The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 16, 1915, Image 1
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VOLUME XXX.
f MUSHROOM TOWN
WAS WIPED OFF MAP
Local Interest Felt in Fate nf
Hopewell, Va., Near
City Point
4$
THOUSANDS ARE LEFT
WITHOUT ANY HOME
Place Now Stands as it Did
* Before Influx of
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1 Settlers.
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. Local interest attaches to the fate
i of the town of Honcwell in Viririnia.
Ij ^ which was a new mushroom town of
*T f good size which grew up near the
I plants of the DuPont Powder Works,
and where thousands of men out of
work all over the country flocked last
Spring and Summer in search of employment.
More than two dozen men
went from this place and located
there in one kind of work or another.
Among those who went are: J. W.
Sparks, H. (). Wyatt, W. H. Howell,
Hon T. McNeill Jr., George Oliver, It.
L. Oliver, and many more from different
sections of the county. Mr.
Howell had established a place of bus
iness in Hopewell. The entire business
part of the city was burned to the
ground. A late despatch concerning
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The town of Hopewell, swept by
fire last week almost as bare as the
* cornfield in which its first buildings
were put up a year ago.
. Four hundred houses, most of them
wood, constructed in feverish haste to
care for the influx of people brought
by the activities of the DuPont explosives
plant, were licked up by the
flames. In the main part of the town
of 25,000 persons hardly a building
f remained, though the great explosives
plant nearby and company villages
at either end of the town escaped undamaged.
The loss is put at
$1,000,000.
Thousands of refugees who through
out the afternoon stood helpless as
their homes and places of business
hurned, were housed during the night
I in Petersburg and Richmond. Many
oi tnose who saved their household
.goods guarded their effects with repeating
rifles all night. Militiamen
from Richmond and special guards
from inside the DuPont plant helped
tho Hopewell police force to keep or,
. der.
Although many were injured only
^ one death was reported. A negro,
* caught looting, was said to have been
lynched.
The fire started in a restaurant
when an oil stove toppled from a box
in the kitchen. A hotel caught next
W and soon the flames, driven by a st
* wind, were eating their way through
'banks, stores, hotels and dwellings.
V JThe only church in the town wos one
. r t of the first building to go.
'f- An eleven year old boy was the
f hero of the fire. Twice he rushed into
a building and each time reappeared
with a baby in his arms.
The explosives plant, which day
and night at top speed is turning out
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war Miuiiiuuii.s lor mc anics, ceasen
4> operations only long enough to make
sure none of its buildings would burn.
Once when the fire got close all hands
were turned out to pour water on the
buildings, but a shift of the wind turn
ed the flames in another direction
and the plant started up again.
There was little insurance, it was
said, on the buildings, which were
jammed together?wood and brick?
^in a space covering about 60 acres.
The estimate of $1,000,000 loss is a
conservative one, it was said.
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Box Supper at Kingston Schoolhouse.
I There will be a Box Supper at the
Kingston Schoolhouse, near Michael,
^ the night of the 18th inst. There
will also be an election held for the
prettiest girl on the ground. The public
is invited. This was to have been
on the 11th, but on account of unfavorable
weather it was postponed Hill
the 18th.
THURMAN W. BOYD.
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NO TIME EXTENSION
THIS YEAR
Tax Collections Are to Be
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Year.
The tune for the payment of State
taxes will not be extended this year
as last year, according to Carlton W.
Sawyer, comptroller general.
"The time will not be extended,"
he said, "and the last day for the payment
of taxes without penalty will be
December 31."
CONWAY LUMBER GO.
IN BURROUGHS STORE
The corner stores sold under mortgages
last salesday against L. H.
Burroughs, was purchased by the
Conway Lumber Co. It is stated that
the company will run a store there
and conduct a businers in connection
with the lumber business they arc
| now running at the large plants in
the lower section of the town. The
store immediately on the corner is ,
occupied by Israel Schorr who pur- |
chased the bankrupt stock of Mr. Bur
ruugiiK cum added new goons tnereto.
He has been given notice to vacate
the place by the first of the new year.
The other store in the building is occupied
by John Chestnut who runs a
pool room and soda fountain.
suddendemTseof
mr. daniel norris
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Mr. Daniel Norris, who resided
near Berea Baptist church in Bayboro
Township, fell dead last Friday morning,
Dec. 10th* 191.r>, at his home just
after he arose from his bed. It seems
that he worked at a cane mill the day
before making syrup and he arose
early to return to his work and it was i
reported that he held some fire for
some reason in his hand and. on walk- I
ing across the house, fell and some of
the family making alarm which Mr.
J. M. D. Cannon, a near neighbor
heard, ran to their aid and found him
already dead. Smypathy goes out for
those in sorrow.
He was known as a hard working
industrious man, and was about 45
or 50 years old, was living with his
second wife, whose maiden name was
Martha Skipper. They lived on a
place known as the Skipper place,
now in posession of Mr. S. W. Skipper.
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HORSE AND WAGON PUSHED
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No Damage by Collision With String
of Dox Cars.
A remarkable freak accident is reported
to have occurred in Charleston
A railroad engine pushing a string of
box cars and a city delivery express
wugim ugureo.
The driver of the wagon, it is said,
started to drive over the crossing
while the cars were being slowly
pushed. Suddenly realizing that he
could not clear the track in time the
driver jumped from the wagon, leaving
one shoe.
The crash occurred, but owing to
the low rate of speed at which the
cars were being pushed, instead of
smashing up the wagon and killing
the horse, the whole outfit was shoved
several box-car lengths up the track
by the engine, before it was discovered
that the horse and wagon were being
pushed. Neither the horse nor
wagon was damaged.
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COTTON FIRE IN GEORGIA
Eatonton, Ga.?Fire of unknown
origin that raged for two hours destroyed
what were known as the G.
K. Riley cotton warehouses, on the
Prudden estate, and two thousand
bales of cotton. For a time the resi
dential district was threatened. Assistance
was asked from other towns
and some appartus arrived, but the
Macon company was stopped before it
left that city, when the fire was found
to be under control. The loss is estimated
at $125,000, partially covered
by insurance. ; 1
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WILEY BOY CANT
. EAT ICE CREAM
Dr. Ilarvey W. Wi?wy. food expert
and formerly chief chemist of the
United States Department of Agriculture,
says The Baltimore Sun, told
the Parents and Teachers' Association
and members of the Upper
School at the Park School how school
children should bo fed.
Dr. Wiley emphasized that simple
foods were by far the most desirable,
not only for school children but for
adults as well, and went into a discussion
of the entire food problem.
Milk, cereals, vegetables and especially
spinach, run through a collander,
so that all the stems would be left out,
he said were especially good for grow
ing children and good for older folks
as well. He had been often asked, he
said, about meat as a diet. He was a
great advocate of a mixed diet, he
said, and did not think a small
amount of meat would be harmful to
children.
Ice Cream and Cake Bad.
Dr. Wiley was emphatic in this declaration
that sweets, such as ice
cream and cake, wer not fit foods to
put into stomach of children. When
his little hoy goes to children's parties
where ice-cream and cake are served,
he said, the youngster takes a little
bag of graham wafers and while the
other children are filling up on things
that will do them harm, his youngster
is munching on his graham wafers.
"Just think of it," he said, ice-cream
and cake for children!"
He also said that bread made from
whole wheat flour and whole cornmeal
were the only "fit breads for
children, as well as adults. People did
not realize how much they were missing
in eating the white flour bread.
The bran of the wheat and the bran
and the oil of the corn contained prop
erties that were necessary to the
building of bone and sinew and to the
general well-being of the system, he
said, and when these were eliminated
by the modern processes of milling
much that was valuable was being
lost.
Oil of Corn Taken Out.
Then, he said, the kernel of corr
which contains the oil is taken out in
modern method of grinding cornmeal
whereas, this ought to remain, as well
as the corn brand. The corn oil, ho
said, contains much nourishment as is
contained in butter fat which has a
high heeding value. Formerly it was
the custom to measure the value of
all fats by their heat-producing qualities?their
caloric units?but this
method has been found, he said to be
erroneous .
Another of Dr. Wiley's surprising
statements was that potatoes ought
never to be peeled, fo'r in the skin is
contained a vitalizing element that
ought not to be lost.
"There, are only two ways of cooking
a potato," he said. "First, you
must be sure to have it washed clean,
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first, last, now and fore ver.
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GREEN SEA SCHOOL
TO ENTERTAIN
The pupils of the Green Sea Graded
School will present the Christmas
Cantata "Jolly Times" with the Santa!
Claus Band on Wednesday evening,
Dec. 22nd, at half past seven o'clock.
Their "Jolly Times" is made more
delightful by the coming of the "Wind
Fairies," "Grandfather Clock," "Japanese
Girls," "Postman," "Uncle
Sam," "Columbia" and "Daughters of
Columbia," and numerous other .interesting
and original characters who
take part in the festivities of the
evening.
Admission 10 and 25 cents.
W. P. COKER, Principal.
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Tells Him to Disregard Reports of
Trip Till Leader Sees Him.
Washington.?A wireless message
from Henry Ford, aboard the steamer
Oscar II, was received at the White
House. Mr. Ford asked the president j
to disregard what he termed inaccur-1
ate newspaper accounts of proceedings
aboard the Oscar II and said that
lie would personally inform the President
later as to the trans-Atlantic
trip.
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BOX SUPPER.
There will be a Box Supper, Ghost
Party, and Fortune Telling at the
Eldorado School House on December
24th, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. We
invite everybody to attend, especially
the trustees of the school.
MISS AGNES STROUD.
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Last week S. L. Schorr, who had
been held in the jail under charges of
violation of the bankruptcy law, was
j able to make bond for his appearance
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i dot ore mo commissioner.
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Jeremiah Smith was in Charleston
all of the first part of last week he-l
ing a member of the jury in the Unit-!
ed States 7)istrict Court in session
last week there. He returned to Conway
on Thursday.
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After spending several weeks on
the job and sparing no efTort to obtain'
a flow of artesian water, only a small
j stream has been obtained at the residence
of Sheriff J. A. Lewis.
so that no dirt adheres to it, and then
bake it or boil it in a very little water,
so that the juices of the potato,
which have been extracted by the boil
ing process, are in a large measure
returned to it. Then it should be eaten,
skin and all. In peeling our potatoes
and other vegetables, we in this
country are wasting vast quantities
of the very vital essences of our
foods."
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CREDITORS MEET
LAST THURSDAY
Elect Agent for the Creditors
of D. M. Causey to Act
With the Assignee
The creditors of 1). M. Causey, who
recently failed vand made an assign
ment, hold a meeting in Conway last
Thursday at the ollico of H. H. Woodward
and elected L. B. Singleton,
Hsqr., as agent for the creditors to
act with the assignee, Mr. C. L. Williamson,
in the disposition of the assigned
estate.
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JESSE STRICKLAND
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE
Jesse Strickland who was convicted
of stilling, and violating the liquor
laws on other counts, was sent back
to the Horry County jail hero in
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Johnson. Near Fair Bluff, N. C., on
the return trip, Strickland managed
to elude the officers and broke for
liberty. Ho was retaken on Saturday
morning by Messrs. J. T. Proctor
and H N Sessions at his home in
Floyds Township and was lodged in
the jail here the same day. This defendant,
it is said had a room fitted
up at his home wherein the blind tiger
whiskey was stored and was sold
out to those who wished to buy
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DORVA-D'LEON GO.
NEXT ATTRACTION
The next number of the present
lyceum course at Conway is the Dorva-DeLeon
Company playing under
the plan of the Alkahest Lyceum
System of Atlanta, Ga. They will be
at (J on way on December 23rd and will
begin their entertainment at 8:30
sharp. The company consists, according
to the press notices of two
gentlemen and two ladies, The star
of the company perhaps is Miss
Elizabeth Lorraine Beattie, whose
readings have excited the interest of
large audiences. A good attendance
is confidently expected at this which
will no doubt be one of the best attractions
of the entire season.
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"THE DIAMONDS
FROM THE SKY"
The Herald's Next Serial?To
Be Shown in Pictures at
The Casino.
The moving picture show now owned
by Mr. McQueen Quattlcbaum, has
made arrangements to secure the
great serial picture, "The Diamonds
From the Sky," which was selected by
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lv vrx/v?i \l v/? ViV|'VI Vk) L I V/ III CI I I I I * ' ?"> 1/ tl
countless number of stories submitted
in a contest last year. It is one of the
best serial stories ever written, and
the scenes on the screen were produced
by the best artists in the moving
picture world. The Herald has purchased
the rights to this story and
will run one page each week as the
pictures arc shown at the theatre.
The story begins in the first instalment
concerning the birth of two
babies, one a boy, born of a Gypsy
mother, the otlv r a girl where a boy]
was wanted, and although an heiress
(or would be) she is swapped off
through ill will and suite and the
Gypsy boy is substituted in her placeJ
The diamond from the sky is the heir
loom of the royal family a branch of
which had moved to this country. A
boy was wanted in order to succeed to
the title and estates in England, hence
through spite of enemies this bold deception
is undertaken. The story
runs through twenty pages, and there
was never anything in this lino that
can possibly claim your interest more.
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NO. 35
HORRYITES FIGURE
IN FEDERAL CASES
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On the Criminal Side of the
Court in Charleston
Last Week.
SHERIFF LEWIS AND
MARSHALL PROCTOR
Were in Charleston as Witnesses
Nearly All of
Last Week.
The authorities have been active in
this section during the past year in
rounding up violators of the Federal
Liquor laws. As a result of this activity
several cases went up to the
district court in Charleston from this
county, and sheriff J. A. Lewis and
deputy marshal 1, John T. Proctor
were in Charleston nearly all
of last week as witnesses in the cases
from this county. They returned to
Conway the latter part of the week.
Following is a report of the proceedings
of the court, and among the list
of cases will be found the names of
the Horry County defendants:
After deliberating for about seyen
and a half hours, the jury in the case
of the United States against Sam
Wolf and the Aiken Dry Good Company
found the defendants guilty of
withholding assets from the referee
in bankruptcy in the United States
District Court here yesterday. Sam
Wolf was recommended to the mercy
of the court. Sentence was suspend
od, pending* argument for a new trial
to-day.
The case was begun Wednesday afternoon,
when a jury was drawn. The
taking of testimony began yesterday
morning. Shortly after the afternoon
session the jury retired. It came back
at about 0:20 o'clock in the afternoon,
but was orderd back to its room by
Judge Smith, when it was stated that
the jurors had been unable to agree.
It was not until nearly midnight that
a verdict was returned.
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
had been filed against the firm
of which the Wolfs were members,
and the petition had been granted.
That assets had been withheld was
the charge.
W. Jesse Strickland was convicted
of illegally storing liquor and recommended
to the mercy of the Court. He
was sentenced to serve three months
in the Horry County jail and to pay a
fine of $200.
Willie Fowler and Hughie Sarvis
pleaded guilty to working in an illicit
distillery. Each was fined $100 and
sentenced to serve one month in the
Marion County jail.
Tom Calhoun was found guilty of
molesting mail in rural mail boxes
and was sentenced to serve five
months in the Barnwell county jail.
G. N. Bosonfield is charged with
two violations of Section 218, of the
Criminal Code. A bench warrant was
issued for his arrest and the cases
continued.
A bench warrant was issued for the
arrest of ?Joc Morgan, charged with
violating Section 215, of the Criminal
Code. The case was continued.
A bench warrant was also issued
for the arrest of Thos. W. Sellers,
j charged with violating Section 225, of
j the Criminal Code. The case was
continued.
Alec Wallace was not present when
his case was called, and it was conj
tinued. He is charged with violating
Section 8,242, Revised Statutes of the
United States.
The case of the United States
against Joshua Sarvis, charged with
a violation of the United States liquor
laws, was continued.
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CHRISTMAS TREE.
There will be a Christmas tree and
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School House on Christmas Ere
night. The public is cordially invited
to be present.
TRUSTEES.