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I " Oi((cn Keratd. W ? ?_ ??.? ? ' ESTABLISHED IN *895. PILLOW. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1909. VOL 15, NO. i ' LENDING MONEY AT 6 PER CENT. A Standard Warehouse Co. Announces that it will Lend Money on Stored i Cotton at 6 Per Cent. A ; Long Step Toward Con- | trol of the Cotton Crop. . j Mr. T. B. Stackhouse, presi- t dent of the Standard Warehouse s Co., in company with Mr. Lewis r W. Parker, the well-known cotton mill man of Greenville, has r just returned from Boston where I he went to confer with bankers as f to securing money for advances s on southern cotton. Mr- Stack- j house had a most successful trip j, r and was assured that he could get t all the money he wanted to assist \ in financing the crop. He was * successful in negotiating loans at a a very low rate of interest and the s Farmer's Loan & Trust Co , of s Columbia, with which he is con- I nected, has offered to advance money on cotton stored in Stan- * dard Warehouses theat low rate of r 6 per cent. This low rate of in- r tPT?ct will motarinll.. -1 L nu? U10I.V1 mllj aasiai LUC 1. farmer in his efforts to control * the marketing of the crop aud is ^ a long step toward the solution of ^ the great problem that has contron a ted the bonded warehouse in the r south. The satisfactory results of s Mr. Stackhouse's trip to the north ^ , mark the oeginning of a new era v in the cotton industry in the south. Speaking of his trip Mr. Stack- t t house said: v T "We found the strong financial h interests of the Bast willing to 8 r make advance* on Southern cot- p PpDQ properly warehoused and had Ko trouble in perfecting arrange- ^ contents. The truth is that in the Mrest where Easterns banks have ? ^Bheen lendinc mnnev nn whpat arnl J' Mother grain crop the prosperity has ^ been so great that the Western banks are no longer in need of much assistance and can finance c their own crops. Eastern bank- T ^ ers therefore must look for an other field in which to lend monK ey and they find the Standard s ? k Warehouse cotton receipts wholly a E acceptable collateral. & "If you inquire the reason that a ; t Southern banks are not equally v I I able to finance the farmers with- ? K out asistance from the East, since F the price of cotton has increased a I in the last seven 01 eight years, r1 I the answer is that the increase in 11 f the value of the Southern cotton ? B crop has been bya no means so great as the increase has been in v the value of the grain crop. For - pvamnU a cnara'Acfiira toK1a In p v?M?wy?v I w ? V l?wiv li> LtlV/ I current number of The Literary Q Diges, points out that while durf ing the period from 1900 to 1908 e the value of the wheat crop in- o creased 90 per cent, the increased a value of the cotton crop was only s 32 per cent. tl In my judgment the explanation of this is that the Western ,l farmer has been accustomed for ti years to store his wheat at the b elevator and to sell wheat only s, when the world wants wheat, ^ i while, until recently, the cotton ; farmer has disposed of his crop E during the harvest months and ^ the two or three months immediately following at what ever prices c were onerea. XMeitner wneat nor ^ cotton can be economically held , by the fanner unless he have ^ warehouse facilities?and the g i wheat farmer has had them Ionger and more of them. \ . "Warehouse facilities which f X enable the farmer to borrow money ' *>n their product at 6 per cent, t ought to go far in assisting the Southern farmers to distribute the , [ marketing of their cotton during the 12 months of the year nfther . I than during four, and that is the , real problem that the farmer must face if he would obtain for his cot- . ton what it is worth. \ "Whenever the Southern farmers universally adopt the custom " of storing their cotton in ware- f t houses, protecting it from damage 1 t of every kind at tlie most economical c rates and selling it as the demand t develops throughout the year, the i ? methods of marketing, which are < scarcely second in importance to < the methods of producing, will ] have peached some degree of per- i \ ' - .a, ? v? 'Vfcft- k-'\ > '.it. * SHOOTING AFFRAY AT MARION/;. 'J A. h. Brijman Seriously Wounds Jack Altman Marion, August 27 ?Special: ^ \.t about 9.30 o'clock last night dr. W. H. Brigman shot and seriously wounded Mr. Jack Altnan at the Atlantic Caost Line station, just after the arrival of he north bound train, the ball takng effect in the abdomen. Mr Srigman, who has been living in ^ he vicinity of Marion for the past several years, is a successful far- w ner, at present conducting a farm it or Mr. T. L. Manning, about ol hree miles southeast of Marion, g The young man Altman, it seems, g lad beeu at work for a short time or Mr. Brigmar^, but had left " md had gone to Pee-Dee station, it ^fter his leaving M^. Brigman C ound that his house had been bro- g :en into, and he applied to Magisrate Oliver early last night for a u varrant. Meanwhile, Altman ai lad been arrested at Pec-Dee by C i local constable, and was on his B vay to Marion. As soon as he stepped off the train he asked to see Brigman, and Deputy Sheriff Vl Dozier, who was there with the varrant to arrest him, thinking a hat he wanted to see Brigman to irrange the matter amicably, did lot interfere. As soon as Brig- tl nan and Altman met, however a a ight began, with the result that t< irigman was knocked down. t] Sheriff Blue, who happened to be (j iresent, and others interfered and >arted them, but a$ the combatnts were being separated Brig- t< nan fired his pistol, with the re- a ult above stated. No one had r een the pistol and before it could jj ie fired the second time, the sheriff irrenched it from his hand. The wounded man was taken to ? he office of Dr. E. B. Utley, who S1 /ith the assistance of Dr. A. Mcntyre, found upon making a sur- K ical operation that the ball had n iassed through the lower part of e: he abdominal cavity without s /ounding any of the organs, and 0 ad lodged in the back. After the , peration the patient was taken to 1 ail, and there, in one of the low- u r rooms in the jailer's apartments, \v ie is resting quietly to-day. rt The physicians think that the hancesalre in favor of Altman's ecovery. Mr. Brigman was kept S1 n custody by the sheriff until to- ol ay, when bail was granted in the t um of $1,000, after a warrant for ssult and battery had been sworn ut for him by Mr. Curtis Altman, s brother to the wounded man, t* /ho came in to-day on the 10 h 'clock train. n, The shooting ways witnessed by ^ great number of persons, and here are almost as many conflict- " tig stories as to how it actually B ccurred, the lelative position ?f tl he combatants, etc, as there are a fitnesses. j Mr. Walter Stanton, who lives S( n Route No. 1, has a home-rais- t] d colt little more than two years ?? Id that weighs 936 pounds. It is n beautiful bay mare that will Hot n uffer by comparison with sortie oi, he high-priced horses brought to \ )illon from Virginia and Ken- S. ucky. The mare was sired by ling Forest, a Marlboro horse of ^ ome renown, and was raised on ^ Ir. A J. C. Cottingham's planta- \ ion. Mr. Stanton says it did not ti ive him any trouble to raise the n aare. As a colt she was allowed e< D vraze around the farm and he n aid very little more attention to si ler than he would have given to a b earling. She is the picture of a Ci /ell-bred animal and would easily ai ell for $200 at her present age. ^ Ay. Jeseie Proctor, a neighbor of p dr. Stan'on's, has a home-raised \ nare mule three years old that tl imuc a tiup mis spring. X lie vv nule was raised. without much n rouble and would sell for $250. n dr. Stanton believes there is raon- a y in stock raisin? and he is think- b ng seriously of engaging in the h >usiness on a larger scale. His j uccesses so far have proved that a t could be made a profitable vin- b lustrv. o I 1 LI- .11 J 1. 11 -LL ! 0 ection. The Standard Warelouse company, we think, is renlering them some assistance to j: his end and out success in mak- ^ ng arrangements to offer money : it 6 per cent, on warehouse rexipts as compared with 8 last rear should be an argument of tome convincing force." URVEY1NG PARTY \ REACHES DILLON. tnd Leaves Eearly Next Morning for Albriton A Month Before Report will be Made to Governor. Prof. Chas. J. Colcock, of the niversity of South Carolina, who as appointed by Gov. Ansel to lake a test of the official survey f the county made by Messrs. tamby & Beatty, arrived in town unday morning: and registered at le Price Court Inn. Aecompanvlg Prof. Coicock were F. Horton olcock, Edward D. Smith, B. <). rooks and C. E. Murray of Colmbia, J. S. Dantzler of Elloree nd Howard Wiswall, Jr., of harleston. Messrs. Smith and rooks were with Messrs. Hamby nd Beatty on the original surev. The party spent the dav quietly t the hotel and left early next lorning for a point above Albriin where the Marlboro county nd North Carolina state line injrsect. Thev will run a line from lis Doint to Dillon, and thence own to big Pee Dee river. Next ley will run a line from the eas?rn extremity of the county from point beyond Nichols to the iver. The running of these nes will complete the survey. Of course Prof. Colcock had othing to say concerning the reults of his work so far. He will ive out nothing official until his sport has been made to the govrnor. He exacts to finish the urvey this week, but as he leaves n a uvowceKS vacation next week e will not make his calculations ntil ho returns to Columbia. It ill be about a month before his ?port is made to the governor. Prof. Colcoek is making the jrvey merely to test the length f certain lines alleged to be short, be impression seems to have otten out that he is making a urvev of the county, but this is a listake. After running ttie lines e can say that he does or does ot believe that Marion contains 00 square miles, according to the gures of Messrs. Hamby and ieatty. Of course there may be tree or four miles one way or the ther, but there is no probabilitv tat enough errors will be found o reduce Marion to less than 90G quare miles when it is recalled tiat Messrs. Kamby and Beatty threw in" five miles for good teasure when they made their fial calculations. ^ m Married at MontrealAn event of more than usual in;rest to Dillon society was the tarriage of Dr. C. Henslee and liss Jeanette McKenzie at Mon eat, N. C., last Wednesday afteroon. The ceremony was performi at the cottage of Mrs. D. N. liver where the bride, with her ister, Miss Isla McKenzie, has een spending the summer. No irds were issued and only the reltives of the bride and a few imitate friends of the groom were resent at the ceremony Dr. and Irs. Henslee left immediately for le groom s home in Gratiot, Ohio, rhere they will spend their honeytoon. The bride is a lady of tany graces of mind and person nd is greatly loved and admired y a large circle of friends. She as been a teacher in the Dillon n ? ? ? ? - ugn ocnooi wnere sne was deervedly popular with the studenl ody, the faculty and the patron1 f the school. The groom is a mar i sterling qualities and during hi: en year's residence here his nam< las been linked with every im oitanl movement looking to th< levelopment of Dillon. Dr. an< 4rs. Henslee will be at home V heif Dillon friends after Sept. 15 The Dillon Herald $1.50 a year ^ , \ RURAL CARRIER* ASSOCIATION I \ ~ President Micker Active in Work of the Organization. ?Congressman Aiken Commends Association. I Mr. T. 12. Wicker, president of Rural Letter Carriers Association of'this State, has been very active and exerting his best efforts to increase an interest in the association, and to enlist the co-operation ot all the letter carriers in the State. Mr. W.eker in order to secure, as far as possible, the attitude of the government officials and congressman towards the association, addressed a communication to Congressman Aiken, requesting his opinion of the subject. In reply. Mr. Wicker has received ' from Congressman Aiken, the following letter: Abbeville, S. C., Aug. 21, 1909. Mr. Thomas E. Wicker. Newberry. S. C. Dear Sir:?Your letter asking what I believed to be the attitude of the Government toward the rural carriers, and especially with reference to the carriers organization, was duly received. I am sure that the Government, and especially Congress, is disposed to do the best for the carriers that the circumstances each year will permit. I am also sure that the government does not look with disfavor upon the carriers' organization. It recognizes the right of the carrier to orcsent his cause in the most forceful and intelligent manner, and this he can do only through organization, bringing him in touch with his fellows. The carriers, in theii organized rrinnrit v ivin %rfi1ii?iKl? ni,l I to State and Federal authorities in stimulating road building and in [ making other suggestions in aid ot rural development. It is not the purpose of the organization to undertake t" enforce demands, but to present its requests intelligently and forcefully. , I speak as a friend of the rural carrier. My first speech in congress was in support of a bill, pro- : posing to pay rural carriers soipe thing like adequate compensation. It was one of the first of such bills j ; introduced; and from time to time | since, I have aided in the passage of similar measures still further 1 ' improving the carrier's condition. ' I have felt that the rural carrier < was not fairly treated when com- , pared with the city carrier, and I have felt no little pleasure in the 1 increasing recognition that he has ; found in congress. 1 do not lies- ' ; itate to say that the association has < given me valuable data; and except j for organization, 1 do not believe t that the data would have been * : easily obtainable. All carriers ' 1 share in the beneficial work of the 1 : organization; it seems but fair that , all should tinite in making it as ] effective as possible. Verv truly yours, ^ Wyatt Aiken. 1 As Regards Mr. Smith. t Dillon Herald ^ Some \\a(*ks ago you printed a piece in I regard to Wn . Smith of Mallory. f 1 want to say to your readers that ? if/was all stuff and not a word of t truth in it. 1 had a mnv of it hut 1 lost it, today a lady friend wrote < n;e, asking me to let her know, if it had not been for that I would I have never mentioned it for I was always taught when I heard nothing to say nothing. j I do not care to play leap frog r with a plug and feel like he had . better write the truth, than to write ' a false, the Mayor of Mallory will ? tell any one that there has been 110 1 trouble at that big city and if that f News and Courier writer will do t , his duty he will find it will pay I best to change his way of writing. Perhaps it would pay him to cut ( those weeds around the new house c and clean his finger iiail,s and let 1 the Mallory folks alone. : A FRIEND. m a < What People Say. 1 ; 1 What difference does it make to ' you what people say? You know the talse words from the true F rom day to day. ] I You know they'll criticise you sure, i If you arc bad or good and pure: *! It's easy for you to endure : i What people say. Don't let it drive you out of tq#ra, D I What people say. * | What people say is seldom true, Some one has got it in for you; ' Forget it, brother, P. D. y., . What people say. LAST RACES R BIG SUCCESS. Large Crowd of Visitors and T Home People See Some Fine Racing on the Dillon Track. Last Meet of the Season Passes Into History. Despite the busy season a large rowd witnessed the last meet of he Dillon Driving Association or the season 1909 at the track Tuesday afternoon. Those who ' ame from a distance to sec the 111 aces were not disappointed be- w :ause they saw some of the best P1 aeing and some of the fastest ime ever made in the history of ^ he Pee Dee Circuit. Although ^ he official time in the free for all ace was given out as 14 experienced race horse men say (j hat some of the winners could 01 lave gone faster. There was s' tothing tt? mar the pleasure of the NV >ccasion. The weather was ideal a with the exception of a little show- ** . r which came tip between the ^ heats but after it had passed away v the track was in better condition * than ever. M Marguerite, owned by L. Ed- ^ wards, came out first in the third e heat in the free for all with Alfon- a so a close second. Marguerite e won in the first two heats and it s was generally conceded that she v hail won the race, but Mr. Drake s protested the third ho*r on a { round that Mr Edwards who 11 was driving: Marguerite had r changed his position on the home P stretch which was against the ^ rules of the National Trotting b Association. The judges set Marguerite back, but the protest tvill S be carried to the National Trot- f< ting Association for decision, st Should the National Asstxiation p lecide in favoi of Marguerite this tl kV:ll give the game little mare two d successive victories o"er Alfonso B is she was *he winner at Darling- li ;on on August 25th. Sandy Hal tc :ame out third, with Albuta hold- st ng fourth place. Albuta did not o^ ;eem to be in good trim and was m eft in the rear in all three heats at Ditt one. S{ 2A8 class t Roy Wilkes first, w Helle of Darlington second, Sir v; rlenry third. v< 2.25 class: Hebe first, Dolly pi Jillard second, Bessie (lentry ti hird, Brownie fourth. st - ? M Looks like 6 jxr cent will be the e' Viliilor intoroct rofa in tViic Qtoto if rom now on?thanks to the a, ifforts of our good friend, and the . armer's friend, Col, T. B. S tacklouse, of the Standard Warehouse Company.?Orangeburg Sun tl Man it a Little Cuss. li Man is a little cuss and hasn't " ong to stay. He flies around and , nakes a fuss and then he makes ( iway. Some men imagine they ire great and try to tear up jack, w >ut each one meets the same old ^ ate, and treads the same old ^ rack. Great Caesar's dead and e' urned to clay, and so is Cicero. Al- a ixander has gone the way the rest ^ if us must go. The sages, poets, a neroes, all the men of the world, c< into an open grave must fall and :rumble back to earth. Then let's not join in the aflfray and struggle ' e like the deuce and agonize our e s lives a.way; for really what's the use? Let's live and love and sing: | a the while, and work some now and j r then, and give to every one a J smile that cheers the hearts of j men. And whether we are c crowned with flowers or chilled , with winter snows, with happi- j ness let's All the hours ere we < turn up our toes.?Exchange. * I The Dillon Herald Si.50 a year ? __ f ?EDY CREEK CHANGES HANDS ^ o he Famous Spring is Purchased by Dillon Men who will Develop It into a Popular Summer Resort. Its Health Giving Waters to be Bottled and Shipped Abroad. Next year Dillon will have a Summer Resort Right at Its Doors. <eedv Creek Springs have passed to the hands of Dillon men who ill begin at onee to develop the "operty and make it one ot the oiiiuui(.i icsun> in me Late. The purchasers are lessrs. W T. Bethea ami J. B. ibson who purchased the properr from Col. J. B. Edjjcrton, of oldsbora, and Mr. R. P. Hanier. f Hanier. The tract around the wrings contain 120 acres which 'ill be laid oil into pretty avenues nd shady walks. The underrowth w'U Ik* cut away, the rounds will he cleared and the rhole place w ill be yiven such a rrincfnrmfifir.n oc */? ? ileal location for a summer resort. iMie hotel building will be remedied, more rooms will be added nd the entire structure will l>e quipped with water works and ewer aire. A competent man yill have charge of it during the ummer season and guests will be ssared every comlort to be found n the modern resort designed for est and recreation. A dancing avillion will be erected and the otel management will employ a and during the season. The origin of Reedy Creek Springs dates back to a time be)re the war. Long before the truggle between the states the eople from miles around gathered tcre to spend their holidays and to rink of its health-giving waters, efore the hotel was built they ved in tents, but now in addition > the hotel building there are iveral cottages always filled to i-erllowing during the summer lonths. For diseases of the stnm:n, particularly indigestion, the >rings are without a superior anyhere and it is suprising that this aliiahli* nrnnprtv hat ti/!?? doped Ion# ago by some enterrising person who knew the virle of its waters. B" now it 5eins that its day has come and [essrs Bethea Gibson will do yerything in their power to make one of the most comfortable and ttractive watering places in the :ate. It is their intention to uild a clay road from Dillon to le Springs and make it a speedway for automobiles. Persons ving m Dillon can spend their ights at Reedy Greek and return > town the next morning in time >r the opening of business, "here is every reason why the rejrt should immediately l>eeome opular. There is not a resort in lis section of the state, the nearst one being in North Carolina, bout 120 miles from Dillon. The [erald will have more to say bout the developement of this exellent property later on. The jury of 12 men drawn sev 141 U4yr> rtjju iu a^piaisc iiic pi uj>rty in front of E. T. Elliott's table? for the use of the new ailroad met Monday afternoon ' nd after viewing the property nade the following appraisals: ohnson Moore $2,100; Penny Infram $1,100; Thos. Johnson $600. VII of this property belongs to col>red people who,' it is said, ate grilling to dispose of it at the appraised value in order to buy more choice locations further from the pusiness part of town. The billoq Herald $1.50 a yeat. .