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? 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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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????? ?
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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
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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. |
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0 Kave a barrel of ?
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Company i
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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