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\ The Pageland Journal December 12,1917 j Local News Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Bowden of Raeford, N. C. have been visiting the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L\ Evans. Mr. J. Otis Sanders, of the Journal force, was carried to a Charlotte hospital vesterdav afternoon for an operation for I appendicitis. He had been very sick since Sunday. An error occurred in Mr. W. McColl's auction sale advertisement last week. Later he decided to set a new date for the sale, and the ad in this issue gives the correct date. Miss Katie Arant and her sister Mrs. Hennie Gathings, who are taking a business course in Columbia, spent Sunday at home. They were accompanied by their friend, Miss Louise Reeves.?Cheraw Chronicle. Page camp Woodmen of the World meets next Saturday night. Officers for the year 1918 will be elected. Every member should be present and take part in the election. Camp ' opens at 8 o'clock. Our ad- and pressman, Mr. J. O. Sanders, is sick, and this issue is by no means what we would like for it to be. Bear with us, and we will do belter as soon as we can. There will be an oyster supper with other refreshments and amusements, given at White Plains on Saturday night, De cember the lfS, 1917. The public is cordially invited to attend. A reasonable price will be charged for supper and the proceeds will go to the benefit of the school. Mr. Daniel Kirklev, son of Mr. R. K. Kirklev, has enlisted in the navy. He is only 17 vears and a half old. He is a bright young fellow, and he will doubt less make a good sailor. He be % gan making pictures when he wns 1 A, rpors nlH on/i tine m/. w v A A J W wvlf U1IVA I1UO OUV^ ceeded at that. His brother, Mr. W. A. Kirklev, has been in the navy three years and a half. Mr. Randolph Redfearn sold seven pounds of tallow this morning that was made about fifty years ago by Mrs. Red fearn's father, the late B. F. Houston, savs the Monroe Jour nal. The tallow had been lying in the garret all these years, and Mr. Redfearn decided to gel rid of it by selling it. Young men who have been called for examination by local exemption boards may still vol untarily enlist in any branch of the military service, but they must present a certificate from the local board that tliev will not be needed to fill any defcrr ed percentage ol the quota to be furnished by the board. Vol tin tary enlistment, however, will not be permitted after noon of next Saturday, December l.V.h. According to (Jovernment re ports, 18,077 bales of cotton were ginned in Chesterfield county prior to November 14. The number ginned to the same date last year was 11,101. The total number ginned in South Cairo lina up to the same date was 923,5f>0; last year 710.69-1. Sam Brown, a negro convict who was serving a sentence for beating a ride ami for vagrancy, escaped from the county gang as the convicts were being locked in Friday night. He went to Joe Brewer's and tried to gel aid to cut off his shackles, but failed. He then came on to Pageland and enquired the vvav to leffer son. At the home ol Mr. J. I). Watts he stole a pair of pants from a clothes line. He was followed and captured a few hours later some distance this side of lefferson. He was serving a short sentence, but he is wanted by the government as soon as his term expires as de serter from the army. There will be a call meeting of the Junior Older Friday night. Mr. James Hendrix and sister of Raeford, N. C. visited at the homes of Messrs, J. D. and D. V. Hendrix from Friday until Tuesday. The writer has just received a card from Mr. J. L. Griggs, mailed "somewhere in France." He is in the navy, and he states that his ship was anchored in a French port at the time he wrote. The first snow of the season began falling about 9 o'clock last night, and this morning there is a white blanket over Mother Earth about 5 inches thick. This followed two or three days of the coldest weather of the season, and the ground was frozen hard. Mr. Lex Gregory, son of Mrs. M. E. Gregory of Pag^land was T* * linn i ifu iaM x uesuav evening: to Miss Sadie Young at her home in Columbia. Mr. Gregory is employed as an electrician at Newport News, Va., at which place thev wilt make their home. Mr. Charley C. Nicholson and Miss Sallie Stokes were married last Wednesday Mr. Nicholson is a soldier at Camp Jackson. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Nicholson and is well known here. Mrs. Nicholson is a sister of Mr. S. L. Stokes. They visited in this section from Thursday until Sunday, and Mr. Nicholson reported for duty Monday. A few days ago after Mr. M. L. Sweat's arm was dislocated by the kick of the engine in his oil truck, Mr. John Blakeney loaded up the truck and started to Chesterfield. Tbe steering gear was not tight, and John was hardly out of town before the thing began to shoot first one way anJ then another, finally going across a ditch and into a wire fence. There he left it and ; came back tor help. When he returned he found a sign fastened to the rear of the truck, which read, "Park Here." Editor Bivens Just Learning to Eat Collards. After mentioning last week the big collards exhibited ai the county fair, a reference that 1 might have been taken for a hint, the editor's fa mil v was presented wi.li a mammoth collard by Mr. M. A. Gilmore, one of the most affable merchants of the town. Now the writer has never been very strong for collards but on account of the association of the one in question, we determined to do full justice to it. Cooked up in true southern style we took the first meal at noon. As this is usually a hasty meal and having fears that our digestive organs might | not he equal to the task we touched it onlv lightly. At supper we found a good 1 v portion remained and the taste at noon had served to whet an appetite that suggests going and "doing up" that dish of col lards. Suiting the thought to action, we did precisely that thing and have thus far felt no pangs of indigestion, but, on the contrary have decided that we have missed a great deal bv ignoring collards all these venrs. In this connection it is related that Doctor Rinir of Monroe and Rocky River Springs, stated sometime ago that when he ex uiiimini ii candidate for lift1 insurance, lie invariably wound up his category with this question: "'Can you cni 'biled' cabbage for supper and gel away with them?" By this rule we can qualify for the limit.-Wadcsboro Anson ian Toys, Christmas goods for everybody. Pageland I Id we. Co. Thousands Killed in Halifax ai (continued from first page) among the rums for the dead ^ and wounded. The Canadians j were assisted in tl '; work by sadors from an An ^rican war- ^ ship in the harbor. b The flame swept area covers p approximately two and one half square miles. It begins at what ^ is known as the North street bridge extending north to Pier 8 c on the 'Richmond waterfront a and back to a point running f< parallel with Gottingen street. f< Nothing has been lelt standing t] in this section ot the city. Only a pile of smouldeiing ruins marks the spot where the great 11 building of the American Sugar ? Refiuing company stood. tl The Mont Blanc was pierced v on the port side almost to the ^ engine room. The other ship, which was only slightly dam v aged, backed away when llamcs 0 burst out on the munitions ship, and was abandoned by the crew. The captain of the Mont Blanc v aiso ordered his crew to the ^ boats, us he realized an explo- ^ sion was inevitable. The men y reached shore safely before the tremendous blast 17 minutes la: ter which blew their ship to pieces and wrecked a large part v of the city. tj The business iife of the city liad iust begun for ? ie day 0 when the town was shaken to c its foundations by the explosion. Persons in the streets were pick- ^ ed up bodily and hurled to the ground. Occupants of office buildings covered under a show- t] er of falling glass a...? plaster. c Houses in the Richmond section ^ crumpled up and collapsed, burying their tenants. In the main part of the city where the buildings are chiefly v of stone or concrete the damage was confined to the shattering ^ of windows and most of the cas- { ualties in this section were cans- v ed by flying glass. In the west and northwest ends t the damage was more extensive c and there the walls of many f houses were blown to bits. It n was in Richmond, however, op posite the scene of the explosion, that the havoc was " greatest. Whole blocks of dwellings, most | of frame construction, were lev | eled Street after street is in ruins and the structures which were left standing by the ex plosion were destroyed by fires which broke out simultaneously in a score of places and which it was impossible to check until they had burned themselves out it is believed scores of persons ? 1 1. _ i t who nau oeen injured l>>. the 2 collapse of llieir homes perish- E ed in the flames from which I they were helpless to flee. The E fires in this district still are | smouldering tonight. r hive minutes alter the explo- f sion the streets in all pails of ? Halifax were filled with frenzied, r panic stricken throngs striving to reach the outskirts in an elfort to escape what they heliev ed was a raid 1>> a German fleet. Hundreds ol them had been cut by a shower ol glass which tol lowed the explosion. I Halifax, N. S., Oec. 7? Sliick rt en flalifiiv ui'.ic mv/ii.i :..u? i .? -? 1>V a raging blizzard. So fierce was 9 the storm that the rescue work- I crs were forced to suspend tluir S operations m the devastated sec 9 tion. It is believed certain that 9 all the injured buried under diejg ruins ol shattered buildings havejB perished of cold and hunger. battel ed by a biting wind and! 3 blinding snow, the plight of the survivor of yesterday's holocaust v is little short of desperate. The & windows and doors of virtually I every house in the city weie 8 shattered by the explosu n B which wrecked the Richtnot d section and devastated a 1; r,.e 9 part of the water front. Impio- K vised barricades of boards give H little protection against the ele a ments and attempts to heat 8 buildings into which the snovv is " mining arc nopcless. The city is again in darkness B tonight except for the the iilnini R nation afforded by a scanty sup- I ply of oil lamps and unless these I " I re carefully screened they are C xtirguished as soon as lighted y the gale which whistles F< irough the crude shutters. On a small percentage of the !e uildings have even this slight ^ rotection from the storm. _ The sufferings of those who F? scaped injury have been inreased by the fact that every n< vailable blanket, quilt and com- 11 stable has been requisitioned p Dr the hundreds of injured in _ re temporary hospitals. Many ^ f these are so gravely wounded b leir onlv hope lies in the best p f care. Serious fears are felt e, lat cold, shock and exposures h kill result in an outbreak of neumonia. G A single telegraph wire, bend- ^ lg dangerously to the storm, F' Tiered Halifax only a precaious means of communication v vith the outside world and it a ras feared momentarily that ? his*line wOuld snap- At best it :ave only a halting connection villi other points. Telegraph'8 nd telephone companies are F aaking desperate efforts to proide a makeshift service, but the n rork is heset with great difficul- S ies. . si Wlulc many generous offers 1 f material relief have been re- | eived and trainloads of supplies ire on the way, the spectre of 1( amine was abroad tonight, for \ f the storm continues it may . eriously iuteifere with railroad raffic. Tliere is enough food >n hand for immediate needs 1 at it will last only a short time 1 inless additional supplies are re- ( eived. I As the day wore on the im- l aensity of the disaster increased ti ather than diminished. Hun- p Ireds of bodies were taken to " he morgues and rescue squads vere constantly finding new _ ictims under tons of debris uu- ( il the blizzard forced them to \ :ease work. There is everv eason to believe that many I nore will he recovered. Hope you had j giving. We all appreciations and paying up all old debts as 1 Any one that wants to it you dont it is because yo Do not think you will there will be a day wher been more prompt. Resp T. E. < Free CLAXTC j I IS A I o my contestants Plea? By the 19th. So as 1 wi the final roport by Christ rn WE Flour, Mill Feed, Mc Coffee on hand, and Suga Puces all are right. I Men s and Boy's Suits bef Girls and Chilnren's Coats Come A j. R.< BUSINESS LOCALS >r Sale?Swan Hats, the nHtv line. Beacon, Bland and ICn cotts & Johnsons Shoes. Cur e clothes and Dutchess pant* [ungo Bros. >r Sale?Liddell Saw Mill out tit. No. I saw mill. 30-horse oiler, 25 horse engine, belting, c. All in good shape. Bar ain for quick sale. T. W. erry. Pageland. ost?on Saturday, Dec. 1, two memorandums held together y rubber band. Finder will lease notify. Lummus Blakeny. [ome made molasses from seeded ribbon cane, for 85c. !ood vinegar for 30c. G. R. [night. or Rent?5-room house on 1acre lot, good bain, well of /ater and garden. Five dollars month. See J. W. Mtingo or I E. Richardson. 'or Sale?one good mine and one good roan mare, i . .?h or oodpapers. T. B. Smith. or Sale?my shoe shoo and all the tools and supp!ic~, and ay restaurant on the corner ee me if you wan' to trade ome. Cash or good papers. \ B. Smith. ror Service?pure bred Poland China boar, entitled to egistration. Fee $1.50. A. D. lurgess, near Mangum's siding. Vill gin every day until further notice. Peoples Gin Co. The owners of the Pageland IV-I ^ ** <uuu v>u<t lucaMs. muyimru, ivic }regor and Godfrey will be in \igeland on Friday December 4th, any one wishing to see hem about land or lots will lease meet them. luy your meal and hulls from Clark & Smith. 'over?that cotton with 3 1!> lagging, we sell it. Mungo Bros. (ring?your cotton seed to us. Mungo Bros. giving a good Thanks- ? should show our | thanklulness by | well as new ones, pay, can do it now but u wont. never need credit again, ? i you will wish you had ?ectfull y Cato 1 >NOLA Free FACT >e make all your reports 11 have time to make up LL j lasses. Meet, Lard and r when it gets here. )o not lorget to see my ore you buy. Ladies, also. Ground Cato * V BUSINESS L9C/. LS For Sale?large saw rod <urfit, including 40 horse L ieli Boiler, 25 horse Ajax e: ine, belts, sawdust rig, cut off .aw and everything belonging to a complete outfit Mill is !o< ted 2 1 -2 miles northeast ol Page ml. Purchaser gets privilege o cutting remainder of location,"i ".lit 100,o0() feet. Bargain for c ick sale. J. A. Laney. For Sale?3 Poland China aid Duroc Jersey Pigs about live weeks old. John T. Blake ev, near White Plains. Land Posted?notice is h reby given that our lands ire posted arrninst hnniimr ^ i?1? guns or clogs, or in any way trespassing. Persons disrcg; riling tins notice will he prose uted to the full extent of the i w. Dorscv Pigg, \V. 10. Hancc rk, Jas. C? Sanders, J no. X. Sand as. For Sale?good sound cc rn. See S. 11. Lanev at Page'a id or Burl Griffin at Wolf Pond. Land Posted?all persons ire warned not to hunt or tresp iss in any way on my lands, under penalty of law A. G Castor. Sec me for transfer. Prices reasonable. Terms stricilv cash. R. F. Smith. Wood? buy your winter wood now. Give me vour order for what you want. I have 1 ft cord wood, oak wood and stove wood. R. F. Smith. I have two small tracts of land for sale, If von want to j buy a small tract near Pageland, see me. R. F. Smith. McCaTT" Patterns t Mungo Bros. We are still sending Laundry. Give us a trial. Clark & Smith. We appreciate vour orders. 'phone them in. Chirk & Smith. Last Year's price on Mei's work shoes. Now is your chance to huy. C. L. Gulledge. Don't 1?nv vour work Shoes until you get mv prices. C. L Culled se. Wanted?to Imv sound white Corn. i'.i^ciand Novelty I Works. Scarf Pins, ('til! Bi.tto \ Watch Chains, Brooches, hobs. King., Bracelets,Silverware and ( dock .. B. B. Kuban'cs. 'Phone ( ! irk am! Smith tc r (resh loaf Wanted? ;d your remnants c t long staph cotton. Mighett markt ? price. John F, Smith. 'Phone VOlir orders tr? & Smith. Their John Henr\ goes in a hurry. Fresh groceries at the right price. Clark & Smith. we always pay the top tochickens and eggs. Clark & Smith. Buy your underwear fiom ( lark & Smith. FOP Sale i f t: n of ">') 1 2 1101 es just f tile towii limits \i'w < ii??i 15 unit other improvements. J. 1). utts Car?Tex us Red rust proot seed 1 >51 ts. Mtinco Tiros. Wanted ?1 ft wood, preen or dry. W'l) pnv for s.tme hefore rnr Ic.u'i's vni"- ??? I See me if cash ami 1 square deal is what you want. Also in market for few cross ties for cash. A L. I. itta, Box 2 Che raw, S. C. 3 nc Wante<J Von to know that we still sell Men's and Hoy's suits, (aid coats, overalls and work shirts. Mtingo Kros. For Rent ? good six room house on Mavnard street, rood water and outbuildings. K. II. Blakeniv Now is the time for you io have a "20 year gold case put on your watch in place of that nickle one. B. H Ktihanks. See m\ guaranteed Fountain pens. B B. F.uhanks.