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r- ' PAGE EIGHT > ANNUAL STATEMENT, TOWN OF DECEMBER RECEJJP Licenses Taxes Water Rents Finos Street Tux Taxes Hal. 1918 Tapping Fees Penalties lntoseit on Bonds Commission LaboF i Olfice Supplies Fire Dept. Sanitary Equipment Water Dept. Supplies Water Meters Pound Fees \ Pound Fee Claims Dog Tax EXTENDI Salaries.. Police Dept Feed. Lights F ucl Office Supplies Frt, Exp. & Telegraph Board of Health Sanitation Telephone Interest Inc. Exp Insurance \ Pumping Water Expenses Street Dept Teams. & Vehicles { Drainage Drainage Fittings Water Fittings Meter Boxes Water Equipment Balance ANNUAL STATEMENT, TOWN 01 DECEMBER RESOU Town Hall Office Sunnlies Teams & Vehicles. Fire Dept Drainage Tank Sidewalks Tank Well Conway Natl. Bank Peoples Natl. Bank . Cash in Safe Street Dept. Tools Sewerage Fittings Artesian Well & Fire Wells F eed Sanitary Water Dept. Fittings M eters Meter Boxes > Water Dept. Supplies Water Equipment Pumping Station. . C. H. Snider, Treas Accts. Roc.?Watei Accts. Rec.?Sanitary LIABIi Town of Conway Bond Issue Sinking Fund $30,000 3 1-2 Mills Sinking Fund $30,000 3 1-2 Mills Sinking Fund $10,000 2 t-2 Mills Sinking Fund $10,000 2 1-2 Mills Taxes?Uncollected Accounts Payable IJthf u/iNNSNft Qinrli nil. ww iifiiiiv WII/IK <!< X " ' ^mmmm 1 3|; By LOUISE OLIVER. jj; Tom got out of his car at the gate land went up the gravel path to the house. The great trees, arching overhead, formed a roof of bright yellow green. All around was spring, from the white and pink orchard on the hillaide to the robin's nest Indifferently (hidden under the eaves of the bouse. Just as he stepped on the porch the front door opened and a girl came out. Tom was very much surprised, lie had hardly expected this. She was bis next-door neighbor in the city, and jthelr relations may be guessed from rwhat followed. At first neither spoke. Tom politely lifted his bat and the girl raised her chin about two Inches. Then the silence became embarrassing. Tom asked: "Is Mrs. Caruthers at home?" "les, she is," answered the girl stlfifty. "Do you think I could see her?" "You probably could!" ' "I mean, may I see her?" "I suppose you may. Will you come In?" "Oh, I'll just wait out here, thank you," he said, "Oh, Mrs. Caruthers," cried Edith, rushing upstairs where an old lady ( was quietly knitting "Yes, my dear! I see we have company. I was just going down. Cnn't you stay a few minutes longer? It's early and?" 2 "No, I cnn't stay, thank you, but I shouldn't If I could. I know who that man Is, Mrs. Caruthers, and I want jto wnm you against him. He's come eel ;iu option or something on your % t c^nway; for year ending j 31, 1919. ) TS. , $4 464,59 , 5,754.64 1,805.39 i 801.00 I 723.00 < 9.46 216.00 2.55 ' .. 45.00 ! 72.46 , 45.50 10.00 207.48 101.18 I 372.20 13.75 143.25 175.05 40.00 $15,002.50 TURKS $1,350.00 1,287.64 748.56 2,921.88 . ' 14.00 302.29 24.21 187.95 177.62 42.70 487.11 69.58 33.00 1/265.80 . 1,052.46 2,145.69 211.50 992.57 55.47 234.47 34.76 11.75 13,652.01 1,350.49 $15,002.50 > CONWAY, FOR YEAR ENDING 31, 1919. RCES $4,287.60 176.50 1,555.00 3,560.00 3.202.00 . . 4,703.10 2,942.59 1.293.78 n r.oc nc 100.65 297.34 7.25 112.30/ 950.00 . . . -. 130.00 300.00 161.52 91.70 14.25 372.20 106.00 311.48 \ 1,293.78 471.89 .. 113.50 I $33,309 5' . .ITIES $17,959.26 10,000 00 1,990.22 319.36 1,138.62 228.16 912.45 761.44 $33,309.51 I Innd. I don't know what It Is, of course, but T feel sure he's up to something:." "How do you happen to know so much about him, Edith?" "They live next door to us In town, and dad hud an awful time with them about the line between the lots. Dad had to take it to court and the Wilsons acted awfully, mean about It." "Hut why are you so hard on the young man. dear? Perhaps, In fact most likely, he had nothing to do with It." "It don't matter. I don't ever Intend to have anything to do with any of them. If I can help It, and I really think you ought not to, either. You'll see. He'll sell you bogus stock or something. Hut I think I'll slip over home the back way now. Do you care If I go through the orchard and get some blossoms?" "Certainly not, dear; help yourself. There! I must go down now and see my visitor." Edith could not reach many blossome from the ground, so, since the trunk of an apple tree was crooked and bent, she crawled up Into the branches. Then suddenly she realized that someone was below and, looking down, she recognized "that Wilson man." He had f. spade and a box and was looking cautiously in every direction?ex| cept up. He didn't dream of her near! ness, evidently. "I knew it!" thought Edith, triumph' antly. "I knew he wasn't here for anj good. Now, what do you suppose it is? money or the flat silver? He'll com< back some night and dig It up. I'm sur< ; he has taken something!" Tom began to dig?not very deep but a little hole Just big enough for th< box. Then he covered it over wltl dirt and departed. Edith waited until he had gone, nn< tkujx forgetting her blossoms, allddci THE HORRY HERALD, OOK$ lown tne tree anQ^VTUif Up* ftfe loose _ Mirth with her bare hands. The box, V [>f light pasteboard, came up easily. Its contents featherweight. Now what , in the world do you suppose? Bonds. I maybe?or perhaps paper money. "I'll go right down and tell Mrs. Ca- I ruthers," she declared. "We'll call him I In and confront him with the evi- I ilence." I But Tom was already in the house. I "I?I saw you burying this in the I orchardv Mr. Wilson," said Edith, ac- I cuslngly, coining into the living room I with the box. She handed it to Mrs. I Caruthers. I "You open it, d?ar. I can't see very I well." I "Do you mind If?If I go out on the I porch?" asked Tom. "It might be bet- H ter for everybody." fl "No. I think you'd better stay I here," said Edith firmly, taking olT the I lid. I Edith picked up an envelope?the I Anln fhtncr- In fho hnr T f nroa nrl. \?HI J ?U iMV " MU ?%va dressed to her. Queer! She opened it and read: "Dear Miss Edith: I saw you go up Into the tree. I hope you won't come down until I get this written and posted (?) Grandma says you don't like me. I knew It before. But we Wilsons always get what we go after, and I've made up my mind that I love you and ain going to marry you. I hadn't a chance In town with the families scrapping, but with grandma on my side we're going to do what we can to get you. "If you'll only give me a little hope I'll see that the pater digs up the hedge in town and gives yours the six inches. Surely that is an inducement. For further reference see grandma. Yours devotedly, Thomas Caruthers Wilson." Ituth had a sense of humor. She sat down and laughed hysterically. "I've fallen into my own trap," she acknowledged ruefully. And then: "What do you think of him, Mrs. Caruthers? Do you advise me to tight the case or give in at once?" "Suit yourself, dear. But, remember, the Wilsons never lose." (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) o THINK LITTLE OF LIFE MURDER A COMMON OCCURRENCE AMONG PAPUANS. i A Seems to Them the Most Natural Thing In the World to Put End to Existence of Enemies or the Troublesome. Papua has long been known as a . bloody land. It is a bloody land still, jl But the blood of white men is rarely jl let; and tlie wanton slaughter of na |J tlvc3 the one by the other?at least ^ in those fast-widening regions which ore within the sphere of the law?is ** , ? ?_!_ _ j > TV.. ? last uiimmsiiing, says a wtiut in nar- | per's Magazine. All this,being so, in; ono year, nevertheless, whvi there j ^ we*? 215 prisoner? committed for tr!?1. j 11S of them were charged with murder, | * nine with manslaughter and five with jj .nti mpted murder. To the civilized ^ mh-d the motives to murder, shocking enough, to be sure?nor wanting ar. * a?:?:', of gruesome humor?are upon' occasion incredible. As they are mat- j ters of record, however*disclosed upon j ? painstaking investigation, they are to j* be accepted, not as irresponsible tales,, such as wander about the eastern seas, j g I but as substantial facts, however sin ? gular and incomprehensible they inay appear. It is a matter of court record, for example, that certain natives of J1 what is called the coast range, being 1 | upon trial for the murder of two car 8 I riers, whose throats they had cut, ad- * mitted the deed without the least heui- * i tation, and sought to Justify the ghast- 8 ly business upon the ground that the ? ' carriers had appeared to be "cold and hungry"?dejected fellows, far away from their village. The prisoners had not eaten the carriers. They had j merely?with the most considerate exJ pedltion?cut the throats of the carriers, who were strangers, at any rate, I and therefore of no groat consequence; | and no ingenuity of cross-questioning i could elicit a motive ulterior to the 'one so ingenuously advanced?that the /carriers, appearing to be "cold and hungry," were, in the opinion of the gentlemen who had Incontinently cut j their throats, much better dead. < i A similar case of merciful exterml- * nation concerned a young native, employed to shoot game for a white planter, who encountered a sick man (Papuan) on the road, near by a river, and strangled him to death. Upon trial he explained that the sick man | had created annoyance, and a consid- , erable embarrassment, as well, by in- ' , slstently requesting to be carried across the river to the other side, : when his way lay forward to his village. ! "Quite so," said the presiding offl- i cer. "Why, then, didn't you carry him across the river?" I "He was too heavy," replied the na' . tive. "It would have put me to a I great deal of trouble." "Why did you kill him?" "What else could I do? The man [ was sick." ' ! It was out of the question to endure ' , the labor of carrying the sick man j across the river. It was equally out j ! : of the question to abandon the pitiable 1 31 object. Therefore the bewildered feli low had strangled him?the most obvi. 1 oils way out of a dilemma which bade !' fair to distress his feelings. I 'l I % TAY, 8. 0., MARCH 18, 1MB % New Busin Exp We have opt Street between X] We-have the late and Ties, in fact store of this kind WE EXTENI WAY AND HORR VISIT OUR STOF THEN BE THE Jl We intend, latest things in l\ for you to come pleasure to show Gent's F L. A. PERMENTER. We are exclusive Company. Let u: N CC Leakage of Gasoline. The mysterious loss of gasoline, 'hich embarrassed the polar expedi- ti ons of Scott and Amundsen, and ac hich was the principal cause of the "] isaster that befell the former, has'a| een made the subject of investigation !|y y several persons, and a very plaus- ' j 3le explanation is made by B. T. irooks of the Mellon Institute of In- se ustrial Research, in an article in Sci* nee. He has observed that at low Ir* emperatures ordinary tin is liable to e converted into the allotropic form, ray tin powder. This change takes nj lace at a maximum rate at 48 degrdbs y lentigrade, and may occur more slowy at other temperatures below that oint. Hard solder, which may con- . ain 65 per cent tin, is subject to the nme process of disintegration. Hence he danger of leakage along the solder v> earns of the container?a fact that w liould be duly considered by future ii olar expeditions. A al b< ? nj Legal blanks of the better kind at he Herald office. )EM0NSTRAT0NS~ * AGAINST ALLIES h ' o second One at Bremen Fol- lJ r lows on Heels of Clash in ' b H' Berlin Hotel p GERMANY EXPRESSES Jj REGRETS TO FRANCE f r I r For Anti-Allied Demonstration t at the Adlon Hotel Saturday. | Berlin.?Closely following the incident of Saturday night at the Hotel Adlon here In which Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia was the chief figure, leading a demonstra- 1 t:on against a party of French of- j f!/?rvs in tlifl dinino- mnm anothftf t mti-Allied incident is reported from i Bremen. The victims in this case t also were high French officers, who < vie members of the Entente military)! r ^ yn ess - New I a erienceo me I ;ncd a Gents' Furnishing Store me Price Shoe Store and the F st styles in Clothing, Hats, Shir everything carried in stock by < I* % D TO THE MEN AND YOUNG M Y COUNTY A CORDIAL INVI7 IE, INSPECT OUR STOCK AN JDGE. as fas as possible, to keep a ful lien and Young Men's wear, and in and look over our stock?it you any thing in our line. urnishing Co CONWAY, S. C. agents for the English-Americ; s take your measure for a Suit. >mmission. TI When the Frenchmen entered the jnj irracks in Bremen to conduct nego- . ations with German officers, the :counts run, the soldiers sang Dcutchsland Uber Allies." The song fir ;tiT.cted a large crowd which rough he handled the French when they wi ft th.c barracks. The police disper- th' d the crowd and escorted the offi- th !i*s to their quarters. An inquiry Bi to the affair was opened imme- th ately. he Still another incident of similar ar iture at Bremen is reported by the ossische Zeitung. It says that yes- dh :rday two French officers and an alian officer stopped a man wear- wi ig a field gray uniform, supposing or im tr> on rr + /~v +Vin florm n n anmt> T.r "? ^V>? WV vi?^ VJV* IHUII M>l 111 J y f " hen the man failed to salute them, th nd that words follewed, culminat- G< iy blows. A crowd assaulted the fh Hied officers, who were consider- te bly injured, the newspaper adds, ajj efore they were arrested by the tic olice. lie The inter-Allied commission, the to same newspaper states, left Brc- gi icn Monday evening. fr di Rx presses Regrets. Berlin.?Germany has expressed ir er regrets to France for the antl- th diied demonstation at the Adlon la lotel here aSturday night when an s? fficial French party was subjected i> assault at the instigation of w< 'rince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia nv ecause its members had failed to land when the orchestra played 01 Deutschland Liber Allies." ch An official of the foreign office fr aid a call to the French embassy la his morning and expressed the resets of Foreign Minister Muller or the incident, hat^r the foreign ninister visited M.% cle Marcilly, the ^ French charge and personally expressed regrets, which he begged he charge to transmit to the govern nent of France. france^eelslTke i MINUS FRIENDS s - ^ d< Paris?French public opinion, sore s< y tried by many successive disap- o' ^ointments since the' aimistice, is low gravitating between intense a] ilarm and equally intense indignation the latter emotion being direct- si id alternately against the United States and Britain. ^ I ^ I Soods ? I * I n I I-Jjfl on Laurel I 9 'ost Office. I ts, Collars, I H i first-class Sjfl f! [I EN OF CON I ATION TO J R D PRICES, jy M line of the I will be glad , 9 will be a ^ 9 impany I BENNIE M. GRAHAM. || 1 an Tailoring 1 I lo fooling which is just now show ? signs of gaining the upper hand 9 that against British, accentuated 9 British advocacy of economic and 9 lancial aid to Germany. France is Lg ginning to feel like a country 9 thout friends,, and the bitterest ought expressed in the puhhc is 9 at of suspicion that her chief a'ly, 9 itain, is deserting her and taking [9 e former common enemy under %j9 r protective wings. Here is an 9 ticle on the subject by Admiral I igouy, which, was conspicuously 9 splayed in a Paris daily: 9 By Admiral Begouy: The Germans I 11 soon realize that Britain is the 9 ly country deriving incalculable 9 of its from the shipping clauses of 9 e peace treaty. Already former 9 ?.rman. ships flying the British 9 ig are ready to unload raw ma- 9 rials in German ports and sail off 9 rain, filled with mannf^uM'i -.. ? .-v. v? ? v.u at" ;los for export, thus reaping bil >ns in profit from the cargo rates, the detriment of France and Bel- I um, because the rates detract I om the value of the reparations Then the Germans, now engage! I "strafing Frankreich," instead of I eir former habit of "strafing Eng- I nd," will laugh at the French and I "We told you long ago that you I ere merely pulling British c'est its out of the fire." I France must tell Britain straight- I it that this policy might prove a I mgerous strain on Anglo-French iendship?a friendship which can st only if lit is disintercstfly I . VJ CONWAY WITNESSES whe Names of Conwav Persons Fa- I miliar To All. I Who arc the witnesess? They are Conway people? I Residents of Conway who ha||C9 ad kidney backache, kidney ladder ills; who have used D<*3|P!r>fl idney Pills. These witnesses en- I arse Doan's. I One Conway resident who speaks I.I. jonn iioit, ex-county Treasurer. e says: "My system was all run >\vn about four years ago and \ere were pains in my baolc. I was I > sore and lame I couldn't bend vo.\\ and the kidney secr?fcs often asscd too frequently. I ?57T)oan'& I idney Pills at the Norton Drug Co.. nd one box greatlv relieved me." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't imply ask for a kidney remedy?get oan's Kidney Pills?the same that I Tr. Holt had. Foster-M'lburn Co., I [frs., Buffalo, N. Y.?adv?1. I