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Itllntt feral ft. W* ??? - ~ k ESTABLISHED 1894. THE DILLON 1IEKALD, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORN I NO. AI'lilL *. I1MK. VOL. 22. NO. 21. * __ ? ? COUNTY NEWS AND HAPPENINGS! * i NEWSY LETTERS BY REtiULAU! (X>RRESPON DT NTS. * News Item* of Interest (o Herald Headers. Ebb and Flow of the Human Tide. . r ! Hlntum. Mrs. Margaret McGirt and daugh-i ter Miss Margaret are spending a few days with Mrs. W. W. Evans. Mish S&llie McBryde spent the week-end at her home in Maxton. The Minturn bali team played the McColl team in a game of base ball Friday afternoon, The score was G to 13 in favor of Minturn. The pupils of the primary room enjoyed an Easter egg hunt Friday i afternoon, given by their teacher, Miss Harriet McLees. Miss Maggie Evans, Miss Margaret McGirt, Mrs. J. D. Edens and daughter, Effle McDougald and Miss Eilie Evans spent Sunday with Misses Kate and Jane Evans at Flora MacDonaul College, Red Springs, N. C. The Junior Red Cross has been getting up old clothing for the Belgian and French children. Calvary. Will Hays spent Saturday last at: Pyerian church in a convention of the union meeting held by the Baptist denomination and reports a very interesting program. The Eas?~" egg hunt at Mt. Calvary school house Friday afternoon last was enjoyed by quite a number j of little folks. Many gardens and Irish potato i crops were damaged by the heavy frosts last week. - find it to be very important to prune off all frost bitten tops of the potato. To allow it to remain seems to be injurious ?o most plants. J. A. Campbell of Gaddy's Mill section was here Saturuay last. B. A. Moody of Bermuda section pent Sunday last with N. E. McQueen. i The Chancellor Commander of Hamer Lodge K. of P. No. 171 requests that we announce through The Herald that the lodge will make Friday night, April 5th, the most interesting of this subordinate lodge aince it has been located in its own building together with conferrng the rank of Knight. We will also serve refreshments. We respectfully ask that all members be presnt and if you can, bring one or more members from another lodge. ; I<abor Won't Iinbor. 1 (Newberry Herald and News.) We heard a farmer say the other day that all this talk about the scarcity of labor was all a myth, that there was plenty of labor, hut the trouble was that it would not laoor. one-third of its time. That if the labor would go to work and stick at it there was plenty to do all the work that was needed, and srs much labor as ever in this country. There is somethiug to this conclusion or statement. You may walk out on the street any day here in Newberry, and you can see able bodied men sitting around on the doorsteps oi some of the stores and in other places doing nothing and apparently as happj as happy can be. Then if the authorities would close down some of ih-> schools that we could name, anu there was some way by which the labor could be utilized it would mean a whole lot in relieving the situation. But all things will work out right yet. German Work Greenwood Index: Last Friday two hundred and forty horses at Camp Grant died after a baffling ilftiess. The" stomachs were examined. Bellodona and cotton oil were found. Over five hundred horses were affected, the others were lingering at last accounts. Now these horses did not go to a drug store and buy themselves a dose of this combination. Some person gave it to them. It is believed that it was put in drinking water. This person has no love for this country. This person evidently loves Germany. This person may be a little too soft to put such a mixture into drinking water for human beings, but there is likely to be some other person a bit more hardhearted. Who is it? Who is the Kaiser's slave doing such work? The answer is that they are scattered all over this country. There may be some of them in this State, in this county. Sunrise treatment, administered by a firing squad is the only way to handle such persons. And when something like this happens. And something like this happens, there will be less of this sort of thing in this country. k?. L.AHOK CONTRACT IiAW. M?y Ikj Convicted When There is i>?U(l or Intent to Injure. Governor Manning has approved the new labor contract law, passed by the recent general assembly. It Is as follows: "Section 1. That sections 492,i 492. 494, 495, 496, 497, 498 and 4991 of the criminal code of South Caroline are hereby stricken out and the! following inserted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497 and 498, to wit: Section 492. Misdemeanor fraudulently to fail to carry out contract for personal service. Any person1 who shall contract with another to; render him personal service of any kind and shall thereafter fraudulent-1 ly or with malicious intent to injure his employer, fail or refuse to render such service as agreed upon shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.; Section 493. Misdemeanor to fail to employ after contract.?Any person who shall hereafter contract to; receive from another personal ser-l vice of any kind, and to compensate him therefor, and shall thereafter! raudulently or with malicious intent to injure his employer, fail or refuse to receive such service or to, make compensation as agreed upon, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-, meanor. Section 494. Misdemeanor to fraudulently fail to perform services af-| ter receiving advances.?Any person who shall hereafter contract with another to render personal service of any kind to kini, and shall thereafter1 fraudulently, or with malicious intent to injure the employer, procure advances In money or other things of value from him, with intent not to render the service agreed upon, and who shall thereafter, with like intent, fail or refuse to perform the services agreed upon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 495. Misdemeanor to receive labor and not make advances ort compensation. Any person who shall hereafter contract with another to j receive from him personal service of any kind, to compensate him therefor, and to make advances to him, and shall thereafter fraudulently or with malicious intent #to injurel the employer, receive the" benefit of | such service in whole or in part, and with like intent fail or refuse to make the compensation or advances agreed upon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Seotion 496. Contracts may be( either verbal or written?to be read; and witnessed.?The contracts reI ferred to in Sections 492 to 497, in-j ! elusive, may be either verbal or in (writing; if in wruing, they shall be ' witnessed by one or more disinter| ested persons and at the request of Neither party be duly executed before | 'a magistrate, whose duty it shall be! to read and explain the same to the | parties. Such contract shall clearly | set forth the conditions upon which the laborer or laborers engage to ! work, embracing the length of the time, the amount of money to be paid, and when; if it be on shares of crops, what portion or portions thereof. If verbal, they must be witnessed by at least two disinterested witnesses, not related by blood or marriage within the sixth degree, to either party, and the term of service contracted for must be for a definite time, not exceeding one valid only between the original parties therein, and any attempted transfer or assignment of any rights thereunder shall be null and void. Section 487. Registration of contracts. If cither party to any written contract herein referred to desires to avail himself of the benellts of Sections 41)2 to 41)7, inclusive, against third parties, he shall cause the same to be indexed in the office of the register of tnesnqr conveyance or the clerk of the court (where the nfllpA lit' r* trictol' anoe does not exist), of the county in which said labor or service is to be performed within ten days from the date of the contract; and such indexing shall constitute notice to all third parties. Such index shall show the names of the employer and the laborer, the date of the contract and the date of its termination, and :the location and the name of the place or places whereon the said labor or service is to be performed. The clerk of the court or the register of mesne conveyance, as the case may be. shull endorse his official certificate and the date of the filing to be Indexed upon every contract filed under the provisions of Sections 492 to 498, inclusive, and his only fee for the same shall be five cents of each contract. And the clerks of courts, or the regi*er of mesno conveyance as the case may be, in all the counties of the stair, shall provide u book for indexing such contracts, which shall be plainly labeled "Index Labor Contracts." Section 498. Punishment for violation of provisions as to contracts. ?Upon conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction of any person charged with a violation of Sections A THRILLING BATTLE j WITH GERMAN SUB I EXCELLENT MARKSMANSHIP OF GUNNERS. American Armed Oil Steamer Sends Submarine IKtwn, It Is Believed. After an hour's battle with a Ger-i man U-boat on the morning of Mar.: 1st, the American oil tanker Pauls-1 boro sent the enemy vessel beneath the waves "Damaged and in Dis-, tress" the navy department reported j today. It was the tanker's second strug-, gle with a submarine in six (lays. In the first encounter a torpedo missed the boat by 25 yards. Four! shots at the submarine sent her diving away. In the second battle, a submarine about 8,000 yards dead ahead opened fire, using tandem-fire, then salves. Then firing shrapnel. Some; of the 50 shots reached their mark,! coming close to the gun crew in charge of Chief Gunner's Mate Iteiter of 1020 Myrtle street,, Menominee, Michigan. Telling of the struggle after the submarine had started to maneuver1 astern, Reiter's report said in part: "The after gun appeared to have more velocity than the forward gun,! and the shells passed over the ship' and struck near the starboard bow.1 A fierce firing was kept up from thatj angle until the u-boat got astern.! Apparently picking her own position! she remained sligl^ly on the vessel's, port stern and fired from that posi-j tion, the forward gun's shells still dropping short. "The submarine then drew closer, using both guns at tandem-fire, the! shells falling on both sides of the' ship. Shrapnel was now being used and some of the shells burst before contact, scattering about the deck. One shell burst against the ship's, side on the port beam. "Shells fell in all directions on both sides and over the length of, the ship. A shell burst close to the ship's stern. Fragments of it became; embedded in the wooden deck at the rear of the gun's crew. Another shell butst alongside of the starboard bow. The tremendous concussion threw all the men on the platform to the deck face forward. "Lloth of the Paulsboro's guns now had the range of the submarine nnd a rapid fire was kept up. The submarine apparently dropped back and the ship's shells fell either on top of the submarine or close to her bow. The submarine then ceased firing, swung broadside to and submerged or sank, bow first, with the stern up at an angle or about 15 degrees. She disappeared in about 20 seconds. It is believed that the submarine was damaged and in distress." The Vaeeum Oil Company praised the gun crew and the master of the vessel, Fi- Chupman, added hi.s praise for them for Reiter and for Conrad .Johanscr. v.ho was at the wheel. The "1'iHir Married Mini." Tli.- play i lie Poor Married Mar." which was presented at Temperance School Auditorium on the evening of the 22nd by local talent was a real success. Kach character performed their part well. The house was crowded to its utmost capacity. Many visitors from the nearby towns and rural districts were present. It was an uproar of laughter from start to finish. Not a sit around and talk, but a get up and do play. The antics of the Professors' negro servant, especially when he thought himself poisoned, were interesting and amusing. Cake and cream were served during the evening. A handsome sum was realized with which to help purchase seats for the auditorium. 49 2 to 4 97, inclusive, the person so convicted shall he punished by a fine not less than $25 and not exceeding $100, or by imprisonment not less than 20 days and not exceeding 30 days for each offense; Provided, That there shall be no proserution under Sections 402 to 407, inclusive, unless the arrest warrant shall be issued within 00 days from the commission of the offense. Sections 402 to 407, inclusive, are not intended, and shall not be construed, to protect any of the parties to, or punthe violation of any contract or the inducement or consideration of such contract Is money or other thinp of value advanced to or for the employee prior to the commencement of service thereunder; all such contracts are hereby prohibited and declared null and void." A (.IU KSOMK I IM) Party Searching for .Missing ..Man Find Only Skeleton ami ( lollies An old negro man named Howell wandered away from his home near Marion about two months ago and Friday a searching party headed by Sheriff Lane discovered the old man's skeleton at the end of a lumber road In Pee Dee Swamp. The old negro was feeble-minded and although a close watch was kept on hini at all times he evaded the violence of his relatives and disappeared last February. The relatives continued to search for him but without success and a few days ago an employee of the Marion County Lumber Company reported that he had found down in the swamp what appeared to be the remains of a human be<nv. Sheriff Lane went to the spot and found the old darkey's skeleton with part of the clothinp still clinging to the bleachinp bones. The remains were identified by a son. The presumption is the old darkey wandered tjown the abandoned lumber road and petting tired fell asleep and was overcome by the severely /-"'d vrather prevailing at the time. The remains were placed in a coffin and taken to a colored cemetery foi interment. SUNDAY SCHOOIj CONVENTION. Dillon County Goes Forward in Sun day School Movement. On Thursday, March 28th, the In terdenom. national Sunday Schools of Dillon County held its first regulai County Convention, and while tin congregation was not such a larg< one, many of the most ardent Sundaj School workers, representing a gooc number of schools from each dis trict of the county were present. an< enthusiastically entered into the sub ject of better methods for Dilloi county, as explained by R. D. Webb State Secretary, and Miss Davis, Ele mentary Secretary for South Caro Una. The reports or the officer! showed that district meetings ha< been held in all but cne district dur ing the month of March, the presi dent, W. C. Moore, assuring thos< present that the association was go lng to be a permanent organizatioi 'in Dillon county. The following officers were elect ed for another year: W. C. Moore president; W. K. Fort, first vic< president; W. V. Jones, secretary treasurer; Elementary Superinten dent. Miss Mamie McLees; Secon dary Superintendent, Mrs. A. C. Rog era; Arult Superintendent, Dr. S. C Henslee; District Presidents: Firs djstriot, L. A. Manning; Second Dis trict, E. It. Berry; Trird Distiiet, F M. Page. The keynote of the association ii "better methods, and a forward stei in Sunday School work throughou the county." (ieniiHii Kultur Not a New Thing "fiT?ry village they hare passet through has been the victim of wha is only organized pillage. Every citj has been practically sacked, ran sacked on system; its citizens plund ered. its civil otlicials terrorized, im prisoned, outraged, or killed. Tin civil populations have been, contrar; to the US-age of modern warfare, fore ed to serve the invading armies, hi it tally put to death, reduced to whole sale starva! ion, and desolation. Vas traits of the richest tntd most in dustriotis districts of Europe havi been deliberately stripped and plung ed into famine, solely in order tha the invaders might make war cheap iy. Irregular troops, contrary to al the practice of war, have hem sys tematically murdered, and civil pop ulations indiscriminately massacre" solely to spread tor ron. A regula system of ingenious terrorism ha i been directed against civilians, a ; horrible as anything in the history o civil or religious wars. Large am populous cities have been, not once but 2b, 30, 40 times, bombarded nni burnt and the women and children ii them wantonly slaughtered, with th sole object of inflicting suffering All this has been done not in licens or passion, but by the calculating f? rilPit V nf t i fi<? er?l/l!nrc ( ......V ...... .V.O, The above was not written, thougl it might have been, yesterday, las week, last month, or last year. I appeared in the English Fortnlghtl Review February. 1S71, shortl before the surrender of Paris. Fret erick 11. Morrison, the writer, is sti uliye. Its statemtnts were true ther are true now. Julius Ceasar in hi Contiuentarit s nanaies t\ents whic show that even before the time i Christ the (lermans demonstrate the possession ol all the rudiments t their modern "ku'.tur." it is no n? thing; and hundreds of thousands ( men will have die,! in vain in th war if this sinister thing is not al>s? lutoly and utterly exterminated fo ever by the forces of civilization a rayed against it. THE TIDE OF BAHLE NEARS TURNING POIN1 1 (iKKMAN WAIl MACHINK AIM'AK KNTLY KXHAISTKI). W 1 rid is Anxiously Awaiting Mo mont for (IretM Allied <??unter-OfTetisive. The latest renorts from iiu- i?= tie front are that the German tut vunee has been checked. The ureal war machine has failed in its supreme effort to break the Allied lines. There is very little fighting The Germans are holding their cap tmred positions, except here and there along the 5u mile line where they are being harrassed and forced to fall back by the Allies' artillery The loss of life has been fearful, li ;is estimated that from "00.000 t< 11 400,000 Germans have been killed [injured or captured. The Germans , i are sending their wounded to Bel i giutn instead of back home, becaus< they are afraid of the moral offer the large number of wounded wil have on the German people . Whilt the Germans rest on conquered tor ritory they are bringing up heav; artillery, preparing no doubt for ; " still further advance. On the othe hand the Allies are making prepura tions for a great oounter-offensiv - that may be the deciding battle o * the war. This offfnsive movenien - is likely to begin at any moment j It is believed that the Allies wil > make the first attack with the me , now at the front and then throw i 1 the large reserve army composed o - the several nations. Americans ?r 1 to participate in the thickest of th - fighting and are already on thei i way to the front. The destiny c , the world may depend on the event - of the next few days. 3 j, Capl. laiirino Still I/Wing. .. "j It was rumored here several day e, ago?everybody knows what a rti ":mor is but nobody knows how the 1 originate?that Capt. Laurine. th old Frenchman who lectured in Dil - , Ion county several weeks ago on hi . experiences during 18 years' confine 5 ment in a Turkish prison, had beei - arrested in a Georgia town, strung b - a tree and riddled with bullets. Mei - told it to each other in bated hreatl - and there were those who wonderei . if he had gathered any valuable in t formation while in the vicinity o - Dillon. As the story goes, Capt . Laurine was suspected as a spy whib in this Georgia town. He knew hi s was under surveillance and while at > tempting to board a train as it wa t pulling away from the station he fel and important documents droppe< out of his pocket. When the angr; Georgians discovered that a Get man spy had been in their midst the; seized the unfortunute ex-French c>. * ficer and after stringing him to i * tree riddled his body with bullets '* The story cam* straight from thi ~ G? orgia town, so it is claimed, ant ~ there was no doubt as to its nuthen Hut according to the last is p sue of the Pee Dee Advocate Capt k 1.online fn- the pest two weeks ha - been delivering lectures all ove - 'mro county and is schedule) .\.;n! lectin is to tli Marlbon ' !< '!-: this wci !. e \ hw'y ad\ rtised for a man t I :in !n r garden, and two men up . plied fur the job. While she wa I in;? r\iewing them on the lawn sh . noticed lu-r mother on the piazz . was making signs to her to choos 1 the shorter of the two men, whicl , she finally did. When the Indie s were alone the daughter said: s "Why did you signal nte to choos f the shorter man, mother? The othe i one had a much better face.' k? "FflOP!" rptlirnoH tV?r? nl/1 ^ "When you are picking out a ma ^ to work in your gorden you want t e go by liis overalls. If they're patch : edon the knees, you want him; but i 0 they're patched on the seat, yo don't. o Itohhcrs Make Haul. it t y Thieves entered Morris Fass' stor y Tuesday night and carried away so\ I- eral hundred dollars worth of met 11 chandise. The entrance was mad i, through the rear door with tool is stolen from Mr. J. A. Nettles' slioj h the tools being identified by Mr. Ne if tics the next morning. There wer <1 evidences that the robbers took the! >i mm- .urn iiiiiuc a rnoice souvuoi w Anton?: tTio missing artielos were sil >f shirts, silk ties and flno shoes, i^op: is of the article were taken from tti ?- front show windows, lllood hounr r- wore sent for yesterday morninp ;ui r- every effort will be made to appr hend the robbers. . t DFATII Ol' KltVKST KINO l-'ormer Dillon lloj 1'n.sscs Au:i) in * Oklahoma. News was received in Dillon Saiurday ot the* (hath of Kmest King Hon of Mr. and Mrs. J. \V. King, who formerly resided in Dillon, lir. King died in Oklahoma last Thursday following a brief illness from pneumonia. From early boyhood Mr. King had suffered from asthma and shortly after the family moved from Billon to Kingshurg, in Florence county. Mr. King went west for the ben etit of his health. The western climate was so beneficial that he was able to return home almost completely well, hut after remaining at home nlmiit i?r> ?. ? . ?..? it iiv-uivrii.iui and get a ueuv tenant's pay. Surely that is sntttcient." "What were you before you entered the army?' L. "A member of the firm of? " t and he mentioned a firm of contrac_ tors in a northern city. "And you made'."' "About $20.00. a year.' s "I ;rui proud to know you. sir.' r said the newspaper man as he shook 1 hands and bade adieu to the Soldier o of the Tubs. Commerce and Finance. (> SHdi 1.1? lit AS UAH) UOTiiAM s .New \ork Doctor* hn> Work IMans. it <, Relief work which might be reI, quired in the event of an air raid on s New York was planneu at a meeting of doctors, nurses and police ofiieiala (i held at the headquarters of the health department. Police Commissioner Enright announcer! that several units of surgeons, nnrses and helpers had been formed in case of n emergency and that bomb Abetters ? would soon be provided in sefcoel i- V . iiviudo? una uiutr places. The Trans-Atlantic trips of ?er 11 man sub-marines the presence of super-submarines on the high seas and the alleged invention of ai?planes with folding wings that can be carried aboard such craft, wore assigned as reasons for such protective measures. Capt. A. Wells Ingram of London, now attached to the American Red ^ Cross, who advised Commissioner ' Enright to prepare for possible raids t' asserted at the meeting that the fear >o Germany might attack New York I rrom the air "was no joke." 1. k 1>. A. K. t<> Meet. 10 The Rebecca Pickens Chapter D. <o A. R will meet on Tuesday afterb nnon with Mrs. James D. llargrorc n' at four o'clock according to CtoTerno ment time. A full attendance is reguested. ?. .... <<ma uv na? *unI polled to return to Oklahoma. A few weeks ago he was taken ill with pneumonia and his father went to his I bedside. His father remained with , him until he was pronounced out of I danger, but a few days after his return home he received a telegram I conveying the sad news of his death. , Mr. King was a most excellent young man and there are hundreds of Dll; Ion people who will be deeply grtered _ to learn of bis untimly death. The . body arrived at Kingsburg Monday I and the funeral was held that after1 noon.tl.e services being tended by p a number of people fiom Dillon. i" 'f'lie Soldiers ut t he Tubs. ;i f A newspaper man wer.t . hrough - the laundry of one ot the great ?aoe tonments of the south. The struof ture is about 1150 feet long long and ' '.500 feet wide. In it are the most ' [wonderful machines in the world for H laundering garments. The plant n hvis a capacity lor handling the n clothes of 10,000 persons a day. f 'Flie arrangements are admirable. There are no industrial establishe meats in the country better equlpr ped or managed. The great strtwiure is immaculately clean. The cost " of operation is surprisingly low. i A f t t>r lut ???a iL *?* 1 MX- uuu nioyrviru lilt* WBiaih 1 iishment and expressed bis admiration the newspaper man said to the ' oflicer?a lieutenant?in charge "1 suppose you had wide experience a in this branch of business for entering the army." y "I never was in a laundry in all my e life until less than a year ago,' was [_ the answer. "1 was taking a course g in one of the officer's training camps. , There was urgent need of men ter n ' establishments such as this. Meet of 0 the men were reluctant to take such d ' a billet. A special appeal was made I, and 1 volunteered. I was sent to luj spect all the manufactures where the . 'dering machinery was made. Then 1 f studied the great laundries of the .cities. When I had grasped the ej whole scheme of laundry I reported PI ready. They tell me this Is tile . | finest plant in America, if uot In the s 1 world. They tell me it is run eu 1 proper lines. I hope so. I am a j soldier. r1 "And what do you get?"