The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 18, 1917, Image 1
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South Carolina must purchase J:
Bonds.
Two hundred and fifty thousant
registered in the food saving mover
The call of President Wilson foi
(Uf answered.
^ Thousands cf young South Care
pepolc* at home must save food and t
The registration of all the homes
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i fiiuce during tne week ot Uctot
Several thousand volunteer wortis
to succeed.
Appeal is hereby made for patri
v/ith the chairmen of the county cot
Libei ty loan committee and help mats
South Carolina.
'i ho ministers of th? State are t
men's from the pulpit.
The school teachers are urged to
sdiool rooms.
The farmers of the State have n
are urged to invest in Liberty Bonds
insurance against the hahd times wl
This appeal is made in the name
call is urgent. It is a war measure,
uphold the hands of our president.
The movement for the conservat
Hoover must he a success. The poop
food supply. There is nothing bindi
triotie appeal. David I
Food administr
| Chairman of the
PEOPLE OF HORRY
ARE WARMING UP
To the Importance of Food
Conservation and Liberty
Bonds
The Horry ^^people rae "warming
up" to the idea of Food Conservation,
i'.nu everyming is Deing gotten in
shape for the house-to-house canvass
t) be made die latter part of the
month.
Announcement has heretofore been
made that the canvass would be the
week of October 21st to 28th, but
those in charge of the matter locally
have decided the canvass extend over
into the next week, closing the campaign
on Nov. 4th, giving two weeks
in which to present the cause.
President Wilson last week wrote
Food Administrator Hoover and requested
the postponement of the
house to house soliciation from the
week of Oct. 21 to that of Oct. 28th,
because of the conflict with the Liberty
Bond campaign which closes that
week. Mr. Hoover readily acquiesced
in the President's wish and set the
wo^k of October 29th to Nov. 4th.
^Vne campaign in Horry, however,
will be undertaken jointly with the
campaign for Liberty Bonds. This
postponement does not mean under
any conditions that there is to be the
slightest relaxation in the preliminary
education campaign for either purpose.
The four Horry captains, Senator
H. L. Buck, Farm Demonstrator W.
O. Davis, Supt. M. J. Bullock, and
Gen. J. P. Derham have been working
hard perfecting their organizations :n
the hope of making Horry the banner
ooyuity in the State in the registration
try.homes in the Food Saving contest.
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MIGHTY GOOD LAND
We offer on terms of on
secured by a mortgage on the
scribed tract in Bucks town
Known as the country pi
, man behind the counter at the
tract contains one hundred an
of which can be cleared. Fin
frame dwelling and stalls, and
Is one mile and a half from sc
ville, a shipping point. Rural
"oor. Public road leads stra
town and Conway road at Tod
rin this entire county for the m
of the State. . < .
How much better terms
before this place is sold to so
HORirr lai
M. M. HEORICK. Manaqer.
(The
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;1-5,000,000 worth of liberty Loan
I South Carolina families must bo
rent.
America to organize for war must
dinians have gone to fight and the
my the bonds.
i in the food saving movement will
>er 21 to 28.
:ers will be neede<l if South Carolina
ctic South Carolinians to get in touch
mcil of defense, the chairman of the
;e these movements a success in
lifted to discuss these vital movei
talk about the movements in the
nany millions of surplus money. They
It is a safe investment and good
tich may follow the war.
of the Liberty of our country. The
The people of South Carolina must
'on of food as proposed by Herbert
de are simply asked to conserve the
ng about the card. It is purely a pai,
Coker,
ator for South Carolina.
State council of defense.
Senator Buck, having charge of the
o:ganization in Conway and Buck's
townships, has appointed twelve lieu'
enants in these two townships, each
I ' f whom will forthwith appoint 10
workers. His lieutenants are: S. P.
Howes, J. L. Waller, H. L. B. Jordan,
3. C. Dusenbury, G. F. Murrell, and
S. F. Bourne, Conway; Kelly Tompkins,
Adrian; B. F. Singleton ard W.
D. Lewis, Bucksport; and J. F. Harper,
T. A. Rheuark, and E. I). Causey,
Toddville,
Mr. Davis has not yet completed his
appointments for Socastee township,
Dr. E. A. Stalvey so far being the
nly one named for that section, but
is appointments for Dogwood Neck
ro: Wm. J. Jordan, B. Haskell Todd.
Willie H. Reaves, and A. E. Chestnut:
V?r Little River, Moore Thocpson, i-I.
!;. Thompson, Dr. J. A. Stone and J.
L. Bell.
Other workers will be announced
next week, and literature and full in-I
tructions will be mailed each worker
| in time for the week of canvass
Horry cannot afford to lag in this
:nagni iccnt work. We have always
responded when the necsesity called,
and wo will do so again. More than
?00 of our Horry hoys have already
nlisted in the fighting forces. Many
f them may he called upon to make
' e supreme sacrifice. Their sacrifice
should impress us at home with
the gravity of the situation and urge
u.i to find something to do to make
their sacrifice easy. In conserving
our food supply we are making no
sacrifice,?we are simply called upon
to register our willingness to assist
only "in so far as our circumstances
permit."
And while working in the hehalf of
food conservation, do not forget the
call of the Government for our purchase
of a Liberty Bond,?a great
opportunity to invest our savings in
the best security in the wrold and at
the same time help our government.
It is worth while.
?E. J. Sherwood,
Publicity Manager.
ON VERY EASY TERMS
e third cash, balance on time,
property, the following deaViir\
ft?AAA
ace of A. K. Long. He is the
Conway National Bank. The
d twenty-four (124) acres, all
e clay subsoil. Has four-room
about two acres cleared up.
hool, same distance from Toddfree
delivery passes by the
ight from it into the Georgedville
Avenue. No better place
aking of one of the best farms
would yon want. Apply to-day
mebody else, if you want it.
ID AGENCY,
Hotel Grace, Conway, S. C.
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BAYB0RO CUTTING IS
HORRIBLE IN DETAIL
Facts as They Leak Out Seem
to Point to the Guilty
Party.
MAGISTRATE TAKES IN
ANOTHER DEFENDANT
Main Culprit Escaped to Camp
Jackson at Columbia Without
Papers.
The cutting affray in Bayboro
township on October 3rd, grows more
horrible as the details of it are slowly
reaching the public. Owing to evidence
that was no doubt furnished tc
him, the Magistrotc at Gurley later
issued a warrant and took in another
defendant, Collins Bellamy by namj,
so that Collins Bellamy stands charged
with William Franklin Elliott in
the commission of this dastardly
crime. It was the magistrate, how.
'ever, as we are informed, who placed
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vumiin nriuimy in ine charge. Both
defendants are negroes. The details,
I as they are now told, shows there was
I a premeditated plan to attack and the
results the guilty parties wanted, it
appears was the death of the man attacked.
Irvin A. Bell went to church that
evening taking his wife and three
children with him. After the services
were over, Mr. Bell started back
heme in his hurray, his wife and three
children sittnig on the seat of the vehicle,
while he himself rode in the !
foot of the buggy. Going along, Mr. j
Fell now recalls that he noticed noises
behind indicating that the buggy was
being followed. When he had arrived
tear the Daniel Moore place, where
.Joe House now lives, and had just
mossed a small branch that ran across
the public road, all at once, and with>i.'t
any warning. Mr. Boll was seized
bodily by some poison who had run
round the buggy and aproached the
'ido of the vehicle at Mr. Bell's back,
and taking him by the shoulders attempted
to pull him out by brute
force. He caught the dash board an l
hung on, but his assailant was a
stronger man than he, and in a shorter
time than it takes to write it, lie
was jerked from his hold and fell ?n
top of his head by the side of the
road. The assailant had a knife,
while the assaulted man had no
weapon and had no time to arm him
scir.
Irvin A. Hell bounded up from the
ground and faced the man who at
once clinched with him. They two
went down, with Bell on the cotton,
but he managed to turn his assailant
under, but all this time the assailant
was cutting and slashing at Bell wilh
the sharp knife he carried, and as Bell
managed to get his fingers in the
e>es of the man, he cut and slashed
at Bell's hand until the member was
evidently cut and lacerated in a hundred
places. In the scuffle Bell fell
into the ditch which runs beside the
road. Here his assailant lost his hat,
but as the man attacked fell into the
ditch the assailant cut the worst gash
of all in the back. Many attempts it
is said were made at the throat, but
Mr, Bell managed in one way n*
another to keep the knife away from
his htroat. In the mean time Mr.
Bell's wife and children were loudly
calling for help, and the assailant no
doubt fearing discovery by the arrival
of aid, turned and fled, leaving
the man he attacked in a welter of
blood and dirt.
Mr. Bell was brought to Conway
that night for surgical aid in sewing
up the numerous gushes, - some of
which appear to have been extremely
dangerous to his life. As it was night
he did not see the features of his as
sailant so that he could be positive of
his identity, but he did become cognizant
of certain signs and indications
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(. OCTOBER 18, 1917.
PEE DEE PRESBYTERY
HERELAST WEEK
The Pee Dee Presbytery in session
here lust week with the Kingston
Presbyterian Church, came to a close
after interesting sessions. The next
year's meeting will be held with the
church at Dunbar.
The exercises were opened on Tucs.
day of last week with a sermon by
the Rev. J. J. Douglas of Blenheim
S. C. G. M. Wilcox of Bennetts.'die j
was elected as moderator, A. 11. McArn
of Choraw as Cleric, and L. W.
Dick of Sumter us temporary clerk.
Dr. Lowry Davis, a missionary late- '
!y returned from China, made two addresses
on Wednesday during the |
meeting. Me was invited to visit th
school and addressed the school in an
interesting manner.
Many people of other denominations
attended the meetings. There
L_ . o i '
v,uic nuniiK is oi delegates trom otiicr
churches.
NEGROGAUGHTiN
STEALINGOF COTTON
The sherfi arrested last week and
lodged in jail, a negro from the Red
Biuff section, going by the name of
"Bub" or Preston Dozier. He was
charged with stealing some sacks of
seed cotton from Mr. W. G. Sarvis of
Simpsipn Creek township.
The cotton that he sfcole was pnckel
in a vacant tenant hous* of Mr Snr.
vis' on his place. Mr. Sarvis did not
kr.ow at first that the cotton had been
t^ken. He noticed some buggy track*
evidently propelled by man power
' passing through a peculiar place, and
i fcllownig these tracks he found they
led to his cotton house. He found that
the cotton house had been broken open
and the cotton was gone.
The buggy tracks led back again to
the place occupied by Dozier, and in r.
j thicket near where he had dropped the
! olci buggy, the sacks of cotton were
found hidden away.
It was a rather bold piece of thiovevy,
and the negro might have known
that he would be caught, but of course
he didn't.
iviilTandall is ~
to answer charge
Will Randall, who last Spring shot
Sam Bellamy in Little River Neck, in
J Horry County, has been located, arrested
and brought back to answer for
. his crime. Both parties are negroes.
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'which pointed directly to William
I Franklin Klliott as the nnrtv uhn v??id
I jerked him by main force from the
buggy. These circumstances will
I come out at the trial.
William Franklin Elliott was one of
| the colored draftees called by the local
board to appear here for miiitar.
service on Saturday afternoon of that
v eek in which the cutting took place
and to go on to Columbia on Sunday
the morning following. He did not
show up here
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i On the other hand the next week,
a letter was received by authorities
, here of the effect that Elliott was a4
Camp Jackson claiming to he one <<t
the quota of colored soldiers, but wawithout
any papers from the loca'
1 board, or any credentials whatever;
| and the officers at the camp it is un|
drestood were writing the local boar !
! here to forward the papers to Columi
bia.
| The hat which was lost during the
fight, was found by the neighbors
when they went to the place the next
n.n.nl'n? f 1. :U..4 Ml -1 ?
i uiui i nt? mil win pmy <in ini
portant part in the trial of the case.
A few days ago it was stated that
Sheriff J. A. Lewis had left here for
Camp Jackson in an effort to bring
him back here to stand trial.
No more gruesome sight has ever
been seen on the Main Street of Conway,
than was presented by Irvin A.
Bell whne he arrived here that night
on the late train. He was covered
with blocd from head to foot.
raid.
THE FIRST LYCEUM
OCTOBER 24TH
The Lyceum season will open in (
Conway, Wednesday October tho 24th.
fhe Winona Entertainment Company
.hich wiil appear on that evening m
composed of a Soprano and Header; a
Violinist and a Character and Humori>t
Entertainer. Their program is
consequently of a varied charade*,
rhero will be character impersonaj
lions in make-up, soprano solos, both
1 classic and popular; and readings of
| rare merit. 1 he violin?tb.at master
j of all instruments, will come in as no
small conti ibution in making the pro|
tfiam popular. The Wir.ona Entertain- j
j era are what their name implies?
Entertainers, and everv one should
near ihem
Tickets wi'l be on sale at all the
l)i ag Stores. Season seat reservation
can be secured at the Norton
I)rutf Co., Thursday, Oct. 18th. There
Vv'lii be five in
~ vv vaviio ill VI IV. I >
course. Season tickets will be sold
for T .vo Dollars; single tickets, fifty
cents.
foodWgFweTx
october 21 to 28
Washington.?In compliance with a
request from President Wilson, food
pldege week, set for October 21 to 28,
has been deferred a week by Herbert
C. Hoover, in order to avoid a conflict
with the closing week of the Liberty
lean campaign. In his letter to the
food administration, the President
pointed out that it would be highly
undesirable to have the two great
nmvrtnionfo nnJ"" ? * 11?
...v,v,.,vi.vg uuuv-i way in ine same
time. *
NEXT INCREMENT
PLANS ADVOCATED
t
Plans for the mobilization of 19 per
cent, of South Carolina's quota
through the three day period, beginning
with October 27, are being per-I
fected. The total number of men to be
moved is 1,009. Oniy negroes are included
in the increment.
.
Horry's part of this increment is
23.
CLIMAX OF GERMAN
STRENGTH IS PAST
Washington.?An official statement >
of the military situation on the western
front in Europe authorized by the
French High Commission, to-night,
makes it clear that Germany has
passed the climax of here military '
strength. The statement is based on
data of the French General Staff. It
does not seek to belittle the German
fighting machine, but calmly to out- |
line the situation. In fact, Germany j
is said still to have great powers of
resistance "which will take all the
Allied forces to break."
sherTfWasIought
wm, franklin elliott
William Franklin Elliott, a negro j
v ho is charged with severely cutting '
Irvin A. Hell, near Bayboro, on the!
night of October 3rd, while the latter j
was on his way home from church; i
was brought back here from Camp
Jackson last Thursday night and
lodged in the county jail to await further
proceedings.
Elliott was notified by the local
exemption board to report here for
military duty Saturday eveningOctober
6th. He failed to appear. Later
the officers learned that he had
run away and gone to Camp Jackson
without taking the necessary papers
from the local board. The officer at |
Camp Jackson wrote here to the local
board for his papers, and it was perhaps
in this way that his whereabouts
was discovered.
The sheriff went over to Columbia
after the negrro and brought him back
here without any trouble.
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NO. 2GT
TRUSTEES OF HORRY
CONSIDER MATTERS
Of Great Importance to Horry
School System as to the
Deficit
GEN. J. P. DERHAM
OF STATE TAX COM
Went Over the Matter Thoroughly
For the Benefit of
the Pepole.
The Horry Trustees Association
held its regular quarterly meeting in
Conway on last Saturday. Superintendent
M. J. Bullock published a notice
in the Herald calling the attention
of all trustees to the deficit reported
by the recent grand jury, to
meet the school claims ot Horry
County, and the trustees w oe given
notice before hand that this important
matter would be the principal subject
to come before them.
The meeting was well attended
from all sections of the country, and
by thus turning out the trustees show
that they are interested in making a
suitable provision to place the school
system of this county on a more substantial
anrl an-.iu ?1
?pi4>u.
The section of the grand jury's report
which called attention to the
mutter reads as follows:
"2. We find that the school funds of
the County are overdrawn, and no
cash in the County Treasury with
which to pay School Claims. We consider
the situation very grievous, and
in order that the educational interests
bf the County may not suffer, we
recommend to our Senators and Representatives
that they place a levy on
the takahle property in Horry, of 3
mills, for one year.
"3. We recommend and advise tha*
our County Superintendent and the
members of the County Board of Education
take prompt steps to borrow
sufficient funds to pay School Claims,
and do all that can be done to keep up
the schools of the County open, and if
possible, improve them."
An in vest iy; it ion of the books and
affairs of the department was made
and the notice published by Superintendent
Bullock last Wi ok. stated that
the books showed a deficit of eleven
thousand ($11,000,001 dollars.
That the people of Horry are interested
in education, better school
houses, Ion vor terms, goes without
saving. But no matter how much we
may want those advantages, none of
us would like to go so much in debt
(o obtain them. The deficit of eleven
thousand dollars is therefore food for
much thought.
A resolution was passed endorsing
the recommendation of the grand jury
to raise the necessary money by a
special levy in the county of three
1 ir.il Is.
Much was done to enlighten the
people present about the school affairs
and connected matters.
MORRIS GOODMAN
IS INCOUNTY JAIL
Unless he has made bond, Morris
Goodman, a Jewish peddler is in the
County jail, having been caught by
the authorities in North Carolina,
somewhere above the town of Dunn.
He had run away from here while
court was in session in September,
and did not answer to the charge
against him when his case pending In
the criminal court was called. He
| eluded the officers until the latter
r\d rf loaf nrn^l/ wt - ' ? ' M *
r?- ? nwn "v-viv wiiaii nu wita mcmw
by thorn and brought to the Horry
County jail.
The charge against him is said te
be one for obtaining property by fata*
pretenses.
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W. L. Edmundson spent .some time
here on business last week.