The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, February 24, 1915, Image 2
Vol. 5 NO. 24
American Ship Sunk in North
Sea
Washington, Feb. 22.?The
United States government was
advised officially tonight of the
destruction of the first American
vessel on the high seas since the
outbreak of the European war.
American Consul Fee at Bremen
cabled that the steamer Evelyn
and her cargo of cotton bound
for Bremen had been "blown
up" at Borkum, iust off the German
coast, and that the crew
had been saved. The cause?
submarine or mine?was not
given in the dispatch.
After a conference with President
Wilson, Secretary Bryan
cabled Ambassador Page at London
and Ambassador Gerard at
Berlin to make an exhaustive
inquiry as to the facts, and, if
the crew was landed in either of
their respective jurisdictions, to
furnish every care and conveni
ence to Capt. Smith and his
men.
Although the extent of sea
zones of war proclaimed by
Germany was never defined
exactly /.the Borkum islands are
considered far distant from the
danger areas of submarines. The
waters of the.vicinity are mined
for defensive purposes and Germany
always has piloted incoming
ships through.
At the German embassy tonight
it was pointed out that the
accident must have been caused
by a mine, as Germany, sorely
in need of cotton, would not torpedo
a vessel laden with such a
cargo for German consumption,
v Financial Troubles.
^l^^nan^eturmng to his home
-ac.vcraL yor-^
absence, met one of his old j
negroes, a former servant of his'
family, relates Lippincot t's Mag- j
a/.ine. "Uncle Moses,"/he said,
"I hear you have gotten mar
ried."
"Yes, Marse Tom, I is, and Use
having a moughty troublesome
time, Marse Tom, moughty
troublesome."
"What's thp tmnMnJ" ?
w ..V/UI/IV OIIIVI I UN I
friend.
"Why, dat ynller woman Marse
Tom. She all de time axin* me
fer money. She don't give me
no peace."
"How long have you been
married, Uncle Moses?"
"Nigh on ter two years, come
dis spring."
"And tiow much money have
you given her?"
"Well, I ain't done gin her
none vit."
Correspondingly Small.
Quiet and confident, the young
traveler for the patent fertilizer
determined to sound Farmer Filbert
as to his firm's latest product.
Hut the farmer saw him coming
ayont the turnips, and knew
him and his ilk of old.
"No, young fellow," he finished
up, after a lengthy argument.
"These new-fangled ideas don't
appeal to me. Nothing can beat
the old natural fertilizer."
"Good heavens sir!" exclaimed
the exasperated young patentpusher.
"The day is coming
when a man will be able to carry
enough fertilizer for an acre of
land in his watch pocket!"
"Maybe he will, my boy," allowed
Filbert, as he chewed a
fresh straw. "And I reckon he'll
be able to carry the crop in the
same pocket, too!"?Exchange.
"Yes," said the young lady, "1
spent the entire evening telling
mm mat he had a terrible reputation
for Kissing girls against
their will."
"And what did he do?"
"He sat there like w boob and
dewed It,1K i
PAG1
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Fourth Quarterly Report of
County Supei v'sor, for 1914
(Outside aid $188.0(1
D M Barentine 37.5(1
Dr J II Harden 10.0(1
Dr L E Bull 10.0(1
Dr J T Buff If>.50
G M Rogers 50.0(1
J A A ran I 37.50
Walkes Evans Cogs'll Co. 140.31
E W Moore 225.00
W J Tiller 100.00
J T Grant 225.00
D P Douglass 376.60
D II Eunderburk 5.00
Walker Evans Cogs'll Co. 75.30
Otlom Bros. Co. 50.IS
Dr T E Wanamaker 3.75
A B Cassidy 00.00
Armlield Hardware Co. 42.00
John W. Knight 152.10
J E Williams 15.93
Cheraw Sash & Door Co. 1.75
H L Baker 4.10
R A Rouse 300.00
H J Sellers Co. 52.80
0 i> Turnage 1.60
Dr J T Bull 5.00
D II Means 17.50
Chesterfield Tel. & Tel. Co. 15.00
A Sullivan 221.30
1 P Mangum 2N3.70
J W McCassidv 16.60
E M Moore 41.66
J C Rivers 62.49
(J A Malloy 71.16
A B Cassidy - 30.1)0
John W. Knight 50.00
T W Belle 31.66
il T Atkinson 83.32
A J Outlaw 11.0' >
J as. Grilfeth 24.58
C \ Baker 33.32
Dr W \ Gantt 10.00
Chesterfield Merc. Co. 92.16
D 11 Laney 3.75
J W Knscoe 55.70
J A Welsh iOOOO
J N Davis 83.32
J rr^m(CTT ?
Meihlejohn Lumber Co^^^w.60
C L Crowley 50.00
Chesterfield Advertiser 45.60
J K Abbot 214 80
1' C McLauren 303.05
Anderson Lucus 64.00
W A Douglass 112.00
11 l1 King 412.00
J A Hall 5.50
W II Hilton 00.00
boatis Davis Co. 32.05
A C Jhirr 63.50
IV1 W Duval I .>84.12
D C Smith
K M Moore 20 84
I us. Grifteth 14..".0
The McNnir Co. 7.7<?
C 1' Kin^ 1.50
D 11 Laney 10.08
Chesterfield Dry Goods Co 2?>.;,(?
Theo Winhuru 00.80
W J Davidson 2.00
Dr D T Teal 81.00
Davis & Rivers 28.00
J C Sanders 10 10
T W Kddins 1 15.41
J K Williams 21.4 >
i\ I Davidson 4.ai
M 1> and II L Siniili " ?
...
Armlield Porter Co. 200.00
II M Otloni 37.02
Chesterfield Drug; Co. 21.90
Jeffersonian 23.48
21.01
II A Watson 0.19
Threalt liros. 281.08
J K lowers 2.50
14 II Laney r?.25
A I- Davis 1.25
C H Kedfeain 7.0(1
I< 14 Marsh 08.05
J 1, Smith 9.11
T C Melton 32.00
M J I louj?h I4i?n<
W I-) Craig 27.0(1
Wesley Campbell 15.0(1
PamelancJ journal H.5(J
F. A Pl> ler 7.7.1
J A Arant 50.0(1
G M Rogers 50.0(1
15 I) Turnage IS..55
A Sullivan 02.S3
Cheraw Chronicle 00.0(1
|Cordv Winburn 10.0(J
Hugh Bales ."?5.od
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ELAND, S. C., WEDNESDA
Wonderful Exposition Opens at
San Francisco
>1 Exposition Grounds, San
Francisco, Feb. 20.?The Pana
H ma-Pacific International exposii
tion was formally opened at
> noon today, Pacific coast ti.ne.
> The dedication was made as
1 short and simple as possible.
1'nited States soldiers and
marines escorted Secretary Lane,
Gov. Johnson and the other
officials to a stand facing the
main entrance to the exposition,
where welcomed bv President
Charles C. Moore and the other
executive officers.
Secretary Lane, President Wilson's
personal renrr?spnt<iiivo
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delivered a brief address, during
which he read this telegram
from the president:
"Please convey my heartiest
congratulations to the authorities
of the exposition anil express my
hope that their highest expectations
for its distinguished success
will be more than realized."
President Wilson, in the White
House, touched a telegraph key
completing an electric circuit
which swung open the doors of
the Palace of Machinery, unloosed
the waters of the Fountain of
Energy and detonated signal
bombs.
" Today is the triumph," said
Gov. Johnson, speaking for California,
"of a San Francisco that
nine years ago lay in ruins,"
All records for exposition first
A ?
uuy attendance were broken at
the opening tobay. By 4 o,clock
this afternoon the turnstiles had
clicked off 225,000 admissions
and it was expected that by midnight
the total would have
reached more than 300,000. Thoj
previous record was at the openThe
crowd was a spectacle in
itseli. It filled the grandstands,
it packed the great courts and
concourses, it poured through
the aisles, i'. overflowed from
the sidewalks into the avenues,
from the hills to il?<? Kn- ?<?
%ttv WUJ ?l J 1(11
vis the eve could reach, in unending
?ivers of bobbing heads.
"No," They Are Scoundrels.
The Progressive Farmer gives
the following emphatic reply to
a suffering reader:
A reader in.Alabama has clipped
antvidvertisment of a quack
doctor out of his daily paper and
sent it to us. Sa>she: "lam
building \uth catarrh, and these
people claim they can treat successfully
this and most other
diseases by mail.*
Dear people, let such scoundrels
alone. They are worse
than theives, for thieves usually
steal hum those that have money
and wealth. Few thieves would
moicst a poor man, and would
he ashamed to rob a sick one.
1 >ut these "quack" doctors are
robbing the sick, ihe ignorant
and the dying. They are no
belter than hyenas.
When you are sick and suffer
ing, see a reputable, decent, highclass
physician or surgeon in
' 3uui own vicinity. Don'l trust
i the "advertising doctor" (?) and
i the patent medicine man.
I Compared to them, divc-keepi
ers are gentlemen, and stand a
better chance oi heaven when
they die.
i "iiegin at the bottom and work
i your way up, Patrick, that is
i the only way."
i "It can't be done in my busi
I ness. I'm a well digger."?the
I Comet.
J 1 Grunt lul.5?
IV-iil Jones Co. -.51
- II. 1?. Kinu,
County Supervisor
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Y MORNING, FEBRUARY 2
Mr. Buy Grub and His Pif ful
Plight
Since this is to^qtaly only to
farmers?real and imitation?
everybody else will please to
"stand aside." And as Mr. Buy
Grub's case is the most urgent,
we will attend to his first
Mr. Buy Grub is generally a
"one crop" man, but his one
crop is not always a money crop,
though he plants and cultivates
it with that end in view He is
the man who makes it necessaiy
for one line of the country merchants'
letter heads to read:
"Dealer in Staple and Fancy
Groceries." He is the man who
doesn't know where his next
meal is coming from, nor where
his last one came from, for that
matter. But if he has the cash
or credit to buy a few meals
ahead we would find that thev
came from about everywhere in
the U. S. A. His flour very likely
comes from Minnesota, his
corn from Illinois, his potatoes
from maine, his beans from
Michigan, his dried fruit from
California, his canned goods
from Maryland and his meat
from any one of a dozen differ
ent places. For every single
one of these articles of food Mr.
Buy Grub is paying at least
twice what it would cost him to
raise them on his own -farm. If
I were asked the old qqestion,?
"who pays the freight," I'd point
my finger straight at Mr. Buy
Grub. t
This same Mr. Buy Grub is
the man who is guilty of keeping
lite South away down toward
the bottom financially for all
these years, and this too in spite
4^ the assertion of the first ex^^yj^vho
dec'a/ed our coun |
per shone upon," in spUeoTtTi?
fact that we areblessed above all
others in climate, long growing ,
seasons, rainfall and other nnti ral
advantages.
Mr. Buy Grub can't afford to
fooi with such a little thing: as a
garden, or if he plants one the
weeds and grasshoppers soon
have full possession of it. Of
course he doesn't read the faim
papers. They have too much
to sav about diversified farming
and he doesn't believe in such
stuff. Why, the kind of farming!
the papers advocate would keep
him busy about 12 months in
the year, and Mr. Grub likes to
loaf on the jo?) about one third
of the time.
Now let's have a look at Mr.
I .4 1 if i' *
iiuinc. iic lives Doner
than any king on earth. !n fact
all the kinds' jobs of the Lastem
Hemisphere could go hang for
all of him. lie and his family
are contented and prosperous,
and neither "high cost of living"
nor the "upward trend of prices"
is worrying him a mite.
Of course this condition did
not come about by Mr. Live at
Home sitting down and dream
ing, nor did he bring it about by
waving the magician's wand.
He knows th it ins! about every
thing comes to him who waits,
if he hustles while he waits, so
he gets up early in the morning
and ! hi sties and lie keeps this lip
pretty regularly 12 months in
the year, lie grows his own
hog and apple pie and lias very
little business to transact at the
grocery store, except to sell his
surplus products.
Mr. Live at Home has learned
the value of a good garden and
orchard and acts accordingly.
: lie lias something either fresh
or canned on his table days
in tbe v<?!ir iind it iv n/ii tl??>
' willed, stale stuff that has been
* picked over for a week either.
,\Ir. Live at Home keeps one
or more Rood cows to supplv
the itiifU, ? letun .mil hulhM mi
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4, 1915
necessarv for the proper development
of growing boys and girls.
Mr. Buy Grub couldn't keep a
cow, because a cow isn't built to
manufacture milk out of the
stuff be raises on his farm.
Now, farmer friend, if you are
Mr. Buy Grub, isn't there a
chance for you to -get promoted
into or rather adopted into the
i ?? 11? ^
i^uv .u iiwiiii; ivuiuiyr r.ven
though it takes a long: hard
struggle, remember the old
adage "Nothing great is easily
won, and this -is great.?J. E.
YOUNT, in Progressive Farmer.
Frrnk James Dies Peacefully
In R* 4
Hxcelsior Springs, Mo., Feb. 18.
?Frank James of the notorious
James pang died on his farm
near here late today. James,
who was 71, had been in illhealth
several months and was
stricken with apoplexy early
today.
One of the last members of
the robber band whose unparalleled
career of crime during
the war and the unsettled period
that followed kept the people of
a do/.en States in terror, Frank
James had been living the life of
a quiet farmer for more than 30
years.
The son of a minister, respected
throughout the community,
Frank James joined Ouantrell's
gueriMas in the War of Secession,
together with his brother Jesse,
and took part in the sacking ot
Lawrence, Kan.
After the guerillas disbanded the
James brotln rs became bandits.
Many notorious crimes of the
jlecfldo Chtlnwinff i?or
rneen i-.n"f-f.v.; k ",ri ll."vvYounginer
gang, of which the
I surviving members were Frank
i James and Cole Younginer, the
latter of whom is now living at
Lees Summit, Mo.
Detectives surrounded the
James home near Kearney, Mo.,
on January 25, 1875, and threw a
lighted bomb into the house,
j thinking to kill the James brothers.
It exploded, tearing the
I arm off their mother and killing
their brother, Archie.
In 188-, after Jessie James had
j ken shot and killed in his home
in St. Joseph, Mo., by Hob Ford,
also a bandit, for a reward of
$50,000, Frank James surrendcr;
ed in Jefferson City, Mo.
| Germany Will Need 125,000
R?l M nn
Washington, Feb. 20,?Germany
will require 125,000 bales
of American cotton a month to
keep her mills running at threefourths
capacity, Commercial
I Attache Ernest W. Thompson
reported today.
Cotton quotations at Hamburg
on February 8 were: Fully good
middling 1().41 cents per pound,
and good middling 15.8 to 1(>
cents.
An American traveler relates
the- following:
1 Once 1 dined with an English
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I IIUI1IV.1I 1 I v. IMIVl I I 41 I ft 1 Vtl)
| delicious hum, ami the farmer's
I son soon finished his portion
and passed his plate again.
; "More 'am father," he said.
The father frowned. "Don't
Isav 'am son, sav Yim."
i t
"1 diil say 'am," the son protested
in an injured tone.
"You said Yiui," cried the
| father fiercely.
" Win's what it should be' not
'am."
In the middle of the squabble
the farmer's wife turned to me
land with a deprecatory little
laugh; explained: "They both
i think tlmv'ip savin' 'ant, sir,"
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$1.00 per year
What is A Pasture
Marsbvillc Home
A typical Union county pasture
has been described as "a
piece-of land where grass won't
grow, with a fence around it."
'PI a J
i nai description will also lit the
average pasture in all the other
"cotton" counties. And usually
the pasture has a good stand of
old field pines growing in it.
Now and then however, you'll
find a farmer who has put his
best land in pastures, and stock
ed it with clover and pasture
grasses?land that will produce
p bale of cotton or fifty bushels
of corn per acre. Of course it
takes some nerve for a I armor in
the cotton belt to do that, but he
is alwavs well rewarded for his
nerve. If we can't quite get the
[consent of our minds to put
some of our best lands in pastures,
we ought to at least put
the two-horse plow on some of
our old pasture lands in February
or March and make a seed
bed for seeding a mixture of
permanent pasture grasses for
hill ltirwlc c.wwl - i
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for this purpose will not cost any
more per acre than the expenditure
we have been making for
commercial fertilizers to put
under cotton. There are two
ways to get ready for profitable
live stock farming. One is to
provide better pastures, and the
other is to raise feed for stock
next winter.
We might as well keep it in
mind that we can't "go" into live
stock industrv in the sense of
making a howling success and a
big income in the beginning, but
that we must "grow" into the
business, and the only economic
and practical way to grow into
it is to providefor the service of
gresstve 1 j nioncc^Wfianne^^^
the other day who was real
anxious to get behind our repre
sentatives in the general assembly
and have a law enacted
making it unlawful to keep for
service in this county anything
but pure bred sires. Certainly a
law ot this kind would be much
more desirable and constructive
in its effect than a law to prevent
the killing of scrub heifer calves.
With only pure-bred sires there
would soon be no desire to kill
heifer calves.
J. X. (J.
Togo's Ideas on Automobiling
Soonly there is a red whi//
passing. It are a automobile ol
[French extraction and Irish disposition.
By front seat sets fatty
gentlemen who is a owner of
some trusts, because he looks
like it. Nearly to him sets Hon.
Chaffer clasping teeth for
nerves.
"What speedometer is it?" asks
Hon. Truster, eating some dust.
"hO-mile hourly we are going
it," say-he with wheels.
"Fxtrcme slowness," derange
Hon. Finance.
More pushes by gasoline.
"Of what speedness now?" examine
them Trust Magnet.
"75-mile horse power," sa\
Hon. Chaffer with lung.
"Exaggerate it!" elapse lion.
Hoss for mania.
Hon. Chaffer tiy to, hut lion.
Car make angrv race of cogs
and do an explosion hy fence
where fraxions must he collect
ed patiently. Injury is enjoyed
by all passengers who is afar off
among clover field where they
flew to.?Exchange.
"Are you sure vou love your
neighbor as yourself?" asked St.
Peter, who was cross-examining
the new at rival.
"Yes," answered the applicant
r.._ .. i i ? .? ? --
I(H <1 KlHUeil ITOYVll. 1 <?1 I CM I
years he used my telephone to
cany on his business, and I
never complained."
'Tnler. my good uvan,' said
Sain I IVlwr, with mm h leeluif j