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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-09-13
An Ordinance
An Ordinance to Prohibit Minors ?layiag,Poo
or Billiards In the Town of Manning.

Be it ordained by the Mayorand Al
dermen Of the town of Manning in
Council Assembled and by virtue
of same: 50
SECTION /. That it shall be unlaw-.
full for the keeper or owner of any
pool or billiard ia BILE within the town
of Manning to allow any minor under
eighteen years of age to play pool or
billiards in any place where tables
are used and such games are played,
or to allow such minors to frequent
or loiter in any billiard or pool room.
SECTION II. ANY owner, keeper or.
person operating such gaming tables,
violating Section l., OF this Ordinance
shall be deemed guilty Of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction there
of, shall be fined not less than ten
dollars, nor more than fifty dollars,
or be imprisoned at hard labor upon
the public streets of said town for not
less than ten, nor more than thirty
days.
SECTION III. This Ordinance shall
not apply to clubs or private homes
where such games are played, for So
cial purposes only, without fee, toll
or charge.
Ratified in Council this 4th day Of
September, A. D., 1911.
T. N. WELLS, a. G. BRADEAM,
Clerk. Mayor.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-09-13
The Home BANK AND TRUST CO..
EXAMINING, S. c.

owing Tor bill of goods While n BIS sore one day M hndea
afterwards B. a
receiving the thought thai had orgoon paying
the bill B. produced his books
it, and A. had SECOND
B. didn't
bill A. A. the bank and
did that bill the
ond time
had learned wisdom from his experience Learn
deposit your
The Home Bank and Trust Company aud pay by check
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-09-13
Florida---Cuba..

Why not take trip to Florida or
Gu ba? They have been brought with
in easy reach by the splendid
Through Train Service of the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad. Write for
illustrated booklets, rates or any
other information, which will be
cheerfully furnished.
r. C. WHITE,
Gen. Pass. Agent,
Wilmington, n. G.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23
Menu Of First Thanksgiving Feast


mouth and the Indians went out and shot
large number of them, and made them their
contribution to the feast. Governor Bradford
says In his history that they were delicious
to eat How fitting it is that the bird that Is
the crowning glory of our Thanksgiving board
should have been the favorite meat Of that his
tOric first Thanksgiving dinner!
There were doubtless. onions, beets. pars
nips, cabbage or colewort, squash. and perhaps
other vegetables, for good variety of seeds
were brought over from Holland. Perhaps
there was succotash, and the Indians must
have made 1t, for it something that the
Pilgrim cooks had never heard of before, and
we know that they learned later from the In
dams how to make It. Now, what did they
have for dessert, wonder? I think they may
have had some sort of pudding with buckle
berries for plums. I doubt if they had much
sweetening for their pudding and pumpkin
pies, as their stock of sugar and molasses was
very limited. Perhaps they had substitute.
There were fine wild grapes in the woods, and
they had doubtless dried store of wild straw
berries, cherries and plums. They surely did
not have any mince pies since the Pilgrims
thought mince pies We're very wicked, and
savored of Romanisn. So they condemned
those who afterward made and ate them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23

What did our Puritan ancestors dine on at
their first Thanksgiving feast? Surely they
did not set the standard which is being fol-
lowed today on the Thanksgiving dinner
menus.
We know that some things were lacking that
they must have greatly missed. There could
have been no butter, cream, milk, cheese, or
any dish that is principally made with milk.
because there were no cows in New England
until 1928 when John Winthrop, later their
worshipful governor, brought over four cows
from England. The butter and cheese that
they took with them on the Mayfower were
long since consumed I hardly think they had
chicken pie for the feast, for the fowls were
served as rare delicacy for the sick They
could have had eggs for their pies and pud-
dings. Since they raised pumpkins they might
have had pumpkin pies, If they made them
with water
In the ocean there was great abundance OF
fish. oysters, and other shellash. Of course,
there was none of their national dish, prime
roast beef, no veal, lamb. mutton or pork.
There was plenty Of deer, which would be a
good substitute in vension But they had one
thing that We like better than anything else
on Thanksgiving day. Wild turkeys were very
abundant in the woods and fields about Ply
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23

rare Tor the November holiday have been
greatly increased in number or variety. Your
hearty diner demands on Thanksgiving the es-
sentials such turkey and celery and cram
perry sauce and pumpkin pie which were the
stand-bys of the feast in the days of his father
and his grandfather before him. The point is
that some of the eatables are unQuestionably
more favory than were their counterparts of
several decades ago, and-with all due respect
to the kind that mother used to make-sOme
OF the modern recipes seem to put it all over
the old-timers in garnishes and the prepare
ton of buildings and pastry. etc.
And, speaking of the changes that have
come about. take the case of the toothsome
turkey, headliuer of the whole holiday menu.
It would be futile to try to convince the high
liver of the twentieth century who revels in
his milk-fed or chestnutfed turkey from Rhode
Island or the middle west. that his forefathers
ever enjoyed anything so delicious. Certainly
turkeys have increased in size, too judging
by the average weight those that find their
way to market, However this latter develop
ment is clearly traceable to the tendency Of
turkey raisers to devote themselves almost
exclusively to the Bronze the largest of the
six standard varieties of turkeys.
However, there are two sides to this turkey
story, and the housewives who preside over
small families are the ones who have had
brought home to them the dsadyantageous
side of this boom in the size of turkeys. With
the big bronze birds weighing from Is to So
pounds apiece-and usually nearer the latter
than the former fgure-crowding the market
it is becoming every year more difficult for
the buyer of a family of two or three people
to find 8 satisfactory six. seven or eight pound
turkey 1t really begins to look as though the
small families would be driven to hotels
Thanksgiving or else be compelled to take in
boarders or entertain all their friends at the
holiday dinner.
Turkey buying. too, is the phase Of the
THANKSGIVING marketing where the increased
cost of living most severely pinches the man
with the stationary income. a dweller in any
of our large cities may consider himself de-
cidedly in luck these days if he succeeds in
getting tender turkey at Thanksgiving for
25 cents per pound and he is much more likely
TO be asked any figure up to 50 or 40 cents per
pound which prices have prevailed every
Thanksgiving In recent years in the New York
and Boston markets for the choicest birds.
The people of the central west have an ad-
vantage over eastern turkey eaters, because
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23

to SUBSTITUTE CHICKEN,
duck or goose for the regulation thanksgiving
fowl The cost is much less and the satisfac-
ton equally great-once a householder mas
freed himself from the tradition that IhanKs-
giving without turkey would not be Thanks
giving. Then, too the increasing number OF
vegetarians and persons who have adopted
diet Of nuts or other meat substitutes. nave
devised some very ingenious proxies for the
Thanksgiving dinner-nOnmeat dishes that
even simulate the appearance of turkey.
However, these new-fangled dishes can scarce
ly be recommended as cheap, owing to the
amounts of nuts and the number Of eggs the
recipes call for
In the face of soaring prices in so many
food lines, it is gratifying to note one Thanks
giving Indispensable, the cost of which re-
mains virtually unchanged This is our old
friend, the pumpkin, dear to youth and old
age alike, in the form of the pumpkin pie. No
person has ever attempted to corner" the
pumpkin crop and probably no person ever
will undertake such q miracle. The fact that
the great golden globes with their luscious
"fillin' p" can be raised in every section of the
United States, and that, tOo without any
trouble, once the vines are planted, is doubt
less responsible for the moderate prices that
always prevail. Probably there is no town or
city in the country where a good-sized pump
kin cannot be purchased for SO cents, and in
most American markets one may buy small
pumpkin-an orb of Joy with ammunition suf-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23
PHYSICIAN ADVISES
CUTICURA REMEDIES

-Four years ago had places break
out on my wrist and on my shin which
would itch and burn by spells. and
scratching them would not seem to
give any relief. When the trouble first
began, my wrist and shin itched like
poison. I would scratch those places
until they would bleed before could
get any relief Afterwards the places
would scale over, and the flesh I'M
deTneath would look red and feyerish.
Sometimes it would begin to itch until
It would wakeR me from my sleep,
and l would have TO go through the
scratching ordeal again.
Our physician pronounced it dry
eczema" used an ointment which
the doctor gave me. but it did no good.
Then he advised me to try the Cuti-
cura Remedies. AS this trouble has
been in our family for years, and is
considered hereditary, I felt anxious
60 try to head it off. l got the Cuti-
CuTa Soap Ointment and Pills, and
Ghey seemed to be just what needed.
'The disease was making great
1S'to" oy On iu9 SgSCSh uAlIi SoI
the CUticura Remedies which have
cleared my skin of the great pest.
From the time the eczema healed four
years ago, until now, l have never felt
any Of its pest, and l am thankful to
the CutiCura Soap and Ointment which
certainly cured me. always use the
Cuticura Soap for toilet, and hope
other sufferers from skin diseases will
use the Cuticura Soap and Ointment"
tSignedl Irven Hutchison, Three Riv-
ers, Mich, Mar. Is, 1911 Although
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold
by druggists and dealers everywhere.
8 sample Of each, with 32-page book,
will be mailed free on application to
'CutiCura," Dept. IL X, Boston.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23
Hints to TrsVeIers.

John, peddler came round today
selling stove polish. He was very
agreeable gentleman. Why, he talked
SO pleasantly about the weather"
Really"
Eyes, and I bought a packet. Then
he complimented the baby. and
bought another packet"
Hint"
Presently he said our hall was kept
in better order than any in the neigh
borhood, and then I bought another
packet"
Great Scott"
Before he left he said he thought
l was your daughter instead of being
old enough to be your wife Then
bought three additional packets. Oh,
it doesn't do any harm to encourage
a real gentleman when you meet one"
-Tit-Bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23
Costly Picture In Lumber Room.

picture estimated to be worth
$4,000, which for so many years was
hidden away in a lumber room at St.
Mary's hall, Coventry, has just been
restored and put in place of honor
in st. Mary's hall.
Owing to damp and an accumulation
of dust and dirt, the picture had be-
come so defaced that the corporation
of Coventry had decided to sell it if
they could get $375 for it. But Messrs.
Izod & Co, a London firm Of picture
restorers were at work upon the pic
lures in st. Mary's hall, and one Of
their experts recognized it as a mas
terpiece.
1t was found to be one of the finest
examples eXtant of the work Of Jacob
Jordaens, a pupil and fellow-worker
of Rubens. Jordaens was born in Ant
werp, and the picture was probably
painted about 1910. 1t represents Bac-
chus springing from his car upon see
ing Ariadne. The canvas is about
thirty feet by ten feet high Present
ed 10 Coventry by Edward Ellice, NJ.
P, in 1855, little value was attached
to 1T, and 1t was subsequently con,
signed to the lumber room.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23
Child of Ganius

An actor was talking at the Play
ers' Club in New York about David
Belasco's skill as a stage manager.
''Belasco," said the actor. has a
superhuman sense of the harmonies,
the illnesses Of things. This enables
him to carry out stage scene to
such small details as no man ever
dreamed of before.
''BelascO, even in his childhood.
possessed this unique sense of har-
mony. An uncle once gave him
couple of chocolate cigars, then said
to the little boy:
What are you going to do with
them, David?
III go and eat them in the smok.
ing room" was the prompt reply
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23

learn that Texas leads all the other states IL
the Union in the number of turkeys prouuoeo
Proximity of the market to the rural JUS
trict whence it draws it's supply OF holioaS
fowls is highly important consideration now
adays, because the mistress Of city NOME
can no longer purchase her Thanksgiving Iur-
key from a farmer who drives up to her door
marketing the products of his own farm. All
the turkeys are handled nowadays through COM
mission merchants, which means, OF course,
that there is a middleman's profit to be PAID
by the ultimate consumer. Another secret OF
the present high prices of turkeys is found
in the fact that the live birds are shipped long
distances. If they are transported by express
the expense is considerable, and If they make
the journey by freight the trip is nearly as
costly, inasmuch as the live birds are sent
by freight only in carload lots, which involves
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23
The Cats Thanks
giving Soliloquy

I'm just about tired Of waiting
For my Thanksgiving treat;
| see them about the table,
And they eat, and eat. and eat.
They do not think of poor pussy.
Who has had so long to wait;
Why doesn't some one remember
That it's growing very late.
And haven't smelt that turkey
Since into the oven.it went?
If they'd give just one dTumstick,
Why, then I'd be content.
But no, they sit there talking
And laughing aloud with glee;
! wish that some one among them
Would throw down a bone to me.
There's that greedy little Teddy,
Three times he's passed his plate;
And that turkeys growing smaller
At a very rapid rate.
And see Jacks face! IT'S shining
With gravy up to his eyes.
[ wonder they take no notice
When they hear my hungry cries.
Oh, dear! There's dessert to follow,
The buildings and pumpkin pies
And the fruits and nuts and candy.
And oh, how fast times flies!
All, there's gentle little Ethel,
She's so loving and so kind.
She's bringing me some turkey bones
And grateful cat she'll find.
FRANK H. SWEET
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23
Fine Distinctions !, c.-vi,c

There was time when it was no
more correct to speak Of carving"
this, that, and the other meat than it
would be now to speak Of the cleft
side" Of a ship or a horse. Dr. Sal
mon in 1896 gave a list of the proper
expressions, any misapplication of
which would bring ridicuIe upon the
blunderer 1t was correct to say
Leach that Drawn" lift that swan"
and rear that goose" Instead of
carving, one was expected to spoil a
hen, tract chicken, sauce a capon,
embrace mallard, unIace a coney, dis
member heron, disfgure peacock,
display a crane, untach curIew, I'M
join bittern, allay pheasant, wing
a quail or partridge, mince a plover.
thigh a pigeon or a woodcock. border
a pasty, and break hare.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23
THANKSGIVING

thank thee, Life. for many, many gifts;
For wealth of bloom and tender song that lifts
Ny life the heated highways path above;
But most of all thank thee, Life, for Lovei
I thank thee for the body's health; for friendsi
The daily bread thy kindly bounty sends;
For all the goodly things that are or were;
But most of all / thank thee, Life, for Her!
For Her / count Of good thine utter store
That surfeits avarice. Thou hast no more,
No boon to win one covert sigh from me
When I have that whose giving beggars thee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23
OLD PURITAN BIBLE BOXES
Curious Carved Chests for the Safe
Keeping of Copies of the
Scriptures.

Almost invariably after some great
wave OF religious enthusiasm. we are
confronted By strange fragments of
salvage relicts of the emotional pas
sion and religious ardor of a departed
hour, says the Queen. Such were the
devotional carvings of the middle
ages-the triptyches. the private tab
eTnacles, the beautiful little ivory
madonnas.
Among such memorials are the vast
old Puritan Bible boxes. Cumbrous,
ancient arks, into which the revised
version of James l. was once commit
ted for safe ward and keeping. The
sound oakboards with which they were
made have resisted the tooth Of time.
In the long journeys OF the men OF
the Puritan period, when the scrip
lures were part of the daily accom-
paniment of life, the province of these
old boxes may readily be seen. With
In the home they were made to con-
tain those ponderous family Bibles in
which, especially during the common
wealth, the head of the house care
fully inscribed the birth, death or mar
rtage of his children with other memo
rabil1a OF family life This circum-
stance in the absence of other authen-
tic records, and the laxity of parish
registers, has sometimes proved an in
valuable aid. How little we could have
spared, for instance, that volume In
which Milton recorded the very hour
and minute of his chiIdren's birth
Ash wood was sometimes used in
the manufacture of Bible boxes. but
oak was the most popular from its
superior powers of resistance, for we
must remember they were at times in
the possession of ecclesiastical stall
warts, the Vigor of whose preaching
was sometimes calculated by the
amount OF damage done to the pulpit
furniture.
Throughout the commonwealth, and
by the general convention of 1856,
travelling ministers were gratuitously
supplied with Bibles, very expensive
Item; and in struggling pastorates the
book, with its appropriate Golfer, often
formed the sole effects of a new con-
venticle. 1t is a curious fact that
Bibles were sometimes subjected to
railing, even in those austere days.
In 1875 one DR.. Wilde bequeathed $3.50
for the purpose of providing Bibles to
be ratified among the poorer brethren.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23

other commodities in Manchester fell
one-half.
The success of this canal started
the duke to build one which would
connect Manchester with Liverpool.
To procure the funds he reduced his
personal expenses to 2400 year.
So straitened was he at times that
the London bankers hesitated to dis
count his note for 6 500. Sometimes,
when hard up" he would send his
steward upon a collecting tour among
the tenantry of the ducal estates. The
steward would ride from tenant TO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23

Disappointed in marrying the most
beautiful woman in England, he de-
termined to unite by means of a canal
his coal fields with Manchester, then
beginning its career as a manufac-
turing town. In those days good roads
were the exception, bad roads the
rule. The cottcns Of Manchester and
the woolens of Leeds were conveyed
from place to place on pack horses.
which logged along in single file. The
freight charge from Leeds to London
was S63 a ton When the dukes car al
was finished the prices Of coal and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23

honor of the governor she asked the
wife oil the governor-elect whether
she enjoyed the society and hum OF
the capital, and was rather startled to
hear the reply:
Society. Well, lands sakes! 1
should say was enjoying it; and hum
well, l reckon! Why, it's just cne
dinner after another. banquet after
banquet, supper after supper. Why,
would you believe me?-my husband
hardly had his knife out Of his mouth
in more'n two weeks Saturday
Evening Post
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23
Did Not FIJI the Bill.

Old Lady-There is one thing no
tice particularly about that young man
who calls to see you. He seems to
have an Unborn, instructive respect for
women. He treats every woman as
though she were a being from a high
er sphere, to be approached only with
the utmost delicacy and Difference.
Granddaughter (sweet eighteen)-
Yes, he's horribly bashful.-New York
Weakly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23

box make a cover OF linen or dark
canvas. This cover should extend all
over the box and hook on side. For
the lunch boil In the pail rice, beans.
soup, or whatever you may choose
that can be boiled. When nearly done
cover closely and put at once In the
box: put the cover on the box and it
is ready and will be done and hot
when the children are ready for it.
hours later. Of course, if tin pail is
used. nothing containing tomatoes
should be chosen. This will be found
of especial convenience to mothers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-23

ries is quickly reflected in the price. However,
cranberries are never so very much of an ex-
travagance because it requires such modest
portion to make up batch of cranberry sauce.
When cranberries are plentiful they sell whole
sale as Iov as So per barrel, but few years
ago, when there was a cranberry famine, the
price went as high as $40 per barrel.
The business side of the problem of supplying
a Thanksgiving dinner for the American people
is by no means the least interesting phase Of
this subject. The city of Chicago alone re-
ceves during the week or ten days before
Thanksgiving as many as half million turkeys,
valued in the aggregate, at wholesale prices, at
much more than millions dollars. From Cape
Cod, Mass, the greatest cranberry growing dis
trict, there are shipped each autumn more than
one-third of a million car loads of cranberries
and the major portion of this harvest finds its
way to Thanksgiving dinner tables Many
loads of celery from Michigan and other states
swell the total cost of our Thanksgiving dinner
to millions.