The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-02-28

ton beginning March 9th, IS going tc
give the people i1 the Southwestern
portion Of Clarendon an opportunity tc
buy goods cheap. Mr.. Perry kraSnotf,
the manager is q stock mover, and BAR
! gains await those who read the. aG. 10
this issue and 90 10 Sunmcrton to
trade.
Mr. w. G. Wolfe. recently cashier of
a bank al Monroe, \. c., in order to be
near his son, who is bookleeper for the
| D. ". Alderman Sons Co. at Alcoiu,
has accepted position of boohkeeper
with the W. L. Jenkinson Co. We are
glad indeed to welcome MIR. Wolfe
here. He is a good business man. and
besides. an old newspaper man.
Marc. the magician, artist, and mnSi-
clan, gave very pleasing performance
here last Friday night. to the delight
of a good audience. His tricks were
indeed clever-the hands We're quicker
than the eye. The enjoyable mystery he
unraveled was the unwindipg Of a
bachelor physician. which made the
audience roar.
c. C. Redic. former barber Of this
town, was hauled up before the mayor
of Spartanburg last Saturday and fined
$50. for soliciting laborers to be sent
out of the State. Quite a number OF
farm laborers have been enticed away
from these parts and taken to Georgia
and Florida bv these i'm migrant agents.
They should be prosecuted and i'm
wall Epp6
Sometime ago we had the promise OF
string of patridges from cur good
friend John Stephen Evans, but 1t lsn t
everyone who hunts that can shoot. ana
we haven't got them birds yet, but
John Stephen did not forget US. and one
day last week he brought us a nice
mess of pork sausages. John. the sau-
sages are out of sight, but we hope the
birds are not.
Those who want 20 vote for Mayor
and Alderman must not neglect TO Sc
cure a registration ticket. The books
are now open at the Office of the clerk
of council. How would it do to selecta
council that will furnish the taxpayers
a detailed quarterly report of the re-
ceipts, and to whom. and for what the
disbursements were. made? 1t would be
interesting information to know how
the $4,000 year income is used.
am still giving 1900 pounds OF prime
: per cent. meal for one ton of cotton
seed. delivered at the mill. This is a
better rate of exchange than any other
mill is giving, and it is absolutely
necessary for all who care to trade their
seed TO bring them in at once. will
shut down for this season in two or
three weeks and after that it will be
impossible to get anything like as gooo
q rate Of exchange as am now Offering.
NV meal has been analyZed by Clemson
College and found to contain s. per
cent Ammonia and to have a CONNER
cial value of 5000 per ton.
C. r. SPRoTT.
Contributions to the Library Bazaar
are coming in every day. and the peo-
pie sincerely appreciate the generous
response foreign business houses have
given to the requests of our local mer-
chants. The bazaar is the thing, and
everyone says it must go Off with a
great big bang The Bazaar Bulletin
will be ready 10 g few days .and we
would ask our merchants and ocaers to
have their copy prepared focS the ad-
vertising space they will be solicited to
take. This Bulletin will be circulated
from every post office'in Clarendon. and
it will be hummer as an advertising
medium. Do not fail 10 get in the
Bazaar Bulletin.
There is a society in the ''Corner" in
Salem, known as the ''Old Ladies So
cietv." They meet every Saturday at
the different homes. The purpose is to
look after the sick and distressed, pre-
pare nourishment, nurse, sew, cook.
and otherwise relieve where there is
distress in a family. These good women
certainly have noble work, would
that all communities followed in their
foot steps. How much better it is to
engage in such labor OF love, than it
is to congregate to back-bite, gossip
and SANDER, or even TO cultivate the
methods of modern society. These
Workman ladies deserve the prayers OF
all good people.
We had an agreeable surprise from
Col. mitch" Epps. of Workman, last
Monday. He stalked into The TINES
printing department., and demanded
the Whereabouts of the editor. He WIS
told the editor was at his desk endeavor-
ing to melt his thoughts so they would
run out at the end Of his pencil TO pro-
duce something to read. He came upon
US holding something shining in his
hand, and as wellooked up, he suddenly
pushed forward shining tin bucket
filed with cleaned partridges: which
he said was ''fer yer stomach's sake"
We gave sigh of relief and took his
nice present eagerly, at the sametime
thinking how much more blessed it Is
to receive buckets of dressed part.
ridges from friends, than it is to give
weekly advice through the columns OF
a newspaper. We hope to record many
more such blessings that will flow from
the generosity of Oh r friend Epps.