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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) IHICH ESTPR S Pil~ vna DMAitax , ? e Ieikeaset~eetMse soL sYDRIOGS~Lmr515 II OWEN BROS. MARBLE and GRANITE CQ. D9sIGNERS MANUFACTURERS ERECTORS Dealers in everythind for the cemetery. The largest and best equipped mon. - - umental mills in the Carolinas. -- Greenwood,...... .. C. Future Cotton Contract. 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. MARTIN AND COMPANY 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.