The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-02-01

DILLON TOWN.

opment Aunt Becky s De
fense of Senator Tillman-Col.
McLean's Address Appreciat-
ed.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
For the first time during the
new year l find myself giving
you some of the dots around the
progressive town of Dillon, where
20 years or little more ago the
rank thistle nodded in the breeze
and the wild fox held undisputed
sway over these environs. To
give the reader some little idea
of the progress, growth and de-
velopment made, we find at our
side land will quote therefrom,
if the reader please) a little pros
pectus handed US by one of the
members of the Chamber of Com
merce of what Dillon has accom-
plished up to date, and we think
the showing creditable; and espe-
cially so when we consider that
in that time we have had to face
two financial panics of such for
midable proportions:
Dillon, the pearl of the Pee
Dee, midway between Washing
ton and Tampa, So miles south of
Fayetteville, N. c., thirty one
miles north of Florence, S. G.. ,on
the main line of the A. c.. L.
Railroad.
I'VE are proud of Dillon as a
; town to live in, as a town to
| manufacture in, as a town to dc
business in, as town to invest
in. We invite you to come, now,
, and prosper with us.
; Dillon has a population of two
thousand, a suburban population
: of fifteen hundred, a live cham.
) Der of commerce-tWo building
5 and loan associations-two pros.
: porous banks capitalized at $780,.
, O00-the best high school system
: in the State, three churches
: Methodist, Baptist and Presby.
terian-g good water, health, goo(
= climate, plentiful labor, cheal
: building material, fine hunting
t in season, fine fishing the yeal
: round-two wholesale grocerie:
s Western Union Telegraph Co
= Bell telephone system, elec
trio light plant owned by city
e opera house, Ladies Civic League
a Cotton cotton seed oil mill,
/ brick mill, two large cotton mills
: marble works, bottling works
dairies, four sales stables, thre,
livery stables, concrete works
h a $50, 600 hotel, an ice factory
e a broom factory, a weekly news
: paper, IL miles of street 70 t
e 100 feet wide, some of the pret
:. test homes to be found in tn
f State, only SIS, 900 bonded indebt
n edness, only 6 mills municipa
e tax levy"
e This represents what ha
d come to Dillon during a
: existence of a little NOR
; than twenty years throng
n the efforts of live, energeti
" business men. And we will ad
n that Dillon needs a steam laur
5. dry, soap factory, a paper fax
y tory, a furniture factory, bugg
d and wagon factory, sash an
L blind factory, novelty works,
r. sanitarium, q bakery, and man
Iy other factories.
y We are backed by one Of tn
to finest farming sections, whel
can be found the highest impro'
e: ed lands in the State, not eve
Or excepting Marlboro county, fan
ID ed the world over for having ca
te ried off the prize for the grea
at est yield of corn to the acre, tt
h. fastest horse in the Pee Dee Sc
e. ton, etc. We guess you ha1
no heard of all these good things
1g Marlboro, though.
to We are under many and las
nd ing obligations to Aunt Becky
or for her fine defence of our semi
to Senator. 1t seems that our Chi
on Executive is only taking adva
ell tage of what seems to him an o
de portunity to come back at hil
vn Now the day was when we
not have much love for the ge
of tleman ourselves, but time h
on brought with it many changes
Id now we find ourselves almost I
consciously taking his part
in many of his positions on t
re- questions of the day.
,is- We read with much pleasl
he and profit the matchless addr'
at of your eloquent felloW-tow
oks man, Col. Mclean, delivered
ur- the birthday of our great chi
ore tain, Robert E. Lee. We are g
,m- you favored US with such a p
ind duction.
ay- With a renewal of good wis
,ar, for all during the year 1909.
sed Vidi.
Dillon, S. c., Jan. %, 1909.
INC Enraged, it is said, because
ING had been charged with havin
aid book behind him on recitati
ms Walter Wallace, a 17-year-old
ub- pilot a negro schoolnear Wilmi