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MCOjOUI It setimated Harol . Harold F. McCormick, until re cently chairman of the. Board c (Directors of the International Hat vester Company, is reported t have sacrificed fifteen million do lars of the fortune mt.de off fart machinery to wed the woman c JINGLE OF FIFTEEN MILLION FARM DOLLARS IN McCORMICK WEDDING Son of Former Harvester King Splits Fortune and Unmakes Two Mar riages to Wed Woman of His Choice. Special to The Times. (By Robert Fuller) Chicago, August 22.-When Harold F. McCormick, son of old Cyrus Mc Cormick, the inventor of the wheat binder, was married to Mme, Ganna Walsga the other day, there echoed the clank of some fifteen million American farm dollars. r Country America is not much inter ; ested in the doings of Millionaires, but the name McCormick is dicerent be cause it. is known in every farm yard in the United States. The McCormick millions are made up of dollars paid in for farm machinery (luring the last half century. What Man Will Do For Love The marirage of Harold McCormick to the thrice married Polish Opera singer, Ganna Walska is the story of a man of great wealth, swayed by love, who gave up one of America's greatest industrial positions, the pre sidency of the International Harvest Co., stripped himself of a large part of his huge fortune and unmade two marriages (his own and that of Mme. Walska), in order to wed the woman AMERICAN LEGION AFFAIRS IN SOUTH CAROLINA (By B. E. Adams.) The time for the State convention of the legion is at hand, Legion members in all parts of the State are looking forward to ,the big meeting which opens at Florence Wednesday rorning and continues through Thurs day. The attendance will probably be greater than ever before. Flor ence legion members and the city as a whole have made elaborate plans for the entertainment, of the visitors. Everyone may be assuredl of a royal good time and the legion members who remain away will have sonme thing to regret. Capt. E. R. Mclvcr, post commandler, andl Col. Henry T. Thompson, chairamana comnlittee -m paradle, have labored har (Ito make 'T the affair a success. Here is hoping that their efforts wvili he crownedl with victory. A big parade is on the program for the convention. Tlo make this feature a success it wvill be necessary for everyone to join in the line of march and help to well the attendance. .Col. Thompson has sent a letter to the post commanders in the State ask Ing that lie request his dlelegation to join in the parade. No doubt the majority of legion officials and mem bers will join Col. Thompson In his plans and help him to put this thing over big. He andI the Florence p~ost are deserving of much success in their fIght to stage a successful con vention. Lend thenm a helping hand. Mr. .T. H. Sthkes has resigned as commander .of the Williams-Burgess Post at Manning due to Mis entry htto politics. Mr. James M. Sprbit, lformer adjutant, was chosen to fill the place left vacant by Mr. Stukes. MrC. B. Thomas was elected adju ai place of Mr. Sprott. These gentlemen have been active in the interest of the legioni and will keep up the good work being carried on by the post at Manning. The follow ing members have been elected dele gates to the State convention: James M. Sprott, H. C. Curtis, H. I. Ellerbe, N. Monroe Itiggs and H. H. IIff. The TY 'AMERIC4' I McCormick of Harvester lion off fortune to wed opera * ML 0 -, . . HAROLO F. M=.CORMICK D his choice, Ganna Waska, the - widow-divorcee opera singer. Mc n formick gave' up these dollars in a f financial arrangement with his first of his choice. It is estimated that it cost him $15, 000,000. These figures include the settlement with his former wife; a settlement of $5,000,000 on his new wife and the cost of the two divorces. Harold McCormick's first cife was Edith Rockefeller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, the world's richest man. McCormick Finally Gets a Divorce The Aockefeller family is much op posed to divorces-still it was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who finally went to Chicago and after a b.i-f and vig orous conference with his sister, per suaded her to start action for divorce which was granted just three days before last New Year. An outside property settlement was then made which was reported to be almost half the McCormick fortune. McCormick still holds his former father-in-law, John D. Sr., in high regard and only recently said he was sure the sormer Oil King sympathiz ed with him. Harold McCormick met Ganna Wal ska in 1920. She called him on the phone and asked him to help her realize the ambition of her life to score a success on the operatic stage. "From that meeting began my ac quaintance with the woman I deter mined to make my wife. I found that she was not only beautiful and talent ed but possessed spiritual qualities such as I had never before recognized in any human being," McCormick is reported as having said. post adopted a resolution favoring the adjusted compensation bill now before the Senate. At a lively meeting of Newberry County Post, No. 24, held last week, the members went on record as asking Gen. Sawyer "to standl aside" and let the hospital prograni be carried out for the benefit of the thousands of disabled men in the United States. The following (dee gates and alternates wvere chosen to attend the State convention: Drm. JTohn B. Stelzer, Hal. Kohn, Elbert .J. Dickert, B. M. Scurry, S. Clyde McCarley, J. L. Keitt, Jr., B. V. Chapman and J1. C. Crotwell. Alter nates. Carl .Julian, Miss Theresa I ightsey, A. J. Bowers Jr., W. S. Mathews, Chalmers Brown, TI. Roy Summer, Duane Livingstonme and R. C. Floyd. The post opened its hail to the Boy Scouts and may under take to foster a troop of ncouts la'er. Mr. Felix TI. Wilson, poGst comn no&nder, Wilber JTones Post, No. 73, at Lake City, advises thad is post is going forwvard in great style. Much interest -is being dlislayedl in leg~in matters by the members at Lake City and no doubt the post dill have a large delegation at Flor ence next week. The folloxying have been selected delegates to the con vention: .J. C. Williams, chairman; W. B. Burch, A. C. Sawyer, H. F. Collins and J. Ross Johnson. Col. Harry 0. Withington, com mander of the Charleston post, has named delegates and alternates to the State convention. The members of the post who expect to attend the Florence meeting are urgedl to attend a meeting...at legion headquarters Monday night to arrange details for the trip. The transportation commit tee announces that a special clay coach will be attached to the regular Atlantic Coast Line train leaving Charleston Wednesday morning at, 5:10 o'clock. One and one-half fare rates have beeni secured for the con vention. This will make it cost a member $5.99 for the rouind tr'.p. Col. Withington urges that all who can attend be on hand Monday night as the committee would like to know how mainy in provi for S DOLLARS Company, sliced fifteen sLnger. GANNA WASKA M1CORMICK wife, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc Cormick; prenuptial settlement up on his present bride and the cost of two divorces, his own, and also his bride's from Alexander Smith Cochran. Mme. Ganna Walska was first mar ried to a Russian General \vho was killed in action. Next she married Dr. Fraenkel who died in 1920. Lat er she married Alexander Smith Co chran, millionaire bachelor, from whom she recently was divorced by a French Court. Ambition to Make Her Greatest Singer. There is an old saying that the third generation of the rich are us ually back in overalls. Will this prove true with the Mc Cormicks ? Harold McCormick has sliced the Harvester King's fortune in half to wed the woman of his choice. And he now says: "the ambition of my life is to see her recognized as the greatest woman singer in the world." That means he will spend the rest of the McCormick millions if neces sary for her success-or failure. And there is the rub. Edith Rockefeller McCormick the spurned wie, from her high social throne can have a finger in the suc cess or failure of her former hus band's love bride when the latter is ready for her Grand Opera test. But will she? Maybe it will not be necessary. Maybe Harold McCormick, blinded and swayed by love, is following a will of the wisp idea-imagining quali ties in a voice chich do not exist. What do you think? ces of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road Company at Wilmington t'oday: General londitions over the entire system steadily improving. In the last eight (lays six hundred and seventeen new employees have been taken into the service at our various shops, a large proportion of which ar~e skilled mn; most of ttcm left oter~ employment. to secure work wvitn Lnis company at the prevailing rates of pay wvhich are those e'stablished1 by the United States Railroadl Labor Board effective .July first nineteen twenty-two. This brings the total foirce of mn up) to sixty-four~ per cent of the force employed in the shops IIndigestion * U Many persons, otherwiseU U vigorous and healthy, are b iothered occasionally with *indigestion. The effects of a disordere'd stomach on the system are dangerous, and * prompt treatment of Indigen. * tion is important. "The only* I medicine I have needed has been sometlung to aid dligs tion and cleak the liter," E wrtesMr. Fred Ashby, a Mctney, Texas, farmer. *"My medicine is * Thedford's I BLACK- DRAUGHT I for indigestion and atseh never found anything that touches the sppt, like Algik Draught. I take it in brh~n doses after mefls. For a loA ItinfI I trise4 pils, whiek t. *ed and didn't give the oedI result,. BlAck-Draught liv W mediolne is easy testake, easy~ *to keep, Inexpensive." (let a' package froni 7ous * ruggist today-Ask for andU E only genuine. * Gt it today. rage meven 0 The new Qoodyear Cross-Rib Tread Cord A Popular-Priced Cord Tire Without a Rival The new Goodyear Cross-Rib Tread Cord Tire is built with genuine high-grade long-staple cotton as a foundation. It is liberally oversize -the 41/. inch tire, for example, measuring nearly 5 inches. The deep, clean-cut, cog-like pattern of its tread affords excellent traction even in snow and mud, engaging the road like a cogwheel. The scientific distribution of rubber in this tread-the wide center rib and the semi-flat contour-gives a thick, broad surface that is exceedingly slow to wear. This new tire is a genuine Goodyear through and through -in design, in material, in construction. It costs less to buy than the net price you are asked to pay for many "long discount" tires of unknown reputation and value. Why be satisfied with less than this efficient tire can give why take a chance on an unknown make? Compare these prices with NFdT prices you are asked to pay for "long discount" tires 30x-3% Clincher...... $12.50 32x4 Straight Side.. $24.50 33x4', Straight Side.. $32.15 30x331 Straight Side.. 13.50 33x4 Straight Side.. 25.25 34x4/ Straight Side.. 32.95 32x3/ %Straight Side.. 19.25 34x4 Straight Side.. 25.90 33x5 Straight Side.. 39.10 31x4 Straight Side.. 22.20 32x4j4 Straight Side.. 31.45 35xS Straight Side.. 41.05 These prices include manufacturer's excise tax Goodyear Cross-Rib Tread Cord Tires are also made in 6, 7 and 8 inch sizes for trucks FOR SALE BY CLARENDON MOTOR CO., Manning, S. C. on July first when the strike took place. At more than twenty points on the System the normal force is at EAGLE"MIKADO" Pencil No. 174 work. At many other points the force is from seventy-five per cent to ninety five per cent normal. Inspection and repairs to locomo- For Sale at your Dealer Made in five grades tives and cars are being well main- ASK FOR THE YELLOW PENCIL WITH THE RED BAND tained by the force now at work EAGLE MIKADO which is amply sufficient to take care EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, NEW YORK of the situation, although the volume of freight traffic being handlledl iS --. -- about fifteen per cent greater thn last year. lDuring the month of July ninety- I three per cent of the passenger trains maintainedl their schedules. Tfhe en tire movement of perishable freight. consisting of more than four thou sandl cars most of which originated on the lines of this company, was de liveredl on time at dlestination. All other freight wvas handled prompltly. TIhere is no accumulation at any ter minal or on the, line of roadl. Professional Cards JNo. G. D)INKINS Attorney-at-Law MANNING, S. C. DuRIANT & ELLERBE Attorneys-at-Law MANNING, S. C. teF r e R. 0. Purdy s. Oliver O'BryanYoteFreaeAm ic'getstp PURDY & o'BIRYAN dcro elh ~tbfr O eev h Attorneys and Counselors at Law moefoyorClSmaymnhuslyeap. MANNING. S. C.Thcrpmstbsonmutbfetlzdtie, FRED LESEsNEThBakiyorFidbeasitelso Attorney-at-Lawcaryoovrtewesadmnh bten MANNING, s. c. patn nlpoiigsaos tprisyut J. W. WIDEMANIntmsostesistnsbhdyuad Attorney-at-Law hlsyuwahrtesom MANNING, S. C. AeYUgtigaltebnft hc h HI. C. CURTIsLerho wecnhlYO.Akfrul Attorney-at-Law ~ lae otl o oeaotorsrie MANNING, S. C. J. A Weiberg Taylor H. stukes WEINBERG & STUKEs CALO uAT rsdn Attorneys-at-LawT.M.WL ,Cahe EAGL"MIADO"Penil.N.17