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t . 5 , VOLUME XXXvn ONE BIG WEEK | RURAL SCHOOLS From December 3 to 9 Ob: served as Education UfAAl, EXECUTIVE^ l 2DY TO ACT Interests of the Rural Schools Will be Specially Advanced by Activity At the eductional conference that was held in Columbia on November 1 ,11th and 12th, under the auspjces of the Citizens Educational Association, it was determined to celebrate education week in Horry County December 3rd to 9th, inclusive; and at the same meeting*in Columbia a local executive committee to supervise the education week program was appointed and provided for. Col. D. A. Spivey, as representa* tive of the business men and organizations of Conway was selected as chairmjtn of the committee. The remaining members of the com mi tee as appointed, are as follows: E. C. Allen, County Superintendent of Education; J. M. Daniel, Superintendent of the Conway Schools; Mrs. Marion A. Wright, and Frank Sessions, as representative from the American "Legion. Last week a very interesting let: ier was sent out to each of the committee members in this county giving them instructions as to how they should proceed to organize and get tilings on the move to make a big success of the week in Horry. The letter was signed by J. R. Westmorland, as chairman and Power W. Bethea, secretary of the central committee of the Citizens Educational Association The letter read in part as follows: "In the observance of Education Week you are authorized and requested to enlist the assistance of every leading educator, business or professional men, women's club, the American Legion, the American Legion auxiliaries, and various other civic and patriotic organizations of the county and state to como to your aid in nmkfrig this the most effective educational campaign ever conducted in. your count3'. While every ghase of educational work should be stressed, it was the sense of the conference in Columbia to make the rural schools the special objective. You should, therefore, magnify their importance and arouse the rural population to their undivided support. "While the celebration of Educational week should terminate with one grand educational mass meeting at the county seat on Saturday, December 9th, there should be held during the week a series of rallies in the various districts in the county. As a starter, it is suggested that every minister of the Gospel be asked to preach upon the importance of education on Sunday, December 3rd. The time, place and programs of the district rallies, as well as those for the big mass meeting on Saturday, will be rranged by your committee and >on arc charged jointly and severally with the success of the educational campaign in your county. "Enlist the assistance of the newspapers in your county and request them to publish information and'write editorials boosting the observance of Iriftucation week. They will be jrlad to assist you. A list of speakers furnished by the colleges will be publifhed in the daily papers within the next few days, and you are requested to secure one or more of these Tor tfie mass meeting Saturday of Education Week. "Your committee should see that resolutions containing the unqualified financial support of the schools by the General Assembly are adopted at the Grand Rally on Saturday, and a certified copy of these sent to the members of your county delegation, urgthem to make adequate appropriations to carry out all of the school laws now on the statute books." MISHOF/SCASE IS RE-ARGUED Last week the case of W. L. Mishoe against the Atlantic Coast Line, Railroad Company came up for argu-J ment in the Supreme Court of South Carolina. It was expected that this appeal which was taken by the railroad company would be disposed of at the term of the court which convened last spring, but the time allotted for the "hearing of appeals for this circuit w*is finished before this case was I reached, hence the attorneys had to go back to Columbia this? past week when the case was called up and argued, but the decision will be announced later. The plaintiff brought the action to recover damages for injuries received when he was told by a conductor of the road that the train would not make connection at Chadboum, and that the train for Conway had already left that point, whereas it turned out later that this information was false, and while Mr. Mishoe got off the train at Marion and tried to get home to bin sick folks by automobile, t;be train actually waited at Chadbourn and brought other passengers in before Dlv. Mishoe got here. The complaint to LAST PAYMENT BY CHRISTMAS Interesting Facts Related by Big Canker at Court House J. Oliver Sands, the president of one the largest banks in the South, located at Richmond, Va., told the farmers and business men here last week a number of interesting things, and also important truths about the co-operative marketing association. He started off by congratulating the farmers on the great success they have already had in launching this great movement for independence. The opposition to the association has been severe he said, ".a great deal stronger than we could expect. You remember those who opposed Uncooperative market said that the first payment was the only one the farmer members would receive for their tobacco, and that you should just as well light your cigars with the participation certificates given you at Ihe time, as they were no more good to today in the payment checks thai voj iust received as the second payment. And it is my hope that a third and final payment will be made to the association members before the Christmas holidays." He then went into a statement of the purposes for which the association was organized. "There is one and only one purpose for the co-operative marketing association," Mr. Sands continued. "It is to successfully handle the tobacco of the stockholders of the organization, who are the farmer members. The tobacco association is the same sort of a corporation as the large tobacco manufacturing companies who have become immensely wealthy by buying the farmers' tobacco, re-handle it, make it up into the usable product and then sell it again. But what has the farmer got out of his tobacco during these many years he has been dumping his tobacco on the floor and taking what was given for it? He is apparently little or no better off. "It was recognized by thinking people, who have the good of their country at heart tlvat something had to be done to improve conditions, especially farming conditions. If the farmer is not prosperous, then no one else is prosperous, for the success of all other lines of business depend directly upon the success of the farmer for he is the one great buying force which makes it possible for the manufacturer to sell his goods, If the farmer cannot buy, the retailer cannot sell, the jobber cannot distribute And the manufacturer has no marVet for his goods and must close down. If the manufacturer cannot operate, the banks cannot lend its money and the result is stagnation in all lines of industry. "That is why I am in this association to do the best I can to make it a success, for my success as a hanker depends as much on the success of the co-operative marketing idea as does that of the individual farmer member. I know absolutely nothing about growing tobacco, but I have had some experience in financing it and selling it. "The same men are running the selling end of your association who handled the huge buying and selling corporations that have grown wealthy ofT your efforts, and there is no chance for it to go wrong if all of vou will work together for the same end. I am not opposed to the men who p-ot rich on buying your tobacco and then selling it again.. That was their business and they no doubt did it honestly. It is the system I am opposed to. I am opposed to any system that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. "I was talking to the governor not long since and he told me that if the co-operative association idea failed in the South he trembled for the future people in this section. We must have your full co-operation. The co-operative idea cannot fail. It is so much bigger than just a few additional dollars gained today, that all those who have looked into it and studied its workings, can not help but believe in it, and they do." The farmers of Horry County need to hear a lot more of talking like this. They have gone far enough into the association now to find out what it is, as to those who who joined it last season. There is left out a larpre percentage of the growers of the county who will never know anything about it unless they are told in one way or the other. To make the association the great biV success that it derserves to be, all of these other farmers must be brought into its fold if possible. To get the rest of them in there must be some system of telling them what fhe advantages are?even showing them in some way?the advantages they may attain by coming in and helping the others who have already L.' 4. fx ueen trying it. Before Christmas it is hoped that the last payment on the crop of 1922 will have been made. alleged that it was a very cold day in February; that the plaintiff suffered from the cold and was so sick following the experience that Dr. Stalvey had to be called to attend him. The physician testified at the trial in the circuit court here last year and showed that the plaintiff had been perhaps permanently inw Jfar* CONWAY~&~ 0 , THUR3PAY, *************************** x I FIGHTING THE it 3 c There is a news article cation week,* December 3rd 1 \\ All sorts of educational the rural schools will be the !! This part of education esp \\ advancement of the work $ specially stressed. VIT A 1 ll ? wun us, me occasion ar * will be used as still another * good that is to be done in 1 * decree of interest the whole | The work accomplished e * bered with much gratifica * means, or their strength, to $ older people who could not \ * inscribe the ancient mark oi By getting information S by finding out what each nu J cessful, the work that will will be long remembered as < * cation took another great 1 * this county. * **************** **** ** }< **** BURROUGHS HI HONOR ROLL The following are the names of pupils in the Burroughs School who have neither been absent nor tardy, and have made a general average of ninety-five per cent on scholarship to be on the highly distinguished list, or have made a general average of ninety per cent on scholarship to be on the distinguished list for the school month ending November 10: First Grade, Section B, Distinguished.?Martha Fletcher Quattlebaum, McRoy Bland. First Grade, Section A, Distinguished?Louise Collins, Edna Newton. Earl Carter, Ernest Richardson, Madeline Dusenbury. Second Grade, Section A, Highly Distinguished.?Esther Hope Baldwin, Helen Vernon Goldfinch, Ruth Gordon. Distinguished: Frances Anderson. RobeK Chestnut, Elmo Marlow, Vera Rheuark, Ruby Wilson, Clyde Harrelson. Second Grade, Section B, Highly Distinguished.?James Booth, Winnie Frances Eubanks, Adelyn Gondfinch, Cecil Hawes. Distinguished, Mitchell Hardee, Laura Harrelson, Peggy Jones, Lessie Mitchell, Carlysle Russ. Third Grade, Distinguished.?Lula Hardy, Leila Taylor, Lela May Norman. s Fourth Grade. Highly Distinguished.?Eugenia Buck, Sadie Long. Distinguished: Katherine McCoy, Bessie Louise Stalvey, Charles Dusenbury, Robert Holliday, Alexander Quattlebaum. Fifth Grade, Section A, Highly Distinguished.?Margaret McWhite. Distinguished: Henry Adams, Earl Tisdale. Fifth Grade, Section B, Highly Distinguished.? Eleanor Burroughs, Marv WofTord Scarborough. Distinguished: Celia Wilson, Ralph Moove. Sixth Grade, Highly Distinguished.?Elizabeth Mitchell, Vivien Cox. Distinguished: Adalyn Sherwood, Annie Wait Scarborough. Seventh Grade, Highly Distinguished ?Ernest Cannon, Henry Hoiiiday. Distinguished: Clarkie Martin. High School Eighth Grade, Highly Distinguish en.?ivatnieen Anderson, N. C. Adams, Jr. Distinguished: Lonnio Calhoun, Katie Booth, Olyan Powell. Ninth Grade, Distinguished.? Franklin Burroughs, Ruby Russ. Tenth Grade, Highly Distinguished.?Estelle Burroughs, Evelyn Snider. Distirrguished: Irnvi I,ewis; Eleventh Grade, Distinguished.? Eugenia Anderson. Mildred Collins, Ernestine Little, Gene Wood Norton. J. M| DANIEL, Superintendent. ??????o ONE CIVIL CASK The Supreme Court heard cases from the 12th circuit Inst week in Columbia, beginning on Friday. Only one case from Horry County was arcrued, this being the case of W. L. Mishoe against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. There was not time to take up the other cases from Horry County and the court announced that another day would be given to the 12th circuit after the end of the hearing of cases from the 14th circuit. jured by disease he contracted while on that trip. The plaintiff was at that time a member of the Legislature and had received a telegram in Columbia that his daughter was very ill at the home here. The railroad company contested the case, but their witnesses made a rather lame showing for the company when the case was tried on circuit, as they could not successfullv ^ pret around the evident carelessness that was apparent in the privinfc of the information about the running of their trains that day. The jury found a verdict for Mishoe in the sum of $500 and the company appealed as usual. The plaintiff is represented by H. H. Woodward and the defendant by P. L. Wilcox and Col. C. P. Quattle-1 baum. I I IP NOVEMBER 23, 1922 7 #************************* 1 CROSS MARK | % St: * in this issue about the edu- * ;o 9th. I work will be promoted but * subject of special attention, $ ecially concerns us and the * : of these schools will be * id the opportunity it affords, * blow at the cross mark. The | ;his efTo.rt depends upon the * people take in it. * o~l ir iv\ 1000 :~ ?4-:n ?.? -? *1 <*X IJ 111 1 iJ LjCj id Mill ICIUCIII" jfj | tion by all who lent their | advance the education of the * vrite their names but had to * ? ignorance. % on education week now, and | ay do to help to make it sue- ? be done in one short week * one more occasion when dtiu- % leap onward in progress in x * ****-********************** CONFERENCE IS HELD IN MARION The one hundred and thirty seventh session of the South Carolina Conference convenes in Marion .the 29th of November. This conference is composed of all the pastors in the conference, with eight lay delegates from each district. Tn addition to the members, there will be many board members in attendance. This conference hears reports and passes the characters of all the pastors, examines undergraduates on the prescribe dcourse of study, orHoinc o r> A A A I UVMVVIIO U1IVI VIV4\y 1 O OIIU VUC Bishop and his cabinet, stations the preachers for the ensuing year. All boards make their reports to the Conference. The present session of Conference, is of unusual interest, in that the Department of Lay Activities is to be organized. This department was authorized by the last General Conference, which met in Hot Springs last May. Horry County feels a keen interest in the approaching Conference. One eleventh of all the churches in the< South Carolina Conference are in Horry County. Of the seventy churches in the Marion district, thirty-five are in Horry County. The Horry Industrial School and the South Carolina Training School, Myrtle Beach, are in Horry County. The Lay Delegates from this County are: R. B. Scarborough, A. E. Goldfinch and Mrs. F. C. Todd. H. W. Ambrose is a member of the Sunday School board. Bishop Collins Denny will preside over the Conference. Conway and all the pastoral charges in the County are expected to carry full reports to the Conference. MACE HORN IS BADLY HANDLED Report is so Published in Marion Papers Last VA/nnl/ , v w v/v/i\ MAYBE AI\F OUTGROWTH Recent Troubles in That Community Aired at Recent Court Term A Marion newspaper contained an account in its issue of last week of the /xlleped whipping of Mace Horn, son of the late M. A. Horn, of Floyds township, this county. The news article as it appeared in the Mullins Enterprise follows: "WHITE MAN WHIPPED" "Report was circulated Monday that Mace Horn, white, ape 26, was taken out on Sunday 'night and severely flopped hy unknown men said to have numbered twelve to fifteen. Mr. Horn, son of the late Marshal A. Horn, of Wannamaker section, is alleged to have made remarks detri mental in nature about certain parties. "On Sunday night, according- to reports, he visited the home of the late Orton B. Grainper, and it was while there that he was waited upon and carried to the woods and a thrashing administered. He was brought in the direction of Mullins, but on reaching the Bill Goodyear farm, near New Bridge, he was given his liberty, and the party disbanded, according to reports. The young man visited the office of Dr. C. P. Bullock, it is stated, and medical attention was given. From reports, it appears that his ears were found to have been clipped." It is believed here that this latest trouble may have been a sequel to the shooting and disagreements among some of the people of that community, and which came out at the last term of he court here *n Conway, in Sepca?nl>er, 1S)22. At that time it will be remembered that Bailey prosecuted Assie Horn and Jim Gibson on a charge of as raid, THOMPSON CASE UNDER APPEAL Attorneys Representing 0. J. Bell and M. B. Thompson The Bell-Thompson land suit which was tried here before Judge R. W. Memminger, in 1921, and resulted in a decision in favor of O. J. Bell, the plaintifT, is still pending in the Supreme Court of South Carolina, and attorneys representing both sides of the controversy went to Columbia last week and were there on last Thursday and Friday to argue this appeal which was taken by Mr. Thompson from the decree of Judge Meinmenger. The case seems to turn mainly upon the construction of a receipt which was given by Thompson to Bell on the day that the deal was closed between them for the sale of some land from Thompson to Bell. The plaintiff is represented by Robert 13. Scarborough, Norton & Baker, and Sherwood & McMillan. W. F. Stackhouse and H. H. Woodward xepresent the defendants. The action was brought on February 4, li)20, the date of the summons and complaint, and it was heard without a jury before Judge R. W. Memmenger here in Conway at one of the terms of the Court of Common Pleas in 1921. The action was brought for the purpose of enforcing the alleged contract for the sale of certain lands from Thompson to Bell, and for the incidental relief of removing certain clouds from the title, etc. The lands concerned are located at Wampee, S. C., where both of the parties have lived for the past many years and have been engaged in business. Many witnesses were called to testify before Judge Memmenger concerning the location of two tracts of land, one known as the J. V. Jones place, the other as the Jake Floyd place, both of these having been lands purchased by Mark Thompson from two different former owners, J. V. Jones and J. K. Floyd, respectively. The witnesses consisted mostly of friends and neighbors of each of the two contending sides. The case at the trial here took about two days to dispose of. Judge Memmenprer round the case m favor of the plaintiff and the defendants appealed to the supreme court of the State, and it was on a number of exceptions that the case was argued last Thursday in Columbia. The plaintiff based his action upon a receipt as being; the evidence of his contract for the purchase of the land, reading as follows: "Received from O. J. Bell $20 on my home place at Wampee, S. C., balance $6,980.00 to be paid on delivery of title to said property within ten days from date. This sale includes the old store lot. I am to retain and use the buildings until January 1st, 1921. M. B. THOMPSON." The answer of the defendants denied the allegations of the complaint and alleged in substance that they sold to the plaintiff the twentv-five (25^ acre tract only, known as the J. V. Jones land, on which tract the defendant, M. R Thompson, had his home, and that the contract of sale did not cover the tract of eighty-five rsr>) acres, more or less, known as the Jake Floyd place, and that they had complied with the contract by conveying to the plaintiff the Jones tract of twenty-five acres. The defendant, Carrie E. Thompson. answered and sot up her claim of title to the Jake Floyd tract. The reason for making Mrs. Carrie E. Thompson, wife of M. B. Thompson. a nartv in the case was because that as it turned out she had had a deed for the Jake Floyd place for a number of years before this alleged deal between O. J. Bell and her husband. It was testified by defendant that she objected to the sale of any of the land at Warn pee and wanted to keep even the J. V. Jones land as a home, although the family at that time resided in the town of Conway, where M. B. Thompson was engaged in business. The contention of the attorneys in the arguments was over the receipt and the meaning of the words, "home plnce" as contained in that receipt. The position of the attorneys for the defendant was that Mr. Thompson had two places at Wan pee, one known as the home nlace on which his house was erected and in which he lived, known as the J. V. Jones place because he bought this from Jones; and the other known a* the Jake Floyd place, adjoinincr the home place, across the road, and called the Floyd place because he bought this from Floyd. Land is not sold by word of month, but by written papers only. To make a binding1 contract, tho same must be in writing if it concerns land either as to selling- it, placing a lien on it, or contracting to ouy or sell it; that the receipt limited the purchase to the J. V. Jones place. The attorneys for the plaintiff contend that the receipt covered all of the land owned by Thompson at Wampee village comprehending the Jones place, and also the Jake Floyd place. The case was not heard last week, I owing- to lack of time, but it will be heard about week after next. sault with intent to kill, using: a shot gun. The trial resulted in a coni viction of the defendants. NO. 31 EMPTY LOG CAR WRECKS TRAIN Eddie Tompkins, Riding Engine Loses Foot in An Operation OTHERS PAINFULLY HURT Engineer R. C. Jones Sustains Injury, Laying Him up at Home ************************** r* ?** ^ The injured: * * Eddie Tompkins, foot and fin- * * kle crushed, foot amputated. ? * Frank Fullwood, .severe bruis- * Is PS * * es. jj? * R. C. Jones, injured in stom- * % ac,,v i a Cause. * Empty log car left on tracks. ^ ************************ *?.V The lop: train of the Conway Lumber Company was wrecked wh'le inbound from the timber woods, last Monday, soon after one o'clock, when the crew went back to work. It is a wonder there were no fatal injuries. Three men of the crew were painfully, if not seriously and permanently injured. The seriously injured are: Eddie Tompkins, son of Eli Tompkins, riding in on the log: train at the time. He sustained a broken and 1-1 -T i. I 1-1 . TT * /? i. m.angieu xooi una iinKie. nis ioow was amputated at the office of Dr. J. S. Dusenbury at a late hour on Monday afternoon. Frank Fullwood, switchman on the log train, who was painfully bruised and lacerated about the face and head, and other parts of his body. After having his wounds dressed he was able to walk around and gave every sign of a quick recovery from his experience. R. C. Jones, engineer, was hit in the stomach by some of the timbers in the wreck. He was given medical attention and taken to his home hem oMway. He lives with his wife and baby in one of the new cottage* of W. B. Chestnut, on what is known as the New Road. At last accounts he was doing well and was said to be on the road to recovery. After an examination it was not thought that his injuries would prove to be serious. though he was badly hurt. Beyond those above mentioned there was the fireman, Grier Skipper. A piece of pipe that was torn loose in the wreck struck hirrt in the back. The blow was not severe enough to cause him any trouble at first. He was able to help in getting doctors to the scene. After the excitement was over he found that he had a very sore and painful spot in the small of the back where he was struck by the piece of pipe. Riding on the train at the time were two negroes. It could not be ascertained if they were employees of the lumber company. They were not connected with the log train as work ers, and their names could nwl be obtained. Grier Skipper managed to put a fire which was started immediately following the wreck. He also helped in extricating the others from beneath the timbers of fhe broken cars and engine parts. Dr. J. S. Dusenbury and Dr. J. A. Norton went to the scene of the wreck as quickly as possible and brought the iniured men to Conway in an automobile. This train makes regular trip?? from the plant of the company here, out to the timber tracts between Oonwav and the Pee Dee River. Th? train had loaded up with t.wenty-tw*> lop cars, each filled to its usual capacity with timber lops. On the way out Monday morning the train, which was pullinp a string of empty lop cars, lost one of these cars, the one on the re/ir end of the string, which of course, became uncoupled and which ran down the Rid# of a prade at one of the hills on the old Lawrimore place, later belonpimr to S. F. Rourne, and thi* empty ear rested there at the botttom of th? Bxade. None of the crew of the train knew hat this car had been dropped. If they had known it they would hare Meen looking out for it and the wreck mipht have been avoided. On the way back toward Conway, just after th* noon hour, pullinp in with the heavy load of twenty-two loaded cars, the wreck was caused by this empty ear I when the lop train ran into it. There are no brakes on timber cam. ! There were brakes on the locomotive enpine and these were applied without effect under the circumstances a?r will now be explained. At the l4iwrimore place near where there was once a mill race, there are ihills^ver which the timber road pass es. me engine had pulled up on the top of one of these hills. The engineer, looking down in the valley bevond saw the empty car which he did not know the train had dropped loose Miere in the morning. The train was hen going down the grade of the hill >nd approaching the empty log ear. The engineer applied the brakes, anfl reversed his engine, which was alt hat he could do. The engine wheelii tied and slipped along the rails without twrninr Tn less time than it takwr to tell it, the locomotive struck the empty car. The empty car reared up as if lifted by a derrick and aN# (Continued on Local Paga.) #