The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-14
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Editor The TINES:
have been thinking ever since l
left home about six weeks ago that l
would write you a letter, but some
now never did it. So upon arriving
nere and receiving several South
Carolina papers which one Of the
boys had sent me, among them a
copy q rHE IIAEES that en5Hya,:
immenseiy concluded as Iom
Cuttiu0 expressed h.Ccse!f III q letter
whica received from .}in -v.>,,j - - Y.
that ! ~oalG "ius5 Sting VOC & few
lines anyhow Il You sec rou
may pc:IC I1.@4, bu5 + - co nor
thin ..ls, ere T3ctE ms space rngiE
you may place them where they will
be convenient to help clean out the
stove fue on the first rainy day.
It seems like It has been much
longer than six or seven weeks since
l left home on this trip, and many
changes have taken place in Caro-
lima during that short time.
The morning left Manning ran
straight through to Augusta, arriy-
ing there about3 o'clock by our time
and 2 O'Clock in Georgia. The next
morning / was going over to Thorn
son, which, by the way, is the home
of Tom Watson, and who should l
meet but our friend Jack Ragin. He
is the same Jack that he was in Sum
merton and the people in many
towns in Georgia know him just as
we'll as the Clarendon people did. He
gave me a message for Mr.. Frank
Wilson. He says he has been doing
business with Mr.. Wilson for seven
teen years and hasn't had any luck
yet, so he thinks he will have to quit.
The next Carolinian | met was Son
Lcvns, at Athens, but have seen lots
Of them since then. There are lots
of North Carolinians all over middle
and lower Georgia, too, for wherever
there are pine trees the Tar-Heels
will follow.
l have been over good portion of
Georgia and the place l am writing
from now is on the Georgia and Ala
bama road, which runs straight
across the State from Savannah to
Montgomery. There is a nice little
colony of South Carolina young folks
in Macon. I was invited to join a
little party the other day at Macon
and go out to Ochmulgee Park, and in
the party OF five who went there
were four from South Carolina. AL
len McFaddin and Miss Hattie Nelson
were in the party. Aliens many
friends in Clarendon will be glad to
learn of his success in Macon. He is
professor of Stenography in an up
to-date and largely patronized busi-
ness college and is full worthy OF the
honor.
was at Mt. Vernon few days age
and who should | meet but Rev
Charles Montgomery. ! met him on
the street, and Notwithstanding il
was in the presence of several of the
local parishioners and in whose pres
ence l perhaps should have treated
the reverend with more dignity, yet
l was glad to see him and rushed uE
and called him "Charlie" like used
to. He is pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Mt. Vernon. Yesterday al
Alley l met Eddie Oliver, who went
from our county, near Foreston, tc
Florida while quite boy about ter
years ago. He afterwards marrleC
an intelligent and handsome lady
from Oconee county, S. c., and is now
doing good mercantile business a
Alley, Ga. He made me dine with
him. There are lots of Carolinian!
scattered about over here whom
have met and might mention. ChamI
Strange is at this place and doing
well as merchant.
Georgia people are somewhat diff