The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 05, 1923, Image 1
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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
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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. ?
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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
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!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
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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,
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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.
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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 __
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ISTENCE IS IDEAL j:
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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 ?
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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)
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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.
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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 "
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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
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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
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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
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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
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