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t VOLUME XXX. Remember that it is your duty 6 as a citizen to patronize home industry. The practice of seeing nHn'ii iliinnru t\f f vanrlor !l II rl IWi ?h- 1 Vt?i iiiiu^n UI & j wh\iv t? i?\? I?vm inj,? in your own community operates against your own interest. GREAT PROGRESS t HAS BEEN FOUND Educational Campaign is Reported by the Supervisor of Rural Schools : * ? ENCOURAGING WORDS ABOUT SEVERAL PLACES Lueco Cuntcr Writes of Meetings Last 'Week in 1 Horry County. Lust week an educational and agricultural campaign was held in this county, meetings having been arranged and held at different points. Mr. Lueco Gunter, State Supervisor of Rural Schools, writes the following very interesting report of the occasion which was intended for publicaa ' ii. -i_ 11 i i n * i 1 uon mougn addressee 10 r>upernuenuent S. H. Brown. The letter follows: Columbia, S. C., July 23, 1915. Supt. S. H. Brown, Conway, S. C. Dear Sir: It was a greatvpleasure to me to visit several sections of your county this week in your party conducting an agricultural and educational cam? ^ paign. Since I have been in my present work I have been looking forward to an opportunity of visiting Horry County and of seeing the splendid agricultural development and school progress that have been in evidence during the past few years. I regretted that time did not permit such a visit during the schoo'l session just closed, but it was a great pleasure to see a considerable portion of your county this week and this visit makes u nin ;ill thn mnrp :invion? 1 n hp in vmir county during the coming session when the schools are open. Many impressions as to the growth and future possibilities of your county in education and otherwise have coino to mo in our three days visit. Some of these I was prepared for, others took me by surprise. To begin with, Loris is a larger and much more enterprising place than I expected to find. I knew that it was "*> in a way a thriving community but with its location and its growth in the past few years, it seems to me to he destined to become a place of some importance. In school matters I am impressed that Loris has even now about outgrown the rural graded school idea. It seems that the time is at hand when the people might begin to prepare for the use of the High School Act in their school district. 4 The school now has an enrollment sufficient for two teachers giving theiitime to high school work. With such an arrangement $500 State aid could he secured. To meet the requirements of the Law some additional burden would necessarily fall on the taxpayers. But, after all, such expenses arc not a burden for rapid development in school linos has always meant rapid development in industrial and commer ^cial activities. There is not a high school between Conway and Chadbourn and Loris is a logical place to develop one. Besides, a strong high school at Loris ought to draw support from the communities for several miles on each side of the railroad. I was greatly pleased with the proA gressive spirit of the people of the Finklea section. Our meeting there Monday night was held upon very \|l short notice, but the presence of so large a gathering on short notice was 1 evidence of the people's interest in education. 1 wish very much that it had been possible for us to visit some /v4-L /\M /lAm IVllinif IAO "C M 4-V* C 4 L t /ilrl 1 r f?/v4 UtllCI tv;iiiiiuiiui/iUD 111 tins UlItMy out" tied and rapidly developing section of Horry County. It occurs to me that each of these communities in developing its school ought to keep in mind the schools in the other community^. As a rule country communities can not develop strong stable schools 4 nearer to each other than four or five miles. In building, therefore, it seems to me best always to look to the future and have a vision of community development rather than the small school district development. If the schools in a thickly settled community can not be consolidated for elementary school purposes, in building schoolhouses they should have in mind ^consolidation for high school purposes. In this way provision can be made for good thorough high school instruction. It is impossible otherwise. The large attendance of the people of the Ebenezer section at our meeting was evidence of the interest of the people of that community in education r.nd agriculture. The contrast between the present school building and (Continued on Page Four.) it' V I <Ehr ' "HOR1 TRIAL IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT Case of J. W. Sessions, Prose~. a. ~ ~ rt ? \si n UUIUI HlJliillM VV. DCompton. The court of Magistrate W. 11. Chestnut tried the case of The State vs. W. H. Comptpn on last Thursday. The case was prosecuted on a warrant sworn out by J. W. Sessions charging the defendant with disposing of a strawberry crop this Spring on which the prosecutor claimed a lien for his rent. It appeared in the testimony that there was a dispute between the partis in delation to a settlement of the accounts, the defendant having shipped the berries at the direction of the prosecutor in his own name and having paid over various sums, and the prosecutor having shipped some of the first of fhe crop and obtained returns for which he has not accounted to the defendant. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant, finding him not guilty. o Pardon is Denied. Many people remember the neg^o woman, Carrie Suiters, lias Carrie Calhoun, who while being allowed the freedom of a "Trusty" by the keeper of the Horry County jail, iast year, came up the street and meeting her husband stabbed hjm several times with a knife. She was then serving a sentence for manslaughter. After her attempt kill he husband, she was sent to the penitentiary, and late- ~ ly petitioner! the pardon board and the governor for a pardon. Last week this petition was denied by a short notice issued by the board along with many others that were refused . o Fine Sweet Potatoes. . The first matured sweet potatoes ' of 1915 seen here, were brought into ' town one day last week by Mr. W. 11. Hell, from his farm near Bayboro, S. C. These potatoes were very large considering this early date in the crop season, and they were well developed and clear from strings or other do-< fccts. THE DEATH OF MR. J. C. BLUM ! < Died at Little River, S. C., at mid-: r night on July Tth, 1915, J. Charles! Blum,?one of the best and best' known citizens of Horry County. Mr. Blum was born in tlie City of; Charleston, October 20th, 1858. Hist mother was the daughter of the late Capt. Thomas Randall, a prominent!man in this county in ante bellum ' days. His father, Robert Blum of; Charleston, enterefl the Confederate j Army and was killed in the early years of the war. Mrs. Blum returned to this county and lived with her parents. Some years afterwards she married the late Lucian D. Bryan, who was later a member of "the Wallace House" from this County. ? Mr. Blum was educated at the Vir- c ginia Military Institute, settled at J Little River and engaged in farming. 1 On January 2nd, 18S4, he married t Miss Jetty P. Vercen, who died some years ago. He never married again, c For a number of years he was one c of the Supervisor of Registration for \ Horry County, and later was Post- c master at Little River until his ^ health failed two years ago, when ho , resigned. < The writer knew and loved him from his early manhood. He was an honest f upright citizen,?always active in \ everything that tended to the better- \ ment of the Community. Charlie j Blum,?as everybody called him,? j was always on the right side of every r public question. A gentleman of high s ideals, a staunch friend, and a genial t companion,?quiet, unassuming and ( sincere. ( Some years ago he joined the Meth- ( odist Church; was active in Church j and Sunday School work until his ? death. He bore his affliction with pa- ( tience and resignation, and died "as K fades a Summer cloud away." s He left surviving him three child- j ren, Miss Mina Blum, Mrs. Jettie \ Pearl Bessent and Robert Blum, and \ three half-brothers, Thos. R. Bryan, j now of Georgia; W. L. Bryan, Clerk of Court of this County; and Lucian F Bryan of Little River. Two daughters, Miss Dolly Fred Blum and Miss < Effie Blum, preceded him to the i grave. 1 j A host of friends mourn his death, i I and will cherish his memory. I Robt. B. Scarborough, -o The work of laying a long drain with the large tiling recently purchased hy the town, was finished u^ recently and will add greatly to the sanitation of the lower land lying in the town. The old drain was too small for the load it was intended to | carry. ? W^mx: RY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, FIB CONWAY, S. C? THURSDA THE VOICE OF "4 |f ill {0*M ah Wrw h%:lU M IV i I L < Iks il ?'<*> v'vA V ->' -.."v A T : aiMHBM WILL YOU E A good letter is a good help. It is lik< otter is the one written us last week am ollows: "The Horry Herald, "Conway, S. C. "Mr. Editor:?Please find incloser tion. This does not pay it up but it i send you the balance this Fall. So <1 without it. So please let it come on (We never publish tlie name of corrcs 'ectly willing that we do so?Ed.) The above letter is good for two reaso ushing the subscriber a paper that is like s appreciated and considered worth the I he letter incloses one dollar, and while I otter clearly indicates that it is the best 1 A I i *111 * ' ' ' urn me rest win no paid later on. It is good for many other reasons but lamed. Now you will treat us equally as well' f not send us as much as you can and \vi our part that you mean to do the right or of appreciation it will ho appreciated ho payment alone will bo sufficient to si Will you do it too? mEDTOAGREE it IN MORTGAGE GASEj The magistrate court here was engaged last Friday in the trial of the ll ase of George J. Holliday against S f. H. Smith, involving the seizure of a s )orse undemchattel mortgage given f o the plaintiff by the defendant. e The jury on the case were composed C >f business men. After retiring to f consider the case they remained out t 'or several hours and finally announc!(1 that they failed to agree. A misrial was ordered by the court and sec- tl >nd trial of the case set for August a >6th. p The case arose put of the circum- 0 itances: During the years of 1911 and n .912 Smith worked a farm belonging J1 o the plaintiff and got his supplies h 'rom the plaintiff. In December of c .911 it was found that he had traded nuch more than his crops could pos- t< sible pay. As further security on b ihis account he gave a bill of sale on o he horse in question. He remained R >n the place during 1912 and again c mtained advances and at the end of ii he years after his crops had been ipplied on his debt, owed the plaintiff >vcr $900.00. The bill of sale was not dosed then but time was given and ( some months ago the plaintiff sent J1 ifter the horse which Smith refused " ;o deliver. The action was then r )rought in claim and delivery for the v lorse. v a o i Several electrical storms passed b >ver this section of the county last b veek. No damage from the lightning o las been reported however in this imnediate vicinity. WEATHER F( For the Week Bediming Wedr Issued by the U. S. Weath e FOR SOUTH ATLANTIC AND EA Generally fair weather and normal the week, except that scattered sho v and along the south Atlantic coast. IJ gjfc !ST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER" . lY, JULY 29, 1915. A NATION. n f V. / fl \ ' 9/ mS iZ Zy $ W $ - v (m i . mi 0mL IV -V;. AI > 1 .1; ! a:^a#vSW" > J d flik l%m Mill / : |?F aijrg} Mf ///{fll - Ejr* " ?I j/9 ' #1 iW % '; ?' v ^ ;'i 5 * A- iv. - V >: f X* > ' V i' |\i |i* ' | 4 ill.;*- | fcfi | & if* i'l ,# i f$ i V- > - ; ?# ":' ! ?< 31 i {. trbj : *?| f I* ' , p flit j mMf I iMIli,' {HI PI? IW Am lIlliliT if' %S r 4 ?Starrott in Now York Tribune. >0 IT, TOO? 3 a long deferred visit liome. Such a 1 received last Monday, reading as 1 $1.00 payment on my subscripts the best 1 can do; but 1 will on't stop the paper as I can't do as before and accept thanks. Yours Respectfully, * * * * pondents unless sure they are perns: First,? It shows that we are furid. This makes us feel that the paper amount we charge for it. Second.? this is only a part of what is due, the the subscriber can do for us just now, they are apparent and need not be ? Send us all that is due if you can. e will understand by that action on thine' by us. And if you write a let , or if you do not feel like writing, 10W us. 3EATH TOLL OF THOONO PEOPLE ( 1Vl l'on A 1 ? * ' v/mva^v/.?n. Liiuiisnim persons losi I heir lives in the Chicago river last unday by the capsizing of the excurion steamer Eastland, while whrping* rom its wharf with more than 2,400 mployees of the Western Electric lompany and their relatives and riends on board, bound for a pleasure rip across Lake Michigan. After working* all day and far into he night, the bodies of S42 victims of he catastrophe, most of them women nd children, were collected from temorary morgues and Liken to the Secnd Regiment armory. Coroner Rofflan, Liking into consideration estiiates of yet unrecovered bodies, said e hoped that the total dead would not xcecd 1,000. The Eastland, said by marine architects to have been top heavy and balisted in an uncertain manner, turned ver inside of five minutes after it be an to ust, pouring its gala passengrs into the river or imprisoning them it its submerged hull. Death of Samuel Cook. Samuel Cook, an aged citizen of ialivants Ferry township, near Ayor, S. C., died on May 13th, 1915, j eing 82 years of age. He was maried to Miss E. J. Roberts and to them /as born eight children. His first /ife preceded him to the grave years go. He was then married to Nancy Roberts. It was hard to give him up iut the Lord is almighty and knows est, and He saw fit to take him out >f this world. His Loving Son, VV. R. COOK. 3RECAST lesday, July 28tli, 1915. r Bureau, Washington. D. 0. ST GULF STATES: temperatures probable during <ors will likely occur in Florida txufiL TOBACCO PRICES 1 REASONABLY GOOD I ? r Considering the Low Grade of First Gatherings Which Were Offered Here. The* tobacco sales of 1015 opened on the Conway market last Tuesday at | the regular house. As stated elsewhere the buyers were not here last week and the sales were postponed. The center of interest was these opening sales. Everybody was anxious to know how the prices would be to begin with. The quantity sold was between one hundred thousand and one hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds, and it ranged in price from two or three cents to as high as ten and one half cents per pound. The average was about five cents. The tobacco offered for sale consisted almost entirely of what is known as "sand-lugs," meaning the bottom leaves from the plants which have to be gathered first from the crop. They are always low grade. The prices realised on this opening sale were generally satisfactory considering the quality of the product. Satisfaction was expressed by both the growers and the warehouse men. o Death of P. H. Wait. Buffalo, N. Y., July 2(5.?Pearle Bugsbee Wait, aged 42, who was originator of Jello, which now is manufactured by the Genesee Pure Food Company in LeRoy, N. Y? and who re cently has been engaged in contracting and in the grocery business and brother of Fred Wait and Miss Sarah Wait, both of Conway, S. C., died early Saturday in Buffalo Sisters Hospital following operation for intestinal trouble. Deceased was born in LeRoy and with exception of three years in Quinnimont, West Virginia, lived entirc life in LeRoy. In 1895 deceased married Miss May M. Davis, and besides his wife he is survived by one daughter, Evelyn Wait, another brother, Ernest Wait of Rochester, N. V., and two other sisters, Mrs. John Stevens of LeRoy, and Mrs. A. L. Holdridge of Rochester, N. V. For years the late Mr. Wait was member of Batavia Lodge, B. P. O. E. Interment took place Monday afternoon, July 2(1, in LeRoy, N. Y. RUSSIAN EFFORT SIGNALLY FAILED Berlin, via London.?A Vienna dispatch to the National Zeitung says the final Russian attempt to stop the Teutonic advance in the critical battle south of the Lublin-Chelm railroad, southeast of Warsaw, has failed. The Russian southwestern front is seriously menaced, the dispatch declares. The railroad line running through Ivangorod, Lublin and Chelm now is only a few miles north of the Teutonic lines, and capture of Lublin and Chelm is said to be a question of only a brief time. o Death o'' a Child. Mr. and Mrs. Jehu Causey have the sympathy of the community in the death of their young child which occurred on Thursday of last week. The interment took place on Friday at the old camp ground cemetery. It is understood that the child had been in failing health for some time. A/f? 04. C<U-11 c S**r mi. (inn ifiin. oiur oiii'iify OI v^narleston, S. C., arc in Conway, visiting the hitter's mother, Mrs. Florrie Johnson. Miss Ella King recently visited friends in Sumter, S. C. Miss Lou Johnson, who holds a position as stenographer in Charleston, S. C., recently arrived in Conway to spend the Summer vacation with her mother, Mrs. Florrie Johnson of Conway. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hucks spent some time at Myrtle Beach last week. There are numbers of visitors to Murrcll's Inlet this Summer. It is said that about all of the cottages are occupied. Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Jones and Brainard Jones of Marion have been visiting Rev. and Mrs. E. F. Scoggins at Murrells Inlet. WANT CONGRESS TO FIX TRADE RIGHTS Washington, July 15.?American packers seeking relief from British detention of meat cargoes have been asked by representatives of cotton ; growers, live stock interests. State of; ficials in the cotton and cattle belts and other American business interests affected by the war, to join a general conference here to formulate a proposal for a special session of Congress to deal with the rights of neutrals. The conference also would take up the question of providing shipping facilities for Americans. n 31 NO. 16. Did you work it up last week by looking at the figures on your label appearing here? If you did not, it is not too late, for you can I find the label here on the front page every week. Figure it up now, and send or bring us the money.. TOBACCO OPENING WAS POSTPONED Owing to Misunderstanding Between Warehouses and Buyers of the Weed WAS NOT TIME TO M ATI r-x/ -T-lir- /Nfirvin? INJU I IP T I lit UKUWtKS Large Quantity Was Brought Last Week Despite the Morning Rain. Owing to sonic misunderstanding between tlie Warehousemen and the buyers there was no tobacco sales here on Thursday of last week as had been advertised through the paper. The Warehousemen did not learn until late Wednesday afternoon, that the corps of buyers representing the large tobacco companies, that handle so much of the golden weed grown in this County, could not get here for the opening sales. Hence it was impossible to reach all the farmers and advise them of the situation. As many as could be reached by telephone were advised to keep their tobacco until this week. Despite the efforts of the Warehousemen and the rain in the morning, there was a large amount of tobacco brought to Conway. In going over the Warehouse floors we found the floors of The Planters Tobacco & Storage Warehouse, run by Capt. J. R. Bowles, The 1 lorry Warehouse, conducted by Messrs. Day & Featherstone, The Peoples and Farmers Warehouses, operated by Messrs. Fullevton and Lawrence, respectively, a total of 08,500 pounds. Taking it as a whole the tobacco men doehipo.l it was the host lot of primings that was ever offered on this market in years. This is said, to indicate that the grades of tobacco will be good this year. Conway has now four warehouses, being run by a set of tlie best judges of tobacco to be. found in the Carolinas. All the big tobacco companies will bo represented here. Wo predict that Conway will rank among the first markets of the State. Try it with your next load. "C." BRITAIN TO RIVE LINE OF COTTON YV a sh i 11 gt on.?Q uest ion s arising1 from the detention of cotton cargoes are receiving renewed attention by the .state department, and it is understood that Great Britain will make an early announcement of the lines on which an agreement may be made with cotton shippers to admit of at least partial resumption of the export of American cotton to neutral Euroupean countries without interference. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British O tvi Ko con / I f n V? i ^ -1 ? ? inmmoo(nn/l , Ulll\CU >Vllll &UUU llt'[)Urt" ment officials about the cases of American packers pending before British prize courts . Fred Coudert, counsel for the British and French embassies, conferred at the state department regarding points of law involved in the detention of various American ships and cargoes in allied ports. Mr. Coudert is about to leave for France, and it is beiieved that one result of his conference will be prompt disposition of the case of the American steamer Dacia with her American cargo of cotton for Germany, held at Brest. The Dacia's transfer from German registry was questioned. She is the only American vessel detained in France. o ALLEN, S. C. Farmers are busy gathering tobacco. Prospects for the farmers this year seem very dull. Rev. W. R. Phillipps filled his regular appointment at Poplar on Sunday. Mr. J. T. Booth attended services at Homewood on Sunday afternoon Mr. J. J. King visited this place on. Sunday. Mr. G. F. Byrd attended services at Maple on Sunday and took the Preach er home with him for the afternoon train Messrs. T. B. Ludlam, and Will Thompson visited Marion a short while on Sunday going by automobile. VIM.