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Ht i?agei!a\d journal Vol. 8 NO. 3 PAGELAND, S. C., "WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1917 si nn n? ~ .. - . . - : : #1-ouper year Chesterfield County .Fair* N? ember 7-8 9 and 10 Preparations are being mad for the fifth annual Chesteriiel County Fair, which will be hel at Chesterfield, S. C., Nov. 7 8 and 10th. Those who have a tended former County Fairs ( Chesterfield, know that eac 3 ear's Fair has been better tha the one previous, so it goes wit! out saying that the County Fai for 1917 is going to be biggc anH Knttor than thnep hprptnfnr held. The officers of the Chestei field County Fair Associatio are as follows: President. L. I Trotti; Vice Hresident, W. Tiller; Secretary and Treasure C. L Hunley. These hav served every since the organ izj tion of the County Fair Assoc ation in 1913. They have bee assisted bv various Superintei dents of Departments, and it ht been through co operation thj the previous County Fairs ha\ every one been successful. Tfa Superintendents of the Depar ments this year will be the sam men and women who serve last vear, and as everv one co-operating together, the ou look for this fall's Fair is brigh The Chesterfield County Fa lor 1917 is going to be the be ever. This County has bee abundantly blessed this year, tb crops are the best since 191 and the prices are sky highthe highest within the memoi of man. Everything the farnrw grows is worth good cash moi ey, old king cotton is bringin pnces that never has bee dreamed of. There is going 1 be plenty of cash moqev i Chesterfield County iffis fal and this means that evervbod is going to attend their Counl Fair, and take a few days nl and frolic and have a goo time. The County Fair this fall wi be held upon the same grounc as heretofore. The prices f< admission will be the same t formerly?that is twenty-fh cents for adults and fifteen cen for children under twelve. Bt the Countv Fair Association* ai nounces that they are going 1 discontinue the practice < giving pass out tickets. N other Fair in the world dot this, and as the Fair Assoc ation has been swindled by great number who sold pass 01 tickets, they have decided t abolish the entire system of pai tickets. If you leave th grounds, one will have to bu a new ticket to re enter. Hov ever, the Fair Association wi have dn sale, a season ticket fc one dollar, wtfich will be nor transferable, and will admit on to the fair grounds as man times as one desires, during tli entire Fair. The County Fair Associatio distributed their premium li for this fall's Fair several month ago, but they still have on ban a number of copies of sann and any one can obtain a cop postpaid upon request. Th premiums this year are libera and all will be paid in cast Remember the days of th County Fair, November ^-8 and 10th, 1917. te &/T r?>:r:- J L? r.- . iu itiuic ^ciuiicu uy L/iscric Board The Eastern District board c South Carolina certified the fo! lowing names last Saturday fo military service: J. Harmon Inram, Alexande R. Edwards, Richard Browr Boston A Williams, Lembostoi Seegars, John Jefferson, Davi? M. Terry, Tom Grooms, Walke F. Davis, Luke Blackwell, Clay ton Jackson, James Shesbane Witt Miller, Rowan|Dixon. k Valley of 10,000 Smokes Take Off Vekhvius' Honors e The National Geographic So d ciety will get detailed scientifn d data on the Valley of Tei 9 Thousand, Smokes, the greates volcanic region in the worlc !* about Mt. Katmai in Alaska. This valley, according to pre n liminary reports from Robert F f" Griggs, director of the society" pynlnrotmn ovno^itinn ic? V. uie biory 01 ine vaiiev Oi i e Thousand Smokes, and th ? Mouth of Hell, but their discrii y tions were inadequate, it seem 3r in the face of scientific discove; a tes. ? Explorations were made b 0 the National Geographic Socii 10 ty in succeeding years, but th ? enosMtyty ojthie volcanic regio has jusf^Jaecome kuown. Th lV Mt. Katxnai explosion in 191 y was the most terrific in the hi: tory of the world. The quantit 'd of material thrown from th Katmai crater was vastly greatc ^ than that which resulted in th 's projections of the Island of Kn )r katoa out of the bed for th ls Pacific ocean. T!:e greatest e re fort nf Vpsnvilic PrtliU nn? Vi ls compared with it. Practicall 11 the entire Alaskan peninsul and the islands of the Aleutia ? groups were covered inchc ^ deep in ashes, as were the deck ? of vessels hundreds of miles o *s the coast. The coast guard cu :|" ter Bear had to rescue whol a communities threatened by th Jt ash shower. ? The survey by the exploratio 5S party proves that Katmai is th ie greatest crater on the face of th y globe, being more than nin miles in circumference and 3,60 ^ feet deep. The party also dii >r covered a mud river seventee !* miles long, and mapped 1,60 ie miles of territory hitherto ur y charted. Two thousand* phc ie tographs of the great volcan and the contiguous territor n were secured, and a complet s* collection of plants, insects, birdi ls and geological data is beini ^ brought back to the Unite* States by the expedition. Gase y from the vents are also beinj e brought back for chemical an alysis. i. e A Chinaman was asked i ^ there were good doctors ii China. "Good doctors!" he exclaimed * "China have best doctors ii world. Hang Chang one goot >f doctor; be great, save life to me.1 I "You don't say so! How wa r that?" "Me velly bad," he said. "M< r callee Doctor Han Kong. Give i, some medicine. Get velly, velh a ill. Me callee Doctor San Sing ^ Give more medicine. Me glow r worse?go die. Blimebly callec i Doctor Hang Chang. He got nc time; no come. Save life." Mkkvraa VApvUIUVUf AO IU *T first wonder of the world. ] e makes Vesuvius, renowned fc centuries, appear as nothing bi r" a toy by comparison. " There is a great volcanic n :* gion about Mt. Katmai, a hui '* dred miles in extent, literall r' filled, bv millions of fictiv e craters. ?* Dr. Griggs and his party, wit !* complete scientific data an n photographs of the region, i now on his way to Washingtoi ls The expedition is expected t 11 reach Washington October ! e Dr. Griggs telegraphed of h lu discoveries immediately upo reaching civilization at Kodia< l? Alas. . Hidden awav in the center c 1S Alaska, Mt. Katmai and thi enormous volcanic region wei unknown to the civilized work ir until the great eruption of 191 st that nearly devastated the coa< n area. Alaska Indians had tol _ 4. _ t j1. t T ?? m rr? i Hurricane's Toll Totals Fourteen New Orleans, Sept. 29.?First * [ reports of casualties due to the I C|\Vest Indian hurricane, which ^ n I yesterday swept the Gulf costal ^ ^ | sections of east Louisiana, Miss 1. issippi, Alabama and Western *-v Florida, were received' today t when . Homua, La., reported a ,* shrimp schooner capsized in s Sister Lake, drowning nine ^ men, and a dispatch from Dothan, Ala., told of a report re ceived trom Crestview, fFla., 1 that five persons had been killed there. J Mobile, Sept. 2V.?Mbbile ( y spent today clearing away the >e litter left by the hurricane* that J swept the citv yesterday. IThe ^ Streets are being rapidly cleared j of limbs, signs and other debris, 1 js and business again was normal. The electric street "railway *sys ( Q tem resumed partial servile to J ^ dav. Power was cut off from the trolley yesterday at noon. On some lines the tracks are still obstructed by debris. ' but complete service was as ] 1 sured by the railway company < . by Sunday afternoon. J Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 29.? ' ^ A special to the Associated Press \ 2 from Mariana, Fla., the first mes- \ st sage to come through from Flor- < ^ ida since the hurricane struck s that section, says three separate { cyclones of modern intensity , passed through. Jackson County \ Friday, striking three different < r' places and doihg considerable I properly damage but no casual- ' ties of life. . { ^ Washington, Sept.-' 29.?All storm warnings along the*Sou$ n Atlantic and Gult coasts 4 suit of the tropical hurricate 2 which swept the Gulf coast yes ' terdav, have been ordered low ered, the weather bureau ane nounced tonight. The disturb ; ance itself is central tonight ' over South Georgia but its en' ergy has been much diminished. 0 ? New York Troops Raided Monroe >e v Monroe, Sept. 27.?Two thousa and New York state guards took n the town last night during an ?s hour and a half lav over here, :s Peanut parchers were raided, II mercnanis siock ot watermelons t_ disappeared trom the streets, e while pears and apples dwindled e last in t^e boxes stationed in front of the stores. The Monti roe Bottling works was about e cleaned of soft drinks, the boys e carrying the stuff out in armful e i lots. 0 Automobiles, standing around 5. the streets, were cranked by the n boys and driven at rapid speed 0 over the streets. Bunches of l- them wandered to the outskirts > of the town looking for water 0 melon patches, which they fail y ed to find. e The men, it is said, were 5, broke. Eighty per cent of them, ^ according to one of their numd ber, had no money at all. They s were out of smokes, and many 5 of the merchants handed out to1 bacco to them with a will. A drug store wa: raided of about $40 wot;th of fountain pens and f candy. 1 A mill hand came near being mobbed by a crowd of soldiers [. in the Union drug Btore. If it 1 had not been for the interven 1 tion of Mrs. Bright Griffin, who " was in the store at the time, he s would piobably have suffered bodily injury. She walked in 4 i the midst of the .nen, claiming j ? that the man, if he had done 4 7 anything to offend, was irrespon- | . sible for his remarks. 4 r The soldiers were from the Z i upper part of New York state. 4 ) They had seen service on the * Mexican border. ( i I Eat Corn Bread and Collards C David R. Coker, United States rood Administrator for South Carolina, has issued an appeal g o the people of the Slate advo:ating a meatless and vvheetless lav for each week. The following is the appeal to he people of South Carolina: t "The time has come for our ii people to prove their patrotism j >y a little self denial. While the ^ loldiers of our allies are bravely igiiting and our own splendid a joys are getting ready for the 11 )ig push we must do our part s icre at home to support and en- * rourage them, "The United States Food Ad- * ninistration has asked every c amily of the nation to abstain r from using wheat in any form s luring one day of each week, 11 ind also to abstain from the use s 3l meat for one day. It is esti- 1 mated that 80,000.000 to 90,000, J )00 bushels of wheat and 2,200,)00,000 pounds of meat would le saved if the entire nation s idopted this program. "Most of our*people thorough- 1 y appreciate our great cereal, t ">r?rn and it iv/Mild ha nn linrd L/wm Ull\4 A V ?? VVIIU UV 11V liaiU' ship on them to ure it exclusive- t y not only one day, but on sev- ( iral days, of the weak. With . well boiled hominy for break- 1 ;ast, cornbread for dinner and < :orn muffin or spoon bread for l supper, none of us will feel the absence of biscuit or lightbread. , "The need of saving wheat md meat is very great, and I 5 iherefore, call upon the people ^ 3f South Carolina to respond to the call of the National Food Administration and abstain from i wheat and meat on one day of 1 2ach week." ii aamrnwmww ? CHESTER] | NOVI I The Fifth E. held at ' Che: E 9 and 10. H ^ exhibits. Pr % hibits. Spec | given this ] ? and the Fair r the growing | Grops. | COM The County Fair A field County will hole Fair. There are spe< for Community Fair < P"- can hold a good Cor the County Fair Associ Fair. I CHESTER! I N0\ I nmrnmw * * lulf Coast Sections Hit By I Storm New Orleans, Sept. 28.?The ulf coast section of east Louisi- ? na, Mississippi, Alabama and western Florida were emerging anight from the battering of the j ropical hurricane which swept i n from the Gulf of Mexico ear y today near Pilot Town, La. , The course of the storm shifted ifter striking Pilot Town from lorthwest to northeast and weeping across a narrow por ion of southern Louisiana, missid New Orleans but struck Gulf>ort, Biloxi and the Mississippi :oast section, swept through nobile, where the wind reached i velocity of 96 miles an hour, md extended east beyond Penacola, where according to latest eports received here at 1 o'clock his afternoon, the wind was * aa ?:i-. i >iu\wuk iw nines an nour. Communication between Pen ;acola and the outside world vas cut off at that hour and no eports had been received from here up to a late hour tonight. According to reports received >y the weather bureau in New Drleans the storm was continung its way inland in a northjasterlv direction through Alabama and Florida. The wind velocity at Pilot Town was in excess of 76 miles in hour and barometer fell to 29.06 at one time this morning. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 28.?So far is known up to 9:45 o'clock tolight, there had been no life lost i the hurricane that swept Mo FIELD C0UN1 sMBER 7-8-9 and annual County sterneid, 5. i? N( andsome cash f epare now to m< ial attention is fear to agricuiti Association wish and conservati IMUNITY FA1 ssociation hopes every scho< I a Community Fair this fall, :ial prizes of $25.00; $1 5.( exhibits at the County Fai nmunity Fair and then take ] ation will aid you in organizi FIELD C0UN1 EMBER 7-8-9 and IUVfWfWVWfWfWV^ 3ne Steamer and Some Sailii g Vessels Sunk Havana, Sept. 27.?One steamer and several sailing vessels were sunk, numerous houst > were razed and great damaj? o was done to growing crops at I fruits by the West Indian hurr. cane, which stuck the Ise of Pines Wednesday evening, according to dispatches received here tonight. Advices from Batabano, situ ated on the main land, say it is believed there that many persons perished in the islands, although no definite information regarding the casualties has been received here. Sandy had returned to his native Scotch village after a visit to London. When someone asked him what he thought of the great city he said: "It is a grand place, but the folks there are not honest." "How is that?" asked the friend. "Well. I bought a box of pins labeled 'a thousand for a penny,' and coming home in the train I counted them, and I found they were seventeen short." bile today. Th^ damage was confined to roofs and plate glass windows of merchants in the business district. The wind contained a miximum velocity of 86 miles an hour. There was practically no damage to the shipping interests. mmmvm FY FAIR 1 Fair will be 3 ivember 7-8- 3; irizes for all ^ ike your ex- ^ going to be 3 ural exhibits 3 es to aid in 3 ion of food 3 nrc 1 MtU ^ d! district in Chester, prior to the County )0; $10. and $5.00 ^ r. Your community ?^ prizes. If requested, Z^S ing your Community 3 rY FAIR 1 u | i