The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-07-12

Misses Mildred Brown and Lynn
DuRant who have been attending
Summer school spent the weekend at
home.
All the women who enrolled on the
Woodrow Wilson Club Book arc
qualified to vote in the coming pri,
mary in August.
We call attention to the card of Mr.
J. II. Windham in this issue announc.
ing himself candidate for the office
of Magistrate at Manning.
am anxious to get in touch with
the following in reference to a mat
ter from the Veterans Bureau. Reese
Welch.
Respectfully,
Cary Smith, Postmaster.
Mr.. l. S. Hutto of Dorchester, is in
Manning today shaking hands with
the voters. Mr.. Hutto is candidate
for Congress and his card will be
found in another column.
A meeting was held yesterday
morning by members of the Co-opera-
tive Association and committees ap-
pointed to go out and solicit men,
bers to the association.
On account of the great rush of
work The Times has increased it's
force five men in the past week. The
new members arc Bagnal, Stalnaker,
Blackwell, Andrews and West of Co
lumbia.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Nettles, of Cam
den, were visitors at the home of their
aunt, Mrs. E. G. Alsbrook, Tuesday,
They continued their trip to Summer
ton to visit Mr.. Cantey, father of Mrs.
Nettles, who is recovering from a
protracted illness.
Mrs. Il. M. Mouzon and Miss
Corinne Barfed are visiting Mrs.
Joseph E. Pottle of Milledgeville, Ga,
Il sister Of Mrs. Mouzon. They We're
Joined Ell route by Miss Louise Brown,
of Abbeville, and Miss Marguerite
Duncan, of Charleston, who were also
visiting guests of Mrs. Pottle.
The case of B. X. Drakeford of Sill
yer, for violation Of the prohibition
laws, was decided last week in the
Supreme Court, and the circuit court
was sustained. Mr. Drakeford was
convicted last fall and sentenced to
serve six months on the chain gang,
he appealed to the Supreme court and
lost his appeal This means that he
will have to serve his time.
Clarendons vehicle tax law was
decided last week in the SUI ne
court to be constitutional. The w
was repealed this year, but since the
Supreme courts decision declared it
constitutional before it was repealed,
those not paying the tax last year
are due to pay it now. A good many
paid, and was promised by Supervisor
McFaddin that if the law was not
constitutional he would refund their
money. Now, to be fair to the ones
that paid the tax, it is up to the
Supervisor to collect from those that
did not pay.
The tobacco situation is in quite a
muddle in Manning. On last Satur-
day Mr. R. d. Clark closed his ware
house out to the Cooperative Mar
keting Association, which left Mann
ing without a warehouse as the other
three had already been sold or leased.
Upon learning of the situation, q
citizens meeting was called yesterday
to devise some way Of handling the
unsigned tobacco this year. A COM
mittee was appointed to confer with
Mr.. 9. r. Sprott, who has leased the
old Harris warehouse, and if failing
there to go to the Association and try
and get one of their buildings. This
committee will report back to the
citizens on tomorrow afternoon at
six o'clock. Now, here is the situa-
ton as we see it. There is, we are
told about fifty per cent of the Clar-
endon tobacco unsigned, and the bust
ness people figure that it will be very
unwise to let this tobacco go to some
other market. Times are hard and the
town needs every dollar it can get,
but by having no warehouse here,
Manning will lose probably quarter
million dollars. Sumter will have
two Independent houses, Greelyvillc,
Olanta and Lake City will run, which
means our tobacco will go to one Of
these places. We believe every bust
ness man in Manning is in sympathy
with the association, at the same time,
they want to see one independent
house in Manning this year in order
to keep our money at home.