The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-07-13
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1t is said there are "Whitc Elc-
plants" in all walks of life, as to
whether this is true or not it is not
for us to say. But one thing we do
know and that is with poor greasy
Jared sawmill man there are plenty Of
just suc.. varmonts; and this is Mon
day night and they have been giving
us scissors all day. We are certainly
not in a humor to say nice things
| about anything or anybody tonight,
the people to say anything bad about
them for fear of getting a whipping
We remember reading some time ago
about newspaper man who promised
his readers to tell the whole dying
truth one issue. And it SO happened
that one of the laZZicst men in the
community got married, and one Of
the biggest drunkards died, and one of
the awfuliest rogucs in the commun-
ity stole a bale of cotton, and this good
honest newspaper man wrote up the
whole things based on facts. And
when we last heard from the "guy"
| he was in the hospital. Now the good
Lord knows if it is possible to get
now, we certainly want to dodge,
consequently we will not say much
| until things get to running better with
us, and we can "Shinc" up our face"
a little bit, kinder like 4 pretty girl
| does when she wants to attract the
| attention of n new made friend or
"sport."
Now things in general are still go
| ing reasonable well with us while the
ration wagon is not moving very fast,
and honest to goodness, if we are to
accept as facts what some of the folks
tell us there is really a scarcity Of
| such things in some quarters. A re-
| port comes to us from the Santcc sec
| tion chat the dogs rations have been
cut completely off and that it is real
| fact that the dogs are going into the
cornficlds and b 'aking down the corn
to get tic ear to eat. This might
sound like a fish story but really it is
| fact. Wonder what will happen next.
The boil wcevil is still raging and
our people are beginning to realize the
seriousness of what they are up
Of cotton this year. Those who at
one time was saying that God had sent
| them here as pest and that they
should not be burned rave decided
| otherwise by now, and will honestly
| Cess" up that if a rattlcsnakc should
be killed that certainly q low-down,
| eating boil wcevil should be
burned or do anything to them in or
| der that we might grow another crop
of cotton. But we fear our people
walked up too late.
We are still getting up our data for
| our first number of 40" and if our
| nerve don't fail us we shall run tn,
first section next week. But in ordl
that our readers may have some idea
as to what we have in mind, we will
say that we are very busy with the
Ouija Board. We are cndcavoring to
have some long distance convcrsa-
| tons with let us say Mr.. Solomon, the
wise man, and if we get the informa-
tiOn we are seeking we are going to
talk about money matters church and
Sunday school work, the safe roads to
travel in, in the age we are now living
in and etc. Now if there is anybody
whose minds can stray off as mine is
now and they can think of anything
in this line we shall certainly be very
glad to have an opportunity to inter-
view them on this subject, or better
still to write your own mind and mail
it to your "Uncle Nub."
Misses Lillian and Cora Cantey, are
spending sometime with friends and
relatives in Asheville, N. G.
Mr.. Surcll Grayson Of Norfolk, Va,
is spending sometime with relatives in
this community.
Mr.. Managualt Capers is spending
sometime with his sister, Mrs. Capers
James, at Frederickburg, Va.
Rev. G.. M. Fielder and family Of
Aynor, srecently visited relatives and
friends in this community.
Among some Of the attractive visi-
tors here recently were Misses Lucille
Glascock of Catawba; Nancy Jeter of
Carlisle, and Almira Cook of Sumter.
These young ladies were teachers in
our school here last session and are
very popular with our people.
Miss Carolyn Richbourg of this
place, is spending sometime with her