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mmp-* - . 5"':'' ^ ^MP* THE PAGELAND JOURNAL Vol.6 NO. 20 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1916 $1.00 per year Fifty Hens for Every Southern A Boost For Our Town. n.? rw??J. u. Farm In the Corn Belt states it is re liably stated that the average farm flock of poultry numbers nearly 150, while in the Cotton Belt the average is not more than 20 or 25 to the farm. In the Corn Belt the average annual income per farm worker is double that of the average in the Cotton Belt. There may now be any neces sar.v connection between these two facts, but to us it looks very much like there is, and a very important connection, at that. The truth, we believe, is that the greater earning power of the Northern and Western farmer is due to the fact he makes every edge cut; he cashes in on every opportunity. He uses labor-saving machinery; he uses more horse power and less human labor; and he uses cattle, hogs and chickens, all his farm will carry, to clean up the waste products and put them in marketable form. The Northern and Western farmer long: ago learned that a goodly flock of hens is the best kind of insurance against store j accounts at credit prices, and he accordingly makes Biddy pay the grocery bill, with some to to spare. Judging from the few nondescript hens found on a great many Cotton Belt farms, we have yet to learn this lesson, and right now, at the beginning of 1916, is a splendid time to be about it. In the first place, let's under stand that the Iowa or the Missouri farmer doesn't keep a big fknfinjpis because be has a /' bewHWhte than we for chick -lUav?lh?Kh4hr ,vvedWBBBd be true. Our win- , terSHBd, and there is not a , farm itt tfce South that cannot hati^UiMlMhing green growing . every day in the year. \ Nor do we believe it be due to , a lack of a market in the South ( for chickens and eggs. We don't , know of a community anywhere | in which these products are not , salable practically every day in , the year. They are almost as , stanlo no "T>?- 1 *' wiupiv no w/iiuii* x ruU| ocncr | results would come from mar \ keting cooperatively and in | large lots, but chickens and eggs < in any quantity can practically < always be sold, and generally at prices that will afford a profit. t The carrying of not less than ( fifty laying hens on every farm ' in the South is easily possible j and would each year add many ( millions of dollars to our wealth, j A roallti I. * 1 4 "A a * a vunj 11CU SI1UU1Q lav 13V j eggs a year; but it we make each farm flock of 50 hens average 100 eggs a year for each hen, we f have a total of 5,000 eggs, or s 416 dozen, worth, at an average t of 20 cents a dozen, $83.20,?an r amount amply sufficient to buy c all the floor, coffee, sugar, salt, _ etc., needed, with some to spare. Of course with good management there is no reason why this amount mioht wr?? Ko UVI ut 111MIC1 rdliy increased. Why not let's make thi3 one of our 1916 slogans: "FIFTY HENS for EVERY SOUTHERN FARM?" Such a flock, well cared for, will convert waste products into marketable meat and eggs, and will be a big step t ior\vara toward a live-at-home policy and emancipation from time prices."?Progressive Farmer, Notice All persons having claims against the estate of J. Dock Wallace deceased, are hereby notified to present same duly au thenticated to the undersigped, 1 L.L. Pvker. i BMflHtOf. , V..I V * * % c? <* / There is a new spirit abroad 1 in the world. It is the spirit of democracy, the spirit of getting 1 together, the spirit of co-operation. This spirit is finding ex- i pression in small groups, in clubs and lodges, in unions and federations and in a growing ^ spirit of unity among the churches. It is beginning to seek embodiment in terms of a civic < consciousness, in better national unities and in world policies. Because of the isolation and individualism of the smaller towns and cities this spirit is slow in finding means of exDres sion. The smaller towns are social unites of great import- 5 ance, in some respects of more importance than the larger cities. ' The strongest and most aggres < sive men of the cities have come from the country or the smaller j towns. The greatest men in the professions, the greatest leaders in politics and state craft, in industry and commerce have j come from the country or smaller towns. The greatest man whoever lived came from the ^ little town of Nazareth. It is possible to make these smaller towns places of greater 3 :_n? ? j uiiiueuce ana power. The old method of improving j a town was to get some man of wealth and public spirit to give ' it a fountain, donate a monu- f ment or put up a library. These are all important, but it is far j more important to do things t that will develop a public spirit, a spirit of unity and furnish an ^ opportunity and a channel c through which this spirit may be expressed for the common good. _ v rhe fifcr-t*R>6isarur^-mest smaller towns is to see them- ? selves and their needs clearly. The greatest object of their citi-' 111 zens should not be to get as many dollars as thpv ran a?#i to keep them as long as they 1 can, but to build the best town h< they can and to produce the o best type of boys and girls, men 01 and women, the best churches fe and school, the best torms of amusement and recreation and pi to boost with enthusiasm any w thing that will give an oppor th [unity for community expres w jion. to thinorc malrini* *U" - , r>" uuuiug tUl U1C Ct :ommon good. Jo The mid-winter chautauqua hat is to be given in our town th luring the three da>*s beginning 01 Thursday, February 3rd affords d( ust such an opportunity and :hancel of expression. It should ut lave the co-operation of every citizen of our town. he A Convert, full of zeal, in his irst prayer meeting offered him- th elf for service. "I am ready he o do anything the Lord asks of pc ^ _ ft ! J 1- - * ? ' * ~ iic, sum ne, so long as it's hon- gc irable." th Will be here t " ? :. :JhBHht^^ 11111 .^ BLk - HajHSH 9 . vwtvi ficavea . dreamed that I was talking With a doctor, old and gray, Who told me of a dream he had, I think 'twas New Year's day. While snoozing in his office, The vision came to view, For he saw an angel enter, Dressed in garments white and new. Said the angel, "I'm from heaven Peter sent me away down To bring you up to glory, And put on you a golden crown, You've been a friend to every one And worked both night and day You've doctored many thou sands, And from few received youi 5av. 5o we want you up in glory, For you have labored hard, \nd the good Lord is preparing Your eternal just reward.'* Then the angel and the doctor Started up to glory's gate, 3ut when passing close to Hades, The angel whispered "Wait. I've a place I want to show you It's the hottest in all hell, Where the ones who never paid fOU, In torment must always dwell." \nd behold, the doctor saw there His old patients by the score; PI 1 ? " men graDDing up a chair and an, * v^l He wished for nothing more. ust content to sit and watch hem As they sizzle, singe and burn, Vnd his eyes would rest on >thers 5 Whichever way they'd turn. ] >aid the angel, "Come on, doctor, -iTihfixs rtlvr ut the doctor only murmured, "This is heaven enough for! le."?Anonymous. Reason for It wo Irishmen were digging a \ ole for drainage. One wast ver six feet in height, and the1 Iher was not much over five set. The foreman came along resently to see how the work as progressing, and noticed lat one of them was doing more o?k than the other. So he died down to the big fellow bew in the trench: "Look here, Pat; how is it at little Mickey Dugan, who is lly about half as big as you. is ring twice as much woik?" Glancing down at the diminive Mickey, Pat replied: "And why shouldn't he? Ain't ; near torit?" Said Uncle Kph: "When a man inks he has left his watch at >me and takes it out of his >cketto see if he has time to > back for it, I should call int man absentminded." his week at the ^ n u *7 ureat leathering of Laymen Next Week Three thousand men are ex, pected to meet in Columbia, February 6-9th. It will be a great Convention of Laymen of all denominations, met to study the relation of the church to the new conditions throughout the I world. Churches are composed of laymen; laymen support the .churches; laymen support the 'j missionary enterprises of the | church, now laymen will meet ; to survey the field, to learn what I is being done, and what ought | to be done. Able speakers will 1 address the laymen and on themes that are compelling to their interest and timeliness. r Such addresses are distinctly worth while and would repay a long trip; but along with the information and the appeal there is other benefit, a broader outlook, quickened interest, stimulus to more active participation in the work of the local church as the source of power. That is worth reflecting on. The laymen are not undertaking any new thing; ' they are just trying to see. It is true, probably, that most laymen 1 have been rather half hearted in ( their efforts because they knew but little of the work of the > church beyond the Sunday sermon and the weekly prayer i meeting. Such a convention as that in Columbia will bring to laymen when they are most re! ceptive a view of the world as a religious opportunity. But there will be much more; for the , church has problems at home and must study these problems a9 church liabilities. Social problems in the congested cities, , JU^somevvliat perplexing subject. < nust be" solved^ * Bill tiieTiilurcnj [must infuse into all relations th#?l o Vpirit of the gospel. Laymen as " studying as well as ministers, f and a free discussion, led by t men who are in touch with those 1 I things, must prove greatly bene- g ficial. And the individual, what s should be his attitude? Such questions will be illumined by intelligent discussion. L Our religious opportunity is a big one; but it consists not so ^ much in getting more men into v the membership of our churches E as it does in developing the j churches as an efficient tactor in the life of a workaday world. v All roads have offered special n rates, and good rates are offered t] by Columbia boarding-houses. The County Chairmen in al- f( most every county have arrang- a ed for special coaches to take v their delegations to the Conven- e tion, all delegates leaving Monday morning Feb, 7th. arriving c in Columbia in time to register p and be assigned to their hotels a or boarding-houses before time g for the evening sessions of the 0 conference. ? \Yhv Every Man Should A.t- e Chautauqua. s I Uncle John Says Friday Is Unlucky for Many Folks "Yes, sir," said Uncle lohn n wher he dropped in our office f( last Friday morning, telling us ft he had to hurry back and start a f( big job of cleaning up and drain- n ing a wet spot on his farm.?"yes, f, sir," he repeated, "time was when I wouldn't a' started nary single & thing worth mentionin' on Fri- ;< dav." a "Fact is," he continued, "in ^ them days Friday was a sure- fj enough dog gone unlucky day t] for me, and so was the 13th of c every month. And I believe they are everlastingly unlucky j days yet for lots o' folks. But as ^ for me and my house, as the \ preacher says, we've done got \ shet of that hoodoo." Whereupon we asked him how he had removed the spell. "That's easy enough," the old man answered. "Used to be f when Friday or the 13th come V around, I wouldn't do somethin' 11 I ought to have done that day, ? or wouldn't start something I ![ ought to have started, and the 1 upshot of it was, it was always 0 an nnlimlrv do? tr\r D -' ^ ? ?^ UUJ I?1 IIICl UUl since I quit all such foolishness 1 as that, them days are about the ? luckiest days I know, and when . Friday and the 13th double up on one and the same day, I like J to swat the old fake by startin' more things and doin' more ? things than almost any other ^ day. I'm tired wastin* my time * an* sweat on poor hill land and p lettin' that rich bottom grow up in weeds and bushes, and I'm ^ goin* to start cleanin' it up today 1 and make a dozen barrels of . corn, pn acre on it next year." HuTdbn't you torg5T~ aid Uncle John in leaving, don't you forget this?that if a of ellow don't know any better han to believe Friday is an un- ar ucky day fer him, it's dead sure rii ;oing to be unlucky.'Trogres- a? ive Farmer. it? ed 65-Pound Tumor Removed so .ancaster News, Pc Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Steele lave returned from Rock Hill, an vhere thev visited Mr. Steele's ro nother, Mrs. Harvv Steele at the 'ennell Infirmary. Mrs. Steele las just undergone an ordeal vhich would have been too toi nuch for one of less will power 4 ban herself. ed Last week Dr. Fennell per- tir ormed upon her a major oper- trc tion, the removal of a tumor ca weighing 65 pounds, and no an- trc sineucs were used. 1 Mrs. Steele is 70 years of age. he has !>orne her suffering with sel atience, showing great endur- ed nee and her condition is re- ' arded as satisfactory. This yo peration is another triumph for 1 )r. Fennell as well as for the w? ndurance of his patient* co ? tO( ;nd the Missionary Convention: because it Will, Widen his horizon. da 41 n Increase his knowledge. u Dopnpn hie mnv5/*JiAno asl uiu vv/il T IVIIV/U^I Enlarge his sympathies. Magnify his opportunity. Give him a clear vision. hjs Fill him with enthusiasm. ^in Make him sure of ultimate , " w ictory. w Show him that work must be 1C >ne now. nar Open to him channels of world rvice. Fit him tor larger efficiency in " s local church and community. Ha In short, the Convention will per ithout doubt be the most sig- tra ficant gathering of christian foa en to be hold in South Caro- 1 ia thii year and he cannot nf im Maness & Shearrin. Concord, Jan. 26.?T. D. Maess and M. Boyce Shearrin have )rmed a partnership under the rm name of Maness & Shearrin >r the practice of law. Mr. Maess has been a resident of Con:>r 10 years or more and has esiblished a large practice here. Ir. Shearrin is a young man and ? from Union County. He is an lumnus of Wake Forest and has ieen a clerk in Mr Manned &<A%?aavOO VI" ice for about a year. This is he only law partnership in Conord. (Mr. Maness is a son of Mr. ames Maness of Marhville nwnship, and Mr. Sheairin is Vinga te. rcihatUnd cd the Vingate school.?The Journal.) Believes It Unlawful Fort Mill, S. C., Jan. 26.?In eply to his request for an opiunn, Mayor Bert E. Patterson is a receipt of a letter from Thoms H. Peeples, Attorney General, a which he states the belief that t is unconstitutional for a a aldernan on a town council to hold lso the position of clerk and reasurer. It has always been ustomary here for the Town Council to elect one of its numer to the position of clerk and easurer which pays a salary of t *?'* ixk/ jjci uiiiiuui, dui me question f the legality of the proceeding ras brought up owing to the ict that there were several aplicants for the place. W. A. Roach, alderman from rard 3, was elected clerk and easurer. ound Diamond in Chicken Giz??? " zard . . : ' z*7* While Miss Bertha Tichenor, Princeton, Ind., was dressing chicken she opened the gizzard id found therein a diamond ig with 15 inches of a worni's gold chain wrapped about It is believed the bird pick1 up the jewelry in the street, me passerby wearing the ring i a chain about her neck, liavg lost it when the chain broke d a piece of it fell into the aa witn the ring.?Ex. Tolerable Times "How's times?" inquired a urist 4Oh, pretty tolerable," respondthe old native who was sitig on a stump. "1 had some ;es to cut down, but a cyclone me along and saved me the )uble." "Fine." "Yes, and then the lightning t fire to the brush pile and savme the trouble of htirnin.r it " "Remarkable. But what are u doing now?" 'Oh, nothing much. Just liting for an earthquake to me along and shake the potajs out of the ground." Two Irishmen, meeting one vr, were discussing local news, o you know Jim Skelley?' ced Pat. 'Faith," said Mike, "an' I do." 'Well," said Pat, "he has had appendix taken away from a." Ye don't say so?" said Mike; ell, it serves him right lie >uld have had it in his wife's ne." Why Get Married. say, jotinsing," commented stus, looking up from his pa, " it says heah dat in Sumaa man kin buy a wife foil h dollars. <"oah dollars!" gasped Johni. "Rf si niae-ih'# tsoi llflhl he (font nW no wife,"