The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 28, 1919, Image 1
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VOLUME XXXIV.
f TOBACCO GROWERS
I NEED EXPERIENCE
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^jhey Have Right Lands but
/*' Lack Knowledge of This
, it Weed
f BOLL WEEVILS WILL
? PUT COTTON OUTSIDE
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Continue to Plant Tobacco ani
Learn How to Get BigMoney
Out of It.
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Wo hear some farmers, who planted
tobacco this your and who failed to
make good grades, saying that they
new see their mistake in planting all
the land in tobacco and not planting
at least the greater part of it in
cotton. That may be all very well
while the boll weevil is yet some
distance away. Let us remember,
however, that Mr. Boll Weevil is coming
and that very soon, for overy
year he comes down a little further
toward this cotton growing stretch on
the coast. And when he arrives we
may be sure that he will make about
impossible for any of us to clear
anything on a patch of cotton.
This is one of the best sections in
either North Carolina or South Carolina
for raising a nice bright grade of
leaf tobacco. We believe that it Is
one of the best money crops for the
farmers of this section of the State
especially in view of the approaching
ban of the boll weevil. Hut the farKniers
in this section of Horry County
lack the long experience that farmers
/ in other tobacco growing sections,
y and even in other parts of nearby
territory, have had in growing and
curing the weed for market. We have
seen instance after instance this year
of where the farmer had a fine looking
tobacco crop and spent good mon.
ey for fertilizers and labor in producing
it; but there was a lack of know
ledge of how to gather and cure it
and place it on the market in the best
condition to get a high price. Therefore
let all our farmers be sure to
raise plenty of suppjies on the
farms, and keep on planting what
they can manage of the tobacco as a
money crop, and in the mean time
study and read on the subject and try
to produce better grades. Gradually
get ready to do without cotton altogether
if it should become expedient
owing to the boll weevil.
FEtfBTUFFHAS
SHOOTING AFFRAY
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Red Bluff has another shooting affair,
although, it appears this time
that no one was hurt. Amnions
Bourne, who is a son-in-law of Jack^1
Stalvey, farmed this year with Jesse
Todd, his brother-in-law. Ammons
Bourne recently lived in the same
house with his father-in-law, Jack
Stalvey. Todd disagreed last week
about the crop and Bourne went to a
Magistrate to get a warrant, or other
process to seize the crop. After dack
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IU>V V rillciy infill/ miiiv uuui in; Han
goriN somebody fell to shooting Jack
f\Stalvey's house and continued to
shoot at the house from time to time
until about two o'clock that night,
fifty guns having been fired in all.
The persons doing the shooting
were too far off to do much damage
most of the shots falling on the house
^ without going through.
^ It is said that Jack Stalvey finally
went out and returned the shots, but
no one knows whether he hit anybody
or not.
The difficulty seems to grow out
of the same bone of contention as
that which existed some months ago
aboj^fC a tract of land purchased by
Stanley when Thomas W. Livingstone
was shot in the back and several
persons were 'bound over to Court
charged with riot and with commiting
an assault and battery with intent
to kill.
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SAYS SOUTH NOT
GETTING SQUARE DEAL
Mr. T. G. McLeod Addresses
Florence Farmers on the
Cotton Question.
"The south is not getting a square
deal," said Mr. T. G. McLeod, ad
diessing a larget audience at the
j court house in Florence on advocacy
of the South Carolina Cotton Association,
"and if we would keep our
war prosperity," he continued, "we
must be up and doing."
Mr. McLeod pointed out the fact
that not only is the present price of
cotton threatened, but the future
r>l ice is in still orreatnr dnncror ho
I ing kept down below the cost of production.
It has only been in the past
year or so that cotton has approached
anything like its worth he said.
"The only reason the farmers have
been able to keep going in the past
is because they were capitalizing
cheap labor, much of which was supplied
by the women and children.1'
It was by this sort of labor he said
that the South had accumulated what
ever wealth it had up to the year
1917. "Unless the farmers and the
business men determine to organize
foi the protection of the price of
cotton the women and children will
have again to go into the fields, and
this is a situation that it was painful
to contemplate declared the speaker.
As an evidence of what could be accomplished
through organization Mr.
McLeod pointed to the result of the
cotton acreage reduction movement,
the mere force of which sent cotton
up to nearly thirty-five cents a pound
and saved the south five hundred
millions of dollars. The cotton Asso-1
eiation would accomplish what no
agency could accomplish for the farmers
interests. It should receive the
undivided support of the farmers
I and business and professional men 01
the county. Mr. McLcod told of having
taken a bolt of ginghams which
weighed ten pounds on a merchants
stale. This bolt of cotton goods sold
at the rate of $1.28 a pound. The
merchant made 20 cents a pound;
the farmer sold the cotton at 80
cents a pound while it cost him 20
cents to make it, so the farmer made
X/ cents a pound; the broker 10
cents, while. the manufacturer got
away with 08 cents a pound.
Cotton is being manufactured today
sajd Mr. McLcod on a basis of
seventy-five cents a pound from the
?aw material. This is the result of
organization. Mr. McLcod declared
that foreign countries were now calling
for 4,000,000 bales of cotton,
not England who always got her
share, but the countries whose ports
have been closed. Yet in the face of
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ing down. "What is the reason? Jt
is because the speculators are forcing
it down so that they will make vast
sums of money when the old world
por\s are opened and shipments of
cotton begin. They will reap the
halwest, not us." Mr. McLeod warned
against the Association that was
seeking to build warehouses
throughout the satte, and lend money
al a low rate of interest on cotton
stored with them. This cotton was |
parceled out to the spinners to maintain
the low price of the staple.
FOOD CONTROL ACT i
NOW UP TO SENATE
Washington?With adoption by
the House of amendments extending
the Lever food control act to peace
times with penalties for profiteering
and broadening its scope to include
clothing and other necessities, the
nc xt move in the fight to lower the
Uin'V. /innf /\f 1 iirin/. i cj lin t A flin Qfinnln
Illicit wot ui living in VI|I V\/ VIK, MV Iinvv,
to which the measure now goes.
While the food control act is being
considered in the Senate the House
will continue with other measures designed
to reduce the cost of living.
The Hutchison cold storage bill, model
cd on the New Jersey act to which
President Wilson called attention in
his recent address to Congress, will '
be reported out of commitee next
week.
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CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY,
BUSINESS MEN ARE
NOW IN AGREEMENT
As to What it Will Take to
Place Conway in Lead as
Tobacco Market
BUYERS HANDICAPPED
BY LACK OF ROOM
Great Expense to Them Where
But Little Benefit is Derived
for Short Time.
Tobacco Warehouse men, tobacco
buyers and business men generally
all agree that if Conway is to amount
to what it might as a tobacco market;
prize houses and other necessaiy
buildings and conveniences must be
provided in time for another season
in order to take care of the increased
production in this immediate section.
The buyers have found many difficulties
in the way of handling the
tobacco they have bought, they have
been compelled to pay high prices
for rent of such small spaces as they
could get, have had to employ hands
to work at night, at time and half
time, and they have not been able
to ship the tobacco away as
promptly as they needed, even since
the embargo was removed by the
railroads.
It is to the interest of all the
business men to get together on this
preposition. The owners of the tobacco
warehouses have doubtless made
money and if they have they should j
be willing to invest it so as to increase |
t ho facilities of the market. They
owe this to all parties concerned
and really they are the omcs to go
ahead and do this whether other
business men. act on it or not.
Sixteen 1 rucks, in addition to those
already allocated to the State high- I
way commission by the United States j
war department, are being sent to
South Carolina at the present time
fiom Streater, 111.
FEAR SEIZURE! "
ALL OiL PROPERTY
Washington Officials Think
Carranza May Issue Confiscatory
Decree
Washington.?Officials here are
somewhat disturbed, it was learned,
by an apparent intention on the part
of Carranza and his official advisers
in Mexico City to confiscate the oil
property of foreigners, including
Americans, in spite of the protests
lodged with the Mexican government
by all the nations whose nationals
have investments in Mexico.
Two public declarations by Mexicans
close to Carranza have expressed
the President's stand on this mattec
which public opinion, official and
unofficial alike, except for the Carranzistas,
have declared to be vital.
The opinion of all classes in Mexico,
as reported in the Mexico City newspapers
and transmitted to the state
department, is for a prompt and correct
settlement of the petroleum
question which has been declared to
be the key to relations between the
United States and Mexico.
Petroleum cases which are now before
the Mexican supreme court are
there on the advice of the American
state department, which asked the
American oil companies to conform
to all the requirements of the Mexican
law stop by step from the low
est courts to the highest court in the
land.
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Completion of a 24 cylinder Liberty
motor which has developed 673 horse
power in the initial tests, is announced
by the war department.
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AUGUST 28, 1919.
BRITAIN TO BUY
MINERAL RIGHTS
Lloyd George Says Government
Accepts State Purchase
Policy
ADVERSE BALANCE OF
TRADE IS ALARMING
National Debt Too Has In
creased About Twelvefold.
London.?The British government
has accented the policy of the state
purchase of mineral rights in coal.
This announcement was made by
Premier Lloyd George in the House
of Commons.
In discussing the financial and industrial
situation, the premier said
that there. was an alarming tra le
balance against the United Kingdom
of 800,000,000 pounds which threatened
to increase. He announced tnat
import restrictions would be removed
September 1.
The premier said that before the j
war imports had exceeded experts
from the United Kingdom by 150,000,000.
Receipts from foreign investments
at present were down to
100,000,000, while Great Britain has
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to pay back an adverse trade balance
of 800,000,000 pounds.
Labor conditions in the united
Kingdom, he said, had improved. Of
the 3,600,000 men demobilized, only
350,000 have not been absorbed in in,1.
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tensions cost the government 100,000,000
pounds yearly. Private expenditure,
in the aggregate, he said,
was more formidable than public expenditure.
One way of meeting the
increase in expenditures is. to increase
production, but the output is
less in everything except agriculture.
He declared that if the country con
tinued in the way in which it was
going, the adverse trade balance
would reach 1,000,000,000 pounds,
compared to 150,000,000 before the
war.
"We cannot prosper," he said, "we
cannot even exist without recovering
and maintaining our international
trade. We must bring up the trade
balance adding to our exports and los
sening our imports."
The war cost forty billion pounds,
ho said, most of which was spent on
destruction. The British national debt
ho declared, had grown .from (541,000,000
to 7,800,000,000 pounds.
jessFwoodwardis
PAINFULLY BURNED
Caused by the Bursting of
Hose Pipe at Power
Plant.
Jesse Woodward was painfully, and
perhaps seriously injured by the
bursting of a hose pipe at the plant of
the Quattlebaum Light & Ice Company,
last Tuesday. He had his back
to the pipe, when without warning it
bursted open and his back was struck
by the hot water and steam. It is
said that if he had been facing the
pipe he would have been instantly
killed.
The injured man received m'vlieil
attention as quickly as possible and
at last accounts on Wednesday morning,
it was not known exactly how
serious his injuries are.
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Business has been good in Conway
since the tobacco season opened.
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METHODIST CHURCH.
There will be services at the Conway
Methodist church next Sunday
morning and evening at the usual
hour of worship.
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HORRY CANDIDATE
GETS A BIG VOTE
Which Likely Puts Him in Second
Race With P. H. Stoll
of Kingstree. ;
By referring to the talkie of votes*
cast last Tuesday it will be seen that
E. J. Sherwood received a large majority
in the county while his opposing
candidates received very few.
The voters in Horry did not turn
out in full force to vote in this election
as will appear from the light
vote polled, but they nearly all went
for Sherwood and left the other candaiates
out in the cold.
The result depends of course upon
the vote over the whole district which
includes Darlington, Dillon, Marlboro,
Florence, Williamsburg, Marion
and Georgetown.
The names of the candidates appear
in the table. Each canddiate has
polled a nice vote in his own home
precincts. At a late hour last TuesIday
night, it was apparent that' the
second race for this office would
likely be between E. J. Sherwood and
1' H. Stoll of Kingstrce, with Mclnnes
next to these two out of the let.
A telegram sent here from Mclnnes
on Tuesday night stilted that it
looked like a second race between
Sherwood and Stoll.
There was mu^h interest shown in
the election here. A bulletin board
was displayed on the large show
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"iimvn uv uic .^lUI V v?l i-NUI LUIl 1/1'UJ^
Company and there was a crowd
about it until about midnight.
The figures from the entire district
so far as they could be obtained today
stood as follows.
Evans 345
LeGrande 288
Mclnnes 1522
Sherwood 2075
Stackhouse 1151
Stoll 1572
The official count of the vote will
be published next week.
tobaccosTlesIe
LARGER THAN EVER
Farmers Pour Their Product
Into Conway and Other Markets
for Sale.
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i ne looacco sales at Conway this
week were fully as large or larger
than they were last week; the farmers
bringing their entire crops to dispose
of them before the buyers have
to leave for other markets. Word
went out last week that some of the
' buyers and the skilled bookkeepers
of some of the warehouses in the
county would have to go after this
week in order to be in at the opening
of the warehouses they represent in
North Carolina. It was understood,
however, that the warehouses here
and in the county would stand open a.;
long as there is tobacco in sufficient
quantities to sell, and that the buyers
of the leading companies will still
be represented here.
Those who have tobacco to sell next
v/eek need not be afraid to bring it
lure for sale as the Herald understands
the situation. The buyers or
j their representatives will be on and
the warehouses ready for business.
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H. Mayo Sarvis was in Conway recently
on business.
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'GOOD MONEY FROM ONE ACRE.
J. M. Martin, of the Myrtle Reach
! section of the County, planted tobacco
for the first time for the crop of
11 19. He never raised any before
and he used his brother's barn to cure
the one acre that he planted. From
this one acre of land ho sold tobacco
which brought him clear of all warehouse
expenses and charges the sum
of $274.73. This is doing well with
' one acre of tobacco the first year
1 that a planter tries it.
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TOUR TYLER KILLED
BY JESSE LEWIS
Following Quarrel and Drinking
Last Saturday Night
Near Gurley, S. C.
SLAYER IS ARRESTED
BY G. P. STROUD
lodged in County Jail Early
Sunday Morning to Await
Court Proceedings.
Tolar Tyler was killed about four
miles from Gurley, last Saturday
night, by Jesse Lewis. The body of
Tyler lay where it fell after being
shot twice in the breast and twice in
the stomach, until Sunday morning,
i when the coroner of the county held
an inquest which resulted in the
finding that the deceased came to his
death at the hands of Lewis.
G. P. Stroud, who lives in the
same section of the county, got out
papers for Lewis' arrest. Stroud
caught Lewis on Sunday morning at
! Loris as Lewis was boarding a train
J to get away. He took the prisoner to
|Tabor, N. C., on the train, and from
[that point with the assistance of
Tabor Chief of Police, brought Lewis
to Conway where ho was lodged in
the county jail. Sheriff J. A. L> wis
was called and he went to the p ace
but found that Lewis had already
been arrested under the other papers.
The deceased was on his way home
from Loris where he had been selling
tobacco on the Loris market. He is
said to have stopped near Daggett
Fowler's place with a crowd. It is
said there was drinking and a quarrel
ensued. Jesse Lewis ran into the
house and got a gun and shot Tyler.
The shooting took place about 0
o'clock on Saturday evening, and
Tyler died from the wounds inflicted
about 10 o'clock that night.
wantsInmaWon
on school laws
To the Horry Herald:
There is in Ba.vboro Township,
al out nine square miles. It has been
School District No. 05, but our present
Superintendent of Education discontinued
the District. Now about
the center of this territory at present
there is some small children that can
not walk the distance that it is to any
ot the schools. There are 3 children
at F. M. Ray's, ages 6, 8, and 10
years. It is more than 3 miles to
nearest School to him. VV. P. Hooks
has 4 children ranging from 0 to 13
years. Emory Hooks has 3 children
ranging from (i to 12 years. There
arc other children in this territory,
but the above named are 3 miles and
over from any School House. Now
I the law says that those children shall
be in school 80 days of each school
year, and they can not walk the distance
that it is to any school, and
their parents can not furnish a team
to carry them. I am asking Supt. M.
J. Bullock to please tell me what will
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do none in this case, and if he can't
toll maybe some of our Horry lawmakers,
Buck, Mishoe & Co., can.
This is in my neighborhood and I
am in a hurry to know. I live more
than miles from every School House
in Horry County. I am not wanting
a controversy, 1 am wanting informat
ion.
?O. M. WATTS.
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FRIDAY WAS QUIET
Last Friday was a very quiet day
in Conway as compared to the other
[days of last week. The tobacco sales
| were curtailed last Friday in everv
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way possible to allow time for cleaning
up and getting the tobacco out of
the warehouses and on the railroad.
Only a few farmers brought weed
here to sell on Friday as compared
to the great number coming in on the
other days of last week.