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-A I VOLUME XXXvn ~~ k NEGRO DOCTOR 1 / UNDER ARREST White Man is Charged Also as Being His Accomplice ^AD A NEGRO NURSE, Reports Out That Negro Man \ Had Died After His Treatment Two men were arrested last we^,* > and lodged in the town guard house under a charge of practicing medicine without license under the laws of this ' State. One was a white man and the other a negro. The negro is T. J. Conley charged with practicing and ' the white man gave his name as H. Pike, charged with being an access- ( fiory or aid to Conley in the unlawful | giving of medicine and treatment. j Tl, ~ 4 111 - - i iic iwo nan oecn under suspicion J < for some ti^ie. They had a small < shop located on the Race Path, near i the home of John Moore. From this ] shop they went out in a car. About the first cause of notice be- j nig attracted to them were the re- ( ports about the death of June Wood- < ward, a negro man, who was said to < have "been suffering from a bad case \ of asthma. Conley was called to at- tend his case and the wife of the negyo is reported to have told that she ( "believed the medicines given by Con- j left' caused the death of her husband. Trore were other things reported , from time to time and the officers , were only waiting for evidence upon j which to base a warrant for the arrest of the men. On a recent Sunday the policeman ( went by the shop and discovered that ( there was a crowd inside while the ' front door toward the street was,' ^ tightly closed. \l % After knocking on the door for 1 some time the policeman says a ne- 1 gro woman giving the name of Alice 1 Russell, came to the door. The officer asked what the crowd was doing i in here on Sunday. She said that i she was looking for a patient. She 1 W'old in answer to questions enough to < /jJPoau"" 1 , officer to give her notice i to appear before the mayor the fol- i lowing day. < After some questioning she ad- < mitted that Conley was practicing medicine; that ho had been located in ? Chicago and other cities and wa> now % practicing here; that she was a trained t nurse, havinjr served the necessary time and had worn the uniform of a i nurse at some other place. She was ( released after this find th.* wnrmnf for the arrest of Conley as the pi in- -| cipal and the white man ahove mentioned as the accomplice, followed. The men were absent from the placo at that time. One night after tin? while the policeman was on his heat along Main Street, the two I mssed p'ong as if they were ticr to the railroad depot. The officer took a shortcut and headed them off as they were about to drive jmjvoss the lake bridge in an evident attempt to escape. v They were placed in the guard t , house and remained there until they ? furnished bond the next day. J, After the arrest of the men, the officers made a thorough search of the s premises occupied by them. In the y shop the officers found a quantity of t different kinds of medicines contain- p ing high percentages of alcohol. In f a jar appeared a concoction which f would burn when a match was placed to it. They were unable to determine f just what this was. It had small balls a of fleshy looking substance inside it. f There was a small quantity of vvhis- \ key in one of the bottles in the place, p I Thorn WAS ? whnln c.ko nf mnrl i*?i r?r? I bottles which had never been filled. a In addition to the medicines they found a few tools such as are used by n doctors and surgeons for dressing y wourds, a lot of absorbent cotton and ^ a quantity of adhesive tape. 0 It was not known when the case ^ wou^d bo set for trial. The pair are c safd| t(> have employed lawyers to ad- s visf^tiiem in the matter. n It appears that the shop was rented f by Conley about two months ago. It s is believed that he has been practic- , ing medicine, or at least pretending to f do that, ever since he rented the shop. v They had different lots of medicines a evidently ordered from several dif- 0 ferent places. e T'ie officers intend to prosecute the r case and weave a web of evidence against the men by the time the case a comes up for trial. ? o 1 Work on fourth avenue was about t finished last week living a hard clay h and sand surface all the way out to t the national highway. s - !\ !j In a land where it is against IjJ { HfeCr the law to make, keep, or store ]J? KQ* strong drink; there ought to be jj | "I no such thing as common drunkI AiiriAoc1 If cAama 'in Anuv _ "g IV ir'VtlllO Ull VMHJ ^ I Jjj tiling for those who want it, to JJ? c I jj? ?rot, keep and store as much of jl J t ?J it as they can consume. This J" . L^% does not show that respect for ! ' law our forefathers dreamed S and advised. { ^ JThf WEED CURING GOING AHEAD Farmers Everywhere Paying Attention to Tobacco Barns The work of curing the Horry bounty tobacco crop is in the midst of the busiest time, .and about the best j{ the best are either now in the barn or they will be in there within the next week or fortnight. Sana lugs, the bottom leaves of tho plants, long since were all gathered and have been cured. The middle 'eaves are now going in the barns. Before long the tips, meaning the very topmost leaves of the tobacco plants, will be finished up and nothing but the bare tobacco stalks will l>e left in the field. One of the heaviest crops of tobacco ever produced in Horry is being harvested. Good luck seems to have followed the tobacco growers in most .?f the tobacco growing sections of the county, thio year, and instead of the misfortunes of last year by means of i - neavy rains at the wrong time, the weather lias been about right except n the early Spring when some growers could not get a good stand on account of insects and the cool nights with here and there a dry spot or :wo where the plants could not live without being watered. During last week samples of the ^rop from different farms were wrought ;n for inspection. Some of it looked like a very fine grade. It is ">e'ieved that the crop will bring a fair price this time. The hopes of .he tobacco growers are running high. Conway will be in position this year to take care of a full share of the irop that has been raised. It is Dromised that the market here will lave three warehouses running on the luction plan, while the cooperative narketinur association will run as usial with the two warehouses, the Horry and the Farmers. The opening of the season will lot opening before about August 1st. nstead of early in July as it did last /ear. In the mean time those growers who got ahead wjtli their crop uid matured it early will have that r>uch more time for grading and conlitioning the crop before it is offered in the markets for sale. The opening of th eseason will nark an increase in business in al>lO^I rill linpc tlirnnirliniif fUJr. .. w . .. Ill* VII I Wl fty I IWU I L I I I ?""* ;ion of the State. P'an? m*o bei^g made for the opentur of the warehouses as soon a? the late is decided upon. r DODGE COIIPF. LEAVES ROAD Complete Wreck is Result of , Broker. Steering Parts 1 A Dodire coupe was a complete vreck. out hv the road a few miles his side of Socastee last Sunday and 1 ivnv people passing by stopped to , r>ok nt it. , ] All of the glass was broken and ] battered out of the door frames; the , i<rht front wheel was broken and ( wisted up; the axle was turned com- 1 I'etelv under; while various injuries j ippeare'd to have been done to the | rame work and other parts. , The accident happened the night be- ^ ore, at a late hour, as D. A. Gooden, ] i saw mill man of Georgetown was 'riving from Conway to Myrtle teach. It was said that the steering , arts went wrong and that he lost < ontrol of the machine while going at fast rate of speed. The car jumped the slight embank- J lent made recently by the road scrater. It then ran and ploughed its way . hrough the sides of an uneven ditch, ne wheel in the ditch, the other on he embankment; a lightwood stump oming in the way of its course was * plit wide open and the remnants pull- i d'up out of the earth by the roots. . 'he car then dug its way through the oft soil and out into the woods whovo t crumbled up with the right hand 1 ront wheel underneath tangled up ^ .ith a twisted axle. It came to a stop 1 lmost completely turned hack in the pposite direction. It ran for a consid- 1 rable distance after leaving the main 1 oad bed. 1 The occupants of the car, the driver 1 nd a lady, it was said did not sustain I my serious injury in the accident. I fhey were shaken up and somewhat 1 he 'worse for the shock. It could not ( >e learned who rendered them aid. nor 1 he exact extent of their hurts. Tt is ' upposed that they were taken on to Myrtle Beach by some passing ma- s hine the same night. t 3REEN SEA MAN | HAS FINE CROP, t S. H. Harrelson has a fine tobacco i von which he is now curing for mar- [ :et. It consists of from twelve to t ifteen acres of tobacco as fine as has t ?een seen in that section of the coun- i y in many years. i He plants tobacco every year and j ias more than the average success in' i uring aad marketingg his product. CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY, VV.V.V.V.'.V.V.V.V.W.'.W.V. 3 NO EARTHLY EX 5 ? A man defined work th which he did not want to d at the same time a thing 1 he did not have it to do. ; Some of us are always want to work or play. So in going from work to pies Ij tween the two. ' I* There are some who ov Ij stitution with the excess of H; On thfe other hand there pleasure only and let wort come to grief with neurast % of interest in all forms of t I were so insistent before, jl This all shows that it wa istence here below to be an v proved that the human macl busy with different kinds ol ; is felt an abiding interest. iW.V.V.V.W.V.'.V.V.V.VV.V BANK HAS SUED I ON LAND DEBT Tract Purchased by S. D. Bryant is Involved in Suit ALLEGATIONS OF COMPLA'T Improvements Were Made or* It by The Late Mr. Bryant. A legal question lias been raised about the ownership of a tract of land of about thirty-five acres in Green Sea Township, now standing in the name of the estate of the late S. D. Bryant. It is a part of the Maybury Floyd land which was conveyed to J. H. Newberry by Mr. Floyd some years ago. Later on it is said that this land was in the possession of a negro by the name of Richard Hand, This however, has not been verified. Early in the year 1922, the State 1 and County taxes became delinquent. This had been the case for sevefal years running bi^ck as far as the fiscal year of 1919. The sheriff tried to collect the taxes but failed and fi-i nally had to resort to this land in or-1 :ler to got the money clue to the tax account. Tiie law provides, in regard to sales of land for taxes, that the land must he put up and sold to the highest bidder, the amount of the bid paid over to the sheriff by the purchaser and then the money is held by the sheriff for a period of six months before he makes any title to the buyer. During this six months of time the former owner of the land who failed to pay liis taxes, has the right to redeem the land from the tax salo by paying up the taxes and penalties, and in the event that this should be done, then , the sheriff pays back to the bidder the amount of money which he paid nim on his bid together with interest :>n the amount at eight per cent, and the land goes back to the original holder of it. This Newberry or Floyd tract above nentioned was disposed of in the eary part4 of 11)22 and knocked down to >. D. Bryant. The bid was held back for the six months until in December 1922 when, as there had been no relemption made by the former own?r, the sheriff made a tax title to S. 3. Bryant for the property. This >tood in that way until quite recently t developed that there was a mortgage against this land. This mortgage had been executed from J. H. dewberry, to W. T. Wallace, of Walace. N. C., for the sum of two thousand dollars, and it is alleged that this nortgage is still unpaid and that the vhole amount is due together with the nterest on the loan. The mortgage was transferred from Wallace to a bank in North Carolina md the title of the suit which has iow been brought to foreclose this. nortgage is Rank of Duplin, a Corporation, plaintiff, against J. H. Now)orry, also M. N. Jenkins, J. A. Bryant and D. F. McGougan as executors >f the last will and testament of S. D. Bryant, deceased, and also the heirsit-law of Mr. Bryant. The complaint in the foreclosure uit which has now been brought by he Bank of Duplin against the other parties who have become interested in his land, thus alleges the reason why 1 he suit has been brotight: That the defendant J. H. Newberry \as failed to comply with the condi- . ions of the said bond and mortgage, ind he is now due and owing to the )laintiff the full and iust sum of two housand ($2,000.00) Dollars, with inerest at the rate of six percent per innum from March 30th, 1021, there- , inder, due and proper demand for payment having been made and paynent neglected and refused. That the defendants, D. F. Mc || pt: JULY 5, 1923 __ NW.V.V.V.W.W.W.V.V.V.V ISTENCE IS IDEAL j: -o i e other day as being that ? o, when he had to do it, and :hat he wanted to do, when ! doubtful as to whether we ! me people spend their time ;" isure. They are divided be- ? erwork and ruin their con- " brain-fag and utter fatigue, .j are those who go in for : severely alone and they ;henia and the complete loss ; he pleasure after which they % ,s not intended for man's ex- *U ideal condition. It has been \ line does the best when kept "I f useful work in which there ? ,AW.,.V.V.\%V.V.WAVMNW ~ wuKtUJNG WHILE SKIES ARE DRY Warehouse Season May Begin on July 24th This Year LAST WEEK TOO DRY Manager of the New Tobacco Warehouse Arrives in Conway At this writing1 tlie date on which the warehouses of eastern South Carolina will open for business this year, seems to he an unknown quantity except that the season of selling anil marketing will he later than usual. The latter part of last week it was said by several tobacco men in Conway,! and also stated in news items appearing in some of the newspapers .that the season might not open until about August 1st. Some of the warehouse men said that the tobacco interests of this section would work to get the season open on July 24th. It appears that one thing which makes the season later than it used to be, is the law under which the tobacco now has to be graded and tied before it is placed on the warehouse floors. The farmers have to gather and cure the leaves and it takes time after that has been done to grade and tie them. Another thing which has operated against an earlier opening of the markets seems to he the lateness of the crop, though in some instances the growers have been able to begin curing at an early date. Work on getting the third warehouse ready for occupancy started here early last week. This is the brick building on 4th avenue, near tho center of the block and in the rear of the Peoples National Rank, and occupied until quite recently by the livestock business of A. C. Thompson. Their livestock business was recently moved into the new brick building which Mr. Thompson has just finished on the corner of Laurel Street and 4th avenue, and when this move was made, the work of putting a floor in the other place commenced. Other necessary changes were in process of being made so as to get the building in nice shape for the handling of loaf tobacco instead of horses and mules. I'his new place will be operated by T. N. Fullerton, a tobacco warehouse man of long experience and one who has been connected with the tobacco market of Conway for ten or fifteen years. In the me;n time the growers of the weed ar# losing no time in getting the crop ready to be sold or morkpted. Last week remained dry. as a general rule, throughout the tobacco sections of this country. In some places light rains would have been welcomed. It was getting too dry. Still there is a tendency on the part of rains to keep on coming once they have started, and while the rains did not come and the sun was hot and making things drier almost every day, the tobacco crop was maturing faster and faster and so far as could be learned here the growers were bending every energy to keop up with the rioeninfir leaves. With tobacco it is (ho same as with hay, it must ho made while the sun shines. The earlier maturing crops have no doubt missed the rainy ^oa-on this time, and it may bo that the later rrons will come through in fine shape. If it rains at all this time it is hoped that it will not affect the crop as it did last year in some places. Gougan, M. N. Jenkins, and J. A. Bryant, as Executors of the last will ;>nd testament of S. D. Bryant, deceased; and Emma Bryant. Albert Brvant Nolle Bryant and Elease Bryant, heirs-at-Iaw of S. D. Bryant, deceased, dlaitn to have an interest in the aforesaid premises, superior to the lien of plaintiff's said mortgage. bv (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) rati NEGRO PROWLER CAUSES FRIGHT When Neighbors Run to Help1 Lady The Negro Flees Mrs. W. R. Salmon had a scare last Saturday night, when, about 11 o'clock she looked round behind her where she was sitting on the porch at home, and saw a negro man standing a few feet wvay from her. She asked the man what lie was doing there and he made no reply, then she screamed and called for helj). The home is not far from that of Max Goldstein. Mr. Goldstein went on the run and Walter Cox, a salesman at the Cox-Lundy store, and Sumpter Richardson, a neighbor, also heard the call for help and arrived about the same time. When the cry for assistance was made the negro ran. When first --eon by Mrs. Salmon he had a cut glass bowl in his hand or perhaps concealed about his person. This bowl was found in the yard near his tracks and he evidently went with such haste that me bowl was dropped or abandoned in the fligWt. When help arrived there was nothing left of the midnight prowler V.AVI |/l iiicm: II ill It was at a time when the Salmon home is usually without anybody in it except Mrs. Salmon. W. R. Salmon is the proprietor of the Conway 5 and 10 Cent store. On Saturday nights he is kept ihere until a late hour, and at times Mrs. Salmon may remain at the store until late. On the inside of the home, at the time of this occurrence, young W. R. Salmon. Jr., was reclining and reading a hook. His mother called to him, but before he could get out, the negro had escaped. It is believed that this man intended to strike Mrs. Salmon on the head with the heavy bowl. This bowl is said to be of cut glass and worth between five and ten dollars. At last accounts the ownership of the article had not been established. At the time this happened it was rather dark at the place. Until a few minutes before Mrs. Salmon saw the intruder, the light was on at the Goldstein home just round the corner and the light was reflected on the porch where Mrs. Salmon was sitting, but oid not extend very far into the yard. It has been but a few weeks since one of the town policemen was sent for to come and arrest a negro who was caught prowling about another home wherein there was only one of the family at the time. The policeman went and tried to follow the tracks of the man but without success. At a recent term of the criminal court for Horry County a negro bv the name of Jim Stanley was tried on a charge of attempting to rob the home of S. C. Richardson and was convicted and given a long term on the county chain gang. The occurrence of last Saturday night happened in the main residence section of the town. There are a number of homes very near to the Salmon residence. Among them is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sumpter Richardson, and just across the street from the 1 place is the Ardmore Hotel owned by Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Jones. On ihe op- 1 posite side of the avenue is the Conway Baptist Church and the baptist I 'Parsonage. On another corner is the 1 home of A. B. Garren. NEW WAREHOUSE GETTING READY T. N. Fullerton arrived in Conway i last week. He will run the new tobacco warehouse which is being con- j verted now from a livestock and v;*- , hide business into a modern ware- | house for the sale of leaf tobacco. , j The new place will be run on the independent or auction plan of sales. J Fullerton has been connected with the warehouse business in Conway ft)Vh a long term of years. He is known , to practically every tobacco erownr' , of this section. For a number < f (, years he rati the Peoples Brick Ware-1J I house, and again ho was the manager j 'of the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse. I He has heen connected with the tobacco business in Conwav ever since r it began to grow rapidly about ton years ago, possibly longer back. This new warehouse which is now being completed hero will make.tbree independent or auction plan houses ( that will be running* in full Mast at Conway this year. o NKGRO F1NKD , I Sylvester Rogers, a negro, employed down town, went home one afternoon last week and got mad be- , cause he could not find some Sunday " nvfrtrfiij i A ?\nf Aii w.M w i \ ?n \,\w |/V?V VMI? | After abusing his wife for a time 1 ho became involved in a row with her J and committed an assault and battery by slapping her several times. j His conduct was reported to the of- i ficers of the law and lie was arrested 1 and brought before the town court, , tried and convicted, and fined in the sum of $r>0.00 or to serve a term of \ thirty days on the public works. i His fine \miis suspended on pay- J ment of $20.00 on condition that he behave himself. j t NO. 11 CLAIMS SECRET CURING METHOD Studied Out by a North Carlinian Says The Writer WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE Letter is Careful Not to Give The Secret Away Are some days better than others for the curing of the tobacco leaf? .Just this time hundreds and thousands of tobacco growers in the tobacco growing belt of South Carolina would he glad to know that fact if there is any such fact. For years past farmers have had ideas as to the best time to plant the garden, and even the heavy crops, such as corn and potatoes. There are farmers today who will not plant unless it is at the right time of the moon. With others there is something about the wind or the days of the week that must l>e right to suit their idea* or else they will leave the seeds out of the ground. The curing of tobacco is a different thing. That there is something in knowing the state of the leaf at the time it is picked off to he placed in the curing barn, goes without any argument. Farmers have been known to spoil a very good tobacco crop by picking the leaves too early. In some cases, the leaves must he picked too soon or too late, owing to the state of the weather, and the result is a low grade leaf, or one without any body, or black or spotted coloring, and it can bring nothing but a few cents per pound. The most successful irrowers have said that they exercised their best judgment as to when to pick the leaf off to put into the barn. None of these, so far as we can tell, have ever learned to go by anything except the looks of the leaf. Are the leaves ripe and ready to be cured? This seems i. ii ' ' * u> of me question winch the successful grower of tobacco will ask himself. Tn the growing and selling of tobacco some have been more successful than others. Fine grades have been produced on the poorest lands by persons who did not appear to have any extra ability. On the other hand the finest of lands have grown the biggest crops so far as weight of the leaves were concerned and the number of pounds per acre, and yet these heavy crops brought the least money on the warehouse floors. This article comes now to a letter which the Horry Herald received last week from North Carolina on the subject of curing tobacco. The letter follows: "Dear Mr. Editor: F?ftv venrs ago. niv father, Daniel V. Davis, began growing tobacco. A few years later he decided that there are better days than others for harvesting tobacco in order for it to cure up nicely and have a rich, waxy, and heavy body. To find the way to tell these days ahead was a hard job, but he was finally successful. For some reason, my father kept this information a secret from everybody. even his own family until a short while before his sudden death last November, a year ago. In August he called a visiting sister and myself to the table where he was doing some writing and explained it all to ,is. I desire to pass this information to is many tobacco growers as possible. In explanation, let me say that tobacco has an oily substance, which is its natural possession. It has a sap fwater) liko other vegetation. When he sap rises it runs the oil out through the pores of the leaves on the . 1 ^ A 1 i * * * ' principle itiMi on and wu'or will not nix and oil heine- lijrhter is pushed >ut by the sap. Tobacco harvested in his state will he liirht and "chaffy" vhen cured. There heintr only sap [waters in the tohacco this evaporites in curing1 and leaver the tohacco iirht and worthless. Rut. tohacco harvested when the sap is down and >il in the '^nvos readers ?* ea?ilv curwl nnrl makes it rich, oilv and "waxy." rhiv is hecanse the to'^^o i< full of til instead of sap (water) and oi 1 hencr unahle to evaporate remains to five the tohacco weight. T shall he pleased to answer any 'orre^pondencp from tohacco growers vho may desire to write me, provided x-wt'i.ro |s foj- reply." Tt is impossible to tell from the 'ending* of this letter whether the [CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) f?W.V.%\W?W.V.W.W.".W [ The way for newspapers to " Y\Ati A r? f 11 r? A " . 4-.V i 1% tt/va?i B \r%.- ncili/ tur |JCW}Jlta |.N IU UU'UW ?~ the li^ht of day upon the in- \ tentions, tho plans, and the " U schemes of those in high places ? who would carry out their de- \ * signs and force the effects upon an unsuspecting1 public without the latter ever being1 the wiser J as to the cause of their woe. In- ^ formation which is truthful is J. what is needed in all places to- ^ day. % %%W.V.VW.%S%%S%Wi,JViV^