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, VOLUME XXXIV.
CONWAY OBSERVES
- FUEL REGULATIONS
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h Put Into Effect Last Week bv
* Request of the Authorities
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DETAILS OF RULES
NOW WORKING UltDER
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Ifumber of Exceptions to The
Regulations Required in
Announcement.
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Conway like every other town in
the State, also the other towns or
Horry County, so far as we could
learn, put; into effect the regulations
regarding the use of coal, published
last week as a remedy for the ever
decreasing supply of fuel brought
about by the coal strike.
"The regulations, which apply alike
to consumers now receiving coal from
the railroads #md to those who have
stocks on hand, or who are using elec!
trie power, heat or light, furnished by
public or private plants, are as follows;
Limit Use of Light.
"1. No ornamental lights, white
way, or other unnnecessarjf street
lights, outline ighting, electric signs
on illuminating billboards are to be
operated. This does not affect street
^Jighting necessary for the safety of
^Bhe public.
"2. Stores, manufacturing plants
I and warehouses must not use electric
gas lights (exdept for safetv
lights) except between the hours of 9
a. m. and 4 p. m.
"Exception (a) Drug stores, for the
sale of drufes only, and restaurants
may remain open according to present
schedule, but must curtail lights
50 per cent.
"Exception (b) Railroad stations,
hote\i, hospitals, telephone, telegraph
and newspaper ptficer are not included
in sofar as necessary lighting is
concerned.
"Exception (c) Lights may be used
in office or manufacturing plants for
necessary accounting purposes at any
time.
"Exception (d) General and office
lights must be cut off at 4 p. m. in
office buildings except where office
operation of vital industries.. is involved.
"Exception Moving picture
houses and theaters and other public
place* o* amusement may burn lights
only between 1 p. m. and 10:30 p. m?
"Exception (f) Barber shops may
remain open from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
"Exception (g) Dairies, ice and refrigerator
plants, bakeries, plants for
the manufacture of necessary medicinal
products, waterworks, sewerage
plants, gas manufacturing plants,
plants operating continuous processes
(such as acid manufacturers, blast
furnaces, etc.), printing plants for the
printing of newspapers, periodicals,
battery charging outfits and plants
producing light or power telephone,
telegraph or public utility companies
are exempted.
"Exception (h) On Saturday nights
^timc of, closing mentioned under par^Eagraptt
2 will be extended unti 9
^Ko[clock >p. m., for stores selling food
wearing apparel.
"1. Between the hours of 7 a. m.
rand 4 p. m. only enough heat (obtain
ed from coal, gas or steam) may be
used in offices, stores , warehouses,
mannufacturing plants as to keep the
average temperature at 70 degrees
Fahrenheit. This temperature may
t^fmaintained in theaters}*' moving
picture housbs and ether places of
public amusement between the hours
of 1 p. m. and 10:80 p. in.
"Exception. On Saturdays the temperature
may be maintained at 70 degrees
between 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. in
case oA stores handling- fowl and
wearing*\pparel.
"2. After closing hours on Saturdays
and after 4 p. m. on the remain
5ng week days and on Sundays, only
enough heat is to be U3ed to prevent
freezing of water pipes or sprinkler
systems. Where exceptions are made
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MFN HAVE ACCIDENT
AT VENEER PLANT
J. Perry, One of the Employees
Claimed Accident in Shooting
Another Employee.
Last Sunday about 11 o'clock, Dr.
H. H. Burroughs was called to the
plant of the Veneer Manufacturing
Company, and he found an employee
there by the name of Frank James
who had been shot in the side by J.
Perry, another employee at the plant.
It appears that when Mr. Perry was
placing the revolver on a shelf at the
plunt it accidentally went off, the
jail striking Mr. James and passing
through his side. It was stated and
claimed that the shooting was accidental
and no arrest was made by the
authorities.
The plant is located - across the
river from Conway and there are
dwellings over there in which a number
of the employees live while working
in the plant.
At last accounts the injured man
was getting along as well as couid be
expected, and the wound was not
thought to be serious.
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MERCHANTS0 HAD MEETING.
The merchants und business men
and town authorities got together
last Thursday on the matter of closing
places of business except from
the hours of nine to four each day,
with one or two exceptions, which
were allowed to run until six o'clock
in the afternoon. There appeared to
be somo> uncertainty as to the nature
of the regulations as printed in the
daily papers, and it was stated that
the regulations would be observed as
proclaimed by Governor Cooper, until
the first of this week, at all events,
until more could be learned about the
exact extent of the regulations and
the manner of applying them to rural
districts and small towns
M. Connor spent last Saturday even
ing in Conway.
in certain cla.'s for lighting, seat
will be allowed during the allowable
lighting period.
"In manufacturing plant or plants
coming under power cutrailmcnt
lulcs, heat (to 70 degrees) will be allowed
only during that time allowed
for use of power.
"4. No curtailment in use of coal,
steam or gas for producing hot water
for hotels, restaurants or barber
shops.
Use of Power.
"1. No manufacturing plant or fac
tory shall operate in excess of 48
hours per- week.
"Exception: Dairies, ice and refrigerator
plants, bakeries, plants for the
manufacture of necessary medicinal
products, waterworks, sewerage
plants, gas manufacturing plants,
plants operating continuous processes
(such as acid manufacture, blast furnaces,
etc.), printing plants for the
manufacture of newspapers, periodicals,
battery charging outfits and
plants producing light or power for
telephone, telegraph, or public utilicompanies
are exempted.
"2. Elevator service must be curtailed
as much as possible.
"General exemption to light, heat,
and power provisions?necessary op
eration of federal, state, municipal
and county institutions and buildings.
"Since November 17 deliveries of
coal, with certain necessary sp:cific
exceptions, has been limited to consumers
in the first five classes of the
preference list. These classes are:
"Class A. Railroad and inland and
coastwise vessels.
"Uiass li. Army and navy, together
with other departments of the federal
(government. This includes bituminous
coal consumed by manufacturer?
or producers of supplies for departments
of the federal government
when such department officially approves
the request.
"Class C. State, municipal ant
county departments and institutions.
"Class D. Public utilities. This ineludes
the manufacture of newsprint
paper for daily newspaper use ant
the printing and publishing of same.
"Class E. Retailers (supplies fo:
domestic consumers.)
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"~ OONWAY, 8. P., THURSDAY,
TALKED TOO MUCH
HAD TO LEAVE
S. H. Jester Incensed Several
* Citizens by Incendiary Remarks
About Government
SAID COAL STRIKE
WAS PROPER THING
Or Words to That Effect and
Seemed to Think Hard of
His Uncle Sam.
S. H. Jester, a typewriter repair
man, who came to Conway last week,
was only allowed to remain here
about two days, when he took the
tiain away from the town, as he had
been warned to do by a group of citizens
and business men.
This man registered at Hotel Grace
about Wednesday of last week, and
went about the streets and into the
offices soliciting typewriters to mend.
It appears that he had been here befor
in that business and had carried
off a consideiable amount of money
for work done. Various typewriter
owners had work for him to do, and
he had two or three machines in his
possession when he was told to leave.
The cause of his being ordered to
leave was some fiery talk he used,
not only in the lobby at the Hotel,
but on the streets of the town and at
other places.
The last place in whj^h he had any
thing to say, was in the city barber
snop. mat was on tiie morning when
the fuel regulations went into effect
and he had applied to the store of
Norton Drug Company to purchase a
package of cigarettes. When the
clerk refused to sell him the cigarettes,
on the ground that the store was
not open until after nine o'clock, for*
anyhing except the sale of medicine,
it appears that he became angry
about this and went from the store to
the barber shop. In the shop he had
quite a lengthy conversation, directed
at all those in the shop in general, in
which he berated the Governemnt and
the' fuel administration, spoke of the
coal -iti ike as being the right thing,
and is said to have cursed but things
in gjnerah D. F. Sawyer, one of the
barbers, had some argument with
him, and a little later during the talk,
J. B. Cox made an answer or two to
him. Both Messrs. Cox and Sawyer
became incensed at the things the
man said, and hunted a policeman and
had the man arrested.
The result of the proceedings was
that he agreed to leave Conway on
the afternoon train, and he did.
The cow pea is a great crop for the
farmer, but one that is tedious and
hard to gather in the fall.
f, o. beTumyIT
an escaped convict
Fred O. Bellamy, whose appeal to
the Supreme Court in a larceny case
was abandoned, and who went to the
chain-gang on Monday of last week
to serve a sentence of three years,
filed the shackles which hound hiin
some time on Thursday night of last
week and made his escape from the
gang.
j At last accounts the authorities had
I no trace of his whereabouts.
As published in this paper some
' time ago, at the time that he was
' placed in the gang he was not in jail
under his sentence but under warrant
? of arrest for disposing of property
under lien. Since his appeal in the
' larceny cases was taken, the prosccu
tor claimed to have discovered now
facts whereby they could establish
1 positively that he entered the house
of D. T. McNeill on the seashore to
- pilfer the net or seine that he was
t charged with having taken and which
1 was found in his possession. He habeen
in various criminal cases on the
Court dockets for the past four 01
five years,
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DECEMBER 11, 1919.
SAW MILL BOILER !
BLOWN TO PIECES
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Killing Several Men and Wound
ing Others in Awful Accident ,
Near Pleasant Meadow
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MACHINERY GONE WITH
BUT A FEW EXCEPTIONS
Doctors Called From Loris to
Attend Injuries of Those
Wounded by Blow Up.
Loris, Dec, 8.?On last Friday
morning at what is known as the
L D. Suggs saw mill, near Pleasant
j Meadow church, about eight miles
j\\est of Loris, there was one of the
saddest scenes in the history of Horry
County. The large boiler exploded
knocking off both ends of it with the
inside turned out, and was blown
high through the tree tops to a distance
of one hundred and twenty
yards. It cut its way through the
trees until it finally wrapped around
! a tall spruce pine thirty or forty feet
high and then slid down to the
: ground. All of the machinery except
the carnage and big saw was blown
I away in every direction. Jolin Smith,
the sawyer, and Mack Smith, the
fireijian and Alexander Grainger
were instantly killed, also Bethel
J Smith, the father of the two Smilh
hnvft. and nnp Mr. Gannon, who warp
'.forking on the log-bed, were seriously^
Wounded. Mack Smith was blown
about 85 yards away. John Smith
was found on the lumber yard with
his body twisted around a stump.
Young Grainger was blown obout 30
yards in another direction. All their
bodies were cut and mangled besides
being scalded with hot water. Doctors
Richardson and Thomas, of
Loris were at once summoned over
telephone and were soon on the
scene treating the wounded.
Later in the day, the bodies of the
dead were carried t?a house nearby,
where they were dressed and prepared
for burial. The funeral sermon
was preached in the church on Satuiday
morning by the Rev. A. T.
Rogers.
Several hundred people from far
and near came to witness this scene.
When the explosion came houses 8
and 10 miles away trembled. The
cause is said to be due to too much
steam on the boiler.
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A stranger here, who was registered
at.one of the leading hotels, began
talking last Thursday and Friday con
ceming the Government and the (
coal strike. It is said that some of
his talk in the hotel lobby was report (
ed by those who heard it . Og Friday (
morning he was arrested and told to
make speedy arrangements for leaving,
and* that if any of the radical
talk which had been reported as being
made by him should be repeated, it
; would not be very healthy for him in
ihis section.
He went by a strange name and
v/as said by some to be a Syrian. He
was engaged in repairing typewriters
j and other kinds of small machines
| and is said to have visited Conway
several times before in this business.
He did not remain long after the incident.
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GREAT AT UEHOBOTH.
Come to old Rehoboth next Friday j
night, |
December 3 2th, Oh!, the moon will
; shine bright.
The teachers invite you, young and
old, '
Come and see for it can't be told.
A Box Supper?Ye?, and then some,j
A I'nvnival and iiwt Infs of fllTl.
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NEW BANK ORGANIZED.
A now bank will soon be in opera1
tion at Tabor, under the name of the
! j Farmers & Merchants Bank. Garrell
Brothers and their associates are in*
tcrested in the new enterprise,
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raid.
MEETS NEXT FRIDAY
HERE IN CONWAY
The Horry County Sunday School j
Association is expecting- a large and
enthusiastic gathering of Sunday
School workers on next Friday, December
12, at the annual convention.
The convention will meet at the Presbyterian
Church of Conway, promptly
at 10 o'clock.
The program committee has planned
a program for three sessions,
afteriioon, and night. A number of
practical and helpful talks on the
modern Sunday School work will bo ,
given. Every phase of the work will
be taken up, so suggestions for their
particular work.
Every Sunday School in the County |
is expected to send Tlelegates, regardless
of their denomination.
BANONEEDS
YOUR SUPPORT
Tlmt Conway has a band that is a
credit to any town no one now can
doubt. It is hard to realize the transformation
which has been wrought
when you think that a little over a
year ago the men who now compose
the band had just begun to get familiar
with their instrument.^. The proficiency
which is now exhibited was
not easily gained but by persistent
work night after night, guided by the
master hand of Conductor Shell, they
are now producing music which would
be a credit to a band of several years'
training. The band members have
caught the soul of music and it is a
joy to listen to the rendition of selections
and note the expression and
snap which they give to their interpretations.
Not only has it taken much time
and attention but it has cost money to
produce this band. The members have
dug (loop into their pockets to pay for
their^instruments andx employ an instructor.
In (loin# this they have endeavored
to get the best possible. A
good instinct or does not come cheap
and the one they have is not here for
his health and is not hard up for a
job, therefore he must be paid a salary
commensurate with his ability.
The people of Conway are proud of
their band and the band members are
glad to be of credit to the town, but
they cannot bear their financial burdens
alone. They need the services of
their instructor for another year
which indicates that they want to
give good music and have not reached
the stage of self complacency.
Now, Mr. Citizen, what are you going
to do about it? Have them do
the work, pay the cost and give you
free entertainment whenever you
wish or are you willing to give financial
aid to this cause? We give and
give ag-ain to causes which we never
see, far away from home. Here is a
cause which brings large returns in
good, soul-stirring music that cheers
and is worth while. It is educational
in that it shows what is good music
and is out of the ordinary.
Let us help the boys by sending our
check to A. H. Long, Treas. Remember
you are helping your town and
investing your money at home. Show
your appreciation by your check. Acknowledgment
of donations will be
made in the papers next week.
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ANNUL TWO TRAINS.
As a measure in the nation's fuel
conservation program orders were
received in Columbia conceding Atlantic
Coast Lfne trains 68 and 69
operating between Columbia and Sum
ter, the order to take effect noon last
Monday.
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HORRY SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION
All Delegates and parties inter*sled
in Sunday School Work are urged
to attend the County Convention to
he held at Conway beginning Frida>,
vui; iwiu iiini.
Arrangements are being made to
entertain the visitors in local homes,
and we want you to come and be "at
home" with us.
D. A. Spivey,
H. L. Buck,
M. Q. Anclel'sccn,
Entertainment Com.
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NO. 34.
HORRY INDUSTRIAL
TO MAKE A MOVE
When Proposition is Confirmed
By the Board of Trustees
FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS
ARE NOW IN SIGHT
May Develop a Boy's Military
Institute at Horry if Funds
Prove Sufficient.
j The Methodist Conference, which
1 met and adjourned early last week,
authorized the trustees of the Horry
Industrial School to accept the proposition
made by the people of Aynor
to move the school from Cook's Siding
to Aynor. This action on the part of
the conference is understood only to
give authority to
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that the matter is now left to the
Hoard of Trustees. At the meeting
of the trustees at McColl, recently
held, the Hoard of Trustees appeared
to favor the acceptance of the Aynor
proposition; and as the Herald understands
it, the matter has not finally
been passed upon. For the present
the school will remain where it has
been and possibly continue there as it
is, at all events for a year or possiby
two years, because, if the proposition
to move to Aynor goes through, as it
may be likely to do, the new building
v ill have to be put up for the school
ft Aynor. It has been suggested that
the Aynor proposition be developed
during this delay and in the course of
time, if the people at Horry still want
a school there, to turn the school at
that pace into a boys' military institution,
and run the school at Aynor
as a girls' college, provided, of course,
that the funds should prove sufficient.
The conference appropriated
?(>,000.00 towards the buiding fund
and has asked for $100,000.00 to be
set aside out of the Educational
Drive for the same purpose, so there
are high hopes now for bettor clays
u come for Horry Industrial School.
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BOX SUPPER
Editor "The Herald":?
Will you please announce in your
paper that there will be a box party,
cake walks, popularity contests,
"Lovers Hour," nomination of a Dem
ocrat to succeed President Wilson
and various other attractions including'
short addresses by mcmbeis
o" the Warn pee Literary Society,
at the Wampee school auditorium
next Friday evening December 12, at
7 o'clock. Everybody is cordially invited
and assured a good time.
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LATE ANI) EARLY
TRAINS ARE OUT
On account of the fuel restrictions
train Nos. 93 and 92 due at Conway
at 11:59 p. m. and leaving Conway at
5:30 a. m., have been discontinued. .
All maiL from this Line will be received
here on arrival of train due at
Conway at 1:15 p. m. and all mail
dispatched to the Elrod and Conway
Line will be done so by 2:45 p. m.
This change will necessitate heavy
| incoming and outgoing mails daily,
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terrupted as little as possible and especially
during the Yuletide when the
mails are unusually heavy we ask the
patrons of the office to mail all
letters and parcels either late in the
afternoon or early in the morning and
mail your Christmas parcels, early.
I Don't wait until two or there days
| before Christmas day. On account
of the heavy incoming mail at midday
for distribution into the boxen
and the mail to be dispatched to tho
star routes not later than three
o'clock coupled with the fact that the
mail for the El rod and Conway Line
must be dispatched at 2.45 p. m., tho
office force will of necessity be very
busy. To avoid delay I would advise
all patrons to mail their letters and
parcels before the arrival of the midday
train, the earlier the better.
?Power VV. Bethea, Postmatser.
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