The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-12-03
LAURENs. =. c.. Dec. 8. 1902.
What Laurens Offers.

in the city OF Laurens.
The city of Laurens offers first and
chiefly an earnest, cordial and enduring
support If the college be brought here.
1t offers a money consideration.
1t offers sites OF beauty, of large
acreage, Of fine natural drainage, with
groves of noble trees in the high hill
country of Carolina.
1t offers sites OF fror 20 to 70 and
mere acres. 1t offers sites with build
ings that compare favorably with that
the college now occupies.
These sites are within three quarters
of a mile from the court house, the
FOR day school purposes, If a day school
be desired.
We are justified from a selfish point
Of view in asking: If the college re-
main where it is on a lot already
crowded, will it be wise to erect al ex-
pensive building on such a lot? II the
college grows, can it expand on its
present site? II it should be moved to
Columbia's suburbs, car a twenty acre
site be had within two miles Of the
state house at any reasonable figure?
If the college be removed two miles
from the state house, are not any ad-
vantages Columbia may offer in the
way Of municipal conveniences, water,
lights, streets, sewage, abandoned?
Would it not practically surrender the
local support?
Laurens offers water that is fit, yes
good, to drink.
Laurens is in the Piedmont. Lau-
ems is the center, the heart county Of
the Piedmont. The map proves that.
Laurens is over 700 feet above sea
level.
Not in the memory Of man, not at
any time, has a deadly or dangerous
disease been epidemic in Laurens.
No man or ver saw a mos
quito ret in Laurens.
Laurens Is within even or eight
hours by rail of the remotest towns in
South Carolina.
Laurens is % hours from Columbia
and seven from Charleston. The great
county of Sp%artanburg with its 10000
people is nine miles north. Greenville
county is Is or 16 miles north west.
Wofford College is within an hour of
us-and we are glad of it. GreenvilIe
city Is within an hour of us. This
prosperous town of Newberry is but an
hour from us. The beautiful, progress
sive and ambitious city of Greenwood
is less than an hour from usher peo-
people almost as able and, we hope, as
willing to support your college here as
If it were in Greenwood.
Laurens, is close to Abbeville, An
derson, Pickens, Walhalla and all the
Savannah Valley. And it is far nearer
to S%partanburg, Greenville, Gaffney,
York, Rock Hill, Lancaster, far near
er to all that country where the white
people of South Carolina mostly inhab-
it, than any other town extending you
an invitation. 1t seems to us that you
wish your college, other things being
equal, as near to South Cardinals CEN
ter of population as possible. You will
find that we think, closer to Laurens
than to any other Piedmont town.
Here in Laurens your Methodist
people are numerous, Jealous, inluen-
tial and prosperous. They are in
earnest,-in earnest for all good works,
of which this effort to bring your col
lege to Laurens we think Is q true and
excellent example. In this we OF Lau-
rens, city and county, are all Metho-
dists and we have caught the infection
Of your people who have built two
strong churches in our city, the infec-
tion of their Wesleyan fervor. That Ia
why we are here. Baptists, Presby-
terians. and Episcopalians, We are one
in this invitation with your w PEG,
pie. Bring your college to us and 1t
loses no jot or little Of its Methodism.
1t will be a Methodist college as now.
But it shall be more-it shall be q Lau-
rens County and a Laurens City college,
our institution and our pride; the pride
of a county with more white peo-
pie we think than has Richland, inclu-
ding Columbia. Laurens will have an
eye single to its success and expansion.
Laurens wants this college to become
the alma mater for Laurens girls. There
is no other girls college, no institution,
no orphanage to divert our affections
or divide our resources. Whatever the
concentered and undivided interest OF
a people like those of Laurens Is worth,
that. your college nee here would
wholly, heartily, abundantly receive
That, we say, is worth more, incompara'
bly, more, than money. Does any other
city offer 1t? Is there any other city
inviting your college thathas not some
other institution to draw upon its en-.
ergies and ~benevolence, or for that mat.
ter, that has no girls college in proxi'
imity--as close as Due West to Green.
wood?
From q Laurens newspapers view
point, this is Laurens' case. Bring u;
your college and whatever future Lau'
rens may have, whatever prosperity
whatever aspiration, they with the
colleges greatness and usefulness shall
be bound in the love and endeavor o.
Laurens' men and women
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