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THE PAGELAND JOLRNAE
Vol.7 NO. 56 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1917 $1.00 per year
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Dig Artillery Kang
County; La
Government Seeking 150,00
Acres of Land In Chesterfield
County for Military
Purposes
Final Decision b;
September 30th
At last an apparent us& hf
been found for the bald san
hills of a portion of Chesterfiel
county. The Government h?
has taken notice ot the ides
military camp site in this coui
ty, and it is believed that th
biggest army training camp i
the United States is soon to b
established in the central, thinlj
settled section of the count:
A ?
i rvn army omciai recently cam
to Cheraw and let it be knowi
that there is a chance for the e:
tablishment of a whopping bi
training camp, and immediate!
the wheels began to turn. Th
matter was taken up throug
Mr. G. W. Duvall of Cherav
and he soon enlisted the help <
many others. The work of si
curing options on ah the lan
in this great body of 150,0C
acres began at once, and at th
time it is practically complete.
This afternoon Mr. Duva
goes to Charleston and tomo
row morning he lavs the entii
matter before the authorise
There are several more possibl
sites, and the two most feasibl
ones will be selected. Then ei
gineers will look over both site
and the final decision will b
made and reported to the Wi
Department not later than Sei
tember 30th.
I It ie iinrlorcfrv/\rl *V?ni ?? <
AI 10 UUU\>10IVA/U luai 11119 id (
be the finishing up trainic
camp for the troops from all tt
camps in the United States, ac
is intended to take the place <
the training behind the lines i
France, The troops would 1
brought here and given sixi
davs of training just as muc
like real warfare as it is possib
to make it. Light artillery, m
chine guns, rifles and very pro
ably airplanes would be brougl
into use. The soldiers would 1
given actual trench experienc
and.sham battles would vu
probably be almost a daily o
currenceNo
better place could be four
in the United States. This si
is high, dry, healthy and hill
i/"; i u:ii~ u
a uc iviiiu aauu iyii! luuiu bit
all the bullets that can ever 1
shot into them, and be none tl
worse.
Right through the propose
site goes Black creek with i
numerous branches so that the;
would be no scarcity of watt
Thousands of acres of this lar
have never been cultivated, at
the principal growth is stubt
black jack and wire grass. Or
may travel miles without sign <
civilization. Of course, son
sections are settled, some <
them quite thickly, but these ai
the exception and not the rul
Someone has said that there ai
approximately 1,700 homes i
this otiij; e body of one hundrc
and fifty thousand acres. Muc
of the land is owned by noi
residents, who live in Monro
Charlotte and other places. M
Bonsai, the railroad promote
owns eleven thousand acres.
Mr. Duvall states that th
large land owners are givin
options at a reasonable prio
while the small holders are ?
a rule, much higher. The Go^
ernment asks for leases or ou
right sales.
'FVinm nrn /y/vrv/1
a uviv many ^wwu
Vvho live within the propose
boundaries, and many of ther
would tear up and move ou
^ i
e tor Uiestertield
irgest Camp In U. S.
0 Russian Rebellion Ends With
Arrest of Korniloff
Russia's internal situation was
considerably clarified by Saturday's
news dispatches which
V announces the arrest of General
Korniloff, marking the detinite
end of his revolt, and the forma
is lion of a new cabinet at Petro
d grad. Publication of the names
d of the new cabinet members was
is deferred for a day.
il With General Korniloff was
i* arrested General Lokomsky.
e who was in command of the
n Russian Northern front when
10
, the revolt started and who cast
r
his lot with his chief. What
e the fate of the two men will be
J. is problematical. Opinion in
s- Russia seems widely divergent
e as to the treatment that should
v be meted out to them,
e Sweden is determined to do
h everything possible to set things
v* right so far as she was concern
>f ed with the German dispatches
transmitted through her foreign
d office, as brought out in the re>0
cent Washington disclosures,
is Foreign Minister Lindemann informed
the Associated Press
11 correspondent at Stockholm,
r- She has stopped the practice and
e will not renew it, he stated, and
s. will ask Germany for an exe
planation of its abuse ofprivi
? i leges.
i- Germany and Austria have
s, proclaimed the creation of a
?e regency to govern Poland, the
*r two nations retaining great conP
troll of foreign affairs during the
period of occupation and of
lo certain other powers of govern
ment, not vet made clear.
ie Military activities on most of
>d the front seem at a minimum
pf for this season, when active op
in erations are still possible virtual>e
ly everywhere in the field of
ty hostilities.
h Petrcgrad, Sept. 15.?General
lc Korniloff, leader of the recent
?1 - roKo1U/\r? _1
icutniuu u^;<tiiim iuc piovisionai
b- government, and General Loht
komskv, the commander of the
>e Northern front, who refused to
e, take command of the Russian
ry armies after Korniloff was de
c posed, have been arrested.
The members of the commissi
sion ot inquiry are due at mohite
ley at midnight and the arrested
y. persons will be given into their
>P hands. Such other officers as
>e the commission selects also will
ie be arrested.
News of the arrest of General
id Korniloff was first conveyed in
ts a telegram received by Premier
re Kerenskv from General Alexieff,
:r. rhinf nf oinff c? t? * *'
v?iivA v/i oidiiit ou rdi uniy 1116
id following details have been reid
ceived:
>y "At 10 o'clock last night. Genie
feral Korniloff and Generals Lo
kcmsky and Romanovskv and
ie Colonel Pleutstchevsky-Pliuskhen
were arrested."
re
e very reluctantly, while others
re would sell .without regret.
i n
The proposed lines would run
somewhat as follows: Beginning
ll ai McBee and following the
Seaboard right of way to within
e? about a mile of Patrick; thence
r' northward to Shiloh church;
r' thence northward to within a
mile or two of Ruby; thence
e westward along a line a mile
K south of Guess and four or five
^ miles south of Pageland; thence
,s south one mile east of Jefferson
' and back .to McBee on the east
1 ern side of the Jefferson-McBee
road. This takes the heart of
d the county, but leaves the best
n land and most thickly settled
t sections all arou^fi the border
Wounded in American Hospital F
Bombed by German Airman
Washington, Sept. 15.?The
first complete detailed account
of the German air attack on ?
American base hospital No. 5 in ^
France on the night of Tuesday,
September 4, has reached this f
country in a report fjom Maj. tl
Gen. M. P. Murphy, head of the 0
Red Cross commission in France. c
It was in this attack that Lieut *
?
William T. Fitzsimmons of Kan- t
I sas t^uy, ine iirsi American otli- r
' cer to give his* life in the war; E
was killed; three other officers, s
six privates, a woman nurse and s,
22 patients from the British lines
were wounded. An American ^
Red Cross inspector returning to s
Paris from the scene told ttie j]
story as follows: ^
"The airplane attnck occurred
at 11 o'clock at night. Just at j
that time fortunately no convoy. f
of wounded was being received j
or the list of casualties would c
have been far greater as one of ^
the bombs fell into the center of ^
the large reception tent to which j
the wounded are first borne for 4
examination. Ten seconds suf- f
ficed for the dropping of the
bombs from the fast flying plane
and within less than a minute
afterward the surgeons of the
hospital were at the task of col- *
lecting and attending those who
had been struck down. And for 1
24 hours they were at work in
the operating room, one surgeon v
relieving another when the latter
from simple exhaustion could ~
work no longer. And the veiy't vnext
dav, just as if nothing had happened,
these same surgeons ^
were called upon to receive and
care for 200 wounded sent in [
from the the trenches of the Brit (
ish expeditionary force. The j
hospital, which is on the French <
coast, has 1,800 beds under can ((
vas in a quadrangle 800 feet <
square, is in a district where J
there are many similar institu- <
tions anu is unmistakable as a (<
hospital. At the same time the <
German aviator flew over it j
most of the sunnrnl staff urac I I
engaged in making rounds of
the ward. Lieutenant Fitzsim- <
. mons, however, was standing at \
, the door flap of his tent. J
i _ i
Submarine Near Atlantic Coast!
An Atlantic Port, Sept. 15.?I
Evidence that an enemy subma-l
rine has begun depredations in!
I American waters was brought!
here today by two steamships,!
? which yesterday morning picked!
' up wireless "S. O. S." calls indi I
eating that a ship was being!
I shelled bv a u-boat in the vicin !
itv of Nantucket Lightship. !
One ship receiving the distress
' calls was a British freighter and
1 the other an American tanker.
Botn reported the scene of the
attack as about 60 miles east of
Nantucket and the time about 8
o'clock yesterday morning. The
identity of the submarine's victim
was not learned by either
vessel, as far as is publicly
known.
According to the commander
of the British vessel the mes
sages received by his wireless
operator rorm the ship said she
was being shelled and reported
her position, but only a pait of
her name could he heard- the
word 4*Abbv," which is the last
name of several ships in Allan
tic trade.
The American tanker's cap
tain confirmed the British skipper's
report, but added no details.
Silence was imposed on
both captains bv naval officers
who interviewed them as soon
as they reported to their agents. g
Make few promises and keep I
them, I
i
*uts Price on Head of First
American Brought in Dead
or Living
British Headquarters in France
nd Belgium, Sept. 15 (By the
Associated Press).?German miliary
authorities on the Western
ront have shown concern about
he imminnce oi the American
rmy's entry into the fighting bv
rffering rewards for the producion
of the first American prison
:r. The general commanding
he Eleventh Reserve Division
ecently put the price of 400
narks on the first American
oldier brought dead or alive
nto his lines.
. This information has been
lisclosed by the diary of a Prusian
sergeant of the Twentyhird
Reserve Regiment. He
vrote at the end of July:
"We are supposed to have
Americans opposite us for some
ime now and two divisions ot
*ortuguese on our right. The
Linn wno Drings in tne tirst
American dead or alive to head[uarters
has been promised the
ron Cross of the First Class and
00 marks and 14 days leave
rom the division."
Notice of Court
Court of General Sessions for
Chesterfield County, fall term,
vill convene on Monday, Sepember
24th, 1917.
Grand Jurors, Peti* Jurors, and
vitnesses take notice.
I. P. MANGUM,
Clerk of Court.
>ept. 12, 1917.
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^ TEN REASC
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1 BECAUSE, your in
2 BECAUSE, a BAN
so as to
5=^ 3 BECAUSE, paying
method
for the <
4 BECAUSE, a sheck
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Old S. C. Paper Turns Up
Monroe J6urnal.
Mr. W. L. Belk brought a
most interesting old land paper
with him to town yesterday one
that he found in his father's old
papers, it was a grant trom
Governor Pickens of South Carolina
made in 1787 to Thomas
Nelson for 385 acres in the Cam
den district on Kane Creek, for
the sum of seven pounds, about
$33. The old paper, is well pre
served, but an interesting part is
the seal of the State of South
Carolina, with which the paper
is folded and tied. It is literally
a seal, nearly as large as a saucer
and made of war half an
inch thick. On one side is a
palmetto tree and on the other
the raised figure of a woman.
ii our* Oliiu^ itlldUUCS II III Ulti
paper. By the way, this old paper
settles the controversy about
how to spell Kane Creek.
Mr. C. C. Birmingham, who
has been with the Seaboard for
a number of -years at Wilming
ton and other places, has moved
his family to Monroe and has a
position as operator at the pas
senger station.
Advice Worth While
1
Save when vou are young to
spend while you are old.
Do not marry until you are
able to support a wife.
Keep yourself innocent if you
would be happy.
Keep good company or none.
If your hands can not be use
fully employed, attend to the
cultivation of Hour mind.
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INS WH Y YOU SHOD
OUNT WITH THE B
5Y & MT.CROGfl
ioney is safer in the BANK th;
K account teaches, helps and c
increase, your balance
bills b}^ check is the simplest
as weXl as the safest, as your <
iebt it/pays.
Krv/\ll r I o ^
wui> is uiuic luuvciiieui iu tai
lrreDicv or loose change, and if
-*^ill furnish you another fre<
ir wallet, the story is different,
you a better standing in the
msiness men, to pay by check r
s "having money in the bank,"
urned, cancelled checks, with
x>ok furnished by the bank, mak
3rd of business transacted and i
other record could be.
g a bank account and issuing che
unaware to yourself, gradually
asset a man can have, namely: a f
our recommendation this cred
iwav from home, with whom
sdation.
ig an account with the bank, tl
u have a check or draft on an ou
s readily done for you, and alsi
). free of anv charges.
ould travel or move away from t
>m us a favorable introduction, a
th you wherever you may go.
y you might need to borrow; tl
accommodation, but the preferei
i non customer, may in times of j
it the Subject tr
1 -11
uny as .you win
ik account is dc:
s, and we tend
faculties.
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Uruguayan Marines Seize Ge rman
Ships
Montevideo, Uruguay, Sept.
14.?Uruguayan marines todsy
boarded all the German ships in
the harbor here, the government
having heard of plans to sink
the vessels.
The crews of the eight interned
German steamers were
brought ashore and the authori
ties took charge of the vessels.
Many loose pieces of machinery,
which the crews had been unable
to hide, were found on
board the steamers.
Last night more mass meetings
were held here with demontrations
against Germany. Order
was maintained bv the authorities.
The Colored Brother and the
War
Marshvillc Home.
The Pageland Journal tells of
a South Carolina negro of military
age who doesn't want to go
to the war and he makes it
known in the following language:
"Dey may concrete me
an' make me go, but I sho ain't
gonna vulcanize to go." But a
lviarsnvuie colored gent nas tbe
Pageland negro "skinned a mile"
when it comes to rheteric.
Here's the way he puts it: "Dey
sav I am millinery age an' might
as well go on an' I'se gwine to
take de white folk's word an'
valentine instead o' waiting to
j be concreted an' let dese here
skimption boards git holt o' me."
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ANK OF S
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an anywhere else. ^=*3
incourages vou to save
ana most convenient -^O
:heck becomes a receipt
rry than a wallet filled
your check book is lost,
2 of charge, when you
community, especially
ather than in cash; to be
strengthens one's credit.
properly kept stubs, and
.cs it vciy luuipiete anu
s kept with less work --<3
cks and making deposits
/ building up the most
Jood credit at home, and -^O
lit will be extended to
i vou might need for
he bank knows you and ?<3
t of-town bank to cash,
o (on account of being a
his community, you can
nd thus carry your good
le customer receives not ?
ice of rates and amount, ?<D
stringency meet with reom
as many : J
L The open- ?
sireable and : ,
ler you our
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. CROGHAN M
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