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t * ? .1 V \ VOLUME XXXVI. MOVEMENT FOR GOOD ROADS Gaining Momentum as Work of Organization Goes , Forward BAD ROADS ARE COSTING US MOST All Methods Used to Stress Upon the People This Imperative Need. Columbia, S. C. ? An intensive publicity campaign for good roads is being planned by the South Carolina Good Roads Association lor the near future. The organisation will take advantage of every method known to stress upon the people of the state , the necessity of permanent highways being built by the state, it was said yesterday. The newspapers, the billboards, the moving picture and other agencies will be used in the campaign. Already posters are being printed emphasizing the fact that "bad roads cost more than good roads." "BAd roads mean loss and isolation; good roads mean prosperity and communication," reads one of the sir-gam; being gotten out by the association Another circular calls attention to the fact that while other states of the union are spending enormous sums on state highways South Carolina is spending nothing by comparison. "We are delighted with the responses that our appeals are meeting with," said President L. D. Jennings. "The people of the state are sending in their membership foes right along. A big membership in our association mwins :? sf?T????r ~ f?y K % I I ization and every county in the state should have a large number of active members. We want as members people who are really interested in good roads and who will get out and . work when we call upon them." President Jennings announced that Ii. H. Peace, president and editor of t?he Greenville News, had accepted the vposition of chairman for Greenville k (county and will at once undertake the work of organizing that county. Mr. Peace is a good roads enthusiast and has given the association strong support through the columns of his paper. * "We are Vary greatly indebted to the press of the state for splendid support which it is giving us," said JV11*. Jennings . "We feel sure that we would have the support of the newspapers since they always stand tfor progressive measures. Without their aid we could accomplisli nothing in this campaign." TAKES TRAINING AT CAMP JACKSON E. E. Jolinon, of tho firm of \V. E. Bamhill and Co., of Aynor, finding that he is entitled'to the training provided by tlie government for young men who were drafted into the army, went to Columbia somf time ago where he will bo seve*a' months taking advantage of vocational work there. RESOLUTIONSIS Y MEDICAL SOCIETY The following resolutions were adopted at a meeting of th% Horry County Medical Society: BE IT RESOLVED 'by the Horry County Medical Society, That we, as citizens of Horry County, South Carolina, and these United States, es pecially of this grand and glorious ' Southland, do greatly deplore the recent utterances of our President relative to the alleged conditions of plague and starvation facing the South; that as regular physicians practicing in this County, we declare therci is no noticeable increase of Pellagra, or any disease likely to assume plague proportions, and so far as starvation of the populace is concerned we wish to declare that never in our history so far as our experience goes, have we seen better prospects ' for such crops as go to make up the necessities of living?such as corn, peas, potatoes, peanuts, rice, etc. Furthermore, if our farmers could get a reasonable price for their tobacco and what cotton the boll-weevil sees fit to leave us, they would not ask anybodv anvwhere any odds for anything. We feel that we have tho Garden Spot of the earth, and invite our President to come down, and verify these statements, if he believes it to lie otherwise. Wo again emphatically deny that there is anything approaching plague or starvation of our populace at this time, and no increase of Pellagra, Four out of five of us do not agree with the Goldherger theory. J. A. Norton, M. D. Secretary. i \ * (The BEVERLY'S END BRINGS UP PAST f Life Ends After Years of Mental and Physical Suffering i CANNON ESCAPED AND NEVER TAKEN George F. Beverly Dies While O M T r* w-% n AV -P C*4r? 4 U11 xuiuubc U1 ObcUU Hospital. The remains of George F. .Beverly arrived here last week, following; his death in the State Hospital for the Insane. The 'nterment took place in the country near his home in Bucks township. About fifteen years ago, Beverly was waylaid near Greenwood church, by a laborer, Bill Cannon. Cannon ' had a dispute with Bove-ly and as Beverly passed along; the road, Cannon raised up from the bushes and struck Beverly a hard blow on the head with a heavy pole. For a time it was expected that Beverly would die. He lingered on and was sent to the hospital for an operation. Efforts of doctors and surgeons failed to relieve him of the effects of the blow except to a limited extent. From that time on, he was changed from a hardworking intelligent farmer, able to support his family; to what at times, was a man without any mind, j He had few lucid intervals, but was usually in a state of mental coma. From that time on, his family had to take the duty of supporting them- i selves. They managed the little farm ( with industry, coupled with brood judgment, and made a living all these years while the husband and father has suffered untold miseries from the blow given him by Cannon. In the course of time he became \^prse and was committed to the insane assylum; and it was there that he died. Relatives did all that they could to bring Cannon to justice. \fter committing this dastardly act, he ran away before warrants could be exe cuted. The warrant was issued but could not be served. Cannon was a wandering kind of character, working about from one plantation to another, and having no regular place or home to live at. This man, Bill Cannon, on whose shoulders them rests the responsibility for all of the lifelong tragedy in this Horry family, had no sufficient cause to justify even the thought of such a desperate act. He had cut a patch of oats for Beverly, and on the day Of the crime, the two met at Toddville, while the old dispensary was in operation at that place. Cannon tanked up on dispensary corn and claimed that Beverly lacked five cents of paying him for the work. Beverly iust as stoutly maintained that he had paid the man all that he owed him. They had some words there about it. Later that same afternoon, Cannon was at the farm of the late I.. D. Long, in Bucks township where Beverly would pass talking with some of the boys in the barn, and Beverlycame along. Beverly told some of the men at the place about the racket that Cannon had raised with him over this dispute about the five cents not know ing Cannon was nearby and probably! hearing all he said. Cannon left the barn where he had been waiting and passed out at the end of the lane, going,by Beverly without saying a word. No one knew about the terrible crime that he was then planning. Out beyond the end of the lane, where it was easy to hide, he got a long pole, and as Beverly passed, he hit him over the head with it.. The force of the blow made Beverlv unconscious. He fell down inside of the cart and the faithful horse carried him home where he was found by his wife and children at the gate, in what was thought to be in a dying condition. He lingered between life and death for a time; was taken to the hospital in Charleston where a silver plate was substituted in the skull for the bone that the blow had broken. This helped him a lot but did not cure him. In i-U Aft /\/ V* /* l/Vrtf ! > 1 <"? ?\A I ?\ / I uiv uuuifle ui 1,1111c 1 ic ium. ui.-? iiuiiu and finally his life. There is a lesson in this for every evil minded man. Look at the consequences which followed the crime Cannon committed, all about the pitiful sum of five cents! Cannon is still at larger and goes unpunished by the courts for his crime. But is he without punishment? Not at all. His conscience has no doubt burned into his soul with the fierceness, intensity, and ever penetrating: power, until what soul he has left is shrivelled up like dried leaves. During all of this 1 time, while his poor victim has been struggling through his allotted time on this earth with such physical of ; fort as his feeble being could muster, to overcome the rffects, this man who : caused it, has suffered the tortures of the damned. There has been before ijhim, in his mind's eye the ever pres, lent chance of being brought before i j the bar of justice; and unless he has repented of his sins, then he knows I that everlasting punishment awaits ; him in the hereafter. j $orv 1 CONWAY, S. C? THURSDAY "BACKWOODS STATESMAN'* Speaks in Conway August the 9th, at 3 o'clock P. M. II. K. Cook, the "Backwoods .Statesman," will speak here August 9th at 3 o'clock, P. M. Every man and woman interested in cotton, tobacco and politics should not fail to hear him. INI r. Cook is considered one of the best and most interesting stump speakers in S. C., and is perfectly independent and fearless in his opinions. lie holds that our government is mainly responsible for the present crisis, that party lines must be obliterated before we can over hope to have good government; that there is about as much difference in the Democratic and the Republican party a there is in a buzzard and :i turkey buzzard; that some of the biggest fools (or scoundrels) in this country today run the government; that the farmers (of which he is one) are the biggest set of idiots on earth; and he points out the only way to their salvation. He courts* opposition and dares anybody in Conway or South Carolina to take the opposite side on any issue on which he takes a stand. If any one wishes to do so, let him trot himself out. He'll bo there! Ho is not seeking public office "either openly or furtively." If he ever wishes to do so in the future an announcement to that effo'ct will promptly bo made. He wouldn't condescend to serve with some of 'its intellectual pigmies now in harness or wanting to 1)0 geared up. So ye polit: ians 1)? easy. The politician floats on public opinion as it is; the statesman moulds public opinion to tho right. The one is a parasite; the other is u benefactor. If what the "Hackwoods Statesman says is true, i1 ought to be heralded to the people; if untrue, it ought to be igominiously condemned. He welcomes enlightenment, and will idolize the enlightener. In a Republic it is the duty of every citizen to help keep the channels of government pure and just. The Backwoods Statesman is simply convincing that patriotic duty without hope of reward other than the approval of his own conscience and the growth of his own manhood# He'll be there! W A RK ANTOUT FOR D.M. SHELLY " - ., Raising Disturbances at Pine Grove School House on Saturday Night J. ED HARRELSOIM HIT IN THE FACR! Other Parties Finally Took Shelley Home?Whiskey to Blame. There vas a Hicturhnnre CJvove School House last Saturday night while a movie she ?v wa ing on. There was no bad trouble at tho schoolhouse but there wa trouble at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. .J. Ed Harrelson, who lives a short distance from the schoolhouse. It is reported that 'D. M. Shelley went to the show under the influence* of intoxicating liquor. In the audience was the family of Mr. Harrelson. He is one of the trustees of the school, and in view of the boisterous conduct that was going on, ho started to leave the schoolhouse, when asked why he was leaving he replied that he was going away to Ret out of the disturbance and to keep his family from seeing and hearing it. Soon after he arrived back at home Shelly followed him and continued t.hf 11 Sf* of m*r?fjinr? ltinrriinoro imd neglected to leave when told. In the meantime Grover Harrelson and Mack Strickland came up and endeavored to take Shelley away, which Mr. Harrelson was willing for them to do, hut they did not succeed, as Shelley broke loose from them and got to J. Ed Harrelson and wounded him in the face. Immediately after, that Shelley clenched with Harrelson and the latter obtained a good hold on the other man's throat and was punishing him severely when Mrs. Harre\son came out with a broom which she was prepared to use. In a few minutes Shelley was ready to leave and was taken away by others. On Monday morning Mr. Hanoison was in Conwav and swore out a warrant for Shelley and it is said that the warrant will carry two or three different charges. On Sunday morning after the difficulty a Smith and Western Revolver was found in the yard, which was evidently drop ped by Shollev, although no pistol I was seen on Shelly or used l>v hiir during the affair, but it is said that the warrant will carry tlte chargc I of carrying concealed weapons. S , AUGUST 4, 1921. COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT i ??? Established With Dr. H. H. Burroughs as Health Officer. This week the comity commissioners have established a county health department, as a part of the State system of public health. They have j appointed Dr. H. H. Burroughs as public health officer for the county and nave been wise sn their seleciton oj a man who has had a long experience and given much study to problems of disease control and sanitation. It will be the duty of the health department in this county to see that the public health laws of the State aro enforced. Among his duties will be the inspection of questionable prem ises, removal of nuisances that are dangerous to tlie public health, and lookup after the condition of prisons and pangs on the public works; the control of epidemics, quarantine, and in brief to see that all of the public health laws are carried out in Horry County. The department wants the assistance of all the people in making tb^ department a success. The health officers will make regular reports to the county board. TOBXCCO LIMIT I IS TWO CENTS Agreed to by Both Growers' and Warehouse Associations SALE BY PROXY IS UNDER BAM Executive Committee of Growove' "\X7-i11 TVT + V/i. ?j nuovviuiivii vv in 1UV/VI Again This Week. \ .The tobacco growers of this section of the State met in Florence, S. C., on last Friday to oonsider several Hitters connected with the tobacco sit u&tion; among them the most important being the fixing of a minimum price less than which no tobacco would be sold. The growers on Friday agreed to fix three cents as the minimum price and agreed that none of the weed should be sold for less than this amount. On Saturday, however, the wareman's association, of this section mot in the same city and conferred with a committee appointed the day before by the growers' association: T. Bonton Young, S. I?. Poston, A. H. Williams, E. C. Kpps, and N. A. McMillan; and, after careful consideration, the minimum price was changed from three to two cents. This seems to bo fixed now by the members of both associations and there is no reason why the pirn should not be carried out. No tobacco will bo allowed to go for less than two cents. This is low enough in all conscience. I Another important matter attended ! was the matter of buying bv proxy. .-\ l tin: idjuf t <>! tin* oulii n v iii uii.ui Tobacco Association. the warehousemen agreed to p-iss a1! tobacco offered 011 their floors wherein the buyers are represented bv proxy. Many of (he warehousemen sup ported the limit of three cents. Others felt that making the limit that hiirh 'would prove to be a mistake. The majority of those* present fixed the limit at two cents, and this was adopt ed with only 'me dissenting vote agaipst it. The purpose of these two important meetings in Florence was to decide what might be done by united effort to help the present situation, by getting a better price and helping the market up in other ways if possible. The executive committee of the growers' association will meet again in Florence on Wednesday of this week, at 4 o'clock, to take up any matters of immediate importance to the present market that were referred to the committee bv the urrowo?s at their general meeting last Friday One of the chief matters to be taken up by the executive committee is a tobacco market reporting service which will inform the planters accurately and reliably what every market in the state and especially the markets which may bid for his patronage is paying for tobacco. Warehousemen now refuse to divulge their averages to the farmers but they supply this information to the buyers in toto. One of the most active workers for the betterment of the tobacco market avers that hardly a farmer today can tell of his own knowledge and with any degree of certainty what tobacco is actually bringing on his market. Many other plans will be considered also by the executive committee, including the work of the association for the coming year. Tl\is will include putting into elTct the Sapiro cooperative marketing plans. / % I t*it I ?. PETITION FOR < MORE BONDS Herald Wishes to Publish Full : and Complete Information BRIEF STATEMENT HERE FOLLOWS # Full Information Hoped For in Time For Next , Issue. Prof. B. I). Alexander lv.i> completed the carrying; round of prti- , tions asking; for an election on the question of issuinir bonds by School district No. 10. The funds are intended to l>?' used for the "onstl'U tion of a new school building, r4- ' novating the old building, and for tiring present indebtedness. , Before this vote is ordeied the Herald wishes a copy of the peti- , tion itself and a full declaration from the promoters, in order that full and complete information may ' be given the registered voters be- 1 fore they will be called upon to 1 again increase the bonded debt of a 1 community where the burden of tax- : alion is already heavy. The Herald office is sending out letters this week to those who ought to have the petition, as well as the particulars, asking for this informaI tion so that it may be published in full. The public should always be fully informed of such matters long before they are called upon to ac< on them. It is the duty of the pro- ' motors of the new issue as well as the duty of this paper to publish ' such information as as pos- 1 sihle. TOBACCO BOARD TO MEET At the Annual Meeting of .the South Carolina Tobacco Association, D. A. Spivey was elected a I member of 1-ho Hnowl uuuiu \?i L/ 11 ctmr.i for Horry County. A meeting of the Board is called for next Wednesday at Florence to discuss the situation of the Tohpa* co .Market in this State. i One of the features to be discussed is that of the co-operative Marketing system now being advocated and pushed in many of the States. This system has been followed in many other lines, and it is the belief of many Tobacco farmers that it will work advantageously t:> the Tobacco interest. UESOLl TIONs 'm TEACHERS On the eve of their departuie from Conway and the severance of connection with educational work of Hoiry C\;ui)tv in the capacities of County Superintendent and Instructor in tiie Teachers' Training Class respectively by Mr and Mrs M. J. Bullock, the teachers of the County wish to record their admiration for and gratitude to the retiring fellow workers. 'I he several years spent by Mr. and Mrs. Bullock in the position.which they now leave have beer years marked by a notable advancement of education throughout the j r? v ounty. mat advancement is directly traceablo in large part to their conscientious labors, enthusiasm, <lrvotion and energy. The status of the teaching profession has been elevated in public esteem. Better buildings and larger equipment have sprung up under the (ouch of their influence and suggestion. Opportunity for hundreds of boys and girls has been given r new and larger meaning. They leave their present positions with tlie well merited respect and affection of ail the teachers of the County. They must carry with them the con- , sciousness that comes from the knowledge of duty well performed and of large results in their chosen field. The teachers with whom they have labored and for whom their sympathies and interest have always gone out by this resolution wish to con- ( vey to Mr. and Mrs. Bullock the as- . surance of the universal admiration ( and respect in which they are held ( by those who have been the,, recipients of their aid and counsel. UNIVERSITY GROWS IN FAVOR Indications are now that there will ho a larger attendance than eve*' from this county at the State University the coming term. A111011$ those who have either definitely decided to go, or are giving this matter their serious consideration, are: l'aul Sasser, Hubert Jenkins, Donald Richardson, Howard Ambrose, Edward Burroughs, Mayo Holliday, Ernest Sasser All of the above are in addition to all of those who are already matriculated at the university. r' * 4 s 4 % NO. 16. COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE School Children Between Eighf and Fourteen Years of Age MUST ATTCMn cno hi w v i r-?i I l_ I 'J I / I KJ 11 FOUR MONTHS Act of 1921 Published in FnH. Trustees Give Notice Thirty Days. Under the new school act passed at the last session and approved 1>\ th ? governor April 12th, H/2L, children between Ihw ages of eight and fourteen must attend the school for four consecutive months, or eighty consecutive school days. The trustees- of sach school are required to give notice thirty days in advance of the time when the compulsory period will begin. There is one such notice in this issue of the Herald. By means of a petition signed by the majority of the qualified electors residing in any school district, the count> board* of education shall order compulsory attendance for the entire school term of that particular school. The new act which did away with truant officers under the older law follows in full: AN ACT to Regulate School \ttendance ot All Children Within Certain Aires, and Provide for the En forcemetit Thereof. Section 1. School Attendance Required?Ajre Limits.?Ho it exacted by the General Assembly ot the State of South Carolina: That, every parent, guardian or other person having; charge of any child between eight and fourteen years i>f age, inclusive, must send such child to a public, private or parochial s( hool or to a competent tutor, subject to the approval of the County Superintendent of Education, for four consecutive months, or eighty consecutive school days, during the scholastic.year that the school attend ed is ij^session: . Provided, That in case idle term of any school is less thai!Tour months, or eighty school daj^s, attendance for the full term of such school shall be sufficient to meet. requirements of this Act, except as hereinafter provided. ?2. Attendance for Full Term of School .May Be Required.?Upon th^ written petition of a majority of the qualified electors residing irt any school district requesting the attendance of pupils in school throughout the full term, the County Board of Education shall order such attendance hereunder. This Act shall not shorten the period of school attendance in any district where a longer school term than four months is now maintained is required under the local option law. ? 3. Exemption.--That any child whose ph.ssical, mental or moral condition unfits it for attendance at school is exempt from the requirements of Section 1; that such child must be designated as unfit by ;i 1 If-V JO P \ 11 ' I t ill/Lurk ? ? '1 ? j.- -I. ? < > 11 i\ vv t ?.i7 juu;m' aiiu <ij?" pointed to do so by the County Hoard of Kducation. ? I. Kvemntion on Account of DixI iiit-c from School.?That any child living more than two and one-halt* miles ?rom any public, private or I "ii'ochial schoi. and any child under twelve year: of ago living1 more than two miles from such a school, may claim exemption from the requirements of Section 1 * Provided That any pupil living within one mile of any regular route of a school wagon may not claim exemption. (Continued next week.) ? o John L. Hammer and J. W. Ellis, both of the Hammer Lumber Company, of Little Kiver, S. C., visited Conway last week and remained here during the noon hour. LOSES HIS BARN AND FERTILIZER A. 1*. Johnson suffered a Severn loss one day recently .when a larg'* tobacco barn went up in flames without one cent of incurance or com pensation of any kind. No definite cause can be assigned for the accident, if indeed it was an accident, and there was nothing for him to do except to take his loss. To make matters worse there was* u ton or more of fertilizer stored at the barn that was also a total loss. In the course of the last few years a number of barns have been lost in about the same way. There is a big risk to run in all cases, and it appears easy for scraps of dry leaves to fall on the hot flues and become ignited inside the barn when it is hot. Some growers stretch a piece of poultry wire underneath the sticks while the tobacco is enrintr and under heat, and this will catch the leaves or trash as they drop toward the hot metal flues. Sometimes the flues within the barn will get about red hot. There is nothing but hot air inside the barn, and ignition is easy. mm*. " v ' ? i