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12 PAGES THIS WEEK. (JJj? Stlllttt ifji^tU l^t MIDDLING GOHOH 8.25. P'v ' )*- ' ' "? ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1911. Vo1- 17- No- 39, PEOPLE MUST HELP IN BUILDING ROADS IMPOSSIBLE TO COVER THE COUNTY WITH CHAIN GANG AT ONCE i * TO USE A SPUT-LOG DRAG Supervisor Wayland Writes Timely L/etter UrKing Overseers to Help Work on Roods. The great problem before the toad makers of Dillon county today is the same that is before a great many of the counties throughout the State. This is to build permanently good roads, and, at the **ame time, give proper attention to maintaining the rest of the roads. Thou m?- - -I- iU ? a. ' *?viv uic utaii j i/iih;cs uii uugn- , out the county where attention is < badly needed, and a little work J would go a long way. Some poor;! * roads have gone very much to the i bad in certain spots, and some good \ roads are suffering from wear. A ! very little work, done in the right place and in the right way, would | correct the evil nine times out of j ten. But there are a great many such places, and a little work in!! each place means a vast amount of 1 work in all. The question is how [ are we going to get it done. It is entirely out of the question to try to do this work with the chain gang. In the first place it 1 would be too enormously expensive. | The chain gang is a heavy outfit, j requiring a lot of work to move It, I, and to lose a day of its time would be wasting enough money to do * the necessary odds and ends of work ' over severa! miles of the average road. "We must have some permanently improved highways to show for the money spent and work done, I or else give up the idea of having good roads at all. Build good roads and the money will be permanently < invested to the great good of the county. Do a little work here, a little there, and the monev will be sunk in the ground. Consider the i results obtained at the end of two: or three years, say. On the one hand we will have some strictly first class roads and be in a fairj T way to complete a system of them that will make use of our excellent! native road material and will extend throughout the entire county. On the other hand we will have nothing to show for what he have spent, the money sunk in the ground, and the chances of getting good roads at all greatly lessened. A small floating gang, equipped to travel easily and do such work, as is in its line, is very badly needed. But even this gang, provided it was available, would not I be the proper instrument to use on the work in question. It should be used on work that is too heavy for the overseerers to tackle alone, and too light to warrant using the Chain gang. There are plenty of ( just such places. T Ninety per cent of the poor roads could be kept in a thoroughly serviceable condition, and all of the good roads in perfect repair, by I either dragging them or else giving them the services of one man with a mule, cart and some few tools for every section of ten or fifteen . miles, say. But even this cannot be done in a day, for there are too i many miles to be covered. So the only alternative for im-. mediate relief is for lis to look to ; * the people themselves. With the, co-operation of the people themselves the county forces can ac-] complish a great deal, and make a wonderful change for the better.: , The county will do all within its power and will gladly render all possible assistance, but it must have the active cg-operation of the people to make 'its efforts count. A minature floating gang in th? shape of three men with a team < of mules, wagon, drag and tools | will be put on the roads at once i to travel from place and do such ] work as is needed most. Another ; one, of similar proportions, will be put on the road with the sole duty < of looking after bridges. vThese two parties will be able to i do a great deal of good wherever i they go, but this good can be made < a hundredfold more if the people join in the work of getting all of the roads into as good shape as possible and then keeping them there. There is no reason on earth why Dillon county should not have roads as fine as any in the state, or better, and the time is coming when it will. The materials are here, the < people are here;get the two together and the roads that we can i build will be a shining example to every other county in the State of South Carolina. j , Edwin M. Wayland, C. E. 11 * ^ ? Woum Routs 2 Burglars. r ? nangor, iMe., uct. Z8. ? cut orr from the telephone and alone in her home save for a frightened parlor jmaid, Mrs. Percy R. Todd, wife of ^he vice-president of the Bangor & Aroostook Railway and formerly of New York, had an encounter with burglars, who were ransacking the lower floor of the residence. Seising a heavy walking stick,1 the only weapon she could find, 1 Mis. Todd struck against the ban-M stern, and the burglars dropped the! silver plates which they had col- ( lected. In their haste to escape. j Misses Irene Hardwick and Irene McOaII, of Mullins, were the guests 1 of Miss Inez Jordan Thursday. |1 f * + * ? > <.* > v > p I w$&4$ V -frtk ' ?f.-?M4W* I ? %: h:: > ?M?-a A 6? v3m ? > ttBBwmS&z 5* . , - ' -, ' "x > " /i > > > 5? > 5? > ?> * Hotd Dillon County's , > > * > * * V * ?H ? ?1 ? ? ??? >? sapwuld) hoi,i> their cotton. on F*rt Worth Editor Says the SpinJvers Would Tims be Hrought to Terms. dps j New Orleans, Oct. 30. ? In addressing the cotton conference, w.hlch met here to-day, Clarence ? Ousley, editor of The Fort Worth led Record, on whose suggestion Gov. ck, Colquitt called the conference, re-ged viewed conditions which led up to?a., the present low prices for cotton iess and suggested as a remedial factor the establishing of a joint bu-ous xeau of statistics by the Southern A States. the Mr. Ousley criticised the Feder- lital government's plan of issuing sta- iytistics on the cotton industry, brand- urd log it as "one-sided," benefiting rfce largely the speculator and manufac-jer turer, and working detriment to the [lie producer. He declared that nine- Hv cent cotton means the confiscation of the cotton farmer's labor, and md presented figures to show that the the cost of producing a staple is ap-the proximately eleven cents a pound. In criticising the government forJidJ issuing statistics and estimates onlU6| cotton production without giving thethe farmer the benefit of statistics re- it luting to cotton consumption, Mr.' Ousley said: "The mockery of it is that when the farmer planted the crop he is now selling the world guessed that he would make . about 12,5000,000 bales, and indicated a readiness to pay him $65 a bale, or $812,500,000, but now when an alert Federal government ov. . announces that his crop 13,800,000 onbales, the world offers him only is $48 a bale, or $621,000,000, or ote $191,500,000 less for 1,300,000 ote bales more. Only a worldwide pan-hat ic could excuse such an economic ierabsurdity." naif no other escapes from this in- rou justice is available, Mr. Ousley said eks he would favor as a matter of des- sin ; perate self-defense in the cotton n,"j states an interstate compact appor-ed-1 tinning cotton production with uni- to! form legislation penalizing the ex-cle. ! cess under a system of state con- des i stabuiary to prescribe each man's ase1 acreage: "What is the obvious tod I remedy for immediate relief?" he ive | continued. "Manifestly it is to hold ilm | Tor better prices ? for a demon- des ( stration that the world needs the nly present crop and will pay a fair tell price for it. "If we could stop selling for 30 ral lays, we could bring the spinners *dto terms; if we could retain even Uie one-fourth of the crop until spring iad ind could exhibit a reduction of lay one-fourth in next year's acreage, ft," we could sell the remainder of the no crop at 20 cents a pound. ind "A system of warehouses for storage and for financing a holding pie movement is necessary and our >mlegislative body should make haste wsto use every device of law and to me employ every constitutional power?. of the State to encourage gradual te's marketing." ! in In order to secure more gradual L marketing, Mr. Ousley directed at- rds tention to the fact that easier bor- *? rowing facilities must be offered the l I small farmer who is unable to hold ?ly his cotton. Concluding, Mr. Ousley said; "Un be der the present system of crop re- gth porting and crop marketing, the ,bie farmer is selling in the dark, while he the spinner is buying in the light. ior. The spinner knows precisely what Inn the farmer has- the farmer knows an; nothing of what the spinner needs, rls-, Supply is proclaimed to all the|ge; world, but the demand Is hidden In the secret recesses of trade. t Is j "I contend that the government obshould do as much for the farm- 10, er's benefit as he does for the spin- . a. j ner'a benefit and should collect t? cotton trade Information as dill-fee ' arently and as completely as It col- |T 1 j lects cotton crop_Information.'' (paMr. and Mrs. Truss Thompson Wednesday for Columbia, where SC they go to attend the State Fair. <r > v v v > :< > > <? > > < ;> > :? v < _ \>.:< > : *" : v.-? I ' ijS V . j? ..<> ' ; . - VV*?: ^ i J v"': > \ - :., . * . * 1 " . . . s .. \ . ^ V ' N :v* <? ' - : : " ' -f' . - ; .? New $80,000 Court House I Handsomest Court Hoi : < : : > > : * * * < > > > : < <. : .;. <. .> > <. .j > s a i siury ui au osoaua uu iwu iiuic | girls at Rocky Mount was told in the papers, and the man, who was suspected was arrested, and was identified by the girls, one of them 11 years old and the other 10. Nothing has been said of tthe matter lately; it was left like the sensational stories in the papers, right where it was the most sensational. The mob was after the negro and it was uncertain whether the sher-; itf could protect him or not. The story comes from Rocky | Mount that the whole story was a fake gotten up by two girls to create an excitement. Tuc sheriff was suspicious of the story w hen it was told by the children but the mob believed it and thought that they were doing their duty by their families and the race in trying to lynch the negro. It is understood that the children had been hearing and reading sen- ( sational stories throughout the coun try which have been very frequent in the papers recently and they I thought that they would get up ai sensation on their own account, so they made up the tale and only the fact that the sheriff was a level headed man saved that section of the country on outbreak of lawlessness. The sheriff got the story from the ' children after some persuasion. Al'riX) TURNS OVER. . 11 One Man Killed and Man and Wo- , man Kadly Hurt. S. M. Butler, of New York City,! was instantly killed near Tifton.i, Ga., Wednesday morning when the| automobile which he was driving in i the Glidden tour was overturn T. J. Walker and his wife were jured. .. Mr. Butler was chairman of 1 contest board of the American J tomobile association. Walker is t referee of the Glidden tour now i progress. (ro The accident was caused by t c steering knuckle on the car bres !|Ll ill IT Th<l pur u'fiU ujrurbu/1 un/l M ' Butler was instantly killed when ^ ',.1. was crushed by the wheel hub. R ' eree Walker's injuries are believ MU to be serious. l?. Referee Walker is president P{ the California Automobile assocj . 1 tion. Mrs. Walker's arm was br< )" en. The injured people were c '! ried to Tifton hospitals. The fa j*11* accident took pluce at 9.20 o'clc 'n.f three miles from the city. ' The machine was running at ^la good speed, when the steering i,*\ paratus went wrong. It plunj '. . forward on its nose and turned somersault and settled on its b1 Butler was caught beneath a wh< f 01 while the other occupants w< :r<J thrown to the road. ' Other machines came to the q1 " cue and with the aid of a rd; :'m pulled the car off Butler's body. |!in. was badly cut and crushed. 1 '! body was placed aboard a train a * brought to this place. " The Walkers, who also are fr< : New York, were brought to the jtel cal hospital. Walker has a die cated shoulder and broken col 'J11 bone. Mrs. Walker is suffer lla more from shock than from H to broken arm. aC( unaries F. Kellman, of StochesBj N. Y., was In the same car, but w c&ped injury. TRAGEDY IN LAMAR STORM ^ Albert. Windham Ktkis Joe HM Before Many Witnesses. 1 Umar, Oct. 28. ? Special: bert Windham, a young white fa Jcr er of this section, shot and kifl Joe Slater, a negro, in the storeflP! B. 9. Stokes, here, this afternoflhi It seems that Windham and the Jj gro had some words a day or ago, and happened to meet in tcfl this afternoon, when the uuafl was renewed, with the above res^ap * ' / , r "' II J?|< i v ^ J ^ |j ^ ^Sg g- ^7y, mti " | b-->\>-. u Will Look When Completed ises in The State : > > > >* > > < > : < >? ! * ! : > > ? * the second going into his abdomen, I entering from near the point of I the right hip. After the shooting Mr. Cooper was iissisted to the drug store by Mr. Hammond Salley.and later taken to his home, where he was attended by Dr. Robert Gardner and Dr H. J. Salley, who called in L>r. Paul A. Phillips this morning. After hold- : ing a consultation, the wounded i man was hurried to the Columbia i Hospital, where an operation will be performed. N'ot Kxpecte?l to Survive. Prom a statement made by the attending physicians it will be a I miracle if Mr. Cooper recovers. It was reported in the town of Salley that the town council of Salley haa required Mr. Corley to put up a bond of fifty dollars, and that he had not been put under arrest. From Information received it seems certain that Mr. Corley will plead self,defense, but no statement was received from either Mr. Corley or Mr. D. Hammond Salley. The prominence of the parties concerned only adds to the seriousness of the matter. 1 totli Well Connected. Mr. Howell Cooper was raised from his infancy by his uncle and nunt, the Rev. and Mrs. Howell W. Cooper, the former of whom died several years ago. The grief of hiai aged aunt, bent with the weight lime, fully four score years old, she bent her white head over ' strong form of him who was de er to her than a child, as she H ers never known any other motherho b" was .almost beyond the power ,or description. I,e' Mr. Henry H. Corley is a son s'? STRUCK 11Y AUTO. k. W. <?. ItutJcr, of l*agcs Mills '' Knocked I>o\vii by Machine r<,, \lthough there was a very large wd in town Thursday to attend nu > John Robinson circus only one ident was reported during the f. r. Mrs. W. G. Butler, of Pages ^ lis, who came up to attend the sm rus, was struck by .Mr. J. W. Ha- . r's automobile as she attempted cross the street near the circus >und. There were quite a num of vehicles in the street going both directions, and Mrs. Butler ... empted to cross the thoroughfare 11 it as a large machine passed go: toward the circus tent. Imme- | .tely following the first machine . s Mr. J. \V. Hamer's machine and i s. Butler was caught between ' ^ > two. Mr. Hamer did every- ' " ng in his power to slacken the ?ed of his machine but before it 1>: lid be brought to a standstill the r(H lit wheels struck Mrs. Butler and rled her to one side of the road. !*'? e machine did not pass over her 1 ly as was first reported, and no 1111 ibg were broken, the only injury n'c ng a slight bruise on the hip. !s s. Butler suffered badly from the 1,1 ick and after being given medical ention she was carried to a ho- J1*1' where she remained until she s able to be taken home. Mrs. ,l 1 it lor attaches no blame to Mr. J1* uner as it was Tnrpossible for him a,a see her in time to avoid the ~P,; thi Ttl ^ res Woman a Mississippi Pilot. Alton. 111., Oct. 28. ? Holding JJ" pifot's and master's license and l)U th a thorough knowledge of the w( iftsiasippi and Illinois rivers, a ,)f>< >man at the wheel of the steam- foi at Mary is one of the competitors r transportation of the apple ge^ op from the Illinois district. h Mrs. W'lla C. Ilulett, captain and ' lot of the hoat, belonging to her ^ ishand, is the only woman steame * Woa*o? In ihio aoftifln l\f flip 'at maoici iii lino mvvv.x/i, v?* y y isslsfiippi Valley. jy ? * ra] Miss Irene McCall, of Mullins, Is ending a few days with her court, Miss Daisy Mcljean. iti: **********************^ ||j -1 Onecf The ?; ijl J % j fo > an % ?)r % eo ? CO f til : * < * * * * * v * > > fp ????^??? cr I. ?n., i -T^ii .uiivTTnc wt h i i three years. Have been using Noah's Li ment, an?l will say that It cured ine coi til pletely. Can walk better than I have In t ,,, years. Rev. 8. E. Cyrus, Poiu.ld, 8. V " ^ For Cuts and Bruise* ; c< "While working at my trade (Iron worlct s? get bruised and cut frequently,and I find tl eNoah's Liniment takes all the soreness ?i ' and heals the wound immediately. Edwfl J Ryan, Swansboro, Va." | b Rheumatism lr> Neck "I received thebottleof Noah's LiniraJ t and think It has helped me greatly. I hfl 1 rheumatism In my neck and It relieve^ e right much. Mrs. Martha A. Lambert, HB ? ver Dam, Va." Pains in the Back I t " I suflerod ten years with a dreadfl t sore pain In my back, and tried different s medlea. I>ess* than half a bottle of Nod * Linimant made a perfect cure. Mrs. Tied 1 D. Pllllngaley, Point Eastern, Va." t Itcriumlu. h The wet weather that is prevail- b ; now is greatly against the farm- b ; of this section. As tliey have on- C about l>all" of the ir cot- <*< i gathered and cannot get any v lp they are getting along a w. tl A good many of our farmers si nt last Thursday at Dillon tak- w ; in the show, and report a fine tl ie. P There has been no weddings to ft >ort at present, but it is likely cl it there will be soon, judging un the way some of <>i?" young n are sporting. tl Miss Neva Moody lias been con- U ed to her room for the past a elc with typhoid fever. We are si ry to report that she is not do- tt ; so well. Old Cor. rr HK I'ACIKS MILIaS SHOOTING. tl d rtlier Details Which Throw New a liigln on I Jifortiuiate Affair. g 1 c Further details concerning the w joting of Dr. J. G. Rogers by a ii . Sparkman at I'ages .\UHs last ursday a week ago show that Dr. e gers was not advancing on p arkman when the shooting occur- si l, as was first reported. Dr. Rofi- c [ was at his race track working tl ; horses preparatory to entering i.< ; races at Payetteville and Co- p nbia. Sparkman and some other n were at the track also and it said that Sparkman used abusive u iguage toward the Doctor. Dr. p gers told Sparkman that if he p d come out there to raise a row f< it he could get it in the shape of e good square fight. Sparkman re- a ted to fight and Dr. Rogers ii rted back to his work when p arkman began to curse him. At si s moment Dr. Rogers turned to si tent the language when Sparkman ii gan firing at him. The first bul-'d onforo/1 fVio 1a*? ---^?? l*v? > w. vtivvi vu 1U? IVfe a 11 u *v IICI1 UI . ' II gers fell to the ground Spark-' in. It is said, fired three more nets at hiin, all of which went p Id. It is said that Sparkman has a sn in shooting difficulties be- e e. Dr. Rogers' wound is veryie infill, and although it will be tl reral days before he can leave his fl J he is at present doing as well ? could be expected. Dr. Rogers n s legions of friends throughout fi i county who deeply regret the fortunate occurrance and sinceretrust that his recovery will be l)id and permanent. Mrs. A. L. McCorquodale is vis- a ng her parents at Dunn, N. C. r DID YOUR COTTON REDUCETHE ACERAGE VERNORS PLAN FOR RELIEF OF THE SOUTHERN FARMERS ) PLANT LESS_ NEXT YEAR ;?C|? ("iisold Portion of Prm?nt Crop Off tlir Market. Slate \Vav?? Ikium* System Iteeuiiunended. New Orleans, Oct. 31. ? The rmers of the ijcuth iiiu&i withhold am the market every remaining: ie of the present season's crop of nun una iouow tins with a conrted and blinding agreement to dure next season's cotton acree at least 25 per cent., if they ?pe to restore the South's great oney staple to a normal price levand retrieve the losses sustained reason of present low prices. This is the plan which the Conrence of Southern Governors opted at its concluding session toy, to secure immediate relief oin the depression in the price of e staple. ve at Home?Cotton as Surplus. "We earnestly recommend to the anters of the Southern States to llow the example of Louisiana id so diversify their crops as to oduce everything necessary fot nsumptiou on the farm aud let tton be the surplus crop, even if e quantity raised shall be twentyre per cent, less than the present, op, as then they will get just a* uch in return for much less labor tan this year's crop will yield at resent prices. They will soon free lemselves from debt and be in >ndition without financial aid to ill gradually as the demand shall xist and not market the work of a ear in GO or 90 days as they have ecu accustomed to doing. Crge Consumption Figures. "We call upon our Representaives in Congress to have the presnt crop reporting system so amendd as to require the periodical pub icauon or reliable statistics of eot011 consumption and trade informaion, gathered from all cotton conuming countries, and we recomnend, also, and for ourselves agree hat the commissioners of agriculure in the cotton States gather and >ublish like information and we iuggest to the legislatures of the ^ otton States to adopt to this end, my uniform legislation enabling lie agricultural commissioners to ict in concert and to constitute a >ureau of cotton manufactured, coton trade, and cotton consuming inoculation, to the end that, with the stimates of production which are ow furnished by the Federal Govrnnient, there may also be estimats of demand and thus put the lanter in i?osition to fix a fair rice for his products. Prosecute Ileurs, Also. "The members of the conference ave been reliably informed that nils on the cotton exchanges have pen indicted in the United States ourts under the Sherman Act for inspiring to buy cotton and adance the price, and if this is in ccordance with the provisions of lis Act then we respectfully in st that the boars in the exchange* ho conspire to sell cotton, which iey do not possess, with the exectation of a decline in price, or >r the purpose of affecting a tieline, be likewise prosecuted. State Warehousing System. It is earnestly recommended that ie several State- Governments shall ike appropriate action to bring bout such warehousing system, or /stems, as will best serve the inM'ests of the producer of eotton. "In view of the apparent denied for cotton during the next ilrteen months we recommend that ie unsold cotton of the present rop he withdrawn from tlie market nd disposed of by a system of radual marketing. We urge bankrs and business men to co-operate ritli the farmers in this undertakig. "We report to the cotton fa "nits that tentative and attractive ropositions have been made by rriionsible financial interests for purlias. ng some two million bales of lie present crop. This negotiation i referred. for development in radical form, to a committee. 1*1 nil to Iteduoe Acreage, "deduction of acreage in 1912 is rged as a necessary part of any lail ill holdine unrl finnnelnor tile resent crop. We recommnerl, and :>r ourselves agree, that the Govrnor of each cotton State proceed t once to appoint a representative i each county, who In turn will apolnt a representative in each chool district or young precinct, to ecure from every farmer a bindig, written pledge to reduce his otton acreage in 1912. 25 per cent, elow his acreage in 1911. After All, Up to Planners. "It is our firm opinion, that by roropt action under co-operation nd organization, the cotton farmrs and business men of the Southrn States can speedily rescue tiemselves from inpending sacriIce and can restore the fair price r). Jatnnnot ?J uvu uciuuimiinmi uriaana warante and can insure stable values rom year to year." There are men who will wait patently for the free lunch to be orved and then go home and start rough house because dinner isn't eady on time.?Atchison Globe.