The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-10

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farm we saw. We desire again
shortly to visit Summerton, when we
shall have more time, and hope then
to speak more definitely Of the differ
ent farms.
THE PRIZES GIVEN AWAY.
Eight Beautiful Prizes Given Away-Mr.
J. ID. HOlladay Gets the Machine
Names Of the Prize MmnerS-A Suc.
ceSSrnl Enterprise.
The MANNING TINES Fourth of July
Grand Gift Distribution took place
last Thursday on schedule time.
There was a large crowd in town,
most of which had come to see how
the Distribution would be made and
who would be the fortunate winners of
the prizes Mr. Thos. Wilson was un-
expectedly and unavoidably detained
from serving On the committee, but
the other members were present.
At II o'clock Messrs. Joseph F.
Rbame, J. P. Brock, W. D. Gamble,
and Joseph Sprott, Jr., met in the
TINES Office, and arranged the tickets
for the drawing. 206 subscribers
had paid to or beyond July 4tb, and
were entitled to participation in the
Distribution There was then placed
in a box 206 round yellow tickets, s
of which were prize tickets and had
the name of q prize written on each,
and the other 1913 were blanks and
had nothing written or printed on
them. The committee then placed
in another box 206 square pink tick
cts, on each of which was written the
name of a subscriber. These name
tickets were carefully compared with
the HONOR ROLL, and found to
agree exactly. The boxes were then
closed and each shaken up until the
tickets were OF ought to have been
thoroughly mixed, and the sequel will
show that they were mixed.
The prizes were all placed out on
the piazza of the TINES Office. Near
one end of this piazza the box coz
tanning the prize tickets was placed,
and Messrs. Joseph T. Rhame and W.
D. Gamble took charge. About
twelve feet from this table sat the
sewing machine, on which was placed
the other box containing the name
tickets. Messrs. j. P. Brock and Jos.
Sprott, Jr.: took charge of this box.
Everything was now ready, and
the little boys, one at each box, be-
gan drawing. A name ticket and a
prize ticket were drawn from the re-
spective boxes. The prize ticket was
alb : 4 blank, and so blanks were drawn
i:H:-4iss4f 4re9i f1e
ticket drawn was S. Wolkoviskie, of
Manning. The ticket drawn at the
same time from the prize box was
Banjo Clock:
Twenty-nine other drawings were
then made, each Of which was blank.
The next, the 59th drawing, was:
from the name box DR.. ". D. Rich,
of Gourdius, and from the prize box
Sace, Plated Caster And SO the
drawing continued with the following
results:
At the 63rd drawing J. D. Holla-
day, who lives near Manning, got the
/ Se,cltg Machine
At the SStl drawing Rev. J. c. Lee
vine (colo,ed), of Oakland, got the
beautiful Lemonade Set.
At the 10th drawing, Mrs. S. L. r.
! Lesesne, who lives near Manning, got
the Bor Cigars.
At the 174th drawing, Nh. J. B. Hol-
laday, of Summerton, got the Caddy
of Tobacco.
At the l77th drawing Mr.. John
Carroll, OF Sammy Swamp, got the
4re.
At the 2O2d drawing, Mr.. R. c.
Gayle, of Fulton, got the Bajy Car
riage. There were then only four tick
cts left in each of the boxes.
The Distribution was witnessed by
number of persons from the differ
ent sections ofthe county, and all were
satisfied. Of course it was, known
that everybody could not get a prize,
but then everybody had an equal and
a fair showing at them.
! Our Distribution has, in every re-
spect, been very successful. We wish
that every one of our subscribers
could haveaobtained prize, but that
was out of the question. The amount
paid us will largely help to pay for
our new press. The larger part of
our subscribers are still in arrears,
and where they are not too far in al
rears we will continue to carry them
ill fall. But these considerably in
arrears must pay up. Tie TINES will
! this fall come to 4 cash basis. We
dislike losing so many subscribers;
and on account of the summer season
when money is so scarce, we have
concluded to wait till fall to come to
cash basis. However, we have
about sixty OF seventy names that are
more than sixteen months in arrears,
and we have discontinued them.
Most of these are good men who will
probably pay us this fall; a few are
persons who never pay if they can
help it.
To every subscriber who responded
to our appeal for money we are thank
full, and feel complimented at the large
number who did respond.
10 the committee of gentlemen
who SO kindly assisted in conducting
the drawing last Thursday: we feel