The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 18, 1922, Image 1
VOLu. ME XXXVII
ANDREWS CASES
G$T DISMISSED
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ivu oicuu\ wiuit^oeo Hpjjedi iu
Testify \Before Magistrate
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EICHELBEF^GER NOW TALKS
Was Told CoViviction Could Not
Be Had in \The Georgetown
Courts, 'fake Warrants
The wholesale^, raiding of liquor
dens in Andrews,\ S. C., turned out
to he a farce, according to the Georgetown
Times as intiVnated in a recent
issue of that excellent publication.
The readers of thk Herald remember
the story of the fyig raid made at
Andrews recently wherein a numbw
of storekeepers and including two
magistrates were hailed before the
officers, their places searched under
search warrants and a sensation created
such as that section of the state
never had before.
All of the accused stillers and retailers
of the joy juice were bound
over to appear before the magistrate
ih Georgetown t6 answer to these
crimes. On the day appointed for
the hearings there was not a single
state witness present to testify
against the defendants. Even W. C.
Kichelberger, the state prohibition
constable, failed to meet the Georgetown
preliminaries.
In the meantime the people of
Georgetown as well as those of Andrews
felt astonished that following
such a wholesale exposure of whiskey
rottenness there had not been better
attention paid to the handling of the
parties in the courts.
"I was never summoned for the preliminary
trial of the Andrews liquor
cases; and so far as I know, none of
the ofiicers in the raid were ever
summoned for it," W. C. Kichelberger,
state prohibition constable in
Florence, said in reply to the report
of the Georgetown Times of the preliminary
trials of these cases. "If
the magistrate released the defendants
it was not because the ofiicers
ignored any summons and failed willfully
to attend the hearing. That
much 1 know.
"Further. I want the public to know
that the courts are not closed to me
at all, and everyone of these defen
i dants will bo brought to trial before
this case is closed. If the state courts
do not wish to handle the cases I will
carry them to the federal courts. As
a state officer I had wished merely to
give the state courts some of the
business.
"W e've got the evidence of these
parties selling whiskey, with dates
and persons, and the public, along
with them may rest assured they will
be tried"
In this connection Mr. Eichelberger
displayed a letter from the attorney
of some of the defendants. This attorney'
says his clients will be compel
le<i to plead guilty if they are
brought into court.
"When I went to the sheriff's office,
Georgetown county," further said
Mr. Eichelberger, "one of the officers
told me he did not believe we could
get a conviction in Georgetown county
of anyone for doing liquor business.
He said he had brought several cases
to court, with positive evidence, and
every one of them had been turned
loose.
"The state courts of Georgetown
county can turn loose their bootleggers
if they wish, but they cannot
o*?t iii'mind Hip fpdpvnl ronrt with mp.
0 T've been an officer for thirteen years,
in various capacities and have yet to
.ail to answer my first summons to
court."
Mr. Eichelberger was quite emphatic
in his statements and position
and impresses one that he means business
in the Andrews cases. These
cases, involving a number of leading
merchants and some magistrates of
that section, were made in a wholesale
roundup of alleged and suspected
bootleggers in Andrews. When t *.r
cases were called before Magistrate
"House in Georgetown for preliminary
hearing, the state's witnesses were
not present. Attorneys for the defense
moved to dismiss for want of
prosecution, and the magistrate did
go, stating, however, that the defendants
were still liable for prosecution
under the charges. The Georgetown
Times did not mince matters in calling
to ta?V tlu. state's officers for arresting
prominent citizens of Andrews
and then failing, it is alleged, to
meet them in court.
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VISITS CONWAY
George W. McCay of Charlotte,
general agent of the Goodyear Tire
& Rubber Co., visited Conway last
weeft and has arranged to advertise
' the products of the company in the
Herald, hrough their local dealers,
O.w.l, VI ,.4 .\i< PAnmonif
tlie I >in. I\ W/Ilipuiltr.
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RUNS FOR JUDGE
Tho friends of C. Hinson Spivej
placod his card in our last issue announcing
him as a candidate for the
office of Judge of Probate. For several
years past he has been engaged
in farming and }in the general real
estate business, handling fertilizers
from the leading companies.
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HORRY'S QUOTA
AT CONVENTION
'Itinerary For State Campaign
1 Will Come Out Next
Week
OPENS END OF JUNE
First Primary Will be Pulled
off On Tuesday August
2 9th
The State Democratic Convention
met in Columbia, S. C., yesterday,
May 17. The delegates from Horry
county, so far as could be learned,
were all present and participated in
the deliberations of the body.
The delegates from this county
were Mrs. George J. Holliday of GalJivant's
Ferry;-Miss Annie Derham,
oV Green Sea; Mrs. M. J. Bullock, of
Lori'w; Messrs. W. L. Bryan, D. A.
Spivey and E. J. Sherwood, all of
Conway; precinct. The alternates
were H. K. Cooke, George J. Holiidav,
S. H. Brown, W. A. Prince, G. L. Ford,
E. S. C. Baker and J. P. Derham.
It was, not known that any local
contests 'from the different counties
would be \presented in the state convention.
/A full report of the proceedings
will appear in the Herald in
It was* understood that several
counties would present protests
against the action taken in some of
the county conventions recently held. I
The first primary election will be
held on Tuesday, August 29. There)
may be a second and a third primary
'?o follow. Politics will likely be hotter
than for several years past, the
contests for state office will be warm
and tfciere will be a contest over the
congressional seat from the sixth district.
;
W is expected that the campaign
for counly and state oinces win start
out about the last week in June. On
last 11 iKhl, in Columbia, the state democratic
committee met for the purpose
of attending to important business
affairs of the party, and among
the things they are supposed to have
done is the fixing of the itinerary for
the candidates in the campaign for
state offices. *
There will be much more about
these matters in the next issue of
the Herald.
An examination of the candidates'
column of the Herald will show that
there is yet but a few announcements'
for offices in this county.
The race for Congress in the sixth
district promises to be warm as there
are tv.'o candidates out from the same
place, Florence, S. C.
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CANNON TAKEN
UNDER WARRANT
Charging Criminal-Offense Alleged
as Happening on
Sunday, May 7th
Carl Cannon, a young man of from
2~) to 80 years of age, was arrested
at his home in Green Sea township
last Thursday morning and lodged in
the county jail at Conway under the
csqim/mio Minvtro nf rriminfil assault
upon a young lady of that township.
Last winter Cannon was employed
around Nichols, S. C., and worked
some as a painter. He was favorably
known to a number of people.
For the past several months ne lias
been engaged in farming and lives
with his sister near Green Sea.
The warrant was sworn out by the
woman on Wednesday of last week
and placed in the hands of an officer
for service.
In order to obtain bail under a
charge of tljis nature the man will
have to obtain an order from a circuit
judge. At last accounts no steps
had ijeen taken to obtain an order for
bail. The court of general sessions
will convene here on May 22, and the
defendant may be tried at that time
or his case may bo continued and the
man let to bail in the meantime.
According to the allegations made,
ofTense was committed on Sunday
afternoon, May 7, at about 5 o'clock.
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TWO ARRESTED
AT SAME TIME
rPlm cltnvifT nvractorl Iwn men in
Floyds township last work and lodged
tlieni in the county jail. They were
Tillnvin Hammond, charged with sell,
ing whiskey, and Guss Griffin, charged
with resisting officers, and perhaps
, other ofTienses against the laws of
i South Carolina.
Gus GriHin is the one who is sus,
pected of having shot the officers
some months ago, when they approached
a still to raid it in the Pee
Dee islands in Floyds township. A
report of this occurrence appeared in
r the Herald at the time and is well re
memhered by the officer and the men
i who had been pressed in to aid in
making a raid. *
I Griffin made bond without delay
r l...i .. i. 1
i and waa soon iree* nut m, ium ?vi
counts Hammond was still in the
county jail.
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CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY,
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| CHARLES AUSTIi
| "THE TIME TO ^
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Alter a nan stares to ron u >
^ by reason of its own momentum.
* The heavier and bigger it is
^ have been pretty hard to start it in
* it going a little push now and then
* If the ground is soft and rot
sj. hard. When you get to smooth pla
The ball of business is hard
^ ground is more or less sticky and t
* Still, if you push hard enough, you
iji In the fall, when cool weath
% easier and smoother, you will not li
^ want the ball to go faster. If you
}? to standstill even on a sheet of gli
Somebody has said, "The tin
* That is one of the smartest
* If you do not advertise in t
^ the ball at all?it will stop. If yc
$ season, business will go on for a cer1
* But if you want to get over a good
% you had better push it along lively.
* The best thing to push it v
* in the best paper you know of, a ]
* instance. A peculiar thing about th<
3: it runs uphill?if you stop pushing >
* There is no such thing as sta
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BOOKLETS MAKE .
I IISTI .Y PROGR AM
May Benefit of Course But <
Newspaper Space is
The Best
LARGE SUM SUBSCRIBED I
Temporary Effect of Booklet <
Idea Now Being Much Used
Over The County
The Chamber of Commerce has voted
to spend about $700 on the print- f
ing of a booklet of about thirty-two 1
pages, giving an account of the many
advantages of Conway, th.3 resources <
of the county and the man,' attrac- 1
tions. The Herald understands there 1
will be about 5.000 of the books print- i
ed in all for distribution. <
We admire the public spirit of ihe
business men who originated this idea.
They show by their liberality (as the (
money is raised by private subscription)
that they wish to advertise their
town and coun'.y and spread knowledge
of the many advantages far and
near.
We are obliged to take issue with
them, however, on the way they have i
gone about the scheme. They have
tUKi'n up lik: nio.st ji-jiim vt? < 1111
yet tlie? least effective means of ad- .
vertising these things. There is en- \
tirely too much of the booklet idea '
today. Every day, almost, we j?et a .
booklet or large folder from the secretary
of some chamber of commerce. '
Further than a mere glancing over of
the gaudy colors of its backing there
is no attention paid to it and il is j
immediately consigned to the wastebasket.
As we do this we cast away ,
the product of someone's brain and
also his money. His money is gone
for nothing more than that. 1
This amount that is or will be <
raised should be spent in newspaper i
space in papers of general circulation <
in this section of the United States. <
A series of advertisements prepared <
by the right kind of talent would be i
run from time to time in the leading
daily and Sunday newspapers. In ;
this way the money would result in
keeping Conway before the eyes and
in the minds pf those in other places
who would help us in a business way. (
We see no adequate return from ?
money spent in that way. There |
would be better results from spend- '
ing in the use of envelope sUnfers '
which every business man here mipht
use in mailin g his business letters :
for the next twelve months.
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REFUSE CHANGE
IN HOT DEBATE
1
Hot Springs, Ark.?Following a '
hot debate in which one speaker I1
1 .
warned ctgciinst wnat nr riiiu<itit;i i/.uu
as a i*vowinj? form of radicalism within
the church, the 10th general quad- '
rcnnial cpnference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, in session ]
here, rejected, hy a majority of eight
votes a recommendation that tho right
to administer the sacrament he invested
in unordained ministers. The 1
vote on the recommendation which
was in a minority report was 17S to 1
170. The conference then adopted,
by a vote of 188 to 115, the majority
report recommending the legislation
he not enacted. Half a dozen speakers
argued the merits of the sacrament
issue, hut it remained for Dr.
-T "P mihtirn of Orlnndo. Plft.. tn
swing the conference against the proposal
through an impassioned address
in which he injected his charge of
growing radicalism in church affairs.
He said he did not believe the church
should depart from time-honored customs
and traditions which had stood
the test of years.
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)N WAY, S. C., MAY 18, 1
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ILL THiVLE SX^
A'ill ?o a certain di:
the further it will 10 <
the first place, but one I
will he all that is nece*
igh you will have to pus
ces it will be easier.
to move in hot weather. I]
,here is a great deal of fric ^
i can move it. ^
er has made the road to trac. 0
lave to push so hard unless you
do not push at all it will come i
ass. jJ
ic to advertise is all the time." *
; things that was ever uttered. *
he summer?it" you do not push ^
>u do not advertise in the busy
tain time at a slow rate of speed. ^
deal of ground in a short time, *
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. . Jk
vith is good, liveral advertising ^
paper like the Horry Herald for 3^
e road to business success is that ^
'our ball it will roll down. *
nding still. ^
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JUSTICE DOWNS
LATEST MURDER
Columbia is Scene of Foulest
Murder of The
Year
VIEN CONFESS HRIMF
Dwner of Nice Little Filling
Station is Laid Low by
Blows of Assassins
Columbia.?The Richland county
grand jury returned true hills against
K M. Jeflords, Ira Harrison and Glenn
Freece, charging them with the mur:ler
of J. C. Arnette, who operated a
filling station on Main street. Solicitor
Spigner presented the indictments
and within an hour the report
of the grand jury had been made.
This was record-breaking speed.
The murder was committed on Tuesday
night, when Mr. Arnette waf
killed at His place of business, th<
body being taken to a lonely spot ii
the suburbs and sent over an embank
ment in his own car.
The three men confessed to Sherifl
Heise that they had committed the
rleed.
Confessions of what is possibly the
most brutal murder ever committed
in Columbia were related by witnesses
ut a corner's inquest, investigating
the murder of J. C. Arnette, wellknown
Columbia business man, wlu:
operated a handsome filling station at
Main street and Klmwood avenue, and
for which three men are held in the
county jail, charged with the deed,
The three men, F. M. Jeffords, Ini
Harrison and Glenn Treece, all wellknown
young Columbians, murdered
Mr. Arnette in his place of business
ut midnight on Tuesday night, and
then hauling his body through the
city in the man's own automobile,
look it to a lonely place in tho edge
of tho city and drove the car headlong
oil' a steep embankment, leaving the
car and the corpse, with the idea of
conveying to the public mind the impression
that the man was killed in
an accident.
A physician who examined the dead
man's body and then talked to the
prisoners in the county jail, testified
that the young men confessed t^him,
JefVords and Mr. Arnette were mrtners
in the business and each had an
insurance policy for $1,000 on the
life of the other. The younger man,
Jeffords, wanted to get full possession
of the business, and for days he
had planned the undoing of his business
associate. The other two mer
were in the employe of the filling station
and assisted in the plot.
Mr. Arnette, according to the confession.
was struck in the head first
by Harrison, in the back compartments
of tho place of business ,and
Ihen Jeffords felled him with an iron
bar. Treece stood outside and
watched. After the murder the bod>
was placed in the doad man's car
which was in the back part of the
building, and Treece and Harrison
started with it toward the edge of the
rit.y. Harrison drove the car and
Treece held the body upright. Thot\
took a round-about way, but Treecf
lost his nerve and he soon jumped
out of the car. Harrison wont <>n t<
a spot near the Old Soldiers' Hom<
r>n Kirkland avonnn. in lbo northotr
part of tho city, where lie found ;
stoop embankment, on tho roadside
and over this ho shoved the car will
its dead passenger. The car sulVerec
little damage and in a few minute:
some passers-by discovered the tragedy.
It is understood tho three men arc
to l?e tried at the term of court now
sitting in Columbia.
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There are bad things before oui
very eyes that we yet do not see be
cause we do not choose to see.
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ARfVAlMQ
iRTS FRL MAY
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5c CALICOS AND HOME
On Saturday and Monday, May 20 a
lomespuns, in all colors and patterns,
2.00 or over, between the hours of 11
yards limit to a customer.
5c CALICOS AND HOML
s?- *IU<diy, ma
P. V. Harct,
George T. i?n !?.?.
J. F. Rogers. Fan
J. Frank Bothca, LaiT
H. L. Hemmingway, S. (TK'E
R. M. Winn, Marion, S. C. ''?n, 10 v<
I. T. Scoggin, Conway, S. C/.'pri| *3
Nat H. Lewis, Rowland, N. C. sinc
W. K. Mcintosh, Kingstree, S. C. -e
M. D. Stevens, Loris, S. C.
L. B. Capps, Loris, S. C.
A. V. Bethea, Dillon, S. C.
W. J. Stem, Darlington, S. 0,
These warehousemen are known in
the association as field warehousemen
and recently the field service division,
which li.as headquarters at Florence,
under W. E. Lea, mailed copies of
the by-laws and constitution to each
of these warehousemen, and also sent
them copies of the April issue of the
Tri-State Tobacco Grower. Mr. Lea
advises these warehouse men to study
each and every clause in tho constitution
and each by-law in the contract
.and advises them to write to
him if they do not understand any
part of the contract.
In a recent letter from Mr. Lea to
these warehousemen he stated hat
the association is getting some i\ood
results from some of the men who
i are at work in the field in the matter
of securing signers on these contracts.
One of the workers reported he had
secured fourteen contracts in one day
by large growers of tobacco and obtained
all of them following a meeting
held on short notice m his coun.
ty.
Another reports that Darhngtoo
, and Williamsburg will sign up 00 per
cent of the growers in those counties.
Williamsburg is at this time the largest
tobacco-producing county in the
r state. Darlington now takes second
1 place, but was formerly at the head
of the list in tobacco raisin.!**.
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MOVABLE STILL,
THE NEW STUNT
Take Still From Place to Place
and Make Runs Then
Moving On
Prohibition olTicers are discovering
that moonshiners are hauling their
stills around over the country, usually
in automobiles, to evade the officers?
in fact, stills roam around about as
fast as the Irishman's tenth pig that
ran about so fast he could not count
him, according to VV. C. Eichelherder,
state prohibition constable. In one
instance he caught a still which he
Ie.arned had made runs in different
places lor the past 'several nights,
| distances ranging as great as ten to
twenty miles in localities and extending
into two counties. It may have
been doing better than that for aught
the state constable has been able yet
to discover, he says.
In Chesterfield county near to
' Hartsville, the officers caught this
still, a small one, and issued a warrant
for a white man, alleged to bo
operating it. This operator hauled his
1 still 13 miles out of Darlington county
into Chesterfield county, and at 3
o'clock in the morning awakened an
old man to demand the privilege of
making a run at his house. Then
he brought his still back down the
1 state.
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FARMKRS SKLL ( RIOAM
| Chester.?The Chester Community
Creamery had a most auspicious open>
ing on Monday morning and a conI
siderable amount of cream was
. brought in on that day as well as
, sinco. On the opening day 7;~>0
j pounds of cream was brought .to the
creamery by the farmers of Chester
, county. The 7r?<) pounds of cream
tested 202 'j pounds of butterfat,
which was 27 per cent of the amount
of cream brought in and approximately
$S0 will bo paid out to the
farmers for the cream brought in on
the opening day.
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GROWING BKRRIHS
The farmers of this section have
n <r/ww1 nr/kl'if of lunitUAuuir..
IUHUV I* I I V III l ll'S
this year, but entirely in a small way,
as the number en^a^in^ it it were
not many. There will be more next
i* year. The boll weevils make it neces
sary to plant something else than
cotton as a money crop.
r Take
Advantage
' 19th, 9.30 A. M.
SPUNS, 5c PER YARD j
ml 22, we will sel! I k* Calicos and
to tho<e who make a purchase of"
3:30 and 12:80, and 3:30 and 5:30.
:SPUNS, 5c PER YARD
ty 19th.
wm?HnaamtiianuuunniianBHBaMaBMBHBHHMi *?*
Drink Chero-Cola in bottles. Made
?ars old, from pure, distilled water.?Adv.
1, and 1 -1-27-tf
e gGy ?
s stout "HoW
I ATTENTION! f
SOWMits
toMfollol Safety Razor Users t
he sown at the f-?i^row -r0ur J
ment after the crop is cut. t +
For seed production the best practice
is to sow in rows three feet apart,
while for forage or soil improvement
broadcasting is most generally practiced.
Cowpea hay is an excellent hay for
all kinds of stock. When cut at the
right stage of growth and properly
handled the cowpea is equally as nu
truious as nay irom omer legumes
and is great! yrelished by all farm
animals.
For further information soo United
States Department of Agriculture,
Farmers' Bulletins 1148, 1153, 1125
and 980.
Soy Means
Soy beans are. fine for feed and fine
for fertility. Time of planting1 extends
from early spring until midsummer,
depending on latitude and
use to be made of the crop.
For grain or as a main hay crop,
the best time is about that for planting
corn, when the ground lias become
thoroughly warm.
Soy beans are more generally
grown with corn than with any oilier
crop, and may be combined advantageously
with many systems of crop
rotations.
The glowing of soy beanseed enables
the fanner to produce at moderate
cost, part of the high protein
concentrates necessary for stock feed
and milk production.
As a pasture, green manure, soiling,
or even as a hay crop, the soy
bean may be sown as late as
August 1.
For further information see United
States Department of Agriculture,
Farmers' Bulletin 1)73, !)8(), 1 125
and 1008.
Velvet Brans
The velvet bean is the most vigorous
growing annual legume cultivated
in the United States.
As velvet beans are very susceptible
to cool weather, they should not
be planted until the soil has become
warm.
Plant velvet beans with corn. They
may be planted in the same row with
corn or in separate rows. Two rows
of corn to one of velvet beans is the
most popular method of planting.
Plant the beans when the corn is
about two feet high. The yield of
corn may be decreased slightly by
the beans, but the value of the beans
for green manure and feeding purposes
will be much greater than the
loss to the corn crop.
The velvet bean is a splendid soilimproving
legume. It produces a
vast amount of leaves and vines,
which add both humus and fertility
to the soil.
An acre of good velvet bean vines
when plowed under will add as much
ammonia to the soil as will an application
of 1,1)00 pounds of cottonseed
meal.
mi./. .*4*1 .ia4 I : ?/.? *? ??*
I lit- NriM'l lit till l> (III I II I J JIM 111 (I t
protein for the production of boot*
and dairy products and furnishes excellent
winter foraging for cattle.
The most important use of the velvet
bean is as a grazing* crop for
cattle and hogs in the autumn and
winter.
Complete information about varieties.
planting, soil renovation, pasturing,
hay, meal, feeding value, etc.,
can he obtained from Farmers' Bulletin
9(>2 United States Department of
Agriculture, Washington, l>. C? and
Farmers' Bulletin 112*>, Iand 100.S.
Information relative to the crops
mentioned can also he had upon application
to your county agent, state
agricultural college, or the agricultural
and industrial department A. C.
L. R. R., Wilmington, N. C.
G. A. CAR DWELL,
Agricultural & Industrial Agent,
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Ce.
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While the weather remains cool
the insects continue their picnic.
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