The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, December 02, 1909, Image 1
F- Dittoti Dferath.
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>t, > ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROUNA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1309. VOL. 15, NO. 44
SHOCKING TRAGEDY
NEAR LITTLE ROCK.
H
1 While Oat Hunting Boy
Slow* the Top of Another'*
Head Off. An Ugly
Looking Affair.
With a breach-loading shot-gun
loaded with No. 5 squirrel shot,
John Tredwell, a white boy 16
years old, bred a charge into the
head of Wade Tucker, also white
and aged about 16 years, on the
plantation of Mr. A. J. C. Cottingham
near Little Rock Monday
afternoon, that will doubtless
prove fatal.
The boys were out hunting and
were accompanied by seyeral negroes.
There seems to have beer
no motive for the shooting. The
Tredwell boy does net bear a good
reputation and it is alleged that he
pointed the gun at young: Tuckei
and told him t o "look out."
Young: Tucker told Tredwell tc
be careful, but at that raomenl
the gmn fired and the entire charge
of shot took effect in Youcg
Tucker's head, inflicting: a wound
that the physicians say will prove
fatal.
The scene of the shooting: was
in the branch back of Mrs. Lottie
Stackhouse's plantation. The
wounded boy w as carried home as
quickly as possible and medical
aid was summoned but the physiu
cians say there is no hope of savJ'
. ing the young fellow's life.
# There had been no previous
difficulty between the bovs and il
is believed the shooting was due
> > to gross carelessness or criminal
' disregard of human life on .thfl
of the Tredwell boy. Tred"
#clt fled immediately after the
dhpftting and has not yet beer
'4^ ^sicker is a son of Mr. John D,
l Tnmf and is a hard-working:, in
dnstrious boy.
V TitC PALMETTO LIMITED."
All up and down the line, fron
I Fayetteville to Charleston, comes
a roar of protest against the Coasi
\ Line's new taain, the "Palmetto
l Limited." The people do not like
the looks of the handsome ne w
) train and thev like its schedule
I still less. The Palmetto Limitec
has not been on time a single daj
Y since it was put on, the mails havt
been late, express is always be
hind time and the people are in i
bad humor. Such are the report;
in the newspapers. Now there i;
really nothing wrong about the
"Palmetto Limited?' but its sched
ule. So far as equipment is con
cerned it is just what the traveling
( public has needed. But the mis
take the Coast Line is making: is
in bunchinir its trains. Dillon
has excellent railroad facilities and
- does not feel the indbnveniences
of the poor schedules on which the
"Palmetto limited" runs, bul
^ there are other towns up and down
~4 the road that have to depend on
the new train largely to get in and
out aad if the train is thiee 01
' fbar/hours late all they can do is
to wait patiently until the train
1 comes along. Now the best way
} to remedy these matters and tc
\ put the travelling public in a good
| ( humor once more is for the Coast
Line to make a mid-day train of
the "Palmetto Limited" and run
I it on a fast schedule like 82 and
85 are Tun on?that is stopping
only atfthe largef1 towns. Then
f'fi 1 *?'the people hack the little local
aV Jpodation train that used to
rtm between Fayetteville and
kt| Charleston. This train will ac
comodate the limited travel in the
smaller towns. One of the Coast
||J Line's greatest needs is a midday
train. It has plenty of trains
I now but they are run too close to
gather. By replacing the old
Z trains on the old schedules and
malrifcg the "Palmetto Limited"
jpJ *'.k midday train, with stops onlv at
1 fbe larger towns, the Coast Lfqfe
' wiil have solved the problem ol
II transportation over its lines for
1 some time to cpme. The Herald
ft- * "
1
metto Limited" taken off. It is |
just the kind of train the public
needs, but put the little accomodation
back on for those who do f
not like the looks and size of the
new train. Time is too valuable
, to compel a business man to travel
, to Charleston o r Columbia or t<
Augusta on a slow local train, a
anyway, and the "Palmetto Lim- d
ited" can be used exclusively by ?
the man who has something to s
, do, and the local can be used by I
! the class that likes to travel for t
1 the fun of it. But don't take off a
the "Palmetto Limited.'* It is c
, just the train the public needs, t
but it ought to be put on a new i
schedule. v
Card of Thanks.
| Through the columns of The (
Herald we desire to return our r
. warmest thanks to the citizens of e
this community for the kindness r
and sympathy extended to us dur- t
ing the sickness and death of our r
; baby child While our house now F
I has a vacant chair, yet as we re- *
> fleet upon the many deeds of sym- r
pathy and love of the citizens of s
1 Dillon, it gives a silver lining to
| the dark cloud left by death. May
; God's richest blessings rest upon j
1 each of them. Respectfully, t
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clark. t
Dennison's gilt price tickets
i (large sizes) at the Herald Book ?
t Store. ?
M .. ~ vJ1
jy nuiu^tri o( election. \^S
'' Pursuant to the proclamation of ^
! the Governor of the State already c
1 published" notice is hereby given c
that an election upon the question \
> of creating a New County out of j
the upper portion of Marion County,
and also upon the question of ?
name and County Seat of the same, 1
will be held on the 14th. day of i
December, 1909, in the polling c
precincts and at the voting places s
1 prescribed by law, in the County .
' of Marion; said polling precincts
t and voting places being within the *
) area cut off to form the proposed S
New County, for the purpose of ^
' conducting said election, the fol- ^
r lowing managers have been ap5
pointed for the various precincts c
1 and polling places1
r Frank Bailey . ) c
, W. A. Blizzard - > Dillon j
T. S. Richburg ,
G. D. Barlow ) ?
1 C. C. Lovell Maple Mill {
5 H. V. Deaver )
5 L. B. Alford )
i Murray Hayes / Campbells
- Otis M. Page ) Bridge I
. Steve Stephens ^ ^
r J. 1. Carmichael >-Bermuda 1
R. M. Oliver ]
Alb.J.Carmichael ^ i
' Frank Mclntyre fHamer
1 J. R. Regan j
I D. D. Mclnnis 1
i Daniel Alford Mudson
> R. M. Jackson J ?
J. W. Hamer ^1 ?
J. S. Thompson fLittle Rock t
T- L. Manning J ?
| W. B. Allen ) t
[ D. McL. Bethea \ Centerville ?
' J. W. Nicholson
i E. Lide Berry
i J. Rich Hayes Fores
. John D- Coleman
, A. S. Manning
E. B. Berry Latta
E. C. Allen
; S. S. Turbeville
Lamar Watson Gin-House *
i J. F. Bethea / t
1 Rhfoid B. Rogers J
Thos. E. Fore Fork \
Oliver Carmichael ^
Wra. T. Moody ?
Edward Hill Kemper
1 R. K. Hayes
The managers hereby appointed v
and herein named will call and get 1
i the ballot boxes and ballots and all 1
necessary papers pertaining to the \
. proper conduct ot said election. s
These will be obtained upon ap'
plication to John C. Sellers, Sel- 1
lers, S. C. W. L. Hewitt, *
1 \ John C. Sellers, i
\ \ S. W. Smith. <
Commissioners of Election. .
R. P. Porter. Clerk.
Ballot boxes to be returned to }
P. Porter, Marion, S-*C.
A full line of gold paper for 1
decorations just received at the <
Herald Book Store. (
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WASHINGTON LETTER. j!
I i
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lews from Our Busy Cap- 1
ital.
The trusts appear to have en- ;
ered on hard lines. The Stand- t
rd Oil Trust has been ordered to
lissolve. A jail sentence is in
he air over the managers of the ]
ugar trust. The leaders of the (
-alx>r trust have been sentenced <
o terms in jail. The Food trusts |
nd the medicine trusts have been ,
>r arc being disciplined and life j
inder anti-trust conditions prom- |
ses to be wholesomer and better ,
vorth living. !
The Editor of the Louisville !
Courier Journal (we believe his
lame is wauerson; nas just landid
from a vacation in Europe and
nade the startling announcement
hat there is afoot a plan to 1
nake Theodore Roosevelt next
resident. If he had remained in
America hemight have known that
lothing else has been expected
ince March the fourth.
The influences of Pinchot and
Sallinger in the same administraion
are about as incompatible as
he services of God and Mammon.
They represent the Antipodes of
idtninistrative management ind
lim. It is difficult to see how
President Taft can carry out the
^ooseveltian policy of conservation
with Sallinger as Secretary
>f the Interior and it will also be
lifficult for him to find a man so
veil equipped by taste and experience
and so inspired by enthusiism
preservation of the national
esources as Gifford Pinchot. He
s much better known and esteemid
for his initiative and activity as
i conservator than any man in the
Jnited States. It was expected
hat he would be appointed as
secretary of the Interior and it
vas never imagined that there
vould be appointed a Cabinet
>fficer out of harmony with the
nan with whom Roosevelt was
ionspiciously proud to be a coadutor.
That most distinguished and
itrenuous of Americans is workng
off his nervous energy in the
vilds of Africa. He could not
lave taken a wiser course. Had
le remained in this country it
vould have been impossible for
lim to have found seclusion.
Cnowing this he has fled to the
\ntipodes and plunged into the
lark Continent. Nothing short
1 '
? nugicss icicklapny, UIIQ II1CTC
s no receiving station in a thousind
miles of him, can advise him
ibout the Pinchot-Balling:er conroversy.
He will know it only
is ancient history when he reurns
to America. If he were ,
lere he could not keep out of it (
ind there is no question as to the
side he would take. ,
i
It took years of agitation and 1
nany campaigns of education to
substitute civil service reform for 1
he old spoils and influence sys- <
em. Political propagfandism in
Republics is slow, for the evils to '
>e uprooted have also their propagators.
Possession it has been
laid ' is riinp r?r?intc in la\?r " It
s humiliating1 to know that notvithstanding
our wealth and progress
we are in many respects be- <
lind the civilized countries of the
vorld and that even some of the
lemi-civilized countries arc in
idvance of us. How long, O,
low long will the four leading ex
>ress companies of the United
states be permitted to stand in the
vay of such a simple self evident
tbcescity as a Parcels Post. In all
Tie large Post Offices of the coun:ry
there are notices to the effect |
hat packages may be sent by par- (
:els post to London, Paris, BeiMn, '
3airo, Bombay, Calcutta and a
I
\ f
t>V.x * C-fi/'-n T Vs- *, 4 ^
liuulred other remote places. !?;:
t is well known that the sarr.
>aekages cannot be >ctit ti< tu
tVashincton to Baltimore a trip >f
ortv miles made in one h?-nr \:ept
through the cmployin*:tt < !
in express company at inner, more
ltan the postal rates.
The capital of the United States
lias the largest negro population
jf any city in the world. N- i
~airo, in Northern Africa or Tier
stictoo in Central Africa nor am)thcr
collection of houses or hu: has
a large population of blaek- as
has Washington Hilt worse then
this the Washington blacks ;r.
the most degraded, degenerate,
and it is stated that 111 four verand
six months vessels will : a
from ocean to ocean. The ex t
vation could be completed in t
years but it fcill take long-. r that
that time to build the inim^ns
datr^xnd locks. Vessels o. largtonnage
are already using parts n
the canal.
The present President of iIk
United .States as well as his predecessor
is an equestrian. Mr
Taft rides a bigger horse than die
President Roosevelt and there i>
good reason for it. There is ra
precedent for the prodigous size
of both horse and rider except it
the equestrian statue of <>encra
Winficld Scott at the intcrsectior
of Sixteenth Street and Massachusetts
Avenue.
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COTTON AND GOLD.
Colnmhia State.
The census report of cot tor
ginned to November 14. shows:
falling off of a million and a hall
bales compared with the quantitj
ginned at the corresponding tinu
last year.
At the same time last year
when the production was the rec
ord of 13,825,000 bales, 75.3 pel
cent, of the crop had been ginned
If the same were true of this crop
the yield would be about 11,150,
D00. However, if the proportior
of decrease is maintained for tin
balance of the 26.7 per cent., tin
present crop will be only about 2,
050,000 bales short of last year
indicating a yield of 11,775,00(
bales.
What South Carolinians have
keener interest in is the fact thai
up to November 14. there had
been ginned in the State 913,40/
bales, against 938,926 at the same
date last year. If that represented
75 per cent, of the product, the
South Carolina crop will be aboul
1,200,000 bales.
Comprehend the significance ol
those figures' They mean thai
the South {Carolina farmers,
averaging Intents for their cotton
and selling 90 per cent, of theii
seed, will get ninety million dollars?or
thirty million dollar?
more than a million-bale cror
would have brought if sold for ten
cents. The like of such prosper
ity was never known before.
* < * % V
trifling and criminally disposed
lot of negroes ever' assembled.
They are refugees from Virgin: ?.
Carolina and Maryland during i'k
ivnr of thp rlpcpntwl intL- i
Washington has a reputation !< :
charitable activity. They It:--.-e
come here to be fed and take r
care of. They are atllicted will
the microbe of laziness ami i;.
efficiency. They arc diseased am
dissipated. In 110 other city ear
be seen so many ragamuffin Aft
cans driving two do'dar shelve
horses to rickety thii (ioi'.ar w.i\
ons and the contrast of these wi'.i
a back ground of marble il.ievs ipainfully
grotesque.
Encouraging news units fr n
the Panama Canal. Tito cost >.
is now definitely known wii! !>
in round numbers, three lumdrn
and seventy five millions of ti ?lla:
V.U. II I > . I lilic I ' t I i I' , I ? 11 v.- J. i 41 I.I V I
one say a word detriment.: to tin ;
i new c?>11111 y. Many < it ih? w!i?? '
wiTc uvoiM' to it arc now its]
stall nchest .supi???rtcrs, ami is' :t f
became necessary t.<> a;.;"ain vote mi
the subject the verdict ill bcha.lt'm |
the new county would be nio?v i
pronounced than be to re. There J
is hardly a man who livis in the j
! county that will not ad. in it 'hat the!
, new order ot' tilings pleas. > ban j
. most.
' "The county now has a nice
court house, an excellent i il
building, a county home a id farm,
road implements, teams, etc.. and
everything has been paid for since
the creation of the countv ami tintaxes
have steadily dcercas. d.
!" 'The new cotiii'j. iu- serw d to
. bring the pcoj le elos tether.
It has been an educator to the
people. Scares of pi > ie who h d
not seen a court house r h ar . a
1 legal 'argument because of the (lis
' tance to their court h< c. have
; had this experience sin t:a ere.
ation of the county.
"These are some > f t'-e facts
about the new cor. . > ? . Ck. rpkec.
' As a matter of fact in- <>kl county
seats were oppos d < it> form.:
? t'on, but that < p;> .si:i->n was has: d
t upon rronc:-a ;
Neither Sparta.11 >11 I . n
York has suffered i.e . u-e of 'the
creation of Chen k.-o. 1 t nn\
have been the natural o-d.-r of
1 things, but-the tjuth ; - ti.it Cm-. .
counties have pnVyres a-d . wa
' more rapidly th:** ;lu-v .1 1 bef.ue,
"We know n<>C 1 ,< . 1
d'tions surnni hn Gaston and
f Cleveland, bur our experience is
t that small count:-s, judiciously
managed, a;e best for all concerned."
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Dennison's wax seals at the
. Herald Book Store.
Gold and silver tinsels, festoons
1 and mica snow, just the thing lor
holiday decorations, at the diet aid
Book Store.#
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HOW CHEROKEE
HAS PROSPERED.
Taxes are Lower Since New
County has been Formed
and the Pe >p!e are Happy,
Prosperous and Contented.
A Strong Argument
for Smaller Counties.
l*lvrnl:v.r, > >!' tin- richest
counti'-s : i tin* state w.i tonne*!
in IS4'/. TheA: w. - str.>:ye o-.po
sitioii to the tofinati* n >t CJuvo j
kcc* ' hie <>i tlic elih f argumentsI
against the formation -a' Cherokee j
was tiie "tax are.anient." and t)l< i
<till county ]>c ipk used it there!
ills; like it i-- i> ir.e" tie- in Vai ti
. today. !>ut as Che ) leraiu has j
sad, time and ne i't. there is nothing
in the "tax i' -.invent" when j
you jjet down to th h<?tt<>tn of it. It i
1 has been used b\ tin - op-.. ;ition inj
i every new county movement, but I
, theexperience of the : v. conn- !
ties has lieen that taxc were low-l
e?" alter the anr.. w : ir.iie-1. !
The fo!i?-v.ir. i- taken :>:n n
I issue o i the ?iaenev Lec.tv. r.
. prime*! Jan. i. !'"> >. iusi i\i
ars . hcrofcec utnty was
t"i i v 11:
i '.'S x vars h: ve passv i since
the ' riu .:ion ot' Cherok-'i- c- ill)'. ,
and what is ih- at:i- "i . . iir-'
Tiie . n e . nt n- ' -r. wa .
that t :: uion. An examination 1
, of ; , r. i ft is s-M i-.Vs that taxe
have ivi 11 in e.crv section
t . ....
ir )- \ . i c<>i:ir. . 1 n<
. ...rv c< ' *?. * ho p ?r- 1
mati?in w.i 7 : !' . now i> i
ni!'.--. T:i:< is d to tin ' .mi:
qualifications of the gentlemen
\v ho liave e<>nip is i tlu b ?ard : I
county comm.-si tie'- ar.-i tlu- m
pervisors, X 1.'. uulj? ?ii
V. Whc'ehcl. liei'orc the creation
of the new count .i n< unt o{ !
woi done on \ j d > I ;
ih portions t ' t.ic old ueti< 1
that now compose Cher kiv was
l very meagre. Last war >7.''as. j
f?5 was spent the bridges ai dj
public highways of tiic county.
Ti'is does not neliulc ait> m ?;u \
. paid on the iron bride across
It road river. The county is en
tii'vly out ol ?.ci# cmc p' lor tlu-1
railroad liotids ini r:t< d from id*, i
1 old counties .li d : In e:e h iu.
; retired .i .act as tlic> in.e ire.
} 'The attitude of those who wt re
opposed to the new county iias
been almost ifijo i-ntiieic chany
I ...I i. : .
R. P. HAM?R
ON NEW COUNTY.
Confidently Expects the New County to
Win.
AlL FAMILY UIFFERENCES hakmonIZED
^
No Contentions That will Divert the
People From the Main issue.
Flop-lid Tillli >.
I Inn. R. I'. I lamer, one of the
members ??t the legislature from
Marion was in the city last night
tvturnin-.. h one from a visit to his
plantation in Richland county.
Mr. Hauler says that he ,is confiilent
tiiat the new county fight
will win in Marion county
that h e counts o n a three
fourti s vote i n favor of the
out. i-o say< that the growth of
ti - town '"eprosentcd in the pronew
county has increased
w<?" iert'ullv m the years that have
pa- e?i ditee the last election, and
the '.i ?,' it ion of Latta and other
lo i ( .operate which would
lite before practically
n. ; tv >ue? ess of the move
UlClli .
i ! especially commended the
mailt' by the people of
i.i' k r. i iv the county seat,
bee : . e injured the voter of
? ;: public buildings with
?,: an , tax. He c;ills attent
n the f.wt that the new county
o, ! "ore e, which had a courti
hp a . i.iil in every way suitable
ami > " - table, issued bords for
oak ooo to build them. Tlie
icier Messrs. I )ilion on the same
iinewa^ti i.elyard a|ipreciated and
al. i . . low feast in that section
i. there is no liyht over any
matter, within the family, the
whole .font is presented in a battle
for the new county, county seat,
name ami everything else is wide
open, the best place wins and
evc; v!> ly is willing to let it win.
T . e- .arthouse will be established
vis level* :he greatest number o
po-pie want it. and they ean cal.
' whatever they want to eall it.
Mr I lamer says that the farmr
in . 1 -.at section are in the very
best condition. A jjreat deal of
.i.tt ui is held here and there,
iiiiittyh the most of it has been
marketed, the debts of the country
paid and a surplus on hand. The
construction o f new railroads
promises an era of development
unnrcedented and this encourages
the farmers t<? more diversified .
agriculture. '
As to the matter of taxation, he i
calls attention to the fact that
Florence, the tax levy i s as
low as any in the state, while
it takes, a very considerable levy
to support the government and
?rk of old Marion. He feels
:re that the new county between
the two Fee I)ee Rivers will
be able to run on a small levy,
the people are very largely of
Scotch descent and not inclined
to spend money for the cake of
spending it or for show.
The Dillon Herald #1.50 a year.
?
Mr II. M. Pemberton, advert
is in 4' manager for the great Kimi?a!l
Piano Co., has iust closed out
tin* last ?-f a solid carload of these
Icbratcd Pianos, shipped here
i<>r advertising purposes, this car
contained about twenty (20) in>;rrit
.* its, and were quickly tak?.
p m iiie of our most prominent
eii-'-us tlmmghout the county,
who were quick to appreciate the
great money-saving opportunity
in which to purchase a high-grade
piano like the Kimball?the prices
being extremely low for such a
high-grade instrument.?Laurir
burg Kxchange. Mr. Pembertt g
will lx* in Dillon for the next
davs with a lot of Kimball P:
see his ad. elsewhere. k