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PAdB TWO TBUB^AY. JULY 25. 1985 Advertiser k 50 Years “j WANNA GO Editor Lee Gives Interestitis: Ediiorial^ Review Past Week Founding and Management of County’s Oldest Newspaper for Past Half Centuiry, M , / *******'"‘**«#tM»m«MM*«M«tMl by A. B. Chapin Humb^ To Quit ty. T. VOLUME LI—NUMBER 1 . fhad .it«^ Wckb^rs Mr. W.-W. Seme readers of The Advertiser, Ball, his broth^r<n-law, Mr. M. L. might have noticed beneath Its aiaat- Copeland, ana Mr. L. B. Blackwell, h^d last week~that it« volume num- \vho had become connected with the ber had been run'up to LI and, that I paper in the basiness and rnechanical a beginning was being made in a new, departments. The incorporatioi^ i^rK- yearly series. On the. left hand side.ed the partial severance of Mr. Balls . of the page appeared “Volume U” relation with the ownership of the pa- and on the righTliand side ‘^Number and his total severance with ite I - inew's and editorial departments. In his Those were significant figures in ! absence he had continued to write for ^-4: I A Wviv 1|5 IWA IVWIl w j ^_ • 4 * * f- s th« Hf, of The Advertiser. They the paper from fame to time, marked the paper’s entry into the! Upon the assumption of the paper» fifty-first year of its existence. The fiTOt copy of The Advertiser as a full-fledged hewspaper was pub lished, according to its files, on Aug ust b, 188B. Its volume and serial num ber <3i, course were Volume I, Num ber 1. All of the issues since the first one are on file in bound volumes in this office unless there are numbers which we have overlooked. The e<^y of the first issue, incidentally, must bave been borrowed from the late Dr. W. A. Shands, of Clinton, apparently after the office supply had been ex hausted, because his name is written Sn pencil on the top margin. Founding of The Advertiser is gen erally credited to the late J. Conway Garlington. He, at least, was the ed itor of the first paper mentioned above as Volume I, Number 1. However, We have it on the authority of Mr. W. T. Crew\s, long connected with J^e Lau- rensville Herald and familiar with lo cal history, that a small 4x0 folio pa per, which was calknl The Laurens Ad vertiser, was printed weekly earlier in the year by Samuel F. Garlington, younger brother of J. Conway Gar lington and now a' prominent attor ney of Augusta, Ga., and that when the elder Garlington launched his en terprise he adopted the name of the Ittle pamphlet which Samuel had dis tributed arouml the city.* Associate<l in the ownership of the paper at i|^s bt‘ginning were J. Will I^eake, now of Clinton, ami Means Pat ton. long since dead. J. ('onway Garlington, who was a ownership.by the three stockholders, its editorial and news departments were conducted for awhile* by Mr. Copeland 'and his wife, Mrs. Sarah Ball Copeland, toget^r with Mr. 1 W. L. Taylor, who jj^ntinues as a valu able contributor ^ the paper to this day. Then the slices of Mr. Samuel. E. Boney, a native of York county, .were secured. Mr. Boney continued as editor of the paper until some time in 1910. In 1910 the controlling interest in the paper was bought by Messrs. Ar thur and Alison Lee of Greenwood, who still hold that interest. Other stock holders are Mr. L. B. Blackwell, who came back to the paper in 1926 after being in business for him.self for about 15 years, and L. G. Roff, a member of the mechanical force. Alison Lee, el der of the two brothers, assumed the editorship on that purchase and is editor of the paper today, Mr. Arthur Lee having retume<l to Greenwood af ter the close of the World war in which he .served as a commissioned officer. Were we disposed to deliver a new salutatory on the occa.sion of the'pa per’s 50th birthday aftd upon its en trance into the second half of a cen tury, we could do no better than to reprint the “Salutatory” written by Mr. Garlington in the paper’s first issue, in part, as follows; “Salutatory “Toda.v we launch our little boat uj)«n a rough ^d uncertain sea. What the future may have in store for us Former Laurens f^nty Super visor To Sever ^e^ions With Spartanburg As £n|rineer. . 43|>artanburg, July 21.—With no pro vision in the county supf)ly bill for hisNalary^Capt. H. B. Humbert, for the pw^ iT years county highway en gineer, plMS to resign his post upon completionNrf several highway pro jects now u^r construction in the county. Captain Humbert\said he had no definite date set forNw* resignation but would turn it in wh^ the work upon which he is now enga^^ is com pleted. This work embrace^xMveral resurfacing projects and other\rokd building now in progress. He joined the road forces of tanburg county August 1, 1923, and served under six., different highway emnmissiona and two supervisors, making a total of eight administra tions of county highway officiala. For almost thirty years he has been associated with highway construc tion in the Piedmont. He was Cowty supervisor for Laurens county for HI years beginning in 1903, one year with the state highway department and then went to Abbeville, for three years, from w^ch lilace he came to Spartanburrg. a 10 Years Ago (terns of Interest From The Chroaiele of July 23, 1925 alenttsl newspaper man, remained atj^^g cannot know, only time can tell; iC head of the paper until about 1890, | yet we trust that by an honest effort, we. may at least mVrit a small share when he-was- eaUtMl as one,of the ed ilois of the newly-founcknl Spartan burg HeraUl. Subse<iuently, Mr. Gar- Inflationists upen Bonus Cam Independents Launch Progri Competing With ‘Must’ Plani Borah Demands Currency. THE WOMAN’S ANGLE By NANClr HART of patronage. ‘In entering V upon this new enter- linjrton was eonnec te<l with various*pri.se, wt fuHy realize the responsibil other 4io\vspaper enterju'ises in the .suuthea.st hn<l <11(^1 in Memphis; Tenn.; in 1908. \ Shortly after his departure for Spartanburg Garlington disposed of the paper to 'William Watts Ball, now editor of The’^News* and Courier j these alone of Charleston. In thd short intorim be- V^’*^**' Washington, July 21.-T-A- promise that five billion dollars of inflation ary legislation would be laid in front of the administration program in the senate came tcnlay froni Senator Bp- Idaho,'with a pre- Learning to wear some of these big, new broad-brimmed hats is something of a test of- manoeuvering. Better practice going through doors, sitting down in chairs and so on. For if you forget and sit too far back, plumping di^n the way you do in a beret, you’re apt to get a drunkeh tilt to that hat and a hearty laugh. ity that attaches. The press of to<lay is a i)ower. In every sphei'^.of life its influence can be felt, and While this I)ower is often recogTiize<l in '^haping public opinion and as a reflex of the moral, social and political status\of a community, yet it is not limit^^to Entering as it does, the occupying a prominent rah, Itepublican, diction that congress would be here until November . The veteran Idaho independent said friends of the Frazier-Iycmke farm I If you’re not a raving Ijeauty, and are set definitely on marriage, better keep away from New York, .even though you’re under thirty. For there are only sixty-six men to every hun- _ . * vr Iaround the fireside of every 'tween the departure of Mr. j family throughout the land, it cannot for Spartanburg and the assumption ^ faj] to exert a powerful influence as infl p< an educator of the people./ “Its influence is great, and when rightly directed, ever tends to elevate by Mr. Ball of the„pai>er’s e<litorship, it is generally believed that the late F. P. McGowan, E.sq., directed its des tinies. ^ ' [society and produce beneficial effects Mr. Ball, subsequently honored with .upon the community. Orr-the other the degree of Doctor of Ijaws by the University of South ('arolina, remain ed in ownership of the paper until 1904, but w’as actually in charge of it for only the three years following his pur if it l>e enlisted in any cause save that of truth and justice, if t swayed by prejudice, or unworthy and mortgage refinancing bill and the girls in their twenties, according toed Patman bonus measure “have^to ^^e statistical sharks. And if you’re just too brilliant, be even smarter and play a little dumb. ’Cause the sociologists say that men selfish ends be sought, or if conducted in the interest of particular classes to the exclusion of others, or if unwhole- cohcluded” to tack these on to one of the administration’s “must” bills, probably the tax measure, in the sen- V?. ■ v “Two ‘must’ prograftis seem to be ctoiw," Bo.'.h 0h».rv|^. .Tuesday or Wodnesday and that the • would bo roady to come to mauanje of W.OOO.OOO 000 of trea.tury ^ , notM foW.naiKinK farm mortitaKea.. conference commit'- to be repaid at the rate of one and a half per c^ a year, each, on princi- (lal and intAvst. The PatmaV bonus measure would are sufficiently egomaniacs so' that they prefer- their intellectual inferiors. Among me most obvious don’t of the table: hold a cup by the handle; The Rev. C. Bynum Betts, for the past twelve years pastor of the A. R. P. church of Troy, has accepted a unanimous call of the Clinton A. R. P. church to its pastorate. He will arrive the first of September, succeed ing Rev. W. H. Stevenson, resigned.' - Mf'. and Mrs. F. M. Stutts and daul^ ghter, Dorothy, and Mrs. Elia Riddle, are spending two weeks at Folly Beach near Charleston. Landon Holland 'has gone to St. don’t hold it with both hands above i Petersburg, Floria,* where he has ac- the top. Spread bread in small pieces just before eating; don’t spread a whole piece at once and take great bites from it. Hold glass stempare by the stem; don’t hold the body of the glass and mark it with fingerprints. cepted a poaition. Dr. Dudley Jones is spending the week at Mohtreat attending the Edu cation conference. \, Have you a long face? Then touch the ears and the chin with a little color, and the optical effect is, to shorten the face. And a center part in the hair will help the face look round — provided your features are quite regular. Apply rouge quite high on the cheek bones, and make the color on i^rs and chin ever so subtle. Gilbert Blakely and Misses Roslyn and Lois Blakely are spending a week at Johnson City, Tenn. Miss Ada Holmes Davis is spending several weeks in Washington. Misses Margaret and Beth Blakely are spending several weeks at Bon darken near Hendersonville. chase from .Mr. Garlington. In 1H93 he some matter be scattered through its joined the staff of The Stale of €o-|<^»l«nlns, its influence for evil cannot lumbia and left The Advertiser .1, u /■ u r .u 1 ♦ r> 1 o.. Thus it IS that even to the hum- charge of his father, the late Col. Bu- fort W. Ball, who remaineil at its helm until his death in 1902. ^ In 1904 The Advertiser Company was incorporated as the pub lisher of The Laurens Advertiser and W A NTS blest and most significant newspaper, a great responsibility attaches. “While we have not the presump- Printingition to suppose that the Laurena Ad vertiser will ever be able to sway the minds of the people, nor do we sup pose that our feeble efforts can in any degree tend towards elevation and en- (ligntcnment, yet wj trust that we may be able to steer clear of all that would tend toward the opposite result. “If we succeed in actompHahing anything, we are sure everyone will rejoice with us; if we fail none wi 1 FOR SALE—House and 2 lots. J. H. Witherspoon. Itp ;r~r I know it sooner or fe%l it more keenly . M Ilham Bai- ^han ourselve.s. adapt the sameXprincipIe to payment of the adjusted s^ice certificates, re quiring the is.suan^ of some $2,200,- tees, coraiwsed of senators and rep resentatives, were the Tennessee Val ley authority amendments, the social security bill, the utility holding com-! pany measure and rivers and harbors improvement Fill. ' Utifity bill conferees were/to get 000,000 of new moSio- to' be retire.) Whether they will ***** *** 'f>u: back into the measure the provis was sus- being ov- gradually by the treasfury Roosevelt’s veto of this'\bi tained by the senate af erridden by the house By his announcement, Bo^ah was placed in the position_of a^utping leadership in the senate for t ion—rejected by the house—^to abolish “unnecessarj’” holding companies was the thorniest problem before them. The likelihood arose that the social security bill probably would hav« to Hwol' ^ »av»aaa la*. „ • au * ^ taken back to the senate for an- measures. He was in the fore ofHhe bonus bloc during the senate The Frazier-I^emke bill has never I figKt. other vote. The house had rejected the Clark amendment to permit em- ipioyers to continue in operation pri- a balloting stage in the «en.|^^,^ ^ Wheth- FOR SALE—Fat fryers ley, 117 N. Broad St. Ip FOR RENT—Upstairs apartment, un furnished!, three rooms and private, bath. A. F. Rampey, 110 Carolina Avenue; ^ Ip LET me pasture your cattle, mules or horses. Plenty of grass until frost. J. Hamp Stone. 8-l-2c CABBAGE PLANTS, Collard Plants and Seed Irish Potatoes. Turnip and Rutabaga Seed in Bulk. Blakely Broth- ers^eed Store. Telephone 188. Ic ,p. ' a!er the senate will agree to take that There, wa.s no immediate comment' * the /FOR RENT—By wedc or month dur ing summer, small stucco cottage, tthree rooms and bath, furnished. At Beaufort Shores, Bepufort, S. C. |10 per week in advance. Mrs. J. L. Rents, Hotel Clinton.’ Itc MAN WANTED for Rawlpigh route of 800 families. Good profits for iKHtler. We train and help you. Write today. Rawleigh Co., Dept. SOO-27- SA2, Richmond, Va>. Julll-25 - -H-'V: We now push from the shore and begin a voyage at once fijled with dif- ficuRies, dan^rs -and ' uncertainty. Without the Tin^t of experience to direct our course, we may often touch upon rocks and shallows,' yet bear with us, and perhaps, ere long we may improve. “Very respectfully, “J. C. GARLINGTON.” The first editor of The Advertiser was evidently a wise newspaper man. He realized the power and (Aie respon sibilities of his profession, but he did not fool himself into believing that his own opinions carried much weight. His influence, if any, was due to his position as a purveyor and interpreter of the news. In other words, he was a searcher and printer of the truth. Having done that duty well and eour- 'ageously, he could depend upon it that the loroee of truth would prevail re- gartRess of what he thouglR about it. To that philosophy, the present edrlor of The Advertiser subscribes. t 1 1 n . amendment out of the.bil! was from Democratic leaders on the Borah! , , . ,, . question upon which enactment of the proposal, but it was generally agreed.nnealed to bane that if tha Fraiiar-Lemke and bcnual' s„mi%«LsionaM«lra. ho‘ev- rows were injected into the already troublesome wealth tax program, con gress would be in session for a long time. “I expect £0 see congress still in ses sion on Novenvber 1,” Borah said. “It is now quite certain, in fact de termined,” he added, “that upon either the bank bill or the tax bill, probably the tax bill, the Frazier-L^mke re~ financing bill for the farmers and the I t ■j RUBBER STAMPS Any kind, to fit any business. 24-hour ser-. Tice. Reasonable prices. Teiepbone 74. The Chronicle Miss Tuck Joins Columbia Hi Faculty Miss Olive Tuck of Spartanburg, for the past twelve years a member of the Clinton high school faculty in the de partment of English, has been elected a raerobef*' of tly University^: high school faculty, CoBimb|a, for the' com ing year. Miss Tuck is an A. B. graduate of Columbia college and M. A. graduate of the University of South Carolina. She is a capable teacher and executive In her chosen profession and has many frien^ herov both among her former pupiir and their parents, who will be intereated in the announoemett of ber going to Colunibia this fall. bonus bill will be attached as amend ments in the senate. “The friends of the Frazier-Lemke bill an<nRe bonus bill have concliided to make these two bills ‘must’ mea sures. This means-Hhat we will be here November 1. . ‘'Well, vacations are more or less of a luxury anyway.” Borah said the agreement to push the Frazier-Lemke and Patman bills was reached at a series of conferences between Republican independents from Western states and Democratic libe rals. For some weeks a petition has been on file in the house to force a vote on the Frazier-Lemke bill—pigeon-holed by the rules committee. Borah’s plan was disclosed at a time when prjsdictions were rising that a tax bill would be finished before the week-eild along with settlement of 'some of the controversies that have been routed to conference committee. While the senate prepared to go ahefd with the farm adjustment bill and the house -set about replacing the federal alcohol control adminiatration with a permanent agency, heads were turned attentively toward a half dozen oommitteb rooms. \ Chkirman Do\|ghton, Democrat, North Carelina, of the houae waya and means committee^aaid it woul4 have a tentative tax^^)^ ready by er, predict^ that the senate would vote the amendment out of the bill and that finat^disposition might he had ^fore the e(pd of the week. There was not sip much hope for an early agreement ohy the utility bill. Its progress was comNicated by a de sire on the part of som^f the confer ees to learn more of ^ lobbsring methods employed by bothX^ admin istration and utility companiM. Witfl this in mind, they, were s^tching closeljT'the progress of the house and senate inquiries intoH^- ; hying.- *• \ Already many members had resignX ed rthmnselves to staying here until n [ after Labor Day. The most optimistic thought adjournment mi^t be had by the middle of Augrust.' There 'yet remains fbr acti<m by one or the other house the AAA amend ments, the administration banking, second ^fkiency and gold clause suit ban biUs. But the tougheat problem oralheraa the tax meastire gradually taking shape in. Doughton's committee. Esti mates of what it would raise in reve nue ranged from 4250,000,000 to $350,- 000,000. “We feel certain that we can get the bill out next week,” said Doughton. We realise that congress is nervous and restless and want to reassure the country that there will be no undue delay.” “ QUART M1L|C OF MAGNE SIA—par«st by test—^for 59c. QUART MINERAL OIL—fac tory bottled—for 59c. RUBBING ALCOHOL—PINT for 19oT-4d SMITBrS PHARMACY Pkone 101 Tor Proa^H BeRTeigr. COME EARLY SEE FOR YOURSELF III IlllllUlf OTS OF BARGAINS LEFT IN SUMMER GOODS. OUT THEY GO TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW FALL MERCHANDISE. JUST A FEW LEFT ONE TABLE OF LADIES’ WHITE SHOES and OXFORDS AND THEY ARE ALL LEATHER $1.50 Pr. STILL GREATER! REDUCTIONS V WOMEN’S NOVELTY K- PANTIES 15c Pr. ■J 80 SQUARE UNBLEACHED SHEETING COME IN AND FEEL 'TOE QUaUTY Sc Yd ^ - -S I. «. ri.iiT T \ : *-<; 1 • .It.fJS'r.. \ \ • \ . \ , \ - - •'.-,-4'