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^ * VOL XXV. ?????? nil n! X The Girls' Rural Home Mak I ing Club Organizing. CONTEST OPENTO ALL 6IRLS The Girls of Horry Are Banding: Themselves Together Into Girls' .Rural Home Making Clubs for the Purpose of Improving and Making Home Beautiful as Well as Perfecting Themselves in the Science of Domestic Economy?Their Undertaking is a Most Worthy One and Should be Encouraged by the Fathers and Mothers of Horry. The rural school girls of Horry county are to have a chance at priz* ea wiih the corn club boys this year. The name of this club will be known as the Girls' Rural Home Making club and meetings will be held at same time with the boys corn club which will meet perhaps on Friday after Thanksgiving day, November, 1911. Time and arrangements of mooting will be published later. Prizes will be awarded in the following subjects: 1. Cooking. Girls 15 to 21, best cake, first and second prize. Girls 15 to 21, best preserves, one prize. Girls 10 to 15, best small pan of ccoked biscuits, first and second prize. Girls 10 to 15, best pickles, one prize. g II. Pyrography or burnt wood * work, f Girls 10 to 21, one prize. * III. Basketry, Girls 15 to 21, one prize. Girls 10 to 15; one prize. IV. Fancy work. Girls 10 to 15, first and second prize. Girls 15 to 21, first and second prize. All the above will be cash1 prizes and the amount of each prize will be published after October 15, 1911. The prizes will be ready aud eacli will be a valuable one. i V. Composition, on how to make ? ' 1 * * A. LI. and Keep a rural norao comiornuie and beautiful on the most economical plan. One prize a gold medal. Girls entering this contest may decide for themselves as to what 0 kind of cake, biscuits, picklos or preserves to make. You may use any recipe you like, get advice from . mother??, but the cooking must be alone by the girls themselves. Practice on parts of contestants will be her greatest aid in winning a prize. In Pynograpby, or burnt wood work, and basketry, the quality and beauty of the work will be the greatest consideration. In the fancy work, the neUtness of the work as 10 the stitch, etc, and the piece that wf! be of greatest service in the rural home will be considered rather v than the elaborateness of the work. ^ Girls, may dtcido what kind of a ^ piece to do and must do the work f themselves. , In writing composition, both th^ interior and exterior of the home, * including yard, may be fully discussed, especially the cleanliness 2, the kitchen and beautifyiu^ the v k itch eh yard, Monev for the above orizes is be ing and will be Raised by subscrip/ tlon.s from any one who feels like giving something to encourage the rural school girls in Horry county. ^ The following ladies are working up the different sections of the county getting subscriptions for this enterprise: Miss C F Dubose, of Nichols, Fioyds, Spring Branch, Wanamiker; Mrs Saliie Hard wick, of A Wampee and adjoining sections; Mrs 13 F McGougau and Miss Essie Derhnm, of Green Sea, Green Sea and adjoining sections; Misses Sadie and Ueba Dusenbury, of Port Harrelson, and Miss Ida Moore of Conway, are to work up all lower half of county; and myself, Loris, Athens And other adjoining sections. These ladies may ask any one else to help them in this work, take names and amounts paid by each person and send to me by October IB, 1911. It will not be possible for us to see anu usk every one pertiups, that would wish to help to raise this prizeimoney, in this case just hand or send money to one of the above ladies with name and we assure you w it will be appreciated by the entire clubs of home makers. xsow girls enter this contest at once and do your best. Each country girl of Horry county has a chance to win several of these prizes and we hope to hav* you all enter. Any one entering this contest must send her name to the county organizrr, N'.chols, S. C., by Octo' ber 1, 1911, saytbg that she wished to enter the contest for prizes. Please be sure to mention which Surprise Wedding, Miss Maude Belle Htrper, of Vin< land, N. C., and Mr. J. B. Pitman, of Conway, were married last Tours ; day afternoon, by Dr. W, J. Lang sion, at the Baptists Parsonage, j It was somewhat of a surprise wedding, Miss Haiper being in Conway on a visit to friends, and who seemed to have been kept in the dark, until the ceremony had been perform' ? J eu. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Harper, c;f Vineland, N. C , and'is a very char ming young lady, possessing many of those sweet traits of character and bearing that never fail to endear her to her many friends. Mr. Pitman is the efficient agent of the Western Union Telegraph Cprnpauy at Conway, with whom he holds a remunerative position. They are at present occupying rooms at the Kingston Hotel. A Japanese at the Methodist Church. Last Sunday MrBuchi Muraoka, < f, Hiroshima, Japan, but novv a student in Vandrrbuiit University, Nash vill*\ Tenn., addressed the Epvorth League at 4 o'clock in the afternoon ana a good size congregation at night Both addresses were highly ' MM/lt 1 IT** 1UOIL UV^UX V Vs? Mr Muraoka came to this country eleven years ago while still a Buddhist but was soon after converted and joined the Methodists, He then came east to enter WofTord College in Spartanburg, S. C., where be graduated in since then he has been preparing for the ministry at Vanderbilt Uuiversity. Aftbr two years more he ex peels to return to his native land to preach the gospel of Christ to his own people. Death of Mrs J II Oliver. Mrs. Annie Oliver, the wife of J H. Oliver, departed this life on last Tuesday, after a lingering illness, and after all that was possible for loving friends and relatives to do to save her life, had been done. She leaves her husband and several small children to rnourn the loss of a wife and mother. The interment took place at the LakeSide cemetery in the presence of loving friends and relatives. Mrs. Oliver had those traits of character which endeared her lo the community, and she was ever a faithful wife and mother. The sympathy of the entire neighborhood goes out to the bereaved husband and children in this their sad loss.' Conway Tobacco Market Leads. That tobacco on the Conway market has been briuging very fancy prices, is proved by reference to the following list of farmers who so'd their crop here recently, in quantities and at the prices as stated: J. F. J hnson, 105 pounds 29 j J F, Johnson, 50 pounds 19c J. F. Johnson. 100 pounds 13e. D, S. Creel, 309 pounds 15c. D. S. Creel, 200 pounds 2 1c, E. T. Lovel, 100 pounds 17<\e. Daniel Kabon, 21)0 pounds 19c H. B. Jordan, 478 pounds 2oc. ?f. D. Fid wards, 104 pounds 14c J. D. Edwards, 07 pounds 22>e. J. D. Eiwards, 187 pounds 14.]c. Conway Methodist Church. Services for Sunday September 3rd: Sunday School at 9:45 a in P?'#?nr?hincr ?.t. 11 am f.Jloivorl hv t.lrn administratioa of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Epworth League at 4 p m. Preaching at, 8 p rn Prayer meeting on Wednesday night Preaching at Hoinewood on Sunday at 4 p m. Welcome to all. Funeral Notice. Editor Herald: Please announce through the columns of your paper that Rev Joshua Harrelson will preach the funeral of old Uncle Jim Todd's wife on the second Sunday in September at the Mishoe cemetery in the Michael section. W F Prince. prize or prizes you wish to compete for Conway has in the past, and will in the future, we hope, sec that the corn club hoys are not loft without prizes, and this year Lor is and the rural sections of the county will see that the girls have a chance equally as good as the boys. I spent two very pleasant days in Loris a few weeks ago, and in less than two hours work had bv sub scription eighteen dollars and twenty cents for prize money. This, as well as numerous other enterprises being made by the people of Loris, shows that she is not only interested in tho up-building of this growing little town, but that * she i? determined to see all Horry county march up in the front ranks of prosperity. Lettie Harrelson, County Organizer, S. T. A. mm CONWAY, S. C., THURS IB IBB B Offering to Buy Valuable Land Below Its Value. THINK WELL BEFORE SELLING While Ilorry People Extends a Hearty Welcome to All Person Who Desire to Settle Among Them for the Purpose of Battering rl heir Condition and Lend a Helping Hand in the Grand Scheme of Development, They Have No Boom for Those Who Go About Seeking Those Whom They ? May Devour. would seem thatout-s-de peop.e especially in Marion, Marlboro, Dillon, and other noarbv counties, have awakened to the p issibilities to be found in Horry soil as an investment. Many of them have purchas ed. a very few for the purpose if making homes, hut the great majority of them, it seems, are buying for speculation. It would be well to warn the Horry farmer, to go slow in selling his farm, no matter who his proposed purchaser m-'y b\ for ho may rest assured that he will not be able to obtain other lands, either in this county or elsewhere, as good as those ho sold, for anything like the same money. The real estate dealers from the other counties, may offer what seems to him as a very attractive price, ard if the Horry farmer does not take good time to think about what he 's doing, he may be tempted to part with his farm, and later he may learn by sad experience, that he parted with a fortune, and the only thing of great intrinsic value that he ever owned. Be careful in deal ing with the speculator, because tie is bound to know about the value of your land than you know yourself, and it is to his interest to buy as much below the real value as he can. In many cases he will not trade unless he is sure of selling again, ard that soon, at a large profit. Will Be Open Till September 12tfc. The Myrlle Beach Hotel will remain open until September 12. 1.1111. A special reduced rate of $2.50, including room and meals, from Saturday supper, including Monday morning breakfast and will remain in force over Seprember 3, Sep tern * 'k "?> * /"x r jv # i bor in. rno a u u oners special week-end excursion rates from all stations, good returning Monday, and a most er joyablo outing can.be had at a small eo^. Reduced rates for children. The Sunday train will bo operated on the 3rd and 10th of September? two more Siyidavs. St John & Son, Managers. Myrtle Reach, S. CIn Loving Memory. Mrs Elizabeth McDowell, wife'if Thomas McDowell, of Collins Creek, S. C , died at the residence of Jas Murdoch on August. 10th, 1911. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Anthony MuckledulT and was born < February 3, 1823. She joined tie Methodist Episcopal Chuch South and remained therefor several yeaws j and then moved her membership to I the Missionary Baptist Church where she remained until the end came. She was a consistent worker in the church as long as she wr.s able to attend and was loved by all who knew her. I She has been unable to get arourd for more than a year only in the house and her health grew gradual ly worse until at last she took dropsy from which she suffered until the ' good Lord called her home to live ! with Him in heaven. The funeral services were con- , ducted by Rev El. K. Marlow and ! her remains were laid to rest in the Collins Creek cemetery to await the the resurrection morn. Oh, let me then this God employ, I To pardon all my sin, And open to me the heavenly door And let me enter in. I know there's room enough for all, Who truly wish to come, So God 1 will my father call, And that sweet place my home. j Eliza Murdoch. 1 _ _ _ . i < Fair Notice. 1 September 7th, 1911, is adayset ' aside to clear oiT the Boyd cemetery, 11-4 miles from Lor is. The public j is cordially invited, Come one, come all. We want the ladies to come, too, as well as the men folk<w J A Heniford, 1 Loris, S. C. ] it Mic VQ 5DAY, AUGUST 30. 1911. Inforinatian Given. Editor Herald: Please allow ino space for a few words as information for "Taxpayer." It brings about the old adaye the jaded Jade will wince and the hit bird will Mutter arul as lam hit, hence the flu iter. . t ? s ?i. i. _ ? .. .u,.i >irp? Vlt4 I J3v.ll/ J w 155Q to tut*i x ua |/uj or" is in bis rights when be asked to know where and how the public money is being used and he should be promptly and courteously informed not only hi 111 but every taxpayer (whether large or small) has the right to ask and know, lie is also right in saying he heard me advocating the publicity of all the financial a Hairs of the town. 1 did then and do now sincerely believe that publicity is the bo.'.t dose for any public affair and especially the financial dep irtment. VVnen the present council was organized there were three new members and wo were further handicapped by the resignation of the clerk who had served the outgoing council, so we had to got a new clerk, and 1 well remember about the first woriv we did after he had qualified, was auditing' uf a lot oi claims vs Lite town of which some were hardly legible, a great many not itemized unci none sworn to, and what was worse there sieraed to be some doubt as to whether some cf them had d en paid or not, and the cleric said he had no way 01 finding ?.ul, so after seeing this jumble of all'airs 1 thought this ought and was a better system ol adjusting such au important affair as auditing claims va the town, so at the next meeting of the council f recommended two ordinances which were passed and is now a law of the town. First, that hereafter no claims should be paid unless made out on a regulation Oiank furnished by town, itemized and sworn to. In this ordinance there was intended a double purpose. First, as an aid to the clerk in keeping his accounts neatly and correctly. Second, as an aid and restraint to the claimant The other made work for the clerk and was thai all receipts and disbursements of the town should be itemized and published at least every month, and the cierk instructed to make the best arrangements he oouid with either of the papers for publishing the same. Mow, Mr "Taxpayer" you must remember that the town council is the legislative branch of the town government and here their power ends. 1 hope 1 have humbly and clearly made myself plain to "Taxpayer" and everybody else. Yours very truly, S. T. Sessions, ? Death of Mrs llattic McCracken. On Saturday night, August 19th, 1911, the death angel visited the home of it W Met! rack en and took from him his loving wife, Flattie McCracken. She was fcho daughter of Mr and Mrs IJ. S Chestnut. She leaves a husband, aud a little sou about three weeks old, a father and mother, live brothers, three sisters and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss., but we hope our loss is her eternal gain She was a good wife and a kind friend and was loved by all who knew her. Her remains were laid to rest the following Monday at Hickory Gro^e church near her old home. It seems so hard to give her v>p but the good Lord knew best. Oh, it is so hard for us to know that she is gone and can never return to us. May God help us to meet her in that beautiful land beyond tlie river of death. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the. bereaved ones and may the good Lord help thorn in their sore/ bereavement. Her loving noice, Delia Chestnut. ? Coleman Chestnut Dead. Coleman Chestnut died at his home on the 17th of this month after a lingering condition of nearly three years. He was near the age of seventy-eight years when he died and was a hard working man and u good farmer. His body was laid to nr. the Mountain gravevard * v w w j*'" "* w r-> ? %/ near the old homestead. He leaves x widow, two boys and four girls bo mourn their loss. May ihe dear Lord comfort and sustain the aged widow in her declining years till she is relieved of her troubles here below. The Lord giveth and the Lord laketh, blessed be the name of the Lord. His Uncle, A King Who Left Home set the world 1o talking, but Pan Vlathulka, of Buffalo, N Y., says he dways KELPS AT HOME the King ->f all Laxatives?Dr King's New Life Pills?and that they are a bless ng to all his family. Cure constipation headache, indigestion, dyspepsia. Only 25 cents at Norton Drug 3o. Rev W R Barnes, of Bucksville, was in Conway on business last Monday, A Www Gathered by a Herald Man on His Rounds. CAUGHT 0N~THE BOUNCE. Strav Bit* of New* Gathered t>y file Wayside for tlxo Itiforniatiou and Instruction of Herald Kcadcrs-HnppciiiiiKS of Interest About the City. 5 or <? doses "(>(>()" will cure anv case of Chills and Fev< r. Price V* Mrs A. S. Poalc relumed home Saturday from Charleston. Col D A Spivov hac been spending a short vacation at HendersonviHe, N. C M?*and Mrs John Thompkins were in Conway lust Thursday on business. F A Stalvoy paid the Herald ollice a pleasant call ou the latter part of las'; week. The cotton crops of the farmers are generally good, and a good crop in this county is expected. John Daniels, returned the latter part, of last week from a week spent at Hendersonvilie, N. C. W E Marsh, one of our prosperous farmers near Conway, spent last Monday in Conway on business, Mrs. A, li. Collier, of Surry county, Va , is visiting her sister Mrs. A. B. McCoy, on Laurel Street. C F Brown was in Conway on business one day the lirst of this week, accompanied by one of his sons. Our outire stock of dry goods, huts, shoos, and ladies dress goods and tr?minings still g >ing at your own price at New York Racket Store, W. D. Cox and J. J. Rhuark, of the Hamuli no > ction, were both in Conway iuc I Wednesday on bu?iness. Chief L it Ambrose returned the latter part of last week from a vacation j-potit in the mountains of North Carolina* D Tj Davis has reopened his shoe repairing shop at the old stand and would be pleased to see his old and new customers. Our fall Hue of dry goods and notions are in. Come and gi3t your choice before they are picked over New York Racket Store. J E and J W Dawsey have formed a co-partnership and will conduct, an up-to-date jewelers' business at the same old stand. F A Burroughs returned the latter part of last week from Henderson ville, where he had spent several days in recreation. Dr D T Riley will purchase a lor. at Myrtle Beach, and will no doubt m'cei a cottage thereon in time for i he season of 11112. D. T. McNeill, Jr., left Wednesday for Georgetown in the interest of the Southern Magazine Agency of which he is manager. i - i l j A severe siorm secmeu to inreaLer the first of tbis week, but the winds gradually went down and 110 signs of a storm now appear. D T McNeill, Jr., has returned from Norfolk and points north. Ho is here on business and will return to Norfolk in a few days, JTMishoe, the obliging railroad agent for the Coast Line at Conway, is spending a vacation of several weeks at Hendersonville, N. C. Miss Helen McCoy, who has been visiting relatives in Surry county, Va , and Eden ton, N. C., for the past two months, has returned home. Miss Kafcberino Doak and Mr Sidney and Alex Doak spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs D T McNeill 1 at their summer homo at Singleton Swash. Among the\ew purchasers of lots - - itr i a tr . at Ivlyrtlo IJeacn is Mr vv jus i\mg, of the Conway Savings Bauk. H* is the purchaser of a very nice build ing lot facing the ocean. M. B. Anderson recently sold on the Conway market, some of the li- , nest watermelons ever raised on Horry soil. They were unimformly large and well flavored. W tJ Hawriraore, oue of the most ( progressive farmers of the Forney , section of this county, visited 'Con way the first of this week. He is blessed with a good crop this year. . E. J. Roberts and wife, of Dog ; Bluff township, were in Conway la^*. 1 woek on business. Mr. Kobcrts is * among tho progressive farmers of that section of our county. ' i Mr and Mrs W W Jones, of Mullins past through Conwav the first of this week, after spending a week at i Myrtle Beach. They were guest of ] Mr and Mrs C B Dusenbury, during their stay there. . ' 1 > " m ' y *- ') v3,'r:v'" 1 8 .V-r No 21 NOTICE. Owing to a wreck on the main line of i the A (.' L., between Florence and Marion, a shipment of paper failed to reach 1 us in time for this week's edition and in order to catch the country mails the Herald is forced to go to its subscribers half its usual size. These delays and accidents are very aggravating and annoying, but as they cannot be avoided in this life of disappointments we can only grin and endure them. 38 MAGAZINES FOR 36 GTS THJIAY'S M An A r/I\3 1/ UOMr LM'K MAGAZINE?both one year for only .T! Cents, retail value $1 ?9. 1) T McNEILL, JR., Conway, S C, Mr and Mrs U" A Dusenbury *novod to their now residence on the corner of 5th Avenue and Laurel St. last Tuesday. The business of Dusenbury & Co at Toddville will of course run on as it has before, in charge of generul manager J P 11 arper. Mr W P Vick is no longer with the Now York Racket Store but don't nass us by because he is not in. You will got the same goods for the least money. Yours, C. E. Barker, Pros and Mgr N. Y. Racket Store. If vou got a statement, please give it your attention, and send us something to apply on the account. If you liud it impossible to pay now, write us and we will gladly give extension until the cotton crop is coming in. We mu;t Insist on this and we trust that those who are owing us will not ask any further notice. Owing to an accident to the Caroli nil loot', ynniloif tli?? iinntir ? lin i & 11 (v iuo i1 ?.jvi u vuvjr ? iut uv t* iiu were on their way to attend the unveiling af the VV O VV monument to the late Mr Kdgar \ra-on, did not reaclh thfir domination. The steamer , <> j nnmed on some s tumps at lVach To < *, and all c Torts failed to get her clV uet'l high tide. It was then too late to proceed, and the boat returned to Con way. Mr. M. ft. Anderson one day last weea, made the Berald a present of a watermelon which was quite a curiosity in its way, nothing like it ever having been seen here, so far as we know or believe. By those who saw it at the office, it was called a twin waterme.on, because it bad two buds or (lowers, and two w??ll defiucd interiors well ii I led with line llavored meat, the two insides divided by a partition of rino. All of this was covered with a rind, and the whole thing was carried on but one stem. The melon was white colored on the out-side and was of healthy growth throughout. How to Prepare Cotton for Market. Norfolk, Va,, July 11), 1911. The Norfolk and Portsmouth Cotten Fxrhungc views with alarm the abuses that have grown up in proparing cotton for market and deem it our duty to protest against these anuses, to state vv hat they are, and how they can be corrected. The troub'oa have appeared in the last few years and have grown each year, The loss which primarily is paid by the giuner and producer of cotton, incidentally reaches the mill agents, exporters aid mills. The abuses are these: First, t?e excessive us of bagging; second, weight of bagging used; and third, the weight of the bales. Regarding the excessive use of bagging, each bale should be covered on the upper and lower sides, in ihe press box, and on the heads, and no more. The quantity of cov oring considered sumcieui 10 cover a bale is 22 pounds, which includes bagging and bands, and any excess over this will be deducted. Second: As to the weight of the bugging used, it was only a few years ago when the bagging weighed 1 3-4 pound*, 2 pounds and 2 1-4 pounds to the yard, the heaviest being 2 1-4 pounds; now we hear of bagging weighing A and 4 pounds per yard. This is selling bagging and not cotton. We would strongly protest against anything heavier than 2 1-4 pounds, and in cases where the bagging exceeds 2 1-2 pounds we advise the ginnors that just claims and deductions will be made against such excessive weight. Third: The light weight bales have become more in evidence as the heavy woight bugging has increased, While there are rules against bales of cotton under 400 i ?r?n n/l < !inrt 1 sales made l)Otll for domestic and foreign shipment arc required to weigh an average of 500 pounds per bale, it is urged that shipments destined to Norfolk shall average in weight as near 500 pounds poi bale as possible, because an bales weighing 400 pounds or under a deduction may bo made. These suggestion* are made purelywith a view of saving the producer iudginnerof cotton from further loss by correcting these abuses. Norfolk and Portsmouth Cotton Exchange,