The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 08, 1923, Image 8
CONWAY STORY
BACK IN 1864
(Continued From Page One.)
growing: in this street. Between the
city hall and the county jail there was
a thicket of sweet gum and gall berr>
bushes. There were plenty of places
in which to hide.
During that time, as we have already
indicated, the food situation became
critical. It was only the verv
wealthy and the fortunate that had
plenty to ?at.
After this condition had prevailed
for some time, as the war continued
to go on and times got harder anc
harder, naids began to take place in
different sections of the county. A
band of from fifty to one hundred
possibly more, consisting mostly of
women, would swoop down on the
plantation of some wealthy old slave
owner, who had raised abundant
crops, and would clean out almost the
last vestige of his corn and proven
tier. The chickens and pigs would
disappear also at the same time.
These raids took place many times
and many plantations suffered as a
consequence.
At last, during the latter part of
I8r>4, the town of Conwayborough appeared
to be the only place where
there was anything much left as the
object of a raid.
One day the women of the country
gathered up somewhere in the woods,
the total number being estimated at
between three hundred and five hundred,
and slipped into the town unheralded
for the purpose of making a
raid. They were all dressed in white
homespun bonnets and white homespun
underskirts.
Armed with sticks, butcher knives,
and gum poles, they were evidently
bent on carrying out their purpose
amd withstanding all opposition.
After gathering in the street near
t"he county court house, the leaders
decided to raid the store of Immanual,
the Jew. They had learned that he
It ad received a large shipment of
white rice contained in five large
hotrsheads, such .is were used in that
day. They accordingly swarmed intc
the store and at this point pressed
young Bill Bruton in as an assistant
and whether willingly or unwillingly
he was compelled to break open the
casks of rice.
It becomes interesting now to gc
"back to the white homspun skirts
i ne purpose ot wearing tlie skirts
was to provide sacks in which to carry
ofT the rice. Inside the store and
/;>lso out in front, these skirts begar
to drop as the casks of rice were heinu
opened. All that was needed tc
turn a skirt into a gab was a good
stout string with which to tie the
skirt at one end. All sorts of thing?
were used for tying up the skirts
"Homemade garters, stockings, strips
torn from a homespun bonnet. Tt ap
peared that young Bruton wore i
pair of the olden time home knit suspenders,
probably knitted by his
mother. Bill had to give up his suspenders
in order to supply holding
tendons for two skirts full of rice.
They Ivid proceeded with the raic:
un.til four of the five casks had beer
emptied and yet all of the skirts had
not been filled. Upon the advice oi
Everett Watts, who had been compelled
to look on while the raid tooV
place, the women decided that they
would not take the last grain that
t3lr! Immanual had, but would take
the balance from somebody else. They
were advised that Morgan, who lived
at the site of the present residence
of Col. C. P. Quattlebaum, had a
shipment of rice on hand. They went
to his house in a body and repeated
the performance there as they had
done at Immanual's store. Seveivil
casks of rice were taken from Morgan,
A ftpl* IllO rairl hfirl Koon /ioi<i<ifirl
through, and the rice tied up, the
crowd left, some of the rice being
carried home on their shoulders, while
others had ox carts on which tc
haul it.
What was the matter with the law
and the officers of the haw, you will
say? Everett Watts, who interceded
for the merchant, who was being robbed,
was the jailer. He was working
the sheriff who appointed him,
Where was the sheriff to allow such
things to go on ?
The truth is that there was no
chance of enforcing the law. The
country was in the midst of civil
strife. The same spirit that actuated
the men of the entire country also
actuated the women and the boys and
girls. The people cared not, apparently,
whether they obeyed the
laws or not. The officers of the law
were officers in rv*me only.
Then again, what would the poor
women do in order to stavo starvation
away from the d?or? How would
the little children l>e fed and put to
lied? It is true that the jailer was
present when the raid took place and
Vie was powerless in view of even
those crude weapons the raiders carried.
By their very numbers they
were more than a match for the jail
cr ana a match for the sheriff and his
deputies.
The few planters who were able to
own slaves had made some progress
in clearing up the lands and cultivating
farms. Many families were unto
nilivlinuo elavnu 1""'
r uitAT vn* * lic^ IUUU i/W
clear up their land by their own efforts
and they had not had the time
in which to do it before the War between
the States came along. Many
people had nothing to eat and they
had to live in some way.
There was not more than one magistrate
in the whole territory of what
is now Horry County. There were
more later, but not then. Courts
came as very few and far between
and when a court did meet in the
regular way there was but little to be
done. It was easy in those days to
evade the law. It is said to be rather
easy even now, but it is nothing to
compare with what it was then.
(CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.)
(The next and last chapter in this
/
%
CONLIFFE WAS
I NOT MOLESTED
(Continued From Page One.)
? en out the false reports that became
5 current:
r Feby. 2, 1923.
t Mr. H. H. Woodward,
Editor Horry Herald,
. Conway, S. C.
. Dear Sir:
r Yesterday (Thursday) two influen|
tial white citizens of Mullins called
my attention to the scathing- article
I which you gave 'Headline Space' in
[ your paper, extolling the alleged
I rought treatment I received from the
i hands of the Ku Klux Klan.
I want to state there is not a word
: of truth in the article you published.
I know nothing about the Collins
) afTair which you referred to as the
! stimulus for incurring the wrath of
' the Klan. T have no time to mind
1 other people's business,
j To determine my status for the
eight years I have been in Mullins,
* ij -i- ?ii i- i *? - *
you wouia uo wen 10 inquire 01 any
(influential white citizens, bank or
i business house, or, of Dr. Piatt, of
, I Conway.
I I therefore request that you publish
;n your next issue, correction of the
erroneous statement made.
Respectfully,
Milton M. ConlifTe, M. D.
This article might add that since
1 the reports of last week were circulated,
another report has been circulated
to the effect that it was a white
nan going by the name of Doctor
that was called on by the Klan or
some men who were regarded as belonging
to the Klan. This may have
caused the false reports on ConlifTe
to get started.
The Herald published the item last
week as a report and did not claim
that the rumors were true.
The paper hastens to make correction
as has been requested.
HOW DODGE CAR
TURNED TURTLE
!
(Continued From Page One.)
owner of the car, who was driving,
' and besides the three mentioned, there
were three or four other passengers;
> llmt vrmio niiloc fnHliov Knnlr tV?o
road they had suspected some trouble
? with the steeling Rears and one of
the men got out of the machine and
I went under it and stated that he had
i i found the trouble and fixed it; then
they went on and had reached the
> point of the accident when the driver
I again felt that the steering column
J was loose; that all at once one of the
? front wheels went all to pieces and
. crumpled up in a second; that the car
> was heading straight for a stump and
that the driver tried to turn the car
i away from the stump, but one of the
- wheels struck it and the car turned
s completely over, having slid along for
a distance of between twenty and
C forty feet after breaking the wheel.
The passengers were all in and under
I the car during that time and until it
i came to a stop in the middle of thf
I road. All of them crawled out from
' under the debris and only one of the
number was pinned down so that he
: could not extricate himself without
aid. This man was pulled out by the
; others.
Following the accident the two who
were then at the wreck had come to
I Conway after help so they could get
1 the car righted and take it in.
It was stated that the car is insured
and that Mr. Stanley will be paid
three-fifths of his damage by means
of this accident. The car was not a new
car but it had been used for some
time by Mr. Stanley in carrying the
mail from Conway to Little River and
j \
| short history will appear in the next
, issue of The Herald, and will have as
its most interesting incident, the trial
(lynching) of Dennis Todd.)
nggSBBBSBBBBSQ BSD 1229 BSD CESS! D QB2ZSB33BBEB1 D IS
hj Q QQSmBSSSBBSH Q 0X39 KQZ3 0XQ9 G^CaUB (QBSBSBBS&3SBB1 D D
I Weak |
S3 Back [!
II Mrs. Mildred Pipkin, of BE
II R. F. D. 8, Columbia, Tcnn., Bjj
i IB says: "My experience with HE
jS Cardui has covered a number of 5?
jj years. Nineteen years ago 11
ij I got down with weak back. I |S
II was run-down and so weak and In
|| nervous I had to stay In bed. IB
lit I read of 10
I CARDUI
a The Woman's Tonic 18!
OB and sent for it. I took only one 11
e fi bottle at that time, and it helped |g
11| me; seemed to strengthen and HI
I H build me right up. So that is B|
I 0 how I first knew of Cardul. ol
S3 After that, . . . when 1 began to 51
BO get weak and 'no account', I BE
I n sent nght for Cardui, and it |
I H never failed to help me." r
I [J If you are weak and suffering I
I U from womanly ailments, Cardui | ]
52 may be just what you need. gjj
flu Take Cardui. It has helped BB
n I thousands, and ought to help | jj
H] At all druggists' and dealers'. II
BngBmaMBmBqBmBmniBiifaiiJiiiiiimtfat
|n n, r
<<*
THE HORRY HERALD, PC
return, also on another mail route
that he fills leading out from Little
River.
The rt>ad at the place of the accident
was not bad. It was a straight
stretch of road not far from Salem
church. The cause of the accident is
said to have been caused by the broken
steering gear and probably by the
secondary cause of the broken wheel
and striking against the stump by
the edge of the road.
Later?Further particulars of the
wvrui smash that took place when this
Dodge car turned over, were obtained
at first hand yesterday.
It is now related that the cause of
the wreck of the wheel above described
resulted from striking the stump,
after the tie rods of the car had evidently
become loose and dropped
down. The impact of the machine
against the stump caused it to fly up
in the <air turning over as it went and
then falling top side down on the
ground so hard that one corner of the
wooden and iron bound body was
crushed downwards, showing that a
terrible force of mere falling with
heavy weight was present in order
to produce this result.
An examination of the remains of
the car, as it lay on the ground, showed
one of the rims of the front lights
under the back seat. The body, or
chasis of the car was broken in two
or three places. Pieces of glass which
had formed the windshield lay about
the ground without a sign of much
glass within the frame and the frame
itself was broken up. The front
springs and gearing in the front was
all torn loose and tangled up with the
rest of the debris. The battery was
torn to pieces, while the wheel which
had struck the stump had every spoke
in it broken or cracked and the rim
itself was around the stump which
had been struck. This stump was
about two feet and a half high. It
was the stump of a tree which the
road forces had cut when working on
the road to Little River about a year
ago. The bark had slipped off the
II ///if
JG
You
MIL
/<
There are three <
?arsenate as a po
a third (secret) e
weevil. When a si
put on the top of
hoant it out, eat it a
**T
I Testa have been
and responsible f
HILL'S MIXTURE
cotton stalk and ii
every boll weevil c
number) were dea<
N
|
I will be glad to
name is shown bel<
booklet containing
from scores of Burl
and black) and fr
erican Cotton Asso
The price of HILL'
in 50-gallon barrel
R. P. BLACK'
A^ent for Marion an<i
Kntire Coui
\
t
)NWAY, S. 0, FSB. 8th, 1923
stump.
The statement as first made about
the insurance on the car will have to
be changed. Stanley thought that he
had insurance against accidents. This
policy was examined and it was found
that it only covered damage by fire
or theft.
Those in the car at the time of the
accident were: Rowland Vereen, Norman
Cooper, Sidney Gore, Fred Stanley,
Matthew Ward, Sam Ward and
Willie Lee. All of these were inside
the car when the stump was struck.
None of them had any time to jump
out. The car went up in the air as
described by some of the occupants,
and turned over about three times.
The car struck the ground some disfjinPA
ft'nm tVin ctllmn
?.wm vnv UVUMI |/t )IClllU{i^ twenty
feet, and lay where it fell on top
of the men who had been riding in
it. When all had crawled out except
one, this last man was found to be
pinned underneath so that he could
not come out, but by the aid of the
others he was pulled out from under
the wreck. .
The remains of the car are fyiid to (
be worth now about $50. The car was
described as an old car, but it is said
to be only about six months old, but
had been driven hard and badly abused.
The engine in the car at the time
of the accident was said to be good
and while some of the men in the car
said that the speed was rather slow at
the time, another one stated that they
were going at the rate of between for- (
y and forty-five miles an hour. (
BIG WARHERO
WAS A FORGER
Donald Hammond, twenty-eight
captain in the Royal Flying Corps
during the war, and wounded several
times in action, was before United
States Commissioner Hitchcock last
week in New York, on a charge of
u.sing the mails to defraud. He! 1 in .
$10,000 bail, he was committed to the ]
jour j
(- <& :yvf3*
# *l 1 >V* rk *
%w. -4b-%-Wifc.y^':,i'?->* *;
Vv&' ' I'-'*' -v?'
can raise
)tton if y
z^oGI
elements to HILL'S MIXTURE
ison, molasses as a binder, and
lenient which ATTRACTS the
nail quantity of the mixture is
a cotton plant, the weevil will
ind die.
ouch The Top?A
\ conducted by county agents
armers, where one daub of
! was applied to the top of the
n from ten to fourteen hours,
>n the plant (sometimes 50 in
i.
ly Agent Can Shoi
send you, or my agent whose
ow, will be glad to show you a
scores of testimonial letters
te County farmers, (both white
om the President of the Amciation,
endorsing my mixture.
S MIXTURE is 72c per gallon,
s, delivered in Georgia and
WELL, Marion, S. C., \
I Immediate Territory and the I FOR '
nty of Horry, S. C. f
ILL ?
Tombs.
Hammond, the son of Prof. William
S. Hammord, of Cornell University,
was sentenced to Sing Sing- in 1919
for forgery, the records show. Gov.
Miller ordered his release in 1921,
Professor Hammond undertaking to
send the young man to an asylum,
calling him demented because of war
injuries.
Charge Name Was Fo* ?d
Postal inspectors assert Hammond
telephoned the Columbia Trust Company
Jan. 22, representing himself to
be G. A. C. Christiancy, a depositor,
and ordering delivery of $4,000 Liberty
Bonds at the Beta Theta Pi Club, in
church," Teddy O'Neal, an actress obEast
40th Street.
When the bonds were delivered, it
is alleged, Hammond signed for them.
Bank officials declared later that the
mime "Christiancy" is a forgery.
On Saturday, the complaint says,
Hammond again telephoned the bank,
ordering more bonds delivered to the
same address. Postal inspectors arranged
a dummy package and arrested
Hammond as lie signed for it at
the club.
In June, 1918, Hammond figured in
a romance that set London talking1.
Charging he had "left her at the
tained a verdict of $3,000 for breach
of promise.
In December, 1919, Hammond appeared
in Syracuse, N. Y. State
troopers arrested him at the Hotel
Onondaga December 6, on the charge
of impersonating an officer. Proving
his army papers were in trunks at
the Waldorf-Astoria. Hammond admitted
owing hotel bills and said the
London escape cost him several thousand
dollars.
Sent to State Prison.
Sent on to New York, the young
man was sentenced by Judge Warhams
in General Sessions to serve
from three and a half to seven years
in the State Prison for violating parole.
He had been on probation ' since
August, 1919, it developed, when he
pleaded guilty of forging the name of
boll* wee
r~*
r\a/ less a
fifes* and
/ V Not a few of then
every single one of
^ I r% be able to find a liv
\ - fields.
I 3*~ No Mac
. FA1 7vr^ \r:
' K-y?. IV U mi
\ Mr ~ %*'
I Just a bucket, an
v ff and a stick, and on<
? or girls to go throi
v? the top of each cot
passing by, with HI
a full crc
oull use
jrlMIXT
This secret ingredient makes
waste calcium arsenate by coy
plant, as in the dusting method,
holds every atom of the arsen
It takes a heavy rahi of half-ai
wash it oft.
nd Off They Dro}
I've got no guns or sprays t<
might get out of order. The sii
ing my mixture is one feature
as popular as its efficiency. Th
put on in the daytime, by inexp*
n You The Proof!
other states), plus cost of barr
refunded upon return. My
you full particulars. 1 Every fi
Hill's Mixture in 1922 is goinf
T* 1
^ear. 11 yuu want rttiso
cotton as though there were
no boll-weevil, place your order
today,
( HILL'S MI
THE 1 CORPORA
| AUGUSTA,
Norman Bradford, a Newport millionaire,
to a check for $2,000. While
on probation, the police discovered,
Hammond had figured in
forgeries in Atlantic City, Boston, in
Maine, New Hampshire and in Cana^
da. His visit to Canada amounted to
deportation in the hope of getting
him away from temptation. He left
Canada of his own accord, however,
and went to Boston, where he was arrested
for stealing $15,000 bonds.
Telling a piteous story, he was released
on suspended sentence.
o
Globe safes and filing devices are
sold by The Herald shop. Call on |
them when you are in need of any- |
thing in this line.
which n\
Are the Earliest^? I
Snap Beans /
?the Best "Yieldingly
Garden Peas /
?the Sweetest %
Cantalouoe
a The
Select-Bite Charts in the
1923 Catalog of
WOODS
SEEDS
Show at a glance the varieties of
each vegetable to plant for earliness,
yiold, length of bearing season, or
for whatever purpose is most desired.
The most helpful catalog wo have
over issued is ready to bo mailed to
you free on request.
FREE FLOWER SEEDS
Our 1923 Catalog tells how you can havo them
without cu?L So ad a voat card for your copy.'
T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen
40 S. 14th St. Richmond, Va.
====71~
vils
ost
trouble
n, nor half of them, but
them, until you won't
e weevil in your cotton
hinery?
ght Work
d a mop made of a rag
a of your tenant's boys
igh the rows, touching
ton plant one time, in
ry t ?ci irrvmr tt> tt*
LUliO ?UAXU1V?J.
yp of
\
mmmmm j
DIE
it unnecessary to
rering the entire
and the molasaee
ate on the plant,
l-inch or more to
rv m a1 1 w/ut n*V ?i?lk
1/ DCII JVU| TTIIJVII
nplicity of apply- I
that has made it I
en, too, it can b% I
srienced labor. I
el, which will be I
agent will give I
surmer who* used I
f to use it this I
xture i
ltion i
oa* i
mk