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I ESTABLISHED 1004 THE DILLON HB4lf0, ZOILON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1991. VOL. 27. NO. 94.
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FOR CAROLINIAN.
"Toll" Yarborough Killed in North
Carolina. Motor Car Wrecked.
In a desperate/1 effort to outrun and
escape Sheriff J. L. Abemethy and
deputies of Lincoln county, N. C., in
hot pusuit T. A. Yarborough, of Cor
lumbla, S. C., was almost instantly
killed when an automobile in which
he and a companion named Alley, al'
so of Columbia, were speeding, turned
a somersault near Llncolton Monday
morning.
Alley is in jail charged with trans
porting liquor while Sheriff Abernethy,
has in his possession 50 gallons
of liquor found in the automobile
and what remains of the machine itself.
Yarborough and Alley had passed
through Llncolnton. A farmer
coming into town behind them reported
to the sheriff that they had liquor
in the machine, as he had seen and
smelled it oozing from the car ahead
of him. Sheriff Abernethy and deputies
started in pursuit in the direction
of Charlotte. The officers by a circuitous
route got ahead of the Colum
bio. men and parked their cars across
the road. When the travelers approached
they turned into a field
speeded up and passed around the of- j
t ficers. Back in the road, they struck'
) a speed of 60 miles an hour, accord-1
ing to the sheriff who followed, but j
they had proceeded but a short dis- j
tance when, in view of the pursuing
officers, the car ahead turned a com
plete somersault. The officers ap-;
proached and found Yarborough dy-'
ing. Alley was extricated and taken!
to jail. The body of Yarborough will!
be taken to Columbia. Alley claims,
according to the officers, that he was.
picked up earlier in the day by Yar- j
borough and that he did not know'
the liquor was in the car.
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Snuff.
News and Courier.
Mr. Carson in hig admirable life of
Petigru says that Mr. Petigru formed
no bad habits at college, neither
smoking nor chewing tobacco, but
that "in later life he took kindly to
the gentlemanly vice of taking snuff,
a habit which gradually erew unon
him." The taking of snuff among gentlemen
went out of fashion in South
Carolina a good many "years ago, but
a paragraph in one of the county papers
in the Pee Dee section indicates
that there are still a good many peo
pie in South Carolina who have the
snuff habit. "We cannot believe that
money is scarce in Dillon," says the
Dillon Herald, adding: "A local grocer
tells us that his weekly sales of
snuff run over $300. There are some
half dozen grocery stores in Dillon
and the average in the others must
be just as high." At that rate upwards
of $100,000 a year would be
spent in Dillon for snuff.
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WILL DEMONSTI tATE
SWEET POTATO BEDDING
A. M. Musser, of the Extension Division
of Clemson College, will be in
Dillon Monday, March 7th, for the
purpose ot giving a demonstration 01!
.the modern method of bedding sweet I
potatoes. The demonstration will be'
given at- 3 o'clock that afternoon on |
the farm of J. P. McLaurln at the(
east end of Main street. The cotton;
acreage movement is inducing many'
farrffers to turn their attention to the!
.cultivation of sweet potatoes and oth-!
.er food crops, and Mr. Musser'g visit!
is for the purpose of showing thei
farmers how to get the best results'
from their sweet potato crops. Thej
hour is 3 o'clock p. m. at the farm of
J. P. McLaurin at the east end of j
Main stret.
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.KEXIOIl CLASS ENTERTAINED.
On Friday evening, February 11,
the Junior Class of the Dillon High
School .entertained the Seniors at a
Valentine Party at the home of Miss
l>elia JBraddy.
| The home was made very attrac-:
tive with the use of an abundance of
I hearts, cut flowers, and other decora-1
tions sultahle for the occasion.
I A number of games all in keeping
with Valentine's Day, were played j
and several contests engaged in, after
which it was learned that Miss
Kate Gaddy and Mr. Buist Jordan
' had won the prizes.
During the entire evening punch
1 was dispensed from an attractive corner
of the dining room and at a late
1 hour h sweet course, consisting of
block cream, cake and mints was se-r
| ved.
It was a very enjoyable occasion
^ for all who were present.
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| Operates on Self.
k Kane, Pa., Feb. 16?Dr. O. Kane,
chief surgeon at a hospital here, op.
eiated upon himself yesterday for
' chronic appendicitis. He applied lo-1
. * ^ cal anaesthetics during the operation
r and his only assistant was a nurse,!
who held his head Torward that he'
might see. The doctor was propped
un on tha oneratinc tahb> with nil.:
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| 1owb. He dissected the tissue^ and
closed the blood vessels as the knife
k penetrated the abdominal wall and
when the appendicitis waa located he
| pulled it up and cut it off.
Dr. Kane is 60 years of age. He
k has been a surgeon 37 years. Several
r years ago the doctor amputated one
|Brv of his own fingers.
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. Siberia produces more fur than
I any other region In the world, North
Amerloa being second.
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Counties in the State Leading ha Various
Crops.
Coition, with 853,120 acres, is
the largest.
Anderson has the largest number of
farms, 8,910, and leads in cotton
acreage.
Orangeburg leads in acreage of
corn, oats, rye and Bugar cane.
Horry has the largest number of
sweet potatoes, 6,000.
With 4,000 acres each, Charleston
and Beaufort lead in acreage and
production ef Irish potatoes.
Union ranks first in sorghum cane
for syrup.
xjarnweu nrst in acreage of peanuts.
Anderson and Spartanburg lead
in acreage of wheat?16,000 acres
each.
Florence and Williamsburg surpass
other counties in tobacco acreage.
15,000 acres each.
Orangeburg leads in production of
cotton, com, oats, rye and sugar cane
and is one of the largest, if not the
largest cotton producing county in
the United States.
Anderson leads in production of
wheat and sorghum sirup.
Barnwell excells in the production
of peanuts and grows considerable
quantities of asparagus, watermelons,
cantaloupes,* and cucumbers for spring
markets.
With 9,900,000 pounds of tobacco
each, Florence and Williamsburg lead
other counties.
Orangeburg has the greater number
of mules, horses and swine.
Spartanburg and Anderson surpass
in the number of milk cows and
other cattle.
Horry leads in number of sheep?
8,204.
Marlboro leads in yield of lint cotton
per acre?336 pounds.
Beaufort leads in yield of corn per
acre?25 bushels.
uarnngton and Marlboro tie in
yield of wheat per acre?14 bushels.
Calhoun, Lee and Marlboro lead
in oats?30 bushels per acre each.
With a yield of 18 bushels per
acre of rye Lee excells other counties.
Colleton reports the highest yield
of IriBh potatoes?130 bushels per
acre.
Dillon loads in sweet potatoes ?
125 bushels per acre.
Lexington goes ahead in yield of
sorghum sirup per acre?123 gallons.
Aiken, Calheun, Clarendon, Horry
and Jasper are the leading counties
in yield of sugar cane sirup per acre
?120 gallons each.
. Allendale and Darlington with a
yield of 50 bushels per acre lead in
pe&huts. .
Saluda, Lexington, Richland, Kershaw
and Chesterfield stand first in
commercial peach growing.
Charleston leads in production of
cabbages, Beaufort in lettuce.
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11ETUKNS TO NATIVE HEATH
Former Hamer Merchant Will Farm
In Horry County.
E. L. Westbury, a native Horryite,
but who was engaged in the mercantile
business in another county for a
number of years, has moved back to
this county and is now a citizen of
Conway occupying the residence that
ho purchased at the sale of the W. R.
Lewis estate. Mr. Westbury owns a
large acreage of real estate in this
county, among the places are some of
the finest farming lands in the entire
county or in the State for that
matter.?Horry Herald.
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W l onged Wife Given |50,00t) Dainaages.
Mrs. Daisy Watson Smith of Fayetteville
was awarded $50,000 damages
in Cumberland Superior court
Tuesday for the alienation of her
husband's affections by Mrs. Theresa
Warner of Atlanta. The jury gave
Mrs. Smith $30,000 as compensation
for her suffering and for alienation
of her husband's affections and $20,000
punitive damages. Mrs. Warner
formerl y lived in Fayetteville, going
there from Pittsburg, and her relations
with J. Hampton Smith, husband
of the plaintiff, formed the basis
of the suit, which was for $250,000.
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GOOSE HANGS HIGH.
People of Darlington in Good Spirits
Rusiness conditions in and around
Darlington have improved wonderfully
within the past few weeks says
the State's correspondent. During the
worst depresBio n they were never so
bad an they seemed to ho in /oh*.
sections of the state. As a matter of
record not a single retail mercantile
failure has occurred in town and but
o?e wholesale failure. The one failure
occurring, however, was not due,
it is reported, to hard times, but to
decline in prices in commodities purchased
at the peak of the high markets.
The merchants and business
men are all in good spirits and in
fact business has been at no time
much below normal. To a casual observer,
the reason is plain. Darlington
is a good town, in the midst of
tho fin oo * *
niifiK country in the
South. The farmers years ago under
ihe leadership of such men as Bright
Williamson and David Coker learned
that they.must diversify their crops.
Long staple cotton, tobacco, peanuts
and Guernsey cattle have made the
farmers of Darlington independent.
Owing to high prices of fertilizer, a
good many of the farmers are putting
their cotton seed back on the land.
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SOUTH FACES DISASTER.
Columbia, Feb. 21?Speaking at &
1 meeting of the South Carolina Agri,
cultural and Mechanical Society on
last Wednesday night, former Governor
Richard I. Manning, declared
that financial ruin faces the Sbuth unless
there iB a material reduction in
the cotton acreage this year. He declared
that there are thousands of
people who do not yet realize the seriousness
of the situation.
Mr. Manning said that there was a
large surplus of cotton on hand and
that the production of anything over
A k?1# - ? * -
a uau viup mis year wouia mean
runious prices next fall. He said that
the truth of the situation ought to be
driven home to every citizen of the
Stale.
A letter which is being sent out
over the country by the thousands by
a prominent New York banker in
which the statement is made that the
welfare of the whole cocntry rest3
on the outcome of the cotton depression
was quoted by Governor
Manning. The banker warned the
South that credits extended it by the
bankers of the North would be regulated
by the reduction in cotton acreage.
Governor Manning urged the Society
to lend its hearty support to the
acreage reduction campaign being
conducted by the American Cotton
Association.
At the conclusion of Mr. Manning's
remarks, the society unanimously
adopted a resolution offered by Capt.
G. N. Niekles of Due West endorsing
the acreage reduction campaign of
the American Cotton Association and
calling on every farmer of the state
j to not plant over third of his cultivated
land in cotton. The resolution
asks every organization in the state
to support the campaign being conducted
by the South Carolina Division
of the American Cotton Association.
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FERTILIZERS FOR lt>i!l
Clemson College, February 22. ?
The following suggestions and
formulas for the use of fertilizers
for 1921 is made by the Extension
Service in Extension Circular .24,
"Farm Suggestions for 1921," now
ready for distribution.
The price now being asked by
many fertilizer companies for acid
phosphate i8 extremely high, some
companies still asking as much as $30
per ton for this material while others,
have sold acid phophate as low as
$18.00 per ton, we believe that farnier8
will be able to get all the acid
| phosphate they need for $18.00 or
| less. The Government has called the
attentio n of fertilizer companies to
| the fact that acid phosphate could be
sold for $16.00 per ton.
Ordinarily we do not believe that|
cotton seed should be used as ferti-:
liter, because there is always a
great loss in so doing. When a
farmer can trade a ton of seed for!
1,500 pounds or more of meal, it j
will pay him to do so. If he can sell |
i his seed and buy meal at the same!
rate of exchange, it will also pay him
to do so.
The composition of cotton seed and!
meal both vary considerably, but on t
the basis of average analysis, it requires
from 1,000 to 1,1000 pounds
j of cotton seed meal to contain as
I much plant food a8 a ton of seed.1
: The plant food in cotton seed is not
!a\ailable as it is in meal, so we believe
that one half tort of meal is
worth as much for fertilizer as a
ton of seed. But in making the
exchange we must consider the cost
! of making the trade, and to this
| we must add the value of the oil con-!
i tained in the seed.
In the boll weevil district it will
pay to use some quick atnmoniate to
i hasten the early growth of the cotton
'crop. Excessive amount of ammonia
wil 1 delay the maturity of the,
|crop and increase the loss due to
1 boll weevil injury.
The following fertilizer formulas
are recommended for cotton this
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! On sandy and sandy loam soils
'of the Coastal Plain, a fertilizer analyzing
7-4 1%. for home mixing.
Acid phosphate 16 p. c. 700 lbs.
(Cottonseed meal 7 p. c. __1200 lbs.
Kainlt 100 lbs.'
Total 2000 lbs.
Use 75 to 100 pounds of nitrate of
soda as a side application when first
squares appear.
On heavy soils of the Piedmont a
fertilizer analyzing 9-3 .75, for borne
mixing.
Acid phosphate 16 p. c. 1000 lbs.
Cottonseed meal 7 p. c. __1000 lbs.
Total , 2000 lbs.
Use 75 to 100 pounds of nitrate of
soda when first squares appear.
The following fertilizer formulas
are recommended for corn this year.
On sandy and sandy loam soilB of
the Coastal Plain, a fertilizer analyzing
61^-5-1, for home mixing.
1 Acid phosphate 16 p. c. 600 lbs..
Cottonseed meal 7 p. c. 1400 lbs.
Total 2000 lbs. j
On heavy soils of the Piedmont a
fertilizer analyzing 8-4-1, for home!
mixing.
Acid phosphate 16 p. c. 800 lbs.
Cottonseed meal 7 p. c. 1200 lbs.
Total 2000 lbs
Use 75 to 100 pounds-of nitrate of
soda when corn is 4 feet high.
For tobacco use only such fertilizers
as are known to tend toward
th9 production of high grade tobacco.
| IMPORTANT QUARTET
MUST RE PERSUADED
j Ranker, Merchant, Fertilizer ComI
paiiy and Ijoml Owner Can Reduce
Cotton Acreage.
I Timmonsville, Feb. 21-?The banker,
the merchant, the fertilizer com'
panics and the landowner are the
ones who will be responsible for any
'over-acreage of cotton planted in
I South Carolina this year, according to
'a letter sent out by Timmonsville
| chamber of commerce to every like or.
' ganization in the state says the State's
j correspondent. After going into the
situation from every angle Roy Swindelle,
secretary of the Timmonsville
chamber of commerce, has discovered
that the tenant farmer starting out
the first of the year with nothing but
his mule will, under the present existing
conditions, be forced to plant
'from 15 to 20 acres of cotton to proI
tect his rent, his fertilizer account,
his merchant and his banker. The
following is found to be what the
farmer will absolutely have to nave
to carry him during the year:
Kent on 25 acres of land at $10
j per acre, $250; line of credit with
| merchant, $250; money boriowed
[ from bank, $100; fertiliser $250;
(other expenses, $50. Total expense
I for year, $900.
All of these accounts the farmer
most secure with cotton to be planted.
This is demanded of him by
| those advancing him. At 15 cents per
pound, one bale to the acre, 500 lbs.
to the bale, it will take 15 1-2 acres
| to protect this amount.
According to the conclusion arrived
at by the secretary of the Tinilinonsville
chamber of commerce, the
banker, meichant, landlord and the
fertilizer poople are the ones to work
| on and not the farmer, who does
! not want to plant much cotton, but
will be forced to unless those from
I whom he received credit will accept
jsome other security. It is his belief
that this is the only way or which the
[acreage question can ue solved, and
he calls upon the other chambers of
[commerce in the state to investigate
[the question from this angle and
[ write him their conclusions,
j With conditions as they are unless
cotton acreage reduction is assured,
Mr. Swindelle's deductions are
seemingly pertinent and are at least
original in placing the responsibility
upon the banker, merchant and landlord
rather than the much censured
farmer. Perhaps the united thought,
nrtlnn onH /lAnnnrofJnn V? _
???? vvv^/vi ubiva v/i lug uannci
would result in a solution that would
prevent another bumper cotton crop
with *ts below production prices. It
seems at least worth a trial.
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Indies Meeting at Oak Grove.
The Oak Grove Home Demonstration
Club held it first regular meeting
for 1921 Friday afternoon, Feb-.
ruary 18th in the handsome new
school building. This club was organ-!
ized two years ago by Miss Etta Sue
Sellers, County Home Demonstration
Agent, and through her untiring efforts
we have learned many valuable
lessons which we constantly put into
practice. In fact too much cannot be
said as to the good of Home Demon-,
stration work in our community.
Seeds of service have been planted
here and there and not in vain, for
their fruits are now to be seen.
There were 22 ladies and about 50
children present. Miss Sellers gave the
school lunch demonstration. The fol-!
lowing is a brief summary of the
ideas nresentt'<l in nrrfer fnr tho nhilft
to develop as it should both physically
and mentally.
It is imperative that the needs of
the.body be properly met. The three
needs of the body are foods for building
material, foods to supply heat
and energy, and foods to regulate the
body. When preparing the school
lunch foods must be included to these
needs. The ideal container is sanitary,
well ventilated and compact.
Sandwiches form the back ground of
the lunch. There should be variety,
both in the bread and filling. Several
well balanced menues for the school
lunch were written on the board. In
each case it was clearly shown why
it was a properly balanced lunch.
The cold lunch from home should be
supplemented by at least one hot dish
prepared at school Where the hot!
lunch ifloo line hooll ft-ir.rl mil llm
lowing results have been noted.
Greater interest in school work, higher
scholarships, better health, less
need of discipline and increased interest
in hoine work. We prepare hot
dinner for the family at home. Why
should the child at school be depriv-j
ed of something'hot?
Every school needs a stove and a
few utensils for entertainments. This!
equipment could be used in preparing
the- hot dish. As to the question of
supplies, the families might be divid-'
ed into groups, each group furnish-1
ing materials for the hot dish one day
in each month; of course the teacher,
parents and pupils would have to
cooperate in order to make it a success.
The large school girls could soon
bfc trained to prepare th-> hot dish,
thus relieving the teacher of any!
great responsibility.
Delicious sandwiches suitable for.
the school lunch were served at thej
close of trio meeting. One of the fillings
used was peanut butter which
Miss Sellers made. The ladies were
delighted to learn that they could
make their own peanut butter from i
home grown peanuts.
Other interesting and timely topics
to be taken up are the fireless cooker,
yeast breads, art fh dress table service,
culling the flock, feeding the
baby and food :onservation.
[ ED. Kilt BY GETS TWO YEARS. Li
Heavy Criminal Docket Cleared at
Term Just Ended.
The Spring Term Court of General
Sessions adjourned Tuesday afternoon
after a busy session of two days flj
in which a number of cases were dis- *"?
posed of. Judge J. W. Bowman of Sa
Orangeburg presided, and Solicitor in
Spears was at his post. in
The case that attracted the great- fo
est attention during the session was da
that of the State against Ed.Kirbv. it
Geo. Kirby and Lenneau Bridgers. in
The defendants were charged with th
having cut and assaulted Charlie e*
Huggins near Kemper on Christmas
eve night. Ed. Kirby was. the princi- nu
iiui aggressor, naving badly slashed |N?
Huggins about the face and head with ' K<
a knife. The jury found the three de-|lC
fendants guilty and Ed. Kerby was tr
given two years which he will serve en
in the penitentiary, Lenneau Bridg-|ti<
ers got 6 months but upon payment tu
of $200 sentence was suspended dur- he
ing good behavior, and Geo. Kirby'in
got $100 of 30 days. wi
Lonnie Bethea, Bennie Fore and hi
Arthur Lane, colored were convicted pa
of stealing cotton. Bethea got 21 to
months, Lane 8 months and Fore 18 SI
months. 1 ra
Barney Stackhouse, another colored
man, was convicted of stealing cotton
and got $100 or 30 days. Ss
Dan McLellan and David Bethea, H
colored, got 1 year each or a fine of l><
$100 for assaulting Dave Moody. The a?
fight occurred about a year ago in i,(
McLellan's restaurant on Railroad pi
avenue. McLellan was badly beaten ti
up while Moody's hand was almost
severed by a blow from a hatchet. 'ti
Ira Turbeville and Will Woodley, v
white, were convicted of housebreak- o
' ing and larceny. Turbeville got two ti
years which he will serve in the state p
i penitentiary and Woodley one year ti
which he will serve on the chain ti
ffang. M
James Clark, colored, got 1 1-2 ' Ci
years for stealing an automobile. j0
Itufus Coleman, colored, got 1 1-2 p
years for stealing a bale of cotton, j}
Rufus* brother, Henry who was also q
implicated, is in Marion jail charged ! e
with the same crime. i c
Charlie Williams, colored, was r<
charged with rape, but plead guilty |
to assault and battery and received 6,3
months on the gang. 1,
David Harrelson, a young white ' u
man of the Lake View section, plead I rf
(guilty to tne cnarge of distilling and ' jsj
J received a 6 month's sentence which
: was suspended upon the payment of' Sj
! $200 and a promise to behave him-|rc
self'in the future. 1
Bob Cox, a young white man of i
Kirby, plead guilty to the charge of
assault and received 6 months or a I
fine of $100. Cox was charged with j
shooting a young man named Crow- j
ley- ! M
Barney Stackhouse, Grady Blue and i
Bubber Stackhouse were charged ja
with stealing several bales of cotton 1 j{(
from Miss Mary Carmichael. Barney
Stackhouse and Grady Blue got 18 a
n.onths, each and Bubber Stackhouse'^
was adjudged not guilty.
Daniel L. Ellerbe, colored, faced
the judge on the charge of assault
and battery and carrying concealed ,
weapons, and received a sentence of1 s.l(
60 days or $100. 1LS
The grand jury organized by elect-,
ing Mr. L. Cottinghani foreman for ,.r,
the ensuing year. ] j v
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Colonial Tea.
pr<
A beautiful affair of the week, in
every detail was the Colonial Tea j.(.
given by the Kehecca I'ickens Chaptei
D. A. R. at the homo of Mrs. C. ^
1.. Wheeler Tuesday afternoon. The
gtiests were greeted by Mrs. Earle Z
riothaa O.wl *!.? * ?? ?> * 1
??..v* mm. n. u. x>iitiiKiuru unu
t he silver donations were taken' by ^
four dainty little girls, Christine Bethea,
Argent Gibson, I-utie He.liei and
Eleanor Barlow. Mrs. J. M.
Sprunt showed the way to the re- b
eeiving line in which were the pres- ent
officers and the ex-Regent and
Vice-Regent, Mrs. L. R. Craig, Mrs. 8
Lutie Bethea, Mrs. T. W. Betha, Mrs.
W. H. MuHer, Mrs. .1. B. Gibson. Mrs. 8
C. L.. Wheeler, Mrs. John C. Bethea,
Mrs. Hettle Bethea, and Mrs. P. B. i
Sellers.. The guests were asked to co
the dining 100111 where from a beauti-1
fully appointed table 011 which was a'
handsomely embroidered piece, a bas- t
ket of beautiful japonieas and red j Co
shaded tapers?Mrs. W. Murchison 1t? (
and Mrs. W. C. Tolar poured tea, '
which with delicious sandwiches anrijwi
mints, was served by Misses Sara and |,()
Mary Ilethea, Jane Gibson, Edith El- ; (
liott and l.acey Jackson.
Mrs. G. D. Barlow and Mrs. F. L. ( '.
Bethea also assisted. As the guests; o(1
left the dining room dainty favors
were pinned 011 by Mrs. James Hargrove
and Mrs. C. R .Taber.
During the afternoon music waff scl
r? ndered by Mrs. J. It. Watson. Mrs 1
Will Melvin, Mrs. Hanks. Mrs. John in
Diebler, Mrs. W. C. Moore and Misses tei
Kula and Reulah Braddy.
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Hojilale. lai
, frt
Mrs. Mack and Miss Brickie spent ?f
the week end at the honie of Mr. an
and Mrs. S. C. Taylor. yo
Miss Reaves Alford of Coker College
spent the week end at home. Ra
Misses Catherine and May Murchi- dr;
son, Miss H*>len McDonald and Hor- tht
ace Pierce spent Sunday with Mr. asl
and Mrs. J. H. Stack house. Shi
Sveral of the Floydale folks at- as
tended the revival services at the dej
Presbyterian church at Fork the past brl
week. 1
MisH Ileen Roberts has charge of ite<
the primary department in Floydale the
UttiE FLYING BOAT
FORCED INTO WATER.
lip WeiKhing 13,(XX) 1'ouihIn Repaired
oil ltongh Sea.
Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 21? The
ring boat Ponce de Leon, which
ached Southport, near here, late
turday from New York, after flyU
with seven n.isupnporu ton miw
six hours and 57 minutes, was
reed to land on rough seas Sun,y
shortly after leaving Soutbport,.
was 'cz.,i?u tonight. The beat put
to Shallotte, N. C., and is awaiting
e arrival of a new radiator which is
pected tomorrow.
The Ponce de Leon iB of the
arine type, and is en route from
;w York to the West Indies via
ey West. The ship has a weight of
',000 pounds when clear of the wat,
and is equipped with two Liberty
igines, one of w*hich failed to func>n
properly after a satisfactory
ke off at Southport yesterday. It
came overheated and forced a landg
on very rough seas, with the <
aves breaking over the wings, which
ive a spread of 104 feet. Mechanics
itched up the radiator sufficiently
enable the boat to proceed to
lallotte where h 's waiting the newid
iator.
Stopped to Pick l'p Passengers.
The birat had stopped at Southport
ituiday to pick up Mr. and Mrs.
oward Coffin, of Detroit; 11. L. Lam?rt,
of Lamberton, W. Va., oil and
jrial man, and It. W. Neville, Concllsville,,
Pa., oil, coal and aerial
remoter, making the trip with
le Ponce de Leon with a view oL*
jtablishing what is claimed to be
ie most ambitious aerial lino hi the
orld, from Pittsburg, Pa., to New
rleans, La., this being a test trip
/? i?iv* iiiuviiiuv, iin'ii pians onn^ lO
ut on boats ot this type between
ie cities named, the routes, however,
) follow the line of the Ohio and
lississippi rivers. Others aboard the
raft include C K. Redden, president
f the Aeroinarine Engineering Cornany;
Howard Mingos, of the Manuicturers
AircraXt Association; Pilot
. J. Zimmerniand and his assistant
ric Springer, and Mechanician C.
amphel 1. Zimmerman has a long
acord of service during the World
i'ar and is officially credited with
3 bombing raids over the German
nes. In addition to the claim of
te craft that it established a new
icord in making Southport from
ew York, it is said that it is consided
the first time that a boat of this
ze has been landed and repaired on
. ugh seas and made fit to continue
s flight to a place of safety.
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Fork.
Miss Margaret McLaurin of Clio
the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. P.
cQueen.
Mrs. Postell Lovell of Marion spent
st week with Mr. and Mrs. Frank
agers.
Mrs. S. P. Med 1 in of Dillon spent
few days here last we< k with relaes.
Mrs. Russell Smoaks and baby of
hite Stone are visiting Mrs. Fannie
1 wards.
Mrs. M. A. Edwards of Marion
ent a few days here with relatives
st week.
Missep Marguerite and Annie Daman
were called to their home at
nchburg, Va., last Friday on acunt
of the death of their father.
A meeting of the Fork School Imovemeut
Association was held at
school house Friday alternoon,
bruury 18th. The following proim
was carried out:
Song.
Reading.
Roil Call and Minutes of last
Meeting b> Secretary.
Reading?"What IP a Child
Worth," by Mrs. Melton it overs.
. Reading, "Things Worth While"
by Miss Katie Calhoun.
Piano Solo, Mrs. N. B. Calhoun
Heading, "The Cry of tlio Children,"
by Mrs. Carrie Lewis.
Current Events, Mrs. D. N.
Jones.
Business Session.
Social Hour.
A delightful salad course with
ffee was served.
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Mr. L. Cottingham lias been noti'd
of his appointment as Dillon
unty representative of the Anieri11
Products Export and Import Corration
formed some months ago
th former Gov. Manning at its head
r the purpose of shipping cotton diet
to Europe. Mr. Cottingham is in
sit ion to pay the best market
ices for Dillon county cotton and
fers the farmers the services of the
ader when sale8 are made.
tiool while Miss Wagener is away.
Mrs. H. B. Floyd spent several days
Latta the past week with her sis\
Mrs. Bethea.
The ladies of this place honored
s. rercy McDonald with a miscelioous
shower on Monday evening
)in 3 o'clock until four at the home
Mrs. A. C. McDonald. Fruit salad
d salt hies were served by four
ung ladies, after which Misses
thleen Stackhouse and Hallie Mcurin
camc in bearing a large launy
basket, and informed the bride
it the week'8 laundry was in and
ted Mrs. McDonald to take charge,
p found it contained many useful
well as beautiful gifts. The guests
parted, wishing the happy little
de joy and happiness through life.
Mrs. Marvin McLean of Dillon vini
her mother, Mrs. B. A. Alford,
i past week.
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