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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-06
Here and There
in the Legislature

betoro the House Appropriations
Committee many come with pleas for
relief from conditions brought about
by tho war. Many arc tho methods en-
ployed to persuade the committeeman
that increased appropriations are alb
soiutely necessary. Some demand Some
bulidoze. Some plead Some resort to
puthoS. Some to humor. None but DIR.
j. 5. Dcjarnette. head of the Western
state Hospital at staun,on, however,
mas had the aid OF the muses.. Yester-
day the doctor asked that his inatitu-
ton be given $4,000 for 1918. and
100000 for 1919. 1t means an Increase
OF approximately 100000 for the two
years. but the doctor 10 SO thoroughly
convinced that it IL to the hospitals
mat money should be given now, that
lie believes the committee viii recon-
oend the appropriations.
Or. DeJarnette spoke Of the great
work being done by hospitals at the
front, where painted posts guide the
palsIed feet of tho walking wounded
own composition, entitled "The Path Of
the Painted Posts 1t follows:
At the end of tho path Of the painted posts
s not ana tho s"d ks sSS' Cross nurse
Where your wounds are cleaned and
f %an.d shs for Bear GEAR. on The kope
Fought Won kiuck near Paris.
And the Turks on GallpoiI.
issaissS Sew sy h 'H hsass lff:
And am used to army life.
hqS 'e ess TisnS Gss ,. ess S,
And the whining. bursting shell.
}, w "a. IN. h. baypge. ia PAINTED red
Ana trenehed for days With the dead.
1 have seen my pals unburIcd.
Have cursed tae Huns for their horrors,
Ana my hatred grew az ! cursed.
ins 'hs' rs as s'9 Csssn VIII 10 fan.
when our men ~eit over ,hs rlJse top
received my soldiers Gull.
Hd weak from ,he poIso oma shattered rsn
I to, ,he pd,h OF The palntsd posts.
Where the walking wounded pass.
d.5asrHd along With tho blirhted throng
s-t,aEGered and feT. then watched tho way
The walking wounded went.
saw the one-.ysd lead tho blind.
psssed With H{ u. A w ss tisi h a s0n'
sSE one s man with his eye. all gone.
eyes SSass aeis :n ana r hssd him
saw the men with their ribs STAYED In
Their bellies shot away
Splitting blood they dragged along
The walking wounded way.
saw boy with hiz Jaw bono gone
whose tongue hung out Of his head;
And Iayed and screamed as l lay and
Tho dead FAN on tho dead
Then started again on my weary way.
And passed the weaker men;
soine Ten 1eaG from their many wounds.
l reached tn. end of the painted posts.
"he dt.s. ~ wounds "e1e cleaned AID
Ard they gave me the dep. TO case my pain
And bed. thank God. to
Then l dreamed 4 dream was well again,
was killing the dogs with my bayonet
And passed the bloody baTrase.
dreamed stood up ten feet high,
Ny arIns ana hands were steel:
clutched and stranSied the German dogs
And stamped them under my heel.
siy soul was oiled with holy JOY.
Ard ] prayed TO God to Civ. me strength
TO slash and kill them all.
Then ! turned ard woke from my happy
Ny armz wero wri.h.d in pain:
The Red Cross nurse came up and smiled.
And said. You'll iyht again"
m IL the hospital and rest
ihe doctor and the Red Cross nurse,
"hefe your wounds are cleaned and
dressed.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-06

About the most ambitious request
for appropriations coming to the House
committee in charge of them during
this session is that made yesterday
by President Egglcston, of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute. President Eg-
s!eston wants s65T,5O0 for salary in
creases. new chairs and permanent i'm
provements. He also wants $I56 600 for
maintenance.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-06

The repeal OF the Virginia deepwater
oyster planting act would sound the
death kneil TO an industry which prom
Uses TO rival the foremost OF the coun-
try. according to T. w. Darling. of
Hampton. who was here last night 10
petition the Committee on the Chesa-
peake and It's Tributaries TO report un-
favorably Delegate l.. H. Stubbs's bill
seeking the repeal 1t was contcnded
before the committee that tho present
law under which wealthy packers are
permitted to lease large areas for
planting. worked 10 the detr!ment OF
crabbcrs and clam diggers. This was
not denied by those who oppose the
S;ubbs bill, but Mr.. Darling pointed
out that he alone had invested thous-
anGs of dollars in experimenting with
dc"pwatec Clustering, and that he and
other large packers were we'll on their
way 20 making the Chesapeake n rival
of Connecticut waters as an oyster
producer The repeal he said. would
noS injure him, because he has his
areas under lease for twenty years. 1t
would. however. he contended, prevent
further growth OF the industry.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-06

The Senate Committee on Insurance and
Ranking, after public hearing yester-
day. recommended the passage OF the
Gayle insurance bill, which provides
that all reciprocal insurance companies
may DO business in this State without
6!inS bond. provided, however, the
capital of the companies affected equal
Or exceed $4,000. This has no applica-
ton to old-line insurance companies,
hut Is intended to apply only to COM
panies which insure special kinds OF
property. and do not get out OF their
adopted field.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-06
$139.5O

Choice OF Ma
hogany or Wal
nut, Apiece suits,
In Colonial, VIII
liam and Mary.
Queen Anne or l.
poster; val ue 8
from $l85 to $3.50.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-06

j. Vaughan Gary's hill to clip the
wings of loan sharks by limiting inter-
est rate to g Ia per cent. was given a
favorable report yesterday by the
House Committee on Courts Of Justice.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-06

Lindsay Gordon's bill to forbid the
marriage Of divorced persons within
ten years of the granting OF the d.
vorce, has been referred to special
committee for thorough investigation.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-06

The age OF consent bill" discussed
at some length last week before the
l1ous- Committee on Courts Of Justice
by social workers headed by Mrs.
Georgia May Jobson, was indefinitely
passed by when the committee met yes
tcrday. The bill was designed to in
crease the age Of consent" to eigh-
teen years.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-06

The Gordon bill designed to permit
the election of Supreme Court OF APP
peals judges by popular vote. was yes.
terday given an unfavorable vote BY
the House Committee on Courts Of Jus
ticc. This is the second of Governor
Davis's measures to get unfavorable
action from House committees. On the
previous day. the bill to authorize sys.
teiratic accounting and auditing In
county troasurers' offices was indcf.
nitcly passed by by the Finance Com.
mittce.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25
Where Ignorance is Criminal.

Fifty years ago it was a common
belief that every child must have
measles and mumps, scarlet fever
and whooping cough before he grew
up" and the earlier in life each one
took his turn the better it would be
for him. Not infrequently mothers
took their little ones to visit a sick
neighbor in order to expose them to
the disorder because it happened the
epidemic was light in form and the
season favorable.
Now it is known that children grow
up stronger and in better health if
these diseanes are altogether avoided
and that If it should happen that any
are so unfortunate as to catch"
them, the older and stronger they are
at the time, the greater probability
of going through the disease un-
scathed. We now know that whoOping
cough alone kills ten thousand chill
dren in the United States every year
and that others who do not die from
1T have their bodies so weakened as
to be unable to resist other serious
maladies. Measles and scarlet fever
take equal or greater toll, beides
leaving their victims with manned
ears and eyes and throats.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25
Corn Culture for South Carolina.

Corn is the greatest of all grain
crops for feeding animals. 1t is one
OF the great world crops and is easily
the most important American crop.
1t prefers productive soils and on the
best types of land yields of one hun
dred bushels an acre or three tons
Of grain an acre may be made where
the climate is suited The average
yield OF grain an acre in the United
States is about three-fourths OF a ton
and for South Carolina about half
ton. On single acres, yields of over
twohundred bushels an acre have
been made. The states of Illinois and
Iowa average about one ton of grain
an acre or twenty four million
acpess.
South Carolina is a better cotton
state than it is corn state for the
simple reason that cotton is better
poor land plant than corn and some
farmers will give cotton better culti-
vation than they will corn.
Plenty of home grown corn makes
a good basis for prosperous farmer.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25
COUNTY NEWS
AND HAPPENINGS
NEWS LETTERS By REGULAR
CORRESPONDENT
News Items OF Interest to Herald
Readers, Ebb and Flow of the
Human Tide.
Floydale.


Mrs. Dan Coleman and Mrs. Gates
OF Florida are spending the summer
with their brother, Mr.. Murry Hayes.
Miss Sophie Afford returned from
Rock Hill Saturday night where she
had been to summer school.
Mrs. j. M. Hugh and little Miriam
Wbyte of Greensboro, N. c., have
returned home after a weeks visit to
Mrs. John H. Stackhouse.
Mrs. Marvin Mclean is spending
a few days with her mother, Mrs.
Afford
Miss Mabelle McLaurin is visiting
her grandmother, Mrs. McElyea at
Maxton.
Joe Stackhouse returned to Lake
View Monday where he is working in
the tobacco warehouse.
Miss Ada Guthrie of Burlington
n. c., is visiting her sister, Mrs
Merritt Allen, and her aunt, Mrs. ].
H. Stackhouse.
Mrs. P. H. Highfill returned to heI
home at Winston Salem Sunday. She
mad been on visit to her laughter
Mis-. E. Roland Roberts and sls' r
Mrs. j. HI. Stackhouse.
> Mr.. J. L. McLaurin has been uui,t
SICK. but is improving now, W. are
glad to say.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. u. Moore aad eli.
dren OF Grantham, n. c.. speot ;
few days at Ir. j. w. Connal;ys las
week
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25

was able to send to the front about
650,O00. OF these North Carolina
sent $4,000, or nearly one fifth OF
the whole number. OF these, $4,000
of our best and bravest, being one
third came not home again.
They sleep where the silver Shen-
andoah sweeps along; some rest
on the heights at Gettysburg; some
sleep by the sounding sea at
Charleston; others at Vicksburg.
"By the great inland river, whence
the fleets of iron have fled
And the green grave grass quivers
above the ranks of the dead"
On the plains of Chickamauga and
where the Georgian pines are bare;
around Chickahominy and where the
Potomac's "breezes answering low
soothe many soldiers endless
sleep"
Across the fields of yesterday
they come back to us, as we knew
and remember them, in all the splen-
dor of their young manhood. Age
has not withered them. Time and
trouble have not touched them. The
Roman poet said that it was sweet to
die for ones country. 1t was glorious
for Them to pass in the prime OF their
powers, with the sunlight of victory
on their faces and fronting the morn
ing. They died in the full assurance
and confident hope of our ultimate
success. They saw not the torn and
tattered battle flags furled forever at
Appomatox. The bugle did not ring
out for them, as for you. the final
call to stack arms. No drums beat
for them the retreat. Their ears
caught only the sound of the reveille
They live in immortal youth.
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Services at the Methodist Church.

Main street Methodist church. DIR
watson d. Duncan, pastor. Sunday
school at 10 a. M, Mr.. w. Harry
Muller. superintendent Preaching
at ii a. m. and S:45 p. M. by the pas
tor. Morning subject: THE Beast
Whose Number is 666". The sermon
will be an effort to answer the aues-
tion as to whether or not this num-
Der in the book of Revelation refers
to the German Kaiser. Evening
Subject: Restoration and Service"
Evangelistic service.
Epworth League at p. M, Mt.
l.. c. Brady, Jr., President. Prayer
service on Wednesday at S:45 D. IN
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25
Mallory

Ever and again the question
comes up, shall the farmer plant
wheat? 1t is urged by officials, by
farm papers, and by demonstration
agents. Occasionally a new flour mill
Is erected, yet for the one horse far
mer to plant wheat is an expensive
and almost foolish endeavor. There
are a few rattle trap threshing ma
chimes about in the county and the
experience most one horse farmers
have had is sore disappointment He
hauls his wheat or miles and
finds he will have to have 4 or s ex-
ira men to attend the thresher, sack
ing. feeding and pushing straw away.
The old dead full machine breaks
down, the manager talks rough to
his patrons as if they were respon-
sible for break downs, and the whole
experience convinces us that those
who operate flour mills should also
operate complete portable thresh-
ing outfit. Unless this is done there
will be less wheat planted next
year. What the small farmer needs
is encouragement. not extra trouble
Mrs. Addie Hodges Smalls. res
ident of Brownsville, but we'll known
to many Herald readers, died on
Sunday morning at Mullins. Funeral
was held on Monday morning at Be
thlehem cemetery, the burial services
being conducted by Rev. J. B. We'll
don.
Mr.. r. B. Braddock is very i'll and
as the patient is 90 years old there
is little hope for complete recovery.
Mrs. Will J. Galloway of Collins,
Ca, is visiting relatives here.
Mr.. A. G. Ellen and family of Do
than spent Sunday at Mallory.
Protracted meeting commence
next Sunday at Catfish. The pastor
will be assisted by Rev. w. w. Rey-
noldS, of Virginia
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25
The Dillon County Senatorship.

Dear Editor:-Have received the
last issue Of The Herald and have
enjoyed reading same very much. 1
will appreciate your inserting the
following in your valued paper:
1 note that among other things the
paper contains the announcement of
Mr.. L. M. Rogers, Of Fork, for the
ONCE Of senator from Dillon county.
1 was somewhat surprised to see this
as had read some time ago a state
ment by the prospective candidates
to the effect that they had all agreed
to withdraw from the race and place
the name of DR.. J. H. David before
the people. later noticed the an
nouhcement Of DIR. David thought
this action on the part of the condi-
dates was a very magnanimous one
and one which deserved commenda-
tion. understood that Mr.. Rogers
was among the candidates who had
signified his intention to withdraw,
realizing that in the present great
world crisis it was necessary for all
to forget personal ambition and
honor and by every act try to help
win the war.
DR.. David, in my opinion, and this
seems to have been the opinion of
the prospective candidates, is at the
present time qualified to fill this
place as few men are in Dillon coun-
ty. The sole idea has been that
the county and State would be bene-
fitted by his serving in this capacity,
thus making the people the bene-
ficiaries instead of DR.. David
1t is "too little" in men too fight
over an opportunity to serve "the
people" politically. There are num-
erous opportunities for everybody to
be servants of the people in the pres
ent great crisis in the worlds his
tory. The greatest opportunity to be
of service, in my opinion for those
physically fit, is to don the uniform
and line up with the forces who are
fighting for democracy and civiliza-
ton. The service thus rendered then
is not limited to the confines of one
small county, but stretches out to
every nation on the face of the globe,
both to our enemies and to our no
BILE Allies.
IAN ENLISTED MAN"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25

Look at the label on your paper
and see If your subscription is due
The Herald's subscription list will
be revised next week and if your sub
scription is due and you fail to re-
new you will not receive next weeks
issue. The recent postal law is so
rigid that hereafter the subscription
list will have to be revised every
week and every subscriber in arrears
will have to be dropped from the list
or first class postage will have to be
paid on the paper. This is important
and if your subscription is out re-
new before the next issue.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25

Major Harllee, better known to
tn people of Dillon as "Will" Harl-
lee, is a son OF the late John Harl-
lee and a nephew of the late Capt.
Harllee. Major Harllee was born
near Little Rock and his boyhood
days were spent near Little Rock.
His father moved to Texas when the
Major was about 13 years of age, but
Major Harllee returned to South Oar
olina and spent his young manhood
days with his uncle Capt Harllee
and attended the Little Rock Schools.
Major Harllee took a prominent part
in the PHILIPPINE wars and the Boxer
uprising in China. He commanded a
company of marines in the Philli-
pines and was one of Gen. Funston's
ablest officers in these stirring cam
paigns. He fought in the Cuban war
and after the close of the war took
q small detachment of marines and
went into the mountains where he
captured Orenjebo, the famous Cub
an bandit, who had terrorized the
Cubans for years. He was fearless
fighter and in the Boxer uprising
was the first man to scale the walls
at Peking. When the South Atlantic
squadron visited Charleston several
years ago Major Harllee, with a reg
ment of Marines, was the command
ing officer of the battleship South
lCarolina.)
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25
SHELLED GERMANS
WHILE UNDER FIRE
One L. 5. Lieutenant Had Eight
Horses Shot From Under Him.

London, July 22-How an Amer
lean battery on the bank of the
Marne shelled the Germans for 70
hours while under fire from enemy
guns is described by Reuters cor
respondent at French Headquarters.
young lieutenant, after telephone
wires had been severed, maintained
communication between the battery
and the infantry. He had eight horses
shot from under him in making 16
trips and on the last journey was
wounded in the knees. The cores
pondent says:
Il spent yesterday Saturday on
the bank of the Marine with the
American troops. There were the
Officers and men of battery of
American 75's which had been in
position on bare, exposed plateaux,
above the river about thousand
yards from the boche bridges during
the entire week. They were aroused
by terrific artillery preparation on
the part Of the enemy on the night of
July IA. The American battery was
In the open and the 80 enemy batter
les which had been identified in the
sector. five were concentrating their
fire on the American battery. The
men had to turn out and open on
the enemy without moments delay
They continued to fire as hard as
they could for 72 hours.
The Americans were under q
heavy shell fire themselves during
laxed their efforts for a moment The
whole plateau is plowed up by Ger
man shells. The Americans, who
have never been in a serious action
before. lost both men and horses,
but the battery was never silenced.
I'm the first hour of the lombard
ment every telephone wire in the
sector was cut by German shells and
the battery was left without means
of communication with the American
infantry in the river valley below,
whom it had to support
"A young lieutenant volunteered
to restore the liaison himself. TAX
ing horse he rode down to the river
through the German barrage and
back and during the night galloped
16 times between the battery and
the river. always under a terribly
heavy fire. He had eight horses hit
under him and on the last journey
he himself was hit in the knees.
"A battery commander told me he
had the greatest difficulty with his
slightly wounded men. None of them
wanted to leave the battlefield and
the men ordered to go away for
treatment would hide themselves in
order to avoid notice, hoping in this
way to remain with their comrades.
The gun, the crew of which had been
knocked out by single big shell,
was kept working by the telephone
men, who, realizing what had hap
pened, dashed out of their shelter
and began to man the gun themsel-
YES without orders"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25
HOME MEN WINNING LAURELS.
General Bullard q Robenson County
Man and Major Harllee q Ma
tive of Dillon.

The following from the Robson
ian of Lumberton will be of interest
to many people in Dillon county:
General r. L. Bullard. commander
Of the first division on the west front
in France, Is the son of a Robenson
county man, Mr.. Daniel Bullard, who
moved to Alabama from Robenson
many years ago. Gen. Bullard is a
!. first cousin of Messrs. Lon and Will
Bullard, who live near Elrod, and he
has other relatives in the county.
Rev. r. Walter Townsend of Rayn-
sham called the Robesonian's atten-
tion to these facts when he. was in
sELumberton Thursday evening. Mr..
Townsend says that he has known of
1aGen. Bullard for years and has fol
lowed his career with interest. Gen.
leBullard has been in the army contin-
uously since he was a cadet at West
5sPoint. He was with Gen. Pershing
in Mexico, colonel then, and has
sssince been promoted to the rank of
general and evidently stands high in
smiiitary circles. His father has been
back to Robson two or three times
ssince he moved to Alabama, in the
neighborhood of Opeleika. General
SBullard, Mr.. Townsend says, is about
55 years old. A picture Of him and
sehis staff with some facts about his
career was published in recent is
s,ue of the Raleigh News and Observ-
er, but no mention was made of the
sfact that he Is son of a former
Robson county man.
~ Mr.. A. w. Mclean came home yes
terday from Washington to attend
p some cotton mill directors meetings
and will leave this evening to return
= to Washington.
Just before leaving Washington
Mr.. Mclean had a talk with General
Ansell, who has Just returned from
y 2-months' visit to the west front In
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25
Married on Friday.

On Friday evening at o'clock,
July 10, 1918, at the Methodist
Parsonage, MIR. Jeter Franklin Mos
er and Miss Edna Beatrice Rowen,
both of Marion, were happily married
DR.. Watson B. Duncan performing
the ceremony. A few intimate friends
accompanied the happy couple and
witnessed the marriage After the
ceremony the company returned to
Marion where the newlyweds will
make their home
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25

France. General Ansell is enthusias-
tic about the splendid fighting quail
tiles of the American soldiers in
France. They have won the admira-
tion of the leaders of the Allies. The
North Carolina soldiers, he said, are
acquitting themselves splendidly.
Mr.. Mclean says that General R.
L. Bullard, son of a former Robson
county man-concerning whom an
article will be foud on page of this
paper-is making quite a reputation
in France. One Of the Washington
papers carried his picture the other
day and newspapers are "gerly
printing what information they
can get about him. In official circles
in Washington Mr.. Mclean says Gen.
Bullard is considered one of the
greatest generals. He has been put in
charge of the American troops at
the most important points. and is
considered General Pershing's right
hand man.
Another prominent man in military
circles who is a near-Robesonian Is
Major Harllee of the marine corps.
Major Harllee was raised by Capt.
A. T. Harllee, who lived near Row
land, just across the South Carolina
line. The family has long been prom
inent. The Harlleesville road lead
ing out of Lumberton was named for
the family. Major Harllee married
daughter of Judge q. T. Fillmore,
formerly of Robson, now and for
many years past of Austin, Texas
Major Harllee has won for himself
quite a reputation, Mr.. Mclean says.
He is related to some of the Town
sends and McCallums and other fam
lilies in Robson.