The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 31, 1913, Image 6
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i HAS FINE PROGRAM!
CONFERENCE FOR COMMON GOOD
ON VITAL SUBJECTS
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KEYNOTE CO-OPERATION
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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
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MAD DOG AT LARGG
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'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.
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FIGHT ON PARCEL POST. (
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Burleson's Extensions Are to .Meet *
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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
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MAIN IN CUUR
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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.
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r WILSON FOR NEUTRALITY.
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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
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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
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TIRE TRAPS MANY VICTIMS IN '
CLUTH1NG FACTORY
SOME LEAP TO GROUND I
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iMllir-SflirV I turn al*ll
. ..... J . J ixtlllllll^, 11 M I I
125 Inmates, Mostly Women, Gutted
by Terrilic Hla/.o? Building !
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Protected by Fire Escapes and Au- ]
toinatic Alarm.
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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.