The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01

ence county.
Last Saturday Mr.. Wylie Barrow Of
New Zion. had the misfortune to get a
leg broken in several places by the fall
ing OF a tree.
Mr.. Edward Barron, recently gradu-
ated from the Maryland college OF
pharmacy in Baltimore, is at home for
a short while.
We hope the town council will not o.
verIook the necessity of having the
schoolhouse properly prepared for the
coming session.
The ladies of the Davis Station section
will have an ice cream festival on the
evening of July 10th for the benefit OF
the Epworth Orphanage to which the
public is cordially invited.
Rev. +. W. Gregg, presbyterian pas
tor of this town. preached the baccalau-
reate sermon last Sunday to the Citidel
cadets at Rock Hill. Mr. Gregg is an
alunnus OF the Citadel Academy.
Work is in progress of installing the
new enterprise to extract turpentlne
from pine stumps, ard it will not be
long before our landowners will have
an inducement to take these obStruc-
tions from their fields.
For a lazy liver try Chamberlain's
Stomach & Liver Tablets. They lnrlg-
orate the liver, aid the digestion, regu-
late the bowels and prevent bilious at
tacks. For sale by the r. 3. Loryea
Drug Store, Isaac NJ. Loryea, Prop.
According to the report OF the
Comptroller General, Clarendon county
has received a warrant for s364.2l as
the amount due from the deficiency
fund of the States portion of the dis
pensary profits. The total amount to
be received will be 81, ,672.53.
A delightful bevy of sweet school
girls are visiting at Mr.. Sep Harvln's.
They are Mrs. Harvin:s former Sunday
school class at Manniug and are as fol-
lows: Misses Clara and Susie Harvln,
Pauline and BeulaN Wilson, Gussie
Applet and Edna Brockinton. Sumter
Item.
Robert A. Stewart Esq, the colored
lawyer, has been elected by TRINITY A.
NJ. E. church as its representative to
attend the lay conference at Sumter, 5.
c., where will be chosen two delegates
to attend the general conference OF the
A. NJ. E. church at Chicago, III. The
LAWYER is an aspirant for election from
that body, and he is regarded as a tt
representative.
Mr.. Max Krasnoff left for the north
ern markets last Sunday, and he has
effected an arrangement to combine MS
purchases with number OF other mer-
chants from other points to get advan-
tase of heavy discounts for large pur-
chases. Krasnoff is always ready to
drive bargain, and when he returns
the merchant that undersells him Will
have 10 hump himself.
Major David A. Bradham, whorecen5-
~ returned home from New MEXICO
where he was commandant OF MILL
tary school, went to Atlanta to study
law, but his health was in such run
down condition that his physician ad-
vised him to do open air work to recup-
urate. He therefore returned home 10
rest up before he undertakes to stucy
for his chosen profession.
There was found on the farm of Mr..
P. C. Cochran, stone pipe. bearing on
the bowl MIXTURE OF the tace OF Pres-
ident Franklin Pierce, we do not know
whether the pipe has been concealed
in the soil on the Cochran place ever
since the days of Franklin Pierce, or
whether the sold feller" makes ghostly
visits and dropped his pipe to run OFT
when ne heard Mr.. Cochran's baby cry.
Mr.. D. Hirschmann left last Sunday
to ioin his wife who is in New York.
where they both will select their fall
and winter stock. Hirschmann has
had his store enlarged with a view to
doing a large business this fall, and
with the assistance of Mrs. Hirschmann
he will have the best selected stock he
has ever carried. While up north Mrs.
Hirschmann has been studying the
fashions in millinery and when she re-
turns she will be well equipped to
please the ladies.
The open air concert OF the ''CitizenS
Band" last evening was great success
and Professor Shoemaker must feel
very proud at the progress his students
are making-it is compliment to his
ability as a teacher of music. The
court house square presented a scene
of animation, about 200 people turned
out. mostly ladies and children, and
they reluctantly consented for the
band TO stop playing. y fine program
was rendered, and the kind ladies
served cream, cakes and soft drinks
which by their tempting smiles and
cunning ways, emptied the pockets Of
the male variety to the extent of S52.l0.
These concerts should be permanent
institution.
The election for school trus tees was
held last Saturday. and the present
board was reelected, without any ma.
terial opposition So votes were cast
of which Messrs. \. Levi, Joseph
Sprott and D. NJ. Bradham received 10,
the other 13 votes were scattering. The
election showed conclusively that
there was no dissatisfaction with the
trustees, and the object of the election
was to continue the principle OF giving
the taxpayers a voice in selection OF
trustees. The board will have the
selection OF teachers. and we hope they
will take this action at an early date SC
that the teachers to be employed will
not be placed in an embarrassing posi-