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? CONWAY STORY BACK IN 1864 (Continued From Page One.) allowed to start his trip back. He had lived in this section, which is now Horry County, and had a wife and children left back at home to get along as best they could without his efforts while the war wag fought out to a finish. His heart was gladdened as he tramped along the rough paths coming back to see them after an absence of perhaps several years. On thf* wav h? h<?ai'H from An no quaintance saw him and told him that his wife and children were starving; that they had nothing to eat And owing to sickness were unable to work for it even if employment had been obtainable. Dennis had no money and but little resources of any kind. His only hope to help his family was to take what he could and carrv .toythem. He began t<* fc)ok along *the way for supplies of some kind*hat he might requisition and add to the burden under which he would have to trudge the rest of the way. He passed the home of Ex-SherifT Graham, some miles above town, where the Prices now live, and in the fame old mansion which was erected there by the sheriff. Across the road from the house, with not a soul in sieht or seeing, was a carf. and on it rested a b.ag of grits which had been made at the water mill that day. It had been left in the cart until some member of the family would take it in to make food for the folks the coming week. Dennis Todd helped himself to as much as he could carry of Sheriff Graham's grinding, and with this on his back he was making his.way on toward his home. He did not get away but was caught " 1 1 1 - - i ^ ? ? U i n witn tne sioifn prupeny in mo pwosession. A 1110b gathered from the surrounding* country and this swelled in numbers as he was brought to the county seat. According to story, as it is told now. the mob did not act a? mobs have often done in punishing the wrongdoes?they did not handle him forthwith but undertook to organize the party as a citizen's court. The mob, however, acted as judge jurv, prosecuting attorney, witnesses and executioners. They held Todd before them and witnesses were brought forward to tell that he had been seen when he took the grinding and tried to slip away down the crooked road with it; that he was followed and the stolen property taken back to the sheriff's home. What could the poor man do except to stand up in the face of all this and 5v?v he had heard his familv was starving and that he had taken the property so that he could take them something to eat? After this he was found guilty b\ the holding up of hands and his sen terce wac determined in the same wpv. Milder punishments were mentioned. such as being whipped at the post, but nothing would satisfy the mob except the death of Todd. The majority decided that the man shoule be shot to death. Dressed in scanty clothing, his feel covered with sores and ble^din^. weal from his loner tramp with but little t< eat, and almost no sleep, he was hard ly able to wa'k to the place of exe ci'tionr With tears streaming dowi his furrowed face he begged an< p^aded with them to spare him fo the sake of his wife and children; In would fain pay for the thing he tool many times over if given his life an< tho time fo work. There was. no ap peal that he could make strong enougl to turn the hearts of stone. They did not kill him in the stroel but decided to tako him outside. TT was taken across the Kingston Lak to n point near what is known as th ship yard. There he wps pi need i front of a row of men with shot gun and at a word from the leader th poor, we.ak bodv of Dennis Todd fe! in a heap, riddled by many gunsho wounds. Among the men who acted as th slayers of Todd were many whos descendants are now numbered amon the best citizens of the county. Th names of most of them could be prinl ed here, but it would answer no goo purpose. Here is a lesson to be learner ThprA is nn in th*? mob. Dui jng that same year and the year be fore, pushed by the stern necessity o preserving- life, raids had been mad jn many sections upon the barns an stores of citizens. Raids were mad in view of the few officers of the la^ and not a hand was turned to enforc the law. In the case of Dennis Tod( a man had taken a few quarts of me? from a rich m??n who had lived we off the labor of slaves, and the spiri of the mob said to take his life, an it was accordingly done. The enforcement of law and orde by due processes of the law may hav its drawbacks. There may be delay: There is nothing in life here that i perfect for it is not according to m ture to be perfect. At the same tim we can see the great difference in tli two ways of enforcing demands. Th one is safe and gives time for reaso to act, while the other is the resu of ignorance and passions turnc loose to work their ways without an reason. (THE END) . ? o It would appear that the schoi ' houses in some sections of the count are yet too close together to be ab to conduct schools with the requisil number of teachers to make the co as low as it should be and enable tl giving of additional advantages. 1 many places schools have been con bined although it caused some of tl pupils to have to walk further to g< to it, and there is an improved educ; tional Advantage in aft such places i the ODinion of educators who hai looked over the situation/ ? # KU KLUX FAIL I FOR OIL TOWN Klan Chiefs Held Responsible by Citizens of Wilson ; LETTERS ABRUPTLY END How Matters Were Operated in Boom Town of ine west Ardmore, Okla.?Eighteen miles from here, over a reddish-yellow dirt road which goes up and down like a scenic railway through a barren country relieved only by the latticed snouts of oil derricks, lies the town of Wilson, Okla. Wilson has another distinction besides that of being: the center of the oil fields of Carter county. It is the point where the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan, gathering momentum as it whirled triumphantly through the South, leaving behind it a long stained trail of violence, ran head on into something it could not overcome?public opinion. Threatenin * Letters Received. Threatening letters written on official Klan stationery, warning men to leave town, to give up their official positions or ordering public officials to favor Klansmen were received by men living in Wilson, last fall. They came nine months after Joe Carroll was shot and killed in front of his one-story shack in Wilson b'y a band of masked men who had come to punish him for bootlegging. The citizens of Wilson saw trouble ahead. One by one, they went to four men known to be the leaders of the Klan in Wilson. Each of these four ?one an undertaker, one a lawyer, one a Ford salesman and one an automobile supply man?was told that if any resident of Wilson should be mistreated, he, as a Klansman, would . be held personally responsible. , "Personally responsible" means . something serious in the oil fields; usually it means gun play. The flow of warning letters ceased abruptly. [ Since that time there has been no . ?ign of the hooded figure of the Klan ; in Wilson or any of the other oil 'towns in this region, with the exception of a pathetic parade of twen^ ? * ? lnnf ly-nvc men in uuauii iaot v/nu^wmue. i Rapid Rise, Quick Fall, i The Klan in this part of Oklahoma had a rapid rise and a quick fall. ; Its first appearance in its familiar [ guise of a law unto itself came on the niqrht of Dec. 19, 1021. when Joe Car, roll was shot and killed. It did not i wait to make a parting bow when the citizens of Wilson decided they knew r how to handle the problem. The . remnants of the organization which > have survived the popular disapprov. al following' the Carroll shooting and ? the bloodless defeat at Wilson exists ? only for politics, and in that field ? they are dwindling at a fast pace in 1 numbers and influence. Oklahoma is convalescing. I Oil came to Oklahoma ten years c ago. And Ruck Garrett came to Ardj more before the oil. Tall, muscular, . blue-eyed and soft-spoken, he became . czar of Carter county. People learned ^ that his peaceful, if picturesque, apI pearance hid a ruthless, commandr inir character. With Ruck, or shortly e flfter. came Rud Bellew. Rud became < Buck's pal, but, more important, his \ straight-shooting lieutenant. For fif. teen years Ruck reigned as sheriff of h Carter county, and Rud kept the throne chair with a gun at a flash from the hip, and spoke many times e of the authority of Ruck and Rud in e Carter county. e Rud is dead now. He was shot a n little over a year ago when he wans dered too far from Carter county. o He was shot by a member of the RraII zil family?the lives of two members t of which were represented by knots in the leather thongs that hung to e Rud's gun. Rut the memory of Rud e still lives. He is recalled as a mounp tain of a man with light wavey hair, e gay blue eyes and a laugh that could _ be Wiard half a mile. To his friends d there was none in this world so loyal as Bud. To his enemies he was one I who would carry a grudge so long and pay it off so effectively with gun ~ play. He made an able deputy to ^ Sheriff Buck. ' Under Buck and Bud Carter county ^ was known as a tough place. The gambling halls of Healdton and the other oil town, with their accessories e of liquor and women, are stUl fresh j memories here. Before discovery of l| oil things were not so bad, but when I] the entire State of Oklahoma became ^ a boom state, with towns made up of ^ tents and shacks that sprung up about a hole in the ground overnight, it ' - ' 1- i- u ,j. oecame touj^n?very iuukii. e Nobody Was Interested. B It was about two years ago, with |g Buck still reigning supreme, that the t_ Ku Klux Klan was first mentioned ie here. It was mentioned and that wa? ie all. Nobody was interested?Bucl ie Garrett least of all. For the restlessn ness among the citizens, which Bucl had begun to notice, had nothing t< {(j do with the Klan. The truth is Ard'y more and the other towns in the oi country had been bitten by civiliza tion. Ardmore was even beginning' t( look like it. It had ,a hotel, a% bif court house and a population of 15, ol 000. -y In November, 1921, a mass meeting Ie was called of the citizens of the town te Something had to be done. It wai st decided to stop the open selling o ie liquor, the gambling and the influenc< tn of immoral women. Buck had neve: n- stopped it. It did not look as if h< ie ever would. et There were a number of mass meet a- ings. It began to be noticed that th< In Ku Klux Klan was mentioned bj re sneakers as an organization tha J could bring salvation to Carter coun THE HORRY HERALD, 00 i ty. Observant citizens found that the speakers who mentioned the Klan were enthusiastically 'applauded usually by one part of the house where the clapping1 was loud and long. Committee is Selected Finally a committee wa#> selected to go to the governor of the State and ask investigation of the manner in which the affairs of Carter county were being administered.. An assistant attorney general w,as sent down to find out the truth of the charges. It was while this investigation was going: on that a band of 200 men in automobiles gathered in an old cattle pasture near Wilson, late in the night of Dec. 15, 1921. TTiey were apparently led by C. G. Sims, a member of the police force of Ardmore. Their purpose was to bring Joseph Carroll, an oil worker living with his wife in a shack in Wilson before them and force him to divulge the name of automobile thieves and to punish him for bootlegging. Eight of the 200 men \v?ie dispatched in an automobile to fetch Carroll. When the two cars, under direction of Sims reached Wilson they stopped to get John Smith, a,resident of the oil town, to force him to go to Carroll's house and bring him out. Jeff Smith, brother of John, who says that he, too, was forced to go, when he was picked up earlier in the evening, was seated in one of two cars. One Thing Forgotten. But in all the preparation for the punishment of Joe Carroll, the raiders forgot one thing. In the story of the Carroll family for half a century every male has died a violent death, and in dying has taken his man along with him. The cars swept into the deserted streets of the oil town?a town that is a replica of the old West, with its one-story stores and houses, its rutted, dirt streets; its crude signs and flat, ugly appearance. John Smith went to the door of the Carroll shack and called Joe out. Joe shuffled to the door. His hand was in his trousers belt, where he carried his gun. Somebody seized him as he stood outlined against the smoky kerosene light; he struggled. His gun barked, from the shadow a rain of bullets crashed behind him and into his body. But his gun kept on speaking. Walter Carroll, his brother, living next door, leaped out, firing his Winchester into the crowd. William Hensley, a friend visiting Joe, joined in the fight. The two cars speeded off. Joe Carroll was picked up dead on his doorstep, by his wife. Others Found Dead. John Smith, wounded, staggered up the street. He was taken to a hospital and there died. Buck Garrett land Assistant County Attorney John 'Li. Hodge, investigating the shooting the next day, found Jeff Smith at his home in Healdton, wounded in the leg. By his story they found the body of . C. G. Sims, dead, with a handkerchief about his throat, probably used as a luask, and the tracks of many automobiles, as well as a number of torn /nasks made of black gauze. Sixteen men were arrested. Later a number were let go. But on the strength of a statement sworn to by J. A. Gillam, of Ardmore, murder charges were brought against eleven men, including some of the most prominent men in Ardmore. Gillam identified them :is having been at the pasture, but said he did lot know wlo went to the C'.uvoil home. JeT Smith ?aid he did not recognise any cf the band with whom he worked. But the names of many of thoss in the group changed with the murder were known as Klansmen. The community felt satisfied the Klan was responsible. The Klan, which had been making ? * i il. . 1 great gains oy .appealing 10 tne multitude of political enemies of Buck Garrett, lost its hold. Although none Boils Quit Quick! S.S. S. Will Prort to Y<m Iik Yotif Own Cim the "How" and "Why" e# its Remarkable BI*ed-C1??aMi| Power! There !s * rceiion for ererrthtn* that happens. Common-ReuM kills miser/. Common-sense also stops bolls! 8. 8. 9. Is the com mo a-sense remed / for boils, be : fbnplN May b? Small Boibl . cause It Is batlt on reason. Scientific av thorities admit ita power 1 8. S. 8. bulldi > blood-power, It builds red-blood-cells . That la what makes fighting-blood. Fight i lng-blood destroys Impurities. It flghti boils. It always wins! It fights plm " pies! It fights skin eruptions! It bu'ldi ) nerve-power, thinking power, tho tight r fisted power that whirls a man up int< " success. It gives women the health, th< angelic complexion and the charm tha moves the world! These are tho reason) y that have made 8. 8. 8. today the greui blood-cleanser, body-builder, success build ' er, and it's why results have made teari * of Joy flow from the souls of thounands f Mr. V. D. Schuff, 557 15th St., Washing q ton, D. C., writes: r I tried for year* to get relief from a ba< case of boils. Everything failed until 1 tooJ e 8. 8. S. I am now absolutely cured, and i tool S. 8. 8. that did it." Try It yourself. S. 8. 8. Is sold at al ? drug stores in two sizes. Tho larger sis bottle Is the more economical, ! S.S.S. Ef&SftfeJ NWAY, ? O., FEB. '11 Qv 1923 of the cases had come to trial, the Ku Klux Klan was convicted of the murder of Carroll?by public opinion;. Klan Loses Caste. Many people who did. nafc. approve; of Buck Garrett, liked his methods better than those of the? Klan.. The Klan lost caste and was heard of less and less.< In the meantime the State authorities haying: tried Buck Garrett on five charges, found', hiin guilty of one?that of knowingly permitting prisoners to absent themselves from 1.1 t... r_ rr rr. -'u - J - * tne cvmuty j<in? ne was auquilieu oi the charge of permitting gambling, disorderly houses and' the* selling of liquor and receiving money for the: same, but was ousted.. It is safe* to say that if it had required a vote, Carter county would have indorsed him overwhelmingly. So Buck, with his pal Bud gone, the loser in a gun fight, stepped out of power?that is, ostensibly, so. And whiskey which was sold by the privileged few without competition under Buck Garrett at $40 a case dropped to $6 a gallon. Whiskey, gambling and bad women stepped indoors and herd forth to a greater extent in secret than they had in the open under Buck's* regime, and Healdton, the picturesque frontier town has become just another dirty, unattractive oil town. Meantime the Klan made one more attempt at its Divine right to rule. The warning letters were sent to residents of Wilson. Donations were given to preachers who indorsed the Klan. Two meg re parades we re held. An anti-Klan organization, officially chartered under the State laws, failed to prosper for lack of proper 1/adership. So the citizens of Wilson stepped in. Personal Responsibility. "We'll hold you personally responsible/' they told the Klan leaders. And i those words closed the chapter of the Klan's activities here. Beaten in jthe elections, overawed by an aroused citizenry, their strength has dwindled so that when the re-trial of Jeff Smith whose first trial ended yesterday in a locked jury, and the trials of the other ten defendants are called in the fall th^ State will have no Klan sentiment "Go aheai Plant you AN Leave tin Boll we? To You can raise cotton as were no boll-weevil, and k insect from getting one cotton, if you'll just folio I'm speaking from e: theory, as I raised 604 bal 812 acres of land in I Georgia in 1922, by protec with my own boll-weevil Mixture. I spent thouss and years of hard labor in poison, but have made it 1 creased cotton production years. No Machinery? -No Nighi Not only is my poison tl you can buy, costing half dusting method, but it i chinery for its applicatior v on any hour tot the day! H 11 I ? Protect Y< The Price of Hill's Mi gallon. Compare this v method, which is mucl more trouble, and more Hill's Mixture is comp< ments; calcium arsenate losses as a binder, and element which ATTRAC VTL, and makes him eat i x to any part of the cottoi t the onlv noison that tf i The molasses arts as ? ! R. P, i Agent I ! HIL ??? % v to face. Only a jury of citizens of tike United States. ?o COTTAGE PRAYER MEETINGS HELD BY 2nd BAPTIST CHURCH A series of cottage prayer meetings are being held under the direction of the Second Baptist church, iConway, S. C. First service was held with Jim Smith, near the Conway Lumber Company plant Sunday night, and was conducted by Rob Lee and others. Th* meeting was well attended and much good done. j| Monday night?At the home of j. C. |, Bennett in the same section of the tu W II. r Tuesday night?At the J. F. Connor jhome in North Conway. ; Wednesday night? with Ed G. Nor,*nan in the High Point section of the Shoe Repaii Health, Eco and Comfoi If you are:lboking for a qi see me for si I use the best materials a man Bring or send thei PRICI *???Men?s Half sole sewed $1.15 to $1.25 Nailed $1.00 Goodyear and Neolin rubber soles $1.25 M. B. KU 13 Main Strget. Opposite an d and r cotton he cheapest that mop out of a or less than the along the ro* requires ho ma- plant one tiir i, and can be put experienced I Simply make a acres a day. Q pf (mm VVkJI our Cotton at Mir xture is 72c per washed awaj nth the dusting i less effective. Place your expensive. or}ce )sed of three ele- ^ , ? i as a base, mo- *> a third (secret) and Sou 5TS THE WEE- the bbl. Sr it in preference charge to o i plant! This is We will refi le weevil seeks! you when th t binder, and k turned in goc > BLACKWELL, Marion, S for Marion and Immediate Territory ai Entire County of Horry, S. C. I/S MIXTURE CORPORA UOUSTA, GEORGIA. 1 ?=g? I town. Thursday night?At the Episcopal church on> Main street, Gbnway.. Friday night?At Jim Smith's home. ' Saturday night?At the? Episcopal church by Rev. J. H. Causey. Sunday eleven o'clock by* Rev. J. H. Causey. Sunday school ,at 2:80 P.' M. Sunday -night?At E. G.' Norman's i residence; conducted by Rfev. Ji H. Causey.. The public is cordially invited t?> attend these services. lo Streets in Conway got exceedingly bad during the recent rains. The best road or street cannot stand up under frequent rains and constant traffic. ring Insures nomy i: \ : lality fob and! good' aeiroice ioc; impairing. ind guarantee good work- i ship. 1 m by Parcel Post. 3- LIST Ladies' Sewed sole 90c-$l. Fancy work iNanea <oc Baby half sole 50c ? | Rubber Heels 50t ; LCHYCKE I Town Hall Conway, S. C. ^ SkU liM illi iRiUii% vHHV aJT/ vBil II , stick and a raff, and walk t, touching the bud of each le, an you pass by. An in>oy or girl pan cover 5 to 6 dhubc limutn Cost r by only the heaviest rains. order for Hill's Mixture at y agent for your territory OTinAflM KuIaw toe AA M|rrv>Mu "Viwn , pnvc fOU.VU bl., freight prepaid in Georth Carolina, plus $3.00 for nail freight . ther states. ( /? ?. und this to ) e bbl. is re xl condition, r c nd the lTION