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% K i i # pr VOL, XX. FROM OUR NOTE BOOK,] TIHNGS YOU KNOW AND THINGS * YOU DON'T KNOW. Item* of Interest Gathered Here and There. Some of Which la I'orsonal Others Concerning Business and Social Events Monday was saleaday. A big crowd in town Monday. J . Causey was in town last Saturday. ? W. 11 Bell was in town last Mon,i.... ^ ""J The weathc was wanner last week. D. O. Boyd was in Conway last Monday. The work on the streets i9 still goinihen. W. F. Mishoe was on our streets last Monday. Miss Jessie Bourn was in Conway last Friday. Thos. Livingston was in Conway on salesday. J. J. E. Harrolson was here on last Monday. F. A. Thompson was in Conway last Monday. J. W. Gerrald was among those in town recently. W. C Todd is in the couuty on a visit from Florida. J. H, Stevens visited Conway the first of this week. , J. K. AlLbrook was in the city 1 thi^nrst of the week. J. C. Blum was in town one day recentlv on hiiQinne? ' i1 E. J. Marsh was in town the lat- , tor part of last week. Zebedee Williamson visited the city the first of the week. John L. J oiks visited Conway on i business one day last week ( It. L. Daniel, of Fiuklea, was in town the first of this week. i Mr and Mrs U. A. Dusenbury spent last Monday in the city. A.S. Crawford paid the office a 1 ? pleasant call one da;* last week. J. D. Ilardwick, of Florence, spent some time in Conway last week i Ij. W Anderson paid the Herald a pleasant ca'l one day last week .). H Hucks paid the Herall a pleasant visit one day last week W. M Booth, of Ad?ian, visited Conway the latter part of last week. W. L. Bellamy and J. M. Dortnan were both in Conway last Monday. % A. Solomon, of Marion county, spsnt several daj's in Conway last week. The finishing work is being put on the new front at the Bank of Con way. S. S. Cannon, of Haskell, was amonj,' those In town one day last week. Visit Hughes' store any day this week and save 50 to 75 cents on the dollar. - ^ R. Livingstone, of Little River, Mnent the first part of the week in T)onwav. * I J. D. Oliver has a large advertisement in this issue. Read it and call for his goods. Franklin Jordan, of the Cedar Grove section, visited Conway one day last week. Sheriff B. 0. Sessions went to Socastee last week and remained a day or two on business. John G . Baker, of Joy, was among those who visited the city on business one day last week. Wm Carter, the obliging postmaster at Daisy, called in Conwav _ ? * last Monday, on business. w Don't forget the 25 per cent, dis count sale is going on every day this week at Hughes' Store11 W. J. Hendricks, M. N. Dlanton and John W. Cox were all in Conway Vie latter part of last week. Don't forget to loave your subscription with the county auditor when you make your tax returns. Ii D. Singleton was in town one day last week, having come home from college to spend tbo holidays. Everybody matieipates a bright future for Conway. Let us all work to make that future more glorious. W. A. Lee, S. P. Alford, J. C. Chestnut and J. J. Rhuark all vUited Conway last week from the county. Mr and Mrs D, F. Gregg arrived 4 in the city last night from Conway, V where Mr Gregg has been In business for the past year. Mr Gregg's i friends will be glad to know he has decided to make his home in Florncee. i He has accepted a position with the Geo. McCown Co.?Florence Times, i 4 ?ii COI> Preston C. Jones, of Justice, died suddenly of puoumonia last Monday evening. It was a shock to his family and friends. H. B. Baker, R. T Booth, W. J. a Brown, J. El. Brinson, D. T. Gerrald and S. E, Williamson, were all in town one day last week. A change appears this week in the i advertisement of Dusenburv & Co. When you need farm supplies, fer tilizers and the liko, callatToddvillo. There were many people in town last Saturday, most of thorn shop ping at the stores, but many others on busiuess of a different nature. For the past week or ten drvs we have been having spring like weatli- s or, and tho farmer and trucker feel f like thov ought to be in the field t pulling tho bell cord across a mule's 1 back. r Mr. James A. Lewis, tho county c Auditor, is still engaged on his trip ? over the county. He is the author- 1 ized agent of the Herald while in ' the county. Pay him your subscription. * 1 The walls of tho now court house are now going skyward. It was 1 stated last fn.ll th (it. I lin iinm K..51/I I VMM? VI1V, UVVT V/UllU" j in# would bo ready for spring court, ( but it is scon now, that it will be impossible to finish by that time ' The work is going ahead as rapidly ! as possible, but the time before r February court is now getting ; short. Mr and Mrs W. K. Britt received ] a telegram on Saturday of week be- j fore last statiug that Mrs Britt's \ brother had shot himself at his home t in Florida, and that his remains ( were then on tho way to his former ( homo, Rowlaud, N. C. Mr and Mrs , Britt left that afternoon and rethrn- | ed the first of last week. No cause ( for tho rash deed has been given. \ Magistrate N. B Smart, of Don- c fjola, was to have been m Con way i ast Saturday for the purpose of ] granting a preliminary hearing iu i the casos growing out of the recent t troubles near Sizer Lumber Com- i pany's mill. A letter was received i from him stating that he was un- J able to come, on the account of the > death of his father. A hearing will 1 be arranged at a later date. \ The exero.Lcs of the Burroughs c Graded school were resumed Mon- \ day with almost a full enrollment t A handsome piano has been pur- chased, the literary societies have I i ' * uucu auuuguieneu oy trie addition t of new members and the library is ( growiug in volumes and poplarity. * The physical as well as the moral ^ and intellectual development of the c pupils is beginning to receive the i attention of the Principal, and he is now at work organizing tennis, i ball basket and base ball clubs. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, / Lucas County. t .Frank J. Cheney makes oath that c he is senior partuer of the Hrai of F. J. Cheney & Co , doing business in the city of Toledo, county and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of c Catarrh that cannot be cured by , the use of Flail's Catarrh Cure ? FRANK J. CHENEY, Sworn to , before me and subscribed in my ? presence, this Gth day of December, \ A . D. 1880. { A. W. Gleasou, < v ' Notary Public. < Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter- i nally, and acts directly on the blood, , and mucous surface of the system. ; Send for testimonials free. . Adldress F. J. CHENEY & CO , t Tojedo, O. Sold by all Druggists, * 75 . Take Hall's Family Pills for const ipation. _ _ Land Sales. ^ Several land sales took place at the/ court llOU9G last. Mnnflrtir ^.VUMWJ Vllb IUIIU bringing fair prices. Two lot9 in Conway, involved in a partition suit between Mr W. L. Mishoe and Agnes Pitman, were sold for division One lot of one and one half acres was sold to S. T. Sessions for $475.00, and another of one half acre to W. L. Mishoe for $80.00. The estate of Samuel L. Grainger, in Green Sea, containing fifteen acres, was sold to Henry C. Powell for $316.00. A trac?of 132acres in Floyds township was sold under mortgage toG. J. Holiday for $250.00. Items from Floyd's X Roads Cau the new Superintendent tell us how it is that we only had $104 for the HranchvMle school and the averrge attendance was only about forty-nine? , * \ ^ i nope our new Superintendent will do a better part by us than our old one did, and we think he will. Our school closed on tho 11th inst. ) It was taught by Mr. Morgan Be- 1 thea, who has taught us a good ' school. We are only hoplog to get J him another year.. 3 Do you all sec the. Bay sorrespon- 1 dent has about quit writing, and when he does write His articles are short? I can tail you why. He is t just married and he is to be excus- t ed. * The Herald is a welcome visitor 1 tvery Friday morning. c point WAY, S. C.. THURS AMBITIOUS WAMPEEf kN ELIGIBLE SITE FOR A RAILROAD STATION. fo?pitat>le P?oplc I Who Live at Home and Board at the Same Place ? Productive and Fertile Land a--Looking Forward With Pleasure to Having a Bridge Across the Waccamaw. Editor Horalcl?'Will you allow mo ipace in your valuable paper for a ew notes, as I seldom ever see anyhing from this section of tho county? think the correspondent is dead or noved away. Occasionally some of >ur friends from other sections jives us a call, and is so favorably mpressed that they write a word or us when they go home. After a stay of six months, I could lot go away with a clear conscience vithout saying a word for my friends n the Warn pec v'n dty. 1 liavo lever met a more In itable people n any section of the ounty. Their loors are always op to strangers is well as friends, ;u: I tell you, he jets the fat of the 1 v wheu ho goes o the table of our good old farmers. The fellow that sa. 1 farming was U ~ 1 LA 1 " - tup uusi iruuu a, man una ever lolowed was not far from bei ig right, [f ho will come down and watch our Farmers raise corn and cotton, then le will be suro the farmer is on the 'ight track. There are large acres )f the swamp lands that will proluce one bale of cotton to the acre vithout any fertilizers. The same and will produce liftv bushels of ;orn and upward per acre. For a ong time tno east side of the Waciauiaw ha* been lojked upon as bung far behind in many respects, esiccially along the line of public im )rovement But these evils are fast >eing remedied. We aro now eonlected with the outside world by a abroad extending from the Myrtle 3cach coast. A dejiot at this place vill add much to our little town The business capacity of the. town vill be largely increased while our jonvenionees will he greatly irairoved. Wo anticipate having a iridge across the Waccamaw at Star 31ul!\ giving our people in the upper >art of the county an outlet to our leautiful coast, which excels all ithcrs iti beauty and grandeur, dullets, shell fish, turkey aoound V summer resort atone of our nearist points is one of the next mo&t leeded improvements, Siveral new buildings are going up n this section. C. C. Suggs has added to the appearance of his dwelling very much >y applying a new coat of paint. L D. Willard is just completing i new dwelling on his place. Observer. Cured of Luittf Trouble. "It is now eleven years since I had i narrow escape from consumption," writes C. O. Floyd, a leading busiless man of Kershaw, S. 0. "I had un down in weight to 135 jjouuds, ind cough?ng was constant, both py day and by night. Finally I pcgan taking Dr. King's New Disicverv, and continued this for about >ix months, when my cough and lung trouble were entirely gone and 1 was restored to my normal weight, 170 pounds[" Thousand of persons tre heald every year. Guaranteed it Norton Drug Co's. drug store. 50c ind$1.00. Trial bottle free, Toddvllle Tidings. Mrs, L, D Dong was in town this week. A. M. Dusenbury left Monday for i two weeks stay in Charleston. Married on last Sunday evening, 'jeaphia Avaut to O ar Sessions, \. M. Dusenbury: iV tary Public, performing the cerein y. The Christmas en i tainment at he Toddville school use last Satirday night was hi r enjoyed by a n u0 n n/l J ( \ ? * A ? * uuuit/uw> v? rsc 10 is impossible to say just many were present, but conserv.it ivo estimates place the crowd at ur hundred, rhe general manager Miss May Dusmbury, was compliinated on all (ides for the successful way in which ,he program was carried out. Many >ld people were heard to say that it vas the best entertainment that hey had ever witnessed. The maniger no doubt took great care in preparing the young minds for this iccasion, as the little tots would ipeak as though they were born prators. Forecast. Possesses wonderful medicinal lower over the human body, removng all disorders fiom your system, 8 what Hollistejr's Rocky Mountain Pea will do. Makes you well, keeps 'oil well. 35 cents/Tea or Tub^t, Norton drug Co. Mr. Jefford, the general roadmas?r of the Atlantic Coast Line Sys,em ?.nd Messrs Newman and Jones, vho are under him. were in town ast week improving the road bods >f company hereabouts, ? w JDAY J ANUARY lO Pleasant Meadow. At present fur mors are very busy preparing for anothor crop. Rev J. Walter Todd tilled his regular appointment at this place on the lirst Sunday and tho day before. He seemed to bo endowed with tho old time power and preached an interesting sermon ou both days. Tho church and Sunday school is progressing nicely The Hickory Hill school is in progress under the care of Miss Xyepha Stroud. There was a very pretty wedding at M. C. Causey's on Christmas ovcnlng, when a few of the relatives and friends* assembled to witness the marriagoof Miss Catherine Jolly to Mr J . H. Causie. Mr Causic is one of oiir much esteemed young men. Miss Catherine is the charming daughter of Mr Lewis Jolly of Grcon Sea. The ceremony was performed by Rev II G. Fowler, who in a very solemn manner made them man and wife. May their pathway bestrewed with llowers. S. A. Cottinglmm of this place has moved to Loris. Mr Jackson and Mr Cottingham, of Marion, have moved to this neighborhood. We welcome them into our community, P H C The Kijrlit Name. tyr. August Sherpe, the popular overseer of the poor, at Fort Madison, la., says: Dr. King's New Life Pills are right named; they act more agreeable do more good and make one reel better than any other laxativ.e"' Guaranteed to euro biliousness and constipation 25c at Norton Drug Co's. drug store. As to tl?e INcw Bridjirc. Mr W. J. Hendricks was in Conway a fow days ago, haying just re turned from a trip to Marion county in the interest of the new bridge across the Pee Dee connecting Marion and Horry. He says that the gentlemen on the other side of the river, who arc interested in the bridge, assured him that they had seen their county supervisor, and that he was ready to* meet the supervisor of Iiorry ooifnty at any time to decide the details, and would moot Horry half way in the matter of the expense and would also construct a road leading out from the bridge to high land on the other side. This is very encouraging Ncjcco Woman (iocs Cra/.y. The wife of Augustus Woodbury, a colored man, recently went era/ It seems that her laud went in the name of Augustus and he mortgaged it This seemed to prey on her mind and stye got Mr J. C. Spivey to take up the debt. Last Wednesday uighl at about midnight, she set lire to the house, having first sent awav a girl who was living with her. She made no efTort to put out the flames and when some one who came up told her that her house was burning up, she replied that it was not her houso, but was "do buckra house." Darlington Man Solicitor. J. Monroe Speers, of Darlington, S. G., has been appointed by the Governor as the successor to the late J. Monroe Johnson as Solicitor of tho 4th circuit. Mr. Speers is a young attorney of known ability, and a self made man. fie was admitted to the bar in 1898 and has practiced his profession at Darlington since that time. He was in the legislature from his county in 1900. Approaching- Marriage Cards are out announcing the wedding of Miss Fannie Duscnbury to Mr. W. W. Jones at Willow Spring church on January 16th, 1907. at 10:30 o'clock in tho forenoon. Miss Fannie is the charming daughter of Mrs. Ella J. Dusenbury. Mr Jones is a rising young business man of Mullins, S. C. They have the. best wishes of many friends here and ia the county. How to Cure Chilblains. "To enjoy freedom from chilblains," writes Jonn Kemp, East Otisfield, Mc., "I apply Bucklcn's Arnica Salve. Have also used it for salt rbcum with excellent result." Guar A. .1 1 - - * uijtueu 10 cure lever sores, indolent ulcers, piles, burnos, wounds frost bites and skin diseases, 25c at Norton drug store. ? ?W * i Mattic Items, The health of this community is generally good. TV iL ? f ?4 * At - - " uuutu visum ine nomc or Mr and Mrs J J Todd and took away their little baby. It was only four weeks old when they found it dead in the bed on the morning of January 4th. It was laid to rest in the Carter graveyard. J G Rhodes and sou took the train last Monday afternoon at Loris on their return trip to Florida. Miss Missouri Richardson has returned home from Florida. .1 am a subscriber and I enjoy reading your paper. Mr. Hiram Russ is making some improvements on his house. ViUiU , 1907GLEMSON CAR COMING. MEETING WAS HELD AT COURT HOUSE LAST MONDAY Mcctitij? was Called to see Wliat Could be Done to Ensure a Good Attendance on Eebruury 11th. Professors will Lecture for the Benefit of the Partners of the County. A meeting was hold in the court house last Monday with lho Hon. Jeremiah Smith in the ('hair, and was well repreaepted by the business mon of Conway and the farmers of the county. . Tito meeting was called to see what.could be done to ensure a tfood attendance on February 11th when the Professors from Clemsou will be present with their car of agricultural a ail mechanical exhibits, and will lecture for the benefit of the fat mors of the county. . The chairman stated the nhieot. of the meeting and hoped that the farmers of the county would take the* opportunity thus offered, for each of the speak or is an expert in Ins particular line, audit would he profitable as well as interesting to'every farmer who would avail himself trf this chance of learning more of ui> to-dato farming, and as wo are taxed for the support of the college, we certainly ought to get. from it all the good wo can. ? [Names of committee ;ippojuteO to mako arrangements for thereccp tiou of the Professors and work for a good attendance at the lectures arc published elsewhere in another article.] After the close of the lectures th'ere will be a meeting to consider the fertilizer and labor problems vyliic^i are confronting every farmer in the South. The Hon Jerc Smith wHl speak on these subjects as also vviM others. Come one and all. J LI. . The Clomson car, with Prof. Mewman of Clomson College will be here on the llih of February. This.- is a matter of much interest to ouj* farmers, and.a reception committee has been-appointed to act on that day. The committee is composed of I) A. Spivey, W. L Mishoe, 1).? Harby, Jei'emiah Sifiith. II. II. Woodward, R J Sherwood,.!. Lewis Lee, R Norton and C. L Epps. Af tor the arrival ?.*f the ear on that day there will be speeches in the , court house, and Prof Newman will, after that is over, turn over ' the car to the farmers 'and proceed to give them distinctions 011 many needful points,in every'day life of the farmer. All the farmers should lend their aid to nial>e this a thing of great benefit to the county. ? A. P. Johnson, who has boon enf/aged in business here for several years past, made an assignment last Saturday for the benefit of creditors. There was a mortgage over the stock of goods, and this was also levied by the holders of the mortgage "Several clerks are busy this week taking an inventory of the goods. Mr Johnson will move back to his wife's farm in Galivants Perry township. Send us your Job PrintingSACR SA EVERY DAY THJ? STORE OF L. All the BANKRUPT STOC mnrkn/1 dnu/ti 9K no* oonf hoi m?&V%t %?V TT At MC/ JL W111/# ArXsJ and beginning today will all til disposed of. The public es Friday or Saturday and get t The reason for marking do store belongs to the Spivey they have given notice that t the end of next week. Ther get for these goods, so we ar can get. Special inducements to tho We will also like to see con who buy in bulk. We can nc to buy at a saving of from 5< DON'T FORGET SALES AL GET THE PLACE, NE! MERCANTILE T. M. SESSI H NO 40 Notice of Foreclosure. Under and by virtue of two bills o. sale and chattle mortgages, duly executed and delivered by A. I*. Johnson, the one to Lillian M John son, dated August loth, 1001, and duly recorded in book E, pa go 374, in the oflico of Kegistcr of Mesne Conveyance of Horry county, and the other to the Bank of Conway, dated the 5th day of January, A 1) 1005, and recorded in the oflice aforesaid in Book I), page 428; I have seized and will olTcr for salo at the store recently occupied by the said A V Johnson in Conway S C, on the 21th day of January, A D 1007, commencing at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, all and singular the entire stock of general merchandise of said A r Johnson, consisting in part of dry goods, clothing, hats, shoes, groceries, hardware, china ware, tin and glassware, show cases and store fixtures and an iron safe. Also a certain bay mare known as the (loo L Marsh inure, called Fannin; and also one top buggy. Terms of Sale cash. V. D. JOHNSON, Agent for Mortgagees. C 1' Quattlebaum, Attorney for Mortgagees. THE HANK OF CONWAY. Notice is hereby given that a special meeting of the stockholders of ihn R;\?ik nf Ciiiiiv.iv wi<l In Hr?l.l 5?, the Directors' room of said Bank at Conway. S C, on Monday, tlm 11 tli day af February, 11)07, at 12 o'clock m, for the purpose of considering and acting upon a proposition to increase tlio capital stock of lim Bank of Conway to $50,000.0') (lifi.v thop-aml dollars.) divided inl > 500 sJuires of the par value ot $loo oo each, ai\d for the transaction of all other business accessary or desirable, in connection therewith and any otlier business which may properly come beftpe Said mooting. 1? O. Collins, I'resident. ' (! I' CJunttlebaum. 1) A Spiyey, ' M W / .. II in, * I) T MqNeilt I )i i?? t cn s December 8.^1 DOo. B.\ 12 . pOKIlCI.OSUKr: SA 1.11. I tidier and hy vpiu ? c?*r ?' ? ''* !; i' sale piveji A .fenkinsA >'? ? i? . u * I A parla r, I hn,V<y8*l''>od and wall fl" I i* sale at. |biidie.uu<b.m to the ljigit si -i I d* i for cash, before the court hpus? d ?> hi Conway, S C.,(>ii.Friday, January 18, 1907, at 1 /o'clock iu> tin* forenoon, the following* Oeserlboil personal property, to wit Otio Day# Hkirsn^Mule about 14 years old known as hie I.J * 11 Parker, Mule and One Black Mare-Mule*about /8 years old known as the B K'Parket1 Mule V 11 .JOHNSON, Agent for G llJeftkini uiul Assignee of A VV Jonkln?<& Sons% 2wlt, , 1 '4>A ' ? \ ^ FORECLOSURE SALE. Under and bywlrtu? of n certain bill of rale given to J A Smith to J W 7/olliday and by aaid J W Ilollidiry transferred to tlio Bank of Conway, I will offer for sale at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, at my farm three-miLes fyom* Conway, on the Potato Bed fefry road, on Monday,-January 14,1007, qt /1 o'clock in the forenoon, the following described property to wit One ifun Qplored Cow and Two Yearlings. V I) JOZ/NSONj Agent for Bank of Conway. December 01, 1909. Iw40. W Early Risers Tho famoiu I'.HIe nllls. IF ICE LE . i> WEEK AT THE F. HUGHES? t * !K left on hand hks been low actual cost t>f the goods be sold from day to'day unpecially invited to call today, he best of the goods. >wn the goods is that the ; Mercantile Company, and hey must have the store by e is no other store we can e forced to sell at what we se who wish to buy in lots, intry merchants and others >w make it to your interest ) to 75 cents on the dollar. L THE WEEK DON'T FORKT DOOR TO SPIVEY 1 COMPANY. ONS, Mngr.