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ESTABLISHED 1894. THE DILLON IJERALD. DILLON SOUTH CAROLIN A, THUIISDAY MOIIMNG, FEBRUARY, 8, 1919 VOL. 28. KO. 12. _ =?===?= LETTERS FROM OUR BOYS IN FRANCE MESSAGES FROM OVERSEAS OF INTEREST TO ALE. All the Soldiers Seem to be Homesick But Healthy?Many Have [ Turned in their Arms. I A letter to Mrs. A. Y. Wallace,! from her son, Private Boyd Wallaoe: j 117 U. S. Engrs. A. Po. 715.; ? January 1, 1919. j Dear Mother:?I ^ill write youj 5 all again and let you know how I am' I gelling on at this time. I am getting I on *ery good now and do hope you j k are .all well and enjoying life. I got; your letter a few days ago. and sure, was glad to get it. Oh, it makes me feel home sick every time 1 hear from .you. You can guess how bad I feel J ? away over here by myself but guess1 , you all understand I am here for a good cause. Well I sent you some views of the town I am staying in' now. Do hope you will get them 0.: l K. Well you can bet I am getting' tired of this place and long to see the time come when I can be al home with you all again. I am enjoying New Year's Day fine. Ycu said you sent me a Christmas box but I I haven't gotten it. I am looking for It every day. Well mother if I ever get to you it will seem so good to me, I'll feel like I am at home Sweet' Home again. I will soon be awey two years and it seems like ten to me. j " * ? Tnnlr in 1 Well I haven't neara irum oc.^a. ... j a long old time. I wrote him two or ? three times but haven't heard from him yet. Guess he didn't get my letd ters. Tell Andrew and Alice to write me also Archie. Tell Effie I wrote jf her yesterday and tell all the rest to write me as I am always glad to hear from home. So guess this is all at present. You all write me real soon. Lots of love to you and father and a large portion for the girls, and kisses for every ' - one. Your son as ever, BOYD. BMa^^^From Corporal Leroy Hamilton to BsIP^Bb mother, Mrs. W. H. Hamilton:? ,: Lemans, France, January 6th, 1919. Br* My Dear Mother:?Guess you will be surprised to hear from me but I have been waiting to try and get an address so that I could hear from ^ you. I am well and truly hope you Iall are the same. I had a very nice Thanksgiving and Xmas, although I was in the hospital unrisimas. x was taken sick a little after Thanksgiving and sent to the hospital with influenza, but I am out now and feeling fine. I am in a classification and embarkation camp now. I don't know if I will get back to my company or go home but of course you know I am praying to go home. I am getting plenty to eat and a good place to sleep and not doing any work at all. I haven't heard from you since the 12th of October and don't know r when I will get any mail, but I an: j. not worrying for I am praying that i you all are in good health and get? ting along fine. Hubert Carmichaelj ft and all the boys from home in the I hospital are not far from here but II have not seen them yet but I run into some of my hardware friends that ? used to come through home. Mother! | the Argonne battle was a sight. I, * * ?11 I was blowing up wire in iruui ui ?:i f the infantry; there were only sixteen I (out of my company with me and I? sure did hate to leave them. I had' rather died than to have gone awayi but I had to. I stayed up there three j days" and "nights without a bite to' eat; that wasn't because I coudn't get I it for we had a small kitchen with us1 J and three days and nights without a!' I wink of sleep. I was as helpless as a I baby but when I gave up and wenti back to the hospital I soon got all I right. From all I can learn the boys jf'- in Germany are having the time of their lives. You know that was tough iff luck, staying with the old company! . from the first of American troopsi up on the front until twenty five; I days until it was over. But now th< rej I lout a man in the army in any better condition than I am. Tell the old W hardware crew hello and tell them I | am hoping to be back to set tip bind ers for them this year. Tell them to * keep my job for me. Mother I am about five feet and eight inches high rr and weigh one hundred and firty ix pounds. I weighed when I cone 11 service 1917 one hundred and; leven pounds. When I get back home! wouldn't take a million dollars for! iy experience and I wouldn't go brough it again for ten million. With love to all, Your loving son, Corp. Leroy H. Hamilton, Co. A. 117 Engrs., A. P. .0 715 A. E. F. France. From Private Clyde G. Hatch, of ranee, to his father, Mr. J. R. QUARANTINE RILES MODIFIED Board of Health Reopens Public ] Places Under Certain Restrictions. I At a meeting of the local board ] of health held on the 2nd inst. it ] was decided that the influenza situa-1, tion had improved to such an ex- , tent that the quarantine rules could , be modified. |, It was decided that the public schools might open on Tuesday morning for full work, under certain re-j trictions; that the churches might' be allowed to hold morning services only for the present. That the moving picture theatres might hold after-j noon performances in well ventilatedj buildings. It was ordered that each and every doctor be required to re-j port Jto the city clerk's office doily i all cases he had visited and pronounced as influenza, and that the town officials should then cause to be placed on such homes a placard advertising the fact that there was influ-i enza in that house, and that no mem-' ber of that family should be allowed! to attend school, church or any other place of public gathering. It wag ordered that the superintendents, principals, or teachers of oil schools in the town, or within the limits of! the jurisdiction of the local Board of Health, should allow no child to at-j tend school from the homes where influenza prevailed; that in case a puyu was aoseni. irorn scnuoi iur period of as much as two days theU case should be reported to the city1 clerk's office so that the case might be Investigated and the home quaran-j tined if necessary. It was ordered that the town authorities be instructed, where such cases were reported, and no report had been made by a physician, to send a doctor to such homes to make an investigation in order that the quarantine be put in force on that home, if necessary. It was requested that the citizens of the town and community co-operate with the local board in reporting any new or suspicious cases in their community, in order that the same might be investigated at once. It was ordered that the six o'clock closing hour for all stores/ offices and other public jdaces, be kept in force for the present, with the exception of the drug stores, which may be kept open for the sale of medicines, or medical supplies only?no soft drinks may be served after 6 p. m. The Board of Health feels that the town is to be congratulated that the situation has been kept as near normal as it has, while other towns in this section, who have been more lax with their quarantine laws have had a recurrence of influenza. It is hoD ed that every citizen will feel it his duty to co-operate with the local 1 authorities to keep the situation well ? in hand. . * W. E. CALDWELL, ( Chairman Board of Health. * o A Card. I take this method of informing t my patients that I am in Florida for r a short stay. Since having the influ- ^ enza, I have not been able to do night ^ practice and I found it neces'sary to go to Florida in order to get my . strength back. I hope to be able to return to Dillon in the next week or two and resume my practice. C. R. TABER, M. D. i/.ui' Luil:?l ii-VLU'i heard Izo.a ; Oti 4*1 UUk i liUlC Wl't.t iMwi i..dl Utoi ^wuiu 1 .u II C iCkb i^Uak hil'v i'i lii O i U * !wul y Uli U \l 0 U4 vj MV C . U I of Jouy des Cotcg iu Fruiito. i 1 some glad to tell you that we are on ? our way home. We will leave this place in a few days for the railroad where we will entrain lor the port of embarkation and then to the states, t Dad we have been hiking ever since ( December 17th and we are some tired ( too. The team have all played out.' Those that were not dead were turn-t1 ed into the remount station and the if hest riart it nil i? ?.-o Vmvo tnriioil .V ~ ^ VV44. in our guns which means that the'f war is over so far as we are con- * cerned. We haven't even got our 1 side arms. x I am still enjoying good health, ? Haven't been sick yet and hope I dont c get sea sick. I hope thut by the time you get this letter that I will be home but don't guess I will for we are going to be quarantined for two weeks after entering the states. j How is the market business pro- j greasing nuw. l am geuing anxious ( to go to Dillon to see you and see | how you are fixed. You can look for me home about j the first of March which is about as c early as we can get there. We are about four thousand miles from home, which is some distance. ' Write soon. Well you might as we'l ' wait until I get home to answer this i Clyde. ( DON'T WANT CAMI' BRAGG, j Farmers and Land Owners Ind'gmnt 1 at Treatment Received. While certain business interests In Fayetteville are trying to move heaven and earth, congress and the 1 tvar department in an effort to keep 1 up the construction of Camp Bragg 1 there are some people in that section ' want the thinir stonDed. The * construction of the camp had just s started when the war closed, but by ' spending money and wire puling at, Washington, Fayetteville interests lave been able to get the work conlinued, and millions of dollars thrown away by the government. The following is from the Char- j lotte Observer: j Southern Pines, Jan. 21?"Camp f Bragg has become a mighty unpop- i liar theme in Hoke county," said s Prank Cameron, who was a visitor in r Southern Pines tod^y from across i :he county border. "Months ago we i arere notified to make no crops this1 fear, and we planted no fall and win 1 :er grain. We were told to be ready I :o move out by the first of the year, md we let our farm plans disorganze. Now we get no information, no ?atisfaction, and we seem no nearer J Lo disposing of our farms to the gov-; crnment than we did a year ago. "Things in the up|)er half of Hokej md the west side of Cumberland' ire in a bad predicament. Our farm j lelp has left us. "two or three miles ^ from our farm lived a community of j colored people who own their ? aonies, and who have made credit- j ible places for themselves. They t aave practically abandoned their ? lomes, moving away to other places ^ md they have not been paid for their } farms, nor will they stay to work for { iny one else. E "I do not know of any farmers, ( ivhite or black, who have been paid T inything on their lands, yet the gov- j jrnment will give us no notice, that j ve may go ahead and farm this sea-i >on. Our schools have been wreck- i ?d, our churches interrupted, we are i jetting rid. of our stock, and it looks } iow as if the military committee in 1 rongress, by putting the army mat- r .ers over to the next congress in De- 1 :ember, has hung us on the fence ndefinitely. It seems to me if there t s any justice auywhere the farm- j ?rs in this 135,000 acres that has j >een condemned by the government \ lave a case against the government r 'or the practical loss of their year's f vork. Government men come in , | ' ind appropriate anything they want j ind when we protest they give us hat cheap answer that the govern- ^ nent will pay but so far it has not E shown the color of its money. Close >y my house they cut about 10 acres! if the finest round pine timber in' j^is section* but N. S. Blue, the own-; ?r, has not heard anything that' ;ounds like money rattling, and he c snrcpeded in stODDing them. The ? jeople are very tired of the whole J! hing, and the one subject of talk t low it is different. . An appeal has j vorkers and to get some pay for s vhat has been done in the way of a lamage. I think a million dollars j o the farmers, who have been play- i >d with this way, would not pay s hem for the losses they have sus- r ained in their year of interfered r vork. I thirk many claims will be 1 iled before long. Everybody was olerant while they thought the gov- 1 irnment really needed the land, but r iow it is different. An appeal has >een made to Senator Martin, Sena- ^ or Borah and others to have the ' vhole project killed. The people 1 ire very tired of the way it has z ;one." Hushing the Work. Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 22?Today he Cincinnati Federal Employment ;ffice is furnishing 800 men wanted o work on a United States War De- s lartment Artillery Cantonment to be fc' onstructed at Fayetteville, N. C,. a iaid a notice issued by Superintend- 11 nt Robt. Rice of the United States t Employment Service under the an- y hority of Cot. H. D. Sawyer, U. S. A. 1 vho formerly had charge of the con- 11 truction work at the fifteen million f lollar anchor nitrate plant near this 1 ity. From 400 to 500 carpenters at >0 cents an hour and from 200 to c i !00 laborers at 30 cents an hour, ire sought at the Fayetteville pro- j ect. Classified laborers are to be Kiid 35 and 4 0 cents an hour white, )r negro laborers are acceptable j Employment is guaranteed for six VeeKS. DUa.ru Will Ut; luinnucu nun odging at $5 week, according to U. j 3. government officials here. } Other large shipments of men are j xpocted to be made from this point s lext week if the necessary help is s lot obtained in North Carolina, ac- a lording to officials hcre. r i 3 KILLS HERSELF AT GRAVE. IVomun Commits Suicide in Atlanta Graveyard. Atlanta, Feb. .2?The dead body of Urs. Hal M Gilbert was found early oday lying across the grave of Firenan John Abbot, who was shot and tilled by his wife several days ago ifter confessing to a love affair with diss Mary Powers. Mrs. Gilbert had| ihot herself through the heart after, in attempt at suicide with choloroorra, according to the police. The sexton of Greenwood Cemetery ( vhere Abbott was buried, said he had, loticed Mrs. Gilbert visit Abbott's jrave daily, placing flowers on the! nound, and that on Saturday after-! loon she was kneeling and weeping >y the graveside, When her body was ound today she clasped a small revolver in one hand and a chloroformiaturated, handkerchief in the other. To one side was found her wedding ing, where she had dropped it after' emoving it from her finger. Mrs. Gilbert was a daring automojile driver and had participated in ocal races on several occasions. o TALK ACROSS ATLANTIC. i Prediction That by Time Pence is. Signed Wireless Telephony Will Render Phone Service. London, Jan. 25?(British Wireess)?"By the time the peace treaty s signed we shall be talking across he Atlantic by wireless," says Godrey Isaacs, managing director of the darconi Wireless Telegraph Company, in an interview. "One day in he not far distant future," he adds, 'I think we shall walk about with vireless telephones attached to our jodies and we shall be able, stand-, ng say in Picadilly Circus, to call up; i ffriend who is flying somewhere. }r we may have an invitation by vireless telephony from a friend flyng in France to join him at dinner n the evening. "Wireless telephony ha3 been rery largely used in war for comnunication between airplanes and leadquarters and for artillery work. 3ut there is no reason why it should lot be available over very much onger distances. "It will not be very long before >ne will be able to sit at one's desk n London and speak to New York >ractically instantaneously. Equal acilities will be available for comnunicating with Paris, Rome, Mos:ow, or Amsterdam. In my view it vill be as easy to speak to Sydney or delbourne or to New Zealand. "Long distance wireless telephony vill apply also to ships at sea and to tirplanes and airships." ?. o??? McXeill-Shackelfud. Miss Annie Rachel McNeill will be narried today to Mr. Lee Newman Jhaeklefud of Meridian, Miss. The eremony will be performed at the esidence of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Behea with whom Miss McNeill has} ?een making her home for the past; everal years. Miss McNeill, who is, l sister of Mrs. Bethea, is a native of Jeridian. During her residence in lillon she has been prominent in the locial and religious life of the comnunity and has endeared herself to ?-*o?-*vr frinnHo Kvr wlinm dm will hp ong and pleasantly remembered. Mr. and Mrs. Shackelfud will eave cn the 6:35 train on a honejrnoon through Florida. The out-of-town guests will be Mrs. V. C. McMillan of Columbia; Miss tnnie McMillan of Little Rock; Miss )aisy Bethea of Claussen; Miss Liiie Bethea of Bennettsville. o Care for the Old Confcd. Fair Bluff, N. C. February 3, l'Jll). Memorials in Tennessee, North and South Carolina to commemorate Hie ;lorious deeds of their sons in the ;reat war is praiseworthy and comuendable and the sons have more ban won this coveted honor, nd every man, woman and child in he.se tiiree states who can raise a I lickle should help in honoring these leroes who did what was thought iinlossible. And now while our solons are dis- : ussing grave problems in the state touses would it not be well to renumber that a great number ol the mys of the 30th division are sons nd grandsons of confederate sol-1 liers. A glorious heritage they have n being fathered by the old boy in :ray that won matchless victories igainst great odds where Lee and fackson led. Yet these old boys that, nade the rebel yell and Dixie imi aortal are fast passing away. Their liadowg arc lengthing out to tne sun iet of life. Their step is faltering ind their once superb manhood has] Kissed away; decrepit old age has URGES CUT IN ACREAGE. Commissioner Harris Suggests 30,000,000 Acres Be Planted. Columbia, Feb. 3?Drastic curtailment of the cottou acreage as a counter irritant to the alleged "bear" propaganda to depress the price of the st^de is advocated by B. Harris, State Commissioner of Agriculture. Commerce and Industries, in a statement today. The commissioner is of the opinion that a 30,000,000 acre crop next year will increase the price of cotton ten cents per pound and save the South from bankruptcy. His statement follows: "Already it is being freely predicted in high cotton circles that the cotton growers are going to plant the biggest acreage ever known. The report is that this year they will plant forty million acres. Now this is all bear dope, they want to scare spot holders and get them to turn loose their spot cotton. Pay no attention to future quotations; they cannot spin board cotton. The spinner is out of the market both the European and the American spinners. They are looking to the cotton brokers ' who are bear speculators to furnish the mills their cotton, of whom they have contracts with for future delivery, and the mills will soon begin to call on them to fill their contracts. Then they will put the price up on spot cotton a little, for ; ley know some sucker will bite and they will get a little spot cotton to keep them going for a short while. No one knows the farmers better than the bear speculators In the cotton market. They know exactly hbw to handle him and scare him s0 that he will turn his spot cotton loose. "I hope the farmers will learn a lesson from such bear dope and plant this year thirty million acres Instead of forty million acre crop. A thirty-million acre crop will add ten cents per pound on the spot cotton now on hand, of which there is now about six million bales in the hands of the farmers and merchants. If this cotton is held for the price set for it, thirty five cents per pound, it will add millions of dollars to the South and save the South from bankruptcy. It will also add twenty cents per pound to the crop we will grow this year. Figure this and see if it will not pay you to hold this crop until the price, thirty five cents Is secured. The way to get this price is to curtail cotton acreage 30 per cent this year, fertilizer 50 per cent. Is it not better for you to raise ten bales and get $200 a bale for them than to raise twenty bales and get $100 for them? Brother farmers, stop, think and figure, and you need not be asked to cut the acreage. All you have to do is just to use good common horse sense and you will win this fight. It is in your hands. Will the farmers do it? I believe they will, I am proud to say that the farmers are not the farmers they were, even two years ago. The farmer has learned more in the first thirty days of this year than he has learned in any ten years of the past. When you can get a man to think along lines for his success you have done the greatest thing for him you could do; he will work out the rest for his betterment. If you give a man money he will spend it, probably the next day or the same day you give it to him. If you give him knowledge he has it all the balance of life, and he can impart it to others, and all he needs is to come into possession of real facts and conditions, and then he will change his methods of marketing his crops. Farmers hold- cut acreage and fertilizers; use weii directed brains and victory is yours." overtaken many of the old boys and they are unable longer to earn their bread without an income from any source. Then why not ye solons instead of wrangling about automobile roads, give these worn out old boys a pension in mummy payments bufficient to give three square meals a day? Think about them when you ate awake, dream of the old boys that opened Frances glorious golden portals, for Lee, Jackson and Hampton to enter, and while honoring their sons and grandsons, don't let their daddies starve. Thirty five dollars a year is far from being a kings ransom, much less to feed and clothe one old veteran. You may say there is a soldier's home for the indigent o'.d boys. Sure enough, also there is a death chamber in State prison; they are equal in their results. The prisoner goes out to his death, the old soldier to his grave, with no one to shed a tear or breathe a sigh in his behalf. Make his last days worth living and this proud old Palmetto State that never faltered in doing its whole duty surely can rescue many of the afflicted heroes of the sixties from want of a square meal each day of their lives. ELIHU MULDROW. COUNTY NEWS | AND MINDS NEWSY LETTERS BY REGULAR CORRESPONDENTS. News Item8 of Interest to HemlA Readers, Ebb and FIotv of the Human Tide. Sellers. There have not been any serious cases of "flu" amng the wbite ?eeple here as yet. The neg?oeB hate been pretty hard hit however. Wl nam L,esier ana nis son both died om i the same day last week. William was a hardworking, prosperous eiUaem. Zeke Hunt lost both of his ehlMrea recently. Mr. W. D. Sellers and family hare had light cases of "flu", all are up ' i now. Mr. B. B. Sellers is ?n the sick Met | this week and Mr. Cherry Watson, i who was 89 years old in January, has been slightly ailing for the past several weeks. Mr. Judson Watson was buried at Latta cemetery recently. He was a | son of the late Samuel Watson. H? | leaves several orphan children, tw? brothers, Mr. .Elliott Watson, of Washington and Mr. L. L. Watson of Latta and one sifter', Mrs. J. F. Easterling also of Latta. Mr. Lynch Watson of Montana is spending a few days with friends here. Mr. Felix Smith and family are moving to tlieir farm near here this week. He and his brother, Alyn, will run the farm this year, while theh" father* Mr. D. L. Smith will conduct a mercantile business at the station. Mr. T. S. Hughes was badly hart at iiiKiiiiicins miu lasi weeK. He was carried to the Florence haspita), where he is getting along lately veil. Messrs. D. M/ and T. B. Walesa attended the burial of Mr. Rafaa Bvthea at Little Rock Sunday. There was no preaching at Aattacb Sunday, the pastor being away aa a trip to Florida. A telegram was received here last week that Mr. John Deer bad died at his home in Evergreen, Ala. was a brother of Mrs. Cherry Watsafc, iand was 35 years old. Six years aga, ! he with his two daughters, visMed their relatives in South CaraMao. Fork. Mr. H. P. Dubose spent last week ' with relatives at Hartsville. Miss Lucile Bethea is visMIng bar grandmother, Mrs. Dave Rogers at I Latta. I Mr. M. E. Carmichael is speadteg | some time at Hamer. Mr. C. E. Taylor returned last weak ' from a visit to Georgia, where ba i visited relatives. i Miss Louise Rogers is visiting bar ciotor \fra HlnlfP nf PhaplnffA Mr. and Mrs. John Bethca, *f Ham!er, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Bethea. o Eggs in Chicago 35 Cents. s Chicago, Feb. 3?The cost of living came down sharply today in one important'item, eggs. Owing to plentiful arrivals here, totaling nearly twice as many as a week ago, wholesale priees fell 4 1-2 to 6 cents a dozen. Neir quotations ranged from 33 1-2 to 35 cents. . o Services at 1st Baptist Church. There will be Sunday sehoe! at the Baptist church February Jth at 10 o'clock, preaching by the pastor, Rev. W. C. Allen at 11 'clock. public generally is invited to atteud any and all these services. o I). A. It. Meeting. i ne neoecca ricaens uaapier u. A. R. meets on Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. C. L. Wheeler. A full attendance is urgently requested. o Services at the Methodist Church. Main Street Methodist chureh, Dr. Watson B. Dunsnn, Pastor. Sunday School at 10 a. m.t Mr. W. Harry Muller, Superintendent. Preachiag at 11a. m. by the pastor. Subject: 'Hie Master's Message to the Church" ? No. 3, "The Church With a Mixad Membership." No evening serriea. Public cordially invited to the moraing service. o Card of Tluuiks. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to our many friends ia DMlon and surrounding community for their many deeds of kindness, sympathy, and assistance rendered ue in the sickness and death of our son and brother. MRS. C. J. McDANIE*, and Children.