The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 29, 1920, Image 1
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"VOLUME XXXV.
THREE ROBBERS
LEAVE CONWAY
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Early Tuesday Morning of
Last Week .Abandoning
> Stolen Auto
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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OONWAY, S. a, THURSDAY,
TOBACCO MARKET
SHOWING UP WELL
Crop Late in Being Marketed
Owing to Lateness of
Crop
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. '
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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.
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USE CHLOROFORM
Taking Press Currv's Automobile
and Money From Him
Last Week
CAR BROUGHT HERE
LEFT AT WAREHOUSE
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Curry Came to Conway Last
Thursday and Claimed
His Car
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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.
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big oak tree
is taken down
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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.
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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.)
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Come to us when in need of deeds
or mortgages of real estate.
negroInjwl
on heinous charge
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Chased White Child Along'
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Public Road Last Sunday
Morning
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NEGRO DELIVERED j
I AT COUNTY JAIL
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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
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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.
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NO. 15.
OUR HORRY FAIR
WILL BE HELD
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Exhibits to Show Progress
County Has Made Along
All Lines
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COMMITTEE WORKING
WANTS COOPERATION
Board of Directors Will Consist
of One Member From
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Each Township
The Chamber of Commerce of
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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.