The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-06-29
WELLS AND WHITESIDE
TRIP TO ALABAMA

Leaving Manning on Sunday morn
ing at $40, June 18TH, Messrs. Con-
nor Wells and w. G. Whitcsidc started
on three day motor trip to Craw-
fordsville, Ala, to visit for ten days
with Mr.. Whitesidc's people
On Sunday two hundred miles was
covered and they spent the night in
Thompson, Ga. Monday about two
hundred and sixty miles were covered,
going from Thompson, Ga, to Oxford,
Ala. This trip was made in FIivcr
with Mr.. Whiteside acting as chauf
feur and quoting Mr.. Wells who said,
1.-The Fliver was 0. k. and the chauf-
fcur-wcll he was the best yet"
The roads they travelled over were
fine, ninety-five per cent of them as
good as our macadam streets. Mr..
Wells said that after passing Cam
den, South Carolina affords as good
roads as any covered anywhere on the
way: He said that the road through
the Red Hills of Georgia were perfect
and the rate of speed they travelled
was just as fast as Fliver can carry
you.
At Crawford, Ala, where thew
spent ten days, they visited Liberty
Hall, the former home of Alexander
II. Stevens, vice president of the Con-
federacy. This place is very pretty
place and is we'll kept up
Mr.. Wells says that this is a
momtalneous country, but in the val
ley they raise cotton. AS to the boil
Weevil question the farmers there say
that the only thing they find that
helps them get rid of any of these
pests is to pick up the squares and
ourn them once a week. The crops
there are very backward, the cotton
is about half the size of ours and the
corn is hardly half the size. The far
mers there say that if they have hot
dry July they will make half a crop
OF cotton. In addition to the boil wee
VII they have beetle that is eating
up all kinds of beans and peas. Still
the people are not crying hard times
there as much as the people here are.
Another thing Mr.. Wells said he no.
ticed was that when the country pco-
pie came into town they never came
cmpty-handed, but always had coop
OF chickens and vegetables in their
wagons, to sell.
This place is an industrial center as
well as farming center. In and
around Charlottesville there are seven
steel mills and six cotton mills.
On the return trip Mr.. Whitcside
and Mr.. Wells came through Covinp-
ton, Ga, the place Williams made
famous when he drowned the thirteen
negroes in the creeks that are on each
side of the town.
Every little town that they passed
there had q Confederate monument in
the intersection of the main street.
Mr.. Wells said the thing that i'm
pressed him most on this journey was
Stone mountain, eight miles out of
Atlanta. This is a solid rock, 900
icet hlgh and seven miles around the
base. This could be seen about twcn
ty-hVc miles before you get to it. The
owner OF this has donated this noun
tam of rock to the Daughters of the
Con1edcracy and they have made a
contract with Il sculptor TO carve an
army formation on the smooth side
or IT at cost of two million dollars.
The route these men took led from
Manning to Camden, on to Columbia
then to Augusta, Ga, and then to At
lanta. After they passed through
Carrollton, Ga, they left the main
highway and took the mountain road.
Mr.. Wells said the ten days ended
sooner than he wished for the people
IN Alabama were SO hospitable that it
made the time pass 700 quick. He
said the only trouble they had was
while passing through Atlanta when
the spark plug gave them Just a little
trouble and they only killed two chick
ems, rcd rooster and Il plymouth
rock hen. They thought they were
in for trouble when the rcd rooster
was killed but managed to escape
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