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I MURDERSDONE ; AT HERRIN, ILL. (Continued Frorti Last Week.) Jnp he was tiled and was going home and to bed.' This was nearing 11:00 o'clock. I During the conference, when the TJ. M. W. officials were present, en agreement was reached that all of those then in the room should go to the mine in the morning. Colonel Hunter suggested that the hour cf departure be at 5 or 6 o'clock. Sheriff Thaxton, however, set 8 a. m. as the hour for leaving. At 6:00 o'clock next morning and again at o.OO a. m., Colonel Hunter and Major Davis were at the door of Sheriff Thaxton's office and found it locked. It was 8:30 o'clock before they encountered him leisurely walking on the public square. Hughes and Willis, the U. M. W. of A. officials who lvxd promised to be members of the Sheriff's party could not be found. Colonel Hunter, Major Davis, the Sheriff and one of the deputies, Sheffer, .started by automobile por the mine. They arrived there at about the hour when the massacre was taking place in the woods two miles distant. They found the mine swarming with men engaged in pillage and arson and who continued the destruction of property under the very eyes of the officers and defied interruption. The Surrender. Tt had been Colonel Hunter's original thought that if a truce could be effected quickly enough that the men in the mine should vacate before night fall, but it was around 0:30 o'clock before the flags were hoisted and the firing ceased. No arrangement, however, were made to afford safe escorte to the men that evening. Some of the prisoners who survived the next day's massacre, say that there was sporadic shooting during hours of darkness when the attacking miners swarmed into the big gluches dug by the steam shovels and drew a tight circle around the bunk cars and coal cars where the strip mine workers spent the night. At least five charges of dynamite were exploded against mine machinery and property. One blast was set off within thirty feet of the bunk, cars where the strip miners were! housed. i Tracy's description of the surrender Thursday morning: is one of the most connected that has been given. He relates that instructions were piv-J en to the men in the mine not to fire any more but that some one should be sent out from the strip mine party with a flag of truce. Tracy overheard McDowell tell his assistant, I John E. Shoemaker, a civil engineer, r i | All the WA U Real and per 1 before Janua IHJUK NoTi For $300.00 F All and singular that tract of land known as the Isaac McGray land, of lan< or Brunson land, contain- . ing one hundred (100) ^ ' acres, more or less, in less, Simpson Creek Township, Horry County, ~ount> South Carolina, and Towns] bounded on the north by North\ the public road leading former from Red Bluff, South Carolina, to Pireway, N. C.t on the east by Simp- W son Creek, on the South Charle by a line commencing at Southv the I. J. Parker line, vranrp and running thence his ^ line South-east to Wes- Westw ley Barnhill's line; known thence Barnhill's line tract; Westward to run of ward j n 1 ooa s swamp; tnence ? ll the said run to the pub- ?* Hc lie road. lands. j PERI I One tractor engine und boilei II One mortgage on the gas boat H I have also the W. K. Holt tim V I will dispose of this property EH , . . . . . son of the Mayor of Charleston, 111., that there should be no shooting and the truce flag should be carried out. A big fellow, known as "Mac," had not stepped over 20 yards from the cars when he was fired on and he ran back, says Tracy, who continues:: "Either Mack or Jones then marched out with a cook's apron tied to a broom. I heard several of the attackers then say that if we would march out and lay down our arms they would not harm us. They shouted they would take us on a train and let us go back home. Prisoners Throw Up Hands Tracy says that all rifles were laid down and shells put between cars and that all the prisoners put their hands over their heads and walked out into the open. This w,as in accordance with instructions given by the attacking miners and repeated by McDowell and Shoemaker, as an order to the strip miners, Tracy avers. The attackers came hurrying up from all directions, some of them firing their guns. They yelled in exaltation. "A man who acted likr a leader shouted at them to quit firing at us," Tracv eroes on. "Ho ww i? litflo heavy set fellow about forty or forty-five years old, weighed about J 70 pounds, dark complected and dressed in a dark suit. He waved a bis: automatic pistol /and yelled 'Now you ought to use judgment, there is no use getting excited or starting trouble whatever. I am a leader of this bunch. Listen to me and we will take them down the road.' "A mob yelled him down ar 1 some of them told him if he didn't shut r.p they would shoot him. They said they were going to kill the whole bunch." The march smacked very much of military discipline, and although there were at least 3,000 men mostly armed in the crowd around the prisoners, those in charge were able to fiecure obedience to their orders. Tracy describes how ill treatment of the prisoners was kept up as they marched along but the violence was not desperate except in the case of McDowell. He was made an immediate target for blows which were not long in bringing about his death. Jones' Story. Another account of the surrender and start of the march from the mine is given under cuath by Bernard Jones, I lie mine guard who was quoted I above. Jones says of the Thursday morning events:: "The white sheet (flag of truce on the wires) was taken down because the mob yelled "Take that damned flag down.' We knew there would be a battle." The prisoners felt they were in a trap and some of them were panic stricken. .Tones asserts. MpDnwoll I said "Somebody ought to pro talk to the attackers." Jones says that he Will Se remaining prof RD-BATE sonal. Must hi ry 1, 1923. L TRACTS Of" I No. 2 No. 3 or $400.00 For $ 1,320. , v . . , All and singula that certain tract _ , . certain piece, pare i containing twen- tract of land situ] ) acres, more or the County of Hori lying in Horry State of South Ca: r, in Conway lyinfir and boIn? ir hip, and bounded way Township c vardly by land of the ly owned by W. sPlin* r?ad. ar Moore, Eastward- tween fifth lands claimed by m^e posts, 1 s R. Scarborough n*n& a^ a stake o vardly by lands of east. side of s Stalvey, and SPr*n? road and I ardly by land cd North ,an as the Rollinson Mrs. W. H. S being the South- Eatfit b* land of M of lot No 95, ^lla Smith, pSou >mewood Colony and West by Spring road. sONAL PROPE i J ', on Dog Bluff Road for $1,000.00 as i "Norman" for $226.00. , * her near Lorls, just now under option. before January. See me if you want . Wood' Attorney-at-Law THE HORBY HMtALP, OONWA ! went out with anap^on^ Cieci to a | , broom and told tfflTTfCtors that the strip mine workers were ready to surrender provided they were given the assurance of being allowed to walk out unmolested. Jones says he called out, "I want to talk to you," | and that a leader answered. Jones < describes this leader as being 24 or j 25 years old, weight about 160, light 1 haired, with sharp freckled face and i toting ,i rifle. This leader, Jones as- ; sorts, agreed to the proposition of let- i ting them out unmolested provided ; "you come out unarmed, with your hands in the air." 1 McDowell overheard this promise, ' says Jones, with the result that "we 1 all were formed in line, hands up, and , I walked west on the vai'roni tracks J J 150 yards to where the union men were congregated. The prisoners t were covered with rifles and pistols 11 by their captors who rushed up close 1 and searched them for weapons." i Jones estimated tb.it there were ' 3,000 armed men in the crowd to ! which they surrendered. He said the ! victors began slapping the pnsoners who marched two abreast down the j railroad tracks. About 200 yards had been covered when the prisoners were told to take down their hands and 1 take their hats off. McDowell was . struck and kicked. When the prison- ! ers were forced to go on a trot, McDowell was unable to keep up because of his peg leg and he fell two or three times. The treatment of( McDowell soon became so brutal that lie could go no further. The Murder of McDowell. Tracy describes the killing of McDowell in more detail. The proces-' , sion had gotten to a place called Crenshaw Crossing and the prisoners j were being beaten pretty generally J i when a n'jw leader appeared, and was . hailed as "Tom" or "Bill." Tracy , describes him thus: "A big fellow, j 50, stout, weight i90. 5 feet 10, with a week's growth of beard, rawboned, i * ~ - aressed roughly. wearing blue over- ; alls and felt hat." This leader sing- , led out McDowell and said to the latter that he had put Howat in jail in ; Kansas hut would never put anybody else in jail. , This leader began beating McDow-^' ell over the head with a .45 calibre*\ automatic pistol and kept it up for ! about 200 yards when he took Mc- 1 Dowell out of line and knocked him < down with a hea^y blow on the side ' of the head. Tracy said he saw some ' six or eight women, some of them < carrying babies in their arms, kick 1 McDowell. Tracy did not see this i particular leader any more. Tracy ] said that the procession continued in an orderly determined way until they ] o ? j To Cure a Cold in One Day i Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets). It . 1 stops the Cough and Headache and works off the 4 ' old. E. W GROVE'S signature on each box. 30c IT "1; >erty of D CO. ; s disposed of ; I 3 ( H 1 t .AND | I \ No. 4 9 00 For $6,000.00 Q ; r that ' M 1 , All that certain tract U t el .01 ite in ^anc* *n sa^ County n j *y and an^ State known as thr U I rolina, Hammond and Re'l n J 1 Con- Bluff lands, containing U | n n^th^ one thousand acres, n ? Cool U id be- more or ^ess? bounded f ana North by the Conway B J begin- and Pireway road; East e n the jjy Xodd and Simp n ^ son Swamp? and Wacca ound- n of maw River; Soucn by M I pivey. lands of T. W. Livings- | Mr* ton and lands df T. J. U th b; cox> an(j West *>y the a doore, ^ n Cool Conway and Pireway y I rnnd. RTY 1 t stands. I , but it may be open later. n ward iW5 Y. 8. 0, MOV. 33. 1033 COLUMBIA ART PHENOMENON Always when the wonder seems ?one out of life and living has resolved itself into a matter of eating *nd sleeping and getting the "where withal to do so, something new and altogether bewildering happens ami ill of the lost shimmer and glow about being alive is marvelously back again. One of these new and bewildering things has happened right here in Columbia. It has happened miraculously, like a scarlet poppy out of :>lack earth?black earth where no dim of life before. The thing that has happened is that a young Columbia woman, who nad no knowledge of training in the art, lias suddenly begun to paint remarkable pictures. She is Miss Jollie Hay of 2017 Preston Street, Shandon, a?id her pictures are draw nig niiiiiy asiomsneu people to nei liome every day to see fou themselves lb is strange thing* lhat has happened. One month ago Miss Hay had never painted a picture in her life, nor attempted to, nor even had the least desire to do so. She could not have told exactly what pastel work was, nor did she have the slightest idea how oil paints were purchased, whether in a bottle or by the quart. Now an Artist. Today she is an artist, exquisite products of her hand all around her. And this was the way it happened. About a month ago Miss Hay was watching a cousin, Mrs. G. D. Ryan, formerly Miss Anna Keith, painting. After watching for a time Miss Hay told Mrs. Ryan that she had the queerest sort of a feeling about the painting, a feeling that she could do it herself. Mrs. Ryan, who has studied art /or a number of years and issomething of an artist herself, was surprised, but gave her some crayons and told her to try. M iss Hay took the crayons home and began to work. Her family stood around And looked on in amazement as beneath the young woman's fingers a lovely picture began to grow. She worked feverishly and did not stop until the picture was finished. Then she began another and then another. Mrs. Ryan went to see her and was amazed at what Miss Hay had done. She carried her some oil paints and told tier that she would come back and jVl ur Unv onwAfUi ?*/> ? A'* <> nvi ouiiicbiiuig a"uui mixing*' till' paints. In a short while Miss Hay telephoned and asked her 'to come look at her oil painting and when Mrs. Ryan reached the Hay home she was more aghast than ever, for there was a, remarkable picture done 'in oil, a noonlight snow scene, which, she said, might have been don6 by an artist (who had years and years of training. So the work has gone on. Miss Hay's mother, Mrs. J. T. Hay, who iAeared the power house when a man 'who all the strip miners said was an officer of the Miners' Local appeared in an automobile, drew the mob leader aside and after talking to him pointed to the woods." (Continued Next Week.) SWEEPS ?ONWARD Columbia.?The continued onward ?\veep of co-operative marketing in he state is indicated, officials of the ^outh Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association said yesterday, >v the large number of new contracts oming in daily. Over one hundred \ew contracts have been received in he jxist week, and the number of new nembers is being swelled every day. There is no mpmlioivin'n ? Miiify vtl I I I })<l 1 I I >n at present, and practically all of he contracts that are coming in are voluntary and officials say are the re-1 iult of the satisfaction felt by the nemhers with the nvmner in which he Association is functioning*. Credit s being given the Association genertlly for the strength of the cotton narket and the present prices of coton. One of the large contracts to come n during the past week was from J. \ Williams, of McConnellsville, York bounty. Mr. Williams signed the ontract this week and has turned >ver several hundred bales of cotton, festerday a letter was received from iim stating that a number of other armers in his section were ready to ign. Letters from Marion brought he news that iv.ite a number of growl's in that county were ready to afx their signatures to the contract. *? Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Day* Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding ftles. Instantly relieves Itching Pihs, and you *n get restful ?ffe- first nnnlication. 60c. Ford Ser " I ha THAT /T * IT genuine r We arc the poor man's friend Goodyevr and Firestone tire TABOR MOTO [Leonarda TABOI mmmmmmmrnmmmmmmmm | ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN More than 6 per cent of the medical students in the United Sates are women. Nearly 100 women lawyers are now practicing their profession in Washington, 1). C. In ancient Rome no woman more than fifty years of age was permitted to marry. M iss Marian Whidden directs the operation of one of New York\s largest hospitals. Miss Dorothv Gray, not<~d hoa"tv sculptor, recently insured her hands for $100,000. Mexican women have smaller anc more regularly shaped feet than American or European women. i . , ?? .w Japanese court recent'v issued a decree which releases Geisha- gins from involuntary slavery. Women employed as rea<lers ir 1 press clipping bureaus oft*m have t< memorize 5,000 names and subjects. The United States Department ot Agriculture has trained women chemists who seek to learn food values for public information. Mrs. Charlotte Despard, sister ol Lord French, t lie famous Uritisl soldier, is a candidate for a seat it the llritish Parliament. I ! The British authorities in Hon$ j Kong have taken steps to abolisl j the system by which some 50.00C Chinese girls have been held it slavery. Miss Elsie K. Griesser, of White stone, N. Y., who recently paddlee a canoe through the Panama Canal becomes the first woman to ever perform the feat. She completed tlv entire distance of forty-two miles ir fifteen hours. ft# is very proud and astonished at hei daughter's sudden genius, says thai when her daughter begins a picture she never stops until it is finished. 11 she begins one in the afternoon she works until it is complete, ever though it be in the early morning hours. Miss Hav has worked incessantly, since this latent genius awoke in her For the first two weeks she worker so steadilv and with such eomnlete absorption that she became ill ami has. just recovered. During the ill ness, which her mother believes wai brought on by the intense work, she lost 15 pounds. Since she began painting Miss Hay has done 15 pictures. Several ol these are in oil and the others ar< pastel. All of them except two arc copies of other pictures, most 01 them enlarged copies. They includc nature scenes, faces and reproductions from memory. Miss Hay for| merly lived in Camden and two of the I pictures are scenes that stood out ; vividly in her memory of that pretty cit>\ One of these is that of a pond at Camden, and the other of an old house. Webb to Exhibit. B. Lucas Webb says he considers Miss Hay's work nothing short of narvelous. He will exhibit some of he >vork in his store in the near full re. Neighbors and numbers of others, some of them students of art themselves, have seen these pictures .ini1 credit them to nothing short cf genius. Miss Hay is a slim young woman with large, unusually bright brown eyes and dark hair. She says she has never before had any desire to paint and never took a lesson in art even while . ? child in school. She, however, had an aunt, Mrs. Del Kemper, of Virginia, who, it is said, had considerable talent in art. She never sold any of her work but donated a number of paintings to public institutions. There are also several cousins who show talent along this line. Miss Hay is the daughter of ihe late Senator J. T. Hay, of Camden, and has lived in Columbia for about nine years. Mrs. Hay, the mother, said that probably as lots of other mothers would have done, she followed a habit that she had followed all her life when she needed guidance and help and sought the Bible for a solution doing it in that old familiar way of opening the book and moving her finger blindly along a page. When she opened her eyes and looked at the place where her finger had stopped, Mrs. Hay read: "For T neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, hut by the r evelation of taught it. but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." vice it Serves 'S us I ord Parts I And the rich man's choice. g 8 at rockbotton prices. I iR COMPANY I i Garage] I <-* * 1 1 W. K. SUGGS OUT FOR MAYOR This issue carries the announcement of W. K. Suggs for the office of Mayor of the Town of Conway. Mr. Suggs is well known in Conway, being a native of Horry County. He also attended the Burroughs High School here. He was graduated frorr. Wofford College in 1917. He then entered the Service during the late ? World War and was later promoted ti the office of second lieutenant, infantry, U. S. A. After the war he pursued the course of law at Uni'?vertity of South Carolina, gra^luat' ing in 1921. He also specialized in Columbia University, New York. Mr. Suggs is now a member of the local lyir and is also second lieuten1 ant in the Infantry Reserve, U. S. A. , ASSOCIATION MEETING , A meeting1 of all officers of School Improvement Associations in Horry County is being called by the State ' organizer, for Saturday, November ; 25th, in the Town Hall in Conway,. ;it 2 o'clock ! Many interesting plans are being 1 made and discussions of the work for ' i the year will be taken up. Miss . Thomas urges that all officers l>e . present and be prepared to give a r brief account of what has been act! complished through their associai tions. | After the business is finished, there j will be a short social program, d urging which those present will have the i j opportunity of meeting each other. ) Plans are being made for refresh! ments to be served. A cordial invitation is extended to ,nll teachers and trustees, whether they have associations or not in their i schools, to come and be present at this meeting. ' Yours truly, a Mrs. W. A. Freeman. By E. C. Allen, County Superintendent of Education o COURT HOUSE REVIVAL t > The evangelistic services which ar? [ being conducted at the County Court x HoUSP. hv t Bnv -T II ~** , ? ^ ...v ..x... u. am., vjauncy, ul , Gurley, S. C., are still going on with , great success. Several are being converted in the old time way. This , meeting has been going on for eleven. days and will continued as long as I the Divine Spirit directs. It is being , conducted in the old time way, and I many are being saved from their sins, . and are made happy in the Savior's love. There has been as many as five , converted in one night. The people in town and county are r all invited to come and take part in ? these services. Several homos have ; completely turned to the Lord. Sev\1 eral have already joined the church pi for baptism. May the Great Giver J of all good crown our meeting with ' abundant success. abundant succes. S o oe*are or eye Strain. [ Irritability of the stomach, loss of [ Appetite, dyspeptic symptoms after partaking of food, dizziness, nausea ond vomiting are often caused by eye > strain. After the eyes are examined and glasses are worn the symptoms {iisappo/wr. Children during the period1 if school life who frequently suffer from heartache, loss of appetite and dizziness and are behind in their work dn'uld have their eyes examined and h?? eye strain relieved by prescribed glasses. o 1 TEACHERS MEETING There will be a meeting- of the County Teachers Association of Horry County at the Court House Saturday morning, November 25th, at 11 ' o'clock. All teachers ,are urged to be present. Miss Mattie Thomas, fro:J the State Department of Education and Colonel D. A. Spivey, of this County, will address the meeting along ' general lines of education. It w very important that teachers, tru*vtees and patrons attend this meetingRespectfully, E. C. ALLEN, SitpW of Education. u Analysis of the Kiss. In annlyz'ng the psychophyslolog? of lhe kiss. Professor M lesplne says: "The kiss Is the first ai.imal manifestation of love. The passionate look Is nothing hut desire. The handshake .? full of reserve, of constraint, or ftiH of hope. The kiss Is simply another und more exquisite manifestation tlu* sense of touch than the handshake. And it Is from the sense of touch tbM all other senses are (Wived." ONE MUST FAIL "Co-operative marketing and auction plan of marketing tobacee ??.ttIWv uvm caibi. mr. on mis shnu One of them must go under. If you want co-operative marketing' you have it. If you prefer the old meth*4 of dumping you can have that. Jl depends entirely upon you. We mwis* have more members, and you muM get them if we are to have the biggest success. There have been numerous systems for selling1 direst from the grower, but all have faiM with the exception of the eo-operattv# plan."?Oliver Sands. Htt. Fannie Hazlett, of Nevl^t aire S5 years, enjoyed he* first plan* trip s6 much that pdto P!bm to take fih air trifr U> dan Trkxxlae*. ft , *