The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-12-10
WARES SHOALS
QUICKLY GROWS.
The Work Is Progressing
ON all Sides.
o
The Towns Streets are
Being Graded.
Already Some Twenty-Five Dwellings
are Built-Business Increasing In
the Company Store.

The weather has been unusually ia
vorable for the work on the dam and
canal, so that most important division
of the work on u great manufacture
ing plant is being most successfully and
rapidly carried on ~.
Under h management OF Snyder,
Oats & Co. are many great pieces Of
machinery with their respective opera
tors and to name them all would be an
imposition on the public generally.
But n man being proud of his posi-
ton deserves especial mention and asks
that n slight correction be made in a
statement of a former letter from this
place. Mr.. j. A. Blackwell informs us
that there is q railway in this place on
which he is a conductor. On this road
massive pieces of granite are shipped
from the quarry to the dam about fifty
yards away. 1t is our wish that Mr..
Blackwell may soon have the privilege
of conducting IN electric car instead of
this n which Is moved by human
strength.
The appearance Of this place has
been greatly changed by the grading
of the streets. The work is not yet
completed but it is so well begun that
we are confident in saying that within
q short time our streets will be as
smooth as those of we'll established
towns. Broad is the way to Wares
Shoals and may many SOC find it, for
unlike the road to destruction our
streets shall be very straight. 1t will
only be q matter of time and of very
little time at that until on the now new
streets there will be trolley cars run
ming. Electric lights will take the
place of the light of the moon upon
which We have so long been dependent
by night. Paved sidewalks will per.
haps next follow, for this is to be built
for an enlightened city and not for an
uncivilized town.
Mr.. B. F.. Roper informs us that bust
ness has increased 81 rapidly that he
now finds it necessary to have more
room. Therefore he is having an ad-
dition made to the Company Store.
The increase of business has also OBJ
liged Mr.. Roper to have another as
sistant and Mr.. Swinney is here to lend
q hand to Il progress as book-keeper
for the Ware Shoals Manufacturing
Company.
Engineer Shand of Columbia is here
assisting the resident surveyor, as the
work of engineering is so urgent at
present as to require the services Of
more than n man.
A telephone line from Laurens will
soon bring the new town into direct
communication with her founder and
promoter, President N. B. Dial, which
fence.
There are about twenty-five new
residences completed along u streets
and several are now occupied by famil-
les. But to mention every family that
comes to us will be impossible.
All this and much more we have to be
thankful for to-day. We were too
eager to forward our interests to-day
however to rest from our labors on
Thanksgiving, yet we are sure that
many noble-hearted men kept the day
In spirit, looking from this earth up
ward to the God of the ingathered har-
vest, thanking Hin for the fruits be-
slowed upon them In due season. May
another Thanksgiving bring us yet
other blessings and may it be more fit
tingly celebrated by our citizens.
M. e. c..