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The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19
Vino school Ehas been dIs.l
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1he Journal e deke6 to saw
that there viii bs ! christmas
tree at Anticch 81 Christmas
day. The public j. invited.
Mr.. w. Horace Cato has
moved to Hartsyille 10 become
an overseer on { oker's ex
pertinent. farm.
Mr. F. B. Antfy Of Douglass,
Ga. is moving TO the. farm$2
miles west 81 Paxeland witch
he purchases some lime ago
from Pageland Insurance & Co.
Mr.. G. R. Knight has moved ,vt 81
his stock of goods and repair
shop into the room between the
Plummer Grocery and DIR. I'M.
Ralllngs.
Because of the bad weather.
Mr.. w. McColl has again post
poned his auction sale of person.
al property. The new date set
is Thursday, December 9th.
DR.. Joseph E. Thomas ofJef.4
ferson left yesterday to-
report at Camp Greenleaf.
Chattanooga. Z Tenn. for duty in
hospital corpse. He has been
commissioned a first lieutenant.
The most slippery time we
have seen was Monday morning.
The rain Sunday afternoon and
night froze as it f4ll, and left a
coat of ice one fourth of an
inch thick. Quite a number of
falls were reported. Mrs. TIE.
Cato was forced to remain in
bed as result ofalfall.
Messrs. Ward Cato and Ed
Redfearn came home Saturday
from Bailey Military Academy
at Greenwood to spend the hoi.
ldays. They came earlier than
they had expected. Coal was
scarce. and the steam pipes that
warmed the building bursted bv
freezing, and school was dis
missed until after thS holidays.
The past week has probably
been the toughest week cominp'
before Christmas Ia s2O3 wear.
The 5-inch falllof snowon TIss'
day night of last week has rs;.i
mained on the GROUND t;1a tes.,.
perature being IN n 4 49, g :
J: f.: ]: ! ]: !: !; !: !: J !
tered only z degrecS abnva yefn,
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19
The PageIand Journal
December l9, 1917
Local News

Mr.. B. B. Eubanks has moved
his jewelry and repair shop from
the Pageland Drug company to
Mr.. w. ]. Blakeney's store.
The snow caught a number
of Pageland citizens with little
or no wood, and the protracted
siege is causing an unheard of
demand for wood. Only a few
loads have been on the streets,
and there was no trouble in
selling. So far as The Journal is
informed there has been no &C.
tual suffering because of the
cold.
The Pageland school was not
in session Wednesday and
Thursday of last week because
of the snow. Then on Monday,
as the weather was still rough,
it was decided that there would
be no more school until Monday
after Christmas, December 31st,
and several of the teachers have
returned to their homes to spend
the holidays.
MIR. Leroy McColl, who re-
Gently left here and returned to
City Point, Va. where he had a
position in a powder plant,
writes from Rochmond that he
has enlisted in the aviation corps,
and asks that his paper be sent
to Fort Sam Houston, Tex. His
letter was written on the 18th,
and he stated that he would
leave for Fort Thomas. KY. that
night for a few DAYS.
Page camp Woodmen of the
World met in regular meeting last
Saturday night and the follow
ing officers were elected to
serve for the year 1918: r. F.
Smith, c. C.;J. A. Mangum, A.
l.; D. E. Clark, Banker; ]. w.
Quick. Clerk; S. B. Eubanks,
Escort; T. L. Smith. Watchman;
]. L. Cato, Sentry; DR.. .Thos.
Duncan. Physician; J.C. Man
gum, Manager for three years,
VA A. PieRs Jrs. Manager for
two years.
MI. RIA. Carpenter and fam.
lily were in Charlotte last Wed
nesday after the snow had come.
He states that there was very lit
tie coal or wood in the city or at
Camp Greene. The soldiers
bought about all the axes to be
had. and went to the woods.
Reports from the camp Sunday
were to the effect that the boys
were still cutting wood, and
joking about the sunny South,"|
Coal was so scarce that the
schools in the city were dis.
banded. Like reports come
from Columbia and other cities.
The coal supply is so short, that
the most rigid economy IS nee.
essary to keep the supply from
giving out entirely. No imme
diate relief is in sight either.
A fire company has been or
aaniged here since the recent
fire on Pearl street. S. B. Eubanks
is chief and T. B. Smith is ass1s-
tant. H. B. Sowell is secretary
and treasurer The members of
the company have been devided
into teams. Joe M. RollIngs IS
captain of one team and ]. L..
Cato is assistant. Guy Watts
is captain of the other team and
and @. G. Mungo is his assistant
Two large force pumps and
42O feet of hose have been
bought. Extension ladders.
hooks, poles, buckets, etc are
being assembled for real fire
fsrh<,on IT, x- -. +,
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

For Safc-3 Poland China and
Duroc Jersey Pigs about five
weeks old. John T. Blakeney,
near White Plains.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

SieeS, anu On several mornings
the mercury was down 10 ten
and eleven. IS
lhe questionaires are being
mailed out by the local board
daily, one twentieth being mali.
ed each day. Every one who
registered is supposed to get one
regardless of the fact that he
may have been discharged or
exempted bv the local or dis 4
trlct board. All these discharges|
and exemptions have been re
voked. and each mani willl be-
placed in one Of the five classes.
Class.1 will be called first. class
2 next and so on down the list.
MIR. Clyde Brown, a 16.year.
old youth Of Cheraw, commit
ted suicide Sunday morning ,yI
shooting himself. No reason
ior the act was givah. When
he was walked Sunday morninc
by his aunt he remarked that he
was going to shoot himself. buf'
as he had made similar remarks
before, nothing was thought of
1t: In moment the report of q
pistol was heard and the bow
was soon dead. The body Was
carried to Columbia for burial.
The citizens OF Pageland have
employed Mr.. G. Nj. Rodgers to
fill out the questionaires for the
reglstrants who live in this sec.
ton and who do not care 10 90
10 the county seat to have this
done. For this work MT. Rodp
ers will be paid by the citizens
here, and no charge will be
made to the regisfrant. Mr.
Rodgers office will be over the |
Bank OF Pageland and he will
oe there from 9 to 8 each day.
1t is very important that these |
blanks be filled out properly.
and Mr.. Rodgers will familiarize |
himself with the blankssso that
ne can fill them out rapidly and
correctly. This will save the
registrantS IN this section the !
price of a trip to Chefterfield.
and make IT certain that the |
blanksare properly filled out. |
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

For Rens 5rcom house on l.
acre lot, good BAN, well of
wafer and garden. Five dollars
a-neht.t, See ]. w. Muneo or
r + Richardson
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

Wanted You to know that
we. still sell Mems and Boys
suits. odd coats. overalls and
work shirts. Munpo Rros
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

For Sale-good sound corn.
See S. H. Laney at PageIand
or Burl Griffin at Wolf Pond.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

L have two small tracts of
land for sale, If YOU want to
buy a small tract near PaeeIand,
see me. r. F. Smith.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19
BUSINESS

My wife, Jane Jones, Ha(l
left me without cause, Il here.
by forbid anv person or persons
to hire, harbor or in any way
give her aid. Anyone who disre
CARDS this notice will be dealt
with according to law. iSam
Jones.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

NoHce-alI who have spoken
to me for Kings Improved cot
ton seed will please call and get
them, or tell me how many you
want and the price, and | will
save them, so that 1 may know
how many | can let GO, as |
have had lots Of enquiries The
price is $50 a bushel, {. O. b.
Pagcland. P. NJ. Arant.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

For Rent-go six room
house on Maynard street,
good water and outbuiI1ings.
r. H. Blakeney.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

Scarf Pins, Cuff Bhttous, Watch
Chains, Brooches, Fobs, Rings,
bracelets, Silverware and Clocks.
B. B. EubankS.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

we will do no grinding from
Monday noon until Thursday.
Pageland Novelty Works
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

For Sale my shoe shop and
all the tsols and supplies, and
my restaurant on the corner
See ne if you want to trade
some. Cash or good papers.
T, B. Smilh.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

Phone your orders to Clark
& Smith. Their John Henry
goes in a hurry.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

For Saie-one good mule and
one good roam mare. cash or
good papers. r. B. Smith.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

Now is the time for you to have
a 20year gold case put on
your watch in place of that
nickle one. B. B. Eubanks.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

FOR-l5 years | had been look
ing for it, and now I've found
it-a flour that will beat Bon
Ton or Melrose. Try it at nv
risk. CT. Gulledge.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

we always pay the top for
chickens and eggs. Clark &
Smith.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

TUT SdIe-2ood milk COW,
will be fresh latter part of
January. Will sell OF exchange
Tor beef cattle. Also one Duroc
Jersey brood sow entitled to reg
istratron for sale or exchange
for pork. T. w. Gregory
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-12-19

For SerVice-pure bred Po-
land China boar, entitled to
registration. Fee $l.50. A. D.
Burgess, near Mangum's siding.
Will gin every day until further
notice. People, Gin Co.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
BIG INCREASE IN VALUE
Wisconsin Property Is Worth About
$1so,ooo,ooo More Than 1t Was
a Year Ago.

Madison-The Wisconsin tax COM
mission has announced that it had
fixed the value of all taxable property
taxed by special laws, such as railroad
property, at $3,6O7, 470,442.
This is an increase of more than
$180,000,000 over the valuation of the
property last year. This class of prop
erty last year was valued at $3,427.-
1920.
Under the valuation just announced,
the real estate in Wisconsin is valued
at $2,929, 281,764, as compared with
$2,S19, 280.345 last year. The personal
property in the state this year is val
ued at $67S,1S8,678, as compared with
$6O7,516,875 last year. The increase
in valuation as compared with that of
last year is SGT per cent
The value of all property in Milwau-
kee county was fixed by the tax COM
mission at S693,S42,4 O3, as compared
with $657 ,69S,367 last year. The real
estate in Milwaukee county was val
ued at $599,251, 100 and the personal
property at $154,591,273.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
BALLET GIRLS AIDED BY WAR
New Russian Government Makes 1t
Possible for Dancers to Enter
Learned Professions.

Russian ballet girls are being per-
mitted to enter the learned profess
sions. A special commission to pre-
pare reforms in the former Imperial"
now state, theaters, has pronounced
for abolition of the system under
which ballet pupil could never be
anything but a ballet dancer.
At the age of nine years many girls
enter the ballet school of the Marin
sky theater and spent their childhood
learning to dance, receiving scarcely
any general education, and were or
dered to go on the ballet stage. Ii
they refused they were excluded from
all except the lowest occupations.
In the future, girls who have passed
through the ballet school will be con-
sidered as having received a complete
SiX-class secondary schooling, and will
thus be qualified to matriculate in
wcmans university and become doc
tors, lawyers, engineers and techni-
clans.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
WILL TEACH WIRELESS AT U.
Made Part of Regular Study and Will
Be Made Under Supervision of
Officer from Training Station.

Madison-Wireless te1egraphy, with
special application to war service, has
now been made regular course at
the University of Wisconsin. A num-
Der of students worked independently
in the university radio station last
year, and during the summer session
a course for operators was given, bat
university credit for the work is given
for the first time this year.
The radio station is one of the few
to be left in operation after the dec
Iaration of war because war research
is being carried on with the station
apparatus.
Lieut. Taylor, radio communication
superintendent at the Great Lakes
Naval Training station in Illinois, re.
Gently visited the Wisconsin station
and made number of tests. An Off
Ger from the naval station will be in
the university this year to carry on
tests with the Great Lake station.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
CAMP GRANT HOLDS
1881 BADGER MEN
SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF STATE
SEND TROOPS TO ILLINOIS
SCHOOL FOR SOLDIERS.
ALL ARE EAGER FOR ACTION
Troops Will Be Given Training in Reg
u!ar War Style-Bomb Throwing,
Gas Fighting and Other Meth
DDS to Be introduced.

Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill.-Out of
the 10000 soldiers hard at work in
the various branches of the Camp
Grant school for soldiers" 1881 are
Wisconsin officers and men.
Maj Gen. Thomas H. Barry and his
staff since coming to Camp Grant
have been working to form the Eighty
sixth division. John Barrett, director
general of the Pan-American union,
having passed a day at the camp, will
carry back to Washington a glowing
report of the progress already made
in the efforts to make the Eighty
sixth division a splendid military ma
chine.
Carpenters are erecting new
building near headquarters for the
French and British officers who are
coming here to instruct the officers in
the methods of modern warfare. Other
wOrkmen were putting up additions to
the headquarters building, it having
been found too small.
Bomb throwing, gas fighting and all
other niceties of trench battling will
become part of the schooling of the Sc
lected men in cantonments here as
soon as they have been given the
first groundwork of infantry organi-
cation.
This official announcement was
made at camp headquarters along with
the statement that fifty young officers
who have been receiving special in
structions under Col. Azan of the
French army at Cambridge, Mass, will
report here as instructors within a
few days.
The news that actual trench condi-
tions are soon to be met with acted as
special incentive to the men in camp,
all of whom are hard at work at their
soldier tasks
With the new plan there will be
$50 men to company, and less than
hundred of these will be rifemen, &C
cOrding to the new order. The organ
izatiOn of the new companies will
make them almost complete fight
ing unit
There will be eighty men assigned
as hand and rifle grenadiers, while
forty men will be equipped with moth
ing more than a trench knife.
The promised big league games be-
tween the SOX and the Giants, with
the proposed visits of big entertain
ing features to the camp, are engross-
ing the men during their spare time
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
An Irish Comeback.

An Irishman employed in a large
factory had taken a day off without
permission and seemed likely to lose
his job in consequence. When asked
by his foreman the next day why he
had not turned up the day before, he
replied:
81 was so i'll, sir, that 1 could not
come to work to save me life"
'How was it, then, Pat, that saw
you pass the factory on your bicycle
during the morning?' asked the fore
man.
Pat was slightly taken aback, then
regaining his presence of mind, he re-
pli~d:
"Sure, sir, that must have been whep
1 was going for the dOctOr."-Pitts-
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
Sublime Orders.

Colonel Cork was, as colonies 60.
not a bad old stick to have about q
regiment, says London Ideas. Recent
ly he had three men of his company
in to help him remove the grand piano,
and as this gift Of Aunt Elizas was
of hefty build, he signed blank order
that the men might obtain beer from
the canteen; leaving the amount there
of for the warriors to fill in them
selves.
Here was a dispute.
PUT down six pints," suggested Pri-
vate Dumps.
more like a barrel !" growled one
of the others.
But at last the sergeant came along
with the right idea. He filled the pa
per up thusly:
"Please fill these men with beer"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
COAL SUPPLY is ASSURED
Report Received by L. c. Whittet
! Shows Fuel Is Coming in Rapidly
to Wisconsin BY Boat.

Madison-Wisconsin is moving rap.
idly toward a solution of the coal stu.
alton. A report was received by Sec.
rotary l.. c. Whittet of the executive
office from Fuel Investigator w. N.
Fitzgerald in which he stated that coal
was now being moved rapidly to Wis
consine by boat
'The report is very detailed but it
shows that from many coal mines
fuel is now being moved to Wiscon-
SIM said Secretary Whittet. His re-
port shows that large consignments
have already been sent. He is very OPP
timistic about the relief which Wis
consin will get Immediately. Mr..
Fitzgerald will be kept on the job and
l am sure now that results will be
forthcoming"
About three weeks ago Gov Philip
appointed Mr.. Fitzgerald, Milwaukee,
as fuel Investigator and he has imme-
dlately taken hold of the problem with
all of the Eastern mines.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
NEAL BROWN LAID TO REST
Buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in
Spot He Selected - Bar Pays
Honor to Dead Lawyer.

Wausau-Neal Brown wSss buried in
Pine Grove cemetery, in a spot that he
himself loved. Services were conduct
ed on the broad lawn of the Brown
home, under the trees, by the Rev
Richard Evans, pastor of the Method
ist Episcopal church. They were I'M
der Masonic auspices.
The bar of the state and Marathon
county paid honor to the dead lawyer
Chief Justice John b. Winslow and
Associate Justice NJ B. Rosenberg of
the state supreme court, and former
Justice r. D. Barnes of the court, rep
resented the bar before which Mr.
Brown had appeared with distinction
many times. Circuit Judges G. w
Burnell of Oshkosh and Byron P
Park of Stevens Point also attended.
Emerson Hough, the writer, was
there as representative of the Camp
fire club, to which Mr.. Brown belong
ed Masonic lodges from Merrill and
Tomahawk were also represented.
Years ago Mr.. Brown drew land
scape garden plans for Pine Grove
cemetery and superintendent the
planting of trees, building an imperish-
able monument to him. An the trees
were chosen from Marathon county
forests
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
COMMISSIONS TO SELECTS
Wisconsin Men Can Apply for Exam
nation at Camp Custer BY Com
mittee-Bring in Slackers,

Battle Creek, Mich.-Maj. Cen M
Dickman announced he will appoint a
commission to examine drafted men
from Wisconsin and Michigan who
think themselves eligibls for commits
sions.
Those acccpted will be trained in
Camp Custer, instead of Fort Sheri-
dan, starting probably in December.
Drafted men yet to come on the third
and fourth calls will be as eligible as
those already here.
Wisconsin regiment, the 340th in
fantry. is better than half uniformed.
The medical examinations have been
highly satisfactory and fewer men are
drilling in citizen clothes than any
other regiment.
Two hundred slackers, who failed to
report as ordered were brought here
under guard but none were from Wis
consin.
Parents of Wisconsin boys sent to
Camp Custer will be glad to know
that all selects will have Wednesday
afternoons off, as we'll as Saturday
afternoon and evening and Sunday.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
Compared with India's 814,OOO,oOo

Compared with India's 314,OO0,OOO
dark skinned natives, that country has
but about 100000 white inhabitants.
In 1916 the United States exported
drugs, chemicals and dyes amounting
to Sl24,OOO0O0, approximately S97,OOO,-
ooo in excess of the previous years ex-
ports.
India ink originally came from
China but now it is successfully made
IN thls country of lamp black and glue.
Plans are being made to clear vast
tracts of land in the Straits Settle
ments for the production of bananas.
Shoes, furniture and rice are In de-
mand at Tunis, Africa.
A rod to be attached to clotheslines
has been invented which increases the
carrying capacity of the lines to a con-
siderable degree. 1t is so arranged
that II joins two lines transversely.
According to one account, Gerbert,
afterward Pope Sylvester II, learned
the use OF the numerals from the
Aoors In Spain in the tenth century.
Another account is that Leonardo OF
fisa introduced them from the East
into Italy about 1902. The use of theIu
was not general until the invention of
print
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
GIRL HIDES IN HOT FURNACE
La Crosse Detectives Find Accused
Shoplfter with Hair Singed and
Face Black With SCOT.

La Crosse-when detectives went to
her home to arrest Margaret Gauley,
20 years old, accused of defrauding a
department store of $500 worth of
merchandise, the girl hid In a large
brick furnace in the cellar.
After two hours search, the police
built fire in the furnace to smoke
her out" Even then the girl made
no cutlery, and the police, concluding
she had escaped, left the house.
After time Detectives Duffield and
Oscar Brown, suspecting the girl was
still in the cellar, returned. They
opened a door in the rear of the fur
mace and saw a girls foot. When
they dragged her out, her hair was
singed and her face was black with
soft. Although the flames were peril
ously near and the furnace was get
ting hotter every minute, she had
stuck to her hiding place. She was
not seriously injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02
GOVERNOR FhVORS
ENLISTMENT PLAN
Philip SAYS DRAFT BOARDS
READY TO PROCEED
EXAMINATIONS.
CR0v Err IDEA is APPROVED
Executive Suggests Allowing Men to
Enter Service Ahead of Call
Number-Would Give Board
Leave Until Oct. is.

Madison-Gov. E. L. Philip, in a
communication to Provost Marshal
Crowder, made public by the district
draft board, approves the suggestion
that work be started in examining the
remaining men subject to draft and
says Wisconsin boards are ready to
go ahead"
This would mean that the remain
ing registered men would be exam
ined at once
The governor suggests, however,
that the boards be given a respite until
Oct. rs, to enable the members to pay
some attention to their private affairs.
Gov. Philip also believes the govern
ment should continue to supply the
necessary blanks to the men who want
to claim exemption. He also expresses
some doubt as to whether it would be
advisable to call for examination those
men who are not likely to be sum-
moned for service within a reasonable
length of time.