u»b? F 9 lUUin feralii.* ESTABLISHED 1M4. THE DILLON HERALD, SOUTH DILLON, CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORN I NO <HT. S, 1918. VOL. 22. NO. 46. - AMERICANS TOOK HUNS BY 8L A. J. RFtfUK. MATHKSOX DKAD. SKVKX l>.\YS IX DRY SHELL HOLK m. found m | U.NDER HUN F1KK. i WHAT SHOULD BE 1Prominent Marlboro fount> Citizen 'COUNTY NEWS Correspondent Tells of the Battle to toe Northwest of Verdun. Fails to llally from Automatic Ititlcman Exists for Week hb on hi chaw PRICE, IF FIXED? Stroke. Farulytlr AND HAPPENINGS One Potato Foraged From Wi'.h the American Army Patch Near Ye*le. ' AWFUL TRAGEDY IN of Verdun. Wt&KEHOUSK COMMISSION Ell Bennettsville, Sept. 26.Alexander HKWS LKTTKItS BY IllXilLAR TUESDAY NIGHT. Sept. 27..(ByNorthwestthe BROWNSVXLLKterday's the 111 PRESENTS STATISTICS. lames Matheson died at his t'OItKKSI'O.VDKNTS. Seven days in a shell hole without fighting along this home.j Associated Press.) . Details of Shines," afternoon. He had Food or wa;<er is the biggest event Ciicn.tsnceg Point to June* fighting along the line heldyesterday'sShowing Cost of Producing Cotton 1 een in declining health for some time liews Items of Interest to Herald !yet in the life of Private Earnett, of the of 8 ind . Father the Girl,lackson,by one American corps shows that Now to be SO to 35 C<ents a suffered a stroke of paralysis this Headers, Kbl, ami Flow of the ihe Infantry. as Her Murderer. ine infantry overrun the first German Pound in Texas and S. C. uorning at 11 o'clock, from which' Human Tide. The Americans had decided to positions. The enemy first re never rallied. Mr. Matheson was their positions near Fisines.improve Pee Dee Advocate: attempted Icme of the ') to make a stand on the line running Columbia, Sept. 18..Mr. T. B. prominent men of the Minturn. ; They advanced but a short Coronor McRae was called to own, End state. Our Ml th*» r.ormano (n>-nn/l !»"-» - - through Cuisy, but the Americans Thackson, deputy state warehouse: county school opened with a large en-!1 MUD «ui ucu iwdistanceAll.or an was fminitop onH ' Brownavllle He uuu yesterday to investigate pushed ahead and 8.16 o'clock jcommissioner, has issued the follow-! |>troiucui VI ollmeut, 60 being present. Miss Mr-!1irtillery and machine gun barrage, the death of Miss by on he Planters National 'all of rhe Lilly May Jackson! Cuisy, was taken and detachments ing statement the price fixing of! Bank, a largejt Statesville, N. C., is principal |" Americans returned to their own whose dead body was found hanging! cotton: ilanter and interested in many bust- a.nd teaches the primary grades. Miss 1lines and decided they would fool pressed forward as far as the Fayel | |® ' less to a rafter in a stable at the home' farm during the forenoon. Just now two questions are upper- enterprises. He was a wonder- 1'ravis Brown of Marion, S. C., has ]Fritz some other day. of her James on most in ihe minds of ully successful business man and c of the A of father, Jackson, Only a few hours after the the cotton farni-j, it harge high school. Miss Ailenel squad automatic riflemen were H. M. in battle era of South 8 not the facts when I of unable to Hodges's place, lower! tcgan the correspondent started for Carolina, nan.«.-ly: overstating badger, Spartanburg, S. C., teach- get back and took refuge (1)^t is said that he e ' n Brownsville. »hA # a a ut » * Hearings relative to the has done more to- s the grammar school. Miss Mattie a large shell hole. uic num. Aunougn American recent Private The first was that it was and between mrds the of Bennetts- I of 1 was report German shells torn parity spot cotton anddlsI upbuilding lamer, C'«o, S. C., has charge of one of the squad. Baroett but had up the roads of contracts ille during bis residence here than t he music The Germans had suicide, investigation developed but a short time before .prices on the future classes. We are looking for-j observed the evidence which indicate murder, and engineer {changes the utilization of cotton my one man or any dozen men who;*vrard to a very suewssful year with movements of the Americans and were already filling tkft.nidetachments of'^tave lived here. He the girl's father is in Jail, pending in and itL«j tower grades, and other phases was public spirit- t.hese experienced lady teachers. !1 trained a machine gun immediatelyon further making them serviceable. In of the (<1, energetic. tireless, in Mr. the shell proceedings. the blue cotton marketing situation, quick Pressly gave his first agricul-'1 hole, whereupon the squad The evidence is that perfectly sky there were, as These i}ng and in conclusionstrad-jouture lesson to leader decided he James Jack-! as hearings being held under the reaching the boys last Wednes-l' would wait out the son has a long daylight laated, dozens of my business His <3 Germans served term in the Dillon which auspices of the bureau of markets of proposition. death lay. The lady teachers will conduct and return t«*our lines for incest with his darted back and forthairplanes,United Slates s a great loss to the town and <the in cover of jail daughter, over the Department of county classes domestic science and darkness. under and there has been a lines and engaged in and Agri-,amd his family has the of i nanual That great deal of' combats. culture, (2). The announcementI sympathy training. night the moon came up over trouble in the family on that ac- daringof the plan by the War industries very one. Funeral arrangements will Mr. W. W. Evans visited his son, the hill and lighted up that narrow In spite of statements made j.>e announced later. count. There are two sons and by board to appoiut a committee to con-; I dr. Sam Evans, at Camp Sevier lust strip yi debatable ground so that it three other some of prisoners that the attack was eider the Mr. Matheson veek. was daughters, them it present cotton situation, was born in impossible to return without small. is evident that the enemyforeseen,had the problem of t>oro county in 1848. His Marl-^ Miss Hassie Smith has been ob.erved. not the distribution, the mar- father, being There was a family row about 8 anticipated time, place or keting of low grade and Matheson, was a native of Attan-DonLid* at the home of Mrs. M. F. It was midnight when one of the character of the assault cottons, the'" visitng \ o'clock Tuesday night. Lilly May and had not desirability and feasibility of effec-;11laie, Scotland, and came to Edvards.men.the corporal .decided to make been able to make adequate a this^ a (said she would kill herself befoie! ing stabilization of prices. These|cnudit y when a young man and prac- Miss Aline Fladger spent tLe try for their own lines. He fell I submitting further to her father's! to meet it or to retire. Hepreparationlacked two inquiries have 1iced law. The War Between veek end with Mrs. Phil Sellers a few feet from the shell hole. reserves to defend practically the the^ at. J outrages. She left the house, and the positions same purpose in view, towit: States interfered with young Dillon. Just before daylight the next the front line. The behind Int«s-|k* Math-jJ j her father left a few minutes later, j American tig&ting the activities of speculators' son's education and ho had the ad-1 Mr. and Mrs. Victor Berry spent another started back. He fell.morning He came already has cut across the advanceon v at The I back and went out two orj the cotton exchanges to depress antuge only of the country schools.!5Sunday Floydale. , following afternon at 4 o'clock gauge lines narrow n three times during the night. Lilly, which form the only the price of cotton, and then ascer-, 18 69 he accepted a position as Mr. Th.td Weatherly is building a there were two men left in the shell May did not come back «t all. Next' rail connection between the two main taining what would be a * oreman on a farm in Marion 1lice bung-alow on his farm. hole. They drew straws, it railroads fair price county. being morning she was found hanging dead from the north. {for cotton. Both will Tue next year he operated a Mr. J. McQueen is the Delco that the one drawing underrtoodthe Fine investigations three! having in the stable. A big homespun apron weather was of great lead to the same conclusion.the lorse farm, leceiving a portion of 'lighting sys:em installed in his home. short straw was to go after help. had been wrapped together around to the Americans in sweepingassistance'price-fixing of coiton. he crop as compensation for his lab Miss Travis Brown spent the week Private Burnett drew the long straw. her throat and lace and tied in four forward over very difficult ground. Now what are the main factors 1>r, doing the hardest kind of manual '?nd at her home. He waited 'wo days, but the runner The v hard knots buck of her head. One ground which has boon taken isII which snouid control in fixing the vork. Weatherly Bethea is at home for. never returned. It seemed that every i or a very i one had end irace cnuin oaa neen supp»jd important.