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% . VOLUME XXXVII MEETING FIXES ASSESSMENTS Candidates for Office Will Have to Pay This " Time FILLING FIVE OFFICES Campaign Opens at Loris on Saturday, August 5th. Lists Close Friday Before The Democratic executive committee for this county met at the courthouse last Friday morning at 10:.S0 o'clock for the purpose of fixing the assessment of candidates, and the places and dates for the campaign speakings of the campaign. The meeting was called to order by chairman, E. J. Sherwood, and the roll call showed about twenty members of the committee present. The first matter taken up was that of the assessments to be paid by the candidates to defray the expenses of the primary election. The chairman states that in this election only a few of the offices are to he filled as follows: . Treasurer A ud i tor House of Representatives Probate .fudge Magistrates. I-! L-ni.l fl-i'ii <lir> iiinumn f I'dltl !K lie: c l I * I UUU V ? ? V> n? WHIV/ I > WI.. sessmer.ts could not lie.* as much this time :is it wms last unless the amount to he paid by the candidates was raised nor could managers and committeemen he paid the same amounts for their work unless by some means a larger amount could ho realized \from the assessments. He stated that the total raised by the assessments two years ago was $1,40.0.00 and that out of this the expenses were all paid and left a balance which was still in the treasury, of $114.77. Two years ago the candidates for treasurer were assessed $50.00, auditor $50.00, House of Representatives $25.00, magistrate at Conway $20, at large $5. The matter of the assessments to bo paid this tune was then submitted to the meeting and these were finally fixed ms follows: Treasurer $100.00 Auditor 100.00 House 50.00 Probate Judge 50.00 Magistrate, Conway 25.00 Magistrate at large 5.00 The committee then decided when the time for filing pledges will close and the campaign open; Time for filing the pledges of candidates closes at noon on Friday, August 4, and the first campaign meeting will he held at I,oris on Saturday, the day following. August 5. Then the campaign will rest on Sunday and Monday and then take up the meetings again as ioi lows: Socastee, Tuesday, August 8. Tilly Swamp, Wednesday, August !>. Little River, Thursday, August 10. Kbenezer, Friday, August 11. Bayhoro, Saturday, August 12. Then there will be a rest o! one week during which there will he no meetings, and after the week's rest the meetings will go on to the end as follows: Green Sea. Monday, August 21. Floyds, Tuesday, August 22. Ay nor, Wednesday, August 23. Dog Bluff, Thursday, August 21. Pauley Swamp, Friday, August 25. Conway, Saturday, August 20. The first Democratic primary will be held on Tuesday, August 21), just three days after the close of the campaign ends at Conway on the 20th. It was brought out in the meeting that the Democratic club rolls will close on July 25. The chairman urged the members of the committee to make it convenient for both thei men and women voters to sign the rolls before it is too late; that no matWW.V.V.VMV.VWAVA' : THIS AGE ROT ! :: , If I were a woman I would,*, o register. If I were a woman T " would sign the Democratic club " J* roll before July 25 and thus he " J able to cast my vote in any pri *m mary that may be held during "I the next two vears. ' mm What is all this talk about a *2 J" woman having to tell her age " when she signs the roll, or rath- " er what does it all amount to? " If I were a woman I would tell my age as soon as I would tell ? mm anything else about myself. A J" *1 woman is as old as she looks "J J" and acts. Her age in actual years makes no difference to " anybody in the world. " " Since woman has taken on ? herself the burden as well as ? the privilege of the vote she , I must stand up to the resposihil"? ity. If woman be any better " J than man (?) then we need her " " vote to elect the best candidates * for office. The need may n?>t appear imperative now, but it " mm may appear so later. The woI-,. , man who r'ai's to sign the rolls n " and do all other things needed l " to make Iior eligible to exercise ?" * Ji her rights may repent her ac J tion later. J* ? (The BUCK HOUSANI) HITS CHESTNUT Making Serious Wound on the Head With Automobile Pumn * ? -rOn last Sunday evening at about dark at lied Bluff. Daggett Chestnut was struck on the head by Buck Housand, the weapon used being an automobile handpump. He was knocked down by the lick which made a large sign on his head, and was brought to Conway on Monday morning in what was described as a precarious condition. The outcome of the blow on the head was uncertain. Just before the blow was struck on Chestnut a car containing Lester Housand and his father, Buck Housand, drove up near the store of Buck Housand at lied Bluff. The car stopped. Standing near were Daggett Chestnut, Lite liheuark, H.urvev Skipper, Dick Skipper, Joe Co\ and J. A. Stalvoy. Lester Housand kprang out of the car and attacked Harvey Skipper. While they were engaged in combat, Mrs. Buck Housand came out of the house nearby and struck Harvey Skipper with a/ fence rail. The injury done to Harvey Skipper i . _ * .. 1. _ * r* i W..I* uc?i .so .suriou.s, as ne was nxeu up by the doctor sewing up his wounds. It was a Iter tlio fight between Lester Housand and Harvey Skipper had been quieted to some extent that the injury was done to Daggett Chestnut. Chestnut was standing up and look-' ing on when it is said that Buck Housand took up a hand pump used for inflating automobile tires, and while standing behind Chestnut, struck him a powerful blow on the head which felled Chestnut to the ground. It appears that there had been no previous personal difficulty between the parties, but the trouble arose about talk of h .-i?i.derous nature concerning some of the wives or daughters of some of the principals in the affair. Buck Housand conducts a store .at Red Bluff and it was near his place of business that the fight took place. A warrant was sworn out for Buck Housand and the constable of Magistrate W. H. Chestnut, with A. V. Chestnut, went to arrest Housand at an early hour on last Monday morning. The injured man, Daggett Chestnut, is :x relative of the constable and also a relative of A. V. Chestnut, who r^comparied the constable On this ground Housand refused to be arrested and stated he would not go to jail in that way. After some parleying, J. R. Gore, constable in Simpson Creek township under Magistrate H. C. Gore, was sent after and J. R. Gore made the arrest. It is said that whiskey had no part to play whatever in this trouble, but had other causes. HEAVIEST FALL IN A CENTURY ? ' n C? C1 William mirgess 01 o. v,., on Hie public road between Socastee and MurrelFs Inlot is Nf> years of ago. In all of tlv.it time he has never known the water from rainfall in Collins Creek to flow over the roadbed, where the public road crosses this creek, until this summer. During the recent heavy rains in that section of the county the flood waters from the rainfall ran over the top of the second rail of the bridge which now spans the stream. This is mentioned to show the immense fall of rain in that particular community, something that evidently never occurred before in almost 100 years. o More than six thousand tyypical school children from representative sections of South Carolina were recently tested bv a trained staff from (he national committee for mental hygient. They found 2.K per cent of the white children and 4.2 per cent of the colored children to be mentally defective. ter how many special elections might be held in two years' time these rolls would have to govern for that time, " ? - i 11 _ i. .i voters illusi enroll ai tneir n ears si precincts by nearest practicable routes, according to the rules. To cle otherwise might briny on a contest of some election. Voters must siyr up by their full names and not by initials or first name and middle initials Write the full name every time. After the closing of the books or July 25 the executive committee must meet again for the purpose of purging the rolls. This meeting must lx held before Auyust 1. The club rolls will be yone over with care. A committee consisting of E. J Sherwood, W. M. Carter and J. T Shelly was appointed bv the meeting for the purpose of marking out tin magistrate districts in the county an< thus make it easy to cast the vote fo magistrate in the coming election. Each committeeman was asked t< hfyid in his recommendation for tin three managers of each poll. Thos who were present handed in the name while those absent will mail in tin names and a complete list of the man agers for each precinct will be pub lished either this week or next. %\mv CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY, i ENROLL FOR ' $ J If you would vote in tlie enroll your full name on your loci mm on which date the books close. J \ According to the rules of the J" lin.a the qualifications for membei U the state and for voting* at a prim " "The applicant for member J of age, or shall become so before t " be a white Democrat. He shall be " of this state. No person shall b< -* . i i i. j _ J : % primary unless tie nas le^mtu m " county six months prior to the s ? the club district f>0 days prior to tl , to enroll: Provided, That public " the Gospel in charge of a regular " from the provisisns of this secti " qualified." m " Women are ineligible to jury enrolling in a Democratic club would WEEK'S RECORD IN CAR WRECKS Two Cars Collide Near Crab Tree in Headon Style '\NOTHER TAKES THE DITCH Fast Driving and Other Causes Lead to Various Results On Highways hast week took the record in the matter of auto wrecks on the public highway in this county. On Tuesday night of hist week O. M. Blanton, driving a Ford touring car, as he was making the turn at the bridge across Crab Tree, just this side of Home wood, drove into a Ford coupe which was being driven toward Conway by LeGrand Pace of Marion, S. C\, in company with a young Mr. Evans from the same town and two Conway girls. The damages to the coupe were > repaired by tlie Tisdale Bros, many new parts being put in to replace those destroyed and broken by the shock. The l>i11 amounted to the sum of $00.15, which was paid by Mr. Blanton. The latter took the blame for the accident, happening to be on the wrong side of a dangerous' curve while passing round that curve, and the other driver not being at fault. This bill included the cost of a transfer to take Messrs. Pace and Evans to Marion. The Ford coupe ,.was so badly broken up that it took more than a day to get it in here and the damages repaired. Blanton had been in Conway for two or three days attending to,business. He was on his way out of Conwas toward his home when this accident occurred and he returned to the town and made things good before he left. The damages to his own car did not amount to as much as it did on the other.' His windshield and radiator were damaged and some replacements had to l?e made. Another accident of dangerous possibilities took place on Tuesday evening of last week, when a Ford car, i which was being driven by , Jackson, a traveling man, ran off the embankment just beyond the long Kvirlfffl T-Tnlfwnv Crook. near "I IMS* ?.**./? */ . , Toddville. One account of tho cause of the accident was a board resting on the side of the road. The end 1 caught iti the wheel and turned the car over into the ditch. There was another man riding in the car with Jackson and beyond a few bruises both men escaped injury. The car itself took up all the force. The windshield and the top were all gone. This ! car was repaired at the garage of the Buck Motor Company and the bill ' amounted to a neat sum by the time the work was all done. Later in the week at the town hall . the Chevrolet of W. J. Singleton, which was being driven by Mr. Sin' gleton's son. went ahead unexpected1 ly while the boy was cranking it. He caught up on the radiator and the car stopped when it -truck one of the iron, pipes holding up one of the signs 1 at the city hall. The damage ir- this case was not so much and the driver 1 was not hurt. The accident carried dangerous possibilities, however, and if the engine had not been choked down when the car struck against the 1 post there is no telbng what would - have been the consequences to Mr. " Singleton. This last mentioned accident was ' K\t Avanl-lnff nn tho mnclvnO while the ^oars were in hign. It wa.: better in high than if it had been left in low. Similar acc'deots have - occurred before arid with moie damaging results. 1 o Two million American club women pledged themselves to assist the Amevican T.egion in obtaining adequate n hospital treatment for disabled World 0 War veterans and to help rehabilitats ed veterans find employment through 0 their representatives at the meeting " of the board of directors of the Gen oral Federation of Women's Clubs at Chautauqua, N. Y. M p t ? VO JULY 20. 1922 l.w.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v,v.w.v THE PRIMARY :| *1 primary this summer you MUST " tl club book on cr before July 25, * JJ s Democratic party of South Caro ship in any club of the party in mry election are as follows: ship, or voter, shall be 21 years J" he succeeding general election and *" a citizen of the United States ai d * ;lonjr to any club or vote in any " the state two years and in the "? UOPPPfl i niv crpnornl nlprtinn ji nd in ? le first primary following fiis offer school teachers and ministers of organized church shall he exempt ?w on as to residence, if otherwise "? a a i ' duty and even if they1 were liable, ** not in anv way affect that matter. O ? * a u ? m m m ? v m m k K- * 9 STONEWALL HAS MAPS OF ROUTE Making in Two Sections Both of Which Will be Pub. lished 'U. S. AUTO ASSOCIATION Road Will Extend From Chicago, 111., to Myrtle Beach, S. C. All things concerning the Stonewall highway, the route of which leads from Chicago on the Great Lakes, by Conway to Myrtle Beach, on the Atlantic Seaboard, are very interesting to the people of this entire section. Recently A. P. Lallier and L. O. Smith of Washington, D. C.. representatives of the United States Automobile Association, spent some time in Conway, also at Myrtle Ucacn taking filPM nntpy uml nthri' ili> ivn < paper for the making of this branch of the highway as it leans out of Merry county along the national highway toward Marion. Tliev wove afterward heard from in Marion, where they were engaged in similar work, and still later in Florence, S. C. The Florence Times, in a recent issue, has the following information about their work and about the road: Road Scouts A. P. Lallier and L. O. Smith of Washington, D. O., arrived in Florence one day last week and spent the day charting and marking the Stonewall huihway vhich they are logging from Myrtle Reach to Chicago, 111., via Florence. They expected to take the road again and continue their drive on to Asheville, N. C. , as rapidly as possible. These scouts are working for the United States Automobile Association, which is undertaking to log and publish the chart of the Stonewall highwav under the mi spices of the Stonewall Highway Association. Just as soon as the work is finished the maps .and addenda of the completed highway will he published for 4'ree d:.-tbut ion. The route of this highway is from D .1. /"<? ... VI T'l .M V '"I IC I 'H 1J K' 11, \ I >: 1 ' > I \ , .inn in:-, i i?> ence, Darlinpton, !Iartsv:l!e, Mf'loo, Moiu'op, N. C., Charlotte, Asheville, Knoxville, Tenn.; Eoxinpton, Ky.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Indianapolis, lnd.; and Chicago. It is a distance of probably 1 .bOO miles as nearly as the lenpth of the road can be estimated now. The highway log is heinp pul)lished in two sections, the first from Myrtle Beach to Asheville and the second from Asheville to Chicapo. Most of this hiphway is (|uite well built now, say the scouts. By fall, they said, it will be open from Myrtle Beach to Chicapo with averape pood loads to the best types know n in present hiphway construction. Most of the difficulties alonp the road are the detours which are necessary because of present construction. Some of the prominent citizens ff South Carolina are back of the Stonewall association. Amonp them are l>r. E. W. Sikes of Hartsville, president; D. M. Burrouphs of Conway, vice president for South Carolina, Charles O. Orton of Monroe, N. C., is secretary. FIFTEEN0 ACRES FINE TOBACCO C. C. Gore has fifteen acres of fine tobacco this year not-withstanding the seasons that were somewhat adverse and which have damaged his crop t< some extent. He was in Conway last Saturday with a sample hunch of leaves select ed from a second cropping from hh field. These leaves show a good hod\ considering the heavy rains and als< a good color. It is believed that h< will have more than the ordinary sue cess with his crop this year. Mr. Gore lives on the Inman plan which contains- more than five hundro( ai res of land'in all, of which thirl? acres are cleared. He is a son of tin late C. C. Gore, Sr., the noted lain surveyor of his time. Mr. Gore expects to sell his lug croj under the auction plan. * t LATEST HORRY j JOKE IS TOLD Marionite as Usual is the Teller of This Latest Tale of Woe An awful tale was once told on the girls of Sampson county, North Carolina. It was said that thov had blue rings round their loirs, and the blue streaks were not garters, either. They got the blue rings from standing barefooted in the water of ponds and branches picking the blue huckleber-1 ries, for which that county of the tar heel state has always been famous. Men told the tale .all over this country and laughed at it. Various have been the jokes of a similar nature told on the people of: Horry county. South Carolina. The! latest has come out and it is included ir. a dispatch about a whisker* sti'l captured in M'oodherry township in Marion county. It is :\ news item sent over to the Florence Times bv that newspaper's Marion correspondent last wrote, and hero it appears in full. (Notice the desire to p!a\ off on Horry county and Mvrtle Beach. placing it. however, in the very end of tlie article so that it might not he seen at first.?Editor.) Marion.?The operation of a still near Old Oak church, in Woodberrv ownship came to an abrupt end. Three men were discoverer! at the stiB diligently working in th.e interest of John Barleycorn. They fled into the swamp and have not been apprehended. A new Ford automobile, with a North Carolina license was also found near the still, the license being tied on the hack of the car and not attached in the usual way. The report is that these parties had been manufacturing: and transporting." whiskey to North Carolina.. Apropos of the number of stills that have been found in the woods in this county and Horry county, the recent meeting of the .State Press Association at Myrtle Beach one of the editors was heard to remark that he noticed a good many people in this section who had a line of indentation oil their noses which would indicate that they wore spectacles, but none of them wore spectacles, and he found out later that the line of indentation was caused from the fact that the parties frequently drank booze out of a fruit jar. FIRE FIGHTERS ENJOY FLORENCE Delegates from Conway went over to Florence last Thursday to take in the firemen's convention held in that citv on Thursday and Friday. The Conwftyites wore J. L. .Chestnut. member of the dennvtment. find Perrv Qu.nttlebaum, tlio Conway fire chief. Following was the program carried out hv the Florence Chamber of Commerce. Thursday. 12:00 ?Convention called to carder hv the president, I.ouis Belirens, at Hotel Florence. I evocation. Address of welcome from Florence, Hon. Mayor W. U. Barrinuer. Address of welcome from tire department? R. M. Self. Kesponse?Chief Louis Belirens of Charleston, president South Carolina Firemen's Associat ion. Address?J. M. Lynch of Florence. Address?Hon. James D. McNeill of Fayetteville, N. C. ex-president of North Carolina State Firemen's Association and president <>f the National Firemen's Association. Address?Hon. John J. McMahan, insurance commissioner of South Carolina. Luncheon?11otel Florence. 4:00 i\ M.?Special entertainment. 8:00 P. M.? Business session. Friday 11 :00 A. M.?Business session. TAKES WXRRANT FOR YOUNG MAN Magistrate W. H. Chestnut last week issued a warrant for Albert J. Singleton of the Pee Deo section of Bucks township charging: ihe crime of seduction. | The warrant was issued at the behest of the young: woman who makes the charge under the statute or South Carolina, under which several eases have been tried before the courts here in the last few years. ** The defendant has employed counsel and declares th.it lie is not guilty I of the crime charged. Bond h.as been furnished and there * may or may not bo a preliminary ' held before the case conies up in the ' high court. ?. o An otficial welcome from the French government is awaiting the delegation of American Legionnaires who ' will revisit the scenes of their A. K. F. activities this August, according to Ambassador Jussorand, speaking in I behalf of his government. The papty of legion men and their wives will 1 sail from New York on August 5 to visit France, Belgium and England. i NO 14 ( \Ii LEADS TO WHISKEY FIND Ford Touring Almost Lost in Waters on Kingston Lake TWO ARRESTS ARE MADE Cooper and Sellers Drivers of The Car, Deny any Violation of the Law Last Sunday morning- at an early hour a local ir.ara.iro received an order to pull a Ford tourinir car out of the ditch. The work was done by Mechanic McEntyrc of the Ruck Motor Company. hy means of <>np of the trucks of the company and the accident was reported as he was returning into Cor> way. The accident occurred on the old sawdust road 4hat extends from the old wooden hridiro near the old mill she to the trinnery of the Snow Hill G?n Company. Instead* of heintr in the ditch the car proved to he almost in the lake, as it had sheared ofr the sawdust embankment into the edrro of the waters of the lake and took up airainst the roots of a cypress tr?e. As soon as the news of the accident came to the ears of the officers of the law. Chief E. E. Dusenburv and V. D. Johnson of the rural police went to the scene of the trouble, as the officers usually do in such matters. t'\ see if then* could he found an y evidence of whiskey in the circumstances. The officers found T. Frank Cooper and Goorce M. Sellers, two farmers of the nearby township tryinir to tret the Ford car. off from the place following" the rescue hy the truck. The officers helped them tret the car pushed _ <V '. Ml 1 * 1 ' <"i up i nt? mil and me two men stopped the ear on the hill near the residence of Rob MoCrackon. At first no evidence of whiskey could he found ahout the place of the accident. First searches made hv the officers along both sides of the old road leading up to the gin failed to find anv hidden whiskey. Finally Chief Dusenhury found six and one-half gallons of monkey rum well hidden in the bushes and weeds about one hundred feet from where the car wa s stuck, and in the direction of the gin from the car. Upon finding this they pressed in a negro, Joe Ward, much against his wishes, to hitch up his wagon and drive the wagon load of whiskey up to the citv hall whoix? it was placed under lock and key. Cooper and Sellers both protested against arrest, saying that they had no connection whatever with the find of whiskey; that they had not seen it or had anything to do with it until it had been found by the officer. They were brought to the town hall and placed under bond for their appearance on Monday before the town court. There appeared to he a question as to whether the town or the county had jurisdiction of the case. The line of the town of Conway passes near the Snow 11 ill Ginnery. The map in the town hall was found to show this line .as running through the ginnery I v ? i ! 1 i I ! ?i< < nf 44 i J m on I Inw m!.' i n<r I U I I I < I I I 1 U <11 llKli |'i?u < , l i i ?. ii i i < l rv i t ?. the find of whiskev outside of Conway, or if the 1 ihad l>eeu changed since the map yas made so as to take in more territory the find was within the corporate limits. This matter of jurisdiction was left over to he lcttled later and in the meantime bonds wore made for the .appearance of the men before the Mayor for an investigation and hearingJoe Ward, the negro who lives near by and works on the farm, said he had heard knocking down on the h:ke road at a very early hour on Sunday morning. This was the only evidence to be had of the time when the car van off the embankment. .,.,.V.V.VMV.V.V.V,%V.VbV 1 GRADING AND TYING % - JjJ ? Some of the tobacco growers 3r J were worried when the last Leg- % I; is la tu re, by an act, made it % " necessary to grade and tie leaf fc M Jt " tobacco before offering for sale " *H on the warehouse floors. " J" Some of the growers may not % know how to erode Jind tin It ? may l>o bad for all those and *" for them there is hut one thing1 " to do, unless they will quickly [[ J" learn how. In North Carolina IF there is no such law. % ? Grading and tying, however, U" is one of the best things to he 5" ? done for the improvement of J " the tobacco industry. Kvery % " grower ought to know the S " grades and how to separate ^ " them just as well as the buyer % ? of the weed. Under the law the " growers must learn. The bet- % " ter they learn how to do this " and know how to value their *. "* own product, the better it will JV he for them. Grading and ty- ? " ing is a step forward in progi ,ps ......j /.V.V.V.V.W.V.W.V.V.V.W