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ESTABLISHED 1894. THE DILLON HERALD, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORN I NO. JANUARY 20, 1920. VOL.24. NO. 21.
ENGINE TURNS TURTLE
' SIX COACHES DERAILED
A. C. L. TRAIN NO. Hii HAS BAI)
WRECK.
Broken Hail Wrecked Const Line
Flyer 3 .Miles North of Dillon
Yesterday Morning.
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Atlantic Coast Line train ino. 8t>
due to pass Dillon at 2:30 a. m. was
badly wrecked at an obscure rrossing
three miles north of Dillon early,
Wednesday morning. The train was!
running about three hours late and |
the wreck was caused by a broken rail
at crossing near Mr. Oscar Campbell's
home. Engineer Jno. Tolar, one of thft
Coast Line's veteran drivers, was atj
the throttle and the train was in
charge of Conductor Chas. Paul.
No. 86 is one of the Coast Line's
fastest trains and it is little short of
miraculous that not a single person
was injured. Passengers in the rear
sleepers were not aware of the wreck
until they were awakened by train officials.
Running late the train was
exceeding its usual speed and the
seven miles from Latta to Dillon were
covered in 7 minutes. The train was
running about 50 miles an hour when
it took the grade leading up from
the river to the place where it was
wrecked.
At the crossing where the huge
locomotive left the track was found a
rail broken as clean as a pipe stem.
The wheels of the locomotive toon 10
the ties and the momentum was sot
great that the engine ploughed its way
along the track for a distance of a
hundred yards. The coaches followed
and when the train came to a
standstill six steel coaches were zigzagged
across the track bed with ends
resting against the embankments.
Persons who viewed the wreck wondered
how the engineer and fireman
escaped with their lives. The huge
locomotive was lying diagonally
across the track, flat on its side. The
engineer's seat was partly buried in
the ground and ten feet above it was
what was left of the fireman's seat.
Engineer Tolar says it all happened
in the twinkling of an eye. He applied
the emergency brakes as quickly
as possible and when the brake
shoes clasped the wheels the engine
was thrown backward, pitching him
out of the cab backwards. The fireman
does not know how he escaped.
He did not have time to jump and
. the last thing he remembers was
?1 *u ~ nltnhoH nvpr nn its
? wlien lue engine t/iwi.vu ?. ^.
side. When he came to himself he
was standing upright some thirty feet
away from the locomotive. The tender
carrying about 10 tons of coal
turned over on its side, dumping its
entire load within a few feet of
the point where Engineer Tohir landed
on the ground.
The coaches were of heavy steel
construction and this perhaps accounts
for the fact that no one was
injured. If the coaches had been
built of wood they would have been
smashed into kindling and the loss
of life would have been fearful.
There was very little panic among
the passengers. The colored coach
was crowded but the passengers did
not lose their heads. The electric
lights continued to burn and the passengers
quietly filed out of the
wrecked coaches.
This is the third time No. S6 has
been wrecked near Dillon. About
ten years ago it was wrecked at Bassentyre
near Latta, and five years
ago it was wrecked near the Dillon
Mill. Each time there has been great
destruction of railroad equipment but
no loss of life.
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Jealous Husband Kills "Wife and
Boarder.
Macon, Ga., Jan. 26?Mrs. -ft. E.
Herrington. thirty-two, and a young
boarder said to be her uncle, Charels
Howze, eighteen, were shot and
killed in the Herrington home here
tonight.
Riley E. Herrington, husband of
the woman is held on two charges
of murder.
The three little children of the Herringtons
witnessed the tragedy.
Herrington is a foreman in the car
shops of the Central of Georgia Railroad.
The couple were married eight
years ago, Mrs. Herrington coming
from Valdosta. Her father, A. C. Shinholzer,
resides at Heresford, Fla.
Mrs. Herrington and Howse were
in the kitchen washing dishes when
the tragedy occurred.
Deputies from the sheriff's office,
who arrested Herrington, said that he
admitted firing the shots. They say
that jealously was the motive. The
officers picked up a long butcher
knife lying on the floor, a foot from
Howze's right hand, which was
stretched upon the floor, and this
with a pistol, which the deputies say
was taken from Herrington. and
which he reloaded, are held as eviL
dence. Herrington himself h.-.d a bulJet
wound in his left hand.
Howze was a government vocational
student at a local busiLvss college.
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ltu>liin Daniel* Dead.
Very unexpected was the death of
Mr. Daniels at ati early hour Sunday
morning. At the time of his death Mr.
Daniels was living on the A. L. Be.
thea place. He was fifty-one years of
age and leaves a widow and seven
children. The funeral was conducted
by the pastor Rev. J. A. Lar.gley at
the Little Rock Baptist church where
he was mber.
PLANK CAIIIUES
100 PASSEXCEItS. |
i
Cigantir Airship Equipped Willi ,
Modern Conveniences Travels at
CJreat Speed.
A great Caproni plane which is be-1
ing constructed near Milan to carry(
100 passengers was described by Au-i
gustus A. Post before the state avia-j
tion commission in sessiop in New i
York. Mr. Post recently returned;
from Europe, where he was sent by I
the'Aero Club of America to study J
the advance of aviation. He told ofi
aeronautic advances in England, |
France, Italy and Belgium, declaringj
that "aviation is much further advanced
in those countries than in thej
United States.'?
The Caproni which is being built
at Milan will be ready for trial in a
short time, Mr. Post declared. It is:
driven by motors which have a total
of 3,0ft0 horsepower and is only one
of the spacious Biodels of passenger
planes which are being built for extensive
air transportation lines, some
of which are already in operation in
Europe.
; "In England," he continued,
I "routes are already mapped out from
[ England to India, as well as down
[through Africa from Cairo to Cape
Town. In France the government al|
so is fostering the extension of air j
[ lines, planning to join northern Afri-1
ca, to Paris by means of the air. The!
Belgians and Italians are making |
plans on similar ambitious lines."
Mr. Post, w ho flew from London
to Brussels in two hours and later
[viewed the battlefields of Flanders
from thP air, continued with descriptions
of other European passenger
I planes, fitted t0 carry from 18 to 36
! passengers and equipped with luxurious
fittings and wireless telephone
and telegraph facilities. The fastest
' of these machines he said, had estab'
- - - -j ion
j llsftea an unomciai r?uiu m ,
miles an hour. He declared that "be-1
fore next summer there is no dobut ;
| that will see such machines making
the very nearly 200 miles an j
! hour."
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SIGNALS FROM OTHER WORLDS?
Inventer ol' Wireless Says Other
Worlds May be Trying to
Talk to Us.
i London, Jan. 26?Interruptions of
the Marconi wireless instruments by;
imysterious undecipherable signals,'
which were noted before the war and
have been publicly referred to since, i
!are specially featured in The Daily!
'mail in an interview published by i
jthe paper.
"We occasionally get very queer I
sounds and indications which might j
come from somewhere outside the
earth,'? said Signor Marconi. *" We
have had them both in England and1
! America. The Morse signal letters oc
?fv ?-""V. inn.ior rrnmionev than
I I'll 1 Willi 111 UV.1I ftivaiw * . VM??.? ^
others, but we have never yet picked
up anything that could be translateu,
into a definite message.
"The fact that the signals have occurred
simultaneously at New York
and London with identical intensity
seems to indicate that they must have
originated at a very great distance.!
We have not yet the slightest proof1
i of their origin. They might conceiv-!
ably be due to some natural disturb-1
ance at a great distance, for in-'
stance, an eruption of the sun causing
electrical disturbances."
| Asked whether possibly attempt:
was being made by another planet to'
communicate Signor Marconi said:
| "I would not rule out the possi-[
bility of this, but there is not proof.
We must investigate the matter much
more thoroughly before we venture
;tipon a definite explanation."
He added that the mysterious
sounds are not confined to any particular
diurnal period, they are equal-1
ly frequent by day and night.
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i FINED UNDER NEW SCHOOL LAW,
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Two Convictions in Dillon County:
t 'omnnkniT A t fori/1.
I anee Act.
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There have been two convictions in 1
Dillon county under the compulsory:
school attendance law. The first was i
Emanuel Johnson who lives near Lat-I
ta and the second was David Sprad-|
ley who lives on the Surles place'
near Dillon.
Johnson was tried some weeks ago
but sentence was suspended pending1
'Johnson's promise to see that his'
boy attended school. One of the con-'
ditions was that Johnson should pay
$5 for each day the boy absented'
himself from school. The boy stayed I
;out of school 12 days and Johnson1
paid over to the magistrate the sum
of $60.00.
Spradley was let off with a fine of;
$10. He promised to see that the boy
attended school in the future. Quite'
a number of parents have been forced
under the new school law to send
their children to school, but these
are the only convictions for deliberate
violations of the law.
\ (iihmI Man Dead.
Mr Wells 'Row. u died at the lim e
of his daughter Mrs. Wilson Spivev
near Marie'fa. N. C. on last Saturday
niplit. Mr Itow-n liad be? n in failinp
Inulth fur some time and the end was
not un? xi>? i tud. Tht. funeral was held
at the liumu of Mr. Stove Grantham
amid n large gathering of friends and
relatives which proved flit* hiph esteem
with which he was held in th"
neighborhood The services were conducted
by .ormer pastor. Rev. J.
A. Langley. Interment was at the
,Grantham cemetery by the side of his:
wife who died some years ago.
PEACE TREATY HOPES
60 A GLIMMERING
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lodge says he will make no
change in reservations.
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Leader of "Mild Group" of Republicans
Says Looks Like
"Jig is Up."
Washington, Jan. 26?The whole ,
question of peace treaty ratification j
was flung back to the flour of the
Senate with the virtual collapse today
of the bi-partisan conference.
The end came with amazing swiftness
after Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
the Republican leader, had
informed Democrats, led by Senator
Hitchcock, of Nebraska, that there
v. nn ftkonlrr. in ho rpePfVfl - I
IUUIU UQ 1IU VUOIi^C V?*v . www. , w I
tions respecting the Monroe Doctrine
and the much discussed article ten.
In the face of this the Democrats
walked out for a private conference,
agreeing meanwhile to make a reply
to Senator Lodge early tomorrow.
Due to Threatened Revolt.
First news of the breaking off of
diplomatic relations, so to speak,
was given by Senator Hitchcock in
a statement which broadly intimated
that failure of Republicans to give
ground in an effort to reach a basis
of compromise was due to the
threatened revolt of Republicans. Sen
ate leaders including many ardently
seeking an end to the long protracted
treaty debate, frankly admitted to-i
night that they could see no hope of!
agreement. This meant, they said, J
that the question would be fought (
out on the floor, beginning probably j
tomorrow. Senator Hitchcock declin-;
ed to speculate on the possibility of
so early a renewal of hostilities, but i
most Democrats declared nothing was
to be gained by further secret con-,
ferences.
Insist Upon a Vote.
"It looks as if the jig's up,'' de-j
clared Senator McNary, Republican,!
of Oregon, a leader of the mild re-'
servation group and this seemed to j
hit the nail on the head, in the opin-l
ion of most Senators.
Democrats discussed generally their,
':- "><'I i? u'-ic lenta - i
1111(1 U1 inutruuic u VI IV
tively decided in the event of utter
failure of the conference tomorrow
to present to the Senate modifications
to the treaty agreed upon by
Democrats and insist upon a vote.
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SHERIFF ROW EEL
MUCH BETTER.'
Florence Times.
Friends of Sheriff Rowell of Mar-!
ion county will be glad to learn that
he has nearly recovered from the1
wounds he received when he was shot'
by a negro he was attempting to place
under arrest at Sellers on Christmas'
day.
Sheriff Rowell has been in the
Florence*Infirmary since that time,
having been brought here immediately
after the shooting. The wounding
of this popular officer and the circumstances
surrounding it attracted
state-wide notice ana reports 01 inu
sheriff's condition were followed with
syuipathetic interest all over the
state. The sheriff is now sitting np
and he stated today that he hoped to
be able to return to Marion on Friday.
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Attention, Ex-Service Men.
The John H. David, Jr. Post of
The American Legion will meet next
Wednesday nipht, February 4th, at
eight o'clock at the office ?f
Haselden. As yet the local Post has
no home, although steps have been
taken to secure one at an early date,1
and the judge has kindly tonsented
to the members using his office for
meetings until others arrangementsj
can be made.
Every man who is now a member j
come and try to bring at least one!
new member with you. Every ex-service
man who is not a member come
and bring another with you. One town
in New York has a membership of
250 out of a total of 400 ex-service'
men. Dillon and Dillon county can do.
just as well as this town. The Amer-.
ican Legion is a big thing now and'
will be even bigger in the years to,
romp. Just so you served any time
between April 6th, 1017 and Noveni-J
ber 11th, 1918 and can show an honorable
discharge from the army, navy
or marines you are entitled to membership
in the Legion. The John H.
David Post is located at Dillon, but
that does not mean that its is just for
the boys in the town of Dillon. The
ex-service men in the country surrounding
Dillon and in other towns
in the county are urged to join the
John H. David Jr. Post. Remember
the date of next meeting. Next Wednesday
night, February 4th. and
whether you are a member or nor.
if you are entitled to membership,
be sure to come. There will be important
business to bp transacted at this
meeting. A good many towns over the
state have already secured club rooms
and we will have report from committee
appointed to secure club rooms
at this meeting.
W. W. THOMPSON. Adjutant.
French Souvenir Pamphlet*.
The local Post of The American
Legion has rect ivd from th<. French
government pamphlets expressing the
appreeiation of the French nation for
th<? services of tin* A. I*;. F.. tor instribution
Jo former members of the
A. E. F. We have a number of these
pamphlets still on hand and will be
rlau to Rive one to any ex-service
man who served in the A. E. F.
W. W. THOMPSON, Adjutant.
COUNTY NEWS
AND HAPPENINGS:
iNEWSEY LETTERS BY REGULAR'
UOHRESFON DE.N TS.
i
Xews Items of Interest to Herald
Headers Ebb mid Flow of the
Human Tide.
Fork.
Mrs. F. M. Edwards and children |
of Marion spent last week here with j
Mr. and Mrs. F. Rogers.
Mr. and Mrs. Maxcey Adams spent |
the week end in Dillon with relatives.
Mr. J. C. Blake of Charlotte spent
a few days here last week and was
accompanied home with wife and
little son, who have been visKing Mr.
and Mrs. J. O. Rogers.
Miss Edna Morse of Charleston
arrived Saturday to .take charge of
the primary grades in school.
Miss Edith Kohn, the efficient
night school teacher, has twenty four
pupils enrolled. Much good is being
accomplished and the pupils are very
enthusiastic over their work.
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Lake View.
Miss Alma Goodyear spent part of
the week in Florence having some
dental work done.
The stewards of the Methodist
churches on this circuit spent the
day at the Methodist parsonage
Tuesday. A turkey dinner and all that
goes with it were served. The meet
ing was canea 10 uiscuss piano iui ,
the coming year.
Dr. J. E. McKenzie of Washing-1
ton, D. C.. Mr. and Mrs. John Mc-j
Kenzie, Mrs. G. S. Carmichael, Mr.
and Mrs. Reuibert of Gaddys Mill J
visited Mrs. J. T. Hankins this week.
Mr. L. G. Miller and Mr. L. W.
Temple left for Gretna, Va., last week j
Mr. J. T. Hankins left for Danville,
Va., Monday to be gone a few j
days on business.
Mr. J. Leroy Tanner wts a visitor|
in town Friday.
Mr. J. W. Hankins is in Savannah,!
Ga., this week.
Little Miss Kathleen Scott who has|
been quite sick with pneumonia is i
improving and will soon be out again.'
The merchants in town are getting
small quantities of sugar.
Our community was saddened'
Monday when it was known that Mr. j
Lee Harrelson, son of Mr. and Mrs. j
V. M. Harrelson, was dead. He hadI
milv heen sick one week with pneu-i
moiiia when he succumbed to the!
dreadful disease. Lee was seventeen]
years old and a splendid boy. He was j
a member of the Pages Mill Baptist!
church, having joined about one year I
ago. The funeral services were con-1
ducted at the Baptist church by Rev. I
Leslie in the absence of the regular I
pastor. The school children attended]
in a body. Miss Jessie Fant's room
led as Lee was one of her pupils.
Each student from his room worc a
white band of ribbon around the
arm and the grades also sent a lovely j
wreath of flowers. We can't under-1
stand why death should claim this:
promising boy but we know He doeth ,
all things well and we bow in humble
submission to His will.
On Thursday morning the Lake;
View High School was minus the,
principal, Mr. D. L. McCortnac and j
one other teacher. Miss Elizabeth,
Maronev. Upon investigating is was
found that the young couple had been i
married on Wednesday night at Dil-1
Ion by Judge Davis and had hied |
themselves away to Columbia for a
short honeymoon trip. This came as
quite a surprise to their friends. Mr.
end McCormac are expected back 1
Sunday evening and will take up their ]
respective duties at the school Mon-j
/tnv mnmimr Their friends wish
them a long, happy and prosperous]
life.
o NEW
BANK ORGANIZES.
Dillon county's eight bank was or-;
ganized last week when the stock- j
holders of the Union Bank &. Trust i
Co., of Lake View, met and elected
officers.
The board of directors is compos-1
ed of the following well-known business
men of the Lake View section:
L. G. Miller. D. J. Oliver, D. K. Ford.]
Vink Daniels and R. S. Rogers. I in-;
mediately after the stockholders'!
meeting the directors met and elected
the following officers: L. G. Miller,
president and D. J. Oliver, vice-president.
ThP cashier of the new institution
will be elected this week. Mr.,
Miller and Mr. Oliver are two of the
most successful and substantial business
men of that section and thr prosperity
of the bank is assured under
their administration. The capital'
stock of the bank is $25.Ohft.no and
thev hone to he ready for business
by February lath.
Mrs. K. McC'oiniac.
Million. Jan. 24?At her homo in
Diilon county. Mrs. K. C. MeCornurr.
aged fiii years and six months-. died
January 14.
Mrs. McCormac had a lo\?-l; Christian
cl:ar;r? r< r. Sin- was a woman >;
great culture and n-tinei! n* and w; s
n inarkbly active for on,, o? In
until a days before r li.
She is survived by the :ol!u\viii;;
children: E. L. McCormac. of Maxton,
N. i'.: Mrs. B. F. Davis, of Marion.
E. A. McCormac, of Dillon. Mrs.
T. r. Rogers of Bennettsville. A. H
McCormac of Asheville. N. C.. and a
number of grandchildren and irreatgrandchildren
residing in North and
South Carolina.
(ANT CONSI DI.lt I
HOOYEIl SAYS ISItYA.X. I
Commoner Declares Democratic Daily
is Not Kmininu (iucssing
Contest.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 26?Pending
a statement of "his position 011 the '
questions at issue" by Herbert Hoover,
William Jennings Bryan told the
newspaper men here he could not ,
conciaer the candidacy of the former
food administrator for the presidential
nomination.
"When Mr. Hoover takes the people
into his confidence and states his |
position on the questions at issue," ;S
Mr. Bryan said, it will be time,
enoueh to consider his candidacy on j 1
the guess-what-I-have-in-my hand
plan.'"
Speaking at the House of Representatives
at the capitol, Mr. Bryan
renewed his attack on Governor Edwards
of New Jersey for his opposition
to prohibition and again criticised
Chairman Homer S. Cummings of
the Democratic national committee,
who attended Governor Edwards' in-1
augural banquet.
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STRANGE FATE PURSUES FAMILY I
Daughter Kills Companion and Father's
Auto Dashes Into Funeral
Party.
Raleigh. N. C.. Jan. 23?Seven
hours after 12 year old Lillian Ferrell
had accidentally shot and killed
Allen Swaim, Winston-Salem, stud-1
ent of Buies Creek academy at Buiesi*
Creek, N. C., G. S. Ferrell, father of!j
the girl, drove his big automobile jj
into a live passenger seaan iuur uuink
from Raleigh today, injuring all its'
passengers, including Prof. J. A. j
Campbell, head of Buies Creek acad-;
emy, and five students who were accompanying
the remains of young
Swaim to Raleigh. Mr. Ferrell was
on his way from Petersburg, Va., to
his home.
The injured, none of whom are seriously
hurt, were rushed to a local |
hospital for treatment after the col
lision this afternoon.
They were Prof. J. A. Campbell.
Buies Creek; J. T. Creech, Smith-1?
field; T. F. Jordan, Franklinville; F.
N. Lambe, Buies Creek; Spurgeon
Brigman, St. Paul; Charles Cude,
Winston-Salem and G. S. Ferrell,
Buies Creek. Tonight all the injured c
except Professor Campbell and the f
tw0 students, Creech and Jordan, had i
been discharged from the hospital |
and these three were resting well. c
Allen Swaim, 16 year old son of S
the Rev. V. M. Swaim, Baptist minis- 1
ter, of Winston-Salem, was shot at i
8:30 this morning in the Ferrell j i
home, according to the Buies Creek 1
students. Swatm, wtio was-a ooarueri*
there, went into the kitchen at break-je
fast time and according to the stud-; a
ents unloaded and toyed with a pis-ji
tol which Mrs. Ferrell had carried to a
the room for her protection in thejl
absence of her husband when she be-11
Ran her household duties before davil
liglit. Reloading the pistol after C
snapping it several times young |C
Swaim put it on a shelf. Twelve yeat jl
old Lillian Ferrell in an adjoining
room heard the pistol snapping came
into the room, seized and playfully
pointed it at Young Swaim. Before
any one could remonstrate, it is said, I
she fired and the bullet entered the !
young man's right breast. He died in'1.
40 minutes.
WILL VOX SIKKKNDEK KAISKIt.L
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Says it Will Take Army to Let For-|.
nier Ituler.
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Washington, Jan. 25?Unless Great j
Britain actually invades Holland and;
takes the former kaiser by force. Wil-j
1 iam of Hohenzollern will never be i
brought to trial, in the opinion of of-;.
ficials and diplomats here. L
These officials discount the report jj
that the kaiser will be tried in his*
absence for the reason that he has al-!
ready been tried and found guilty by f
all of the allied nations. It is regard-,
?'d here as conclusive that Holland ^
has so rebuffed the allies that diplo-l
macv undertaken to effect the surren-J
dor of the kaiser is no longer I'easi- j
ble.
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In addition it was pointed out here'
today, that the allies, even before the;
dispatch of their note demanding thej'!
kaiser, knew that Holland in all its r
history had never surrendered a P?-|r
litical prisoner. Therefore, the di-|
plomatic opinion here is that Lloyd
George simply pressed f?r 'he surren-,'
der of the former monarch in order 1
t0 square himself with the British 0
electorate and with the treaty which *
lit himself had framed. He will now f
be in a position to say that he tried i
l.j* every available method to bring s
about the surrender of the one time r
German monarch, and that Holland *
has practically declared that the only
wa\ to lit-t him out is for Germany i
to make the request, but even "it- f
der the laws and traditions of the <]
v?i 1.1.1-1,., ,i_. <iW.|, mn-render would s
only !?,. i: runted on condition rhsit 1
th?. extradited person be nof trie(j for r
|i?>lirir;t| olfense. a
Ser\ ii ill MetlioilNl I *11IIl*t ti.
M.ii.. .-'! ? ,M?ihoili<r church. In.
\V;iI>mii 1: I Ml li fit n. pastor. Sunday
.-rluoi .it ]<> si. in . Mr. W. H. Mtilb-r. v
super; i ?-ri f. Preachinn :?* 11 a si
in., mid 7 " >> p. in. by the pastor. I
Mni'tiir.L* subject: "Tin* I'ominu 1C f
vival:" No. ? "Fisliinp for Men t
Kveninp subject: "Whi'n <>ur Names <i
aiv Written in II?*a\tn." Prayer ~* r- f
\iee on Wednesday at 7:1)0 p. m. (]
f'hoir practice. Teachers' tneetinp on ti
Saturday at 0 p. in. Public cordially f
invited to all services at this church. \
1111 DILLON BOY
MEETS TRAGIC.DEATH
DAVID EDEN'S ELECTROCUTED IN
SUMTER TUESDAY.
IVas Opemting Electric Drill in Garage
When Stricken With
Deadly Current.
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David Edens was electrocuted in a
jumter garage Tuesday afternoon ^
vhile operating an electric drill.
Death was instantaneous. The details
)f the tragedy have not been learned,
)ut it is said that Mr. Edens was at
vork nn an automohile with an elec
ric drill when without warning there
vas a Mash and he crumpled up on
he floor. The voltage was so strong
hat when bystanders reached his /
tide he was dead. Working at the
same garage with him was his brother,
Timmons Edens, but whether his
>rother was present or not when the
ragedy occurred has not been learn!d.
Mr. Edens was born in Dillon and
vas about 30 years of age. When
luite a boy he went into a garage
md learned the automobile business.
3e was a skilled mechanic and was
said to be one of the highest salaried
tutomobiles mechanics in the state. t
3efore going to Sumter about three
ears ago he was employed at E. L.
Hoore's garage.
Little more than a year ago he was
narried t0 Miss Thelma Beard of Dilon,
who, with his mother, Mrs. Aniie
Edens and three brothers, Reese,
ritnmons and Mood Edens, survives
lim. Mr. Edens made frequent trips
o Dillon and it has not been more
han four weeks ag0 since he was at
tome.
The body arrived in Dillon yesterlay
morning and lhe interment was
nade at Mt. Holly at 4 o'clock yeserday
afternoon.
Mr Edens was well-known in Dil
on and his sudden and tragic death
vas a great shock to his friends and
icquaintances.
(lets Photo from Lady Astor.
Judge Joe Cabell Davis has revived
from Lady Astor, recently
lected to the British Parliament, a
etter in which is enclosed a photorraph
of Lady Astor taking the oath
>f oi'fice in the House of Commons.
Standing besides Lady Astor is her
lusband, Lord Astor, and the presidng
officer of the House. Lady Astor
s a native of Danville, Va., Judge
Davis' old home. She was born and
ipent the greater part of her youngtr
days in a residence just a few doors
tbove Judge Davis' home. Judge Davs
knew her when she was a little girl
md went to school with her older
Mothers and sisters. When Lady Asor
was elected to Parliament Judge
Davis promptly wrote her a letter of
ongratulation and the photograph
ante back with her letter of accnowledgement.
o
After Ilent Profiteers.
Profiteer landlords will be held to
he straight and narrow path in payng
their income taxes this spring,
or the tenants are doing the driving
ind holding the whip.
Revenge is sweet to the tenant who
las had to dig deep into his earnings
o pay a high rental in 1919. (lather
ng his family around him, he takes
lis scratchy pen in hand, searches
he ink bottle for the last drop of
nk. and with a master stroke informs
he Commissioner of Internal Reveiue
that he. Bill Brown, of the Hall00111
apartments, paid to John Smith,
13 Profiteer Avenue, Anywhere, U. S.
V. $1200 for his three room flat durng
the year 1919.
By gathering these reports from all
he Bill Browns who are running
hemselves ragged to pay their rent,
he Internal Revenue Bureau will
lave the information needed to see
hat the Profiteer Smiths pay proper
ax or face prosecution.
The information returns now due
overing payments of salaries, wages,
ent, interest, and other income serve
is useful data for running down taxlodgers
and for cheeking up millions
if returns to see that proper ta^ is
laid.
Large business houses have been
aithfully making these information
eports ior several years ana nuvo
ooperated whole heartedly with the
governments cheeking system. The
ante obligation rests on smaller busnesses,
and on professional men; alo
on pei-sons and organizations who
'inploy secrataries. chauffeurs, seranfs,
or persons in any capacity.
The Revenue Law requires the fillip:
of these information returns in
aeh rose where the total of payments
luring 1010 to any person, partnerhip.
or fiduciary was $1000 or more,
"onus 1000 and 1000 on which the
ft urns must he made, are now availihle
at the offices of it . f'olleetors <?f
nternal Revenue.
< i\ it. ni:r\ i< i: i:\ x.miv vriox.
T!1" S Civil .>? r\ice Commission
'.ili hold an examination tor clerks
ii'l earners on February 1 t, lf?20, at
lilioii. S. C.. id till vacancies in the
<> r office jn that city. The ? xamina' n
is open to all who meet the re|Uiroiii?nts.
Application Manks and
nil information. including sample
inestions, can he obtained from Postnaster
Harrrnve nt the postoffice or
rom the Secretary. Fifth Civil Serice
District, Atlanta. Ga.