The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 28, 1922, Image 2
MENTIONS RARE
OLD SPORTSMAN
Colonel Thomas F. Gillespie
Lawyer and Justice of
the Peace
(James Henry Rice Jr., in Columbia
State.")
The dates of birth and death of
Colonel Gillespie are not set down,
They could he had; but these things
would add nothing* to him. He was
born indeed, in Marlboro county and
came into Horry long before the
Confederate war. His family was
among* the most illustrious in the
? i A i i
region wnence uiey cuiin'j itiiu miii
is.
My acrjuaintance with him began
in the year of 1898 in Conway, when
ho was an old man, nearing the end,
The way it came about was that Col.
C. P. Qnatt'ebaum told me of him,
saying he was sick at his farm, some
miles out, and that a small present
of game would he most acceptable,
as Colonel Gillespie had been a life
long sportsman, but now was too old
and too nearly blind to hunt himself,
Such an order was easily filled in
Horry then. Partridges were thick
everywhere. Woodcock were more
numerous than I have ever seen them
anywhere in America. Taking my
gun and dog 1 went up the lake and
was gone hardly an hour when my
bag was fairly full of woodcock
Putting a man on a horse I sent the
Colonel a handsome collection ol
America's first and finest game bird
The incident, like many another
had passed from my mind, ,when one
day 1 was vigorously hailed on the
streets by a man in a buggy. A
Marion dealer told me that there
were only 12 buggies in Horry Coun
ty at this time. Transportation wai
generally by ox cart. The man ii
the buggy was Col. Thomas F
Gillespie.
The woodcock had won him, hear
and hand. I was in the presence o
one of my kind, a gentleman and i
sportsman, whose blood warmed a
si flit of one of his species.
He thanked me cordially, grate
fnllv jinrl snid that nothinir on e;n*tl
could have been more acceptable
pr> }-?ad not seen a woodcock "sine*
God knows when," lie said. In thank
inpr me he said that one object of hi
visit to Conway was to invite me ou
to his place. He wanted me?want
ed to go around with me and see m<
shoot.
In a few days I was there and to
pother we rambled around the smal
place, well stocked with birds. Witl
the shooting, Colonel Gillispie swan
away in a sea of prlorv. It was wortl
living to see it, he said.
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Bacon, per pound
Self-Kising Flour, per sack
Whole Rice, per bag
Good grade Green Coffee
Drug
?1 Matthews Chill Tonic, 25c ;
I Chestol Pneumonia Salve,
M Dr. Kings Cough Syrup, 2
B Salt Brick, each
1 s
B- Sliellr,. per lx>x,
U No. 7 Cook Stove
I Enamel ware, Coffee Pots
H terns at Slashing- Prices
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u oaie or
R Coats, of w
n our purchas
Q Be sure to v
y during this Sale
? . Lit i
Right then I had an example of
low keen and clos and observer he
vas. A heavy rain fell before we
rot out of the field and as soon as
it was over we started home. The
water was pouring down through
every depression. On both sides of
he road there was a fairly deep rut,
and at once he pushed his stick
into the rut and threw a bream out
into the road?a bream about as
wide as four fingers. He called
attention to this, for the nearest
stream was several hundred yards
. way. "I have seen bream and other
! i<h often follow such a waterway for
. a mile or more," he said, "and this
I is one of the ways that fish are dis,
persed."
. He also told me that there was no
( game in the country now. Against
which I protested; game seemed numerous
and small game abundant.
t 41 Yes, 1 know there are some deer
i and turkeys left and a few black
I bear; but when I moved into Horry
it was hardly necessary to go out of
sight of the barn to kill a buck!
1 Fish were so plentiful that you would
not believe it were the case stated to
i you."
! He gave a splendid dinner, well
I cooked and served, and this was merely
the beginning- of many visits, all
, of which were ripe experiences.
Compressing all which into short
, compass, it may be said that when he
! first arrived in Conway he started
r down town next morning after break[
fast. There were three fights along
r the way. "By jings!" he said as his
eyes lighted up, "this is the town for
> me. There is bound to be litigation
f and a lot of it." So he stopped in
Conway and later married a Miss
t Beaty.
i Among the characters of the day
J was a small man, named "Major"
l Holmes, whose head was as bald as
3 a billiard kail and his mouth was in
nocent of teeth. At 11 o'clock exact^
ly each day. he crawled out on the
l bluff and gave a blood curdling, hair
'. raising whoop. It was the signal for
his friends to come on and have a
t drink with him.
f Mrs. Norman at the boarding house
i would call out to the cook: "Sallie!
t Hurry up that dinner. I've heard
Major Holmes whoop." Like the
- dropping of the ball at Greenwich obi
servatory, this whoop marked time
for the dwellers along Kingston lake.
? When money was easy general
- fights livened up things. Uncle Jers
ry and Col. Gillespie both told me
t that they had seen men piled up as
- high as a cotton bale many a time,
3 scratching, kicking, clawing, biting?
a high old time along the Waccamaw
- and in "the Borough," as the town
1 was known then.
i Gillespie said he had never read the]
i South Carolina code, and, so helpi
n him God, he never would!
Men have crossed the seas and'
CM
Will
Will Contiro
:o give the buyin
oceries
11c
, 75c
$5.25
12 Vic
gs Reduced
size, 15c
25c size, 15c
5c size, ? 15c
15c
[ardware
76c
$13.50
Stew Pots and Buckets and Lani
Men's and Boy
hich we had a L
ui-M- ,
;ers.
isit our store
THE. HORRY HERALD, C
traveled thousands miles to seek what
he found, ready made, in Conway.
"It was the life," and he was the man
to revel in it, stand over it and enjoy
each passing phase. It sated his
craving for wildness, for something
outside the dull routine, the drab
colored existence of working folks and
staid citizens.
When I arrived the last of it was
passing, and now it is all gone, a
dream of dreams. There are no boats
on the river, no high jinks in the
woods?nothing. Horry has become
civilized, and prosperous, takes prizes
for schools and Sunday schools, and
all that sort of thing quite enough
to make Col. Tom Gillespie kick the
top otr his cofTin, and tell th<?m what
he thinks of them!
The last time I saw him was on the
, n r _ ? ? %
strews or tonway. we nao a ion.tr
talk, a pood talk, and when he left
I watched the buggy until it rounded
the corner, taking with it Thomas F.
Gillespie and the vanished civilization.
of which he was almost the
last trace.
Life to him was all gladness while
it lasted. Nothing feazed him. He
came into a fresh land where every
man did what seemed right in his
own eyes, and the very air tingled
with the iov of living.
It should he said, as often said hefore,
that the people of Horry, even
the poorest of them hack in the
sw.amps and woods, have a distinct
character. They are hospitable to a
fault, generous, kindly, truthful and
honest.
The slinking meanness so common
in parts of the state has no counterpart
here. The Horry citizen is a
man, not a cringing liar. He comes
up to you, looks you in the face and
tells you tho truth. A good Heal of
this m.iy he due fo the absence of
an overseer class. They have always
been free and independent, recruited
also from good stocks.
At bottom the Hon y c.ti^en is a
sportsman, with a sportsman's outlook.
whether it be hunting fur or
chasing deer. It may not always
square with accepted standards, but
it i< sport all the same, conforming
to ideals current in the region.
rm _ 1. 1 ^ ((?
i ney are a supero jjeupie, true
as steel." as Judge Munro said; and
I feel gratitude to God that many
happy years were passed among: them
and that I paid weregeld at theii
hearthstones in the long ago.
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PAY AT AYNOR
Deposit a year's subscription at the
Rank of Aynor and the cashier will
send a copy of the deposit slip to The
Herald and the paper will start te
you the very next issue. Don't wait
| to come to Conway. Don't wait to ge
i to the trouble of writing a letter and
I mailing a check, just leave it at your
' bank and they will do the rest.
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H h ilin Efl
ue Tomorr
g public furthe
sale will contii
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Mens' and 1
Men's $40.00 Suits at
Men's $30.00 Suits at
Men's $25.00 Suits at
Men's $15.00 Suits at
Bay's $20.00 Suits at
Boy's $15.00 Suits at
Men's heavy grade Khaki Pant
Absolutely new stock of Men's
each, ..
Also a new stock Men's and B(
's Suits is still
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JON WAY, S. 0., SEPT. 28, 192
HOME AGENTS
ARE LEARNING
The Home Derfionstration Agent!
of South Carolina are assemnled ai
Winthrop College, Rockhill, S. C.
for a special meeting. For five days
they are having intensive training ii
food preparation for market, anc
studying a system of making i
greater profit in poultry.
The call to help the Farm Womer
market their produce is soundint
louder in the ears of the Home Dem
onstration Department than anj
other problem. Every effort is beinj
made to train the Home Demonstra
tion Agents that they may be o
greater value to the women in the
county where she is located. She h
helping the farm women pass through
this present valley and approach th<
uplands of the future by making
monev from tho salo of food nrod
uets. Special emphasis is bein*
given to canning the products of th<
Home Producer's Association. Th<
Pine Bark Fish Stew, as made hv th<
coast counties of our State is beinj
used by this association. This recip<
was recently completed by the Stat<
Conservation Specialist.
The club markets that are beinj
so successfully operated by the farn
women of our state, are still pros
poring' in IS counties. This is splen
did that so many survived the long
dry summer season. New inspira
tion was given the agents by tlie ex
cellent address given on "Woman'
P.art in Our Future Agricultura
Program." by Assistant Director D
V. Watkins.
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Citation Notice
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF HORRY.
By J. S. Vaught. ESQUIRE, PRO
BATE JUDGE.
WHEREAS, W. L. Bryan mad
suit to me, to grant him Letters o
Administration of the Estate of an*
, effects of E. A. Jordan:
THESE ARE THEREFORE to cit
, and admonish all and singular th
kindred and creditors of the said E. A
. Jordan, deceased, that they be an
appear, before me, in the Court o
Probate, to be held at Conway. S. C
on the 13th day of Oct., 1022, nexi
after publication hereof, at 11 o'cloc
i in the forenoon, to show cause, if an
they have, why the said Adminstra
tion should not be granted.
GIVEN under my Hand, this 20t
> day of September, Anno Domini, 192'.
; Published on the 28th day of Sej
> ten-*her and the fith day of Octobei
I 1922, in the Horrv Herald.
J. S. VAUGHT,
Probate Jud^i
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r advantage of <
lue a few days.
Dry G
Joys' Clothing
$22.50
18.00
15.00
9.96
11.50
7.50
ts, per pair ? 98
and Boy's latest style Caps,
88c, $1.38 and 1.69
)ys Pants of astonishing low prices.
going in full b
still be ig sacri
rcai tile
GRAHAM
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STRUCK BLIND
! AS SHE TALKS *
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3 A well-dressed woman of twenty- f
t six, who said she was Mrs. Blanche jj
, Forristall, No. 012 West 178th Street tl
3 Manhattan, ,was stricken blind in the
^ Stapleton Police Station, Staten Isl,
and, as she was about to file com- *
plaints against several men alleged v
1 to have attacked and robbed her while
holding: her a prisone r in a small ho- v
^ tol at Rosebank. v
Two hours later her sight returned a
" quickly as it had gone. Physi- *"
cians at the Staten Island Hospital, ^
'r to which she was sent after emer- *
* gencv efYorts in the police station to ^
I restore sight failed, said whiskey
she had drank shortly before was the
cause of her blindness. They said ^
they were unable to determine a
J whether the liquor contained wood 0
1 alcohol.
"Going Blind," She Cries. *
The woman went to the police
* station in a taxicab. As she walked
uo to Lieut. Drispoll. sji vimr slip
~ wanted to make a complaint against p
^ some men, she suddenly stopped. ^
"I am going blind!" she cried. P
Detectives flashed electric torches n
2 in her face, but she could not see
them. A call was sent to the Staten s
* Island Hospital. Dr. Jacowitz re- '
1 sponded. He declared her completly
" blind.
The woman told Detective Sergt.
'? Graham at the hospital that she had ^
" gone to Staten Island Monday after*
noon. Soon after arriving there, she *
s said, she had met a woman friend j
' and three men in an automobile. She
' went for a ride with them, and late
Monday night they visited a small
hotel in Tomkins Avenue, Rosebank.
Her woman friend left her there,
after the party had several drinks.
Then Attacked Her.
Late that afternoon she was told
- she could go home, the woman said,
and Roseto called a taxicab to lake
p her to the ferry. On the way she
f I told the driver to stop at the Staplerl
ton Police Station.
From a description driven by the
e woman the police arrested PaUey
e Magnotti, twenty-four, of No. 211 St.
L. Mary's Avenue. Rosebank, as one of
d the men alleged to have attacked and
f robbed Mrs. Forristall. They also arrested
Roseto. Roth were charged
t, with assault and robbery.
k The woman declined to tell the
y police anything about herself. She
l- said she was married, hut refused to
give her husband's name. She said
h that she had been living at the West
I. 178th Street address for some time.
)- U
r. The Herald has helped many a
m.ln !iivl ni'iriin! /.f n*nn fn ....*
| thiners over, and it is in position to |
p. help you.
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II This Wee]
3ur special barga
oods
Dress SI
$1.50 Shirts at
$2.00 Shirts at -
$4.00 Shirts at ? $6.00
Shirts at
Shoes, S
Men's, Ladies', Boys' and Girls' at hi
Ladies' and Misses' all wool Middy S
Ladies' White Cord Skirts,
Girls' and Misses' Gingham Dresses,
Men's light and heavy Underwear,
too numerous to mention.
dast. Also Girls
l-i/%/>#] J ^J
1IV.UU anu 5U1U X\
$
Located n<
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1 ANY PAY UP, OTHERS ASKED
Many people have paid at the
'armera Bank and renewed their
nbscriptions for the Herald withut
having to come to Conway to do
his. A number of new subscribers
ave been added to the Herald'.* |
isjt by making it convenient for 1
hem to pay at Loris. 1
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Now will not others take ad van- I
a><e of this? Numbers of men and i
I'ornen at Loris, and all through 1
liat section need the Herald. They 1
,'ould enjoy reading the news with I
.u:?u :? :r. 1- mi. 1
(iiiwn it is uiiuu every weeK, iney
1^) have business at the bank. Kil1
wo birds with one stone. Le,ave
he money for the Herald at the
farmer's bank this week and let
he Herald be started at once.
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Leave a dollar and fifty cents a*
he Farmers Bank, Loris, S. C.,
md get the Horry Herald which :s
rowded with the news that you need
nd the news that you like to read,
t will be your best friend.
DEMOCRATIC TREND.
Recent Democratic primaries and
onventions, while they indicated
ively interest in nominations!, were
ree from bitter factionalism that
larked Republican contests in sevral
of the same states. In some .
tates Democrats selected candidates
nth practical unanimity.
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NOTICE
the patrons of Chapel Hill School.
The school be^an the 11 th of Sopember,
1922 with the compulsory
aw in force.
J. H. DAWSEY,
JAMES W. JOHNSON,
SAM D. CRAWFORD,
Trustees.
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They are -i^k4fc
GOOD! 1U I
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in prices, our D
lirts y
79c n
$1.00 I
: 2.4S y
- 3.79 I
ihoes y
ilf price.. n
uits, each $7.50 If
DO I
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67c, 79c and 1.75 U
Ladies' vests and other things I
and Ladies' I
t a bargain to |
;xt door to Holli- I
r,s Store. ?|
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