The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-26

weeks sickness.
The banks of this place will close at
? O'Clock, commencing March lst.
Miss vallye Appelt spent last Satur-
day at Foreston with her friend Miss
Louise Land.
Quite a number from Manning will
attend the Weinberg Moses wedding
iu Sumter this evening.
Rev. Nelson J. Brown will preach at
Bethlehem church Sunday, March Sth,
acsl1 O'Clock.
The Turbeville lodge 13o K. OF P.
will have its annual banquet FRIDAY
night February 18th.
Miss Bertha Briggs. who has been
teaching in Salem, came home to spend
last Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. Wilson Brown, who is udying
pharmacy in Charleston, was at home
for few days last week.
Hon. O. C. Scarborough has put the
Summerton school district in position
to finish the new school building.
Married at the home of the brides
parents by Rev. E. P. Hutson last Sun
dav Mr.. Smith of Columbia and Miss
Gerthie Powell.
Mr.. Charlton DuRant has visiting
him this week his mother and step
father. Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Bgbie, OF
Bluffton, Ga.
The court house commission and the
local school trustees will soon get mat
tiers in shape to begin work on their re-
speetive propositions.
Amcue the candidates for State In
urance Commissioner, is r. Boyd Cole.
now of Barnwell, and a son OF S. Z.
Cole, formerly OF Clarendon.
The County Auditor urgently request
that some member of each Township
board in the county. come in at once
and get township return books.
There is rumor afoat that DR.. l..
M. Woods contempiates being candi-
date for Congress. If there is anything
the nation is lacking in, it IS the lack
OF Clarendon man in Congress.
Mr.. E. D. Hodge returned yesterday
from the meeting of the Southern Cot
ton Association at Dallas, Texas. He is
more enthusiastic than ever about the
association's plans for financing the
cotton crop.
Mrs. Emma G. Dietrich of New York
will make an address this "wednesday
evening at Sis O'Clock at the Baptist
church. She is very fine speaker and
those who attend will be pleased. sure.
The kerosene oil furnished by the
Standard Oil company to this town at
this time is a swindle and the author
tiles should take hold of the matter.
The town can require decent quality
of oil and can enforce its requil 1ments
under the law.
We urge our readers to pay up their
subscriptions, as after the -lst day OF
April we will not be able to send them
TIE TINES on credit. The postal
regulations forces US to cut of all de-
ginopent subscribers, and we hope we
will not be forced to cut OFF any.
The Schubert Symphony Club and
Lady Quartetve, gave a most pleasing
entertainment here last Saturday even
ing, al although they were at a dis
advantage by coming here on Satur-
cay night, they bad a fairly good
audience. This club would be well
coined here for return performance.
A man must have 4 sure grievance
against the county to secure a verdict
for damages, but when it comes to a
railroad he need not be as particular.
The difference is, damages out OF the
county means money out OF the pockets
OF the taxpayers, but against the rail
road, who cares?
The assessors and equalization boards
for the Towns of Manning and Sum
merton will be appointed by the respec-
tive towr councils in the month OF
May. Care should be exercised in
these appointments that proper men
are placed in these positions. A good
law if honestly administered.
I USEC OS GU SAdtIiuaGIOI iIOiIS
in the court house next Saturday for a
new rural route, to start as we under
stand il, at Turbevllle. The papers
sent to the post master here do not
specify the route. The applicants who
have permits from Washington must
present these cards by $50 O'Clock,
Saturday morning, and none but those
having cards can be admitted into the
examination room.
Mr.. W. P. Hawkins has traded his
stable and stock business in Manning
to Mr.. F. C. Thomas for his stable and
stock business in kingstree. Mr..
Thomas took charge Of the Manning
business last Monday. and Mr.. Hawkins
moves this week to kingstree, where
be was engaged in business for some
time before moving to Manning about
six years ago. Mr.. Hawkins has proved
himself a good citizen and Manning
regrets to give him up, but at the
same time extends him best wishes fol
prosperity in his new home.
When township votes itself out OF {
county to go to another. it not only
must bear its proportion OF the new
county debt, but it must also bear It:
proportion of the bonded indebtednes:
Of the county it left. The township:
in Clarendon seeking to join Sumter OF
Williamsburg, or the proposed new
county of Beulah or Rutledge would be
wise to think before they act and thu:
prevent double taxation. Clarendon
has assumed bonded Indebtedness
and every township is responsible fOl