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s j VOLUME XXXIV. HORRY COUNTY IS 1 GROWING PROSPEROUS Vv- . According to Report of Mr. B. Hfrris, Commissioner of Agriculture I A A. M'DERMOTT GAVE COMMISSIONER FACTS BKuoh Land Here Could be Used Probably For Raising Hogs and Cattle. The following statement of the I agricultural possibilities of Horry county by J. A. McDermott appears in the annual report of B. Harris, commissioner of agriculture: The development of Horry county during the past year has been a continuation and concentration of the same factors operating during the past several years. This development has been almost entirely agricultural, the growth of other industries being dependent upon the prosperity of the farm. The only prominent industry not so dependent is the saw mill business, and this has not much increased in the production output, thougn there has been material increase in } prices received. ,> A better knowledge of farming | ' and more intensive cultivation, rather A than an increase in acres cui ivatod, has been an increasing factor in our agricultural development. The great increase in the selling value of such agricultural products as tobacco, cotton, Irish potatoes and some kinds of truck has netted the farmer more than usual ireturns for his increased work. A much larger propoixion of the farmers money is being put ir farm and home improvement than a cursory view of our situation might show. A very large portion of cu' farmers' money is being used to increase the value of farming lands. The market value of real estats has advanced vei> rapidly, but good farm lands can be purcrased in the county at prices ranging from $30 to <FibU per acre. At these prices more lands are changing hands than ever before in the history of the ccunty. So far as can be observed there is little speculative value yet entering into these land sales. The pnees being asked and paid constitute a present value of the land for farming purposes. Our county contains between 1,000 and lfl'0O square miles of territory; -and it is very doubtful that more than 20 per cent, of this territory is cleared and farmed. There is a .great deal of room for more and better farms than we have yet been able to develop. There is a great deal of land in Ute county which could now be very profitably used for raising live stock, hogs, and cattle especially. The government is winding up tick eradication in the county and during the several ycar9 this work has been go ing on the number of cattle and hogs in thje country have materially increjf^ftd. This increase has been 'largely of improved qualities of live ' Jfwtock. The present indications are that our people have heardly begun the plans for raising live stock they already have in mind, k The county ha recently bonded it^ self in the sum of $200,000 for the building of good roads. This ic by no ^*^pvteain enough for good roads through mi tne county, but the increasing interest of our people in the building of good roads indicates the certainty of their being built. The vital need of schools is thoroughly appreciated by all our people, end tkp immense progress made in de velopWg education facilities by local effort is showing itself in every community in the county. The hank resources of our county have increased over double within the past three years. More money in circulation among the people by far than over before in our histoiy. We are free from labor, strikes and r* ' . n I WILL STIMULATE COnON GROWING Eng'ish Plan to Raise Bulk of Their Supply Within the Empire DEPEND ON U. S. FOR FOUR-FIFTHS SUPPLY As U. S. Needs Increased Amount, Supply Must Be Larger. London.?Plans intended to result in the production within the British empire of enough cotton to supply the bulk of the nation's needs, are outlined in a report of the Empire Cotton Growing committee of the board of trade made public here. Recommendations included in the white paper for stimulation of the industry were as follows: An annual grant of ten thousand pounds for five years to the Empire Cotton Growing Committee; strength ening of the agricultural departments of the British colonies and protectorates; establishment of a cen tial research institute; creation of readerships at universities; foundation of a bureau for the interchange of information on cotton growing; strict control over essential matters connected with cotton growing; authorizing local associations of the Cott-m Growing association to act as 'gents of the Empire Cotton Growing Committee in marketing the crops; funds to be provided by the treasury would come from local revenues of growing areas and from the cotton industry. Four-Fifths From I J. S. The report of the committee said the cotton industry in the empire drew four-fifths of its supplies from die United Slates and expressed the belief that it was dangerous to be dependent so largely on the climatic vagaries of one portion of the world. The white paper alf.o pointed oul 'hat the United States is requiring svery year as increased proportion of its own consumption. Since July, 1917, the situation with respect to the cotton industry ha* become worse, the report stated and there was said to be evidence of a world hortage of the commodity. Notwithstanding this condition the ccmmittee said: "We are confident that if proper methods were taken it is possible to grow within the 'empire a very large proportion of the cotton it requires." The problem of adequate development of the empire's cotton resources was said -to be dependent on the acquisition of necessary knowledge, j the supply of capable men, establish ment of efficient arrangements for controlling growing cotton crops and the marketing of and the provision of necessary money. o CROWDS VISIT TOWN. It is noticeable frLat the amount of travel to Conway has greatly increased during - the last twelve months. Time has been when . one Hotel in the Town took care of all the travellers who ame to this point and then was not fulh Now there are several hotels and boarding h'uses and all of them have been full to overflowing ever since the New Year came in, and the crowd has been constantly increasing ever since about September 1919. For some time past the leading hotels have been crowded and had to turn off guests, on account oflack of room. All this means Ai^^jinother Hotel should be built Conway, or additions made to thosd ^ready here. Tfr ia ? A- ?_ ? m.v ?a i>w uc.ii. IUI runway to i&([ DC~ hind in the way of hotel accommodation because it is one hing necessary to the success of any town in'a business way. industrial unrest. No bolshevism or anarchism prevails in our horde Vs. Our people are prosperous happy ami well cooknted. / fii CONWAY, S. 0 7 THURSDAY, DETAILS OF PUN FOR H06 RAISING Found to Be Successful by Actual Experience in Raising Meat HOGS NEED SHADE NOT SUMMER SUN Experience of I. D. Gerrald on Farm of A. D. Jackson in Floyds. The best way for tenants to raise their meat. It seems that most tenants have an idea that they have got to have a brood sow in order to raise their meat, consequently they start out :n the spring with one or more. After a while they have a bunch of pigs and if they have any com they feed that away. Some start without any corn at all. The sow and pigs are turner! in the woods to root hog or die and rrost of the time they dry up, contract the cholera and not only die but spread the disease. It gets into the neighbors herd and they lose theirs too. It. in vprv nfton fho aoco fViofr ? w .? ? w. ^ V?. wv>i I Vi?v VHUV VIIOV V**^OV. conditions apply to some land owners as well, and none of them are especial ly to blame because they have never tried any other plan. Now here is a plan that has been working- ever since I was a small boy. My father's plan was to buy two or three barrows in the spring to raise f ff of. It was always a raise too. When they were killed the next Christmas they would weigh from 400 to 500 pounds and they were raised in a small lot. Last spring I succeeded in getting I. D. Gerrald, a man living on my larm, to try it. I sold him two pig; and told him to take my advice an! if he did not have more meat than even before. I would make up the difference, so he put them in a small shady lot and let them stay till he killed them. Now the readers of thi; article may not believe it but it is a provable fact that those hogs weigh ed 422 and 425 pounds after they were dressed. Now, if any one should decide to try this plan, be sure to have some kind of shade, for hogs can't stand the hot summer sun and do well. ?A. D. Jackson. ???o The Pastime is having a good patronage and deserves it by reason of the fine entertainment it gives every night in the week. GENERAL ASSEMBLY WORKTHIS WEEK Among important measures in the house this week will be that of proposing to change the beginning of the fiscal year from January 1 to July J ; the bill, not yet introduced, proposing an increase of 25 per cent, in all teachers' salaries; a bill to relieve counties in which lynchings occur "f the liability to damages of not less than $2,000; a bill to change penalties for .delinquent taxes, and a bill to further restrict the sale of bitteis and extracts which may be used as beverages. o ? The weather was dark and clou !y last week but there was not very much rain. o OFFICERS GET STILLS. Three illicit distilleries wore destroyed by federal officers in Hon y county between Green Sea and Tabor, N. C., on Monday of last week, aclording to reports made by the officers. One white man was arrested charged with operating one of the stills. Five hundred gallons of beer were destroyed on the same raid. Tec efficers say that stills were equipped with copper worms. J. W. Ivellott and P. J. Coleman made the raid. ?s* , JANUARY 29, 1920. NO CONSTITUTIONAL ! CONVENTION CALLED % Lower House of General As- t sembly Acts in Positive Way ON CONSTITUTION I AND FREE TUITION Both of These Measures Brought Over From Last Term are Killed. In the lower house of the general assembly last week, two measures which were brought over from last session and which have occasioned much warm debate in both houses and on the hustings went into the limbo of wasted effortOne of these was the joint resolution by Senators Christensen and McGhee to provide for the calling of *i stnt? AAncfiflltl'ArlQl ~ ?? mvwvv vviiovivwvtviiai V/V/11 vv/iitiwii, jl in; ^ resolving words to this were struck out by a vote of 75 to 34. Two main objections to submitting this to the people were offered. One that a J wave of unrest was swelling over the country and the people consequently ' could not exercise proper judgment at this time. The other was the cost incident to the convention in the event the majority of the people favored the idea. This cost was estimated at $250,000. The other measure of statewide importance which met a similar fats was the Davis-Kinard bill prohibiting free tuition at state institutions of higher learning. Had this been approved a sequence would have been the creation of a state loan fund for worthy young men and women, to be expended in procuring a co lege education. The measure was killed by a vote of 65 to 40. o D. Joe Graham was in Conway on business one day last week. old SUNIAYIAW" WASNOT KILLED l\iew Bill Recently Taken up Was Killed Without Mercy WILL LEAVE MATTER TO PUBLIC CONSCIENCE , I With Only the Old Law With ( i i Which to Punish the Violations. 1 < He who exposes his goods for sale \ on Sunday will be subject to having ? those goods confiscated in accordance < with an old law of this state which has been on the statute books for < more than 100 years and which has ( been enforced but rarely. So dechl- . ed the senate. That is to say, the ( senate killed the house bill of J. H. ] Pavis making the selling of good*3, except for drugs and medicines, a misdemeanor. The senate is decidedly in favor cf Sunday observance, but exactly where to draw the line, and to do more than leave it to the individual conscience as modified by local sentiment, was what the senate was un- ( willing to decide. I Senator Marion was unwilling to f accept the amendment of Senator i Young of Charleston, who wished co i 1 i Ml i f nnln a# a ? '1 ? A? *-1* ??>v wiu omc Ui VU II1USC COJ1" I sidercd the "necessities of life." He ; argued that this might mern every- \ Ihing and anything. He proposed (bat rales he lift i ted to "Act of nc- \ oesrity and mercy," usirg the lan- ' rnafte tf the shorter cateci m. ? ntld. ^ CONFERENCES ON EX-KAISER'S CASE 3eforc Premiers Decide on Nfivt Mnyp in Fvtrorlitirkn W?v I? unvi UUIIIUII Proceedings PROPOSED GERMANY CALL FOR HIS RETURN Sentiment in Official Circles Is Against Such Proceedure. Paris.?Conferences between preiniers of Great Britain, France and Italy will be held before the next nove in the proceedings to extradite ormer Emperor William from Roland is decided upon, according to information given the Associated Press ">y the French foreign office. Whether the next demand for surrender will be directed to The Hague or Berlin will be the main subject to be determined. The next meeting will be held in London but as no date has been fixed and the matter cannot be left pending a long time, the foreign office expressed the opinion that the question might be settled through diplomatic channels between Rome, Paris and London. It is understood that at least one premier is not averse to ask ing Berlin to call for the return of Count Hohenzollem to Gorm.inv nnd then demanding that Germany deliver him over to the Allies in accordance with the provisions of Article 228 of the Treaty of Verailles. Sentiment in official circles here is against sueh procedure, as there is no desire that the former emperor return to Germany. It is doubtful whether Germany would acquiesce and make representations to Holland, and it is also problematic whether she would deliver up the erstwhile sovereign in the event she should obtain possession of him. It is also feared the presence of Count Hohenzollem in Germany would solidify the monarchist party which is report eel to be gaining in strength daily. WILSON PAVES WAY TO DEPORT ALIENS Wahington.?The Communist party of America was held by Secretary Wilson of the labor department to be "a revalutionary party" within the meaning of the statutes providing for deportation of aliens who affiliate with such organizations. In the specific case of Englebert Preis, an Austrian, arrested in recent raids, execution of a deportation warrant was livlo I K \r Alt* W!lo.-?ri ?vow!?n? ?J ..... .? Itov.l, WW way for deportation of a large number of aliens now in custody and against whom similar charges have boon brought The ruling was made in a formal opinion in which documents relating :o the Communist party are discuss3d, and in conclusion the secretary mid: "The only concluion is that the Communist party of America is an rganization that believes in, teaches ind advocates the overthrow by force >r violence of the government of the United States." NO ALARM FELT OVERINFLUENZA Washington.?Influenza has besome epidemic in several army camps particularly in the Middle West, Surgeon General Ireland of the army anlounced and it has made its appear mce among American troops in Germany. While the disease is in?ieas ng among the civilian population of ;lie United States it has not reached epidemic form and Surgeon General Slue of the public health service, sai'? .here was nothing in the situation to ahse alarm. NO. 41. GARRANZA HAS YIELDED TO DS Mexico Grants Concessions to the Forty-six American Companies MAY PAVE WAY FOR LASTING PEACE Between United States anil Her Wayward Neighbor Down to Southward. New York?News of concession.** made by President Carranza to American owners of oil lands in Mexico, which will make possible the drilling of several new wells, immediately, reached Wall Street today after the close of the stock exchange. Under the new arrangement licenses are to be issued to the companies for drilling, with the express understanding that in accepting these licenses the companies do not torfcit any rights they now posscw nor acquire any new rights. The licenses are provisional until surh time as the Mexican congress acts on the oil situation and interprets article 27 of the new constitution. All points in dispute are to be brought up for adjustment at that time. Official announcement of the agree ment was made by the association of producers of petroleum in Mexico. The forty-iz oil compainies composing the association sent a joint telegram to President Carranza signifying their acceptance of his proposition. No sooner was the telegram sent than Herbert G. Wylie, vice-president and general manager of the Mexican Petroleum company, wired to his field representatives in Mexico to begin at once the drilling of six wells. The other companies also seat dispatches ordering work begun on wells and Mexico will become once more the scene of intensive development work. What effect the compromise may have on the prices of stocks will depend entirely on the technical condition of the specific issues. Several professional traders are known to be heavily short of Mexican petroleum and it would be logical to expect a sharp recovery in that issue. The matter is more significant than its probable effect on stocks might indicate. The oil fields are the real hone of contention Jjctween the United States and Mexico and if neace is established in nil if ?;u ? ... v.. >. ? mean peace in all respects with Mexico. o Home made fertilizers are the most profitable the farmers can use. WOULD AMEND ACT "T PROVIDING LICENSES O Columbia.?The General, Assembly of South Carolina is urged in a statement issued by J. Skottow? Wannamaker, president of the American Cotton Association, to make certain amendments in the South Carolina Warehouse Act. Mr. Wannamaker urges that a commission of seven, one from each congressional district, be created to co-operate with the warehouse commissioner and that the commissioner be given authority t? license warehouses. "The South Carolina Legislature,** said Mr. Wannamaker, "by maki ig rertai,, UIOI-OIIAUI!* .gl W V* IV Ml ^Iivitrn^ act can make an act that will furnish model warehouses for the entire cotton belt. "The present act has many admirable features. At the annual convention of the South Carolina diviaio i >f the American Cotton Associati n, '\owcver, it was decided to urge the General Assembly to amend this a t ') permit the state warehouse co >mlssioncr to issue licenses for war. houcs. \