Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V X« Tv ; ■ ■ ^ * ■ x S v.-: I 4 / I * i •- ^ \!? \ s •* j . t - ; X - ;-v PAGE TWO IKE PRESS AMD STANDARD, WALTERBORO, S. C. JANUARY 28,191 / 1 And Continuing For Two Weeks. This Win For You to Buy The Very Latest Styles At Cost Prices Mrs. Zalin has just returned from New York where She Bought a Very Big Stock of Spring Goods. All Sorts of Bargains can be found among these goods, and you will GAIN by Coming Early Before Others make .their Selec tions. Our Store is not large enough to hold the Line which We have and therefore we are going to sell botli our Winter and Spring Goods at very Low Prices. You know that our REGULAR PRICES ARE LOWER THAN THE SALES PRICES OF OTHERS, and our Sale prices are so low that you will make money by buying what you need in Clothes, Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Notions and Millinery from LV Un Mtcmorkim—William Wilson Finley Hi tM aswthsni Railway Campany tiai maatinp tHia am Say af Da- ■ af tH. aaatH. at hla hama S. ISIS, af William Wllaan aaaaw yaara Rraaiaant af SautHam liapta tHa faUawinf minuta ta ba af tHa Campany ana ta Sa pubiiaha* 1 tHa Sautft. W1U.IAM WILMOS PIN LEY was bora at Pass Christian. Miaataaippt. on September 1. IUA and ea- tared railway artvicr hi New Orleans in 1871. During the aneearding twenty-two years be had a varied eape- rienee, earning steady pranwrioa and a growing repu tation. ia the traAr departments of several railroads and in charge of traSr association*, hi the west and southwest, la IMS. soon after the orgaaisation of Southern Railway Company, he began, aa Third Vice- President ia charge of trafir. hi* service for this Com pany in which, with an interval of a few amaths ia IMS, he continued until hit deoth eighteen years later. He became President of this Company in December. IMS. at a moment when the work of gathering in and welding together its lines into a coiwoiidCrd system had been done. The map 'had been made. There are ns mare miles of railroad included m the system today thaa there were when he became President. His task na«, therefore, complementary to the work already done and the history of the development of the pro|*erty during the past seien years is the hidory of bow he conceived and accomplished that task of conservation and prog re* *ive development. During his administra tion the revenue* of the Compan* increased 20 9S per cent, (comparing ISM with l#07\ but what i* even more hi* achievement, the balance of income ^ailahle far dividend (but largely put back into the property) increased JO* oY ] er cent. This record of material success i* ia no small mess are the remit of Mr. Finley’s policy ami practice of building and strengthening a working organisation of the Company ft far as,.concerns nerwifncl. He inaug urated and steadfastly enforced* a rule of promotion to fill earaneir* within the organisation, by recognition of demonstrated merit, with the result that he secured and conserved that loyal identification with the inter est of the South and of the Company, and that sense of personal rrspomihilitv j n all ranks of the service, which is one of the most valuable assets the Company has today. On the putdic side of his responsibility Mr. Pinlrv developed large’v during fbe past seven years Con vinced of the duty _oP aov-ptine the changed conditions in rr*pect of the administration of industry incident to the governmental policy of regulation of tlu* rail ways l y public authority, ie was i.rvcrtb, Less keenly im pressed » ?h the apparmt Ink of understanding on the part of *Se i>uM:r of the pr'H»lc!iis of ritilw.iv iiorfi- agcTiwr.t He. tbcr< f. -r. dev.rted much of his^fTme tu the do 'U-i. 1 of >..vh !■ .c-t,. n> le^.»-r^e^ ;>ri '* n'.duc audiencts in a.h part' of the f»*«t»tfy, but chir ’v in '.hr ami *!• r 'ire? ui>>ir pu' .vc oj i on of ins frank, straightforward and manly utterances and pa tiently iterated doctrine has been kmg recognised, but was remarkably demonstrated by the expressions which have been received since his death from public bodies throughout the South. He did much ia this way to correct a sentiment from which all railway property has suffered in recent years—s sentiment which has found its expression in an erroneous belief that a rail way takas from the publio more thaa it gives, and his effort in word and deed was to restore a Just balance of understanding of' the economic sieceasity, to every eitlsen la his daily life, of a well maintained, honaaity administered and prosperous transportation system. In other ways also be gave expression to a broad view of the indentity of interest between the welfare of the railways and timt of the public.. He lent active ro-operatioa to the chief educational, industrial and commercial interests of the South, and a moral support to every movement which Is making for the weifhre of the South, but perhaps his greatest service of this na ture was Ms successful campaign for the promotion of better agriculture. Gently born and gently bred. It was Mr. Finley’s fortune to be thrown upon hi* own resource* at an early age and without the advantages of a university training and experience usually enjoyed by his asso ciates: it was, therefore, a peculiar satisfaction to Mm and to his friends that in 1910 he received, with the assurance that it was no mere decoration, a degree of Doctor of l aws from Tulane University at New Or leans. the principal seat of learning in the community where he had spent his youth. On the personal side. Mr. Finley was essentially a gentleman: he demonstrated on many oecamons the combination in his character of those qualities which may he expressed hy the words modesty and courage. He was fair and just in all his dealings, courteous to all men. slow to anger, but fierce in his resentment of injustice in others. PartiMin in his love’ for and belief in the South and its future and in the Southern Rail way a* in important factor in that community, he con vinced his associates that he sever allowed partisan feeling to colour his judgment to suali an extent that he could not always see the other side: but a policy once determined he \rt atmut its accomplishment with a characteristic belief ip tlie potency of persistence, .and alt unhesitating ii'e of all the power at his command. He had at allj:iues the confidence, the respect and the good wilt of this Hoard and of rirrv n rnit>er of it. and in hU ili -''.li the Hoard and csery me niter of it Krl, the l'»!* of a friend of charming personal ijualitic' a* wi lt ,i> an ofiicinl i" * .ate of commanding ahihty. • -r- • * u • T*t« Secretary ia d r rrted t0 expre,, to the t.iryivmg "•ember* pf V l.nic/ s rjoviy me respectful evoiDathy The Price Maker Offers For Hi Week For Cadi Carload First Patent, and White sf;e. tfnl eympithy to tr.iojm.t to thin, , .‘aoiy en . gt cued and atuated trjn*c r ,pt of to * m,ni ts. of thi* G-j-n ,t d X. Also, I wish to call to your attention my unsurpassed lin Groceries and General Merchandise. 1 have a full , * Selected stock and my Prices are the lowest. For Wc«kiNMx« end Loss of Appetite The OfS SlawJariJ r-•writ strrortHeoiBg topic. PCOVK'S TASTKLKSs cbitl TOXIC, drives out Malaria awd bwttd* i t> the svxtem. S true I ~ \ II Langdiic pf l*i. .ts.t:i: t; \.;in ;;i town Saturday. J S M;o*i id noafstkiw n h.td i..:!*. * logic , A Apt^^irr Foe gdalu asd cAildrta. Xc. ****** in town urtl«\'. To Cure a Cold hi One Day r»ke LAX VflVKBKOMO Quinine. It«top«the Congft end Hrauitthe / at,ii work* eS the Cold. DrupKis** rvlund money it it fa,;* to cute. £ Vt . OKOVh 6 •igitatare ci each box. Zx. “THE POOR MAN’S FRIEND.”