The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 06, 1922, Image 1
VOLUME XXXVII
BIG DOWNPOUR
TEARS TRACKS
Trains Failed to Make Schedules
Last Wednesday
Night Here
TRAIN TRESTLE GOES DOWN
Passengers and Mails Are
Transferred Over Washed
Out Section Thursday
There was a heavy rain, described
as a cloudburst in the section of Bayboro
near Gurley, on Wednesday ?*veninj,
of last week.
The heavy downpour filled up the
valley of Bug Swamp to such an extent
that vehicles could not pass, but
had to stop at Howell's Siding on the
way over.
As the evening passenger train, out
of Conway was making its schedule,
the cars were derailed and were almost
turned over. The night train
could not make its reguLar schedule
as the water had washed away a section
of the roadbed which caur.ed the
wreck. The railroad was blocked until
soction hands could clear away tho
debris on Thursday and Friday and
repair the tracks for the passing of
the trains.
People in Conway and in the other
town along the Atlantic Coast I ine
missed the daily papers and the other
classes of mail la<t Thursday morning
when they went out to work
without seeing the news or getting
any letters.
The nviils were not brought in until
about the time for the arrival of
the mid-day mail on Thursday, when
the train from the Aynor and Myrtle
Beach branch mot the incoming train
at the point of tho wreck and brought
the mail pouches in. There was an
accumulation of letters, newspapers
and parcel post nackaires to be dis
tributed by tlie employes of the Conway
post office. The rush was handled
in a very efficient manner by the
force at the post office.
The railroad track was a sight to
look at following the effects of tlie
washouts and the accident to the train
which was almost overturned before
it could be stopped. The water had
washed out the earth and the train
had about made it over the trestle
when the structure gave way and the
train stopped before turning completely
over.
For a distance of 200 yards and
perhaps more, the track was moved
about ten feet out of its place. Some damage
was done to the track for a
distance of about 500 yards. The
trestle was torn up and had to be replaced.
On last Thursday passengers were
brought to the wreck from Chadbourn
and transferred overland to another
train on this side of the wreck.
The mail was transferred in the same
way.
This wreck occurred at the Rug
Swamp crossing near Gurley, S. C.
There was a dense cloud that passed
over, dropping .torrents of rain and
then passed over again and let loose
still other torrents. This was the
cause of the flood..
CLUB MEMBERS
THANK BRYAN
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My Dear Mr. Bryan:
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Florence counties wish to tell you of
the wonderful time you have given us
and our deepest appreciation and
gratitude to you for lending us the
annex and so making it possible for
us to have this short course which we
will never forget.
There were seventy-three of we
children, thirty-six from Florence
county and thirty-seven from Horry
county, and we feel that we have come
to know each other very well in the
five days that we were together. It
is nice to know people in different
parts of this fine state that we are
so proud of. Our home demonstration
agents said that we were a wellbehaved
crowd and that it was no
trouble to manage us.
We learned a great deal during the
short course. Therr were two specialists
from Winthrop college and a
district agent in the home demonstration
work with us. They taught us
how to make jelly and jam and organdy
flowers, and what we should
eat. A great many of us had never
seen the ocean before, but we took
to the water like ducks, and when we
went back to our homes we were sunburned
and blistered, but the happiest
girls and boys in the state of South
Carolina.
Thanking you with all our hearts
we are ever your friends,
The Club Children of Horry and
Florence Counties.
HAS FIHK ALARM
There was an alarm of fire last Fri
clay morning, when the roof of a pressing
club just below the warehouses of
Spivev Mercantile Company, caught
on fire from a spark.
For ji few minutes there was a light
blaze among the dry cypress shingles
near the flue. The fire department responded
quickly, but buckets of water
' had 1 >0011 thrown on tho flames before
the fire engines got there.
The damage was not important.
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HAIL STORM IS
BIG DESTROYER
The hail storm of June did much
more damage than was reported at
the time.
A few days after the hill the Herald
man saw a tobacc> grower from
Ihe neighborhood of Jordanviile and
obtained from him She names cf a
number of farmers who had been
damaged in that particular community.
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Dog Bluff township wnic'.i thus got
to be reported in the paper, thee was
a great damage in other sections of
Dog Bluff.
This damage to the tobacco growers
and corn planters was reported
to tlie Herald last week.
Those who were greatly damaged
by the hail in other neighborhoods
were:
W. I. Hatcher
II. T. Hatcher
Daniel Skipper
Sam Sellers
Pearlie Sellers
H. G. Turner
The farms of those named in the
above list are all in Dog Bluff as the
Herald understands. It appears that
great damage was done also in sections
of G.allivant's Ferry. Among
those sustaining damage there were:
H. K. Cooke
J. T. Gaskin
Wheeler Vaught
Marion Skipper
There Were many others, hut the
Herald has found it imp^sible to obtain
their names.
The rest* of the county is fortunate
to escape this terrible and resistjfcss
destroyer of the crops of the growers.
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PUBLIC ROAD HURT
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The flood which swept down the
valley of Bug Swamp last week tearing
out the trestle of the Atlantic
Coast Line and removing the track
for several hundred yards, also damaged
the roads in that section so that
travel by buggies and automobiles
was interrupted for some time until
the damages could .be repaired.
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TOBACCO POOL
Landslide of New Contracts
Brought by Meetings
Held
Florence. ? Special: Doubting the
sign-up of last week in the first
days of the whirlwind drive, a landslide
of new contracts is coming into
the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative
Association in South Carolina, which
had a record series of mass meetings
at eleven towns in the belt, according
to officials of the association.
Celebrating the 90 per cent signup
in Williamsburg County a meeting
of 800 growers at Kingstree
welcomed John Blanks, a Kentucky
member of the Hurley pool, who
convinced them that co-operative
marketing mentis the blotting out of
farm mortgages and the assurance of
decent profits for their labor. More
than 100,000 pounds of tobacco were
signed on new contracts after this
meeting.
Every grower who welcomed John
Hell, of Kentucky, at a meeting of
150 farmers at Hartsville left the
meeting as a member of the association.
"We have established
thoroughly three essentials to success.
The association is practical in
operation: it can yet unlimited fi
nancial accomodation and it can sell
its product," said Mr. Bell, telling
of the enthusiasm of Kentucky
farmers for their pool.
Active in Horry County
Campaigning Horry County after
the successful meeting at Conway, J.
H. Quisenbenly of Virginia and Reuben
Offutt of Kentucky held successful
meetings at Loris, Buckcreek
Church and Zoan. With the majority
of the leading growers from Horry
County aiding the drive as members
of the association a very rapid signup
is resulting. A. C. Thompson, an
influential planter of Conway, among
the most recent signers, added forty
acres to the pool this week.
President George A. Norwood, of
the association and Director T. B.
Young, of Florence, had successful
conferences with bankers and business
men of Dillon and Mullins.
Since the drive began committees
of bankers, business men and planters
have formed with the purpose
of aiding the drive at thirty points
ihroughout the South Carolina | belt,
doubling the force of workers for the
big co-operative association.
Many New Signers
A big crowd at St. Paul, N. C.,
welcomed Southall Farrar, district
advent of extension of Virginia, at
an enthusiastic meeting which resulted
in many new signers. Other
meetings were held in Bladenboro,
Lamar, Nichols, and Lakeview. The
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unve win ream /\nurews, uaniner^,
Manning, Mullins, Lynchburg, Chadbourn
and Timmonsville. Following
the lineup of all warehouses at Timmonsville
with the association and
the intense canvassing of hankers
and business men throughout Florence
County the sign-up there is Hearing
80 per cent of sill the growers.
The First National Rank of Mullins
has m.iiJod hundreds of postals
urging Marion County growers to
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CONWAY. S. C., THURSDAY,
LORIS VOTERS
ARE CONFUSED
Muddle Grows Out of Recent
Attempt to Hold
Election
There is a muddle in the town elec
tion in l.oris.
The election had been advertised
by notices posted up for last Friday
to elect an intendent and four wardons
under the law. *
On the eve of the election it was
discovered that some of the residents
of the town had not paid the municipay
tax levy of 15 per cent recently
made under the tax laws relating to
towns of less than one thousand inhabitants,
and this payment of taxes being
a prerequisite to the right of registration,
it was found that no opportunity
had been offered for registering
as provided by law in advance
of the instant election.
The law provides that the mayor
shall appoint one discreet person as
supervisor of registration in the town,
who shall hold his office for the term
of two years, and that f)0 days prior
to the regul/ir election the registration
books shall be opened; that all
those within the town who shall show
the registration certificate from the
county and has paid all taxes assessed
during the preceding fiscal year, and
who have resided in the town for the
period of four months preceding the
election, shall bo entitled to be registered
as voters of the town.
It appears th.it the matter of opening
the registration books HO days
before the election was this time neglected
and that no ordinance had been
passed providing for the election in
4ho appointment of managers and the
like. This being so, tinder the advice
of attorneys, the intendent and wardens
decided to call the election of
last Frid.nv off, and this was accordingly
vdone.
However, on Friday morning two
of the board of managers who had
been appointed by word of mouth
only, decided that they would hold the
election anyway.
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it is provided tlvit the intendent and
wardens when elected and qualified
must hold office until their successors
are duly elected and qualified. Under
this understanding of the law the old
council will remain in office and if new
ones are claimed to he elected by the
vote of last Friday they will have to
obtain their offices by due process of
law?proper proceedings to have their
rights to the offices determined under
the law. The serious question will be
with them as to the validity of the
election held without the opportunity
of registration on the part of the electors,
the absence of any written appointment
of the managers of the election
and the absence of any oath on
the part of the managers who held
the election.
Litigation may grow out of the situation
which now exists in Loris, and
it all seems to have sprung from the
fight that is being made by some of
tho taxpayers against the imposition
of a property tax to help pay the expenses
of the town government. This
nresent tax on property seems to have
been the first levy of this kind ovov
made by the town, as it had depended
before entirely on the collection of
fines and license taxes to do business.
After all this time it is different in
the town as population has increased,
improvements have become necessarv
iji matters of a public nature, and
more money was needed in order to
do these things.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Smoak visited
Georgetown last week-end en route
from the South Carolina Press Association
at Myrtle Reach to their home
in Walterhoro, where Mr. Smoak publishes
the Press and Standard.
Mis. Smoak was, before her marriage,
Miss Anne Weston, and was
born and reared at Brookgreen Plantation
on the Waccamaw River just
above Waverly Mills. Mrs. Smoak's
last visit to Georgetown was in the
summer of '03, the year of the storm.
She was spending her summer vacation
with her aunt on Pawley's Island
;ind when the tidal wave broke over
the island she swam to a tree and
was rescued the next day by a rescuing
party who went over from one of
the other islands.
Mr. and Mrs. Smoak spent a very
pleasant week-end with Mrs. Smoak's
relatives, among whom are the Pyatts,
Frasers, Wards, Westons and
I ,aBruces.
Dying has one advantage over all
other misfortunes. You won't have
to make explanations to your rubbery
friends afterward. ? Georgetown
Times.
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Of the 7,0S8 postmasters appointed
l?y President Harding since March.
1921, 900 served in some branch of
the military service during tho \vai,
according to an announcement of
tho American Legion.
attend tomorrow's meetings, where
C. E. Marvin, noted stock farmev
and planter of Kentucky, is scheduled
to speak on the Hurley Pool.
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JULY G. 1922
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WHOLE SECTION
HURT BY FLOOD
Farmers May Sell Mules and
Other Animals to
Save Feed
\V. J. Singleton of Socastee township
was in Conway last week with a
load of truck from his farm at Enternl'isp.
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M v...K me mi were a numoerj
of ripe watermelons, two baskets of
cantaloupes and a quantity of ^reen
corn and some specimens of running'
bean, for which Mr. Singleton has a
name that the Kditor could not quite
understand. These beans have a peculiar
color hoth inside and out. Mr.
Singleton brought this truck from a
section of the county which has been
struck a hard blow by the recent rains.
His corn crop is not damaged as much
as other corn crops because it is near
the river and better drained. But his
corn crop is cut off about half and
his other crops damaged.
George W. Watts, Jr., another good
farmer of Socastee, spent some time I
last week in Conway and explained
the full extent of the damage that
had been done to his own crop and
to hundreds of other farmers in that
township. There are but a few whose
crops were not either seriously hurt
or entirely destroyed in that section
of the county. Mr. Watts stated that
many farmers would dispose of their
mules and other animals for anything
they could get to save the expense
of buying corn to feed them.
The damage done to the crops through
that big township may all be judged
by a number of crops on the road to
Myrtle Beach. Some of the crops are
totully lost. Before the young corn
could possibly come up it would he too
!ate> to produce any grain. The tobacco
crops are almost entirely lost
am) where left the leaves are wilted.
This misfortune has been called to
the attention of a number of business
men in Conway and W. O. Davis, farm
demonstration agent, will be asked to
go over the territory and get full particulars,
together with the names and
acreage. When the information is all
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^ciiin-n-u in accurate lorm 11 is intended
to lay the matter before the Chamber
of Commerce and see if steps can
be taken to aid the farmers who have
suffered from the rains.
WRONG NAME OF *
MISS HOLLIDAY
By reason of some evror in writing
the name on a photograph of Miss
Floramay Holliday, elected last springas
the queen of Palmafesta, her name
has appeared in most of the newspapers,
up to this time as "Flora Mae
Holliday." The correct name of the
young: lady is at it appears in the
beginning- of this .article, "Floramav
Holliday." /
Assisting Miss Holliday at the recent
welcoming exercises in honor of
the State Press Association were four
other beautiful young women of this
county. Miss Jessamine Burroughs,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Burroughs;
Miss Aileen Spivev, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Spivev;
M iss Dorothy Hagood, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Hagood of Gallivant's
Ferry; and Miss Emma Holliday,
second daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George J. Holliday of Gallivant's
Ferry.
These young ladies made a beautiful
example of our young womanhood
as they tended the gate placed
in the center of the bridge, this gate
being opened by the queen and her
maids to let the men of the press
come through into the Horry Independent
State.
horrTseaside
gives promise
The coast line of Horry county will
in the course of lime heroine. to
its general appearance, one big summer
resort. At Myrtle Reach, where
already a summer resort is fully established,
the beach is not cut ofT
from the mainland by any crock or
marshes. There is ;il\vavs a feeling
of security by those who visit the
beach if they know they can get avay
on solid ground in case of a storm.
The absence of creeks and marshes
makes it easy to reach the beach by
automobile; so that a car can di ive
from the extreme western part of
South Carolina and stop in the shade
of an oak tree in sight of the 'iirf. as
it was expressed by one of the newspaper
men who visited the beach last
week. There are other beautiful sites
along this beach that extend from the
North Carolina line, at the mouth of
Little River, to the extreme southern
point of Horry county. There is
Pauley's Island, Murrell's Inlet,
Cherry Grove and Little River Neck.
All these places are capable of big
possibilities regardless of whether
they can be as easily reached as Myrtle
Reach or not.
For a long time past this seacoast
nortimi <?(' our />/\ni?fv li-ie lioon innl/>r
the disadvantage <>f poor transporta
lion facilities. In# lato yours good
roads have boon made and the change
has boon marvelous. There is need
of still more good roads connect ing
up this section with other parts of
South Carolina; hut pood dirt roads
are not the only thing*. Railroads .always
have a great deal to do with
the progress and development of any
part of the country. The thoughts
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STOLL WIRES
OUR SENATORS
Congressman Phillip H. St.oll on
last Wednesday sent a tel^ram to
Senators E. 1). Smith and N. B. Dial
urging: that they make an effort to
have an amendment inserted in the
rivers and harbor bill, which would
provide for improvement of the Wac
camaw iron Keel Bluff, S. C. to
Pireway, N. C. The Conway Chamber
of Commerce some weeks ago
took this matter* up with Congressman
Stoll, but at that time the rivers
and harbor bill had been reported by
the committee and no amendment
! could be added before its passage
by the House. Mr. Stoll thinks that
when the bill comes up in the Senate
it may be possible to have it amended
there, so as to provide for the
necessary work on the river.
The telegram from Mr. Stoll to
Senators Dial and Smith follows:
"Have had conference with officials
of Conway Chamber of Commerce
on matter of improvement of
Waccamaw River from Rod Muff, S.
C. to Pireway, N. C. Matter wa>
taken up with me some time ago but.
too late to have item covering dredging
on this part of river included in
rivers and harbor bill before it left
the House. Myself and Congress
man Lyons from adjoining North
Carolina district are very anxious to
have this work undertaken and authorized
by congress.
"Provision for four foot channe'
from Rod Rluff to Pireway will open
up Virginia territory of 1,500 squares
iv.il es remote from railroad connevtion.
River divides territory from
Atlantic Coast Line railroad to At
lantic Ocean and provides, if de\eloped,
natural means of transportation
to ami fro from markets for
large section.
In addition to local value proposed
improvement will bo a link in intracoastal
waterway parallel to coast
from New England States to Florida.
most' of which is completed.
"Strongly urge you to have necessary
amendment attached to river
and harbor bill in Senate if possible.
People here keenly interested in such
action." .
DR. BURROUGHS
MOVES OFFICES
Occupying Offices on Second
Floor of Norton Building
on Main Street
Dr. H. H. Burroughs, beginning on
July 1, is occupying offices in the
Piatt Pharmacy building, or Norton
building, as formerly known, located
next door to the alley running through
the center of the main business block
of Conway, and on the westward side
of the Main street.
Until last Saturday, for some time
Dr. Burroughs had offices on the second
floor front, of the llorrv Drug
Company building on ihe eastward
side of Main street. Owing to the
work of moving and getting straight
the new location has not yet been fullv
and completely arranged, hut this will
he attended to as soon as possible,
and in the meantime the doctor will
he found at the offices of the l latt
Hiarmacy, of which Dr. V. I\ Piatt
is the owner and proprietor.
Dr. Burroughs is the founder of tlie
Burroughs IIos pit ill. now one of the
best known hospitals in the eastern
part of South Carolina. Hp is, of
course, still connected with that in^titution,
his change of offices down town
having nothing to do with the present
management and conduct of the
hospital.
GOOD TOBACCO
ft is to he noticed that regardless
of the rains the tobacco crops are fine
on lands that are naturally drained.
This shows that it pays to study the
drainage of the farm and if the tobacco
land is not naturally drained,
then try to make it right by ditching
and getting the water away in other
ways. Tobacco on low land that is
not well drained is the tobacco that
is lost this year.
expressed in this article are leading
to the statement that at the present
time there is nothing more important
in the building of this section than
the construction of a railroad from
Aynor into Marion county, so as to
make connection by train. Just why
the Atlantic C!nnsf T.ino PAnmnnv 1io?j
boon contont (<> stop its trains at A.vnor
without building a track on to
M irion is more than wo can explain.
Perhaps tho company could not oxplain
this thomseivos, not ovon tho
highest oflici.ils in it. Tho Seaboard
passes through Marion county and
Rritton's Nock, a part of that county,
very close to this county. While tho
distance is very narrow yet it is traversed
by Little Pee Dee River and
the swamps on both sides. The Seaboard
has made a number of surveys
and* it lias been expected that they
would build ,'v. branch in the county by
way of Little River or Loris and on
to Southport, N. C. Tho business men
in this county could not do a better
thing than encourage tho building of
another railroad. Our proposition
would be that the matter be taken
up with the A. Oi L. Company to
build a track on to Marion and if they
will not do it then take it up with
the Seaboard and give them sufficient
encouragement.
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FARMERS MEET,
HEAR SPEAKING
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Good Attendance at Conway
Better at Loris Meeting
R. F. OFRJTT SPEAKS
Leading Men Are at Head of
Movement For Co-operation
in This County
The throe tobacco meetings hold in
this county last week were for the
purpose of working up interest in the
association on the part of those who
have joined it and signed the contracts
to market their tobacco under
the plan for the next five years.
One of the meetings was at Aynor,
another at Conway, and a third at
l.oris, winding up the campaign or.
Wednesday of last week with the
l.oris meeting.
The interest shown at the meetings
was intense. Most of those who
joined in the movement show by words
and their actions that they mean to
put their shoulders to the wheel and
help make the plan a success for
those who have gone into it.
It is always interesting to hear of
the doings of people in another state,
where they are similarly situated
with us in regard to any important
work or industry. The burden of the
speeches delivered in this county last
week was the success which has been
enjoyed by the growers of tobacco in
the hurley belt of Kentucky. The
facts and figures were given from statistics
gathered from various reliable
sources in that state. They were interesting
to the growers here who
have yet to try out the new plan of
placing their product out for sale.
At the head of the movement here
appears such men as John A. McDermott,
D. A. Spivey and \V. O.
Davis, the farm demonstration agent
for Horry county. They have worked
up a great interest among their
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ing plans. The llovry warehouse and
the Farmers' warehouse at Conwav,
and one of the lending1 warehouses at
Aynor have been within the association
from, almost the beginning of the
work, at least since the proposition
was made l>v the association for taking
over the warehouses where needed
for the handling of the tobacco of
the association.
The meeting at Loris turned out
to be the most enthusiastic of all
three. There the spanker was met by
a crowd of from 200 to 300 growers.
R. F. Olfutt of Georgetown, Ky., told
the farmers what they wanted to
know about the success of the plan
in his own state and said that the
co-operative plan would be a great
success in this state. He had the
close attention of the farmers.
PLANTERS RUN
AUCTION PLAN
The Conway tobacco market will
not be run entirely on the co-operative
plan this year. All of the warehouses
of Conway have joined in with
the Tri-State Co-operative Marketing
Association except the Planters Tobacco
Warehouse, belonging to Mr.
Will A. Freenuin.
The Planters warehouse is the large
brick warehouse located on Fourth
avenue and Kim street in Conway. It
is one of the best lighted warehouses
and best equipped places to sell tobacco
in this section of South Carolina.
Ouring the entire season it will be
operated on tne auction plan of selling1
tobacco just as all of the warehouses
wore run last year and tho y?av before.
Mr. Freeman lias an advertisement
in this issue of the Herald tell ing
ahont his warehouse and it- plan
of selling.
The warehouse is assured of plenty
of buyers from all or the leading companies
.and every attention and courtesy
will he shown every grower who
brings his to:ncco there fo-* sale < n
the auction p'an.
The time for 'he opening of Hie
warehouse will 1)0 published in good
time.
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( II \N( K FOR WOMEN
The state department of education,
with the co-operation of the board of
education at Lander college, beginning
July 21 and closing on August
1*). This school is for girls over 14
and women who in youth did not master
the three "Ivs." While emphasis
will be placed on teaching, reading,
writing, arithmetic and spelling, \or
the student will have all the cultural
contact connected with a Christian
college. Aside from drill work of the
classroom there will he good lectures,
musicals and educational pictures.
ELECTS OFFICERS
Columbia, Juno 2!>.?The hoard of
directors of the South Carolina Cotton
Growers' Co-operative Association
has announced the election of Harry
G. Kaniiner of Gadsden as president
and general manager; J. H. Johnson
of Rock Hill, ,rst vice president; J. P.
MeNair of Aiken, second vice president.
and Harold C. Hooker of Columbia,
secretary and manager of field
service.