The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-12-27

Ispread himself so that he will give us
Iplenty of Good news from Turbeville.
B.
Summertou Budget.
Editor The Manning Times
! Forty years ago, the section OF coun-
trv surrounding the town of Summer
ton, like other portions OF the southern
part of this Republic, was desolate ana
stricken with poverty and the want OF
hope, which followed as q necessary
aftermath to great civil war.
At that time. necessary clothing ap-
parel was hardly to had: farms and
homes had fallen in ruin and good gov
vernment was myth: the cattle on
thousand hills lived in the memory OF
man as mere poem: the horse and the
mule had either been taken or eaten,
and labor was in a state OF anarchy:
whoever stole the purse of the business
man OF that day, stole trash; even the
Iswine, the ever essential OF the LABOR.
ing man, had fallen under the wave OF
war and the friendly dog had bleacned
his bones upon the plains; men and
women were little given in marriage IN
those dark days, few babies were
brought into the world, and the prac,,
tical burden of making a livelihood
fell hard upou the erstswnlle man OF
leisure. 49,
| In the closing days of the year 1908,
the men and women Of Summerton, are
prepared to tell to the world differ.
ent story: at this time. the language OF
| the business man, the farmer, the tam
| ily, differs quite essentially to the com
mon talk of forty years ago; possibly
another town in this State could not
produce as many well-bred horses as
can be found at any time around and
about Summerton and the farmers
hereabout make an effort to outdo each
other in keeping fat and fine mules;
whereas many years ago: a very pooc
breed of hogs and cattle were kept IN
this community, the citizen of this sec
| ton at this time, will buy only the hog
orUhe COW which has pedigree: since
we have quite q number of gentlemen
at this point who are fond of the sport
of hunting and since the facilities for
shooting deer; ducks. partrldges, IN
this section. can hardly be surpassed
in another part of the State, the num-
Der of splendid dogs, especially the
setter and the pointer. will surprise
and please the lover OF country lie;
good crops have been made during the
present year, and have yielded a good
Income: the ordinary citizen OF this
Esection has become a promoter, havlng
means wherewith to promote and haV-
ing the hope and the courage and the
sympathy OF a wide-awake community
of people.
The future OF Summerton is assured,
land we await the coming New Year
with faith and the determination to
accomplish better than before.
Our streets have been dotted with
|new lamps here and there and the
night visitor to our town will behold a
we'll lighted city, amid the oaks and
the pines and the cedar.
At the instigatlon of your cores
pondent, an effort will be made to have
the Pos tmaster General place a posta
agent OF the Northwestern Railway
between Wilson Mill and Camden; the
placing of a mail agent on this road
will prove great benefit to the pat
rons of said route: under the present
arrangement, if for instance a citizen
OF Summerton directs a letter TO st.
Paul, a distance of three miles, said
iletter must take a trip around by way
of Sumter or Charleston, and possibly
REQUIRE twenty-four hours to make SAID
trip. before reaching its destination:
the difficulty in securing such con-
venience IS the inability OF the ordl-
nary member Of Congress to accom-
iplish anything of valne to the people:
| for instance. Mr.. Editor, we need IN
our own Congressional District a
good representative, who understands
the needs of the people and who will
make a strenuous effort to supply
these needs: since the district OF which
Clarendon is part includes both city
land country folk, we should nave
Representative in Congress, who can
do something more than talk about the
sCharleston harbor: our friends in the
lefty of Charleston make much ado
labout the Federal Government having
made an appropriation Of near a million
dollars in behalf OF the naval repair
shop at that point, as though the FED
eral Government makes habit OF not
paying for what it has already enacted
should be done; everybody knows that
the Federal naval repair shop was
established at Charleston at the lnsSl-
cation OF the Senior Senator of South
!Carolina and the making of the neces-
sarv money appropriation for the con-
Ipletion OF same followed as a matter OF
lcourse and no one individual could
claim the honor of having securing
lsuch az appropriation; furthermore,
! each member of the Federal House Of
Representative from this State IS a
CRATER and nothing more nor less and
has proved himself thus by his own
vote: for instance, in the month of Nov
ember in the year 1904 an extra ses-
sion of the Congress convened and one
Imonth later this same extra session ad-
| journed and gave place to the regular
session of the Congress, without any
length of time having interviewed and
without the necessity Of any member
OF the Congress removing or changing
his seat, yet forsooth these very graft
ers, including every single member
from South Carolina, voted to appro-
pirate $500, 900 OF the pnblic money to
pay mileage which was never Travelled.
Much ado is made in these days with
reference to insurance scandals and
stealing and graft on the part OF public
officials and much ado should be made;
let every citizen of Clarendon resolve
to clean the stables during the coming
year of 1906. J. J. CANTEi.