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JMBBBBBSBfifiSBSS????? ??????? Lilian tSjrralh ? ?UtteCttti>TiOX - $2.50 Per Yr. {blo Huhscription for moie than 1 Yr.J? Dillon, S. C., July 29, 1920. THE EDiTOB TAKES A WEEK OFF. It has been a long time since the j editor took a "week off?that is a Whoie wee* in wnich he did not have to worry about an issue of the paper ?and it is scarcely necessary to say that he enjoyed the seven days like : a man who had been released from prison after years of solitary confine- j ment. A man does not know how deep he gets into the ruts until he gets 1 away from his office and mingles with ' strange people. He moves into another 1 woriu where customs are so entirely ' different that a week is not long J enough tor him to get adjusted to his 1 new surroundings. 1 Sunday morning, July 18th, we < left via automobile for a trip through ? the hills and mountains of Western North Carolina. The morning air was cvol?and bracing and the crops along the roadside, just emerging from their dew hath after a night of refreshing Slumber, presented an unusually pretty picture. The only thing that marmi the pleasure of the early morning ride was the condition of the roads. They were full of holes and bumps ?* a result of the washing raihs that had fallen for the past several days, and the real pleasure of automobile j riding did not begin until we had passed Hamlet, N. C., where we foundj ? delightful piece of road six miles long that connected Hamlet and Rochingham. It was easy to drive an; automobile over this piece of high way at the rate of 40 miles an hour i and one is hardly out of Hamlet be- i fore they are entering the corporate < limits of Rockingham. t The first stop was made at Jack- i sou Springs where we found a large 1 crowd of pleasure seekers. Among i the Dillonites at the Springs were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Manning and Miss Annie Manning. Congressman Stoll and Mrs. Stoll and the children were also at the Springs. Mrs. .Manning had been at the Springs about two weeks and Mr. Manning had come up the day before. Congressman Stoll was there taking tEe water for his health and resting after completing his duties in Washington for the session just closed. The roads from Rockingham to Jackson Springs are in fairly good cdndition, but they are not up to standard. They have been neglected for the past year or * "" ? *?/! tho-cQnrl onH Hav mixtur? is . giving away. Monday morning at 9 o'clock we turned our faces westward with Greensboro, N. C. as our objective where we proposed to stop for dinner. The road map says it is 70 miles from Jackson Springs to Greensbero, bat after a man who has been raised in a flat country steers a seven past ' I 1 V T > A i | X < v $ senger automobile over the hills and mountains and around the sharp, curves and down the steep grades between the Springs and Greensboro he feels like it is ten times seventy. The roads are good. They are built of sand and clay and gravei and about seven miles out of Greensboro each way you have the tarvia road, but a man who is not used to them burns nerve force faster than a Ford consumes gasoline md at the end of the journey the honk of an automobile horn will give you the jim-jams. There is very little level country between Hamlet and Greensboro. Out through Pinehurst and Southern Pines the country gets flatter, but still it looks high and rolling to a 1 Uorn nn Qi'Orv Vl Q n H [OW-tUUUllJ-JUOU. U?B uu ^ one sees evidences of Yankee thrift and ingenuity. For mile after mile there is nothing but sand. It is almost a desert. Here and there are bunches of stunted pines. The only shrubbery one sees is down at the foot of the hills where sickly looking water:onrses trail off toward the ocean. For forming purposes the land is valueless. It will not grow cow peas and a millionaire would starve to death on It trying to raise chufas. But the Yankee has touched it with a magic wand. At Pinehurst he built a magnificent hotel and laid out parks and other pleasure resorts. And then his friends came down and built beautiful bungalows. Walks were laid out tnd then landscape gardeners took the unsightly hillside pine and surroundtt with pretty shrubbery made beautiful promenades which wind in ind around the hotel and the pretty cottages and bungalows which flank It on every side. But the Yankee aid not stop herpl He went down into the bottom <^f the water courses and dug up clay which he mixed with 3and and / built highways which stretch across the sand hills in every direction like streaks %of gold. And then he too? over the poor sandy land ind plantedxhem in peach trees,thereby creating inThis wilderness an industry which has proved highly profitable. The Yankee deserves credit for these achievements. He has done ' * 11 ; ? Korron canrihillft nis worh. wen IU mc ot North Carolina, but he had unlimited means with which to do it. Given the same financial assistance the natives of that section would have done just as well or probably better. When one leaves the vicinity of Pinehurst where on every hand are evidences of wealth being wisely spent the country on to Greensboro is uninteresting from an agricultural point of view. Before one reaches Jackson Springs the cotton fields begin to fade away and a few miles beyond Pinehurst they have disappeared altogether and tobacco, wheat and corn take their place along the roadside. The country becomes rougher and one soon leaves the sandhills and the red clay begins to loom up. The good roads do not give out, however. From the sand and clay road you enter upon the gravel road and even though a heavy rain had just X^Xh!mXhX* W1LLARL :a First:?"M really glad to Second:?. experienced in Third.?! in which to i Fourth:?i * - t how to avoid t Fifth:?B< edge of actual an adequate stc Of course the time, but v standard. W vice in Amenc DILLOr fallen the roads were comparatively !dry. They are well crowned and the. natural drainage on both sides takes 'the water off almost as quickly as it falls. But here is where it saps the nerve [force In the man wlio comes from the low country. The curves are sharp and the grades are steep. Cars fly by [you at the rate of 40, or 50 miles an hour, never pausing at a turn. You 'keep your eyes glued to the road in j front of you, ever on the alert for something around the curve and as you start down a mountain side and look at a steeD hill on the other side you wonder if you will be able to , make it. But when you get down to the bottom, the hill on the opposite side does not look quite so steep and the car begins to climb it without a flutter, but as you near the top there just in front of you is another steep hill with a sharp curve in the middle and you begin to wonder what lies beyond the thick clump of dogwood and hickory, but lo! as your car takes the'turn there reaches out before you like a silver cord another stretch of beautiful road and as you press down on the accelerator your car bounds forward like a spirited animal unleashed. Every faculty Is on the alert and the nerves are at high tension. As you reach the top of a hill you look way out across the valleys at a beautiful sky line some 10 or 15 miles distant, and then again you look down a precipice that seems to go to the very bowels of the earth and you shudder aa you imagine what would I happen if your steering gear failed to work or a front wheel should fly | off. The roads are not without their | dangers, even when the car is in the ;hand8 of experienced drivers. As we wore winding down a mountain side over a piece of treacherous road we turned a sharp and dangerous curve and there Just a few feet in front of, ug blocking the roadway was a car turned upside down. Three minutes earlier and we would have witnessed the accident. They were putting the young man in another car to rush him to the nearest town. His skull was crushed and evidently he was breathing his last. It was another case of reckless driving in a dangerops place. From Jackson Springs to Greensboro the country is wild and thinly seti'ed. What f?w towns we passed were small, the streets were rough and uneven. They are not laid out with the symmetry one sees in the low ccuutry. Their main source of revenue is from small > manufacturing plants. The people do not seem to be alert and active. Men sit it groups in front of the stores, evidently discussing the topics of the day. and when a customer drifts towards the door the proprietor or clerk looks up and nonchalently asks "What will you have?" These conditions, of course, seemed to exist only in the very small town^ / * As one approaches Greensboro the country becomes more level and driv; ~ = A A? "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "AI "AV vy T| ) STAND. [eeting every custo ? see him, and glad Being properly equip] Lattery care, const] Maintaining a real sts Jo busines properly. Showing the car own< hings that will injure sing businesslike, to h costs, to give good ret >ck of new batteries, : i we re human, and w re are konestly and si e believe Willard Se: :a and we re making 1 We will appre STOR, G. C. POWERS LOCATED IN Ri i ing a car becomes more of a pleasure. The clearings are larger, the lands are richer, cultivation is better and the sun shines brighter. You [seem to emerge from a wilderness In[ to a thickly populated country with pretty farm houses surrounded by broad acres of wheat, tobacco and corn, with here and there a herd of well-bred cattle or a bunch of sheep grazing in a beautiful meadow. From Greensboro to Reidsville, a distance of some 30 miles, the topography ot the country does not vary. The lands are gently rolling and seem, to be in a fine state of cultivation. One of the prettiest stretches of road we passed over was between these two cities. The road was straight and it was quite a pleasure to drive o^er it after our rather strenuous experience wiid me ouiy ana wmaiag ruaus guuiu of Greensboro. It is remarkable what a great change so short a distance can make I in the industrial life of two sections. It is only 183 miles from Dillon to Reldsville. Agriculture is one of the two leading industries of that section of North Carolina?the other is manufacturing. Reldsville, we believe, stands second to Winston-Salem in the manufacture of tobacco/ It used to be a town of millionaire tobacco manufacturers, but the men who made big fortunes in the tobacco maniufasturing industry have either died or moved away and at the present time Reldsville lays claim to only one millionaire. The pletLsantest part of a long automobile trip is when you are nearlng the end of your Journey. Our destination was Leaksville, N. C., 15 miles west of Reldsville, and 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon we crawled out oi the car tired, dusty and hungry. Leaksville is an old town with quaint customs. Historians say it is the third oldest town in the state. Everybody is kin to everybdly else and the 2000 population of which it boasts is made up of cousins and uncles and aunts Adjoining the town of Leaksville it the city of Spray which claims a poplation of 15,000 and then a short dis tance further on is the town of Draper which claims a population of 4000 Spray and Draper are modern towns The former is about 20 years old. The three towns merge into each othei and the afternoon paper is called the "Tri-City Gazette." Spray and Drap er are manufacturing towns. In the two towns are between 8 and 10 bif nnttnn millc onH a xt'nnlpn mill. Tnen are several finishing mills which tun the raw cotton into ginghams, bet spreads, underwear, hosiery, etc The most of these mills are ownet by the heirs of Marshall, the grea Chicago merchant. They supply- th< big stores in Chicago, New York ant other cities which are operated b: trustees as provided in Marsha Field's will. The mills are managed b; local business men. It is a great man ufacturing center and the pay rol runs into thousands of dol'ars ever; (week. This is a country of yellow-leg pul ! $ ARD OF mer more than ha l"?*?1r? film. 1>U .? ped to kelp, tkoroug ruction and repair, ition in a good loca' :r kow to care for l : it and skorten its li ase fair and just cka :urns for every penn; ? 1 L ? a a o ? reutai ucnitiauu e re not all of us 10 1 mcereiy striving to rvice is the most relia t better every day. ciate your patro AGE BA G. C. COUCH OGERS GARAGE lets, buttermilk and fried apples ? a i combination a king could relish. Chickens were selling at 40 cents a pbund when we arrived# but there jwaB a sharp advance before we left. I (The return journey was very pleasant. We came back by Jackson Springy where we found Mr. and Mrs. W. C. 'Tolar and Master Carson Tolar who h^d come up for the week end. Another Dillonite we were glad to see at ' the Springs was Mr. John Squires who had come up to spend a week. The trip home was uneventful, i There had been very little rain be; yond Hamlet, but from Hamlet on to i Dillon there were evidences of heavy rafna nil tho WiV. Cotton fields were full of grass and farmers looked blue and dispirited. The roads all i the way from Hamlet were in bad coni ditlon and our progress was very slow. But even If the Dillon roads were a contrast to the fine clay and gravel i roads over which we had been riding through North Carolina the neeri er home we got the easier they rode. r bond ^ ii 5 tVJlVV/ %JiJ> IV/IU. in Orders for |t Printing ) ; " 1 \3KS^?yyi ! L T. ELI DILLO <?w? i//r/= A ss \ f If way, being [kly trained and tion, with space lis Lattery and fe. rges on knowly\ and to carry repair parts. 0 per cent all of live up to our the Lattery sernage. TTERY \ ' JOHN HENRY. BETHEA ARRESTED Negro Charged With Killing Deputy Sheriff J. A. Kltchin. Will Probably Be Carried to Raleigh 1 From Columbia.'* " ? Lumberton Robesonian. John Henry Bethea, colored charged with killing Deputy Sheriff J. A. ? Kitchin on the night of Jhly 1, has been arrested and is-in Jail at Columbia, S.. C., according to a wire message received by Sheriff R. E. Lewis yesterday from the South Carolina authorities. Bethea will probahly. be removed to Raleigh as soon as the proper requisition papers have been furnished. x h As was stated in The Robesonian hi luc uuie, uvpuiy xiucmn aiea as a result of being shot as he stepped out of his- auto when he with Rural Polioeman W. W. Smith came upon a c^r in the road in Alfordsyille. township on the night of July 2. One negro, Dave Bethea, brother of. John Henry, was killed at the same time, the other negro escaping. The oar driven by the negroes was loaded, with whiskey and sugar. The Be thea -negroes lived in Dillon county. South Carolina and according, to. the testimony of some colored women .who were with .them in the car, had been to Cumberland county after whiskey and were returning home when th?y ji had a puncture. x It was while they were patching the tire that the' officers overtook them. ! ... ? ' ' " | . \ Mrs. W.'s. Campbell is undergping; treatment at the Hlghsmith. Infirmary in Fayetteville, N. C. FORD CARS ? Just, received, two loads of Ford touring cars wlthi self-starters. L. F. Britt, Dillon, SL C.?7 29 It. | Subscribe to the Dillon Herald. $2.ET0< ; per year In advance. Subscribe to The Dillon Herald. YOU WILL BE SUBPBIS&D at what five dollars will buy in our store. Shirts, collars, cravats, 'kerchiefs, gloves sus^.pWders, pajamas, garters, socks, underwear, studs,, cuff links, belts, umbrellas and. canes we have in a great variety and at a big range of prfces. Promise us you won.'t buy until you have seen our good& That's all we ask. JOTT, Jr. ?, s. c.. ' 9 I i I I % f X X ? 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