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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1920
Page
1
Local updates report church rebuilding in Bethesda supported by regional contributions. A flu scare prompted ten day school closure at Oak Grove and residents resume work. A Seaboard and ACL collision derailed freight near Seaboard junction caused minor injuries and track clearance by nearby wrecking crews.
Latta notes report visits from Red Springs residents including Mr. Martin Covington and Miss Frances Allen while Miss Annie McMillan and Mrs. Inla Crumpler pause teaching duties due to flu. Several locals travel to Tampa, Little Rock, Florida and Bennettaville. Mrs. Blum, Mr. Cox and others purchase goods and attend markets.
Lake View community notices include residents traveling to Charleston Latta and Baltimore. New millinery head Miss Nelson arrives at Ford Brothers while Dr E B Smith and W T Britt relocate homes. Local church services address influenza recovery and upcoming Sunday meetings with pastoral announcements.
A meeting of the Dillon County Fair Association stockholders is set for Friday at 3 p.m. at the secretary’s office to elect officers and raise funds via stock sales for building a county fair. The notice outlines past expenditures, land purchases, a 20 percent dividend, and aims to broaden stock ownership across the county.
The Civic Improvement Association will meet Friday at 4 20 in the Ladies Rest. Due to quarantine this is not the regular meeting but a special session to address urgent business. The Coker Glee Club of Hartsville will visit Dillon on April 2 under the association. The program promises a musical treat, featuring twenty six talented young ladies under Prof Alan Bennett Lawholin at Coker College.
Moonlight School wraps up a late session with students and staff receiving prizes. Robert Hoddes won the top prize, Rowland Hingon earned the most faithful attendance award, and Miss Colie Theots helped coordinate the event.
Local residents attended Me t spring openings at Dillon last Friday and Saturday, with many from the area traveling to the event and catching the new offerings.
Extension Service report shows 74 000 farmers advised on proper use of fertilizers 367 held demonstrations using 1663 tons. Co operative buying covered 20 935 tons valued at 789 101 dollars with a 126 244 dollar saving. Home mixing aided 5 818 farmers saving 80 288.40 dollars. Top dressing urged for 8 488 farmers؛ many more unaided buyers unseen.
The second session of South Carolina’s seventy third General Assembly adjourned after a full day and night of work. The final appropriation bill reached about 6.09 million dollars with a 12.5 mill tax levy, funding road building, public schools, health, and state colleges, including Citadel and University projects.
L Wheeler purchased the Commercial Hotel at Railroad Avenue and Harrison Street from Jas M Carmichael. The property, long tied up in litigation and rented as an apartment house, has been closed since year start. Wheeler plans to enlarge and improve the hotel to serve transient trade and aims to complete before tobacco season.
Winthrop College seeks 6000 daughters to send a post card on Monday March 7. Each card should include home address teaching or business address maidename if married and years of attendance. Include any interest such as daughters at Winthrop or other details. Address Leila A. Russell Alunge Secretary Winthrop College Rock Hill The Winthrop Weekly News will announce the class sending the most complete number and percentage.
The Pleasant Hill School program last Friday night featured student performances including recitations by Paulin, Cassethaca by Fred Cook, and readings such as The Tempest by Nellie Watts. The event concluded with prize awards in spelling, writing, and arithmetic, with teachers Mr. W P Montana and Mrs. Katip Lee presiding and refreshments served.
Jurors have not yet been seated as equity court opens Monday under Judge Jno S Wilsatt. Proceedings expected to last several days with juror participation awaited.
Train 86 wrecked near Dillon one mile beyond Luca crossing between Fayetteville and Wilson. Engineer Bob Wilson pulled from wreckage in dying condition. Creman killed outright. Express Messenger Rutledge and Baggage Master Peele missing. No passengers killed but many injured. Mrs Wilson, once in Dillon, now in Rocky Mount, mourns. Also notice: Mrs Julius Ammons dies of influenza pneumonia in Dillon County. Funeral by Rev Geo L Muls.
The influenza quarantine in force for weeks was lifted after a joint health authorities and physicians meeting. Schools reopened and Sunday church services resumed. The moving picture theater opened last night and stores are returning to normal evening hours as flu cases dwindle.
Adana, Asia Minor, Sunday, Web. 29. The diary of Rev. C. T. S. Crathern, Boston M. G. A. secretary, recounts eleven relief workers and others shot at in Marash while French troops and Armenian forces clashed with Turkish Nationalists. The American hospital faced a deadly assault. doctors and nurses narrowly escaped as gunfire and shelling raged.
Reported near Corvalites, a train held up by Yaqui fighters led by Francisco Villa killed 19 soldiers and 14 others, including two American passengers. Villagers say bandits set fire to the car and kidnapped several, amid claims of fighting to avenge a general’s death.
A Covington resident, about 20 years old, died yesterday afternoon at Heburn. The deceased was described as a prosperous young man. He leaves a wife, one child, a father, one brother, and two sisters.
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