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LAURENS COSOUTH CAROLINA Many Prosperous Towns in La urens County diligent, painstaking reprosenta tive through the four sessions he served. a - His aspirations, It o w e e r, U ^ ~pronipted hin t0 branch out into larger public sglieo, which, by - ~! -training and profession appealed ~? . to him strongly, and in 1904 he - n' was a candidate for solicitor in the ~... .. aold Seventh District, his opponent being Thomas S. Sease, the incum T Obent solicitor. Governor Coop or made an effective campaign and ___- received a flattering vote. Early the next year, upon the creation of the new district, the Eighth Cir cuit, Governor Cooper entered the -. -..-race for solicitor with a former prosecuting attorney, and won the 4 .;01nomination. Ile served twelve years, and was generally regard - - ed as one of the state's leading Z ~prosecuting attorneys. )uring the eixw tenure of his office as solicitor he replesented the state in a number ?~"'~ " 'of importalnt Uas wvell as notable -ases-and handled all matters in - his office with consummate skill - -tn --- and consicuous ability. J ~.~ '" ----Ito \'low of ihoney'. I h-ug '. . . . .S.t at anuren7. ________ ______________________4_people. The late Cieft itusti e SW illiam D. Simpson, a dis:tint liome of the (Coca-(Cola Bott ling Plant at Lanrens. S. C. guished ci'izen of 1aurens, as lieutenant governor, suceeded to _________the cffie upon olection hv the -T type of pure-blooded animtal that fulness in a sphere probably re- , legislature of Governor \ate A 'Mr. Smith is breeding and rais- imoved front his environment at p (10ing will d well to write him at that tine. At the age of twenty - ate in 1878 his farm hcmte. Kinards. S. C. he arranged to attend for a year - -n> PlRON11NINT (()UN- the Jones liigh school, ii Abbe- ~ While Y 311- Ville, now Greenwood, county, Wil- the is of his of Laut rens county has produced liai P. Culbertson being the prin - foen as sli and eismas in .num2erous men who have laid cipal, and who, it is said, gave assistig ind u i mtans in claimR to promn inenice. lut none the future governor muiich inspira- -nassises in te promoton oc iow who had more right to a place In tion and daily encouragement inw eteresult that faran stion, S- tthe piblic eye thant somlte of those the prostiont of I studles. of ye beslt tht fo aiImer who are today occupying places 'OR'ME' R Mt 'I)OL TIACIlliR --o boars oe serveral onl te uirlt of ptblic trust and honor. Among At the close of the terma r -tig boarst ofora lnstia ito those wto have won prominence (ooper secured a teoachetrs' certI- --- -i t tstittisadf tfa l t-ith '3' tin the past few yearu are Admiral ... hasiee pRt of a irens Samm AleCowvant, paymaster getter- collatrdtng atWterloin dvltopmasentoyd t alt Woany al of the navy; Governor lRobert x. Laurens County.. A. Cooper. now Sottth Carolina's -tA)I1 It (Ihi U:IltWMe clilif executive, and Un'tited -nLI< Ii I Ntt i iiCe.;. W Statois Senator N. it. )ial. wh-to - -Te campaign and its issuts are 31.Ai"I qced h ae eao il fresh in the mnind. Prom the ope- GvrorCoe ( ~ ~e % tmovei- the late IS4utator 11ill ing day of tle campaign Governot a leader in tii tatd r'i'ious GO\'F:RNt t is oir 1f.A.I'(I't-IIt e Ra ttei. ental tfitue O fn- th 0 andtral Co n.e I pr. na - A isobert A. Cooper, who washis f.a1ct ion. Ile Was nomIinate omaiy ;.t w l-n w bl k nauirated cov'no oif South - .over six oppt~onlte!ts it tihi first pr- it' as a public speaker. his ver-n - arolina otn Januarnv : h> var, mattry, a di:stiction In Itself thtat tiity ard readly willingnt in rmt - a native of aItti-ns iitttm'. - fall; to very few taen itt Soitl spond to all ittes lossible, (ioveroi r' C( elit r k i lso a it re Carolina. Irue co i ntd to bring him itt Covernor' Cooper is thi.-rst llose tonth with tht woI oR the literally blazed his own way into . - Iluen counlty citizen to hecomelae i ia es.fo h i hermally blazed psition tt h to gvoeror by tle direct vote of the rural schtol pitnic to tht cla aIt"1 It'Otttiitettt 1)05 itl 1M It le to- go \V. 1 t. S ihh, (- of the lay holds. 1ia m:l,. Dlnroe S tock F.11 am InI As the s:on of a farmer of miod Lauren Count.?erae meiians, lRobert A. Cooper's -arly sihool advant a es were limin I - to a few mtontis in the year, r all the fine points of a partly by reason of the abbreviat pur -b)ocle.d hoL!, voli may no, dt t school termts that obtained in - kn-: hat the owner is tilking tost of the rural districts at that at)out w h ei lit, proudly boasts of time and for the additional rea his hitt d lines. and there may be sont that his help\ was needed on - a Oid inany other things yott do ithis fathr's farm. Iowever. he - - It know a hit 1 bredin and improved hits opporttunities in a ra-int, hugs of t.he btter type. Vay that gave imipettus to his am- ~ ii ~.-A 1'imn lhamoc oin the Klnsirds wlwnl hav e seeii lr. Smith'S )uoe Stock Fii, Kild, S. Duroes--you will know that you have seen at migiiy tiine hierd of Ut liiihi~g-~CANIDATE FOR~ GOVERNORI Th1 ho-i s that Ir. Sinith ha, Onl his IKinards stvoc farin, near Kinards. I. C.. are the offspring Ao rt0. of such famous boars as Orion Cherry King and Defender. The blood of such hogs as Em pera tor. Dfeniuer. Orion Cherry King and Hithiand Kind Defender Is !1k In the veins (if the two hundred and fifty reuistered pigs that the e visitor to Alr.. Smith's farin will sc. and it is Sueli blood as this that rmkfms herpons such val uiable 1At.nmals. The farmoin which thes' hogs are br,'d and raised Is gradually being cov-red with alfalfa and Fine Duroc Sow awlLittle PIgeI oi the liniaris Duroc Stock Farin. ficate and taught school four years. During this time lie definitely doe cided to take up tie study of law, and in cotinnection with his school work lie began his course in laf under the late Colonel It. W. Ball. Street Scene Il Wafe i o it In 97 lie went to Laurens and lWe tiford's Store lit Waterloo entered tile law ofliac of the late Senator J.. I,. Irby, where he pur sued a course. lie was ad mitted to the har in December, I M9S, and Cooper entered the rac for gov to 0ill ei(. ro llOiIl m t ernor In I'll1 4 and ima do whlimt was at once-( entered upion thle practice of his profession. In I1 I99 lie was regarded as a remarkable eaii aploilted as m ag is trate for Lau- paigi, reevitig In the piary a reas, to fill oit the unexpirod term t of a o.cae .he .I. .... that caime very nearly pn itinig WIinJ of a deceased oflicial. REVtt AS GIgoernor' chir fou years In the sum mier of 190o, at tlio ago today. i response to a pop A not liet' 1'Io r i of Prize limirocs eage of twenty-six. Governor Cooper tlar do manolIhe was a canate oil the F11ti11 (If tile b ilard:, ci hilt ion to oit ilal~ know ledge and to was elected to the hotuse of rep- for the goveriltlri it 06 -aol Stock Fitii1. lay a founaion01 for ftit ine use- 1,'ZI'll ltr t i ves, and was re-electeu again lescoreo higias guberna two years' later. ile maiitde alln- tonal nirant, leaving him ans -le viable record as it leg islator and logical candidmte two years later. clover, amid the entire six Itun- lhijiiio of Colonel John 1tt II V\ut', at' one of the younigor iimmbers dred acres is fenced in. Most ton at \\ato of tile body tock high rank as it t(Y4ld('iie Of (l VtiMHoi lit conveniently arranged farrowing Witerloi. pens are just being completed, all opening into a hitb-shaped .0 space tIhat will meet the needs of ? 4 the form admirably, and running water Is furnished each pen from .4 a hydrailic rain. 'tAkpJi A most wonderful combination A0 barn and auction or sales-hiotise has been built, the lower or first floor being used as a barn and the upper or second floor as ant auction or salesroom. Concrete floors are now being laid In this bIrint and irunnimiing water Istalled to Ieet, every need for water. The sales of Durocs are hold at thiN farm twice each year--lit 1 p AMarch anud again In September. However, young stock Is kept on for Halo at all titnes of the 4inard. yenWi tnhe tsoetd :Wc hattt