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ESTABLISHED IN 1895. Vfc VTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1911. Vol. 17. No. 46.
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FOR THE BRID6E j,
OVER PEE DEE
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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
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DILLON HOY GOES HIGHER.
I'rof. W. I>. Carniiehael, For Many ;
Years Superintendent of Ihirhain
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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. ]
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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
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??/ 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
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'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,.
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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.
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'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
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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.
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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.
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