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rV VOLUME xxxvn ENJOINS HILL ? FROM SELLING * W. I. Hill is Made Defendant in First Co-Op Suit Here SHERIFF SERVES PAPERS { E. M. Mcares Looking After Members Who Breach Contracts Suit for injunction was filed in this county last week against W. I. Hill, a tobacco grower of Floyds township, alleging that he threatened to violate his contract to sell his tobacco on the cooperative plan. The suit papers were filed and the copies served by the sheriff of Horry County last Thursday, July 26th. Hill was not a home, according to the return of the sheriff, atvd the copy of the complaint and injunction order were left with the wife of Hill. It is alleged that Hill refused to abide by the contract last year as to the entire crop raised by him; that he had joined at Nichols or Mullins, but was later transferred, as is provided for, to Tabor, N. C., as being more convenient for him to reach with his crop; that he threatened to breach the contract from the early part of the season of 1922. This time it is said that Mr. Hill openly declared that he would not (abide by the co-op contract that he signed to sell his crops on the cooperative plan for the period of five years; and E. M. Meares, who has this county in his territory for looking after violators of the contracts, said recently that he intended to report and hold up every grower who had signed the contracts and now threaten to break them. So far as could be learned this Hill ~ case is the only case of this kind to be % brought and filed in Horry county. There has been some talk of pther cases but so far as could be learned the suits had not been entered at the time the Hill case was filed. Ti. ? 1 1 A _f ll ? f - n way aiso mated inai in conversation about the matter some time ago ^ the defendant, W. I. Hill, said that he / was not hound to sell his tobacco under the cooperative plan, under his contract, unless this weed were to be raised on his, Hill's own land, and that this year he was planting tobacco on other land than his own and he did not propose to sell it within the association. Last year it appears that a number of growers who had signed the contracts covering five years of time, had breached their agreement by avoiding the cooperative warehouses and selling on the auction floors of various warehouses. Those who violated the contract last year seem to have gotten by with it. This vear it will be differAccording to all that could be AertVned regarding this matter, E. M. Meares of Floyds township and who is a prominent tobacco grower iftterested in the success of the cooperative association, has been especially appointed by the. association to look after violations, and threatened violations of the contracts in Horry County this year. He says he will bring proceedings against evfery planter who dares to question his contract that was solemnly made. juryXcquits second trial Noah S. Hardwick Stands! Third Trial for Not Dipping . Noah S. Hardwick was tried for what was alleged as the third offense on Wednesday of last week, under the laws relating to the dipping of cattle for the cattle tick. He was acquitted by the j'lry of six farmers empanelled to hear his case. The trial had been set for a date ><;liich has passed, and on that occaJsion the venue was changed to Magis-1 trate R. B. Nichols, of Dog Bluff township. Tt was alleged that on June lfith, 1023, Hardwick was notified to dip his cattle and that he had failed to comply with this notice and had not dipped his 'cattle as required. He had been up twice before on similar charges, and was once let off and once found guilty by the court. At the trial last weok, alleged as his third offense against these regulations, he testified among other things that lie did not dip for the reason the vat is in bad shape and that he cou'd not have succeeded in din nine (Continued on Last Page) ************************** 3* * Every establishment in life $ ^ and business refuses to remain * JJI | at a standstill. It will go either J % forward or backward. You may S 7 $ sure 's doing this all the J t time. The direction that it takes * X depends upon who you happen j jr to be at the helm of the ship to % X steer its course. j v V<? ?to ?I ' OWNERS NAME MUST APPEAR Warehouse Men Must Allow Inspection of Books by Interested Persons , There is an act of the legislature passed at the session of 1923, which is of great interest to the tobacco growers, warehousemen, and merchants .and business men of this section. In the past it has been no uncommon practice to see piles of tobacco on the warehouse floors for sale at auction in fictitious names, or under some letter or set of initials, which would .mislead any landlord or holder of a mortgage over tobacco if he were , looking up the evidence to prove unlawful sales. This act is intended to make every pile of tobacco sold to be plainly marked with the name of the owner of the tobacco. It has sometimes been the case that warehousemen would refuse to allow an inspection of the warehouse books by those who would want to know whether any sales hr.d .been made by mortgagees or tenants contrary to orders or agsir.st the rights of others. This act changes the law so that the warehouses will have to allow an inspection of their books for those purposes. A copy of the new act has been oh tamod for publication, and it here follows in full: AN ACT To Require Tobacco Warehousemen Buying, Selling or Offering- for Sale Leaf Tobacco, to Keep Certain Records and Sell Each Lot, Pile or Parcel of Tobacco in the Name of the True Owner, and to Provide a Punishment for Non-compliance with the Provisions of this Act. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: that on and after the approval of this Act it shall be unlawful for any tobacco warehouseman or person or persons sellihg or offering for sale, or purchaser of leaf tobacco, to buy, sell or offer for sale any leaf tobacco in any of the tobacco warehouses of this State under an assumed name, and each and every lot of tobacco sold, offered for sale or purchased in any .warehouse within this State shall be sold and offered for sale in the name of the true owner thereof, "except such lots of tobacco as are the property r./ fVia uraro^miQOmon coilinir nr of fering the same for sale and provided such lots of tobacco were purchased at auction sales on a warehouse floor by said warehouseman so selling or offering same for sale, provided, such warehouseman shall resell said tobacco in his own name or che name of the original seller, and all the tobacco sold in ar y of the tobacco warehouse of this Slate at auction, eac!? pPe shall be labeled with the full name of the owner or owners thereof, except such ' lots of tobacco as are the property of the warehouseman selling or offering the same for sale and provided such lots of tobacco were purchased at auction sales on a warehouse floor by said warehouseman so selling or offering same for sale, provided, wherever one person offers for sale more than one pile of tobacco that the full name must appear on the first pile and the correct initials on other piles with consecutive numbers on piles following, and each warehouseman or person or persons selling or offering for sale at public auction any leaf to- bacco within this State shall keep a 1 book in which shall be entered the date of every purchase, from whom purchased, and the quantity purchased, which book shall always be open to inspection by any person or persons 'or duly authorized agent who has an [interest or right of ownership in said .tobacco applying therefor, and the said book shall set forth the full name or names of the person or persons selling or offering for sale leaf tobacco, provided, however, if said warehouseman denies that any one seeking to inspect said books has no right to make such inspection, said person must first secure an order from 4he Judge of Probate of the County in which said warehouse is located, which order shall state that it satisfactorily appears to said Judge of Probate that the person or persons, corporation or his or its agents desiring to make said inspection has an interest in some tobacco sold or offered for sale. Section 2. Any person or persons, firm or corporation, failing to comply with the requirments of this Act shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars, or be imprisoned for not exceeding thirty days for each and every offense and each and every sale or offering for sale shall constitute a separate and distinct offense under the provisions of this Act, and in addition thereto shall be liable to any person, firm or corporation who shall suffer damage by reason of the failure to comply with the terms of this Act, not only for all actual damages .-uffeied, hut for the sum of One Hundred Dollars punitive damages for each and every violation thereof. Section 3. This Act shall take effect immediately upon approval of the Governor. Section 4. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby Iter CONWAY, S. P., THUBSDAYT *************************** * | WAITING FOR 1 J o* If anything is to be done * est kind of work must be ui * The easy road to influence a Waiting for the easy job * spent in the search, and eart * success. They who delay to * is hard and wish to wait ur | expecting the impossible. * The only road to usefulne * and close attention to busine X to change will wait in vain. ile *************************** ! FINDING A NEW STYLE OF PLEA False Story is Found Going Among the Conway Negroes UAIMNOT LOCATE SUUKUt Negroes Are Returning to Georgetown Much Disgusted With North A new phase in the matter of the movement of negroes from South Car- j olina to the North, as it concerns us ] here at Conway, has been brought to light within the past week. A business man was the first to no- ' tice this new style of propaganda, or what is believed to be the spreading of a new kind in this immediate section of the state. He was told by a colored 1 truck driver that the negroes under- < stood they had as well leave the : South, and while the going is good, j for the reason that the whites intend j to run them out of the South. On be- 1 ing questioned about this and where ; he had heard such statements made, i he would say that this was being told i among the negroes in Conway; that i the negroes seemed to believe this to be so and that in his opinion many of j them are intending to get things in readiness and leave for the North. ; No trace could be found of the j source of this sort of propaganda. It j was ascertained that such statements < are being made and were evidently ] started among the colored population < by some travelling representative of a ] bureau that is no doubt founded and maintained for no other purpose than to scatter slanders among the negroes ,j against the white people. 1 Some negroes have left this section ( for the North already. There has not ' appeared any organized effort, as yet, 1 to move them away in numbers. On ' the other hand, in sections as near to ^ us as Georgetown, and Georgetown county, they have been leaving for 1 some time and often by almost carloads. 1 Some days ago, Mr. Jayroe, who is 1 interested in the lumber and timber business in Georgetown, was in Conway on a business visit. He said that * a short time before his visit here he : had known almost a whole carload of negroes to come back to Georgetown from the North. These returned ne- 1 groes said thatthey did not appreciate or like the kind of work that had been given them there upon their arrival; 1 that they had to stay on the run all of 1 the time that they were on the job : and that they could not stand the hard work that was required of them? much harder than any work they had ever been required to do in the South. ; Efforts are beinc: made here to find out the source of the stories being told to the effect that the whites intend * to run the negroes away eventually and that they had as well pro now as to wait later when they will be run out. If it can be found that this is being done by any sort of a representative, either through the mails or by visiting the place in person, it will be placed in the hands of the proper authorities to take steps to stop it. It is against the law to solicit labor here to go to other states. There have been prosecutions for this offense in the courts before. There may be more of this kind of business for the criminal courts of Horry to handle. N. B. SMART APPOINTED N. B. Smart of Bucks township was appointed and commissioned last week as magistrate in his township in place of S. M. Paul, recently resigned from the position. Mr. Smart was the magistrate in that township for many years. He retired from it against the wishes of his .friends only to take up its duties once more when he received his commission last week. ft The watermelon market at Conway has been oversupplied for some time. Prices declined rapidly during last week. repealed. Approved March 1st, 1923. 0 jr jfei "XUGUST 2^923 ~ ************************** "HE IMPOSSIBLE ! * in this \vorld, then the hard- * ndertaken and accomplished. * ,nd riches is never found. * j|? only means that life will be * ;hly careers will end without * , take hold because the work * j itil things are easy are only * r * i ss and success is hard work * ss. Those who wait for this * 1 %: # 5 * < it-************************* | NEGRO PRINTS i A LIFE STORY. Wants to Warn Others of ' The, Consequences of Crime , EXPERIENCED JAIL BIRD ' Cannot Give Any Reason For Long List of Petty Crimes Wheeler Gowans, now getting to be an old negro, and evidently trying to reform in his old age, is telling and publishing his life story in order to warn others who may be younger and have a better chance in life, provided they will take advantage of it and live the good life. .Gowans has been connected w'th thfe past history of the criminal courts of Horry. He has been a constant visitor to the county jail and county Rfang. Out of one sentence only to be put in again, his experience shows that sins will always find a man out, and it is useless to be mean and to suppose that the law will not step in, sooner or later, and impose the punishment that is deserved. Gowans comes from a race of negros who were noted for their thrift and industry, also for their honesty and right living so far as that could go under the circumstances surrounding the family since slavery. WHiy he should have turned out with such a pronounced criminal tendency is no doubt owing to his evil associations, probably something wrong in his make-up. Who can tell ? With the view of warning other* *nd trying to induce other negros to live honest and straight forward lives Gowans has manaered to write ud a , kind of sketch of his life of crime and consequent chain gang and penitentiary service. It is here printed about the same as he has written it. The names of local firms and local people come in it as being- those who were wronged by his crimes an_d misdemeanors. Many of them will remember the incidents. The way he writes it follows: I, Wheeler Gowans, was born in Conway, County of Horry, in 1877. I soon came to the age of 12 years. My father went fishing, and I slipped off with a boy friend of my age, by the name of Dood Cox. We went out on Pee Dee about 9 miles and we had some matches along with us. We went up to a white lady's house and asked for something to eat and she gave us something to eat. We thanked her and left the house. In passing through the woods we struck matches and set the woods afire and burned up a lot of boxes. The land belonged to a white gentleman by the name of Mr. Cannon. We came back home that night. The next morning good and soon Mr. Cannon was in Conway. The truth is the light. He called to see my father, and my father had just gone off fishing, so he went to the Justice of Peace, and, my father being in good standing and well known and liked by the white people, the Justice sent the man back to nee my father to try to stop the thing. Thev fixed it by my father paying $4.50, wages in three days. Wages were from 50 to C>0 cents a day for men and 25 cents for women. When I was the age of 13, me and my same pal went in the town of Conway on the 3rd of July, and went up street to Mr. J. A. May's store and hid away until dark and then came down and took what we could carry and < started for Bucksville. We got to ( Bucksville about 1 o'clock, aiming to ] take the boat for Georgetown the : next morning. Dood and myself went up to the store and bought something to eat, and lay round for about 2 1 hours. The first thing we knew, Mr. John McCaskill came up and had a warrant for me. He took me and car- ; ried me to jail and there I stayed until the October court. T was tried and 1 I plead guilty, and was sent to State Prison in Columbia for 2 years and <> months. I went and served my time, and on my way home the train left me in Ohadbourn. I started walking down ' the railroad. I came to a Railroad Bicycle and I put it on the track and rode a short distance and seen some section hands working. I jumped off and lifted it off the track and took the + raid. BATHER SEIZED BY LARGE FISH May Have Been Man - Eating Shark but That is Not Certain William L. Hewett, of Marion, S. .vhile out in the breakers beyond the pier, in front of the Myrtle Beach Vacht Club, at Myrtle Beach, last Thursday, was seized in the arm by a big fish of some kind. He jerked his arm away, in fact his injury was done so quickly that it :ould hardly be said that he had any struggle with the fish. Hewett started nit with Mrs. Hewett to take a bath in ;he surf. They had gone out into the breakers where it was perhaps more than waist deep. Hewett dived into a breaker and it was then that he felt a >harp pain and sting in the arm. When he brought his arm and hand >ut of the water they were dripping >lood. The teeth of the fish, or what- ? sver it was, had pierced through his forearm and also injured his hand, and severed the large veins or perhaps the artery in his forearm. He jot out to the shore as quickly as possible and was attended by a physician. Without aid which was quickly give?) to. him the incident might have cost him his life. There was a doctor near>y and he was called to attend Hewitt. At last accounts he was rapidly recovering from the injury. The arm and wrist of Hewett had >een oenetrated bv the teeth of what is thought to be a man-eating shark, rle lost a great deal of blood before :he flow of this was stopped. He evilently suffered much pain but did not 'aint. This is the first time in the history >f the Myrtle Beach resort that a ;hing of this kind has been recorded, ff there has ever been any sign of sharks at the beach it cannot be renembered by the oldest residents. At east this is the first instance of any ittack being made on a bather at any >f the beaches in Horry County so 'ar as the memory of the people can ;race it ba^k. The injured man is an employee of :he Marion National Bank. An account of the incident as sent >ut from Marion reads: Marion, July 28.?William Lee Hewett, popular young man of this ;ity and an employee of the Marion National Bank, was painfully bitten dv what is supposed to have been a nan-eating shark while in bathing at Myrtle Beach on Thursday ,according Lo news received here. Mrs. Hewett, lis wife, and himself started out wadng in the surf in front of the Yacht ;lub until they had gone about waist rteep. A breaker approached and Mr. Hlewett dived beneath it, as bathers jften do. He immediately felt a sharp sting or grip upon his right arm and land. As he arose from the water, )lood was seen emitting from his arm. A. physician who happened to be near ;ame to his assistance and administered first aid. It was found that the wrist of Mr. Hewett's arm and also his right hi?nd were penetrated or punctured by what appeared to be the teeth of a shark. Fie lost a considerable bit of blood, but did not swoon, it is said, a'though tie was in a greatly weakened condi- ' tion. Mr. Hewett's friends here and ' klftatlfuama f a 1aOI?I1 U m f U a 1 c * SIMJVVIICIt; CIIC ^mui ill ICCII II HKiiy 11^ 10 now getting along very nicely. The physician was the third man to reach Mr. Hewett, J. M. Monroe of Marion being: the first to get to him uul W. D. Bethea of Latta second, aclording to reports from onlookers. It s believed that had it not been for the prompt assistance rendered, Mr. Hewitt may have fared seriously on acsount of the loss of blood. voods and come to Conway. This was >n Saturday, and the next Tuesday I vent down town and Mr. J. H. Mc2askill arrested me for stealing a Railroad Bicycle. He put me in jail. I vas given 30 days on the chain prang*. [ stayed that time out and cam# back lome and went to work with Mr. A !^. Cox, well digger, and worked w'th lim a while and forged an order on lim to the Burroughs & Collins Company. I was put in jail and sent to the ?hain gang for 2 years. I made that time and came bark home and sta>ed lomc a good while. At last I went by a plant where there was a watchman and I cr.ught lim napping. I took his pistol, a 4410. I was sent up to court and got 2 years for the pistol. I made that and lome back home. After awhile, one of my neighbor's house was broken into md some money taken and a gun. I was taken up to court and give 0 months for it. 1 made that and come back home. I was working with Mr. Leon Bur 1- ? r\ %> Ati/1 a\i An kiin"* K)U^I1> ^(inu <111 UIUCI VII Him; rind was taken up to court and given f> years. I made that and came hack home. After a short while I was charged with breaking into a small shop over to the old Gully. I was took to court, but come clear. I was sent to court for selling whiskey to the prisoners on the gang, and I come clear of that. The next time I took a wheel from a well known gentlemen of Conwav. and was taken to court and given 9 months. -1 NO. 15*" BOOSTER TRIP GETS RESULTS Great Get Together Event on Conway Tobacco Market BIGGEST CROP OF ALL Making Plans For Another Trip Two Weeks From First The booster trip made by the Chamber of Commerce of Conway, and by the Retail Merchants Association, of Conway, last week created a profound impression at the places visited, in favor of standing by the home market in selling the large tobacco crop that growers of Horry County have produced this year. . Nearly three dozen cars loaded with business and professional men started ' the trip from Conway at 7:30 o'clock last Friday morning. The trip had been decided upon too late to get any previous notice in the newspapers about it, but the word got out that the J.rip would be made, and there were hearers at each of the places visited. Going: from Conway the first stop was at Green Sea in the very center of the oldest tobacco growing belt in the county. Then the following named places were taken in regular order: I,oris, Daisy, Allsbrook, Gurley, Bayboro, Adrian. Homewood, Horry, Jordanville, Galivants Ferry and Aynor. At each place short talks were made and the Conway and other Horry markets for tobacco were boosted in such a way as to bring the claims of the home markets to the attention of Horry County farmers. Talks were made by Marion A. Wright, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, L. H. Burroughs, Third Avenue merchant, and others expressed their appreciation of the great possibilities in store for this county and its county seat fry all hands pulling together for the interest of the home business and home markets. Each of the cars carried banners and streamers whereon was printed in suitable language to suit the ideas of the owners, the catch words which would appeal to those who would see the cars passing by. The roads taken led through the best tobacco lands in this section of the State. Just at this time these lands have on them the Wst tobacco crop produced in twenty years. This is the verdict of all the travelling men who have visited the county lately and have noticed the big crop being produced. These men have been visiting the merchants of this section for the nast twpnt.v vAiirs. and they all agreed that it is the bijg-gest and best crop in all that time. The booster trip of last week will be repeated in two weeks time. Two .weeks from last Thursday, it is promised that the business interests of Conway and the warehouse men will again visit the places listed in the schedule above printed and will again talk to the farmers and country merchants about the advantages of the Conway tobacco market. The trip was one of the most enjoyable events of the entire year. It was a big-get-together effort and the results flowing from it are already visible before one week has passed by. Nearly all of the merchants who engaged in the booster trip had circulars printed for distribution along the route. FILES A SUIT AGAINST MILL Timber Tract is Attached by W. J. Dance For Labor Several suits have been recently filed in the court here against John R. Stevenson, a timber and saw mill man who was operating in this county with small ground mills for several years u.itil a y.M * ov two ago he moved elsewhere. The latest suit to appear on the records at the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas is that of W. J. Dance. Dance has filed his complaint in which it is alleged that he was employed as laborer and manager of the timber and saw mill business of the defendant in this county from about January 1021 until just after the middle of that year at the agreed wages e a .l ? ii .J 1.1 i. 1? oi uvl' miliars per nay; mat ne spent, o?t of his own funds in making repairs, or buying repair parts rather, the sum of $48.00 for which he asks judgment along with the cost of his (Continued on Last Page) ************************** *t? JJJ S When money is turned out of * * the big tobacco crop that is now j * being harvested and marketed, * $ may those who earn it refrain Hj * from spending it for things they * S do not need, and instead put the * ? money into more improvements 2 ^ on the farm, including packing $ * houses. ^ *************************