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j^eralb. < S .i?hed April, 1894. fi ' ,,.* H. Jordan Editor / 1 The Dillon Ilemid Is published at jijllS County Seat of one of the r'.cLIMm agricultural countioa in the I' 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. Tbe office is equipped with linotype and modern high speed presses. ADVERTISING KATES may be had on application, and adrertisersj may feel assured that through the' columns of this paper they will i reach all Dillon county, a part of Eastern Carolina and contiguous! territory in North Carolina. dTTnaPUT iyriA?r Wimnri ?< I>un IWilCtO Jl.ou per year or 76 cents for 6 months. Subscriptions for less than six months will be charged at *he rate of 15 cents per month. All subscriptions are payable in advance. Obituary sketches, cards of thanks, communications espousing the r .ise of a private enterprise orj a pol.tical candidate, and like mat-| t<r, will be charged at the rate of fc c nts per line. Contract adver-J tisv. 1*8 will not be allowed to exceed their space at same rates or advertise anything foreign to they 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 I politely and properly subjects of j real interest, are not wanted; and j if acceptable in every other way they will be rejected unless the real name of the author ac-i companies the same, not nccessar-j ily for Dublication hut no n wimr.; autee of good faith. lMLliON, 8. CM DKC. 21, lOll. Begin the New Year resolving to plant less cotton. ? We have discovered that Dillon is not the highest egg market in the ; world. They are selling for a ; dollar a dozen in New York. It will not require an extra j shifting engine to handle the fertilizer cars in the Dillon freightI yard next year. Mayor Grace m&st be bom a fighter. After licking out the old , regime he announces his intention to abolish the dispensary in Charleston. It cost Claude McDonald $70 vo produce 210 bushels of com on au; ac:e of land, leaving a net profit! of $140. Five years ago intelligent farmers told us that it did not pay to raise corn in this country. It is announced that a Raleigh man lias succeeded in growing a I crop of black cotton. The world #iay not be aware of it, but qui!- ' a number of farmers have succeed-^ ed in growing a mighty blue crop around here. An acre of ordinary land will produce from 2C0 to 600 bushels of sweet potatoes, but we are told that Scotland is sending ship loads of potatoes to America which command $1 per bushel at wholesale prices. In the face of such evidence we question the assertion that the cotton-producing South is the most independent country in the world. We note with interest that Tom Fehler of dispensary fame is about! to. issue that much heralded book.j dealing with certain phases of the dispensary situation which may; hnng men of prominence into the! lime-light. Now if Hub Evans will write a sequel to the story the public will guarantee him immunity in advance. I.'ie Southern farmers have shown g<od Judgment in rejecting the offer of the New York bankers to advance $60,000,000 to finance the 'cotton crop. The proposition had too many strings tied to it to safe-, guard the interests of the farmer. Cotton is worth $25 per bale anywhere in the world and there srai rely a bank in the South that will re-fuse to advance that much on a bale of cotton. The only solution of the cotton problem is the warehousing system. There is enough money in the South to protect a surplus of from 2 to 4 million bales and if the farmers will organise and build enough warehouses to store the Bur, crop their friends at home will ad\au?;e the money to finance it. The1 New York plan was a good proposition for the New Yorker. If it. had succeeded the New Yorker' would have been better off by several million dollars. V Mr. E. L. Moore, who will plant; 15 acreo of land in truck next year, is Hot going into the trucking busiaess for experimental purposes. He is going into the industry to mnke money. Truck is no longer an ^ experimental crop. In other sections of this State it ie an estab\ \ \ V A llshed, money-making industry that is conducted along the same lines j as a large cotton producing farm. [ Mr. Moore has employed an expert to manage his farm. It is his purpose to raise cabbage, beans, pol tatoes and other vegetables in such quantities as will enable him to ship his produce to northern markets in car load lots. But nevertheless Mr. Moore's results from this new industry will be watched with no small degree of interest. It means a great deal to this section. If he meets with the success he deserves othere will be encouraged to follow his example and it will be the beginning of an era with possibilities which cannot be exaggerated. It may be worth your while to investigate the trucking industry before you decide to plant all of your land in cotton next year. There is no assurance that cotton will sell for more than 8 cents per pound next year and every farmer knows that it costs almost that much to pioduce a pound of cotton. We do not claim that you will get rich from the trucking industry. There are men who have made fortunes in one year from truck, but there are others who have lost fortunes in the same period of time. But there is one great advantage about the trucking business. It brings in money just at a time when you need it. It comes in at that time of year when the banker has loaned out all he has and there are heavy fertilizer bills to meet. We do not advise anybody to go into the trucking business. We advise them to investigate it. If we were a farmer, though, we would rather plant some truck and some cotton than to plant all cotton and no truck or all truck and no ootton. We have noticed that farmers who plant both crops 011 a conservative scale always have cash money on hand the year round. The Herald wishes every one of its readers a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. To many of us the year now closing has been full of trials and disappointments, but still it has not been without its joys and its successes. It is the strong man who will lay aside the cares and burdens of life during the holidays and enter into the spirit of Christmas with an enthusiasm that will lighten the cares and burdens of his weaker brethren. Real happiness comes only through making others happy, and as happiness is contagious it requires but little effort to bring happiness U the hearts of those who surround you. The trials and disappointments of the year should be forgotten. If you have suffered remember theie are others who have suffered with you ? who* burdens have been greater than yours ? but through it all they have smiled. The NewYear is full of promise and pregnant with possibilities. The country has received n tpmnnpa rv back that will call for retrenchment and reform along certain lines. There will have to be a re-adjustment and re-organization of business methods to meet certain conditions that will confront the country with the birth of the New Year. It does not mean disaster, but success. It meaus that from the hi' ter experiences of the present year there will follow many benefits during the coming year. There is work for men of brain and brawn to do, but if you go Into the fight with I bowed head and broken spirit you have lost before the battle begins With head and shoulders erect enter the New Year, determined to make 1912 the banner_year in the history of the country. Be one of the fighters. *J" 4* "I* "J* READ THIS. i 4> Dolls lc. to fS.OO. 4* p Dooks, 5c. to 50c. Work Doxes, 25c. Grocery Stores, 25c. Toy Whl|?, 10c. * Toy Watches, 5c. ? Gaines, 5c. to $1.00. 4 Toys, $5c. to 9S.OO. HERALD IIOOK STORE. HIS PREDICAMENT AKWARD Hufitorinfc Lunatic, Soldier Spends Two Hours in Guard House. Fort Riley, Kansas, Dec. 16, ? Marched to the guard house on the charge of murder by an Insane man whom he had been ordered to arrest, was the experience of Sergt. Geo. Land, 13th calvary, to-day. Land remained in the guard house two hours before the mistake was discovered. Sergt. P. C. Souder had been irrational for several days, and today Sergt. Land was ordered to arrest and take him to the hospital. un nis way wouder wanted Land to march in front of him, and the guard complied. "Column right," aaid Bouder, aa they approached the guard houae. Sergt. Land, wishing to humor the prisoner, obeyed. Souder then marched Land into the guard house, committed him to the sergeant and had him locked up on a murder t I;. < charge. Two hours later Land was released from his plight by his commanding officer^ Large picture books, short story books,, games and toys that please i and delight the children can be I found at The Herald Book Store. AGAINST HELLING "MAINE.House Won't Make "Side Show" of Battleship's Wreck. Washington, Dec. 16. ? Efforts to authorize the sale of the hull of the battleship Maine to private parties, who desire to exhibit It at various ports of the IPnlted States and charge an admission fee to vls| ltors, were defeated in the House ! to-day. The urgent deficienev hill {Carrying an appropriation of $250,j 000 to complete the work of raising ! the Maine, after a hard fight passed the House without change. I It was admitted in the debate i that offers approaching $1,000,000 have been received from exhibition j interests for the rear portion of the hull, which can be fitted up with a I bulkhead and towed from Havanna P to the United States. ^ Florence Times. 1 We loose the state championship h t in corn production this year, and i 'very probably , also, the national 1 championship, to Dillon. We hope 1a that Dillon has captured the nation- S ; al championship if we have to lose | it. We do not know of any peo- li pie more entitled to it, or who 1 would make any better use of it. 11 We did very little ourselves to get A any return for the county for the 1 distinction, but we bet a good hat that Dillon will not let an opportunity esc^e to make a good use of the advertisement that is due her therefrom. Master's Sale. Under and by virtue of a decretal order granted by His Honor, R. C. j j Watts, Judge of the Fourth Judi-1 cial Circuit, in the case of George E. 1 Wil6on and others as trustees of j the Southern Bargain House, against Allen Surles. bearing date the 12th day of December, 1911, 1 will sell at pubilc auction to the highest bidder for cash before the court house door in Dillon, S. C., i on the first Monday in January, 1912, being the first day of said; month, during legal hours of sale, all of the following described real' estate and being in the County of Dillon and State of South Carolina, and bounded and described as fol-! ! lows, to wit: ^ ' First Tract: Containing four j hundred acres, more or less, and bounded on the North by- lands ofi I estate of T. P. Squires; East by j ! ruu of Little Pee Dee river; South by public road leading from Dillon j i to new bridge across Little Pee Dee tj ; river, the lands of R. L. Lane, and the lands known as the Donaldson I ! lands, and West by public road | | leading from Little Rock to Mar-,; ion, and being the same tract of ! land devised to Allen Surles by the will of his father, A. B. Surles, and I , known as the Clark lauds. j I | Second Tract: All that certain tB lot of land near the town of Dillon, t & , in county of Dillon and State afore- 5 said, measuring one hundred and I fifty feet, and bounded on the North | by lot of \V. J. Pace; East by Dar- ? gan street; South by Twenty-Sixth avenue, and West by lot of Wade ! and Will Staekhouse; said lot be Ing showu on plat of the Alfred B Staekhouse property by J. M. Johnsoon, Jr., surveyor, and being the | same 101 conveyed lo Alien Surles g by John Roberts by deed dated the 3rd day of January, 1910. Purchaser to pay for all papers. Any' person failing to comply with this bid, the property will be resold on the same, or some subsequent salesday at the risk of the purchaser. | A. B. Jordan, 12-14-3t. Master.' To the Stockholders of Maple Cotton Mill. Take notice that a meeting of the stockholders of Maple Cotton ] the Company on the 16th day of the Comppanyy on the 16th day of; January, 1912, at twelve o'clock, M.t to consider the advisability of! liquidating said corporation and' collecting and selling its assets, and I to act upon a resolution passed byj the board of directors at a meeting held on December 7th, 1911, which, la as follows: j "That it is the sense of the direc| tors that this corporation should' bel iquidated, its property sold,| and all debts and other obligations paid, and the balance, if any, dis-| tributed among the stockholders in! accordance with their respective! rights. That a meeting of the stockholders be called at the office! of the company at Dillon, S. C., for January 16th, 1912, at 12 o'clock! , M." By order of the Board of Directors. Wm. M. 1 Lamer, Pres. & Treas. J. W. Lanford, I 1 Acting Secretary. 12-14-5t Master's Sale. j Uinder and by virtue of an order j granted by Hie Honor R. C. Watts, * Judge of the Fourth Judicial Cir- 5 cult, iu the case of Philip W. Be thea against Bruce & Williams, I | will sell at public auction to the; J highest bidder for cash before the building used as the court house ; in the town of Dillon, on Monday, i January let, 1912 at 12 o'clock M., | all of the following described real | I estate, situate and beina in the | town of Mallory, county of Dillon j and State of South Carolina, and known as Lot No. I. Block E., on I the West side of the L&tta Branch | railroad, and bounded on the east | by the right of way of the said rail road; South by public road, and on the North ajid West by the lands I formerly belonging to the estats of 1 R. C. Emanuel. Terms of sale, cash. purchaser to pay for all papers. Dillon, 8. C., December 6, 1911. I A. B. Jordan, Master Dillon County, g \ * \ ; nEE9ESESB8B38E2B5SB I A SURE CI I "THE BE CM We have nothing to ( MB line of drugs that c? |l this niaiady, hut don't i HI is a remedy. When j ^ *nd dl8coura((fd and ti SH go wrong just pay a M beautiful and finely eq Uj tain. The very night ^ make you feel better i S of a "Kirby Special," Vj other good thing* h Fj fountain will haaiili y V ami make tlie world |i again. Vours 1 + + + ^ + It 4* + ^ 1 ? 4* -I- 4* ! -JIt 4* 4* 4* 4* ' m 4* 4* 4* I j 4 % 1 EVAN'S PH v_ _ J 3 Agent for Belle Mead Sweets 3 DILLON, i iiiiiiimiiiiiiiuiimi j Old Santa i S He is on his way here in his b ! will make his headquarters at I J t i aone ior several years, l ne tainly must not have effected as he will have the largest stc of pretty things at our store li Dillon. All kinds of Toys, Be children, and the larger folk c could wish for in Cut Glass, I: verware, Novelties of all kind Sets. Sewing Sets, Military Se Cases and?well, it would be hundreds and hundreds of thi in our store. You can find ; for any occasion. Now, do n< Claus while he is here, you w | WHLtLER HAI | DILLON, ItMHMUUI JRE FOR | UES" | >ffer in tiie m cure this clispair; thero Bl ou feel blue iIurs seem to -1?U finii* iu vui luipped foiiu- II of II will ^3 ind Che taste Dy and all Uie RS med at our HTI our troubles IR feel bright Itraptvtfull). M v !- + + jfly i* b Ifj * *i- a fy * m nn ARMACY g The Rcxall Store SOUTH CAROLINA S niBiKiiiimiiiimii s Coming i s ig flying machine, and : our store, as he has low price of cotton ceroid Santa's business, >ck and greatest varety le has ever shown in >oks and Games for the an find any thing they [andpainted China, Sil1, Toilet Sets, Manicure ts, Smoking Sets, Jewel imposible to name the ings he is showing here a suitable present here >4" <1 4-/* />?? 11 -?* ?- ? si tan iu Ldll UU Ottilia 2 ill be glad you came. WARE @.| s. c 5 v IUIIIIIIIIIUUHIK1 -#^ i