journal Vol. 8 No. 8 PAGELAND, S. C.( WEDNESDAYjSlORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1917 ?| nft n(.rT^?r ?? fjyjfci I 4 c 11* T > " 1 - American ociaiers taken t5y IN Germans Washington, Nov. 4,?Berlin's j terse announcement today that ai "North American" soldiers had si been captured by German pa- N trols on the Rhine-Marne canal A on the French lront, brought tli the American people a step near- Si er to the heart of the great e< struggle. n There was no doubt here that ^ the men referred to were mem- s, bers of General Pershing's force o undergoing final training with French regiments in front line G trenches. Confirmation from General Pershing was lacking, but in due course he will trans pj mit the names of any men miss- tl ing and this may furnish some c? light. p< If, as is assumed, a small scout- a' ing party was surprised by a | German patrol in No Man's Land and all captured, details of h the incident may never be fully ni told since only captors and cap- ? lives would know what happen- ? ed in the encounter under cover of darkness. n This is the first report receiv- I3 ed here of the capture of any E members of the American expe-, si ditionary forces, but a number bi of naval gunners from Ameri tl can armed ships sunk by submarines and civilian members tii of the crews of other ships are hi held in German prison camps. ci Night patrolling is a vitally in important part of the final train- cc ing of the American - forces as it is upon these patrols that the Ti commanding officers rely for information of activity in the enemy's front line. Every night the ia scouts creep out with faces fjj blackened against the keen vis-1 f.. ft ftl ion of enemy lookouts and a th swift, deadly spurt from a ma chine gun. Thev go creeping m across the shell torn ground up m to the entanglements, crawling PI and listening, dropping flat be when a flare breaks out in the al air above them, sometimes lying pj absolutely still for hours while tit rifles and machine guns hammer ar above them. la vv Letter From Former Pageland fr< Boy. A Dear Mr. Tucker: I read with interest your ^ account of the fire which came 111 so near distroying the plant ofjPc The Journal and aside from the i01 sympathy I feel for the losers I - 1 am particularly impressed with \ P1 the enterprise you have shown }r(; in continuing without intermission a publication of your J01 paper. Ouly a sense of the highest responsibility to your " subscribers could have driven you to the exertion that must have been necessary to issue a paper under such trying con j Fi ditions. 1 am sure the people of th Pageland and community ap 1 w predate as I do the spirit you J Fi and those connected with you th have shown in this crisis. m Moreover I trust your readers ] th will show their appreciation in j pi more substantial way than G< sympathy, however much thutiinr be appreciated. : th The progressiveness of VIr. J in Sowell in planning immcdiatey to rebuild the destroyed section ex of your city is to be com- in; mended. vv: Assuring you of mv con- po tinned interest in vour personal ho welfare and the success of The m< Journal, I am, sic Very Respectfully Yours, dill. L. Johnson, of Columbia, November 2. tic Italian Retreat Has Compen- j sations. Italian Headquarters in North \ crn Italy, Friday, Nov. 2 (by the \ Associated Press).?From the \ '\ strategic standpoint the Italian i retreat in Nothern Italy has < certain compensations. It has \ shortened the Italian front from ' an irregular curve of 70 miles to j a compact, straight line. i The former front, just aban: i doned, stretched from Plezzo i southward to the Gulf of Triest which is 30 miles in an airline | and more than 70 miles, includ | ing the zigzags over the moun- i tains. This was an exception- \\ ally long front for either offen-^ sive or defensive operations and i it was continually threatened j with incursions at weak points. ] The old line, moreover, had i no rivers as natural defenses. oDauiy thought Italy would 1 i lot* to her fate, or that the v lies would be unable to dis A itch the necessary forces tn 5 lie, but declares that Fnglatui 1 id France alrea'dy have sent rge reinforcements and the * estern front today stretches x Dili the North sea to the I driatic. = Only bare mention of the merican troops in Franco is ado by the department. In )iuting out that the moment is events in Italy must not ead us to forget that the incipnl battle front of the war mains" in France and Flan ?rs, the statement says, "here ir forces are fighting." erman Batteries Display Unusual Activity Against American Troops With the American Army in ance, Saturday, \o. 3.? 'in/I 1 , . tiiivi ouiiipiit'l in SCI) it* \> occasional reminders of the ir toward the Americans. Re* >rts reaching Headquarters, >\vcvei, are that the bomhardL?nt could in no sense he coniercd "lively," merely being a parture from the normal state quietude at night on that par ular sector. early One-Half Kaiser's U- 1 Boats Have Been'Lost London, Nov. i.?Between 40 id 5<> per cent of tlie German < ibmarines operating in the orth sea, the Arctic and the J tlantic since the beginning of 1 io war have been sunk, said ' ir Eric Geddes, first lord of the ' Imiraltv, in the house of com10ns todav. "We must lav plans for a Ions ar," continued Sir Eric "I >e no signs of its being a short mv | "During: the last quarter the ermans lo.n as *^anv submanes as they lost in 1916," said ir Eric. The output of" merchant ship ing in the first nine months of lis year, he said, was 123 per ?m higher than in the corres anding period last years. The clmiraltv had decided that four ew shipbuilding yards would e necessary. Sir Eric said he regretted it ad not been found possible to rrive at a basis for publication f British tonnage losses by submarine action without givinig iform ation to the enemy. The losses of merchantmen i October, he said, were slight worse than in September, i nemv suhm;irinf>c w^rn , - ink to an increasing extent, 1 Lit the Germans were building ' iem faster than hitherto. , In September, Sir Eric con i nued, there was afloat on the ] igh seas an increase of '20 per jnt in numbers and 30 per cent tonnage of Brisish ships as >mpared with April. roops of Allies Have Gone to Aid Italians. Washington, Nov. 4.?Eng- ( nd, France and Italy stands ; rmly united to oppose any 1 rther advance of the enemy in ( e Italian sector, says the war ( jpartment's weekly review of * ilitary op' rr/: >ns. The stateent suggests that the Teutons 1 i-sww. However uie l.ont i?really shortened with the en- . tire army massed and backed bv , natural defenses. But the strategic issues are * not confined the hearing upon fj the situation eastward inn Venetia, There must also be , taken into consid; r ition the Trentino front which l as here- ,1 tofore been distinct and seperate 1 in the war operations. The ] Venetian front runs perpendicu- } larlv from the Adriatic, whereas ' the Trentino front runs horizontally eastward from Lake Gardia and is little more than ;< 50 miles away to the north. S;M ] Reports coming in today w6re , si a reassuring character, showing the Italian rear guard still ] holding the encmv east of the 1 ragliamento. j1 Two German Warships andjj Five Armed Trawlers Sank4',i Off Sweedish Coast by i British Destroyers A *' ^ 1 London, Nov. 3?Thirty men )n the German auxiliary cruiser < Marie of Flensburg, were killed ' n an engagement with British * lestroyers, according to an Ex 4 :hange Telegram despatch from Copenhagen. 1 The Marie, a 3,000-ton vessel, net the British destroyers j vvelve miles north of Kullen. ihe immediately opened fire, 4 .viiicli was answered bv the do ^ .trovers, In ten minutes the j Vi.irie vvas ablaze. t Of the eighty one members of < ler crew, the dispatch says, 30 * s vere killed and the others took x o the boats. Seven wounded j No.G flGNITO^J p.inH Srt^wbrr Ml DRV CELL ^ ULilS^ FOR UirO,000. North Carolina turned in the banner report today, jumping from 165,000 to 224,)10. California still leads the states with 446,562. Reports of attempts to inter fere with the food pledges cam tsui&u cuuuuue 10 come in. A fake letter signed "Herbert ftoover" and announcing that 3. government inspector would take over a percentage of home canned goods was circulated in Connecticut, and in Iowa fake pledge cards informing housewives that the government would take all in excess of 100 iars of their canned goods were put out. tailors subsequently were rescued by the Danish steamship f^ugas. Another man was JnqK'eti up by 'the steamship rroondhejm. They were land 1 id last night. The other mem-1 5ers of the crew are believed to lave been rescued by the lestroyers. It is understood that the Vlarie was accompanying a lumber of patrol boats, includng the Crocodile, which sank tfter an explosion. According to the Copenhagen correspondent of the Central ^Jews, the German vessels were lisplaying no flags. When the ?? ' J1U13H si^nuiicu mom to sbow heir colors, the German cruiser ioened fire, at the same time ireakine: out the German en sign. The bodies ot many Ger nans have already been washed tshore on the Swedish coast. n : ^"5 >ns why we'd rather < eries for your doorgine or tractor. 1 full-powered cell. Dwn that it sells fastwe are able to buy < } rtant in dry cells. , inknown or deterio ^olumbias and buy J I If earn. I Quarterly Report of Courthouse Township Period, April 1 to October I, 1917. (Continued from last week.) J M Sellers, 1 2 day .SO M J Rhine, 1 2 day .SO I) L Teal, 2 h. team 1 2 day 1.50 M L Teal. inch. 1 1 2 ds. 10.7?0 M L Teal, way;on 1-2 day l.aO Leon Marmon, 1-2 day .SO E T Teal, team 1 2 day 1.50 E. T. Teal overseer 1 1-2 ds. 2.2."? 11 T King, team 3 4 day 2.00 King Skipper, 3 4 day .3r> 'alter Skipper, 3 4 day .35 Henry Kollock 1 day .7~> E T White, overseer 3 4 day 1.0a G R Vaughn, I day LOO Jim Litttle 1 day l.(X) IVmi.J V 1 " 1 i/ii111v. i > 4i ii^11*.111, v nours .vu Bob Campbell, 1 day 1.O0 Juke Morris, 2 days 2.00 Bun Rickets, 1 2 day .50 loo Sellers, 1 dav 1.00 N P Allen, 1 day 1.0() A N Stroud, ovVr 1 1-2 ds 2.25 Jim Rivers, 1-2 dav AO Press Timmons, 2 days 2.00 Pul Ratliff, 1 I 2 days 1.50 Will Melton, 1 day 1.00 A C Melton. I 2 day .50 F 11 Boatwright, ov'rs'r 1 d. 1.0?? Press Timmons, 1 dav .90 Willie Moore, 1 2 day .45 A C Melton, 3 1 2 hours .35 Jim Nivens, 1 day .70 Will Melton, 1 2 day .45 Paul Ratliff, 1 day 1.00 F II Boatwright, ov'rs'r 1 2 d. .70 J T Hunt, mule 1 1 2 days 3.00 Walter King, 1 1-2 days 1.50 Author King, 1 1 2 days 1.5o II B Thomas, I 1-2 days L.50 Wade King, 1 1-2 days 1.13 Sam Dixon, 4 hours .40 Boise Hunt, l.day l.OO G W Rivers, 1 12 days 2 25 G W Rivers, ov'rs'r 1 1 2 ds. 2 25 Jaboh Ratliff, 3 days 2.90 Will Cur lis, 1-2 da> .50 Charlev Newman, 3 days 2.90 James Ratliff, 2 days I.oO John Cash ' Pure Cash, 2 days 1.90 Frank White, 2 days 1.90 rvn - -?? i uv. uvi , _ ua.V 5 1 .?'U i< M Davis, 1 day .90 Julian Teal, i 2 day .-It) lacob Redfearn, 1 day .9<> 3 mules l day 3.00 4 mules 1 day 4.00 2 mules 1 day 2.oo C K Davis, ov'rs'r \ days O.0O Charley Robeson, 1 day 1.00 Clim Rrock, 2 1 2 days 2.5o \V M Drock, wagon 1 day 1.50 W L Downiaii, 1 day l.Oo 1 A Lee, overseer 4 days 0.0: i Melton Dennett, wagon I d. 1.00 Olin Gordan, wagon 12 d. 1,50 King Skipper, I day .5<> Walter Skinner 1 iltiv ..'V II W White, 12 day .50 |ohn White, 1 day .50 I honias Burch, 1-2 day .50 Hud Brock, 1 2 day .40 Henry Collock, 1 day .75 10 T White, overseer 1.50 II W White, 1 2 dav .50 John White, 1-2 dhy .50 Thomas Hurch, 1-2 dav .50 Bud Brock, 1 2 day .40 I lenry Collock, I day .75 10 T While .50 II W White 1 -2 day .50 Jerome lOddins 1-2 dav .50 John White, 1-2 day .50 I lenrv Collock, 12 day .50 1 King Skipper, i 2 day .30 1 Walter Skipper, I 2 dav .25 Sesel Skipper, 1-2 day .'25 Melton Bennett, wagon 1-2 d-1 .*'.0 Nails .20 10 T White, overseer .75 1 W A Steernll, team 3 days 0.o0 J no hand 1-2 day AO W A Siegall, ov'rs'r 2 1-2 ds. 4.r?o W A Sellers, repair bridge 2.7a Allen I lurst, 1 12 days 1.1,5 ' Vance Davis. 11-2 1.1.5 ' W II Davis, 1 12 days 2.2a ' I T 1 Innt, mule 2 days 4.(>0 J I 11 1 lunt, 2 days 2.00 1 Treston Owen, 2 days 2.00 J J Roy Owen, 2 days 2.O0 Jim Ratliff, 2 days 2.00 James Johnson, 2 days 2.00 Walter King, 1 1 2 days 1.50 Arthur Kins, 1 day 1.00 Wade King, 1 day 75 Glide Hunt, 1 1-2 days 1.50 Repair on scrape .30 G W Rivers, ov'rs'r 2 days 2.00 Tudson Thompson, 1 day 1 00 Albert Alexander, 1 day 1.00 R C Clayburn. 1 day 1.00 Johnnie Hough, i day 1 00 Tom Johnson, 1 day 1.00 Daniel Ilinson, 1 day 1 00 John Hough, 1 day .75 Bursey Campbell, 1 day .75 Gilbert Clayburn, 1 day .75 H P James, overseer 2 days 2.50 Johnnie Sellers, 1 1-2 days 1.50 Lloyd Sellers, 1 day 3.00 Two mules, 1 1 2 days 3.00 L C Sellers, ov'rs'r 2 days 3.00 A E Moore. 2mules, 2 men 3 days 12.00 D C Smith, 2 mules, 1 man 2 days 6.00 R G Moore, 3 days 3.00 D C Smith, mule 1 day 1.00 Mule 1 day 1.00 J I) Smith, overseer 1 day 1.00 Frank Tucker, 2 days 2.00 E D Mulloy, 2 days 2.00 Charley Hassell, 2 days 2.00 Dock Johnson, 2 1-2 days 2.50 I p * oam jonnson. 2 1-2 days 2 50 Archie Sellers, 3 days 3 00 W. A Sellers. 3 day 3 00 Alec Watson, 1 dav 1.00 A G Webster, 3 days 4.50 A G Webster, overseer 2.00 R. P. James, 13 4 days 1.75 ! Tom Adams, 1 3 4 days 2.75 Press Adams, 1 day l.Oo I Will Eddins, 1 3 4 days 3.75 Andrew Adams, 13 4 days 1.75 BT Adams, 1 day 3.00 B. R Adams, 1 3 4 days ^1 25 A J Adams. l 3 4 flavs Johnnie Hough, 3-4 day .75 John Hough, 3 4 day .50 Will Campbell, 1 3 4 day 1.75 C 1. Eddins, overseer 2 ds, 3.(X> E J Morris, 2 days 2.0() C B Morris, 2 days 2.00 John Merriman, 2 days 2.00 Jack Gardiner, 2 days 2.00 Will McCoy, 2 davs 2 00 Grady Watson, 2 days 2.00 M T Teal, 2 days 2.00 Zeak Jackson, 2 days 2.0O Tom Melton. 2 davs J H Streater. i day 1.00 Two shovels 3.00 W I Streater, ov'rs'r 2 clays 2.(K) Charlie Grofford, 3 days 3.0o Page Crofford, 3 days 3.0o Randolph Flinn, 3 days 3.00 George Crofford, 1 1-2 ds. 1.50 Lester Dixon, 2 days 2.O0 One mule, 2 days 1.50 Two mules, 1 da>- 1.50 W T McBride, 3 days 3.00 Melton Bennett, 2 lis. 1-2 d 1.50 II \Y White, I day .75 Jerome Kddins, I day l.OO Baxter Warner, 1 day 1.00 Bud Rivers, 1 day 1.00 Bild 1 lonuuond /n\i^ i _ ua > ,,iyi Squire Brock, 1-2 day .50 L T White, overseer i day 1.50 I Gaddv, I 12 days 1.50 R \V Caddy, 1 1 2 days 1.50 I< \Y Caddy, timber 2.00 Ira Harris, 1 day 1.00 Jim Purvis, 3 days 3.00 Luke Purvis, 2 days 2.00 1 l> c , I day 1.00 C 1< Davis, 2 davs 2.00 Gary Davis, ! day l.Oo Carrel Davis, 3 days 3.00 May Davis, 2 days 2.0<> LB Davis, overseer 3 days 3.0<> K C Adams, team 1 dav 3.0o I 'P \ -i ? i j i /\uuins, i aay 1.00 Guv Wadsworth, 1 1-2 days 1.50 P I Katlift, 1 day 1.00 lames Kivcrs, 1 day l.OO Buck Kalliff, 2 12 days 2.50 H' T Griggs, 1-2 day 1.50 VV T Griggs, ov'rs'r 2 1-2 ds. 3.75 \ E Moore, 2 li. team 2 ds. 6.O0 I.) C Smith, 2 h. team 2 ds. 0.00 [< G Moore, 2 days 2.O0 I.I). Smith, overseer, 2ds 3.00 ICrvin Bittle, 4 days 4.00 (Continued next week)