The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, December 01, 1915, Image 5

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Fork Hill School Burned Lancaster News " About 5 o'clock Thursday moiling the Fork Hill school house was found to be on fire and although every efiort was made to save the building, it was soon entirely consumed. About sixty new desk had only recently Knon ? nctn llnrl nrtrl nKrvni k/vv,u luoiancu auu aUVJ111 null U1 hese were saved from the flames. The Tip Toj conoi\ J.1 - R. L Smith*! Headqua Overalls, Shoes, 1 Underwear, Cc Tailor Mat Tax ]> The Tax Books will be open 1 15th October until 31st day of De Tax levy for State Ordinary County Constitutional school County Roads . Total levy St>eoifll Cheraw Graded School Marburg Orange Hill - L * P3TsBranch ~~ Pee Dee Stafford Cheraw (Outside) Bethel Center Point Chesterfield Parker Pine Grove Shiloh Snow Hill Ruby Vaughan Womble Hill White Oak Black Creek Cross Roads Center Mt. Croghan New Hope Wexford Winzo Zion Mt. Croghan (Outside) Buffalo Dudley Five Forks Man gum , Pageland Plains Center Grove Friendship Jefferson Long Branch Jefferson (Outside) Green Hill Middendorf McBee Sandy Run Union Aligator (Outside) Bay Springs Bear Creek Bethesda Juniper Patrick Cat Pond Lewis Ousley Palmetto Wallace Steer Pen For Back Indebtedness and I School: Chesterfield School Dis mills, and Rubj% 5 mills. Cheraw Township, special tor, 7 mills for Road Bonds, Sept. 15, 1915. ~Q9 V Notice of Election Notice is hereby given tlia there wjll be held an election in the Town of Pageland on Tuesday, Januray 4, 1916 for the purpose of electing officers for the Town of Pageland for the year 1916. Registration Books are now open at office of Carolina Supply Co. S? A. Sellers. Registrar A. F. Funderburk, Mayor L. J. Watford, Clerk ) Price for I SEED. E. AGERTON 5 Cash Store ii'ters For Hats, Caps, Shirts, tllars, Ties and le Clothing dotice. for the collection of taxes from cember 1915. 7 mills 7 1-2 mills 3 mills 1-2 mills 18 mills Local Bonds 3 mills 4 mills 3 8 " I**""" 1 3 4 M 2 1-2 2 4 4 4 3 4 3 3 5 4 5 4 1-2 3 2 4 4 5 4 3 - 4 7 4 5 2 2 2 2 3 2 3 6 M 5 4 5 3 5 " 4 4 2 4 3 " 5 8 " 4 1-2 4 8 2 4 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 2 3 7 44 3 3 5 9 Extending School Terms, Special Irict, 2 1-2 mills; Mt. Croghan, 5 levy of 2 mills for Roads; Aliga W. A. DOUGI ASS County Treasurer, r I HYPNOTIZING TERRY I ? ? i :>. V : : By JANE 08B0RN. jl; XwXvX^^^ It was Terry Bell telephoning from the girls' dormitory. She was in great distress, and, like Terry, she had put off the dreadful hour as late as she could, and then, again like Terry, sha had come to the Delta Alpha men to help her out. Terry ought never to have taken that philosophy course, and Morton Nairne cold her so over the "phone. But that didn't help matters thenjust twelve hours before the examiner tlon came off. The worst of It all was that Terry was taking a minimum course, and If she didn't pass that philosophy examination It would mean no degree atid another year at college?disgrace. Terry's voice trembled charmingly as she told Morton, and Morton's large heart beat fast and bravely as he promised to help her out. Terry had turned to her notebook, only to find It In hopeless confusion. She had asked some of the girls in the dormitory to help her, but they were too busy to hear her. Doctor Dorkay's philosophy was a course at which even the bluestockings trembled. How could Terry expect to do it all the laBt day, without the books and without good notes?pretty little light-hearted Terry? So she telephoned to the Delta Alpha house and asked whether she might borrow one of the men's notebooks?just for an hour. A half dozen Delta Alpha men were Interested In Terry's plight at once. Each one was willing to help her, although each one secretly felt that help would be useless. As a result of this general sympathy Tom Hlnton, Leland Smith and Morton Nalme awaited Terry beneath the campus elms at the appointed minute. Terry came creeping through the shadow, hatless and heavily coated. Morton was the spokesman. Mere work by herself would do no good. It was too late. So he, they?Tom, Leland and Morton?had decided to help her, to tutor her at the eleventh hour, although each man ought to have been studying for himself. It nroa Q erainof V* A WIA 1? .... 1.1U lUlO LU1 IUC1U IU U?J at the girls' dormitory, quite as defiant for her to come to the Delta Alpha house and equally lawless for her to be on the campus unchaperoned at that hour. However, the three Delta Alpha men led Terry to the seclusion of ft boathouse on the lake. Morton ha|i the key and he had also rememberejjl , to brine- candles for the _ lyuLereH Terry sat on the only chair. SmltK read the notes, Hinton read the refeifi ences to the text books and Morton applied the information as If actually ramming It into Terry's helpless brains. It was one o'clock when Smith turned the last page of his note book and Terry, with cheeks flushed with excitement and eyes heavy with sleep, fairly staggered from the boathouse to grope her way stealthily Into hor dormitory corridor. "I am so sleepy," she murmured as she said good night to the men. "No sleep for -you, young lady," warned Morton. "You have only begun to work. Your case is hopeless, but It is up to you to go into your little room and study four hours more." Then as the three men started back to the fraternity house, Morton said: "What did a girl like Terry ever go to college for, anyway?" Terry Bell took the examination and so did her three devoted tutors But Terry took it In a daze, unperturbed and apparently unruffled. "Poor little girl," whispered Morton to her as they made their way out of the classroom to the camDus. "Rut don't worry. Men never like girls that are all brains. Tell you the truth, I wouldn't care for a girl that conld pass that examination. You are not cut out for philosophy. You ought to?" "What?" coaxed Terry with that teasing, helpless tone of hers. "You ought to be on a pedestal with some chap like me worshiping you. That Is the kind of girl you are." It was a week later and the Delta Alpha men were spending their laBt evening together before disbanding for the summer. "Have you heard the news?" asked Leland Smith. "The news about Terry Bell?" "Yes," said Tom Hlnton, beaming. Tom has Just consulted the bulletin board in the registrar's office to fln 1 his examination ratings. "I call It a case of hypnotism, pure and simple." "Morton is a wonder," remarked Leland, "If he can hypnotize a girl like Terry Bell into consenting to marry him." Tom Hlnton's smile changed to gloom as he manifested his surprise In a long, low whistle. "T a a. ? x. ?? ?? - - ?- iicuiu mm, ne said. "What I referred to Is the fact that Terry Bell got the highest mark In Dorkay*s exam, and you and I and Nalrae came out near the middle. You see, we each of us projected all we knew on the blank of Terry's mind, and so she knew as much as the three of us put together. But I don't see why she chose Morton. I proposed myself a few days ago." "Shake, old man." consoled Leland Smith. "I proposed the day of the examination. But Morton wins this time." (Copyright, 1S16. by the MrClure Newspaper Svndlont* > i ROSE or MEXICO i 1 - I $ ANONYMOUS. * V The night when Ramon Baeza Blipped from hla saddle in front oi the ranch house, Cecilia felt the first thg at her heartstrings since she had to Texas. Pour years ago it was now. She had been eighteen then. Bob, her brother, had been running bachelor's hall for three years, while his four Bisters stayed back home in Vermont, as Bob said, wasting their time while their one and only brother pined for lack of gentle company down in tho wilds. So Cis, as he called her, had been the one who felt the call of duty. "And she ain't never been sorry," Bob told Senor Baeza that first night as they stood together out on the adobe porch smoking in fraternal fashion. "I've got more cattle than I'll even count. The beef trust never hits me, and it'll all go to Cis when i casn in. uon t want to Duy any horses, do you?" Ramon shook his head. "I am not North for buying. 1 travel to Corpus Christi to bring my Dolores from the convent there. When we return this way, 1 will show you the rose of Mexico, senor." Then came a still twilight hour, with a slip ot a new moon showing faintly in the amber and jade sky and two horses coming up the road, with the senor and his girl sister. Cls ran down to meet them and took Dolores in her arms. Bob stood watching them both, his keen gray eyes half closed. "Such a child, senor," Cis cried, in her brisk, hopeful way. "Why is she so sad?" "We have lost our father in the war, back in Chihuahua," he told her, resting one booted foot on the steps. "Our mother lived a month afterward, so we two are alone. You must be very sweet to her, my senorita." Cls flushed at the caressing tone and the look in his eyes. 'T love her even now," she answered. "I wish you both could stay here awhile." Bob would not listen to them going for a week at least. Big, long-legged Bob, twenty-nine years old, with the fiber of rock-ribbed Vermont in his being, would flush to the roots of his curly, straw-colored hair every time the senor spoke of leaving. One day in the garden, while Cis worked among her rose bushes and sparse pansy beds, Dolores followed 'her around. ' "J* * ft ho vp a brother, is Lit not?" she sighed. "We must be1 rverv loval to th?m for thAV n?oH iiq greatly. if I were to marry?certainly I will never marry?but if I were to marry, Ramon would almost die." Cecilia's bands went faster. "They're fearfully dependent creatures," she answered. "Bob wouldn't know his head from *his heels if I wasn't right there to tell him which was which. I'll have to stay right here and take care of him." "But if he should love, senorlta? It would be very hard for you?" "No, it wouldn't. I'd go back home and teach school again." "And you would not miritl at all?" Something in the eager. Joyous tone made Cis look up. It had not occurred to her that Bob might be interested in this Blender, dark-eyed girl from over the border. And her own face grew tender as she smiled up at her. "Why, I guess I shouldn't mind; not if she was mighty sweet." Down the road there came the sound of horses galloping up from the south below the roll of land that sheltered the ranch. Curly Barton was the leader. As he talked to Bob, he looked over where (Ms stood and waved his hat to her, but she stood silent, chin up, waiting. There had been a fight along the border. Curly said. Rustlers had stolen over and cut out over a hundred horses. His cowboys had pursued them and there had been a running tight. Five men lay dead down the wash, their faces upturned to the sunlight. It had been decided best for the community at large to drive every last Mexican back over the line. And they had heard that Bob had a couple there. "Yes. 1 have," Bob said calmly. "The young lady I am going to marry and her brother. What you got to say to that. Curly?" Dolores heard, and her hand reached out for Cis. "You got all the horses back?" asked Bob. Curly grinned reminiscently. "Yep. And some of their's, too." "Then drop it. These- are my guests." He stood watching the boys ride on, and Baeza came toward him. "They would have shot me, yes?" he asked genially. "You are very kind, senor. very faithful. 1 am no bandit, iiu it^uuuiuiiiHi. i nave utscii yiuiidered alike by Villa and the others. It has been peace here at your ranch. I have lingered iecause I love your sister. I have already told her, but she is loyal and Lender-hearted. She win not leave you alone, she says." Bob leaned back his head and laughed. "I got the same answer last night from Dolores, but atlll 1 got her promise. You are slow. Maeza. Go tell her now we will make It a double wedding." (Copyright, ltflfc. hy th< McCluro Newspaper Syndicate t TC GUE is the name of our stati you to guess what we that. Come and see, I have returned frotn bought the--Nicest Line oi Chesteriiel I bought the very goods is new and complete. I C. L. GIILIEDGE, Yours T( For quick service, Pure drt vice allow us ' I WE WILL W, I right now, and deal Mangum I W. L. 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