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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.
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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,
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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<>.
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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,
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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
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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.
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account teaches, helps and ei
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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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