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i VOLOME XXXVI. THREE WIVES NOW REPORTED I Claiming, or May Claim Estate of George F. Prince FIRST WIFE AND CHILDREN WILL APPEAR Located at Factory "Town in ' State of N. 0.?Will Claim The Estate. George A. West has boon appointed as administrator of the estate ofl (loor^o l'\ Prince, the man who wa I killofl l.?' > > . uiwi^dii i of hi , some months |' ago. Morgan Todd was trio<l for this i * killing at the March term of the court' 1 of general session, r.ntl convicted of manslaughter, and is now serving lii-< sentence of several years on the pub- ' lie works. That this case came indeed from a ' dark corner of Horry county is evi- ( denced by the history of the deceased. i as brought out by rccent investigation to determine the heirs at law who * are entitled to his estate. ( According to the facts as related j by the administrator, the deceased had been married, or rather reputed ( to have boon married three times. 1 Soon after the appointment of the ' administrator, some articles of house ) hold furniture were divided up among those living in this' county claiming 1 to be his heirs at law, to wit, his last ( wife and children. At that time it J was not known that his first wife; was still living. Since the division took place the first wife and her two chiI - c dren have been located in tlm State of ' North Carolina, and the administrator now has in his possession a letter ' addressed to him by this first wife, * and in which she states that she will s be here with the children in a short ^ time to claim her lights an the only lawful wife of Prince. In the mean T time the administrator will see about ^ receovering th<> personal Dvonerf.v j*- '% irow those who have it now claiming as heirs of Prince. t No information lias been gained as to the whereabouts of the second \ family referred to, but it seems that it was the third family of Prince who were at first thought to be entitled to the estate. Besides tlio personal propertv referred to the deceased left a tract land of eighteen acres which will also i: doubtless fall to the rightful wife and !N children now living in the State of 5 North Carolina. DIMERY"CASE ' TO HIGH COURT >; I. Row Among Branches of Dark 'v Skinned People in <i Dog Bluff. T~ tl 1 he Causey Dimery case was con- j| eluded before Magistrate W. H. Client s nut last 1 hursday. This was a pre- e I i mi nary investigation c? f a charge of tl assault with intent to kill against Dimery, some weeks ago, in the hear' <1 of the Dimery and Turner neighbor- fi hood in Dog Bluff township [] In that neighborhood the Dimeries ti and their derivities live most exclu- }, sive lives . They are mixed as to race, \[ claiming that they have Indian blood Si in their veins. Some of them are n' quite dark skinned and for that reason a few white men have been prosecuted in times past for having married into the Dimery family, on the groiind " of alleged Etheopian blood in the poo- (J. fie. Whether they are mixed with ^ ndian or something else does not c! seem to be exactly provable at this time, and it is doubtless without mem- ls ory of the oldest inhabitants, as to ^ where the people came from origin- " ally, or what they claimed to be, as to A race characteristics, at that time when they were new in this county. This cause which was investigated ^ by the magistrate court was a row be- h< tween the Dimery family of these 1() people and the Turner family. It el started with a row along thn public at road according to the witnesses and si ended on the public road . After hear- Si ing the evidence, the magistrate M hound Causey Dimery over to the B court of general sessions, which will Pi convene here with J.udge S W. G. tl1 Shipp, presiding, on the 4th Monday D in May, 1921. tli #--o G MAY PAVE ALLEY. Thp flllov vniHiino' 11 o t unnn 1'^ - V. wv ? ?? v\ M I l(?U ^ 1 Pharmacy arid Conway Hardware Co. '* i has not yet been ' paved throughout ' its entire length, as property owners ,K were.uilking of doing. Uecdhtly it sl was reiimorod that A. C. Thompson P1 would erect a brick building on the site of the warehouse now standing le along one side of the alley, but if vi ho does this it will interfere with the M good condition of the alley while M the work is going on. For this rr-' so'n, perh'^ps,/the citizens have decided to wait until his new building se shaH be completed before concluding hi their paving operations. al CLOSE STORE UNDER EXECUTION Aynor Pharmacy Files Petition in Bankruptcy Following Action STORE'AT AYNOR NEW BUILDING Some of the Stock Holders ao Mullins, South Carolina. The Aynor Pharmacy was closed last wool: by the sheriff of the county under several executions. Three of the different creditors of the concern are located in Wilmington, N. C. Among them, the E. L. Mathews' Candy Company brought action some! Lime ago against the drug store on! .1. j i < 11 in s uj^roniitinK something over; ?500. Judgments were entered up :>f these at the recent term of the) :ourt and executions delivered to the sheriff immediately afterwards. Following the closing of the store it Aynor, the company, which is in-j jorporated, is said to have employed ittorneys and filed a petition in nmkruptcy, sending this to the clerk | >f tin? Unite<l States District Court it Charleston. In about fifteen days hey will doubtless be adjudged aj mnlcrupt under the Federal law::.' rheir case will be referred to ai (ofiM'co and all creditors of the .con-* 'em will file their claims with him.! \ majority of the creditors will elect; i trustee, who will give bond and ,ake over the real property of the oncern and handle it for the beneit of the creditors. ; This concern did business in a new uilding completed recently by Dr. I .J. Rogers. Some of the leading tockholders in the business, we unlerstand, are located at Mullins. VIOTH ERSMNIEETixt/^ ?xt /vwtiit a n>u im WAY ( 1 I Vill Be Held at the Conway , Methodist Church on May 5th 1 Kvery baby's mother in Conway I; s urged to attend the CommunityP lothers' Meeting on Thursday, May; , at 4 o'clock. "Mow to Keep the Baby Well Dur-j! iiic the Summer" is the vital sub-jj eet of an address ?.\l this meeting. { This Community Mothers' Meeting;, *ill be one of 100 similar meetings; i various conUrs of the stato to b?- ? old in the interest of the. "Save the) laby" can paign of the Children's': Veek Committee of tlie State Sun-j ay School Association, which is! eaded by Dr. I). Lesesne Smith. The;1 mrpose of the campaign is to savoilie babies lives by giving scientific L lformation on their cares, and tobj ave them for the Sunday School bvjt moiling them for membership in ' lie Cradle lioll. c 200,000 babies in the United States j ie each year before reaching their } irst birthday. South Carolina leadsjs lie country in its rate of infant mor- c ality, losing 113 out of every <1,000 v abies during their first year of e fe. Most of these babies could be b Lived by more knowledge added to d lother's love. t ?' II ? ~ yvui oiiwy received its Cradle r, :oll credential ?"'sis the question the o lothers of Conway are to be asked ? uring International Children's Week, h lay i-7, according to Mrs. Bullock, (l immunity chairman of the "Save v le Baby" campaign. Our community i to take part in the "Ten Thousand ? radio Koll Membership campaign of " le South Carolina Sunday School ssociation and an effort will be made V enroll every baby under four for ^ lembership upon some Cradle Roll. 4 his campaign for Cradle lioil mem- ^ srship will be made by Mrs. Bui- j1 >ck and an efficient corps of work- " 's. Each baby will be given an Ltractive "Cradle Roll Credential," gned by Mrs. Rufus Fant, of thep Late Federation of Women's Clubs; a frs. Ruth A. Dodd, of the State 8 ureau of Child Hygiene; Leon C. Eilmer, general superintendent of le State Sunday School Association; g r. D. Lesesne Smith, chairman of ( ic "Save the Baby" campaign, and overnor Robert A. Cooper. The stub of the credential is to 3 carefully filled out with the iby's name, date of birth, name/of unday School preferred, mother's ? une, address, and given to the e iperintendent of the Sunday School ^ "eferred. The mother is to be given a leaf- if t on the care of the baby, and in- t ted to the Community Mothers' tl eeting which will be "held at *hc ethodist Church May 5. b o tl Fishermen had good luck tl 10 past a veral weeks. Fish appeared to be %v ingry and ^therefore woull bite at a most any kind of bait. ei / P orv CONWAY, S. 0 . THURSDAY HOlillY ROADS FAST BUILDING According to Plans Which Willi Be Matured by the Board MYRTLE BEACH j ALSO TO TABOR And Port Harrelson Arc Coming' for Their Share of Better Travelling. .The public road from Red Hill to Wocastee has about been finished as I forces of road hands and machinery! will arrive at Socastee within the next I one or two days. Between Socastee and Myrtle Beach the Myrtle Beach Farms Company undertook sometime ago to place that end of the road in mood condition. They have been at work for sometime, and have wid- j ened the road, i.llcd in ditches, ar.d cut drains at proper places along the way, so that end of the highway is now about as good as it can be, and will be entirely finished up in good time fo< summer travelling. H. 1'. Little, Chairman of the County Board of Commissioners, is now working, in addition to a large force of hands, a ten ton truck recently i bought, and which is the property of tlir? co-.mty. With this force, and also other machinery, he is now at work near Green Sea, having worked to that place from Finklea's Cross Roads. In a short time his forces will be at work on the road from Green Sea to Nichols and they will put that part of the public highway in first class condition all the way to the Inidge across the river; and after that they will return and work the road from Bayboro down to Homewood a* the section of the road from Bayboro to Finklea w;is out. in ??v>r>ri i r ... fs,wwv? wiavuviuil <oine time ago; and after all the above has been done the road to Green Sea iti the direction of Tabor, North Carolina, will he finished . The scheme or improvement, as now being worked :>ut, takes in a good road to Hammond, S. C., a good %road down to Little River, and still another in the lirection of Port Harrelson. The funds available will be extended so far as they will go in this schedule of levelopment and a good look at the map in connection with what we have stated in this article will show that J A'hen this work has been completed! here will be through the center ?f; Horry county, from one end to the ther, one of the best highways in any h ?ct'on of the State, and there will be i i number of branches equally a^ good.1 ranching off to Myrtle Beach, and i 1 various other points. < il NDAV SCHOOL CON- I TFST FOR MIOMBUKSIHPm Last Sunday established another, lew record for Sunday Schooi attend-|l mce in Conway. The contest now be-jc ng waged by the various schools ofj town is beginning t> wax warm. : i'he question now being discussed on p ill sides is "who is going to saw j < vood" when the final contest is closed, | mi May 22nd. It is reported that Mr.! L K. Goldfinch, Superintendent of the > Methodist school, is taking daily les- , ons in physical culture, Mr. Baker, l >f the Baptist school is practicing < vith dumb bells before breakfast ev- j ry morning, while Mr. Paul Quattle- > iMlim 1 Pvoclnifni'i'm ... ? . ?J vv. I IUII V-V/ I I 1 I I Kl I II It' I I I | leveloping a strong muscle prepara- \ t ory to the task that may come to,, lim. It seems to be the determination j j f the members of the respective U chools not to permit their leader to j ^ lave this task to perform, but it is | , uite sure that at least two of them ) [ /ill participate in the past-time of | sawing wood" at the joint picnic, for ^ ne is determined to win, and thus sit y and boss the job. Up to the beginning of the present ( ear. the average attendance for all iunday schools of the town was about 00. On last Sunday over 800 answerd to the roll call. The slogan we t ear is "200 per cent attendance," ? ased upon church membership. If the j onI is reached, it is estimated that at j 5ast 1,400 members will be attained | n or before the last of May. Plans | re being laid for a great celebration j uitable to the occasion when . victory j, rowns the efforts of those pushing t lie campaign. I ?,ONWAY? WINS 1 OVER MARION ij c One of the most interesting games '' f baseball this season was one play- 1' (1 on the local diamond between Cona.v and Marion last Thursday, the t onway team winning by a score of c iveii to three . This was 4 a hard a ought game, the score being two to i f hree in favor of Conwav tin until! t \c last two innttogs/'but duo to Rood t at ting: by the CoMvay boys and a few ( fid plays by the Marion team near *> ie close, slipped the scores heavily ? prainst the visitors. Much interest c as displayed, the ball ground beincr A live with spectators, and well-wishrs for both sides. i r, APRiI, 23, 1021. CHAUTAUQUA MAKES SUCCESS Pastime Filled to Overflowing With Well-Pleased People RUSSIAN QUARTETT . GREAT LECTURES Mark the 1921 Chautauqua Pro gram jis One of the 1 Best Yet. The Radcliffe Chautauqua for the spring season of !!>21 came to Conway last Saturday, Monday and Tues day, jjriviti.tr the "usual three days of information and hijvh class entertainment. Contary to the plan of last year and the year hel'ore, the entertain lining umik piace in the Pastime Theatre, Manager McCoy leaving off his regular program of moving pictures for the convenience of the Chautauqua association. The opening performance took place Saturday afternoon and had a good attendance. The performance Saturday night was to the utmost capacity. On Saturday afternoon there was a lecture by Kredick 1). Losey, and a concert by the Kraft Concert Company; and that night there was another lecture and concert by the same companies. Those who saw and heard these were well pleased with the entertainment they received. There was a change of program for each day and night of the Chautauqua. All of the concerts and lectures were good and well worth all that was charged for admission. Good crowds were nrn?n?-?t - m vnv ** V V/UV/ll I performance and everybody seemed J to be perfectly satisfied with the re-1 suits. On tho second afternoon and night, there appeared what was said to be by many the most pleasant entertainment of the whole season, the I-oseff Russian Quartette, composed of Jos. Loseff, cello, as manager, and Mrs. Jos. Loseff, organ, solos, readings; and Jack Orlikiff, violin; Lanette Curie, pianist. This company of Russian people made some of the best music ever heard by music lovers here. By some it was pronounced the best musical treat that Conway ever had. There was on the second night of the course one of the best lectures r>f the whole time, this being the one delivered by tho Chautauqua director, Mr. Clyde V. Armitage. All of his lectures :ire fine indeed, but the one on Monday night on the subject of "America's Social Ideal," was considered bv manv as the best of nil. On the thir;l day came the third part of the program, and best of all, the Americans All Detachment, in :harge of ('apt. Clark and Corporal Bobbitt, both of whom were overseas during the war. With them a ere Krnest Dudos, pianist, and the entertainment given by these soldiers proved to be snappy and interesting. The lectures by Guy M. Bingham a*as delivered in a style somewhat lifferent from those usually heard. He is a noted educator, and was the >fficial A. E. F. lecturer with troops n France during the period of the ,var. There were splendid entertainers :onnected with the enterprise all the vay through, from Edward Partidge, advance representative, down 1 <> Sidney Carter the tent manager, vhose services did not happen to he iceded to take care of the tents this ime. W. I). M'CORMAC K TO AID FARMERS I wish to make an announcement hrough the columns of your paper , is to the work I will carry on in lorry county. Through some error t was published in a late issue that was assistant farm demonstrator. That is riot the case. While Mr. >avis and myself will co-operate at ill times when our work comes along , he same lines, there is no connec- j ion otherwise in our work. I repesent the State Live Stock Sanitary )ffice of State Veterinarian of !outh Carolina. My work will he ive stock sanitary control exclusivey, such as treatment and prevention f hog cholera and other infectious < iseases and eradication of tubercu- I osfs of cattle. I will he glad at any and all t imps; f/-? li'.u'fi tlw* 1 vv/ ibm * v wuv ii vv o i/iiL rv i?n iici ? J all on me, and any suggestions and . dvice will be cheerfully given. So ) ar I have not located in any one i ermanent place, .but hope to within ' lie near future open an offive in< onway, where I can be reached at ] 11 times, but in the meantime any ne having any work to be done an make an appointment with either t Ir. Davis or myself. < W. I). McCormack, D. U. S.? Asst. State Veterinarian. % I 11 ? ... i RESEMBLANCE ON TOMBSTONES Must Have Resulted From the 1 Effects of Time and Weather LIKENESSES ARE 1 MOSTLY FANCIFUL. Report of Pictures on Tomb- j stones Causes Great Interest. Investigations made at Fair Bluff , i'oncoi nil.}? the likenesses reported ?ia\in? a|)nc..ni! on the ton'.') tones, and which is reported elsewhere in ^ this issue of the Herald, resulted in ( somewhat contradictory statements ; lot" those wiio wont to see them. Up-tj j on the whole the appearance of thol| si^ns on the stones does not deserve!' i the decree of excitement which it|c is said to have caused. I] One of the pictures was sjiid to 1 have been of a saddle. As 10 this J i one observer says that he could not r make out any res< mblance to a sad- . 1 die, though there is an appearance I > of stains of some kind in the stone M luninj? no particular or well defined t ikeness of a saddle. On the other i tone the ^'v<di'u>- to some extent re- t sembles the face of a woman, but i the features are not distinct, as forj\ in lance the nose and mouth, or the i parts of it figured out to be those, (t are not in })lace as they should be. v According to close observers the ap-; pearanees are the result of some dis-jv coloration in the stone itself, thisiC having been set up by the aciton of jc the elements, or some inherent de- t I'ect in the stone, which, in the 11 course of years, has come out to- > ward the surface. k It appears that the reports i^j0 in iiit1 Many press of North j1 Carolina created a lot of interest on | the part of many people, and oncjv day there were many visitors to c the cemetery. Nothing: definite can I be drawn from the obseivation of'v their appearances as viewed by r many, and there is no doubt in the 1 minds of those directly concerned i that the resemblances arc the re-1 n suit of perfectly natural causes; that i the discoloi'ations in the stones are j 'ike the faces that imagination can r always pick out in the cloud banks s on a gloomy evening. ,t I investigations made to determine a whether or not somebody had under- i taken t;> interefere with tho graves, la has resulted in the opinion t'nat no v human agcncy has had anything to h 'lo with it; l?yt that the markings on ; k the monuments have resulted from j l ho of foots of the weather and time 1 on the surfaces. ji o Tin: "ANMiX" HllJLi: CLASS. | The contest between the Rods and the Blues at the Annex Class of the j r Baptist church is still "on." i In answer to the question, Mr. Spivey, the president of the class, said,- "Sure! The war is still waging. No peace terms have been drawn. Not even the armistice lias been signed. When tlie first skir-l ^ mish was had and the smoke cleared ^ away it was discovered that the bat- i tie was a 'draw.' A flag of truce j J was temporarily raised and our 1 members fraternized by having a joint picnic and fish stew at Buckville. No fatalities occurred in the " first round Knf 1 - - , .'?> ?/!l* OIVI\ <111(1 'wounded' wore well taken care of at s this splendid feast held upon the r' banks of the Waccamaw. ' "Yes, since that time the lines S have again been drawn for another o and decisive battle. A barrage has h been laid, the cavalry ordered to d charge, while the infantry is hold- t< ing the real intact. a "Captain McMillan of the Reds n and Capt. Burroughs of the Blues h have on war paint and their fight- cl ing clothes. Each have a noble sot tl of patriots ready to obey orders h when the bugle sounds for action. a "No, its too scon to talk about peace terms yet. After May 22nd we expect to join the 'League of Sunday Schools,' but our class wishes to give ample notice that we 01 expect to have a say in dictating [v the terms." o (, ANALYSIS CITY WATER o T Charleston, S. C., April 18, 192L a Sanitary water analysis No. 2528 ^f water received April 13, 1921, i roiri town ot uonway, !S. C. Results in Parts per Million: Chlorine 58.00 j> Free Ammonia 0.03 \lbuminoid Ammonia 0.09 0, Nitrogen in Nitrates 0.00 C( STitrongen in Nitrates 0.003 Potal Solids 741.000 c Bacterial Analysis: vv Bacterial Indications of Contamina- Ci tion, Negative. i8 Remarks:?Analysis indicate water j( o be of good quality and free form c\ contamination. ti Respectfully submitted, rc ?F. L. Parker, M. D. a< i N O. 2. WILL IMPROVE FOURTH AVENUE Adding Hard Sidewalk to Only Remaining Unpaved Side of Main Block OTHER WALKS CONTEMPLATED Work Was Stopped by Shortage of Materials During* The War. Conway has many now things in pow .m> far as the improvement of the <ti *ets and sidewalks are concerned. The next thing to be done will he hi'1 laying of a hard cement and conMete >ide\\a!k along the southward side of A* - '1 v.. nivimc, iiius completing he only remaining unpavod side of be main businses block of the town. Phi- new walk will extend from the orner on Main Street, at th?^ Peoples National Bank to the corner of Lau el Street and 'th Avenue at the store now occupied by P. K. Stanley & Co. Phis will be put in according to the ule that has been applied for several /ears past; the owners of the properly abutting the street, will pay twobirds of the cost while the town treas iry will stand for the remaining onebird. Other walks and extensions of valks are in prospect. About the iey.t to ' o iloir after that above menioncd will be the filling in of a wide valk between the corner on Main street, at the city hall, down to the vide walk in front of the Hotel irace. There is a good walk in front if the hotel, but between that propery and the city hall there is only a larrow old walk placed there many rears ago and which has become bro:en in spots and the water drains ver it in more than one place in imes of rainy weather. There are other points in the town vhere great improvements are in.tendid to be made. One thing which has held up the vork until now was the shortage of Materials coming on during the process of the war and the period of inMation following the ending of the var. It is also said that cement was lot up to standard grade during the >ast two years or more; that it could lot he depended upon as being as trong as before when setting up. For his reason the town has been slow ibout investing its money in it. Now ho price of materials and also labor re very much reduced and the work nil go on iti the opinion of those who ave the affairs of the town in their :eeping. petWson~said to be crazy ?equisition Not Honored Till Later When he Recovers. Sheriff .1. A. Lewis had a re<|uisiion pending for R. P. Peterson, Sr., ,ho was under arrest in Wilmington, J. C., on various charges concerning he transportation of stolen automoiles. He was wanted in this county or giving a worthless check to J. L. (ell some time last year for the sum f $390.00 in settlement for a (juanity of beef cattle. The check was ent to the bank several times and efused payment. One dav t.lio Inttin- 1 >r v> v/1 KIM Wtt'K Sheriff Lewis was informed by the fficials in Wilmington that this man ad been adjudged insane and inicated that he was either committed "> the insane asylum or would be in short time. On account of this the Bquisition will not be honored until iter, perhaps after he has been delared as recovered. Anyway, the aulorities here will not expect to get im if there is anything irregular bout the lunacy proceedings. o NKWLY PAINTED. The store of tho Piatt Pharmacy n Main street was recently much nproved in appearance bv tho ad ition of several coats of paint, so lat the colors have been changed n the inside of the front space, ho store was already very fine in ppearance, with the modem fixires installed some time ago. OFFICES MOVED. Hon. R. l>. Scarborough and Cordie age luive moved their offices from le Hank of Horry Buiining to le of the uew buildings recently >mpleted on the east side of aii\ street, on the property of ol. D. A. Spivcy. The building in hieh their offices were formerly looted wa's sold by the Bank of Horry ist year to J. W. Taylor, and he i turn sold a portion of his purlase to A. M. Sutherland. Recently le second story of the building wa* >ar ranged and a new coat /of paint dded to the walls of the offices.