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THE PAGEWD JOURNAL Vol. 4 NO. 37 PAGELAND. S. C., WEDrS^Mm&NING, MAY 27, 1914 $1.00 per year Exncrt. Will I ?a M uJtir-n ~ ' - ~ " ' u ?W w ? ? Ifiw^oiiu v\ Campaign. H. R. Carter, M. D., United States public health service, for w six years director of hospitals in 1c the canal zone, and George Le- w Prince, who was chief sanitary fi engineer in the canal zone incharge of the "mosquito brigade," p will take up the work of freeing n certain section in South Carolina e: of malaria. These men have tl been secured bv the State board ? of health to cooperate with it in tl this work, and will commence F in Greenville, Richland and t] Orangeburg: counties and per- b haps 9ome other counties. James ti A. Hayne, M. D., State health \ officer, who was connected with Dr. Carter in the canal zone, will s go with them. fi The work that these men will ft undertake will be preeminently ft practical. They will visit a com- 1< munity, personally investigate a the source of malaria or the breeding places of mosquitoes, c They will obtain specimens of \ the larvae and adult mosquitoes, E and will take pictures of co^k- 1 tions as they are. They will mm- F - mate the cost for a community e to be mosquito free, and will tl hold public meetings where the b citizens may obtain at first hand t< an accurate knowledge of the malaria conditions in their immediate neighborhood. As the * salaries of these men nre naiH tw , the government, a community v will have to pay only the actual ^ cost of investigation if it wishes to undertake the work of mos^ quito elimination.?The State. d ^LOf A very of fertifli^^^^^wnich he was d riding went up in smoke and t: almost took him and his team of tl mules with it. Gardenheidt had 0 six sacks of nitrate of soda on t< i, ? ??i?' ' - uiv uutK oi nis wagon and the d action of the sun set the stuff on tl fire. The driver felt the heat from b the rear, but as the sun was very tl hot he attributed the growing i warmth to old Sol, and, not dis- s pleased with his warm berth tl anyway, he never even turned c his head, but drove on in blissful a ignorance. When at last a Dassinc - jr IJ automobile driver called his at- tl tention to his perambulating con- S flagration John had barely time l| to save himself and the mules t( from the fire. tj Luxuries and NecessitiesSupplied (| In the old days of typesetting c by hand a printer known from c New York to Sanfransisco as d "Pilgrim" Hazlett wandered into o a Pennsylvania town and asked is the editor of the weekly for a si an. 3 "Well," said the editor, "I can tl put you to work, but I'm afraid w I can't pay much money." is "Make me an offer," said the cl Pilgrim. tc "All right. I can give you two w meals a day at my house, you y< can sleep here in the office on ai this lounge, and I'll take care of h< your laundry. Then if you need w tobacco, get it across the street th at the grocery. They run an sc account with us. And up at hi that brewery you can get a can h< of beer whenever you like. Be- fa sides, I'll pay you $4 a week. Is th that satisfactory?" hi "Gosh," said the Pilgrim, after repeating the offer to get it b< straight in his mind* "if I get all w that, what do I want with the to $4?"- -Pittsburgh Chronicle. hi rcai LruinDuted Local Kains A Promised by Bureau. Washington, May 24.?Warm reather with well distributed ^ >cal rains was forecasted by the c' 'eather bureau tonight for the rst half of the week. ti "Indications are that the tern- n erature will average above the ai ormal in the Eastern and South- tl rn States, the Ohio valley and Q le Central West and near or tl amewhat below the normal in ? ie Northwestern States, the p tocky mountain region and on a tie Pacific slope. Rainfall will r< e generally local, but well dis- n ributed over the Northern and d Vestern States. f< "A disturbance vyill cause v howers and thunderstorms the irst half of the week in the b Northern States, from the upper n Mississippi valley eastwards, and b 5cally in the Rockv mountain ? nd plateau reigons. e ? iiuuiuei uisiuroance win h ross the great c^fctral valleys y Vednesday or Thursday and the a Eastern States about Friday, i rhis disturbance will be accom- v ianied by well distributed showrs and thunderstorms east of [ tie Rocky mountains and it will tl e followed by a general change Sl o cooler weather." n u Long Journey Driving Dogs. 0 lonroe Enquirer a A man in a little buggy, to v vhicb six well-trained dogs were ii itched, passed through the wes- r era part of the county last Fri- ? lay, stopped at Waxhaw for a bw hours1 ^ The trip^HjSH^^^^H^HH logs and is to make^HH^^Hj rip'in six years, driving dogs all ^ be way, and if he takes either ?ne of the dogs he started with 11 y 3 Washington (~!itv aitiro ? ?' j t * v vri ead, he will get a bonus of two f( housand dollars in adition to a r ig sum to be paid if he makes & he round trip with a dog team n two years. That's the man's . lory, and he tells it well, and a here is not a Sunday school tea- S her anywhere that can get the c ttention of a crowd of kids like s hat man and his dogs can, alhough we do believe that some n iunday school teacher can beat a he dog-man telling the truth. ?' "he dog team man has no reins 11 3 guide his dogs, but directs a hem by words of mouth and 10s dogs are so well trained that e hey obey at once every word of P ommand. One of the dogs J" omposing the original team tea some months ago, but the ther one is in good health and c ( strong. The dogs cannot p tand warm weather and they J! re driven at night mostly since le spring opened. A strange, ? whimsical fellow the dog driver i, but he is an interesting : haracter, and his dogs are investing creatures, and you 'ould stop to look at them if v ou were driving along the road b< ad met them vou could nbt e; elp but admire the splendid, C( 'pll.trainorl ..?.Uvu niiiiiiuisf especially j le little lead dog, which looks jmething like a shepherd dog at is heavier built than a shep- y< erd, and a white streak in his gi ce, and looks at you with eyes sti iat fairly talk. The man and th s dogs camp out in the open, tr There is no danger of anybody 01 altering that camp for fhe dogs n? ill not allow any one to come j ns the camp until their master m ds them be quiet. as LL VOTERS MUST ENlH ANEW. M J1 Democratic Club Rollt^Hl lared Void by State ConvefljH The Democratic State cony|ES on met in Columbia last WH| esday and adopted new by-MH nd rules intended to safegjffjg le primary election in StjHB larolina, and all club roluKLi le State were declared V9K Arery person who votes iijHH rimary this year will hav&9B ppear in person before the tflH| stary of the club and sigd^fH ame and give his place of ence. The State gives the! allowing summary of the ijSW isions of the new rules: J "Qualifications for club m?ml ership and for voting in pril lary elections are; Applicant 4<]i e 21 years of age, a white )emocrat, a citizen of the Uni? d States and of the State, musj -?:.i?1 * ?_ _ O. - ? avc icsiucu IL1 Hie OlillC IWC ears, in the county six montht nd in the club district 60 days^ f a negro, applicant must havq. otedfor Hampton in 1876. '[ Applicants for enrollment in a" )emocratic club shall present; tiemselves in person before the ecretary and sign the roll or lake their mark, if they are inable to write, giving their age, ccupation and postoffice ddress, or their street number vhere such designations evist i the club district where they eside. The county committees hall furnish suitable and uni* orm books of enrollment to thf ecretaries, such books to be ;ounty committees ^liall purge he rolls, giving due notice by aail to all citizens the legality of vhose enrollment is questioned. Special provisions are made or Charleston, both as to enollment in club districts and as o voting. State committee shall arrange ar two separate campaign meetings in each county, one to be ddressed by candidates for itate offices and the other by andidates for United States enator. Phdirmon * ?U.....vu \j i tuuniy comlittees in the same congression1 districts and judicial circuits hall arrange for separate meetigs for candidates for congress nd solicitor. Polls are to remain open on lection day from 8 a. m. to 4 . mM except in Charleston, /here they shall remain open rom 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. All existing club rolls are delared null and void, as a special rovision for 1914. This will an ? ? ? r/? ^ ct uew enroiimenLof all >emocrats for the 1914 primary n the last Tuesday in August." Below we give sections 11 and 2 of the new ruies adopted by le convention: 11/ Books of enrollment for oting in primary elections shall | e opened by the secretary of ich club, or by the enrollment ommittee as here in after proided, on or before the second uesdayin June in each election 2ar. Notice thereof shall be iven by the county chairman lowing the names of the clubs, e boundaries of the club disict when the clubs are in cities towns or adjacent thereto, the imes of the secretaries, the imes of the enrollment comittee, such other information i the county chairman may ^7. I give, and where the 0 be opened. "Therenew clubs shall be c< n that election year. It icant for enrollment te rson write upon the tis full name and im- It thereafter his age, ol and postoffice ad- tli if iu a city or town bi the name of the street th mberof the house in rc esides if such designa- at in said city or town, rc e be illegible the sec- is 1 write the name be- si signature of the appli- \\ he event of the inabili- vv applicant to write he A i his mark upon- the it 1 shall be witnessed by o! :ary, or other person tl ag the custody thereof, sj ia xne secretary shall fill in the n 4her requirements. The county r< - ? - - pmmittee snail turnish to the c Secretaries sutiable books for en- H ijrollment, which shall be uniform wfroughout the State (except a jCharleston) and form of which si shall be sanctioned by the State s< (cr nmittee: Provided, that noth- E IX in this section or these rules rr Mm\\ be construed as inconsis- L Vt with any laws of the State fj regulating primary elections. i< Iftnd, provided, further, that the a leounty committee shall on the tl Erst Monday in June, 1914, or as h Loon thereafter as possible, ap||P,*^4or each club an enroll- q pent colb>^^g ^ree which "" 4 ^^^ticretary and nitteemar^^*^ t|le P i a third member .c 0 ?d by the coun^i" dPPTo inspection by apy mem- 0 er of the party. " * I \ L12. On the last Tuesday in j July in each election year svhich p ' shall be the last day of enroll- v nent, the club books shall close, '< tnd within three days thereafter < ;ach secretary shall transmit the j, Original roll to the county chair- v man, who shall forthwith cause r ?p be made and shall certify a cjopy thereof and file the same with the clerk of the court for 0 nnhlir incno-?:^? *' _ Aiiupvv/iiuii <11 an 11IT16S* q At least ten days before the first Primary the county committee sjhall meet after three days' pub- " ijished notice in a newspaper of n general circulation in the coun- v 1 yof the time and place of meet- _ i ng and examine the rolls. Any 1 >erson may complain of errors 1 herein and the county com'nittee, after hearing complaints, 4hall in a fair and impartial man??er correct and purge the rolls, striking-off the names of all per- ^ ions not residing in the club dis- j tpct for which each roll was 'hade up or otherwise improper1y enrolled, and adding any Q ijames improperly omitted: Pro- tj vided, No name shall be strick- ^ from any club roll without t^ree days' notice by mail to the ^ ajddress appearing on the club rpll to the person whose name j proposed to be dropped from I J \\ tlip mil m iv oiiv/w must? way said n'ame should not be dropped. tyhen the rolls have been revis^fatd corrected by the said s< Ofeinty committee they shall be jv certified to and returned to the ai respective secretaries of each 01 club and shall thereupon become c, the official club rolls and no djjtfhes shall be added thereafter except by order of a judge of ?' cjMm^etent jurisdiction. Upon th tj^^^l^letion of said revision in t^L county chairman shall im- to rcBTta^ely file in the office of the bt Sumter to Charleston. Below is a clipping from a rejnt issue of the Sumter Daily em relative to the further exnsion of the S. C. W. railroad: A representative of The Daily em has been informed, unfficially, but authoratively, tat the Bonsai syndicate will jgin work on the extension of ie South Carolina Western Rail>ad from Sumter to Charleston > soon as the construction of the >ad from Andrews to Charleston completed, and that the extenon will be almost an air line by ay 01 Ferguson to Strawberry, here it will connect with the ndrews-Charleston line. This iformation came from an official f the S. C. W. Ry, who stated lat he had it from President Bontl, who authorized the statelent. It was also stated that the iad from McBee via Sumter to lharleston would be the main ne for western traffic, and that rhen the gap between Jefferson nd Monroe is closed and the line trengthened by buildiug a short action of new road from near lishopville to a point on the lain line of the Seaboard Air ,ine, near McBee, it will be by ir the shortest route, in connectin with the Clinchfield and Hied systems, from Chicago and le Middle West to a deep water arbor. Campaigns Will Begin June 17th Columbia, May 22.?The camaign for State officers will begin t Sumter, June 17. The senanMql campaign will begin at StFollowing assessments for candijfctes were fixed by the commitommissioner, $75; all oth^^^B ffices, including solicitors^^^ The assessments must be paid to Vilie Jones, treasurer,by noon of une 16. The time for filing ledges with the State chairman /ill close June 16 at noon. Hickville postmaster (discussig affairs of state)?"Now, /hot do you think of our foreign lilations. Prominent Lounger (warmly) -"I think they should be barred ut uv this here country if they an't read an' write." Lazy man's ideal of hapipness: Don't know nothin'; don't owe othin'; don't own nothin'; don't /amt nothin'." lerk of court a list duly certifid by him of all names added ?r dropped from said roll, with ge, place of residence and ocupation, which list shall be reserved by the cierk along /ith the duplicate roll on file in is office and any person may lere inspect said roll and list of orrections at all times. The riginal roll shall be returned to le secretary of each club and y him delivered to the manaersof the primary election be>re the hour of ononincr oils; an<j no person shall be alnved to vote at said election diose name does not appear on lid original roll as herein reuired. The managers of elecon shall return said rolls to the icretary of the club immeditater after the counting of the votes id the declaration of the result, r as soon thereafter at practitble: Provided, If the original >11 be lost or miscarried a copy f the duplicate as corrected by le county committee and filed the clerk's office, such copy 1 be certified to by him. shall i used in place of the original. ' i . ,, . McBee Man Killed By Brother. McBee, May 23.?Thursday afternoon Jas. Black well shot and instantly killed his brother, Patterson Black well, at Jas. BlackwelPs home about three miles south of McBee. An inquest was held early yesterday morning by Magistrate J. W. McCassidy. The verdict was "justifiable homicide." The disagreement between the brothers, it is said, was brought about by the younger brother, Patter? n Blackwell, mistreating his aged father and mother. The burial took place yesterday afternoon at Union church. Watermelons Go North. Jacksonville, Fla., May 22.? " The first carload of Florida watermelons left today en route North. They were of uniformly fine shape and size and the shiD pers said that from the samples tested the melons this spring are of especially fine flavor and sweetness. Escaped From Irish Pastures. Gentleman, riding on jaunting car (which is just passing a large mansion) to driver: "Who lives there, Pat?" "Och! sure, it's Mr, O'Flaherty ?but he's dade." "And what did he die of, Pats" "Faith, thin, he died of a Tuesday." "And how long has he been dead?" "Shure yer honor' if he'd lived till tomorrow, he'd have been dade a fortnight."?Ex. A cart containing a number of negro field hands was being JH heels and deal^l^pffn a kick on the head that hewas stretched on the ground ima twinkling. He lay rubbing his woolly plate where the mule had kicked him. UTc V* n VstsrO" J ? uv uuni uskcu <x stranger anxiously of an older negro who had jumped from the conveyance and was standing over the prostrate driver. * "No, Boss," was the older man's reply; "dat mule will probably walk kind o' tendah for a day or two, but he ain't hurt." The maiden lady of uncertain age became very indignant when the census taker asked her age. "Did you see the girls next door," she asked: "The Hill twins.-'" "Certainly," replied the census man. A "And did thev tell you their JM age?" "Yes." "Well," she snapped as sh?^B shut the door in his fac<^JjflH^| just as old as they are." HKH9H "Oh, very well," said th^RBHHH sus man to himself, as heHHHH| down in his book: "Jane son ?as old as the Hills.? B I An exchange says, an boy handed in the following inVlH an examination paper this week in ITnifpH fstatoc Viicirv?-.?. V.W>VU HIUIVI)!, VJCI1. Bradock was killed in the Revolutionary war. He had three ^ horses shot under himr and a fourth went through his clothes." "Rastus, what's a alibi?" "Dat's provin* dat you was at a prayer meetin' whar you wasn't, in order to show dat you wasn't at de crap game whar jvfu vvaa> iwlICi "I likes a good loafer," said Uncle Eben, "better'n *1 does a man dat t://es hisse'f out gittin' in other folks' wav."?Exchange.