Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Subscription Price Is ?1.00 Per Tear Payable la Advance. Published by ADVERTISER PRINTING COMPANY Laarens, 8. C. ALISON LEE President "W. G. LANCASTER vlce-Pres. ARTHUR LEE Sec. and Treas. Advertising Rates on Application. Obituaries and Card of Thanks: One cent a word. Entored at the postoffice at Laurens, S. Ci as Becond class mail matter. LAURENS, S. C NOVEMBER SO, 1912 The Advertiser villi be glad to receive the local pens of all the communities in the county. Cor. respondents are requested to sign their names to the contrl* butionN.. Letters should not be mailed later than Monday morn ing. Help the glass factory. ? ? ? If cotton keeps on going up. we may expect another big crop next year. ? ? ? There is n? doubt about the frost being on the pumpkin these mornings. ? ? ? Just $20,000 would start wonk at the glass factory, but $30,000 is needed. ? ? ? Greonvllle, Columbia and Spartan burg have just raised $45,00 each for advertising purposes, from which no direct dividend is expected. Surely Laurens can raise $30,000. when a reasonable guarantee of interest charges is given. ? ? ? Ever thought about this? A glass factory naturally draws medicine manufacturers to a town. Look at Chattanooga, Tenn.. built up by Its glass factories and the first one too. lost $7.000 the opening year. Laurens* factory broke even the first year. ? ? ? A cotton mill in a nearby town vot ed and sold preferred stock before a wheel ever turned In it. The company started off with too *mall a capital ami more had to he raised. Just as the glass works is trying to do. That town Is famed for its progress and growth. ? ? ? The state of South Carolina must be hard pressed for money when the department of agriculture must send out under a one-cent stamp, an im portant report blank to be filled in and returned by a certain date with a penalty attached for failure to fulfill the requirements. ? ? ? It Is stated on good authority that a lar?e?" per cint of business fail ures are due to lack of capital than to any other one turne. Are the peo ple of Laurens going to let such an enterprise as the glass factory get in to this c'hks ot failures from lack of community sipport? ? '? ? It Is a pleasure to have contractors like Messrs. Rounds & Son, work in the city. They are always very care ful that the public be not inconve nienced by the wont being done by them. Whenever practicable, they see to It that the streets and sidewalks arc kept open without having other folks to Jog their memory. ? ? ? A $50.000 plant cannot be run on ?S'i.OOO capital. It takes money to pay for the completion of the plant and financing after the wheels begin to turn. Ranking capital is absolutely necessary In a manufacturing or any other enterprise and credit cannot be secured unless a reasonable amount of capital has been Invested. ? ? ? It seems that the Clinton people are ready to hand over to Representative Geoige A. Browning. Jr., most any thing in the gift of the proposed Mus grove coenty. Mr. Browning soeim to have made quite a hit In Clinton. They cay George made the Clintonlans a fine speech on the1 new county subject, however. Probably It will be Senator Browning after the new county Is formed. ? ? ? "While there Is no doubtNn our mind or probably in the mind of any one tint that the killing of the luegrto Sambier by Policeman Owlngs was ac cidental, it appears to us to be the better part of wisdom to have a trial of the oase. It. is a duty owed both ' to the county and to Mr. Owlngs that be be legally exonerated of any in tent to kill. While it is highly Im probable that aay effort'will be made to convict Mr. Owlngs of Intentional ly Wiling this negro, still it were bet ter for the county to have the matter locally disposed of and better for him to have the law declare him innocent. There I? no telling what the future might bri?? in the way of trumped 11 , * * ' up charges, unfriendly Juries and the such. ? ? ? That advertising our lands and cli mate in other section of the country wlll bring results Is the conclu sion drawn from the success of a local concern In advertising South Carolina landg in northern states. The South ern Land Development Company has conducted an advertising campaign in the north In the effort to secure buy ers for Its property at McBee, in this state. This company has been largely rewarded by the campaign as many people have been drawn to its prop erty to look over Its possibilities and many have purchased outright. While the campaign has been conducted on but a modest basis, it has brought large returns and the campaign stands as an Indication of what could be done If a larger campaign were undertaken by the state or some other organiza tion. ? ? ? The progressive Farmer, the most widely circulated and probably the most Influential farm magazine of the south, recently issued a "Come South" special edition, which was sent broad cast over the northern states and to its subscribers In the southern states. Over 50,000 copies were sent to the thrifty farmers of the north and north-west. The special edition was made up largely of letters contribut ed by farmers who had emigrated to the southern states from other sec tions of the country. The Progressive Farmer and other farm papers of the south are probably doing more In awakening the people of the south to the possibilities of the section In which they live than any other agency of which wo know. While it can be truthfully said that the daily and weekly papers prepared the way, the agricultural papers have done a great work in sowing the seed of progres sivencss and urging the people to take advantage of their opportunities. This great edition of the Progressive Farmer is in keeping with advanced Ideas of its publishes and will doubt less prove of great benefit in encour aging thrifty farmers of other states to come south and bring with them their progressive ideas in agriculture. ? ? ? COMMISSION GOVERNMENT, By an overwhelm.'ng majority the city of Florence has decided to adopt the commission form of government, the election on the question having been held this week. Spartanburg Is going to vote on the question in Feb ruary. Why not let Laurens get in line with the rest of the progressive towns and begin agitation of a plan that is proving wonderfully success ful in hundreds of towns and cities, accordng to statements from every quarter of the country. The above, taken from The Laurens ville Herald is to the point. Other cities have found the commission form of government to be successful and if Laurens should adopt it. doubt less it will prove a great Improve ment over the present form of gov ernment. The Advertiser prints in nnother column a letter from Mayor W. H. C-tbbe.s of Columbia. al;fcut commission government and we trust that it will be given thoughtful con sideration by the citizens of Laurens. ? ? ? EVERYBODY TOGETHER. Nearly every citizen In Laurens is aware of the situation which now ex ists relative to the Laurens Glass Works. The situation has been fully discussed on the streets and all are acquainted with the affairs of the con cern. It Is generally known that of the $50,000 common stock subscribed last year only about $33,000 has been paid in and that on this measly sum the concern has been run for a whole year augumented only by the person al reputation and backing of the di rectors. We all know that the fac tory has reached the point where more capital I? absolutely necessary before it can continue to be operated. With unusual handicaps for the first year, the company has broken even and is now ready, if allowed, to begin a-new year with better knowledge of the business, better trade conditions, an Improved plant, better freight rates and, in fact, everything In a great deal better shape than at this time laat year. The plant has won a reputation for Its output and the demand for bottles is increasing daily. The field is open, but the sup ply of capital is keeping the company from realizing upon its opportunity. It is unnecessary to go into details as to the advantages of the glass fac tory to- the town. It Is unnecessary to try and put a valuation upon the stock now offered for sale. All of this Is a matter of common knowledge. The stock has a commercial guaran tee of seven per cent ^attached and constitutes a mortgage upon the prop erty. The plant Is worth $60,000 and the total preferred stock authorised Is $30,000. The ralue of the security must be left to the Judgment, of the people' of Laurens. But, It seems to us that something should be done to get the people to gether on this proposition. Every man seems to be standing off to allow some other man to put up the money, while he expects to reap the benefit. Why the people of Laurens are so - - -: -? - luke-warm In this mattr, I? the won der of bankers aid manufacturers in other cities. Prominent citizens of both Spartanburg and Greenville have but recently expressed surprise that the people here would allow this en terprise to stand idle for the want of such a small amount of capital to start It going. Let's get together on this thing and support it with all our might. Let no man" depend upon oth ers to do more than his share, but every man pull with his neighbor and let's put this matter across like we mean business. It is only necessary to raise what should have been raised before the company began to Go business and with that amount in hand, the direc tors hope for a prosperous ruture. Last year was not a bad year, for the company broke about even, some thing not usually done by new enter prises. Let's all put our sr.oulders to the wheel and put the deal across. ? # ? THE PARCELS POST. The Spartanburg Journal again discussing the parcels post and advocating a bat rate system. The Journal is not as well up oh rates as it should be If it is going to discuss this question without leav ing a false impression, nor is it as jealous of protecting its own mer chants against the. mall order houses as it Is of protecting mail order hous es against imaginary foreign compe tition. Just a word about rates: The Jour nal says that "at the present rates (we suppose parcels post rates I a five pounds package sent from New York to Spartanburg would cost twen ty-seven cents. That Is perhaps more than the express rates." It was for tunate for the Journal that It insert ed "perhaps" in the sentence. The express rate on five pounds from New York to Laurens, just a little more tjban the rate to Spartanburg, is sev enty cents. Quito a difference. Of course this is a matter of little im portance in a discussion of parcels post, but to make such inaccurate statements leaves a false impression which is apt to mislead. Now. about this bugaboo of foreign competition, postage rates from Ger many to San Francisco, Kalamazoo, South Rend etc. Comparison of these rates with postal rates within the United States are of little moment. No large amount of mail of this char acter is transported through the malls and what is carried is only such as ordinarily cannot be bought in the United States, such materials as are peculiar to foreign countries. "We could safely wager that not one per son who reads this paper, exchanges included, has ever seen a single piece of mail of a competitive nature that has come into this country from any point without the United States. It Is idle to discuss imaginary competi tion. Let's get down to a little real com petition, by getting right at home, to Spartanburg. We will compare a Phil adelphia mail order house with a Spartanburg mail order house (if you please). Suppose we take A, In Philadelphia and I) m Spartanburg. A buys a large proportion of his stock In Philadelphia or within the imme diate vicinity. He has at the outside a freight bill of five dollars per ton to pay. By buying In larger quanti ties, he secures his goods at a cheap rate. B buys his goods in Philadel phia and pays freight on them to Spartanburg. He does not buy In car load lots nor In lots large enough to secure an edge on the price. His freight will amount to about twenty dollars per ton, a difference of around fifteen dollars per ton. Thus B starts off with a handicap of fifteen dollars per ton. before he begins his publicity campaign, which is mote expensive to the small house than it is to the big one, relatively speaking. Thus with j the handicap of fifteen dollars fl ton for freight, the handicap of small purchases, with the handicap of rela tively expensive advertising, will B, the Spartanburg man, be able to com pete with A when it will costA in Philadelphia no more than it will B in Spartanburg to deliver retail goods In Woodruff? Who is going to pay that fifteen dollars difference in freight? The dear people, of course. The Journal says that the rates were evidently made to suit the ex press companies. Surely our South Carolina congressmen are not the tools of corporations. Congressman Johnson favored the zone-system of parcels popt and he Is no tool of the express companies. Patbe Weekly Taartday. Mr. Lavender announces the regular Paths weekly feature Him for Thurs day night. Included In the scenes will be a champion base ball game between New York and Chicago, the collapse of a hugh building in Brook lyn, a steamer railed from the bottom of the East river and other scenes. The usual run of regular films will be shown. Young man, read f lardy A Wilson's ad In this paper and act accordingly. UNION CO VN TT. Editor The Advertiser: Your reasoning upon conditions in Union, carrying with it a note of warning to those who stand for moral-, ity and order is timely and well put. We need not be surprised at the re sult of the dispensary contest over there. Apathy and indifference on the part of good people will inevitably bring laxity in law-enforcement. Then, we should never forget that the hosts of evil sleep not, neither day or night. There are always men who will ad-j vocate the sale of liquor with the hope of a "job" and regardless of the shame and ruin it always brings to the homes of thousands. Every now and then we hear some one repeat the old gag "prohibition don't prohibit." No temperance advo cate ever claimed that it would. Good men and women know th U prohibi tion laws against liquor will do what prohibition against murder, theft, as sault and battery, arson, burglary and other crimes will do. namely, they will restrict. Why not repeal the law prohibiting murder because it does not prohibit? The public sale of liquor will In crease its use ten fold. The use of liquor causes more crime than any other ten causes in the world, then what inconsistency for a State to heap up statutes against crime and then allow the sale of liquor to cre ate crime. Then you hear another old gag abcvf sumptuary laws. No tem perance advov"\te has the remotest idea of prescribing what others eat or drink or how they dress. My dear friend, eat and drink ?vhat you choose. You have that right under the laws of our country. No one would change if It they could. But If you will drink, you have no moral right, nor should the laws allow the right to set up a place for the public sale of liquor, a place to tempt a thousand boys, and even men, who fail of self-control, and especially here, to put It In easy reach of ten thousand irresponsible negroes. The white man here has and will always have, supreme control. He makes the laws. I don't nesltate to say that he owes It to the negro race to refuse to sanction the sale of liquor. The white man should not put drink in easy reach of the negro and there by cause him to commit a thousand crimes, and then turn loose on him the machinery of the law. There is yet a good deal of crime amongst the negroes, a considerable part of it caused by blind tiger liquor. But that will continue to grow less, just as drunkenness has grown stead ily less with the closed public sale of ftquor. It is a rare thing to see a white man arraigned now In a prohibition county for selling liquor. Go to Rich land and Alken, dispensary counties, and you find not only crime and dis order among both races, but five times more blind tigers. Do you ask why? Just because the lawless element can find it so convenient to go to the dis pensary, as they used to do here, and get their supplies to retail. Those who prize virtue, social or der, the church and all that Chris tian civilization stands for, had as well sitsup and take notice. There has seldom come a time when the lines were so sharply drawn between virtue and ?vice, between law and lawlessness, between order and dis order. The recent outrage against Gllreath Is merely an outcroping of lawlessness against law. For this outrage, we felt that we knew from the very first moment it appeared in print that there was not the remotest ground or excuse. That the whole thing, from first to last, was a base less fabrication, having Its Inception and motions in devilish malice, none know so well as those, high and low, who were partners In the diabolical plot. What Inducements. If any, ever held out to Vaughn does not yet ap pear. But no one should fall into the error of confounding his state ment (which statement is so much in the Interest of a lawless element) with that of one who speaks, in what the law terms "extremis." That Is: where one Is stricken unto death by sickness of wounds and makes a dying declaration or what the law terms an "ante-mortum" Btatement. j From time iromemorlil the law has Invested declarations made by one under such circumstances with more than ordinary solemnity, and as being entitled to Inpliclt credence, but all experience ht demonstrated that a criminal undet sentence of death will ?eil anything, even on tbe scaffold In the hope, ever hoping against hope, for some Intervention to prolong ex istence. Citizen. Valuable Property. The building used by the mate Dispensary wan recently sold for $125.000. At that rate the asylum property should be worth more than enough to pay off the Increased debt Incurred for that institution.?Abbe ville Press and Banner. 88888888888888888888 8 8 8 STATE PRESS COMMENT. 8 8 8 88888888888888888888 Jumping at Con elusions. Mr. DeKolb. the airship man who 'flew' in Abbeville a few days ago was, according to the Abbeville Me dium and The Press and Banner, a very 'modest' young man when the 'personal note is sounded.' Quite modest. Modest enough to get two columns of free advertising out of each of those progressive papers.? Laurens Advertiser. All of which goes to show how easy it is to misjudge when jumping at conclusions. As a matter of fact The Press and Banner, so far from being "worked", sought out Mr. Do-' Kolb. and asked for the interview. The only idea sought was to convey to its readers some information upon a topic which appeared to interest quite a number of people. If aero planes have become so common in Laurens that folks are no longer In terested in them then we are forced to congratulate them, but there were many people in Abbeville to whom an airship was quite a novelty and the story published in this paper was, as near as we could make it, an an swer to the many questions asked by spectators. The Advertiser is wrong in its con clusion. It may have been an error in judgment as to what would Inter est, and it may have been the fault of bad expression that Interesting facts were woven into 'a tiresome story, but there was not even a veiled at tempt to "work" anybody. The writ er of the article in question has been connected with newspapers for nearly a quarter of a century and believe he knows a "worker" by sight. The avi ator who flew in this town bore not the slightest resemblance to the spe cies.?Abbeville Press and Banner. The Parcels Post Charges. It is only a few weeks until the parcels post will go Into operation. It is w-ell for the people to under stand what it will cost to send pack ages of merchandise by mail. Last week The Journal gave instructions as to the special stamps to he used as well as other requirements. This new law after trial will be changed and amended. The zone system will no doubt be abolished, and the prices will be reduced. At the present rate a 5-pound package sent from New York to Spartanburg would cost twenty-seven cents. That Is per haps more than the express rates. A package weighing 11 pounds would be 79 cents. The same package rould be ?ent from Great Brita't. or Italy for 7ff* cents. Germany could mail 4.4 pounds to any part of the United States for 33 cents. A pack age weighing that much would cost 52 cents to send to Denver or Los Angeles. The rates were evidently made to suit the express companies. The democratic congress should take hold of the right end of this matter and give a separate bill without hitch ing It on to the postal appropriation bill, abolish the zone system and re duce the cost to conform to charges made in European states which have tried the plan for years. The new law permits the mailing of packages weighing not more than eleven pounds, which must not be more than seventy-two inches In Its length and breadth combined. Up to four ounces there will be a flat rate of one cent per ounce, or part thereof regardless of distance. From this it will be seen that an eleven-pound package, which can be sent from Rome to San Francisco for 78 cents, w"l cost from New York to the same destination $1.32. a tremen dous descrlm.nation In favor of the foreigner against our own citizens. Instances like these will doubtless do much toward helping along the cause of the parcels post and eventu ally give to the country a system that will be a real and lasting benefit to both producer and consumer.?Spar tanburg Journal. A Greater Chicora. Much has been said and written about Chicora college within the last few months. Some things have been said or written that it were bet ter not to have expressed and bitter nesses have been ?ngendred that should not And a place in tho hearts of men. Three things that serve well to Ing men together Is a common cause a common faith and a common hope. The enlargement of Chicora col lege is of vital Interest to Green ville In many ways. The most ap parent probably Is In that it brings a large amount of new money Into the town. The records show that through the college treasury alone as much money has been coming In annually for a number of years as Greenville's total original Investment in this Institution. In addition to this Is the very considerable amount the students spend. Probably one great value of a female college to the community In which It Is located. If the vil lage, town or city Is In any way worth while, Is the fact that the sex take quick and accurate note of things and they do not hesitate to tell their Impressions. The end man In some . minstrel * show once said ther? were three fine wayB to spread news, "telegraph.^ tclephono and tell-a-woman." This of course was intended to be funny, but there is an element of truth In it, and of a kind that is In no way discreditable to women. Several year's residence in Green ville of hundreds of bright young women at that period of life when the things they see and learn leave the deepest impression is worth a lot to any community if it has much that is good In It. Another way In which a thriving female college helps a town, is in the fact that there is nothing that nppeals to the higher and better in stincts of all mankind and is a grea ter help to better endeavor, than does pure bright young womanhood. A town will almost necessarily strive for better things when It has a female college in its midst and the bigger this Interest is, the grea ter the factor will It be In the coih munity's highest development. Chlcora has reached the full limit of its usefulness with its present facilities and equipment, it cannot even maintain its present position with enlargement. Inexorable laws make sure the fact that cessation of growth will mark the beginning of decadence and Greenville spirit could not stand for that. The question of the removal of the college is settled. Every subscription made will have the certainty In the form of a guaranty behind it that Chlcora is to remain In Greenville and is to remain the crown of the hill it has so long graced but with enlarged grounds, facilities and equipment. Chlcora needs thirty thousand dol lars from Greenville to ensure its very existence. Almost of a certainty it will soon begin to bring back into Greenville nearly this additional amount in an annual accretion to which now comes. A hundred per cent investment is usually considered a good thing, but in this day of striving for moral and educational uplift and the keenest ef fort for the best mode of publicity. ' there could be only two things that ,might keep us< from raising the mon ey Chlcora wants?either we don't de sire good things or we Just haven't got that much money in Greenville.? Greenville Piedmont. "Extra Release." "Xvery little movement" Toko made while hero In a movlnK picture ?horily will appear. \ SPECIAL NOTICES. Notfre?-Tor Thanksgiving raisins, currants, citron, figs, cranberries, nuts, and plum pudding at J. S. Ben nett's. No Trespassing?All persons are hereby wnrned against hunting, fish ing, or In any other manner trespass ing upon my property located at Ty lersville. as all such will be prose cuted to the full extent of the law 17-2t-pd J. S. Cralg. For Sale?Davidson Middle Busters, Turn Plows. Disks and Smoothing Harrows and all kinds of harness. Moseley & Roland, Laurens, S. C. 17-lt For Sale or Rent? Two hundred and elghty-tv.) (282) acres of land known as the Oarlington Mill tract, lying on Habun Creek, eight miles from Lau rens, one dwelling and two tenant houses. Terms easy. Apply to H. Y. Simpson. 17-5t For Rent?9-room rcsidenco on Far ley avenue, water and lights If de sired. Possession given Dee. 1st or Jan. 1st. Apply to Rev. B. P. Mitchell. Laurens, S. C. 17-tf For Rent?3 horse farm, three-quar ters of a mile south of Barksdale Sta tion, In high stato of cultivation. G. Y. Ho'ilams 17-11 *"or ^. -Yellow Swamp Prolific Seed Corn. Won prize at county fair. $4.00 per bushel. Apply to Babb & MahafTey or C. B. Roper, Laurens Rt. No- 6- 16-5t-pd Cabbage Plants For Sale?Several kinds of tho best varieties for spring planting at Hunter & Co. 16-5t-eow For Rent?One 7-room house and lot on Sullivan street for rent at once. Barn and out houses. Former ly occupied by Emery Machen. Appl, to H. L. Roper, Laurens, S. C. 14-tf 8ALK OF LAND. 8 miles north west of elty. On salosday in December, 191t, be ing the 2nd day of the month. I will Bell at public auction at Laurens C. H., 8. C. my plantation or tract of land, lying near the Greenville and Laurens public road, three miles north west of the olty. containing one hun dred and forty (140) acres, more or less, bounded by ?.nds of Y. C. Hel lams, Michael Owlngs, and Mrs He. borne. Terms of sale: one-half cash: bal ance on credit of twelve months from date of sale with Interest at eight per cent per annum, the credit portion to be secured by bond'of the purchaser id mortgage of the premises, with leave to the purchnsor to pay the whole bid In cash. Purchasers to pay for papers. If tho purchaser falls to comply with his bid tho land to be re sold at his risk. Mrs. M. C. Farrow, Nov. 1ft, 1912. Fountain Inn. S. C. I 17-2t