The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-25

-osGav, and i, should reach Mayusvl!ie
as az early hoU; Thursday morning.
why it does 10; DO so must be tho fault
OF the railway mail clerks. or tho post
Office AT Mayesvi?lc.
The Presbyterian }a;ij's OF Clarendon
cornty vii: nod ;s one day Missionary
| Institute at the Manning Presbyterian
church on Tuesday, November Ith. be-
! ginning at 1870 \ NJ and closing at !
2. NJ. i fine programme has been pre-
pared and the visiting ladies viii be
served lunch BY the ladies OF the Man
ninc Presbyterian church. All the Ia
dies OF the Clarendon County Presby-
terian churches are urged 10 attend
! this morning.
Col. ". B. Wilson. while returning
! from Summerton 10 Sumter last Wed
nesGay evening in 4 railway automo-
bile with some Others, as they reached
the Sumter railroad yards there was
some freight cars which they thought
we're backing oa thera, and not being
able to reverse their machine Colonel
Wilson jumped and broke his leg. Col
onel Wilson's friends in this county
hope he will soon be himself again.
Died in Manning at IN early hour
last Friday morning Miss frankie
Hodge, aged 43 wears. The deceased
was q daughter OF the late Z. Vi.
Hodge. and was most estimabie
woman. After the death of her sister.
who left several small children. Miss
Hodge devoted herself TO their rearing.
and a mother could not have been
more devoted. She is survived by her
sister Mrs. ". W. johnson OF the
Fork. aud TWO brothers Messrs. James
and Powie Hodge. The funeral took
place in the Manniog cemetery Friday
afternoon. Rev n. X. Williams pastor
OF the Baptist conducted the service.
This commnuitr was shocked last
Friday afternoon by the sudden death
of Mr.. Joseph S Bell. The deceased
was a nlachiniSt and when the hand OF
death was laid upon him he was 1T his
post and at work. He had just served a
and he expired in a few moments. Mr..
Bell was hard working man. anc nat
ural mechanic He was about % years of
age, OF very stont build and his friends
say that he had !; prenouitjon that he
would be suddenly taken of. as was
his father the late James NJ. Bell. He
leaves a widow and several children
besides turee brothers, Robert L. Bell
and Joan F. Bell OF Manning and
Daniel Rz,! of Sumter. Rev. II. X.
Williams conducted the funeral SER
vice in the Manning cemetery Saturday
morning.
AT a congregational meeting OF the
Baptist church last Sunday resoiu-
ton was adopted calling on the town
council 20 adopt 80 ordinance forbid
ding street fairs or carnivals from eX-
hib;ting in this towu. We do not ad-
vocate c:;rnivaiS here because they
usually are bunch OF the cheapest
kind uf shows. ana are accompanied oy
a lot OF hangers on who do the town no
good, demoraliZe business aud labor.
The council should heed the resolutions
by refusing TO license such institutions,
but how about them coming here and
pitching their tents Just over the llne:
Is there any way to prevent this: II a
carnival company puts up say near the
colored school house then the town
would have the evil and the expense
of extra police without any remunera-
tion.
There was gloom cast over this town
Monday evening when it became known
that Mrs. Jennette Barfeld had passed
away. Mrs. Barield had been sick but
a. few days. and Monday members OF the
family thought she was Improving, ont
change for tbe.worse came later: ard
about six O'Clock as the curtain OF night
was being drawn her soul winged its
flight TO its eternal home. The deceas-
ed before her marriage was Miss