The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-06-27
R. D. C0THRAN WRITES Interestingly and
TO THE POINT ABOUT MANNING MARKET

kets in average for several years. We
have always been as good as the best
market in the State and frequently
better.
Sell your tobacco in Manning and
help build up your own county seat.
Tobacco has built up other towns
wonderfully and why not Manning?
Every citizen both white and colored
should patronize their home market,
bring your products to Manning, we
are entitled to your trade. We have
four good banks, with ample facil-
ties to accommodate every citizen in
Clarendon county. Our banks want
your deposits. They pay the same
per cent on time savings as other
banks do in other counties. Every
citizen should concentrate his earn
ings at his own county seat. We
want you to come to Manning, we ex-
tend to you a hearty welcome in all
our places of business. Come and
make Manning your town as much as
ours. We believe in mutual cooper
alton and in home building. We are
Interested in every mans welfare in
Clarendon county. Come to Manning
and let us get better acquainted. We
are proud of Manning and think we
have one Of the best towns of it's size
in the world.
We have scores Of good merchants
Our merchants by all means should
have your patronage. When adversi-
ty overtakes you they are always
willing and ready to do what they can
for you. When you have short crops
they suffer with you, they renew your
accounts as best they can, and at the
same time have to meet their obliga-
tions with their creditors either by
renewals of notes or borrow from our
liberal banks and pay their accounts.
Manning was hard hit two years ago
with the cyclone, but with the grit
off the yoke of caos and has emerged
from what was at that time seeming
ruin into beautiful town second to
none to its size in South Carolina.
We have some of the prettiest dry
goods and grocery stores to be found
| anywhere. We have more and better
drug stores to the size of our town
than you will find anywhere else, to
the size of the town. We have five
drug stores, four whites and one COL
L.
stores Tipping full of what you want
in their lines. We have the best five
and ten cents store in Eastern South
Carolina to the size Of the town. We
have three good sale and feed stables
You can always get what you want
in season. We have a good electric
light and ice plant in Manning. Call
on the management for what you want
in their line. We have a good flour
mill for your convenience. We have
good cotton seed oil mill and GIN
merry. We have good churches and
schools and lawyers and doctors. We
have everything to merit your fullest
consideration and patronage. Just re-
and that our door latch is on the out
side. Come to Manning and bring
your products. Come to Manning and
make yourselves fully at home. We
will also ask you to bring at your
convenience three million pounds of
tobacco and 100000 bales of cotton,
for which you shall be fully awarded
the highest price.
extend to you one and all hearty
| welcome to Manning, your town and
mine. don't forget this important fact.
Tobacco market opens July 18th.
Come and sec the growers get The
right change on that day.
Respectfully submitted,
r. ID. Cothran.