The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 22, 1923, Image 1
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VOLUME XXXvn
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LORIS TAKES I
K K K VISIT
Several Citizens Are Called
Out and Warned on
Matters .
MAJORITY APPROVES VISIT
One Man Takes to Bays and
Returns Next Morning
Further particulars of the Ku Klux
Klan parade in Loris on the night of
Friday, March 9th, have been teamed
since last week when a short account
appeared in The Herald, relating
how a man was frightened by the
appearance of the white figures as he
approached a graveyard near a place
known as Princeville.
This same band which was seen by
Skipper arrived at Loris and paraded
the streets at about 8 o'clock or half
past eight that same night.
The Klan called at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. E. G. Stanley. At this
home they called for the appearance
of young Burroughs Prince, a son of
Mrs. Golda Stanley by a former mari
riage.
It has been reported that young
Prince had been telling that he knew
the pass word of the Klan, the grip
of the Klan, and a number of other
things about the secret order. He
iwas put through a thorough examination
regarding what he knew concerning
these things. He told them that
he did not know anything in the world
lit about these things. He was given a
# good lecture and talking-to and then
l was allowed to go.
[ It is said that Mrs. Stanley was
much worried about the matter.
The Klan, according to report, next
! called on Mrs. J. F. Brown. They
i wanted to see her son, IieGrand. He
5 is about fourteen years of age. Mrs.
j Brown was told what must be done
' with the boy. It is reported that
j Mrs. Brown told the members of the
j F'an that she knew most of them, alj
though they had on their masks. She
& made a considerable protest against
Wi bpincr disturbed, it is said.
I Fred Brown, the father of LeOrand
Brown is not supposed to have been
at home. He works off some other
place.
Their next visit was in quest of J.
E, Stevens and his son, Malcolm
Stevens. It is reported that they failed
to find either the older man or his
son, for when the cars, with the driv-"
ers dressed in white were seen parking
near the home, both of the Stevens
went into some garage not far
away and hid therein until the band
left. This story, in effect, was told by
the younger man on the next day.
After these visits in the town of
Loris, it is said that they went out in
the f'?ak Dale neighborhood and de
live red some good advice to o.ie or
two persons they visited in that direction.
The parade had in it about
nineteen automobiles.
One negro, who saw the cars approaching
near where he was, became
frightened, but not enough to prevent
his runnihg. He ran into a pile of
cross ties. As soon as he could extricate
himself from the ties he ran on
to his home at the top of his speed,
calling to his wife to open the door.
She was rather slow in complying, so
he broke down the door and went in.
The visit of the Klan to the town
was an occasion of some excitement.
One man told on himself to the effect
that he ran into a bay where he became
entangled in some vines. He
did not come out until after daylight
the next morning.
It is reported that a majority of the
people of Loris are glad of the visit
of the Klan made them, thinking that
it will have a good effect in some ways.
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Interesting Program Carried
Out Last Friday
Evening
A meeting was called at the Burroughs
high school last Friday evening
for the purpose of celebrating
the completion of the new school
building, the result of the voting of a
bond issue in school district No. 19.
The meeting was informal. It was
sufficient to show the appreciation of
the public for this big improvement
now made in the school facilities of
Conway.
Hon. A. H. Gasque, congressman
from this district was invited to address
the gathering, but he was not
present, owing to illness. He accepted
the invitation and was expected
until late that day, when a telegram
iwas received, saying that he had left
[Washington for Conway, but was
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SPENDS MONEY I
ON THE ROADS
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Figures From Prince and Carter
Compared With
Record
The Herald intended to publish in
full in its issue of last week a letter
received rather late from Messrs.
Prince and Carter, the Horry delegation
in the House of Representatives.
There was a lack of space, and only
a portion of the letter appeared last
week. The letter appears complete in
this issue.
It was *n the subject of the proposed
bond issue of thirty thousand dollars
for building certain bridges in
Horry County.
In the course of the letter there appears
some figures as to the amounts
of money spent on different projects
in this county, and, as this matter is,
or should be, of great interest to the
people, The Herald man has gone to
the records of the office of the Road
Commissioner, at the county cpurt
house and looked the record of the expenditures
for roads up.
Examination of this record shows
that there was some mistake in the
figures as given by Messrs. Prince
and Carter in their letter concerning
the bond issue.
The letter of Messrs. Prince and
carter states tnat there was an expenditure.
of two hundred thousand
dollars on the road from Gallivants
Ferry to Myrtle Beach. Examination
of the record at the court house shows
that the sum of $120,720.00 in round
numbers was spent on this road from
Gallivants Ferry to Conway, and on
the road from Conway to Myrtle
Beach, through Socastee only (the
remainder on to the beach having
been done at the private expense of
the Myrtle Beach Farms Company)
there was spent the further sum of
$17,047.00 using the round numbers,
and only leaving off the cents; and
making the total spent on the roads
from Gallivants Ferry to the beach
only $137,767.00, and which is $62,233.00
less than the amount given by
Messrs. Prince and Carter in their
letter.
The letter also refers to the sum of
seventy-five thousand dollars spent
last year on the road from Conway to
Port Harrelson. The record at the
court house shows that this is also
wrong-, and much more out of kelter
than the statement made about the
Gallivants'Ferry road; for the record
shows that there was spent last year
up to January 2nd, 1923, on the Conway
and Port Harrelson road a total
of $22,826.00, and taking the record
up to the present date, March 16th,
1923, the total spent on that road is
only $30,000.00 using the'round numbers
without the cents. The difference
here in the two amounts as
shown is apparent of itself.
The letter of the Representatives
would imply that there has been practically
nothing spent on the roads of
other parts of the county; but the record
shows that there has been spent
up to this date on the Placard road,
beginning at Homewood and running
on past Loris, and on to Nichols, a
total of $51,921.00; and that there has
been spent on the road from Finklea
to Loris the sum of $4,000.00; on the
Daisy and Buck Creek road the sum
of $4,723.00; on the Tabor road the
sum of $895.00; and on the Pireway
road, which nearly all is in Simpson
Creek township, the sum of $14,465.
It is not the purpose of this article
to take any sides in a controversy,
but only that the figures may be understood
as they appear on the official
records in the office of the county
board.
taken with the influenza on the way
and was unable for that reason to de1
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nver tne auuienu.
Hon. E. J. Sherwood presided over
the meeting. There was a good sized
audience present There was instrumental
selections played by Mrs. A.
K. Goldfinch.
The report of the trustees of the
school was made by Paul Quattlebaum.
He showed just how the
money had been spent in the erection
of the building, the installation of
water works, and the other parts of
the work which required money and
time. He explained the work that had
been done and explained the improvement
that may follow later.
Prof. J. M. Daniels, the superintendent
of the schools, made an interest
mg talk when called upon by the
chairman.
An address was delivered by Marion
A. Wright, secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce.
The chairman then called on different
citizens present to make short
talks and this proved to be one of the
most interesting features of the program.
The work that has been done
was approved by each of those who
spoke and they showed the pride that
they felt in the accomplishment of
this work.
The last number on the program
was a solo sung by L. D. Magrath,
accompanied by Mrs. Magrath.
The farmers must not quit raising
cotton. To do that would be to say
that the boll weevil had conquered;
! and, of course, we know that the weevil
has not won.
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Conway on business pertaini
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|| ness almost every day.
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|| with whom he may be assc
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|| haps (lead to an increase ir
|| shuts his eyes and his ear
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* serve, improve and increase.
\\ From this day on lets ch
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\\ that class who are eager to
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NEW CHECK LAW
HAS BAD TEETH
Prima Facie Evidence of a
Fraudulent Intent Easily
Shown
STILL A "MISDEMEANOR
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Prosecutions Under the Old
Law Still Provided For
by Act
The Horry Herald has secured from
the Secretary of State, through Hon.
w. a. rrince, one ot the representatives
from this county, a certified
copy of the new bogus check law
which has been passed by the General
Assembly and approved under date of
March 1st, 1923.
Under the old law regarding the
giving o fa worthless check, draft or
order, it was necessaVy that the drawer
of the check should have sufficient
funds on deposit at the time of drawing
and uttering the check to meet
the payment of it, and it was necessary
under the old law that by means
of such a check, draft or order, that
the person drawing and uttering it
should receive money, or other property
of value by reason of the worthless
paper, or else get some right or
remedy held by the other man against
him put off or lost.
The new law makes a considerable
change, and the essence of the crime
under this new act is found in the
words in the first* section which states
in substance, that it shall be unlawful
for any person to obtafn money or
other property with fraudulent intent
(or to obtain credit) by means of a
check, draft or order, which he draws
himself or aids and abets another to
draw and pass; and if such check,
draft or order shall not be paid by the I
person on whom it is drawn, the drawer
is guilty of a misdemeanor; and the
very fact that such check is not paid
by the drawee, because the maker did
not have funds on deposit to meet the
same, and the further fact that the
maker of the bad check fails to pay
the amount within seven days after
written notice of it, is prima facie
evidence of fraudulent intent; and the
meaning of this is that the burden is
on the person who gives the worthless
check to show that if the check was
not paid that he did not have any
fraudulent intent and it would be hard
in any possible case for a defendant
to make such a showing, especially
Via Viq/1 VtoArt nnfifiod nVinnf tVif*
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check and did not pay it up within the
seven days.
This new law has been contended
for by banks and business men in
many parts of South Carolina for the
past two years. In 1921 it passed the
House, but was killed in the Senfcte.
This time it went through in the form
above outlined, but not exactly in the
shape that the author intended it. His
original bill as he introduced it made
it a felony for any person to commit
this crime, but in the Senate the word
felonious was stricken out by amendment.
It was also intended at first
to make the crime the same as larceny,
but these words were also taken
(Continued on Page six.)
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MYSTERY HOLE
IN THE OLD WALL
Changes Being Made at Town
Hall Opens Op its
Walls
CONTAINED OLD RECORDS
Mayor and Clerk's Offices will
Now Have More
Room
Changes now being made at the city
hall will make things more convenient
for the town officials, especially
giving them more room for taking
care of the town property, and transacting
the business of the municipality.
In the western end of the building
is located the office of the mayor and
clerk and in this, up to this time, the
trials before the council have been
conducted. It is a small room which,
when the building was the county
court house, was occupied by the Horry
County sheriff. Behind this office
i is the hall and opposite across the
hall is the office which was formerly
occupied by the Clerk of the Court
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By ail ingenius arrangement parts
of the walls which form the hall will
be taken out so as to throw the two
offices formerly occupied by the county
clerk and the sheriff into one big
room, by putting in a partition across
the hall to divide the back end of it
from the front. This will give the
space for the mayor's office in the
rear, while the clerk's office will remain
in front as it now is, and there
will also be room for a good sized
toilet room in the extreme end of the
space occupied until now by the hall.
Town trials will take place in the
rear room and when the jury retires
Ihey may have their deliberations in
the front room where they will n^t
be molested. In the course of the
work of making these changes, the
walls will be treated to a new coating
of paint and the new work will be
painted.
There are some interesting changes
being made in the front, though the
appearance of the building will not
be changed. This change in the front
end of the building contemplates the
use of the two spaces under the two
staircases leading up to the rooms of
the Chamber of Commerce. As you
enter the hall of the building, on the
first floor, there is an empty space
on both sides, walled in with brick
and mortar ever since the structure
was erected, nearly one hundred
years ago.
These two spaces are being opened
up now by cutting doors on both sides
into them and making two small
rooms under the steps, which will be
used for storing town property and
materials used in the water system
and the like.
The opening of these spaces last
week resulted in several finds of old
materials left in the place when the
workmen finished it many years ago.
The find of greatest interest perhaps
is the round concrete hole worked
into the brick wall at about the
height of a tall man, the holding being
about two and one half inches in
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rABOR CONCERN |{
GOES BANKRUPT
rhree Partners Bought As- J
sets of Tabor Supply
Company
Notices were received here last \
veek to the effect that three business
nen: J. P. Mills, J. W. Joyner and W. <
3. Stroud, all of Tabor, N. C., had
)een adjudged bankrupts in the district
court of the United Spates, for
he Eastern District of North Caroina;
and that the first meeting of
;heir creditors would be held in Wilmington,
N. C., at the United States A
Custom House at 12 o'clock, noon, on 1
he 23rd day of March, 1923.
The gentlemen constituted the firm *
>f J. W. Joyner & Co., of Tabor, where 1
ithey had been conducting the general 1
mercantile business for the past two i
years or more. <
It will be recalled that the Tabor \
SuddIv Comuanv. which was an in
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corporated company organized a
mercantile business at Tabor and ran
the same for a number of years, but
failed two or three years ago when
they could not meet their obligations 1
and were placed in the hands of receivers.
After the proceedings had
gone on for some time in the courts,
the assets of the company were purchased
by J. P. Mills, J. W. Joyner
and W. H. Stroud, under the firm i
name of J. W. Joyner & Co., and they
continued the business at the same
place until recently this business also i
failed and a petition in the court of
bankruptcy was the result.
It is understood here that these
gentlemen had some interest in the
corporation which failed and it was
in an effort to save something from
the wreck that they made the move
to purchase the assets of the failed
concern and continue the business.
The slump in the valuation of property
and the general hard times following
the period of inflation, made it
impossible, it seems, for the new firm
to succeed, hence this new failure.
The estate will be placed in the
hands of a trustee in bankruptcy on
the 23rd inst., when the creditors
meet in Wilmington.
COMMON PLEAS
ROSTER FIXED
Court Begins at Conway on
Monday, April 'Second
.
The attorneys of Conway met last
Friday afternoon and arranged a roster
of causes to come to trial at the
c n i' i ,-i <r f ni'rn r\ f r!niirt of Common I
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Pleas, which will convene here on
Monday, April 2nd, with Hon. W. H.
Townsend presiding.
The rotfter follows:
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1923
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Olia Porter vs. Geo. J. Holliday; E.
S. C. Baker for plaintiff, H. H. Woodward
for defendant.
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diameter, and eight inches deep. Inside
of this hole were folds of old records
or parchment. When the folds
were touched fh an effort to take them
out they fell into small pieces and almost
into dust, and it is not possible
to read a single word of the writing
or printing that once appeared on
this.
It is safe to say that these walled
in rooms underneath the old staircase
made there for the sole purpose of
filling in the spaces and making a
solid foundation for the structure of
the steps, remained sealed in from the
outside world ever since the building
was erected. Until they were opened
up one day last week by boring and
cutting in through about two feet of
solid bricks and cement, they remained
concealed from the human eye, and
the inside had not been looken upon
since the workmen quit their job as
being complete and the old stone steps
laid in their beds of motar.
The walls of the hole in the wall
were nicely finished with either cement
or plaster. At this late day it
is hard to tell whether it was formed
of either the one or the other. Lime
mortar tends to get harder and harder
the longer it is left to itself and
finally returns to limestone, the same
thing from which it originally came.
On the opposite side of the building
or about the same position in the
front wall of the corresponding space,
on that side, is another but much
shallower hole, but which contained
nothing except a lot of dust. This
cn/tnnrl Vlftla !J IlTinri rf?f I tn n n Jlt.temnt
I OCVV/IIVI iivivy VV? WW vw r to
form the hole which was later decided
to be placed on the other side
and in much nicer form. These holes
were not intended to hold the framework
of a scaffold on which workmen
might have stood. The signs of other
places left in the walls on both sides
shows the grain of the wooden pieces
which ran across the spaces to make
the platform for the bricklayers.
Besides the holes we have mentioned
. another thing of interest was an
old shoe, showing the sole and a part
of the upper leather. This shoe was
rotten and about ready to crumple into
small pieces when roughly handled.
p to tell whether it was
one of the kind made at the factory
or one of the kinds made at home in
those days.
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> NO 48
SUIT ARISES
OVER A WILL
Several Lots of Land at Gurley
Are Now Involved
WILL OF jT W. SASSER
Lots Advertised Were Not Sold
Under Judge Shipp's
Order
The will of the late John W. Sasser
will come in question in a suit which
ms been brought by Mrs. AjjLartha
Joanna Sasser for an injunction
igainst the American Wholesale Corporation,
the Lynchburg Shoe Co., and
the sheriff of Horry County, enjoining
the defendants, during the pendency
of the action, from making levy
and sale of property owned by the late
Mr. Sasser, at Gurley, S. C., the town
where he lived for many years and
ran a mercantile business.
This suit has been recently filed
and the defendants answered in the
cause denying the right of the plaintiff
to this injunction under their construction
of the terms of the will.
The temporary order of injunction
was issued by Judge S. W. G. Shipp
some time ago just in time to stop
the sale of several lots of land at Gurley,
whereon the residence is located,
and upon which the sheriff had levied
under executions issued upon the
judgments hereinafter mentioned.
In the early part of 1922, the American
Wholesale Corporation secured a
judgment against the Sasser Company
for $477.19. The Sasser Company
was under mortgage at the time
to the Murchinson National Rank of
Wilmington, N. C., and hence no attempt
was made by the American
Wholesale Corporation to collect its
judgment out of property belonging
to the company, consisting of the
stock in the store and a shop where
tobacco flues were made for sale to
the farmers of the county. This judgment
was against the Sasser Company
alone.
Later on in the year, about September,
1922, the Lynchburg Shoe
Company sued on some notes which
had been given to it by Mr. J. W.
Sasser, in settlement of a debt for
shoes which he owed the company
when he incorporated this company
and transferred all of the store property
to the corporation, and these
notes had been endorsed by J. W. Sasser,
Sr., as well as by J. W. Sasser,
Jr., and his brother, E. S. Sasser.
This suit resulted in judgment, and
some time ago the levies were made
by the sheriff under the two judgments
and it was then that the steps
were taken to stop the sale by ino
c Vine Knan cfntoH Rnth
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suits were brought after the death of
Mr. J. W. Sasser, Sr.
The will of Mr. Sasser appears in
the Court of Probate, as to its main
clauses, as follows:
FIRST: I will and direct that as .
soon as practicable after my death
my Executor hereinafter named do
collect all and singular the monies
owihg to me as far as the same may
be collectable, and out of the funds
so collected, or any money which, I
may have on hand at the time of my
death, or personal property of any
kind of which I die seized and possessed,
he do pay and discharge the
expenses of my last illness, funeral
and testamentary expenses, and all
debts owing by me.
Rut it is my will, and I so direct,
that if there be sufficient other personal
property out of which to pay my
said debts, that my Executor do refrain
from selling and disposing of
my household and kitchen furniture.
SECOND: Should my wife, Martha
Joanna Sasser survive me, I give, devise
and bequeath unto her for the
term of her natural life or widowhood,
all and singular, the household
and kitchen furniture of which I die
seized or possessed, unless the same
should have to be sold in order to pay
my debts. Also all and singular those
five (5) certain lots, situate at Gurley,
lying on the East side of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad, to wit:
Lots Nos. 4 and 9 in Block 4j as shown
on map of said town, containing
about five-eights (5-8) of an acre,
whereon is my family residence; lot
No. 3 in Block 4, conveyed to me by
P. H. Sasser; and Lots Nos. 8 and
10, in Block No. 4, conveyed to me by
Pee Dee Land Company?and having
such descriptions as shown in respective
deeds under which I hold the
same.
THIRD: It is my hope before I die
that I shall be able to perfect the organization
of a corporation to be
known as Sasser Company, for the
purpose of carrying on a general
mercantile business, a Ginnery, and
a Tobacco Flue manufacturing plant,
wifV? n. fftnital Stock of Ten Thou
sand ($10,000.00) Dollars, and to concontinued
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