The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 29, 1920, Image 1
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j VOLUME XXXIV.
HORRY COUNTY IS
1 GROWING PROSPEROUS
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The weather was dark and clou !y
last week but there was not very
much rain.
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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.
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, 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
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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.
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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 ,
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With Only the Old Law With (
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i
Which to Punish the
Violations. 1
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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.
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ntld.
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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?
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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
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mean peace in all respects with Mexico.
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Home made fertilizers are the
most profitable the farmers can use.
WOULD AMEND ACT "T
PROVIDING LICENSES
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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.
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