The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 13, 1921, Image 4
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THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1921.
Very little tobacco and much loss
cotton would seem to be the best rule
for the farmers this year.
o
The harder the task that we undertake
the better we feel when it
has been finished.
o
The more a thing costs us in either
labor or money, the more we appreciate
it.
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Every pleasuie that we have is the
"rncnH Inlwiv nn H>i> ?? >!
body.
o
The housing1 problem in this country
will grow worse and worse as
population keeps increasing.
o
The law suit that is brought for
spite usually results in nothing except
expense for the one indulging in it.
o
The holidays are now over for some
"time. There is nothing to do except
to get down to work and make hay
while the sun shines.
o
It is impossible to get men to act
-in the way that is best for himself
and his community. The law is the
only thing to master such men.
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Some men ..ue nard to gi\'<* attention
to even the most important
things. Even after you get their attention
it is almost impossible to
make them understand.
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We are influenced more than we
would own by the appearance of
things. It is human nature to let
the eye control our sensibilities to a
eneat extent.
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The people will get along with
low prices much better than they
did with high prices. Wc know
many who are always borrowing
no matter whether prices are high
or prices are low.
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The boys and girls are back in
school. The trouble with many of
them may be that they think their
troubles are over as soon as they
graduate and get the sheepskins; but
really their hard times are just then
beginning.
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Tom Watson, of Georgia, wants to
make liberty and victory bonds legal
tender, so that they will pass from
hand to hand the same as the paper
-currency. He will be smart indeed if
he can succeed in doing a stunt like
that.
o
^ There is nothing in the nature of
the government that can be made to
run smoothly all the time. Even the
best laid plans will go wrong. How
then can we expect this country to
get back to its normal times without
some trouble?
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One of the greatest things in any
business is a full line of business
forms to keep its records straight.
These forms save time and money,
when thev are nronerlv used. Yet
there are some firms who expect to
make money without them and often
find that they cannot.
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Even a judge of probate is not safe
from death while driving an automobile
when the roads are slick from
recent rains. This is proved by tin
news item appearing in the daily pa
pers last week. It teaches a lesson
the old one about going slow and
pasy.
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"sorts excuses are used as
reasons for not, ^paying honest debts
even in the bell'^of times. Now the
nno w r. m/i.( -fvftfWinnt.i v liojir is; flir
hard times. Many At in an who is owing
an honest debt who is fu 11 >
able to pay it will sUtad up and say
that he cannot make payment on account
of the hard, times'\ind the difficulty
of obtaining a loan.
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Common sense would dictate thai
tobacco can not bring this year the
prices that it brought last year. On<
plan to bring higher prices is to re
duce the acreage of the leaf. Anothei
way is for the farmers, planting less
than before, to give better attentior
to the cultivaion and curing of th<
Jeaves and raising a much bettei
grade.
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The country is safely passing
over the crisis that we all knew was
<coming from the effects of the worl<
-war. There is yet much trouble t.
be faced, but ^*o know that tin
process lias begun and is partly ovei
and so far the old ship of state ha'
been guided safely along. As tin
new year comes in we certainly hon<
f.Kit. the advert of anotVer yr-v wit
find us able 10 .-a;. w':iat w > at
saying* now.
HOLDING TOO LONG
Many farmers who have several
crop of cotton still unsold, and are
; et t-b!e to finance still another crop
| :-nd 1 old it, arc proof sufficient
Vat there is money to be had in
fa-ivirfv, and that- land is worth
rnietking yet. That there are
plenty ot such farmers can be found
ut by any one who will make an
investigation.
The farmers who could have sold
this stored cotton during the time
of thp war at forty cents a pound,
it' they had not been too greedy
and want to wait for fifty cents,
will now be obliged to hold the cotton
still, as at the present time it
would not bring: half as much as
they couUi rlWYO' Jiad for it when the
price was high* If the price still
remains low when the 1921 crop is
produced and leady for sale, they
will still have to hold or sell at a
sacrifice.
Taking everything into consideration
we arc convinced that people
sometimes go too far with the holding
proposition when they are able
to do it. They hcjyin to hold the
cotton, for instance, and no matter
how the price may soar, it, never
gets high enough to suit them and
the result is that they hold too long.
Think of the numbers of farmers
who have about thi*ee crops on hand!
They could have sold at forty cents
and did not do it! Things will turn
out that way very often in human
experience, but there is nothing to
do but. to take the medicine when it
is the desire to get too much that
brings about the misfortune.
The Herald hopes that the fanners
of this county who are holding
their cotton will be able to fiifance
their business with money until
their cotton will bring them a fair
t ni iw that thev will
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rot be too anxious to pot more than
tlio cotton is worth, and when it is
the right time to dispose of tlv cotton.
then let it go while the g-oing
is good.
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The best business men we have in
this sta'e have studied the statistics
available on the quantity of cotton
no won hand in this country, also
the amounts reasonably necessary to
supply the needs of the world and
some to spare; and the concensus of
opinion is that the acreage the coming
season should be cut to a great
extent in order to assure to the |
growers a living price for what I
they produce. j
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The people of the section within
the proposed new county have
thought hard of the way things have
gone about the location of national
highways and the spending of the
road money. In order to get relief,
as they think, they will cut off a new
county and thus be able to do as they
please. Their remedy is not the best,
in our opinion, and they will find this
out at great expense to themselves;
and after a new county has been
formed it will be next to impossible
to get it unformed.
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Wo have always thought thai tne
drinking men would get peoved from
the use of too much strong drink,
and thus cause domestic trouble,
but according1 to the record in one
divorce case we were reading the
ether day, the man got mad because
he could not get any liquo,*
and became so disagreeable that his
wife took him into the divorce court-;
at once.
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HOT ON THE TRAIL.
There was a story going the rounds
here the first of the week that an
officer had located three quarts of
moonshine liquor in a man's place of
business; that the officer went in and
demanded the whiskey, which was refused,
and that lie then broke the
desk in which the liquor was kept and
tooks it away. No names could be
obtained for publication. As this
was following the theft of whiskey
from the town hall, many believe that
it was the same whiskey that had
been stolen, but this could not be confirmed.
This being the case, it shows
that the officers do not mean to be
outdone in holding the contraband
stuff that they found and seized, and
it means that they will not give up
their duties until th<jy have repos
sessed the liquor and destroyed 11, as
the law provides.
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About tho biggest thief in the country
is the man who you find going
about always claiming that he is
1 straight. The workman who is usually
worth the least is the one who is
i always claiming that he knows it all
1 and that he has no equal. The man
who is always goinp; around bragging
, about his wife will he found to have
I a wife, in fact, who he does not even
respect. Usually it is the poorest
man in any community who is always
' bracing about what he has. The
? man who is always telling about the
' many things ho has done for his
' neighbors and mankind in general is
the man who has actually done the
' least in his whole life for his fellow'
man. This teaches a lesson. Those
who arc worth something do not need
to tell about it. The public knows
it aiveady.
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' The enforcement of the law in
5 lar^c cities has been lax. and this is
? the causa of .tho crime wave a"
much as anyCYnu: could ho the cause,
r in Nov: York City they have wakoc!
* up to the fa^t that tho law mus1.
1 ho enforced or the cut-throats and
- thug's would tako everything to
r themselves and be done with it.
They have trained new men for police
positions, taken hundreds out
? ??f soft places and put them where
* i they w?)l have to he on duty to proI
tort the public, and are lequitinp
> ri oat or hours ol' the entire force. A?
5 a result the crime wave is rapidly
c| fccedi?"?nr in the city. As i- is in
? New Y'**.o it will ho in every
J eorror or th" c.untry. Ti e mo c
s strict tho laws arc e:-forced, a ul
\ tho moie trre * t'.eiv du y i.iv the
* c~ t:^ k.\v, the kss will
be j,he criiv.es c< um.ittcd.
There is no public utility that can
be used for the equal benefit of all
the people, though designed for that
purpose and claimed to be such,
j There is no public benefit derived
I from the common source of taxation
i as to benefit each individual the same.
There will be a great difference in
the amount of advantage derived by
even two neighbors in the same township,
but who can help it? There is
nothing perfect in this world, and
never will be.
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We have heard of the farmer who
will attend a cotton reduction meeting
and agree to reduce his acreage;
then <ro home anvl determine, to, pliant!
more than ever on the ground, tbatjl
as he believes, he will be the only
man to fly the track and break -his
pledge; all with the view of getting
rich himself while all the others arc
left cut in the cold. In the Fall he
found that others had failed to keep
their word and had planted more
tlrin ever also, and the lesult to him
was as it always has been.
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I'aint has two purposes to fulfill
in the service of man. It preserves
the surface to which it is applied
and at the same time makes the object
more pleasing to the eye. There
should never be any such thing as
not being able to paint. Paint always
more than pays for itself, and
if a man has any buildings at all
that are not already rotted down,
it will pay him to paint them.
GONWAY NEEDS
BAPTIST ACADEMY
Contest Still on Among the
Points Competing for
this School
BENEFITS ARISING
VARIOUS AND MANY
Will Advance Cans** nf
^ N/A 4JUUVCV"
tion and Bring Increase
of Business.
The location of the Baptist Academy
is not yet determined. The contest
is still on among the places offering
inducements, to-wit: Conway,
Aynor, Wannamaker and Loris; and
at last accounts the town of Mullins
had decided to put in a bid for this
school and we understand that it is
now actively competing. As we understand
it, the Conway Chamber of
Commerce, as well as committees of
citizens and others, are soliciting subscriptions
for the benefit of the school
and each subscription secured will do
just that much towards obtaining the
school for Conway. It is to be feared
that many of our business men and
citizens of the town will fail to realize
the importance of securing the
location of the school here. They may
be slow in seeing the benefits that
will follow for the community. One
great thing is the advantage in education
that it will mean. It will place
in our midst an instiution of learning
which will be the equal of any. The
schools here are unduly crowded and
everybody knows it. There aro manv
I teachers employed, and at high salaries,
and still there are not enough
teachers to take charge of the large
number of students who wish to increase
their education. The schools
we have could be overcrowded still
more if efforts were made to obtain,students.
How important it is that
we should try to obtain this school
where children would want to live and
he taught? There are other points
beside education, but perhaps not so
important. The location of the school
here will increase the business of every
merchant and professional man,
as it will bring here from three to
five hundred students and numbers of
teachers, and they will all patronize
the business houses and professional
men of Conway. It will also raise the
estimation of Conway in the minds
of outside people. The location of
the school here may result in bringing
industries that we have never
had here before. It will certainly
bring people and increase the population.
In view of those?things and
many others that might be mentioned,
every man should do all that he can
to induce the school to come here.
; PROGRAM LOWER
PEE DEE U'1I3N
The following is the program for
the Lower Pee Dee Union which convenes
with Gethsemine Baptist church
Friday and Saturday before the fifth
Sunday in January:
Friday 10 a. m., introductory sermon
by Rev. M. \V. Gordon.
11:30, Business of the Union.
12:00 noon, Querry No. 1?What
are some of the benefits already derived
from the $75,000,000 campaign?
By Rev. M. AV. Gordon.
1:00 p. m., lunch served on the
PT0111U1?_
2:00 p. 111., Querry No. 2.?How to
tfot our pastors to attend the Unions
1 and Associations. By W. A. Spivey.
Query No. 3.?What should be our
i attitude towards new converts? By
i II. B. Holmes.
Saturday 10:00 a. m., Devotional
Exercises.
11:00 a. ni., Sermon by Rev. L. F.
; Westberry.
12:00 Noon, Query No. 4.?Layman's
part in helping advance the
i Kingdom of God. By Rev. L. P.
' Westberry.
i Query No. 5.?What I would do if
1 wore a pastor. By Pr. ,1. ?. Puseni
bury.
I, Sunday 10:00 a. m., Mass Meeting.
11:00 a. Sermon by Rev. J. H.
, i; 13 2t W. J. WALLER, Clerk.
ffli V. F. PLATT
CHANGES CORPORATION
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Successful Business. Concern
Now Carries Name of
Proprietor.
Mr. Vivian F. Piatt recently chang;ed
the name of his company from the
i Norton Drug Company, as it was
originally chartered, to Piatt's Pharmacy.
At the head of this business
isomd years ago was Dr. J. A. Norton,
who succeeded his father, Dr. E. Norton,
therein. Several years ago Mr.
Piatt graduated in Charleston and
came to Conway to take the position
! as manager of the Norton Drug Com|
pany. He managed the business so
carefully and in such a good business
way that it made money for its stockholders
and resulted in a great convenience
to its customers. In the
j course of time Mr. Piatt has been able
to buy out the stockholders to a great
extent, and owing to this he has
! changed its name. The business now
I occupies the handsome building on
j Main street, which was erected for
the accommodation of the corporation
several years ago by Garren &
Vcreen. In the last year or two
many costly improvements have been
made on the inside, among them the
purchase of a modern soda fountain
and the installation of costly wall
cases and mahogany fixtures.
THE CIVIC LEACl-E
GIVES RECEPTION
Last Monday evening, January 10,
was one that will long be remembered
by many citizens of the town.
The Chamber ot Commerce at it^
[last meeting* received an invitation
from th-e Conway Civic League to
come to an informal reception at the
Town Hall Monday night, and bring
their wives. They accepted en masse
and over a hundred people gathered
at this beautiful old historic building
for the occasion. TJie following u.\
joyable program, arranged by a special
committee of which Mrs. A. W.
Barrett acted as chairman, was given
:
The conversation and laughter was
first silenced by a beautiful selection
from the Conway Band. . Then the
President of the Civic League, Mrs.
W. A. Freeman, acting as hostess,
gave a graceful welcome which was
responded to by Mr. M. A. Wright.
Another band selection followed and
Mayor Magrath held the attention of
all with a short applicable address.
jThe high school girls, with their
music teacher, Miss Laura Jenkins,
at the piano, gave a beautiful song
which was followed with a reading
by Mrs. E. J. Sherwood, "Ma?se
chan." Mrs. Bennie Sessions gave
an instrumental solo, and then Dr.
J. S. Dusenbury rea<l "Christmas
in the Quarters." The program was
closed with a Band selection.
Delightful sandwiches, contributed
by the ladies of the Civic League,
and hot coffee were then served, and
an hour or two of general, social cor 1
crsation was -enjoyed.
This affair not only brought to those |
present the pleasure of hearing the i
local artists, Mrs. Sherwood and Dr. !
Dusenbury, but the community i
was surprised and delighted with the :
I'irrKrrrca tlu> KnrwJ li 'J u m'wln an/I 1
were pleased to know that a real so- 1
cial affair, entirely devoid of business
cares, can be beneficial as well '
as enjoyable.
The refreshments, always a most
important item, were arranged and i
taken charge of by the entertain- '
ment committee, of which Mrs. H. .
W. Ambrose is chairman, assisted by j
Mesdames F. A. Burroughs, M. G.
Andersen, and W. A. Ficeman.
furnTturTstorF
in new PLAGE
A. M. Sutherland Now Occupies
Own Building Near
Conway National.
The Sutherland Furniture Company
is now occupying its own building
which was purchased from Mr. J. W.
Taylor by Mr. A. M. Sutherland about
one year ago. This is the building
which was formerly occupied by The
Woodward Millinery Store, now doing
business in the Herald building.
In order to accommodate the large
and various stock of furniture and
house furnishings carried by the
Sutherland Furniture Company, some
material alterations have been made
I mi t.hn insiflo nf Ihr- hniWlmtr It is; ;i
part of the Bank of Horry building
which was purchased J>y J. W.
Taylor from the Rank of Horry last
year. Mr. Taylor sold to Mr. Sutherland
to a line opposite the north
wall of the staircase which runs up
in the center of the structure. The
hall was larger than was needed for
a staircase, as this passage ran all
the way through vhe building and
was used for passing to the rear. Now
that the building is owned by two
differene proprietors most of ths hall
has been turned into tne new furniture
store and Mr. Sutherland has a
larger floor space for the accommodation
of his growing business.
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MEETING POSTPONED.
The Inland Waterway meeting that
was scheduled to be held at the
Chamber of Commerce rooms, in the
city hall Friday, January 14th, has
been postponed until Friday, January
21, as a result of the request of the
Wilmington delegation, who were
among those invited to attend this
meeting. The extension will give
! more time to get things lined up, and
i the Chamber of Commerce hopes to
hav* several representatives here
1 from oI'mm till town to take part
in this- meeting.
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PULL TOGETHER
FOR GREAT TOWN
One of the most important things
for Conway and the county in general
is the monthly meetings of the
Conway Chamber of Commerce. They
meet regularly on the first Monday
night in each month of the year. At
these meetings they take up always
some important new movement that
is intended for the advancement and
progress of our town, and whateyer
make^jfor progress and improvement
in Conway will aid and benefit the
people of the, country.
For tnq reasons above stated we
would be glad for the leading citizens
of the county to become interOpening
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New
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STREET and T!
The most up-to-dat
restaurant ever bef
with private dining
private parties.
Qu/c^ Service
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MY STOCK
Into the building occupi<
last year. I am in a posi
and sell goods at a close
before.
I cordially invite my cus
let me show them; and
my customers to come to
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We wish to announce
i the building next door t
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v vuipuiijr, auu ait uuvv i
Pharmacy, on Main stre
We have a nice lin<
goods, and will be glad
give you bargain prices.
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Visit'our store?we
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Conwa
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U.I iivvw .a mi wr- 1
estcd in the work of the Chamber of"
Commerce and submit their suggestions
for improvement from time to
time. Such matters as public streets,
public wells, street paving and road
building, and even side walk improve- .
ments and a thousand other things
whicjh might be done here in the town
for the benefit of our visitors from
the country every day, are all important
things for all of us, not only
in the town,, but in the country. In
this world we usually obtain the
things that we want and work for. If
all of us become interested these
things will result. There is no betIter
way to accomplish these things
than through the Chamber of Commerce.
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Advocates of the new county ought * I
to figure on the cost before voting
the new county in. \
nouncement
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HIRD AVENUE
e and best equipped
ore in this county,
room for ladies and
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Polite Attention
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OF GOODS *cd
by A. C. Thompson
tion to give better service
r profit than,I ever have
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tomers to call on me and
those who have not been
see me.
urs very truly,
IROUGHS
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cement!
t that we have moved from
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ocated next door to Piatt's
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0 of Millinery and Dress
to supply your wants, and
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