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The Pageland Journal Published Wednesday Mornings C. M.iTucker, Proprietor f Subscription Price - - $1.00 Entered as second class mail matter at the post otfice at Page* land, S. C., under Postal Act of March 3, 1879. ?? ; %- ?May 26. 1915 Italy has entered the war. No, we can't tell you why, nor __ 1- - *' van we ten you who can. it must have been for about the paftie reason that the others entered?but when we come to think of it, we can't tell you that. Do you know, or does any other man living know? m + ^ Pulling corn fodder is an ex pensive practice. The man who prepares now to have plenty of hay without pulling corn fodder is the man who makes most money. The value of fodder is lost in the yield of com. Why not sow peas, cane, etc. and have an abundance of feed that is better and cheaper than fodder? From the dispatches from the theater of war we are led to believe that Germany will try tllO tfflTTlO nirnlnci Y * ? 1 -- ?aiv uuuav taciivo 1I<11\ | that she tried against Franee in ^ the beginning of the war, name lv that the first blow shall be a decisive one. Unless we have over estimated the strength and skill of the Italian army, Gerv many will fail again to crush a nation in a day. Appeal to Reason, a socialist paper published at Girard, Kansas, thinks the question of de claring war at any time should be submitted to a vote of the people and that ihose who vote * for war should be called out Lfirst. It is seldom that we agree with opinions of the Appeal, but somehow that idea strikes us favorably, cohere would he less said about going to war, and the '* fellow who did open his mouth would be in line for the first battle. In other words, let the fighter do the fighting. Too many farmers use the roads through their farms for ditches to carry the. water away. How frequently do we see roads washed and gullied because of too much water brought into them from adjoining fields. Then there is a practice of plowing right out into the road, and especially is this noticeable in the sandy sections. The man who plows up his roads from week to week and makes of them a place to drag chunks, roots, etc. has not learned to regard roads in their proper light. He forgets that his roads are an index to his enterprise and progressiveness. - Flies cause a large per cent of the cases of "summer complaint" among children by carrying desease germs from the deposits of filth near so many homes to the food, drink and playthings of the little ones. Other cases are caused by these disease germs in the shallow surface wells so common thoughout the whole Southland. The rains carry filth from lots, stables, closets, etc. right into these surface wells. We stand idly by and see these things go on, and then when death claims his annual toll of infants and adults we shed crocpdile tears and say we can't understand why the Lord has taken the dear ones from us. Now is the time to clean up and screen all closets and pro vide receptacles for the discharge of human ' excretions. There is positively no excuse fr?r tlm >v> >iiv unanunuiy conamons existing in Pageland, and in almost every other small town and in the rural districts. God hgq Kiveq ut a knowledge of these preventable diseases and has given us the means with which to combat them. If we t fail, *be fault is ours and not God's. The blood of our loved ' i ones is upon our hands, and we dare not charge it to God. ' Horse manure is the favorite 5 breeding place of the nasty flv. r An ordinance should force all y owners of horses to clean the r stables regularly and frequently and to use borax to aid in pre- ' venting flies. Another ordi- * nance should force every prop b erty owner to ke6p his prem- h ises clean and to screen his closet. ^ The time for action has come. s< Daughter Born to Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo. Washington, May 21?A baby girl, the second grandchild of President Wilson was born toSi night to Secretary and Mrs. \v:ii: /" ? " *? iiuitin vj. ivic/\uoo. sne will j be christened Ellen Wilson for u the late Mrs Wilson. The Secretary and Mrs. Mc- bi Adoo, who is the President's w youngest daughter, were mar- \ ried at the White Mouse just a .year ago. Mr. Mc\doo went to his office at the Treasury Department for the first time since lie was operated on for appendicitis nearly two months ago. e< The President was at the McAdoo home when his grand- jc daughter was born. lij You Will Never Be Sorry j|. For doing your level best. sc For being kind to the poor. U! For hearing before judging. th For thinking bofore speaking, bi "For standing by your princ- p] iples. For stopping your ears to gossip. For being generous to an enemy. For being courteous to all. ^ For asking pardon when in error. For being honest in business g dealings. For giving an unfortunate jjersdpa lift._ I EV.- ? I i ui (/1VI1ICIUCN 1U SVC^illX vour promises. For putting: the best meaning: PJ on the acts of others. ? Good Advice. c* o A woman ran her husband's paper a week while he was ja away, and said, "We also feel the trouble and woes a woman e{ undergoes when she marries a tQ country editor. They are as snakes and wear more patched q clothes than a railroad hand. Their darning: is enougfa to keep c two women busy, while to share their lives you must exist on soup, and burn knotty wood that comes in on subscriptions. Take my advice, g:irls, and don't marry a country editor."?Ex. c< m To Close at 7 O'clock s< We, the undersigned, agjree to close our respective places of sj business at 7 o'clock p. m. except on Saturday: 1 Paereland Mercantile fY? w u A. G. Caston & Co. G. C. Mangum & Co. tl W. T. Edgeworth c Mungo Brothers s< T. E. Cato P R. I,. Smith P Carolina Supply Co. h D. E. Clark & Co. tl Pageland Hardware Co. tl H. H. Evans d H. B. Sowell The Cato Co. v ? n Mt. Croghan Items. Route 1. e The Cross Roads church will ^ observe Sunday, June 6th. as ^ Baptist hospital day. A special ' program will be rendered, f Service begins at 9 o'clock* d Mr. B. B. Steen will preach at ?i ? ? iniiiucuciii suucKii nouse trie |] second Sunday in June at 3:30. j, A new Sunday school has a been organized at New Hope fi school house. Mr. Bayard p Smyth is superintendent pnd Mr. p Thurlow WtMti is iccrelary, tl ' '* * . . < 1 \ \ i ~ 4 " 1 Pageland Route I IwMl | Mr. Ellison Mills has beell m, he sick list the hast several dW >ut he is able to be oujtagguL Mr. Baxter Mills, wbdKlfij&i iome in February . Army, was cont?g||3Hfi e inlisting for seven yiaMB ears .but upon goiqjK&<Mfl ecruiting station at 'tmM ecently, his heart faM&aBM herefore he has deSnH elieve, to remain at is parents. Mr. W. N. Knight. w| B een residing in CamdaKSI everal months, has retuaHHS lis community, where lake his home for a WlflHffl Rev. A. J. Crane speiWmjP ast week in this and adjo|ni|ig actions visiting his flock. * r j tJHu ? Mrs. H. G. McCall spent-. Saty" rday night in Pageland. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Faulkn^ pent one day the past yreel uth the latter's parents. Mr^n! Irs. John Richardson. r! Mr. and Mrs. C. E.?Green at* II smiles. A boy. , Ai Misses. Lela and Dora Walt ice, of near Mt. Croghan, visit] J in this section recently. j j Mr. D. P. Home is still on the >b, but is at present taking | Itle much-needed rest. x Almost everybody speaks oai ?e highest terms of the Sundag hool at Salem, but friends 1? s not be satisfied with school] tough it* looks so promising,] Lit rather that we work . and] ray for its further progress. ' CHURCH HOTES / j METHODIST PROTESTANT i Jno. W. Quick, Pastor I Rev. C. A. Cecil, President <fl| te North Carolina Conference/ ill preach at Rose Hill the firsti andayinjune at 8:30 o'clock* e with us. . ' , j METHODIST EPISCOPAL j ~~~ j. iVJcVrruv , On next Sunday we will each at Mt. Croghan at 11 clock. j We will he with the Pageland j lildfeil's day exercises at 4 clock and at 8:30 we will be ith the union service at Pagend Methodist church. All denominations are request1 by the several pastors of the wn to come together next Linday evening at the M. E? hurch for a union service, at hich sonrip Rr<v P?istr?r will jpy our pulpit, and all the pas5 rs who can will be present. *? BAPTIST, J. M. Sullivan. Pastor. Mothers' Day was a grand sucjss in every way, we are under iany obligations to the Mothers >r \ conducting the Sunday diobl, exercises. The attendance was the best nee our coming here. Reachig the goodly number of 149. 4ho we ought to have this numer everj- Sunday. After the Sunday school came le mothers' day program which onsisted of recitations, special Dngs, addresses by Mr. L. L. 'arker and the pastor. Bro. 'arker's address was the best we ave heard on an occasion like tiis at any time. We hope that tie exercises proved a real bene^ iction to every mother pre$ent.| Wa rluoirn !-*nr*l. 1 - . v uvouv ivy mai rv Ullf UUU 811 vho helped us in# any way toj aake the day a success. We ate specially grateful to the mem-j ers of other congregations for telping us in the song service^ n the afteirnoon hour we were! leased to have so many present a our services at Liberty Hili espite the threatning weather] Our union meeting meets withj he Pine Grove Church 2 mileri /ast of Chesterfield next Friday nd Saturday and if anv nmi rom Pageland church can go] lease let it be known the astor at once, as we ovQr{oql{6d aia matter last Sunday, 1 ' j j| KNQWTI|Y I I?Introdi "Know America" is a slogan that a should ring out from every school a room, office, farm and shop in this na- h tion. No man can aspire to a Higher t honor than to become a capable citi- u zen, and no one can merit so dlB- f: i tinguished a title until he is well in- r formed of the resources, possibilities 1 and achievements of our country. a ? This is a commercial age and civ- e * ilization is bearing its most golden fl fruit in America. We are noted for t ' our industrial achievements as Egypt 8 ^Kfls noted for her pyramids; Jerusa- j lem for her religion; Greece for her ^ * art^ Phoenicia for her fleets; Chaldea v for^ her astronomy and Rome for her c laws. Likewise we have men who will go down in the world'p history as pow- u erful products of their age. For, stand- ^ f ing at the source of every gigantic movement that sways civilization is a great man. The greatest minds travel in the greatest direction and the com- 11 mercial geniuses of this age would a " have been the sculptors, poets, phil- 8 3 osophers, 'architects, and xartists of ^ earlier civilizations. 1 r r As Michael Angelo took a rock and J" 3 with a chisel hewed it into the imaee ' *r? s f - - . IKE PENHL1T OF t CARELESSNESJ I By 8. W. Ingllsh, Fire Prevention Expert. ry time you hear the cry ol * you cah be almost absolutely In thinking that someone hai careless. Fires don't happen are the ine^table result oi nations of preventable things analyzed to the last equatioi I be found that carelessness it oot whence spring nearly al ?t a penalty industry pays tc ssness! Fire ie the great de ir. The wealth of a generatioi s wiped out in but a brief hour y not fight fires before thej Why not so conduct youi i and so keep your premise: when the fire demon wants t< your savings as a sacrifice h< )ass you by, just as those o of old were passed over wher gn they had been told to placi their doors, were seen? often when those who an isible from fire cry out the] ie victims of bad luck, they an lWt paying the natural penalty foi .^elr own carelessness. If you want to keep down your fin "(insurance rates, wage eternal war S>lagSinst those things that evei b /eed fires. RURAL SCHOOL TERM SHOULD JEjXTEM By P P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education. In most States school -days foi > country children are fewer than foi City children. The average length o school term in cities of the Unitec rfitates is one hundred and eighty pDve days; in rural communities on< hundred and thirty-eight dayB, a dif ference of forty-seven day^. In som< States the difference is much greatei than this^average. In many countie: Jthe average length of the rura school term is less than one hun dred days, and in some districts it ii ICS*. On the other hand, in th< States of California, New 'York anc Connecticut, the country schools an ill session one hundred and eight] r flays in a year, and in several othei States almost as long. The country Schools of Rhode Island are in ses Ion one hundred and ninety days ii la year. j If all children are to have an equa | Opportunity for education we musi leveft up the school terms of th< ^untry'and give to all country chll wow given to city children. On? Fnundred and eighty-five days ol i schooling a year for all children wil I not be too much. There are coun h tries in which the schools, both foi City and country, are,in session froir two hundred and twenty to two hun dred and fifty days or more in the , year. American children need a: much education as those of any oth er country, and this applies to th< rural as well as urban districts. AN AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL By T. N. Carver, Professor of Economics, Harvard University Every city has its chamber of com merce or its Board of Trade. Th< purpose of such an organization ii to study economic and business op portunuies or the city ana promou enterprises which will help tp built the city. Does any one know of i good and sufficient reason why ev ery rural neighborhood ought no have a similar organization? In Germany they already have sucl organizations. They are generall; called the "landwirthschaftsrath" o agricultural council. Some student 'of the problem of rural organizatioi are strongly of the opinion that sue! an agricultural council is necessar; before much can be done for the be) terlng of rural credit or the markel lng of farm produce. There is n< object, for examplp, in having raor capital in a farming neighborhooi unless the farmers know without an guess-work just how to use that cap tal so as to increase the prodyctioi and the profit of their farms. If al the leading farmers of a neighboi hood would lay their heads togethe and talk over the situation and stud the opportunities for new investmenl they yould be less likely to mak mistakes than if they work secretlj as separate individuals. r CIVILIZATION'S ^ GREATEST TRAGEDV 1 Extract from article by W. D. I^ewii ' president Texas Farmers' (Thion, oj posing woman's suffrage: . "We are willing to join in every e fort to elevate woman but will assh In none to drag her down. The d< | scent of womanhood Is the most awfi tragedy in civilization As she sink i she may, like the setting sun, tint th horizon wtlh the rays of her depar lng glory. She may tenderly kiss th I mountain tops of her achiovemer , farewell; she may, like the sinkin ' sun, allure the populace with he beauty as she disappears for the nigl | but when she steps downward, th earth ie as certain to tremble an t plunge into darkness as death is t Hollow life I > I < of an angel that ever beckons man- a r kind upward and onward. Hill took the desert of the Northwest and with c bands of steel made it blossom like a v rose, dotted the valleys with happy F homes and built cities In waste places, r As Guttenberg took blocks of wood e and whittled them into an alphabet ii | and made a printing press that a J flashed education across the con- fl " tinent like a ray of light upon v a new born world, McCormick took a p He?What made you seem so r upset the day we became ent gaged? You knew I was going * to propose, didn't you? She? % . Oh, yes. But I had no idea I 3 was going to accept you.?Bos T ton Transcript. f ftmp To HpaH M. V AAVUli k Paints, Varnishes, Stains, ^ Seed, Field Seed, Flowei k Rubber Goods, Infant Fooc ? Candies, Cigarettes, Pipes, SDijtoLuCJUemrer I .aundo* -S Cream Tarter, Flavoring ? k Complexion Beautifiers, B ? Poison, Disinfectants. V / FRESH GRATEI S PAGF.I.ANFI K ICR DELIVERED ANY fOOOOOOOOO^O! so Hams I k 3 We are selling Armour's I pounds, for 1 4 cents a poun a Old Dutch Cleanser, Ru I Hosford's Bread Preparation in 10, 15 and 25 cent sizes J The very nicest cakes in ? I 0 cents, e Ice Cream Powders. A fu J Co's goods, including Zuzus, Saltines, Fig Newtons, Ch D ii Cakes, Graham Crackers am r and crackers. Also shredde y f \ A. t\at wm. t m. t/IKULlNA S ; NEW M > I have purchased the market f it ardson and have moved them in business to stay and I shall he pli b anything in the market line. Fr< I PROMPT I) I will now deliver promptly, b thing in the fancy grocery line. 1* order for meats, and we ?Uflcant< ie Yours For Qui W. F. RE / T? COUNTRY uctory bar of iron and bent it into reaper and with one sweep of is magic mind broke the shackles hat enslaved labor of generations yet nborn, and gave mankind freedom rom drudgery, and lifted the human ace into a higher zone of life. As Nelson organized the English navy nd made England mistress of the sea, nabling the British Isles to plant her lag upon every continent washed by he ocean's waves, and to make foottools of the Islands of every water, lorgan organized a banking system hat has made America master of the world's finances, brought Kings to our ashler's windows, the nations o,f the arth to our discount desks and placed mder the industries of this nation a inancial system as solid as the Rock >f Gibraltar. There in nn nhiHv nnlto an Intofoot tig aa progress; no sound so magic 8 the roar of industry and no sight o inspiring as civilization in action. L full realization of America's part in he great events of the world past, iresent and future will thrill every tuman heart with pride, patriotism nd faith in Republican Institutions. Through the courtesy of the Agriultural and Commercial Press Serice, the readers of this paper will be lermitted to study America; her agicultural. manufacturing and mlnral development, mercantile, bankng and transportation systems which re the wonder of the world. The irst. article of the series will deal irith transportation and will appear ,t an early dafe. Attention Woodmen Pay your dues by the last day of this month. If not you sianu suspended. J. W. Quick Clerk, 330. 000000000000) quarters For x Brushes, Putty, Garden k r Seed, Spring Tonics, ^ Is, Soda Water, Cigars. , Snuff, Tobacco, Old ^ nap Spirpfl. . Olu xtracts, Toilet Articles. 0' rushes, Fly Paper, Fly ^ b ) COCONUT. fi DRUG CO. ? WHERE IN TOWN ^ or 14c A U . A Q uiiiv/IWU 1 101119, KJ IU U d, same as rib meat, imford Baking Powders, , Sweet and Sour Pickles 5. ill flavors and kinds for 11 line of National Biscuit , Lemon snaps,' Nabiscos, eese Sandwiches, Anola d the other popular cakes d Cocoanut. UPPLY CO. ARKET ixturcs from Mr. R. K. Rich to my store. I am now in the eased to have your orders for ish fish every Saturday. KLIVKKY not only your meat, but anvInclude vou groceries in your ee prompt delivery, irk Service. DFEARN