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The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-03-15
CHURCH NOTES

METHODIST PROTESTANT
John. w. Quick, Pastor
Our appointment for next Sun
day will be at Rose Hill at IL
o'clock. Our subject will be,
That Elder Brother"
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-03-15
Chesterfield County
Field Day
TO BE HELD AT
Paqeland, CheraW and McBee

Chesterfield County will be divided into three local dis,
tricts centering at Cheraw, McEee and Pageland.
Is5 on e ee G ae @ a s
Teachers and districts in Paseand divson
Mis- Miss Haals ren Bureh bnd Risrc No. Mt
Mis-; Ds,ic TG =
Mr. Mr. Leon Funderburk, District No "a Pageland S: c.
Mr.. Frank Funderburk District No "a Pageland, S. G..
Mr. Mr. f. PTs Dse bs{2c N0 Na rs
NJ MT6 T EdWa[d; 6i$t5is NJ g. Nj Sreshan, C.
1SHsg %son D5sft Dscf NS No. ?? 80 bReS R9S
Miss Annie Guedge District No. 81 Ruby, S. c..
capmsn Ga pf5s bsfe SG No. o. IS BoRy kSty
Mi Miss Mamie Oliver District No s Mt Croghan S. c.
Schools in the Cheraw Local Field Day will be Districts
No. n q &c. s6 l2, 49, A. II, lS l9 50, 81 49, A. e. ii,
- SCHOOLS Isl in McBee District will be Districts 49, 49, 5o
The reading and Spelling contests will be as follows:
To- 80 1st Grade End Grade 3rd Grade 4 Grade sep
1l:3O Written Spelling Sh 9th TO- and 1lth Grades to.
gether 9Th, 6th and 9TH Grades together 3rd and 4th
Grades together.
No country boy, or girl will have to compete with
school of more than two teachers Contestants from
schools of more than three teachers will compete with
Each school entitled boy girl for each event.
- he Defamation contest will be all boys above.
the Nh Grade The Recitation contest is open girls
aboye the 9TH grade and begins promptly at II o'clock.
m The elementary Defamation and Recitation Contests
The time for this contest will be announced later
ATHLETIC EVENTS
50 yard dash for boys under II wears.
50 yard dash for boys II years.
100 yard dash open to ALL
22O yard dash open all.
Half mile open to all.
Baseball throw open to all.
Running high jump open to all.
Running broad jump open to ALL
Pole vault open TO ALL
All entries must be in the hands of the County Supern-
tendent by March the 25th.
Contestants must have fair average OF attendance and
an average of not less than 70 per class room work
he winners OF the local events will receive ribbons
and such prizes as be %sly otfered.-The Prizes
held aCheserlied Of ri! Sth will BE- in cash and ooes @
to the school for Improvements.
Get in touch with the Chairman of your district These
are L. Sllwell Cheraw G. B. Dukes. Pageland and L.
E. Ogburn, McBee
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
CORPORATION to Promote
Trade
HAVE REGULAR SAlLlNCS
Steamers Will Sail From All the
Principal Southern Seaports oh 'he
South Atlantic and the Guif.

ORGANIZATION of the Chlnese-Ahiel-
lean Exchange company, a snip
ping corporation which proposes 10
inaugurate ii general mercantile
trade between China and American
ports on the gulf, south Atlantic ana
Pacific, was announced at Washihs-
ton. 1t is headed by DIR. Clarence
J. Owens. managing director Oh lhe
Southern Commercial congress- ana
is understood to have the active pack
inc of that organization.
Establishment of regular Salllhgs
is contemplated between Norlolh'
Charleston. Wilmington, Savannah
Jacksonville. Mobile and Galveston
on the east coast, and San Pedro, Los
Angeles, San Francisco and Portland
on the west coast. At Portland con-
nection will be made with another
fleet plying to and from the Chinese
treaty ports. 4 bond issue Of
$1,000, 900 will he issued soon, COM
pany officials announced. No date
has been set for inauguration of sail
inGS
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
Many County Fairs
In State of Florida
THEIR BLISS SHORT LIVED.
"Novelette Confession" Basis For Di.
vOrce Suit.

A "novelette confession" alleged to
have been written by 19-year old
Asia ASche is the basis of suit for
annulment filed at New York by her
husband Herman r. Asche, 40-year-
old millionaire importer. The cou-
pies married bliss lasted just six
weeks-the reward Of nine years pa
tient waiting on Asche's part, for he
fell in love with Asia when she was
but nine years old.
ASta'S heart. Asche charges. never
belonged to him, but burned in Loyal
love for young artist. 1t was to the
latter-so far the "man of mystery"
in the strange caSe-that the "nov
elette confession" of his beautiful
young bride was penned. In it she
reveals, according to her husbands
affidavit, that her marriage to him
was Il plet to get his money. and she
had been his wife only in name, so
she might return to the young artist
as she had left him.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
HERE is A MYSTERY.
Mans Head, With Eyelids and Lips
Sewed TOgether, Found.

Another grueSome mystery is puZ-
zling the police of Atlanta.
The head of Il man was found last
week on the Southern railway tracks
in Il clump of weeds, near Peters
street. with the cyclidS and lips sew
ed tightly together with catgut. No
sign of the torso was in evidence
simply the CHASTITY head, either that
of white man or Il negro. the black
cned condition of the flesh rendering
it difficult to tell which race it be-
longed to-
Is the lead an evidence of some
CHASTITY crime that would furnish a
Sherlock Holmes "thriller?"
Was the head, after dscapitation,
thrown from Il car window? If so,
what was done with tho body Of the
victim?
One theory advanced is that the
man in life may have been a member
of Il mysterious clan or cult, had, per-
hans, "tn'%"l too much" and was de-
capitatvl hv his enragcd fellows and
his ltTS and ewes sewcd up as an
impressive warning to others. The
fact that the mouth and the eyes
are Srwod tightly, and apparently
with cat&ut, adds only TO the myS-
terry.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
NATIONAL RIFLE SHOOT.
Civilians Will Be Permitted to Take
Part in Same.

The national rifle matches will be
held at Jacksonville. Fla, beginning
October II.
For the first time in the history OF
national rifle matches for the mill
tary. civilians will be permitted to
take part in the shoot this year. The
matches at Jacksonville will be fea-
tured with an innovation. The war
department has approved the sugges-
tion of the National Rifle association.
the membership of which consists of
thousands of crack ritlemen who ar
private citizens. The governors OF
the various states have been urged
to encourage the sending of at least
one team of civilian ritiemen to take
part in the various matches.
1t is expected that there will be a
ready response. Every state is eN-
pectcd to he represented. The re-
suit will be that the meeting will he
the largest and most interesting that
has vet been pulled off.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
More Than Usual Interest
Shown This Fall
FORMER FAIRS ECLIPSED
Every County Beginning to Realize
the Benefits Derived From First
Glass Industrial and Agricultural
Fairs.

Fair talk in west Florida, north
Florida. east Florida. south Florida
middle Florida and every other part
of Florida is beginning to feature dis
cusSionS. 1t will be fair time soon'
Every part of the state will hols
either local or sectional fairs of some
kind. and in each instance the eX-
position will eclipse the ones previous,
Il reports are to be relied on.
The probabilities are that there VIII
be more fairs in Florida this year
than ever before. Every county is be-
ginning to realize the good that comes
from first class industrial and agrl-
cultural fairs.
More than the usual interest is be-
ing manifested this year in these eN-
positions.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
100000 HOMELESS.
Red Cross Makes Appeal For Chinese
F!COd Sufferers.

The American Red Cross at Wash,
ington made another appeal for aid
for Chinese flood sufferers in the
Hwai river provinces where more
than 100000 persons have beer
made homeless by one of the greatest
foods in the history of China.
The casualties have not yet beer
learned. but the American consul at
Marking describes the flood as the
most disastrous since 1909. when aI.
most 100000 persons lost theii
lives.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
$4,000" FIRE SCREEN.
Relic of Civil War Presented tc
Georgia.

The remains of a $4,000 ante
bellum fortune will be distributed by
"Tncle Jep' Stevens, of Heard coun-
ty. to the state as relic of the Civil
War.
At the beginning of the war Mr.,
Stevens advanced the Confederate
government $4,000 and later he was
repaid in Confederate money, which
soon became practically worthless.
Many years afterwards he made a
fire screen of the bills, and this he
will present to the state, putting it
on exhibition in the museum at the
capitol
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
FATE OF DARING AIRMAN.
Kiffin Rockwell, Of AsheviIle, N. c.,
Killed in France.

Kitfin Yates Rockwell. formerly OF
Ashcvillc and Atlanta, who had beer
serving with the French aero corps or
the western battle front. was killed
in fight with German aircraft. An
nOuncement of his death was contain
ed in a cablegram from Paris received
by his mother. Mrs. L. \. Rockwell
Of Winston Salem.
Rockwell is reported to have beer
one of the most daring and successful
airmen in the aviation service Of the
Allies. His brother, Paul, is also il
the service of the Allies in France.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
Longest Spite Fence in World.

A fence two city blocks long and
said to be the longest spite fence in
the world is to be torn down to make
room for an apartment building at
Chicago. The fence. eight feet high.
was built seventeen years ago by
Thomas F.. Wells. because he wanted
to shut out from his sight the hate
full signs of business activities which
flanked his beautiful hedges and gar
denS.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
Saves DAUGHTER
Advice Of Mother no Doubt Pre-.
vents Daughters UntimeIy End.

Ready, KY" was not able 10 dc
anything for nearly six MONTHS" writes
Mrs. Laura BratCher, of this place, "and
was down in bed for three months.
cannot tell you how | suffered with
my head, and with nervousness and
womanly troubles.
Our family doctor told my husband he
could not do me any good, and he had
to give it up. We tried another doctor
but he did not help me.
AT last, my mother advised me 10 taks
Cardui, the woman's tonic. | thought
1t was no use for was nearly dead and
nothing seemed to do me any good, But
| took eleven bottles, and now am able
10 90 all OF my work and my own
washing. wv"
think Csrdui is the best medicine in
me world. My weight has increased
and look the picture of health. "
II you suffer from any of the silments
peculiar TO women, get a bottle of Card,,j
today. Delay is dangerous. We know
II VIII help you. for il has heIned so
many thousands OF other weak woaseS
in The past SO years.
AT all druggists.
WRIT 70: Chattanooga Medicine ca I.As-
HcFlSoty Depi-, Chattanooga, Tenn II, = ;
IHSfr h'effoTI on your cEg# anc 64-psgs h5, -
'I7a''heh' ior women IL uiasn wrapper, NC. 5s
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
McGuffey, of "Reader" House, Dies.

Major Charles d. McGuffey, law
yer. educator and author of a history
of Hamilton county. died at Chatta-
nooga in the Seventv-fifth year Of his
age His father, Cincinnati lawyer,
and his uncle. Il professor in the Uni
verSity Of Virginia. were cOmpilers
and joint authors Of McGutfey'S old
readers. spoilers and arithmeticS gen
orally used in the schools a quarter of
a century ago.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
Battles Rageo
On Somrne Front
LOWEST DEATH RECORD.
titaI Statistics Announced Show Very
Encouraging Conditions.

The lowest death rate in the coun-
try's history is shown in preliminary
vital statistics for the year 1915 made
public at Washington by the census
bureau.
The rate, 1875 per thousand, is
based on reports from 25 states and
Al cities with total population OF
about 67. 100000. In 1914. the per-
centage of deaths was 1876, the lowest
recorded up TO that time. There has
been steady decrease. The average
rate during the period 19O1-O5 being
1872.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06

The Rev. G. f. w. DObbs. who ar
rived at Louisville. KY, from Jack
sonville, Fla. to fill pulpit appoint
ments there, died suddenly Of a heart
attack. He was noted Baptist min
lister. and was one of the last two
surviving members of the second class
of the Southern Baptist seminary
when it was located at Greenvilir,
s. c., before the war.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
Dependency.

When you feel discouraged and des-
pondent do not give up but take a
dose OF Chamberlain's Tablets and you
are almost certain to feel all right
within a day or two. Dependency
IS very often due to indigestion and
olhousness, for which these tablets
are especially valuable. Obtainable
everywhere.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06

Armen Schuerle, Of Appleton, Wis.
who returned from driving a truck out
of Columbus. y. Mex, for the army,
says the hills thereabouts were
strpwn with bodies of MeXicans kill
ed in the battle after the raid. He
says the soldiers have made dice from
the bones of some Of them.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
LELAND RICE SHOT.
Alleged Bank Robber Killed in Flor.
ida

Leland Rice, one of the four ban
dts wanted for rObbing the Home
stead, Fla, bank two weeks ago, was
killed, and his brother. Frank Rice.
another Of the band. was probably
fatally wounded when they sought
refuge on Chokolukee island. fifteen
miles south of Ft. Myers, according
to Frank Rice, who was brought to
Ft. Myers for treatment.
Jim Tucker and Hugh Alderman,
said TO be the other members of the
band being sought. are still at large,
but officials declared the bandits were
being pressed closely by two posses.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
Raney Issues Call.

Call was issued by George p. Ra-
ney, chairman, for meeting Of the
State Democratic Executive commit
tee at Jacksonville, October I. to take
measures to aid in the election Of
nominees of the Democratic party,
national, state and county.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
All For the Best,

'Why do the roses fade slowly
away she inquired poetically.
'Well,' replied the baldheaded
young man, "when you think it over
it's all for the best. It's more COM
Portable to have them fade slowly
away than to go off all of a Sudden,
like a torpedo"
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
Man-Eating Shark Caught at Mobile.

\ monster man eating shark of the
tiger variety was caught in Mobile
Bay, off the pilot boat Alabama. 1t
measured fourteen feet and was the
largest seen in those waters for years
The shark fought seven n!en for twC
hours
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
TURNER'S EXECUTION
Order For Hanging Is Second Death
Warrant Issued.

Willie Turner, the negro who was
convicted Of the murder of f. C.
Avery. the old turfman, last Novem-
ber, and who is said to have buried
his body in a stable. will be hanged
in Gainesville. Fla. Friday. October
20, Sheriff Ramsey having received
the death warrant from Governor
Trammell fixing the date.
This is the second death warrant
issued for Turner The first one fix
ed the date for his execution on Au-
gust 25, and was revoked just few
days before the date arrived. Ac-
cording to officials, there are no legal
barriers in the way for the negro's
execution October 20.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06

They who are most wearv e: .; :.
and yet are most unwillin. VI liz
such s1 , VINO aave lived to no 1y purDa,s rls, a
who have rather breathed tbs bbuspose- {,
Earl OF Clarendon. Wall llVe(
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06

1t is question whether we have
ever seen the full expression of per
sonality, except on the imaginative
plane of art-Oscar Wilde
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
Very Easy.

1t is said that two people can live
oh leSs than one How do you ac-
count Tor it?" .\r~ ..ay"
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06

"Use Juba Self Rising Flour for
delicious hot Biscuits-at all Gro
GERS" 9-15-tf.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06

Birth Of Well.knowr
The first society for tbo society.
OF Cruelty to Animals was s ssrevsntq
england in 1924 by Mr.. Mart,r ,tunosd led
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06

Optimistic Thought.
The dull world hath need Of YOU.
New Ulm review., 1916-10-11
No Joke In Child Labor LuW

Criticism of the Child Labor Law by
Republicans comes with poor grace and
falls very fiat on the general public. This
criticism will scarcely win for the party
many votes. The charge that there is a
joker hidden away somewhere in the
measure is resented by Owen r. Lovejoy,
general secretary of the National Child
Labor Committee.
In published letter, Mr.. Lovejoy
emphatically protests against such criti-
cis1ns as have been hurled against the
:aw by Candidate Hughes and other
prominent Republicans. He says the
bill was carefully drawn and thoroughly
considered. It was not jammed through
Congress, but had been pending for three
years. Only two Republican senators;
Penrose and Oliver, voted against it.
In concluding his letter he says:
''The federal child labor law was
framed by the best constitutional law
yers in the country; it was passed by a
congress that had given it close atten-
tion."
Senator Albert B. Cummings, Republi-
can of Iowa, asserts that the allega-
ton that there is ''joker" in the law is
absolutely without foundation. He
stigmatizes persons making such ale
cations as "either insincere or incom-
petent."
New Ulm review., 1916-10-11
Minnesota S0ldie1s IN Texas
Commit Vote.

The proposal of Secretary of State
julius Schmahl and others that a special
session of the legislature be called that
law might be enacted permitting the
state troops now encamped on the
Mexican border the right to vote at the
election on November Z, comes too late
to produce the result desired and the
boys at the border will not vote this fall.
The governor has left St. Paul to be
absent several days and when he returns
it will be too late to issue the call, which
has to be made at least thirty days before
the convening Of the lawmakers.
The Wisconsin legislature met at
Madison yesterday to enact a law per-
mitting her soldier boys in Texas to vote.
It was not expected that the Badger
legislators would be in session more than
two days.
New Ulm review., 1916-10-11

world. He had no responsibility. to
tbother him, he didn't have to run errands
afoot, he was not cold or miserable or
unhappy. Isn't it a shame that some
parents have 50 little sense Of what they
owe their young sons as to fail to provide
them with touring cars to drive about in?
Every parent should be compelled to
keep car for his ten year old sons COM
fort and we'll being and no doubt the law
will some day provide that all who have
children must provide at least such urgent
necessities for their sons, and possibly
their daughters as well.
New Ulm review., 1916-10-11
Present Prosperity Not Fictitious

Many of the big financial men of the
country don't believe that the present
Democrat administration has been a
failure, by any means. Neither do they
believe that the prosperity which the
United States is enjoying is fictitious.
Charles G. Dawes, president of the
Central Trust Company of Illinois, who
was comptroller of the currency during
President McKinley's administration,
says: II
"For 1856 exports greater; imports
greater; balance of trade in our favor
$219, 100000. Merchant shipping makes
new record; tonnage of American
ships three times that of 1914. Financ-
.ng by corporations more than doubled.
Gross and net earnings of railroads great
ly increased; idle cars August 1st, 1000,
against 265,O00 year ago."
Frank Carter, Vice-President of the
Mercantile Trust Company of St. Louis,
says:
Zone of the best reasons I know for
saying that Woodrow Wilson should be
+ s-elected is the unusual condition in
banking circles, in that there is no at
tention being paid to the election when
extending credits, as has been the case
in all previous presidential years. For
a friend in Boston called up three of the
biggest companies in St. Louis to give
them a big order in the steel business,
and each one told me they had so much
on hand it was impossible to take on any
new business"
John M. Hodges of the Fort Dear
born National Bank, in an article headed
Prosperity to Stay With Us After the
War;" in the Chicago American, says:
II believe that the railroads will have
more freight and passenger business than
they can handle, steamboats, will have
more tonnage than ever before, steel,
woolen and cotton and saw mills and
manufactures will be running night
and day, and all state and building
ope ~ations will be on the most extensive
scale ever known. At the world-war's
end every belligeren; country will be
confronted with the greatest demand
for the products of the soil, loom, mill and
factory. They will buy where they can
get the goods quickest, and that market
is America
New Ulm review., 1916-10-11

Glancing out of the window Sunday
morning we saw one of the most glaring
examples of the unfairness of life, the in
justice of the unequal distribution of
wealth. It was when the rain was
coming down in a steady, cold, dis
heartening drizzle. Grown people we're
shivering along in overcoats with up
turned collars with the drip, drip Of the
rain beating upon their raised umbrellas.
The pavements were slippery and the
c 'ossings muddy; in short, an utterly
disagreeable, discouraging day was in
progress. Such a day as even older
people dislike to be out in. And coming
along the street was a small boy, not
more than ten years Of age at the most,
forced out into the inclement weather
by some household need of the family.
Here he was making his way thru the
rain, wet and unhappy as boys always
are when they are forced to encounter
mud and water. Disconsolate, he
trudged along, thinking doubtless of the
bitterness of life. But even then his
unhappy lot was not so evident until as
he came to a crossing he was obliged to
stand and wait for a big touring car to
pass in front Of him, seven-passenger
car with single occupant, and that a
boy but little older than himself. Then
it was that the full bitterness of the
inequality Of life became apparent. In
the car was the one lad who could drive
about at his pleasure, costly protected
from the cold and rain, comfortably
seated among soft cushions instead of
urging tired legs along slippery walks.
He had right of way in his big car; the
boy on the walk must look out for him
self and woe to him if he got in the way
of the boy in the car, for sometimes cars
skid on slippery pavements even when
grown people are at the steering wheel.
The boy in the car hadn't a care in the
New Ulm review., 1916-10-11

blockade we recognize the right TO
blockade. Where there are the ordinary
restraints created by state of war we
ought to recognize those restraints. We
have right to send food to peaceful
populations whenever and wherever
the conditions of war make it possible
to do so under the ordinary rules of
international law. We have the right
to supply them with our cotton to clothe
them. We have the right to supply
them with our manufactured products.
At Kansas City, February 2, 1916.
New Ulm review., 1916-10-11
COUNTRY WEEKLY NATIONAL
POLICEMAN, SAYS BRISBANE

Arthur Brisbane, editor of the New
York Journal says: The weekly coun-
try newspaper is the national police
man, ready to hear the peoples COM
plant, ready to act and protest against
dangerous legislation or dangerous
public opinion.
The country newspaper is the national
public forum; it is the concentrated ex-
preston Of local thought. The country
newspapers, combined are the people
and the power of the country.
The man who edits country news
paper and possesses his readers conf
dence is the school teacher of grown-up
men and women.
It is to him that the citizens mind
turns in time of doubt for information
and for advice based on local knowledge.
There are at least fifty millions of
human beings in this country to whom
the voice of the country editor means
more than any other voice in the nation.
AS the country editors power is great
in forming public opinion, protecting
public interest, infuncing Congressional
action, so it IS great as business agent
and powerful as an advertising medium