The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 03, 1923, Page Page No. 7, Image 7
i F. J. SULLIVAN fc CO.
r~*Y Certified Public Accountants (Ut)
w Telephone So. 796.
Murchison Bank Bldg.
WILMINGTON. N. C.
T. B. LEWIS
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
CONWAY, S. C.
D. A. SPIVEY & CO.
- W. B. King, Secty.
BONDS AND INSURANCE.
Office in
Peoples National Bank Building*
FORD & SUGGS
Attorneys a: Law
j Offices at
4 Conway, S. C. Loris.S.C.
R. B. SCARBOROUGH
Attorney at Law
CONWAY, S. C.
WILLIAM EUGENE KING
Physician and Surgeon
AY NOR, S. C.
H. H. WOODWARD
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
CONWAY. S. C.
ENOCH S. C. BAKER
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Offices in Taylor Building
2-9-3m Conway, S. C.
Law Offices of
M. C. HARRELSON
and
R. B. HARRELSON
Mullins, S. C.
ji' DR. G. I. LEWIS
Dental Surgeon
Office Over Norton Drug Compan
CONWAY, S. C.
Dr. J. D. THOMAS
Physician and Surgeon
LORIS. S. C.
^ MARION A. WRIGHT
Alt?rney-at-Law
Offices Spivey building
CONWAY, S. CS.
C. DUSENBURY ~~
Attorney-at-Law
U Spivey Building
' CONWAY, S. C.
DR. E. P. ALFORD
Dentist
Located in Mullins, S. C. Offic*
rvei Champion Shoe Store.
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MEN LOST, IS BELIEF
Miami, Arizona.?Several men cr<
believed to be buried under debris at
the Cactus mine near here as a resull
of cave in shortly after midnight. A
man taken from the works this morn
jng is in a critical condition. Ho sai(
M\c believed many of his fellow work
^rs were caught in the shifting grounc
that fell on them this mornihg.
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Paper towels in rolls at The Horr>
Herald shop.
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No Worms in a Healthy ClHId
All children troubled with Worms have au unhealthy
color, which indicates poor h'ood, and ast
rule, there is more or 1 ess stomach disturbance
GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL IONIC Kivca regu
larly for two or three weeks will enrich the blood
f .1!^ aI 1 ^
impruvc uiKcauuiMtim *xv%.uv u gcun moucuijiu'
ening Tonic to the whole system. Nature will ther
throw off or dispel the worms, and theChiid willix
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pains in my sides and the lower
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well and didn't want anything
to eat. My color was bad ana
fP I felt miserable. A friend of ?
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THE :
KUKLUXKLANS
WHIPPED WOMEN
Arrests Made of Men Including
Fairmont Chief of
Police
HORRIBLE STORY IS TOLD
Women Are Afraid to go Back
Home After Telling
of Story
Rivalling all stories of flogging
and ill-treatment of women ever told,
is one which comes from Robeson
County, N. C.t telling the details of
the horrible manner in which a whiterobbed
band lashed two married women
of Proctorville, N. C., in that
county, quite recently, resulting in the
arrest of several men, among them the
chief of police of Fairmont, N. C.
The women were made to bend
down over a pine log in the woods.
Then their clothes were l^iised by the
masked men and leather thongs applied
on their naked flesh. When the
women told their stories to the recorder
their bodies still bore the
bloody welts where the lash had been
applied.
The substance of the story as told
by the women and the daughters of
one of them, to whom th^ men afterwards
made an apology, it is said,
was told recently in a North Carolina
newspaper, substantially as follows:
Charged with being members of a
band of eighteen masked and whiterobed
men who on Saturday night,
April 14, took Mrs. H. F. Purvis and
Mrs. Mary Watson from the former's
home at Proctorville, carried them to
Mie Proctorville negro church, about
a quarter of a mile away, and gave
them a severe beating on their naked
flesh with a leather strap, B. M. Lawson,
chief of police of Fairmont, John
Hedgepeth and Jule Brogden, of Proctorville,
will be# tried in recorder's
court in Lumberton Thursday of this
week, at 10 A. M.
These men were arrested Thursday
night on warrants issued by Recorder
W. B. Ivey after Mrs. Purvis told her
story Thursday, the warrants naming
fifteen charges, ranging from first degree
burglary to simple assault. The
arrests were made by Rural Policemen
D. C. Ratlev and A. R. Pittman,
who brought their prisoners to Lumberton
and kent them under cuard
that night. Many witnesses were
summoned from Fairmont and Proctorville
for trial at 10 A. M., Friday,
')ut the prosecution was not ready
with its witnesses and the trial was
Postponed. Lawson, Hedgpeth and
P>rog;den were released by Recorder
W. B. Ivev upon agreement by the
attorneys, under a* ioint bond of $10,000,
signed by C. W. Graham of Proctorville.
P. R. Lawson of Orrum and
1 D. A. Jones, of Fairmont. R. F. D..
the bond to be forfeited if either of
the defendants fails to appear for
trial.
Bent Over a Loj?\ Skirts Raised.
4 According to the story told by these
' women, they were bent over a log,
, their skirts were raised and * lashes
were applied on the bare flesh. They
L were threatened with pistols when
j they started to scream and under fear
of death they say they were forced
j to endure the 'ash in silence.
A spot-light was turned on them
while the lash was being anplied, the
women say, and the one who applied
the strap occasionally would ask a tall
member of the band whom he adHvp?;snrl
riR "iudcrf* " if thnh was pnniin-h
and only when the "judge" was sotis.
fied did the flogger stay his hand,
i Black and blue bruised and angry
flesh a week after the event bears
mute and humilating testimony of the
I brutal treatment these defenseless
i women received on that terrible
> night, when according to their
story, for an hour and a
half, from 10 to 11:30 o'clock,
they were subjected to torture at the
hands of these men, who said they
' were members of the Ku Klux Klan
) and three of whom Mrs. Purvis is posi\
tive she recognized. Two of these
three men, Hedgepeth and Brogden,
) Mrs. Purvis says, also were recogniz)
ed by her 16-year-old son, Conrad.
, Warned to Keep Silent.
Mrs. Purvis says she was told she
) had to go to her husband, who has
t been working at Rocky Mount for
some time, within ten days, and that
/ if they told what had been done to
) them they would be punished; that
, the men were members of the klan;
' that there were 10,000 of them and
) that she could not go so far but what
v they would get her.
. In the house at the time of the
P visit of the hooded band were Mrs.
} Purvis, her three children, Conrad,
^ 16, and two others boys, aged 13 and
* 10; Mrs. Mary Watson, wife of S. C.
i) Watson, policeman at Proctorville, and
\ her two daughters, Miss Norine, 18,
- and Nathalee, 12; and Miss Line RatP
ley, who has lived in the Purvis home
) for many years.
^ About 10 o'clock Mrs. Purvis saw
. through the glass of the door some
P white-robed masked men on her front
j) porch. She called to her son, intendv
ing to tell him to hifi,pg her pistol,
^ when immediately several men si mi
) larly dressed opened the ,$a^k door,
^ which was not locked, with T^vh vio,
lence as to slam it against th'e wall,
& and ran up the hallway to her, pointi)
ing pistols at her and forcing her to
v open the front door, when others enjJ
tered. Every man seemed to have a
l) pistol. Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Purvis
j) were taken out and placed in a car and
, the young: girls, Norine and Nathalee
D were hustled outside, given a shove
i) and told to go home. Nathalee says
\ one of her arms was made sore by
: the rough handling she received when
l) one of the then with a pistol in one
\ hand and a club in the other, caught
hold of her.
HORRY HERALD, CONWAY, S
Walked Back Home.
After being flogged fHe" women
were allowed to walk hack home, the
men accompanying them about half
way, tp the tobacco warehouse, when
they granted Mrs. Furv:&' request not ,
to go with them further as she was
ashamed to be seen going through the
town with them.
Mrs. Watson says she was so
rrightencd that she could not. say a
word. Mrs. Purvis says she was not
frightened until they started out of
the house with her, and she thinks
:hat the way she talked to the men
:>nd shamed them for coming there
disguised probably was the cause of
the punishment she received.
She said Lawson, whom she had
known all her life, seemed to be the
leader, that he gave directions i.bout
what to do, and that the others said
nothing or talked in whispers. Jule
Brogden, she said, led the way through
the front door and John Hedgepeth
led the way through the back door.
Not Afraid of Klan.
Mrs. Purvis says she told the men
they would reap this before they died
and Lawson, she said, then made his
threat about what would happen if it
was told. She was reminded that she
had said she was not afraid of the
klan, and she replied that she was
not. that if they'd take olT their masks
thev were like all other men.
Mrs. Watson was told, she says, that
she had not done her duty towards
her husband when he was sick, but
she said there was no truth in that;
that she had given him every attention;
and this statement was corroborated
by her daughters.
Mrs. Purvis, Mrs. Watson and Miss
Norine say there is no truth in any
of the charges made by the men
against any of them, and they say
that three of them returned the following
Tuesday night to apologize to
Miss Norine in regard to whom, they
said, they had made a mistake.
After telling their story to Solicitor
T. A. McNeill these women were
afraid to go home and they are boarding
in Lumberton for the present. Mrs.
Watson says she has no means of
paying for herself and her two daughters
and Solicitor McNeill has assumed
the obligation of seeing that their
board is paid. It is understood that
several citizens have assured Mr.
McNeill that they will stand by him
in this obligation.
Messrs. McNeill & Hatchett and
Mclntyre, Lawrence and Proctor will
assist Solicitor Ertel Carlyle in the
preliminary hearing before Recorder
Tvey Thursday, while Messrs. McLean,
Varver and McLean, Britt and Britt
and E. J. BrHt will represent the defense.
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REGARDING PREPARATIONS AND
MACHINES FOR BOLL
WEEVJL CONTROL
Clemson College.?The vigorous exploitation
at the present time of various
patent preparations and machies
for boll weevil control in South Carolina
is but a c.iso of history repeating
itself; it is merely a case of what has
occurred in every region invaded by
flio Kr?11 wnnvil tinpp 1892. onlv it doe?
seem that South Carolina is harder hit
than probably any section heretofore,
fays Frof. A. F. Conradi, Entomologist.
During the first few years after
the weevil reaches a given territory
the farmers are exploited and many
useless devices are sold to them, and
it seems that South Carolina farmers
and business men are usually willing
buyers. Organizations for such purposes
start but go out of business
after a year or two. Their activities at
this time are of special signifiance in
in South Carolina, because the expense
of buying such nostrums will increase
the losses caused by the boll
weevil.
Many of the materials sold have
claims made for them which are no1
based on accurate scientific tests. Ir
some cases the persons exploiting
them are unquestionably sincere
while in other cases they are not. Ir
many cases unfortunately the farmei
will much more readily accept the
claims of a stranger than the result?
of accurately conducted tests of state
and federal agencies. In other case?
farmers demand the results obtainec
by efficient tests before they put. theii
money into such materials.
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COTTON GROWERS MEET
Atlanta, Ga.?More than 200 cottor
growers, mill owners, buyers and de
partment of agriculture representatives
from Georgia and the Carolina?
gathered here today and discussed various
phases of the Fulmer bill, 01
Cotton Standards Act, which will gc
into effect in August.
Lloyd S. Tenney, assistant chief o1
the bureau of agriculture economics o1
the department of agriculture, headed
that department's delegation anc
explained what effect the bill woulc
have on those interested in the cottor
industry. He stated that he believer
the bill would benefit the growers, foi
til** vpfl?nn frhnf fVin lntfnr'sj rnt.frm wil
be examined and placed in certair
classes under its provisions, such as
middling and poor middling, withoul
any charge.
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ilHOKRY COUNTY|
i! TRUST CO. !!
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!|L. D. Magrath, Manager;}
!| Real Estate, Bonds ancll
\\ Insurance. |
. O, MAY 3, 1923
PASTURE HAS T\
TAKEN HOLD
Farmers in All Sections Making
Good Pastures For
Stock
FOLLOWS STOCK LAWS
Making of Pastures Will Have
to Become Fine
Art
Clemson College.?All over South
Carolina there is much attention being
paid to the establishment and improvement
of pastures and the growing
of forage crops as a necessary factor
in the increasing livestock activity,
including especially hogs and dairy
cattle. Over fifty Sumter County
farmers have recently sowi^.l?p|^Aza
pastures, while in Florence* Coumy
over one hundred and fifty acres,Hif
pasture lands have been se &i&lr*by
various farmers as starter's fvr^llfttter
pastures. The brief reports below
tare given as specimens of the progress
j being made over the State in this
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Many Pastures of Lespedeza and
Carpet Grass.
"Twelve hundred pounds of carpet
grass and fifty bushels of lespedeza
have been purchased co-operatively
and placed on fifty-two pastures. Several
Bermuda pastures have been put j
out and a number of farmers have I
plowed and improved their pastures
as a result of our campaign for better
pastures."?J. F. Williams, Sumter.
"Lancaster County farmers are using;
lespedeza for pastures very heavily
this spring. A number are sowing
on good land for hay. J. Roy Cunningham
is sowing fifty acres now in
grain to this plant as a soil improvement
crop. He will allow it to stand
this summer, turning it under this
fall. Around fifty farmers are using
it as the basis of their pasture mixtures,
supplementing it with Dallas
grass and carpet grass."?W. F. Howell,
Lancaster.
"While S. L. Jeffords was here we
looked over several pastures started
last year with carpet grass and lespedeza.
Some of these made good
growth, and have furnished grazing
through the winter from carpet grass.
This indicates that for this section
carpet grass may furnish grazing
throughout the year for during this
winter we nave had some weather as
cold as it usually gets here."?M. M.
McCord, Georgetown
"Mr. Ivoogan, the dairy specialist,
and I are pushing permanent pastures
for all we are worth, and over a him
dred and fifty acres have been seeded
this month. Pastures are absolutely
necessary for economical production
and the farmers .are beginning to realize
it."?J. W. McLendon, Florence.
"1 have assisted in planning and
planting new pastures. I have assist;
ed a number of parties in planting all
the way from one to forty acre*; in
pastures. Most of this .acreage has
been planted in carpet grass and les,
pedeza."?J. W. Sheal>\ Lexington.
"In Charleston County the pasture
demonstrations of last year look fine
and all of them are going to be en,
larged. In fact, the trouble the coun.
tv agent is having is to keep the are,9
. planted down in proportion to the
. stock that will be available to graze
on the new area of pastures. The
, young captain in charge of the U. S
, Munition Depot has planted 50C
. pounds of carpet grass seed and s.ay?
[ that he plans to increase the area ot
carpet grass until he has at least
1,000 acres of the 1,500 acres of the
[ Government reservation in carpet
' grass and lespedeza."?S. L. Jeffords
\ Forage and Pasture Crop Specialist.
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FEED FOR BEEF CATTLE
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Clemson College.?Feed and forage
; crops are the limiting factors in live
* stock farming. Soil fertility is th(
] limiting factor in feed and forage pro
[ duction. Therefore, crops that furnisl
. abundant feed and at the same time
enrich the soil, will make livestock
: Notice
j [ Standard W ai
i L?
' u will run as usual
t n representing all
I We hope to I
coming season.
We look for
C. H. HARDWI
I y Propriet
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CHAUTAUQUA IS
GREAT SUCCESS
(Continued from page three)
ry side. It is nothing: any better, .however,
than the program for today, the
second day of the chautauqua. Perry's
Ye Olde New England Choir will opeu
the afternoon performance with a concert.
There will be costumed sketches
from the music of the Pilgrims down
to the present c^ay, with the old songs,
we all love and the present day songs
that have made q. great big hit with
the people. They will hold forth again
at night. This alone will be worth the
cost of admission. The lecturer for the
second day will be there with The
High Mission of Woman, at the afternoon
performance and Main Street
against Broadway at night. His name
is Stanley Upton Mock. He is a word
painter of the highest class, lecturer
and orator. He is a master in dealing
with big problems with unusual simplicity.
The chautauqua is starting as we
go to press with this issue of the Herald.
It has every promise of making a
big success. The second and third days
are so full of interesting things that
j we have tried to give readers an idea
ot wnat trtese are. Those Who tray
have missed the treats of the first day
will be able to attend on the -ocoml
and third days.
The new school auditorium is hi#
enough to hold all of the people who
will come. It will seat with e* se and
comfort, which means without crowd-!
ing, us many as a thousand people.
Conway welcomes the chautauqu:*,
and the people wno are here to enjoy
he entertainments.
In the opinion jf many the Jesters
.\\?o v\i.i be here dii the third d<iy at
oth ^he afternoon and the night entertainments
will carry away with
them the good will of all chautauqua
visitors. Fun and laughter are their
predominating features. It is a combination
entertainment of music and
story. Just a touch of serious is added
to make a properly balanced program.
farming profitable.
For wintering cattle, feeding steers
and improving soil, the velvet bean,
both as a winter pasture crop and as
a grain feed for cattle in the pen, is
unsurpassed by any crop grown in the
South, thinks W. j. Sheely, Extension
Livestock Specialist.
A growth of three tons per acre of
velvet beans (dried crop) will contain
as much nitrogen as 500 pounds of nitrate
of soda. If grazed by livestock,
practically all of the nitrogen will be
returned to the soil. In addition there
will be a profitable gain in weight of
the animals and an addition to the humus
content of th soil.
Records show that 80 acres of
velvet beans carried 100 head of cattle
four months.
Twenty tons of velvet beans with
_:i i ?*ii ' '
Hiuijre or ouiei rougnage will ieeu
30 steers, averaging 800 pounds, for
120 days. If of good quality and fed
properly, steers should make a profitable
daily gain on velvet bean ration
and silage and straw.
The early speckle velvet beans are
. the more valuable for feed on account
of the high percentage of
, beans to pod and the ease with which
cattle can masticate the thin hulls.
Records show that South Carolina
. spent $50,000,000.00 for feeds in 1920
L Had velvet beans been planted in all
, the corn and a yield of 800 pounds per
} acre gathered, the bean crop at pres?
ent price would be worth now About
$10,000,000.00. This does not includc
i the value of nitrogen and humus thai
. would have been returned to the soi
> by the vines.
: Grow velvet beans this year. Make
; feed for livestock and enrich the soil
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HOGS ARE PECULIAR
Clemson College.?A hog is an ec
centric animal. He is never satisfied
When he is a pig he tries to make i
} hog of himself by eating everything
- in sight, thus hurrying himself t*
i market. He loves plenty of gooc
- things to eat?in variety, and will pa>
i his owner more in pounds for fooc
? eaten than any other animal, says W
r J SIipoIv iRxtAnsion T.ivAst.nrlr Snp
Tobacco
'ehouse and Case
oris, South Caroli
to sell tobacco at at
the companies.
have the pleasure o;
tobacco to sell good
CK & J. W. MISHC
:ors Standard Warel
P. R. CASEY & SOI
rietors Casey's Wan
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LARRY HYMAN 1
LOVED HIS JOB
(Continued From Page One.)
succeeded in his chosen line of work
much better than the common average.
His example is one which young
farmers of this day should study and
therefrom learn the lessons which his
life will teach them. Too many of
them spend the best days of their
youth and middle age ij,? hunting for
the easy job, which they will always
fail to find. Hyman expected his job
to be hard. He would not have enjoyed
it if it had net been. When
things did not go right and others
would have been discouraged and.
ready to quit, Hyman was only warming
up to the conflict. Just so must
every man be willing to do if he would
leave behind any mark whatever that
will be remembered for a day. Larry
Hyman was known to all those with
whom he dealt as a man of push and
energy to the very best of the
strength which his Creator had given
him. He was an apostle of going forward
while others hesitated at the
difficult task. From his life younger
men may learn the quality of sticking
at their chosen calling and making
the best out of that instead of losing
their time in hunting for fortune at
the foot of the rainbow.
We do not mean to say that Larry
Hyman did not have his faults. Every
man has those to more or less extent.
It is not human nature to be perfect.
Some may go so far, in the course of
hero worship ,as to get their idol fixed
up in their minds as a man without
faults; but a closer acquaintance, study
of their idol's every day affairs,
will be apt to disclose flaws and defects
that were not suspected before.
Larry Hyman had less of such faults
than many you will know in this
life. He made mistakes but he tried
to correct them. He would find out
that he was wrong and would then
try to get right.
His life deserves mention because he
lived it different from the common
run of those who till the soil for a
living-. He had ever with him those
qualities which tended to create in
others the admiration which the right
kind of living brings. He was not an
angel, not by any means, he was just
a hard-working and faithful man who
succeeded above the average and raised
a family.
cialist.
If you gather and carry him his
food, he will eat it, grunt, sit back
and give you a small return for your
trouble; but if you grow the forage
and grain crops and let him gather
them, he will grow a larger frame,
keep in better health, be happier, get
ready for the market earlier on less
feed, and pay you more for the food
consumed. In other words, the hog
pays his owner for the privilege of
gathering his own food.
Again, a high class (or well bred)
pig will give his owner more revenue
per acre of food consumed than will
' the scrub pig. Not only this, but the
high class pig will go on the market
and outweigh his scrub neighbor by
. 100 pounds or more and outsell him
by 1 to 3 cents per pound. Thus a 250
pound high class pig will sell for
about $11.00 more than his 150 pound
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scruo neignuor.
In short, a high class pig looks up
to his owner and says: "You grow the
feed, and I will pay you to let me
gather it, by putting on more pounds
of good quality meat for food eaten,
t by finishing out at an earlier age, by
I going to market in tip-top shape, thus
vamping the buyers and returning to
k you more dollars for your trouble.
Plant me something now for me to
gather during July, August and September,
so I can go to market in September."
Mr. Pig Owner, now are not your
. pigs queer fellows? They are now
i begging you to let them help you.
r Don't let them plead in vain. Plant
) forage crops now.
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r Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Day.-*
I Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails
to cure Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protruding
Piles. Instantly relieves Itching P?'ti. and you
an get restful nfto- ttrst anolication. tiOr
Growers
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this season. n
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