The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-06-22
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
FROM SUNNERTON

We had planned to hit altogether in
new territory with our article this
week, and had already consulted doc
tor, in reference to the theme we had
in mind, and he agreed with us that
1T would be pretty good newspaper
dope" just at this stage of the game.
But on account of our article OH "Un-
rest" being too lengthy last week, and
space was not available for it, and
with the promise from the Editor to
publish same this week, we must pass
up this new thought for another time.
And those who cannot stand 'hot
grease" had better get out Of the
kitchen before we turn loose this
"forty-fve center METER
"Unrcst'
We touched on this subject in one
of our communications some weeks
ago, and promised at the time to
write series of articles on this sub
ject if we could get our brains to
work, or get the assistance Of some
ones brains who were better cultivat-
ed than ours. But up to now many
things have been happening in our
busy town until we have been unable
to get back to a subject that makes
people travel through blue streaks and
wear rolled up face and keep them
from saying nice things about their
neighbors etc. In our previous article
we only went back about two thousand
years to get something to start with
while we were not at the garden when
old Eve made Adam sin and 90
wrong. But since that time we havc
seen and heard people following after
old Adams footsteps, yet you will
sometimes hear a man say that he
wished there was no sin, and unrest
in the world, but that same man or
woman is perhaps doing today just
what old Adam and Eve did, disobey-
ing God and the laws Of our land and
country, and yet saying as the old
Pharisees did, "Lord thank thee that
| am not as Others" May the good
Lord have mercy on such little tissue
sheet human beings. And may they
reach just about this conclusion which
we find in Romans and 20, "Even
the righteousness of God which is by
faith of Jesus Christ unto all and up
on all them that believe; for there is
no difference"
Yes we are still very much worried
about things, when cotton was forty
cents the pound and no boil wecvil was
ever seen by any one in this country
other things was too high, and we did
not make cotton enough etc. Now that
other things has dropped in price
along with cotton and most people
confess they can very well make cot
ton at ten cents the pound, if it were
not for the boil weevil. Gee don't you
know if the weevil had never been
created it would be something else,
Just to give us something to "whine"
about. But to be happy we must
come to this conclusion, which we find
in Philippians a and II, "Not that
speak in respect of want, for I have
with to be content" Why should we
worry?
We read with a great deal of inter
est the article written by Mr.. Gray the
County farm demonstration agent on
the boil wecvil and the remedy to get
along for few years without grow
ing much cotton. And while we have
never had the pleasure of meeting
this gentleman we must say that we
agree with him heartily when he says
raise hogs and cows. But just about
the time we finished reading Mr..
Gray's communication some one be-
gin to tell us about some fellows be-
ing in the courts about killing some
bears down on the Santce because the
bears were eating up their hogs, and
we begin to wonder how the people
were going to raise hogs and bears,
and then some one asked US who in
the world made a law against killing
bears, and we hardly knew what to
tell them, but we finally told them it
must have been our lawmakers. Now
we have no desire to criticsc any of
our lawmakers, but why should any
one care if all the bears i'm Santec
were killed, or if there were ten
thousand bears in the swamp would
we be any better off, are they any
good, and for what purpose should we
want to raise bears?
Well now sure enough it does now
look very much like the boil wccvil
Will play havoc with the cotton this
year as it is a certainty that the
fields are full Of them now. While
some of our good farmers say they
cannot stand hot and dry weather,
and if such is true they should be dy-
ing by the tens of thousands now,
while some one told us the other day
that weevil did not live but ten days,
but we hardly could think so, because
a fel low told us the other day that he
had kept one in a bottle all the wint-
er without food, and that he was lust
about as large now as beetle bug, of
course it might be well to take a
statement like this with a little salt.
But in spite Of the unfavorable
weather conditions and the small
amount of fertilizer used this year
crops are looking reasonable we'll es-
pecially the cotton, while since the dry
weather corn is beginning to look
rather doubtful, but as usual Just