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L Ik. majority against road Bing Fourth Avenue Instead Hi Of Thirrt is Rmnoct I w. yvjwuk Blunder ILL CORRECT IT ON ANOTHER DAY nway Has Lost in the Deal-Situation Plain Enough to AH the People t is true that new lines were rut. the beginning portion of the nevv >rgetown and Conway road, hut it ears that this was done at the :gestion of one of the engineers} use opinions all of the time havi* n against the taking of. the road nilo out of the way. phis article is referring here to road as it leaves the boundary I's ol the town of Conway. As to Greenwood route, the community v fully believes, and they arc inly stating that they do not bee that it was ever intended to sider the Greenwood route exit as a blind for the deal that uld finally put Conway out of iness by using fourth avenue inad of third. j'he chain gang has been at work j some time. Noise of blasting heard early last week as .the Irk of blowing up stumps began iir the farm of Col. C. I'. Quattler.n, this first work being done, it pears on the lower part of the n where the road will bend to go |k next to Georgetown. The lines Irun takes the traveller away from fere he was going a mile or more I of the way and then the road lias Iturn back to go on where it was pnded to reach finally. ^H'he boards responsible for tho i"<i location of this road have ^ nderod. A majority of the peo of Conway have seen it already. say so. The remainder of the >pK who do not see it and re^wo it now, will be certain to seo ^Hlator on, and they will then fool The mistake that has boon nvulo ^fli make itself felt in time to come, l those who are responsible for ^ tiiur tho road where it is tfointf, ^ 1 >'< < ' roL'i'ot iust as much as ^wono. They will be more concerned Hut it thon. however, because they id Ttavo <lone their work better B would not. ^At least eighty per cent of tho ^Bnlo of Conway are opposed to tho of fourth rivenue for the HHd. It will cost the town of Con* about threo thousand dollars to ^ ncri lourth avenue with this road. avenue was already connected, ^ icials of the town have been about it although saying The situation was as plain ^Hday for all those who wanted t^ it. Third avenue and tho new ^Hd by the Fred H. Lewis and ^ lhorouuh places was and is vol H logical place, the best place, the of least expense, and the only ^Hre in the opinion of eighty per H' of the people, it has been said. ^H'he work that has been done in HH wrong1 way will be righted in Hr1, just as other wrongs h.ive l?of^n ^HhU'd in time. People will refuse I imi a mile out of the way when distance and their time can be ^wr>d by making a change. Another rd, another day, will locate this 'I, another way. Mind what we o ^Hiody pains and legal aches will H. go unsoothed in Providence. R. I. ^H:tors and lawyers are offering ^He services to jobless American ^B^irn men. ***3 "USE ME! | A Methodist preacher once, addressed his congregation at the ' other things he said about as folio' [ "I am here, use me. Never jj field while I am around, use me. I to he put on foot, use me. If the s ^ and sisters, don't you undertake 1 [ too, use me. By all means in the i I i Usp me, brothers and sisters, use i The Horry Herald is exactl; 1 An old negro was asked to define ? ' ?'\Voll C.un'n. 11)0 coil Ml uy mo' so." The Herald wants to be us< things tending to the betterment by this community is meant not'or county. Now if you have anything I^Hjt over. Use me, says the Herald, The Herald wants to help and it is its duty to help. Use it. ,***#**************** **** I Wm BRIDGE ACROSS PEE DEE RIVER Each County Raises SeventyFive Thousand Dollars for Purpose uepresentative Iredell Hilliard, writing to the Georgetown Times, concerning the bridge across the Great Pee Dee River, between the two counties, says: The bridge problem for Georgetown county has been solved for the present in the following manner: The two counties have each agreed to provide $75,000 toward building a bridge at or near Yawhannah Ferry across Pee Dee River, the state highway commission to furnish Federal aid in an e<iual sum, the bridge to cost not more than $300,000. The Georgetown delegation is also providing in the same bill for $50,000 additional to be used when matched by Federal aid to put a bridge over Hlack River at or near Skinner's Ferry. Your delegation here is taking: the responsibility for a bond issue of $125,000 without submitting' the matter to the voters for the purpose of building these bridges. I want to say here that the greater part of the burden for this action rests on my shoulders as I have been advocating this cause from tlie first, while my colleague, Mr. West, was not favorable to the proposition and your Senator openly opposed it until finally convinced /it the last moment that it was for the best interests of the county and that under existing circumstances we were justified in passing the bill providing for a bond isxnp without a referendum. PREPARES TO ADI) PENALTIES As the month of February went out the county treasurer had to arrange to place a penalty of seven per rent on all of the taxes still remaining on his books as unpaid. There had been a great show of extending the time for payment of the taxes, without penalty, in the branches of the Legislature, and a resolution was passed to that effect in both houses; amendments were made, however, and when the house and the senate got to disputing over these, it brought about delay. The resolution had not been finally passed and ratified in such a manne/ that the treasurer could depend on it and according to law he would have to add the penalty after March. 1stThis matter of a penalty adds much work in the treasurer's office. On the other hand it. has tho effect of making many people pay taxes before time for addition of this penalty. If-IORRY SEN AT()R COMMITTEE HEAD Senator Jeremiah Smith of Horry county was on Wednesd/iv elected chairman of the fish, game and Pores try committee 01 the senato, to succeed Senator Gross of Dorchester, who has been ' elected chairman o! the finance committee, Senator Smith is a venerable member of the upper body of the General Assembly. He is a Confederate veteran. The nomination was made en Humiliation of Senator Gro^s retiring chairman.?Columbia lte.?oid. o Racing a street car for a mile, an ex-soldier in Dallas, Tex., just up from a sick-bed, beat five other applicants to a job. USE ME!" | * * * i when first called to a new charge, * first meeting and along with some * ws: * Jj* let weeds grow up in the religious t f there is a new religious movement X ick need visiting, use me. Brothers Hj :o do it all, I want to work some $ world, now don't neglect to, use me. * * me." ^ v like that preacher, only more so. % a jackass, and he did so the best * a jackass is a animul, only little ^ I 1 I -I _ 1 _ n !fa ?(i ana used more and more in an ^ X and uplift of this community, and * * ily Conway hut the whole of Horry * * a; new, let the Herald help you put * X for I want to work too. * * because it is in position to help, jjj * * *************************** \ Wittvv CONWAY, S. C? THURSDAY WARD-BATE CO. BEGINS WORK Woods Force at Work For Some Time Under Mr. Addington NUMBER OF HANDS INCREASED LATER Extensive Timber Tracts Along! Rivpr Will hp Wnrlrnrl i Control Other Mills The plant of the Ward-Bate Company across the river from Conway, began operating last week with a force of thirty hands. At first about this number of hands will he employed, but as lumber accumulates on the yards and the output of the woods force is increased the number employed at the mill will he increased. The company has been operating in the woods and getting the plant into operating condition for more than a month past. Manager Addington arrived here more than a month ago ami took charge of operations. The company owns extensive timber tracts along the Waccamaw River from Reaves Ferry to Wortham's hr.idge. Most of their logs for sawing are delivered on the water at Red 151 uIV /md from that point are floated in rafts down to the plant. Owing to the low price of lumber following the war this company found it necessary to close its plant last year and it remained closed down until recently. Conditions have changed and the timber they own will all he cut into lumber. .J. Herbert Hate- of New York is the president of the company. In ad ,<lition to the plant nt Conway Mr. Bate controls plants at Wilmington, N. C., and Georgetown, S. C. He does a large business in lumber. ROAIVWORKERS BADLY TREATED ? _______ Editor Herald: I have been asked by the people of Little River Neck to enter a protest against the unjust and .unlawful way in which they have , been required by the Township Supervisor to abandon their own legally assigned roivd, upon which they were only allowed to put two days work during the year 1921 and go and work Ion the Con way-Wilmington Highway which already has its full assignment of road hands. This public road leading down to Fort Randall, a- portion of which is traveled in going to Cherry Grove Bach is badly in need of work, and we fed it is a great injustice and indignity to be treated in this manlier. If the authorities who have given such an order were residents beside this Highway, do you think they would so interpret the law as to leave home and go and work some other road on those days which th^ law says must be expended upon the road section to which they are legally assigned ? The law says "the CimniMnoAP >?ilV Ot'Clfrft Mill' nOI'Crtll liable to road duty to work upon any section of roa<ls in the Township" within ten miles of his home, hue once assigned, and part of the years work done, it does not mean he may he moved promiscuously over the county. People who are allowed to draft laws, should have sense enough and know English well enough to leave no duplicity of meaning which requires a court of jurists to say what is meant. In such cases it comes to common sense?the award of justice to ourselves and others. Our road has had no county help, and no gang help and is now robbed of its own labor! Gentlemen might does not make right. 'Tis said the Boomerang may fly back and hit its thrower. Suppose storms take away our bridges and destroy our road ? Where will we get repairs? Ou?* section has been woefully wronged for years but this is the limit and we want restitution. N. F. NIXON. ?o BIRDS PROTECTED On January 1C> a violator residing at Batchtown, 111., was arraigned at Springfield and entered a plea of guilty to selling wild ducks and shipping them without proper markings nnd undor :in assumed name. The court imposed a fine of $250 and a sentence of ninety days in jail. United States Game Warden Harry Barmeier, of the Biological Survey, was the arresting officer. As a result of the apprenhension of this violator evidence was secured which will lead to the prosecution of several others. TAXES GROW BIGGER It would seem that as population increases that the tax on property would he less and less according to the number to pay the taxes and the amount of wealth owned I?;* so many more people; but such has not been the experience in this state. Taxes have grown bigger every year. INHERIT \NCE TAX The Governor approved the new act which places a tax on inheritances. Blanks have been sent out to the judges of probate all over this state requiring them to report estates from time to time as they come under their jurisdiction. ? p , MARCH 2, 1922. CRIMINAL CASES SENT TO GASQUE From the Total Will Come Many Cases for Trial Next Week Indictments will be prepared by L. M# Gasque, Solicitor, in fortyseven different crinmal cases sent to him last week by W. L. Bryan, the clerk of the court. As a usual rule indictments are prepared in all of the cases submitted by the magistrates, though it is possible that examination of some of these papers will show that the facts put the particular case within the jurisdiction of the magistrate court in winch event the solicitor will return the p*.ners and send them back to the lower court fo*' trial. From this long list of crimnal offenses will come many cases for trial in the court next week. The complete list as sent by the clerk, follows: Will Baily and Bennett Emzor, Disturbing Religious Congregation. Ernest Small, Violation prohibition law. Fernoy G. Ward and Mary Baker, adultry. General Graham and Bessie McCracken, adultry. Puly Graham and Lizzie Dimery Adultry. W.- V. Gause, 111 treatment to family. Harmon Brown, assault and carrying concealed weapons. Luther Hardee, forgery. Harvey Hughes, disposing of property under lien. Rosa Allen, larceny. Louis Tyler and Jess Strickland, assault and batterv with intent to kill. ? R. G. Todd, bastardy. E. Bfrt Sarvis, unlawful entry, ohsenitj and assault ,und battery with intent to kill. W. Fa* Buffkin, breach of trust and fraudulent intent. Emetti Small, violation of prohibition lam John jCausey and Critty Muggins, adultry. j Luther Dewitt, assault and battery with intent to kill. Ben Justice and Jack Bepscnt, violation of prohibition law. R. B. Nobles, bigamy. Clvde , Justice, Christ Lowell, Hick Causee bnd Fate Bennett, violatiton of prohibition law. James Singleton, bastardy. C. C. Linden, false pretense. I nnn W ilhlivn dicuncirifr nf ???''<? v* i"?r erty under lion. , Ho!? Mishoe, assault and batter/ with intent to kill. Bill Lewis, making and selling whiskey. Hanion Duran and Lonnic 'Ihomas, House breaking ivnd larceny. R. K. Johnson and Bill Houston Johnson, disordei ly conduct, assault and battery with intent to kill. John Jacobs, violation of prohibition law. Birt Hughes, violation of prohibition law. Pink Todd, breach of trust with fraudulent intent. L. B. Causey, false pretense. Wheeler Gowans, larceny of bicycle. A. B. Elliott and Luther I'ink, rape. VV. J. Johnson, larceny. E. N. Tompkins, disposing of property under lien. Jesse Strickland, assault and battery. J. M. Gasque, disposing of property under lien. W. J. Johnson, obtaining goods under false pretense. I). E. Hughes, violation of prohibition law. John Graham, assault and battery with intent to kill. Burroughs Gerrald, obtaining goods nder false pretense. Hudson Jenkins, Troy Jenkins and B. C. Jenkins, riot and assault and battery with intent, to kill. E. C. Capps, obtaining goods by false pretense. D. G. Hinson, disposing property under lien. William Henry Hemingway, house breaking and larceny. Charlie Prescott, murder. o DUCKS KILLED A deputy game warden reports to the Biological Survey that several times in the last few weeks crude oil escaping in open waters along the coast of Rhode Island has covered a v.ast area and destroyed property valued at thousands of dollars, including shellfish and great numbers of migratory bir Is. He recently collected and buried nearly !>00 black ducks which had boon killed hv the oil. The source .?f pollution has not yet been learned. o PLANS IN MAKING Last week the courthouse grounds were all plowed up and holes filled up. This work was done by the county. Other agencies have been interested in this improvement and at last accounts there seemed to he some doubt as to whose plans would he adopted for Laying out the grounds. The Civic League has shown great interest in beautifying the grounds and may submit plans for laying them out, but nothing definite had been done along this line last Saturday. I \ raid. WILL DEVELOP MELSON ESTATE Street Locations Await Final Decisions on New Road OTHER OWNERS WILL CO-OPERATE Place Lies Next to Town Line Wnol ivrn "O ^ ri ^ 1 it ^obwaiu x* I UiU ouuiuy Court House Rufus G. Mclson, real estate broker of Cornell, N. Y., has been in Conway since early in February, in pursuance of plans for cutting up the lands of the Melson estate into suitable building lots, the laying out of streets and other development of this land. The location of the streets through the property will not be fixed until the new highway has been so definitely fixed that no change will likely be made. Mr. .Melson wishes the streets and avenues to kvul to this highway from both sides if the road goes through the center of the land, which it now appears will be the case. As soon as the locations for highway, streets and avenues have boon fixed surveys will be made and tho 'ots located on a large plat. After that the plans for offering this land to the public will be completed. Mr. Melson does not own the whole of tho lands which belonged to the late \V. P. Melson, Sr., but only his share. Other shares, however, belong to his sister, Mrs. Frances 10. Moulton, and his neico, Mrs. Katie (i. Rollinson. They will co-operate with him in the development and /sale of this land, nearly all of which is suitable for building and clearing. Other shares of the estate have irnnf1 into 1 1m li "i nrls /?(' The portion of it which was owned by Mrs. E. A. Pitman, one of the heirs, now belongs to H. H. Woodward, immediately next to the corporate limits of the town of Conway. On this place there is already a home and some clearing; and is at present occupied by D. G. Hinson. Another portion of the land is the property of J. 10. James .and lies farthest away from the town next to the land of C. P. Quattlebaum. o BIG SALE ON AT BIG STORE In this issue appears an advertisement of two pages telling: of the big sale that will begin at the Conway Department Store, on Fridav, March Brd. The store expects to need extra ; help during this sale la-sting through eight days from the date of the opening and this fact is mentioned in the advertisement. Large stocks of drygoods and wearing apparel recently placed in the stores will l>e disposed of at this sale. For further information about this sale read the advertisement. A string of - world war medals (bought at a sale) across his chest, the world's fastest-working beggar took .SCtO an hour from New York's theal re crowds until the American Legion got the police on his trail. * x- ;<- ->; * -x- -x- -x- -x- x- * -x- -x- -x- -x- *: -x- * -x1 WHAT WIL1 * * _____ * jjj The following letter, from a H? esting and the movements sngges * that it is reproduced in full as w< ? object to the use of it in these co * *r ^ Editor of The Herald: Dear Sir:?Enclosed please * able to collect much in the past * Will then mail the other dollar. ^ the whole amount. 1 am glad t< * and hope the prediction will coi * couraged in the Middle West; th % wholesale. One man alone closed < ^ borrowed money to feed cattle a * promise of high prices to be cont * years trying to get out of a bad ho * felt that fruit and creameries we ?? fruits that can be shipped to fort ij: pete with Carolina in raising pet * But there will have to be an orj. H? through. 1 think the farmer and i{i tion to get their own in regard to t jji ; il.? ..I.. I... 1" ..iKItll J. liS lilt' OIIIJ llOfiU I CM Jill! 1 If. * lions hero the fruit and nui crops * It his boon a loni? and rockv road, % ^ Did you know apples are sh * along the line clear across the * ground by the millions of bushel 4: niay not interest you, but someti X so please excuse. With best wishes for all in * * * * 1003 Alamitos, Long Beach, Calif. *************************** NO 46 EVERY FARMER SHOULD JOIN I Salvation of Every Farmer Lies in Co-Operative Marketing of Crops Columbia, March 2.?"If the farmers of South Carolina do not en, thusiastically support tho - - - -VTCIIIQIK now on foot to organize and put in successful operation tho South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co-operative Association they need never start another farmers' movement because it will be a failure," says J. H. R. Jonkins, vice president of the Peoples Bank & Trust Company of York in a letter to W. B. Wilkerson, a York county farmer, a copy of tho letter having been made public by the officers of the co-operative association in this city. Mr. Jenkins' letter was in reply to one from Mr. Wilkerson asking the attitude of the bank toward the movement. Mr. Wilkerson had written Mr. Jenkins that the banks in many counties of the state were strongly backing the movement and asked if Mr. Jenkins' bank would favor it. "In our opinion the proposed co-operative marketing movement," continued Mr. Jenkins "is the only movement that ha s ever been started by the farmers that has ever had 'teeth' to it. A co-operative association with tho proper enthusiastic support, under honest and capable management, organized in South Carolina and in tho other cotton states will do more to bring about and regulate orderly marketing of cotton at a fair profit than anything else that can be done. Therefore, the Peoples Bank & Trust Company strongly recommends the organization of properly managed co-operative marketing associations and we unhesitatingly offer our facilities to this end. we nave quite a inininer ot iarmers among: our stockholders; we number hundreds of farmers as patrons and we are and will be just as willing-, if not more so, to assist financially farmers who are members of the association as those who are not- The fact that the government through the great war finance corporation and the large financial institutions in the money centers have endorsed co-operative marketing: associations and have expressed a willingness to extend and are already extending financial assistance in large amounts is in itself evidence of the i soundness of the proposition. It is a great pity that the farmers of South Carolina have not long before organized such Jin association. They would now be enioying the great benefits that are being enjoyed through associations already organized in Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. "The farmer who does not .ioin in this, movement is not only standing: in his own light but is retarding the future development of the South." GASOLINE TAX The Governor' approved the new law placing a tax of two cents on gasoline, and this has boon in effect since M.arch !. Blank forms were being sent out just before the fust of this month to dealers and retailers for reporting tlie amount of stock on hand and ibe first income to the state from this new source will l>o paid in by the dealers in April. >: -x- -x- -x* * -x- ->: -x- >: x- ->: -x- -x- -:< -x -x- > -x- -x- * -x- * -x- -x- -xL IT TAKE? | * * X * former Horry resident, is so inter- * ted so important here at this time 2 feel sure that the writer will not * 35 lumns: * * February 17, 1022. \\ i t find a dollar bill. Have not been \\ year but expect something later. Hated to hold off until that time * SI 3 read that things are looking up $ ne true. They are not much en- $ e farmers are being closed out at * sut forty-three farmers. Too many He nd buy them under the fluttering ^ inued, which went on two or three I le and mired worse. I have always jr re the only hope of your country, He ?ign countries. No state can com- & irs; California is not in it at all. & 'anization strong enough to see St ** fruit grower will soon be in a posi- * 5 t 'oreign prices and shipments. That s|e \\prf> it lint tV?r t lin l>in- I~ ? .v.. V . l> .'It, VI o. would not pay gathering: expenses. but the growers have won. He * ipped from here to England ? while United States thev rotted on the He 5 I Is, and just as good? Well, this j: mes we will do things you know, s: >e the land 1 still love, 1 remain your friend, se LUCY J. PETTINGER, \\ it 11 / jf