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1 , ' I i / VOLUME XXXVI. GREAT FUTURE FOR RESORTS Myrtle Beach Will Lead the Procession For Several Reasons NEW TERRITORY _ UhhtKbU IN LUIS Good Road Adds to Popularity of Myrtle Beach This Year. Conway is proud of her seaside resorts, Myrtle Beach, especially, and the others in proportion to their importance at the present time and in the future. In the course of time the en tin? seacoast from Litre Kiver inlet to Winyah Hay will I): occupied to such an extent that land over there will he measured only hy the quarter and half acre; it will he filled with Summer homes from one end t<> the other. Myrtle Beach will, at that time Ix a town of much importance and will have its own city government by regularly elected mayor and wardens, ll will lie the principal resort for sev -eral reasons, among them it is the hest located for the purposes oi a resort, and another that it is ahead of the game in the Summer resorts game in Horry County. Lots then will be of more or less value according to their nearness to Myrtle Beach and to the line of railroad, which hy the way, is another good reason why Myrtle Beach will always outclass the other places of interest along the coast. For many years to come the' Atlantic Coast I ,inr> iu tlio nn!v I I I I ivm < I I Villi. pany that will have a line of road into this seaside land. In the course of the far future, it is highly probable that other lines of road will tra~ verse that territory; at least it is sure that in the course of time trolley cars will operate with the rai' roads in the transportation of th? ' people to and from the coast of Ho> ry County. To some development may appear to be slow, but when we look bac?c over the last ten or twenty years, we know that development is sure, even if it should be called slow. There Is a great difference in the seaside rest rts now and twenty years ago. Development during the next ten years will be in ever increasing proportion. In this issue of the paper there appears an advertisement of more than ordinary interest. It is an auction sale of lots offered to the public by J. T. Shell<f? and C. E. Huggins. There are two hundred lots in thl property. They are one-half mile from the Myrtle Beach hotel. On one side of the tract of land out of which those lots are cut, run; Withers Wash, a salt creek, which is capable of floating any sort of small motor beats. The owners of the property promise to clean out this stream and thus make it a better . I .? C 1 - t* A 1 1 n?i mi! pleasure oi moso who will buy these lots and build summer Monies. Some of tho lots are 011 the strand, others are farther out, so that anybody can be suited as to their notions of how close they should be to the ocean. This new offering of last is so near to Myrtle Beach that it will bo an aid to that place. While Myrtle Boach grows In popularity, the value of the lots in this new territory will increase. Tn this day of motor car.-*, there should be distances in which to use them. A half mile from the hotel and railroad will mean nothing for the motor car. Among the many advantages now to be had in that section, and this applies to Myrtle Beach the same as to this new proposition, is the good road now being finished up all of the way from Conway to the boach. The work is fully done from Conway to far beyond Socastee. The work is being rapidly finished be yond Socastee and will bo through in a vory short time. The resort is already enjoying an increased popularity-by reason of the work that has been done and will continue to be done on this road. In Conway can be found maps of the Shelly and Huggins land, now cut up into buildng lots. The map shows the location of tho lots as com pared to tho Myrtle Beach Tlote! property, the location of tho roads, and the location of the creek. . Bylooking at the map one can see how to choose a lot. J ? . o IN CALIFORNIA. Mr. T). M. Burroughs, accompanied j b\ his son, Donald. Jr., Frank and Jack Burroughs, left here about the first of June in a Ford touring car, with the necessary camping outfit, etc., to nuiko a trip through iho countiy to San Francisco, Cal. The party has now reached that city, after stop I 'ng and visiting several places of interest. Mr. Frank A. Burroughs left Wednesday to bring the boys back home through the country, while 1 fir. D. M. Burroughs will ruturn 1 home by rail. 1 X ' * * 4 * LOIIIS COMPANY WILL DISTRIBUTE After Turning Large Stock of Harrelson-Bell into Cash. The Harrelson-Bell Company, who made an assignment early in January 1921, is now about ready t? pay out dividend to its creditors through S. M. Allen, the assignee oi the concern, and J. M. Dusenbury, who was elected as agent for the creditors. According to the inventory taken on the high priced dry goods goods contained in the store at the time of tho assignment, this corporation had on hand nearly $11,000.00 worth of goods and fixtures. 1 1 l i- > i ui-,\ 11<111 m i'ii purruasca wncn price were at their highest peak, and at the time tlie assignment was made, oilier merchants in Loris, were celling the same class of goods at remit for .about the prices this Stock of poods cost at wholesale. This and other causes lead to the failure. The assignee and agent for creditors ripened the stoic and sold fo: about a month from day to day, the ales being in charge of Mr. Tuton. Sales finally dropped off until it (I'd not pay to keep the help in the store, and then a number of auc4 ion sales were held until the; good were disposed of. There is a total in the banks realised from these sales of about Y'1,000.00. Out of the proceeds of 1 he sales the wages of the help wer? paid. There is still a number or claims to be paid and the net balance will be prorated among the many creditors of the company. After ihis first dividend is paid sometime about July 1st, there will be a long Iwait very likely, while several suit* are being pushed against a number i01 people who appear to owe the company; and upon the success of those suits will depend any further dividends that may be realized o W. .1. Benson has been at Myrtle Beach for the past two weeks busily engaged in the installation of water fixtures over there. He now owns a truck which he drives over to the beach taking over the necessary supplies and fittings for his work. MORE ABOUT SHORT COURSE (Florence Times) A short course of three days, May 24th to May 27th, has just been conducted at Myrtle Beach for the Home Economies and Agricultural Club children of Horry County. Miss Thomas, the Home Demonstration agent of Horrv County, invited the clui) children of Florence County to be present at the short course. Owing to the high railroad rates, the children from only one community, Effingham, were able to attend. The Home Demonstration Agent in Florence County wishes that every club child under her supervision could have attended this splendid planned Short Course. Miss Thomas and Mr. W. O. Davis, Farm Agent assisted by several members of the State force of both Winthrop and Clemson College and by several Agents from neighboring Counties. A number of interesting lectures and demonstrations were given each day. interspersed by plenty of songs and yells to liven things up. Miss Laura W. Bailey of Winthrop and Mr. B. O. Williams of Clemson had charge of the recreational features, and both showed themselves past masters in the art of amusing young people. The services of Mr. Warren Johnson of Conway, the best swimmer in Horry County had been secured to prevent any casualties among the future farmers and farmer's wives of Horry and Florence. Mr. Johnson proved a most efficient life saver, and the surf bathing was one of the most delightful features of the short Course. The unusual natural advantage of Myrtle Beach, the executive ability of those in charge, and the fine spirit displayed by the children, all contributed to the tremendous success of the Short Course. The Florence children made such a good impression that they are urged to return next spring and bring all the club children with them. o RETURNS FROM CEDAR SPRINGS INSTITUTE mi i? * . ? t morgan ryier, ine uvue n year old blind boy' from Loris, returned homfc on the 7inst. He entered Cedar Springs school for t'.ie deaf, dumb, and blind in February, and returned home for the vacation. He won the following prizes, the "Champion" prize for the primary department, first prize for "rope climbing" and first prize for "standing broad jump." Mr. N. F. Walker, Superintendent, says: "We find that Morgan is an unusually bright boy. In the short time lie has been with us lie has Ir-arnnd to read by touch very nicely. In other words, we consider him a boy above the average in mentality." % 0 xv CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY AUTO ACCIDENT ON BEACH ROAD One Lady is Painfully Injured When the Ford Takes the Woods There was a large crowd of people at Myrtle Beach last Sunday, most of the visitors going over by automobile. One accident was reported along the highway between Conway and the the beach. This happened with a Ford touring car in which there were riding at the time Miss Perritt of the F. C. Todd Department Store; Mrs. A. Ij. Thompson and two or three other passengers. Not far this side of Soca^toe as the car was on its way to the beach the steering gear came loose, and the car ran down the embankment, among the stumps and logs, so that all of the passengers in the car were badly shaken up and Mrs. 'Thompson was painfully injured. In a short time other cars came by and Mrs. Thompson was taken to the Burroughs Hospital by Mr. W. !'?. Chestnut. By the aid of others, the owner of the car pulled up up in the load and repaired it after a delay of several hours. OIL IMPORTS I ROM MEXICO United States Best Equipped Country in the World for HanHlinn tho P.rnrlo ? ? v?i ii IM CI IV/ V/ I UUVy Petroleum imports into Hio United States in the fiscal year which ends with this month will be nearly twice that of any earlier year, notwithstanding the enormous production of our own oil fields. The total quantity of petroleum imported in the fis-1 cal year 1921 into this country, which\ itself produces two-thirds of the oil of the world, will he nearly G,000,000,-I 000 gallons against about 3,000,000,-1 000 iii 1920, approximately 2,000,000,-1 000 in 1919 and 1,000,000,000 in 1917. The rapid growth of imports of petroleum into a country which produces more than two-thirds of the mineral oil of the world says a statement by the National City bank of | New York, illustrates the growing disposition of world industries and commerce to move the natural products to points having best facilities for transforming them into conditions for the use of man. Prior to 1912, this country with production and therefore refining facilities three times as great as that of any other fountrv in the world imported less than 10,000.000 irnllnnc nni 0 .... tncuiii 1 per annum from other countries; then in 1012, with the development of production in Mexico of crude petroleum which annually moved to the nearest trade center in which it could he put into marketable form and thence distributed to the consuming world, we imported, chiefly from Mexico, 150,000,000 gallons as against an average of 10,000,000 gallons a year prior to that time. In 1913 our imports jumped from 150,000,000 gallons to 500,000,000 gallons of crude oil, in 1014 775,000,000, in 1016 870,000,000, in 1017 they passed the billion gallon line and were one and a third billions in 1018 nearly 2,000,000,000 in 1010, over two and threequarter billions in 1020, and the fiscal year 1021 will approximate four and three-(|uarter billion gallons, and probably touch the 5,000,000,000 gal lon line by the end of the current calendar year. These figures relate to crude oil imported, but meantime there has been a proportionate growth in importation of the manufactured article, the total quantity of refined petroleum in all forms imported having grown from 47,000,000,000 gallons in the fiscal year which' ends with this month. Most of this enromous importation comes of course form Mexico. Of the crude oil imported in the ten months of this fiscal year for which figures are now available, 4,791,000,000 gallons came from Mexico and less than a half million galf -11 Lium ciii oincr countries. Practically all of* the oil imported from Mexico comes by tank steamer, the quantity imported by rail bein>> extremly small. About one-third of the crude petroleum entrinpr the United States from Mexico enters at the gulf ports of Galveston, Sabine and New Orleans, while most of the I remaining two-thirds passes through the Gulf northward to Baltimore Philadelphia, and New York. The latest available figures of the im portation by ports are those of tlv calender year 1010. and show 545, 000,000 gallons entering; at the por: of New York, 202,000,000 at Haiti re, 19G,000,000 at Philadelphia, 850,000,000 at New Orleans and Galveston and Sabine about 200,000,000 gallons each. The value of the petroleum imported into the United Statos in the current calendar year will be nearly I I JUNE 1C, 1921. GEORGE PAGE BOUND OVER Will be Tried in General Sessions For Shooting Joe Graham, Negro On last Saturday Magistrate Chestnut held a preliminary in the assault and battery case against Geo. Page charged with having shot and wounded Joe Graham, a negro, in Floyd's Township recently. There is a cross indictment pending against Smith Graham, a brother of Joe Graham, together with Will Blown and Ernest Lewis, also negroes as being implicated. This last I prosecution, it appears, was brought by the young white men who are charged with having shot Joe Graham. The magistrate sent George Page up to the court of general sessions. Robert Grainger who was with viuurgo Pago at tne time of the snoot ing, has not yet been apprehended, as k\e made good his escape after the difficulty. () The Pastime had no pictures on Monday and Tuesday of la-1 week. There was not much attendance at the shows during the last day o of school. Tiie pictures started up on Wednesday niVht of last week with William Farnum, one of the l)(!st actors known today, in the famous screen production "If 1 we)"* King." ATTEND MEETING AT CHARLESTON Those who represented Horry county at the Port Terminal meeting a* Charleston last week were 11. W. Ambrose of the Conway Lumber Co., M. G. Andersen, lumber manufacturer, Paul Quattlebaum of the Quattlebaum Light & Ice Co., 1). V. Richardson of Bucksport, and Geo. J. Holliday of Galivants Ferry The first day the delegates were royally entertained by the Charleston people, whil the second day was spent taking trips around the harbor and viewing Charleston's port. All these men speak highly of Charleston and and of the royal entertainment given them by her people. The following clipping from tha News Courier is self-explanatory, :md shows that those who attended realize the great need of an inland waterway, and good port facilities: "We are going to have to go ahead and open up the inland waterway from Charleston to Boston, then from Charleston to Florida before we can convince all the people of its real value. And just such get-together meetings as the good people of your "ity have put over will do the job, ' stated Mr. M. G. Andersen, a wellknown lumberman of Conway, in referring to the port entertainment program last week." MISS HARRELSON WRITES LETTER About Winthrop College and What is Going on There. Winthrop College, Hock Hill, S. C. June 6, 1921. Dear Homo Folks:? When we arrived here wo found about one hundred and eighty seven club girls from most every county in] South Carolina. Winthrop college is a very immense place. It covers about forty acres of ground, campus and all. I am in the Cooking section. The first day we made some cocoa, the second day we copied receips and Miss Sellers gaVe us a lecture on ' ooking. X?day we are going to make creamed chicken. The second night we had an informal party; Saturday night moving picture "The Kid" by Charlie Chaplin; to-night we are to have "Daddy Long Legs." All the Poultry club members go to the Poultry farm this afternoon. Every day between ten and eleven we co to iho ffvmiiflaiiim ln\. :amc8 and have? exercises, conducted by M iss Jenkins. Then we have chapel at twelve uid dinner at one, supper at six and breakfast at 7:45. I went to the First Baptist church Umday where Mr. Tucker delivered *. very nice sermon from Psalm K:2 'nen at seven Mr. Tucker pave u <al nico sermon in front of the Li <ary which was enjoyed by all. We are to leave the morning of "to tenth, which I know all will not :o glad to see come. Lillian llarrelson, Green Sea, S. C. 100,000,000, the figures for the fisal year approximating $80,000,000 .is against $41,0(0,000 in the fisca* \oar 1920, $29,000,000 in 1919, and $22,000,000 in 1918. A: c*' YOUNG MERCHANT GIVES UP D. W. Martin Makes an Assignment For Benefit of Creditors. D. W. Martin, Jr., who has boon conducting a small store in the suburbs of Conway for the past year, made an assignment last week to S. S. Richardson. The first meeting of his creditors was held last Saturday. IJvamination of the Peed of Assignment showed very little property belonrjin.i? to his estate. His assets consist of a stock of i?oods located on the Knee l*ath and his household and kitchen furniture and a few store fixturps the whole amounting to about $100.00 at inventory values. 11^ owes debts to the total amount of CD, and he claims there is due to him in the store book accounts of vnr?niis people, making a tot ill of $1,102.05. The dee ! of assignment excepts from the benefit of creditors the amount of his homestead exemption, which ;; the sum of $500.00 as Mr. Martrn is :i married man, hut claims no homestead as againsi the stock his attorney says. At the meeting of creditors a majority was represented hy one of the attorneys of Co!iway and ihe election of an Advent of creditors was deferred for the purpose of making an investigation to see whether or not the creditors will accept the terms of the assignment or refuse to compromise, hut take judgment against him. STILL IlKUOIC. Learning that blood transfusion was necessary t<> save the life of Welton A. Crawford, veteran of the World War, struck and seriously wounded by a street car in Jackson. M?ss. the post of the America1 Legion asked for volunteers from its membership. Within a few hours twelve Legionnaries had responded and the transfusion was completed. The veteran will recover. o Moln?, " ^ --- . . ?v iv ii a. u\;inarty iidiill" Wt'IIlUIl ' stration Agent, is out of the County for a few days spending the time at Bennettsville, S. C. SLANDER CASE SENT TO COURT Scandal has broken out in the Rahon and Allen settlements, between here and Ay nor, and has caused one prosecution in which (ho preliminary investigation was hold last Friday in the court of Magistrate W. H. Chestnut. C. S. Rabon and his wife, have been bound over to the court of General Sessions at the Fall term, charged with having circulated and told a slanderous statement. Phillip ftabon is the progecutor in the case. One of the witnesses in the case on the side of the State is Isa Da in Cartrette, the wife of John T. Cartrctte, and she could not appear on account of illness. Other witnesses were in the court on last Friday and the case heard as to the State's side of the contention. The defendants, C. S. Rabon and wife will fight the case through the circuit court. BARGAIN HOUSE SLAUGHTER SALE Tho mid-summer slaughter sale by the Conway Bargain House is advertised in this issue and will begin on Friday morning, June 17th. The large business of the Bargain House is now conducted in the new stores completed several months ago, making more commodious quarters, better light, and better facilities alround for handling a large sale. As usual the great variety and high grade class of goods are on display for this great mid-summer slaughter sale. o PASTOR GORDON'S WEEKLY SERMON The subject of Pastor Gordon's discourse next Sunday night at the Baptist Church, at 8:15 o'clock will be the "Duties of Parents." These sermons liitvn ci-nnln/l * .....V- VI v?WM IllltVII IllUfieSl 111 domestic affairs, and have brought forth many expressions of fi*uit fulness. The public is cordially invited to hear them. FAItMERSUFFKHS BIG FIRE LOSS .1. V. Graham, a progressive farmer, near Reaves Ferry, lost his barn and stalls with tin4 corn and hay, automobile, three mules, and farming ools, by fire last Tuesday night. The fire took place about 2 o'clock, and the origin is unknown. He had no insurance on the property. "*"* 0 NO 9 MRS. JESSIE COX GOES CRAZY Taken to State Hospital After an Examination by Doctors ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TWICE LATELY Induced by Subterfuge to Come to Conway For Examination Mrs. T. .1. Cox, of Hammond, S. C., was brought here last Tuesday by the herill". and was declared insane, afier an examination by physicians. She was sent to Columbia and will bo v wii unco ai I In* State Hospital for the Insane. I She leaves several children at home, some of them being young. She was Miss Jessie Honrne before her mari riage, about twenty years ago, to j Thomas .1 Cox. Mrs. Cox has been mentally dcrang:ed for some time according to reports made by friends and relatives, j Once in the early Spring she tried to I destroy her. elf by taking paris green. ! From the dose she took she was made extremely ill and Dr. II. L. Scarborough was called to attend her. On '< another occasion she attempted to j jump olV the Simpson Creek bridge 'but was prevented. Lately her men!t;il disease scorned to have manifested itself in a difVerent way, she began to make threats against the life of her husb.vjid. Shortly before she was com 'milted to the asylum, she ordered a I pistol from a mail order house, and saiil that with this, when she go it, she would kill Tom Cox. Many other strange acts on her part during the In si i* - nu'iiiii> i many convinced [her relatives that she would have to be examined and committed to the hospital. Headers of this paper will remember that about a year ago, possibly I longer, there was some trouble at Red BlulT in which Mrs. Cox was mixed up. It was probably the result of her diseased mental state at that time, though it waS not so pronounced as it has been since then. Her husband, who has the sympathy of many friends, belongs to the well known Cox family of Simpson Creek township. The deranged lady was induced to come with' the officers to Conway by telling her that a member of her family was in trouble here. TOBACCO MAN A UK IVES IN CITY Mr. S. A. Gravely, manager of the Horry Tobacco Warehouse, arrived in town last week and will be here uniti! the opening, and during the tobaci co season. Mr. Gravely, it will be remembered has managed a warehouse here for several years and ks regarded as one of the warehousemen that ever Iconducted sales it. Horry county. | Capt. Gravely is from a family of j Warehousemen, he having one brother manager of a House at Lake City, I the largest market in South Carolina. [One other brother is President of the China-American Tobacco Co., a concern that deals extensively in the pur chasing and exporting of the grades grown in this section. Still another is an Auctioneer of national reputation. His son, Herbert, who will also be on the Conway market, is an expert tobacco man as well as an experienced office man. Mr. Gravely will have at the Horry House a full force of experienced men, as usual, and will be prepared to sell more of the weed this season than ever before in the history of the market. In conversation with Capt. Gravely, the reporter for this paper, was impressed with the earnestness and determinatiion of this enthusiastic tobacco dealer. He is of the decided opinion that Koocl tobacco this season will sell well. And if a large crop is made, that the lower grades will like ly bring also a fair price. At least, if is his determination to do his part to see that the farmer has a square deal in the sale of his 1921 crop. _ o GU1NKA FOWLS CONVERT WASTE Guinea fowls utilize waste that would escape hoth hens and turkeys, say poultry specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. Taking a wider range than chickens, and yet not so wide as turkeys, keeping largely to thickets and weed patches, and committing fewer depredations against field and garden than either chickens or turkeys, requiring little feed at any time, being prolific layers during their season of eggs, that are thought by many to have a richer and finer flavor even than hens' eggs, the guinea fowl is well worth considering on any farm where a serious effort is made to convert all waste into meat and eggs.