Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DI $1 $50 First BRAI Augu of eac The f at 10 Each On D( prizes coupo NEW ARMY SYSTEM TO BE ORGANIl[D Nine Corps Will le Established in Country. TO ABOLISH DEPARTMENTIS Charleston to Lose the South-eastern Headquarters in the Reorganiza tion. Washington, .Aug. B.-A n order ahol ish ing th(e Six depairtments oif the a rmy anud establ ishing n ine corpis areas as p ri in t he ar mny re'org.aniza tions art has b~eeni prep~ared in the War Deparit ment and is await ing~ the ap provalI of Secta ry baker. Amnong the dtepartmenIts which would he abolished is the Sout heastern, (Charleston, S. C., Major Gen. .\orrison, conunandling Thle geog raphdiicalI bondarhies ofC the ni ne (II ')5s aes have not yet been an noun0ced. Ena}b armea wvould he under a major generalI as are the present arcmy deipart ments oif thec cou nt ry and(1 they would he lot ated in eaeh four dIi visions. Iwo of t hese would be re serve organ1iza t ions whiich would exist largely (in papJer and voutld he calle only in case of a n() ati o eegency. One di vision w\ould ba of regular troop; and the tour)th of Nat ional (;uari. Officeris at dc earmnt headrua rt ers hiave specunbited as to t he effects of Jackson GENER Brick, Iron, C< BOX 291, Manning, S. C. ow Bd alRo lm u la -Ingma !I IN .Ii [50.00 $40 Sec< )HAM DURC st 14th to Cla h pig being $ iigs will be ni 'clock, SAT boy draws fr( .cember 1st, v to the five n below and Enclos I accei the army reorganization measure, with its provisions for the creation of corps areas, since the measure became a law Varying opinions were held, but it was agreed that the abolishing of the va rious departments was a question to be decided by the War Department's interpretation of the new law. While Charleston will lose the South eastern Department headquarters, it may he that one of the corps headquar ters will be established here. An nouncement of the areas to be included in the different corps districts and the places selected to be headquarters for each wvill be awvaitedl with interest by the population oif this city, and es lpecially by the present personnel of the headquarters staff. U~nder the new orders (of the War D~epartmient, each corps headquarters will he an ad ministrative and a tactical organ ization. Thus, in case of a (nmergency making necessary the mobi Siza tion of an army, each corpJs area wo.uldl have its directing staff already organized on a bis 5to dIirect fi led operat ions. At present, the dlepa rt men t organisiza tion is al most purely ad minis J1L'IWGE ANN 1'LS MAliUIIAG;E Spa rtanhu rg, A ug. 6.--The ar riage oif A. Lee and Miss Al ice Ca lett, which occurred at A nderson May !,94,was a1nnulld b aw decre s ignedl andl filed yeste'rday' by J1udge Thomais S. .Sease, the grounds being . Construc AL CONTRA I'lain Office Columbia, S. S. E. PENTrZ, Prop. ament and FramE PRI and $30 OC FARM ha rendon boys, 30.00 cash. A imbered in o: 'URDAY, )m a hat his i ire will weigh making higi mail to Brc e $30.00 for my pig, Pt pig on your propo, Sign that Lee had a wife living at the time of the marriage. The ceremony was performed by a minister. Miss Catlett's complaint to the court follows: "1. That on the 10th day of May, 1904, the defendant, A. Lee, attempt e(d to contract matrimony with the plaintiff, and the for mof marriage cer ('mony was gone through and perform ed by the Rev. W. B. lawkiins at Anderson, S. C.; that the plaintiff be lievecd and was told that the dlefendant was an unmarriedl man and cap~able of contracting matrimony in accordan. e with the laws of South Carolina, but a fterwards pla intiff' was toldl that the dlefendant had a wife living, from whom he was legally dlivorced, and1( on account of said pretended dIivorce he had a legal right to contract nmatri mouy, but still later' plaintiff was in formed andi now believes anad alleges that the defendant had no legal right' to contract ma~ttrinmony with the plain tillf on account of hiis l iving wife, and as soon as plaint iff dIiscoveredl said fact lpla intiff declinted and refused to live longer with or have any coninee ion whatever with the defendant and does not in the fut ure intendl to have anything to don withI the dlefendant, wherefore pla intiff' demands judgment against the dlefendlant. ''2. Tlha t sa id pre'tended marriage he declared to be a nullity and void."' The court ordleed that the pla intiff h a right to use her1 mid en nameiI tion Co. CTORS C. Construction ~. B. McCAIHILL, Local Mannae MON ZES Third $2 s selected 30 under 100 yea 11 registered, ne lot; all boi 4 AUGUS'J >ig. Each pi . each hog agi iest gain in Wdham. Duro< , P. 0. . to be delivered Aug oition. ed: . . . the same as if such pretended mar riage had not takeni place. 0 IMPORTANT MEETING TO BE IN CHARLESTON Tentative System of Good Roads for the State Will Be Chief Topic. Under the recent Act of the Leg islature creating a State Highway Dc jartment, there is contained the fol lowing provision: "The said State Highwvay Commis sion shall, undler the advice of the State Highway Engineer, lay out a system of connecting highways] throughout the State, connectingi every county seat within the State *tnd covering such ma in avenues ofI travel and Liraffic as the said HIighwvay Comm ission may deem advisable." Before complying wvith the above provision of the Act. the Department leems it adlvisable to hold a public< 1earing in each of the seven Congres- I ;ional Districts of the State, to which .vill be invitedl all parties wvho may be I nterestedl in the matter. A tentative I state System was laid~ out by 'the for ner' Highway Decpartment after long< ;tudy and careful consideration, and i Sa basis oif dliscussion this tentative system wvill be used. Maps of this aiy out may be obtained at the oflice >f the County Supervisor Of Roads of wvery county. In pursance of the above p)urpose the state HIigh way Commission wvill hold i hearing at the Chamber of Coin m~erce in the city of Charleston on Wednesday, August 18, 1920, from 10 4. M. to 1 P'. MW. and a further hear ng in the' County Court House in the ty of St. Ceorge on Thursday, Aug.I 19, 1920, from 11 A. MW. to 2 1P. M. 13n( anyone in the F'irst Congression ii Dist rict who believes that the roads n that D)istrict as laid out on the mnid ma p ought to be changed is in ited to appear at saidl times and )laces ands state to the said Coininis don the change priopiosed giving the 'eason~s therefor. I nasmiuch as the D~epartmentL is hbarged with the dluty of laying out a Late System connec(0ting the pountLy "V? hre w'ithout et 'iiri tif HUNT'S anive Ifani su thi trenenenta ofir ITC SCMA.~ I. k'INGiWORlM, 'iiTriIR or [W~ l r.the r Itciir rin dI eneca. Try n 75 e-nt boo nt our riritrk. ~ #I DICKSON'x )IIGM W4imORE $150.0 0 Fourth Boar Pigs to 1 .rs of age. The all immune. rs meet on ho o14. g will be we: uin, and awar weight. Sig : Farm. ust 14. SiesiA r igi Seats and the roads of adjoining tN States, only such roads as could con- m sistently and properly be incorporat- m ed in such a System can be taken into d< consideration. sc - - o a; DNE MULE IGS . m VERSUS TWO MULE RIGS to Cultivation cost is largely reduced by using adequate power harnessed to nodern cultivating machinery. Figures l :ompiled by the United States De partment of Agriculture in ?uarm o man agemen t studies conlduct.d uponl t southern farms showv that the twvo- t nule team hitche" to a twvo-miule im >lement, saves time and money overv .he usual one-mule outfit. In Texas, v vhere the farms are comparatively arge, the two or four mule hitch is generally used, but the farmers in the s'outheastern States are inclined to de >endl ipon the single rig to do their >lowing, planting, andl cultivating, yen where their acreage is large. In reparing the land for cultivating rops5 the southeastern farmer with is one mule makes five trips across is field to the Texas farmer's one. 'he Texas man cultivates both sides; f the row and the middle at a single( rip, but a one-mule hitch must make .We Are Headq Nitrate of in quantities from upwards. We hav< the past ten days age of this materie prices 'have advan past week it is still pared with other Get our prices bei MANNING 4 ST 10 $10 Fifth 3ell on k price r farm ighed. d the n the vo or three trips to accomplish as uch. Moreover, the single-mule far er uses twice as much man labor as ies the chap who drives a team. - In me cases the one-mule farmers get ound this difficulty by exchanging ule labor and working two-mule ams. An Alabama farm study furnishE'Sa >lars-and-cents accounting of the to methods. "When the rows were id out with the contour of the land 1(d cultivated only one way, the cost cultivation was $1.38 an acre and e hoeing cost 70 cents an acre. Whei e corn was check-rowed and culti tedl both ways, the cost of cultiva is redluced to $1.10 an acre and the eing cost wvas only 21 cenlts an acre.' ch treatment is only possible with equate machinery. -------- A I)VER TISE IN TH E TIMES ifH UNTb kSolve fais inthon tretment of TCH EEMA Tr a 75 eat boi at our ik ICl(KSON'S l)RUG STORE' uarters for Soda ten tons and a sold during a large ton di,- and while ced during the cheap corn ammoniates. ore you buy. | DIL MILLH