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- 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;-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 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. From the beginning price of cotton? Who should be In 1870 he was married to Miss few days from the citadel. lorgotten ihtre was such a I the in of the soldier as Private through ring the other end preliminary bombardment jconsulied and who should have the 1£l.on Jernigan. The next year he Gasiess" Sunday was observed in Barnett. I and the noose drawn nightfall the until (this The next he around her weather was almost determining voice in the price-fix- 1 tilted a small farm and operated a community. day ate the remainder J ' af o row »\/\4oto h 1 A.1 * \ neck. The other end of the chain ideal and gave ample * » »" pviaivi uc uau aucvesiea ironi opportunity for 'ing? Every one admits that the ba- imbed narcantile business, which o was two or the American airmen a potato a | wrapped three times to play their sis of any pnice-fixing of cotton 1»roved unsuccessful. He was discou patch few days before > around the rafter. The end link was part. Soon after midnight last night, should be the cost of its production, £iged and went (MELON'S 1JBKIITY LOAN*. while pussing over a farm during the I inserted the West, visiting many advance. His through another link and a however, sky clouded over and plus a reasonable profit to the pro- £Hates beyond the Mississippi, but' ' canteen was dry; It had I stick ran rain was through it. All who saw falling so steadily thiaijducers; then the coiton nroducers 1 inding no location that suited 1Talks Will Made gone dry the second day, and there f him, lie by Soldier was no the situation said that the girl could morning that a staff officer remarked and the cotton manufacturers *te returned home und started to water to be had short of tlae not have "this is Heturned lrnm Vesle / placed herself in this helping the Germans." should determine and agree upon a xvork with renewed determination, prance. liecently river. tion. A wheel barrow was turnedposi/ Enemy Fire Increase*. fair and equitable price for the raw!*ie embarked in the mercantile In the meantime, the unit to which I bottom about inches Last the German cotton. j Private Barnett was upward eight evening artillery again and fkom the first busuesswa Dillon county's assessment the belongs relieved I below her feet. fire became heavier j4 for by another; it went to apparently What does it cost to produce cot-'8tuccessful and made money rapidly. 1Fourth Lioeiiy Louii is At away another 1 Jackson denied his guilt. He that he had retired to n $5u0,0(J0. part of the line or hisindicatington? In the great cotton state 1873 ho purchased a 25 horse i meeting held in Dilton on soniewhere, maybe J said one time that he found the second line of of, ;i Monday it was for a body resistance. This line Texas a special committee of three c otton plantation in the Pee Dee hi which all of the school only rest. But it went f of his about he is to sec-,; practically away an daughter day. Again expected try to hold more was appointed by the commissioner11ion, most of it on credit. He ii8tncis and banks in the were! shy automatic rifle squad ) he s&id he found it after sun-up. tenaciously. Shells of ted his contin-j< county which the captain believed was all big calibre fell of agriculture and after mercantile business, thereby']represented it was decided Jackson was not then with making to pre dead, as none of tbem Lad been heard arrested, regularity behind the advanced {most careful investigations in imassing wealth rapidly, and year rate the amount the school but was arrested American lln**s as *44>! er af-|i among of for six days. Wednesday the enemy parts of the state, reported that the year adding more wealth to his »iistrlcts and ask each to raise its noon and placed in jail. The to silence the American Mr. It wag on the seventh day that ufterI attemptedcotton crop of 1917 cost the farmers' loldings. Matheson wag the lar-l];»art. The assessments on -are say they cannot hold him unless and the real agreed an observer saw in officers damage roads. Thesebatteriesof Texas over 34 cents a pound ;est estate owner in this sec-itis follows: something lying charges are preferred against him shells, however, foil almost ion and is said to a shell hole. A peep the without Again another committee of thirteen j have been worth Pee Dee No. 1 through i by somebody. exception in woods and 1iiore than a $1,50(1 glass told him it was an American fields and did members, composed of some of .e million dollars. He was jHarlee Jackson was about 20 not i No. 3 3,000 soldier. Lilly May impede the American advance. most prominent men of the state and member of the P'.>sbyterian church old. Her father Is The j,Carolina No. 3 10,000 That a years about 55. Germans apparently made a including the president of the Texas ind a great Sunday school worker.. night sergeant and thiee o to jLittle Rock No. 4 40,000 men went out to effort withdraw the heavydesperate! Bankers' association made a investigate. They (iET signed j o Jakland No. 5 10,000 found a He was BAD TREATMENT. artillery captured by the Americans report which was him, only boy. j unanimously jFirst l*iMwcution the <> kdinturn No. 6 __28,000 and in the region of Dannevoux but the adopted by the State Farmers by Bureau j]i' pale limp. The sergeantunconscious, Car Driven on Handled Insti-. Sion No. 7 __2,0oo the had been or Sunday American lines of communication. In Jtute at on \ itai Statistics. thought boy gussed, Cloves. this Waco, August 21 and 22,' j Dillon No. S 120.000 maybe wounded. Without sector north of Daunevciix, in 11918, and stated the "cost of slightly the great elbow of pro-, Jothan No. 9 2o.ooo proved different. Investigation the Meuse river, iducing the 1918 crop" at 35 cents a C. W. Chief Clerk jiI of view __ That Sunday joy rtder8 in four Miller, the! Holly No. 10 -- 9,000 Private Barnett told his story after 210-millimetre guns and eight pound, on a bisis yied of 160 1bureau of Vital Statistics cf the J ^have fared remarkably well as 150-millimeter Elingham No. 11 10,000 they carried him in.told as much Olubta pieces were captured pounds of lint cotton per acre and £Jtate Board of 1 with the fate that sow the Health, brought suit' tfamer-Kentyre No. 12 45,0o0 of it as he remembered. On the 'compared by Americans. $70 per ton for cottonseed. * them have met within other cities In the igainst Dr. B. K. K. H.Kreaps of IJnion No. 13 12,000 of the sixth he sank down and in To the northwest of Dannevoux the printed copy oi the t morning report the chair- .'olumbiu, for failure to report births 1-ake View, No. 14 30,000 could not rite That same evidenced by reports from various1 American artillerists were firing upon man of the again. sections of the committee adds in a foot «ittended by him within tne prescrib-11kit. Calvary No. 15 __1,500 thrist forced him to but country. Brieulles and the roads to the south note: "Sinrp tho onn>wi #* drink, evening VMV. vvtutUAiiW U1CI, U1C ';d ten as s.ate In a crowd of and days specified by Kemper No. 16 __ 12,000 it was something other than pure Landsdowne. Pa., southwest. To the north the government has estimated the 1 ute. sia-jl yield Bermuda No. 17 __ water that he people wrecked a car and spilled American heavy guns were to be i1 __9,000 diunk. shelling 145 pounds, which would Dr. was No. 18 Private some 20 gallons of gasoline in the Vilosses and the bridge the make Kreps prosecuted on four VIaiming 3.000 Barnett will soon be back crossing the cost 4 0 cents instead of c to which he Ploydule No. 19. with his and street. While there is no law against Meuse river. To the northeast the 35 cents." counts, plcuded guilty, 12,000 unit..Stars Stripes. The figures, iuagistra.o beti.re whom ^atta No. 20 o the running of pleasure cars on Sun-' American heavy guns had the range from these forgoing Coker, the 80,000 day, it seems that the crowd assumed of i{quoted t^o reports, rep- crase was brought, imposed a fine of Dalcho No. 21 21,000 Dillon Won't (juarantiiie. Sivry-sur-Meuse and the river resent tl'.e cost of cotton the of this car to be a producing j(25. in each of the four cases. Dak Grove No. 22 12,000 running bridge, making it impossible for the in Texas in the yea^s 1917 and 1918 of the law, and as a resultviolationGermans to This was the first of riillsboro No. 23 6.00O It is evident that Dillon ig getting withdraw their I to be 34 to 35 ceins a prosecution the car received rough treatment. pound. t he Bureau. For this riigh Hill No. 24 4,000 its share of the Spanish influensa equipment.Dr. E. J. reason. Dr. -j In other sections reports are toj In Dannevoux the Americans VVannamaker of Orange- jlames A. Hayne, State Health Pleasant Hill No. 25 ______6,000 sweeping the country, as about 35 burg county, in South 'ork No. 26 __ __ cases the effect that drivers of cars which a amount of captured Carolina, has c requested that sentence be sub- 1&.000 have been reporjed up to this large German prepared a statement Offi:er,sellers were going out on legimiate business and also the personal ammunition showing the jtended. No. 28 __2,000 time. There are no serious cases, refused to leave the unless j"cost of cotton grown by tenants" Chairmen have been however, and the health authorities garage of three German regiments.baggageAt be Mr. Miller emphasizes that appointed in given police protection as it wag fear-1 various ^to 30.9 cents a pound. This >ach district with to are doing their best to keep the points west of the Meuse the was will be brought in all prosecutionscases authority that would shower the cars submitted to a statewide such committees as iu check. No drastic measuresepedemic ed boys Americans captured many machine state'jmentccoming to his attention, and upon are neces-ap>oint an farmers meeting in Columbia, on to assist will be taken the but the with eggs in advanced state of guns, trench mortars and small (conviction, no further of lary in thoroughly work-. by Board, 24, 1918. If the cost of pro- suspension are advised to take decomposition.pieces. artillery;June 8lenteuce will be nccomuiended. ng the district. It is the purpose to people every The from duclng cotton in the very rich comn luld rallies from time to time in each to safeguard their health.precaution report Lansdowne, Pa., is, o. of as follows: Orangeburg in June of this ty ichool district until the 10th of the Th^ schools will continue to run and List of Chairmen of School year was 30.9 a "Mr. and Mrs. E. Wagner Smith, Districts, cents pound, cotton f air differences for higher and low-' nonth at which time there will be the other public places will not be of this of United War Work production oertainly will cost much t>r hree rallies held in closed. The Board of health takes the prominent residents place, mo-| Campaign above grades. Let all cotton be placed big the county, iorea 10 cnurcn for these figures in most of the i n me at Dillon on position that it is a disease which sunaay morning. Dillon County. other warehouses, be fully insured and the morning of the the service a crowd of men1 counties in South Carolina. j laced in luth at 10:30 at Lake View cannot be fought tucessfully rigid "During and in view charge of a bonded o'clock, by and boys punctured the tires in their Minturn. -P. L. Clio. of the great deteriora- t and the cotton be n the afternoon at 4 and at quarantine rules and it will be useless liethea, tion of cotton gradedcustolian,and o'clock, car, smeared the with Dalcho.L. E. since June 24, the s an official ^atta in the at o'clock, to suspend the schools and prohibit upholstery Dew, Latta. cost of the itapled by classifier when evening eight overrir« tomatoes, drew off the Oak Grove.T. E. Latta. production of the 1918 (>laced in Let VI these rallies music will be public gatherings. They are putting Fore, will most storage. each cotton filled the tank with water gasoline,and Pee Dee.Phill Dew, Latta. 'crop ussuredly reach above |nanufacturer contract for the by a band consisting of furnish?dtwenty the situation up to every citizen and 35 cents a placed a placard on the auto, New Holly.R. VV. Lester, Latta. pound. I of bales of cotton needednum>erfor tine pieces, it being an artillery band every person is urged to use every 'Slackers, why don't you walk?reading:Bingham.W. B. Steele, Bingham. These estimates, two from Texas t he r.oxt cotton year, grade 'rom Charleston, and patriotic precaution to keep from contracting and one from stating the disease. The who to The air will do you good." Mt. Andrew.Murray Hayes, Floydale South Carolina, suf- *md staple required, end take on will be made by Dr. W. adiresaesE. person goes Last Sunday, a car hung about with Manning.J. H. Dillon. fice to show that the cost of the pro- 1 1 his Sykes of Hartsville and A. R. Otts a public mooting place or exposes Berry, monthly supply at Oeoberthe themselves yellow ounting, bearing a placard Carolina.Lauch Mclnnls, Little Rock duction of the 1918 cotton crop is turrcprf ilium nfi^oa onH VT" 'rom the state of Kansas who is a in any other way does so at their own which am ounced to all the world that Oakland.J. W. McKay, Rowland. somewhere about 3 5 cents a ponnd. \reniber 1 the next supply, paying the 1vounded soldier returned from actual risk. Persons afflicted with bad colds are it was a Sunday joy rider and signed Harlee.W. D. Trawick, Dillon. Immediately following the cost of tigrtod upon prices for the grade *lervice in France. Every one is urged cautioned against by A. Slacker, attracted considerable Latta.S. E. Fennegan, Latta. {production is the other closely re- iind staple plus the carrying charges 1 o attend these rallies and to do his sneezing in the presence of other lated as that is one of the most attention. But no eviolence has been Little Rock.J. W. Hamer Little question, what should be add- i'or the month of October, and so on 1,>art in the great undertaking that prolificpeople visited upon the drivers of Sunday Rock. ed to the cost of production to give Ifor each month until 1low faces us. Dillon expects every sources of infection. The germ is the succeeding the in the cars in this city. Hamer.Jim McLellffn, Hamer. producers a reasonable profit. In