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f eifr Oilfoti Jierafd. |; ESTABLISHED IN 189S. DILLON. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1909. VOL. 14, NO. 18 I FREE HEADSTONES ; Furnished by U. S. Government to mark graves of Revolutionary Soldiers. I .* A fe\v years ago Congress pass. ed a bill directing the War Department to furnish headstones free of charge laid down at the nearest Inci^ui. uepot ior tne unmarked graves of all soldiers who fought in any way for the United States. In accordanee with this Act of Congress the War Department is ready to send headstones upon request to any one who will locate the graves and prove the services of soldiers whether they fought in the Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War, skirmishes with Indians or in any way bore arms in defense of the United States. The daughters of the American Revolution in this State have taken up the work of trying to find and mark forgotten and nameless graves of Revolutionary, soldiers. By res t cuing: these names from oblivion and reviving memories and tradition of these brave men we pay them tardv honors which are welldeserved. The circular of information issued by the War Department states tliaf unnn orvnlinnflrvr* p- %.?|>v/ii f?|/|/ii\.(iiiv7a IU inc JF' Quartermaster (ieneral, U. S. K Army, headstones will be furnishedfor unmarked graves of sold'ers, [sVyfailors and marines who served in the State Militia or the Army or (: Navv of the United States during war whether regular or volanteer, and whether they died in the service or since their muster ' * ?mt or discharge therefrom. These , ' headstones are of best American ttajpbite marble, 39 inches long, 12 i':. inches wide and 4 :nches thick, ffijpift top slightly rounded and the &90rtion of the stone which will be |Mjbove the ground when set is sand fobbed; each headstone is inscribwith the name, rank (if above Ihvate), company and State regiment or other organization to which be deceased belonged, cut in re- , lef within a sunken shield. No ieviation can be made from these pecifications which are prescribed ( (V the Secretary of W ar and the iw does not provide for any exenditure for fences or for any urpose except for the headstone s above described; neither is it iwful to make any money allownce in place of furnishing a headtone. Headstones will be shipped, reight prepaid by the Governnent. onlv +o the nr>ar<?ct mi iitation or steamboat landing; they Will not be delivered to street ad- . dresses or to the cemetery." , r Every D. A. R. Chapter in ( South Carolina should be earnest- . 1y and actively interested in this , Ooble and praise-worthy work. , Battles and skirmishes were fought all over the State from the moun- , tains to the seaboard; the British , and Tories invaded all portions of , the country and almost every able- > hodied man and youth had to join , It militia in defense of homes and nilies; hence there are thousands graves of Revolutionary soldiers thin our borders. It will re- < ire much time, patience and reful investigation to find these ftv<a$ and obtain all the necessaHuformation, therefore Chapters r\uld begin work at once. No- ' cVlAM 1H Kp tncprfarl in A 1 Hpr papers of each county calling ' Hkention to this liberality of the ^ fe-: ?overnment and asking assistance 1 Hbm every one who can give in- ' ErlBrmation. Country churchyards plantation burying grounds B&^Hpt be examined; and all tradi^T^Hfns thoroughly sifted for the truth 1 is almost sure to be found. < afigB^hen the graves are located, the 1 SfiMkt step is to find some reliable < JCaMpaon in the neighborhood who 1 consent to have the headstone i to his address and will agree 1 Ik,. ,.\ j*-.-i* - tW. _ to put it in proper position when it arrives. This should be done before any application is made to the War Department for a headstone. The services of the soldier must next be proved Official proofs are necessary, taken from the records of this or other States, the United States pension office or the War Department. It is almost impossible tc get information from the South Carolina records; they have never been indexed and the officials in charge of them are not yet ready to furnish any data. Sometime ago "The State'' published lists of Revolutionary soldiers, which were cooied from the records through the courtesy of Secretary of State Gantt. These lists were ananged alphabetically but unfortunately their publication ceased with the letter G. These lists will be of aid in verifying the services of soldiers whose names begin with the first letters of the alphabet. A true copy of the roll of Sumter's Brigade was furnished by Mr. J. T. Gantt, while Secretary of State, to the Fourth Report of the National D. A. R. published by the Smithsonian Institute. This contains the names of hundreds of soldiers and will be of great assistance. The Commissioner of pensions in the Department of the Interior at Washington will reply very prompllv and fully to letters inquiring for the records of soldiers. It is better to write a separate letter for each soldier. The War Department will reply to letters from Chapter Regents signed officially, giving the names of the Chapters. After the services of the soldier have been proved, then write to the Quartermaster General, U. vS. Army and ask him for Application Blanks for headstones for soldier's graves. Fill out the blank exactly according to directions and returns to the Quartermaster General. If it meets with his approbation then a card will be returned saying that "the application will be filled in its regular order. Requests are received for thousands of headstones annually and considerable time is required to accurately list the names for the printer, ipake proper record thereof, have the headstones cut, and lettered under contract as required by law apd ship them by freight to places distributed all over the United States, where they are transferred to applicants. It is impracticable therefore for the Department to fix any definite date when these headstones will reach the noint?; of Knt ?r>rvi;_ ?- J * "PF*1 canis arc assured that the headstones requested by them will be supplied in every proper case and at the earliest possible date." Experience has shown that it is generally twelve months before a stone is shipped, so Chapters should begin work immediately as the delays are many and vexatious. ^rs. F. Louise Mayes, Mrs. W. C. Kirkland, Miss Kate Lilly Blue, Com. on Revolutionary Graves, S. C. N. A. R. President Taft came very near" seing arrested the other day for sicking flowers in the ground of-i he TVnnrhnonl a# A .... 1 ^ ?_t? ? ? ? ?. ui ii^iiv-uiiurc. Even ;i President must keep off the jrass in Uucle Jimmie Wilson's bailiwick. ^ ? When the New York papers showed a disposition to give undue publicity to the smuggling frauds >f the sugar trust the trust promp:ly placed page advctisements in jach of the dailies and the pubicity ceased. The members of .he sugar trust are diplomats, whatever else they may be. (t | GOLD MINES IN DILLON DIRT. z One who Knows Says the Lands Round Dillon are Excellent for Trucking. ] : Would Join Company, Purchase 500 Acres of r Land and Engage in Trucking. Some Telegrams that Argue Elo- K quentlyfor the Trucking Industry. K The article in the last issue of The Herald, "Trucker's Reaping Golden Harvest," has aroused some interest in the trucking industry around Dillon. Our q people are beginning to find out that truck raising is a profitable industry and the chances are that the "Trucker's Association" referred to in The Herald will j, be formed before another season rolls round. Several gentlemen who have paid some little atten ^ tiontothe industry have expressed ^ themselves as interested in the or- ^ gani/.ation of a local association for experimental purposes and if1 I as many as six can be induced to j. plant two acres of truck theindusC} try can be made profitable as well , as experimental. There is no! V K doubt in The Herald's mind but that twelve acres of truck planted at the same time under the rules / r n ot an association will return a j handsome profit on the investment. , 11 The idea is to plant entirely for shipment and not for local eon, ... ol sumption and carctul estimates j ^ show that 11 acres will produce enough of a certain vegetable to make up a car load for each ship- 0, ment. A gentleman who has been in- n, terested in Dillon real estate from ai the day the town was born and p] who still owns land around Dillon cj read the article in last week's r( Herald and gives the plan endorsement. He lives in a section j., where trucking has bten made a ir profitable industry and having j. made a study of the industry his tc views on the subject are valuable. ,r We refer to Capt. J. B. Edgerton, u. of Goldsboro, N. C., and take 'p pleasure in publishing a letter e( from him on the subject which st offers some valuable suggestions: jj "I am sending you some tele- j] grams showing what our beans n are selling for. There is as good ^ trucking land for strawberries, Q. melons,asparagus, lettuce, ]>eas t( 3 1 -3 it- - - ' <iuu ucaus iiruunu me town 01 iJU- 01 Ion as there are in the south. If n I were a younger man I would ^ like to join a party of 5, 6. or 10 good men and buy 500 acres of land exclusively for this purpose and join them in a trucking busi- i ness. n In my little travels around the g< town of Dillon I have had my eye ^ on some lands that I know .are/ first class for trucking and I havd( . wondered why some one did not go into this business. "You understand that a man can raise a crop of peas or beans and make as much or more rr cotton on the same land, the same y year, as if he had not planted it in ^ peas or beans. You understand that he plants this crop early and ^ at the proper time puts cotton be- ^ tween each row and makes as j good crop of cotton as if he had ^ not planted beans. "My son-in-law last year made more cotton per acre in his bean o field than he did where he did not a plant beans, as the cotton later in the season gets the fertilizer from the bean vine crop," Accompanying Col. Edgerton's Y letter were several telegrams from r New York and Boston commission v 1 houses to Goldsboro truckers t showing returns from bean ship- r ments. The telegrams are print- J .1 below: New Vork, Mav 26th, 1909. . M. Jeffrys, Cioldsboro, N. C. fax beans sold two-fifty. Phillipps Son. Boston, May 27, 19<)9. . 1. 11ester, Cioldsboro, X. C. Seventy-three baskets hwans eeived. Sold two-fifty. Chapin B ros. New Vork, May 27, 19<?9. . J. Hester, Holdsboro, X. C. Creech wax two-fifty. Sold reen dollar seventy-five. E. R. Brockett Co. m m OR. HATCHER'S IMPRESSIONS. f billon and Latta as Told in an Article to the Religious herald The Able Divine Eloquent sn His Praises of the People of the Two Towns. In an article to the Religious [erahl Dr. \V. E. Matcher writes s follows of Dillon and Latta: "From Edgefield to Dillon was 0111 the old to new Dillon has ardlv attained its majority since le first shovel of dirt was lifted 1 its making, now, with its bcauful streets, its gleaming electric ylits, its fresh and lovely, and ven elegant homes, and its busing and enterprising people, it els some of the grandeur of a ty. This was my second visit to illon, as was also my late meet. I cr !.t 1 -1. 6 V IIVIVI ill) OVV_wiivi \>U| K lerc. ! found Herbert A. Wils, a son of Orange county, Va., tie of the multitudinous Willises f the Northern Piedmont, as the itely installed pastor of Dillon, nd tru!v I have not seen !<>r tanv month ; of Sundays a neater r better-braced fit than that of >*il 1 is and his new charge. Our leetincr here is ncarinjr its end, id the ingathering, while ineoniIcte, has brought threat joy to the lurch and to the town. It is al;ady clear that the ranks of our aptist people will be sensibly en.r^ed and the Sunday-school is tounting up to proportions never nown before. It would be difli> enumerate the visitors from tany directions which have run 1 to jret a taste of the meeting, 'he famous Joel Allen, the crown 3 chieftain among the money-rai.ts of South Carolina Baptists, ves here. He seems to rank casy as the first citizen, and while o longer the pastor of the church ere, he is still one of its most valrous and inspiring leaders. Yes;rday, Brother Willis drove me ut to Latta, a young town seven files off, and also a station on the itlantic Coast Line railroad. In opulation it is, 1,000 strong, and ic Baptists are just completing ne 01 tne nanasomest houses oi 'orship in the State. It is simply lagnificent; it cost the church :>mething over $100 per member ) build it, and there is not to be dollar's debt when they dedicate I uncover my brow in honor f a church so plucky, so enterrising, and so happy. "Already my heart grows eavy at the thought of bowing lyself out of Dillon. Of course, am wedded to the Baptist folk of he community; I admire them nd rejoice in them, and surely an never forget them, nor must I ail to mention the hospitality and he nobility of the community. 1 ave heard that towns are not lade, but that they grow. They mde this one, and it is doing its wn growing, and that in a great nd beautiful way." An Irishman was painting a louse and working with great apidity. Someone asked hirr vhvhe was in such a rush. "I'it rying to get through," the Irish nan replied: "before the paini fives out." ?Ex RANCKE-LANE. Miss Aima Ranckc, ot Lumberton, Becomes the Bride of Mr. F. M. Lane, of Dillon S. C. A Beautiful Church Wedding. Lumlu-rteu Kolit'sonum: One of the prettiest weddings ever solemnized in Lumberton took pluce at the Methodist church Tuesday evening when Miss Alma Koxanna. daughter of Mr. (t. L. Kancke, of Lumberton, became the bride of Mr. Frederick Marvin Lane, a young farmer who lives near Dillon, S. C. Nothing could have been prettier than the way in which the color scheme of green and white was expressed. A beautiful arch of white jasamine spanned the choir recess in rear of the pulpit, and ivcv and potted ferns were banked in profusion within the chancel, from which a white pathway strcchcd down the center aisle to the front entrance, white streamers stretching down either side ar.d across the entiance to this aisle. A lartfc crowd assembled to witness the ceremony, and before the appointed hour N:3() o'clock, the church was tilled to its capacity .'list before the i bridal party enured i.-.s Lula Humphrey san^ ''!lee 'use < iod Made Thee Mine". iss Kcbecca Ward play in.c orsran accoinpauiment, and as Miss Ward playid the Bridal Chorum front L >!tenyrin the bridal party enter-. ?1 in the following" order: M ssers II. (*. Rancke, brother of the !>:i;le. of Rockingham. ami r. S. \* Lane. I brother of the "room, of Dil'on. ushers; the }rr?<-.?ni and his best man, his brother, Mr. J. P. Lane of Dillon; Miss Bessie Lane, sister of the groom, maid of honor, who wore a prineess of white batiste and carried a shower bouqtr t of white carnations; 'lower children, Lula Xormcnt and Harold Humphrey, 1 J ' Master Harold carrying on his arm a basket of llowers and little Miss Lula scattering rose leaves in the pathway of the bride, who approached the alter, on either side of whirh the crmr.m and t he attendants had arranged themselves, leaning on the arm of her father, Mr. (5. 12. Raneke, who gave her away. The ceremony was performed by Rev. 12. M. Hoyle, pastor of the church, of which the bride is a member, while Miss Ward played "Hearts and flowers." As the party 1 retired from the church Miss Ward played Mendelssohn's Wedding March. The bride was beautifully gowned in a princess of white messeline satin and 1 carried a large shower bouquet of bride's roses tied with white ribbon. Mr. and Mrs. Lane left on the Seaboard train for Wilmington Tuesday night without inform ing anyone as to their destina1 tion. The train was late and they did not get away until about one o'clock. The bride's going-way dress was a gray tailored gown. The many handsome presents received bear witness to the popularity of the ' young couple. Mrs. Lane is well known to Robesonian read ers, as she worked on this paper some two years ago as local reporter. - l' \r j t * xvicssts. o. v .ana j. i'. L,ane left Tuesday night for their home in Dillon. Mr. II. C. Rancke left last night for Rockingham. I Miss Flora Watson, of Dillon, x who came Saturday to attend the x wedding, and Miss Bessie Lane . will be guests for a week at the t home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Humphrey. WASHINGTON LETTER News From Our Busy Capital It is gratify in fir to learn that Congress is likely to complete the tariff bill by July 1, but it would be infinitely more so to know that it was to be a j^ood bill. There has been much talk in the newspapers, not excluding some of the most prominent Republican publications, of President Tal't's vetoing the tariff bill it it did not make ko'>1 the pledges of the party, but such predictions arc gradually subsiding and we fear the President is yeilding to th* blandishments of Aldrich and the rest of the highbinders in the Senate. From a purely Democratic standpoint it would be gratifying to see the President sign a bill which makes a monkey of the voters and will so far outrage their feelings as to insure the c >ndemnation of the people at the pools. From the broader standpoint of patrietism and philanthropy, in the licst sense of the word, however, it will be deplorable if anything resembling the Senate ariffbil! is written on tin. clMti>l,.c W'K..,i... u:?i V..W .Hl'lkliv.l. ?? litlK, \ V I IIIV l/l II may be which Mr. Taft signs it will remain on the statutes for years. This is inevitable. A Democratic majority may l>e elected to the House but it will lie a long time before the political complexion of the Senate can be changed ami if the new tarilT law robs the consumers for the benefit of cetf in favored manufacturers that robbery will go on for | a lone lime Therefore, even at j the loss of political advantages, ' we h'?!>e to see the best possible j tariff bill enacted. Incidentally, | too, we should be sorry to see the President of the United States, regardless of the party which elected him, approve a measure "of per fid v and dishonor'' or yield one iota to the men who 11? .1 1 ? ? i 4 arc oiauuuiv declaring that there is no consumer. Senator Bailey of Texas, explaining his vote for a tariff on lumber, said that the Democratic National Convention had no right to declare, in its platform, for free lumber, that such a declaration was an interference with the legislative functions of Democratic Senators and Representatives and that he did not purpose to be bound by the party platform. If a national party convention has no right to bind the party which it represents who has? And if the national platform cannot be taken as an indication of the views and purpose of the oartv it would ing to know what can. The customs officials arc finding: all sorts of crookedness in the administration of the New York customs house, The sugar trust smuggling is almost a national scandal and innumerable instances of a minor character have been unearthed. The difficulty in preventing smuggling is that few men believe in their hearts that the government is just when it imposes a tax on imports, and therefore, few have any conscientious scruples about violating the customs laws. The President has urged John Hays Hammond, the notable mining engineer, to aecept the post of Minister to China and Mr. Hammond has refused. Mr. Taft then asked Mr. Hammond to find for him the right man for the place. It is a peculiar commentary that the President should have so much difficulty in filling this place that he has to ask a i *' v ' \ civilian to find him a man. V M