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The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
September Jobs for BUSY
Farmers

Continue to sow cover crops
such as rape, crimson clover,
bur clover, ETC., IN cotton.
Continue to transplant early
varieties of cabbage and colIards
for winter use.
Plant onion SETS and seed for
the spring crop.
Write to your experiment
station for information how to
keep your sweet potatoes.
Select seed corn in the field
Choose a close fitting shuck and
hanging ear for weevil
protection.
Sow Abruzzi rye, oats, wheat,
crimson clover, bur clover, rape,
and vetch for winter and spring
grazing for hogs.-Clemson
College Bulletin.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
Cotton Leaps 81 A Bale

New Orleans, Aug. 31.-A
sensational advance which
reached $4 a bale up from the
lowest of the day, accompanied
by the heaviest and most fren.
zied trading witnessed on the
local market since the memor.
able sessions during the so-called
"Sully pool" of several years
ago, was scored in cotton today,
after the Governments report on
the August condition and the
forecast of the 1916 production
of 11,8O0,000 was announced to
the ring.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
Be Alive!

Be alive to your welfare. No
one cares for you as much as
yourself. If the street corner
shouter tells you that he is your
guardian he lies way down in
his throat and he knows it. He
is looking out for one man and
that man Is himself. r' =
More lives of trespassers who
will not keep off the track than
employees and passengers are lost
on railroads of the United States
every year from accidents
Keep off the track! Safety
first! Be alive to all that sur
rounds you. Safeguard your
property, your health, your life,
your children, your happiness.
Do it yourself. Think out
your problems. Listen to advice,
but decide for yourself. You
must foot the bill, and your judg-
ment in nine cases out of ten
will prove the safest.
Safeguard your patriotism
from the assaults of the smooth
tongued demagogue, posing as
the friend of the common peo.
pie. Cast him out as a venom
Gus viper. Avoid the disturber
who would have you dissatisfied
with our lot and put you at en-
nifty with your EMPLOYER with
whom you should enjoy the
friendllest relations in a cooper.
ative spirit.
Above all safeguard your soul
and conscience from the ap.
proach of anyone who proclaims
that you have no God and no
master.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
John Hough Shot by Lewis
West

Camden. Aug. 30.-A serious
shooting affray occurred on
Main street here this afternoon
in which John Hough, formerly
of this county, but now of near
Winnsboro, was seriously
wounded, and is now suffering
from a bullet wound thru the
kidneys.
The trouble was of several
years standing. Lewis West,
who did the shooting, was a
brother-in-law of John Hough.
Hough several years ago beat
his father in.law to death with a
shotgun, was tried and convict
ed at court here and sentenced
to be electrocuted. His SEN
tence was reprived, and later be-
fore going out of office was
granted a full pardon on Christ
mas day by Governor Blease.
Since being released from the
State prison Hough has been
making his home around Ker-
shaw and later moved to Winns
doro. Today was the first time
members of the family had
come in contact with him and
the shooting resulted.
AT late hour tonight Hough's S
condition was unchanged and
he was taken to a Columbia hos
pital on a late train. ]. w.
Slower, a negro mail carrier,
who was passing by on a BIZ
cycle, received a minor bullet
wound thru his leg.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
Feed Will Be High-Priced: Plant
an Abundance of Forage
Crops

OIop6
Progressive Farmer
According to the estimates of
the United States Department of
Agriculture. the corn crop of the
corn states will this year be be-
low the average, while IN the
Cotton Belt certainly no more
than an average crop at best
may be expected. Already these
facts are being reflected in high
priced corn, prices in Southern
towns now varying from 81 to
SIPS per bushel, with the prob.
ability next spring of higher
prices still.
To every farmer in the South
with whom there is the least
possibility of a shortage of feed
during the next twelve months,
the best course to pursue should
be clear: the thing to do is to
sow oats, and sow them now;
put iii rape for fall grazing, and
rye aid crimson clover for
winter and spring grazing. We
simply can't afford to pay SIPS
a bushel for corn next spring,
and wise indeed is the man who
takes precaution now against
any such possibility.
In this connection let us urge
anew the need for planting these
crops early. Fall-planted oats
nearly everywhere in the Cotton
Belt have on an average nearly
doubled in yield the crops from
spring paintings. AT the Ala
bama Station, for instance, the
increase was about IFS per cent
in favor of fall planting-more
than double. In the northern
half of the belt, September is the
best month to sow, while in the
southern half the crop should be
put in not later than the end of
October if possible. The winter
grazing crops, too, should be
seeded early if much grazing is
to be furnished before spring.
Abruzzi rye sowed in September
will generally give very fair
grazing by Christmas, and Grim
son clover put in now will usual.
ly give good grazing from the
end of February till May.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
To the Voters of Old Store
Township

AS you all doubtless know, l
am in the second race with Mr..
]. f. Agerton for township COM
missioner. l appreciate the vote
you gave me in the first primary,
and will also appreciate any
that you will give me IN the
second.
The statement has been made
that l have no way to travel
over the roads if elected. l will
guarantee that | will go at any
time it is necessary, as there are
still plenty of ways to travel,
and some of them are at my
disposal. l promise, if elected,
to look after the intetests of all
and the best interests of the
township. l will serve you just
as faithfully as l have in the
past at other work which you
committed to me and I am bet
ter prepared to serve you now
than ever before. So I ask one
and all to remember me. | have
no other business that takes my
time so that l could not look
after this. | can serve you at
any time,
Yours truly
G. r. KNIGHT
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
w. K. Evans Thanks Supporters

[ desire TO thank my friends
for their support in the first pri-
mary, and ask for their support
in the second. | have perform
ed the duties of Magistrate to
the best of my ability, and
promise the same fair treatment
to one and all for the next term
if you will elect me again.
Thanking one and all, | am
Very truly.
w. K. EVANS
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
Monroe Woman Weds Minister

Monroe Woman Weds Minister
Monroe, Sept. IA wedding
of rare brilliance and wide social
interest here and throughout the
State was celebrated here
Wednesday evening at s o'clock
at the Baptist Church when Miss
Beulah Copple, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. H. E. Copple, became
the bride of Rev. Sam Long of
Hamilton, N. Y. Rev. Edward
Long, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of North Wilkesboro
officiated for his brother. in
which he was assisted by Rev.
James Long, also a brother of
the groom, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Laurinburg,
and Rev. L. Mob. White, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
Monroe.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
Origin of Petrified Forest

The "Petrified Forest" OF Ari.
zona. really series of petrified
forests, lies short distance south
of Adamana, on the line of the
Santa Fe Railway. There are
four forests" included in a
Government reservation called
"Petrified Forest National Mon
ument," created by presidential
proclamation in 1906. The name
forest" is not stricklv appropri-
ate, for the petrified tree trunks
are all PROSTATE and are broken
into sections. The logs are the
remains of giant trees that grew
in TriaSsic time. the age of rep
tiles. The trees were of several
kinds, but most of them were re-
lated to the Norfolk Island pine,
now used for indoor decoration.
Doubtless they grew in a nearby
region and, after falling, drifted
down a water and lodged
in some eddy or a sand bank.
Later they were buried bv sand
and clay, finally to a depth of
several thousand feet. The con-
version to stone was effected by
gradual replacement of the
woody material by silica in the
form called chalcedony, deposit
ed by underground water. A
small amount of iron oxides de-
posted at the same time has
given the brilliant and beautiful
brown, yellow, and red tints
which appear in much of the
material.
Some of the tree trunks are 6
feet in diameter and more than
100 feet in length. In the first
forest there is a fine trunk that
forms a natural bridge over
small ra vine, the water having
first washed away the overlying
clay and sand then, following
crevice, worked out the channel
underneath. The length of this
log is ITO feet, and the diameter
4 feet at the butt and l IL feet
at the top.
The petrified woods are beau
tiful objects tor study. When
thin slices are carefully ground
down to a thickness of O.OO3
inch or less and placed under
the microscope they show per.
fectly the original wood struc-
ture, all the cells being distinct,
though now they are replaced
by chalcedony.-U. S. Geologi-
cal Survey.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
Defined

"A negror preacher was con-
ducting a revival without much
success. AT last, however, he
awakened his congregation by
asking:
Does yo' all know what eter
nifty is? Well, bredren, l tell yo'.
If one of dem liz sparrows what
yo' see roun' yo' garden bushes
was to dip his bill in de 'Lantic
Ocean an take one hop a day
an hop across de country an
put dat drop of water into de
'Clific Ocean, an den hop back
to de 'Lantic Ocean-jes' one
hop day-an' if he keep dat
hoppin' up 'twell de 'Lantic
Ocean wuz dry as a bone, it
wouldn't be break O. day in
eternity"
"Dar, now," said one of the
brethren, "yo' see fob yo' self
how long eternity s."-Every
body'S.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
Card of Thanks

l take this method of thank.
ing the voters of Mt. Croghan
Township for loval support
given me in the recent primary
for commissioner. And ask a
continuance of same in the sec.
ond primary.
Respectfully,
6. H. Gulledge,
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
Strike is off; Labor Leaders
Recall Strike Order

Washington, Sept. 2.-The
threat of general railroad strike
which has been hanging like a
pail over the country for a
month was lifted tonight.
Three hours after Senate had
passed without amendment the
adamson eight-hour day bill.
passed by the House yesterday,
the heads of the four great rail
road employees brotherhoods
teleeraphed 600 odd code mes.
sages to their general chairmen
in all parts of the country can
ceiling the strike order issued a
week ago to take effect next
Monday morning at 7 o'clock.
The legislative expedient to
avert the strike was passed in
the Senate by a vote of 48 to %
almost a strict party vote
amid stirring scenes, after many
Senators, Democrats and Repub-
licans, had fought desperately to
amend the measure by provisions
designed to prevent industrial
disasters in the future. Some
Senators, thoroughly aroused,
declared Congress was being
coerced into enactment of legis-
lation that it did not desire, and
that 1t knew would return to
plague it in the future.
In both Houses the measure
was signed within a few minutes
after the final vote in the Senate
and 1t was sent at once to the
White House where President
Wilson will sign it at 7:3O o'clock
tomorrow morning, after his re-
turn from Shadow Lawn.
Officials of the brotherhoods
who witnessed the final passage
of the bill had announced early
in the night that cancellation of
the strike would not be ordered
until the bill had been signed by
the President and actually had
become law. But later they
conferred, changed their minds
and flashed the code messages
signalling to the waiting train
meu of the country thru their
chairmen. the word that a salts.
factory settlement had been Sc
cured.
The bill that stopped the strike
provides that after January /,
1917. eight hours shall be regard.
ed as basis of reckoning for a
days pay of men engaged in the
operation of railroad trains in
interstate commerce excepting
roads less than 100 miles long
and electric lines); that they
shall receive pro rata pay for
work in excess of eight hours,
and that their rate of compen-
satlon shall not be changed
pending an investigation, for
from six to nine months by a
commission to be appointed by
the President, to the effect of the
elght-hour day upon the rail-
roads.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
To Old Store Tawnship Voters

l want to thank the good peo-
pie of Old Store township for
the splendid vote given me in
the first primary, and will thank
one and all for the same court
estes in the second primary. If
elected | will try to serve you in
the future as faithfully as in the
past.
lie. AGERTON
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06

Extract from a letter: "Your
rifle is your best friend; take
every care al ii. Treat it as YOU
would your wife; rub it thorough.
ly with an oily rag every day"
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06
Farmers Who Would go to
Town and City Men who
Would be Farmers.

Progressive Farmer.
This is written for just two
classes of men: farmers who
are tired of the farm and its hard
work, who believe the job of the
average city man is a snap, and
who are ready to sell out and
move to town; and city men
who are yearning for the free
dom from worry that they think
goes with farm life, who believe
that farming is easy, that the
sunshine and the rain come just
right, and that the flowers are
always blooming and the birds
are always singing.
To the first of these, to the
farmer who is sick of his job
and would 60 to town. the best
thing you can possibly do IS to
stick to your knitting. Wages
in town may appear large, but
the cost ofliving is generally
larger still. The city man can
barely furnish his family with
actual necessities on a salary of
500 a month or less. Rent is to
pay, light, fuel, milk, vegetables,
even water to drink, have to be
paid for, and usually at prices
that are simply astonishing to
the average farmer.
On the other hand, the city
man who would farm too often
has failed to know and properly
consider the factors that make
for success. He forgets that the
singing of the birds and the
blooming of the flowers go un-
noticed by the man who tramps
from daylight till dark behind a
balky mule through a rooty new
ground. When boil weevils get
the cotton or drouth gets the
corn, the poetry of farming takes
on decidedly flat flavor.
Distant pastures always ap-
pear greenest, and it Is a human
falling to want what the other
fellow has. AT a distance we
see only the good things, the
hard and disagreeable appearing
only with intimate association.
OF course if a farmer is absolute
ly certain that he can better his
condition by going to town, if
he is sure that he is doing the
best thing by himself, his wife
and his children, if he feels sure
he will make more money, in
creased expenses considered,
find friends as good and work
as useful, and that his children
in the town will be as strong,
clean, moral, healthy, happy,
industrious men and women as
If kept in a country home, then
let him 90.
Likewise to the town man
who would farm; the farm is a
place for hard work, and even
at that the average farm is yield
ing a low return on the invest
ment. If YOU are determined to
farm, ask yourself if you mind
getting up regularly at four and
five O'Clock in the morning; if
you can spend the night doctor
ing a sick horse or COW, smiling
Tile while; if you keep your
temper serene while the roots IN
the new ground are flying back
and barking your shins, and the
plow handles are digging you IN
the ribs; if you can look on
while drouth and flood, bug and
worm take your crops. your
head bloody but unbowed". If
you can do all these and a few
hundred others like them, then
possibly you have the "makingsn1
of farmer in you.
Card of Thanks
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1916-09-06

"If a farmer sold 1879 bushels
of wheat for SLY a bushel. what
would he get?"
IAN automobile"
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19
Efforts Will Be Made at Once to
Organize Nevada National Guard

Regarding the reports that Gov
crnor Boyle had been called upon by
the national government to mobilize
the militia OF Nevada, he was waiteo
rpCn today by an Appeal representa-
tive and made the following state
Wcnt:
NO official notification of a call
for troops of any kind has rea>hed
my office as yet, but | have been the
recipient OF numerous kilograms from
the press Of the country asking for
Information as to the probable num-
Der of troops which Nevada could
supply in case of trouble.
1--WE have no organized militia IN
the state at present, but. in conform
ity with the provisions OF the recent
" enacted army reorganization DILL
we are required, within year OF its
passage and approval. to organize a
militia in the proportion OF 200 men
for each of our senators and repre-
senatives in congress. Tenders OF
service from men al over the state
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19
Garbage Dumped
On Public Roads

The Women's North End Improve
ment club of Carson has done splen-
did work in the way OF starting the
cleaning up Of the north end Of town
and has had the cooperation Of the
Board of Trustees and the officials
generally in the good work. The
road to the cemetery is being clean
ed. the. objectionable mass of garbage
removed or burnt up. This work is
under the supervision of Sheriff Stern
and it is his intention to see that
nothing more shall be dumped there
There is dumping ground east OF
the city towards the Blackwell ranch,
signs are placed all along the way in
dicating where garbage may be dump
ed and the sheriff intends to see that
the city refuse is taken to the ap-
pointed dumping grounds.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19

Complaint has reached the Appeal
office that parties now are beginning
to dump garbage Of al kinds within
few yards OF the road leading to
Reno. at a point seventy-tive or a
hundred yards from where the road
branches off the Carson road lead
ing to the Hot Springs. This is the
road all tuOrists must pass over 60
ing to and from Reno. Lake Tahoe
and other points, and is the most
travelled road of any in the entire
state. and the sight of old tin cans.
garbage or refuse of any kind is not
only a disgrace, but reflects upon the
good name of the capital city and its
civic pride.
Arrests will be made if the offen-
der presists in this practice.
Complaints were also made rodav
that garbage is being dumped along
side the Kings Canyon road, and the
matter is being looked into by the
sheriff's office.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19

have been made within the past twen-
ty-f0ur hours and | believe that the
militia can be easily organized to
full peace strength within thirty days
if no untoward delay occurs in get
ting equipment from the war depart
ment.
The adjutant general, Lieutenant
Governor Sullivan, has been request
ed by wire to come to Carson at once
and Captain Applewhite, I. s. A.,
cOmmandart Of the university, has
differed his services to the state in
organizing the National Guard.
II am pleased, though in no way
surprised, by the patriotic attitude OF
the Nevada people and am confid dent
that if troops are required to assert
or protect the rights Of the nation,
Nevada will. as heretofore, do as
much in protection to our resources
as any OF her sisters in the Union.
NO time will be lost in organizing
the militia whether or not the pres
ent crisis passes without incident
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19
Captivated by
Visit to Tahoe

Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Forster Of
Goldfield were auto arrivals in Carson
yesterday evening from Lake Tahoe.
Mr.. Forster left Goldie'd few days
ago for Reno. where he delivered the
business mems address before the
Commercial club OF that city. A trip
10 Lake Tahoe was taken advantage
of and Mr.. and Mrs. Blakeslee Of
Reno accompanied them. Upon the
party's arrival in Carson last evening
Mr.. Forster was asked about his trip
to the lake and said This is the
first time I have visited the lake or
been over the Kings Canyon road,
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19
Motor Truck to Haul Ore

G. /. Good has secured the SER
vices Of S. F. Paul's Dig Peerless mo-
tor truck to haul the carload of ore
which he and his associates have tax
en- out from their lease on the Grey
Eagle mine. This ore will be hauled
to Beawawe as it is taken out through,
the long tunnel which taps the Grey
Eagle ledge from the Indian creek
side of the mountain-Battle Noun.
tain Scout.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19
Marguerite Clark
a Circus Queen

present another complete Paramount
program, featuring the dainty, dmin-
utive screen star, Marguerite Clark,
in an original drama OF circus life,
Still Waters,' written especially for
the little Famous Players star by
Edith Barnard Delano, the we'll
known novelist who recently wrote
Rags for Mary Picllford, in which
she scored a triumph
Harry La Pearl, one Of the New
York Hippodrome's most celebrated
clowns, was especially engaged for
the circus scenes which play such an
important part in the story. His
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19

and was simply astonished at inc
wonder Of it all A most beautiful
resort is the lake, magnificent seen
cry, and one cannot help but STOW
and look and gaze upon the wonder
i'll ,",,rks of nature that the lake is
blessed with. Leaving the lake and
Coming into Carson over the Kings
Canyon road is another grand stretch
of scenery, in fact, the trip abounds
in just one panorama after another
of the most beautiful mountain seem
cry that one can wish to see
Mr.. Forster added that Carson does
not realize the value of that road and
the lake to this city, and said if Gold
field only had such resort and such
a scenic road near there what place
they would make Of it.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19
BY United Pressl

WASHINGTON, June 10-The
state department this afternoon sent
Carranza representations concerning
General Trevino's threat to attack the
Americans if they continued their
Mclean operations, but did not reveal
the extent of the representations. 1t
is understood the government frank
ly stated its displeasure at the Incl
dent.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19
Carranzistas Concentrating
lBV United Press

BY United Press
SAN ANTONIO, June 10.-Gen-
eral Funston announces that there is
large concentration OF Carranzista
troops between Ojinaga and Laredo.
Two armored automobiles carrying
machine guns have reached Fort
Houston.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19
Naval Officers Reported Captured

Bv United Press7
WASHINGTON, June 19.-Offi-
cial reports OF the capture Of two
American naval officers by Mexicans
at Mazatlan reached the navy depart
ment this afternoon. Ambas ssadOr
Arredondo also informed Secretary
Lansing concerning the capture of
the officers
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-19
Chief of Staff Arrives
| By United Pressl

By United Pressl
JCAREZ, June l9.-General Fran
cisco Serrano, Mexican war minister
and chief of staff. has arrived here on
a secret mission. 1t is rurnored that
Serrano will take command OF all the
Mexican troops in Northern Mexico
in the event Of an American war