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XANNING, S. C.. SEB. 24, 1909 Pbulishes All County and Town Of ficial Advertisements. Advertisers will please re irember that copy for a change of ad. MUST be in this office by Saturday Noon in order to insure ublication the following week. NEW STOCK GARDEN SEEDS ONION SETS and Z IRISH POTATOES. at Arant's Drug Store. The fertilizer movement is now in full swing. Nr. and Mrs. J. M. Bradham spent yesterday in Sumter. The general impression is that the much-lauded ground hog is not on his job. V &rs. C. W. Blanchard has gone to C visit ralatives and friends at Newbern. N. C. s Mr. D. H. Marchant, of Orangeburg, ; has been in Manning on business this a week. The work of repairingthe burnt Brad- S ham store in the McLeod block is now going on. Miss Ethel Rabb, of Sumter, has been visiting Mrs. A. C. Bradham during the V I past week. Elizabeth Meade, a respectable color ed woman of this place, died yesterday from consumption. Mr. Will Selby and Mr. Sam Barron a drove down from Mayesville and spent o Sunday in Manning. Mrs. Etta W. Griffin, of Monroe, N C., together with her little daughter, is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. L. Wolfe. Miss Lulie Harvin came down from Columbia and spent Saturday and Sun day with her home folks in Manning. An extra communication of St. Peter's Lodge No. 54, A. F. M., this evening at 8 o'clock. Entered apprentice degree. Mr. W. Scott Harvin, Jr., came home from the medical college in Charleston to spend the Washington birthday holi-< day. Mr. John Bordenheimer, a valued employe at Mr. W. Scott Harvin's lum ber plant, suffered a stroke of paralysis last Saturday. 'The Arant drug store is now doing business in new quarters, having moved. into the refitted store room formerly oc cupied by the Manning Grocery Co. Miss Eleanor Mason returned to her home in Sumter yesterday morning after spending several days very pleas antly in Manning as the guest of Miss Lula McLeod. .Clarendon Lodge, No. 173, K. of P., conferred the rank of Page on Mr. W. L. Rodgers last night. T. H. McFad din, of Zola Castle, was a welcome guest at the meeting. John, son of Mr. Charles E. Cochran. died yesterday afternoon, and was to be buried at Fellowship church this after noon. He was 15 years old and had been afflicted for several years. There will be special service in the Clarendon Baptist church next Sunday morning in the Court House, and the or dinance of baptism will be administered at Alcolu at 3.30 Sunday afternoon. The only way in which Manning hon ored Washington's birthday was by the closing of the banks and the observance of holiday hours by the postoffilce. The graded school and all ordinary business went on as usual. The ladies of St. Paul Methodist church will have an oyster supper and box party at Cross Roads academy on Friday ni a March' 5th, for the benefit of the Me hodist parsonage in Summer ton. The general public is cordially in vited. Mr. B. F McLeod, ,president of the. Drake-Green-Inness Shoe Co., of Char leston, spent a day or two with friends in Manning last weelk. Mr. McLeod was formerly of Magnolia, and has many friends in this section of the State. The Sumter Item says: "'The Legis lature may pass a hundred fish bills, but unless effective measures for the en forcement of the laws are devised the fish butchers will continue to clog the streams with their wire traps and to dy namite all the deep holes." True bill sure. Capt. Frank Welch, who for twenty six years was a popular conductor on the Atlantic Coast Line. but who had been off of duty for a year and a half on ac count of failing health, died ini Sumter last Sunday afternoon. He was 54 years old, and numbered as friends all who knew him. * A negro named Dan Robinson was tried last week in Hampton for the mur-' der of his wife, or paramour, Eliza Rob inson, whom he cut and stabbed to death on Sunday morning, February 7th. The jury found him guilty and Judge Watts sentenced him to be hanged on Friday, April 23 next. This negro is supposed to be the Dan Robinson who worked in Manning a fe w years ago as a tele phone lineman, and the woman he killed is sup posed to be one known here as Eliza Clark. and who left here shortly after Dan did. It is reported that Dan is very inditferent about his impending fate. Shortly after midnight last Monday night Mr. Archie I. Barron's barn was totally destroyed by fire, the origin of which is unknown but the indications . are that it was incendiary. Besides the building the loss included a large amount of feed stutL. about 400 bushels of corn, a large quantity of peas and cotton seed, gears, plows, etc. When discovered the fire was burning near the ground, and the first neighbors to' ar rive only had time to get out a buggy and wagon. Fortunately Mr. Barron kept his live stock quartered separately since his heavy loss by fire about two years ago. It is inconceivable that as good a citizen as Mr. Barron should have an enemy so dastardly as to destroy his property~ by tire in the dead hours of night. MR. BEN MIMS SHOT AND KILLED. k Deplorable Tragdy on the Highway a Few Miles Above Manning. Last. Sunday a fternoon about 5::o )'clock -Mr. G. Ben Mims was shot in he head and fatally wounded by a 3egro man named William Bethune on he highway ne-ar Trinity Crossroads. f h. wounded man was brought to town romptly for surgical treatment. He, vas taken to the home of his niece, Irs. S. M. Youmans, where he was een by Dr. W. M. Brockinton and Dr.! B. GCiger, who gave him prompt t,tention. but the patient died shortly .it.er the wound was dressed, without. egaining consciousness. It appears that a horse and bug:y yelonging to Mr Mims had been stolen )r got. away from him in some way. Lnd he learned that William Bethune iad taken the team and gone up the -cad. He got young Mr. Alfred I. Mc addin to go with him to recover the orse and buggy, and it was while they rere near Trinity that the shooting ook place. Shortly after the death of Mr. Mims, oroner.T. E. Hodge empanelled a jury d viewed the body, then adjourned he inouest until Monday afternoon. he tak*ing of testimony was not cou uded until about 9 o'clock Monday, iight when a verdict was rendered b I be jury composed of the following citid ens: R. D. Clark. foreman: C. W. Wells. Y. L. Rodgers, S. R. Sprott, A. J. lackman, J. S. Ridgeway, J. M. eavey, J. H. Rigby, C. S. Riitby, I. 1. ppelt, C. C. Langston, F. L. Wolfe, hos. Nimmer, Isaac M. Loryea. The following is the testimony taken yv the Coroner: Alfred I. McFaddin-I was at Mrs. Loumans' yesterday at 3 o'clock, and ad been there all morning. Mr. MiIns ame in and said he was in trouble bout his horse and huggy being gone. e told us he heard the fellow's nau c ;ho had his horse and buggy. Did say I cho told him, but I don't remember! he name. He took dinner at Mrs. Loumans' and asked me if I would go ith him. Mr. Lesesne's team brought Jr. Mims to Manning. We then drove' o Mr. Langston's stable and got a eam. After leaving Mr. Mims asked: ae how many cartridges I had. I told! nt I had only one and that was a 38.. then told him I left my pistol at Mrs. Loumans', and the reason I left it ms that it wasn't safe. Told him I bought I could borrow one. I spolke f going to Mr. Ervin to borrow a pis Al, but did not do so. At this time I aw Mr. E. S. McIntosh sitting ou his orh, and I went in and told him that. I ome one had stolen Mr. Mims' horse nd buggy and I wanted to borrow a istol, and asked him if he bad one. fHe aid no. I then supposed I could bor ow one from Mr. Hudnall, and 3stop >ed and went into his home. Mr. Hud all was not home, but his wife and; rs. McIntosh was on his porch. I in roduced myself to Mrs. Hudnall and sked for ir. Hudnall. She said Mr. ludnall had gone in the country. As -e were riding along I thought Mr. ,ims had only one pistol. when I said re both ought to have pistols. At this ime Mr. Minis pulled out a revolver, ,nd I said, didn't think you had but ne pistol with you. I said, suppose you I ake one and give me one. Then he! sked me which pistol did I want. I aid didn't make any difference. Then 6e drove on, he keeping revolver and iving me magazine. I asked him! hen how to use the magazine pistol, Le taking the pistol and explaining I ame to me. Between ,Trinity Bay .nd Manning we met Mr. Matthews .nd Mr. Minis asked Mr. Matthews! Lad he seen anything of his horse and uggy, he then described same. Mr. datthews said yes, thought he had~ *een it. He said going home from reaching he met a negro on the road riving a team about as Mr. Mims de cribed. The negro held his head down,! L if playing off drunk, and after pass ng, the negro peeped round at him, yt gave him the road as he ought to iave- done. Mr. Mims then told dat~thews he thought he was on the -ight trail of his horse and buggy. E.'hen we drove on, and stopped ata :olored man's house on the left side of! he road. Mr. Mims asked him how og since William Bethune had left is house. The negro said about jan iour. Mr. Mimis asked where he had tone, and he said to some Brown's! iouse and was showing us the way to ;he house about a mile away. Mr. Mims td I drove on hunting his house. We nade a mistake and went to the wrong; ouse, and cut through and came back: so the same negro's house. The negro said you went to the wrong house, and a'r. Mimis and the negro walked around :o the right side of the house and the jegro again showed Mr. Mims the house. A. that time I had g 'tten out of the buy and was standing around in fro'nt of the house. I then said to Mr. Mdims, what shall we do, shall we wait'. and Mr. Mimis said no, let's go on to the house. We started for the second time hunting the house, and before we got. to a road we saw a horse and bug v with some negroes in the buggy. I sid to Mr. Mims, isnt that your horse and buggy? He said, yes. I then said, do ou want me to stop the negro for vou? He said no, T will do that myself, When we had gotten within about twenty yards Mr. Minis jumped out. meeti~ng the buggy with the negro man and two girls in it. Mr. Minis jook his pistol in his hand and walked up to the buggy, pistol at his side, and ordered the girls to get out and man to keep his seat. Then Mr. Mimis jumpedin the buggy beside the negro, telling me, to turn around. The negro had a whip in his hand, and as I was turning around, the buggy with Mr. Mims and the negro had already started off. Be fore I turned around the two negro girls were in my way, and I ordered them to get out of my way, which they did as quick as they could, and the last I saw of them thley were running. Just as I got turned good I saw Mr. Minis tumbling from the buggy. As he was falling he looked very pale, probably unconscious. I saw the negro's hand go back and he fired at Mr. Minis, and as Mr. Mimis was falling he fired back at the negro. The negro then fired aaain and Mr. Mims fell down. After this the negro jumped out of the bug gy and stood around and looked at Mr. Mims. They were almost in reach of ach other. When the negro turned and looked at Mr. Mims 1 fired at the negro. The negro then turned and pointed at me as pretending to shoot. When he turned I jumped behind the horse from the negro, then peeped around horse and fired at uegro as he picked up something and was moving off. 1 then fired at him seven timues more as he was running. Mr. Minis fell to side of road and I went to him, and he was unconscious. groaning with pain. I called him and he made nc answer. I picked up his pistol and looked to see if it was loaded. I thers pcked Mir. Tims up and put him im the buggy Only one balI .had been shot from his pistol. At Trinity school house Mr. White or Mr. Kelly came tc him and offered him a ghufss of water. He couldnt. raise his head, not know in anything. I thcn brought Mr. Miis on to Manning. Mr. Mimns' has was on lire when I got to him. Alfr'ed I. McFaddin. Sheriff E. B. Gamble: Mr. Mim: cme and told me about negro taking is horse. I loaned him my pistol. Ne gro said he had not shot but once. Ne ogo said Mr. Mims had shot 'him; tha after they had gone a few steps Mim. got on the ground and threw the pisto in his face, and he (Bethunel got on th< sep: Mr. Mimis shot and he shot Mr Minis. There was one empty cartridga in my pistol. E. B. Gamble. Dr W. M. Brockington: Was sen for Sunday afternoon to see Mr. Mimi saw he was badly injured. Told. them t Iryhm to Mrs. Youmans'. When got there Dr. Geiger had gotten there vrevious. Examined Mr. M'ims and ressed the wound. Died in a few miu ues thereaftCr. ie was shot, in the. left' forehead. ball passing into the brain, which in my opinion produced deata. There was another injury a little to the left and lower. as if produced by some blunt inastrument. not suficient to pro duce serious condition. M. NI. Brockington. Sue A -na Eups Sunday 1 went to chureh. 1. saw tie killing. We met Mr. Mims and before we got. up to him he hopped out of buggy with pistol in hand. made an oath and told us to get out of the buggy. We got out. Ir. 11ms on one side and Willio on the other. 'Ir. Mlims looked behind the bugzy and asked if he had taken anything out. Willie said no. Mr. McFaddin. coming around. told us to get-out of the way. and me and my little sister jumped across the ditch. Mr. Miims standing on one side of the buggy 'Mr. Mlims tired once. but heard more shots. When 'Mr. 'Mims came up to the buggy he made an oath and told us to get out. Willie tarted to get out and Mr. _Mims told him to stay in. Sue Anna Epps. Ma:ury Emma Epps: Mr. MIlms came un withi pistol in his hand. made an oath and told us to get out. We jumped out. Mr. Mims got in the buggy by Willie. Mr. McFaddin went to turn around, told us to get out of the way. We jumped across t.ne ditch. _Mr. -Mims and Wilie drove off apiece: Mr. Mims got out of the buggy and Willie got out on the other side of the buggy, Willie on the right. Willie was driving. I did not see either one shoot. but. heard the shots and ran oi. Mary Emma Epps. Alfred T. McFaddin recalled: Saw both of the colored girls running, the eldest. Lou Anna Epps running ahead of the younger girl, Mary Emma Epps, and in the opinion of the witness they could not have seen what occurred: and while he did not see the blow inflicted, 3till he saw William Bethune make a motion as if to strike a blow, and that, the dead man after that became deadly pale and appeared dazed. and at this time he fired his pistol but missed Wil liam Eethune. Alfred I. MeFaddin Manning, S. C., February 22, 1909. I bereby certify that I have examined the body of G. Ben. Mims and that he had a gunshot wound in the left side of the head about two inches above the left eye through the frontal bone. The ball ranged backward and lodged against the occipitol bone after passing through the brain. This wound caused death a shot time after it was inflicted. Chas. B. Geiger, M. D. We. the members of the Coroner's jury. find that G. B. Mims came to his death at the hands of William Bethune from a pistol shot wound in the head. R. D. Clark, Foreman. The body of-Mr. Mims was taken yes terday morning to Calvary church, near Panola, for interment. It is needless to say that great sorrow is generally felt atthe untimely death of Mr. Mims in the prime of young manhood, being on lV 36 years old, and that wide-spread and heart-felt sympathy is felt for the aged parents and brothers and sisters in their sore bereavement. After leaving the scene of the shoot ing. William Bethune made his way to Maj. W. T. Lesesne's farm. Sheriff Gamble was notified ef this fact, and he at once went out after Bethune .and brought him in and lodged him in jail. Owing to the many expressions of in dignation heard after the tragedy, and from information that came to him di rect, Sheriff Gamble felt that he had good reason to apprehend that an or anized attempt would be made to take ethune out of the hands of the law and deal with him summarily, so he got in to long distance telephone communica tion with Governor Ansel and received instructions to take the prisoner to the penitentiary in Columbia for safe keep ing. Pursuant to these instructions the Sheriff left on the morning train with te prisoner. Many do not think that there was any danger of a lynching be ing attempted, but many others thought* they saw ominious signs. On the whole it is probably very well for Bethune to be taken away until the time for his trial arrives. An Interesting Remimiscence. An article in a recent number of the Youth's Companion gives an interesting account of a chance meeting between Col. Harry L. Benbow, of Clarendon county, and President Abraham Lin coin, which took place in City Point hospital, Virginia, in April, 1865. We have it on the authority of an honored Confederate veteran, still living, that the story is in the main correct, as he had heard Col. Benbow relate it, but that one additional fact is well worthy of mention in connection with the story. He says that Col. Benbow told him that there wvere two or three other Confed erate prisoners in thee hospital at the time mentioned, and that shortly after the assassination of President Lincoln took niace some of the guards came into the hospital, announced the fact and said they were going to kill the Confeder ate pisoners in retaliation. Thereupon CoL. Ben bow and the ether Southerners hurriedly consulted. got out and opened their pocket knives, determined to sell their lives as dearly as possible if the guards or others came to lay violent hands upon them, but happily no such attempt was made. The story publish ed by the Youth's Companion is as fol Col. Harry L. Benbowv of South Caro lina being once in a reminiscent mood, wasasked by a friend to tell him his most striking experience durmng the civ il war. He began by saying that on April 1, 186.5, he commanded three reg iments at Five Forks, near Petersburg, Va. Being shot through both hips, he was captured and carried to City Point. ard Hoptat where he was placed in a adoccupied entirely by wounded Federal officers. He was well cared for, having every simple luxury which the exigency of the times would permit. After being there a few days, it was reported abroad through the ward that the President of the United States 'would on the next day pay his wounded officers at City Point a visit. On the morning of April 8, 1865, a day which I shall never forget, my attention was at tracted by a considerable bustle at the entrance of the ward farthest from my Icot and in a few moments the door was thro.vn open, and I beheld a splendid display of military officers, clad in the pomp and glitter of war, plenty of danc ing plumes and gold braid, and boots up to mid-thigh. It was the President's military family acting as his escort. Last of these came a tall, gaunt, un ninlv igure, clad in sober black-the President himself, whom I immediately Irecognized. He would have attracted at tention, I think, among any assembly of Imen that could have been brought to jgether in the world, so striking was the nobility and the benevolence of his countenance. He walked down the long aisle be tween the rows of cots on each hand, bovig and smiling, and saying "Good monn'" to the different occupants as he passed. Arriving at length opposite where I lay, he halted beside my bed and held out his hand. I was lying or: my back, my knees bent. Looking hlii in the face, as he stood with extend "Mr. P'resident," I said, "do :vot -know to whom you otfer your hand?" "I do not," he replied. "Well," said I, "you offer it to a Con tfederate colonel, who has fought you a~ hard as he could for four years." "Well," said he, "I hope a Confeder - .--I at mmo~lwl not refnus me his hand.' "No sir." I replied, "I will not, and I claosed his hand in both mine. I tell vou. sir. he had the riost mag niticeot face and eyes that I have ever --azed into. He had me whipped from the time he first opened his mouth. TIf he had ever walked up and down a Con federate line of battle, there never would have br-en a battle. I was his, body and soul, fr:om the time I felt the pressure of his flingers. He t.alked to me for ten minutes, most kindly and sympathizingly, and when about to leave, he shook hands a-rain, and hoped that I would soon be restored to health and my firnilly and friends. He knew, although I did not, that in a few days Gen. Lee must surrender at Appomatox. He left me, and I saw him for the first and last time. Not long afterward the news came to us that he was dead. and I turned my face to the wall and wept. Capt. A. H. Breeden, the local repre sentr.tive of the Armour Packing Co., has been notified that his house has just closed a contract with the govern ment of Great Britian for furnishing canned corn beef for the British army and navy for the next three years This contract was secured in a world-wide competition, and means the lifting of the boycott against American meat products. The first shipment under this contract will consist of 500.000 pounds. Capt. Breeden is loyal to his house and is very proud of this big deal. Last Meeting of Pension Board. The Pension Board will hold its final meeting on Monday, 1st of March. All persons having business before said board will please take notice. The meeting will open at 12 o'clock in the court house. D. J. BRA DHAM, P.ension Commissioner. Honor Roll. First gra.ie.-Thomas Bagnal, Henry Baggett, Allan Harvin, Ruby McEl veen, Moses Levi and Viola Thames. Second grade.-Daisv Barrineau, Mary Baggett, Tora Bagnal, Pearl Adams, Alleen Newman and Isabel Wolfe. Third grade.-Myrtle Bowman, Isa belle Thomas, Carolyn Plowden and Beulah Williams. Fourth grade.-Jeannette Plowden. Net-a Levi, James Barron and Minnie McCav. Fiftn grade.-Celeste Ervin and Aileen Fladger. Sixth grade.-Lucy Wilson. Irma Weinberg, Preston Thames and Clara Baggett. Seventh grade.-Mabel Todd, Robert Woodson and Ollie Strange. Eightb gr:ide.--Helen Boger, Pam mie Bradham, Annie Belle Epps, Du Ran t Epps, Martba Jenkinson. Florence McIntosh, Alice Wilson, Chove Clark, and Julien Creecy. Ninth grade~.-Hughey Tindal. Tenth grade.-Marion Wells. MONTHLY REPORT. Boys. Girls. Totai. Enrollment......... 13 14 9 Averagc attendance 114 134 248 P. C. attendance.... 97 97 IC choirship avernge. eO S1 8 Number of Tardies. 4 . JNO. C. VANIE L. Proposed Panama Highway. The Royal mail boats, the Hamburg American boats, the French and Italian boats 11 bearing their quota of tourists sightseers on the Isthmus, every one of whom seems to be carried away with the magnitude of the work going on and with conditions as they Ind them. It would not surprise me if, in the near fu ture, because of-the magnificent climate and of the natural interest that is being centred in and about tne Isthmus on ac count of the building of the canal.-, a great winter resort should be builded up here, and especially would this be a foregone conclusion if good roads should be constructed clear across the Isthmus along the route of the canal. Roads are being constructed upon both sides of the Isthmus by the Isthmian Canal commis sion. Mileage is not very extensive, and there seems to be no tangible movement toward extending the roads now being constructed across from Colon to Pana ma. The distance is only about 47 miles and if a pike should be laid out and well macadanmized. there could be no more beautiful highway imagined for the driving of automobiles and horse high way vehicles, especially so if the high way should skirt along the banks of the canal arid the numerous lakes,- which will be formed thereby, so that the pan oramic view could be maintained in all its beauty. There is just enough rise and fall to break monotony, and at tbe same time aiiord easy grades for vehi cles to move upon. This is the only highway in the world where one could cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean in two hours' time. It is olso the only place ia the world so far as I know where the sun seems to rise and set over the Pacific Ocean view-. ed from the land. It is also the only place in the world. if my geography is correct, where a town on the Panitic Ocean lies east of another town located upon the Atlantic Ocean, as is the case with Panama and Colon. It would be a splendid thing if the Isthmian Canal commission would construct a road from Colon to Panama.-Baltimore Ameri can. Itch cured in 30 minutes by Wool ford's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. Sold by W. E. Brown & Co. Druggists. DuRant News. Editor The Manninn Times: As our "Sister City" is building so many sky scrapers I think we had bet ter be dning something to improve our "little city." Mrs. Hattie Ingram has returned to her home after a pleasant visit to friends in this community. Miss Scriven Colciough, who has been visiting friends, has returned to her home in Sumnmerton. Mrs. Keller, who has been visiting her daughte-r, Mrs R. R. DuRant, has re turned to her home in Orangeburg. Mrs. W. H. Gaillard has returned home after a pleasant trip to Charles Miss Katie Gaillard is spending a few Idas in Sumter with friends and reCla tives. A cert.ain young lady was very much disappointed on last Tuesday evening because her "beau" was afraid to come out in the dark. The latest fashion is for the young men to write notes to the young ladies Iand then take them to them. Itin v with plan for two brothers to be in lve iththe same young lady, be cause it seems as if she is afraid to write the younger for fear the older will find it out. We sincerely hope that the young lady will soon be out of her trou bles. The young people of this community enjoyed the dance given by Mr. Win. Misaps very much. We hope that he will give us a fe w more in his ne w house before he takes another notion. -.JEM. HOME MISSIINS. MANNING AUXILIARY Prof. E. E. Bishop, writes telling of the great nee d at Vash ti home of quilts. comforts, blankets and bed and table linen, also outing cloth for garments. "If you know these things happy are e if ye do them." I One secret act of self-denial, one sac ifice of inclination to duty is worth all the good thoughts and passionate pray ers in which idle people indulge them ! eves. NEWMAN. BUSINESS LOCALS. For Sale.-One sound. serviceable horse. in good condition. and one second hand buggy and harnesi. Apply to Dr. A. S. Todd. odd, Manning. S C. Egg-O-See, Cream Oatmeal. Cream Samp, Wheaten Grists. Toasted Corn Flakes, Shredded Whole Wheat Bis ,uits. Old-fashioned Plain Buckwheat 'Lour- at The Manning Grocery Co. Save Your Chickens. Use Cypher's Meat Scraps. 5e per pound: Crushed Oyster Shells, 2 ie oer 2ound: Little Chick Feed. le per pound; kcratch Feed for big Chickens 3c per ?ound. The Manning Grocery Co. Just Received. A swell line of Whitman's Exquisite candies. Prices 50c. 60c. 80e and $1.00 per pound. These candies are the last ivord in style and quality. Every ounce xuaranteed to give perfect satisfaction. 'resh every week at The Manning Gro -erv Co. GArden Seeds That Grow. From T. W. Wood & Son we offer the rollowing reliable seeds in bulk. Bur >ee's Stringless Green Pod Beaus. Pro ilie Bush Sieva and Pole Siera Beans, Early Red Valentines and Kentucky Wonder Beans, Stowell's Evergreen and ,ountry Gentleman Corn. The Manning 3rocery Co. Lost-On the evening of the 7th inst., ne folding pocketbook, black covering Lfnd bouad with black elastic, contains, !s part of the pocketbook, a book of 2ote paper with red edge. Has three or :our nockets for bills or papers. Con ents when lost-seven one dollar bills, )ne Leon Weinberg insurance punch :ard, one small package of flax seed, wd one check blank of the Bank of anning. Any one returning same to ne will be rewarded. T. H. McFADDIN. Card of Endorsement. Board of Trade of Manning, -S. C., N6 ember 28, 1908. ro all whom it may concern: This is to certify that I have known r. Isaac M. Loryea for the past ten vears as a business tman and accountant, hat I have never met a straighter man n his business and whose business meth >ds to the minutest details 'could be ex selled. I do not think he has an equal is an expert accountant. It is needless o add that Mr. Loryea is a perfect gen leman and that I believe he would prove aithful, intelligent and reliable in any elation of life. [Signed] W. C. DAVIS, President Manning Board. of Trade. Isaac M. Loryea, general accountant. ife and Accident insurance. P. 0. box 51, Manning, S. C. Correspondence in vited. Notice of Election. A Petition, of one-third of the resi lent electors and a like proportion :f the resident freeholders of the age >f twenty one years within School Dstrict No. 9, having been filed with the undersigned Trustees of maid School District praying for an lection upon the question as to whether the said School District .hall issue bonds to an amount not xceeding Nineteen Thousands Dol lars to complete and equip the G'raded School Building at Manning; Notice is hereby given that an alection will be held at Manning on. afonday, the 8th daiy of March 1909, :o decide whether bonds in the sum >f Nineteen Thousand Dollars shall e issued or not. 0. J. Lesesne. J. F. Bradham and i. H. Breedin are hereby appointed Xifanaers of the said election. The poll will be opened at eight >'Clock a. mn., and closed at four >'clock p. in. In such election only the qualified letors residing in said School. Dis ;rict shall be allowved to vote.. Each elector must produce his egistration certificate and his tax receipt for 1908. By order of the Board. A. LEVI, Chairman. JOSEPH 'SPROTT, Secretary. W. C. DAVIS. The State of South Carolina, County of Clarendon, COURT OF COMMON PLEA" Phillis Charles in her own right and as Guardian ad litem for Anthrain Charles, May bell DuPre, and Henr y DuPre, Minors, Plaintiffs against Pearson Charles, Vangilist Charles, Willis Charles, Arthur Charles, Sam Henry Charles, and Annie Dn.Pre, Defendants. To the Defendants, Willie Charles and Arthur Charles: Pleases' take notice that you are hereby Summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is filed in the Clerk's Offce for Clarendon County, and to serve a copy of your answer to said Complaint on the subscriber at his office in Manning, S. C., within Twenty days after the service here of, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer said Complaint within the time aforesaid. the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. J. M. WOODS, Plaintiffs' Attorney. Manning, 5. 0., February, 18, A. D. 1909. "LIQUID SM0KE" Keeps your Meat sweet, perserves it and im proves the flavor. For sale at. Rhame's Drug Store SUMMERTON, S. C. Notice of Discharge. I will apply to the Judge of Pro bate for Clarendon County, on the 18th day of March, 1909, for letters of discharge as Guardian for Frances E. Epps and Italine Epps, former Minors. JOHN J. EPPS, Guardian. Workmtan, S. C., February 15, 1909. Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right MlanZan Pile Remsedy ReLIserE WEN OTHERS FAIL Rest Made Easy. N rHERE WILL BE LESS SLEEP LESSNESS WHEN fIANNING PEOPLE LEARN' THIS Can't rest at night with a bad back. A lame, a weak or an aching one. Doan's Kidney Pills are for bad backs. They cure every form of kidney ills. From common backache to diabetes. G They are endorsed by Manning peo- W ple. Mrs. R. L. Logan. Depot Avenue Nanning, S. C., says: "I suffered a zreat deal from kidney trouble. I was 9 innoyed by too frequent passages of the kidbey secretions, my back ached con ;tantly and I could not assume a com ortable position. I used plasters and iniments but did not find relief. Tt was inally my good fortune to learn of Doan's Kidney Pills and procuring a box . began their use. They removed he backache and pains, regulated the oassages of the kidney secretions and I elt a great deal better. I can say that Doan's Kidney Pills lived up to all a laims made for them." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 s 3ents. Foster-Mil burn Co.. Buffalo, .iew York. sole agents for the United tates. Remember the name-Doan's-and :ake no other. - tate of South Carolina, County of Clarendon. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. rhe John MeSween Company, Plain tiff, against 1. M. DuBose and F. C. Thomas, De fendants. Decree. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A fudgment Order of the Court of Com mon Pleas, in the above stated ae ion, to me directed, bearing date of December 29, 1908, I will sell at public aeucton, to the highest bidder for ash, at Clarendon Court House, at Manning, in said county, within the legal hours for judicial sales, on Mon lay, the 1st day of March, 1909, being salesday, the following de scribed real estate: "All the right, title and interest, the same being one-third thereof, of 0 the defendant J. M. DuBose, in and c to all that piece, parcel or tract of G land lying, being and situate in the County of Clarendon, South Caro ina, containing 178 acres, more or less, and bounded as follows, to wit: e~ North by lands of the estate of W. E D. Coker; East by lands of A. S. E Coker; South by land, of J. M. and E J. D. Barrow, and West by lands of E W. P. Baker. Tne same being the tract formerly owned by M. E. DU- 0 Bose and conveyed to her by John . Johnson. Also, "All that piece, parcel or tract of land lying, being and situate in the County of Clarendon, South Caro lina, containing 36 acres, more or 4 less, and bounded as follows: North 0 by lands of R. P. Barrow; East by a Pierson lands; South by lands of A. . Morris, and West by lands of Ran som Gamble. This being a part bf the J. M. Barrow home tract." Purchaser to pay for papers. E. B. GAMBLE, Sheriff Clarendon County. STATEOF SOUTH CAROLINA, i, Olarendon County, - COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. R. . McFaddin, Jr., Plaintiff against WV. R. Burgess, Defendant. Decree. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A Deretal Order of the Court of Comn- @ mn Pleas for Clarendon County, dated the 6th day of Jannary, 1909 I .will sell to the highest bidder for ( ash, on Monday the 1st day of Mareh, A. D. 1909, the same being~ salesday, in front of the Court House ( at Manning, in said County, within legal hours of sale, the following-rea estate: "All that certain piece. parcel or tract of land lying, being and situate in Clarendon County in the said State of South Carolina, containing thirty six and 1 2(36-1-2) acres, and bounded' as follows, to wit: North, East and g West by lands of the estate of Wi lam Elliott McFadden, and South - by lands of Mrs. K. 0. Rose and J. ( Scott Burgess, said tract of 12.nd a lying on both sides of Black River 9 Public Road.". Purchaser to pay for papers. I E. B. GAMBLE, Sheriff Clarendon County. TATE OF SOUTH CAROLUNA,~ County of Clarendon. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. A. Levi and J. H. Hawkins as Ad- ~ ministrators of the Estate of W. D. Gamble, Deceased, Plaintiffs against W. M. Player and Thomas Wilson, Defendants. DVecree. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A 4 Judgent Order of the Court of Corn mn Pleas, in . the above stated ac tion, to mec directed, bearing date of January Uth, 1909, 1 will sell at public ~ autionto the highest bidder for cash, at Clarendon Court House. at 9 Manning, in said county, within the ~ legal hours for judicial sales. on Men day, the 1st day of March, 1909, beini. salesday, the following de scribed real estate: "All that plantation or tract of. land, situate in Clarendon County, in the State of South Carolina, con-p taing forty-six and 3-4 acres, boun- 9 ded as follows, to with: North by ~ lands of L. D. Barrow; Eaist by Gib bons and Lavender Mill Pond, lands not subject to overflow; South by ~ lands of S. 0. Robersoni, and West by ~ lands of W. B. Gibbons." ' Purchaser to pay for papers. E. B. GAMBLE, I Sheriff of Clarendon County. 'W STATE OF SOUTH CAROUNA] Clarendon County. By James M. Windham, Esq., Judge ( of Probate. WHEREAS, Fannie P. Broughton ~ Umade suit to me to grant her Let - ters of Administration of the estate and effects of C. E. Broughton. These are therefore to cite and ad- "C monish all-and singular the kindred ( and creditors of the said C. E. Brough ton, deceased, that they be acid appear before mne,in the Court of Pro bate, to be held at Manning, S. C.. on the 25th day of February next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administra- ' tin should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 8th day of February, A. D. 1909. ~JAMES M. WINDHAM, SEAL.] Judge of Probate. Rrin yor Job Work to The Times aflice. SCHLOSS CROSSETT - CLOTHES SHOES -do . THE BIG REDUCTION SALE STILL CONTINUES, and will run a short while longei only. Come at once if you want to take ad vantage of this BIG REDUCTION SALE. The Young Reliable, - J. H. Rigby. Ya - SCHLOSS CROSSET CLOTHES SHOES STETSONAHATS. 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