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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
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. 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
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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
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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
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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
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!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;
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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
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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.
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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
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' JOHN HENRY. BETHEA ARRESTED
Negro Charged With Killing Deputy
Sheriff J. A. Kltchin. Will Probably
Be Carried to Raleigh
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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.
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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.
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