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?hr Lilian 2}?ralii Mm a. JORDAN Editor Dillon, S. C., January, 2.J, 1019. r And now Attorney General Gregory has resigned because he cannot live on his salary. If times don't change nobody but the dollar-a-year patriots will be able to live in Washington. V When Gov. Wanning retired from office last Tuesday South Carolina lost one of the best governors she has had since the close of the civil war. Gov. Manning has disappointed his enemies and surprised his friends. His administration has been one of activity and accomplishments. He went into office under circumstances that would have handicapped the efforts of most men, but he took up his duties as the state* chief executive with an earnestness and determination that not only astonished his critics but won the unbound admiration of his friends and supporters. Many permanent reforms that have already proved of great value 111** efntn ward inQlianrofoH linHpr W "VIV the Manning administration. He has been the governor of the whole people, and his efforts and energies have( been directed toward the uplifting of the masses and the industrial advancement of the commonwealth. As a war governor he has measured up, fully to the expectations not only of his home people, but of the nation asj a whole and he leaves behind him a record that will add lustre to South Carolina's name when the solemn history of the world war is written. ' Before the end of 1919 three mil-1 lion men who gave up jobs to; make the world safe for democracy must find vocations in civil life. To distribute these men over the nation and provide employment for them ?arl f Vt Mil I a 11 i t\ rr loknr Ann TT iiiiuu c uiaiuiuiu5 lauui LUIIUIUUIIO is a huge task which has been undertaken by the government through the "Employment Service Bureau."; The returning soldiers are not asking for charity?what they vant is work. The task of demoblizing this vast! army of men is almost as great as| the task of mobilizing them. In manyj respects it is more serious in its con-1 sequences. The public must come to the aid of the government. Men re-| turning from the service must be gir-' en the reference. They are entitled to that much consideration from the^ men who did not go. They are entitl-. ed to the best the country is able to' give them. Begin now to plan some way to provide employment for the; boy that you know will soon be home. It is a great task the nation has cut out for itself, and every man is expected to do his part. "Who is responsible for the poor railroad service the public is getting?" is the question one hears on \ every hand. Is government control a failure or is there a systematic ef-1 fort on the part of the railroads to disgust the public with government ownership? These are questions that will have to be answered sooner or later. The public is long-suffering, but once the public is aroused it will Kp hnrri tn miipt until tlip hlnmo ic ....... ? placed where it properly belongs. The public was willing to put up with anything while the war was on, but the war is over, and now the public is demanding service. Somebody is1 responsible and somebody is to blame. The United States mail service is one of the best business organisations in the world. It gives better service than any organization in America. It i8 owned and controlled by the government. So perfect is the postal system that if a letter going even I a short distance is routed the wrong way the matter is reported to head-j quarters and the employee responsible for the mistake receives a calling down from the government. But trains continue to run late, freight is lost or delayed in transit, legitimate claims remain unpaid for reonths and still nobody is held responsible. Employees themselves are indifferent or profess absolute ignoswnce as to matters of ordinary detail, and the public finds it extreme If difficult U obtain tne information i to which it is entitled. These are only a few of the troubles and annoyances the publfo la having to put up with at the present time. But the public is getting impatient. It is beginning te ask questions and one of the questions is, 'Who is responsible for this state of affairs?" If it is the railroads themselves the public wants to know it; if it is the government the I public wants to know it. The public Is entitled to this information, and f If conditions do not improve the publio Is going to find out who is responsible for the hardships and in-j conveniences it is forced to submit! ^ A ~ *? .1. ^ V. a *? #1 rn nil h, . IU 111 CAUliailgC IVI vuv Iiatu-Vttiuvu dollars it is paying in increased passenger and freight tariffs. What is {he mutter with Dillon lighting plant? The lights are so dim that it is difficult for one to read without the uid of an oil lamp. Many households are using the old style oil lamp at the evening meal. The public has kicked until it is tired and now it is beginning to rmicme. one local wag says he has to strike a match to see how to turn out his lights at night. Another says he is going to open a store for the sale of optical goods and make a fortune. The streets are in darkness and those who venture out at night must have a flash light or lantern. Dillon cannot continue to put up with such service. If the plant has seen its best days the citizens should get together and do something. The Herald has always advocated the transmission line. We do not believe the town will get a satisfactory service until it connects up with some power company whose business is to give the public the service it wants. We have had opportunities in the past to connect up with such companies and if it is not too late negotiations should be opened up again. If the companies nave no more power to sell the next best thing to do is to improve the municipal plant. Something will have to be done and the sooner it is done the better for the town and its citizens. EDITOR CiltlST OP YORK VISITS PKK DEE SECTION. Spends Several Days With Senator Mcl^iurin and Writes Interestingly of this Section. Editor W. D. Grist of the Yorkville Enquirer, spent a few days recently with Senator McLaurin at Bennettsville, and the following interesting article appeared in a recent issue of The Enquirer: They've got better roads in North Carolina than they have in South Carolina. They are making more progress in North Carolina than they are making in South Carolina. They are holding cotton in North Carolina just as they are in South Carolina. They are equally saddened in both states by the flu, and the people of both states are equally apprehensive of what the future may hold in the shape of further ravages from this scourge. These are a few of the outstanding impressions that were confirmed by a brief vacation that the Editor took during the holidays. The vacation was spent as the guest of his friend, Hon. John L. McLaurin, of Bennettsville, and was pretty well filled with walks and talks and rides and observations, scenes and impressions. I spent two days between Yorkville and Bennettsville, three nights and two days with Mr. McLaurin, one of the days in Bennettsville, and the other on an automobile trip to the east through Marlboro, Scotland and Robeson counties to Lumberton, N. C., where Rev. Baxter McLendon is holding an evangelical meeting. I was on the go most of the time and the two days with Mr. McLaurin were pretty full of interest and diversion. Let me say in order to avoid any misapprehension, that there was absolutely no political object or significance in the trip. It was purely friendly and social. Mr. McLaurin is done with politics. He is convinced that he is not suited to that vocation. He knows very well that he could help South Carolina industrially, agriculturally and financially if he could be in position to shape legislation in such manner as to carry out the plans that he has long cherished along that line; but he does not feel equal to the task of smashing the partisan barriers that stand in the way. So he has absolutely quit politics. He has not quit thinking of ways- and means to help the people to get a fair deal, means of circumventing the parasites that control and prey on honest production and things of that kind; but he has given up all thought and desire for official position. It is not because of any doubt of his ability to administer such position in the way he thinks it should be administered; but rather because he is unable to compete in the getting there with people who know so little what to do with administrative office after they have secured it. "I have given to the state several years during which I could have made a great deal of money," he says, "but if the state has benefited as much as so many of my friends seem to think, I have no regrets, except that I wish I could have more completely carried out my plan8 in connection with grading, marketing and financing of cotton." While in Bennettsville I learned from Mr. McLaurin and others that Marlboro farmers have not sold a great deal of cotton. They have thousands and thousands of bales on their farms and in the warehouses. The Bennettsville Warehouse com pany, of which Mr. McLaurin is the principal owner, is alone carrying more than six thousand bales, and it would have twice that much except for the fact that it is lacking in storage room. Bennettsville, by the way, is quite a pretty town, so far as fine business buildings, handsome homes, well kept lawns and yards go; but It won't stand close inspection as to I civic progress. It has a few concrete sidewalks, mostly constructed by private enterprise; but it has no leaved streets. The town is very well laid off on a wide, flat ridge. It is for the most par!* quite level. The site is all that cnuld be desired. But the streets are dirty, unpaved, muddy, and anything but a credit to peoulo who own so many handsome res idences and business houses, along with so many high priced automobiles On Thursday Mr. McLaurin and I took a trip in Mr. McLaurin's big Cadalac car to Luinberton, about fifty miles to the east of Bennettsville. The route lay through what is com'nionly held to be the choicest agricultural section of Marlboro, passing through the little towns of Tatuni and McColl, crossing the Little Pee Dee river at Barnes' bridge, a few miles over the North Carolina line in what was formerly Robeson, but now Scotland county. The country i through which the road runs is al-, most as level as a floor. There is ( not a hill to be climbed anywhere. | The soil is of a grayish yellow, with lots of sand in it, splendid material for a roadbed, yet the road is not nearly as good as that between Yorkville and Rock Hill, or York-j ville and Clover. It is all cut up in ruts and does not have the appearance of having ever been dragged. No intelligent traveler from abroad, aware of the fact that Marlboro produces more cotton to the acre than [ I...... TT*\I * r\A I a 11?> wiuci tuuui/ AH iuc uuucu ; States, would ever have believed that he would find the principal thoroughfare of such a county in , any such condition ?certainly not 'when with but little labor and expense the road could be made per' feet. The difference in rtoad conditions 'was noticeable from the time we | crossed into North Carolina. We went over the line at Barnes's bridge' noted in local history as the scenej of many holdups and murders com-! ; mit:ed by the Henry Berry Lowrie gang in the late sixties and early seventies. There is no change in the topography or the character of the soil. The country is level and flat and the soil is a grayish yellow sandy loam. Forty years ago air this country was a swampy wilder-1 ness, covered with pine and other timber. The ruling price was about ' 40 cents an acre. That was the situation for more than fifty miles to the east. But it is not that way now. I Great drainage ditches have been 'cut through the country, the swamps have disappeared, the road is dragged every few days with split long contrivances drawn by broad wheel Ford automobiles and from the Marlboro line to Lumberton, more than thirty miles, it is the most thickly populated rural district I have ever seen. Many of the houses are large I two story handsome structures of eight or ten or more rooms, while others are smaller and still others j are mere shacks. Many Croatan In-' dians are to be seen along the road in varying stages of prosperity, andj most of them at work, either about j their homes or 011 their farms, or traveling the roads in their wagons,! taking produce to market or bring-1 ing back furniture and other articles purchased from the towns of Maxton and Lumberton. 1 The country through which we passed, now so progressive and prosperous, is the same that was once the stamping ground of Henry Berry Lowrie and his notorious, but ( nevertheless famous band of out- j laws. Henry Berry Lowrie belonged to the tribe of Croatan Indians that is said to be descended from Sir Walter Raleigh's lost Roanoke colony. I can very well remember hearing members of my family talking about Henry Berry Lowrie at the dining table and around the living room fire when I was a child of 7 or 8 years. He and his gang were headliners in the newspapers in those days, and they cut as big a figure throughout the whole country as did Jesse James, Bill Dulin, Bob Dalton; or any of the rest of them. Lowrie robbed right and left, attacked court! houses and jails, carried away the safes of sheriffs and other officials and killed people who got in their j way. The State of North Carolina offered a reward of $10,000 for the body of Henry Berry Lowrie, dead or alive, and although other members of the gang were taken and executed, no one was ever able to claim the reward for the outlaw chief himself. i Though as I have said, you see lots of Indians while passing through. that country at the rate of 35 or 40: miles an hour, you see nothing sug-j gestive of the old days. Maxtonj about half way between Bennetts-, ville and Lumberton, then a collection of brothals, known as "Scuffle-' town," and later as "Shoe Heel," is: now quite a handsome little city. j with brick stores, beautiful residences, a college building that looks as if it might have cost $50,000, or more; paved streets, electric lights and other modern public conveniences. Here Henry Berry Lowrie was king over a period of five or six years, and Lumberton, the county seat of Robeson and the victim of numerous rams irum uie gang, is now a city of apparently 5,000 or 6,000 people, with numerous private mansions, some of which are as elegant and as imposing as anything to bo seen in Charlotte or Columbia. The streets are paved, the sidewalks concreted, and everything has the appearance of affluence surrounded by well satisfied sober Security. The main object of our trip to Lumberton was to make a call on Rev. Baxter McLendon, who is conducting a meeting there. Because of the weather, the big tent the evangelist uses at other places would be uncomfortable, and for the purposes of this meeting'he is using a great brick warehouse, capable of seating not less than five or six thousand people. We dropped in on an afternoon meeting when the congregation was below 1,000; but the people in " tendance said that the crowds at 3 night meetings filled the build to capacity, and that the interest was very great.. There were all kinds of people in attendance, including the wealthiest and most representative people of the town and surrounding country as well as many Croatans, among them no doubt, descendants of the Lowries. But getting back to Henry Berry Lowrie. Senator McLaurin told me why he was never captured. He killed himself accidentally. It was on February 20, 1872. The gang had raided Lumberton the night before and carried away the sheriff's safe, containing $20,000 in cash. They made their way down to the house of Tom Lowrie, near Scuffletown, and began fixing their firearms in preparation for a pursuing party. While Henry Berry was preparing to draw a charge from his shotgun the weapon slipped in his hand in such a manner that the hamjner stiuck against the sill of a corncrib. The load was discharged and the load took off a good part of Henry Berry's head. The surviving members of the gang buried the body under the corncrib for the night and later carried it off into the swamp for a permanent burial. It was not until years afterward that the facts 01 the occurrance were made known, the members of the gang having held their tongues in the meantime to keep anybody from being able to claim the $10,000 reward offered by the state. Along the whole fifty miles between Bennettsville and Lumberton, there is now only one suitable place for a holdup, with a good chance for a get-away. This is at that same old Barnes's bridge. The bridge crosses the Little Pee Dee river in the midst of a dense swamp at the only crossing place for a good many miles in either direction. It is said that the Lowrie gang used to kill travelers at the bridge, weight their bodies down with stones and throw them into the river never to be seen again. Bennettsville has suffered terribly from the influenxa. I did not get the exact figures, but I was told that there was not a family in town that had not lost either a member or a X ^ G j^* i j < am Mtni am mam I AN IE I HA VE f of Thirty-Six ye % can be made fro f X secured. j 1 2 V t ?:< % | H. ! D f Write or I # y ** A 272 h *> & close relative. And in passing through the town of Tatum to the cast of Bennettsville, where there were a half dozen stores, I was told that the proprietor of each and every store had died of influenza. On Christinas afternoon I walked out with Senator McLaurin , to the Bennettsville cemeteries, two of jtheiu close together ?one known as the old cemetery and the other as the McCall cemetery. The latter started as a kind of. land speculation enterprise. There were many new made graves in both cemeteries, plenty of evidences of the ravages of the influenza. In a negro cemetery behind the j "Old" cemetery, we ran across a rather peculiar sight ? that of the new made grave of an adult negro, covered with bottles, pill boxes, bandages, etc. Sticking at the head of the grave was a castor oil bottle that had originally held a quart. The neck of the bottle had been stuck in the grave and the remaining oil had saturated the earth. There was a costly hypodermic needle, "pneumonia cure," different kinds of pills, and various other things of like nature. Inquiry developed that there had been stories to the effect that the negro wife had allowed the husband to die of neglect and these token had been placed on the grave as evidences of the attention the deceased had recieved. Senator McLaurin is still a believer in better prices for cotton. Ht has the greater part of three crops ;on hand, and he is not inclined to i sell until the price gets at least tc (somewhere in tne neignoornooa oi ' I forty cents, which he believes will be realized before the next crop is gathered. At the same time, however, he believes that the days of cot: ton growing in Marlboro are fast reaching their end. He thinks that ; the boll weevil will be getting in its work to the windup soon, and beI cause of that belief, he is doing all i he can to induce the people to give I more attention to tobacco raising, i He and his son, Thomas McLaurin, have recently secured qauntities of tobacco seed that they are distributing along with instructions as to planting, cultivation and curing, etc. and are trying to get the farmers to go in for the raising of a million pounds of tobacco so they can at once have a home market. They used a page advertisement in The Pee Dee Advocate not long ago in the promotion of their propaganda and they are neglecting no opportunity to push the w- 'k directly with individuals, by means of argument and persuasion. Colds Cause Grip and Influenza LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove the ! cause. There is only one "Bromo Quinine.* EL W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30a I (A 1^4 4^4 A^j A^4 1^1 ft^r, ! FERTIL Manufactured by PENDENT HOME I : STOOD THE r ii ;ars lur an crups. m the best of materi ?SEE? L. FAR ?* ? /\?T n 1LL.U1N, 3. Telephone, he u to see you .'Dated at Dillon. S. C. Jan. 15, 191#. J 11 To the Defendants:?Wade Baker, 4 Ethel Baker, Albert Mack Baker, I jWellena McPhaul, Sarah Blue Mo- 11 Phaul, Lillie Ruth Truluck and Lis; ton Hoyt Truluck, minors. ! You vrill please take notice that unless >'?u appear within twenty-days from the service of this notice upon you and ask for the appointment of a d u i Leiuic yciouu iv i cyi cqcui j v? as Guardian-Ad-Litem in the above entitled cause that the undersigned > | will make application l0 the court for the appointment of such GuardianAd-Litem. \ GIBSON & MULLER, 1 Plaintiff's Attorneys. Tou, will please take notice that 1 the above entitled summons and notice, together with complaint against ' you was field in the offfice of the 1 Clerk of Court for Dillon County on the 20th day of January, 1919, GIBSON & MULLER, 1 Attest: Plaintiff's Attorneys, j JNO. C. BETHEA, Clerk, j 1-21-St?336 SUMMONS FOll BELIEF. State of North Carolina, County of Dillon. Court of Common Pleas. 'Elijah Tann, Tiny Tann, Hat- \ tie Tann and Cambus Tann, Plaintiffs, vs. j H. A. Bethea, George Tann, i Harrison Tann, Jno Tann and i Sarah Tann, ? Defendants. ! To the defendants H. A. Bethea, llGecyge Tann, Harrison Tann, John ; Tann and Sarah Tann. You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Dillon > County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office in Dillon, 1 South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of ' the day of such service; and if yon fail to answer the complaint within ' the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court ' for the relief demanded in this complaint. JOE P. LANE, * Plaintifff's Attorney. Dillon, S. C., 10th, Jan. 191#. ' I hereby certify that the abova 1 foregoing is a true copy of the summons in the above entitled matter now on file in my office at Dillon, South Carolina. JNO. C. BETHEA, Clerk of Court, of Common Pleas for Dillon Co. Jan. 21st, 191#.?l-2S-4t?343. i (Subscribe to The Herald v v COMPANY f 1 ' TEST I V Made as good as t j. ials which can be % I X LEY i C. I I i vill be glad | m M& fJB fl 9