^' mft - -,- . ,rrWr^;nwf?W;- TO""T >vy* -1 ?v* J? ;~*r - ' >wp??!-H ' u w * >u ?. n ' ' '? ?r ' f)itloti Kemtfl. i^V" , ESTABUSHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1909. / VOL 15, NO. 32 / / v V BUILDING THE SAND CLAY ROADS. i CC I. E. Watson Insists on his 'a A ^ R i g h t as Originator, b; Vrosecuted in Court by ^ . Those Who Afterwards in Thanked Him for His 2 Senrices-Richlajid and J Darlington Must Seek w Other Fields of Honor. From the Florence Times. CC Editor of the Daily limes: I feel very grateful of letting the ^ public know I was the originator of the sand clay road idea and w - that I was so far in advance with tc it that when I first 'orced it our sc good citizens of that great old county, that I was arraigned before the courts and ordered to put le the road back like it was. Y I had told the people that I could make a permanent and good c{ road anywhere and their section y of road being a great deal of time li under water and as bad a mud a' hole as I ever saw. so bad that ^ travellers wuuiu iuiica uui. kjl ^ the way rather than go through. jc 1 Futhermore it was a road that to i was used a great deal from the tr fact that the branch and swamp that caused the trouble could not ^ L be crossed for some distance l, above or below. The citizens of pi * that day thougnt that it was im- PI t possible to keep the place passi- ^ ble, so they would meet there * every year and have a fuss and a th t great deal of trouble and falling tn out about this road and when I tr ' went there and threw loose old ^ rails out, the people who put them ^ there were naturally enraged. It They said that even if I was su- w pervisor and had the avthority^ to ^ do so that I had ruined^he road. ^ Before I got through with it the af rain set in and I had as fine a bed of Y water as I ever saw on a road. Those people, many of my special t0 friends thought that I had ruined the road, so they had me indicted C( and the case came up before.^the w spring term of court and I was ^ ordered that honorable body to ^ change the condition and put the st road back as it was before. As jt soon, however, as the water ran p, off and the bed dried it was al- ^ most as solid as a rock and it has re remained so ever since with ali most no repairing. So when the fall term of court came the very f people who had prosecuted me ol * made a.statement in writing that the road was in a better condition " * than it had ever been and'i signed 01 , a petition requesting the court to w let the road stay as it was. T Now if Darlington or Richland hi 0 can show a man who twenty years th , t ago was indicted for making sand ai * clay roads they will have a little of 0 more to brag about. If they were th up with me in the matter of build- ! p ing and in sympathy with me what ai |^- were they at when it looked like n< the whole people would jump b< * on me about pushing such an w _ absurd idea on them. w It is all bosh, the idea was born, it * dead and buried and Watson run m I ot,t of the county long before it d< ,was resurrected in Richland and cr r' Darlington counties. Besides, I c?U?jiho\v experiments that have pi 1A trooro oo/\ ?K/*f K' L W II UWIIIV TV TV?io agv/ llial Will W convince anyone who will go with if m me. I tan show that these ex- lii periments were made with a view rr of road building:, but these ingre- as dients when mixed made a firm, e^ oosKtpact body and it occurred to fc * my mind that it would be practi- hi m cable to use it on the roads, which I after 1 had made some experi- m ments, I was elected to office } which gave me the poweij to put hi it into practice. My honorable friend Mr. J. C. F Setters has come out into the Newa and Courier giving a brief k lr' * IWL . * Bound for (he Atlantic Ocean. (From the Nashville Tennesseau ) In the early history of this >untry sailing ships from Europe, den with cargoes for the North tlantic coast towns, were forced y the wind currents to come by harleston. There they landed, id often stayed for months waitg for good weather, to cont? iue leir journey. Money was literly poured into Charleston's lap uring this period It was richer tan it has ever been since. Here as the real beginning of Chariton's if not all South Carolina's, herewith to take it easy and beinifc a highly cultivated society. Then came the steamships, drivig trade to Boston and New York, he rest is known. New York dug canals to the est and to the southwest, and K)k trade from the territory >uth of the Great Lakes, east I the Misissippi and north of Tenessee, that ought to have gone nwn the Mississippi to New Orans. This helped to make New brk the money centre of America. The Panama Canal bids fair to rings about a great change in the immercial supremacy of New ork. The Southern people are ve to the possibilities the Panna Canal will bring to them, very Southern paper that comes > our desk reports movements on >ot to improve rivers that lead > the Atlantic, or to the Gulf, or the Mississippi or some of its ibutaries. A Lakes-to-the-sea jep waterway convention is to be ild in October, when President aft will go by boat from St ouis to New Orleans. The old *oject of cutting a canal across lorida has been revived. Every>dy seems to have their heads t on getting to the South Atlan: coast quickly from the Sou era interior, to tacmtate ship* cnts to and from foreign counies. The Burlington people ddently appreciate the impornce of the South and its coast ne in the commerce of the future, they are impressed, other roads ill be impressed, and the wealth int was taken from the Southistern section by the invention steamships may come back ter many years cf enriching New ork and New England. The completion^of the Burlingn system as contemplated would ean the building of more branch ties as feeders into territory jntiguous to Nashville, and it ould mean a great financial upft to the people of thi* city. It would help us as the sailing lips helped Charleston, as the eamships are helping New York, would put us in touch with the rairies of the Northwest and the ;acost of the Southeast. Trade Nations with both ends of the ne would attract many people to te advantages of Nashville and ennessee, and would increase ir wealth and population. Jtline of what was due me and hat was the effect of my work, he piece ot road that he spoke of. Dwever, is now eight miles from le piece that I was indicted for. id I ordered that different piece work done, giving directions to le overseers. Some of them >eyed and some did not. I urged id threatened tl? *law if they did it cause each and every able xlied man to do $2 worth of road crk. Some of them had the ork done and some did not but was acknowledged that I got iore work done than had been me for several terms before 1 ime into office. I claim that this is the most racticablc idea of road work is ever been advanced, and that any other man in South Carona or anywhere else has d >ne as inch as I have done, or suffered ? much ridicule for the idea and /en been threatened bodily harm r using: it, I want to shake his and and form his acquaintance, am ready and I have a great lany witnesses who will now >e&k out and say to whom this onor is due. I. E. Watson, lorence, S. C. The bttloh Herald *1.50 a yaar. * ~ ^ . i Nigh Schofl Opera Monday. The Dillon High School will open next Mqnday morning, Sept. 13th., at 9 o'clock. Everv pupil of school age in the school district should enroll the first day. This would enable the pupils and 1 teachers to do much more satisfactory work during the coming year. It is impossible for a teacher to do nine months of good work in seven or eight months. It is greatly desired that every patent will put forth an unusual effort to have their children in school the first day. The pupils should bring with them the opening day the text books which they used last year, for in many cases the same text book is used longer than one year. Thev should also bring their promotion cards. The Superintendent has a record of each pupil's work and class standing, but if the pupils have their promotion cards it will make the organization of classes easier. Pupils who are not hopelessly behind in their work and have done some stlldvincr Hnrinor summer, will be given the opportunity of standing examinations the first two days of school. If the results of these examinations are satisfactory the pupil will be allowed to advance to the next higher class. An incidental fee of $1.50 per session is charged each pupil and no pupil is entitled to enrollment until this is paid, so each pupil should bring his enrollment card the day he entehi school. These cards can be secured from the secretarvand treasurer of the Board of Trustees, Mr. A- J. C. Cottingham, on Friday or Saturday morning at his office. The Dillon High School is a state aided school and this entitles any pupil in the county to free tuition in the high school department, which is the eight, ninth, tenth and eleventh grades. Any pupil from any other county would have to pay tuition in these grades. The Dillon High School would be glad to have any students from any part of the county, who wish to take advantage of the High School coarse, which it offers. Pupils coming from outside the Dillon school district, who entei a class below the high school classes, have to pay tuition. The rates of tuition are as follows: First, second and third grades, $1.50 per month. Fourth, fifth and sixth grades, $2.00 per month. Seventh grade, $2.50 per month. The Dillon High School, in addition to the regular course of study, offers to its patrons the opportunity of taking vocal and instrumental music, and art. Miss Bauman will be in charge of the department of instrumental music. Miss Breuser, vocal music, and Miss Gilbert, the art. It is hoped that each of these departments will be well patronized. The public is cordially invited to be present at the opening exerA.1 A uKa hi mc Auauorium on Monday morning. There will be six new teachers and they would appreciate the opportunity of meeting the patrons of the school. May the patrons and the teachers be so united in their purposes and efforts for the welfare of the school as to make this year the best in the history of the school. W. W. Nickels, Supt. f A love-smitten youth asked one of his bachelor friends if he thought that a yoong man should propose to a girl on^his knees. "If he doesn't" replied the friend "the girl should get off." ?Everybodys Magaaine. An Old Time Hanging. i "As dark as the day when old Jennie was hung" is one of the jUj many quaint sayings that for generations has been used on the lower eastern shore of Maryland, but from the accounts that haVe a i been given by those who livevb in old Jennie's day there never/ has . / ws been a day since that time as? dark y, as the day on which she wqrs exe- be cuted for wholesale murder in the gr neighborhood in which slie lived. m< The old murderess \va* publicly ca hanged in 1815 in the olil jail yard nj at Princess Anne, and all those T1 who remembered thati particular ge day have passed into tl e great beyond long ago. The murderess ^ was a white woman, ti ll and an gular, and it was said ihat she re- th sembled wnat was jxjpularly supl>osed to be a witch far \nore than she did the up to date woman of that day. In fact, locaV history records that she practiced wd^ch^ jsii craft. No one ever knew where bi H r>( she came from, she having. "dropped down" very mysteriously in- ^ to the neighborhood, where she killed a family of four. th Old Jennie was not hanged on a ?j. scaffold. In those days murder- ^ ers were executed with as little ta trouble and eXnense as nossihle. w The wizen faced terror of all th Somerset was placed in a cart drawn bv two oxen and placed directly under a stout limb of an fQ old oak tree which stood in the of jail yard. The rope was fixed in ht rude fashion around her neck, t(> amid the hurrahs of the crowd and ^ the curses of the doomed woman n( and when all was in readiness a bunch of fodder was placed ten paces from the oxen's heads, and 'K ... an they were given the word to start. Obeying- the command, they made or a bet linJ for the fodder and left old Jennie dandling at the end of the rope. That day, it has been told thousands of times, was the dark... ou est ever known in this section, Chickens remained on their roosts throughout the entire day, while candles by the score burned in the wa houses that the servants might see to do their work. The local i- , scl cpinnficfo rvf fnof /?/?? ? 1 ui nun uay ?cic ill il * loss to account for the strange rej phenomenon, and the graphic descriptions which they gave of it o? and which were recorded years ago make interesting reading. The darkies and superstitious jn whites of those days naturally thought that the end of time tjn had come. A great many negroes trg declare today that the ghost of ?aj old Jennie may be seen stalking we around on the edge of the woods j near where she committed her crimes any time on dark, cloudy j night, and they arc very careful j not to encounter her.?Oriole ^ (Md.> Cor- Chicago Inter Ocean. f CV' Three hundred bales of cotton were sold on the Dillon market tet Saturday. The cotton was of a c'h good quality and the highest an price for the day was 12.52J4. to There is a strong crops of buyers ex on this market representing the several large exporting hoyses in W1 the south and competition between mt them Saturday was so lively that art it looked at one time as if cotton r(X would go to 13^ cents per pound. , The price of seed reached a new high level also and every bushel that was offered was taken prom- u ptly at 33 cents. Thirtythree cents for seed and 12.52/4 for cotton makes a bale of cotton worth $73. 00. The only other market in the state paying 33 cents for seed, of so far as could be learned, was de Bennettsville. Cotton is opening ag rapidly and is being sold as fast foi as it can be picked, ginned and ke put on the market. Out of the W 62 ginneries in the upper end of sic the county only six were not in mi operation on Sept. 1st., whereas pe in the past it was quite unusual ta to find more than six in operation fa that early in the season. If the ed present good weather continues sc the cotton crop will be pretty well it gathered by Nov. 1st. et I ?-A GIRLS SPANKED THE PREACHER, it as a Joke, But They Laid it on Pretty Heavy. The Rev. Howard W. Benedict, popular young preacher of East >rwalk, was in bed and in pain it evening, says a South Norilk dispatch to the New jrk World, when he should have en conducting the Union Conegational and Methodist tent eeting in Wcstport, and all beuse some young women friends anked him too hard Saturday ght in celebration of his birthday. ie Rev. Mr. Howard is able to t up and be out this afternoon, it it will be some days before he ts his meals elsewhere than from e mantlepieee. It was no gentle birthda>r*rfps at were administered to M^TBenict. They were gfirtxi, sound aeks from barre}, staves. Many V..W jvu??5 J'UIUCH IVVIIIKILI .*> U1 e youngfJ>Tinc wished to rememr hiip unced and lasting. Witch hazel, arnica and other lin killers were applied in the >pe that ne might get to that i-eti ng Sunday, but all in vain. L* was too sore to pray, preach sit down Artesian Well at School. The impression having gotten t that the pump water at the gh School was contaminated d that some of the children had veloped fever from drinking the iter, the trustees have decided bore an artesian well on the tool grounds. The pump iter may be pure and the childit might have contracted the lease elsewhere, but an ounce precaution is worth a pound of re and in order to be on the safe le the trustees will invest $175 an artesian well. It was hoped have the well bored by the ne scohol opened but the conictor who was to do the work led to put in an appearance this lek and it will probably be the ter part of next week bciore the ill is bored. In the meantime the 100I children will be supplied th ice cold artesian water which 2 janitor will bring: each day >m Mr. J. W. Dillon's well, le trustees and teachers will do erything in their power to proit and preserve the health of the ildren and parents need have y fears that children entrusted the school authorities will beposed to any dangers. School II open at 9 o'clock Monch^ >i mux; anu a irrsn supply Oly esian water will kept in each >m until the school well is combed. R. ELLERBE ABLE TO WALK. Marion, Sept. 6.?The friends Congressman J. E. Ellerbe are lighted to see him on the streets, ain on foot after being laid up r several months with the bron leg which he received in ashington during the extra ses>n of congress. It will be reembered that Mr. Ellerbe slipd on the floor of the Metropolin hotel and broke his leg in tfee 11. Though he has not dlscardl his crutches, he can make me use of the injured leg, and will not be long before he has itirely recovered. ^??-?H> PROF. COLCOCK \ COMPLETES SURVEY. Has Secured all the Data He Wants in Reference to Area of Marion County and Returns to Columbia. Prof. Colcock and his party of surveyors completed their work Thursday and returned to Columbia that night. Prof. Cylertck spent Wednesday ni^ht at the Price Court Inn aftd in reply to an interrogation from a Herald man he said-tfiat he had about all the d^ta he needed and after running another line or two on the ' < lowing day he would return to Columbia. It will be a month before Prof. Colcock can make a report to the governor. After spending a dav in Columbia he will go on to Brevard, X. C., where he will spend a two week's vacation before school opens. Returning to Columbia he will begin the preparation of the ivpor: he will submit to the governor and this work will require about two week's time, therefore it is seen that at least a month will elapse before the report is placed in the hands of Gov. Ansel. Of course. Prof. Colcoek would give out nothing concerning the survey and 110 one has any idea whether his report will be adverse or favorable to the New County. All he would say was that he was em ployed to run certain lines in the u.,, ..in 1 1 t ? V.? , HI !' MUM I , and that lie could not say jxisitiv? ly whether or not Marion contained more than 9n<> square miles without making a survey of the entire county. This view of the situation is shared by other wellknown surveyors who are in possession of the facts bearing' on the matter and really no one can see what is to be gained by this useless expenditure of money, except time, which all along seems to have bef hpp and rattlesnake poison, R. Lane, a farmer of French Creek, fought his companions for three hours until medical aid arrived. One of the men killed a rattlesnake and donning a pair of gloves skinned the reptile. In the afternoon Lane borrowed the gloves to wear while loading lumber. While engaged in this work he disturbed a nest of little yellow bees, which stur.g him on the neck and arm and in fighting them he kept rubbing the gloves on the spots where the bees had punctured the skin. The poison took effect at once and Lone became a maniac. He is recovering. 1 v. jkL-:: < iwk*: