The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 27, 1922, Image 1
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Conway should handle its full ?J
Ijj share of the tobacco crop raised Jj
I in this section. About half of ?m
5 the tobacco raised will be sold .
J at the co-operative warehouses j? i
% at the various places, where to- %
J bacco in the leaf is sold. The ?j[
C growers have to send in a card %
S showing to which market they
J will deliver their product. j[ |
J" Warehouse men and gromers
J alike must keep the matter in
w mind or some of the markets \
may suffer by reason of the busi- Ij
V ness going elsewhere. Each
business man can do his part
/ toward inducing the tobacco to a*
* come to his own market rather % .
> than hauled or shipped away to ? '
? i 1 mi *
-m suing ouier. mere is no time %
" to be lost in this work. Some JJ"
I time may have been lost al- ?[J 1
ready. During the rest of the (
?? time each market should wake ?
HI up to the situation and look out jjl
5j for its rights while there is yet .
B time left in which to do some- ?
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SUMMER SCHOOL
MAKING SUCCESS
The summeV school is running
smoothly. Every morning at 11
o'clock chapel exercises are conducted
by one of the local pastors or an
address is made by a local man on
some subject of interest to teachers.
Arrangements are already being
made for a social affair for the summer
school pupils next Thursday evening
at the schoolhouse. Below is a
list of those attending the summer
school:
Miss Ethel White, Allen, S. C.
Mr. John Tompkins, Adrian.
Mr. Norman Chestnut, Allsbrook.
Mr. M. D. Cox, Allsbrook.
Mr. G. P. Carroll, Conway.
Miss Jessie Wilson, Conway.
Miss Mary Tuton, Conway.
Miss Clara Pickett, Conway.
Miss Oneida Bacot, Conway.
Miss Bessie Johnson, Conway.
Mr. Hal King, Conway.
Miss Agnes Nichols, Conway.
Mrs. Maude Jones, Conway.
Miss Maude Anderson, Gurlev.
Mi ss Georgia Martin, Jordanville.
Mi ss Mollie Johnson, Jordanville.
. M iss Emaline Hyman, Jordanville.
Scottie Milligan, Lor is.
Blanche Cox, Lor is.
Leila Hardee, Lor is.
Mr. S. Bertie* Small, Nichols.
Dan Edge, Hand.
James.F. Chestnut, Conway ,route 3.
Sam T. Smith, Conway, route 1..
Wilbur Jones, Conway, route 1.
M iss Lou Mae Blanton, Tabor, N.
C., route 2.
M iss Fannie L. A. Gore.
Nina Allen, Gurley.
Reba Stevens.
Miss Gertrude Stevens, Allsbrook
*oute 2.
Miss Anna Oliver, Conway, S. C.
Miss Ira Small, Nichols, S. C.
JUSTICETAKEN
WITH WARRANT
Chris Jewell and Clyde justice
Are Also Under
Arrest
MEN ELUDED OFFICERS
Federal Warrant Follows Prosecution
in State Court Here
Some Months Ago
Federal revenue officers, accompanied
by H. N. Sessions, local deputy,
went to Little River on July 19 and
arrested Benjamin H. Justice, Chris
Jewell and Clyde Justice under
charges of violation of the Volstead
'Act and evading arrest under Federal
laws relating to the enforcement of
prohibition.
The three defendants were brought
to Conway by the officers and all of
them made bond in the sum of $100
for their appearance at the next term
of the District Court of the United
States for the eastern district of
South Carolina. The bond required
was made higher on account *of the
fact that these men have evaded the
offices and managed to keep out of
the#hands of the law for many months.
The prosecution grows out of the
events of last year, when rural policement
of Horry county made a raid
at the Justice place and found a still
in operation. Chris Jewell and Clyde
Justice made their escape, according?
to the story told by the officers here,
^ and only B. H. Justice and a man by
the name of Causey were taken up
and tried in the court of general sessions
here some months ago. B. H.
Justice came clear by the verdict of
a jury in the court at Conway.
The officers then reported the case
to the Federal officers and all throe
of these men were prosecuted in tho
Federal court. At the last term of
the Federal court, held ia Charleston,
a true bill was found against them
by the grand jury, but the defendants
were not there to ;;tand trial. The
case against them, however, was continued
and is still to he tried. The
defendants are now under bonds in
i the sum of $1,000 eacn to meet the
next term of Hie court.
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TOBACCO LOST,
CORN CUT OFF
'eople of Socastee Cannot
Pay Taxes or Meet
The Demands
NFORMATION IS GATHERED
Stated by Names of Farmers
With Losses Sustained.
Help is Needed There
With the aid of George W. Watts
and W. J. Singleton, who called^to
their aid other farmers of Socastee
township, the Herald has tried to gather
such information as it could concerning
the great loss of the crops in
that township. The cause of the loss
is the rains which began in that section
when the crops were young and
have continued so that the damaged
plants could never recover.
At other places in Horry this year
there has been too much rain, hut
nothing like the quantity and lon#continued
fall that took place in Socastee.
The farmers of that section of the
county are down and out on account
of this misfortune. Many of them
have been unable to pay their taxes.
They are unable to pay them now.
The corn crops are ruined so that only
;i little corn will be produced. The
tobacco crops are a total loss. How
can they pay their delinquent taxes
and meet their other obligations and
live through to another crop season?
are the questions they are asking.
The purpose of this article is not
only the stating of the facts as news,
but the Herald has in view the giving
of the information to others of the
county and let others see if there is
not some way in which these unfor
tunate planters may be aided in a
substantial way.
General J. P. Derham was in Conway
the first of last week and talked
with two of the farmers from the
Socastee section. He said that he favored
a general survey of the county
to ascertain the losses sustained in
Socas'tee and the other individual
losers from the hail and the rains all
over the county and that steps be
taken then to pay the taxes of all the
sufferers and render such other help
as could be done.
The work of gathering the facts as
they are in Socascee township is pivon
here for the purpose of bringing the
matter to the attention of all the
people, the Chamber of Commerce,
the Red Cross, the churches, and all
other organizations that could possibly
help in bringing about some relief.
Anything that is done will be appreciated
by a worthy people who have
always worked hard to get .along and
have always been among the best in
the county, and really among the
most industrious and law-abiding that
we knew.
For convenience the section was divided
into three divisions and the information
as to each is given in regular
order:
Conditions In Socastee on the Conway
Side of Socastee Creek
H. H. Brown will raise 15 per cent
of his usual crop of corn. Ilis sugar
cane about the same. Soy beans are
a total loss, while tobacco will be
about 10 per cent and two acres of
sweet potatoes about 40 per cent.
Crops of R. B. Tindale: His corn
crop is about 20 per cent of its usual
amount, tobacco 25 per cent; hay total
fair! suirnr cane. fair:
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sorghum, total loss.
G. W. Mills will make 20 per cent
of a crop of corn and 15 per cent of
a tobacco crop.
C. E. Dusenbury: Corn is cut down
to 30 per cent; tobacco 30 per cent;
potatoes 30 per cent; hay 20 per cent.
O. T. Claredy: Corn, only 5 per
cent of the usual crop; potatoes very
had.
Bossie Duncan will raise 5 per cent
of a crop of corn and a 5 per cent
crop of tobacco from three acres planted
this year. His potatoes are a fairly
good crop.
L. II. Duncan has eight acres of
corn and will get 10 per cent. He
has a fairly good potato crop.
Jessie Mills comes next. He has
20 per cent of a corn crop left, tobacco
20 per cent. His potatoes are just
set.
B. F. Mills has been badly damaged
in his corn crop and gets only 5 per
cent. The sugar cane is down to 20
per cent, tobacco, two and one-half
arces, 50 per cent. Potatoes are just
set out. Other crops .are poor.
J. M. Martin's corn is cut off to 20
per cent. His tobacco is a total loss.
Potatoes and hay are very poor.
N. L. Ammons has a total loss of
corn crop and his tobacco the same.
He has a fair potato crop.
J. R. Ammons' corn crop is down
to 20 per cent, tobacco a total loss,
hay looking bad; only his sweet potato
crop is doing fairly well.
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1. j\. oievens win get p?r
cent from his fourteen acres of corn.
His hay looks very well. Potatoes are
just now put out.
C. M. Fullwood will get half a crop
from twenty-five acres of corn. Tobacco
will be about HO per cent of the
normal crop. Sugar cane and sweet
potatoes are the average at this time.
D. B. Hardee has 5 per cent of a
crop of corn and tobacco. His sweet
potato crop is cut off one-half; hay
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CONWAY. S. C? THURSDAY
PLACES CONWAY
ON BIGGER MAP
Two Interesting Strangers
From Atlantic City Visit
The Town
C.upt. Harry Somers, licensed pilot,
working the coast of the United
States, from the state of Maine to
Key West, and George F. Currie of
31 South Connecticut avenue, Atlantic
City, N. J., passed through Conway
recently after spending several
days at Murrell's Inlet on their annual
summer outing at places of interest
along the Atlantic Seaboard.
While in Conway Capt. Comers and
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I :vir. v^urrie spent, several hours meeting
some of the leading business men
of Conway and Myrtle Beach. With
some of these they discussed the present
status of the Atlantic Intracoastal
Waterway and the possibilities tlv?.t
iie in favor of this place following
the completion and operation of the
waterway.
Mr. Currie is a prominent hardware
man of Atlantic City, where he
is interested in one of the largest
hardware concerns of the country.
He is also interested to a great extent
in transportation as being one
of the important things in getting
people to and away from a place, and
the movement of products from one
section to another. Capt. Comers in
his work as a pilot, has learned from
experience the great utility and commercial
value of deep inland canals
and bold rivers, to the shipping of
both business and pleasure craft up
and down the Atlantic coast. .
Mr. Somers says that there is no
estimating the value of such a waterway
in the future development of this
section, especially the effect that it
will have on Conway and Myrtle
Beach. He states that yacht after
yacht will remain tied up in the harbors
up North all the year round on
account of the dangerous coast that
must be traversed in passing North
Carolina and South Carolina. Manj
boats have perished in making this
trip because the trip has to be made
outside round dangerous points and
capes and in a sea that is kicked
up in a jiffy. The completion of the
intracoastal waterway by connecting
up the unfinished reaches as you
would build in the sections of a road
will bring to Conway all of the numerous
boats and yachts that would
be glad to make the trip once or twice
a year. Many of these boats belong
to millionaires. They spend monej
lavishly wherever they stop. As ii
is at the present time this section get*
none of the tourist travel in that line
One at Myrtle Beach may sit with t
pair of field glasses and keep an ac
count of the yachts that pass by or
the high sea. With the completior
of the inland waterway all of this
shipping would enter the Waccamav
River at Georgetown and come ir
tranquil waters by Conway. Pleas
ure, of course, is not all that ,is ir
view. Cheap water rates for the pro
duce of this section would soon mak<
it much more important than it is as
a shipping point and would add t<
the material wealth of the people anc
raise the value of their lands to (
great extent. The route will use th<
Waccamaw River along here and fni
into North Carolina, then through i
comparatively short canal into th<
Cape Fear River. Capt. Homers wil
be glad to correspond with any busi
ness man of this section in regard t<
the information he can give on these
matters. He can get the signature:
of hundreds of pilots and captain:
showing how they regard the projee
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Ji A great many merchants
J summer.. Some even stop it alt
jl In every day life, when a tl
?J[ forth greater effort. If the labo
mm crowbar and a block of wood.
moves. If the crowbar isn't lonj
% He doesn't give up, because the s
f Same way in business. T
J is that the lighter it gets, the har
though. You may have to have 1
, ought not to shorten it. The b
Ji newspaper advertising is the Ion]
% trade.
J Dull times are the times 1
% the most money. People don't us\
f Advertising is merely asking for
% day, cut down your space. Don't
f in dull times, but keep count .ant
J was profitable. Profitable right
" able after a while. The very fs
^ wise enough to advertise in dull s
jC able for those who do. You are 1
? you greater prominence. It will i
C much more elTective.
f Common sense has a great
J about it from a common-sense stu
to pay out money for newspaper
J ing expenses, but it will pay.
* More than half the businc
J ahead if they could shut up for
V they don't do it.
: 5 Why?
\ Simply because they e&n't i
S Same way in advertising.
! i Think about it.
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GURLEY CROPS
HURT BY RAIN
W. H. Bell has Fine Corn Crop
- Sons Are Raising Fine
Tobacco Crops
W. H. Hell, one of the leading farmers
.and business men of Ba.vboro
township, spent several hours here
recently. 7.
He jj-ave the editor of the Herald
an idea of the state of the crops in
his township. From Gurley station
out to old Bayboro, the crops have
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MOW ?>n u\ iaiIKS 10 tne extent 01
about 50 per cent. Corn crops and
tobacco crops alike suffered damage
to the extent of about one-half.
The crops of Mr. Bell are about the
only crops that seemed to miss this
damage. He has a fine corn crop, or
did have when he was in Conway last
week. He does not plant any tobacco
on his own account, but his boys, who
have planted the weed this year, were
having success with it.
From old Bayboro onward, going
westward toward Louisville section,
the crops have not been hurt by the
rains and are good as a general rule.
The corn and tobacco last week looked
fine in that section of the township
and gave promise of a fine yield of
nearly all of the crops planted.
It appears that in Bayboro township
only a small percentage of the
tobacco growers have gone into the
' co-operative movement for the mar!
keting of the weed. Mr. Bell could
not remember the names of all who
' may have joined the movement up to
the time that he visited in Conway,
but he was certain that Jim Dorsey,
' Arnold Bell and Roy Tyler, possibly
a few others Kad signed the contacts.
| The great bulk of liie growers in Bay|
boro township had not seen fit to
come in under the co-operative plans
up to that time.
In the section between Curley and
' Bayboro prospects were appearing
, -ery bad for any lroney to be turned
, out from the tobacco crops. There is
[ plenty of tobacco there, such as it is,
I but it cannot make a very good grade
I owing to the damage that has been
, done by the frequent rains. Last
uroolr tlm rainc li'i/l cfftnnorl nni) tlio
[ effects of the recent heavy ruins were
1 being shown every day in the tobacco
. patches.
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: and proving- that they would be only
r too glad to use the way.
t Now to boil the maUer down and
5 put it in a nutshell, so to spe;iK, the
. completion 01 the waiervu'tv will pi.t
i Conway on the ovip and do it at once.
- Conway has been too little; known.
1 Strangers like those of this week and
i whose names appear above, admit
5 that when they get here they find one
j of the most beautiful little towns
l they have ever seen; one which, in
- their opinion, has many advantages
i for business and pleasure. But they
- had never known anything about it
3 and never heard anything about it.
s With the completion of the waterway
> Conway will at once spring into prom1
inence and become what it should be
i in the estimation of people all the
i way from Maine to Key West.
r The people of Conway have some
1 interest in this inland waterway.
2 They have not yet shown enough in1
terest. They get busy at times and
- send messages to congressmen, but
"> they do not stay busy at the job. One
3 of the greatest things for us is the
=5 completion of the waterway and we
=5 should not rest until it has been act
complished.
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cui (town uieir uuveiLising in uiy mm
off ether. \
ling is hard to do, it only calls J
rer can't move the stone, he gets a
He makes a lever?and the stone JJ"
X enough he gets something longer. ?J|
tone has got to be moved. HI
'rade is a stone. The funny thing
der it is to move. It can be moved, \
the lever lengthened. Certainly you J
est business lever is advertising? "
[jest lever and the quickest to move J
Lo put forth the greatest effort and
jally ask for what they have already. J
trade. When the store is full every "
expect that you will get a big trade
[1 you will find that the advertising J
at the time, and enormously profit- "
ict that only a few merchants jire J
seasons makes it all the more profit- !
there when others are not. Tt gives "
make your advertising hi busy times
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deal to do with advertising. Think
indpoint. It may take some "nerte"
space when the business isn't male- J
?ss houses in the country would be /
three months in the summer. But "J
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ifford to. People would forget them.
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CAMPAIGN MEET !
BRINGS CROWDS
Speaking Takes Place on Open
Lot Near Railroad
Depot
GOVERPJORS~GET APPLAUSE
Women Candidates For State
Superintendent Awaken
Interest of People
Last Monday was state candidate
day in Conway.
Among the candidates for Governor
is t^oie L. Blease. In former \eais,
when Blease was a candidaate several
| times, Horry county was tho place
where he counted on a big ovation.
Several times he got it and this \\;is
followed by a big vote. Later on the
situation was changed in this county
just as it had been in other counties. |
He was beaten by Governor Manning
and since that time Mr. Please has
not been so popular in this county.
The candidates spoke in Florence
on Saturday. There was at least one
thousand people there to greet the
candidates, owing, no doubt, to the
fact that the strike of the railioad
shopmen has been on in that city for
some time and idle men whiled avay
the time by going to the campaign
meeting.
There was not so many people here
to hear them. The campaign meetings
for state candidate*? hardly ever
turns out the crowds in Horry that it
will turn out in some of the other
counties.
The interest here seemed to center
in the race for Governor and in the
race for state superintendent of education.
In the race for Governor the
leading candidates of interest are
Thomas G. McLeod, Senator Laney
and Cole L. Blease. In the race for
the superintendent's job are two women
and this adds interest to that
race.
John T. Duncan is the secretary of
the 1922 candidates and as such he
prepares a program for each meeting.
Following is the program carried out
at the speaking here and contained a
complete list of the candidates for
state office. It is suggested that each
reader of the Herald preserve this
issue of the paper as carrying in this
article a complete list of the candi,
dates for state office and use it as
reference between now and the day
when they will cast their vote in the
primary.
Program and List.
Adjutant General
Thomas B. Marshal
R. E. Craig.
Governor.
Thomas G. McLeod
Cole L. Please
John T. Duncan
George K. Laney.
Lieutenant Governor.
J. K. Owens
E. C. L. Adams
E. B. Jackson
Superintendent of Education.
Mrs. E. R. Wallace
Mrs. Bessie Rogers Drake
J. H. Hope
O. D. Seav
Cecil H. Seigler
John E. Swearingen.
Secretary of State.
James C. Dozier
W. Banks Dove.
Attorney General.
D. M. WiTiter
S. M. Wolfe
Harold Eubanks.
Comptroller General.
T. Hagood Gooding
Walter E. Duncan.
Commissioner of Agriculture.
B. Harris
George W. Wightman.
The candidates for Governor were
given twenty minutes each in which
to address the people. Other candidates
were given ten minutes.
The place selected ''or the speaking
could not havo been better?the shady
space on the vacant lot near the At.
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lantic v^oasi liine ac|mt. ,-w min
place large gatherings took placo in
the wartime, bands played, for which
.a stand was erected.
The speaking began at the hour of
10:30 and went through without a
hitch, Chairman E. J. Sherwood introducing
the speakers each in his
turn, according to th^ program.
There was probubV as many as T OO
people in Conway to nea'' the candidates
for Governor. Thomas <3. McI.eod,
Cole T;. Blease and George K.
Laney, all made ad-booses (hit got
the close attention V' the people.
Each of the*e received soi?ie applause
when they made telljn* remarks in
the course of stating their positions
or- present-day quest'onr. or hit at
their opponents. It was hard to toll
who would take the lead in obtaining
votes from among the crowd.
The crowd dwindled down to some
extent after the candidates for Gov
ernor had spoken and the candidates
for Lieutenant Governor took the
floor.
After tho candidates for Lieutenant
Governor came the candidates for superintendent
of ed'ical?on. By reference
to the list above referred to it
wi'l be seen that there are si\ c.niurdates
for this position, and amonq
them are two women: Mrs. E. B
Wallace of Uich'.and and Mrs. Bessie
Rogers Drake of Marlboio. The candidates
for this office, especially the
women, received close attention.
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" It is openly stated that there
? is more whiskey in the country %
? than ever before?even more t
U than when liquor could be or- %
" dered and brought in by express S
a" in four gallon lots. ^
" This statement is based to %
some extent on evidence coming Sr
\ to light when ftre.it quantities %
? of monkey rum is accfdentally J"
" found and ^aken by officers and "
* poured out. 5
" The Herald contained one ac- ^
count last week of the raiding %
** and finding of ten and one-half 2jJ
gallons at one store in the conn- ,
ty; another account of* the find- S
* ing of seven gallons on the edge
"? of Conway.
Besides the product of Ihe
\ monkey rum stills which appear "U
J" to l>e numerous, there is a tjuan- !
" tity of Scotch and "bottled in
" bond" coming in, nobody knows W
2 from whence. 2"
% This is a condition of affairs %
which should bring1 on serious I?
" thought for every law-loving "J
V member of the community. S
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CONWAY ENJOYS
BOTH METHODS
W. A. Freeman has written a letter
to the Chamber of Commerce concerning
the false reports that are said to
be i?i circulation to the effect ?Lhat
Conway will not have any tobacco
market this year. His letter shows
that such reports are entirely false.
The letter follows:
Conway, S. C., July 19, 1922.
Mr. M. A. Wright, Secretary
Chamber of Commerce,
Conway, S. C.
Dear Sir:
It has been called to my attention
by farmers who are tobacco growers
that the report is being circulated by
some who are opposed to the independent
market that Conway will have
no tobacco market this season; that
there will be no buyers on the mar- .
ket, and that the independent grower
will have no place in Conway to sell
his tobacco. These reports are absolutely
false. I have advertised over
my personal signature in both the
local papers that the Planters' warehouse
will be open with a full corps
of buyers and the men who are mak
ing these statements to the farmer
are not only misleading him, but they
are Injuring our town and county by
driving independent tobacco away
from our market to other markets.
Knowing this to be a matter of great
importance to the business men of
the town of Conway, I am callingthis
to the attention of the Chamber
of Commerce with a view to correcting
these false reports.
The Chamber of Commerce, of
course, is non-partisan in so far as
the merits or demerits of the Tobacco
Growers' Co-operative Association are
concerned, but it seems to me that a
body devoted to the commercial and
business interests of the town and
county would not willingly see our
trade and business suffer by leaving
such reports uncontradicted.
For your information 1 will say
again that we have the assurance
that all the big companies that have
bought our tobacco in the past will
be represented hero this season for as
long a period as we need them, and
we believe that with their co-opeiation
we will have as good a market
as any in the state and that we cah
handle all the tobacco what will come
to this market.
The independent farmer will sell his
tobacco somewhere. The Chamber of
Commerce, I presume, would not atattempt
to bring pressure to bear to
force such farmers into the association
or to keep them out. VVe believe, that
sufficient quantities of independent tobacco
will be marketed t) have an important
bearing on the tride of the
town, and if the business ?nen of ihe
town want this trade brought here
they should be interested to help counteract
influences which are tending to
send it away.
Very trulv vours,
W." A. FREEMAN.
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CONGRESS CANDIDATES
The candidates for Congress from
the sixth Congressional district will
speak in Conway on Thursday, August
10.
They will be at Loris on Wednesday,
August 9; at Aynor on Tuesday,
August X; at Marion on August 4;
and at Mullins on August 3.
Georgetown has already had these
candidates on July 12. They spoke
at Careers Bay on July 11 and at
Hemingway on July 10.
The candidates for this office are:
W. U. Barringer
Phillip H. Stoll (present encumbent)
A Hard H. Gasque
J. F, Pate.
A crowd is expected to hear these
candidates here on August 10.
HAS BIG CROWD
The seaside resorts had a big crowd
for the last week-end. On Sunday
' there were many visitors to the beach.
Numbors of pidn wont: nvor frnm
Conway to spend the day. Thero
wove many people fvom other counties
' spending the day ov seveval days.
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