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r r~rr ; >.;?? yjuiu. i . - " - -nil-, w ii m The Dillon Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY a. b. JORDAN Editor. SUBSCRIPTION. SI SO PER YEAR Entered at the poetofflce at Dillon, 8, (!., a* eeond-c.as* mail matter* Dillon. S. C. November 4. 1909. If you feel like lying in bed these cold mornings it's a sign you are a victim of the hook-worm. Over in Korea editors kill statesmen with the pistol, while here in more civilized America they do it with the pfen. The fellows who have been writing letters to Hub Evans and Jim Farnum will swear by the telephone after this. Unlike appendicitis there is no danger of the hook-worm ever becoming popular with the medical profession because it is a poor man's disease. _ 1 uuuui quite it Illllliucr Ul "good men'' in South Carolina are remembering some correspondence they have had with Jim Farnum and Hub Evans during: the past ten years.. Such is fame. Under the head of "General News Items" one ol our contemporaries says: "A Japanese statesman, by name Prince Ito, was assassinated or last Tuesday." Is the honor ol being: great worth the effort? The hook-wortn might as well capitulate without firing a gun. The loathsome little parasite which has been causing so much trouble in the south has had its aay ana its annihilation is near at hand. Rockefeller has announced that he will {rive $1,000,000 toward the complete extermination of the little pest and the hookworm is too feeble a creature to stand any chance in a fight against Standard Oil. W e say the hookworm is doomed; ere many months have pasBed away its annih lation will be complete because Standard Oil has overthrown and conquered greater forces than all the hookworms combined could ever hope to be. Standard Oil has fought and conquered great combinations capital; it has stripped epaulets from the shouldeis of captains of industry and reduced them to the ranks of paupers; it has laughed at the federal courts and has made a plaything out of the government, and what chance is there for the feeble hook-worm i n a fight against such odds? It's time to write the hook-worm's epitaph. The whole family is doomed. ?=== / Director Wiley was roundly abused for turning State's evidence in the Farnum trial, but so far we have failed to see any criticism of Hub Evans in connection with the dispensary trials. The Herald does not say that Hub Evans has furnished information to Attorney General Lyon or to the dispensary investigating committee but there are in the hands of the committee some of Evans' private letters that look mitrV?tv ?? susoicious* If Evans did not turn those letters over to the investigating: committee how did the committee get hold of them? They were private property and the committee had no right to invade Evans' private office and appropriate them. Every man connected with the dispensary has been drawn into the net except Evans and as Collier's has said "all the trails lead right up to Evans' front gate and break short off." But then what about those letters? Is Evans guilty of no wrong doing? Is he too shrewd to be caught? Did he turn State's evidence? Or did the investigating committee go into Ms private office and ?.k. the letters? There is an air of < x mystery about the whole thing: the r public cannot understand. v - a This matter of taxes?let us f talk about it. It is so unimpor- * tant as to be unworthy of consid- * eration, but it is one of the thread- c bare arguments against N e w * 1 Counties and is bound to come up v i sooner or later. In fact, it basal- a ready been sprung: in remote cor- c , ners of the New County A man c of intelligence told a man who ^ couldn't read and write the c New County would tax away his * land. The man who coulnd't read * and write was a conscientious man s V and he believed the intelligent man until another man of some intelli- * gence and more scruples came a along and told him better. That 1 is why we want to talk about taxes. "Taxes" is one of the stockarguments of old counties because ^ shrewd men know the quickest way c - , S . mills. This is what more tax- , es" means. In other words about 1 */t of a mill will pay the salary of a every officer in the New County. I I What, then, is there in the tax argument? It is merely a bugaboo, 1 ' a scarecrow, a hobgoblin, to fright- v i en timid voters and to mislead '? unthinking men. It will not cosb j any more to build a bridge in the e New County; the roads can be worked just a little cheaper in a a smaller territory, school teachers I can be employed at the same sal- * * aries in the New County; lumber, stock feed, groceries and other things counties need can be bought c just as cheaply in the New Coun- c ty as they can be bought in any ? other county. Now as to economy: j, Any farmer will tell you that a two i horse farmcan be run more econo- \ micallv than a ten horse farm. If c C a ten horse farm netted as much per acre as a two borse farm, v lands would be worth their weight t in gold. Does not the same rule i annlu tn mnntiop) *- ? t r i.v wuuuwoi 1 Hid IdA pi Up" osition doesn't amount to anything s with men who think but if you are approached on it mildly enquire what per cent, of the county's in- * come is spent for salaries and see A how quickly your old county friend will take to tall timber. 1 /, v- A // -? * ? v l '/ \ E The Herald is not making ex* travagant predictions for political effect, but after canvassing.the ^ situation thoroughly it sincerely believes the New County will 1 carry the election on December / l4th. by one of the largest major1 ities ever polled for a New Coun- * ty in the history of the State. In j 1 the election held January 16, 1901, the New County was lost by only 1 43 votes. In that election only T 250 votes were cast at Dillon. The present voting strength of q Dillon is aoout 600 and it is safe to say that 595 of these votes will T be cast for the New County. Out- f side of Dillon, particularly at the polling precincts on the bordd?* line, there has been a wonderful j change of sentiment in favor of the New County, and influential men who opposed or looked upon j the movement with indifference in v the last election, have become 1 enthusiastic New County men. ^ One reason for thi9 change of sen- c ' timent is that the masses have be- c 1 gun to think for themselves. \ ' They are no longer misled by the t ' extravagant claims of excessive 1 i taxation. They have watched the | t development of Bamberg, Green- s | j| ^ * to reach a voter is to touch hi? ? pocket. They tell him it will cost C! more to run twocounties than one. a This looks plausible. It takes more 1 to feed two horses than one. Ask ^ then; why and they will tell you one a set of officers is doing: what it will n take two to do after the New a County is formed. This, too, ^ looks plausible. But what about t the expenses of the county? Ap- p proximately, Marion county's an* ? nual expenses are $115,000. It a takes about $7,000 of this $115,000 t to pay the salaries of Marion's c officers. The remaining $108,000 v is spent for schools, roads and bridtres. nnnr hmiso anH miinppc . J etc. Now this $7,000 represents about 1 H of a mill on $5,000,000 c worth of property and Marion's v lew for all ourooses is ihnnt 98 > iiv.il me iiiuu^cu necueu Dy >ur soils is obtained through de- ? omposing legumes there is supdied something more than nitrogen?humus. This humus is no R ess necessary and will as surely B ncrease the production of our soils & >y improving their physical con- V litions. The growing of nitro- 1; :en-gathering crops, therefore, K upplies the two needs of our soils, K irhieh, taken together, unques- K ionably stand first in importance K n any scheme of substantial or R remanent soil improvement. B ?Raleigh (N. C.) Progres- C ive Farmer. V The New County. V low for the New County, yes, B The conditions are ail met. K il things are ready now we guess. WL Aud the election time is set. K 'he election will booh be ovtr, B ind such a victory it will be. R 'he new county vote will cover B ivery foot of laud you see. K 'he men who once opposed Have watched each move with care, C ind seen some things they supposed B Were not exactly right if fair. R 'om Dillon has been faithful, Has been as true as steel, ?? tnd never made an unfair pull This, all the voters surely feel. le fought ths crooked line R That would have ruined Latta. K fe's always been polite and kind *" And considerate in this .natter. i 'he conditions that now prevail, C Twill be useless to oppose, B he New County ship will safely sail, R Over every obstruction of its foes. R 'he men of Latta will take hold, h According to their word, here's not one so bold D to sacrafice his own manhood. B lonOf is a thinir mnat <lunr if General Washington has said, '"or if the little spark once there Is gone the man is dead. X <atta, Oct, 36, 1009. ! - The Herald has seen the blue rints of the passenger station that /ill be built at Dillon by the new ailroad and it is a building of /hich any town would be proud. The platform will be built of conrete and the passenger departnent will be built of pressed brick zith stone foundations. The inerior arrangement of -the station s very convenient and will proride all the comforts the traveling rnblic could desire. Work on the station will begin next week. ' \ ?? ?. ? vood, Lee, Calhoun and other ti lew counties and are impressed 1' vith the fact that taxes are lower ind that the people are happy, jj irosperous and contented. Bam>erg, for example, used to belong: o old Barnwell. Twenty miles Bj >f sandy roads lay betweeh Bam >erg and the county seato. Taxes vere high (about as higH as they ho tre in Marion today) and the '? . , . Oh :ounty was getting deeper and clf leeper in debt. Bamberg cut off im KX) square miles and formed a th ounty of her own. That was 15 ue 'ears ago. Old Barnwell's tax < evy has never decreased. She th till owns her sandy roads. Bam- Ka >erg is a net work of good roads, uf he county is out of debt and its "b ffairs are in such excellent shape sh hat at the last term of court the on residing judge complimented the "c cople and told them that Bam- an erg was in better shape than any lui ounty in the State. While the 1,1 ther New Counties have not done ell uite as well as Bamberg still they <i<.re in better condition than when lo hey left "the mother counties. s Tieir roads are better, their taxes re lower, their public affairs are blf nore economically administered, t.? nd best of all the people ate hap- th. j and contented. There is noth- i,,! tig experimental or hazardous in Ul! he effort to divide Marion. The r"; eople are simply doing what ught to have been done ten years go. Five years from now nothng would induce us to go back to |1:i he old county if we could and the .-,?i >ld county wouldn't Iwe us if we i?r wanted to go. ??' _ Sil Free State News. ^ Mr. Andrew LeGette has been ,h onfined to his bed for nearly two n* veeks on account of rheumatism. Rev and Mrs. C. M. Peeler r,., pent Wednesday and Tuesday < >, vith friends in this section. s,. Mr. Percy Stanton of Clio was w' i visitor at the home of Mr. J. S. days Sunday. J I |i Mrs. Ida Cottingham of Latta, , s visiting: relatives up here this bn veck. ??i Some of our young people at- 'of' ended the Hallow'een party at i (1<1 iethesda school house Saturday K:, ivening. ru Miss Emma Fenegan of Clio, " ind Mr. Frank Fenegan with Miss u" itheleen Wilkins of Lake City pent yesterday withM:. and Mrs. Dscar Fenegan. (Cor.) ^ m ^ -i-j * HE GREATEST OF STATE FAIRS f VERYONE WILL BE IN COLUMBIA NOV. 1 TO 6. te la g Events Planned?All Sorts of Pleasures?-.Cheap Rates. re rhe forty-tlrst nnnunl state fair, to be bt lil lo Columbia November 1 to 6. promises 1*C be tbe best lu the blstory of tbe South R irollnu Agricultural and Mechanical So ty. Not only are the premiums offered rger than ever before, but the officers of ? o organization have arranged a program at will bring hundreds of visitors from Ja ar by states. >u Saturday, November G. the feature of ^ e closing day will Ih> the visit of I'reslnt Taft. lie will make an address at the ^ ir Grounds to several thousand people and P' terward will be taken through the city and own the principal |>oinls of Interest. S I'be premium list issued some time ago 0W8 that a number of valuable prizes are ? 'ered for the best display of farm prodts. This was one of the features last jy ar In which there was lively competition, g d farmers throughout the state are writC Secretary Love for information as to e conditions for entrance. V not her feature hist year was tile bench g o\v. There wen. so inaiir entries in this part incut that the society has decided increase the prizes and classes to tie ad- ie tied and a special space has lieeu set h ido for the dogs. I'lie racing. of course, will lie up to the ? ;h standard. Since tiie society lias joined i> Viri^ola-Cnrolliins-tloorglu racing clr- oi it, the liorses sent South are some of l> speediest in the country, and au exumition of sonic of the records now bciiiK VI ule on the Virginia tracks will show that ml sport is promised tliose who care for 9^ events. President Moliley will see that " i> racing Is kept absolutely clean. t special committee Is at work on the ucatiounl department. It Is planned to vc Tuesday set aside for the schools and lieges, and with a view to encouraging i"!,. in school and college work cousidern- y? space will In- given for the orliil.lr* ? \er and hronse medals :ir?? awarded as J-] lr.es. The students ainl pupils must get i ir admission enrds from the officers of i' respective institutions one week before ? i> fair. Military day at the fair also promises to jg largely attended. 1'rlces have been ofred. and tlirn President .Moldey. after a ir wlili a nuinlier of offleers of the atb Carolina tlmtrd assoelation. active >rk is being done among the various nicturs in order to insure a large attendance. irther iiniioiineeineiit concerning tiie condlns will lie made later. St \sido from the fair proper there will he udreds of attractions, including a large Hvny. anil the main -tree! of the city . h lie lined with shows under the control lie officers of I lie Fair society. And n't forget the Cnrollmi-CI son football V me on Thursday. Of course all the roll11.Is will sell specially reduced tickets for visitors to the suite fair. The attend- at ee promises to he the largest on record, ti C< .Sec Joshua Simpkins Nov. 8. ? ? g W The Dillon Herald $1.50 a year. 7 I SHOES! Shoes t High clas and I If You Want < HAVE YO J W. H JV ; ifl 9 Special Column Farm Land for Sale. I \^!ll sell for cash, or on eas rms, some of the best farmin nds in upper Marion county. One farm of 700 acres with goc isidences and necessary 01 ridings, on the Cashua publi >ad leading West from Litt ock. J. D. McLucas, Marion, S. C. For Sale.?176 acres fine v nd West of and just outside tl iwn limits of Dillon. S- C. W s sold as a whole or cut in lots lit purchaser.* Terms very rea lable. Write us promptly iterested. tacknouse& Smith, Marion, S. ( 10-28-4t. For Sale.?Four room cottaj 1 desirable residence sectio ubstantial outbuildings. App )H. McRae, Dillon. If you want Morris Fass De tore call phone No. 1 70. For Sale.?A stock of Groce :s $300.00 to $500.00 at abo rv t -o ( Ino rvf tVio Koc f 1 rvr* cWl ^/liVV., WllVrf Wl LA J w UVOW 1VL on in Dillon. E. L. Moore Co. Fayettcville Steam Laundry ne of the best laundries in tl outh. When you send laundry the oil know it is coming: back rig: r you don't pay a cent for ays you for all losag:e and dar cres. Give us a trial. Geo. Brunson, Apt. Office in Brunsons Drug: Stor Throw away that piece of sto1 our wife is trying: to cook on ai et an O. K. stove from Wheel [ardware Co. It is the best m ium price stove on the face of tl irth. We buy them in car lot For Sale.?40 acres g:ood far nd, one mile from Dillon, c ittle Rock road. Apply to J. \ ang:, or W. A. Blizzard at Dillc [dwe "Co's. A Lost.?An organ stool to .eward if returned to J. A. Hu ay, Dillon. For Sale.?350 acres ot lan 30 acres under good state of ct vation; 7 room dwelling, Healt ll, 2 miles from Kingstre /illiamsburg County, Good wate For Sale.?Place containing cres, one mile from Passenger St on. Good land for trucking i :>tton. S. T. Rogers, Dillon. FOR SALE? Automobile ood order. $200 cash buys it, < ill trade for good horse. J. H. McLaurin. / SHOES! :hat fit ant s in botl ? 1 7 1 . Workmai i Homfort Combin ur shoes f1 . DUIN )ILLON, S. C \ m If you are in the market for a ^ _ sewing machine inspect our line 49 before vou buy. Our machines# are made by the Standard Sewing 4| Machine Co. and arc unexcelled, y and the price is low. Wheeler ^ Z Hardware Co. jjfl ;f CITATION. ? THE STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA aj# County of Marion. By P. B. Hamer, Probate Jndge: JjjI Whereas, W. W. Pajre boa made jmm*' snit to me, to errant him Letters *?! *??? ip istration of tho Estat : 3e 8. L. Page: These Are Tl # and admonish all and i? -in dred and Creditors oi ^jm s- Page, deceased, tha' mi if pear before me, in th u Pro- ' bate, to be held at Mm- , . uur f| ? n, November 5th, 1900. next, after publi-f cation hereof, at 11 o'clbck in the fore^'i^B noon, to show cause, if any they have. ? why the said Administration should Tg IlUb uo ^mutou - * " Given under my hand this. 25th . , * day of October, Anno Domini 1909. * ly P. B. Hamer, Jndge of Probate t ? 10.28-2t. *^2 ' OTIS PAGE, B. S. C. E. j T" Civil Engineer. ^ ut ? a. All sorts of surveying, Draught- "" ing, Leveling, special attention to ^ ls Farm and Timber Surveys, City hs Lots. Guaranteed Accuracy. * DILLON, S. C. re * J AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND n- REPAIRING e : AGENT, jAckson automobiles ire id e- Bennettsville ^ * Garage, ^ >n - ....--21 V. D- iiri-"..'/!- c ^ )n uenneiiesuiiie, j. t~ We carry a full line r" of Jackson, Cadillac and ?z^ id Ford supplies and repair hi parts. .Goodrich and w ?; Hartford tires all sizes. <^ s We solicit your pata ^ or ronage. ^ ? Orders by mail given p : nipt attention. ? - - - SHOES! I % d wear. g i M aterial ? / nship. | ed With S" i.r j. ITTJED | I B A K I i I - ni KJ