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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1921
Page
8
Local notes recall visits by Ella Atkinson in Florence and C P Wells of Bennettsville. Brownsville and Florence residents drop by for business and leisure, with Myrtle Beach trips and weekend stays. Several names, farm updates, and church events mark a busy period in Latta and surrounding areas.
The friends and relatives mourn the death of Mrs. B. C. Boney who died on the 18th in Wallace, North Carolina after a long illness. She was fifty one, born Bethea, oldest child of George J. Bethea and Flora M. Bethea. She leaves two children, C. M. Miller and Norwood Boney, both of Wallace, plus brothers E. C. Bethea P. M. of Latta H. L. C. C. of Latta R. B. of Floydale and George J. of Tatum, South Carolina, and one sister Janie Gaddy of Latta.
The community mourns Louisa Lenoir Ballard killed August 11 while about her master's business. Born July 17, 1849 in Hagood Sumter County she married John R. Ballard and left eight children, two surviving. She was a long time church member buried at Providence Springs with Rev. W. Allen and Dr. Kirkland assisting. Survived by sister Mrs C W Sanders.
Vernon I. Lucas reports from Seattle on Mrs. Sarah Sewell Jones who made a jet black gem named rose ebony from rose petals. Only about fifty pieces exist, each molded over three weeks and carved to preserve rose beauty with unknown secret ingredients.
A former farmer critiques a city teamster’s method of hitching a wagon after delivering a flagpole in City Hall Park. The teamster hooks the lines to the tongue and neck yoke, contrasting with older front-first hitching. He cites “the city way” as the accepted norm and defends it as practiced locally.
Two stenographers walked with a parsimonious young lawyer who treated them to long strolls and dinners. After nearly two hours he implied a drink, then teased they would be taken to his mother’s home for water, quipping about “the best water in this state.”
New British Columbia game regulations announce increased protections for wildlife. Bear trapping is banned and only up to three bears may be shot in a season along with higher bounties on ferocious animals and destructive birds. Protective measures aim to conserve scarce bear populations.
The US ranges from Mount Whitney at 14,501 feet to Death Valley 276 feet below sea level, a 14,777 foot span. Asia shows Everest at 29,002 feet with Dead Sea shores 1,299 feet below sea level, a 30,202 foot total difference. Ocean depth reaches 32,088 feet north of Mindanao, over 11 miles deeper than Everest’s summit.
A young workman in Chateaudun France was buried 30 feet deep for 16 hours after a pump fitting caused the well walls to cave in. His rescuers included a tank corps detachment and military engineers. He survived but was severely bruised and taken to a hospital.
Twenty years after the London Missionary Society entered the Luapula valley near Kazembe, the LMS reports about forty out-schools and 5,000 adherents. A new brick church at Mbereshi was consecrated by Dan Crawford known as the Gatherer of the Peoples, with Europeans and officials present and King Kuzembe in attendance. Mrs Crawford presented an ivory key carved from an elephant tusk to Crawford for opening the Gothic door.
C P Tanner of Marion reports a vivid scene on a Gilbert island where natives craft wreaths and wear flower necklaces before a hypnotic dance on a moonlit beach. A Micronesian Aphrodite leads the core ballet while nude torsos glint in torchlight and chants pulse in rhythmic repetition.
Wight for her home in Chicago, Ming Lucy Crisp spent last week with Mrs. D. E. Ford. Miss Grace Goodyear returned home after days in Columbia with Mrs. T. E. Grimes. G. E. Stackhouse of Mullins was there Monday. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Grimes of Columbia arrived for a few days with Mr. and Mrs. W. Goodyear. Miss Clarice Baxley of Columbia visiting Mrs. W. B. Spivey. L. W. Temple spent the weekend at Wrightsville Beach. Jno. C. Bethea retired after a week's stay in the Tennessee mountains. Mrs. Bethea and son Hugh Calhoun will stay several weeks. Jno. Hargrove returned from Charleston to visit Mrs. Hargrove, recovering from appendicitis and due home in about three weeks. Mr. E. B. McEachern not doing well, cheerful Sunday morning but worsened since. likely hospital stay ten days to two weeks.
The News and Courier recalls last August when the Front Porch push promised prosperity under a Republican victory, contrasting it with current sentiments and the joke of such guarantees.
OR SALE Second Hand Gun displaced by cleaner and duller outfit but too good to discard Brush nearly new Extra saws Cut 16 bales in a day last fall Makes good turn out unusually clean seed It is well preserved 70 saw Van Winkel one of the best ever made Used for our own crops Call or address Prop Red Bluff Farms Box 109 Clio C-8 35 2t
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