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tfhr StUnn Ijrralii A. & JORDAN Editor SUBSCRIPTION - 92.00 Per Yr. IHUon, 8. C.t July 14, 1021 Money may talk louder, but it is better it playing hide and seek. One reason why the average editor envies Jack Dempsey is because none of his readers think they can run the prize fight business as good ma the Utah mauler. The surtax was all right in theory, but bo long as the wealthy can put their money into hordes of tax-free securities that have been issued, so long will the possessors of money not Do inclined to put their mountains of spare change into industry, where it is taxed. TIME TO (JET BUSY. Some criticisms are heard regarding congress, and not entirely from Democratic sources. Business interests are beginning to demand that efforts be made to bring business out of the slump, so far as congressional action can do so, and not to place tariff tinkering ahead of this. It is said by one observer that it will take until fall for congress to get through the tariff matters in contemplation and that is too long to wait for business aid. Moreover, the prosperity that depends on foreign trade ^cannot be aided by a tariff. The latter can prevent t ' goods entering the country?to a certain extent?but it cannot cause American goods to be sold elsewhere; in fact, if a high American tariff proivokes high tariff walls in other countries it would prevent American goods from reaching foreign marmu: x v x - ** h'ho. i ma inciuaes soutn America, wh.ere Amorica- goods got a good foothold. PRESS ASSOCIATION ECHOES. The South Carolina Press Association has held 4 6 meetings since it was organized in 1876, but the meeting in Greenville last week was probably the most enjoyable one in 'the history of the Association. We can make this broad assertion without reflecting in the slightest degree upon the hospitality of the other towns and cities in which meetings have been held in the past 4 6 years. The Press Association meetings are always enjoyable. In every place in which meetings have been held since we Jcined the Association some 23 years me menmers or tne Association have been most cordially received and everything has been done to make their visits pleasant and enjoyable. But for the past year the newspaper men of the state have carried heavy burdens and many of them have been sc closely confined to their offices thut when they met at Greenville last "eek they relaxed for three days and entered into the pleasures of the occasion with an abandon which made the week particularly enjoyable from every point of view. The Greenville folk are charming hosts and they had prepared a program of entertainment which kept their guests "on their toes," so to speak, from the moment they arrived in the city until they departed Saturday morning. Greenville ig no longer a town. It is a metropolis. Its growth in the last few years has been marvelous. Ic is the distributing point for a large territory and despite the so-called Mbard times" cry business seams to be brisk. Next to its banks the street tiaffic of a city is the best index to its commercial activities, and during the three days we spent in Greenville we noticed that ita streets were crowded with vehicles, and businesi seemed to be going on In the same brisk manner as in normal times. We asked a Greenville business man 11 there had been much of a slowing ui of business among the merchants *^h, yes," he replied. "We hav< felt the depression here, but I don'i think it has been as bad in Green ville as in many other towns an<J cities of similar sise. During the wai business reached such proportloni that it almost bordered on confusioc and we had reached the point wher< he city had to greatly expand or ac ly invite trade to go somewhere Business at present is slightly ( normal." This is explained prob /by the fact that Greenville li j largest cotton manufacturing city the state and even in the present oil" times its weekly pay roll rune ito huge figures. We have been told *at 5f large cotton mills in and ind Greenville are controlled by motile business men. l tho last census Greenville took d place among South Carolina m in point population. Its corporlimlts, however, extend only a ? sad a half each way from the .*t house. The majority of its oa mills and other manufacturing ?% tig Mb Seated outald# the corpor m-THE DILLON HE ate limits. We hazard the guess that < if the coroorate limits were extended a mile further each way Greenville's population would double, and probably give her second place among South Carolina cities in point of population. Greenville leads the stale in th' number of beautiful homes, and while the figures are not available just at this moment, yet we feel safe in saying that she has more paved streets than any city in the state. As a newspaper town Greenville ranks with any town of similar size in the United States. She has two newspapers?a morning paper and an afternoon paper. The morning paper. The Greenville News, is edited by o. n. reace, ana vne fiedmont, the afternoon paper, is edited by Col. J. Rlon McKisslck. Both papers are modern and progressive in their make-up, and carry from 12 to 16 pages with every issue. The famous > paragraph column in the Piedmont is conducted by Geo. R. Koester, one of the state's best known -writers. Until a year or two ago Mr. Koesier had devoted his entire time to editorial work. He is a brilliant editorial writer and his work was known and appreciated even outside the borders of his native state. A year or two ago force of circumstances compelled him to take over the paragraph column of The Piedmont. Until then he had never attempted paragraph work. He har. made the paragraph column of The Piedmont famous throughout America. Not only is it the most wide ii< ijuuicu puiiigrapu coiumn iu America, but its "squibs" are flashed on jtbe moving picture screens in every city of importance in which the English language is spoken. Col. Mc;Kissick and Messrs. Peace and Koester are charming hosts and the newspaper men who attended the meeting last week are greatly indebted to them for many kindnesses and courtesies during their stay in the city. We brought back with us not only a distinctly fine impression of the city of Greenville and its charming 'people, but a most pleasant and agreeable impression of the Piedmont section as a whole. We do not like to n;ake comparisons, but sometimes the plain truth bluntly told does good, in that it makes other sections see their shortcomings and encourages them to jgreater accomplishments. The Pee I Dee is a great country?it leads in jngriculture?but taken as a whole it is 25 years behind the Piedmont. We (left the train at Spartanburg and made the journey to Greenville by I way of automobile, a distance of some 120 miles. A car running at what they jcs.ll "average" speed makes the trip in 45 minutes. The whole Piedmont is a net-work of fine roads. Leading out of the principal cities for many nules one finds concrete roads and when the concrete gives out well built sand and gravel roads take its i place- The road from Spartanburg to j Greenville?part concrete and part sana and gravel?is what the younger generation would call a "dream." It is 3o smooth that a car glides over it at the rate of 40 milea an hour with scarcely a tremor. There are no wooden bridges. Where it is necessary to build a bridge, concrete and steel arc used in its construction. The only road gangs we saw were those doing permanent work. We presume that either Greenville or Spartanburg has ten times more road mileage than Dillon, Marlboro or Marion, and we feel safe in saying that their road repair bill is less than either of our three Pee Dee counties. Much of the road development in the Piedmont ig due to the efforts of Mr. Chas. O. Hearon, editor of the Spartanburg Herald, a member of the State Highway Commission, and a strong good roads advocate. ( Mr. Courtland Smith, of New York, ( delivered the annual address before . the Association. Mr. Smith is a much traveled man. The train on which he arrived makes a day-light journey from Greensboro to Oreenvllle. and he had an opportunity to see the south's greatest manufacturing section. He was astonished at what he saw. In a conversation with the writer he said this section would meuure up to some of the best manufacturing sections of the north and east. He said that he knew the south was making wonderful progress, but what he saw on this journey was a revelation to him. A week's stay in the Piedmont furnishes material and inspiration enough to write columns of this magic land, but our space is limited and we must bring this article to a close. Some day in the not distant future when the world returns to "normalcy," as Mr. Harding would say, it would be a good Plan if the business men of the Pee Dee would form a Pullman party and make a tour of the Piedmont and see what their friends in the northern part of the state are doing. It would be a revelation to many of them. The meeting of the Press Association was also profitable from a business point of ytyw. For the past 41 |yaars Association has been a so BALD. DKLLOK, SOUTH CMPUHA clal organisation, and the constitu- < tion prohibited the discussion of bus- 1 ii.es8 matters. At the Greenville meet-j inf. the constitution was amended andj lu the future it is hoped to have the( different phases of newspaper-mak- (! ins discussed in a thorough and practical manner. There were many timely and interesting papers read and discussed ] at the meeting. All the papers and discussions were go&d, but particularly interesting and inspiring was the ( paper, "The Newspaper of Tomorrow," by Mr. Robert Lathan, editor of The News and Courier. There were many favorable comments on Editor Lathan's paper, and Mr. E. H. DeCamp, of the Gaffney Ledger, a veteran newspaper man who has an un broken attendance record of 25 consecutive years, said it was the ablest paper he had ever heard re&d at a Press Association meeting. It was a fine meeting, full of inspiration, and left a distinctly pleasant impression of Greenville and her delightful people. FARM WANTED?Wanted to hear from owner of a farm or good land tor sale for Fall delivery. L. Jones. Box 551, Olney, 111.?7 7 ltp. FINAL DISCHARGE NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that J. W. Hamer, executor of the estate of Sarah McBride, deceased, has made application unto me for final discharge as executor and that Thursday, July 28th 10 o'clock in the forenoon has been appointed for the hearing of the said petition. All persons holding claims against the said estate are requested to file them with the administrator on or before 10 o'clock in tlie forenoon of July 28th or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. JOE CABELL DAVIS, Judge of Probate, 7 7 4t. Dillon County. When you sail, sail under the Stars and Stripes to any part of the world PRESIDENT HARDINO has summed up the merchant marine by saying that we know "We cannot sell successfully where we do not carry." And now we have a great American Merchant Marine, with ships sailing under the Stars and Stripes to every port of importance in the world. Certainly the American people will never permit this merchant marine to decline from its present preeminent position. Nor will it ? if each one of you will ship and sail under the Stars and Stripes. Operators of Passenger Services Admiral Llna. 17 State Street, New York, N. Y. Mat sort Navigation Company. 26 So. Cay Street, Baltimore, Mil Munaon Staana Ship Line. 82 Dearer Street, Near York. N Y. New York and Porto Rico S. S. Co., 11 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Pacific Mall S. S. Co., 45 Broadway, New York, N. Y. U. S. Mail ft. S. Cow, 45 Broadway. New York. N. Y. Ward Line, (Naw York and Cuba MaM S. S to ) Foot of Wall Street, New York. N/Y. Free use of Shipping Board fiiau Use of Shipping Board motion picture films, lour reels, free on request of any mayor, pastor, postmaster, or organisation. A great educational pRture ef ships and the sea. Write for information toH. Lauc, Director In format ma Bureau, Room 911, |)|9 "F" Street, N. W . Washington, D. C. SHIPS FOR SALE (r# Awuricmm WMimj ?mlf) RiJ KNatrt, both oil awd oool kwMri. A loo wood tooaooro, wood kiili oad ocooa-tolaj ti|t. Furthar iaWailio* obtain od by roqooat. For sailings of passenger mnd freight ships to all parts of the world and all other information, write any of the above Ones or Statement of the Condition of THE BANK OF LITTLE ROCK Little Rock, S. O. at the close of business June 30, 1921 Resources: Loans and discounts ?$119,397.82 Overdrafts 1,641.33 Furniture and fixtures 1,670.65 Other real estate owned- 220.00 Due from banks and bankers 9,362.76 Currency 784.00 Gold 25.00 Silver and other minor coin 465.07 'hecks an* east Items 488.18 War savin* stamps SOUL5 Building account 3,611.28 , nUBSOAT MORNING, JULY 14, Contingent assets 14.37 Revenue stamps 26.00 Total 1137,806.61 Liabilities: Capital stock paid in 3 20,000.00 Surplus fund 7,000.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 6,922.50 Dividends Unpaid 54.00 Individual deposits subject to check 54,249.19 rime certificates of deposit 11,330.91 Cashier's checks 500.01 Notes and bills redis counted 8,750.00 Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed 30,000.00 Total 1137,806.61 State of South Carolina, County of Dillon, ss: ? Before me came J. H. Meadora, cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above'and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. J. H. Meadors. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of July, 1921. S. I. Schafer, Notary Public Correct Attest:? T. C. Sherwood, A. Schafer, J. S. Thompson, Directors. SUMMONS. State of South Carolina, County of Dillon. Iu Court of Common Pleas. G. D. Barlow, Plaintiff, vs. Richard Johnson and Minnie Johnson, Defendants. To the defendants, Richard Johnson and Minnie Johnson: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action of which a copy is served upon you and to serve a copy of your answer to said complaint, on the subscriber at his office in Dillon, S. C., within (20> days after the service hereof, e.\clusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the coniDlaint within the time aforesaid the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court of Common Pleas for the relief demanded. N. B. Hargrove, Plaintiff's Attorney. Slate of South Carolina, County of Dillon. To the defendants Richard Johnson and Minnie Johnson. You will take notice that the complaint in this action, together with the summons, of which the foregoing is a copy, was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court Common Pleas in General Session, County of Dillon, State of South Ckirolina on the 13th day of July, A- D. 1921. N. B. Hargrove, 7 14 3t. Plaintiff's Attorney. r~~? ? ? I I m To Our Friends and Our Tobacco Ms All our buyer all good ripe clea F. Watklns ha Warehouse (better ] ted himself with t Style of firm will F. Watkins will ru after your every i the sales; we are and are here from siet you in wintei rienoe in warehoua also know what it have to work to ge takes to please th tobaooo and promia you the highest ma your tobaooo bring ways find at the F serve you. We are is headquarters fc S. V. McCarty us and will be glc Now do not fo headquarters for tl Dillon, S. C. , Jul 1981. NOTICE: WANTED?To bojr or'c trade one Paige Touring Car (or t Ford Truck of Roadster, preferably < new. J. H. McLaurin, Chairman, ? Dillon, S. C.?7 14 It- i 1 o i NOTICE. < * 1 The undersigned hereby give notice , that on or about the 20th of July ( they will apply to the Secretary of , State for a charter for the "Garwood , Machine and Sales Co., Incorporated. ' I. T. WOOD. J. C. WOOD, S. P. WOOD. iTuioicin ?7 uji.1 <rj. State of South Carolina, County of DillonI-i the Court of Common Pleas. J. D. Hayes, Plaintiff, against Jim Page, Defendant. Pursuant to an order of his Honor Edward Mclver, Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, bearing date -the 30th day of January, 1919, the un- ( I I am not I tion to s I My A | NEXT TO DILLOl 9 I have beensu 9 fng to your tot 9 auto mechanic, ] 9 tine (formerly \ 9 Motor Co., Atlai 9 personally supei work on all mal want is a trial. Have all your u) roof. We do Auto Refinishing, LJphoh ing, and General R All work guaranteei PERRY'S AUTO, PAIN Phone 127-J RMERS WAREHOUSE CON A. V. BETHEA and F. WATKIN9. Mors FOR THE SALE OF LEAF TOBACCO r\n r Patrons of Dillon and j Lrket will open Tuesday s will be on hand eager n tobaccos. ving sold his interest cnown as Watkins Wareho he Farmers Warehouse,_ . be, F. Watkins and A. 9 v n the sales as usual, II nterest and will also i both home men, we pay January to January, all or summer; we hare t ie business as any one takes to make tobacco, t it on the market, an e planter. We are anxj \e to work harder than irket prioe. So when y ; it to your home men \ 'armors warehouse, read the farmer's friend a >r you all all the time , who was at Latta las1 id to see and serve hit rget the place,-the Fa: he farmers. Your servants, F. WAT! A. V. 1 j 6. Itrilgntd, as Master for Dillon coun;y, will sell during the legal hours >f sale, on the first Monday in Augist, 1921, same being the 1st, before m he court house door in the Town of 7JH Dillon, in the county of Dillon, in the State aforesaid, at public auction to he higheet bidder. "All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land lying and ?* >elng situate in the county of Dillon, JH and state aforesaid, and in the Town Vfl at Lake View, and bounded on the iorth by Eighth street; east by street; f south by lot No. 141, and west by lot jM No. 140, said lot being numbered and designated as lot No. 139 on a plat jH or survey made by R. F. Branner for F. A. Hodges and J. F. Watson, dated December 4th, 1911." Terms of sale. Cash, purchaser to pay for all papers and revenue stamps. Any person bidding off the B said property and refusing to com- |H| ply with his bid therefor, said property will be resold upon the same or I some subsequent salesday at the risk ^ of the former purchaser. A. B. JQRDAN, Master for Dillon County. V MACHINE SHOP ?S ccessful in bring fff\ a first class " 3 Mr. W. A. Baren- a vith the Atlanta a ita, Ga.) He will c rintend all repair c se cars. All we C ork done under one I Painting, Furniture \tering, Piano Polish- % epair Work on cars. C i. Help us to hejpyou. ? T ANn RCPilR QHflP 2 i imu 11 lai in 11 uiivji | ? DILLON, S. C. I d IPANY u,rec,?p9: % A. V. Bethea L. B. Rogers, lames McRellan R. M. Oliver C M. J. Rogers t jJ K. r. Ii?e *5 I. P. McLaurin A >N. S. C., g Adjoining Counties: 3 , July 19th. C and anxious for C in the Palmetto use), has conneo -a d the ''New Briok". V. Bethea, Managers ' [p. Bethea will look 4 assist in running a our taxes here M rays willing to asiad as mueh expo- 4 you oan find; wo f -know how hard you j d we know what it .ous to sell your * anybody to get * 4 ou begin selling J rhom you will al. j y and willing to nd our warehouse * 4 i season, is with | s many friends. g rmers Warehouse, g SINS and 4 3KTHEA, Managers. ^ 4 , ^ 4 4