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f)i(Ccn eratd. ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1909. VOL IS, NO. 41 RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT s IN THE PEE DEE. * f The Following from the" Charlotte Observer indi- c cates Great Railroad De- ? - velopment in the Pee Dee a Section. * The following from the Ra- e: leigh News and Observer will be tl good news to the people of Mar- o ion County : ii There has been no more impor- a tant railway development affecting t( Raleigh recently than the exten- n sion of the Raleigh and Southport e from Fayetteville to Hope Mills, a a ) distance of four miles. Although this is good news to Hope Mills, it is of great importance to Raleigh p and Fayetteville, on the one hand, and Lumberton, Marion, S. C., and Georgetown on the other. . At Hope Mills the Raleigh and ^ Southport will connect with the ^ Atlantic Coast Line, the Aberdeen p and Rockfish, and the Virginia, Carolina and Southern. g T* ? J " x-resiuem jonn A. Mills has g made arrangements for surveying tj a route for the extension of his j, road to Hope Mills, and it is ex- g pected that the work will be coin- e menced at an early date. The principal connection the Raleigh and Southport will make . at Hope Mills is with the Virginia, i and Carolina Southern, operating between Hope Mills and Lumber- . ton, and this road in turn connects 11 with the Raleigh and Charleston, * which runs between Lumberton and Marion, S. C. This will give ^ Raleigh a line directly to Marion, S. C., the Seaboard describing an acute angle, the apex of which is Hamlet, Marion and Raleigh ter- ^ minating the lines of the angle. ^ The new mnnwtinn will a considerable savins: in distance. ^ r The ultimate advantage of the ? improvement will be an air line from Raleigh to the harbors of a Georgetown, S. C., and Charles- y ton, S. C. Georgetown is being ^ developed as a seaport, new railroad enterprises being interested ^ in its development. Besides a new railroad that will give the Lumberton territory an excellent connection with Georgetown which is being built from the latter place, a j i.'.o - *? >u?< 10 uuw iu Luuni; ui construe* q tion from Gibson, N. C., to Dillon, p S. C., the road having already been completed from Gibson to ^ Clio, S. C. At Dillon it will be within a few miles of Marion, not a exceeding 20, which will connect t] with the Seaboard and the Virgin ia, Carolina and Southern, this k being the North & South Carolina S) railroad. Mr. W. R. Bonsai, the t( railroad promoter who is building g1 the new road has leased from the Seaboard Air Line the branch line u from Hamlet to Dillon, which will give a new and much shorter route from Hamlet to Marion. it was stated yesterday by a gentleman who has had long ex- a perience with railroads that it is v probable- that the Norfolk and k 4' Southern is back of Mr. Mills in ex- n tending his line from Fayetteville g 0 to Hope Mills and is supporting v, Jf t. Bonsai in constructing the line 01 Gibson to Dillon, with the p intent of taking the complete lines tl from Raleigh to Marion and from f< Hamlet to Dillon. Raleigh is the a nearest point to Marion on the en- v tire system of the Norfolk and h Southern. g Another well informed gentle- p man suggested that Messrs Arm- a . field, McLean and Blue, who built h the line from Hope Mills to Luir- a berton, were interested with Mr. o: Mills in his extension of the Ral- tl eigh and South port. The railroad g ft, officials decline to talk. m A gentleman predicted yesterday ? that within a few weeks after the n completion of the Raleigh and f< outhport extensions t o Hope [ills, arrangements will be pericted where by a through passener train will leave Raleigh every jorning and run through Fayetteille and Lumberton to Marion, S, . J'his train, he stated will be f great value to this city and tc 11 the territory between Raleigh nd Marion. It is a fine section nd this developement will make rich. At present, if a man wishs to go to Marion from Raleigh irough Fayejteville he has to gc a three different systems, chang lg cars three times, whereas ar rrangement may now be perfec ;d by which the three small roads lay run a through train from Ra1igh to Marion with advantage tc 11 three systems. WORK TO BEGIN SOONRaleigh, N. C., October 30.? 'res. John A. Mills, of the Ral igh & Southport Railway expect: rithin ten days to begin the grad ag of the seven-mile extension o is road from Fayetteville to Hopt lills. The survey is completed le says he will have trains ir peration to Hope Mills by earl] pring and that tfie Norfolk & iouthern Railway has no counec ion with his line, it having been atimated that thp Norfolk- A iouthern might purchase the Ral igh & Southport. Rev. mr. Wilson Installed. 'he Greensboro Patriot. Rev. J. A. Wilson was foimalb istalled as pastor of Alamanc< nd Bethel Presbyterian churche; iunday. Rev. Charles E. Hodgii reached the sermon and Mr. A 1. Scales delivered the charge a Uamance in the morning and ii he afternoon Rev. Melton Clarl reached the sermon and Mr Jcales delivered the charge a lethel. Both services were at ended by large congregations lev. Mr. Wilson came to Guilforc rom South Carolina a short tim< go and has made a most favor ble impression upon the peopl< rith whom he has come in con act. He is a splendid preache nd pastor and is popular witl lie members of his congregations Fire Destroys Gin. At an early hour Friday morn ig the ginnery of Mr. A. M. Mc Iregor on the Jnc. L. McLaurii lace near Reedy Creek was de troyed by fire. The origin of tin re is unknown, but the supposi on is that it was started by rat! s there is no reason to suspec lat it was the act of an incend iry. There were 18 bales ol Dtton and 1100 bushels of cottoi 2ed in the gin house which was i )tal ^oss. Mr. Gregor had no in urance on the ginnery or its con ;nts and the loss falls heavilj pon him. Injured by Gin. Mr. A. B. Allen, a young- mai bout 25 years of age, was th< ictim of a distressing accident ai lr. J. D. Coleman's gin Saturday lorning. Mr. Allen had lifted th< in breast to unchoke the sawi phen another party at work on th< ther side of the gin n.oved somt art of the machinery that tiltec tie gin breast back and when il sll it caught Mr. Allen's hanc nd arm against the rapidly re Diving saws, i ne young roan'i and and arm were terribly man led and it is feared that an am utation will be neccessary. Th< ccident was due in no way to car sssness on the part of Mr. Allen s is usually the case in -accident f this kind. He had lifted th< le gin breast to avoid any dan er of catching his hand in th< ftws. Mr. Allen is a son of Mr >. S. Allen of Dillon, and i .ephew of Mr. J no D. Cole mat or whom he was working. Our Couiitry Schools. There is no doubt that the country schools of Marion county have shown great progress in the last few years but at the same time when we compare the improvement made along this line with that made in farming apd other business interests, we find that it falls far short of what it should be. At present the schools have better teachers on the average and the terms are longer than they used to be, so in these two instances we are much better off, but we i have that same old school house plus a great deal of ware and tare. The way in which people in } general look upon the school has aiwaya uccu a mystery to me. its strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless true that most people ' regard money spent in schools as " lost money. 01 rather a kind of 5 charity. No one seems to realize " that a good school building and a f flourishing school is a valuable 1 advertisement for the community and as profitable an investment as 1 any he can make in real estate. ? The time is coming and is really c here when a good school adds twenty-five per cent, to the value 1 of the property in the community. c It is even the custom at present - for a renter to inquire very particularly as to the n ;arest school when he bargains for a tract oi l lonrl Tm T /I -? ? ~ ^ - I iuiiu ni iav.1 x ucaiu a lciuci j make this remark some time ago. i "I am not going: to stay on this f land next year b cause the schoo j is no good." ? As I have said it is a strange i thing to me that some people can not realize the value of a good t school, because they very readily i realize that they .must have good, t fertilizer to grow cotton, good . mules to work it and good stalls t in which to keep the mules; bul - when it comes to the school;"why . get the cheapest teacher possible 1 without regard to ability," and asi e to the school building "why thai - is a small matter." "There is 5 the same building my father wenl - to school at and I guess it is good r I Rnouch fnr mvrhilrlrpn " Aptnoll. i I have heard men boast that then school house has been there a hundred years. "Why, the Hon so and so went to school righl there." In other words the olc - dilapidated thing has become ar - historical relic, and there fort 1 should not be destroyed or aban doned. Of course the only thing 5 that will ever move a thing likt - this is, "fasting and prayer," 01 s time and erosion. "Eraphian i: t joined to his Idols, let him alone.' There is also another kind of i ^ school house that is "something 1 fierce" to move and this is the one 1 when the Trustees are willing te * admit that. "We do need a little * more room*' because Johnie caughi r pneumonia last term from sitting in the window, but the teachei said there was no room for him tc sit any where else. So we are just thinking of building an ell onto the old part. You know il ' will not cost more than a hundred dollars if the neighbors will help ' do the work." Just think of it! ' One hundred dollars to house the 1 children of the whole community i and no one of these men ever buill ; a stable for his mules that cheaply, ' This as a case for "Weeping anc t wailing and gnashing of teeth," * in my opinion. I have since October 1908, visitec * sixty-five schools in Marion County. Possibly halt of them are ir fair condition, but I have been ir i some that actually will not meas ure twelve by fifteen feet, no ceil ing, tne windows broken out, th< * doors hanging on one hinge, ab 5 solutely void of warmth or com " fort, with twenty-five childreT - huddled up around a broken dowt stove, shivering with the cold i There are some schools in which i don't believe any trustee has eve been. Now these schools are no ' always in poor communities, but ; are sometimes and very often found in neighborhoods well able to do better. However I am very proud to say that we really have a good many good school houses in the county and it is to be hoped that C we will have more in the near fu- . | ture. For the Legislature has , |* passed a law, allowing school districts to bond themselves, at a 1 very small cost to each in individ- J ual for building purposes. I visited a school hou;c some days ago in which, there was no black-board, no globe and n o maps, that were worth five cents; ( and to think that this teacher had been teaching in this school for ^ two years, is almost incredible T T - - nowever it is true and furthermore she is thought to be a good , ! teacher by her patrons. No teacher that is worth anything at all will stay two years in one school and not in some way provide these . very neccessarv articles. Very truly Joe I'. Lane. Teacher's Association. It has been the custom hereto- < fore to try to have nine meetings 1 ; during the year, but having so many meetings, always gives us i I a small crowd so this year we t have decided to have onl/ four meetings during the year, one at . each of the four towns in the ? county. Prof. W. W. Nickels has < I kindly consented to have the first one at Dillon on the third Satur. day in Novemberr. He has al. ready secured the speakers for the [ occasion. Prof. D. W. Daniel of r Clemson College and Dr. L. C. I Mitchell of University of Carol lina. ; These men are considered amongst t the most eminent educators and r speakers in the state and it is at ; some expense that we have securi ed their services, therefore we wish I to have a good crowd out to hear ; them. It is just as neccessarv to t have the trustees at these meetl ings as it is to have the teachers, \ r for teachers can do very little unr less they are backed by the trusi tees. We are going to try to , make the day both pleasant and < t profitable for every one present. ' I It is most certainly the duty of i every trustee and every teacher to j ; be present. Very truly Joe P. Lane. * i New County To Be Voted On. 1 r Marlboro Timea. \ * The dream for years of a large 1 number of people in upper Marion, ' i in the territory adjacent to Dillon, | T has been the establishment of a , ; new county with Dillon as the i > county seat. Several elections t ! have hi-ftn held hut tho nrnnn -.itinn ) t defeated. Recently the Dillon ( r people have gone over the situa- ( r tion and determined that they had ( > sufficient strength to carry the s i election, were in the act of securl ing another election, when the old * t count people disputed the survey of ! the new county advocates, claim- ? } ing that they did not have sufficient territory to comply with the ' legal requirements for a new ' county and secured a new survey. : This survey shows that the terri tory is amply sufficient to meet I all requirements and an election has been asked for and will be ordered. The election promises I to be a hot one but will more than ' likely be successful and we shall 1 see Marion divided. i m m iney All uwcd mm. This ones comes from Missouri, j where one editor "showed" them I why: t "An evangelist asked all the 1 j men present who were honest and j j paid their debts to stand up. All ? arose but one. He said he was'c the local editor and couldn't pay,' * his debts because the men stand- s r ing were his deliquent subscri- ^ it bers."?Atlanta Constitution. \ s i.-artiiBi 'dlhv -it?... .... a. THE THINGS MEN DO. lost Important Results of Life Often Merely Incidental. The most ini[>ortant results of nir lives are often those which we hink of as merely incidental, if, ndeed we notice them at all. Men ?ave slaved oh, year after year, >erfecting a piece of machinery vhich they dreamed would revoutionize the factories of the world. )ne day they stumbled, seemingly, m a simple contrivance that they bought quite unimportant, but hat trivial device has later been counted by the world as the main vork of their lives. Men are nearly always mistaken n the relative estimates they put )n different parts of their work. This is often seen in reading the lives of literary workers. The /olume or poem which they held :o be their masterpiece has. not nfreuqently, received scant attention at the hands of competent judges while verses they wrote perhaps in some moment of lei sure have spoken to men's hearts andean never die. George Math kison wrote many devotional ant theological books, each of whicl requiied hard toil to perfect.. On< evening after a time of great men tal suffering, he produced in fivi minutes a little poem that is in thi hym-books of the world just as h? wrote it, save for the subsequen change of one word. If when h< wrote these verses, he had beei asked what he considered his mos important contribution to the re ligious thought of his time, h< would probably have pointed t< one of his valuable volumes; but while his "Portraits of Christ' may be forgotten, wherever mei and women have suffered anc found companionship and strengtl in Christ, there will they sing, "C love that will not let me go." Cardinal Newman was one o the great religious controversa lists of his time, and wrote man) learned volumes. Who readi those now? He wrote one little hymn, "Lead Kindly Light," and thought it was one of the smallest in compass of any of his works il will live to inspire and cheer men wherever the soul longs for God. Thomas Ken was a prominent wr'ter of the 17th century. Few today even know that he published a book. He wrote four lines, beginning, "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow," and millions of hearts each week come near to God in those familiar lines. The great work of our lives, :hat which will bear fruit after we nave been forgotten, will more ;han likely be one of the things h-it we do almost, if not quite, inconseiously. The task we consider the very center of our lives nay seem to accomplish no par:icular good, but some little forgotten kindness will live in another life forever. That the enduring results of >ur life will probably be what we :onsider its by-products is on salve for the lazy man who says, 'What use then, for me to keep >n in my particular line? If I ever iccomplish anything, it will more han likely be something I never limed to do." On the contrary, his very fact should call every me of us to honest, hearty toil; or it is only in the pathway of luty well done that anything vorth while is ever accomplished. Vlatheson wrote his poem in a few ninutes, but if he had not trained lis mind and heart by long year >f hard, painstaking toil he never *>uld have given the world these mmortal lines. Perhaps the nachinery we perfect through nany weary months may never iccomplish what we confidently ;xpect of it, but, if we aue bidden n hnild if let n?t dn if at anv #v-wot ind let it be finished ' 'as in lhe freat Taskmaster's eye." Luck las nothing: to do with deciding: he rewards that come frsm God's lands. He never disappoints the >atient plodder, and never through ill eternity will he give his "Well lone" to the one who shirked his 'assignment" and hoped that tome chance would bring returns vithout the expenditure of the rery best that God had given him. | GREAT FALL MEET AT DILLON NOV. 18th. Dillon Driving Association Announces Last Great Races of the Season for Nov. 18th. Notable Hor ses to Participate in the Races. The last great meet of the Dillon Driving Association is announced for November 18th. This will be the last meet of the Association for the season 1909 and every effort is being made by the Association to make it the most notable event in the history of the Association. In addition to quite a number of horses well-known in ; the Pee Dee Circuit there will be 1 entered on this occasion many ; famous horses of the Virginia Carolina Circuit and visitors to t Dillon that day will have an oppor, tunity to sec some exceptionally - fine races. ? Mr. R. E. Biggs, of Baltimore, - a member of the National TrotI ting: Association, will be the offii cial starter, and Mr. F. Covington, ; another member of the National - Association will be the presiding ? judges. These gentlemen have e been acting: in this capacif -> ??? ' (.<>2 5 the Virginia-Carolina Circu N.tznrt ing the past summer and fal 11 ; ' ;>r within e will sever their connection nly i the circuit when it ends at Augusta, t Ga., on the 12th. instant. As these horses will be shipped e back north from Augusta the mand agement of the Dillon Arsocia, tion has arranged with Messrs. ' Covington and Bigg?; to drop l these horses off at Dillon and the I people of the Pee Dee will have l an opportunity to see the grreat) est field of horses that has ever been brought south. In the 2.22 t class the following horses are ex pected' r Anrelia, Edge Hill Pirate, ; School Boy, Lady Halifax, Lit, s Eudora, Pred Pate hen, Pluto, I Nellie McZens. In the 2.17 class, ' King Kelly, Trilby M., CarrieS., Buck, Paul. Curzondia, Helen Trix, Ella Miller, Bessie Gentry, ; Dollie Dillard. Unsually large purses had tc be offered to attract such an excellent string of horses that have been making fine records all over Virginia and the Carolinas but the management of the local Association feel confident that the attendance on the 18th. will fully justify the large expense they have involved in order to give the people of Dillon and surrounding country 1 one of the best meets ever held in South Carolina. Lift efJaron far Fall term #1 Cost. i P. C. White LeGette R. W. Fenegan Manning T M r- 1- - ? ? vwuuiy Key es ? A. J. C. (Nottingham Dillon W. H. Swintz. Brittons-Neck J. C. Watson Marion J. O. Jones Hillsboro J. R. Love Latta B. G. Smith Reaves Ferd C. Rogers Hillsboro W. D. Gaddy B. B. Elvington " L. A. Manning Harleesville Hiniard Rogers Hillsboro E. C. Allen T J. A. B. LeGette Bethea L. B. Fort Reaves C. W. Gordon " H. K. (Nottingham Dilkm E. B. Berry H. E. K. Smith H. W. Weatherford Kir err D. P. Gibson LeGette W. W. Hucks Brittow-Nock Murray Hayes Manning. A- R. Lane T. L. Dill w2? W. M. Rouse S. W. Sterols . Cerrr.?*u,el ] w W?rttariy Harllecsvilir J. W. Hargrove Walw* C. J. McDonald R. O. Williams WoodWrv Rowland W. W. CamteWi Pl^ffi** H?rthW?aie I. P. Stackhouse Moody vl; -rte ijsSj