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> ,'\> - ^s - ' . sv | ROAD LOCATION AFFECTS BRIDGE Old Contention About Changing to Foot of 4th Avenue FAULT IS FOUNU IN THE LOCATION " Compromise Doubtless Made in Effort to Suit Certain Interests Contending Here The location of the new highway fio as to leave the town from the end of Fourth avenue instead of Third avenue is thought by many to be a move to bring up again the changing of the bridge that spans Kingston T.ake, near the mouth of that tributary from the ice plant up to the end of Fourth avenue on the lakeside near the property of the Conway Iron Works, Col. D. A. Spivey and others. * This matter of the changing of the location of the bridce is an old con tention. It is fresh in the memory of many when the agitation was startand by whom it was started. The Horald need not give the names of those who favored the change, nor those who opposed it, for they are well known on both sides. Mighty clforts were made then and continued for some time to obtain this change in the location of a bridge, but it failed. Those who have kept up with the causes leading to the location of the new highway from Conway to Georgetowr\ now assert that Fourth avenue was selected because, in the opinion of those who want to change this bridge the placing of the traffic along the national highway at that spot will lead to the moving of the bridge to the foot of Fourth avenue on the lake. Tt is stated that in order to suit certain interests the new road was located along the river and not in the center of the territory through Bucks township, and in order to suit those who are bent on moving the bridge the board went a mile out of the way in the location of the new road in order to place it along Fourth avenue of Conway; that instead of taking the old section of the new mad by Bear Swamp, where costly work had already been done and could be used, they went out of Fourth avenue, turning northward there to the farm of C. P. Quattlebaum and there making a direct corner down the old Georgetown road. Tt would appear from this that the location was a compromise and the compromise was made by the members of the boards controlling the matter in order to suit those two contending1 interests. T11 doing this they acted at their peril. The result of their decision will bring its evils not only to those who think they ^vill be benefited but to those who brought about the decision itself by such means. Things of this kind should be decided in all respects according to the best interests of the whole people concerned. When they are done to suit the special needs of only a few the results never turn : out to be what was expected. ONE" COLD WAVE . FOLLOWS OTHER Very Light Fall of Snow Visits Conft/ay Friday Night SUN SHINES OUT ? SATURDAY EVENING Scction Visited With Worst Weather in A hong I' Time < ' This section^ had a hard experience last week so tar as the weather was coi cerned. Hy the time that the first big snow had been melted away, from the roads and streets, the air was full of frozen mist again. This turned into a light snow on Friday night, and by daylight on Saturday morning there ' wa* a light fall of snow on the ground. The mud and slush of Friday interferred with traffic. Business and work were tied up for the most part. Very few people visited the ?town W from the country on either Thursday |l or Friday of last week. By noon on Friday bursted pipes jV at different places in Conway had [I been reported- to plumbers and for the time being they were crowded with TOStnore cans tnan tney couia answer. {& ; But the snow of Saturday morning r; <li i not amount to very much as it 1 turned out. The weather moderated i by Saturday noon and the last J'rcninants of the snow quickly disap7; po ned. By 4 o'clock on Saturday |u afternoon the sun was shining: again n for the first time sincc the week bep forn. Iv Last week was truly the Worst I^c: iher this section has had in a long It cannot pay to iiitentionally projoce a small crop on good land. There 0 never so much to the talk about ? crops making low prices. I ** - .. . '" ? 3 - ' p *r&- m?' > - ji; $ "k ..* - .?] .? ; * :.'. . ?...'. ' : w ?..', ,' fi 4yy^f'. !y r^ij .* . >/% 1J ! J SNOW BRINGS | COLDEST DAYS Snow Delights .Many and Stops t. Work in Some Places COLD IS ENEMY OF BOLL WEEVIL First Real Snow in This Section of Present Winter. ' Was Predicted Conway had the first snow of the winter of 1921-22 on Wednesday of last week. There had been indication^ of snow before and perhaps there was enough a time or two before that to cause suspicion of a snow fall; but the real thing came on Wednesday of last week and it lasted until the county was covered in a mantle of white. At first the flakes seemed timid about remaining intact on the bosom of the earth which, of course, was much warmer at first than they were, At first they melted away almost rts fast as they fell. Finally they, the little flakes, began to pile up in the jambs, round corners and in places where the wind chose to drift them. In the course of the day the land was j about all covered, roofs were as white ! \s snow could make them, and the lir was crisp and chilly indeed. The snow delighted many. The children were especially pleased to ;ee this visitor. The boys and girls took turns at snowballing. Among those who were glad to see the snow are the farmers. They know that a crood freeze is an enemv of. the boll weevil. Ice and snow will ' not kill all of the weevils because they hide as deep in the grass, straw ( or other debris as they can get; and some of them go down deep enough to be protected against the coldest weather. There is a marked difference in the ravages of the weevils following a cold and freezing winter. Following a mild winter there are more of them* than ever, because they all escape the cold. Farmer^ were glad to see the snow of last week because they believed by the time .it began to fall that it could kill out a great many of the pests that kept them from making any cotton in 1921. Hard weather had been predicted many times and for a long time ahead of the present winter. It put it off so long that it looked like some one had predicted the thing wrong; and by some it was" thought that we would miss any very cold weather this time altogether. But the days of last week, while the snow and rain continued, were hard days so far as the cold was concerned. It was as cold as anybody wanted it to be and colder than many wanted il or needed it. Work was' suspended by the snow and cold' in many places. Some of the schools either shut down entirely or bad a very small attendance. There was very little travel in nrid out of Conway during I lie cold t' '.if. TAXRESOUJTION IS APPROVED Extends Time for Payment Until June 1. Gasoline Bill Up Passage of Senator Wells' resolution to postpone the time for the payment of state and county taxes as amended by the senate was the outstanding event of the upper house of the legislature. Under the resolution passed the time is extended until .June 1, 1922, with graduated penalties and executions to go in the hands of sheriffs on September 1. Senator Wells could hardly recognize his original resolution as passed, but the amendments carried out his desire to a large extent. The resolution provides for the following penal1% A V\AV To iicr>. vnc pci vuii u i ut uauuai ,> , *-< per cent for February, 3 per cent for March, 4 per cent /or April, 5 per cent for May and 7 per cent, beginning June 1 and running until September 1. They are not cumulative. Senator Beasley offered the amendment to delay the placing of the executions in the hands of sheriffs until September 1. Under the action of the senate, the various county treasurers will issue the executions on and after June 1, but they will be held until September 1 so any taxpayer may pay his taxes prior to September 1 without dealing with the sheriff nnd paving the cost of collections. Will Be Ablc^to Vote. Another important amendment offered by Senator Moise of Sumter was adopted to provide th&t any person paying taxes prior to June 1 would be construed to have paid his taxes "within the time allowed by law" and thereby be entitled to vote in any general or special election for 1022. This amendment was to protect the rights of voters who did not pay their taxes prior to Decemhei 31. a? the supreme court has held that a person is not eligible to vote unless he has paid his taxes within the time al'owed by law. y o Why work yourself to death on the farm to raise a biff crop and leave the marketing of it to mere chance? V;:- % 21 '? < - > V. ' * V -..' * r ' W * VA - S *. ' 1? ' "** -2*" *- . .T-' \ '"V ** - !# sJ&3Hl Jfowr. OONWAY, S.;oTraUB8DAig, I HA^YOUSTOP It It J t ' I c I / \1 That the city that gets the ;; That the city that gets t} )C " That advertising properI ;| in gold? a : e That advertising a city is That people will go mil ?! trade? | That your properly will * outside worldJynoWs your That people from neig where there is something c ;| That the city which doe ? better than it now has is go a jj That now is the time yo ;; advertising more than ever i That if you don't get 01 I frnrls* enmn nihnr -rtnirt hhnri-i .? v uvrrfiv vn IVI nvi^rii/vf u r/ia/ // they do they will I pt> | ??. R. H TERM ON GANG ONLY REMEDY Writer From Laurens County Talks Plainly About Bootleggers Thousands are aroused as to whether or not the Legislature will take from the judges the power to impose an alternative sentence of fine or imprisonment in leases of violation of the prohibition laws. In the light of what is going on in a carnival of crime .and disorder, it would be a mistake far-reaching in mischievous consequences to fail to so amend the law. We doubt not that most of our judges'have long since seen that without such an amendment things will never get better. So long as the bootleggers can pay out there will be no relief. One that will make or sell liquor, thereby bringing sorrow, woe and ruin into the home, disorder, demoralization and crime on his country, de,r?wes and should receive such peivil! ies ns will put him out of business. War, bad example of older ones, with the fight made on prohibition by riany newspapers and soi^e of the well-to-do people, have had a lot. to do with the demoralization of a. great throng of young men and boys. A good many of them are not at work. It is in this class the bootlegger finds his victims. Filled with drink ,?and equipped with pistols, then "the ready automobile?so well adapted to hurry over the precipice?the young go . . ? i n i? . i 1 i. forth on nnscniet or misiorumi? ueiu. The buyer is as bad, morally, as the seller, but to arraign both wouid end in failure to convict either. As a rule you must depend Upon the purchaser for proof-to convict the seller. Thoughtful' people, anxious to check or stop (this alarming condition, are agreed that nothing short of certainty of the gang or the jail will seriously arrest or prevent such an increase as will bring far worse conditions. Failure to put more severe penalties, say thirty or sixty days for first offense, then increase for repeated offenses for liquor selling and an earnest support of an efficient police force would be most fortunate. It is' hoped that there will be liberal support of all orphan,ages. The Rescue Home, the industrial schools for the truant and the board of public welfare. O. G. THOMPSON. Laurens, S. C. o? LITERATURE MADE AVAILABLE To assist county agents, extension workers and others interested in live stock improvement, the Bureau of Animal Industry has prepared a mimeographed list of available government literature and other material on the subject. The list, includes eight publications, fifteen posters and live stock pictures, a set of lantern slides, a motion picture and supplementary miscellaneous material chiefly in mimeographed form. By ordering literature and data with the heln of this list, persons are able to obtain at once the exact information desired. Requests should be addressed to the Bureau of Animal Industry. HIT BY SNOW A ball of snow flunp: by the colored porter of the Gr.ice Hotel last Thursday went wild and hit a .passing man on the lip. The flesh was broken by the lick and the man reported the accident to the city authorities. | " t. * v k % if \ K' S V. V g ill , FEBRUARY 2/ 19227 *#* *************************** 'PE1) TO THINK- I * * i publicity gets the business? | le advertising grows? | " $ y done is worth its Weigh f. % * * * i business, not a child's play? % sk es'to get a good lice city to % t * increase in value when the % city is wide awal^e? * hboring towns will come | loing? * x s not seek 1? gel something | ing to lose out? I * ur city and businesses need * before? | it and go after the outside % tig city will? % get,the business you should % * * Vaite in The Fourth Estate. % f*** *****************#*** ?* SNOW ANDRAIN RESULT IN MUD Remains of Snow Quickly Dissolved by Warm Rain on Thursday Night When the snow fell last Werines-1 day the temperature went lower than it had been in this section during the winter. The snow continued to fall through that day and almost all night Some of it melted away, but most oI it remained until next day. During Wednesday night there wasa slight change in the temperature .and the snow changed to rain. Thi rain froze as it fell and formed r crust over the snow. On Thursday morning the earth was still white with the fallen snow and over it there was a thin crust of frozen rain The weather remained cold until late in the afternoon of last Thursday, when it began to moderate The ice and snow which lvid been melting for some time were all turned into water by rain which began to fall about 5:30. The melting of the snow and the J rain which was added to it resulted in muddy streets and roads for several days. ?O- I NEGRO IS CAUGHT! STEALING WOOD Helps Himself During Colli . Night While Policeman Watches for Him J. A. Holt, special police officer employed by the town to look after the affairs of that section of Conway lying along the Ilace Path, caught Robert Parker, a negro man, on Wednesday night of snow stealing wood from! William Johnson, another negro. The officer saw tracks in the snow leading from the wood pile behind a building. He waited and the negro had another arm load and ready to make off when he discovered the presence of the officer and ivan. Later he was notified to appear before town court for trial, but he failed to appear. This went on till last Saturday morning, the defendant was arrested and placed in the city jail to await a hearing before the mayor at a later hour. ( He is said to be an employee of the Veneer Manufacturing Company. FOOD IS NEED OF THE COUNTRY "Washington.?The United States is i approaching' a condi tipn of adverse u?i i . i i i ... iwimi ouitiiK'c ;?iki muse accKio wnerner to retain a pvoper ratio between agriculture and industry or permit the latter to take a dominant lead at the expense of the former, Dr. E. P. Ball, 1 director of scientific work of the department of agriculture, declared in i an address before the national agri- < cultural conference. "The critical period in which a determination must he made is close at hand," he declared, adding th.at the situation requires a complete reorganization of the national life, since the problem of increasing the food supply for an increasing population must concern every indusiry." g \ raid. * PT?n?PTT.rTS FOR JL Xt/V/k.;JL Jl-J"VV JL V/AW FARMING BETTER Secretary Wallace of The Department Sees Many Hopeful Signs BUYING RESUMED INCREASED VOLUME Better Understanding of Part Farmer Plays in The General Scheme When asked last week for a statement on the prospects of the farmer in 1922, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said that no man whose opinion is worth considering would care to make any hard and fast prophecies. He added, however, that there are signs which indicate that the coming year should be a better one for the fanner and for those who deal with him than was 1921. Among these hopeful signs he mentioned the following: Credit conditions are better both through regular channels and through the special agencies created to meet the farmer's needs. Interest rates also are softening. Reductions already made in freight rates on farm products lighten by that'much the transportation burden which the farmer has been carrying. Cost of producing farm crops will be lower relatively in 1922 than in 1921. Very likely there will he a reduction in the acreage of some of the grains of which we now have such a large surplus, and this should tend toward' better prices. The paralyzing effect of the sudden drop in prices last year is wearing off, and farmers will enter the new year more hopefully, believing that the worst is over. Congress has indicated a willingness to enact such legislation as promeses to be helpful. Fanners are coming to see more clearly that the task of putting farming on a sound business basis is really up to them and that through organization they c.nn reduce marketing costs. In this they will have increasing help from the Department of Agriculture and the various state agricultural colleges which now see better than before that they must give the farmer the same sort of help in he marketing of his crops that they have been giving him in the production. Tn the industrial and financial centers there is coming to be a better understanding of the important part the farmer plays in our general economic scheme, and consequently a de"idedlv mom intelligent *md svmno thetic attitude toward him and his problems. v Buying Sli9?ild Re Resumed. With prices of farm products falling and the future very uncertain, even those farmers who had money h'id bv?and th^re are a largo number of Elicit?havo been rostrirtinp' fhoir buying to vvb.it they had to have. Mow. with the growing belief that prices have bit bottom, buying' will bo resumed and should increase in volume, find manufacturers and ret;yiers who make or soil things that farmers need or want should have better business this coming year. Everything considered, therefore, we crsn outer the new year in a spirit of hopefulness and good cheer. I soo nothing which indicates boom times for the farmer in the no.ur future, but there does seem to be promise of hotter times both for the farmer and for those whose business is largely dependent upon him. o IN PRAISE OF COUNTY AGENTS "Tf you don't believe in the dem onstration agent it is because you sit at home and kick instead of learning what he or she is doing," declared one woman at a recent meeting of Greenwood county citizens, when strong resolutions were adopted in support of both homo and farm demonstration agents following a suggestion that appropriations for these agents be cut out as a means of reducing taxes. Another citizen writing in the Greenwood Index-Journal, put the matter aptly in the following words: "There is no denying that there is now apparently n spirit of greater willingness to be helped by co-operating .. . ' i 1. i I l n * * ' ? ? wiin wic pians 01 mcso agents lhan ha? boon heretofore. Our self-suflinency has departed and wo .are now willing to get help if it is to ho had. They are not the solution of the whole problem, but if they bring us lo the place where we will co-operate for the common good, that is something. "The idea of cutting out this work as a means of economy suggests the old story of killing the goose to get the golden egg, for in this case it would have been killing the goose that laid the golden egg merely to keep from feeding it. 'There is that scattereth yet increasetli, there is that withholdeth more than is meet, yet tendeth to poverty.' "A new year's resolve for us all? to work with instead of against." v> * * , * NO. 42 GRADING BILL T> isia uMi;s A LAW Farmers Find that It pays To Grade Their Tobacco ALL TOBACCO OF ASSOCIATION Would Have Been Graded and Tied Anyway. Easy to Make Pack House The Tobacco Grading ' Hill has last passed the South Carolina Legislature and became a Law. There has been a hard fight over this hill for the past ten years, but at this meeting of the Legislature all opposition practically disappeared. Most of the best farmers for some time have been "culling" or "picking" their tobacco before marketing it. This, for all practical purposes, is the <7?nie as grading. To meet the requirements of this bill, the only additional work will be the tieing. Since the boll weevil has made its destructive appearance and the cotton acreage has been so greatly reduced, all of the tobacco growers will have ample time in. which to put their tobacco in a more marketable condition. They will also be able to use their seed cotton houses for pack houses. However, it will be well for every tobacco planter to begin to figure now on a storage place for his 1922 crop. A splendid pack house can be easily constructed. A pole house, daubed like his curing house and with a double floor and ceiled over head makes an ideal arrangement. The floor should be eighteen inches or two feet from the ground. Rough boards c.an be used for both flooring and ceiling. Almost any outhouse can be easilyconverted into a desirable pack house, * with but little cost. It is to be hoped that the day of handling tobacco in South Carolina like shucks is past. The farmer realized that he was losing money by taking his tobacco direct from the curing Ivirn to the warehouse for sale, but could not help himself. All of the tobacco handled by the Co-operative Marketing Association would have been graded and tied any way. A good many farmers who remained out of the Association on account of this feature, will now doubtless sign up at their first opportunity. One of the most prominent features of Co-operative Marketing is to put the commodity in the most presentable form before offering for sale. destroyed"as house burns Susan Graham Thought to Have Fallen in Fire Sunday Morning MORNING BLAZE GETS NO HELP Woman Was Old and Subjec* to Spells of Dizzy Illness at Times On last Sunday morning:, at an early hour, Susan Graham, an aped negro worn,an, lost her life in the flames when her housp was burned to the ground. The house was an old structure and somewhat humble in its appointments. It was located on what is known as the Uace Path. The fire bell was rung* but at that early hour there was nobody stinring out and the house had burned up before aid could re.ach the place. It was not known until after the fire that the tenant had been burned up with it, when searches at the ruins found fragments of her body that had not been consumed. The woman was about seventy years of age and was subject to spells of dizziness. Tt is believed that she kindled a fire on the hearth and fell over in the fire. She occupied the house alone. Her daughter is the wife of John Johnson, the? colored barber, who runs a shop in the Spivey block on Main Street. It is stated that the old woman refused to live in the home with her daughter i~ ~ ,1 ...? c? winvn i> u'tiui'u iiui* wi y liir ] I'tJUl where this house was burned. No effort was made to search in the burning building for the woman. This might have been impossible owing to the rapid advance the flames nvule on the dry timbers of the old building. The dead woman was a useful worker in her time. In years gone by she was engaged as washer-woman, cook or housekeeper, by some of tho best families of Conway. n CALLED TO OKLAHOMA. W. M. Johnson, the foreman of the Conway Publishing Company was call cd to Durant, Okla., last Saturday evening by a telegram from his niece, i telling the sad news that ?his sister was rapidly sinking. Mr. Johnson left at once in the hope of seeing his sister once more alive.