The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 02, 1923, Image 1
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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
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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
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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.
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The watermelon market at Conway
has been oversupplied for some time.
Prices declined rapidly during last
week.
repealed.
Approved March 1st, 1923.
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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
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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 '
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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.
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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
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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 $48.00 for which he asks
judgment along with the cost of his
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S When money is turned out of *
* the big tobacco crop that is now j
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$ may those who earn it refrain Hj
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