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CLARENDON COUNTY FARMS I am offering for sale the following tracts of land in Clarendon County: rRACT 18-61-Tract of 130 acres, 70 cleared in Clarendon County 7 miles from Manning, 5 miles from Alcolu, 3 1-2 miles from Gable, on Sardinia-Manning Public Road; 4-room main dwelling, 2 tenant houses, several barns; school house and church convenient. Price, per acre ----------------- ---- ----- ------------$35 TRACT 18-62-Tract of 170 acres, 100 cleared, in Clarendon Coun ty, 5 miles from Alcoru, 7 miles from Manning, on Sardinia-Manning Public Road; 6-room main dwell mg, 2 tenant houses, barns and stabl'.s. Price, $35 per acre. TRACT 18-70-Tract of 936 acres, 400 cleared, in Clarendon Coun ty, 2 miles from Bloomville. 4 miles from Foreston. and 8 miles from Manning, on Bloomville-Sumter Road; 5-room main dwelling, 15 tenant houses, good barns and stables. School and church near. Price ------------- ------------- --------------$28,000 TRACT 18-84-Tract of 164 acres, 14 acres cleared, with 75 acres of partially grown up old fields, in Clarendon Coun ty. 7 miles east of Alcolu, near Manning-Sarinla Public Road. Price ----- ----------------- $35 per acre. TRACT 18-86--Tract of 32 acres at Remini in the Fork of the R:m ini-Summerton Public Road and the Camden Charleston Public Road. This is good land and desir amy located right at the station of Remini. Price per acre --------- ------------------------------$100 TRACT 18-87-Tract of 448 acres, 128 cleared, five miles from Pinewood, 7 miles north- of Remini, on Camden Charleston Public Road. 4 tenant hlouses. Some good timbe, on tract. Price ------------------- --------$7500 TRACT 18-97-Tract of 371 acres, 315 in cultivation, in Clarendon County, 3 1-2 miles West of Summerton, 1 1-2 miles from Millard's Siding, on the M. & A. Railroad and Summerton-Remini Public Road; 5-room house and nine tenant houses. This is exceptionally fine land, and with a little shaping up will make one of the nicest plantations in the State. Price, per acre -- -.$100 We are offering other tracts in all parts of Sumter, Lee and Claren don counties. If you do not find what you want in this list, tell us what you are looking for, and we will make it our business to find it for you. R. B. BELSER, REAL ESTATE BROKER 26 N. Main St. Sumter, S. C. Farm Lands, Business and Residence Property, Timber Lands and Realty Loans Are You Open-Minded? The average American is open-minded. American business is con ducted by true Americans of vision, open - minded men who believe in their country and strive to meet their oountry's needs. The men in the packing industry are no exception to the rule. The business of Swift & Company has grown as the na tion has progressed. Its affairs have been conducted honorably, efficiently, and economically re ducing the margin between the cost of live stock and the selling price of dressed meat) until today the profit is only a fraction of a cent a pound-too small to have any noticeable effect on prices. The packing industry is a big; vital industry-one of the most important in the country. Do ,you understand it ? Swift & Company presents facts in the advertisements that appear in this paper. They are addressed to every open-minded person in the country. The booklet of preceding chapters in this story of the packing indu~stry, will be mnailed on request to Swift & Company UnIon Stock Yards - - Chicago, Illinois Swift & Company U. S.A ...I .o ........... Rr4t Plan for $25,000,000 Bond Issue for Building Good Roads in South Carolina tn rewpoase to many requests we publish below the Rhett plan for a bond i4Aue of $25,000,000 for good roads in South Carolina, the interest on the boi is to be paid by a special automobile tax and a sinking fund for 1 el retirement in twenty years to be created in the same way. This is the plas that has been endorsed by the good roads convention, the South Carolina State Automobile Association, the Columbia, Greenville, Rock Hill and Charleston Chambers of Commerce apd many other organizations over thi State. It is to be submitted to the General Assembly at the approachinj session in the form of a bill. The plan follows in full as endorsed by the good roads convention: Your Committee on Plans begs to submit certain facts which should bt known and understood before its proposals are presented. There is at present no State Highway System in South Carolina. Thu State Highway Commission, created In February, 1917, is composed of flvt members, of whom three are senior professors of engineering at colleges and the other two are appointed by the Governor. It is limited in its powers and duties to investigation and advice. At least four-fifths of the ambuni It colleots from licenses is turned over to the counties, Under the preseni Act, it is not possible to establish a system of State Highways, and youl committee's recommendations contemplate such amendmrents to this Act as in its judgment, would be necessary, both to establish . :d maintain in good condition and repair at least fifteen hundred miles of well-surfaced highways connecting every county seat in the state. To do this would require a very large sum of money-possibly twenty or even twenty-five million dollars-and without the credit of the State behind it, this would be impracticable. Under the Constitution, this credit may no4 be extended "unless two-thirds of the qualified electors of this State, votini on the question at a genersj State election, be in favor of it." Until November 1920, there will be no opportunity for submitting this question to such a, vote However, there is much to be done in the establishment of a Systeim of State Highways before surfacing them and it will be found that a year and a half will not be too long a time to lay out such a system and aicquire title to the roads. In the meantime, however, your committee has proposed plan which would enable such counties, as may desire to have their highwayi completed within their limits, to do so. It is clear at the outset that two-thirds of the qualified voters voting or the question would never favor any large issue of State Bonds, to be retiree by general taxation. It must be mr-4o clear that the general public are t4 pay no part of this tax. It is a public improvement which so particular1 benefits the motor vehicle owner that he can well afford to pay it all, and he should so unmistakably express himself. There are now over 56,000 auto mobiles registered in this .State, and they have paid in licenses during the year, in round numbers, $290,000. The increase of automobiles in the Stat< for the past two years has been, from 19,000 in 1916, to 37,000 in 1917, t< 55,000 in 1918. The Increase in the United States from January 1, 1916, ta January 1, 1918, was over 100 per cent. Iowa already has one car to ever] six persons. To retire $25,000,000 of 4%/ per cent bonds serially in twenty years woul require about $1,800,000 per year. An average license of $20.00 per oar of 100,000 cars would yield $2,000,000 with; 150,000 cars it would take $12.50 pe: car. The present average license is $5.25 per car. If every owner of a car would figure his saving in gasoline, repair, bills and in wear and tear, provided there were 1,500 miles of well-surfaced high ways, kept in good order, in the State, it would be found that this wil amount to between $100.00 and $200.00 per annum. He, therefore, Is askini the State to permit him to invest from $10.00 to $15.00 per annum, say, t save from $100.00 to $200.00, a total saving to the autoinobilises of the Stat of over $10,000,000 per annum, in money. It would be hard to compute th saving in time. With this prelude, your committee begs to report its recommendations as follows: 1. The State Highway Commission should be given the power to acquir rights-of-way and lands, by purchase or condemnation, for the purpose c establishing a State Highway System connecting all the county seats; to construct and surface the highways in such a system so as to take care o the traffic which may be developed upon them, and to keep such highways is proper condition and repair. 2. The State I-lighway Commission should be seven in number, an should be composed of one from each Congressional District, with the thre senior professors of engineering, provided in the present Act, as advisor members. It should select its own chairman, and have full power to emplo its own engineer, and fix his compensation, and also the compensation c all its employees. 3. There should be two or more issues of State of South Carolina Hig) -ray Bonds, aggregating a sufficient amount to connect every county seat wit a well-surfaced highway, each issue to be retired serially, or by amortizatio within the life of the road upon which the proceeds are expended. 4. There should be levied by the Legislature an annual license tax upo motor vehicles-all of which should go to the State Highway Commission sufficient to enable the Commission to keep the highways in the System I proper condition and repair; to pay interest on all out~tanding State Highwa Blonds, and to retire same in accordlance with their terms. 5. The counties of the State should be authorized by the LegislatuT to issue County Highway Bonds, and construct ouch parts of this hiighwa mystem within their borders as their people may ratify. 6. There should be lev-ied for the next two years a one-mill tax, to 1 distributed to the counties proportionately, for road purposes; provided tha in the event any county sh~ould desire to turn this fund over to the 6tali Highway Commission for expendiure on a highway in the State Systen within the limits of its county, the Commission should be required to add like amount from its license fees for the same purpose. 7. TI'le present motor vehicle license tax should be at once raised I 60 cents per horsepower for automobiles and motorcycles, and $1.00 per hors< power for motor trucks, with $5.00 for trailers and $35.00 for dealers, unlet there is an opportunity of securing Federal aid, in which event this should I increased to such an amount as will supply the portion which this Stat must furnish in order to obtain the full portion to which it would b~e entitle 8. Any moneys which a county may turn over to the Highway Commi sion, to be expended on a State highway, should -be refunded such couni out of the pro'ceeds of any State Highway Bonds, which may be issued, wit out interest. 9. Wherever any highway which is now improved, or may hereafter 1 improvedi, shall be taken into the State Highway System, so much of the su facing improvements as may be available in the ' aid System, shall I appraised, and t-he value thereof paid to the county out of the proceeds< any State Highway Bonds that may be issued. Your committee believes that under such a plan a System of State Hig ways can be begun and be prepared for construction by the time the Sta Bonds referred to I Paragraph 3 may be submitted to the people, in Nover ber, 1920. (Adopted by and recommended for enactment into law at a conventk( of the South Carolina Automobile Association, D~ecemuber 11, 1918.) Note the Tremendous Growth of the South Carolina Autom bile Association in One Year. C'olumbia.-A year ago the South Carolina State Automobile AssociAtii was unknown. Today it has several thousand memblers andl new citlb a being formed weekly in every section of the State. Themi associlon h launched (luring the fast few weeks a movement for a $25,(000 000 bond issi for a State-wide system of good roads that. bids fair to culm-nmate successfull 'If it does the goodi road.s system will stand a.s a lasting mnuiiment to tI automobile association. Much of the credit for the wonderful work done in the orgaulization the association must be given to C. WV. Cotield, the tireless socretar-y mmn treasurer. When he came to the State a year ago lbe found the or-ganizat I. practically defunct. Ho took hold of it with a vim and has accomplish wondlers. The 1-tate headquarters of the association are located in the Imper Hotel at GIreenville. Th'iere 'Mr. C.otleld has compiled a list of every autmeon bile owner in t-he State of South Caroline.. lie is also compiling throught different local clubs a minute diescription of every car in the State. TI will b~e of benefit ini recover-ing stolen cars. The auto association furnishes each member with a copy of the Il Dlook, memb~ership in the local, State and Amorican Autcmo' e Assuociatio en anublem for his ear, a subscriptilon to i.-' American M' or a natlo' good roads magazine, a surety feature anmd the protecuion of the Southe Undorwriters Detective Blureau in recovering stolen cars . 1" A fRemed Coni tion - - " ' worI"d of s ii TIe Doctor of catnh.atd cos ages 9f the. vorst The Greatest - Catarrh first at throat, lungs, stc the body. Unch sues and chronic are always diffle1 - Guard your hen too late. Peruna is excellent for co all catarrhal inflammation and cong< Many startling recoveries have be TOOK IT FOR CHRONIC BRON "I was troubled for four or five years. A few doses of P'eruna would always bring relief. In the Spring of 1914. 1 began taking Pe runa in earnest and used twelve bottles and have not had an attack in twvo years. I feel better and can do more work than in ten ears. Peruna also cured me cfy chronic Bronchitis and I recommend it as a splendid ." F. McRIDIDI. Santa Fe, Ohio. WRITE FOR THIS BOOK. If sick and in doubt, write The Peruna Company, Dept. 8 81, Co lumbus, Ohio, for Dr. Hartman's Health Book. It is free. Sent iA a plain wrapper to any address. DO IT TODAY Valuabli FOR I have for sale at bargaib Belonging Abe (1) Tract of 73 acres ab known as the Ben Waiters place by Isaac Clark for the year 19 (2) Tracts of 24 and 25% Jordan, the same being the Car 2 tions of the Cyrus Davis estate (3) Tract of 50 and 1-6 ac 1918 by David Conyers. (4) Tract of 142 acres neal Dewitt Stokes. This is known (5) Tract of 208 acres, mor ship' rented the year 1918 by I beirg known as the "old Cochr (6) Tract of 110 acres abot the year 1918 by Charles and R1 as the R. S. Flemming place. (7) Tract of 340 acres me ; nd of 104 acres about 7 miles year 1918 by John Mack and ] 6 (8) One lot l00x150 feeti of Manning back of where Mr. one of the lots sold several yea 0(9) Tract of 715 acres nbc Sknown as the Blakeley place plc 0 and .John Abraham. No prospective purchaser n to pay all cash. Long time wi ments with interest at seven p I. BEST 1 Reasonat Nothing but the ve our prescriptions, and t the way your physician RUBBER GOG] adaTOIl an afull andl STATI cWe ni A MODERN S( We keep a CIGARS, TOBAC4 BROWN'S C Below Bank of Mannin a'I BUV WAR S nI to Overcome Catarrh and Catarrhal s was Dr. Hartman's Legacy to the fering. arly recognized the insiduous nature secrated his life to checkig the ray of all health destroyers. UNA of All Catarrh Remedies tacks the mucous linings in the nose, mach, bowels or any other part of scked it finally breaks down the Us ailments develop which, if not fatal, alt to cure. .th with aruna. Don't wait until ighs, colds, effects of the grip and stion of the mucous linings. an recorded. HAD OATARRH IN WORST FORM "I had catarrh and was all run down, Many claimed it was con sumption and I really thought so myself. I had a pain in my lungs and left aide, no appetite, could not Sleep, always weak and tired. My weigit was 89 pounds. I took fifteen bottles of Perun and am entirely cured. I now will 1363 pounds. Thanks to Peruna.' MRS. A. J.. NETKOWS. 3964 Tyler St. Minneapolis, Minn. N. E. If you want health, insist upon having Dr. Hartman's World Fa mous Peruna Tonio. IN LIQUID OR TABLET FORM. Sold Everywhere. Ask your Dealer for a Peruna Almanao e Lands SALE! prices the following lands o- Estate of Levi. )ut 12 miles South of Manning e. This is the same land rented 18. "1 (total 49%) acres, located near ty er Davis and Agnes Cantey por res near Paxville rented the year Paxville rente - the year 1917 by as part of the Beatson land, e or less, in Sammy Swamp Town 1. F. and H. B. Ridgeway, same an place." it 8 miles East of Manning rented obert Flemming. Same is known ide up of 3 tracts of 150, of 86 East of Manning and rented the Ion Whack. a the Southern part of the Town Joseph Sprott lives, same being 's ago by Mr. A. L. Lesesne, ut 8 miles Northeast of Manning nitedl the year 1918 by Ned Hicks aed hold back by not being able I be given on any dleferred pay r cent. INBERG, Manning, S. C. DRUGS ile Prices ry best materials go into hey are compounded just says. DS and JET ARTICLES complete line of D~NERY. have )DA FOUNTAIN Full Line of 2OS and CANDIES. RUG STORE, rManning, S. C. WVING STAM1PS4