The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-11-03
HORTON FREED BY JURY NEW HEAD FOR MILLS DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS
THE public GETTING ANXIOUS FOR
COURT HOUSE AND JAIL.
NAMING THE TOWNSHIPS.
Strong and Timely Letter from IA
Close Observer Urging the
Court House Commission
ers to Erect Public
Buildings.

Court House Commission
ers to Erect Public
Buildings.
Editor Dillon Herald:
In the opinion of every citizen of
the county OF Dillon who has the
welfare of the county at. heart your
editorial of last week in reference
to the work of the Court House
Commission was exceedingly timely
and voiced the sentiment OF the
taxpayers. Ii has been nearly nine
months since the Legislature OF
South Carolina put into concrete
form the heroic efforts of our peo-
pie for fourteen long and dreary
years to establish a new county
little over two months after that,
the people elected their officers to
take charge Of our little ship of
state in its first voyage in untricd
waters they also generously pro-
yided the funds necessary for
court house and Jail in the baby
county, and yet up to this time not
one tangible thing has been done
by our Court House Commission
looking to iEc building Of the
Court house and jail. Meeting af-
Ter meeting has been EC!d at an
expense 10 the people cr more than
forty dollars TOR each. and We are
no nearer to-aDN tuau We were
nH." months GE", in bringing 10 =
! realization any of thC work the
Commission started out 90 accom-
pljsh. Why this ursoemingly un-
called-for dCl2y and apparent indif-
ference IL regard 70 the purposes
for which they We're appointed? is
the question that il ir the minds
and on tn" lips Of every citizen -:
Dillon county. Tho people are com
planning Justly in regard 10 this
everlasting policy OF do u0thing.
Temporary quarters have been pro-
Hidoc FOR the Court and for county
affairs II Il great expense. The
rent for the building is heavy and
piling Up month after month. re-
pairs on private property have 10
be constantly made TO keep things
little decent and in order and yet
the Commission with All available
fund in hand OF S25,OOO.OO, the
magnificent donation of j. w. Dill
on & Son and an authorized bond
issue Of $i0,00O.O0 more, not even
p site for the public puilding has
OCen selected ont of the namber OF
fine sits available.
~ nv SNi'NI Sllt oiNS at O4lNt
and at least build Jail to keep
our prisoners in and stop this
great leak of having them cared for
in another county? Gentlemen of
the Commission get move on you
and do some ching D"$d meeting
once month, staring each ether
In the face, preparing your salary
vouchers and adjCUrnirg foI a like
repitltion OF the same performance
Il month later
So. Mr.. Editor, keep UP the cry
of move on," and perhaps some Gf
10 who nave children can tell Ih,m
that our once bright iopes OF see
ing with our own eyes il splendid
court house building and Jail will
hardly be realized in our life time,
yet they or their grand children
may see them some sweet day, bye
and bye"
Another matter by way cf sug-
gestion. The dividing line between
Marion and Dillon counties runs
across several OF the old estab-
lished townships of Mar.1n county
leaving a part Of these townships
in Marion and part in Dillon
county were given no names but
were simply numbered |, 2, and
4 by the act creating the county.
Now, II is known that only 4 very
small part of the ReaveS township,
TO Wit: the Fork containing about
ten miles and a small strip of
ReaNes south OF Buck swamp do
not embrace enough territory for
one township. Neither does that
pert of Moody township in which
Latta is located Now, it seems to
the writer Ihat the Commission
Should locate new townships along
the dividing line and select names
for same before the next Legisla-
ture meets. Two new townships
ought to be formed out of what
Dillon county gets from Reaves and
the lower end OF Manning and
Moody. township for I.atta
should be 70 med 10y moving up the
lire north q g Latta into Bethea
township, say as far az Catfish
church "nd pur the part of Kerby
lying next &" Catfish creek near
Latta ia the alta JOwush.D.
Th.s i al Important ..ultCr and
ough 90, l., delayed b.vonC tho
sitting OF -. next LCGi.ia,ure.
Civis.
COrburu'S NiinStrels at the school