The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 07, 1918, Image 1
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kS BUSY SESSION
>WITH MINOR GASES
>urt of General Sessions Adjourns
After Four Days
Work
g MURDER CASE
| / AT THIS TIME
;
iljll Elliott Got Two Years on
| the Public Works of the
| County.
I[Tie court of General Sessions came
,?a close last Friday after spending
hut four days in disposing ot cases,
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1 OI WHICH Wl.'l'l' HI III i I I' ' j nili
|Ph" State vs. D. G. Hinson wa.il
prosscd 011 payment of cost.
The State vs. Quinc Graham and
wrley Graham was continued until
next term uf the court.
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The State vs. .Henry Johnson was
Atimied.
/The State vs. Will Elliott charged
svJi cutting- I. A. Bell. Defendant
^1 been in jail ever since being
Lmght back from Camp Jackson
|t year.
*v. Q. Smith was sentenced by the
on Wednesday to pay a fine of
V?.00 or 30 flays imprisonment.
The State vs. Steve Dawsey was
tinued.
jThe State vs. Morris Goodman
\\rged with obtaining good* by false
*<tenses was called and tried and
. defendant found guilty.
S"he State vs. Collins Bellamy
filled with will Elliott in the cut
?# 1
Ig of Mr. I. A. iseii, was conunuea
Li! the next term of the court,
rhe State vs. Will Elliott for highly
robbery was noH-prosscd.
.Morgan Lewis, * a ndgro preacher;
js tried for the killing of a hog* begging
to M. A. Home. I*ola Lewis
in the case with Morgan but the
was dropped as to her. Morgan
js convicted of the crime,
rhe cases against F. O. Bellamy
d others and against Sam Bright
fl others for forcible entry and de[To.r,
were continued.
"he State vs. J. M. Elliott for not
"ping cattle was continued,
fhe State vs. D. A. Lewis for trad|
stock was continued.
Morgan Lewis was sentenced to
If a fine of $250.00 or serve eight
jjnths on the chain gang.
Morris Goodman was sentenced to
tine of $1.00 and a term of 4
inths on the public works.
;>n the following day the court reJ
ed the fine of Morgan Lewis to
I[? so he could raise the money
|fy out.
gun Living's tone was sentenced
ee oaonths imprisonment, susid
upon payment of $100.00
Elliott was sentenced to two
on the County chain gang,
ris Goodman's sentence was
nodified by allowing him to pay
of $100.00 and thereby suslis
sentence of \ months on the
above concluded the business
criminal court for the February
and all of the work was prracKlone
by Thursday night; the
usiness on Friday being the.
of sentence upon several of
iminals who had been tried, and
going of formal orders,
ge H. F. Rice left on last Friftemoon
after remaining in
ly from Monday the opening
f court.
citor L. M. Gasque spent four
of hard and strenuous work in
'oil to dispose .of the cases pend
i tin court. The hardest of his
was done by Thursday night
he left' forborne on the early
last Friday mowing,
ong the cases continued were
I era! agaitfst J. M; Elliott for miivjr
to dip- his'cattle after being
3d to do 's*o'bV the' authorities,
'case wiw continued ' upon the
in ground that the legislature had
ngcd the law since the last ?c3t
so that conviction could be had
ore a magistrate without the de~
causevl by the old act. Elliott i
gihe
FAVOR SMALLER
COTTON DALE
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Commercial Congress Submits
Resolution to Secretary
Houston.
Washington. Resolutions endorsing
economical reforms in the baling
and market of cotton, adopted by the
Southern Commercial Congress, have
been transmitted to Secretary Houston,
of the Department of Agriculture,
and Director General. McAdoo,
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:>f the railroad administration it was
announced today.
An outline of plans by Colonel Har.
vie Jordan, of Georgia, president of
the Southern Cotton Association, and
a member of the board of directors of
the Southern Commercial Congress,
whereby the present system of waste
in the handling and transportation of
cotton might be abolished through
modern methods of gin compression
to secure greater density and a more
uniform bale, accompanied the resolutions.
Greater density in haling would reduce
approximately from 30,000 to
10,000 the number of freight cars required
to transport the crop, it is
claimed.
It is also urged that the federal I
bureau of markets plan an active
campaign of education as to methods
which will better safeguard to the
cotton growers the sampling, warehousing
and financing of the cotton
crop until it Is sold.
GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
NOT ON RESTOF TERMS
W as hingtoxw Further evidence of
growing strain in relations between
Germany ami Austria ovet the refusal
of the latter to participate in the
renewed attack upon Russia is given
in an official dispatch received here
today from France. It quotes the
Austrian premier as foi*mally reiterating
on February 22 that AustriaHungary
will take no part in military
action against Russia or Roumania,
and will not send her troops into
Ukrainia.
The dispatch refers to the meeting
between Emperors Charles and William
February 22 and says there
seems little doubt that a serious conflict
has arisen between the two nations
which Germany is determined
to settle by violent mcasuers if necessary.
MEASLES^ENERAl
TUDMiniJ TUC pnilMTV
I llliuuun I 111. UUUN I I
Enquiries made of people coming
from many different sections of Horry
County, show that measles of the
milder kind are prevalent in almost
all neighborhoods of the county; at
least they have) been common during
the last few weeks in many sections
and the entire territory was, or will
be covered by the disease.
There were several cases noticed
while the court was in session, the
people coming from the country to
attend the proceedings. The disease
is usually called German measles,
though at Camp Jackson we are told
that the same variety is known as
Liberty Measles.
We have yet to hear of any case of
this present trouble making anybody
very sick. Those who have the disease
seem to suffer very little while
the disease is on and they all quickly
recover from them.
Those who have already had the
severer form of this disease are not
ascaping at all. They have the kind
that is now going round just the
srme as anybody, Several cases have
been report**! to the effect that the
subjects never even stopped therr
usual work during the time of the at
tack and also travelled from place to
place over the country, thus no doubt
hetpinj? to spread the disease.
Many cases of the disease have
been ,nopoi't*4 in Conway and usually
the quarantine regulations lvave been
observed.
y I aims to have sold his cattle, while
this is disputed by his neighbors.
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WWW;
CONWAY, SC., THURSDAY,
THRIFT; ARMY, HAS
RERUN SPRING DRIVE
The South Carolina division of
savors is going "Over the top" with
the vest of the country. The United
States Treasury has already received
sixty-five million dollars from the
sale of these little thrift stamps
Sales are now running about two
million dollars per day.
This is equal to the entire cost of
running the Government ten years
ago. |
It is double the receipts of the
Postoffice Department or the Customs
Service before the war.
It is more than double the highest
rate of growth ever reached by th.?
savings banks in this country.
The money now coming in from
War Savings Stamps every day j
would pay for 10,000 tons of shipping.
At this rate it would provide
in a year for three million tons or
more than half the program of the I
Shipping Board.
This money is not given to the
Government; it is merely a loan
from the people which will be repaid
with interest.
Every time you buy a War Savings
Stamp you lay up money to win
the war, and best of all, you release
materials and services which alone
can make possible the supply of necessities
to the boys at the front.
The War Savings Campaign has
just begun. It is already doing so
much, think what it will do when we
really get behind it the way we will
when we appreciate its importance.
This means that those people who
are buying these stamps now are
Teally helping win the war and insuring
their future prosperity.
The Campaign in Horry is showf
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mg an increase of sales daily but
there are many of our people who
are not awake to this opportunity.
Have you, as an individual, contributed
to the raakiag of this wonderful
report If not, join the
ranks.
DRAFT QUOTA
WILL BE SMALL!
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Columbia, Feb. 28.?Governor Manning
stated today that while in Washington
this week he had a' conference
with Secretary Haker, and the fact
was emphasized that South Carolina
would be called upon to furnish not i
more than 5,000 men for a selective
draft service between now and September
1. The plan is to call the men
in small increments, a small quota
each month. Gov. Manning also stated
that, a bill is now pending in Congress
which seems to be gaining* favor,
which would authorize the granting
of furloughs to those doing nec
essary farm labor.
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NOTICE.
The following telegram was received
March from State Food Administrator,
Columbia, S. C.:
D. V. Richards*on,
Conway, S. C.
Suggest flour census be closed
March 10th, so that I may have report
for Washington meeting on the
12th.
Elliott.
Blanks for returning amount of
flour on hand will be forwarded to
the local administrators throughout
Horry County Thursday, March 7th.
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RED CROSS.
Don't forget the regular Red Cross
meeting Friday afternoon. Please
turn in all finished garments to ho!o
fill the monthly box which will b<'
packed Tuesday morning.
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ATTENTION! CONWAY GUARDS
On Friday evening, IGth inst., th<*
regular meeting for drill. Colonel
Henry T. Thompson, Commanding
the Regiment will visit this Company
making an informal inspection.
This visit is quite an honor con*
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ir.rrea upon lis oy tne Regimental
Commander and it is earnestly desired
that every member of the company
be present on Friday evening,
8th inst,, and especially on Friday
evening the 15th inst., at 8 o'clock.
(Signed) Chas. J. Eppx.
Cax>t. Commanding- Co.
7, 1918.
m'Bfr. -r- GRAND
JURY MAP
FINAL PRESENTMENT
f ! t
The* grand jury's final presentmont
last week was read in open
court on Wednesday, all of their
work having been finished by that
time. The report follows:
COURT OK GENERAL SESSIONS
February Term, 1918.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Horry.
Report of Grand Jury.
The Grand Jury, making their
final report to this term of Court,
desires to thank his Honor the Presiding
Judge, and Officers of the
Court for their courtesy and consideration.
1. This Grand Jury notes that the
forme)- Grand Jury were unable to
complete a detailed report on the
financial condition of the County
and recommended that the succeeding
Grand Jury go into the matter
with care. We are inform/??4 Him) Hi ?
General Assembly of the State at its
last session passed a joint resolution
empowering and directing the County
Board of Commissioners to make
an investigation of the Coonty finances
and especially the financial
condition of the school funds of the
County. Our Committee on the conduct
of the County Offices will cooperate
with any investigation and
use its power in aid of such whoreever
the necessity arises. We join
in the recommendation of the former
Grand Jury that sufficient funds oo
borrowed by the County Board of
Education to pay current School
claims and to do all possible to keep
the schools of the County conducted
efficiently.
' 2.?We have received no information
from the County Board of Com
missione.rs relative to the repair and
I rebuilding of bridges recommended
in the ? last Grand Jury's Report.
Members of our Grand Jury repoii
to Us that the Socastee Bridge on the
Waccamaw Road has not boon repaired,
aad Strickland Ford Bridge
Lake Swamp has not been re\y*irc<i.
We request as prompt action
U? fcftfcsible from the County .Board
of Commissioners imon this
| mendation for tlic protection of the
I traveling public.
3.?A committee of this Grand
Jury has- been directed to investigate
the condition of the County Jail.
They report to the Foreman that the
I Jail is wdl conducted and that its
j sanitary condition is good.
4.?We present John "Rogers,
Clyde Rogers, Bert Sarvis, and Sam
Graham, for transporting intoxicating
liquors to a public gathering,
being drunk ar.d disorderly, using
profane language at a public gathering,
and impersonating peace officers
and making arrests without legal
warrants, on or about the 1st day
of Dec. 1917, in Simpson Creek Town
ship. Witnesses: E. C. Suggs, A. E.
Suggs, Charlie Suggs, L. S. Alford,
A. T. Cox, Gorum Boyd.
6.?We present T. J. Cox for conducting
a public nuisance in making
and handling; intoxicating liquors on
or about the 1st day of November at
Hammonds in Simpson Creek Township.
The following are witnesses:
Isaac Dewitt, We'sley Wilson, Silas
Wilson, Lazarus Ford, Joe Cox, Jesse |
To<ld, J. A- Stalvey, Isaac Lewis, and
Homy Mi shoe, Jr.
7.?We present P. K. Watts for
making and selling- beer, wine, and
alcoholic liquors on or about the 1st
day of Dec. 1017 in Simpson Creek
Township, the following are witnesses
: Allen Wilson, Isaac Dewitt, Wesley
Wilson, Silas Wilson, Christian
Wolfe, Lazarus Ford, Daniel Holmes,
J. A. Stalvey and R. F. Todd.
8.?We present R. G. Todd and
Thomas Hard.ee for making and i
selling intoxicating liquors on the 1st
day of November 1917 in Simpson
Creek Township, the following are
witnesses: Martin Faircloth, J. B.
Hughes, and J. Bert Hughes. |
9??Wo present Jesse Chestnut for!
transporting liquor in automobile on |
. the 1st day of Dec. 1917 at Conway
Township, the follow bin are witness
e.s: A)y*vy L. Todd, Frances Todd, an I
Sam Gau so.
Respectfully submitting,
Conway, S.C., ?A. W. Barrett,
Feb. 27, 1.918 " Foreman. *
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Construction. of 12 additional hospital
buildings and about 20 warehouses
at Camp JacJkson, to cost approximately
. $550 ?000, will begin at
once.
jjjtte
IMPORTANT MATTERS
STATED BY BOARD
In Letter From Local Board j
to the Heads of Organizations.
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1AK/AL BOARD FOR HORRY
COUNTY
State of Sou*h Carolina
j Conway, S. C., March 1st, 1918.
Mr. F. A. Burroughs, Chairman,
i Council of Defense,
I Mr. I). V. Richardson, Food Administrator,
Mr. H. W. Ambrose, Chairman, Civilian
Relief Work (Red Cross),
for Horry County, South Carolina,
Conway, S. C.
Cc ntlomen:
Your organizations are in direct
end constant contact with the people :
I i 1
of this County in their relation to our j
burdens in the groat world war j
I.very phase of our relations to the
| struggle for success lies within the
duty to the American Government of
all our organized efforts.
This Local Board of Registration
and Selection for military service,
therefore, has no hesitancy in asking
your aid and co-operation in seeing
to it thftt the several duties to which
registrants have been calted by classification
for service be honestly and
patriotically performed. No one has
been left home as a favor, but to
perform some duty to the Country
now considered paramount to actual
military service.
~. viuo.-i vrur. ikr^kOiidlll.^, ur mow
selected for military service, are not
< xpected to loaf on any job they
iipw have. They should continue
work as if they expected to stay at
home all the year; it is the only patriotic
thing to eh*. Arrangements
may very probably be made fof the
real and efficient farm workers
among them to j&ake a crop this season.
They may dig' and plant; no
honest labor will be lost or. wasted,
i 2. The deferred classes have been
selected for service as fully as has
the Class One men; it is only a dif1
forent service. They liave been selected
to perform, in many instances,
two duties now paramount to them:
(1) to support dependents, as required
by the law* of the land; and (2)
to carry on industrial and agricultural
production as required by the
conditions of the war. These duties
require some extra effort on the part
of honest and conscientious men.
o. Som<> farms are pai*tially dependent
for labor upon persons selected
for military service. Selected
i men, in many cases, will send to
those dependent upon them allotments
of their Army pay to which
will be added allowances by the Government.
Your organization might
aid greatly in seeing to it that disccuragemnt
to farming, by this loss
of labor and by the receipt of outside
money, be not allowed to decrease
production.
Where able bo<iied laborers refuse
to work by reason of receiving allowances
from the Government, this
Hoard will have no hesitancy in taking
each case up with the Federal authorities
in charge with a view to seg
legating the allowance in trust until
after the war.
4. Some registrants, married and
I single, have been left at home to
[ support dependents, largely upon the
ground that necessary farm production
would decrease in their absence;
and some have been, left at home as
skilled farm laborers. Your organizations
would aid greatly by seeing
to it that registrants at home are engaged
wholeheartedly in productive
work.
Any registrant shown by responsible
evvidence to be neglecting >**
I refusing to perform the duties fort
[which he has boon given deferredI
j classification, or moving about from
| place to place without good reason,
or merely engaged in enjoying a temporary
prosperity with extravagance
or by any such acts proving himself
less useful at home than he can tw
made in the Army, will have his
deferred classification revoked immediately
upon proof thereof and ho
will be sent to the National Army.
These conditions the Local Board
inquest your organizations to consider
in connection with your own
work; do not let it interfere. The
Local Board has full authority to re
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LITTLE THOUGHT
GIVEN HERTLING
Japanese Proposal Crowds
Chancellor's Speech Into
Second Place
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PRESIDENT STUDIES * '
QUESTION CLOSELY
Has No Intention of Making
Immediate Reply to
Hcrtling*.
Washington.--Japan's proposal for
mv uimi in oiix-na nas crowded fireman
Chancellor von Hertling's speech into
s> vond place in the consideration of
c t't'icials heed and there were indications
today that decisions were being
formed which soon would show themselves
in some arrangement of an international
character to prevent ties
vast stores at Vladivostok and control
of the trans-Siberian railway
from falling into the hands of the ad*
\aneing Germans.
The expectation that President Wilson
was preparing to address Congress
soon in reply to von Hertling's
speech was dissipated today by evidences
that the Presdient is making
no such plans at this time, ami probably
does not consider it necessary
to reply to the German chancellor, for
the present at least. Before the President
speaks, there doubtless will btt
an interchange of views with Lpndon *
and Paris, so that if 3Pr. Wifaoa
speaks he will express the view of aH
the co-belligerents as on previous
occasions.
Outward indications today Wore
that the President was studying tfce
question of American particfaatfoa
with the Japanese in Siberia W-tito
exclusion of other subjects,
JAPAN SUGGESTS
MOVE IN SIBEHA
Japan has directed inquiries to the
entente powers and the United States
government to test their feelings toward
a proposal to institute joint
military operations in Siberia to sav?
the vast quantities of war supplies,
stored at Vladivostok and along the
Siberian railroad. Criticism at homo
of the failure of Japan to play a larger
part in the war is said to havo
been influential in bringing about the
negotiations.
Officials here refused to discusa
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u.m rtuuject ror puolication but it is
understood that so far as America us
concerned the proposition when first
broached was wholly acceptable,
though the exchanges on the subject
which still are in progress may modify
the government's attitude.
Accumulated at Vladivostok are
military supplies of all kinds, much
oe American manufacture, and eve*
greater quantities of Japanese origia,
delivered long before the Bolshevikd
took possession of the Russian govern
mont, The Stevens commission of
American engineers made exrtaordtnary
efforts to improve the facilities
of the Siberian railroad so that these
stores could bo transported to the
Russian army and much of the accumulation
was removed. The groat
quantities remaining, however, suffer
seriously from deterioration due to
exposure to the weather and otttor
causes.
The chief concern of the allies,,
however, *s the danger that the storea
shall fall into the hands of the Germans,
who may make their deliver?
one of the con<litions of any peace
treaty.
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Moore Thompson, of Little River,
was in Conway on business the first
part of the week.
classify in oases whore the ground
of its difference has ceased to exist;
11 nil pledges itself to use every
sanction of its authority to eoforee
the duties of service required of all
deferred classes.
Very respectfully,
Local Board for Horry County,
Clerk.
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