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f t 3hr Sillon ferali. Err-' m*- ? > V MTABLIMPO) IIM. THK DILM)N HKKAI,I), IHLIX)X SOITH CAROLINA, THl KSIAV MOItMVi, NOVKMHKK 7, 1918 VOL 22 \OM COUNTY HEWS MD HAPPENING! IKW8Y WRHA8 BY RBQVLAt OOSMtfOMBIim. n'wilBn, EM and Flow of the Hunan Tide. SSft^S Seller*. Mr. J. L. Mclnnia h?a recently pur >k. .U Din. U.ll aaK^t.1 nM. y ? M1 vuv vau & auv mil itvuwi yivy arty. He will remodel it into a dwell lag houee, and more here the first 01 the year. We welcome Mr. Mclnnii and his eetimable family to town. Miae Anne Sellers left Saturday foi Washington, D. C.t where ahe will engage in war work for the government. Miaa Leila Sellers has been ir Washington ainee last July. Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Foster, Mini Mary Elisabeth Foster and Miss Beralee Baas spent Sunday in Sellers. Rev. W. C. Foster preached at An tioch Sunday afternoon./ A special collection was taken for the Connie Maxwell orphanage. The fin situation ha# improved considerably here, the churches were all open Sundky and school will probably start next week. There have been nc severe cases of "flu" among the white people, but a good many negroes have died with it. One negro man, Frank Jones had his entire family of elever down with it at one time, anothei negro, ?en Fore, lost his wife and child. The farmeri are taking advantage ?.9 ? a Wa ? At vi iuc ucauuiui wcaiun iu gftiuer nu corn and peas and house the hay. A bounteous hay and pea crop liaa beer made, but the corn is generally rather sorry. THE KP1DKMIG ABATING. if Influenza (Mtsstlon Khows Big Im provement is the Past Week. The influensa epidemic Is passing and If there is no recurrence of the . disease it will hare disappeared .entirely In the next two weeks. The epidemic has left a trail of death and suffering in its wake, and not in the memory of the oldest inhabitant hat the country be so sorely afflicted. The epidemic of 1890 took its toll of human life and left many physical wrecks by the waysie, but the pel centage was nothing to compare with the number the present epidemic leaves to its credit. Various theories have been advanced explaining the severity of the present epi mic. It if claimed that the isease found the country under-nourished as a result of the high cost of food-Btuffs and mIbaH irrno f hoaH mr a v in the lorors cities before it reached the towns and rural districts. Others claim the country ha" been under a high nervoui xiensioi' Aice the war began, many , noUtttlffathers, brothers and sister! suffering mental tortures over loved ones who were at the battle-front, while others were overtaxed by putting in long hours of over-work. In -' other words the vitality of the nation / had been lowered as a result of the war strain and the nation was not prepared to resist the ravages of the j disease. There may or may or may not / be anything in these theories, bul nevertheless it is a fact that epidemic* always follow wars. There are many of the older citizens who remembei that the measles took a heavy toll of human life during the civil wai and we are told that small-pox killed thousands of soldiers and civilian! during the revolution. But the epidemic is disappearing and the people who have lived under a ner vous strain for the past few weekc are breathing a sigh of relief. It ii the most terrible calamity that hai ever been visited upon our immediate section, and leaves the shadow oi death hanging over many of oui homes. The people are requested to exercise every precaution in safe guarding their health this winter. As t government health expert remarked a few days ago. "It is the wise man who will take the best of care of himself this winter." The disease will not disappear entirely until nexl spring. There will be sporadic casec all during the winter, and several more deaths are likely to result, bul if the proper precautions are taken tile cases can be confined to the homet in which they originate. c y Jesse T. Bethee. Mr. Jesse T. Bethea, formerly a res ident of what is now Dillon county died at Corpus Christie, Texas, a fee days ago according to a message re eetved by relatives. The exact dat? f his death was not given. Mr. Be thee had many relatives in and around Dillon. He was about 43 years old ?-o We haven't had any news from the crown prince since our long rang* guns got Into notion. | LEROY WILLIAMS SUCCUMBS. I DUlon Lom* Another Promlneat and I Frogrewlve Budimw Man and | CMaen. j Dillon is called upon to mourn the l loas of another prominent and progressive citisen in the death of LeRoy Willtams which occurred at 9 o'clock Saturday night. Mr. Williams fell a| ; victim to pneumonia, following an at- : ; tack of the dread disease, influenz*. , \ : The afternoon before he was taken I ill Mr. Williams was about his busi-^c ! ness and appeared to be enjoying his 11 ! usual good health. He seemed to be ?: ?{in unusually good spirits and wentt -j down to the river for a squirrel hunt. | a - j He returned home late in the evening j c r' and Via (alran 111 < "?u- ?' ... uiaiiug lUC 111 g 111. I a i! He made a brave fight for life, butj c | the disease had taken .too firm a;t r! hold upon hin\, and Saturday night 1 11 at nine oclock he passed away. f "Roy" Williams, as he was known i to everybody in Dillon county, was * one of the town's most popular young e i business men. He was of a genial dis- t -1 position, and so far as outward ap- fa | pearances went, if he had any trou- n - J bles they weighed lightly on him. He a 1! Was full of life and his personality * s I seemed to radiate good cheer and hap- 0 piness at all times. He was absolute ly straightforward in all his busindbs 1 1 dealings and by these methods had 1 r built up a large and prosperous furn- a > iture business. He was just in the v ? prime of life, having recently passed * s his 40th birthday, and it is peculiarly : sad that he should be cut down just a i at this time. fa Mr. Williams was a native of Dup' lin county, N. C. He entered the furniture business when quit a 51 young man and after spending several J ! iyears in Wilmington, N. C.. he moved ' 1 to Dillon and opened the furniture 1' business that bears his name. He ' ', prospered from th*? hwinniii. J 8 ? ww?.??.u6 aim |was the owner at the time of his 11 death of one of Dillon's most prosper- 8 Joub business establishments. ^ i Twelve years ago Mr. Williams was p * I married to MisB Mitchell of Fairmont, ^ N. C-. who with one son and on daugh p ter, survives him. t 't The interment was made at Mt. 8 I Holly Sunday at 11 o'clock, the ser- ^ "' Ices being conducted by Rev. Wm. c I j B. S. Chandler. H , II 1 Austin Hamilton. n ! 11 tl I Another substantial citizen has full.|en a victim to the dread disease in b ! I the dMtlt of Austin Hamilton, which t .'occurred Wednesday night. Mr. Ham- 11 ' ilton was a fine specimen of the phy- f ,' sical man and enjoyed most excellent s health until seised with the terrible ti ( malady, to which he succumbed in a a . few days. Just a week previous to ti i his death Mr. Hamilton was called b , upon to mourn the death of his broth- d I er, W. W. Hamilton, who passed away v . in a few days after he was prostrated. C , All of Mr. W. W. Hamilton's family U /were down with the disease when he j j died and his brother over-taxed him- p [ self administering to the relief of w i his brother's family in their hour of fi .'double affliction. A few days after f L his brother's death he was taken ill. n J He was promptly removed to the hos- e ,'pital where he received the best of .' medical attention and the most care- i t , jiui nursing, but tbe progress of the I a ; j disease could not be stayed and Wed- j r nesday night he gave up the fight, j V t Mr. Hamilton was a substantial far- jc mer and citiafn. He wag a very quiet, j C > unobtrusive man who attended strict- i'1 I ly to his own affairs, and lived in ' J peace and harmony with all who * [{knew him. He owned several farms ii i near town which he worked with good i P I Judgment and was getting ahead in d 1! the world when the final summons | came. ? >{ The interment was made at the 0 i j Hamilton burying ground near Dillon r ?. Thursday afternoon, the services be- ^ > ing conducted by Dr. W. B. Duncan, j8 Mr. Hamilton leaves a wife and two 1 1 ' small children and hosts of friends f I to mourn his death. 1 o 't k Orphanage Work Day. j P [i ? ill In as much as the epidemic of t " Spanish Influenza made it impracti-1^ ': cable to observe Orphanage Work Day ' on October 19. the day set apart for 1 It, I wish *.7 suggest that November ( | 9th be substituted, and all churches f ' and Sunday schools throughout the; . 1 state, of all denominations, use the t ' occasion for a grand rally in the in terest of their respective orphanages. ^ There has never been a time when the needs of the orphanages were more urgent, and it is hoped that there will be a unanimous response ' to this call. Speaking for the Methr odists of the two conferences, I feel c sure there will be a cheerful and unit- t - ed rally on that day in the interest of . " their institution. . 1 T. C. O'DKLL, * Supt. Epworth Orphanage. t O G 1 I i Subscribe to The Dillon Herald. $2 * per year is advance. I MR RUM. I. BUS* ON TERMS Entente Considering Making Ger- 1 many Surrender Kntlre Navy J Including Submarine* and the Helgoland ' c " j Washington, Nov. 2?The supremo , var council at Versalles, it was! earned today through diplomatic, ihannels, haK under consideration, as f he starting point in framing terms c ?f an armistice, proposals that Ger-(8 nany be required to withdraw her i irmies without their military supplies'8 >r the loot being carried from France j8 ind Belgium, to a zone thirty miles ? hi the German side of the Rhin and j k.? ? K ? 1 <1 ... II ..ai me cunre ufrman navy, inciud- | ng submarines and the Heligoland! ortresses be surrendered. ja It is possible that the conditions, I rhen finally agreed upon may not(l] merge from the council in exactly, his shape but it is believed they will ?e no lesg potent for preserving the c nilitary supremacy of the Allies and a t the same time offer propositions rhich the Germans may accept with-; ut further fighting. 0 The same information coming r hrough the same sources, indicates hat the armistice terms as finally a greed upon may be known to the* rorld Monday or Tuesday and that hey will be forwarded to Germany ^ or acceptance in their entirety or noti* t all, without opportunity for quibiling or trading. From a military point of view the roposal that the German armies be * isarmed and retired thirty miles be- j ond the Rhine is classed only as antamount to an absolute surrender. ^ illie'd and American armies many oad8 to Berlin itself but with the urrender of railway rolling stock derive them of means to retrace their teps to fight if they would. , There is some question among miltary observers as to whether such omplete terms are really necessary. Undoubtedly the object sought in ropoRing that the enemy retire thir-j' y miles behind the Rhine is to de- L troy the German inner defense sys- v em. That system is -supported by a 1 hain of fortresses without which the l] Ine would be untenable and some 1 nilitary experts believe it may not be e ecessary to go farther than to deland the surrender or dismantling of , hose forts. i* The military discussion developed 1 y the proposals brings a suggestion 11 hat a wide zone might be estab- v ished within the borders of Germany 1 torn which the armed forces of both 11 ides might be withdrawn until peace 1 reaties finally have fixed new bound- 11 ries. The French and lielgian fron- 11 lers are expected to be reoccupled ? y the Allied armies but it might /evelop that as the German forces 8 rould be required to fall, back the *1 lerinan frontier provings might be c ?ft unoccupied in a military sense. 8 It seems certain to military ex- 0 erts here, however, that the terms 1 rill include the surrender of the Metz S ortification? and such of the nhinn c or tresses as will clear the way for k lilitary invasion of Germany to an 8 xtent making resistance futile. 0 President- Wilson continued today i> keep in touch with the war council w t Versailles through his personal ?' epresentatives. Col. House. No one in Q Washington outside of the inner offi- f ial circle knows the exact extent of e !ol. House's powers but they are be- S ieved to be very large. They probaily do not go to the extent of au- n borizing the conclusion of any bind- t ng agreement for an armistice or t eace without approval of the Presi- 8 ent. a It has been, of course, deemed in- f dvisable to disclose what is going ? in at Versalles, especially while the v roceedings are still under way and 1 lefore the various views of the dele- d ates have crystallized into ultimate c erms to be offered to Germany, c Iside from the danger from an open liscussion while questions are still ( insettled, it is regarded as discour- ? eous between nations for one of the \ ?arties to the conference to make ? ny disclosure until an agreement has l een reached. It is even probable that ' his rule will govern until the terms f lave been presented to Germany. I In some quarters there is a d's-j tosition to turn to the Turkish armis-l tee an affording a very likely prec-1 'dent in its general principles to the leniands to be made upon Germany hough there would of necessity be :reat variations in detail owing to the ( lifferent conditions. o NOTICE. Our linotype machine got out order yesterday and as the lilotyne man is down with the flu here was no one to fix it. thereore, several important local articles had to he left out. We are fointf to press with the type that tad he en set before th^^ta^hine Kit out of order. iiiinu|iiiHieu 11 10 nis own use?got i notion in his head that he had tc ome to Marion?and he came. When le got here he bought a horse foi 300.00. He is said to have given hit ather, Henry Nixon, Rome money, nd also to have "blown" some. The Express Compnay, missing the iioney investigated the absence ol tlbert. Soon he showed up at Hamet. He was , 'aced under arrest, harged with having stolen the packge. When he saw that he was in rouble he confessed and told th# auhorities where they would find most f the money. The two detectives arived in Marion at noon Sunday, ovei he Raleigh & Charleston, and within , short time they had scrambled unler the house and brought out th ast sum of $4,300.00. That is, vast or Albert! The old father, Henry, Uxon, was also placed under arrest, o show that he did not know about he stolen money. Albert was a foolish negro, surely, nd now sees it himself. What will teroine of the old man and the $30C lorse we know not, but Albert it leaded for a striped suit.? Marior liar. ? o HEROIC CONDUCT. I nrlnimed Questionnaires. Names of Registrants whose ques:ionnaires have been Returned Unclaimed : William Hazel, Georgetown. S. C. Roy Roilen. Newport News, Va. Hushefl Rawls, 537 Twenty Second Street, Newport News, Va. Hugh McKenzie, Hamer, Route 2. James Adams, Dillon, Rt. 3. Aleck Carmiehael, I.atta. Rt. 1. Judge Setzer Simmons. I.atta, Rt. 1 box 26. Worth Anderson. Lake View, Rt. 3 box 106. Clarence Moore, Lafta, Rt. 1. Nick Mace, Lattu. James Barney Page, Richmond, Va William Henry Owens, Dillon tow Officer* and Men of ilie Uiun bewia Met Tlieir Fate. "About midnight on the night ol Vpm l s i d, the lookout on th< .eon (iambetia reported a sailing essei approaching the cruiser,' rrite8 Lieut. R. W. Neeser, in Scrib ier'8. "She was evidently bound foi he Adriatic and this called for as summation of her papers by a oarding officer. A boat was lowered or this purpose and Capt. Andre, ol he Oambetta, was awaiting the reurn of his officer, when at twent) uinutes after midnight, the warship ia8 struck by a torpedo, w hich penerated the dynamo room and instantly dunged the vessel into darkness. A ew seconds later a second torpedo exdoded in one of the boiler comparttienls. The engines stopped and the ruiser began to settle. On the bridge lapt. Andre gave orders to assure the aiety of his men, while he himself tuietly awaited death at his post of ommund. For the majority of the hip's company; there was little hope d? rescue, the explosion of the first orpedo having disabled out of the t. O. S. call. Only a few of the boats ould be lowered, owing to tbe heavy ;eel of the cruiser and these were 0011 filld with men. "Be steady, my hildren!" called out the captain. The boats are for you! We officers rill remain!" Perfect discipline eigned to the last moment. The men uietly obeyed the orders of their of icers, who seemed to be everywhere ncouraging and assisting the sailors, lowly the great cruiser began to ieel. Halts, spars and other floating naterial were thrown overboard, and hose who could not find places in he boats were ordered to save themelves on them if they could. "Courge! We did together!" rose the cry rom the bridge, where Admiral ienes, Capt. Andre and their officers rere still clinging to the bridge rail, ['hen the Leon Gambetta turned and lisappeared beneath the waves amid ries of "Vive la France!" from those in board. Not an officer survived the disaster. )ut of a total complement of 821 ouIs, 684 brave officers and men vei^? lost. The conduct of every man if the lost cruiser had been heroic, hat of their officers magnificent 'Nous autres, nous resterons!" will orever remain the watchword of the "reach navy, o MAKIOX NFXatO STKAIjS %ll?ert Xixson, in Service of Kxprew ( 'nnipjuiy Steals Big Sum. Sunday two detectives slipped quiet y into Marion got into touch with th? iheriff's office, went out to the home >f Henry Nixon, a well known negrt icrambled under the house a bit anc Mine out with a little more thar 14300 ? in cash. Albert Nixon, son of Henry Nixor las been in the employ of the Southsrii Express Company, in North Cardltia, as messenger. A few days age i package came into his hands, and tlbert smelled the money inside. He LETTERS FROM FRANCE .! From Sergt. D. E. Briti to his ?! mother, Mrs. M. S. Britt, ol Little ? Kock: > France, Oct. 15, 1918. I Dear Mother: ? i 1 haven't had -a letter from you since I wrote you last, but on account i ol having the "Square Heads" licked . and work is pretty slack now 1 will . have to write you a letter. 1 know ('you have all of the good news from | papers and it is absolutely useless lu i try to go into details, which should ; 1 try couldn't be very far, though we , are certain of peace and everything i is rosy, vet we have ?< 'the censor, but perhaps by the time ijl write the next letter, and yet 1 /won't put it too soon, 1 might be permitted to open up and tell you more i1 than 1 could tell you now. 'I it is useless to tell you that every |one over here is overjoyed. It seems like home is coming closer. We can't . jteii; it ail depends on someone else that knows better than we do. Wood.; row Wilson has the job in his hands /and they couldn't be put in any more | capable hands. We are hoping for peace but if he sees fit not to have /it yet we wont complain but will .j back him to the finish. Some tbink > that it is a mistake; as to that can't /answer. I am not capable but I think , that the time has come that we are , going to have peace and we are holdL1 ing our breath and awaiting the rei suits anyway should we have tc , wait awhile yet we are certain thai I we have got him licked and it will I be only a matter of a little time unti i we will have it then and then mayb< l it would be more profitable. ; You can't imagine how it thrills i fellow to be over here to ree the fin ish of this fight? tne biggest figh that has ever been pulled off. It ii worth more than anvthine else in * fellow's life. The oal ything thai a fel ; low regrets over here now is tha he hasn't got a wound stripe to cari ; back to the States. I wouldn't regrei ? anything if I could take a mark back ;! but though it has seemed at timet ' I that I would be granted that privilege . or else be put out of it gitogether. J i have been lucky and have escaped sc J far, but I am not proud of it at all. >' 1 have had the opportunity once to be with some wounded Americans. t'Some that were morally wounded and I their lives were only a question of a ''few question of a few hours, I have >; seen the negroes and I can say, | though I have had the opinion that Ithe negro was a yellow soldier and .'had to be made to fight. 1 hav^ 'changed that opinion, they are worthy of all the praise that they can reijceive. I have seen them laying with i' their arms shot off and legs, aw&it ing their turn to get the attention, ' j whatever it might be, and I never heard a whisper, they will ask for a 11 cigarette and though you know they 11 are suffering the worst of pain and iyou can see it in their faces, and >|will ask them are they suffering and i they will say no. I have seen them sing to keep from giving way to the pain, and then think that such fellows as that can be whipped. It puts a fellow to thinking. It changes a man. Perhaps the fellow that you see 1 is some fellow that didn't figure soj 'high in things back home according to our narrow way of looking at if but as you watch him there and Bel what he has gone through with an never hear a complaint, though hefl : suffering the worst pain imaginatfl you will have to take off your hatH | him, then you will think of the tical pulling Yellow Shirkers bacl^H ' home that on account of having^H little money and by lying about 1^| ing some disease or worse yet ne^| i did a days work in his life and tfcH claims that tfe is necessary on accou^i of agriculture pursuits to remain at i.home and raise food for the soldiers. !| I think 1 wrote you about a batallion of negroes that was in the same camp that I am in, and of the concerts that they had and how they were en1 Joyed. That was sometime ago, the 1 other day part of them came back. I should say a small part, and those the most of them were wounded; it was pitiful. One of them came up to me. he is from (Jeoraia. I didn't know where he waB from. He says to me: "Sergeant will you give me something to get some cigarettes with. I know you are a southern man, I can tell . by your looks, that is the reason I . asked you.' Well I had some money and he got pretty near all of it. He would have been welcome to all of it should he have accepted it. I I talked with him and asked him about the other fellow8 with him before he went back the last time. His eyes filled up with tears and he says, "Sergeant dey is gone." He hadn't heard from his people since he left for France, neither had he written them. He couldn't write so he gave me his mother's address and I wrote her a letter for him. 1 must close for this time. 1 think . I have written you enough for thic , time. I have been getting your letter! regularly. I hope you are well by thia NVK HKKIUNU PASSIM. I Former IMIIonite Victim ?( Influenza at His Nortli Carolina Homo. ,| Fuir Bluff, N. C.. Nov. 4.?Great , events have transpired since my last visit to friends in Dillon, but saddest of them all is the dreadful inroads that influenza has made in human life and among the many thousands | victims that fell because of it, am ov.uc ui iwt uigmy pnxoo mentis tn illon. How long this insidious afflction will be upon the people God only knows. In its ravages it is not a respecter of persons, youth and old axe, the humble and the exalted succumb before it. Useful, bright, brainy men and women of the class that have ma U the w-orld better by having1 i lived in it have not been spared, j This little town has suffered severi ely, in many instances where entire family were prostrated?helpless not able to give either food or water to each other. Yet amid all this dle1 tress and suffering there were some |of the Samaritan type* of good a?v land woman that had hearts of flesh, full of the milk of human kindness 'and administered to their respective needs. So far only one death has occurred ar.d It fell to the lot of a former Dillonite in the person of Nye Herring who came here a year ago and bought a house and lot, making this town hie home. He was gick about ten days. , Being physically weak the influenzal . soon developed with pneumonia and . he passed away on the afternoon of ^Saturday. November 3rd and vaa ? buried among the pines in the eemeI tery the day following where the soft 4 I i whisperings among their ever gr?c foliage will be the last sad requiem. frw.- IJ.. -: n -- I 1 * - .< . >,. r i ici i nift, nc IIUU rcdcuun I(19 t ripe old ape of 60 years and leaves . behind his wife and brother, Ab Hcr11 ring to mourn his loss. Mr. Herring i did not stir up much dust in bis uot eventful life either in politics or religion but took things quietly; (be J enemy of no one but a true friend to r many in his walk in life. He passed t away leaving few foot prints oo Che . sand that would immortalize hie j name. >1 And Kaiser Bill does not sleep welt [i in these bloody historical days. No i. doubt but his dreams do hot come an I angel's visits rather in the disguise of ,; a deposed monarch shorn of hie i crown. Be his life long or short he . | will regret that he locked horns vUh | Wood row Wilson. , ELIHU MULDRO]^ > ' jlHLLOK BOY AT (X>NFERKNCK. \ . liieut. Carter Acco ^*nies Adhbsl I Benson to Supreme War Counl * \ cil at Versailles. ' Lieut. Andrew Carter, son of Mr. ;W. J. Carter, is with Admiral Bee'son at the Supreme War Council new in session at Versailles. Lieut. Carter ; has filled the position of private secretary to Admiral BensoD for the past two years and this is the second trip he has made across the water with Admiral since the war be^na... Admiral Benson, who has headquarters in Washington, is the ranking officer in the navv and as such his la 'called upon to represent I ho p"?-?nf succeeoT^^^^BBHH^P I am going to have him to something that perhapn he will.he | like better and maybe have him with I me; anyway don't worry about lfcw. It will be the best thine tbat eeald lever happen for him. Both at us will be back home with you before 8* very long. Take good care of Marlon and also of yourself. Best regurda to the fellows back there. o From Smith Hamilton to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 9. A. Hamilton: Somewhere in France: Dear Mother and Father: Will write you all this attaaoaMi to let you hear from me. This lram OQ? < rr O 1 on n> f" I ? !?' 1nil WWT^ W. ? ovttriiib niv/ug mill/ WCH. ff C HWV been having some cold nasty weather. Have had a had cold but Is a frwl dealt better. Well I hare a? wees to write only all the hoys are getting along fine. I think. I can't say how I long it will be before I can he with you all again but hope U wont be long. Guess you all get lots mt good i 1 news now. Well guess it oil is trpau A 1 Did Arch have to register? WtqM M laugh at him to see him in eamp. I am going to come home on a fortoegfc > when he gets in camp and see i think I might make the trip in a i or two.