The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 29, 1908, Image 1
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
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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
$
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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,