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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1910
Page
8
Citizens of Horry County push a bond issue of 298 000 for county highways. A measure to authorize a bond election is before the assembly and is expected to pass next session. A Good Roads and Drainage League has formed, planning a rally on September 26 with Commissioner Watson invited to speak but unavailable due to prior engagement.
Special to the State reports severe damage to Florence county cotton from boll worm infestation. Government demonstrator Willis describes the pest as a brown bug similar to the June bug but smaller. The worm attacks bolls at dusk, laying eggs and multiplying, with infected bolls quickly consumed within 48 hours.
Bennettsville reports cotton farmers harvest rapidly and expect yields about equal to last year. Foreseeable factors include fertilizer use and timely cultivation, though the season remains late and weather plays a role in development.
Marion Sept 20 Willie Brown a negro about 20 years old was jailed here from Fork in Williamsburg county. He is accused of attempted criminal assault on a white girl last August while she walked home from school. The girl’s father and Williamsburg sheriff plan to identify him tonight. There are unconfirmed reports he confessed and excitement runs high. In Marlboro Bennettsville Sept 16 R J Patterson Jr defeated W F Rogers for sheriff in a hard fought second primary. The vacancy arose from Sheriff Green’s resignation to run for the senate and Gov Ansel may appoint Patterson soon with county officials backing him. Sheriff Green will assist Patterson at start of his term. Missouri editor notes a tombstone inscription about Samantha Proctor.
The county saw several major land deals valued over $100,000. R. P. Stackhouse’s 700 acre home tract west of O’Dillon sold to J. S. Thompson for 75000 with possession Jan 1. Thompson to unite with a 500 acre adjoining plantation. F. M. Wiggins property sold to W. M. Hamer for 11500, 400 acres. R. L. Lane bought the Dove place near Latta from R. J. Dew for 13000, previously 8000. Prices illustrate rising values and active market.
The thirty fourth annual Pee Dee Baptist Association session will convene at Blenheim South Carolina October 11 to 13. Delegates traveling via A C L and B C railroads will arrive Bennettsville by noon and reach Blenheim by about 1 PM. The program covers sermons reports missions education and orphanage with daily devotions and dinners.
A new cultivator patented by Duncan McDaniel, a Hamer area youth, is described as highly meritorious by patent officials. The device promises versatile use as a straddle row and between row cultivator, harrow, and soil breaker with adjustable frame, wheels, draft, and earth engaging bars for varied field work.
Advertisements offer Georgia farms from 50 to 100 acres with good health and favorable terms. Sellers include James Tart Oliver Screven County and W. M. Hamer Dillon County. Also notices of tobacco sales before October 1 and two small houses for sale on West Main Street. A gold crescent bracelet is found at the post office and claims can be made at the office. Charles Rankin advertises farms near Whiteville and a house and lot on Flint Avenue Calhoun Street in Dillon County.
In Pelham Georgia on September 21 Charles Tate and John Marchant prominent county residents fought a pistol duel on a public road. Both men died after firing about six shots. Tate had just married two months earlier. The widows witnessed the tragedy from their buggies. The feud stemmed from a dispute over Tate’s marriage to Marchant’s sister-in-law. Police and community notes follow, including a later editorial urging macadamizing Main Street and soliciting subscribers for The Herald.
Under a decretal order of the Court of Common Pleas of Dillon County the Master will sell on Monday October 3 1910 at the Dillon County Court House door the four hundred forty five acre tract known as the Sand Ridge Bay Place in Hillsboro and Carmichael townships formerly Marion County South Carolina to the highest bidder cash terms. The property is bounded by Smith lands J C Miller and E V Moody estates to the north and J D Moody E D Carmichael and others to the west. A. B. Jordan Master Dillon County.
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