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VOL XXII. BIG Hill The Imperial Tobacco Factory Destroyed, A $400,000 CONFLAGATION 300,000 Pounds of Tobacco. Toiretlier Willi tlic Plant. Destroyed 200 Hands Thrown Out of Employ meut. The news of the destruction of the tobacco factory of the Imperial Tobacco Company at Mullins, which occurred last Monday, will be received by many of our people with profound sorrow and regret. The Imperial has the reputation of always protecting the interests of the tobacco growers of this county who ..,.11 i.- i 'L-* 1 nni uiiuir iuuiu:uv oil tPUL mUTKOl, white, paying the highest market prices for the weed and oftentimes favoring the growers by giving them a little better price than they could have obtained for the same i/rade elsewhere, and the misfortune of havir their entire plant destroyed by lire is indeed a sad blow not only u> the proprietors, but also to the community in which it is located and their numerous friends throughout this, Marion and contiguous counties We are not informed as to the origin of the lire, nor any particulars. Neither have we learned whether it is the intention of these people to rebuild or not but the presumption is that they will do so at an early a date as practical, but in the meantime socue 201) hundred employees will bo thrown out of employment and they are of just such a class that ran ill n fiord to lose their wages, especially for any length of time, just now and it is to be hoped that these unfortunate people will soou find temporary employment at least in some other employment. The loss, so we are informed, is fully coverd bv insurance The loss is placed at $ loo,ooo and it is said that at least Soo,ooo pounds of tobacco went up in smoke. Tho first and only intimation wo have of tho disastrous conflagration is contained in the following telegram : Columbia, S C., October 20?A special to the State from Mullins, says: Fire today destroyed the splendid three story factory of tho Imperial Tobacco company owned and operated by J I? Sale & Company, who are the buyers for the Imperial, In tho Imperial factory about 200 negro men and women were at worl< stemming tobacco and so rapidly did the lire gain headway that several had narrow escapes, About *100,000 pounds of leaf tobacco was destroyed. The loss is estimated at 1400,000, mostly covered by insurance. llowcll Hots. The health of this community ii very good at present. Farmers are about through gath ering their crops. .!. I). HOOth is oroc.ri ntr ft finf barn which will add vory much t< the appearance of his place. L. m. Booth, L. II. Bryant and A Sarvis made a pleasure trip to Todd'i Ferry last week and report a pleas ant tiino. Bill Lewis of Adrian was soen or our streets last ' roeK. H . B. Watts vi as here last week. j. T. Thompkins has purchased i fine mule. T saw in last week's issue when a correspondent said that it was m harm to pasture dumb beast, would like to ask him to turn ovei and read 1st Cor. 1)th chapter an< the 9th verse. And also turn to Is Timothy 5th chapter and 18th vers and see if it isn't wrontf to keep th< stock olT of the pastures that oui Lord i;iveth them. Please explaii in next issue. Best wishes to the Herald and it many readers. Good Boy. SItcrinari F.xpo?cd, (Columbia State) "New York, Oct. 2(5.? Tb World sprunt/ the sensation of th campaign this moring when it d< voted two and a half pages to cj posing the connection of James ? Sherman, Republican vice pres dontial candidate, with a land con pany that proposed to secure great block of public land from No Mexico at 55 to 5 per cent, of H value. The company first planned t buy 150,000 'acres by means < "dummy " applications for 1(50 acrt each. Workers in Milwaukee, bre? ery were the dummies. R it the promoters became alarn ed and decided to got congress 1 permit New Mexico Territory to se in 25,000 acre blocks, Sherma general attorney for the land cor pany, drew and introduced the bil 11 passed the house and was on held up in the Senate by one o j ectcr, Patterson of Colorado." The tax books are open but tax are being paid very slowly. v $ 4 I I $ (The MERELY A RUMOR j To the Effect that a Conway Man IIh? Itoujrtit Euitiber Plant. 11 is whispored around, the source of which cannot be satisfactorily traced, that a prominent, lumber manufacturer of Conway has pur chased a large saw mill at or near 13onrdniau, North Carolina. Just how much truth there is in the rumor, or if luero is any foundation in fact at all in it we are not at this time prepared to say as the gentleman in question is out of town and has been absent for some days and consequently could not be seen. We only give the tale as 'twas told tons leaving eaeh reader free t.o draw his o-vii conclusions. The evidence is, however, that, some such deal has been on foot for sometime, or at least there appeared to bo something in the wind, but what it was no one had any definite idea or well formed suspicion until this rumor began to assume form and shape. If there is any truth in the matter at all, we are not in a posit ion to say what bearing the deal will have upon tho commercial interests of Conway. Perhaps none at all, and then perhaps it may mean much for us in tho way of development and along the lines of progress. It is to be hoped that the latter will be the Cfise n.nrl nnr mnrchu ti le ??nil business men will share in the results of the deal .Jin the meant i me we can only wait for something to turn up then we will see what we will see. More and More APotit Slock taw. j Mr Editor: Will you kindly al'ow i me space in the columns of your valuable paper for a few thoughts concerning the stock law. I notice that some of the farmers of Horry who are awakenidg to a so nee of their duty in regard to the stock law. T think i? would be one of the gi\ jst things that could possibly ho ~oue for the county. We have a good county and how is it we are so far behind other counties? Because we try to hang on to that old tract of fence, spend the winter splitting short leaf timber into rails to repair our old rotten fence, while we ought to have been ditching and clearing land and improving our farms. Som people say let the people who v -nts the stock law build a pasture and keep their stock up. Bless your heart, we stock men have already got more i fence than we want. We want to do away with all but a pasture and we want that small. We are interested in farming more so than trying to raifce a bunch of knotty shoats [ to die with the coicra when we turn I them into our ehufer patches. Gentlemen, there is more meat raised in our adjoining counties than we raise and 1 believe with less than half the expense, and as to cows there are about three months in the year that cows do very well?April, May and June, then into our corn and pea fields they go wasting what we have worked hard to make, and * people shooting each other's stock, neighbors falling out with each oth er. Some say it is a sin to have the stock law and not let the stock run k at large in the woods and eat the > grass God caused to grow for them. If the woods grasses are what the* good Lord made for cows > to eat they have gotten so wicked - breaking into our fields that I think we would not be held responsible i for that. God made us and he made stock for us to control and see after, and I think if we had the stock law & wo would be more able to take care of them. r> C<: 1 .. ... f it,. .. i l. i? ^ oiuuoiuiy yuu? ? tur me hiuck ui w. j> S N Smith. 1" K. of P In Session Here l.ast Week j Tho district convention of the Knights of Pythias was in session e here last week, and a lengthy pro8 gram had been prepared for the ocr casion. The bad weather of last D Thursday, however, seriously interferred with carrying it out. There s was an excursion for the benefit of the delegates on Thursday afternoon, and while it was enjoyed by them, yet its pleasure was marred by the wind and rain. The ladies had been invited to tako in the ex? cursion. but owintr to the weather e very few of them wore able to at3. tend. The open session of the conc_ vention was to take place at the ; school building, but was changed il and there was a meeting at Wacca!_ maw Club room at which some of a the speeches provided for wore dcw livered. Notwithstanding the many r.g drawbacks, the local lodge at. Con0 way succeeded in making it very pleasant for the delegates who came J8 from the surrounding counties. \f. Many of them were in Conway for the first time, and many of them a_ were impressed with evident growth to anil prosperity of ihe place. n Death of a Good Woman n- There was a sad death last Mon 11. day in the neighborhood of Long, ly post office. Mrs Richard Bellamy b- died after a short illness. Thecircum stances were particularly sad am the bereaved husband end relative t . have the deepest v uputby oi thei many friends. CONWAY, S. C., THURS tltpit; Navigation of the Wacca- j maw River Possible, OCEAN GOING VESSELS NOW ; I'lie Oio vera flic (it i? Acting Well II: Part in Opi'iiinjc I i? tlie Wacca maw to Ocean (ioliiK Scliooncrs Hut Are the People of Conway 1 Pain it I licirs? For yours and yours the (Jovernmcnl of t he United Stutos hus spoilt iinin'iiil v l*n*?5<; sums of money in un < ollort to improve the Waccainaw so that ocean jjoin^ vessels could come up as hi^h us Con way atlcust. There ouve heen in the past several years obstacles in the way which made the navigation of the Wuceamaw c\ci>i'fli'ii'U d:i ii .riM'iinv Kn miH'h r~>J ^ ^ llw tluit captains were unwilling to risk the safety of their vessels in an ef- i fort to c> me up as far as Conway, 1 but the most of these barriers to navigation, and the most dangerous ones, to i, have been removed and I we are informed that the river is in ; siuli an excellent, condition as to ; permit the free passage of the lar- I gest of tin* sea going vessels which . cotne to the port at (Jeorgetown. I W e are also reliably informed by I a gent.ieinnn who says he witnessed ( the sight., that in his boyhood days I four masted schooners came to Con- 1 way. We know it to be fact that as i late as the early eighties, schooners ; arrived at Cot HlulY about live miles ' below here from New York and do- < parted for that, pi rt making semi- i monthly or monthly trips as the ; case might be. All this was accoin ? plislied when but little 01* no woru upon the river had been done by the Coverninent. Now that l3urroughs' Cut has been widened and deepened and ' Thoroughfare Creek opened up to 1 navigation so that vessels of ordi- ' nary depths?just such a class of 1 vessels as are required transpora- 1 fcion purposes between here and 1 other ports, can pass through with 1 perfect, sr' -tv. why fan't we have ocean go' * ves > to come to Con- 1 way? A due. of these vessels would unquestionably pay from the very 1 beginning. The mills hereabouts could, and doubtless would furnish ' enough freight to keep two or three 1 of these vessels going the year Till* \r IX/ullIrt ll'lt pnnnim 4 Ix.ui. 1 ?. a\sj ?? VMivt |/ik| l WIIU^U J vessels because it would be to their interest to do sous there would be a ' tremendous savin# in the matter 1 of freight charges. Then the merchants could have their #oixls shipped by water at a bi# reduction in freight. They could thus afford to [sell #oods cheaper and thus draw trade from all over this and adjoinin# counties, as it is a well recognized principle of business that trade will #o to t he place where the best inducements are offered and the must favorable conditions exists, Then a#ain Conway could be the shippin# point for the towns in the interior, which would swell the volume of business for the bouts. This is no idle dream to vanish at the application of sound business principles nor is it an optimistical view of the situation, for we dare say that I hero is scarcely a business man here but what recognizes them as plain practical methods. It is the duty of our Board of Trade as well as it is that of every business man, who has the welfare of Conway and of Horry at heart, to #ivo this matter their earful and thoughtful consideration and en deavor to evolve some practical plan whereby wo can place a Hoot of three or four schooners on the Waocamaw end the sooner this is done the bet tor it will be for us, our city and our county. Another Stock I hw Man. Editor Herald:?Please allow me space in your paper for a few words. 1 see that there are some who want the stock law and some who don't want it Well, I am am anxious for it and there are ^roat many more who want it. If we can't #et a vote on thin important question lets a?k the new representatives to ms he stock law and tfivo it to us it i n-'e I Jrojfan, - * Why, Ohl Why? Keep awake at ni^ht, or be troubled during the. day with that cou^h or cold, when a 2T> cents bottle ?>f our mentholated White Pine Co'jgh ! Syrup will relieve you? Only at Conway Dru# Co. Their otocU of dru^s and medicines are fresh and 1 pure* and prescriptions carefully and 1 accurately coin pounded. flallow??it Parly. There will he a Halloween party - at Brooksville school house Friday > night, November tt6h, for the r purpose of raising funds to buy a - library for "BrooUsville school house. 1 The public is invited to attend with s well tilled purses Music will be r furnished by lirooUsville string i band, Miss Lizzie Stanley. DAY, OCTOBER 29, 1908. WHAT OLD TlMCItS S A II>. lorry Count> LiiikIh Nol Adapted * (o Farnihijr. Old timers use to say that Horry was not a farming county. All that t was lit for was to raise "razor backs" and manufacture naval stores ind work little "hull" oxen. The people ot this day and generation say that the lands of HWry are rich and fertile and are pre-eminently adapted to'.' agricultural pursuits. It has been shown beyond all peradventure by actual experiment that they will luxuriantly grow nearly every crop that is produced elsewhere in the State. More and mote as the years go by is time and attention be given to agricultural work and all over the county the end of each year leaves marked improvements in farming operations, in stock, in environment and in domestic life. Old things are passing away and behold all things are new is an expression of peculiar interest to us and an experience with which we are all acquainted. We are witnessing t ho passing of the turpentine industry; we are seeing the "razor backs" supplanted hy improved breeds and the scrub cow giving way before the introduction of blooded stock. The days of the ox is a beast of burden are numbered ind horses and mules are becoming to be more and more generally used is such. Tt is nothing more than il.~ . l.. f 414 l. ~ : i ?r 4 i out? |>i incline en uie survival en inn littest" praeticall> illustrated in our :>vory day life. I lorry has a bright future before her. Her possibilities are groat and her resources are ilmost unlimited. The evidences ire that the people are alive to their value and their importance and aro working with might and main to nako 1 lorry the wheel horse in the jgricultural activity which is now sweep on all around us. - ?? ? ?-? iiood llojr Feed. Make a mixture in bulk, about mo third cotton seed meal and twothird corn chops, whole corn, wheat man, or shorts; mix with water to a ihin mush in two vessels (an old barrel sawed in two is good) and leave l.o sour or ferment, which will take Tom 12 to IS hours according to the weather and other conditions; then feed from these alternately, using bho contents of one, while that of the other is left to sour. A good growing ration may be based on one pound of dry mixture per hundred pounds of dry weight. Eor quick fattening this may be iloubled, quadriplod or even more largely increased. Indeed the Texas Experiment Station fed as much as seven and a half pounds per day to hundred and fifty pound hogs, though this is extreme and uneconomical, if no positively dangerous. When ready to feed add fresh wat er to the feeding ration sulliciont to brine to a thin sloi>. about the "eon sistency of sweet milk, and give the hogs all thoy will clean up. All hoes cat it greedily and all thrive on it, from the lordly head of the herd to the tiniest grunter. Hut for 4 4 piggy" or suckling sows it is especially valuable, giving to the pies both before and after farrowing a growth and vigor attainable with no other feed on earth. In an experience of over 25 years I have never seen a hog refuse to eat it, or in jured by it. Indeed, it is not only the best and cheapest feed on earth, but it is an cilieient prophylactic and hogs fed on it seem entirely immune to any of the common ills that hogs are heir to. Jo W. Allison I>alsy. Editor Herald: ? Please allow me space in your valuable paper for a few words in reply to Mr L. M Hardee. Boys ho said we need the slock law but he has not shown us yet where we need it. When he does I will agree with him. School mate looks at both sides of it. 1 think it is six of one and a half n dozen of the other, don't you? II we have the stock law it will cost us just as much to keep up our pas ture fence as it does to keep uy our farm fence. If anything it will cost us more, for then we will have to have ^ood fences to hold out stock and why isn't it just as chea| to buy wire to fence our farms as il is to buy wire to fence our pas tures, especially when it helps thf looks of our farms. Lets see otn neighbors out as well as ourselves. While some of us have land to pas ture our stock there are many others who have no land and are not ablt to ^et any. If we will work hard ant1 make #ood fences we will not bf bothered with the mischievous ctooLr Snirin nf n? lot. mil* fnnooa iv?1 down and the cows get in. Let ut keep our fences in good eonditior and the cattle will not get in. I and Mr Ilardee**rc school mates but wc both don't see alike We do not need the stock law as I see it. Some of uj want to take the privilege awaj from our stock when it is put hen for thorn. W. W. Martin, Clerk of Court W, L. Mishoe, wh< has been confined to room for so mi time is improving aud we hopo t< see hi in out soon. valil FEB Gathered by a Herald Man on His Rounds. CAUGHT ON THE BOUNCE. Strav lilts of News lanthered iby tlic Wayside for tin* Information and Instruction of Herald Headers- Happenings of Interest About tlie Cltv. A dojj (ijjht was Tuesday's exeitement for Conway. Times are ?mito dull around the new court house now. SherilT II. J. Sessions was at Lit tie River on business lust week. Handsome tiled llooring is being put in at the Hunk of Conway. Very line salt on red meats 10c per pound, at NV Bo^d Jones', Justice. There are more vacant cottages in Conway than we would like to see. (J. Fred Stalvey, Ksq., has been spending several weeks in Conway. There are ouly two certain things in this uncertain life?death and taxes. |)r W K McCord has returned from a short visit to his parents at I lodges. II, .1. Clraham was anions the farmers on business in Conway last Monday. An addition of two rooms has just been added to the residence of Hal U Buck. Henry I). Klllot.t and C. M. Klliott spe 111 last Monday in Conway on legal business. ,ioh:i Holt, the Judge of Probate, is spending this week in Columbia attending the State Fair. Clerk of Court W, Tj. Mishoo is recovering from a recent illness to the dclightof his many friends. More cotton has been made in Horry during the present season than in any previous season within its history. W. J. Edwards, a prosperous farmer living near Conway, has opened a new grocery store near Willow Springs. The fall instalment of commercial tourists are plentiful on our streets. Their presence in our midst indictaes business activity. John P. Cooper, Mayor of Mullins, and a leading business man of that town, was over in Horry last wock on business, Mrs Paulino MeCord and children have returned from a visit of several weeks to relatives in Hodges, Greenwood county. Wilmington is to have a brilliant social event in the Elkfcast, which begins next week. Doubtless Horry will be well represented there during the festivities. A moving picture show man has rented the vacant store next door to Hal D. Buck Company, and ad vertised to begin performances there last Monday. E. W. II. Edge was in Conway last Friday for the lirst time in live years. During all of that time he was confined to his home with a bad ease of rheumatism. The voice of the tax gatherer is now heard in the land calling upon 1 all ye people to walk up to the captain's otlice and pay your thithes for the privilege of living in this glorious country of our. > For the benefit of the school and ! the enjoyment of all present, the , School Improvement Association of the Floyds school will give a Hollo> ween entertainment at Floyds school 1 house, Saturday evening, October > dlst. Ihiblic is invited to come. NOTICE?-All persons are strict' ly forbidden to trespass on the land * 1/ UM/kir/1 h n o l*/\ n Ktn ?w?. Ui rj. *1 j; i wjUj nuuvvii c*r> tin; n waiiJ|J hind, either by fishing or pastur ' ing stock, or in any other way. The law will be enforced against all ' trespassers. S. II. Fry, Agt. 5 Col Elbert If. Aull, of Newberry, j editor and owner of the Newberry Herald and News, and a high oMi ? cial in the K. of F's, spent several ; days '.n Conway last week in att, tendance upon the district conveni lion. Col Aull is a well known man i through the State, having always I taken an active part in politics. j Mrs Cornelia L Fid wards, an aged ' lady of the Galivants Ferry section, * died on October lttth to the re f grot of many friendo. Messrs Ros J well E. Edwards and \V. K. Edwards, two of her sons, who year* ago left Horry for Georgia were > summoned to her bedside and wert b present during her last moments > The rest of her childern and largt family all live in Horry county. * I < .. j ? I _-!? No! 29 AARON DEWETT ANI) WIPE Arrested Ctinrjrcd VVItli Sclliiijr Whiskey. Aaron Dewott, colored and his wifo wore both arrested last Saturday ou a charge of selling whiskey and keeping a nuisance. The proceedings wore taken in the United States court before Commissioner C. 1\ Quattlebaum and the arrest of the parties was made by deputy marshal J. C. liruton, who lodged them in jail to await a hearing, On Tuesday both of the parties were j/iveil a hearing before Mr Quattlobaum and several witnesses wore examined on which they wero bound over to the United Statos court. Aaron is an old offender against the whiskey laws, having within tho last year been up before the authorities of tho town of Conway on a similar charge. Once he was chased by the town marshal, who was after him to sei/.o a lar^o package of li<|uor. The marshal was at the depot when Aaron </ot. the box, and ho was on wnn u ucioro ino marshal couUl got it. Tho marshal wont in hot pursuit, however, and overtook hiin within the town limits. There was a crowd hanging around tho Commissioners oltice last Tucs- > day evening while the hearing was going on. Mrs Wash Grown, of Britton's Neck, is visi (H< ig her son, J. L I frown. Win. Ed wards of Galivants Perry spent last Monday in Conway on legal business. W. I). Moore, one of the live farmers of the Port Ilurrolson section, spent last Tuesday in Conway on busi n ess. M. (?. Long, ono of the leading citizens of the Kbene/er section, visited Conway on business last Tuesday. V ii. W Mishoe, a leading merciiant at Gurley and a railway agent at that place, spent last Tuesday in Conway. W. E. Tyler, S. S. Cannon, R. J Beverly and W, A. Hughes were all pleasant calicrs at the uerald ollico last week. We are sending statements to our subscribers. We are obliged to do this, friends, and your promptness will be appreciatedi y ** Attention is directed to tho ad of Mr J. E. Altman appearing in this issue. Persons having work in his line will do well to see him before placing their work elsewhere. Harry Hughes, a negro, was com: 4 4 *4 ~ 4 1 1- ! ? ii11lI'i'u tu Lin* cnain tfano iasL weeK by magistrate J.N. Jenrotte after (incline hitn guilty on a charge of breach of trust with fraudulent intent. J. A, Lewis recently sold to U.S. Collins the cottage and lot of land adjoining Mr. Lewis' residence on Laurel street. The property is situated in rear of the Commercial Hotel. W. K. and U. E. Edwards, formerly of Horry, but now of Oeilla, Ou., spent several days at their out home last week and this week also. They are hustlers in the business world in their adopted home and . Horry boys always deserve success. Charley Powell, who has been away from Conway for some time, has returned to accept a position in the Conway post ollice. a position he tilled once before. Ho and Mrs Powell will make their home in Conway now. LOST?Black and white cur dog about 8 months old, answers to name of Bruce. Notify J V McDowell, INixonvillG, and j;jt reward. WANTKD Salesmen to soil our tfuaranteod Oils and Paints. Kxpenance unnecessary. Kxtrcmcly profitable olTor to the right party. Tho (lien Hefinin^ Company, Cleveland, Ohio, . / J. L Altman BLACKSMITH ANI> WIIHKLWltlGHT Conway, S, C. T have opened up a First Class Blacksmith Shop in the Bon Daggett old shop and solicit a share of the patronago of the people. All work 1 first class and prices inodorate. | HORSE SHOEING A SPECIALTY POKSAl.E. KeitTer Pears delivered at.Cor. way for $2 00 per barrel. The under- ' i signed will be in Conway on Tuesdays ) and Friday of each week, and will ) deliver any number ol barrels or. dered for the cash. Mailorders to j P W Dimery. 4t Toddvilie, S. C,