/ f Watch Label on Your Paper /l|T A 4? | 1 jrfr-4^ ^ 1 1^ tw ?vte ?n t>he ^wn8 nf andDo-'tUt Subscription ipTliflil WJ^TCUXL sffp^T P "established 1894. the d1llon herald, dillon south carolina, thursday MOItXI.\(J. march ii. 1920. vol. 24. no. 2f COUNTY NEWS AND HAPPENINGS I I News Hems of Interest to Herald Readers Ebb and Flow of the I Human Tide. 1 : c Oak drove. t The Oak Grove school resumed t work again last Monday morning af- \ ter closing down for a about ten days a as a precautionary measure against j the flu. There seems to be very lit- g tie sickness in this community at t present. t Dow r <3 Vnidpr nreached an able t AiCT . V. ? sermon here last Sunday in the build- f lng now occupied by the school. He a has made a fine impression upon the ti people of this section. je Mr. and Mrs. W. Hudson Fore spent o several days last week visiting at Mrs. e Fore's former home at Richburg. p Plans are moving along favorably jt for the rebuilding of Bethesda g church. Many generous contributions b have been made by people around f here and in other communities to- l< ward this work. t Good weather now prevails and the c plow man is making use of it. 1< Loyd, the six months old infant i son of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. George, died at their home last Wednesday morning after an illness of about ten days of influenza followed by a brief s attack of pneumonia. The little one F was laid to rest at the old Union u cemetery last Thursday morning, the iv funeral services being conducted by p Rev. Jno. G. Graves of Latta. Ie> Mr. and Mrs. George have a host n of friends who sympathize with them n in their bereavement. is o |d Fork. tl Rev. H. C. Carmichael of Burling- f< ton visited his mother, Mrs. Annie; 1 oof troolr f] uariiiii'iiaci ia.H nwi>. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Edwards and D children of Marion spent Sunday ii here with relatives. jO Miss Lucile Bethea has returned to b Greensboro to resume her studies in w the high school. o William Adams of Dillon spent f< several days with Mr. and Mrs.it] Maxcey Adams last week. .si Oscar Rogers of Florence spent $ Sunday at home with Mr. and Mrs. a J. O. Rogers. a. o $ Latta. i* Mr. Martin Covington of Redlw Springs is visiting his brother CaryiJ? Covington. j?j Miss Frances Allen who has beeni. teaching in Maxton is visiting rela- 'r tives In town. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Berry are atl? home again after sofne time in Tam- i jj pa, Fla. i u , 1 Miss Annie McMillan who is teach- ? ing at Little Rock is visiting Mrs. Isla Crumpler her school being sus- * pended on account of flu. Rev. J. C. Foster has returned from Florida where he has been in the ^ interest of his orange groves. Mrs. J. D. Gibson of Red Springs * is UMLfuest of Mrs. Clara Manning. ? IHST-Daisy Brown of Marion is visiting Mrs. W. T. Walker. Mrs. M. H. Blum has returned from ? northern markets where she has been -....k.alnn onrlnir crnnris uuiuiiaoiut. out iup. Mr. S. A. McMillan is back from IJ northern markets and Miss Edoraj? Cox has arrived to take charge of the M. H. Blum millinery department. . Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Tolar visited in ! Fayetteville last week. Mr. E. A. Bethea and E. B. Berry * Jr., spent Monday in Bennettsville. j Mr. M. H. Cox has returned from I Florida. , J Mr. and Mrs. E. tf. Brown and Miss Velma Robertson motored t0 Mullins 0 Sunday afternoon. f, I li o ,t; Lake View. ! o Mr. D. Verner spent the week end[o in Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. McCormac have returned after having spent several weeks with Mrs. McCormac's mother who is a resident of Fountain Inn. The quarantine has been lifted and j school started Monday. The attend- J ance was small. ;v Mr. H. Moscow spent last Tues-i* - - .1 day In Latta. i The new milliner, Miss Nelson of * New Church, Va., has arrived to take a charge of the millinery department at'0 the Ford Brothers store. !h Messrs. Monroe Ford and Charles!1 Bullock spent a few days in Balti-jv more, Md., the past week. Mrs. R. F. Elvington and children v and Miss Grace Mason spent Wcdnes-, u day in Clio, S. C. .P Dr. E. P. Smith has moved in hisj new home and Mr. W. R. Britt has.J^ moved in the house formerly occu-|? pied by Dr. Smith. j* Dr. Rufus Ford preached at the 0 Baptist church Sunday a. m. and 1 Mr. A. Finch. Baptist pastor at Kem-ja per, preached at the night service. Dr. Dr. Ford announced the regular preaching services, in the absence of i a regular pastor, until one is procur-, ed. < The Baptist Young Peoples Union t will meet every Sunday nichf at 7 ' o'clock, as usual. r Mr. Sam Dunni of Fairmont w;rs in ' town Monday. jS Mr. and Mrs. D. C. McMillan and v children are visiting relatives in Sum- * ter. S. C. | News has been received here an- ' nouncing the safe arrival of Rev. E. ?' T. Mason and family at their new 1 home. Sycamore. S. C. 0 Miss Ellen White returned Sunday J after spending several weeks at lier ; home In Dillon. B Mr. Gordon Flowers and Mr. Ringland Smith are able to be out once more after having rather bad cases t of influenza. Mrs. Kemper Horn who has also s been on the influenza sick list is ableiS Wit EC K AT SEABOARD. < An early morning Seaboard Air ,ine freight train going toward Ham- 1 et came to grief at the junction Sun-1 lay when the engine was derailed and urned over. An Atlantic Coast Line! rain was passing and the junction vas closed. The Seaboard freight was ' ipproaching the junction at a snail's r ?ace, and it is claimed that the en-l{1 jineer was watching the Coast Line * rain and failed to see or think aboutjf he open switch. The engine struck a he switch and after running about 30 e eet turned over on its side. It was t , complete wreck and no one was r lurt except the engineer who sprain- * d his ankle. A train hand was asleep n the fireman's box, but before the i ^ ngine could turn over he awoke, j? Itched through the opening between c he engine and tender and hitting the;v Tound on all feet ran about 50 yards i? etore he stopped. The engineer and jb ireman stuck to their posts and craw. sd out of the wrecked locomotive af- P er it had settled. Wrecking crews * ame over from Andrews and Ham- ? 2t and cleared the track. ' o COUNTY FAIR MEETING. ? t i HT There will be a meeting of the 1 tockholders of the Dillon County K 'air Association at the office of the ^ ndersigned on Friday afternoon, ? larch 12th at 3 o'clock p. m. Every 81 erson in the county who is interest- c d in Dillon County having a fair ext fall should be p resent at this leeting. The purpose of the meeting * s to elect officers and to raise ad- a itional money by sale of stock for e ie purpose of erecting the buildings jr the fair. Last year a charter was secured!" rom the Secretary of State for The 15' illon County Fair Association, hav-j igan authorized capital of $10,000,- e' ~ AA 4U!n n/tlr V? O O ! V. uniy $1iSUU.l/V U1 llllO siutn ? ??-. een subscribed. With this amount, re bought a little over fourteen acres f land for which we paid $2700; a ;nce was erected around the proper- r, f at a cost of nearly $2000; a grandtand-was erected at a cost of over ri 1500; stables were built at around P cost of $1000 and fixing the track nd other improvements cost over 11 500, making a total expenditure of ^ 7700.00 and we wound up the year " ithout owing anything. In other ? 'ords with $4200 capital paid in we ? pent $7700.00 or around $3500 more Y lan was paid In, in addition to pay- n ig the stockholders e 20 per cent 81 ividend on the capital stock paid in f $4200.00. This was made from " ices we had last summer. During w le latter part of December we pur- ? lased from Mr: J. P. WcLaurin 5 1-2 v creB more of land at $400 per acre ? - * ?- wo nvo fftP flt tl UU IU1B IB tVH luu i nv w? v le present time. Our purpose is to ill all the remainder of the stock to j\ eople all over the county and pay ir. McLaurin for the additional mount of land and use the remaindr in erecting the buildings for the f, lir. The stock is $10 per share, and t! re want to distribute this stock all (, ver the county. A few men will n ike all of this stock, in fact two have ^ sked for $500 worth of stock each a ut we want to distribute the stock d ver as wide an area as possible. The n 0 acres of land that the association d wns is worth in itself the entire cap- c :al stock of the association, not tak- 0 ig into consideration the buildings a nd other improvements on the prop- h rty. This is not only a good business / reposition but Dillon County must j ave a fair and every one should j ome in and endeavor to make it a is uccess. I therefore earnestly asiv e hat everyone interestd in this coun- s y wide enterprise be at the meeting n next Friday afternoon at three I 'clock. A. P. Bethea, Secretary. o Civic Improvement Association j? Notice. The Civic Improvement Association1., rill meet this Friday afternoon at t he Ladies' Rest at 4:30 o'clock. , 'his is not the regular afternoon for he meeting but as we have been un- j ble to hold a meeting for sometime * n account of the quarantine audi ave some important business toL ransact, meeting will be held thisj reek. It The Coker Glee Club of Hartsville j rill come to Dillon the 2nd. of April , inder the auspices of the Civic Im-I , rovement Association. A musical |c reat is in store for the people of Dil-h an as this is considered the finest tlee Club in the South. It consists of ( wenty-six talented young ladies uner the direction of Professor Allan ^ tennett Lambdin, director of music f t Coker College. ! o .Moonlight School Closes. :t The New Holly Moonlight School j losed last Friday night. A number of j he pupils and others interested were , n attendance. Prizes for the best!) eading were awarded to the follow- ( ng: First el-ass? Mr. Ellis Daniels; ieeond clo.-s - Manning Hyatt; Ad-i anced class -Robert Hodges. Mr. ^ CI 1 is Daniels and Miss Folio Regis- t er received the prize for the greatest f niprovement in writing in the first j ind second classes respectively. For ( he spelling contest of the advanced t lass Robert Hodges was given the i irize. Rowland Hinson was awarded he prize for the most faithful in ittendance. I i o be out again. i Quite a few from here attended the l ipring openings at Dillon Friday and < Saturday. j I O-OI'ERATIO.V SAVES FARMERS OVER $20.0,000 \dmetto Farmers Saved Over 000 East Year by Co-operative Buying and Homo Mixing. Clenison College. March 5? Some nteresting figures in regard to the urchaseand use of fertilizers in 1919 ippear in the annual report of the extension Service. A total of 14,000 armers were advised by county gents in the proper use of fertilizrs, and 367 farmers conducted ferilizers demonstrations under the diof thn otronfu ticino a inter 1 r?f I 663 tons for this purpose. One hundred and one communities yere influenced to buy fertilizers co-| peratively. The experience of these ommunities is a good illustration of rhat co-operation will do in dollars ] nd cents. The quantity of fertilizers' ought co-operatively was 20,935 ons, the value of which (actual price, aid by co-operative purchasers) was| 789,101. The saving accomplished I y these co-operative purchasers wasl 126,244. Home mixing of fertilizers is one f the most important phases of ex-| ension work in regard to fertilizers. | 'he number of farmers advised and ided in the home mixing of fertilizers ras 5,818, the estimated saving per j on being $13,80, making a total aving of $80,288.40 over the purhase price of mixed fertilizers. Another interesting item of the j Brtilizer report is that 8,488 farmers ; rere influenced to use fertilizers as!' top dressing in order to get more' ffective results. The figures given in this report are j ot in any sense complete. Doubtless 'j ittny uiuer tanners uiiaiuea oy couii-i y agents bought co-operatively orj ome-mixed their fertilizers and sav-[ d money thereby. i, o J, BUYS COMMERCIAL HOTEL. C. L. Wheeler has purchased from I ( as. M. Carmichael the Commercial | rotel property at the corner of Rail-'( oad avenue and Harrison street. The i t roperty has been in litigation for' he past 10 or 12 years and was soldi, ist fall under order of court, and1 J asied into Mr. Carmichael's hands. L Ir. Carmichael was renting it as an partment house and the hotel h: een closed since the first of the ( ear. Mr. Wheeler has not as yet anounced his plans, but it -is undertood that he intends to greatly enirge the hotel and make such other nprovements as will provide Dillon ith a hotel large enough to accom- ' lodate the transient trade. Mr. , Wheeler is purchasing material and ; opes to have the building ready for ho nnnninc r>f tho tnharen SftftROn. 0 < l Post Card Shower for Winthrop ; College. I It is not customary for one, to ask or a "post card shower", but Win- j hrop College wishes her 6000 daugh- j ers to give her such a "shower" on ] [onday, March 15th. Will each one ( rrite a card, giving (1) her home , ddress; (2) teaching or business adress; (3) maiden name as well as . rarried name, if married; and (4) i ate and years of attendance at the | ollege. Give any other information | f interest; for example?if one has . daughter at Winthrop now, or hasi, ad, tell it. Address Miss Leila A. Russell,! ilumae Secretary, Winthrop College,! tock Hill. S. C. The Winthrop Weekly News will tate which class sends in the greatst number and percentage of re-j ponses. o SXTERTAIXMENT AT PLEASANT HILL. The following program was renlered by the students of Pleasant lill School last Friday night: 'rayer. :3rd Psalm recited by school. The Reapers" sung by the school, leading?Cassetriaca,*' Fred Cook, tecitation?"The Tempest," Nellie Watts. leading?"Bread," Mrs. Katip Lee. lecitation?"Sleep Baby, Sleep," Mary Brigman. leading?"Which One Are You,"i Maggie McDonald, tecitation?"All's Well That Ends Well," Bob Cook. 'Love Left Me," by the school. i Awarding of prizes. Spelling, Miss Maggie McDonald. Irithnetic, Miss Nellie Watts. Yriting, Miss Emma Watts. :lass i. Readingf, Miss Katie Lee. Yriting, Miss Ida Hyatt. Spelling, Miss Mary Brigman. 'Let the Lower Light be Burning.", by the school. The short address was made bv the j eacher, basing her talk on "The; Aghts Along the Shore,' for as you enow education is th0 light that gives is the power tQ sen tlie beauties of ife as we look through the windows if the world. The prizes were offered by the mill rh0 School Improvement Association cry kindly furnished the refreshments served. Miss Lee McDonald ind Mrs. Lee played the accompani nents. The school gratefully approbated th#? courtesies and continued inerest of the superintendent, Mr. \V 1. Monald. n Owing to the influenza situation! here will be no jury cases next iveek. The jurors have not been summoned. There will be equity court, beginning Monday and lasting several lavs. Judge Jno. S. Wilson will preside. liK(aISl!iATIVK WORK HROIGHT TO CI.OSK. Peimanbiit Roads, Better Schools and Public Health Receive Much Aid. ? The State. The second session of the seventy-; third general assembly of South Car-! olina was concluded at 7:45 o'clock yesterday morning and the majority j of the members caught the early) trains for their respective homes. | The clocks in the two houses were stopped at 11:55 Saturday night. The free conference report on the( appropriation bill was received in thej two houses around 7 o'clock. The re-) port was adopted immediately without discussion. By 7:30 the bill had been ratified and signed by the governor. A few minutes thereafter final adjournment was taken. Total appropriations amount t0 $6,091,241.39 for which a levy of 12 1-2 mills will be required. The general appropriation bill as i first passed by the house carried $5,800,000, which did not include $200,000 it had appropriated by statute for the Citadel. An appropriation of $50,000 for a heating plant for the State House was also made in a resolution passed by the house. A number of oth. er amounts thus favored by the house ' were put in by the senate. When?all these had been added to the appropriation bill in the senate and the senate's own increases put in the total carried by the bill was $6,731,000. The free conference took off about (i $672,000- by distributing the appro-,! priations over two years, providing i ror loans and by reductions, thus bringing .the bill to approximately ! what it was when it left the house. , Generous for Roads. While many of the legislators were ; somewhat disappointed in the volume.1 of constructive legislation enacted, ind although many desirable measur-J es went into the discard, much was jj [ione toward laying a soua Dasis ior future growth and development. This ! ean not be better emphasized than ; the response to the universal desirej throughout the state for good roads and the generous manner in which eounty delegations voted bond issues i for their counties. A statewide levy'i of two mills was also put on for per-'< manent road building, the amount each courtty raises to be spent in that ' particular county. Bond issues for i roads and bridges in the different eounties approximate $13,000,000. Appropriations for public schools i are the most liberal ever made. The amount appropriated for 1919 was $704,337.83. The amount carried this pear is $931,090. Public health activities are to be I encouraged rather than neglected. : The amount last year for this department was $102,241.83. This year ; the appropriation is $220,394.14. | State Colleges Helped. |< Permanent improvements at state Institutions are to go forward in keeping with the spirit of progress. In U111 running down the appropriation out the free conference committee die- , trlbuted the amounts for new buildings over two years, instead of providing the full amount this year. In' 3ome instances provision is made for borrowing the necessary funds. This! latter provision applies to the University of South Carolina, the trus-[ tees being authorized to borrow $75,-: 000 for the erection of nine homes | for professors. An appropriation of $200,000 is carried by the bill for the ' new plant for the Citadel, the $600,-' 000 appropriated for " this purpose, being distributed through three an-' nual installments. The old plant is J to be sold to repay the amounts ap-: propriated. f Other constructive work was the passage of a statewide dog law, which increases the tax from 50 cents to 75c cents and requires the dog to wearj a collar, with the license tag attach-; ed. This should mean much toward j en-couraging the sheep raising indus-, try, particularly in some of the coastal counties where farmers attempt*! ing this venture have been greatly handicapped because of the great number of sheep killing dogs running at large. This measure was pressed through by Dr. Barnwell, representative from Charleston, whose zeal was unflagging to get such a statute on the books. The resolution by Senator Christensen for a joint committee from the tw0 houses to study the state tax1 problems and weeded legislation and; to report hack next session with rec-j omniended measures was passed after | considerable debate in the bouse Sat-1 urday. Expenses are limited to $10,-j 000. The president of the senate appointed on this committee: Senator! Christensen of Beaufort, Senator Laney of Chesterfield and Senator Marion of Chester. House members are: Berry of Orangeburg. J. B. Atkinson of Spartanburg, Lide of Marion and Buckingham of Aiken. The following are the provisions of the Christensen resolution: "Whereas, it has been found necessary, in order to meet the legitimate needs of the state under present economic conditions, largely to increase the tax levy for general purposes, and in addition thereto t() le\\ a special tax for road purposes; and. "Whereas, these increases tend to accentuate and aggravate existing inequalities in the assessment of prop-: A .. UT.OI1 itwlil'ill - I t'liy IUI IUAULIUU an uals, thereby milling heavily to the burdens of the honest taxpayers; I and, Some Escaping Taxation. "Whereas, it is a matter of common knowledge that a considerable proportion of the taxable property of the state is now escaping taxation and FATAL WRECK NEAR WILSON.1 Fast train No. 86, which passed through Dillon about noon Friday was, wrecked one mile this side of Lucania, between Fayetteville and Wilson, j The engine, together with the ntail, express and baggage cars, was a complete wreck, it is understood. Engineer Bob Wilson was taken from be neath the wreckage in what was said to be a dying condition. j1 The fireman was killed outright.) Express Messenger Rutledge and, Baggage Master Peele had not been found. In so far as could be ascer-, tained no passengers were killed, butj many had received a severe shaking 1 np. Bob Wilson was a splendid and popular gentleman. He lived in Dillon for almost a year several years : ago and had chrge of a shifting engine which was doing extra work on this section of the road. He made many friends here and never lost an opportunity of stepping off his engine | as opportunity permitted when passing through Dillon and chatting with his old friends. For several years he has been on the fast trains through 1 here and was regarded as one of the J very best of the employes of the Atlantic Coast Line. Mrs. Wilson was 1 with him when they lived in Dillon. They have since made their home in 1 Rocky Mount. o Pee Dee Advocate. On Sunday night, Mrs. Julius Am- I mons died at her home on Fletcher 1 street from Influenza _ pneumonia. ' She leaves a husband and one adopt- 1 ed child to mourn her loss. Mrs. ' Amnions was about 38 years old. Born in Dillon county where, as 1 Julia Stricklin, she lived for years; I lived in Laurinburg 'for many years ' and a was a member of the Laurinburg Baptist church. She died trupt- 1 ing in her Saviour. Rev. Geo. L. Mul- 1 lis conducted the funeral service in 1 a most appropriate and touching 1 manner. o FLUE QUARANTINE LIFTED. ' The influenza quarantine which has been in force for the past several 1 weeks was raised yesterday. Schools ! reopened yesterday and the usual Sun- j day services will be resumed at the , churches. The moving picture theatre opened last night and the stores ! which have been closing at 7:30 o'clock are observing the usual opening and closing hours. There are very few cases of flu in town and the quarantine regulations were lifted at a joint meeting of the health authorities and the physicians Monday afternoon. that methods and sources of raising revenue now generally resorted to by other states are not in use In this state; and, "Whereas, it is believed that wisely considered changes in our laws that would tend t0 rectify these condi- 1 tions are of vital importance to the people of this state; therefore, "Be it further resolved. That a 1 joint committee, composed of three members of the senate, to be designated by the president of the senate, and four mmbers of the house of representatives to be designated by the speaker of the house, be appointed for the purpose of making a| thorough investigation and study of the subject of taxation in South Carolina and of suggesting and recommending for the consideration of the; general assembly at its next session j such changes in laws and such leg- j islative measures as in the judgment | of said committee will best serve to correct existing evils and to equalize! and lighten the burdens of taxation ^ in this state. "Be it further resolved, That said committee be authorized and directed to call in consultation the members of the tax commission of South Carolina ana mat saiu i-ax tumuug-, sion be and is hereby authorized and j directed to place at the disposal of; said committee the records and data of said commissioner's office and to cooperate with and assist committee in the performance of its duties. "Resolved, further, That the report of said joint committee be pub-, lished and mailed to each member of | the general assembly 30 days in advance of the next meeting of the gen-[ eral assembly. The expenses incur-, red by this committee shall be paid / out of the state contingent fund and; shall include actual expenses of the. members of the committee while engaged in the performance of the du-l ties of their investigations and such , sonographic work and other expenses as may be by this committee J deemed necessary thereto."' Just prior to adjournment yester-, day Governor Cooper sent the following message to the two houses, in which he thanked the members for their cooperation in the legislative program, his gratification over the character of legislation enacted and extended his best wishes for happiness and success at home: "I have the honor to inform you that I haw signed th,. general appropriation act and I have no further ics-utges for your honorable bodies. ' In this final communication to t!i - general a?sembl\ of lhi'O, permit t?# press my graiification at tin* intruder of lecislat ion enacted by i ><>11. The numerous educational acts, im vases in the pay of county supi-rinn-I'lenfs of education in various! counties, the roads legislation and, measures of other nature indicate state progress of the most wholesome kiini. You have engaged in constructive labor and the result is such that i the session now closing will be long' and favorably remembered. "For each of you I wish much success and happiness." THURIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.*' Inxtors an