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THE PAGELP) Journal ? Vol. S NO. 38 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNEgB^Y MORNING. JUNE 2, 1915 ^ $1.00 per year Union's Good Rural Telephones and Painted Houses Union County is interesting because it, much more notably than most cotton counties, is laigely a land of horre-owning small white farmers?? genuine democracy. Union, too, has set a fine example for the whole < state in education, better farm ing, and rural telephones. One friend estimated that there are three thousand 'phones in the county. Moreover, he told us , that it was the women who gave the county leadership in this , respect. They had wearied of the isolation of homes without telephone connection, and as soon as one neighborhood demonstrated the advantages of the telephone, other neighborhoods quickly decided they could not fniss these advantages. Another thing noticed in our trip through rural Union was V.? ?f ?:_. -.3 iiit mi ^lupuiuuiJ ui puuueu farm houses. Moreover, nearly all of these houses were painted in attractive colors?the old reliable "white house and green blinds" formula being the rule. One of the prettiest houses we saw was painted by a farm girl herself. She decided that the house had to be painted, and failing in other plans, set out and did the work with her own hands. Now this home set in a pretty grove is a little gem, and half its beauty is due to the paint that the plucky girl put on it. Most of these Union houses are not large but neat and attractive. "Not how big but how pretty" seems to have been the wise aim of these Union home build ? ^ 1 m* 11 11 that the use of the drag would give her excellent highways at < mighty little expense, but she evidently lacks a leader who will put the issue squarelj- up to < the people. All in all, Union gives promise i of becoming one of the greatest counties in North Carolina, and her progress is wisely based up- i on the education of the people. The first rural graded school in North Carolina was that at 1 Wesley Chapel.. Moreover, Union people realize that it is no use to teach a man to read unless he reads; that "the man wlio reads is ffie man who leads," and probably no county North Corolina gives better support to its excellent local papers and to The Progressive Parmer. The people also take great interest in better farming, and Demonstration Agent Broom, live wire' that he is, has a responsive following. The people are especially interested in all kinds of improved machinery, and in front of Wesley Chapel while we talked a farm hand driving four or five horses abreast to a cutaway harrow made a farm scene worthy of the West.?Clarence Poe in Progressive Farmer. Much Whiskey is Seized in Charleston. Charleston, May 27.?Since State constables began raiding blind tigers in Charleston one week ago yesterday at noon the ?j * ? iuiai seizures 01 liquids made by them have been large. Out standing in the figures is the total seizure of 3,318 bottles of beer, averaging 553 1)G ttles of beer a day, counting six days in the week. Other large seizures were 1,238 half pints of whiskey and 1.064 beer, wine and whiskey glasses. The greater amount of liquors seized included beer and whiskey, although fair sized totals of wine, gin and other intosicentg run hp the total, I I Have You Consumption. Aeroplanes have proved of incalculable benefit to the French and German armies in giving prompt information of the whereabouts of the enemy. \ foe discovered quickly enough can often be destroyed. So it is with tuberculosis, the worst of all germ diseases to which man is subject. If it can be diagnosed early it can be cured. Every one should know the most important early signs of this disease, not that they are to be a cause of terror, but that they may be warning signals to suggest treatment. The records ot Bellevue hos pital in New York City shows that out of 980 patients treated during the years 1910, 1911 and 1912, 72 per cent of the early cases of tuberculosis admitted were discharged cured or im proved, and l per cent died. The question a man should ask himself if he wishes to de tect and defeat the enemy, tuber culosis, should run somewhat as follows: Do I find that work that was once easy to do now seems hard? Is my appetite poorer than it formerly was? Am I flat chested? Do I take cold easily? When I have taken cold, does it drag on for weeks with a cough that is worse in the morning? Is the matter that I cough up occasionally blood-streaked? Have I a persistent catarrh? Am I pale and enaemic looking, with flushed cheeks and feverish feeling in late afternoon?,^! ? nr* - A?,? Am I loosing weight? Do I experience a feeling of discomfort in my chest not especially painful, but something that I am conscious of day after day? A mnn wlir* fin/lc lin miict II itv I1IIVIJ in VIOL answer "Yes" to one or more of these questions should recognize the warning of the enemy's possible approach. Especially is this true if relatives or others with whom he has lived have died of tuberculosis. He should go at once to a capable physician and have his lungs examined while there is good hope of a cure. The man who puts off going to a doctor for fear he may find he has tuberculosis is making a grave and fatal mistake. Knowledge is not to be feared, but ignorance. The patent medicines advertised for symptoms like those described above never do any real good in cases of consump tion. They may make you feel better for a time if they have a tonic effect, and they may relieve the cough but they do not cure, and the disease continues slowly to extend. Go to a physician and not to a bottle of "dope."?Exchange. Blight in Apple Trees. From North Carolina: "Please tell me what to do for blight in apples." The only tiling that can be done is to cut out to sound wood. Fartunately the blight does not go far in apples as in pears, and effects only the twigs as a rule. But even in pears if growers would watch a little more closely and as soon as they see some slight shrivelling near the ends of the branches would cut out ahead of it, the blight would go no farther, while if let alone till the leaves turn black tlu? whole limb will probably be sacrificed. ?Prof. Massev in Progressive Farmer, Cheraw School Closet* fVN Cheraw, May 29.?The finfra? exercises of the Cheraw higjfF1 school were held in the nejgJ school auditorium last nighit&L There were about 4<>0 persowRjt in the audience, and the exer^wj cises were pronounced the be^np ever held by the school. ?jnr After an address of welcomd^E* by the superintendent, 1'lLHtl, iiv; IVTilU Ills U11UU'4I IWITJ! port. There were 513 childi^Ojm^i in the school during the yedrj?t? 310 in the white school and 203yO in the negro school, the iattwfeu notwithstanding the childreflMK^ the Long Industrial school jMHEha other private schools for nea&pn children; R. T. Caston, chairman ofVltipi|S school hoard, in introducing Dfii jn Clinkscales, the speaker of the, ta evening, complimented the citi- Jn zens of Cheraw on their willing^ ness to be burdened with boodflK to the amount of $27,000 fdlLrn scool purposes, and spreadin^ftR* out from a three room house years ago to 12 rooms ajgHnr auditorium today. ijfef Dr. Clinkscales, who is wflf known as an educator and ptl|Hoc lie speaker all over the -Stat^H.th made one of his usual wittyfirPi earnest, practical, cnmmoraui sense addresses, which was ejj&Oi joyed as much by the child^Har as the patrons of the schook^^^^ The certificates were pres^^^V ed to the graduating class Col. E. W. Duvall in very a|^H propriate words which call^^B forth repeated applause. -iB The corps of teachers was r^H eleced; B. C. Mclver, superiflfl tendent; Lawrence Misses Hattie and EleanorGe^pg frey, Lizzie Malloy, Bessie PowS0f Laurie Harrall, Mattie DuvalM Susie Smith. Some of thes# \v< have been in the school manv in years, and Mr. Mclver has beef ina superintendent 21 years. jl de The large new addition to thj' an school put up this winter makei> m this one of the most complete w< modern school buildings in thf iti State with lavajlories and sanitary drinking fountains, cloak th rooms, electric lights on both da floors and an up to date heatinj ijt and ventilating system tha 'gc changes the air every 15 minutet jo throughout the entire building;^ ;v^ W( Alum to Prevent Fire.. Wi To make paper fireprool, ut wllI'lllfT ivrittiin nrinfo^ r?nir?4nil) Hf! .. Tftiuvu) pi uii^u, pauii^iu or stamped, dip it in strong alum 01 water?a saturated solution?and 2* dry thoroughly. Test after th* hi first dipping, if it burns, dip am{ y< dry again. Neither color oi n( quality will be in the least affect-j w ed. Deeds, insurance policies Cl or papers of any gind can bo protected this way. * By putting an ounce of alum or sal ammoniac in the last wa! <p] ter in which muslins or cotton^ ? are rinsed, or a similar quantity rj in the starch in which they ar^; ^ stiffened, they will be rendered 8f almost incombustible, or at least ci will with difficulty take the fire, 8( and if they do will burn with- ic out flame. Remember this and h save the lives of your children, b ?Exchange. j ii ? Tl C . I /"? I* 11/1 - /"> t iic juum Carolina w neat Lrop 5 The Stale. !, Two million and half bushels, q perhaps two million, seven hundred thousand bushels, is the wheat crop of South Carolina in ti this tremendous wheat year in y the United States. I b While it is less wheat.thai . South Carolina consumes, jt i^s n more wheat than the State has d produced in many a low? year? if Ji ever boforcv < > ts jA * J: / 1 far Beneath Waves Wreaks More Havoc ?c State. Friday Submarines continued to take , eir toll in the European war. he British battleship Majestic is been sent to the bottom off 1 allipoli peninsula bv a German rpedo. The number lost, as < the case of the Triumph, has >t been computed. , [The British steamer MorwenPfcgas sunk not far from the Id Head of Kinsale, where the : jsitania went down, and the jamer Betty was disposed of < \f a i -? ? ^ i\urie sea?ootn by uerman ? bmarines. ; The British submarine 1 v 11 is made a long trip, under \ ine' fields part of the way, i fough the Dardanelles and the < ^a of Marmora up to tin? very aters of Constantinople, a dis j ce of approximately 200 i iles. In the course of this i :pedition she sank an ammuni- , >n vessel in the sea of Marora, torpedoed a supply ship' at j odosta and discharged a torpe> at a transport along the < senal at Constantinople, the ? feet of which is not known Another tragedy of the sea has < icurred at Sheerness, where i e British auxiliary steamer rincess Irene has been blown ] > by an accidental explosion 1 l board. More than 300 lives e reported to have been lost. Zeppelins have raided South ad, 40 miles from London, ^uag bombs on the town. , ^Mivan is said to have been some property dam^^^Hiaused. ^^^wield and "The Game." ive yesterday in any section < Union County you would 1 ive seen a number of white ; omen and white girls at work 1 the cotton fields. The rains 1 tve made the grass grow won- i nuu> iusi iu me couon neias ; id . the good women?helpates that they always are? < ere lending a helping hand in lling the grass. And if you id gone out from Monroe on < e Wadesboro road that same ] ly you would have seen a long i te of strong, robust niggers < >ing out to the baseball grounds i play ball and to see the game. I re thought of those good, < orking white women when e saw that aggregation of liformed, masked and mittened dl players and the line going it in good turnouts to see the tme and then?well, you who low us know just as well as >u know anything that we are >t going to put on paper what e thought and you can read i8sin' all between these lines. Lady Hurt in Monroe. Miss Myrtle Tillev, stenogralier tor the Heath Hardware ompany. went out horseback ding yesterday afternoon and te horse she was riding ran and ipped and fell at the cement rossing on Hayne and Wind >r streets. Miss Tillev had a >ng gash cut in the back of her ead, a shoulder and a knee ruised and she was otherwise ijured. The injured lady was iken to Mr. Kosser Wolf's, her oarding place, and is getting long very well.?Monroe Knuirer. "Now," said the doctor, "you _ >1_ - t * * " ikc mis medicine just as I told ou, and you will sleep like a aby." The patient surveyed the ledicine doubtfully. "Well, octor," he said, "if you mean ke our habv I truess I won't It," i* Suggestions for Fly "jT'me Don't allow flies in your house Don't permit them near you food, especially milk. Don't buy foodstuffs when flies are tolerated. Don't eat where flies have ac jess to the food. Do not patronize grocer stores and markets that harbo and feed flies. Insist upoi screens. "Fruit a la filth"?the kin< served from sidewalk stand after being: exposed to street dir and flies. Screens on windows and door to keep out flies will do more t< to safeguard your treasures thai will locks to keep out burglars Not every fly that comes alonj is carrying filth and germs, bu many of them are and you can' tell which is which. Take n< chances?swat all. Because your neighbor throw garbage in the alley is no reasoi why you should follow his ex ample?it's a reason why yoi should set him a good exampk With all houses well sewerei and screened, the flies that feei upon the filth and kitchen refus would largely disappear and th health conditions would be t< that extent improved. Keep screens over articles o food. Don't let flies get near th pantry, kitchen or dining roorr The only safe way is to kee] out the flies. Join the anti-fl; crusade. Five Sets of Triplets Muskogee (Okla.) Dispatch \ Mr. and Mrs. FrariK Scott^| Hi^hlai^ Kan.} are seeki^^B will need it, for although the: tiave been married not quite tei years they had 19 children, al boys, and 13 are living. The1 bold the record for triplets, hav ing five sets to their credit, ant ilso two sets of twins. All thi 13 living boys are under 5 year of age. Mrs. Scott once boarded a trail with her 13 boys and one firs class ticket. The conductor in formed her that she could no take her entire Sunday sclioc class on one ticket, and it wa not until she showed him til family Bible, with all the birt] dates recorded, that he believo it was only her family and pei mittpH thpiri to nrrnnv fivp Hon ble seats while paying for one. Where They Disagreed. A newspaper man was on th witness stand and the attorne was trying to find out somethin; about him. "'Where did you work last? he asked. "On the Milwaukee Sentinel. "Why did >ou leave?" "The editor and I disagree on a national polical question. "Where did you work next? "On the New Orleans Item. ''Why did you leave?" "The editor and I disageed o a national political question." TM_ * _ A! 1 i his was me repiy m ever instance, and the judge took hand. "What was this national polit cal question," he asked, "upo which you never could agr< with your chiefs?" "Prohibition." The small boy had quarrelc violently with his htte neighb( across the street. His aunt to him that he must go to his litt friend's house, kiss him and si that he was sorry. The youthful belligerent d murred. "You go kiss hit auntie," lie sqid; "1 miglit l>? him," In Memory of a Child. j. Friday morning at 2 o'clock r the monster death ^entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hay Cole lins and claimed their 2 year old daughter Lillian. She was sick only a few days, with cholera infantum. Lillian it seems, was the pride of this home, but more y than one time have we wonderr ed why God in his infinite ^ wisdom always chooses the ones so much loved as his. Still we should not ever be wrought up, I as we know that "God doeth, all i s things well." Our hearts go out A t in sympathy to the bereaved ones, but lo them we would say s as a word of consolation that ^ i earthly ties may be broken asuni der, still there is a tie of love that reaches beyond, even to X glory, and this your loved one t is gone. You may look to him t and he will at his appointed ) time reunite the loved ones as an unbroken family around the s throne. I The little one was buried at Mt. Moriah Friday evening II about 4 o'clock by the most i. loving hands. "Why should we d mourn departing friends, or d shake at deaths alarm it is but a e voice that Jesus sends to call e them to his arms." 0 A Friend. 1 Neighborliness. e In Pierce county, Ga., the L home of a widow woman was p burned. A do/en of her neigh- a * bors built a new home for her. . This the local paper described i as "a new sort of community I building." The Savannuh News 1 quite properly says that it is not M jfnfnv. It recalls the earlier days H|when it was customary for ta_he_ VI deed, when bam railings were' 1 not infrequent and when the 1 neighbor that suffered as this yT widow did was helped out of trouble just as she was." This ^ sort of neighborliness is come mon in North Carolina. In one s particular county?Union?it is regularly established and of universal application. Almost every it season the Monroe papers give accounts of the people turning ?t out to plant or harvest the crops of a sick neighbor, to rebuild a s burned barn or residence. This e is done in no spirit of display and h no "fuss" is made about it, the J people merely regarding it as the performance of a neighborly i" duty.?Charlotte Observer. Frost in the North Washington, May 27.?Gene erally fair weather with rising y temperature is following the K cold wave and killing frosts which swept down from Canada last night causing damage in the agricultural districts along the Great lakes, through northern and wetem Pensvlvania and d New York. Forecasters of the Weather Bureau to night said the territo ry affectd by the wave probably would bave light frost tonight n but that warmer weaather would follow tomorrow, y Reports from upper Michigan a said temperatures therefell several degrees below freezing early i- today. n . ;e Tarheel Papers Please Copy Spartanburg Herald. Russia has a bath train which she uses in connection with her army operations. After the war >r is over the North Carolina au% I t/\ rnnt it (r\r ?.i IUUI 1IIVO IU IV.UI it IV/I u 'e campaign in the State. iy "Are you unmarried?" inquire" ed the census man. n? "Oh. dear, no," said the little to lady,blushing; "I've never oyen