The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-06-14
MIR. J. J. CANTEY HAD
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Summerton, S. c., June 8, 1922.
Editor of The Manning Times:
On the second day of June, the
writer, with several friends from Sum-
merton, jumped in touring car and
made hurried trip to Florence, South
Carolina. the object Of the trip being
connected with certain, bankruptcy
proceeding before Referee Kirk,
whom, after some difficulty, we found
happily housed in the Federal Court
House at Florence. Kirk, the Referee,
claims an aristocratic pedigree and
traces his ancestral history bac kto
the first beginnings of South Carolina
history, but the writer has investigat-
ed the matter and finds that the
! word "Kirk" means little Church,
and therefore Referee Kirk is not "a
person at all, but he is merely a little
sacred edifice, being made part of
the Federal Court building at Flor
cnce by the judicial decree of Federal
Judge H. A. M. Smith. Ever since
the writer first commenced the read
| ing of history, he has understood that
when our forcfathcrs settled this coun-
try, they declared for the separation
| of the Church and the State, but when
Federal Judge Smith installed Kirk,
the Referee, in the Federal building at
| Florence, he clearly made Kirk, the
| Church, 81 part and parcel of the Fed
cral Court House and thereby violat-
ed the first principles of the Constitu-
ton of the United States. The pub
| lie highway from Summerton to Flor
| ence, despite heavy rains which came
| down in torrents during the day and
had been falling heavily during a
period Of two weeks, was in fine shape
and condition, with the exception of
that part of the road between the
| town of Turbeville in the County of
Clarendon and the town of Olanta in
the County of Florence, covering a
distance of about six miles Both
! Florence County and Clarendon Coun-
ty have neglected that part Of the
highway between Turbcville and
Olanta, and the fact that such con-
dition of affairs exists in disgrace
to both Florence County and Claren-
don County. The writer understands
that the dividing line between Flor
encc and Clarendon Counties runs
somewhere between the towns of Tur-
beville and Oanta, the result being
that each County has simply worked
up the public road to the farthest
town in each Count and have neg
lectcd the intervening space Of pos
sibly six miles, which is traverscd
here and there by numerous neighbour
hood roads, none Of which can be
travelled with any degree of pleasure
Now, the people living between the
towns of Olanta and Turbeville need
help and deserve to be treated better
in the matter of a public highway
than the aforesaid facts would tend
to show, and the object of this letter
is to bring the pressure of public
! hn o,1th hnr &
and Clarendon Counties and force the
completion of a safe and decent high
way between the towns Of Olanta and
Turbcville. Good roads are the fore
runners Of civilization, it is a COM
mon sight to sec grown men and wo-
men who live between the towns Of
Olanta and Turbcville sitting in their
rocking chairs on the front porch abb
solutcly barcfootcd and apparently
without any idea Of the necessity Of
shoes as a rejection from thc rNvag-
cs of hook worm 10 say nothing
about the comfort and the pleasure of
wearing nice pair Of shoes. The
sole object Of Christianity is to make
decent citizens and the earth fit
place to live in, and the writer has
always had scant patience with those
old religious codgcrs, who arc always
preparing treasures to lay up in
Heaven and to fit themselves for man
sions in the sky, it being better to
ri' 49,, 'f''N c-'~~ : O." &C cold
wa. : ... :. 20 highway SIS %. than
to become the Governor Of South
Carolina.
On account of the sickness Of friend
Gilland, the writer could find nothing
to drink in Florence. except water,
water everywhere, but it was late
when the dinner hour arrived, after
the business of the day had been con-
pletcd, and the writer was fortunate
enough to plunge his teeth into the
= best strawberry short-cakc ever
served since the historic period of the
Garden of Eden.
Yours truly,
J. J. Cantcy.
WILL STUDY EUROPE'S