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II tKfte Ihllon %>eraft>. Established April 1891. ft A. B. JORDAN. Editor. The Dillon Herald i8 published at the County Seat of one of the richest agricultural counties in the State. It is the official organ of the county and goes into 90 per eent. of the homes in the county in which it is published. The office Is equipped with linotype and modern, high speed presses. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ? 1150 per year or 75 cents for 0 months. Subscriptions for less than six months will be charged at the rate of 15 cents per month. All subscriptions are payable in advance. ADVERTISING RATES may be had on application, and advertisers mav feel nnaiiraH ho* dirnn?k * V.? I colums of thiB paper they will reach all of Dillon county, a part of Eastern Carolina and contiguous territory in North Carolina. Obituary sketches, cards of thankB, communications espousing the cause of a private enterprise or a political candidate, and like matter, will be charged at the rate of 8 cents per line. Contract i dvertisers will not be allowed to e~'eed their space at same rates or advertise anything foriegn to their regular business without extra charge. Advertisements to occupy special place will be charged for according to position desired. COMMUNICATIONS, unless they contain important news, or discuss briefly and properly subjects of real Interest, are not wanted; and if acceptable in every other way then will be rejected unless the the real name of the author accompanies the same, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. ^^HfflLLON, S. C? AUO. 31, 1?11 Making (iood Flights. Aviator Rowe has been making some splendid flights with his machine recently. The flights are made at the training ground between Dillon and Hamer, about a mile north of the railroad bridge. Thursday afternoon Mr Rowe made several flights around the field at a height of more than a hundred feet and landed easily after each trip. The aeroplane has recently been equipped with a larger propeller and the speed of the eng'ne has been increased, thus giving; the machine more power and enabling it to b&ttie with the air Currents more successfully. Mr./Ttowe Is planning to make a flight to Hamer and return as soon weather conditions are favorable. He may also make a flight, to Dillon and return. He has -fciosed contracts for several flighty during the fall months at tl^'e various county fairs \ that will bf, held in the State. \ l*iqnc^ Underneath Fallen Tree. . A.n accident with a serious term^ -ition occurred to the young son 0l H D. Jones near fPiirry on ast Saturday. Mr. Jonee and his 17-year-old son had been at work1 all day hewing timber near the home. The boy was endeavoring to cut down one tree, while his father was cuting another nearby. The tree cut by Mr. Jones was the first to fall, and as it did so. fell upon young Jones, its heavy boughs pinning the unfortunate boy to the ground. Besides other bad bruises, his arm was broken aud his back badly sprained. A physician was summoned and gave the unfortunate one all medical attention possible to relieve his suffering. ? Robesonian. liSdy Finds Snake in Her Hat. (Whitevllle Oor., 18th, Wilmington Star.) Mrs. W. R. Davis, wife of the mayor of Whitevllle, had a most horrible experience at Lake Waccamaw this week. She chaperoned a number of young people on an all day outing at this popular resort on Wednesday and everything proved its enjoyable as possible until the arrival of the train. The ladies of the parties after reaching the Lf&ke took off their hats and left them in one of the open pavilions. Waiting until the last miniita oa* * ? 4W- ^ ~ *v IU LUC Bullion lO | catch the evening rtain to come home they very hurriedly put on their hate. Nothing ua^aual was noticed until alter reaching the sta^ tion Mrs. Davis, who was holding her 10-months-old baby in her arms, happened to glance up after the train blew, and saw the head of a green snake extending from her bat within just a few inches of her baby's head. Mrs. Davis, who is of Whlteville's most popular young matrons, showed a rare presence of mind to calmly and instantly put her baby on the ground and then to shake the reptile from her bat which was later killed by others in the party. It was a most harrowing experience and-her many friends are indeed delighted that i. it did not prove more serious. , CONFESSES KILlrlNO FATHER. gnrs Self-Defence Prompted Fatal Blow With Axe. Doonville, Ind., Aug. 25. ? After having beep pressed by continuous questioning for almost thirty hours in Jail, William L?ee late to-day made a written statement, in which he said he had killed his father, Richard Dee, in self-defence, after ?h ? #?? ???? Via/* Kl?, I and younger son, Clarence. The X bodies of Lee's father, mother and brother were found in their burning home early yesterday, and Lee was charged with their murder. After young Lee's statement to-day, '' ' Sheriff Scales, fearing the prisoner vould be lynched, secretly took him Eransville. e, who is but 22 years old, *y reiterated his story that he 1) nothing of the circumstance* .e killing of his family until this afternoon, when he suddentald: "I hare something preyon my mind," and calling for ' paper and pencil he wrote as follows: Prisoner's Statement. "I was awakened by a noise, and went into the bed room, where my father and mother and brother slept. As 1 opened the door 1 j saw that my mother and my broth- j ! er had been murdered. My father ; sprang at me, axe in hand, exj claiming, 'I will get you too.' I grabbed the axe away from him and hit him over the head with it. 1 j sould smell kerosene, and 1 found j oil had already been poured over ; the bed. Just because matches were 1 handy, and 1 did not know what else to do, 1 set fire to the bed | clothing, and then gave the alarm of fire." After he had completed the statement, he said: "I didn't know wihal else to do , when I set the place on fire. I i didn't know how the thing would I look." No Faith in Statements. The streets above the Jail were j crowded all day with townspeople and farmers The pnnnt? nfftntols said they placed no faith in his j statement. The motives ascribed by the offii cials in charging Lee with the murders is that he wished to obtain I money with which to be married to Mina Taylor. Cash amounting to $100 said to have been in the house Wednesday, has not been found. The lives of Richard and Clarence Lee were insured for $700. William Lee is known to have I quarrelled with his parents because ! they opposed his marriage. , a THROWS SWEETHEART IN LAKE Desperate Act of Jilted Lover! Charged with Murder. I Holland, Mich., Aug. 26. ? An-1 I gered, be says, because Grace Ly- j ons, of Chicago, his sweetheart,' broke her promise of marriage. 'Walter Hopper, of Chicago and! ^Philadelphia, attacked her on board j I tnte steamer Puritan in midlake to- i : night and tossed her overboard. I Her body has not been recovered. The steamer was about 40 miles fp.17,1 ?1 * ? " wnen i ue woman was thrown overboard. News of the murder was flashed here by wireless and officers were waiting for Hopper when the boat reached j | the dock. Several people witnessed his deed and he immediately made j a full confession. j According to Hopper, the couple J had been living together for a short 1 time as man and wife and were to | i have been married in a few weeks, j Learning that Miss Lyons was I leaving on the Puritan, he caught the boat and accosted her shortly afterwards. She claimed he had been drinking. A quarrel followed and then, Hooper claims, she declared the marriage could not take place. They were seated on a box of ^ eight on the lower deck. Sud' d^nly Hopper grabbed her in his ,Arms, rushed to the side of the steamer and dropped her overboard. As he was taken in custody boats were lowered, but it is believed the body was drawn down by tbc suction of the wheel. Hopper 1* 31 years of age, and Miss Lyons was 26. The prisoner will be arraigned here on a murder charge | mvuutt/ AIRMAN BREAKS RECORD (Continued from page 1.) j ities that would have netted him at least $30,000 on his flight beI tween St. Louis and New York. At wood *8 reception as he paSBed into the city limits of New York at Spuyten Duyvil at 2.15 o'clock yesterday afternoon was worthy of the amazing flight he was just finishing. In some extraordinary manner the news of his coming seemed to have far and wide. The craft in the Hudson received him with a deafening din. Bells rang on the shore and factory whistles blew. The housetops of each shore were black with dense crowds of spectators, from every converging street they poured in solid armies. All stood agape and waved frantically at the little air craft as it sped down the stream scarcely 100 feet from the surface of the water. "There! There! See him! There he comes!" was the cry as the eager watchers espied the little craft faintly penciled on the leaden sky jto the north. As it swam more clearly into the field of vision the cheers in the distance were taken up by those nearby, and the volume of sound swelled into a sky-splitting roar. It reminded one of Dewey's reception when he returned from Manilla. It was an old-fashioned, picturesque triumph, splendidly earned. As a rule, Atwood flew low. Adhering to his theory that it is safer near the ground when flying between mountains or tall buildings, he kept within 100 to 150 feet of the surface of the Hudson. Flies ('lose Ferryboat. Although no formal word of hie coming had been passed around, it seemed as if everybody knew about it. On Washington Heights, on1 ; Riverside Drive, all the way to the uwnuiumi uiHLiKJi me crowds grew 1 in density. Around Grant's Tomb [there was great congestion. Shortly before 2.30 o'clock the aeroplane was sighted in the vi-| cinity of the Singer building. The ! din on the river aprised the busy , workers that Atwood was coming. | i Instantly all work was suspended. The multi-millionaire rushed pell | mell with his most obscure clerk to the best point of vantage to see the young man on the last few minutes of his great trip. Many who could not get to the top of the tall buildings were sadly disap(pointed. Atwood did not fly much ; higher than the top of a two story ) building. Near the Battery he flashed over a ferryboat at such close quarters I that the thousands massed on the shore involuntarily ducked their [ heads in sympathy with the people I on the deck of the boat. As Atwood neared the Communipaw docks he drove his craft to a height of three hundred feet and started to make a wide turn to the left. With this graceful circle he gradually curved around Governor's Island and finally volplaned to the I ground, skimming over the filled-in I ground at the south-western extrem- | ity of the Island for eight hundred feet before bringing the craft to a complete stop at 2.35 o'clock. As he hopped out of his machine, an eager crowd of army officers came rushing over the fieJd in a race to be the first to grasp his hand. The privilege fell to LieutJacob E. Fickel, who had flown with him during his previous flight over New York. Some one then proposed j three cheers for the youthful airman. which were given with such j vim that they would seem to reach the Battery. After getting a drink of water in I the quartere of one oi the officers, | Atwood asked to be taken to the [ city because he wished to have a j bath and put on clean clothes. All of the officers who were free j of duty formed a guard of honor | and accompanied him over on a | little ferry. The ticker and the telephone ha/d been busy in the j meantime and the Battery was simI ply black with spectators when the young airman landed. Many jumped forward to grasp ! his hand, but the welcome promisj ed to be so embarrassing that the army men formed a a circle around I him and assisted him to get into a I taxicab, which whirled him to the Manhattan Hotel. Probably the most dramatic incident of the whole trip from St. Louis, if not in the history of aviation was the start from Nyack yesterday afternoon. After studying the conditions even the venturesome soul of Atwood perceived that "it would be too dangerous to attempt to fly from the small enclosure where he landed beside Hook Mountain on Thursday. Atwood determined to life the machine bodily to a field about half a mile away which offered a better chance to make the getaway, although it seemed fully as dangerous to the average observer. "1 want twenty-five men to help me carry this machine over there," shouted Atwood to the crowd of spectators. "You can have a hundred!" cried i,? ? ? ?*? - ..injur ol rsyacK. And a great I crowd of men jumped forward. I Motor Aflame, Crowd Scatters. | When Atwood was ready to start m the motor would not turn over. To accelerate it, Leo Stephens filled the cylinders with gasoline. At the next trial there was a crackling sound, and suddenly the whole motor was enveloped in flames. The j crowd, panic stricken, scattered, j But before the craft was permanenti ly ruined Atwood, Stevens and Mej chanician Met smothered the flames with their coats and by j throwing on some Nyack sod. At i the next trial the motor worked | beautifully. Atwood made ready to go. The biplane was pointed northeast obliquely down the rough steep field. In front of it, 150 feet away there was a wire fence six feet high. Just beyond the fence stood two ancient locust | treqs separated barely by the width i of the aeroplane. Jumps Fence Like Kangaroo. Starting with his mntnr running hat top speed, Atwood guided the * \ craft over the bumpy ground at 4 j 1.53 o'clock. Tilted dangerously to' ward the river on the slant of the field, the craft bounced along for 4 forty feet. Then It began to impossible that it would be able to * clear the wire fence, much less the 4 trees. It all depended on the Judgement of the aviator. His very life depended upon his abil- 4 ity to negotiate a seemingly impossible spot. But just as he reached the fence ? he turned his craft upward, caused it to jump like a kangaroo, and as ' it cleared the fence by a few inch- 4 es he twisted it around so that it 4 tilted sidewise, nnani n tr between the dangerous trees as a furniture 4 dealer passes a bulky object thru 4 a narrow door. The biplane sweeped through the 4 archway of trees with just a few 4 inches on either side. The slightest miscalculation on the pgrt of ? the pilot would have meant de- 4 struction. The Atwood luck held. Then the young aviator made A 4, graceful curve over U<pper Nyack 4 and swung out over the quaint old Tappan Zee, swiftly passing down 4 the Hudson to the accompaniment 4 of the cheers of the Nyack populace. 4 His progress down the Hudson 4 was anxiously watched by the citizens at the various telephone sta- 4 tinns Ao T T 1 ?*rmma cue icpurLD 11 uiii naui- j ings, Dobbs Ferry and the various Hudson river communities 4 came in, the announcement was 4 greeted by uproarious cheers. The news of the successful landing was 4 flashed around all parts of the 4 village. Atwood's flight yesterday was < made in forty-two minutes. The < scheduled flight ended at the line parallel with Forty-second street. 4 The additional four miles to Gov- < ernors Island increased his mileage lo 1,260. Aside from this Atwood 4 leave the ground. But it seemed ? claims that he covered at least 100 more in detours. < ONK ACRE NETS #170. < Elloree, August 19. ? Special: < Mr. Edward W. Holman, county . commissioner of Calhoun county, a thrifty farmer residing about five ? miles above here, holds the chain- m pionship of that county, as far as can be learned in having produced more on one acre of land than any fc other farmer. Mr. Holman planted norlif * ? * k ?-??../ in me year one acre of au- 1 gar peas, which netted him $153.75. Hte sowed pea v'ne hay on r this same acre, which netted him t $20, and has, since gathering the a hay, planted the land in cotton, and c he states that he will easily get a 600 pounds of lint cotton from the 1 same. To fertilize these crops he I used 500 pounds of guano, 10 bar a rels of poultry house manure and 8 I loans of compost. c Mr. Holman roughly estimates hie 1 entire expenses in gathering, fertil- c izing, marketing these crops, rent of a land, etc, as about $75, and tigur- a ing the 600 pounds of lint cotton that he feels that he will get at 10 t cents per pound, as $75, leaving him a net profit of about $170 from one acre of land. f ' \ sESSESi 3BB2E2E?2 IhHH dr. h ^ Who has been t< I! *ne a* Evan': i ^ou can Eave yoi a graduate of the 25 years practical laws of the National Optometry Association, eye or nerve trouble don't fail to see Dr. Re need glasses? If so don't miss this O] T>~ ~ 1 4-U- T\_A~ _ A e X n rvciiiciiiut:i 111c Ladies August ? 1 EVAN'S PH> | DILLON, j%raTOSCT?gBflBgaeqE ?! ?T* ^ > < < v % : > : : > : : : : :* : : : < > : : < :< : > : : > : : : < > > * * * * > <. I BUY YOUR ( >>* I * ><; H = WHERE || Sixteen Ounces Ma S WHERE No Misrepresentatit | WHERE When you call for a peck a peck or a j It WHERE ?| 12 Pounds of meal or g |! WHFRF || Scales and measures that ?| are use Our line of groceries is ct arp ac Inur oo Xaa/] r#<. v UO ivt? ao guuu UUSlllCSk t f *?< |?! Courteous Attention. g| Best Goods || Give us a trial and you wi >? ??J customc P Sw. W. Ow( >* '"The Quality T* DILLON, 'ft { #< > <? "V < <* * * A^4. A^V 4^4 J^V ^ A^W A^A A^A A^A , fy |^ <^> ? Citation. Citation. State of South Carolina. State of South Caroliu Dillon county. Dillon Oounty. u the Probate Court. In the Probate Court. Whereas, Jack R. Watson has Whereas, Jack R. V nade suit to me to grant him let- made suit to me to gri ers of administration of the estate ters of administration o ind effects of Francis Shepard, de- and effects of Joe M. eased. These aro. therefore, to cite deceased, these are tt md admonish all and singular the cit and admonish all a cindred and creditors of the said the kindred and credi Francis Shepard, deceased, to be 8aid Joe M. Harrelson, < ind appear at the probate court to be and appear at the p >e held at my office at Dillon, S. C., to be held at my offic >n the 15th day of September, s. C., on the 15th day L911, at 10 o'clock a. m. to show ber. 1911, at 10 o'cloc :ause, if any they have, why the show cause, if any the: aid letters of administration ihe said letters of ad ihould not be granted. should not be granted. Olven under my hand and seal Given under my h&i his 30th day of August, 1911. this 30th day of Augui r. a. Brunaon. r. a. Bru J. P. for Dillon County. J p. for Dilloi t-31-21 I 9-31-2t * B&SBEraaaBEam HERE NOW m| D REESEI IE EYE SPECIALIST O ) Dillon freqnenkly for four years, Bfl i Pharmacy until September 7th. R? ir eyes examined tree. Dr. Reese is E3 tf ir i /\ .1 i new iork Upthalmic tollsge. with [ experience practicing under the KM If you are suffering with an B3 ese while he is here. Do you Rfl pportunity, all work guaranteed. 63 31st.. to Sentf>mhpr 7th KM <\RMACY I SOUTH CAROLINA || >->->*j* : >< :' < < > > ! ;? < >< ? * > : > > : < ! : { > >< ! > ? 1ROCERIES !| *A ?V <-A ?v *A ?v ======== ? A ? > ^ V ike One Pound i*> t* V >ns are Made *Y * or a pound, you get f>*. pound. ? * Y V A, ;rits make a peck |X X i ? v ' are U. S. standard if d If X6 jmplete and prices 1% s judgment justifies Prompt Delivery if Low Prices 11 be a permanent fcr, -r r? it v < x * in & Co. It M Grocers.11 SOUTH CAROLINA It V C+K+K+K* Citation. a State ot South Carolina, Dillon County. In the Probate Court. /ataon has Whereas, Jack R. Watson, haa ?nt him let- medo, suit lo me to grant him lol f the estate -era of adminiatration of the esHarrelson, l?te uti<! tficcta of Mary H. Shep terefore to P^rd, deceased, to be aavd appear at ind singular the probate court to be held at my tors of the -office at Dillon, S. C., on the 15th deceased to day of September, 1911, at 10 robate court o'clock, a. m. to show cauBe, if any e at Dillon, ministration should not be granted, of Septem- they have, why said letters of ad- , k a. m. to Given under my hand and seal Y have, why this 30th day of August, 1911. ministration R. A. Bruneon. J. P. Pof Dillon Countv. id and ma! 8-si-lt r?fr?'.r Br. Kiaf't lew Discovery KILLS TNK COUdM. CURES THE LUNGS.