The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-24


The fertilizer movement is now in
full swing.
MIR. and Mrs. J. NJ. Bradham spent
Yesterday in Sumter,
The general impression is that the
nuch-lauded ground hog is not on MS
job.
Mrs. C. W. Blanchard has gone TO
visit relatives and friends at Newbern,
n. c..
Mr.. D. g. Marchant, of Orangeburg,
has been in Manning on business this
week.
The work OF repairingithe burnt Brad
ham store in the Mcleod block IS now
going on.
Miss Ethel Rabb, OF Sumter, has been
visiting Mrs. a. C. Bradham during the
past week.
Elizabeth Meade, respectable color
ed woman OF this place, died yesterday
from consumption.
Mr.. viii Selby and Mr.. Sam Barron
drove down from Mayes7ille and spent
Sunday in Manning.
Mrs. Etta ". Griffin, of Monroe, n.
c., together with her liJtle daughter, IS
visiting her sister, Mrs. F. L. Wolfe.
Miss Lulie Earvin came down from
Columbia and spent Saturday and Sun
dav with her home folks in Manning.
An extra communication of St. Peters
Lodge No. 81, A. F. NJ, this evening at
S O'Clock. Entered apprentice degree.
Mr.. W. Scott Harvin, Jr., came home
from the medical college in Charleston
to spend the Washington birthday holl-
day.
Mr.. John Bordenheimer, valued
employe at MIR W. Scott Harvln's Ium-
Der plant, suffered a stroke OF paralysis
lsst Saturday.
The Arant drug store is now doing
business in new quarters, having moved
into the refuoed store room formerly oc-
cupfe6 by the Manning Grocery Co.
Miss Eleanor Mason returned to her
home in Sumter yesterday morning
after spending several days very pleas
antly IN Manning as the guest OF MISS
Lula Mcleod.
Clarendon Lodge, No. l73, K. OF P,
conferred the "a nix OF Page on MIR. W.
L. Rodgers last night. T. 4. Mctao-
din, OF Zola Castle, was a welcome guest
at the meeting.
John, son of Mr.. Charles E. Cochran
died Yesterday afternoon, and was TO be
buried at Fellowship church this after
noon. He was Is years old and had beer
afflicted for several years.
There will be special service in the
Clarendon Baptist church next Sunday
morning in the Court House, and the or
dinance of baptism will be administered
at Alcolu at $50 Sunday afternoon.
The only way in which Manning hon
ored Washine.on's birthday was by the
closing of the banks and the observance
of holiday hours by the postohce. The
graded school and all ordinary business
went on as usual.
The ladies OF St. Paul Methods
church will have an oyster supper ant
box party at Cross Roads academy OF
Friday night March 9th, for the bench
OF the Methodist parsonage IN Summer
ten. The general public is cordially IN
vited.
Mr.. B. T Mcleod, president OF th
Drake-Green-Inness Shoe Co., OF Cha:
lesion, spent a day or two with friend
in Manning last week. MIR. Mcleod wa
formerly OF Magnolia, and has man
friends in this section Of the State.
The Sumter Item says: "The Legls
lature may pass a hundred fish bills
but unless effective measures tor the er
forcement of the laws are devised tn
fish butchers will continue to clog To
streams with their wire traps and to dy
Mantle all the deep holes" True bl
sure.
Capt. Frank Welch, who for twent,
six years was popular conductor on tn
Atlantic Coast Line. but who had bee
off OF duty for year and half on al
count of failing health, died III Sumte
last Sunday afternoon. He was "a year
old, and numbered as friends all VII
knew him.
4 negro named Dan Robinson wa
tried last week in Hampton for the mul
der of his wife, or paramour, Eliza Rot
inson, whom he cur and stabbed TO deaf
on Sunday morning, February 7th. III
Jury found him guilty and Judge Wat
sentenced him to be hanged on Frlda,
April % next. This negro IS suppose
TO be the Dan Robinson who worked
Manning a few years ago as a telephor
lineman, and the woman he killed IS SUI
posed to be one known here as Eli
Clark, and who left here shortly a1te
Dan did. II is reported that Dan IS We!
Indifferent about his impending fate.
Shortly after midnighr last Monos
night Mr.. Archie I. Barron's barn W;
totally destroyed by FIRE, the origin
which is unknown but the indication
are that it was incendiary. Besides tt
building the loss included g lar:
amount OF feed stuff. about 400 bushe
OF corn, a large quantity of peas al
cotton seed, gears. plows, etc. Wht
discovered the fire was burning near Il
ground, and the first neighoors to a
rive only had time to get out bug!