Bermuda school stages Diamonds and Hearts play crowd attends
Local notes report dry weather delaying planting and cultivation. Bermuda school presented the play Diamonds and Hearts Friday night with Marvin praised as bell boy. Miss Luttton Rogers of Nichols and Miss Sarah Moody are mentioned among attendees and illness. Rev J A Langley of Kemper led services. Yancy Seasions and family attended. Public invited to Sunday school and preaching at Herinuds Come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bermuda
Crowded House
Mr. Marvin
Sarah Moody
J.B. Moody
Lake
View
J. A. Langley
Kemper
Yancy Seasions
Herinuds
Dillon Girl Weds Herbert McKenzie in Florence
Florence Daily Times reports Ruth Moody, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Moody, married Herbert McKenzie of Dillon at the bride’s sister’s home on West Cheves Street. Rev. S. B. Harper officiated. Attendants included Valerie Parrott and Pearle M. Howard. The couple will reside in Florence after a Florida trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
Times
Valerie Parrott
Pearle M. Howard
Bessie McKenzie
J. L. Kendall
Ansonville
Bessie Britt
Mohl
Lake City
W. P. Howard
Island Grove
Margerite Woodard
Ralph Moody
Clemson College
Moody
The
Florencery
McKenzie
Dillon
Hegins Ete
Florent
Florida
Florrence
Rainbow Division Troops Land at Newport News in Large Numbers
The Rainbow Division brings multiple units to U S Navy ships and debarks at Camp Morrison. Missouri and Kansas troops from the Thirty fifth Division, including signal battalions, medical trains, ambulances, and machine gun units, arrived aboard the South Carolina and Antigone. The Eighty seventh Division men arrive on the Princess Matioka with hundreds of officers and men from the Sixty fourth Infantry and attached medical and support detachments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ewiort News
Vax
Rainbow Divisio Clark
Missouri
Rainbow Division
Missouri National Guard Signal Corps
South Carolina
Camp Morrison
Kansas
Thirty-fifth Division
One Hundred and Tenth
Princess Matioka
Snémén
Sifty-ninth Infantry Brigade
Que” Hundred and Tenth
Two Little Girls Burned to Death in Barn Fire
Honea Path, April 25. The barn fire killed four year old Jennie Lust and Marie Monroe as matches ignited a bale of cotton. Parents were away. mothers reached the barn too late. The girls were buried in the family plot after services by Rev. H. B. Allen and Rev. T. W. Munnerlyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Lust
Mr. Lust
Mr. Monroe
Moses
Marie
H. B Allen
T. W. Munnerlyn
Honen Auth
Returned Soldiers Envoy Celebration Draws Big Dillon Crowd
More than 2000, likely 3000, people gathered in Dillon on Saturday to welcome returning soldiers. The event featured Liberty Loan addresses, a large donation drive raising over 60 000 dollars, and a Curtiss airplane flyover by Captain Saunders and Lieutenant Behr. The airmen landed nearby, gave a loop the loop, and were hosted before departing for Murrel’s Inlet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
Hamer
Muller
John McSweep
Margaret McGirt
Joes
John T. Slitter
Liberty Loan
Bw.sykes
Coker College
Lynclt
Capt. Hougardy
New Jersey
Lindenburg
Saunders
Behr
Fayetteville
Curtin
Pee Dee
Lieut
James Sprunt
Boyd Welch
Murrel’s Inlet
Capt. Saunders
Birmingham
Ala
France
Brooklyn No
Death Claims Venerable Citizen of Dillon Area
Mr Whittington Hamilton died at home two miles west of Dillon after years of declining health. Born February 2 1880 he served in the Civil War era and built a large farm estate. Survived by his wife Carrie Jane Jackson and daughters R B Taylor K R McKenzie Sella Herring and Louisa Jackson. Interment was Saturday at the family burying ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittington Hamilton
Dillon
Mr. Hamilton
Hamilton
Whit
John H
Wilson W
A. Co L
Tobias
Stephen G
Rachael T
Dr. W. W
Bryant W
Susan McK
Carrie Jane Jackson
R. B. Taylor
K. R. McKennie
Sella Herring
Louisa Jackson
Pleasant Grove
Dischargees Soldiers In Local Notice
Ferman Gaddy of Dillon a concrete worker and TG Tarte of Dillon a showman are listed among discharged soldiers in a local notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferman Gaddy
Dillon
TG Tarte
Showman
Box Supper a Success at Harllee School House
The Improvement Association held a Box Supper at Harllee School house on Thursday night April 24. Proceeds totaled 165.40 dollars with boxes raising 13.25, chance cake 10.15 won by Miss Etta Sue Sellers, a free cake walk, ice cream and ale 15.00, and a voting cake for the most popular lady won by Miss Sallie Carter. Contestants included Miss Pauline Cobb, Mable Watson, and Miss Sallie Carter, teachers from Oakland and Harllee. The event earned thanks from patrons and teachers to neighboring communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Improvement Association
Harllee School House
Etta Sue
Etta Sue Sellers
Pauline Cobb
Oakland School
Mable Watson
Sallie Carter
Harllee
Harllee School
Joe Bennett Passes in Latta After Illness
News of the death of Mr. Joe Bennett of Latta reached Dillon with sorrow. Bennett had been active in Dillon's livestock trade years ago and had many friends in the area. He moved from McColl to Dillon and later to Latta. Stricken with apoplexy several months ago he had served as a traveling salesman for a Macon firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Bennett
Latta
Dillon
Mn Bennett
McColl
Macon
Flying display over river near Camp Brage draws crowds
Aerial exhibition along the main AC L line near the river attracted large crowds from across the county. The event offered exceptional viewing for the flying squadron at Camp Brage. Music from a Charleston naval station band accompanied the display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ACL
Camp Brage
Charleston
Many Dillon Boys Reach New York
New York April 18 The cruiser Pueblo arrived from Brest this afternoon with 1,709 troops including the 117th engineers of the Forty-second Rainbow division. The force, commanded by Col. John M. Johnson of Marion South Carolina, includes 237 killed and 997 casualties.
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New York
Pueblo
Brest
117Th Engineers
North Carolina National Guard
Rainbow
117Th Engineer
North
South Carolina
John M. Johnson
Marion
8. C
117Th
Luneville
Sedan
187Th
168Th
Durge
New York National Guard
Col
Johnson
Don B. Morrow
Oklahoma City
Okhi
Argonne Forest
St. Michiel
Col Johnson
R. L. Hughes
Los Angeles
Cal
Seed buying rumors stir Columbia cotton seed market
A Columbia South Carolina dispatch notes farmers seek profit by selling cotton seed after price boosts, aided by Liberty Bond purchases. J F Wannamaker of St Matthews and Calhoun County chair advocates selling seed to Victory Bonds buyers, while Mr Fitzsimony pushes seed sales and Union Seed and Fertilizer Co. continues buying. WM Banks, director publicity, reports ongoing market activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
8. C
South
Liberty Bonds
J. FE
St. Matthews
Calhoun County
Chas. H. Barton
C. Fitzsimony
Elliott
Capt Niernsee Arrives From Camp Mills After Overseas Service
Captain F M Niernsee commander of Company B 324th Infantry arrived this week from Camp Mills New York where he had been stationed since returning from overseas, mustering out the Casual Company he previously led. Engraved cards offered by The Herald for engraved visiting records in all styles.
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F. M. Niernsee
324Th Inf
Camp Mills
New York
the Herald
Dillon County Plans Regional Road Construction Project
Dillon County has deposited its share of the Rosa fund and aims to build a new road from the Marlboro line west to the Merits line, extending beyond Lake View. Chairman Hargrove led the plan, with $40,000 from the county and $40,000 from the government to finance road construction. The old route will be followed with curve eliminations where feasible, work to begin before summer, and contracts to be let once funds are in hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon County
Hargrove
Board of Commissioners
Othe
Lake View
Delegates Leave May 12 for Southern Cotton Convention
South Carolina Cotton Association announces the Columbia departure of the South Carolina delegation to the Southern Cotton Convention in New Orleans May 14 15 and 16. Governor Cooper and state leaders head a list of attendees. The plan includes reports on campaign progress and a new Foreign Marketing Exporting and Financing Corporation. Statewide unity amid calls for a belt wide cotton association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
South Carolina Cotton Association
South
New Orleans
South Carolina
Cooper
Liles
Orangeburg
Harris
J. H. Clatty
J.skottowe Wanzamaker
St. Matthews
T. P. Cothran
Greensville
W. L. Grary
Laurens
W. Wy Long
Clemson College
B.F. Met Leod
Charleston
John T. Mackey
Camden
Paul Sandera
Ritter
William Gitford
Gittord
R. G. Rhett
L. D. Jennings
Sumter
Ira B. Dunlap
Rook
Douglas McIntyre
Marion
Foreign Marketing, Exporting and Financing Corporation
prop_ lerty banking
Cot‘ton
Cotton
Pillow County Ministerial Association Meets at Parsonage
The Pillow County Ministerial Association will meet at the Methodial Parsonage next Monday at 11 a.m. The topic is The Church and the Returned Soldier Boys. Rev. John H. Graves of Latta will open the discussion, followed by an open discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pillow County
John H. Graves
Latta
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