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Vol. 8 NO. 6 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1917 $1.00 per year
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What The Kaiser Is Guilty Of.
From a lengthy article in the
Charlotte News about the sins
of the Kaiser the following is
clipped:
He is charged with the crime
of Bulgarious Vandalism. Innocent
an unoffending Belgium
whom he had bound himself to
respect and honor by solemn
pledge and sacred treaty, he has
wrecked and laid waste. Productive
France his Satanic imps
have overrun and made into a
barren place. Their scenes of
desolation is the open sore of
the world, the great negation in
Germany's claim upon civilization.
The lands of these peace
i loving and defenseless people
l ho hoc ritinorl thoir fruit trooc
?iv &JUU 1 uiuvvai iiivu null 11 WO
and vineyards his axe and saw
have felled; their factories have
been dismantled; their banks
have been rifled; their posses
sions have been stolen; their
cities have been shredded by
shrapnel; their homes have been
burned; their cathedrals have
been splintered; their sacred
temples have been blighted by
his Gehenna's blast. Stripping
them of every earthly pride
which was theirs he has poison
ed their wells and killed their
cattle, compelling them then to
march in chains behind the
German lines there to toil in
misery and in pain under the
whip of his imperious master;
old men and aged women he
has forced to grind in the fields
without pay and without provisions
that his armies might
enjov the luxuries produced by
their emaciated hands. The
awful crime of burglary and
vandalism and slavery is laid
against this mighty monarch of
Europe.
m.iv to ciiui^cu wiiii nit: wiliiif
of Moral Degenracy. Omitted
from the bill of particulars in
this count must be an enumeration
of the lilthy crimes which
he has not only countenanced
but commanded. Common de
cency forbids the listing of the
atrocities committed against the
people of France and Belgium,
beastality that would not have
been counted iespectable by the
savage masters of old, the un
nameable atrocities against wo
men and children, hideous out
rages against those who were
not even given the selection of
death in preference: the maim
ing of maidens that their slashes
and mutilations might he as a
sign to the soldiers that followed
in their turn that they were
made loathsome and unapproachable;
to nailing of little
babes to the walls of their
homes while the lecherous
legions laughed and taunted the
plaints of their parents; unlisted
and nameless other perversities
practiced upon those who fell
defenseless before the prey of
German armies?crimes against
womanhood and childhood at
which we blush even to think.
He must answer to the charge
of moral decenprarv vit*? nn.i
so revolting that ages can fur
nish for him no ablution.
He is charged?and this, per
haps worse than all of these bar
barities against humanity?with
the high crime of Religious
Prostition. His malevolenle is
not satisfied with having spent
itselt with the commission of
everv crime that mn Kn
!"
petrated by flesh upon flesh and
by blood upon blood. In his
insanity, he has the daring to
find justification for all of this
namelessness in the "good old
German god" which is stamped
on his coins and which is deified
as standing with a weapon in
his hand, ready to strike without
mercy, to cut asunder every
cause of humanity, to shatter
every reliRipys that to
Buford Lady Carriad Corn on )
Head and Child on Arm.
Monroe Enquirer
Mr. nnd Mrs. Moses Walters, F
of Buford township, have been f
married sixty six vears. Mr.
Walters is ninety-one years old J
and Mrs. Walters is eightv-two. 1
For them the sands of life have *
nearlv run out. Mr. Walters *
had a stroke of paralysis a few t
davs ago and about ten days J
ago Mrs. Walters fell and broke 5
a hip. The indications are that *
these two old people will come ^
to their journey's end about the
same time and at a day not far y
distant. These two old people 1
are parents of seventeen daugh- *
ters and one son. The son is 1
Mr. IV". J. Walters, of Monroe. 1
You who think that the war 1
now on has brought hardship to 1
you read this statement of facts 5
about Mrs. Walters: Her hus- '
band joined the Confederate J
army in 1862 and left his wife <
I with no means of support.
I iUa! i
i ucif vvcic iii niiii nine uiree
children to feed and care for. *
Mrs. Walters went to work. *
Other women called on the '
Government for aid She did 1
not. She hired a mule, rented '
some land, plowed, planted and
cultivated it and gathered the i
crops. Every year during the 1
war she made a good crop and
when her husband returned in
the spring of 1865 he found
more at home to live upon than i
was there when he left. There
was plenty of corn in the crib,
meat in the smokehouse, a
number of fat chickens in the
yard, and a crop had been started
by the hands of the faithful
wife. Mrs. Walters carried
corn to mill three miles from
her home. - She ptit the cofn nr
a bag, put it on her head, took
her baby on one arm and with
her free hand led the child next
to the baby, while the oldest
trudged at her heels. It was a
hard life, but Mrs. Walters lived
it cheerfully and bravely and it
is her proud boast that not once
did she go to a Government
commissary and ask for aid.
Russians Will Move to Moscow.
Petrograd, Oct. 19.?The government
has definitely determined
to move to Moscow in the
very near future.
The newspapers publish an J
official announcement that the
evacuation of the fortified port J
of Keval on the Baltic at the en- ,
trance to the Gulf of Finland. '
has begun.
The schools at Reval have(t
been closed. The inhabitants
of the city are being sent to the (
interioi of Russia.
Announcement that the gov- '
ernment will move to Moscow i
was made today by M. Kishkin, j
minister of public welfare. ,
"Though a definite date has ,
not been set, it will be in the '
very near future," said M. Kish i
kin in announcing the govern- ?
merit's intention to move, in an j
interview in the Bourse Gazette, j
"No one is now permitted to #
go to Moscow e<cept on govern j,
ment business," he continued.
The government is to occupy
one of the buildings in the t
Kremlin, the ancient capital.
The preliminary parliament v
will convene in Petrograd on *
Saturday and move to Moscow _
later.
s
e
the impudence to thrust its way s
in front of the German concep
tion of genius. In blasphemy
which can not be uttered he .v
has called to his partnership l]
that Supreme Power who has n
written. His image and super 0
scription upon the face of every
unoffending man, every undefil
ed woman and every innocent a
babe whom he has murdered
and outraged beyond picturing tl
fou Are The Man, Not Your E
Neighbor.
"Waste nothing! Save, scrimp,
>incb, for the common good!"
leaning me? Why me? o
You rich man, who earns a si
ot of money, (fairly or not>- it n
s hard lines that vou may not d
lo with it as you please now; ii
sn't it? You don't like to be p
old how little you ought to eat, i
ind how much you ought to i
;ave, when you can "aiford" to s
lave what you want when you ri
want it. Do you? F
But don't you see, Sir, this e
war's an upsetting thing. Every- 1
hing's changed. Tiiis isn't the &
>a?ne world we were living in t
hree years ago. We have s
walked into a new problem.
Money has lost its comparative c
value for a bit. On crude neces 1
sities hang the hopes ot nations; t
aeef, flour, gasolene stuff of Life 11
md Victory are growing ;-carc f
2r all the time. You may be
'rich" but you've no more right s
In Kii onrolAcn ^ f 1 J*
LV uv taikicaa Ul I11C WU1IU S J
food than has your poorest t
slerk. You and he are equally 5
dependent on the issues if this
war. You aie in the sane life- j
boat, and rations are scarce. r
You must save the puil to- 1
gether. The "bit" you are call s
ed to do for your country .nay >
be a bit of self-denial. Well, the i
brave boys are fighting for \ ou
and yours at the front. You've t
got to hoard up the supplies at i
home to keep them strong and s
winning. We've got to send 3
life to our suffering Allies, i'hc i
world is starving, do you see? i
No matter how swell a chef <
vou have, he must not load
your table with goodies. It isn't j
decent. Save, scrimp, pinch for
the common larder- Use y*^*^
surplus to buy Li jerty Bonds.
"No more joy riding! Save
the gasolene!" Meaning mo? 1
Why me? 1
You Poor Man, who saved 1
and scrimped and pinched to 1
buy a motor-car for self and
family. It's hard lines that you 5
can't do as you please with it
now; isn't it? What's been the
use of respectable thrift anyhow,
if you can't have the fun of it
now?
Fun! Don't you see, Man?
We're up against it hard. It's ^
life itself we have to worrv
about; not mere comforts or
luxuries. Can't vou do without
a few iov-rirles wh^?n
, , '"V.
lias lost all joy? The supply ol I
gasolene is millions of galions I
short lor the demands of aero- c
planes, ambulances, trucks, \
tanks and countless machines 1
that are fighting your cause in \1
this war. There is no gasolene I
it all, they say, to be had for f
lew cars in ,England. Old cars j
ire limited to about seven gal- 1
ons a month. What would F
lappen to self and familv if our P
irmy should run seriously short
>f petrol? This may be if \]
\mericans keep on with extrav- 11
igant joy-riding. Death riding, 11
t will be every gallon of gaso 11
ene counts. Save it, for Vic c
ory! Put the cash you are 15
;oing to spend into Liberty *
kinds. You'll be glad later on.
..o?a *--- - - "
ii v uwu iu iiiinK inai ^
here was plenty enough of i:
iverything in the good old
vorld, if you had the price.
>Jow we know better. Price is ! ?
lot everything when there isn't
tuff to buy. We've got to save l'
iverything and finance the j ^
tate. n
If you are not careful with 1 ?
vhat von have, America may j tl
ie lost. You can t he ;elfish tl
iow. Meaning vou, every one \\
?f us!?A. F. Brown.
I
"Some ol these cabaret dances!
re very graceful."
"Others are disgraceful, and
here you are," o!
Eig Fire at Chesterfield Destroys
Three Stores and One
Dwelling
The largest fire in the history
f Chesterfield destroyed three
tores and one dwelling on
lain street about midnight Sunav
night. The fire originated
i the Chesterfield Drug Com-i
any, and spread to the adioin-1
n g buildings. Teal-Jones
Co, B. C? Moore's furniture
tore and Miss Sallie Chapman's
esidence were destroyed.
Nothing was saved from the
trug store, and very little from
Teal Jones Company and B. C.
doore's store. Most ot the conents
of the dwelling were
aved.
The two brick store rooms
>ccupied by the drug store and
Teal Jones Company belonged
0 Messrs. J. T. Fundeiburk and
. P. Mangum, and were insured
or $1000 each.
Teal Jones Company carried
1 large stock, estimated, the
ournal is told, ten to twelve
housand dollars. There was
>7,87") insurance.
The Chesterfield Drug Com)an\
carried $6,500 insurance,
rhe Journal has been unable to
earn the estimated value of the
itock. Dr. Perry's instruments
-vere in this store, and he carled
some insurance.
B. C. Moore's stock of furni
ure was a complete loss as
here was no insurance on
?tock nor building. Mr. C. M.
Funderburk carried about $300
worth of groceries in this buildng,
and there was no iniuranc.
Miss Sallie Chapman carried
$1250 insurance on her dwelling.
Wind Your Busiitot r
"Aw, I've got my own busiicss
to do," was the reply given
ne the other day in a smallish
ip-state town by the local bill
poster.
"Are you an American citizen?"
I asked him.
"Yes," said he.
"Pro German?"
"No."
"Believe in our Government?"
"Best in the worid."
"Want 10 see our soldier boys
vin?"
"Sure."
"Want to help them win?"
"You bet."
"Then put up these posters,"
fired at him, "and put them up
?. d. q., for the money which
:omes from the sale of these
>onds is used to equip for fightng
the bo\syou and all your
own folk want to see win.
Such is the spirit one meets
>ften in the country 'round?
ndifference, strange ignorance
n a land of schools and newscapers,
until the native sense of
practicality is touched.
Must our iathers and sons and
trothers come back to us bleed
ng or dead before we can be
lore generally awakened to an
inderstanding that this war of
ivilization against the barba>m
of the Germans is our war?
liat it is lor our safety, our
reedom that our boys have
one to fight a safety we have
njoyed these last three years in
, I *1-- * "
it auciici ui nit* ureal r>nglisti
eet and the valor and strength
f the French and British armies.
That is why you must support
le Government and buv these
onds; that is w hy the Govern
lent's business, is the business, |
f every man and woman wor
iv to enjoy the blessings of
lis great Republic.?Casper
/tiilney of the Vigilantes.
Wife?You know, Henry, I
>eak as I think.
Husband?Yes, my love; only
ftener,
American Transport Sunk With
Seventy Lives Lost.
Washington, Oct. 19.?The
American army transport Antilles,
homeward bound under
convoy, was torpedoed and sunk
by a Cerman submarine in the
war zone on Wednesday. About
70 then are missing and probably
lost.
The army and navy officers
aboard and the ship's master
were among the 167 survivors.
The missing are members of
the crew, three civilian engi
neers, some enlisted men ot the
navy and 16 of 33 soldiers returning
home for various rea
sons. Neither the submarine
nor the torpedo was seen and
the transport, hit squarely amid ships,
sank in five minutesThis
tragedy of the sea, the
first in which an American ship
engaged in war duty has been
lr^Ct tC tVio fire* rvf
VHI) J IUV uioi U1 IIS lllil^UllUUU
to bling home to the people of
the United States the rigors of
the war in which they have engaged
against Germany. It
carries the largest casualty list
of the war so far of American
lives and marks the first success
of German submarine attacks on
American transports.
That the loss of life was not
greater is due to the safeguards
with which the navy has sur
rounded the transport service
and the quick rescue work of
the convoying warships.
Work of Exemption Board
The county exemption board
of Chesterfield county met in
the court house last Wednesday
with the following result:
Exempted
Martin lackson, Henry McManus,
Thos.'R. Johnson, David
Brown, Samuel M. Webb,
Ezekiel Scott, Leonard E. Hurst,
Will Chapman, Thos. Horn, R
Boyd Eubanks, O. Graham
Pressley, Livon Pegues, Lawrence
Lewis, J. Oscar Hurst.
Ben C. Jackson.
W. Augustus Jordan, to Dec.
1st.
Not Exempted
Gillium M. Tiller, Howard
Blakeney, Jessie J. Sutton, Lem
uel Hillian, Walker Davis, James
Patterson.
Correction: Lewis Hurst, last
week in exemption list, should
have been Lewis Hunt.
The following (colored) vvill
be sent to Camp lackson about
Oci. 27:
James I. Lane, Julius Johnson,
Robt. Mosely, Whiteford Threatt
Isom Rogers, Abraham Powe,
John Wilson, Son Flowers, Wil
liam Ingram, David J. Johnson,
John Hough, Eddie Crawford,
Boston A. Williams, Lemboston
Seegirs, John Jefferson, Tom
Grooms.
gnnrnimiHiiiiiiini
I Stables 0]
u 1 have opened up n
E3 have a few fresh mules.
IS see me. 1 am omno on
H and expect to select soi
H mares.
W See me before you buy
I R. F.?
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^inmiiiinniwwu1
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To Camp Wearing a Dress.
Henry lack son Morgan, the
l5niou county citizen who has
gained considerable notoriety by
wearing a dress instead of
"britches" was called to go to
Camp Jackson today but he
is physically unable to go and
has been confined to his bed
and under treatment of. a physician
for several davs says the
Monroe Enquirer. He reported
i 1 i??i .?i? ?i
iiic i?j^ai uuaiu >esieiuay auu
fell in line at roll call.
Burglar?Let's go to tie seashore
an' rob tie guests at a
summer hotel.
His Pal?Aw, what's tie use?
Let's wait till September an' rob
de proprietor.
Doctor's Wife?I want to get
a typewriter as a surprise for
my husnantl.
Salesman?Any particular
make?
Doctor's Wife?Well, I overheard
Dr. Bachelor tell my husband
that his typewriter was a
"Little Peach." Have you that
make?
niimniiiiiixniiiing
)cn Again |
\y stables again, and now H
If vou want a good mule, H
the market in a few days H
ne good mules and brood W
or exchange. EJ
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Smith I
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The Chesterfield County Ft r
Noyember 7, 8, 9, 10, 1917
Rules?Exhibits will be admitted
to the Fair without
charge for entry but thev mu t
be entered with the superintendents
of the respective departments
before 5:00 P. M. November
6th, as exhibits will not
be received after the Fair is
opened.
All exhibitors must be risidents
of Chesterfield County.
The Community Fair exhibits
and all general display exhibits
must each be a separate entry,
and articles comprising these ex
hibits cannot be entered for
other prizes.
Buggies will not be allowed
inside the Fair Frounds except
while the driving contests are
on. Owing to the lack of parking
space automobiles will not
be permitted inside the Fair
Orniinit<?
All premiums will be paid in
cash by the treasurer within
thirty days after the close of the
Fair. Blue Ribbon winners are
the only ones who will receive
cash premiums except where
cash premiums are specified for
second, third or fourth prizes.
Blue Ribbon indicates first
prize: Red Ribbon indirales
second prize; Yellow Ribbon indicates
third prize; White Ribbon
fourth prize.
The one judge system will be
followed and from their award
there is no appeal. As far as is
possible separate judges will be
secured from Clemson and
Winthrop Colleges.