The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 30, 1915, Image 1
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VOLUME XXX.
, COURT PROCEEDINGS '
IN GENERAL SESSIONS
Unusual Number of Criminal
Cases Are Being Heard
This Week
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BEFORE THE COURT
Judge F. B. Gary Here For His
S^< v First Time in
Horry.
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The court of General Sessions convened
for the regular Fall term here
last Monday afternoon. Judge F. B.
Gary was here for his first visit to
Horry, and presided over the court
? with the same dignity and learning
that has distinguished his entire career
as a jurist.
It was apparent that more than the
usual number or misdemeanors had
been sent up by the various magistrates
of the County. There were no
murder cases, no cases to create much
interest or undue excitement.
* The first business as usual was the
sending of indictments to the grand
jury. The witnesses for the grand
. jury are sworn in open coort -and the
indictments handed first to the Judge,
> who charges the grand jury as to the
nature of each one and the grand jury
then retires to examine the witnesses
on. each indictment. If they find noth^
ing in any charge they return "no
bill," plainly written on the back of
the indictment; if they find that the
ci. **ge is probably true they return
the indictment marked: ,'True Bill."
This preliminary work took up most
.* the afternoon on Monday. After
this the docket of cases left over from
th last term was called,
j The first case called was The State
vs. Of fie Graham charged with violation
of the game laws. The State
claimed that the defendant used a net
and took fish during the close season.
The defendant was cleared oy the jury
The case of The State vs. Ann Mc
Crackon and Bonie McCracken, charged
with keeping a disorderly house.
The two defendants pleaded their own
"V case and were found not guilty.
The State vs. J). F. Prince was dismissed
in payment of costs.
The State vs. McDuffie Mishoe,
charged with breach of trust was tried
as the first case on trial Tuesday
morning. The defendant was cleared.
Plowden Beaty, pleaded guilty to
assault and battery with intent to kill
^ and was sentenced to 3 months or
4$J00.00.
Wm, Connie Brown, alias Pass AIcKntyrc,
colored, charged with breaking
the store of G. C. Butler at Boris,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
the State Reformatory one year.
Boyd Duncan pleaded guilty to violation
of the whiskey laws and was
4 sentenced to 3 months, which was suspended
on his good behavior. He is
already serving a sentence for like
offense.
S. J. Hughes and G. F. Bellamy
pleaded guilty to violation of the dispensary
law and each sentenced to 3
months or a fine of $100.00.
:> Joanna Bryant pleaded guilty to as/>
sault and battery and was sentenced
to 00 days or pay a fine of $25.00.
State vs. Will Crawford was continued.
The State vs. Simon Boyd, charged!
with obstructing road was called and
a verdict of not guilty ordered by the1
court at the suggestion of the solicitor j
The next ease taken up was The
State vs. Odell Stroud, Bob Stroud and
^ J. H. Stroud for assault and battery.
RALLY DAY AT
METHODIST S, SCHOOL
Sunday October 3rd, will be "Rally
*T)ay" at the Conway Methodist Sun- <
day School, Sunday School at 9:45.
Every member of each department
and every member and friend of the
Conway Methodist Church is cordially
invited to attend the Sunday School i
exercises. A special Sunday School
sermon by Rev. E. L. McCoy, pastor,
4 at the eleven o'clock service.
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LOYD DUNCAN IS
AGAIN IN CUSTODY
After Chase of Several Days
Sheriff Lewis Again Captures
Deserter.
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Loyd Duncan, a notorious blind-tiger
of the Sanford section of this
county, escaped from the county chain
gang last January and managed to
elude the officers of the law until
Friday night of last week, the sheriff
slipped up on him near Wortham's
Bridge, and he was lodged in jail here
last Saturday awaiting recommitment
to the gang.
He was convicted in 1914 for selling
whiskey and on other counts and got
a good long sentence on the chain
gang. After his escape from the
gang in January he kept moving from
this State across the line into North
Carolina. He always managed to
dodge the sheriff. Lately the sheriff
suspected that he was in Floyds
township. Going into that section he
tracked him to the Waccamaw River
and arrested him near Worthamis as
above stated.
BIG COSTSALE
BEGINS MONDAY
Next Monday morning the entii'9
stock is in the hand of Hon. Robt. B.
Burroughs costing from five to ten
thousand dollars, will be opened for
sale from day to day at the wholesale
cost prices of the dealers and manufacturers.
It will be one of the largest
sales ever conducted of this kind
in Horry County. Under the assign
ment mw di tnis fctate this immense
stolk is in the hands of Hon. Robt. B.
Scarborough assignee of Mr. Burroughs
for the benefit of creditors,
and H. H. Woodward, who was appoint
ed as agent for creditors. There is a
large advertisement in this issue of
the paper announcing the sale. Read
it before going any further.?adv.
FORMEBHORRYitr
MADE SECRETARY
News reached here of the appointment
of Mr. L. G. McNabb as Secretary
and Treasurer of the BritishAmerican
Chemical Company, manufacturing
chemists of No. 52 Vandcrbilt
Avenue, New York city. This is
a large company with plenty of capital
and Mr. McNabb has his hands
full in performing his duties in this
new position. Mr. McNabb is an Horryite
having been born and reared
near Gurley in this county. For many
years past he has been engaged in
business at Nashville, Tenn. The new
position which he holds has caused
him to have to move to New York
city.
STRIDES FORWARD IN
DISEASE PREVENTION
What has banished the chill and
fever from Conway? Have you. heard
of a case of it in the last few years?
The improvement comes from better
sanitation, and from the use of mosquito
bars and wire screens. Since
good results have already been attain
ed, be sure that you do your part toward
making conditions still better as
time goes on. It is an advantage to
every man that his neighbor be free
from disease, for germs can easily
spread through an entire neighborhood
from just one ease of sickness
in one family. You should therefore
act not only for yourself but do all
that you can to get your neighbors to
do right. In this way every section of
this State can be kept free from malaria,
typhoid, and the countless other
diseases that arise.
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Picnic at Floyds.
There will be a good roads picnic at
Floyds Cross Roads in Floyds Township,
Saturday October 2nd.
The public is cordially invited to
come with well-filled baskets .
COM.
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RUMORS HEARD AT ~*
GEORGETOWN ALSO
People in That City Interested
in Report of Possible Munitions
Plant.
Georgetown.?Lively interest was
taken in the reports in the The News
and Courier of the possibility of the
DuPonts building a munition plant
here. For several days there have
been vague rumors of this possibility,
but little was thought of it. The News
and Courier's correspondent sought
Mr. John Boit, superintendent of the
DuPont alcohol plant, and made inquiry
as to the plans of his company.
Mr. Boit declared that he had heard
nothing of it. TI is plant has been running
night and day since the war began,
and rushing the output to? the
powder factories in Deleware. The
Georgetown plant is the only one owned
by the DuPonts, and it would not
be suprising if the big powder company
should locate a munitjon plant
near their alcohol plant. It goes without
saying that Georgetown would
welcome the new enterprise. This
would be an ideal place for such a
plant, with excellent railroad facilities
and plenty of water for shipping.
GREECE KEEPS OUT
FOREIGN TROOPS
"Reports from the Balkans say that j
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the Serbian prime minister and told,
him that Greece had decided to offer
determined resistance to the passage!1
of foreign troops through Greek ter-j
ritory. j:
"Buda Post newspapers say that the j
Serbian minister at Sofia, Ycholak An-j
titch told Premier Radoslavoff of Bul-|i
garia that he would depart on leave of
absence on account of ill health. The
premier tout the minister that leave el (
absence had been granted to Bulgarian
consuls in Serbia."
The allusion to the passage of foreign
troops through Greece probably ;
refers to recent reports that if Bui- 1
garia should attack Serbia the entente, '
allies would send troops to Greece. \ I
WEATHER FORE
For the Week Beginning Went
Issued by the U. S. Weathei
FOR SOUTH ATLANTIC AND FA
Rains and high winds are probabl
rains in the South Atlantic states th e
half will be fair and cooler.
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PTEMBER 30, 1915.
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CREDITORS MEETING
; BURROUGHS ESTATE
Inventory Being Taken of
Large Stock of General
Merchandise.
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The creditors of L. H. Burroughs,
who recently made an assignment for
the benefit of creditors, met last Sat
urday at the office of the assignee,
Hon. Robt. B. Scarborough. A majority
of the creditors were present by
attorneys. H, H. Woodward was appointed
as agent for the creditors to
act with the assignee under the assignment
law in disposing of the estate
and collecting the assets.
An inventory of the stock of merchandise
and store fixtures is now being
made together with a list of the
accounts and bills receivable. This
large stock will soon be advertised for
sale from day to day at the original
first cost of the goods, it is understood.
Those who were in debt to the
store will be called to make payment
to the assignee. When the estate has
been finally wound up and turned into
cash, the proceeds will be distributed
to the creditors of Mr. Burroughs.
A VIOLENT DEATH
FOR HENRY COOPER
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Henry Cooper an employee of the
Conway Lumber Company in its timber
works near the Mrs. Joanna Har-I
rison place about six miles from Conway,
met sudden death last Saturday
evening^ just before quitting time, by
tlie bursting of a guy or stay used
about a skidding machine. Cooper
was standing- near the place attending i
to some duty connected with his em-|
ployment, when without warning the J
piece flew out of place and struck his i
body, lie fell and was dead in three
or four minutes. Another man who;
was standing near the place narrowly,
missed death.
Cooper is survived by a wife and
several children . The family lived in
lUrt A1/I a 11: -< * ? -
li.w vmm uwiiiiug oi .mi*, i.. c, Jordan.
I lie bod.\ was taken to Socastee at the;
former home of the family for burial.
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2sday, September 29, 1915.
r Bureau, Washington. D. C.
ST GULF STATES:
e in the East Gulf states and local
first half of the week; the latter
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UNUSUAL NUMBER f
OF GASES BOUND
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Total of Seventeen Cases Turned
Over to Criminal Court
by Mr. Cfrfestnut/ v
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More than the usual number of
crimninal cases handled by the magistrate's
court at Conway, were turned
over to the court of General Sessions
at the present term by Magistrate W.
H, Chestnut, all of them to be disposed
of this week unless thrown out by
the grand jury or continued. Besides
these Mr. Chestnut handled a large
..vuivci ui criminal cases which were
within his jurisdiction and disposed of
in his own court. The list turned in
by him for this court follows:
The State vs. Boyd Lupo; assault
and battery with intent to kill.
The State vs. H. W. Lewis; giving
worthless checks.
The State vs. G. W. McDowell; false
pretences.
The State vs. Daggett Thompkins;
bigamy.
W. C. Page; disposing of a crop under
lien.
Eliza Davis; arson.
J. C. Morse; disposing of property
under lien.
The State vs. J .C. Morse; breach of
trust with fraudulent intent.
The State vs. N. A. Roberts; marking
stock.
D. F. Prince; false pretences.
Jim Grissett, Cela Wilson, Ruth
Ludly, Harrison Wilson; assault and
battery with intent to kill.
Henry Anderson; assault and battery
with intent to kill.
Arthury Boogery;
Thomas Wnrlof in- 1
.VJ ) mivciiy U1 (1 01"
cycle.
C. N. Causey; obstructing a highway
landing.
Thomas Livingstone; seduction.
G. W. McDowell; assault and battery
with intent to kill.
M'ADOO MEMS
PRACTICE OF USURY
The Farmers Should be Able
to Get Money at 6
Per Cent.
Secretary of the Treasury W. G.
McAdoo, in a letter to John L. McLaurin
State warehouse commissioner,
says that if the banks of the South
do their duty the farmers should be
able to get money on their cotton at (>
per cent. The Secretary of the Treasury
condenis usury practice.
The letters which passed between
the Secretary of the Treasury and the
warehouse commissioner and one from
a big New York bank to the commissioner
were made public. They are of
much interest just at this time.
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TO MFMdRIAI I7F m
< m w w k 7 Mill '?rr. B An R k 1
PROPER PENSOiN LAW
| Columbia, Sept. 21).?Gen. L>. H.
I Teague, of Aiken, commander, South
Carolina division, U. C. V., has a})
pointed a committee, one from each
congressional district, with 1). W. McLaurin,
of Columbia, as chairman to
confer and memorialize the General
Assembly for a proper pension law.
The members of the committee are:
Capt. .John Ahrens, Charleston; Col.
Alfred Aldrieh, Ilarnwell; C. 1?. .Johnson
Haslev; Col. \V. 1'. Coker, Fountain
Inn; Major .J. M. Hough, LancasI
ter; Gen. H. 11. Newton, Hennettsvdle,
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,i mi v in. i'. vv. AicLaui'in, Columbia.
"The intent of the resolution and
the appointment of the committee was
to procure the passing of an act to J
place all bonafide Confederate veterans
and widows of such on the honor
roll and to compensate them for services
rendered," said Col McLaurin.
The committee has been called to
meet in Columbia October 27, to decide
upon a plan of action.
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Definite arrangements were concluded
lust week by the management <
of the county fair to have the Smith
Greater Shows here during the entire
week. The carnival will put up on the ?
fair grounds as usual. i
NO. 25.
TOBACCO MARKET
VERY SUCCESSFUL
Closed Recently for the Season
of 1915 With Good
Record
FAIR RETURNS FOR
ALL GOOD GRADES
Market Held its Own Among
the Markets of This
State.
The sales in all of the tobacco warehouses
of Conway were discontinued
more than a week ago. There were
tYMTnlo ? o<ll?o > ?* ! ?1 ' ' 1 '
v?tMi ouico uuiii uuuut tritit time
when the farmers ceased bringing any
of the weed into the market, and the
warehousemen started to cleaning up
the scrap piles and getting their business
in good shape for closing down
until another tobacco season shail
have arrived.
it is well known that the Conway
market this year more than met the
expectations among the markets of
this section of the State. Many crops
this year seemed to have been handled
badly. The leaf was of a heavy damp
texture as a result of bad attention in
the curing or the result of the weather,
or the class of soils or fertilizers
used in producing it. Hut all of the
better grades of tobacco brought a
fair price that pleased the growers
without exception.
Another thing noticed too was the
fact that the farmers of the county
showed a disposition to patronize the
home market almost exclusively.
STRANGEGREATURE
IN THE SWAMPS
There has been talk of a strange
wild animal at largo in the swamps
between Conway and Myrtle Beach.
Who started the story is as much of
a mystery as the nature of the animal
itself, if indeed there is any such
thing at all. Many assert that it is a
fact and that it has been seen stalking
its way through the cane brakes on
the river banks. It is as large as a
mule but has no other characteristic
of this animal. Many have marked
down the stories as being pure fiction.
MANNING MEMBER
ADVISORY BOARD
Gov. Manning has been notified of
his election as a member of the advisory
board of the Army and Navy
club of Chicago. In his letter notifying
the governor, C. F. Frick, its secretory,
says of the club "The Army
and Navy club is pledged to the unqualified
support of the president and
congress in any course they may pursue
and we will continue to practice
and to counsel the strictest neutrality."
The club is to assist in the work
of preparedness and especially to urge
the recruiting of the National Guard
regiments to their full strength .
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BRITISH TRANSPORT
IS REPORTED SUNK
Now York.?According to private
advices received here the large British
transport reported by wireless from
Berlin on Sept. 21 to have beet sunk
off the island of Crete in tHo Mediterranean
by ti\ German submarine, was
the Cunarder Transylvania. The big
liner, a 14,000-ton vessel, .">48 feet
long, had been chartered by the British
government to carry troops to the
Dardanelles. She was built only two
years ago at Greenock. She plied between
New York and Liverpool.
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The Rev. 1). D. Jones of Loris
preached in the Conway Methodist
rurch last Sunday. The pastor Rev.
E. L. McCoy was holding a meeting
of days at Loris.
Monday and Tuesday saw a large
:rowd of people here in attendance
upon the courts.