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StUmt Ijmtlii. ?II fl IS?I III 1N4. THE DILLON HERALD, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1018. VOL. 22, NO. 1? " WHY NEWS ' MD HAPPENINGS % * __ ? flWSY LETTERS BY RHGUIjAH CORRK8PONDTNT8. Hews Items of Interest to Herald Readers. Ebb aarf Bin* a# a* Human Tide. Kin turn "The Spy" given by the young MOple Friday night was quite a sucMr. J. F. Herbert went to Colum bia Saturday night. Mrs. Adams of Winston-Salem, after a visit of several days with Mrs. P. L. Bethea. has returned home. Misses Julia'and Viola Furgeson spent the weekend with Miss Kathleens Cottlpgham. Mr. Sam Usher has rhoved into his new residence. Otss Isla Weatherly spent Sunday, sr home. r. Dan McGill, who has been very ikk, is improving. Mrs. Victor Berry is away this /week on ? visit. J Mr. Rod Evans left for Camp Jackv son Saturday. Mrs. Rod Evans is With her parents at Oswego. Uk an J Uao CJ D r>k J1 I ?uU aui u. u. u. ouauuici ai t? now keeping house. > Fork Miss Anno. Calhoun spent several days last week In Clio. Mr. M. K. Fort, who is teaching * at Fountain Inn, S. C., spent the week-end at home. Sergeant and Mrs. Corbett Carmit chael of Ohio, have been visiting relatives here. Miss Emma Bass is spending the week in .Columbia where she is having her eyes treated. Mrs. Eunice Carmichael has re/ turned home from an extended visit to White Plains, N. J. Mrs. and Mrs. C. E. Rogers of Greensboro, N. C., are spending some time here. Miss Pollie Carmichael who is in hospital training at Lumberton, N. / C., is home for a short while. Misses Koy Carmichael and Margie Croxton spent the weekend here. Km U?4<> A AW mm jbvv|uvtu oyvui iue past tvo weeks in Rowland, N. C. Sellers This community was saddened to learn ,of the death gl Mrs. Murray Hayes on last Sunday. Our pastor, Mr. Sojourner, in the short tim? he has been with us has been called away two Sundays to officiate at burial services. Di^ W .C. Foster is expected to preach at Antioch Sunday afternoon, March 3rd at 4 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hitch, Miss Elisabeth Ritch, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Sellers attended the., burial services of Mrs. Murray Hayes at Floydale Sunday afternoon. Born to* Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Haselden on Feb. 15th a son, C. E. Haselden Jr. There has been an epidemic of rosiola, or German measles as some call it, in the community. Most of the oats have been killed; the farmers, however, have replanted them during the lovely weather of the past week, the rye and wheat generally loofi promising. Iff t. ? ? ~ nuoi ii/i&o uavc yiaint'u ur art; yrtparing to plant gardens. We have plenty of mustard and collards and green onions in our garden now. t ' Mai lory On Monday afternoon a fire occurred at Oak Grove in which two store buildings were destroyed and all the contents of the one that was owned and occupied by Mr. W. H. Burney were destroyed. The loos to Mr. Burney was severe as he had about all his accumulation of several years in the stock of general merchandise. The fire started from burning grass during a high wind. 1) MISS GRKGOIIY GETS JOB Attorney General's Sister Supporting Three Children Washington, Feb. 22.?Miss Jane Gregory, daughter of tho Attorney General, applied at the food administration this week for an 980 a month Job, giving as reference Col. E. If. House and the Attorney Gener. al himself. * -v In response to a perfunctory quesS ibTion by the ?mDlo>'ment clerk. Miss 8 ^regory said she dependa i'i deP' 2|i ^i thC P e replied, "I've ^ F BU"ortinK three [ got th? Job. . MENINGITIS IN DILXiON Following Discovery of Case Vigor ons Measures Taken to Prevent Epidemic The town was greatly stirred Sat urday morning when it was discov ered that one of its citisens hat been stricken with meningitis Prompt measures were taken to pre vent the spread of the disease ant up to the present tim^ the situatioi is well in hand. Mr. Rod Carmichael, who ii stationed at an aviation camp in Lus isana, was called home to the bed side of his mother and a few day) after his arrival he was taken sic! with the disease. His symptoms in dicated meningitis and a chemist was called in to make an examination of his blood. The chemist pro nounced it meningitis and the board of health with the* assistance of city council took the case in charge. A quarantine was established and those who had been exposed to the disease were isolated. The case was reported to Dr. Hayne, state health officer, and a man was sent over to cooperate with the board of health in handling it. Cultures were taker of those who had been exposed and out of 27 tests made by the expert there were no indications of infection. Dr. Aiken, representing the war department, came over from Columbia .Tuesday morning and spent the day in town making additional culture. Dr. Aiken took 49 cultures but the results of his investigations will not be made public until he has given the cultures sufficient time tc develop. It requires two days for the cultures to develop and a report on Dr. Aiken's investigations will probably be received today. Mr. Carmichael's condition is very much improved and if no conrplica ilium uevtiup ne win De able to leave his room in the next few days. The second day after he was taken ill Mr. Carmichael waa, seriously ill and little hope was entertained for hie recovery. Serum was injected before the disease had made much headway and Sunday his condition was so much Improved that he was practically out of danger. In Memo ri am This community was saddened when the announcement was made on Saturday morning that the spirit of Mrs. Sallle Hayes had been bourne by angels to that better life beyond. | The attention of living friends and medical skill had been exhausted to [ stay the hand of the grim messenI ger. The deceased had been a conse| crated member since early life of Mt. I Andrew Methodist church from whicli i she was funeralized on Sunday evening, anA interment in the cemetery nearby, services being conducted by her pastor, Rev. J. R. Sojourner, in the presence of many friends from various sections of the adjoining counties. Mrs. Hayes was prior to hei marriage a Miss Floyd, and is survivled by her husband, Mr. Murray Hayes of Floydale, and two Bons, and brothers and sisters, H. B. Hayes of Floydale, and H. B. Spears of Waycross, Ga., and Lewis Bethea of Latta. Her life was one of devotion tc each interest that meant for the betterment of community life and a plact is made vacant that will not be filled in the home, the church and among her many friend. The flowers thai cover her grave may fade and withei into dust but the good deeds will long live in the memory pf her friends and loved ones. I Mrs. J. L. Sellers of Wilmington, N C., passed away at the James Walkei , Memorial Hospital in thut city on tli< | 10th of February, following an illness jof several months. Mrs. Sellers wai , born in the Floydale section and wat before marriage, a Miss Rowell, i daughter of Mr. Lawrence Rowell She is survived by her father, and oik little child two years of age, one sis ter, a Mrs. Muldrow who lives li Pennsylvania, and one brother, Mr Shep Rowell. Funeral services wen 'conducted by Rev. J. R. Sojourner ! interment was made in the cemeterj ' near Mt. Andrews church on Tuesday ! the 12th of February. The subject of this sketch is re raembered among us as a bright-eye( little girl in childhood and we join th< j bereaved ones with our tears and wil ; long remember the friendship an< bright smiles of this dear little girl. o American Killed by Mexicans Washington, Feb. 25.?One Amerl can was killed and three wound jed in an attack by Mexican ban . dtts on a".i oil Knot crt ? ? ? ? - ? last Wednesday. Edgar House ; a paymaster for the Texas Oi | Company, was killed. The wound ed were J. P. S. Mennett; Docto | Brisbane, an employee of the Islam Oil and Transportation Company, am ; a third man named Prather. Men nett's wound is serious. J Officials here regarded the 1 .ciden as a case of robbery rather than a 'outburst of anti-American *eellng. J MllS. AC J NFS H. CAHMICHARL Death Claims One of Dillon's .Most Kstimablo Women. In the death of Mrs. Agnes Harllee Carmichael Dillon loses one of Its most?estlmable women and a wide circle of friends is bereft of one who was greatly loved and admired for fcer many qualities of mind and heart. The end came Friday afternoon at seven o'clock after an illness covering a period of several months. Mrs. Carniichael was in her 7 2nd year and until a few months ago when her health became impaired by the infirmities of age she retained her vigor of mind and body to a .TWELVE PEOPLE KILLED IN BAWD WRECK 1 It LAME PLACED BY INVESTIGATORS ON FLAGMAN 1 F<Mal Rear-End Collision of Passen, gerTmins on Southern Railway Near Columbia on Monday 1 Columbia, Feb. 25.?Twelve dead ~ and 37 injured, some of them seriously, as the result of a rear-end [collision at 2:40 this afternoon be| tween two Southern railway passenger trains one mile south of Frost, a small station six and one-half ^ miles from Columbia on the Columbia-Greenville line. Of the dead, ten were killed instantly and two died in . the hospital here about 7 o'clock tonight. The cause or the wreck is debat-i able, claim railroad officials. All of . the dead are white men, with the ex. ception of one white .woman. Of the white passengers wounded ten were women and 24 men. Three negro , men were hurt. Those instantly killed: List of Dead Albert Atteas, traveling man, lJrooklyn, N. Y., identified by Elks' jcard from Brooklyn Lodge No. 22. { Has letters in his posession addressed to him at 1118 Lady street, Colum. | bia, S. C. J. B. Marshall, traveling man, An| derson, identified by letters, one of which was from his son, E. \V. Marshall, Greenwood. M. A. Leamau, traveling man, ( Greenwood, identified by letters from various wholesale houses. P. Frank Baxter, contractor and undertaker, Newberry. Garrah M. Pethel, Kanapolis, N. C., identified by Horace H. Early, with whom the dead men rode from newberry. ' t W. W. Richardson, traveling man, Armour Fertilizer Works, Atlanta, identified by letters. Otis Baggott Brodie, Wagener, S. C., identified by letters, visiting cards and a Furman University class ring, 1 "A. B. 1917." i ' J. P. Mathias, no address; ldenti; fied by name of bill container. ? H. L. Ivester, Ware Shoals, S. C., identified by traveling card from Ware Shoals Masonic Lodge No. 306. 1 Joe F. Moats, Mollohon Mill, New berry; identilied by letter addressed to him in care of Walter Cromer, Parker street, Newberry, and marks on' i clothing. J Those who have died in the hos' pital since: '| W. C. Tomlinson, traveling man, i 4 23 Fayetteville Avenue, Raleigh, N. C. Mrs. Sarah Ellen Johnson, Colum' bia, S. C. The Injured i The injured are as follows: Mrs. M. C. Killingsworth, Pomuria, both feet and lower limbs bruised; , badly shaken up. Mrs. Melvin Robertson, St. Mat-] ? thews, probably broken ribs and i bruised about the face. M Mrs. J. W. Shuler, St. Matthews,! I bruised about the head and chest; ' ; I badly shaken up. I] Joe Ropp, student, 2009 Hampton Istreet, Columbia, Lad gush on left ; I side of head and bruises about the I body. J. A. Meredith conductor, right leg jfiactured below knee. j W. K. Ruff, planter Fairfield County. left leg, left hand and left hip 1 bruised. 5 J. H. Brown, planter, WestminisJ ter, right leg fractured, and bruises J on head. 1 J. C. Franklin, traveling salesman, Remington Arms Company, Ander3 son, bruised about head and should ers. k W. S. Bonner, cotton mill inspector, State Department of Agriculture, Co lumbia, bruised about shoulder and both hips. ' John G. Kelly, farmer. Holly Hill, both legs crushed. H. M. Morr son. Union News Com pany, Greenville, left leg fractured. M J. C. McAllister, carpenter, Green81 wood, bruised on left hip, left knee 11 and head. i i Robert E. Leavell, traveling salesj man, Newberry, bruised on shoulder ' and chest. R. Anderson, broker, back sprained -'and right hand mangled. W. C. Davies. Walnut street, Dover, - O., right leg fractured and left hip a dislocated. t A M Kirhv nlantor Prl n/*A?An l^ft 1 leg fractured. P. B. Long, engineer of train 4 2, r two ribs bi >ken. d Mrs. Julius Smith, 1602 Elm wood, d '"jiumbia, scalp wound. i- E. C. Black, Glendale, Spartanburg County, news butcher, scalp cuts, it J. A. Shands, Troy, farmer, right n leg and right arm badly bruised. (Continued on Page eight) t?*i remarkable degree. The bright and cheerful disposition with which she was endowed remained with her until the end and this great quality of mind and heart drew around her a large circle of friends both young and old. Before her marridge to Capt. William Carmichael, who died in 1902, sho was a Miss Harllee, a sister of Capt. Andrew Harllee of the distinguished Harllee family, which for several generations was prominent in the political and social life of the Pee Dee section. Mrs. Carmichael was the last surviving member of j the Harllee family of upper Marion I (now D)lJon) but of her immediate [family she leaves surviving the following sons and daughters: W. D. Carmichael, of Durham, N. C.; Capt. E. H. Carmichael, of Jesup, Ga.; James M. Carmichael, of Bennettsville; J. H. Carmichael, of Washington, D. C.; Hod Carmichael, of the United States Army, Frank Carmichael, of Dillon; Mrs. W. R. Tatum, of McColl, and Misses Bessie and May Carmichael, of Dillon. The circumstances surrounding Mrs. Carmichael's death were peculiarly sad, in that her son, Mr. Rod Carmichael, a member of the aviation corps, was stricken with cuiugino iijc uaj uner nis arrival home, in response to the message announcing his mother's illness. At the suggestion of the family the home was placed under quarantine and only the members of the family were permitted to attend the funeral. This unfortunate circumstance denied to many of Mrs. Carrpichael's lifelong friends and admirers the privilege of paying this lost tribute of respect to the memory of their departed friend. The funeral service was held at the home and Saturday afternoon the remains were interred in the family plot at Mt. Holly cemetery. Rev. W. B. S. Chandler, pastor of the Presbyterian church, conducting the services. Mrs. Carmiehael was a woman of rare culture and refinement. Throughout her long life she remained faithful to the ideals of the antebellum period in which she was born and reared, and she endeavored at all times to inculcate those principles of honor and uprightness into the younger generations that followed. She was a noble woman, full of good deeds, and her life has been a distinct blessing to humanity. HOOVER SAYS EAT LESS WHEAT BREAD I | I People Urged l.iu gel) to Refrain j From Using Flour for Sixty Days Philadelphia, Feb. 22.? As a war necessity the people must largely refrain from eating wheat Hour for the : next sixty days, possibly for a long'er period. This statement was made today on the authority of Herbert C. 'Hoover, federal food administrator, by Howard Heinz, administrator for Pennsylvania, speaking before an audience of newspaper managers. A telegram was read from Mr. Hoover which made it plain that this country must immediately send food to the Allies or lose the war. If it is not sent, it means but one thing, ca tastrophe, declared Mr. Hoover. The telegram from the food administrator follows: "The food situation of the Allies : grows more critical every week. | Their own short crops coupled with ever-increasing shortage of shipping, :which limits the importations more I and more to food from the nearest 1 markets, make the responsibility of America In the provision of food for the Allies redoubled to meet the absolute necessities of our associates In the war during the months to pass before the next harvest. Unless we do meet them the war cannot go on. "I appeal therefore with renewed earnestness to the people of Pennsylvania and to our people all over the land to give their support to attempts of the food administration to solve this food problem. It Is only by the help of all the people and their whole-hearted acceptance and support of the measures adopted by I the food administration that the situation can be met. Without this L help the food cannot be sent. If it is i not sent It means but one thing?catastrophe." GERMAN CHANCELLOR AGREES WI1H WILSON I OX l-'l'S DA.MK.NTAIi PltlNdl'LKK i LAID DOWN ! Von Hrrllinc Says i'riue ('an be Discussed on Plans of President With One Exception i i ?? Amsterdam, Feb. 25.?Speaking Jbeiore the Reichstag today the Im1 pei iul German Chancellor, Count von I Heruing, made this declaration: "1 can fundamentally agree with the four principles, which in Presi' dent Wilson's view must be applied in a mutual exchange of . views, and thus declare with President Wilson that a general peace can be discussed on sucr a basis. "Only one reserve need be made | in this connection: These principles musi not only be proposed by the President of the United States, but must also actually be recoguized by all States and peoples." "Rut this goal had" not been reachj ed. There is still no court of arbi t ration established by ?U the nations ! ior the preservation of peace in the ' f 151 Ill?* of lllliitipp VUhon Deooi/lon* Wilson incidentally says that tin | German chancellor is speaking tc : ihe tribunal of the entire world, 1 much decline this tribunal as preljudiccd, joyfully as 1 would greet it it' an impartial court of arbitration (existed and glad as I would cooper ate to telea.se such ideas. "Unfortunately, h?r..e\er, there is ; no trace ot simile, r statements of tht leading powers of the Entente. Eng land's war aims are still thoroughly imperialistic and she wants to impose on the world a peace according 1 to England's good pleasure. "When England talks about tin i peoples' right of self-determination she does not think of applying lh< principle to Ireland, Egypt and India. "It has been repeatedly said that j we do not contemplate retaining Belgium, but that we must be safeguarded from the danger of a country with ' which we desire after the war to liv? | in peace and friendship, becoming j the object of jumping off ground ol | enemy machinations. If, however, ! the proposal came from the opposing 1 side, for example, from the eovern ' nient in Havre, we should not adopt an antagonistic attitude, even thougli the discussion at first might only be unbinding. ! % "Meanwhile, 1 readily admit President Wilson's message of February 11, constitutes perhaps a small step I toward a mutual approachment." MKMNUiTIS NOT INFECTIOUS ? l>r. Aiken Says <>crm is not Easily Transinitted to Another Person Dr. Aiken, who was sent to Dillon Tuesday by the war department to investigate the meningitis situation, says meningitis is a haVd disease to fight once it has taken a hold 011 a person. The most prolific source of infection, said Dr. Aiken, is in another person's breath. Another source of infection is at drinking fountains, public eating houses and barber shops. Not one person in a hundred is susceptible to the disease, but a healthy person who would not succumb to the disease can infect another person whose constitutio*1 is not strong and vigorous, perfect health being a safeguard against the disease. It is claimed that a person can come in contact with another person who may be ill with meningitis and not contract it, ' but this person can distribute the germs among unhealthy persons and cause an epidemic. The first symptoms are accompanied by a sore throat a slight headache and a pain at the base of the skull. These ' symptoms are followed by fever. In 'a few hours after a person takes the disease they are very ill and if they ' do not respon<J to the serum treat1 nient in a reasonable length of time death is inevitable. Years ago the percentage of mortality was high? about fcO out of very 100 cases?but medical science has triumphed over the disease to a very gratifying extent and late statistics show that the mortality has been reduced to about I 20 per cent. When a person is stricken with the disease prompt measurures should be taken. If serum if injected nerore tne disease has made much headway the chances for recovery are in the patient's favor, bul if treatment is delayed until the disease has taken a thorough holt th< odds are largely against the patient Many physicians hold that meningitii is not as infectious as smallpox anc that if a person will exercise a reas onable amount of precaution then ] :> not one chance in a thousand ol (taking it. THItKK S S. CONVENTIONS ? 1 Dillon County Inter-Denominatio?1 District Sunday School Conventions The Dillon County organization of the Inter-Denominational Sunday school dissociation has arranged to ' hold three district conventions La Dillon county during the month of March. A program is now being made up by W. C. Moore, county chairman and W. V. Jones, county^secretary, and this program will be published next week. The first of these District Conventions will be held at Reedy Creek 'church on Tuesday, March 12th. Each Sunday school in this district which includes Manning and Harfeesville townships is urgently invit <'V1 itIIU II IIUI'MCII IU St'IlU US LUUIiy delegates to this convention as they wish, and they i>re urgently requested to send as many as two from each Sunday school. The second of these District Conventions will be held in the second . district on Wednesday, March 13th. i'This District includes Bethea and ,' Kirbv townships and each Sunday school in these two townships is expected to send representatives to this Convention. On Thursday, March 14th, the last jot" the series of Conventionp will he J held at Union Church at Gaddys Mill, j This district is made up of Canoichael and Hillsboro townships, and all of the Sunday schools in these two | townships are urged to at once eleet their representatives to attend this meeting. Experts in all departments of ' i Sunday school work will attend each of these metings. All of the Sunday schools in the county are urged to appoint their 5 , delegates next Sunday and to at ' once send in the names of the dele"'ga.es to \V. C. Moore, Dillon, S. C., r! County Chairman or \V. V. Jones, " Dillon, S. C-, Secretary. j NEGRO TAKEN FROM Jj OFFICERS AND I.VNCHKD - Walter Best Strung up at Fairfax and ? -j Body Riddled With Bullete L Fairfax, i. C.. Feb. 23.?Walter " Best a negro wus taken from Sheriff " J. B. Morris and two deputies by a 1 mob late today and hanged to a tree ! by the roadside near here. Beet bad > killed William Wilson, a young white man here, a short time before the mob hanged him. The officers were taking the prtooa"jer from Fairfax to the county Jail at i Barnwell. When they had gone a short distance the mob stopped their automobile and demanded the negro, who was immediately strung up to a tree and his body riddled with be' lets. The slaying of Wilson occurred a* ' a garage where he was employed. | Best is said to have gone to the sho]p 1 with an automobile tire which he demanded be repaired free of charge on the ground that the proprietor of the place had previously guaranteed it. Wilson is said to have disclaimed responsibility and refused to make the repairs without being paid for the work. The negro, it is declared, thereupon used insulting language fo Wilson and an altercation followed in which Best was said to have drawn a revolver and fired at close range with fatal effect. The negro fled but was soon captured by a policeman and placed in the town guardhouse. The sherilT was notified and with two deputies came for the prisoner. RY Negro tiirl (icts $9,000 Anderson, S. C.. Feb. 28.?A 12- I M year-old negro girl, Lillian Brown, w *V has received ?I?,000 insurance from the government on account of the death of her father, Walter E. Brown an Anderson negro, who enlisted in the Regular Army, many years -ago, and had been serving as a private In thn ICOll, TT 1. _ 1 A?-J Ji?' ^ vuc uuoiu rinu nunyuai, ??UU OITIi sion. I , i . i i No Danger of Infection . ! , Several towns have quarantined against Dillon on account of meningitis. Dillon has had only one case of meningitis and the patient has recovered. The situation is well in hand and there is little or no danger of an epidemic. Dr. Aiken, the war department expert, says there is little danger of contagion. The disease is transmitt. ed by the breath of the person | infected. The germ lives only a few seconds after it leaves the t mouth and dies if it does not pass into the mouth of another person. The disease is not car- ! ried in the clothes and there is not one chance in a thousand ef ' contracting it at a public drinking place. At present, outsiders can come to Dillon with perfect * safety. aver iec me