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THt PAGELAND JOURNAL Vol.7 NO. 56 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1917 $1.00 per year Big Artillery Range County; Larj Government Seeking 150,000 Acres of Land In Chesterfield County for Military Purposes Final Decision by September 30th At last an apparent use has been found for the bald sand hills of a portion of Chesterfield county. The Government has has taken notice ot the ideal military camp site in this coun ty, and it is believed that the biggest army training camp in the United States is soon to be established in the central, thinlysettled section of the county. An army official recently came to Cheraw and let it be known, that there is a chance for the establishment of a whopping big training camp, and immediately the wheels began to turn. The matier was taken up through Mr. G. W. Duvall of Cheraw, and he soon enlisted the help of many others. The work of securing options on all the land in this great body of 150,000 acres began at once, and at this time it is practically complete. This afternoon Mr. Duvall goes to Charleston and tomorrow morning he lays the entire matter before the authorities. There are several more possible sites, and the two most feasible ones will be selected. Then engineers will look over both sites, and the final decision will be made and reported to the War Department not later than Sep tember 30th. It is understood that this is to be the finishing up training I camp for the troops from all the camps in the United States, and is intended to take the place of the training behind the lines in France, The troops would be brought here and given sixty davs of training just as much like real warfare as it is possible to make it. Light artillery, ma chine guns, rifles and very probably airplanes would be brought into use. The soldiers would be given actual trench experience, and.sham battles would very probably be almost a daily oc currence. No better place could be found in the United States. This site is high, dry, healthy and hilly. The King sand lylls could stop all the bullets that can ever be shot into them, and be none the worse. Right through the proposed site goes Black creek with its numerous branches so that there would be no scarcity of water. Thousands of acres of this land have never been cultivated, and the principal growth is stubby black jack and wire grass. One may travel miles without sign of civilisation. Of course, somesections are settled, some of them quite thickly, but these are the exception and not the rule. Someone has said that there are approximately 1,700 homes in this entire body of one hundred and fifty thousand acres. Much of tMe land is owned by nonresidents, who live in Monroe. 1 -- i ? v siidi km it- nun i>111 _*i piaces. i\ir. Bonsai, the railroad promoter, owns eleven thousand acres. Mr. Duvall states that the large land owners are giving options at a reasonable price, while the small holders are as a rule, much higher. The (iov ernment asks for leases or out right sales. There are many good people who live within the proposed boundaries, and many of them would tear up and move out for Chesterfield gest Camp In U. S. Russian Rebellion Ends With Arrest of Korniloff Russia's internal situation was considerably clarified by Saturday's news dispatches which announces the arrest of General Korniloff, marking: the definite end of his revolt, and the forma tion of a new cabinet at Petro g;rad. Publication of the names of the new cabinet members was deferred for a day. With General Korniloff was arrested General Lokomsky, who was in command of the Russian Northern front when the revolt started and who cast his lot with his chief. What the fate of the two men will be is problematical. Opinion in Kussia seems widely divergent as to the treatment that should be meted out to them. Sweden is determined to do everything possible to set things right so far as she was concern ed with the German dispatches transmitted through her foreign office, as brought out in the recent Washington disclosures, Foreign Minister Lindemann informed the Associated Press correspondent at Stockholm. She has stopped the practice and will not renew it. he stated, and will ask Germany for an explanation of its abuse of privi leges. Germany and Austria have proclaimed the creation of a regency to govern Poland, the two nations retaining great controll of foreign affairs during the period of occupation and of certain other powers of govern ment. not vet mndt? rlpnr Military activities on most of the front seem at a minimum for this season, when active op erations are still possible virtually everywhere in the field of hostilities. Petrcgrad, Sept. 15.?General Korniloff, leader of the recent rebellion against the piovisional government, and General Lokomskv, the commander of the Northern front, who refused to take command of the Russian armies after Korniloff was de posed, have been arrested. The members of the commission oi inquiry are due at mohiley at midnight and the arrested persons will be given into their hands. Such other officers as the commission selects also will be arrested. News of the arrest of General Korniloff was first conveyed in a telegram received by Premier Kerenskv from General Alexieff, -.1-:.. c " ? ciiici ui sum. ao lar only the following details have been received: "At 10 o'clock last night. General Korniloff and Generals Lo kcmsky and Komanovsky and Colonel Pleutstchevsky-Pliuskhen were arrested." very reluctantly, while others would sell .without regret. The proposed lines would run somewhat as follows: Beginning at McBee and following the Seaboard right of way to within anout a mile ol I'atnck; thence northward to Shiloh church; thence northward to within a mile or two of Ruby; thence westward along a line a mile south of Guess and four or five miles south of Pageland; thence south one mile east of Jefferson and hack .to McBee on the east ern side of the Jefferson-McBee road. This takes the heart of the county, hut leaves the best land and most thickly settled jcctioDS all aroujfl the border Wounded in American Hospital 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 country in a report fiom Maj. Gen. M. P. Murphy, head of the Red Cross commission in France. It was in this attack that Lieut. W illiam T. Fitzsimmons of Kansas City, the first American officer to give his life in the war, was killed; three other officers, six privates, a woman nurse and 22 patients from the British lines were wounded. An American Red Cross inspector returning to Paris from the scene told the story as follows: "The airplane attack occurred at 11 o'clock at night. Just at that time fortunately no convoy of wounded was being received or the list of casualties would have been far greater as one of the bombs fell into the center of the large reception tent to which the wounded are first borne for examination. Ten seconds sufficed 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 collecting and attending those who had been struck down. And for 24 hours they were at work in the operating room, one surgeon relieving another when the latter from simple exhaustion rnnlH work no longer. And the ver>' next day, just as if nothing had happened, these same surgeons were called upon to reci ive and care for 200 wounded sent in from the the trenches of the Brit ish expeditionary force. The 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 there are many similar institu tions anu is unmistakable as a hospital. At the same time the German aviator flew over it most of the surgical staff was engaged in making rounds of I the ward. Lieutenant Fitzsim ! mons, however, was standing at the door flap of his tent. Submarine Near Atlantic Coast An Atlantic Poit, Sept. 15.? Evidence that an enemy submarine has begun depredations in American waters was Krnn<*hi here today by two steamships, which yesterday morning picked up wireless "S. O. S." calls indi eating that a ship was being shelled by a u boat in the vicinity of Nantucket Lightship. One ship receiving the distress calls was a British freighter and 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 lorm the ship said she was being shelled and reported her position, but only a pait of her name rnnhl he Imurd ?i<>. . - ? ?.?(? \ ? 111V word '"Abby," which is the last name o? several ships in Allan tic trade. The American tanker's cap tain confirmed the Ihitish skip pel's report, hut added no details. Silence was imposed on both captains by naval officers who interviewed them as soon as they reported to their agents. Make few promises and keep them, i Puts Price on Head of First American Brought in Dead m or Living British Headquarters in France m and Belgium, Sept. 15 (By the w Associated Press).?German mil- tf itary authorities on the Western P' front have shown concern about ^ the imminnce of the American ^ army's entry into the fighting by j( offering rewards for the production of the first American prison er. The general commanding the Eleventh Reserve Division recently put the price of 4(X> q marks on the first American j soldier brought dead or alive into his lines. C( This information has been lt disclosed by the diary of a Prus- p, sian sergeant of the Twentythird Reserve Regiment. He ^ wrote at the end of July: "We are supposed to have j Americans opposite us for some ^ time now and two divisions ot Portuguese on our right. The ^ man who brings in the first , a ...: J..-.i 1--? ' a itiuv.iii.aii utiiu ui u:ive 10 neaci- ^ quarters has been promised the ^ Iron Cross of the First Class and 400 marks and 14 days leave from the division." Notice of Court Court of General Sessions for Chesterfield County, fall term, will convene on Monday, Sep- , tember 24th, 1917. Grand Jurors, Peti? Jurors, and . ^ witnesses take notice. I. P. MANGUM, Clerk of Court. , Sept. 12. 1917. 11 c mwmwmm ?1 TEN REASOU & /in /irrm nil mAsU< S RUB 1 BKCAUSK, your mor 2 BECAUSK, a BANK Qr^; so as to in cS~- 3 BECAUSE, paying bi ^cr ~ method a v ''-- for the del 0^11 ^ BECAUSE, a check b< with curr UMngn Hi Hi HHHBB) Hp) H> HHHB^BHIj 1 Old S. C. Paper Turns Up I onroc Journal. Mr. W. L. Belk brought a lost interesting old land paper i ith him to town yesterday one i lat he found in his father's old \ apers. it was a grant trom ( overnor Picken3 of South Carlina made in 1787 to Thomas [elson for 385 acres in the Cam i?n district on Kane Creek, for le sum of seven pounds, about 1 to. The old paper, is well pre t ;rved, but an interesting part is , le seal of the State of South arolina, with which the paper N folded and tied. It is literally ? seal, nearly as large as a sau- 1 2r and made of war half an ich thick. On one side is a i almetto tree and on the other t le raised figure of a woman. t . silk string attaches it to the t aper. By the way, this old paer settles the controversy about ' o\v to spell Kane Creek. Mr. k^. ihrmingham, who , as been with the Seaboard for number of -years at Wilming { >n and other places, has moved , is family to Monroe and has a t osition as operator at the pas j inger station. Advice Worth While , Save when vou are young to I aend while you are old. 1 Do not marry until you are t ble to support a wife. 1 Keep yourself innocent if you s rould be happy. i Keep good company or none. 1 If your hands can not be use 1 illy employed, attend to the 1 ultivation of >[Our mind. wWmmm IS WHY YOU SHOUI UNT WITH THE B! i & MT. CROGH, iey is fiafer in the BANK tha account teaches, helps and ei crease your balance lis bv/ check is the simplest s we^l as the safest, as your cl >t it, pays. )ol* is more convenient to cari en.cv or loose change, and if y . nVill furnish you another free r wallet, the story is different, you a better standing in the i usiness men, to pay by check ra "having money in the bank," s irned, cancelled checks, with p ook furnished hy the bank, make rd of business transacted and is 3ther record could be. I a bank account and issuing chec unaware to yourself, gradually sset a man can have, namely: a )ur recommendation this credi way from home, with whom da t ion. g an account with the bank, th have a check or draft on an out readily done for you, and also , free of any charges >uld travel or move away from tli m us a favorable introduction, an ti you wherever you may go. you might need to borrow; th accommodation, hut the preferen non customer, may in times of st it the Subject fr< long as you will ik account is dcs i, and wc tend faculties. IF RUBY AND MT. C. & MT CR0GHA1 am mmrn Jruguayan Marines Seize Gi. man Ships Montevideo, Uruguay, Sej ?. 4.?Uruguayan marines todiv toarded all the German ships in he harbor here, the government laving heard of plans to sink he vessels. The crews of the eight internal German steamers were >rought ashore and the authori ies took charge of the vessel;, dany loose pieces of machinery, vhich the crews had been unible to hide, were found on >oard the steamers. Last night more mass meetngs were held here with demonrations against Germany. Orler was maintained bv the auhorities. The Colored Brother and the War tlarshville I tonii*. The Pageland Journal tells of i South Carolina negro of miliary age who doesn't want to go o the war and he makes it cnown in the following language: "Dey may concrete me in' make me go, but I sho ain't *onna vulcanize to go." But a Vlarshville colored gent has the Pageland negro "skinned a mile" ,vhen it comes to rheteric. Edere's the way he puts it: "Dey ;av I am millinery age an' might is well go on an' I'se gwine to ake de white folk's word an' valentine instead o' waiting to De concreted an' lei dese here skimption boards git holt o' me." 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