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THE MANNING TIMES L Y. APPELT------------------------..-------------------Editor F M. sHOPE-----------------------------------Business Manager PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1919. ABOLISH THE COUNTY CHAIN GANG. Representative Means, of Fairfield County, and Sen ator Hugh McCutchen, of Williamsburg County, have in troduced bills in the House and: Senate to abolish the County chain gangs, take all convicts to the penitentiary, and put them upon the public roads of the State under the direction of the State Highway Commission. For the maintenance of the convicts the bills provide for a one mill levy. This will go on as State taxes. Each County will be given credit for all convicts, and in this way every County will get as much work as the number of prisoners sent by it. It is proposed to divide the prisoners among a number of camps located throughout the State, and road build ing -experts will be in charge of each camp. In this way every County will obtain the services of men who under stand how to build good roads. We hope this bill will pass. It is along the right lines. Over-head expenses in each County will be cut to the limit; expensive road machinery will not have to be pur chased by each County; guards will have charge of large squads, and more and better work obtained at consider able less expense. Since the County chain gang was established several years ago, the question of County finances has been a problem. Almost all Counties are in debt, and we have never believed the chain gang was anything but a burden to the taxpayers. After paying for equipment, guards, foremen, mules and maintenance of the prisoners, and other expenses, the value of the work obtained was far 1o c 4 4.. a n It would be interesting to know just what the gang has cost the taxpayers of Clarendon Couhty in the past ten years. Of course, the larger the gang, the cost would be proportionately lower. The people are demanding better roads. We believe that the proposed legislation will give better roads at less cost. Certainly, the roads could be made no worse under the proposed scheme, and the cost would be con siderably less. *We are in favor of a change. We hope the bill of Messrs. Means and McCutchen will pass. If it be found that it does not bring the desired result, some other plan can be devised after giving this a fair trial. * JEWELRY! , We carry Jewelry that has distinction about it--in other words, gold work and unique settings that you' cannot 1* find displayed just everywhere. TIME proves the real commercial worth of Jewelry and we predict that the purchaser this year from our store will return fifty years later, if able. and do the same thing over. There is value in good Jewelry and we carry only the best. W. D. LLOYD. Next Door to Dixie Cafe. It's a Positive F We can help you with yoI No matter what kind of a job. It may be r niture, staining the floors, gilding picture fr ings, enameling iron beds or bath tubs, paint varnishing baby carriages and wicker ware, wainscoating, mantels, window and door fra and doors, preserving and beautifying piazza ture, door and window screens. Making old farm implements look like new and wear long< We have a Paint for every purpose, me lady friends are using with wonderful su you more about it. Consult our PAIl started right. C. R. BREEDI At The Manning Grocer COLDS AN RLU BEST TREATED WITHCALOTABa The New Perfected Calomel That Is Free from Nau seating and Salivating Effects. Physicians or druggists will tel you that the best thing in the work for a cold, grippe or influenza, is Calo tabs, the perfected calomel, that it free from nauseating and salivating effects. Doctors have learned that other laxatives are uncertain pnd un satisfactory for coka and grippe, but that they can count on Calotabs, the new calomel' that has all the livei benefits and none of the sting, t< thoroughly arouse the liver and pui the system in ideal condition to throm 'off the.cold and prevent influenza anc pneumonia. The best time to take Calotabs it at the first sign of a cold. If yot take it at the beginning you can cur< a cold over night. One QalQtab or the tongue at bed time with a swal low of water---that's all. In the morn. ing you wake up feeling fine with s hearty appetite for breakfast. You cold has vanished and you may con gratulate yourself that you have pos sibly prevented serious complications for physicians tell us that neglecter colds number their victims by th: millions. For your protection, Calbtalm ar< sold only in original sealed 'packages price thirty-five cents. Your druggisi will supply you, and your money giver back promptly and cheerfully if yot are not delighted with this new forn of calomel.-(adv.) WHEAT PRICE HEARING How Strike Situation Appears in New England.. Washington, Feb. 4.-Grain dealers, exporters and millers today presented to the House agricultural committee varied suggestions for methods of carrying out the government's guar antee to producers of $2.26 a bushel for' the 1919 wheat crop. All agreed that the true market price, as deter mined by world conditions, would drop below the guaranteed rate and that the government should make good the differencee directly rather than by maintaining artificially the higher price. 0 ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES SPECIAL Notice to Contractors Sealed bids will be received at the office of R. B. Terreil, Mebane, N. C., on the 15th day of February, 1919, noon, for the erection and completion of a frame' tobacco sales warehouse to be built at Manning, S. C. Bids must be accompanied with a certified check of two per cent of the contractor's estimate of cost, made payable to Terrell & Satterfield, as a surety that the bid der will give a satisfactory bond within fifteen days after the con tract has been awarded or forfeit the certified check as liquidated damages. The right is reserved to rejiect any andl all bids. Plans and sneci fi cations can be securedi from the undersigned. R. B. TERRELL. NOTICE TO CRtEDITORS. All persons having claims against the Estate of Mrs. Sallie McKnight Clark, dleceasedl, will present them duly attested. And those owing said Estate. will make payment to the undlersigne~d qualified Eecutors of the saidi Estate. G. A. Lemon, E. R. Wilson, Executors. Sumter, S. C., Feb. 3rd), 1919.-3t-p. rzct wr Painting 3-newing old fur ames and mould [ng, staining and brightening up mes, baseboards and lawn furni-. automobiles and wr, etc., etc., my of which our ccess. Let us tell 4T MAN and get ey Co. 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