The Dillon Herald, 1909-12-02

V.U. II I > . I lilic I ' t I i I' , I ? 11 v.- J. i 41 I.I V I one say a word detriment.: to tin ; i new c?>11111 y. Many < it ih? w!i?? ' wiTc uvoiM' to it arc now its] stall nchest .supi???rtcrs, ami is' :t f became necessary t.<> a;.;"ain vote mi the subject the verdict ill bcha.lt'm | the new county would be nio?v i pronounced than be to re. There J is hardly a man who livis in the j ! county that will not ad. in it 'hat the! , new order ot' tilings pleas. > ban j . most. ' "The county now has a nice court house, an excellent i il building, a county home a id farm, road implements, teams, etc.. and everything has been paid for since the creation of the countv ami tintaxes have steadily dcercas. d. !" 'The new cotiii'j. iu- serw d to . bring the pcoj le elos tether. It has been an educator to the people. Scares of pi > ie who h d not seen a court house r h ar . a 1 legal 'argument because of the (lis ' tance to their court h< c. have ; had this experience sin t:a ere. ation of the county. "These are some > f t'-e facts

UlClli . i ! especially commended the mailt' by the people of i.i' k r. i iv the county seat, bee : . e injured the voter of ? ;: public buildings with ?,: an , tax. He c;ills attent n the f.wt that the new county o, ! "ore e, which had a courti hp a . i.iil in every way suitable ami > " - table, issued bords for oak ooo to build them. Tlie icier Messrs. I )ilion on the same iinewa^ti i.elyard a|ipreciated and al. i . . low feast in that section i. there is no liyht over any matter, within the family, the whole .font is presented in a battle for the new county, county seat, name ami everything else is wide open, the best place wins and evc; v!> ly is willing to let it win. T . e- .arthouse will be established vis level* :he greatest number o po-pie want it. and they ean cal. ' whatever they want to eall it. Mr I lamer says that the farmr in . 1 -.at section are in the very best condition. A jjreat deal of .i.tt ui is held here and there, iiiiittyh the most of it has been marketed, the debts of the country paid and a surplus on hand. The construction o f new railroads

jy nuiu^tri o( election. \^S '' Pursuant to the proclamation of ^ ! the Governor of the State already c 1 published" notice is hereby given c that an election upon the question \ > of creating a New County out of j the upper portion of Marion County, and also upon the question of ? name and County Seat of the same, 1 will be held on the 14th. day of i December, 1909, in the polling c precincts and at the voting places s 1 prescribed by law, in the County . ' of Marion; said polling precincts t and voting places being within the * ) area cut off to form the proposed S New County, for the purpose of ^ ' conducting said election, the fol- ^ r lowing managers have been ap5 pointed for the various precincts c 1 and polling places1 r Frank Bailey . ) c , W. A. Blizzard - > Dillon j T. S. Richburg , G. D. Barlow ) ? 1 C. C. Lovell Maple Mill { 5 H. V. Deaver ) 5 L. B. Alford ) i Murray Hayes / Campbells - Otis M. Page ) Bridge I . Steve Stephens ^ ^ r J. 1. Carmichael >-Bermuda 1 R. M. Oliver ] Alb.J.Carmichael ^ i ' Frank Mclntyre fHamer 1 J. R. Regan j

I D. D. Mclnnis 1 i Daniel Alford Mudson > R. M. Jackson J ? J. W. Hamer ^1 ? J. S. Thompson fLittle Rock t T- L. Manning J ? | W. B. Allen ) t [ D. McL. Bethea \ Centerville ? ' J. W. Nicholson i E. Lide Berry i J. Rich Hayes Fores . John D- Coleman , A. S. Manning E. B. Berry Latta E. C. Allen ; S. S. Turbeville Lamar Watson Gin-House * i J. F. Bethea / t 1 Rhfoid B. Rogers J Thos. E. Fore Fork \ Oliver Carmichael ^ Wra. T. Moody ? Edward Hill Kemper 1 R. K. Hayes The managers hereby appointed v and herein named will call and get 1 i the ballot boxes and ballots and all 1 necessary papers pertaining to the \ . proper conduct ot said election. s These will be obtained upon ap' plication to John C. Sellers, Sel- 1 lers, S. C. W. L. Hewitt, * 1 \ John C. Sellers, i \ \ S. W. Smith. < Commissioners of Election. . R. P. Porter. Clerk. Ballot boxes to be returned to } P. Porter, Marion, S-*C. A full line of gold paper for 1 decorations just received at the < Herald Book Store. ( -: c ;

lifficult for him to find a man so veil equipped by taste and experience and so inspired by enthusiism preservation of the national esources as Gifford Pinchot. He s much better known and esteemid for his initiative and activity as i conservator than any man in the Jnited States. It was expected hat he would be appointed as secretary of the Interior and it vas never imagined that there vould be appointed a Cabinet >fficer out of harmony with the nan with whom Roosevelt was ionspiciously proud to be a coadutor. That most distinguished and itrenuous of Americans is workng off his nervous energy in the vilds of Africa. He could not lave taken a wiser course. Had le remained in this country it vould have been impossible for lim to have found seclusion. Cnowing this he has fled to the \ntipodes and plunged into the lark Continent. Nothing short 1 '

and it is stated that 111 four verand six months vessels will : a from ocean to ocean. The ex t vation could be completed in t years but it fcill take long-. r that that time to build the inim^ns datr^xnd locks. Vessels o. largtonnage are already using parts n the canal. The present President of iIk United .States as well as his predecessor is an equestrian. Mr Taft rides a bigger horse than die President Roosevelt and there i> good reason for it. There is ra precedent for the prodigous size of both horse and rider except it the equestrian statue of <>encra Winficld Scott at the intcrsectior of Sixteenth Street and Massachusetts Avenue. _ COTTON AND GOLD. Colnmhia State. The census report of cot tor ginned to November 14. shows: falling off of a million and a hall bales compared with the quantitj ginned at the corresponding tinu last year.