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w rik BULm HeraliL ! F * | . ESTABLISHED 1894. THE DILLON HEKAI.D. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MOItMM. MAI 2. MOM. VOL. 22. No. 21. I DILLON COUi I ? v Clubs Re-organize and i Supporting the Natic Wan Pleasant Hill: E. V. Moody, chair-j man; D. L. Williamson, vice-chair-J man; D. D. McDonald, secretary,; Jas. McLellan, executive commit-1 ioatllfln PnmmlHaA ?n WAivlat?nttnn I ?vvsjuM*a. wuiuiiilUV Vll lCf,?OU IllIWll . I Fred Oliver, W. M. Arnette, D. D. McDonald.' Delegates to County Convention: D. L. Williamson, W. M. Arnette. - , Judson: W. W. Evans, president; Frank Smith, secretary; Executive Committee: H. McRae, It. M. Jack-; son, C. McLaurin. Member county executive committee, D. D. 'Mclnnis.; Delegates to county convention: C. McLaurin, H, McRae, J. Cottingham [ and Jenks McQueen. Each delegate; was given authority to select his al- j tern ate. Gaddys Mill: F. M. Page, presi-, , dent; J. C. Adams, vice-president; W. B. Caddy, secretary-treasurer; Committee on registration: W. A. Lupo, Gaddy Carmichael, Charles Gibson. County Executive committeeb man * r \f Pmro F.VOPIItfvn nnmmit. tee: W. B. Caddy, C. P. Turbeville, W. Gaddy. Delegates to County Convention: R. S. Rogers, J. C. Adams, W. 13. Caddy, F. M. Page. Centerville: W. P. Allen, president; County Executive Committeeman, W. B. Allen. Executive committee: H. N. Cousar, \V. B. Steele, A. L. Parham. Enrolling committee: R. W. Lester, M. H. Galloway, J. A. McLeod. Delegates to county convention: W. B. Allen, W. W. Parham, ' M. H. Galloway, R. L. Alford, D. S. Rogers, J. F. Rogers, J. F. Berry, L. B. Campbell, J. F. Williams. Latta: J. H. Manning, president; J. W. Smith and E. B. Berry, vicepresidents; W. H. Smith, secretary; w R. J- Dew, executive committeeman. js Enrollment Committee: E. A. Bethe ' s w- Eppes, H. B. Seymore. Delegates to County Convention: L. L. Watson, S. W. Parham, J. H. Manf \ ning, E. B. Berry, Hardy Johr^son, J. W. Smith. T. W. Berry. H. B. Seymore, H. A. Bethea, J. L. Easterling. Hamer: J. A. McEachern, presiI dent; W. S. Campbell, Vice-Presi1 dent: E. L. Westbury. Secretary. Delegates to the County Convention: D. A. McCallunt, Watson McDuniel, E. L. Westbury, Jno. W. McKay. Alternates: J. F. Graham, 0. It. Campbell, A. K. McLellan, Daniel McDuf -fy. Executive Committeeman: D. A. McCallum. Registration Committee: W. W. Rowland, W. S. Campbell, Jno. W. McKay. Kemper: C. P. Hayes, president; Kemper Scott, vice-president; J. F. Meares, secretary. Executive comt mitteeman: J. P. Tanner. Committee on registration: II. P. Hayes, C. W. Moody, J. F. Meares. Executive committee: Parker Bnrfield M. E. Hayes, J. K. Brewer. Committee on enrollment; J. G. Smith, Ora Tanner, W. T. Moody. Delegates to ^ County Convention: W. T. Moody. 11. r P. Hayes, M. E. Hayes, J. F. " - W iill: G. 1). Harlow, presS 2. Lovell, vice-president; n secretary; G. D. IJarcommitteeman. Com1 Mon: L. C. Lovell, I Sarvis. Executive iPhatter, A. A. . te. Delegates to \ / G. D. Barlow, 1 / u. Sarvis, F. B. / ates: Tom McPhatter. r 'jf .. ri^witte, B. F. Prince, Jno. ?*rdy. (follow club meetings. )" . Oak Grove: J. Rich Hayes, president; J. S. Fair, secretary; Tracey E. Fore, executive committeeman. Committee on registration: H. T. Hartley, W. K. Fore. David Manship. Committee on Enrollment: M. B. Brigman, T. L. Fore, J. I>. Coleman. Delegates to County Convention. J. Rich Hayes, T. E- Fore, M. B. Brigman. E. B. Berry, Jr.. P. A. George, H. T. Hartley, J. V. Hayes. Alter-' V nates: J. V. Bullarti. David Manship, Eugene Berry, T. L. Fore. J. Madison Berry, J. S. Fair. J. Austin Hayes. ?r1)> L.ake View: P. W. Townsend. presi: dent; J. B. Arnette, vice-president; W. M. Gaddy, secretary. County Executive Committeeman: Hiniard Itog \ era. Corrfmittee on registration: W. ecutive Committeeman: Hiniard Rogers. Delegates to County Convention: 1 W. R. Phillips, E. P. Smith, R. T. wty :rats meet Many Adopt Resolutions mal Administration's Policy ????? Renfrew, J. L. Arnelt, W. M. Gadtly. The club unanimously adopted the following resolution: "Resolved,' that this club is opposed to a state' campaign of candidates from county' to county, for the reason that during the war we should eliminate all politics possible; and further, it would save time and exnense n.? woii oc make for cleaner politics in South Carolina." Little Rock: A. V. Bethea: president; W. B. Stackhouse. vice-presi-1 dent; T. L. Manning, secretary. Executive committeeman: J. W. Hamer. Enrolling committee: J. R.; Thompson, F. L. Bethea, W. B. Stackhouse. L?t.agates to County; Convention: J. W. Hamer, W. B. j Stackhouse, M. S. Britt, J It. Thomp- j son, T. L Manning. Strong resolu-1 ions unqualifiedly endorsing the1 administration in its war policies were adopted. II you want a scholarship to a rep- j utablo business college communicate with The Herald. The scholarship carries a guarantee that you will be given a position immediately after; you graduate at from $50 to $100 per month. Government positions are open for tliousuuds ol' bright boys and girls. This is an attractive proposition and if you are ambitious to do something for yourself or your country see The Herald about this i scholarship. Dillon: A. II. Jordan, president; j j P. B. Sellers, vice-president, 11. A. Bedenbaugh, secretary. Executive I Committee: E. R. Hamer, E. T. EIiott, E. L. Moore. Enrolling Committee: C. L. Wheeler, W. H. Muller, Joe P. Dane. County Executive Committeeman: A. B. Jordan. Delegates to County Convention: J. P. McLaurin, E. T. Elliott, A. B. Jordan, P. B. ! Sellers, W. C. Moore, D. S. Allen, Dr. J. H. David. M. A. Stubbs, J. R. I Regan, C. L. Wheeler, E. R. Hamer, j E. L. Moore, J. B. Gibson, Jno. C. i Bethea, T. S. Rlchbourg. The following resolution offered by Dr. A. J. iEvans, was unanimously adopted: Resolved: 1. That we heartily approve of the declaration by our governmnet of a state of war with Germany and Austria Hungary and of the vigorous prosecution, thereof by our country under the able and courageous leadership of President Wilson. 2. That we heartily approve of the selective draft act by which our naval and military forces have been recruited and built up from every class of our citizens; and, in this con neeuon. we cjeclare cur unswerving sympathy with the governments of Great Britain and Canada in enforcing conscription within their domains. 3. We bitterl> condemn the mobbing of American soldiers and Sailors by disloyal Irish people who have declared their friendship for and sympathy with Germany. t. We heartily favor "igorous prosecution and adequate punishment for disloyalty of every character in our country. f?. We declare our unwaverin . sympathy with and support of our officers and men in every branch of the military and naval service, and in every service that is contributing to the success of our arms; and we have heard with admiration and patriotic fervor of the splendid and .gallant service being rendered by our men on land and sea, and express our utmost confidence in the effective endurance to a victorious end. 6. We express our unbounded admiration for the heroic deeds and, endurance of our country's noble associates who have borne with such splendid fortitude and courage the Horrors and brutalities of a war forced upon them, as upon us by a ruthless and infamous foe. 7. We most heartily favor the prosecution of the war to a victorious peace by which the world shall be made safe for democracy end humanity. N. Resolved, further. That the del epates elected by this Club to the County Convention are hereby instructed *o support the adoption of these resolutions in the County Convention and that the delegates elected by the County Convention to the Ftate convention be instructed to support these resolutions in the State C invention. ' n Mice can he kept away front books with eatle if pieces of gum camphor are laid near them on the shelves. ALLIED LINE HOLDING AGAINST DIG DRIVE I'll J N<i VV (iKKMAN l>KAI> AROUND KEMMEL. Germans Show Signs of Weakening and ('ounter-OfTensive May liegin Any Moment. Again there has come a pause in the battle of Flanders, where the ground everywhere is covered with the gray-clad bodies of German dead, and the British and French are holding securely to all their positions. From Saturday until well into Mondan night Gen. von Armim's forces continued their efforts to break the British lines, on the Ypres salient and to press back the British and French to the southwest, but everywhere their efforts were fruitless. True they gained their objec-' tive and again captured Locre, but a counter-thrust forced them out again. In the hilly region just to the north of Locre the British also pushed back the enetny at several points, notably between Keininel and La Clytte. Much of the snap of the German attacking forces has been absent from the manoeuvers they have heen carrying out in Flanders under the stiffened line of the Kntente troops. To the south near Amiens 'and to the east around Noyon the enemy likewise has failed in all his attempts to push farther forward. The British east of Villers-Bretonneux, which lies directly east of Amiens, have advanced their front, and in the Noyon sector the French have reestablished their lines, which the Germans previously had captured front them. The Germans on various sectors of the line are still hurling tons of |siee: against tne British and French ! positions, but the Allied guns are | everywhere answering them. ' While the present halt in the batitle possibly may indicate the near approach of the throwing into the | fray of the great reserve army which Gen. Foch has gathered, that such is the intention of the supreme cdin-. mander of the Allied forces has not become apparent. It is not improbable, however, that at a meeting of the inter-allied war council in Paris | Wednesday measures having in view. ;the turning of the tide of the battle i will be uppermost in the discussions. In all the various war theaters except the western the situation remains relatively calm so far as fighting is concerned. All along the front in Italy reciprocal bombardments (continue. With the British Army in France. April SO- Up to noon today the budly punished German troops along the Flanders front had made no further attacks against the Allied lines which held brilliantly throughout vosterdsrv's intcnsi> fiplitinir The desperate smashes of von ArninTs army against the Allied lines on the Flanders battlefield yesterday afternoon and evening met with no more suecess than the enemy's futtle and costly attempts early in the day to break through and capture the hill positions west of Kemmel. Not only did the British and French maintain their positions at virtually all parts in the face of furious onslaughts, hut during the night they reclaimed several hits of territory on which the enemy had : ucceujded in getting a hold. Lucre had again fallen into German hands late yesterday, hut the French once more made a dashing counter drive and thrust the enemy out of this important place. ' The Allied line in Flanders this morning were to all intents the j same as when the Germans surged forward yesterday, and in front of the depending positions gray uniformed men lay in great numbers. Fierce fighting continued about Locre all day and the enemy sacrificed great numbers of men in an attempt to push through here. In the meantime the flanks were holding brilliantly against successive shocks. A particularly bitter battle was waged astride the Keminel La Clytte highway, near the junction of the French and British. Here the enemy tried his favorite trick of dividing the two 'orces. hut !>< found no ?veak spots. At Ridgeood, west of Voi rtnezecle, heavy fighting also continued thiougliout the day, t he ermans losing sr<>a numbers of me both killed and wounded. It is imp ssible to say how many attacks the t nerny ,ii ihi> puiui nuring me ? urso of the day. The Gorman artillery which ,had boon greatly augmented for this attack. pounded the back areas incessantly, and the duel between tjhe opposing guns ot all calibers frd?m Saturday evening '^st nigkht was appalling. COUNTY NEWS ANDJiAPPENINGS >K\VSY I.KTTKKS BY ItKHCI.AIC CORRESPONDENTS. News Hems of Interest to Hciiilil Kl>l> and |-'lo\v ??|' tlie Human Titlo. Pleasant Hill. Misses Kutha Wiggigs and Sailie Moody who have been going to sinuui ai uiyue. returned home laid Saturday. Mr. Powell from llowland, will preach at Pleasant Hill the first Saturday afternoon and first Sunday night. The Christain Endeavor Society held its regular meeting last Sunday evening at S:30. A new president and vice president were elected. Mrs. Worth Hums was elected president and Mr. Walter Arnette vicepresident. This society now has forty-six members, most of whom are active. The society has adopted the efficiency chart and has two hundred points on it which gives the red seal and the silver seal. We are now working for the gold one. Forty two members signed the quiet hour pledge, twenty-five joined the Tenth Legion, "seventeen men signed the Temperance pledge and one joined the church. Other school* come and join us in this work foi the Muster. Pleasant Hill School will close Fri day. May 3rd. The cosing exercise* will he held at s:i? that evening. Oak (iliac. The Oak Grove school will (lost wnh an entertainment next Fridav night. May the third. Hon. Andrew J. Pethea, Lieut. Governor of Soutl: Carolina, will deliver an address at four o'clock. The public is cordiallv invited to these exercises. Misses Cora Lee Coleman, Ilellt Alien, i,out8e liurnette, Mrs. Tracej E. Fore and Hudson Fore, attended the meeting of the Dillon County Federation of Women's Club at Little Rock last Saturday. Miss Mary Ann Hayes, an aged maiden lady, daughter of the late Jesse Hayes, died at the home of Nir. Harvey Haxley, last Saturday afternoon after a brief illness and was buried at Bethesda Sunday afternoon, Rev. J. B. Weldon. c***ducting the funeral services. Floydale. Miss Virginia Thompson is visiting her sister. Miss Nellie Thompson lure this week. Misses Mary and Brace Morris, of Angier, N. C., came Saturday night to be with their father and mother, who have been here several weeks. Mr. Morris has succeeded Mr. Fairy as depot agent here. We welcome Mr Morris and family into our midst Miss Belle Bethea, of Latta, spent the week-end with her aunt, Mrs. H. B. Floyd. Miss Evelyn Berry who has been teaching in Lee County, is at home for the summer months. There will be a play "Mr. Bob" at the school auditorium Friday nigh', May 3rd. beginning at nine o'clock. K\erybody come and bring all of your friends. o Minturn. Misses Vergie McLanrin and Myrtle Crowther. from .\IcColl, spent the week-end with Miss Mary Weatherly. A great number of the Minturn ladies attended the Federation of Women's Clubs at Little Rock last Saturday. They report a splendid meeting. Misses Mattie Hanier and Harriet Me Lees spent Sunday with Miss Mary Weatherly. Miss Melville Gibson from Red Springs, N. C., spent the week end with Mrs. Clarence McLaurin. Mrs. Corina Davis, from Marion, is spending several days with Mr. E. A. McCormac. Messrs. Manton Alford. Alford and John Hugh McCormac, students of the Marion High School, spent Saturday 'and Sunday with their parents. The closing exercises of the school will III Ill-Ill ill I 111' vi'tllii't l>ll i 111 i II Friday night May llrd. and Monday night. May ?>th. Friday night tlicic will be a debate by some of flu' high school l?o\s and an address hy Hon. T <?. Mr Food Tin* music rla s will give thi-ir annual ro-iial on Monday night. The public is ror diallv invited. Faddy'* Mill. Rain! Rain! All crops have a dorwnod look. Fanners are planting their cotton over. Indications are that our crops will be sho*-* <s year than we haw ever h Com Caddy says he protJ 4 NEW ROAD CREATES Time for Paying Roai Expired April 1st?M Final C "Meet me ut Maple Swamp crossing with a pick and shovel Tuesday mm ning," said Koad Overseer Sitton to several of Dillon's well-known business men last Saturday. One or two of the men addressed gave Mr. iSitton the "once-over" while the I others gave hint the laugh. "1 mean .what 1 say," continued Mr. Sitton. "If you haven't paid your road tax you must send a substitute or come 'yourself; I don't care which." Finally of the gentlemen ventured to ask "Where did you get it?" "I I haven't not it. but somebody is goiinr to pet it in the neck if they don't comply with the new road law which requires you to pay $2.50 by j April 1st or work live days on the public road." The gentlemen addressed live in the suburbs of Dillon and they began to have vague recollections ot the provisions of the new road lave passed at the last session of the I general assembly. The law provide; that all male persons between the ages ot 2 1 and 5o years must pay or "i before ttie first day of April ol ouch year a road tax of #2.50 ot perform five (lays' labor on the pub lie works of the county. The time expired April 1st. and those whe failed to pay the tax must find a sub stitute or perform the labor. The county commissioners wen ^ appealed t.? but they claimed the) had no authority to extend the time i for the payment of the tax. and sc 1 there you are. The road overseer: .claim they cannot accept the $2.5( j in lieu of the work, and the penait) for failure to pay the $2.5U by Apri ! or periorm tne tive days' laboi I when called out by the overseer is t j misdemeanor punishable by a fine o! j $25. And the bad part of it is th? payment of the fine does not relievt ja person of road duty for that year. Immediately after the fine is paid ' j he can be called out again and again until the five day's labor is perform' The people are up in the air. There are 2500 men in th? county liable to road duty and so far as cm learned not a single one has paid the tax. This means that 2500 men jv ill have to perform five days' labor on the road unless the county commissioners find some way to extend the time for the payment of the tux. Following is the text of the law as published in The Herald in its issue of January 31st: "That the said County Hoard of Commissioners shall appoint for each township. one or more overseers for the purpose of having the roods and highways worked, and shall require said overseers t?> ascertain the names of all persons, living in his township, who are liable for road duty, and to tile with the County Commissioners an alphebetical list of the names. The County Commissioners shall compare this list with commutation tax list as filed bv the County Treasurer, and shnll 'report to the overseers, not later than April 1st each year, the names of all persons in his township who 11v i I'dMl lilt* (-11111111 Uiai IUI1 'tax and ore liable for road duty for .tidy will be a candidate to succeed , himself ?>n this summer's campaign. Mr. .1 C. Adams has been very sick. Mr. J. M. (laddy has recently installed a new type of aceytaline lights. Quite a lot of road work is going on in this section under the newroad law, I guess. I have been informed that Dillon County went from a pauper and without credit to a prosperous money lender in one year. I wonder if this is true and if'high priced cotton hod something to do with it? t l.ake View. Miss Dora Valentine, of Mi. Airy. N. (\, is an attractive guest of Miss Aim a (loodyear. Mrs C. A Rogers, of Fair BlufT, is with her son. Dr. J. (J Rogers, lb* has been very sick, but is improving. Mrs. .1 Prank West, of Raleigh. > spending this week with her sister, Mrs. R. P Klvington. Messrs. L. M. Oliver and P. C. limine spent Sunday with Mr. T. VW Temple. Misses Florie and Mildred Ford sp?Ait Saturday at Marion shopping. Miess Kba Floyd, of Fairmont, visited Miss Daisy Page last week. The Pake View High School will close Friday. Lieut. Governor Andrew J. Bethea, will make an ad dress in the evening at 8:30 o'clock. I c oTVbl<^. LAW DISCUSSION * d Tax Under New Law Tuch Speculation as to )utcome . siijt .'in. Ka? h overseer surrmonfl (111) his; u\ VIW-ll lime i- limua j as he thinks most beneficial to the public service, and shall work them , upon the road five days each year. That all persons who are liable to road duty in lullon county as herein provided, in lieu of performing or causing to be performed labor upon the public highways of said counI ty shall be required to pay to the County treasurer of said county before the 1st day of April in each and |every year as annual commutation tax of two dollars and fifty cents per head, which shall be expended upon the number or joint of public roads of the county in which it was collected, and the officers are hereby empowered to receive this money i and receipt therefor, and the Coun' t v Treasurer shall pay the same to said officer upon demand, provided ' that alt persons who are liable to ''road duty in said county as is now ': provided for by law in lieu of pay'iing said commutation tax or road i tax may perform five days labor of T t?'n hours each on the highways, four days ol' which shall be performed by - oi* before October lath in ea<li and ' V'.i-rv vear and anv person who shall ) den to perforin said work in lieu of paying said commutation tax sh'ill he furnished by the officer of * : l?ik road district a cert ificate setting ' forth tin* fact that ho has worked ' full time, and the tiling of said cerii?ificate witli the County Treasurer and '.the receipt of the latter therefor *1 shall be in satisfaction of said tax * or labor; and any failure to pay said 1 road tax or perform such labor shall f be a misdemeanor, and the ofTendei t upon conviction shall be punished f by a line of not less than ten dol? lars nor more than twenty five dol1 lars. or by imprisonment of not more than thirty days. Amend further,by I, adding after Section 5, a sermon to i be known as Section 5 A| to read &o " follows: Section 5 A. That all able bodied male persons from the age of twenty-one to fifty years, both inclusive, in the County of Dillon shall 1 be required annually to pay two and I one-half dollars commutation or road 'tax except ministers of the gospel [actually in charge of a congregation, (teachers employed in the public (schools, trustees, and persons peiImanently disabled in the military ser vice of th'3 state and persons who served in the late war between the staie:-. and all persons actually en. (ployed in the quarantine service of this state, and all students who may he attending any school or college at the time when the commutation tax hereinbefore provided for shall become due: Provided, That any pt : son claiming exemption from the provisions of this Act on the grounds of physical disability where such disability is not apparent shall be required to procure a certificate of disability from two regular physi 'cians. dated within three months: Provided, Thai school trustees shall jhave credit for actual time served in j school work as trustee when certified to before overseer, o ??? lltVKft IM>AI> OPKN. Waters llavc Subsided nod Lridgefc ( mi be Crossed Without Danger. County Supervisor Easterling says the high water in Little Pee Dee has (tone down and it is safe to cross the river bridges. Parts of the embankment were washed viway on the Stafford's Ilridge road, but the bridge can be reached by the old road running by Miss I^aura Stafj ford's place. Water is still high oa 'the east side of Campbell's Bridge and autoists ar? advised againnt attempting to cross at this point. Buggies and wagons can cross in safety hut the water is too high for 'automobiles. The high water old .very little damage to Muggins' : Bridge, but the smaller bridges on the causewuy were washed away. The I bridges are being rrpleaced thiR 1 week and the road will be open for 'travel in a few days. With these ex eeptions all the river roads are open ! for travel. i n I>r. t'laflin to Speak. I?r A. II. Claflin, a national rop ' resentative of the anti-sah>on league of America, will be in Dillon on Sun 'day ami will address a n.?.ss meeting .of all the churches at the Main Street Methodist chureh at 8:39 P M. Dr. Claflin'8 subject will be: "A War to the Finish." Good music will be a feature of the occasion and everybody is cordially Invited. i J#?