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The pagelInd journal ?. Vol.4 NO. 25 - PAGELAND. S. C. TUH||j|.-MORNING, MARCH 3, 1914 $1.00 per-year I.. i i r? i- ? "1 I* . . - ? - ? neia uay uercues tor ChesterHeld County to be Held Last Saturday in March. On Saturday, March 28 the pupils of all the schools of Ches-1 * terfield county will gather at the Court House to celebrate Field Day exercises. This will be the first celebration of its kind ever undertaken in this county, and unusual interest in it is being shown by patrons, teachers and pupils all over the county. For weeks the teachers have been cooperating with Supt. R. A. Rouse and County School Superviser, Miss Alexina Evans, and already the pupils in practically every school in the county have taken hold of the idea and are preparing in earnest for the various contests of the day. Chesterfield County is deeply interested in the improvement of her schools and the spirit of progress and devotion in her teachers and school officials is ? an indication of the great educafe 1 tional forward movement of the county. Miss Evans in visiting the county schools finds the same spirit among the boys and giilc. and a great interest being % r-. laaen in approaching Field Day exercises. On Friday evening, 27, ??at the Court house in Chestei field, will be held a Declamation and Recitation Contest for the j pupils of the High and Graded Schools of the County. On Saturday morning, March 28, HH pupils from all the schools of the County will assemble on the HH| grcunds of the Chesterfield School, forming there a parade consisting of floats and decora! I led school wagon, each carrying Wdj^-rorT1 ^BBMpWWWffooI. During these pul> | Hie exerc ises contests in Compo ducted by comittees in private ^HHpoms down stairs. Music for the day will be ^H^Rurnished^b^a County band. HB^nndtbe Literary Exercises will ^BjHzonclude with a song by the i ^^^nupils. K A committee of Chesterfield t Bailies will take charge of the < hoolr/>?? *? ^i4o?voi? urought by the|i upils, and arrange the dinner I Furnitur Regardle: For the Nexl Home one, come all, I out as much of o?'r stock HKHo do some plastering in o want i J?-!*' "* South And bait Shiver in Snow. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 25.? The South and Southeast shivered to night in the grip of a general snowstorm which blanketed the Atlantic seaboard as far south as southern Georgia and reached tc the Gulf States. Weather bureau records for from eight to 20 years were broken. Falling temperature accompanied the storm, in many sections the snow turning to sleet While no serious interruption ol traffic was reported, many trains were behind their schedules in localities where the snow was heaviest. Wire service was demoralized between Georgia and Florida points early in the evening. T>l,~ 1 :?. i iic iieaviesi snuwian was reported in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi. At Macon Ga., the precipitation reached a depth of six inches, while an almost equal amount was report ed at Augusta and Savannah, In Louisiana and Mississippi the snow began falling about noon and at nightfall it had been recorded from a trace in the extreme south to six inches in the northern section. Thermometers at New Oreleans, Mobile and other gull joints hovered about the freezing and the snow melted as it fell. *? ^ In addition to a"*w.. y fall in South Carolina the country around Charleston was 1 ?-L ... ^uvereu whq ice anil sle^t. Birmingham, Montgomery^amj other Alabama cities were aff^H ed by the snowstorm. than four inches fell in Which there Tunning for both the larf^HH |<v?e small boys, as well girls; four m jumping; the 1-fl^le Relay Race, in which the four best runners of any school will compete with runners from other schools for a school prize; a contest in pole vaulting; one in throwing the base ball; and a Totato Race for the girls. Citizens from different parts of the county and the Daughters of the American Revolution of Utieraw have shown their interest in these exercises by offering lttractive prizes, first and second for all of the contests. e Going . ss of Cost i f tl I Ten Pays :: I ? \> FOR WE WANT TO v, as we can in ten days in ur building, y( bargains come. sw or Knight I * . % Dr. Saunders Exonerated The legislative committor i" vestigating the charges agjpPS sonal and prpf^6flyjHf^flEra| ; duct in her as second assim^*8HH8M& charge of the i the state hospitaf^rSBMMPi . uiade its report to the legislaJlN body Wednesday entirely vifrdi eating Dr. Saunders of all^thi [ insinuations, innuen^oetk^ji#^ t as the more direct i against her. The following-is the committee: I To the Genral AssenWJp the State of South CarolinariA The undersigned commit has in accordance with youffin . structions contained The evidence^wSl^^^Sp ? inous, is attached hereto?wre with reported as the basis of dui findings with the request tjhdt i be printed along with this re?r , in permanent form. Holmes Was Inventor OfCotiv Having read several pie4j lately as to who really is the ventor of the cotton. i e v oi U lion try and Col. allow him to SOO it One day, when Mr. Holtil^s and Col. Kincaid were' aw&y, youn^-.Whitney came dashimt tip and persuaded Mrs. to let him have the mill fe&K SP j he could just look at the giaJ Of course, it was a Yanke^tnjfej ?he made a drawing: f* made a model and hacl^ Br I These facts came dirpiSyBBrt c~ 1 gr nd father of Capt. While if will net he of ah^e^ :uniary value to thedescend^^s >f Ikdmes, the fact that lot Whitney, is the inyeiU H he great machine; shQXflM I stablished while SOnw ng who received the rom the lineal descendfmfli^^H he KincniHe <? - *? HI wuuiic nonfl /as invented, l^et lionor !> I /honi horori s due. Chips off the old i-ry often only splinters. * H i ' In a Tiaht PUr? "My wife had some hard jsterday." ^11 "What I "She was dressed up j.n ?j I /ell cloths and sa\> a 'loill 1 i the sidewalk." II "Where is the hard li^^HJI atr f 9 "She coukjft stoop to pil **? ?Dey?" Free Press. || Question Of Taxation Disscussin Cheraw. * Cheraw^ .Feb. ^6.Y-The^Che- < - extremely cold weather there i * was a small attendance, but the 5 subject was ably discussed. i 1.L William Godfrey, who is a ! Imt of both the county and : ot equalization, f|t\^ep&tj'the debate. He pointed 4i^|phe inadequate system of list? ing piOperty in this State, by which 92,000 acres in small i * tracts here and there in the country, or by old and unreliable .surveys, were not on the tax < yj books at all, and said that the |H?Gtoion of the Torrens system i ^BNHw-Tegistration would cure ^^B^iril. He also mentioned l^rat'there was great inequality i in returning property, not only j in the different counties but in r different sections of the same 1 county, ranging all the way from * 7 to 60 per cent., and in a fewcases to 100 per cent., of the true ! value. A mule in rich Marlboro 1 is returned for less than one in j poor Chestefield. 4 A dishonest : tax payer lists his property for ig^^^bssthan the same proper^^^HHHMk^rned our niitf ' trforpuWu^TT^STu a n tsl^ ^ e the best showing they can tl e in office, and the more o ley they have to spend the e they will waste. They .s: rid be extravagant. Another at ction is this: The three millt ;e >ol tax keeps people interest 4e ea in schools. If property is tax -t Kl at its full value, this tax wtf 'OOt be needed; and when peopk pop going down into their poc# gr els for their schools they wpl in; lease to Ijave the same interest ca gr them. J l? _ do Six Health Kul?*^for Farmers. vvj Xsx_ * ^ v * j ^ Keep^^^jpfrce^ of water loc become HfiHflTyou to make | clean. Disease has j Pilv wholesome, well od/ Hosts of farmer Me as careful 0 exposure to storms, mil ret, put off the cold, fur ents, and thoroughly cor f the first thing you Vvh fH do not feel well do hoi [fugs, but stop eating, bar c all the fresh water ed i Even tbe animals at mai know enough not to wh< eating when they do assi rell. Are we less intell- did 1 they are? wei lly, use good, sound, moi sense about your house he hiniy unn? * Interlocking Locks. Ingenious and novel are the electrical devices on the Panama locks to prevent the operator from making mistakes and to let him know just how ever}* part of the monster machinery is working, though parts of it are half a mile from his bench and'all are out of his sight. Miniature lock gates open and shut on the bench in front of him exactly as they are opening and shutting in the big locks, for instance. Each of the two leaves of his miniature lock is controlled by the great leaf it represents, and so moves just as the big leaf moves. In front of each one of the big locks is a monster fender chain, to hold hack any ship that approaches the gates before PVt'rvtliino- ic rr>oH?* _ . ? r-. >? vitu_> iui tuv; o 111JI a admission to the lock; and in front of the operator is a miniature chain, controlled by this big chain, and lowering or stretching tautly exactly in time with the big chain. Indicators show the operator the height of the water in the lock at all times, accurate within half an inch of the lock height. As a further precaution red and green lights indicate when the lock gates are open and shut. Most intricate is the electrical wiring to prevent the operater from doing the wrong thing at time, it is the rule that the ^Eder chain must be stretched ^ktly in front of a lock gate ^Rnever the lock gate is closed, H^fcrccordingly there is an ijn^^HBHtt|^^j2uigement that^ from Mw PPwill need any RHflPmis space. An interRdi^Kate in each lock gives ' lie *teans of reducing the size f ejfch lpck for small vessels. The interlocking electrical wtem recognizes this situation, Id in ordinary practice the inrmediate gates are the ones inrlocked with the end gates. If I is desired, however, to use the c ousand feet in order to pass a tl eat ocean liner through, for tl stance, the interlocking system n be made to ignore the inter u idiate gate; but this can be ne only by the chief operator, 10 has a special key that un w ;ks a small lock on the con- Is >1 board and permits the tl: ange from the regular prac- th e.?Saturday Evening Post. m The Unwritten Law. th tern Carolina News. of The verdict of the jury in it-' jcklenburg last week in which icquitted Monroe Jetton, the t? Ling Davidson druggist, for the th< irderof Dr. \V. H. Wooten is hii tlier notice that no jurv will be ivict a man for slaying one O ll'.lS in\rn/to/l ? ...11i.i uumc and sai man who invades anothers l)e ne takts his life in his own vo ids. Tiisjury hardly believ- cal ihe e vuonce of the accused is 1 n or tlfit part of his wife of en they .tated that Dr.Wooten lulled tie defendant but thev T believe that Dr. Wooten the it to thi home with an im- I ral purp>se and in o doing forfeiter his life. Thus the trul written hw prevails to the 7 est extent. son Teacher's Meeting Postponed Unti! Saturday. On account of the unfavorable weather last week, the meeting of the trustees and teachers of the County which was to have taken place at Cheraw, Saturday March 28,' has been postponed until next Saturday, March, 7. Convenient schedules on the C.&L. Railroad will be in effect, the trains leaving Pa gel and that morning at 7 o'clock and returning at 3 p. nr' This promises to be an interesting meeting and a lively subjects will be up for discussion, among them preparations for Field Day Exercise, which will take place on the last Saturday in March, at Chesterfield. Entertainment for the teachers and -trustees will he provided by the citizens of Cheraw and it is earnestly desired that every one will attend. Program of Baptist Union The Baptist Union of the Chesterfield Association will meet with the Union Hill church oh Friday and Saturday before the fifth Sunday in March. The following program has been arranged: 10.30 a. m Devotional led 1>3* Frank Funderburk. Enrollment of delegates. Organization. 11 a. tn. Introductory sermon by Rev. J. B. Caston. 12 m. Our apportionments last - ear and this year bv J. M. Sullivan. 1.00 p. m. Dinner. Our nc? contributing members and how to enlist them opened wi ? ?'? -* ' i SituutionH^Vur Rev. B. S. Funderburg. I Foreign Missions situation in our association by Kirby Rivers. Dinner. R. W. Cato J. M. Sullivan For Committee. No Newspaper Terror. When you, Mr. Smith, Mr. Srown or Mr. Jones, hear a andidate for office denouncing he newspapers, ask yourself his question: "What does the candidate /ant of me?" Then ask these: "What does the newspaper 'ant of me? Is it a candidate? ?it begging for my vote? Is ic candidate running: against ic newspaper?" "Is there any danger of the nvspaper being elected to any ing or of getting anything out me that 1 don't want to give i" "Does the candidate take me be fool enough to think that 2 newspaper is running against ' n or that I am in danger of inf r?wno<l ? < ? ,, ..vu VAI IJVJSSUU l)V 11/" Really, Mr. Voter, you are a ie man?otherwise you would in a padtjcd cell and couldn't te What do you think of a ndidate whose principal effort o save you from tlH? clutches the newspapers??Tho State. There is more art in tclhrot irmn man in lying. X le who buys his friends pays much for them. ome men cannot tell the :h till they are drunk. i 'he man with horse sense letimes kicks like a mule. '