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READ THIS STORY OF MYSTERY. IT BEGINS IN THIS ISSUE. VOLUME XXX. *0UR COUNTY FAIR FOR UP-BUILDING Should be Educational and En^ tertaining by all Means at Hand INTENTION IS TO * EDUCATE AND ELEVATE 1 K Different Things That Should be Done to Make the t J Fair Right. The county agricultural fair is, at least nominally, held for the upbuildg ing of agriculture and to lead up to such ideals as will elevate, inspire, educate and broaden the thought and activities of the rural people. There is a decided tendency among the promoters of many county fairs to make them what they should be?truly agrfcultural. A good fair is one that entertains <lnd educates. It must do both. It should be an agricultural exhibition essentially; also fundamentally useful to intelligent, practical farmers and their families. It may also be made entertaining in the highest sense. People will attend a fair if thnm ie anything interesting and beneficial worth going to see. There re many ^ways to make it so, among ?nem: Appoint directors and superintendents because of their vvj....gness to work, ability to accomplish results, and not to fill honorary positions. Exclude all morally objectionable side shows, all gambling devices, all catch-penny swindlers, and all venders of worse than useful trash. Offer liberal, well-proprtioned prizes for the best exhibits of farm, orchard, and garden products; also afford exhibitors every reasonable facility to make exhibits attractive. Offer properly classified prizes for the best live stock and poultry shown, and arrange as far as possible, adequate means for their care and protection and for inspection by visitors. Offer substantial prizes for the best farm exhibit by farmers' clubs, organizations, or divisions in the county. Offer liberal prizes for exhibits of cooking, sewing, painting, etc., by ladies, and furnish the best place possible for their display. Provide a snecial denartmont for the use of the agricultural college and ^experiment station that they may show graphically and otherwise the different soil types of the county with suggested fertilizers, crop rotations, grasses for hay and pasture, pinning and spraying of orchards and gardens, specimens of weed and seeds and insect pests, rations for different classes oi live stock, models and cost of constructing silos, barns, farm and home conveniences, domestic science, and art. Induce the county superintendent and State Department of Education 0 to make an exhibit of model school m houses, equipment, and grounds, and display handwork done by pupils in ,.V the public schools of the county. Also tr to take one day and call it "School day." Orations and essay contests can be put on, subjects to be farm and farm-life topics. An athletic contest between the schools of the county could he held. Have a special arrangement of sanitary arrangements, appliances, reports, tables, and charts by the county and State boards of health. Provide facilities for daily lectures, illustrated and otherwise, on farm and home life, sanitation, and public wel fare. Demonstrations by individuals, boys and girls in club work, organizations, and So on. Allot apace for the exhibit of the county man and woman agents in f(Hrm and home demonstration, boys' and girls, club work. Conduct plowing, team pulling, corn Judging, stock judging, and other farm contests on the grounds for men and boys. Induce manufactures cf machinery, cement, dynamite, farm , and home ^equipment, to exhibit their product and demonstrate the same. \ * (the 0 "H CC WIDOW GRAINGER HAS PASSED AWAY Died Suddenly From Attack of Acute Indigestion at Her Home Here. Mrs. Charlotte Grainger died very suddenly at her home here on Thursday of last week. She had reached an advanced age and reared a large family. She was apparently well at break fast and ate the meal as usual. A little later she was prostrated by an attack of acute indigestion and only lived a few hours. She was the widow of the late Daniel Grainger who lived near Homewood in this county and held the office of Magistrate for many years. He was known as one of'the best magistrates in Horry County in his day. She was about 54 years of age. She is survived by six children. She died at the resid'/ice of her daughter, Mrs. Willie Roberts here. She was a faithful member of the Missionary Baptist Church. The remains were laid to rest at the Thompson Graveyard, near Maple Church. GERMAIUM PORTERS NOW WANT COTTON Are Witttng" to Pay Fifteen Cents a Pound For Staple. Washington.?Senator Hoke Smith n % ? 1 ui vjeorgia nas announced tnat he has! received a cablegram form Baumanwall Import Gesellchaft, at Berlin,! stating that guarantees to take a million bales of American cotton at 15 cents a pound to be used exclusively for civil purposes in Germany had been deposited with the American consul. GERMANGOrrONMEN ! ARE ANXIOUS TO BUY German cotton men are taking up earnestly the plan to purchase Ameri-1 can cotton. They ser^t a wireless to' the German consulate in New York August 31, offering to buy 1,000.000 j bales at 15 cents per pound on delivery! in a German harbor. The message was signed by the Deutsche Dresdner and Disconto Bank of Berlin, and the National Bank of Bremen. Offer prizes for the largset delegaganizations of the county. Arrange a scries of floats represent ing county historical events and so on. J Have a parade of prize-winning live stock once daily. Let there be racing, driving and rid I I ing, but no betting. The horses should ! I as far as possible, bo local and bo driv-j j en or ridden to show the fastest or1 tions sent bv the various farmers' or-1 best in the county. Have plenty of good music, such as bands and choruses. Locate .several vest rooms, with chairs, cots for sickness and children, water, tPilet, etc., where they will be; easy of access. Advertise the fair and news concerning it widely and continually, by means of the public press of the county, catalogues, posters, stickers, etc. Got the working cooperation of teachers, preachers, farmers, mor-j chants, bankers, lawyers, doctors and other business men to boost, popular-! ize, and solicit the preparation of*| something to exhibit by their farmer f riends. Do everything possible to develop friendly community spirit and rivalry. The county fair if rightly organized { offers the mass of farmers in a district one of the best means of tjseful instruction, inspiration, and entertainment. Any sudden or radical change of methods of conducting some fairs would probably bankrupt them. The most needed reforms should be g "dual, determined, but constant, until the ideal educational fair is reached. I I^H HQ ' ^ IHB 'j^^B ORRY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, )NWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY, SE THE DAWN OF A A* *? I Ai O 0 -+ ' ^ \ A J\ - I\- I' ~-vN*\ ' ^ \ i I i v- \V\vV-\ \ r ?v V v \ v < \ \\N.\.y\v v A-x\\\ V / Hv X ; ^ | y? j=* TUESDAY'S ELECTION j rnn nnnmniTinu run rnuMMMUN State of South Carolina Goes Dry by Large Majority As Reported. News reaching here form Charleston and Columbia late last Tuesdaynight and early Wednesday morning shows that the State of South Caro Ima has cast a large majority tor prohibition. The polls were opened at all of the precincts in the State at 8 o'clock last Tuesday morning in the prohibition referendum provided by an act of the Legislature last Winter. The purpose of the act was to find out how the voters stand on the liquor question, so that the next session of the Legislature may pass laws agreeable thereto if it sees fit. As a result of the election, for prohibition the dispensaries in fifteen counties of this State will be wiped out after January 1st, 191G. The election last Tuesday does not affect the present law which allows shipments of liquor into this State at the rate of a gallon a month to each consignee, and the dispensaries will run on in the dispensary counties for the rest of the year. The latest news from over the State, nearly a!J of the counties having been heard from, gave the figures as follows: >, For Prohibition 33,4fid Against Prohibition 3 4,345 Majority For Prohibition . . . 19,120 A?! ENDORSEMENT FOE THIRD im Washington.?President Wilson has declined to allow Democrats in New Jersey, his home state, to endorse him for another term because he feels that it might seem as though he was talc ing advantage of the international situation to gain some personal advantage. o Large Ginnery Installed. Sevei al wagons were loaded here last Thursday with the big new ginnery machinery purchased by Air. George J. Holliday for his business at Jordanville. The new machinery is of the suction type and will turn out twenty bales of cotton per day. The new installation will bo made at once in time to handle the present crop of cotton. The ginnery formerly operated by Air. Holliday at Jordanville was lost by fire some time last year. ^ Among recent arrivals from Hendorsonvillc, N. 0., was Mrs. Frances Burroughs aim children. ' WEATHER For the Week Beginning We Issued by the U. S. Weat FOR SOUTH ATLANTIC AND 1 This week will be one of goner: temperatures, although scattered tt districts. ? W* , FIRST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER ;PTEMBER 16, 1915. NEW TOMORROW. xt v C ' r IJ/W'/'fc Mlfiik ' k-kk ^ ^ "LJ. ::'' " Sa*--. .---'. CS3 . *C> ^ ^ I B\. ^s- ^881Mli - -P. hanin i n Q f I m ii o ParMiklin ? r- ..vr?.M..v COUNTY OF HORRY VOTES FOR DRY With All But Few Precincts Heard From, Small Major. ity For Prohibition. Reference to the table appearing in this paper shows the vote on prohibition at all but a few of the precincts on last Tuesday. According to this the majority for prohibition is small; It is uncertain as to how the missing precincts went, but it is not thought that reports from them will change the result, though the majority for prohibition will still be very small. It is quite plain that very few of the voters of this county took any interest in the election. Most of the voters remained at home and did not even go to the polls. The largest vote was cast at Conway: The voting started early. A committee of ladies atten / m! the polls at Conway with plenty of ice water, and their influence no doubt had something to do with the majority that Conway gave the cause of prohibition. ROBBED BEE HIVE OF WIDOW LADY Unknown persons, on Wednesday I night of last week, on route No. two I | leading out from Galivants Ferry, S. ; C., carried off a bee hive belonging to Mrs. Emory Strickland, killed the bees 4herein, and then took out and carried off the honey. The thieves went near the place in a buggy. Signs were j found showing they had changed the washers on the buggy from metal to leather to deaden the sound of the vehicle. This buggy was tracked from a church about four miles away where i a protracted meeting was in progress at the time. Then the tracks wore followed to a house from which it is believed the act originated. I Q In relation to the removal of the railroad tracks from Main Street, it is understood that the railroad company has frequently offered to tear i up the track and rebuild it at a different place if the people of the town will furnish the new right of way. This being* the case it ought to be easy to ! get the tracks removed. Everybody .vould iike to* see the railroad tracks i out of the principal streets of the town. There is an easy way to do it if somebody will got interested and make the proper arrangements. o J. W. Baker of Allen, S. C., one oT the leading farmers of that community. spent some time in Conway last week. FORECAST dnesday, September 15, 1915 her Bureau, Washington. D. C. SAST GULF STATES: illy fair : vl relatively high lunders)" bio : n coast 9 vmt? if FLOYDS TOWNSHIP FOR GOOD ROADS A Plan to Have a Good Road at The Private Expense of Parties. Last year when we voted on the question of issuing bonds for the purpose of building roads there were a good many who objected to bonds saying that they had rather get together and build them without voting a debt on to be paid by their children. Now it is up to us. We can't sit still and show to the public that we were in favor of neihter or we can put our shoulder to the wheel and help the work along. Messrs. E. M. Mears and W. C. Hooks are going ahead with the work with what help they can get. They began last Monday morning at the Nichols bridge and are claying as they come and are doing good work making a good road out of one which was given up to he the worst road in the county if not in the State and are doing it at a cost of about $7.50 a mile by the people furnishing the team and wagons to do the hauling. They are going to try to have it completed to Floyds cross roads by the first of October, but it depends on the help they get where they succeed or not. Now this is a work that helps every one who ever travels over the road and every one who hauls a load of tobacco or a load of guano ought to help in this work. Let's don't stand back and say: "Hurrah, boys," and let a few do the work and when the work is done come along and brag about what good roads we have. If we all will only pull together we can build the road and no one will ho hurt So come along with your team any day in the week and haul clay, or send a check for $5 or $10 or as much more as you can or are willing to give. A record will he kept of all work done or money paid so when the work is done everybody can know who did it. Now there is not a farmer in at least one half of Floyds township and a part of Green Sea township who can afford not to have his name on that list. GOOD ROADS. tuesdayTelection in horry county PRECINCTS: Wet. Dry. Conway 80 133 Homo wood 5 8 Adrian 3D 451 Gurloy 20 27 jSanford 0 1* i " > ?U) Boris j Cedar Grove* 10 RS Green Sea 3(5 ?5(> Bayboro 20 27 Floyds 10 4o Horree IS Spring; Branch ? 2>> Taylorsviile Galivants Ferry 14 Aynor 0 *'2 Cool Springs 21 7 YardeUe 15 13 Knotty Branch 15 .1 ordanville 5a 10 Dog Bluff <?r> Greenwood 'IS 24 Port Harrelson 2 1(5 Daisy 35 is Graham's X Roads 14 Farmer 1S l:;' I Little River 15 1(> | Warn pee 22 11 i Douwood 1 ^ Ebenezcr 14 28 j Shell 11 !) Socastee (> 181 i Withers 22 9 Mar low CJrahamville 8 19 Hammond 22 9 Blanche TOTALS 721 782, PROGRAM Tor the S. S. Rally at Pleasant View) Third Sunday in October 1915. 10 Dcvotonal exercises by J. E. Ed' wards. All schools within reach are invited ' to represent with a report and four I songs. Two songs for morning and' two for aAernoon. There will be talks on S. S. Work in i afternoon by those interested. Let all bring lunch and come to i spend the day. W. P. COKER. | J. E. EDWARDS, HASKELL HARRELSON, Committee. o W. L. Alford was in Conway last, Monday. i I READ IT IN THIS PAPER AND SEE IT IN MOVING PICTURES. NO. 23. KELLY GALLOWAY DEAD BY DROWNING Boat Had Been Moved And He Undertook to Swim River i HE WAS VERY HOT FROM DAYS LABOR Young Man of Promise And Liked by His Neighbors. Kelly Galoway, a son of Jessie Galoway of the Hammond neighborhood of 1y 1C? AYMIMf tt'iv n /!??? ' ? A I - - \T f u?o >1/11111^, ? llLUf. Ill'll III LIU.* ? ac* camaw River last Friday evening. He and Thomas Todd had been working that day in timber .woods across the river from Red Muff. They went over in the morning from the home side in a boat. Between sun-set and dark, they returned to the river on tHe way home. Somebody had moved the boat and there was no way to cross just then except to swim the river. The weather was warm and young Galoway was hot from the exercise. He was advised by his companion not to undertake it, but he plunged into the river and was seized with cramps it is supposed and losr his life. He was about eighteen years of age. MULLINS CONCERN MAKES DONATION \A/hirh \A/ill Aid In Willed Will HIU >11 l!!l|JI UVIFIVj the Roads in Floyds Township. The efforts of citizens of Floyd* township to make pood roads at private expense are certainly encouraged by such donations as that made by John P. Cooper. With the contribution of $40.00, Mr. Cooper wrote Mr. A. D. Jackson as follows: (Copy.) Mullins, S. C., Sept. 11, 1915. Mr. A. I). Jackson, Horry Co., S. C. Dear Mr. Jackson:?I am pleased to know that you people are determined to have a good road from Floyd's to Nichols. At the rate you are now going tlie miserable sand beds will soon be a thing of the past. To show my appreciation of the work T enclose si ehcck for forty dollars, $10 00. I 1 gladly give you this money to aid in the work. Your truly, J NO. P. COOOPER. WON VI EXPOSITION" Clemson Had Part in Winning Exhibit at San Francisco Fair. Clemson College, Sept. lo.?The bureau of education of the federal depart mn.et of the interior has written to Clemson College to the effect that t no bureaus exhibit at the jyjvi l< rancisco exposition, in which Clomson had a part, had boon awarded a gold medal Clomson College was requested by the government to contribute th eexhibit on cotton and cotton products for the P*nvnrnmnnt's r?vVul\if nl r?vnn?i' ? " "v V XV I ? ?V v.x [/V... tion. I ho letter from the bureau of education follows: "I am just informed that a gold medal has been awarded to this bureau for the exhibit of agricultural education as a whole in group 9, class 24, at the P.rtama Pacific exposition. As a participant in that exhibit, your institution w'll receive a facsimile copy of the certificate awarded. State Cotton Warehouse. The Planters Tobacco & Storage Warehouse Co., has the contract for the State cotton storage warehouse, having received from John T-. McLaurin all the needed credentials several days ago. Mr. George L. Marsh is the manager. He is on hand all the time and ready to receive the cotton for storage now.