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VOLUME XXXVI. FURMAN HUGHES SURRENDERED Bondsman Gives Him up But Defendant Makes New Bail RACIAL OFFENSE CHARGED IN WRIT Married a Girl of the Dimery Familv Out in Doff Bluff ^ ? ? - CI Township On September 1st Furman rtughes was given up by his bondsman, Andrew Dimery, and he was taken into custody by rural policeman, V. D. Johnson, at the order of the bondsman. The policeman took Hughes to Aynor before the new magistrate at that place, and Hughes made a new bond for his appearance at the court#of general sessions at the next ensuing term. The bail on the new bond is the defendant's father, Pick Hughes# Furman Hughes is charged in the court here with the crime of miscegenation, which means that he has married a woman of another race. The case was in the court at the last term, but for some reason was not called up and tried, and it appears that Hughes had threatened to run away and let his bail stand the trouble. It is stated that Hughes intermarried with a girl by the name of Dimery, and the prosecution claims that she does not belong to the white race of people as Hughes does, hence the warrant for his arrest several months ??a nt> nlnirirn ;>? ahllVft stilted. ?*? yj vrti vi i\y vaaMs^w %?.. It is likely that this case will he called and tried at the next term of the criminal court, which convenes cn the fourth Monday in this month. GETS MAD DOG. Chief Smith was sent after last Wednesday morning at an early hour to kill a large dog found to be acting queerly near the residence of J. j J. Sanders and J. G. Woodward. The * animal was foaming at the mouth y and showed other signs of rabies. The dog was killed. DR. BLANTONHAS APPOINTMENT Will be All-Time Instructor in Atlantic-Southern Dental Colleue ~ Dr. P. M. Wanton will leave Conway for Atlanta, Georgia, on October 1st where lie has accepted the po , tion of all day Instructor in the Al* lanta-Southcrn Dental College located in that city. It is a large school and has five or six hundred students at the present time. The col'ejre I teaches dentistry in all of its different branches including dental , surgery. Dr. lilanton has been located in Conway, occupying a suite of offices in the Herald Building for the past six or seven months and during that time has been very successful, having a large number of patients from this County and Marion. Many regret to see him leave, although this is quite an advantage to him. Dr. Blanton is in correspondence with a number of other good dentists, some of whom will locate in the same offices now occupied by him. JULIUS BOOTH PASSES AWAY Mr. Julius Booth, a well known citizen of this county and of the Adrian section, died at his home near Adrian last Thursday, Sept. 1 at 1 o'clock P. M., after being sick for i about two weeks. Ho was born Sept. 29th, 1847. He was 73 years old his last birthday. His wife preceeded him to the grave ten years. Mr. Booth leaves surviving him five sons: Fred Booth, Loris, S. C., Asbury Booth, Conway, S. C., R. T. Booth, of Conway, A. M. Booth, Adrian, S. C. and James Booth, of Adrian; and one daughter, Mrs Belle Graham, of Pauley Swamp. Mr. Booth was a confederate veteran, and was always a loyal and truthful citizen, and was highly esteemed in his community. Mr. Booth had been suffer> ing from Chronic. Bronchitis for sev 4 eral years and was attended during "his last stage of illne3s by Dr. H. L. Scarborough. His remains were laid to rest at Bakers Chapel cemetery, the burial services being conducted by Rev. D. D. Anderson. Mr. Booth was a member of the Baker's Chapel Baptist Cchurch and was a very faithful church worker so long as his physical condition would enable him. While we mourn his los* we have one consolation that he ie asleep with Jesus and some day his loved ones will meet him in that great beyond. A FRIEND. (The WAMPEE OFFICE DISTINGUISHED When Mrs Katherine Ward Makes Remarkable Showing MAY APPEAR ON tuc uhmhd nni i i iiu nui\i jn nuLL Howard T. Crce, Director of Savings Division, Writes Encouraging' Letter Postmistress Katherine Ward at Warn pee, S. C., has received a letter commending her actively in the sale of Government Saving Securities recently l'rom Howard T. Cree, director of the Savings Division of the Treasury Department in this district. "Your office is one where exceptionally good work has been done during the last six months in the sale of Government Savings Securities," the letter states and goes on to say "by encouraging people to save money you have helped to create the new captital necessary for business expansion and commercial development." She is in line for a place on the honor roll of those who are rendering special service in the popularizing of Government Savings Securities, which is to be made up by Treasury officials in the Fifth Federal Reserve District the latter part of the year und sent to Washincton. She is anxious to win one of the bronze honor pins to be awarded at that time, and is calling on the patrons ot the office to help place enough Government Savings Securities in the next threo months to gain this recognition. AGED MAN DIES. N. J. Booth, died last Thursday at his home in the Adrian neighborhood at the age of severity-four years. He was the father of R. T. Booth of the Burroughs and Collins Company, of Conway. .? IV ON VACATION. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Ambrose left here last week to be away for two weeks on vacation. They left Conway in their automobile. COTTONWHIT IMPROVE TIMES Better Prices Being Realized, and Farmers Feel Better The cotton that has been held in reserve by the farmers in this State will bring better prices than they expected, provided they do not rush it all on the market at one time. Recently when the price went up from a very low figure to round fifteen cents it made a number of people feel very much better than usual, and they had a right to feel better. Jt has been predicted that the price may go as high as twenty-five cent.-; before the beginning of the new year, if not even nigher than that. DRUNKENNESS INCREASES 65 PER CENT IN GREAT BRITAIN London.?Drunkenness increased by over 65 per cent in England during last year, according to official licensing statistics. The reaction after the wni'-nr?rifwl nf ?r?l?rinfvr w?i? tilinvi'ii htr " X 4V,V' V* ??VM?4VWJ ?? II KT,f 95,7G3 convictions, compared with 57,948 in 1919. There were only 29,075 convictions in 1918. The convictions of women were 3f> per cent more than in 1919, and more than double the total of 1918. A Daily Express, while admitting the figures are startling, attributes the increase in convictions to the continuance of early closing regulations enforced during the war and suggests that "people who are denied reasonable facilities for obtaining liquor, have taken in their resentmem more than was good for them when they could get it." The paper also holds that the closing of properly conducted saloons has led to the opening of many bogus clubs and illicit drinking dens. Official health returns for 1920 just issued indicate, on the other hand, that the nation as a whole is distinctly healthier. Tubercolosis figI ures are the lowest recorded since I ?~ ~ , i i'nu i/Uiii|;uiDUi y Iluti 1 itatii/i 1 V/a11iu jutv/ force. The number of deaths from consumption was 32,469. The infant morality rate, 80 per 1.000, is also the lowest recorded, while the birth rate rose from 18.5 m the previous year to 25.4 and the death rate, 12.4 shows a decline at most ages. _ A Heroic Measures. You and your husband go awaj 1 every summer, don't you ? 1 Yes, but I dislike doing it. 1 Then why do you pro? T have to have Tom live in a i stuffy hotel for a few NueeVs evew ' "ear to make him appreciate the 'vav I keep house.?Boston Transcript. I $ orr CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY, NEGRO MAN IS MURDERED Following Robbery of his Person and Small Shop and Dwelling INQUEST IS HELD OVErt REMAINS Anderson Small wac Timnftiu . ??? ff VVM AliUUgAH to Have Been Implicated in Ddath of Negro Boy Last Sunday morning u car driv ing along the road to Muriel's Inlet ] at an early hour, ran over the pros-1 trate form of a man whose feet were in the road, and upon investigation found it to be an old negro by th" lame of Anderson Small. He had been shot and killed sometime the night before. His body was found near his dwelling, a combination store and living room. His store was in tlie front and he slept in the back. The object was robbery. Anderson carried some money in a canvas sack and usually had it on hi* person. This sack was found empty near his body. Examination of the shop showed that it had evidently been robbed of a lot of goods. Magistrate J. W. McCormick summoned a jury of inquest and they found a verdict that he came to his death at the hands of person or persons unknown. Anderson Small is the SF.me negro who was under suspician fixe or six years ago of having killed a fatherless negro boy who had taken up with him. At the trial, however, it appeared that some stranger had come to the house where Anderson and the boy lived and called and shot the boy down, without a word, when he appeared at the door. It is now I fully believed that Anderson Small i WHW2 inr*^^ ?1 ...... .tinvv^iiv ui any wioil^ UDOUt the death of the negro boy and it is believed that the same person who shot this boy also killed Anderson Small. Later.?According to the facts developed at the inquest, Anderson Small was in tho habit of bringing his money to Conway in a satchel. This satchel is missing., and has., not )een found. Small's pockets were turned inside out. The store had been opened and apparently robbed. According to a statement by Small's partner, who worked with him in tho shop. Small was in the habit of )ringing the satchel above mentioned to town with him, and generally carried money in it. Small washot in the right hip, the 38 calibr.? bullett cutting one of the main arteries, and passing on through tho body. Dr. H. H. Burroughs called to <? pv?i mortem exammauon oi the body of Small. His statement before the officer was as follows: H. TT. Burroughs. M. I).. bring duly pworn says that ho has this day Sopt 4th, 1021 about one o'clock P. "T. examined tho dead body of Andersor S^nll a negro found dead in the public road near Burgess, Horry Ccunty South Carolina and slates that on inspection of the body.... he found deceased pants pockets turned inside out indicating that they had been emptied by some one stealing their contents. I can find no bruises or abrasions which would indicate any contact with an automobile or other vehicle. On examination of the body I fird the intestines protruding from the abdomial cavity through a round bullet wound in the lower 'ight abdominal wall, this bullet in my opinion was a 45 calibre penetrated the small intestine in two places and severed some largrt blood vessels in the right lower abdomen also fracturing the right hip bone the wound inflicted in the blood vessels allowing the blood to escape into the abdominal cavity being the cause of death, the wound was of such severity and the fractured bones of the hip and pelvis of such severity deceased could not have travelled any distance, and in my opinion he was shot and -died in road where the body was found. H. H. Burroughs, M. D. At last accounts the authorities have no idea who perpetrated this outrage. R.~CAUSE Y LEASES SHOP The barber shop in rear of tlv1 city hall which has been vacant foi several months, has been leased foi one year by A. B. Causey, who ha? been working his trade at Myrtle Beach during the present Summei season, to the entire satisfaction o\ a large circle of customers. There will be another associated with Causey in the shop. The fix tures now in use there will be re _i i _ r J l - puicea in u lew uuys uy some 01 ; more modern type and the citv water will be used in the bui'dinf The shop will have both hot aw1 cold running water from the cit> water system. A Send 'the News to the Her^Jd. \ , SEPTEMBER 8> 1921. LUNACY CASE < DISPOSED OF Dipiheria Reported in Severai' Sections of County DISEASE GERMS ARE FOUND IN WELL Typhoid Vaccine is Given to Number of Persons Exposed to These Germs Dr. H. H. Burroughs has been filling the position of counts health officer in Horry County for the period of one month. His appoint ment to this important place was an nounced in this paper several weeks ago. Since taking up the duties he has been very active in the interest of better health conditions in all sections of tne county as will appear by his report published below. He will make his report to ihe county commissioners about the first of each month. Already he has found where regulations are not being enforced. He has found the source of typhoid germs causing sickness in one big family and which mighi have caused sickness in an entire i neighborhood if he had not acted promptly in the matter. Diptheria I has broken out in more than one part of the county. Steps have been taken to control it. ' Two lunacy case^ have been handled.- He has examined various school premises and will take steps to inform those who used to know, the regulations concern ing the right kind of sanitation. His report for the month of August is highly interesting and marks the beginning of what will be one of the most valuable walks in Horry County that has been undertaken in. many years. His report in full follows: To The County Commissioners of Horry County. I herewith submit my report as County Health Officer for the month of August 1921. The first of the month I visited the Chain Gang camp near Wannamaker and inspected the camp, with the following results: The premises of the camps were very clean and every thing in goud condition, the kitchen was clean and this is properly protected from flies, the bedding in the "cage" is badly worn and some of the clothing, blankets, sheets, etc, will have to be refurnished as they are so badly worn that they will not do for winter use. On examination of tl^e convicts, on Chain Gang I found one with Venereal Disease. Have made nine visits to the jail and have treated Sol Brown convict, and four prisoners. August .3rd 1 carried Mrs. Gertie Hardee, a lunatic, who had wandered pAvav from her home in Marion County to Horrv County, and under the laws regulating admission of patients to State Hospital she could not be sent to this institution from this county, and delivered her to the Probate Judge of Marion County, who had her examined to Lunacy an l committed her to the State Hospital for the Insane. Ha>ve also examined Eliza Burgasser as to Lunacy who L .1 Kaa?\ i f ' n/1 a 4 \s r\ Qf o f i <ir> i/ucii H'lii.nkUi'vi tw v-1 * v, Hospital. August 7, I made a microscopical examination of a specimen of water taken from a well used by the family of Jere Cook who lias typhoid fever. This examination proved that the well of water was highly infected with the typhoid germs and I recommended that the water he used no more, that the well hi? filled up, which recommendations have been complied with, and the following persons who have been exposed to this disease, by use of this water, have been given the typhoid vaccine furnished by the South Carolina State Board of Health: Mrs Jere Coolc. Jessie Cook, Mary Cook, Edna Cook, Robert Cook, Eva May Cook, Walter Cook, L. W. Cooper, Mrs. L. W. Cooper. Alton Cooper. Velma Cooner, Malcum Cooper, Mrs. John Parker, W. C. Clarady. T find on inspection of many School House premises that the regulations for Schools prenared by the State Board of Health of South Carolina have not been complied with as to Rules, 3, 4 and 5. , 1 T will secure this information in pamphlet form from the State Board ot Health and turn them over to the - Superintendent of Education for dis. tribution to the Trustees of the Publie Schools of Horry Countv in order that the law may be complied with. Diptheria, near Socastee has been reported to me, I have advised the . Trustees of the Socastee School not to open school before the 12th of September, which they have agreed to do in order that the period of in' eubation and quarantine, as pre scribed by the State Health Department, shall have been complied with; this school will also be inspected on ' the morning of its opening. Diptheria has been reported in the I Murrel's Tnlet and Burgess sections. ' as has Wampee section. The State laws are being complied with in these sections. H. H. burroughs, M. D. CARS (COLLIDE ON HIGHWAY Warrants Taken out for Arrest and Search of Vehicle FINED ll\l TOWN FOR SPEEDING Buick Six and Ford Touring" Car Almost Demolished in Headon Collision A Ford touring car and new Buick six of the 11)22 model, ran together on the national highway here last Saturday night at about 8:80 o'clock. Both machines were nearly demolished, the steering gears being broken, springs and other parts torn up; but there were no deaths, though several were injured severely. The Ford was being driven by Rupert McNeill. He lives on the public road between Conway and Little River. With his family he had gone to witness a ball game and was returning with his wife in the car when the accident happened. The Buick car came through from Andrews, S. C., where the occupants had been engaged in the tobacco ware house this year. They were on their way back home ip North Carolina. They had gone by Myrtle Beach and passed through Conway on their way out on the national highway. While passing through Conway they went at high speed and later were arrested by town policemen for high speeding and paid a fine of $25.00 for this. They were near the turn in the road not far from the residence of Dr. Jas. A. Norton, when they ran into the Ford car. The Ford was coming into Conway while the Buick was passing out from the town limits. The injured cars were both piled up on the left hand side of the road going out from the town, so that it appears that the Ford was right in keeping to the right, while the other car must have I stuck to the left which was the der the circumstances. The Buick was in the ditch. The names of the occupants of the big car could not be learned except one, and this was Paschal Irby. There were two other young men with him in the car at the time. A warrant was sworn out at once by McNeill charging1 the three men with reckless driving on the public highway. McNeill's wife was not in very good health and it is not known what the damage may be in regard to her. Sooi. about fifty men gathered at the place of the accident. "Rural policeman V. TX Johnson placed the men under arre-t and later turne-' t.hein over to sheriff J. A. Lewis who had the warrant. There was a-1 so r search warrant issued in ordei* to search the car for liquor. This war done? and one ciuai't of "bottled ir bond" was found in one of the valises. and nart of another ciuart of the same kind of whiskey was found hid a short distance from tho road. The rion resisted arrest and search t< some extent one of them threatening to get a pistol from his valise. He \v:is not allowed to do this as several men in the crowd were ready to as*sist the policeman in performing hiduty whenever called into service. KEPORTED DEAD William Kulchycko, a shoemaker, recently married was taken to the Florence infirmary some days ago for an operation. After he had arrived there his wife received a telepram here that he was not expected to live. It has been reported about the streets that he is dead but no confirmation of this could be obtained up to Tuesday morning. WOOD AND CONCRETE. Shortage of steel led to the use of wood for reinforcing concretc during the war. Early in 1918 an Italian engineer reinforced concretc beams with wooden lattice-work and experiments have been made in Austria to determine the best pro portion and method of use of the wood. A German beam has rein forcement of steel for tension and of wood for compression. It is held that this type of construction maj have practical advantages and the placing of the wood at the top give*convenience for attaching boards etc. LORIS STORE STILL GOING Tt turns out that the Herald wa< misinformed about the Sparks Com pany having discontinued their stor< at Loris. The fact is that they ar< still conducting tfieir store at tha place. The information came to th< paper from a source that was though to be reliable or the item would no have been printed at all. This correction is published in thi issue to correct any harm that ma; have been done this enterprisinj company. ' \ NO. 21 DMNI&US IS NEW AVENUE Along Which Will Come More Business for Conway and Other Towns MARKS CHANGE OF IMPORTANCE i What the Railroad Company Should Have Done Many Long Years Ago The establishment of the omnibus lino between Conway and Marion on yesterday, September 7th, marked a change in the conditions of travel from and to Conway, such as never was promised by the railroad companies. This change is welcomed by every citizen of this county, and certainly is appreciated by every commercial traveller visiting this point or any of the nummerous small towns and villages in Horry County. It puts Conway on the map as to coming and attending to business and then getting away within any reasonable time. Before this it was inconvenient in many respects. The line has the capacity for twenty passengers am' it is understood that this capacity can be increased as increased travel demands. The manager, L. N. Bagnall, will accommodate the business men. stores, and citizens generally by delivering messages, packages, along the route, and he will, in a thousand ways aid in the transaction of more business through that section of Horry county which has so long been cut otT from ouick connection with the outside world and from the rest of the county. The coming of this enterprise is due in large measure to the building of the good hard road between here and Galivants Ferry. Already we se? the advantages of this good road. We easily draw the inference that good roads in other sections of this county would be equally instrumental in building up those sections with new enterprises and new advantages for their people. It would appear that the Atlantic : Coast Line should have made connection at Marion or some other point on the main line of its property long years ago. It would have cost them something, r>f course, but it would have paid them better than many of the investments they did make. This link between Aynor and Marion, if not built before, should have been done as soon as the Coast Line bought out the Conway, Coast & Western Railroad, a number of years ago. It would have opened up a rich section of Horry that would have developed very rapidly and would have made big business for the railroad company. Now the omnibus line has done the same thing that the railroad company should have done in the interest of itself and of the people it served. COUNTY CLERK RETURNS HOME Mr. and Mrs. George Ollicer returned last Friday from a stay of a about two months visiting relatives in the West. While away they visited Howard Little in Los Angeles, California, Mr. and Mrs. J. Says Dusenbury, at Salem, Oregon, and their son, Harry Officer, in Portland, Oregon. Dur ing the absence of Mr. Officer his id tUn nf ill A hhJHvl ) / I ? I V. V- III HIV "IIIVV ' v" v """ * ? county commissioners was ably filled by A. II. Long. 0Dicer says that he spent one of the happiest vacations of his life. JOHN RABON HAS COLLISION Another Car Does the Damage and Painfu'ly Injures Him John Rabon was painfully injured and his automobile almost demolished last Sunday afternoon, when another [ car ran into him. John lives near I Cool Spring and has a lane running straight out to the public road. As he at. 3 driving out of this . lane another car was passing along the public road and ran into him tearing off the fenders and doing other damage. His car went on across the road and took up in the i dit^K r nnv.? j..:..... < v. _ *. iiiv uiiwi ui uie uuier car goi away as quickly as possible. Tlie , name of the driver of the other car was not learned. o 3 Speed was once the only considera2 tion in getting poultry to market, hut t now to this has been added pood ^ handling and refrigeration, from start t to finish. The time the produce would keep was so short that the t whole course of marketing had to be rushed. Now it's a matter of mains taming even refrigeration. v o ? In Japan dresses are frequently sold by weight. ,