The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 14, 1921, Image 1
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VOLPME XXXVI
SHARES PAID
TO GUARDIAN
Under Last Order to Guardian
made by Judge S. W.
G. Shipp
REMOVAL HEARING
DEVELOPS NOTHING
Evident Opinion of Judge J. S.
Vaught Judging by His
Decision.
One day last week, W. L.- Bryan,
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas,
following the order recently made by
S. W. G. Ship, at Florence, paid over
to Mrs. Mary A. Lewis, the sum of
about ten thousand dollars, composing
the shares of her six children in the
estate money of the late W. R. Lewis.
At first the Clerk of the Court had
hesitated about paying over the
money and transferring a mortgage
which had been given by Mrs. Lewis
to secure the children for their shares,
under a former order made by the
court, on the ground that the two orders
seemed to be inconsistent. The
first order made in the case had required
a mortgage from Mrs. Lewis
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for her six minor children, to secure
them for their shares in I he estate
money applied by the same order in
the payment of bonds placed by Mrs.
Lewis on certain of the estate lands
that she purchased. This later order
required the payment to Mrs. Lewis
of all shares coming to tho children
and also a transfer to her as guardian
of the children of the mortgage that
had been executed and recorded in
compliance with the first order.
After consideration and seeking advice
from .Judge Shipp it appeared
that the inconsistency in the two orders
was only apparent, and the money
amounting to about ten thousand
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this being the six shares of the
\ minors in the money on hand in the
Clerk's office from t\ie proceeds of
the sales of land, and collected by th?'
i clerk since the last distribution from
the mortgages given by purchasers at
the sales more than a year ago.
Removal Hearing*
The removal proceedings, whereby
IAIva Anderson, a brother of Mrs.
Mary A. Lewis, sought to have the
lady removed as guardian of the
children took place before Probate
Judge J. S. Vaught on Saturday, July
2nd, while most Conway people were
thinking of a suitable means of passing
away the Fourth, hence paid but
little attention to the case when it was
heard at the county court house.
Both sides were represented by attorneys
and arguments waxed hard
and long. The Probate Judge, whe
has juridiction of all matters pertaining
to minors, heard the testimony
and the arguments, and in view of his
refusal to remove Mrs. Lewis, he did
.^/?f r;.wi fini'Hiiiifr iii the evidence
"which ho deemed sufficient to show
that she is incompetent to handle the
children's money, or that she is likely
to allow it to be misappropriated
The National Surety Company, foi
whom the Horry County Trust Company
is the local agent, is on the bond
which has been filed by Mrs. Lewis
in the guardian proceedings some time
before this proceeding to remove hei
had been started in the court. Aboul
the only result of the proceedings was
to cause the Judge of Probate tc
make an order that the checks ol
i Mrs. Lewis paying out the children's
money must be countersigned anc
approved by the agent of the suretj
company. This was a sufficient safe
U-, guard in the opinion of the court, un
I der the showing as made before him.
k VISITING HERE
Wj Herbert Officer and family ar<
I visiting his father and mother here
"Mr. and Mrs. George Officer, cominjc
II tho u-'fiv frnm distant Chili. SoutV
i America, where Mr. Officer has beer
engaged for some time as mining en
gitiecr.
Their visit will be of some length.
FIRST RIPE WATERMELON.'
To W. J. Singleton goes the dis
tinction of sending to the Herald of
fice the first ripe watermelon of th<
season. , It was received long befori
the 4th of July and came from th<
large plantation that he is developinf
in Waccamaw Neck.
In addition to a large crop of watei
melons, Mr. Singleton has ten acre;
planted in canteloupes.
^ Never Fails.
A teacher wno nan given a lessor
on geometrical drawing asked hei
class the question: How can yoi
make a Maltese cross?
One bright little girl raised hei
hand at once, and on being askec
- for the answer replied without hesi
' tation: Please, teacher, step on it?
tail.?Houston Post.
|| By Elimination.
B Rub?Which is the weaker sex
P Dub?Well, its certainly not wo
| men ! ?New York Sun. ., ^
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(The
CAR STORAGE
AT THE BEACH
New Garage Opens Under Management
of Charles
Dusenbury.
A garage for storage purposes at
Myrtle Beach Hotel will be opened to
the public this week, according to a
statement made by the owners, J. 10.
v,<?ies aiui a. w. uarren. vars win
be taken for one night or a month as
may suit the needs of the summer
visitors at the resort.
It is a new building* recently started
and completed. The size of it is
50 by 100"feet and is erected on a lot
of land recently purchased by the
owners from the Myrtle Beach Farms
Company. It is located conveniently
near the hotel building and is appionched
by clay roads
Charles Dusenuiy will be manager
of the garage.
USEFULMAN IS
ASKED TO RESIGN
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It appears that complaint was made
recently before the county board that
i nwiu urn, u I jia,\ i/ui W l> llUIUIIIl',
more than one office of trust or profit
under the constitution. It way alleged
that he is Postmaster at Bayboro;
Registrar of Births and Deaths;
Township Supervisor; School Trustee.
This shows that Arnold Bol!
has been a useful man. He states
that he never sought some of these
j<> I which were thrust upon him in
the absence of others who may have
been slow to take upon themselves
the duties of such offices. In an interview
about the matter he said that
he ha(i done these things because lie
was asked to do it and that he had
nothing in view except the good service
he might render in the community.
It does not yet appear just what
action he will take in regard to the
matter. The constitution provides
, that not more than one ottice can be
i held at the same time, with exception
of the position of notary public.
TRACT OF LAND
IN DOG BLUFF
Involved in Law Suits Concerning
Titles of Negro
Heirs.
Clerk of Court W. I,. Bryan, appointed
as Special Referee under a
, recent order of the Court, called a
hearing last Thursday in the case
. of H. M. Reynolds vs. Miley Best
I and others; but there was no teasti
\ mony taken as the attorneys met
without any witnesses and an attempt
was made to adjust the case
without any further litigation. The
compromise failed, however, on account
of the fact that there is a
claim set up by Richard Best, one
of the negroes, against the other
parties in the section for twenty
acres out of the forty acre tract
that formerly belonged to Polly Best,
. he claiming that he has made ,imI
provements to the amount of over
. $2,000.00 on this twenty acre parcel,
5 and that he has been in possession of
. it for over twenty years thus giv^
ing him a title "by what is known
r as the presumption of a grant.
, Several parties in the action arc
f interested in mortgages made to
? them by one Milev Best, another
| negro, who claims to own twj
, shares. One of these claimants U
. S. H. Frye, a well-to-do farmer who
. took up a mortgage for Mi ley Best
made to Conway Live Stock Company.
Burroughs & Collins Company
have a third claim against the
shpre of Miley Best for about
$300.00.
\ This land has been in possessior
J of these negroes for a long number
of years and they have not beer
careful to try to keep the title
straight and have not seemed tc
care whether they had a good title
or not. The land lis in the midst ol
a rapidly developing sectioii wherr
numbers of white people reside and
" where lands are now available. It i*
" likely that the land will eventuall>
' come to sale and will bring a good
5 price.
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' Her Preference.
A kindercartner asked of hei
r pupi's which they would like to sin^
s of the national song's they had learn
ed the day before.
A little girl responded, Lets sinji
the one about America l>vhere thi
1 fathers all took pills and died.
The words of the song were: .Lane
1 where my fathers died, land of the
Pilgrim's pride.?Houston Post.
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' On His First Hitch
Say, remarked the peevish part\
3 at the table How long have yoi
been working in this restaurants
Siv weeks, sir, replied the waiter. ]
beg your pardon, apologized the
peevish party. Then it was'nt yoi
T ordered st*?ak from.?American
Lflgion Weekly.
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CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY
BOTTLING PLANT
SEIZED BY SLOAN
Under Mortgage for Purchase
Money Against S. T.
Stalvey
PLANT'S HISTORY
GIVEN IN BRIEF
Operating Now Under Authority
of Former Owner, C.
T. Sloan.
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Some excitement was caused in
Conway last Friday when the Conway
Coca-Cola Bottling Works was seized
by C. T. Sloan, of Marion, S. C., under
mortgages held by him against S. T.
Stalvey, or probably against the corporation
itself. Mr. Sloan, or his
agent, took possession of the plant together
with the buildings on the lots
purchased within the last year, at
which time the plant was greatly enlarged
by the addition of new machinery
and the erection of new additions
to the old building.
It appears that Mr. Sloan is now
running the establishment, which bottles,
Coca-Cola and a number of other
soft drinks. It is stated about the
streets that C. T. Sloan, the former
owner of this property, sold out the
plant, or at least his stock therein, to
S. T. Stalvey of Marion, S. C., for approximately
the sum of $40,000.00;
that Sloan took a plantation, or perhaps
a part of a plantation, in exchange
for a portion of the purchase
money making title to Stalvey and
taking title for the land and taking a
mortgage against this property to secure
the balance of the debt.
General information is to the effect
that the bottling works owes a
large sum of money in the total outside
of this mortgage debt. There is
a claim of the Crown Cork and Seal
Company <>f about $2,000.00 and a
number of other claims for perhaps
smaller amounts. A number of Conway
merchants and business, men appear
to have claims against the concern.
It appears that a sale of the
property will be made in the near future
under these mortgages and it
may be that Court proceedings will
intervene, or have already been
started.
The business was established in
Conway as a very small plant more
than ten years ago by S. U. Davis,
of Eulonia, S. C. Davis sold to
Batie Wall and he in turn sold out to
Goodman & Johnson, a partnership.
Goodman & Johnson ran the plant in
its then small proportions for a year
or two and sold it to W. II. Lewis.
The latter incoroprated the business,
then had the charter cancelled, and
ran it on his personal account for
a while and gain incorporated it. After
the death of W. R. Lewis it appeared
that portions of the stock in
tlin nv wnrr? rljiimnrl hv snmn nf
his sons. A compromise was effected
and the stock disposed of and it finally
came into the hands of E. T.
Lewis as sole, owner of the property.
He sold to C. T. Sloan who sold to S.
T. Stalvey as above explained.
REV7BOB JONES
COMES TO HORRY
; Arrangements have been completed
i for the noted evangelist, "Bob"
Jones to be in Conway on Tuesday
? evening* 8:30 p. m., July 26th, to ad;
dress a mass meeting of Christians
> on the subject of "Fishers of Men" at
; the Methodist Church. Mr. W. M,
Goldfinch is chairman of arrange
ments and it is expected that numbers
i not only from Horry, but adjoining
; counties will avail themselves of this
opportunity of hearing the noted evar
i gelist.
Although a comparatively young
1 man, "Bob" Jones is said to stand
; among the foremost evangelists of
> the world today. He is well known
: throughout America, having conducted
huge tabernacle meetings in
more than half of the States of the
Union. He was chosen from al!
4 America to give the daily evangelistic
message at the Methodist Cen'
tenarv Exposition and is president of
the Inter-denominational Evangelistic
Association of America.
Mr. Jones comes to Conway undei
the auspices of the special committee
: on Sunday School Evangelism of the
State Sunday School Association, the
chairman of which is Dr. W. L. Ball
r pastor of the First Baptist church ot
? Spartanburg and the secretary Pr
Robert S. Truesdale of Main Street
I Methodist church of Columbia.
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J. A. CLIFTON, M. I).
Specialist in diseases of the Eye, Ear
Nose and Throat
r Will bo at Conway Drug Co., on the
i 20th and 21st (Wednesday and Thurs'
day.)
[ Tonsils, Adenoids, Cataracts, etc.
i removed. Crosj eyes straightened
i and glasses fitUd. Please call ear!^
on first day to prevent rush.?Adver
tisement. tf
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, JULY 14, 1921.
CONDITION BAD
NOT DANGEROUS
Injuries Resulting in Affair Between
A. H. Prince and
W. C. Ray
BOTH INDICTED
BEFORE MAGISTRATE
W. Clem Ray Arrested by H.
Mayo King*, Rural Policeman?Here
on Saturday
Further particulars came in on last
Saturday concerning the affair near
Zoan 611 the night of July 4th, between
W. Clem Hay and A. H. Prince,
on whose land Ray was tending a
share crop.
It had been reported in our last issue
that Prince was badly cut in a
fight they had.
The condition of Prince was said to
l>e bad, but at the same time not considered
as dangerous. He was being
attended by I)r. J. D. Thomas of
Loris, S. C. No warrant was issued
at first for the arrest of either of the
parties in the dilViculty. There were
cross warrants sworn out by both
sides later, Kay taking a warrant for
Prince before Magistrate Frank
Black at Gurley, while Prince swore
out a warrant, or had it done, for the
arrest of Hay, before Magistrate W.
H. Chestnut in Conway . The warrant
against Prince was not served owing
to his condition, but it will be executed
as soon as possible under the circumstances.
The warrant for Ray
was executed by H. Mayo King, rural
policeman, and Ray was brought lo
the county jail on last Saturday.
Ray, accompanied by the policeman,
went to the office of Magistrate Chestnut
and asked for bail. This the
court refused to grant until he could
get a certificate from Dr. Thomas
shoeing the condition of A. H. Prince;
as to whether his injury might result
in early death or not; but he would |
find out as soon as possible and act
accordingly, in regard to granting
bail.
Kay has employed a lawyer to represent
him in the proceedings. The
attorney will attend to the matter of
the bail -bond when bail is granted.
The warrant against Prince charges
him with having assaulted and struck
W. Clem Ray with a deadly weapon,
and with intent to kill, or words to
that intent. The charges against Ray
arc practically the same, in elliect.
There is an eyewitness or two, and
i?i case a preliminary is called by
either side, these witnesses will he
summoned to testify. Ray had some
tobacco in the barn at the time of the
occurrence . It is not definitey known
what course will be taken as to the
preliminary hearings in these cases;
but the cases can bo called in the
court of General Sessions and disposed
of at the September term if the
cases are sent to that court.
TOBACCO COMING
-OPENING 19TH
Farmers Have Been Bringing
it in And Storing
It.
The tobacco market in this county
will have its >pening sales for the
season of 1021 on next Tuesday, July
, 19th. This seems to have been definitely
settled last week. All of the
warehouses at Conway will be runninir
under comnetent nuinsiirers- So
far as can be learned all of the other
warehouses of the county will be in
operation by that time.
Farmers have been bringing in the
weed for some time. Week before
last some of the warehouses recived
> a load. Last week there was more
[ than ever. Those who bring it in so
long ahead of the sales are evidently
1 those who have no adequate means
' of taking care of it at the plantation,
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' A narrow Escape
Curfew in Ireland has its lighter
' as well as its tragic moments. One
; recent night in Belfast, Jones, who
dearly loves a dance, was hurrying
: home from a little hop. It was three
minutes after 10:30, but all seemed
well, and he had reached his own
' avenue when suddenly two policemen
1 rounded a corner. His heart stopped
' beating, he foresaw a ride in tho
? "buzzer," and a night in gaol. But
he gripped the little bag that hcH
his pump shoes the more firmly and
' marched valiantly on.
II/IaaJ _!?Ll J L - > .... ! I A
uwuu uoi'ior, .said one <n
the policemen, saluting- him respectfully.?Manchester
Guardian.
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Same Thing.
s The telegraph clerk, reading over
the officers message, said I can't
make out whether this reads No
funds or No fun.
I Oh well, whats the difference?
said the lieutenant gloomily lighting
a cigarette.?Buffalo Commercial.
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mill
OIL MEN HAVE
OWN LANGUAGE
Industry Like All Others Has
Number of Technical
Phrases
Oil men have a language ail their
own, as it were, for the oil industry,
like others, has a number of more
or less technical terms and phraser
connected with it that are not generally
understood outside the oil field
district, says a Tulsa, Okta., dispatch.
For instance, "shooting a well" has
an entirely different meaning from
that applied in river navigation to
the term "shooting the rapids." In
the oil country the phrase means th<*
lowering .into the well of several
dozen quarts of nitroglycerine and
allowing it to explode in the bottom
of the well in the oil sand.
Oil wells are drilled much like artesian
water wells. A "rig,' or tali
pyramid framework, is erected over
the spot where the well is to bo
drilled. At various stages during
the sinking* of the well it is cased
in by steel pipe, the joints of which
are screwed together, making a continous
pipe. This serves to keep out
(water and to keep the well from cavi
itigrI
As the well is bored deeper, the ,
I size of the casing is reduced in order)
to keep putting it down inside of
that alrerdy in place. Two or three i
hanges, or possibly four, are all j
that are usually made in reducing
the size of the casing.
If no oil is found the well is
termed a "dry hole." If gas is found,
it is a gasser." A producing well is i
named according to the number of
barrels of oil it produces in 24 hours
as a 50-barre) or a 500-barrel well.
Oil as it comes from the gorund
is called "crude oil." It is carried to
the refining plants in pipe line, iron
I'pipes ranging all the way from to
10 or 12 inches in diameter, or in
railway tank cars. There it goen
through the refining process.
Almost all oil men lease the lan 1
<m which they drill, paying "royalties,"
from one-eighth to one-sixteenth
of the value of the oil pro,i
1 . .
uuci'ti going to the owner of the
land. A "location" is a piece of land
on which a well is drilled. It varies
from fiOO to 500 feet square. Thus
in a field that is closely drilled, each
well will have wells on four sides
of it between 300 and 500 feet away, i
These wells are known as "offsets."
A "tank farm" is a tract of land
on which are located a number of
large storage tanks for oil.
"Test wells" are the ifirst wells
drilled in a territory wheve oil has
not been discovered. "Wild cat"
wells are those drilled in territory
where geologists have net found rock
formations that indicate the pres-1
ence of oil. A "pool" is an under- |
ground supply of oil, or oil sand
saturated with oil. |
The "M id-Continent" field com |
. prises the states of Oklahoma, Texas.
Arkansas, Kansas, Louisana,
Missouri, Montana and Nebraska.
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ACTIVITIES OF WOMMN.
London women are now shopping
I by airplane.
I Kansas has twenty-five women office
holders.
In Prussia practically 00 per cent
of the women are illiterate.
It is estimated that there are nearly
20,000,000 spinsters in America.
Women unable to read or write are
I prohibited from voting in Hungary.
| Patterson, N. J., is the latest city to
I establish a woman police department,
j At the age of 77 years, Bridget
Cahill has just been naturalized at
Watertown, Mass.
Mrs. Ayrle Queber is editor of a
Norwegian newspaper published in
I Superior, Wis.
| The German National Convention
I of Jurists recently voted against women
for judges or jurors.
j After struggling for the privilege
I since l.xSK, women have been admitted
Ito the bar in Belgium.
j Miss Margaret V. Landmann gave
up school teaching to operate a farm
lat Cranbury, N. J.
j Late census figures show that there
I are 2,000,132 less women than men
I in the United States.
Minnesota is the only State that
permits^he marriage of girls 15 years
I old without the consent of nnr<?nt.M
Mrs. Henry C. Wallace, wife of the
Secretary of Agriculture, has won con
siderable fame as a writer for farm
journals.
The English Lutheran synod recently
denied women equal voting and
council rights with the men of the
church.
There are S70,'l 10 foreign-horn women
over 21 years of age living in
New York City, of whom ?60,255 have
been naturalized.
The preponderance of males over
females in 11)20 appears for every
State in the Union except Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, New York, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama, in which States the number
of males to 100 females ranges from
9G.3 in Massachusetts to 1)9.9 for
North Carolina. The District of Columbia
shows a greater excess of females
than appears for any, State; its
ratki being! only 87 to 100.
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NO 13.
RUNTS RESULT
FROM NEGLECT
Improper Feeding and Housing
Come in For
Share.
PREVENT RUNTS
IS GOOD ADVICE
Farmers Must Aim to Gain
Everything From Better
Methods.
| ''My nine years experience in stock
raising* has been almost entirely with
purebred cattle and hogs, and while
some runts appear at birth they are
not nearly so numerous as the runts
caused by neglect and improper feeding
and housing." This is the opinion
of a Tennessee farmer in a letter
to the United States Department of
Agricuitu re.
Specialists of the department emphasize
the fact that many animals
that are undersized or small at birts
often grow and develop into useful,
profitable animals if a little special
attention is given them soon after
birth. This is especially true with
pigs. Unless the small pig of the litI
tor is thus provided for when quite
young, very often it is not worth feedling
to maturity. If the proper kind
! or amounts of feed are not given
when very young, if required to compote
with stronger or older animals
for what they do get, born runts or
those that are undersized will become
more pronounced runts as they grow
older. In this respect they resemble
closely animals that are normal when
young but later become runty from
a lack of such proper feed and care
wmch usually occurs about weaning
time. After animals become runty
or their growth retarded, undoubtedly
it will take more feed to overcome
this condition and grow them out.
"When pi jjcs become runty," the
Tennessee farmer adds, "they never
oecome normal. 1 have estimated it
requires at least 25 per cent more
feed to put them in marketable condition
than it does normal hops. My
experience with pure-bred dairy cattle
is that fully DO per cent of runts
among cattle are caused by improper
feeding and care. If the stock raisers
of this country were educated in
the proper feeding and care of live
stock until they reached normal
growth, the runts in live stock in the
United States would be almost eliminated."
This statement not only further em
phasizes the fact that it does not,
K 11.. i
in wuuiy speaKing, take more to prevent
runt animals, but does require
considerable more feed to develop
them once they become runty. Also
that it rarely is advisable to feed out
a pronounced runt. The only practical
thing to do, therefore, is to prevent
runting by providing the necessary
feed, care and management at
he most critical period of their
growth and development. These
periods with most animals are when
very, young and at weaning time.
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The Gambling Urge
Sharpe?It is impossible to keep
some men from gambling.
Thorne?What causes you to say
that ?
They broke up the poker games in
our town and nut a ban on crapshootiug.
Well. c
And the next drv I saw a couple
of men following a woc.an and betting
odd or even o*.. the number of
times she fixed her hair while sh*
walked a block.?Richmond Times
Dispatch.
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vvnat is a Cieece.
Here is Kansas schoolboy's essay
on geese: Geese is a low, heavy-set
bird composed mostly of meat and
feathers. His head sits on one sido
and he sits on the other. Geese
can't sing much on account of the
dampness of the moisture. There
ain't no between to his toes and he
carries a toy baloon in his stomach
to "keep him from sinking. Some
geese when they get big are called
ganders and have curls on their tails.
Ganders don't have to sit and hatch,
but they just loaf and go swimming
and eat. If I was a goose I'd rather
be a gander anytime.?Exchange.
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GOES TO BDACH
E. M. Barnes, one of the officers of
the Montgomery Lumber Company
!i.1. 1 *
witn neaaquarters at Causey, S. C.,
passed through Conway last Wednesday
on his way to sper.d several days
at the Myrtle Beach Hotel. He was
accompanied b\ his wii'e and several
children.
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SUFFERS ACCIDENT.
Rev. Waterman M. Booth had a
near serious accident heir* one day
recently. His team was hitched near
one of the livery stalls on Laurel
Street. When he went to get the team
out the bridle was jerked through his
hands and the w;i#on struck him in
tho hip. His injury was painful but
did not prive to be serious.