The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, February 10, 1915, Image 2
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Vol. 5 NO. 22
Office of Constable Abolished I
in Chesterfield County.
Special to The Journal
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 5?I did !
not write you last week because *
the session adjourned Friday 1
afternoon, and 1 went home. J
Now we have had several r
<
stormy debates over the various (
bills presented, notable among i
which was the repealing act c
_ .1
concerning me couon 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
passed to a third reading. The
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-ory 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 legisla- (
ture will pass some compulsory
law, but in just what form 1 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
elirpi n
*"^^n Chester^S^ttM^^^S^^^11
same was passed by the senate
last Friday, Jan. 29th, which
makes it impossible for Senator
Laney to have held up the bill
flftpr lVfr*nHn\? r?r 1,nue/ln>- f 1
4'AVUUUJ v/i A V1V JU ilj U1 lllld
week. Now in regard to this J
bill I will say that it was only 1
intended for an economical 1
measure: saving to our county (
the sum of $2000 in salaries ^
alone: we devolve the duties up ]
on the rural policemen of the '
county both civil and criminal: 1
with the right reserved to the 5
magistrate to appoint a special '
constable for occasions of emer- 1
gency and when a rural police- (
man cannot he had. We are 1
trimming all the county expenses,
working hard to save our (
people all the money we can in 1
the way of taxes, which, with (
the present crisis upon us, we ]
think is proper and neccessary, 1
and we ask the people of our 1
county to uphold our actions for
economy. I resent the insinua- (
tion or imputation that I origi- 1
nated the bill within myself or _
that it was originated for selfish 1
motives. 1 resent that because 1
all the gentlemen who were to ^
be appointed constable are and
have been my close personal '
friends, some of them my close j'*
kin by blood and marriage and j *
any report that I favored the bill 1
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 slan-! j
ilornnv orwl Kiao/l !* #* S??
..w. v?*w ??MM MKIOVVl I / I il I 11 # )
With best wishes I am yours, i
J.Clifton Rivers.j<
I (
"What is the difference," asked (
the teacher, "between caution <
and cowardice?" I
Johnny, who observed things !i
carefully for so youthful a per- |
son, answered: 1
"Caution is when you're afraid ,
and cowardice is when the other |
fellow's afraid."?Exchange. I<
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PAGE
Mr. Odom Writes Concerning
Bill
Columbia, S. C. Feb. 5th
Mr. Editor:?I notice in vour
ssue of tli is week some comnents
on the bill introduced in
he House by the Chesterfield
Delegation which proposes to
tbolish the office of magistrate's
nonstable and devolve their
luties, both criminal and civil,
>n the rural policemen.
Mr. Rivers is laxed with being
he author ol the bill, and he is
charged with being actuated by
;pite. Mr. Rivers is no more
esponsible than I am, and il
here is any odium attached to
t. I am willing to bear my
;hare.
I was approached by numerous
persons before I came to the
opening of the present session,
ma asKea to abolish the office
if magistrate's constable and
levolve their duties upon the
ural policemen of the county.
. had not thought of the matter
intil it was thus called to my
ittention. The argument was
hat the rural policemen could
lo their usual work and that of
he constables, and thereby save
lie county something over
$2000.00 per year. I am fully
xmvinced that the argument is
sound, and by a proper distribuion,
the rural policemen can do
lie work formerlv required of
ioth.
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,
ind there is no doubt in my
uind about the ability of the
rural police to take care of this
svork in a satisfactory manner,
ft is up to them to do it, and it
will be to their interest as well to
to go
The imputation tlu^^^^oul
was born in spite is a reflection
upon the delegation that I resent
with all the nn\v??r nf mv Ki?ir?.r
[ had in mind only the economical
aspect of the ciiiestion, and
thought nothing of spiting any
i>ne. f feel sure that when this
jill is fully understood, those
who arc unselfishly opposed to
t will become its friends. It
may be that some of those persons
who expected a constable's
dace may he a trifle sore for a
while, but time, the great healer
)f wounds, will show them their
irror.
The bill provides that in an
jmergency, lite magistrate is
luthorized to deputi/.e a special
:onslable. Such emergency
would arise when it is impossible
to get hold of rural policenan,
and the case is urgent
We are trying to save the
:ounty some money during the
panicky time now on us and we
would he recreant to the trust
mposed on us il we did not do
ill iii power to decrease taxes
.vithout impairing efficiency.
Be impartial and lets give the
aw a trial. If it will not work,
is we believe it will, il can he
changed at the next session of
he legislature. Yours truly,
W. P. ( )iu??n
Couldn't Whip th^ Yankees
Spartanburg. |<ei>. I.? Ilenlainin
1\ O'Kcllcy one of the
nost pictures(iue characters in
jpper South Carolina, has passill
away at his home throe miles
jast of Walhalla, Oconee
County. When a young man
altering the Confederate Annate
took an oath that he would
not have his hair cut until the
Confederates had whipped the
Yankees, lie kept his word and
ihe long white hair reaching his
waist which has distinguished
lim for years, was the evidence
>f his regard for his onih
'.LAND, S. C., WEDNES^^i
Officers Are Chosen By N<jw .*
Railway Company 2
Hamlet, Feb. 5.?The Caro- ?
lina, Atlantic & Western Railway,
which has just been completed
from Hamlet to Charlek* ?
ton, has announced the now $?
officers as follows: >
W. R. Bonsai, President; J. E, tu
Hancock, general manager; G. I?
B. Lewis, general auditor; W. A/*;
Gore, superintendent; J. \\T. Lvt- E
ton trainmaster, Hamlet district;
J. \V. Chapman, trainmaster, a:
Charleston district. H. C. tl:
Glabler is the agent at Charles- ai
ton with B. H. Hartley and D. P. pi
Hartley, commercial agents with sc
headquarters at Charleston.
With the completion of this p
road from Hamlet through to h:
Charleston the Seaboard Air A
Line Railway has an entrance 511
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 Sn-pound rails with a
maximum grade of one-half of
one per cent and is in every way
Pi
a modern road. Through freight
service was inaugurated on February
1 and through passenger
service being caused by the u
delay in the construction of the '
connecting tracks into the union
station. / c
In addition to the through line
to Charleston the line from Mc- c
Bee and also the line from Sumter
by Florence joins the mainline
at Poston and there is alto- V
gether 312 miles of this road.
s<
Will Consider Chance
n
The following letter explains g
itself: u
|P^BiC7 M. Tucker o
Pageland, S. C.
Sir: With reference to your c
letter of the 28th ultimo, stating NV
that there is dissatisfaction since h
the withdrawal of rural route hi
No. 1, Jefferson, South Carolina,
from Pageland, and suggesting jj
either that tlie former method of aj
service on the route be restored u
or that the carrier on the Jeffer- jr
son route be held until the rereipt
of mail from Mcllee, 1 beg e
to state that in view of the ex- SN
ccssive duplication and interlac- tc
ing involved restoration of the
former service on the route from
Jefferson is deemed inadvisable, (j
1 he matter of changing the
schedule of the carrier, however, ^
so as to require him to leave p(
after the receipt of mail from Sr
Mcllee, will be given considera- u
tion. Respectfully,
James S. Blaksley
rourrn Assistant Postmaster j (
General.
Cheraw Gives Generously to j,
Belgians jr
Cheraw, l;el?. 1.?The Belgian
box left hero for Charleston and o
the relief ship last Friday. The c
committee had in hand food- tl
stuffs, collected from citizens of 11
Cheraw anil vicinity, to the g
value of $50; from the Belgian in
festival, $S; condensed millc Irom si
the ('heraw graded school, $9.50; k
clothing collected by Cheraw t<
; women, $52; clothing atul dry 111
| goods left at the Fvans store, j F
SS0.50; from the Presbyterian I
Sutulav school, $17.70; from the e
Baptist Sunday school, $9; from j h
the Fpiscopal Sunday school, o
;$h>; other cash contributions, [ h
$<>5. Total for Cherew S50N.20,1 n
I lie money, $102.20, was sent by ja
New York draft to l>. YV. Kaven- 1<
el, Columbia, yesterday, besides o
ibis, other sections of Chester- v
field county sent $57, making a tl
grand tot.d to date of $505.20 for tl
this worthy cause a
MORNING, FEBRUARY 1(
Negro Pardoned by Blease is
c Again Convicted
i
\Vnshington, Feb. 4.?John
3D, a negro, who was pardonisdast
November by ex Gov.
lease of South Carolina, while
irvmg a term of IS years' imrisonment
for manslaughter,
as been convicted of robberv
afore Chief Justice Covington
I the criminal division of the
istrict supreme court.
Van's liberty was short lived,
> he was apprehended during
ie Christmas holidays in a 5ad
10-cent store, where lie
icked a woman's pocket, lie
icured only an eyeglass case,
hicli he mistook for a purse.
Van denied the charge, and on
ie witness stand declared he
ad never been in prison. Mr.
rctier, assistant United States
ttorney, then enquired it he had
ot been pardoned by the gover
or of South Caorlina last No
ember. The witness then adlitted
his identity.
P. H. McGowan.
Sowing Wheat in the Sp?ing
rogressivo Farmer
A reader says he was unable
) sow any wheat up to Decemer
15 and wants to know
about putting some wheat in
uring February, just a few acres
)i home requirements. Could
safely count on a moderate
rop?"
We can find nothing in the reorded
experiences of others, or
i our own observations to justir
us in advising any one, as far
)uth as Mississippi, to sow
heat in the spring. In fact,
tuch of the wheat sown in the
outh this winter lias been sown
^Uate to o[ive it a fair chance
IroaTTing tile best yields:?Much
f it was sown the latter, half of
ovember or the early days of
ecember, and with the cold
reather coming 011 early, as it
as, the yields are not likely to
ea tair test of our ability to
roduce wheat in the Cotton
elt. 'File same remarks largely
pply to the sowing ol oats,
hich as a rule have been put
1 so late that they are in great
anger ol winter killing, and
yen if they live through the
inter they are almost certain
> make smaller yields than if
icy had been sown earlier.
We know that oats sown in
te spring average a much smalir
yield than those sown in the
ill, and every consideration
Dints to the conclusion that the
lme, even to a greater degree,
rould be true ot wheat.
A Bible Puzzle
H'nt to The Ansouiaii by ils brown
Creek eorrosjiomJenl. i
A young man on being asked
ow many students there were
1 his Bible class, replied:
'lIf you multiply the number
f times which the Israelites
oni passed jericho, then add to
ic product the number of
nl 11 irliw wliw>l? lln'i z
ave to Kutii, then divide by the
timber of Daman's sons, then
abstract the number of each
iiul of clean beast that went in:>
the ark, then multiply the
umber of men that went to seel;
dijah after he was taken up into
leaven, subtract from this Josph's
age at the time he stood
efore Pharaoh, add the number
f stones in David's ban when
e killed Goliath, subtract the
umber of furlong's that Beth-1
ny was distance from Jems.*m,
then divide by the nuinbei
t '.minors casi oui wnen ram
\/as shipwrecked, and subtract
lie number of persons saved in
lie ark, and this will be the
inswer."
), 1915
Use Your Head as Well as
Your Hands
Progressive Fourier
As never before, farming is c
becoming a business where t
brains count, and nowhere is t
this more apparent than in the p
use of labor-saving, time-saving, c
money-saving farm machinery, i
ft is a far cry from the cradle
end scythe to the modern bind- f
i; from the ox wagon and
stage coach to the modern auto- f
mobile; from the "scooter" plow 1
to the riding cultivator; from the p
limited, uncertain agricultural p
knowledge of fifty years ago to \
the splendid store of scientific c
1111(1 tcrlinifdl t
.muivil 111 til 1
awaits the husbandman who will
avail himself of it. It is a long
step, indeed, from the tools and
the facts to which our fathers
and grandtathers^had 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
given us, so do we prosper.
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 ihe machinery
needed on a 500 acre wheat farm 1
of the Northwest will be quite
different from that required on 1
the ten acre Florida truck farm; 1
and likewise the implements 1
that may be used profitably on a
level, stump-free cotton farm are I
greatly different from what the ]
a^'iTusc cotton tenant, -will, -his
one mule and stumpy, sullied j
patches, may employ.
To know a real need from an I
apparent one; to be able to decide
what implements are suited j
to a si ven set of conditions?
these are tests of the judgement, s
and the farmer who meets these
successfully will have taken a j
most important step toward the
use of machinery in place of the t
more expensive hand labor. t
But this is not all: In the ?
operation and intelligent care of j
farm implements there lies an >
:.... i: i i r ? :?
iiiiunjiisL* ueiu iui ilie exercise 01
sound sense and unless lie
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
manv millions of dollats worth
of farm machinery needed in the
South, it our labor is to be most
productive; but we doubt not
too; 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
progress on a man. Unless it
be suited to his conditions and
unless lie knows how to operate
and care for it, it may leave
upon liim and liis future financial
welfare an entirely different
brand.
"Did von tell Minks I was a
fool?"
"No; I thought he knew if."?
Kxchange.
"I low did you know your
patient had appendicitis, doctor?"
"I operated on him."?Kx.
$1.00 per year
Chesterfield County Wants
Better Roads.
A delegation of Chesterfield
county citizens went to Colum>ia
Friday and asked the Cheserfield
legislators to pass a bill
)ermitfing any township in the
:ounty to vote bonds for road
mprovement.
The Columbia State gave the
1
unowing account:
Chesterfield county has come
orward with a new type of
lighway improvement bonds
>roposition. Essentially the
dan consists of legislation
vhereby any township in the
:ounty may bond itself at will
or permanent betterment of its
oads. LaCoste Evans of Chea\v,
whose diligence and zeal in
he cause has procured him the
;obriquent locally of "The Good
<oads Pusher," is promoting the
novement, with the cooperation
)f an organization of his formng
called the "3(>5 Day Good
*oads League of Chesterfield
bounty."
Delegates from this associaion
were much in evidence in
Columbia the other day, when
hey came down to interview
he Chesterfield county legisla
ivw lujiiKHiiuu in regai u 10 mcir
project. Representatives of all
pf the eight townships, were on
land. One of these townships,
Mligator, has already bonded
tself generously for highway
mprovement. 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, \V. J. Tiler,
H. F. King and R. M. Myers.
From Mt. Croghan?Jule S.
McGregor, F. M. Moore, W. A.
Rivers.
From Cote Hill?J. E. Willi- ^
uns, the Rev. B. D. Thames.
From Steer Pen?Cordy WinMirn
C
/ui tif iv. u. i'l 441iicaun.
From Alligator?W. L. McCoy
ind G. T. Horton.
From Jefferson?M. M. Johnion
and W..G. Sutton.
From Old Store?L. L. Parker
ind J. P. Agerton.
Senator Laney and Represenatives
Odom and Rivers gave
he visitors a careful hearing
ind the delegates afterward expressed
themselves as satisfied
.villi the prospects.
Old ;Tiroe Prices.
Mr. J. M Clark was here the
p/her day and he handed us a
dipping of prices taken from the
'Cheraw Advertiser, published
U Cheraw and dated Saturday,
Dctober 27, 1S(>6. Comparison
with present-day prices may be
nteresting amusement for some
:>f our readers:
Bacon per lb -1u25
Bagging, per lb 4,">a47
Beef, per lb 5a 10
Butter, per lb 30a35
Candles Adamantine lb 40a(>(?
Candles Tallow, per lb 30a35
Cheese per lb 33 l-2a35
Chickens 20a30
Coffee, per lb 33a35
Corn per bushel $1.4(1
r'nlton IK >V., >i
V 111 I VIIVt? y
Cotton in specie, per 11) 18 a "22
Eggs, per do/.. 30a.W
1 odder, per cu t. 75n$1.00
Mour, per bbl. Sl5al(>
Glass, per hundred $8.50a 10.50
Lard, per lb 25a30
Mackerel, per bbl S20a$25
Mutton, per lb Sal a
Molasses, per gal N0aS5
Nails, per lb 10a 12 12
Peas, per bushel $1.25a 1.35
Potatoes, sweet, per bushel 75
Potatoes, Irish, per bushel$l.25
Kope, per lb 20a3O
I) ..... I.l.l CI D:.. I mi
I\UMI1, |?CI DDI I
Salt, per sack $1.00
Sugar, per lb 20a-5
Tallow, per lb 12 I-2a 15
Turpentine per gal 35a l5
Twine, per lb 5"