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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1911
Page
4
The Dillon Herald outlines its status as Dillon County official paper, with subscription rates at 1.50 per year or six months at 75 cents, payable in advance. Advertising rates are available on request, with policy on obituaries and communications and conditions for acceptance and space.
Dillon South Carolina May 11 1911 commentary notes uncertain railroad plans from Hamlet to Charleston via Dillon Clio and Mullins and critiques high finance methods and tariff effects. Opposes Cannon and associates comparing to an ostrich hiding from looming danger. Workingmen face high cost of living and hard times under tariffs and political shifts.
County supervisor Rowland urges placing the Pee Dee River bridge at Cashuay Ferry as the central point to better serve Dillon Bennettsville Florence Darlington and Marion. The Herald supports a Pee Dee crossing but favors private funding or a stock company to build a toll bridge rather than county bonds.
Ex Speaker Cannon roared against the Canadian Reciprocity bill while opposing farmers free fares, then warned Democrats that their grip on power is fleeting as half the voters forget the nation’s prior Democratic missteps.
Ernest Sessions, seven year old son of S J Sessions, was run over and killed at seven o clock by a bus from the Central hotel bound for the depot. The child was crushed by the wheels. Driver Fred Sumter was arrested after the bus arrived at the depot. The front baggage obstructed the driver’s view and he did not know the accident had occurred until then.
Clemson College Extension presents a guide on selecting breeding stock across livestock. It stresses choosing normal bred animals, avoiding small or atypical breeders, and preferring cows that produce butter, pigs with large litters, and vigor in sires. It advocates prudent culling, proper age, good feed efficiency, and uniform color for easier management.
Congressman Edwards of Georgia received a bag of cotton destroying bugs from Savannah Cotton Exchange urging immediate action by the Department of Agriculture. The jar, sent to Dr. L C Howard, chief entomologist, concerns a newly discovered pest near Claxton Georgia that bores into young cotton stalks.
Dr Howard reports mysterious pests troubling cotton fields and asks Georgia State Entomologist Lee Worsham to rush to Claxon to identify the bugs. The creatures are unlike any known species in the cotton belt and their foothold in Georgia remains unexplained while investigations continue.
In Selkirk on Friday Frank Owens accidentally killed Daniel McGill on Harry Cousar's property. An inquest led by Coroner Gasque found the death unintentional after Owens fired when McGill grunted for disobeying an order. Owens is held on criminal carelessness charges.
A Salvation Army officer preached from his coffin on a platform to a large crowd, a practice echoed by others like ministers from stagecoaches, bathtubs, hayloads, and railroad cars. Notable figures such as Lord Russell, Sir Frank Lockwood, Dr Parker, Gladstone, Chamberlain, and Bishop Bickersteth delivered talks from unusual venues including a lifeboat deck, a fireworks platform, a steam crane car, a lighthouse lantern, a hospital operating theatre, and a traveling balloon car.
Prof William Carmichael superintendent of Durham City schools spent Thursday with his mother Mrs Agnes Carmichael. He is a state inspector for North Carolina and was touring the state visiting friends in Dillon and mixing with educators.
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