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QEfte jBtllon %)eralb. KRUhlishwl April lttttft. A. B. JORDAN. Editor. The Dillon Herald is published at tho County Seat of one of the rich- j est agricultural counties in the State. It is the official organ of the county and goes into 90 per cent, of the homes in the county in which it is published. The office | Is equipped with linotype and modern, high speed presses. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ? $1.50 per year or 75 cents for 6 months. Subscriptions for less than six : mouths will be charged at the rate j of 15 cents per month. All sub- j scriptions are payable in advance. % ADVERTISING RATES may be, had on application, and advertisers may feel assured that through the J eolums of this paper they will reach all of Dillon county, a part of Eastern Carolina and contiguous i territory in North Carolina. Obituary sketches, cardB of thanks, communications espousing j the cause of a private enterprise or ' a political candidate, and like mat- ! ter, will be charged at the rate of 8 cents per line. Contract advertisers will not be allowed to exceed 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 aontain important news, or discuss, briefly and properly subjects of real interest, are not wanted; and if acceptable in every other way theji 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. lHliLOX, S. l\, SEPT. 7, Ittll When we see the other counties I in the State preparing to hold fall fairs it makes us feel more keenly the need of a coun- i ty fair for Dillon. The annual 1 fair is a great event in the social life of the county, but aside from the social feature it is the means ( of bringing the masses of the people together for the discussion of questions relating to the wellfare of their county and also gives them an opportunity for the wholesome exchange of ideas on the different methods of crop culture and the breeding o* stock and cattle. Dillon being one of the leading agri-' cultural counties of the State it is . a great pity that her citizens have hot yet awakened to the importance of a county fair. There has been such a wonderful improvement in The Fairmont Messenger that Editor Wilson deserves the congratulations of the newspaper fraternity. Last week the ' Messenger came out carrying ten pages of splendid reading matter. Not so very long ago a gentleman whose business keeps him in close touch with nearly every newspaper in America told us that the beat weekly newspapers in the United States were published in ; North and South Carolina. There has been a wonderful improvement 1 in the weekly press of the two states in the past five years and The Messenger, of Fairmont, is ' among the number. That is a good story the Messrs. St. John tell in the Florence Times ? of how they managed to build f , up Myrtle Beach Hotel by the Ju- J dLcious use of printer's ink. The ( public knew very little about Myrtle Beach and less about its hotel 8 until the Messrs. St. John brought ? the resort to the attention of the j people through the press of the t Pee Dee, and it is gratifying to { note that they have just closed a ' most Drosuerous and nrofttahle s??n- . c sou which they attribute largely to i advertising. Just what the Messrs. 1 St.. John have done with their ho- * tel any merchant can do with his t business. There is no secret about ( advertising. Any man who pre- ( pares his ads. with care and adopts J the motto of "keeping constantly ( at It" will get bigger dividends 1 oa investment than he will get f from land investments or bank ( stocks. i . < Senator Manning's offer of ,?25 5 to the largest company of Red J Shirts sent to the re-union from j Dillon county should stimulate < some considerable interest among 1 the members of this former organ-1, ization that rendered such valuable1 service during the stirring days of the seventies. Old Marion was a ifcrge and powerful county in those days and we understand that quite 1 a number of large companies were \ ] organized in the several communi- j ties# It has not been so very long ' natfi nnH It Ik PCiidnnahlo tn nfo- I 1 lume that quite a number of the j old members still reside in Dillon county. It should be a distinct credit to Dillon to have a large and \ representative number of Red Shirts at the re-uniou and The j Herald sincerely hopes that some ; v effort will be made to get the old j companies together. _______ Several of our exchanges have < been kicking lately because they knve to par a city license, but we | have never been able to see why j a newspaper should not be taxed t? just the same as any other business ? institution. We are not quite as c well off in worldly goods as some, h of our contemporaries who are I N kicking over a $5 and $10 license, 41 but we dp not object to paying the ^ Sl? per year It costs us to do busl-i v uess in Dillon. The day is coming fi when newspapers will cease to be ri objects of special consideration, it ? is hard to live down a custom and tl the newspapers of to-day are suf- ii fering from a custom that obtain- :l ed half a eentry ago when the edi- j', tor lived on the bounty of the pub-! w lie and gave in exchange more than t! wiee as much as he received. The 1 newspaper that can live close to' ? its people and maintain its spirit | E of independence without being self- p Ish, arrogant and dictatorial, weilds a far greater influence for its com- e munlty than does the newspaper c hampered by special favors fromjw individuals or p\^>lic service cor- ^ porations. The pay for what you ; get policy and make the other fel- n low do the same is a pretty good a rule to apply to any business. ^ State Railroad a Success. |Q P Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2. ? Seventy- h five years ago the State of Georg- \ b ia decided to build a railroad. To- h day Georgia is in possession of a property which has paid it more 11] than $20,000,000 in cash, and whichj would bring approximately that; * sum upon the market; property that ' ' is bringing the State more than! ^ $400,000 in annual rental, and upon, which the lesse is securing enormous returns, with net earnings for the fiscal year, ending June 30,; w 1910, of $1,022,368.25, or $7,187.-; u 12 per mile. i le As a revenue producer it is ahead joi of any railroad in the South, w and there are not more than! m two or three in the oountry that bi equal it in annual mileage returns, m The story of the building of the 137 mile Western and Atlantic si Railroad is one of a series of strug- d< gles against what seemed to be im- b< possible odds. FVom the outset it h was handicapped by the panic of tl 1837, from which the country did it not recover for many years, and by ni obstructionists who wanted to h abandon the project and sell the j t< property. r; The rail was completed into Chat- tl tanooga in 1851. It cost to build $4,000,000. It s; was found In 184 5 that there war. h chargeable to the project, in appro- t< priations and bonds the sum of tl $1,727,760, and at that time the c< Legislature authorized a bond is- rl sue of $375,000 to carry on the t< work. From that time on the road's A earnings furnished practically all II the money that was used in its ( completion; no other direct appro- tc priations were made by the State i rs to keep the wortt going. I k The road was operated under h State management until 1870, when ; w it was leased for twenty years for! t( $300,000 a year. , G That lease, ending January rst, n 1890, netted the State $5,900,000. si At the expiration of the Brown iri lease the road went to the Nash-' ville, (Jhattanooga & St. Louis Rail-;tl way Company on a bid of $35,001 iai per month, or $400,012 annually, |s? at that time considered a splendid a* advance over the price paid for the j m former lessees. I b? NO CHINESE TYPEWRITERS. oi ! w The Rea.Ht%i For That is Found inj ~ the 50,000 Word Signs in use... * lypewruere are now made for * ise in nearly a hundred different * anguages, and they are sold all ov- X ;r the world: but there is still one ? jreat nation which, for u very sim- J )le reason, has no typewriters that * vrite a tongue. That nation h _ :hina. The English alphabet has twenty-; ' fix letters, the Russian thirty-six. The typewriter produced for Ruslian markets is the largest made; I >ui no typewriter could be made hat would begin to be big enough i or the Chinese language, which has 10 alphabet but is represented by lign characters, of which there are ibout fifty thousand. Of the great ?_ lumber of words found in the Engist language only a small propor- T] ion are used for the ordinary purjoses of speech, and the same" is j rue of the characters used in the! Chinese language, but the number i if Chinese characters commonly em-i~ iloyed is still far greater than A :ould be put on any typewriter. So his nation of 400,000,000 people las no typewriters In its own ton?ue. ? But that doesn't mean that no ypewriters are sold in China. More ind more Chinese are learning oth-,cs ?r languages besides their own, 21 ind Chinese merchants use type-| = uniere, ajici mey are used in legs-I Jons and in consular offices and CJj n banks and shipping offices and :olleges, and by missionaries, by various people. Altogether there ? tre sold in China a good many (Fi .ypewriters. Why Booth Shot Lincoln. ^ Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 26 ? All that was mortal of Rev. Thos. S. * Major was laid to rest In the Frankfort cemetery this afternoon Jhortly after the noon hour and notwithstanding the rainy and In-1 element weather, it was one of the most largely attended funerals ever ? held in Frankfort and one of the F> most impressive. Bishop Maes delivered the funeral sermon, tn which he gave a short ~ biographical sketch of Father Ma-|F |or's career as a boy soldier, and priest. He said hjather Major had always been true to his convictions; ?f right, and to show that by hold-. Ing to this rule he had never for- j feited the good opLnlon he had of ?ny one, he cited the fact that the I-aid Confederate soldiers who fought ? with him loved him just as much B after he became a priest as they did before. % f. He said that Father Major had >Id one of hie brother priests only short time ago of an interesting icident that happened just at the lose of the civil war that came to is knowledge when he (Father iajor) was in Canada This indent was as follows, and throws ome light on the assassination of 'resident Lincoln by Wilkes Booth, ^hile in Canada Father Major said ive Confederates, who had taken efuge in that oountry, decided <to. ontinue the fight by attempting to idnap President Lincoln; and that hese five men went to Washington n disguise, but before they did II VI III UK out? UI infill wan rn|Huivu s a suspected spy and sentenced 3 be shot or hanged. The man has a friend of Wilkes Booth, and lie latter went to President .incoln in an effort to have the life f his friend saved; that Booth tated afterward that the president ranted his request for the rerieve or pardon. For some reason, owever, the president's reprieve orer was never delivered to the propr officer and the man was exeuted on Good Friday. According to rhat one of the other four men aferward told Ftather Major, the act that his friend was executed licensed Hooth greatly, and that ight at the Ford theatre he shot nd killed the president. Father Major always believed hat the assassination of Mr. Ltnoln was solely due to the anger f Booth over the idea that the reeideait had not kept faith with lm and had allowed his friend to e executed. Some minor official ad probably hold up the reprieve, ut neither Booth nor Lincoln knew lis. WAITING FIANCEE, KILLS SKI W uicitlc of Wealthy St. latuis Man in New York Hotel. New York, September 2. ?While aiting here to meet his fiancee pon her return fxoni Europe, Dan;1 E. Garrison, Jn, a member of ue of the most prominent and ealthy families in St. Louis, comlitted suicide to-day because he plipvrrt that hp torv* ill to tarry. When his body was fomid to-day, lot through the head, at the WalDrf Astoria, there were two letters eside him. In one the suicide told is father that he would rather die lan to continue to suffer and that would be unjust to his fiancee to larry her in his present state of ealth. The other letter was writ?n by the girl he expected to mary and urged him to "cheer up nad link of the better days to come." Mr. Garrison's father and his in by his first marriage, who came ere with him yesterday, decided i tell his fiancee's name, saying lat this course was best for all ancerned. She is expected to arIve from Europe, either to-day or >-morrow. Her letter was dated ugust 8 and written while abroad, t was signed "Mary." The suicide left a note addressed i his father, saying that he would ither * e dead than suffer any >nger the pains of kidney, trouble, ay fever and asthma. The body as found by lus eou. wh^jj he went > call Wim for breakfast. Mr. arrison lay ii^ bed wearing his ight clothes ^ith a pistol by his de and a bullet hole over the ght ear. None heard the shot. Mr. Garrison, Jr., went to the leatre last evening with his son, ad when the father returned he semed in excellent spirits. He iked his son to call him in the orning, saying that they might i able to take an interesting boat de to-day. The Garrison family is le of the most prominent and ealthiest of St. Ix>uis. ************************* CLASSIFIED COLUMN I * i/Mut#u\/uu\iuu\iuuuMuuvMvyyv% , \VATKINS, THE AUCTIONEER ?If you have a farm, lots, horaes or anything else to sell, Watkins is the auctioneer to get. He is an experienced auctioneer and knows how to get the worth of anything. Sale of horses, mules and anything you have begins . romptly at 2: SO every Saturday. HE BOOT BLACK DEPARTMENT will give you good work at H. K. Cottingham's barber shop. Good shines and satisfactory work. Call for Deck, the boot black. NNONUCKMENT. ? THE TAPE line is ready for you at W. A. Fass Co. and in change of a good man. 5 or 6 doses "660" will cure any ise of Chilla And Fever. Price, 5c. 6 or 6 doses "666" will cure any ise of Chills and Fever. Price, 5c. OR SALE ? ONE NEW FOUR McCormac mower and rake for sal at a bargain to quick purchaser. Apply to J? H. Squires, Dillon. _17 OK SALE. ? 8KVKX ROOM cottage in desirable residence section. Excellent orchard, good servant's house and other out buildings. App?y to Jack^ Watson, Dillon. OK KENT. ?ONE FOUR-ROOM house near business section. Apply quickly to G. R. Fettlgrew. OK HAIjE. ? FORTY A ORES OF Kurt in Floyd's township, Horry county. 30 acres cleared. Price fifteen hundred dollars. One half cash, good time on balance. Apply to L?. O. Hutchinson, Nichols, S. C., R F. D. No. 1. 7. IBL.EA ? RANGING IN PRICE from 15 cents to $2.50 at The Herald Book 8to re. A. B. Jordan, j j ai Dillon. 8. C., Aug. 30th, 1911. j r> Cc Dillon County. '' jfrft liflfflftfiitfltolii'' tf if i nil >l friil I 11 ? - ?t 1% School days are here. Have you hough line of tablets, ink, and pence!? ever 1 road to school, so come by and get wha to the little children. EVAN'S Pt Agent for Belle Mead Sweets DILLON, |BUY YOUR I < 35 If? I! ?wnr ? ???? M & MM JL4 ?| Sixteen Ounces j ?! WHE >:?| No Misrepresenta | ; WHE Xf When you call for a pet 3f ' a peck or 1 WE Yf 12 Pounds of meal o: H WHE ?! Scales and measures tli XI are u Z XI Our line of groceries is t + XI are as low as good busin< X f tX I Courteous Attention. I Best Goods v+ ? v| Give uc a trial and you Y* Y* custoi T* >* | W. W. Ow I ''The Qualit tl dillon, y* A^A A^A A^A -1 * 4 Ty T^jrT^y ~ Notice. Notic State of South Carolina, Pursuant to a co Dillon county. to the undersigned Court of Common Pleas. of the Allen Hardw Pursuant to an order granted by Company, by the * his Honor. R. C. Watts, Judge of McGown, Secretary the Fourth Judicial Circuit bear- ing date the first ing date the 28th dav of August, ber, 1911, notice ID 11, notice is herebv srlvon that ?.?? - ? ? ? 0.. ... V--..V Liicii imunn U1 ?U|>J all and singular the creditors of capital stock of sai the estate of Martha Jane Jackson, be open at the Fa deceased, do file their respective chants Bank of Latl clainv., duly proven, before the on- day, the 8th day of dersigned as Master of Dillon at 11 o'clock, in th county, on or before the 6th day capital stock of th of October, A. D., 1911, and upon poration is five thoi the failure of any creditor to file be divided into flft his claim, as here'n required, shall par value of One 1 be barred the benefit of their each, claim against said estate. L. W k? _?? EBe^'A iDB -- B4B BJb |E n w t your supplies? We have the largest E brought to Dillon. We are on your K t you need. Special attention given E HARMACY I The Rcxall Store K SOUTH CAROLINA | : : v "j* < : v < v v ^ GROCERIES I * a 5* , * a ?V * A re 1 |:!: Make One Pound ii* * A RE || tions are Made A RE || :k or a pound, you get i% a pound. !?! t* RE !| . r grits make a neck ?? 4 *?>! :re s? ?>+ % lat are U. S. standard ik ised complete and prices if ess judgment justifies Prompt Delivery ? * Low Prices to X will be a permanent |?k tner |X if t A Y ren & Co. it Y y Grocers." ! SOUTH CAROLINA if 1 : <* <e > :* > ;* & > > * ?> > > * * > *> > < > * > < < > *> v e. Citation. >m mission issued State of South Carolina, as corporators Dillon Oounty. are & Furniture I" the Probate Court, lonorable R. M. Whereas, Jack R. Watson, has of State, bear- niado/ suit to me to grant him letday of Septem- ters of administration of the es- * is hereby given tate am: eficcts of Mary H. Shep acription to the pard, deceased. These are thered Company will tore to cite and admonish all and rmers and Mer- -singular the kindred and creditors La, S. C., on Fri- of said Mary H. Sheppard to be September, 1911 and appear at the proe forenoon. The bate court to be held at my e proposed cor- office at Dillon, S. C., 011 the 15th isand dollars, to day of September, 1911, at 10 y shares of the o'clock, a. m. to show cause, if any 1 land red Dollars ministration should not be granted. \ I they have, why said lettero of ad- J >gers, Jr., Given under my hand ?*?i M fn. th'f 30th day of August, 1911. f >lorian, R, a. Brunoou. jfj Corporators. j. P. Pof Dlllon county.