The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-01-31
Maysville, KY, Jan %, 1917.
Editor Manning Times,
NV dear Editor.

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Editor Manning Times,
My dear Editor:
l get The Times out here the last
Of each week, read your paper with
great deal Of interest, in fact / even
read the advertisements. / am 628
miles from home and ] get awful
lonesome for home and home news.
also get the News and Courier
which read with a great deal Of in
terest to myself, and especially at
this time of year when the South
Carolina Legislature is in session.
read Governor Manning's Inaugu-
raj address with great deal Of inter-
est. I am proud of our Chief Exc
cutor. / heartily agree with him in
his ideas for progressive legislation
and especially do like and commend
him for advocating the bi-annual ses-
sions of the General Assembly. I
certainly think he is right in what
he stated in part as keeping our peo-
pie in state of unrest all the time.
And too the flames of political strife
are kept burning. I also note that
bill has been introduced over in
lie House, believe it was, to create
highway commission for South
Carolina. think this a capital idea
and hope this bill will be passed,
and we will thus be enabled to get
Federal assistance, we can then also
take the 100000 that will be saved
annually and apply it to the high
ways of our state. This can be ap-
propriated among the several counties
in the state or expended jointly in
whatever way the commission ap-
pointed might deem to the best in
terest of the state.
/ am glad Mr.. J. H. Lesesne is
fathering a bill for constitutional
convention. 1t will be needed in or
der to get some things through that
South Carolina is very much in need
Of.
Let us hope that the South Carolina
Legislature has opened its eyes to
the best interests of it's citizenship,
and that she will line up with other
progressive states like a good many
of her sister states, let US hope that
our representatives will pull together
for better state.
AS l see it we cannot afford to be
mere dreamers, we must bestir our
selves, get t>gether and line UP fol
a better future and a greater South
Carolina, we need reforms and it is
to be hoped this legislature viii
carry out Gov. Manning's ideas.
did not start out to write politi
cal letter but my heart is thoroughly
wrapped up in the welfare of Soutf
Carolina, and as we are free il
America to express our ideas l have
thus given my approval of some OF
the things that are being advocated
and at the same time have exercised
my own privilege in small way BY
having made few needed sugges
tions as ] see them.
will now write briefly what
have set out to write about. came
here the last of December, l found
the tobacco market in full sway. To.
bacco prices for the quality are the
best / have ever known, the common
grades that sold last year from two
to six dollars per hundred are now
bringing from twelve to fifteen dol
lars per hundred, and this is the
worst. greenest types Of tobacco. The
market is averaging around 18c, this
beats 1913 by about 5000 per hun
dred.
The farmers here have worlds Of
money as they have big, heavy
crop. Kentucky is certainly the blest
state as she has many other crops
aside from tobacco and they are all
selling high, such as hemp, corn,
wheat, ard other grain products She