The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 15, 1923, Image 2
SHERIFF GETS
LITTLE MORE
Following (he report by Sam Holder).
to the sheriff's office last week,
showing the letter mailed in Conway
to him. requiring him to move away
fro~i the Socastee community, away
from the place which he had leased
from Henry Puck, the sheriff went in
to Socastee township and spent the
greater portion of last Thursday.
He interviewed several men in that
community concerning the matter of
the Holden letter, but obtained very
little information that would throw
licht on the subiect at that time.
The sheriff talked with G. W. Watts
about the letter on account of the fact
that it appeared that there had been
some trouble between Holden and a
son of Watts about the hunting on the
Buck land. The sheriff asked Watts
if he was a member of the Ku Klux
'.Klan and Watts denied that he was a
member, or that he knew anything
about the Klan He also denied knowing
anything about the letter that
HoTden received. If his son had anything
to do with the writing or mailing
of that letter, Watts said that he
"knew nothing of it and could not give
the oHicer any information concerning
'it.
The sheriff did not see Georpre
Brown, with whom the trouble about
thp lruntinp: privileges had taken
place. Brown was not in place that
doy, or probably not in his usual
place and the sheriff did not see him.
The sheriff also talked with W. J.
Singleton, whose son had been indicted
with Holden in the deer killing
case some time ago. Singleton had
no information about the letter .is to
who the sender could be, or by whom j
it was mailed. He deplored the occurrence
in a community where law
and order has prevailed since time out
of memory. He was mortified to learn
that intimidation of this kind had
been used in the community.
Jere Holden, a brother of Sam Holden,
was also interviewed. He had
not learned anything further about
the incident. The officer talked with
several other men of that section of
th^ county in an effort to learn more
about the matter while on the ground,
hut he received very little further
knowledge about the affair while
down there.
Back in Conway, it appears that the
sheriff obtained some further information
which may lead to the discovery
s\ 1 i f ?.-l .. 1-1- ? 11
* 1 .-><iuciii iin i.> rc^tmiiii^' cue matter.
Circumstances point to the writer of
the letter and the person by whosi it
"was mailed here in Conway; but not
an inkling of the nature of this evidence
could he obtained at the sheriffs
office last Monday when the reporter
called. The sheriff said that it
was necessary to keep this as quiet
as possible, and that perhaps later
there would he more news to give out.
JONES GETS
K K K NOTE
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Here is he letter which Wilbur
Jones received concerning the debate
at Maple eactly like the one written
to Rufus Jenrette:
"The attention of the Invisible
E'ymire is "entered on YOU. Be
carefull on Feb. 22 of what you say.
A word to the wise is sufficient. The
way of the transgressor is death.
"KLU KLUX KLAN."
Notice the spelling of the signature.
Jones says that about a week
before receiving this he had an argument
with Redmond King about
whether it was spelled "Ku" or
;'K1u.
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(CIVIL SERVfCE EXAMINATION
TO ftE GIVEN AGAIN
The Civil Service Commission invites
special attention to the fact th/it
in an examination held recently in
"Washington, D. C., and other cities
throughout the United States for
matron, Indian Service, applicants
were not secured in the number desired,
and that this examination will
Y>e held again on March 7, 1923.
Persons interested in this or other
examinations should apply to the
Secretary of the U. S. Civil Service
Board at the local post office for detailed
information and application
blanks.
CHMtMlNGLADY
BECOMES BRIDE
Miss Minnie Vaught was married
to Mr. Marvin Floyd on Wednesday
of last week, the affair being very
quiet and only a few intimate
friends present.
The bride is one of the most
chr.rming young women of Conway.
Mr. Flovd 1st pr?nnr?/?irwl ??.;* !* 4-U~
- - t. - w.ii.vuv^u r> i ill llli;
One Price Shoe Store, one of the
leading1 business institutions of Conway.
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The Rev. J. C. Atkinson entertained
at luncheon at the Kingston hotel
Monday in honor of Miss Howell and
Dr. Perry, who were here in the interest
of the Centenary. The guests at
this occasion were the Rev. D. A.
Phillips, presiding elder of the Marion
district; the pastors of the churches
in the county with their centenary
treasurers and charge lay leaders and
the hoard of officers of the Conway
Methodist church. The honor euest?
re well known throughout Methodism.
Dr. Perry being general secretary
c>f the home missions and Miss Howell
Wing secretary of missions in the
Orient.
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GET YOUR CHKCK
The tobacco checks will be passed
out at the Horry Warehouse next
Saturday. Call at the warehouse.
SEND CHECKS
TO GROWERS
Florence, Feb. 10.?Word reached
this office of the Tolvaccc Growers*
Association today from the Burley
Tobacco Growers' Association to the
effect that final settlement checks for
the 1922 crop nre practically written
and will be in the hands of the members
of the Burley Association about
'he 15th of this month. The delay in
delivery of thef checks was due to
sickness in the clerical force and the
fact that the last chcck for the final
three million pounds of the weed sold
it Christmas time had just reached
there. Every member has been notified
the net amount he will have received
for each grade with the final distribution
and that his association
costs were HO cents a hundred for
1921 and that his warehouse stock
deductions amount to 04 cents a hundred.
which warehouse stock brings
him interest as an investment.
The 1921 Burley crop was pooled
into 52 grades which netted the growers.
according to the grade, from 5
to 58 cents. Onlv 12 of the trades
netted the grower less than ten dollars
a hundred and the other 40 ran
between ten and fifty-three dollars.
The Burley Association also announces
that 21,500 new members
joined the pool since the delivery of
the 1922 crop giving the association
control of more than eighty per cent
of the entire burley crop grown in
five states. Receipts of tobacco of the
1922 crops are very heavy, so that the
association estimates it will receive
this year one hundred and eighty million
pounds of the burley weed.
On the strength of the heavy receipts,
the sales committee have sold,
to date, one hundred and twenty-three
million pounds of the 1922 crop in
green order at a price which will net
the burley members $31 a hundred, or
50 per cent more than last year's
crop brought in spite of the fact that
the total burley crop this year is fifty
million pounds larger than last.
I The two largest sales of the 1923 tof
hacco are forty million pounds to R. J.
| Reynolds and approximately sevenj
teen millions to Liggett and Myers.
The American Tobacco Company was
among the liberal buyers in 1922.
Some of the large companies not buying
last year are among the purchasers
this season.
Advances to growers on the 1922
crop amount to approximately eleven
I cents this year compared to eight last
year which is a raise in advance price
of around forty per cent. Incidentally
this eleven cents advance is more than
the average total sale price of hurley
the last 50 years under the auction
system.
A legal item of special interest to
co-opeiative members is the recent
ruling* of the Kentucky courts that a
landlord member has no right to lease
out his farm to non-members unless
he makes arrangements with the tenants
to pool the crop. Garrett Watts,
famous because he was first to be
sued by the association in the hurley
belt last year for breaking his contract.
has been enjoined by the courts
for breaking the contract in 1923
Watts claimed he had rented his farm
to his two sons and had nothing to do
with it any more. The court held
that since he was a member of the
association before he made the lease
to his tenants that the tenants must
carry out the contract to pool the tobacco.
In other words, landlord members
of associations must from now
on deliver all the crop produced on
their place to the association.
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NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the decree
and iudgment of the court made by
his Honor S. W. G. Shipp. at chambers,
Florence, S. C., Presiding Judge,
in the case of H. H. Woodward,
Plaintiff, vs. J. M. Johnson and Belle
S. Johnson, Defendants, and dated the
9th day of February, A. D. 1923, I,
the undersigned W. L. Bryan, Clerk
of Court as Special Master of Horry
County, will sell at public auction, to
the highest bidder before the Court
House door, at Conway, in Horry
County, and State of South Carolina,
during legal hours of sale, on salesday
in March next, it being the 5th
dav of said month, all and singular
that certain real estate situate in Horry
County and described as follows,
to wit:
All and singular that certain piece,
parcel or tract of land situate in Dog
Bluff Township, Horry County,
State of South Carolina, and containing
thirty (30) acres and
bounded East by lands of Bur-1
roughs & Collins Company; South by
lands of Olla Spivey Altman; North
by lands of Isiah Rabon; West by
lands of W. A. Spivey; this being the
identical tract of land conveyed to mo
by W. A. Spivey by his deed dated in
Blank, but probated under date of
March 29th, 1010, and recorded on the
same day in the office of the Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas for Horvv
County in Book F4, page 202.
TERMS of Sale Cash. Purchaser to
pay for papei^ and stamps.
February ISth, JLD23.
W. Xj. *BJtYAN. Clerk of
Court of Common Pleas as
Special NIfcwter for Horry
County.
H. H. WOODWARD,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
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LORIS NKWS
Mrs. M. D. Stevens delightfully entertained
a number of little folks last
' Saturday afternoon from three until
five o'clock in honor of the seventh
1 birthday of her son, Thomas.
Many interesting games were played,
the most enjoyed was the Donkey
Party with little Elane Hughes as
winner of a box of candy.
I The hostess then invited the guests
; into the dining room, where in the
center of the table wa? a birtl.ua>
THE HORSY HERALD, COST'
BIGGEST STILL I
NOT IN HORRY
Horry County has had a number of
whiskey stills destroyed in the past
several years, but they werfc none of
the large capacity size.
Most of the stills discovered and
torn up in Horry County have been
made out of gasoline drums with
bent galvanized piping to conduct off
the steam and used as a worm in a
tub or barrel of water.
While some of the counties have
had numbers of small stills none have
been found of great capacity until
recently the largest still ever found
in the whole State came to light in
Lexington county, just across the
river from where the State Legislature
is in session:
One of the largest stills evef dest.VftVOfl
1T1 tho ITniforl Qtofoe ??*/-!
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cording to raiding1 officers, by far the
largest ever destroyed in South Carolina,
was found in Lexington county,
according to reports. The plant was
of 1,500 gallon capacity and was located
about a mile and a half or two
miles from Pelion.
No one was found near the big
plant, but it bore evidence of recent
operation, the boiler being warm, according
to the officers, who freely declared
that the still was the most complete
outfit they had seen in years of
service with the federal government.
Located on the top of a sand hill
and surrounded only by scrub oak, the
plant was reached by a road that was
declared to be similar to almost any
country dirt road. Travel over the
road had apparently, been extremely
frequent, the officers said. The road
led up to the still place, which, with
all the material and allied utensils,
covered nearly an acre of ground, and
there stopped. No outlet was apparent.
All around the place was "spent"
beer, the officers said.
In describing the plant the officers
said the operators used a 1,500 gallon
iron boiler for the main still work,
this furnishing the steam for the fermenters
or condensers. The boiler
was encased in brick .and lined masonry.
Near it was a deep well with a
three-inch pipe pump that furnished
fresh water all the time.
Steam from the boiler went to a
wooden still of 1.200 gallon capacity.
From the wooden still, which was filled
with beer and mash, the ste.am
I went to wooden "cloublers" with copper
pipes and then into a copper condenser
five and one-half feet long and
15 inches wide, the officers said, and
then into a hogshead of cold water.
This process manufactured "double
distilled" corn whiskey, the best obtainable
anvwhere. one officer declared.
Everything about the place was
clean and sanitary.
The list of property destroyed was
given as follows: Fourteen wooden
fermerters of 1,000 gallon capacity
each, 65 wooden fernienters of P.O gallon
capacity each, 10,000 gallons of
corn and rye beer, one 1,500 gallon
iron boiler, one 800 gallon extra iron
steamer, one Fleke run, one brick
masonry furnace, four wooden "doublet's,"
one copper cap. one copper
condenser, five and a half feet long
and 15 inches wide, one set of copper
pipe connections, three sets of threeir.ch
galvanized pipe, two sets of rubber
hose connections, six kegs, four
buckets, five hose, three shovels and
one deep well pump.
Enough beer was on hand to have
made 800 gallons of whiskey, it was
announced. The plant could easily
manufacture 250 gallons of first grade
corn whiskey daily, it was said.
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CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT
Next Sabbath, the 18th, will be observed
in Conway as "Young Men's
Sunday." The program will be in
charge of the State Y. M. C. A., which
organization will furnish the speakers.
Regular services will be held in each
church Sunday morning, at which
time a Y. M. C. A. worker will address
the congregation.
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 there will
be a special meting for men at the
Annex of the Baptist church.
A i. i 1 1 * 1
ai ine same nour, a:;5u, a special
meeting for boys will he held at the
Hut of the Methodist church. Boys
between twelve and eighteen are invited
to this meeting.
Sunday night a union service will be
held at the Methodist church, to vfhich
all are invited.
cake with seven candles. Jello with
whipped cream, candies And fruits
were served the guests.
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Public Sales
We have purchased 122,000 pair
U. S. Army Munson last shoes,
sizes 5V2 to 12 which was the entire
surplus stock of one of 'the
largest U. S. Government shoe
contractors.
. .
mis shoe is guaranteed one hundred
per cent solid leather, color
dark tan, bellows tongue, dirt and
waterproof. The actual value of
this shoe is $(>.00. Owing to this
tremendous buy we can offer sfcme
to the public at $2.95. 1
Send correct size. Pay postjnan
on delivery or send money order.
If shoes are not as represented we
will cheerfully refund your money
promptly upon request.
National Bay State
Shoe Co. 1
296 Broadway, j
New York, N.Y.
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PTAY, S. 15, 1923
COUNTRY PRESS
IS BiG POWER
If it were possible for some man of
unimagined wealth suddently to purchase,
own, control, and dictate trie
policy of every newspaper in the
United States, he would be dictator of
the United States. He could elect
whom he pleased. He could control
legislation by controlling the legisTators.
He could tax as he pleased by
controlling the taxing bodies. He
could make war, declare peace, amend
the Constitution?his power wc^ild be
absolute;
For this country is governed by^
public opinion, and public opinion is j
almost entirely in the hands of the
newspapers.
With this in mind the words uttered
by Oswald Garrison ViUard, editor
and owner of The Nation, should be
published far and wide, and given
serious thought by all who read newspapers?which
means practically all
adults in this country.
Mr. Villard charges that the newspaper
has* become a money making
institution rather than the carrier of
an editorial message; that its main
function is to pay dividends rather
than to present the truth; that the
great papers frequently take sides
and deny the other side the chance to
tell their story, and that they are,
for all their cleverness, used far too
much by various interests to publish
paid-for-propaganda for this, that,
and the other special interest.
We can all see some examples of
newspaper unfairness. There are papers
which will print no Masonic
news prominently. There are journals
whis minimize every activity of ,
the Catholic church. There are papers
in which a Jew can not get his i
name, and those in which a Gentile is i
never handled gently. There are
Republican papers who cannot tell the
truth about Democrats and Demo
cratic papers which never tell the
facts about Republicans. 1
But, so far. the biased papers balance
each other; and no man is compelled
to read only one paper. But the
real bulwark against newspaper dictatorship
is the small paper, the country
sheet, the small town daily; and
it should be a matter of pride to all
such, as well as to their readers, that
while of the larger city papers the
truly fair-minded and honest sheets
are in the minority, the exact reverse
is true among most of the eighteen
thousand smaller journals of the
nation..
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To Cure a Cold In One Day
laie u/\Art 11 v r, onuinu vuiniNE. iiaoiets). li
stops the Cough and Headache and works off tn'
old. E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. "JOc
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LOT No.
50 Ladies' suits, all wo
Sizes up to 46. Forme
$25.00. Final close-out
Only $9.95
Folks, this store is *
packed with hundreds
of other goods which ?
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you are needing, tl
Snace does not oer~ a
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mit mentioning same, ?'
We re here to sell n
regardless of cost or
profit.
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Jt 'Thousands of members of th
\\ Association in the South Carolin
je their third payment on Saturday
announces.
\\ Checks will be distributfcii'!.at
>s ciation in the South Carolina bel
\\ tiori certificates at warehouses^ 1
? p mnlrAo f Kr* f/\f a I ??? /*%
p niciacn kiic tukui icvcucu uy (^(un
X five per cent of the original hank*
j{e James H. Craig, treasurer of
J are some stocks of tobacco from tl
$ this tobacco is sold and final cah
* will be a fourth payment to meml
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* Raleigh, N. C., Feby. 12th. 1923?
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LORIS LITERARY SOCIETY
The regular meeting of the Loris
Literary society was held in the new
high school building on Friday afternoon,
February 9th. The members of
the society responded with quotations
from Robert Louis Stevenson, the author
studied at this meeting.
The following program was rendered:
1. Song?American the Beautiful
?Society. ?
2. Sketch from Robert Louis Stevenson's
Life and Works?Joe Graham.
3. Sketch from Treasure Island?
Leonard Stevens.
4. Marching Song (Stevenson)?
Eighth grade.
5. The Little Land?Minnie Prince.
6. Armies in the Fire.?Genevieve
Can non.
7. Travel?Clara Bell Graham.
8. Northwest Passage?Grace McNabb.
9. The Wind?Reba Todd.
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iw. u^un iiuin i reui>ure isianu?
Elva McQueen.
ft. Quartette, Annie Laurie?Joe
Graham, Cecil Stanley, Eva McQneen,
For
70 barrels or less Irish Co
grown, from seed careful 1
treated as per Governr
$4.80 per barrel. L.
2j8-2t.
OCK AND SAVE
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fecials for Friday ai
bruary 16th and 11
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ol materials. ^ Ladies c
of the lates
:rly sold for sizes assorted
-which sold e
ing-out price
each $9.S
LOT No. 3
>9 Ladies' dresses. Yo
^ill find in this lot dresses of a
le latest styles and colors; son
re of French serge, Tricotin
anion' crepe and all other mi
trials. Values up to $37.50. F
al close out price
$9.95 each
r DEPARTMErs
ANKRUP
Upper Main Street
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OBAOCO CHECKS I
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ie Tobacco Growers' Co-operative $
a belt are to receive checks for >e
r, February* I7th, headquarters \\
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; all delivery points of the Asso- jj
t upon presentation of participa- le
rhis third payment, officials state, ,s
rers in this belt one hundred and \\
ers valuation of the tobacco . u
the Association, states that there
his belt still unsold and that after
:ulations can be made that there *
bers in the South Carolina belt. J
.GREEN." *
Edith Gore.
EVA McQUEEN,
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Fine box paper at The Herald office.
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bbler Seed Potatoes, fall
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nent instructions. Price i
D. Suggs, Loris, S.
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AT THE I
STORE
FOR LESS
nd Saturday,
7th
OT No. 2
oats. Style and material
t. All wool goods and
I. This lot consists of coats
is high as $35.00. Clos>5
garment
Shoes, clothing, boys'
suits, men's and boys'
pants, underwear, dry
te goods. Everything in
A
this store was ordered
to be sold and sell we
must, cost forgotten. !
Come, Be Convinced! i
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Conway, S. C. J