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/ t / I 1 1 A Nf I | |l I m ! | HI Ml IBM Mil - - ' y VOLUME I CASES AT COURT ~ , CSNTiNUEO OVtii ' k ' Tlie Few Cases Tried Took UjO I*' Much Time of the Week CASE OF WARD AND* INSURANCE COMPANY i IVIost Interesting Case Dispos>. cd of During* Time Others Tedious. i i Tlir t>uvt of Conn.ion Picas cam' t >. a ( lose lust Saturday evoninj: arter wo'-king the entire week on a limited number of the cases which were published last week as being si-Aw trial at" this term. The eyes and thoughts of the lawyers, so to speak, are big in looking at what they think they can do before the court meets but when they begin to go into the trial of tedious cases, they usually find that a case or two of the right kind where there is a real contest will take up a whole week. As reported last week after disposing of the case of Lula K. Crawford vMull ins Lumber Co., the cause of It. V. Ward *. Pacific Fire Insurance Co., vufl commenced. The result of this insurance oas? was not reported in the last issue of this paper for tho reason that the jury remained out for some time. The jury returned a verdict for the full amount of the policy of $1,000.00 and interest on for the time provided by law. This case was perhaps tho most interesting of any disposed of at the court and it took up more than a full dav t > try. Af'tcr the insurance case was disposed of. the next trial on the list was J. Ci. Butler vs. P. P. Stevens. This v.as a suit on on open book account, and it resulted in a verdict for the p'aintiff for tho full amount claimed. ( In 'I'Vmi ? ./lu if iooi>nin/v tK a /.mnd II 1 I'.I u? * I1IWI IIIC IWUI I If nl1; rp 4he ca^e of A. J. Todd vs. W. H. Vaught, Jos. 1>. Vaught and Rebecca Vaught. This was a tedious cave, or turned out to be so by means of the long time that it took the plaintiff to detail to the court ids side of tiie contention. The case involved a sa'e of an old Ford touring ear by the plaintiff to the defendant .1. P. Vaught. The defendant claimed that Mr. Todd had rccommencd the machine to be in good fix although there was a big hole in one of its cylinders, an ti had a weeping radiator. Although there was some varying testimony, there was enough to l !...* :< " r ii'" uuu II " a v ?*v DM IK V SilPIp" of Henry Fonl's product, not because it was originally so when Henry turnout loose, but by reason of its long TV<*vice before the time that even Mr. Todd l>ecome its owner. This case took up the entire day. The plaintiff had sold the machine to J. P. Vaught foi $3:15.00 of which the $35.00 was paid down, and the balance by two notes secured by a bill of sale on nine head of cows. The claim of the defense was that the plaintiff after thr trade, agreed to take the Ford back on payment of the sum of $110.00 and delivery back of the machine, both of which conditions were complied with, according to defendant's answer. ^The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendants, but withou' damage. There was a verdict by consent in favor of the plaintiffs in the case of Cornish Co. vs. J. It. Smith, finding the piano in question for the plaintiff. The case of American Fertilizing Company vs. George M. Kirton was continued. t All of the remaining jury cases that had been fixed for trial were continued except the case of D. D. Anderson vs. Atlantic Coast lino Railroad Company which was taken < up last and which was not disposed of ' until a late hour on last Saturday, the i jury finding for the plaintiff $500.00. 1 As to the equity cases set for trial, a final order was taken In the case of 1 Spivey vs. Conway Lumber Co., this i case having gone to the supreme ? court and decided in favor of the I plaintiff. A permanent injunction s was granted by the court. In the equity ens* of J. R. Alls brook, plaintiff vs. Sessions Bros , J < Wim cc BAPTIST CHURCH IS FOUfID SN HRE An alarm of fire was gi-en las Sunday morning when dense volume of smoke were aeon by one pnssin by, issuing from the ventilators and grates in the sides of the basement o! the Baptist church. Examination proved that the timbers under the building had caught on fire from some supposed defect in the hot blast heating plant, which had been fired up for Sunday School. A small hole had been burned in the floor of the church and the flames had slowly spread to the timbers 1 supporting the flooring This was extinguished by the fire department. The boys of the department were quickly on the ground and had streams of water playing on the flames. o Lot the Symphony Minstrels enter on you Friday night. adv PR98RAM FOR THE HORRY COUNTY FAIR Tuesday, Nov., 13, 1917 Confederate Veterans' Day. 10 a. rn. Fair Grounds open for 5th Annual Fair. 11 a. m. Murphy's (jilt Edge Shows open Midway. 12 m. Demonstrations in Farm i Crops Dept. 1 p. m. Demonstrations in Home Dem. Work. 1:30 p. in. Dinner to Confederate Veterans by Fair Association and Citizens of Conway. 2 D. rn. Ma ram rat ?uinrw Wio-W ? - 9 "V J } j Direr. 2:30 p. ra. Address by Hoa. Jerr Smith. 3 p. m. Concert by Conway Band Quailett 5 p. ra. Fair building close. Wednesday, Nor., 14 Merchant* Day 9:30 a. m. F'air Grounds open. 10:30 a. n:. Grand Parade, Automobiles down Main Street to 1'aii grounds. 11:00 a. m. Midway open Murphy's Gilt Edge Shows. | 12 m. Jud ging Merchants Booths. 1 p. m. Judges begin to judge Fxhibits. 2 p. m. Margaret Quincy, HighDiver. 3 p. r.i. Concert by Conway Band Qua ilett. f? p. m. Fair building closes. Thursday, Nov.. 15 Automobile Day, 9:30 a. m. Fair Grounds open. j 10:3)0 a. m. Midway Shows open. 12 m. Lecture on Swine by Dr 1 Clarke Hodley. 1 p. m. Lecture on Cow Breedine j by W. O. Davis. 2 p m. Margaret Quincy, High- i Diver, 3 p. m. Conceit by Conway Band Quailctt. n mo ?-? rv... : e~ * j ff, 111. i/itivviii^ ior ulo i ires | given by Fair Association and S. P. Hawes. 5 p. m, Fair Grounds close. Friday, Nov. 16 Educational Day. 9:30 a. m. Fair Grounds open. 10 a. m. Schools begin to arrive. 12 m. Lecture on Home Demonstration Work by Miss Annie Derham. 1 p. m. Lecture on Com Club and Pig Club Work by W. O. Davis. 2 p. m. Margaret Quincy, HighDiver. 3 p. m. Announcement of winner of Best School Exhibit 5 p. m. Fair Grounds close. and others, the court sustained the finding of the referee that the paper made to Sessions Bros., by J F. Watts was a mortgage, though in the actual form of a title, and that the plaintiff had the right to sue the claim. This decision lets in the mortgage made by J. F. Watts to BurM/Vm. o /-i ^ " i Vilnius ?v mourns i;o., as a third claim against premises. In the case of Burroughs & Collins Co., and S. Q. Floyd vs. M. T. Floyd, and others, as heirs at law of L. H. Floyd, the court found against the contention of the plaintiffs and re- j fused to reform the deed. This is an 1 interesting case and will be taken to ^ the supreme court by the plaintiffs. The business of the court was wound up late on last Saturdoy evening and the court then adjourned, Fudge Wilson going from here to Marion to take his train by way of lutorhObile. o Doctor Phipps spent several days I> Conway last week. ' Wmt )NWAY, S C., THURSDAY, K0\ FIRST CASUALTY LIST TENCHES IN FRANCE 3ermn:is Cut Off Small Salient ( Kill 3, Wound 5 and Take 12 "Sammies." Washington. American troops of the overseas expeditionary forces 1 have experienced their first real ; clash with the enemy. In the early dawn of Saturday, a ' German raiding* party swept over the parapet of a trench occupied by an ' American company and, after a brief ' hand-to-hand encounter, retired to their own earthworks with 12 prison- 1 crs. General Pershing's first (lis-1 pat 'lies, announced at the War Do- j ;>amnent early today, reported that hree Americans were killed and w. !vo captured, and five wounded in the engagement. Protected by a heavy barrage fire, the Germans ad 'iiiiccd No Man's Land and stormed he American salient. Cut off from cmforooments l>y the rain of German shells, it is thought the defenders were obliged to meet a force greatly superior in numbers. With the exception of one German captured, nothing is known of the extent of the I enemy's losses. The first fragmentary details made no mention of the location of the fight, but Berlin dispatches indicate that it was in the rgeion of he RhineMarne canal, in the sector defended by the Crown Prince's forces. The official casualty List of the lossea of American troops in France in their first clash with the Germans follows: Killed: Private Thomas F. Hn right; sister, Miss Mury Irrin, Pittsburg. Private James G. Gre?ham; mother, Mrs. Alice Dodd, Evansville, Ind. Private Mcrie D. Hay; father, Harvoy D. Hay, Glidden, Iowa. Wounded: Private John J. Smith; Brother, F. D, Smith, Ludington, Mich. Private Charles J. Hopkins; brother. James W. Hopkins, Stanton, Texas. P.m-t.,4 sv r> * ? ? uruiyi- u. 150X; latnor, James L. Box, Alius, Okla. Private Homer Givens; father, Wm, F Givens. Cloverale, Ala. Private Charles L. Orr; mother, Mrs. Sai*nh Rcgnell, Lions, Kans. Captured or missing*: Sergeant E 1gar M, Halyburton, Stone.y Point,! N. C. Corporal Nicholas L. Mulhall; mother, Mrs. Biidgett Mulhall, Jersey Ctiy. Corporal Edwin H. Haines; mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Haines, Woodward i Okla. Private Herchel Godfrey, father, H. C. Godfrey, Chicago. Private Yemen M. Kendall; father Sam Kendell, Roll, Okla. Private William P. Grigsby; mother, Mrs. Lizzie Grigsby, Louisville. Private Frank E. McDougal; fath-j er. R. L. McDougal, Maryville, Mo. Private Daniel B. Gallagher; fath-i er, Noil Gallagher, Blocton, Ala. ; Private John P. Lester; father, Wil- ' liam Le.ster, Tutwater, Miss. < Private Harry Langhniann; Ada R. t Langhmann, Chicago. I>rivate Dewey D. Kern; mother, j Mrs. Eva Tilton, Collins, Iowa. Private Reckon, cannot be i identified. t The list was accompanied by the c following announcement: 1 "The War Department has received t a dispatch from the commanding c general of the American expedition- ;i ary forces which states that before t daylight, Novmber ?>, a salient oc-1 c curred for instruction by a com- j :i pany of American infantry was raid- | >\ ed by Germans. The enemy put down ! s a heavy barrage fiie, cutting off the j t salient from the rest of the line. Our j losses were three killed, five wound- f ed and twelve captured or missing h The enemy's losses are not known, tl One wounded German was taken! u prisoner. 1 ' o John P. Cooper of Mullins spent p several days here last week. He wa^ s1 interested as a party for his company, t? the Palmetto Grocery Company of w Mullins. - tl NewvFair The new Fair Grounds are the Court House on Third i FOLLOW THE s fw 1$MBER 8, 1917. LUMBERS OF SALES 1 MADE LAST MONDAY Quantities of Horry Soil Change Hands at the Court House. \H ' I A ! 1 Last Monday various sales wereii made at the court house by the Clerk | xnd the Sheriff of the county. Among > the sales taking place were the foi- j lowing: ! The Stanley place in Simpson i Creek went to Mrs. Stanley for $5,250.00. The Hatcher place in Floyds of 100 acres went to C. Clemson Enzoi-and (i. M. Hatcher for $.">,900.00. In the case of Edge vs. Edge, the lands ill Dnirwnml V,-* w x". 1 4H l\ Hl>\ went oft' as follows: Tract N<>. 1 of acres to T. L. Thorn: s for $530.00; tuict No. 2 of 75 acres, to II. II. Woodward for $180.00; tract No. 0 of overflow lands to W. C. Reaves for j $1-39.00; tract No. 1 of Mvamp lands, j known as "Hoar Hone" to \V. A.J Adams for $8.71.00. The L. F. Bellamy land iti Litt'c River Township, was bought in by Burroughs & Collins Co.. for $100.00. The I. J. Parker homestead in Simpson Creek went to Ward-Hal .* Company for $3,023.00. This was a Irrge tract of about one thousand J acres. S. W. Martin bought a lot at Allen for *23.00. Cooper Guano Co., bought 44 acr*? ia Simpson Creek for taxes. Tract of eleven acres la Little River, and 3 acres in the same townshia went to G. J. Holliday for the amount of the taxes on it. 1 The b&nkiag; hous? of Farmers X Merchants* Bank, went to W. W. Rusk for $2,850.00. Th? other sale.* by the receiver of that bank wev? as follows: Tract of 10S5 acres in Luke Swamp to G. J. Holliday for $825.00; Forney Pcwell place of 50 acres in Conway township to G. J. Holliday for $025.00; L. J. Watts place, formerly sold to one West, containing- 107 acres wont to Everett Watts for $252,00; one lot in Loris known as Roberson lot went to G. J. Holliday for $125.00; the Joanna Harrison lands went tract No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 aggregating 154 acres to G. J. Holliday forj $815.00; tract No. 5 of 100 acres to G. J. Holliday for $570.00. The J J Pitman place near Conway' we d to H H. Woodward for $925.00. One acre in Simpson Creek sou! under mortgage against W. II. Cansee went to 11. H. Woodward for $27.00. The A. M. l.oe farm in Green Sea ! went to A. M. Lee the holder of two | large mortgages for the sum cf $500.00. SECOND LYCEUM ATTRAGTtON NOV. 15TH; The Conway Lyceum presents as its i second attraction for the season, on J VI I inursfiay, iNovembor the 15th, at 8:"bj fclock, Burvough School, The Die-! ,rics. These people have ir.aclo a itudy of entertaining efforts and are )Osse"isecl of pleasing personalities. These refined entertainers have lehieved an enviable reputation hi heir chosen field of proving good, , 'lean, wholesome amp'.scment. The betries, with their extensive repreoire, present an entertainment that loes not tire, the ever changing charicter of the novelties introduced main aining a sustained interest throughiut. These people have appeared in ib of the largest cities in the West ,r.d Kast and the Press Comments how that their cnteratinment was hundering sue'ess. The Conway Lyceum considers it \ ortunatc in being able to obtain this lgh class attraction and entertains he hope that the people of Conway ill show their appreciation by rgolv attending. This attraction will naturally apeal to the loves of good music and tage craft. Their songs will bring ? mind fond memories and their wit 11 * 111 produce tno good hearty laugh I "iat you have beeu longing for. Grotinds just one square below ' Avenue. SIGNS. i f. ' CI raid. MR 3,000,000 ( S18NPLED8E CARD Washington, Nov. "* Campaign leadquarters of tlio food administra- p 'on announces that at the beginning >f the fourth day of the food pledge eek campaign, the 3,000,000 mark ias been passed in the number cf ards signed. This represents, for the nost part, the results of the canvass n the larger cities in those States r that have reported, while there are still eleven Suites that have telegraphed no returns as yet. The num ber is an increase of more than 74,000 Dver yesterday's figure. Indiana still leads the field with 110,282 pledges. ( Virginia is a close second with 100,071, while Ohio and Maine are third and fourth, with 100.000 and 07.000 respectively. New Yoik leads all other cities, with over 102,000. Storms throughout the country are till tying up the means of communii-ation from the outlying districts, and r :r'2 proving a severe handicap to the t campaigners. c One family of lOach Two. i "The close of this campaign will 1 see one family out of every two in tin 1 nited States enrolled for member, sl.ip in the I'nited States food admin- j iflration," said H. ,J. Hill, national ( campaign director, today. "Reports indicate intense pro-German propa? j g mda in certain parts of the country, hut the effect of this has been to oddity our organization of 500,000 workers and to make evident to com munities farthcrest removed from ( v-ar conditions the fact that this is ifal war work." , HQRRYAGENTS RED CROSS SEALS: J The Great War has clearly singled * out tube rcui ok is as among the worst ^ enemies of armies and has shown that the control of tuberculosis is one of the most important steps in mobilizing the strength and conserving the , resources of a nation. The 150,000 j French soldiers invalided back from the benches and the vastly increased ravages of the disease among the ei.i.ian population offer our nation a timly losson. Every person selling ucu <. ross Christmas Seals, sold this j year as every year only for fighting tuberculosis, has a vital opportunity ( to make our country profit by the s dearly learned lesson of France, Canada and other participants in the War. j The following have been asked to j <cr\*e as agents in your county: Mrs. C, F, DllUosc, Mrs. Will Stone, Miss Essie Derham, Mr. C. H. Snider, ' Mrs. (ieo. Cribbs, Mrs. Frank Molliday, I Miss Lula Stalvcy, Miss Ellen McQueen. twentyTightmore : leave SATURDAY | The local exemption board has no. tified twenty-eight more white men lo appear here at l o'clock next Fri lay afternoon for military sen-ice; c \nd those will leave here on the *arlv train next Saturday morning il 'or Camp Jackson. The list follows: j Mike Bryant Bullock, t Joseph Harmon Capps, ( Daniel Fdrr.'ir Cii ? **>? o v'"* vv? I ;i J times Ford Chestnut, A Benj. Grier Collins, Dillon Cox, ^ Hence Braker Elliott, ,, Bruce Grainjver, (( l,eroy Yeoman Hodges, c John Harvey Holmes, ()1 Marshall Mace Horn, "Walter McDuffio Hucks, y Hollin Johnson, i, Win, Harley Jones, Joseph Eurman Kirton, "| Doc. Ix>ng, ] Malcolm McDowell, Robert Mintz, Carl Phillips, Joseph Thad Port, Charlie I). Prinpe, Burt Ray. . be Jesse lx>ni? Roberts, til John Dola Smith, Ji Geo. Suggs, w Wm. Kenneth Suggs, fr James Walter Todd, lii Jesse Williamson. st Another lot of about tho same num. tii or will be summoned it said in a cc >w clays as soon as a report is re- no ?ived from the district board. yc NO 29. >4 NEGROES FACE A COURT MARTIAL Jesuit of Rioting at Houston ? in Which Twenty-two Lost Lives :OUR SEPARATE COUNTS IN CHARGES Maiming Violation of Specific Articles of War Murder Charged. San Antonio, Texas Trial by court nartial of the (?4 negro enlisted men if the 24th United States infantry harmed with mutiny and murder in onnection with rioting in Houston on he night of August 23 last, in which I'l persons were killed began today at I'ort Sam Houston here. 'n addition o those on trial here, other members .o those on trial here, other members if the same regiment are held at Fil Paso awaiting trial on less serious barges in connection with the riot. \11 are enlisted men of companies I, VI, K ;ind L. The charges against the. negroes indude four separate counts. All jharge riolation of specific articles of irar. The first count charges the de'eadauts with disobeying commands to remain in camp and turn in their anna and ammunition; tha eecond ibargos mutiny, alln^infc that they refused to obey the command of Major K. Snow, their commander, forcibly overrode military authority and najrched upon the city of Houston; ;ho third count charges the men with nurder, and the fourth intent t^ cop*nit murder, .v:.. 11. S. mVESSHIPSTOR thf rfi iff nc ith v HI. iikuu VI IIHL1 . .. >Washington. American aid to Italy n the period of her national emergency will take the form principally >f shipping sufficient to transport supplies needed for relief of the arnies blocking the Austrian advance. \bout 100,000 tons of shipping has pccn promised Italy by the shipping >oard, and the vessels will be turned pvcr as soon as possible. Four vessels ilready have been placet* at the disposal of the Italian government and ptl.er tonnage will be diverted in the i pcxt thirty days. The movement of supplies will be 'acilitated greatly by an order of the Ymerican government suspending export restrictions on shipments to Italen ports. Italy's chief demands are it present for coal and steel. o Last Monday was legal salesday. ViEATLESS TUESDAY; WHEATLESS WEDNESDAY Washington. Sovnety-five per out. of the southeastern districts is low in line with a meatless Tuesday nd wheatless Wednesday, George R. lent on, hotel distinct chairman for he. states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, nd Mississippi, reports to the food dministration. Mr. Benton's estimates that the sav lg of moat and wli r " ~ .iiiuauy is 11/ or cont. Restaurants and hotels not r>oporating largely are those operat(1 by persons who do not yet thorughly understand the necessity for )od conservation, he reports. These o hopes to have voluntarily rooperat \g within a short time. OBACCO STEMMERY BUILT F0R_FL0RENCE Rorejiccy A owjimuery will j in operation in Florence by the me next crop cornea in, according to iko Berger, local warehouseman* ho has just returned to Flortjuce cm a trip through tho North Caro\a and Virginia tobacco belts. The eanmery will be built by D. T. M*r~ q, one of the largest buyers in tho untry. It will employ several hund d hands at least six month in the xw.