The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, March 10, 1915, Image 1
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Vol. 5 NO. 26 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 10. 1915 $1.00 per year
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"Indian" Doctor Before the
Courts.
For several months a negro
up at Indian Trail has been
playing "Indian doctor" and i^e
wonders he has performed are
little short of the miraculous.
From far and near his deluded
patients came, and out of the
entire category of human ailments,
not one case was beyond
his power. He cured anything
from hysterics to pellagra, so
they claimed, and his fame
spread like wildfire. He made
a few calls to this section and
made it pay. Among his patients
he numbered about as many
whites as blacks.
The "doctor" has had his
wings cropped, however, and he
may not be able to do so great a
work very much longer. He
was hailed before the recorder
in Monroe last week and sentenced
to 12 months on the roads
for practicing without license.
* He appealed to the superior
court.
The Monroe correspondent to
the Charlotte Observer gave the
following account of the trial:
\ great deal of interest was
taked by the public in a case
tried by the recorder here yesterday
in which an old negro
who wears the name of J. W.
? T ?ti r. ?
ixuuiusun ana j. w. KODinstone
indiscriminately was prosecuted
for practicing medicine without
having registered and obtained
a certificate from the clerk of
Superior Court. JAccording to
the State's witnesses, and the
defendant offered no testimony,
the old fellow has been making
a good thing out of his attempts
, to follow in the footsteps of.
Iftppocrates and Calen, although j
ncyividcn^^h^.t.
had ever heart^^t^^^^*entle- r
men.
The State having proved by
the clerk of Superior Court that
the defendant had not registered
and obtained the required certi
ficate, and by Sheriff Griffith
that he had not obtained and
paid for a county license to
practice as a physician, Chief
of Police Laney was put on the
stand to testify as to statemenfs
made to him by the defendant
in which the latter admitted that
he was administering medicine
to people for various bodily ailments.
After several white women
testified that thpv <rot nioHi
cine from the defendant for different
ills, James Sill, a white
man, stated that he called on
the healer at Indian Trail to get;
treated for what the doctors had
told him was diabetes.
The defendant for him, said
Sills after an examination, that
he didn't have "any diabetes;"
but that he had kind of a stomach
trouble, "not exactly a tapeworm
or a hook-worm, but a
worm hptivppn ?t,? " "ij~
.. vvu II1C l>? V/. I If I
said he could cure me for $5. I
asked him what I could eat, and
he said to eat anything in the
world; it would not hurt me if I
took that medicine. I ate some
cake and some beans, and they
came very near knocking me
out ol the box."
The witness went on to state
that the defendant told him that
he could knock that worm out
in 15 minutes when he got ready
nnrt that tho *- -
..iv iivuiv.mc was u> gel
the patient ready for the knockingout
process on the worm.
"He had me blow my breath
into a tube, and he would listen,
and said he could look in that
and see all through my stomach.
He said he saw a worm betwixt
a tape-worm and hook-worm,
about 18 inches long."
Lelia Staten, a colored woman
. of large dimensions, testified
that the defendant treated her
for rheumatism in the feet, for
which she paid him $1, and that j
the medicine did her so much j
good that she could wear shoes j |
she had not been able to wear j (
for a long time and that she
wore the shoes up there the very ''
next time she called for further '
treatment. The witness called s
attention to her shoes, the size of \
which indicated that they had <
been built either upon a special
last or a dry-dock befote being!
launched. 1
Sandy Bennett, another color *
ed woman said that she was 5
treated by the defendant, who <
t )Id her to pay what she could ,
and she gave him $3. She went ,
up there and stayed at the Indian
Trail office of defendant
for two or three months, where *
the defendant had nurses in 1
training. Witness said that the 1
defendant had done her "all 1
good," better than the rest of the 1
doctors. * s
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Congress Adjourns After Long '
Siege. 1
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Washington, March 4.?After
two years of almost continuous j
session the Sixty-third congress,
which revised the tariff and the
currency system of the nation,
supplemented the trust laws,
created an income tax and demonstrated
the first popular election
of United States senators
ended at noon today.
When gavels feJi jn the house *
and senate, signalizing the
adjournment, they signaled the '
close of half of President Wil- :
son's administration, the first :
under domination of the Demo '
cratic party since 1895. Strenu
ous scenes enlivened the fading
hours, devoted chiefly to com 1
pleting thtjuappropriation bills ;
bills, failecHi^^^^^Rnegisla- 1
tive crush after desperate efforts '
had been made to save them. In 5
the emergency occasioned by
their failure joint resolutions
were passed and signed by the ,
president continuing in force
appropriations of the present
year.
While tired senators and rep >
resentalives were devoting their
energies to final essentials.
President Wilson spent more
than an hour in his room at the
capitol, surrounded by his cabinet,
signing the last bills of legislation.
The president found
time in the midst of this task to
greet senators and renresentii
tives, and he made the occasion
entirely one of congratulation,
making no reference to projects
which had failed.
Scores of members of both I
houses joined tonight in an ex
odus from Washington, taking
with them assurances that no
extra session ol congress would I
be called, at least before fall.
Despite the fact that many important
bills failed oi consideration
because ol the long lilibust
er against the ship purchase bill
it was generally understood congress
would be given a rest and
the country a respite lrom legislation.
It was regarded us extremely
probable, however, that
the Sixtv-fourth congress would
be summoned in October to be!
able to adjourn for the political
conventions and national campaign
of l'ilb.
Worse than "Fundy"
Clieraw Chronicle
Joe Mikeluc, was in the city
Saturday and Sunday, he is
walking from Washington D. C. j
to South America. Mr. Mikluc
has three years to complete this |
journey, he left Washington Feb.
5th. Mr. Mikluc will be remembered
b> a number of people
here as he was here in October
1909,.
The Whipping Post. ;
For the past 25 years, effort*
lave been made periodically^ j,t?
lie Delaware Legislating
ibolish the whipping posC?^u
:hat State remains iaifhiu
incient institution, ft is
0 whip a prisoner than it
eed him, and it is not often dim
1 man once whipped repeats;$M!|
:rime for which he \\jsxs pOnjus&M
id, or, if lie does, He gob^Vt?|
some other Stale to do it. ^TftW
a hipping post.mnyTbe regajdejjt
is a relic of barbarism,
ow nercentflpo nf rrimn in
ware is always held up lisfw?
irgument as to its.
\bout six years agtejaq- em9
was made in the Noi?&1?itfd??iB
Legislature to revive th^ llos^jJ
ion in this State, but it
jupport. The woruen^ii^giM^S
if Delaware and tlie^>^^naH|
Christian Temperani^^mKl
whipping-post advoe^pS^^BftS
lad a large part in
lie law against the recent'jMpsS
ative attach. It wouldtbp.jBm
isling to know what st&ir#tfe<3
women of North Carolina \w>^lfi
take 011 the whipping-post qafesjfl
lion.?Charlotte Observer. f*ia .
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Uot 1 he Hay, but Not TRc
Negro. J3
Chcraw Chronicle Jw
"Bub" Reid, a notorious Glwjfl
?d character of this town, tB
again in trouble. This time foi^
stealing three bales of hay Satur-;
Jay night from the warehouse of j
Mr. M. \V. Duvall. Bub got a'
wagon from some source and!
J rove righi up to the warehouse
and loaded up and drove off
The hay wa" r-issed and \w\
Covered but Bidr~goT",wiSi''^^
the fact that the cops were after
him and made good his * get(
away." *
;
"A Powe
Mr. Pound will
ditorium Frida
lure will concli
season. Pagela
lucky enough
Pound give on
Some one has:
a marked degr
ways the man,
victions and m<
SUBJECT "The
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Mr. Pound makes yo
lias died away his
finer than mere nnm
??' R- received
the benedic
Remember The Lycei
So Don't fail to come o
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Compulsory Education in Pageland
District.
rJVlf. Editor?Everybody's busijijEsipis
nobody's to attend to,
and a needed thing that nobody's
(b'atteud to is anybody's to s^e
jbJ^^These are the general eon
[elusions, I believe, but what this
'writer wants is some one to bejfeih
right now to plan to put into
ieffect die compulsory education
daw in" this school district. In
sonle districts the trustees might
bejiCertfcio enforcing the law,
bur I believe the trustees in
'Pagjffland school district are in
sym"pathy with this law.
t My understanding is tlrat it a
[majority of the qualified electors
Sin any district signs a petition
for compulsory education before
jthe first day of June that the law
?s then by their act already
(effective.
Now, let's work the thing up,
[balk it op, and you, Mr. Editor,
I published* it up. Let's go to
work and have this thing we
Iieed so badly. Suppose, to start
he thing, one or more or all the
fustees call a meeting to be held
it. the school auditorium to coniyder
the matter together. Then
dt somebody who is surer than
yuis scribe about the conditions
pi putting the law into effect tell
lis how to proceed, how to pro
Bhiro 11 lift *1?^ 1' ?
Pit iiai in uic <4 uuniieu
>rs in the district. Then
hit the job, move the job.
ave the good job landed in
ute (or longer).
Interested Citizen.
Card of Thanks
We take this method to thank
our friends for kindness shown
as during the illness and death
jfcQ^jylaughter. never
Wrget the many acts of kindness
Ishown us. May God bless each
of you. Fraternally, yours
Mrs. Mary A.Sowell.
f h
ftidine
r on the
give a lecture at
y night, March 1
ide the Lyceum
md may well be
to have such a
e of his noted
said "He has the
ee but back of th
behind the word:
nrli iH oolc "
IJlf <^C*>C3q
Americanization <
' - V
u feel what he feels, an
auditors are left with s
reciation of eloquent la
tion of noble purpose an
urn Committee lias worked ha
ut, and give your Support. 1
M C0M1V
Cleaned Out the Well.
The second deep well which
was bored when Monroe put in
its water system has long been 2
| stopped up. It is the most valu- a
I able well by far which we have A
? vor bad and is about eleven b
humhid feet deep. For years n
nia:\ pi r^wns tried their hands ^
at cl -.miner the obstruction out
an < everv one but made it d
wcuse. Now a man is on the n
job who knows his business so P
w< !i that it is confidently belieyed
that he will have the well f
free ol all obstruction in a few c
days. This news is of the great- c
est interest to Monroe, as the s
flow of this well will be suffi- c
cient to furnish plenty of water
for a long time to come.
Mr. H. W. Abernethy is the
man on the job, and he has been t
rt work since the 4th of last Ian- i]
uary. Piece by piece he has c
pulled out obstructions of veiv T
r v
character, ami now he has hook- c
cd what he think is the last one, s
and with no accident, he will c
have the thing at the top in a r
few more hours. The well is t
eight inches in diameter. After t
it was found to be apparently 1
impossible to get it cleaned out t
enough to put a pump in, some v
one conceived the idea of digging
a great cistern around the t
well deep enough to reach the F
point where the water rises of r
its own motion. This plan was c
followed and a great hole made, t
Then another shaft about the a
size of an ordinary well was sent d
down for a depth of more than c
a hundred feet. About this time ^
Mr. Aberncthy, who is a well h
driller, came along and said that t
he could clean out the well. No- a
bods believed him, but every- d
body, including the city alder-" t
men. was willing to let him try. c
ip.veryDoay else wiio wanted to s
' had had a try, and there could v
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Pound;
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a
the School Au- v
19th Thlc !?/>. !.
-M. JLI.1C7 ?
course for this s
proud of being
talent as Prof. !
d
lectures here. \
: orator's gift to c
e speaker is als
are deep con- 1
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)i the World"
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d when the applause
lomething truer and 1
nguage. They have
d uplifting thoughts. i
rd, all tor your benefit.
Resnertfnllv
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Fined for Disturbing Peace
With Car
Monroe, March ?From Winate
comes a storj- of a noisy
utomobile and owner who wis
ined and a policeman who was
ieaten up for his activity in the
natter. The facts, as reported
iere are as follows:
Ernest Robinson of Win gate
rives a car that makes no slight
loise. Me was held before the
tolice court of Win irate and
ined for "disturbing the peace."
Resenting this, it is alleged, he
ailed Policeman J. W. Smyth
ut and attacked him with a
tick breaking an aim for the
dficer.
Some Salt!
The volume of the saline mater
in the ocean is somewhat
nore than 265,956,133,600,000
:ubic feet, according to the
Jnited States Geological Survey
>r enough to cover the entire
urface of the Uuited States, ex:luding
Alaska, 8,448 feet deep.
>e no harm in another one or
wo. He camps on the job, and
inless all signs fail he will have
hat valuable well as clear as a
vhistle before many days.
Nobody knew what was in
he Well. It was known that the
nimr* inil IiiukUaJi. ' -1 ?" 4
-wiuf uuu nuuuicua Ul ict'l ()I
od, twentv-fivc feet of six-inch
:asing, three or four hugh steel
looks, a lot of two-inch rope,
ind a ton or two of rock were
lown there, but further than that
inly Providence was wise. Mr.
Vbernethy works in a way unknown
to those who had tried
he job before. He sends down
i roll of stiff pipe clay in a cylinler,
until it strikes an obstruclon
makes an impression in the
:la3'. ^Mfr-this is pulled up, it
hows just what is on top in the
veil. Then Mr. Abernethy
>roceeds to make a tool that will
;rab and hold this particular
king. Thus, step by step, he
ias gone, making each time a
lew tool for the particular
>bstruction which the impresion
in the clay showed. The
irst thing he hauled un was 1
6-foot piece of casing. After
hat came most any old thing,
principally bearded hooks of
leavy steel which had been sent
own by those who were trying
0 bring up other things. About
he hardest thing to get out was
1 great mass of Ma lilla rope
vhich had been packed and repacked
in the well by the various
ittempts to get it out. l or five
tundred feet lie encountered
uch stuff as this.
When he got to the long
wooden pump rods his instrunents
nipped off the ends as fast
is thev were caught, but linallv
ic got a bite on the iron joints
vhich connect them, and the
:atch held. He thinks that the
lump and the further obstrucions
in the well are holding to
his, on account of the weight,
t is so heavy that his engine canlot
pull the load and he has gearid
up a series of ratchets to be
vorked by hand. This is mighty
low but it is sure, for with it
a i ? i. ~ *
urn seven iiunisauu pumius ui
tuff is slowly coming from
he bottom of the well, and
s now near the top.
As said above, this is by far
he most valuable well of all
vhich have been sunk. The
low is stronger and the water
s better. Nobody knows how
nuch money has been spent durng
the years in the attempt to
dean out the well.?Monroe
lournal.
(Later information is that the
Lrtft knn<l tllrlt
UU llirta UUUI1 iiuu
Abernethy Rets the praise.- The
lournal.)