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to VOLUME XXX. f MUSHROOM TOWN WAS WIPED OFF MAP Local Interest Felt in Fate nf Hopewell, Va., Near City Point 4$ THOUSANDS ARE LEFT WITHOUT ANY HOME Place Now Stands as it Did * Before Influx of i 1 Settlers. > ? . Local interest attaches to the fate i of the town of Honcwell in Viririnia. Ij ^ which was a new mushroom town of *T f good size which grew up near the I plants of the DuPont Powder Works, and where thousands of men out of work all over the country flocked last Spring and Summer in search of employment. More than two dozen men went from this place and located there in one kind of work or another. Among those who went are: J. W. Sparks, H. (). Wyatt, W. H. Howell, Hon T. McNeill Jr., George Oliver, It. L. Oliver, and many more from different sections of the county. Mr. Howell had established a place of bus iness in Hopewell. The entire business part of the city was burned to the ground. A late despatch concerning IU*J tv>iina);iiUli'll I I'cUIJj us> iuiiuwh; The town of Hopewell, swept by fire last week almost as bare as the * cornfield in which its first buildings were put up a year ago. . Four hundred houses, most of them wood, constructed in feverish haste to care for the influx of people brought by the activities of the DuPont explosives plant, were licked up by the flames. In the main part of the town of 25,000 persons hardly a building f remained, though the great explosives plant nearby and company villages at either end of the town escaped undamaged. The loss is put at $1,000,000. Thousands of refugees who through out the afternoon stood helpless as their homes and places of business hurned, were housed during the night I in Petersburg and Richmond. Many oi tnose who saved their household .goods guarded their effects with repeating rifles all night. Militiamen from Richmond and special guards from inside the DuPont plant helped tho Hopewell police force to keep or, . der. Although many were injured only ^ one death was reported. A negro, * caught looting, was said to have been lynched. The fire started in a restaurant when an oil stove toppled from a box in the kitchen. A hotel caught next W and soon the flames, driven by a st * wind, were eating their way through 'banks, stores, hotels and dwellings. V JThe only church in the town wos one . r t of the first building to go. 'f- An eleven year old boy was the f hero of the fire. Twice he rushed into a building and each time reappeared with a baby in his arms. The explosives plant, which day and night at top speed is turning out r ii -11'-- ? war Miuiiiuuii.s lor mc anics, ceasen 4> operations only long enough to make sure none of its buildings would burn. Once when the fire got close all hands were turned out to pour water on the buildings, but a shift of the wind turn ed the flames in another direction and the plant started up again. There was little insurance, it was said, on the buildings, which were jammed together?wood and brick? ^in a space covering about 60 acres. The estimate of $1,000,000 loss is a conservative one, it was said. ? n Box Supper at Kingston Schoolhouse. I There will be a Box Supper at the Kingston Schoolhouse, near Michael, ^ the night of the 18th inst. There will also be an election held for the prettiest girl on the ground. The public is invited. This was to have been on the 11th, but on account of unfavorable weather it was postponed Hill the 18th. THURMAN W. BOYD. f JSP "H< 0< NO TIME EXTENSION THIS YEAR Tax Collections Are to Be M orlo nn Time Thic iiiuuu vii i 111 iv iiiio Year. The tune for the payment of State taxes will not be extended this year as last year, according to Carlton W. Sawyer, comptroller general. "The time will not be extended," he said, "and the last day for the payment of taxes without penalty will be December 31." CONWAY LUMBER GO. IN BURROUGHS STORE The corner stores sold under mortgages last salesday against L. H. Burroughs, was purchased by the Conway Lumber Co. It is stated that the company will run a store there and conduct a businers in connection with the lumber business they arc | now running at the large plants in the lower section of the town. The store immediately on the corner is , occupied by Israel Schorr who pur- | chased the bankrupt stock of Mr. Bur ruugiiK cum added new goons tnereto. He has been given notice to vacate the place by the first of the new year. The other store in the building is occupied by John Chestnut who runs a pool room and soda fountain. suddendemTseof mr. daniel norris I t Mr. Daniel Norris, who resided near Berea Baptist church in Bayboro Township, fell dead last Friday morning, Dec. 10th* 191.r>, at his home just after he arose from his bed. It seems that he worked at a cane mill the day before making syrup and he arose early to return to his work and it was i reported that he held some fire for some reason in his hand and. on walk- I ing across the house, fell and some of the family making alarm which Mr. J. M. D. Cannon, a near neighbor heard, ran to their aid and found him already dead. Smypathy goes out for those in sorrow. He was known as a hard working industrious man, and was about 45 or 50 years old, was living with his second wife, whose maiden name was Martha Skipper. They lived on a place known as the Skipper place, now in posession of Mr. S. W. Skipper. O* ? HORSE AND WAGON PUSHED * _______ No Damage by Collision With String of Dox Cars. A remarkable freak accident is reported to have occurred in Charleston A railroad engine pushing a string of box cars and a city delivery express wugim ugureo. The driver of the wagon, it is said, started to drive over the crossing while the cars were being slowly pushed. Suddenly realizing that he could not clear the track in time the driver jumped from the wagon, leaving one shoe. The crash occurred, but owing to the low rate of speed at which the cars were being pushed, instead of smashing up the wagon and killing the horse, the whole outfit was shoved several box-car lengths up the track by the engine, before it was discovered that the horse and wagon were being pushed. Neither the horse nor wagon was damaged. o COTTON FIRE IN GEORGIA Eatonton, Ga.?Fire of unknown origin that raged for two hours destroyed what were known as the G. K. Riley cotton warehouses, on the Prudden estate, and two thousand bales of cotton. For a time the resi dential district was threatened. Assistance was asked from other towns and some appartus arrived, but the Macon company was stopped before it left that city, when the fire was found to be under control. The loss is estimated at $125,000, partially covered by insurance. ; 1 Wimx ORRY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, ONWAY, S. 0? THURSDAY, I : NEUTRALS ON Tl I. | ( / yk . f ^ v.\ '^WL Vv"v T"-:?^-<- <_ I yL *i\({<l^> v"'>5& - > . J WILEY BOY CANT . EAT ICE CREAM Dr. Ilarvey W. Wi?wy. food expert and formerly chief chemist of the United States Department of Agriculture, says The Baltimore Sun, told the Parents and Teachers' Association and members of the Upper School at the Park School how school children should bo fed. Dr. Wiley emphasized that simple foods were by far the most desirable, not only for school children but for adults as well, and went into a discussion of the entire food problem. Milk, cereals, vegetables and especially spinach, run through a collander, so that all the stems would be left out, he said were especially good for grow ing children and good for older folks as well. He had been often asked, he said, about meat as a diet. He was a great advocate of a mixed diet, he said, and did not think a small amount of meat would be harmful to children. Ice Cream and Cake Bad. Dr. Wiley was emphatic in this declaration that sweets, such as ice cream and cake, wer not fit foods to put into stomach of children. When his little hoy goes to children's parties where ice-cream and cake are served, he said, the youngster takes a little bag of graham wafers and while the other children are filling up on things that will do them harm, his youngster is munching on his graham wafers. "Just think of it," he said, ice-cream and cake for children!" He also said that bread made from whole wheat flour and whole cornmeal were the only "fit breads for children, as well as adults. People did not realize how much they were missing in eating the white flour bread. The bran of the wheat and the bran and the oil of the corn contained prop erties that were necessary to the building of bone and sinew and to the general well-being of the system, he said, and when these were eliminated by the modern processes of milling much that was valuable was being lost. Oil of Corn Taken Out. Then, he said, the kernel of corr which contains the oil is taken out in modern method of grinding cornmeal whereas, this ought to remain, as well as the corn brand. The corn oil, ho said, contains much nourishment as is contained in butter fat which has a high heeding value. Formerly it was the custom to measure the value of all fats by their heat-producing qualities?their caloric units?but this method has been found, he said to be erroneous . Another of Dr. Wiley's surprising statements was that potatoes ought never to be peeled, fo'r in the skin is contained a vitalizing element that ought not to be lost. "There, are only two ways of cooking a potato," he said. "First, you must be sure to have it washed clean, U W* first, last, now and fore ver. 5ECEMBER 16, 1615. HE FIRING LINE. ; .-.v< f - w& v^'? 7^ s A ^ ; J. % # ?Rogers in New York Herald. GREEN SEA SCHOOL TO ENTERTAIN The pupils of the Green Sea Graded School will present the Christmas Cantata "Jolly Times" with the Santa! Claus Band on Wednesday evening, Dec. 22nd, at half past seven o'clock. Their "Jolly Times" is made more delightful by the coming of the "Wind Fairies," "Grandfather Clock," "Japanese Girls," "Postman," "Uncle Sam," "Columbia" and "Daughters of Columbia," and numerous other .interesting and original characters who take part in the festivities of the evening. Admission 10 and 25 cents. W. P. COKER, Principal. " o ? T7^ r\ n r\ rtv\ n>fi I nnnnirvT^^rrn runu iv/ ini'j I'lVCiOl I Tells Him to Disregard Reports of Trip Till Leader Sees Him. Washington.?A wireless message from Henry Ford, aboard the steamer Oscar II, was received at the White House. Mr. Ford asked the president j to disregard what he termed inaccur-1 ate newspaper accounts of proceedings aboard the Oscar II and said that lie would personally inform the President later as to the trans-Atlantic trip. o BOX SUPPER. There will be a Box Supper, Ghost Party, and Fortune Telling at the Eldorado School House on December 24th, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. We invite everybody to attend, especially the trustees of the school. MISS AGNES STROUD. o Last week S. L. Schorr, who had been held in the jail under charges of violation of the bankruptcy law, was j able to make bond for his appearance l i n _ J i i dot ore mo commissioner. * * * * * Jeremiah Smith was in Charleston all of the first part of last week he-l ing a member of the jury in the Unit-! ed States 7)istrict Court in session last week there. He returned to Conway on Thursday. ***** After spending several weeks on the job and sparing no efTort to obtain' a flow of artesian water, only a small j stream has been obtained at the residence of Sheriff J. A. Lewis. so that no dirt adheres to it, and then bake it or boil it in a very little water, so that the juices of the potato, which have been extracted by the boil ing process, are in a large measure returned to it. Then it should be eaten, skin and all. In peeling our potatoes and other vegetables, we in this country are wasting vast quantities of the very vital essences of our foods." * raw. 99 CREDITORS MEET LAST THURSDAY Elect Agent for the Creditors of D. M. Causey to Act With the Assignee The creditors of 1). M. Causey, who recently failed vand made an assign ment, hold a meeting in Conway last Thursday at the ollico of H. H. Woodward and elected L. B. Singleton, Hsqr., as agent for the creditors to act with the assignee, Mr. C. L. Williamson, in the disposition of the assigned estate. ? o JESSE STRICKLAND ATTEMPTED ESCAPE Jesse Strickland who was convicted of stilling, and violating the liquor laws on other counts, was sent back to the Horry County jail hero in . hnvirn rP I> 1 v ?*v?t \j l u villi A. A. I UV." L1M ilIHl IVW I 1 1 II Johnson. Near Fair Bluff, N. C., on the return trip, Strickland managed to elude the officers and broke for liberty. Ho was retaken on Saturday morning by Messrs. J. T. Proctor and H N Sessions at his home in Floyds Township and was lodged in the jail here the same day. This defendant, it is said had a room fitted up at his home wherein the blind tiger whiskey was stored and was sold out to those who wished to buy o DORVA-D'LEON GO. NEXT ATTRACTION The next number of the present lyceum course at Conway is the Dorva-DeLeon Company playing under the plan of the Alkahest Lyceum System of Atlanta, Ga. They will be at (J on way on December 23rd and will begin their entertainment at 8:30 sharp. The company consists, according to the press notices of two gentlemen and two ladies, The star of the company perhaps is Miss Elizabeth Lorraine Beattie, whose readings have excited the interest of large audiences. A good attendance is confidently expected at this which will no doubt be one of the best attractions of the entire season. o "THE DIAMONDS FROM THE SKY" The Herald's Next Serial?To Be Shown in Pictures at The Casino. The moving picture show now owned by Mr. McQueen Quattlcbaum, has made arrangements to secure the great serial picture, "The Diamonds From the Sky," which was selected by llO'll'd t\r ovnftvfo ?1 " c- < ?? lv vrx/v?i \l v/? ViV|'VI Vk) L I V/ III CI I I I I * ' ?"> 1/ tl countless number of stories submitted in a contest last year. It is one of the best serial stories ever written, and the scenes on the screen were produced by the best artists in the moving picture world. The Herald has purchased the rights to this story and will run one page each week as the pictures arc shown at the theatre. The story begins in the first instalment concerning the birth of two babies, one a boy, born of a Gypsy mother, the otlv r a girl where a boy] was wanted, and although an heiress (or would be) she is swapped off through ill will and suite and the Gypsy boy is substituted in her placeJ The diamond from the sky is the heir loom of the royal family a branch of which had moved to this country. A boy was wanted in order to succeed to the title and estates in England, hence through spite of enemies this bold deception is undertaken. The story runs through twenty pages, and there was never anything in this lino that can possibly claim your interest more. 1 - . ! NO. 35 HORRYITES FIGURE IN FEDERAL CASES t On the Criminal Side of the Court in Charleston Last Week. SHERIFF LEWIS AND MARSHALL PROCTOR Were in Charleston as Witnesses Nearly All of Last Week. The authorities have been active in this section during the past year in rounding up violators of the Federal Liquor laws. As a result of this activity several cases went up to the district court in Charleston from this county, and sheriff J. A. Lewis and deputy marshal 1, John T. Proctor were in Charleston nearly all of last week as witnesses in the cases from this county. They returned to Conway the latter part of the week. Following is a report of the proceedings of the court, and among the list of cases will be found the names of the Horry County defendants: After deliberating for about seyen and a half hours, the jury in the case of the United States against Sam Wolf and the Aiken Dry Good Company found the defendants guilty of withholding assets from the referee in bankruptcy in the United States District Court here yesterday. Sam Wolf was recommended to the mercy of the court. Sentence was suspend od, pending* argument for a new trial to-day. The case was begun Wednesday afternoon, when a jury was drawn. The taking of testimony began yesterday morning. Shortly after the afternoon session the jury retired. It came back at about 0:20 o'clock in the afternoon, but was orderd back to its room by Judge Smith, when it was stated that the jurors had been unable to agree. It was not until nearly midnight that a verdict was returned. An involuntary petition in bankruptcy had been filed against the firm of which the Wolfs were members, and the petition had been granted. That assets had been withheld was the charge. W. Jesse Strickland was convicted of illegally storing liquor and recommended to the mercy of the Court. He was sentenced to serve three months in the Horry County jail and to pay a fine of $200. Willie Fowler and Hughie Sarvis pleaded guilty to working in an illicit distillery. Each was fined $100 and sentenced to serve one month in the Marion County jail. Tom Calhoun was found guilty of molesting mail in rural mail boxes and was sentenced to serve five months in the Barnwell county jail. G. N. Bosonfield is charged with two violations of Section 218, of the Criminal Code. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest and the cases continued. A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of ?Joc Morgan, charged with violating Section 215, of the Criminal Code. The case was continued. A bench warrant was also issued for the arrest of Thos. W. Sellers, j charged with violating Section 225, of j the Criminal Code. The case was continued. Alec Wallace was not present when his case was called, and it was conj tinued. He is charged with violating Section 8,242, Revised Statutes of the United States. The case of the United States against Joshua Sarvis, charged with a violation of the United States liquor laws, was continued. o CHRISTMAS TREE. There will be a Christmas tree and 1?AV Ciinnnn * Vv/\ CimnoAn uv/A kuiji|iri a I I lv~ uillipov^ vivvn School House on Christmas Ere night. The public is cordially invited to be present. TRUSTEES.