The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 01, 1912, Image 4
HAVE A WARM TILT
?
REPUBLICANS WASHING THEIR
SOILED MINEN.
OLD WOONDS LAID DARE
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Mondell and Norris, Taft Supporter
and Roosevelt Supporter, Exchange
Verbal Volleys on the Floor of the
House Regarding the Republican
Convention at Chicago.
Republican political wounds were
laid bare and much bitterness was displayed
in tho house Wednesday when
Representative Mondoll of Wyoming,
a member of tho credentials committee
of tho recent Chicago convention,
which seated Taft contested deleK-ntna
nnrl RnnrosfintafiVfi Norris of
Nebraska, an ardent Roosevelt sup*
iporter, clashed in two sets. Mr.
(Mondell defended the action of the
convention while Mr. Norns denounced
it with bitter emphasis.
Once during .Mr. Mondell's speech
older was restored only when the
chair was on the point or ordering
the mace down to compel Representative
Warburton of Washington (Republican)
to take his stat. Again
that emblem of authority came near
being used to quell the turbulence
when Representative Humphrey of
Washington (Republican) declined
to cease.
Mr. Norris followed Mr. Mondell
with the statement that "a man
whoso name was known tnroughout
the country" had acknowledged that
the Taft managers had stolen delegates
from the State of Washington.
This man, he said, was now engaged
in supporting the president's candidacy
because, Mr. Norris, aided lie
entertained "political aspirations".
"When the gentleman makes such
a statement," interjected Representative
Humphrey, "he certainly should
give his authority."
'Mr. Norris declined to divulge the
identity of his informant. Ho lunged
at once into his reply to Mr. Mondell
and criticised the latter's denunciation
of "soap box primaries".
He referred to the primaries in Indi
ana, wmcn went ior laic ana wnicn
Mr. Mondell endorsed as regular.
"The gentleman loves the primary
that goes for Taft," said Mr. Norris
ironically, "but how he nates and
despises the primary that goes fo;
Roosevelt."
He defended the Washington primaries
and said that immediately following
them no charge of dishonestv
of any kind had been registered
against them. It was not until the
Taft men decided that if the primary
results were allowed to go unchallenged
the Roosevelt managers would
be within three votes of controlling
the jjjtate convention, ho declared
that "secret meetings were hold and
Taft delegates named.
"The action of the committee In
Chicago," said Mr. Norris, addressing
the Democrats, "are in favor of Democratic
success. They did more to
bring about the possibility of Democratic
victory than the Democratic
party ever did or ever was competent
to do. The Taft Republicans and Mie
machine Democrats are together 'two
souls with but a single thought; two
hearts that beat as one'. When your
convention inot in Baltimore, your
temporary chairman in his 'Keynote
speech' devoted all of his time to an
attack on Roosevelt and paid no attention
to Taft. There is another evidence
of the fusion and union."
Mr. Norris drew Democratic applause
when he said that it was conceded
"confidentially, at least, by all
Republicans," that President Taft
could not be re-elected. Ho aided
4 n 4 b r\ /I /-\n f " m ti 1 ti r-r r\ n n
i nut nit" jn roiuciu i uiiuiiip, wit ci
rumped up nomination", could only
/esult in votes for tho Democratic
candidate.
"Everybody knows the fight is between
Roosevelt and Wilson," ho declared.
Mr. Mondell made specific denial of
the claims of the Roosevelt managers
that their candidate had been im
properly deprived of delegates in the
Chicago convention in the contested
cases brought either beforo the na
tional or credentials committees. He
characterized the contests as "mc-p
bluffs" without shadow of substantiation.
MKT DEATH IN QUEER WAY.
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Drowned on Top of a Twelve Story
New York Store.
At New York Robert M. Kinsela
was diowned on the t<>p of a twelvceto
*y building in which lie lived on
East Sixteenth street Sunday. Ho
had gone anil that night rang him up
foot and a half of water which had
collected there after the drain pipe
became clogged. He ran his right
arm down into tho drain pipe and as
lie released the rubbish the suction
cf the rushing water caught him. His
arm was drawn in up to his shoulder
and became wedged in the pipe.
three companions strove frantically
but vainly to release the Imprisoned
man. The suction held him In the
pipe and his head was drawn Into
the water which still remained on tho
roof, causing him to drown.
l ?Found
Dead in Store.
At Jacksonville, George Osborne,
aged sixty-four, was found dead in
his grocery store on the outskirts of
the city Wednesday morning, his
head was crushed by an iron bolt
found by the body, and tho cash ,
drawer was rifled.
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Suspended by Wedding King. I
Mrs. David Swaneon, living near '
Sterling, 111., was badly Injured when <
her wedding ring caught on a na!I In ?
a hay-mow. It hold her suspended <
for two hours and sue was almost i
dead when rescued. t
AFTER THE ARMY WORM
EXPERTS ARK ON THE GROUNJJ
IN ANDERSON COUNTY.
It Is Believed Now That the Pe?l
Will Not Do Any Very Seriou*
Damage to the Crops.
The Greenwood Journal says nowe
comes from Anderson that an active
tight is being waged on tho arm worm
which Is doing groat damage to the
corn and cotton crops of that county,
and it Is now felt that no further
danger need be apprehended.
Dr. E. A. McGregor, representing
tho United States government, and
Dr. W. F. Webster, entomologist,
have tho situation in hand, having
been sent from Washington by Secr<
tary Wilson and Congressman Aiken.
These two experts will go to
any other counties where tne worm
lias appeared.
Secretary Wilson does not think
the worm will do extended damage
in Anderson, but thought it wise to
send an expert to look over the situation.
The worm, he says, appears
at intervals all over the south nearly
every year but he has never done
what may bo termed general damage.
Dr. Webster will be prepared to do
everything that can be done to check
its ravage.
| Mr. Aiken talked with a number
| of representatives from cotton states
of the south. They too have had complaints
as to tho army worm from
timo to time. Congress has never
been asked to make any official appropriation
on the subject of the federal
and state authorities were always
been able to do everything necessary.
The bureau of entomology has been
very much worried by this early appearance.
The worm has been found
from Florida to the North Carolina
line and in a strip extending west
ward. I)r. Webster thinks that the
hot sun is driving the worm north
ward. 9
He declares that the worm is no
worse than usual in its depredations
and is at present confining its destruction
to the grass and tender
young corn. He advises the farmers
to watch their fields closely and upon
the first appearance of tho worm to
uso arsenate of lead, in tho proportion
of one to eight of flour.
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HEINOUS CRIME.
Fourteen-Year-Old Girl Assaulted
and Murdered.
A dispatch from Carmel, Me., 8iN3
that the discovery of the body of
fourteen-year-old Naimi Etta Mitchell
in a corn field near the town, ner
throat cut from ear to ear and much
of her clothing torn away, brought to
light Friday a murder which, the authorities
believe to bo the work or a
madman. Friday night searcn was
made for a farm hand who was seen
in tho vicinity Thursday night. He
was at one time an inmate of the
Bangor Insane Asylum. This man
has not been at homo since Thursday
night.
The murder apparently was committed
early Friday evening. Tho
child, a daughter of Phineas Mitchell,
a farmer, had been sent to a grocery
a mile distant after supper. She
made her purchases and started
home. That was tho last time she
was seen alive.
Searchers came across tho body in
thr? r>r?rti ftnlrl Tho tHrl'a hnnHa
tied behind hor back and a gas placed
over her mouth. There were many
indications of a struggle. Iter bundles
were found piled up by the roadside,
and $14, which sho had on her
person, was untouched.
The man for whom search is being
made was in the store when the child
made her purchases and followed her
down the road. Public feeling has
been aroused to a high pitch and
threats of summary vengeance,
should the man bo captured, were
freely made in the village. Physicians
who examined the body declared
the girl was tho victim of an assault
before she was killed.
WILL. MAKE A GOOD OXE.
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Lev. E. O. Watson, 1). I)., to Head the
Industrial School.
At a meeting of the board of trustees
of the proposed Horry Industrial
school hold at Conway last week a
permanent organization was perfected
in which Kobt. II. Scarborough
was elected chairman, Paul Quattlehaum,
secretary, and L. II. Burroughs,
t rensui or.
Rev. 10. (4. Watson, D. D., of Co
nimma, cniei promulgator or me enterprise,
was elected president of the
institution, I)r. Watson accepted the
residency subject to the approval of
fhe South Carolina conference of the
J'.etlmdist episcopal church, South, of
which ho is a member.
It. was decided at the meeting that
the school would open its doors in
September of next year, and that active
work on the institution would
begin January 1, 1013. As soon as
possible and some time during the
fall the preliminary work of surveying,
draining and preparing the lands
of the school, would begin.
The site of the proposed school will
bo on the north side of Brown Swamp
one mile from tho Dog Bluff road,
on the Conway Coast & Western railway,
and seven and one-half miles
from Conway.
Big Oil Lamb Burns.
Tiro at tho plant of tho Union Petroleum
Company at Marcus Hook,
Pa., early Wednesday, destroyed the
warehouse, barrel factory, tin factory,
soveral oil tanks and part of the
wharf of tho company, and almost
jomplctely wrecked the British tank
deumer Trlnidadln. Several freight
ars al?o wore burned. Tho loss,
isido from that sustained by the
itcamer, is estimated at $200,000.
i THEY WERE QUIZED
' JONES AND BLEASE ASKED NUMEROUS
QUESTIONS
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AT LEXINGTON MEETING
i
i Judge Jones Endeavors to Give the
Information SoHght, But Governor
t
Blease Vses Strong Language Toward
Inquisitors, Evading Direct
Reply in Nearly Every Instance.
At the Lexington campaign meeting
011 Tuesday both Judge Jones
and Governor Dleaso wore asked
many questions by people in the audience.
After Judge Jones had been
speaking a sliort time, some one in
(lie audience volunteered the following
information: "I haven't had but
ono drink to-day." Another issued
this challenge: "Don't tell what
lilease has done; tell what you'd do
if you were Govornor."
"When I state what Iileaso is doing
1 know the way to be right in the
opposite," retorted Judge Jones, and
there was vociferous applause from
his friends.
The speaker went on to say that
he attempted to show by contrast just
what he stood for, and made it plain
that ho was opposed to practically
every principle enunciated by Governor
Blease.
As to the taunts about his age,
Judge Jones said: "I am sixty years
old, and forty years young and 110
mnn noorl wnrrv about mv aire in the
performance of the duties of the oftice."
"Do you think you can beat Coloy?"
inquired a voice.
"What? Do you think I'd resign
the great ofhee of Chief Justice if 1
did not know I could beat Coley?"
replied Judge Jones with emphasis
e- the word "know". This evoked
another outburst from the Jones
sympathizers. j
"Why, 1 have known Blease since
he was a kid," continued Judge
Jones: "I have had lots of hard jobs
in my life, but the easiest job I ever
undertook is to beat Colo L. Blease
for Governor."
Again Tuesday, when Judge Jones
asked wherein Governor Blease had
befriended the poor man, he was 1
told: "He turned them out of the
penitentiary."
"Well, why doesn't he turn them 1
all out?" asked Jones; "there are 1
still some poor men there just as 1
good as those he turned out.' '
"Ho ain't been there long enough;
he'll do it," said a Bleaso rooter, in '
reference to possible future action of i
the Governor. <
"It's a one-sided affair," said Judge l
Jones, "this turning out the poor 1
man; what of the poor man whose '
barn is burned, whoso pockets are 1
picked or the victim of the murder- 1
er?"
"Oh, he's done dead," chimed in <
I the same voice. 1
Judge Jones made a strong point j
i in his argument that real friendship j
for the poor man was the strict en- ,
forcement of law, whereby he, as well <
ns the rich man, was guaranteed pro- (
teetion of life and property. (
"The thing to do is to make it hard to
commit crime in South Carolina," i
said Judge Jones, referring again to
the Governor's declaration regarding (
Messrs. King and Watson, saying c
that such language was positive en- <
couragement to crime with a promise ?
cf Immunity from punishment. i
"Hurrah for I^eroy Springs and 1
Lewis W. Parker," came from the audience,
and thero followed more
noise and disturbance. j
"That's just ono of the evidences
of this anarchy I'm talking about, c
when men are so inflicted with PJeas- t
ism that they will not allow a man
right of free speech or give a square {
deal," said tho speaker when partial j
quiet was restored; and on the same j
line ho repeated the charge that men
were imported to yell for Please.
"Put," said Judge Jones, "the
quiet, law-abiding people of Lexington
will control her destinies and 1
they are the ones who will express 1
themselves at the ballot box." :
Please Was Also Qulzed. *
Soon after Governor Please began ]
to speak from back in the audience 1
camo a shout: "Hurrah for the
pickpockets." It came, as later in
quiry showed, from Mr. \V. H. Ililler, ?'
an insurance man of Columbia, a <
former Lutheran minister, at' one <
limo pastor of St. Stephen's Lutheran 1
Church in Lexington. t
"Oh, I'll bet you are a pickpocket 1
yourself," was tlie shot fired by Governor
Mease at his disturber; "I'll ?
hot a dollar that man's stole more
money than those two pickpockets."
Again Mr. Ililler said something c
and the Oovernor retorted: "I wish t
there were no ladies here, so I could i
toll you something."
A little later Mr. Ililler repeated i
his taunt and Governor Illease ro- (
Vila I'rtnl v Mint "tli iit mnn if \
|/uatc\i 11 to * v/ |v vn,v
[ you will look him up, has stolen ?
more money than thoso two pickpockets."
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"You are an infamous liar," shot (
back Mr. 1111 lor. >
"Oh, any coward can stand out (3
there and call a man a liar when ho
can't get to him," said the Governor, a
Addressing himself to the mill boys
present, Governor Blease told them
to bewaro of their vote, that It was v
apparent that tho big Parker mill
combine was trying to force men to o
voto for Jones. s
"Old man Jones got hot yesterday
and called me a liar," said tho Gov- 1
ei nor in mentioning his charge that J
tho Judge's son, Charles P. Jones, c
bad exerted influence on Supremo v
Court decisions while his father was b
Chief Justico. C
"There wero ladles prcsont, too,"
continued the Governor, "and yet the si
newspapers, with big headlines, pro- o
claim it a groat act. Tf I bad done it tl
they would have called ine a black- n
MANY WERE KILLED j
BY MEXICAN REBELS, WHO ATTACK
TROOP TRAIN.
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JfiMt Brforo the Attack on the Train
a Small Garrison of Federals Had
Been Routed.
The list of dead as a result of the
altack by a band of Zapatistas on tho
Mexico-Cuernavaca train near Parres,
011 the edge of the federal district,
grew to a total of 84. Three of the
wounded died during Monday night
i.1 the railway hospital.
A second relief train, which reached
Mexico City early Tuesday brought
passengers who had escaped the
butchery and made their way into
r,>es Marias, a few miles away. Eleven
were accounted for Monday
night.
It is estimated that the train composed
of one first class and throe second
class coaches, carried approximately
70 passengers in addition to
the GO soldiers of the escort. Fortythree
soldiers were killed.
Nino bodies of passengers were
found near tho wreck. Of tho roinaining
thirty-two, a majority are
believed to have been killed or
wounded and consumed in the burning
cars which were fired with oil
taken from tho tank of tho locomotive.
Hefore the attack on the train it
became know Tuesday, the Zapata
horde had routed a small garrison of
federals at Parres. Many women of
the camp fell into their hands and
"" vn oiil\!nntn/l t r\ ind nappMin Klo llfir
barities. The wWe of the chief of
the detachment was found disemboweled
and otherwise horribly mutilated.
Capt. Rosendo Nunez, in charge of
the escort of the ill-fated train, is
said to have fought heroically. After
nearly every man of his command
had been either killod or wounded
and he himself had received throe
wounds, he continued to firo from a
platform of a choach until a bullet
pierced his heart.
The Zapatistas robbed the dead
and living and looted the express car.
IJLEASE LOSES A FRIEND.
Former Strong Supporter at Greenville
Now Opposes Him.
The Greenville News says that Adam
C. Welborn, Esq., and Govarnor
Colo L. Blease, who have
been warm friends and political
friends for years, have severed relaLions
with each other will doubtless
prove surprising news to friends of
both throughout this section.
In 1908 and 1910 Mr. Welborn
was a particularly strong supporter
ot Governor Blease and weilded a
considerable amount of influence in
die elections. Very few people have
learned of the break between Mr.
Welborn and the governor, and those
few who knew of it, perhaps did not
{now the cause of the separation.
Saturday morning Mr. Welborn
itntoH tr> n Xcwh rpnnrtf>r th.it npr
laps it would be best for him to state
puclicly that he was no longer a supporter
of Governor Klease, for some
his friends, remembering how
strongly he supported the chief exe- (
,'utive heretofore, might bo influenced
in the approaching primary.
?uard."
Charging that Judge Jones favored.
social equality in voting against
separate coaches, Governor Blease 1
was interrupted by this question:
'Well, did not you vote for that 'bad'
fironically) man (Jones) after ho
lad voted that way?"
"If Jones was as bad a man as you
ire he'd* a-been in hell long ago,"
-etorted the Governor.
"But I just want to ask you the
simple question," explained his quesioncr.
"If a gentleman asks mo a ques;ion
I'll answer it," replied Governor
Mease. "Jones says his friends don't
nterrupt the speakers; that they are
gentleman; therefore he says you are
)o gentleman."
His uuestloner was nersiatent until
he Governor tlnally said: "I wouldn't
jay any morO attention to you than 1
i houn' puppy would to a yellow nigger."
and then the Governor tried to
riake sport of his questioner by sayng:
"Ilo's just trying to show off;
it and up and let these folks see you."
Governor Blease, however, did not
inswer tho question, which it developed,
was asked by Mr. II. It. Dreher,
>f Dutch Fork, lrmo postoflflce. !.Mr.
Dreher is a twin brother of Superinondent
E. S. Dreher, of the Columbia
mblic schools. i
After the tilt with Mr. Dreher
iomo one yelled out "take him off"
? meaning Governor Bleaoo.
"If you think you can take me off ,
>f hero come up and try it," flashed
jack tho Governor. "I can whip you
n a minute." <
Another member of tho audience
>ut the following question to the \
jovernor: "What have you done
vlth the decisions of tho Juries of
South Carolina in criminal cases."
"If you had sense enough you'd |
cad tho newspapers and see," was ,
lovernor Blease's reply; "I can't give |
'ou tho brains if God Almighty
lidn't."
"What's your n,amo, anyhow?"
isked tho Governor.
"Sam Snyder," was the reply.
"What do you do for a living?" 1
yas tho next question.
"T nni a srraduate of tho Fnlvorsltv f
f Souih Carolina. 1 do as I please," 1
aid Mr. Snyder.
"I knew you woron't working for a v
Ivirg. I had a purpose In asking. G
udge Jones has boon talking about
ollego boys Interrupting; I ju3t
,'anted to show that all the collogo
oys wero not Illeaso boya," said the ?
rovernor. 1
Firing another shot, Mr. Snyder c
aid: "I'll explain my record at Car- 1
Una If you'll cxplalu yours." This t.
'O Governor did not heai or took no r
otice of, for he did not reply. Ji
BANK Oi
Conwa
Has largest capital and surplus of
than the combined capital and sur\
CUPITAL BTOOK. . . *
SVRPLU8
LIABILITIES OF STOCfl
SDCURITY OF BEPOer:
DIRE'
.>bert B. Scarborough,
.. L. Buck,
J-aorge J. IJoliJay,
We offer our customers every ac<
will justify, anJ we
ftOBKBT B. SCARBOROCOIT, I
I PHKSIDMIT.
We continue to pay 5 p<
GOOD CHANCE FOR BOYS
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WHO AHB NOT AUIJO TO PAY FOR
A CLLLFGE COURSE.
Several Scholarships to l>o Given
Away by the Southern Railway in
This State.
President FInloy, of tlio Southern
Railway Company, announced that
all arrangements had been completed
for the award of Southern Railway
scholarships in agriculture in
the State Agricultural College of each
State traversed by the lines of the
Southern Railway Company and the
companies associated with it in farm
improvement work, so that the scholarships
may be awarded prior to tho
beginning of the school year this fall.
The purpose of the management of
the company to award these scholarships
as a means of supplementing
tho extensive work which tho company
Is doing for the improvement of
agriculture in tho territory traversed
by its lines South of the Potomac and
Ohio rivers and East of the Mississippi
was announced last February.
The selection of tho young men
who will receive the scholarships has
neen placed entirely in tho hands ol
the President of tho State Agricultural
Cojlego in each State and all correspondence
relative to the matter
should be addressed to him. The
general plan in accordance with
which the scholarshins will he award
od is aa follows:
1. The scholarships shall be*
awarded to a hoy, preferably from
the farm, living in a county, within
the State, traversed by a line of one
of the railway companies participating
in tho award.
2. The boy must meet tho entrance j
requirements of the college.
3. The boy must be financially unable
to avail himself of an agricultural
college education without assistance.
Provided, thai the president
of a college, if he deems it advisable
may divide the total amount awarded
to such college among two or more
boys who may be able to defray part
of their expenses from other sources
4. Subject to the above conditions
the president of each college for
which scholarships are to bo awarded
may determine for himself the
method of selecting tho boys to whom
they shall be awarded. The management
of the Railway Companies, believing
that tho best results will lr
obtained if the selection of the boys
shall be left entiicly to the college
authorities, will not participate in
such selection in any way or recommend
the award of a scholarship to
ny particular boy.
f>. Each boy to whom a scholarship
may be awarded must maintain
good standing in his classes throughout
his entire college course and
must conform to the rules and regulations
of the college. The authorities
of the college shall have full
and final authority to determine the
degree of delinquency or of insurborRnation
that shall constitute grounds
for the withdrawal of the benefits ol
a scholarship from any student. In
no case shall a beneficlttvy of a scholarship
be permitted to appeal from
any act or decision of tho college authorities
to the railway companies.
6. In colleges in which it is customary
to send to the parents or guardians
of students periodical reports as
to their standing and conduct, such
reports as to the beneficiaries of railway
scholarships shall be forwarded
(o the president of the Southern Railway
Company, as well as to the parcut
or guardian.
7. Each beneficiary of a scholarship
shall be required to subscribe to
an agreement that ho will, for at
cast three years afte^ tho term!nation
of Ills course in college, devote
himself to practical farming in tcrrlory
contiguous to a line of one of the
railway companies participating in
the award or to teaching agriculture,
>r working 011 an experimental farm,
'n some state traversed by tho lines
>f one of the railway companies participating
in the award.
Woman Cowhides Informer.
Mrs. I^llian Pettit la under arrest
n Atlanta, Oa., charged with cowtiding
the man who furnished the
nformatlon on which her husband scTrod
a divorce. Edward Hurst, her
mother-in-law, hold the victim, C. P.
Iteevcs, while the woman literally
rorc out the cowhide on his head and
houlders.
? ? Fatal
Motorcyclo Collision.
At Lexington, Ky., Charles K. 1
doores, receiving teller at a local
tank, died Wednesday and his broth- 1
;r, II. W. Moores Is not expected to
Ivo as the result of a collision he- 1
ween their motorcycles. The broth- <
r? were returning from Winchester,
Cy., when the accident occurred. ?i
T HORRY, I
iy. S, C. I
any bank in Horry county. More 1
plus of all other banks in the county:.
.. $50,000 \
.. 12,GOO
?HOL,DMR3 .. .. GOf.OOO
rORS ? ..112,600
CiORS I
AKDS'ON, (
W. A. Johnson,
Will A. Fmuxtju. ,
:ommodation which their accounts
solicit your business.
3. V. Richardson, will a. freemax
Vice Fbehidejnt. .Cabihes*
;r cent, on yearly deposits.
1 V ROFBMIHION A11 CABIN#.
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BL H. WOODWARD
iitvriiQjr and Councilor At Lav-,
CONWAY, H. C.
IS, It. HOAltliiiOLOzl
CONWAY, H. I
Attorney at Lnw.
a. II. BURROCOKB
n i. j j j rs
& uysitsan miiu Mirgcu,'?.,
CONWAY, H. C.
tt. WOFFOKD WAIT,
Attorney at 1j*v/.
Kunk o/ Horry Miiiidin#.
j CONWAY, M. C.
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Hand Purveying
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Spivoy Huildhig Conway, S. O.
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AUMV WOHM AT FOllT MOTTIi.
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The Cotton lied Spider Attacking
Cotton There Also.
A dispatch from Fort Motto sayst.ho
army worm is doing considerable
uam?.go in this section, especially on
tli8 extensive farms or John A. Peter'.-ill
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corn has been almost entirely doslioyed.
Where there wan grass in
cotton the worms arc to be found in
the largest numbers. When the grass
was destroyed they at Hit;t attacked
the cotton only slightl/ on the leaves,
but mostly by cutting in to mo stem
or limbs at or near Lop where it was
tender.
Now since the rain has stopped
and tho cotton is getting rnoro hardy
and less sap, they are to be found in
the small bolls and forms. Tho
Messrs. Peterkins have applied Paris
green to about seventy five acres,
where the leaves are attacked it is
effective, but iind vc-rv few dead
worms. Tlicy also have applied It
on gra3a and corn but have found it
of very little benefit.. They will continue
to apply in hopes that tho
worms will yel attack the leaves.
Quite a number of farms have been
attacked by the red spider. It appeared
011 a few stalks of cotton, but
has now spread to cover several acres
on somo farms. Some have pulled
up two to three acres of cotton
in tho worst affected places and burned
the stalks, it lo yot to be teen It
this plan will have any effect on the
spread of iho Insect.
Tho situation is quite serious,
there is very llttlo grown fruit on
cotton, and being attacked by both
the worm and spider this early in
season, makes our farmers feel blue.
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