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I VOLUME XXXVI. GRAND JURY WILL HANDLE At Least Consider the Matter of The Bellamy Injiiv/i iayc ACCOUNT MADlf BY EXPERTS : Shows Shortage of Over $10,000. Private Accountant Finds item Reducing this The Grand Jury of the County i will, no doubt, take notice this week of the reported shortage in the office of the County Treasurer. The present Treasurer went into the office on July 1st and he receipted for the funds that belonged to the County that were on hand on that date, about $62,000.00; and amounting to this report of the firm of Bourke and Campbell, ejcpert accountants, employed by the Comptroller General, this amonut for which Mt. Barker receipted lacked about $16,000.00 of being the amount that should have been turned over to him. The expert accountants who made up this report after a careful audit of all of tho books, have officos in Georgetown and At lanta, Georgia. Mr. O. P. Bourke of the firm is a resident of Georgetown and his firm is frequently employed by State officials to investigate books and make up accurate statements of the finances. This report mad*? by the experts covers >ne year extending from July 1st, 1920 to June 30th, 1921, and it gives he net shortage in the County's unds as $10,850.25. This amount includes tax penalies of the year of 1918 amounting o $3,528.98. By tax penalties we nean the extra percentage added 10 the tax by reason of their not !aving been paid on time. The law rovides a graduated scale of inreasing penalties, the longer the ix payers put off their payments Ve judge from this report that the surer must have collected for 11 the penalties except the year which is still against him as i\V f the items of shortage. Just hat action the Grand Jury will ike cannot be known until they \\v<> finished up their work for the rrn and make their final presentlent. The Bonding Company, who responsible for this amount of jjoney, urfless, of course, it should i paid by Mr. Bellamy, took some gtion lately by preparing to make demand on Mr. Bellamy for the jney, no doubt with the view of zing the foundation for a lawsuit ainst him in the matter. ' Mr. J. S. Vaught, the Agent of 2 Company, had a telegram from > manager of the Company rerding the matter. The Agent said ? Bonding Company would pay as >n as they had time to thoroughly 'estigate and make certain that f shortage as reported is correct, in the meantime, as stated last ek, the ex-treasurer is having the >ks thoroughly audited by an Acftntant employed by him. We are !. authorized to publish the name the expert but the expert has ?d that he has found an item of >00.00 which will certainly reduce amount found by the other In and make the shortage that Ich less, but when this news came the audit had not been finally gipleted. o i A. TYLER MAKES FAILURE A. Tyler, a country merchant he Allsbrook section made an asment on September 14th, to G. flu tier, as assignee for the bene,of creditors. It was not defi. y known here as to the amount he indebtedness of Tyler, but :? is one claim alone amounting ver seven hundred dollars. There a number of claims it appears, e first meeting of creditors was for Loris on Friday, September Her was thought to he sound fiially and certainly had a pretty credit with the wholesale >s of the country. LL PURCHASE PIPE ORGAN Cff I. Lewis is the chairman of irmt4-ee appointed some time ago f 11?rlo n mr* cA n nino IU5U luinw anu I'uitna^ u for the Conway Methodist h. Dr. Lewis has found time ly to put in much time in talk- I lis up and has already written > manufacturers of several dif, makes of instrument. ns are in the making1 for the h- of the necessary money and jpo organ i . an assured fact, instrument, which will be mod. very reopoct, will b*> installed new Methodist Church. bribe W> the Herald only $2.00^ <Ehf SHELLY GUILTY OF BASTARDY Formerly Was Tried for Seduction and Cleared L.. I uy jury The case of bastardy against Burne Shelley wan tried last Monday in the | Court of General Sessions. At a former term of the court the J defendant was tried for seduction by i the same prosecution and he was acquitted of the charge. After the acquittal of the defendant on the charge of seduction, the bastardy charge was commenced and resulted in this trial, as the defendant denied that he was the father of the infant in question. The State swore a young woman who went on the stand and said that the child she was holding on her lap was the offspring of Burns Shelley, the defendant. She was cross examined at length by the attorney for the defendant, but nothing seemed to be effective in changing her oath as to the parentage of the child. The baby in court was an unusually i fine looking female infant. It was lusty and nad every appearance of perfect health. It attracted the at; tention of many, just as 'any other good looking baby will do, and it had the pity of many in the thought that this poor little innocent, result of somebody's sin, was here in court without knowing the significahce of its position in society. The defendant was found guilty. He was sentenced to make the bond in the sum of $300, conditioned for 4-U^ i ? f li-or - ii. - it mr: payinciiL 01 uu mt' moiner OI the child for twelve consecutive years. , This is what the law provides in such cases. On failure to make the bond, defendant would be imprisoned. CONFEDERATE REUNION Chattanoga, Tenn.?The Confederate Reunion Committee, through its committee on finance, has been making a drive this week for the fund* necessary to entertain the reunion to he held here October 25 to 27 inclusive, with the result that the sum already pledged insures the financial success of the enterprdise. More than half the sum decided on as the minimum amount was secured the first day of the drive, which, -so far as known here, sets a record for collections for a Confederate Reunion. Before the end of the week all of the money needed to finance the reunion committer v. ill have been secured. Interest throughout Confederate Territory in the reunion has increased wonderfully within the past week. The indications now are that i i . i I ...Ml l- 1 - mo attendance win no lar^r irom all of the Southern States and also from some of the border states. Men who have been watching reunion* for several years forecast a crowd of 35,000 to 40,000 while others nlace the attendance in excess of these figures. n SHOWS IMG SNAKE N. T. Collins was in Conway last Thursday showing one of the largest rattle snakes ever captured in tin's section of South Carolina. This snake was dead, of course. He was brought in hanging to the back of Mr. Collins* wagon. This snake measured five feet in length and about eight or nine inches in circumference. Quite a crowd of people gathered round the wagon on Main Street to look at this snake. o COUNTY CONVENTION AT AYNOR A SUCCESS The County Sunday School convention held at Aynor on Tuesday, September 27, was a great success in every respect. Mr. Leon C. Palmer from the state association was there and gave several helpful talks dnrinf the day. Dr. J. C. Atkinson of the Conway Methodist Church ill so gave a very good talk during the morning session. The convention opened at 10:30 o'clock and the following officers were present: W. M. Goldfinch, president; P. G. Holiday, secretary; Paul Quattlebaum, treasurer; J. F. Harper and P. M. Coleman, district presidents. We had about seven preachers present, representing the Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist churches in the county. Twenty-four Sunday schools were represented, this being the most r<AU/\/\1ci tlf a U 1?a nttAtl Imi/1 UAIMlAKArtf a/I nvuui'io wu nave tvui iki\i i i;|mi;r?unicu at a county convention before. Great pood should come from this as no one could attend one of these meetings without being a better Sunday school worker. . During the afternoon session Mrs. \. C. Thompson and Mrs. C. H. Sniler gave very helpful talks on prinary and junior work. The county allotment was raised in full at the convention. Horry was 'to first county to do this. The people of Aynor gave the contention a most hearty reception. The huvch had been decorated with green slants and other suitable flowers. They ahio served a delightful dinner n the church grounds. Special music was al>o rendered by local tai nt, rhe convention closed with ;j. st<> icling or tharlcs to Aynor *V>r the splen- ; did way in which they received uv. ^ Send the News to the Herald. pjarr CONWAY, S. 0 , THURSDAY, COURT PROCEEDS WITH TRIALS The Court of General Sessions convened at Conway last Monday morning with His Honor, Frank B. Gary as the presiding judge. At an early hour the usual court week crowd began to gather in Conway. Witnesses and jurors were apparently here on time. The judge and the solicitor and the court stenographer all arrived in Conway on Sunday night. The court v/as opened ^11 A ? A I I 1 promptly at iv o ciock. The first business attended to was the swearing1 of witnesses for the grand jury. This took up about one hour of the time of the solicitor. This was followed by the general, charjre of the court covering the crimes alleged in the various indictments and then the grand jury retired for the purpose of considering these matters. a great number of different crimes changed, but there was an absence of heinious crimes from the docket, as compared to the number of cases before the court. There was no case of great interest set for trial at this term. The great majority of the cases involved charges of assault and battery, petty larceny, violation of liquor laws and the violation of various other special statutes of the ponal code. The couit went ahead with the trial of the cases pending and made rapid progress. Solicitor L. M. Gasque took hold of the business in hand with his uvut'.l zeal and disposed of many longstanding matters. He is a tireless worker ail through the days of court week. His record for keeping clean /I ^ 10 wnfU U i ^ Inn WUVi\^. I m wn 111^, MH.il liio vjh.ii ing experience in the criminal courts us state prosecuting officer. The court, in its chary:? to the p.rand jury, called attention to the evident prevalence of crime in this .-state and the taking of the law into the hands of the perpetrators. He said ii was time for the law abiding people to organize for the punishment and prevention of crime. He said we nmst take hold or the time of anarchy is nigh. He stated the causes as he understood it for this tendency among the reasons being the late war, the low price of cotton and the making of illicit whiskey. The State vsl H. J. Prince, charged with keeping a disorderly house, was called in the absence of defendant, who did not appear. No reason appeared for the failure of defendant to appear. The state went ahead to try him iin his absence and a jury was empanelled. It soon appeared in the evidence that this was the house where George P. Prince was killed by Morgan Todd sometime last year. Todd was tried for the killing and is now serving a term of three years on the public works. Testimony was given by a number ot witnesses snowing tnat cursing and fighting had gone on there; that some of them were drunk; and that the general reputation of the house was had. N. M. Gause testified he lived near the place and that he saw l>oys and girls going to and from the house. He said the reputation of the house was had and that Morgan Todd had caused H. J. Prince to be indicted. Isaac Holmes told of seeing bad company at the house, though he had not. been to the house for two years before George Prince was killed. Emma Holmes testified to bad conduct at the home of H. J. Prince; and the state here closed the case, and the jury retired to the room to consider the finding of their verdict. At this time the defendant, H. J. Prince arrived in the courtroom and informed the solicitor that he had been delayed in coming to the court. The court then called the jury back to their seats and stated that as Prince had come to court, the case would be tried over so that the defendant should have a fair trial. Prince had no lawyer, but Jooked after his own case. Prince got a chance to make a showing in his own behalf and he succeeded remarkably well for an unlearned man; he showed that Morgan Todd had been stilling liquor in partnership with his son, George F. Prince, and that he could not break this up until after this killing took place and then J conditions improved. It appeared that] this prosecution grew out of about the same trouble as that which caused the killing of George F. Prince. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and the aged defendant was sentenced to serve three months in the public works . The State vs. Otto Guyton, charged with perjury, was also called up and was dismissed by the solicitor, it appearing that satisfaction of several matters had been made by parties since the last term of the court. The court then took up the State vs. Burne Shelley, charged with seduction. o DAWSEY AT REHOBOTH Rev. Cyrus B. Dawsey, a returned missionary from Brazil will lecture ,?t "ehnboth Methodist Church on th-? first ^undav in October at H oVloci on the subject. "Our Missionary Work In Brazil." They are expecting a large audience, on that clay as this is the church from which the Rev. Mr. Dawsey went into the work seven years ago. At 3:30 Rev. Jamey Best will fi'I the regular appointment a; Pisgah church. % I s* SEPTEMBER 29, 1921 MYSTERY IN A SHOOTING Mystery partly surrounds the shooting* of Alex. Bourn and another younj? man by the name of Davis last Sunday nisrht at about o'clock. Bourne was strucq in the hand with buckshot while Davis was shot almost to death. Davis was taken to the hospital, where he was expected to die. No reason has been ferretted out for the affair. The boys were shot by Charley Prescott, an elderly white farmer, who lives on the Dog Blu-T road. The sheriff went to Prescott's house and was told by Mrs. Presscott that her husband had left with his gun and some shells. Later Prescott was located but no warrants had been sworn out. According to the story told by Alex Bourne he and Fulton Davis were leaning against the Prescott fence talking, when the shot was fired, and according to him the shooting was withoutSmy provacation. Examination of the premises, it is said, shows signs of blood inside of the Prescott yard. The father of young Davis is dead. CASES TRIED WITH RESULTS Several Criminal Cases Disposed of Quickly by the Court The court disposed of the jail cases first this week. The work was disposed of very rapidly. George Bland, charged with the breaking of the store of Sasser Bros., at Myrtle B<ach was tried on Monday afternoon. The defendant is a negro boy of about 14 VOfi rc nf rro Tl^n of r?>v? \\M?O tlir* / VIH VA ^ ^ 1 llVy CVViU '? III. Ill tliv> end of the Annex of the Myrtle Beach Hotel. The store carried cigars, cigarettes, and other things. Ernest Sasser, a member of the firm testified he missed goods from the store and found them at the house of another defendant where George Bland lived. There was no < ther proof made and the state consented to a directed verdict of not guilty. The next case called was against the same defendant, George Bland, oil a charge of stealing from the depot at Myrtle Beach. He was defended by G. Lloyd Ford by appointment of the court. The defendant was cleared by the jury. Fred Alston pleaded guilty to larceny and was sentenced to three years, on the reformatory farm for colored boys. The state vs. John Edge was called and tried. The defendant was charged with the larceny of two buggy wheels and a sack of fertilizer of the value of $45.00 from A. A. Graham, at Aynor. Fred Alston pleaded guilty to housebreaking and was sentenced to c>n<> year. John Edge, tried on a charge of larceny, was found guilty of the charge and was sentenced to two years in the public works of Horry County or a like period in the State penitentiary. The State vs. Eddy Williams ended by a plea of guilty and defendant was sentenced to the penitentiary. The State vs. Thomas Gaddy, charged with stealing from the store of Solomon Scherr. Scherr's store had been robbed when some one raised the sash and took out a suit of clothes. Gaddy was connected with the crime by the testimony of Ulins Johnson, who said he had seen this man reaching a pole inside the window of the Scherr store, and later saw him coming out between two shops with a dark suit of clothes on his arm. The State vs. Jimmie Jones was tried on a charge of burglary arid i _l ~ ii..l _ 1* i. larceny unci resulted in a veruici ox guilty, and be was sentenced to a term in the reformatory. Furman Hughes pleaded guilty to the charge of miscegenation and was sentenced to hard labor for twelve months or pay a fine of $500. Otto Guvton was tried on a charge of purjerv in swearing at a former term of the court that he had not gotton from Frank W. Sessions a check on the Conway National Hank for the sum of $100. It happened last spring, when Guy ton was being tried on a charge of obtaining goods by false pretenses and at which time ho had denied getting such a check, such statement being considered material to the case then being tried. ( < OTHER CASES The State vs. W. Clem Ray was 1 tried on Tuesday afternoon. The par- < ticulars of this .affair appeared in the i Herald some time ago at the time of the occurrence. ] Otto Guyton was convicted of ps-1- i jury and was sentenced to pay a f.ne < of SI00 and s vve n sentence it ha. d * labor for a period of six months. < ??7?r 1 AsTTFTe coos on ar-J ous; ess ? .?crease < in amount and kinds, the demand for blank forms on which to transact it increase; ivnd theVe is really nothing in tlic world today that can save so much time as these in the transaction of businea. mlit. METHODISTS WANT PLANT Launch Movement to Raise Hi r- _ ? ivieuessary runas ror S. S. Building The Methodists in Conway are very much interested just now in plans for raising the funds to build their church a modern Sunday School plant, such as there is nothing like just now in the state. The project was brought up several months ago as the need for i^ore room for the Sunday School classes grew imperative. An architect was employed to pv? pare plans for adding to the oi l church building making the old and the new into o modern structure in keeping with the style of the new church; also t-> look into the matter of adding a second story to the old building and h<1 ding the needed class rooms on this second floor. A meeting of the trustees and stewards of the church was h?ld at the church last week to consider further. The plans had beer received from the architect and thes? were spread upon the table fjv all to see. Two contractors were present and giv* their view:' of the con uuc.fr both } Inns. T*?y?* was much discussion of the best time to ask for pledges. Before the meeting was ended several pledges wore taken from those present, but it was decided to place this work in the .*.and.s of the committee. The plans made by the architect, if carried out would give the Conway church the most modern Sunday School olant in the State of South Carolina, possibly the only thin# n? its kind, and costliness, in the South. Plans show three floors, basement, second and third floors the basement fitted with kitchen and dining rooms, clo ;ets and modern conveniences. The meeting* held last week showed that the Methodists are determined in this matter and there will be more to print about this improvement a little later. 24,0(MTKILLED WHILE AT WORK 3.000,000 Hurt in American Industries in Year. Preventive Movement On Washington. ?Twenty-four thousand American workmen were killed by industrial accidents last year. Throe million were injured. Of these 3.000 were hurt so severely that they never were able to go back tc work. This means that eighty men were killed every working day last vear or ten every hour in an eight-hour day. Ten thousand were hurt every day, ten of them permanently incapacitated. These figures are estimates of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor. Actual figures cannot be had, for seven states do not report accidents or fatalities and others are slow about reporting. But the skilled statisticians of the labor department, who have been studying industrial accidents for years, can make a very close estimate, just .is life insurance statisticians can tell you when you are likely to die. Here is a table of figures for last year: K;,led in accidents 24,000 Permanently disabled 3.000 Temporarily disabled 3,000,000 Disabled one to 14 days 2,000,000 Disabled two to four weeks.. 500,000 Disabled more than 4 weeks.. 000,000 Permanent partial disabilities 65,400 Loss of one eye 5,000 Loss of one hand or arm 2,000 Loss of one foot or leg 1,000 Loss of one finger or part 45,000 Loss of 2 or more fingers 7,500 All other injuries 3,000 Official figures of earlier years show that steam railways cause more industrial fatalities than any other big industrial group and that fatalities are least frequent in the ore dressing industry . The industrial hygiene section of the United States Public Health Serv- ] ice is doing its utmost to bring down the appalling total of accidents and) fatalities. NOT AT <CON\VAY "Fatty Arbuckle is known in every corner of the world by botn :>!d and young; and in every corner ^f the world both old and youn? have read of his present plight whereby he is now confined in a California jail charged with murder. In most places where his comedy pictures were due to be shown, the managers of the theatres cut them >ut; but so far as we have found Dut there were no "Fatty" pictures lue in this section of South Carolina since the alleged crime ?n More Truth Than Poetry. Mary had a little sl'irfc, The latest style no doubt And everytime she gets inside, She's more than half way out.? Selected. J?, NO. 24. CONWAY HAS OPPORTUNITIES According to Those Who Ought To Know That It Has NO KNOCKER IS A BUILDER Town and Section Grows Into n i - - ? ? greatness Dy Efforts of the Faithful There are evidently some business men at Conway who have no faith in the future of their town. They are not many, and we are glad this is so. In the opinion of those who have lived here for years and have done well, there is no better place in the whole country; none with better prospects for big business now in the present time, and still bigger in the time to come. Therefore, if those who render this opinion, being in position to know what they are talking about, say that this is so, others who have been here for only a shorter time, should believe it, and shape their actions accordingly. There is opportunity at Conway for just as much and as biff a business aa a man in any line wants. The trouble with many people is that they <Jo not really want to serve the people wholeheartedly and increase what thov do for them from time to time,, simply because it means more work and more worry. Where we find a man who is willing to go to any trouble and any expense to accomodate those who patronize him, we find one who i* making rapid headyway in the community. The dead head is dead nod and will remain dead. His plans of life and service are not in keeping with progress and never will be . His great business is finding fault with his town and his opportunities. He is a knocker now, and he will be nothing except a knocker in the time to come. He has no faith in himself, none in the *\A/\ nlrt r* %% *-1 ?? " * ? - a1 . i/vwpiU) cum nunc in tiiiyiniu^* The live men ave the ones who will make Conway one of the biggest and host towns through the coming: years. Tl oso who will do it are the ones who have faith in Conway and faith in this section of the State. They are the ones who have had visions of the future and they are carrying those visions in their minds now. They have plenty of faith and this great faith will abide with them. Those who make it a business to go about knocking have no place in modern progress and the improvement of any town or country. Those who have the right view take a dif T * * ici cno course. i noy ^o ancail to use the opportunities which are theirs and with faith in the ultimate results of what they will achieve, spent their efforts and their money in the service of others. They have succeeded and leserved it, and they will continue to succeed and will deserve it. SUBMARINE SINKS IN PACIFIC Water Rushes Into Craft From an Open Torpedo Tube San Pedro, Calif.?Three men are now believed to have lost their lives when the submarine U-C> sank in the harbor here last ni^'ht as a result of an unexplained accident, the submarine base stated. Los Angeles.?The submarine R-6 attached to the Pacific fleet sank In (he harbor at San Pedro due, it is believed, to water rushing* through an open torpedo tube. Two members of the crew are believed to have been drowned when :he craft sank within sixty seconds. Two submarines began searching for the bodies of the crew and a naval investigation to determine the cause of the disaster is to be launched immediately. Lieutenant Chambers, who was in command, is reported to have been the last to make his escape from the submarine II-(5 when it sank, and aided other members of the crew unable to swim to yet to thn lifo , - ? ?.<W I* ? V */\'H vo UUU places of safety. CORRECTION MADE It was stated in a news item in our last issue that a shot had been fired at Myrtle Beach ami that it mivr'nt have been Intended for Mr. Krnest Sasser, who was in his room at the Myrtle Beach Hotel, at the time. This tuns out to be a mistake as the shot was tired by some drunken men in the hotel yards and wa*; not intended for anybody. Investigation showed that it was doubtless fired by accident. ? o J. C. Wilson, who is with Rev. S C. Morris in the running of the busi: ness college at Ay nor. S. ?>., as a I separate department of the Horry Industrial School, .<pe.4 :;onu (.Imo in Conway last S.'.t,.;: *< . / ( !u:v>- on our ? business mew. He i.< enUiitsiastic about the school ;'nd expect; to help make it ouite a s-jcness. t i v ,