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/ - ... - . - I ^ ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1911. Vol. 17. No. 26. NEWS OF JE GOUNTY'E NEWSY LETTERS FROM DIFFERENT SEC- N TIONS OF THE COUNTY > COMING AND GOING OF PEOPLE [ News Items of Interest to Herald < Readers. Ebb and Flow of the Human Tide. Mint urn Items. ; a This is the first time that I 2 have offered u contribution to the; t columns of your paper and if this g does not find its way to the wajste li basket, I'll let you hear from me I t again. Our little town lias made F satisfactory progress for the last i a year, and now bids fair to be one i 1 of the livest. towns of this secton. 1 We already have four mercantile t! establishments, all doing a good business, a blacksmith shop and a 1 good ginnery. Mr. P. L,. Dethea is I contemplating the establishment of' \ a large ginnery here in the near fu- t ture. Mr. Clarence McLaurln ex-; pects to erect a large brick . store i o on the corner of McGirt street and t Steed avenue. 1 We are situated in the best farm- e ing section of Dillon county and a the farmers of the community are i delighted with their prospects for 1 a bumper crop of cotton and corn, t We have plenty of good schools \ and churches near, and 1 would 1 advise anyone looking for a location I to come over and inspect our little c town before locating elsewhere.; a Miss Ella L.ee Smith has been employed for the coming year to; i< teach music in the Reedy Creek! a school. 11 We had a lecture given by a Jap-jii auese last Sunday afternoon, atj \ Beulah church which was very | c much enjoyed by all who heard it. li Miss Ethel Roberts, of Marion, isle visiting Miss Maggie Jackson. ! r Misses Margaret McGirt and Eliz- I abeth Wilcox, * of Darlington and j . ? Ruth Stackhouse, of Dillon, have | \ returned to their respective homes, c after a short visit to Miss Maggie j c Evans. ( Miss Maggie Evans is visiting relatives and friends in Dillon. | f Miss Maggie Evans gave a most | r delightful reception Monday even- a ing at the home of her parents in c honor of her guests. Misses Margar- j c et McGirt, Elizabeth Wilcox and | v Ruth Stackhouse. I') Mr. and Mrs. Charley Kenny, of I c Edgefield, are spending a few days ^ at the home of Robt. Alford near j i Bingham. j ? On Tuesday evening. Miss Mary i McLeod Betliea delighfully entter-lr tained a number of guests in hon-; f or of Miss Elizabeth Henagan. 1 Mr. Sam Evans has gone to the t mountains of North Carolina where t he will spend some time. f Mr. Clarence McLaurin is expect- j ing to leave in a few days for a 11 trip through this State and Geor-m i gia. Mr. McLaurin will make the t entire trip in his new turing car. ! i Mr. Atwood has just closed a! c I ten days' meeting at Carolina I t church. Mr. Atwood is an excel-tv lent preacher and he added quite ; j a number of members to the va- j :i rious churches in the community, j l We hope that he will keep us in; n mind and come again. ! d Mr. Donnie McLaurin and Mr. 1 Laurin and Mr. Stokes, of McColl, ^were guests at the home of Mr. and f Mrs. Clarence McLaurin last Sun- ^ day. ; j, Mr. and Mrs. Stokes of McColl, !j are visiting at the homt of Mr. A.. q M. McGregor. . S Miss Mary Weatherly is visiting ^ Miss Mary McLeod at Maxton, N. ^ C 9 Fair Bluff, N. C. 1 L h Fair Bluff, N. C., has passed her 11 century mark and well on to her s second but there is nothing around j J this good old town suggestive of ^ hoary old age. Nor ever had a' ,r stringless old harp hung on the a drooping elms that shades the Lum-|c ber river which sweeps around her w comfortable homes and her various < enterprises, and to-day its rippling current blended with the vigorous sound of saws, hammers, trowels and the hum of machinery, furnish j, i the music that keeps these good () people marching at a quick step ( along the road to greater things. Nor does she propose to livei,. within herself, but that the outside world shall know something of the j j, many advantages they can reap by cultivating a closer acquaintance. (1 Years ago this town was the cen-; ter of the finest and most produc-|t) live tobacco lands in the Caroli- n nas, and as it is to-day, the mar-| ket where the tobacco growers will i ^ get courteous treatment and better, j,' prices than elsewhere, t That great bug a bear Ashpole vi Swamp that often that often deprived many farmers from market-1-,, ing their tobacco bere need not hesitate any longer as the Fair | j{ Bluff Tobacco Board of Trade wait-, ed on the "powers that be" to Q do what was right and what the u people needed 'till patience was, exhausted, have gone down into y I their poc'/jts and ere many days shall have past, road and bridges will he put in first class condition , j0 by the working force now on the i y ground. ! w Tobacco growers across the riv- [ , er will have more than one induce- ^ mont to patronize the Fair Bluff market. First, the good condition j of the road; second. Fair Bluff tobacco market has the largest foorps of buyers in this seclont of the country, which comprises buyers! IIGHT NEGROES KILLED I E6B0 EXCURSION TRAIN CRASHES INTO I FREIGHT AT HAMLET IREAT MANYllTHERS INJURED I >f Sixty Seriously Injured Twenty 1 May Succumb. Accident. Near Scene of Former Disaster. Charlotte, N. C., July 27?Eight re dead, 60 seriously injured and ? 8 painfully injured as a result of t he head-on collision between a ne- s ;ro excursion train bound from I)urlani to Charlotte and a freight in t he Hamlet yards this morning. 1 1 rour members of the train crew re also suffering from injuries. ' f 'he injured were brought to Char-1 i otte on a special train. Many ad- {i litional deaths are expected. < The dead, all of Durham, are: t 2dna all, Edith Hall, Lisbon < iall, Rosa 1'erry, Dora L)ay, lsis Vebb, Samuel Miller and John 11 'ammeron. t Of the 60 seriously hurt a score I i >r more may die. Four white t rainmen are badly hurt. Engineer i 3en Koonie, who was running the, Akuiai'ju t-uguif, was mnugiea < .bout the head and shoulders and i ] njured internally; Engineer A. 1 raylor, of the freight, injured in- >< ernally and badly cut; Conductor j' V. H. Howen, of the excursion had ; 1 lis side crushed and several ribs j iroken, and Albert Gary, fireman j! if the freight, was badly bruised j l nd cut. ' The cause of the wreck is un-I' mown. The engines telescoped ;' md six of the eleven coaches of (' he excursion train crumpled like j' asteboard. Fifty of the injured ' vere brought to Charlotte to-night t in a special train and placed in < lospttals, while 30-odd who were i onsidci.'t too critically h?rt to lie |1 noved are oemg cared for at Ham- j ! et. Just five years ago this month,! vithin one mile of the same scene j1 f to-day's disaster, a similar wreck H iccurred in which 2G negroes met U leatli. W. N*. Malone, a colored hackman, roin Durham, gave an Observer i 1 nan a very vivid account of the iccident. He fAVs that he was seatid iu one of jtie cars near the front 1 if the train talking to two women 1 vlien suddenly lie heard a crash, i The cars seemed as if they were 11 oming down on him and when he i vas calm enough to notice things iround him lie was pinned under i beam and the two women that 1 vere near him were both dead. 11 Phere was also seated in front of lim a man and woman and they Doth were unconscious for some ime. He says that it was about .wenty-five or thirty minutes be'ore the rescue party reached him 1 ind cut him from under the wreck. 1 tt the time of the collision there ( vas a silence for a moment and < hen the most terrible screams < ent. the air. After rising from un- < ler the debris he made his way to < he front and there saw those that vere dead and more severely in- i ured. One man, he says, was up I it one end of the train and his < lead was down at the other end. i The trains were almost completely < lemolished, the two engines looking 1 ike one and the same mass of iron. rom the Imperial Tobacco Co., the ' unerican, the British-American, Jus. ' I, Boyd & Co., J. P. Taylor Co., ! ? P Wiif qnn Tno W I-I ti (rime A'. ' "o , Geo. S. Norfleet &. Co., Lipfert- \ caies Co. Also the following lnlependent buyers, C. C. McCarty, C. Jones, Geo. H. Simple, C. S. imith and Martin & Caffey. Ample room for all that comes, 'iiree large warehouses, three pack cuses, stable room for every orse and mule that comes, and beides all this, the President of the card of Trade, the Hon. C. C. Mcarty will meet * ou at the bridge, ive you the right hand of fellowhip, extouding such cordial welome that you will feel good for a 'hole week. Come . Maple Dots. Misses Maggie Pittman and Mary ope, of Lumberton, visited at the ome of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Lane ist week. Nye Herring has painted his reslence. H. G. Jackson went to Latta on usiness Tuesday. F. M. Lane went to Mullins Tues- a ay. \ Dr. Skipper, of Mullins, was in "> ?is section on profession busi- \ ess Wednesday. s Sheiilf Lane and his brother, r ealie, of Dillon, visited their c rother, F. M. Lane, Wednesday. e W. M. Rouse, of Latta, was a C Isitor to this section Wednesday. p Steve Turbeville, of Mallory, was t i this section Friday. [ R. E. Cox visited friends at a rownsville Friday and Saturday. , 1 Misses Ella and Mattie Coward, i a ; Latta, visited relatives here Sat- t rday M II A. Bailey attended the upper j [arion union meeting at Catfish f aptist church Saturday. t The members of Manning S. H. s ?cal union. No. 742 F. E. and C. J of A. are building a hall in d hlch to hold their meeting. t J. B. Berry, of Latta, spent Sun- v ay with his parents. d ('alvary Items. 11 8 A series of meetings is being con- ? (Continued on page 4.) ' V& nit* .UMBER INTEREST LOSE MPORTANT DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT EFFECTING LUMBER I URGE AMOUNT INVOLVED In the ('?? of Flagler v?. A. ii. 1 < 'orporation IkYislon Favoring Plaintiff of Wide-Spread Interest The following decision of the I supreme court will be read with in- j erest by every person who has sold options on timber land: The question then presented to his court, as raised by the appelant. for consideration are: First: That the grant to the defendant respondant was for a United time only, and that the court i II construing the contract should letermlne that this time was a seasonable time for the making of the ontract. . TU..4 - * otwiHi. i Mtii ?i? eifvcn yellrs lave elapsed since the making of he contract, that more than a reasonable time has expired and that the rights of the defendantrespondent have terminated. Third: That in view of the igreement in the contract that the plaintiff should pay the taxes on the timber during the continuance of the contract is in violation of the law, and that the contract is, therefore, void. In behalf of the defendant-respondent it is claimed: First: That under the language of the contract that the defendant took a fee simple title to the timber and such interest in the land is was necessary to support the timber and that this question was stare decisis in this State, and for this position relied upon the authority of Knott vs. Hvdrick, 1Kich. ttio ind Wilson Ku?"t,or Co. vs. Alderman ooiis lAimpany, 80 South Carolina 106. And. under the case of Crawford vs. Atlantic Coast Lumber Company, that the limitations, if any, of this contract could not effect the fee simple character of the grant. In the discussion of the case hefore the court, the question that certain phases of the contract were presented to this court on appeal when not directly raised by the pleading, was waived by counsel for the respondent, and they joined in itMurti uiiiu me contract. in question be fully construed by this court. For the. purixise of convenience we will first consider the question of the correctness of the position taken- by respondent's counsel, that the main question at issue is already settled in this State under the authority of Knott vs. Hydrick, 12 Rich. 314 and the Wilson Lumber Company vs. Alderman A: Sons Company, SO South Caroline 106. If this be true, it follows that all the questions raised by the appellant must be decided averse to him without further reason except the question raiser reason, except the question raised by the fourth exception. It is therefore necessary to examine into the cases cited to see if they do establish that which is claimed for them by the defendant, ind fix its claim to the timber unler the terms of the present contract. The case of Knott vs. Hydrick supra was decided on the following 'acts: there the grant was not of timber but of land with an express reservation to the grantor of "all timber growing on said land suit-1 ible to be sawed into lumber." I The grantee gave notice to the arr&ntor of th*? HooH :imber, which the grantor did not lo, and the grantee then girded he trees, said the action arose by eason of the grantor suing the grantee for the value of the trees endered unfit for lumber. Under hese circumstances, this court teld that the grantor had not only in estate in the trees but also such in interest in the soil as was ne-1 essary to sustain them and furth-! ?r that such an estate cannot be erminated by the grantee by giving he grantor notice and a reasonible time to remove the timber. It is well to be observed that in his case there were no words used n the contract or deed which unlertook to limit the time within j vhich the timber was to he removed. In Wilson Lumber Company vs. I Uderman & Sons Company one dcElveen conveyed to Wilson all he timber upon a certain tract, vith Habendum to Thomas Wilson tnd his heirs and assigns forever, vith the usual general warranty. Vithin a year Wilson built a tram- , vay to the land, cut and sawed ome of the timber, and then renoved the tramway and milling maihinery. Subsequently he convey-: d his interest to Wilson Lumber 3o.. and the heirs of McElveen, the jrantor of Wilson, conveyed the imber to Alderman & Sons Com>any for a term of years, and ind sometime thereafterwards the atter company went upon the land ind cut some of the timber, and he action was commenced by the Wilson Lumber Company for an inunction to restrain the defendant rom cutting the timber. At the rial it was agreed after the contraction placed by the presiding udge (Judge Prince) upon the leed from McElveen to Wilson that here was nothing for the jury to iass upon, he holding that the leed being in form of a fee simple leed without conditions or llmltalons it conveyed the timber with uch interest in the land as was lecessary to sustain the trees. And (Continued on page two.) i * CLOSES OVER 159 MILL! SOOTHERN POWER COMPANY SHOTS OF POWER SUPPLY 70,000 PEOPLE IN IDLENE5! It is Thought That Mills Will lt? suine Operation in Two Days? fojidition Serious. Charlotte, N. C., July ul. ? As climax to the suprecedented drough this section is experiencing 152 col ton mills in North and South Cai olina shut down to-day because tli water in the Catawba river is s low that the Southern Power Com puny cannot supply the plants wit power. It is estimated that 70,nnu open tives are thrown out of etnploj nient. It is expected that work wi be resumed in two days. li ha been many weeks since rain of an consequence has fallen, and Iocs weather bureau records show no a deficiency of 5o per cent. i precipitation for this sectioi 1 Creeks which hsive not gone dry i 4 5 years are mud holes, and dis tress among the rural populatio ' dependent for water on wells j great. Mountain streams to tii I west, upon which many flourin mills, tanneries and cotton mills su | dependent fo r power, have dwii died to mere brooks in some ii i stances, and many enterprises lun been forced to shut down. Crops i this immediate section are bumir , up in the fields. Many farmers this and adjoining counties despai i in if f t, f.".... nnnn nlinii,.. ; \/l CI VUI II V I v/||, lltfcVC vuuiijn | down the young corn and are usii i it for feed, while the hot winds a) playing havoc with cotton. Cities and towns to the nor a::d west of Charlotte are facing tl ordeal of a t'Viifr famiJ1C that tli | city is now experiencing. At en jboro, Salisbury, Concord, Spence Monroe, Wadesboro and other pla 1 es the water supply problem hi reached the seriouc measures i I economy are being rigidly enforce The situation in Charlotte has 11 improved materially, though the a thorities are working day and nig 011 the problem. Feeling that tl distress of the people is not heii relieved as promptly as was liopi l>v means of tank trains from Mou Holly, the offers of water from Ga tonia. Shelby and hincolnton t day were accepted and a tra brought in to-night 50,000 fro each place. This is being pum ed into the city mains direct I means of fire engines and the a ditional steamer, borrowed from (' lumbia, S. C., will augment the loc fire apparatus in this work to-1110 j row. It is hoped by Wednesday resume an economic supply tlirouf the mains. It has been cut o since early Friday. Special prayer service for rail were held in churches throughoi this section yesterday. There was j brief shower this afternoon and rnl is falling lightly to-night, wit a ! mospheric conditions that promii ! relief. CONDITION" OF COTTON" IS MO.O Few States Show Falling Off Sine hast Report. ? Figures H States. New York, July 31. ? Special 'l"lie Journal of Commerce an Commercial Bulletin to-morrow wi say: Replies from 1.945 specis correspondents of the Journal c vummcitc iiiiti vMiiiuierciaI isuuem of an average date of July 22 makes the percentage condition c cotton 86.9, the highest in the ele\ en years of the special reports c this paper. This compares wit 85.9 per cent, a month ago, or rise of 1 point, 7.7 points above tli ten-year average of 79.2. Four Slates Itehiin! I,iist Month. As a rule reports were of highly satisfactory nature, and it i only in North Carolina, Mississipp Louisiana and Oklahoma that col ton lias lost from its high condi tion of last month. The detorior at ion in Louisiana was 5.6 points where too much rain and the fea of boll weevil caused considerabl apprehension; the other States sui fered but little. South Carolin gained 2.5 points Georgia 1. noints. Alahnma n ? nnint t<w<> 4.2 points, Arkansas 2.9 points an Tennessee 4.9 points. The detailed figures by States with comparisons, follow. Figures by States. Aug. July Diff. 1910 190! N. Car . .87.4 87.7 0.3 74.3 75. S. Car. . .82.1 79.6 2.5 71.2 77. Geo. . . 91.5 90.4 xl.l 68.4 78.' Fla. . . 92.0 91.0 xl.O 60.2 83.< Ala. . . 92.2 91.4 x0.8 72.4 69.( Miss. . . 82.6 83.9 1.3 69.2 64. l.a. . . .77.2 82.8 5.6 66.3 64.: Texas . . 87.3 83.2 x4.2 80.9 70.: Ark. . . .90.6 86.7 x3.9 74.5 78.1 Tenn. . .91.4 86.5 x4.9 73.7 76. Mo. . . .87.2 85.6 xl.6 78.2 85.1 Ok la. . . 88.3 88.6 0.3 82.7 82.1 Average . .86.9 85.9 xl.O 74.9 73. lO-Year Acreage and Yield. Government estimates of scream and yield for the past ten years together with July condition figure! of this paper are appended: Year Yield Acreage Cond't't 1011 86.004,000 86.! 1 01 u 11,066,(too .12,403,000 74.! 1900 10,386.000 30,938.000 73.! 1908 1*5.432,000 32.444,000 83.( 1907 10,326,000 31,311,000 75.i 1906 13,305,000 31,374,000 81.' 1905 10,726,000 26,117.000 75.i 1904 13,697,000 30,054,000 84.< 1903 10,016,000 28,017,000 76.1 1902 10,784,000 27.114.000 79.( Mr. (\ T. Smith spent Sunday ir Marion. > DILLON MUSI GET BUSY F COMMITTEE WILL CHOOSE SITE FOR EX PERIMENT STATION S DILLON'S CHANCES EXCELLENT Clcnison Committee Will Visit ? Various Pee Ikr Counties li?fore Selecting K.\|H?i*imentt Statioi a | Sittet. it As lias been stated through L- i these columns on several previous occasions Dillon must get busy it e she hopes to land the Clemson Kxo periment Station, other counties in the Pee Dee are bidding for the h station, but Dillon has advantages over her competitors that will be i- very much in her favor, provided - those advantages are set forth in II a strong and vigorous maimer. The s farmers are the best judges of the >' value of the experimmeiit station 'I and if they will unite with i^e mersv chums of tlie* several towns it. tin 11 count\ there is no reason why Dill' jon should not succeed in landing 11 the station. According to a letter from Presi11 dent ltiggs a committee has been ,s appointed to visit the several counIe ties of the Pee Dee to select a K site for the station. One of the "e | conditions is that a county shall 1_ furnish a certain number of acre* "" of land, but the character and verre | satility of the soil will be considered along with tlte clailns eaeli |K county proposes to set up. Follow 'n ing is the letter received front Pres r" I ident Kiggs: Mr. A .B. Jordan, President, Dillon Board of Trade, re Dillon, S. C. My Dear Sir: ? At the recent meeting of tli< llo:i i'(T nf Tnictnoc vniif tirnii/icT ls! tion to furnish land foi tin- pro l8~ | posed Pee Dee branch Kxperimen ' Ration was considered, and referre c- j to Agricultural Committee o 18 the iioaVu,...together with Prof. . " N Harper, direl*'or ol 11J!' J,'x,!Vr "-I ment Station, and l>ro11- . 1)1 | kins, Director of the .jgricultur; "" Department for a report at a ni 111 j meeting. Hr" The Agricultural Committee ha lfr ! deputized Professors Harper an ,<l Perkins to make a preliminary ii " vestigation of the various sites pre *s" posed with a view of reporting t P" j the Committee in the near futun 11 I 1 have turned over all of the coi 1111 respondence in connection with thi matter to Prof. Harper, and h will write you further. n" Assuring you that your claim will be given careful and eonsidei ' ate attention, I remain, . " Yours very truly, \V. M. Riggs. j- President is ??l KVKV KOK I'KK 1>KC liRII Mi IJt a Government Knginecr to Assist ii In Work on Great I'w Dec River. t- Florence, July 3d. ? Special Je The project or movement which wa, started in this city some montbi ago by the Eastern Carolina Goot ' Roads Association to build i bridge over the great Pee Dee riv e er is progressing about as well ai ;y the promoters could wish for it ai this stage of the movement. !: Prof. M. Goode Homes, the spe id cial agent for the Government or 11 good roads building, has been petl titioned to assist in this work and >f he has most heartily agreed to do i, so. In fact he has sent to Mr. 1, Henry H. Husbands, the secretary >f of the Eastern Carolina Good Roads r- Association, (the original instiga?f tor of the movement to bridge the h Pee I>ee,) the necessary blanks to a be filled in by the officers of the e j Association requesting a surveyor and engineer to be sent here to ' make tiie necessary surveys and a preliminary blue prints, etc. IS' As SOOIl as tho f?norirn?o?. foiinlwui i. i here and concludes his surveys a t-j meeting of the executive committee I-1 of the Association will be called, i to be held at Florence for the pur5, pose of ascertaining the proposed r i cost and to take such steps as will e be necessary to secure the wheref-: with to make the dirt fly and to a j built bridges. ? MATCH HACK TO-MOKKOW. d i, Mucli Discussed Itace Itctu'crn Mentjigue anil The Queen Takes Place To-morrow. To morrow afternoon at 2:30 a 7 match race will be pulled off at the 0 Dillon track between Mr. Henry 7 Wiggin's pacer, Montague, and The D Queen, a Wilmington horse, owned I) by Dr. Caldwell. Quite a large num$ her of Wilmington folk are expected 2 here to witness the race. At the j I Wilmington races The Queen was j beaten in the 17 race by MontaA KUe. and aftpr tho ro,,n .. ? .. i avc a uifiiA~.li 1 ilCt j1 was arranged in which Montague 5 was also successful. Dr. Caldwell 1 | challenged Mr. Wiggins for a match race at Dillon for a purse of $300 giand 75 per cent, of the gate receipts to th ir "Dig horse, and for 3 a second race ..."Wilmington on the 26tli under similar conditions. In , view of fact that both horses are t) pretty evenly matched quite a lot of H interest centres in Jthe races and I it is expected that to-morrow's ; event will draw a large crowd. -t The Queen, DrvCaldwell's horse, j arrived yesterday and is quartered I at Lu Edwards' stables. The heats ( will be the best three in five. ; Misses Mary and Belva Floyd, of Florida, and Eunice DuBoso, of i N'ichols, are the guests of Mr. and i Mrs. Walker Floyd. -SHERIFF SHOOTS NEGRO BARNEY STACKHOUSE, ESCAPED CONVICT CAU6HT IN N. C. THE THIGH jONE SHATTERED Man Who Stole IMcycle and Fsea (KMJ From (ituiK lan-aicd in North Cari olina Negro Cabin. Barney Staekhouse. the negro who stole Mr. C.M. Baylor's bicycle i and escaped while serving time on 'I the gang, was shot by Sheriff Lane at a negro cabin just across the i State line Sunday night. Sheriff Lane, in company with Of; ficer Bain, located the negro Sun. day afternoon and went to the cabin that night. There were several ? tiier negroes in the cabin and when the officers approached the house all fled but Staekhouse Staekhouse was standing behind tin door when the officers requested him tj surrender. They waited several minutes and there was no response. When Officer Bain told Staekhouse that he was coining in . for him the negro made a movement .1.4 to secure a weanon. Sheriff Lane was standing by the open window and when the negro dasli, ed for the room the sheriff opened I fire on him and the bullet entered ; the hip bone. The negro fell and the officers entered the house and secured him. The negro was brought to Dillon where he was given prompt attention. llis wounds are not serious, but as the county has no jail ho was carried to the penitentiary hospital by Sheriff Lane Tuesday. THK KlHTOIl TO THK GOYKKN'Olt e 1 ~ losephus Daniels on (tolciuuu Livingston Itlease. of South fans ' linn, d Washington Post. I The whole range of cherished ani-iecdote, honmot and repartee furr i nishes 110 choicer item than the reil mark made hy the governor of >r South Carolina on a certain auspicious occasion. It was the cry s c David to Jonathan, the voice of d deen unto deep, the joining .... Tits in a common aspira"f two the chosen rulers i- turn, worthy Wonwealtln. Would o of two great ( on*., d la. that editors were Votive as those - oid and peace prov% s'two governors. * , , oul. e Hut they are not. f a hust of protest aris*..^iS tJlH is source least expected. It - voice of the Charlotte News I Observer, critically petulent in strictures against Governor Hlra.se, of South Carolina. Coming from t. any other s-ource it might be allowed to pass unnoticed But that . Joseph us Daniels, most amiable of " youths, whose lion rlrins li.tnov sweeter than nectar reived hv rov11 ling bee from the slopes of Hymettus, should become peeved, cull for : attention. It is high time to ussisunie the erect attitude. Things s have to reach a pretty pass to 1 make Josephus wrathful, i It seem from all we can make - the coil that Governor Blease bes'gan it. First in his innaugura) t address, the Governor abused the newspapers of the State, most of them having refused to supi>ort i him. The editors got even by a cold abstention from a reception at I which the Governor was the promi inent guest. Then the sweet girl graduates of Winthrop College asked the president of that institution to present their diplomas in place of Governor Blease. When it is added that front time immortal this crowning honor has been among the prerogatives of South Carolina's Chief Executives, sonte idea may be gained of the slight put unon Governor Blease. And it was a snub that went. Dr. Johnson delivered the diplomas, Governor Blease didn't; so there now'. As the News and Observer remarks: "No State has boasted more great men as Governor than the Palmetto State. It has fallen to be compelled to put up with Blease. Editors and college graduates do not so act toward a Chief Executive without good reasons." It were palpably useless to in mure uirxner. tsnce an editor's reason is usually cogent and a woman's reason invariably final, the incident may as well beeonsidored closed. Something was evidently coming to /Governor, and from all accounts he got his. We don't know just how he feels about it. But if he lives near the political boundary he must be able to sympathize with the North Carolina native who objected to a change in t.1 e State line which would have f lrown him to the southward, because ne had always heard that the climate of South Carolina was too unhealthy! Marlboro Times. Mr. W. E. Caldwell, who is now in charge of the Southern Cotton Oil mill plant at Dillon was in McColl on Tuesday and says that he /will move bis family from Gibson to Dillon in a few days. M isft T .nil ian Mnnro -of \>v/i t, XJ1 who is the attractive guest of Miss Louise McQueen, at Dunbar, spent yesterday with Miss Carrie Donalson. Mesfers. E. L. Moore and J. M. Carmichael, autolsts from Dillon, stopped a short time in town Monday on their return home from from Jackson Springs. T' <j Dillon Herald, ?S1.SO a Year. *