The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, May 30, 1917, Image 1
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.