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HI rifu? DiWoti -- T- -i?u-il_i?LJt--- - 1 ' - i u . . ??t i-jii . jjm_ j_m.. > ' g=gaes?3f ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1909. ' .7 VOL. 14, NO. 3. . M ^ : . Z^RROR IN SURVEY J DELAYS ELECTION. * 3j> to Petitions Circulated Last wi Week Asking for a Slight ^ Amendment to the New Gr County Lines. Too Mum Territory Left in the Ola \ County and not Enough in New County. Mistake Will delay the Election ?i Probably a Month. If it had not been for a slight iiiisuikc in 1 mining me uiviMUii lie. line which left too much territory ar in the old county and not enough $2 in the new county the election on the question of forming a new 5C ?""-?county out of the upper portion to of Marion would have been held, D< no doubt, within the next 60days, sh As it if?"the people will not have an an opportunity to say whether or not they want a new county until an the latter part of April or maybe so May. The mistake was made by 0f the surveyor who ran the cut-off m; or division line. He started at a ar point higher up on the Marlboro line than he was told to start and at thp result was that his calculations w] refused to balance with the ealcu- su ' lationsofthe surveyors who ran ur the lines around the county. The j w< error was detected when the offi-1 cial surveyors were checking up | (a for a final report to the New and ia. Old County Commissioners. There ijs was a difference of several miles i and it was found that the territory tri \ of-the proposed New County contained less than the constitutional at 400 miles. Of course, there was mi nothing to do but amend the original petition and petitions asking for the amendment were indus; triously circulated last week. It I was a big job but the work was systematically handled and in 24 hours after the petitions had been given out there were secured Ai something like a thousand signa- re -tjares. The petitions were taken pe thento Mr. A. R. Oliver, chairman of board of registration, who certified to their correctness and Saturday they taken to Columbia by M. T. A. Dillon and p| filed with the governor. The gov ink ernor has not yet fixed a date for J&B the hearing but he told Mr. Dillon qu that both sides would have a hearjjfljl ing within two weeks. Me 1 This does not mean that Marion | county contains less than 9 0 0 ft. square miles and the new county A advocates need feel no alarm over the delay. There are considerably fftore than 900 Square miles tic oj.V in the county and there vill be no da difficulty in meeting the constitu- a ' skk tional requirements on that point, it isf^JlThe error was made in net leaving ha enough territory in the area to be wi Jut off for a new county as the' an pnstitution requires. Al | The territory to be taken back Ci Wms a part of that given back an I t^ie Pa#es Mills section some nn leeks ago. About half of this pa rritoty will be taken back into fai new county. It will je re- an ;mbercd that several weeics ago he -governor was petitioned by mi " new county advocates for he hority to give some territory it ylk to the old county as there he .4s more territory in the new no ;;.nty than was needed. The w< /ernor consented to this amend- bli ilUffl ent to tne on?inal )ines ftnd Da L 14 m^es ?f territory was back to the old county. th< r territory lies at the extreme w? fe\nd of the proposed new to1 ey\ below the Pages Mills of V ? ast'^* ^ow a^?ut half of gr JjgjLritory will be taken in Hi 3mB tSi disadvantage the new on ^?T^ople suffer is the delay tn lvW? the election. The m< ' bl tMrr eaffer ^or the election an w^^rsc the delay is annoy- pa t However, this seems to be ; flfl/ ^ Qply obstacle in the way and ce tins is removed the surveyors 11 be ready to make their report tlie commissioners, who in turn 11 make their report to the Th ivernor and there is no reason , tiy the election should not be dered within the 80 days im-y ; < ediately following". / J \ Tax Returns. The Auditor's office will be >en for taking tax returns from .nuarv 1st. to February 20th. i09. The law requires a tax on all >tes, mortgages and moneys, also i income tax on gtoss income of !,500 00 and upwards. I Tliere shall be capitation tax of ^ i cents on all dog's, the proceeds kus be expended for school purposes. tjm CRfs not returned for taxation for all not be held to be property in iv of the courts in this state. are All males between the ape of 21 but id 60 years, except Confederate pro ldiers or those persons incapable dies earning* a suppopt by being I will aimed or from any other cause fjcl] e liable to poll tax. the All property must be assessed ave "its true value in money" tee liich is eonstrued to mean "the the m at which the said property Thi idcr ordinary circumstances peo ^uld sell for cash." faei Don't ask that your property be out kon from tho hnnlrt: thr? time ?>c i ? "" llctV st vear. All property must be orc ted on proper blanks and sworn nat Township and number of dis- con ict griven. roai The Auditor or his deputy will be ( the following: places at the dates 1 Otl' entioned to take tax returns. j Judson Thursday Feb. 4th. a Centervillc, Friday Feb 5th. SQn Bingham, Saturday Feb. 6th. twc Fore, Monday Feb. 8th. t Bermuda, Thursday Feb. 11th. t,?a Gaddy, Friday Feb. 12th. er^ It is hoped that all will meet the aditor promptly and make their jjne turns and thereby avoid the 50 ^je r cent, penalty. Respectfully, jjai F. T. McLELLAN, Ha County Auditor. ffro woe ELLS WOMAN WITH CLUB Jud crriT unl ippcr Curry, Jealous of the Woman he aloi Loves, Strikes Her Down with a Club will and then Slashes Her Garments waj with a Knife. An Old ^ Offender. er c rigl side One of the quietest residence sec- -te ins of Dillon was disturbed Sun- 16q y nightat 7 o'clock by screams of Q? woman and upon investigation q? was found that Gupper Curry t^e d struck Emma Grant a blow th a club which felled the worn- j.^e and almost fractured her skull. ^ :ter knocking the woman down ?ar irry slashed at her with a knife d succeeded in cutting her garsnts in several places. Both t^a1 rties are colored. Curry is in- whtuated with the Grant woman ^ d Sunday night when he met wej r on the street with another ^av an he became so enraged that tant fell upon her with a club and is likely he would have beaten r to death if other persons had I ME it interferred. As it was the mian escaped with a fearful over the forehead which laid ^ j re the bone. Curry is an old offender against e laws of the town. Some :eks ago he was up before the wn authorities upon the charge snapping a pistol in another neo's face and paid a fine of $25. is infatuation for the wmaon lich seems to border C mania has led him into other ove >uble which has cost him lots of and :>ney. After striking the worn- terc he fled to Darlington where his of c rents live. / cotr C - V ) JUNG PROGRESS ON RIGHT-OF-WAY. a | 1, I 3 e Committee Actively at | Work on Railroad Right-;b of-Way. Have Recei/ed v Encouragement from a " Number of Land Owners. 1 People on the Route hy i way of Little Rock An- i< xious for the New Rail- a road and are Co-Operating with the Committee. The n New Road Seems Highly' * Probable. v ["he committee appointed at a d iness men's meeting some % e ago to secure a right-of-way c the new railroad are meeting 1 h much encouragement. They a not yet ready to make a report they are making mighty good 1 gress in their work and the 111ltions are that the right-of-way a I be secured without much dif- 1 ilty. The land owners along ^ route of the proposed new road r co-operating with the commit- 1 and seem to be as anxious for ^ road as are the Dillon people. 1 is is quite natural as the Dillon * pie already have good railroad 1 litics and could get along with- c additional railroads, but they f e found i ait that railroads are u at developers of a country's ^ ural resources and will wel- * le the coming of a hundred rail- 1 ds to their town. 1 )n? route of the proposed new tl runs in an air line from Clio Jillon and another route makes ight curve and comes by Judi and Gallavon. Which of the i routes will be adopted has not been decided, hut it is likely t the route on which the prop,* owners grant a right-of-way 1 be the one selected. The air : route runs through the midof Little Rock and traverses lands ol E. R. Hamer, R. P. mcr, J. S. Thompson, J. W. mer, M. S. Britt, J no. Halve, Brooks Hamer, T. 0. Sher)d, and J. L. Bennett on to [son. The committee has not * le beyond Judson, but it is not ikely that the property owners ig the route beyond that point I refuse to give the right-ofr. lr. W. R. Bons?dl, the promot>f the new road, asked for a it-of-way from two miles this ; of Clio into Dillon, a depot f at Dillon 300 feet long and t wide, and two miles of right- a vay out of town. The right- a way out of town indicates that a road is making- for Pages n Is, Fork or Kemper and will ,h ly touch at one of these t nts. The committee has gone s enough in the matter of secur- n the right-of-way and the de- 1; site t o feel very hopeful g : the road will be built and I 1c they refuse to give out any- fi jg definite it seems to be pretty t 1 understood that Dillon will o e anohter railroad at no dis- t : date. f< W RAILROAD TO CLIO. ? O p Large Crowd was Present u to Witness the Arrival 11 of the First Train on the N. & i S . C . J \ t lio, Feb. 10.?The first train r the new railroad, the North South Carolina, came in yes- t lay at 11:30. A large crowd t itizens had gathered to see it i le in. . i > ? The schedule for the present is: Leave Gibson, N. C., at 10:15 . m.; arrive Clio 11:10 a. m.; .'ave Clio 3 p. m.; arrive * Gibson ' :55 p tn, Last week we sent out a num- i ier of statements to subscribers | rhose subscription has expired or ; * about to expire, and we sincerey trust that those who received uch notices will respond prompty. We have recently added a ! at of new material to our office ' nd its physical condition has been ' Tcatly improved. Our patrons ' ret the benefit of those improvenents and we trust that they will how their appreciation of our eforts to jrive them an up-to-date 1 veckly paper by settling: the small 1 mounts they owe us. The man vho thinks there is no labor and ' xpensc involved in the publica- : ion of a paper is laboring under . misapprehension. There is la>or and plenty of it, and as to ex>ense it seems never to end. In 'ddition to the gathering of news ind keeping in touch with various hings that have happened, are lappening and will happen, seanling a hundred or more newspa>ers every week, locking after the tusiness of the office and the anxiey and suspense incident thereto, he newspaper man never has a noinent to spare and if any man >n earth earns what he gets the tublisher certainly does. Then igain there is the daily expense, t takes money and lots of it to :eep an office going and few peo>le will believe that the daily ex>enses ol The Herald are from $8 o $10 every day >n the year, nonth in and month out. This :xpense money has to come every lay and if the subscriber fails to I,, liio ? 1? ?V* 11 iii [mi i lilt liiuucy 111UM UC aised from some other source. ,Ve trust our readers will pardon iur rather lengthy talk on "shop" >ut we want them to take a peep sch'itid the curtain and see the anount of labor and money it takes o produce the paper that comes o them every Thursday morning without apparent effort. m A NARROW ESCAPE. 'Bud" Hamilton is Fired at by Unknown Assassin and Escapes Serious and Probably Fatal Injury by a Hair's Breadth. 1 Sunday night a week ago as Mr. ] Vhit Hamilton, better known as < Bub," was returning from his < ather's stables where he had been \ o feed the stock some one bred i it him \\ ith a pistol at close range < nr\ lift Vviillof *? a rv* ? h < r< / iiu iiiw uuii^k uax luwxy iiiisa&u ma bdomen. As it was the little nessenger of d^ath passed through lis waist coat without touching he skin. The man who fir ihe > hot was standing behind a tree < icar the lot gate and had evident- j y selected his hiding place with j jreat care as he knew that Mr. 1 familton must pass within a few < eet of the tree on his return to { he house. The flash and report ? f the pistol startled Mr. Hamil- i on for the moment and when he i ell backward a few feet the would- t >e assassin ran away in the dark- i less. Mr. Hamilton did not rec- t gnizc the man but saw enough i f him to convince him that the t arty was white. He is at a loss to i nderstand why any one should < lake an attempt upon his life. i i, n < Those Kara Linen envelopes at Ahe Herald Book Store are more x>puiar than ever with buyers ( yho know good stationery when hey see it. Don't fail to attend theenterainment at the Little Rock school omorrow (Friday) evening. There s an evening of pleasure awaiting fOU. 4 i '' ^ Vi' ~* ? WASHINGTON LETTER News From Our Busy Capita An inventor announces that hi has perfected an air ship that can not tip. Still we have all had ex periences in those places whicl announce, "no tips". Western legislators ate agitatinj a reform to decrease the length o hat pins but for us let them wea the hat pins as long: as they like i they will but shorten the hat bills A prominent physician advise us to accept the demands of oui appetites and eat what we want Patrons of the free soup kitche: and followers in the bread lin should take notice and act accord ingly. Marcel Prevost, the famou French writer, declares that alee hoi and the corset are ruining: th human race. It is :ather od isn't it that the prevalence of bot is due to man's taste. A College educofion, says Rej resentative T avvney, makes a Hi more finished. Rut as the la: thine most of us desire is a lil finished we presume Mr. Tawne does not approve of a college e< ucation. ' t The handsomest men in Coi gross are to be selected for tl personal escort of Mr. Taft i the Inaugural ball, ar.d the scran bie for the places would seem 1 indicate that Congressmen at just like other people in not seein themselves as others see them. The Kaiser and Von Beulo have kissed on both cheeks an made up to the delight of the Gei man Empire. Now if Roosevel and the Ananias Club were to hav a love feast we should feel ths the era of peace on earth, goo will, etc., had at last dawned. Congress has decided that th suitable-vehicle for Mr. Taft i the automobile. If they neede any more confirmatory testimon to reach that decision they shoul lintrn KrAMfrllf rrl Uio UU VV Ul V/U1>WL iVl TTU1U II1U ^IIIUWO coolies who used to carry him in i sedan chair on their shoulder through the narrow streets o Canton, or the ricksha men wh dragged him about Yokahama an Tokio. One of the most noble effort which have enlisted the activitie Df President Roosevelt during hi administration is his recent appe? For greater care and consideratio For the dependent children of th :ountrv. It is Drobable that a i people we have been too easil ;atisfied that we have fulfilled ou vhole duty in providing asylum md institutions for orphans W< :ake a vast amount of self congrat llation in our public school sys :em and' it has not occurred t< >ome of us that there is disadvan age in the herding of children ii nstitutions of any kind. An; :hild that misses individual stud} ind love is missing the most pre nous gift to which it is entitle< and the President is responsibl for the bunjape and elevated ide that dependent children should a far as possible be placed in home rather than in asylums. Unfoi tunately the millenium of kind ness and unselfishness has not ai rived and by placing orphans i private homes we should still hav many cases in which the little d< pendents would be treated as tl 'boun d out apprentices" of an ea "r_ * il_ a ii "? lier gerferation were treated but it must be admitted that the altruistic sentiment has developed of ll late years under the improved and easier conditions of life and that there are good women to be found i n every neighborhood whose ^ hearts are broad and deep enough to admit the little children if the poclcetbook could be stretched to cover their absolute needs. Love ^ is the natural right of every child f but we agree with the President r in believing that it is to be found f in the family oftener than in the . asylum and that even without it the influences of a home are bet- ' ter than those of crowded institus tions. Just as contagion and disr ease are more easily managed in a . household than in a school so the n germs of evil that children spread c j may De more easily neia in check i" i where there are only a few children sequestered in a home than where they are herded in great numbers under one roof. The is further suggestion that mothers >- left destitute with young children e should be aided by the state in d keeping and supporting them must h make a strong appeal to all humanic people. When we reach the spiritual development which compels us to provide a tax on all men capable of begetting children 'e to cover the cost of rearing and I -ii :ii : - ' * --1 v.uu\.aiiui; an uic](iiiiiiLc unnarcn fe we may feel that we have cause y f. r satisfaction in modern human3" ity and charity. Notice of Sale By virture of authority vested 11 * in me as agent under a distress 1C warrant for rent issued and diat rected tome by W. T. Betheaand J. B. Gibson, as Executors of the to Last Will and Testament of Hugh e P. Price, deceased, against the ^ Bennett Live Stock Company, a corporation of Dillon, S. C., and as agent of The People's Bank under a chattel morgage w ^ given by Bennett Live Stock Company to the said Bank, I t will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, before t the stables formerly occupied by ^ the Bennett Live Stock Company in the town of Dillon, on Saturday, February 27th, 1909, at three o'clock P. M. 9 New Buggies, 9 Old Buggies, several sets new harness, collars, 1 Iron Safe, Sev^ eral Halters, Bridles, Horse Blan v kets, Buggy Poles, Whips, 1 One^ Horse Wagon and other personal property. ^ J. F. West, Agent, Dillon, S. C., Feb. 10th., 1909. f 2t-2-18. o * d The largest line of box paper from 10, 15, 25. 50 & 75 cents up to$5.00 ever brought to Marion county is carried by The Herald s Book Store. s, NOTICE il n Is hereby given that the Spring e Term of Court of General Ses,s cions for Marion County will cony vene at Marion on Monday, Febr ruary 22nd, 1909 at 10 a. m. s D. F. MILES, 5 C. C. G. S. We appreciate the many kind ~ \ / ! 1. j wurus irom our menus com plimenting us on the last issue of n The Herald. One of our oldest y subscribers said "it was the V newsiest issue of The Herald I have ever seen.", Another said d "it was one of the best printed e papers you ever issued." Still a anythrfn said "a..paper like that & every week is worth twice the subis scription price." A veteran news-' - paper man who stands at the tof ^ 1- notch of the profession in South - Carolina said ' 'it is one of the best n and newsiest weekly papers in the e state." We appreciate these kind 5- words. 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