The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-09-23
THE CITY OF ABBEVILLE.
The Town PrOspers and GrOws-The
Factory Is Nearing Completion
New Stores are Being Opened-Ail
Places Filled With the Pretticst
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anu CueADeSt OOOuS.
Abbeville Is generally counted to be one OF
the most prosperous cities In the State, and
what everybody says must be 30, even If the
circumstances and facts did not prove 1t.
A hundred busy hands tor Six Onths have
been daily putting brick and wood In the cot
the country, and Inferior 10 none. For six
months these hundred mechanics, laborers
and OILERS have been spending their ready
cash al our stores.
For se, eral weeks the contractor, Mr.. w. A.
Long, has given employment 10 small army
OF IaboIers and mechanics in building
cottages for the factory people, and they In
like manner have been turning their Income
into the Increased current or trade.
The Abbevile Cotton Mill has Set Its wheels
In motion, and number or good men daily
earn money In the manufacture Of the pro
duct OF that establishment. In close connec-
tion with this line Of business Is the Oil Mill
ginnery and the Enterprise ginnery. Both
Institutions have sent their fans. gins, aud
wheels flying In the service of q multitude OF
customers. The weekly pay roll from the
oil mill and ginneries all swell the stream OF
money which passes from hand to hand on
its thousands OF errands In blessing mankind
and In building up the arteries OF trade.
New stocks OF goods have been opened in
every door that could be had until now there
Is not q vacant nook or corner into which
goods might be taken. Several new 'slor, 8
have been opened.
Notable among the new men are number
OF Jewish merchants. 1t is said that no Jew
ever Knowingly goes TO dead town, but that
Ii he should make mistake IN going 10 such
place he very soon shakes the dust from his
Ieet.
About fifteen or twenty years ago we had
no Jews in town. Seeing With prophetic
eye, that a future lay In store for old Able.
Vile, u Jewish firm, with limited capital
opened up business. The business prospeied
aud the firm grew rich. With growing faith
In the town they bought some OF the best real
estate, and beautitied the structures then
tell into their hands, aud soon the most
magnificent stores In the up-country rose
from the ground. Still later they bought one
OF the nnest private residence In the lashi0n-
able part of the town. They continued TO
prosper In business, and having still greater
faith IN the town, tney became the largest
stock holders In the splendid cotton which is
now going up. This In brief is Il sketch OF
the unvarying success which has come to
that thoroughly reliable and public spirited
firm OF p. Rosenburg & Co.
Others seeing their succese, and having
faith In their own ability, have recently set
up In business where others have done 80
well.
Another evidence OF the prosperity OF this
town lies In the fact that out Of the city OF
Charleston comes the new firm Of Glenn
Jones, hardware dealers. They are pioneers
In this line Of business In Abbeville, and
come from city which Is noted for the sa-
gacity OF lis business men, aid ability
To bring SUCCESS to their every enterprise is
pany will NIL long felt want. and the pres
ence OF half dCzen Jewish merchants lortIfy
us In the belief that Abbeville Is entering on
new era OF business prosperity, and all the
arteries of trade will Ue qulckened and ener-
gized with the completion OF her cotton mill.