The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 24, 1921, Image 1
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VOLUME XXXV.
WHERE SWEET
POTATOES GO
Year Nineteen Produced One
Hundred and Three Million
Bushels 1
STATE HAS MADE - I
RAPID STRIDES
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Increasing Storage Space More
Than Four Times?Increase
Production
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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"!'
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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NO. Is"*
FREE RANGE -IS
GONE FOR GOOD
Sentiment Strong Against it
From All Parts of the
State
HOUSE ON RECORD
WELL AS SENATE
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Sentiment Was About Equally
as Strong in Assembly
Last Year.
Last week it was published in
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...... 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.
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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.