The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 16, 1921, Image 1
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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RETURNS FROM CEDAR
SPRINGS INSTITUTE
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.