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THE PAGELAND JOURNAL
Vol.6 NO. 30 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1916 $1.00 per year
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Literary Digest.
Taking a watch apart is a
common experience of inquisitive
childhood, but the sad fate
of most boys is to find, on trying
to put it all together again,
that enough cogs, pins, wheels,
and springs are left over to start
a small machine-shop. Perhaps
Henry Ford holds the small
boy's record for this job. He al
most succeeded. Rose Wilder
Lane, to whom "Henry Ford's
Storv" seems to have hopn rpln.
ed by some member of ttfe immediate
family.
On this particular Sunday
morning Henry was more than
usually rebellious. He was not
sullen about it. He merely re
marked frankly that he hated
their old Sunday, anyhow.
Mother and father and the
four children set out for church
as usual. At the hitching-posts,
Where William Ford tied the
horses before going into the
church, they met their neighbors,
the Bennetts. Will Ben
nett, a youngst er about Henry's
age, hailed him from the other
carriage.
"Hi, Hen! C'mere! I got something
you ain't got."
Henry Scrambled out over the
? 1 t ? -
wneei ana nurriea to see what it
might be. It was a watch, a
real watch, as large and shinv as
his father's Henry looked at it
with awed admiration, and then
with envy. It was Will's own
watch; his grandfather had given
it to him.
On a strict, cross-vour heart
promise to give it back, Henry
was allowed to take it in his
hands. Then he cheered up
somewhat.
"That ain't much!" he scornfully
remarked. "It ain't runnin'."
At the same momenta
dazzling idea occurred to him.
He had always wanted to see
thp inciHac a/ n ,nn</,U
..aw luiiiuvo Ui a vnniLll.
"I bet I c'n fix it for you," he
declared.
A few minutes later, when
Mary Ford looked for Henry, he
was nowhere to be found. Will
was also missing. When, after
services, they had hot appeared,
the parents became worried.
They searched. Inquiries and
explorations failed to reveal ihe
boys.
They were in the Bennett's
farm "shop," busy with the
watch. Having no screwdriver
small enough, Henrv made one
by filing a shinglenail. Then he
set to work and took out every
screw in the mechanism.
The works came out ot the
case to the accompanient of an
agonized protest from Will; the
cogs fell apart, the springs unwound.
Altogether it was a
beautiful disorder, enough to de
light any small boy.
"Now look what you've went
and done!" cried Will, torn be
tween natural emotion over the
disaster to his watch and admiration
of Henry's daripg.
"Well, von said vam ?*roo
, j J vru II HO KVIllI
to put it together," he reminded
that experimenter many times in
the next few hours.
Dinner-time came, and Will,
recalling the fried chicken, dump
lings, puddings, cakes of the
Sunday dinner, grew more than
restless, but Henry held him
there by the sheer force of his
enthusiasm. The afternoon wore
alone:, and he was still investigating
those fasinating gears and
springs.
When at last outraged perental
authority descended upon the
boys, Henry's Sunday clothes
were a wreck, his hands and
face were grimy, but he had correctly
replaced most of the
screws, and he passionately Ue
elated that if their would only
M.nson negro Charged With
Murder
Ephraim Smith, colored, came
to Wadesboro Sunday afternoon
and surrendered to Sheriff T. S.
Clark, saying that he had shot
"Gallon*' Smith near the colored
Savannah church, in lower Liles
ville Township. Ephraim is
i said to have told those who talked
with him that he shot in self
defense, after some of the ne
gros had fired three shots at him.
; He says he shot and ran and did
nA( *U? .1 . t
iiui iviiuu iui uit: unit: mill lie
had hit anyone. The others
claim that Coot Smith, Wilej'
Smith and Ephraim came upon
"Gallon" and others and began '
quarreling with them, that Coot
attempted first to cut "Gallon"
and later Wiley Smith handed
Fphraim a pistol and he shot
"Gallon" in the head, killing him
almost instantly.?Wadesboro
Ansonian. ,
Obeying Orders
Mike Murphy, contractor, became
rich and purchased a
handsome automobile. Mrs.
Murphy Invited Mrs. Clancy for
a ride in it.
"Whatever you do, Mrs. Clanft
.1 * "
s~yt sue warned, aon't talk to
the chauffeur at all, nat a word
or a whisper to him, for it takes
his mind off what he is doing."
So they started out at a rapid
clip; the chauffer went zip round
the corner and zip round another
corner; sometimes the car was
on two wheels, sometimes on
one.
Finally Mrs. Clancy could
stand it no longer, so she touched
the chauffer on the back and
said:
"Mr. Shatfer. I bai? vour nnr.
don, I- was told not to speak to
vou at all, but I must say tbat .
Mrs. Murphy hasn't been in the
car for the last ten ipinutes."
leave him alone he wofald have
the watch running in no time.
Family discipline was strict in
those days. Undoubtedly, Henry
was punished, but he does not
recall that now. What he does
remember vividly is the passion
for investigating clocks and
watches that followed. In a few
months he had taken apart and
put together every timepiece on
the place, excepting only his
father's watch.
"Every clock in the house
shuddered when it saw me com
mg," ne says.
From clocks to automobiles is
not a tremendous leap, especially
in view of the size of automobiles.
Young Ford's next experiment
of note was the construction
of the first Ford car. This
is briefly described:
The boy had exhausted the
possibilities of the farm shop.
His last work in it was building
a small steam-engine. For this,
helped partly by pictures, partly
by his boyish ingenuity, he made
his own patterns, his own castings,
did his own machine work.
His material was bits of old
iron, pieces of wagon-tires, stray
teeth from harrows?anything
and everything from the scrappile
in the shop which he could
utilize in any imaginable way.
When the engine was finished
Henry mounted it on an improvised
chassis which he had cut
down from an old fat m-wagon,
attached it by a direct driving
wheel on one side, something
like a locomotive connecting
rod, and capped the whole with ,
a whistle.
When he had completed the
job he looked at the results with
some natural pride. Sitting at
the throttle, tooting the ear snlit l
ing whistle, he charged up and
down the meadow lot a? nearly
ten miles an hour, (lightening
every cow on tlw pte, I
Fire is Ruining Many A Farm !
Of all tbe insane. practices
which adhere to Southern farming:,
the burning: of vegetable
matter, in preparing: for spriug
planting:, vis the least excusable.
In a climate where all vegetable '
matter rots quickly and is wash- ed
and leached away by our (
heavv rains; on lands that lack
above everything: else humus 5
and nilrogen, the burning of 5
g^ass, corn and cotton stalks is (
little short of criminal. It is cer- <
rainiy insane ana we wouid <
make our condemnation strong- 1
er if we could. 1
"Oh!" but our "practical" t
farmer will say, "the cotton and '
corn stalks will be in the way of <
cultivating the crops," or in {
those sections where a scarcity <
of moisture is an important fac- 1
tor in limiting crop yields, we 1
are told that "the turning under i
of the cotton and corn stalks 5
causes the land to dry out too 1
much, so that better crops are
made when these stalks are *
burned." '<
There is about the same sense 5
or logic in such arguments as in
that of the small boy who can
see no need for washing himself
because he only gets dirty again.
It is true that large quantities '
of grass and stalks may be in the 1
way of proper cultivation if not <
turned under properly. But if
they are cut up and turned un- <
der early enough, no such trou i
ble occurs. It may also be true, 1
and as a matter of fact often is <
true, that a heavy crop of stalks s
turned under late in the spring, 1
especially when the rainfall is
light, may cause the land to dry 1
out more than when the stacks 1
are burned; but this, aguu^d^fcJ
Mjji rase if the st|fl?
well cut up before they are 4.*.
ed under and the plowin^^H
done early enough.
Furthermore it may be that a ?
heavy crop of stalks cannot be 1
satisfactorily turned under with i
a one-horse plow, but as a mat- I
ter of fact, the man who uses a '?
one-horse plow seldom has a I
heavy crop of stalks to turn un- *
i A
aer. A.nu moreover, no one '?
should use a one-horse plow J
Of course, some will say they <
are compelled to do so, but I I
don't believe it. I believe every 1
man can get his land broken <
with a two horse plow if he tries 1
hard enough. If he can't get 1
another horse, he could cooper- '?
ate with some Other one linr?e t
farmer. <
Many of those "'ho read The I
Progressive Farmei will wonder *
if such a practice, really is com
mon in any sectionjbut we assure
these that the practice is f
quite common. We have seen 1
it extensively practiced by the
hill fanners of Mississippi and
east Texas; in the famous Yazoo I
Delta of Mississippi; by the black
land farmers of Texas; by the
large farmers of Oklahoma; and 1
the large and small farmers of s
Arkansas in this good year of
1916.
Our one greatest soil need, all *
over the South, it matters not
whether on sandy or heavy 1
buckshot lands, whether in the
humid East or where the rainfall s
is less abundant farther west* is
nitrogen and humus. Iiy fire |
we destroy these materials by (
thousands, yes millions of tons j
annually. It seems almost un- (
believable, but the man who (
thinks the farmers of the s
South have been educated out ,
of such folly need only take a j f
trip through the South during s
Marrli <14? I .I .1
......tio i IlilVC UUIIC I m'llllV c
to be convinced that thousands \
have not yet been taught this j
simple, basic fact of agriculture. |
Wp have not learned the first \
mm 01 me uipimtwt in sol) pre 11
Statement of The Ownership,
Management, Circulation, etc.,
Required By The Act of
Congress of August 24,
1912,
Of The Pageland Journal pub
lislied weekly at Pageland for
(\pril 1, 1916. State of South
Carolina, County of Chesterfield.
Before me, a Notary Public in
and for the State and county
aforesaid, personally appeared
C. M. "Pucker, who, having been
inly sworn according to law,
leposes and says that he is the
Publisher of die Pageland Jour-1
lal and that the following is, to
he best of his knowledge and
relief, a true statement of the
ownership, management fand if
t daily paper, the circulation),
jtc., ol the aforesaid publication
or the date shown in the above
caption, required by the Act of
\ugust 24, 1912, embodied in
section 443, Postal Laws and
Regulations, to wit:
1. That the names and addressis
of the publisher, editor, manicing
editor, and business manigers
are:
Publisher and Editor, C. M.
Tucker, Pageland, S. C.
2. That the owners are:
R. H. Blakeney, M. L. Davis,
Miss Alice Knight, J. E. Agerton,
Ed. B. Sowell, C. G. - Morgan,
M. Tucker, Pageland, S. C.
3. That the known bondholdirs,
mortgagees, and other securty
holders owning or holding 1
ber cent or more of total amount
bf bonds, mortgages, or other
ecurities are: The Bank of
Pageland.
4. That the two paragraphs
lext above, giving the nfeme$ of
in other
tiducihryreiation, the name of
he person or corporation for
,vhom such trustee is acting, is
liven; also that the said two parrgraphs
contain statements embracing
affiant's full knowledge
ind belief as to the circumstances
ind conditions under which
Stockholders and sprnritv hr?1#l
irs who do not appear upon the
pooks of the company as trustees,
lold stock and securities in a
:apacity other than that of a
pona fide owner; and this affiant
las no reason to believe that
iny person, association, or corporation
has any interest direct
pr indirect in the said stock,
ponds, or other securities than as
?o stated hv him.
" >/
C. M. Tucker, Publisher.
Sworn to and subscribed beore
me this 8th day of April,
1916.
S. W. \Vatts, Notary Public.
(My commission expires at the
deasure of Governor.)
"Aren't you the chap who ap
>lied here a week apo for a doiition
as office boy?"
"Yes. sir."
"And didn't 1 tell you I wantid
an older boy?"
"Yes, sir; that's whv I'm here
low."
;ervation
We have for vearsbeen urging
he growing ot cover crops and
:rops to turn under to furnish
Himus and nitrogen, because
hese form the one great need of
)ur soils, and >et we have not
Hopped the destruction of hunus
and nitrogen supplying maerials
l?y fire. Corn and cotton
talks are raked up and burned;
jrass is set on fire; pastures are
nirned over, while such decayng
materials are more needed
Ivan all other things combined in
>oth the dry and the humid secioni.?Thfl
Piojwalve Furmir.
Town Judged by New&paper.
"Show me some copies of the
paper published in your town
and I will tell you some facts (
about it and your people," ]
The man who said that was
an active business man, who
was considering: an expansive '
nmnncitinn TVir* " * ?
p> v^/v/uuivu i tic iLiluriiiciiion |
he wanted was all in issues of a i
weekly newspaper. I
He wanted to know about the ,
stocks of goods carried by the
merchants, to judge of their
business capacity by the style '
and amount of advertising they 1
employed?the paper would <
show him.
He wanted to know some ,
thing of the social activities of
the town, which the paper 1
would show him. 1
He wanted to know some
thing of the pursuits of the peo- !
pie in the town and the condition
of the SIirrOlinHino- ^niintrv
The paper would show him.
He would scan those papers
carefully and would be able to
give the information as he had
started. j
He would judge the business
prospects from the advertising
columns, of prospective selling '
possibilities bv the local happenings,
of the tastes and intelligence
of the people by the reading !
matter the paper gives its read- '
ers, and whether they were a
progressive, alert or an easy go. 1
ing and comparatively inactive 1
sort. 1
Your paper tells the story fully
to the active, observant business !
man, who never saw your town 1
15 Ure IU)l
life it would spell in glaring let- !
ters "Nothing doing." If there .
was a lack of high class, up to
date reading matter on the livest 1
topics of the times, it would ''
spell for him ?
The investigation would end
and the town be passed over as
not worth considering; , i
So then the weekly paper is i
for 52 times a year showing peo- <
pie who do not reside in the i
town just how to judge if it is a I
business and social center. <
Sunday School Conference, <
Florence District. <
The /Vnnual Sunday school *
conference of the Florence dis- 1
trict Methodist Episcopal church '
South, will convene at Harts- 1
ville, April 17-19 The opening 1
session will be held Monday
night, April 17th in the Metho [
dist church at Hartsville, and the 1
conference will close with the (
morning session on Wednesday *
April 19th. 1
A very strong program has '
been prepared, and some of the *
best Sunday school workers of i
the District will take part in the 1
discussions, t hese conterences v
are most profitable and interesting
gatherings, and it is hoped f
that every pastor, every Sunday r
school superintendent, and one '
teacher from each school will be
present. In addition to these, it
Is hoped that many others will J
attend. All who are vitally interested
in the great Sunday J
school work should take ad van- tage
of this opportunity.
The good people of Hartsville "
have opened their homes and '
\\t ill rAlffllKi rtll J i
Till lujunj tuiciiniu Mil ilttlUU- '
ited delegates. It is needless to *
say this, for Hartsville's well *
known hospitality has gone t
oKrAoH th rr\i ? rvk/\i? * d
m/iuuu IIIIUII^UUUI lilt? niuu. | |
All who come will be gladlv .
welcomed and a rare treat is in |
store for them. j1
Remember the date and place, i i
lldrtgviilv, April 17-Hi jl
New Communication Offered
By M exico
San Antonio, Texas, April ().~
Gen. Pershing reported to (Jen.
Funston today that Mexieir
Military authorities in Chihua
U..J ? ? -
uuii una unerea me .Mueiicai
punitive expedition the use o
the government telegraph and
telephone lines. Gen. Pershing
ilso reported that some suppliei
for the United States troops,
have been purchased in Chihuutiua
but while merchants in ilia
:ity showed no disposition tc
withhold their goods the limited
imount of foodstufts available
made it almost impossible to get
provisions.
This report was filed in some
part of the field of operation, the
location of which was withheld.
It was transmitted 1>\ wireless
and aeroplanes to Columbus.
The proffer of the use of the
telegraph and telephone lines
were made to drivers of the aeroplanes
which visited Chihuah.ua
last week. The aviators report
that before the populace o! the
city was convinced that they
were on a friendly mission, .1
few stones were thrown and
several shots were fired but no
one was injured.
Gen. Guiterrez, commander of
the garrison at Clrhuahua, treat
ed them courteously. the\ ic
ported.
The present positions of the
advanced columns was not mar V
public, but it was known ti t
cavalry colmns under - C
Brown and Dodd are rhiving
south front Satevo with all speed.
Dfficei^^HM^^^o information
HMMIPBud the
hat eifhnr I. would i?. Mf>
...VI 4 Wl l,U 11#
surprise.
Gen. Pershing himself is min ing
south along the traii > S.;:evo.
personally directing, so ta.
is possible the pursuit of \ sil t
French Capture Fortified Posts
Paris, April (>.?French troops
n hand to hand lighting south
>vest of Fort Donauinont toduv
;arried German underground
passages and works along a
rront of 500 metres to a <.:< pth
if about 20? > metres.
A violent bombardment \\. s
directed by tile Germans to i n
iast of the Mouse against ( oi->
du Paivre but the I eneh curlain
of fire prevented an ii;to?>11 \
attack, according to tin ofhci .1
statement by the war office i<
light.
Tiw, ...... -or: '
nt. \\ <n oiiu r 11 m i )l > , 1 I'll
[his afternoon capture !>\ 1 e
French of a large position w tit
)f Avocourt known a- T s
'Jarre. This ground was c ip
ur_d in the course ol light "g
which went on all of \estei >\
ltternoon and last ni-iit in the
Verdun region west o! the
dense on the Avoc >u : I'.- i.
tourt line
At one point along i. \\'<
tourt Bethineourt Itiv t > . *
nans succeeded m pen, .it
vrench positions.
No More Piedmont Buggies
>Ionroc Joutnul.
The plant of the Piedmont
3uggy Com pan v and the i 'oilon
States Wagon Company was
.old at auction 1>\ the i <vj\e
VIr. 1\ G. Ilendeison, >? terd r .
t was bought hv Mi l!o? tc
Meal for the sum of S!i.\ il
he sale is confirmed 1>\ the
:ourt. Mr. Neal expeivs t<> *. ?ninue
to operate the l.iriee s as
he Cotton Siatv > \V aeo;, (. <>m
vanv, continuing the nork of
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