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% % Jl VOLUME XXXIV. IMPORTANT OFFICE HAS GREAT INCREASE M ?? w As Populous Community InI creases in Wealth and Liti^ gation Multiplies h* FEDERAL AUTHORITIES REQUIRES SHERIFF'S TIME ^Delegation Should Provide For * a Good Deputy and His Pay. Sheriff James A. Lewis has found a hard tame by reason of the great increase of work in his office develop ing during the last few years; and owing to the fact that the federal authorities expect him to co-opcrato with them in the running down tigers. When they use him to assist them it not ony means that he is away from his office while assisting in hunting the distillers, but this year he has been summoned as a witness in the District Court in Columbia, where he had to spend a week, and last week was called to Charleston as a witness in a whiskey matter, whereby he lost several days from his work. This is called to the attention of the Horry Delegation in the General Assembly with the hope that some change will be made in the law as it Telates to this County office so as to provide the means of employing a Deputy who could be used in the :JL Sheriff's place either in doing work ! jm in the country or attending to the office duties while the Sheriff is away. As it is now, the pay is not * sufficient for the work that the Sheriff has to do. let alone the extra money that will be needed to pay a Deputy. o COTTON REPORT. " Washington. December 10. 1919 "Ghesloy F. Best, "Cialivants Ferry, S. C. "Dear Sir: ''The tabulation of the card report' show telegraph summary to be correct. There were 7,660 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, ginned in Horry County, from the crop of 1919 prior to December i 1919, as compared with 6,260 bales ginnod to December 1, 1918. "You will please furnish these totals to all newspapers in your district, being carefhl not to discriminate in favor of any of them. v "Very respectfully, "SAM L. ROGERS, ' "Director/ n CAUSES SOME CONFUSION. The taking off the night train into Conway, and the outgoing early train of mornings, at Conway last week caused some inconvenience to travellei's. There were some who had not been informed of the change until after it had been put into effect and this was the main cause of the confusion. o WILL NEED MUCH. 1 This counry will be in need of gi*eat amounts of building materials and there is no telling where they are to [ f come,' from. Production in this line lagflljnore than ever in the history of felhiis section. Lf TRESPASS NOTICE [ All persons are hereby forbidden to hunt, fish, trap, range, feed hogs, or in any manner to enter or trespass upon our land in Green Sea Township containing ijUuu iicioSj iuui*c or !csr.,. ^nd being in three tracts all joined 'two of said tracts belonging to - Sallio .J. Home individually,-"and the other to the estate of M. A. Home; Said land bounded by land of W. R. Rouse. Mrs. Gasgee, Henry Bullard find others. Violations of this notice will prosecuted to the full imitHT will ye prosecuted to ' the full limit of the law. " , SALLIK J. HORNE. MAJt SHALL M. HORNE, For the Estate of M. A. Horne. > (The LAND PRICES HIGH F WILL HOLD AVERAGE Land deals continue to be made p with more than ordinary frequency in this section of the State. Real estate trades are made almost every day in one section or another of the County. The general public thinks that the price of land is inflated in line with other things that are sold. Some people own land that they want to get R rid of and thevy think they had better c sell now while prices are hijrh, as they suppose that a slump in prices j may come some time in the future. Those who have given careful c study to the situation agree that the ? price of land may go down temporarily this year or next, they do not know when; but no one believes that ^ the price will go down to stay any ^ great length of time, but on the oth-! ^ er hand it is certain that when taken as an average for say at least five or ^ ten years, the price of city lots and country farms will remain at practically what they are now. There are no more lands being made while j population steadily increases. VOICESFROM WITHIN ENEMIES OF GERMANY: Berlin. ? Independent Socialists, Communists, and the Freiheit arc < iointly responsible for the present en- ' tcnte severity and particularly the prohibition of citizen guards, says the Deutsche Tages Zeitung, in an article attacking the Spartacists. The newspaper declares that the Frciheit, seeking disarmament in order to execute more freely planned I uprisings which have become almost a forlorn hope, has pretended Germany is creating an army of a million men. "The reports of this army," the Tages Zeitung continues, "have been * u.. rr> 1 i ] uutcu rtvj uAiiau^iivuiy uy journalists that certain English anil \merican agencies have carried this idiculous patter of the F rehoit, which is more inimical to Germany ^han any foreign organ." It is maintained by the Tages Zeitung in addition to this source of misnformation, there exists a scheme whereby the independent Socialists regularly go to Switzerland and send to France and other countries reports of the alleged revival of militarism ! in Germany. ] o HUNTING PARTY. There was a hunting party from this point last Tuesday morning con- , sisting of Senator Hal L. Buck, E. J. Sherwood, J. W. Taylor and George L. Marsh. It was a cold morning and the right kind for sport. FORMER CITIZEN RETURNS. iir it n l. ~ ....un...... w. n. vour, a nanvc ui nun/ County, recently returned to this sec- '> tion after spending a number of ' years in business in another State. ? He purchased a farm near Conway, 1 but recently sold that at a good profit, and is now looking for another J location. 1 He may locate here and start a < business as he once ran before. He < is the eldest son of the late James J. 1 Cook, of Bucks township. 1 < o i MAKES FINE CORN. 1 The experience and practic% of tlu } fanner is of value to other farmers of ! the County, and the Herald will here 1 publish the results obtained by AO*. J. 1 H. Cook in the use of oats and rye i\ < 1 a cover crop on corn land. In December and January 19J9 '< Mr. Cook sowed the oats and rve on t the land where he expected to plant J com. He planted this com on the \ land in March, 1919, leaving the cover 1 crops so that he could turn the ! growth under the first and second 1 week in June, 1910, plowing these up i to the com, after it had started to \ grow. In addition to this he used 200 1 pounds of 9-3-0 per acre to the corn t and the land produced from 20 to 25 1 bushels of com per acre. Considering the quality of the land that Mr. Cook 1 used, this was a successful result, and ( I ii was brought about by use of the cover crops which acted as a fertilizer, and furnished humus in the soil 1 the pvo*v*?* time for the com. f ?WWT CONWAY, S. P., THURSDAY, EACE-TIME ARMY | OF 300,000 TROOPS roposed by House Military Sub-Committee in Bill. Washington.?A peace-time regular rmy of 300,000 men and 18,000 offiers was decided on by the House nilitary sub-committee headed by tepresentative Anthony, Itepublian, Kansas, in fanning the army reuganization bill. The number of com >at troops was fixed at 250.000. The committee proposal for the >ew army would provide a large force han possible under the regional deenre act of 1916, the army organizaion law in force before the war which approximately fixed the personnel at 50.000 capable of expansion to 235,)00. Bcesides the increased size of the irmy, the committee also agreed not a. specify the army organization as ,o the number of infantry, cavalry ind artillery regiments and other jnits, but to leave this to the discretion of the President. This also is * departure from the 1916 act, which specified the division of forces. SIXTEEN YEAR OLD EVEN HORN TOOTS Ford Bought in 1903 Still Doing Service in Oregon and Washington. A rear tonneau door, two cylinder touring car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in 1903,?the year of that company's organization ?and in use since that time is sti "on the job." It is an eight horse power car, has a seventy eight inch wh-'*cl base, a five gallon gas tank and is owned by A. C. McCarthy of Portland, Oregon. Of course the Ford isn't exactly po "ssod of the latest lines and it is beginning to wear slightly, but morhanically?why evrn the aged brass horn works. The machine is now being driven on business trips through Oregon and Washington by McCarthy who doesn't expect to be in the market for a new Ford for some years to come since he's kinda got acquainted with the old one. o NOTICE OF SALE. Under and by virtue of the decree and judgment of the court made by Ms Honor T. J. Mauldin, Presiding Judge, in the case of Nancy J. McDaniels and Atlas M. McDaniels, Plaintiffs vs. John W. Hill, Mayo Stroud, and EntcrnriM?? Groeerv Com pany, Defendants, and dated the 20th lay of October A. D. 1919, I, the unlersigned J. A. Lewis, Sheriff, of Horry County, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder before the Uoui-t House door at Conway, in Horry County, and State of South Carolina, during legal hours of sale, on ;alesday in January next, it being the ?th day of said month, all and singu11 ) those certain lands situate in Horry County, and described as folows, to wit: .All that certain tract of land situite in Floyds Township, in the Couny and State aforesaid, containing Sixty (CO) acres, more or less, beginning at a stake corner on the Powell land, thence running nearly South to a stak" earner on H. D. Eliott line, thence the Elliott line nearly West to a stake corner. thence the said Elliott line about North to a stake comer, thence with he Powell line to the beginning, and <nown as the Buck Island Place. TP1RMS of Snln Canh to pay for papers. Conway, S. C., Dec. 13th, 1019. ' J. A. LEWIS, Sheriff of Horry County. H. H. WOODWARD, j Plaintiff's Attorney. ? DECEMBER 18, 1910. MEXICANS DRIVE AMERICANS OUT Regard Diplomatic Protests as Perfunctory,?Story of i Buckley. I Washington.?Further testimony taken by the Fall committee investigating Mexican affairs, made public, pictu res the Carranza government as regarding all diplomatic protests of the American government as perfunctory, and accredits to officials of the Mexican government a policy of driving Americans out of the country. The committee made public the testimony of W. F. Buckley, an American lawyer long resident in Tampico and one of the well known men of the American colony in Mexico. "Louis Cabrera (minister of finance) told me very frankly." testified Buckley, "that the menace of the American in Mexico must be removed and that the only way to do this was to drive him out of the country and take his property." "He explained to me," the witness continued, "that Mr. Wilson was what he was pleased to term 'an advanced liberal, a great democrat,' whose concern was for the welfare of the people of the world and was not limited to the narrow bounds of the United States." '?He said," continued Buckley, "Mr. Wtfson was opposed to capital in Mex ico and everywhere else no matter to whom the capital belonged, and that in expelling the American from Mexico the constitutionalists would receive the sympathy of the American government." " ; SOME HORRYITES ~ CONVICTED IN COURT There was another term of the federal Court in Charleston recently, it which some Horryitcs were tried 'or violation of the prohibition law Fisk Todd and Frank Watts each convicted and sentenced to one year and one day in the Federal prison in Aianta, Georgia, while Joe Piinoe, another Horryite, got six months in the Marion jail as a result of his conviction. These now convictions added to those of some time ago makes some eight or nine different men who are now serving sentences for violatio 1 )f the whiskey laws in Horry County. I lamp McCray is now in the Horry bounty jail serving a sentence of three months, for having been caught distilling liquor at the same time that M. G. Parker was caught. o ON LOVING MEMORY On November 29th. 1919., the death angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Todd and took from them their baby. He was bom July 11th. 1911, died November 29th. 1919, age 8 years, 11 months and 12 days. Clenton was a bright child, loved by all who knew him, and will be greatly missed in many places, in Sunday school, school and at home. He was laid to rest in the family burying ground December 1st, 1919. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Berry Williams. He leaves a Father, Mother, four brothers, two sisters and a host of friends and relatives to mourn their loSS. Thou art gone our precious darling. And thy face no more we'll see. i Till we meet beyond the river, In that bl ight eternity. His loving cousin, ?Carrie Edge -o I Those who may think they know J what is best for thomaolvruj likotv to be a far way off the track; but they do not find it out till afterwards. ? o FROSTY NIGHTS. The nights of the middle of last week were the coldest weather we ; have had this Winter. The days were not so bad as there was plenty of sunshine after about midday on Monday. But the nights wove very chilly and some pipes were frozen up by the frost. I vM. WILLIAM T. GOLDFINCH jFI PASSES TO REWARD| William T. (tohlfirwh 1 r? - ? m Phursday night of last week, December 11th, 1919, at his residence in Conway. Ho was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, on September 30th, 1854, so that at the time of his death he was in his Gfith year. He moved; .. to Conway in the year 1905, and since ' ^ that time was connected with The Kingston Furniture Company of which he was general manager. The interment took place at the Lakeside Cemetery on December 12th, C< the burial services conducted by the. Rev. Mr. Elwell of the Methodist church, and He v. Mr. Lcmmon, pastor, of Conway Presbyterian church.. HF death followed several months o.F illness during which time he had no' been able to attend to his business affairs at the office of the Furniture Company on Main Street. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma Goldfinch; three sons, Messrs. W. M. and ()1 A. E. Goldfinch of Conway, and A. K. L Goldfinch of Southport, North CaroUna, and two daughters, Miss Sadie ti Goldfinch of Conway, and Mrs. H. G. Cf Mclnvaill of Hartsville, South Caro- si lina. ,r He was a long time a faithful mem her of the Conway Methodist church, ^ and for all of the time since he moved tl to Conway in 1905 he had been closely F Kicntiliod with every religious work I P undertaken by his church, was a groat j c; believer in the Sunday School and a t< zealous worker in the Sunday School \n classes, and h.e had a great deal to do in working up interest in the erec- h tion of the new Methodist Church a h few years ago. He was licensed as a s local preacher and often filled the n pulpits of other ministers with abil- r ity. MINERS'sfRnTEENDS : ON WILSON'S TERMS< Indianapolis.?The coal miners' s strike is ended. f With but one dissenting vote the ( gem ral committee of the United Mine a Workers of America in session here v voted to accept President Wilson's j proposal for immediate return to (i work pending final settlement of r their wage controversy with opera- j 'ors by a commission to be appointed c by him. ^ Telegrams were sent out to the four thousand locals of the union bv ]s hiternational officials of the mine a v orkers instmeting the men to re- j tuni to work immediately. Full in- |. tructions with regard to the agree- j ment will be sent out. Operators predicted full resumption ol operations, and shipment of coal to begin immediately. n Miners, operators and government a officials alike were highly gratified , X] over the settlement and all sides ap- j a poared confident of a final satisfactory settlement of the. fight by the t,< commission. n ? m i? GOAL RATIONING 5 THING OF PAST: j Orders have been received in Co-1( lumbia by V. S. Collins, local fuel di- n rector, from the Southern reg:onal j coal committee announcing the complete restoration of hours of opera- j tion and business of industries, stor- j es, office buildings imposed by fuel 01 conservation regulations announced J November 24. These regulations have J ^ been suspended until further notice p permitting the supplying of coai p TV??n1v the first five crouns of the coal administration's preference list ^ and except under light restrict :cns to'Ci classes six and seven. The telegram tl announces the prompt delivery in ac- p cordance with the original billings of ! ni all coal on wheels which may be load|n, ed at the mines consigned to con-: sumers in the first five classes and ! the early movement and delivery of! coal to consumers in the sixth and j seventh classes of the preference list ^ to as large mi extent as each line ' (| can make the delivery without jeop- tl I ardizing the supply for the more pre- tl ferred groups. f. NO 35 DEL RESTRICTIONS RELAXED IN DEGREE jports Regarding Resumption of the Production Are Optimistic I SOUTH SUSPENSION OF ALL RESTRICTIONS onservation of Coal, However, is Urged?Train Service Resumed. Chicago.?Partial relaxation of the gid restrictions on use of fuel, optiistic reports regarding resumption production in virtually all elds and substantial restoration of tssengor train service in many secons brought to the public the greatit measure of relief since the coal tuation became acute. At some lines workers still expressed dissatfaction with the terms of President nlson's proposal which led to ending 10 strike officially and central Pennsylvania operators also were dis leased, but officials regarded indiiitions as pointing toward a return t nearly normal production early ext week. At many mines Saturday's general/ have been regarded as at least part olidays and at some it was said uperstition about the 13th of the lonth would cause miners to delaye-entering the mines until Monday. Sub-Zero Weather. Continuation of the severe weather ?f the last few weeks in the Pacific lorthwest and a return of sub-zero emperature in the Plains Slates and Central and Southwest with a spread astward added to the discomfort rculting from depleted coal stores and uel restrictions. In Washington and )rcgon record cold weather prevailed nd below zero temperatures were eported from Utah, Nebraska, Monana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Coloralo, Iowa and Minnesota. Strong lorth winds swept into the southwest ringing a cold wave that was expect d to send thermometers to ten decrees below zero. In the Plains States. West and Corthwest, snow interfered with wire nd rail communicttion. Transconincntal trains were 10 to 12 hours Lite because of Wyoming blizzards, n South Dakota and no thorn Neraska a similar sitution prevailed. Dissension Greatest. Dissension from the strike settlelent seemed to be greatest in Ohio nd Illinois. Several thousand mineis i Ohio ^oted to remain on strike and number of locals in Illinois main ained their expressed determination o remain away from the mines until lore than the agreed 14 per cent inrease was forthcoming. Union leadrs in both states, however, were ?pimistic regarding an early return ork by the disgruntled men. Suspension in South. Atlanta, Ga.?Suspension of coal restrictions effective throughout the :mthern region will be followe<l fcy cstoration of train service at midight Sunday. BROKEN BLOSSOMS. The Pastime Theater has secured ne of the finest pictures that ever ppeared in this section of the coun y, to be shown at the theater on hristmas day, 1019. Owing to the reat skill of the actors and actress; use<l in the production of this picire, press notices say that no one in Mihpecl anything fiuin ie reality from the beginning of the icture until the end. There will ho :i latinee at the Theater on the afteroon of Christmas Day, and the picwire will he repeated at night. SNOW W AS EXPECTED. Many people looked for snow last eek during the cloudy days when ark clouds came over the sky and ne weather was very cold. Though icre wero many predictions they aN fiilod of coming true at that time. i ^ '