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NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that Mrs. Maggie E. Oliver, administratrix of , the estate of D. N. Oliver, deceased, * has made application unto me for final discharge as such administratrix and that Friday, July 16th at 10 a. ' , m. in the forenoon has been appointed I lor the hearing of the said pet.tlon. All persons holding claims, against the said estate are requested to file them with the administratrix on or before 10 a. m. in the forenoon on July 16th_ or this notice will be plead / in bar of their recovery. L JOE CABELL DAVIS. Judge of Probate, NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that I have disposed of my holdings in the lumber company trading as Tolar & Parker to A. B. Jordan, A. B. Parker and R.. 9 I GASOLINE ENGINE I . Do work of 6 to 10 mi Clutch Stops saw wit Gasoline Engines 2 to 1 alogue. i All Equipped with B COLUMBIA ^ 823 W GERVAIS St. r I 5! HEBE?? SI HI IS IS 5 I iHymanSi 1' ? m m s. a (XI _ 4 #, | AttentioM | I Now is r is place your o< | use. V | Put mot ? on your far a your help u | year arouni s won't havetr 1 help. a After th I bv, nut the tr 1 r W a,sa si mill, shingle n H feed mill, con | wood saw. qj * gj We make a spei V g] Mills for farm use, C g] and Farm Machinery ? | Hyman S g] Tbe Machinery H S WILMINGTON, N. C. SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI IS SI SI s S. Rogers who have assumed all outstanding indebtedness of the said company, and ah accounts due said company should be paid to the said A. B. Parker, A. B. Jordan and R. S. Rogers, trading as the Dillon County Lumber Co. 7 22 3t. W. C. Tolar. NOTICE. This is to notify any and all persons that I firbid them to hire or harbor my son, Teby Jackson, age 16. Any person firm or corporation not complying with this notice will be dealt with according to law. W. R. JACKSON, 7 29 3tp. Latta, S. C. Subscribe to the Dillon Herald. $2.50 1 per year in advance. YOU'LL ENJOY EVERY MORSEL, of food you eat at this restaurant. First because the food is carefully selected and perfectly cooked. Second because our service makes youtfeel you are an honored guest and the sur- j roundings add cosiness to the charm. We know you would en-1 joy a meal -here. Come and you'll know it too. ..... . Palmetto Cafe DILLON, S. C. ' 5*. ^^S5SS=SSE9S9Em3S|e^eS9=9=SS5SeSB9? ^ )RAG SAWS & RIGS \n. Lever controlled boat stopping Engine. 2 H. P. Send for catosch Magneto. SUPPLY CO., COLUMBIA. 8. C. isasiasBisiisaag upplyCo.| m L/ . I r. Far me ^ the time to | iers for fall | e machinery s m and eive ti )ork all* | i, and you a ouble keeping | ~ a a e crop is laid | actor to work a w mill, lathe | lill, corn mill, | i sheller, cord a a a lialtv of Lizht Saw IS lorn Mills, Feed Mills ffl >. ? IS IS upply Co. I ouse of the South [g NEWBERN, N. C. ? ilSSSSISISSEBsl BOLL WEEVIL IN COLLETON. First Hand Information as to What the Pest is Doing in Lower Carolina. The Press and Standard published at Walterboro, the county seat of Colleton, gives some first hand information as to what the boll weevil is doing in that county. The information was obtained by addressing letters to the'farmers themselves and asking them how they were getting along in their fight against the weevil. The letter from one farmer in the Hendersonville section of Colleton is particularly interesting in that it describes condition as they will undoubtedly o-\ist in Dillon county in the next year or two. The letter follows: Hendersonville. June 12? Your letter asking us 'to secure the concensus of opinion concerning boll weevil situation in this immediate community has given us a very interesting and instructive piece of work. We should like to have had opportunity for a wider range of interviews, but have been able to talk only with some of the planters who live within the village, so the information comes from a limited num- , ber, but we feel that it is representative of the condition in this section, We had interviews with the following gentlemen who are among our most successful planters: T. S. Boynton, G. E. H. Moore, C. H. Boynton, J. C. Guess, D. E. Guess, C. H. Marvin, and ( Desmond Marvin. To the question concerning the present outlook for cotton all replied in the same emphatic manner. ."No prospects." None gave any other than a dismal picture of the situation. Still none were distressed ior cast down with discouragement for j it is but as expected.-They are accepting the situation as a patter of fact and are seeking to profit by the experience of last year by turning in other directions than cotton. "The general opinion is that the acreage has been cut two-thirds or threefourths. Several of the farmers who have always planted cotton have eliminated it altogether this year, while , those who have planted seem to have done so chiefly as a matter 01 expen' ment. The weevil seems to have anticipated a scarcity of the coveted plant for in%many places his appearance was noted with the breaking of the soil. Not content to await the arrival of the boll, he began his destructive attack upon the tender young plant by eating the bud leaf. Now the squares are dropping off the stalk rapidly as the result of his continued assault. Several of our farmers gave over any further cultivation after the discovery of the early presence of the pest, others started the fight immediately by picking up the weevils, later the squares and by some using calcium [arsenate as k poison. Quite a difference is noted by some where the .'croppers have been persistent in the i fight and where others have done nothing at all against the enemy. Picking off the weevil was rather too expensive a process for several who felt that the experiment for this year scarcely justified the coast, so ? H, A.BETHEA 1 if Ton Wl I Or Turn F< Cashorgoc C3 * It will pay ; | Our firm re Y 14* and auction Y years experie know bow tc & last dollar. f Y you are tbinl Y of it, pbone \ ? r It will be a over and tel. ?$ for. Our fi .% We want tc plan j % Bethea-Watson i t Croslandt * T f ? they resorted either to poisoning or picking up squares. As regards the substitute crops, corn seems to be the leading resort. Along with this more acreage and attention is being given velvet beans, peanuts, peas, and potatoes. Also a great deal is invested in live stock from which many Expect their principal profit. It is the opinion that the farmers are preparing to meet the fall with its financial claims by their present foresight, their reliance upon grain crops and live stock a stricter economy in living and a larger production for home consumption. T. S. Boynton is very optimistic,' not over the boll weevil situation, but over the farmers' ability to meet. the new conditions. He is demon-( strating this in a very practical way and at present has splendid prospects for the fall harvest. Last year he had 150 acres in co? -. this year only five which he had planted only as an 11 experiment. He has used the poison!1 * * * ' J 1 ? ?? iVi a nnno rnC I Solution mnu is imviug wc picked up. In,place of cotton he has turned to a>&rger production of corn and beans, 100 acres in peas from which he will have both the fruit and ( hay, about 60 acres in peanus, which , surely rival if not surpass other pea- ( nut crops of the section. C. H. Boynton thinks the farmers i are rather easily discouraged over j the weevil conditions and do no < fight them hard enough. He works i on the share crop system and has reduced his cotton acreage from , i acres last year to 30 this year, per- < mitting about four acres to the plow, j His croppers have been using a boll i weevil machine along with the other i usual methods. He has planted corn, i peanuts, velvet beans and peas whici. i he will store up chiefly for his large i herds of live stock. J. C. Guess reduced his acreage from 60 to 12 acres this year. Find* ?""?'I" ttio nrnn frntn fhe I ing tue wccvni) i&a iuv v* beginning he has not worked it but rather devoted his energy to corn, beans, oats, hay and live stock. Mr. Guess feels that as much as half a crop of cotton can be made if it can be planted early enough anjl have fair conditions for it to grow off quickly before the weevil can do so much damage. This season this year was much against securing this early stand. G. E. H. Moore has as pretty a crop of cotton as can be seen anywhere, but the weevil has been with him from the start. He decreased his acreage about two-thirds, from 80 to 27 acres. He began the fight at first by having the weevil picked, and he estimates that he found from five to twenty weevils to the row in early stages while eating the bud leaves. I^e is now having the squares picked ut> and has used the calcium aresnate poison. He hopes to make a half crop. He has the cief substitutes of corn, peas, beans and peanuts. Hit great interest lies in live stock and he has one of the finest herds of cows anywhere within this section. Sixty acres of open land he has turned into a pasture for the cattle. His dairy and fine new barn are attracting no small amount of attention. D. E. Guess has only planted a ? ? WWTTTf? A W. U* fiLlllLA mt to Sell Y wr Town Pn id interest you to see us or drc :presents Crosland-T; Company. This firn nee in the auction bu ) sell farm land and You know their re ung of selling your fa is or drop us a card. pleasure for us to loc 1 you what we thin] rm is composed of 1 > handle your business Yours truly Insurance & Re; Latta, S. C. Representing the Fyson Realty and Ai Bennettsville, S. C. (Twelve years at the business) { J / / 'ew acres of cotton. The weevil, not h :ontent with his first destruction li imong the cotton, has attacked t. f< peas also and has eaten up tw " rows of peas planted next to Mr Suess's cotton. Many others claim b :hat he is working havoc among their o peas. t: C. H. and Desmond Marvin have ti planted no cotton, but are cultiva: b ng corn, peas, beans, peanuts, oats, t< potatoes. The former has much interest in live stock. a If we would give the experiences fi )f other farmers of the communitp I fi t would be but a repetition of It ibove for these gentlemen quoted | speak from observation as well a js! sxperience. However, if the farm !o srs are not yet able to destroy the \ a iestructive little bug or teach himlp * - * * ~ I /* to let cotton atone mey are in? |\. learning how to figh him from an-ifi other vantage point, and solving a very critical problem for the pres- o ent. / i; o 11 LOVE, POKEK, POISOX. a !S Geneva, July 24? A fatal poker!? luei took place at Prague between * two young officers enamored of a lo- M :al beauty. Mile. Ilga Freiderics. The g young woman told her admirers tha. J 3he liked them both equally well, and J is she was unable to marry both, asked them to settle the affair, between " themselves. i Before the game of pooker limited j to one hour began the two players j? each placed several bottles of cham- ? pagne and also a glass containing r strong dose of arsenic on the table at " their private room in a hotel. Each ? also wrote out an unsigned statement ? on a slip o' paper that he had poisou^ kimoolf CU UllliOCll. The young officer won the game. His opponent immediately signed his name to the statement, swallowed tht poison and died a few hours later. An inquiry has been begun by the police. o REPUBLICANS PLAN TO INVADE SOUTH. | To Establish Headquarters in Differ-! ent States. (P. H. McGowa n in The State.) Washington, July 25?Just as predicted in this correspondence on frequent occasions, the movement to ( break the "solid South'" has begun here. MonthB ago talk began to be 1 heard in the national capitol looking 1 toward the end of wrecking the souths J eDemocratic hold and of planting { there a white Republican party. To- < day the matter took concrete form. < It has become known here that recently many letters have come to Re- , publican leaders asking that something be done to wrench the political machinery from the Democrats of the South in order that chances of Repub- ( lican victory might be enhanced. It has been suggested that Republican strongholds be opened in several of j the leading cities of the South, to j yhich Chairman Hayes is said to have , already given his consent and approv- . al. The location of these cities is now j said to be the only question that is , bothering the leaders and that they ] ???a ( 1 1 f' HOYT WATSON j> , our Farm, f! 7 ? i operty f wing paper * )p us a card. ?>: A 1 yson Realty ? a has had 12 * siness. They i get you the $? ^ i putation. If A A 1 i. x 1 rm, or a part :? ? ____ X.__ I: jk yuur lciiiii j c it will sell 'j4: % >usiness men. T on a business *? , ? f' T. v i > ! alty Company, *. Y ! |i f action Co. i f| V i Xi X? % ave practically named South: Carona as one of the places where flirts will be commenced to break the . solid South."' The Republicans of the South have een informed by Henry L. Johnson ? . f Georgia and other men of the paftIr, that the only way to rid that seeion of what they term the "emocratic. light" is for the Republican leader* ' 5 busy themselves. Marion Butler of Washington, forler Populist-Republican, senatoc rom North Carolina, dispatched the allowing telegram to Chairman. 1 lays: "Southern Republican headquarters hould be established because even? ther section has been accorded seprate headquarters especially equip-' ed to meet the different conditions, londitions in the East and West diter. "Second: A remarkable Republican pportunity has arisen. Our whotecitsenship are descendents of Rev'olu-r lonary ansectors. They are deeply roused over Democratic attempt to urrender the republic. They speak ' f the 'Arch Tory' in the White Houbo Ivery soldier boy is a crusader fpr Lmericanism. This is the climax to * , rowing dissatisfaction against eight ears of monumental maladministraion. In North Carolina these condtions are accentuated by deep resent- ? aent against a new odious state taxa- ? ion scheme. t "Third: With impending reduction f Southern representation, Southern tepublicans desire and deserve this uelpful recognition to enable them to eize this opportunity acid to emanci- \ ate themselves and all our people rom the blight of Democratic rule., 'he South needs the Republican pary and the party needs the South. Vhat is needed is a distinct Southern. . ? leadquarters managed by those who ; mow every phase of Southern condiinna nnd located at some point in he heart of the South." Marion Butler, author of the above . , elegram is well known in Republican ircles in the South and was promllent as a Populist leader in the Unitid States senate when that cult was. ampant in many sections of the counry in theearly '90s and just prior hereto. But when the pendulum, i^ung back Butler, was of course, deposed from the senate and his place, illed by a'Democrat from North Carilina. For many years Butler has been a Washington lawyer and a G. 0. P. follower and his telegram to Chairman h'ays should be read with interest by Souhern Democrats as giving an inJication regardless what plans may be ' >n foot to break up the "solid South.'* o rais MAW IS FATHER AND GRANDFATHER OF CHILDREX Baltimore, Mr., July 22 ? An unusual story is told in a bill of complaint field in Circuit Court No. 2. by Anna Belle Jones, through Archey & New attorney, for the annulment' of her marriage to William M. Jonee. rhe case is that of a wife and mother, who says that she has learned that her husband?the father of her two children?whom she supposed to be her steDfather, was her real father. and that his improper conduct towards her younger sister caused the latter to leave their home. Jones declares in the bill that before her marriage she lived with her parents without being aware of her supposed stepfather's identity. Another unusual feature of the story is the: assertion of Mrs. Jones tha thg revelations of her supposed stepfather's. Identity came to her in a dream. Two children were born of the marriage, boys, eight and three years, who are said to be entirely normal and bealthy. o ROMANCE ENDS IN GRIEF. Marion Girl is Deserted by Worthless Husband After Brief Wedded Life. A recent issue of th, Wilmington ? Star contains the fonowing which may be of interest to persons in this section. "A teiephone romance which began in Marion, S. C. four years ago* was blasted yesterday morning in the ^nriior's r-nnrf here when Delia. Compo, 21 years old, charged her husband, Ernest Ccmpo, with non-support and desertion. Compo was jailed in default of $5UU bail. Mrs. Compo was a telephone girt in Marion earning her own living, pretty# and just seventeen. The four years "which have elapsed have written an unmistakable story upon her countenance and two little children. hover about her skirts. It all began in this manner, according to her story. A crisp hello over the wire, a few inconsequential words which did not pertain strictly to business, a smiling face at the escharige window, a few short month* of courtship, then marriage. Compo is an ex-circus performer. . she asserted, and at that time wu>issociated with a moving pictureshow. They lived happily for a brief period. Then trouble began, it * said. Th* family larder became ind the canker of dissatisfaction began gnawing. After leaving Marion it was wauiering, unsettled existence ? a few aionths in a town, then pack up and leave, according to Mrs. Compo. ? ?j ma* Eventually tne pair janueo ur w?nington. Mrs. Compo took a posifiorr n a laundry here, but by the tim? ihe puid her expenses there was Utile left 6he said. "Four time I've pawned my wed ling ring to buy food. I've been hun?ry many times. Really, I don't know ivhat would have become of me i( it lad not been for my friend. " Hot* ?yes glistened with moisture as she spoke of her. "I am staying with m> friend now. She is a working gicf' ind has her own little apartmenfe. I'he other day when I was so hungry. [?I don't know what I'd have don? f it hadn't been for her." "My baby is out at the hospital row. I've just been out to see her. The little tot is some better toda.v. >he is 18 months old. My other little, girl is two and a half years old." Compo in 3 8?17 years older thwt: lis wife, she says. V