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Vol.6 NO. 18 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1916 $1.00 per year
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Wanted,?City Builders
Athens in the age of pericles
developed in many respects the
most wonderful city that has so
far existed in the world.
This was done because the
task of making a great city was
placed before that of individual
money getting. All the citizens
were often called to take part in
discussing the problems of the
city. Good citv government is
one of the greatest powers for
righteousness at the disposal of
men. Every town ought to
have a good city charter. There
ought to be a copy of it in every
home, it ought to be a text book
in every school in the town.
Every citizen ought to know
what are the duties and responsibilities
of the private citizen,
ought to know what are the duties
and responsibilities of the
town officials. The town itself
ought to be as well managed as
its schools or any private busi
ness in it.
Every town ought to have a
board or committee to look after
the health and sanitation, another
to look after or take steps
to provide a park and a playground,
another to look after the
amusement, recreation and edu
cation of the people who are not
in active touch with the public
schools, and to provide some
form of social center that is de
signed to be more uplifting tnan
the saloons. It is just as important
to stamp out a moral poison
as it is to stamp out the contagion
of smallpox. It is just as
important to quarantine against
.. gambling as. it is against scarlet
IPPHPtfTo,- be satisfied - withthings
as tjiey are is' often the
worst land of sin. If the people
of our town could see clearly
what our town is now, and put
' that in contrail with the town it
would be if all our citizens
would unite in making it the
town it ought to be and might
become, they would weep over
it as lesus did over Jerusalem.
T"1 1 1 ?J I * -
x lie entireties snouia Keep 10
the front all things that make
for the higher life of our town.
They should be a sort of Joli *
the Baptist calling the people to
consider the great things of their
own town and of the kingdom
of God.
There is coming to our town
a Booster Chautauqua in the
near future that will furnish us
an opportunity to begin to do
some of these great things for
our town. The first is to get together
and make it a great success.
We can do this by a
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United and enthusiastic effort.
We can discover men and women
among us who have the gifts
of leadership, we can discover
our ability to cooperate on a
matter of community welfare. If
we will do this it will be worth
ten times what it will cost us
It ? ?- - .L - <
miu it uiuy u? ine oegmning ol
great things for our town.
May we measure up to this
opportunity and to our ability to
neot.
Four Men Are Killed in Explosion
in Submarine
New York, Jan. 15.?Four
raen were killed and 10 others
injured, five of them dangerously,
in an explosion which'occurred
this afternoon on the submarine
E-2, while the craft was
undergoing repairs in dry dock
at the New York Navy Yard.
One of the men killed was an
enlisted electrician and the other
three civilian workers. At least
three of the 10 now in the hos
pitals are not expected to live.
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svunougn ine detonation was
terrific, the submarine itself,
from the outside, shows none ol
the effects of the explosion, the
second fatal^accident of its kind
in the history of the United
States Navy. The interior apparatus
was badly shettered but sg
tight was the vessel's shell thai
there was no means of escape
for gas which accumulated and
it was more than an hour aftei
the blast before the work of re
covering the bodies could be
completen. A ladder was blown
up through the ceiling and fell
150 feet away.
The injured men and one
body were removed soon aftei
the accident but three bodies fai
down in the craft could not be
reached until the gas had beer
blown out by compressed air
Soon after the explosion severa
naval officers lead a rescue par
ty into the dry dock but were
partly overcome by gas fumes
when they attempted to descent
into the vessel. It was then thai
compressed air pipes were run
into the shell and the gas forced
out.
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suuinunue ui me time oi ine ex
plosion is not definitely known
About 20 were working on the
craft but all of them were not or
the underwater boat at the same
time. It is not thought possible
that any one who was inside
could have escaped injury.
What caused the explosion
has not been definitely decided.
County Seat News
Chesterfield Advertiser.
The lock on the big safe a!
the Farmer's Bank balked lasl
week and would not open. It
wtta necessary 10 move ine
whole thing to the factory al
Richmond as there were no
crooks in town with a penchant
fcr safe cracking. The cashier,
Mr D. H. Douglass, went along
to count the change when the
safe should be opened. It has
been decided to swap the safe
for a later model with a time
lock.
Thp nnrrot
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Rena Cato has for the past week
caused seme excitment in the
neighborhood of the Chesterfield
Hotel by taking to the trees
and refusing to come down.
With the same suddeness that
he disappeared last week, Mr.
J. R. Abbott, former rural policeman,
reappeared in Chesterfield.
When tcld that many reasons,
dark and foul, had been assigned
for his sudden leave taking,
Mr. Abbott smiled and replied:
"I^et dogs delight
To bark and bite
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i i/i us uiuir nature lO."
Mr. Abbott has been to Union,
S. C. looking after private business
and says he may have something
to say about the absurd
rumors floating around, at an
other time.
"Woman's place is the home.
As I was telling: my wife?" "By
the way, Bill, what's your wife
doin' now?" Workin* in the
cannery,"?JMIaJp Courier.
Uncle John Gets even With
His Neighbors.
"I Always believe in gittin,
even," said Uncle John as he
stepped into our office and pulled
out his check book; *' at least
if it's the sort o* gitten' even that
dont leave you feelin* mean. It
1 was one of his neighbors who
: got me all stirred up by readen'
, that doggone paper o' yours, and
i now I'm gittin' square with the
world by turnen* it loose tn two
more new homes. Gee whiz!
Them sleepy fellows don't know
knn. a :i- T? !-??
nun inulu ujrumillie 1 IU guill Ki
i put under 'em!"
, "Ycu know how I got started
f with you wuz that one of the
; neighbors that you had got stir
1 red up kep' pestersn' me to take
1 the paper. Last time he tackled
me wuz comin' back from meet
in'. No, I savs, I ain't got no
t use for this book business, well
! I dunno about that,' he says, 'did1
n't the Lord A'mightv set a son
o' example about books by put
tin' his teachings where wc
i could read 'em? 'Well, thai
i kind o' shut me up for a minute;
I an' then he went on, 'What'l
more,' he says, 'did y'ever 16ok
s over the country and think about
r the folks in business and all lines
o' work, an see whether its the
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i most or the folks who don't read
. e'm at all, who seem to be mak<
i in the most money and havin*
most influence?"
5 "Ez I say, that kind'o' laid mc
i out; but right then a Scripture
I notion struck me that I though
I would put the fixins' on hini
i 'Well,* says I, 'you heerd th4
I preacher read just now how th|
Lord said a feller ought
r his livin* by ^he-sweat ?p|
brow, and I guess you can't*'
. prove on that.
; "Exactly, says he, 'exactly
i But a fellow XUraham pointed oui
? t'other day that the Lord didn'i
5 say sweat o' your brow and e
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: iiiuu s Drow is wnere nis Drain is
So I figure it out that while we*
i ve got to sweat a lot with oui
, muscles, if we don't do a little
sweatin* from the brow with
real brain exursion, we're not
likely to make much. As Zefc
t Green says, a feller's got to use
t his head for some'n more'n a
hat-rack."
"Well, I seed the feller wu2
; really right, an' that a good pa,
per or book is really needed tc
feed a feller's brain the same as
meet and bread feeds his body
'Well, take that dollar an' sli ul
i up' says I. An now, as I say, Im
; trying to get even on two o' the
i other neighbors."?Progressive
Farmer.
The Purest Air We Breathe
I
The Diirost air wp Rro-.iiho
( night air. Actual tests have
proved again and again that the
, bacteria count in the night air is
much lower titan that in the air
during daylight hours when the
activities of the world are at full
height and the maximum of
dirt is active. Yet, despite this
demonstrated scientific fact, so
deeply rooted is the fear of the
"cold, damp night air" that
thousands are fearful of letting
it into their sleeping rooms dur
ing the winter months. Of
course, during the summer
weather the question regulates
itself, but during the winter the
hoodoo of the night air stalks
triumphantly. It would be amusing.
if it wert* nnt c?.?rir\nc
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how this nightair notion has got
deeply into the convictions of
people, and how difficult it is to
remove it. Instead of throwing
down a window and letting in
the pure wintry air. thousands
sleep in closed window rooms
and breathe over and over the
vitiated air, rendered disease-,
breeding by the waste of their
own bodies. It is little wopder
that we have so many "colds"!?
Udioi Homo Joqroal,
Cheraw News Note's
Chcraw Chronicle
Hon. W. F. Stevenson has resigned
as President of the Merchants
& Farmers Bank and Mr.
H. M. Duvall has been elected
in his place.
Chief Justice Gary has notified
Col. Edward Mclver that
1 ho ha>i honn
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hold the Charleston County
court to convene Monday^ April
> 3. This court will probably last
| four weeks. Col. Mclver held
? court in Spartanburg a few
( months ago and there he gave
such universal satisfaction that
[ his ability and fairness is extend
i ing to other quarters. After his
. duties in Charleston are over,
I he will go to Colleton county to
preside over the court of that
county.
? Knowing Col. Mclver as we
I do we congratulate the people
. of Charleston and Colleton, that
t they will have him to preside
over their courts,
s One or more sneak-thieves are
t at work in our town. Tuesday
; night one entered Mr. W. N.
i Munson's residence and relieved
; bim of his watch. The Gregory
I residence on the same street was
I entered on the same night, and
, an attempt was made to enter
i the home of Mr. Henry Mclver
| the same night.
A negro man has been going
around the outskirts of the town
this week offering some very ex
pensive white goods for sale.
s These had been washed but not
M^^^^^pparently they had
i given to the municipal primary
: this vear. The primary was
held and only 45 votes were
[ cast.
[ The general election was
{ held Monday and a still smaller
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; uuinner 01 voies were cast.
The following: gentlemen
r were the nominees of the pri;
mary and at the general election
i were unanimously elected.
I Mayor?J. A. Spruill.
, Warden for Ward l?W. L.
Gillespie.
' Warden for Ward 2?J. L.
Anderson.
; Warden for Ward 3?T. L.
, ingram.
> Warden for Ward 1?S. C.
i Graham.
1 Didn't Know What Guano Is.
I Monroe Enauirer.
i Guano is such an important
i item in farming in this section,
that one would hardly think
that in the great farming state of
Kansas it is not only not used,
; but in some sections there are
some people in ignorance as to
, what fertilizer is. Mr. Clinton
Williams, who worked at Well
ington, Kans., two years ago,
relates >he following incident in
reference to the ignorance of
some people out in that section
on the merits of guano:
"We were busy unloading a
string of cars one night when a
couple of helpers came to four
bulky, suspicious looking sacks.
There was a great divergence
of opinion as to what the sucks
contained. One fellow, who
had the job of carrying it into
the freight shed, exclaimed gh!
There's something dead in .his
here sack.'
"I was so confounded m d
r amused at their ignorance of
what is a farming necessity in
this part of the country that I
reared back and roared.
"When I enlightened them as
Jito the contents of the sack, they
were very curious as to its ingredients
that they all gathered
fcround the sack and made a
very minute examination of its
contents,"
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Work for Chautauqua February
3, 4 and 5th.
The booster club was organized
Thursday night for the purpose
of arranging for the 3 days
Chautauqua to be held in the
auditorium of the Pageland graded
school building on February
3, 4 and 5th. D. B. Harrington
was made president; A. F. Funderburk,
sec. and treas; L. J.
Watford, J. D. and H. B. Redfearn
members of the executive
committee.
Two active clubs, the blues
and the reds, were organized
later. J. D. Redfearn, for the
blues, is assisted by Miss Sallie
Blakeney, Mrs. A. C. Douglass,
Mrs. Thos. Duncan, Miss Sallie
McColl at Mt. Croghan, D. B.
Harrington and Dr. R. L. McManus.
H. B. Redfearn, for the
reds, is assisted by L. J. Watford,
A. F. Funderburk, Miss Nellie
Mangum, Miss Nora Boggan,
Mrs. Blanche Moore at Jefferson,
and Miss Maude Funderburk
at Dudley.
These committees began work
Friday and up to the time this is
written a great many season
tickets have been sold, not only
to the people in town but
in the country and at nearby
towns. The members of these
committees are live wires, just
the kind to make Pageland's
chautauqua a great success.
The chautauqua will last three
days, and there will be three attractions
each day, one in the
forenoon, one in the afternoon
and one at night. One day will
be educational day, and State
kM^H^^^nt Swearingen is
HB^HHHHkag^Mhe reguHHHPNHBB^^Fdayand
commissioner Watson is
expected. One will be boosters
day and Governor Manning or
some other prominent man will
be here.
The season tickets, good for
the entire series, sell for only
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>ckuv ivi nuuiio HliU ifl.UU IUr
children under 14. Reserved
seats will cost 50 cents for the
season or 25 cents one at a time.
Single tickets will sell for 50
and 25 cents at night, 35 and 15
in the day.
Watch this paper for further
announcements
Former Dictator of Mexico Dead
El Paso, Jan. 13.?Victoriano
Huerta, former dictator of Mexico,
died here tonight.
Gen. Huerta died at his home
nt S-Fta oVInrlr
Gen. Huerta, who succeeded
Gen. Francisco I. Madero in
executive power in Mexico City
and later left Mexico, died of
sclerosis of the liver. He was
surrounded by his family when
the end came. His death was
not unexpected. Funeral arrangements
are to be made to
morrow. It is believed an effort
will be made to arrange for
his burial in Mexico.
Victoriana Huerta was born
in 1857 of aristocratic parentage.
In 1857 he entered the government
military college at Chapultepec.
At this institution he
spent four years, and after his
graduation in 1879 at once joined
a coast regiment. From this
year till 1891 but little is known
of his life, which was spent in
routine military service, in which
he had attained the rank lieutenant
colonel and the command
of a military station in the inferior
of the country. In this
post he became conspicuous for
ins success in puuing aown ine
brigands who at this time infested
the country. His work
came to the attention of President
Diaz, who called him to
Mexico City. On his arrival, it
is said, Diaz offered him whatever
post in the war department
was most to his liking
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Liquor and Blockaders
Monroe Enquirer.
Although the law allows only
one quart of liquor to be shipped
to a person every fifteen days,
it is generally known that some
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ui me people ot Monroe and
vicinity found various means to
evade the law. One of the
favorite means of evasion was
to have a quart shipped to various
places out side ol Monroe?
say one to Wingate, one to
Marshville and one to Waxliaw
?which would give one four
quarts. The first cost of the
liquor and express added to the
livery hire in collecting the shipments
from the above named
places, hits the boozers' pockets
pretty hard. Another favorite
manner for evading the law was
to take the train for Virginia
and bring back well-filled crins
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few persons were caught at
this game.
The Sanford Express relates
an ingenious way the blockaders
of that section have adopted for
carrying on their work without
interruption. Thev erect something
like four or five stills at a
time and bury or in some way
conceal them all but one, which
is put in operation. If this still
is captured by the officers, the
hlfkrlra^aro 1
wiwauuvid mil ui lu^ uui another
one and often start up
near where the first one was
captured, thinking that the officers
will not return to that locality
any time soon. Everytime
a still is destroyed another
one is brought out to take its
place. Were hlockaders and
blind tigers to stick to some
'Aitifcitinrcrte business with the
same tenacity the display in the',
making and selling of liquor,
they would make a howling success.
We are told that one Union
county moonshiner operates his
still at night and sinks it in the
nearby creek during the day.
Others have adopted various
shemes to avoid detection.
He Did Not Run.
Lumberton Robcrsonian.
>4He is not of the running
kind," was the remark one of
the promoters made about a certain
young man from the country
this morning. However, there
seems to have ix-en some tall
running done last night. The
way it happened:
Some of the bovs about town
decided to have a little race
from the young man from the
country. Some of the boys,
quite a number of them, went to
the park about a mile from town
and hid themselves, while another
of the "gang" fooled the
young man from the country up
to that particular place. When
the hidden bunch dashed for the
young man from the country he
said "No, I'll not run," but instead
he pulled out a knife not
more than a quarter of an inch
shorter than the law limit for a
knife. He threw his arm around
the neck of one of the bunch
and the others thought that hewas
being cut to pieces by the
man who it was supposed,
would run for his life. However,
he was not knifed, but did
some pitiful begging, it is said.
The other boys ran in different
directions, some of them getting
scratched considerably by briars.
The young man came back to
town after all the other hovs had
run the race and took his auto
and went back to hunt for the
one who had accompanied him
to the park.
The boys have had a fewgood
races out of newcomers in
this way, but last nighi the outf
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