The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-01-11
They Made Things Hum During
the Past Year.
HIGH WATER MARK
Was Attained in Various Feats, Epi'
sodes and Events Noted. Through.
out the Country, Ranging from
Grave to Gay, from Lud.
icrous to Grotesque.

maze GGlngS nun GuriLg the year JUS
closed. The high water mark wa
attained in various feats, episodes ant
events noted throughout the country
ranging from the grave to the ga,
and from the ludicrous to the gro
tesQue.
Chicago produced the prize villain
. man who was accused n court b,
his wife, sister and employer viii
deseltion, ingratitude, theft, l?inS
intemperance, profanity and sirgins
"Bedelia" when the neiIhb@rS ~antet
to sleep. This champion simply fail
ed to live up TO his opportunities o,
ne might have posed as tie mucf
wanted Pat Grove and the man wht
struck Billy Patterson.
A Pennsylvania farmer won neoa
from his neigt,bo by having his Wifs
arrested for cruelty because she in
sisted on working phouogr&2h over
time on tie termenting air "Hiawa
tha," in spite CT al protests.
In St. Louis a thirsty man 6TanE
nine quarts OF whiSkey ia p hours
and died. Even the Prohibit:onist:
must now admit that run has some
value.
The classic town Of E7anStown, TIE
seat OF Northwestern university, &c
veloped the biggest pie eater Of ths
year. Five thick, juicy pies a i
node-smothersd in ice cream-oe
voured at a single sitting was the rev
record set by Ed O'Laughlin in con
test with Lawrence English, WHO los
by half pie.
But in the drinking line Harry E
Vale Of Eoglewcod, a Chicago suburb
seems to have taken the kun.
He drank up our bakery" sale
MIS-. Vale, in her suit fer divorce
It was a pretty big drink. but h
swallowed it in short ORDER
Checks to saloon keepers aggCegat
ing several Thousand dollars. showed
what that big drink had cost.
An ambitious Missouria1 wrot:
Ao,0Ss words on postal card, cea?
in chirography almost as difficult t
achieve as would be a sane explana
tion as to why he did it.
During fse in New York hcte
woman dressed herself in less t5ar
Is minutes. This rscorG is likely t
stand for at least century.
NEW CHAMPIONS.
Percy T. Bennett is nan the
New jersey judges cali the champion
long distance pianist Of the world
without waiting to hear from all TIL
young ladies who are practleing "Ta'
Maiden's Prayer" In a Ne"arl
theatre he battered out Farewell
Ny Lady Love-" and etc ;fol q hoar
at stretch, when corapassionat.
friends inter:ered and dragged hin
home bodily though he threatened
another explosion.
One hundred and ten tines in seve,
years vas the moving record o. tht
Whelan family Of New York, and {
moving tale it furnished in Harlem
court when Mrs. Whelan testified
against her husband for non-supDor1
and drew weird word pictures Of hi!
nonadic habits.
MI. Whelan looked as if still anoth
( er move would have cheered bin VI
somewhat when she told the judge
ths only way she could get money
from her rowing spouse was to take il
out OF his trousers pockets while he
was asleep.
SOME CID Pc PIE.
Moses a. Cleveland, SAID to be 6
cousin Of the ex President set new
pace tor cctogerarians. at Worces
ter, Mass, he and another veteran O!
the Civil war, each being 50, ran
halt mile foot race. Cleveland WOE
the dash by several yards, and ooz
Of cigars into the bargain, where
upon he challenged any man Of his
age in the worlo-With no takers, e1
last accounts.
While the exploits of the old boys
are unde, review, those .of the girls
should not be forgotten; and Mrs
Margaret Black Of Greene county Pa
deserves first mention. At the cele.
bration Of her ninety third birthday
in August it was announced that she
had never been fifty miles away from
the place Of her birth and had never
ridden in railway train, nor ever
seen one; yet this remarkable ole
lady's descendants irclu6e SIX cbil
dren, 43 grandchildren, lle great,
grandchildren and rs great-grea5.
grandchildren.