The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-04-19
Building in Manning.

The Manning correspondent OF the
News and Courier, and the Columbia
State. had the following reference to
AIannino:s growth in last Saturday S
issue:
The building improvements now 90
ing on il Manning give employment TO
"a large number of skilled mechanics,
and are OF such extent as to elicit COM
ment from every visitor. There IS no
one extensive structure going up to
attract general notice, but there IS
more or less building going on IN every
section OF town.
On Brooks street, near the centre OF
town, W. P. Legg has nearing compile
ton a large. two.story brick stable,
warehouse and vehicle repository.
This building is on the site where he
recently pulled down q large frame
warehouse.
Adjoining the foregoing on the north
side the estate OF DR.. w. Z. Brown is
having erected block Of three com
modious brick storerooms. This block
will prove an immense improvement on
the block of small frame structures that
formerly occupied the site.
On the south side of the Legg build
inc. and adjoining the Mcleod block,
the new Home Bank and Trust Com
panv will soon erect building especi-
ally designed for its business. This
bank is already doing business. being
temporarily located in the building
formerly occupied by the postoffice in
the Applet block.
On the vacant lot south of this block
= i h,.In
building erected.
On the vacant lot just north Of the
! Levi block, until recently occupied by
large frame stable, Leon Weinberg
will soon have erected two large, hand
some modern storerooms, above which
hall will be fitted up for the Masonic
fraternity.
Frank P. Erwin has recently built
three frame storerooms at the corner
| of Church and Dinkin streets. They
are now about ready for occupancy.
The new Manning tobacco warehouse
is now being erected on the north side
OF Dinkin street near the oil mill. 1t
will be completed and ready for busl-
ness by the opening of the tobacco sea-
son. This warehouse has already been
leased TO an experienced tobacco man
ard the promoters promise that no effort
will be spared to give to the farmers
satisfactory service IN the marketing OF
their crops.
| DR.. H. L. Wilson, Of Jordan; has re-
Gently purchased the Hall property,
adjoining the graded school grounds,
and he is now having the old house
rolled back to Rhame street to make
room for new residence that he Will
soon build facing Brooks street, which
ne will occupy when completed.
C. r. Sprott, president OF tee Man
ming oil mill, is haying handsome two
story residence built on the property
recently acquired on Clark's hill at the
southwest edge of town. It is under
stood that several other fine dwellings
will be erected in that section in the
near f"ture, the property having re-
Gently >.ssed into the hands of new
owners.
DR.. W. NJ. Brockinton is having his
residence enlarged and the interior
newly fitted up. =
The large frame building OF the OLD
Moses Levi Memorial Institute. occu-
pied by the white graded school until
the completion OF the new building
ab,ut two years ago, has recently been
rolled to a new site in the western side
of town and will soon be occupied b. the
colored graded school. The large build
ING was divided into two sections, and
rolled distance of about three-quarters
of a mile, and then put together again
The moving of the building such dis
lance without any damage whatever IS
regarded as remarkable feat.
Jimmie Thames has nearing compile
ton in the northern part of town a neat
cottage adjoining the old Thames home
place. The remarkable feature about
this building is that Mr.. Thames has
himself done nearly all the work in
building the house.
The trustees of the Presbyterian
church have recently sold the residence
now occupied by their pastor, and will
soon begin the erection OF new manse
on the vacant lot adjoining the church.
y score or two of new small dwelling
houses have recently been built in diff
ferent sections of town, and on every
side material is being placed for the
building of still more houses. Yet Man
ming is not on boom, but the town IS
unquestionably growing at very graft
flying rate.