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The Pageland journal -Vol.
4 NO. 47 PAGELAND. S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1914 $1.00 per year
All EUROPE PLUNCED IN WAR lF?m,wnir* n.?. o? r^. l -
Actual Fighting Has Begun,
Involving Austria, Servia, Italy,
Germany, France, England and
Russia.
London, Aug. 2.?Four great
powers of Europe?Austria-Hungary,
Russia, France and Ger
many?are engaged in actual
warfare, but two of them, Germany
and France, have not
openly declared war against
each other; as far as is known
here, have not even severed diplomatic
relations. This is despite
the fact that Germany's ultimatum
to France either has been
ignored or rejected.
The explanation of this would
appear to be that Germany and
France are each seeking to
throw upon the other the onus
of beginning a war that may
plunge all Europe into bloodshed
In fact, while the nations
of Furope are flying at each
other's throats they are vieing
with each other in protesting
their desire to maintain peace.
In this curious situation,
France, according to British
opinion, has the strongest justification.
She was the last to
mobilize and seems to have
taken the greatest precautions to
avoid frontier collisions.
On the other hand Germany
invading French territory with
out making a formal declaration
of war has violated the neutrality
of Luxemburg and declines
to give any promise to respect
Belgium neutrality.
The efforts of the British ambassador
at Berlin to secure such
a pledge have been wasted. It
into the conflict to protect Belgain
and Dutch neutrality. On
this point Premier Asquith's
official announcement in parlia-1
raent Monday is awaited with
intense anxiety.
Short of actual formal mobilizatinn
(ha KrWIoV. '
Uvu iuv uiiuou K?veuiineni is
taking all necessary steps to
meet a situation unprecedented
in the nation's history.
News of the progress of hostilities
is vague and conflicting,
owing to the severe censorship
everywhere. It is alleged that
the Germans poured into Luxemberg
100,000 men who will
concentrate on the French frontier.
Actual German invasions
of France occurred at Nancv
and Longwy, while a battle is
reported to have taken place at
Nancy.
From the Russian-German
frontier came reports that Russians
invaded Germany near
Schwinden.
Servia, the original cause of
the upheaval, seems to have
been almost lost sight of.
The Austrians, according to
reports from Nish, Virtually
have ceased operations against
Servia in order to meet the
greater danger of Russia.
Montenegro has come to the
assistance of Servia and is renorfpH
tr? Ko -A'. ?
r ?w wumurti uiu^ v^aiaro
in Dalmatia.
Various rumors are current of
naval movements, but none of
them are reliable.
Mrs. Jones (thoughtfully)?I'm
afraid I shall have to stop giving
Bobby that tonic the doctor left
for him.
Mr. Jones?(anxiously)?Why
ise't he any better?
Mrs. Jones?Oh. ves. Rut ho
has slid down the banisters five
times this morning, broken the
hall lamp, two vases, a water
jug and a looking glass so I
don't feel as though I could
ptand tnuch more of it
j ..... v.ivoo ?_?? cai a cc isee
River.
Florence, July 30.?On Friday
afternoon, July 31, at 7 o'clock,
the dream of many years and
the long talked of crossing of the
Oreat Pee Dee river by ferry at
the Old Mars Bluff landing, two
miles south of Winona, and 12
miles east of Florence will become
a reality and from that
date on direct communication
between Florence and eastern
Carolina on the west side of this
long standing divide and eastern
Carolina on the east side of this
turbulent old mudd}' river will
be a thing of the past and one
will not have to go to Cheraw
to cross this river unless he_or
a1 ?
mey may so elect.
This feat is to be accomplished
so soon by the energetic
efforts of James S. Gibson of
Winona, who owns the land
where the ferry touches on both
sides of the Great Pee Dee at
Mars Bluff landing.
Mr. Gibson has gone to work
at great expense and has had
built and will launch on Friday
afternoon at 7 o'clock his splendid
ferry boat, the Henry H. Husbands,
which is henceforth to be
used in moving passengers, automobiles,
vehicles and the like
from Florence to Marion county
and vice versa.
Mr. Gibson has decided to
name his new ferrv boat the
Henry H. Husband in honor of
the Florence man who was one
of the first citizens of this mnntv
to suggest and start a movement
for the crossing of the Great Pee
Dee river, and who was elected
as secretary of the Eastern Caro^i^^Goo^Roads
^association,
and by whose efforts and hard (
work secured several surveys |
and had established the line for (
the new causeway and bridge ,
that will later be built over this j
river by the association of which
he is secretary. j
A visit to Mars Bluff landing |
this afternoon revealed wonderful
changes in the looks of
things at and about this old dil
apidated looking gulch in the ,
river bank, for Mr.- Gibson has ,
had a road graded and made of
fimnlf* ? ?" -14
uu ii iciciiv^ y ill YV1UU1, |
feet, and in grade in order that 1
automobiles and vehicles may
approach the landing and leave
it with perfect ease and without
fear of going head on into the
river. He has a wide area cleared
up and has made a regular
passenger station so to speak of
the grounds. In fact the first
picnic ever held at Mars Bluff
landing in the memory of the
oldest inhabitans was held there
today by large numbers of folk
of the neighborhood and is just
the right place for such an outing.
Gold in Large Chunks.
Having laid by his growing
crop, Mr. J. G. Tomberlin of th s
lownsrwp nas begun his summer
custom of looking for gold on
his farm. The season has opened
well. On Tuesday Mr. L. S.
Polk, working for Mr. Tomberlin,
picked up.the prettiest nugget
ever yet found on the place.
It weighs thirty pennyweight.
It is not by a great deal the
largest ever found, but the prettiest.
This was not found by
panning but picked up in the
gravel that was being taken out
of a shallow pit prepartory to
panning. On the same farm,
but lower down from this spot a
n 11 OffP) Wfi rrll i M rr 1 1
?nri.. ..^ihniii^ unt uuuureu
and seventy six pc.inyweigts was
once found. Others have been
frequently found weighing
thirty, thirty-three, forty-two and
forty-seven pennyweights.?.
Monroe Journal.
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Automobiles Multipyling. ^ *
Monroe was very backwan&JA
taking up the automobile craif, N
but at last it is breaking out all i
over. From the little old buck- j
board which Mr. Lorenzo Med- t
lin imported to the city yews 1
ago to the big Studebaker which t
Hon. John C. Sikes has just s
bought, is a far cry. But no kind s
of a machine would now create c
half the talk and interest which c
the famous buckboard of Mr. t
Medlin aroused when it was the c
only machine in these parts, t
When Mr. Medlin went out to t
take a little exercise he was r
always accompanied by a crowd ?
of boys and little negroes. These
flanked the machine on either c
side to shoo it out of the ditches, t
and behind to push it up grade, f
and all fell aboard and rode t
down hill. And when the bu<&- c
board became no longer road
worthy it was traded to Mr. E.C. c
Williams for a mustang pony. (
Now everybody openly or t
secretly wants an automobile. f
It is said that $10,000,000 are ?
invested in machines in North t
Caroline. To June 30, 12,^00
machines had been licensed "in \
the State. Last year the tax was c
paid on 7,618 in the state show- ?
ing an increase of nearly 5,Q00 1
machines. The tags this year <
are of a green color while last i
year they were white. There is c
one connty in the state, Mitchell, r
in which the sheriff reports there t
is not a single gas wagon.? i
Monroe Journal.
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Death of Mr. W. J McGuuft, i
The Waxhaw Enterprise giwes t
the following account of Ae 1
death of Mr. WilliamJ. }
erly of this township, died at his J,
home i.ear Unionville yesterday
of heart trouble. He was about s
65 years old and had been in ^
poor health for three years. He r
was a good, conscientious Christian
man and for many years had
been a faithful member of the r
Baptist church. s
Mr. McGuirt was first married
to Miss Jemima Nisbet and of
the 14 children born to them
eleven survive. They are 1
Messrs. S J., R. L. and Curtis
of Waxhaw; I. L. of Tirzah; W. n
T. of Pageland; Ralph and Char- ^
les, Monroe township; Mrs. W. a
E. Pardue, of Lancaster; Mrs. R.
D. Robinson, Tirzah; Mrs. Tom- ^
berlin, Monroe, and Theron of s
the home. After the death of e
his first wife he was married to 8
T7*1 ? .... t
miss riynn, Din no children 11
were born to this marriage. Of d
the large family raised by Mr. '
McGuirt all are good upright F
citizens. The funeral and burial
will take place today at t
Tirzah. v
Some time ago Smith and a
friend were discussing the dog 2
question, when the friend remark
ad that the most vicious ^
dog might be utterly subdued F
merely by a person sitting down
and staring at him. 1
"Right you are, old pal!" was c
the ready response. "I know, for s
I once tried it on one. Dog was
coming at me at the rate of a *
mile a minute, and all that 1 did ?
was to sit down and stare at '
him."
"1 am glad to hear you say i
that," responded the friend. "It '
is a confirmation of what science
has always maintained." (
"Yes, old fellriw," grinned s
Smith. "Rut t chnillft Vin,m
..... <'v?% m. oaiv/uiv* nave auucu
that when I sat down I chose
the top limb of a 60-foot tree."? i
Exchange. .
When a girl refuses to wear a
lowcut waist she gets a lot of *
credit for Becoming Modesty, t
when half the time it's just a
mole.?Aftermath, if\ Columbia 1
State. I
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iVhe&t Prices Fall Instead Of
Rising
Chicago, July 30.?Contrary to
>revious experiences, wheat
>rices in the final dealings here
oday were being driven not up
>ut downward by prospects that
he Austro-Servian war would
;pread. After a rise of 9 cents
i bushel, values shrunk as much
is 3 cents in 30 minutes, largely
>n account of bold assertions
hat the bulk of the surplus crop
>f the United States, instead of
>eing rushed to Europe, might
>e held in this country as a
esult of general war disrupting
ill ocean trade.
Leading exporters here were
4-J 1 -- ? ?
luuieu uy uvune as declaring
hat export business in wheat
rom the Uuited States already
tad been paralyzed. To a lesser
legree, the same statement applied
to all dealings in wheat, especially
speculative transactions.
3ne of the consequences was
he action today of prominent
irms on the board of trade in
riving their pit agents orders "to
ake a furlough."
Business which three days ago
vas counted in millions of bushels
dwindled at times-today to
ilmost the vanishing point,
iazard of being whipsawed out
>f a fortune by the chance of a
noment proved too much for
even the most seasoned traders.
The principal efforts seemed to
)e directed to keeping would-be
nvestors out of the market.
It was pointed out that practically
all the ocean-carrying tonlage
was owned by foreign capial,
was subiect to goveroment
ise for army transports and that
jraiia laden vessels in the case of
f tv rnfiiiild u- ?- ??*
:eenly sought prey of hostile
leets. In other words, if was
aid, the United States largely
yould lose its foreign outlet, and
ie powerless to prevent the pilag
up of wheat at terminal mar;ets,
the possible blockading of
ailway tracks or the glutting of
torage facilities.
Common Vegetables Which Are
Corrective of Many Ills.
""he Detroit Tribune.
Every vegetable garden is a
aedicine chest full of remedies
hat are recognized by physicians
s af considerable value in the
reatment of various diseases.
)nions, for example, contain
ulphur oil and are recommendd
for insomnia and as an aid to
gastric digestion. They should
lave a prominent place in the
Liet of sufferers from rheumaism,
for they help to allay the
>ains.
Turnips and parsnips both
awe peculiar oily principles
vhich are of value as an aperiint
and diuretic. It is also claimid
that they are good for coughs
md hoarseness.
Potatoes contain solanin,
vhich has certain diuretic
>roperties.
The sulphur compound which
t contains makes cabbage excellent
in cases of scurvy and
icrofula.
Spinach has iron in organic
orm and is used as a laxative on
iccount of its fine digestible
ibre.
Carrots are useful for correctng
derangements of the liver.
They are also excellent as a
lressing for painful wounds and
IWdUUgS.
The tomato exercises medicilal
effects which are not completely
explained by the presence
of alkoline salts. There is
i principle present which when
aken in a concentrated state
produces salivation and a free
stimulation of the liver.
Great Surgical Achievement
Christian Herald.
Among the wonders of the
scientific world are the triumphs
of modern orthopedic surgery.
A case which looks little short
of the miraculous is reported
from the Emergency hospital,
Washington. William Averhill,
a 5-year-old boy from near Oxford,
N. C., was taken to the hospital
with clubfeet were turned
aside and under, and his gait was
slow and laborious, really more
a shuffle than a step. He was
put on the table, and the surgeon
went to work on one foot, then
on the other, cutting ligaments,
separating tendons and readjusting
little bones, and all but
amputating the child's feet.
Then the members were readjusted,
given the necessary
antiseptic treatment and skilfully
wrapped in plaster of Paris casts
extending to the knees. About
three weeks ago, a little less than
five weeks after the operation,
the plaster cases were removed,
and something akin to a miracle
had been wrought. Two littlp
feet, once considered hopelessly
deformed, had been transformed
into normal organs, in which
practically no trace of their
former deformity was left except
the scars made by the surgeon's
knife. ?
"As Poor Richard Says."
The following quotations are
from "Poor Richard's Almanac,"
which was written and published
by Benjamin Franklin. Franklin's
Almanac was a model upon
which many modern almanac's
have been based:
A word to the wise is enougfl
voti* t iiiy ,, *
el.
God helps those who help .
themselves.
Sloth, like rust, consumes fast- 1
er than lobor wears, while the
used key is always bright. 1
Dost thou love life? Then
don't squander time, for that's .
the stuff life's made of. 1
The sleeping fox catches no
poultry.
If time be of all things the
most precious, then waste of
time must be the greatesf prodigj
ality. 1
What we call "time enough"
always proves little enough. (
Sloth makes all things difficult,
but industry all things easy.
He that riseth late, must trot
all day.
Laziness travels slowly that
poverty soon overtakes him.
Drive your business, lest it
drive you.
Early to bed and early to rise,
make a man healthy, wealthy
and wise.
There are no gains without
pains. He that lives on hope
will die fasting.
He that hath a trade hath an
estate, and he that hath a calling
hath an office of profit and
honor.
Dilligence is the mother of
good luck.
One today is worth two tomorrow.
Trouble springs from idleness,
and grievous toil from needless
ease.
Fly pleasures, and they will
follow you.
An old farmer recently came
into possession of a check for
$200. He finally summoned up
nerve enough to go to the bank.
"What denomination?" said
the teller, hastily, as the check
was passed in through the window.
"Luther's, darn it! But what
has that got to do with it?"
Supervisor's Report of Claims
Audited for Second Quarter
of 1914
Outside aid 177 00
Dr A D Gregg 5 00
Dr E T Barentine 5 00
J A Arant 39 50
Cheraw Hdw. & Supply Co 20 55
D M Barentine 75 00
Walker Evans C. Co. 196 27
National Office Supply Co. 82 70
J C Whiteley 7 70
1 P Mangum 134 04
R Mcl. Watts 1 15
P A Nicholson 221 00
United Duck Co. 182 95
A C Burr 26 00
J A Welsh 75 00
J N Davis 66 54
Redfearn & Sons 65 81
G M Rodgers 50 00
A Sullivan 257 30
J A Davis 79 14
Ernest W Moore 150 00
J W Roscoe 50 00
T W Eddins 469 12
C L Crowley 66 50
I C Rivprs
? 04 4V
F M Moore 66 18
J T Grant 230 00
R A Rouse 334 34
T C Melton 408 00
Chesterfield Merc. Co. 48 81
J R Abbott 250 06
Cordy Winburn 160 00
P C McLaurin 234 05
Thurlow Belk 70 82
J W Brock 54 57
D F Brock 70 82
loe Rivers 56 75
Davis & Rivers 176 53
G A Malloy 74 43
Odom Bros. Co. 27 68
J C King 21 15
W K Sellers 9 24
Theo. Winburn 72 94
Cheraw Chronicle 11 50
.
D P Douglass 485 40
I W Ousley 83 32
fames Griffith 72 90
C A Baker 83 33
W J Odom 43 71
Chesterfield Advertiser 61 20
H T Atkinson 8^ A1
J. E. Agerton 249 95
C. H. Rivers 64 23
I. B. Merriman 9 90
Dr. D. T. Teal 109 35
W.J. Tiller 99 99
R D Marsh 12 00
I S Funderburk 903 00
Chesterfield Telep. Co. 25 00
W J Streater 1 50
C B Redfearn 65 35
N A White - 50 00
F W Rivers 816 00
H F King 523 95
W S Vaughn 75 00
W A Douglass 6,123 15
W A Douglass 36 60
L G Morgan 3 50
Anderson Lucas 32 00
T C Teal 22 50
Lester Rivers 100 00
Arthur Kincade 40 50
J C King, Jr. 1185
H J Sellers Co. 35 80
W D Craig 45 20
Gus Lee 15 00
John Poison 12 00
T D Funderburk 10 83
J C Sanders 31 70
Pageland Journal 41 08
J W McCassidy 49 80
G A Sherrill 290 00
M J Johnson 10 00
Frederick Disinfectant Co. 35 00
C. & L. R. R. 5 88
Gulf & Atlantic Ins. Co. 21 0O
Reece Herrin Co. 52 50
Colon M. Haskew 4 00
t nr n.1 *
ruison q
ank of Chesterfield 60 00
Ernest W Mooie 75 50
D P Douglass 7 70
Irvnoo f 1rv O AA
1 Vrtl JUUVO V/V/i 7 VU
Hurst-Streater Co. 53 01
Tetfersonian 91 20
IN Gaskins 8 00
Threatt Bros. 162 95
W A Douglass 340 55
T B Watson 61 90
A D Chapman 1,771 50
Respectfully submitted,
H. F. King,
County Supervisor
D. M. Barrentine, Clerk.
(AdTortlfemeat)