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\ \ I VOLUME XXX. BONSAI RAILROADS * CHANGE THEIR NAME \ Seaboard Air Line Decided to To Take Over All New Lines -4. \ NEW LINE FROM MULLINS IN IT - Seaboard Gets New And ShortBp5 er Route From New York V to Florida. 4 Advices from Collin?1 ' \ state that the Secretary of Stato has allowed the Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway to amend its charter changing the name to the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Locally it was learned that this was a preliminary to the actual transfer of the property of the Bonsai system of railroads in this State and North Carolina, the Seaboard having decided to take over the property at a meeting of the directors in Baltimore several months ago. W. R. ^ Bonsai, president of t.he Carolina, Atlantic and Western, said that he could not say when the meeting of the directors of the two roads at which the formal transfer will be made would be held. Mr. Bonsai is now engaged in pushing the construction of the Charleston Southern Railway from Florence to Savannah, which when it has "oeen It contemplated some time next fall, will also be absorbed by the Seaboard, system and this link will give the Seaboard a new and shorter route from New York to Florida. Among the Bonsai roads comprehended within this change Is the new line of railroad leading through Mullins, thence through Britton's Neck ? across the Poo Dee River to Allison's Ferry and onward. It was once said that this particular line would build a branch across the Little Pee Dee into Horry County with terminus at Conway, but so far no move has been made in this direction. < F. C. CONFERENCE OF ffl. E. CHORM CHARLESTON (Charleston Evening Post). The South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, will be opened in the Trinity Methodist Cchurch of this city on Wednes4 day, December 1, and will probably * Continue until the following Monday. The South Carolina conference includes all that part of South Carolina, south of a line running approximately j from the northern limit of Chesterfield C to the southern limit of Aiken. The I line of partitition between the upper iSoiit.h Carolina ronfcrnnnn and t.ho _r - ^ South Carolina conference approximates the line of the sandhills and passes slightly below Columbia. Large Gathering. At least 225 delegates and ministers, representing the different congregations in the conference will be present. The meetings will be presid^ od over by Bishop Collins Denny, of * Richmond. The first meeting of the conference will hear an address to the Historical Society of the conference by the Rev. A. D. Betts, of Clio, on Tuesday night, November 50. Dr. Daniel to Leave. Dr. J. W. Daniel, who is the presiding elder of the Charleston district, will have served his four years, and will be sent to another district at this y conference. lie is the only one of the Charleston Methodist ministers, who is affected by the four year rule, for none of the others have occupied his pastorate for that length of time. Divided Last Year. The division in the State conference came about at Sumter a year ago. *rhe proposition had been brought up at the Rock Hill conference fn 1913, but was not officially decided upon un- i til last year. Lively discussions at- < tended the division of the conference 1 into an upper and lower section. The : two dititiana nbe' separate con- 1 ferencaahq booy j.- S& ti f Wfct \ * i "HC DIPPING VAT FOR TICK ERADICATION f Are Being Established at Var ious Places This Week by Department. Dipping vats in the campaign for the eradication of ticks are being put in now at the following places: Hardee's Ferry, on the farm of W. A. Freeman; Keysfield, on the farm of Hal L. Buck; Bucksport, on the farm of D. V. Richardson; Near Conway on the farm of J. A. McDermott; Haskell Postoffice, on the farm of S. H. Brown. Aii of the above will be finished up and ready for operation in a few days. Still others are in contemp'ation and will be put in very soon. CAUSE AND CURE OF PELLAGRA FOUND Washington.?Discovery of the cause and cure for pellagra is announed formally by the public health service. The announcement follows the recent publication of a report by Sugeon Ger.eral Joseph Goldbergcr on year of experiments in coenomtion with Southern States health officers demonstrating the correctness of the theory that a one-sided diet lacking in proteids would cause the disease and that a well balanced diet would cure it. "The spread of the disease malady, which has been increasing in the United States at a terrible rate during the past few years, may now be checked, apd eventually eradicated," says the service statement. "It is estimated that 75,000 cases of the disease will have occurred in the United States in 1915 and of this number at least 7,500, will have died before the end of the year. In many sections only tubereulocis and pneumonia exceed it as a cause of death." The final dietary tests were made by Surgeon Goldbergcr and Assistant Sugeon G. A. Wheeler at the farm of me Mississippi penitentiary where half a dozen of eleven convicts were given pellagra by feeding them for five months on bountiful meals consist / ing chiefly of cereals and sweets and lacking in meats, milk, eggs, beans and peas. The victims recently par-' doned by the Governor and are being restored to health through a corrected diet. "Although the occurrence of nervous symptoms and gastro-intestinal disturbances was noted early," say the service statement. "It was not until September 12 or about five months after the beginning of the restricted diet, that the skin symptoms so characteristic of pellagra began to develop. The convicts upon whom the experiment was made were kept under continuous medical surveilance. No cases of pellagra developed in camp excepting those men who were on the restricted diet. The experimenters hav therefore drawn the conclusion that pellagra has been caused in at least six of eleven volunteers as a re-1 suit of the one-sided diet on^ which they subsisted. "On the basis of this discovery the States of Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida have laid their propaganda through their respective board of health for the eradication of the disease.' In earlier experiments about 200 patients has been cured by balanced rations and at the end of a year there had been a slight recurrence of the disease in nnlv nnn inefnnon o . MAN WANTED HERE IS HELD IN NORT^H CAROLINA J. R. Williamson, according to a i wire received here by Sheriff Lewis last Saturday, was under arrest at and ] being held in the Columbus County i jail awaiting the authorities, here. A warrant had been sworn out some i time before this charging Mr. Wil- I liamson with having uttered a worth- i less check drawn on a bank where he ] had no funds to meet the same. The 1 sheriff made arrangements to send a ,i deputy after Williamson the first of 1 the week. Williamson formerly lived i near Loris, S. C., and owned a tract of land near there which was sold out j under a mortgage several months ago: < i mm >RRY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, I wmmmmmmmmmmmmm?mmm?mmmm?mmmmmmmummmmmmammmmm CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY, 1 "SHOW JOFFRE ?Lir MAMMIMH MAV kQV ITIHIllllllU IVIH I HOIV ADRITDATinM I AW nuui un i iuii Lnu | . . . [Governor Studies Piedmont Textile Strikes Which Has Given Trouble J (The State.) Gov. Manning may ask the next general assembly to pass "a compulsory arbitration law in the form of a .board of conciliation." He is not definitely committed to the plan, but is giving it careful consideration. That such boards is favored by the governer was made known in a statement issued last night, dealing with the textile strikes in the Piedmont section of the State. The governor in his statement declared the people "have thee right to organize if they wish to do so." t The statement in full follows: "From the beginning of the strike at Brogon mills I have been making an effort to get the two sides to an amicable settlement. I have been especially active along these lines durfnor laef wnnl' Vm.*- " ? xi_. " 0 v..v 1V.UV v^viV) uut djjpa runliy inc situation is no nearer a settlement than before. Nevertheless I am not discouraged, but am still trying to lind a common ground on which they can meet. "At the Judson mills in Greenville prospects for a settlement are more favorable. "In both mills the managing officers have conceded the right of the em ployes to organize. "Thus one of the fundamental sour- , ces of disagreement has been removed. , "There is one thing which both sides should understand clearly. No violence will be tolerated. [ "The sheriffs of Anderson and j ' Greenville counties will be held stern-j ly to their duty to maintain order. I do not anticipate that they will force me to take the preservation of older out of their hands, but if I am con- j vinced that either of the sheriffs is not!, fulfilling his duty, I am prepared to < act. "There is right and wrong on both j sides, and the bitterness is increasing.. ( As good citizens of South Carolina, 1 ( feel that both sides should agree uponJ j some plan that will termniatc the trouble. 1 "Arbitration in such disagreements j. has been universally recoznized as a y safe basis. The public is everywhere much inclined to believe that the peo- y pie who avoid arbitration put themselves in the wrong. "The communities in which these ? f mills are situated and the State of South Carolina are deeply interested r in a just settlement being reached, a Private differences of this sort will not F long be tolerated by the people of the State. Some means must be devised p bring all parties to an amicable t frame of mind.' g "At present I am gravely, consider? p ing recommending to the.legislature a t ;o*nrpulsory- arbitration law in the II v^jpr mf TRST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER." NOVEMBER 18, 1915. : TO ME!" idsay in Albany Knickerbocker Press. ANOTHER LINER Ijfc REPORTED SUNK _______ Unconfirmed Rumor Says Adriatic Has Been Sent to the Bottom. New York, Nov.15,?There was a report this morning in maritime circles that the steamship Ariatic had been sunk, but the report did not state whether the steamship * was the big passenger ship of the White Star line or was the British steamship Adriatic, which left Kymassi, Greece, on Oct. ia, ior Philadelphia and passed Tarifa, Spain, Oct. 19. The latter vessel should be about in mid4Atlantic today. The White Star liner Adriatic arrived in Liverpool on Nov. 11 and was not scheduled to sail for New York until Nov. 24. Officials of the White Star line said they had no information regarding the Adriatic other than that she had arrived safely last Thursday in Liverpool. They did not credit the report. David Lindsey, assistant to the passenger manager of the White Star line, said that he was positive that the Adriatic was still at Liverpool. "The Adriatic was heavily laden when she left New York," said Mr. Lindsey, "and it would take at least three days to unload her and as many more to load the steamship for her return voyage to this port. She was not scheduled to sail for New York until Nov. 24." rrn a * - ine Adriatic was built in 1906 and L-ost nearly $4,000,000. She has a gross tonnage of 24,541. o_ MANNING COMMENT ON DEFENSE PLAN < I < In response to the following nios-!1 ;age to Governor Manning from thcj' Vew York American: 'Do the people of your state approve , )resident Wilson's plans for strength- 1 ming army and navy. Please reply 1 >ur expense," the governor replied asj( "ollows: "Your wire. People of South Caro-' ina have implicit confidence in the! lonesty, judgment, patriotism and, * >roaa-min<ied statesmanship of PresI-1 lent Wilson, and so far as I am able;' o learn, heartily endorse his stand for t uitional defense." ^ t c orm of a board of concilliation. I am ^ lot committed to this proposition, but g m studying its workings in other daces. "All citizens will recognize that our t eople have the right to organize if s hey wish to do so. It will also be i ;enerally recognized that the lives and b property of our people must be pro- a ected. p "I will stan4 to both propositions." e vM. TO ORGANIZE LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION ; ? V Meeting of Farmers Called For Friday November 19th, 1915. There will be a meeting at the Courthouse in Conway, Friday Nov. 19th at 10:110 A. M. for the purpose of organizing a permanent Live Stock Association for Horry County. If you are interested in Live Stock of any nature you are urged to be; pres ent at this meeting*. Dr. Lewis and several other Livt Stock men will be present and give talks on different Live Stock and thei. problems. We realize that the cattle tick eradication work will soon begin in this county and every citizen should offer ready hands and make this task as fiilSU 11 c nnccililn X?.. ?l.. 1 ' |/vuoiui^i LI^V diuruii^ l'ljj^nv we will soon have the ticks eradicated, and pure bred Live Stock established all over the county. He present at this most important meeting and let's start he year of 191G in the right direction. MARION W. WALL, Farm Dem. Agent, Horry County. Conway, S. C., Nov. 18th, 1915. GERMANY WILL NOW GONTROLL SUPPLIES ir.T-n ? Berlin.?Virtually the entire food supply of the nation is expected soon to pass under government control to insure an equitable distribution of sup plies at fair prices among the entire added today to the list of products whose sale will be regulated by the State. The Federal council authorized the chancellor to issue regulations cov ering trade in them. The chancellor also was authorized to establish maximum prices for buckwheat, millet, marmalades and honey, vegetables, fruits, and sauerkraut. These prices apply to producers. Local authorities in municipalities of more than ten thousand population are required to fix maximum prices for retailers. The authorities in similar places may take similar action if they see fit. Bread, potatoes, pork, milk and butter already have been sujected to a maximum price schedule. The consumption of other meats is regulated and limited by so-called "meat-less days." Sweden Embargoes Butter. London.?Beginning November 15, butter was added to the list of articles whose exportation is forbidden by the Swedish government, acocrding to a Reuter dispatch from Stockholm. This will make the embargo on the export of food products virtually complete. GERMANS HAVE HUGE FORGES ON London.?The Times correspondent with the Russian headquarters in a lispatch points out that despite the departure of about a score of German livisions from the Russian front, the (Hermans still disposes of huge forces iggregating 800,000 bayonets and 80,)00 sabres. "With the aid of numerous guns, numerable maxims and miles upon niles of barbed wire," the correspondent adds, "the enemy can hold out in ho various sectors from which men \ave been transferred long enough to >ring them back to face an emerrenev." The correspondent expresses the >elicf that the Germans have failed in' heir determined efforts to gain the i ^vina river line but that they hope o start next spring on a final con- i |uest of Russia "showing thereby that , hey have lost faith in the mirage of a eparate peace." 4 i o J. M. Smart, formerly of this Couny, but now of Bolton, N. C., spent ome time recently at his former home n Bucks btmwtmp. Mr. Smart had een away for about four or five years 1 tnd was surprised at the great im?rovements made in this section in ven that short period of time. NO. 31. CIRCUS DAY BROUGHT^ CROWDS TO CONWAY . ?Attendance at Shows Not in Proportion to the Crowds Outside SPARKS SHOWS ARE LARGER THAN EVER Many Visited the Side Shows And Wild Animal Exhibit. Sparks shows visited Conway for two performances last Thursday. The occasion brought large crowds to the city, who kept arriving from an early hour until late in the day. The streets were lined with people. When tho performance in the large tents opened up it was seen that the number insult* of the show was out of proportion with the great number of people visiting Conway. By far the greater part of the great crowd of people seemed to be satisfied with the parade, and spent no money at the big show. Numbers took in the side shows going with the outfit ond quit and that. k Thr* eircus is now much larger and better equipped than it was about - 4 twenty years ago when it first began its annual visits to Conway. Its out-* side attraction at that time was a baN loon ascension. Now it is a man who rides a single wheel blindfolded down an inclined plane in front of the raai\ tent. Sparks had only a few thousand invested in the beginning, and now his outfit is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. It has grown very year until it stands at the head of all the smaller circus aggregations travelling the country. The show was clean throughout and was pronounced better than ever before. The most interesting sights were the feats performed by the trained animals. The elephants in the bas? ball game went through with the play juot ua uuveruseu. rne family of trained seals went through with things on the platform which would seem impossible to teach to beasts. The performance of the seals was very wonderful. The acrobats, wire walkers, tumblers and above all the clowns, all had something new for the amusement of the audience. Formerly this circus had but one ring. This time there were three rings and something was going on in each of them during the entire performance. Among the most interesting things were the train ed horses and ponies, and the skilled riders. Among the ponies is the small one that performed on the revolving table when the show was here the last time before this. This time the pony showed still better training and made the table turn much more rapidly han he did before. This was considered one of the best acts in the show. The crowd at the night performance was about as large as that at the af ? ~i ri1' ivi nui/ii ssiiow. i nere were no cards sharps or pickpockets along with the crowd, and good order was maintained throughout the day. o DENIED BY GERMANY IN NOTE TO GERARD Germany, in a note which reached the State department Monday, denies flatly testimony alleged to have been given in English courts that German officers "prepared false American pass ports and handed them to agents" and opesses doubt that such testimony ever actually was given. The note is in reply to a letter presented by Ambassador Gerard on Till V 1 .1 J?*n? ?~v ""i mii vvviii^ tuc ukicuuuii ifi me imperial government to statements said to have been made by Robert Rosenthal and George T. Brecknow, when they were on trial in England' as spies. It is suggested by Germany that a false passport found* On Brecknow probably was issued by one 6f "certain individuals in occupied territory and also in neutral countries," who have endeavored to make a* trade of selling such papers at a .good prtta