EER
ere is Food foi
Calamity Howl
by Mr. C. A
Ford M
It is very peculiar, this human na
re of ours, because 90 per cent of
, men and women are very quick
see the clouds of trouble and to
iss the bright sunshine of pleasure,
it a rumor emanate from an insane
.ylum that there is going to be a
ilure of the crops, and the multi
des commence to mourn right away,
ems as if people like to be i1
ouble.
And so it is that there has spread
rer this country an almost universal
-lief that we had to have a financial
inic; we must have a commercial de
ession; we were due for a period of
ard times; Hades was to pay and nc
itch hot. Rumor upon rumor of a
!ortage in crops, shortage in me
hanical production, shortage in labor;
i fact, it seemed as if the whole
rorld was going to be so dog gone
bort that it was liable to drop into a
ole and disappear. The prophets of
heerfulness were like the proverbial
en's teeth-few and far between.
Now let us look at the facts, for
lever before in the history of civiliza.
ion has mankind had a more roseate
uture to vision, and this applies to
ivery part of the globe, as we could
rove if we had the time and the
space.
But let us just take America. Never
n our history has there been so mucll
:noney, real, honest-to-goodness cash
n the United States as there is to.
lay. This country has been growing
in wealth by leaps and bounds, be.
cause we have the best educated peo.
ple in the world; the most moral peo.
ple; the most humane people; people
gith more initiative than obtains
among any other peoples on Earth
Then we have a country whose un
limited natural resources represent
Wealth untold. We were coming tc
the mastership of the wealth of thc
world before the War. For instance
in 1913 this country produced $14,000,.
000,000 more than it consumed. Thor
the War came on and our productior
was hurried until in 1917 we produced
$18,000,000,000 more than we con.
sumed.
We loaned to the nations of Europc
in excess of $30,000,000,000. With th(
'exception of some $3,000,000,000, this
money remained in America and was
spent by the borrowers in our mar
kets. It was not taken out of Ameri
ca-it is here still. Since the Wim
closes hundreds of rallions of gold
have been sent into the United States
by foreign countries in payments or
their debts.
T1hen in 1919 our production was
the largect in the histnry of the coun
try. We produiced more goodls thar
we did in1 1917, andl we had an eaget
market for everything we prodlucedI
and all we sold brought the money tc
America-it's hore.
Take this statement by John Fletch
er, Vice President of the Fort D~ear
born National Bank of Chicago: "Th<
United States is far and away thr
richest country in the world. The ag.
gregate deposits of its banks are bil.
lions more than tihe combined dleposits
of all the banks in the world outsid<t
of the United States. We have mort
actual cash than any other nat ion an<
in the last few years have obtainled ar
almost unb~elievable supremacy ir
trade."
Now with this vast accunmulatiot
of money, how can we have a finan
cial painic; how can we have a comn
mercial diepress ion; how can w<
have hard times? Impossible!
We have on ha
and two Tourin
with self-starter,
make immediate
about terms.
Cla ren
Mo
ER UP!
- Thought for the
er, as Set Forth
. Brownell of
otor Co.
There was naturally a reconstruc
tion period which must follow after
a world conflict. After our own Civil
War of 1861-65 we were ten years
passing through what was called the
reconstruction period, during which
our money went down to fifty cents
on the dollar.
We are going through the present
reconstruction period inside of three
years, and our money is at a premium
the world over.
Talk about hard times; talk about
depression-nonsense!
Let us tell you that there is one
hundred years of intense prosperity
right at the doors of the people of the
United States. We won't have men
and women enough to manufacture
all that is necessary to meet the de
mand. We -are producing more today
than ever before in practically every
line unless it be shipbuilding, and that
will conic back. We have millions of
acres untilled. We have billions of
lumber uncut. We have billions of
gold, silver, copper and lead to be un
earthed. Oil is being found in every
State in the Union. All the resources
of the country are coming to the sur
face, and we are going to be the
busiest people that humanity has ever
known, and likewise the richest.
The financial center of the world
today is in New York. The center of
civilization has passed from the Old
World to the New, and now rests with
us. We are great. We don't want to
boast, but we want to know our
strength and our power. If any band
of bankers or politicians think they
can hoodwink the American people,
they have got a mighty sharp lesson
coming very quick. The intelligence
of the American people won't tolerate
any speculative crisis. Honest busi
ness it too big in volume, too intense
in value, for the American people
to be sidetracked by the speculators
and promoters.
Go to it--build and equip and pre
pare yourselves for a future rich in
development, rich in production, rich
in business andl rich in pr'ofits.
Good wages, lots of work, the profi.
'ter ieliminated, cheerfuiness, coux
age, optimism filling every nook and
corner of America. Let there be no
hesitancy-hang your banners on the
outer walls and sound the trumpets
of triumph--success is here.
The fiscal year of the Ford Motor
Company ended July 31, 1920, and in
that year they made 996,660 'earn and
8,08 ordson Tractors, besides hay.
ing unfilled orders on file for more
than 200,000 cars and many thousand
tractors, which means an increase over
all past production by more than 20
per cent, an~d next year their plans
are to make 1,250,000 Ford cars and
250,1100 tractors. Do you suppose
thant this company is guessing? Not
for a minute. Other' Industries are
the same. Get a hustle on. Talk
prosperity and act prosperity. Keep
busy and you can't help but enjoy
prosperity. Spend your money--it's
n1o g(ood idle'. Do your share and make
the next century a golden era in
which all humanity will be lifted up
to a higher plane of productivity,
comfort, happiness.
nd one Roadster
g Cars equipped
on which we can
delivery. See us
don
tor Co.
IISTORICHL $KEICH Of
CLARENDON COUP1
Read Before The Manning Socia
And Literwm Circte by Mr. J. H.
Lesennes ptember 15, 1897.
A history of Clarendon County an
the Town of Manning, if written a
length and as a complete history
would be a much longer paper thai
it is proposed, on this occasion t<
produce. A running sketch, at thi
time, it is hoped, will suffice.
A history of Manning is history o
the County, and a recital of the deed
of their sons will be history of then
both. I will be pardoned, then,, fo
treating them jointly.
The County of Clarendo nis no
an aged creation, when compare(
with the lives of her sisters and th
Town of Manning is sligfitly th
junior of the County. Clarendo
County is fortw-two years old, an(
derived her birth from Sumter Die
trict. Prior to the year 1855 Sum
ter District, or perhaps to speak mor
accurately, Sumter County, was com
posed of two Districts of nearl
equal size, commonly known a
Claremont and Clarendon. Clare
mont comprised the upper portion o
Sumter County, while Clarendot
comprised the lower or Santee por
tion. . Just why Sumter County wa
divided into Districts is not knowr
but we suppose that each originall;
had Its courts of authority, or Mag
istrato's courts as, about seven mile
southwest of ianning, near the plac
of the late Capt. T. J. Davis, ther
was an old court house, where it i
supposed that cases not capital wer
passed upon. "Court House Branch
derives its name from this old tim
"temple of justice," not a vestige o
which is now visible.
The origion of the name Claremon
the writer does not know, and as he i
not writing a history of that sectio1
he will not- take time to inquir<
But the name Clarendon, it is ac
cepted by the best authorities on his
tory, was given in honor of Edward
Earle of Clarendon, at one time Lori
High Chancellor of England, and on
of the lords proprietors. He receive(
grants to immense territories on th
newly - discovered American conti
nent. Thus, it will be seen that i1
name, if for nothing else, Clarendoi
is entitled to a place of distinctior
But this is not all the distinction tha
she can claim. During the time tha
Clarendon District belonged to Sum
ter County, and since she was create(
a County to stand alone herself, sh
has furnished many men who figurec
conspicuously in history and politics
Five Governors have been furnishe,
South Carolina from within he
borders. In 1802 James B. Richard
son, a wealthy planter, from the Clar
endon District of Sumter County
was elected Governor of the con
monwealth of South Carolina. It
1824 Richard I. Manning, anothe
planter from almost the same neigh
borhood of the same District, wa
elected to the same position. I
1840 John P. Richardson, of Claren
(ion District, was made Governoi
and in the year 1852 John L. Man
ning, one of the most cultured an(
polishled gentlemen who ever grace
a Gubernatorial chair, was take
from Clarendon District and givet
the reins of the State Government
in 1880 John Peter Richardson, o
Clarendon County, was made Gov
ernor and served four years unti
1890.
Prior to the year 1855 (the yea
that Clarendon was cut off from Suni
ter) there were many reasons whic
stirred the people of this section an
made them long for a county govern
ment of their own. In addition t
the desire for a new County, in or
der that political ambitioni migh
be gratified, that more offices- woul
be createdl, and the same set of me
could not control the pilitics of s
large a section, there were other rea
sons. Persons who lived on the Saii
tee River, for instance, were put t
great inconvenience in going so fa
to the county sent at Sumter to pa
taxes, attend court, and attend to th
ordlinary business which peole usu
ally have with county officials. Coni
seqjuently there arsoc a general de
miand for a separation and a creatio
of the now county, which was grante
by the Legislature.
It is said that quite a fight c
curred in the Legislature over th
separation. 01(1 Mr. A. C. Spain,
noted and prominent figure in Sum
ter' County, opposed the measur
with all his force, and made Uh
charge that the effort to cut off th
new county was only for the purpos
of honoring Governor John L. Maui
ning. This the ex-Governor resente
in a strong speech, in which he score
Mr. Spain very severely, and th
mesure was passed, carrying wit
it the appointment of a commissior
composed of several gentlemen, fe
the purpose of locating the count
seat. The writer is not certain thu
tho following five names compom
the entire commission, but they wer
prominent members of it, and prol
ably were all of the commissioner
ap~pointed by the Legislature for th
purpose of saying where the cout
house should lbe built. Here are th
names, all of whom are (lead: Cap
Levy Rhame, of the western portio
of the new county; Col. William I
Reynolds, who lived near wherei
now the village of Packsville; M:
.Joseph Sprott, by birth a North Cai
olinian, hut from youth a residenti
the section now known as JTordla:
and well remembered by many men
bers of this Circle; Col. .John (
Brock, of the Panola section, an
also well remembered by many of m
and a Mr. McFaddin, whose initial
the writer has desired for severn
years, but has never been able to ol
tain. The village of Juneville, the
possessing probably two small stort
andl a drug sthop, and sttuated just fis
miles south of the present Town <
Manning, was a noted place for mum
ters and horse racing, and was ver
ambitious of becoming the capital<
the new county, and it is said l
many older citizens came near wia
ning in the fight. But there was
strong sentiment in favor of locatin
the county seat as near as possible i
the centre of the new county. If th
sentita~nt did not nrevail among tt
SOUR' STOMACH.
INDIGESTION
Ibedfors Black-Draugbi HIg
SRecommeded by a Temese.
dGrocer for Trebles R.
sating fren Torpid
L-ver
r East Nashville, Tenn.- The etoe
ency of Thedford's Black-Draught, th
genuine, herb, liver medicine, in
vouched for by Mr. W. N. Parsons, a
grocer of this city. "It is without.
doubt the beet liver medicine, and I
1 don't believe I could get along without
it I take it for sour stomach, head.
acke, bad liver, indigestion, and all.
other troubles that are the result of
a torpid liver.
"I have known and used it for years.
and can' and do highly recommend it
to every one. I won't go.to bed with'
out it in the house. It will do all i1;
claims to do. I can't say enough fes
it."
Many other men and women through
out the country have found Black
Draught Just as Mr Parsons describe1
3 -valuable in regulating the liver te
its normal functions, and in cleansing
the bowels of impurities.
The4ford's Black-Draught liver med.
elne is the original and only geanuine
Accept no imitations or substitutes,
Always ask for Thedford's. gN
masses, which it probably did, it was
at least the sentiment of the com
mission appointed on location, and
I they, or a sub-committee, which from
the best remembered information
I was composed of Messrs. Levy Rhame,
? Joseph Sprott and John 0. Brock,
engaged the services of the late Capt..
Joseph C. Burgess, a surveyor of
note, to assist them in locating- the
center of the new county. This they
did by running two long lines and
taking the points at which they
crossed. The nrst line they began at.
I a point in the extreme eastern see-.
tion of county, atLynch's Creek, now
I Lynch's River, and ran directly across
the county to Santee. Then they
I began at a point near the middle oi
the Sumter line, and ran across in
another direction. The two lines
. crossal at a point about a mile from
the present court house, across Ox
Swamp, not far from what is known
as the Blackwell place.' The conx
e missioners then began a general rp
connoitering of the section looking
for a high and dry place that would be
i large enough upon whidh to locate
- the Town of Manning. They rode
around considerably, and finding no
- suitable locatioi, crossed over on
this side of Ox Swamp and located
the town upon its present site, as I
being the nearest suitable place to
the center of the county.
The town fell upon Capt. Burgess
r land, and he gave the grounds upon
whitch Lhe present courthouse stands,
I also the old jail lot just across the
street to the south, and which was
cut up into small lots and sold by the
. county authorities within the recol- ,
lection of many now present. For
I the purpose of convenience in as
- sessiong taxes and forming school dis
2 tricts the county was then cut up in
- to nineteen townships. The town
t ships by local name were known as;
I Fulton, Calvary, Friendship, St. Pauls,
1 Santee, St. Marks, St. James, Concord,
> Sammy Swamp, Manning, Mt. Zion,
.. Brewington, Plowden's Mill, lHar
- mony, Midway, New Zion, Douglass,
y Sandy Grove and Mott's. Mott's
r. Township and a portion of Sandy
'Grove were a few years abo cut off
and thrown into Florence County,
- while the relaining eighteen retain
- their original naues and each now
- forms a school district.
i Perhaps it will not be uninterest
I ing to give the names of sonme of the
gentlemen who have filled the offices
- of the county, and in the order in
a which they came since 1855. The
i first sheriff that Clarendon ever had
- was P. Margan Butler. Hie was suc
a ceeded by his son, Y, Newton Butler.
3 Hie was in turn followed by Capt. D.
3 .J. Bradham, then a young man, who
e remainedl in office until reconstruc
- Lion in 1869. Then came Tr. W.
I Arledge, who absconded while in
j office, from getting into money
a troubles, then a nman by the name of
i Parker, appointed by Governor|
, Scott. He was follwed by th elate
r William J. Clark, Then came WR.
y' Burgess, then Major H. H. Lesesno,
t who remained in offce until his
~ dtenth in 1891, and was followed b
e the present sheriff, Capt. D. J. Brad
. ham.
s During a period of forty-two years
e there have been only six gentlemen
t who filled the offce of Clerk of Court
e for Clarcndon County. The first of
these was Josiah M. Folder, who
ab se'rvedl twelve or fifteen years, and
.was succeeded by his son, R. F. F'el
5 decr. Then came W. A. Barfield. He
.was followved by that late lamented
-and much esteemed Christian gentle
a man, James E. Davis, who remained,
, in offce until his death. His un
.. expiredl term was filled by our fel
~. low-member, Mr. A. C. Davis, and he
d was succeeded by our present Clerk,I
,; Mr. J1. H. Timamons.
s The offce of Treasurer used to com
I bine the duties of both Auditor and
Treasurer, and was known as tax col
n lector. Its first occupant undler the
e (Continued on page seven)
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OWEN BROS. MARBLE
and
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ERECTORS
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cemetery.
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If you want to buy or sell cotton contracts
in units of ten bales or upward, send at once
for free booklet of valuable information and
rules of trade.
Letter on probable market trends in cotton
and grains sent free upon request.
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Cotton Brokers
81 Broad Street, New York City
Members American Cotton & Grain Exchange
Member Clearing House
For personal interview get in touch with our
State representative,
EDMUND A. FELDER
1512 Sumter Street Columbia, S. C.
Long Distance Phone 1229
Wood .Sawing Machine
Do not forget that when you buy our Type "W" Drag Saw
machine, cut of which you have seen in the naner. that vni knu Ann
with Bosch Magneto, and which alone sells for about 440.00. This
machine is also controlled by lever Friction Clutch, which prevents
stopping of Engine every time you wish to stop the Saw. And last
but not least this Machine sells for no more than the machines that
are not equipped with Bosch Magneto, and do not have Lever
Control.
COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY
823 West Gervais St. * Columbia,.. C.
OUR BANK and
THEY ARE Fu tur
INSEPARABLE .our Future
A good future without saving is something that
doesn't often happen, you know.
Our institution is a progressive money saving
and investing bank.
We solicit the patronage of these whose person
al attributes are likewise-and those who earnest
ly desire to become such.
You never regret money saved. There is no
use to regret when it is gone.
The Bank of Manning
JOSEPH SPRYfT, Presiderit
T. M. MOUZON, Cashier
We Are Headquarters for
Nitrate of Soda
in quantities. from ten tons and
upwards. We have sold during
the past ten days a large ton.
age of this material, and while
prices have advanced during the
past week it is still cheap com
pared with other ammoniates.
Get our prices before you buy.
MANNING OIL MILL.