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SS 'Z THE PAGELAND JOLRNAE Vol.7 NO. 56 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1917 $1.00 per year a . ? ???? Dig Artillery Kang County; La Government Seeking 150,00 Acres of Land In Chesterfield County for Military Purposes Final Decision b; September 30th At last an apparent us& hf been found for the bald san hills of a portion of Chesterfiel county. The Government h? has taken notice ot the ides military camp site in this coui ty, and it is believed that th biggest army training camp i the United States is soon to b established in the central, thinlj settled section of the count: A ? i rvn army omciai recently cam to Cheraw and let it be knowi that there is a chance for the e: tablishment of a whopping bi training camp, and immediate! the wheels began to turn. Th matter was taken up throug Mr. G. W. Duvall of Cherav and he soon enlisted the help < many others. The work of si curing options on ah the lan in this great body of 150,0C acres began at once, and at th time it is practically complete. This afternoon Mr. Duva goes to Charleston and tomo row morning he lavs the entii matter before the authorise There are several more possibl sites, and the two most feasibl ones will be selected. Then ei gineers will look over both site and the final decision will b made and reported to the Wi Department not later than Sei tember 30th. I It ie iinrlorcfrv/\rl *V?ni ?? < AI 10 UUU\>10IVA/U luai 11119 id ( be the finishing up trainic camp for the troops from all tt camps in the United States, ac is intended to take the place < the training behind the lines i France, The troops would 1 brought here and given sixi davs of training just as muc like real warfare as it is possib to make it. Light artillery, m chine guns, rifles and very pro ably airplanes would be brougl into use. The soldiers would 1 given actual trench experienc and.sham battles would vu probably be almost a daily o currenceNo better place could be four in the United States. This si is high, dry, healthy and hill i/"; i u:ii~ u a uc iviiiu aauu iyii! luuiu bit all the bullets that can ever 1 shot into them, and be none tl worse. Right through the propose site goes Black creek with i numerous branches so that the; would be no scarcity of watt Thousands of acres of this lar have never been cultivated, at the principal growth is stubt black jack and wire grass. Or may travel miles without sign < civilization. Of course, son sections are settled, some < them quite thickly, but these ai the exception and not the rul Someone has said that there ai approximately 1,700 homes i this otiij; e body of one hundrc and fifty thousand acres. Muc of the land is owned by noi residents, who live in Monro Charlotte and other places. M Bonsai, the railroad promote owns eleven thousand acres. Mr. Duvall states that th large land owners are givin options at a reasonable prio while the small holders are ? a rule, much higher. The Go^ ernment asks for leases or ou right sales. 'FVinm nrn /y/vrv/1 a uviv many ^wwu Vvho live within the propose boundaries, and many of ther would tear up and move ou ^ i e tor Uiestertield irgest Camp In U. S. 0 Russian Rebellion Ends With Arrest of Korniloff Russia's internal situation was considerably clarified by Saturday's news dispatches which V announces the arrest of General Korniloff, marking the detinite end of his revolt, and the forma is lion of a new cabinet at Petro d grad. Publication of the names d of the new cabinet members was is deferred for a day. il With General Korniloff was i* arrested General Lokomsky. e who was in command of the n Russian Northern front when 10 , the revolt started and who cast r his lot with his chief. What e the fate of the two men will be J. is problematical. Opinion in s- Russia seems widely divergent e as to the treatment that should v be meted out to them, e Sweden is determined to do h everything possible to set things v* right so far as she was concern >f ed with the German dispatches transmitted through her foreign d office, as brought out in the re>0 cent Washington disclosures, is Foreign Minister Lindemann informed the Associated Press 11 correspondent at Stockholm, r- She has stopped the practice and e will not renew it, he stated, and s. will ask Germany for an exe planation of its abuse ofprivi ? i leges. i- Germany and Austria have s, proclaimed the creation of a ?e regency to govern Poland, the *r two nations retaining great conP troll of foreign affairs during the period of occupation and of lo certain other powers of govern ment, not vet made clear. ie Military activities on most of >d the front seem at a minimum pf for this season, when active op in erations are still possible virtual>e ly everywhere in the field of ty hostilities. h Petrcgrad, Sept. 15.?General lc Korniloff, leader of the recent ?1 - roKo1U/\r? _1 icutniuu u^;<tiiim iuc piovisionai b- government, and General Loht komskv, the commander of the >e Northern front, who refused to e, take command of the Russian ry armies after Korniloff was de c posed, have been arrested. The members of the commissi sion ot inquiry are due at mohite ley at midnight and the arrested y. persons will be given into their >P hands. Such other officers as >e the commission selects also will ie be arrested. News of the arrest of General id Korniloff was first conveyed in ts a telegram received by Premier re Kerenskv from General Alexieff, :r. rhinf nf oinff c? t? * *' v?iivA v/i oidiiit ou rdi uniy 1116 id following details have been reid ceived: >y "At 10 o'clock last night. Genie feral Korniloff and Generals Lo kcmsky and Romanovskv and ie Colonel Pleutstchevsky-Pliuskhen were arrested." re e very reluctantly, while others re would sell .without regret. i n The proposed lines would run somewhat as follows: Beginning ll ai McBee and following the Seaboard right of way to within e? about a mile of Patrick; thence r' northward to Shiloh church; r' thence northward to within a mile or two of Ruby; thence e westward along a line a mile K south of Guess and four or five ^ miles south of Pageland; thence ,s south one mile east of Jefferson ' and back .to McBee on the east 1 ern side of the Jefferson-McBee road. This takes the heart of d the county, but leaves the best n land and most thickly settled t sections all arou^fi the border Wounded in American Hospital F Bombed by German Airman Washington, Sept. 15.?The first complete detailed account of the German air attack on ? American base hospital No. 5 in ^ France on the night of Tuesday, September 4, has reached this f country in a report fjom Maj. tl Gen. M. P. Murphy, head of the 0 Red Cross commission in France. c It was in this attack that Lieut * ? William T. Fitzsimmons of Kan- t I sas t^uy, ine iirsi American otli- r ' cer to give his* life in the war; E was killed; three other officers, s six privates, a woman nurse and s, 22 patients from the British lines were wounded. An American ^ Red Cross inspector returning to s Paris from the scene told ttie j] story as follows: ^ "The airplane attnck occurred at 11 o'clock at night. Just at j that time fortunately no convoy. f of wounded was being received j or the list of casualties would c have been far greater as one of ^ the bombs fell into the center of ^ the large reception tent to which j the wounded are first borne for 4 examination. Ten seconds suf- f ficed for the dropping of the bombs from the fast flying plane and within less than a minute afterward the surgeons of the hospital were at the task of col- * lecting and attending those who had been struck down. And for 1 24 hours they were at work in the operating room, one surgeon v relieving another when the latter from simple exhaustion could ~ work no longer. And the veiy't vnext dav, just as if nothing had happened, these same surgeons ^ were called upon to receive and care for 200 wounded sent in [ from the the trenches of the Brit ( ish expeditionary force. The j hospital, which is on the French < coast, has 1,800 beds under can (( vas in a quadrangle 800 feet < square, is in a district where J there are many similar institu- < tions anu is unmistakable as a (< hospital. At the same time the < German aviator flew over it j most of the sunnrnl staff urac I I engaged in making rounds of the ward. Lieutenant Fitzsim- < . mons, however, was standing at \ , the door flap of his tent. J i _ i Submarine Near Atlantic Coast! An Atlantic Port, Sept. 15.?I Evidence that an enemy subma-l rine has begun depredations in! I American waters was brought! here today by two steamships,! ? which yesterday morning picked! ' up wireless "S. O. S." calls indi I eating that a ship was being! I shelled bv a u-boat in the vicin ! itv of Nantucket Lightship. ! One ship receiving the distress ' calls was a British freighter and 1 the other an American tanker. Botn reported the scene of the attack as about 60 miles east of Nantucket and the time about 8 o'clock yesterday morning. The identity of the submarine's victim was not learned by either vessel, as far as is publicly known. According to the commander of the British vessel the mes sages received by his wireless operator rorm the ship said she was being shelled and reported her position, but only a pait of her name could he heard- the word 4*Abbv," which is the last name of several ships in Allan tic trade. The American tanker's cap tain confirmed the British skipper's report, but added no details. Silence was imposed on both captains bv naval officers who interviewed them as soon as they reported to their agents. g Make few promises and keep I them, I i *uts Price on Head of First American Brought in Dead or Living British Headquarters in France nd Belgium, Sept. 15 (By the Associated Press).?German miliary authorities on the Western ront have shown concern about he imminnce oi the American rmy's entry into the fighting bv rffering rewards for the producion of the first American prison :r. The general commanding he Eleventh Reserve Division ecently put the price of 400 narks on the first American oldier brought dead or alive nto his lines. . This information has been lisclosed by the diary of a Prusian sergeant of the Twentyhird Reserve Regiment. He vrote at the end of July: "We are supposed to have Americans opposite us for some ime now and two divisions ot *ortuguese on our right. The Linn wno Drings in tne tirst American dead or alive to head[uarters has been promised the ron Cross of the First Class and 00 marks and 14 days leave rom the division." Notice of Court Court of General Sessions for Chesterfield County, fall term, vill convene on Monday, Sepember 24th, 1917. Grand Jurors, Peti* Jurors, and vitnesses take notice. I. P. MANGUM, Clerk of Court. >ept. 12, 1917. iwwwwwi ^ TEN REASC rE AN ACCi H RU1 1 BECAUSE, your in 2 BECAUSE, a BAN so as to 5=^ 3 BECAUSE, paying method for the < 4 BECAUSE, a sheck >^Z. with ci Old S. C. Paper Turns Up Monroe J6urnal. Mr. W. L. Belk brought a most interesting old land paper with him to town yesterday one that he found in his father's old papers, it was a grant trom Governor Pickens of South Carolina made in 1787 to Thomas Nelson for 385 acres in the Cam den district on Kane Creek, for the sum of seven pounds, about $33. The old paper, is well pre served, but an interesting part is the seal of the State of South Carolina, with which the paper is folded and tied. It is literally a seal, nearly as large as a saucer and made of war half an inch thick. On one side is a palmetto tree and on the other the raised figure of a woman. ii our* Oliiu^ itlldUUCS II III Ulti paper. By the way, this old paper settles the controversy about how to spell Kane Creek. Mr. C. C. Birmingham, who has been with the Seaboard for a number of -years at Wilming ton and other places, has moved his family to Monroe and has a position as operator at the pas senger station. Advice Worth While 1 Save when vou are young to spend while you are old. Do not marry until you are able to support a wife. Keep yourself innocent if you would be happy. Keep good company or none. If your hands can not be use fully employed, attend to the cultivation of Hour mind. mm' rmm INS WH Y YOU SHOD OUNT WITH THE B 5Y & MT.CROGfl ioney is safer in the BANK th; K account teaches, helps and c increase, your balance bills b}^ check is the simplest as weXl as the safest, as your < iebt it/pays. Krv/\ll r I o ^ wui> is uiuic luuvciiieui iu tai lrreDicv or loose change, and if -*^ill furnish you another fre< ir wallet, the story is different, you a better standing in the msiness men, to pay by check r s "having money in the bank," urned, cancelled checks, with x>ok furnished by the bank, mak 3rd of business transacted and i other record could be. g a bank account and issuing che unaware to yourself, gradually asset a man can have, namely: a f our recommendation this cred iwav from home, with whom sdation. ig an account with the bank, tl u have a check or draft on an ou s readily done for you, and alsi ). free of anv charges. ould travel or move away from t >m us a favorable introduction, a th you wherever you may go. y you might need to borrow; tl accommodation, but the preferei i non customer, may in times of j it the Subject tr 1 -11 uny as .you win ik account is dc: s, and we tend faculties. >F RUBY AND MT C. & MT CROGHA AM (MM Uruguayan Marines Seize Ge rman Ships Montevideo, Uruguay, Sept. 14.?Uruguayan marines todsy boarded all the German ships in the harbor here, the government having heard of plans to sink the vessels. The crews of the eight interned German steamers were brought ashore and the authori ties took charge of the vessels. Many loose pieces of machinery, which the crews had been unable to hide, were found on board the steamers. Last night more mass meetings were held here with demontrations against Germany. Order was maintained bv the authorities. The Colored Brother and the War Marshvillc Home. The Pageland Journal tells of a South Carolina negro of military age who doesn't want to go to the war and he makes it known in the following language: "Dey may concrete me an' make me go, but I sho ain't gonna vulcanize to go." But a lviarsnvuie colored gent nas tbe Pageland negro "skinned a mile" when it comes to rheteric. Here's the way he puts it: "Dey sav I am millinery age an' might as well go on an' I'se gwine to take de white folk's word an' valentine instead o' waiting to j be concreted an' let dese here skimption boards git holt o' me." mmmmwm ILD CARRY % ANK OF S IAN g an anywhere else. ^=*3 incourages vou to save ana most convenient -^O :heck becomes a receipt rry than a wallet filled your check book is lost, 2 of charge, when you community, especially ather than in cash; to be strengthens one's credit. properly kept stubs, and .cs it vciy luuipiete anu s kept with less work --<3 cks and making deposits / building up the most Jood credit at home, and -^O lit will be extended to i vou might need for he bank knows you and ?<3 t of-town bank to cash, o (on account of being a his community, you can nd thus carry your good le customer receives not ? ice of rates and amount, ?<D stringency meet with reom as many : J L The open- ? sireable and : , ler you our ^3 . CROGHAN M JV, S. C. 3 MMMfisMM,