LAURI Also al . bz~iik., anat ( I -II11 also prvu hnded a e v hichI he 'a '~.e .'o I''a V 'yer com.a . d;ent. II I built, o !,I, .11 'Inda .3 C01 - mf, theo are le sevind seompay olltl( "t..eh em c rpat '"I"e and toaIlsl - a and buii inl r1. comnet pany and - f ior president. 0!;,l ~ I I I-.,1; e.u Ii t 1 10 Pr sd n C:~~~ ,ean ofeeineetel thesl li Zuri . ti and state, a ' ai pi red to ollice. * . . mi:e ya ago0 h) le Wasa candidate fo ted maiiyor' of 191. a. t Colseved several Talbe the St:to 1 I)emocratic I '(' (re ommittee, andl in 1888 :an i dselegate to the National featratic convttiioU T aIn St. Lbwhich nominated Grover w ag:In for president the thc ofe i 1i1e. In 1893 President T cliand offered him the consul er'or at Zurich, Switzerland. wC hich he deel :nel. Ilie was a Candidate tor the U. S. sent< ini 1912 aga nst Colonel V. Jasper T'albert and Sm tor . R. Till Inan ; in this electionl he received 9ver 30,000 vot es, b~ut was de tented by Senator Tiillman. IIe was agan a candidate for this offce i' 1918, against Snat or Tillman.*JT. F'. ilice and ex-Gov (rnor -ilease. After Ti' Iman's <'e it h ihe r'ace was runi between 2' (C hora, Diai 'arryie:: forty )o a 't ol the fort y-fivye cun 21 11 state, re.ceivine, 65.0641 I primry. l ice and aecaiey 5, * A 7 .~ I a '2 ' unop reip s anlot her 111 III.l i%.t tilla i gro i h il 1 he m-: whomn Ni:;i a new busi yini a hiltherto r':ie it. go in -1nd busiiness5 .fA Ieiaw-towns~'U :t :cIly What the C a Wrk:;,incorpo * !oily three glass fac nI t is, entire soutli--and -.Ch.' Is'; works is one . i'This undertaking d aid gotten under. I 11. C. HI. iHoper is S-,d treasurer of the owning and operating * worla, an(d Albert Dial, ' nio:st emorprising and - yung blsiness men of (.C'e!!n~a, is secretary and~ . a,r of the corpora ('- T A i geni1temen began hi fact ory's organization, lthir peent ca paci ties. and I i -:.a Seen the undertaking ro1n aC mIloderate beginin g to) i S presen('1t large proportionls. Wh\ y I3on go( Iito a country oK(re and call for a bot ('iee-C'ola, you probably c the bottle a thought. *'dr.n't kntow wvhere it came Ira.', w.Ie U It wats madle, and th p obabilili ties are you don't c:- . on u1don't care, however, fo: i!-a rea that you have nio. . r i'toght about the bottle. V.'c . the probabilities are that t':' I-: It Ia out oft which you will dr .. y curi Coca-Coia tomorrow wasl blo'wn rIght here' in the Lau . .: actory manufactures I (1' 0i -1 '< b, t t les, miedicinie bot thafeed( containers, anid It is of Ii ' l.ve factories in the 1. 1 id StateU1A mhaking Coca-Cola boatt'ce. it has a capacity of a solid car load of bottles every (lay. az'd its pr1odlucts are shipped to ('Piy sout1 hiorn state. All the latest and niost nmoderh machinery and apparatus for the i,:::.. of the various produicts which this factory turns out have boon binstalled, and every glass blower employed is a skilled union T.in factory employs and works S-:-ro::imately 150 operatives, the lanict Is run both day and night, al~ the monthly pay roll ranges ariund $9,000. This is a great me".t to the merchants of the nity of L~aurens. 1I)J' LLY LO(CAED p' 'nx Ion ed, as it if, right in l'eu 'm.'t1er of thle soft drink field, as it were,. the ILauren~s Glass '. 1s is ini po(s4tloll to supjply lotth- a to soft drinik 1iaufactur or vat prices t hat w il Ili hea tho0s4 3 ., he hiad e! sowhere(CP, and3( the q uick ri c'm -lnt service whiich t his 'cu.::anyK. 32 prvepared to gvo its pCI'inns isl one( of tile thinags that bii madIl ~e 15its bsineOP grow by The Lauiirons Glass WVorkls i;' ;)r,ICThling aew for South Carolina, somethling extremely interesting an~t new to) piractically every other so.:tin of the soulth. And the JLaurensi! Glass WVorks and its of fit~ers are helping make iLaurens the b)ig andl growing city that its best wishers hope to see it very ~On become. Albert Dial ia a good business 'NSC Li AA 1 iei:;, 1 believe it a:: UtOe ite CItpLain J. H. Ai. er, begaly tihe Imerantlile business in Laurens. lie began to sell mnen's and boys' clothes that would give sa tisfaction. And durilg the forty Years, or thereabouts, that, have elapsed since Captain Alinter first oPelled his store doors in the city of Laturens, the name of Minter has beeni synonymous with good wNearing apparel. It Is the same In ILaurens and Laurens county toily. The firm of Alinter - Co., Inc., is still in bllsine s.;. an1d Inot Imierely in blinsiies;s, but is wUll growig and developing alng Iilnes that Could only havei beeni Iade possible by the solid fouida tioni which Captain Minter gave the bisiness which lie established. As it is operated today, Minter & Co.'s store is owned by a stock company, the largest stockholder in which is E. Perrin Minter, son of the late Captain Minter. Per rin Minter 18 president and gen eral manager of the business, and R. A. Babb is its secretary and treasurer. The business, as it is operated today, was reorganized iI 1912. .Located oi the north side of the square, in a handsome building, with large show windows and still larger display space inside, the store is attractive to the eye. It is a real department store, and the business of the firm has been growing so rapidly that the room next door has been taken and filled with men's and boys' clothing and other wearing apparel. This room will very soon be enlarged to reach all the way back one hun dred and fnfty feet, which will be the length of the main store to lay. The second floor of Minter & Co.'s store is devoted to milli nery. Here I was surprised to see the same high type of fixtures an(a display arrangement that I have seen in many of the larger depart ment stores in cities of a hundred thousand and two hundred thou sand peopLe. All of which I men ti6o inerely to show that Laurens is not a country town-not by any manner or ineans. iaureis, rath er, is a gruwiig city, and Alinter & Co.'s store is keeping pace. with tile city's growth and develop ment. H. TiElItYt, P10NEEJI Laurens has its pioneers, and it is because the pioneers of this city laid such a substantial foundation for the business interests that fol lowed to build upon that the city is such a progressive community today. One of these men who have been in business for a long time is H-. Terry. Mr. Terry is a native North Carolinian, but moved to Lau rens in 1889, opened a store very soon after lie hit town, and he has been doing a thriving busi ness every day since that time, thirty years ago. Mr. Terry's store, on the south side of the square, is known by every woman in the county as a place in which dry goods, no tions, shoes, hats, etc., may be bought wIth every assurance that the buyer will get just exactly what she has been told she is get ting. FL~EMING BIROH., JEWELERS R. F. Fleming, Jr., and his brother, H. C. Fleming, began the jewelry business in Laurens jnst eighteen year8 ago--back in 1901. TR. F. Fleming, Sr,, has been in the mercantile business for many years, but these brothers blazed a trail, for then Laurens had no first-class jewelry establishment. Starting on a small scale, but giv ing their business close atention and their customers courteous and honest service, brought the store to the front very, very rapidly. Today Fleming Bros.' jewelry store is looked upon as being one of the best in the Piedmont sec tion of the Carolinas, and it has bleen the unswerving dlevotioni to principles of good business, with hard work, that has made of this store the popular place that it is today. RI. F. Fleming is the activo manager of the business. In addition to the complete line of flue jewelry carried by this store, 4 competent optician is employed to take care of the need for glasses among the large clientele of the store, The firm is also agent for the Edison Dia mond Disc talking machine, and the very latest models of this machine are kepth onshand ready for delivery at a' moment's no tice. The Fleming brothers are farmers, as well as jowvelers, and they are farming on a big scale.. both in -Laurens and in Green wvoodl counties. A business which both tihe firm and the county of Laurens feel immense ly proud is the type of store into wvhleh hese brotheris havye devel Ope~d the small est ablIishmalentI which'they startled eighten -tr ago. P'OWr' il'G C'OMPANY (The ol' the brigiht snots in th eity of TLaurans, and there are severel, ini the Powo Druig comne pan's store, located on the west sid!e of the square. This busi n1e5s was onttribished in 1913. and in ownod and inan-god by1' . if. Powo, one of Laui ens repre sentative butsiness men. in addit.ion to carrying an un e'nnally large stock of medicine,. ';f all kinds, and having or~e of UNTY, I J , c 1 da.I andl am 1r: uta in Ile Powe Larug Copn)i y Ailied iv thV o ul. 1 1i: preccit.i1 ons la t Yer 111and two tIhousalld i:t11res were framed fin the same iperiod. A beautiful soda fountain is op erated inl connection with the drug departments and, taken as a whole, this Is one of the drug stores that. a man likes to visit more than once. Dr. l'owe is a Mason, a K. of P., ald is promni nently identified wV 2ih every lovemen1101t tIhat. means abger and bettel city. ,.. C. I'IENS & (1. Twenity-onle years a:Co a small racket store wn:s ov211d ill Iau rens, and it was called the "Ited Iron liacket." The buildiig in which it oI)cnd was a small cor rugated iron affair, painted red, and the stock of goods that one saw when he entered was not so very, very large. But that was a beginning, and it was beginning enough for Lee Burns. "Alore goods for the same money, and the same goods for less money" was the slogan that Lee Burns took for his store, and it worked like a charm. This was a new kind of a store-a store where every thing the Laurens county farmer wan,.ed to buy might be bought jusc a little cheaper than he thought it could be had for. Today J. C. Burns & Co., the firm being composed of Lee Burns and his brother, J. 0. Burns, own and operate two stores in Laurens, one in Green wood, one in Greenville and one in Anderson, and the four places will, in all probability, do a\half million dollar business this year. The magnificent manner in which tho Red Iron Racket has succeeded, with Lee :;urns in ac tive charge at Laurens, and his brother. J. C. Burns, holding tdown tle Greenwood end of the line. is a tine testimonial to the good business judgment of 'Mr. )urns. He knew what, tle peo ple wanted and he placed it where they might get it and pay for it. SOUTiillIN ('OTTO'N 01 CC, - I'ANY The Southern Cotton Oil com pany is a manufacturer of cotton seed products and high-grade fer tilizers. It has a mill at Lau rens, known as the Laurens Oil mill, managed by E. S. Hludgens. Mr. 'Hudgons has been manager of the mill here for the past sev el years, qucceeding his father, R. II. Hudgens, who had been president of the Laurens Cotton Oil company before it was ab sorbed by the Southern Cotton Oil company. le has been iden tifled with the mill since its or ganization. Air. Hudgens is a native of Laureis county, and is prominent in the social, civic antd business affairs of the city. VINCENT MIOTOt t'All COM-. P'ANY The Vincent Mlotor' Car' comn pany, agents for the AMaxwell mo tor cars andi Maxwell trucks in Laurens county, is a new con cern, having b~eganl businless a lit tle more than thirty years ago. The firm is comnposedi of Dr. C. P. Vincent, Jr., anti Hugh E. VinI cent. The Vincent brothers bought out the Laurens Mlotor Car comn pan.y and have alrcatdy given evi dence of the fact that they are going to make thleir pllace of business 0110 of tihe livest in tile entire colunty. Located on tihe wvest side of thle publlic square in the city of Laurens, thle Vincent Mlotor company has an ideally sulitedI place fore the business ill which it is enlgagedi. In connection wvithI their sales agency for the Anxwvell line 'of ears andi trucks, the Vincent brothers have a miodierniy-equiip pod repair shop andt service sta tion, manned by tell export auto mobile mechanics. A new filling stationi is also connected with the business. WILLIAM SOLOMON, JEW He hasn't been living in Liau-~ rens miore than tell years, but Williaml Solomon is probably one of tihe best-known biusiniess men in the entire coulnty. Anti Mr. Solomon is Onl to his businless cv cry (lay iln the year. Hie seems to know ando be ab1)1 to call by iname every man, womlan anti chliltd who comeis to Laurena from anly section of the counity. Conlductinig what is really an ulp-to-tdate jewelry store on the wvest side of the public11 square, Mr. Solomlonl has a business thatt is botih profitable and1( that is growing by leaps and1( boundts. i~e is an optician1, ini aditioil to lie Ig a jeweier and1( wa'r~ (1d.pai 'r, anti lhe is 011ne1 of lie mih~tan'b~li bustns lmen 1113Of thle cit y. Takinag an~ ati .e part ini evory 011e of the.t Liberty I soan dri1s and an equally active part inl tile Victory 1Loani drive notw 01n, Mr. Solomon nias prmoven hiis ipatioItt 11131 mianiy times0 over, in addti lion, he( was cJlairm11an for Lalu rolls county of the .Iewish re lief fmud, put across recenltly. In short, when you go to Lau eons and want to meet a real booster for his town, one wile will talk to you abotut the many. ad vantages of the city anti county, or who'will sell you a watch while he plays you a tuane on a g..apha IaY cliin to. And Or. I -y c - ( cts1 : gZ, d drIug stor, (om. Il(e is Ic 'l on he c:: ride of I lie sm i 'are, amli his sore i lit Itl O1 With a01 tChe Iodern i:tr tat ole will se in tho hest drug sa(i of tie larger citics. W. T. Ore is thie colpiitelit prescrip ti(.U 1m111aer of tisk store. T., i ' VET MILIt)EAILi IN H !i.;E1S ANI) MULIES IN THll(EN EC TION I'. and J. Ii. Childress are the liv'1 ;id(elrs inl horses and mu les inl 1.aurenvis count.y. Ini addition to th