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The Pageland Journal Jr Published Wednesday Mornings f by The Journal Company ____________ x C. M. Tucker, Editor 1 Subscription Price - - $1.00 Entered as second-class mail \ matter at the post otfice at Page- 1 land. S. C? under Postal Act i of March 3. 1879. i July 11, 1917 l THE ROAD 1 There has been much agita- J tion here this week in favor of ] the immediate building of a < good road from Chesterfield to i Lancaster. The people appear i to be much interested, and it is believed that the work may be j done in August of this year. An informal meeting of the citizens < of Pageland was held yesterday i morning, and a committee was appointed to put through this proposition at the earliest pos 1 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 nmgni ana get a proposition from the county through hiin. 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. It is believed that the people at Mt. Croghan, Ruby, Chesterfield and Cheraw will join in this undertaking to make a good road east and west across the county. Private subscrip tinnc will nrnKaKlv Ko />olln/4 ..WUW T* |/IVUUUIJ UW vail^U 1U1 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 Lynche's river is soon to be a reality instead of a dream. The road from the river to Lancaster is in fairlv 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 government is thinking of improving the roads, in the county and has surveyed one road which connects the town of i Lancaster and Chesterfield. It is also proposed to divert the present road at Ruby and have j this road run through Jefferson, 1 to Kershaw. 1 "The Pageland-Chesterfield I road is a calossial monument of j neglect. Winter or summer, it 1 i> full of holes, mu>i and ruts i This road should have been re paired years ago by the county 1 hut continues and stands out ' 4 like a sore thum" at every j farmer and citizen who must < \ ravel over this road from Jef- i farson, McBee, and other points ' to transact his business at Ches terfield Every congressman ( has promised reliet and has put t a plank in his platform advoca- i t ing government assistance. "The road planned to go thru J Jefferson is a wise civil engi- ( iieer*s advice and should bp ac c cepted by the Government, back < od bv Congressman Stevenson. * "Pageland is on the worst stretch of road to Monroe and ( other N. C., points and this road r has at several points cost a mo- F tnrict manv o -l" ? P ...? uihuj h uican UUWU Or ~ l?low-out. "Jefferson is the logical point e of a National Highway to Mon- i roe, on the north, and Kershaw 1 on the south. The hoboe's high- j way is somewhere near Taxa- 1 haw and the voters should write t to Congressman Stevenson, and ^9k him to ?upp9rt foG plains of |l efferson and the U. S. Govern- 1 nent, as he must keep his >ledge. "The route through Jefferson ' vill not run so near the N. C., ine all through the county." Now, this is a rather extreme irraignment of the roads on vhich Pageland happens to be ocated, and The Journal feels t a duty to answer some of the irguments, hoping that all that nay 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 Dy Pageland. In Decmber 1914 an expert engineer maile a map of proposed roads connecting all the county seats in the State. This was approved by Commissioner E. J. Watson. The proposed road would have come by 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 Jefferson 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 wby 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 disinterested, and did he look the other route over? Our contemporary states that '"Pageland 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 leen 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 (milt roads in some sections of township are somewhat short of perfection, if any notice is to be ?iven citizens who say there are sections almost impas sable. We agree that Pageland is on the main road leading nnrth J and this is a big reason why his highway from Chesterfield should come this way. The statement that "Jefferson s the logical point of a high way to Monroe and the north" is not quite clear to us, as both Pageland and Jefferson are on his road and no one has de lied it. Neither do we quite inderstand the statement that he "hoboe's highway is some where near Taxahaw." No, the road by Jefferson would not run so near the State ineall the way through the :ountv, but would dip down all >ut of the almost direct line from Dheraw through Chesterfield, tubv, Mt. Croghan, Pageland, Tradesville or Taxahaw, Lan :aster, Chester and Union. Then lur friends at Jefferson should emember that two thirds of the copulation of the county is in an lght mile strip across the north rn part of the county from ast to west. Talk about logical routes to ,ancaster from Chesterfield! rhere is but one. Anv man in he county can tell you where it s. We don't blame Jefferson to vnnt the road, but there is no i8e to say/'logical" when talking ibout going around the elbo^y ft gel to the thumb, > la - Juisl)- - hi Stuff you needn't read unless you '" care to. It's mostly nonsense. til Pi 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 ?1 other bovs were leaving to enlist ^ in the army, he went along as hi far as Cheraw. Whether he m- o' tended to enlist or not is un- n known, but when the recruiting officer asked him if he wanted w to enlist he replied "No. I have t< a wife and three children at tl home to support." The officer is dismissed him, with the advice that he had better go back and tl stay with them. tl ri 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, si and that trouble was in store for li us when we met up with one or si both of them. He said thev were just rearing about it, and tl that they refused to listen to his n argument that it was all in fun ^ and that anybody and every- |j body knew they would be about , the last two men to operate a still. While he talked on We H were secretly thinking up ways J to appease their anger or escape * into hiding, but he finally went tl so far with his spiel that we si realized he was teasing, and b 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. c John Doesn't Believe Our yarns b John Beasley tells so many U yarns in the Monroe Journal = that he can't believe the honest 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 * is printing a paper for the fishes were it not for the fact that I am I always one of the first to svval 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 his paper. "Being away last week, I missed the story about the earth quake curing a man's rheuma tism, 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 Hats a All men s Hato now There is no use to wait season to buy cheap hats to buy them cheap and c service this summer. I 8 are gone. C. L. GUI v-~ . i 'v H* If K fl '' ' ? mous 40 acre rock Dear Taxaiw. She prepared the dinner id carried it along, and the me was passed in eating and icking the rock, each of which as done right thoroughly. Yes. The rock is a big one. is bigger, even, than some of iir mistakes. No. We didn't go into the evil's den. We - have never ad any desire to den with him, ur sinful deeds to the contrary otwithstanding. A four-year old boy asked if re thought a dozen men could >te the rock, and we didn't link they could. Our opinion i still unchanged. It was such a delightful place lat some ot the ladies exclaimlat it would be fine to have it ightnear Pageland. Up to the resent writing we haven't deided to move it, however, as lere isn't much room over Here > put it. We didn't even see the devil's xitprint. It was covered with ind, just as it is in some of our ves, but it was there just the a me. We walked something less [ian a hundred miles on the ock, but it doesn't matter, maye, for it didn't seem 10 be worn luch more when we finished ian when we began. It is splendid for picnics and lolding the earth together, but : would be poor for farming. LWe accepted without investition the story that a dog and a 3x once ran in at the cave in lie rock and out at Cooke's mill everal miles away, as we didn't ave time to go tnrougn ana iralk back. It is the kind of place where idies like to dare, slip, scream nd laugh. While we are no geologist and an*t say how old the rock is, re feel safe in saving it has een right where it is now for at last several years. Land Wanted! % Land owners, executors, administrators, managers of estates, have you land, residence lots or farms for sale? We have a tiained organization, specializing in subdividing and selling land at public auction. By cur method we quickly turn your property into cash and interest bearing notes. We obtain satisfactory results where usual mAtlinrlc fail Write us, our representative will inspect your property and explain our methods without expense to you. * Atlantic Coast Realty Co, "The name that iuetifier your confidence" Petersburg, Virginia t Cost go on sale at Cost, until the end of the . Now is your chance jet the benefit of the . .-l .1 Jon t wan until xney LLEDGE i3 M sta y of Air Will End Fight Baltimore, July 5 ?Dr. S. Ames, professor of physics at Johns Hopkins university and chairman of the commission of scientists appointed by this government to study the conduct of the war in France, stated here tonight after a number of conferences in Washington that speed and size in aeroplanes will end the war most quickly. . He said the Uuited States must furnish 10,000 pilots and at the lowest 20,000 aeroplanes and maintain this average in the face of casualities. Each pilot, he said, must have two planes. Dr, Ames said the American people can not appreciate the tremendous scale on which things are being done abroad. P, Don't m _ 10 Fruit Jars, and Oil Stoves Pag< I Hardw iL Turn Y( Into I Highest market prii Brass, Copper, Rubber See us for prices on ( Machinery. R. F. Smith or IM. L. Davis Davis & Fu Cheap cash store is t Goods, Groceries an< keep our stock replei Goods. We have a few Pali $5.50 per suit. Oth portionately low prices. Come to the hitch Square deal. Davis & Fi "To illustrate," he said, "in some places the British battle line in France is 4o miles deep and I have seen trains of motor cars 20 miles long and a train of 9 inch guns six miles longSpeaking of the work of his commission he said: "There is a captive balloon every five miles along the Western front." Tillman Favors Hanging Spies Washington, July 5.?"I have no doubt there are spies in the departments, there are clever scoundrels, I believe, who are getting hold of the secrets of our government and betraying them to Germany. "For my part, I want to see these German devils ferreted out and want to see them hung." =31 Forget n du y Caps, Rubbers From The I >land ! B arc to. _1 tur Junk i/lnnpv IAV11VJ ces paid for scrap Iron, and any kind of sacks. Did Boilers and worn-out G. C. Mangum . tttTI inaerourKs he place to get your Dry o J Shoes Cheap. We dished with Seasonable * m Beach Suits going at ler Merchandise at prolot for Bargains and a underburk