The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, August 18, 1921, Image 1
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Watch Label on Your Pape
and Don't Let Subscriptioi
Vw Expire.
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r-i established 1804
sweet potato is
a money getter.
Informing Address *t Conference on
Work of the Development
Board.
The News and Courier.
Of particular interest at the conference
yesterday in relation to the
South Carolina Development Board
were the remarks of Mr. H. E. Horton
the board's manager on the sweet
potato. State Senator Niels Christensen,
of Beaufort, chairman, took
part in the conference. The two officers
told business men of the board's
activities and the success it is achieving.
Mr. Horton said that at nresent
there are 107 "curing" houses for
sweet potatoes in South Carol!ina and
as many more projected. He pointed
out that this sweet potato industry
has reached Interesting proporations
in the State, and that it is remunerative
to those who are following it.
"Cotton must always be one of the
big crops of the State and we may
f.ot give up its production, but the
hour has struck when another cash
Mop must move to the fore, namely,
Jhe stoeet potato," Mr. Horton said.
"Everybody, North and South, likeg
sweet potato. Some of our people
vM ? have not been away from home,
naving been in the North, have not
smdied the subject carefully, say the
Northern man does not like the moist
sugarery Porto Rico variety and de-j
mands the dry poorly flavored pota-'
to grown in New Jersey, Delaware
and Virginia. Opposed to this men
who have made this subject their
special study report the Northern i
man does like the moist sugarery,
sort we like so well.
"It may be asked, why haven't we
built up a demand in the Northern
market for our produce? The reason]
why ws haven't had nothing to do
with excellence of the potatoes, but is
due to the fact the Southern grower
has never put up a standard pack
and handled the selling end in the]
businesslike way demanded by the
traae. lne xsew jersey grower, wun
an inferior article, puts up a standard
peck and handles his sales like a
real business man.
"What are we doing about it? The
South Carolina Sweet Potato Association,
backed and coached by the
South Carolina Development Board, is
perfecting plans at this time to grade
pack and market cooperatively the
pack of its eighteen member houses.
The sweet potato crop will be handld
in a way very similar to the way
cotton will be handled by the South
Carolina Cotton Growers' CooperaAssociation?locals
made up growers
located in all parts of the State producing
sweet potatoes, districts made
up of locals, and finally the head selling
organization. The Development
RparH ic mnlrlncr thp wPPPqqqrv efnri
ies preparatory to launching this project.
"The market demands graded stock,
he so-called 'Number Ones' and
.Number Twos.' Choice Number Ones,
suitable for baking (weighing 8 to
10 ounces) retail at 10 to 14 cents a
pound. Number Twos for 4 to 6
cents a pound.
"To put up the choice pack it is
necessary to fipd somc use for the
'jumbos,' 'strings' and 'cuts' which
must be culled out. These culls may
be U3ed -o make a line of high grade
by-products: Cattle feed, table syrup
vinegar, starch, flour.
"The 'curing' process makes it possible
to keep potatoes from the time
just prior to the first frost until the
middle of the fol towing May; and
'curing' houses lorated in the Piedmont
district should have no difficulty
'keeping' the potatoes well into
June. As we begin to get new potatoes
the middle of July there is only
a short interim when potatoes may
not be offered on the market.
"The sweet potato grows to greatest
perfection on the light sandy
loams of the coastal plain district,
and with little care producers over a
hundred bushels per acre of field
run, and with care may be made to
produce 250 to 400 bushels per acre.
"There are 107 curing houses in
the State and as many more projected.
If the houses loin the South Car&rlina
Sweet Potato Association, and
i arihurc atriftlv In (la rnl<M the prnw.
iftg of sweet potato may be made a
I very remunerative business.
"Ninety per cent of the potatoes
I grown in the State is the Porto Rico
variety, not that it is the best tasting
as we all know, but because it
is a big yielding variety, fairly free
from disease, keeps "well and stands
shipping."
' Leading Fairmont Citizen Dies.
Mr. A. L. Jones, for many years
one of the leading men of the Fairmont
section, died at Fairmont early
Monday morning. Mr. Joneg had been
9'jtfering from kidney trouble. Mr.
Jones moved to Fairmont before the
town had a railroad. He went into the
saw mill business and built the road
to Elrod which was later taken over
by the Coast Line. He was a good
k business man and accumulated a
comfortable fortune. He was 61 years
| of age.
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Mrs. Phil Osteen, accompanied by
| her sister, Miss Nina Alford and Mrs.
Elizabeth Johnson left Saturday night
| for Baltimore and New York to purchase
fall millinery and ready to
^ wear.
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THE DILLON HEM
THE CHIEF IN BAD.
"You have got me in bad with lots
of delinquent tax payers." said Chief
of Police Britt the other day. "I told
them that we would havc to advertise#*heir
property in this week's issue
if they didn't pay up and many
of them got busy and raised the money.
In fact, last Wednesday Just be'fore
the paper went to press Dillon
|wag busier than it has been since the
fall of 1919. But when I opened the 1
paper Thursday morning and there
was no advertisement of delinquent
taxes the first question I asked myself
was 'Now where do I stand?' I have
no desire to trv to pstahiinh a ro.
I putation as Dillon's boss 1 r?it
is too Mr a Job?and now what am
I to do?" Chief Britt's intentions
were good, but the law says all legal
advertisements for the sale of land
must be published three consecutive
weeks before the day of sale, and as
i there are three issues of the Herald
I beginning next week, August 18th,
! before the first Monday in September,
! the advertisement must appear for
the first time next week and be pub-,
jlished in the next two issues. It was;
not Chief Britt's fault. The advertise- i
|ment was held out for the proper is!
sue at The Herald office
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Weekly Cotton Letter.
i (By Savannah Cotton Factorage Col,
The cotton crop continues to deteriorate,
not only in Georgia ' and
[the Carolinas but also in Oklahoma,
Texas and other states. If this deterioration
continues, the final yield
will fall far short of the Governments
estimate of . 8.203,000 bales.
It is reported that a private bureau's
estimate of the crop condition at this
time is 57 per cent of normal, in-!
dicating a yield of 7.400.000 hnloe
or nearly 1,000,000 bales less than
the Government's first estimate.
But the course of the market will
probably be governed by three fac-i
tors: Whether or not the Federal.
] Reserve Banks will assist farmers to
' market their cotton over a period of
several months instead of being compelled
to sell as fast as picked;!
whether or not the demand will be
sufficient to force prices up", or
jwhether or not the boll weevil conditions
continue so unfavorable that
.the yield will be even smaller thanj
i present conditions indicate.
It is unlikely that cotton grading;
from strict low middling to ordinary;
will decline much, if any, from the
present level, on the other hand, there'
! is a good chance for these grades to
!advance, because differences in price
jbetween the'lower grades are still]
-too wide. If the 1921 crop i8 pickeu
as fast as it opens there will be few.
ilow grades,'and this will result in a
narrowing of differences, which
'means that the owners of such cotton
; will profit materially.
Japan was'one of the first countries
to experience a financial crisis
'following the world war. It is inter-:
'eating to know that this country has
recently bought heavily of cotton in
ithe South, and everyone hopes that'
'other far east 'and European coun-1
tiies will soon be able to enter our
I markets. If they are, no doubt American
mills will'follow suit, and we
will be another cten nearer normal1
| conditions.
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BLEASE PI,EASED AT CAMP
JACKSON ABA SDONMENT.
J Yoi'kville Enquirer.
"I ani delighted to know that Camp'
i Jackson will be abandoned," said for-j
mer Governor Cole L. Blease, while'
in Yorkville last Thursday en route!
to the Felbert picnic.
That camp, especially since the
armistice, has certaiinly been a stum
bling block for Columbia and there
is no way in the world to estimate
its cost to the capital because of in- J
creased immorality .and all that sort
of thing.
"It has been the cause of the downfall
of many an innocent girl and it
has caused the city of Columbia to
, gain a most unenivable reputation I
| for immorality?a reputation that she'
iwlll be unable to live down for a:
. long time to come.
"Now during the war while boys
of our own state were training there,1
it was a different matter altogether.1
But since then some oT the scuminieet
scum in all the earth has congregated
there and there have been
! numerous robberies, various other
! kinds of disorders, assaults on white
women and in fact, vice and vicrousness
has been rampant.
"Now understand, I don't bring
that indictment against all the perannnol
r\f ihn homn Dii*
I .r?...UV. V. V?V VUllip. UUl lllf irtuuis
since the armistice show that crime
has been on the increase among
the soldiers and there are many fine
men in camp there.
"And yet there are some of our
j more or 'eH8 prominent citizens of
; Columbia who would keep it there.
They came to me and asked my assistance
in keeping it there. I have
isome pretty strong friends in Washington,
and it might havd been that
I could have been instrumental, in
having it retained. Understand, I
don't say that I could. But I refused
to lift a finger for it . What are the
hundreds of thousands of dollars that
it brings to the city monthly to compare
with the robbery of the virtue
of one woman, to's&y nothing of the
Increase in other crime and general
lawlessness? I have no hesitancy in
saying that I shall be 'pleased when
the last vestige of Camp Jackson is
removed."
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LLD. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA,
URIM RETRIBUTION.
"You can say what you please about
a man escaping punishment ih the
other world for his misdeeds," remarked
one of Dillon county's wellknown
business men. "but one thing
is certain?he doeB not escape it in
this world. Nearly every misfortune
has its origin in some little sin, some
little misdeed, some violation of nature's
or man's laws. Not in every
case is th?? Derson UDon whom the
misfortune visited directly responsible.
Sometimes it is the sin of an
ancestor or perhaps the evil influence
of an associate that ultimately
brought about the misfortune for
which an innocent person suffers.
But after all it narrows itself down
to the unalterable law of cause and
effect. I had a most striking and
painful illustration of this fact when
I was a younger man. I had a fine
pair of mules which I prized very
highly. An old negro man in my community
wanted those mules, but I'
did not want to sell them. He asked'
me to make him a price and I made I
it so high I did not think hc. would
accept it. But he did and I had to gol
back on my word or let him have thej
mules. He paid me half cash and 1:
took a bill of sale for the unpaid bal-:
ance. Every time I saw those mules 1
wanted them back. Cotton did not sell
high during the spring and summer
months, and when the fall crop began
to come on the market the price,
went all to pieces. Not many farmera
were able to pay the expenses of
making a crop. The old negroe's
paper was due the first of October
and he could not pay it. I waited a
few weeks and then took the mules
back. The old negro hated to give,
mem up, dui no could not meet his!
obligation and there was nothing
else for him to do. In some way he
managed to buy an ox and cart and
every time I saw him driving that
old ox around my conscience hurt
me. Down in my subconscious mind
something kept telling me that I
had not done right, but I did not
have the courage or the manhood or
whatever you would call it to go to
that old darkey and tell him that I
would extend his paper and let him
have those mules back. Several times
I resolved to do this but I kept putting
it off. One day 'I sent those
mules down to the water gin with a
load of seed cotton. While they were
standing on the bridge over the pier-,
head waiting for the cotton to be
unloaded the old darkey turned the
corner right in front of them with
his ox and cart. The mules took fright,!
reared in the air, plunged into the
mill pond and were drowned. In this
tragedy there was a sermon on re-;
i .'button so deeply impressive that I i
shall never forget it."
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?tring Beans?tutu Chitterlings.
The conversation had tu*.. -d to!
fall gardens and it was agreed wi*h-J
out a dissenting vote that enough vegetables
went to waste in Dillon county j
eacli year to feed the people through
the winter. A wholesome vegetable
that grows in abundance is the old
field pea and it is easily preserved in
the form of snaps and she"ed peas.
They retain their flavor and taste
just as well in the winter as in the
summer. Thousands of bushels of,
these peas go to waste in the copnty
every year, and if the people would'
take the trouble to put them up in I
air-tight jars they would go a long
ways toward cutting down the vegetable
bill in the winter.
"Have you ever tried the drying
process with the string bean?" inquired
Mr. G. D. Barlow. "That is a.
simple and inexpensive way of keep-j
ing string beans through the winter.
You string the beans on a thread and j
hang them up in the garret or some
outhouse. The shell dries with the
bean and when you cook them in the
winter they have 'the flavor of the
fresh string bea'n and eat Just is
well."
"I have never tried the dried
string bean," remarked Dr. W. H.
Smith, "but but it reminds me of an
incident of my young days that I
shall never forget. I started out with
a party of my young men friends one
night to attend a wedding in my community.
We crossed the Catawba river
in a canoe and when we got on the
other side it began to rain and we had |
a cloudburst. The roads were so
badly washed that we decided to
spend the night in a farmhouse. The
party was so large that we had to
stay in an outhouse. There was a distillery
close by, but the roads were
not too badly washed for some of the
members of the party to find it. After
the distillery party returned and
the crowd was in a happy and congenial
mood some one happened to
look up and there strung out on
sticks was row after row of chitterlings.
In a few minutes we had a fire
going, and we cut those chitterlings
into small links and roasted them on
he coals. I don't believe I ever ate
anything that tasted quite so well.
When our appetites were satisfied
there were not many'chitterlings left.
At daylight the old * woman of the
house came out to see how we were
getting on. 'She gave us. a pleasai#
good morning, but when she saw
what had been going on during the
night her eyes drifted toward the
empty chitterling sticks. Throwing up
her hands in horror she exclaimed,
'The Lord have mercy; if they ain't
eat up every chitterling I had saved
to make soap grease out of!' That
shows you, concluded the doctor, what
a few drinks of mean liquor will
make a man do."
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THURSDAY MOHMXCJ, Al'Ul'ST 18,
WHAT THE BOLE WEEVIL
"One of the prettiest sights I ever
saw," remarked Mr. L. C. Braddv,
"was down here near Monck's Corner
in Berkley county. It was a cat-'
tie farm with 250 head of the pret-|
tiest herefords and short horns you
ever put your eyes on. The farm is!
owned by Nathaniel Heyward, formerly
one of the largest cotton plan-j
ters in Berkley county. Today Mr.'
Heyward does not raise a stalk of
cotton on his place. The boll weevil |
found a foot-hold in Berkley several i
years ago. It cleaned up the cotton
fields, and as Mr. Heyward said, almost
put him in the poorhouse. He
had been making front 500 to 700'
bales of cotton a year; the last year!
he gathered only 78 bales. Mr. Hey-j
ward fenced in hi8 place, planted it in J
grass and bought some breeding cat-j
tie. Last year he sold $7000 worth off,
the farm and has 250 head left. Mr. i
Hey ward is one of the happiest men )
I ever saw. He said he did not know
how easy it was to make a living on
the farm until the boll weevil came'
along and forced him to give up cot-'
ton. He is done with cottoa forever."
Mr. Braddy bought 15 head of I
herefords and short horns from Mr.
Hey ward and is getting his place in .
shape for the boll weevil. He is fencing
in his lands and making preparations
to plant grass. He left Tuesday
night for Georgia where he will spend
several days on a stock farm selecting
more cattle. It is Mr. Braddy's
opinion that everybody should get l
together and havc a big cattle sale
here during fair week. This may he
the last time the people will have any
money to buy cattle and he thinks
they should be encouraged to buy as
many as they can well handle during
the fall. There is no doubting the fact
that the boll weevil is here to camp
for a while, and the cotton crop in
Dillon county will be cut in half next)
year. It is the wise man who prepares
foi his coming.
Honey Dew Crop a Failure.
"The honey dew crop in this sec-1
tion is a failure," said Postmaster
Carmichael, an expert on beeology, I
"and there will be very little hone\
made in the eastern part of the state
this year. I don't know how it is in
other sections, but if honey dew is as
scarce elsewhere as it is here honey
will be worth its weight in gold this
year." For many years Mr. Carmichatl
has worked with and made a]
study of the bee and what lie does!
not know about the bee family is not
worth knowing. "Honey dew forms]
in flower buds early in the spring,"!
continued Mr. Carmichael, "and a1
late spring makes a short crop. You !
will remember, we had a very late
spring this year and that is the best!
explanation I can give for the short'
crop of honey dew." When told tlmt I
Orangeburg folk attributed the short '
' oney crop to the scarcity of bees. I
man.,- of which they claimed, had 1
been killed by the calcium-arsenate-'
molasses treatment the farmers used
on their cotton to kill the boll weevil.
Mr. Carmichael smiled broadly.
"The bee does not get much honey
out of the cotton blossom," said Mr.
f"V* r m iohonl * 1T ho m Act 4 U/v A.
is gathered in April, May and Ju.'e!
and cotton does not bloom until about
the middle of June. The bee has stored
yp the most of his honey before!
the cotton blossom opens and even i
when it opens he does not pay much '
atttention to it. It has only a limited i
amount of honey dew and the bee has,
too much trouble getting it out. No, 1
the scarcity of honey in Orangeburg
is not due to boll weevil poisoning. It
is due to the scarcity of honey dew.
If there is any scarcity of bees it is,
because they have gone deeper intol
the swamps where the cold sprinK
weather did less damage and honey
dew flowers 'are more plentiful."
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I^et Fortune Get A/way.
All that glitters is not gold, but
lack of glitter is not a certain test
for worthlessness. it was found by I
gold diggers along a river in Papua,
British New Guinea, recently. While
searching for gold the men encountered
a bluish-gfa.v flakish substance
which they ckst aside as worthless.
Two months airo two noiinds of this
Bubstance wa8 bought in London by
an American firm for approximately
$6,000. or eight ttimes the value of
the same amount of gold- It was osmiridium,
a member of one of the
hardest metals known and used for
the tipping of fountain pens and for
delicate 'bearings of fine machinery, i
It is worth $200 an ounce. When j
the prospectors learned the value of |
the substance they hurried back to(
the river and learned that tropical i
rains had washed away most of the
precious stuff. By careful work they
raked' together what was left, had it
refined and sent to London.
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Maj. O. M. Page returned to Virginia
Monday night after spending sev-j
eial days at home. Maj. Page is in
charge of a big ro?d construction pro.J
ject in Henry and Patrick counties.'
He is building a stretch of hard sur-j
face road across the mountains and 1
will be engaged in this work till Oe-'
tober. When the present job is co-j
pleted he will be engaged in a $2,000,006
road construction project
near Roanoke, Va. The work is being
done with federal and state aid, the|
federal government putting dollar for
dollar with the state.
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1921.
CO I'XT V NEWS.
I^iike View.
Mrs. It. F. Elvington and littl?> (
Misses Davis and Hilda Elvington
spent last week 'at Myrtle Beach.
Miss Lizzie Powell is visiting Miss
Hattie Hood at Roanoke, Va.
Mrs. A. \V. Smith has returned
home after two weeks stay at
Wrightsville Beach.
Miss Florie Ford is visiting Mrs.j
\V. C. Wallace at Johnsonville.
Miss Winnie Davis Smith of Mt.J
Vernon, Ga., is visiting relatives near,
town.
Mrs. C. L. Norman and baby Hal
C. of Chicago, are here for an extend.!
e<| visit to relatives.
Miss Elizabeth Graham of Rennert,
N. C., spent part of last Week with |
Mrs. D. K. Ford.
Miss Florence Shaw of Sumter was
the guest of Miss Ethel Simpson lust
week.
Mrs. L. W. Temple,'Misses Alimae,,
Hattie, Sadie and Lyall Nichols Tem-|
pie. Mrs. Janc Temple Watson and i
little Miss Betty Joe Watson are at
Wrightsville Beach for the remainder,
of the summer.
Mrs. Missour. Ford of Bristol, Fla.,|
is visiting relatives here.
Miss Kate Stello of Charleston
spent the week end in town.
('nrolinn.
Mrs. T. J Bennett recently visited
her sister Mrs. Jim McQueen of Rowland.
Mrs. Lilly McDonald and children
of Clio are spending several days with
the former's brother. Mr. J. E. Norton.
Rev. and Mrs. Neill Mclnnis and
two small daughters, of Smithfield,
N. C., ate on a visit to the former's
mother, Mrs. C. M. Mclnnis.
Mr. N. D. Alfoi'd of St. George is
visiting relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Morrison of
McColl spent Sunday at the home of
Mr. Dunk McLaurin.
Rev. C. G. Brown left last Monday
for Montreat for a stay of several
days.
Mr. Dan Henderson bad an interesting
meeting of Christian Endeavor
Sunday night. Three short talks were
made on the topic, which was "Time
Temperance in Our Hearts and
Lives." Several good thoughts were
expressed on topics. Hearty singing
by the society and a solo by Bill Mclnnis
helped make this one of our
best meetings.
The death angel entered the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Laurin Mclnnis on
Qnn/lnv A..CV..O* 7tl? on J bor., ftw?
sweet spirit of their only son, James
Laurin. to its Heavenly home. He
had been sick for almost a week but
his condition did not become alarming
until Saturday night. All that
loving hands and a skilled physician
could do could not stay the fatal disease.
For three years and two
months he was lent to earthly parents
and devoted sisters as a bright ray
of sunshine, but God in his infinite
wisdom saw fit to call him to join the
throng DPiore his nirone, wnere
"Thousands of children stand." The
1 it11o body was laid to rest in Carolina
cemetery the following day beneath a
bank of beautiful flowers.
Fork.
l''ss Marie Vaughan has returned
to | - home at Lamar after visiting
M '.<r >/orci Carmichael.
U ?\ J. M. Kujrcs of Lynchburg, S.
C., spent several da>o .V?st week here
with his mother, Mrs. Marj risers.
Miss Sadie Moore has returned
home from Bennettsville wherc she
visited friends.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Moody of Kemper
spent Sunday with Dr. and Mrs.i
N. N. Schofield. I
Mr. Eugene Marley of Columbia
spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. L.
K. Bethea and was accompanied home
b> Mrs. Marley who has been spending
some time here.
Messrs. Eugene Carmichael and
Burt Roberts spent a few days last
week in Camden with friends.
Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Carmichael of
T? n ur 1 q rt H vicitoH r?.l n t 1 foe V?,.rr?
Sunday.
Miss Gertrude Breeden of Bennettsville
is the guest of Miss Sadie Moore.
The ladies of the Fork School Improvement
Association will have a
public meeting Friday evening, August
19th in the school auditorium. A
very interesting program has been ar-j
ranged and the public is cordially invited
to attend.
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Co. Officers Settle With Comptroller.
The foreman of the grand jury,
other county officials interested in
the settlement with Mr. H. F. Jack- ]
son. representing the comptroller,
general met in the office of the
County Auditor on Friday for thej
purpose of witnessing the annual settlement
between the' Auditor and;
Treasurer for 1920 taxes. The ac-|
counts were found in H satisfactory
condition and no changes or alterations
were necessary.
The taxes for the past year exceeded
those of any previous year
b> a considerable amount, the amount
of the actual taxes being $71,438.54!
for State purposes, $128,403.51 for!
all county purposes and $117,089.21
for school purposes, making ji total
of $316,931.26. The actual - amount
involved in the settlement was $76,299.61
for state purposes, $232,359.88
for school purposes and $280,735.08
for all county purposes making
a total of $589,394.57. Tho last
figureg include balance of previous'
year, money borrowed and all other1
miscellaneous collections.
rhe Date on the Label is the
Date Your Paper Will Be
Stopped.
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VOli. 27. NO. 4H.
(illtli ATTEMPTS sriCIDK.
"I Am Tired of l.ife at Seventeen,**
She Wrote.
Pre Dee Advocate.
Miss Nellie McLendon, a seventh
en year old white girl, who is in
jail for disorderly conduct in Bennett
sville, attempted suicide in jail
Tuesday night by tightly tying and
twisting a scarf around her neck.
In u note left for Deputy Sheriff
Hyatt she said: "I am not going to
ste another day dawn in this place
it self murder will prevent- ... I
air. tired of life at seventeen."
The girl was arrested in Bennetisville
on July 22 for reckless
driving and being drunk and disorderly
in company with Jim Davis.
Mayor Crosland hud previously had
several complaints about her conduct
in and near th(. city. He sentenced
her to $100 or 30 days in jail.
She failed to pay the fine, ami after
ehc had been in jail a week, Mayor
Crosland had her released on condition
that she would leave Bennettsvillc
and remain out of the city. On
August 4. less than a week after she
v as released. Chief Cunningham arrested
her at night, near the depot,
!.nd put her back in jail, where she
l.as since remained. She occupies a
cell in the female ward on the first
j floor.
jmi mown, nit' cm negro who is
'serving a lift- term for murder, and
[is the sexton at the court house,
occupies another cell on the first
floor, which remains unlocked. Before
day yesterday morning Jim in
'passing through the hallway, going
to the closet, saw a note hanging by
a string outside of Mis.- McLendon's
cell. Jim then knocked on Mr.
Hytt's door and told him about seeing
the note. Mr. Hytt Told hint he
( would get it when he got up. After
day Mr. Hytt got up and got the
note. it read ?t follows:
"Mr. Hytt. I um not going to see
another day dawn in this place if
{self murder will prevent. 1 ant going
to kill myself tonight. When
jvou tind nie in the morning 1 hope
; I will be dead- My peoplt, don't
care for me. I am desperate from
remaining in jail so long. Ant tired,
of life at seventeen. Good bye. As
ever. Nellie McLendon."
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Mr. Hytt then went Into the cell
land found the girl in a semt-eonIscious
condition, with a scarf tightly
tied ?nd twisted around her neck. Mr.
Hytt quickly removed the scarf and
'summoned Dr. J. F. Kinney, the
county physician. Dt. Kinney said
that life was almost extinct, and that
in a few minutes more she would
I have been hevorut h,.ln oHi>iin
i&teri'd stimulants and restroatives,
istered stimulants and restoratives,
i Miss McLendon is a member of a
'good family, a daughter of B. Frank
'McLendon, of Richmond county N
' C. She is said to be an incorrigible
'daughter, her parents not being able
I to keep her at home or do anything
with her. Site is good looking and
i intelligent. The note, which she
tie(] out side her cell is written in
a good hand.
\ About two yea's t >-o the same
,giil attempted suicide in the Dillon
coil, 'v jail. She followed a carnival
lo Dillon and was arrested for allePeu
immoral conduct. While confined
in the Dillon jail she attempted to
hang herself with a scarf. Deputy
Britt discovered he in time to save
'her life. She was only a hild and
proiiii>?'d to beg' life < er again.
Mr. Britt f?nt her i posit io She held
the position s^vt al <lavg ;i d pave it
up. In th< n ft ie Air. i ritt bad
ccmmunica'^. ,h : ??r p. -euts and
they came "i, ''Jillon at..; ook her
home.)
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A Siuike Story From ( *eds.
Cliester Reporter.
Here's a good snake st ry sent
The Reporter by one of 011 readers
at Leeds.
Mr. Editor:?Phase. a> ow me
space in your paper to tell y< ur readerr,
how 1 ':iUtd a family o snakes
the other day. I was down in the
bottoms working on my pasture, and
a snake went across me under the
wire. She stopped just on the other
side of the wire under somc bushes.
I could not get to hit her for the
bushes. Well, I just took a post and
jabbed it in her. Well, that held her
fust. Then 1 commenced beating her.
Then I got my axe and chopped her
head, and I took her on my post as it
was sticking in her. I dashed her up
the hill, and I looked back at her.
When she hit the ground there were
15 more snakes running around
there.
Well, I went to killing and countin
until I counted fifteen. I just
stopped counting until I killed them
all. Then raked them off one by
one and counted them nnd there
were 35 little snakes about the size
of a large pencil and about aK long
as a case knife.
I think she was the mother and
the grandmother and perhaps the
greut-grandmother of the snake
family. She was about as large as
a wire post. She was the biggest
snake I ever saw in my life.
First Bale at Augusta.
Augusta, Gu., Aug. 11.?The first
bale of new cotton marketed here
this season was sold At public auction
today from the cotton exchange,
and brought 22 cents a pound. It was
graded strict middling. Th^ grower is
C. A. L. Anderson of Chauneejr, Ga.
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