The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-03-26

ny q. d. Cantey, and held at Summer.
ton on the goth of March. A consid.
cradle number of Clarendon citizens
were present. The general IMPRESSION
that casual visitor would have gotten
OF the meeting, could easily have been
that trial was being conducted and
that Mr.. j. j. Cantey was the defend
ant; with that august parsonage, the
Hon. Frank w. "Shealy as the prose
cutting attorney. There was to say
the least of it, an atmosphere of hos
tlllty between the Commissioners and
MIR. Cantey, which BODIED i'll for the
outcome of the hearing. Mr.. Shealy,
III the office of Chairman of the Com
mission, showed scant patience with
all efforts on the part of Mr.. Can
tey to show up the negligence, in gen
eral, of the railroad management, and
laid bare the previously veiled) fa-
nous threat to abandon the North
Western Railroad altogether, if the
people fail to be good.
When Mr.. Cantey attempted to
show that the physical condition of
the road is not good, Mr.. Shealv
seemed to get "peeved" and said that
such remarks were direct reflection
upon the Railroad Commits
whose duty it was to look after the
condition of the railroads. And Mr..
Shealy (facctiously, of course) hintc6
that Mr.. Cantey should be disciplined
with contempt Of court proceedings.
This to illustrate how considerable is
the power of a Railroad Commits
sioncr.
Mr.. John Wilson (of the North
Western Railroad Company sat just
IN front of Mr. Shealy, and looked his
pleasure at the grilling which Mr..
Cantey received.
alr. John Wilson was invited to the
stand, and stated categorically that
the North Western Railroad has been
steadily losing money for a good many
years. In fact losing each year enough
money to bankrupt an ordinary cor
poration.
Assuming Mr.. Wilson'S statement
to be true, it is an unfortunate COM
mentary on the business ability of the
present owners of the road
Your correspondent knows nothing
OF the grievance. that it is said, that
the Railroad Commissioners have
against Mr.. Cantey, personally. Mr..
Cantey of his own initiative, it seems.
called the meeting, and in the course
OF the correspondence wrote letters
! that gave otfense to the Commission
ers. If this is true. am sure that
every citizen of the community re-
grets the circumstance.
One fact stands out in bold relief
and that is from 4 railroad point of
view, the situation has become in
tolerable. The people as a whole are
fairly reasonable, and every little
would be said if the promises had been
kept to supply decent coaches, waiting
rooms and make the connections, as
per schedule. Instead of these, there
have been the poorest possible accom-
odatlons, and the matter of making
the connections has been almost a
joke.
If you must sell Liberty Bonds,
consult d. o. Rhame, agent for New
York and Atlanta Bond Dealers, Sum-
merton, S. c.
With this issue of the valuable
Times your Uncle Nub's" pleasant
duties as correspondent will cease, for
the reason that he is a very busy man
ana will be out Of town lot of the
time for the next few months, but
he feels very grateful to the good
people for assisting him in keeping up
the Summerton page. He will be sue
cceded as correspondent by MIR. II. F..
Copeland, the clever and accommodate
ing bookkeeper at G.. NJ. Davis, Son
Co., and we feel sure the readers of
The TimcE will find Mr.. Copeland a
live wire as newspaper correspond
ent, and we certainly wish him and
The Times great success.
Rhame's Drug Store is going to
abandon the soda water business and
give thereby better services to those
needing drugs or to have prescriptions
compounded