The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-29
Summerton News.
Editor The Manning Times:

Editor The Manning Times:
Our town has been very gay this
week. Entertainment has piled on
entertainment till our staid heads cot
giddy.
The closing exercises of the Sum
merton Graded School occupied three
NIGHTS. These exercises were quite q
departure from the usual hackneyed
routine. On Wednesday night the
musical department had the floor and
the Juvenile Contata "a Dream OF
Fairy Lapd'' was rendered by the
smaller pupils. They were well drilled
and it was a novelty to hear the little
embryonic stars sing their dialogues,
and the applause they received from
the crowded house was generous.
On Thursday night the graduating
class instead of the usual recltatlons,
ESSAYS, etc., rendered two act farce
entitled s'Mr. Bob" This was well
done and provoked the audience into
hearty applause repeatedly.
| Friday night Gov. Ansel was expect
ed to be present and deliver an address.
| Late in the day a long distance tele-
phone was received saying he could
not be present The services of Rev.
:. W. Daniel of Sumter, was secured
and he came down on the special which
President Wilson had prepared for the
governor.
DR.. Daniel delivered his famous lee
1 ture entitled "The Southern Mule. !"
This address was replete with wit and
| pithy sayings. The speaker SAID the
reason he put Southern before the
mule was that it would not be safe to
put it behind. The address was thor
oughly enjoyed by the audience, even
though it was little mulish. I mean
jthe lecture. The graduating class con-
i sisted of Misses Jennie Fork, Annie
Rutledge, Sue Cantey and Lucy Mood,
4 Messrs. Aston James, Julien Scar
borough, Leon Davis. Annie Rutledge
received first honor, and was presented
with the Lanham scholarship medal,
by Rev. Mr.. Jones in very neat
speech. julien Scarborough, as second
honor, was presented with a beautiful
pen by Mr.. Walker, principal OF the
school.
This closed another years work OF
the school which seems to have been
very satisfactory year to teachers ana
pupils.
On Wednesday afternoon we held
; our first "annuaP' baby show. AND
.. did anybody ever see the like of ba-
bies? There were between fifty and
hundred, and no telling how many
: could not be present on account OF
whooping cough, etc. Race suicide!
Tell it not in Summerton! President
Roosevelt would have been delighted
at the showing. Watching at safe
distance, it was a study to watch the
Kaleidoscope changes in the expires.
sion of the faces of the mothers and
fathers as they followed the judges up
and down the line. Then after the de-
cisions had been rendered! Like unto
the cnattering Of large drove OF
black birds was the voices of the moth
ers, while the disappointment, etc. OF
the fathers was like the muttered
thunderings OF the coming storm. The
: Judges, however, consisting Of Colonel
Brailsford, Confederate veteran, aud
Senator Applet and Representative
! Dinele were undismayed, being accus-
toned to dangers equally threatening,
, and lived to tell the tale. The follow
ing were official prize-takers:,
Girls: 2 girls OF Mr.. and Mrs. J; NJ
Cantey, one girl of DR.. and Mrs. Mood
one Girl of Mr.. and Mrs. TreadWell
Dingle. 49,,
clan Brailsford, one boy of L. T: Gov
ington, one boy of Mrs. Ernest Tisdale,
lone boy of Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Augustus