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y' / rf VOL XXIV. 1811 IMS The Provisio ns of His Good 4- , Roads Proposition. Anihivi-A a nnifiiiooinil (iKtAltS A uummiaaiun. The People of Ilorty are Aroused to the Importance of Having Good Public Highways and Will Doubtless Do Anything Within Reason to Secure Them?The Scheme is Feasible. Senator Spivey is an enthusiastic advocate of bettor toads in Horry ? and is the author of the good roads "Vill now pending before our people. Mr Spivey was informed a few days ago that the Herald would this week publish his bill in fuil, and requested that he make such explanation and comments on it as he saw lit and thought necessary. 4il atn very much pleased to know that you are to publish this measure * ?- iL i , ?l"i f I H. f, i>>4, tllP VOl.? ana get n, suhikuu ers" said Mr Spivey. 44lt is fco the county press that we have to look to assist in carrying this important measure through. Without your cooperation, its passage is already doomed, simply because the people do not understand its merits. With the proper efforts of the county newspapers and all those familiar with the scheme, 1 am sure the plan will be adopted. My candid opinion is that if the people will study this plan and become th ^roughly posted as to its merit*, that there will not be one man in ten to cast his ballot against it. 44If you remember, in my candidacy for the senate two years ago, I incorporated a plank in my platform advocating better roads. I apologized at the time for not having a well defined scheme to submit, but promised in case of my election that I would give the matter mature consideration and devise some method to bring about this neeueci improvement in our highways. "So. upon my election I realized it was "up to me" to make good my pledge. From that time I have studied the question from all sides with a view to got the best results without materially increasing our tax rate. The result of my thought and effort is found in the bill which you are now publishing. "Now, there are at least two propositions upon which I take it we can all agree. "1st, That Horry county needs a better sj'stem of public highways, and second, That to get the good roads it is necossary to provide the funds with which to build them. "I don't believe any one will dispute either of these propositions. It is accordingly not inv purpose to attempt any argument or to advance any reasons to prove the importance of or the necessity for better roads in Horry county. I assume that ? ~ii ....hco .-.n t.Ma A connti n if the WC Uli a^tuo Kjki uuiui r _n fact that we need the roads and realizing that we will have to pay for them, Iho question to whicn I gave the most thought was how to get the best and quickest results, and at the same time not to increase the taxes of our poople beyond their limit to bear. "Several plans naturally suggested themselves to rae. Someone says increase the road tax to live or ten mills and thus raise the amouut by direct taxes in the course of a few years. Others say increase the commutation tax to $5 or $10 and require ten to twenty days labor each year. Another suggests the plan of taxing all vehicles sufficiently to build the roads. Yet others advocate levying a tax on the real ulrmor t.hft routes of tllO Var cavov / ? ^ous highways. "Probably each of these plans have merit, and in the case of main. taining roads after they are built, -might work admirably. But none of these schemes would in my estimation, suit the conditions in Horry. To build a system of roads as our county needs, the ouly business, practical and sensible way is by the bond method. "With our taxes already too high, I will not consent to stand for increase in our direct levy. Neither will I advocate making the road tax above $3 or six days labor. Especial' ly will 1 not stand for either of these ' when the scheme I have planed gives us immediate results and thai without any extra increase in taxes, "Weare now, as you know, pay ing a two mill tax for roads auc bridges, which levy raises but n small sum scarcely sufficient to do the "patch work" necessary to keej tho roads passable. This bill pro vides for the continuance of th? same two mill tax?no more. Ii other words, under the proposec plan, instead of using this smal sum in an unsystematic way, doinj, but little permanent good, we pro pose to obtain the whole $100,000,01 or so much of it as oan be judicious ly used from year to year, aud pro ceed to build the road now?whih you and I are living. The presen two mills levy you understand, is U be continued aud is to bo used ii * t ? h e1 C( paying the interest and to redeem ibe bonds wheu they come due. "This I consider the most impor tant feature of the scheme, and the one I wish every man to study and thoroughly understand. Tiio balance of the b.ll refers simply to the details of carrying out the scheme, and can be readily understood by reading the bill "You will note that it provides for a highway commission to be composed of three men, who will have charge of selling the bonds and disbursing the funds, Tne County Supervisor is made a member of the commission and will likely have charge of the construction work a> well as all matters pertaining to the improvement of the present roads. The plan of creating a highway commission was done largely to relieve the supervisor of this burden of handling the finances and thus allow him more time to push the work on the roads. "The bonds shall draw interest at a rate n-jt to exceed 5 per cent. Oi course the commissioners will bo expected to sell them at a lower rate if possible to do so. ''One half the bonds ($50,000) shall become due in twenty years, and the remaining half in thirty yea**s. I calculate that the 2 mills levy will raise sumeieni lunus, wiuiix iuiu consideration the probable increase in our taxable properties, to pay the first half in at least twenty years. The same levy will likely raise the remainder in less time than ten years. We will, in the meantime, have the benelit of the good roads Our children will enj >y the benefits derived from them; likewiso will our grand-children and all our posterity, The roads will be ours, the bonds will be paid and no one will know who paid them, or how or when they were paid. "Provision is made for all sections of the county to be represented on the board. The funds shall be expended among the various townships of the county in proportion to the assessed values in said luwnships. This will prevent any one township or section of the county monopolizing the funds at the expense of any other section. "The treasurer of the commission shall be bonded in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and required to make quarterly statements of the receipts and disbursements to the board of county commissioners. At the same time all the transactions shall be subject to the investigation ! by the grand pjry from time to time. In other words, I have attempted to throw all possible restrictions around the board with a view to guaranteeing the judicious handling of the funds and a just expenditure of the same. "You readers will, I trust, fully understand that it was impossible for me to go into the minute details and incorporate them in a bill of this nature. All the details of carrying out the general purposes of the act will have to be wrought out by the commissioners, with the assistance of the county supervisor. As in all othor matters, we will havo to trust some one. As a legislator, I consider my part done when I dovise a p'an and furnish a scheme to provide the funds. The actual detail work will have to be done by others, and I feel sure the proper men can be found to carry out the scheme. "Now, if there is any other feature of the act that is not plain to your readers, I stand ready to attempt to explaiu it personally to any one, or to do so through the columns of your paper. "Permit me to say in behalf of this plan that it has been complimented very highly by expert road builders, aud by men well posted in , work of this nature. So much impressed were our neighbors, the Marion delegation, that they practically copied my measure and passed it at the last session of the legislature without| submitting it to the voters. They have already sold their bonds, I am told, secured the funds and are now building the roads 1 down to the Horry line. The same delegation I notice by the papers i have been recently reelected to the legislature without any opposition, thus showing that the people evi dently endorse their action, aud are well pleased with the scheme. "May I ask, what are the people of Horry going to do about it? Are ! we to permit Marion to have a mo1 nopoly on the good roads, and wc I to continue under the system out , grand-fathers tolerated? "Some years ago a portion of oui i *>?t5v.?n? vnt.nd hoods to aid in the i construction of a railroad in Horry, > and gave it as an outright donation, j The venture cost the people of oui - county near $100,000 before the lasl j of it was paid. We pay our usua ) faro when riding on this road. Oui i freight rates are none the less b] 1 virtue of this donation. And yet r hear no compiaint, as it has beet - regarded as money well spent. ) "Now, when we are asked to con - tribute a like amount to the causi - of buildiug a modern highway 3 the door of every man in Horry t when we are asked to endorse i 3 scheme whereby the poor man is t i be the direct beneficiary, when w '1 4 )NWAY, S. C., THURSDA UNOFFICI Cast at 2nd Den: For Horry Gov Ad Gen. J -g?p !I'KECINCTS. 5* 2 ^ Is r s g y Wr+ a 2' sr o S< 2 2 2 P ps n n M | ? ? 3. ? a _ ? Jordanville 78 15 58 .35 Conway 119 227 267 75 Galivunts Ferry .... 89 66 100 o?j Fort Harrelson .... 11 29 23 1 < Gurley 40 12 20 2* Sanford 30 42 59 1.3 Cool Spring 67 8 69 4 Lor is 52 74 30 Homewood 40 6 t I! Bayboro .. 28 14 19 22 Farmer 26 25 27 .34 Dog Bluff 99 50 94 55 Knotty Branch ... 36 23 40 19 Adrian 61 42 54 47 Greenwood 79 22 84 17 Shell 27 9 30 5 Daisy 109 20 86 46 Cedar Grove 55 10 50 13 Green Sea 51 71 81 40 Socastee 43 20 35 26 Mar low 6 12 0 19 Withers 26 15 16 2o Floyds ) Spring Branch. > ... 54 85 98 37 Vardelle ) )ll?nch(> 50 23 . 32. 41 Hammond 85 9 87 6 Joy 15 17 26 6 Wampec 30 10 ; 16 24 Little River 5 46 2 47 Dogwood 20 12 l 10 22 Crahamville 15 7 17 5 Ebenezer .... 25 25 35 15 Taylorsville 25 4 27 1 Total . .1496 ;050 1596 929 THE JURORS Drawn Last Week to Serve at Court , Beginning on September 26th. 1. J. P. McLin, Socastee. 2. N. Tavins Lewis, Conway. 3. N. J. Cox, Bard v. 4 J. B. Hugging, Gal. Ferry, 2, 5 M. E. Smith, Loris, 2. G. 7j.\ok Russ, Daisy. 7. W: W. Shelly, Port Harrelson. 8. J Troy Barnhill, Justice. 9. L Simpson Alford, Loris, 1. 10. W. II Lewis, Allen. 11. Arnold Bell, Bayboro. 12. J. White Alford, Virgo. 13. Joseph L. Horn, Hammond, 14. J. Z. Ward, Warn pee 15. Geo M. McCracken, Conway. 1G. H. C. Lewis, Conway. 17. Ben E. Patrick, Hammond. 18. S. A. Gore, Eldorado. 19. J. C. Barnhill, Joppa. 20. H C. Cannon, Conway. 21. Jas W. Carter, Jr., Daisy. 22. G W. Ford, Nichols, 2. 23. T. Monroe Lundy, G. Ferry, 1 24. T, A. Pinner, Bucksport, 25. W. B. Woodward, Bucksville. 2G. E. S. Booth, Adrian. 1 27. Walter E. Drew, Conway. 28. Tilly M. Todd, Shell. 29. Hugh G. Turner, G. Ferry, 1. ? - - " ^ rV 30. J. Scott wrainger, wreen oea. 31. Frank Lane, Green Sea. 32. J. D. Allen, Joy. 33. J. T. Hatcher, G. Ferry, 1. 34. D. W. Graitiger, Green Sea. 35. G. M, Elliott Conway, No. 1. 30. Hamilton Jordon, Cool Spring are asked to aid in a cause to give the farmer a modern road from his home to the nearest market, when we are called upon to assist the man living in the country io increase his facilities for marketing his produce? then it is we hear this great cry against bonded indebtedness, 1 It occurs to me that if we could give away $100,000 to a set of millionairs who did not need it, and continue to pay our toll in the way of fares and freight, then weoughting i not to balk when it comes to build country roads which will perpetually belong to us. Roads that will be an everlasting source of pleasure and profit to us and our posterity, "My scheme makes the railroads, i the banks, the mills, the corporations and the property owners pay for the building of the roads. What > plan could be more fair or just? And yet, strange as it may appear, i the principal objections advanced * against this method will likely come from those who will pay the least > and be the most benefited by the ' plan. "Permit me to say one thing fur' ther. I offer it as my deliberate > and positive opinion that the bond, ing scheme is the only feasible plan - to get the desired roads in Horry " If this plan is rejected, it will be t generations before we get relief. 1 You and I will continue the balance p of our days hauling one bale of cot/ ton to market, and burdening our I mule with two sacks of guano from i station to our farm. "Either way that the election - goes, I shall feel that I have done b my duty. I am prompted solely by y a desire to see our country built up, , our farms made more attractive, a our people prosperous and happy o and our county moving forward e along progressive lines.' w 1! gf. Y, SEPTEMBER 15, 1910. AL VOTE tocratic Primary County. j ..Pro- "~ RRComjCongres.il bate Auditor. I II Judge. p J-4 r? ^ ^ ^ s ? * -w ^ : - o w? r * ? w CJ ? c We ft- p 3 ? 3- ^ 1^3^ 5-3 *? 3 r * * r1 ? c ? 3 3 [l_ 55 371 727 21," 12 48 58 31 96 2511 211" 131! 79 266 236 110 24 131 89 65; 95 59 67 87 20 20 33 7! 17 23 19 21 31 19 40 13; 46 27 21 32 12 60 58 141 20 50 12 30 65 10 16 59. 17 28 j 20 55 20 106 67 61 74 561 28 102 40 5 14 311 13 31 37 9 24 16 17 25 22 10, 18 24 38 23 34 18! 4 48 5 16 70 79 107 421 30! 119 83 65 15 42 38 21! 9 52 51 5 70 30 30 63j 28 73j 64 38 59 39 80 22; 59 43! 58 41 26 9 30 16 20 15| 7 29 101 29 103 25 56 77; 70 81 36 29 53 13! 29 37 38 28 40 82 54 68 111 11; 15 77 12 50 46 161 28 31 27 34 12 6 7 12; 3 16 9 10 33 8 14 27 25 16 33 8 151 122 39 102 84 57 66 75 62 11 24 47 51 32 11 58 67 25 83 11 17 47 55 39 27 5 8 24 6 26 17 15 22 18 24 17 20 21 20 21 4 47 41 9 14 35 17 33 4 27 15 17 7 25 10 21 11 11 15 7 5 17 12 10 20 30 35 15 19 31 18 37 25 3 5 24 23 7 5 24 1156 1380 1498.016 1133 1135 12731302 RESULTS IN THE STATE. Cole L. BIen.se, VV. VV. Moore and G. McDuflie Hampton, are t he successful Candidates for State Office. Advice by wire last Tuesday night at a late hour, showing that out of a total vote accounted for of about 1)3, 000 Cole I.* Biease had received a lead of nearly five thousand votes, showing that he wiil be the next governor of South Carolina. The same advices showed VV W Moore and C4 McDuflie Hampton to be the winners in their respective races. The last news received up to a late hour yesterday, still give the wi.cnl nn I ir >i n i in SlIUID I uouiiio, uui y <.<111 iiiuiv/i?j? . the leads of the successful candi dates. The latest uews obtainable making the vote as follows: For Governor. Cole L Blease 49,907 C C Featherstone 45,DM For Adj and Ins General. W W Moore, 63,450 J M Richardsou 30,047. For R. R. Commissioner. Jas Cansler, 41,00(5 G McDuflie Hampton, 48,543 The Vote in the 6th District. The returns from the counties in the 6ih congressional district, shows ihat J E E.lerb) lias likely been reelected to the National House of Representatives by a safe majority, the figures being "s follows. J E Ellerbe 7.758 P A Hodges 6,670 THE SECOND PRIMARY. J. S. Vaught is Elected' Probate Judge N and Ellerbe Ix?ads Not Only in Horry, but in the District. By reference to the table of the votes cast for county candidates in the second primary, J S. Vaught is elected J udge of Probate, J E. Ellerbe carried the county in the race for congress by a good lead over P. A. Hodges. It was seen from the Oust that the race for County Auditor between N. C. Adams and C. E. Barker would be very close, Up to a late hour on Tuesday night, Adams was about 50 votes in the lead. On Wednesday morning with all ex"^ nnfo Vl i> n 1?/1 I fl'r.m A /I - UO^JU 1IVO pi tL<iuiiuo m-ui w I > will, HU ams was only 25 i 11 the lead. A report was circulated on the street that the vote at Little River, Dogwood and Nixonville would give Barker a majority of three or four votes leaving the result to be determined by Ebeuezer and Taylorsville. Finally all the votes were in except Taylorsville, and this gave Barker a majority of 10, As we go to press the vote from Taylorsville has been received, giving Barker a majority of .'H. A Man With Iron Nerve. ^ ? 11 11 ji ... ? maomitaoie win ana energy art never found whore Stomach, Liver Kidneys and Bowels are out of ordei If vou want these qualities anc the success they bring, use Dr Kind's Now Life P.ills, the matchless regulators, for Keen brain ant strong body. 25c at Norton Druj Co. ? m m Gathered by a Herald Man on His Rounds. CAUGHT ON THE BOUNCE. * ? ??nthor^H hv 3ira V l>ll? %J I l^v TT a ? the Wayside for tlie Information and Instruction of klvraul Readers- llappctilnu? of Interest About the City. John I1 11joks and W 1* H ooks, of Klovds towuship, spent last Monday in Conway on business. C V Johnson and J W Johnson, both of Dog 13!uIT township, visited Conway last Monday on business. The buildings at the site of the Kanawha Lumber Corporation wore sold last week, by J M Mc Keith an, as agent for the receivers, An electrical storm came up hero on last Wednesday evening just ai dark. The display was sudden and a wo inspiring, "it played havoc with the telephone and electric light wiree, the fuses being blown out in many places. The cotton crops arc short in many parts of the county, but the farmers arc likely to got good prices for what they do raise. Tne crop is -aid to be short all over the south computed to 1 he large crops raised in recent years. While cvervone gets the highest prices when soiling at the Farmers Warehouse, Conway, one of the sellers * ill get in addition to high prices $10 in gold en account The first come and get a ticket. Farmers Warehouse, Conway, Lion liobt B Scarborough left the lirstof this week for Diilou where ne will defend young Davis, who killed attorney Ilursey, some months ago, under sensational circum > tan cos. There is quite an array of legal talent engaged for the defense as well as for the prosecution. B Edwards, formerly of llorry County but for many years, now, a citizen of Tbomasville, Ga., was in arrival in the county recently, tnd he has been spending the time visiting relatives. He was in town >ne day recently accompanied by his ~I \\T W.H who r?cif1f>s Ul'UblJOl | (I II lau II?I >.vr near the town, Mr Edwards has made a success in Georgia. Mayor H. P. Tattle has a card in this issue of tho Herald, making an nouncement of his candidacy for reelection to the office of chief Magistrate of the county seat. During the time that Mr. Little has tilled this oil ice, ho has advocated the principles of good government, and he has been tirm in the enforcement of the Town Ordinances and proved himself an officer of high executive ability. According to a notice of town election appearing in another column and election for Mayor and Aldermen for the ensuing term of two years, has been ordered to take place on September 19th. Some oitYerenees have arisen among the voters of the town in regards to pubhc improvements, and the deedon promises to be interesting fao-o. year iho town conned was divided and split on important matters corning before the body, and it is expected that each faction will have a candidate for Mayor in the tield. The Gem Theater started up again last Monday night after a rest of one week During the time manager J B Skipper kept busy in making charges in the tent and seating arrangements, which will bo appreciated by the patronage. The center poles which had obstructed tho view from same of the audience have been taken out, the screen raised and placed in better position, inclined platforms have been con structcd, and instoari ot tnc pine board benches, the audience will be seated hereafter in comfortable cane bottom chairs, and every one in the nouse will see the pictures in comfort and without obstruction. Other changes in the equipment have been promised in tho near future. ^ 9> It Saved His Leg. "All thought I'd lose mv leg, "writes J: A. Swensen, of Water town, Wis, Ten years of eczema, i . 1 " J 1 ~ ^?i i /i Und 1 IKvli 1<) U(H?tUI'8 UUUiu uwv V/U. hum at last .'aid mo up. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salvo cured it, sound and well Infallable for Skin Eruptions Eczema, Suit Rheum, Boils, Eever sores, Burns, Scalds, Cuts, and Piles, 2f>o at Norton Drug Co, j ) For Mayor of Conway. I hereby annouuee myself a cunt didate for reelection to the oflice o . Mayor of the Town of Conway - promising to advocate the san*t 1 principles which huvo actuated m< jj in the past, if reelected. H. P. Little. . -J No 2:i What About the Bridges? Just now tiiero arc sev ?r.i 1 iin portant matters on baud, any of thc?!n worthy of I ho undivided interest of every progressive citizen The question or voting conns 101* internal improvements in ihe town I of Conway; the voting of $100 000.00 I in bonds for the building of go >d I roads in llorry County; the build- I ing of a new railroad across the I county from west to east. I>ut I c- I I sides these there is the new uridgj I to be erected across the Waceamaw I Kiver, and one across the Dec Dee I out of the surplus money left from I the new court house and jail. As to I the other matters mentioned ih? y I are still to be decided by the people j but in so far as those bridges are J concerned, they have already been 1 provided for, and there is nothing to do but to build them. The larger inierpriscs may be of I more importance, but it is a fact, that things of large importance are often cast aside, by reason of delay in pel forming some minor thing. Por many months the building commission h.is been done with its-duties concerning the new court house and jail. If they have anything to oc cupy them at this time except the expenditure of the money in the erection of tho bridges, we have I teen unable to find out what it is. The public are already enquiring, land if there is anything in tho way, , the commissioners should gel it out las quickly as possible, b gin the | construction of the bridge, and thus j lend encouragement to the people I in the election on the bonds. There is always a tendency to delay in the I workings of a public hoard Men ! who compose such a body are men | of affairs, who have little time to impure. In this instance we ask tho members of the commission to let the public actuate them to spare no time or opportunity to get ttie bridges started, ?? Lost a (loot! Horse, Mr A L Proctor, the carrier on iho rural route leading out from Conway, lost a line mare by a stroke of lightning, during the.'electrical storm that came ue last Wednesday evening. Lightning struck in the top of an oak true, from which tho mare was standing about forty foot away, and the auimal was instantly killed. This makes the second work I animal that Air Proctor has lost during the last few months. Notice Voters Ward 2. Notice Is heveby given that Uiero # will be a meeting of the voters of Ward 2 held at the rooms of W iccatnaw Club on Friday evening at S o'clock. The purpose of said meeting is to re-organize the Democratic Club, to 11 ( M111 i J. l L t_" <v will u*;u un oaiu ?uin, and to transact, such other business as may bo legally brought before it. By order of, D A Spive.y, Chairman. James Adams Show. It has been a long time since the people of Conway have had the pleasure of witnessing such high class vaudeville as that presented by the James Adams Co., every night of last week. From the begining to the end it was a good, clean show and notwithstanding the members of company labored under adverse circumstances bv reason of the very inclemenb weather which prevail* d almost t he entire wot k yet they slighted nous:- of their wo ? and only once was the per for mace cut short. The costumes worn by the members of the c >mpany wevo exquisite in design, b autiful in texture an.l made a scene of bewildering splendor. Each member is a star in their own specialty and wero ei eor? d liberally by their enthusiastic audiences. The dancing and singing by Pickett and Whippier is far above the average. The stunts of Robinson and Parthan captivated our people Miss Par than showed perhaps to better advantage as Kitty in "Down on the Farm" because it gave her bettor advantage to display her coyness and the simple unaffected sweetness of a young country lass. Harry Harkins as a single dancer cannot* be surpassed, and his characters wore appreciated; while the sweet songs of Miss Bessie Four idea were I with :i n vthos .in 1 fee'ino" %< r - - ? - _ - - 0 tbat marks her high up xu her profession. Of course Sam V. Hunter, ' e black face comedian is the star of the aggregation aroiii d which ail th> other stars revolve and kepi lus a dirr.coin roars of laughter from s'n-t to (inish, Charles M, Hunter can almost make a piaro ta'k. Our people will be glad to learn 1 that the manager promised to give a return engi.g mout at. an early date, and the sooner will Conway ho better pleased. A series of special Evangelistic f services is to b ;.in at the Baptist , church next 4th Sunday, Rev J E 3 Bully,termer pastor at Ilendon, Vn , ? now of Saluda, will as.s'st in tiio services. The public is cordially invited to attend, *