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The Pageland journal -Vol. 4 NO. 47 PAGELAND. S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1914 $1.00 per year All EUROPE PLUNCED IN WAR lF?m,wnir* n.?. o? r^. l - Actual Fighting Has Begun, Involving Austria, Servia, Italy, Germany, France, England and Russia. London, Aug. 2.?Four great powers of Europe?Austria-Hungary, Russia, France and Ger many?are engaged in actual warfare, but two of them, Germany and France, have not openly declared war against each other; as far as is known here, have not even severed diplomatic relations. This is despite the fact that Germany's ultimatum to France either has been ignored or rejected. The explanation of this would appear to be that Germany and France are each seeking to throw upon the other the onus of beginning a war that may plunge all Europe into bloodshed In fact, while the nations of Furope are flying at each other's throats they are vieing with each other in protesting their desire to maintain peace. In this curious situation, France, according to British opinion, has the strongest justification. She was the last to mobilize and seems to have taken the greatest precautions to avoid frontier collisions. On the other hand Germany invading French territory with out making a formal declaration of war has violated the neutrality of Luxemburg and declines to give any promise to respect Belgium neutrality. The efforts of the British ambassador at Berlin to secure such a pledge have been wasted. It into the conflict to protect Belgain and Dutch neutrality. On this point Premier Asquith's official announcement in parlia-1 raent Monday is awaited with intense anxiety. Short of actual formal mobilizatinn (ha KrWIoV. ' Uvu iuv uiiuou K?veuiineni is taking all necessary steps to meet a situation unprecedented in the nation's history. News of the progress of hostilities is vague and conflicting, owing to the severe censorship everywhere. It is alleged that the Germans poured into Luxemberg 100,000 men who will concentrate on the French frontier. Actual German invasions of France occurred at Nancv and Longwy, while a battle is reported to have taken place at Nancy. From the Russian-German frontier came reports that Russians invaded Germany near Schwinden. Servia, the original cause of the upheaval, seems to have been almost lost sight of. The Austrians, according to reports from Nish, Virtually have ceased operations against Servia in order to meet the greater danger of Russia. Montenegro has come to the assistance of Servia and is renorfpH tr? Ko -A'. ? r ?w wumurti uiu^ v^aiaro in Dalmatia. Various rumors are current of naval movements, but none of them are reliable. Mrs. Jones (thoughtfully)?I'm afraid I shall have to stop giving Bobby that tonic the doctor left for him. Mr. Jones?(anxiously)?Why ise't he any better? Mrs. Jones?Oh. ves. Rut ho has slid down the banisters five times this morning, broken the hall lamp, two vases, a water jug and a looking glass so I don't feel as though I could ptand tnuch more of it j ..... v.ivoo ?_?? cai a cc isee River. Florence, July 30.?On Friday afternoon, July 31, at 7 o'clock, the dream of many years and the long talked of crossing of the Oreat Pee Dee river by ferry at the Old Mars Bluff landing, two miles south of Winona, and 12 miles east of Florence will become a reality and from that date on direct communication between Florence and eastern Carolina on the west side of this long standing divide and eastern Carolina on the east side of this turbulent old mudd}' river will be a thing of the past and one will not have to go to Cheraw to cross this river unless he_or a1 ? mey may so elect. This feat is to be accomplished so soon by the energetic efforts of James S. Gibson of Winona, who owns the land where the ferry touches on both sides of the Great Pee Dee at Mars Bluff landing. Mr. Gibson has gone to work at great expense and has had built and will launch on Friday afternoon at 7 o'clock his splendid ferry boat, the Henry H. Husbands, which is henceforth to be used in moving passengers, automobiles, vehicles and the like from Florence to Marion county and vice versa. Mr. Gibson has decided to name his new ferrv boat the Henry H. Husband in honor of the Florence man who was one of the first citizens of this mnntv to suggest and start a movement for the crossing of the Great Pee Dee river, and who was elected as secretary of the Eastern Caro^i^^Goo^Roads ^association, and by whose efforts and hard ( work secured several surveys | and had established the line for ( the new causeway and bridge , that will later be built over this j river by the association of which he is secretary. j A visit to Mars Bluff landing | this afternoon revealed wonderful changes in the looks of things at and about this old dil apidated looking gulch in the , river bank, for Mr.- Gibson has , had a road graded and made of fimnlf* ? ?" -14 uu ii iciciiv^ y ill YV1UU1, | feet, and in grade in order that 1 automobiles and vehicles may approach the landing and leave it with perfect ease and without fear of going head on into the river. He has a wide area cleared up and has made a regular passenger station so to speak of the grounds. In fact the first picnic ever held at Mars Bluff landing in the memory of the oldest inhabitans was held there today by large numbers of folk of the neighborhood and is just the right place for such an outing. Gold in Large Chunks. Having laid by his growing crop, Mr. J. G. Tomberlin of th s lownsrwp nas begun his summer custom of looking for gold on his farm. The season has opened well. On Tuesday Mr. L. S. Polk, working for Mr. Tomberlin, picked up.the prettiest nugget ever yet found on the place. It weighs thirty pennyweight. It is not by a great deal the largest ever found, but the prettiest. This was not found by panning but picked up in the gravel that was being taken out of a shallow pit prepartory to panning. On the same farm, but lower down from this spot a n 11 OffP) Wfi rrll i M rr 1 1 ?nri.. ..^ihniii^ unt uuuureu and seventy six pc.inyweigts was once found. Others have been frequently found weighing thirty, thirty-three, forty-two and forty-seven pennyweights.?. Monroe Journal. . v ..ml*. --> 1 ^11- ?** Automobiles Multipyling. ^ * Monroe was very backwan&JA taking up the automobile craif, N but at last it is breaking out all i over. From the little old buck- j board which Mr. Lorenzo Med- t lin imported to the city yews 1 ago to the big Studebaker which t Hon. John C. Sikes has just s bought, is a far cry. But no kind s of a machine would now create c half the talk and interest which c the famous buckboard of Mr. t Medlin aroused when it was the c only machine in these parts, t When Mr. Medlin went out to t take a little exercise he was r always accompanied by a crowd ? of boys and little negroes. These flanked the machine on either c side to shoo it out of the ditches, t and behind to push it up grade, f and all fell aboard and rode t down hill. And when the bu<&- c board became no longer road worthy it was traded to Mr. E.C. c Williams for a mustang pony. ( Now everybody openly or t secretly wants an automobile. f It is said that $10,000,000 are ? invested in machines in North t Caroline. To June 30, 12,^00 machines had been licensed "in \ the State. Last year the tax was c paid on 7,618 in the state show- ? ing an increase of nearly 5,Q00 1 machines. The tags this year < are of a green color while last i year they were white. There is c one connty in the state, Mitchell, r in which the sheriff reports there t is not a single gas wagon.? i Monroe Journal. . c Death of Mr. W. J McGuuft, i The Waxhaw Enterprise giwes t the following account of Ae 1 death of Mr. WilliamJ. } erly of this township, died at his J, home i.ear Unionville yesterday of heart trouble. He was about s 65 years old and had been in ^ poor health for three years. He r was a good, conscientious Christian man and for many years had been a faithful member of the r Baptist church. s Mr. McGuirt was first married to Miss Jemima Nisbet and of the 14 children born to them eleven survive. They are 1 Messrs. S J., R. L. and Curtis of Waxhaw; I. L. of Tirzah; W. n T. of Pageland; Ralph and Char- ^ les, Monroe township; Mrs. W. a E. Pardue, of Lancaster; Mrs. R. D. Robinson, Tirzah; Mrs. Tom- ^ berlin, Monroe, and Theron of s the home. After the death of e his first wife he was married to 8 T7*1 ? .... t miss riynn, Din no children 11 were born to this marriage. Of d the large family raised by Mr. ' McGuirt all are good upright F citizens. The funeral and burial will take place today at t Tirzah. v Some time ago Smith and a friend were discussing the dog 2 question, when the friend remark ad that the most vicious ^ dog might be utterly subdued F merely by a person sitting down and staring at him. 1 "Right you are, old pal!" was c the ready response. "I know, for s I once tried it on one. Dog was coming at me at the rate of a * mile a minute, and all that 1 did ? was to sit down and stare at ' him." "1 am glad to hear you say i that," responded the friend. "It ' is a confirmation of what science has always maintained." ( "Yes, old fellriw," grinned s Smith. "Rut t chnillft Vin,m ..... <'v?% m. oaiv/uiv* nave auucu that when I sat down I chose the top limb of a 60-foot tree."? i Exchange. . When a girl refuses to wear a lowcut waist she gets a lot of * credit for Becoming Modesty, t when half the time it's just a mole.?Aftermath, if\ Columbia 1 State. I . 1 iVhe&t Prices Fall Instead Of Rising Chicago, July 30.?Contrary to >revious experiences, wheat >rices in the final dealings here oday were being driven not up >ut downward by prospects that he Austro-Servian war would ;pread. After a rise of 9 cents i bushel, values shrunk as much is 3 cents in 30 minutes, largely >n account of bold assertions hat the bulk of the surplus crop >f the United States, instead of >eing rushed to Europe, might >e held in this country as a esult of general war disrupting ill ocean trade. Leading exporters here were 4-J 1 -- ? ? luuieu uy uvune as declaring hat export business in wheat rom the Uuited States already tad been paralyzed. To a lesser legree, the same statement applied to all dealings in wheat, especially speculative transactions. 3ne of the consequences was he action today of prominent irms on the board of trade in riving their pit agents orders "to ake a furlough." Business which three days ago vas counted in millions of bushels dwindled at times-today to ilmost the vanishing point, iazard of being whipsawed out >f a fortune by the chance of a noment proved too much for even the most seasoned traders. The principal efforts seemed to )e directed to keeping would-be nvestors out of the market. It was pointed out that practically all the ocean-carrying tonlage was owned by foreign capial, was subiect to goveroment ise for army transports and that jraiia laden vessels in the case of f tv rnfiiiild u- ?- ??* :eenly sought prey of hostile leets. In other words, if was aid, the United States largely yould lose its foreign outlet, and ie powerless to prevent the pilag up of wheat at terminal mar;ets, the possible blockading of ailway tracks or the glutting of torage facilities. Common Vegetables Which Are Corrective of Many Ills. ""he Detroit Tribune. Every vegetable garden is a aedicine chest full of remedies hat are recognized by physicians s af considerable value in the reatment of various diseases. )nions, for example, contain ulphur oil and are recommendd for insomnia and as an aid to gastric digestion. They should lave a prominent place in the Liet of sufferers from rheumaism, for they help to allay the >ains. Turnips and parsnips both awe peculiar oily principles vhich are of value as an aperiint and diuretic. It is also claimid that they are good for coughs md hoarseness. Potatoes contain solanin, vhich has certain diuretic >roperties. The sulphur compound which t contains makes cabbage excellent in cases of scurvy and icrofula. Spinach has iron in organic orm and is used as a laxative on iccount of its fine digestible ibre. Carrots are useful for correctng derangements of the liver. They are also excellent as a lressing for painful wounds and IWdUUgS. The tomato exercises medicilal effects which are not completely explained by the presence of alkoline salts. There is i principle present which when aken in a concentrated state produces salivation and a free stimulation of the liver. Great Surgical Achievement Christian Herald. Among the wonders of the scientific world are the triumphs of modern orthopedic surgery. A case which looks little short of the miraculous is reported from the Emergency hospital, Washington. William Averhill, a 5-year-old boy from near Oxford, N. C., was taken to the hospital with clubfeet were turned aside and under, and his gait was slow and laborious, really more a shuffle than a step. He was put on the table, and the surgeon went to work on one foot, then on the other, cutting ligaments, separating tendons and readjusting little bones, and all but amputating the child's feet. Then the members were readjusted, given the necessary antiseptic treatment and skilfully wrapped in plaster of Paris casts extending to the knees. About three weeks ago, a little less than five weeks after the operation, the plaster cases were removed, and something akin to a miracle had been wrought. Two littlp feet, once considered hopelessly deformed, had been transformed into normal organs, in which practically no trace of their former deformity was left except the scars made by the surgeon's knife. ? "As Poor Richard Says." The following quotations are from "Poor Richard's Almanac," which was written and published by Benjamin Franklin. Franklin's Almanac was a model upon which many modern almanac's have been based: A word to the wise is enougfl voti* t iiiy ,, * el. God helps those who help . themselves. Sloth, like rust, consumes fast- 1 er than lobor wears, while the used key is always bright. 1 Dost thou love life? Then don't squander time, for that's . the stuff life's made of. 1 The sleeping fox catches no poultry. If time be of all things the most precious, then waste of time must be the greatesf prodigj ality. 1 What we call "time enough" always proves little enough. ( Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. He that riseth late, must trot all day. Laziness travels slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive your business, lest it drive you. Early to bed and early to rise, make a man healthy, wealthy and wise. There are no gains without pains. He that lives on hope will die fasting. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. Dilligence is the mother of good luck. One today is worth two tomorrow. Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. Fly pleasures, and they will follow you. An old farmer recently came into possession of a check for $200. He finally summoned up nerve enough to go to the bank. "What denomination?" said the teller, hastily, as the check was passed in through the window. "Luther's, darn it! But what has that got to do with it?" Supervisor's Report of Claims Audited for Second Quarter of 1914 Outside aid 177 00 Dr A D Gregg 5 00 Dr E T Barentine 5 00 J A Arant 39 50 Cheraw Hdw. & Supply Co 20 55 D M Barentine 75 00 Walker Evans C. Co. 196 27 National Office Supply Co. 82 70 J C Whiteley 7 70 1 P Mangum 134 04 R Mcl. Watts 1 15 P A Nicholson 221 00 United Duck Co. 182 95 A C Burr 26 00 J A Welsh 75 00 J N Davis 66 54 Redfearn & Sons 65 81 G M Rodgers 50 00 A Sullivan 257 30 J A Davis 79 14 Ernest W Moore 150 00 J W Roscoe 50 00 T W Eddins 469 12 C L Crowley 66 50 I C Rivprs ? 04 4V F M Moore 66 18 J T Grant 230 00 R A Rouse 334 34 T C Melton 408 00 Chesterfield Merc. Co. 48 81 J R Abbott 250 06 Cordy Winburn 160 00 P C McLaurin 234 05 Thurlow Belk 70 82 J W Brock 54 57 D F Brock 70 82 loe Rivers 56 75 Davis & Rivers 176 53 G A Malloy 74 43 Odom Bros. Co. 27 68 J C King 21 15 W K Sellers 9 24 Theo. Winburn 72 94 Cheraw Chronicle 11 50 . D P Douglass 485 40 I W Ousley 83 32 fames Griffith 72 90 C A Baker 83 33 W J Odom 43 71 Chesterfield Advertiser 61 20 H T Atkinson 8^ A1 J. E. Agerton 249 95 C. H. Rivers 64 23 I. B. Merriman 9 90 Dr. D. T. Teal 109 35 W.J. Tiller 99 99 R D Marsh 12 00 I S Funderburk 903 00 Chesterfield Telep. Co. 25 00 W J Streater 1 50 C B Redfearn 65 35 N A White - 50 00 F W Rivers 816 00 H F King 523 95 W S Vaughn 75 00 W A Douglass 6,123 15 W A Douglass 36 60 L G Morgan 3 50 Anderson Lucas 32 00 T C Teal 22 50 Lester Rivers 100 00 Arthur Kincade 40 50 J C King, Jr. 1185 H J Sellers Co. 35 80 W D Craig 45 20 Gus Lee 15 00 John Poison 12 00 T D Funderburk 10 83 J C Sanders 31 70 Pageland Journal 41 08 J W McCassidy 49 80 G A Sherrill 290 00 M J Johnson 10 00 Frederick Disinfectant Co. 35 00 C. & L. R. R. 5 88 Gulf & Atlantic Ins. Co. 21 0O Reece Herrin Co. 52 50 Colon M. Haskew 4 00 t nr n.1 * ruison q ank of Chesterfield 60 00 Ernest W Mooie 75 50 D P Douglass 7 70 Irvnoo f 1rv O AA 1 Vrtl JUUVO V/V/i 7 VU Hurst-Streater Co. 53 01 Tetfersonian 91 20 IN Gaskins 8 00 Threatt Bros. 162 95 W A Douglass 340 55 T B Watson 61 90 A D Chapman 1,771 50 Respectfully submitted, H. F. King, County Supervisor D. M. Barrentine, Clerk. (AdTortlfemeat)