Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Mr. R. E. West, of Florence,! /- ent Sunday In town. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Manning left .Saturday for Glenn Springs. Miss Madge Edwards, of Mullins, is visiting Miss Addie Hamilton. Miss Sadie Hewitt, of Marlon, is , 4 the guest of Miss Louise Moore. ! Miss Vieve Huggins spent the "k end at Wrightsville Beach. iss Nina Martin, of Norven, N. is visiting Miss Myrtle Stubbs. Ir. T. L. Manning has returned in a trip to Wrightsville Beach. Miss Lillian Lewis, of Timmons/ille, is visiting Mrs. J. D. Hargrove. Mr .and Mrs. M. H. Blum, of Latta, spent Sunday in town with relatives. Mrs. Jack Watson and children are spending some time at Wrightsville Beach. Mrs. C. W. Bandv. Of Four (Inks N. C., is visiting her mother, Mrs. ' W. B. Quill. Miss Ethel Fitzgerald, of Rich-: mond, Va.. is the guest of Mrs. C. j T. O'Flerrall. Miss Artie Mullins, of Marion, is spending some time with Miss Lena Hampton. Miss Maggie Hamilton, of DarliTigton, spent the week end at home1 with her parents. Misses Inez and Eula Jordan left Tuesday for Glenn Springs and Hendersonville, N. C. v* Dr. C. R. Taber, who has been been away on a several weeks vacation is at home again. Little Miss Mary Emma Wallace, of Argyle, Ga., is visiting her sister, Miss Eleanor Wallace. Mr. and Mrs. Rad Harrelson spent a lew days last week with their brother at Elm City, N. C. Mrs. C. R. Taber and Master Joe: T. have returned to the city after a 1 visit to relatives In Ft. Motte. Mrs. W. C. Moore left for Spartanburg Saturday, where she will j spend some time with relatives. MisseB Julia C. and Quincle s Mitchell, of Fairmont are visiting their sister, Mrs Leroy Williams .. Mrs. J. L. Bridgers and children and Miss Essie Guill have returned from a visit to relatives at Elrod. Mrs. M. H. Barnes spent the week end at Wrightsville Beach. Mr. J. F. Jones, proprietor of the Price Court Inn is visiting relatives at Nashville. Miss Lydia Richbourg, of Columbia, is visiting at the home ofh er ' uncle, Mr. T. S. Richbourg. Mr. J. R. Watson spent the week J end at Wrightsville with his family who are spending the summer at the seashore. Hon. H. M. Stackhouse, secretary of the Fertilizer Board at Clemson, is spending a few days with hi3 son. Dr. Stackhouse. Mr. Gus Stackhouse, who has charge of Mr. Maurice Manning's farm in Barnwell county is spending a few days in towi*. Mr. Hodges went over to Florence Saturday to see Mrs. Hodges, who Is a patient in the * Florence Infirmary. Mrs. Phil Ostein and Master Laval Ostein, Mrs. I. I. Fass and lit- , .le son, Eddie, left Saturday for j Wrightsville Beach. j Miss Margaret O'Gildie who has been the guest of Misses Edna and. Nina David for some time left Sat-' urday for her home in Charleston, j Messrs. Benj. Williams 'and W. A. Blizzard have returned from a meeting of the Hardware Dealers' j Association at Ahhevill.e Dr. Joe Cabell Davis left Tuesday on a business trip through Lee and Chesterfield counties. Dr. .Davis will be away about a week. Mrs. A. F. Pate and children, after spending several days in town with her parents, returned home Friday. She was accompanied home by Miss Kate McDonald. Mrs. A. N. Berry and little daughter, Orianna, and Mrs. Lawrence Manning, and little daughter, of Little Rock, came to Dillon Saturday enroute to Glenn Springs. Postmaster Husbands and his rural route carriers were made happy the other day by the receipt of a letter from tfie Postmaster General notifying them that their salaries had been increased $100 per year. , Mr. G. D. Barlow has purchased' \ the Dr. Ewing residence on the! *4 south end of Hamer avenue. As| ' soon as some necessary repairs can \ be made on the premises Mr. Bar-' \ low and his family will occupy the 8^ residence. Tuesday's issue of The State con-1 tained the pictures of several of the leading insurance agents of. South Carolina, among which was a picture of Dr. Joe Cabell Davis,' manager of the DiUon Insurance Agency. Dr. Davis attended the re1 cent meeting of the Insurance' Agents Association at Columbia and i, in discussing insurance problems 1 made an excellent impression on his co-workers in the insurance field. A communication from Fork | states that the Fork and Union ball 'j teams crossed bats last Saturday and the game resulted In a score of ! 21 to 2 In favor of FV>rk. Fork has J sent a challenge to Katta and an-1 other game Is expected soon. Mr. R. P. Hamer, Sr., left Saturday for the mountains. Mr. Humor's health has not been very good, this summer and he will remain in tlie mountains until he regains his strength. Master John It. (lowland Enter% tains. Monday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock Master John B. Rowland entertained quite a number of his little friends tn honor of his cousin, Master Willie Pate, of Ben nettsville. Tt? home was tasteful- i ly decorated In pink and white j flowers and refreshments of cream t and cake were served by Mrs. J. t Monroe Rogers assisted by Miss j Esta Lena McDonald, after which t numerous games were played. A de- g lightful afternoon was spent by j j these little folks. Among those jf present were Ellen White, l-ila Sic- I Donald, Allie Braddy, Estelle Brad-jf dy, Mary Emma Wallace. Miriam j Moore, Kate Hamilton, Ida Row- ; land, Willie Pate, Osborne Betliea, 11 Lawrence Mclntyre, Monroe McDonald, Charlie Herring, John B. i 1 Rowland. ' Pt'LI.S BLIND TKiF.lt. > l ( in., \n.ii.. 11.. 1...1 - i i - i - ?.(? *f M (4111 I IUHI X IMUl * ll*ir$4" il With Retailing. Ella White, a colored damsel of' the Tenderloin, was haled into the') court Monday upon the charge of 1 running a blind tiger. The evidence seemed to be pretty conclu- jx sive and Ella was given the alter-1 native of paying two hundred simoleons or spending the next two mouths in jail. Ella has long been under the sur- ' veilance of the officers, but she1 had managed to escape the clutches of the law. However her domicile ' was too popular not to have charms ! t greater than her own personal ap- ; ? pearance, and when the police went J t through her effects with a search ! t warrant Monday morning they dis- t covered three gallons of booze that had been left over from the Satur-Jt day night sales. Ella protested |s against the "outrage" with a show s of righteous indignation, but when > the Mayor imposed the fine she re- a laxed and went into hysterics. ? ? i There will he preaching at Eittle 'l Rock Methodist church Sunday u morning r.t 11 o'clock and at Ho- s thau that afternoon at 4 o'clock WAITING FOR WKKVIL. Barrett Says Oyster-Hea*l-in-t heSand Policy" is Foolisli. Union City, Ga., July .12.?President Charles S. Barrett has issued the following statement to members of the Farmers Union: To the Officers and Members of the Farmers' Union: Reliable and nonalarmist experts calculate the cotton boll weevil will cover the entire cotton belt within five years. It will probably be in Georgia in the fall of 1912, perhaps sooner. The ostrich-head-iu-the-sand policy is foolish, almost to the point of criminality. It is better to face facts now than to suffer the penalty later. Southwestern cotton states have, by the loss of many millions dollars discovered the most feasible methods yet devised for combating the boll weevil. Their experience is ours for the taking. Unless the portion of the cotton I belt as yet untouched by the boll i weevil takes step in time the advent of this insect is going to pro- ; duce temporary panic by wholly deranging cotton culture, as yet the financial backbone of the Southern , states i I eeem it my duty to issue these j plain warnings, and to urge every | j farmer in the territory likely to be , ! affected to go about putting up . defenses this year and without de- , lay. I Remedies are Simple. The detail remedies will be generously furnished by your state t agricultural department stations, or , the Federal department of agricul- t ture. Roughly speaking, they are ( few and simple. They consist in ] using an early maturing variety of < cotton, that the crop may be gather- , ed before the weevil has attained j its greatest power for damagee; in- t tensive cultivation, which will pro- t, duce a maximum fiber to the acre; burning over the old fields after the { crop is gathered; and above all cul- t tivation of other crops not succepti- i ble to the weevil. f The Farmers Union News, pub- j lished at Union City, recently pub- ( lished statistics showing that Geor- a gia spends annually for products s other than cotton more than $170,- ^ 000,000 a year. Every bit of these f products can be grown in and every j dollar of that sum should be kept r in Georgia. The amount we virtual- j ly give away to other sections for the food and farm products our own j acres anouia Dring rorth is nearly ( ^20,000,000 in excess of our re- j turn, in Georgia, for the cotton j crop. ?] What is true of Georgia is rel- L atively true of other states not yet g touched by the weevil. As I have , previously commented, the trend to- ^ ward scientific agriculture, dlversifi- t cation and intensive cultivation is impressive, but it is only on the . threshold of what it should be. And the boll weevil is forcing our hands! It is compelling us, in ^ self preservation, to turn to a system we should long ago have embraced voluntarily in self interest. J I feel that the peril is so real ? that the warning should be commensurately solemn. Begin to fight < the boll weevil now. If you do not 1 it is going to dig great holes in Southern progress and prosperity, j t Char. S. liarrettt. | ' LEVKR'S MODEST CONSTITUENT 1 r Funniest Story of a Hundred Years < Hip "Requests." I? A letter which would undoubted- ; i ly be considered a hoax perpetrated f by some professional wag. if the t document itself did not baer un-J1 mistakahle evidence of its serious- i Tiess was recently received by Rep- j t resentative A. F. Lever, of the 7tl> 11 South Carolina district has caused < a great deal of hilarity among those i who have seen it in its original In- t nocence. t During the debate on the farm- i ers' free list bill, lately passed by the House of Representatives, Mr. Lever delivered a speech of which i he was justly proud. He mailed a t number of copies of the speech to his constituents in South Carolina. His inferences to the effect of the meusure and putting various . agricultural necessities on "the ' free list" brought this remarkable * requisition from a citizen of his district: "To the Hon A .F. Lever, Wash- I ington, D. C.: Klnde trend, I read -* - . .. ." v j' I a the book you sent Me that a J ;oo?l Meny importance is one the 'ree hst please send Me 1?? pairs oil an hrogans number nines and ten >airs oil tan brogans number tens or Men, and ten pairs fine button shoes for Men number nine and ten >airs fine button shoes number tens or Men flour and bacon please send ''Us five barrels fist patent flour and ivt\ barrels second patent flour md Yive hundred pound side bacon >.rd two fine mules gear and liarless and good new Wagon. "Shoes for Wimuiin ten pairs fine utton shoes number eights, ten lairs fine button shoes number sev n and ten pairs fine button shoes lumber sixes and ten pairs fine buton shots number fives and ten >airs fine string shoes number sevens. Very true. "P. S. please send Me 25b lbs ubs ov lard and ten sacks ov corn md ten sacks ov oaics." Mr. l-ever has not yet complied vim tne naive request. K. F. M. THE VALil'K OF <;<?>!> ItOAIIS. Jet ween Halt and a llillon Dollar* Would l>?* Saved Annually it' Highways Were Improved. Washington, I>. C.f July 1.." ?Boween half a billion and a billion lollars would be saved annually in lie United States if every Statej vould improve its main highways to lit highest point of efficiency. Calculations just made by the "nlted States office of Public Roads| how that to effect this enormous: avitig throughout the country it vill be necessary to improve only ibout 20 per cent, of the roads. There are now about 2,15o,o00| uiles of road in the Fnited States. i wy uunurea mousanu miles, or| ibout ;? per cent, are improved in j onie manner. To bring the nuni-, >er of miles up to 20 per cent, it j vill be necessary to improve 250.-; 100 more miles. While this task j nay seem stupendous, it is esti-j nated that it can lie accomplished y a probable average expenditure] ?f $7,000 a mile, or $1. 7 50,000,000! or a fairly complete system. Were! :ach State to put $4,000,000 into, he improvement of its roads, the' vork could be accomplished in a ery short time. "A complete system of roads," aid Logan Waller Page, director of he United States office of public, oado, in discussing the road move-j nent that is sweeping over the; lountry, "is an economic necessity. few figures will illustrate the itupendous saving that could be nade. "There are, for instance, nearly ualf a million automobiles in the 'Jnited States at the present time; :heir value roughly estimated is dose to three quarters of a billion iollars. There are. in addition, 21,940,000 horses and 4,123,000 mules, :he uumber growing steadily despite] the advent of motor vehicles; the value of the horses is about $2,276,363; the value of the mules, $500,000,000. "Then take the pleasure vehicles. They number 907,000, with a value of $51,500,000. Then take the wagons used for commercial purpos-j ?s. They number 576,300, the to-1 l i 11 vajue oeing 1.48U.000. The; wear ana tear on these vehicles as i result of bad roads is nearly 25 per cent. A complete system of improved highways would cut this loss n half. "The great saving in transporta:ion of all kinds of products, includng those of the mills as well as hose of the soil, would amount tc uany millions of dollars annually. In the case of the corn crop of the South alone, no less than $7,200,)00 would be saved in transportation, despite the fact that most of he corn there is for home eonsumpion. "Whenever a new road is built >r an old one improved, the value of he nearby land rises automatical-] jr. This increase in itself is suffi-! dent in most cases to pay for the I mprovement. The profit from the :ountry from this source would be| ilmost inestimable. In fact it is j i very conservative estimate thatj he saving throughout the country, rom all sources as a result of the | mprovement of 20 per cent, of the, *oads would be somewhere between | iaif a billion and a billion dollars i tvery year. And this saving could I >e accomplished by an expenditure >f $2,000,000 In each state the first rear and a much smaller sum each rear thereafter for maintenance. The whole thing depends, of course, lpon systematlzation, and all the Rates workikng together, but it; vould seem that the era of road j juilding that has begun is tending1 o-wards these results." PI/OATS ASHORE, UNCONSCIOUS. | leronaut Found on llrm-h Relate* Distressing Experiences. Asbury Park, N. J., Julv 16.?A.I T. Roberts, an aeronaut who start-1 id in a dirigible balloon from New j ifork for Philadelphia, was found; >n the beach unconscious near; Deal, N. J., early to-day. Roberts had made a landing ibout twelve or fifteen miles from x'ew York and had made another as^ ;ent, when his balloon was struck )y a squall and driven out over the >cean. His troubles, he related tolay when revived, were augmented id by a fog, which caused the gas n the bag to cool. The dirigible j inally trailed in the water, but by hrowing out ballast Roberts man-; igeu to work it inshore. Then he 'ound the gasoline failing. He pullid the tip cord and presently dropied into the waves. He came across > plant while swimming about tryng to get his bearings. Even with his aid he became exhausted and hinks he must have floated ashore, inconsclous ? m Mrs. H. T. Edens and little son; eft yesterday for a visit to rela-j ives at Red Springs. Mr. C. T. Smith went to Fayette- j ,'ille Monday on a business. He was iccompanied by his hrother, Mr. I. M. Smith, of Mullins. kinc'8 NEW LIFE PILLS The Pills That Do Cure. P t t i I | ^ ^ * | FOLLOW THE CROWD TO j % t I THE PEE DEE DRUG CO. I I % { i % > >-*.?,?? ? > *??> ^ *?-? ; > *. ? .-? >, o-r * -? ?? ? ?-? - .? X . . v (Ml 4 % nT-yw--1^'"t^Mg i Wt* liuvc just wcivi'il a l'p?**?l. X* X ? ?. sIlilHIM'llt <-l lllt-'l l>n?.-i mill ImiiM. ** c- * > > * * * * .> swi. ? % Nothing Old Line of | | Everything New m Drug Sundries * We want your pat- carr> a comV ronage. Everything plete line of drug Y guara nteedand \\V JJ'l sundries, such as ^ ? what we guarantee fountain syringes, ? ? we back up. Pres- bulb syringes, elastcriptions filled cor- ic, leather and hard ?? rectly at a reason- rubber trusses, shold Y able price Have er braces, hot water Y yours filled here. f T bottles, etc. % i PEE OEE DRUG GOMPANY r ___ I X ??; i *> I 5 PHONE NO. 53. i : *v*.>I Y ______ I I v * ~ ??? V > ? Jj The Herald Job Department ^ P BOOKLETS, our imfruvt || !# CATOlOGUE, Stands for the BEST ol every thing ?* that goes to make good printing. We COLOR ORK.. use the; BEST inks and t'?be BEST Til? paper obtainable. And our prices are 'j? as LOW as is consistent with i.'igh Wi class work .... F. I). Bryant, President. G. B. Stackhouse, Secretary. PEE DEE REAL ESTATE AGENCY. Offices: Marion ami Mullins, S. C. Heal Estate. Fire Insurance and l oans. Business Opportunities and investments. Special Representatives of the National Ct?-0|>erative Realty Co., of Washington, 1). C., Brandies in all parts of the United States, (.'amuia, Mexico and Cuba. Persons having lands for sale or wishing to purchase would do well to correspond with this agency. Attractive property for sale in Marion, Horry and adjoining counties. 5 To Farm Land Investors i Don't pay sixty to one hundred dollars per acre for land, when you can buy just as good or better for twelve to forty dollars. Don't take our word for it, but come and see for yourselves now, while the Knowing crops is on them. Don't wait longer than the next SO days, >m theso lands will then he sold, we ate irinir liw> i'i>t Hil r>f tlimo lands lK*cu?ee party owning them is sick, and determined to retire from business. We offer you any or allof the following: Tract No. 1. ? Containing eight hundred and fifty-six (850) acres, six hundred of which is under cultivation; place is healthy, all land is in sight of depot, on best railroad in State, sixteen (10) i four room tenant houses, new !>&rn and stables, place thoroughly ditched, every house on place filled with splendid lalstr, every acre mm will easily yield one bale of cotton with from 800 to 1.000 |>ounds fertilizer, good pasture (wire fenced,) lands suitably adapted to any variety of crop, no stumps. I'arty owning place made one hundred and sixty-eight (108) hales of cotton, and two thousand (2,000) | bushels of com on ten oloivs last vear. Price.?Forty dollars per acre. Tonus. ? Fifteen thousand (915,000.00) dollars down, and the lialanee in one to five years. Tract No. 12.?Contains about sixteen hundred (1,600) acres aliout 700 i?f which is in cultivation. This place situated within >iKlit of tvM splendid towns, and two main line railroads, practically all of the land can be cultivated. Price $2212.50 per acre. Tract No. 21.?Contains Thirteen hundred (1,2100) acres, and is cut in half by main line of railroad, nice town about one mile from same, nliout one-half in cultivation. This place is perfectly healthy, and lias abundant labor. Price twenty-five (9125.00) dollars |h?iacre. Tract No. 4.?Contains about twelve hundred (1,200) acres, situated about five miles from mllifMiil niwl nmH ? ^ ty (920.KO) dollars per acre. Tract No. 5.?Contains six hundred acres, situated about six mill's from railroad. I'rice twelve ($12.00) dollars per acre. J3g Heasonalde terms can be arranged 011 all this property, :uid we absolutely guarantee that anybody seeing this section of Carolina iK'i 11 tkVNkiwvii Itoo 21 * l?o ivawlAn " " ~ ?... <- i?v (i?'?rn "i nir o?hc, uuui ivs 10 leruiiiy, * productiveness, health, ami 'liinnte. All requests for further infor- V, niation cheerfully Turn!*' . a visit to us if you are attracted will give us jji-eat pi' ?.e. ^ & ' - , . 4 S HART & g 8 ESTILL, SOUTH CAROLINA 8 8 inuiiimni?.iiiiinuiimu ?