The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, July 11, 1917, Image 4
The Pagcland Journal
Published Wednesday Mornings
by The Journal Company
C. M. Tucker, Editor
Subscription Price - - $1.00
Entered as second-class mail
matter at the post otfice at Pageland,
S. C., under Postal Act
of March 3, 1879.
July 11, 1917 '
THE ROAD
There has been much agitation
here this week in favor of
the immediate building of a
good road from Chesterfield to
Lancaster. The people appear
to be much interested, and it is
believed that the work may be
done in August of this year. An
informal meeting of the citizens
of Pageland was held yesterday
morning, and a committee was
appointed to put through this
proposition at the earliest pos
sible moment. The committee
is composed by the following
gentlemen: H. V. Mungo, chairman;
R. M. Usher, S. F. Ingram,
G. F. Evans. C. M. Tucker.
This committee was instructed
to get in touch with Supervisor
Knight and get a proposition
from the county through him.
It is proposed that the road
from Chesterfield to Five Forks
be worked and put into good
condition, and that the road be
built from Five forks across the
river by the best route, one to
be established perhaps by the
State Highway Engineer.
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xi is oeuevea mai me people
at Mt. Croghan, Ruby, Chester
field and Cheraw will join in
this undertaking to make a
good road east and west across
the countv. Private subscrip
tions will probably be called for
in addition to the aid from the
county. Then it is expected
that Federal aid will be obtained
to supplement this. In this way
it is hoped and believed that a
good road west from Pageland
across Lynchers river is soon to
be a reality instead of a dream.
The road from the river to
Lancaster is in fairly good con
dition already, and if we build
a road on this side it is believed
that Lancaster county will make
it even better on that side of the
river.
Mo^e About the Road
From the Jeffersonian of Jefferson
the following is taken:
" The Covernment is thinking
of improving the roads, in the
county and has surveyed one
road which connects the town of
Lancaster and Chesterfield. It
is also proposed to divert thej
'iroQonl rr?tjrl q1 IX . K?. ?
v/uu mi i\u u y dUU llctYl*
this road run through Jefferson,
to Kershaw.
"The Pageland-Chesterfield
road is a calossial monument of
neglect. Winter or summer, it
i > full of holes, mini and ruts
This road should have been re
paired years ago by the county
I'Ut continues and stands out
4 like a sore thum" at every
farmer and citizen who must
i ravel over this road from Jeffarson,
McBee, and other points
to transact his business at Chesterfield
Every congressman
nas promised relief and has put
a plank in his platform advoca
ling government assistance.
"The road planned to go thru
Jefferson is a wise civil engineer's
advice and should b?> ac
cepted by the Government, back
<*d bv Congressman Stevenson.
"PacolflnH ic nn tr>? ?*
.v, >'11 IHV WU1M
stretch of road to Monroe and
other N. C., points and this road
has at several points cost a motorist
many a break down or
blow-out.
''Jefferson is the logical point
of a National Highway to Monroe,
oa the north, and Kershaw
on the south. The hoboe's highway
is somewhere near Taxahaw
and the voters siiould write
to Congressman Stevenson, and
aik him to wpport the claims of
i' , . ,
proposed road would have come
bv Pageland. Besides that, the
road from Chesterfield to Lynche's
river is built on a ridge
and no streams of importance
are crossed. Pageland is just a
very little north of a straight
line from Chesterfield to Lancaster,
and the distance is 12 or
15 miles less this way than by
lefferson and Kershaw.
We hadn't realized that our
roads are the worst in the State,
though we frankly admit they
are not what we would like to
have them. This is why we
want aid to make them better.
We agree most heartily with the
Jeffesonian that the county
should have made this a good
road years ago.
The Jeffersonian says a wise
civil engineer advised that the
road go bv Jefferson. If it isn't
asking too much we would like
for the Jeffersonian to tell us
who the engineer is and on
what grounds he based his ad
vise. Was he wholly disinter
ested, and did he look the other
route over?
Our contemporary states that
'Tageland is on the worst
stretch of road to Monroe and
other N. C. points " This is en
tirely off the question under discussion,
and seems to reflect a
desire to condemn Pageland for
shortcomings rather than show
why the highway should go fif
teen miles out of the way. Jef
ferson has not been out of the
mud so long that she should
throw stones, especially when it
is remembered that her recently
built roads in some sections of
township are somewhat short of
perfection, if any notice is to be
given citizens who say there
uic acvuuua <11 in dm mipas same.
We agree that Pageland is on
the main road leading north,
and this is a big reason why
this highway from Chesterfield
should come this way.
The statement that "Jefferson
is the logical point of a high
way to Monroe and the north"
is not cpiite clear to us, as both
Pageland and Jefferson are on
this road and no one has de
nied it. Neither do we quite
understand the statement that
the "hoboe's highway is some
where near Taxahaw."
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.no, ine road by Jefferson
would not run so near the State
line all the way through the
county, but would dip down all
out of the almost direct line from
Cheraw through Chesterfield,
Rubv, Mt. Croghan, Pageland,
Tradesville or Taxahaw, Lan
caster, Chester and Union. Then
our friends at Jefferson should
remember that two thirds of the
population of the county is in an
eight mile strip across the north
ern part of the county from
east to west.
Talk about logical routes to
Lancaster from Chesterfield!
There is hut one. Any man in
the county can tell you where it
is. We don't blame Jefferson to
want the road, t>ut there is no
use to say,"logical" when talking
about going around the elbow
?o gej to the thumb, )
Jefferson and the U. S. Govern
ment, as he must keep his
pledge.
"The route through Jefferson
will not run so near the N. C.,
line all through the county."
Now, this is a rather extreme
arraignment of the roads on
which Pageland happens to be
located, and The Journal feels
it a duty to answer some of the
arguments, hoping that all that
may be said or done on either
side may be done or said in a
friendly, neighborly spirit of
rivalry. We have no desire to
disparage the efforts of the Jet
ferson people in road building,
but rather we are desirous of
commending the splendid efforts
they have made and are still
making. We do not even blame
them for attempting to pull the
government aided highway by
lefferson. Their enterprise is
commendable. Now for the
argument.
Yes, we agree that some surveying
has been done. To
begin with, the original Chester*
field Lancaster road is along the
same route as the present road
by Pageland. In Decmber 1914
an expert engineer made a map
of proposed roads connecting
all the county seats in the State.
This was approved by Commissioner
E. J. Watson. The
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Stuff you needn't read unless you **.
care to. It's mostly nonsense. tl
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It is said that Mr. Will Smith w
has claimed to be a married man
at least once in his life. A few
months ago when some ot the
other bovs were leaving to enlist j
in the army, he went along as h
far as Cheraw. Wli ether he in- o
tended to enlist or not is un- n
known, but when the recruiting
officer asked him if he wanted v
to enlist he replied "No. I have t<
a wife and three children at tl
home to support." The officer i<
dismissed him, with the advice
that he had better go back and tl
stay with them. tl
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Henry Graves had the laugh p
on the hash writer the other day c
when he came up and told how tl
mad Messrs. Smith and Stegall t
were about the little article last
week about the still. Henry f
said they were on high horses, s
and that trouble was in store for li
us when we met up with one or s
both of them. He said thev
were just rearing about it, and t
thai they refused to listen to his r
argument that it was all in fun *and
that anybody and every- J
body knew they would be aDout
the last two men to operate a 1
still. While he talked on We i
were secretly thinking up ways '
to appease their anger or escape ^
into hiding, but he finally went t
so far with his spiel that we s
realized he was teasing, and t
then we were able to spread a v
sickly grin over and about the j,
major opening in our more or a
less beautiful countenance.
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John Doesn't Believe Our yarns ^
b
John Beasley tells so many I<
yarns in the Monroe Journal
I ?. !-_?? .1 1
uiui ut cuu i ueueve me nonesi
truth when he sees it. Here is
what he said last week above
a couple of our stories which he
reprinted:
"I would say that Carl Tucker j
is printing a paper for the fishes
were it not for the fact that I am
always one of the first to swal
low his bait. I have been of
the opinion that Zeb Green has
been stretching his imagination
just a little of late, but I now
realize that he is not even in
the class with Tucker. Even
Nesbit of Waxhaw, who oc
casionallv abandons the realm
of reality, is thrust into insignificance
by a couple of stories that
Tucker tells in the last issue of
l :
ins paper.
"Being away last week, I
missed the story about the earth
quake curing a man's rheuma
tisin, but if it is worse than the
one about the earthquake that
shook the clock into action I
want none of it."
The Big Rock and the 4th
On the Fourth the boss carried
us and several others over to the
i "
Hats a
All men's lats ow
There is no use to wait
i i i
season to huy cheap hats
to buy them cheap and (
service this summer. I
are gone.
C. L. GUI
^ kj, /
imous 40 acre rock near Taxa- ]
aw. She prepared the dinner
nd carried it along, and the
me was passed in eating and
acking the rock, each of which ]
?as done right thoroughly. ,
Yea. The rock is a big one. ,
t is bigger, even, than some of (
ur mistakes.
No. We didn't go into the
evil's den. We have never
ad any desire to den w ith him,
ur sinful deeds to the contrary
lOtwithslanding.
A four-year old boy asked if
re thought a dozen men could
Dte the rock, and we didn't
bink they could. Our opinion
s still unchanged.
It was such a delightful place
hat some of the ladies exclaimhat
it would be fine to have it
ightnear Pageland. Up to the
resent writing we haven't deeded
to move it, however, as
here isn't much room over here
o put it.
We didn't even see the devil's
ootprint. It was covered with
and, just as it is in some of our
ives, but it was there just the
ame.
We walked something less
han a hundred miles on the
ock, but it doesn't matter, may>e,
for it didn't seem to be worn
nuch more when we finished
han when we began.
It is splendid for picnics and
lolding the earth together, but
t would be poor for farming,
r We accepted without investigation
the story that a dog and a
ox once ran in at the cave in
he rock and out at Cooke's mill
everal miles away, as we didn't
lave time to go through and
vaik back.
It is the kind of place where
adies like to dare, slip, scream
ind laugh.
While we are no geologist and
an't say how old the rock is,
ve feel safe in saving it has
>een right where it is now for at
east several years.
Land Wanted!
%
Land owners, executors,
administrators, managers
of estates, have you land,
residence lots or farms for
sale? We have a ttained
organization, specializing
in subdividing and selling
land at public auction. By
cur method we quickly
111m vni ir nrnnprtif lnlri
IU1II JWI u ill iv/
cash and interest bearing
notes. We obtain satisfactory
results where usual
methods fail.
Write us, our repre- i
sentative will inspect your
property and explain our
methods without expense
to you.
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"The name that iu.ttifiei your confidence"
Petersburg, Virginia
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IJU VII iiu IV CI I WOI.
unlil the end o( the
. Now is your chance
jet the benefit ol the
)on t wait until they
LLERGE
M tie y of Air Will End Figh
Baltimore, July 5?Dr. J
i\mes, professor of physics a
|ohns Hopkins university an?
chairman of the commission o
scientists appointed by tlii
government to study the cor
djuct of the war in Franci
stated here tonight after a nun1
ber of conferences in Washing
ton that speed and size in aerc
planes will end the war mo;
quickly.
He said the Uuited State
must furnish 10,000 pilots and r
the lowest 20,000 aeroplanes an
maintain this average in th
face of casualities. Ivach pilo
he said, must have two plane:
Dr, Ames said the America
people can not appreciate th
tremendous scale on whic
things are being done abroad.
F,
Don't
To
S Fruit larc
II I Ulb OviU,
and Oil Stove:
Paqi
Hardw
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Turn Y<
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Highest market pr
Brass, Copper, Rubbe
See us for prices on
Machinery.
R. F. Smith oi
IM. L. Davis
Davis & Fi
Cheap cash store is
r. nnrlc i r
VJlV/WI IV.O LA I
keep our stock reple
Goods.
We have a few F^a
$5.50 per suit. Ot
portionately low prices
Come to the hitcl
Square deal.
Davis & F
t "To illustrate," he said, "in
j some places the ITitish battle
lt line in Franee is 4o miles deep
j and I have seen trains of motor
f cars 2<> miles lout; and a train of
s 9 inch guns six miles long.
h Speaking of the work of his
, commission he said:
, "There is a captive balloon
r everv five miles along the West'
em trout."
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I illman Favors Hanging Spies
ts Washington, July 5.?"I have
it no doubt there are spies in the
d departments, there are clever
e scoundrels, 1 believe, who are
t, getting hold of the secrets of
s. our government and betraying
n them to Germany,
e "For my part, I want to see
h these German devils ferreted out
and want to see them hung."
Forget |
my
Caps, Rubbers J
s From The I
eland !
arc Co. |
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our Junk
Money
ices paid (or scrap Iron,
r and any kind of sacks.
Old Boilers and worn-out
r G. C. Mangum
wiwrwi'i mmb
II. VV. Funderlxirk Sd
mderburk's 1
the place to get your Dry
id Shoes Cheap. We
Mushed with Seasonable
!m Beach Suits 14011114 at
her Merchandise at proi
lot for Bargains and a
underburk
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