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THE PAGELAND JOURNAL
Vol. 5 NO. 22 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNEgDAWMORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1915 $1.00 per year
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urnce or (Jonst&ble Abolished
in Chesterfield County.
Special to The Journal
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 5?I did
not write you last week because
the session adjourned Friday
afternoon, and I went home.
Now we have had several
stormy debates over the various
bills presented, notable among
which was the repealing act
concerning the cotton warehouse
act, passed by the extra
session last fall. The repeal act
failed to pass. The hunters
license act created a world of
debate, both pro & con and has
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pusseu it> a inira reading. l tie
land commission bill which
sought to create an office and
appoint an officer to go over the
state and purchase land for the
state, and sell the same to buyers
at long time credit, virtually putting
the state in the real estate
business, failed to pass, but the
hottest time yet has been the debate
upon the compul iory education
bills, 2 in number; after
two days, of continous debate
and voting we are yet at sea as
to the ultimate fate of the measure.
I believe that this legislature
will pass some compulsory
law, but in just what form I cannot
say. Personally I am opposed
to bills as offered but favor a
law which leaves the matter to
each school district.
j ust now we are in a debate
upon the tobacco bill, which
does not concern our county
very much at present. The old
soldiers pension bill will - be
taken up tonight.
Yes, sir, the Chesterfield
delegation introduced a bill to
same was passed by the senate
last Friday, Jan. 29th, which
makes it impossible for Senator
Laney to have held up the bill
after Monday or Tuesday of this
week. Now in regard to this
bill I will say that it was only
intended for an economical
measure: saving to our county
the sum of $2000 in salaries
alone: we devolve the duties upon
the rural policemen of the
county both civil and criminal:
with the right reserved ?to the
magistrate to appoint a special
constable lor occasions of emergency
and when a rural policeman
cannot be had. We are
trimming all the county expenses,
working hard to save our
people all the money we can in
the way of taxes, which, with
the present crisis upon us, we
think is proper and neccessary,
and we ask the people of our
county to uphold our actions for
economy. I resent the insinuation
or imputation that I originated
the bill within myself or
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mui u wus originated lor seltisn
motives. I resent that because
all the gentlemen who were to
be appointed constable are and
have been my close personal
friends, some of them my close
kin by blood and marriage and
any report that 1 favored the bill
for selfish motives or for any
other purpose, except for good
service and economy, is entirely
without foundation and is false
and only the product of a slanderous
and biased brain.
With best wishes I am yours,
J. Clifton Rivers.
"What is the difference," asked
the teacher, "between caution
and cowardice?"
Johnny, wiio observed things
carefully for so youthful a person,
answered:
"Caution is when you're afraid
and cowardice is when the other
fellow's afraid."?Exchange.
Mr. Odom Writes Concerning
Bill
Columbia, S. C. Feb. 5th
Mr. Editor:?I notice in vour
issue of this week some comments
on the bill introduced in
the House by the Chesterfield
Delegation which proposes to
abolish the office of magistrate's
constable and devolve their
duties, both criminal and civil,
on the rural policemen.
Mr. Rivers is taxed with being
the author ot the bill, and he is
charged with being actuated by
spite. Mr. Rivers is no more
responsible than I am, and if
there is any odium attached to
it, I am willing to bear my
share.
I was approached by numerous
persons before I came to the
opening of the present session,
and asked to abolish the office
of magistrate's constable and
devolve their duties upon the
rural policemen of the county.
i naa not thought of the matter
until it was thus called to my
attention. The argument was
that the rural policemen could
do their usual work and that of
the constables, and thereby save
the county something over
$2000.00 per year. I am fully
convinced that the argument is
sound, and by a proper distribution,
the rural policemen can do
the work formerly required of
both.
I fail to see why any one
should be opposed to the bill
who has the financial interest of
the county at heart, provided
the work can be done properly,
and there is no doubt in my
mind about the ability of the
rural police to take care of this
work in a satisfactory manner.
It is up to them to do it, and it
will be to their interest as well to
Ifec?interest cr
them to make go
The imputation th^^^^ndl
was born in spite is a reflection
upon the delegation that I resent
with all the power of mv bt ing.
I had in mind only the economical
aspect of the question, and
thought nothing of spiting any
one. I feel sure that when this
bill is fully understood, those
who are unselfishly opposed to
it will become its friends. It
may be that some of those persons
who expected a constable's
place may be a trifle sore for a
while, but time, the great healer
of wounds, will show them their
error.
The bill provides that in an
emercenev. the niaoictroto ?c
authorized to deputize a special
constable. Such emergency
would arise when it is impossible
to get hold of rural policeman,
and the case is urgent.
We are trying to save the
county some money during the
panicky time now on us and we
would be recreant to the trust
imposed on us if we did not do
all in power to decrease taxes
without impairing efficiency.
Be impartial and lets give the
law a trial. If it will not work,
as we believe it will, it can be
changed at the next session of
the legislature. Yours truly,
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Couldn't Whip the Yankees
Spartanburg. Feb. 1.? ISenjamin
F. O'Kellev one of the
most picturesque characters in
upper South Carolina, has passed
away at his home three miles
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ca?i ui wainatia, Oconee
County. When a young man
entering the Confederate Army
he took an oatli that he would
not have his hair cut until the
Confederates had whipped the
Yankees. He kept his word and
the long white hair reaching his
waist which has distinguished
him for years, was the evidence
of his regard for his oath.
Officers Are Chosen By New
Railway Company 4?'!
Hamlet, Feb. 5.?The Car?*;
lina, Atlantic & WesternrsRa$
way, which has just been conf%
pleted from Hamlet to Charted
ton, has announced the nj$w
officers as follows:
\V. R. Bonsai, President; J. E,
Hancock, general manager;
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B. Lewis, general auditor; "W. Aj?
Gore, superintendent; J. W. Lvtton
trainmaster, Hamlet district;
J. W. Chapman, trainmaster*
Charleston district. H. C.
Glabler is the agent at Charles
ion wnn 15. H. Hartley and L>. P.
Hartley, commercial agents with
headquarters at Charleston. With
the completion of this
road from Hamlet through to
Charleston the Seaboard Air
Line Railway has an entrance
into Charleston which this road
has been denied for many years.
From Hamlet to Charleston is
177 miles and the road has been
built of Sb-pound rails with a
maximum grade of one-half of
one per cent and is in every way
a modern road. Through freight
service was inaugurated on February
1 and through passenger
service being caused by the
delav in the construction of the
connecting tracks into the union
station. /
In addition to the through line
to Charleston the line from McBee
and also the line from Sumter
by Florence joins the mainline
at Poston and there is altogether
312 miles of this road.
Will Consider Change
The following letter explains
itself:
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BWr^TM. Tucker
Pageland, S. C.
Sir: With reference to your
letter of the 28th ultimo, stating
that there is dissatisfaction since
the withdrawal of rural route
No. 1, Jefferson, South Carolina,
from Pageland, and suggesting
either that the former method of
service on the route be restored
or that the carrier on the Jefferson
route be held until the receipt
of mail from McBee, I beg
to state that in view of the excessive
duplication and interlacing
involved restoration of the
former service on the route from
Jefferson is deemed inadvisable.
The matter of changing the
schedule of the carrier, however,
so as 10 require mm to leave
after the receipt of mail from
McBee, will be given consideration.
Respectfully,
James S. Blaksley
Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General.
Cheraw Gives Generously to
Belgians
Cheraw, Feb. 4.?The Belgian
box left here for Charleston and
the relief ship last Friday. The
committee had in hand foodstuffs,
collected from citizens of
Cheravv and vicinity, Jo the
value of $56; from the Belgian
festival, $S; condensed milk trom
the Cheraw graded school, $9.50;
clothing collected by Cheravv
women, $52; clothing and dry
goods left at the Evans store,
$80.50; from the Presbyterian
Sunday school, $17.70; from the
Baptist Sunday school, $9; from
the Episcopal Sunday school,
$10; other cash contributions,
$65. Total for Chorew $508.20,
Tin* mnnov tlft? 9H ?*rnc con?
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New York draft to If. W. Ravenel,
Columbia, yesterday. Besides
this, other sections of Chesterfield
county sent $57, making a
graud total to date of $565.20 for
this worthy cause.
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Use Your Head as Well as
Your Ha .ids
Progressive Former
As never before, farming is <
becoming a business where 1
brains count, and nowhere is i
this more apparent than in the ]
use of labor-saving, time-saving, <
money-saving farm machinery, j
It is a far cry from the cradle
end scythe to the modern bind- j
er; from the ox wagon and
stage coach to the modern auto- j
mobile; from the "scooter" plow ]
to the riding cultivator; from the ]
limited, uncertain agricultural ]
knowledge of fifty years ago to
the splendid store of scientific <
and technical information that i
awaits the husbandman who will 1
avail himself of it. It is a long i
step, indeed, from the tools and i
the facts to which our fathers <
and grandfathersjhad access, to
those that we may use; but as ]
we do use these, harnessing our <
heads and hands to the machinery
science and invention have
ilNegro Pardoned by Blease is
ft. Again Convicted
Washington, Feb. 4.?John
a negro, who was pardon|&&]ast
November by ex Gov.
mease of South Carolina, while
Serving a term of 15 years' imjflrisonmcnt
for manslaughter,
?ais been convicted of robbery
Kfore Chief Justice Covington
jm the criminal division of the
district supreme court.
Van's liberty was short lived,
as he was apprehended during
ihe Christmas holidays in a 5ahd
10-cent store, where he
nicked a woman's pocket. He
Itycured only an eyeglass case,
which he mistook for a purse.
I Van denied the charge, and on
the witness stand declared he
had never been in prison. Mr.
Arctier," assistant United States
attorney, then enquired if he had
not been pardoned by the governor
of South Caorlina last November.
The witness then admitted
his identity.
P. H. McGovvan.
Sowing Wheat in the Spring
Progressive Farmer
A reader says he was unable
to sow any wheat up to December
15 and wants to know
"about putting some wheat in
during February, just a few acres
for home requirements. Could
I safely count on a moderate
crop?"
We can find nothing in the recorded
experiences of others, or
in our own observations to jUStif'r
ll<! in ciH\ricinrr ?-in,r r?no no fn?
w 4U MV4 f lUllip, (IUJ V/ilVf (HO llll
south as Mississippi, to sow
wheat in the spring. In fact,
much of the wheat sown in the
South this winter lias been sown
UflUate to give it a fair chance
blWaKingflie best yrerasr-Mtreh
ofut was sown the latter, half of
November or the early days of
December, and with the cold
weather coming on early, as it
has, the yields are not likely to
be a lair test of our ability to
produce wheat in the Cotton
Belt. The same remarks largely
apply to the sowing of oats,
which as a rule have been put
in so late that they are in great
danger of winter killing, and
even if they live through the
winter iney are almost certain
to make smaller yields than if
they had been sown earlier.
We know that oats sown in
the spring average a much smaller
yield than those sown in the
fall, and every consideration
points to the conclusion that the
same, even to a greater degree,
would be true of wheat.
A Bible Puzzle
(Sent to The Ansonian by Its Brown
Creek correspondent.)
A young man on being asked
how many students there were
in his Bible class, replied:
"If you multiply the number
of times which the Israelites
compassed Jericho, then add to
the product the number of
measures of barlev which Boa/,
gave to Ruth, then divide by the
number of Ilaman's sons, then
suDstract Hie number oi each
kind of clean beast that went into
the ark, then multiply the
number of men that went to seek
i Elijah after he was taken up into
Heaven, subtract from this Joseph's
age at the time he stood
before Pharaoh, add the number
of stones in David's bag when
he killed Goliath, subtract the
number of furlong's that Bethany
was distance from Jerusalem,
then divide by the number
of anchors cast out when Paul
was shipwrecked, and subtract
the number of persons saved in
the ark, and this will be the
answer."
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given us, so do we prosper. i
This does not mean, though,
that all farm machinery will pay
on all farms; for it is in the purchase,
as well as in the use, of
improved implements that real
thinking and wise discrimination
between which is really needed
and which is not must be exercised.
Largely what a farmer
needs and what will return him
real profits is an individual, local
problem, and must be gone at as
such.
Obviously the machinery
needed on a 500 acre wheat farm
of the Northwest will be quite
different from that required on
the ten-acre Florida truck farm;
and likewise the implements
that may be used profitably on a
level, slump-free cotton farm are
greatly different from what the
one mule and stumpy, gullied
patches, may employ.
To know a real need from an
apparent one; to be able to decide
what implements are suited
to a given set of conditions?
these are tests of the judgement,
and the farmer who meets these
successfully will have taken a
most important step toward the
use of machinery in place of the
more expensive hand labor.
But this is not all: In the
a?%/1 I 4 ?\1 L ^
iiiumi ami uui'ui^uiu uuc ui
farm implements there lies an
immense field for the exercise of
sound sense and unless he
possesses and is willing to exercise
these faculties the farmer
will still find his implements a
liability rather than a dividendproducing
asset.
Summing up, there are many
many millions of dollais worth
of farm machinery needed in the
South, it our labor is to be most
productive; but we doubt not
toe; because of a lack of adaptation
to local conditions, because
of ignorance and carelessness in
operating, and because of exposure
to weather and a general
lack of care, that there also are
right now on Southern farms
several millions of dollars worth
of implements that will never be
anything more than a dead loss.
Merely buying an improved implement
doesn't put the stamp of
nroeress on a man. Unless it
be suited to his conditions and
unless he kaows how to operate
and care for it, it may leave
upon him and his future financial
welfare an entirely different
brand.
"Did vou tell Blinks I was a
fool?"
"No; I thought he knew it."?
Exchange.
"I low did you know your
patient had appendicitis, doctor?"
"I operated on him."?Ex.
Chesterfield County Wants
Better Roads.
A delegation of Chesterfield
county citizens went to Columbia
Friday and asked the Chesterfield
ler'slators to pass a bill
permitting any township in the
county to vote bonds for road
improvement.
The Columbia State gave the
following account:
Chesterfield county has come
forward with a new type of
highway improvement bonds
proposition. Essentially the
plan consists of legislation
whereby any township in the
county may bond itself at will
for permanent betterment of its
roads. LaCoste Evans of Cheraw,
whose diligence and zeal in
the cause has procured him the
sobriquent locally of "The Good
Roads Pusher," is promoting the
movement, with the cooperation
of an organization of his forming
called the "365 Day Good
Roads League of Chesterfield
County."
Delegates from this association
were much in evidence in
Columbia the other day, when
they came down to interview
the Chesterfield county legisla
live delegation in regard to their
project. Representatives of all
of the eight townships, were on
hand. One of these townships,
Alligator, has already bonded
itself generously for highway
improvement. The group comprised
the following citizens:
From Cheraw?Lacoste Evans,
Isaac Huntley, Thomas Amos.
From Chesterfield Court
House?C. L. Huntly, M. J.
Hough, J. W. Griggs, W. J. Tiller,
H. F. King and R. M. Myers.
From Mt. Croglian?Jule S.
McGregor, F. M. Moore, W. A.
Rivers.
From Cote Hill?J. Willi ?
ams, the Rev. B. D. Thames.
From Steer Pen?Cordy Winburn,
D. S. Matheson.
From Alligator?W. L. McCoy
and G. T. Horton.
From Jefferson?M. M. Johnson
and W..G. Sutton.
From Old Store?L. L. Parker
and J. E. Agerton.
Senator Laney and Representatives
Odom and Rivers gave
the visitors a careful hearing
and the delegates afterward ex
pressed memseives as satistied
with the prospects.
Old iTime Prices.
Mr. J. M. Clark was here the
other day and he handed us a
clipping of prices taken from the
'Cheraw Advertiser, published
at Cheraw and dated Saturday,
October 27, 1866. Comparison
with present-day prices may be
interesting amusement for some
of our readers:
Bacon per lb 24a25
Bagging, per lb 4f>a47
Beef, per lb - 5a 10
Butter, per lb 30a35
Candles Adamantine lb 40a60
Candles Tallow, per lb 30a35
Cheese per lb 33 l-2a35
Chickens 20a30
Coffee, per lb 33a35
Corn per bushel Si.40
Cotton, in currency, lb 28a23
Cotton in specie, per lb 18a22
Eggs, per do/,. 30a33
Fodder, per cwt. 75a$1.00
Flour, per bbl. $15a16
Glass, per hundred $8.50al0.50
Lard, per lb 25a30
Mackerel, per bbl $20a$25
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mil nun, per iu oitxu
Molasses, per gal 80a85
Nails, perlb 10a 12 12
Peas, per bushel Sl.25al.35
Potatoes, sweet, per bushel 75
Potatoes, Irish, per bushelSl.25
Rope, per lb 20a30
Rosin, per bbl $1.25a3.00
Salt, per sack $4.00
Sugar, per lb 20a25
Tallow, per lb 12 l-2al5
Turpentine per gal 35a 15
Twine, per lb 5<>