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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
MASTERS SALE.
State of South Carolina,
County of Dillon.

County of Dillon.
Pursuant to an order OF Court in
the case of Annie N. Moss vs.. Al
n ed Owens, ct al, I will sell at pub
lie auction to the highest bidder on
Monday, the eth day OF March.
1911, during the legal hours OF sale
and at the usual place that such
sales are had the following describ-
ed tracts of land:
All those certain tracts of land
ir Reaves' township and aforesaid
State and county, containing ninety
four acres, more or less. known as
the Pharo Lewis place, and bound
ed on the north by the lands Of d.
ID. McDuffie, east by the lands of
d. D. McDuffie, and Methodist par
sonage tract, south by S. Alfred
Owens and west by other lands OF
s. Alfred Owens and ID. S. Edwards,
being the land decided S. Alfred
Owens by w. r. Owens.
Also, all that certain tract of
land bounded DSrIn b other lands
Of S. Alfred Owens, east by lands of
S A. Owens, south by lands of S.
A. Owens and McDuffie lands and
west by lands of S. A Owens and
Angehne Owens Lane, containing
sixty four (64 acres, more or less.
Also, all that certain tract of
land containing twenty-five (25)
acres, more or less and bounded on
the north by lands of S. A. Owens,
east by lands of d. d. McDuffie and
l.. M. Edwards and Oh the west by
lands of w. X. Fort.
Also, all that certain tract OF
Land containing fifty (5O) acres,
more or less, bounded north by
lands of Z. r. Edwards. east by
lands lands of w. X. Fort south by
lands of L. M. Edwards and west
by lands of ID. s. Edwards.
Also, all that certain tract f
containing eighty-five (s5) acres,
more or less, bounded on the north
by lands of ID. S. Edwards. east by
lands OF S. A. Owens, south by
lands OF 8. A. Owens and W. o.
Lane and west by lands of Z. r.
Edwards estate.
Terms Of sale will be cash and
and said lands will be sold as
Whole or in tracts. Purchaser will
pay for papers.
A. b. Jordan,
2-2-3t Master.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
introduced

passed Il must be introduced in
the senate at once. Our senator is
not willing to introduce the bill
Without some expression of public
opinion. Now, let every voter who
favors this method of road building
write our senator and representa-
tive Joint letter asking for bond
issue. Write at once. Do not de-
lay but write n postal or letter
asking for the bonds. Then be
sure TO attend the county meeting
on February 9Th
I believe in the commission plan
of government for towns as well
Us counties. I suggest that the
county be properly laid out into
townships and school districts. For
our friends on the Marion border
here S nothing of more vital inter-
est to them. Let a public spirited
citizen be appointed from each town-
ship on recommendation OF our.
senator and representative These
township commissioners should
serve without pay just as our school
trustees do. AS a good roads COM
mission they should be allowed to
sell the bonds and to build roads
as they think best. 1t might be
this commission would see fit to
have our supervisor spend the
money or they might think best to
ioy rr,I,~
might sell all the bonds the first
year. or they might deem best to
sell $4,000 OF bonds one year and
the balance the following year
They should be allowed large dis
cretion in building the court house.
AT least rs per cent. of the mon
ey derived from bonds should be
spent in the township where col
lected. The township commissioner
should, with the road builder, de-
lermine just how the money in his
township should be spent.
The commission should have the
principal public roads of The coun-
" surveyed and accurately plated
ON county map. They should take
roads first and build them.
having in mind a definite plan for
all the roads.
The first attempts at road build
ing on permanent scale are, as a
rule, expensive. Inexperience and
opinions lead to foolish
We have the busi-
ness to make Dillon county farming
and II we give our atten-
ton to the matter we can economi-
cally build roads.
We wish roads now while we are
living that We can get over with
Let US all come together
and see that our road builders get
100 cents out of every dollar spent, !
and If they don't let every voter in
the county make il so hot for our
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
The Dillon Herald, $3.50 Year.

Look at the date on your label
and If it does not correspond with
the date on your receipt call our
attention to the discrepancy. We
have a complete checking system on
the subscription list now and IL
there is any error about your paper
Herald's subscription list will be
checked up weekly and there will be
no excuse for complaints in the fu-
ture.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
REFUSE TO PAY POLICY.
Woodnen OF World Decline TO Set
tie Policy ON Lie of Murdered
Man.

Laurens, Jan. 19--A.ccording to
advices received by the officers OF
the local camp, Woodmen OF the
World, from the sovereign camp Of
ficers at Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Della
Brown Hamilton, the sels made Wild
cw OF the late K. A. Hamilton, the
young planter who met a tragic
death at the hands of his young
wife during the Christmas holi-
days, will not be paid the amount CT
the life insurance policy carried by
her husband in the order OF the
Woodmen. The policy was for So
600 and Mrs. Hamilton was named
az the beneficiary. Proofs of death
and other data were forwarded to
the head office. and in return the
local camp was advised that the pol
icy had been rendered null and void
ty reason of the act of the nenefi-
ciary herself and the amount named
therein could not be paid
AS will be recalled, Mr.. Hamilton
vas killed late at night, December
So. last, while asleep in his room at
his home three miles east of the
city. His head was battered and
mutilated with the pole of an axe
in the hands of Mrs. Hamilton, ac-
cording to the verdict of the coron-
er's jury after an investigation in
10 the homicide on the day follow
ing the tragedy. Indeed Mrs Ham
iiton was the first to give the
alarm after doing her deadly work,
going out and telling some of the
negroes that she had killed Mr..
Hamilton. Returning insanity was
assigned as the cause of her awful
deed and she was promptly return
ed to the Hospital for the Insane
at Columbia.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
DILLON, S. C., FEB. 2. 1911.
Our Rowland friends have S

Our Rowland friends have started
: fight for the division of Robeson,
18th Rowland as the county seat.
Robeson is one of the largest coun-
ties in the United States and
should be divided. We wish our
Rowland friends well in their eff
forts, but we do not hesitate to tell
them they will have earned their
saurels" when the fight is over,
and the county is won.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
'ens improvements for Din-
on County.

The Marchant Music Co., OF Or
angeburg, 8. c., have leased the
store next door to I. Blum Co., Dill
on, s. c.. and have installed a full
stock of high grade Pianos, which
will be sold as low as possible con-
sistent with quality and on terms
to suit when SO desired by respon-
sible people with whom 1t is not
convenient to pay spot cash.
We wish to embellish the above
simple statement with a few facts.
we have come to Dillon to stay.
This is no catch penny, fly-by-night
scheme of ours to rush into your
community, make a few sales and
fly out to parts unknown, leaving
you to hold the bag.
Still another thing. This is not a
policy of ours to open up branches
In different cities Of the State. We
have been located in the city OF Or
angeburg for the last thirty years,
where through all those years we
have built up on immense BUSINESS
by stricly honest dealing in all the
bitter competition to which the Pi-
ano business is subjected. We own
our own property in Orangeburg
and come to you as citizens Of this
State, thoroughly experienced in the
music business, with a thirty years
character to uphold and with rec
ord for selling larger per cent.
OF the Pianos sold in our territory
around home than any other large
I'iano house.
Read this we'll. We sell strictly
high grade pianos and organs. We
say high grade and we mean high
grade. Our increasing trade in this
section of the State has made it
necessary, absolutely necessary to
open up this branch which will be
managed by Mr.. II. J. Welsh for
the past twenty years the leading
piano tuner of Charleston, S. c.,
and a man whose whole life has
Leen Lc-oted to the business.
Our customers in South Carolina
include Coker College, Wofford Col
lege. orangeburg College. graded
schools and churches, sold over
many competitors in Sumter, Dar-
lington, Hartsville. Manning, TIM
monsville, Kershaw, orangeburg,
denmark, Branchville, Lamar and
many other cities. members of Con-
gress, Judges on the bench, officers
of the News and Courier and the
State papers, prominent ministers,
bankers and lawyers, etc.
People who know us best trust us
with their business Let's get ac-
quainted.
phe Marchant Music Co.
Orangeburg and Dillon.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
dar,es $. Morgan as a New 81. Mar
tin.

Anevidence that James b. Nor
gan, of New Yorw, in order to at
tain that perfection preached by
the Gospel, will sell all that he
has and give it to the poor" has
just been made manifest at Nice.
James Moragn is a nephew of the
World-famous ]. Pierpont Morgan.
Usually he lives in the Champs
d,Elysee in Paris with the Japanese
Princess whom he married. AT pres
ent ne is racing at Nice with Frank
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02

road builders that they will get
down and out and let voters take
hold who will have the peoples In
forests at heart. Write your SEN
ator and representative to-day.
Wade Stackhouse.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
Advertisements-S1. 100 per lnch

Advertisernents-S1.O0 per Inch
tor the first insertion, subsequent
tnsertions Sc cents per inch. Legal
Advertisements at the rates allowed
oy law. Local reading notices at
% cents per line for the first inser-
sicn. eud s cents per line for all
subsequent insertions. Liberal con-
tsaccs made for three. six and twel-
we months. Write for rates. Obitu
aries, tributes Of respect, resolutions
cards OF thanks and all notices OF
a personal or political character
are charged for as regular adver-
tising. Contracts for advertising not
subject to cancellation after first
insertion.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02

Communfcations-We are always
glad to publish news letters per-
tanning to matters of public inter-
est. We require the name and ad-
dress of the writer in every case. No
article which Is defamatory or Of
tensively personal can find place in
our columns at any price, and
we are not responsible for opinions
expressed in any communication.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
Mems Odd Trousers

In fancy worsted and casmeres,
worth the world over double the
price we ask for them. Cali and
see for yourself.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
Ladies and Children's Ready
tO-Wear

Our suits are constructed by high
grade tailors. so that 80 per cent
of the suits we sell require no al
terations.
$1,000 BrOadcloth Suits.
In this collection are suits made
of broadcloths andl cheviots. in
the new fashionable shades. Coats
are 80 and 32 inches long and lined
with guaranteed satin to match
Skirts all new styles. Values 5000
This sale only =. =. :. .$12.0S
$25.OO and $2S.OOO Suits.
These suits are built from copies
OF exclusive models-in broadsloth,
Lymansville chevrons, camels hair
Coats are 32 and "a inches long,
lined with SINNERS satin. Some
skirts are plain and some are fancy
plaited-all newest shades and all
sizes. Not one garment less than
$4,000, others worth up to $50.
Special, this sale E. SI8.48
$500 Suits.
Stylish suits of fashionable all
wool goods in various colors and
textures. Jackets about 32 inches
long, with skirts in new narrow
models. In make, workmanship, fit
and quality, these suits equal the
best $500 suits sold elsewhere.
oPecial tnis sale .SD.13
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02

Furnishing Department.

Furnishing Department
$pocraover is IT'LL being sold E. :. :. . 89c
N
underwear being sold elsewhere
tnd extra heavy in white blue and rsd the real coat
Don't forseA these s125 at =. =. =.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
EXTRA

Mems
Strouse
richly trimmed
o Now at ..-.. $50
Young mems suits in
two Of kind and bargains at SIS Sale
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
Morris Fass' After Stock Taking Sale.

finished
sale that the week before
goods quickly we av
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02
For Sale,

One Berkshire SOW rs month.
old. bred to my registered Berk
shire boar. Price $25. F.. NJ. Lane
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-02

2fc.
mems and boys mostly all medium
$50 suits, all punched close 2tc
MEMS OvERCOATS.
the
which this sale will close $7S9
last winters STOCK rich
prices SIS Sale price
MEMS
These suits head
chandlse and be
all WOOL Strouse
merchandise. o sale at .
YOUNG MEMS LONG
the
right lines
the shades of olive blue
S12 SaIep
renown frmo
andc
vicabe styles Former and
Sasep
$4,000 suits al overcoats price sfsas
$225O suits SaIe eprice
$500 price
$2750 suits SaIe eprice
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12
uatrons

buried In mahogany
cssket. copper a full length plate glass
SCIENTIST advises the house to kill the
stts fashion for ~omen
~sxrx .oons. make minute s minnie. make an hour
Chinese divide the IL
40 minutes each
4f7 reached Daytona Fla. BY Bob
Don't sometimes for
the onehorsc shay?
n. a enable
life
Don't wish the rest Of US might CO.
cARuso that girl who suing him for $4,000 damages Il
a a refrigerator
milk
products sss1.oOoOoo Let's miknani
mother cookies
ON which
making monkey Of Teddy.
telling what could
swallowed Coal Iron without choking
morning. 81 inches long and - wide all
Pacific club
PRESBYTERIAN
communion big Everybody have
to
MADERos
much
nauspcious beginning for Madero wasn't it,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12
The People They Hook

In the trial At Boston president q tho
light
writes Rev George Iadi Of
500 worth Of Redcemabe stocks;
College presidents professional generally invest their
injudiciously"
truth this Professional people
proportion
explanation that
money thoroughly
S they ihe people who
OF good and
In Texas and Southern California
OF he a productive territory.
extraordinarily developed mind
to comprehend hunting o
backing really
readily find all the private capital Other
chances
Of gamble. with the ODDS heavily against the crowd
D. couldn't talk
plain a aud
he world
can't" does there'
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12
He's Burglar-Catcher and He Plays the Clarinet
He, Made Cigars for Is Years but Doesn't Smoke

Here's burglar catcher who
plays the clarinet. Get the ct3bi.
nation1
He's Bert G. Thompson. assistant
a,lef deputy In the aheriffs office.
Hes Go chap who does all the
work when bob Hodge and Chief
Deputy Btringer temporarily absent
themselves. Hes the head of the
civil work In the office. and he's
some hand nj being civil, Yes so
polite he'd just aa soon put You IN
jail as not, n occasion so demands.
Some say that he knows more
abnit the law Of garnishmants. ex'
ecutlons, attachments and few
other kindred subjects than any 10.
gal light In town. However that
may be. it's a sure bet there's no
one In the Aheriffa office Who can
play the clarinet better. or smoke
less cigars. than Thompson.
This. TOO. despite the fact that for
more than 20 years before Thomp.
son went into the sheriff business
he used to manufacture cigars,
Students tell us that bartendera
very frequently are iufSt hbHihthEths
hut whoever heard OF cigar sales.
man or manufactures who didn't
smoker Well. Thompson smoked
for &c years Then he decided 10
quit. And he did. History does
not record whether he quit smoking
first or manufacturing smokes. But
they followed closely upon each
other.
Which display ~ will power may
account for the fortitnde with which
Thompson set out 10 build himself
a new home on the outskirts OF
Green Lake. II takes some deter.
minnfion 10 settle oneself 10 the
idea OF spending one.fourth as
much time going 10 and from work
as one spends IN his work
Stlil there IL some consolation In
living nj Greenwood. which same Is
the end of the Green Lake car line.
II gives the Thompaons an oppor-
tunity to say they are the Green
wood Orchestra" For. when
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12
A USEFUL SCAR.

"Of course the surgeon 5said
who had operated for appendicitis.
there will he scar"
That's all right" replied the pa.
tent Leave any kind Of a mark
you like that will prevent some
strange doctor from coming along
and operating again. Winchester
Herald
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

20 OF and announcement 10 'he
association of Cincinnati vsutabc ogah
that seems TO he in need cheering
freed
perjury judge and grand Jury
these ministers got togethef
soemny had perperated mis-
situation disgusting
10 he o and state
they found that
official board In addition. former
Disclosure of these humlatns
brought forth the following
be the of an oigarchy that controls our
enftas
pow freesp DOWN AND DIE"
Cincinnati that this Is not the
the thing to do not to
shall shepherds fall In
wolf the heatng Sheep Nay Is not
IA better TO wolf Of the flock Surely.
those lawyers IN the
Certain IS that lawyer
putting perfectly legal job for the dirty
brethren and die GET Up AND HIT riiNGs'
The oeh gutter but unto him who hath strength sveth
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

ThompseS iCone opthe busiest
f<9n In the shefiffsO office lie
knows the game from soup 10 quits.
o. une6to catch EN- on the ot~slde
when he first @@rted. Then Ae
learned to book en- inside the Sf.
flee. lie worried through Abe mill.
learning tie game frog all ita
angles.
Thompson Is popular sd why
not9 You may ask him for favor.
or any number ~ them. and never
feel as though sou ought TO treat
him with a cigar.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12
VIVA, They Commence.

DE Quiz Why do they call Il
commencement when folks get
through going 10 SCHOOL, II seems
to me that's a misnomer.
DEWITT oh. no. They just com
menre TO realize. after they set
through. what a soft Nnap they We
been having philadelphia In.
qulrer.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

Can you loan me four volumes
OF your Shakespeare aet7'
Certainly Which volumes do
you wiHh ?"
II makes no difference. We're
70 play bridge tonight. and our card
table isn't quite high enough ~--
Washington Herald.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

'Z70p
Ihat Waa thn Nav.

The stranger looked out OF the
ear window with interest.
How did this peaceful.looking
town get such a waflike name an
hattie Greek ?" he aRkeds
Prom ita breakfasts fouds. ! be.
licyc," the conductor YEARLY an.
Hwered Chicago Tribune.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12
HAVING NO TALKING MACHINE

"You never learned 20 siu& O.
play the violin-" e
"No.r replied Mr. Crowchef
What's the usa Of going 10 all
that troubler Whenever ! feel that
the neiKhborhood Is too quiet \ get
out the lawn mower. - San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

irate Visitor cali this a down.
rlght fraud You advertise on your
bills The most remarkable dwarf
Ia the world" and be turns ont to
be feet inches high.
Bland Snowman Exactly SO, air.
That's Just what's 30 remarkable
about him. He's the tailest dwarf
on record -Tlt.titta.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

s,yllshiy Dressed LADY tsnterinq
ticket office Of transeorsinenta
raiirosdl--i ssssh you would let me
have sore Of the literature OF re-
sorts along your lire.
Cisrk-~yca. ms'am. Flshlrq,
camping. bathing or oI.oreing f--ss.
Louis Post Dispatch.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

Thompson and daughter tune up.
there il the making Of an orches
ira. aud what prettier name than
Greenwood orchestral" The syl.
van woods and the music Ia the aii
are noted in one breath by such 9
name what7
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12
CORRECTED.

4 She You had no business 4
4 to kiss me last night. 4
4 He-tt wasn't business. II 4
= was pleasure Philadelphia 4
4 Times. 4
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

Jack~--iye inat had a hard time.
I've been popping the question.
Mack ~I'Ye had a harder I've
been questioning the pop.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

you know he was saying. Il
couldn't see \. woman stand up
while ! was sitting"
$50 you gave her your seRtg'
mo; | closed my eyes and pre-
tended to be asleep. Judge.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

Visitor waiting an Invitation To
luncheonl Two o'clock | fear I'm
keeping you from your dinner.
Hostess No. but | fear We are
keeping you from yours - Meggen.
dorfer Halter.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12
CONSISTENT.

Mrs. Bsye-sshe 10 simply mad
on tina subject of germs. and sseri.
iixss or filters everything In the
house.
"Ao~ does she Get along with
her famlly7"
sOh, even her relations are
strained" Stray Stories.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12
DIDN'T NEED 1T.

sYuar husband has no stamina.
has he, Mrs cBrieng"
mo. sir. but he's got a life In
HurAuee ."-~ baltimore American.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

Have you Anybody's Magazine
for MayT"
No" answered the ne~Bdealer.
that was out IN January We don't
keep back numbers. ~-~ Washington
Herald.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

DO you know the woman In the
fiat next TO yours we'll enough 10
speak tor"
SWELL cnouphf know her too
we'll to speak toi"--Iondon Opinion.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

Giadys-The manager al the Friv.
oiity selected fwcnty chorus girls
Ia twenty minutes.
Totty My word lent he quick
at figures g-~Variety Life.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

The little boy who was smoking a
cigarette was reundiy booted By the
ether little hoys.
Sissy olri.boyi" they riea out
upon him. eontemp,uousiys Puck.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12
NOWADAYS.

Knieker What IL chautanqna ?
BockerA lot Of people who pay
for what they could get out OF the
Congressional Record free. - New
York sun.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

by the district attorney for dnhins those 81 IN
hod that public sentiment - TO
Phurg Woodrow Wilson might
trucking he mob but don't sec
somebody them
cute do youF
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-12

Why Is this a popular sport u
hot weather
When you can play thlA7