r ?!j? StUnn ifmtUi. t ESTABLISHED 1894. THE DILLON HERALD, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MOKMM; MARCH 14. IlitH. VOL. 22, NO. 18 k UEUI.JOHIIH.DHID I KILLED IN FRANCE THE F1KST TO VOLUNTEKK FOB FOKKION SKKV1CK His Death Brings Sorrow to Hun( Amis of Friends in State and Count/ Lieut. John H. David, lighting in France, wus killed in action March 1st. This announcement will bring genuine sorrow to scores of Lieut. David's friends throughout the county and state. The details of Lieut. David's . death were not given. His father. Dr. J. H. David, received a telegram from the war department Monday night at 7 o'clock announcing thai ^ Lieut. David had been killed in action March 1st. P There waa no more popular young man in Dillon county than Lieut. David. He numbered his friends by the hundreds, not only in Dillon county but all over South Carolina. Graduating from the South Carolina Military Academy in the class of 1913, where he took a high stana in his classes, Lieut. David returned to Dillon and was associated with his father in agricultural and mercantile pursuits until the declaration of a state of war between the United States and Germany. Lieut. David was the first Dillon county boy to seek admission to the officer's training camp at Ft. Oglethrope, but was rejected on account of a slight physical defect. Having offered his services to his country he could have returned to his usual pursuits in civil life without the _?OUV11UV.C U1 IIUUUI, UUl lie was determined to be of service to hie country and going to Washington he secured u special permit from the War Department admitting him to the officer's training camp. Here he took a very high stand and at the end fof three month's was given a rat lieutenant's commission. When his company commander asked for volunteers to go to France Lieut. David was among the first to offer himself for foreign service, beK* . ing the first Dillon county boy to volunteer for servico abroad. After a brief furlough at home he was ordered to New York where he Bpent several weeks drilling raw recruits and preparing men for foreign duty. He sailed for France in October and shortly after his arrival was assigned to duty in the trenches. Letters were received from Lieut. David at regular- Intervals and while he was not permitted to tell what part he was taking in the war, yet a careful reading between the lines showed that he was in the fiercest of the Ighting. In one letter he told of having been in the trenches for several weeks In mild nm1 u-nt-.i dep and spoke of the comforts he njoyed while out of the trenches for a brief rest. While the details of Lieut. David's death will not be known until a fuller report is received from the war department, yet it is probable that he lost his life in the fierce fighting between the American and German forces on March 1st. This was the first big engagement with the enemy and although the Americans were victorious, the casualty list was heavy. In this engagement the Germans used all the barbarous methods they could conceive of to demoralize the American forces, but their attacks were met with, undaunted courage and they were finally driven back to their trenches with great loss of life. . The first to volunteer for service abroad, Lieut. David was the first Dillon county boy to die in action on foreign soil. His death brings the war with its attendant horrors close o the hearts and homes of hundreds of Dillon county people. In early life John David's ambition was to be a soldier. It was a dream of his boyhood days and as he grew into young manhood his fondmess for the military increased. Shortly after entering the Citadel he was tendered on appointment at the United States Military Academy, but ould not enter on account of a slight defect of vision. This was a great disappointment to him, but he tontlnued his studies at the Citadel with unabated energy and when he graduated from this institution he took a high stund in military t science. He promptly took advantage of the first opportunity circumstances offered to follow the profession he loved so well, and it is safe to say that if his manner of death had been of his own choosing he would have preferred to die as he did?a soldier's death on the "battleHeld fighting in defense of human rights ond liberties. John David will be missed in the ommunlty. He was a model young man who held truth and honor as 4 r MKTKtomSTK CiKT VKK1)1(T Supreme Court Sustains Ixiwer Court in Insurance Cast*. i | A telegram was received Saturday : stating that the supreme court of Illinois had sustained the verdict of the lower court which gave the Dillon Methodist church a verdict for $12,000 against an insurance company for losses sustained in the Are thai destroyed the church three years ago. There was universal re' joicing in Dillon when the good news i was received. ! The insurance company against ' whom the verdict was obtained j makes a specialty of church insur' ance. Kev. Mr. Cauthen wrote the | company and asked if they would ! take $12,000 on the church at a cer! tain rate. The company replied. I stating they would be glad to carry j J that amount at a certain rate and en- j , closed an application blank which ! the church trustees were asked to' j fill out and return. The application was duly executed and mailed to the' company a day or two before the fire! occurred. The company refused to pay the loss, claiming the insurance was not in force at the time of the Are. Suit was instituted and the lower court gave the church a ver-1 diet for $12,000. An appeal was taken and a few days ago the supreme court of Illinois handed down a verdict sustaining the decision of the lower court. I liikl T. LANK PKSCKIIIKS TIIKNCH I JFK I ! Says liomtmrdmcnt is Like ???*? " - VW ...til lit III/ toon. These men are directly under my charge. They are very proud of me and look to me for everything. It takes considerable trouble to attend to their needs. We are allowed to write more freely than at first. In my next letter I will try to make it more interesting. Have lived over here a little over four months and if I have to "cash in" I have been well paid. So if anything happens to me you all just take it as light as you can. "Ilave experienced almost supreme happiness, have been in the trenches several days. A Wouldn't write you all about it, but it is so interesting I can't help it. And by the time you get this guess our stay will be over. If you will imagine about twenty of the most severe electric storms you have ever seen all operating at the same time, you can hava some idea of some of our displays. We all look at the situation from a jolly point of view, something like a Christmas celebration. Sometimes there is u whole swarm of planes overhead and to watch the ! barrage is beyond putting it in ! words. We are not uncomfortable, I j plenty to eat, sleep as often as we; need it in dugouts. Am in one now. I The death rate is very small." Salt- of War Stamp* Charleston. March 14.?The treasury receipts at Washington show i that the salt s of war savings stamps are increasing with encouraging' steadiness, indicating that the mass of the people, now realizing the Im-' portal.c. and advantage of (his form of government security investment, are getting in the habit of buying the stamps. The February sales for. the entire country showed a great j increase over January. The follow-' ;ing are the official figures: Decern-1 J her $10,945,471; January. $24,559,! 7 22; February $41,148,244. | South Carolina, while behind in sales, shows a steady increase. The | last week reported was the best ' week yet in the state, the sales be-. ! lngg $44,020.25. South Carolina's total, up to March 2, was $276,-1 862.75. ! priceless gifts and his entire life from hi* p.irl* hnvhnnrf ,tavu ui.iu , w ? J ? ' above reproach. He was popular not only at homo where his life had been I an open book but numbered lifs | friends by the score all over South' 1 Carolina. A gentleman at all times, he was polite and courteous to all classes, and his untimely passing brings poignant sorrow to the homes of the humble as well as the great. Lieut. David is survived by his father and mother, Dr. and Mrs. J. H. David, and the following sisters: Mrs E. O.Hransford, Mrs. W. W. Dixon, and Misses Helen, Edna and Alice David. As a mark of respect to Lieut. IVavid all the stores and business houses in Dillon closed from 12 till 2 o'clock Tuesday while the graded schools closed for the day. NI1RATES SURE TO BE | DELIVERED TO FARMERS |. i RKPORTS TO CONTRARY PUltPOSKLY CIRCLLATCD ( Chargwl Tliat Selfish Interests l*ul 1 Out Word In Order to Sell Ni- ' ' l trates at fl(K) Ton and Up. I i Washington, March 2.?There i does not appear to be any founda- i tion for the reports coining to Wash- ington that the Government will be t unable to furnish nitrate of soda in ] time for the spring crops. I Senator Simmons said tonight that I his information from the department' of agriculture is to the efTect that al-;: ready -1,500 tons of soda have been landed at Wilmington and nnnthor! cargo is expected to reach that port1 \ some time this month. The senior11 senator says his information is that every order placed with the govern- | ment for this fertilizer will be fulfill-)' ed in plenty time to be used for the'i spring crops. ji The erroneous report originated : through the same source which has! been trying to convince farmers thatj , they will not get the nitrate of soda j, in time for the crop this spring in j ^ order that private concerns might sell their supply to the people of the | ( South at from $100 a ton up. Abso- j lute information has reached Wash-, ington that private interests have I been circulating these reports and1 it is more than probable that the ' reports coming from Wilson that the,1 government will not be able to sup-, ply the fertilizer, comes from the; 1 same source. ;* The secretary of agriculture hasM given Senators Simmons and Over1"11 man and Representatives Robinson I and Doughton absolute assuruneeP time and time again that the sodas would be delivered in time for use. i All of these gentlemen tonight be-j' lieve the contracts will be carried out |1 to the letter and that there will bel no delay in the farmers obtaining!* whatever amounts they hav^j^pked1 for. They believe the farmers ueed ' have no fear that delivery will be, made promptly. j1 o PARTNERS HI!*!* MUST MAKE RETURN A1I Concerns With (iittss Income ot/ 9U.OOO Liable to Tax /y Deputy Collector Jenkins who If here this week assisting persons in making out income tax returns re- < guests The Herald to emphasize the' I fact that all co-partnerships, whether j incorporated or not, whose total bus-1 lness for the year amounts to 16,000 are subject to the excess war profits j, tax and must make returns before j i April 1st. Collector Jenkins says ] this provision of the law is not gen- . erally known and that many copurt- < nerships have not made returns. ( This return must he made in addition to the regular individual re- . turn made by one or all of the part- , nets in the business. Collector Jen- , kins will be at the court house every , day this week from 0 in the morning , till C o'clock in tiie evening. Eveij person whose income totals $2,000 per year must make a return. March 31st is the last day for making returns and the penalty will fall on all who fail to make their returns by that date. ! ?M \i,i ami Home Niii-siiii; Classes I The Avon Club has volunteered in behalf of the lied Cross to get up i classes in First Aid and In Home i Nursing to be organized and run next week. I)r. D. M. Mich&ux has been secured to give the lesson in i first aid and Mrs. J. A. McQueen to give the lectures on Home Nursing and care of the sick The classes'1 are limited to twenty-five members each, but it is honed that other ; classes nmy bo organized when 1 these are finished, as both Dr. Michaux and Mrs. McQueen have refused to accept any renumeration for conducting the courses, the only ex- < pense attached to the classes being fifty cents per member and the cost | of the text book which will be very , small. The members of the Avon Club have already secured a good : tnuny members and expect to fill the classes this week. Any one interest- i ed in these classes and wishing to become a member can 'phone to Miss Annie McNeil, chairman of the Committee on Home Nursing or Mrs. James Sprunt, chairman of the com- , mittee of the First Aid. ItnptiM I'nion Meeting The Dillon County Baptist I'nion meeting will be held with IMereicn church March 30th amkttjst. Th churches will please appHjtH delegates. H. A. Wtllta, For Committer. WOMKV FOIU'l'.lt TO LAItOlt | Additional Light on tin- Working of the 4'elehrnted Koltui The correspondent of the Loudon Times -at Amsterdam writes: "At Blankenburghe, the Germans forced a great number of servants to leave their situations and tried to joinpel them to take up the work of unloading, docking and transportation for the army. The young girls refused and were shut up in the Hotel Belvedere, which serves as a nria#in * - f 'Wilt Ul iut'111 yt'I Jjlblftl 111 th<'ir refusal and were liberated: Lhey were requisitioned again and sent to different places, even to the wall of the fort of Zeebrugge in order I to work there for the Germans, i l>alighters of farmers and the hour kvoisie from the surrounding conn- I try have also been requisitioned. ? 'The military authority does not 1 sp?n<- even the disabled and ill The 1 l eli-graaf correspondent on the frott lier reports that a disabled man who ' [jappned to remark that he had onl> ' nne leg was told there was ! work that he could do with his ' hands. A one-armed man was told 1 'We will give you a one-armed com- 1 rade and the two of you can do one ? mans work.' "The communal school at Dud- j zecle has beeu transformed into a penal colony. The building is surrounded with barbed wire, like a prisoner's camp. The chateau near Bruges is also employed as u penal | colony." The Uheinische Westfalisehe Zei-1 lung recently contained a communication emanating front the labor exchange of Collogue, which said in ! part: I "Industry meets with more sind' more dillieulty in procuring artisans, lilliculties that can he remedied only in so far ?s the supply of labor permits. The central intelligence otficc ror manual labor asked at once that j foreign artisans should be called on for aid. These artisans will not be able to replace entirely the German workmen, to say nothing of their demands in respect to wages, which are very often in inverse ratio to their capacities. Experience, moreover, has still to teach us whether the employment from the occupied territories will be of advantage for the munition industries. The demand for women workers in the metollurgic industries, is very great, and the supply, according to the figures, is still' diminished." y ? / lied t'niss Activities The Red Cross work room was , moved last week into the store re :ently occupied by VVrn. Brick. Thin is much more roomy and conYenient md the chapter can do more efficient I work in the new quarters. I The new work room was formally I opened Friday afternoon by a Liber- ' ty Social which was enjoyed by a 1 large number of patriotic people. A , silver offering was taken at the1 door, the proceeds of which amount-' ed to $34.25. The windows and w alls were efTec-i ii\ely decorated with Red Cross pos- j1 lits, flags, etc., and the young ladies! in charge of the entertainment wore Ll.e lied Cross nurses' uniforms. Re fr. shtiieiits of punch and assorted ?akes were served. The program consisted of music, i an elegant address on "Liberty" b> l)r. Watson it. Duncan and an inspiring message front Chaplain John McSween on the Red Cross work at. ill" camp as he saw it. This person it! te.-tin:oi> of tie- wonderful good' lite Ltd Cross is iloing should stini ulate greater enthusiasm and effort in the work If the Red Cross meantso much to our soldiers in camp her. so well cared for and among then , own people, what must it mean to(the wounded and dying on tin- bat-1 tleflelds of France Miss Louise Moore is "house-' keeper" at the lied Cross work room i this week. The packing committee, Mrs. E. T. Elliott, Mrs. C. L. Wheeler and Mrs. ' r W Itethea shipped a large box of 350 neatly made hospital garments last week. The auxiliaries of Hauler. Minturn, Little Kock and Floydale furnished their share of work. Mrs. Will Floyd sent in 14 more new members for Floy dale last week and several members and st/bscribers to the lied Cross magazine were added at the "Liberty Social." Mrs M tl Hot lira iUi i r i:i;i n (if the supply committee has ordered o large supply of material for hospital garments and yarn for knitting The following new oHioers have recenty been appointed: Director of Woman's Work, Mrs Wad** Stack house; Supervisor of Surgical Dros sings. Mrs. F McCurtis; chairman Nursing St rviee, M:s. Joo 1* Lane 'la- Fork l)r. Holliday of Marion filled .in annoint mern itm i>roehi?iurion church Sunday afternoon. A. K. Rogers of Mullins spent the week-end with relatives. Misses Annie Hoy Carinichael and: Margie Croxton of Nichols were visitors .Jiere for the week-end. " James Ilraswell from Camp Jackson is spending a few days with Mr. i and Mrs. John Iiraswell. Mr. and Mrs. B. II. Elvington of Nichols were visitors here Sunday. ! A play entitled "Miss Molly" will be given in the School Auditorium Saturday evening March 16th be-, fining at 8 o'clock for the benefit of School. The public is cordially invited to he present. Don't forget the date. March 16th. lust of Jurors The following jurors have been li.iwn for the Common I'leus Court which punvi.nnc Ui.nilw T. B. Campbell. Bethea. \V J Adams, Manning. T. \V. Konegan, Bet hen. A. J. Carmichael, Carmichael. \V. M Coleman, Kirby. 1\1 lis Scott, Hillsboro. C. 15. Steele, Betliea. I). W. Bet liea. Harlleesville. .i T. McQueen, Hillsboro. iien it Campbell, C'.irmicliael. .1 li A met to, Hillsboro. W ilier B. l ord, Hillsboro. I. A. Mantling. Harllesville. Arthur t>. Llvingion, Hillsboro. S .1 Braswell, Hillsboro. \V. M. Proctor, Harllesville. J. L. Curry, Harllesville. W. B Stackhouse, Harllesville. B. A Moody, Carmichael. W. S. Cottingham, Manning. Henry Jackson, Manning 1). S. Allen, Jr.. Manning. \V. K. Allen, Bethea. S. I). Lane, Harlleesville J. 11. Moody, Jr.. Carmichael. N. E. McQueen, Carmichael. 11 L. Bethea, Bethea. 1>. A. Johnson, Harllesville. Fred Tart. Manning. 1). F. Taylor, Manning. Cornelius Usher. Harllesville. it. i.. .>011011, nuriiesviue. \V. II Smith, Ilethea. It. A. Proctor, Harllesville. ('. E. Taylor. Hillsboro. It. K. Pierce, Ilethea. I'('deration Committee to Meet The Executive Committee of the Dilion County Federation of Women's Clubs met March the 12th. and arranged a very interesting program f??r the spring meeting to he held at l.ittlc Uock April the 27th. with DotitafTf and l.ittlc Uock as hostesses. I.et Ml of the Clubs prepare now to liaVe delegates present with good repdrts. detrude Manning, Cor. Secretary. Latta, S. C. March 12, 1918. \ M-.VV CKMKTKKV M New Bridge road and ii is proposed to locate the new cemetery on the high bluff oa the west side of the road. This is an ideal location for a cemetery as the kind is high and well drained and has the proper distance from the city. It is proposed to secure the services of an expert landscape gardener and make the cemetery as at wini snruDDery and trees. Concrete walks will be laid and grounds will be enclosed willi a substantial) iron fence. The association offers a priae of to the lady who suggests the uiost appropriate name for the new cemetery The names must be sent in by > o'clock Saturday March lfith -? o IIATi; or III !NS SHOWN IN IIAll) How Women ami Children Arc Butchered by llomh* London, Jan. 30.- tCorrespondence of the Associated Press).?The murderous work of a German rlrplane raider by whose bombs many women anil children were crushed 01 burned to death in a receut raid on London is vividly described in an interview by one of the victims in the Daily Chronicle. It is such storlee as this state have roused the Briton to grim wrath and the demand for vengeance. The narrator, a man, had taken refuge in a shelter with man;, others, including a number of women ami children. "We had scarcely got the last oi the people in when the bomb fell,' said the man. "All of them had been as calm and cheerful as yon could wish up to then. The children particularly were fine. They were singing "The Bull Dog Breed' and 'ICOI- lln..-n I- Tr._ ? J * * .. .>j uunu in j 1:11 ucnarf, ana in? i younger kiddies were yelling until ! most of them tumbled off to Bleep Id j their mothers 'arms or on the pile? ' of paper strewn about the place. I "Then came the explosion. There was a short sharp hissing sound which 1 suppose it made in its descent, which even in the basement we could hear quite distinctly, and then came the crash, worse than anything 1 have ever heard. I think most of us down there were stanaed for a moment or two, and the atr scented full of flying pieces of eencrete. Fortunately 1 was just outside two big iron doors at the time, so 1 escaped the worst of it, hat X think it must have been at that tfne my hand was injured. "Fragments were blocking up the exit, and we had to flght through to clear a way out. It was pitifal to hear the women, some calling distractedly for their children, and nfhurc e/.ro.r??i?? * x : ? * * r) o\ i rauiium nam iiirir OHUH'S had been killed in their arms. Sfcme of the children were brought o?t dead. "Our firemen were at work as quickly us possible, but in a few minutes the whole place was like a furnace. The hot b had fallen and exploded, yet not more than ten feet away 1 came across two little children standing absolutely untouched. They were crying with fright, and 1 got hold of them and managed to get them out. That was about the last 1 remember of it, for almost immediately 1 fainted?I suppose with the pain of my hand and arm, of which only then did 1 seem conscious. "One great mass of concrete, weighing, 1 should i+iink, about half a ton, had fallen down right on a group of four women. Tbtoe of them were killed outright, 1 think, but the fourth was only pinned down and was screaming out to be veleao ed. Four of us tried to get her out, but we couldn't make the stonework budge an inch, although we tried t? lever it up with all kinds of things. "All the time the flames were getting fiercer and fiercer and cowing nearer and nearer, and at lengtB one great burst of flames and smoke drove us right away, setting llge to our clothes, and we could not get near the woman again. One of the men was alight from head to loot, and we had to roll him in the water, which was ankle deep, before we could put out the flames. " 'It's simple horrible Inside there", a fireman told me. Masses of stuff had fallen down, making escape impossible for some of the people, and we found them crouched dow n in all sorts of corners, all dead. mult iihj iiau uoviuusiy trie