and Larceny
in North Carolina
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CHASED BY HOUNDS
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Claimed That he Was on His
Way to Georgetown,?Had
Pistol and Razor.
On last Sunday Sheriff J. A. Lewis
assisted by Chief L. II. Ambrose arrested
Ellis Prince, a white man of
about middle age. The arrest was
made upon information received from
North Carolina to the effect that a
man was wanted in Columbus County
for the crimes of arson and larceny.
It was reported that he had been chas
ed by blood hounds down to the Waccamaw
River near Red Bluff or not
far from that point, and that at that
place he took to the river in a pad
tiling boat.
While on the river in the boat
Prince overtook a raft of logs which
was being brought to Conway by Coy
Formyduval and he hitched his boat
to this raft and was coming to Conway
in that manner when the officers
placed him under arrest.
He was taken to the county jail tt
await the North Carolina authorities.
He carried a suit case and from this
the officers took a razor, also a revolver,
and some other articles of no
special significance. He is said to be
a brother of John Prince who was concerned
in the Edwards case in court
here year before last. Further than
this nothing was learned of his previous
record. A letter found in his
suit case showed that he was recently
employed at Lumberton, N. C.
About three weeks ago an officer
was here from North Carolina looking
for this same man.
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Conway vs. Georgetown.
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i nerc was a fierce game of base
ball last Monday afternoon between
Georgetown and Conway. The weath-|
er was rather cool and the boys were
in good form . The wind up of the
game showed a score of 18 to 5 in favor
of Conway.
FORECAST
dnesday May 5thA 1915
3r Bureau, Washington. D. O.
V.ST GULP STATES:
lay in the South Atlantic
ither will prevail during the
2 Thursday and will be about
mil
WASHINGTON REGARDS
SITUATION AS GRAVE
Warning Had Been Sent Out to
Persons About to Sail on
Lusitania.
Torpedoing: the British liner Lusi
tania with great scores of Americans
on board shocked official Washington
as had no other incident since the outbreak
of the European war. The feeling
was widespread that if any American
lives had been lost the United
States in view of its strong warning
to Germany would be confronted with
the necessity of taking protective
steps to safeguard the lives of its citizens
on the high seas.
The sinking of the Lusitania marks
the climax of a series of incidents
since the announcement of the German
war zone decree concerning which the
American government has been silent.
It is now predicted that even though
it developed that no American lives
I were lost on the T .lisit nnin n-n.inv.ll
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| representations will be made by tho|
United States covering all the cases
involved?the death of Loon C. Thresh
er, an American citizen when the British
steamer Falaba was sunk, the drop
ping of bombs on the American
steamer Cushing and the attack on the
steamer Gulf Light which was wrecked
with a loss of three American lives,
j Profound Sensation.
The report that the Lusitania was
torpedoed without warning created a
profound sensation for it was the first
case in which this threatened procedure
has been carried out with AmeriI
cans on board belligerent vessel. The
sinking of the liner brought to light a
story of repeated threats and warnings
which have reached officials for
several days past of a plan by the
German admiralty to sink th Lusitania
for tlie psychological effect it
would have on Great Britain and the
terror it might spread over ocean going
ships.
The German embassy was instructed
to advertise in the leading newspapers
of the United States warning
passengers against travelling on beligerent
ships. Anonymous warnings
then were sent individuals who proposed
sailing on the Lusitania.
Most significant of all were letters
received from officials in Germany
by persons stating that the Lusitania
surely would be destroyed.
Probably Knew of Attack.
At the German embassy here, while
no comment is made as to whether it
was known that the vessel was to be
destroyed. It was said the embassy
knew the Lusitania carried arms and
ammunition, and being advised of the
resolutions of the German adimiralty
to attack ships that carried such contraband,
officials had believed she
would be attacked.
At the embassy and among diplomatists
friendly to the German al
lies there was a general satisfaction
amounting almost to relief when reports
came that no lives were lost.
The British embassy heard of the
disaster through news dispatches and
offered no formal comment, though
officials stated that attack was absolutely
inexcusable and constituted a
most flagrant violation of all the
i iiles of international law.
Secretary Bryan said he was gratified
at hearing reports that no lives
were lost, but declined to comment on
the course of the government.
Ambassador Page reported briefly
on the. sinking of the vessel but official
information as to whether the
ship was given warning, whether she
was convoyed by-British warships and
concerning the extent to which lives
of Americans were jeopardized by the
attack or subjected to dangers on the
high seas, will be sought through the
American embassy in London and the
consulates in Ireland before a decision
is reached on the course to be pursued
by the United States.
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I New Equipment Ordered.
Hook and ladder outfit, including
axes, 550 feet of new hose, a new reel
to carry fire hose, and coats and helmets
for four of the members of the
fire company, were ordered some days
ago and will soon be received and be
in readiness for use. This new hose
will make over 1000 feet in all available
for use by the company. '
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LUSITANIA WAS SUNK
BY GERMAN TORPEDO
Stated on Good Authority That
1198 Lives Were
Lost , 1
WHILE OFF IRELAND
SUNK WITHOUT WARNING
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was uritisn sn.p 01 the uunarct
Line Powerful and
Swift.
The Cunard liner Lusitania, which
sailed out of New York Saturday before
last with more than 2,000 persons
aboard, lies at the bottom of the
ocean off the Irish coast.
She was sunk by a German submarine
which sent two torpedoes
crashing into her side while the passengers
were at luncheon.
How many of the Lusitania's passengers
and crew were rescued cannot
be told exactly, but the official
statements from the British Admiralty
accounted for not more than 500
or GOO.
There were dead and wounded
among those brought ashore; some
since have died. But not a name of
rescued or lost, of dead or injured,
had been listed.
Attack Without Warning.
The Lusitania was steaming along
about ten miles off Old Head, Kinsale,
on the last leg of her voyage to Liverpool
when about 2 o'clock in the ofternoon
a submarine suddenly appeared
and so far as all reports go. fired
two torpedoes without warning at the
steamer. One struck her near the
bows and the other in the engine
room.
The powerful agents of destruction
tore through the vessel's side, causing
terrific explosions. Almost immediately
great volumes of water poured
through the openings and the Lusitania
listed. Boats which were already
swung out on the davits, were
dropped over board and were speedily
filled with passengers who had been
appalled by the disastrous explosion.
Wireless calls for help were immediately
sent out and rescue boats of
all kinds were sent both from neighboring
points along the coast and
Queenstown.
But within 15 minutes, as one survivor
estimated, certainly within half
the hour the Lusitania had disappeared.
Where Great Britain's fastest merchan
vessel went down?01 d Head
Ivinsal?is a land mark that has
brought joy to many travelers as it
always has stood as the sign from
shore that the perils of the voyage
across the Atlantic were at an end.
The line whose boast that it has
never lost a passenger in the Atlantic
service has lost the ship that dodged
the lurking enemy off Nantucket light
the day after war was declared and
later startled the world by flying the
Stars and Stripes.
The British Admiralty is discouraging
the publication of surmises and
guesses regarding the dead and injured.
Even before details are known
the British press is asking editorially
what will the United States say to
this event and how will she hold Germany
to the "strict accountability'*
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respondence.
The office of the Cunard Line closed
shortly after 11 o'clock tonight and
officers of the company stated there
would be no further information coming
from the line until the offices
opened tomorrow.
Late messages received tonight
from the Cunard offices in Liverpool
indicated that no definite information
would bo forthcoming tonight as the
officers were giving all attention to
the persons saved from the ship.
Among the messages received were
several stating that individuals were
saved. In these messages were the
names of George Keseler, a New York
wine agent; Miss Jessie Taft Smith,
Braccville, O.; Mrs. H. B. Lasseter,
wife of Genreal H. B. Lasseter, and
their son P. Lasseter, of London. Mrs.
Lasseter and her son were booked for
Sydney, Australia.
The names of 73 survivors of the
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ioo iviiiencuns uooarci ine i.usitania
had been reported to the state department
at midnight Saturday when
the task of comparing lists was suspended
until Sunday. Consul Frost
at Queenstown said there was virtually
no hope that more would be found
alive.
The latest estimate of lives lost as
a result of the torpedoing is 1,198. It
is beleived that almost all if not all
the survivors have been brought
ashore and there is little hope of recovering
any other passengers alive.