PERSONAL MENTION
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Smith Hamilton left Sunday night
onr a business trip to Fayei,teville.
Mrs. Haywood Smith hag gone to
her home in Lake City for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Wheeler are at
Cleveland Springs, N. C., this week.
^ J. W. Robertson spent the week
end at Biitmore, N. c.
Mrs. Marie Brunson is the guest of
Mrs. Phil Osteen this week
Miss Julia Bethea has returned
from a visit to friends in Andrews.
v Miss Florrie'jane Bethea is visiting
friends in Durham. N. C.
Mr. T- A. Dillon is in New York for
a stay of several days.
Dr. J. H. Ellen left Tuesday night
on a trip to Washington and other
northern points.
Miss Mildred Carmichael spent the
week end with Miss Hattie Blanche
Salmon at Marion, S. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hatch returned
home Thursday after a visit to
relatives at Morehead City. N.^3.
Miss May Blizzard of Greenville, S.
<3., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Bllzzard^his week.
Messrs. Victor Baii% and Forney
McKenzie of Mulllns spent Tuesday
In town.
D. W. McKinlev returned hnma Sat
urday from a week's visit to friends
"year Rowland, N. C.
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' Mrs. Phil Osteen and Miss Nina Alford
retnrned from New York Sunday.
Messrs. I. Blum, Julius Blumberg
*nd Walter'Barefoot spent the week
end at Myrtle Beach.
Sam Elfenbein and Mrs. Morris
Fass left Saturday night for Baltimore
and New York. '
Mrs. B. A. Harrelson 'of Raeford,
N. C., is visiting friends in town this
week.
Morris Lewis. Melvin Nachman and
Bam Kirschbaum motored over to
Marion Sunday.
Mr. R. C. Harrelson of Richmond,
Va., was the guest of Mrs. C. O. Graham
Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. Georgia Bethea, Miss Mary
Bprunt Bethea and Andrew David are
visiting relatives in Columbia.
MIbb Blanch Smith of Lake City
spent the week end in town with
friends. ?
Mr. J. A. Weathers of Shelby, N.
<3., is visiting his daughter, Mrs. B.
G. Doggett.
Miss Minnie Hyatt has returned
from a visit to friends and relatives
at Orange, Va.
Misses Reba and BTa'f"Weathers of
Bhelby, N. C., are visiting their sls^terr,
Mrs. B. Or Doggett.
W. H. Wood, S. A. L. agent at this
point spent the week end at Wriehts
ille Beach.
Miss Effie RamBey returned horn*
Friday after spending some time with
f'lenda at Taunton, Mass..
Miss Angle Oliver of Timraonsville,
"S. C.,is spending sometime with her
daughter, Mrs. J. W. Edgerton.
W. R. Tabor has returned to his
home in Greenville, after a visit to
his brotherr. Dr. C. R. Tabor.
J. B. Gibson has returned from a
trip to Philadelphia. While away Mr.
Gibson saw some of the grand circuit
races. %
Miss Mildred "sellers left Wedn#
day morning for Manning where she,
will rlsit friends a few days before
going to Rock Hill where she?will
teach this yea%
Mrs. ^Susie LeGette of Fairmont,
N. C., returned home Sunday after
spending some time here with Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Whitfield.
W. H. Muller will leave the latter
part of the week for Cincinnati, Ohio,
where he will attend the annual
meeting of the American Bar Association.
W. A. Blizzard returned Tuesday
from a visit to Slier City, N. C. .He
says that section is in a prosperous
condition and no cotton planted there
either.
The first new bale of the season
was brought in Tuesday afternoon by
Li. R. Stephens and purchased
by J. W. Dillon ft Son. The
cotton graded good middling and
brought 16.75.
-* Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Elliott, Misses
Edith and Lydia Elliott and John F.,
J. D. and Dick Elliott have returned
from a motor trip through. Western
North Carolina. While away they visited
relatives at Mr. Elliott's old
home. /
The East and West circles of the
Women'# Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian church held their August
meeting tn the new church which
baa recently been completed. There
was a large attendance te enjoy the
Interesting program.
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A THE DILLON HER
FIRST OF SERIES
GOES TO DILLON.
Dillon won 4he first a three game
series from Andrews here Monday afternoon,
13 to 3. The features of the
game were the pitching of Fagg, who
funned 10 men and allowing only 4
scattering hits and the hitting of Alford
who secured two triples and two
doubles out of five trips to the plate.
Hathcock played a good game in left
field, making two sensational catches
for the visitors.
Dillon
Ab. R. H. E.
Thompson 5 2 2 0
McCutcheon 5 2 2 0
Alford 2 5 2 4 0
Carmichael, C. 5 0 2 0
Edwards 5 0 10
Calhoun 4 0 0 0
Evans, D. 5 2 0 0
C&rmlchael, F. 5 2 3 1
Fagg? 5 3 4 0
44 13 18 I
Andrews
Ab. R. H. E.
Dn .. ' ~ ~
imi iucauM? 1 X Z U
Jenkins 4 0 0 0
Bell 4 0 0 0
Dukes 4 12 0
Wooten 4 0 0 0
Hatcock 4 10 0
Hines 4 0 0 0
Lloyd 3 0 0 0
Hughes 3 0 0 0
34 3 4 0
R H E
Dillon 002 600 50*?13 18 1
Andrews 000 001 002? 3 4 0
Batteries: Dillon, Fagg and Thompson;
Andrews, Hughes and Lloyd,
Wooten and Duke.
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NINE HELD FOK LARCENY.
| As the result of investigations covering
a period of several weeks Chief
Britt has nine negro men and women
lodged iQ the Dillon county jail
charged with larceny. The accused
not residents of Dillon but are new
comers who have moved to Dillon in
the last few months.
Chief Britt believes that he has
uncovered a- series of wholesale thefts
which ?*xiena over several glares wun
Dillon as the headquarters or distributing
point. Bolts of fine dress
goods were found in the homes of the
women and there is evidence to connect
the men and'women. It is believed
that the men did the stealing and
the women acted as go-betweens in
disposing of the stolen goods.
About two weeks ago the store of
the Jones Dry Goods Co. wa3 entered
and merchandise of unknown value
stolen. There is no evidence, however,
to connect the men and women in
the county jail with this robbery.
M. Welsh, chief detective of the
Seaboard Air Line, was in Dillon last
week, but.Mr. Welsh failed to identify
any of the stolen property as that
of property taken in several recent
theft? from Seaboard Air Line warehouses,
although one of the men held
at the jail insists that the property
was stolen from the Seaboard at San
ford. The records at Sanford do not
show that any thefts have been made
from the railroad warehouse at that
place recently.
Although conclusive evidence Is
lacking. Chief Britt feels that he hag
discovered clues that they may lead
to a well-organized plan of systematic
robberies which have been going on
all over the country with Dillon as
the distributing point.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Couch spent the
week end 'at Timmonsville.
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LATTA NEWS.
Rev. S. J. Bethea, a former pastor
of Lake City, by special invitation,
left here Friday morning for that
place, to spend the week end, and
while there to attend a big community
picnic on Saturday and preach to his
former flock twice on Sunday. It will
bo remembered that Mr. Bethea served
the Methodist church at that
place seven years during his thirtyeight
yt-arr of preaching the gospel.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Smith, Miss
Louise and M. D. Biggs left here one
day during the past week for Hendersonville
by motor, where they expect
to spend ten days. This makes
three trips that Mr. Biggs has made
to the mountains this summer at the
steering wheel. It is understood that
he will bring back Mr. W. W. Braddy's
family from Hendersonville, after
which he will go back to that
place and bring Mr. L. H. Smith and
ramuy back to Latta.
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Ijatta Schobl Open September 5th
The Latta Public Schools will open
Monday morning, Sept. 5th at 9
unlock. Everything i8 being placed in
readiness for the opening. Parents are
urged to obtain entrance cards for
their children on Saturday, September
3rd, so as not to delay the enrollment
of their children on Monday.
These cards may be obtained from
the Bank of Latta or from W. L.
Caddy's store.
A number of improvements are being
made in the old building. Slate
blackboards are being placed in the
three rooms down stairs, the walls
and overhead are being painted and
calcimtnzed, and a number of new
desks are being added. Thig will complete
the slate blackboards for all of
the rooms of both buidings. Before
I he year is over the Parent-Teachers
Association hopes to renovate both
buildings, both interior and exterior
and to add more shrubbery and flow-i
ers to the campus. This will give us
some very much needed improvements.
The Superintendent has succeeded
in getting a faculty of experienced and
capable teachers to carry on the session's
work, and trusts that the parents
of the school will give him the
same hearty cooperation and support
that they have given him during the
two years of his superintendency Just
passed. Below is given a list of teach|ers
and the assignments to grades:
,1st. Orade, Miss Elizabeth Monroe;
'2nd, 3rd and 4th Orades, Mrs. Kate
ALD. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA.
HIGE FRAUD SCHEME
IS UNEARTHED.
Hanks, Bond Houses, Brokers and
Wealthy Vietinis of Clever Baud.
Chicago, Aug. 23?Millions of dollars
of worthless notes, stolen bonds,
fraudulent deeds of trust and forged
certificates of deposit have been flung
on the markets of the country, federal
agents declared today after investigation
of a band alleged to have
been headed by Charles W. French
and John F. Worthingtoiu
Banks, bond houses, investment security
brokers and wealthy business
men from coast to coast, were declared
to have been the victims or
dupes of one qf the most gigantic
swindles ever unearthed by federal
agents.
Six million dollars worth of stolen
bonds, nearly $3,000,000 in worthless
notes and hundreds of thousands of
dollars' worth of trust deeds and
forged certificates of deposit ' have
been traced by Department of Justice
agents it was said.
The revelations resulted from a
confession accredited to Alva W.
Harshman who was declared to have
been a private secretary to French
and who surrendered today. He was
alleged to have told of a deal negotiated
by French for the purchase
nf n hnnlf in tho Vfiririln Wont thnt
involved the exchange of $800,000.
How They Worked It.
A Washington. D. C.. man, according
to Harshman, Vas to obtain certified
checks for $500,000 there.
These checks, he said, were to be
presented to the bank owners and
when the band gained control of the
establishment they were to cash ' all
certificates of deposit the bank owned.
The money, he said, would then
be forwarded to the Washington man
who would deposit it before the certified
checks on the original transaction
were cleared and returned. Many
other similar deals were also described.
In another case, it was asserted, a
large amount of stolen securities
were placed with a small country
bank in return for a certificate of
deposit. The deposit slip, it was said,
was cashed, and the bank left holding
the securities which would be
identified and reclaimed when it tried
to realize on them. '
It was also revealed that the band
was operating in Kansas City. According
to John V. Clinnin, acting
district attorney, all of the notes issued
by the band were disposed of
by the securities company of Kansas
City.
According to the alleged confession
made by Harshman, the band made
considerable money disposing of real
estate mortgagee. Another deal said
to have been made In Milwaukee by
the band is being investigated by
government agents. It waB declared
to have netted the swindlers $500,000
It was said that A. E. Strelziln. who
was arrested today in Milwaukee, will
be questioned regarding this transaction.
Worthington was arrested some
weeks ago and is being held in
$100,000 bonds in connection with
moil rr>KK?rinn tnfnlinn
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niately $6,000,000. French alleged to
bo his right hand man, was arrested
yesterday. Today C. K. Strobel was
taken into custody in Akron, Ohio,
and A. E. Strelzln was arrested in
Milwaukee.
letter fiVun Millionaire.
Begging the return of "at least a little
of the'nrtlllons?to be exact $2.500,00,"
alleged to have been obtained
frorm him by John W. Worthington,
Charles French and their associates,
a letter from Z. W. Davis,
former president of the Winton Automobile
Company, of Cleveland forms
the letter intercepted by government
officials. It was addressed to French
at a Chicago loop hotel, where a
suite maintained by French was
raided yesterday. Federal officers say
they recovered securities valued at
$1,000,000 in, the raid.
Davis' letter, of si* pages, dated
August 5, was a plea'for others who
are entirely dependent on him for a
livelihood. ' Left without aid from
those who obtained his fortune, the
Cleveland former {nllllonaire declared
h(. would be "forced to the only alternative?suicide."
Davis also was a
former president of the Diamond
Portland Cement Company and the
Globe Stove Company. The letter addressed
to French said:
"Please do not take what I am writing
to you as a whine. I am not in the
habit of crying after I have lost. If
I were the only one to be considered,
I would not care.
"But there are others who are entirely
dependent on me for a livelihood.
It Is for that reason that I am
now forced to beg you to return at
least a little of the 'millons? to be
exact $2,500,000?which you and
your associates have taken away from
me in the last two years.
Rogers and Mrs. Kate Reynolds. Mrs.
Reynolds is from Sumter. 5th grade,
Miss Frances Thompson of Newberry;
6th Grade, Miss Effie Watson, of
Thompson, Ga,; 7th Grade. Miss Slngletary
of Lake City; High School
Latin and History, Miss Myrtle Eptlng
of Pomaria, S. C.; English and
French, Miss Teressa Dew. of Latta;
Smith - Hughes Agriculture and
Science, J. O. Bethea, Latta; Mathematics,
R. T. Fatrey. The music will
be under the direction of Miss Vivian
McMillan of Latta.
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An Appreciation.
We wish through your good paper
to express our profound gratitude to
the kind physicians, friends and
neighbors who ministered to us so
generousty, and in so many helpful
ways, during the last sad hours of our
darling mother, Mrs. Louisa Lenoir
Ballard. God grant that He who
loves us all and gave His life for all,
may minister unto each of you in
your hour of need, through kind
neighbors.
Yours in gratitude,
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Bass,
R. U. Ballard.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST, 23
NOTICE OF SALE
District Court of the United States
Eastern District of South Carolina
In Bankruptcy.
In the Matter of
L. F. Ellis, Bankrupt.
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of $13.99 on the Stent
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Augusta, Georgi:
REDUCT1
This is our 1
prices.
A r ULL L
FABRIC
Plain
30 x 3 $ 9.60
30x3 1-2 11.85
31 x 4 16.50
32x3 1-2 14.50
32x4 19.40
33 x 4 20.35
34 x 4 20.80
32 x 4 1-2 25.90
33 x 4 1-4 25.25
34 x 4 1-2 27.60
35 x 4 1-2 28.90
The above prices art
Southern Tires are sub
tire. Our stock is all new
are made of the very bes
We also carry in stocl
and FABRICS.
Our stock is complete
DILLON,S C. n?
Phone No. 51
J
, 1921.
Under and by virtue of an order of
Hen. Kobert J. Kirk, referee in bunk
ruptcy. the undersigned trustee of j
the bankrupt estate of I~ F. Ellis will
sell at the store house of the said
Ellis, at Mallory. South Carolina, on
Tuesday the 6th day of September.
Reduces
n^e 30*3'/.
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?thi low trie* to Plant No.
I?rd Non-Skid, price reductlc
rha?int power tli.45 to $13.01
[ business, and erer before be
if its $7,Off,Off If your dealt
ctaring exclu- Size in stock
ie this poaeible. aid Non-Skid
n of the Extra- price. You a
on transferred unusual tire
[>rd? That Don't Blow {
ires tone Cords. year ? 10,000,
rds don't blow miles, and t
in will tell you strong. See j
prout this past today. Name
CorS UrM are being i?U at lowest pri
rjl MX3H?S24.M 33*4?*44.3* 34x4
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atest and greatest r<
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i Non-Skid
i $11.25 32 x
12.80 32 i
17.75 33 x
16.25 34 x
21.50 32 x
22.50 33 x
23.25 34 x
29.00 35 x
30.00 36 x
31.00 33 x
32.25 35 x
37 x
GUARANTEE:
Cords - 8000 Miles
Fabrics - 6000 Miles
; for CASH ONLY,
ject to adjustment, the same a:
goods, just received from the
t obtainable materials,
k GOODRICH and UNITED S'
and we can fill your order p
ers Motors
1121 at eleven o'clock a.- m. to the
highest bidders for cash all of the
giods. wares uiid,nierchaiyiise, and
also one Allen jirtltomobHe of the said
L. P. Ellis.
EUGENE VAREEN,
8 25 2t. Trustee.
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TIRES
Tires
COTTON
New York, N. Y.
i PRICES
eduction in Tire
RN TIRES.
Non-Skid Cords
3 1-2 $26.00
4 33.50
4 34.50
4 35.40
4 1-2 38.00
4 1-2 38.70
4 1-2 39.70
4 1-2 40.90
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4 I-L 41./U
5 47.10
5 ^ 49.50
5 52.25
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factory. Southern Tires
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DILLON, S.C.
Phone No. 51
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