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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
4
A Columbia professor argues a five person family can eat on 11.99, while Dillon notes one more cent needed in his city. The Wall Street Journal cites the German mark value, a congressman seeks governorship with millions of franked speeches, and rural roads are valued for increasing adjoining farm land worth as highways boost investments.
The piece argues that towns strive to outgrow each other in importance from hamlet to city to global capitals. It credits progress to the spirit of local people, noting location is not the sole determinant of a community’s advancement.
Dillon housewives hear that cotton goods stay costly due to cotton selling prices. The article lists six year low and high selling prices from 1913 to 1918, notes the world crop peak in 1914 at 23,836,000 bales, and compares 1918 U S crop at 11,630,653 bales with 1864 prices of 68 cents to a high of $1.89.
Nation wide wartime coal conservation rules set store hours with openings at 9 am and closings at 4 pm. Merchants barred from oil lamps candles and kerosene. meat markets may stay open to 6 pm while drug stores keep usual hours. Moving picture houses must shut by 10 30 pm as government pushes to end the coach strike and ease shortages.
Crosland and Tyson sold the Arch P. Breeden tract of 719 acres north of the city in small parcels for 227 000 dollars. The average price reached nearly 400 dollars per acre. The first tract opened at 400 dollars per acre and sold to W M Smith for 547 50 per acre. The house tract of 696 acres near the house and creek was bought by W Edmund Breeden at 602 50 per acre.
London scenes marked by pitch darkness and heavy rain as the Prince of Wales arrives from Canada and the United States. King George, Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, and other royals greet him at Victoria station. A royal procession through Westminster Oaks proceeds to Buckingham Palace amid subdued city mood but strong public cheers.
Allen Brewer notes a hunter's overhyped prep and empty hunt as a tale ends in tragedy. The hunter chases deer only to shoot a blooded cow, revealing misread aims and futility of boastful bravado.
London dispatch reports Very Rev. William Ralph Luge of St Paul’s warns that unrest stems from industrial labor conditions not poverty. He foresees cities deserted for rural life, a ruined social order, and a century of economic political and social strife with potential wars and crime.
Wilson county farmers union at its monthly meeting authorized a full time organizer and business agent to promote cooperative farm organizations. The group previously pooled tobacco patronage and earned a $20,000 dividend on a half interest in a tobacco warehouse, urging other NC groups to treat patronage as asset and profit.
In Mexico City on November 17 motor vehicles fail to replace bicycles as the chief mode of travel. Businessmen, government workers, and students rely on cycles, with the old bicycle club thriving and riders often decked in garb and family crests. Despite laws for lights brakes and horns, cyclists and auto bus drivers remain a danger to pedestrians.
South Carolina has no petroleum in its rock beds says Stephen Taber state geologist and University of South Carolina professor, noting Piedmont rocks are not oil bearing and Coastal Plain shows no evidence of petroleum. He warns against speculation and urges developing other minerals like flags granites and marts.
In extreme northwest South Carolina near Walhalla the Tamassee school educates poor mountain girls with DAR backing. The new building needs work and funding, while local efforts include night classes and a weekly sing. Two experienced teachers, a house mother, and landscape work from Clemson volunteers support a homelike environment. Rebecca Pickens Chapter of the DAR appeals for donations, with founders’ $100 gifts in installments possible.
Frank A. Rogers of Benettsville died at his sister in laws home in Blenheim on Wednesday morning after a stroke earlier in the week. He was 74, never married, and had taught in Hebron Adamsville and Moore before settling into his community life. The funeral at Parsnus in Marlboro county was conducted by Rev. E. P. Hutson. He was known as a loyal Methodist and a Southern gentleman of the old school.
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