The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 31, 1921, Image 1
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.'
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VD SCHOOL FAIR
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,?. 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.
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REV. G. E. EDWARDS WILL
VISIT HORRY NEXT WEEK
In tntercKt of Educational Commission
of South Carolina Coni
ference.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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ALSO IMPORTANT
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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
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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.
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SCARBOROUGH TO
MOVE LAW OFFICII
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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.*
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