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?' L_ ! , VOLUME XXXVI. WIND STRIKES A HARD BLOW Making Many Families Homeless and Destitute of Even Clothes CONWAY CHAMBER RENDERS HELP Local Hed Cross Also Helps Only One Fatality so Far Reported. The scene of death and destruction in the Wannamaker section of Floyds township, in the path of the terrific tornado, last Friday afternoon, is hard to describe so that the reading public may understand the real awful ness of the disu.ler. From all accounts, about thirteen families lost their homes and almost everything else that they possessed. So tar only one death has been reported, that being a child, Francis Jones, alxiut four years of age. At the same time a colored woman had received serious injuries and was j taken to a hospital in Mullins, S. C., and it was thought she might die. In addition to those who lost everything, we must add that many others lost their barns, hogs, cattle, fencing, trees and otner articles of great value to them. A number ol people are uiuiur^uing medical treatment for wounds received in the disaster. Some of the sick ones are at the Mull ins hospital and others are being treated at home. The families losing I heir homes are destitute. After the cyclone passed Floyds township-it seems to have struck near Fair Bluff and at Lumberton, N. C. No definite report of the damage done in North Carolina has been obtained here. At a called meeting of the Conway Chamber of Commerce, at which, due to the short notice given, only nineteen members were present, over $-100 in cash was raised for the re^ lief of torn. uo sufferers in Floyds j / town hi,/, in this county. Hosea Elliott and Misses Jackson and Burgess, representing the Red Cross of the Floyds community, were present and -explained the pressing need of many families who are without shelter, clothing or food. During the forenoon a committee visited citizens of Conway and secured a truck load of clothing for the use of those whose clothing had been destroyed by the tornado. A committee from the Chamber ( f" Commerce was appointed t<> canvass the business men of the town, with a view to materially increasing the cat h subscription raised. Assurances were given those who represented the Ued Cross of that section that the citizens of Conway are ready to express their sympathy in a very material way. Chariman L. I). Magrath, of the local Ued Cross, announced that a contribution of $150 had been made by that organization to the relief fund. This amount, added to the fund contributed by the members of the Chamber of Commerce, brings the total local contributions to more than $550. Another Account. A vivid account of the disaster in FJoyds township is given by Mr. II. P. Elliott, a farmer of that section, as follows: "1 was out in the yard," said Mr. Klliott, "shortly before the tornado came. I am naturally uneasy upon the approach of a storm, and thought it best to get out and look around a bit. My wife and two boys were in the house. "It grew blacker and blacker until it was almost as dark as night, and soon in the woods across the field behind the house. I heard the most crashing and shrieking noise I had heard in all my life. I was too terrified at first to know what was happening and almost believed judgment day was at hand. "I ran to the home and shouted to my wife and children to come out. We started for the other big open field across the ?*oad in front of the Hnuao. Just iit that moment a Ford car came into sigiit. The diiver seemed to be trying to outrun the storm and was racing along at a high speed. Races With Storm. "'Get out! Ciet out!' I shouted, undertaking frantically to wave him down. At first lie paid no attention to me, probably unable 1o understand what I said for the no he in the woods. Then he scorned to uiu'erstands his danger ami scarcely waitir;v to stop t.lfh machine, jumped from it. "By that time the wind was clearing the woods. It came shrieking and whirling across the field, a cloud of foliage, branches and dirt in its embrace. My wife and children and myself were in the big field across the road by this time. We ran as fast a/-; wo could, hardly knowing where Continued on page eight.) p ' (The CREDITORS WILL FILE PETITION Placing Isaac L. Lee in Bankruptcy Under Federal Laws. It is said that creditors are filing a petition in the United States courts to place Isaac L. Lee in bankruptcy. 1 Not long before he made a deed of assignment for the , benefit of creditors to J. O. Cartrette he confessed a judgment to' Armour Fertilizer Works in the sum of about $1,500, and the other creditors claim that this may act as a preference of that particular creditor under the state assignment laws unless ;i suit is brought to annul the proceedings;; and under the Federal laws relating to bankruptcy it is believed that the confession will be set aside and thej creditors ail allowed to come in against the estate. The Federal laws have precedence over the laws of any state. The as signment law of South Carolina is in effect, of course, and it is not re- j pealed because Confess saw fit to legislate on the subject of bankruptcy, this being one of the sub- j I jects which Congress may regulate I under the constitution; but the state law must be in obeyance as soon as the Federal laws are applied in any particular place. The effect of declaring Mr. Lee a bankrupt under the Federal laws will anul the proceedings under the deed of assignment and the assignee will be compelled to turn over to the trustee in bankruptcy all of the property and effects of the bankrupt. The creditors of Mr. Lee say that i he cannot claim that he is exempt from the bankruptcy laws on account of him having been a farmer. The bankruptcy act passed by Congress exempts wage earners and those whose chief engagement is the j tilling of the soil, but the status of the individual is determined, accordling to late decisions, at the date on J which the bankruptcy is committed. | That date in the case of Mr. Lee was May 4th, when he made the ' i 1 _ r 1 a. i _ a. i i- - a- i ? - ? j UlMMl Ml USM^nillLMU, HIUI JIV U1UC tl'IH", atcoiding to the creditors o" Mi. 1 Lee he had retired from farinit:.*, having sold out long before this to his son-in-law, 1). M. Bellamy. Again, the creditors say that Mr. Lee's chief business in 1020 was in handling and selling fertilizers, for tho hulk of his debts arc to fertilizer companies from whom he purchased j as a dealer in fertilizers. IboysTjoin pig club at once 'All About a Three-Day Trip to Myrtle Beach and Big Basket Picnic. ^ j It's lots of fun to get a pig of your j own and watch him prow. It's not only fun, but you learn how to grow j hogs. You learn what feed makes him grow best, what makes them fatj ten after they are grown, and most jol' all, what it costs to make a pound of pork. If you join the club the pi# is weighed at the beginning of the contost and the weight put in the record book furnished each boy. In this book i a record is kept of the weight and cost of all feed fed during the four mouths' contest, and a record of the gain made by the pig. Yt ihe end of the contest. \V<> knrtW how mnnv I pounds the pig has gained and the j cost of the feed used to make this gain. From this we calculate the cost I of raising the pound of pork. There are a number of prizes offered for the boy or girl who makes the cheapest I pound of pork, the best pig, the best j written record, etc. We want twenty-five or fifty boys 'and girls to join a pig club in Horry | county this summer. The only rei quirement is that you must be ten I years old and not over eighteen Any .kind of pig can be used, but we would I recommend a pure bred pig between (twenty-five and fifty pounds. The , contest will start with a short course j at Myrtle Reach on May 25, 2G and J 27. At this meeting boys will be I instructed in keeping records, feeding pigs, care of pigs, and rules govjerning the contest. The trip will be free except for enough food for yourself for three days and twentyfive cents for incidental expenses. I Parents are invited to attend, the ; short Vourse on Wednesday, as this day will be farmers' day. Speakers will bo there from Clem-son and Win-: throp Colleges to talk on sweet potato storage houses, home orchards,1 livestock for the farmers, and sewing,j canning and cookm# for the ladies. ; Everybody is invited to attend the J meetings Wednesday and bring a pic-; nid basket for dinner on the grounds. Boys and girls wanting to join the pig club and attend the short course at Myrtle Beach, send in your names to W. O. Davis, County Agent, Conway, S. C., not later than May 21. Instructions will be mailed each member what to bring for the trip. ?W. O. Davis, Co. Agt. ft WtOtK CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY, WILL HICKMAN j SLAYS FATHER Dying Statement Claims That Shooting Was Accident RURAL POLICE ARREST HICKMAN Defendant Separated From Wife who is Reported Mentally Unsound. Will Hickman, living on a farm near Myrtle Beach, shot his father! Fuesdav llftPl'nnnn ttV .nwll . . v , wi it..ov n vv l\, CI 1 111 I from Iho wound received the father j died on the following afternoon. The deceased was attended by Dr. roll ol Myrtle Beach and is said to | have made a statement in answer' to j u question asked him by the physi-j cian as to the nature of the shooting1. Tlie statement was to the effect that shooting had been an accident; that the accused had been pranking with a pistol and that it wont off unexpectedly while he was (doing this. Will llichman was arrested by I rural policeman, I). Frank Bellamy and brought to the county jail where he was still confined at last acj counts. j Will Hickman and his wife are I separated. The whole family came from Charlotte, N. C., probably a year ago and had been farming near the beach. The wife of Will Hickman is said to be idiotic; that some time ago the father of Hickman took his son's wife back to her people in North Carolina. A report was in circulation about town last Thursday that the two men had fallen out concerning moon shine whiskey, which it was said was being stilled, or had been stilled by Will Hickman, and that he had I remonstrated with his son about beiing engaged in drunkenness and 1 vinlntiiin1 til#* I""' rru"? tin; iun. i ut'i ^ was another story to the effect that the so*) was trying to shoot a mule thoy were working on the farm; that the father interferred and the shooting resulted. The Herald had .no means of verifying this story or the other. It is generally believed that the dying statement of the father was cot rect as to the cause of the affair unless the father, in his last moments in this world decided that he would shield his son from a crime. CYCLONE DOES MUCH DAMAGE I I One Death Reported Among Tenants on Meares j Farm. The cyclone that struck Floyds (Township Friday afternoon, was re| ported as being the worst at the farm of Mr. E. M. "Meat's where it tore down the fences and tenant houses and killed one of the children of one iof the families occupying one of the tenant houses. Near by the same place, Olin Blanton had a Ford touring car and the cyclone tore off the Inn nn/l tlm -i-i ?" ?t. u.c nvmuMiieiu. lYir liianton escaped injury by jumping out of the car and running into the field. This is said to be near a place where a cyclone did considerable damage sometime in 1920. The path of the cyclone was not very wide. GREAT THINGS F FA The Herald wishes to draw the attention of every farmer to the short course provided for the boys and girls of the various clubs at Myrtle Beach on May 25, 2f> and 27. Wednesday, the 27th, the opening day, is I set apart as a farmers' meetino- and picinc day. These matters are written up elsewhere in these columns, and let us ask every farmer to read every word that is written aboat the occasion and then get busy to arrange things so hat he can attend on the opening day, if not the entire time. What we most .need just now to [develop the wonderful possibilities of I Horry county agriculture is knowledge and information of the latest [methods and movements that are on I foot to make the calling of the farmer a success. Give the farmers of this county a thorough understanding of what has been done, and of what can be done right here at our doors, and this knowledge will enthuse them with energy and determination to make this county one of | the greatest producers of food crop.'; and livestock ever known. The pos % MAY 19, 1921. FRANK BELLAMY TRACED LIQUOR From Time it Started up in the Dogwood Neqk Township SAW DEFENDANTS ENTER THE STORE Sheriff Seized Automobile After Arrest Had Been Made. The credit for the capture of the five gallons of ir.oonsliiue whiskey in Conway one nitfht recently, when 11. Ilisskill Todd and another patty were arrested, belongs, it .seems, to Rural roliceman 1 >. r rank Bellamy. Imp whiskey was made in his section of the county, lfc h id received information from a source not disclosed that Todd would pass along the public road with the whiskey that day. The policeman waited by the road and watched, and later learned that Todd i had alluded him, or rather, had gone around the other way, so that he did not get the whiskey as he first intended. lie then followed the tracks of the car into Conway. On that particular night, Bellamy and Hinson, the latter of the town force, were at the corner near the town hall, waiting for the car to come back from accross the bridge, where it had gone a short time before, evidently for tho purpose of bringing the whiskey in from some place where it had been hidden earlier in j the day. i Bellamy and Hinson saw the car pass around the corner, and Hinson went around the opposite side of block, while Bellamy ran towards the L. H. Burroughs' store, and was within a short distance of the front when the whiskey was taken into the store. The owners of the whiskey refused to let him in, and the other incidents as published followed. After the affair was over as to the arrest of those who had the whiskey, Sheriff J. A. Lewis was called into the case, and it was him who seized the automobile in which the whiskey had been transported, and after that the sheriff and V. D. Johnson, of tho rural police, went into the country and obtained the kog with the remaining one gallon of moonshine in it. PROGRAM UPPER PEE DEE UNION Following is the program of the Upper Pee I)co Union to be held with Wannamaker Baptist Church Saturday ond Sunday, May 28 and ' 29. 1?Calling the Union to order. '2?Devotional Exercises conducte 1 by B. T. Holmes. 3?Calling list of Churches and enrolling delegates. 4?Querry No. 1: The Importance of a Teacher's Training Class, by A. T. Martin and W. A. Prince. 5?Paper on The Best Method of Keeping the Young People (from 1(> to 21) in Sunday School, by Fleetwood Causey Ay res. (i?Querry No. 2. Church Government, by A. D. Jackson and S. H. Harrelson. 7?Paper, the Importance of Christian Education for Our Children, by Miss Bessie Jackson. 8?General Discussion by the different Sunday School Superintendents on How We Run Our Sunday School. ?Sermon Sunday by J. T. Going. VV. Chess Hooks, N. K. Hays, Committee. OR ALL RIMERS TO KNOW sibilities are here. We want the farmers to feel certain that they can and that they will bring these things to pass. Take notice that among I he tilings I to be discussed by the experts from \\ in thro n JinH Clnm?nn flnllnufov: ???_ r ? *,^r?x"' %%i' j pears Sweet Potato Storage Houses. I The Federal Department of Agriculiture is greatly interested in this j matter as applied to this particular | section. They give their instructions free. Never forget that it is doing 'this under the authority of the government, of which you are, of course, a part. Have you figured on the amount of sweet potatoes it is possible to raise on one single acre of your land? You know that you can raise the crop in large quantities, 'almost without work as compared to the way you have to work cotton and tobacco. All that you need is the curing and storage warehouse, where the crop can be kept and plac-l ed on the market at the proper time. Remember, this is a great thing for you, and be sure to hear all that is said on this subject at Myrtle Beach on May 25th. \ GIVES ACCOUNT OF KILLING Makes Statement to Tobe Causey in the Presence of Jailor. Further light is thrown upon the killing: at Myrtle Beach some day.ago since \Yi:l Hickman was placed in the county jail. He has been talking. Last week, when Tobe Causey, a neighbor of Hickman's, called to see him, Hickman made the following statement in substance a-? to the cause of the affair, in the hearing of the jailor. When asked by Causey how it happened that he killed his fa^htT, Mi/k>aan said that he had gone to Ihc stalls to waLer the nuiie; that the nule had bad habits and would kick, and kicked him on the knee. That 1 ne was nearby rubbing the knee and remembered that he had his pistol iver the stable door; that he took down the pistol and \\ is punching the mule i?i the side .vith the pistol A'hrn hi father retnonsti ated with him and told him not to :i\isti'eat the mule, and at about the same time l is lather took hold of the pistol, and by accident, it was dischiuged, the hall passing through his father's body. WALKWAY WILL BE COMPLETED The Herald is informed that all of the property owners along the side of Kingston Lake have agreed that their property may be used for the walkway mentioned in a recent issue of this paper. The work may be started this week. Mr. C. H. Snider has already made improvements as was stated in an article published recently. SHORT "COURSE BOYS AND GIRLS Myrtle Beach May Twentyfifth to Twenty-seventh? Farmers Day Wednesday. Arrangements have been made b> the County Home and Farm Demonstration Agents for a short coursc for hows and t'irls in tho rnnniim clubs, poultry clubs and pip clubs, t< bo hold at Myrtle Beach May 25, 2( and 27. 'The annex to the Myrtle Hoach Hotel has been secured for the throe days instruction. Experts from W in throp and Clemson Colleges will ' e there to instruct the boys and girls in cannin.cc, sewing, poultry raising hog raising and other things. This will not only be a course of instructs n. but it will also be a line outinij for the beys and girls. There will be no charges for those who attend except enough food for the three days and twenty-five cents for incidental expenses. It is not too late for those boys who haven't joined the pig clubs tc still do so and attend the short course, Any. boy or girl between ten and eighteen years of age who wants t<i join the pig club may send in theii name to W. O. Davis, County Agent Conway, S. C., by May 21. A feature of the short course will be the farmers' meeting and picnic dinner on Wednesday, the 25th, Specialists from Clemson and Wilthrop Colleges will be there to talk on sweet potato storage houses, homo orchards, livestock, canning, sewing, cooking, etc. Everyone is invited lo attend this meetinir and brinir a nic nic basket. The following is the program for the three days: Wednesday, May 25. 10:30?Opening exercises. 10:45?Welcome, M. A. Wright, Conway Chamber of Commerce. 11:00?Senator Smith and Representative Prince. 11:15?Dr. W. W. Long, Clemson College (if possible). 11:45?Mrs. Kline, Winthrop College, Club Work. 12:15?M. A. Musser, Clemson College, Care of Home Orchards. 1:00?Dinner. J 2:30?T. B. Young, Clemson College, Storage and Marketing Sweet Potatoes. n:T>0?1 livestock Production. 1:30?Bathing Thursday, May 2(>. 9:00?O pc n i n g Kxo rc i ses. D:li> to 12:.'U)?Separate Instruction to boys and girls. 1:00?Dinner. 2:30?Separate Instruction. 1 :30?Bathing. 0:00?Supper. Friday, May 2. :00-?Opening Kxoreises. !): 1 r? to 12:30?Separate Instruction. 12:30?Adjourn. 1:00?Dinner. ? o Frank A. Thompson, Esq., of the firm of Norton & Thompson, attorneys of Mullins, was in Conway Wednesday on business. % NO. 5. HUGHES LANDING HAS A CYCLONE Big Trees Torn lip By Roots, Others Twisted Off by the Wind J. G. CAPPS AND I W. H. CANNON Witness the Terrible Force of the Same Cyclone Visiting Floyds Township. KlsOwlift'o 511 fliio : - - ? * . I > H SllOI't nows item concerning damage done by a cyclone in Foyds Township. Alter getting the meager news expressed in the other article, the Herald secured lurther information, and found that th.e cyclone had done damage at other points in Horry County. About two miles 1\ low Jorilanville on little Pee Dee River this gigantic whirlwind came down out of the sky, and followed the course of the river and river swamp to a point about two miles above Jordanvillc, when it again rose up into the clouds. The same cyclone again came to earth in Flovds Township. At Hughes landing about the hour of 1 :8() p. m., J. (5. Capps and W. H. Cannon, as well as four women and five other men, | were about to engage in fishing, i none of them were out on the river. Some of the party had iust gone to I the landing, Capps and Cannon driving a horse and buggy. Just after they had hitched the horse to a tree, J. G. Capps heard an awful roar and saw a large cypress limb apparently floating in the air and knew there was a cyclone near at hand. He turned the horse loose, and by the time he had done that, : he and all the others of the party J were trying to hold themselves ou the ground by catching small trees and bushes. There were three buggies at the place and all three were picked up and carried into the swamp, and all of them were almost. ' totally destroyed. There was one wagon carried 150 yards by the wind I and broken into many pieces. The buggy in which Messrs. Capps and I Cannon had fono t n the landinc was blown up into the tops of i"earby troop. All of tho wheels were broken into pieces except one. At last . counts they had left the buggy in t.ho trees, as it was not worth taking down. % r j Near tho place where this party I was, three large pines were torn up ; by tho roots; and a number of cy, press trees, measuring on an average k two feet in diameter, on tho opposite ..side of the river from them were I twisted off and carried away. One . of the cypress trees, measuring about , two feet in diameter was blow n ! across the river. The cyclone cut a strip through tho timber about 100 .' feet wide on thi< side of tho stream. I Two miles above Jordanville it turnI ed awav from the river bed ar.d, after doing some damage on pine I ridges, wont up high above tho tree I tops. Tho horse that was turned loose , j ran out to Jordanville uninjured. 1 j None of the people received any se1. rious hurts. Some of tho women j j who had gone to tho river, had J caught some fish and were cooking [ i them for dinner. They have never seen tho fish since. Logs that had boon cut down by a I lumber company in tho river swamp , and lying down almost flat, were takken up and carried long distances by the force of the wind. People at Jordanville, two miles | from Hughes landing, say they saw the air full of trees and other oo1 jects, as this cyclone passed by. Some of the largest trees that grew in the woods near this place were twisted off just below the tops and carried off. ' o CITY BARBER SHOP OPEN FOR BUSINESS The City Barber Shop, which has been closed part of the time lately,, has been leased by Grainger Bros., two expert barbers; and as stated in their advertisement appearing in this issue of the paper, they are now open at the place and serving the public. SOLICITOR IN B1GHAM CASK Solicitor L. M. Gas<iue was in Columbia last week before the Supremo Court, opposing the motion made by the attorneys for E. D. Bigham, under habeas corpus proceedings instituted by the latter. The main ground upon which Bigham sought to he released from the penitentiary, where he is waiting his appeal from sentence of death, was that the court in Florence when he was tried had not been adjourned on Saturday, the last day of the term, as provided by the statute, but had gone on into the following week, when he was convicted and sentenced. The decision of the Supremo Court may not be known for some time.