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I S^VOI?XJBOi XXXV. ot ^V' I^TV^ m rs ^ I B (VI H. rv .8 I s 5^. Ik.7 JLTM. p A T * ji? JL h ^ L 1 Which are Among Those To be Tried Next %r Week LONG STANDING LAND DISPUTE Damage Case Concerning Timber Transaction in Floyds Township Tn our last week's issue there apAppeared a long list of cases to be tried in the Court of Common Pleas next week. An examination of the proceedings in the cases named will disclose that is is not in very many of them that veity large amounts are pihvolved. Some of them concern promissory notes, which were not paid at maturity, or, bank accounts made by merchants or business men who had bad luck and did not pay up even during the flush times immediately following the signing of the armistice. Many of these cases have been on the docket for several years, some of them ever since before the war. Among the important cases on the list are the following: John iV Huggins vs. Georgia Page Price is the third action tfiat has been brought over the title to a tract of- land in Gallivants Ferry I nU 1 n If tn n ltiVCO 1 | |/ ID ll\/v o T VI J tract, but is very valuable and was in possession of the defendant. Mrs. Georgia Page Price, the wife of George S. Price. Mrs. Price was -?%hen the first action was brought, iTi 1908. She was also living when tte fck^cd^nd present action was started, but she died since this last action was brought in the year 1914. The second time that the case was tried the defendant won before Special Judge G. W. Ragsdale and the plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Court. The defendant again won in the Supreme Court, I and after that this present action was brought. The question arising in this case involves an old trust deed made in I860 by Absolam Powell, of Fair Bluff, North Carolina, to J. C. Powell as trustee. Another case of some interest is that of I. C. Alford vs. Butters Lumber Company. "From what we can gather this action involves damages alleged to have been done by the lumber company while cutting off tlie timber from land of the plaintiff. It is expected that this case will bo hard fought from beginning; to end. Still another case of much in-( tevest is that of Hon. W. L. ivi'snoe *4 - I v-r?? (Continued on page 8.) CASES DELAYED ) CLIENTS WORRY Reasons Why Dockets of Common Pleas Are Con- j gested LONG LIST FIXED FOR NEXT WEEKj Attorneys Will Meet Immediate j _?ly After Court and Special Term There has been a just complaint lately about delay. In getting case* 4kf?iicrh th#* court. It has been easy VIII ? during the last several years to get a suit entered but almost impossible to get one tried. Clients have been complaining for some time and they had a right to do it. Under the circumstances this condition could not be helped. For one thing the war work required of the lawyers as well as of the laymen stopped interest in litigation for a year or more; and next the flu came along and caused several terms of the civil court to be postponed. Last year there was a term of the court get for November and a long list of cases fixejl for trial, but when the judge arrived, several of the leading attorneys were indisposed and again there was nothing done. The next term opens here on Monday, April 4th with Judge Memminger presiding. The roster was published in th;n pnp'er in/ its last issue. There is likely to ho a lot of work (I o at this approaching term ne^t week. The situation can be entirely k wlicved by holding a.special term of I r.c court some timc^ fn the Summer; ' and the attorneys have appointed a meeting of the bar to be held* here on Monday morning after cod)rt ?o determine the time 1 of holding this special term for the trial of civil jury cases, and the disposition of equity business and equity cases. Ifr y *( s m BEf , ' w ftV l t W Bir , - B'B" I} SI - : - % / ' < v ' . V V LLJJI !j^L..1 .'.I ALI-'JJL L! UJIL - - -." I HTO OPEN MHJTH Said to Have Been Caused by Applying Caustic Plasters \ to Mole on Lip ' j Mrs. Wm. Johnson, an elderly lady 1 living on the farm of Hon. R. B. i Scarborough in Dog Bluff township, \ has fccjt ~t.<>re than the usual expe- ] rience with 'a cancer doctor. j This wart doctor, as they are some i times called, goes by the name of i Rochelle, and sometime last year was J threatened with prosecution for prac- ' ticing medicine without a license and < soon left but it appears that he had 1 treated Mrs. Johnson for a mole on 1 her upper lip before that, and since then she has visited him over in 1 North Carolina. It is also stated 1 that the bump on the lip would prob 1 ably never have caused her any trouble if she had not interfered with ' it, thus setting up an irritation which < turned it into a cancer, by reason of : application of caustic plasters ap- i plied under directions. The curious part of is that the application of the < plasters combined with the action of the cancer caused her mouth to grow up so there was no opening larger 1 than a lead pencil when she was placed in the Burroughs Hospital last Wednesday for the performance 1 of an operation to open up her mouth. i CASE DISMISSED LONG STANDING \ '* . *v >1 I At the reccnt term of the criminacourt held here two cases against J. T. Everett charging assault with In tent to kill were disposed of without being passed upon by the jury in the usual way, as the Court directed a verdict in favor of the defendant in one of them and then the court, dismissed the other case. J. E. Nicho- ' las, a prominent merchant and farmer, was the prosecutor in both of these cases. To those who did understand the circumstances and the legal aspects of the case, it was impossible to.tel' how the defendant was cleared. The cases arose out of circumstances and occurrences in the spring of 1920, possibly as far back as 1919, when prosecutor had let some of his farming land to defendant under a share crop agreement which would not amount tj a regular lease of the premises and so that the landlord would have the right to control the management or trie piace ana ue entitled to the fruit on the land, and have the right to enter on the prenii >es at any ti;nc; prosecutor said thai ( when he and his son-in-law went out there one day, while Nicholas was talking to defendant, the son-in-law picked a handful of grapes off the grape vine. The defendant did not like this and he came cut with his gun and said that if this was repeated he would kill the party and would shoot if they went in any more, or words to that effect, and it w^is testified that he pointed the gun at Mr. Nichoias as he said these words. The common law was that a condition threat would not amount to any thing, but this meant that it was a lawful condition. An unlawful condition annexed to a threat should not exonerate a defendant in the opinion of many and it is believed that this is the. law at this time. The mistake made was in not placing the contract in evidence to show the exact relations that existed between Nicholas and Everett. FILLING STATION TO GIVE PRIZE The Peoples Filling Station have a half page advertisement in this issue announcing the beginning of a contest, at the end of which the person holding a lucky number will receive a Kelly-Springfield tire and tube free. Every person buying gasoline and oils to the amount of $1.00 or more and paying cash will receive a numbered ticket. These tickets are to be kept by the purchaser until May 1st, and then returned to the station. A number will then be selected and the person holding the corresponding number will receive the tire, and tube free. It doesn't matter what size tire your car carries, or whether it is a truck or touring: car; if you are the winner, you receive a tire and tube toi. fit your car. NEW GARAGE Among the late enterprises established at Loris is ttie brick garage which had an advertisement in last issufi of the paper showing that they v/ill carry Ford parts for the many users of this make of car. This concern is a partnership composed of Messers. A. J. Mi shoe and L. 13. Ca;?ps. ... > I ' ..-U-UJJ-. * 1 , .. JL _J. ^ CONWAY, S C., THURSDAY, HORRY COUNTY Fi DAY A1 Two weeks ago announcements of iorry County Field Day -iuid School Fair were published m tnc county capers and at the same time copies >f these announcements were nailed ;o every school in ("he county. That ist was not complete in that it did lot contain the. prize list for bird >oxes and for the athletic events. Many of the citizens and business louses have been extremely generous n contributing these prizes. Some noney for expenses of the fair is still lacking but we feel that it will je given by those firms whose names :lo not appear on this list as soon as the committee has a chance to ask, their aid. A gold medal will be given to the winner in each of the oratorical contests. These medals are donated 'by Messrs. D. M. Burroughs, H. W. Ambrose, M. G. Andersen and W. A. Freeman. The second prize in each af these contests will be one year's subscription to the Horry Herald, given by Mr H. H. Woodward. We hope that every school in the county will compete for these big prizes which are offered for bird boxes. First prize is $10.00, given by Burroughs Bank & Trust Co.; second prize, 35.00, given by H. H. Woodward: third prize, $2.50, given liw .T r. STII'VPV. "J " "T" ' ' Athletic Prizes. One hundred yard dash? First prize, pair of shoes, by CoxI.undy Company. Second prize, fishing tackle, by Horry Hardware Company. Two hundred yard dash? First prize, baseball mit, by S. P. Hawes. Second prize, cravat, by F. C. Todd. Four hundred yard dash? First prize, flash light, by H. G. Cushman.' Second prize, baseball, by Conway Trading Company. One-half mile race? First prize, one suit, by Conway Bargain House. Second prize, flash light, by Conway Hardware Company. One mile relay race (prize goes to the school)? First prize, set of window shades, by ,Winstead's Furniture Co. Second prize, to be selected^ by Sutherland Furniture Co. Running high jump-? First prize, booK, by Conway Drugj IMPROVEMENT IN CITY SCHOOL Question of Furnishing Carpenter and Blacksmith Shop for Coloreds. At a recent meeting of the trustees of the Conway school district, it was decided to take steps looking toward improvement of the Burroughs High School and with special reference to increasing the capacity of the present building. The plan as adopted provides for a wing on the north end of the building, which will provide four additional class rooms, though it is possible that this plan may be changed so as to increase the capacity of the auditorium and add only two additional class rooms to the building. At the same time it was decided that it was highly desirable to improve the equipment of the school in many particulars. A committee from the trustees was appointed to devise plans for financing the projected changes and improvements. Sewage facilities are being inetnlWl in thA huildiner at this time and the cost of this will be provided I for under the plans suggested by the committee in charge. It was also decided at this meeting to appropriate funds for the erection and equipment of a carpenter and black smith shop for the Conway colored Kigh school. INSPECTOR TO BE IN CONWAY The Chamber of Commerce is in rnr?Ainf nf a fmm Conn rfissman Philip H. Stoll, stating that an inspector of the Post Office Department had been detailed to Conway for the purpose of arranging for more adequate facilities for the Post Office . Congressman StoU's letter follows. "I have been advistfd by the Post Office Department that an Inspector has been detailed to visit Cpnway a-* soon as possible to confer with the lessor ot' fclie post office in regard t > securing an additional room in rear of office. This, it is thought, will provide additional space in lobby sufficient to meet present requirements.' 4 *? r^^Sa - * W^ ^w /> 6S1 Xw cr^) ;^* MARCH 31, 1921. '-m -' "-"" - -- 1 ELD VD SCHOOL FAIR ol?1 v ,i ,?. Company. j?. Second prize, book, by Conway > Drug Company. ttunning broad jump? *Vst prize, Duroc pig, Mr. Gorge Kirtg. becond prize, hat, Gents Furnishing Qompany. Wheelbarrow race? First prize, cap, Goldfinch Dry Goods Company. Second prize, three months subscription to "Life," Piatt's Pharmacy. Girls' three-legged race-Fifst prize, two bottles of toilet water, Horry Drug Company. Second prize, two bowls goldfish. Piatt's Pharmacy. Girls' potato race? First prize, hat, Mrs. J. W. Sparks, Second prize, thoroughbred Brown Leghorn, L. H. Burroughs. Girls' fifty yard dash? First prize, one pound Mnrthn Washington candy, Piatt's Pharmacy. Second prize, sash, F. C. Todd. Pole vault-? Vl'vcf nvi'/o /?vnvnt Q I1 Cncflnun A ? ' V [/I J y \yl ? *.? Vj k/t L UViirtiVUO & Son. Second prize, two pairs sox, Conway Trading Company. Shot put? First prize, Ingersoll watch, J. W. Dawsey. Second prize, shirt, Gents Furnishing Company. One hundred twenty yard hurdle? First prize, pair shoes, One Price Shoe Store. Second prize, belt, Goldfinch Dry Goods Company. Boys Under Fourteen. Fifty yard dash? First* prize, scarf pin, Horry Drug Company. Second prize, pocket knife, Horry Hardware Company. One hundred yard dash? First prize, nickle plated pencil, Piatt's Pharmacy. Second prize, book strap, Conway Drug Company. Parade Prize? School having largest percentage of its total enrollment in the parade wi.ll be /*iven a water cooler by the KfngfltrM Furniture Company. li >\m n <v f li o lifict: flnnt in the parade will he given a globe hy the Peoples National Bank. BIGHAMGUILTY OF MURDER Florence Man Sentenced to Die April 8?Motion for New Trial. Florence, March 28.?Edmund 1). Big-ham, charged with killing hi [brother and four others, was found [ guilty of murder of his brother here^ today and sentenced to die April 8. A Florence County jury came near equaling the record for speedy jus tice in bringing in its verdict in the case of Bigham, charged with the murder of his brother, L. Smiley Bigham, his mother, Mrs. M. M. Bigham. his sister. Mrs. Margie Black, and Leo and John McCracken, the little adopted children of Mrs. Black. The case was given to the jury at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon and at 3:25, following a recess to 3 o'clock, the jury's verdict of guilty of murder I was read to a court room crowded with spectators. Then, after a painful wait of minutes while the clerk of the court searched for the ceremonial of the arraignment for sentence, and an haranque by the prisoner in response to Judge Memminger's question if he had anything to say in his owi\ behalf, the death sentence was pronounced and Bigham knew that he was to die on Friday, April 8, unless the Supreme Court grants a reversal of the verdict on the appeal which Attorney A. L. King announced his j intention to make. o REV. G. E. EDWARDS WILL VISIT HORRY NEXT WEEK In tntercKt of Educational Commission of South Carolina Coni ference. | Kev. Cx. E. ? awards, rormer pastor of Conway Methodist church, who \r now Secretary of the Educat:onal Commission of the South Carolina Conference, will make a tour oJ' Horry County next week and make addresses at Lor is, Wampee, Socas tee, Willow Springs, and Aynor. Full Announcements will he made in the Methodist churches of the county n .1 :'u.ulay. Livery Methodist jn Horry county should hear his address at one of the above mentioned points. -?: '. i!?l ? ? ?COTTON HELD BY ANDERSON Lawyers Engaged in Interest- : ing Magistrate Case The case of A. P. Johnson ajcafftat Beit Anderson was tried in the Magistrate's Court last Thursday be- 1 fore a jury and took up the create? part of the day. Johnson had a bill of sale on a mule and bale of cotton and took out claim and delivery papers and sent there and #ot the mule and cotton, but the cotton was not taken from the man who had executed the bill of sale but from Bert An derson, who claims the cotton for rent, The contest was between A nderson and Johnson over the rljyht to the cot ton and Anderson nrevai cmi ?p. his motion to be made a party in t'\e claim and delivery suit. Both side.* were venvesenteri hv ntt vn^v? whn made long speeches and argued every inch of the way throughout the case. A jury composed of Conway business men considered the matter in a few minutes and returned a verdict in favor of Anderson and he went off with the cotton. REPORT CONWAY CIVIC LEAGUE Covering Work by This Organization From June 1920 to March 1921. Last June the Civic League gave a silver tea, thereby, greatly improving the financial status; all debts were paid and a sum of $30.00 left in the'treasury with which to begin work in October. j At the October meeting the League decided its work for the winter should ^be an effort to beautify the grounds around the .court house, and some definite improvement of the school grounds. The first step! toward the culmination of either of these aims was the meeting of the League's committee with the county commissioners, which resulted in an endorsement of the committee's plans and financial support of offered to begin work with. This work was put in the lianas of Mr. W. O. Davis, Demonstration Agent, who has made a landscape plan for the grounds, but has not been able to get the ground plowed yet. The second aim, some improvement! on the school grounds, demanded the accumulation of funds. To this end the League served dinners during] the county fair ajid cleared approximately $375.00, $100.00 of which is now being invested in a play-ground equipment, which, through the efficient work of Mrs. M. J. Bullock, will comprise much more than could he bought for that sum, as most of it will be home-made. Realizing that serving meals is the League's best way to accumulate money, $lf>0.00 has been invested in equipping the kitchen that '"os given by the town council. The Conway Chamber of Commerce has also co-operated beautifully with the League, calling on it to serve three large dinners. On returns for these and various smaller courtesies shown by the Chamber of ?Commercei and the Town Council, the League gave a very successful informal reception in the town hall the first of January. The League has just finished a Better Baby Contest and awarded $10.00 to the best Conwav bahv en tered. The League keeps the rest room in a clean, sanitary condition, and the little park in the center of Main street had $45.00 spent on it, and .is now a thing of beauty. In the last year the League has grown from a membership of thirty-five to seventy, and from an average attendance to monthly meetings of I twelve to twenty-five. PROMINENTMEN TO VISIT HORRY; The Presiding Elder of the Marion District and Rev. G. E. Edwards, | Conference Secretary of the Board, nf KdilPJitinn will mnlrn nn itinnviiw of the pastoral charges in Horry county as follows: Loris, April 5, at Lor is Church'. Conway Circuit, April at Poplar Church. Little River April 7, at Wampee. Waccamaw, April 8, at Socastee Church. Bucksville, April 0, at Willow Springs Church. * s Aynor, April 10, at AyViOr Church. All-day services will bo held in each of these charges. Rev. G. E. Edwards will be favorably. remembered as a former pastor at Conway. His itinerary will be a source of pleasure to his many friends throughout the county. , NO. 50. ^ WHO KNOWS THIS I MAN PETERSON ? Seems to Be Wanted Somewhere For Drawing Checks SHERIFF KNOWS NOTHING AT ALL Negro Named Peterson is not the Man Mentioned in News Item Many people, have asked the Sheriff of Horry County in the last few days for information about a man named R. P. Peterson. Interest in this has been caused by the appearance of an item in the Colombia State of March 22nd in which it was said that requisition papers had been issued by Governor Cooper for the return to this county of Peterson, under charges of issuing worthless checks and obtaining cattle and merchandise by false pretenses and stating that he had been located in North Carolina and that the requisition had been requested of Governor Morrison and the article went on to say that Peterson had issued many checks of no value and that his home was in Green Sea, Horry County, and t.hat Sheriff Lewis had been requested to go after him and bring him back. An investigation at the Sheriff's office shows there was no nroof of t hr? nrtiVl#* nnh. lished ;ir the Sheriff knows nothing about Peterson and lias never heard the name, let alone the handling of a warrant against him. Inquiry made recently at the office of W. H. Chestnut reveals the fact that there is no criminal shown on the records in his office except a colored man by the name of Peterson, and who could not possibly fill the description of the alleged R. P. Peterson. Inquiry from other people fails to bring out any facts substantiating the report. ? o OLD PUBLICATION SKNT TO HERALD DiVvL Sf Dusenbury has sent to the Herald office a copy-of Harper'* weekly, published ov. October 30th,. 18(>i>. It contains some very inter/ est nig reading, among the articles bc'ng an account of the vile murder of a family of six persons in England. The publication is embelished with engravings, the best that could fie produced in the world at that time, aifd of course nothing to compare with the halftones that can be made so rapidly and are in -such com mon use in the newspapers of today. 1 'commissioner a CONWAY VISITOR Tries to Interest Somebody in Building Cotton Warehouse I . * ; POTATO STORAGE ALSO IMPORTANT I j Should Farmers Expect to Make Money They Ought From Potatoes. W. Ti. Mi shoe was in Conway recently accompanied by Mr. H. If. Frier, Deputy State Warehouse Commissioner, an<i spent the entire day in Conway, trying to interest some of the business men in the building of 11 * % a cotton warenouse here in time to take care of the cotton now stored at the tobacco warehouses. It is not possible for us to state at this time the success that MrMi shoe's efforts may have. It certain that such an enterprise la .needed, for all the cotton that is now beinp: held at the tobacco warei houses must be disposed of, no matter what the price may be, before the time for the opening of the tobacco market. There may be those I who will be able to take care of their | cotton otherwise than by .selling It, , but even this will add to t.hA av. . pense of keeping the cotton and thus reduce the price received for it in j the end. In addition to a cotton storage j warehouse at Conway, and perhaps v other points in the county, we should have several sweet potato storage warehouses, and until these are provided there will bo no way for farmers to make tho money that can he made from raisin ft' sweet potatoes. o . jgj SCARBOROUGH TO MOVE LAW OFFICII 'v Hon. It. B. Scarborough will cccu* py law office# in one of the new Spivey buildings until he can finish an office building on his own vacant lot near the town hall.* . V J