University of South Carolina Libraries
VOLUME XXXVII C IVIC LEAGUE SETS EXAMPLE t Week of June 12 to 17 as Clean - Up Week EDITORS 0?~THE STATE , Clean-up Week Comes in Advance of Their Trip Thru Conway On June 21 tfhe ladies of the Civic League are in sympathy with the Chamber of Commerce and they show it by "appointing the week of June 12 to 17 as clean-up week. This is in advance of the time when the press association will pass through Conway on the way to Myrtle Beach to hold their annual mooting Jit thnf place. While the Chamber of Commerce is busy through its committees trying to make their trip through the town pleasant and entertaining, the Civic League has decided to hoi 1 its cleanup week in advance of the time and thus do their full part i.i what should be done to take advantage of this opportunity for publicity. The editors who pass through the town are going to see it and take note of it. They will have to write about something when they return to their desks after taking several days ofV at the beach. We want them to write of Conway and their trip through our county. Wo want them to toll of what they saw and we want what they say to be to our advantage. At least let's try to make it so that no editor can say anything except something good about us, and then if they do not write at all and leave as they find it, we will not be to blame. Hut the chances are in favor of a great deal of advertising of Conway cum ihiiiy county 9 iiini ii uu uui part as we should, then the advertising1 is bound to he of tho kind that will raise us in the estimation of other sections of South Carolina. Now that the league has set the time it is the duty of every man and woman in the town to help along the movement. The Herald will give what space it can to the subject and any business man is at liberty to use either the advertising of news columns of the paper. The women have set a good example through their organization, of which we are all proud. Others shou'd follow this example and begin to do at once the things they must do f if the work of cleaning up this time is effective. BEACH HOTEL OPENS TODAY The hotel at Myrtle Beach will open tod: y for tho season of 11*22. T1 e force that will run it this year wont over sometime ago and placed the building in readiness for the opening. For several weeks past the beach has had plenty of visitors every Sunday. Some of the cottages on the strand were occupied. The summer colony is now fact increasing in numbers. The convention of the bankers of District No. f> of the Bankers' Association met at Myrtle Beach Hotel today and will adjourn tomorrow. Tho tr/iininir school will bo novt. ?nd on June 21 the State Press Association will hold its annual meeting at the hotel. o 1 It is the purpose of this paper to help. It is here in the community and it wants to be used. Whatever you have for the benefit of'the com- ' munity can be spread and developed 1 by the aid of this paper. It is willing to do and to dare and it will help ! you in various ways if you will only use it. 1 * G IMS AT EXPECTATIONS * * )j< 5(C ! tfc The boll weevils have come. He , ^ They saw and conquered. Don't * i ^ be afraid. Hard times exist * i * mostly in the imagination. There * 1 >j: is no such thing as failure in H< this section of South Carolina. % *}* rm.dil ions brmui'bl iilwnit *i* JjJ ~ v..v. JjJ coming of tlie weevils will be * ( * i * ( >k better for us in the Ion# run * * than conditions were before % \ ^ ^ they came. Hotter things are * < * already coming about. We have * 1 * a better understanding of things * i jlj Jij; I * as they are and must be with , us if we are to attain the best Ij- I ^ there is in us and for us here in ^ ( ^ this county. Our lands will pro- * ^ * duce other things besides cot- * } * ton. We can raise corn and ^ j oilier feed and turn this into jj: I * binder money than we could $ : fKn 1 m K/M. ^.,4 1 I'M IIIC (i 111 v uui Ul ?j# * cotton. There is not the least * 1 ^ hit of excuse for the blues. On ^ jp the other hand we should be $ * proud of the chances that we * 1 sj< have in this section for making ^ ' * a good living. The bright side * ( X is all that we should see. , ************************** > t (The LAW PROHIBITS DOPY DRIVING Citizen Expresses Himself in View of Act of The Legislature Driving an automobile while under 1 the influence of liquor on the public highway a misdemeanor. A NT-. oar iv 1 ? ? mi ?.>, r iDriiary 13, iyiv. Section 1. I3e it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of South Carolina, that from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, while under the influence of intoxicating liquors or narcotics, to drive or operate upon the public highways of this state any automobile, motorcycle or other motor vehicles. w Section 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 1 meaner, and upon conviction thoieof by a court of competent jurisdiction 1 shall be fined in a sum not less than ( ?20 nor more than $100, or imprisoned for a period of not more than thirty 1 days in the county jail or upon the county chaingang of the county in : which the violation occurred. ; Judging from the number of drunken persons who are observed driving 1 automobiles on the public highways f><" Mmi'I'v pnnnf v il vv/mlil cnnni flint but few know that tlie above law exists on the statute books of South ' Carolina. It is a common thing to meet a drunk man speeding, and you are forced to give him the road or your life would be in danger. Some times-they can be seen "dead drunk" ( in th^ir car on the side of tlie road. : The officers of (he law know these ' facts and have seen such conditions, and have gone and "looked upon him 1 and passed by" without making an 1 arrest. If any arrests have Ibeen made in ?' Horry county along this line during the past five years, since the law was passed, we have never heard of it. What is the matter? Where is the , reinedv? Should not something be done? A CITIZKN The above article written by a citizen calling attention to the Act of the Genera! Assembly, passed in Feb- I ruary, 1017, making it unlawful for any person to drive or operate a motor vehicle on the public highways, while under the influence of intoxicating litiuors or narcotics is timely, < in view of the number of accidents occurring recent!v in this county. ft was only last week that a wagon ' was demolished, one of the occupants of the car severely injured, scarcely escaping sudden dqath, on one of the new roads near Conway. This accident of last week is only an example of those occurring quite frequently. { The Herald does not mean to say that < ir 1 cases of all accidents the blame is to he placed upon the use of intoxicants or narcotics, but it does appeal* ' that these things may he at the hot- t torn of a number of such affairs. MARION STARTS i AN A DVT. CLUB Leading Business Join in Move- : ment to Bring Farmers and Merchants Together . I The town of Marion has organized an advertisers club along* the lines * advocated by (). R. Lowe, who is at s the present time working1 with the 1 seaboard in its development depart- 1 ment. Recently the business nien of Mar- ( ion held a meeting at which refresh- 0 ments were served and Mr. Lowe addressed the meeting and explained the ;1 plan. ' It is a plan for boosting business M1 ;ind the community. Mi*. Lowe names the plan after his home town, where ^ this plan was used with great success it the first time it was tried out. h The business men joined the club 0 it the Marion meeting. J. O. Gasque, prominent dry goods f merchant, was elected president of \ the club and VV. F. R. Johnson, furni- f ture dealer, was chosen as vice pres- v dent. J. W. Hlackwoll, secretary of :he Chamber of Commerce, was mane ^ secretary-treasurer. The initial sale lay was set for the Sirst Sahnvlay in I uly. The plan calls for a bargain saleslay each month in the year, on which iach merchant will olfor two bargains v for sale, no two merchants oiroring ( he same things, also an auction sale )(' live stock and discarded farm nn- ( plements belonging to the fanners, ^ md an increase of personal contact a >et\veen the merchants and the farmers, bringing about better trade re- a ations and a better understanding of |, ?ach other in many respects. tj . In Marion the first sales lav will i\ >e at a good time. Twenty-fna* of ho leading business men of Marion s joined at the first meeting. The en- y are town will be interested in the success of the plan. They will give N t a fair trial and expect great results 1. Yom it. \[ o I Farmers tfave a grove of 200 trees IV ind the village save a lot to the Elisabethtown, Ind., post of the Ameri- a van Legion when it wanted a com- tl nunity home. The ex-soldiers will y, irect a lop: clubhouse, doing" all the a vork themselves. & f Wmxx CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY, WANT RELATIVES! OF MARY MOORE It apnears that a Miss Mary Moore, for many years an inmate of the state t hospital for the insane, is getting t very old and weak, and the doctors do not know the address of any rel- c atives of the patient. * This is shown by a letter received ti by Judge Vaught last week from the j superintendent. The letter follows: "May 31, 1922. * "In Re: Miss Mary Moore: "Judge J. S. Vaught, "Conway, S. C. * "Dear Judge: 11 "I wish to write you concerning a J patient we have in this institution k by the name of Miss Mary Moore. In going over our records I find that she j! was admitted by the probate court of your county on August 14, 1?S<)0. The person who made application for her c. commitment is given as Mrs. John T. I Anderson, a friend, of Hucksville, S. C. We have not had any correspon- " :lonce concerning this patient and % have no address of any of her rela- ^ lives. "I wish to further state, recently i I 0 sho has not been irettimr alonir so woll ?- ' " """ Q and appears to he rather weak. She is losing in weight and I fear unless . there is an improvement for the better ^ she will not be able to last much ^ longer. If you know of any one that we can correspond with concerning ^ lier condition, or any one who might ^ wish remains, should she die, I ap- ^ preciate ven' much if you will give .j me their address. However, if you n ire unable to locate-my of her friends >r relatives I suppose when she passes ? iway it will he necessary to have her ^ buried in t.he hospital cemetery. j "1 am writing you this in order j that, should anything occur, we would <now what steps to take. t "Hoping to hear from you soon, I v 1m v "Yours verv truly, ii "C. F. wiLLIAMS, Supt." c CA!ZS0NrBUDD, f OFFICERS HEAR 3ne Todd Caught While An- t other Runs and Gets Away SIX MILES~0UT OF TOWN I Jharley Todd Claims he Has C Nothing to Do With Moonshine Factory The life of the whiskey maker is "nil of fear and trouble. The making ' ?f the fluid may go on for days, even tl reeks or months, but there is ever (> 'ear of detection and the coming of o he oflicers. j, Recently the officers located a still, 1) nade of a- gasoline drum and galvanized piping, on lands of Burroughs u fc Collins Company, out *'n the b;iys < < ibout six miles from Conway, i r; The oflicers waited until 'hey heard t! 'oices at the still showing that the I) >perators of it were at work there. [Mif oflicers were in hiding:. f; Then the officers, V. O. .Johnson, a: >herifV Lewis and S. B. Graham, dep- o 11y, advanced through the bushes on <>i he still. They made some racket as p hey approached. The man at the till, said to he Olen Todd, heard the f< icise and kept repeating "Buddie is sj hat you?" He was referring to his 0; >rother, Charley Todd, who had evi- \V lently been delayed in coming 10 help t! ^ a 4 U ^ 4 1 1 'jn i <itu me rMin. jr Directly the officers were upon him j. tnd lie ran. He lost the jug that lie ]. lad in his hands when caught, hut 1V ic pot a\\\ay and was not placed un- w ler arrest. The officers caught Charley Todd, who insisted that he p. lid not own the still, and said that lie tad nothing to do with the making ()1 f whiskey with it. This still was destroyed and about orty gallons of sour stulf with it. "here was no liquor at the still when (] ound, at le^st the officers came hack (j without any. w ? in ()ITN(i ORATORS HAVE CONTEST fr The oratorical contest put on by \v # |)} he school improvement "association j as held last Thursday night in }}< lonway. c? The contestants were: Hoys, b; Ilarence Paul and Fred Bryant; t< iris, Leila Burroughs, Annette Epps iz nd Ruby Uuss. Fred Bryant won the gold medal s the best orator from among the oys, while Miss Ruby Russ too* he medal as the best orator anion/ he girls. The contest was open to all of the ('hool CnilfiVAn r\f flir> nnmmnnSHr wlin >ished to contend for these medals. The judges for the boys were: lev. W. M. Gordon, Rev. ?I. M. iemon, and Hon. (J. I?. Ford. The a.jdj/es for the K'rls were: Mrs. H. h( ,. 13uck, Mrs. W. A. Freeman and \V Irs. F. C. Todd. so After the speeches were delivered re nd while the judges were making up lieir awards an instrumental solo wi as rendered by iMiss Sara Gordon ;>c nd a duet by Misses Sara Gordon It nd Irma Lewis. co ?n (TONE 8, 1922 , ROAD MEETING | COMING TODAY The Calhoun Highway Association, entatively organized some months igo, to promote a continous system >f good highways from Chicago, Ills, o Myrtle Beach, is scheduled to meet it Myrtle Beach today for the pur>ose of effecting a permanent organization and perfecting; plans. It has been said that the name of he permanent organization may be he Stonewall Highway Association, md that the road along the route planned would go by the name of the Stonewall Road. This meeting is held at the beach it the invifntirtn <^r fU-w .V^wii vi lilt; VV)II? Chamber of commerce. Meeting with the Calhoun Assoiation is the South Atlantic Coasta' Association, the purposes of which lave been published far and wide, md with whose system the other vill connect and help form a grandei ystem still when the plans are fuly carried out. This issue of the Herald comes ut too early for the paper to recrd any action taken by the assoiation at the meeting* today. It will e next week before readers may now the full plans of the organizaion to he perfected today. Whatever they do at Myrtle Beach oday means much to Ibis section of he ' State and especially much to his county?the town of Conway ind the seaside community itself, 'he building and maintenance of rood roads here has done more than inything else has done to give it a lew start forward in progress and inprovement. Every little bit helps usf a little bit more. The action aken in connecting up this part of he State with the outside world /ill have a whole lot to do with the ilacing of our town in a more prom nent position on the map of this ounty. 3ENI) A STRONG RESOLUTION IN lorry Land Should Mot be Assessed Required Figure \LL MEMBERS ENDORSE IT Joimty Equalization Board Has More Work Than Usual Last Week At Meeting's i The county equalization board fin-lied up its work here last wook after he hardest sessions that such a board ver had here. There were complaints almost withut number, owin.L? to the many raises i valuations made by the township oards over the county. These were all heard and passed pon by the board and then the board msidered the matter of trying to ii-;e the valuations of the lands in li- county to the averages demanded y the State Tax Commi>sion. They found that this would he un>ir to the taxpayers of this county s compared to the citizens of other ounties, owinjy to the ureat ditVerrice in the character of lands in Morv and in other counties of this state. A little thought shows the reason >r this. With river swamos on t\v<> dos, tho Atlantic ocean on the southist, and with tho Waccamaw River ith its deep swamps running through 10 county, it is easy to soo that a roat proportion of the lands to be ixod in this conntv are overflow j mds and useless swamps, valuable lostly for holding the rest of the 1 orld together. The board considered all this and iissed a resolution reading: ( Whereas, Horry county is bounded 1 the east by tho Atlantic ocean, on 10 south and west by the Waccamaw ( id Pee Dee Rivers and swamps and reams tributary to these rivers and io ocean, giving us an area of praccally one-third of the county of ti<lo- ^ ater and overflow lands, we find it iipossible to bring up the average i _ n ? - - v uue oi our lands to me n^ure asked . >) by tlio State Tax Commission. t Therefore he it resolved, that: our ^ re rage be allowed to remain as fixed k the township and county hoards j id that our State Tax Commission re(|iiested to make no further in- ' rase in the average than that shown ' / said returns as amended by the wnship and county board of equalation. Signed J. T. Shelley, Chairman W. C. Hooks T. .1. Vaught li. \j. liutTkin I*. M. lAindy P. I*'. Hickman A. Hell G. I?\ Murroll J. K. Hell A. K. Goldfinch. The names signed to the resolution above printed composes the entire ( >ard with exception of Mr. Walter . est of Socasteo. Mr. West was ahnt hut he would have signed the 1 solution if present. The original resolution was left > ith county auditor, N. C. Adams, to t 1 forwarded to the tax commission. 1 has no doubt been mailed to the t in mission before now. l raid, SEVEN OF THEM GET DIPLOMAS Burroughs High School Comes to Close First _ X I A I I - ui vveeK The Burroughs high school came to a close the first of this week. The annual oratorical contest took nlace last Thursday evening mi the Baptist Church, being for 'ioth thr> boys ami the gir's. The result of the contest appears elsewhere in this issue of the Herald. On Friday evetiin.tr the contest of the literary societies of the school was carried out at the same pi ice. On last Sunday morning at 11:15 o'clock the baccalaureate ser ron was delivered at the Conway Mclhodist Church by the Rev. 0. Burts of Columbia. One of the largest congregations ever assembled in Onwny gathered to hear this sermon and it was one of the finest ever de'iveied here on such an occasion. The graduating exercises of the ' school were held in the Methodist Church last Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock, the address of the evening being delivered by Dr. Josiah Morse of the University of South Carolina. The class roll this year as >ent out with the invitations to the exercises. follows: Ruth Jenkins, president Charles Burroughs Oneida Bacot Rufus Dawsey Elise Lewis Grover Moore Willie Ann Glasgow Edna T.aylor, secretary Norman Holliday Edna Dawsey Bayliss Spivey Clara Pickett , , Joe Holliday Collins Spivey , The commencement exercises were j not held in the school building this , year bec.ause there is no auditorium, j In order to get additional room the , auditorium was converted some time flCO int<? /tIneei'AAmc. " " * i iiir* inaui' ll | ^ necessary to hold the exercises else-1 where. At the present time the ma- ' terials are being: placed on the ground (r for the erection of a new building under the contract recently let to the j contracting firm of Florence. The , new quarters will he ready for the j use of the school next year. The ^radicates this year are Nor- ! man Holliday, Collins Spivey, Elise Lewis, Willie Ann Glasgow, Oneida Bacot, Clara Pickett, Edna Dawsey and Edna Taylor. Suitable exercises . marked the delivery of the diplomas to these two boys and six girls. The first building built by Uncle Sam at Foil \Vr;in?>elI, Alaska, when that country was first occupied by 'he Unite<l Stiites in 1S(>7, lias 5 eon ( remodelled and presented to the Alas- 1 ka American Legion as a clui)housc. < STIlXERS ARE ; REAL ARTISTS 1 d Hide Crude Stills by Piece [ Meal From the Of- i fieers { Tile illicit whiskey stiller, whose genius is on the increase, judging !>y ( tlie evidence, is learning a number of r ways <>(' evading the sharp eyes of the rural police and other prohibition en- _ forcenient oflicials. \ In a number of instances coming to s light it appears tlvat the crude outfits used for making the "monkey" ] have been moved about from place to c place, not more than a charge or two ( of fiour mash having been run oft at j any one place. One week will find the operator in t the depths of one thick bay, and the ] next it has been moved to some other ( *\vamp. In some counties they move the outfits .about by automobile and > run otV charges to suit the needs of justomers in each neighborhood a here they think it is safe to hang up for that purpose. '.j The way they make the outfits for 4 ^tilling is not much expense. There is no copper about it. The first thing to do is to steal a gasoline drug, th? n Kll XT ? i An i\C o ? 11 i 1 I / i.i y (i ovxi/ivii u i i i i < 4 I I 11 i \ < 4 i I I f? K ? I ; fc |)ipo. By wrapping tho pipe roun<l a % [roe tho worm is made. Then wPh 2 in improvised cap made out of wood 4 md the other things needed scrapped ;| Lit) out of odds and ends about the ^ place, the still, so-called, is ready to *! run off a charge as soon as the mash , 4 i; just rijrht. The officers may de-; 4 stroy one of these cheap outfit > an 1 j ^ t ho operator have another ready to go ^ the next d;iy. In one instance Constable Kichelherder, with Sheriff Register of Dar- 4 lington county, and Federal Officers ^ Kennedy and Stacy made a raid about :h live miles out from Darlington. They jj; fcund three or four fermentors hidden ^ ibeut the country, 1 .">0 gallons of beer -p u:ried and scattered about in like nanner, a copper cap hidden by itself, * i copper worm hidden somewhere eise. * md a copper doubler hidden else- * * It is an important matter which hould have the careful attention of *;< he members of the board in Colum- * >ia. It will be the duty of that board * o consider these facts and lower their * equirements accordingly. 2 ? noTsT FILTERING OF W ATER SUPPLY Board Decides to Put in Three Thousand Dollar Plant WILL EXTEND SERVICE Accumulations of Sand Would Eventually Cause Trouble in Water System Tliis week marks the prospect of an addition of groat importance to the water system of the town. Last week I ho 1:- ? 1 v.. }ju>iiic woiks decided to instil!! a reservoir and filtering plant in connection with the supply of artesian water. The reservoir will ho constructed of concrete, bricks and cement, land it will be lance enough to keep on hand a bisupply of water in case of fire and prevent the use of river water ut such times. The improvement will cost from $2,500 to $3,000. The work will herein soon. At the nresent time the water is pumped from the hijr artesian well directly into the supply tank. Them > a certain amount of sand orou<jht in with tho artesian flow and this irets into the supply tank where, in *ime, it causes trouble and expense. This improvement which will now be put in, will prevent this accumulation of sand, as all the water will bo filtered and freed from this >and, and will bo pumped into the supply tank from the reservoir instead of from the well as it is now being done. Another matter is the extension of Hie siinnK' if '* ? -i i -.' mr warcr to any house where ii is wanted, hereafter, i change the council decided last week bo make. Up to the present fine it was not possible for some homos to lbtain a supply of the water because they did not happen to ho located < n my of the mains, or within the rejuired distance of any of the mains. Those who want the water may now i'et it by culling for it as the pipe inos will be extended to supply them. This does not mean the newer lines but only applies to the pipes which supply the artesian water. The board of public works is composed of three, I). A. Spivey, L. H. Burroughs and A. C. Thompson. PARTY DELAYED IN VIRGINIA Mrs. A. B. McCoy and Mrs. H. G. ""ashman were to have started back lome from Virginia the latter part >f the week before last and would lave come if Mr. Cushman, who was ilso there to drive them back, had lot been taken seriously ill, so that io was taken to a hospital. News received by the folks here a lay or two later stated that Mr. Cushnan was better but would have to emain at the hospital for some time tefore he could leave, and arrangenents had been made for Mr. John Bushman of Greenville to go to Virginia and drive the folks back home. The party left here some time ago o spend some time with relatives and riends in Virginia. The trip was mule by automobile. vliere. Hut thev never did find the till. The moonshiners have originated it tie arts of their own in burying and oncealing the locality of their conraband, say the officers. After buryng a few barrels of mash, part of an - 'It till) u I ? I I 11111 r* I I I Od til (HI 11(1 lie country, they will cover it up with eaves and straw and remove all signs >f freshly turned up earth. o : -x- -x -x- -x- -x- -x- -x- -:< -x* -x- -x- * -x-x- -x- -x- -x -x- -x- * -x- * * -x- *i sil(('l<:ss KSSKNTIALS. % i A college education is a good & : tiling to luive for those who will I use the training and knowledge * : gained in the direction of a use- * ; : ful and successful life. It is X ; worth nothing to him or her * i who will not so use it. Lack ^ ; of college training will not pre- v vent success coming to those $ ? who have native ability of the jjc ; average amount or above the : average, because knowledge ;js ; conies to him who wants it and & tries to get it, whether he gains * ; it in the college hall or at any * ! place where he may choose to 2 : make the ell'ort. Therefore the 'h? ; man who has the rudiments of H8 a common school education and * determines to make him a place unions the successt'u1 men of hi? ? time will pick up the informa- H? tion he needs in his particular i line and will know it better & than the man who thought he * learned it in college. Success depends upon two tilings in our j opinion, and they are: Peter- X mination to achieve and the & mental, physical and nervous J strength and stability to stand A up under the necessary work * and labor. ? * -x- -x- -x- -x -x- * * -x- * -x -x- * * -x -x -x x -x- ****** i