The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 04, 1923, Image 1
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volume xxxvn
TODD OUTWITS
TWO ATTACKERS
Travel Over One Hundred and
Fifty Yards During
Conflict
BOUND TO HIGH COURT
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Some Whiskey Tale Appears to
be Bottom of Disagreement
There is pending- in the Court of
General Sessions warrants taken out
by W. M. Todd against Melvin Owens
and Clarence Causey, charging assault
and battery on September 3rd,
1922.
There was a preliminary hearing
before the magistrate some time ago
*ind the cases bound over for trial
during the February term of the
criminal court.
All of the parties live near Myrtle
Beach. They may be said to be members
of the same community.
On September 3rd, ?as W. M. Todd '
was walking along the public highway,
he noticed outside the road
Thedford DuBoise and three others,
but did not recognize the three others
as he passed by. After he had gone
along the road for some distance, Melvin
Owens, .according to the testimony,
callod Todd and said for him to stop
as he wanted to talk to him.
Todd tKfen walked slowly along the
road for Owens to come up with him.
Clarence Causey had stepped across
the ditch into the road, in the mean-time.
When Owens came up to Todd, he
(Todd) said, or words to that effect:
"I heard that you have told that 1
carried the whiskey that made Joe
Sarkis drunk."
Todd denied that he had told any
such thing.
About that time Clarence Causey
had slipped alonp; down the road and
was behind To/Id at the time and when
the denial came, he knocked Todd with
all his might. Todd jumped back to
get away from Causey and at the
fame time pulled out of his bosom a
pistol.. He explained that he had
b?nn off at the time to get some new
shells to go into this pistol as he was
*nder promise to pro with the rural
police the next day to hunt for some
whiskey stills.
The show of the pistol, although it
liad but two old cartridges in it, one
of which had been snapped upon and
would not fire, caused the trouble to
lull, but not fc'k-,.0^.
Clarence Causey asked Owens to
hand him his pistol; that Todd did not
have the nerve to shoot no how, and
he would kill Todd, according to the
threats as reported. Todd says that
something was handed Causey by
Owens but he could not tell whether it
was a pistol or a pair of knucks.
Todd repeatedly told the men that
he did not want to do them any injury
but only wanted to protect himself
and that they must stay away from
him and let him alone. But they did
not let him alone.
About this time Owens had slipped
ground Todd and caught Todd by his
side thus attempting to hold him
while Causey caught Todd by the
other side and began hitting lum.
He hit Todd a number of times, according
to the testimony and left
severe looking bruises on the person
of Todd. ,
Todd managed to jerk himself loose
from the two and they fell almost flat
in the road. Causey recovered and
came again and tried to aim blows at
about to get the best of Causey so as
Todd. Every time that Todd was
to get away, Owens would come up
and take hold of Todd. On one turn
in the mele Todd had Causey down
where he could administer a beating,
but the ever present Owens was
right there to pull him off. Causey
bit Todd on the finger .and left a
si^n which he will carry as long as
h* lives. He also bit Todd on his
eljoulder during the fight.
During all this time Todd was going
on his way the best that he could,
ever trying to get away; protecting
himself from the blows and the kicks
of his assailants. During the time
they passed over at least one hundred
and fifty yards of the public highway.
Finally he got clean away from the
two and went o nhome. With the two
who have been mentioned as taking
part in the attack, were two other
men, Thedford DuBoise and Grayer
Collins. The two last named took no
nart in the difficulty.
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Conway wants and needs a sweet
potato storage house, and the people
of the town must not let the movement
drop. The railroad company refused
the side traclfc one time but they
dare not do it the second time. The>
will he afvnid when they know thai
we mean bbysiness.
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ITnvrv O ty has the best land!
and the m varied kinds c f soils.
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5 Let us not spend this year in j
chasing rainbows. The fortune 3
I. supposed to be at the end there- *
Jr of will never be found. Let's
t* make the best that we can out
of the things that we have all I
V during the course of the good 1
year 1923. I
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NEW YEAR'S Hi
STUNTS FAIL
Boys so Closely Watched by
Town Officers Have to
Quit
For the first time in many years,
the police department was able to control
the boys on New Year's niftlit so
that they did not play the usual
pranks. '
It was nothing unusual to come
down town on New Year's morning
to find the entrances to stores blocked
\vith rolls of fence wire or old
automobiles. Chicken coops would be
moved away from market lots to
block the sidewalks. Signs came in
for their attention.. The sign of a
grocery store would appear in front
of a drug store, while a physician's
little sign might grace the fronts of
a cobbler shop. These and many
other stunts were done in years gone
by the young men of Conway.
On last Sunday night the night
policeman, Addie Holt, pressed in two
others to assist him. They watched
the business section so closly that
nothing could go on to celebrate the
coming in of the New Year except
the ringing of the church bells.
The boys gathered, however, in
groups, and they kept the policemen
busy. They were warned that all violations
of the ordinance would be followed
by an appearance before the
town cotirt. A group of the boys
slipped away from the view of the
policemen and managed to roll an old
car across the sidewalk. Before the
boys could get away from the car the
policeman got in sight and saw one
of them as he removed his hands from
the car. This boy was arrested and
was required to make bond or go to
the guard house. He put up a cash
bond.
This bad luck of one of the crowd
seemed to discourage the others and
put a stop to their frequent attempts
to outwit the officers.
The boys remained up until about
3 o'clock in their efforts to celebrbate,
but finally gave it up as impossible
job and went back home and to bed.
BUS TRAVELERS
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Roads Put Bia Machine Out
But Made With
Cars
TOURING CAR IS INJURED
Second Bus Line Established
Also Had Trouble in Keeping
Schedule
The Conway-Marion Bus Line had a
hard season for the end of the old
year on account of the wet weather
nnd the^efTect of this on the roads.
For about n week or longer it was
impossible to run the regular bus. It
is a very heavy truck and where the
ground is soft it will sink down by
the wheels, owing to its great weight.
Instead of using this during the bad
season they used a tour in)? car that
was purchased by the bus line some
time ago, and hired transfer drivers
for the passengers where this touring
car could not t.ike care of the travel.
But even the touring car, a Hupmobile,
was put out of business for a
time by reason of the hard service
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nine h. naci u? uikici^u oil, tne rt??iu?.
It burned out a coil and this part, had
to he obtained from the supply shops
in Columbia before the car could be
used again. The big truck on one of
its trips broke a spring and this caused
delay in getting the large machine
back on the road after these had become
better from a few days of dry
weather and sunshine. Other cars
were used}* however; and'the business
of the bus line did not suffer any, apparently.
It is hard work on any machine to
make trips twice dailv over any road,
no matter how good the condition of
this road may be. When the entire
surface of the road is turned into
muck bv the daily rains it becomes a
strain that steel will stand for a tirnr
i but even it must yield to the hard
work that is put upon it.
The travel over the bus line so fa>
as appearances went continued to bf
more than the usual amount owing tr
i the holiday travel. While the big machine
was laid off because of the rea1
-J t- 1 i.nnrl if
sons aoove Htttieu uic uu.i uncu n
; its place kept coming in about on th<
; scheduled time loaded with passen
gers.
The other bus line leading out o
' Conway also had some trouble in mak
r ing its regular trips from Conway t<
t Little River during the days of ha<
weather just before Christmas. Thi,
is the new Ford truck put on thi:
? new run by W. Fred Stanley, a car
rier of the mail between Little Rive
an i Conway.
j, It is expected that by the time o
, the opening of the season at Myrtl
Be.ach this year, there will be a {hlf
J bus line in operation, this one havmi
1 Conway and Myrtle Beach as it
p terminals.
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C The Christmas mail at the Conwa
jj postofflce was handled in double quic
C | time considering the lateness of *>ir
W. of the (rains in making their ache<
Plules.
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CONWAY, 8. P., THURSDAY,
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1 AIMING AT GR
i oS
Farmers of Horry Coun
Ij degree of success in this Nev
% We will take it for gran
jt farm. We also take it for gi
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ieed for the live stock.
> That part being dispose^
% the matter of a money crop.
5 If you decide to try cott<
plant do more than you think
Ij weevil conditions. For the s
5! sane and intelligent human I
I of raising the cotton patch a
Ij gardless of the boll weevil.
J* the best methods and you can
< and learning by your actual <
% you learn. Never agree to
J and let it turn out with only
S If you have decided to
% money crop, get ready right
j tion and a closer study than
I Say that you are going to pr<
3; the very finest grade of brig
5 the experience of other good
J other farmers who made moi
J the face of heavy rains ever
3; you have to some purpose a
> with a grade of the leaf th
< Remember that a lazy and ci
i any money out of tobacco.
Ij always alive to the main thi
> with it.
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CHANGE MADE
DURING YEARS
Mr. C. E. Hemingway was in Conway
to spend a day with his daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J.
13. V.-iught, spending the time while
here with Judge J. S. Vaught.
Mr. Hemingway was hack at Conw.ay
after an absence of forty-five
years.
About forty-five years ago he came
through Conway on his way to Charlotte,
N. C., where he went and settled
and has remained since. He stopnoH
Hif?n hojirdiniy house which
was kept by Mrs. Jane Norman, in a
building which stood near the cedar
tree on the eastward side of Main
Street, the place where the Horry
Drue* Company and Rurroughs <Sr Colons
Company now have their places
of business.
Mr. Hern inn-way said that he traveled
through tho country with some
other boys and when he arrived at
Conway that time he needed a clean
"ollar and had none along with him.
He could not buy one in Conway. It
was nlso in his mind to buy some
"Art riders for his pistol and he could
>ot find any of these. Strange to say
it appears that Conway at that ti?^e
had a number of saloons, .at least
places where hard drinks were dispenser!
open and above board.
Mr. Hemingway sees a great change
in Conway since that time. It was interesting
to hear him talk about those
timetf.
COIINTYUNIT
JANUARY 10TH
The reerular meeting of the Horry
County Unit of the Tobacco and Cotton
Growers' Co-opera !;ive Associations
will be held in the County Court
House at 11:00 o'clock, Wednesday,
January 10th.
This organization is composed of all
the chairmen and delegates from the
local units throughout the county. At
this meeting a permanent; county organization
will he formed. Ten stronglocal
units have been set up in thi*
county so far and it is expected that
there will be formed at least ten more
within the next rtionth.
Darlington County held its first
1 regular meeting Saturday, December
30th. The local units in this county
1 were represented by over GO delegates
I at this meeting. A great deal of detail
business of vital interest to the
association was attended to. Director
' T. B. Young made a splendid address
* on the success and future outlook of
the tobacco association. W. E Lea.
of the Tobacco Field Service Division
1 made a short talk on the necessity of
more thorough organization. R. D.
Darpyin, of the Cotton Growers' Cooperative
Association, gave the mem'
hers quite a bit of valuable information
as to the pi ogress of this AssoJ
ciation. In addition to the regular de1
legate.--, there was a large attendance
of members of both associations from
3 throughout the county.
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nivery member or tne : >??occo ai'.i
r Cotton Growers' Co-operative Associations
in Horry County is? especially
* invited to attend this first rcrrular
? meefing of the county unit on Wed^
nesday, January 10th. There will be
* an address by some prominent nems
ber of the association on this occasion.
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The citizens of Conway want the
y streets of Conway paved.
k Streets and sidewalks are prood ir
'e dry weather but bad in wet weathei
*- unless they are "bilt rite." Get the
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EAT SUCCESS %
ty
may you aim at a high %
v Year of 1923. %
ited that you are going to
ranted that you will aim at ^
' the family and plenty of S
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d of it remains to consider ;
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:>n then let us advise you to 5
; you can manage under boil ; f
lake of your reputation as % c
>eings, study the best ways J
knd making- it profitable re- t
To do this you must know ^ t
understand this by reading "
experience in applying what > i
plant the whole of creation ? I
a few pods next fall. t
use tobacco this year as a I; ?
now to give it better atten- .
you have ever done before. \
sduce here in Horry County. < j
ht leaf ever raised. Study i
tobacco raisers. Talk with Ij'
ney on it last year, even in \ '
y day. Use the brain that ; J
,nd come out next Summer ; ,
lat will bring you a profit. !; 1
ireless man will never make J*
You must be awake and <
lig in view which is success
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WONDER CANE
BY BARNHILL
C. W. Bartjhill, a prosperous farmer
near Bayboro, brought to Conway
last Wednesday a sample of blue
sugar cane that ought to have a prominent
place at some fair. It was n
well developed stalk of this variety
and it measured eight and one half
feet in length.
Mr. Rirnhill planted about oreeighth
of an acre in this cane on his
farm, three ini'es from Baybcvo. 11
produced for him thirty gallons of
syrilp;
The cane was planted in the usual
way, but it was fertilized and worked
about the same as a field of corn
would have been.
The cane w.is plowed three times
before being laid by for harvest.
PEACEBROKEN
NEAR MYRTLE
The peace was seriously broken
near Myrtle Beach on Christmas day,
ren Clarence Causey and Dozier
Edge fell out over something and only
the elforts of those who ware nearby
prevented probably a serious matter.
The fuss took place in front of the
home of P. J. Owens.
It appears that Causey accused
Edge of something which the latter
denied. One word brought on another
until the first thing anybody knew the
were trying to fight.
There were several shot guns in the
crowd and a number of threats are
said to have been made before the
fuss was over.
Cooler heads in the party prevailed
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'vnn 'lie otriers id ueuome ?<?ti?ucu
and further troul)le was thus prevented.
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GOOD WORK BY THE
SANTA CLAUS CLUB
The men's classes of the respective
Sunday schools of the town are the
promoters of the Santa Claus club.
To become a member of this club
required the payment of a one dr.llar
membership fee, which constituted the
purchasing- funds, unless somecne
wished to make a donation.
The purpose was to dispense Christmas
cheer, to bring; sunshine out of
the clouds; to put laughter into the
hearts of little children and smiles on
the faces of the aged and infirm.
So far as The Herald has heard the
effort was a crowning success. Of
course, no human plan is perfect;
hence some may have been overlooked.
If this is true, the S/inta
Claus club is truly sorry, the oversight
being purely accidental.
Scores of baskets filled with Christmas
cheer were sent out to homes or
to individuals. These remembrances of
the club reached a few hundred people
nnd is is hoped that Christmas, be
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cause of this, meant just a nine un
more to each and every one.
The Santa Claus club wishes to
thank the ladies especially and the
friends generally for the splendid
service rendered in the purchase, preparing
baskets, and distribution of
these simple expressions of love and
good cheer. May the highest and
holiest of all gifts, the love of Christ,
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ceived. The Herald in voicing this
wish, best expresses the wish of all
! thoughtful people.
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i MaV the homes of Conway take or
* a still better look during 1923. They
i only need another coat of paint ir
some eases.
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\PPEAL TAKEN J1
1U 1tiKj 15UAKU
.oris School Matter Under Ap- I
peal From Refusal of
Mr Allen
Following the decision of Judge S. (
V. G. Shipp, recently, to the efTect
bat a writ of mandamus would not i
>e issued against E. C. Allen, superntendent
of education, requiring him
o approve certain school claims in
he Loris School district, the attorney
'or the Farmers Rank, of Loris, as to
ertain claims, and for D. W. Haixlvick
and Dr. Huger Richardson, of (
he trustee board, took an anpeal from 1
he decision of Allen to the full coun- i
;y board of education. i
This notice of appeal w.as promptly ]
riven and the hearing before the fuP
ward was set for December 27th.
Hie hearing began at about the usual
ime and was rot finished on that dav i
md was wound up last Friday night ]
it a continued meeting of the full I
ward of education, consisting* of the ]
'unevh>t'?r>d*mt.. K. O. Al'en, and T. B. <
Lewis and Arland J. Baker, the other <
nemb^rs.
At the hearing which began on the
27th, several preliminary questions
were raised and disposed of by the
aoard. The position of the appellant (
was that the vouchers should have
been approved by the superintendent,
and as they were not they should now
he ordered approved by the full board
on the grounds that the money is in
the treasury to pay the vouchers; that
fhe vouchers are properly drawn up
und Attested; and that the debts rep'hie
and owing by the
district.
E. S. C. Baker and M. A. Wright,
representing the position taken by the
superintendent, raised a technical defense
to the effect that Arland J.
Baker, member of the board, is a
first cousin of the superintendent and
therefore was not qualified to sit on
the hoard in this case. This defense
the board refused to*allow and the
motion was overruled by it.
Then the objection was raised that
the br.ard had no jurisdiction to hear
the appeal for tho reason that Robt.
B. Scarborough, the attorney for the
trustees had not made O. C. Cox a
nartv to the proceedings, as originally
instituted, now as they now stood,
and that O. C. Cox had no notice cf
the hearing on these questions. This
objection was also decided against the
nn4p?ition of Messrs Baker and
Wrinht. Then tho board considered
another oucstion vaised hv the defense
to the effect that all testimony
\nd evidence tending to f<how the
legality of the appointment of Dr.
Hug^r Richardson, as a lawful trestee,
should be excluded from the hearing
and held to be incompetent. The
board held that if thev were to exclude
such testimonv then the entire
nroceedings would fall and the hearing
of the case could not go on and
tlmv nrdnred tho bearing to go ahead
regardless of this further objection. I
The homing is set to be continued ,
this Friday night as this article isi
written, and if the board decide the'
auestio*> in time for the current issue
of The Herald the order of the
board will appear either in connection
with this article or in another column
of this issue.
No ma Her which way the full board
decides the matter, either side may
f.ike a further appeal to the State
Board of Education.
turnover"
old cotton
Columbia, Jan. 1.?Members of the
South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative
Association are being urged
to turn over all of their old cotton to
the association. A great many of the
members of the organization have already
done this,, but some have held
on to their old staple.
It is pointed out that members of
the association who sell their old cotton
on the open market are selling it
in competition to the association.
The officials of the association are
delighted with the delivery record to
date, but naturally are anxious to ret
every lv\!e sold through the association
that can possiblv be obtained,;
the more cotton sold through the astVvn
lmttnr thp rprnrrl which
it will make.
Members of the association are expressing
great delight with the man->
ner in which the association is functioning
and express the belief that
in 1923 the bulk of the cotton in this
state will bo sold through it.
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FIRST CONFERENCE
The first Quarterly Conference of
the current vear, of the Gurlev circuit
was held at Durants on Saturday
l.ost, with the presiding elder,
Tlnv. D. A. Phillips, presiding.
PHns were inaurrurated for a progressive
year's work in the hounds rf
the charge. Durante church taking- M;c
lead in the point of physical equipment,
raising- money to install a heater
and make other necessary improvements.
The Gurley charge starts weli the
year 1928.
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' Last Monday was salegday but onl)
i a few sates were made at the cour
house.
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H!S TRIP HOME
BRINGS ARREST
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Being in Jail One
Night
DUT OF ~19?9 AFFAIR
Man's Family Returned Without
Him to Home in
Waycross
Just Oi 'I'o11(1 whs nbout to
;nter tho afternoon train here last
Wednesday with his family, he was
placed under arrest hy J. O. Chestnut,
magistrate's constable, with a warrant
which had been sworn out by
Van Owens charging the defendant
with disposing- of a crop under l;en.
Todd had been spent' .'t? tho ChiisVmas
holidays with ii< parents noar
Myrtle Beach and was accompanied
by his wife and children. Following
his arrest his family went on to
Charleston and thence to Waycross,
Ga., where Todd has been holding a
position with the railroad company
for some time.
There was no chance to obtain bail
on Wednesday evening. The defendant
remained in the county jail that
night. On Thursday morning he sent
a transfer driver to Myrtle Beach
after his father, W. T. Todd. The latter
came back with the transfer and
arranged bail for his son. B. O.
Todd took the afternoon train for his
home as soon as the bond had been
fixed, ,
Tn conversation with Todd, he said
that thore was Ho ground for the
charge against hint, at least no ground
that could result in making1 him guilty
of the charge brought in the papers.
He said in substance, that ho had been
fanning in the year 1010 on shares
with Van Owens and raised a good
crop of cotton. He also planted and
marketed a tobacco crop.
When it was time to sell the tobacco
crop, according to the defendant's
statement, he was told by Owens that
the cotton crop would pay the debt
that he owed Owens, namely the sum
of about ^2()0.00; and that as the cotton
would be held for higher prices
that were thought sure to follow, that
he, Todd, might dispose of the tobacco
and could pay the account out of
the cotton when it was sold. According
to him, he then turned everything
over to Owens, but the price of cotton
wont down instead of up and according
to the papers served on him, there
is standing against him still the
sum of money above mentioned and
which is claimed as being due on account
secured by the crops raised by
Todd that year.
Since a year or two ago Todd hast
been working for the railroad company
and now lives at Waycross, Ga.
He had come back with his wife and
young folks to spend the holidays
with their parents.
It was a rainy evening when the
warrant was served upon him and he
found it impossible to arrange a bond
until better weather the next morning.
B. O. Todd is the same who was
engaged in a small mercantile business
in Conway about 1916. Before
thut time he ran a small restaurant
business in one of the shops near the
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NEGROES FIGHT
AND THEN PAY
A cutting1 scrape between the two
negro women in Conway last week
led them both to the city court, also
the husband of the woman who did
the cutting', and the whole bunch had
to pay fines.
Beulah Gore, one negro woman met
Baby Risley, another negro woman,
walking along the street with Jamea
Gore, snid to he the husband of Bewlab.
Without any warning the Gore
woman plunged a sharp knife into the
body of the other woman, evident^
aiming at the heart.
As soon as attacked, the woman ran
and got out of the way.
In the town court the Risley woman
paid a fine of *15.00 the Gore woman
oaid $5.00, while James Gore, the mam
in the case, paid a fine of $5.00. The
rest of sentence imposed by the court
was suspended on his good behavior.
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MET FRIDAY NIGHT
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The county board of education met
again on last Friday night to go on
with the hearing of the appeal made
bv Lorisites from the decision of the
county superintendent of education refusing
to approve certain school
vouchers. The hearing went on buf
was not finished and the board adjourned
until Tuesday, at which time
it is expected that the hearing* will beconcluded
and the decision soon rendered.
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Things are better than they
were. We start the year of ij
1923 with business much better J*
along: all lines. It will be bet- J *
ter for the farmers of this coun- ? J
try this year than in the past ! J
two years of our history. j ?