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Mr. Maldrow tefa Ik If ort* OmoEtoar
Old Herald: ?
It wema i| If dark clouds were
overshod awing the tax payors and not
the Tlstage of a silver lining to them
can be seen, and when the old farmer
realises the fact that there Is in
eight twenty nine million bales of cotton
that will not sell for cost of pro>
duction and the length of time it will
take to convert it into cloth and cheap
hats as now the famous wool hat is
no longer the correct headgear as
thev nillflli 1W&T with th? Hnn Ran.
Jam in R. and along with this the universities.
colleges, military Institutions
clamoring for more and larger
appropriations that student boys may
beoome more efficient as athletes.
Baseball, foot ball and basket ball artists
to be transported >from county
to county and state to state that an
admiring public may see them wallowing
in the dirt. A new plan as to
the proper way in teaching "The
Toting idea how to shoot." And on
this huge tax burden the boll weevils
have come either as a curse or a
blessing, time alone can solve the
problem. And our solons entrusted
with the power to enact wise laws for
the betterment of the people they represent
seem to be rather lavish with
money that does not come out of their
own pockets.
Well perhaps at some future day
a Moses will come to the front and
lead the people back to peace and
prosperity and also the liberties bequeathed
to them by their forefathers
that founded this great republic.
Even in this old benighted town
since our coon skin king, the mayor,
out off his whiskers things have'
grown from bad to worse. The hogs
and cows no longer prembulate along
the streets and eat up the daisies in
the early spring but alas for them'
they are now held in "durance vile,",
nnH nnlv Too WnHHoll'. nld -'l"
J and his faithful companion are allowed
the freedom of the town.
The only happy man we have met
lately sports the name of Alexander
Barns,, Esq. Late the Past summer
when the honeysuckles were in full
bloom and shedding their sweet fragrance,
he captured a blooming beauty
of a country lass, not quite sixteen.
The nuptials were rather a private
affair, but the katy dids and whipporwill
did ample justice to the occasion
in singing the wedding march.
Mr. Barnes is rather an elderlyman
and has many children and grandchildren
to mourn his loss. He and
his youthful bride live a short distance
out of town on his farm,
where Mr. Barnes ha8 turned out to
be a Hogolist of the first water. He
raises a cross bred, duroc and some
other kind of hog, and his word for
it, has butchered quite a lot of themi
thiB winter. PiKS four mnnthn old I
wefghed 200 pounds, 18 months old
470 and 480 pounds, and had yards
and yards of sausage, liver puddings
and chiterllns, hog head cheese,
back boneB and spare ribs to give his
neighbors, and further said when he
laid himself down on his downey bed
at night the crickets on his hearth
would chirrup a sweet lulaby while
*e snoozed the hours away. But as
he promised the writer a few yards
of chiterlins and did not fulfill his
promise he is satisfied that if the
root of his family tree were dug up
It would show that old Ananias was
hlB ancestor.
Elihu Muldrow.
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SAYS GROUNDHOG
WRONG THIS YEAR.
Dutch Weather Prophet Takes Issue
With Animal.
The State.
The groundhog did not see his
shadow when he came from his hole
yesterday according to the Dutch
Weather Prophet, who thinks this is
one time the groundhog has been
crossed up. He believes, however,
that generally the little animal is
right.
"February 2 is to some extent as
v Important an epochal period as the
four regular quarterly periods in the
calendar ? the annual equinox
(March 20.) summer solstice, (June
21.) autumnal equinox (September
23), or the winter solstice (Decembes
22,) he said lost night. "Even a
casual observation of the lengthening
days will show that the sun has hegun
to send its rays in increasing directness
and find an entrance between
wall8 and into windows where
they have been absent since October.
So Candlemas day (known as groundhog
day) may be said to he the midwinter
period. No doubt this period
la affAftUH hv tho Akonna. ? " '- ?" ?
^j vuv vui?u5co ao ICill"
perature Just a?? they occur at the
dateg ?f the four seasons of the year.
"Thus there are 1 indications now
that the 'back of winter' is not broken
even if the groundhog did not see
his shadow at sunrise on "groundhog
day' for sunshine after the sunrise
period does not affect the groundhog
as the tradition is understood," he
said.
"This connection of the groundhog
tradition^ with the midwinter period
is oniylmcidental," he continued. "In i
1S96 a French scientist made a mathematical
demonstration of the effect
produced by summer fogs upon wln*.
ter precipitation. The Frenchman's <
conclusions as based on the only ex- i
act science in existence are identical- i
ly the same on the sam? subject that
the Oerman settlers of the Dutch
Fork section of "Newberry and Lexington
have handed down from one i
generation to another, and which is
labelled 'superstition' by even peoV
pie who want everything provedhy i
mathematics. Even the Romans JT1100
years ago knew that air currents
changed every three days and In their
variation gave multiplicity to changes
in weather which occurred at reg- i
ular periods after considerable time
from their appearance. i
"Thus the year 1911 will close the
seven year period of 1914-11 which ,i
has given forth many peculiar phenomena
of a meteorological character,"
he said, "not to mention the
great political and economic unheav- <
al caused by the world war?among'
IK
which may be aaentloared the gren
July (1916), the cetd weather of Ma:
1917, prolonged and extreme eok
period of December, 1917, and Jan
uary, 1918. as well as the peculiar ef
feet of the sun on foliage of tree*
and plants 1916-1920. The snow ant
sleet storm of last week adds to thli
list of phenomena. In sections nortl
of Columbia It was both a 'wet' an<
a 'dry' snoSr, while Columbia was th<
center of the disturbance of sleet ant
snow combined.
"I made the forecast September SC
that two snows would occur during
the present winter south and east oi
the Blue Ridge," he said.' "This fore
cast has been rerifled. Likewise a
year ago the forecast was made in
The State that the fruit crop of 1930
would be abundant. Notwithstanding
the facts that temperatures were
below normal at frequent intervals
with severe frost, during the closing
periods of the winter and earl)
spring, the forecast was also verified
However, I am not prepared to predict
an abundant fruit crop, especially
peaches, for 1921. The indications
are that the similar condition!
as to tempergture and frost will prevail
in 1921, but the relation of the
elements which neutralise the effeel
of temperatures and frost will be sc
different as to caus^ serious damage
to fruit.
"Similar also to 1929 will be temperature
and precipitation during the
summer of 1921. Overflows in the
rivers are Indicated and bottom land!
will be affected thereby."
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97 a Year Fieui Pullet.
On the Farm page of the News and
Courier this morning will be found a
story of what can be done in Charles
ton with a small flock of hens. It ic
a story worth reading. In a little per
scarcely larger than a dining room
table Mr. Herbert T. Mcintosh in the
past year has gotten from ten pullets
a total of 154 dozen eggs, worth at s
conservative estimate something like
3108. The pullets cost him about $3{
to feed. Each pullet, therefore, earn
ed during the ear about $7 above
it8 keep.?News and Courier.
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STATE HIDE INTERESTS IN
CHOOSING PADMAPESTA QUEE?
Twenty Eight Counties Now Con
ducting Contests to Select Representative
Young Women as Dele
gates to Rig Social Gayety Weel
in Columbia March 27th to Aprl
2nd.
Which county in South Carolint
will have the honor of supplying Pal
masta (Palmetto State Festival) witl
a queen? And who ever is choset
will be a queen in. fact because sh<
will be chosen from among forty five
of the most attractive and poulai
young women in the state, one fron
each county, except Richland, wh<
will assemble ln Columbia during
the week of March 27 to April 2, ai
special honor guests of Columbia and
the Palmefesta association. During
the big week a general election will
be held to choose the queen fron
among the many attractive candidate!
and this election promise8 to be t
most Interesting affair for everybodj
in South Carolina. A photographic
supplement containing the pictures ol
all county delegates will be publish
ed in the newspapers of Columblal
and ballots will be Issued the general
public, by means of which everybody
will be given an opportunity
to eXDress iheir chnlco fnr
queen's grand prise will be a complete
spring outfit of wearing apparel
of her own selection to be furnished
by the various specialty stores ir
Columbia. The value of the grand
prise has been set high enough to
make it well worth competing for.
Traveling expenses, hotel bills and
entertainment for the county delegates
will be borne by the Palmafesta
association and ihe young ladies will
be chaperoned by leading society
folk of Columbia, including the wivee
of state house officials. During the
big week moving pictures of the
Queen and her entire court will be
taken and sent over the country by
one of the leading film services.
Palmafesta will be a week of many
and varied attractions including the
state wide automobile show exhibiting
the late models of cars, trucks
and tractors; the style show, featuring
the latest Bpring fashion creations
posed by professional models to
bo imported from New York; daily
band concerts by one of America's
premier musical organizations; floral,
trades, automobile and baby parades;
fetes, dances, social events
and special attractions at all theatres,
with nightly exhibits of fireworks
in which will be feautred specially
designed set pieces depicting
Important events in South Carolina
History. The auto show, style show
and fireworks display will be staged
at the State Fair Grounds.
Local contests to secure candidates
for Queen of Palmafesta are
now being conducted through the
daily and weekly newspapers in the
lowing counties; Allendale, Hampton,
York, Lee, Georgetown, Union, Cherokee,
Lexington, Camden, Saluda,
Colleton, Sumter, Clarendon, Greenwood,
Abbeville, Aiken, Darlington,
Charleston, Pickens, Edgefield, Anderson,
Fairfield, Williamsburg,
Oconee, Calhoun, Horry, Dillon and
Marlboro.
Voting coupons will be printed in
each issue of this newspaper up to
and including the issue of March 12,
at which time the votes will be counted
and announcement of the winner
made. There will be no restriction
upon the number of votes each person
may cast. Every coupon clipped
luui in is newspaper is good for one
vote, and a yearly, paid In advance
subscription will count 10 votes.
FASTEST.
While we go on our humdrum ways
a celestial runaway is dashing
through the heavens at the fastest
speed ever attained by any object in
the universe. This bad boy among the
stars com by the drab name of Nebula
Drever No. 684, and his address
is the Constellation of Cetus.
The nebula. Is not visible to the
eye. It flashes across the lower southern
skies in the early evening and
tilts erratic course hu been dlMovr
ered by Dr. Y. M. Slipper of the Low*
I ell Observatory. Flagstaff, Arts.
As our bub, dragging the earth ami
- the other planets with It, loafs along
i at approximately 11 miles a second,
L Nebula Dreyer No. 584 Is showing its
i heels to th? rest of creation at the
t rate of 1,242 miles. It? course is di1
rectly away from the earth.
I No one knows where this nebula is
L going, what it will hit, or whether, in
all eternity, it will visit us again. It
1 has Just ene claim on the attention
j of earth-dwellers. It is the superlaf
tive in speed. And in these days, to
- reach that pinnacle, it has to go
i some.
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I DEAD CAME TO LIFE
j Undertaker Sent for When Man Be*
Heved Dead Revived.
t Pronounced dead of heart disease
. on a Pennsylvania train as it passed
. through Elisabeth bound from New
York for Atlantic City, and remov
ed to a baggage car on a stretcher
i after having narrowly' escaped being
put in an ice box at Trenton, Joseph
> Staub. sixty-eight, of No. 518 North
t Michigan avenue, warmly greeted
> members of his family at the railroad
> station last week and waved away an
Industrious undertaker who met the
- train to claim his body, relates an
> Atlantic, N. J. dispatch.
i Staub had been absent from Amerlt
ca twenty-eight years, most of the
time in Hungary. He reached New
York yesterday and started immediately
for Atlantic City to Join his
. Bons and daughters here. He was met
in New York by a daughter, Mrs.
1 Yvette Limver. When the train left
the Pennsylvania Station she took a
' seat in the day coach and her father
1 went into the smoker.
1 Just as the train passed out of
' Elizabeth station Staub half arose
1 from his seat, cried out hoarsely and
L j fell back heavily. A physician on the
train tried every means of resuscita'
tion without avail and said the man
was dead. A stretcher was obtaineli
5 and the supposed dead body was carried
to the baggage car. A train telegram
was sent to a Trenton under'taker
to be on hand to receive the
i body there, but just as the train
reached that city the grief stricken
. daughter got permission to bring the
. body through to this city.
The train had pulled out of Trenc
ton only a few minutes when the bagI
gage man thought he saw Stauh's
right hand twitch. He called the
physician again and with the applicaL
tion of smelling salts a noticeable con.
vulsion passed through the body. A
t little later the "corpse" began to
i kick. Then Staub sat up, looked
about him and inquired what it was
51 all about.
r! He was able to walk with the assistance
of his daughter after he had
) I alighted from the train here, and callJed
out to a waiting undertaker that
3 he was a bit premature.
[\ Tonight Staub had fully recovered.
. * Excitement due to joy in anticipation
\ of meeting his family after such a
t long separation was given by his phy,'sician
as the cause of the heart-att
tack.
A. C. L. DISCONTINUES TRAINS
* \
. oiuuug iii em is ttie Early Morning
Train to Wilmington.
Three trains in South Carolina are
r to be discontinued by the Atlantic
)j Coast Line railroad. The changes,
. which have been approved by the
.'railroad commission, will go into ef.'fect
Sunday, February 6, the trains to
t be taken off by the order largely dup.
[ licating service, which will be carried
> by other trains to make connections
as usnal.
[ Trains No. 68 and 69 between Co.
lumbia and Sumter will be discontin(
ued, the traffic normally handled by
[ them to be cared for by train No. 54
and No. 55. No. 68 now leaves Coi
lumbia at 7:45 o'clock in the morning
, and reaches Sumter at 9:20, while
, No. 69 leaves Sumter at 6:25 o'clock
, at night and reaches Columbia at 8
r o'clock. No. 54, which will be continued
on its present schedules, leaves
Columbia at 5:40 o'clock in the morn,
ing and reache8 Sumter at 7:15
J o'clock, while No. 55 leaves Sumter
i at 9:25 o'clock at night to reach Columbia
at 10:50 o"clock.
Trains No. 66 and 67, operating
, daily between Bennettsville and Fayetteville,
N. C., will also be taken off.
t No. 66 leaves Bennettsville at 8:28
, o'clock at night and reaches Fayette.
ville at 10:35 o'clock, while No. 67
leaves Fayetteville at 7:10 o'clock in
the morning and reaches Bennetts.
ville at 9:25 o'clock.
Trains 57 and 58 between Florence
and Wilmington, N. C., will also be
discontinued the traffic to be handled
by the other trains now being operated
between the two stations. No.
57 leaves Wilmington at 6:45 o'clock
I in the afternoon to reach Florence
i .
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toasted cigarette.
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?t 10:SO o'clock at night, w\4e No
SB leaves Florence at 5:SO o'clocl
in the morning to arrive In Wllmlng
ton at 9:45 o'clock.
WATCH
THE BIG 4
Stomach-Kidney e-Heart-Liver
Keep the vital organs healthy by
regularly taking the world's standard
remedy lor kidney, liver,
bladder and uric acid troubles
COLD MEDAL
Tba National Ramedy of Holland fot
canturies and andorsad by Queen Wllbaltnina.
At all druggists, three sixaa.
Leak far tba u?>. CaU Mafd aa arary baa
Mf aaoapt aa iiaitariaa
1921
TAX RETURNS
To Be Made by
School Districts
Returns of personal property, new
buildings, transfers of real estate,
poll, road and dog tax are to be made
at County Auditor's office from
January 1st and
February 20,1921
As required by law, a fifty percent
penalty will be added to the taxes ol
persons who fall to make their returns
during this time.
Make your return during Januarj
and avoid the crowded condition tha
will prevail during February.
D. S. ALLEN
County Auditor.
Professional Cards.
Surveying
Drafting and Blue Printing
W. M. ALLEN
Dillon, S. C.
Phone Ne. 11S
L B. HAftELDO
Attener at law
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Swv t? Lend mm First Mertpv
Roal Eetat*.
BB. f. . HAMM, JE
Offlee oyer Peoples Beak.
DR. It. F. DARWIN
Dentist
Office Over Bank of Dilloa
JOE P. LANE'
Attomey-at-Ijow
Office Next to Bank of Dillon,
Mala St. Dillon, 8. C
A Few Bi
of Good C
Seed This
MANY farmers have th<
fine pedigreed seed t
general use. The mo
those that are mixed, run-out
year we produce in quantity
known varieties that were inti
viously. Theses seed are gr
careful conditions by our ex|
and tested for germination,
sold at such moderate pric
afford to sacrifice the great
product they will give.
Our moderate
PEDIGREED
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Office ever Malcolm Mercantile Co.
BILLON, LO. .
Practice in State and Federal Courts _
I. W. JOHNSON
Attomej-et-Ia? H
fmtiM la State and Federal Ceurte r
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Civil Engineer
DILLON, S. C. t
I Income
1 a
i I Retu
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t gj l am prepared to i
gj your Income Returns
g] had two years experie:
g] a large number of reti
( ] has been no come bacl
_ H ily explained without
? taxpayer; being loca
? am available to assist
? you may later be calle>
g tion by the Governme
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LZJ X^UII-XVCSIUCIIL ?JAJ.
51 you make your return
- 51 to assist you in makin
ffl later called on for one
51
gj I also have the ne<
- ffl Inquiries mailed r
ffl will receive my promp
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Will
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i mistaken idea that We have always rec
ire too expensive for every planter place his t
st expensive seed are Df our latest strains of
or non-vital. Lvcry jng jor follov
strains of our well- can ,]w k
oduced one year pre
own under the most standard of Staple and
jerts and are graded cost. One bushel of o
They are, however, should produce ampl
es that you cannot twenty acre crop next
er yield and better mium the lint brings w
>t me seed.
prices are within reach: of every planter? Wri
SEED CO., i? Hart
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FINAL DISCHARGE NOIKB
Notice ia hereby given that J. WL
edbolt, administrator of the esfadr
' Sarah Godbolt, deceased, bee BMde
^plication unto me for final d|nlarge
as administrator and tint
rednesday, February 23rd, 10 - an.
i the forenoon has been appoinUiH
>r the hearing of the said petition*
All persons holding claims agniimt
le said etate are requested to flle
>em with the administrator on ?rbore
10 a. m. in the forenoon on Fefciary
23rd, or this notice will t*
ead in bar of their recovery.
JOE CABELL DAVIS,
Judge of Probate,
9 A At Hillnn
mm w a v. JL/ltlVU NOTICE
OF FINAL, DIKCHARCV
Notic? is hereby given that S. Xethea,
Executor of the estate ef J.
Bass, deceased, has made appltsnon
unto me for final discharge as
ich executor, and that Friday, Fsblary
18th at 10 a. m. in the foreton
has been appointed for tfcor
sarins of the said petition.
All persons holding claims against'
ie said estate are requested to fllo
icm with the executor on or beforo
) a. m. in the forenoon on Friday,
ebruary 18th. or this notice will bo
end in bar of their recovery.
JOE CABELL DAVIS,
Judge of Probate,
20 4t. Dillon County.
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b
irns m
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issist you in making ^
for 1920. I have gj
nee and have made gj
irns and so far thprp m
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which wasnoteas- ?
; further cost to the H
ted in the county I jS
in any case where ?
d on for an explana- ?
nt Agent.
Is
>erts who might help [3
s might not be here g}
g an explanation if (3
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pessary blanks. ?
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>t attention. g]
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commended, however, that
>rder ^ach year for enough
seed to produce his plantking
year. By doing thia
> your seed to a verv hi?rh
production, at a minimum
>tir Deltatype cotton seed j
e need for planting a
year, and the staple proill
far more than pay for
lie us today.
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sville, S. C
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