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m VOLUME XXXIV OUR CENSUS TAKERS WORK ON TOMORROW IT In Every Township in Horry I County Enumerators Will * Be Busy i " ? LISTS OF QUESTIONS ASKED OF EVERYBODY > /V A 11 1 ? ^ xietp uui tne janumeraxor dv Being .Ready With the Facts and Figures. . k i The / w^rk of taking the United States XJensus will begin tomorrow, ^January 2nd. There are some people who do not seem to understand the great importance of taking the census, and some of them will, no doubt, he slow in giving the enumerator the information he is required by law to obtain. 't is the duty of every family in the whole county to aid the enumerators in every way possible by giving them prompt answers to the questions he must ask, and thus aid in furnishing our Government the information that they need for the record. Enumerators have been appointed In all of the Districts. W. A. Prince of Loris, has Simpson Creek Township to attend to and he has sent to the Herald a printed leaflet showing fl list of questions that he will have f A nolr ??ll ?O r.n o nvwl n onA.Inl 1 I ww mv? uii pvi m/iin a>i<i a nputitt1 lir>l> t>f important questions that will be * baked of all farmers. Thinking that Jr * * may be of benefit to everybody to know what these questions are in adVance so that hey may get the neccs aary figures up and have them ready, the Herald here publishes these questions. Important ' Questions Asked of all Persons 1. Age at last birthday. 2. Each person ten years of age and over will be asked whether he is able to read or write. 8. Each person will be asked his birthplace as as well as the birthplace of father and mother. 4 If foreogn born the date of coming to the United States will ho asked, and, if naturlized, the date of becoming a citizen; also mother tongue or native language. 5. Each head of a family will be asked whether his home is owned by .Jhim or rented. If owned, whether tJie home is mortgaged or free of 6. Each person will be asked his oc-eupation and whether he is an emfrioyut or employee or is working bn bis own account. Important Questions Asked of Farmers. 1. Each occupant of a farm will be 1 asked how many years, if any, he worked on a farm'* for wages; how many years, if any, he was a tenant? _ . ? " F and how many years, if any, he farmed as an owner. 2. Whether he (a) owns, or (b) tents, or (c) partly owns and partly rents his farm, or whether (d) he op- 1 erates the farm for others as a man- t ager or superintendent. t 3. How many acres in his farm? Number of improved acres? Num- ci ber of unimproved acres and number s of acres of woodland? t k 4^ Total value of farm ? Total val- 1 jkuc of buildings ? Value of implements r U and machinery on farm ? s r 5. Whether farm is mortgaged? If \ fio, the amount of martgage? e 6. Expenses for feed, fertilizer, and y labor in the year 1919? 7. Several questions concerning ar- r tificial drainage of his farm. u 6. Number of cows, horses, sheep ti ^chickens, and other domestic animals Ji en the farm January 1, 1920? t< 0. Quantity and acreage of all p - ? *?-- * ----- i^iuwii uii me iarm in JV1V, in- t\ <dudirg 'Fruits and vegetabcs? a* 10. Quantity of milk and butter c< sold off the fai*m during the year it 1910^ in 11. Acreage of timber land on farm t\ find va^ue of forest products. (i? m F. E. I<00 was here last week. ol 0 mt SCHEDULE OF BOLL WEEVIL CONFERENCES Meetings to be Held in ThirtyThree Counties in January % Clemson College.?According to announcements made recently the Extension Service will conduct in Jan uary a series of County Conferences on the boll weevil situation and a safe farming program for South Carolina jn .the,presence of .the weevil. Thirtyfour of these conferences will .be Jifild in Lhirt.V.tHron /?Aimfinu TKn ?r/ V#??W WMUVIVO, & IIU VVIUCI ence for Horry County will be .hold at Conway on January 9th. ERECTlilFliLDINGS BEGINS WITHOUT DELAY A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Horry Industrial School was held at Conway on Tuesday, December 30th. Various matters were before the Board for consideration. The Board authorized its Secretary to advise the people of Aynor that it is ready to accept the offer of the site which the people of that Community propose to convey to the School, and also the $1^540.00 promised. A committee was appointed to procure plans and estimates for the buildings. It is proposed to begin the erection of school buildings at Aynor as early as possible, and it is hoped to have them ready for occupancy by the 15th of September, 1920. In the meantime the School will be conducted as usual at Horry. A resolution was adopted by the Board recommending to the Annual Conference the reconveyance of the prop erty at Horry to the Horry Industrial High School Corporation as soon as the present school shall have been removed to Aynor. PRESIDENTANNOUNCES RETURN OF RAILWAYSj Lines Will Be Restored to Private Ownership March 1 EXPRESS COMPANIES CHANGE SAME TIME Reversal Not Effective at End of Calendar Year, Account Failure of Legislation. .Washington. ? President Wilson las issued proclamations returning he railroads and express companies o private control March 1. 1 Failure of congress to enact remelial legislation was given as the rea- ( on for extending by two months the ime oricinallv annnnnp/wi ? J I V I 1C* inquishing government control of the ail road properties. In his mooage to congress last May, President Vilson said the roads would be turnd back at the end of the calendar ear. "No agreement having yet been eaehed by congress," Secretary Turn- I lty said in announcing the proclama- i on, "it becomes necessary in the pub- j c interest to allow a reasonable time \ > elapse between the issuing of the j roclamation and the date of ifs ac- i lally taking effect. The president is <= rlvised that the railroads and expres . e >mpanies are not organized to make possible for them to ww-oivn <?? 1 * .W . WVI TV uu I mnage their properties if actually p irned over to them on December 31/ i; The Ksch-Oummins bill designed to f cot conditions incirlent td the returni g * the roads now is in conference. n I ipxnrr OONWAY, S 0./THURSDAY, NEGRO GETS SHOT IN LORIS TROUBLE Shot by John Rogers, Magis- I trate's Constable on Christmas Eve ALEXANDER CRAWFORD I TAKEN TO HOSPITAL | Father of Negro Was Threat- 1 ening Prosecution at Last Accounts. Trouble in Loris lust Wednesday late on Christmas Eve, resulted in the ; serious wounding of a Negro, Alexander Crawford, by a pistol shot 1 fired at him by John Rogers, a mag- 1 istrate's constable. Few of the de- 1 tails of the trouble leading to the i shooting could be obtained, but it was said that the constable was in Loris waiting for the late train to arrest another negro who was supposed to arrive on it. The negro who was shot, from what can be learned, did not interfere with the officer about arresting r .the other negro; but the shooting proceeded from another cause. Crawford was badly wounded, bad that his father left on the early train next day for the hospital. At last accounts the negro's father was threatening to bring a prosecution for the shooting of his son. The wound was said to be of such a sei I rious nature that it may lead to the I death of the negro. The authorities of the Town of Lor is took hold of the matter and took the pistol away from the constable. , It is stated that had liquor had something to do with the difficulty. HOME MADE WlSKEY ATTRACTS CUSTOMERS; ? I New York.?Four men were arrest ed in a raid by federal agents on <1 ( Brooklyn liquor store which was de- j elnrcd to be doing a rushing holiday ,1 business in home made whiskey. Five j1 barrels of alcohol were seized and a { quantity of the whiskey which, ac- ' ^ cording to the agents, was manufac-, * tured out of raw alcohol, brown su- ,c gar and water. i; The place was crowded with cus- c tomers when the raid was made who 0 were purchasing the liquor in bottles c and demijohns at pricees ranging from \ $75 to $100 a gallon. Federal ofTic.. * ials said the cost of the "whiskey" to r the manufacturers did not exceed $6 a gallon. Information in regard to v the place was received by the depart- I3 ment in a letter from a little school * girl who said that her father was 11 constantly intoxicated and sick as a , ? result of drinking liquor bought at c the store. v Your stationery will cost you more a during: 1920 than it did before. The ? Herald's prices on any of this will compare favorably with any prices ^ you can get elsewhere. | ^ TRAINSOFWHISKEY |S LEAVING LOUISVILLE ! ;S( b< Louisville. ? Shipment of 30,000 el barrels, probably the largest consign- w nent of whiskey in the United States p, or export belore constitutional pro- 0l libition becomes effective on January .6, 1920, began with the movement of in initial train load, according to a ' ar statement issued lw 1 miuviiiiiik illll'l " I fir sts. . I th One Pittsburgh and three Loui v lU* ; inns are named as important partici- ^ ants in the shipments. The whiskey to s valued at $7,000,000 and is dcs' ined or the port of Philadelphia and wi'l ' sc ?o forward daily in solid train lot? aT tHii the movement is completed. tk BI ?i* I - JANUARY 1, 1920. WIFE OF DYSON OURNED TO DEATH Rufus Dyson Suffering From Severe Burn on His Body EXPLOSION OF CAN SUPPOSED KEROSENE Ufsed in Making a Fire Burn in the Hoiqe Christmas Morning. Mrs. Effje Dyson, wife of Rufus Dyson, is dead, and Rufus Dyson himself is suffering from a serious bum as a result of an explosion of 'X can which was supposed to have contained kerosene but which it wa* afterwards learned contained a mixture of gasoline with the kerosene. This occurred at Aynor at the home of the Dysons on Christmas morning after Mr. Dyson had made a fire out of wood that was slow to burn. He came in with a five gallon can of the nurture, thinking that it was kerosene, took his little child away from the fire place and proceeded to build up the fire with the can. There was a terrific explosion and Mrs. Dyson received the main force of the explosion and was burned to death. Dyson himself received a very severe burn on the leg from which he is still suffering. The child was uninjured, I J. A. Bryant was here from Loris op businses one day last week. o HERALD RATES. In accordance with an announcement that we published several 4;mes early in December the subcription price of this paper is now the sum Qf $2.00 per year, We have exnlnfViio iv - -m ?aa\y V4 VII in I lid III LUC |)I ICC? to numbrs in person. We have shown them the lot of newspaper that we heave on hand sufficient to print the Herald for one year or more and some of this lot of paper cost us less than the present price. It was this that enabled us to offer the Herald to all those who would come in before January 1st and pay $1.50, the Did price. We could afford to do that because we had this lot of paper on land at old prices. Many hundreds of j subscribers came in and took ad- ' vantage of the old price that we >ffered, and we are now compelled to tnforce the increase that we advertisd and we cannot send the Herald o anybody from now on for less than 2.00, unless, of course, the price of i naterials should go down. One plan we could have followed /as to have reduced the paper as ublished as to either the quality or 1 he size of it, or both, and then we < right have gone on at the old price ? f $1.50. We could not take that i ourse because it is against our prin- 1 iples, which compel us to print the 1 ery best County paper that we can 1 nd keep it up to the standard that It i1 as had for numbers of years past. 1 he advertising rates in the paper t 'ill be higher this year than it was | st year, and this increase in the ad- < -- I ertising rate is due to the same * luse as the increase in the subscrip- t on price. We can only say to ad- 1 ertisers that tne Herald has one of 1 le best lists that has ever been used * y advertisers in this, or any other r iction of this country. They are all ana fide paid in. advance subscrib- I \s, who take the paper because they o ant to read it nd not because some d jblisher has sent it to them wheth- t - they want it or not and regardless f ' their wishes. 0 The Herald thanks evevy customer f id subscriber or advertiser for ev- u y transaction of business during e ^11 ... iu oici year that is gone. Every ember of the force that gets ont lis paper we are sure will endeavor ' the very uttermost to publish a c >od paper during 1920, give promp' a irvice in advertising and job wo'b, a id endeavor to get results whenever 1 c ie columns of tho paper are used. d ? raltl. TRY TO PURCHASE ARMS IN EUROPE Reported Number of IVIexican3 Arrive for That Purpose Paris.?A number of Mexicans have recently arrived in Europe and arc reported to have attempted to pue(>htlSO !?nd " ?*? 1 ........ UIIM UIHIMUIIIllUll, iU'CUl uir.g to information received here. Whether they are connected with th" recent shipment of five carloads., of machine gains and accessories sent from Cassel to Amsterdam which Marshal Foch reported were cousign ed to Mexico is as yet undetei mined. The Mexicans, who are reported to represent the Carranza government, came to Europe by different routes having previously agreed upon a meeting place which is understood to have been a city in France. It is now reported they are in the interior of Germany. crusMoTwhiskey containing poison Movement Is Due to. Wave of Death and Blindness TWO STATES SHOWING DEATH LIST OF OVER 30 It is Thought Many More Unreported Cases Exist Over the Country. I | New York.?Federal agents, health authorities and police in many cities in thf East were stirred to action tcday against traffic in ''whiskey'' niad$ from wood alcohol, following the wave of death and blindness from this cause in Massachusetts arid Connecticut. The death list from Christwas "cheer" in these States totaled more than 80. Officials declared it probable that unreported cases by the score exist from coast to coast. A general warning has been issued here j by agencies co-operating in the fight, telling the public of the danger lurking in anything that passes for whiskey in saloons. Arrests were expected in New York in connection with the deaths in Chicopce Falls and Holyoke, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., the three towns hardest hit by the poison drunk as liquor. Four men are under under arrest in Hartford charged with \ murder. The police allege that they | nought 12 barrels of the fluid in the Bronx for $12,000, which they took J o Hartford by motor truck, where tvatcr was added. Then it was sold, iccording to the police, in other 'ities. A scientific fight against all pois-' mous substitutes for liquor has been i, started in New York. In addition to he crusade nomine* ..^uikiiv n m;il dlt'UIIUl, 1 J 1'. J ^oyal S. Copeland, commissioner of j lealth, has announced that the depart1 nent will analyze the many home- j ( nade drinks. j Some of thn cuVkctifufA.. f , V..v i;v?vii vun iui WHIM** | coy made according to recipes widely , idvertised contain fusel oil and other . langerous ingredients, according \o . he commissioner. A determined of- ( ort also is being made to find out if ny methyl alcohol is being' diverted ] torn paint shops or other industrial ] so and resold for beverage purpos*. I' *. > ' ' j Chicaeo Crusade. Chicago.?County and city ofTi- ! 1 ials here joined hands for a crusade ' gainst selling as a beverage wood 1 lcohol, which, since July 1, has kill-: i d approximately 3.r? men. Four to-11 ay were in hospitals unconscious [ i - f Hbr87T DEMAND FOR MATERIAL GREATLY INCREASES More Than the Supply Cart Possibly Take Care of Here LARGE BRICK KILN DEPLETED LAST WEEK All Bricks Gone in Day and Half After Kiln Opened For Sale. | The demand for building; materials in this County is constantly increasing. This is proved by the fact that all of the bricks that can be produced j by Mr. H. P. Little, who owns a large brick factory near the corporate limits, are sold at a rapid rate. The plant last week finished the burn ing of a kiln containing 100,000 bricks and all of these were sold at the kiln ly Mr. Little and the bricks were moved by the purchasers* some in small lots and others in larger quantities; but all of the bricks in this kiln were, gone by twelve o'clock the next day after the kiln was opened. We have heard of several orders for 100,000 lots of bricks that could not be supplied; all of the lumber plants conducting a local business are crowded with orders. An examination of the freight yards at Conway any day will show great quantities of other kinds of material beinc haul ed in here by the Railroad. ! ? I There is a spirit of progress and improvement permeating the entire people and the demand for building materials is greater than the supply. Steps should be taken in every possible way to increase the output ot the factories and let the people have tho materials that they need and are able to pay for, . rockefeTlSMs millions of dollars W Christmas Pre?eili id Mankind Expressed in Big Figures. New York.?.John D. Rockefeller | gave to mankind a Christmas present of $100,000,000?half to the general education board to raise the salaries of college professors and half to the Rockefeller Foundation to aid in its work of combating disease through improvement of medical education, public health administration and scientific research. It is estimated that Mr. Rockefeller's public gifts now approximate $450,000,000. o ? MAY GO HIGHER. In the opinion of many the price of building materials may go higher than they are now before the New Year has run scarcely one fourth its course, possibly before that time. Those who are waiting to buy materials and build* later, may get disappointed according to this idea. from drinking wood alcohol and four ilied yesterday. "We have held inquests on 28 or 80 bodies since July 1, all victims of this drug," said Peter M. Hoffman, coroner of Cook county. "I expect a lot more in a few days from New Year celebrations." One ordinary drink of wood alcohol can make a man permanently blind and sometimes kill him, Mr. Hoffman added. Two men who sold wood alcohol to men who died after drinking it have been held to the grand jury on murder charges. A city ordinance which would limit sale of wood alcoi. mi wo commercial men alone, and remove it from drug .stores and saoons, is expected to be submitted, in \ few days.