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i VOLUME XXXV. WHERE SWEET POTATOES GO Year Nineteen Produced One Hundred and Three Million Bushels 1 STATE HAS MADE - I RAPID STRIDES . " Increasing Storage Space More Than Four Times?Increase Production g Clemson Colleire. Feb. 22.?Of the hundred and three million bushels of sweet potatoes produced in the United States during the year 1919, eighty percent, or more than eighty million bushels, were produced in the Southern States; yet the markets wero supplied in the main by sweet potatoes grown in the North. The North produced around twenty million bushels but marketed approximately seventy-five percent of all potatoes that were marketed. The Southern States south of Virginia and Kentucky grow the southern varieties and produced approximately 140,8(30 cars of sweet potatoes (calling GOO bushels a car). Out of this amount of sweet potatoes 4,020 cars were shipped to market, which was less than three percent of the production South Carolina produced 12,(500 cars, and at the same time there were shipped into this state 25 cars from Georgia and North Carolina. Why was this true? Did South Carolina not raise enough potatoes for home use ? Yes, and she had a surplus, but the potatoes were not put in marketable shape, not stored, not graded and cured and in car lots ready for shipment when markets demanded them. : :? * for markets within or outside this State, we must not forget our competitors, especially the competitor? that we have when we attempt to place our potatoes on the market ' north of us from the latter part of July or first of August until lattoi part r?f Januaiy, says F. L. Harkey, Extension Service Marketing Agent. .The first potato ready for shipment in the United States is the Triumph or Improved Jersey sweet potato shipped from Foley and Bay Minette, Alabama, and nearby shipping points. Shipping season at! those points starts about July 1st. j About three weeks later practically j the same variety of sweet potato begins to move from Elizabeth City section of North Carolina. Many ears of those early potatoos go as far as Kansas City, Missouri, and some beyond. When North Carolina shinning is in full blast, tho eastern shore of Virginia opens up with at- j early variety of sweet potato, and aj litl.lo hitor Dolownre ;ind Nnvv .lor-i soy begin to supply tho Eastern mar! Those two states store a great part of their crop and take tho host care of this stored stock until December or January, at which time their shipments begin to take! care of a greater part of thd demand on the Eastern markets. It. should not be understood that there is not a demand in most of these markets for some of our best i graded stock from December on, but | the demand increases when the Jersey sweet potatoes, are out of the way. Our Porto Rico and Nancy Hall ' varieties of sweet potatoes are finding increased favor on the Northern markets, but in making an introduction, we must see that the product presents a neat attractive appearance. That means potatoes well graded and properly handled. The slogan of commercial sweet potato growers should be, "Place a graded product of superior quality on the market." This season we have made a rapid stride in the marketing of this now important crop. We have more than quadrupled our storage space and will therefore quadruple our ship Iments from tho state. And lot lis hope that we will divide by four tho shipments coming into tho state. MISS ISABELLE BEATY DIES. (Nows & Courier) Georgetown, Feb. 15.?Miss Tsabelle Treaty, seventy gears' of agc,| died in Georgetown Sunday and was | buried in E'^v^ood Cemetery at 4 ( o'clock yesterday. Miss Beaty was i a fiister of M r. TO. R. Beaty, of this city. She wa?. horn in Conway Julv 4, 1850. She wns a dovotod member of the Prosbv'onan Church, tho Am eral server be in'.r conducted by 1ho pastor ^f thnt churdch hove, tho "Rev. Mr. Miller, assisted by Dr. R. II. jfno -. jip'-tov of tho Duncan Methodist church. A coincidence was tho death on the same day in Charleston of Mrs. Mary P. Beaty, a cousin, seventyone 'years of age, whore remain* were brought to Georgetown and laid to rest in Elmwood Cemetery Febririry 14. Tl^o funeral was conduct" I by T)r. R H. Jonos, pastor of the Duncan Methodist church. ' \ M KB H H H ^ JURY LIST FOE COMING TERM Criminal Court of General Sessions Will Convene on March 7th The jury list was prepared last week by the jury commissioners. The next term of the court of general sessions will convene here for Horry County on Monday, March 7th, and R. W. Memmenger will he the presiding judge. The jury list follows: San ford D. Cox, C. S. Soles, G. F. Murrell, S. T. Johnson, C. N. Causey, Sidney D. Colins, 1). M. Alford, B. A. Skipper, Herbert Small, Jonathan D. Mucks, J. R. Tucker, John N. Grain1"01\ .1 V Pnvlror P C Jn.ina I nt.r.'c Singleton, C. C. Grainger, J. W. Mishoe, Preston Williamson. E. H. Johnson, F. F. Vaught, Willie R. Paul, J. C. King, W. H. Stanley, Reuben Thompson, W. G. Tuberville, Ed Huggins, S. W. Floyd, Allie G. Long, Rufus Best, B. W. Tyler, W. H. Reaves, Walter P. Gore, C. F. Hooks, J. B. Edge, Frank G. Prince, Harry Smith. W. L. Bryan, Clerk of Court. List of Grand Jury for the Year 1921: L. H. Burroughs, G. Willie Gore, J no. P. Floyd, J. J. GofT, G.C.Graham, W. L. Edge, J. C. Livingston, J. P. Graham, W. B. Hucks, A. J. Richardson, S. W. Verecn, Ed W. Prince, U. A. Johnson, H. Nccdham Andefson, R. M. Bullock, B. II. Hinson, J. B. Gore, T. A. Stevens. CARLOAD HOGS TO RICHMOND T). V. Richardson last week made j a shipment of a full carload of hogs j from this point to Richmond, Virginia, where lie sold the animals to Kingan & Company. These hogs were raised on the farms of Mr. Richardson at Bucksport, South Carolina, and lie has been shipping hogs ' to Richmond during the last several years, and making a nice profit in the business. Kingan Company are large packers of pork and beef and they do a wholesale business* throughout the country. They have establishments in England as well as factories and sub-agencies in the United States. The Herald would like to see a number of farmers make money in the raising of hogs and other 1 ivc stock. o | EASTERN ST A ^ CHAPTER TO RE ORGANIZED ( There is a movement on to organize an Order Eastern Star Chapter in Conway. The Eastern Star is the sisterhood of Masonry. All Master Masons (in good standing) their wives, sisters, widows, mothers, daughters and legally adopted daugh-1 tors, who have attained the age of i eighteen years, are eligible to membership. The fee to join is ^3.00. The dues are $2.00 a year. Anyone wishing to. become a charter member, please band me vour name at once, as the petition must be forwarded to the Worthy Grand Patron by the fifth of March. ?Mrs. W. T. Proctor, I). D. G. M. o BASKET BALL. There was a double game of bas-1 ket ball played last Tuesday between the teams of Burroughs High School and the teams of the Horry Industrial School. It was a "snowunder" for the Industrial School, by the looks of the score, which was as follows: Girls' Team. Conway 24 Aynor 5 Boys' Team. Conway 50 Aynor 10 A tie-off game will be played by Conway against Tabor, N, C., at Tabor, on Friday, March 4th. FEATURE SHOW FOR FEB. 28TH I rri t?_mi j -n i i no rasunie ineaier win nave a feature sljow on February 28th, one the equal of which the theater has never excelled in presenting. The title of this latest feature film is "Treasure Island" and is founded on the famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Do you like adventure stories? : No? Then you're missing a lot, aren't you? Remember the thrills you got when you first read "Treasure Island"? How you couldn't put the book down, but feverishly turned page after page, following climax upon climax breathlessly until you 1 had finished ? And then wished for more ? . 1 Well you can get the same thrills ?or perhaps even more of them? from Maurice Tourneur's production of "Treasure Island." It is a Paramount Artcraft Picture. CONWAY, S. O., THURSDAY OTHER ARRESTS IN KILLING CASE Several Are Taken by Same Prosecutor Charged With Arson SLAYER OF PRINCE STILL IN JAIL Those Charge With Riot Are Out 011 Bond Before Magistrate Court. Three more arrests have been made in connection with the killing of George F. Prince by Morgan Todd, on March 7th. Morgan Tcdd, who is the principal offender, was promptly arrested and lodged in the county Jail. He cannot be let to bail without, the Order of a Circuit Judge. So far, it is said, that Todd has not sue cceded in employing attorneys who might make application for bail for him and at -last accounts he was" <<till fnnrinorl in f Virt I"!' ? ^viii iiivvi in vnv; uuii* Last week Like Rheuark, Calhoun Rhcuark and a man by the name of Faircloth, were* all three arrested under a warrant issued by; Magistrate Chestnut charged with j the crime of riot growing out jof the same difficulty in which Prince was shot and killed. In this riot case J. II. Prince, father of the deceased, is the prosecutor and he f tated on application for the war rant that these three others had planned beforehand to go together to his place that night with pistols, and clean up the entire family, or words to that effect. Soon after their arrest these last three defendants applied for bail before Magistrate Chestnut and were set at large last Thursday. o HINTS FOR SIRUP MAKERS. The necessity for cleanliness and uniformity in making homemade cane sirup is evidenced by the fact that of 3,000 cans of sirup gathered from various localities, it was found according to the United States Department of Agriculture, that more than one-third had sugared partially, a few had sugared solid, and the sirup in some was too thin to bo classed as simp. Fifty-odd cans con tained sirup that had been- made from frozen cane; in one can out of every ten a bee or a wasp was found, while many of the cans contained smaller insects. Careful boil i 11 f-C to exactly V\c right density and the use of a strainer when the sirup i^ packed in the can will help to eliminate these difficulties. WILL BE SOLD. The stock of goods and store fixtures of R. C. Anderson, bankrupt, wi'l bo sold by Ed L. Smith, trustee, at ' 1 o'clock in the forenoon, Friday, March 4th, at Horry, S. C. This is the merchant who went into bankruptcy recently and who was examined by his creditors in Florence, S. C., on February 9th. o POSTMASTER AT ALLEN. Washington, February 18. ? Wil-j liam T. Smith has been appointed postmaster at Allen to succeed Kenneth L. Mi shoe, resigned. POINTS TO CON! Brains Ihe Be In planning- his year's work this spring the farmer is meeting* conditions that he has never met before, and must solve problems he has never tried to solve before. From 1J) 15 to 1920 we were climbing the ladder of high prices and it was an easy matter to Vnake money. Any kind of fertilizer would pay and any land could he farmed profitably. Fertilizer and labor were cheap in the spring compared to the prices we received in the fall. In 1920 we reached the top of our ladder. There was no place to got off, so we had to come down and began hv selling our produce made with high priced fertilizer and labor at low prices. Most of us have j been caught in the dark and cannot see where the next foothold is, but still we must come down. That is the condition under which the farmers are making plans for Ihis year's crop. Fertilizer and labor are high and both must be used to make a crop that can be sold for a low price. There is no narrow plan j to bo outlined as a safe one, and no particular star to follow that will J lead safely through the year. This is a year when every farmer must use his brains. He must make his plans on a foundation of safe farming, and instead of making money, he must I'se all his powers to keep from losing what he already has. Tho fertilizer question is bothering the farmers more at this time than any other. There is no doubt that home mixture fertilizer will pay Iljg mmw?????r?pw?? ?? c ? ii mmmmmmmm???w.'rt , FEBRUARY 24, 1921. MO KILLINGS AIRED IN COURT When Next Term Convenes Here on Monday, M?rch _ Seventh HAVE MANY CASES ' FROM LAST TERM List of Cases Taken From Docket as it Now Stands. The Court of General Sessions, when it convenes on March 7th, will have two murder cases to try. One of these is against R. C. Boyd, charged with the killing of Robert Gausc some time ago. The full particulars of the tragedy appeared in this paper soon after it occurred. The other murder case is that of the recent killing* near Red Bluff, when Morgan Todd shot and killed Geo. F. Prince, at what appeared to have been a moonshinp nnrfv HMiie -r ? ['" iiiiii ixi I ! 111^ HJUft. place on February 7th. Resides these murder cases, there will be more than the usual number of high crimes and misdemeanors already appearing on the docket brought over from the last term of the court. A list of the cases taken from the docket by names of defendants is as follows: State vs. J. T. Everett (2); State vs. Doctor Phipps; State vs. Fred Bryant; State vs. W. Percy Hardwick; State vs. John Johnson; State vs. Marion Courier; Stato vs. Jim Jordirti; State 'vs. W. Fred Jones; State vs. Waterman 1. P. Graham; State vs. Frank Davis; State vs. J. J. Nobios; State vs. H. W. Lewis; State vs. Sam Creel; State vs. Brown Shelley; State vs. O. T. Harrelson; State vs. J. M. Tindal; State vs. R. C. Boyd, Lance Barker and Lizzie Barker; State vs. James Hill; State vs. Frank Johnson; State vs. J. E. Stroud. o FINANCIAL Rl TIN I Columbia.?Speaking; at a meeting of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechancial Society on last Wednesday night former Governor Richard t. Manning decared that financial ruin faces the South unless there is a Immaterial reduction in the cotton acreage this year. He declared there are thousands of people who do not yet realize the seriousness of %the situation. Mr. Manning said that there was a large surplus of cotton on hand and that the production of anything over a hale crop this year would mean ruinous prices next fall. lie said that the truth of the situation ought to be driven home to every citizen of the State. o FIN TSF F.S ST AI PC A F,V. The new staircase at the building of .1. W. Taylor, on the side of the structure, war. finished la week, by the contractor, Mr. H. P. ' 'ttie. The alleyway between this building and that of the Piatt Pharmacy has been improved at the same t?me by laying the surface all over with concrete. This will make a convenient approach to the new staircase. The staircase is constructed of iron and brick work. SIDER^OR~l92r ? st Fertilizer. j well this year. Many farmers have cotton seed on hand because the rate of exchange in meal for seed is so low they haven't swapped. Ordinarily it dosen't pay to use cotton seetl for fertilizer but where a ton of seed will not bring at least 1500 pounds of meal it is best to use the seed them selves. To get the best results from seed they should be composted with stable manure and acid. Meal and acid makes an excellent corn, cotton and truck fertilizer and can bo imnroved for cotton and truck by using to 100 pounds of kainit per acre. For tobacco it is best to use a ready nixed tobacco fertilizer in order to ot the ammonia and potash from the right sources. A great many farmers will plant cotton this year in spite of the 'noil weevils and the low prices. A great Many of these men will cut the fertilizer on their cotton and in doing so will make a mistake. Under boll vvr.?vil conditions it itf necessary to fertilize well because wo must grow enough cotton for the boll weevil and then our regular crop besides and we can't do this with a light application of fertilizer. Plant only as much cotton as you can fertilizer well, and cultivate once a week. The tobacco fertilizer can be cut a little. This year we must grow only the v<*ry best grade and in order to do this select the very best tobacco land using a good high grade tobacco fertilizer and only plant what you can take care of easily. W. 0. DAVIS, County Agent. 4 i HUMORIST BANGS AT TI-IE PASTIME March 14, In His Humorous Lecture, "Salubrities I Have Met." "Salubrities I Have Mot." is the subject of a humorist lecture which will he delivered at the Pastime Theatre Monday exening, March 1-lth, at 8:30 o'clock, by John Kendrick Bangs, America's best known humorous entertainer. Mr. Bangs' lecture will be the closing number of the local lyceum course, which has been presented under the auspices of the Conway Chamber of Commerce. Widely known throughout the country as a writer of humorous articles, I Mr. Bangs will he welcomed to Conway by those who have read his | sparkling contributions to Life. Judge, and other publications of similar nature. His remarkably clever little book, "The Idiot in Politics," has brought sunshine and laughter to thousands of homes throughout the country. The lectuVe which will be presented here is a collection of amazing reminiscence of famous people, including Winston Spencer Churchill, Kichard Harding Davis, Kudyard Kipling, Henry M. Stanley, A. Conan Doyle. Andrew Carnecie. Mark Twain and others. Concerning this famous lecture, which was delivered recently in Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal says: "John Kendriok Bangs' lecture on 'Salubrities' was as genial and kindly as one of Dickens' happiest stories." MUTTON CURED GOOD AS PORK More mutton would he consumed, the United States Department of Agriculture believes, if farmers realized generally that cured and smoked mutton is as delicious as pork. At present, only 3.9 per cent of the meat used in the United States is lamb or mutton. This is partly due to the fact that there is a popular impression among the farmers that after a sheep is slaughtered, the only domestic use for the flesh is eating it while it is fresh. As a con sequence, the farmer's family grows very tired of mutton before the carcass is consumed. Kor the purpose of finding some way of obviating this difficulty, e>:perimental work in the curing and smoking of mutton has been donr recently by the Bureau of Animal [Industry of the United States Doavtment of Agriculture. Write fo*' 1 Tk _li i i. uuiicun giving directions. PETITION SIGNED TO MOVE OFFICE I 'MMf n> I A movement was started hero recently for the moving of the Con-, way post office to some suitable location on Main Street, more in the center of the business district. This movement was started by the circulation of a Petition which at !ast accounts had been signed by hree-fourths of the business pee>!e of the Town. We understand that the petition has. been sent in to the proper office where it will be considered and it may result in moving the postoffice to some other location; or so we are advised by those who have been behind this movement. One of those interested in the matter stated that if no better location could be found, the Post Office would be better and have more room in one of the new building's now being finished by Col. D. A. Spivey on upper Main Street. The size of the present quarters occupied by the Post Office is more against it than the location. There is not sufficient space in front or the delivery window to accomodate the crowd of people who often gather there on busy days to get < U~: : i : n- - * ' ' - * mtsir iiiuii in trie judgment or tnose behind the petition. There is also -onie difficult about th 3 newspapers at the office on account of the lack of space to handle them in. TAX PENALTIES ARE NOW BEING COLLECTED There has been some 'Certainty as to what final disposition would he iado of th'? tax extension mutter th.i 1 v\0 i* !? * ^ 1> /n i ??? ? 1 i in iiit* I in a I SO a'" I' v bother the governor would approve the extension law even when pass -d At last accounts it was fixed with the following penalties: January 1 to February 1, 1 per cent February 1 to March 1, 2 per cent. March 1 to May t, 3 per cent. May 1st to May 15, 7 per cent. Executions issued after May 15th. At last accounts the county treasurer was collecting the taxes according to the foregoing schedule of penalties. % NO. Is"* FREE RANGE -IS GONE FOR GOOD Sentiment Strong Against it From All Parts of the State HOUSE ON RECORD WELL AS SENATE 1 Sentiment Was About Equally as Strong in Assembly Last Year. Last week it was published in tluc- - " ...... uiuc tne House of Representatives, in Columbia, had passed and sent to the Senate a State-wide general stock law making it unlawlul all over South Carolina to let jstock run at large aiul putting an tend to the free range practice in every corner of the State. I When this 'state-wide law, which, Iof course, knocked out the few excep lions that had been made in the 1920 law, came up for consideration there was an effort made to have three or four counties excepted from its provisions. Although The Herald is not informed whether an efj fort was made to have Horry excepted or not, probably it was not. (However, all amendments pasi were I lost and not allowed and oy a large |majority. At the same time this I took place in the House of Uepresen jtatives, there was pending in the (State Senate a bill proposing an extension of the free range privilege until the 31st day of December 1921; arid up to the time we last heard from Columbia no action had been taken on it. In order to try to find out- the situation we communicated with Sen ator Smith and he informed The Herald that nothing definite could 1)0 said about it and that he did not know what the result would be in regard to extending the free range until the beginning of the year 1922. I To 1 .... ... > v~ i f 11Icl I IK' n?l(l jhopes that the bill granting this extension would pass and that he would send us the news as soon as he could report anything; definite as to action taken. Upon the whole, as this article is beinu; written, it appears that the sentiment of the General Assembly in both branches is overwhelmingly opposed to the free range, and the pre:-.iling idea is that a general stock law should be passed, and made a law to apply to all parts of the State without any exeception whatever. Jn the opinion of those who have studied the events as they have taken place in Columbia there will be no extension granted whatever and that no exceptions will be made in either the House or the Senate. 1 is generally understood that entiment against the free range i moag the representatives and senaors at tne 11)20 session was just as strongly opposed to free range then as now, an I almost as much deterterminod at that time, as now, to make the stock law a permanent jthing all over South Carolina. WORK IS DELAYED. The work of laying the foundation |and constructing the basement at the new cottage of Di\ and Mrs. Jas. A. Norton has been somewhat .delayed owing to a crack which resulted in the floor of the basement from unusual water pressure in the ground. PAYING DEBTS GOOD FOR ALL Exaggerated Hard Times Caus es Some to Hold up Money. The merchants of Conway have a full page advertisement in this issue of The Herald calling1 the attention of everybody to the fact that if bills are paid promptly it will enable mer chants to sell food.-, for lower prices and will materially assist in making bettor times. No matter what the financial condition of the country might be no man that owes a debt should tako advantage of any supposed hard times to try to put off the payment of what ho owes. If those who owe will pay up promptly it will put the money at once into circulation anil the man you pay can in turn pay somebody else that he happens to owe. It is believed that there is ac tuallv more money in tho country than there is supposed to be. There was so murh not loner since that there must he some of it left, but those who owe debts will persist in holding it up and not paying it out. They were worse at this practice joine time ago than they are nqw. The page advertisement that the merchants are running this week is very interesting reading and it co?tains ideas that would ho well for everyone to try to carry out.