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Vol.7NO. 52 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1917 $1.00 per year
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Washington. Sept. 8.?Copies
of three brief dispatches made
public by the state department
today revealed another case of
sinister German diplomacy, this
time directed against Argentina
and involving the Swedish foreign
office in an apparent grave
breach of neutrality and diplomatic
propriety,
They were messages to Berlin
from Count Luxbvrg, the German
charge at Buenos Avres,
forwarded by the Swedish lega
tion there as its own communications.
Besides advising that
no concesssions be granted Argentina
in the submarine con
troversy, they suggested that the
South American country's ships
be sunk "without leaving any
trace" and gave information as
to the sailings and positions of
certain vessels.
The denartment's stot<?mpni
was sent to the Argentine em
bassv and the Swedish legation
here at the same time it was giv.
en to the public. There was no
explanation as to how the mes
sages came into the hands of the
United States nor discussion as
to what may be the result.
The disclosure created a sensa
tion in political circles and
among the neutral diplomats.
Baron Akereelim, the Swedish
charge, in the absence of advices
from his government, would not
comment further than to say it
was improbable that the Swedish
minister ot Buenos Avres knew
of the contents of the dispatches.
Axel Robert Nordvall, of the
special Swedish economic mis
sion, said he was certain that
Baron Lowen, the Swedish min
ister to Argentina, had no know
ledge of the contents of the
message.
"Moreover, I am sure," said
Nordvall, "that Sweden would
not have been a party to such a
heartless proceeding.
"I know Baron Lowen very
well. He is not in good health
and it is possible that he was
unaware of the sending of the
messages. If the messages were
transmitted in German code,
even if he could know they
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Tf viv ovill| lie CUU1U UUl I1UVC
known the contents and may
have thought thev were harm
less business messages."
Monroe Boy In Trouble at
Charlotte
Monday's Charlotte Observer.
Fitzhugh Griffin, a driver of a
government automobile at Camp
Greene, who was driving the
machine that ran over a negro
boy, Frank Goin, on South Mint
street Saturday morning, causing
the boy's death, will be given a
preliminary hearing before Recorder
H. C. lones this morning.
The charge against him is manslaughter.
Griffin was arrested Saturday
immediately following the acci
dent, by policemen, and turned
over to federal anthnritine H?
will be returned to the civil authorities
this morning prior to
the preliminary hearing before
Recorder Jones.
Griffin ran into Frank Goin, a
14 year old negro boy, on Mint
street at the Southern Railway
system crossing Saturday morn j
ing, while getting out of an ap
proaching train. Goin was rid
ing a bicycle. He was knocked
from his wheel by the automo
bile, suffering internal injuries
which caused his death.
Griffin is 18 years old. He
lives in Monroe, where his fam
ily is well known. He came to
Charlotte some time ago to get
employment at the camp,
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who the teachers Are and
Where They Are From
The faculty elected for the
,Pageland High School for the
(term beginning: Monday, SepI
tember 17th is as follows:
Mr. G. B. Dukes, the Principal
of the school, returns for the
fourth year. He is a graduate of
Wofford College, and has had
several years experience before
coming to Pageland.
Miss Elizabeth Agnew, Donalds,
S. C. is a graduate of Win
throp College and has taught in |
the High schools of this state for
several years. Miss Agnew has
been elected to the High School
department.
Miss Elberta Riser, Leesville,
S. C is a graduate of a North
Carolina College and has taken
special work in expression in
tjie Pagee-Davis college of Illi
nois. She will teach the sixth
and seventh grades.
Mr. J. C. Gathings returns to
the school for the third year as
teacher of the Fourth and Fifth
grades. Mr. Gathings was educated
in the Public schools, and
has pursued special courses in
o
uic oiaie oummer scnooi ior
teachers during the past summer.
Miss May Cuthberson, Mon
roe, N. C., is an experienced
teacher, having taught several
years in the graded schools of
North Carolina in which state
she was educated. She comes
very highly recommended for
her work in the Primary Grades.
Miss Lilla Boyd Ketchin,
Winnsboro, S. C., is a graduate
of the Chicora College for Wo
men, Columbia. Miss Ketchin
has had one years experience as
first grade teacher and will have
charge of the First and advanced
First grades.
Miss Cornelia Hamilton is a
graduate of Marshville High
school, from which institution
she entered Lenoir College.
For. two years she has taken
special courses in music in addi
tion to her other studies so as to
be prepared to teach the subject.
School Bigins Next Monday
The next session of Pageland
High School will begin Monday
September 17th. Opening
exercises will be held 111
tho C/>linrt1 I
.Uv uvuwi auuuuiiuin ueguiiiing
at nine o'clock. It is planned
to have a speaker from the Na
tional Defense Committee to
make an address. Local speakers
will also have places on the
program. The public is invited
to attend these exercises.
; The newly adopted text-books
will be used in the Pageland
High School this year. The
principal changes made by the
State Board of Education effect
the Readers and Arithmetics in
the grades, and the English and
Histories in High school classes.
The terms exchange are liberal
so that old books can be turned
in as part payment for new
books. Only books of similar
subjects can be exchanged. For
example any Milne's arithmetic
in good condition may be exchanged
for any one of the new
Smith's Arithmetics Thomp
son's U. S. History can be used
in part payment for any one of
the new histories in the Grades
or High school classes. The
contract prices, and exchnncp
prices are printed or stamped on
the front covers of the new
books. These hooks can he had
at a local store where many of
them have been received and
are ready for sale.
Mon?It's nothing hut work,
work, work, day hin han' day
hout?there's no hend to it.
Ocle? Poor chappie! How
long 'uve vou been hat it?
Mon?Hi begin tomorrow,
Big War Credit Bill Is Passed
With No Dissent
Washington, Sept. 6.?The
great war credits bill, authorizing
$11,538,945,460 in bonds and cer
tificates, passed the House tonight
unanimously. Action by
the Senate as soon as the pending
war tax bill is disposed of is
planned by administration lead
ers.
Not a material amendment
was added to the bill by the
House. Representative Moore,
of Pennsylvania, led a group ot
republicans in a futile fight foi
consideration of his proposal foi
a war expenditures committee,
which was thrown out on a
point of order.
Every effort of republicans to
limit the control the bill would
give Secretary McAdoo over the
bonds and certificates resulted in
failure. The last fight, made by
Representative Johnson of Washington,
to direct the secretary to
spend at least $2,500,000 for newspaper
advertising in disposing of
thp Knn A c iimp
.UW wuu^, tl no utlCJltU UVCI'
whelmingly. If the secretary
desires under the measure, he
may use some of the $17,600,000
appropriated for disposing of all
the bonds and certificates in
newspaper publicity.
Negroes Are Wanted
Cheraw, Sept. 8.?The acceptance
for enlistment of suitable
colored applicants as Stevedoies
in the Quartermaster Corps,
National Army, has been author
ized by the War Department.
The men will be used in the
Handling of freight and Govern
ment supplies, at the the various
seaport towns where Govern
ment transports are loaded.
The scale of pay is as follows
Privates $30.0(
Privates 1st. Class 33.&
Corporals 36.0c
Sergeants 44.0(
Sergeants 1st Class 5l.0(
This pay is in addition to food
clothing and medical attendance
Any unmarried colored mar
between the age of 18 & 40 whe
is sound and healthy can enlis
provided he has not alread}
been drafted.
Thr?SP rtpcirin<y tn : ?
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structed to report to,
Corpora! Benj. F. Foster
Army Recruiting Station
Cheravv, S. C
Greatest Corn Crop in Historj
of America Now in Prospect
Washington, Stpt. 7.?Corn
the country's greatest crop, needs
only a few weeks freedom frorr
frost to mature into the largesi
production ever known in the
history of the nation. The gov
ernment's September crop repori
today forecasts a production ol
3,248,000,000 bushels, which is
124,000,000 bushels more than
produced in the record year, 1912
Corn prospects improved tc
the extent of 53,000,000 bushels
as a result of good weather during
August, the Kansas crop
sowing improvement to the ex
tent of.almost 4O,00(),00o bushels,
and Missouri 23,000,000 bushels
Declines were recorded in other
states.
Editor?I tow's the new so
cietv reporter.-' I told him to
| condense as much as possible.
?Assistant?He did.. Here's
his account of vesterday's afternoon
tea: "Mrs. Lovely poured,
Mrs. Jabber roared. Mrs. Rasping
gored, and Mrs. Embonpoint
snored."?Tit Hits.
"What did the old man say
when vou asked him if you
could marrv his daughter?
"Asked me if I could support
hjm ia the wrae style she did,"
Passing it Along |
Washington Star. j
"The neat and elegant ap-1
pearance of the American sol
dier isn't maintained," said Warl
Secretary Baker in an address,
"without hard work. Yes? the!
work is hard, but doesn't the re-1
suit more than justify it? 1
i "On the train the other day a I
private sat with his tunic un-l
buttoned, for the temperature
was high. A sergeant strode up
to him and said: "'Button up
that tunic! Did you never hear
| of by law 217, subsection D? I'm
Sergeant Jabez Winterbottom.*
'A gentleman in the seat be
hind tapped the sergeant sternly
' on the shoulder. i
1 '"How dare you issue orders
with a pipe in your mouth?* he
asked. 'Go home and read paragraph
174, section M, part IX.
I am Major Eustice Carroll.'
"Here a gentleman with a
drooping mustache interposed
from the other side of the aisle:
' "it Major Carroll,' he said
' coldly, 'will consult by-law 31 of
section K, he will learn that to
reprimand a sergeant in the pres I
ence of a private is an offense
| not lightly to be overlooked.*"
i Father?Helen, isn't it about
time you were intertaining tbe
prospect of matrimonv?
Daughter?Not quiet, pa. He
doesn't call until 8 o'clock. i
"You can't make a silk purse
1 out of a sow's ear."
"Even at that the people
what's raising hogs aint losing
nothing."
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Hogs Nearly 20c a Pound on
Foot
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 10?An
acre of wheat per each one-horse
crop was the policy indorsed by
the State council of defense at
the sumter conference.
Bv resolution the farmers of
the State were urged to grow all
of the live stock possible.
David R. Coker, chairman of
the council of defense, discussing
the necessity for more hogs
said: "I have before me quotations
of the Baltimore market of
September 3, quoting medium
and heavy hogs (200 to 300
pounds in weight) at 19.65 to
19.70, live weight. If the farmers
are going to raise hogs for
the market they should form
community clubs and ship them
in carload lots. ' They should
ship nothing except hogs meighing
175 pounds and over, as
these always bring better prices.
I shall be glad to give complete
information to any farmers
clubs wishing to ship hogs."
"So she has agreed to be
yours?"
"That was not exactly the way
she expressed it."
"She said she would be as
much mine as I would be hers."
"So your new cook came this
afternoon. Do vou think you
can keep her lone?"
"Well, she can't get a train
back now till tomorrow moraine"
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ney is safer in the BANK th
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ncrease your balance
)ills by check is the simplest
as well as the safest, as your
ibt it pays.
>ook is more convenient tn cn
rency or loose change, aud if
will furnish you another fre
ir wallet, the story is different,
you a better standing in the
usiness men, to pay by check r
i "having money in the bank,"
Limed, cancelled checks, with
>ook furnished by the bank, mak
>rd of business transacted and i
other record could be.
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unaware to yourself, graduall;
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our recommendation this cred
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readily done for you, and alst
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accommodation, but the preferer
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Germany About Ready Wi'.h
Her Terms of Peace
London, Sept. 9.?Germany
will shortly be able to publh !i
her peace terms, according l >
Dr. George Michaelis, the Gkrman
chancellor. Dr. Michaelis
in an interview said he had s >
informed the reichstag mai i
, committee, an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenha
gen today states.
The main committee, said Dr.
Michaelis in the interview, had
; "tried to make final arrangements
regarding peace condi
tions and the question of AlsaceLorraine,
but no decision has
1 yet been taken. The question,
however, was eagerly discussed
and Germany will soon be able
to publish her peace terms."
A Lesson In Grammer
Grace's uncle met her on the
street one spring day and asked
her whether she was going out
with a picnic party from her
school.
"No," replied his 8-year-old
niece. "I ain't going."| ;
"My dear," said the uncle,
"you must not say, 'I ain't going'
You must sav, 'I am not going.'"
And he proceeded to give her a
little lesson in grammer: "You
are not going. He is not going.
We are not going. You are not
going. Thev are not going.*
Now can \ou sav all that?"
"Sure I can," responded Grace
quite heartily. "They ain't nobody
going."?Exchange.
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