' m Latta
S. V. Lane of Dillon was a visitor
In our town Saturday afternoon.
D. S. Stackhouse of Dillon Route 3
was here Tuesday on business.
W. E. Edwards of Mullins was here
on business Tuesday afternoon.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. It. J. Dew;
twinR- a hnv and a pirl
W. H. Hymen, a mechanic of Florence
spent the day here Wednesday
on business.
Joe M. Bass, magistrate of Sellers
was among those here on business
Wednesday.
Mrs. D. O. Mansbip and children of
Elberry spent a part of the day here
Wednesday.
Gary McKenzie and little son of
Florence spent Sunday with his cousin
Dr. T. J. Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Smith spent the
week end with Mrs. Smith's parents
a*. Murrells Inlet.
Miss Carrie Belle McLeod of Dillon
called at the home of her cousin
Mrs. T. J. Allen Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Cochran of Sumter county is
Tisiting her neice Mrs. T. B. Reynolds
of the school faculty.
W. M. Rogers a progressive planter
of the Temperance section paid
our town a business call Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Smith and
Grady Bethea were in Dillon Monday
morning.
J. S. Fair of Oak Grove was among
iuubc wuu were in iowii oil ouBiiiess
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Moore of
Dillon were among the Visitors in our
littlte city on Sunday afternoon.
W. W. Braddy who travels spent
the week een^ with his family who
lives here.
M. E. McNa.tr, Auditor A. C. L.
spent the day with his family here
Wednesday.
J. H. McArn of Rowland was here
in the Interest of the light plant of
that place Wednesday.
P. A. George and Eugene Berry of
the Elberry section were here on business
Thursday.
W. S. Floyd of the Floydale Mercantile
Co. was here on business
Thursday.
H. T. Hartley of Brownsville was
here in the' interest of the fleecy
staple Thursday.
Mesdames L?. E. Haselden and Harris
of Sellers were shopping in town
Thursday afternoon.
/ MIsb Eunice Allen of the Free State
section spent the afternoon here
Thursday.
Miss Lula Hoffmeyer of Florence is
Tisiting her cousin Mrs. H. A. Edwards.
Tnonh 1 o- J
u.vvuucig ICU OHIUI Qit; IU
epend the Jewish New Year with his
H^cther in Savannah.
W. H. Stalvey left Sunday to spend
g couple of days with relatives in
Mullins.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bethea and
children also Mrs. J. B. Luckey went
to Marlon on Sunday afternoon and I
called on relatives at that place.
A. L. and Vernon Parham two ex-1
tensive planters of the Mallory sec-'
tion were selling cotton here Tkurs-j
day.
Rev. Tom McCall of the First Bap-1
list church of Bennetttsville filled the1
pulpit at the Baptist church here on
Sunday evening to a large congregation.
Mr. and Mrs. George J. Bethea of
Tatum spent Sunday with Mr. Bethea's
mother, Mrs. Flora M. Bethea,1
who hurt herself by a fall from the
steps some days ago.
Mrs. P. W. Olive and two daughters
Misses Mary and Sarah of Wade,
N. C., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
"Williams at Mallory and Mr. and Mrs.
G. R. Williams of this place.
Mrs. Flora M. Bethea, an aged
lady of our town, fell down the steps
Thursday and broke her wrist and received
several bruises about the head.
Her family physician was Immediate11
roll /./I " ? ? --
.j ana aner an examination
pronounced her injuries not serious.
Lieut. Yancey LeGette who has
been stationed at Camp Knox is at
home visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. B. LeGett on a furlough
before leaving for the Philipine Islands
where he will army duty for
some time.
The regular meeting of the Civic
League was held with Mrs. D. G.
Burden at her home on Main street.
Miss Lillian Bethea was elected delegate
to represent the League at Lake
View at the County Federation of
Womens Clubs, which convenes in
that prosperous little city on October
15th.
P. W. Sessions, Sr., who has been
on an extended visit to his brother
here, L T. Sessions, has gone to Sumter
to spend a few days with his
daughter, Mrs. Dwyer, after which he
with Mr. and Mrs. Daliel Oliver of
Florence will go by motor to Safety
Harbor, Fla., where Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver will spend the winter. It being
where Mr. Sessions lives, and is about
800 miles. Mr. Sessions Is 76 years
old, yet hale and hearty, and does not
mind such a trip at all, but looks on
It with pleasant anticipations.
Mrs. W. D. Bethea entertained at
Bridge on Tuesday afternoon In honor
of her sisters Mrs. J. B. Luckey and
Mrs. S. H. Callahan. The lower floor
was artistically decorated for the occasion
with golden rod and candles.
On entering the guests were received
by Mrs. Bethea and served delialous
fruit pnnch. and at a late hour
a salad course was served. Numerous
robbers were enjoyed and Mrs. D. C.
d wards received the prise for highset
ssere, after, which the gueeta departed.
There were about twenty who
THE DELLOIV 1
News Depai
Conducted by W. Ellis Bethc
enjoyed Mrs. Bethea's hospitality.
Those from out of town were Mrs.
Frank Thompson and Mrs. James
Spruut, both of Dillon.
The regular meeting of the Pee
Dee Chapter U. D. C. was held with a
full attendance at the Library on
Thursday afternoon the 29th. The following
officers for the new year
were elected: President, Mrs. T. C.
McGee; Vice-President, Mrs. E. L.
Powell; Secretary, Mrs. N. E. George;
I Cor. Secretary, Mrs. E. A. Gaddy;
(Treasurer. Mrs. Isla Crumnler: His
torian, Mrs. W. Ellis Bethea; Registrar.
Mrs. Walter E. Bethea. Mrs. Jno.
J. Allen was elected delegate to the
annual meeting at St. Louis November
8th. Mrs. Frank Watkins, alternate.
Mrs. W. Ellis Bethea was elected
delegate to Lake View to the
County Federation of Clubs October
15th. A resolution was passed that
each member pay $1.00 to the scholarship
fund for a worthy girl from
this district. The Chapter will be entertained
in October at the home nf
T. M. Bethea, by Mrs. Bethea and
Mrs. C. W. Foxworth.
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Reflections of the Presbyterian Manse
When a fellow runs up against
profound ignorance, superstitition
and prejudice, nothing but the dynamite
of "regeneration" will "bust"
that rock.
Truth can take care of itself and
grow; but if you want errer to stay
alive you had better preach it all
the time. If the premise of your proposition
is correct then logic will not
force you to hang your head.
"Dog-gone" is no curse word, if
the dog is gone; but if you have the
dog in you, then silence is gold. And
you had better stop talking about
J dogs until your dog is gone.
Rllizarris aro hnm white hut ?>1n?
how soon their feathers begin to
turn. It is so with people! They start
out from infancy apparently innocent
but if they were not born buwards
what made them get black? If the
doctrine of total deDravity were not
true huts would be palaces and the
desert blossom like a rose.
Some people are quick on trigger
and are ready to line up for a controversy
on almost any subject. To such
we would say that we had better be
sure of our ground before we start
lest, like Seneca's wax bird, we come
tumbling to the ground.
A hypocrite Is a fellow that tells a
Presbyterian how he despises a Baptist
and then tells the Baptist how he
despises the Presbyterian; then gives
both Baptist and Presbyterian a ton-j
gue lashing in the presence of a
Methodist. This holds good of all denominations.
This thing of religious
hate is of the devil and the only place
for it is in hell! Oh, ye hypocrite!
Let's learn to be fair and open and
above board!
I tell you why the Lord, I think
allows hypocrites in his blood bought
churches. It is to keep fools On the
outside! For a man who cannot find
enough pious people iDside to associate
with is either a fool or a jackass,
because he knows that "one hundred
dollars per acre land" can be
bought for the taxes, where no church
is located.
A fellow boasted that he had not
given a cent to support Christianity
in twelve months; but he told a friend
in secret that the courts and lawyers
had cost him fifteen hundred dollars
that year. Which is cheapest ?
best?
Don't you fret about an innocent
man being hung; there are no innocent
people that I have met. If we
had all had real Justice, we had not
only been bung, but in hell; for we
have all sinned with an high hand
ever since we got into this world; and
J wc have not gone out of that business
yet. It only goes to prove that there
1 is a place to rectify the wrongs of
| this life.
f Have you quit trying? If you have
you are a failure right now! But if
you continue to try, it makes no mat!ter
how bad things are, you .vre a
| success. For no man is a failure until
he quits.
Don't blame the newspaper for
j things you read that are d'stasteful.
; The business of a paper is to Rive
inews and inform the people. If he is
fair he will publish it, if it is readable,
reserving the rght to editorialize
it. E. C. B.
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I JFK SPENT UNDER "BIG TENT."
There is no circus of the present
regime that has catered to the amusement
going people of the United
I States much longer than that of the
Sparks Three Ring Circus which
comes to Dillon, on Monday, October
j 1 Oth. It will be the 34th annual tour
of thiR aggregation which has steadily
(grown from a small two car affair, to
the magnitude ef the three ring class
[and this year finds it more complete
fin extraordinary features than ever
I before.
) Probably one of the show's strongest
features in Miss Flora Bedlni re!puted
to be the most daring and accomplished
rider in this, or any other
country. There's a reason?Miss Bedlni
comes of a family of noted riders,
in fact her family were all riders of
repute even before the Bparks Clrl
cus was In existence. When but a lit,
tic girl she was brought to this country
by her father who at that time
I was one of the featured riders with
.Rlngling Brothers.
The Sparks Cirsus is coming to
^ Dill on on thslr own trains of donbls
9KRALD, DILLON, BODM CAROLD
j!
tment. .
a
| length cars and will pitch their tents
at the usual grounds. Two performances
will be given daily in the spacious
tent which has a seating capacity
of 10,000. The street parade which
is one mile in length will pass
through the principal Btreets of the
city at 10:30 A. M. and will be a
kaleidoscopic procession of glitter and
color, all cages being open to view.
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The cynical Bachelor observes that
most marriages are prompted by a
fear that some other fellow may get
the girl.
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THICK PLANTING OF COTTON.
Another Method of Outdoing Boll
Weevil Suggested.
The Birmingham News.
The United States government
maintains an experiment station of
the Department of ' Agriculture at
Stoneville, in Coahoama County, In
the Mississippi Delta, the chief work
of that station being to cope with the
boll weevil problem, and to develop
a long staple cotton best adapted to
that soil.
July 21 the station had * field day
rally at Stoneville?a couple of thousand
planters from various sections
of the Delta being present ? and a
evolutionary discovery was divulged
happen!
cities!
MilwnnlrAA
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Ml.WAUKEE, WIS.?An unusually
strong man who has not exhlblted
his strength in any professional
.ine of entertainment is Peter Lechner.
carpenter of this city. Mr. Lechner
is not of unusual build. He is
twenty-eight years old. Some of the
evidences of bis strength are shown by
the following feats:
Driving ? 60-penuy spike through a
one ami one-half inch plank with his
hare hand.
Pressing his hands together, hut
not linked, in front of his body, and
and having eight men on each arm
straining futllely to pry them apurt.
Lying on hard cement, with handkerchief
over face, and 'JOO-pound
man with shoes on standing on his
face.
I PA?NM.tnM. OPA 1 ?
vuiijuiK puunus one-nail ran# |
without setting it down.
I New Pai
Tha
Appearance
difference b
an old one.
traded in c
the owner w
tiling dittere
A new top,
Gibbes paini
looks like th(
We speciali:
and trimmir
are provided
shop equiprr
this high cla
you.
' "Every Jc
GIBBES MA<
CoLl
Dli
Packard - Pi
ia, nnruDAi, morning, ootoc
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to them. It was. simply, that by
planting cotton very thickly the boll
weevil is outdone and a hanu^ome
yield per acre obtained, despite heavy j
infestation. The dispatch about the,
meeting contained the following:
And then came the thick-spaced (
cotton and there was no doubt, Judging
from their actions, that this was
the star attraction, the loadstone
which made these planters brave the
long ride through the rain. This cotton
was chopped 'out so as to stand
two Btalks to the hill, 12 inches apart.
This would be equivalent to one
stalk every six inches, or 24,892
stalks to the acre. If it averaged five
bolls to the stalk, then assuming 60
bolls to the pound, the yield would be
2,224 pounds of seed cotton to the
acre. Several of the plats, on ordinary
sandy land, unfertilized land, averaged
that many bolls, and that, too, in
fields alive with boll weevils.
The economic importance of this
rliBrnvprv r?n n hurrilv ho ovopooMnioh
td. This amazing find ranks with
Whitney's invention of the cotton gin.
It will do more to lift, the Mississippi
farmer out of poverty and make him
a prosperous citizen than any scientific
discovery of the age. Beyond a
doubt it will make the Delta the
wealthiest farming country in America.
It has already restored the confidence
of the Delta planter, and has
pointed the sure road to beat the boll
weevil.
Simple? Yes, it is simple, but it
has taken over 100 years to discover
the secret, the amazingly simple fact
that the greatest factor in growing
cotton over which the farmer has
control, the greatest crop producer
yet discovered is thick spaced cotton.
There was hardly a row, scarcely a
talk of this cotton which was not
examined with the most minute care
? the visiting planters. Beside this
jotton was a crop spaced and treated
ike the ordinary Delta crop, and it
was a good crop, too. But when the
if
iin Become Famous
Bending a 60-pennj spike with bare
hands.
Lifting 482-pound barrel of wet clay.
Lying en the floor with 600 nounds
on chest, then lnvltlog: four men each
weighing more than 200 pounds to get
n his chest In addition to the 600
pounds weight; then, with the 1,400
pounds ?n his chest, carrying on a
conversation.
Driving a nail In a board with bare
hand, and breaking It off with his
teeth by bendlug nail to and fro.
Rending twelve GO-penny spikes in
1 minute B5 seconds, head to point
Teuring in two a pack of cards In
front of body, overhead, behind back,
between knees with hands behind him;
and tearing three packs at oDe time
In two in front of his body.
Holding a 100-pound weight in one
hand and writing his name on wall
with long pencil with the same hand.
Tearing hole out of the center of a
pack of cards in two minutes and
three seconds, whereas the record of
Snntlovv io o llttlo nrne
..t u xinv u?ci oc*ru in in uic>)?
Lechnex's rules for living nre simple.
He eliminates meat from his meals,
preferring fruit, nuts and vegetables.
He drinks two to three quarts of milk
a day, in addition to spring water. He
has never smoked or drank Intoxicating
beverages.
intAdds More
n It Costs
is the conspicuous
etween a new car and
Hf i *
lviost used cars are
m new ones because
ants to look at someint.
new seat covers, a
t job, and any old car
e latest factory made.
ze on fine painting
tg. Expert workmen
with all modern paint
tent. The low cost of
Lss work will surprise
>b is Guaranteed"
CBINERY COMPANY
JMBIA, S. C.
iTRlBUTORS
iige - and Durant Cars
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KER ?, lttl.
visitors began to count the blooms
on the rows of this crop and compsre
them with the thick ' cotton,
there was no comparison. In nearly
every Instance the thick cotton had
three times as many blooms as the
wide spaced cotton. That settled it.
The man who came to scoff caved In.
Here was indubitable proof that
throughout long weary years he had
been cutting down 'his crop by thinning
It out. In response to his question,
the directors told him that for
several years the thick cotton had
yielded more than double the widespread
crop, and that now there was
not the least doubt that through all
these years the farmer had been making
a terrible mistake in spacing his
cotton so widely. Thick cotton kept
the maturity.
"And I Bpeak with the utmost confidence,
gentlemen," said the director,
"when I say to you that if you
will plant Express cotton in rows
three and a half feet wide; and leave
it thick like this cotton you see here
you can beat the boll weevil." ,
The director then explained that
after experimentation covering several
years and embracing 650 varieties
of cotton, the "Express 350" is
the best long staple yet proven out
for the Delta or rich bottom land.
If what Director' Walker says is
true?and according to the dispatches
to the Memphis Commercial Appeal,
he proved his case by plots of
thick planted cotton and the thinly
planted, wide-spread in order to fight
boll weevil as is thought the proper
thing now, farmers have been pursuing
the wrong tactics in fighting tho
weevil. His idea is to plant a quick
growing, quick fruiting cotton and
plant it thick, so that there will not
t<j enough 'weevils to puncture all
the squares. And it rather looks as
though there might be something to
his argument, at least, It seems those
ploants up in in the Delta have taken
the argument and demonstration at
par value.s
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PROGRAM OF DILLON
COUNTY FEDERATION.
The Dillon County Federation of
Womens' Clubs will hold its fall meeting
at Lake View, Saturday, October
15th at the High School building. The
meeting will be called to order at
10=30 A. M.
10:20?Devotional Exercises, Rev.
W. H. Simpson.'
Music?Lake View Chorus Club.
Address of Welcome, Mrs. R. T.
Ren f row.
Reaponse.Mrs.'Pierce Rogers.
Business session.
11:30?Address?Work
.. ? ? w? %M? u wa vu
Federation, Mrs. S. O. Plowden.
Columbia, S. C., Li
"The Sparks Circus which s
the highest and heat on the road
who attended the performance
praise for the organization."?r
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1 PRESENTING ON Oh
| PROGRAM AND FC
fk IN ALL CIRC!
WkNOT MANY, E
WORLDS 6
1P%,. ARE
ST>*
CO MING 7
DILLOI
ONE DAY ONLY
2--Pcrformance?-2
Monday, Oct
400 Hundred People
STREET PARA
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12:00?Address.?Influence of Books*.
Dr. EL N. Snyder.^
1:0 0?Lunch.
Afternoon Semio* 3.00 P. BC.
Music?Federation Sons.
2:15?Recreation in the Home and
School, Miss Florence Lynes.
3:20?Value of Music in the Home,
School, and Community, Mrs. M.
C. Woods. /'
Business session.
Mrs. R. S. Rogers,
Cor .Sec.
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DE DRY DROUT.
Do sun hit Bhine, but nebber mine
Ah go right-on er workin'
Keeps up de fight bote day en night
Dare ain't no good in shirkin.
Ah hear dem say day after day f
De cloud got er silver lining.
En den ah pray fer clouds, but nay
Dc sun keeps* right on shinln.
De oats been dead fum roots ter head
Now d'e corn ent got no life
iGwine put ole Ned back In de shed
En pend mo on my wife. >.
Fer de white folks figger dey want er
nigger
Ter cook en scrub de flo.
En now dls nagger puts down dis fig<ger
Ah ain't gwine fahm no more. * >
En dem boll weevil done played de
devilEn
cotton git so low,
AhU be a man en tek er stan
Ah ain't gwihe fahm no mo.
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IF YOUR AMERICAN PRODUCTS
Export and Import Corporation
stock is for sale we can handle it
for you at 70 per cent of its face
value. We think this stock is val
liable ad an investment and advise
yen to keep it but if you must seir
we will be glad to hear from you.
Manning & Shine, Latta, S. C. f
10 6 2t.
Cypress Shingles.
1 have just received a large
shipment of No. 1 Cypress
shingles at prices which prevailed
before the war. I alsa
carry a stock of Cedar Shin?;les.
If yon will see me beore
buying I will save yon
money.
W. Ellis Bethea,
Imttm. 0. O.
ked Sparks Circus.
bowed here yesterday is one o?
, and everyone of the thousands
s had nothing hut words o?
The State. Columbia, S. C.
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