The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, February 13, 1919, Image 1
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In ESTABLISHED 1894. THE DILLON HERALD. DILLON SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1.5. 1919. VOL. 23. NO. 13.
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QUITE CHEERFUL
SAYS LEAGUE OP NATIONS j
MOVES FORWARD.
Commissions Charged With Various ,
Missions at Peace Conference
Announces Findings Soon. i
Loudon, Feb. 11.?Progress on
the formation of the society oi' na-L
tions was very satisfacioiy. Premier^
Lloyd George said today in the house j
of commons in discussing the work of!;
the peace conference. He said he j
hoped a report would be issued soon '
by the commission appointed to con- j
sider responsibility for the war and (
r vuuagvo,
The premier in answering to a ques- .
tion said that the British representa- .
tives, like the others, would, sign the
t , treaty of peace provisionally and that'j
the treaty would be presented to j
N parliament for ratification. If the- .
. house choose to repudiate it the ,
v house was all powerful, he said. ,
The peace commission on indemnities,
the premier said, he hoped,i(
would issue its report soou. ,
The prehiier declared that the con- j
ference had made progress heyondN (
the most sanguino anticipation and
that it was approaching an .igree-; (
nient on most questions. It would be
a misfortune, he added, if the peace jj
conference deliberations were dis-j(
j. cussed in any parliaments before they
were concluded. i
If industrial unrest continues the I.
consequences will be grave to trade1 ,
#and industry, Mr. Lloyd George declared.
The government, he said ',
would agree to any kind of an inves-'j
tigatiou into the causes of the unrest. I,
'Special war conditions, the pre-',
mier mougni, naa coniriouiea iu uie ,
unrest. Among these conditions were'j
the strain of four years of war and ]
the fear of unemployment. I,
The premier said that bills would 1
be introduced next week dealing with ]
^ housing, health, the revival of rural ]
life, land settlement for soldiers, land1
reclamation and afforestation.
Mr. Lloyd George said there **ould .
plenty of opportunities for employ. ,
nlg&H^knt if confidence was given those |
SM^Spponsible for starting industries
?nd unless the cost of production j
went so high that it reduced the pur- ,
chasing power of the community or
put the country out of the world '
market.
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No Criminal Court.
Owing to the flu epidemic the February
term court of General Sessions (
scheduled to convene next Monday,
has been called off. Notices have been:
sent to jurors and witnesses not to j
attend. No action has been taken as1,
to the holding of the civil terjn next J
month, but if there is no abatement
in the epidemic ij. is probable that !
this term will be postponed until ,
some time in the spring. ,
Thi8 action was taken by the local ,
bar out of deference to the wishes ,
of the Board of Health who asked
the members of the bar to meet andl(
pass a resolution asking the'judge^
and solicitor not to hold the spring i
term. There are no jail cases 'and
the judge and solicitor promptly
agreed to the request of the local bar.
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D. A. R. Meeting.
The Rebecca Pickens Chapter D.,:
A. R. m^t on Tuesday with Mrs.,'
Charles L. Wheeler. The meeting
was full of interest and much was <
accomplished. The members are plan-,
ning a "Silver Tea" on Washing-!'
ton's birthday, to which their friends ji
will be asked. Mrs. C. R. Taber, del- i
egate to the State Conference in j ]
Columbia, read a report of the pjo-11
ceedings, and there is much work 1
ahead for the Daughters. The Chap- |
ter adjourned to meet with Mrs. J. !
jrira W. Bethea.
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Automohilo Accident.
Dr. A. J. Evans' seven passenger j
Studebaker automobile plunged into
a ditch just the other side of McColl 1
Friday night and the body was pret-, i
Xy oaaiy aamugeu. ill me car were.
Dexter Evans, Maxcy Adams and Miss J
Annie Coppage. Miss Coppage was on
her was to Hamlet to take the Sea-/
board train to Walesboro, having
been called home late that afternoon
I^^^Lby a message announcing ue seriou3]
Vilnesa of her parents. The car was
only a short distance beyond McColI
when another car came down the
road at a lively gait and refused to
| surrender any of the roadway.
Maxcy, who was at the wheel, turned
sharply to one side to avoid a collision,
and before the occupant: were
aware of what had happened the
car had plunged into a ditch.
Maxcy was slightly bruised but the
other occupants escaped injury. A
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came along in a few minthe
party on to HamCoppage
succeeded in
for her
WOUI,I) ASSESS SALARIES.
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Mr. Ben B. Sellers Calls Attention to
Inequalities of Tax Laws.
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Mr. Ben B. Sellers of Sellers in a
communication to the State newspaper
discusses the tax situation as
follows:
ro the Editor of The State:?
I have just read Senator Niels
Christensen's charge in your paper
that the land owners are the ones
now clamoring for the destruction of
the tax commission because they are
now being made to shoulder their just
proportion of the taxes. I desire to
state emphatically as a citizen and
land owner that I am anxious to ac:ept
my part of the load and I believe
that all right thinking men
ought to be willing to do the same.
Let's see who are the tax dodgers
in this state, for some of those that
ire screaming most about, tax dodging
are the very ones that are eating
heaviest at the tax bill.
Some time since I was in a prosperous
lawyers office discussing the
subject of taxes and he contended
that farmers were not beine taxed
enough. I happen to know something
of that man's business. His practice
:onservatively brings him in $7,000
per year, upon which he pays not
i/ne cent of tax.
A iariuer uwiuug a piuuiciuuii migc
enough to "make $7,000 worth ot cotton
will pay about $250 in taxes. The
farmer along with other people, who
awn visible property is taxed to build
roads for him to ride on and to bring
him clients. He is taxed to pay the
witnesses for him to examine. He is
taxed to bring a jury for him to lay
his case before. He is taxed to build
a court house for him to plead in
and without which his law would be
useless. He is taxed to hire a sheriff
to summon his jurors. He is further
taxed to build school houses and pay
teachers to educate his children and
lastly is further burdened to build
colleger to send his children to.
For all benefits I have enumerated
the lawyer and other salaried men
have taken full advantage and have
not contributed one cent.
I know a young farmer who is try-;
Ing to pay for & small farift. This'
young man has five or six neighbors
drawing salaries of from $1,500 to
$3,000 per year. His income on this
little farm is never much above $1.000.
He pay8 $65 in taxes per year.
His high salaried neighbors living in
more comfort and style and sending
anywhere from one to four children
to the public school, paying anywhere
from $1 to $4 tax. His income
is less than any of them and yet he
pays 13 times as much tax as any
of them. Is that just?
My idea is that we will never have
a much better tax system under the
present constitution, which is largely
a duplication of the constitution of,
'68. At that time all property was'
largely lands and hence all taxes
were levied on visible property. Since'
then conditions have changed and
there is as much invisible property
as visible. Half of the property of the
States is escaping taxation and that
half is clamoring for higher taxes so
as to have better schools, better
roads, better medical protection and
other benefits that belong to a progressive
state, and all of which they
expect to reap full benefit from and
do not expect to contribute a penny.
I read a pamphlet the other day
issued by the Council of Defense,
written by Prof. Reed Smith of the
University of South C-rolk.a. One
chapter way Leaded "The* S.oue;
Wall," meaning that tLe curse of lo?,
taxes was the cncstur.ibling block in
the way of Seuth Curolix_'a upward"
march. He chowcd that we paid the
least per capita tax of any State in.
the Union except one, North Carolina.
He divided the population of the
State by the tax we pay and by this
simple, plausible means showed that
we paid next to nothing in taxes. He
forgot to take into his calculations
that we have a 30,000 or 40,000 negro
majority, a large per cent, of
whom drift from one place to another
so rapidly as to escape taxation
altogether. He forgot further to take
into his calculation that men like
himself drawing salaries anywhere
from $1,000 to $5,000 are wholly escaping
taxation, so that one third of
the people are really paying taxes
while all are reaping the benefits.
I am in favor of a new constitution.
I would abolish the three mill school
tax and declare all wages property
and tax every single individual according
to his earnings whether his
earnings were from his hands, his
farm, his law practice, dentistry medicine
or any source whatsoever.
One word further, as to why I am
opposed to a tax commission. In
Marion county with the fiat of a
czar all lands irrespective of value
were ordered raised $2.10 per acre
and no citizen of the county was ap
prised of the foct till he went to pay
his taxes. Now Marion county has
thousands of acres of swamp land
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NEW ENTERPRISE FOIl DILLON.
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Beaufort County Lumber Company
Plans to IxK-ate Big Mill
in Dillon.
Mr.. H. B. Phillips, manager of the
Beaufort County Lumber Co., met* a
number of Dillon's business men at
/NffUoo ^ f ni honn Sir AT 1111 or TllPR- !
IIIC Ultimo VI VI1WOVU U. A'* v?.w.
day morning and outlined plans for
the erection of a large subsidiary
plant at Dillon. Mr. Phillips, in his
talk to the business men, made it
very clear that his company was not
looking for free mill sites and rightsof-way,
but wanted the co-operation
of the citizens in securing a site and
rights-of-way at a reasonable price.
If arrangements can be made with j
property owners in the western sub-j
urbs and rights-of-way can be se-j
cured to the timber the company!
owns in the vicinity of Latta, Bingham
and Mallory the company will
begin at once to erect the plant. The;
plant will employ a large number of|
men and the pay-roll will amount to'
something like ?500 per day. The;
company has been operating a large!
plant at Fairmont for the past several
years. It has other plants near
Suffolk, Va., and Maryland. The company
has decided to move its Suffolk
and Maryland plants to Fayetteville
where the lumber from the Fairmont
and Dillon mills will be manufactured
into the finished product.
The Beaufort County Lumber Co., is
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on*> of the largest manufacturers of!
pine lumber in the United States.
The business men at Tuesday's!
meeting assured Mr. Phillips that his
company would receive a cordial wel-1
come to Dillon. A committeewa^ ap-J
pointed to confer with the land own-'
ers in the western suburbs and also
the land owners on the proposed
rcute to the timber lands and wire the
results to Mr. Phillips tomorrow afternoon.
Mr. Phillips spent yesterday
hi town, leaving that night for Baltimore
where he goes to attend a
meeting of the directors of his company.
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EX-GOV. MANNING
GOING TO FRANCE.
Columbia, S. C., Feb^ 6?Richard I.
Manning has secured passports itnd
will go to Pari8 to present suggestions
from the League to Enforce
Peace, to the peace conference on
the question of the league of nations,
if Mrs. Manning is permitted to accompany
him, the former Governor
announced today. Mrs. Manning, he
said, cannot be granted passports at
this time on account of the order
forbidding mothers, wives or sisters
of soldiers going to France. She has
four sons in the army overseas. Mrs.
Manning wishes to go to visit the
grave or her son, Major William
Sinkler Manning who was killed inj
action and buried near Verdun.
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?. W. C. A. Work in County.
Mrs. L. R. Craig, chairman of the
Y. W. C. A.% committee for Dillon
county, is planning a campaign for
the purpose of raising Dillon's quota
of Y. W. C. A. funds. Dillon's quota
is very small and there is every reason
to believe that the amount will
be readily contributed. The amount
for the entire South Atlantic field is
only $66,000 apportioned as follows:
Virginia, $16,000; North Carolina,
$14,000; South Carolina, $8,000,
Georgia, $18,000; Florida, $7,000.
The money is to be used in completing
the work in which the Y. W. C.
A. was engaged during the war.
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HATS OFF TO ALLENDALE.
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Governor Cooper Signs Bill Creating
New County.
Columbia, Feb. 6?Governor Cooper
today signed the act creating the
new county of Allendale. This is the
first legislative act signed by the
Executive as Governor of the State.
There was a considerable ceremony
surrounding the proceedings, which
were attended by the delegation responsible
for the formation of the
new county. A photograph was taken
of the group while the Governor was
signing the document.
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Baptist Church.
Sunday school next Sunday, Feb
ruary ib, ai jlu ociuck piumin.
Preaching at 11 o'clock by the pastor,
Rev. W. C. Allen. The public is
cordially invited to come and worship
with us.
that are worthless and are upon the
tax books at a dollar per acre and in
my judgment they are the highest
taxed lands in State. By this czar
method.these lands were increased
219 per cent, while the best lands at
$20 were increased only 10 per cent.
m nnnh mothA/lo CJ
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these convinced the people that they
are unworthy of the power th.it has
been placed in their hands.
BEN B. SELLERS.
Sellers, S. C.
IMMIGRATION SOUTHS HOPE.
Former Governor Urges South to En- !
courage White Immigrants for
Farm Work.
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1U a OH W??t) *vvw? ?.W ??w ~ ?
newspaper former Gov. D. C. Hey- ]
ward reviews the labor situation in 1
the south and emphasizes the fact':
that white labor is the south's only <
hope. Gov. Heyward's letter comeB ]
at a time when the south is facing a1:
problem which will become more and i!
more acute as the years multiply, j ]
His letter is well worth the thought- i
ul consideration of every person in- .
terested in the future of the south:
The letter follows: '
To the Editor of The State:? |!
The general disposition of thej
people of this country, after going '
through with the tremendous up- 1
heavals which have taken place 1
throughout the world during the past 1
four years seems to be, now that '
the war is over, to settle down again (
for a brief space at least to old condi- 1
tions and allow the future to work
out the problems which are now '
pressing for solution. But this is not '
the safe or proper attitude which 1
should be taken. The war has liber- '
ated world forces of such momen- (
turn that they can not be stopped,
and those foolhardy enough to un- '
dertake to stop them will inevitably '
be bowled over and crushed by this 1
moving spirit of world democracy. 1
In our own section of the country :
problems which have safely lain dormant
for several decades are now 1
rapidly coming to a head, and our :
people must face them thoughtfully :
and fearlessly. We can not bury our 1
head in the sand, hoping that some- 1
how these problems will continue to '
lie dormant or work out their own
solutfbn. I refer particularly to the
labor problem and to the soealled
negro problem.
The labor problem in the South is
but a fragment of the larger national
and international labor problem, 1
which is now rapidly pressing for solution
and the solution that is being ^
worked out in Eu;ope and other sec- 1
[ tions of our own country will doubt- '
less be the solution with us and this
is a matter whiofe we need not yiew
with alarm, for the higher wage*'
which prevails in any community ne- '
cessarily means the greater prosperity
of that community will share. The
negro problem on the other hand is
limited more exclusively to the south
and affects South Carolina vitally.
There has been a great deal writ- '
ten and spoken on the negro question,
but these discussions do not get '
us very far. What is needed is, first
of all, a clear understanding of the
facts and then we may attempt to 1
offer suggestions looking towards 1
the solution of the problem.
Since his emanicaption the negro
has more than doubled hia population
throughout the U. S. and for many
reasons it is believed that he will
not gradually die out, as was once 1
thought, but will continue to main- '
tain approximately the same rate of '
increase. Amalgamation of the races, '
always abhorred by the people of the
South, has made no headway whatever
and this fear may now be finally j
disposed of. In education the negro '
has shown marked advancement, decreasing
his illiteracy by approximately
70 per cent since his emancipation.
In wealth the negro through
out the country has shown most marked
ad vancement so he now is worth
$700,000,000 or about $70 per capita
and the iand which he owns, amounting
to 21,000,000 acres, or 31,000
square miles, is equal in area to al-|
most all of New England. The negro
today then is not only a freeholder '
to a large extent, but he owns his 1
own banks, his own newspapers, his!'
own colleges and his own representa- 1
tives in almost all professions, and;'
occupations. It is not surprising,!1
therefore, that he has been receiving !
with increasing rapidity large 1
amounts of information which has
created discontent in his leaders and 1
from them spread even to the un- (
educated. '
Another fact is that the diffusion '
of the negro throughout the United '
States while going on all the time 1
during the last few decades, has been I
greatly stimulated b^ the demand for !
labor growing out of the war, and '
students of the situation have oh- '
served that wherever he has gone in !
large numbers, he has brought with 1
him the race problem and in a num- 1
ber of instances it became very rapid. 1
ly acute to a degree unknown in the (
South. But this emigration of the
negro will now probably cease, and 1
on account of this fact, together with
the other conditions above stated, the
problem of the negro in the South
will continue as formidable as ever. I
Another fact which must be faced 1
is that many thousands or iipkiuph
from the South have been drafted
into the army, and will soon return
to their homes. Any Southern man
who knows the nepro will know that
this is another weighty reason why
the white men of the South need to
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LAND SELLS HIGH.
Sixty Acres Two Miles West of Dillon
Sell at Nearly $iiOO Per Acre.
It is evident ti.at the price of
farming land has not been affected
jy the decline in the price of cotton.
Last week Mr. L. C. Braddy sold a
:ract of land containing about 60
icres to Dunk Wright, a prosperous
colored farmer, for $16,000. Mr.
Braddy purchased the tract about two
rears ago from Mr. . W. Hamer for
17000. The land is located on the
Dillon-Little Rock puDlic roaa, iwo
niles from Etillon.
Dusy themselves without delay in the
solution of this problem.
In 1&04 when governor of this
state, I induced the legislature to es:ablish
a bureau of immigration. My
abject in doing so at that time was
two fold, first, to bring under cultivation
the vacant lands of South
Carolina, and secondly, to give us in
this State a majority of white people.
Unfortunately, a large element of our
:itienship at that timewas opposed to
immigration into South Carolina and
the .result was that after my terms
is governor expired what I considered
the most important feature of
this bureau was abolished by the general
assembly. I am as convinced today
as I was at that time that this
proposal is the only true solution of
our difficulty with respect to the negro
problem. This problem, is more
lcute in South Carolina and in Mississippi
than in any of the Southern
States, due to the fact that in these
States the two races exist in practically
equal numbers. The ftar of negro
domination hangs over these two
States like a pall, and hinders us
from progress in every direction.
Were this removed by white immigra_
tion our people would be in a far better
position to approach this questiop
than they are today.
Our people, as a rule, are willing
to accord the negro full justice and
to give him ample opportunities to
better his economic condition, in fact
one difficulty with the advancement
of our State today is .that our negro
laborers are not rising to their opportunities,
but we are determined, of
course,'to keep "governmental control
of our State in the hands of the white
man. We have had experiences along
this line which make our people all
the more firm in this determination,
the vacant lands of South Carolina,
and will always be remembered by
our people, and every measure will
be taken by them to prevent their recurrence.
The only safe and satisfactory
way by which the people of
South Carolina can continue in the
course upon which they are determined,
is to take such steps as will bring
about a decided white majority in
the State, and in this work, it is my
belief that we should be assisted by
the national government. Uncle Sam
has shown us what a miracle worker
he is when he tackles any problem.
Nothing seems too great or too
difficult for him to undertake and
carry out successfully. On account of
the world war the government of the
United States has been compelled,
and properly so to depart from its
policy of splendid isolation as to
world affairs and is today undertaking
the solution of questions which
affect the territory and the government
of various European, Asiatic j
and African peoples. Under these |
conditions, snouiu uui our guiciu-j
ment materially aid us in any reas-l
onable steps which we may take irr
the solution of this problem? And
the only step which I see practical at.
this time is to induce desirable white
Immigration into the South, and especially
into those parts of the South
where the negro problem is the most
acute. Hitherto, immigration in this!
country has moved along lines of
latitude. This has been largely onj
account of "the policy of our govern-'
ment in opening up lands in the West, i
An emergency has now arisen which
ienmnds that immigration should be
iirected along the linec of longitude1
and if the same steps a e taken by
the government, in my opinion, it will
be an easy matter on account of our
advantages of soil and climate to
induce immigrants to settle in the
South. This can be greatly aided by
the people of our State if they will |
cease all opposition to immigration
and if our law makers will devise
plans, especially in regard to taxation,
which will make it to the interest
of peope who desire homes to
come to the South.
It is up to the people of South
onlvo thie nilPStioil in the
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way they hope for it to be solved.
If they will take the initiative and en.
list the cooperation of the federal
government in such an undertaking
as I propose, I am satisfied that they
will bring about a solution which will
be entirely satisfactory to our people
which will give juBtice to the negro
and will at the same time meet the
approval of the enlightened opinion
of the world. D. C. HEYWARD.
Columbia. Feb. 7, 1919.
COUNTY NEWS
AND HAPPENINGS. j
NEWSY LETTERS BY REGULAR
CORRESPONDENTS.
News Items of Interest to Herald
Readers, Ebb and Flow of the 'wG
Human Tide.
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Owing to the influenza situation in
this cqmmunity the ?hvrch has keen
closed for the past three Sundays,
but there will be Sunday school and
preaching at Bethesda next Sunday.
There have been two deaths from
influenza in this community tn the
past ten days, children of A. S. and
Cleveland Jackson. However, the situation
is now better, there being only
a few new cases and most of the patients
are convalescent.
Mrs. A. L. Tart who resided below
Latta died Saturday night of pneumonia
and was buried at Bethlehem
Sunday morning, the funeral services
being conducted by her pastor, Rev.
J. W. Arial, assisted by Rev. J. B.
Weldon.
The many friends of "UncTe Wilson
Hayes" are glad to see him able
to get arojmd after several weeks
of indisposition.
This community experienced its
first snow fall Sunday night.
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Fork.
Colonel R. L. Carmichael of New
York is visiting his mother, Mrs. Annie
Carmichael. Colonel Carmichael
returned from France about a month
ago.
If* on J Af**n Tonothon IjiUrifl ikT?*
1*11 . CLiiu 1*110. uvuavuau m* v
spending some time in Florida for
Mj^Lewis' health.
^/Lieut. Torce Carmichael has receiv_
ed"his discharge from the army and
is now at home. He has teen in service
fcr four years.
Mrs. J. L. Floyd and children of
Aynor, S. C., spent the week end
with Mrs. W. K. Fort.
Miss Lucile Bethea has returned
home from a visit to Mr. Dave Rogers
at Latta.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry ef Latta spent
Sunday with- Mr. and lira. Meltoa .
Rogers.
Misses Sadie and Unal Lou >Moore
of Dillon spent the week end here.
Miss Willie Moore entertahled a
number of friends Friday evening in
honor of Torce Carmichael.
Miss Ronie Edwards onf Lander
College is home for a short time.
o Floydale.
Mr. Murray Hayes spent a.few
days this week with Mr. D. H. Everett
at Ruffin, S. C.
Miss Watson of Horry visited at
Mr" H. B. Floyd's last week.
Mr. Elzie Beaver ol the U. 8. N.
is spending a few days at heme.
Private W. J. Turbeville, Jr., of
Camp Jackson spent the week-end at
home.
From the appearance of the work
which is going on very fast, Floydale
will soon have an np-to-date automobile
garage.
Mrs. Laura Stafford is visiting at
Mr. H. B. Floyd's thi- week.
Mrs. John Kennedy or savannan,
Ga., visited at Mr. J. M. Howell's last
week. ?
'Mai lory.
Mrs. R. B. Braddock died suddenly
on Sunday night ef heart trouble.
Deceased was in apparent good health
and his death was wholly unexpected.
Death occurred before a physician
could be secured. She was wife
of Mr. R. B. Braddock, a blacksmith
living near here.
Hamp Murray a negro was shot
killed on Saturday night on Mr. P.
E. Harpers farm just over the Marlboro
line a few miles from here. He
was shot by Jake Adams, a negro at
Mary Crawford's house in which several
negroes were at the time, all
of whom were arrested by Sheriff
Patterson of Marlboro and taken to
jail. The sheriff and coroner held
an inquest and a little skillful detective
manouvring by sheriff Patterson
enabled him to round up the entire
party who were implicated.
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County Agent S. W. Epps has been
notified by the Chief of the Bureau
of Markets, Washington, D. C., that
the time for making application for
government nitrate of soda has been
extended until Saturday, February
15. Any farmer that wants to make
application for any of this soda will
fina .lanks at the banks of the
Thoso hinn)r? Dinst he made
in duplicate .and both eopies sent to
County Agent Epps or a member of
the nitrate committee not later than
Saturday night, February 15tti. Mr.
Brand, chief of the Bureau of Markets,
writes County Agent Epps that
they expect to fill all orders In full
and will begin shipping the soda at
once. "*