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gwggagggwgs..- ,. y. PEOPLE LIVING AND LIVE LONG Down in Horry Says Kohn in The News And (Courier BIGGEST FOOD CROPS IN HORRY rInteresting Facts Are Told by Noted Writer Following Visit To This Section August Kohn is not one of the < > X oldest men in South Carolina, < (? but he is old in the newspaper J[ < J game. He has the ability of < < finding the true facts and stat- J > J J ing these facts in the most con- < o vincing manner. He has been a < < president of the State Press As- < > ;ociation and now fills the posi- < < tion of treasurer of the associaI < tion. He is known and loved < o )y practically every newspaper J J J editor and master printer in ? o South.Carolina today. The arti- < < cle which follows was written ^ - by him for his paper, the News < X and Courier, following the meet- T T in# of the association at Myrtle * X Beach.?Editor. (News and Courier) ( Myrtle Beach, Horry County.?The South Carolina Pres#s Association met this year at Myrtle Beach, a secluded and attractive resort on the border of Horry county and bordering the broad Atlantic ocean. There were 100 or more members present. Not 20 per cent had ever been in Horry county and many had never had the waves ^ of the Atlantic tumble them over in the surf. It was a ^reat experience ' to most of the newspaper folks. Without dissent this has been voted a most eventful meeting. First of all, there was no counter attractions. No city ' lure but the newspaper family?-and a happy one it was?was kept together to talk business and to f?et better acquainted. Then and more important "was the acquaintance with the Pee I Bee section, and particularly with Horry county. The invitation to the press associa; tion came from the Chamber of Commerce of Conway and Myrtle Beach. As a matter of fact, it was distinctly a Horry county reception. Even before Horry was reached Marion ex! tended a cordial welcome, through 1 Editor Palmer W. Johnson, and want[ied to hold the press proup. But Myr3 tie Beach had the first call. T?- :~ : ii.. . :i 11. L 11 Irt \31 UtllCUl I V M.MY IIIIIV? U1I UUKII the country from Marion to Myrtle 13each. Heavens knows how far it would be by rail via Chadbourn, N. C. the m I Will be < I tobacco c I We are D senting a! J we will I ) W. H r THE H There is no all-South Carolina rail connection between Marion and Conway or Myrtle Beach. Horry county ?not Conway?saw that the press association had a delightful trip to the place of meeting. It was an eyeopening automobile trip. More than enough cars were in waiting first to take the guests to Conway, and then after luncheon on to Myrtle Beach. Gallivants Ferry marks the county line, and here the Hollidays gladly offered a hearty welcome. Then at Aynor the hospitable town folks blocked the main road with brush to have the party stop for a handshake and a glass of lemonade. So it was at Home wood. We Live?and Live Long?In Horry. "We Live ? and Live Long ? in Horry" is the real watchword of Horry. It is no idle sounding catch phrase. They call it the Independent Republic, and such it really is. The luncheon to which the press party sat down to at Conway was splendid and tempting. It would have done credit to any hotel with unlimited market. The menu simply stated "Produced by Horry farmers. rreoared by Conway ladies. Served by Conway girls." It was a Horry county undertaking from the fried chicken to the tobacco?all except the iced tea and that's why Horry county is the "Independent Republic." They claimed in the banquet speeches, Mayor Magrath and Marion Wright and former Congressman Scarborough that Horry had the highest birth rate of any county in the South, or perhaps it was in the nation. The true greatness of Horry, however, is first in the fact that of its 30,000 population it has 23,000 wide-awake and ambitious white people?the largest proportion of whites of any county in the state. A county with approximately 80 per cent of intelligent and saving white people can do things. Arid to this, the fact that it is almost entirely a rural population?over DO per cent. Then pile on this the record fact that 7!) per cent of the farms are owned by the farmers who cultivate them and there is a real stimulus apparent. This is the record. That is why they sav "We Live?and Live Long?In Horry." Get this: Mr. Burroughs, a progressive and keen business man, told me that two years ago Horry county made 12,000 bales of cotton, last year about 3,500 and this year it would not make 2,000 bales. Yet the people are happy and prospering and boast of the fact that throughout the last two years of business stress there had been no business failure in Conway. What other county seat of size in this state can make a similar boast?, Let me borrow from a hand-book PLANl IREHOU CONWAY, S. < >pen for Auctic luring the comi assured of buy II the big corni >e glad to have us your tobaca A. FREE * 1 ORB.Y H3S&AU), OOMWAY, 8. issued the day the newspaper folks gathered at Myrtle Beach a few facts about Horry. Perhaps too little is known of this progressive county tucked away in the far eastern section of the state: "The depredations of the boll weevil have been perhaps less felt in, Horry county than in any county in South Carolina. The production of cotton has always been practically negligible, the average crop being around 10,000 bales. The invasion of the weevil has caused none of the frantic shifting to other crops which 1-as characterized other sect'on? of the state and South. Diversification has been the consistent polic.v of Horry farmers for a generation or more "The chief money crop of the county is tobacco. The average crop totals some 15,000,000 pounds, 4,000,000 pounds of vh ch are sold on the Conway market. The prices for tobacco until the last two years have yielded a splendid income to the farmers. As soon as the period of depression has been passed there is every reason to believe that the price for the weed will return to normal. "Some 30,000 barrels of Irish potatoes are shipped each year to Northnrn m?n*lrnf c nnnoti/liiMi* cAi^inxi'Unf VsAII IIICU I\V/ in. l/v l/V, IIVIIII^ OV/IIIV; ?? IICIV on market conditions, this crop has usually proved quite profitable and will doubtless become more attractive in the future. The soil survey bulletin makes the following statement: "The production of Irish potatoes has increased materially as a result of the present demand for food products. The center of production is in the vicinity of Myrtle Beach, one farm near that place having over 300 acres devoted to the crop. Nearly every farmer plants from two to ten acres of potatoes. Glowers estimate the profit in this crop from $100 to $150 an acre. "Horry county raises more than enough corn for home consumption. During the past few seasons corn has been shipped to other points, and the outlook is that the export of this crop will grow in coming years. According to the soil survey bulletin, the acreage of corn is almost equal to that of all other crops combined. "Another money crop of some importance is strawberries. The present season has witnessed the paying of splendid prices for berries. The revenue derived from this source is leading mo?*e and more farmers into planting a part of their lands in this crop. During the next season shipments will be made in carload lots from Conway and Loris. The soils of the county are especially adapted to berry culture." Horry county?in fact, the whole Pee Dee section?has tfone in for good roads. It is a sixty-mile ride from Marion to Myrtle Beach, and every foot of the road through Marion and rERS ISE rM n | >n Sales of 10 ng season. rers repre- [ >anies, and : you bring K I MAN. | I 0., JHHE 29, 1022 Horry is good enough for the full speed of the car. Out from Marion there are nine miles of splendid gravel road; the rest is top-soil. The inclination is to make it all better. One Conwayite remarked that good roads had put Horry county 100 miles closer to the balance of the state. Myrtle Beach is not a new resort. Col. D. A. Spivey said Columbus landed at Myrtle Beach. "Billy" Ball and Harry Weston questioned that statement, but if Columbus had had the choice he would probably have chosen Myrtle Beach. First of all, it is directly and fronting on the Atlantic ocean?no intervening bays or approaches. Automobiles can and do drive from Spartanburg as did Charlie Hearon, or from Columbia, as did Billy Banks, directly to the bathing pavilion, fifty feet from the Atlantic ocean. It is u gradual, sandy and ideal beach. It is a safe surf?no undertow and a long gradual incline, but out of the abundance of caution the Myrtle Beach Hotel people have young Wheeler, the Carolina football player, engaged as life-saver. He had a?i enjoyable time watching the newspaper folks, but no real rescue work. "There are. perhaps. 200 cottages. owned and occupied by .ndividual families, fronting the beach. The majority of these famil'cs are from Conway, Darlington, Florence, Sumter, Marion, Mull ins, and the Pee Dee section generally. The Myrtle Beach Hotel is a typical resort hotel, with accommodations for a couple of hundred guests. The facilities are simple but ample, the rooms large and clean and the attendants eager to please. The hotel conducts a spacious dance hall, an annex and bathing pavilion. There is ample accommodation for guests. A charming young sttulent, Miss Essie Elliott, has just opened the Blue Moon Tea Room near the hotel. The latest and most notable addition to Myrtle Beach is the Yacht clubhouse. This is a most attractive three-storv frame building on the ocean front. A pier is now being built to extend out to a pavilion and allow Vandings. Some of the boys suggested that the pier was to be built out beyond the three-mile limit. The Yacht Club has 200 members, mostly from the F'ee Dee section and a thoroughly modern and attractive clubhouse. A group of newspaper men enjoyed a real sea-food dinner at the Yacht Club and heard some new stories. At no time and at no place nave the good people been so generous in their hospitality and in the earnest ness to bring pleuoure. Scores of business men gave up their time, the use of their automobiles and in most cases drove their cars from Marion to Myrtle Beach and back again, over 120 miles. Then enjoyed it because they like such things and they like to herald the joys of living in Horry. In this group among those 1 met were Marion A. Wright, Henry Buck. Mr. Burroughs, Hoyt McMillan, T. E. Watson, A. C. Thompson, Congressman R. B. Scarborough, Mr. Sherwood, Col. D. A. Spivey, George J Holliday, Editor H. H. Woodward Mayor L. D. Magrath and Mr. Piatt But everyone was eager to do mor< than a full share of entertaining. The meeting of the association w,a< distinctly successful. More newspapei workers and master printers than evei were present. It was a record at tendance. Just to show the trend six former presidents of the associa tion were present?Col. E. H. Aull William Banks, Harry L. Watson, Ed H. DeCamp, A. B. Jordan and Aug ust Kohn?and the others were then in the same proportion?the Pied mont section?Rion McKissick, Gos sett, of Tugaloo; P. W. Smith, Chas O. Hearon, Peace of Greenville; I)e Camp of GafVney, and a host of othe mountaineers holding up the spiri for that section. The newspaper workers were al quartered in the commodious Myrtl< Beach Hotel and they had and use< the opportunity of comparing notes They talked shop, and strange to say very little politics. No one seems ye much excited over politics. Then were many excellent papers read b; the members and the discussions wen particularly interesting. There was ; distinct commercial trend to the (lis cussions and hereafter the member indicate that real business will no be neglected by the instrumentalist of the association. Horry and Conway were eve-open ors to those who were not fomilia with that thriving section. Truly we have a great state! August Kohn. GRACE DINING WILL BE OI'K> The dinin"- room at Hotel Grac is in readiness for opening1 promptl for breakfast on Saturday morninj. July 1st. The dining room was closed dui in*-- stress of high prices and ut certain help in the war period an remained closed until now. In tb mean time the hotel was run in a other ic. poets the same as before an 'accommodated the people as a stoj ping place of the first class. The dining room is now in th hands of Mr. Lovell, the experience caterer of Marion, S. C. and he h; it now in complete readiness fc o Mrs. Hlanche Gallon WhifTen, 1 years old who, after 7.") years on tl: staire, has temporarily deserted lu home in tlie Hlue Uidj>e Mountair to appear in an old lady's part in I new play. PL'es Cured In 6 to 14 Days. Druggists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fnil to euro Itehintf, Blind, Bleeding or Protrudin Piles. Instantly relieves Itching Piles, find yo _J I can ftet restful sleep after first application. UK ? MAPLE LITERARY SOCIETY W. W. Jones, vice president, served as president at Thursday night's i meeting of Maple Literary Society. \ This was due to the Cact that Presi- a dent S. T. Smith was not present. Mr. \ Jones very efficiently filled the office > and carried out the rules of the so- J ciety. Due to the condition of the \ weather some of those on the program were not present.. The debate, "Resolved, That Columbus should receive more honor for discovering America than Washington for defending it," was the night's * feature. The affirmative was sup 1 ported by Miss Fannie Mincy and , Amos Long, while Charles Anderson and William Smith defended the negative. Mr. Smith filled the place of ( some other debator who was not pres- j ent and his address was enjoyed by j all. He said that it would be insult- ] ing for him to not pay some tribute to Columbus, but nevertheless it was the duty of all to honor Washington, < the father of America, above all men < that have ever been known. The snort address ny Mr. Long, a student at Clemson College, was good. The debate Miss Mincy had was also good. Mr. Anderson made a very good address in honor of Washington, the 1 first president of the United States, i Joe Lewis turned the meeting into a laughing house with some very good local jokes. A member of the society has an amendment before the presi dent that we discontinue jokes, and1 perhaps it will be put before the so- | ciety for the purpose of voting on it at the next meoting. The writer of this article is not interested as to whether they are discontinued or not, but jokes as those which were read by Mr. Lewis on Thursday night are not to be considered bad, and perhaps it would be all right to continue them so long as they don't get any worse. Jokes shouldn't make anybody angry as they are told for jokes, and that is what we consider them to be. A move was made at Thursday night's meeting of the society for current events to be added to the program. This motion was adopted, and from now on current events will be put on the program the same as debates. recitations, readings, etc. The election of oflicers will be one of the main features of the society during business hours Thursday night. A new president, secretary-treasurer, oitic, vice president and program committee, which will consist of the vice president ?.nd two competent members who do not hold any other office. When electing officers it is necessary to consider the fact that what we want is the kind of officers who can and will do all in their power to build up the society and the community at large. We also need officers who will be present every Thursday night and he prepared to discharge the duties of their respective offices, if possible. As a member of the Maple Literary Society, and one who is interested in the upbuilding of the society and the welfare of the community, the . writer of this article feels it his duty to ask the members of the society to ask the members of the society to be present on Thursday night and vote for the former president of the society, W. T. Smith. He will be nominaated for the next president of the * society. He was the originator and ' first president of the society, and during his term of olfice the membership of the society grew from seven boys ' and girls to thirty-seven, if the writer is not mistaken. And during his term ' of office large crowds of people flocked * to the schoolhouse every Thursday night and enjoyed good songs, de? bates, readings and recitations, and best of all good behavior. Of course, we have all these now, but during Mr. '* Smith's term of office all of these were better. He had the grit to get 1 up and tell the people what he wanted WEAK, NERVOUS, ai i Dim nnuiii hll nun-uuvvn t p p Missouri Lady Suffered Until Sb< Tried Cardui.?Says "Result t Was Surprising."?Got Along Fine, Became Normal j. and Healthy* Springfield Mo.?"My back wat> wo weak I could hardly Btand up, and I would have bearing-down pains and was not well at any time," says Mrs, D. V. Williams, wife of a well-known T farmer on Route 6, this place* "I * kept getting headaches and having tc c go to bed," continues Mrs. Wllliam? v describing the troubles from whleli r she obtained relief through the use oi Cardui. "My husband, having heard ._ of Cardui, proposed getting it for me "I saw after taking some Cardui i ... that I was improving. The result was surprising. I felt liico a differeul person. "Later I suffered from weakness and weak back, and felt all run-down I did not rest well at night, I was sc nervous and cross. My husband said he would get'mo somo Cardui, which <l he did. It strengthened mo . . . doctor said I got along fine. I was In " frood healthy condition. I cannot Bay too much for it." Thousands of womon havo suffered 7 ns Mrs. Williams describes, until t.hej l(, found relief from tho uso of Cardui M. Since it has helped so many, yoi , should not hesitate to try Cardui I] . troubled with womanly ailments. For sale overywhero. E.8! Colds Cause (lrip and Influenza * LAXATIVE BKOMO QUININE Tablets remove [i the causc. There is only out} "Bromo Quinine." ?. E. W. GROVE'S signature on Ihjx. 'JOc. m __ ANNOUNCEMENTS nwyuuMuuuuMwwi#vMyi yifyiiyM>|)| ravWVWWVWVWWVWICWWVinnnrwvira ? Cards in this column for j[ k County or State Office, $7.50; ]t jj Magistrate, $5.00; payable in '* It advance. < ************************* FOR CONGRESS I hereby announce my candidacy ror congress from the sixth district, subject to the action of the Democratc Primary. W. R. BARRINGER. Florence. S. C., April 12th, 1922. I hereby announce myself a candiiate for Congress from the sixth Congressional district, subject to the rules governing the Democratic primary. Florence, S. C. A. H. GASQUE I hereby announce myself a candidate for Congress, subject to the rules [>f the Deinorrntir nvimnrv. Ts!"t7hughes To the Democratic voters of the 6th Congressional district: I hereby announce myself a candidate for Congress from the (?th Congressional district, subject to the rules of the Democratic pnrty. .. . j. f. pate . I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to Congress from the sixth Congressional district subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. PHILIP H. STOLL ______ for solicitor I announce ray candidacy for reelection to the office of solicitor of the 12th judicial circuit, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. May 23, 1922. L. M. GASQUE. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Solicitor of the 12th Judicial Circuit subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. CHAS. W. MULDROW PROBATA JUDGE The friends of C. Hinson Spivey hereby announce him ;\s candidate for the office of Probate Judge of Horry county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Probate Judge of Horry county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. J. S. VAUGHT. I' I ?l\ \I IM 1WU I hereby announce myself a candidate for Auditor of Horry county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. JAMES A. CALHOUN. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Auditor of Horry county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. J. W. COOK. FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives, subject to the rules of the Democratic party, pd VV. A. PRINCE. FOR MAGISTRATE 1 hereby .announce myself a candidate for reappointment to the office of magistrate at Comvav, S. C. W. H. CHESTNUT. To the women and men voters of Conway township: 1 announce myself a candidate for the office of magistrate. 1 thank you for the patronage which I shall Kft. Very respectfully, VV. S. McCASKILL. The many friends of M. L. Gilmore announce him as candidate for magistrate at Daisy, Simpson Creek township, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. pd o JUDGE WOODS JOINS Judge C. A.. Woods, circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals, fourth circuit, and well known planter of Marion county, South Carolina, joined the list of leading tobacco growers from South Carolina who have signed the contract of the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association within a week. o You cannot afford to he without the Herald now at the low price of $1.50. them to know, and too, he told it so that everybody, big, little, old and young could understand. He told it so that those in the rear of the building couid hear it distinctly. The member.-? are all asked to consider very carefully the facts given here, and remember that this is written by a member of the society who is doing all he can for its betterment. ?RUFUS GKNUKTTIi. o ] | J-ayutLr, 1 O S S 11 - . 1 ? - L ' 1 t I I s unudiiy ic;ive a iruii or g I J weakness. Build up on | Scott's Emulsion It promptly, pleasantly and I effectually adds strength to the body. Itbuilds up resistance! i Scott & Bowne. Bloorafield, N. J ^-'-4 j J ?