Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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% . . s k "^ ' ' ... * ?' ^K;? ,' . " / ./* ? . ' ' ' * fW ' : % THE PAGELAND JOURNAL " ? ' " - - * e ' " . Vol.7 NO. 18 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1917 SSUOOperyeaT^ * ' T 1 - . 1 .' ? The Boll Weevil Reaches th Atlantic Ocean With a movement for 1916 ui precedent^* in its extent, tb boll weevil has now establishe itself along the shore of the A lantic from the mouth of th Savannah River southward t the Florida line, a distance c some 125 miles. From the moui of the Savannah River, north b northwest, the river is the eas era limit of infestation upt Kicnmond County, Ga., i reached, where the line tun more to the west, running diagc cally across north Georgia t< Floyd County, where it entei northeast Alabama. Two years ago, so far as i known, not a boll weevil ha been found In Georgia; toda full four-fifths of the cotton-prc ducing area of the state is infes ed. During the same perio Alabama has become entire! infested, as has a considerabl portion of Tennesee, and nearl; all of the cotton producing area of Arkansas and Oklahoms For some unknown reason th weevil during the past two yeai has broken all records in th extent of its migratory move ment and new areas invadet v If its rate for the past two yeai if kept up, two more years wi find South Carolina wholly co^ * ered, and five years will suffic to put the weevil all over Nort Carolina and well into the co ton-growing counties of soutl east Virginia. ? The outlook, while alarming is by no means hopeless. 'Co ton has been and is being nr< duced at a profit ifnder boll wei - vil conditions, but in jnost cast the fight has not beetTan eas one. Farmers have failed an mortgages have been foreclose" merchants and bankers ha\ gone down because of crop fai ures and bad collections. But there have always been few farmers who have succeed ed in spite of the weevil, and tli example of these has been fo lowed by others, with a gradu; return to prosperous condition Nearly all of Texas and Louis ana are now in better conditio than before the weevil cam" and the only regret they have that a policy was not agreed o by farmers and business men i the beginning, and then adhere to. Instead, there was muc floundering about, one man a( vrvfltinor this anrl orio <ha? < ?UAW MUM VUV IUU1( Will out any sort of concerted effor Cotton will very probabl continue to be ihe main cas crop of the South, despite tb boll weevil, but it must be mad purely a surplus cripp, after a needed food and feed crops hav been grown, along with a abundance of winter and sun mer legumes to maintain and ii /irA/ieA o/vl 1 -I ? avfii icillll(>4 ruilUWIU such a policy has put many wei vil ridden sections on their fee and every thinking farmer an business man in newly invade territory should aim at a simih policy in his own section.?Pn gressive Farmer. KMistah Gov'nah," the ol negress was pleading with tfc chief executive of a Southei state, "we's mighty po' dis wii tab, and All sho does wish you1 pahdoo mah ol' man. He's i de pen'tentiary." "What was he put in fori asked the governor. "'Stead of workin* fo' it di good-fo'nothin' nigger dor stole some bacon." "If he is good for nothin what do you want him bac for?" "Wal, yo' see, we's all out < bacon ag'ijj." aSfci.., e Til Choke Devil Out of Politic*," Says Florida's PreacherGovernor e Tallahassee, Fla., Jan. 18.? d With a Bible as his platform and t- sermons as his political speeches, e Sydney J. Catts, just inaugurated o Governor of Florida, stands to>f day the most unique figure in an h American gubernatorial chair! y A reformer of the new school, t- a Prohibitionist with new but il drastic ideas, a former minister is of the Gospel who hasn't foris saken his religion. Catts enterh ed the State House after-fighting 9 Florida's most strenuous poliii"S cal battle, defeating the regular [s nominee of the all powerful d Democratic party by pitting Biby lical quotations against mudslingidg! . His Bible will remain on the y Governor's desk until his term e ends, four years hence, and to it y he will turn for counsel, rather lS than to political advisers?so i# Catts declares. e "1 have literally choked the 9 devil out of politics in Florida," e declares the new Governor, "and ?_ the devil is due another choking. 1. I hope to have enacted legisla s tion that will make our primary 11 laws so plain and simple there r will he no chance tor fraud." ;e Catts entered a five-cornered h race fpr the Democratic nomina1. tion for Governor last spring, j. On the face of the returns he was the winner over his nearest r, opponent by a few hundred [. votes and received a certificate y of nomination. a A recount of certain precincts ?s was demanded by the opposing y" "snterandrgranted hy the courts, d and after months of suspense and re-checkingfof votes a new re certificate of nomination was 1_ awarded to W. V. Knott. Feeling he had not been treata ed fairly, Catts announced he j would enter the general election ie despite the Democratic certifi1_ cate of nomination held by his al opponent. P In 1 1 s i m yc|ii9 guuc uy sutu a move would have meant political suiQ cide in Florida, but a* political e< revolution swept over the Staje jg in the Fall of 1916, and Catts n came out a victor by an overn whelming majority, d Thus, for the first time since h Reconstruction days Florida has \ a Governor not the regular nomj. inee of the Democratic party. t. y Broadway Discovered h Broadway a den of homeie seekers! Robert W nhamKorc e says so.. In a remarkable inter11 view, the famous novelist dee fends tbe character of the New n York show girl. He savs in' i part: l- "I find as I study these voung g people that not all is desire for s- gayety, for personal beauty and t, comfort and brightness?there d is the old dominating impulse to d mate. Indeed often^ it is this ir very desire which leads these young people to Broadway; but what they want is a home, the safe retreat, the man that held longs to them, the child that le needs them.*' n There is a profound truth in a- Mr. Chambers' gallant defense? 'd the instinct in us all to love and n to mate. Mr. Chambers has al ways thoroughly exemplified >" this in his fiction, and never so well perhaps as in his latest at novel. "The Dark Star", ap le pearing in Cosmopolitan Magazine. K k Stella^ "Oh Bella, how glad I am! 1 haven't seen you for ages!" )f Bella: "Hush! you will give us both away," The Country Editor ."No man works harder for his town and neighborhood than the editor of the country newspaper," says the Atlanta Georgian. "He puts in more hourg and draws down less pay than any man we know. "The biggest 'booster* in the entire show is a bright, breezy, aggressive, progressive, newspaper; but the subscription list will hardly pay for the raw material. "If you don't happen to like what he says about this, that or the other matter, go around to the office and have it out with him; but stay in the game. "We are not alwavs fair or reasonable. We insist that the editor whoop it up all the time, whether we contribute a cent or not. "We expect him to give us a free send-off everv now and then, whether we deserve it or not. "If we should steal a flock of sheep, he must not mention the fact, but if our neighbor does some little thing he ought not, why, he must be shov^t up, or we stop our paper and refuse to pay the back subscription. So there! ;* "We expect the editor to fight our battle^ champion our causes, boost our business, advertise our families, cover up our deviltry, for the splendid sum of two cents ? week. (Some of us are worse than that, as we do not even subscribe tor the paper, let alone advertising our wares.) "The man who can't afford to take his local paper can't afford to exist, and the man who C8n't afford to advertise can't aftord to remain in business, S "No man does as much foy jfce public, on as^small payrkfme editor of a country newspaper. "And it is unreasonable to expect a live paper unless you sup port it. If your paper is no good the chances are you are no good, and the thing for you to do is quit dreaming, brace up, ginger up, tumble up?any way to get up. "Start something, and the surest way to that is to advertise. "Use printer's ink generously, systematically and persistently. You owe it* to yourself, your business, your town and your newspaper to load it down with readable, truthful, attractive and catchy ads. "No man on earth conies nearer giving value received for every dollar paid him than the local editor does. "People in general read the advertisements just as eagerly as they do the locals,_ and if they fail to find your business adver tised, they conclude with good reason, that you're falling down, losing your grip, going to seed, and people in general don't care to do business with that kind of a man. "What country towns need more than all else is harmony, unity, a policy of 'live and let live,' to get together and stay together; to be less selfish, envious, to broaden out a bit, to be business friends?and your local paper is your best friend, "Life is too short a time, too valuable to be harboring little differences and knifing one an other, or adopting a picayuuish policy with reference to yout town and its needs. "If you want your tovvi^ t6 grow, you must grow. "If you hope to draw the public, you must be public spirited and vou are not public spirited unless you support your papfcr. "A well advertised town gets the business. Your town is advertised through the local paper. "It reaches the people you . *1. i .. . - - :U -mW Unionville High School Destroyed By Blaze Monroe, Jan. 19.?Fire yester- J day aiternooii destroyed one yf Y the oldest institutions in* the j county when the High School c at Unionville, seven miles north t of Monroe, was burned. 0The school was established before * the county was formed and is c said to* be the first high school t originating in the South. c Throughout the United States are men ot prominence that received their educational training * at Unionville Academy. The present building destroy- c ed, was two stories high, erected some 31 years ago from hear* 1 pine timber and when the fire caught from a stove flue, be- ' tween the ceiling and flooring : of the iirst floor, in the absence of the fire fighting equipment, it burned rapidly. The alarm was given soon after the noon recess and the 300 pupils were marched out orderly and none c was injured, but many of the t scholars sacrificed all their books i and supplies. ( Preparations will be made im- i mediately for the restoration of i the school and Prof. W. F. Mc- 1 Canless and his four assistants 1 will be retained for the continu- t ation of the present term. t 1 Cheraw Items The Bhronicle. * TVlO Qtllltvan T "' 1 A MV I^UUITUU XiUUiuu VAI.J UI Cheraw, has been Chartered? ] R. L. Sullivan, President; J. W. 1 Maynard, Vice-President; W. M. 1 Godfrey, Secretary-treasurer. I The plant of this Company will 1 be located at Green Pond, S. C. 1 The Chronicle is informed c that the Cheraw ^nostoffice ^ has beeir reduced from a second * class to a third class office on ' account of the falling off in business during 1916. Miss Eula Brewer and Mr. 1 Clyde Burnette, both of this j city, were united in matrimony on Sunday evening, Jan. 14th, by Rev. E. H. Beckham, at the \ Methodist Parsonage. The many friends here of Mr. j Hal Laughrige will be sorry to , learn that he has left Cheraw to t accept a position in Washington, D. C. Salary reductions in the < local postoffice is cause of his leaving Cheraw. The Chronicle wishes Hal well in his new position and it knows he will 1 make good. 1 c* 1 The Oderless Onion 1 A Burbank understudy now s ?uicio on uic sucuc, who says ^ he'll take the .flavor from the old olfactory green; deodorize < the onion, and forever lift the J ban from this poor but honest ? member of the noble lily clan. ] Bermuda bulb, au naterel, is , pungent, crisp and sweet; in sun- j dry stews and sauces it adds t savor to our meat. Robbed of distinctive flavor, 'tis a tasteless t thing at best; so let's trust the horticulturis is speaking but in ? jest; for if the man's successful, just what will be the gain? ( 'Twere like the plav of Hamlet f minus melancholy Dane. So let the nature fakers turn { their thoughts to other things? to cranberries and cacti, to freestones and to clings. Far better gild the lily, or paint the blush j ! ing rose, than take the zest and flavor trom the onion lachryimose.?Anna Nixon. r want to reac}}. The newspaper e is the best advertising medium t we know. "A town without a newspaper is ready for the undertaker. Support your local paper. When h you boost your paper vou boost a vour town and your business." a 4 'f - - * Admiral Dewey Dies Admiral George Dewey, the tero of Manila Bay, died at his lome in Washington Tuesday, anuary 16th. He was 80 years rid and was a native of Vermont. ror sixty-two years Admiral Dewey was in the service of his :ountry. He was a veteran of he Civil war. He was comnander of the Asiatic fleet when >rder "capture or destroy the memy's fleet" came to him. Vfter the battle of Manila Bay luring the Spanish-American var. Dewey was advanced to ear Admiral and afterwards Congress hy special act made ^miral of the Navy which position he held from 1900 until lis death. Drder is Issued for Guardsmen to Return Home Washington, Jan. 20.?Immeliate withdrawal of "a substanial number" of National guards nen from the border has been irdered bv the War Departnent, and General Funston now s selecting the units to be sent lOmP In annftiin/*in<v .wuki mu uuuv/UUVtUi; LUC U1UC1 ate today, Secretary Baker said he number to be withdrawn at his time probably would be 15,000 or 20,000. The Secretary refused to comnent on the order or say what -elation it might have to the withdrawal of General Pershng's expedition from Mexico. Hie said that the organizations to >e withdrawn would be anlounced as soon as General ?unston reported those he had lesignated. This withdrawal will reduce the force of State M2P8 on the border to between >5,000 and 60,000 men. The announcement generally was accepted, however, as an ndication that the withdrawal >f Pershing's force would not be ong delayed. It has been unierstood t^at as quickly as borler stations are evacuated bv State troops, regulars will move ip to occupy them, but tonight t was "said authoritatively that 10 order to bring the regulars lorth has yet been issued. Second South Carolina Regi ment Not Sent Home Now Washington, Jan. 21.?More han 25,000 National Guardsmen io*v on the Mexican border lave been designated by Maj. jen. Funston for return home ind muster out of the federal tervice, under the order issued yesterday bv the war department. All these organizations will be darted homeward as soon as ransportation facilities can be >rovided. Their departure will leave between 45,000 and 50,000 nen of the guard still in the ederal service doing border parol. The guardmen designated for eturn and muster out include: Louisiana; First battalion field irtillerv, field hospital No. 1. South Carolina: Troop A., ;avalrv, Company A. -engineers, ield hospital company. Tennessee: Ambulance com>any No. 1. field hospital No. 1. Arkansas: First infantry. Kentucky^ ScMbnd infantry. North Carolina: Second infanry. "I met our new minister on ny way to Sunday school, namma," said Willie, "and he isked me if I ever played mar>les on Sunday.*' "What did you answer?" askid mother. "I simply said: 'Get thee bclind me, Satan!' and walked off ind left him," was th^ triumphmt response. News and Views from Union's Caudal Monroe Enquirer. The Monroe Creamery Association is calling for more butter fat. Thousands of pounds of butter fat is wanted weekly and the supply is short. See their advertisement. Again the Legislature is asked to build a home for her fallen women. Let it be built and all the fallen women put in it and then, by beck, send all the fallen men to the chain gang. It has been said that you cannot make a man temperate by legislation. Maybe you cannot make him temperate "at heart" b>?legislation, but you can keep . it out of his stomach by legislation, b'gosh. # The old Asa Faulk house near Faulks church in Marshville township was destroyed by fire last Tuesday night. Mr. J. N. uavis owned the place. The house was one of the oldest in the county. The floor was hewn and was about six inches thick. The house was built of logs dove tailed, and every log was double pinned. The timbers were all of heart and the fire was fierce one. Mr. Davis saved some of his household goods. The loss is partially covered by insurance. Most of vou know that the Monroe Hardware Company is a big bujgfcss, put the bigness of it is even astonishing to those directly connected after care-- A fully figuring the number of square feet of its several buildings. Their retail store fronts on Franklin street south ol the court house square and runs back to Morgan alley, containing in square feet of floor space 11,545. Remodeling of this building was recently completed ?an entirely new and up-todate front and a maple flooring on a tarred concrete foundation entire length of the store, all of which nfforHs a mmlorn of foot w. ?w * VliWU The warehouses, buggy and implement houses front on Mor-, gan Alley and on Hayne Street for 240 feet and down Hindsor Street about 100 feet, containing in square feet 28,920. This Company has just completed a modern two story office building at the end and in between their Franklin Street store and the Trust building which has 2400 square feet. Their offices are complete in equipment in every detail. The Monroe Hardware Company owns this entire property, and as a whole it is considered the most valuable business property in the City. The Monroe Hardware Company also occupies exclusively as a wholesale place the fourstory ^brick building ot J. T. Shutd on Lafayette Street, and this has total square feet 19,800, making the immense total ot 62,605 square feet of door space occupied by this enterprising mercantile company. "Uncle Frank," asked Little James, "what is the difference between 'cute' and 'sneaky'?" "According to your mother," reflected Uncle Frank, "it's the difference between what you do and what Mrs. Brown's little boy does." A young married couple was attending a fair in Mississippi. Finding themselves jostled about in the center of a vast crowd, the husband remarked: "I say, dearie, I think you'd better give me the lunch basket. Don't you see, we are apt to t lose each other in the crowd."