The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 14, 1916, Image 1
VOLUME XXXI
COOPERATIVE STORES
HAVE POOR SYSTEM
Usually Benefit a Community
in an Indirect Way Say
Experts
PRINCIPLE RIGHT BUT
BUSINESS METHOD POOR
Result of a Survey of Sixty
Cooperative Stores Recently
Made.
While cooperative stores in the
United States are relatively unsuccessful
as compared with typical cooperative
stores in European, countries,
the lack of success is not due
to the failure of the underlying
principles of such enterprises to hold
good in America, hut to the business
methods generally followed in such
undertakings in this country. This
conclusion has been reached as a result
of a survey of CO cooperative
stores made by the Office of Markets
and Rural Organization of the
department, the findings of which
are published in Bulletin 394. In the
many American cooperative stores
which have failed, mismanagement,
inadequate accounting and auditing,
lack of cooperation, poor business
methods, and lack of judgment are
responsible.
The results of the survey indicated
that the cooperative store has tended
to bring about lower prices, smaller
margins of profit, more efficient
business methods, and other practices
beneficial to the farmer. Higher
figures are quoted frequently for
produce sold by farmers, in communities
in which cooperative stores
exist, because of a stimulation of the
local market.
With the application of efficient
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uusuicsfi meiiiuus ana me euucauon
of the farmer to a clear understanding
of the functions of cooperative
stores, say the authors of the bulletin,
American cooperative stores may
be made successful. Instances are
cited of unusual savings and large
dividends to members of various associations.
Such associations procure
capable managers, it is pointed
out, by paying adequate salaries;
take advantage of large-scale purchasing
and cash discounts; main*
tain proper accounts and cost records;
and watch stock turnovers.
The cooperative store in general, it
is pointed out, has very great possibilities
in this country if the farmer
can be made to understand this necessary
relation of efficiency to financial
success.
The more general, underlying conditions
which investigations indicated
should be present if a cooperative
store is tobe successful are: (1)
Good leadership among the members
and prospective members, (2) capable
management, (3) favorable environment,
with regard both to physical
location and to social or occupational
affiliations, and (4) adequate
legal safeguards. The leader
snip snouid not be confined to one
individual, the severing of whose con
nection with the enterprise might
prove disastrous, but should consist
in an efficient organization in which
a group of leaders takes part. Only
a man of good general business ability
should be placed in active management
of the store. The securing
of such a man will involve the payment
of a higher salary than is paid
by most of the stores investigated.
The average salary of the manager
for the enterprisees reporting was
$i06 a month.
InCtartie of. the most suecessfu'
coopej-^ve j stores investigated the
nop ^ploy^nt of many of the
residents of, the;community or their
common membership in social, fraternal,
or religious associations was
an important factir making for success.
Laws granting special privileges
and creating special safeguard^
fpr cooperative a>ao4iatfons
now e^s^in 30 (3tMM. Persona can-,
templating the organization of eenperativc
stores are urged by tbe do
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ROUMANIANS RETIRE
BEFORE THEIR FOES
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Forces Still in Retreat as
Teutons Press Invasion
of Country.
The Roumanian army at last reports
was still falling back all along
t the line east of Bucharest from the
Transylvania Alps to the Danube.
Just where it will stop and face
about and with its Russian allies
make a stand against the Teutonic
allies has not yet become apparent.
On the Moldavian west frontier and
farther north along the Bukowina
border the Russian attacks against
the Austro-German forces have failed
to make any impression. An official
communication from Berlin
says Bucharest was captured without
any fighting except by the Roumanian
infantry north and west of
the capital. This resistance was quick
ly overcome, it is stated, and the invaders
entered the town from all
j sides, being received enthusiastically
! bv the populace and dceorated with
flowers.
Aside from Roumania the greatest
interest still is centered in the political
crisis in Great Britain. David
| Lloyd-George has formally accepted
from the king the post of prime
minister and first lord of the treas|
ury, a fact which is considered as indictating
he will be able speedily to
form a ministry. The probable
makeup of the cabinet has not yet
been announced.
On . none of the fronts are saneuinarv
b?ttlf?K ir? nrftoroec flia
? ? f ? "4 t.Midmost
part the artillery is doing the
greater portion of the work. Berlin
reports that the Bulgarians have
forced back the British in the Struma
river and lowlands near Seres, in
I Macedonia, and that the Bplgariap^1
land Germans hkve compelled the!
j evacuation by the Serbs o? positions
they had previously captured 'near
Tarnovo, in the Cerna river sector.
West of Lutsk, in Volhynia, the
Teutonic allies have captured Russian
positions and successfully withstood
counterattacks.
The Vienna war office reports that
the Italians after a vigorous bornI
bardment launched two attacks on
the Carso front of the Austro-Italian
theatre, but that both of them were
repulsed.
I Artillery duels and exploits by
raiding parties continue on the fronts
in Belgium and France. The Germans
and French are engaged in a
spirited artillery battle in the region
of Hill 804, northwest of Verdun,
where the Germans Wednesday gained
some ground.
An explanation of the military activity
of the Greeks has been demand
ed by the British, French, Italian and
Russian ministers at Athens, according
to an unofficial dispatch.
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MRS. A. S. GREGG DEAD
Florence, Dec. 5?Special: Mrs. A.
Stewart Gregg, an aged and much
beloved lady of this city, died Saturday
at the home of her son, Mr. D.
S. Gregg, 208 West Pine street. Mrs.
Gregg suffered a stroke of paralysis
seme months ago and that was the
direct cause of her death. Mrs. Gregg
was a devout Christian and was well
known and most highly esteemed.
She leaves in addition to her aged
husband, nine grown children, as follows:
Marion T. Gregg, Walter B.
Gregg, D. Frank Gregg, Dick S.
Gregg, and Mrs. C. L. Smith, Mrs.
J. J. McCall, Mrs. Thomas B. Anderson,
Mrs. Victor A. Purvis and Miss
Ellie Gregg, all of whom reside in or
near this city, excepting D. F.
Gregg, who now resides at Conway.
The funeral services were held
from the Gregg home in West Pine (
street at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by
the Rev. Richard T. Gillespie, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church,;
near Claussen, the old burying;
rround of tthe Gregg family, and
laid to rest in the presence of a great
concourse of relatives and friends.
The grave was covered with many
beautiful flowers.
turtment's specialists to
^afffefuiy all these factors befoie
ing definite steps.
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IKY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, 1
ON WAY, S. 0., THURSDAY, DI
KINGSTON HOTEL
HAS NEW MANAGER1
S. C. Richardson last week became
the new manager of the Kingston
Hotel, the former proprietor, G.
Marshall Nance having resigned the
position and moved with his family
back to their old home at Mullins, S.
C. Mr. Richardson was formerly
the manager of the Waccamaw Hotel
on the corner of Main Street and 3rd
Avenue.
IS FOUND DYING 1
NEAR HIS HOME
Dying of stab wounds, one of
which penetrated the heart, John
Blizard, a young married man employed
in the Glencoe mills, Columbia,
S. C., was found lying in the
gutter last Saturday near his home,
521 Green street, and died two hours
later in the Columbia hospital. He
could speak only with difficulty, but
when asked who was his assailant he
gave a name which was understood
as "Will Turnage." A man of that
name, who drives a garbage wagon
for the city street department, is under
arrest.
Nick Norman, a boy neighbor,!
found the wounded man. W. E. Fulmer,
M. D., who lives a few blocks
east of the scene, arrived shortly
afterward and a little later came
also Drs F. W. Butler and H. H.
Baggott, city physicians. Blizzard
was taken to his home and thence to
the hospital. He was questioned in
the ambulance. "Will Turnage cut
me for nothing.'' he is said to have
asserted to Policeman R. E. Lee,
M. C. Sligh, T. M. Tallon and E. M.
Lancaster.
Turnage Admits Stabbing,
j Turnage was arrested shortly after
midnight at <60^ Huger street,
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,f.v w?a?v WA a*?a I/I vvil^irill'iaYT f n* |
L Williams. Capt. Irby, . Detective |
Shorter and Policeman <Sligh entered
the house. Turnage was asked on
arrival at police headquarters wheth
er he had cut Blizzard. "Yes," he
said. Then Capt. Irby said, "Well,
Will, you did a good job; you killed
him." Turnage said nothing. After
ward he asked whether he could see1
the body. His full name, he said,
is Will Martin Turnage.
Questioned by policeman and others,
Turnage said that early in the
evening Blizzard came to the Williams
home and asked for Mrs. Turn
age. Mrs. Williams told him Mrs.
Turnage was not there but Turnage
was. Turnage, according to his
story told at headquarters, came out
and addressed Blizzard: "What will
you have?" "Blizzard wanted to
know if my wife was going to work
Monday. I said, 'You ought to
know.' Blizzard was whittling on a
stick. He drew his knife on me and
then I cut him twice. When I cut
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' him he told me to 'wait a minute.'
My knife broke at the second cut.
Blizzard ran up the hill." It is about
' two and a half blocks from where I
Turnage says he stabbed Blizzard to
the spot where Blizzard was found.
Turnage was entirely self possessed.
Carried Pay Envelopes.
Mrs. Blizzard said that her husband
left home about 6 o'clock, taking
with him his pay envelope and
her's. Later in the evening, it is
. said, he was in the store of George
Norman, a neighborhood . grocery
around the corner, at 812 Huger
street. Only 75 cents was in his j
clothes when he was found. Neigh-1
bors said they saw Turnage in the
Norman store early in the evening.
Policemen spread over the district
after the discovery of the affair and
closely questioned everybody they
found. Turnage is said to be a na-1
tive of the Jacobs section in Rich-1
land county. |
John Blizzard was a son of Arthur
Blizzard, a railroad man. He!
leaves his wife, formerly Miss Leila
Browder, and three children, Eloise
Woodrow and John, Jr. His brothers
are Robert, Arthur and William
Blizzard and his sisters, Mrs. Ella
Miles of Hamlet, N. C., and Mrs.
Henrietta Haithcock, Mrs. Maggie
Price and Mrs. Lizzie Gladden, all of
I Columbia. Mr. Blizzard was about
^80 years of age. Internal hemorrhage
from the heart wound was the WtySc
of death. I
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FIRST, LAST. NOW AND FOREVER
SCEMBER 14, 1916.
negro employee
killed in woods
There was an accident in the timber
woods of the Conway Lumber
Company last Saturday. F. Scott, a
colored hand employed in switching
one of the timber trains was mashed
causing internal injuries. Arrangements
were made to< bring him to
Conway where he might receive
quick attention, but the man was
dead when the conveyance reached
here with him.
1 case~postponeT
to another date
The case of the State against Edgar
Gore and others charged with
snooting live stock in a warrant
brought by W. L.. Edge, was called
for hearing before Magistrate W. H.
Chestnut here last Thursday; but it
developed that the magistrate was
related to the defendants and he
was disqualified to hear the testimony.
The case was transferred lo
Magistrate J. J. King to hold a preliminary
hearing in the matter on
January 18th, 1917.
SERVICESTONIGHT AT
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
I
The Rev. John S. Lightbourn, of
Georgetown, will conduct divine services
at St. Paul's Episcopal church
tonight (Dec. 14) at 7:f>0 o'clock.
The public is cor*dially invited to
attend.
PR06RAM OF THE
PEE BEE UNION
' The Pee Dee Union* * will convene
with the Rehoboth ? Baptist church,
Dec. 29-31st, 1916.
11:00 a. m.?Introductory Sermon
by Rev. E. L. Owens '
Query 1?The Preachers Prayer
Life.
1? Query 2?Christian Stewardship,
assigned to Rev. W. J. Wilder.
I Query 3?What is Meant by Good
Works in the New Testament to D.
L. Hill.
Query 4?What Constitutes an Ortherdox
Church to J. T. McCracken.
Query 5?Who is Responsible for the
Poor Paid Preacher, the Pastor or
the People ? assigned to Rev. E. L.
Owens.
| Preaching Saturday at 12:00 m. by
| H. B. Roberts.
| Missionary Sermon Sunday 11:00
' ? ... U.. T\ T TTill
<>. in. uy u. Lj. mil.
Written Reports on Aged Ministers
and Foreign Missions continued
from last Union with same assignments.
A. H. Prince,
L. I). Holt,
J. C. Barnhill,
COMMITTEE.
NEW "SUPERTANKS"
USED BY GERMANS
One of the most interesting features
of the Roumanian campaign
from a German standpoint has been
the spectacular work of the nev
I **iuivreu uuiomooue evolved soot |
after the advent of the British
"tanks" on the Somme front, but
which the developments in Roumani?
have shown to he a vast improvemen>
i efficiency over the Briitsh
machines
FORCED TO RETREAT.
Petrograd.?In the province of
Wallachia, says the Russian officia
statement issued today, the Rou
manian troops under unceasing hos
tile pressure continue to retire to the
eastward. In consequence of this, i'
is added, Russian troops who are o*
the left flank of the Roumanians
also are retiring.
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Country Merchants.
Also merchants in town. Let qt
print you your crop mortgages fo)
1917 on the best form which we havr
been furnishing to merchants for the
past several years.
raid.
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PLAN TO REMOVE
' MALARIA SCOURGE
Type in Colleton County Said
to Be Worse Than Yellow
Fever.
Columbia, Dec. 8.?Strenuous effort
will be made by the State Board
of health to stamp out the hemor- ;
rhagic type of malaria in Colleton '
county. Seventeen deaths were reported
to the board from Brovton
tow. ship, in Colleton, during the
months of July, August and Septem- ;
her. The type of malaria is differ- !
ent from what they have ever had 1
in that community. It is known as
the hemorrhagic typo, or "yellow
chills." The disease resembles yel- <
[low fever and an expert is required
to differentiate between the diseases
It is far more deadly Iran yehow
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The situation in Brextcn township
will be called to the attention of the
board of health by James A. Haync,
' M. 1)., State health officer, at the
' meeting to bo held in Columbia, December
1. Dr. Ilayne will recommend
that a commission be appointed
to visit the township. The commission
will examine all persons in
I the township and will take steps to
improve the malarial conditions. "1
will urge the Legislature," said Dr.
Hayne, "to enact a law requiring
corporations employing imported labor
to see that each employee re
ceives a propholactic dose of quinine
daily so that the malarial parasites
may be driven out of the peripheral
circulation, and thus these laborers
will not infect the anophlees mosquitoes,
the sole carriers of malaria
and the community will be protected
wher6 these laborers are at work."
THEFT OF CLOTH
WAS UNEXPLAINED
I
| Recently the Conway Trading
| Company had a bolt of white velvet
1 corduroy in its store on Main
Street, and this was missed from the
store. It was fine goods and was
evidently taken away by some theil
entering the store and taking it out
while the salesmen were not in that
end .of the building. ft was stated
that the thief would likely be discovered.
ROUMANIANS MAKE
REMARKABLE MOVE
In another desperate attempt to
ward off the attack on Bucharest, the
Roumanians executed another remarkable
and seemingly impossible
strategic move. Their army, which
had been facing troops advancing
upon Bucharest from the sonthwo?t
"h! wcsf, was suddenly turned
sc.uarely toward the "Danube army"
n the south, thus exposing themselvs
to a disastrous flank attack.
The Roumanian army which hid
nen retreating pell mell from the
northwest, suddenly stopped and \ gan
an attack in a direction nearly
northward, thus cxp^irg itself to an
attack in the rear by German troops
j marching due eastward.
The result was that another Roumanian
army numbering about iou.
divisions was left in a kind of rul do
sac almost due west of Bucharest, between
two German forces and threat
ened from behind by a third. The
maneuver was a surprise to the Germans
because it apparently rendered
the nositinn r?f ull -
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aimies utterly untenable for any
length of time and laid them onen to
destruction.
REPORT SOME GAINS.
Petrograd.?Russian troops on the
northern Roumanian front attacked
the Teutonic forces in the Putna
valley region yesterday and dislodged
them from two heights, the
office announces. They took SQlO'
prisoners, including ten officers; six ,
machine guns, two bomb mortars
and one cannon. *
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SCARE SOON OVER
EVERYBODY SATISFIED
School Trustees Were Opposed
to Closing School Last
Week
STATE HEALTH BOARD
SENDS REPRESENTATIVE
Town Council Was Also Involved
in Controversy.
About Diptlieria.
Trouble arose last week when it
was reported that diptheria had developed
in one family in Conway
from which children were attending
the llnrroiiffhe
?injjii k.n.tn/(M. 1I1C1C
was another case of the disease in
town for which place however there
was no communication with the
school. Various reports pot into circulation
about the danger of children
in the school contracting the disease.
When the matter was taken up by
the town board of health they made
an investigation and recommended
that the school be closed for about
two weeks in. order that the building
i...gut oo fumigated and all danger
of an epidemic avoided. The town
council took up the case and in substance
voted to sustain the ruling
of the board of health by having the
school closed long enough to thoroughly
clear the school building of
..11 i -
an gcruis una open the school again
on the following Monday.
The school trustees were opposed
to closing the school. As a result
of this contention a joint meeting of ' -r
the town council, the board of health,
and board of trustees was called for
Tuesday night of last week, and at
this meeting the matter was thoroughly
threshed out, and it was
agreed to leave the matter to the
State board of health . The State
board sent a representative here who
investigated the matter on Wednesday
and he recommended that the
school rooms be re fumigated and the
building closed down until Monday
morning.
While there was a case of diptheria
in the town, there was no general
epidemic of the. disease and prompt
measures taken to quarantine the
case resulted in getting the scare
over in a day. The matter has been
thouroughly controlled and everybody
is satisfied.
SHIEL?NI SHADOW
m mo a or urui
nuvio Hnc ncif
The Shielding Shadow, the latest
moving picture serial produced by
the Pathe Exchange, wlil be furnished
in right new films and will be
bound to be enjoyed by all who start
in with it and keep up with the intensely
interesting story as it progresses.
When you read this story
or see the pictures at the Pastime
theater, you may know that you are
reading and seeing something that is
new and strictly up-to-the-minute.
The whole world is looking for some
thing new, then pin your faith to th^
latest no matter if it is only a story
or a picture that you are concerned
with.
Read the synopsis of the first enisode
appearing in this issue. See
the first one or else you will not be
able to judge the story and the show
as a whole.
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BOY GOES WILD
IN NEGRO SECTION
George McCray, a colored yMitli'/
got mad about some appaVdhtly 'IHiaginary
trouble last Sunda^ and proceeded
to cause no little fright among
other members of his race. He tried
to shoot several of them but his pistol
failed to fire. He then went to
his house and got a gun. Finally to
#as overpowered. and 'lodged Tn tto
guard house for trial *iV Monday.
The cause cf his frenzy was not explained.