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BANK OF Conwa' ' < Hfts largest capital and surplus of ai than the combined capital and surp! CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS t LIABILITIES OF STOCK h SECURITY OF DEPOSITi D1REC I filbert B. Scarborough, ? L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc< will justify, and we i (ROBERT B. BOAR BOROUGH, D President. ;4r We continue to pay 5 pel | 19 | FIRST NATK My COXWA ^ capital stock \JtmS surplus profits j ^ TOTAL ASSESTS f ^ direc e m J A. (McDermott, John C ; ji/k B. G. Collins, H. L. E i M. Burroughs, C. P. Quj Successor to the Bank ol jL Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with the recent dev f A Republic. Backed by the < jjiL United States Bonds, we are i: W tomers any reasonable acooini | A H. A. SPIVEY, 19 Cashier. PROFESSIONAL. CARDS. - H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At Law. CONWAY, S. O. | /' ! \ ' R, B. SCARBROUGH CONWAY, s. O. Attorney at Law. S HL H. BURROUGHS PhyilcUn and Snrgeoa .CONWAY, 8. C. B. WOPFORD WAIT. ' Attorney at La/, Bank of Horry Building. OONWAV, S. O. WE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE; fc J-IGHT RUNNING^ V\ mm ./ |fyoo wnnt either ft Vlhmt!nffHhuttle,Rotni? ^ Shuttle or aHln^lo Thread [Chain{Hitch! / Sewing Machine wrlto to ' m SCW NOME 8EWIN0 MACHINE COMPASS Orange, Mass* fl?nj sr wring machines are made to sell reetmtteaa (f jaiHty, but the New Home Is made to weasi Oar guaranty never runs out. Srti If Authorised dealers toa SALS BV ^ tlURROUGHS dfc COIjIilNS CO., Conway, 8. O. Was Dynamite Cap. Ralph Johnston, of Atlanta, whose age is eleven, and whose mind is of the inquiring, scientific type, found a little shiny copper tin whistle Wednesday morning, lying n the road, lie blew on it for a whistle, pressing it perpendictnarly, as all boys know ?^how beneath his under lip. Then he took a hammer and tried to break it open at the bottom. It tore otf two of his fingers, for the whistle was a dynamite cap. ? ? Weeds Kill a Child. ( Alexander Sarni, three years of 1 age, is dead and eight other children ' of Kittoning, Pa., are in a serious I condition from eating poisonous i weeds, which they thought were dan- 1 dolions. - < ' HORRY, y* S, C. ny bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county. . . ..$50,000 .. 12,500 holders .... 60,000 ors .. ...... 112,600 ;tors D. V. Richardson; W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. smmodation which their accounts inlirit vnnr Kiisinpss. . V. Richardson, will a/fbeemab Vice President. Cashieb r cent, on yearly deposits. 3NALBANK| lY, S. O. X $25,000.00 ^ 2.500.00 : 125,000.00 jfe TORS: 2? 3. Splvey, D. T. McNeill, dfljl luck, W. R. Lewis, D. dfk attlebaum, D. A. Spivey. 3jr I Conway, the oldest Bank in A in Eastern Carolina. Cloie- VL elopment of the Independent Lrovernmeut and secured by ?repared to extend to our cue- jjI nodations. B. G. COLLINS, A President. ^ \ GIVEN A BOOST ? SOUTHERN RAILWAY ISSUES AN ATTRACTIVE BOOKLET. Cyliaracter of tlio Soils to Be Found in This State and Other Interesting Information Given. South Carolina is given a boost in a handsome booklet issued by the Southern Itailway company, descriptive of the advantages of this State from an agricultural standpoint and I the opportunities hero that await the industrial investor and business man. The State will be widely advertised by the publication of this booklet as it will be given a large distribution throughout the North and We&t 'among just the class of thrifty farmers who are most desired as settlers. The land and industrial department of the Southern is getting out la series of such booklets dealing I with the different State covered by the Southern and affiliated lines. The South Carolina booklet is well got ten up and fully illustrated. Its pages contain a large quantity of interesting information which cannot fail to attract the attention of the farmer seeking a location in a favored climate where excellent lands can he bought cheaply and farm work can be carried on from January to December. I Detailed Information is given as to tho character of soils to be found in South Carolina, the sections of the State best adapted to different crops, and the largo yields which have rewarded intelligent effort. Attention is called to the great Increase in corn production and the position of the State as a producer of cotton, tobacco, rice and small grains is set forth. The success that has been won by fruit growers, truck farmers, and stockmen is shown as indicating the opportunities that South Carolina offers to those wishing to engage in these industries. As this booklet was Issued with t.lifi imriiiisr* of nMrartinir tn South Carolina desirable settles from outside the South, it will not be circulated in the South, but will be placed where it is thought the greatest Southern Railway company desires good can bo accomplished. The and appreciated the cooperation of the people of the South in its work for the upbuilding of the section and will be glad to mail a copy of this booklet to any person living in the North or West whose name and address is furnished to M. V. Richards, land industrial agent, Southern Railway, Washington, D. C. firings liig l*rice. The first, book ever printed from movable type Monday night brought the highest price ever paid for any hook. The prize was the "Guttenberg Bible," the purchaser Henry K. Huntington, of Ros Angeles, and the price was $50,000. It was sold in New York at the Hoe library sale, i ? ? 1 Collar Too Tight. At New York Rose Dogeran, a 1 cook, lay down for a nap on a sofa < In the home of a former employer 1 Thursday night and was strangled < to death by a tight collar. Her for- I mer mistress found the lifeless bady 1 with the collar drown into the skin I :>f the neck. : WILL HANG FIRE Tke Legislature May Ha?e to Settle Ike State Dispeasary Hatter THE ONLY WAY OUT Governor Hlease Says Not, and Takes the Position That the Commission Can Investigate the Old One, Himself and Felder.?New Commission to Meet Soon. The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle says the general impression is that the FelderHlease dispensary controversy will be left for the next general assembly to decide and that the entire matter will be cleared up by the passage of a resolution providing for an investigation of the charges preferred by the governor against T. 13. Folder, and the members of the old dispensary commission; Gov. Blease himself and others. That in the opinion of many is the only solution to a very complex situation that has been brought about by counter charges on the part of the governor of South Carolina, and the Atlanta attorney, T. B. Folder. The Governor takes the position that he will use the new dispensary oom/mission to investigate the old commission and himself. Under the law providing for the dispensary commission no such Investigation be held. The governor vetoed the resolution of the last general assembly which provided for an investigating committee on the grounds that his enemies were members of that part of the committee named by C. A. Smith, the president of the senate. He brought charges against well known and honest business men of the state and then denied them the right of an impartial Investigation. When the governor named the new commission, one member which is his former law partner, F. H. Dominick, he said that he had turned over his special message to the general assembly in which the charges against the old commission were contained with instructions to make a thorough investigation. This move is considered by many as the first steps toward the preparation of a post of "white wash." The members of the old commission will insist on.an investigation and will very probably petition the general assembly to pass a special measure, over the governor's veto, for this power would no doubt be applied to any measure of such nature by the chief executive. The new commission will meet in Columbia In the near future when some kind of work will be resumed, the nature of which has not been stated. B. F. Kelly, of Bishopville, the secretary of the body is in Columbia, he says doing "clerical work." When asked as to the next meeting of the commission he said that it would be held soon. When J asked if another Felder letter had been received he replied "I have not received a letter from Mr. Felder." Several days ago T. B. Felder addrpsml n lpttor tn tho pnni niissinn in which he discussed the contract by the State of South Carolina with his firm at length. In this letter he stated that he had certain information with reference to the Richland Distilling .case and pointed out the fact that by the cancelation of the contract that a large sum of money had been lost to the state of South Carolina which would have been recovered had the case been loft with Anderson, Folder, Rountree & Wilson. Now the now commission has asked Mr. Felder to divulge this information at a meeting to be held soon. Those familiar with the proposition point to the fact that just this information was the kind that T. B. Felder was receiving; pay for. It is just the kind of information that lie used in the recovery of over $ 100,000 for the state of South Carolina ( The new commission has let littie be known of what it has done ( or what it intends to do and to dis- , cuss the work of the commission is . more speculation. This definite statement, however, was made that the ( commission had not engaged a new , firm of attorneys to take the place , of Anderson. Folder, Round tree & ] Wilson, of Atlanta. The commission ( still has under consideration the question of returning about $21,000 to tlio Carolina Glass company of Columbia. The commission will also ( decide as to re-opening the glass company's case which has already ' been decided by the old commission. c ? ? i New Paper for Marion. t The people of Marion county are 1 to have a new newspaper and the s publisher thereof will he Dr. W. S. Stokes, who has been giving the Lake City folks such a good paper luring the past year. Thera has F l>een Reveral attempts to put a sec- t and paper afloat in Marion during t the last few years, but each attempt r has failed, yet the new promoters of B their paper are not at all discouraged d *nd they expect to make good. l\ SEEKING DAMAGES IMPORTANT SUIT TO KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS IN THE STATE. Policy Holders Claim That an Unreasonable Increase of Dues by Supreme Ixxige Has Been Made. A teat suit of State-wide import- j ance against the insurance department of the supreme lodge Knights of Pythias has been .filed in the Richland county court, says the Columbia State. The suit has been t n toat thr? rltrht thf> nrHpr to raise the rates on insurance of the fourth class of policyholders, i This action follows a long fight on i the part of several hundred policyholders in South Carolina, who ! claim that a prohibitive rate has been placed upon them by the ( Knights of Pythias. Two suits have been filed (Involving the same issue. The cases were brought on April fifth by Edward McC. (/lark* ' son and S. L. Miller, of Columbia, against the eupreme lodge Knights of Pythias. Tho complaint of Edward McC. Clarkson alleges that on January 5, 1885, ho filed with the Knights of Pythias in Columbia an application for insurance, and, upon the acceptance of tho application, entered upon a contract for insurance whereby it was agreed that Mr. Clarkson should pay a certain membership fee. The fee is not stated in the complaint, It being about $5 per month. The amount of insurance specified was $3,000, to be paid to the beneficiary upon proof of death. "That since the said date above mentioned," the complaint continues, "this plaintiff has faithfully performed the duties placed upon him by the said contract of insurance, paying all monthly dues and assess 1- -11- i - J . - ? nn.1 |? illUIlLS <IH SLipUHlttU Up LU ttllU III* eluding tho month of December, 1910. "That beginning with the first day of January, 1911, tho defendant above named increased the monthly dues above mentioned to a prohibitive amount. That said increase being so prohibitive and unreasonable as to amount to a violation of the above mentioned contract with tho plaintiff and was instituted by the defendant as a result of fraud and mismanagement on the part of the defendant and its agents and servants. "That on the tenth day of Jan- 1 uarv, 1911, this plaintiff tendered his regular monthly dues, $5.50 in 1 legal tender, to the defendant, throught its agents and servants. 1 which legal tender was then and there refused and declined and this ^ defendant's contract of insurance 1 was duly declared forfeited. ' "That by this action on the part of defendant}, the contract of in- ' surance as above mentioned was broken and this defendant deprived 1 of his rights thereunder and that by rosaon of the said breach of said contract, tlie plaintiff herein has 1 been damaged in the sum of $2,200, the said amount being that paid in 1 by this plaintiff in monthly dues 1 during the existence of said contract above mentioned and interest thereon." It is further alleged that although ! Mr. Clarkson has made demand upon the agents of the company to return the amount paid in as premiums that his requests have been ig- 1 hored. Judgment in the sum of $2,200 is asked by Mr. Clarkson 1 against the supreme lodge. ? ? + i HIS MONEY DOES TALKING. 1 ? . Russian Immigrant IiCts Ills Coin j Answer All Questions. Frederick Schneider, who arrived Wednesday from Russia with a wife and 14 or 15 of his living children, could not answer in English when asked if ho had money enough to provide for his army of Schneiders, but he replied in "American" with an eloquence that staggered the immigration officials. From the depths of various pock- c ets ho brought forth rolls of hills, c one after another, and tossed them c upon the desk at Ellis Island while officials and immigrants pressed tr around to hoar the money talk. In ] all he produced $2 6,500. \ Through an interpreter Schneider e explained that his fortune came from l he sale of a big farm near Odessa, s md that he was on his way to Glenn [Jllon, X. 1)., whither his eldest son, Christian, bad proceeded him. 1 Ship Catches Fire. r A dispatch from Pointe-a-Pitre, r jiiadaloupe, says while the French h iteamer Marconi was loading rum d ind sugar at the docks, fire b**oko h >ut in the cargo and before ti could s >e put out caused an explosion among 11 ho barrels of rum which killed one c ireman. The monetary loss s con- s dderable. Broke Up lhiggy. It baa beon learned that on last c hinday afternoon a buggy occupied r >y Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Beckham and b wo children was struck by an auto- c nobile from Kershaw near Oakhurst. v tfrs. Beckham and one of tho chil- s iren was badly bruised up. A front]7 vheel of the buggy was also broken. t< MAD CLOSE CALL \ Yoong Boy Locked op io a Car Withoit Food or Drink Foor Days SAVED IN NICK OF TIME Fie Was Senseless When the Door of r< ur?? ^.i IT A *i iiiu v ar fi OA IICHI riairu Flour Found in a Back, and His Only Drink Was Rain H? Caught Through the Cracks. When freight handlers employed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the Communipaw yards at New York unlocked a car loaded with sacks of flour Wednesday evening, an nneonseions hov foil tlirnnirli thn nn en doors to the ground. The freight handlers carried the boy to the police station and after water had been poured between his clenched teeth, ho opened his eyes and began to cry. A doctor said he was suffering from thirst and starvation. For a time the boy's condition was so serious that it was feared ho would die. His mouth and throat were tilled with dry Hour, and his tongue was swollen. The boy revived almost immediately after water was given him, and begged and pleaded for more, but under orders from a doctor only a small quantity was given him at a time. As his strength began returning the boy begged for food, declaring he was starving. After more than an hour he was strong enough to tell his story. "I have no idea how long I was old," ho began, "and I live at No. 2 63 4 East Forty-seventh street, Cleveland, Ohio. I was employed by the Ilenkel Flour Company in Cleveland, and last Thursday I was sent to a car to check off the number of flour bags that wore to be shipped. I was checking off the bags with the door open, when suddenly a brakeman came along and shut the door and locked it. "I pounded and screamed to be let out, but the man did not come back. I felt the car moving and screamed until I lost all power to make a noise, and then I pounded on the door. "I have no jdea how long I was in the car. I got so hungry I was weak. I broke into a sack of flour and took great mouthfuls of it. Then I got thirsty and the more flour I ate the more thirsty I got. "It began to rain. I could hear the water falling off the car, and I took my handkerchief and stuck it through a crack in the door. When the handkerchief got wet I would drag it back and moisten my lips. As long as it rained I kept my handkerchief out of the crack. "To get my handkerchief back through the crack In the door always squeezed most of the water from it, but I managed to get a few drops. I did this all the time it was raining on Friday, Friday night and Saturday, but the flour made me thirstier, and I was so hungry I had to eat something. When the rain stopped 1 round my moutn and throat so parched that I couldn't speak, much less cry out. I was simply choking to death. "Whenever the train stopped I would beat at the door, but somehow my car always was far away from the station or where there was a swjtollman or brakeman. "I could see through the crack in the door wliq-n we got to stations. At Baltimore I managed to attract the attention of a man and he stoppod at my car. I tried to speak to him but couldn't. I was so thirsty, *nd he passed on, thinking some cat:le were in the car. "I don't remember much after hat. I just lay down on the flour nicks and got ready to die. I can't "omember anything more until 1 got lore." The Jersey City police got into 'onvmunlcation with Cleveland, and earned that young Colden had been eportod as missing from home. An examination of the flour sacks show ?d that one or tnem naa oecn oroicon >pon. The boy was taken to the Oakland < ivenue police station for the night, i doctors who examined him said he s vould recover, but that had he stay- i d in the car another day he would 1 ?ave died from thirst. When he is j trong enough he will he sent home. < ? ? ? ? Took n Long Walk. 1 Txivey Jones has returned to Co- 1 umbia after a walking trip of 2,000 niles to Oklahoma City, Okla., and eturn. He left Columbia last Octo?er and has been walking since that t late. Tie says that he will write a 1 ?ook about his trip. He has a book j igned by over 2 00 postmasters and 1 uayers of the different towns and I itiee ho visited on the way. He 1 ays that he spent $00 011 the trip. 1 ? ? I The Tallest Yet. Plans were (lied Tuesday for the onstruction at Proadway and Park Mace in New York of the highest t uilding In tho world. From the t urb to the apex of tho tow^r It f Mil stand 750 feet and contain 55 1 tories. Tho Metropolitan tower is r 00 feet, 3 inches, and tho Singer t Dwer 612 feet. i SPAIN AFTER MEXICO KILLING OF SPANIARDS CAUSE OF FORMAL PROTEST. Assassinated by Rebel Rand Because They Refused to Contribute to the Revolutionary Movement. Si>aln, through her minister to Mexico, Bernardo Cologan, Wednesday made formal protest to the foreign office against the assassination of six subjects of King Alfonso in Puebla last Monday. Mexico now finds herself in diplomatic controversaries with three nations, as the result of incidents growing out of the revolution. It is not believed, however, that the differences with Spain and Great Britain will prove any more serious than a formal exchange of notes. Minister Cologan demands the punishment of the slayers of the Spaniards in Puebla. Minister De La Barra has expressed his deep regret that such an incident should have occurred, especially as the victims worp in nn wnv imnliffitpd in the revolution. Six Spaniards were shot and Villed Monday at the hacienda Atenc'ngo, in the State of Puebla, by a small band of rebels, following their refusal to contribute 5,000 pesos to the insurgent cause. On account of a former loss of horses and money, from this hacienda, Angel Diaz Rubian, a Spaniard, announced his intention of demanding an indemnity. The band of rebels on Monday entered a house where nine employees were assembled. The rebels demanded money and were refused. They then attacked the Spandiards with machetes and drove them from the house, crying out: "Run, for we aro going to shoot you." As they ran, six of the Spaniards dropped with bullets in their bodies. The reason assigned by the rebels for the onslaught is that a Spaniard gave information of their whereabouts to tlio authorities, who had been hard pressing them. The news of the shooting was received Wednesday morning and the Spanish minister immediately called at the foreign olllce. The Government is not ready to announce the names of the men who will represent the Government in tho peace conference and no statement has been made as to where the mooting will be held. It was announced Wednesday that the armistice would be extended lot live days and Minister De La Barra expressed hope that no further extension would be necessary, since in his belief, an arrangement will b? reached within that time. WEASELS KILLING RATS. "Uncle" Eli Wall Says He Has Hiscovered the 14Pied Piper." Eli Wall, of Mountain View, was in Columbia the other day, and as usual had a good story to tell. This time it was about a pair of weasels. "Uncle" Eli says that a pair of weasels have mado their homo in his barn and are doing the "Pied Fiper of Hemelin" act in ridding the place of rats. "Uncle" Eli says ho tried every kind of rat trap under the sun to exterminate the pests when along came the weasels and began destroying them. As soon as they have destroyed all save one pair of rats ho is going to kill them, as he is an aid Hint when thov exhaust the almost unlimited store of rodents they will begin on his chickens and leav > him in a hole when the preacher comes to dine. ? ? LOST SLANIIKK SUIT. Catholic Priest Made to Pay for What lie Said. A New Haven, Conn., dispatch says Father Carroll, rector of the YVallingford Catholic church, must day damages of $4,000 to William Hassett, a member of the Wallingford school committee as a result of a suit for slander brought by tlvo latter. The action was the outgrowth of a sermon preached by Father Carroll in which he said the public school house was "so unsanitary that uny self-respecting American pig would commit suicide before spending an hour in that sty." Father Carroll admitted preaching such a sermon, saying ho believed the alienations to be true. The case will t)o appealed. - Very Strange Find. The body of an Indian hoy with wo heads, four arms and four legs vas discovered in a cave near Okmulgee, Okya., Wednesday by a farmer >oy while hunting. The body is nearly five feet tall and the arms reach aelow the knees. The flesh 011 the Dones has dried and apparently thoro las been no decay. Fight Boll Weevil. An appropriation of $200,000 for ho mirnose of fluting tho ravages of he cotton boll weevil is provided 'or in a bill introduced Monday by Representative Tribble, of Georgia, rhe Secretary of Agriculture is auhorized by the bill to direct the vork.