The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, September 23, 1920, Image 8
MUCH DAMAGE BY WEEVIL
Calhoun Cotton Farmers Suffering
From Loss
St. Matthews, Sept. 9.?If the boll
weevil should keep up his march of invasion
until the end of the season as
he is now doing in this part of the
country, incalculable harm is going'
to come to the farmers. With only a
few reported here and there last season,
there was little apprehension
that it would anything more than
make his debut this year. The extra-i
ordinary prospect for a good crop in
the early and middle summer and the
excessive fruitage seemed to contradict
his presence and little fear was
manifest. But while confidence reigned,
the weevil worked and now it is
ont only present but is here in force
and causing disaster. In many sec-|
tons of th county, planters now say
that they will do well to harvest a
crop. Others report the damage still
greater. Scarcely a field is exempt
from its presence and it now appears
that 1921 will be a real boll weevil
year for Calhoun. It is no longer
argued that this area is too high and j
that the \teevil does not thrive except
in low places.
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TELLS STRANGE SNAKE STORY
Negro Cells on Governor Cooper and
Claims Man Employed Witchcraft
Against Him, Causing Him to
Shoot Negro Woman.
"Ever had any experience with the'
Lord?'' was the odd question that was
thrown at Governr Cooper Saturdaj
1 can't get help," and the nervous
his offices at the State House.
His Interrogator was Frank McAllister,
a coal black negro, as strange
a figure as has been seen in exectlve
nfflcoa in manv a Hav With ha.eea.rd
face, clothing in disarray, black skin
shinning and eyes unnaturally bright, j
he stood near the entrance to the
"* outer offices, looking out of place in
the well appointed chamber.
When the Governor entered, the
negro wanted to "inow if he was the:
Governor and on being answered in j
. the affirmative fired his next ques-J
tion with regard to the Lord.
"Well, I've been out in the woods
praying, for I'm in a tangle and the
Lord told me to come to the Governor
for .help.
, "I'm all in a tangle. I'll be losing
two horses, many hogs and 15 pigs if
I, can't get help," and the nervous
hands hardly ceased to twirl the hat:
he held between them.
I'm all conjured," he continued. |
"A negro man conjured me, and I
here's how it was:
"I rhot a woman Saturday a week
ago. I couldn't help it?I would not i
have^shot her for all the money this
room would hold?but I couldn't help
it. That man done 'witched me. He
was trying to come between us. I
Saw Black Snake i
"Here's how it was," and the negro,'
thin from half rations and the long!
tramp from Williamsburg county,
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JONES FOR LO
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OUR Mr.
of new
pants, shoes, b
at invariable 1
The live model Cors<
Boys' Knee Pant Su
The bipgest and best lc
at 75c to $4.00.
JONES DR
seemed not to be able to talk fast
enough to get his story out.
"I worked a crop, and this woman
helps me hoe and I plowed for her.
Saturday we were coming from Troy
Fuimore's place where we had been
grading tobacco. We were going to
her house, walking along a path with
me in front.
"We passed a big dead pine tree.
There was no bark on it?it was slick
and shiny. My shoulder brushed
against it?Just like that," and he
struck his shoulder a light tap.
"I heard something rustle behind
me and I turned quick?and a long
black snake was between me and the
woman?done come down out of that
dead pine.
"I said, 'Jane, what that passed
between us?" and she said, 'It looked
like a black snake.'
"Governor, the grass around that
place no high than one inch. I
looked everywhere for that snake?he
had disapeared?just gone," and the
excited voice sank to a half whisper
and it needed little imagination to
picture the scene in the woods, with
the tall dead pine standing sentinel.
"Yes, sir, that snake just gone. I
couldn't help it, Governor. I shot the
woman?she was not far from me and
I shot her with a shot gun. And the
shot just tipped the top of her head
?they just wanted it to be enough
to get me in trouble?and I am to
lose two horses and hogs and pigs?
for my wife and little children can't
look after the crop,'' and the negro, a
truly pitiable figure, stood before the
Governor of the Sta^ with his eyes
fixed on the floor. The people that
heard the story were white. Memories
of strange stories of voodooism, .of
voodoo "priests" and voodoo "queens"
with the snake as the object of worship,
must have arisen in each mind
despit^ the fact that the rumble of
electric street cars and the tooting
of auomobiles, all indications of modern
progress, were loud in the ears.
Goes to Jail
rovernor Cooper turned the negro
over to Constable S. W. Lowe, who
came in the office, and he was later
placed in the Richland county jail.
The Governor has received a letter!
from T. P. Fulmore, magistrate of
Cades, Williamsburg county, in which
he asked that a reward be offered for
the capture of Frank McAllister a negro
who on September 4, shot Jane
McClain, a negro women, with a shot
gun, according to the magistrate. The
letter further said that efforts made
to capture the negro had proven futile.
The magistrate also says in his letter
to the Governor that this is the
same negro who was convicted some
years ago of murder and who after
serving ten years in the penitentiary
was paroled by C. L. Blease. The
magistrate says "he is a bad characsary,
however, as the negro of his
own accord made his way to the Governor's
office.?The State.
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lankets, hosiery, <
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MEN'S AM) BOYS CAPS
tt of Caps we have ever shown, golf ai
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SMALL TOWN HAPPINESS j
The following very enjoyable arti-j
cle is from the pen of Robert Quillen, I
! editor of the Tribune at Fountain Inn, j
S. C., who makes weekly contribu|
tions to the Saturday Evening Post
! under the head of "Small Town
'Stuff:"
I When one travels about he learns
'a number of very interesting things.
! He learns, first of aH, that folks are
'folks. From Maine to Texas and
ilroni Florida to Washington, i n bi g
'towns and s mall, folks are actuated
'by me same hopes and ambitions and'
1 faiths and fears. They are striving to1
1 get money, to earn fame, to win1
sweethearts and to make homes.
Their standards vary but little, and j
the quality men call culture, which '
IS Utll ill'^UUlUiaiiCC ?uu uvuno auu
good manners, is no less universal ]
than the use of talcum powder .
The city man, who has learned to 1
dodge surtace cars and taxicabs, feels i
fiat he is wiser than his country I
brother. The countryman, who has'
learned to dodge the business end of j
a i.?uk, feels that he is less wicked j
than (he city man.
The provincialism that is common'
to both city and country keeps each]
of them in ignorance of the other's
virtues, and out of this ignorance!
grows the assumption of superiority
and the myth that city dwellers andj
country dwellers are distinct breeds. \
The city man and the countryman
are, in fact, brothers trained in different
schools. The difference between
tliei.i is superficial; their common
parentage is in their bone and blood.
The ignorance of the one concerning
many things is balanced by the
ignorance of the other concerning as
many more. One gets from l^e manyi
things the other misses, but misses'
otoer things of equal worth. If one
appears to have a higher seat, rest
assured he pays a price for it.
The city man is prey to the atmosphere
in which he lives. It is an atmosphere
of haste. Because others
hurry, he hurries. He canters rather
than walks. He speaks rapidly and
sharply. He is a machine, geared to
match the speed of other machines
about him.
TVio nftvinontioro that nprmiflries him
to travel in high has a similar effect
upon his spending. He spends in
high. Being a city man, he must live
up to the city. He dresses well because
his associates dress well. He
lives up to a standard, not down to
his purse. And becaue he dresses
well and live well and spends freely
to hold up his end, the high cost of
living has him by the scruff of the
neck and is making his life a burden.
The countryman
But let us begin at the beginning.
One cannot wholly understand a piece
of oak flooring until he has seen an
oak tree.
Our town is, in many particulars,
as like other American small towns
as one pea is like another. We have
water and sewer systems and electric
lights, but our streets are unpaved
and our sidewalks are but dirt?
iNDISE F
y visited the Easl
suits, dresses, sw
stc.,?too extensr
ou should see ou:
LADIES' R
onderful line of ladies
special at $19.75, $2
at suits the acme of s1
to $79.00.
esses in tricotine sp*
5 priced special at $13
at $7.95.
D
st heavy cheviots fo
in. sheeting good qua]
>od apron ginghams on
HOSIERY ?
rry, Cadet, Arrow-Head, \
own and Society Hosiery, \
ans the best. \
Silk Hose, at $4.50 and \
$1.00. \
Lisle Hose at $1.25, and \
iOc.
Cotton Hose at 25c per pr. \
n's Ribbed Hose at 75c and
25c. I
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down to $6.50. > 11
ud jocky style, on sale
MP ANY, ~
shaded dirt walks pressed hard by
generations. None of our buildings
are more than t^o stories high. When
we wish to brag about our town we
tell how much thd new schoolhouse
cost. The school and the churches
are the main centers of our community
life.
We have four mail trains each
day. When the mail bags are brought
over from the station we gather in the
lobby of the post office and talk until
the general delivery window is opened.
The postmaster distributes the
daily papers first, in order that those
of us wh ohave lock boxes may get
in touch with the outside world without
delay. If there is a* screaming
usual import someone in the lobby
will begin to read aloud and the
others will listen. Then we discuss
the news while waiting for our letters.
The letters are distributed after
the newspapers, and the circulars
last. When one is in a hurry to get
back to his shop or office, and suspects
that the postmaster has begun
to distribute circulars, he calls back
.1 V. n?r?itlnn trt oqlr whpfhpr
llii U U&ii IUC yaiiuviuu ww
the letters are up, and, being assured
that they are, closes his lock box
and goes about his business, followed
by those who have no interest in mail
matter bearing one-cent stamps.
On Sundays the first train comes
before we are out of bed and the
second while we are at church; but
the afternoon trains find us idle and
we walk down to the station to
watch them come in.
Of course the trains are frequently
late, and while waiting for them we
talk. We are all dressed up for Sunday,
and it is a sort of Bocial function.
There are never any ladies present,
except those who expect guests or
those who are going away, and these
sit modestly inBide the station.
Also on Sunday afternoons?if the
weather is neither too cold nor too
hot?young -couples walk about town
and families walk to the cemetery
or visit a neighbor. Many of us have
cars, but there is little pleasure in
Sunday driving, for the people in our
nearest city like to get out into the
country on Sundays and their hurrying
cars keep a dust cloud along the
highway until late in the evening.
None of our homes aer expensive,
and few of us have more than one
spare bedroom. The spare bedroom
contains our most expensive furniture,
and its pillows and towels are
hand embroidered. Nearly all of us
own our homes and and spend our
summers coaxing a lawn. In the
back yards we have real gardens,
both winter and summer, and the
gardens cut our grocery bills in half.
We fence the gardens and let our
chickens run where they will. During
the winter it is necessary to buy
some feed for the chickens, but in
summer they live well on table scraps
and bugs and grass. Wehn our wives
can5t thinfl of anything new to fix
for dinner they kill a frying chicken;
and for breakfast we have the eggs
gathered the evening before.
We have no servants in our homes.
A few families have fat old negro
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mammies who come in the morning
to do the cook and go back to their
cabins after finishing the supper
dishes, but moBt of the women are
more particular about their kitchens
than about their living rooms and
will not tolerate an alien hand
among their spotless utensils. Our
wives are good cooks, ustly proud ol
their skill, and our daughters learn
the art before they are through high
school. The Domestic Science Club,
which meets on Thursdays, does not
discuss calories and carbohydrates and
things like that. It discusses regular
eats and methods of preparing them.
Doubtless we eat too much, but
when there is fried chicken with
gravy and rice and creamed potatoes,
hot biscuit, pickled beets, fruit salad
and a great chocolate cake, what can
one do?
A lew years ago one could have
in a colored woman to scrub and
polish the floors and dust the furniture
at a cost of twenty-five cents the
room; but now these women ask a
dollar, and our thrifty wives will not
I pay it. They do their own scrubbing
cinu ucvnuy unuyiro 111 men ciuuna.
The family washing is done by colored
women. They call for it early
on Monday mornings?"soon in the
mawnin'," is their way of saying it?
and carry it home on their heads.
The family furnishes the soap, and
the colored women do the washing,
starching and ironing for one dollar
and a half.
Our womenfolks keep up with the
styles, but they make their own
dresses. They have one or two nice
dresses to wear to church and to parties?the
same frock serving equally
well for either occasion?but at home
they wear gingham. They do not always
look well in their more expensive
dresses, but it is impossible to be
other than charming in a crisp gingham
fresh from the laundry.
When the women go shopping they
wear their gingham dresses and go
bareheaded. We are all home folks
and it isn't necessary to put on airs
before home folks. They wear cotton
stockings, except on state occasions.
When they wear their silk
ones they take them off when they
get home and wash them out in cold
waer. It is surprilng how long one
pair of good silk stockings will lasl
if properly cared for. i
The men are not so particular.
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i coats in all the new
4.75, $37.50 and up
tyle priced at special
;cial at $19.50 and i
i.75 and up to $65. C
bmestics.
r shirts and dresses a
ity on sale at yard 2
aalp at var A 2.V
me young ienows wno naveni yei
begun to earn their own way weai
silk socks and silk shirts, but the
older men wear socks that cost thirtyfive
cents a pair, and keep on wearing
them until the darned spots have
become too numerous for comfort
Many of them buy the goods and hav<
their wives make their shirts.
Most of us buy one good suit ol
clothes each year. There are n<
dress suits in town, but we have blacJ
suits that we save year after year foi
funerals and weddings and churcl
wear. About the only thing that car
put a good black suit in the discarc
I is an expanding waistline. In sum
mer we leave our coats at home. /
few of the old chaps who still clini
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[mens, dress good
in a newspaper,ant
the hest at 1<
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styles and shades,
to 95.00. I
$23.75, $33.50
ap to 49.00; silk J
^ne lot silk dresses M
t on ly 39c. .
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jes, Shoes
are all leather, and not only look v
sizes, priced $2.00 to $6.00, accordin
i English, a beauty, at $12.50. Our
lish, brown and black, regular $9.00
lish Shoes priced, special at $4.50 to
Children's \
oats in great variety, on sale, special a
Wool Dresses.sp ecial at $9.75 to $1(
Cotton Dresses for school use at $1.50
DA DIES' HANDBAGS
ndbnrs. in novelty style, pried at 75f
Dillon, 5c
| to the ancient idea that pants can't
be trusted without suspenders wear
black alpaca coats, but the younger
, men go about their business In their
i shirt sleeves. ,
We attead..the_ movies in our shirt %
sleeves. The movie show is our chief
relaxation. On night when the movie
' house is dark we stroll down to one
, of the drug stores and have an ice t
! cream. Then we go home and read
the magazines until bedtime.
Bedtime is ten o'clock. Very few
residence lights are burning after that
hour. A light burning at midnight
means a party or sickness. rj
You know us now. We are just J ^
plain small-town folks, deeply inter- . 1
ested in State, national and even international
affairs, because we have
| no thrilling interests at home?hardworking
people, earning our bread
, and saving a little of what we earn?
riioHinir rn noh Kdpoucd tiro havo f O W
L . ,,v,
. lighter pleasures?a little intolerant
, in some matters, but very matter-offact
In our views of government and
good citiaemhip.
And the point of our plan and the
point of this article is that the high
, cost of living doesn't distress us. It
. doesn't distress us because we don't
, live high. Our tastes are simple; we
. do not think it necessary to show off
before our neighbors; we wait on ourselves
and dress in a manner suited 4
to our earnings; and we make ends
. meet with surprisingly small incomes.
.,
j None of the store clerks earn more
! than seventy-five dollars e month; *
(1 yet they pay rent, clothe and feed
. I their families, give something to the
. church, and aave a little. There are
/dozens of other men in various occupations
whose earnings do not exceed
.1 one hundred dollars a month. It may
, be that they do not live up to the
, J American standard of living so frequently
referred to by economists with
. axes to grind, but they do live up to
, the American standard of happiness
, and good citizenship.
, Very likely there is not one among
. us who would refuse a gift of a mil.
lion dollars. Very likely all of us
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; leei a iitue enviuus ui iu? ncwui;
r in cities who live in great houses,
[ surrounded by servants, and possess
, luxuries we cannot afford. We are
\ not philosophers. Poverty prescribes
our mode of living, and necessity
teaches us thrifj.
I Yet we are happy. The wealthiest
canont buy better books than w?
> can afford,. nor can they win more
. lovable friends. We have our work
't to give us contentment and self-re>
spect, our school and town affairs to
. train us in teamwork, our churches
? and small charities to teach us the?
art of unselfishness,
f Once in a while business or pleas>
ure takes us away from home for a
c few days. Some of us go to the
r great cities to buy goods. And when
i we come back again and the smiles j
i of old friends greet us we would not
1 trade the decent poverty of home,
- with its simplicity and genuineness
l and hearty companionship, for all the
I j wealth and glitter of a metropolis.
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price just $9.75.
quality, at only $7.50
i $12.50.
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it $6.75, $9.50 and up to $27.50.
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and up to $6.50.
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