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* ^ fl flpbc Lilian Bjerali) pBSCBtfTION 92.50 Per Yr. , I KN^ v s I ? IMUon, 8. C., March 17. 1921. , While everything else is going ( town the price >' steel continues to Advance and gasoline remains at 30 i* cents a gallon. That was what Mr. Harding meant when he said it was 1 time for the country to return to nor- 1 malcy. ] Js'orth Carolina took a long stop i forward the other day when its gen- ? eral assembly passed a fifty million |< dollar road bill and a' law requiring | certificates of health before marriage. < The statesman of years ago who re-11 L'erred to North Carolina as "the val !< ley of despair betwe n two moun-, c ta*ns of conceit" was a man without : talon. jt I1 The biggest thing between the Unit- I ed States and Japan is China. Japan I would like to grab the Philippines, but until slie makes friends with ( China there will be no war between 1 the United States and Japan. China t has been badly treated by the Japs t and she is biding her time to strike 1 the moment Japan engages in war^ with some powerful nation. And so.i regardless of the outcome of the Jap-ji anese problem in California, don't I < frot nnnaav nvor tho nrnennolo at o i c?vt WMVWOJ V* VI pi VO|iVVlO VI ? ! war with Japan as Ions as the pres- < ent feeling between China and Japan f continues- j It was unkind of Attorney (leneral f rainier to make thP ruling, just be- ' fore stepping out of office, which 1 placed beer and wine in the same' class with whiskey. Under this ruline ' beer and wine can b0 manufactured ' and sold for medicinal purposes. The prohibitionists ar<? indignant over the ruling, but their protests come with poor grace, since it is well-known that although a democratic adminis-J tration gave the nation prohibition. \ the leaders in the party showed very little appreciation by voting the republican ticket almost to a man. We1 are not prepared to say that M r. Pal- j mer had this in mind when he had under consideration this phase of the, liquor question, but there is a little; bit of human nature in the biggest; of fnen. and who can blame the attor-| ney general, even ir he did smile a; little smiile of satisfaction, as he at-j tached his signature to the ruling?, We do not blame Mr. Palmer. He( has laid the foundation for a fight ( between the new administration and the prohibition forces that will devel-j: op many complications before it is { ' over. 11 I; In normal times the question of] cotton acreage reduction is lygely a '' matter which the farmer musl settle 1 for himself, and even though we are living in an abnormal period we have ' no advice to offer the farmer as to * how much cotton he should plant this' year. If the farmer plants no more I than he is able to finance there will b? a substantial acreage reduction * It is not a question of how much he wants to plant, but how j much can he plant. Heretofore, crops have been made on money borrowed c frcm the banks. If the supplies for J tho farm came through a lien mer-j? . 8 chant the money to purchase the e supplies came from the bank, and e any way you take it the size of a qotton crop depends on the amount of money the bank is able to lend to merchant and farmer- An analysis of the statements of the nine banks in Dillon county, as of December 31st,! 1920, shows that even at the begin-1 ning of the year, when loans and discounts should have been at the lowest point of any period of the year, they were at the high-1 est, and there is no reason to be II lieve they have been reduced to any ] appreciable extent during the first ji three months of the new year. Banks, {l like individuals, have a borrowing 1 limit, and until the banks reduce the . amount of their discounts they will not be able to borrow new money, i The question, is then, where is the money coming from to make more than 50 per cent of a crop? The far-j mer who is going ahead preparing i his land for a normal crop of cotton with the expectation of borrowing the money to finance it will be disappointed when borrowing day comes The banks probably would be glad to let him have the money: but where aro the bfinks going to get it? Last year Dillon county made about 43,000 bales of cotton. It had a carryover from the 1919 crop of at least 10,0000 bales. It is conscvatively estimated that 30,000 bales are held on plantations and in storage holies Money has been borrowed on this cotton, and as the banks are not able t-> finance two cotton crops they cannot lend additional money to make n 1921 crop without forcing last , year'g cotton on the market. Many farmers claim they cannot make cot- i ton at 10 and 12 i>?ni? >???'' Would it not therefore be the part of wisdom to plant less cotton, work it fast, gathe: it early and add it to the J carry over from 1920, and save the ( difference between the cost of production end the present market , price? This looks reasonable. 3 'I Mrs. Carl T. Graham and children ] of Birmingham, Ala., are spending < mbu time with Mrs. Omham's par- j eats, Mr. tmA Mrs. N. A. LeOotte. i THE DILLON HEltAED DILLON COUNTY LEADS. At the lust session of the court of general sessions, Solicitor Spears made the statement that there were fewer "homicides and crimes in Dillon county than in any other county }f equal size and population in the. jtate." The statement attracted the attention of a Oaihoun county citizen ivho printed an article in the daily iewspapers in which he challenged solicitor Spear's statement with the itatement that Calhoun county boasted a crime record lower than that >f any other county in the state. But the citizen of Calhoun is wrong. Calhoun has a pretty good crime ecord, but it does not surpass or jven equal Dillon's. "Calhoun was >rganized in 1908 and Dillon in 1910," says Solicitor Spears, " so iic wuiupuiauve criminal statistics 'or Calhoun and Dillon counties, rom 1910 to 1920, inclusive are as 'cllows: "In Calhoun county there were 3 80 iriminaj case8 tried, 316 guilty, 84 <ot guilty; 22 homicides, and 8 guil-' 14 not guilty. In Dillon county here were 273 cases tried, 220 guilty. 53 not guilty; 34 homicides, 9 >f which were guilty of involuntary nanslaughter, 25 guilty and 9 not guilty. Of the 53 not guilty 16 were onsent verdicts." In submitting the above data Solictor Spears calls attention to the act that "the population of Calhoun 3 only a little over one-third of that sf Dillon county" which in itself shows conclusively that the per^cntnPP of orimn in Polh/Min io ly in excess of that of Dillon. But in speaking of Dillon's splendid criminal record Solicitor Spears does not limit himself to the state of South Carolina. "Not only does Dillon thus compare with Calhoun," says Mr. Spears, "but with any other county in the United States she ranks first, population and area considered " Dillon is proud of the excellent record she has made, but at the same time she rejoices in the fact that her sister counties in the fourth judicial circuit have records of which Solicitor Spears is moved to make worthy mention. "Not only will this record apply to Dillon county," says Mr. Spears, but to all other counties of the fourth judicial circuit. I am glad to say that there is and has been no wave of crime in my circuit. By the cooperation of the lawyers of the fmiV. -i * *? ivuim juuigiui circuit, ana tne iaw-^ abiding citizens who have served on the juries, much has been done for the prevention of crime, and they are responsible for the great record that has been made in this circuit. I in1 indeed proud of the record of our circuit * * * and I look for-' ward to the future in the confident celief that our record in the next ten rears will be very much improved." HORRIBLE CONDITION IN RUSSIA . I Imeriraii Resident Paints Picture of Unbelievablg, Atrocities. Mew York Times. This letter, written by the wife >f a Russian officer who spent the irst years of the Great War in the Jnited States and is known to thousLi-ds of American women who work d for the Allies in that period, reach d one of her closest friends here esterday. Judging by the postnarks it was smuggled out of Rusiia by someone with Soviet credenials and mailed in a neutral county. Revelation of the identity of the vriter would, of course, result in be instant execution of herself and lei husband by the Soviet authorises. It may be said, however, that ?he does not belong to the hated old tebility of Russia upon who m the vrath of the revolutionists first fell. >ut rather to the middle class whnm> patriotism saved the Russian Em-, plre in the early stages of the war. I Ller husband had attained the high position he occupied here in Russian affairs solely by merit, and the writer berself is remembered as a simple kind hearted woman whose sympathy was wholly on the side of the suffering and who labored lndefatigably to alleviate the lot of her countrymen in the trials they then endured. j Here is the letter: Russia, Jan. 18, 1921. ! My Dear . You perhaps will be very much surprised to receive a letter from me but I have a chance to send this without passing the censor, and therefore I want to remind you of our existence. I wish only once to reach you, telling you how exhausted we are, and how we suffer in this terrible hell. We missed the moment when there was a chance tq leave everything and run from here, but you know how my husband always used to say that Russia needed real people and that she would appreciate them, himself included, if h? Dlaved hie part. My letter will tell you how Russia has appreciated na. Foi three years we have been dying a alow, terrible death. Both my sons have heen shot. My husband and myself have been put in jail, where we starved from hunger. It Is terrible to think of It. Finally they l"t us go, because they found out thai my two boys, who had been accused, wire not guilty, and had been killed Tot nothing at all. In any event, to be shot no rea10ns are needed. It is enough that irou are decent people, and therefore l danger for the Soviet. What we lave suffered now It la impossible to leocrlbe. Our sorrows are such that nyself and my husband are now nere shadows I am writing you ?, DIM/ON. SOUTH CAROLINA, TE only to tell you how they killed our children. First of all, the poor victims were put in an ice-cold jail. Then they tortured them. Then they put them two together, and at night they took them in motortrucks to a field outslue the city. There, on a frosty night, they took from them all their clothes, the soldiers seizing these clothes for themselves, und finished the poor things up by breaking their skulls with the butts of their rifles. You might think that all this is just my imagination, but my daugh-i ter-in-law, the widow of my son, | and from the other ladies who had . lost a son or a husband, decided to | find out the sad place of their deaths, j Through a soldier whom we corrupt- | eu we found the place?u field where; there had been killed literally thou-! sands of people. We found five tre-j mendous excavations, not quite covered with earth. The place was all covered with little fragments of skulls and bones and clothes. One lady found a fur cap which she recognized as one that had been her husband's. In the cap she found a half head. I found there a handkerchief which had belonged to my son. We understood that our people who knew that they were going to be killed had tried to leave for us a trace, that we might cover the earth with our tears.. Oh God! What a terrible thing it was when instead of living healthy poor I c, *ve found merely the ground covered with red snow. However, ourselves are still alive and are trying our best to keep going. We have learned the lesson of trading our few possession for food. My oracetets went for ten pounds of| sugar. One pound of butter costs' 14,000 rubles. A pound of meat costs 4.500 rubles, a pound of potatoes 300 rubles, a pound of salt 1,500 i rubles. A pair of shoes cost 120,000 j rubles, a yard of cloth 50,000 rubles and one apple 800. For three years we have not seen white bread. We receive from the Soviet Commissioner a ration card which gives to Us sometimes soup made without meat?and potatoes and a little of dirty oatmeal. We are fed like pifts and 1 make our ration liveable only by exchanging my few trinklets as I tell you. We have forgotten what is fruit, what is fish, what is white flour, tea, coffee, and we drink so-called coffee made of burned spirited wheat and tea made out of carrots. Our life is a terrible nightmare and we see no end. Do not be surprised that I am writing you this letter. It is the first chance I have had to communicate and it is a dangerous way, but such is our plight that I am willing to take the risk. The Bolshevist newspapers, the only news we have, tell such lies that you might think we were living in heaven, but it is all a lie. We are living almost without any clothes, without socks or stockings, without shoes. I am myself washing the remains of our linen of long ago. The remains of the socks of my husband. We live in two rooms. The temperature in one is 10 degrees Reaumut, because the cooking stove is in it, the other is 4 degrees below zeroI write this to you for ihe sake of truth and humanity, that you, who live in a civilized country like America, will not be silent, but will tell the truth about the terrible condition of the intelligent people of Russia. Nobody can move from this place. Nobody can call anything he had his own, because the Bolsheviki have requisitioned everything and stolen everything in the name of requisitioning. Nobody has . the right to wear or possess anything of value. It all comes under the requisition. There are no means of communication except your two legs. The stree t car8 are carrying lots of wood or taking away the dirt, which is terrible. Everything we must carry on our own backs. Sometimes, by luck, we manage to get to a village outside the city and exchange the little trinklets or the few clothes we have left for a few food products, receiving in return a few pounds of potatoes which we carry back to the city on our backs, glad that the hunger death is postponed for us for the time being. The city is dead. There are hundreds of thousands of sick people, but no medication- You can get nothing from a drug store without an order from Soviet commissary, not even insect powder for the pests wnicn are eating us to death. I want this letter to come to you. I fear that It may trouble you, but believe me, we are dying by degrees in this awful, unjust fight against overpowering oppression. This is the city of a dying people. In fact, we are people no longer?only shad' ows. In fact, life with you in the dear United States seems to us now only a beautiful dream- Please write to me to the address I gave you, I am no longer afraid, even if I suffer for it. Yours ever sincerely, o DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. Notice is hereby given that the partnership firm existing between L. P. Christman and J. C. Stokes, doing business at Dillon, in th'e County of Dillon, State of South Carolina, under the firm name of and Mule Exchange has been dissolved by mutual consent. The business or the Kentucky Horse ft Mule Exchange will hereafter be conducted by I. P. Chrlstman at the same stand at Dillon and all persons having claims against the said Kentuckv Horse ft Mule Exchange will please file the same with the paid L. P. Chrlstman, or his agent at Dillon, and all persons indebted to the said co-partnership will make payment to( the said L. P. Chrlstman, or his agent; at the place of business formerly and now occupied by the Kentucky Ho^ee A Mule Exchange. j L .P. Chrlstman, } S-17-tt J. C. Stokes [UR8DAT MORNING, MARCH 17. 1M Professional Cards. Surveying Drafting and Blue Printing W. M. ALLEN Dillon, S. C. Phon? No. 112 ? 1.. U. HASKLDKN Attorney at Law IMLIiUN, 8. C. 1 onuy to Lend on First Mortgage Real Estate. DR. J. H. HAMEK, 4R. Dentist OfUce over Peoples Bank. DR. R. F. DARWIN Dentist Office Over Bank of Dillon JOE P. LANE AJtorney-at-I^aw Office Next to Bank of Dillon, Vlaln St. Dillon. 8. C. OTIS M. PAGE Civil Engineer DILLON, S. C. DR. R. M. BAILEY, Veterinarian Office at Dillon Live Stock Co'h. Stables. j Office Phone - - 235 ^ residence Phone - - - ? j 8 C. HENSLEE, M. D. 'iyc, liar, Nose and rhroat Spectacles Fitted. Ofllce Hours 9 to 11 and 2 t? 4 evening Hours by Aopolntment. GIBSON & MULLER, Attorneys-at-Lnw Office over Malcolm Mercantile Co. DILLON, S. C. Practice in State and Federal Courts J. W. JOHNSON Attcmey-?t?Ltw Vaetlce In State and Federai Csurt# Marlon, 8. G. L. D. UDE Attorney-at-Law MARION. S. FINAL DISCHARGE NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that Mrs. Amanda Watson, administratrix of the estate of Samuel Watson, deceased, has made application unto me for final discharge as administratrix and that Thursday, March 17th at 10 o'clock in the forenoon hag been appointed for the hearing of the said petition. All persons holding claims against the said estate are requested to file them with the administratrix on or before 10 o'clock in the forenoon on March 17th, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. JOE CABELL DAVIS. Judge of Probate, 2 24 4t. Dillon County. NOTICE OF SAI.E. United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina. . | In the matter of I W. C. Parham In Bankruptcy Bankrupt. Under and by virtue of an order of the aforesaid court I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for l cash, in front of the store building formerly occupied by W. C. Parham; all of the personal property belonging to the said estate. The sale will com < mence at 10 o'clock in the forenoon on Saturday, March 19th, 1921, and continue until all of the said property is disposed of. The said property consists of the following: 51 Bales of cotton. 300 bushels of corn, cotton seed out of five bales of cotton, manure spreader, 2 two horse wagons, 1 one horse wagon, 1 stalk cutter, 1 harrow, 1 reaper and binder, 1 mower, 1 Ford touring car, 11 Ford Roadster, 1 Cadillac touring car, 1 White truck, 1 Defi-I ance truck, 5 sets of plows, 1 four hundred dollar rent note, a lot of notes and chattel mortgages. All open at cost. All household and kitchen furniture, all stocks and bonds. Also all of the stock of goods consisting of: Hardware, dry goods, shoes, wagons, buggies, notions, also all fixtures. Inventory can be seen at the office of N. B. Hargrove. It N. B. HARGROVE, Trustee FINAL DISCHARGE NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that J. H. Meadors and R. H. Wiggins, administrators of the estate of Ida Boahn, deceased, has made application unto me for final discharge as administrators and that Thursday, April 7th at 11 o'clock in the forenoon has been appointed for the hearing of the said petition. All ? ? * nu |icinuns uuiaing ciaims against the said estate are requested.to file them with the adminitrators on or before 11 o'clock In the forenoon of Arrll 7th or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. JOE CABELL DAVIS Judge of Probate, 3 17 4t. Dillon County. I ?, FINAL DISCHARGE NOTICE. Notice Is hereby given that Sam D Graham, executor of the estate oi Frank D. Graham, deceased. ha< made application unto me for final discharge as executor, and that Frl % li. * day, April 15th at 10 o'clock in the| forenoon ha* been appointed (or the' hearing of the said petition. All persons holding claims against the said estate are requested to file them with the executor on or before 10 o'clock in the forenoon of April the 15th or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. JOE CABELL DAVIS Judge of Probate, 3 17 4t. Dillon County. CREDITOR'S NOTICE. Having qualified as administrators ot the estate of Sarah Ann Bethea, deceased, notice is hereby given that all persons holding claims against the estate are hereby notified to present same duly authenticated within the time provided by law or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate are herby notified to make Immediate payment to the undersigned administrators. * W. C. Parham, T. M. Bethea, , 3 17 3t. Administrators. CREDITOR'S NOTICE. Having qualified as executrix of the estate of W. W. Scott, deceased, notice is hereby given that alt per????? ? ? ??? Do r.ot forget that we hare n Iar kiuQp of Belting, Pipe, Valves, Fi ley? and Hangers, Bolts, Nuts i you may need in the way of ms prices. Try us. Columbia ! 823 W. Gervais si is is si a a is ? is m e si | When You A 1 GROC ffl ? give us a triaL ^ ra i i [=j please you in b LTJ gj price. S We will als | FRESI gj for which we inv g| over. i Garrell & ' Next Door to 1 E??H?SB?HSI? WILL THE V< sit down and all ticians and those the repeal of Sti social evil, put mayor who has these laws. We effort the women ercise in uphold the present May contributed by A I sons holding claims against the said estate are hereby .notified to present same duly authenticated within the time provided by law or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate are hereby notified to make immediate payment to the undersigned executrix. Jane C. Scott, 3 17 3t. Executrix. FINAL DISCHARGE NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that R. S. Rogers, administrator of the estate of W. M. Walters, deceased, has made application unto me for final dis criarge as administrator, and that Thursday, April 7th at 10 o'clock In the forenoon has been appointed for the hearing of the said petition. | AH persons holding claims against the said estate are requested to file them with the administrator on or before 10 o'clock in the forenoon of April the 7th or this notice will be plep.d in bar of their recovery. JOE CABELL DAVIS Judge of Probate, 3 17 4t. Dillon County. WANTED?10 Bushels Sweet Potatoes Quote price. The Mills Store, Dillon.?3 17 ltp. ge and well assorted stock of all ittings, Iron, Steel, Shafting, Jul- K and "Washers and anything else H ichinery supplies at present low ffl Surmlv St. Columbia,S.C. | aaaaaaaaaaa a re in Need of S m ERIES I a Ne guarantee to ? oth quality and ? 123 ? 0 Kave a barrel of ? 1 FISH | ite you come look ? a Company i G. L. Seals. S 3?? SSSBSSSS 3TERS of Dillon ow a few poliwho believe in inday laws and out of office a tried to enforce will watch the voters will exingthe hands of or. This space TAXPAYER