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THt PAGE LAND JOURNAL Vol.7 NO. 36 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1917 $1.00 per year ' How to Answer Questions on Registration Cards Questions will be asked for you to answer in order in which they appear on the paper. These questions are set out below with detailed information to help you answer them. Do not write on, mark, or otherwise mutilate these instructions. Do not remove them, they should be carefully read so that you will have your answers ready when you go "before the registrar. All answers will be written on the Registration Card in ink by the Registrar, who should be careful to snell nil nnmps rnr. rectly and to write legibly. 1. Name in full. Age in years, i This means all vour names ; spelled out in full. State your age today in years i only. Disregard additional months or days. Be prepared i to say 19, 01 25, not 19 yrs. 3 mo., ! or the like. ! 2. Home address. < This means the place where you have your permanent home, < not the place you work. Be prepared to give the address : in this way: 232 Main Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; 1 that is, give the number and name of street first, then town, then county and State. 3. Date of birth. Write your birthday (month, day, and year) on a piece of paper before going to the Registrar, and give the paper to him the first thing. Example: "August 5, 1894. If you do not remember the year, start to answer as you would if someone' asked you your birthday, as August 5th. Then &?V "on mv hirlhHatr ?Hic year I will be (or was) years old." The Registrar will then fill in the vear of birth. Many people do not carrv in mind the year thev were born. This may be obtained by the Registrar by subtracting the age in years on this year's birth day from 1917. 4. Are you (1) a natural citi zen; (2) a naturalized citizen; (3) an alien; (4) or have you declared your intention to become a citizen (specify which?) (1) If you were born in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, you are a naturalbom citizen, no matter what may have been the citzenship or nationality of your parents. If you were born in Porto Rico, you are a citizen of the United States, unless you were born of alien parentage. If you were born abroad, you are still a citi zen of the United States if your father was a citizen of the Unitid States at the time you were born, unless you have ex oatritated vonrs^lf (2) You are a naturalized citi zen if you have completed your naturalization; that is, if you have "taken final papers." But you are not a citizen if you have only declared your intention to become a citizen (that is, if you < hove only "taken out first pa i pers"); in the latter case you are only a "declarent." You are also a naturalized citi zen if, although foreign bom, < your father or surviving parents became fully naturalized while vou were under 21 years ol age, and if you came to the Ilni ted States under 21. (3) You are a declarent it. I although a citizen or subject of < some foreign country, you have < declared on oath before a natur- < alization court your intention to become a citizen of the United States. Receipt from the clerk of the court of the certified copy of such declaration is often called "taking out first papers." You are not a declarent if your Tornadoes Add More to Dis- In aster's Toll Chicago, May 27.?More than 120 persons were killed, a thous-, and or more injured and mil l^1 lions of dollars worth of property u destroyed by tornadoes which n swept through Kansas on Friday, Illinois and Indiana on Saturday . and parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky ^ and southern Illinois Sunday. Reports indicate that a large number of farm implements, needed to produce the bumper ^ crop desired this year, were ruined, although the spasmodic wind struck only here and there , in its frightful play through the ^ rural regions. Crop damage is said to be not very heavy in n( grains. . The heaviest toll of life was ^ taken at Mattoon, 111., a city ot . 10,000 people, in the broom corn county of central Illinois, where 54 are known to be dead and 500 injured, with a property loss . of $2,000,000. Charleston, 111., ten miles east of Mattoon, was also partly ^ wrecked Saturday evening with ___ a loss of 38 lives and 150 injured. The property loss there is $1, 000,000. The next most serious loss was at Andale, Kan., where 26 were killed and a score injured on Friday. Dublin,- Ky., suffer ed three dead and 17 injured today. South Dyersburg, Tenn., has reported to have lost six killed and 32 injured in a tornado that swept Dyer county today. Near Blytheville, Ark., nine persons were reported killed and a doz en hurt and reports received in Birmingham said sevftal were killed and many injured when a tornado struck Sayre. Ala., today. Reports from Indiana show at least seven persons killed at Hebron, Kouts and other places and the death list may reach 20. More than 200 were injured in the Indiana territory swept by the storm. first papers were taken out after September 20, 1900. and is more than 7 vears old. (4) You are an alien if you do not fall vvihin one of the three classes above mentioned. (b) Where were you born? First name of the town, then then the State, then the country, as Columbus, Ohio; Vienna, Australia; Paris, France; Sofia Bulgaria. (6) If not a citizen, of what I country are you a citizen or subject? This need be answered only by aliens and declarents. Re member that a declarent is not yet a citizen of the United States. If an alien or declarent, state the n a m < > r\( ? A? u?.?v ui j uui tuumry, as France, japan, China, etc. (7) \N hat is vour trade, occupation, or office? This does not ask what you once did, not what you have done most of the time, nor what you are best fitted to do. It! asks what your job is right now. State briefly, as Farmer. Miner, Student, Laborer (on farm, in rolling mill, in automobile, wagon, or other factory, etc.) If you hold and office under State or Federal government, name the office you hold. If you are in one of the following office or employments, use one of the names hereafter mention ed: Customhouse clerk, employed in the transmission of the mails, or employed in an armory, ar morv, arsenal, or navy yard, mariner, actually employed in the sea service of citizen or (Continued on last page) formation About Enrollment for National Government June 5th According to proclamation by resident nnd Governor of Hith Carolinarour committee instructed to order every lale person, white and colored arried and single, crippled, ck or well, between the ages : twenty one and thirty one his means it you have reached yenty one by June 5th and if m have not reached thirty one f that day) to present yourself your nearest voting place to i enrolled, between the hours 7 a. m. and 9 p. m , Tuesday me 5th. There will be men each voting place with cards enroll you. The penalty for )t enrolling or for giving false formation is one year in the . S. penitentiary, and then be g sent to the trenches. We >peal to all of our citizens to ;lp spread the news and see at every one, employed by em or otherwise, gets to the >11 that day. June 5th will be i?i: ?- * siaie iiunuay ov proclamation the Governor. This enroll Every ma the ages of! required to military sen 5th. No eva law will b< and those t register will arrest and ment for om federal pris States office) mat ill*: IdV enforced. T plies to all m or single, wh This informs be dissemin; ly and as th< possible, as of the law w cuse. Everj should noti: tomers, eve his hands, er his congr< cry doctor t and every should assis ing the new; 5th is regis! and that n tween 21 ai old should ia ru?nt docs not mean that all enolled will he drafted, the only person who is certain to be sent o the fiont, is the man who ails to register or makes false statement in doing so The :ommittee asks every minister, -vhite and colored, of every denomination in the county to call his matter to the attention of heir congregation each Sunday between now and enrollment lay. We enclose you a list of he registrars appointed for each poll in the county. The first same mentioned at each place s chairman and is to meet the committee at Chesterfield Court Mouse at 10 o'clock Monday norning, May 28th, to receive nstructions and supplies. The :ommittee earnestly appeals to ill the people of the county to inter into the patriotic spirit of he day and give their earnest support and hearty co operation n seeing that none of our peo >le fail to obey this important >rder of our Government. E. W. Duvall I. P. Mangum M. J. Hough, Committee. it uciwmi 21 and 31 is register for /ice on June sion of this permitted who fail to be liable to imprisone year in a ;on. United rs will see v is rigidly his law ap ten, married life or black, ition should ate as wide[>roughly as ignorance ! ill be no ex/ merchant fy his cusiry farmer ery preachegaiion, evils patients other man it in spread5 thai June [ration day ws o man bend 31 years til to register. Lost Money On the Niggers C Monroe Enquirer. Mr. John Q. Griffin, of enst Monroe township, was here yes- d terday and when asked what s was the matter with his hands, * rj which had good sized blue knots ^ on the backs of them, he told s about the hailstorm which struck ( him late Tuesday afternoon, r Mr. Griffin, his wife and son, Mr. N. W. Griffin, were in a sur v c rey on the Concord road four t miles north of Monroe, and a a hailstorm came up suddenly and r before shelter could be found < the hail was beating upon them, * the ice coming down in great ' chunks. Mr. Griffin in his efforts to keep the large hail stones t from injuring his wife held a \ carriage curtain down and there- c by exposed his hands with the ^ result above stated. The horse Mr. Griffin was driving was bad ly bruised by the hail and Mr. N. W. Griffin, who was driving was bruised considerably by the hail stones. The elder Mr. GrifI fin, who is eighty-six years old, says that the hail storm of Tuesday afternoon was the most se- J vere he has ever seen. Three c hundred yards south of where Mr. Griffin and his people were during the storm there was no hail. v An o!d time darkey, a "befo F de war" slave who lives in . Wadesboro and who has been living in "ole Anson" all his life, which is away over eighty years, was recently in his own way ^ expressing his opinion of the . young people of his race. The ' old fellow had laid it on about p the general thriftlessness, loafing g and the all round sorriness as he saw it among the darkeys of the ? younger generation and his cli . max was, 'Til bet God Almighty has lost money on every nigger j He's made since freedom!" Mineral Springs is the home of some very attractive and pop ular young ladies. Some Mon- e roe boys ramble out that way 1 semi occasionally. Two of the s boys have had things to "happen 8 to them" at Mineral Springs and it was thusly. One Sunday ' evening at the home of one of b the voung ladies pies and cake a were served in the parlor. A potato pie, or custard?one of 1 the open faced kind?was put n in a chair. A young man from c this good town was standing a eating a piece of oie and con- v eluded to take a seat and not ^ noticing what was in the chair just behind him, he followed the t( impulse, and into that potato pie he went. He did not "wince ? nor crv aloud," and they do say that it would have made a k heathen god of sorrow grin if it ^ had been in the room when the s' voting man gently got up, push- s' ed the chair aside with his foot, Sl backed into a corner of the room and reached for his hand- u kerchief. Another young man 1 from Monroe went out to Min- 0 eral Springs last Sunday and was seated in a swing in the pleasant n little park there and was holding interesting and pleasant conver v sation with some ladies and all n of a sudden like the swing in a which he was seated "busted" P and his trouserloons were torn and that "right much." Oh yes, n he got away all right. He used his coat for a patch. r a 4He is certainly a fine looking " fellow," said Smith to Jones, v looking at brown. "A fine head." c "Yes," answered Jones "he jj ought to have a fine head. It's ^ brand new: he has never used it v any. iermans Knew About Sailir? of Destroyers Washington, May 23. -Foi r lays before the American dctroyer flotilla arrived abroad Berlin knew it was on the way ind to what port it was goin; , ind the dav before the little vetels steamed into Queenstown Herman submarines had strewn nines about the harbor entrance. The startling information, repealing that German spies not >nly still are at their work- in his country, but that thev have i swift and sure means of com nunicating America's war secrets to the Fatherland, came to he Navy Department today in a cablegram from Rear Admiral Jims, at London. The Admiral said his informaion was positive. His dispatch vas not made public, and for >bvious reasons nothing will be :iven out concerning how the lews came into his possession lor about the precautions which lefeated the German plans and mabled the flotilla to speed afely through the mines. Immediate publicity was givin the salient fact, the Departnent making it clear that its mrpose was to let the people mow of the activity and suc:ess of Teutonic spies and to imphasize the necessity for ab olute secrecy in connection vith naval operations or ship>ing movements. The destroyers now aiding in he hunt for submarines in Euopean waters under the direcion of Admiral Sims, put into ioit at Queenstown on May 16. low long they were in crossing he Atlantic or from what port hey .sailed never has been anlounced, and until word of their rnval came by cable only a few eople in the United States even new of the government's decis an to send warships to Europe. mportant Article About Cantaloupes Some of the cantaloupe grow rs of Laurinburg, N. C., recentV visited our patch and gave us ome information about how to ;row them. First, the rows should be five eet apart, and the vines should e three feet apart in the drill, nd in no case should they be ess than two and a half feet, "o have them closer in tne drill aay increase the yield, but the antaloupes would be under size nd practically all of them yould be rejected by the packer, ^are should be taken to grow lie melons to standard size, not ao large and not too small. Second, thin them down to ne in a hill. Third, cultivate rapidly and eep perfectly clean from grass, ifter thinning to a stand, which liould be done at once, they liould be plowed around in nch a way as to leave a small jrrow for nitrate of soda. Nirate of soda should be applied 00 pounds per acre in the drill n the sides, taking care not to 2t it touch the vines. It is time ow to apply ttie nitrates. Fourth never touch the vines iriththe hands to turn them or nove about. Plow them out now nil later give them one more lowing and sow in peas with lie second plowing. Only two lore piowings should be given. The canteloupes should be eady for market by July 5th, nd the season will not last lore than three weeks. So you tie, it is on in a rush and oft /ith a rush. They tell us we should be enouraged, for we have good rospects for a crop, and indicaions are that the prices will be ood. They also tell us they vill have buyers on our markets. !. L. Parker.