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The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-03-21
The Law Which Allows a Bond
Election Here

Vi 'he olil recently passed by
the legislature authorizing. a
bond election in Pageland school
district:
To Authorize the Trustees of
Pageland Special School Dis.
trict No. 43, in Chesterfield
County. to Issue Additional
Bonds for the Purpose of Erect.
ing School Buildings and Equip
ping Same. and Purchasing a
Lot or Lots:
Section 1. Be it enacted by
the General Assembly of the
State of South Carolina: That
the School Trustees of Pageland
Special School District No. 43.
OF Chesterfield County, said
school district including the
Town of Pageland, are hereby
authorized and empowered to
issue ands ell coupon bonds of
said school district in an amount
not exceeding six thousand five
hundred dollars, as they may
deem necessary. for the purchas-
ing of lot or lots, erecting and
equipping one or more school
buildings in said district, as said
trustees shall deem advisable:
Provided, The question of issue.
ing or said bonds, authorized in
this section, shall first be submit
ted to the qualified voters of
said school district, at an election
ITO determine whether said bonds
shall be issued or not, as herein
after provided,
Sec. 2. That for the purpose of
determining the issue of bonds,
authorized IN section l for this
Act, the said Trustees shall orderI
an election to be held in said
school district during the year
l9l7, on the question ofyhether ]
fhs aS, said al pu h9pds sleelllH shell hf gA
qualified voters residing in said
district shall be allowed to vote;
and said trustees shall give no |
tice of said election for two
weeks in a weekly paper pub
lished in the county of Chester
field; shall designate the time
and place, and appoint the man
ayers of said election, and re-
ceive the returns OF the man
ayers and declare the results:
Provided. That the posting of
said notice of election in three
public places in said school dis
trict fifteen days prior said elec-
ton shall be sufficient notice of
said election if said trustees
should see fit to do so.
Sec. 3. That the said Trustees
shall have printed for the voters
in said election two sets of bal.
lots, which shall be placed, an
equal number of each, polling
place; on one shall be printed
the words. For the issueing of
bonds" and on the other set of
which shall be printed the
words against the issueing of
bonds" If a majority of the
votes cast at said election shall
be for the issueing of the coupon
bonds provided for in Section |
hereof, the said Trustees shall
issue said bonds, or such a
mount, not exceeding six thous
and five hundred dollars. as they
may deem requisite for the pur-
pose set forth in Section | of
this A.t. payable TO bearer, to
run for a period not exceeding
thirty years from date of issue,
bearing interest at rate not ex-
ceeding five per centum per
annum, TO be determined by said
Trustees, payable annually, and
bonds executed and not sold
shall be Cancelled.
Sec That If shall he tho
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-03-21

] was taking the measurements
Of a dress that I had made. I said
Length of skirt 3S inches and
waist SO inches," when Gertrude.
my little girl. said. "Whv mann
ma! If you amt almost Square"!
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-03-21
Three American Vessels Sunk
By German Submarines:
Russian Revolutionists Over
throw Government

Petrograd, March 15.-Emper
or Nicholas of Russia has a5di-
Gated and Grand Duke Michael
Alexandrovitch, his younger
brother, has been named as
regent. The Russian ministry,
charged with corruption and in.
competence, has been swept out
OF office. One minister, Alex
ander Protopoff, head of the in
terror department, is reported to
have been killed and the other
ministers, as we'll as the presi
dent of the imperial council, are
under arrest.
A new national cabinet is an.
nounced with Prince Lvoff as
president of the council and pre-
mler, and the other offices held
by men who are close to the
Russian people.
For several days Petrograd
has been the scene of one of the
most remarkable upr1sings in
history.
Beginning with MINOR food
riots and labor strikes, the cry
for food reached the hearts of
the soldiers and one by cne the
regiments rebelled until finally
those troops that had for a time
stood loyal to the government
took up their arms and marched
into the ranks of the revolution
isis.
The president Of the duma
Michael V. Rodzianko, was the
leading figure among the dele
gates who unanimously decided
to oppose the imperial order for
a dissolution of the house.
IL
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-03-21

SPSAOAs AOA al tuC
the hour had struck when the
will of the people must prevail.
Even the imperial council
realized the gravity of the situa.
tion and added Its appeal to that
of the duma that the emperor
should take steps to give the
people a policy and government
in accordance with their desires
and IN order that there should
be no interference with carry
ing on the war to a victorious
ending.
The emperor fastened back
from the front, only to find that
the revolution had been success
full and that new government
was in control.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
PARKWAY SALOONS PAY
TOPOSTPONE REMOVAL
Bonuses Given Wrecking Com
pany to Put Buildings Last
on Condemned List

Liberal payments for delaying a start on
the destruction of five buildings housing
saloons are being made to the J. J. Gault
House Wrecking Company by hotel man
ayers along the Parkway The liquor deal
ers by this method are postponing to the
last possible moment the necessity Of va
eating their establishments. The payments
will go far toward reimbursing the COM
pany for the s35O0 that II pays to the city
for the privilege of tearing away the
doomed buildings.
The Gault Company paid the money into
the city treasury with the understanding
that it would get back the principal with
interest out of materials taken from build
ings to be torn away between Broad and
Fifteenth streets and F'ilbert and Arch
st eets Nothing said about rentals to
D> charged on the buildings left standing
II Ill the last and the rentals now being col
lected by the wrecking company are held
to be entirely legal by the law officers Of the
city.
The wrecling company will be within its
contract If all the buildings are demolished
and the land in the limits outlined, leveled
before May. In the meantime, by leaving
the hotels until the last. work is progressing
on many of the other buildings less valuable
to the company holding the clearing away
contract
Daniel ]. Kopp, of Kopp's Hotel, declined
to say what he is paying to the wrecking
company to let his building remain. but
the sum is said to be $1,000. Other con-
Germs on property taken by the city paying
rent to the Gault Company include the
Jamison Hotel the Herman Hotel and the
O'Bren and Pentony saloons
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
Nv the PhOtOplay Editor

,rcEN T-"Melting Millions" Fox. with
George Walsh and Anna Luther. story by
Joseph Anthony Roach. Directed by Otis
Turner
fairbanks had better keep an eye on
,ounr George Walsh, or the latter will run
n with his reputation. Melting Millions"
i the best comedy of action since Ills
pcture in the Papers" In fact, we're not
mr. but that it's better. Starting off at a
,,o OF cheerfully mad incident. it gains
need with every scene; never for a mo-
vent loses the snap-snap of continuity and
rive and quits when the story logically
auds. Just a few of the factors in the
slot are football game, a train hod-up.
! boxing match that ends in wild free-for-
an an abduction and a staircase fight be-
txeen hero and villains. The former Is a
young blade, calleds"Hella- Popping" whose
impetnous escapades worry his friends. SO
they make it appear that he has lost his
money The situation is amusing and the
,ubplotting good, too. OF course the Walsh
method is different from that of Fairbanks.
IN spte Of wallscaling and fist!cuffs. Doug
IS putting a little bit more character into
Ms films all the time. George is out only
for speed and humor. Consequently, this
feature flattens out into regular keystone
hrce. But it's quite free of dullness. And
/ Is very nicely set and photographed
Variety Of bill marks the programs of the
Ruby this week. Today the management
Is showing William Foxs production of
The Scarlet Letter" adapted from Haw-
thorne and favorably reviewed in these COL
rmns
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
WHITE RACE BORN AGAIN
AFTER WORLD DISASTER
Engineers Dream Fulfilled in
"The Afterglow," the Sequel to
Beyond the Great Oblivion"

on November 8 OF last year the EVENING
LEDGER began the publication of one Of
the most remarkable stories of adventure
which have appeared In recent years
George Allan England's The Vacant
World" 1t was of an entirely new type of
contemporary lction-so bold in its concep-
tion, so unique in its plot that only one of
the greatest authors could have attempted
II and carried 1t through.
In Beyond the Great oblivion" which
began on December 3. Mr.. England con-
tinued the adventures OF the two strong
characters through the exciting story. So
great was the interest aroused that sequel,
THE Afterglow." will begin In this Sat
urday's EVENING LEDGER. The afterglow
In the lives of the hero and heroine comes
through pains and strivings and bloodshed,
but the compensation is hopefully sweet.
In order to get full grip on THE After
glow" one should have read the two pre-
ceding serials, of which trilogy this Is the
triumphant conclusion. SO closely are the
three tales related that Mr. England has
combined them into one great book called
Darkness and Dawn" Here is brief ex-
planation of what has gone before
Allan Stern. consulting engineer, and
Beatrice kendrick. his stenographer, wake
from long sleep in his office in the tower
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Build
ing New York city. They look about them
and see the office interior fallen to decay,
while below they behold a vast forest of
great trees where New York city once stood
1t is evident that their sleep has lasted
through centuries and that during this un-
conscious lapse the city has been destroyed
by some great catastrophe. They seem to
be the only survivors of the inhabitants of
the western continent. They clothe them
selves primitively and subsist on food which
has withstood the ravages of centuries In
glass jars.
After a time n troop of malformed saw
ages appears. They storm the tower, and a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

Education is the keynote Of the third
annual convention of the PENNSYLVANIA
Ileaners and Dyers' Association in session
To-Day at the Hotel Bingham-cducation Of
the pubic, the cleaners and dyers them
serves, the housewives and the health de-
partments Of the cities of the nation to the
heed OF cleaning clothes and the economy
OF cIeaning them by wet and dry cleaning
processes
The education of the cleaners and dyers
Should take place to teach them to find
GUY thelr own operating expenses, according
TO H. l., Solomon. of Columbus, O.. who said
,n an interview that cleaning is the only
thing which has gone down in price in the
last rev years, and yet everything used i'm
tne process has gone up. lie gave figures to
snow the advance and then emphasized the
tact that hardly any cleaners know just
what IT costs them to run their business.
The education of the public is to consist
in newspaper adverticing according to
TO speakers and delegates. who say that
men have increased their business from
thirty to fifty per cent by cooperative ad-
vertising in newspapers.
Philadelphia has one cleaning and dyeing
establishment, according to Mr.. Solomon,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

desperate battle ensues stern ana b. .rs~S
escape. finding a refuge IN ruined man
sion on the Hudson. After time they ~
sail for Boston in a boat which stern has
built. He hopes to find the telescope or
the Harvard University observatory BY
which TO verify his discovery Of the earth'e
changed relations with its astral neiGhboro
They reach what was once the city Of
Providence. where they find rusty firearms.
still serviceabe, and an aeroplane, which
Stern repairs.
In an expedition of exploration In the
machine they are drawn into a terrible
abyss, where the sun never Shines and are
captured by strange people and condemned
to death. In a great battle Stern uses his
firearms and repels his captors' enemies.
thus gaining their friendship. After many
further adventures Stern and Beatrice
escape from the abyss in the aeroplane and
regain the land of the sun.
THE Aftergow" sees their struggles on
earth once more and the desperate fight to
renhabit the earth with a race of virie,
vigorous, intelligent white men. The
Afterglow" begins in this Saturdays EVE
MING LEDGER. DO not forget that because
the EVENING LEDGER is no longer return
able your newsboy or dealer does not carry
extra copies. Place your order today so
that you may begin the story with the first
instalment Saturday. and keep with Beatrice
and Stern throughout their fight for hui
manty and the world
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
DAIRY PRODUCTS
The quotations on brtter and eggs etven
below are yesterdays closing pricesi

BUTTER-There was no important change to
note In this market. Receipts of fancy cream
cry continued light and demand was equal to
the offerings. Medium grades were quiet at In
small supply and steady The limited arrivals
prices. but supplies were mostly of more or less
defective goods. which had to be moved out on
buyers terms. Quotations !.
Western. fresh. solid packed creamery, fancy
specials. 4ic; extra, 45 46c: extra nrsts.
29@slc packing stock; % g .gc; nearby prints
42c: seconds 35M86ct special fancy brands Of
prints jobbing at 81 u sac.
firm with supplies of fine fresh stock well
cleaned up. Quotations:
Nearby extras. SOC per doz. nearby frsts
$3.50 per case; do. current receipts, s13s so per
case: western extras, 40c per doz.; do, extra
hrsts sl395 per case: do. frsts $3.50 per
jobbing at 81 q 54c per dozen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

Send the coupon.
This is your opportu-
nifty. A snip of the
scissors. a dip of the
pen and it's done.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

months--a whole page or a half page, with
the national emblem in the center and our
ads around IT, Does it pay? Well, we are
getting So per capita per year. You in
Philadelphia get about twenty-five cents per
capita per year. We are educating our
cleaners to the use of the daily newspapers
for advertising purposes. 1t ~ the logical
and only efficient method of reaching the
housewife"
This afternoon will be given over to the
question Of fires and fire prevention and
the construction of plants for cleaners which
are flreproof.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
WILSON AT CELEBRATION
IN WASHINGTON'S HONOR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. President
Wilson'S observance of Washington's Birth
day consisted mainly of participation in the
exercises conducted by the Daughters of
the American Revolution and the Sons of
The American Revolution. There he pre-
ssnted a gold medal to Harold +. Stose,
high school boy winner of an essay con-
test
Another feature of the exercises was the
presentation to the Daughters of the Amer
han Revolution of two flags by Mrs Will
lhm Cumming Story, president general of
The Daughters of the American Revolution.
One was replica of the first American
nag adopted by the Continental Congress.
June IA, HI, and the other reproduction
of the royal (Bourbon) banner of France,
brought to this country by Lafayette and
Rochambeau and under which the soldiers
q the Revolution fought. speech was
also made by Senator Pomerene, of Ohio
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

who says that the information he got from
the papers the opening day of the conven-
ton showed him just one newspaper adver-
tsement Of a cleaning establishment.
when you are having a convention here
you cleaning men," he said. you ought to
let the public know t., why, we worked
months in advance in Columbus before our
convention, and IL you please we had not
one ad, but eight pages of ads in just one
paper alone. We have four papers in Co.
lumbus and use three for advertising. We
cleaners use our own ad space and besides
that use the cooperative plan every few
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
CLEANING MATERIALS
ALSO COST MORE NOW
But Prices to Public Have Gone
Down, Speaker Tells Convention
of Cleaners and Dyers
increased Prices Asked
for Cleaning Material

Gasoline, 100 per cent.
Dry cleaning soap, 81 per cent.
Ammonia, go per cent.
acetic acid, S5.5 per cent.
SSuiphuric acid, rs per cent.
suit boxes, 22.7 per cent.
Spotting fluids, so per cent.
Labor, 25 per cent.
Twine, Is per cent.
FROM figures by II. L. Solomon,
Columbus, o., of the National Clean
ers and Dyers' Association.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
Holland to Buy Interned U-Boats

WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-Ohicial dis
patches received here SAID the Netherlands
Government was preparing to buy for its
British, which were seized and interned
when they entered Dutch territorial waters
tion,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-09
AUSTRIANS TRANSFERRING
TROOPS TO THE ISONZO
Gen. Won Hoetzendorf Is Believed to
Be Preparing for an Au-
tumn Campaign.

ROME, August military circles
report that Gen. Conrad Won Hoetzen-
dorf Austrian chief of staff. has moved
his headquarters from the Trentino to
the 1sonzo. ordered huge artillery con-
centrations, has withdrawn a majority
of the troops from the first lines to
spare them from mbardment and has
taken other measures apparently IN
prepare ton for an autumn campaign
These moves. says the Idea Nazion-
ale. have been provoked by activity on
the Russian front. although they have
been slow in coming. because the Aus
trian military authorities. even in de-
tiance of the German supreme COM
mand. have hesitated to repeat their
mistake of year ago. when they
weakened their Italian line, to proceed
against Gen. Brussiloff.
Instead they have increased their
strength on the Russian front by lit
orally combing the monarchy for
Serbia, drawing upon the youngest as
We'll as the Oldest classes. and taking
men who have not completed their in
Struction. Now, however, they are re
grouping. if not Weakening their
forces on the Italian front relying on
artillery concentration in the Trentino
to take the place of the troops shifted
TO the lsonZo or elsewhere and keep
ing all the men possible behind the
front lines.
Numerous lines of communication
have been damaged lately, thu paper
says. by Italian flyers. making the
transfers of the Austrian troops more
difticult. This is especially true of the
Tolmino district
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-09
POLICE DOGS RUN DOWN
FOOD LAW VIOLATORS
German Animals Used by Authori-
ties in Capturing Pilferer
and Neat smuggler.

by the Associated Press
BERLIN, via London, August O.
Germany's famous trained police dogs
are now proving valuable sleuths in
running down violators of the food
laws. Near Berlin the dogs located a
man who had been pilfering from vege-
table patches of truck gardeners. lead
ing officials to the house where the
stolen vegetables We're hidden.
In Munich "a constable attempted to
seize a man caught with fifty pounds of
meat from an Illegal slaughter house.
The man escaped. leaving the burden
behind. but was tracked to hayloft by
police dogs. When the officer returned
to the spot where the meat was left he
found the meat gone. The police dogs
were again summoned and located it in
a nearby house, where it had been hid
den by a woman
When hailed to court the meat specu-
lator pleaded he was without funds.
The court was inclined to doubt the
story. and suspecting the meat SNUG
2ler had hidden his purse in the hay
loft. again requisitioned the police dogs.
which found the mans pocketbook well
padded with currency hidden in the
hay
The fishing industry also is being
subjected to government control a
result of wholesale smuggling and
speculation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-09
FIGHT ON COLBY FUTILE
Senate Confirms Nomination of New
York Man to Shipping Board.

The Senate late yesterday confirmed
the nomination of cambridge Colby OF
New York to be a member of the gov.
eminent shipping board
The confirmation was voted "a to 1t
after spirited executive session, which
lasted nearly an hour The opposition
was led by Senators Wadsworth and
Calder of New York, who are under
stood to have objected to Mr. Colby's
political activities. Senator Johnson OF
California, republican. and Senators
Lewis and Fletcher. democrats. spoke
for confirmation.
All the senators known as progress
sives are said to have voted for Mr.
Colby while the only democrats to OPP
pose him. il is understood, We're Sena-
tors Reed and Hitchcock.
Mr.. Colby, previously a republican
supported Roosevelt in 1912 and Wilson
in 1916. He succeeds Capt. John B
White. whose resignation as member
of the shipping board was accepted BY
President Wilson. together with thos,
of William Denman and Maj. Gen. Goe
thals. There still is a vacancy on tn,
| board.