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v * t i k, *# * . ' o f X v v > g= -VOLUME XXXV. FLOYDS TOWNSHIP LOSESNEW MOVE New County Will Make New Petition For Only Those Outside Floyds f nOMMISSIONERS NAMED ON ANNEXATION . Attempt to Annex Floyds to Marion Likely to Be Abandoned. r The people living in the territory near to Loris are so intent upon having a new County that they have studied up a new plan to avoid the Flodys Township difficulty. According to a Hews items contained in the daily papers last week they will present a new petition containing the names of citizens who do not live in Floyds Township hut who do live in the territory and want the now counf.v with I .oris lis: tlio rniinfu Seat. Wo presume that this Petition is being cirelated and may be presented to the Governor within a few days. The following clipping is taken from tho Daily Record, which states the facts veryiplainly about this new county proposition. "The new county fight for the creaW tior. of "Derham" county, with Lor is in Heiry county, as the county seat, t.?ok a new angle today and ceased to be a fight, when information was giver Gov. Cooper to the effect that the petitioner-? for the new county would send their petition so that the territory asking to be created into a new county would not include Floyd township. When the petition for a new county was sent to the governor a petition was also sent to him asking that he arrange an election on / the question of annexing Floyd township, in Horry county, to Marion county. It was freely stated that this second petition was an attempt to prevent the new county plans from embracing Floyd township. It is now intimated tha/t the attempt to annex Floyd township to Marion will be abandoned, and the "new county" aTea around Loris will vote on the question without Flovd townshin en tering into the proposition at all. ^ There Ls said to be strong sentiment In favor of the new county. The governor's commission to arrange the election on the new county idea was today announced as follows: Proponents: B. F. Harrison and W. C. Hooks; opponents, D. V. Richardson and J. T. Shelley." TEARS OUT PAGES ' FROM RECORD ROOK Clerk of Court VV. L. Bryan came tifear to having some trouble last Friday when a lady went into his office and demanded that he look up some deeds that had been made and recorded some years ago. He found one deed which he read and there was some conversation about the boundaries of the land, after which she stated that the deed should not have -A' been recorded, as it was a forgery. Mr. Bryan was asked to take the deed off the record, which he said he could not do and explained that the deed had been recorded about ten years before he had gone into office, whether right or wrong. She then proceeded to tear two pages out of the record book. Mr. Bryan asked her t.n return lonvoc mul of fivot __ _ _ . W vv>> a > VII v IVM T vu M V4 ?4 V I 1 I >11/ she refused, but finally delivered the torn leaves back to the clerk, and he pasted them back into the record. r> ? APPOINTS COMMISSIONERS. Governor Cooper has appointed the Commissioners required by law to pass upon the proposition of Floyds Township to quit Horry County and to become annexed as a part of Marion County. The law requires that there shall be two Commissioners opposed to the change and two who are in favor of it. Mesrs. Frazier Harrelson and Chester Hooks have been appointed Commissioners to rep resent Flovds Townshin. whilp D. V. Richardson ? and J. T. Sheliey have been appointed as opposing the change. As we iuiaei\stan<l it. a different set of Corv.vi'ssioners "Will be appointed when the formation of the new Oount ty with Loris as the County Sekt comes up before the Governor. ' o? OYSTER SUPPER. There will he an oyster supper at Aynor on Friday evening, November Ifii, given by the ladies of the Methodist church, for the benefit of the Parsonage Aid Society. The public is invited. V ?fer AN APPEAL FOR 1 STARVING CHILDREN The Strongest Appeal Ever Made to the American People?a Telegram A telegram: "Three and a half million children call to the heart and resources of America for these daily supplies, not available in their own country, that arc vital to their survival and to the rebuilding of their physical well being. Our resources will be exhausted in January. "Twenty-three million dollars must be raised without delay, and remembering the new heart you put into the Commission for Relief in Belgium in the dark hours of 1916, I come to you again." (Signed) HERBERT HOOVER. In response the following editorial was published in the Literary Digest of October 30: I "In these lands swept by death and j filled with tragedies too deep for j tears, a sum of human suffering is being written, greater perhaps than ( ?,. .,11 .. I rni : i i ui <111 m>nc; uy. 1 nu iiunu ; grow a dumb and the heart sick from a constant recital of tales of such tragedy as it is difficult to believe the twentieth century could hold. "And so, when we received a letter from Mr. Hoover telling us that j America must not allow death in the j form of hunger and cold to come to ; these 3,500,000 helpless children our : | soul was stirred and the hot blood i (surged in our heart. We felt it was our imperative duty to use all the ; power God had given us to aid this noble-hearted American in continuing ' the work of saving human lives to 1 which he has devoted unsparingly, and at great personal sacrifice, his tremendous energy and administrative genius during the past six years, in which time he and his American colleagues have administered two billion of dollars of relief funds from all parts of the world Mth a total 1 1 r i ' * u vei neuu uxpun.se 01 oniy inreeeights of one per cent, with no remuneration to the American directors. Now he asks us all to help save the children who are in imminent danger of starvation this coming winter. "Hollow faces and shrunken bodies are so common that their real condition does not bevome evident until we inquire more closely, and then we find that most of them arc from one to five years back in their growth. Children of eight years old have not ; reached the normal size of two and \ a half. They are just learning to i stand alone. Others almost as old can not yet stand on their feet. Their arms and legs and spines and chests are twisted and warped. The flesh and skin are shriveled on their bones. It is surprising that life can still ex- i ist there. If they can have food they will gradually regain their health and strength, but with most of them it is a question of now or never. Starvation or tuberculosis will not wait. "But the appeal now is not for all. The three and a half millions of children in immediate danger of starvation, if this organization fails, who must have food at once, are only a fraction of the total number. The hungry children of those destitute countries have been examined bv I competent physicians, and only those j whose wasted little bodies are re-1 duced to the minimum weight and < whose endurance of hunger has reached the end which merges into actual starvation, are admitted to the American kitchens and given one meal a day. It is hard to turn away thousands of hungry boys and girls? to hear them ask, pleadingly, 'Do I weigh too much?' 'Am I not thin enough?' 'Can't I come any more?' But this restriction of food to the extreme cases is compulsory, because there isn't enough for all. "And these neediest ones can not reach the kitchens through the cold ) winds and the snow barefooted and in the pitiful rage which form only a partial covering for their bodies. ; They must have clothes. Each outfit consists of one pair of warm woolen stockings, one pair of boots and a little overcoat. This one meal a day, and these boots, stockings and little coats can be supplied only if we give them. If we do not. the slaUcrht.Ar nf I the innocents by cold and starvation | will be appalling. So deeply do we ourselves feel the urgency of this great need, knowing all the facts, that we should feel a heavy burden of guilt if we do not go beyond anything we have felt possible herctorfore in order to save these innocent children from suffering and 1 death. Therefore, the Literary Di1 $est will start this fund with the sum of $25,000 to feed and clothe twentyfive hundred little boys and girls this winter. What an inspiration it will be to all of us? what an inspiration and example to many thousands who may be uncertain how much to give? if in the very first week there shall be a great shower of checks for $1,000, for $5,000, for $10,000, as Ifer CONWAY, S. 0 , THURSDAY, COTTON BURNS ' AT T0DDV1LIE Five Buildihgs and ,SeventyFive Bales of Cotton Destroyed INCENDIARY WORK SEEMS ESTABLISHED Must Have Been Kerosene, and Saturated Contents Before Applying Match. Last Sunday morning, just before daylight, fire burned a cotton house at Toddville belonging to Dusenbury & Company, destroying 75 bales of cotton, 400 bushels of corn, several outhouses, a number of farming machinery, including a hay press and bailer, one Dodge touring car, a fertilizer spreader, a mower and binder, and a number of farming tools and implements, and a large crop of hay. The loss is estimated at from twenty to thirty thousand dollars, and there was no insurance on the property. There is every indication that the fire was of incendiary origin. The fire was discovered when the family was awakened by its light through the glass windows about the hour of four o'clock on Sunday morning. | The cotton shed, in which the fire j originated had been fastened up at J both gates 011 Saturday night, and there was no fire ever used in the building; and when last seen at a late hour on Saturday night there was no sign of anything unusual about the premises. The first thing noticed at the fire was that the gates were wide open at each end and that the fire had evidently been strung along the passage near both ends or* the building. There was some lint and straw on tht ground floor and in this the fire gained such rapid headway that none of the cotton could be saved except a portion of one or two bales. The fire spread to several buildings and they were all burned with their contents except a Ford touring car. None of the stock in other buildings were injured, as the gates were opened so they could escape. The cotton house was not very far from the two dwelling houses and it took the efforts of all the help on the place to keep the dwelling houses and other buildings from burning. Fortunately it was a night when the wind was blowing away (Continued on Page 4.) DDn*miCMT MCki rnn rnummcni men run BAPTISTS' MEETING I The Rev. Furman H. Martin, pastor of the First Baptist church, Florence, S. C., will preach the conven- 1 tion sermon, December 7th, on the evening of the first day of the fourth annual convention of the Baptist State Convention in Columbia. The convention will be held in the First Baptist church December 7, 8, 9. Dr. 1 J. T. Watts, secretary of the commission on Sunday schools for the General Board of the Baptist denomination announce at his headquarters ; in Columbia that the forthcoming convention will probably be the larg- ] est ever held in the state. He expects about 1,000 representatives, preachers and laymen, from the Baptist bia Record. ( churches of South Carolina. ' > "* | BOX SUPPER. There will be an Entertainment, . Box Sunnpr. W?ilL- iinrl ITi I?li i n ?? I r JJ J (tlivi X IDIIIII^ 1 Party at Poplar Hill 'School House, Saturday night, Nov. 27, 1020. The j public is invited to come and the , girls to bring boxes. CLYDE RABON, Principal, adv 1J-18-lt o BOX SUPPER. Every one, young and old, are in- i vited to the "Punkadoodle Jollapin" party and box supper at Evergreen school on Tuesday evening, November 23rd. you like a jolly time, come. well as a deluge of smaller amounts, to send the fund rolling on toward the necessary twenty-three millions. Let us all see again what the father's heart is !ike in this great, rich land of America. Let' us have again a wondrous revelation of the heart of American motherhood. Ixst us have a gfeat outpouring of love and helpfulness in the name of Him who said, "Feed my lambs." NOTE?Special collections will be taken next Sunday, November 21st, by the different Sunday Schools of Conway for this worthy cause. Do not only your bit, but do your best. ?s* WMmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmrnmmm NOVEMBER 18, 1020. CREW OF CHASER I GIVEN DINNER ' mm m0 m Addresses of Welcome and Re- i sponses Made in Delightful Manner. / , In compliment to Lieut. A. P. Bryliolcit ami the sailors in charge of sub-marine chaser No. 201, which docked at Conway during' tho Horry County Fair, the Conway Chamber of' Commerce tendered a delightful and informal dinner at the Grace hotel on Friday evening, November 12. The crew of the vessel were present as a unit and a large number of business men ot' the town were on hand to extend greetings to the visiting sailors. The Conway Civic League, rapidly becoming famous for the excellence of dinners served by it, prepared and served a .-delightful collation, which highly enjoyed. At the conclusion of the dinner Mr. O. Hoyt McMillan,! Pvouiilrtnf t\-C ' ^1 ! . VUHIV.IH, vu Ull' V. IUUIIUI.-I WI VJV?II1- 1 cmrcc, -icted as Toa t Master and very gracefully introduced Mayor L. D. McGratli and M. A. Wright, Sec- , retary of the Chamber of Commerce, who. made brief addresses of welcome to the visitors. Lieut. Bryholdt delivered a very pleasing impromptu address in reply to the greeting extended to him self and his men. The presence of the U. S. S. No. 20 L at Conway during the fair proved to he one of the most attractive features of the week. The vessel was visited and inspected by , hundreds of people frrom all parts , of the County. The crew apparently ' took a keen interest in explaining the mechanism of the vessel and as a j result the people of the County will ! have a- deeper interest in and ad- ; miration for the Navy. . ! FAIR TURNS?6UT LARGEST CROWDS Brings Big Crowds to Streets of Town and Much Business CARNIVAL SHOWS f HAVE BIG RUN Show Grounds Crowded Each ( Night to Overflowing, Costly Exhibits at Fair. 1 Last week this county held the most 1 successful annual fair in the history of the situation. Annual fairs have 1 been held at Conway as many a* four i or five times in the past. There wan < no annual fair last year on account < of the war. 1 Thorough preparation was made ] for the fair this year and the manage- 1 ment of it placed in capable hands. 1 On Tuesday the first day of the < fair, the attendance was not so large i as the management had expected. On ] the next day, which was Wednesday, < there was the largest crowd here < that anybody ever saw in the town. < It was school day at the fair grounds. J TKe school children from the Bur- 1 roughs School marched down Laurel 1 Street and waited at the corner of 1 Main Street and Fifth Avenue until < they were joined by the other schools i of the county, and then they marched enmasse into the fair grounds. The < coming of the children produced a i big crowd. 1 There was a good carnival company < this time to enliven the entertain- 1 ment; but by far the most interesting i part of the fair consisted of the exhibits of farm products and crafts- i manship, the displays made by the < business men and the mills. No ex- < pense was spared by the people to i make these exhibits the equal of any. ] The fair grounds and carnival ] shovrs were crowded every night to j overflowing. The local population < turned out in numbers. There were < thousands of visitors from other < towns in the county and from other ; parts of the state. The carnival : company must have had a good run ; of business. During the fair the streets of the 1 town were crowded most of the time. I The merchants and shops had all of i the business they could attend to. i> 1 NOTICE, FREE RANGE MEETING. 1 A meeting of the Free Range As- { sociation is hereby called to meet at ^ the court houso in Conway on Friday, ( November 26, at It o'clock. All those interested are urged to be 1 present, as matters of importance 1 will be considered. W. J. HENDRICK, i Attest:? Chairman, i J. H. RAKER, Clerk. ? * valC HOLDS MEETING j ON TWO PETITIONS Governor Gives Priority to Petition of Floyds to Join Marion' FIRST APPOINTS THE REQUIRED COMMISSIONERS Further Information Will Be j Given Out as Soon as Available. j i According to appointment, 9?v" Cooper held a meeting: at his office in Columbia on Tuesday of last wee!: Tor me purpose ot deciding the question of priority between the two pe titions filed in his office for change of territory relating to Horry county. There were a number of citizens who went to Columbia out of their great interest in the matter, some of thes* being on opposite sides. Several attorneys were present to give theii views. One of the first things to be attended to in the matter is the ap pointmcnt of commissioners for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the law and holding the election in which the people living in the affected territory will decide the matter. The governor said that he would five the preference to Floyds township for annexation to Marion county, and his reasons are fully given in a report of the meeting published in the Columbia State as follows: "After hearing delegations on both -ides in the proposal on the one hand lo form a new county in Horry with Loris as the county seat and to bear the name 'Derham,' and the proposal on the other hand for Floyd's township to annex to Marion county. Gov. Cooper yesterday decided to give priority to the annexation move to Floyds township and will accordingly appoint commissioners of election for this question. "The governor heard attorneys and citizens on both questions ancF his decision was reached after consideration of both sides. After the hearing the governor issued the following statement: "A hearing was held in mv office on this day on the two petitions herein. The petition first above referred to asks for an election on the question of annexation of that portion of Horry County known as Floyd's township to Marion County ind was filed with me at the sxecutive mansion, Columbia, on Saturday niftht, October 23. "The petition second above referred to for the formation of a new county frovi the territory of Horry county was delivered to and filed with the secretary to the governor on Sunday evening, October 24, at about 8 o'clock. The petition for the annexation of a new county embraces as a part of the proposed new county the. territory of Floyds township. The hearing: was held for the purpose of leterminintf two questions. First the right of priority, if any, of the two petitions, and second, if the petitions could be so amended as to avoid any overlapping of territory. I must conclude from the information submitted fit the hearing that the petition for Ll_ ^ A t* *-11 * * me annexation 01 r loycis townsnip to Marion cvunty is in good faith, that it is not intended primarily to iefeat the formation of the proposed new county, and that it will not have mch effect as a matter of law. I am 3ompelled also to find, as a matter of Fact that t.he petition for the annexation of Floyds township to Marion uounty was filed with me prior to the Piling of the petition for the formation of the new county. "With the annexation of Floyds township to Marion county there would still he sufficient territory and sufficient population and wealth for the formation of a county from the remaining territory of the county of Horry. It is urged, however, on the part of. the petitioners for the new ;ounty, that excluding Floyds township a new county could not be formed without violating the terms of the ict of the legislature prohibiting ill shaped counties. This does not appear, however, to my satisfaction. It is also urged that with the elimination of Floyds township from the territory of the proposed new county, it will he necessary to include within the territory of the said proposed new count.v. n#?v?r?nu wVw\ umII ?\/\f "l>v .Till IIV'l lit unfriendly to this formation. It is difficult, however, to see how this fact could operate against the new county petitioners, for the reason that the voters of Floyds township would certainly oppose the new county project. "I have endeavored to ?*ive thos? matters an impartial consideration, und my sole purpose is to render a 1 decision in accordance with the law ' NO. 31. BE8KAM COUNTY MAKES A START Governor Has Appointed Commissioners to Act on the Petition. Incidents are moving very fast now in regard to the changing* of Horry county's out"ines. At first { Governor Cooper decided to let the F oyd Townsltip master go through and then start the Derham couriy procrse; lings iater. After>vards.t according to news received from Columbia, the Governor decide.! to appoint Commissioners for both at once. It is stated in another article that as to Floyds Township Messrs. Harrelson anil Hooks anil Messrs. Richardson and Shelley had boon appointed as commissioners. It is t>ot known that the governor has appointed commissioners on the question of the new county and they are as follows: M<essrs. D. D. Harrelson and J. I. Allen, Jr., as favoring the same and Messrs. D. M. Burroughs and Geo. W. King as being opposed thereto. It is supposed that these commissioners will act under the new Petition which has been circulated and signed by only those who will be within the territory of the now County, not including Floyds Township. INTERESTING NEWS TOLD FROM CIEMSON Clemson College, Nov. 14. ? Mr. Editor:?If you will kindly allow me the space in your paper, I will give you a few of the local happenings of this place. The cold weather predicted for this section of the community crept in last night and began pulling down the temperature, and by early this morning the thermometer registered twenty-two degrees. A very interesting program was carried out at the Y. M. C. A. on the evening of November 4th, when a musicale was given by several G. W. p ; ,.i ? I>..h i l? ?u 1 v^. k'lrib, umiowcu uy an aaarcss Dy W. H. (Maggie) Bryant, '18. "Maggie" used for his subject, "Margins," and expounded in a very forceful way the danger in carelessly planning the margins in a practical every-day life. The exercises were well attended, and both the musical and the lecture were thoroughly enjoyed by all present. The second Lyceum number for the season was given in the college chapel by Dr. W. A. Dietrick on the evening of November 6th. Dr. Dietrick sued as his subject, "The Immensity of the universe," and by his illustrated lecture made the program very interesting as well as instructive. The A. E. F. Club at Clemson celebrated Armistice Day with a very delightful banquet, after which several of the members spoke, relating some very interesting over-seas experiences. There were about forty present, including a few Federal Board men and several members of the faculty and faculty officers who served over seas; also Miss Furman, of the campus, who did Y. M. C. A. work. T") F PftllfOV ovi'Mrn/l ?. . , ? uiincu civ nit: tWIlCgC a few days ago to begin his active duties as secretary of the Clemson Alumni Association. He addressed the corps of cadets in chapel Wednesday morning: and spoke of his continued desire to serve Clemson since his high school days when he was anticipating attending: school here, and of the satisfaction that the present opportunity to serve afforded him. Folger is well known in college circles, and it is expected that his popularity will be renewed as he comes in contact with the fellows on the campus. "Student." of this state.' Under the provision of our law and constitution very little consideration is to bo given to old counties from which it is proposed to form new counties, or to annex territory to another county, however seriously such may affect the other county unit. I have concluded, therefore, to appoint commissioners and to give priority to the proposal for tlie annexation of Floyds township to Marion county, unless it shall later appear that such annexation will operate to defeat creation of the proposed new county. If it becomes necessary to defeat one or the other projects, .then I ihink the lesser of vyv .-'I1VUU1 Vlvj; >v <1 y ? IH1V 1 not convinced at this time that such is the case." The Herald understood that the governor wanted to give further consideration ias to who lie would appoint as commissioners and did not name the men at the time he held this meeting. The Herald exuectr. to try to secure the* the commissioners and puh'ish them in thin issue.