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Iter ai d Thursday./ afCo. Mrs. M. L. (fcalloway. has returnia n ed from a pleasluit viait to relative! ' S in MannlnK- \ J Mr. Tom PaVham and family Jsith spent yesterday Jin Bennettaville ^ Mr. Parham haa k new touring car. HA .} Mrs. S. D. Rogers spent a few ^9 K?,e dayr. not long wo with her daugh I ter, Mrs. C. C. Richardson. of Ivakt i. |Va.. City. V Cor1 V, llingliam. Ilriefs. s? . As Sunday was Vucli a beautiful iA Lank warni da>' there was a very good U*7 crowd visiting Bingham and Reedj f6, | Creek Springs. f latta, Mr. C. A. Roach's grandmother ?t of1 Mrs. Roach, of Dunn, N. C. is visi itinp him this w^ek. J U- 117- It -A J ? " I. mr. naikvr itIUl .MISS MKIHCII "v j Gadfly, of Catta, scent Sunday in town with friends. \ ; My L**e Allen ap4nt Sunday in >ent town with Krnest Frirham. vlth Mr. T. M. Bethei/ who holds a position with W. Mr. Parham. wenl to L<attu Saturday/on business. day T. C. Parham ?tnd family drovt ntl" through town Sunday in a Fort touring car on tnhir way to Ben Ives A great many froiu\ here attendee the State Fair. Mr. In. W. Causoi purchased a very finef trotting hors< 'or~ at the Fair grounds/ [ope \fr. Carter, of l/iilon. who rep with i-cnents the Geo. d[ Witt Shoe Co. of I.ynchburg, Va.. N^as in Binghau Bnd- to-day selling W. W. yarham a nev iter, of shoes for J his Mallorj j i ?tore Mr. Parham eapects to hav< ight Mallory store open for businesi b> the first of Ja/iuury. at Friends ofD r. Ti C. McSwain ex [ter- pert him back from^Barnwell Tues end-(day. The doctor has a very flm plantation at Barnwell, consisting and ?' al,out a thirty-five horse fern Ya and this time of thrf year he is kepi cjty , very busy looking^ after his farmi "jut Bingham and other places. We rqsret very m\ich the death ura- i of Mrs. ^^m. Gilbert which oc y at | currcd Sunday afternoon at 2:3( tider o'clock. 8he was ill only three : days. The renialns\were laid tc iddv ' rert at 1-116 McI-,eod cemetery. W? it toirx,end to the fara,1y our deepest Col-1 As the contest enters upon th% and | final round the efforts of the conand | testants and the interest of theii supporters grow greater and greatiday ei The work do&e from now or Miss wl11 determine veryNlargely who will ftt be the winner of th0 piano and ttu ! : sons why this Is true, the chief ol \ school ; which Is that the people in general Iber fell are just beginning to realise ho* l-a* car- ! vfery close and exciting the contest ry. Col- is becoming. For awhile it looked J injured a* though it would be a walk-away hder an for one contestant. But in the pasl I the ex- week matters have takeu a sudden change and it has set every on? f , . . guessing as to who will be the sucR r oessful one. And there will b? 1th *?me mor* surprises sprung before a tr* i .a *onK bjr contestants who art wSl . " now lower down in the list ol '1# a?? standing. They ha^e been workJ?\ "n h ing steadily, but quietly. <*#> ing uj their votes in order that their opo attend- pouents might be caught napping ast week If some of the present leaders dc IcLaurin, not look out sharj)jy, these quiet - 4 >11 Davis, ones will give them ~an unpleasa.nl M , J. B. J?|[ about the last of Novemtiiei JwlL > Dwight, when the votes are counted. Bettei >ve, Mr. not -lose any time in getting it es Louise | those subs< .ulons promised t< I i ?ora Ben-! you Miss T ders, for "A bird it 9 I Mis. A. i the Land i? < rth two in the bush.' j It will b- no use after the cou.... i test is ?> to count up the subjm.. P i , ! STiptioi youv might have gotten 9HH ron r?'? : Bettei get them, now, then you wil JBt 'u| ' ; have no vain regrets when the priz [i jjj achot <l' are awar<*e<^ a gBFhTCrt; M* stira,,?'' f,w,ompm,nJSlK /the after- I Marlboro Times. ! B eleven in are hearipg strange report! jJm I jH oor- I 'torn up on th^ old "Wire Road' near Goodwin's upper mill, and th? j remarkable co-incident is that thii ^BSfV 1 ! last wonderful biatura 1 curoslty ii 1 jMias Delia Bear wbere the\ big fish jumped liuda> by1 fr<>m th? burning stump one milt ?9 night the ! 'rom the wate>" NA young gentleUows and man from town was In the Boy kin ? b old time ! la*t Sunday; and he stated n long ^he Times reporter that there i was much Interest and surprise atwas in j tached to the report, and that many *tSI8 j people had visited the place and ^ nal"" visited I w?**e more confounded at what they : witnesaed. It is said that near the Lumberton, I old mill on the Wire road in I Brightavllle townahin unit thn? tnr .^"lu cat Ion Joe , the past week ly^onstant lncessai\t JD)*flon Sunday. **aln had been falling on a small ^^jlhered their i apace of ground, only a few feet in . p#k>*Jn was made ; diameter. At nrst very little credence was attached to the rumor, .^yHut over in , but when prominent citizens reportor other ed that they had' seen it, and that j^Salf over. i It was a fact, of 'course interest bein this sec-lcr.me aroused. When such men as J. M. Hunsuckei4, L. D. Stubbs and Mallory,. Capt. T. P. Stubbs declare that Bnday last. such a phenomenon exists, that they jSm Simon. "have visited the spot aud have seen "SH- the rain falling, then] the most skeptical must believe. And no longer lost a very j doubt. Only last a.eek at Heplin, The horse Ala., a similar occurrence attracted 01MI about dark wide attention and scientists ore at >BRng lay down & )?ss to oocount X01' it. ^JMIdled Instant- ?? 0\r??|&ittle sign of l;()(^u Good (or Horry. J/wk . . . .Mulling Hmerprise/ very sic* ? ,ph<. Knterprlse^ls in possession of J|ul . some "inside information" that the vf!] WHMail.1lir^n? people of rtorrV will soon be blessed with another Vrailroad?that the i ur h 4.1- North & South Carolina Railroad 1b at i it" t? be extended from Mullins on to S^Sr ov ~ I Conway. Such lis the rumors and Bins of Dillon, j information combs very direct and iL, ,hts u*c trutn an 'Inside source that ap^ ?n company P** to * *E founded. *?f*ham. of this if co"?ct' re reJ?lc? w,th our ^sant Hill sec- ?<>"y friends^ H. Moody C hildre.\<Thecked Off. jg^. HUI section Parogould, AMc.?A man. woCor. j mnn and eleven\children were the ?J?- - centre of attraction at the station a* they were preparing to board an ^weturued hoorn' outgoing train. .'The father had a wjmeveral weeks' i hurd time keeping his offspring toJ|a Ofhson and j Rether and, fedrful lest he might j leave one behind, he pulled out a begins today,1 Packet memorandum, lined hie pro10Mt of I AOs, j fen/ up la a row! and called their respective names, epch child soswerJk Clio, is dewa l?c "here." He Unfaa marched them "ay. the train. This torn111100 WM ?* jj W U0efle af-'!??*t*d et each station of the |onrWednesday J***' *'1 Am a Democrat." Observers at tile time traced the j & change in the l%te David B. Hill's fortunes to a iyeech he made in Wj|' j Brooklyn in the closing days of the ' ranmaign. The meeting was held at I the old Academyyof Music, and an 1 11 endeavor had be^ii innde by secur| lng the attendance or Senator Voor- h hoes of Indians; Governor Abbett, of New Jersey, And other prominent Democrats fiotn ^outside the State, i fr|'| to give the Hill candidacy the stamp , of national approval. Yet the au- | | dieuce seemed listless, and even WJT1 r when Hill ro3C to/speak the applause that met bini was largely f a perfunctory. He walked quietly to . the front of the platform and stood . <>.??. t? .. . _.,?l? ?- r vHTTjr 1VI <1 lUUllir U t H lll.'JIll ?|)e?l R* | JL | 1 ink. Then he said in a clear voice ' that reached every part oi the hall: 1 "1 am a l>emocri?.." f 1 At the utterance of this sentence. i simple and ordinary as it was, yet ' one which will always bo associated BJLI ^ with the name of Hill, the hitherto , lethargic audience burst into a % * | | storm of applnuac. it was the key- . note of the succeeding days of the J campaign. Hill followed it up with | i I an impassioned speech, calling on g^w? ^ r i every Democrat to rally to the sup, port of the ticket and stand to the aJLl national administration. Hugh Mc- J .. Laughlin, the .Brooklyn boss, put # g ^ r his hand on Hill's shoulder and exi, claimed: ( t "You've won/it?you've got it." g ffl J r This proved/to be a fact. Hill's |^V? ' ? chances improved, the tide set in a ^ , I strongly in his favor, and he was elected over Davenport by a large i Rm . majority. f I) . j Pot the rest of his life Hill was , i cartooned in a little silk hat bear- f . r ing a long feather, on which was IJLt I i I the inscription, "I am a Denio- KZM " t! crat."?New York Kvening Post [IS s o ;|A| . M t'll Know n Mali Injured. i : A special from Lumberton says I -{that Ex-Sheriff Qeo. B. McDeod ISM was seriously injured in an autorao-jg gj J; bile accident near Raeford last Pri-(1^\1 > day Sheriff McLeod was one of a f ? 1 s | part\ taking a trip through the A 1 | unj miep me macnme was wrecked. Immediately after the ac- w ? cldent he was taken to an infirmary 5 at Fayetteville, but the physicians, JRM say it will be 36 hours before they Til * can determine to what extent Mr. McLeod is injured. His wife and ' daughter and his brothers, Air and^^A^ '! Sandy McI^eod. have been summon- I 5^5 1 ed to bis bedside. Sheriff McLeod 1 J ; has long been a prominent figure in political circles in his county and I State and the result of his injuries " I ' !? awaited with anxiety by a large j circle of friends and acquaintances, j PVK CONVICT T<) PR At TICK LAW. | Daring His Terns' in Prison Hutte j jN " Miner Makes flood I'se of j 'rl 'Class. I j Butte, Mont., Nov. 6.?Tom j ' n^ Jjltllej, a Butte, miner, who has been; s ' [in the Montana State prison for 12 1 V ' years on a life sentence for mur- r # * dering Patrick M. I*argey, president j ' of the Butte Saving Bank, has made yTi good iim' of his time. He has t J studied law and minerology and at:M&Sl ' ^ the present time ds ready to take t C I j r< an exsittinutfon to~-be . admitted to f \ the bar. \ ; a According to lawyers who have|^*C -i 1 given him private teats, he is cap- KZM J * able of passing atiy examination w | which can possibly bo out to him. lAl - I In minerology he lies been an apt c ' student and In both studies has ?c- 11 | , ' | cumulated a library of 3.00b vol-{ \ ] umeti, ^ j '1 A petition is biing prepared bjr j III q ' I his friends among the union miners KSl * of the State to secure his release , from prison on pardon. I Ji I Riiey was onjr of the victims of I the fire in 181lo. which caused the f * ? death of 5G ot Butte's firemen. He j ' i sued Largey for damages for pers 1 sona) injuries asva result of the fire f H i and failing to obtain a verdict in i I his favor shot him on Park street a B t In fiont of the I^&rgey Every un) ion man in Montana is working for 1 his release. Riley has degrees In j | Fa ^ t mineralogy and law from corres- i W?S| 1 pondence schools 1through which he srl'l . i has obtained his education in prls-j^Ll I CJIKL DIES TO SAVE RIVALS. ||A| i Prettiest <?irl in Village bets Men to Defer Duejf; llrutviu Her- ; C|9 h s UA " Vienna. Nov. 5.^?The Servian vil-iJ^BB I lage of Dragovits has been the ^1^ scene of n lov^draraa in real life j ^JLl (which could serve as the plot of a , lJJ# tragedy. \ Milena Spassitoh, the prettiest aj^ 1 girl in the village was courted by i Marko Radlyovitob and I-ar.ar Sim- | d I itch. and. the rivals agreed to set- I1 tie the matter by .mortal combat. In yljB ? 1 terrible distress the girl implored : | ff , them to wait and |et her find a way |^Sp \ I to solve the difficulty. > Her way was to remove herself i from tier sweethearts and the world, I for next day her,body was washed f' upoii the banks oli the river Savn. <V f a | I ANNOUNCEMENT. UJ I MsIppIij's Beef Market. lit in me siore rorraeriy occupied by KV Suloom Saleeby and next door to ^1^ The Dillon Herald, T. h. Bass block [IJ oo Railroad avenue. We have opened a beef market which we iff ? hall keep and conduct on city Btyles and methods and to those who caro,225 whtt kind of meat they eat we j flf pledge ourselves to keep and aell|^J^f the very best of fresh meat that any | market affords. Furthermore we i i pledge ourselves to keep our market! ; scrupulously clean, as this Is go- C9 lng to be our permanent aim and ef- flf You shall always, and at any hour of business find fresh meat or | ? "1 beef, mutton and pork. Also you wS| will find fresh fish and oysters In- SMS season, sausages, hasu. bacon and I 11 all kind of dried meat. We solicit you patronage through iro qummy, promptness in service and IAJ i uourteay. Ej^S i All tbe Is41m of Dillon and stir- |Fl rounding country are especially in- |M I vitert to cam aad inspect our mark am ' j H. HaweH'fwfl* Vwji a I 'fbeue 160. ? a. SaJeeby. ?9 / ?**. , We give with every $5.00 purchase in our Dr nent one piece of American cut glass absolu customers who have received these presents \ vorth from 25 cents to $2.00. You get a cou Durchase which you can save until your purchj f5.00 then the piece of ware is vours gratis. We are doing this as an advertisment and all t >fOU get your moneys worth and we throw in tl The largest, grandest and greatest assortment ?oods ever brought to Dillon. Come and see 1 Call for your cupons with every yurchase. "ome in and let us show you a complet jought merchandise. We can save yoi mrchases in dry goods and groceries. ~WEAR! always glad to see you and show y Nothing, Shoes, Hatsvand all men'sand ladie's ng attention.- ~ \ " iVhen you need a trunk we have them from ! sach, suit cases and traveling bags of all kinds ^adies tailor made suits are now coming in ar i beautiful line to select from. 3ur white goods department is now complete lome rare bargains. HEAVY AND FANCY GROCERIES. WE BUY JELL THE BEST. i Car load of Sweet Old Virginia Flour just he mills. If you want good bread try it r J_ II-i! J I r\ . ~ n y uqoui, notions ana snoe uepariraent, U Salesmen D Hargrove /V. E. Hall V We soicit your patronage and shall always ?est goods at the lowest cost. Yours ever ready for busitu IheStubbs a VI. A. STUBBS, SOLE OWNER and SEBE EO j ILL! I $ y Goods Depart- N4 tely free. The . I )ronounce them Jyf pon with every t *1 ises amount to he gain is yours I \e piece of ware. fW ; of this class of for your self. yfj = I e line of well u money on all Kj ?? s E I ou ur line- jj wear are receiv- ^11 $1.00 to $20.00 ffi id can show you i and we have M f^f TIE BESTjWE M received from El w =ai rocery Department Pfj Salesmen lYl S. W. Williams V. C. Easterhng hjt give you the m | m a ?????? *ndfed. ^^ive. It J and rat? U . ,nme? to him for ha* Bl defender of Sand'i . been known to go I y^lhen they enter the Vill MANAG h