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*: / r ? ( ~ ^gmriWrlail 4 r ** (Htje Dillon ijmtliL 12 PAGES IS | ^ 1 v,, ^ ESTABLISHED IN 1895. Vfc VTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1911. Vol. 17. No. 46. * F = rr ? . L? J%' M FOR THE BRID6E j, OVER PEE DEE CVCPIITlUr nniiUITTrr nr nnnn aa.aa 1 utuuiiic bunmmcc ur buuu humid ' ASSOCIATION MAKES A CHOICE OF ROUTE j * r?ep?ndflnt on Marion's Approval ! and Co-Operation in the Enterprise. Must Get Ready to Go t Before Legislature. a Florence Times. 8 The meeting of the executive ? committe of the Eastern Carolina 1 Good Roads Association at the city ? council chamber on Saturday night t was well attended by citizens of i Florence and a good representation T ?.from Dillon county, but the Marion c ^representatives were not present, a and so nothing definite could be t agreed upon. All of this section of \ the Stnta is interested and 1 concerned in the proposed bridging c of the Pee Dee river, but it is go- 1 ing tb be impossible of achieve- i ment except by the combined efforts ? and resources of all of the coun- t ties within#reach of the bridge, and a if Marion does not come into the 11 enterprise it cannot be achieved. j t Prof. Holmes and his assistant en? t gineers and surveyors were there j WHU uiuwius? unu eoiiuidies on ? four routes and with all informa tion on each of them. The first, and the one which they all most earnestly recommended was a route ^ across the river, nearly five miles above the railroad bridge, which finds a more nearly natural cause? way. and will be very much tie cheapest and the most permanent > way. This route, with a steel drawbridge across the river and such bridges as are necessary over runs in the swamps, and culverts and leads will cost from high ground * on the other, a little less than! one hundred thousand dollars, de-; pending on the various cost of la and building materials. !( The other routes surveyed were each about a mile apart, going down stream, the last one being near the railroad bridge. The cost of these routes increas-1 * ed with their going down stream,! and the last one, the one nearest1 the railrcad bridge would cost near-' . ly one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. i The route recommended would not be over two miles longer from Florence to Marion than the one' at the railroad bridge, by actual count, so that the route recom- j 0 mended was adopted tentatively ] ' by the committee provided it would meet the approval and would have the support of Marion county. ; Prof. Holmes was asked to lay: ik. nt KofA f ' W UilfJ luttlicr Liic v& 1 Marion and explain the reasons for t i* its adoption and he cheerfully un-! j dertook that mission. In case Mar- 1 ^ Ion does not agree to the proposi- t tion another meeting of the oom- s v mittee will be necessitated, and it c would be held as soon as possible, v because the matter must be arrang- g ** ed at the now rapidly approaching ^ i. session of the legislature. t W The members of the committee I and visitors at the meeting were jr very much interested in a drawing e down the coast, which passes near f i* Fayetteville, N. C., and makes a a big bow to cross the river at the t i only bridge now across it, at Che- t raw. \ i If the bridge is built where the ? counties of Marion, Dillon and i ' Florence propose to have it put, t the proposed highway could be i straight and would be many miles r shorter than it now is. a The national good roads aasocia- s tion has this road in charge and hopes and expects to get federal aid s for its maintenance, and it would c be a mighty highway for business e r of all kinds along the coast. With I this in view, more earnest and dili- a gent work will be done to secure 1 the road, for every one will reoo? c nize the importance of that national c highway. t The members from Dillon who t were here say that Dillon is start- I i*i?r sin* immediately on a campaign for^good roads and they propose to have the beat roads 1n the State, j They are aiding to build roads in- j to North Carolina, and mean to j t have them all through the county. 11 Those present at the meeting were i ( Messrs- Moore and Coleman from * Dillon and Mr. Berry from Latta. f P Don't worry over buying little, 1 gifts for the children. Oome to<1 The Herald Book Store where you I tglll find a carefully selected line of]' toys at such moderate prices that you can't resist the temptation to' bty. i v it: . I, . . . . ?...? . DILLON HOY GOES HIGHER. I'rof. W. I>. Carniiehael, For Many ; Years Superintendent of Ihirhain C.k 1- " " k-TV4iui/m, UWS W 1111 A. "I*. i.X>. The following from Saturday's Raleigh News and Observer will >e read with interest by many people in Dillon county. Prof. Carmi:hael is a son of Mrs. Agnes Carnichael and the late Capt. W. D. Harmichael. He was born and rear;d at the old Carmichael home ibout 7 miles west of Dillon, but las been connected with the Durlam public schools ever since bis1 graduation about 15 years ago: Durham, Dec. 8. ? The reslgna-[ ion of Superintendent William Dou-j ild Carmichael, head of the city ichools of this place, will be tendersd to the school board to-morrow norning. It will be an item of tattling news, perhaps less than en people having any knowledge of t to-day. Heading a system, admittedly one >f the finest in North Carolina, ind having a hold upon the affecions ot the people reached by few vlio have ever lived and worked lere, the resignation of Mr. Carmi:bael will have the most profoundy sorrowful effect here. It is an vcm ym uuwn in uie Droad and tenerous term, "sensational," but ' he step leading to it is the natur- j il one, the standing invitation of >ther fields to take the artists of he schools where one doesn't have o beg bread. 1 Mr. C&rmichael has indicated the late of his new service as January, vhen he goes with the Liggett * Hyers Company, one of the four- i een companies created out of the 1 ecent disintegration of the Ameri- l :an Tobacco Co. As is known here, I < his company will own the old W. I \ Juke & Sons factory with chief t >ffices in Durham and St. Louis. ! i This branch of business is to in-' < :rease the business of the old Duke I i actory and the stemmery of thai I lusiness in Richmond, along with j he wrapper department of Danville. I vill be moved here. It is a big , roncern, and over it is Vice-Pres: lent Clinton W. Toms, who has , >eeu many years general manager J >f the entire business in Durna md is considered the greatest sin- j ?le find the American Tobacco ( Company has ever made. In attaching Mr. Carmichael, the :ompany adds another school gem- | is to its working force. Fifteen | rears ago Mr. Toms, then superin-], cndcnt of the city schools, first j miployed Mr. Carmichael fresh from , he University, where he graduat-,, >d in the class of 1897. He has'] aught here since, being in the :ity schools. The American To-;( ?acco Company called Mr. Toms to!, ts business. He worked upon itl( intil its management showed to., he entire country that he was aj. jenius, a diplomat, and a scholar, M*. K.._ J ' lJ *'V Uiic uiau iiafi uunt* quite I < nuch for it as Mr. Carmichael. | te is the recognized hard worker of he city and without exceptional ( ' >romise in college, he is ac-M cnowledged master of those who, 1 lave gone into the same class of; . chool work as he has done. In the j urrent issue of the World's Work, j inder the significant title, "The) South Realizing Itself," Dr. Edvin Mims pays a handsome tribute ' 0 the Durham schools and their lead. J His duties in the I-iggett & Mysrs Company have not been de- * ined yet, Mr. Toms promising a tatement in a day or two that will ell more amout it. The call to his work includes a fine salary, , vhich at this age of life a man if Mr. Carmichael's calibre could lot well pass up. It has always >een a credit to the tobacco busiiess that it knows art and chooses nen as its lieutenants who are in 1 great measure responsible for the luccess of those higher up. Mr. Chrmicbael is yet on the afe side of forty, the sunny street if that age; married Miss Margarit MacRobert, of Greensboro, and las an Intellectual wife known over ill North Carolina. His interesting family will not be lost to the :ity. And there is no concealment if the fact that this alliance with he tobacco business is a move nade in the Interests of his housetold. In speaking of his resignation, which is to be ucted upon soon, dr. Carmichael said: "During the >ast fifteen years I have given to he Durham Public Schools the ] >est service of which I have been ] :apable, and I shall always have < i deep interest in the Durham j ichools, and in the cause of edu- ] :ation. 1 love my city and State f .00 much to give up educational urork, If I did not believe my new >oeltion gives me an opportunity ] 'or real service for both of them." j Mr. Santa Claus Is the guest of \ rhe Herald Book 8tore this week. ] V. . . tfe. pjj ^ LIFE'S DISA (Copyright. 1911.) MAINE DESTROYED FROM THE OUTSIDE Rndint; of the First Hoard of Inspection is Confirmed. Washington, Dec. 19. ? United States battleship, Maine, which sank treneath the waters of Havana harbor in February, 1898, as the result jf an explosion was blown up from the outside. This is announced by the naval board which has been examining the wreck. The finding confirms the report of the original investigators, who made a superficial examination of the wreck shortly after the disaster. The statement given out by the navy Department is brief, Secretary Meyers does not believe it necessary to issue any extended explanation of the board's conclusions beyond the flat statement that an exterior explosion was responsible for the loss of the warship, and the lives of many men. The statement follows: '"The board finds that the injuries to the bottom of the Maine was caused by the explosion Qf a charge of low form of explosives exterior to the ship between frames 28 and 31, stake B, port side, this resulted in igniting and exploding the contents 1-M and contents, including a large >f the six-inch reserve magazine, Ajuanity of black powder. The more >r less complete explosion of the coi lents of the remaining forward magazine followed. The magazine explosion resulted in the destruction of the vessel. Secretary Meyer announced that there might be a further stutment on the report of the board after ! had been considered by the President. One member of the board was of the opinion that the report never would be pushed in full, but would be kept in the confidential archieves of the Navy Department. LAURENS MAN KILLS HIMSELF. John H. I Vice Heads Ix>ad of Shoi Into His Head. Laurens, December 15.?Special: John H. Price, a young white man, Tommitted suicide early this morning by shooting himself through the bead with a shotgun at the home of lis father, Henry T. Price, four miles north of the city. The inquest was held this afternoon, and according to the father >f the deceased, the young man fastened himself in his room last night and refused to come to iupper or breakfast this morning, leclaring he was not well. About 8 o'clock the family was startled t>y the report of a gun in the room, and when the door was forcJd open the young man lay on his bed, the charge of bird shot having torn a ghastly wound in the side Mid top of the head. Meets Horrible Death. At Lake Charles, i>a., Alfonsc Rodriguez, a Mexican, was instantly killed Saturday when he wax :aught by the steel Jaws of a large 'team shovel and his head crushed Rodriguez had crawled into the shovel to escape the rain. We have a line of toys and hoi I i A o \t ? |4 * ? ??/ D^?v.o vufsv win suit any biz* purse. Dolls from lc. to |3; large picture books from 6c. up. Everything else in proportion. Herald Book Store. 'PniNTMFNTS 11 BRIDGE OVER l'KE DEE. Meeting to bo Hold in Florence j Saturday, to Consider Estimate t*. Florence, December 17.?Special: Secretary Henry Husbands has sent out notices to the members of the , executive committee of the Eastern ; Carolina Good Roads Association, PkI line* thotn litoAtho* ?* i ? I ut City Council chamber in this Icily at 8 o'clock on Saturday even-j' Ming, December 9, to receive from1 ; Prof. M. Goode Homes, of the Untiled States office of gcod roads in [South Carolina, and his associates,! i the blue prints, surveys and esti> | mated cost of construction of the, causeway and bridge across the i Great Pee Dee Itiver, which pro ject was undertaken last summc r i.y the Eastern Carolina Good Roads Association. The executive committee on Saturday will adopt tlie official route | from four surveys which' have been J made by Prof. Homes and his asso-, . elates and locate the route. | The executive committee is coui! posed of the president and the sec, | retary of the Association and three member* each from the counties if M Dillcn, Marion and Florence. . The necessary steps will also be , taken at this meeting to begin an active campaign for funds to build .(the causeway and bridge. This is , going to be one of the greatest ' . benefits to Eastern Carolina that .lias ever been started, to wit, the [building of this causeway and I bridge. KILLED IN NORTH CAROLINA. : , llrotlier of Mallory Man Meets > Tragic Death. Mallory, Dec. 16. ? George W. Taylor received a telegram about noon yesterday stating that his brother had been killed this morning at Dunu. N. C.. The messaee , received by Mr. Taylor did not ' state at whose hands or in what manner his brother had met his death. Mr. Taylor left immediately for Dunn. A l?OOK OL.D FYHH,. . ^ . 11 Japanese Man Killed Himself for Delaying the Mikado. Diving his life as atonement because the Emperor of Japan was forced to spend an hour in a common waiting room, Moji 8hijiro| j Schmidzu, a train superintendent, I threw himself under a train ac, | cording to advices brought by the 'steamer Awa Maru. I Shimidzu was in charge of the 1 arrangements for the emperor's Journey from Kyushu, where he witt j nessed the big army maneuvers and1 ; the imperial train was detained as ai >( result of the derailment of a car-1 , riage due to a misplaced switch. Shimidzu left a letter saying he considered it his duty to give his life to pay for the emporer's embarrassment. The emperor was ' much distressed when the incident 1 | was reported to him. H Toys! Toys! Toys! ? We help j i 'you to select what you want. We j ! I have everything you want. Save | needless worry by coming to our ( store fend making your holllday 1 purchases. Herald Book Store. j 1 ? m m i ! < > It will be an easy matter to ( please and delight the children if j ( I ylu "buy your toys from us. Herald \ Book Store. , I i J ' ) JOK ltltOWN AGAIN (idVKUNOIl. Former Georgia Executive Swwi?s StAlr Over Two Opponent!*. Atlanta, Dec. 17. ? Unofficial returns from the 14 ti counties of the State show that Ex-Governor J. M. Brown swept the Slate in the gubernatorial primary to-day. The counties are apportioned as follows: J. M. Brown, 84; Pope Brown, 40 and Judge Russell, 20. The remaining counties. Macon and Charlton, were tied between Pope Brown and Russell. The 84 counties give Ex-Governor Brown 200 of the 368 electoral votes, 100 being necessary to an election. Eocal option as a political issue j in Georgia, received another setback, In the defeat of Judge R. B. Russell, the local option candidate. | lx>cal option made its strongest showing in (lhatham and Richmoifd counties the cities of Savannah anW Augusta, respectively, ?nd both fjQ wmcn were rarrled by Russell. I'offc Brown c.irrifd Pulton county (Atlanta,) and Bibb county, (Macon.) and Muskogee county .. (Columbus, ) went to Joe Brown, b ,In the race to^felf-TOmmissioner of commerce and labor, unofficial figures indicate the election of H. M. Stanley, of Dublin, over Joseph McCarthy, of Savannah. Ex-Governor Brown received the election returns at his home at Marietta, Ga., to-night, and when his election was assured dictated the following: "I am not surprised at the result, but I confess 1 did not expect the victory to be so sweeping. I accept the verdict as a command from the people of Georgia that factionalism must cease and that the people of the State must unite on the everlasting principle of protection of their sovereignty. I shall obey this mandate, as I will every other one received from the sovereign peo pie." Ignited States Senator Hoke Smith returmd to Atlanta fioia Washington to-day, to east his vote for I'opo Brown for Governor. Senator Smith will return to his Senatorial duties next Monday. MACK GROWS DITIMISTIC. Thinks Democrats Have (<oinI Cliancc to Win Next. Veur. Detroit, Midi, Doe. 1-1. ? "Democracy should lie ready to win the the next Presidential election on constructive legislation or on the blunders of the Republican party in Washington," declared Norman I-Mack, chairman of the Democratic national committee at a complimentary banquet tendered him here to-night by the Michigan State Demcratic committee. "If tlie work so admirably begun In Washington last winter is carried out on the same lines, Democratic victory is assured," continued Mr. Mack. "Consideration of the Sherman anti-trust law has become so widespread that the average business man engaged in a corporate enterprise is not fully aware of just what course he should pursue. The president in his recent message to Congress, suggests supplemental legislation, which, he says, will prevent all efforts to suppress legislation. "This is a good thing of what Is suggested by the President can be done, but it looks illogical, for as soon as the President made the, ita/i1oen4(/v? ?^ ' J ? A - ?? ? nvvmiuuuil He 1111(1 liuiru Ciipiilints of industry giving the President's plan their hearty approval. "As a Democrat I would like to *ee some law enacted in Washing-; ton that will permit the hig business men of the country to go on and do all the big things possible! without doing harm to the small business men. That is what must be done. If the Sherman law is not explicit enough, I believe we should bave a law that means Just what it Jays, that the business men of our nation may know what they will bave to do without going to the A?;orney General of the United States nefore embarking in any big b nese enterprise. We find ourselves n t ho In Hrll* t -* ? ? x ?v .uttn \s\j 11 u iii o xi iu-uay. "The oovporate offence complain-1 ;d of ia but the outgrowth of the 'osterlng and the encouragement of ipecial tariff privilege granted by ?ach succeeding Republican admtnstratlon, and the chief feature of, he tariff offence Ilea In the Admin-! atratlon'8 repudiation of ita cam-! )algn pledge of 1908 for a tariff evlaion." The Herald force wants to enjoy 3hrtatmaa this year and the paper a published Tuesday instead of I Thursday this week. The Herald >fflce will be open all the week 'or the transaction of business and ,f course The Herald Book Store will remain open until 12 o'clock laturday night. E*Z? COUNTY NEWS nun uinnriminp HI1U HHITLNinOD NEWSY LETTERS FROM DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY COMING AND Mi OF PEOPLE News Items of Interest to HemM Renders. Ebb and Flow of tl?*? Huinun Title. Tolars Mill. Mr. A. T_? Ixrng and A D. Whitney went to Hanier F*riday night to attend lodge meeting. I ?4rs Green, of Ifamer spent a few Mhys with her daughter, Mrs. B. M. ^Sasser, last week. Mr. B. F McDaniel spent a short while with his son-in-law last Friday and helped him with his hog killing. Mr. R. M. Sasser killed two fine hogs last Thursday. One of thtm would have weighed 50 pounds and the other was a whale. Miss Alberta Powell spent a part of last week with friends in and around Rowland. Mr. Will Horn went to Dillon last week and purchased a suit of clothes for $8 and two fore-in-haud ties for fifty cents. The people around here are very busy preparing for Xmas. Mr. A. L. Long is going to glvo the mill affairs to Mr. A. D. Whitley the first of the year.F0 There was preaching at Kentyre Sunday. j Mr. W. S. Cottingham had a shooting match Saturday evening. His turkeys brought a good price. Mr. Cobb, of Rowland, spent 1 little while with Miss llowell Thursday evening. Miss Ruth Walters and Miss Bessie Smith, of Rowland, spent a short while at Mr. A. I). Whitley's last week. Mr. J. H. Wiggins is almost through picking cotton. Mr. A. D. Whitley sent to Hemcr to obtain papers front Magistrate J. L. Bethea for George Sweet for obtaining goods under false pretense. The Rambler. tlii'i.st.iiius bVol 11 Behind The Counter. Nineteen hundred and eleven years ago on December 25 the angels on Judae's plains sang a message of ptace and good will to men. And ever since on Christmas eve something of life's harsh and hostle strivings soften down for the moment. For the time being we cease to ncavc economic and conspetative brickbats at each other, and exchange lolly greetings of good fe 11< iiip, vcith an avalanche of gifts, the majority of them at least harmless. And yet in spite of the merriment and friendliness of the season, with its message of peace and good will as the echo of the far off angel song for thousands and thousands of sales-people, the season is an agony of fret and strain. What a contrast from the sweet song of Judaea, to the scene to be enacted on tlie evening of next December 23rd in thousands of shoppers into the street, the mob will be storming the shelves and counters, between which are packed the fuming sales-people,crammed so thickly that they are falling over each other knee deep in paper waste so that every moment is impeded, their tousled stock in an exhausting confusion and disarray, the otherwise gentle girls, nerved almost to the swearing point, with swollen and aching feet, tired backs, unstrung nerves. The stores of our own town do not see the most strenuous phrases of this melee. And yet human nature ia much the same here as elseW h P rp n f I rl tlio nroftl. /xw. -1-* ? ? vuv ucivie v?ui101maa is a week of turmoil for most people in retail trade. And all this period of fret and strain for many thousand of people could be relieved, if without the slightest cost or trouble to themselves, people would anticipate their wants by a short period and buy early. And the buyers would find better assortments, In cleaner condition. And yet in spite of incessant pleading to "Buy your Christmas gifts early the majority of public continues in the same old thoughtless way. What selfish, Irresponsible children we are, after all! ? Spartanburg Journal. (wig , .1 ( Bwiilnr iror >>*