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. - - """ - r"T " *w " ' T" ' 7ifa> DifCoti JCerctfd. /; 7 ^ 11 ? ? ~ ? ESTABLISHED IN 1S95. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST S, 1909. VOL 15, NO. 27 gg? ? AN ESTIMABLE LADY GONE Wl ? Deatk Claims Mrs. Jeank L Tiber, a Former Resident of Dillon. Wideb Connected in tbe State. y Mrs. Jennie L. Taber, who foi 1 Several years resided in Dillon, ;v died at her home in Columbia Sunday morning after an illness I of several weeks. Mrs. Taber I was a most estimable woman and during her residence here she ' made many friends by whom she I is greatly mourned. Her son, Dr. C. R. Taber, and his wife have been at her bedside for several days awaiting the final summons which the attending physicians said was inevitable. She was s w woman of remarkably fine person3 ality and was a delightful and charF ming conversationalist. She was ! reared in those days when southern chivalry was in its full f bloom and in culture and deport , ment she was a distinct type oi the "Old South." The Colum} bia State contains the following no, tice of her death: | "Mrs. Jennie L. Taber, widow M of the late Dr. Ohas. Rhett Tabei kv | died yesterday morning after ar 1 illness of several weeks at hei I4 1 home on Pendleton street. Mrs. * 1 Taber was 58 years of age and 1 was widely connected throughoul \ 1 the State She is survived by ^ \ eight children. Dr. C. R. Tabei * of Dillon, Miss W. R. Taber o( ^ Columbus, Ga., Mr. J. B. Taber ^ of this city, Capt. Knowlton Taber, now in the army service in !) the Philippine islands, Mrs. Craw. larkson ot this city, Misses v Are tion , Frances and May Tabei V als< city. |\ s. Taber spent most of hei Fort Motte but moved tc the ^'a about three years age is the -nied a large circle of friends. is a member of the Wash0 Street Methodist the Conh as y, and Daughters of the ?atj Hampton chapter, DaughtC ter Confederacy and ft eol! iters the American Revolupro The funeral will be held ? ^j8 ternoon at 6 o'clock, WashS 1)1 v _ - - - I Street Methodist church, affde interment will be held at ce84xxl cemetery. A Dof b held m WitncM. Kat this e Observer. ment ^ . , . , most0**?" w?l*e a?8T is today has .up in the Cobb county jail brouj re with an entry on the ^ ^ilotter that he is a "maA ni can i witness" in an assault the id is to remain a prisoner mur^tely. In the eyes of the least, this imprisonment 'Cliest* n? e^emen* ?* j?8*' *or Thuri ?* a ne^ro prisoner dethe ju part upon the dog. Lnimal is believed to be jury |which accompanied a neday ?o assaalted Mrs. Exy hoursjiear Vinings station reM** Willard Webb, a negro, *vTC)1 in Atlanta charged with *1 votlftk. The dog will con4 alleged master at the ?P*l month, his blind faithtric %eing relied upon to give ^Jmony. Mrs. Brown al^ identified the dog. bout J MMloitr in nillnn fh? nfJipr ?r in lurprised at the number the eoiSpassing through every location^ told that the average VK 2*6 A SOU 1 ranged 1 trains every 24 hours plot?. rssed still greater surBy Aocfle gentleman came from Oreem^ral times larger than *? Juufortunately it is lo?* morning branch line. There is f The fills living on a through ^jdjyleping in touch with *|K k mother, A Herald $1.50 a year. '] NEW COUNTY SITUATION. There have been no develop ments in the New County situa i tion since the last issue of Thi Herald. The situation is abou the same as that explained in las ? week's paper. The governor ha: selected the surveyor who wil test the accuracy of Messrs . Hamby and Beatty's figures bj running lines across the county t but it is not known when he wil begin work. On the other hanc , Messrs. Hamby and Beatty an standing by their report anc , feel con ' dent that the new sur ; vey will not reduce the area' o Marion to less than 900 squan 5 miles. The New County advo I cates also have an abundance o . faith in the accuracy of the repor . made by the official surveyors anc t the general opinion is that an . other survey is but another movi of the opposition to gain time ant . to establish grounds for a ccntes in the supreme court. Fron j pivowuv uiuicaiiuiis 11 bccms tnA the fight will end in the suprem* ^ court anyway tor the reason tha the opposition would not be con tent with a icport from the nev surveyor were it to show tha r Messrs. Hamby and Beatty wer< . right, and there is no reason tc L believe the advocates of the Nev . County would quietly accept ai final the report of the new sur I veyorwere it to show that Messrs . Hamby and Beatty were wrong p And so there the matter rests . Anyway you look at the situatioi : there is every prospect of a leg a , battle in the higher courts befon the question can be submitted t< mc pcupie. 11 rennnas one ot of the editor who wrote of a de parted warrior as "A battle . scarred veteran," and when th( printer inserted an "o" in th( . place of an "a'' in the word "bat j tie" there were lots of law-suit! ( and swearing before the mattei was ended. The New Countj seems to be facing just such i situation. BULL MOOSE FOUGHT TO DEATH I Horns Became Interlocked and Animal Starved a? Result. Seattle, August 3?A story oi : a battle to the death between twe giant moose in the isolated region! | of the Kenai Peninsular, Alaska has come to light with many^pthei interesting stories in conpgptior with the exhibits in the -Alasks building at the Alaska*Yu.fcon Pacfic exposition. Two moose horns loc JIP gether, the largest measuriq$ 61 inches from tip to tip, tell tjic story of the battle. It is evidgal that the animals were engag^jc mortal combat and their horns became interlocked. They were unable to release themselves and died together of starvation. The skull and the horns were found by one of the number of mining parties which visited that country and were sent to the exposition as a curiosity. There is another pair of locked horns, only smaller in size, that were found near Fairbanks, Alaska. *ary'? Uttlt Pd Mary had a little rat, She wore it in her hair; And every where that Mary wenl That rat was sure to go. Mary had a speckled hen That was a market booster; Every-day Spec laid an egg? But at night she was a rooster, Mary had a brother John, Who worried her a lot; For every time she had a beau He was Johnny on the spot. ?Chicago News The Dillon Herald $1.50 a year VICTIM OF TYPHOID. Peculiarly sad was the death . Mr. Henry Davis which occur 1 ? at h;s home near Little R< Saturday night at 11 o'clo 1 The sad news was brought t town Sunday morning and v 5 quite a shock to Mr. Davis' ma 1 Dillon friends. The deceased 1 been ill about two weeks with phoid fever and was on the rc f to recovery when he took a rela] f and expired before those in atb 1 dance were scarcely aware of i j seriousness of his condition. Since the death of his grai ' mother, Mrs. Patsy Sherwoi ? which occurred several months; - Mr. Davis had been liv-tig at i ? old home place alone. \V1 * stricken with the fever he v given the best of medical attent and a nurse was provided to ; f minister to his wants, but desj t all the precautions that w I taken the disease got such a h upon him that at last his consti tion had to yield to its ravages s He was a most exempli 1 young man. In disposition t was modest and retiiing, I j withal candid and firm in his de . ings with his fellow-man. wordly affairs he was temper ' almost to excess, living quietly t his farm and enjoying the frv - of his labors in the free, on< 7 hearted, unostentatious mam that always manifested itself his associations with the wor 5 In Dillon where he was so \s * liked he will be greatly mourn f Of his immediate family he 5 survived by one brother, Mr. * S. Davis, of Clio, his pare having preceded him to the gr; many years ago. f)r llivii Fntrrliini ; Dr. Joe Cabell Davis was h ) to a small party of friends at ; birthday dinner last Friday cv< - ing from 9 till 12- The sprt - consisted of six courses and v served in regal style. At 1 t conclusion of the repast the ev< - ing was spent in pleasant sot. 5 intercourse while the guests r dulged themselves in all i r pleasures to be found in the f i grant Havana. Every feature the occasion was so delight that the guests were loath to i part, but each one went away < pressing the conviction that th genial host could not have b( , happier, or more free, opi hearted or jovial in his hospital if the occasion had marked i ^ 22nd. instead of the 52nd. i } niversary of his birth. Th< 5 who enjoyed the hosoitalitv * Dr. Davis on this occasion w * Messsrs. C T. 0'Ferral, J. 1 Manning, N. B. Harg ve, J. 1 Thompson, J. B. Gibson, Bl: * Mclntyre, J. M. Spruntand A. Jordan. t IB 0 William Smith, alias "Bil 5 alias "Honest Nigger," a w< *' -known colored character who 1 been associated with every int k est of Dillon since the birth ' the town, was arrested 1 ^ Saturday charged with retaili the "oh, be joyful." A date ! the he^nng of the case has i been set, but Bill has been ' industriously at work 'splain his side of the matter to i "white buckra who has knou him senee he could crawl" t ' it will hardly be necessary for h to rehash the points of the defer at the trial. Bill protests innocence loudly and vociferous Scholarship Awards Made. Marion, July 28.?Special: a result of the recent competit ' examination held by the coui board of education, Mr. S. Bl< ' del Altman, of the town of M ion, was awarded the scholars! in the University of South Ca lina, and Mr. Reuben Moody, Dillon, won the one in the C lege of Charleston. The result the examinations for the Clem: and Winthrop College schol ships has not yet been annoum * by the board. The Dillon Herald $1.50 a ye liiiifMr ON A CAPITAL OF $1.25 of rC(1 1 ^ Wholesale Business Built Up in to Y ck. by Two Women. i'as Two Philadelphia women of (1 ,nv man descent have built up in I ?ad than ten years an extensive wh< lV- sale business as the resv.lt of >au .... ^ , pse or,^'na' investment in stocks t cn- took a capital of exactly 51.-'5. the The stocks are not of the k that are listed on exchaevM dealt in <>n the curb, but the k ' that women wear about tl ij?o tjle necks. One of the women > i * nju buiikwiiui usiivsniy .1 si vas for her own adornment one < lo.n when she suddenly exclaimed: 3.C1- t ? , >itc ' wish I could make so erc money." r>ld "Why not do for pay what ; are now doiny for an.usemcn said a friend who sat 1)\*. try jie The idea took. The yot but women and a cousin bought SI :al- worth of material, made sevi stocks and had no difficulty atc selline them. on , I hat was the beginning of L>n- business that has since occuj ner the whole time of both partni 111 For a while one of them, who di ell l>rt',^y well, was the designer , the firm. As business crew ed. was more economical to emplr ,s well-paid designer, who could I his whole time to that part of nts I work. t\e | I My tins time the partners 1 begun to employ girls to do actual making of the stocks, lirst the work was done by a 1 ost girls in Philadelphia. The nil a ber of employes increased and became good business to estab: ?atl branch houses, for bv this ti ras the trade of the partners v the wholesale instead of ret ^n. Metises were established in I .'ial timore, New V?.rk, Chicago. jn. Louis, and the business went the growing. ra- By this time the two partn of gave themselves wholly to ful management of the business ; de- the purchase of materials. Tl ex. now go twice a year to Europe ieir study models and buy materi: ;en they have several well-paid en- signers, and the persistence of I (ity fashion of wearing stocks 1 the kept the business constantly an- tive and profitable. 3se Success also has given the p: of ners confidence, and they feel t ere they are not at the mercy o'" n capricious Parisian milliners. u p. fcet the modes of the world, ike women < in it wearing stocks fj, partners will in turn take something else. Meanwhile the partners h; I .. had a busy and happy life, w an almost eonstantly inereas u income and a broadening horiz They have built for themselvc ercomfortable home in the up part of Philadelphia, and they almost every year a good il in cf ^ * more of the European world. They had no more expcctat of a business career 10 years i .S? than a hundred thousand oti Sfirls in their native citv.?N th? York Sun. red Atfed Woman Suicides. itm rse Mrs. Jno. A. McMillan, as his about 70 years, committed suic ly. at her home near Mullins week by taking carbolic ai Mrs. McMillan said she was As feelinp well and retired to ive room on the pretence of takin *ty nap, telling her daughters not ^>n- arouse her for dinner. Insteac ? " going io ner o-vn room sne w hip to a company room and someti r?- later she was found unconscio ?f A messenger was sent to Mull :?1" for medical assistance, but a p ?f sician could not be found i son Mrs. McMillan died without ar" gaining consciousness. No ot reason except ill health could assigned for the rash act. :ar. The Dillon Herald $1.50 ayeat .. _ }kd - A.?. . _ VL _ 1 _ - - - How Fire Hurts the Fields, f" <)! course, the greatest lossj sustained through the burning' of J CI lL.r. vegetable matter which should Wl CJk> be mixed with the soil, is the loss ,jt.. of the humus-forming materials; 111 lU but the actual loss in plant !<>od j,;ll is also worthy of serious consideration. The phosphorus and M ind potissium contained in the vegeor table matter are not destroyed by en jn(| burning, for these mineral plant JtV j\.jr foods remain in the ashe^^-Wit ,va\ l,K' "itrogen which join^Soils need vil i n'i; v ' on mid nit- air ami lav We repeat that the greatest loss tir ,mo is the destruction of the humusforming materials, but let us see rou Jusl what the loss of nitrogen ha t>'- amounts to when a ton of crab- I*' grai-s, broomsedge, or cornstalks 1>c mg is burned. If the material burn.50 ed be Japan clover or other legum- V1; ral cs? the loss of nitrogen is much ^ jn greater. A ton of crabgrass hay contains about 25 pounds of ni- sl} u trogen, and this is worth 20 cents re lied ;i pound, which xives it a value of ;rs. S4.40. A ton of crabgrass hay, (^r w ami frequently much more than W< of a ton of crabgrass and other l materials equally rich in nitrogen,^ ,v r. i^ otten bnrneil olT rwro I jw That i>, for each acre we burn the over we may easily destroy S4.4U Worth of the very plant food our lad soils need most. the We are slow to accept such At statements as facts, because the few plowing under of these materials mi- does not give immediate evidence it of any su< h value to be obtained lish from the plowing under of such a itnc quantity of corn stover or crabras grass. That is, more benefit to ail. the fust succeeding crop would be to >rd- obtained from the application of St. S4.00 worth of cottonseed meal ^ ,,n than from plowing under a ton of corn stalks. This is undoubtedly ers so- hut the effects of plowing un- Pa tlw der humus-forming materials are ind not alone measured by the nitroiey gen they contain, and are not lim- se to itetl to the first year. It is this ^ ils* working for immediate results alone that has brought our soils the to that degree of infertility reprelias hy an average yield of 200 pounds so, ac. of lint cotton and 15 bushels of corn per acre, No rich land ever ot irt- became suddenly unproductive; j,ij nor e:m :i ilptili-lpH ??i1 Kn C.. 1411. * * ' tjlc mieally built up to a high degree ,'ho ot fertility in one or two years. g jf From these facts we should learn the that farming lands foi this year's *** ?n results exclusively, while some . ... tei times nececssary, if jjersisted in is IVC certain to lead to soil depletion se, -iti! and finally to agricultural and fi|n}j naneial bankruptcy. [jn Progressive Farmer. Why She Named the Lamp for Him. wi see ea| A prominent young man of * * * recently presented his better half ^a ion with a handsome piano lamp on lfr0 her birthday. He was flattered |KT when she told him that she inten- ^ai cw ded to give it his name, until he asked her reasons for so peculiar tie proceeding. "Well," she said, ,ar "you know, dear, it has a good deal of brass about it, it is hand- Jsome to look at. requires a good ^ u'c deal of attention, is remarkably ^ 'ast brilliant, is sometimes unsteady e(] on its legs, liable to explode when wi not only halt full, flares up occasionly, '1cr it is always out .at bedtime and is ?a ^ a bound to smoke."?Selected. i of "T think 1 shall m.arrv him tore form him, said the romantic , mc . , be ffirl. "I have seen that experiment ^ 1US tried," rejoined Miss Cayenne. ^, "Successfully?'' ind ... . .. w Well, I won,tsay the men were re* reformed. But they always seemed ?r more or less repentant and dissat- _ no ni ^ isfied." s ' T^he Dillon Herald $1.50a year. T i ( vett ***? *... Free State News. j ? ? # ? Mr. and Mis. Frank Bundy, of io, spent Thursday and Friday th their aunt, M-s. M. A. Ellen. Mr. I. I\ Rogers returned Satdav from Columbu. where lie is been taking abusiiess course. Mrs. J.J. Tolarot Lata visited rs. J. \V. Rowland Fni-w Mr. D. L.^CottiTlghain cl Fierce sjjpjK "Friday with rclajves Mr. Walter Fate of Bcma.tsUe, was a visitor in our net > rhood Saturday. Miss Ada Hays is spending some ne with relatives in and around io. Mr. and Mrs. \V. A. Ferguson ve gone to house keeping near ,llon where Mr. Ferguson has a silion at Bethea's saw mill. Miss Edith Allen of Dillon i< siting the familv of her uncle, r. W. B. Allen." Miss Bertha Fenegan of Clio ent a few days this week with latives in Free State. We are sorry to reix?rt Mr. Anew LcGctte on the sick list this 2ek. Mr. and Mrs A. Fllcn of L?iln were visiting out here last ednesdav. Cor. ? >? BemuivJ.i Briefs. Hot dry weather is the talk of ie people of this section just now id much needed rain. General health of this section is :ry good at this writing and no arriuges to report just now. A good many of our people atnded service at Pleasant Hill Linday last. Mr. S. F. Stephens paid a visit Columbia last week on business. Mr. S. W. Stephens of this place as visiting at the home of his son r. L. H. Stephens, Sunday P. M. M. B. McKenzie of Kemper id a flying visit to this section st Sunday. Dock Bullock and wife of Gaddy ction spent last Sunday at the mie of the latter's aunt, Mrs nantha Moody, of this place. We are still listening for the :dding bells to ring in this comunity and expect to hear them on. Mr. Mac Sparkman and sister the old north state were visitg at the home of T. T. Moody inday last. Old Tom. Maple Dots. Mr. George Powers and daughr, Miss Mattie, ot Abbottsburg. , C., are visiting relatives *n this ction. Supt. of Education Joe P. Lane is in this section last week. Mr. N. C. Dove of Rockfish, N. , spent Saturday and Sunday th relatives in this section. V-f- I 1 * 1 < - ? ? * nn. juun ivioouy 01 ine Mt. Ual rv section spent Saturday in ese parts. Verney Lane was in this section st week. Mr. Godbolt of the Calvery scorn attended preaching at Pleasit Grove Sunday. There was a bad runaway at Mr. D. Dove's one day last week, hile the horse was pullingra crate tobacco an automobile passed, e got frigfhtened and after it passI the driver slapped the horse ith the lines and he begran to run, ittingr lose from the driver, outn the automobile ai.d ran into e river swamps. Simon. ME LOST MIS NERVE ANYWAY A Whitchitp man was fussing :cause of his aching teeth. "Why don't you go to a denit?" asked one of his friends. "Oh, I haven't got the nerve,'* as the reply. "Nevermind that," replied the iend, "the dentist will find the srve all right.?Kansas City 'he Dillon Herald $1.50 a year. :JSBB