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VOLUME XXXVI. ~"~ ""
MARKET NEWS
NATION WIDE
Wireless Market Reports Were
Established on June 20th,
1921
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FARMERS WILL GET
THE NEWS QUICKLY
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Planters Everywhere Are Enthusiastic
Over This Wonderful
New Service
A system of broadcasting agricultural
market reports throughout
the greater part of the country by
wireless was established June 20
when Fost Office Department wireless
stations at North Platte, Nemr.,
Rock Springs VVyo., and Elko., Nov.,
were included in the radio marketnews
service of tin4 Bureau of Markets,
United States Department of
Agriculture. Agricultural market reports
on live stock and meats, grain
and potatoes in important national
markets have been dispatched daily
since April 15 from Post Office Department
wireless stations at St.
Louis-*, Ow.ha, and Washington, D.
C., and the expansion is due to thosuccessful
operation of the service at
these, points. The bureau of Markets
also arranged recently to broadcast
market reports from Pittsburg by
raidophone.
Get Market Reports Same Day
For the first time in the history
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means of the department's radio service,
for farmers to keep informed
of national agricultural market conditions
the same day that business is
transacted. Formerly the brokers in
many sections, now to be covered with
the radio news, received their national
market news several days late.
Every effort is being mado to organize
the state and county marketing
and extension agencies into an
efficient medium for the receipt of
the market news and its distribution
among* the farmers, and marketing
interests in several States within the
I T'idius over which the reports will
" l>e s??,!>t are making a careful survey
of facilities for receiving and
distributing the reports with a view
to designating certan official
agencies to handle the messages. An
ideal situation, sav Bureau of market
officials, would be the establishment
of one or more official receiving
and distributing points in
each county or group of counties
covered.
Farmers everywhere are reported
to be most enthusiastic over the new
service. Many newspapers, public
institutions, such as State marketing
Stale agricultural colleges,
and others, jind wireless operators
generally have interested themselves?
in the work, and desire to he of
everv assistance in getting the mar"ket
reports to tlw* farmers as promply
as possible. It is expected that'
the placing of market news in the.1
hands of the farmers shortly after
the close of the markets, and <ltirir.U'
the day's business, will help materially
to regulate the movement of
farm products to meet the demand,
a condition precedent to the stabilization
and equalization of prices of
farm products.
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MUST ATTEND
FOUR MONTHS
Under the new school law relating
to compulsory attendance of all
school children between the ages af
eight and fourteen years, the children
must attend the school for four
consecutive months, or eirhty consecutive
school days, at the school
in the districts where they live, or
for the entire term of the school if!
the term is not that long.
Trustees are required to give notice
by advertising thirty days in advance
of the time when the term of
compulsory attendance will begin.
Beginning last issue the Herald is
publishing this new law in full for
the benefit of parents and guardians
who may read it and comply with
the law as it is written. |
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VISITED BEACH.
The Rev. J. C. Atkinson, his
daughters, Miss Johnia Atkinson,
and the two daughters who are
visiting them from Georgia, spent
several days at Myrtle Beach
lci?t week occupying the cottage of
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Burroughs, who
are at the mountains this season.
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TENT IS DOWN.
The tent of J. C. Webb, which
stood for the past twelve months, or
longer on a vacant lot near the city
hall, was taken down last week and
it is said that Webb will pursue the
photograph business elsewhere.
Some time last year he discontinued
the business of making pictures
to take up the work of confidential
and business agent of Mrs.
Mary A. Lewis.
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PCSTOFFICE IN
NEW QUARTERS
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The Conway Postoffice will likely
be occupying the new brick building
just completed by A. C. Thompson
on the corner of Laurel street and
the alley running through the main
business block of the town.
This is much larger than the old
quarters which are in the building
recently sold by A. C. Thompson to
F. C. Todd. There will bo plenty of
P?i. Uan/IUnM .? C 4-U? Lnl.
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in tho new place.
EIGHT FARMERS
ALL IN BUNCH
Charged Wi!h Having Violated
Regulations of Dr. Hedley
0:1 Dipping
TRIAL TOMORROW
UNDER CHARGES
Farmers Opposed to Dipping
in View of Present Stock
Law Requirements
Eight prominent farmers of tho
Pee Doe section around Cedar
Grove Church are under warrants
to meet trial before Magistrate
Chestnut tomorrow, charged with
failure to comply with regulations in
regard to dipping cattle. Those who
are charged are as follows:
Italy W. Johnson,
A. S. Todd,
J. H. Singleton,
E. M. Johnson,
A. N. Johnson,
R. B. Bruton,
J. It. Singleton,
W. J. Hendricks.
From the best the iHerald could
loam from conversfttions with dif-!
forent members of this group, about
three different kinds of notices have
been served on some or all of these.
The notices weretaot showrijiere as
served by Dr. Hettey, or b|C^Kents, I
but according to statements mad'?
by these farmers the first notice
served required them to pen up their
cattle for the purpose of having them
inspected. In some cases the cattle
were already up, eithre in the barnyard
or pastures, while in other
cases, such as tho large community
pasture' in Little Peo Dee River
swamps, tho cows were in the thick
woods, and these farmers say it was
impossible to got them up in time
for inspection by those sont to do
the work. In other cases, according
to tho statement of these farmers,
tho cattle were up for inspeciton
whenever tho man came to inspec*
them and still the animals wore not
inspected. Still another notice enforced
tho quarantine. To use the
simple language of tho farmers, this
notice required that the cattle in the
pasture, must stay in tho pasture
and must not be taken out, t^? bo
driven to other grass or to tho
barnyard to bo milked, or words to
(hat effect; and it also required
that no other cattle should bo put
in tho pasture. The third notice,
from the best the Herald could
learn, required tho, cattle to bo
brought up for disinfecting by dipninir
or snravinc*. In some in
stM mcos some of those pioii had the
cattle sprayed with the li<mi<l provided
for the purpose. In othev
cases tho farmers offered to dip
their cattle as often as required i>
materials were furnished. Tn some
cases the statement is made that the
cattle are so wild that it 's a matter
of impossibility t'? pet the cattle
up and keep them still long enough
to do this work. Italy W. Johnson
had to drag a cow to the vat last
year and came very near losing
the animal, he says. So far as the
vat is concerned, which formerly
served this community, it has no*
been put into condition this year.
It is located one-fourth mile to three
miles away from these, people. At
the present time fences are generally
down and crops unprotected/ from
cattle running ai, large. Many of
these farmers are financially unable
to hire help to run these cattle
down in the pastures and insure
their not going astray on their wav
to the vat. Three.of these men, J,
R. Singleton, R. B. Bruton and I.
W. Johnson, it appears were server
with a notice last Friday to have
their cattle dipped on Tuesday of
this week, while at the name time
they are included in the papers takpn
out against the whole eijrht according
to report and were at first
notified to anpear for trial last
Monday but the time was continued
until Friday.
Tt appears that John T. Proctor
has -served some of these notices,
and Henry McNeil has served some
or them, while Dr. Hedley himself
has heen out in the community several
times
Theso men all say that thev hav-^
done their best to comply with flu*
low and ther** is not a V>ne in the
whole ei#ht who does not claim to
Putt;
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CONWAY, S. P., THURSDAY,
TOBACCO LIMIT
DOING GOOD
According to Reports Made
Early Last Week From
Markets
A news report from Florence, S. C.,
last week, following the meeting
there on Wednesday, of the tobacco
interests, and following the adoption
of the two cent limit on low
grades of tobacco, says the following:
The fixing and observance of a
minimum limit of two cents per
pound for tobacco, under which all
warehousemen will "pa.v the pile'"
rs unquestionably bringing the planters
from one-half to as much again
for this grade of tobacco according
to reports received from numerou;
of the markets vest rday afternoon
when the newly elected directorate o*
the South Carolina Tobacco Associa
tion convened here in it^ first session.
Reports of the various markets
indicated that the amount of to
bacco which is bringing two cents,
that formerly brought only one-half
to one cent, is making up five or sixtimes
over for such tobacco as may
be ^passed under the agreement of
the warehousemen not to sell any tobacco
which will not bring two cent^
or more.
Two markets reported rehandlers
having offered planters half a cent
for their tobacco after it had been
passed. Where this came to i?:e attention
of the warehouseman, ne had
taken it up with the rehandler, or
speculator, and explained the situation
to him. Every such case was
disposed of by the rehandler agreeing
not to buy the tobacco after he
understood the obpect of the movement
and the agreement.
The executive committee was elected
and organized at the meeting
yesterday afternoon, with the follow
ing personnel:
Bright Williamson, of Darlington.
W. C. Claiborne, Kingsirefc.
A. D. Jackson, of Mullins.
S. IB. Poston, of Johnsonville.
Walter E. I>ea, of Timmonsville.
D. A. Spivey, of Conway.
W. C. McKinnon, of Hartsville.
President F. L. Willcox and Secretary
T. Benton Young, "members exofficio.
President Willcox was authorized
to appoint a legislative co/nniittee to
which will be referred two important
subjects. The first of these is a
proposed tax on imported Turkish
and Russian tobaccos. The proposed
tax now is 00 cents per pound. Certain
interests have announced for
$1 per pound import tax.
The other item is a tobacco market
reporting service.
By special invitation, Walter .J.
Johnson, secretary of the Florence
Chamber of Commerce, was present
to discuss this subject. He was in
trcduced by Mr. Young as the chain
pion of the movement. His remark
were quite well summed up in u
letter which he recently wrote to
Mr. I>. Harris, state commissioner o"
agriculture and the reply.
be a law abiding citizen; but they
all claim Unit the exaaciions of i;i.
Hedley are simply beyond reason and
that it is impossible to meet the
demands that ho makes by the
times that he wishes it done; and
for that reason they say that they
are obliged to contest over these*
matters until the Supreme Court has
passed its opinion on whether they
can be required to do the impossible.
SAYS U-BOAT
SANK CYCLOPS
Mysterious Disappearance of
Ship During War Explained.
Philadelphia, Pa.?The Navy Col
lier Cyclops, which furnished the
greatest mystery of the war by its
w 11? x p i?11 [ u < 1 nisappearance, teil a
prey to the torpedoes of German
submarines operating off the Soutli
American coast, according to Franz
Rottie, now second officer of the
Hamburg-American liner Deutchfield,
who was former senior lieutenant on
a U-boat.
He said that according to gossip
among the officers of the U-boat
service of Kiel, the Cyclops was sunk
by a spent torpedo or a mine laid
by one of the German mine laying
submarines.
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A man must learn to depend upon
his own efforts. It is all veil
enough to ask the other man how hedoes
and listen at what he say*:; but
this is not the Avholo thing. When
a man has learned to depend upon
himself for the solution of his problems
of life he will get some where
and not before.
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AUGUST 11, 1921
A. I). JACKSON
I). A. SPIVEY
Both Elected on Executive
Committee of Tobacco
Association
The South Carolina Tobacco Growers
Association met in Florence on
Wednesday of last week as planned.
They elected at that meeting an Executive
Committee which will act
for the Association until their successors
are appointed. On the committee
appears A. 1). Jack <>n, of
i? ioyti I ownship, unci I). A. Spivev
of Conway. Both of these men b<>ing
interested, the former as a large
grower of tobacco, and' the latter
as owner of one of the warehouses
on the C nuvay Tobacco Market.
Two important things, which the
Association will endeavor to obtain,
will be laws at the next session of
the Legislature, one of which will
provide a tax on imported Turkish
and Russian tobacco, or at least an
increase on the present tax of the
importation of these tobaccos.
Another law will relate to providing
a system of reporting the tobacco
market while the warehouses
are running, and under this, the
average price received on all of the
markets, covered by this association,
will be postwrl every day in every
warehouse, for the information and
guidance of the growers and warehouse
men.
It is apparent now that the rej
cent regulation limiting the price of
low grades to two cents has been
of great benefit.
SCHOOL FUSS"
DISTRICT NO. 48
Board of Trustees Cited to Appear
Before County Edu- '
cation Board |
PATRONS COMPLAIN
OF BUYING SITE
Recent Injunction Order to Prevent
Purchase of Industrial
School Dormatory
There is now a !><) of confusion in
school district No. 4S of this county,
tliis beinjr the District in which the
Horry Industrial School was formerly
located. The trustees of this
District are H. L. Richardson, W. J.
Ward and N. B. Johnson. .The District
lias boon in need for sometime
of a site for the erection of a suitable
school building. We suppose
thift thev used tho Horry Industrial
School before it moved away. Some
lumo a I tor it moved to Aynor t ho
trustees considered a purchase of the
j old dormitory from tho Industrial
I School for the purpose of usiuj* it as
! a choolhouse. The offer \v."s made
to sell it to thorn for $2,000.00.
Early in the month of Juno K. I..
Mi shoe, E. C. Smith. D M. Todd, E.
A. Lilly and E. \V. l'u?ks. olaimimv
to :"'t for Ihoivviflvo^ mid o'her pati
ons of tha' District, onip'o^od at:
tomeys and obtained :in in, iunctim
from Judp;e S. \V. C. Shipn restrain
ne; tho Tloard or Trustees from bavin
e: tho dormitory. In the meantime
ll'O trustees had decided in their own I
mind that thov would not huv tho
doimitorv and the injunction had bet
liit'o woii'hr in that respect. Tho
tn.stees continued their efforts to
obtain a sito. however, upon which a
schoolhouse mijjht be built and State
aid for that purpose obtained.
It appears that they called a moeline;
of tho patrons and after considerable
discussion decided to locate
the schoolhouso on a four acre tract
of land which they later nurclvised
front the owner antl paid him for it.
It seems that these patrons are not
yet satisfied as they have recently
; served rmrm Hm twitlflno ... ':~~ 1
?- v.f/^/ii viiv %/i unvcun a IIUHCC illHl
rule to show couse, signed "by the
new Superintendent of Education and
A. J. Baker and T. B. Lewis as
members of the County Board of
Education, and has also served with
this notice a petition alleging
grounds for removal against the
trustees as follows:
1. That the petitioners are resident
citizens and taxpayers within school
District No. 48, of Horry County, the
Stale of South Carolina, which ^aid |
School P'slrict is located in, and I* a
part of the \ ublic school svstoin of.
the said County of Horry and State of
South Carolina, and said petitioners
ate patrons of the public school in
said district.
2. That, as your petitioners are informed
I'ml believe, the respondents
have been regularly appointed and
duly commissioned as trustees of said
School Pi h icl, and together, form
tlv"5 legally constituted Board of
Trustees for said School District.
3. Thai, as petitioners aro informed
and believe, your said County
Board of Education for Horry County,
the State of South Carolina, shouid
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CARNIVAL SHOW
ID T TXT"T\Y71Tfc n i\T
K3 Ui>L>E;K DiVIN
Recently tho question came up as to
the right to license carnivals and
shows under tents in Horry County,
when a carnival recently was permitted
to spend a week here near
the court house.
A citizen wrote to the attorney general
about tho matter and received
tho following reply:
Your letter of the 19th inst. addressed
to the Attorney General has
been referred to me for answer. My
delay it) answering is due to the fact i
tl;at 1 have been away from the office
for two weeks.
Iv reply to your inquiry beg to ad-j
vise that m der Act. No. 112. page
1 1'*, Acts 11*19, "no carnival and no
taveling show exhibiting under tent"
is avowed to exhibit '.vithii the County
of Horrv. This law does not apply
to Chautauquas.
"Hoping the above will be of some
benefit, 1 am,
"Yours very truly,
"Jno. M. Daniel,
"Assistant Attorney-General."
It will be noticed that this law does
not apply to chautauquas, nor to circuses
which may be licensed for a
period of not more than forty-eight
hours in any one season, or year.
The law reads as follows as copied
from the Acts:
Section 1. That after the approval
of this act no carnival and no traveling
show exhibiting under tent shall
be allowed license or be allowed to
exhibit within the counties of Beaufort,
Bamberg, Calhoun, Cherokee,
Clarendon, Darlington, Fairfield,
Greenwood, Greenville, Hampton,
Horry, Allendale, Lancaster, Laurens,
Marlboro, McCormick, Newberry,
Oconee, Kershaw, Charleston, and
Pickens, except circuses, which may
hf> lippncnrl f rvv 11 fi. ? >?-> 1 ' ?
? ..^v. .v?. ci unit iiuv, e.\ci;uumg
forty-eight hours, any one year:
Provided, That the provisions of this
Act shall not apply to Chautauquas:
Provided, further, That the provisions
of this Act shall not apply to the city
of Camden, in the county of Kershaw,
during the time that any County Fail
or Horse Show is held thereat, but
other times this Act shall apply.
? 2. Violation a Misdemeanor?
Penalty.?Any person owning, operating,
or who is connected with 01
employed by any carnival companx
or show violating the provisions o1
this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and, upon conviction, shall be
punished by a fine of not less than
twenty-five ( '2r?0(M dollars nor more
than one hundred ($100.00) dollars
0 ' imprisonment of not less than vive
day5* nor more than thirty dnvs.
Kvei v performance '.r exhibition . f
such -h ?v or carnival shall be a -?p
arate oj'ense.
? rI hat this Act shall take ef(
el immediately upon its approval.
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VICTORY MKDALS.
Applicant^ for Victory Medals
from the following states should, in
the future, he sent to tlie Victor**
j Medal Officer, J lea '.quarters, l^ourth
1 Corps Area, Fort Md'herson,
j (icorgia:
North Carolina Mississippi
I r* 1:
. -vhuii v <n uiiiia 1.11 ji.-ian;i
Georgia Arkansas
Florida Tennessee
Alabama.
TOWN OFFICIALS.
The Herald was misinformed recently
regarding (ho election of officers
for the Town of I.dim . )>y
mistake it \ias slated that Dr. (i. L.
X..( Ir.d been elected a.< Mnor or
Intendant. The paper has \;st obtained
a complete list ol '.he Town
Officials elected about the end of
June 1021, who are ii'.>v\ holding offices
and they are is ToVlovs:
Intendant : W. L. flno les.
Wardens: G. L. Nye, Dr. J. D.
Thomas, N. M. Rogers, (1. D. McQueen.
TRIES' TO SERVE
ANI) WANTS TO
The Herald is prepared to serve its
customers to the best of its ability
as compared with the re'juirments of
those customers, and is constantly
trying* to improve its plant and
equipment so as to be able to meet
the requirments of this territory in
the printing1 line.
CONWAYSALES
PUSHING BUICK
Conway Sales Co., with S. P.
Hawes as manager, now controlling
tne saio of the Buick cars in this
section of the State have started on
an intensive campaign to push the
sales of these cars this summer. On
another page of this paper will bo
found a large advertisement tellirg
of the many advantages of the ear
and the service that is rendered by
the hig factory where these cars are
produced.
The Buick lias an ever increasing
sales volume.
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NO. 17.
COMPULSORY
i ATTENDANCE
School Children Between Eight
and Fourteen Years
of Age
MUST ATTEND FOR
j FOUR MONTHS
Act of 1921 Published in Full.
Trustees Give Notice
i Thirty Days.
(Continued from last Week.)
? Approval of Private School*.?
That any private or parochial school
attended by any child between eitflr
and fourteen years of auv shall be
first approved by the State Hoard ot'
Education. Such school must tfive
its instruction in the English
lany;ua^e, and it must touch such subjects
as are required in a similar
public school in South Carolina and
be supervised by the County Super
intendent of Education or Superintendent
or Supervisor of Public
Schools.
? <>. Duties of School Trustees?
Reports from Parents and (Juardi,??w
/\f ? y**
itlll.l Vfl I I .1 I ll llllillll l' l/i I I "
ccrs.?It shall be the duty of the
Board of Trustees of each school district
to determine at what time the
period of compulsory attendance shall
start in their respective districts, and
to post duo notice thereof in at least
three public places or by publishing
in a newspaper circulating in their
said district at least thirty days before
the time so fixed for the period
of compulsory attendance' to begin-.
Every parent or guardian having
charge of a child or children between
the years of seven and fourteen
years, inclusive, unless an AttendanceOfficer
is maintained in their district,
shall make a report to tlur
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
[ of his or her district on the last
Friday in July of each year, showing
the names of all such children in
their charge, the age, sex an."! vae<5*
and name and local address of the
parent or guardian of each such
' child; and any parent or guardian
f having charge of such child or
children who shall fail to make sucir
, report at the time aforesaid, or shall
wilfully make an incorrect report,
( shall be subject to such fine or imprisonment
as is hereinafter imposed
I for nonattendance. It shall be the
duty of the Chairman of the Hoard
of Trustees of each school district
to make a report of such children .
;in<) In iaiwl n?rvt> ?
c. ui|)\ v/i i m- r>ciiu ifport
to the County Superintendent
of Education of their respective
counties not later than the 1 r?th day
of August of each year, and also to
supply a list of the names of such
children to the respective teachers
of the schools which the said children
should attend: Provided that the
Board of Trustees or School Commissioners
of any school district or
j.1;roup of disricts mav nominate to
the County Hoard of Education, or in
case of a specin1 independent school
district, as in the larger towns and
cities, to the Superintendent or Supervisor
of Public Schools for such
district, an Attendance Officer for
the district or district;, whose duty
it shal' he to take a census during
the months of .July and August of
each year of all children in liis or
her di.^riet af ected hy this Act and
make such repo.ts as is hereinabove
required to be made ! v Trustees in
districts whei'e no such Attendance
Officer is maintained, and such
other duties as are hereinafter imposed.
Any child ineligible to attend
the public schools shall be reported
by the Attendance Officer
or Board of Trustees, as the case
may be, to the County Superintendent
of Education, who shall transmit
such report to the executive
head of the proper State school for
such special child: Provided, That
the County Hoard of Education of
any county, with the written approval
of the County Superintendent
of Education and of a majority of
the County Legislative Delegation,
may employ for such period as they
deem necessary, a County Attentance
Officer to perform the services
herein developed upon the District
Attendance Officers, for all the districts
of the county; and the evpense
of such Attendance Officer
shall he prorated among the districts
of the county in proportion to
the funds available for the support
of the respective school districts.
....? 7. Report of County Superintendent
of Education?Of Teachers.?
The various County Superintendents
of Education shall, at the time of
making .their regular annual report
to the State Superintendent of Education,
make a report of the number
of children in their respective counties
within the ages prescribed by
this statute, the average attendance
of such children, the total number
' of absences during the period of compulsory
attendance showing e'xcused
and the number of convictions under
' this statute and amount of revenue
derived from penalties under this
' statute. It sball be the dutv of each
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