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The greatest of al tradgedy of all tin THE Show Begins Pron Abe Mmbg times. Publishes All Town Official Adver tisements. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1918 Miss Mattie Lee, who has been very sick, is now improving. Mr. C. 0. Edwards, of Mullins, spent Thursday here on business. Soldier Harry Thames of Camp Se vier is at home on a few days' leave. Mr. A. Abrams spent last Friday in Wilmington. Mr. J H. Rigby was in Georgetown last week on business. Work is progressing on the new church of the Episcopalians. Miss Fannie Weaver spent the week-end in Charlotte. Lieut. H. I. Ellerbe spent Friday here on his way back to Charleston. Mrs. S. I. Harvin left this morning to visit her sister in Mayesville. Get an estimate from A. J. Ard, the Sanitary Plumber of Sumter, on any plumbing work you have. Lieutenant Harry Curtis and Cor poral Alvin Rigby spent Sunday in Manning. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kamirski of Georgetown are the guests of Mrs. Leon Weinberg. Mrs. C. B. Geiger left last week for Greenville, where she will spend s me time with Dr. Geiger. Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Levi and Mr. and Mrs. Graham Moses spent Sunday with Mrs. S. Iseman. Messrs. W. C. Davis and J. W. Wideman left ist night for Ashe ville, where they went on business. Miss Carrie Scott of Kingstree, spent several days here this week with her mother. Rev. L. B. McCord preached in the Presbyterian church at Kingstree last Sunday. Mr. Fred Barrett came down Sat urday from Newberry to be examin ed for the army. We are expecting a car of Tobacco. Barn Flues any day. Come in and leave your order. P. C. Thomas. Mr. W. S. Plowden wvent to Colum bia Sunday to consult a specialist about his health. For Rent--Rooms for light house keeping . A pply Mrs. II. V. Bigbie or A. J1. A\rd, Sumter's Sanitary Plumber, will be glad to talk over that job) of plumobing with you. Phone him. Mrs. J1. M. A ppelt left last Friday for Winston-Salem, N. C., to jioin her husband, who is on business in that We are ex pect ing a ca r of Tlobacvco Barn lFlues any day. ('ome in alnd leave yourt order. F". C. Thomas. Mrs R. C. Newton and litt le son of Charleston are' visiting Mrs. New ton's parents, Mr. and Mrs. 5. . Bowmiani. A monr the visitors fr~om (Camp .Jackson the piast week-end were L ieut. II. ( . Curtis, Sergt. Kel'.tt iand Sergt. Rigby. Ca n pay $11 .20 per long ton or 50e per 1(10 for mixed scrap iron free of 'wood. Bring in quick while price lasts. WE;INBERG; GROCERY. Lieutenant Ingr~am Wilson, who is stationed -at ('am p Green1, Charlotte, N. C., is at his b1 me in Manning, for a few days' leavt. "Tfobac(o Barn Flues"--We are in a position to sell you flues for less mon ey than any one else. F". C. Thomas. Baby Lima Beans 30c Quart B. B. BREEDIN'S Pure Food Grocery Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S aC SjjIO14iA HE I AT T I War Pictures. Actual at ites. See this Wonderful PASTIMI iptly at 3 o'clock. Fancy Grape Fruit 3 for 25c B. B. BREEDIN'S Pure Food Grocery Can pay $11.20 per long ton or 50c per 100 for mixed scrap iron free of wood. Bring in quick while price lasts. WEINBERG GROCERY. Major Clarendon Barron and a!ajor Johnson of Camp Jackson spent last Thursday and Friday as the guests of Mr. S. W. Barron. Misses Annie and Rounette Hirsch mann and Messrs. Leon Burgess and Dudley Plyler attended a dance in Summcrton Friday night. Lieut. Sprott of Fort Pike has been visiting his father, Mr. W. T. P. Sprott at Foreston. Lieut. Sprott and Miss Herron of Bishopville were married yesterday. Messrs. Stewart Harvin, Bertram Weinberg, Gough Thomas and Al phonso Rigby left here Saturday for Detroit, where they went to drive Buick automobiles back. Strayed or Stolen-One flea-bitten, bob-tailed pointer bitch, about two years old, right ear split. Ten dol lars reward for recovery of clog, or in formation leading to recovery of same. Peter Scurry, Brogdon, S. C. Died last Sunday at his home in New Zion, Mr. Pat Hardy. The de ceased was one of Ciarendon's best citizens, an extensive planter and good business man. We exten.! aur sympathy to the bereaved iauil;. 'Taving procured the County Agen cy for the Piedmont Motor Cars, I will have a car in Manning on the 11th and 12th inst. See the Piedmont before buying a car. Demonstration free. .J. R. Barron. In another column we carry an ad vertisement for A. J. Ard of Sumter. He is Sumter's leading plumber and it may be to your advantage to get his figures before you let out that job of plumbing. "Tobacco Barn Flues"-We are in a position to sell you flues for less money than anyone else. F. C. Thomas. The Black River Cypress Co., at Gable, S. C., want good patriotic la borers who are willing to do their shard toward winning the war. GabI has extra conveniences over the or dinary lumber towns. Those who are interested can get full information by applying in person to the B!ack Riv' erk Cypress Co., office rGable, S. C. I will offer for sale at my stable one 3-4 grade Guernsey Hleifer with young calf which I consider a splen dlid prospect for excellent milker, also a fewv sows and young pigs for sale. F. C. TilOMAS Mr. M. A. Wright of Columbia has b~een secured to add~ress the white teachers here Saturday. Besides the address various matters of interest will come up for discussion. A full attendance is desired. The letter from "Taxpayer" in an other column, nominating a ticket for mayor and aldermen to serve the town, seems to be a good one, and one that will very likely meet the approval of the v'oters, as they are good, sound bOsmness men, and should give our town a first class administration. Mr. IT. D. D~u~row has returned from the Northern markets where he had been purchasing his spring and summer stock. The newv goods are coming in daily andl he invites your msp(ection of the same. Misses Annie and Rounette IHirsch oman entertained the young folks last T1hursday' evening with a Red Cross Tea. Music and games were </njoyd during the evening, and an inte'resting "Red Cross Contest" was he(ldl, the prize b)eing won by Mr. Briggs from Sum merton. Delightful refreshments were served, after which they all c'ontrib~utedl their share to ward the Red Cross. Eight dollars was raised, this being the largest a mount coleleted from any of the Teas. Nice .Juicy Florida Oranges B. B. BREED)IN'S Pure Food Grocery Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted J. E. ARANT, PH. G. Optometrist, MANNING, S. C. lE FRONT M ithentic Battle Scenes, ta Picture at THEAT Magic Yeast Cakes 5c B. B. BREEDIN'S Pure Food Grocery A mariage of much interest to this community was solemnized in Charleston last Friday. The contract imiz parties were Miss Tasca Turbe ville and Sergeant Jake Iseman, both of Manning. The groom is well known in business anc social circles, 'though at present ho is in Uncle Sam's army, and the bride is one of our most attractive and popular young ladies. We extend our con gratulations to both. For Sale-A one and one-half horsepower Fairbanks Gasoline En gine. This engine is in the best of condition as it has not been run over 100 hours. Replacing it with an elec tric motor is the only reason for sell ing. For full particulars apply at this office. On Sunday evening as Mr. and Mrs. D. Hirschman, Mrs. Sue McLeod,, Mlisses Annie, Rounette and Pearle. Hirschmann and Mr. Jake McLeod were returning from a pleasure trip to Sumter, they had a bad smash-up. The accident occurred just beyond the railroad crossing, where there is a very broad and (ee) ditch. The driver was looking for the train, which was due at that time, and in some way lost control of the car, which promptly turned on its side and literally rolled into the ditch. Mr. Hirschmann sustained a broken shoul der, his being the only serious injury. The other members of the party were badly shaken up and bruiseed, but were not hurt. Mr. Hirschmann is in the Sumter Hospital, where he is re cuperating from .the accident. To one who satw the car, it seemed remark able that the accident did not result much more seriously. Wanted-A responsible man to sell Watkins Products in Williamsburg county. An oportunity to get into a profitable business of your own with out investing one dollar in the goods you sell. Must be able to furnish team or auto and give personal bond with Iwo responsible sureties. Apply to W. E. REARDON, Maning, S. C. In about four and a half months the tobacco season will be on again in this section. It is high time that the people of Manning take some steps to make this marrtet stand sec ond or third in the tobacco belt of South Carolina. The tobacco will be i in the county-the warehouses will be here. With the proper co-operation of the merchants ad citizens of Man ning we bieve tha~t 90 per cent of, the tobacco raisedl in Clarendon coun ty can be sold in the Manning wvare houses. There are no better wvare hiousemen in the State than Messrs. R., ID. Clark and R. D). Cothran andl with the probable running of the Glenn Warehouse, we believe that we have a chance this year to get near the top). Some pe~ople airt~ue that it is the wrehouse~men's business to make a big market of th'' t'..-. That may .,e o, but the mna1.nants shouldl be( Jiust as vitally interestedl as the wvarehousemnen. Every dollar spent in Manning kee~ps that dollar from going some place else. Every dollar keplt and spent in Clarendon county helps every person in the county in an indirect way. The writeor suggests the following which to his point of viewv might ac complish some thing: Let the tob~acco wvarehousemien andl the merchants get together and form an organization and formulate plans for a systematic campaign to boost th is market. I at the suipervisor get busy NOW andl put the roads in the tobac,,o*coun try in such shape that the people can g(et. a loadl of tobacco to Manning. Let civic pride dom inate th~e energies of the people of Cla rendon county for the coming tobacco season. -------- LETT~lER FROM MR. J. II. LESESNE To my Friends in the County: Before the late session of the legis lature was finished and while the state house wvas badly heated from the coal famine, I was taken with a ma lignant case of grip with bronchial troubles, aind have been sick ever since. I am thank ful though, my doc tor now says .I will get better. .But it will be up in the summer before I am of much account. I shall not run for the house this s'nmer, nor will I run for the Sen ate. Were I in either branch I pre fer the house, because it is closer to the people. The time of year at which the sessions are held makes it (danger ous for a man who is not robust to at RYZON The Perfect Baking Powder B. B. BREEDIN'S Pure Food Grocer O F rTH THE Al ken on grim Battlefields, RE, Frid Heinz Dill Pickles 30c Dozen B. B. BREEDIN'S Pure Food Grocery' tend the legislature. The small som pensation and the high expenses make it practically out of the question for it poor man to go. The honor is just as great as it ever was and I certain ly appreciate the honor from my peo ple in having the privilege of repre senting them in the past. It is un fortunate, too, that it is getting to where a poor man cannot go to the legislature, because you will see the evil of this condition in a few years from the class of laws that are now being and will continue to be passed. You see already where the state ap propriations have gone to, the state's expenses practically doubled in the last four or five years, and the ten :lency still is to keep on creating of fices, spending money uselessly and piling on taxes. I cannot go into the Figures now, but they are astounding. I hope our county this summer will elect men to the legislature who stand For economy and lower taxes, and who ire against such waste in public ap propriations. It is my intention at the proper Lime this summer to offer my serv ices to the people of our county for clerk of court, for the Last two years >f the unexpired term of the late Ed ,ar C. Dickson, and to ask the people to elect me. I shall enter no active campaign now. I think it is too early to worry the people with active poli ties already. If electea, since I can lot practice law in this county, while n office, I feel that I can be of serv ice to many poor and ignorant people by giving them.simple advice, coming ander the service of the office, and vithout doing injustice to the profes ion of which I am proud to be a member. My reason for making this state ment is because I know there will be active campaign work going on, be :ause there will be a number of can lidates for the position, and the effort will be made to tie the hands of as many voters as possible with commit Lees and pledges. I hope the citizens will go slow in this matter and do that which is best, always having an eye to fairness. J. H. LESESNX. -- 0 OUR CITY GOVERNMENT Editor The Times: I wish to nominate through your pa per a ticket for Alderman and May or to serve our town for the ensuing two years, to be voted on in the election which wil be held next month. llaving heard that we ne of the old1 nmembers wvould not st. nd1 for re-elec tion, and wishing to see our towvn rep~resentedl by goodl, live business men, I suggest the following ticket: For Mayor T. L'. Coffeey. For Aldermen S. J. Smith, II. C. McKelvey. Dr. G. L. Dickson. C. M. White. J1. II. Rigby. Dr. W. S. Ilarvin. Mayor Coffey has only been in of.. fice a few months ,filling an unex pairetl term, and it would be nothing but just to give him a chance to show his .ability in this capacity wvithout op pos ition. Alessrs. Smith and McKelvey wvere elected also to fill an unexpired term, aind it ivou.ldl not b~e right to discard them wvithout first seeing their worth as a part of our city government. T1hese other gentlemen are all pro gressive busmness men, and no dloublt they would take care of the people's interest. It is generally a hard mat ter to get the consent of our citizens to ' in council, as it is a thank h~ .,,t>, hut after thinking over the r .ter carefully we believe the above TIaxpayer. COMi~NICTIONS IFebriuary 2bth, 1917. Mr. L. L. Wells, Manning, S. C. Dear Sir: You have askedI me to look into the question with reference to the Coin mutation or Roadl Tax. Th~e Act, "An Act to Provide for a Commutation or Roadi Tax for Clar endlon County," Act. No. 143 parsed by the. Regular Sessioni of 1917. pro vidled in Paragraph 10 that "this act shall take effect December 31st, 1917." It is undlerstoodl, then, that after the 31st day of D~ecember, 1917, every person subject to pay a roadl tax shall have the option of paying $3.00, or plerforming six full (lays labor in lieu of the payment of said tax. This tax shall be paid annually at any time, I Extra Fancy Porto Rico Yams B. B. BREEDIN'S Pure Food Arocery W A iLI3S where the fiends of war ay, Marc Adr A good place to buy your Groceries B. B. BREEDIN'S Pure Food Grocery should think, during the year, or six full days labor in lieu of the payment of said tax shall be performed annual ly at any time during the year. Yours very truly, J. W. Wideman, JWW:RH County Attorney. I endorse the above opinion. (Signed) Thos. H. Peeples, Attorney General. March 4th, 1918. To the Editor of The Times, Manning, S. C. Dear Sir: In replying to Mr. W. W. Johnson's statements in last week's issue, I merely wish' to quote herein the au thority upon which I have acted: (quoting letter of J. W. Wideman, At torney, endorsed by Thomas H. Peeples, Attorney General.) The citivens of the County know that I have always discharged my duties faithfully. I may make mis takes, but they are due to being just a mortal man, and are made in the ef fort to do what I conceive to be my duty. When error is proved I cheer fully correct it. Yours very truly, L. L. Wells. We Want A Church and In every section of the county and to get the benefits of th, through the use of our Paints We Offer to Paint 0 Job in Each Section at Absolutely the C Knowing as we do that our are absolutely the best that n figure a job as cheaply as an make the above offer as an at what we can do. Our only con or who knows something abou mitted to question him to sat enough about his business to is open for the next 30 lays. it over with our paint man. C.R. BI at The Manni Telephone No. 5, New Zion, S. C. T. W. FL BRC Real Estat Brick, Lin Hay an Prompt Service Assured A. J. Sanitary Water S3 Electric For Country Hoj We would be glad to g with you and gi FREE OF A. J. 24 East Liberty St. taged the greatest 4 8th. mission. 25 and 35c. Fancy Evaporated Apples 25c Pkg. B. B. BREEDIN'S Pure Food Grocery NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Books of Registration for the Town of Manning, S. C., are now open at the office of S. Marion Williams over The Bank of Manning, and will re main open until the 2nd day of April, 1918. This registration is for the regular municipal election to be held on the 8th (lay of April, 1918, The law requires persons to re-reg ister for this election. S. Marion Williams. S. MARION WILLIAMS, Supervisor of Registration. Fertilizer--If you want soda or mixed goods see me for lowest cash prices. R. C. Baggett, Manning, S. C. 2-27-tf. Sun Maid Cluster Raisins 20c Box B. B. BREEDIN'S Pure Food Grocery to Paint .School House and, in order to do so quickly advertising that will come ne. Church and School of Clarendon County ;ost -of the Handling Paints, Varnishes, Stains, etc., oney can buy, and that we can - ybody else in this Country, we Ivertisement simply to prove dition is that you have a paint painting and that we be per isfy ourselves that he knows to a creditable job. This offer Figure ahead and come talk (EEDIN, ng Grocery Co. Western Union Tele. Manning, S. C. EiMM ING,* KER c-Lumber, le, Cement, d Grain . EW ZION, S. C. ARD, Plumber! stems and ight Plants nes A Specialty. o over any proposit ye you estimate CH ARGE. ARD, 'SUMTER, N