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?lfp Sillon l^pralii. i ^ W MUX)W WiIJ>, MLLOIT, BOOTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY, 24, 1018 VOL. 22. NO. 11. Mies Genera Thomas left last week fleff Blahmond where she will take a knslnses coarse. Ma A. W. Smith spent the week etf at Marlon with her mother. Mies Alios Boett bee accepted a pesttlon with The Bank of Pases Mills SS bookkeeper. Mrs. J. P. Temple has returned to her home at Savannah, Ga., after %feadlat a week with Mrs. I* W. Mies Flora Nell Ford Is spending T mifil dtr* with friends at Florence and Colombia. Boo. J. M. Kiaor preached at the mHh church Sunday nornlifMr. D. C. McMillan haa completed kto residence on Walnot street. Mr. Chan Bullock la building an attraetire brick store on Main street. Miaa Ethel Hayes is attending a business college at Raliegh. Lieut. W. B. Lester of Camp Lee Best a few days with friends this H. N. Powell has returned from Norfolk, Va., where ho went to risit bis brother Luther Powell who has beam Tory ill. \ L O. Miller is rial ting some of the iff tobacco towns and companies in orth Carolina and Virginia in the W? k*n bad two (mow of LJborty Bw4? nUslag about Are billion dolm MTibo two iMuoa. I am proud; vo mm vmx union county subscribed hw ikin to th? second bond tan*. I ten been caked to aaaiat in aellln| Thrift Stem pa end War Saving Stamps in Dillon county. Mr. Yauderiip resigned the presidency of the biggest bank in America to help cell these stamps, receiving from the I Government a salary of one dollar per year. Many people felt they could not boy Libery Bonds aa they did not come doe for thirty years and the smallest investments that could be made in a bond eu fifty dollar*, very man, woman and child in Dillon oounty is able to Invest in a War Savings Certificate Stamp. Oo to your nearest post office and get a thrift card. Boy a twenty-five cent stamp out of money yoo have been wasting and paste it on your thrift card. During the month of January 94.11 will buy a war savings stamp that will be worth $6.00 in 1923. In I other words you loan the Government | 94.lt and they will pay your (our per cent interest on the money, compounded quarterly, and pay it back to you in five years at your' nearest poet office. If Kr. Vanderlip raises one billion dollars in the United States by selling thrift stamps each man, woman and child in America would have to buy ten dollars worth of stamps. Our population of twenty thousand would requir? that Dillon county buy two hundred thousand dollars of these tamna ? ~~ ? * *? .,m m vii uu oiui j leacuer in Dillon county to become an agent in selling these stamps end ask that they induce each pupil to buy a fire dollar War Baring Stamp. It is my ambition to see every school child in the county, white and colored, loa^ the government five dolku? to holj T^UInn ef>npty CONTEST CLOSES i Mrs. Inez Williams Wins Ford Automobile, Miss Bailey, Second, Miss Elvington, Third, and Alio Mnrmi/#An . WW n?M?WK| m VWf Ml * libVOa i The Herald Auto Contest closed Saturday at 2 o'clock with some little excitement and anxiety among the candidates and their friends. The j office was crowded awaiting the fllnal returns hy the Judges. The race was close right up to the finish and the work accomplished on the last day was a factor In deciding the winner of some of the prises. The work accomplished by the various workers Is highly appreciated and made for The Herald a successful suscription campaign. All the candidates deserve great credit for the way they stuck to the work con-! alderlng the weather conditions for the past thirty day*, and the editor desires to thank each for what they did. We further appreciate the fact that everything in connection with the contest was handled In a clean, fair and impartial manner. JUDGES REPORT m. ao> Dillon, S. C., January 19th, 1918. Mr. . B. Jordan, Editor, Dillon Horald, Dillon, S. C. Dear Sir: ? We, the undersigned Judge* chosen to make the count of the Reserve Vote cut in the Dillon Herald Contest, beg leave to report our findings as follows: M. C*ndid5t^ Votes Cant Reserve Vote Total Miss Rosa Bailey 1.060.850 i 670 inn ? Tin nun Miss Jante Elrington 1.012.100 1,086,600 2,098.700 Miss Loom Hamilton 1.006,260 278,800 1,285.060 Mrs. Ines Williams 996.400 S.019.400 4,015.800 Miss Francos Fass 719,500 10,800 730,300 Miss Bessie Stackhouse 708,300 208,000 916,300 Miss Katie Norman . 516,650 3,600 520,250 Miss Annie Wallace 499,600 3,600 503,200 Miss EtJIth Rising 436,900 436,900 Miss Mandjr Carter 428,600 21,600 460,200 Miss Sheila LeGette 362,600 7,200 369.800 ftllZlS WINNERS First Prise?Ford Auto, Mrs. Ine* Williams. Second Prise?9150 Edison. Miss Rosa Bailey. Third Prise?9100 Edison, Miss Janie Elvlngton. Fourth Prise?Detroit Vapor Stove. Miss Leona Hamilton. Signed: J. R. REGAN, JNO. C. BETHEA, Delinquent Registnuitf Following is a list of persons who have failed to return their question-1 naires and whose names have been handed over to Sheriff Lane, as provided in the Selective Service Act: Bert Holden, colored, M&llory. Morris Davis, colored. Lanes. Chalmers Smith, colored. Mallory.1 Robt. Peterson, colored, Sumter. James Mills, colored, Dillon. Sam McNeal, colored, Dillon. Henry Betbea. colored. Lake View. William McNair, colored. Dillon. i William Alston, colored, Marion. Bernle Cook, Lake View, i William McEachern, colored. Dillon R. 3. I Wallie Bailey, Latta, R. 3. William Monroe Harrel son, Hamer. Rob Brunson, colored, Camden, S. C. Jeff Stewart, colored, Georgetown,! S. C. Crawford Dismal, colored, Cheraw, S. C. John Nick, Dillon, Daniel McRae, colored, Dillon R. 3. Arthur Jones, colored, Dillon. Charlie Smith, colored, Dillon. Arnold Rogers, colored, Hartsville,; S. C. John Johnson, Dillon. Major I^eGette, colored, Minturn, S. C. Jesse Rouse, colored, Bargow, S. C. Abraham Johnson, colored, Sumter. Tnlin T o?.<? I rvnl mm V>IU JLivnio, WU1U1 CU, i/IUUU. John Purdy, colored. Little Rock. Tom Cox, colored, Dillon. Henry McCallum, colored, Hamer, R. 2. David Hardy, colored, Dillon. Joe Randolph, colored. McClellansville, S. C. Frank Williams, colored, Marlboro S. C. ^J^BGllchriet, colored, Dillon R. 3. |^^^^^Blonroe, colored, DILLON FOLKS FEEL FIRST TOUCH OF Wj^H ALL. LINES BUSINESS TALLY SUSPENDED Stores Selling Dry Goods ware Kxcluslvely were all Day Dillon and Dillon county real touch of war business throughout the practically suspended under The cotton down Friday for the five but the oil mill which is food manufacturing to run The order is its Every industries manufacti^*^^^^^^|^^^^H products war munitlo^^^^^H^^^^^f to suspend operatio^^^^^^^^^^^H day week for a Dry goods stores, hardw^^^^^^H^^^H oilices small plants power steam be to Monday for a 1 m. ? i ^ mi1 ui Administrator for saving and relievii^H^^H^^^^fl mendous congestion road terminals, shipping centres. order created a the United che into its