The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 23, 1917, Image 1
VOLUME XXXII.
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REORGANIZATtOHOr
ARMY IS ORDERED
Formation for Tactical Units
From Divisions to Armies
' Prescribed
25 DIVISIONS OF
REGULAR TROOPS
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' 50 Divisions of National Guard
) Troops and 16 for National
Army Now.
Washington.?The complete plan of
reorganiation of the army is disclosed
in general orders made public today
prescribing the formation for all tactical
units from divisions to armies.
. The composition of each division or.
the European standard is prescribe
and provisions made for organization
of all additional troops into training
batallions of 012 men to be used ii.
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iiny way iouiiu netcb^ai).
Designation of divisions by num ber
begins with the regular army division
now in France, which, has already
been reorganized on the bus's
cf 19,000 men and additional batalli
>ms of attached troops. That is the
First division, United States army.
* Other regular divisions are numbered
up to and including the twenty-fifth.
This does not moan that 25 regular
divisions are to be created immediately,
but that the numbers from one
to 25 inclusive have been reserved fo.
the regulars.
National Guard divisions will b*
numbered from the 20th to the 75th
^ inclusive. National army division
v\ ill be numbered from 70.
16 National Army Divisions.
Today's order provides the organ
hution of 16 national army division0
designated from the 76th to the 91s'.
inclusive, and succeeding divisionwill
be numbered in order after thenAll
divisions provided for will 1<
in'antry divisions, composed of division
headquarters detachment; one me
chine gun bataliion of four companies;
ft two infantry brigades of two regiments
and a machine gun bataliion >1
three companies each; one field aril.
If rv hi itrade of throe voinmertfe nn<l n
trench mortar battery each; one en
Agincer regiment; one field signal ba?A%Uion;
one Headquarters train an I
military police; one ammunition
train; one engineer tliiirt without pontoon
and searchlight section*; one
| supply train and one sanitary traiff bf
^ four field hospitals and four ainbu
Jance companies.
' Each army corps will consist of an
I army corps headquarters force and
i three infantry divisions, supplemented
by necessary attached troops to be
) 'designated as army corps troops,
f Each army will consist of an army
S h< ad-quarters, throe or more army
IY *vn(* suc^ additional army
trcops as may bo advisable,
i Reorganization at Camps.
The order directs that the National
I 'Guard proceed to its training camps
i under its present divisional organiza|f
tion. It will be reorganized at the
r camps, however, on the new divisional
t basis and the excess troops formed
I into training batallions with a briga.
r dier general in command of the group
or training batallions at each camp.
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FIRST BALE SELLS FOR
FORTY CENTS A ROUND
The first bale of cotton produced in
this State this season, grown by But?
lei' General, a farmer near Marion,
| was shipped by express to Charleston
van'd was auctioned on the floor of the
Cotton Exchange at 1 O'clock being
bought by W. Gordon JVfcCabe & Co.,
at 40 cents a pound.' It tipped thf
scales at 304 pounds, and was shipped
by George G. McKwall, of MflUPfefn, -tic
W. Gordon McCabe & Co., tfye 'finai
buyers. Bidding on the staple wai
> veiy lively for a tiiwe, starting at 21
.cents.
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EXEMPTION
TAKE 4,0001
?
THOUGH EXEMPTED
BY LOCAL BOARD
You May be Turned in Just the
Same by the District
Board.
' '. .?/'is
Col. C. P. Quattlebaum has bef n
appointed as attorney to represent
the government in all cases of exemp
tions allowed by the local board. T:*.<
law provides that if the local board
here consisting of Messrs. VV. 1..
Bryan, J. A. McDermott and Dr. 11
II. Burroughs, allows an exemption
on the ground of dependents, marriage
and the like, each case allowed
is by force of law at once appealed
to the district board sitting in Colun.
bia, and they have the power to turn
down the finding and decision of the
local board and call you into service
just the same as if the local board
had never decided to exempt you.
And the decision of the district board
is final in each case. There is no
further appeal.
Many, many claims have been filed
for exemption; but the law is so
strict that only a very few it is
thought will be allowed. So keep a
constant look-out in the matter, and
remember that you are not free until
an actual discharge is in your hand;
and then it may be for a limited time
d'y.
.
FIRST LIST SENT
BY BOARD MONDAY
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The local exemption board compos,
e l of Messrs J. A. McDermott, W. L
Bryan, and Dr. H. H Burroughs, according
to a list made out for the
press at the same time; on last Monday
certified to the district board the
following- list of men duly and legally
called to the military service of tin;
Lntied States, and who were not ex
erupted or discharged. The board had
been at work on the list of 4GG ex
amined last week. As stated else
where in this paper, only eighty ou:
of the 4GG were disqualified upon
physical examination. A large proerntagc
of the rest of the 4G3 filed
claims for exemption w ith ti e loci 1
beard and the work of passing o
these exemption claims was still going
ahead when this week came in.
A.- we understand it the board certifies
the list to the district board as
fast as they pass on the exemption
oloi rn o r? ?%/! l W h - ^ fch ~
iMiimo, cliivi ill Win; Irt.lC Ul IIIUM' Willi
filed no claims for exemption with
the local baord, the names could (>f
course be certified at once. The work
of the board in passing on the exemption
claims is very tedious. They are
required by the law to decide on the
claims for exemption within three
days after the affidavits are filed,
and to certify, make out, and mail to
the district board, a list of those not
exempted or discharged, as well as
a separate list of those who are exempted
and discharged. Those who
file claims for exemption with the local
board and it is refused have a
right to appeal on a blank furnished
by the board, within ten days after
the mailing of a notice that the claim
for exemption or discharge has been
denied. In all cases where the loca!
board allows an exemption, it is well
to remember that it is not final, for
the law automatically appeals all of
these to the district board who will
i pass on each one again and allow or
j disallow each and every one of them.
I If a claim for exemption is disallow
ed by the local board and the person
desires to appeal to the district
board, he must on a blank furnished
i by the local board, within ten days
. after .the mailing to him of notice
that his claims has been disallowed
. make out and file with the local boarc
I his claim of appeal, and he must alsc
f ? within the same time ififive notice to
I the district board on a "bhrrtk fufftteh
i ed by the local board, that he hai
; filed such claim of appeal. TtoV fqca
(Continued on Pttge Eight.)
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CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY
BOARD SEN!
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VICTORY AT VERDUN
Paris, Aug 20.?A smashing?
French victory on the Verdun front is
recorded in the official report issueby
the war office tonight. Tlu
French have recaptured the enemy
defenses on both sides of the Mouse
over a front of more than eleven ;
miles, pentrating the German linos
at divers points to a depth of a mile j
And a quarter. More than 4.000 un- j
Mfklindnd finrniiin ttrisnnni-u Ti!?v? Imnti
taken.
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The days of cuping for blood arc)
over?dip that tick.
i Must Use Brains
\ And
The usual course of all nat
after better things. This is to
lowest grades of life. Take the
lowest states of life that we cot
from a few colorless cells they
what to it is greater and largei
Although it would seem f
some specimens of the human
follow this rule, yet, as I have
.ardmai life in every way is a i
that'is better.* Even in plant 1
that the longest and largest lir
of the trunk where there is th:
j and air.
| Centuries ago when the ei
1 consisted or tarmers, as there
I thin# else except the earning" c
the brow in the cultivation of i
that day showed a decided tenc
generation in the same way ev<
i crooked sticks and were slow U
j ever, the natural tendency of t
! by the Creator caused them to
i better methods and better plai
Coming on to a more vecei
j years ago, the farmers in this
ing at all except certain ways (
toes and field peas, and perha]
the same way every year. It
later date that they began to se
| them in diversifying their cro;
; possible to make their lands pi
portion of every year as possible
there is the irish potato crop, t
| kinds of truck, the tobacco ant
With a very few isolated c
that the farmers in this immec
not yet taken advantage of a s<
greatest foods in the world. Tl
deed in Hory County who prodi
I we have been trying to encours
Horry County for the reason tl
ditions that they could make nc
that they are beginning to line
make them not only wealthy,
er section of the United States
While the other crops that
iyi the warm season of the ye?
grows through the Winter whe
terfere and is harvested in Ma?
other crops. The raising of wl
tage just at this time when it c
that is produced in other secti'
I this and can prove it that it w<
raise all the wheat that they n<
three or four dollars per barrel
time uninjured by the cold an<
destroy the corn and cotton, tl
to the wheat crop.
In rpforrino' f A flia r%'
i Wi.vt 1 ti IV, I.W l/l tt '
lected to say that among beasi
in thein which seems to force 1
Why should man no matter wl
in the same old ruta when God
, merely instinct,.but:a brain wl
I his own advantage.
* Let every farmer who rea
. eral acres of wheat and procur
, in the month of October.
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IS LISTS TO
-AUSTRIAN I
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JAUANS BAGOVES
10,000 PRISONERS
Homo, Aug. 21?More than 10,000
prisoners had been taken by the Italians
in their new offensive up to yesterday
evening, the war office announces.
The great battle on tin
Isonzo front continues without interruption.
The war office states that
the Austrian line is beginning to bend
and give way at various points.
The Italians, supported by a floating
and fixed batteries, and monitors,
are marching toward success, which
ti e statement says, is becoming mark
?-d in spite of undiminished enemy reus
tance.
Take Advantages
,ure is to spread and reach oui
be seen every day in the very
5 jelly-fish which is one of the
lid mention, and as it starts
are seen to reach out after
things.
rom observation and study of
race that they do not strictly
said, the general trend in ail
caching out after something
ife, you may any day notice
nbs of a tree will be on the side
i greatest amount of sunshine
itire population of the world
had been no time to learn any>f
daily bread by the sweat of
nother earth, the farmers of
iency to follow generation after
jry year plowing the land with
> make changes. In time, howhe
energies placed in mankind
study and think and to go after
is. -t i 1
% .a ? . 1 _ Ml N ? nA I
iv P^nou, we win say or
immediate section knew noth)t'
producing' corn, sweet pota)s
some indigo and tobacco in
was not until a com para lively
the changes to be gained by
>s and endeavoring as much as
oductive throughout as great a
\ so tha*. now in this community
he strawberry crop and other
I the corn and cotton.
>xceptions, we regret to say
bate section of the state have
irial which produces one of the
lere are a very few farmers inice
any wheat. For some time
ige the planting of wheat in
\at it is one of the greatest ad>w
to the plan of diversification
ierstand and which will not
but independant of every oth>.
; I have mentioned are produced
w, wheat is planted in October,
m grass and weeds do not inf
in time to plant the land in
\eat would be a great ad van:osts
so much to purchase flour
>ns of the country, but we say
>uld pay the farmers well to
ied, even if flour should go to
Wheat grows in the Winter
t while the summer hail may
lere is hardly ever any danger
scy of all life to increase, we ne >
ts there is an instinct planted
them to search out the best
hat his calling may be, remain
Almighty * placed in him not
hich he can (cultivate and use to
ds this get ready to plant seve
seed now in time for planting
Woodward.
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DISTRICT B(
INE BROKEN
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PROSPERITY IN
SOUTH CAROLINA
More Money in State Than for
Many Years?Crops and
Camps.
C olumbia.?South Carolinians arc
now in the midst of an unprecedent*
season of prosperity, and there is ev
er\ indication that conditions \vu'
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continue to improve front now or.
There never has been as much mone\
in the State. The banks are fairlc
bulging with money and an outlet fo?
investment must be secured.
Reports from every county show
| that the crops are the best in a score
of years. A bumper corn crop has
been produced and every bushel will
find a place in the market. Many
ist mills have been built in the
State, and this State can well offord
several wheatless days a week without
suffering1.
TTlO I'nTTon r.rnn io in
? ..v vv/vwii v. i >'ff 10 ! > iTAvvurm ii'n?
dition, and the prospect is for top.
notch prices. In the coast country
the farmers have made hundreds of
thousands of dollars out of the truck
The Pee Dee section is rejoicing' over
thr best tobacco crop in many years
which brought millions of dollars, and
now the high-priced cotton is soon to
go to the market.
In addition to the big crops, millions
of dollars are being turned loose
in the State by the Federal government
in the building of tho cantonments.
Every man that wants a |
job can get several. The wages arc
unusually high.
Much food has been put away in tin
cans and glass jars, and the prospect
is that the food bill from the Wes*
will be cut by milions of dollars.
The live stock industry is fast developing.
The Orangeburg packim
J plant will be open for business thir
fall, and the farmers will find ;
veady market for all live stock.
In addition the Federal land banl
has begun to make loans at a ver;
low rate of interest and much mcno;
will bo let loos-e in this way for activ
business.
WHEMHORRY QUOTA
NOTIFIED TO MOVE
According to news from Washing
ton the middle of last week, the quo
tas of men taken from the numbei
fiist drawn for service would like!)
be called to go to the cantonmc nts a.
follows:
30 per cent to start September 5th
30 per cent to start September lot!
30 per cent to start September OOti
10 per cent as soon after Septem
her 80th as possible.
As the first third of the new drawn
men will have to start from here or
ptember 5th, it is likely that the>
viTl be notified to appear here at the
local board about September 8rd.
According to the plans as we understand
them, they will be required to
appear here at least about two dayahead
of the time they are to move
and wlil be in charge of the local
board.
i Before leaving here they will be
! placed in charge of a leader appointed
from their own number, also a
second in command, and will be in
charge of those until they arrive at
the training camps.
180 GENERALS FOR
OUR NEW ARMIES
., Washington. ? President Wilson
sent to the Senate today the names of
180 Regular and National Guard officers
for confirmation as Major and
Hrigadier Generals of the new Na
tional Armies.
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Cotton will bring high prices thiyear:
but it will not be better than
I grain crops in this respect.
NO. 18. I
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BY ITALIANS |
CANADIANS CAPTURE
APPROACHES TO LENS
Take Hill 70 and Carry Their
Fights Into Outskirts of
I City
ARTILLERY ACTIVE
ON FLANDERS FRONT
French, However, Show OnTy
.Notable Infantry Activity,
Gaining Road.
Lens again is the center of the
fighting on the Western front. The
Canadians have taken Hill 70, dominating
the city from the north, and are
within the city itself engaging the
Germans in desperate fighting at
close quraters after advancing on a
two mile front to an extreme depth
of one mile.
For several weeks the Canadians
slowly have been closing their lines
on the west, northwest and southwest
in preparation for a supreme effort
to place this center of the coal field
ot the Pus De Calais in their possesrr:
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duu. fiiii ivj, jux,s east 01 Loos and
north of Lens, was the great stumbling
block.
Early Wednesday the Canadians
stormed the hill. The splendid effort
was successful and within a few
hours the important position wa^
cleared of Germans. The Canadians
swept on toward Lens from the north
west, capturing several suburbs and
entering the western part of the city.
The Germans tried desperately to
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chuck uic Canadian advance but five
counterattacks were in vain. While
suffering only slight casualties themselves
the Canadians inflicted heavy
looses on the Germans and captured
almost MOO prisoners.
In Flanders the intense artillery
fighting goes on with undiminished
vigor. The infantry has been more
active; but, except for the French, in
engaged only in raids. On the Oix
niude Road northwest of Bixschoote
the French pushed forward and succeeded
in realizing considerable progress.
Artillery duels and small and
isolated attacks have occurred on the
Fiench front from St. Quentln to the
Swiss border.
Fighting in Southwest Moldavia ap
parently is lessoning in intensity. In
the mountains the Russians and Roumanians
have given up a height west
of Ocna to the Austro-Germans. In
the Putna Valley and toward the line
of the Sereth Berlin reports Field
"Marshal von Mackensen has made
some progress, capturing the town of
Stracani. Throe thousand prisoners,
guns and machine guns have been
captured by the Austro-Germans in
the Moldavian theater.
MAGISTRATE DISMISSED
GROUNDLESS CASE
iuu^iovi dvi; i t? , rrmve in uuney,
S. on last Mom lay dismissed st vp>*a
1 groundless cases lo.mig'U l>v
aomo person or persons unknown by
means of reports to the gran 1 jury of
the county. H. Mayo Sarvis, a prominent
farmer of the Loris section, .1.
T. Lewis, another farmer who was
once a tenant on Mr. Sarvis' place,
Jane Hay and Florrie Ray, were reported
to the grand jury as guilty of
adulterv The mutter um_?a fiirno?!
over to Mr. Prince for investigation.
The magistrate made a thorough
investigation last Monday examining
the witnesses given in and other witnesses.
He dismissed all of the
charges as there was no evidence that
the parties were evor guilty of such
crimes. It is. believed _ that the reports
were made through spite.
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Make no debt that you do not know
you are able to Pfty