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Il I . I 4s VOLUME XXXIV. j MEMORIES OF PAST HOVER OVER YSER I " f 11? J Banks of River Lined With I* W ? . _ - . i fk i rencnes ot Belgian and j a Teuton 1 PEOPLE REBUILDING | SHATTERED HOWIES "t Go to Work Cheerfully, Despite the Obstacles Before Them. { ? Dixmuoe, Belgium.?Lining the banks of the Y.xer river, far as the eye can see, are trenches which for iso many months during the war were occupied by the Belgian and German i armies, the Belgians on the south bank and the Germans on the north. They still bear many marks of shell | and rifle fire, and mouldy straw lying on the damn floors still eonvev. some idea of the hardships to which the soldiers were subjected. On the German side of the river Ss p dugout, built to resist the heaviest projectiles, and cool even on a hot day. It was a favorite gathering spot for the Germans when the fight\ ing was fiercest, but now serves the more useful purpose of refrigerator. Instead of the bunks and chairs which lonce lined its sides one now sees pile Upon pile of beer cases, filled with ^refreshment for the soldier guard at ^ork cleaning up the ground. Bodies Buried. n Behind the dugout, the bodies of three soldiers?two Belgians and one (German?were buried on the bank of a tiny pond, made by burstisg shells. Little crosses mark the resting places and over them poppies nod. Along the Yser one may plainly I see the effects of the hard fought! atruggle. Here and there the top of a ' dugout has been crushed in, and ' further along the duckboards from an ! abandoned trench may be seen sticking through the mud. Within sight of the bridge, the muzzle of a field piece, rusted and useless, points to the sky. j Debris Collected. Much of the debris of the battlefield has already been collected. Miles upon miles of barber! wire have been reclaimed from the entanglements, German and allied, which stretched in front of the lines, but at some points along the river banks the old entanglements still remain, rusted and twister! am stakes which are fast falling into/the ground. There are great piles of reeled wire which has not been unwound since it left the wire mills, while the military telephone systems are still stretcher! upon short stakes. . People Return. The people of Dixmurle, like the people of every other destroyed Bel- ( gian town, are gradually returning to the ruins of their homes. The help, being given them by the government, is giving them heart anrl strength to begin life over again. Here one may see a man patching up a shell hole in bis house with a few bricks taken from the luins of his neighbor's borne, jyrtd in another place men, anrl yvomonk too, are patching a roof. xJButi^thesc instances are few. In flpost cases the destruction was so complete that nothing is left for the poor Belgian hut to build a new house. But the people are happy and cheer ful. They go about their work with smiling faces and merry laughter, are back home. ? . o The agriculture committee by unanimous vote favorably reported to the house the resolution introduce! fcy representative Byrnes of South Crrrlina directing the secretary cf agriculture to publish on November 2 an addwonal report on the cotton crop. M M.-e gains in men and greater produ ' 'on were reported by steel corner lies in the Pittsburgh district. / J to I GERMAN OFFICERS 1 DISPLAYBRASS Berlin.?The Spanish embassy in | Berlin which is in charge of American affairs pending the ratification of tbe peace treaty has received so mony a;; plications from regular German aimy officers who want . to serve in the American army that it has posted a big sign on the outer door announcing that such applications will not be accepted and that it is useless to apply. The number of applicants since has gradually decreased but still there are some. Some of those seeking commissions in the American army urged that they could be of value in "teaching the Americans how to fight." There has been a rush also of German officers to join other former enemy or neutral armies. The applicants were ready to serve in either the American, British, Japanese, Argentine or even the French forces. Every correspondent in Germany, regardless of his nationality has been bombarded with queries and personal applications. Tn vain did they assure the officers that their armies would under no circumstances accept German officers. In vain the explanation was made that all the entente armies were overburdened with officers and were making every effort to demobilize them. Argentina has become more or less the mecca of the would-be emigrants from Germany because it has advertised through its consulate for agricultural laborers and has offered inducements in the way of free land. However, those who want most to leave Germany want least to go to farming. For these who really want to take up agriculture the Argentine invitation is still attractive. Others determined to reach the United States by a round about route see in Argentine an opportunity to realize their ambitions by first going t(. Argentine and then taking u chance of going on to the United States. Those who contemplate this ruse overlook the possibility of trouble both in Argentine and the first American port they reach. A young Ger man woman sat in a Berlin hotel lobby last night telling her companions in a voice loud enough for bystanders to hear she intended to get to America through the Argentine if necessary by swearing that she had been in the United States before. She admitted that this was unti*uc but added that "a little white lie could do no harm." Many German writers on immigration urge that Germany can ill spare a single man, the taxes he pays or the labor he does. They also point out that hotel keepers of Belgium and Italy have resolved not to employ Germans for ten years and that five years must elapse before the German may live in China or Singapore. They j declare that the American workmen will oppose German immigration to the utmost because of the possible effect of wages and say a similar inimical spirit exists in Australia and other British dominions. o HORRY INDUSTRIAL NEWS The Watson Literary Society held its usual meeting on last Thursday afternoon, at which time an interesting program was carried out. The debate, Resolved: "That An Education is More Useful than Money", was debated by Miss Emma West on the ^affirmative and Miss Cecil Wilson on the negative. i Current Events, national and local were give by Miss Bertha Morris. A committee was appointed t < select a number of magazines for the boys' reading room, which is being planned at their dormitory. The ( girls have access tt oall the magazines and pupeist subscribed to by the I President. ( The boarding students and new day pupils are entering almost every day. It is very encouraging to have such a large number of pupils from the com munity availing themselves of school privileges as early as this. . The public school opens Monday, :tho twentieth, and with that comes the compulsory attendance. Miss Leila Compton, has organized and is training the Glee Club. The ladies of the community met CONWAY, SO, THURSDAY^ OLD GLORY IS NOW I ON THE SEVEN SEAS List of Established Trade I Routes of New Merchant Marine. Our new established trade routes cover the whole world. Thus there < I are 47 steamers sailing- to Argentina, j and they sail from New York Boston, ( Mobile, New Orleans, Wilmington, , Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick and Jacksonville. Two steamers go from | New York to Pernambuso, Maceio, and Bahia, North Brapil, Twenty-five | sail to mid-Brazil (Rio and Santos), from New York, New Orleans, Wil- .1 mington, Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick and Jacksonville. Five steamers from New York and one from New Orleans make regular trips j to the west coast of South America |1 ranging from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to. Valparaiso, Chile. j Two steamers go from New York . to North Africa and Egypt; five from i New York to the Dutch East Indies; J two from New York to Bombay and | other Indian ports; three from New , York to Spain (Barcelonia, Valencia, Cadiz and Seville.) Every two months , a steamer goes from the metropolis to Danzig, and every six weeks one or two steamers sail out the Narrows to Constantinople and the Black Sea ports. Three steamers sail from New York to West Africa, two to South Africa, three to Australia and New Zealand, and three to China, Japan and the Phillippines. Fifteen steam- ( ers leave the Golden Gate, one every : 10 days, from China and Japan, and two more from the same port go to Europe via the Far East. | We have a steamer from New York to Genoa and from Baltimore to the same port, while two serve Grecian ports from New York. To London ' we send six steamers from New York, three from Philadelphia, two from Baltimore and one from Norfolk. We send six to Liverpool from New York, two from Boston, five from Philadelphia and one from Baltimore, one from Norfolk and one from Galveston. New York says goodby on three, ships, clearing for Glasgow on month ly sailings, four to Le Havre and three to Bordeaux. The latter port ? * also served from Boston and Baltimore with two and one steamer, re- , spectively. New York sends two steamers to Marseilles and seven to Antwerp, while two from Boston and one each from Philadelphia and Baltimore go to the same destination. Rotterdam sees New York ships to the number of 10, and from Philadelphia two. Copenhagen and Gothenburg are serv ed by five steamers from New York, while the West Indian ports are visited regularly by two steamers from Wilmington, two from Savannah,, two from Brunswick and two from Jacksonville. j Meanwhile the balance of the list of ships is engaged in going to every port of the world where a cargo can go?and the flag at the stern is the Stars and Stripes.?C. H. Claudy, in the Scientific American. o Plans are being arranged for a big [crowd at the Tri-county fair, and everything points to real success for the first year of this enterprise at Andrews, S. C. i at the Industrial School last Friday afternoon and were organized into \ Home Enlightenment Club, which will ; meet once a month. After the election of officers light refreshments i were served. Items of interest concerning their j homos and the health of their children will be discussed, and demonstrations ! made from time to time. The child's school lunch will be one of the topics for the next meeting. A Halloween lunch box party ?s being planned for Friday evening October 81st. The Glee Club will sing the ghost will walk and the witches will ride. Mr. and Mrs. Morris spent Thursday in Marion. Mr. Morris attended a district meeting of the Methodist ?.wl \Tvo M?,.i i?io ntKvv>/lAil + Int 1i.mil V>1 .?.?! i'tviuo itvreuucu W. C. T. U. convention. i s? OCTOBER 23, 1919. AMERICAN INDIAN FAST DISAPPEARS Offering to White Settlers of Reservation Lands Is ^5 AArJ I m UUUU IIIUCA. Nothing-, perhaps, is moro eloquent the constant shrinkage of the abor ginal population of the United States than the periodical offerings to white settlers of lands within the territory allotted to the Indians, says the Kansas City Star. Folks don't have to be very old 4o remember when the whole of what is now Oklahoma was devoted to the red man. The land had been given to the various tribes in exchange for their holdings east of the Mississippi. It was a vast domain, where the Indian could find almost any kind of climate he desired and could wander about in search of game or settled down and become a farmer or business men, as he chose. Then some one began figuring, and discovered that if each Indian were given so many acres of land there would be several million acres left. The spectacular "opening" of the first Oklahoma was the result of that figuring. A few years later there was some more figuring, and the rest of the territory, with the exception of certain portions covered by tribal allotments, was opened for settlement and combined with Oklahoma Territory to form the State of that name. From time to time the figuring ha* gone on, each recurrent calculator proving that the Indians needed les? land. And the government, aftei each session with paper and pencil has advertised for sale generou> slices of tribal territory. The latest curtailment of the In dian holdings involves 54,500 acres 01 farming and timber lands. Thai amount, together with 326 triba towns lots, will be offered for sale at auction in November at Chickasha Ardmore, Hugo, Poteau, Stigler, McAlester, Atoka and Muskogee. Part of the land lias been sold before but not fully paid for, so it was declarer forfeited to the government and subject to resale. No minimum price lias been set for bidders on that clas* of land, and on none of the other will a bid under $1.50 an acre be considered. The first named class is more 01 less improved, so there is little likelihood that any of it will sell near the minimum. The government agents are guarding against "hogging" by limiting the amount of farming or grazing land that any one person can buy There is no limit on timber lands, but land and timber are to be valued .separately and the same purchaser must take both. Also the government reserves all rights to coal and asphalt underlying certain portions of the lands offered. Thus is Poor Lo surely, and not altogether, slowly, losing his hold or the little that remains to him of the vast expanse of land over which hi? forefathers roamed. What has hap. pened in Oklahoma has happened or a smaller scale in every Indian reser vation in the United States. ????? COX-LUNDY COMPANY. The Cox-Lundy Company is one o the latest corporations to be organiz ed here in Conway by some of hei leading business men. The corporators are Messrs. J. B. Cox and A. B Lundy, both of whom have been witl ^the Burroughs & Collins Company I for a long number of years, and Mr IJ as. E. Bryan, one of the leading , business managers of this section an( who has been connected with th< c.i\m iuhuf fn.. long time. The Myrtle Beach Farm Co., is one of the largest farming an< merchandising companies in Soutl Carolina. It is understood that the Cox-Lun dy Company have purchased the sho department of the Burroughs & Col I ins Company and " they will do large business in retail shoes. The ! are all men capable and entirel i worthy of success in the new com ' pany. I mill. COTTON BOLL WEEVIL IN HORRY COUNTY Unheralded and without ceremony Mr. Mexican Cotton Bollwecvil, the most destructive insect pest the farmer has ever known, arrived in Horry County this fall much to the surprise of the farmers and to the "bug men." | The first weevils were found on the ! Snow Hill farm of Mr. D. M. Bur-I I roughs on Tuesday, October 14th by J Mr. J. A. Berly, of Clemson College, Mr. E. .S. Tucker, U. S. Department J j of Agriculture, and County Agent iW. O. Davis. On Wednesday this: party started north from Conway 4o | see how much of Horry County had been covered by the weevil, and found j him at Homewood. Adrian, Bayboro,! Green Sea. and Tabor, N. C. Many farmers are asking what wi'l ! be the effect of the boll weevil; does j it mean that we can't raise any more cotton Others are asking what will be the effect on next years crop The coming of the boll weevil does not mean that we can't grow cotton, but it does mean we will have to change our system of growing it. In order to combat this pest it is necessary to know its life history and > understand its habits. A full grown . j weevil is a winged insect about onefourth inch in length, grayish brown j or black in color, resembling a bill !;bug very much. There are four ;' stages in the life of the boll weevil; i the egg, the lai-vae, the pupa, and the I adult. The adult stage is the only stage that can pass the winter. With i the first cold weather the weevils ; j seek shelter under logs, in high grass and weeds, in fence jams, in old ; ditches, in open hay stacks, and in l fact anywhere he can find a place to ; protect him from the winter. Here r he sleeps until spring. With the , coming of warm weather the weevils ; begin to come out of their winter jquarters and seek food after their long nap. Young cotton plants have I' to furnish this food, the weevil suckt ing the sap from the tender shoots. 1 ( When they first emerge the weevils : are very sluggish and may be easily , picked by hand, but by the time the squares begin io form they have re' gained their strength and become ; very active. At this time the females I begin puncturing the forms and lay ing eggs. The egg hatches in three ' to four days forming a small white ; grub called larva. The larva feeds I within the square destroying it en tirely, and it is this stage that the ' weevil is most destructive. In seven to eight days he is ready to enter the ' third stage of his life, the pupa stage. In another seven to eight days he comes out a mature weevil ready for ' his life's business which is mainly 1 reproduction. The entire time from egg to adult weevil is about twenty' one days depending upon weather con ditions. This new adult feeds for a ' few days and then begins laying eggs. Authorities claim that the ' progeny of one pair of weevils dur( ing the season is about three million. The great damage of the weevil is done by the larva- which develops in 1 the squares, causing- them to fall off. So many squares are. destroyed that 5 the stalk sets no fruit. | No method has yet been found by i which the weevil can be controlled and its ravages are such that we can not grow cotton without considering j him. The following schedule has been found practical in the boll weevil territory and is in use by farmers today: ft (1) The field must be well drained - to allow cultivation regularly. i* (2) Select seed of an early ma turing variety that sets fruit heavily. Strains of Cleveland Big Boll, Cook, \ Dixie, and Dixie Triumph have prov, en successful. 1 (II) Plant as early as reasonable, K but be careful not to plant before the 1 soil is warm enough to keep the plant r? growing. x (4) Intensive shallow cultivation s must be kept up the entire season and d the crop never "laid by." Late culh tivation is the most important of all things in boll weevil control. (5- Plow under cotton stalks two ? or three weeks before frost. This i. - another important factor as it dea stroys thousands of weevils i ? the y egg and larva stage and also many y adult weevils. The food supply ir i* also cut off for those that do escape and causes them to go into hibomn -ayir yrwr T ? ^ Vo.~277 CIVIL CASES ARE CALLED THIS WEEK For Trial in the Court of Common Pleas For Horry County MACHINERY DELAYED IN GETTING SPEED Holliday-Jordan Case Laid Over Till Thursday Morning*? Many Witnesses. j The Court of Common Pleas convened here last Monday morning with Judge T. J. Mauldin, of Greenville, S. C., presiding. Judge Mauldin was here at the criminal term of the court some weeks ago. ^ The court mot at 10 o'clock in the morning and a number of the jurors failed to answer wnen called. This was said to be due to the. fact that most the time in the past several years the court was not convened until in the afternoon of the first day. However, there was no need of the jurymen until in the afternoon l&st Monday, for when the cases on the roster were called for that day, none of the cases were ready to go to trial. The first case set for Monday was that of J. T. Mishoe vs. Trexler Lumber Co. The parties managed to get ready in this case by Monday afternoon and a start was made in the trial. ^ The case of Flora J. Holliday vs. Agnes Jordan, which was set for Monday, was laid over until Thursday morning- of this week, so that results in this second trial of that case can be reported in this issue. There wa-s a long list of cases to be disposed of for the reason that the courts were posponed in 1918, on account of the influenza. The court went ahead last Tuesday with the trial of the case of J. Thurman Mishoe vs. Trexler Lumber Co., involving the damages claimed by the plaintiff caused by a fire alleged to have been put out by the defendant company. This was practically all that was done during the whole of Tuesday. The jury retired late Tuesday evening and were charged to bring in a sealed verdict the following day. ? a The inventory of Winthrop college has been filed by Dr. D. B. Johnson, president, with the South Carolina budget commission, which inventory shows the total valuation of the plant at Winthrop to bo .$2,029,336.76. > C. M. FOWLER IS i EXAMINED BY COURT I C.pM. Fowler, of near Tabor, N. C., I came to Conway last week on the late train and registered at one of the hotels here. He acted in ways that were strange and the attention, of the Probate Judge, J. S. Vaught, | was called to him and on Friday Judge Vaught had him taken up for examination. On Friday Fowler's wife came down to see him and tried to get him to return home, but this ho refused to do. From some source it was statjed that Fowler was remaining away from home on account of domestic difficulties. Judge Vaught stilted jthat Fowler had been committed to j the insano asssylum before this time ! on account of an unbalances! mind and was later discharged from the institution. > Another story going the rounds regarding Fowler was that he was very i smart, as a farmer, and was worth twelve or fifteen thousand dollars. ! jtion in a very weak condition with a poor chance to survive the winter, i For further information see your > County Farm Demonstration Agent. ' ?VV. O. Davis, County Agent.