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BH ? * ? if ... ?! "VOLUME XXXV. THREE ROBBERS LEAVE CONWAY | Early Tuesday Morning of Last Week .Abandoning > Stolen Auto I WENT TO GEORGETOWN < IN HIRED AUTOMOBILE Descriptions of These Men Sent to Paper For Publication. Since another news item was written for this week's issue concerning the robbery of Preston Curry, other facts have been learned. Preston Curry arrived last Thursday morning and identified the Ford touring car which had been ]eft by the robbers near one of, the warehouses in Conway. The three men, judging by the description i n*.. r' .! ; l ;.. n. .. kivtn uy mr. \/urry, arrivuii ill vahi way on Monday nijrlit after the crime. It is believed they came to Conway with the stolen r some time after dark. EaHy Tue day mornintr they hired a car from a Mr. Bellamy, who is crusaded in t' e transfer business, aid raid him $li>.00 to take them to Georgtown. Bellamy st.ates that ho dro"e them to Georgetown, that the*/ loft the car where the G' orgetown and "Western Railroad tracks cross' front Street. They p.*iid him fov the trio and he had nothing further t > do with them. Last Thursday, complete descriptions e*" the three men were sent to the Columbia State, and by telegrams a number of towns in Sout^ r'ovolina. The description as sent out, follows; One, slim build, dark co'^pl^x'on, darl hr'r. daik s"it, six feet hiprh. One, stocky build, about 5 feet, $ inche?. red-faced beard unshaven for a few davs, a little sandy; licrht hair, foreign accent, dark gray sui\ weight about 160 pounds and has a pistol. Oro. 1 icrht completion, li^ht hair, weight 1(>0 pounds, liprht green suit. A* remembered, all wore tan shoes, caps, and were clean shaven Two wore armv shirts. one had striped s.uit. They had a lar^e black "^rip" about 20 inches lon^. MRS. J,T7BELLAMY HAS PASSED AWAY m m r m m m -mw mmm mv w m m w m m Mrs. Joseph T. Bellamy died on Wednesday, July 21st, after a linger ingr illness lasting about eivht months. She is survived by two brothers, Joseph M. Cox, of ftammond. S. C., and Nee*Iham J. Cox, of Allsbrook, S. C.. also two sisters. Mrs. Joseph M. Hardwire, of Loris, S. C., and Mrs. B. H Harrelson, of Tabor, N. C., and by one son, N. C. Adams of Conway, now fiTing the position of auditor of Horry County. She had reached the age of sixty-four years. The interment took place on July 22nd, 1920, at Salem church. Mrs. Bellamy was married twice. She was first' manned to M. C. Adams, originally from Morehead City, N. C. Mr. Adams died in the year 1887, leaving his widow end one son, N. C. Adams, surviving him. In the year of 1897 she was married to the late Joseph T. Bellamy, of Conway. o W. J. Hendricks, of the Cedar Grove section, spent some time in j Conway last week attending the (opening tobacco sales. auctionIompany Will XFII IANn % The readers of The Herald will find running- in the paper a large advertisement of The Pee Dee Realty & Auction Company setting forth the unusual facilities that this company has for cutting up larg^ tracts into lots and soiling them at auction. Mr. W. F. I- I'' \s the active manager oi this .auction company and they will be glad to an wer correspondence and will look over any tracts of Horry land the owners would like to have disposed of at a good price. Mr. J. N. Martin, formerly of this County, but now engaged in the business in Marion, is one of the officials of this land company. Mr. Martin is well known to the business men and well to do farmers around Conway. t > . (Che LEE-HARDWICK CASE NOT YET DECIDED There was a hearing before the Clerk of the Court on Thursday of last week in the case of Isaac L. Lee vs. E. Hamp Hardwick and a number of other defendants. This is a chse of foreclosure. The defendant, Mr. Hardwick, sets up the defense of payment, while some of j his brothers, who arc also defend- j ,ants with him, set up a claim in the property. It developed in the testimony that the land on which Mr. E.'Hamjp Hardwick gave the mortgages, two in number, to Mr. Lee had be^n allotted to l)im by his father, but he had no title at the time; that he still has no title for the two fifty acre tracts claimed under the mortgage, but the title is now claimed as being in Mrs. Hardwick under a deed made to her by the brothers of Mr. Hardwick. The ease; evident! v h;is cotnnli cations and was not .concluded last week. The- hearing will be con tinued at somo future time to be fixed by the Referee. russmoTstore has been closed * Owing to the Death of the Seribr Member o; tho Firm WILL SELL STOCK a rr t n d aim hot -iov Ml I Lll MUUJO 1 lOt Mrs. Effie Russ Applies for Letters of Administration. The store of Russ Brothers, was closed up last week and will remain closed until after August 1st, and then the stock of merchandise will be sold out from day to day until the whole of it has been disposed of. The senior member of the fiim of Russ Brothers was killed by George L. Marsh on July 8th, under the circumstances which were detail ed'in a recent issue of this paper. Since then the widow of Mr. Russ has applied for letters of administration on the estate of the deceased. The surviving member of the firm is Mr. Hudson M. Russ. His friends were anxious that he should c ntinue th? mercantile business in which himself and brother had been /VA l^/\M r. I uu^a^vu iui nu indiiy out | the surviving member has declined to continue the business under the j circumstances, and for that reason the stock of merchandise will be sold out after August. 1st, and the affairs of the business finally wound up. Mr. Hudson Russ will doubtless engage in a mercantile business of his own, either here or in some other town, but his intentions in that respect have not been ascertained. willTurner 7 LODGED IN JAIL Referring to some negroes who recently escaped from the State Penitentiary, one of them named Will Turner appeared at Allen, S. C., and w,as apparently suffering from a severe wound in the head. The mill physician of the Trexler Lumber Company was called to attend him. A gash in the sea1;) was s*nved up. While Dr. Burroughs was doing this work he recognized the points of description as published in The State, .and as a result, the ne gro was arrested at Conway l;?st Monday, and was lodged in the Horry County Jail. There is a ivward for this convict. H-MAYOSAfflliSFOR MAGISTRATE Anions the cards .appearing in thi3 veek's issue *of The Herald is one announcing the candidacy of Mr. H. Mayo Sarvis for Magistrate for Bayboro Township. Mr. Sarvis has nev6r been a candidate in the Primary before so far as our records show. For many years he has been devoting himself entirely to the development of his rapidly growing roal efcta*e and farming business, which is now amon^ the mo >t successful in Bayboro Township. H<5 would make h goo.l Magistrate if elected. M orr f ? OONWAY, S. a, THURSDAY, TOBACCO MARKET SHOWING UP WELL Crop Late in Being Marketed Owing to Lateness of Crop \ The Conway Tobacco Market showed satisfactory pi ices last week considering the quality of the product sold. There was not a " very large quantity of tobacco offered for sale on the warehouse floors last weelc, but this is owing, in the opinion of all, to the fact that the crop is late in maturing. Another reason was the rain. The frequent rains stopped the picking of the leaves so that the crop has not been marketed as rapidly as it might have been. There were sales every day last week after the opening, except on Saturday. Pr.ices ranged about 50c per pound last Friday, although none a/ a 1 l?i. _ r ti ? i \>i i/iit; ucm ux nm crip wppvureu on the floors. In the opinion of everybody the tobacco crop is turning out as well as they had hoped, perhaps better. W. A/PRINCE TELLS HIS STAND I take this method to thank my many friends who supported my nomination so loyally for the House of Representatives in the Free Range Convention bn last Saturday in Con way. I If elected I shall endeavor to serve the ent:?^ people of the Independent Republic. II I shall see to it that the public school system shall be well cared for. I favor term extension, and hope for the day when our boys and girls may be as efficiently taught as any in the State. III I stand for better roads. The time has come wh< n we no longer need to cross swollen streams on the old time flat and carry heavy | loads through the mud and over I dangerous bridcres. IV As ro the Stock law, I wish to state that I have ever contended that the people should decide this question for themselves ,at the ballot box, and since this arrangement has been made by the Executive Committee, I shall abide by the results. , These and other important questions will be discussed more fully from Ihe stump. W. A. PRINCE. L^ris, S. C., July 26, 1920. Adv. TOWtrSHOULD^ ADVERTISE STOCK There is one thing which has help ed more than any other to make the Town Ordinance regarding" the impounding of stock more hateful to farmeYs near the corporate limits, than luch laws otherwise would liave been. It seems that the Ordinance of the Town of Conway uses the antiquated method of ad vertising this stodk for sale by posting notices at a few places in the Town. This was doubtless the way it was done about on6 hundred years ago before there were any newspapers in which such things could be advertised. As it -is, itwould appear to be easy for a farm er near the corporate limits to lose his valuable blooded stock, which might wander into Town and be sold without his notice, unless he happen ed tc see the notice posted on a 1^1 1. ? 1 _ . < 1 i ? iciegrapn poie. ino iarmer nas tne j time to lose running all around the < town to see if his stock has bern advertised for sale. The coming of the stock law will make a differs ence but will not remove the necessity of advertising* the stock :it least one week in some newspaper. S'ch a change, we think, is due to the I people. HAS m MELONS FINE TOBACCO TOO J. P. Cooper last Monday ma''e The Herald Gflfice a present of th largest watermelon that any of the force has seen this year. It measured 42f> inches long by 10 inches in diameter. Mr. Cooper has a very fine crop of watermelons planted in a o-^efourth acrc field, and recently t ur of them weighed 190 pounds, the four weighe 1 together. Mr. C oner's place is located at Cedar Grove Church in the Pee Dee section. Ha nas some ot to nnosi land in H rry County, which is proved by the fact that some days ago he sold the pvimings from a two acre crop of tobacco weighing in all 146 pounds and whifch bi ought him ' 48 cents per p-iind. * * I - m w n w K ' m r jr JP JULY 29, 1920. JOHNSON INJURED BY ELECTRICITY Completes Circuit by StcpDincj on Iron Cover of Man . Hole Wait us Johnson, son of Charlie Johnson, was injured by electrci current last Thursday night. He was unconscious for some time, but received medical attention, and on Friday morning, was reported as being" up and on the street. About eleven o'clock Thursday night Mr. Johnson was standing near the Pastime Theater and was playing with the loose chain which hangs down by the pole and which is used for lowering an arc light. While swinging this chain backward and forward he stepped on the iron cover of a man-hole near by. At the instant that he stepped on the metal an electric current passed through his body, and for sometime he could not move, and his hand was burned to the bone. After some seconds of time the cur rent seemed to <cause a contraction of the muscles in the legs, causing* his feet to come up froiu the ir.rn cover, and when they did, he fell to 'the ground unconscious. He was taken to the home of his cousin. Till Johnson, wl'ere lie received mod ical attention. The injured man is about twenty-one years of .utre, an ! held a position at one of the ware houses here. ' o Houses are still short in Conway, one family last v.oek cc.uld not move into Conway because there was no cottage they could rent to live in. threFrobbers USE CHLOROFORM Taking Press Currv's Automobile and Money From Him Last Week CAR BROUGHT HERE LEFT AT WAREHOUSE i Curry Came to Conway Last Thursday and Claimed His Car | On Monday of last week, three I men got off the train at Mullins,f and after knocking abont the streets for a time, hired Press Curry, who runs a transfer business, to take them in a Ford touring car to Fair Bluff. They got into the machine with Curry, and when they, had crossed the Lumber Kiver " into Ho*ry County, and were not far from the North Carolina State line, they found some excuse for having Curry stop the car. "When Curry turned around one of the men had a pistol drawn on him and, although, he offered to give them all the money, or anything else that he had, they took him into the woods and gave him chloroform. Curry slept for about two hcur? before he awoke from the effects [ of the drug. His car was gone and | t.he men with it. He did not know j Jthe "names of any of those men and the only way he can identify them is by seeing them, if he ever dce?. I A day or two ago, after this Oc- j currence, a Ford touring car was discovered near one of the tobacco warehouses here, with the top gone and other signs of hard wear. It remained in the rain for two or three days, not claimed bv anv body until Thursday mominpr, CurJ ry arrive*! in Conway and said that it was his car. W. E. STROUD 1 FOR SUPERVISOR The office of Township Supervisor grows in importance as population increases .n.rwl hottor rn?rl? become more important. W. E. Stroud announces in this issue of the paper his candidacy for that position in Simpson Creek Township. He is one of the successful farmers of tho All brook soct:on and is no doubt fully aequain'ecl with tbo needs of the roads in his Township. "> pf \ * big oak tree is taken down ? V# Workmen were engaged several clays last week in getting down a large oak tree which has stood for many years at the coiner of the Quattlcbaum building, where that property joins the lots of Col. D. A. Spivey. When the building of Mr. Quattlebaum was erected abiAit ten years ago, a portion of the roots of this tree had to be taken out to make room I for the foundation. The trunk of t the tree was loft and it was not j injured in its growth, apparently, [ by the wall that was placed close | to its tap root. Now that a brick building is I about to go up on the adjoining! lot the tree has to go and the ' shade that it made will go with it. i stateIandidates ftnnMPAA UAWmnA AUUIttSS VUltnoj Better Audience Than Met Them in the Other Counties. I * I he candidates for State offices | c.'ime to Conway on last Monday,July 20t.ii, in accordance with the' published schedule. The County Chairman, Mr. E. J. I Sherwood, presided at the speaking. | The speeches were delivered in j tho Courtroom and not upder the j cak trees as was formerly done. Several candidates stated that I tli?9y had the best audience at Con- j way of any "that had met them while engaged in the present campaign.! Tho unnoi'lir.u muln K,? ' I ? .. ~ ^?#^x/v?>vki iiic*viv/ ut> uii; v#.nniidates were composd mainly of repi- j tition of the different views held by j them on the questions involved, and which has boon reported in news items in this paper following the campaign meetings in other Counties. Following is a list of the candidates for the different offices and the-length of time given to each at the meeting last Monday: Lieutenant Governor, 20 minutes with three to close. Capt. O. K. Mauldin, Greenville; Wilson G. Halve y, Charleston; Octavus Cohen, Charleston. Railroad Commissioner: 15 minutes, with to close. R. L. Moss, Richland County; I). M. McCaskill, Kershaw County; D. L. Smith, Colleton County; F. W. Shealy, Lexing .ton County (the encumbent.) Adjutant General: 15 minutes, with 3 to close. . Col. A. H. Marchum. Orangeburg, and Gen. W . W. Moore, Barnwell, (the encumbent.) m * Come to us when in need of deeds or mortgages of real estate. negroInjwl on heinous charge __ Chased White Child Along' : Public Road Last Sunday Morning I NEGRO DELIVERED j I AT COUNTY JAIL I Solomon Brown Has Been in Trouble Before in the Horry Courts. | " A negro man, Solomon Brown, , chased a young white girl, nine I years of age, along the public ro,a'l near Bear Swamp, last Sundav ! about ten o'clock. He tried to halt I the child and threatened her with a ' stick. Sho iv-in homo scared almos. to doath, and her father canturod the negro with his gun and with th 1 aid of a neighbor, after tra.-kng hit . through a swamp, and the ne<*ro was lodged in jail the same day. The matter was kept (i".i bu: there were no threats of a riot or - - ? ? 1 in"" viviv:iiv;c SU I ill* il* I'OUKI DC learned. This negro has been in trouble quite often and has seivcd a sentence in the chain gvung for house breaking" and larceny. It. appears that he has no regular employment and vas wandering abcu the neighborhood when this occurred. t \ ' NO. 15. OUR HORRY FAIR WILL BE HELD % Exhibits to Show Progress County Has Made Along All Lines * COMMITTEE WORKING WANTS COOPERATION Board of Directors Will Consist of One Member From # Each Township The Chamber of Commerce of ' * Conway recently began a movement for the holding- of a County Fair this fall. A committee consisting of D. A. Spivey, J. B. Cox. C. H dley, W. O. Davis and L?. D. Mag-rath was appointed to consider nnd determine if the Fair might be "hold. The Committee met recently and organized by electing D. A. Spivey as Chairman. C. Hedley as Secretary and A. H. Long, Treasurer. and the following were appointed as manager; of the various departments of the County Fair. ' arm Department, W. O. Davis; Education, M. J. Bullock; Health, Mis? Nin.i Passer; Home Demonstration Mi:-*' Thomas, Livestock, F. G. Holi day; Publicity, L D. Vl.a;?rath. .J. O. Norton and H. H. Woodward; Bcv^d of Premiums Committer. ' B. Cox. It has bcon decided that- the Board of Directors of the Fair shall be composed of a member from each township to be chosen at the next meeting*. Although, starting late, it is the purpose of the committee to hold a Fair that will show to the best .advantage the progress that Horry County has made along all lines. The Committee begs for the cooperation of every one and. in the opinion of the committee, every cit1 izen should feel that the success of ! the Fair depends upon him or her. J Plans are being made on a larg^ scale and efforts will be made to have exhibits in every department that will be both interesting and instructive. BEATY-ANDERSEN. News reached here this week of the marriage of Miss Juanita Beaty to Mr. Ehrich Andersen at Duncan Church in Georgetown, South Carolina on last Saturday, July 24th, at three P. M. Mi ss Beaty is the daughter of Mr. John S. Beaty, the well-known, and one of the leading, business men of Georgetown. Mr. Andersen is the son of lfr^ and Mrs. Ole Andersen of Conway and is a brother of Mr. M. G. Andersen. B, L. BUFFKIN FOR MAGISTRATE Mr. B. L. Buffkin placed his card in our issue of last week announcing himself as a candidate for Mar istrate in Bayboro Township. Mr. Buffkin filled the position *>f ! Constable under Magistrate W. M. Grantham in Floyds Township far one and one-half years, and this perience has made him competent | for the office he is asking. He has j never been a candidate for office I before. He is a young: man about I twenty seven years of a#e, owns I one of the best farms in the Bayi boro section of the County. His J farm this year is planted in tobacco, I corn and other crops, and these arc I as ?fij\e crops as are to be found in | that neighborhood. f. mTryant runs FOR SUPERINTENDENT ^ F. M. Bryant came out int lis week's issue a? a candidate for the office of Supei irter.dent of Kducation of Horry CouMy. He is a son of the late I'Y rd !) Dryant of th? Marion Bar, and w' o w.-is in his time one of t' " r^t known awl most successfui u^orneys in thh section of the State. He is a colj lege graduate and fully competent j from learning and experience to fill this office for which he has nvide his announcement. He has t?uarht in the common schools >f Horry County and by means of this should understand the needs of such schools. He has also filled the oosition of principal in the high school of Marion County.