The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-06-09
THE PRESS
AT NEWBERRY.
ROYALTY ENTERTAINED : FEASIED
AT CLINTON -NINED AND DINED
ATHARRIS LITHIA SPRINGS.
They Visit Famous Battlefields at Chick
amausa and are Photographed on LOOK
out Mountain : See the Sights al
the Nashville Exposition and Belle
Meade Farm-All Have jolly Time.

Our readers are no doubt looking
for something from our recent trip
with the State Press Association and
although it is difficult to make be-
ginning, we will endeavor to gratlfy
them with glimpse into some of the
sights it was our good fortune to be-:
hold.
We left home Monday morning, the
24th ult., spent that day in Columbia
and on the morning of the next day,
after considerable pleading was en-
abled to furnish The TINES with the
clad t;dings Of John L. McLaurin, s
appointment to the United States
Senate in advance of any other
paper; thus it will be seen that We
went on to Newberry with light
heart and feeling kindly towards all
mankind; for Governor Ellerbe could
not have made a better selection and
one more popular with the masses,
and aside from the personal relations
existing between the editor Of The
TINES and the appointee, we have no
hesitency in predicting that the ap-
pointment will be endorsed by not
less than 20, 900 majority, at the com
ing primary.
On arriving at Newberry we were
met bv a committee Of citizens, head
ed b. Mayor H. H. Evans, and to say
we were received with open arms
would but feebly express the recep-
ton accorded Us. That feeling which
nsuallv comes over one when he en-
ters upon a strange community was
dispeiled like mist before a July
srn the moment We heard the cry Of
s.Marv'' and entered the carriages to
90 to our respective homes. Yes,
homes, in the broadest term, car be
applied TO the quarters assigned to
the press gang, and as for Us, we sim
ply had all that heart could wish for
II was our good fortune to be the
guest of an old friend, Col. Cole l..
Blease, one of Newberry,s most bril-
liant LAWYERS, and one who has dis
tineuished himself in his profession
as well as in public life. He, TO-
sether with his most lovable wife.
were very solicitious that nothing
should be left undone to make our
stav with them an lnducement 70
return again; they succeeded so well
that We know our eyes will be long
inclv turned in that direction every
time a spirit of Loneliness comes over
us. and we fear that our craving will
he so great that we will be unable 20
resist the temptation Of again bask
ino. in the sunshine Of their open
hearted generosity and hospitality
s.The city of Newberry has an air
about it which seems to lay hold OF
those who enter its gates, for, before
we had been there a whole day a
spirit of activity struck us, so that
we could so bounding up the city
hall stairs three steps at a time and
land in Mayor Evans office every
pop. His Honor the mayor was al
Navs ready to do the 'honors' and
the BOYS seemed delighted in receiv-
ing the "honors through his Honor
the mayor, who administers over one
OF the most progressive towns III
South Carolina; one has only TO !ook
about him and see the push, thrift
and energy to know that such g town
cannot be held back. The streets
are well laid out and there are many
very elegant residences, which
is but another sign OF the progressive
spirit. Just Ut this time they are
putting in the most modern system
Of water works and recently they
completed magnificent electric
light plant. True, like everywhere
else. Newberrv has its croakers, and
ii things were left to them, that place
would be cross road village, but 1t
is not left TO them. There is Il ma
ioritv who believe that it pays 10
grow, regardless of expense and they
work with willing hearts, with L
strong pull and a pull-all-together