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th? pageland journal _Vol. 8 No. 12 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1917 $1.(10 ner \ ear l^uestionaire (Continued from last week.) Series II. Physical Fitness Instructions?Every registrant must answer the first two questions. If he answers the second question "Yes." he need not answer the remaining questions, If he answers the second question "No," he must answer ALL the questions. He must sign his name at the end of this series ol questions. Q. 1. State your height and weight stripped. Q. 2. Are vou in sound health, mentally and physically? Q. 3. Draw a line under anj of the words below that describes any ailment or physical defi ciency you may have: 1, Blind 2, Deaf; 3, Dumb; 4, Loss ol limb; 5, Epileptic; 6, Paralytic; 7 Insane; 8, Withered or deformed limb; 9,? Q- 4. State in detail the names and address of the physicians b\ whom and the institutions ir which you are being: treated oi have been treated within the last 12 months, with the dates oi the treatments. Q. 5. Are you an inmate of ar asylum, hospital, or other insti tution on account of any physi cal, mental or nervous disease disorder, or injury. Q. 6. If you answer "Yes,' state (a) the nature of the ail ment, and (b) name and loca tion of institution. (Signature of registrant.) Series III. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Officers. /\ * * V- l. Are you a federal or state legislative, executive, or judicial officer? (If your answer is '"No" do not answer any other questions and do not sign your name.) Q. 2. State exact designation of your office. Q. 3. State (a) when vou en tered upon said duties, and (b) when you will occupy saiu office. (Signature of registrant.) Series IV. Ministers of Religion Q. 1. Are you a regular or a duly ordaiued minister ot relig ion; and if so, of what sect or organization? (If vour nnswpr ic "Ma" ^ Tt au do not answer any other ques tions and do not sign your name.) Q. 2. State (a) the manner by which, (b) the date when, and <c) the place where you became such minister^ Q. 3. State place and nature of your religious labors; (a) On June 5, 1917; (b) Now. Q. 4. Do you follow any audi tional occupation.-' If so, what: Series IV. Divinity Students. Q. 1. Were you on May 18 1 Q1 P, o ? " f + ,xx, a oiuuciM preparing lor UK ministry? (If your answer is "No" tie not answer anv other questions and do not sign your name.) 0- 2. State the name and lo cation of such school. 0- 3. Give names and loca tions of all divinity schools yot: have attended with dates of at tendance. (?). 4. Is any school mentioned by vou wholly or partially a correspondence school? Q 5. Have vou censed tr? lw? ? student of divinity and if so, what is your occupation? (Signature of registrant.) Series VIII. Officials, Federal Employees, Pilots, and Marines. RQ. 1. Are you a county or or municipal official, or a customhouse clerk, or are you employed by the United States in the transmission of the mail, or are you an artificer or workman employed in the United #. Will Beat Germany Word of Pershing New York, Dec. 2.?Bishop Luther B. Wilson, who recently returned from Europe, where he [ went on a mission for the Y. M. C. A., brought back with him a , message to the American peo' pie from General Pershing, ' American commander in France. | The message, which was read for the first time today, said: I "Tell them there is no ground for the heresy that Germany can 1 not be beaten. Germany can be beaten. Germany must be beaten. And Germany will be beaten. f States armory, arsenal, or navy , yard, or do you belong to any M class of employees of the | United States which have been ? designated by the President as ' eligible for discharge or are you a pilot, or are vou a marine r actually emplo?ed in the sea - service ot a citzen or merchant t within the United States? (If your answer is "No" do i not answer any other questions and do not sign your name.) Q. 2. State the designation of , your office, position, or occupation. Q. 3. Were you elected or ap pointed? State which. Q. 4. State the exact place of the performance of your duties. Q. 5. State how long you have , held such position, or have been so emploved. Q. 6. State the character and . duration ot your education, ? ?i uaiuiuK, uuu experience lor , such position. . Q. 7. State the nature of your work. Q. 8. How many persons of he same or similar grade are in the establishment where you are employed? Series X Dependency. Q. 1. Have vr?u a wife, or child, or aged, infirm, or invalid parents or grandparents, or brother under 16 or sister under 18 years of age, or a helpless brother or sister of whatever age, mainly dependent on vour physical or mental labor for suppor ? (If jour answer is "No" do not answer any other questions and do not sign vour name.) 1 Q. 2. State whether you are : married, single, widowed, or divorced. i 0? 3. If you are married, state i (a) the place, (b) date, and (c) ttie person by whom the vbiviiiuuv was periormed. > Q. 4, Give the name, relationship, address, 'and age of each peison mainly dependent on your labor tor support. (). 5. Which of your depent dents live with you, and how long has each lived with you? 0- (>- If any person named in your answers do not live with you, state which of them have lived with you at anv time during the past TJ months and for how long a period. (). 7. If any such dependent I is a stepchild, an adopted child, or a foster child, state as to each when such relationship to you began. Q. 8. As to each dependent, ' state when you began to con tribute to his or her support. Q. 9. State both (a> the ap1 proximate total, and (b) the average monthly amount of i your support of your wife and I children during the last twelve 1 months. I Q. 10. How much have you i contributed to 1he support of I each other dependent during I said 12 months? i (Continued next week.) I; Americans Fight With Haig's Men. With the British Army in France Saturday, Dec. 1 (By the Associated I'ress).?Large numbers of American army engineers working on the British railways in the region of Gouzeaucourt, caught in the German turning movement, escaped bv lying in shell holes aud prone on the ground while the British fired over them. There they remained until the British were near enough to enable the Americans to join the ranks, when they fought valiantly and played an important part in repelling the enemy. The British commanders refer to their gallant behavior with the greatest enthusiasm. Americans elsewhere took a busy hand in the fighting and were under hot German shell fire. Numbers of them volunteered for patrol work in the danger zone and all acquitted themselves finely. A British general told the correspondent that he could not praise them too highly. It is reported that several Americans were captured but escaped after a few hours and rejoined the British, The engineers were mainly from New York, l he crew of a train had a narrow escape. The engine driver, whose home is in St, Louis, was standing beside his engine talking with a British soldier when the atiack sluiteu. A shell struck nearby and killed the Briton but the American miraculously escaped. Tvyo more shells exploded on eit^eL side 01 the locomotive and the engineer thought it time to move. He and the crew "dug themselves in" in shell holes and after many hours made their escape. The railway was blown up soon after the Americans hid themselves. For nearly four months American engineers have been laboring on the roads behind the British lines, but military requirements precluded the mention of this fact until it was an nounced that the Americans had _ 1 _ _ ? piavea an important part in the drive, having had a large part in the marvelous work which resulted in the pushing of the vital railways up to the front. Chesterfield District Junior Order Meets Thursday, Dec. 13. There will be a meeting of the Chesterfield District, Junior Order U. A. M., at Ruby, S. G\, Thursday, Dec. 13th. The pro gram follows: Secret Session at 2 o'clock p. m. rubiic meeting at 7 p. m. in School auditorium. Program for Speaking Address, ''Virtue," Rev. J. I). Purvis. Address, "Liberty," W. P. Odom Address "Patriotism," lion. C. K. Laney. Address, "Good of the Order," R. S. Steward. Master Ceremonies, -W. R. Huneycutt. Bobby had been given a rah-J bit at Christmas, and constant feeding had increased its girth considerably. One day a neighbors hoy was visiting him and be was busy extolling the virtues of his pet. Apparently just noticing the increased size of, the rnhhii ! ??? 1 * .t IIV I'tlOOCVI Hid I I d I HI fondly over its stomach, observ in*?: "Sav, he's got a big bust, ain't he?" un ui me cias! must mark time for a day while the teachers gives him her tinu in order that he may catch up Then every day that your chile misses from school, is in part a least, taking from the whole class their time and thus delay ing them. I hope that even child in Chesterfield Countj will be sent to^school every da> that school is in session unless he is kept away 011 account o some unpreventable reason. Sincerely yours, J. A. Knight. I I " AlJ MONDy On Monday, Dec public auction to t east ot Pageland the Pot n I - wi KS\J 1 II, 1 ali plows, harrows, Do not forget Supt. Knight Replys to Mt Croghan CorrespondentTo the Editor of the Pageland, Journal: I noticed in the columns ol your paper under Mt. Croghain Locals the following sentence "I tiling that teachers meeting! should be held on Satuidays There were many children whc missed a day of school Friday because of the teachers meet ing at the county seat." I think that your correspon dent must be laboring unde misapprehension as to what vva: held at the County Seat on th< Friday here alluded to. Tin Teacher's meeting alluded t< was a two days Institute ii which the Teachers were in structed in the problems of tin school room, and such instruc tions continued during the twc days from morning until lab afternoon, with a lecture a night. In other words th< teachers were engaged whil< here in making themselvei ? -? ucuci leacners. and came or I Friday at the request of thi: lotfice. We thoroly sympathize with the idea expressed by tin writer, that no day should b< missed from the school, and j ! wonder it the patrons, the writer among theni, realizt what the child misses if absen from the days work? In th( case referred to there was nc school and therefore there coulc be no loss except less instructior by one day for the school year but if the child is kept out whik the school is in session he i: thrown behind his class ant must stumhlo Pageland Boy Wins Poem Medal The following: is from the Spartanburg Journal about Mr. ^ G. D. Sanders of Pageland: 1 G. D- Sanders, who is this year : a senior at Wofford College, 5 won for his college the State-in! . tercollegiate poem medal, given } each year by the association of colleges to that student in the State, who, during the year, has written the best poem. The judges are chosen from among the highest men of the State, r those most capable to judge, and s the announcement of the win 2 ner is made at the Press Associ2 ation meeting, which this year 3 was held at Winthrop College, 1 at Rock Hill. Three medals are given each 2 year, one for the best essay, one " for the best short storv and one 3 for the best poem. These are - hard to win, and the capturing t of one is counted one of the - highest honors that comes to a 2 student while in college, and the s college itself is counted fortu 1 nate in having a student that s can win these prizes. It has 3 been several years since Wof2 ford took one of these prizes, the 3 last one being for a short story. 1 Since his entrance in college 2 Mr. Sanders has shown remark2 able skill for a college student t in verse writing having won the ? pnl 1PO o nr\o?v* ~ J ~ 1 * 1 ? . (>ucui luuuui mree ycsrs ) in succession. He has taken I active part in journalistic work 1 of all kinds, being this year edi , tor-in-chiet of The Old Gold and i Black, the college weekly, and s The Bohemian, the college an1 nual. Mr. Sanders, in addition > to those activities, will receive > in lune his A. B. and A. M. dei grees, completing a five year . course in four years and work1 ing at the same time as telegraph t editor of The Spartanburg Ileri aid. 7 "When I was a boy I was r glad enough to eat dry bread for r my dinner," said father, at the > head of the table. f "Well, daddy," piped up his small daughter, "you are having a much better time now you are living with us." % ICTION SA \Y, DECEMBER ember 14th. at 10 oclock he highest bidder (or cash a following property: ?odder, Shucks; 2 mules; ? planters and other farming, the day, the hour n W. MgCOII i mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i " J J Pageland Boy Writes Home from France The following letter was received last week by Mr. \Y. A. Pigg, Sr. from his son sc mewhere in France: "Somewhere in France, November ? P)17. "Dear Father: "Possibly yon have heard before now that we have left Camu Mills. L. I.. N. Y. for France, and I know that you are anxiously waiting to hear from me. We had a long, pleasant, safe journey across. I would like to tell you about all mv experiences, but we are not permitted to tell any details. I hope to tell you some time. I found myself enjoying good health during tlie entire journey, not even getting sea-sick. "You, sister and brother are ever in my thots and devotions. Also my other many friends about home and dear old United States. "We are going to work hard and get the Kaiser licked as soon as possible so we can return home. j "I will write more when I have time. "Wishing you all happy. "Your devoted son, Croft." Co. "B" 117th Regiment Engineers. Pat Casey was drafted and proud of the honor: "Sure, 1 ain't scared of powder or dynamite shocks. I've worked in a quarry for Mickey O'Connor, and war can't be harder than blasting them rocks. Flat tooted? Oh, doctoi, don't say I'm rejected." And Casey, "exempted," fell back in his seat. "No mort'.ll is rvi.VVl, how could you expect it? You don't shoot a gun with the soles of your feel!" An old negro woman, stand ing by the grave of her husband, shook her head and said mournfully: "Poor 'Rastus! 1 hope he's gone where I spec' he ain't." LE < A it 1 i4in. a. m. I Will sell at it my (arm 2 miles ] horses; 2 wagons; lOOls. or the place, i -J