The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
A Week il South Carolina.
Editor The Manning Times

Editor The Manning Times:
In days gone by passed through
your State time and again. OF late years
l have travelled through it going to
Florida with my wife, never having
stopped at any place except Aiken.
Two or three years ago the son of my
sister, the pet of the family and one OF
the lovliest women that ever lived, was
called to the postorate of the Presby-
terian church of your town. On my way
South from Virginia concluded to Wis
it him. rcould only get a ticket on the
great Southern Railroad to Sumter,
which I understood was IN seventeen
miles of Manning. | was compelled to
lay over in this beautiful town of Sumter
until after 6 .. N. While there l called
on Mr.. Marion, the Presbyterian minis
ter.
I had slept badly on the sleeper and
thought I could get a good nap there,
which I did. He insisted and so did his
beautiful wife, upon my taking dinner
with them, but | got the carriage drlv-
er to stop at the restaurant where ate
all wanted. I was delighted with every
thing saw during my short stay there.
especially the magnificent and beautl-
full Presbyterian church.
When I got to your town and with my
nephew visited your public school and
witnessed the opening exercises, the
splendid discipline. not having seen one
departure from perfect order, had not
a doubt that the professor was the right
man in the right place, and his ten as
sis.ants were worthy and true and faith
full. Not satisfied with the present large
building, the wide-awake people Of Man
ming are erecting new public school
building, at an expense Of forty thousand
dollars court house to cost sixty thous-
and. After visiting the new school build
ing and the court house I went to the
Presbyterian church, not costing as
much as the buildings 7 have mention
ed. No language I could use would be
considered by the pastor of this church
and those who worship there and who
love him and whom he loves, and eSag
geration. This beautiful church only
cost SIT, 900, but no one would think II
could be built for that.
There are so many beautiful homes in
Manning I could not begin TO name
them. One I will mention, the home OF
the banker, Major Levi, whose lovely
family I visited. I asked my nephew
the Rev. Albert Woodson to go with me
there as Major Levi had met me at the
depot and taken me to my nephew's. |
can never forget his courtesy and the
beautiful span of horses.
We also called on Mrs. Bagnal, who
was Miss Fulton, whom l understood
is relative: OF the Fultons, whom |
know in Missouri. 1t gives me pleas:
ure to say no better people ever moved
West from this county. l am getting
two Missouri papers. In both of my
last papers from Missouri there was a
few lines about the illness Of the wife
of a noble man, whose vile was the
daughter of old MIR. Fulton and the
only living sister OF DR.. Fulton, Mrs.
Forsythe:, had been i'll. | thank Coo
my last paper said she was recovering.
I also met Mrs. w. N. Plowden, who
was Cooper and related to my frienc
Cooper in Missouri.
am Low again at Charleston on my
way to the State Sabbath School Con.
vention at Orangeburg. l spent las
| week on Johns Island, attending I
meeting, which I can truly say wa;
the most delightful meeting ever al
tended, the Chapman and Alexander
meeting excepted. Mr.. McChesney, thel1
pastor, is very talented ard earnest
He is held in high esteem by his peo
pie. They have a beautiful church
and no limit to their hospitality. l have
never in all my life been more delight
fully entertained than | was at tht
home of VIM. jenkins and Mrs. Franl
Legare's. | never saw a more oeautl
full country church. Several joined tn
church at the close of meeting, som
by letter and others by profession.
I can never forget the nice people
met with in your town, and the kint
manner in which I was treated.
FRENCH STRoTHER.
Union Hall. Va.