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. "W fr " Vm I ' r THE PAGELAND JOURNAL m Vol.6 NO. 11 VAGEtAND, S, C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1915 TT^TTT Former Marshville Man Commits Suicide Mr. Simeon B. Marsh, a form er citizen of Marshville township, Union county, committed suicide in Thomasville, N. C. last Wednesday by drinking carbolic acid. He was the oldest son of the late James A. Marsh, and is survived by his wite, several children and several brothers and sisters. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. The body was buried at Marshville Thursday. A special froth i ThomasVille to the Charlotte Observer stated that Mr. Marsh* who was local agent for the Southerii Express Company, was found in his room at 11 o'clock by Mrs. Thomas, a clerk in the express office. He was dying when found and an empty carbolic acid bottle was Iving near indicating that he had swallowed the contents. A physician was called but the dose was so large that nothing could be done to save life. He died at 2 o'clock. "Ill health is the only reason assigned for the rash act. Inti mate friends knew that his coa dition at times was quite serious. Auditor York of the Express Company arrived earlv this morning on his regular itinerary , of auditing the books of his route. When he went to work this morning Mr. Marsh told him that he thought there was a shortage of $50 or $60 in the qpPAiin?e I ?- MWWUUIO "A letter was found in the ^ room directing that his remains } be sent to his home in Charlotte J and stating that he hoped the people would forget him. ' "Mr. York continued the audit 1 of the books all day and late to* ? night no shortage had been found c and it is hardly expected that there will be any and the audit- 1 ing is nearly complete. No one c knows the reason Mr. Marsh had 1 J a ?. > * iu liuDu wnen ae maae tne state ^ ment about the shortage *to Mr. York this morning. ' "Mr Marsh came to Thomasville in April of this year from 1 C harlotte to succeed Mr. A. C. * Moten as agent. He never mov- y ed his family but frequently J visited them in Charlotte. A young son spent awhile with him c this summer and three weeks ago Mrs. Marsh come and spent * several days with him. He was a most likable man and had won the friendship of the business men of the town by hU courteous a manner of handling the express i office." v Moved and Seconded j Paul Armstrong savs a lawyer ? acquaintance of his, who lives in J Seattle, was retained to defend a 1 darkey accused of nhsronHinor s with the funds of a colored de c bating society. The outlook for 1 the defendant was rather black. ? At the trial the attorney for 1 the defense arose, as soon as the z charge had been read, and said: J "Your Honor, I move that this * indictment be dismissed?" 5 Before he could proceed fur- c ther his client was on his feet, v too, addressing the Bench with- 8 out a trace of embarrassment. c "Your Honah " said the de- c fendant briskly, "1 second dat c motion." 1 WE?have saving banks for c your boys and girls. They are f free when you deposit a dollar j to start an account, and the dollar is returned to vou when the 1 bank is returned in good con- * dition. BANK OF PAGELAND i Three Fires in Cheraw in a Week. Cheraw Chronicle. Sunday night about 11 o'clock the dwelling house on High street extension, the property of Mr. C. S. Bruner, was discovered iu Humes. The fire boys responded but the fire had made such headway that nothing could be saved except surrounding property. The loss is pretty well covered by insurance, it is reI ported. While the boys were fightim* the Bruner firb; a cottage ucar the Oil Mill was discovered oo fire. A few buckets of water succeeded in putting this fire out, so it was supposed. A short time afterward, however, the fire sprang up again, and was again put out. This time it was thought, it was put out for good, but about 4 o'clock the fire flash ed out again, and this time the < house was burned to the ground. The house was occupied by a negro woman and there was no insuance so far as can be learned. ( Yesterday morning about 1 \ o'clock the bakery of Mr. Benno ] DeElbe was discovered on fire, i The fire boys responded promptly and the fire was put out? with ] very little damage to the proper- < ty4 < *- 1 Feminine Conversation. i Oblo State Journal. < Whoever of the male persua i sion has heard five or six charm- < it once, would conclude no one tl vould understand what any one a vas saying but herselfi But that i< s a mistake. A woman can ? alk in a crowd when all the ..i . ? -* miers are mining ana sne Will u inderstand what all the others ire saying. It is like a fine piece ri >f music, where not a note is tl ost. If the conversation were v >hotographed, it would appear n is Concentric circles, ali so hap- P >ily involved in Hogarth's lines h >f beauty as to make a scene of e he loveliest symmetry. It is all P is bewitching as a piece of dainty y ace* each thread a necessary v >art to the beautiful whole. If hey were men a talking, it y vould seem like a conglomer- h ition of violent chugs of several S1 ocomotives hauling trains of 0 :oal up a steep incline. P p lay Simmes Accidentally Rilled 1' on Thattk?giving w The Monroe Journal publish 5 :d on Friday gives the following iccount of the killing of a boy _ n f ? * 1 n nuiora lownsmp: ~v Ray Simms, thirteen years old, c vas accidentally shot and killed c 'esterday at the home of his a jrandfather, Mr. Ellison Austin, 11 n Buford township. The child = lad been hunting with others ind returned to the house. Some >ne laid a gun flat on the piazza loor, unbreeched, but with the hell still in it. Ray was stand ng on the ground near the muzle of the gun. Some way the run was exploded within two eet of him and the load went in me side just above the hip and tut at the other. The bowels vere simply torn to pieces. The Lccident took place at four t'clock and he died at eight. A loctor was Sent for hut n^thinor :ould be done for him except to educe the suffering. The child vas a son of Mr. Whitney Simms >f Jack sen township, who travels or a harvester company. Since ast summer he had been with nother at Mr. Austin's. The emains were buried today at imyrna. Heavy Fighting In t)nrdaneli?4 Paris, Nov. 25.?Heavy light ing has been in progress the last fewdavs in Gallipoli, where a strong Turkish offensive was rei pulsed by the combined fire ot the British and French guns^ Allied aeroplanes have bomi barded the railway betweeii Constantinople and Deadeag hatch, damaging the bridgts, and warships have bombarded the coast of Asia Minor. This information is contained in tonight's war office com: mui.icntion, which also reports (jUite On the Western ffoflt. Tliji Statement reads: "There is no iriiportdnf ot-. < currence tin the Western theatre) to report. 'J < "The Belgian official cortimunication reads: 'Except far 1 a short bombard then t of Noord- s scheote, the calm along the froltt 1 has been almost complete. Our 1 batteries dispersed enemy groups j to the southeast of the Chateau < de Vicogne, in the direction of < Drel Grachten and towards 1 Luchen.* j. I "Army of the East: On No i vember 23 our troops had. an i engagement near Brusnik, to the east of Krivolak, with the 1 Bulgarian forces. These were 1 repulsed. I "Expeditionary corps of the,i Dardanelles: The enemy has t lisplayed during the last feW lays an increasing activity* On i he 21st after 4 violent bombard* c nent he attempted three suo- i :essive attacks against the Brit* t sh front for the purpose of tet i rapturing trenches lost on the t 5th. His efforts were eyetw ie fire of the British infant^ nd artillery to which had been alned the artillery and machine c uns of the neighboring French q arces. He retired* leaving on tie field numbers of dead. jy "On both sides the subter- a anean warfare continues with ^ tie same activity. On the 2lst e /e successfully exploded a ca- ^ louflet. On the 22nd our sap- ^ ers came upon a Turkish trench jnnel and put to fight the enmy workers. We immediately n repared and exploded a mine* irhicb shattered the enemy ^ /orks. t( "The entire day of the 23rd C( /as marked by rifle firing* an ai atense bombardment and a ii tream of grenades from the side ^ f the Turks, who, although retpnUhprt twWU TTUU lUUiiillUilB) UI9" layed titer Voufen ess harassed as tiey were by our aeroplanes, /hich bombarded the railway d etween Constantinople and n )eadeaghatch and damaged the ngineering works, and by the t lonitors and smaller warcraft r< /hich frequently bombarded the ? oast of Asia. They are uq- c< easingly kept on the alert and y re obliged to oppose against us nportant forces. "I A GIFT FROM At Chrlstm What brings back the good youth to our minds and hearts? our imagination in the private each member of the family see own rooms and there inscribin nintr thf>ir Haint \r rvnol/nofoo m B --" .IIJ rv II^VO. A Watch for Brother Jack An elegent Fob for Bi A Pendant for Lil And Mother j While D* prise, but you may know i jewelry. JEWELRY! The soul in ! man never fashioned. So says in fact, every individual piece they can speak, and they are "A Gift From the Heart". B. B. En Pageland, ? School House Burnt The following items, including the account of the burning oi Westfield creek school house, are taken from the Chesterfield Advertiser: Mrs. W. P. Odom went to Charlotte one day last week and had her tonsils removed. During the severe wind storm of last Thursday Mr. Joe Sowell lost a fine horse. He was on a hunting trip near McBee, where his horse was in a stable, when the building was wrecked by the wind, resulting in the death of the animal. A fire destroyed Westfield Creek school house No. 2 last Monday morning at about 11 o'clock. Fire started from a defective flue while school was in session, ind as there was no means at hand to fight the flames, the building was burned to the jround. Mr. Ward Ingram, of 3heraw was the teacher in :harge, and by his efforts, assised by the pupils, many of the ixtures were saved. The buildng valued at about $300, carried 10 insurance. Westfield Church was also a leavy loser bv the fire as about 1000 feet of select lumber be onging to that church was stored H a vacant room of the school >uilding. It is not likely that this buildng will be replaced us there is mother school two miles awa3* n the same district. It is said hat a larger house may be built tearer the center of the district o displace both schools. Mr. Peter A. Moore, for a long me a resident of Chesterfield ounty, died in Celina, Texas on let. 28th. He was the son of Mr Moses foore, whose plantation was bout two miles from town on 'hompson Creek. He is surviv d by two brothers, Mr. Jim ioore of McFarland and Henry loore of Ruby and many felaves and friends in this county, ) whom his death will be sad ews. In 1889, Mr. Moore moved to irkansas, and five years later he >ok up his residence in Collin ounty, Texas. Mr. Moore was a old Confederate soldier, havlg served through the entire rar.?Chesteriield Advertiser Not to Blame A teacher was instructing her lass in geography from a large lap on the wall. "Horace," she said to a small )upil, "when you stand in Eu :>pe facing the north vou have n your right hand the great ontinent of Asia. What have ou on your left hand, Horace?" "A wart," whimpered Horace, but I can't help it,teacher." THE HEART. ias Time ****** I old Christmasv spirit of 1 This is what: To see'in A 11! at. , : uweniiiK on avenue iking the privacy of their g their gift cards and wrap II ly i Sparkling Brooch id's to get?well it's a surthis much, it's a piece of Vletal form! A better gift every Ring, Watch, Brooch, of jewelry in my shop. For ever and ever whispering, ibanks * S. C. 1 Two North Carolina Boys Shot , By Villa Soldiers [ Nogales, Ariz., Nov. 26.? i Three United States soldiers 1 were wounded, two of them probablv fatally, and a score ol ? Mexicans are reported to have been killed today when Villa troopers evacuated Nogales, Sonora, across the border from here, before the advance of Carranza troops under Gen. Alvaro Obregon, exchanged shots with United States troops across the international boundary line. Tonight General Obregon was in Nogales and measures were being taken to restore order last night's looting and rioting. All supplies of liqucr were being de stroyed by Obregon's order. Rumors that two American soldiers had been killed during the exchange of shots tonight remained unverified. Carlos Randali, Villa Governor of Sonora, and General Acosta, a Villa subordinate, to night remain under guard at a local hotel. Randall and Acosta crossed the international boundary line last night when it was decided to evacuate the Mexican town. Major General Funston commanding the United States forces on the border, is expected to arrive here tomorrow to take charge of the situation Three American soldiers were wounded, two probably fatally. They were: Stephen Littles, 23, shot through head, probably die, home, Fairmont, N. C. Enlisted February, 1914. " Ofcitbfirt L, Cales--, 25, shot Ho?3fe Swetn sonville, N. C., second enlistment. Arthur L. Saupe, 19, shot right foot. Home Vernon, Ind. Five Mexicans, including a woman, also were wounded. Whether any were killed was undetermined. T welve Lose Lives in Arkansas Storm Little Rock, Afk.j Nov. 25? Twelve persons are known to have been killed and 30 injured , in a tornado which swept through a thickly settled farming section about a mile east ot Hot Springs, Ark., late today, according to reports brought to this citv by messenger tonight. ( All wires to Hot Springs are out < of commission and only meager j advices had been received up to a late houf. It was established, however, that the citv of Hot Springs was not damaged by the storm and no one was injured within the city limits. All of the dead, 11 of whom were white persons, were farmers. The property loss was confined principally to the destruction of farm houses, althrough the country home of W. H. Maurice and the club house of the Hot Springs Country club were damaged. Treasurer'? Itinerary Will collect at following places on dates named below: Dudley . . Mon. Nov. 22 Pageland . . Tues. Nov. 23 Jefferson . . Wed. Nov. 24 McBee . . . Fri. Nov. 26 Cedar Creek . Mon. Nov. 29 Patrick . , Tues. Nov. 30 Cheravv . . Wed. Dec. 1 . Thurs. Dec 2 Cashs. . . . Fri. Dec. 3 Ruby . . . Tues. Dec. 7 John Wallace . Wed. Dec. 8 Mt. Croghan . Thurs. Dec. 9 Angeltis . . Fri Dec. 10 W. A. DOUGLASS, County Treasurer ?x.uu per year t M'Adoo Wants Taxes Rather Than Bonds Washington, Nov. 25.?Int crease in internal taxation rather i than issue of bonds to meet the f first year's expenses of the adf ministration's defence programme are advocated by Secretary McAdoo cf the treasury in a formal statement issued tonight giving an estimate of the federal > government's revenues and expenditures up to the end ot the fiscal year beginning next July. Assuming that congress will continue in effect the present emergency tax law and customs duty on sugar, the secretary estimates that $112,806, 394 in addilinnrtl ? ii?uai icvenue win be needed for the expenditures for 1917, including $93,800,000 for new measures for national defense, "This amount," says the statement, "can easily be raised by internal taxation without appreciable burdens upon the American people." Mr. McAdoo suggests a reduction in the income tax law ex emption on single person from $3,000 to $2,000 and on married persons from $4,000 to $3,000; change in the surtax imposed on incomes above a certain figure and new taxes on gasoline, crued and refined oil, horse power of automobile and other internal combustion engine and various other things. Pains From The Grave. About three weeks ago Anderson Pugh, a workman at McAlester, Ukla., had his leg amputated as the result of an accident. 1 The leg was wrapp^i^a cloth sexton ot a locaTcimetery. What happened after that time is told by Mr. Burt in his own way and affirmed bv Mrs. Burt, who was a witness to all that transpired. "A few days ago'" says Mr Burt, "Anderson Pugh came to me and said, Burt, you have buried my leg in a cramped position, leaving a crease in the bottom of the foot, and it is giving me so much pain that I want you to take it up, straighten it out and bury it again.' He described the crease, telling just how it ran across the bottom of the foot. "Well, I went to the cemetery the next day and dug up the limb, and sure enough I found that 1 had buried it so that it was cramped, leaving a crease in the foot as Mr, Pugh had described. I straightened the member out, wrapped it in new cloths and replaced it in the grave. Mr. Pugh says that since that time he has not suffered the slightest pain from the missing leg." Anderson Pugh, who lost the leg, declares everything Sexton Burt says is true. He had suffered constant pain from the time his leg was buried and the feeling has always been with him that the leg was stiff and cramped until it had been unearthed and reintered by the sexton, after which all pain vanished. Sexton Burt told of a similar case which had come under his observation in recent years, the other being that of a voung man who lost his arm in a railroad accident. The arm had been buried hurriedly with the hand doubled, and the voung man suffered such pain that he insisted upon the arm being disinterred. This was done nut sucn a space of time had elapsed that it was impossible to fully remedy the fault and the young man suffered more or less from the cramping sensation for .several years, the pain becoming so pronounced at times that he would awaken from sleep and spring from his bed in agony. Medical science records many similar cases.