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The Pageland journal Vol. 5 NO. 38 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1915 $1.00 per year : / ?- _ -t ? n A r?o Ai- ' I ouying cm l ime. I J. Z. Green, in The Marshville Home.?Under the present war conditions which carry an element of extreme uncertainty along business lines, without a precedent in the history of the world, a farmer who spends the proceeds of his crop before the crop matures, and is gathered, for things that he can get along without, commits' an economic crime against his own family. Even if things are offered you at half the usual price it's like burning money to buy them if there is no necessity for buying them. But when a man buys Slich thinOK d? CPU/innr ma^ViInnc wv * U1C4VULUCO from an agent under these pecu liarly uncertain financial conditions, and promises to pay two prices, it looks like the result of temporary insanity on the part of the man who signs up the papers. One favorite scheme the agent has in closing in with his victim, as for instance with a sewing machine or a cooking range, is to get off a pathetic sermon to the man on his home life relationship and his duty v?) to provide conveniences for his wife. When you come to think of it this presumptuous method of a stranger, who has as much interest in the welfare of your family as he has in the inhabitants of Africa, bringing an indictment against your loyalty and devo lion to your wife and family, is a gross insult and agents dVe sometimes called to task bv in f telltgent men when they pro ceed to get off this familiar tomf myrot. The agent has a right to ^talkup^em|^ofhi8 wares, a right topre^^^^ua^^m^ on family relationship and vir tually declare that you will not be "good to your wife" unless you buy his machine or range. A man who is really "good to his wife" is the man who puts into practice sound business sense and spends his money wisely and economically. For example, let*s make this comparison: One man buys a sewing machine on time, at two prices, from a traveling agent who tells him he will be good to his wife and family if he will do that thing. The crop yield in the Fall is less than it promised (as it usually is). The price of cotton is much lower than was expected. But that note with interest must be paid. The wife and children must go thinly clad and go without necessities during the Winter. Financial burdens always fall heaviest upon the woman in the home, and especially is this true with the average farmer, because the farmers wife is the hardest worked woman' in the country. Now this part of the comparison might be changed just a little by saying that the agent, who was very much "on the job" induced this man to "love his wife" so well that he actually gave his old foachine to the agent and bought the new one. This frequently happens, and it is equally true that in many instan ces the old machine with a little cleaning up and adjusting is as good or a better machine than the new one which the agent delivers. Now here's the other part of the above comparison. Another farmer decided that he knew about as well how to be "good to his wife and family" as the agent could tell htm. (In many instances, the agent is unmarried and has no practical knowledge of this part of the problem.) When this man married he took (t practical view of the marriage I vow to "protect and support'* and he is living up to it bjr spending his money wisely. He f refuses to buy the machine from the agent because the machine j which he has is still capable of rendering service. Being a practical business man he believes in getting service out of his old machine as long as it is capable of rendering service even if he has to pay a repair man a dollar occasionally to re adjust it and put it in order. This man's wife and family are comfortably fed and clothed and are well supplied with life's necesities as well as some modern conveniences like funning water in the house, lights, fireless cooker, kitchen cabinet, screened doors and windows, etc. He kee^s his children in school the full term and is sending some of the older ones to college. In this comparison I have described two wavs of being "good to your wife and family." Which do you like best? Ford Company Increases Capital Stock To $100,000,000 Detroit, Mich., june 4.?The Ford Motor Company announced today that it had increased its authorized capital stock from $2,000,000 to $100,000,000 and had declared a stock dividend of $48,000,000 payable July 1. A cash dividend was declared on the original authorized stock of $2,000,000 but the amount was not made public. The stock dividend increases the holdings Couzens, vice prisident, received $5,000,000 The stock increase brings the issued capital stock of the concern to a valuation of $50,0*>0,000. The remaining $50,000,000 will be kept in the company's treasury "to be used as conditions demand in the future." Eleven Ships Sunk in a Day London, June 5.?German submarines continued their activity in English waters today. The results, demonstrated in the number rather than importance of the vtjsels sent to the bottom, added 11 ships to a list of similar size sunk yesterday. No loss of life was reported today, and the lost Vessels with one exception?the small French steamship Pen field?were English steam trawlers and fisher-1 men operating under sail. If the German activities served no other purpose they made plain the fact that there are a large number of submarines of deadly potentiality widely scattered about the United Kingdom and that the insignificance of the "bag" is due to the lack of more important targets rather that inability to deal with them. This has tended to increase the prevailing uneasiness. Next Reunion of Veterans in Birmingham Richmond, Va., June 2.?Gen. Bennett II. Younp of Loni?i/iii? was today reelected commander in cheif of the United Confederate Veterans, in annual reunion here, and Birmingham, Ala., was selected as the reunion city for 1616. The election of Gen. Young followed a spirited contest, his opponent being Gen. Felix H. Robertson of Crawford, Texas. Prior to the election the dele gates directed that a message of sympathy be sent to Gen. Young who was kept away by illness. Report of Com or First Quarter, 1915, of all Clai the Board of C< an'y 4 1915 Sarah Brown < Isabella lohnson C D Brown Adam McFarland W H Smith Caroline Baker Cvnthia Catoe John Goodwin D A VVilkerson Martha Leary W N Brantly \r a d ? x \ i U1 VIS John and Sarah Rod Caroline Patrick Rachel Hicks Nancy Sullivan W E Johnson William Miles Calvin Powe Grantville Mills Eliza Axum Louisa Melton M J Davis Alice HuggittS Malinda Cowe Eliza Ann Brown Elmira Welsh J O Edwards Alfred McRae Lewis Jackson Amanda Sutton Hul(J Rodgers Bettie Rollings Mary Jackson Rachel Campbell Henriett Beaver Ranball Hammons Mary Brown William McBride Ceasar Pegues Catharine 'folbert Hannah Grani Rilla Melton - *- v. ?1 Tn IS'TWCVUmg Harriet Stanley ^ iviary Goodwin Henry Steen Thorsday Brewer Nancy McFarland Nancy Cassidy Nelson Johnson Adline Gardney John Poison Charles Levatt Harriet McFarland Eliza Harp W J Tucker Mrs W F Cross M D Johnsori Sophia Sellers J D Grooms 1) A Shaw Isaac Gibson Cotena Streateir Easter Rorie Charles Evans Ernest W Moore, Ri G A M alloy, Constal R A Rouse, Supt. Ed M D and H L Smith La Costa Evans, Fre ?> E Clark & Co., Cl * ?* ? i ugeranu naraware K Walker, Evans & Cc C L Crowley, Const; James Griffith, Cons T W Belk, M agist ra J B Brown, Right of James Griffith, Com z C A Baker, Magistra Jefferson Drug Co, < 1 W Black well, Chai R M Pressley, R. & F M Moore, Constat J C Revis, Magistral Malloy & Co., Chair J W. Rascoe, Magist Theo. Winburn, Coi J D Smith, R & B Sr J W Ouslev, Magisti G A Sherrill, Specia Armfield Hardware Armfield Hardware. Bank of Chesterfield Rilla Melton, outside Peoples' Bank, R R Dr. L E Bull, Chainj K W Rivers, Commi D P Douglass, Salary D P Douglass, Expe Continued o nty: Supervisor ms Audited and Approved by s rmmfssioners. ^ Dutside Aid $ 2 50 c n I- .. 5 00 t] ? * ? 2 50 y ? f ? 500 0 ? "l-? 500 a .. ? 3<>0 y ? 2 50 s ? 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Special 3 00 ? ?,e 20 83 te 20 83 t iK?ng 20 78 s rate 16 67 s nstable 33 32 i fecial 5 47 t rate 50 00 < 1 320 00 t Co., Chaingang 15 30 1 Jal1 9 30 t I, R K Coupons 1,734 00 1 ^id 5 00 Coupons 576 00 ?an* * 4 60 itation w 80 00 < 125 00 l nse 55 03 1 a last page. ?? * * w i L Played too Rough. A negro in a Southern county eat town had been condemned o die, says The Kansas City >tar. The day of the hanging aine and Rastus was taken tc he scaffold in the court house ard. The hood was slipped >ver his head and the noose djusted. Just as the sheriff was about tc prmg the trap a cry of "Fire!" vas heard, and smoke was seen oming from the court house vindows. The officials and pectators, forgetting their task, ushed to help fight the blaze, Vnyway, Rastus was tied and :ould not escape without aid. During the fire another negro vandered into the court house rard and passed the scaffold, ie though he recognized a amiliar form standing on it and iroceded to find aut. "Hello, dar! Is dat you, Rasus?" "I'se Rastus." "What you all doing' on dat latform?" "I'se a movin' picture actor low, Sam." "A movin' picture actor?" "Yas, sah; a regular movin icture actor," "Is movin' picture actin' hard vork, .Rastus?" "It's softer dan eatin' waternelon all day long." "Is you paid well?" "Gets $5 every day for workin1 Virkitr r\r (mn " . 1IVU1 Ut l?*V. "Rastus, you all is a friend of nine, isn't vou all?" "I sure is, Sam." "Den if the white folks what un dis movin's picture actor tusiness wants another actor you ell 'em about me, Rastus." ?&n ramo on nn here tnolakemy jdZmSBTfloW, banr. 'se tired of movin' picture actin1 or to day. Besides, I got tc pend the money I'se made ilready." Sam mounted the steps and eleased Rastus from his bonds, lastus in turn prepared the unuspecting Sam for hanging Then he skipped. A few min ites later the sheriff returned, le saw a negro standing patienty on the scaffold. Without urther ado he sprung the trap. Fortunately for Sam the rope vas old and broke under the udden strain. It rolled Sam in o the dust of the court house ard. He wrenched his hands oose and jerked the hood from lis head. Then rolling his eves round and rubbing his neck, he aid: "You all white folks can take rack your old job. You all's too ough." <lew Rural Routes Will Numbei 710 Washington, June f>.?Estabishment of 7to new rural mail lelivery routes to serve 82,39(] atfillies and the extension ol jxisting service to reach 5,46C idditional families wds announcid tonight by Postmaster General Burleson. Nearly all of the tew routes will go into oper ition June 14. Enlargement and extension o! he rural service was made pos able, a Postoffice Departmeni statement explains, by a read ustment in April and Mav esulting in a reduction o )perating expenses amounting o $511,262. Many routes hav< >een consolidated with others >ut it is said but few carrier will be dropped. Will Pony Work Too? An advertisement in a loca ixchange reads as follows. FOR SALE?Gentle Pony, har tiess and buggy will work anj where, Apply to? The Approaching District Conference fulyFirst. I Rev. J. A. McGravv pastor of the M. E. church hands the Journal the following: 1st. District as used here I means Presiding Elder's District, > of which there are 12 in the state of South Carolina. The j Florence district is composed of 70 local churches, 22 pastoral charges, lying within the ternJ tory ot Darlington, Chesterfield, Marlboro and Florence counties. ' 2nd. The conference will, ' when made up, consist of all the pastors, superanuated preachers, local preachers and 4 lay dele' gates from each pastoral charge. ' The nresiHinur RIHor ic nrocl/lAnt J ? b AO A VOiUV/li 4 of the conference unless a BishJ op is in attendance, in that event the Bishop presides. 3rd. The jurisdiction of the District conference is an oversight of all the interests of the church in the District bounds. Some of its work is to license proper persons to preach, after an examination by a committee at this conference, to recommend , suitable persons, to the Annual conference for admission into , the traveling connection after examination by another com- / mittee appointed by this conference, to examine into the character of, and renew the license , of local preacher, as local preachers are licensed for only . one year at a time, to elect 4 delegates from the District to the ensuing Annual conference, to make inquiry into the spiritual state of the church, into the Sunday school work, into the method of finances m^nauch church pppers ' attend and represent the cause 1 which has been committed to them. There will be one or two preaching services each day. Sessions of the conference will be held morning, afternoon and evening. All the work of the conference will be for the public to attend. Painted Dwellings Progressive Farmer. This thing of painting farm houses is mighty catching," said an observant man to us the other day. "You let Hill Jones paint his house and have all the pas strs by admiring it, and tiie next thing you know Tom Brown and Henry Sykes say, 'Well, Bill Jones ain't no better than I am, and I guess my folks are as much entitled to a painted house as his are.' So they paint, too." It's a mighty good sort of contagion to be going round. Paint pays not only in preserving lumber but in giving new pride and dignity to the family in the painted house. A farmer in a painted house : seems to rather feel that he has ' lined up with the progressive folks, has advertised himself as I such, and that it's up to him to ! make good. At a party a lady said to a f little boy who was leaving; "Won't you have some more i cake before you go? "No," said he, "I'm full." ? "Then," said the lady, "put f some cake and oranges and nuts C in your pockets, won't you?" J "They're full too," said the . boy.?Ex. s "Are you going to have a garden this year?" "No," replied Mr. Growcher. ] "It isn't mv turn to make a garden. I'm going to keep . chickens this year and let my t neighbor make the garden."? Washington Star,