[ ^)ittotri Herald. ESTABLISHED IN 1895. V DILLON. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JULY 29, 1909. VOL 15, NO. 26 I /y r\ of I ^ALLEGED ERRORS X IN COUNTY SURVEY. Mr.A -Wiswall, Non-Official Surveyor, Holds Up New ^ County Election on Alleg- 1 ? ed Errors in Survey. T it- > * Gov. Ansel will have ( ^ Lines Re- Surveyed. J The following is taken from v M the Marion Star: J ' Two additional lines have been U surveyed across the county by Mr. a Howard Wiswall, Jr., of Charleston, with the result that it is T found that at each point Messrs. | Hamby and Beatty were in error ? in makintr tVifMf o ?iiiap. 'ine error (< , in each instance placed Little Pee Dee and Great J/>ee Dee rivers h farther apart^Jk.-''their map than S they reallrf are, which has the s' effect of sWiowingr a greater num/ ^>er S(/uare miles than there " really is.) will be remembered that whefn the othei errors were v discoverfed( about two weeke ago, I v Govern^ Ansel was notified, I Commi^ssjoner Mace taking Mr. f? Wiswall, who discovered the er- ^ rors, before the governor and the errors were pointed out to him- r< These errors as was explained to the governor at th,J time were js found in the length of straight s< lines across the county, as follows? The first line from the A. C. L. crossing on the Great Pee Dec v River directly through the town a of Marion to Sandy Bluff on Lit? r?? i\_- -1 " " nc rcc kjee river, tne second line beginning at the same point on q the Great Pee Dee river and run- ft ' ning to Gallivants Ferry, a point considerably lower on Little Pee v Dee; the third line beginning at la Dewitts Bluff, north of the mouth of Catfish, on Great Pee Dee river ? running directly east to where it sj strikes Little Pee Dee river. In rr each instance the error found showed that the surveyors had v mapped the county about a half r< a mile too broad. In addition to these errors it was pointed out to 01 the governor that the map made by Surveyors Hamby and Beatty showed the county to be more rt than half a mile broader b tween Great Pee Dee river, at the mouth a of Mill Creek, and Lumber river S at the mouth of Ashpole, than was shown by a survey made by J. W. Brunson of Florence. J' Copies of these mav haye been turned over to the governor with the request that he select a sur vcyor 10 iesi mese measurements p( across the county, and the j*over- s nor has said that he will select a C( competent and unbiased survey- ol or, and one who has not been w connected with eitner side ol the ?p Ik controversy, have him examine js ^ the maps and after this is done te either have him test these lines as \ requested, or have the whole county re-surveyed. ai Meanwhile, Commissioner Mace m wishing to test Messrs. Hamby ar and Beatty's survey still further, st had Mr. Wiswall survey two additional lines across the county at pj lower points. The first one l)e- Cl jtfns at Allison's Ferry on Great Pee Dee river, southeast to a y point on Little Pee Dee river. at Very little error was tound in the line from Allison's Ferry to Rich- sj. ardson's Ferry it being: only 550 Q f* hilt Kplniir fVlof fr/\m Cn.Ijk'.. ... tivm uuiAiii a jjj Mills across the country it was cc Jound that it had increased to 1-7 lo 00 ft. nearly a third of a mile. This leaves no doubt whatever p. about the matter. There is an . error of at least from 15 to 25 square miles in Messrs. Hamby w and Beatty 's calculation as to the " territory left in the old county, cl and as they claimed only 510 01 square miles in the old county, the al constitutional requirement of 500 square miles cannot be complied fa \Th- ? in i \m&k itm \aRION CONSTABLt ' S>VED. \ , iy Officer at Mai lory to Esc?| Y Bingham, Jfly 21.?Specia kVm. D. Smij; of Mall >r, , becan mmanagabl and was fined f< "aisin^- a r->v. He was asked esign his position as policemai )n his refusal to do so a meetir ?f the council in the office of Ii endiot Bruce declared his offi< acant of removal, and ordert fr. Smith's arrest, but he hi ?ft the town, and has not bet pprehended. Free State News. Omitted last week by error.) Little Miss Gertrude Roge as returned home from Ced; Iprings, where she has been chool for the past nine months. Mrs. M. A. Ellen spent Sundj i Lrftta with relatives. Miss Mary Swarm, of Bennett ille, visited Miss Ruth Hays la reek. Mrs. H. W. Parham spent ;w days last week with her so V. W. Parham, of Bingham. Miss Ida Rowland is visitir elatives in Bennettsville. Mrs. J B. Steele, of Kingstre ; expected Thursdav to st>ei amc time with Mrs. Oscar Fen an. Mr. Arthur Rogers of Bisho ille, is visiting his parents, M nd Mrs. D. S. Rogers. Cor. Mrs. Belle Blake of Dunn, I . spent last week with her siste Irs. H. W. Pa^ham. Miss Mary Swerve of Benett ille, visited Miss Ruth Hay< ist week. Misses Alieq and Alma Poo < Arlington are expected soon jend some tim$ with their schoc late, Miss Florence Allen. Mr. Arthur Rogers of Bisho ille spent last week with his p mts here. Mr. Ed Fenegan is in Lake Ci i business today. Mrs. J. B. Steele of Kingstr* >ent a few days last week wil datives in this section. Mrs. Delia Newton of Clio v, visitor down here Friday ar aturday. Miss Belle Moore spent part < st week with the family of M m Moore of Latta. Cor. SECOND CROP IRISH POTATOES. After digging the first crop, tf jtatoes intended for seed for th :cond should be stored in a dr >ol place. They may be sprea it on the barn floor and covere ith straw, hay or dry san< he second crop of Irish potato* usually planted during the la r part of July or first half < ugust. For two or three weel ifore planting the seed potatoe *e sometimes exnosed an oisture which hastens sproutir id may aid in securing a bette and. If the potatoes are sprouting ? anting time it may be well t it them, otherwise probably it ;st not to cut them. As the weather is usually h< id sometimes dry at the seaso le second crop is planted, the lould be nl?nt#?d ratb#?r J well prepared, rich soil. Ro if? after planting is advised t >nfpi~t the soil which has bee osened by thorough preparatioi Raleigh C.) Progressiv irmer. In the article appearing in las eek's issue of the Herald heade A New Creadon" the writer dii aims any intention of reflectin \ the good name of the individi named or on the ancient rac ith whom the oracles of the lb ig ftod were entrusted. His pn ijindj respect for them no one ca Won. M. FLIES STOPPED A TRAIN. >e Peculiar Cause that Brought an F.ngin in Canada to a Standstill. il: A few days ago the Gram le Trunk flyer going East was ii ar hard luck, says the Baltimon to American. At Napanee th n. steam box on the big engine go ig overworked, or something, am n- refused to continue the journey ce The timely arrival of a freigh id train helped. The cars wen id shunted to a siding and the freigh in engine brought into commissioi on the express, taking it as far a Brockville, when another large en *: gine was secured. | Now comes the peculiar part o the troubles of that train. Whei about 20 miles out of Cornwall i rs ran into a sea of peculiar flies ar There were millions* of them? in perhaps billions, but the train wa going so fast it was impossible t ay count them. The cars becam quite dark as the train plowei s. through the mass of insects, am st then the train came to anothe sudden stop. The engine \va a full of flies. The little thing n, were ground into a mass in th driving rod. They were in every thing on the engine. The train had been plowing through the flies at a mile a min id ute for several miles. The tracl e- was covered with crushed insect and the engine wheels balked a p. going round on it. After a littl r. ]tcrsuasii>n and a lot of cleaning up. the train went upon its \va; again. - On arrival at Montreal the en r* gine presented a truly euriou spectacle. The bars of the cow catcher were filled right tip witl f.s flies. On the front of the engin< they were several inches thick. C)f ROY WILKES PROTESTED AT LATT> to RACES. ?1A formal protest was entere< against Roy Wilkes, the famou little trotter owned by Mr. How a" ard Cannon of Florence, at th< Latta races last Wednesday. I ty is alleged that Itoy is what i known in race track parlance as ? "ringer," his name having beei changed to cover an official recorc th of 213 which it is said was enter ed against him in Atlanta. Roy ha as been a great favorite in the Cir id cuit where he has won quite . number of races and if he is bar f red from further participation ir 0 the meets or is taken out of th< r' 2.20 class it will be a greatdissap pointment to his many admirers In justice to Mr. Cannon, how ever, it mav be stated that he knev nothing of Roy's record and hai ,e a written guarantee from his for it niwi uwhci , it weauny race norse y dealer, that Roy's record is noi ^ below the 2.20 class. Mr. Cannor . says when he first bought Roj that he could not go a mile in 3t * and that he was sold to him under js the name of Roy Wilkes. If it is shown that Roy is a "ringer" no moral responsibility attaches tc Mr. Cannon who is held in high :s regard all over the Circuit, :s President Gibson of the Pee Dee d Circuit, is of the opinion that there g is no foundation for the charges. Cursory it "Eddie," said the teacher, "can o vou give a definition of cursory; js The word is generally used in connection with public speaking. For examnle. we often read that body made a few cursory remyks.' n Please write a sentence containing u the word cursory." After a brief struggle Eddie evolved this: "Yesterday my pa helped mv :o ma to hang pictures, and when the n l?.dder fell after pa had climed to j the top of it he bumped his head against the corner of the dining ^ room table and then made a few cursory remarks." ,t NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. d Morris Fass?Cut Price Sale, i- Cheraw Board of Trade?Cel? g ebration day August 17th. l- Dillon Hardware Co.?Hard ? ware and Monkey Wrenches. r- Evans Pharmacy?Soda oi > Cream. n Underwood Typewriter Co.? Correcting Mistakes. x i A r ? , ? HOW IT FEELS TO FLY. e You Seem to Float, Yd the Wind Roars in Your Ears. All who have had the good forn tune to ride the aeroplane unite in e their description-of that first sene sation. There is no jerk in starting, though the machine leaps forward with a powerful swoop. Then ? comes?with some?a brief sense . of nausea, a feeling as if the blurrt ed ground were dropping away e from beneath. A slight thrust of the left hand lever lifts the flyer's head, the 1 ground drops away still faster, and s then as the machine climbs into . the air one's eves adjust themselves to the proper focus and the surface . of the earth below seems to l>e ripping past at railroad speed. By this time, says a writer in t Outing, you have forgotten the clack of the noisy motor, the flap and whir of the propellers, the grinding 01 tne cnain and sprocket s gear that drives them. All vibra0 tion has practically ceased and you e float along with a sense of springy 3 ease and buoyancy such as you can j gain from no other means of locomotion That you are flying fast r you know only from the roar of s the wind in your ears and the s slight difficulty you have in tilling e your Uings with air, the same sensation one gets in racing against the wind in an auto. Then comes the first turn. The g machine rises to it, taking its own - angle sideways, just as a motor j. car leans on the banked curve of a racing track. You have no sense of leaning sideways, though?no 1 feeling that you must tilt ycurself e as you do when the auto turns a r corner, for you sit upright, the aerodroine slanting of its own volition to the neeessarv -mil slanting you with it- A glass ot " water set on the fl'oAr ot the flyer s could be carried around curve after . curve and still not lose a drop. J THE NEW RAILROAD. The grading on the new railhas been completed to Dillon and ^ the grading force will be doubled back to Clio and put to work laying rail. The road comes into Ddlon 3 at the rear of the High School s building and follows Seventh . avenue down 10 the Dillon Mill s where it crosses the Coast Line, t The depot will be located at the s intersection of Seventh avci nue and Main street where Messrs. ^ J. W. Dillon & Son have given a 1 site 1000 feet long and 150 feet . wide. Right of way has been s given down Seventh avenue and . a right of way has been given ali so down the alley from Seventh . avenue up to Railroad avenue to 1 a point in the rear of the Dillon 2 Hardware Co's. store. The rail. road people want a siding along . this alley tc deliver goods in car . load lots to the hardware stores. / A right of way has been given 5 down Second avenue to Main street. TliP nrnnprtv r\r% flip Irvf r\J + ! : E:*T. EHiotV's stables will tetaken l over and a siding will be built for i the delivery of goods in car load r lots here also. There are about ) 60 laborers in the grading force and they have been making good t progress. The road from Dillon 1 to Little Rock is as straight as an > arrow, the first curve being just i beyond Sehaffer's store at Little , Rock. The new railroad exjjects to be hauling cotton by Sept. 5 l5th. HOW S THIS FOR MUD? Of all the yarns that ever came i down the line regarding deep mud, ' the following should be entitled to the blue ribbon. It happened in the place where mud originated. A man was walking along the roadside one summer day and noticed a fairly good looking hat out in the road Reaching out with . his cane, he gave it a cut and was startled to hear a voice exclaim: > "Here, what the deuce are you i doing?" Then he made the astonishing discovery that the owner of the headpiece was under the hat, up to his ears in mud. "Great heavens!" exclaimed the man who had hit the hat. "Is that mud as deep as that?" "Deep?" cried the victim. . "Why man alive, I'm standing or. a load of hay!" - . 9 i The Dillon Herald $1.50 a year. MialittiiViteiiii i iV . Colored Church Workers Assemble Dillon. Reported for The Herald l>v Rev. C Scott. The South Carolina Confcrei of the Methodist Episcopal chui though composed entirely of ?. ored ministers with a single exei tion, is not a colored church ffanization. When the southi white members withdrew from i mother church in 1844 they t< with them all the southern coloi memliers. After the war was 01 some of the colored Methodists ganized themselves into seve independent organizations eonsi ing of colored persons entire while a goodly number went b; to the mother church. Today I colored membership of the chin numbers more than 250,000. a the South Carolina conference c< tains a membership of about 000. By act of the last gene conference the term "presidin elder was changed to district "5 perintendent" though the dut remain the same, hence "'the p siding" elder is now "the disti superintendent' There are eight districts in South Carolina conference ; most of them hold district cont ences, but the district has thus preferred district preachers nu ing. This body of colored Method convened at the St. Stephen Mi ers, the addresses delivered dt ing the session; the marked exo lenee of many of the papers; a the excellence of some of the s< mons, noticeably that of the d trict superintendent, the o preached by Rev. J. McEaddy. a that preached by Rev. S. (iree The unanimous verdict was tl this was one of the best meetin in the history of the district. Appropriate and eulogistic res lutions of thanks were unanimou i _ J * _ Jl a1 ? r ly aaopieu, inose in reierenee Mayor Hargrove, pastor McLe and the congregation and the peoj of Dillon. The resolutions in r< erence to District Superintendc J. S. Thomas who is winding i his term of six years on the di trict, bore expression of tender ? fection and great appreciation f his faithful and consecrated se vice. Cheraw was unanimous chosen as the next place of met ing. Nothing adds as much to t appearance of well dressed men properly laundried collars ai shirts. Only the sanitary stea laundry of Charlott, N. C.. can 1 the bill. Brooks Alford, Agt., Dillon Cash Store GOCD FARMING. . c. Four Crops a Year on the Same Land-How it is Done. ia* ,, ... , , iMiyetteville limex rch .. hour crops a year, aggregating u'* Si 50 an acre or more from the rp- same land that sold twelve years or- ago for S5.50 anacre! Who will say >rn that is not progressive farming? j Where? Right here in North L Carolina. To be more exact, >ok rijr])i here in Cumberland county. real Who? Mr. D. K. Taylor, Fay/er etteville, R. 1'. I)., is doing that ur_ Kinu 'ji larming out on me L.enu-r "plank road" in SeventyT First township, a few miles west sl" of this city. ly, Mr. Taylor has in acres ?>f land lc|j on which he raised four crops he >*c'ar successfully, and on which he is doing the same thing this year. Here is the way he 'id does it' >n- After "breaking" the land 50 deep with a two-horse plow, he j planted the 1<> acres in Ameer and Alaska peas. early table ^ varieties for the northern mar"in kets. Last vcar he planted only ies the Alaska, but this year he ,rc. planted part of his land in the ^ Ameer. About March 25th he planted "roasting" corn midway between the pea rows, which were '.he about 51 feet apart. After the md peas came off he planted held er_ corn half-way between the early _ corn rows: that is, in the rows ,u first planted in peas. Now when -*cl~ the early corn is gone he will sow field peas "broadcast" between ists the field corn rows. Now, as to ,-Ij. the value of the cops: I Mr. Taylor shipped fiorn the 10 ' acres 517 crates of early peas, ock which brought about an average no. of so cents a crate clear of the lav freight and commission house o charges, or a total of $413.60 for tlu first of the four crops grown on the land this year. From this l;l>* must Ik- deducted 12.'-? cents a to crate for cost of picking and of mi- course the cost of the crates. He was not through with shipping early corn lest week when ct lie gave us these figures, but he had shipped 493 crates. It is conay servative to say that he will have lalf shipped 500 crates from the crop. red ' 01 t'1's '1C ^ets an averaJ?e 90 cents a crate, or a total of $45o ,K'' for his early corn crop, cv. ()f course the field corn is not as, yet matured, but on the same lllc land and under the same condilions last yeai he got 375 bushels ' of corn. At $1 a bushel this ccr would be $375. 'Is. The field peas he will have it- picked and saves for sale orplantan ing or for stock feed, while the ... vines he will "plow under" to fertili/.e the land, and there is no "n better fertilizer. Last year was ir- a bad year for field peas, and Mr. lid Taylor would not even make an ;es estimate of the value of this crop this year. To be sure it is safe to 1 ' say that if it be an average year C<-1 for peas, the vines and leguminous - r- roots and the peas picked will be worth 5-25.00. >re The value of the tour erops in round figures will be about as " " follows, under normal conditions: ce Early peas 5 414.00 >a- Early corn 450.00 ir- Field corn 575.00 Made fodder 56.(>0 , Field peas 225.00 nd -r" 51500.00 is- Now this does not include the ne vines of the early peas, which Mr. Iuj Taylor says is an exceedingly fine horse and cattle feed. :n* As to the expense, Mr. Taylor iat says it requires a less labor cost gs to grow and market these four crops on 10 acres than to ptow and market 20 bales of cotton on 20 acres?a bale to the acre on IS" twice the amount of land. He t? uses about 1750 pounds of fertiod lizer to the acre at a cost of $25 a )le ton. oi about $2~ an acre. It ^ costs about $7 to cut and shock the early corn forage. The land on which this farmJP ing is done was 12 years ago a is- wornout "old field" that had been tf. abandoned about the time of the or Civil war, having been considered poor land. It is lighb- land T* with a clay subsoil. ly ?? ?- NOTICE. 1 am offering at private sale at my 1 residence, 1 Horse, 1 Baggy k Harness, he ' ~ ^00<' flitters, 1 Organ. 1 New Home | Sewing Machine and Attachments, 1 as Small Refrigerator, 1 Ice dream Freesnd er, House Furniture Ac. Wilt continue m the laundry agency for the Spartan -ii burg Steam Laundry from my residence. Thanks for pest favors, and kindly solicit a continuation of same, i. A K.Parham.