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\ w I i i HAS FINE PROGRAM! CONFERENCE FOR COMMON GOOD ON VITAL SUBJECTS i KEYNOTE CO-OPERATION I Men of All Trades and Vocations Are Invited to Columbia to Work Together for the I'phuilding of This State.?Clarence 1*00 to Muke Ad mess. The first meeting of the Conference for the Common Good will be held in Columbia, August G and 7. For this meeting the railroads entering Columbia have granted special rates and a large attendance is expected. Tho purpose of this conference is to offer an opportunity for the men and women who have at heart the best interests of the State to come together and discuss vital significant things and endeavor to arrive at a remedy for the evil which exist, and to assist each other in all e:orts of the common good. The movement is non-political and the conference will discuss principles and not personalities. It. is hoped that its conclusions may deserve the support of all lovers of the State regardless of political affiliations. The conference is intended to be merely a preliminary to county conferences to be hold later in tho summer or in connections with the county fairs in the fall. It will be noted by reading the program that it is not made up of long papers. Men have been asked to state in a few minutes their conclusions, and then the subject will be open to general discussion. Tho committee extends n rrtrilinl Invltatinii to everybody to attond this conference and to unite in a resolve to think and talk about tiling that are worth while. Wednesday, August <t. 8:30 to 0. General Topic?Co-operation for Rural Development. 1. Purposes of the Conferences, stated by the President. 2. A message to commonwealth builders, Clarence Poo, Editor of Progressive Farmer. 3. The Part of the Church in Rural Development, Rev. W. 11. Mills, Clemson College, S. C. 4. General discussion. 5. A National Program for the Development of American Agriculture, Hon. A. F. Lever, Chairman Committee on Agriculture, U. S. House of Representatives. General discussion. Wednesday Evening, 8:30 to II. General Topic?Permanent Homes for Our People. 1. Farm Ownership and Good Farming, W. W. Long, State Director of Farm Demonstration Work. 2. Home Ownership and Health, Dr. E. A. Hines, Seneca, S. C# 3. Home Ownership and the School, County Superintendent J. E. Carroll, Yorkville. 4. Home Ownership and the Church, Rev. E. O. Watson, President of Horry Industrial School. 5. Effects of Home Ownership in a Mill Village. 6. A Plan for Helping Mill Workers to Purchase Homes, Wm. T. Robertson, Greenville. 7. A Plan for Helping Tenant Farmers Acquire Land, B. R. Hare, Ofllce of Rural Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 8. General discussion. Thursday, August 7, 11 to 1. General Topic ? Education and Child Welfare. 1. The State One-Mill Tax, its apportionment and use, Hon. J. E. Swearingen, State Superintendent of Education. 2. Getting the Child in School. a. Unused Possibilities under Existing laws, County Superintendent Geo. L. Pitts, Laurens, S. C. b. The Necessity of a School Census, County Superintendent A. H. Gasque, Florence, President State Teachers Association. c. A Compulsory Attendance Law. d. The Possibilities of the Night School, W. B. Dove, Columbia. e. General discussion. 3. The Health of the School Child, Dr. Rosa H. Gantt, Spartanmurg, S. C. 4. Building a Teaching Profession in South Carolina, Superintendent S. 1 H. Edmunds of Sumter, S. C. r>. unna i>atior and its Relation to School Attendance. Thursday livening, 8:110 to 11. 1 General Topic?Problems of Citi' zenshlp. 1 1. Public Health in South Carolina. 3 2. Building Community in a Mill Village, Mr. L. P. Hollis, Superint tendent Social Work, Parker Cotton t Mills. ( 3. Education and Citizenship, T)r. fl P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of a Education. 4. The Majesty of the haw, Dr. IT. H. Snyder, President Wofford Colfix lege. h Thursday, August 7t 0 to 11. f> Special conference on co-operation p in marketing, E. W. Dabbs, Presift dent Farmers Union, presiding. 0 1. Typical Examples of Loss to l< Farmers on Account of Poor MarketC lng. 2. Creating a Home Market for 1 & MAD DOG AT LARGG , :i 'U N'S AMl'CIv IN ANDKKSON. HITIN(i SEVEN PEKSOXS. I Mty Council Quickly Actw lUsjuiiiiig All l>ogs Itinining on Street* to !>? i 1 Mu/zlcd. A mad dog ran amuck in Anderson Puesday, lilting live children and two -grown persons before it was overtak-n and put to death. The dog, which was a large hound, was lirst seen at > iw?i ?? " A ? 1 ? , i'vfiiii wotncvu i 11? AUUOT8QU itllil Brogon cotton mills. The first attack was made on the young son of John Brown, who lives on Bleckley street. Two dogs sit he Brown homo were also bitten. The dog then started across the northern section of the city in the di- ( oction of the Bleckley annex. A child >f A. 1'. Carter was bitten and also a ( diild of Walter Casey. ( The dog left the city, going in a i northerly direction, and the city and ounty authorities were in close pur- 1 suit. On the plantation of Frank Hhody the dog attacked two negro ' children, tearing their faces horribly i with his fangs. The dog was not in- | jured. although Mr. Rhody and oth- 1 ers 11 rod shot after shot at him. The 1 dog got out of sight of the crowd in pursuit and was next heard of on the farm of Mr. Burgess, about eight j miles from the city, and not very far from Williamston. The dog was put j to death in that neighborhood after one of Mr. Burgess' children had been ( bitten. Several dogs and cats were bitten and many of these have been , put to death. ^ A dispatch from Columbia says two , of the eight persons known to have \ been bitten by a vicious mad dog in c Anderson county Tuesday morning j came to Columbia Wednesday to take c the Pasteur treatment. These were Miss Gladys Cater, thirteen years , old. and the six-year-old child of \V. j L. Casey. These have been so serious- } ly laoerntcd that F. A. Coward, M. v D., director of the Pasteur labora- a tories, has advised that they remain f here during the twenty-one days nee- , essary for the treatment, so that he ;1 may give them his personal attention. c Miss Cater has a badly torn arm and j band, and the other little girl was c bitten through the upper lip and has j several scratches over the face. . Imemdiately after the dog passed through Anderson, ?a meeting of the city council was called and an ordi- ( nance passed, requiring that all dogs running at large be muzzled, the res- J olution to become effective immediately after such notice had appeared in the local newspaper that after- ( noon. 1 * ? ( FIGHT ON PARCEL POST. ( ? j Burleson's Extensions Are to .Meet * < Much Opposition. ( Concerted opposition was developed in congress to Postmaster General ( Burleson's order reducing parcel post ' rates and increasing the maximum ' size of packages to be handled in the 1 service. The order was issued Sun- ( day, to become effective August 15, ( and Wednesday the Senate post ofllce ( committee requested Mr. Burleson to ' appear before the committee next ! Thursday with an explanation for the ] authority of his action. Railway representatives Wednesday joined in the tight to prevent Postmaster General Burleson from increasing the size of parcel post packages transmissible through the mails and reducing the rates to become effective August 15. A delegation representing the railroads generally throughout the country laid their complaint before senators and representatives and prepared to protest formally against the changes to the interstate commerce commission. i/oses Voice in Every Thunderstorm. Twelve-year-old Lucy Sephalia, of Dollar Bay, Mich., loses her voice every time it thunders. This happened first about six weeks ago. Her voice was restored when sho was playfully frighened by a friend. In each electrical storm since, her voice has left her, and each time it has been restored .by some pre-arranged shock. Home Products, R. J. Watson. 3. Co-operative Marketing in North Carolina, J. W. Shuford, Hickory, N. C. General Discussion, led by Clarence Poe, A. P. Bourland and South Carolina farmers. Marketing the Cotton Crop. Mr. W. R. Meadows, Cotton Technologist, Office of Markets, U. S. Department of Agriculture. General Discussion. Thursday Afternoon, 3:30 to 0. Section Conferences. a. On the Work of the Church in Rural Life, Rev. E. O. Watson, presiding. h. On Health, Arranged by Dr. Win. Weston, President State Medical Society. c. Conference of Farmers and Business Men on Marketing and Credit, Arranged by E. W. Dab.bs. d. On Woman's Work, arranged by Mrs. M. T. Coleman, Abbeville. e. On Co-operation Between Colleges and High Schools, Dr. R. P. Pell, presiding. f. On Co-operation of Chambers of Commerce for Rural Development. L i ' : . MAIN IN CUUR ? DiriCIALS OF SOLUILRS HOME 1 CONTEMPT WEKE ORDLHLD SIEZE II. \Y. Richardson, Superintend*"!! and M. <\ Wclcli, Acting ('oiniiuin ant, of (ho Confederate Soldier Home, Made to Readmit Vetera; W hom They Ordered to Leave. The State says H. \V. Richard so superintendent, and M. C. NVelcl acting commandant, of the Confe< erato Soldiers' Home, Columhi Monday afternoon were adjudged i contempt of court by Ernest Gar circuit judge, at chambers for viol; lion of a restraining order, issued c March 19 of this year, forbiddin them from dismissing three veteran \V. C. Cameron, J. W. James and ? \V. Jones, before thoir pending caf before the court had been decider but were allowed to purge theniseh( )>' reinstating N. \V. .tones, who the lad ordered out of the Home. Allegations set forth in the con daint of N. W. Jones, read at th tearing before Judge Gary, are th? lones, while on a furlough, was not ied by letter on June 17 that h teed not return to the infirmary, n hero was no room for him: that h lid make his appearance on July ind was refused admission l>y Al. ( A'elch, acting commandant. In thei eturn Maj, Richardson and Mi Yoleh admitted that they had e> duded Jones, but stated that the tad not intended any violation of th trder or any disrespect to the cour Maj. Richardson stated Monda tight that N. \V. Jones had been rc nstatcd in the Confederate infirm irv, in which event, in complianc vith the mandate of the order, Ricli irdson and Welch are purged of an ontempt to the court. The order di ected that the defendants lmmed itely he arrested by the sheriff an onflned in the common jail of Ricl: and county "until they purge then iclves of contempt of court by com tltance with the order of March If 913". Tn reference to the return, of th lefendants, the order reads: "Th uiHwer in uh; ease ponding was se ip as a part of said return. Afto icaring the parties tiie said return i nsufflcient. It is admitted that th irder has been violated. There is n effort to show that tliey intend to r( nstate the petitioner, and as a mat er of fact, they simply ignore tli >rder and proposed to continue to d ?o. T, therefore, adjudge the d< 'endants, II. W. Richardson and y 2. Welch, to bo in contempt c :ourt." In compliance with an order fror Circuit Judge Ernest Gary, date luly 10, and made returnable Jul 21, Maj. IT. W. Richardson, superir Lendent, and M. C. Welch, actin commandant, of the State Con fed *rate infirmary, appeared before Cii suit Judge Gary, at chambers, Mor lay morning to show cause why the should not ,be adjudged in contemp for violation of an order issue March 19 restraining them from dis missing three veterans, one of whoi was X. W. Jones, from the home ur til the old soldiers' pending cans had been decided by the court. The action was brought on th complaint of X. W. Jones, an inmati who alleged that, he had been refuse readmittance by letter while on fu rlougli. The complaint of X. W. Jones a leges that on March 19, 1913, Cii cuit Judge Ernest Gary, at chair, bers, issued an order directed to "I \V. Richardson, claiming to he ger oral manager and treasurer of th Confederate infirmary of South Cai olina; A. M. lllaek, claiming to be ac jutant of said infirmary, and J. ( nung nr., .lames T. crews, A. \\ Todd and M. C. Welch, members ( the board of commissioners of sal infirmary," restraining them "froi interfering with the freedom of tli said plaintiffs to go in and from tli Confederate infirmary and sleep an eat and otherwise enjoy themselvc in the same as lawful inmates then of, entitled to all the benefits an privileges of the same upon terms ( equality with the other inmate thereof." Also that the order we the outcome of a petition of tli plaintiffs stating that defendants di missed them because they allege there were a greater number of ii mates in the home than the law a lows, and there being a greater e: cess from Richland county and froi lack of accommodations." This tl petition contested and offered oth< reasons for their dismissal. Sul stantially, two of these were: The criticised the management of the ii firmary and because they offered te timony before the legislative invei tigating committee adverse to tl management. This is the cause < ino restraining order. The complaint, of N. W. Jones a logos that on May 6 of this year h was granted a furlough of sixty daj to visit his son; that on June li while on furlough, he received notic not to return. The following Is a alleged copy of the letter; "Columbia, June 16, 1913. ri PRISONERS ARE BURNED TIIIKTY-I IYK MKKT DKATH IN N PRISON CAttK. Negroes Frantically Tear ut Iron H liars in Desperate Kiforks to Kscape OnromiiiK Flames. Trapped by flames in the second it, story of an antiquated convict cage, tlie first floor of which was used to store hay. grain and mninMAB s? live negro prisoners were burned to death at tho Oakley convict farm, 20 n, miles from Jackson, Miss., late last Monday night. With the flames rapidly eating llt away on the only stairway leading to I, the second floor the entrapped prisoncrs frantically tore at the heavy a> bars that covered the windows, but in to no avail. Their screams brought yt the two night guards to the scene beLl. fore they had seen the flames, and ,n soon other prison ofllcials hurried to g the cage. Their efforts were futile, a, however as the flames drove them s. back each time they attempted to lib}e erate the men. I; At last they stood aghast when slowly the frantic screams of the y burning convicts died away as one after another succumbed to the flames. Finally all was quiet and the smell c of burned human flesh permeated the l( air as the flames burned the last of I the building. v Everything was in the flames' favs or. The building was constructed 10 e years ago of lumber taken from a - discarded penitentiary, there is no fire fighting apparatus at the farm j. and the first floor of the building was r filled with inflammable material. Farmers living nearby hurried to v the scene to help the two guards all ,, that are on duty at night and other I prison attaches, but they wore of no v assissanee, as the fire, burned too rap?_ idly. It was only a few minutes from the time the fire started until It had c claimed its awful toll. i_ The convicts all wore worked In y the cotton holds of the State farm, l_ and wore housed in the "cage" at j_ night. Among them were some dos(] porate criminals serving long seni_ ten cos. The Oakley farm is one of the most i_ important in the State, the State prison hospital being located there. No other building was in danger, howe ever, as the destroyed "cage" was 0 some distance from other buildings. >t r WILSON FOR NEUTRALITY. s e Strict Impartiality Retwcen Mexican o , Factions Now at War. President Wilson has determined e that no faction in the present Mexi? can revolution shall obtain arms or ammunition from the United States and that neutrality must be observed in its strictest sense. This was the interpretation of the neutrality laws n decided upon by the president after d conferences with Senator Bacon and y Representative Flood, chairmen of the two congressional committees on S foreign relations. While the Mexican rebels have been getting no arms heretofore, l" Wednesday's development means that v the TTuerta administration will be deprived of the privilege previously accorded the Madero government and 5~ that the United States will treat all 11 sides alike in the present dispute. Falls Dead 011 Husband's Grave. Mrs. Emma Duerkes, sixty-four 0 years old, of North Bergen, N. J., was found dead on her husband's grave. She had been in the habit of years of visiting the grave every Saturday, and died of heart failure on 1 ~ hor lnct vialt r T ''Mr. N. W. Jones, j. "Dear sir: This is to inform you e that when your furlough expires July r_ 6, it will he unnecessary for you to return to the Confederate infirmary, j The old soldiers' home is now caring j for more inmates than the State law allows, and the bed and room form(j erly occupied by you have been as:n signed to one more needy than yourIC self. Should you have belongings l0 here, it will he shipped as you may desire. is (Signed) "M. C. Welch, G_ "Acting Commandant." ft "By Order of if "H. W. Richardson, ?s "Superintendent." >s Ordered to Tjcavc. 10 The complaint further alleges that s~ N. W. Jones returned to the infirm1(1 ary on July 7 and was informed by M. C. Welch ''that he could not come in the infirmary; that ho would not K" he allowed there, and he was not to m stay in the infirmarv. Tie wns In [? formed ho must loavo. Tho complaint further states that ho did leave, but while there saw a number of unoccupied beds in one room, while another was entirely empty. s" The order of contempt from Cir8" cuit Judge Gary was tiled with the 10 sheriff shortly before four o'clock ^ Monday afternoon, and J. C. McCain, sheriff of Ricluand county, telephon1 ed MaJ. Richardson, informing him ic of the fact. Maj. Richardson immew diately went to the office of the sher5. iff, whereupon tho order was served !? upon him. Maj. Richardson, conn forming with the mandate of the order. informed the sheriff that N. W. Jones would be reinstated. 1 FIFTY-MEET DEATH 1 TIRE TRAPS MANY VICTIMS IN ' CLUTH1NG FACTORY SOME LEAP TO GROUND I ^ J iMllir-SflirV I turn al*ll . ..... J . J ixtlllllll^, 11 M I I 125 Inmates, Mostly Women, Gutted by Terrilic Hla/.o? Building ! ( Protected by Fire Escapes and Au- ] toinatic Alarm. i Fifty persons were killed, accord- < i 11 k to late estimates, and many in- < jured, a dozen or more fatally, In a 1 lire which swept the four-story fac- < tory building of the Dinghamton 1 Clothing Company at Hingliamton, N. Y., Tuesday afternoon. The vie- < tims were chiefly women and girls. ' Early Tuesday night twenty two ' bodies had been recovered. In the 1 city hospital and in private institu- ' tions are thirty injured. Some two 1 score persons are known to have escaped, as if by a miracle, from the 1 building which burst into flame like ' a tinderbox and became a roaring ( furnace almost in no time after the first alarm was sounded. J About 125 persons were in the j factory when the fire broke out. Those unaccounted for, or most of them, are believed to be still in tin? red hot ruins of the structure. About the scene of the catastrophe, thousands watched the rescuers work in the glare of three big searchlights, many in the great throng being restrained only by the closely r drawn police lines from rushing into the ruins to seek the bodies of rela- * tives or friends. Many streams of water are being * poured into the fiery pit, which a few hours ago was the cellar of the burn| f n U If o 1* 4. A ? x T . ... v omuiioiiiin-iii. uie ruins were I cooled slightly, from time to time in a spot upon which the streams were . centred, men went forward to dig as long as human endurance would allow them to work. Occasionally a body was found and quickly taken away. The work will go on for several days before the plowing mass gives up its last dead. It will take at least j two days, the authorities believe, he-j fore the callar can bo cleared and the whole truth known. The lire is believed to have .been started by the careless throwing of a cigarette butt or match. In the tragedy Tuesday afternoon the burst of J . ilame followed quickly after tho alarm. There was little opportunity to use ordinary or even emergency means of escape. Fire drills had been carried on regularly, so frequently, in fact that the employees had found them monotonous. | The building was equipped with J Are escape and an automatic alarm system. The alarm tinkled at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Reed B. Freeman, wife of the proprietor, telephoned on the central Are station. The usual apparatus for a Arst still alarm responded. Some excited person at Warren and Chenango streets, four blocks away, saw a burst of Aames and pulled the box there. The rest of tho companies answered this alarm. | That meant ten minutes delay for part of the firemen. But even those who arrived first were unable to do anything. The first puff of flames was hardly discerned before the fire leaped along the stair cases and walls, up the elevator shaft, along floors and ceilings. There was a roar, front and rear, and the flames belched forth clear across Wall I street, on which the building fronted, withering the shade trees on the river bank, and scorching a building across an alley at the rear. After this fierce blast the fire i seemed to burst from every part of \ the building at once. Upon the fire escapes girls, women and men were clustered, and inside, others were waiting to get onto the iron ladders. Hut the flames were too quick for them. | When the firemen arrived in response to the telephone alarm they J were unable to get within 200 feet of the burning building and the ends of I the streams from their hose were turned into steam without effect upon the fire. 1 BANK OF Conwaj HAS LARGEST CAPITAL AND aim i COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COMB I ALL OTHER BANKS IN THE COU J CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK1 SECURITY OF DEPOSIT! DIREC ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH. CVf. L. ZUOK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS AOCO COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WE Robert R. Scarborough, D. f ' President. Life nets and extension ladders wore equally useless. There was no chance for those caught on the up? per floors, except the last resort to jumping, and this many took, while athers fell shrivelled and crimpled with the heat. Scarcely one of the survivors was able to give a connected account of what took place on the upper floors af the factory when the employees there mostly women and girls ? realized that the fire call was no false alarm and that death was sweeping upon them. The coolest recalled that women fainted by dozens and tho the sconewas one of indescribable confusion. Soino of the men employees apparently kept their heads and did their best to rescue the Imperilled women. The fire-escapes were not large enough to hold all who rushed to the exits and there was a dash for windows, the trapped victims shrieking from pain as the flames swept upon them from behind and seared their bodies. Then from windows and fire-escapes bodies began falling rapidly, rhe building was four stories high and many who jumped even from the topmost floor escaped with their lives, although most of them wore maimed. Most of the women operators were working on the fourth flour and it was among these that he loss of life and injury was greatest. Difficulty was encountered in compiling a partial list of the dead and njured Tuesday night because theist of employees was kept in the ;afe, which is buried beneath the uins. THE HORRY"HERALD CONWAY. S. C. PHURSDAY, JULY 31. 1913. PROFKRHIONAL OAHDH. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councilor At La*, CONWAY, H. O. ?. B. KCAKBltOUU-M CONWAY, 8. C Attorney at Law. M. H. BUItllOCGll* ^hyaicUu and Hurgeoa CONWAY, 8. C. W. E. McCORD, Dental Surpcon CONIVAY, S. C. RENE KAVENEL I*and Surveying and Drainage Rpivey Building Conway, 8. 0. ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWIN6 MACHINf k J.IGHT RUNNING Ng^ IgCawnntelthora V1hmtingHtniUle,Ilotaflpf fehuttio or a Mingle Thread f ChainiUUch\ j Bowing Machine writo to 1 i m BCW HOME 8EWINQ MAOHINE COMPJU* Orange, Moss. H>ip >i iiiTiii in ii lilin are made to sell mtrdlaidl| fBaiky,but the Now Homo is mado to weea, > ? Our guaranty never runs out. > iMi hf Mlhorlsed dealer* MlBM w 9aa sals Mr ' HORRY, r. S, C. 5LUS OF ANY RANK IN HORRY N101) CAPITAL AND sitiiim tto uuo KJV 4TY* $50,000 * ~~ 12,500 HOLDERS . . .. 50,000 )HS 112,500 TORS W. A. JOHNSON, WILL A. FREEMAN, D. V. RICHARDSON. MMODATION WHICH THElllACSOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. . Richardson, WiH A. Freeman, Vice-President Cashier.