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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-08-21
Notice to Dillon County Soldiers.
Dillon county soldiers who were

Dillon county soldiers who were abb
sent and could not enroll will be al
lowed to vote in the primary to be
held on the 26th by observing the
following rules: Place your ballot in
an envelope, and after sealing the
envelope write on the back of the en-
yelope your name, the branch of SER
vice you were in, whether civil, mil
itary or naval, with the name of your
company and place it in the ballot.
box. The votes will be canvassed along
with the other votes at the first meet
ing of the County Executive Com
mittee.
A. B. JORDAN,
County Chairman.
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05
cHAprER XIV.

George took off his dressing-gown
and put on a collar and tie, his fingers
shaking so that the tie was not his
usual success: then he picked up his
coat and wnistcoat, and left the room
while still In process of donning them,
fastening the buttons as he ran down
the front stairs to the door. 1t was
not until he reached the middle of the
street that he realized that he had for
gotten his hat; and he paused for an
irresolute moment then he decided
that he needed no hat for the sort OF
call he intended to make, and went
forward hurriedly. Mrs. Johnson
was at home, the Irish girl who came
to the door informed him, and he was
left to await the lady, In room like
an elegant well--the Johnsons' ire
ception ROOM"
Mrs. johnson came In, breathing no
ticeably; and her round head, smooth
ly but economically decorated with
the hair of an honest woman, seemed
to be lingering far in the background
Of the Alpine bosom which took pre-
cedence Of the rest of her everywhere /;
but when she was all in the room, 1t
was to be seen that her breathing was
the result Of hospitable haste to greet
the visitor, and her hand suggested
that she had paused for only the brief
est additions. George accepted this
cold. damp lump mechanically.
"Mr. Amberson-I mean Mr.. Nina
fer!" she exclaimed. 4.I'm really de-
lighted; / understood you asked for
me. Mr.. Johnson's out Of the city,
but Charles downtown and I'm look
Ing for him at any minute. now, and
he'll be SO pleased that you
II didn't want to see Charlie,
George said. II want"
do sit down." the hospitable lady
urged him. seating herself upon the
sofa. do sit down."
| mo. thank you. ! wish"
| surely you're not going to rur
away again. when you've inst come
Do sit down. Mr.. Minafer. hops
you're al well at your house and q
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05

while. he tried to enlighten his nephew.
Gossip is never fatal. George he
said, until il is denied. Gossip goes
on about every human being alivl aud
about all the dead that are live
enough to be remembered, AMI yet
almost never does any harrl until
some defender makes a contro' ersy."
"See here" George said, Il didn't
come to listen to any generalizir dose
Of philosophy ask you"
"You asked me what you've done,
and I'm telling YOU" Andersen gave
him melancholy smile, continuing !:
Suffer me to do 1t in my own way.
Fanny says there's been talk about
your mother, and that Mrs. johnson
does some of it. don't know, be ;ause
naturally nobody would come 10 inc
with such stuff or mention 1t before
me; but It's presumably true-I sup
pose 1t is. I've seen Fanny with Mrs.
lady Is notorious gossip, and that's
why she ordered you out of her house
when you pinned her down that she'd
been gossiping. suppose It's trno
that the whole town. lot Of others.
that is, do share In the gossip. In this
town. naturally. anything about any
Anderson has always been a stone
dropped into the center of a pond.
and lie would send the ripples as
far as truth would. You can be sure
that for many years there's been more
gossip In this place about the Amber
sons than about any other family.
dare say 1t isn't so much SO now as
1t used to be, because the town got
too big long ago, but it's the truth
that the more prominent you are tho
more gossip there is about you, and
the more people would like to pull you
down. Well, they can't do 1t as long
as you refuse to know what gossip
there Is about you. But the minute
you notice 1t it's got you'll I'm not
speaking Of certain kinds Of SANDER
that sometimes people have got to take
to the courts; I'm talking of the
wretched buzzing the Mrs. JohnBons
do-the thing you seem to have such
hViioA VI PSoPio tanning -tuc hinu
of thing that has assailed your mother.
People who have repeated a SANDER
either get ashamed or forget 1t, II
they're let alone. People will forget
almost any SANDER except one that's
been fought"
us that all7" George asked.
II suppose So" his uncle murmured
sadly.
swell. then, may ask what you'd
have done In my place"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05
ENTRANCE ROADS FOR FARMS
Engineers Of Bureau Of Public Roads
Give Advice on Application of
Bituminous Material.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Owners Of large farms and rural
estates seeking a more satisfactory
type of entrance road have applied
to the bureau of public roads of the
United States department of agricul-
ture for advice regarding the applica-
ton of bituminous material on main
entrance and much-traveled farm
lanes.
The bureaus engineers point out
that such applications may be made
successfully on any farm road which
has already been constructed of stone,
gravel, or other similar material, and
Is in thoroughly compacted and rea-
sonably smooth condition. A coal-tar
preparation applied cold, or an asphalt
tic oil, can be used and If applied by
the farm employees, the cost should
not exceed seven or eight cents a
square yard for materials. The COM
pacted gravel or stone road should be
thoroughly cleaned of dust and the
bitumen applied with ordinary sprink-
ling pots from which the perforated
nozzle has been removed and the spout
carefully fiattened into a symmetrical
rectangular opening about one-quarter
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05
4on, NOW YOU HAVE DONE It'll"


n a
5
accomplishments
quite keeping with the most pssss predictions BY the time George
Abersons about the most important family the world Al ball
interested in Eugene MORGAN Georges father dies
gentleman leisure dpproves
mother
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05

Prepare for Next Year.
Now is the time TO ret ready for|
next year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05

even for Mrs. J0hnsoni .fhar msl.
you doing over lhere"
"She told me to leave the house.
George said desperately. Il went
there because Aunt Fanny told me the
whole town was talking about my
mother and that man Morgan-that
they say my mother is going to marry
him and that proves she was too fond
of him before my father died--she
said this Mrs. Johnson was one that
talked about 1t, and l went to her to
ask who were the others"
Amberson's jaw fell in dlsmay.
Don't tell me you did that! !" he said,
in low voice; and then, seeing it was
true. "Oh, now you have done i'll
i've done itT' George cried. "What
do you mean: I've done 1t? And wha,
have l doneT
easy chair beside his dressing table
the white evening tie he had been
about to put on dangling from his
hand, which had fallen Imply on tn,
arm Of the chair. by Jovel' he NUT
tered. "That is too badl"
George folded his arms bitterly
"Will you kindly answer my question.
What have l done that wasn't honor
able and right? Do you think these
riffraff can go about bandying IN,
mothers name"
"They can now" said Anderson. -
don't know If they could before, bul
they certainly can now"
what do you mean by that?"
His uncle sighed profoundly, picket
up his tie, and, preoccupied with de
spondency, twisted the strip of white
lawn till 1t became unwearable. Mean
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05

analysis. "What do you mean." he
asked. when you say that If father
had lived. the talk wouldn't have
amounted to anythingf"
Things might have been-they
might have been different"
''You mean Morgan might have mar
ried your"
Fanny gulped. mo. Because I
don't know that I'd have accepted
hlm." She had ceased to weep. and
now she sat mp stifiy. II certainly
didn't care enough about him to mar
ry him; wouldn't have let myself
care that much until he showed that
he wished to marry me. I'm not that
sort of person. The poor lady paid
her vanity this piteous little tribute.
"what mean is, II Wilbur hadn't died
people wouldn't have had 1t proved
before their very eyes that what
they'd been talking about was true r
"You say-you say that people be.
| lieve-" George shuddered. then
forced himself to continue, in sick
voice: 'sThey believe my mother Isl
| Is In love with that manT
"Of course
| "And because he comes here and
They see her with him driving land al
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05

what Aunt Amelia said about people

what Aunt Amelia said about people
talking. You denied 1t. And that
wasn't the only time; you'd attacked
me before then, because / lntimated
that Morgan might be coming here too
often. You made me believe that
mother let him come entirely on your
account. and now you say"
Il think he did" Fanny interrupted
desolately. II think he did come as
much to see me as anythlng-for a
while 1t looked like 1t. He did act a
good deal that way-and If Wilbur
hadn't died"
You told me there wasn't any
talk"
II didn't think there was much,
then" Fanny protested. Il didn't
know how much there was"
"What !"
''People don't come and tell such
things to PERSONS family, you know.
You don't suppose anybody was going
to say to George ANDERSON that his
sister was getting herself talked about.
do you? Or that they were going to
say much to me?"
"You told me-" said George, fercely,
that mother never saw him except
when she was chaperoning you"
"They weren't much alone together,
them" Fanny returned. Hardly ever,
before Wilbur died. Everybody knew
that he'd been engaged to her"
whats that?' George cried.
Everybody knows it. Don't you re-
member your grandfather speaking of
it at the Sunday dinner one night?"
HE didn't say they were engaged
Or"
swell, they were Everybody knows
1t; and she broke it Off on account of
that seienade when Eugene didn't
know what he was doing He drank
when he was young man, and she
wouldn't stand for it, but everybody
in this town knows that Isabel has
never really cared for any other man
In her lifel Poor Wilbur! He was
the only soul alive that didn't know
It'll"
Nightmare had descended upon the
unfortunate George; he leaned back
against the footboard Of his bed, gaz-
ing wildly at his aunt. II believe I'm
going crazy" he said. you mean
when you told me there wasn't any
talk, you told me a falsehood?"
"Nor Fanny gasped.
'You didr'
II tell you I didn't know how much
talk there was. and it wouldn't have
amounted to much If Wilbur had
lived.' And Fanny completed this
with fatal admission: II didn't want
you to interfere"
George overlooked the admission ;
his mind was not now occupied with
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05

tndt-tney tnlnk tney were tight Wnen
they said she was in-in love with him
before-before my father died?"
She looked at him gravely with her
eyes now dry between their REDEEMED
lids. "Why George" she said, gently,
don't you know that's whrt they say?
You must know that everybody in
town thinks they're going to be mar
ried very soon"
George uttered an incoherent cry I;
and sections of him appeared TO
writhe. He was upon the verge of
actual nausea.
"You know it I" Fanny cried, getting
up. you don't think I'd have spoken
of 1t to you unless was sure you
knew it?' Her voice was wholly
genuine. as 1t had been throughout the
wretched interview. Somebody must
have told your"
"Who told your" he said.
"what?"
"Who told you there was talk?
Where is this talk? Where does 1t
)me from? Who does lt?''
body" she said. 81 know 1t must be
pretty general"
"Who said So"
"What7"
George stepped close to her. "You
say people don't speak to a person of
gossip about that persons family.
Well, how did you hear it, then? How
did you get hold of It'll Answer mel"
why" Fanny hesitated.
'You answer mel"
II hardly think 1t would be fair to
give Names"
Look here" said George. zone of
your most intimate friends is that
mother of Charlie Johnson's, for in
stance. Has she ever mentioned this
to you? You say everybody IS talking.
Is she one?"
"Oh. she may have intimated-"
"Trn asking you: Has she ever
spoken of it to you"
"She's a very kind, discreet woman,
George: but she may have intimat-
ed"
George hid a sudden intuition. as
there fiickered into his mind the pic
ture of street-crosslng and two abb
sorbed ladies' almost run down by
fast horse. "You and she have been
talking about 1t todayl" he cried "You
were talking about 1t with her not two
hours ago. Do you deny it?"
"I-"
do you deny it?
''No!
"All right" said George. ''That's
enough!"
She caught at his arm as he turned
away. 'Waat are you going to do,
George?"
"Tll not talk about 1t, now" he said,
heavily. Il think you've done good
deal for one day, Aunt Fannyr'
And Fanny, seeing the passion in
his face. began to be alarmed. George,
you know Pm sorry for you, whether
you care or not" she whimpered. II
never In the world would have
spoken of 1t If hadn't thought you
knew all about 1t. / wouldn't have"
But he had opened the door with his
free hand. Never mind r. he said,
and size was obliged to pass out into
the hall. the door closing quickly be-
hind her.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05
ROAD OUT OF SOLID GRANITE
VIII Lead From Estes Park to Glen
Lake, Connecting With Lincoln
Highway 40 uOlb OF

In the Rocky mountains, Colorado.
aided by the federal government, is
building eight miles of road out of
solid granite. The road which will
lead from Estes Park in the Rockies
to Glen Lake, connecting with the Lin
coin highway and forming "a part Of
the transcontinental 1, highway will
bring Switzerland to America. The
road will cost, when completed, more
than $4,000 a mile. ~ 9nni h2ifiw
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05
BIG ROAD PROGRAM PLANNED
Alabama to Issue SIS 100000 In Bonds
to Match Federal Appropriatlen
for Highways. no.

Plans to issue $25O0o. 900 in bonds
to match similar federal appropria-
ton for building roads In Alabama
were set on foot at meeting or the
Alabama Highway improvements asso-
citation. The project includes three
mill levy by counties for maintenance.
A constitutional amendment to au-
thorize this project WIN be asked Of
the next 1e6ysihturAi acl1 aidsoltjBo
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05

tTo BE coNTINuEDs
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05

of an inch wide, so that the material
may be poured in broad, fiat stream
If large amount of work is to bel
done, specially designed pouring
can may be purchased of dealers in
road equipment. Care should be
taken to have an even distribution,
and the quantity applied should be
approximately one-half gallon to a
square yard of road surface. After
applying the bituminous material,
clean gravel or stone chips should be
spread evenly over the surface, and
If possible, rolled with lawn or field
roller. Where gravel or chips are not
available clean, coarse sand will serve
as covering material. 1t should be
spread in sufficient quantity TO pre-
vent the bituminous material from ad.
herring to tires of passing vehicles.
Attention is called to the fact that
this. treatment should not be made
where drainage from the stables or
barns will flow over 1t. Where mud
holes are likely to form around hitch
ing posts or at stable entrances If a
more durable pavement is desired. a
section Of concrete slab should be
laid. yiJl1l
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-12-05

The most urgent peeessjty of our
country In the immediate future is
good roads, permanent roads that can
be used AZ snpnths ips each year.7r
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-20
OHIO BUILDING AND LOAN ASSo-
CATIONS.

THE Director of Negro Economics,
L. $. Department of Labor, has just
called attention to some constructive
work of his division in Ohio.
As IL result of inadequate housing
conditions in several of the most inn
portant industrial centers to which Ne
gro worlimen have gone in large num-
hers since 1916, Charles T.. Hall, SUI
pervisor of Negro Economics for Ohio,
began early in May, 1919, campaign
for building and loan associations to
be organized and financed by the pro-
gressive colored men and women in
each of these congested communities
to assist Negroes to buy or build
homes.
A circular letter calling attention to
Housing Facilities for Negro Labor"
together with Il statement giving gem
eral information on the subject of or
eanizing building and loan associations
was carefully prepared and mailed
from the Columbus office on May s,
and, through the courtesy of the De-
partment of Building and Loans, cop
les of the laws of Ohio relating to
mailed to the chairman of each County
Negro Workers Advisory Committee.
A model form of Constitution and By
Laws was also prepared by the Super
visor who gave copies to those most
interested. Through correspondence
and local conferences the movement
was started from Lake Erie to the
Ohio river.
Prior to this, there was only one as
sociation, the Star Building and Loan
Association of Toledo, which was under
the direction and control of colored
men. Since the Inauguration of the
campaign of Supervisor Hall, three
other associations have been organized
and chartered, one at Springfield, Mid
dletown and Cleveland, while others
are being promoted at Akron, Cincin
natl, Columbus, Greenfield and
Youngstown, by influential men who
have a vision of racial opportunities
through cooperative enterprises.
The four companies mentioned have
combined capitalization of $235,0O0
with stock sales already in excess of
$4,000. The Negroes of Ohio now
lead those of all other Northern states
in this enterprise.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-20
DENVER, LORADo, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1919

mocracy in France, and by the Great
Jehovah we will save it in America, or
know the reason why"
He followed from The Messenger
for July:
"No intelligent American Negro is
United States as it now exists. Intel
ligent Negroes have all reached the
point where their loyalty to the coun-
try is conditional" He declared: "War
hasn't changed the attitude of white
men toward the social and political
equality of the Negro. If he can not
live in the United States without po-
litical and social equality, then he can
depart for any country he wishes and
the departure will be facilitated by
the people of this country
Relative to the Negroes leadership,
Congressman Byrnes said: mo great
er service can be rendered the Negro
today than to have him know that
this government will not tolerate on
the part Oh ledueTS VI MS ieiNS "N'i'
which constitutes a violation of the
law, and under which the race has
made greater strides than it has under
any government on earth" This state
ment drew applause from members OF
the House.
Among other significant statements
made by the congressman were that
some leaders had changed their atti-
tude. becoming suddenly radical, nam
ing Dr. Dubois; that The Messenger
must be financed by some agency, IN
timating it to be the l. w. WIS; that
if no law exists, there should be
passed one prohibiting circulation
through the mails of incendiary doc
trnes.
Mr. Byrnes stated that he had hand
ed an editorial from The Crisis to the
attorney general with the request that
he have proceedings instituted against
Dubois.
The close of Congressman Byrnes
speech was marked by the following
statement:
"This is the white mans country
and will always remain white mans
country-so much for political and So
cial equality"
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-20
CONGRESSMAN ScoRES/
NEGRO RADICALS
Democratic Solon Raps Militant Publi-
cations Urges Prosecution of
Dubois.

Washington, ID. c., Sept. 6.-For
thirty minutes, Tuesday last, Con-
gresham james f. Byrnes, Democrat,
from South Carolina, scored the radi-
cal leaders of the race, attributed the
recent race riots to their incitement
and generally indicted them for stir
ring up race hatred, engendering an
aggressive spirit in their followers and
violating the espionage law.
AS proof of his assertions, Congress
man Byrnes read large number of
quotations from publications, including
The Crisis, Messenger, Washington
Eagle, and from the speech of VIII
liam Monroe TrOtter in Washington.
"These radical leaders," said Mr..
Byrnes, "are urging their followers to
resort to violence in order to obtain
privileges they believe themselves en-
titled to, and the recent riots indicate
that they are accepting this advice
After quoting from an editorial OF
The Crisis, which declared: I'VE re
turn" eve return from fighting.
I'VE return fighting" 1--WE saved de-
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-20
souTH,s PAPERS UP IN ARMS TO
STOP MOB RULE

Tulsa, Okla, Sept. 10.-Newspapers
in some of the Southern states are ad-
vocating IL law to stop lynchings, and
it doubtless would be very effective.
The law is one for the removal of all
sheriffs in counties where lynchings
take place. This might work a hard
ship on the sheriff, but it would make
all of them alert to prevent lynchings.
Under present conditions the sheriffs
nearly always make show of resist
ing a mob, but it is merely pretense
and nothing more The sheriffs usual
ly deliver the victim to the mob with
out much trouble, and not once in II
hundred times is any member of the
mob hurt by an officer while engaged
in taking victims from jail to be
Iynched The sheriff knows that the
men in the mob are the voters who
elected him to office. He may know
them personally and recognize them,
but he does not consider it his duty to
endanger himself or the lives of the
men in the mob in an effort to protect
the prisoner.
An automatic removal of law, how
ever, would put n different face upon
the matter If the sheriff would lose
his office through permitting prison
ers to be lynched, the chances are that
he would protect them and that there
would be no lynchings.
Congress cannot enact any such law,
but the states can, and the white race
will be the chief beneficiary under it,
The whites are disgraced more by
lynchings than are the blacks who are
their victims. Such a law would of
course call for the right kind of men
being elected to the office of sheriff.
The man elected to that office would
go in with his eyes open, and with full
knowledge of the law. Those who
elected him would also understand it
and the mobs would know what to eX-
pect when they went to the Jail and
demanded of the sheriff that he turn
over the keys. The sheriff who tame
ly submitted, as sheriffs do now, would
find himself out of office the next day.