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

news matter but It would nOU napD pei
so we advise our readers who can 90
to 90 to the Methodist church TO hea
Mr.. Speake preach, and Mr.. Arnol
sing.
Miss Maude Beatty a trained nurse c
Sumter, left last Thursday for rPlnelao
Texas where she goes TO marry NJ
". II. Bass, who formerly was wit
the Sumter Machinery Co., in Sumter
Miss Beatty IS well known TO many lam
lilies in this county.
Again we are compelled to call upo
our readers to furnish Us with a cop,
OF TIE TINES dated January /, 19ll
we want this issue complete with .nre
pages in order to have our lle iall
Look among your old newspapers ant
find tniS copy for US.
Miss Iona Tillman. q daughter o
Senator B. r. Tillman, is TO be married
10 Mr.. Charles Sumner Moore, OF At
lautic City, \. :. on the 26th inst. Mr.
Moore is a lawyer By profession ant
comes from one Of the most promlnen
of New Jersey families.
We are giving our readers some music
in this issue, and we hope those WIZ
perform on piano or organ will learn i
plav it. II this experiment proves IN
teresting we shall arrange to publish
this music every week, of course glvlnE
new pieces each week.
The advertisement Of Abrams, run
ming in THE TINES is paying invest
nent that was fully demonstrated tx
him last Saturday. He had a large
trade and considerable OF it came iron
lone distances in the county. Jus
keep watching the Abra ns ads. IN the
future.
Wanted-A good live man to repre-
sent US in Clarendon and ADJOINING
counties in selling Monuments and al
kinds of Cemetery Work. Salary o.
commission. We have good place
for hustler. Address with references
Owen Bros. Marble and Granite Co..
Greenwood. S. G..
]. McSwain Woods, Esq, # Atlanta
spent Friday night in Naming on hi
way to Kingstree where he had an I'M
portant business engagement. MI
Woods not only is climbing up as
LAWYER in the "Gate City" but he ka:
recently become the head OF hnancla
institution in that city.
The weather last Sunday was ideal
could not have been better if special,
ordered, and the Easter. gowns an(
hats were out in full force you can bet
OF course those who were out in Easter
plumaee was not expecting to be Looked
at during the services IN their respec'
tive churches, neither did they not take
their eyes off from the preacher to see
how others were dressed.
Two negroes met on Lewis corner
last Saturday night, one OF them asked
the other where he was living now
and what was he doing. He replied
use living up above Sumter now, bu
I come down, dey is gwlne to preact
mas funeral tomorrow at Alcolu, yor
must come and tell Honey he mus
come TOO. and we will have a goot
time.
It's a source OF deep regret to US tt
learn that Mr.. A. J. Hicks OF Turoe
Vile is in a seriously iii condition
Some years ago he got hurt on the
Alcolu railroad, from which 1t is sale
be has never fully recovered. Recent
" ne went TO Johns Hopkins hosplta
at Baltimore, but after staying shor'
time he returned home II bad physl
cal condition. Mr.. Hicks is a good CIT
izen, a splendid farmer and a man true
to his friends.
Rev. McNeely DuBose, native o
was drowned in the Catawbs
river last Saturday morning. Mr.
DuBose came of the DuBose family
who before the war between the State:
lived in the Panoia section OF this
county. The deceased left Clarendon
when quite young, after the death O
his father. DR.. McNeely DuBose, who
was killed by neighoor.
TO give a check OF draft upon bank
firm, corporation or individual with nt
funds to meet it when presented fol
payment makes the drawer of suct
paper liable TO prosecution. A 1eN
gentlemen (?) put upon TIE chalngane
for this common otfenSe would have
wholesome effect, much better etfec
than the prosecution OF negro 1ol
failure to comply with his promise tf
perform labor for money lcaued to MN
at an eXtortionate Interest.
Died at the Sumter hospital last Satur
day after surgical operation Miss Vir
einia DuRant, a daughter OF the late
joseph S. DuRanv, aged 80 years. The
funeral took place Sunday afternoon a
the DuRant burying ground near Du
Rant, and it was one OF the larges
funerals eve- seen in that community
Rev. r. L. Grier conducted the service
Miss DuRant was most estlmaolt
Young lady, of cheerful disposition, ant
her friends were numbered by the large
number OF her acquaintances, 1or t
know her and come in contact with he
lovely CuAIdCISl W SLo w Icy " " ~SA~>ANS~
and high esteem for her.
Did YOU ever have two typewrite
salesmen at you at the same time? I
not, then you have yet something t
learn in the way OF nerve. Iesterda.
there was in this Office couple OF thes'
gents, both trying to sell to the edlto
their respective machines. One SHOWED
US the wornout condition Of the machln
we have and made it clear that ou
salvation depended upon buying a neV
one. and that one the kind he repre-
sented: the other man talked his ma
chine also. but he saw from our make
up that we had no money TO invest, s.
he proposed to clean up our old one
To this proposition we readily assented
and he went TO work while his com
petitor went of chewing the cud OF Dis
appointment. The result is that we &C
our old machine cleaned up which
needed for several years.
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